History Literature / MerryGentry

* AnythingThatMoves: Merry Gentry is heterosexual but has little discrimination in her lovers. It's an {{Aesop}} that Merry is trying to deliver to her own people that at one time they were not held to a human standard of beauty, nor human sexual mores. She beds a number of goblins, and members of the Sluagh. At first, even Merry had a hard time with Sholto's "extras", but by the later books she has become comfortable with them.

* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Justified. [[spoiler: They were literally gods once. And the Nameless was made of their own powers.]]

* ReallyGetsAround: This is justified, as Merry Gentry is trying to conceive a child and her powers are based on sex.

* ScrewDestiny: More like politely declining destiny's offer.
** And then destiny comes back and offers other things. Destiny is very polite in the Merry Gentry 'verse.
** Arguably [[JustForPun the entire point]] [[IncrediblyLamePun of the series.]].

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Relatively. Good people are a bit kinky by human standards. The protagonist very much encourages her harem to accept the idea that, so long as both parties are happy with the situation, nothing is wrong with what they want sexually.
** On the other hand, all the evil people are a selection from vicious sadomasochistic necrophiliac rapists.

* IncestIsRelative: The fey have a Dark Ages understanding of genetics, and typical deity-like attitudes towards incest. Merry - as the first fey to go to university - is the first to realize this has consequences, and she delivers a tearful rant to Maeve about how the Unseelie have for centuries taken those children rejected by the Seelie court for deformities or magical inadequacy, while the Seelie's ignorance, negligence and prejudice was the cause all along. To be fair, the Unseelie were just as bad about screwing their siblings, but they never reject children, as a rule.
* InterspeciesRomance: Way too many to keep straight.

* A Kiss of Shadows
* A Caress Of Twilight
* Seduced By Midnight
* A Stroke of Midnight
* Mistral's Kiss
* A Lick of Frost
* Swallowing Darkness
* Divine Misdemeanors
* A Shiver of Light

* BiggusDickus: Rather notable in many cases.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Tyrannical queen]], EvilPrince, [[AFeteWorseThanDeath lavish balls]]--the Unseelie Court checks all the boxes.

* OurElvesAreBetter: They are even better ''[[FantasticRacism than each other]]''.

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