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* TheLostWoods: Where Sayeva and Samuel wind up, without having left the ball.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The story begins with an author's note, not a description of the article; and features only the characters Sayeva and Samuel at a park.

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* MageSpecies: One character outlines the differences between witches and mages in-story: the latter are "born into" magic, while the former learn magic.



* WitchSpecies: One character outlines the differences between witches and mages in-story: the latter are "born into" magic, while the former learn magic.

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* WitchSpecies: One character outlines the differences between witches and mages in-story: the latter are "born into" magic, while the former learn magic.
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* NotSoDifferent: Samuel and the Eccentrics, according to Angelica.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Samuel and Jamison solidify this following the former's injury.
* RealityEnsues: A nurse's reaction to finding a chinchilla next to a hospital patient.
-->'''Nurse:''' That can't be sanitary.

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* %%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Samuel and Jamison solidify this following the former's injury.
* RealityEnsues: %%* Reality Ensues: A nurse's reaction to finding a chinchilla next to a hospital patient.
-->'''Nurse:''' %%-->'''Nurse:''' That can't be sanitary.
sanitary. %%ZCE that doesn't explain the trope
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Has nothing to do with familiarity with in-universe fiction.


* GenreSavvy: When Paul mentions the three areas in which demons are gathering, Sayeva chooses to focus on the Brotherhood building, because it is the only one that does not relate to her and she knows she is under threat.

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* FairCop: Samuel and Jamison are both given these descriptions.



* HotScoop: Sayeva, according to others.
** Samuel and Jamison are both given FairCop descriptions.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sayeva's tepid responses during the second interview effectively [[BrokenMasquerade break the masquerade]].



* ShoutOut: When his right arm is injured, Samuel simply switches to his left, not unlike his namesake.

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* ShoutOut: When his right arm is injured, injured in a fight, Samuel simply switches to his left, not unlike his namesake.



* HeterosexualLifePartners:

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* HeterosexualLifePartners:
HeterosexualLifePartners: Samuel and Jamison solidify this following the former's injury.
* RealityEnsues: A nurse's reaction to finding a chinchilla next to a hospital patient.
-->'''Nurse:''' That can't be sanitary.
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[[folder:"The Conspiracy, Part II"]]

* KnightTemplarParent: Samuel flies into an overprotective rage at the first sign that his son's cover has been broken.
* OffTheRecord: The entire first interview is based around the subject's unwillingness to divulge anything for publication.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: The result of the second interview, when [[spoiler:Winters]] initiates the Madness to make a point to Sayeva.

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[[folder:"Kingfish"]]

* NoodleIncident: While carrying Samuel to safety, Jamison remarks that this is "just like old times."
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[ArchangelRaphael The Healer]] makes an appearance, just in time for Christmas.
* ProphecyArmor: "Delmedigo" informs Winters that Sayeva, Samuel, and Jamison are not to be harmed, as they are "needed."
* ShoutOut: When his right arm is injured, Samuel simply switches to his left, not unlike his namesake.

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[[folder:"Mindfulness"/"Monsters"]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners:

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* DoubleEntendre: Jamison notably uses one to draw attention away from a preceding statement from Samuel, which decidedly had [[NaughtyByNight only one meaning]].
* InfractionDistraction: Turns out Samuel's ChairReveal was less about threatening Winters and more about installing hidden software on Winters' computer.



* TheSwarm: Sayeva has to deal with small bugs everywhere, crawling on her, invading her home, and appearing on other people. She's [[MindRape the only one who can see and feel them]].



* TailorMadePrison: [[spoiler:Winters' prison]] happens to be an actual prison.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Defied. Julienne is charged with five counts of assault instead of four because the court considers Sayeva a human, despite being in hyena form at the time of the attack.

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* TailorMadePrison: [[spoiler:Winters' prison]] happens to be an actual prison.
prison. Samuel exploits this.
-->'''Samuel:''' No attention, no ability to control others, terrible food, wearing used clothes. ’Every man a king,’ right?
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Defied. Julienne is charged with five counts of assault instead of four because the court considers Sayeva a human, despite her being in hyena form at the time of the attack.
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[[folder:"Firewall"]]

* InstantWakingSkills: Played straight by Samuel, downplayed by Sayeva, and subverted by Winters.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Deconstructed in the opening sequence, where Adrien Lefévre repeatedly attacks Samuel during his deduction/blackmail.
* TailorMadePrison: [[spoiler:Winters' prison]] happens to be an actual prison.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Defied. Julienne is charged with five counts of assault instead of four because the court considers Sayeva a human, despite being in hyena form at the time of the attack.
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* OneCaseAtATime: Averted by Jamison, who is said to be managing an active case while looking into the ghosts' case; and Samuel, who is helping Jamison and presumably still tracking Winters while confined to desk duty.

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* OneCaseAtATime: Averted Subverted by Jamison, who is said to be managing an active case while looking into the ghosts' case; and Samuel, who is helping Jamison and presumably still tracking Winters while confined to desk duty.



* {{Lunacy}}: Jamison suggests this as being the driving force behind the werewolf. [[spoiler:He's partly correct, and there's a supermoon coming.]]

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* {{Lunacy}}: Jamison suggests this as being the driving force behind the werewolf. [[spoiler:He's He's partly correct, and there's a supermoon coming.]]

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-->'''Sayeva:''' What makes you ageless, then?
-->'''John:''' Not ageless.


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* ImperiledInPregnancy: Inverted, [[spoiler:as it is [[HandOnWomb the expectant mother]] who is imperiling everyone else.]]


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* {{Lunacy}}: Jamison suggests this as being the driving force behind the werewolf. [[spoiler:He's partly correct, and there's a supermoon coming.]]
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* CuttingCorners: One of the reasons why Jamison and Samuel are sharing a department car.


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* NoBadgeNoProblem: Zigzagged. Jamison specifically states that Sayeva cannot be involved in field work. She runs her own stakeout anyway. [[spoiler:Jamison expected her to do this and asks the still-suspended Samuel to watch her; he is the one to haul her out of danger.]]
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* ChairReveal: Samuel pulls another one at the end of the story.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Sayeva is still dealing with this following the masquerade ball.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Or specifically how they are compared to general shapeshifters. This becomes a major plot point.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: Samuel realizes he and Sayeva have crossed into another dimension when he notes that the ceiling in the Gentilly house is higher than the roof was.

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* BiggerOnTheInside: Samuel realizes he and Sayeva have crossed into another dimension when he notes that because the ceiling in the Gentilly house is higher than the roof was.



* TheReveal: The connection between John Black and Blair Winters. [[TheUnreveal Unless]], of course, you read ''Literature/{{Illuminated}}'' first.

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* TheReveal: The connection between John Black and Blair Winters. [[TheUnreveal ([[TheUnreveal Unless]], of course, you read ''Literature/{{Illuminated}}'' first.
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* TheReveal: The connection between John Black and Blair Winters. [[TheUnreveal Unless]], of course, you read ''Literature/{{Illuminated}}'' first.
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* NotSoDifferent: Samuel and the Eccentrics, according to Angelica.


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* BiggerOnTheInside: Samuel realizes he and Sayeva have crossed into another dimension when he notes that the ceiling in the Gentilly house is higher than the roof was.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Both Sayeva and Samuel have one, which is highlighted by Winters as he draws from their nightmares.
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[[folder:"Danse Macabre"]]

* GroundhogDayLoop: Sayeva and Samuel wind up in one with a lion.
* TheLostWoods: Where Sayeva and Samuel wind up, without having left the ball.
* MasqueradeBall: The first setting of the story.
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* OneSteveLimit: Sayeva Reardon and John Rearden/Black. Justified (in a discussion) because Sayeva took on the last name "Reardon" ''in honor of'' John, whose objectives she carried on after his assumed death.

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* OneSteveLimit: Averted: Sayeva Reardon and John Rearden/Black. Justified (in a discussion) because Sayeva took on the last name "Reardon" ''in honor of'' John, whose objectives she carried on after his assumed death.

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#2-4: Halloween Special"]]


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* HowWeGotHere: Extra #4 begins with Sayeva sitting in her car, outside the Halloween ball. It then goes back to two days earlier.

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[[folder:"Extra #2: Blackout"]]

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[[folder:"Extra #2: Blackout"]]
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''This folder contains tropes from the three Halloween 2016 shorts, "Blackout," "The Informant," and "One Thousand."''
* ISeeDeadPeople: Jamison finally reveals this talent of his to Samuel and Sayeva. It goes over poorly both times.



TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sayeva delivers one to a typically obtuse Samuel.

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* InfoDump: The purpose of the extras; a departure from the usual format separate from the main event, the Halloween episode.
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TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sayeva delivers one to a typically obtuse Samuel.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: When Angelica refers to Samuel as Sayeva's boyfriend, Sayeva insists that is not the case. When Angelica (and Adrien) made a similar remark to Samuel in "The Conspiracy Part I," Samuel did not deny it.
-->'''Sayeva:''' He is ''not'' my boyfriend.
-->'''Angelica:''' Really? Has anyone told him that?
* ShipperOnDeck: Rhiannon, as it turns out. And Jamison invents a ship name ("Sameva").

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* InternalAffairs: Samuel is under investigation. [[MakeAnExampleOfThem Supposedly]].



* OneCaseAtATime: Averted by Jamison, who is said to be managing an active case while looking into the ghosts' case; and Samuel, who is helping Jamison and presumably still tracking Winters while confined to desk duty.




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TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sayeva delivers one to a typically obtuse Samuel.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Samuel, who covers both the "antagonist" and "love interest" angles at the beginning of the series.


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* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Takes place in present-day New Orleans, where everything is exactly the same as it would be to the day in real life, except when it isn't.
* OccultDetective: The Gifted Unit detectives, and the ''NOSPN'' journalists to some extent.
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** Samuel and Jamison are both given FairCop descriptions.


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* DaChief: This installment introduces Captain Morrision of the Gifted Unit.


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[[folder:"Extra #2: Blackout"]]

* IncrediblyObviousBug: Subverted; the bugs have been in place since ''NOSPN'' moved into the offices and were only found after Samuel told Paul to look for them.
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* TheCameo: The archiving assistant at the Tulane archives.

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* TheCameo: The archiving assistant at the Tulane archives.archives is [[Literature/{{Illuminated}} Roscoe Williams]].

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More Dark Territory.


* OneSteveLimit: Jamie and Jaime. Exploited by the latter.

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* OneSteveLimit: Averted by Jamie and Jaime. Exploited by the latter.


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* ADayInTheLimelight: This story focuses largely on Jamison and the secret he has been keeping.


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* ContinuityNod: Sayeva remarks that she had to replace her mailbox four times before it stopped getting destroyed.
** Also, Samuel is still sidelined due to an injury.


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* OffstageWaitingRoom: Samuel is noted as still injured and helping on the cold case, but does not actually appear in this story.

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