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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Aaron has copper-colored hair, a rarity in Ischia since he's a foreigner from the North, which is noted on several occasions...and Darvish certainly wants him.
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* TriangRelations: The book ends with Chandra and Darvish agreeing to a platonic marriage while Aaron and Darvish engage in a romantic relationship, and all three of them living together.
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rich idiot with no day job was disambiguated by TRS.


* TheHedonist: Darvish, as the third prince of the family, he is neither the heir, nor the spare, but he is smart, talented, and very, ''very'' popular with the citizenry, so he was encouraged to waste himself on alcohol and sex so he would seem like a RichIdiotWithNoDayjob and merely a fun MillionairePlayboy to avoid a SuccessionCrisis.

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* TheHedonist: Darvish, as the third prince of the family, he is neither the heir, nor the spare, but he is smart, talented, and very, ''very'' popular with the citizenry, so he was encouraged to waste himself on alcohol and sex so he would seem like a RichIdiotWithNoDayjob an UpperClassTwit and merely a fun MillionairePlayboy to avoid a SuccessionCrisis.
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* LavaPotVolcano: The entire country of Cisali is kept safe from a volcano that is permanently bubbling over with hot lava by a magic stone that keeps it contained. Once the stone is stolen, the lava rapidly starts rising again.
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* SomberBackstoryRevelation: Aaron finally defrosts and tells Darvish of his LostLenore Ruth and how he left his home after a nightmare while crying into Darvish's arms.
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* ArmouredClosetGay: Or bisexual, in Aaron's case. He is very much attracted to both men and women, but getting him to admit to his attraction to men, particularly Darvish, after the trauma his father's religion inflicted on him, takes just about the entire book.
* ArrangedMarriage: How Darvish and Chandra's engagement came out. Neither are particularly interested in going through with it.

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* ArmouredClosetGay: Or bisexual, in Aaron's case. He is very much attracted to both men and women, but getting him to admit to his attraction to men, particularly Darvish, after the trauma his father's religion inflicted on him, him takes just about the entire book.
* ArrangedMarriage: How Darvish and Chandra's engagement came out. is arranged by their royal families. Neither are particularly interested in going through with it.it, but they do end up married.



* DefrostingIceQueen: Gender-inverted for Aaron, who rejects Darvish harshly when Darvish first eyes him as a potential lover and remains cold and stoic until he slowly manages to connect with him.
* EagerRookie: Chandra starts out like this. She is several years younger than both Aaron and Darvish, and comparably sheltered. While she wants to join their assigned adventure to retrieve the stone and test out her magic, they are less convinced and would rather leave her behind--and they do try.

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Gender-inverted for Aaron, who rejects Darvish harshly when Darvish first eyes him as a potential lover and remains cold and stoic until he they slowly manages to connect with him.
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* EagerRookie: Chandra starts out like this. She is several years younger than both Aaron and Darvish, Darvish and comparably sheltered. While she wants to join their assigned adventure to retrieve the stone and test out her magic, they are less convinced and would rather leave her behind--and they do try.



* ExcessiveMourning: Aaron, for his lost Ruth. He's so traumatized he becomes an empty shell of a person hoping to die as well.

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* ExcessiveMourning: Aaron, for his lost Ruth. He's Aaron is so traumatized by his LostLenore Ruth that he becomes an empty shell of a person [[DeathSeeker hoping to die as well.die]].



* TheHedonist: Darvish. As the third prince of the family, he is neither the heir, nor the spare, but he is smart, talented, and very, ''very'' popular with the citizenry, so he was encouraged to waste himself on alcohol and sex so he would seem like a RichIdiotWithNoDayjob and merely a fun MillionairePlayboy to avoid a SuccessionCrisis.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Aaron has copper-colored hair, a rarity in Ischia since he's a foreigner from the North, which is noted on several occasions, and Darvish certainly wants him.

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* TheHedonist: Darvish. As Darvish, as the third prince of the family, he is neither the heir, nor the spare, but he is smart, talented, and very, ''very'' popular with the citizenry, so he was encouraged to waste himself on alcohol and sex so he would seem like a RichIdiotWithNoDayjob and merely a fun MillionairePlayboy to avoid a SuccessionCrisis.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Aaron has copper-colored hair, a rarity in Ischia since he's a foreigner from the North, which is noted on several occasions, occasions...and Darvish certainly wants him.



* TheLostLenore: Aaron's cousin, Ruth, who was engaged to another man and killed for her affair with Aaron by Aaron's own father, the chief of their clan. He's still ''deeply'' traumatized by this.

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* TheLostLenore: Aaron's cousin, Ruth, who was engaged to another man and killed for her affair with Aaron by Aaron's own father, the chief of their clan. He's Aaron's still ''deeply'' traumatized by this.



* {{Mangst}}: Aaron is full of silent angst that he only talks about after Chandra and Darvish managed to tear down his emotional walls.

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* {{Mangst}}: Aaron is full of silent angst that he only talks about after Chandra and Darvish managed manage to tear down his emotional walls.



* SecondLove: Aaron's first love was his cousin, Ruth, and after the tragic ending, he kept himself closed off until he could not help himself falling for Darvish.

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* SecondLove: Aaron's first love was his cousin, Ruth, and after the tragic ending, he kept himself closed off until he could not cannot help himself falling for Darvish.
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* FighterMageThief: Darvish is an incredibly talented swordsman and much larger and burlier than the other two main characters, Chandra in an incredibly talented Wizard of the Nine, and Aaron fell into the plot in the first place trying to steal something from the palace. Together, they make up the trio the book centers around.
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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The feature characters of the series are two bisexual men, Aaron and Darvish, who begin a romantic relationship, and an UsefulNotes/{[aromantic}} asexual girl, Chandra.

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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The feature characters of the series are two bisexual men, Aaron and Darvish, who begin a romantic relationship, and an UsefulNotes/{[aromantic}} UsefulNotes/{{aromantic}} asexual girl, Chandra.
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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The feature characters of the series are two bisexual men, Aaron and Darvish, who begin a romantic relationship, and an aromantic asexual girl, Chandra.

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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The feature characters of the series are two bisexual men, Aaron and Darvish, who begin a romantic relationship, and an aromantic UsefulNotes/{[aromantic}} asexual girl, Chandra.

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