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*BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The IIC and Telar are powerful enough to beat each other.
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*InfantImmortality: Averted in The Shadow of Death [[spoiler: when Sita kills thousands of them]]
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*RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: By book 6, Sita really only kills to protect her identity/life. However, if said character is a rapist..
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*CyanidePill: Used by the first Telar Sita comes across
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*YourMindMakesItReal: the primary way the Cradle seems to kill people.
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*DepopulationBomb: One of Sita's main problems with the [[spoiler: Telar]] race of Egypt. If they hadn't threatened to do this, who knows if she might have simply left them alone.
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*WasOnceAMan: Averted with Yaksha, played straight with everyone else.
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*GlamourFailure: Sometimes Sita lets her age show in her voice/eyes, and humans are taken aback.
** Also Telar and vampires have powerful heartbeats which unless carefully controlled can be detected by other vampires.
** When Sita detects the witch is lying to her on the way to the Scales, she is in fact revealed to be much less beautiful than she first appeared to be.
** Also Telar and vampires have powerful heartbeats which unless carefully controlled can be detected by other vampires.
** When Sita detects the witch is lying to her on the way to the Scales, she is in fact revealed to be much less beautiful than she first appeared to be.
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*WarmBloodBagsAreEverywhere: For newborns, and certain old vampires in newborns' bodies, this poses a problem.
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*TheRenfield: For a very short time, Sandy Treach.
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*JacobMarleyApparel: Sita sees a lot of people wearing the clothes they presumably died in on her way to the Scale.
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*DetectEvil: Sita can usually do this, especially in the later books. Of course, she is so confident in her abilities that it leads to disastrous consequences if she is wrong.
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*DaywalkingVampire: Sita and Yaksha, and probably any vampire that's been alive for thousands of years.
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*VampireVannabe: Seymour, although that's obviously not the only reason he helps Sita.
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*FaceDeathWithDignity: Several people, including mooks. Most notably for this user, [[spoiler: Umara]]
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*CompellingVoice: [[spoiler: the Cradle]]
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*OlderThanTheyLook: Cindy and Thomas Brutran; Freddy.
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*ResurrectiveImmortality: [[spoiler: Sita in The Shadow of Death]]
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* DevilInPlainSight: Played straight with Yaksha, but subverted with [[spoiler: Kalika]] in that everyone only thinks she's evil.
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* {{Our Vampires Are Different}}: Yaksha was born from a dead woman who was eight months pregnant, after her corpse was possessed by a demon (a Yakshini). (It is suggested that he IS the yakshini, taking human form.) As such, vampires are, like yakshini, sort of snake-like: they are sensitive to electricity, sunlight, and cold, and prefer to feed on the living. Their strength is determined by their age and how closely descended they are from the MonsterProgenitor, Yaksha. All vampires are super strong, fast and have healing factors. They have none of the traditional vampire weaknesses except for sunlight (which only weakens them), decapitation, cardiac impalement or fire. They can also be killed if you can drain them of enough blood. They have very sharp senses, and have a small degree of psychic powers. They do have to drink blood to survive.
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* {{Our Vampires Are Different}}: Yaksha was born from a dead woman who was eight months pregnant, after her corpse was possessed by a demon (a Yakshini).called a yakshini. (It is suggested that he IS the yakshini, taking human form.) As such, vampires are, like yakshini, sort of snake-like: they are sensitive to electricity, sunlight, electricity and cold, and prefer to feed on the living. Their strength is determined by their age and how closely descended they are from the MonsterProgenitor, Yaksha. (For example, if ''A'' is a vampire created by Yaksha, and ''B'' is someone turned by someone who was turned by Yaksha, ''A'' will be the stronger vampire.) All vampires are super strong, fast and have healing factors. They have none of the traditional vampire weaknesses except for sunlight (which only weakens them), decapitation, cardiac impalement or fire. They can also be killed if you can drain them of enough blood. They have very sharp senses, and have a small degree of psychic powers. They do have to drink blood to survive.
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* ReincarnationRomance: A major plot point of the first book is whether or not [[spoiler: Ray is the reincarnation of Sita's husband, Rama]]. Arguably this is the sole reason she's attracted to him, which makes his story quite tragic.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Every male (and some females) by Sita. Her innocent looks often cause them to underestimate her.
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* ActionGirl: Sita, obviously.
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** Most of the nonhuman characters fit this trope.
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Originally a series of six books by Creator/ChristopherPike. They were first released in the early 1990s. Then with the resurgence of the 'vampire' in the teen fiction market, they were rereleased in 2009/2010. A seventh book was released in late 2010. An eighth has also been released.
The protagonist is the vampire Sita, who was the lieutenant of the first vampire, Yaksha, as well as the target of his affections. Thousands of years ago, Yaksha created a whole army of vampires and intended to take over the world, only to be stopped by TheMessiah (Krishna), who made him vow to destroy all of the vampires as penance. The first novel begins with Yaksha's quest nearly completed, in modern times, with only he and Sita still alive. The novels show Sita's relationships with humans and battles with enemies that are more powerful than her. Though it all, she just wants to have a family, having lost her original family when she became a vampire 5,000 years ago. Each volume offers a mix of present day action, and flashbacks to previous eras in Sita's life (sometimes hundreds of years in the past.)
* 1. The Last Vampire
* 2. Black Blood
* 3. Red Dice
* 4. Phantom
* 5. Evil Thirst
* 6. Creatures of Forever
* 7. The Eternal Dawn
* 8. The Shadow of Death
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!!This book series provides examples of:
* AbductionIsLove: Yaksha kidnaps Sita and forces her to become a vampire. Later on, while she doesn't kidnap either Ray or Joel outright, her EmergencyTransformation of them makes returning to their normal lives impossible.
* ActionGirl: Sita, obviously.
* TheAgeless: Any and all of the vampires, whose bodies are frozen in time.
* AssholeVictim: Sita prefers these, since she can kill them without remorse.
* Badass: Sita is pretty much one of the most powerful creatures on Earth, and can and does destroy everyone who threatens her existence.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: ''The Last Vampire'' series explains that God created evil, because without it people were complacent and couldn't become truly good.
* BettyAndVeronica: In "The Last Vampire", Ray is forced to choose between 'mousy', kind Pat (the Betty) and dangerous, beautiful Sita (the Veronica).
* BiTheWay: Sita mentions that she has had many lovers, both male and female, over the millennia.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Played more or less straight with Ray and Sita. Platonic version with Seymour and Sita.
* BurialAtSea: This happens in "Black Blood" with [[spoiler: Yaksha]] and in "Creatures of Forever" with [[spoiler: Sita]].
* CartwrightCurse: Anyone Sita is paired with romantically will die within two books of the pairing's start.
* ChekhovsGun: The ice cream truck in "Black Blood".
* CradlingYourKill: Sita has a tendency towards this, though whether it's kind or creepy depends on who she's killing and her mood.
** Also shown (very creepily) when Yaksha turns Sita into a vampire - as the transformation kills her, he holds her in his arms, stroking her hair, kissing her, and whispering things to her.
* CorruptTheCutie: This happens to most vampires, in part as a natural consequence of their new instincts. Yaksha, in his early days, takes particular joy in doing this to Sita after he makes her a vampire.
* DarkActionGirl: Although she is the series protagonist, Sita fulfills this trope. So does [[spoiler: her daughter, Kalika]].
* DatingCatwoman: Joel struggles with this idea after he meets Sita and becomes increasingly aware that she is definitely not normal.
* DevilInPlainSight: Played straight with Yaksha, but subverted with [[spoiler: Kalika]] in that everyone only thinks she's evil.
* {{Dhampyr}}: [[spoiler: Kalika]] is discovered to be one of these, though for all practical purposes she is a full-fledged vampire. Later on [[spoiler: Matt]] is revealed as another, though his mother isn't a normal human.
* DisappearedDad: There are several instances of this in the series - Sita, Ray, and [[spoiler: Matt and Kalika]] all lose their fathers after dad's death by violence.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Every male (and some females) by Sita. Her innocent looks often cause them to underestimate her.
* DrivenToSuicide: Oh, Yaksha. Also arguably [[spoiler: Sita (book 6, book 7) and Kalika (book 5)]].
* EmergencyTransformation: Several times, vampires - mostly Sita - must choose whether or not to let a loved one die or turn him/her into a vampire. Played straight in that, unless the transformee was willing, it usually doesn't end well.
* EnfantTerrible: There are quite a few examples - Yaksha and [[spoiler: Kalika]] are the straight-up vampire kind, while [[spoiler: the children in the Array]] are more alarming for being [[spoiler: human]].
* EnterStageWindow: Sita frequently does this with Seymour, both for kicks and because she usually visits him at ungodly hours of the night.
* ExpressDelivery: This occurs in [[spoiler: the 4th book of the series when Sita experiences a shorter than average pregnancy.]]
* FakingTheDead: Sita thinks Yaksha is dead at the start of the series, having heard back in the Middle Ages that he was accused of being a witch, hunted down, and burned alive in a castle. Obviously, she was mistaken.
** Also happens in "The Eternal Dawn", where we learn that [[spoiler: Yaksha actually had a child with a Telar woman, and that all three faked their deaths to escape the Telar, who disapproved of the union and the resulting child]].
* FetusTerrible: Kalika initially seems to be this, gestating and aging at an abnormally fast rate. She is not adverse to killing to get her own way. She terrifies even her own mother.
* FinalSolution: Krishna orders Yaksha to destroy all vampires if he wishes to die with Krishna's grace. Since the love of Yaksha's life is the vampire Sita, this creates some angst.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: When Pike decided to continue the series, this had to be invoked.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: [[spoiler: Ray]] definitely fulfills this trope. So does Yaksha, particularly since he doesn't seem to need to drink blood later in life, and becomes remorseful about the cruelties he committed in his youth. Sita embodies it to a lesser extent, in that she's capable of great kindness and compassion... though she never loses her love of violence and particularly murder.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Most of the vampires reach this stage, at least to some extent. The most obvious examples are the young Yaksha and Eddie, the antagonist in "Black Blood".
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Yaksha]] in "Black Blood". This leads to a brief BrokenAngel scene and prompts Sita to perform a MercyKill, at his request.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: Happens with [[spoiler: Sita and Ray]] in "Black Blood", and [[spoiler: Sita and both Joel and Arturo]] in "Red Dice".
* HeroicSacrifice: There are quite a few in the series: [[spoiler: Ray and Yaksha in "Black Blood", Kalika in "Evil Thirst", Sita in "Creatures of Forever" and "The Eternal Dawn"...]].
* HolyChild: [[spoiler: John]].
* HotMom: Sita.
* IfICantHaveYou: Yaksha forces Sita to come with him and become a vampire (and his wife/consort) by telling her that if she refuses, he'll kill her, along with her husband and daughter.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Most vampires in this series come to actively resent the vampire who made them, since most of them were turned against their will. Played more or less straight with Sita and Yaksha, but subverted in "Creatures of Forever" with [[spoiler: Sita and Seymour]] - he wanted to be turned and adores his maker. Also notably averted with [[spoiler: Ray]], who loved his maker even though he hated being a vampire.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Arguably a large part of why Yaksha was attracted to Sita. From day one, she seems less than susceptible to the charm that makes all the other people in their village trust him utterly. Shee tends to defy him and run counter to his wishes.
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Yaksha and Kalika both age rapidly, then stop when they are physically in their twenties.
* KissOfTheVampire: Sita mentions that she can make feeding a very pleasurable experience for her victim. Of course, if the vampires want them to, VampireBitesSuck.
* LastOfHisKind: Sita is, for much of the series, the titular last vampire.
* LoveInterests: Many, many of these. Joel and Ray were this to Sita. Sita, in turn, was arguably the LoveInterest (or LustObject) of her creator, Yaksha.
* LoveRedeems: Sita, Yaksha, Arturo... this happens a lot.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Happens with pretty much every romance Sita has, since she is a vampire and other vampires are quite rare. Emphasized because TheMessiah made her take a vow to create no more vampires, so she can't turn any of her human lovers. Exacerbated by her CartwrightCurse.
* MercyKill: Sita does this for several people, including a nameless Roman lover who developed leprosy and [[spoiler: Yaksha]] after he was so badly wounded that even he couldn't heal.
* TheMessiah: Krishna and John both fit this trope.
* MonsterProgenitor: Yaksha, the first vampire, is far stronger than even the oldest and most powerful of his 'children'.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Seymour.
* NotQuiteSavedEnough: [[spoiler: Ray, Joel, and Teri]] all suffer this fate - even turning them into vampires isn't enough to save them.
* OffWithHisHead: How the main villain of [[spoiler: Black Blood]] is finally dealt with.
* {{Our Vampires Are Different}}: Yaksha was born from a dead woman who was eight months pregnant, after her corpse was possessed by a demon (a Yakshini). (It is suggested that he IS the yakshini, taking human form.) As such, vampires are, like yakshini, sort of snake-like: they are sensitive to electricity, sunlight, and cold, and prefer to feed on the living. Their strength is determined by their age and how closely descended they are from the MonsterProgenitor, Yaksha. All vampires are super strong, fast and have healing factors. They have none of the traditional vampire weaknesses except for sunlight (which only weakens them), decapitation, cardiac impalement or fire. They can also be killed if you can drain them of enough blood. They have very sharp senses, and have a small degree of psychic powers. They do have to drink blood to survive.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All of the older vampires fit this trope. Averted slightly with [[spoiler: Arturo, who looks to be middle-aged but is, in fact, about seven hundred years old - he made himself a vampire-human hybrid, which slowed his aging]].
* ReincarnationRomance: A major plot point of the first book is whether or not [[spoiler: Ray is the reincarnation of Sita's husband, Rama]]. Arguably this is the sole reason she's attracted to him, which makes his story quite tragic.
* ReplacementLoveInterest: Played more or less straight with Ray and Joel (for Sita), even though they look nothing alike.
* Roofhopping: Used in "Black Blood" and "Red Dice".
* SoftWater: Subverted in ''5. Evil Thirst''. When someone gets thrown off a 10-story(ish) building into a deep swimming pool, they die. Effectively being pulpified in fact. The thrower, apparently finding this amusing, proceeds to get rid of all her opposition in the same way. [[spoiler: The main character only survives because she's a vampire, though she's still very badly injured. Good thing she can heal.]]
* StagesOfMonsterGrief: This is seen prominently in two characters: Ray and Sita. Sita's case is shown in the most detail and is the more extreme of the two. She goes so far as to try and starve herself to death, while Ray merely keeps feeding to a minimum. Averted with [[spoiler: Joel and Seymour]], both of whom adapt to vampirism fairly easily.
* StakingTheLovedOne: Arguably what happens to Yaksha after Krishna makes him take a vow to "destroy the evil he created" - i.e., all the vampires he's made, including Sita. Also, Sita herself is forced to do this in to Arturo in "3. Red Dice" and to Kalika in "5. Evil Thirst" (although James beat her to it).
* StalkerWithACrush: Yaksha does this to Sita, who in turn does it to Ray. Sita also does a platonic form of this with Matt, Teri, and Seymour.
* StarCrossedLovers: Sita and Rama - she encounters his soul more than once, and each time loses him in a year or less.
* StrongerWithAge: Vampires get stronger as they age - their senses become sharper and they gain physical strength. Averted in that we see some vampires become very strong, very fast, by drinking the blood of another, stronger vampire. Subverted entirely with [[spoiler: Kalika]], who is the youngest vampire in the series, but also the strongest.
* TheTeamNormal: Seymour Dorsten, unless you count the fact that he has a psychic bond with Sita.
** Seymour also fulfills the role of TheSmartGuy.
* TitleDrop: Sita quotes "the last vampire" quite a lot of times, especially considering that there are very few vampires left on earth.
* UndeathAlwaysEnds: Many vampires in the series are killed.
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: Seemingly played straight with Yaksha and Sita, until we find out (a)[[spoiler: she really did love him, in a way]] and (b) [[spoiler: that he never stopped loving her but still fell in love with another woman, married, and had a kid]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Played straight with Sita (who was a perfectly normal housewife before she became a vampire), but subverted with Yaksha and Eddie - it's implied they've ALWAYS been evil.
* VampiresAreRich: At least, the older ones are. But then, if you'd had thousands of years to rack up money, you would be, too.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Most of the vampires are described as being very good-looking, and having eternity to work on your performance in the bedroom means that the older ones in particular make excellent lovers.
** Many of Sita's lovers who knew (or suspected) that she was inhuman found this fact an incredible turn-on. One of them, an artist who knew that she was a vampire, loved to paint nude portraits of her with blood all over her face.
* VegetarianVampire: Sita will drink the blood of people she has to kill because, well, why let it go to waste? But, she has the power to control people and wipe their memories, and will avoid killing them if possible - drinking only some of their blood, then wiping their memory. Partially averted, though, by the fact that she actually LIKES killing people - she just usually doesn't bother because, according to her, the consequences would be a waste of her time.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Vampires in this series are weakened in the sunlight. For at least the first few centuries, they find any sun exposure excruciatingly painful.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Both Yaksha and Kalika fulfill this trope, since their born-not-turned vampirism makes them age more quickly until they reach maturity.
* YourVampiresSuck: Sita possesses few of the traditional weaknesses. She sometimes has the "what about crosses, garlic, running water, coffin?" conversation with humans she reveals herself to. She can even stand the sunlight, though she explains she couldn't really do this until she'd aged a few THOUSAND years.
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The protagonist is the vampire Sita, who was the lieutenant of the first vampire, Yaksha, as well as the target of his affections. Thousands of years ago, Yaksha created a whole army of vampires and intended to take over the world, only to be stopped by TheMessiah (Krishna), who made him vow to destroy all of the vampires as penance. The first novel begins with Yaksha's quest nearly completed, in modern times, with only he and Sita still alive. The novels show Sita's relationships with humans and battles with enemies that are more powerful than her. Though it all, she just wants to have a family, having lost her original family when she became a vampire 5,000 years ago. Each volume offers a mix of present day action, and flashbacks to previous eras in Sita's life (sometimes hundreds of years in the past.)
* 1. The Last Vampire
* 2. Black Blood
* 3. Red Dice
* 4. Phantom
* 5. Evil Thirst
* 6. Creatures of Forever
* 7. The Eternal Dawn
* 8. The Shadow of Death
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!!This book series provides examples of:
* AbductionIsLove: Yaksha kidnaps Sita and forces her to become a vampire. Later on, while she doesn't kidnap either Ray or Joel outright, her EmergencyTransformation of them makes returning to their normal lives impossible.
* ActionGirl: Sita, obviously.
* TheAgeless: Any and all of the vampires, whose bodies are frozen in time.
* AssholeVictim: Sita prefers these, since she can kill them without remorse.
* Badass: Sita is pretty much one of the most powerful creatures on Earth, and can and does destroy everyone who threatens her existence.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: ''The Last Vampire'' series explains that God created evil, because without it people were complacent and couldn't become truly good.
* BettyAndVeronica: In "The Last Vampire", Ray is forced to choose between 'mousy', kind Pat (the Betty) and dangerous, beautiful Sita (the Veronica).
* BiTheWay: Sita mentions that she has had many lovers, both male and female, over the millennia.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Played more or less straight with Ray and Sita. Platonic version with Seymour and Sita.
* BurialAtSea: This happens in "Black Blood" with [[spoiler: Yaksha]] and in "Creatures of Forever" with [[spoiler: Sita]].
* CartwrightCurse: Anyone Sita is paired with romantically will die within two books of the pairing's start.
* ChekhovsGun: The ice cream truck in "Black Blood".
* CradlingYourKill: Sita has a tendency towards this, though whether it's kind or creepy depends on who she's killing and her mood.
** Also shown (very creepily) when Yaksha turns Sita into a vampire - as the transformation kills her, he holds her in his arms, stroking her hair, kissing her, and whispering things to her.
* CorruptTheCutie: This happens to most vampires, in part as a natural consequence of their new instincts. Yaksha, in his early days, takes particular joy in doing this to Sita after he makes her a vampire.
* DarkActionGirl: Although she is the series protagonist, Sita fulfills this trope. So does [[spoiler: her daughter, Kalika]].
* DatingCatwoman: Joel struggles with this idea after he meets Sita and becomes increasingly aware that she is definitely not normal.
* DevilInPlainSight: Played straight with Yaksha, but subverted with [[spoiler: Kalika]] in that everyone only thinks she's evil.
* {{Dhampyr}}: [[spoiler: Kalika]] is discovered to be one of these, though for all practical purposes she is a full-fledged vampire. Later on [[spoiler: Matt]] is revealed as another, though his mother isn't a normal human.
* DisappearedDad: There are several instances of this in the series - Sita, Ray, and [[spoiler: Matt and Kalika]] all lose their fathers after dad's death by violence.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Every male (and some females) by Sita. Her innocent looks often cause them to underestimate her.
* DrivenToSuicide: Oh, Yaksha. Also arguably [[spoiler: Sita (book 6, book 7) and Kalika (book 5)]].
* EmergencyTransformation: Several times, vampires - mostly Sita - must choose whether or not to let a loved one die or turn him/her into a vampire. Played straight in that, unless the transformee was willing, it usually doesn't end well.
* EnfantTerrible: There are quite a few examples - Yaksha and [[spoiler: Kalika]] are the straight-up vampire kind, while [[spoiler: the children in the Array]] are more alarming for being [[spoiler: human]].
* EnterStageWindow: Sita frequently does this with Seymour, both for kicks and because she usually visits him at ungodly hours of the night.
* ExpressDelivery: This occurs in [[spoiler: the 4th book of the series when Sita experiences a shorter than average pregnancy.]]
* FakingTheDead: Sita thinks Yaksha is dead at the start of the series, having heard back in the Middle Ages that he was accused of being a witch, hunted down, and burned alive in a castle. Obviously, she was mistaken.
** Also happens in "The Eternal Dawn", where we learn that [[spoiler: Yaksha actually had a child with a Telar woman, and that all three faked their deaths to escape the Telar, who disapproved of the union and the resulting child]].
* FetusTerrible: Kalika initially seems to be this, gestating and aging at an abnormally fast rate. She is not adverse to killing to get her own way. She terrifies even her own mother.
* FinalSolution: Krishna orders Yaksha to destroy all vampires if he wishes to die with Krishna's grace. Since the love of Yaksha's life is the vampire Sita, this creates some angst.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: When Pike decided to continue the series, this had to be invoked.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: [[spoiler: Ray]] definitely fulfills this trope. So does Yaksha, particularly since he doesn't seem to need to drink blood later in life, and becomes remorseful about the cruelties he committed in his youth. Sita embodies it to a lesser extent, in that she's capable of great kindness and compassion... though she never loses her love of violence and particularly murder.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Most of the vampires reach this stage, at least to some extent. The most obvious examples are the young Yaksha and Eddie, the antagonist in "Black Blood".
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Yaksha]] in "Black Blood". This leads to a brief BrokenAngel scene and prompts Sita to perform a MercyKill, at his request.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: Happens with [[spoiler: Sita and Ray]] in "Black Blood", and [[spoiler: Sita and both Joel and Arturo]] in "Red Dice".
* HeroicSacrifice: There are quite a few in the series: [[spoiler: Ray and Yaksha in "Black Blood", Kalika in "Evil Thirst", Sita in "Creatures of Forever" and "The Eternal Dawn"...]].
* HolyChild: [[spoiler: John]].
* HotMom: Sita.
* IfICantHaveYou: Yaksha forces Sita to come with him and become a vampire (and his wife/consort) by telling her that if she refuses, he'll kill her, along with her husband and daughter.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Most vampires in this series come to actively resent the vampire who made them, since most of them were turned against their will. Played more or less straight with Sita and Yaksha, but subverted in "Creatures of Forever" with [[spoiler: Sita and Seymour]] - he wanted to be turned and adores his maker. Also notably averted with [[spoiler: Ray]], who loved his maker even though he hated being a vampire.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Arguably a large part of why Yaksha was attracted to Sita. From day one, she seems less than susceptible to the charm that makes all the other people in their village trust him utterly. Shee tends to defy him and run counter to his wishes.
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Yaksha and Kalika both age rapidly, then stop when they are physically in their twenties.
* KissOfTheVampire: Sita mentions that she can make feeding a very pleasurable experience for her victim. Of course, if the vampires want them to, VampireBitesSuck.
* LastOfHisKind: Sita is, for much of the series, the titular last vampire.
* LoveInterests: Many, many of these. Joel and Ray were this to Sita. Sita, in turn, was arguably the LoveInterest (or LustObject) of her creator, Yaksha.
* LoveRedeems: Sita, Yaksha, Arturo... this happens a lot.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Happens with pretty much every romance Sita has, since she is a vampire and other vampires are quite rare. Emphasized because TheMessiah made her take a vow to create no more vampires, so she can't turn any of her human lovers. Exacerbated by her CartwrightCurse.
* MercyKill: Sita does this for several people, including a nameless Roman lover who developed leprosy and [[spoiler: Yaksha]] after he was so badly wounded that even he couldn't heal.
* TheMessiah: Krishna and John both fit this trope.
* MonsterProgenitor: Yaksha, the first vampire, is far stronger than even the oldest and most powerful of his 'children'.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Seymour.
* NotQuiteSavedEnough: [[spoiler: Ray, Joel, and Teri]] all suffer this fate - even turning them into vampires isn't enough to save them.
* OffWithHisHead: How the main villain of [[spoiler: Black Blood]] is finally dealt with.
* {{Our Vampires Are Different}}: Yaksha was born from a dead woman who was eight months pregnant, after her corpse was possessed by a demon (a Yakshini). (It is suggested that he IS the yakshini, taking human form.) As such, vampires are, like yakshini, sort of snake-like: they are sensitive to electricity, sunlight, and cold, and prefer to feed on the living. Their strength is determined by their age and how closely descended they are from the MonsterProgenitor, Yaksha. All vampires are super strong, fast and have healing factors. They have none of the traditional vampire weaknesses except for sunlight (which only weakens them), decapitation, cardiac impalement or fire. They can also be killed if you can drain them of enough blood. They have very sharp senses, and have a small degree of psychic powers. They do have to drink blood to survive.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All of the older vampires fit this trope. Averted slightly with [[spoiler: Arturo, who looks to be middle-aged but is, in fact, about seven hundred years old - he made himself a vampire-human hybrid, which slowed his aging]].
* ReincarnationRomance: A major plot point of the first book is whether or not [[spoiler: Ray is the reincarnation of Sita's husband, Rama]]. Arguably this is the sole reason she's attracted to him, which makes his story quite tragic.
* ReplacementLoveInterest: Played more or less straight with Ray and Joel (for Sita), even though they look nothing alike.
* Roofhopping: Used in "Black Blood" and "Red Dice".
* SoftWater: Subverted in ''5. Evil Thirst''. When someone gets thrown off a 10-story(ish) building into a deep swimming pool, they die. Effectively being pulpified in fact. The thrower, apparently finding this amusing, proceeds to get rid of all her opposition in the same way. [[spoiler: The main character only survives because she's a vampire, though she's still very badly injured. Good thing she can heal.]]
* StagesOfMonsterGrief: This is seen prominently in two characters: Ray and Sita. Sita's case is shown in the most detail and is the more extreme of the two. She goes so far as to try and starve herself to death, while Ray merely keeps feeding to a minimum. Averted with [[spoiler: Joel and Seymour]], both of whom adapt to vampirism fairly easily.
* StakingTheLovedOne: Arguably what happens to Yaksha after Krishna makes him take a vow to "destroy the evil he created" - i.e., all the vampires he's made, including Sita. Also, Sita herself is forced to do this in to Arturo in "3. Red Dice" and to Kalika in "5. Evil Thirst" (although James beat her to it).
* StalkerWithACrush: Yaksha does this to Sita, who in turn does it to Ray. Sita also does a platonic form of this with Matt, Teri, and Seymour.
* StarCrossedLovers: Sita and Rama - she encounters his soul more than once, and each time loses him in a year or less.
* StrongerWithAge: Vampires get stronger as they age - their senses become sharper and they gain physical strength. Averted in that we see some vampires become very strong, very fast, by drinking the blood of another, stronger vampire. Subverted entirely with [[spoiler: Kalika]], who is the youngest vampire in the series, but also the strongest.
* TheTeamNormal: Seymour Dorsten, unless you count the fact that he has a psychic bond with Sita.
** Seymour also fulfills the role of TheSmartGuy.
* TitleDrop: Sita quotes "the last vampire" quite a lot of times, especially considering that there are very few vampires left on earth.
* UndeathAlwaysEnds: Many vampires in the series are killed.
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: Seemingly played straight with Yaksha and Sita, until we find out (a)[[spoiler: she really did love him, in a way]] and (b) [[spoiler: that he never stopped loving her but still fell in love with another woman, married, and had a kid]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Played straight with Sita (who was a perfectly normal housewife before she became a vampire), but subverted with Yaksha and Eddie - it's implied they've ALWAYS been evil.
* VampiresAreRich: At least, the older ones are. But then, if you'd had thousands of years to rack up money, you would be, too.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Most of the vampires are described as being very good-looking, and having eternity to work on your performance in the bedroom means that the older ones in particular make excellent lovers.
** Many of Sita's lovers who knew (or suspected) that she was inhuman found this fact an incredible turn-on. One of them, an artist who knew that she was a vampire, loved to paint nude portraits of her with blood all over her face.
* VegetarianVampire: Sita will drink the blood of people she has to kill because, well, why let it go to waste? But, she has the power to control people and wipe their memories, and will avoid killing them if possible - drinking only some of their blood, then wiping their memory. Partially averted, though, by the fact that she actually LIKES killing people - she just usually doesn't bother because, according to her, the consequences would be a waste of her time.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Vampires in this series are weakened in the sunlight. For at least the first few centuries, they find any sun exposure excruciatingly painful.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Both Yaksha and Kalika fulfill this trope, since their born-not-turned vampirism makes them age more quickly until they reach maturity.
* YourVampiresSuck: Sita possesses few of the traditional weaknesses. She sometimes has the "what about crosses, garlic, running water, coffin?" conversation with humans she reveals herself to. She can even stand the sunlight, though she explains she couldn't really do this until she'd aged a few THOUSAND years.
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