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* DamselInDistress: Asha.
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* RescueRomance: Jacquotte thinks she's pursuing this. Turns out there are...other factors.
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* HopeSpringsEternal: Inverted. Once 'hope' is free, everyone starts pursuing wild dreams, and chaos abounds.
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* HopeBringer: Asha; before she is freed, the idea of her gives the people something to dream about. Once she's out...
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* ExactWords: The nature of wish-granting.
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* [[spoiler:KindRestraints: Asha put herself in captivity, with the aid of her once-beau, Willem.]]
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* [[spoiler:ThrownDownAWell: Where Asha is found.]]
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* EroticDream: Part of the DreamSequence.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Caietanus.]]
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* HoYay: Possibly one-sided between Balthazar and Caeitanus. Some of Balthazar's lyrical musings about the Prince could be construed as...suggestive. Overlaps with FoeYay.
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* HoYay: Possibly one-sided between Balthazar and Caeitanus.Caietanus. Some of Balthazar's lyrical musings about the Prince could be construed as...suggestive. Overlaps with FoeYay.
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** Caeitanus (incorrectly) assumes this will be the case between Jacquotte and Asha, which is part of why he decided to send a woman to find his potential bride.
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** Caeitanus Caietanus (incorrectly) assumes this will be the case between Jacquotte and Asha, which is part of why he decided to send a woman to find his potential bride.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Balthazar, though it's mostly off-screen.
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* TreacherousAdvisor: Balthazar has plots of his own, against Caietanus. [[PointyHairedBoss He can't entirely be blamed for this.]]
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* [[spoiler: DeathByIrony]]
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* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[spoiler:Jacquotte, to Bron.]]
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* HoYay: Possibly one-sided between Balthazar and Caeitanus. Some of Balthazar's lyrical musings about the Prince could be construed as...suggestive.
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* HoYay: Possibly one-sided between Balthazar and Caeitanus. Some of Balthazar's lyrical musings about the Prince could be construed as...suggestive. Overlaps with FoeYay.
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* InnerMonologue: Sometimes InnerMonologueConversation, written in [[SingleStanzaSong poetry]].
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( GreatOffscreenWar: Rather than having taken place in the past, one appears to be on the brink of brewing.
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( GreatOffscreenWar: Rather than having taken place in the past, one appears to be on the brink of brewing.
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* RoyalBrat: Prince Caietanus is an adult version.
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* ForYourOwnGood: [[spoiler:When Bron knocks out Jacquotte to steal Asha away.]]
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Lyall.
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* [[spoiler:PyrrhicVictory: Leads to the DownerEnding.]]
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** ''The Wishing Maiden'' is rife with this, including the names of places (Felicitie being a reference to 'luck', and ship they arrived on being called the ''Pandora''...)
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** Caeitanus (incorrectly) assumes this will be the case between Jacquotte and Asha, which is part of why he decided to send a woman to find his potential bride.
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* BraidsOfAction: Bron, the most physically powerful of the Quintet, wears her hair in a long braid.
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* HoYay: Possibly one-sided between Balthazar and Caeitanus. Some of Balthazar's lyrical musings about the Prince could be construed as...suggestive.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Lyall and Jacquotte. [[spoiler:When Lyall wishes to be attractive, to her, he's turned into a woman.]]
* LesYay: Apart from the obvious, between Jacquotte and Asha, there's a bit between Asha and Bron, as well.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Lyall and Jacquotte. [[spoiler:When Lyall wishes to be attractive, to her, he's turned into a woman.]]
* LesYay: Apart from the obvious, between Jacquotte and Asha, there's a bit between Asha and Bron, as well.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Not the overall message of the story, but significant nonetheless.
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* [[spoiler:CompleteImmortality: Asha does not age, or die.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Asha makes mention of a man named Willem who loved her, but avoids stating how she felt about him.
* AntiHero: Jacquotte is on the wrong side of the law and is shown unrepentantly killing a vanquished enemy.
* AntiHero: Jacquotte is on the wrong side of the law and is shown unrepentantly killing a vanquished enemy.
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* DreamSequence: The Wishing Maiden first appears to Jacquotte in one of these. [[spoiler:She comes to her again the same way later, when being held prisoner in Felicitie.]]
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* LipstickLesbian: Possibly Jacquotte; she is referred to as having long hair and being quite pretty, but there is some overlap due to her roguish tendencies and ability to fight capably.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Asha.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquotte_Delahaye Jacquotte Delahaye]] was a French pirate known for her vivid red hair.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquotte_Delahaye Jacquotte Delahaye]] was a French pirate known for her vivid red hair.hair.
* PowerIncontinence: Asha has no control over which wishes she grants.
* YesMan: Balthazar, for his prince. He loathes it.
* PowerIncontinence: Asha has no control over which wishes she grants.
* YesMan: Balthazar, for his prince. He loathes it.
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* MeaningfulName: The four other members of the Quintet all have names that identify a key personality trait: Grete is greedy, Bron is brawny, Lyall is loyal, and Sly is...well, sly.
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* LiteralGenie: Asha cannot help but be this.
* MeaningfulName: The four other members of the Quintet all have names that identify a key personality trait: Grete is greedy, Bron is brawny, Lyall is loyal, and Sly is...well,sly.sly.
** The Wishing Maiden's name is 'Asha', meaning 'wish, desire, hope'.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquotte_Delahaye Jacquotte Delahaye]] was a French pirate known for her vivid red hair.
* MeaningfulName: The four other members of the Quintet all have names that identify a key personality trait: Grete is greedy, Bron is brawny, Lyall is loyal, and Sly is...well,
** The Wishing Maiden's name is 'Asha', meaning 'wish, desire, hope'.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquotte_Delahaye Jacquotte Delahaye]] was a French pirate known for her vivid red hair.
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* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Jacquotte.
** TheLancer: Primarily Grete, though Bron also serves in this capacity.
** TheSmartGuy: Either Sly or Grete, interchangeably.
** TheBigGuy: Bron.
** TheChick: Lyall.
* MeaningfulName: The four other members of the Quintet all have names that identify a key personality trait: Grete is greedy, Bron is brawny, Lyall is loyal, and Sly is...well, sly.
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Jacquotte.
** TheLancer: Primarily Grete, though Bron also serves in this capacity.
** TheSmartGuy: Either Sly or Grete, interchangeably.
** TheBigGuy: Bron.
** TheChick: Lyall.
* MeaningfulName: The four other members of the Quintet all have names that identify a key personality trait: Grete is greedy, Bron is brawny, Lyall is loyal, and Sly is...well, sly.
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-->-- '''The shop girl's lament.'''
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-->-- '''The shop girl's lament.''''''
Written by R.R Hood, ''The Wishing Maiden'' is currently for sale [[http://beyondthefreerealm.tumblr.com/post/74345091877/the-wishing-maiden-a-novel-for-sale-you-set-the here]] with a Paypal donation of $5(+).
[[FieryRedhead Red-haired rogue]] Jacquotte leads the infamous Red Quintet, a FiveManBand traveling where ever they please and doing as they like, all in the pursuit of adventure. Circumstance brings them to Felicitie, a thriving kingdom in which the citizens have fallen into the mindset that [[RichBoredom living in peaceful prosperity is dull]], and are starting to grow restless...
Particularly as tales of a legendary maiden, who grants every wish she hears, start to spread as more than myth.
The Red Quintet is charged with tracking down the Wishing Maiden on behalf of the Prince Caietanus and his [[EvilChancellor showpiece of an advisor, Balthazar]], in exchange for not being thrown in prison.
!!Tropes found in ''The Wishing Maiden'':
Written by R.R Hood, ''The Wishing Maiden'' is currently for sale [[http://beyondthefreerealm.tumblr.com/post/74345091877/the-wishing-maiden-a-novel-for-sale-you-set-the here]] with a Paypal donation of $5(+).
[[FieryRedhead Red-haired rogue]] Jacquotte leads the infamous Red Quintet, a FiveManBand traveling where ever they please and doing as they like, all in the pursuit of adventure. Circumstance brings them to Felicitie, a thriving kingdom in which the citizens have fallen into the mindset that [[RichBoredom living in peaceful prosperity is dull]], and are starting to grow restless...
Particularly as tales of a legendary maiden, who grants every wish she hears, start to spread as more than myth.
The Red Quintet is charged with tracking down the Wishing Maiden on behalf of the Prince Caietanus and his [[EvilChancellor showpiece of an advisor, Balthazar]], in exchange for not being thrown in prison.
!!Tropes found in ''The Wishing Maiden'':
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--> ''Be happy every momentsince,since,''
--> ''Be happy every moment
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--> ''"If I could have any wish,''
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--> ''I'd wish that I could wed a prince.
--> ''Be happy every moment since,
--> ''The dearest wish that I have."''
--> '''The shop girl's lament.'''
