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* MemeticMolester: Fan opinions of Arturo can be summed up as "He's sleazy".



* ShoutOut: A not-so-subtle one is made to Myth/{{Norse Mythology}} in [[https://twistedcogs.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/3-1-tempestas-ingruit-the-brewing-storm/ 3.1]], when Isadora makes fun of Elena's attachment to her [[DropTheHammer new weapon]] by calling it Mjolnir.

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* ShoutOut: A not-so-subtle one is made to Myth/{{Norse Mythology}} in [[https://twistedcogs.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/3-1-tempestas-ingruit-the-brewing-storm/ 3.1]], when Isadora makes fun of Elena's attachment to her [[DropTheHammer new weapon]] weapon by calling it Mjolnir.



* WideEyedIdealist: This along with being a [[NiceGuy nice girl]] is Elena's defining characteristic.

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* WideEyedIdealist: This along with being a [[NiceGuy nice girl]] is Elena's defining characteristic.characteristic.
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* AdultFear: Joanna's treatment of Elena crosses firmly into this.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The second arc of book two takes an unexpected break from the main story to do a {{flashback}} episode of Little One.
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* CompetenceZone: Despite being focused on mostly teenage/young adult characters, the serial seems to avoid the ImprobableAge trope by showing that it is the grown artist in this zone, with the {{justification}} that all the young characters are inexperienced and need years of practice.

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* CompetenceZone: Despite being focused on mostly teenage/young adult characters, the serial seems to avoid the ImprobableAge trope by showing that it is the grown artist in this zone, with the {{justification}} justification that all the young characters are inexperienced and need years of practice.

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* AltumVidetur: Used every so often. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since this Renaissance Italy, when Latin was ''the'' language of high class society.


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* GratuitousLatin: Latin is used every so often. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since this Renaissance Italy, when Latin was ''the'' language of high class society.

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* EternalSexualFreedom: The Prince (ruler) of Urbana is married to another man. Despite the story's pseudo-Renaissance setting not a single person seems to care, unless you count how the husband has the title of "Princess".



* LockedOutOfTheLoop: No one tells Elena anything. It gets her in a lot of trouble.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: No one tells Elena anything. It gets her in a lot of trouble. [[PoorCommunicationKills And it gets other people in trouble when she interferes]].
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* TheRenaissance: Set in a pseudo-Italian setting at the turn of the 16 century where there is a lot of focus on art, machines, and magic.
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* WhamEpisode: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Slug is going to turture Elena for breaking his arrows, and Garnet is free and speaks to Slug.]]

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* WhamEpisode: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Slug is going to turture torture Elena for breaking his arrows, and Garnet is free and speaks to Slug.]]
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* LadyAndKnight: A very [[pun twisted]] variant of this; while a rhetorguard is ordered to protect a rhetor with their life, if the rhetor tries to make any noise, the "knight" is charged with putting down his "lady" immediately.

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* LadyAndKnight: A very [[pun twisted]] twisted variant of this; while a rhetorguard is ordered to protect a rhetor with their life, if the rhetor tries to make any noise, the "knight" is charged with putting down his "lady" immediately.
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* ShoutOut: A not-so-subtle one is made to {{Norse Mythology}} in [[https://twistedcogs.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/3-1-tempestas-ingruit-the-brewing-storm/ 3.1]], when Isadora makes fun of Elena's attachment to her [[DropTheHammer new weapon]] by calling it Mjolnir.

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* ShoutOut: A not-so-subtle one is made to {{Norse Myth/{{Norse Mythology}} in [[https://twistedcogs.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/3-1-tempestas-ingruit-the-brewing-storm/ 3.1]], when Isadora makes fun of Elena's attachment to her [[DropTheHammer new weapon]] by calling it Mjolnir.
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* ShiningCity: Downplayed with Milia, but it ''is'' the starting point of many Garzona's dreams and is so shiny and well built that when Elena first goes there she thinks she is looking at the gates of {{Heaven}}.

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* ShiningCity: Downplayed with Milia, but it ''is'' the starting point of many Garzona's Garzonas' dreams and is so shiny and well built that when Elena first goes there she thinks she is looking at the gates of {{Heaven}}.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: No one tells Elena anything. It gets her in a lot of trouble.



* LockedOutOfTheLoop: No one tells Elena anything. It gets her in a lot of trouble.


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* ShiningCity: Downplayed with Milia, but it ''is'' the starting point of many Garzona's dreams and is so shiny and well built that when Elena first goes there she thinks she is looking at the gates of {{Heaven}}.
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* BodyguardCrush: "Bodyguard seduced to get out of my rhetor mask" would be a better description, though they do both fall in love with each other later on.


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** Arta implies that a stormtouched so much as ignoring their echo is dangerous.


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* LadyAndKnight: A very [[pun twisted]] variant of this; while a rhetorguard is ordered to protect a rhetor with their life, if the rhetor tries to make any noise, the "knight" is charged with putting down his "lady" immediately.
** In fact, in-universe the light and dark category are distinguished between those who do their duty and those who abandon their post/break the law respectively.

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[[http://twistedcogs.wordpress.com/ Twisted Cogs]] is written by Maddison Rose, and updates on Tuesdays and Sundays.

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[[http://twistedcogs.wordpress.com/ Twisted Cogs]] is written by Maddison Rose, and updates on Tuesdays Wenesday and Sundays.


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* DealWithTheDevil: None have been made (yet) but there is a song in the first chapter that seems to warn against this trope if you replace "devil" with "shadow" in the words.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In-universe example. All the garzona and studio's are determined by their colors.
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* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Elena has this moment when she first sees the city in [[https://twistedcogs.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/1-2-urbana-city-girl/ Urbana]]. Of course, being a Fabera, she's more concerned with the construction of the gate, but she still appreciates the architecture of the city.

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