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Snow White isn't a trope.
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So begins a dark retelling of "Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs" by British fantasy author Creator/TanithLee. Arpazia is the daughter of a pagan lord who is under attack by the Christian king Draco. Her old nurse tells the girl that her father will give her wings to escape the fighting, which Arpazia doesn't understand... until her father [[PaterFamilicide places a knife on the table]]. Realizing she is going to die if she stays, Arpazia and her maid try to flee, but end up running right into Draco's army. Draco rapes Arpazia, after which she curses him. Fearing the curse, he marries her. Nine months later, Arpazia gives birth to a little girl who is white as snow, black as wood, and red as blood, the curse she had conjured thrown back at her.
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So begins a dark retelling of "Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs" ''Literature/SnowWhite'' by British fantasy author Creator/TanithLee. Arpazia is the daughter of a pagan lord who is under attack by the Christian king Draco. Her old nurse tells the girl that her father will give her wings to escape the fighting, which Arpazia doesn't understand... until her father [[PaterFamilicide places a knife on the table]]. Realizing she is going to die if she stays, Arpazia and her maid try to flee, but end up running right into Draco's army. Draco rapes Arpazia, after which she curses him. Fearing the curse, he marries her. Nine months later, Arpazia gives birth to a little girl who is white as snow, black as wood, and red as blood, the curse she had conjured thrown back at her.
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* Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs: A retelling of this fairy tale.
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Woman In White is no longer a trope per TRS.
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* WomanInWhite:
** Arpazia when Coira first realizes how much she loves her mother. This is the first of Arpazia's three important gowns, symbolizing the maiden.
** Coira when her mother takes her into the woods at age eight.
** Coira during Scorpion Moon at eighteen, where she takes up the role of the maiden.
** Arpazia when Coira first realizes how much she loves her mother. This is the first of Arpazia's three important gowns, symbolizing the maiden.
** Coira when her mother takes her into the woods at age eight.
** Coira during Scorpion Moon at eighteen, where she takes up the role of the maiden.
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** Arpazia when Coira first realizes how much she loves her mother. This is the first of Arpazia's three important gowns, symbolizing the maiden.
** Coira when her mother takes her into the woods at age eight.
** Coira during Scorpion Moon at eighteen, where she takes up the role of the maiden.
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Disambiguating and deleting links that don't fit any of the tropes
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* GreenEyes: Vinka.
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* TheCaligula: Downplayed with Arpazia, who while cruel, temperamental, and given to abusing her personal aides, has no control or interest in the administration of her city. Played straight with [[TheDreaded Prince Hadz]],who rules the mines with an iron fist and whose terrified followers tiptoe around his evil whims.
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* TheDragon: Juprum, Hadz' long-suffering right-hand-man and caretaker (although he loves the boy deeply and takes no issue with his boss's anger issues).
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* KarmaHoudini: Draco bows out of the narrative after abandoning his wife and daughter and moving to his new capital. The next time we get any commentary on him, very late in the story, it seems like he's living the good life with the wife he actually wanted. Downplayed with [[TheCaligula Prince Hadz]], who spends the climax in a bit of a foul mood, but perks right up and leaves the story in a better position than he entered it.
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* PrinceCharmless: Prince Hadz, a sexual sadist who rapes Coira while unconscious and is noted to have have taken lovers as young as 7. Thankfully, his unorthodox taste and personal childishness allows Hephaestion to play him like a fiddle, buying Coira's freedom in return for ''him'' having sex with the prince.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Juprum to Hadz.
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Subverted with Coira's father, who she has no interest in. Played straight with her mother.
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Subverted with Coira's father, who whom she has no interest in. Played straight with her mother.
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* MirroredConfrontationShot: Arpazia and Coira have a moment like this, in text not in artwork. Though they look so alike as to nearly be identical, at Scorpion Moon the two of them meet with mirroring movements during a dance. Coira is wearing white as has pure black hair while Arpazia is wearing black and the emerging white in her hair stands out.
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* MirroredConfrontationShot: Arpazia and Coira have a moment like this, in text not in artwork. Though they look so alike as to nearly be identical, at Scorpion Moon the two of them meet with mirroring movements during a dance. Coira is wearing white as she has pure black hair while Arpazia is wearing black and the emerging white in her hair stands out.
