History Literature / Wintersmith

* ObliviouslyEvil: Think of a person in the snow about to take their last breath, leaning against a dead tree, just because they didn't have anything to protect them against the cold. Think of how winter didn't come to kill that person, but came because it's the only thing it can do, and how it will the never feel the agony it caused them. That's how the Wintersmith is evil. He isn't evil because he enjoys seeing people suffer, he is evil because he is incapable of understanding suffering at all.

ObliviouslyEvil: Think of a person in the snow about to take their last breath, leaning against a dead tree, just because they didn't have anything to protect them against the cold. Think of how winter didn't come to kill that person, but came because it's the only thing it can do, and how it will the never feel the agony it caused them. That's how the Wintersmith is evil. He isn't evil because he enjoys seeing people suffer, he is evil because he is incapable of understanding suffering at all.

-->'''Tiffany:'''"Millions of people will die!"
'''Wintersmith:'''"But only once. That's what makes it so wonderful. After that, no more death!"

* BeneathTheMask: UpToEleven. Not only do Miss Treason and Annagramma use ''literal'' masks, but also green gloves, fake teeth, fake ''skulls'', a ginourmous fake booger, a loom that is said to seal the fates of people, '''anything''' they can use to make their Boffo[[https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Boffo]] even stronger.

* CentralTheme: BeneathTheMask. The way that people hide who they truly are, so they can be accepted by people who can't understand them. The way that pride and hatred is used to conceal shame and fear. And that you should ''never'' forget that people are more than the masks they choose to wear.

* LoveTriangle: Set up to be BettyAndVeronica, but fails '''spectacularly'''. The hometown love interest develops a crush on someone else, and the exotic love interest is an [[ObliviouslyEvil innocent menace]], who can't understand why death is a bad thing, and would do anything, ''anything'', to be with his crush. It's not convenient that he is the anthropomorphic personification of winter, meaning that he has the power to kill thousands of people via a snowstorm, avalanche or the like within a matter of seconds.

* LoveTriangle: Set up to be [[BettyAndVeronica]], but fails '''spectacularly'''. The hometown love interest develops a crush on someone else, and the exotic love interest is an [[ObliviouslyEvil innocent menace]], who can't understand why death is a bad thing, and would do anything, ''anything'', to be with his crush. It's not convienient that he is the anthromorphic personification of winter, meaning that he has the power to kill thousands of people via a snowstorm, avalanche or the like within a matter of seconds.
** This trope is ridiculed when TIffany reads a romance novel:

* BeneathTheMask: UpToEleven. Not only do Miss Treason and Annagramma use ''literal'' masks, but also green gloves, fake teeth, a ginourmous fake booger, a loom that is said to seal the fates of people, fake skulls, '''anything''' they can use to make their Boffo[[https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Boffo]] even stronger.

* BeneathTheMask: UpToEleven. Not only do Miss Treason and Annagramma use ''literal'' masks, but also green gloves, fake teeth, a ginourmous fake booger, a loom that is said to seal the fates of people, fake skulls, '''anything''' they can use to make their Boffo* even stronger.

* BeneathTheMask: UpToEleven. Not only do Miss Treason and Annagramma use ''literal'' masks, but also green gloves, fake teeth, a ginourmous fake booger, a loom that is said to seal the fates of people, fake skulls, ''anything'' they can use to make their Boffo* even stronger.

* BeneathTheMask: UpToEleven.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Annagramma may treat Tiffany like a spot of dirt that happened to be beneath her nose, but when the literal personification of all of winter, who is powerful enough to create an avalanche or snowstorm in a spilt second, [[spoiler: harasses Tiffany, she stomps up to him as if he were no-one more than Bob from the coffee shop, yells at him to leave her alone, and chucks a fireball at him. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu She succeeds in melting him]], albeit temporarily]].

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu: Equipped the ElementofSurprise™ and [[spoiler:a fireball, Annagramma temporarily melts the anthropomorphic personification of all of winter]].

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu: Equipped the Element of Surprise and [[spoiler:a fireball, Annagramma temporarily melts the anthropomorphic personification of all of winter]].

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Annagramma may treat Tiffany like a spot of dirt that happened to be beneath her nose, but when the literal personification of all of winter, who is powerful enough to create an avalanche or snowstorm in a spilt second, [[spoiler: harasses Tiffany, she stomps up to him as if he were no-one more than Bob from the coffee shop, yells at him to leave her alone, and chucks a fireball at him. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu She succeeds in melting him]], albeit temporarily.]]

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Annagramma may treat Tiffany like a spot of dirt that happened to be beneath her nose, but when the literal personification of all of winter, who is powerful enough to create an avalanche or snowstorm in a spilt second, [[spoiler: harasses Tiffany, she stomps up to him as if he were no-one more than Bob from the coffee shop, yells at him to leave her alone, and chucks a fireball at him.[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu She succeeds in melting him]], albeit temporarily.]]

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Annagramma may treat Tiffany like a spot of dirt that happened to be beneath her nose, but when the literal personification of all of winter, who is powerful enough to create an avalanche or snowstorm in a spilt second, [[spoiler: harasses Tiffany, she stomps up to him as if he were no-one more than Bob from the coffee shop, yells at him to leave her alone, and chucks a fireball at him.[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu She succeeds]].]]

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Annagramma may treat Tiffany like a spot of dirt that happened to be beneath her nose, but that doesn't stop her from [[spoiler:walking up to and attacking the literal personification of all of winter, as if he were merely Bob from the tea shop, just because he was harassing Tiff. She even succeeds]].

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Annagramma snubs Tiffany and her own steading constantly, but when she looks down on some shepherds and notes that Tiffany is the daughter of one herself, Tiffany has finally had enough. She figures out through the observation skills that Annagramma doesn't use that not only is Annagramma's father not a major land owner, he's not even a farmer. He's just a farmhand. Annagramma is even more of a nobody than her.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: The Wintersmith becomes more human over time, but it's not really supposed to. Note the 'it.' Thus, it never quite makes it.

* HiddenDepths: In relation to the other books in the series. We hadn't seen much of Roland beyond the first book where he was spoiled, bratty and kind of useless. This book shows that he was just out of his depth with the elf queen, and that he can be brave, knowledgable, resourceful and a hero in his own right
* HilaritySues: The Feegles, though they're not just light relief, either...