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Bishonen is a Definition-Only fan-speak term used only for Japanese/East-Asian media. No examples allowed. Per TRS.
Moving In Universe acknowledgements/relevance to Pretty Boy.
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* {{Bishonen}}: Callahan worked with one at Home.
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** The Wolves use lightsabers straight out of ''StarWars''.
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** The Wolves use lightsabers straight out of ''StarWars''.''Franchise/StarWars''.
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* CodeOfHonour: This is a source of some misunderstanding between Roland and the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis. Essentially, the gunslingers' code requires a gunslinger to help a community in need when they assess that the community needs such help and when providing that help won't interfere with the gunslinger's overall quest. Notably, they will do this ''even if the community doesn't request or want'' that help. The residents of the Calla don't quite understand this, and think they get to decide if the gunslingers will fight the Wolves. Fortunately Roland is able to persuade the Calla to support them in the fight, and, so far as the townspeople are concerned, they made the decision themselves.
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** This is also the book where Roland reveals his political and diplomatic skills, much to the amazement of the ka-tet. His ability to smoothly and skillfully manipulate and persuade the important players in the calla so that they support the gunslingers in their attempt to fight back against the Wolves is quite impressive.
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* DoingInTheWizard: The Wolves are believed to be magical beings, or at least beings with access to magical powers, who have some foolproof mystical way of finding where the children are, making both fighting back and hiding pointless. Turns out that while the Wolves sure ''serve'' a magical being, their method of finding the children is completely mundane: they convince/bribe/threaten some trusted citizen to be their spy, and whoever it is just tells them what the plan is.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Roland tells the Wolves' spy in Bryn Sturgis that he won't kill him, but that it would be best for everyone if he died heroically, so he'd better get on that when the shooting starts. [[spoiler: Subverted, however. ''He'' doesn't die, ''Benny'' does. Nobody else ever finds out what he did.]]
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* SpottingTheThread:
** Andy always knows when the Wolves are coming, but his programming prevents him from divulging any other information. Except, as both Eddie and Roland point out, the Old Ones who made Andy have been gone for over a millennium, and the Wolves have only been coming for about 150 years. That ''can't'' be his original programming, so why does he have it?
** Roland and Jake figure out that [[spoiler: Slightman the elder]] is the collaborator because of [[spoiler: his glasses. The Calla just doesn't have the tech to make them, and his story about miraculously finding them in a river trader's wares is just a little too pat.]]
** Andy always knows when the Wolves are coming, but his programming prevents him from divulging any other information. Except, as both Eddie and Roland point out, the Old Ones who made Andy have been gone for over a millennium, and the Wolves have only been coming for about 150 years. That ''can't'' be his original programming, so why does he have it?
** Roland and Jake figure out that [[spoiler: Slightman the elder]] is the collaborator because of [[spoiler: his glasses. The Calla just doesn't have the tech to make them, and his story about miraculously finding them in a river trader's wares is just a little too pat.]]
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* CurbstompBattle: As with most of the battles the gunslingers engage in, the final confrontation with the Wolves is short, sweet and completely lopsided. Roland, his ka-tet and a few of the townspeople utterly demolish the invading force. A couple townspeople die -- as in literally two.
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* CurbstompBattle: As with most of the battles the gunslingers engage in, fight, the final confrontation with the Wolves is short, sweet and completely lopsided. Roland, his ka-tet and a few of the townspeople utterly demolish the invading force. A couple townspeople die -- as in literally two.
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* CurbstompBattle: As with most of the battles the gunslingers engage in, the final confrontation with the Wolves is short, sweet and completely lopsided. Roland, his ka-tet and a few of the townspeople utterly demolish the invading force. A couple townspeople die -- as in literally two.
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* HereditaryTwinhood: In Calla Bryn Sturgis, the main setting of the story, this is taken UpToEleven as almost all births are twins, with having just one child being a rarity. It is lampshaded however that this is not a natural phenomenon, and the abundance of twins is what makes Calla a target for the Wolves, who want 1 child of each pair of twins every 23 years in order to drain them from the innate material responsible for TwinTelepathy.
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* HereditaryTwinhood: In Calla Bryn Sturgis, the main setting of the story, this is taken UpToEleven up to eleven as almost all births are twins, with having just one child being a rarity. It is lampshaded however that this is not a natural phenomenon, and the abundance of twins is what makes Calla a target for the Wolves, who want 1 child of each pair of twins every 23 years in order to drain them from the innate material responsible for TwinTelepathy.
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* HereditaryTwinhood: In Calla Bryn Sturgis, the main setting of the story, this is taken UpToEleven as almost all births are twins, with having just one child being a rarity. It is lampshaded however that this is not a natural phenomenon, and the abundance of twins is what makes Calla a target for the Wolves, who want 1 child of each pair of twins every 23 years in order to drain them from the innate material responsible for TwinTelepathy.
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* PapaWolf: The whole plot is kickstarted by a kind, quiet farmer who refused to let his children be taken and broken by the Wolves.
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* SomebodyElsesProblem: Tian's most vocal opponents have children who are too old to be taken. In Overholser's case, said children are both singletons, so they have ''never'' been in danger to begin with.
