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** Even if the alternative is getting injured or even killed, Hesione absolutely refuses to enter a contract with Leon unless the terms are fair, even taking time to ReadTheSmallPrint as she falls [[IFellForDays down the absurdly deep chasm]].

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** Even if the alternative is getting injured or even killed, Hesione absolutely refuses to enter a contract with Leon unless the terms are fair, even taking time to ReadTheSmallPrint ReadTheFinePrint as she falls [[IFellForDays [[IFellForHours down the absurdly deep chasm]].
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** Even if the alternative is getting injured or even killed, Hesione absolutely refuses to enter a contract with Leon unless the terms are fair, even taking time to ReadTheSmallPrint as she falls [[IFellForDays down the absurdly deep chasm]].

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* '''Defied''': Hesione escapes through the window because she knows Leon will make an offer.

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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Hesione escapes through the window because she knows Leon will make an offer.offer.
** Leon refuses to give Hesione a blatantly unjust bargain, [[PragmaticVillainy if nothing else because]] he is pretty sure that [[BaitTheDog he can obtain greater control over her by pretending to be reasonable this early on]].
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** instead of finding for Hesione, the courts, rule the contract unenforceable and summarily strip him of his guardianship over Leon.

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** instead Instead of finding for Hesione, Leon, the courts, rule the contract unenforceable and summarily strip him of his guardianship over Leon.Hesione.
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** instead of finding for Hesione, the courts, rule the contract unenforceable and summarily strip him of his guardianship over Leon.
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** Alternatively, Hesione has enough money to live comfortably without her inheritance, so instead of only one option, she has two: to take Leon's offer, or to leave it. She still has no bargaining power beyond the ability to walk away.

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** Alternatively, Hesione has enough money to live comfortably without her inheritance, so instead of only one option, she has two: to take Leon's offer, or to leave it. She still has no bargaining power beyond the ability to walk away.

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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???'''Justified''':
** Lysette is just as desperate as Sir John; she just happens to be the one with the bargaining power in this case.

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* '''Subverted''': He refuses to consummate the marriage, it turns out that the king would have seized her for one of his favorites if she hadn't married him, and once that is cleared up, Leon offers to [[ReleasingFromThePromise free her from the marriage]].

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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He refuses to consummate the marriage, it turns out that the king would have seized her for one of his favorites if she hadn't married him, and once that is cleared up, Leon offers to [[ReleasingFromThePromise free her from the marriage]].



* '''Double Subverted''': But Leon still manages to hold onto the fortune and pressures her to ''chose'' to stay married.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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But Leon still manages to hold onto the fortune and pressures her to ''chose'' to stay married.






%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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** The terms of the deal are actually quite equitable.


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** Leon "offers" a fair deal, but strongarms Hesione into agreeing to it and abiding by it.

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* '''Straight''': Leon, Hesione's wicked stepbrother, offers to allow her some of her own inheritance, which he controls as her guardian, if she agrees to marry him.

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Leon, Hesione's wicked stepbrother, offers to allow her some of her own inheritance, which he controls as her guardian, if she agrees to marry him.

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** Lysette the Sorceress offers Sir John to display the killing in her MagicMirror and thus prove it was self-defense and prevent his execution, if he will swear to accompany her on TheQuest.
** Two people lost in the wilderness and starving arrive at an isolated village. Their leader agrees to feed them only if they promise not to leave.



** Lysette offers some useful evidence if Sir John will agree to listen to an offer after.



* '''Subverted''': He refuses to consummate the marriage, it turns out that the king would have seized her for one of his favorites if she hadn't married him, and once that is cleared up, Leon offers to free her from the marriage.

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* '''Subverted''': He refuses to consummate the marriage, it turns out that the king would have seized her for one of his favorites if she hadn't married him, and once that is cleared up, Leon offers to [[ReleasingFromThePromise free her from the marriage.marriage]].

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* '''Lampshaded''': "My dear, I have you in my power. Of course I'm going to be monstrously unjust."

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* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':
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"My dear, I have you in my power. Of course I'm going to be monstrously unjust.""
** "What kind of a bargain is ''that?''"
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'''Basic Trope''': A one-sided bargain.
* '''Straight''': Leon, her wicked stepbrother, offers to allow Hesione some of her own inheritance, which he controls as her guardian, if she agrees to marry him.

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'''Basic Trope''': A one-sided bargain.
bargain in which one side has no choice.
* '''Straight''': Leon, her Hesione's wicked stepbrother, offers to allow Hesione her some of her own inheritance, which he controls as her guardian, if she agrees to marry him.

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* '''Downplayed''': Leon sets some conditions on Hesione's marriage -- not an ImpossibleTask, but enough to keep him controlling her money for a few more years -- and gets her to agree by threatening to lower her allowance.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Leon sets some conditions on Hesione's marriage -- not an ImpossibleTask, but enough to keep him controlling her money for a few more years -- and gets her to agree by threatening to lower her allowance.
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**Alternatively, Hesione has enough money to live comfortably without her inheritance, so instead of only one option, she has two: to take Leon's offer, or to leave it. She still has no bargaining power beyond the ability to walk away.
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Hesione falls in love with every fortune-hunter who comes along, and Leon extorts a promise from her not to marry without his permission about the thirteenth.

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