Ashes and Dust/YMMV


 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Beatrice Elwhick, and Word of God says that Matthew Hunter was only supposed to show up three or four times throughout the story.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Both Azar and Charles fit the bill.
 * Fountain of Memes: Oh, Shasta, you glorious, brilliant badass.
 * EVERYTHING IS KAI AND NOTHING HURTS.
 * I Knew It: Averted so damn hard. The plot twists are nuts (in a good way).
 * Played straight when
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Shasta with anyone.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Several times, Shasta has been shown to be this trope.
 * Memetic Sex God: Shasta fits the bill to a T.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Did anyone else try to picture Azar's lovely...  process?
 * Or anything with Azar's torture. Have you tried to imagine what the girl she was torturing at the beginning looked like after having her eyes gouged out, foot sawn off, and tongue lopped off?
 * Portmanteau Couple Name: The Masta.
 * Shasiette, for one.
 * Mattsuki; it's seriously scary how well their names fit together.
 * Shassius
 * Edai
 * Any two people who can be shipped will be shipped and given a portmanteau couple name.