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* [[Cain and Abel]]: Sharrow and her half-sister Breyguhn loathe each other.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: and literally! That Sharrow always carries her [[Hand Cannon|HandCannon]] with a round in the breech (against the manufacturer's recommendation), which we're told within the first few pages, becomes important much later on.
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Cult]]: almost too many to count. A cult is responsible for the death of Sharrow's mother and the contract on Sharrow's life, while many other cults with strange beliefs and practices are encountered during the novel. A common Banks trope.
* [[Date Rape Averted]]: {{spoiler|Geis}} on Sharrow, in flashbacks.
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* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Almost everyone dies (a common Banks trope).}}
* [[Last of Her Kind]]: Sharrow is the last of the female line of the Dascen family.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Lazy Gun.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Sharrow's mother is assassinated by the enemy cult when she is five.
* [[Miss Yo Yo Knickers]]: Sharrow, especially in her younger years (see the quote above). ▼
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: the clone inside the automated beachcomber machine in the first chapter. Comes complete with Sharrow asking him (paraphrased) "So, what do you know about me?" as an excuse to drop big heaping spoonfuls of backstory.
* [[Only One Name]]: Sharrow. The highest level of aristocracy only have single names, while each lower class has more.
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* [[Psychic Link]]: Sharrow and the rest of her combat squadron (originally eight) were linked together with a synchroneurobonding (SNB) virus.
* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: Sharrow must reassemble her [[Five-Man Band]] to find the Lazy Gun, which is the only thing that will buy off the cult after her life.
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* [[Single Line of Descent]]: Sharrow is the last of the female line of the Dascen family, which the Huhsz cult has pledged to wipe out.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Sharrow as a child and teenager; filled with resentment about the death of her mother and indulged by a father she had no respect for due to his losing ways, the child Sharrow sounds like an obnoxious little brat. Volunteering for the Five Per Cent War (to spite Geis, she joins the other side) cured that ... at quite a cost.
▲* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Geis.}}
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