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Also, I would really like it if you don't confuse this with [[The Alcatraz]]. Or ''[[Alcatraz (TV)|Alcatraz]]'', for that matter
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▲* [[Absent Minded Professor]]: A lot of the Smedries are this.
* [[Action Girl]]: Bastille is a perfect example of this, though I'm not sure I would use this term to her face. She is a 12 year old knight and an expert fighter.
** Specifically, she's of the [[Little Miss Badass]] variety, though I doubt she's like that much more.
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* [[Death By Newbery Medal]]: This trope isn't used, so much as it's repeatedly mocked. I always go on about how authors must hate mothers and dogs because they are always trying to write meaningful books that kill off one or the other, or sometimes even both.
* [[Department of Child Disservices]]: My child services worker was always telling me how useless I was. {{spoiler|Turns out she was my mother. I know, great parents I have, right.}}
* [[Destructive Saviour]] plus [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] plus [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Hey, I did say I was good at breaking things. {{spoiler|This comes into sharp focus at the end of the fourth book, when my defeat of an invading army also manages to do a lot of damage to the city I'm defending, as well as breaking the Smedry Talents.}}
* [[Discussed Trope]]: Sometimes the characters will discuss a trope, but more often I explicitly describe what tropes or [[Narrative Device|Narrative Devices]] I'm using in my capacity as narrator.
* [[The Ditz]]: Australia Smedry isn't dim-witted. She just has trouble remembering that she is smart.
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* [[Elegant Weapon for A More Civilized Age]]: The [[Cool Sword|crystal swords]] used by the Knights of Crystallia.
* [[Everybody Hates Mathematics]]: More like being bad at math is Aydee Smedry's Talent.
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* [[Eye Beams]]: Any Oculatory lens with "-bringer's" in the name (e.g. [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Firebringer's Lenses]], [[An Ice Person|Frostbringer's Lenses]], etc).
* [[Kid Hero]]: Alcatraz Smedry, though I'm not nearly as heroic as people think I am.
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: You'll notice that I often mention ideas I'm going to explain later in the book. Sometimes I do this because it makes nice foreshadowing. Other times, I'm just trying to annoy you. I'll let you decide which is which.
* [[Functional Magic]]: Even when the Free Kingdomers call it Silimatic Technology.
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* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Literally ''everyone'' with a Smedry Talent. For instance, Grandpa Leavenworth has a Talent for being late, and makes himself virtually invincible by doing things like arriving late to a spot where bullets are going to be, and my cousin Australia can be a [[Master of Disguise]] using her Talent for waking up ugly.
* [[The Library of Babel]]: The Library of Alexandria is a massive dungeon like place with almost every book in the world, however it is run by undead librarians that try to steal your soul.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Alcatraz, she is your mother.]]: {{spoiler|My emotionally abusive case-worker turns out to be an Evil Librarian cultist. Then it turns out that she's my mother.}}
* [[Magical Library]]
* [[Magitek]]: Silimatic technology might be considered either this or [[Magic From Technology]]. Just don't let a Free Kingdomer hear you call it "magic."
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* [[Other Stock Phrases]]: "So, there I was..." is the opening for every book in the series.
* [[Painting the Medium]]: I sometimes use some unconventional text formatting to communicate things.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: I grew up thinking I was an orphan, only to eventually find out that {{spoiler|both my parents are [[Well
* [[Pink Is for Sissies]]: While the dragon shaped flying glass ship was awesome, I was not very happy about having to travel in the pink butterfly shaped glass ship. You'd think they could have found something more masculine.
* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: As everyone knows, all British are refined, calm, and well mannered, even if they are a bunch of dinosaurs.
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