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* [[The Chosen One]]: Her grandmother singled Emily out with [[Blessed with Suck]] for a reason. {{spoiler|Eventually, the Faerie Queens choose her to be the new Queen of Faeusa, and the bearer of both crowns.}}
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Combines with [[Walking Disaster Area]].
{{quote| '''Emily''': It never ends well. I see trouble, I've got two options. I can poke my pointy little hat in the ring and try to help, and then everything goes sideways. Or I can keep my pointy little hat down, ignore it, and then everything goes sideways again. I try to help a pixie glade from being bulldozed by a human settlement, and all that happens is the Animate bulldozers go out of control and level everything in sight. I try to whip up some potions to tidy up a contaminated well at an independent village, and it works great... until I accidentally unmask a conspiracy by a rival village to wipe those poor farmers out and take their land. Triggers a hot war out of a cold one, and I'm lucky to get out alive. And now, I spot something that should not be possible, an organized army of ogres bearing down on an Eastusa settlement... and in thanks for warning them of the dire peril, I'm going to be burned at the stake. Hence. Trying to do the right thing never ends well.}}
* [[Doomed Hometown]]/[[Where I Was Born and Razed]]: [[Death by Origin Story|As part of her background]], we discover that {{spoiler|her witching class's final exam was to destroy her hometown. As she refused, her fellow classmates beat her and left her for dead as they destroyed her hometown for her}}.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: If by "fiery" you mean "snarktastic," sure.
* [[Flying Broomstick]]/[[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: The hat is actually her Nana's, and brooms were given to humans kind of as a joke; it's not a preferred mode of transportation but handy in a pinch.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Her preferred form of physical attack.
{{quote| '''Emily''': I don't care how fancy and shiny their energy guns are, a kick in the junk is a kick in the junk.}}
* [[Halfbreed]]: While never explicitly stated but in the [[Print Bonus]] chapter a00, {{spoiler|Emily has Faerie blood in her, which is why}} she has Insight, a rare trait only Faeries have, which is passed down bloodlines. [[Weirdness Censor|In order to keep her sanity]], she deliberately stays away from figuring out why she as a human would have Insight.
 
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: An avid consumer of "Earth media," Una is familiar with many tropes.
* [[Jet Pack]]: Doubles as a [[Bag of Holding]].
{{quote| '''Una''': It doesn't really use jets; it uses a quantum gravity coil powered by a mass capacitor to achieve a flight effect. But from watching your films, I assumed you'd understand "jetpack" more.}}
* [[Missing Mom]]: As revealed in a04, {{spoiler|her mother committed suicide. It is subsequently revealed later in the same chapter that [[Never Suicide|it was murder]]}}.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Her Optimist side tends to win out in the decision process. She actually starts out as [[The Ingenue]], but [[Character Development|evolves into a Pollyanna]].
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* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: Jeeves seems to have proper sentience, in that he can feel emotions disgust, worry, and regret.
* [[Separated by a Common Language]]: Occasionally his [[Terse Talker|single word]] doesn't make any sense in American English.
{{quote| '''Officer Briscoe''': You four and yer, whaddyacall it, Robbie the Robot or whatever it is--<br />
'''Jeeves''': [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/batman#Noun Batman.]<br />
'''Briscoe''': --right. Even yer robot's off his nut, 'cause [[Batman]] wears black an' has pointy ears. }}
* [[Steampunk]]: Jeeves runs off of aetheric steam.
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Protagonist of sa04 and sa06. Originally part of the FBI's FACT ([[Recursive Acronym|Faerie Artifact Control Team]]) Team and then subsequently the Anachronism Task Force, Morales doesn't consider any mission with casualties a success, which is why she has the third-lowest success rate of missions on the FACT (91%).
* [[Determinator]]: One of her more notable qualities.
{{quote| '''Petersen''': You get the job done right -- meaning if someone does slip your net, they don't slip twice. The bad guys DON'T win, not in the long run. Every smuggler you've gone after, you eventually got, and the final takedowns were flawless. You're tenacious, but thoughtful.}}
 
 
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