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* [[Big Brother Instinct]]
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Valentinian has to teach him to be this. His instinct is of course [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|different.]] But when he gets the hang of it he is a murderous killing machine.
* [[Kid Samurai|Kid Rajput]]: In fact for a moment Rana Sanga has to reassure himself that he Rajiv is not a budding [[Sociopathic Soldier]] by remembering that his many [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|heroic deeds]] include risking his life to give some hapless gate guards a chance to surrender.
* [[Foreign Exchange Student|Foreign Exchange Bodyguard]]: Rajiv ends the series moving to Constantinople to spend a term as a bodyguard to Phoetius.
* [[Kid Samurai|Kid Rajput]]: In fact for a moment Rana Sanga has to reassure himself that he Rajiv is not a budding [[Sociopathic Soldier]] by remembering that his many [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|heroic deeds]] include risking his life to give some hapless gate guards a chance to surrender.
* [[I Am Not My Father]]: Toyed with. Rajiv's best combat instructor is the one that gets it into the kid's skull that he will never match his father in size and power so he should adjust his style accordingly before he gets himself killed.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Like his father he is as Rajput as they come.
* [[Like Father, Like Son]]
* [[My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad]]: Quite true and Rajiv is very proud of that.
* [[Nice to the Waiter]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[Renowned Selective Mentor]]: One of the two people that ''survived'' a duel with his father winds up instructing him.