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* {{spoiler|[[Beast and Beauty]]}}: {{spoiler|Derek and Chloe, respectively}}.
* [[Berserk Button]]: If he sees you threatening or harming either Chloe or Simon, Derek is going to [[Unstoppable Rage|make sure that you regret it]].
* {{spoiler|[[Better Asas Friends]]}}: {{spoiler|Chloe and Simon}}.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Chloe. Oh, and how. ''The Reckoning'' cements this, because when Chloe's other options are taken away from her and she's [[They Would Cut You Up|facing a short and painful future]], she takes the only path left to her. {{spoiler|After a guard is killed by Diane Enright (who framed her daughter for it) and Chloe is taken to a different room and imprisoned, she raises the guard from the dead and forces him to walk to her room and open the door. She releases his soul back to the afterlife as quickly as she can... But then she makes a deal with the demi-demon, Diriel, that is bound to the building. Chloe releases Diriel, and transfers her to the guard's body, so Diriel can help her escape}}.
** Then, later, {{spoiler|Dr. Davidoff is holding Chloe, Derek, Lauren, Tori, and Simon at gunpoint, and is going to kill at least one of them. Diane is dead on the floor behind him, with her gun beside her. Chloe shoves Diane's soul back into her body to raise her from the dead and forces her to shoot Davidoff in the back, killing him}}. Not bad for a tiny girl who is usually dismissed as useless in a fight.
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* [[The Big Guy]]: Derek fits into Class 5.
* [[Bit Part Badguys]]: Liam and Ramon in ''The Awakening''. {{spoiler|Until they reappear in ''The Reckoning'' and you realize that their "chance meeting" with Derek and Chloe wasn't such an incredibly unlikely fluke after all}}.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Chloe, to the max.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]] / [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: Derek. On one hand, he has super strength and enhanced senses, and he can turn into a wolf. On the other hand, most people generally assume that he's a [[Complete Monster|monster]] and occasionally [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|aren't adverse to having him killed]]. Either way, the fact that he's a werewolf [[Fantastic Racism|inspires immediate wariness in most supernaturals]].
* [[Body Horror]]: Derek's attempts at Changing.
* [[Cassandra Truth]] / [[The Cassandra]]: Chloe's attempt to convince Rae that the [[Devil in Plain Sight|Edison Group]] are [[Complete Monster|actually really bad people]]. As is typical of this trope, Rae [[Too Dumb to Live|refuses to listen]].
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Tori with Simon in ''The Summoning''.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Derek and Chloe definitely fit this trope, as does Simon. {{spoiler|And Kit, too}}.
** {{spoiler|Diane}} subverts it, letting {{spoiler|her}} [[Pride|pride]] get in the way of [[Too Dumb to Live|basic common sense]].
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Tori, before her [[Character Development]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Derek, of all people, has multiple moments of this.
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Happens a lot, for obvious reasons.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Chloe {{spoiler|makes a deal with Diriel (the female demi-demon) in ''The Reckoning'' and ends up freeing her in exchange for her help escaping the Edison Group's facility}}. Subverted in that {{spoiler|Diriel honestly seemed to like Chloe, and didn't try to find loopholes in the terms of their deal. When her Lord, a full demon, appeared, she might even have been trying to protect Chloe from him by telling him that Chloe is weak and not worthy of his notice. She also apologized to Chloe when the full demon called her back before she could complete their bargain}}.
* [[Death Seeker]]: Derek occasionally shows signs of this, to the distress of Chloe and Simon.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Tori.
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* [[First Kiss]]: Chloe's first kiss goes to {{spoiler|Simon}}.
* [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]: Chloe and Tori, whose [[Off the Scale|power levels are]] '''''[[Memetic Mutation|over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAND!!!]]'''''
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Derek. This surprises Chloe when she first finds out, considering Derek generally gives off the impression of being [[Dumb Muscle|dumb muscle]].
* [[Genki Girl]]: Liz.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Chloe, definitely.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Derek}} suffers one of these after {{spoiler|he kills Liam, despite the fact that Liam was trying to kill him--and, more importantly to Derek, Chloe}}.
** {{spoiler|Tori}} also suffers one, when {{spoiler|her mother is killed}}.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Derek, obviously. Chloe, too, though not to the reader, as we're in her head -- but upon first meeting her, due to her looks, other characters have dismissed her as a [[Dumb Blonde|dumb blonde]] at first, notably Derek and Tori.
* [[Holding Hands]]: Simon and Chloe, {{spoiler|Chloe}} and {{spoiler|Derek}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]}}: {{spoiler|Derek and Chloe.}}
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* [[Jerkass]]: Tori, though she starts to get better. Derek... improves.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Tori, definitely. Derek takes this [[Up to Eleven]] and then [[Serial Escalation]]
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Derek.
* {{spoiler|[[Last-Minute Hookup]]}}: {{spoiler|Chloe and Derek}}, though this is [[Justified Trope|justified]], considering they're running for their lives, which {{spoiler|sort of puts romance on the back burner}}.
* [[Let's Play|Let's Read]]: There's one that starts [http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/2011/09/summoning-prologue.html here.]
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** Liz and Rae.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Aunt Lauren for Chloe; Liz's nana.
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: Rae, naturally.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Chloe, definitely. And Liz to the n<sup>th</sup> degree.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Chloe, who is at risk of raising the dead in her sleep, or if she summons too hard. Derek can't control his Changes (yet). Liz, when she was alive, would unknowingly [[Telekinesis|make things fly, and hurl them at people who angered her]]. Tori's magic occasionally lashes out when she's upset or angry, such as when she threw a lightning bolt at Chloe.
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** It's likely that the 'madness' aspect of necromancy is something that the Edison Group tried to fix, but only time will tell if they succeeded. Necromancers go mad because they're constantly plagued by spirits rather than because of any genetic quirk.
* [[Witch Species]]
* [[Witch Withwith a Capital B]]: Almost averted by Tori. When talking to her mother, she calls Chloe a "B-- witch." Which is [[Irony|ironic]], considering that Tori herself is unknowingly a hereditary witch.
* [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing]]: Derek is assumed to be this by almost everyone he meets, when in fact, metaphorically, the opposite is true.
 
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