Earth's Children: Difference between revisions

* [[Beauty Is Bad]]: The attractive but [[Ax Crazy]] character of Attaroa and to a lesser extent with the [[Alpha Bitch]] Marona.

* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: [[Deconstructed Trope]]. Jondalar is so well-endowed that he has had to hold back with basically every partner he's ever had. Made [[Anvilicious]] by the discovery that Ayla actually has has sufficient, err, "[[Character Depth]]" to fully, ahh, accept and embrace him.

* [[Blue Eyes]]: Both Ayla and Jondalar are blue-eyed. One of the ways Ayla recognizes Jondalar as being one of her own kind (the "Others") is that he's the first man she's ever met with blue eyes like hers.

** Jondalar's blue eyes are considerably more notable, an intense glacier blue described as "magnetic" and "charismatic" and capable of seducing any woman he uses them on; Ayla's are a more plain grey-blue.

* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Attaroa, a villain from the fourth book, who was apparently married to a half-Clan husband. He treated her with about the same level of respect Broud treated Ayla, and Attaroa liked it about as much. She became a violently misandric nutjob thereafter, locking all her camp's men in a pen and working them to death.

* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: Ayla gets a pet named Wolf. Guess what kind of animal he is.

* [[Dramatis Personae]]

* Dystopia: Attaroa's band of S'Armunai has turned into a bizarre nightmare where men are kept in a large filthy cage with little food and no medicine, and slowly worked to death. The women are supposed to be the rulers -- except talking to men isn't allowed (let alone physical intimacy with your former husband), giving birth to a boy is punishable by death, and the boys themselves are subjected to horrific fates. Attaroa's also incompetent, so they're nearly out of food. Really, the whole thing is just a show for Attaroa's sadistic megalomania. Though they try to pretend they're happy (complaining and disobedience are punished by hurting one's male relatives), many women get sick of it.

* Gendercide: This is Attaroa's ultimate goal for her people, using a concentration camp and forced labor as an intermediary step. She thinks women will just give birth to girls after all the men die.

* [[Gender Is No Object]]: All of the Others (except the violently misandric band of S'Armunai encountered by the protagonists).

* [[Genius Cripple]]: Creb has one eye and one arm, walks with a limp, and can't hunt, so technically he's not even a man. But he's the most spiritually powerful mog-ur (religious leader, "shaman") of the whole Clan, brilliant and capable of insights most Neanderthals can't figure out.

* [[Genre Busting]]: Romance x Historical Fiction x Historical Fantasy x Travelogue x Ecology Essay