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* [[Black Magic]]: Arachne and Reginald Chamberten. Reginald has gone all the way to [[Deal With the Devil]], not that it helps him at the end.
* [[Black Widow]]: Alison – Eleanor's father and the father of the stepsisters were merely the bookends of a long career of using and killing men.
* [[Blind Without
* [[Cats Are Snarkers]]: Thomas.
* [[Charm Person]]: Ninette has a touch of this ability.
* [[Cinderella Circumstances]]: Eleanor in ''Phoenix and Ashes''.
* [[Cold Flames]]: Part of Jonathon's magic act. Sometimes he doesn't bother to tell his assistants the flames aren't real. Ninette was ''not'' amused.
* [[Color
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Ninette's maid Ailse. Originally hired as someone who wouldn't freak out at elementals running around, it turns out she carries a revolver loaded with Cold Iron, Silver, and Blessed Lead bullets. At all times.
* [[Death By Childbirth]]: ''Unnatural Issue'' begins with Richard Whitestone returning home mere hours after his wife Rebecca succumbs to this. He does ''not'' take it well.
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* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: Averted in ''The Fire Rose'' -- when one of Jason's Salamanders comments that Rosalind is nice-looking despite her glasses, Jason immediately declares that glasses are just another accessory.
* [[Hermetic Magic]]: Several Masters, most notably Fire-aligned Jonathon and Eleanore, use drawn circles and runes, either to actively work magic or as a means of mental focus.
* [[Historical
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Susanne spends most of ''Unnatural Issue'' carrying an intense torch for Charles Kerridge, until she finally has to acknowledge that a) he's in love with someone else and b) he has absolutely no interest in her.
* [[Horror Hunger]]: The Troll in ''Reserved for the Cat''.
* [[Hurting Hero]]: Reggie Fenyx starts ''Phoenix And Ashes'' with a combination of broken bones, shell shock, and psychic trauma from extended magical [[Cold
* [[Magic Music]]: One method of summoning.
* [[Master of Illusion]]: Jonathon.
* [[The Mourning After]]: Richard Whitestone is this in the worst way.
* [[Muggle Foster Parents]]: Inverted with Marina Roeswood – the three godparents who raise her (and the fourth who is brought in to help teach her) are all Elemental Masters.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: After a close call involving her psychotic necromancer father, {{spoiler|Susanne Whitestone was bundled off to safety by the White Lodge. To be precise, she was evacuated to a country estate in the Ardennes department of France... in late [[World War One|June]] [[Oh Crap|1914]].}}
* [[Ninja Maid]]: No kung-fu, but Ailse McKensie takes on a magical assassin with an iron cookpot.
* [[Noble Bigot]]: Lord David Alderscroft can never quite override his biases against those of lower social classes. He gets manipulated like a puppet by a commoner (and Dark Magician) who did the [[My Fair Lady|Henry Higgins]] thing and took elocution lessons to speak like an upper-class lady.
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** Alluded to in ''Reserved for the Cat''. {{spoiler|Thomas lost.}}
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Eleanor Robinson, not surprising considering that ''Phoenix And Ashes'' is a "[[Cinderella (Literature)|Cinderella]]" reworking.
* [[Shell
* [[Shout Out]]: Lord Peter Almsley is what [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] would be like if Dorothy Sayers had given him magical powers.
* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Susanne Whitestone looks almost exactly like her mother...which unfortunately attracts the ''wrong'' kind of attention from her father.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Jonathon Hightower in ''Reserved for the Cat''. He loses some of the arrogance but keeps the snark.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Wolfgang, Maya’s seven "pets" {{spoiler|when possessed by the Hindu gods they’re associated with}}. Thomas doesn’t qualify, as he can only speak [[Telepathy|mind-to-mind]], and only to those with some degree of magical ability.
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: Eleanor's magical instruction in ''Phoenix And Ashes''.
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