Incarnations of Immortality: Difference between revisions

* ''...and Eternity'' featuring mysterious stuff about God, the Incarnation of Good

* ''Under a Velvet Cloak'', which is largely a prequel to the main series, featuring Kerena as Nox, the Incarnation of Night

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: In ''For Love of Evil'', Satan tries to meet up with the other Incarnations and make friends. With the exception of Chronos, they treat him utterly like crap, to the point of watching while Gaea [[Black Comedy Rape|has him raped by an ape]].

** [[Bullying a Dragon]]: His retaliation against Gaea turns out to be hitting Europe with ''the Black Death'' [[Sins of Our Fathers|after she retires and is replaced with an inexperienced successor]], which ends up nuking most of Europe and teaching Satan a lesson in uncontrolled revenge.

** Also, some historical events are changed in-series, up to and including {{spoiler|Satan manipulating Chronos into preventing [[World War II]] and the Holocaust}}.

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Pretty much the basis of the entire story.

* [[Best Her to Bed Her]]: Asian Clotho in With A Tangled Skein; she only falls in love with Samurai after he defeats her in combat and shows her her place.

** That being said, she was using the Sword of War in the fight, and was therefore literally incapable of losing. She forfeited the match so that Samurai wouldn't be humiliated in front of his students.

* [[Breast Attack]]: Through electrocution.

* [[Celestial Bureaucracy]]: Purgatory is like this.

** Nicolai appears in "Being a Green Mother" as someone Orb meets during her travels (and is left to find a rich adoptive family for Orlene), but in "...And Eternity" he becomes an aspect of Fate.

* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Mostly. Oddly enough, children can be "tainted" by their circumstances.

* [[Everyone Is Related]]: The Incarnations make a pretty big tangle.

* [[Fisher King]]: Gaea's feelings affect the planet. It rains when she cries, and her anger can cause earthquakes.

* [[Fox Chicken Grain Puzzle]]: Presented as a Demon-Rapist-Girl Puzzle, with three women and three demons, and if the demons outnumber the women at any point they'll be raped.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Satan, various Fates, Norton as Chronos, Nox, and the Archangel Gabriel have all set up [[Plan|plans]] and [[Gambit Roulette|Roulettes]], some hundreds of years long, to manipulate each other, the other Incarnations, and any mortal who might be useful in the final conflict, until everything finally comes crashing together in And Eternity. {{spoiler|Subverted in the end, everyone won. And I mean everyone. Except Erebus, but who cares about him, anyway?}}

* [[God Job]]: How the Incarnations work.

* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: Or in [[God]]'s case, {{spoiler|zonked out on his own Divine Presence.}}

* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: Satan prevents Hitler's rise to power, and only JHVH and himself remembers this.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Subverted, as it's only a costume Thanatos wears.

* [[The Hecate Sisters]]: Fate

* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: Lilah, ''twice''.

* [[Horny Devils]]: Lilah and Jezebel.

* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: The Incarnation Of War is accompanied by Famine, Conquest, Slaughter, and Pestilence.

** The Incarnation Of Death, of course. The first book lampshades it with it's title being a paraphrase of the bible: Death rides ''"On a pale horse"''.

** Possibly subverted, as both Orlene and Jolie were transformed into a ''specific'' man (the grown version of Orlene's child) to show what his genetic affliction would do to him.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Because {{spoiler|Orlene}} is a ghost when she assumes the Office of Good, Vita points out that this makes her a Holy Ghost.

** Despite getting a fair amount of screentime, Orb's bandmates in ''Being a Green Mother'' are only ever referred to as "the guitarist", "the drummer", etc.

* [[Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep]]: In ''On A Pale Horse'', Death decides to read his mail against the advice of his household staff, and one of the letters is from a girl who is afraid that she'll die in her sleep because her mother makes her recite this prayer before going to bed.

* [[Omniglot]]: The previous Mars before Mym.

* [[One Degree of Separation]]: Everyone's related! [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the [[Gambit Pileup]] revealed in the later books.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: An heiress in the beginning of the first book.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Satan, particularly as characterized in the later books, is just doing a dirty but necessary job in tempting humans to sin and punishing the guilty. Most of his predecessors really ''were'' genuinely evil, leading to some really ugly [[All of the Other Reindeer|office politics]] before {{spoiler|Orlene becomes Goddess and patches things up.}}

** Similarly, the succubus "Lila" sent to seduce Mars in book 4 turns out to be much more than a low-ranking [[Horny Devil]]: she was "Lilah", the same succubus that turned Parry to evil, and was also the "Lilith" of folklore who rejected Adam because he refused to acknowledge her as an equal.

* [[Runaway Fiance]]: Asian Clotho in With A Tangled Skein; she runs away from her strict family because she doesn't like the husband they have chosen for her.

* [[Satan Is Good]]: The sixth book's entire premise. ([[Necessarily Evil|Sort of.]])

* [[Sapient Steed]]: Mortis.

** On the other hand, atheists ''[[Cessation of Existence|disintegrate]]''. But that's what they're expecting, they don't consider it any kind of punishment or bad thing.

** {{spoiler|It is this system that Satan is opposing through the sixth and seventh books.}}

* [[Sequel Gap]]: ''Under A Velvet Cloak'' was published seventeen years after the previous book.

* [[Signs of the End Times]]: Plague, earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions are all the result of singing the Llano of Chaos, which ends all living things within weeks of it being sung. Although one could argue that these are less ''signs'' of the end and more the ''cause''.

* [[Sympathetic POV]]: The sixth book.

* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: A mild one as things go, but the Kaftan family still has to deal with time travel, prophecies, and temporary agelessness, leading to Niobe's daughter and first granddaughter being born about the same time, and Niobe herself screwing her second granddaughter's affair from the future. Come to think of it, we should be very grateful that Incarnations can't reproduce.

* [[Time Stands Still]]: Chronos and Thanatos can both do this, though Thanatos only because Chronos lets him.

** Mars can do it as well and its implied that all Incarnations can do it. One of the Office of Time's duties is to allow to the other Incarnations to stop time when it is necessary for them to perform their duties.

*** In fact most of Chronos' job seems to be helping the other Incarnations out when they need to fiddle with some matter of time or another. He does his other main job, making sure time, y'know, ''exists'', just by being in office.

*** As, in fact, do most of the Incarnations. They make sure problems and important jobs are dealt with, and the small things happen automatically.

** ''All'' the Incarnations visit Hell at some point in their careers. Usually it's a trap, sometimes it's just to negotiate.

* [[Twelve Coins Puzzle]]: Featured in the third book.

* [[Vapor Wear]]: Gaea (the one before Orb) and Lilah. Gaea because she [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|doesn't really see the point in clothing]], Lilah because she's [[Horny Devils|a succubus]].

* [[You Must Be Cold]]: Death gives Luna his cloak once.

 

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