Inheritance Trilogy/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: "Having sex with Nahadoth at night gets people killed? I've gotta try that!"

* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: Takes on Enefa's powers and goddesshood.

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: With Enefa.

* [[Deity of Human Origin]]

** [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Leading to [[Even the Girls Want Her]]

** [[Bi the Way]]

{{quote| "Face like the moon, pale and somehow wavering. I could get the gist of his features, but none of it stuck in my mind beyond an impression of astonishing beauty. His long, long hair wafted around him like black smoke, its tendrils curling and moving of their own volition."}}

** [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]]

** [[Even the Guys Want Him]]

** [[Exotic Equipment]]

** [[Sex God]]

** [[Shapeshifting Lover]] / [[Shapeshifting Seducer]] / [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: To a human body during the day.

* [[Jerkass Gods]]

* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: He's Itempas's main one.

* [[Mad God]]

{{quote| "And then the face shifted again into something that in no way resembled human, something tentacled and toothed and hideous, and I screamed. Then there was only darkness where his face should have been, and that was most frightening of all."}}

* [[Offing the Offspring]]: The demon holocaust.

* [[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]]

* [[Really Gets Around]]

* [[Bi the Way]]

* [[Break the Haughty]]

* [[Brought Down to Normal]]

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Bye, Oree!

* [[Mysterious Past]]: The reader knows it, but Oree is in the dark about it for a large chunk of the book.

* [[New Child Left Behind]]: Slightly messed with in that Tempa and Oree's daughter, Glee, chases her dad down and stays with him.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Like Nahadoth, Itempas shows this most strongly when godlings start dying.

* [[Polyamory]]

* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: Nahadoth and Yeine initially bound Itempas to wander as a human until he corrected all the wrongs done in his name ''or'' found love. But when he found love in ten years, they decided he hadn't suffered enough and sent him back on the road.

** Even after Tempa cries for Sieh's death and is given his powers back, Yeine and Nahadoth still don't like him.

* [[Single Target Sexuality]]: In contrast to Nahadoth and Enefa, who took loads of human lovers, Itempas is so content with the [[OT 3]] that he only takes two human lovers in all of history, and those only when Nahadoth and Enefa (or Nahadoth and Yeine) abandon him.

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]

* [[Top God]]: During book one.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: To Kahl.

* [[Dark Secret]]: Kahl.

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]

Our Divine Supporting Cast.

* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]

* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]: Averted. Turns out they don't even like having worshippers that much.

* [[The Mafia]]: In book three.

* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: Especially if you're the god of childhood and have to experience puberty.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Aside from children, Sieh doesn't have a very high opinion of mortals, albeit with good reason.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: By Yeine.

* [[Has Two Mommies]]: Yeine and Enefa. Also, two daddies -- or one daddy and a Naha.

* [[Made a Slave]]: Thanks to [[Parental Betrayal]]

* [[Man Child]]

* [[Offing the Offspring]]: To Kahl.

* [[Parental Incest]]: With Nahadoth and Enefa; notably never with Itempas.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

* General, and shared with Nahadoth:

** [[Long Haired Pretty Boy]]

* In book one:

** [[Born Into Slavery]]

** [[Lap Pillow]]

** [[Love Goddess|Love God]]

** [[Unproblematic Prostitution]]: He's a pimp.

{{quote| ''I will not be a slave to fate. I will embrace it, control it. I will be what I wish to be.''}}

* [[Antagonistic Offspring]]: Sees Sieh as [[Archnemesis Dad]] and Enefa as the [[Evil Matriarch]].

* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: For a start, Mummy made him forget he even ''sired'' you.

* [[Final First Hug]]

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: He ''was'' left alone and abandoned in a void for millenia, after all.

* [[Mommy Issues]]

* [[Offing the Offspring]]: Ultimately an offee.

* [[The Big Girl]]: Zhakkarn.

* [[Horror Hunger]]: Lil.

* [[Racist Grandma]]: {{spoiler|Kurue}}, who hates mortals [[Made a Slave|with reason.]]

* [[Scaled Up]]: Kitr turns into a snake.

Our Ruling Clan, which unofficially controls the world from the [[Capital City|city]] of Sky.

* [[The Beautiful Elite]]

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]

Our Recurring Side Character, a high-ranking Arameri servant in book one who is running the world by book two.

* [[The Good Chancellor]]

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]

* [[Court Mage]]

* [[Living Bodysuit]]

* [[Deity of Human Origin]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]

* [[Rebellious Princess]]

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[Deity of Human Origin]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]

* [[Sibling Triangle]]

* [[Sleep Cute]]: Sieh spies on them

* [[Blind Seer]]

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Can see magic.

* [[Divine Date]]: With both Madding and Shiny!

* [[Inner Monologue]]: Book two's viewpoint character.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Two of 'em.

* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: About the true identity of "Shiny."

* [[Love Father Love Son]]: Inverted! Madding dies and she hooks up with his dad!

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Maroneh girls have sorrowful names and boys have vengeful names because Nahadoth sank their homeland.

* [[Milky White Eyes]]

{{quote| ''For just an instant, her eyes seemed to flare red-gold like a struck match. "I have spent nearly the past ''century'' trying to keep this world from falling apart," she snapped. "I'm not a god. I have no choice but to live in this realm, unlike you. I will do whatever I must to save it -- including working with godlings like you who claim to despise Itempas, though in reality you're just as selfish and arrogant as him at his worst!"''}}

* [[Action Girl]]: When the going gets tough, she won't hesitate to fight to the death.

* [[Berserk Button]]: ''Don't'' threaten her daddy, or she will summon a [[Cool Sword|sword of order]] and come after you. And yes, you ''should'' be scared.

* [[Beta Couple]]

* [[Generation Xerox]]

* [[Guardian Entity]]: With hints of [[Battle Butler]], [[Number Two]], and [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] as she travels around protecting her daddy, hiding him from attackers, and ensuring that the Arms of Night act according to his wishes.