Knight and Rogue Series: Difference between revisions

* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: In ''Rogue's Home''. Fisk is on good terms with the people there.

* [[Bad Liar]]: Michael, whenever he actually does lie. He does manage to fool people once or twice, but only rarely.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Fisk

* [[Bar Brawl]]: One of the men on trial with Fisk in the first book was arrested for getting involved in one.

* [[Bathroom Stall Graffiti]]: Reading it is how Michael learned to brew an illegal drug.

* [[Because I'm Good At It]]: Fisk initially took to being a con artist to support his sisters, but mostly uses it later because coming up with stories on the spot is one of his better skills.

* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]: Fisk, in ''The Last Knight''. He becomes more of an exasperated friend once Michael grows on him.

* [[Bring Help Back]]: The initial plan when Michael is captured by Lady Ceciel.

* [[Call Back]]: In ''Player's Ruse'' Burke mentions Aquilas, the drug that Michael and Fisk use in ''The Last Knight''.

* [[Capital Letters Are Magic]]: The Gifts.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Aquilas

* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: After asking around town about Hackle for a few days, the stable boy who just happens to be near by that Fisk just happens to point to when saying they may as well have asked him turns out to have the only person with information on Hackle.

* [[Contractual Immortality]]: If he didn't have this Michael would have died at least once per book.

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Nettie's Ma

* [[Cranky Landlord]]: Mrs. Inger

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Fisk {{spoiler|losing both his parents at a young age and having to turn to crime in order to help support his sisters. For bonus points, his master betrays him and his brother in law more or less banishes him for being involved in crime.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Fisk most often in response to Michael.

* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Michael is the one with a formal education. He uses it so rarely that it's almost an [[Informed Attribute]]

* [[Does Not Like Magic]]: Michael is alright with Gifts and magica plants or animals, but genuine human magic freaks him out.

* [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!]]: Michael.

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: How Fisk supposedly reacted to being dumped by his first love.

* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Rosamund, to get out of having to marry for political gain.}}

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]

* [[Fear Is the Appropriate Response]]: In ''Player's Ruse'', when a band of men with swords start towards Michael, he mentions that Fisk has been trying to teach him that there are times to run, and that this seems like one of them.

* [[Fearless Fool]]: Michael, in the first book. The next two include mention of Fisk teaching him self preservation whenever he has the sense to run.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: The scar on Michael's face is used to identify him (as a suspect) multiple times in ''Rogue's Home''. The flog scars on his back are used to convince anyone who sees him that he's a horrible criminal.

* [[Hanging Judge]]: 'Loves the rope' Thrope.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Michael and Fisk.

* [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]: Catching a glimpse of it in Fisk is what causes Michael to help have him spared in the first place.

* [[I Am a Monster]]: Michael, after {{spoiler|using magic.}}

* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: The main bad guy of ''Player's Ruse'' does this to a tied up and devastated Fisk after it looks like {{spoiler|Michael has been tossed off a cliff to his death.}}

* [[Implacable Man]]: Nothing will stop Michael from pursuing the villain.

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Michael.

* [[Indy Ploy]]: When freeing Michael from {{spoiler|Ceciel}} Fisk has a plan to get into her stronghold, but finding Michael and getting out are made up as they go.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When Fisk suggests they drug Ceciel, but can't think of a way how, Michael jumps at the chance to threaten to force feed her using the exact same speech she gave him.

* [[Jack of All Trades]]: Michael, due to making a living by stopping to help work wherever a spare hand is needed.

* [[Just Ignore It]]: Fisk's solution for the wreckers.

* [[Tattooed Crook]]: Played straight {{spoiler|with Michael from the second book onward.}} People in the books are tattooed with chains on their wrists if they are permanently unable to repay their debts (usually because they killed someone but for some reason was spared from hanging). {{spoiler|Michael didn't kill anyone, he just refused to fulfill a contract he was forced to make with his father that would have resulted in him losing his freedom for the rest of his life.}}

* [[That Liar Lies]]: Michael is not amused when he learns Fisk was lying to him about being unable to fight.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Michael gets a chance to pull this on {{spoiler|Dawkins.}}

* [[Time Skip]]: Roughly a year and a half passes between ''Rogue's Home'' and ''Player's Ruse''.

* [[Unstoppable Mailman]]: The man who delivers a letter to Fisk at the beginning of ''Rogue's Home'' has been carrying it for months, and had to figure out a trick to track him and Michael down.

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Where Rosamund keeps the key to her jewelry box.

* [[Waking Up Elsewhere]]: Michael and Fisk in the first book, when they get knocked out in the streets and come to on a boat.

* [[Walking the Earth]]

* [[What Have I Become?]]: Michael. {{spoiler|He became the only intelligent magic user.}}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: {{spoiler|Considering he could already feel magic, being able to see it is only a slight step up. Even when Michael starts to seriously work magic, [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|the number of situations where it could come in handy are slim]]. It isn't until the third book that his magic really starts to look impressive.}}

* [[Will Not Tell a Lie]]: Michael. Which makes it all the more convincing the few times he does, such as {{spoiler|telling Lady Ceciel her potions didn't work on him.}}

* [[Willfully Weak]]: {{spoiler|Michael refuses to use his magic unless he has to.}}