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* '''Parodied''': Aurora puts the young women in an oversized juice machine to comically "squeeze" the Life Force out of them.
* '''Deconstructed''': Aurora comes to view human life as a commodity that can be bought, sold, bottled and drunk. As the poor sell their youth to the rich, society is destroyed as the poor are cannibalized and the rich become immortal.
* '''Reconstructed''': Life Energy becomes a metaphor for slavery. The quantifiable value of life prompts people and witches to treat it like [[Real Life]] organ theft/selling, as they desperately try to "turn back the clock" and fight "Life Energy Slavery" and theft with any means available.
* '''Zig Zagged''': People have a spiritual juice that makes them go, except it turns out to have been phelgm, only it's ''[[A Wizard Did It|magic]]'' phelgm, but [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] turned it back into phelgm.
* '''Averted''': All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[Doing
** There is no magic of any kind in the setting at all, and diseases work the same way as they do in [[Real Life]]. Aurora is just another health scammer.
* '''Enforced''': The story has vain and evil witches who want to live forever, so Life Energy is included.
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* '''Conversed''': "You'd think all these people [[Nature Adores a Virgin|crazy over virgin]] Life Energy realized they could get more octane per gallon if they drained someone who's been around the block a few times."
* '''Played For Laughs''': Since everyone has a finite amount of Life Energy that goes down with age and lifestyle, witches and wizards dump the magic spiel and become "Efficiency Experts", [[Fantastic Science|carefully measuring]] just how "Life Fuel Efficient" a given diet, exercise or even lifestyle change is for a client.
* '''Played For Drama''': Everyone knows how long they have to live from birth, and barring accident or suicide, it is set in stone.
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