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They're the heroes, and are the only people who can walk around and be not frozen in the blue time. They are Jessica, Jonathan, [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Melissa]], [[Jerkass|Rex]] and [[Embarrassing First Name|Desdemona]] (who goes by Dess, for obvious reasons). They all have nonstandard [[Stock Super Powers|powers]] (and are very sensitive to light).
Jessica's power is {{spoiler|[[Game Breaker|that she can make technology work in the blue time]]}}, and Jonathan is an acrobat, which means he has an extreme ability [[Le Parkour|to jump]]. Melissa is a mindcaster, which means she can read minds (and she can't stop, she's [[Blessed
Not to be confused with the [[The Authority|Midnighter]].
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* [[Beta Couple]]: {{spoiler|Rex and Melissa}}
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The last book.
* [[Blessed
* [[Chosen One]]: The Flame-bringer.
* [[Cursed
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: The real protagonist of the trilogy is either {{spoiler|Jessica, Rex, or Dess.}}
** [[Word of God]] says it's {{spoiler|Jess}}, which means that {{spoiler|Rex and Dess}} are [[Supporting Protagonists]].
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Dess and Melissa.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: {{spoiler|Angie, eventually.}}
* [[Good
* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Melissa. {{spoiler|She gets better, though.}}
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|Anathea, a Seer from 50 years ago that got turned into a "Halfling," a human-Darkling hybrid. She gets progressively weaker, so the Darklings try to make a new one out of Rex. It works for a while, but he gets better. Though he still carries some of the traits, like an aversion to math, metal, and the number 13, and has the occasional predatory instinct slip.}}
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* [[Mind Rape]]: Mindcasters are good at this. {{spoiler|Melissa accidentally mind raped Rex and Johnathan on a small scale when they touched her, her mind raping was responsible for Rex's father turning into a vegetable.}}
** {{spoiler|Poor Dess gets mind raped pretty badly twice in the second book. First by Madeline, although that wasn't entirely mind rape as she planted useful information and then gave Dess a trick to freely block and unblock it. Second by Melissa, trying by brute mental force to tear down said barrier and get said information out of Dess.}} She certainly isn't happy about it, but she survives with her sanity intact. Mostly.
* [[Never Mess
* [[Numerological Motif]]: With 12 (for the Darklings) and 13 (for the Midnighters). Factors of both numbers exert equal power as well.
* [[The Ophelia]]: Melissa.
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: While he may have gotten the time frames wrong (see [[Fridge Logic]] and the [[Just Bugs Me]] page), Westerfeld still had to do a decent amount of research, primarily on numbering systems, making this series overall a welcome subversion of [[Writers Cannot Do Math]].
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: One of the characters in the running for overall series main character is {{spoiler|Dess, [[The Smart Guy]].}}
* [[Telepathy]]: The Mindcaster power. But unless you know how to control it properly, [[Blessed
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: For Slithers and Darklings, that is. If you're a human, it's your best weapon.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Of the "moving incredibly fast" variety.
** actually, {{spoiler|[[A Wizard Did It|a Darkling did it]]}}.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: {{spoiler|Rex }}
* [[Town
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The Lore conveniently neglects to mention the things the area's {{spoiler|[[Ancient Conspiracy|old Midnighters]]}} did to stay in power.
* [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]
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