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* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]. Sebastien can be cynical, but he is deeply kind and wants to do the right thing.
* [[Gentleman Wizard]]. Abby Irene is titled aristocracy as well as one of the few women trained and licensed in thaumaturgy in her world. She'd rather be called Doctor Garrett than Lady Abigail Irene.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]. Abby Irene is in her early fifties when we meet her. She still has quite an active sex life.
* [[Great Detective]]. In-universe, Sebastien is such a brilliant and well-known consulting detective that he's explicitly a model for Sherlock Holmes.
* [[Heroic Willpower]]. This is why Sebastien can drink from his companions without taking enough to hurt them.
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]. We meet one vampire Sebastien made. Their distaste for each other is mutual. Sebastien's feelings about his own maker are also complicated.
* [[Informed Judaism]]. Jack keeps kosher and is regularly referred to as Jewish, but is never seen to be practicing his faith in other ways. Somewhat justified in that he was raised primarily by Sebastien, who does not practice any religion.
* [[Istanbul Not Constantinople]]. The first book takes place manly in New Amsterdam, New Holland, not New York, New York. It's explained that the Dutch only sold the land to the British in the early 19th century and nobody thought it was worth changing the names. For similar reasons, Mexico is generally referred to as the Aztec Empire.
* [[Kiss of the Vampire]]. Sebastien's bite is all but explicitly paralleled with oral sex.
* [[Mayfly
* [[Mrs. Robinson]]. Phoebe Smith is in her early 40s. Jack is some 20 years younger. She takes a liking to him, which is played sympathetically.
* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]. Phoebe Smith is a novelist.
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* [[Vampires Are Rich]]. It's noted Sebastien has more money than he could ever spend, though his lifestyle is not especially lavish. In an aversion, the younger wampyr David is a prostitute and it's implied he needs the money.
* [[Victorian Britain]]. The setting of the first book in the series, with a hearty dollop of [[Anachronism Stew]] that alternate history only somewhat accounts for.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]].Sebastien is largely bored, tired and almost ready to let go of it all. Humans convince him to stay.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]. A vampverse variant. Sebastien took in Jack when the latter was ''seven''. Jack became his courtesan at age 16. While their romantic connection appears genuine and strong, other characters are appropriately sketched out by this.
* [[Wizarding School]]. Common in this world, where all sorcerers are university-trained. The establishment of a new one is a major plot point in ''ad eternum.''
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