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'''''Prospero's Daughter''''' is a fantasy trilogy by American writer L. Jagi Lamplighter, consisting of ''Prospero Lost'', ''Prospero In Hell'', and ''Prospero Regained''.

 

The narrator of the story is Miranda, of ''[[The Tempest]]'' fame, although she [[External Retcon|explains]] that [[William Shakespeare]] fictionalized it. Five centuries and several half-siblings later, in a [[Crossover Cosmology]] world, Miranda is running Prospero Inc., which keeps elemental powers in check by providing them with such valuable goods as phoenix ash. Her father has left her a message that he is in trouble and she must warn all her siblings that they are in danger.

 

* [[Age Without Youth]]: Eramus's staff can do only this.

* [[Asleep for Days]]: Miranda at the North Pole; Mab wishes it was one more day.

* [[Broken Angel]]: The Good Folk are fallen angels, whose wings have been amputated. Leaving scars.

* [[Broken Bird]]

* [[Cats Are Mean]]

* [[Cats Have Nine Lives]]

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Several of the antagonists in ''Prospero Lost'' come in red and gray.

* [[Contrived Coincidence]]

* [[Crossover Cosmology]]

* [[Crying Wolf]]

* [[Enemy Civil War]]

* [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity]]: Miranda's Lady

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]

* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]

* [[Fighting From the Inside]]

* [[First Kiss]]

* [[The Fool]]

* [[A Friend in Need]]

* [[Genius Ditz]]

* [[God of Evil]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Hell Gate]]

* [[Hidden Depths]]

* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: The coliseum under Logistilla's island.

* [[Horny Devils]]

* [[I Gave My Word]]

* [[Immortality Immorality]]

* [[Immortal Procreation Clause]]: The Prosperos can have children, but since their immortality comes from an external source, the children die.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]

* [[It Was a Gift]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Erasmus cursed Miranda with aging several centuries in a year. And then refused to revoke the curse, making her crawl to the World's End to get the cure.

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Miranda starts out with this -- badly enough that some people wonder whether she's been enchanted.

* [[Life or Limb Decision]]

* [[Light Is Good]]

* [[Living Shadow]]

* [[Love Hurts]]: Ferdinard laments what he has suffered for the chaste love of a pure maid.

* [[Magic Wand]]: All the Prospero siblings' Staves.

* [[Magic Music]]: Miranda's flute-playing controls spirits of the air.

* [[The Magnificent]]

* [[Mall Santa]]: Sometimes is the original himself.

* [[Man Hug]]: Mephisto's reaction to {{spoiler|Astreus's being freed.}}

* [[Masquerade]]

* [[Matter of Life and Death]]

* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]

* [[Missing Mom]]

* [[More Hero Than Thou]]

* [[The Mourning After]]: Eramus is still grief-striken for his first wife.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]

* [[New Old Flame]]: Two different ones from ''Prospero Lost'' alone.

* [[Noodle Incident]]

* [[Not Himself]]

* [[Physical God]]

* [[The Power of Love]]

* [[Powers That Be]]

* [[Private Detective]]: Mab takes the form of a Sam Spadesque private eye.

* [[Sacred Hospitality]]: Santa Claus's is such that the [[Fair Folk]] will behave themselves under his roof.

* [[Santa Claus]]: Among his many other names.

* [[So Much for Stealth]]

* [[Spell Book]]

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Miranda's assistant, not being in on the masquerade, thinks she is this.

* [[Swamps Are Evil]]: If they are in Hell, sure.

* [[Tears of Blood]]

* [[Tears of Joy]]

* [[They Do]]

* [[Thicker Than Water]]: ''Somebody'' believes this...or the series would be much shorter.

* [[To Hell and Back]]

* [[Too Dumb to Fool]]

* [[Virgin Power]]

* [[Walking the Earth]]

* [[White Magic]]

* [[Wicked Stepmother]]

* [[Witch Hunt]]: Discussed. Gregory points out that most victims were guilty -- a fact that has been censored out of history.

* [[With Due Respect]]

 

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