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* [[Adult Fear]]: The transcripts of Percy trying to plan a movie to give himself closure over Severin's disappearance show just how much he misses her and wishes he'd done better caring for her.

* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Severin is called "Rinny" (or occasionally "Rin") by her father and her boyfriend.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Nobody ever does find out what happens to Severin, but Percy does find some consolation in making a movie about it to give himself closure. {{spoiler|The readers learn that Severin was vaporized by a callow whale, which means she can never return to her old life, but now can explore the countless dimensions open to her.}}

* [[Break The Cutie]]: Poor Anchises starts off as a child who wants nothing more than to see a callow whale and innocently wishes for his family's happiness. By the time Severin finds him, he's the only person left in Adonis, walking in circles, blinking in and out of existence, and so incoherent that he screams when Severin hugs him. Things don't get much better from there, as {{spoiler|he's beat up by one of the film crew members, when he tries to prevent the only footage of Severin's last document from being destroyed}}. He spends a lot of his life leaving his adopted father to run around the galaxy and, by the time her reaches his thirties, is withdrawn and tired.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander's Minder]]: Melancholia knows full well that Anchises, a [[Defective Detective]] still messed up from {{spoiler|a decade-long jaunt in another dimension}} isn't going to focus on {{spoiler|finding what happened to Severin}} like she wants, so her employee, Cynthia Brass, is assigned to follow Anchises and make sure he actually does his job. Melacholia even tells Anchises that she knows he needs a nanny to keep him in line. Cynthia's not very happy about it.

* [[Rule of Three]]: Adonis is the third colony destroyed in mysterious circumstances, along with one on Mars and one on Pluto. {{spoiler|These events are not unrelated.}}

* [[Show Within a Show]]: Several pop up, including a few commercials for callow milk and a soap opera, ''How Many Miles to Babylon?''

* [[The Summation]]: A rather unusual one takes place when {{spoiler|Anchises deduces Severin's fate, bringing together all the relevant characters including some that were dead and several that are ''animated''.}}

* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: While Severin isn't a bad person, she lost much of her childhood warmth and sweetness, along with her close relationship to her father, after {{spoiler|he told her he shot and killed someone}}. As an adult, she only is affectionate towards her boyfriend (and later Anchises) and is still angry towards Percy.