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* [[All Girls Like Ponies|All Girls Like Ponies (and/or dogs or dragons)]] - almost all of her protagonists (even the one boy) have a horse, dog, or exotic animal as a best friend.

* [[Author Appeal]]: [[May-December Romance]].

* [[Bee Bee Gun]]: ''Chalice''.

* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: ''Chalice''.

* [[Bond Creatures]]: ''Pegasus'' - For the human Royal family and the pegasus Royal family, each pegasus and each human have ''each other'' as a bond creature.

* [[Contrived Clumsiness]]: In ''Chalice'', one of the primary antagonists uses a very malicious form of fake clumsiness to set the demesne's Master up for a [[Morton's Fork]]: he "trips" within the Master's reach, forcing the Master - a former priest of elemental fire - to choose between catching and involuntarily burning him (an insult) or letting him fall (also an insult).

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* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: In short story, "Hellhound".

* [[Fisher King]]: ''Chalice'', in which each demesne has not only a [[Fisher King]] Master, but an entire Fisher ''Court''. <ref> If you're curious, the Fisher Court has twelve members: Master, Chalice, Grand Seneschal, Prelate, and the "minor circle" composed of the Clearseer, Keepfast, Landsman, Oakstaff, Sunbrightener, Talisman, Weatheraugur, and (presumably) an eighth member whose title isn't mentioned anywhere in the book.</ref>

* [[Goo Goo Godlike]]: "Baby Magic" in ''Spindle's End''.

* [[Goo-Goo Godlike]]: "Baby Magic" in ''Spindle's End''.

* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]: Tends to avert this. Many of her female characters are teenagers/young adults, but the idea of romance is usually an afterthought.

* [[May-December Romance]]: A common element; see [[Author Appeal]].

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* [[Tell Me About My Father|Tell Me About My Mother]]: Beauty in ''[[Rose Daughter]]'', Aerin in ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]''.

* [[Twice-Told Tale]]: ''[[Beauty a Retelling of Beauty And The Beast|Beauty]]'' (and ''[[Rose Daughter]]''), ''[[Deerskin (Literature)|Deerskin]]'', ''[[The Outlaws of Sherwood]]'', ''Spindle's End''. ''The Door in the Hedge'' is likewise a collection of retold fairy tales, including "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Golden Hind," and "The Frog Prince".

* [[What a Piece of Junk]]: The ponies in ''Chalice'' are pretty [[The Alleged Steed|alleged]] by [[The Blue Sword|Damarian]] standards (the Master's older brother certainly seemed to think so), until you realize that while they may be slow and fat, Ponty is very calm around dangerous things (read: bees and fire), and Gallant and Ironfoot have impressive amounts of endurance, and that this is ''exactly'' what the protagonists need them to be.

* [[What a Piece of Junk!]]: The ponies in ''Chalice'' are pretty [[The Alleged Steed|alleged]] by [[The Blue Sword|Damarian]] standards (the Master's older brother certainly seemed to think so), until you realize that while they may be slow and fat, Ponty is very calm around dangerous things (read: bees and fire), and Gallant and Ironfoot have impressive amounts of endurance, and that this is ''exactly'' what the protagonists need them to be.

* [[When She Smiles]]: Appears in one of the short stories in ''Water: Tales of the Elemental Spirits''.

* [[Wife Husbandry]]: "Touk's House" in ''A Knot in the Grain''. A couple of the other [[May-December Romance|May December Romances]] scattered around her works may also count.

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