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* [[Designer Babies]]: Are explicitly illegal, thanks to some laws that Joseph Grey Veil got pushed through. {{spoiler|After all, [[Cloning Blues|he can treat his clones as shittily as he damn well pleases that way]].}}
* [[Disposable Fiance]]: See above.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: [[Humans by Any Other Name|Terrans]] have a [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|mostly-deserved bad reputation]] for being [[Fantastic Racism|rabid xenophobes]]. Extraterrestrials can only even ''visit'' [[Planet Terra|Terra]] on a limited basis, and certainly aren't allowed to ''live'' here {{spoiler|legally, resulting in underground communities of aliens and "[[Half Human Hybrids|breeds]]"}}. As a result, no one likes ''us'' much, either.
* [[Flatline Plotline]]: {{spoiler|Cherijo}} instigates one in order to break up with {{spoiler|Xonea}} in ''Beyond Varallan''. Justified in that {{spoiler|[[From a Single Cell|she's basically unkillable]]}}.
* [[Gay Aesop]]: ''Plague of Memory'' contains an in-universe one.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]/[[Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid]]: Oh, so many of them.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Between Kao and Cherijo in ''Stardoc''. There's also Ilona/Dhreen in ''Eternity Row'', and [[
* [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"]]: Played disturbingly straight more than once.
* [[Mister Seahorse]]: This is how Thgill's species in ''Blade Dancer'' reproduce. Also comes up in ''Stardoc'', when someone naïvely presumes the same of both humans and Jorenians.
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* [[Veganopia]]: Jorenians are, for the most part, vegetarians (despite being a pastoralist culture whose ancestors were predators). Zigzagged in that they're portrayed as both an [[Planet of Hats|entire]] [[Proud Warrior Race|race of]] [[Cultured Warrior|Cultured Warriors]] and/or [[Warrior Poet|Warrior Poets]] ''and'' as a [[Superior Species]] ([[Humans Are Bastards|by default]]).
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Dr. Joseph Grey Veil, and ''how''.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Turned out to be {{spoiler|exactly why Grey Veil [[Opposite Sex Clone|created Cherijo]] in the first place. ([[Mind Screw|Maybe.]])}}
* [[Yandere]]. {{spoiler|Ktarka}}, ''[[Up to Eleven|so]]'' much. {{spoiler|Xonea}} is [[Flanderized]] into this in later books.
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