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* [[Eunuchs Are Evil]]: Averted with all examples except for the Chief Black Eunuch in the sultan's palace.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Anytime the sultan of Wanatolia gets naked.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Played straight with the sultan. Averted with Zam (as an adult), Hyacinth and Noah the fisherman.
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* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Dodola is fast enough to outrun several royal guards but isn't strong enough to stop 1 man from holding her down and raping her.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Dodola and Zam have [[Hope Spot|just enough money on them to buy a boat to escape Wanatolia for good.]] However, they decide to buy a slave and adopt her as their daughter. {{spoiler|The story ends before we know whether or not they ever make it out, but at least we know they'll keep trying.}}
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: {{spoiler|Dodola raises herself and Zam by exchanging sex for food with traveling caravans. Zam is so traumatized by seeing her get raped by one of her clients that he castrates himself. Dodola feels great guilt over it when she finds out.}} Ghaniyah counts too.
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* [[Ironic Echo]]: Zam goes to a village marketplace to sell clean water, and a poor woman asks him to spare her some for free. His response is, "Well, it ain't free." Later, when {{spoiler|Zam is forced to survive on his own, he meets the same woman and asks her to spare him some food for free. Her response is the same one he gave her earlier, word for word.}}
* [[Ironic Nickname]]: The large and scary-looking bodyguard assigned to Dodola in the sultan's palace is named.....Hyacinth, a type of flower.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The men who rape Dodola in the dessert and kidnap Zam into the palace, respectively. The sultan is worse than both of them combined.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Everything the sultan does counts as this.
* [[Large and In Charge]]: The Chief Black Eunuch even though he's rarely seen directly interacting with his subordinates. Zam becomes this when he's promoted at his workplace.
* [[Made a Slave]]: Dodola after {{spoiler|her husband is killed by robbers and she herself is kidnapped by them.}}▼
▲* [[Made a Slave]]: Dodola after {{spoiler|her husband is killed by robbers and she herself is kidnapped by them.}} Averted with Zam, who is born into slavery
because his mother is one.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Dodola, for sure.
* [[Official Couple]]: Dodola and Zam. It's even on the book's front, back and side covers!
* [[One Head Taller]]: Dodola, being older, is 1 head taller than Zam when he's young. As an adult, he's 1 head taller than her. This is best illustrated on the front and back covers of the book, respectively.
* [[Opium Den]]: The place where sultan's harem resides is this. It really shows how [[Sarcasm Mode|happy]] they are [[Gilded Cage|there.]]
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* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Gender-reversed with Dodola and Zam. Dodola starts showing signs of attraction to Zam after 6 years of separation. She even notes several times how much he's changed.
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Dodola and Zam have a moment like this after the former recovers from her sickness and fully recognizes him. The fisherman Noah looks on awkwardly. Doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] because she talks to him as if he's still her infant son.
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: Dodola is forcibly separated from Zam because {{spoiler|the sultan kidnaps her into his harem.}}
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