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* [[Author Catchphrase]]: McCaffrey has a name, "Johnny Greene", or "J.G.", that she likes to insert into most of her works. Jayge is an example.
* [[Bad Moon Rising]]: Well, technically it's a planet, but the Red Star definitely counts.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The Dragonriders place a lot of stock in studying past records to find information. They also have their own primitive astronomical observatory and a collection of maps as well as being able to make fairly advanced weather analysis.
* [[Best Served Cold]]: Lessa was ready to wait ten years disguised as a menial servant to take revenge on the man who slew her entire family. During this time she turned Ruatha, one of the wealthiest Holds, into a complete ruin through simple sabotage and slight [[Psychic Powers|telepathic]] emotional adjustments, and manipulated [[Guile Hero|F’lar]] into a duel with Fax to make him pay. She was only ten years old when this started.
* [[Blind Jump]]: Going ''between'' without a destination firmly in mind will cause the dragon and its passenger(s) to never emerge, which is fatal. Poorly imagining one's destination can result in a [[Tele Frag]]. Conversely, imagining aspects of one's destination ''too well'' can result in accidental [[Time Travel]]. This is all covered in the extensive training given to young dragonriders, with the grisly examples of those who didn't pay attention in the past serving to drive the lessons home.
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** The first time F'nor and Brekke have sex comes across this way to most readers, although there's some debate.
** Arguably F'lessan and Tai as well, although in that case the only possible rape was triggered by a mating flight.
* [[Warrior Monk]]: Dragonriders are kind of like an order of warrior monks, though they are not precisely religious, nor primarily warriors(more disaster relief).
* [[Warrior Poet]]: As noted above the dragonriders are badass bookworms. They also make poetry about their deeds some of which has the practical purpose of preserving information in a partially literary culture. Poetry is of course handled by Harpers primarily but a lot of it is about dragonriders.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In ''The Masterharper of Pern'' Robinton is noted to have the ability to speak to (and hear) dragons, leading to his mother actually hoping that he would be Searched by a Weyr in order to get him out of their troubled home. Unfortunately no queens were laying when Robinton was of the optimal age to Impress a dragon.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Dragons? Gaze up in awe and go "whoa, cool!" Fire lizards? Gather round and [[Squee]] over the pretties. Watch-whers? Chained to a wall as barely tolerated "watchdogs". Although they are shown as capable of friendship and loyalty, and their distant kinship to dragons is mentioned from book one, it is not until the [[Prequel|prequels]] that their origin is revealed -- partially failed experiments in creating a second type of dragon.
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