Stravaganza: Difference between revisions

* [[Dramatis Personae]]: At the beginning of the third book, and boy is it useful.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Falco di Chimici}}, who enlists the help of the Stravaganti to {{spoiler|stravagate permanently to our world by dying in his own}}.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Lampshaded and invoked within the story. The Stravaganti postulate that talismans are drawn to teenagers who are unhappy so that they can grow from their experiences in Talia.

* [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family]]: The Di Chimici. Most of them.

* [[Heel Face Turn]] {{spoiler|Enrico, when he realises that he was tricked into killing his fiancée}}

* [[The Hero Dies]]: {{spoiler|In the first book.}} Technically.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Silvia Bellini.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: 'City of ___'

* [[Iron Lady]]: The Duchessa of Bellezza ''must'' be this to stand up against the di Chimici.

* [[Jerkass]]: Georgia's stepbrother, Russell

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: By book three? Oh yes.

* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You|Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Well, she did, Arianna.

* [[Narnia Time]]: Most of the time, it's a consistent one-to-one day ratio between Talia and England, with the only oddity being that day and night are switched. But from the first, we know that the timeflow is much more unstable - Doctor Dethridge, who lived in the Renaissance and was the first Stravagator, regularly gets visits from Stravaganti from modern-day England because time has flown by more quickly in England.

** And this is played [[Tear Jerker|to its heartbreaking conclusion when]] {{spoiler|Lucien's entrapment in Bellezza for about two days translates into a three-week coma in England - coinciding with a resurgence of his brain cancer. His parents, having concluded he's never waking up, decide to cut off his life support.}}

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Sky Meadows, having to take care of his ill mother.

* [[Purple Eyes]]: Arianna and the Duchessa both{{spoiler|, which is an early clue that they're related}}.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Arianna takes on the mantle of Duchessa voluntarily, but she still chafes under all the pressure and rules laid upon her in the later books.

* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|<s>Falco</s>}} Nick for Georgia. Doubles as [[Second Love]].