Stravaganza: Difference between revisions

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* [[Alchemy]]: Dr. Dethridge was an alchemist back in England before he discovered stravagation. Also, it is mentioned that Talian alchemists try to turn lead into ''silver'', which is more valuable than gold in Talia.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Between the di Chimici, like nobody's business.

* [[Action Girl]]: Arianna, Georgia, and Isabel

* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: ''City of Stars'' has two separate [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] who have nothing to do with each other; {{spoiler|Niccolò Di Chimici and Russell, Georgia's stepbrother}}.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Gaetano

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The ending to ''City of Masks'' is actually pretty tragic. {{spoiler|Lucien's real body dies, leaving him [[Trapped in Another World|stranded in Bellezza]], unable to return home}}, but the heroes do score victory over the [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family|Di Chimici]].

* [[Body Double]]: The Duchessa uses different doubles for all the flashy ceremonies, such as the Marriage with the Sea - she began this procedure when {{spoiler|she became pregnant with her daughter, Arianna.}} One such double thinks she can outsmart the Duchessa, rat out her secret, and throw her lot in with the di Chimici with no ill consequences. She's wrong.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: ''Narrowly'' averted in ''City of Secrets'' when the Chimici in residence {{spoiler|attempt to exact their revenge on Luciano by drugging him and stashing him in the local university's cache of dead bodies to be publicly dissected during medical lectures.}}

* [[Feuding Families]]: The di Chimici and the Nucci.

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: All the Stravaganti.

* [[Fish Out of Water]]: All the Stravaganti.

* [[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.}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Lots.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: The Gasparinis for {{spoiler|Arianna}}, Doctor Dethridge and Leonora for {{spoiler|Lucien}}, the Mulhollands for {{spoiler|Falco}}.

* [[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}}.