Sunshine (novel): Difference between revisions

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* [[Badass Family]]: The Blaises are implied to be one.

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: With a [[Badass Biker]] as a Betty to a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] Veronica.

* [[Blood On These Hands]]: After {{spoiler|ripping Beauregard's heart out with her bare hands}}, Sunshine is convinced that they are irrevocably "dirty."

* [[Blood on These Hands]]: After {{spoiler|ripping Beauregard's heart out with her bare hands}}, Sunshine is convinced that they are irrevocably "dirty."

** Note that it's not the blood that's the problem {{spoiler|(she had already killed dozens of vampires with her bare hands)}}, rather the sense of corruption and evil that came with it.

* [[The Cavalry Arrives Late]]: And puts them under arrest.

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* [[Elemental Powers]]: Magic-users are described as usually having a particular elemental affinity which gives them resistance to things that element opposes or neutralizes. The most common ones are (of course) fire, air, water, and earth, but metal and wood are also known possibilities. The title character's is, appropriately, sunlight, which is an unusual affinity falling somewhere between air and fire.

* [[Emotion Eater]]: Dabbled with; vampires can draw sustenance from tears in place of blood, although it is weaker.

* [[The End of the World As We Know It]]: Averted during the Voodoo Wars (fifteen years before the book starts) but expected to happen within a century after the book ends.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Averted during the Voodoo Wars (fifteen years before the book starts) but expected to happen within a century after the book ends.

* [[Expospeak]]: Sunshine often digresses from the main plot to explain details of her world--we find out, for example, that the man who invented the test for demonic ancestry that SOF uses discovered quickly that he himself was a partblood, quit before he could be fired, and spent the rest of his life breeding roses.

* [[Faking Amnesia]]: Sunshine pretends she has PTSD that made her forget or block her memories after escaping from being held captive by vampires. Mostly she ''does'' have PTSD but she hadn't forgotten anything, she just didn't want to talk about it or explain A) why she saved a vampire and B) ''how'' she saved a vampire.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Humans with demon ancestors (partbloods) tend to have a lot of trouble getting and holding jobs or promotions.

* [[Film the Hand]]: Sunshine does this to avoid being filmed by an overly zealous reporter. At the time, she didn't know whether vampires would be watching the broadcast, and she was still desperately [[Refusal of the Call|trying to make things go back to normal]].

* [[Food As Bribe]]

* [[Food as Bribe]]

* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Constantine may be creepy, and is implied to have experimented with the nastier ways of being a vampire, but we never see him hurt a human, and he has a rather good opportunity. Sunshine's never heard of any others, though, so they're either very rare or very secretive.

** Other vampires torture humans in order to taste the fear in their blood when they finally get around to eating them. Constantine's "friendliness" means that he doesn't play with his food before eating. He CAN eat deer, but whether he still sometimes eats humans as well is not revealed.

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* [[The Unmasqued World]]

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With Con.

* [[Wizards Live Longer]]: Sunshine has always thought of this trope as wish fulfillment. She learns from a retired professional magic handler that while most ordinary magic handlers won't notice much difference, those who are powerful and steep themselves in magic can live to be very old indeed. This is not a cheerful thought, given that [[The End of the World As We Know It]] is predicted within the next century.

* [[Wizards Live Longer]]: Sunshine has always thought of this trope as wish fulfillment. She learns from a retired professional magic handler that while most ordinary magic handlers won't notice much difference, those who are powerful and steep themselves in magic can live to be very old indeed. This is not a cheerful thought, given that [[The End of the World as We Know It]] is predicted within the next century.

* [[Wound That Will Not Heal]]: Sunshine gets one. It takes [[Blood Magic]] to heal it.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Sunshine has a boyfriend the entire book. Still doesn't keep her from {{spoiler|having some pretty intense moments, including something that could only count as foreplay, with Con.}}