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Main character Zoey Redbird is just an ordinary girl, living in an extraordinary world where vampyres (spelling theirs) are a fact of life, when she is Chosen and begins to Change into a vampyre herself. Once she starts the Change (a biological process that happens in certain people as they go through puberty) she begins attending vampyre academy The House Of Night, where she finds new friends, romance, and some typical high school situations... and gradually uncovers a dangerous conspiracy that threatens everything she values in her newfound life.

 

 

''The Fledgling Handbook 101'' (an in-universe textbook used and mentioned frequently within the series) was published on the 26th of October 2010.

* [[Abusive Parents]]

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: James Stark, what with his name sake being the main character of ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''. He is idealized by his fans.

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Kalona has the ability to enter people's dreams and usually does this to seduce people.

* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: If you think the vampires are more like witches.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Stevie Rae all the way.

* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Aphrodite, and as of book 9 she has NOT gotten her vampyrism back. Still kept her visions, though, which was the one thing she could have happily gotten rid of.}}

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: For both Zoey and Aphrodite with regards to {{spoiler|Neferet}}

* [[Casanova]]: Kalona's on the "Monster" end of the spectrum.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Literally. {{spoiler|When Kalona kills Stark in Nyx's realm, the Goddess Nyx shows up and forces Kalona to bring him back to life.}}If {{spoiler|a goddess appearing}} doesn't count as this, then what the heck does?

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Zoey biological father left when she was two years old.

* [[Dream Within a Dream]]: In Tempted, Zoey is shown a vision of Kalona's past in a dream.

* [[Dress-Coded for Your Convenience]]: When [[The Big Bad]] decides to take over the Vampyre High Coucil, she changes her colourful wardrobe for skin-tight revealing black dresses. It's also a case of [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]] and she has [[Femme Fatalons]] to complete the look. Kalona also has the habit of only wearing pants.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Zoey's Goddess-given gift is to have ''all'' of the elemental powers, her [[Five-Man Band]] friends have one power apiece.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The White Bull of Darkness

* [[Enemy Within]]: Usually involves Red Vampyres and Red Fledglings about how having dark feelings doesn't make you a monster, acting out on them does.

* [[Evil All Along]]

* [[It Has Only Just Begun]]: Thus far, Nyx has said this (in some variation) to Zoey at the end of Every. Single. Book.

* [[I Was Born Ready]]: This seems to be the Twin's catch phrase

* [[Keeping Secrets Sucks]]: A big theme in the series. Zoey almost loses all of her friends and almost dies because she didn't tell her friends she {{spoiler|1)knew that Stevie Rae was really alive and 2)was secretely involved with a professor}}. Stevie Rae also has problems with this when she does not tell about {{spoiler|her relationship with Rephaim}}. Also see [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]

* [[Kiss of the Vampire]]: Applies to both kinds of Vampyres, even if the Vampyre and the Human are of the same gender.

** At the End of Burned between Stevie Rae and her consort {{spoiler|Rephaim. Zoey and Kalona's souls return to their bodies, thus keeping the two apart}}

* [[Love Redeems]]: Stark and Zoey's relationship is entirely built on this.

** Stark has also taken to wearing one all the time.

* [[Magical Native American]]: Sylvia and Zoey Redbird, who are Cherokee.

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: {{spoiler|Twice, actually. The first time it's adult vampyre Loren Blake in ''Chosen'', and at the end of ''Tempted'', Zoey's human boyfriend Heath gets the axe as well.}}

** It's Dallas's motivation to {{spoiler|kill Rephaim. "I'm gonna fry him. And then whatever weird control he has over you is gonna be gone. You and me can be together, and I won't tell shit about what happened here, as long as you're my girl."}}

* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: {{spoiler|Stevie Rae saves Rephaim's life. In the end, this small act is the catalyst for Stevie Rae's boyfriend Dallas to go over to the dark-side when he finds out she's been hiding him this whole time.}} Stevie Rae is also [[Mistaken for Cheating]].

* [[Not Quite Dead]] {{spoiler|Heath technically comes back at the end of ''Awakened''}}

* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]?: In Tempted, Zoey comes to this conclusion when it turns out the locations Kalona has been chosing as the back-drop of their dreams together reveal his actual location.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Happens rather frequently if your parents don't approve of your new vamphood. Zoey's mother has pretty much emotionally abandoned her in favor of her new husband/ChurchMilitant religion by the start of the series anyway, and doesn't need much more to abandon her child entirely.

* [[Passive-Aggressive Kombat]]: Neferet possesses a black belt in passive aggressive dialogue. Overlaps into [[Politeness Judo]] whenever Thanatos and Neferet share a scene.

* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Played straight with Aphrodite but toyed with for Zoey.

** Jack brought it on himself. He chose the name [[Brokeback Mountain|Jack Twist]] when he was Chosen.

* [[Phantasy Spelling]]: They are "vampyres" instead of "vampires".

** There's also the Mark that fledgelings get.

** It's not really a subversion seeing as {{spoiler|at the end of Burned she gets them all back, but no new ones}}

** Kalona, pretty much the cause for every single bad thing that's ever happened in the series, gets a [[Fallen Hero]] backstory and two chapters from his POV. Zoey thought it possible he could be redeemed. Why? {{spoiler|Because in a past life Zoey was in love with him}}.

** The [[Big Bad]], despite have a pretty legitimate [[Freudian Excuse]], has yet to ever have a chapter in their POV explaining why and how they have pretty much become the very thing they have always hated the most. The [[Big Bad]] has been written off as a [[Complete Monster]]. Why? {{spoiler|Because Loren's real lover was Neferet and she sent him to seduce Zoey and segregate her from her friends and allies. Neferet also flirted with Erik when Zoey was still in love with him despite the fact that he wasn't dating anyone and he was a Changed Vampyre}}.

** When Venus is introduced {{spoiler|she has just recently regained her humanity}} but she is deemed a horrible bitch and possibly evil in the first chapter of Hunted. She is also hated by the fandom considerably. Despite the fact that Venus's personality is very close to that of Aphrodite, PC Cast's favourite character and most popular character with the Fandom. Why? {{spoiler|Because she DARED to flirt with Erik infront of Zoey and hooked up with him when Zoey and Erik broke up. Zoey was telling herself that it was wrong to behave and think the way she did, didn't stop it anyway.}}

** Not to mention how Zoey and her friends all call Aphrodite a "ho" for dating two guys, even though she began going out with the second one only sometime after the first one and is genuinely serious about him. Zoey, meanwhile, has dated/flirted with no less than four guys, lost her virginity to her teacher Loren while she was dating Erik and letting Heath continually lure her into feasting on his blood, and she ''repeatedly'' calls herself out for being unable to settle on one guy. And yet when Erik calls her out on this in a later book, he's dismissed as just a jealous jerk by all her friends and we're clearly meant to disagree with her being a ho even when she keeps on saying that she ''is'' and is ''right''.

** Raven Mockers are mindless creatures of Darkness and they should all be wiped out. Everybody agrees with the [[Kill'Em All]] attitude and, as of Burned, around twenty Raven Mockers have been killed. Even the idea of giving them a burial is seen as strange. The only exception is Stevie Rae and when she raises valid points of [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] and [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] not only does every character tell her she's wrong but she is suspected of secretly turning over to [[The Dark Side]].

** Speaking of Stevie Rae, how is it okay for the Red Fledglings that haven't "Chosen" yet to be running around killing people? Even after she gives them multiple chances to choose, and they try to kill her and her friends multiple times, she ends up just chasing them away/exiling them... as if wherever they end up, they'll be any less evil and bloodthirsty? Maybe it's just a weakness moment or something, but the fact that they're Red Fledglings and thus "her people" seems to be what keeps her from stopping them from murdering any more innocents... permanently.

* [[Ravens and Crows]]

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Mentioned a lot in the series as the Red Fledglings and Vampires have red eyes when they've just fed from a human or when they're seriously pissed off. The Raven Mockers also have red eyes.

* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: The Raven Mockers are prone to this.

* [[Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness]]: Varies between [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]] to [[Transhuman Treachery]] due to [[Smug Super]] and [[Van Helsing Hate Crimes]]

* [[Starbucks Skin Scale]]: Shaunee is described as having "Cafe au Lait" skin a couple of times.

* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Aphrodite and Zoey start out with an [[Arch Enemy]] relationship, which ends up morphing when the two of them need each other and have a common enemy. Zoey and Aphrodite frequently have [[Jerkass Has a Point]] moments.

** {{spoiler|Averted when Neferet is revealed to have arranged their deaths}}

* [[Valley Girl]]: Erin and Shaunee fall into this category, but Zoey and Aphrodite do have their moments.

* [[Villainous Rescue]]: Has occured a few times between {{spoiler|Rephaim and Stevie Rae}}. Started out as [[I Owe You My Life]] has started to develop into a [[Rescue Romance]].

** Kalona shows up in {{spoiler|Destined to save the Day!}}