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# ''Spellbound''

# ''Thirteen'' (July 2012)

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==== This series provides examples of: ====

* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Paige adopts 13-year-old Savannah when she's 23 or so.

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Paige was treated as a dangerous malcontent by the rest of her Coven, even before they cast her out (though here it was more a case of "Fire her before she quits").

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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Not an actual wish, but in ''Waking the Witch'' {{spoiler|Savannah thinks that she'd willingly give up her powers if it meant Paula regained custody of her granddaughter, Kayla.}} Unfortunately for her, someone was listening.

* [[Blessed With Suck]]: multiple examples.

** Hope Adams. Unlike other [[Half Human Hybrid|half demons]] who get some cool power like Telekinesis, Hope has the demons' fascination with chaos, meaning she can sense chaotic thoughts or have visions of chaos but has no super powers to protect herself when she gets into a sticky situation.

** Hope Adams. Unlike other [[Half-Human Hybrid|half demons]] who get some cool power like Telekinesis, Hope has the demons' fascination with chaos, meaning she can sense chaotic thoughts or have visions of chaos but has no super powers to protect herself when she gets into a sticky situation.

** Jaime to a lesser extent, she tends to end up as the [[Butt Monkey]] as well because since her abilities are useless in combat. Also, necromancers usually go insane as they grow older.

** Clairvoyants, too. Their visions eventually drive them insane, and though they can spy on a subject using their remote viewing, they can't remote view other clairvoyants and their power is usually weak, lasting seconds at the most. Seers, though, have the worst of the lot. They are incredibly powerful clairvoyants, but they're all deformed, and two of the three known seers were also very mentally handicapped. The one who wasn't...[[And I Must Scream|well...]]

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* [[Feminist Fantasy]]

* [[The Grovel]]: In ''Haunted'', Kristof issues Eve an ultimatum: stop trying to communicate with the living or he'll leave her, because he can't be with someone who's slowly destroying herself like that. He catches her red-handed and sadly walks away. Later Eve realizes she's thrown away the one good thing in her life in pursuit of an unreachable goal. She goes to him with a simple yet sincere, "I fucked up."

* [[Half Human Hybrid]]: Half-demons.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Half-demons.

* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Lucas and Savannah are illegitimate children of Cabal higher-ups. Their fathers love them, but the rest of their relatives...not so much.

* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: In ''Stolen'', Elena and other supernaturals are kidnapped to be experimented on and the major funder of this project is a millionaire video game designer who likes to hunt them when they've outlived their usefulness.

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* [[Mama Bear]]: Both Paige and Eve are this for Savannah.

* [[Masquerade]]: All supernatural races have to hide themselves or face dire consequences. In Stolen we see some humans capturing supernaturals to study them and to play with their abilities.

* [[May December Romance]]: The only pairing in the series where the male is not at least a decade older than the female is Lucas/Paige, who are only two years apart. Karl is ''twenty-three'' years older than Hope, but since he's a werewolf, he ages slowly and doesn't look older than mid-thirties. This causes some confusion for Robyn in ''Living With The Dead'' when another werewolf continually refers to him as "the old man".

* [[May-December Romance]]: The only pairing in the series where the male is not at least a decade older than the female is Lucas/Paige, who are only two years apart. Karl is ''twenty-three'' years older than Hope, but since he's a werewolf, he ages slowly and doesn't look older than mid-thirties. This causes some confusion for Robyn in ''Living With The Dead'' when another werewolf continually refers to him as "the old man".

* [[Monster Mash]]

* [[Necromancer]]: Jaime Vegas. She subverts most common necromancer traits by being vivacious, outgoing, and more than a little silly at times.

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* [[No Periods Period]]: Averted. A major plot thread in ''Dime Store Magic'' involves Savannah getting her first period which marks a huge gain in spellcasting power for witches.

* [[No Social Skills]]: Clayton Danvers, first and only child werewolf. He starts out barely surviving on his own before fellow werewolf Jeremy rescues him and teaches him how to pass in human society.

* [[One Gender Race]]: multiple examples.

* [[One-Gender Race]]: multiple examples.

** Witches bear only daughters while sorcerers only sire sons. They can use each other's magic, but not as well as the proper users can. Witch magic generally relies on incantations or healing brews, while sorcerer magic uses gestures. The only way to have a male witch or female sorcerer is for a witch and a sorcerer to have a child together; the child will be both, like Savannah.

** Werewolves are always male; the gene passes from father to son and Elena is the only known female werewolf to survive a bitten Change. Potentially averted by {{spoiler|Katie Danvers, a female werewolf born to Clayton and Elena.}} Only time will tell if she develops the abilities.

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* [[Sequel Hook]]: ''Waking The Witch'' - the most blatant one in the series so far

* [[Shape Shifter Baggage]]: Averted. Werewolves have the same body mass in either form and are explicitly described as very big wolves.

* [[Small Girl Big Gun]]: Hope Adams has the superpower of [[Blessed With Suck|sensing chaos]], but no combat abilities. She's also quite shor- uh, petite. Since her chaos detector invariably draws her into danger, she makes a point of carrying at least one gun with her, and she regularly practices with it.

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Hope Adams has the superpower of [[Blessed With Suck|sensing chaos]], but no combat abilities. She's also quite shor- uh, petite. Since her chaos detector invariably draws her into danger, she makes a point of carrying at least one gun with her, and she regularly practices with it.

* [[Soul Cutting Blade]]: Angels use their Sword of Judgment to send souls of bad guys off to where they need to go. The Swords can only be used on evil people, though.

* [[Spot the Imposter]]: Several times.

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* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Jaz becomes something like this for Hope. She had genuinely liked him, but upon and finding out that he and Sonny weren't the nice people she had thought they were, came to understandably dislike him. Jaz, meanwhile, is convinced that Hope really loves him despite what he did ( {{spoiler|including trying to murder one of her friends right in front of her}}) and is just confused. Much to Karl's dismay, he is still obsessed with her a year later.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Jaime. Well, what's to be expected of a celebrity spiritualist who [[Blessed With Suck|actually ''can'' see ghosts]]?

* [[Tailor Made Prison]]

* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]

** ''Haunted'': Particularly nasty serial killers are locked up in a sort of personal hell. With other serial killers for company.

** ''Personal Demon'': {{spoiler|Jasper is locked up instead of being killed simply because he's a new and possibly unique type of supernatural.}}