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* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer|Dame Not-Appearing-In-This-Fanfic]]: Dawn, whose creation is one of the things [[For Want of a Nail|disrupted by Xendra's existence]].
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: "Lestat", which makes him and his followers particularly hard to handle for the Buffy-less Scoobies.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Played with when a grief-stricken and enraged Tara uses a black magic ritual to give her body to a dangerous demon in order to get revenge on Glory -- but it's clear she's possessing the demon more than it's possessing her.
* [[Doorstopper]]: 281 chapters and 960,111 words written over seven years.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: Averted in the aftermath of {{spoiler|Faith's rape of Xander in both forms while they were under the influence of magic that essentially made her high and him barely conscious. Faith is guilt-stricken and Xander ends up going to therapy (as Xendra)}}.
* [[Emergency Transformation]]: One is effectively performed when Drusilla triggers Xander's third change to make him an ersatz Jenny Calendar with which to torment and torture Giles. Xander at that point is paralyzed by a spinal injury and not far from death from other wounds; when he is forced back into teen!Xena form all his injuries vanish (but remain, in abeyance, in his male form, complicating plans to change him back). A couple years later Xander suffers another serious injury and remains female until the necessary ritual can (again) be performed.
** Late in the story, Willow deliberately includes a dying Riley Finn in Xander's transformation to Xendra to save both their lives.
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: The story ends with the defeat of Glory, expanding numbers of Slayers, the dawn of a new era of Council support for them... and a conclave of villains planning how to take advantage of the vacuum created by the destruction of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the Senior Partners, Wolfram and Hart, and Glory.
* [[Epiphany (trope)|Epiphany]]: A a result of a spirit quest all three Slayers -- ''and'' Xendra -- undergo, they experience personal and group epiphanies which lead to, among other things, the acknowledgement that the Slayers are more than metaphorical sisters, and Faith finally accepting Xander and Willow's affection for her -- and hers for them.
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