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A Brother's Price

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A Brother's Price	comment	A Brother's Price is a Low Fantasy novel by Wen Spencer.Jerin Whistler is a simple subject of Queensland where more than ninety percent of the population is female. Understandably in such a society men are a rare and valuable commodity to be bought, bargained and bartered for by families that want him to marry all the sisters in that family.Then his young sister, out of 27 such siblings, drives off a group of attackers targeting a lone rider. His family has kept up the soldier skills that made them landed gentry. They retrieve the woman only to find themselves caught up in a plot that involves their family history, treason and the fate of the entire nation — which could all hinge on his brother's price.This book is partly speculative fiction, partly something of a Romance Novel, in which gender roles are largely reversed. As a large portion of the plot is dedicated to who marries whom, it is somewhat similar to Jane Austen's works, while the setting is more like The Wild West, only with a monarchy and Girls with Guns.
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A Brother's Price / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
A Brother's Price / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: Jerin feels bad about his relief when he is told that Ren, whom he loves, is a widow — he doesn't want to be the one doing this trope, rather he thinks he should feel sorry for her loss. He ends up comforting all the widows... though they need comfort not because they're sad their husband died — they aren't — but because their husband caused a lot of harm to the family.
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A Brother's Price / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
A Brother's Price / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Several. When Corelle, who is a bit of a bully, goes out to face a potentially dangerous group of strangers, Jerin realizes that he does love his sister after all. Also, heartwarmingly adorable with Trini when she takes Jerin's hand and acknowledges their engagement, despite having had "better things to do" than spend time with him beforehand.
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A Brother's Price / int_117c6f30	type	Old Man Marrying a Child
A Brother's Price / int_117c6f30	comment	Old Woman Marrying A Child: Grooms are 16, the older brides are... well, not old, because they have to get there before menopause, but much more adult. A one point the "not young anymore" (by Ren's words) Kij Porter, presumably in her late 30s, makes advances to a not-quite-yet-16 Jerin. He's creeped, though probably more because he's scared of her as a person. Cullen Moorland on the other hand clearly welcomes Eldest Whistler's advances and she's 28 to his 16.
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A Brother's Price / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
A Brother's Price / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Jerin is told that he's quite a looker. (Which surprises him, as he doesn't often talk to women who aren't family). Later, the reader learns that Jerin looks very much like his grandfather. He remembers the kindly old man fondly, and sometimes wonders how his grandfather managed to wrap the grandmothers around his little fingers, being such a soft-spoken, gentleman. He finds out.
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A Brother's Price / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
A Brother's Price / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Jerin Whistler can resist no pretty woman. Every attempt at seducing him is at least halfway successful. As his eldest sister points out, though, this is not entirely his fault; he was raised never to say no to any woman, as the polygynous culture he lives in would fall apart if one of the rare men insisted on being monogamous or even celibate.
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A Brother's Price / int_137f467a	type	Hot Teacher
A Brother's Price / int_137f467a	comment	Hot Teacher: Jerin mentions having had a crush on Miss Skinner, his teacher. He notes that his younger brother now shows the first signs of also having a crush on her. As she came to the farm to tutor the boys, who weren't allowed in a regular school 'cause they're boys, she is the only non-related woman both of them saw frequently, which Jerin suspects is part of the reason why they all have a crush on her. As he expresses no surprise about having found her pretty, she is likely a Hot Teacher.
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A Brother's Price / int_13a6b7ef	type	Gaia's Lament
A Brother's Price / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: Possible reason why so few boys are born, as male fetuses are known to be more vulnerable to pollution and other detrimental effects than female ones. Frequent male stillbirths point at the fact that this is not just some evolutionary quirk.
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A Brother's Price / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
A Brother's Price / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: There's a kind of drug that is commonly used on male prostitutes. What exactly it does is left unclear, though the implied "last longer" effect can't be the only one; most likely it's a kind of powerful aphrodisiac, as a woman having one in her possession is viewed as intending to rape a man.
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A Brother's Price / int_171b1206	type	Men Can't Keep House
A Brother's Price / int_171b1206	comment	Men Can't Keep House: Subverted: the bad state of the rooms where Keifer Porter lived is considered proof of his laziness. The protagonist, on the other hand almost immediately makes plans for redecoration when he moves into the rooms. His wives approve. Not surprising, as this is a world where masculine men can keep house.
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A Brother's Price / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
A Brother's Price / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Jerin in spades; he cooks, he cleans, he takes care of his younger siblings and he worries about making a good marriage that will benefit his family.
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A Brother's Price / int_1858696	type	One-Gender School
A Brother's Price / int_1858696	comment	One-Gender School: All schools are this by default. When Jerin complains that he was never allowed to go to school, Miss Skinner her teacher explains that she wouldn't have liked the responsibility to keep the girls away from him.
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A Brother's Price / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
A Brother's Price / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The titular Brother's price is essentially a bride price mainly in the form of a one-time payment.
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A Brother's Price / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
A Brother's Price / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Corelle has lots of complaints regarding her brother Jerin. He talks too posh, he doesn't wear the right clothes ... but when some woman dares imply that Jerin would be lucky if a noblewoman like her would deign to marry him, Corelle is enraged. Justified in that this is an insult to (social standing of) the whole family, but it's also clear that Corelle won't let someone outside the family insult her brother.
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A Brother's Price / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
A Brother's Price / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Keifer Porter. Very vain, charming if he wanted to be, good at manipulating people, even though he was rather stupid otherwise, and ready to do horrible things with little or no provocation. He is also implied to have been easily bored. While he did sleep with his sister, he seems to have been unable to form emotional relationships, seeing as his wives adored him and did everything to keep him happy, and it didn't stop him from torturing their little sister. And killing her father, and taking part in a conspiracy to kill them.
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A Brother's Price / int_19f034ab	type	I Miss Mom
A Brother's Price / int_19f034ab	comment	I Miss Mom: Gender-flipped, both Jerin and Ren had warm, loving fathers who they miss terribly. Justified given the differing roles men are expected to take.
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A Brother's Price / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
A Brother's Price / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Men are so rare in this setting that most girls don't even have a father who lives with the family. As a result, those women who do have a father consider themselves very lucky. Ren is especially affected by the sight of a dead man because he reminds her of her father.
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A Brother's Price / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
A Brother's Price / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: The kidnappers who take Jerin are clever enough to search him for hidden weapons, and even find his set of lockpicks. However, they still underestimate him, as he pretends to stumble against them, and steals his stuff back just a moment after they took it.
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A Brother's Price / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
A Brother's Price / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: More like Multiple Sisters Seek Good Man. Either way, having a caring nature and being good with children are seen as highly desirable traits in a prospective husband. Summer Whistler remarks that the boy her sister Corelle has a crush on "has a temper with the babies", which she dislikes. Jerin's own skill in dealing with his younger sisters is a plus in the eyes of his suitors.
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A Brother's Price / int_1aa52a9a	type	God Before Dogma
A Brother's Price / int_1aa52a9a	comment	God Before Dogma: Princess Ren is religious, and argues in favor of the traditional system of polygyny but points out that "nowhere in the holy book does it say we should treat boys like property". The protagonists are also critical of the religious taboo on adoption, and the Whistlers end up adopting Eldie Porter by the end of the book.
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A Brother's Price / int_1ae27a74	type	Fridge Horror
A Brother's Price / int_1ae27a74	comment	The younger sisters of Balin Brindle are rumored to be actually fathered by him, on his own mothers, as his father is old and frail. The protagonists seem to think this consensual, but there is some Fridge Horror involved if you don't believe that All Men Are Perverts.
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A Brother's Price / int_1aed264f	type	Happy Rain
A Brother's Price / int_1aed264f	comment	Happy Rain: Jerin is out in what is at first a Gray Rain of Depression, considering killing himself. When Ren comes and shares the news that his worst fears haven't come to pass, it becomes this tropes.
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A Brother's Price / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
A Brother's Price / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: When they find the body of Egan Wainwright, who was raped, and then killed by having his tongue cut off, Ren is put off by the lack of reaction from the accompanying soldiers. It's not unreasonable to assume that they have seen worse, it comes with the job, and there seems to have been a bandit problem for a long time. And her lieutenant points out that unlike Ren, who knew and loved her father, most soldiers are conceived from drugged prisoners in military brothels in the Order of the Sword.
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A Brother's Price / int_1b8cef9c	type	The High Queen
A Brother's Price / int_1b8cef9c	comment	The High Queen: Queen Elder (and her sisters who rule collaboratively, who don't appear much and aren't distinguished), a wise and kind ruler, who does everything in her power to ensure the safety of the country. The story doesn't dwell much on her beauty, though it is mentioned that she shares her daughters' delicate features.
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A Brother's Price / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
A Brother's Price / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Discussed between the princesses who are active working in their realm, and are quite keen on doing the dangerous adventuring tasks themselves. They usually find a compromise that consists of their bodyguard accompanying one or two of them, while the other ones (there are five who are of age) stay at the palace and do the less interesting office work. As the Whistler family is at one point recruited into helping the princesses, this trope is still somewhat in power - while we do not know much about most of them, they are the main protagonist's family.
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A Brother's Price / int_1cf08d1d	type	Hollywood Encryption
A Brother's Price / int_1cf08d1d	comment	Hollywood Encryption: Jerin finds a book written in some simplistic fake thieves' cant. Justified, as Kiefer needed to be able to read and was Too Dumb to Live (yes, really, literally), and it had to be that simple. Of course, Jerin, a trained codebreaker, figured it out quickly and other characters can too.
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A Brother's Price / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
A Brother's Price / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Jerin goes through his and his brothers' birth certificates, which are a bit different from birth certificates in our world. He also receives a letter at some point in the narrative, which is quoted in the book.
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A Brother's Price / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
A Brother's Price / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Corelle Whistler shoots someone in the back during an espionage mission. Aware of this trope and unwilling to look like a traitor or a coward, she justifies it, noting that the woman she shot was trying to kill Eldest Whistler.
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A Brother's Price / int_1dad7003	type	In the Hood
A Brother's Price / int_1dad7003	comment	In the Hood: The commanders of the criminals whom the Whistlers and the Princesses fight together use hoods. Doesn't help them (much), as the Whistlers just go after the person with the red hood, who they assume is the leader.
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A Brother's Price / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
A Brother's Price / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Jerin is captured by women who want to forcibly marry him in order to take the throne of Queensland. They aren't going to kill him if they can at all help it, but they could definitely do some unpleasant things to him, and they will kill his friend. So... he thinks quickly and claims total surrender, that he will be a good lover and husband, if they just don't kill his friend. Said friend is very surprised to find he was lying to get their guard down.
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A Brother's Price / int_1e568dc6	type	Hair Color Spoiler
A Brother's Price / int_1e568dc6	comment	Hair Color Spoiler: All the royal family has red hair, which is even called "royal red" because they all have it. Princess Halley averts a hair color spoiler by dying her hair before she goes undercover to solve a crime.
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A Brother's Price / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
A Brother's Price / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Princesses seem to be very busy young ladies. All the adult sisters have offices where they seem to spend a good deal of time. One of their jobs is acting as judges in court cases. The plot kicks off in the first place because a pair help part of the armed forces track down some stolen experimental cannons. Subverted with the Queens who are largely retired, as per tradition.
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A Brother's Price / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
A Brother's Price / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: Jerin was burning a letter when people came through a secret passage and abducted him. He struggled for long enough to be able to write one three-letter word in soot before they hauled him away, the one he thought responsible, Kij. Since literacy isn't a universal skill his abductors miss it and don't take time to wipe it off before fleeing the bodyguards that were trying to break through his locked door.
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A Brother's Price / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
A Brother's Price / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: when Corelle is found out to have had sex with Balin Brindle, she points at Jerin and tells Eldest that Jerin was seduced by Ren. It doesn't work the way she wants it to, though.
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A Brother's Price / int_20779065	type	Marry Them All
A Brother's Price / int_20779065	comment	Marry Them All: Luckily for Jerin, all of the women to whom he's attracted turn out to be the royal princesses.
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A Brother's Price / int_20a18a93	type	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
A Brother's Price / int_20a18a93	comment	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Trini is adamant that no, she does not want a husband, least of all that stranger with whose pretty face her sisters fell in love. She eventually consents to marry him, because he'd otherwise have to marry into a family she thinks one shouldn't even give a dog to. Soon after the engagement, she is as fond of the fiancÃ© as her sisters are.
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A Brother's Price / int_20c6638f	type	Easing into the Adventure
A Brother's Price / int_20c6638f	comment	Easing into the Adventure: Jerin is seen doing chores, and trying to get his sister Corelle to feed the new baby sibling which she thinks is men's work, at the beginning.
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A Brother's Price / int_214d3bf2	type	Dye or Die
A Brother's Price / int_214d3bf2	comment	Dye or Die: Cira, to keep the Significant Green-Eyed Redhead thing from letting anyone know she's royal. Also Eldie Porter, in the end, to help her fit in among the Whistler children.
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A Brother's Price / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
A Brother's Price / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Played With, while the teenaged Jerin always acts the perfect gentleman, he is unable to say no when a woman tries to seduce him, which is a problem because he could be considered to be Defiled Forever. Eldest Whistler invokes this trope, by pointing out that they never taught him how to resist a woman's advances, and Culturally boys are expected to be open and outgoing, so it's not his fault.
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A Brother's Price / int_21768d3f	type	Seduction-Proof Marriage
A Brother's Price / int_21768d3f	comment	Seduction-Proof Marriage: Doubly Subverted with Jerin. As is the custom of his people he marries a group of sisters, to whom he is faithful for ever after the engagement, even though a mysterious woman tries to seduce him. She turns out to be one of his wives.
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A Brother's Price / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
A Brother's Price / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: Eldest Whistler states that she believes her family began when "a group of women banded together and called themselves sisters." Jerin and Cira run into a group of river trash late in the story who plan to do this as well, with the money and land they're getting in exchange for kidnapping Jerin and delivering him to the Porters. Unfortunately, they didn't stop to think that the Porters might not want to let them live afterward.
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A Brother's Price / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
A Brother's Price / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The main characters are shielded from the worst of it, but oh boy... First, if you're a man, you're property, ostensibly a highly valuable and safeguarded member of society but in practice having no more social or legal rights than a particularly expensive piece of furniture. The best you can ever hope for is that you'll get sold to wives who will treat you well, and if you're unlucky you might get sold to a crib where you'll spend the rest of your life drugged to incoherence and studded out on a daily basis, probably catching a disease somewhere along the way. And if you're a woman who didn't have the fortune of being born into the nobility, things can still be very far from awesome, given the ubiquitousness of poverty and high levels of social stratification, entire families being held accountable for the actions of a single member, and if you're orphaned, Gods help you, because no one else will, seeing as how adoption is outlawed by their religionnote Explained by one character that "it only encourages the idiots to overproduce in vain hopes of a boy;" one unsavory family is speculated that "they would be littering the countryside with dead girl babies" in repeated failed attempts to conceive boys if they thought they could get away with it, and is even rumored to be practicing incest with their teenage son before he's married off to make up for the fact that their husband is getting too old and infirm to properly conceive children. The same religion holds that the ruling dynasty is descended from the gods, by the way. The place appears to be an absolute monarchy (the princesses all seem decent enough, but still...), has a thriving thieves' guild, and is so badly run that an anonymous organization of masked women known only as "The Hats" can drum up enough support among the River Trash for overthrowing the government to be considered a viable option. Those same River Trash are the direct result of both the "no adoption" and "entire families condemned for a single member's actions" policies above: Women and girls who, for some reason or another, have been exiled from their families or blacklisted from legitimate work and must eke out a living as outlaws on the fringes of civilization, a fate that the protagonist's grandmothers only narrowly escaped by joining the aforementioned thieves' guild after one of their mothers got them disgraced and cashiered from the army for committing treason.
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A Brother's Price / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
A Brother's Price / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight with the marriage offer of the Porters, who are nobility, but never married a royal prince, which they seek to amend by marrying a descendant of Prince Alannon, even though he may be poorer than they are. It's also part of their political scheming. They already placed themselves in the line of succession of the monarchy and the wealth and titles that come with it by having their brother marry the Princesses, but marrying a descendant of a former prince would make their claim on the monarchy twofold if something were to happen to the Princesses — a tragedy they just so happen to be planning.
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A Brother's Price / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
A Brother's Price / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: How Ren's father was killed—it was Keifer's doing, of course.
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A Brother's Price / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
A Brother's Price / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: The princesses never suspected their sisters-in-law, the Porters to be the ones who betrayed them because of the losses to their own family in the explosion that killed the elder princesses.
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A Brother's Price / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
A Brother's Price / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Justified as men are rare and adoption is a cultural and religious taboo, so the biggest problem most women, and therefore families, face is childlessness. While death in childbirth is mentioned, it is clear that unwanted pregnancies are unheard of (women who just want to have sex have no taboo against choosing other women), and many of the problems that new parents face in the Western world are just not present.
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A Brother's Price / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
A Brother's Price / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Played with. The Porter-children born after Eldest and Kij carry a recessive gene displaying itself by a person having eleven toes. Eldest is dead and her character is not known, and Kij is the White Sheep of the family. It's unknown if Keifer had it, but his and Kij's daughter, Eldie, does, which clues in Ren because it would be unlikely that a random man from the cribs would also have this specific gene. This revelation serves as a sign of villainy not for her, but for her mother.
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A Brother's Price / int_25c7875f	type	Practically Different Generations
A Brother's Price / int_25c7875f	comment	Practically Different Generations: Thanks to the number of sisters who can be married to the same man, it's common for the youngest sister to still be children, if not yet to be born, by the time the oldest are old enough to marry.
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A Brother's Price / int_25d1076f	type	Infallible Babble
A Brother's Price / int_25d1076f	comment	Infallible Babble: Subverted, the newspapers make every rumor easily available to everyone, and very little of what they say that the characters notice is true.
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A Brother's Price / int_27074b46	type	Holding Hands
A Brother's Price / int_27074b46	comment	Holding Hands: What happens when Trini finally warms a bit to Jerin.
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A Brother's Price / int_27705cf8	type	Textile Work Is Feminine
A Brother's Price / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: Inverted. As men, Jerin Whistler and Cullen Moorland are expected to have an interest in fashions, textiles, embroidery, and so on, but while they're both proficient at these things, neither has a love of it. Some female characters - tailors - have an interest, but others don't think about it at all.
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A Brother's Price / int_27a036db	type	Covered with Scars
A Brother's Price / int_27a036db	comment	Covered with Scars: Cira only has one on her face, but they're also all over her back.
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A Brother's Price / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
A Brother's Price / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Jerin and Ren have this in common, both having deceased fathers. Jerin's died of an accident a few months before the start of the book, resulting in Jerin's Promotion to Parent to his younger siblings. Ren thought her father had died of illness, but when Jerin, now betrothed to Ren and her sisters, is moved into the palace's husband quarters, he finds evidence that his predecessor, Keifer, was involved in killing the princesses' father with poison.
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A Brother's Price / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
A Brother's Price / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The princesses' late husband is called "Keifer". "Keifen" is German, meaning "to nag". The late husband in question was indeed known for whining, complaining, and otherwise manipulating his wives into doing what he wanted to do.
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A Brother's Price / int_29789a9d	type	Post-Kiss Catatonia
A Brother's Price / int_29789a9d	comment	Post-Kiss Catatonia: When Cira surprise kisses him, Jerin is pretty much flabbergasted and doesn't know what to say or think.
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A Brother's Price / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
A Brother's Price / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Though she arrives pretty late in the book Cira/Princess Halley makes a good impression especially her single-handed infiltration of the criminal underworld.
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A Brother's Price / int_2a154192	type	Impossibly Tacky Clothes
A Brother's Price / int_2a154192	comment	Impossibly Tacky Clothes: When he dressed for a royal ball, Jerin complains that he feels like that fantasy world's equivalent of a Christmas tree. The dress includes tight trousers with a codpiece, and all kinds of bells, flowers, and feathers were woven into his hair. There are also bells at the sleeves of his shirt.
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A Brother's Price / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
A Brother's Price / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Lampshaded, Ren remarks that Odelia seems to have this. She gets beat over the head with an iron rod, very nearly killed and left for dead, then rescued by the grandchildren of knights and their beautiful brother, and Ren says that's about typical for Odelia's luck.
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A Brother's Price / int_2c136406	type	Standard Royal Court
A Brother's Price / int_2c136406	comment	Not So Standard Royal Court: Queensland has the royal family, royal retainers, royal guard, and scheming nobles of the Standard Royal Court but with a twist; all these roles from Queens down are played by cadres of up to twenty sisters.
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A Brother's Price / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
A Brother's Price / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Women in this culture are generally expected to engage in whatever level of violence is necessary to protect the men in their family. Kidnapping Jerin turns out to be a Berserk Button for all the adult princesses, who nearly get into a brawl in public over who's going to do what to rescue him. When they do get him back, a combination of this and in-universe laws that all sisters are to be put to death for one's offence means they consider wiping out the entire family involved in Jerin's abduction the only reasonable response to this offense.
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A Brother's Price / int_2c98f475	type	Leonine Contract
A Brother's Price / int_2c98f475	comment	Leonine Contract: The Whistler's make themselves vulnerable to that kind of situation by buying something they cannot quite afford. They manage to get a high brother's price for Jerin and marry him to the woman he loves, but it is dangerous. An example with an even worse situation is when Jerin offers to be a willing Sex Slave to the kidnappers so that they don't kill his companion. He totally lied, though.
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A Brother's Price / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
A Brother's Price / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: So-called "crib drugs" are used to keep men able and willing to have sex. One of those drugs is, apparently, called "Everlast". It is implied that making men last longer is not the only effect, though—they seem to also act as an aphrodisiac.
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A Brother's Price / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
A Brother's Price / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Cullen, despite growing among the noble folk, is rather wild and contemptuous of the rules. He's bored and longs to do more adventurous things, like riding a horse. Jerin in turn, who's grown up in a farm and got to do such "unladylike" thing s in his life, is much more proper and calm.
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A Brother's Price / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
A Brother's Price / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: The so-called "War of the False Eldest" was caused by a conflict over whether the daughters of the younger sisters should inherit the throne, as the shared husband of the older sisters was infertile, and hadn't fathered any heirs. Princess Ren and her sisters know about the war, and are very aware of their own responsibility to marry well (that is, a fertile man) and have daughters, to avoid a second succession crisis, the effects of the first are still felt after two generations.
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A Brother's Price / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
A Brother's Price / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Jerin manages to mistake himself for cheating - when he can't remember a certain period of time, he fears that he cheated on his fianceÃ©s in that time, as he was there with a woman, and can't recall what, exactly, happened, only that it was a compromising situation. Turns out the mysterious strange woman is, in fact, one of his wives-to-be, and she cheerfully tells him that, if he thinks that was sex, she will have to give him The Talk because theyâ€™d have a hard time conceiving otherwise.
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A Brother's Price / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
A Brother's Price / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Alissa Porter. Apparently, the gender of her lover means less to her than the fact that she's stealing them from Princess Halley.
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A Brother's Price / int_2eeb91b2	type	The Runt at the End
A Brother's Price / int_2eeb91b2	comment	The Runt at the End: Discussed as something that happens to youngest siblings, and mentioned as the reason why it is preferable to time pregnancies carefully, with at least a year in between, to avoid it.
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A Brother's Price / int_2f1ddb04	type	Perfect Health
A Brother's Price / int_2f1ddb04	comment	Perfect Health: Increases a man's value, Jerin has it but a few other men seen don't.
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A Brother's Price / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
A Brother's Price / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: While his sisters and wives kill when necessary, they never do it if Jerin is present. In one situation, Cira gives one of their enemies Tap on the Head, and reassures Jerin that no, she didn't kill her, and she is extremely sorry that he has to witness this. Later Jerin shoots a woman himself, and is shocked for moments afterward. He did it in defense of his rescuer, Cira, and is extremely upset that he actually killed a human being. While reference to execution as punishment is made, proper court proceedings beforehand are seen as preferable to killing in self-defense whenever possible. And even then, the protagonists don't like the thought of small children being executed for their mothers' crimes (as is the normal course of action, to avoid revenge being taken by the surviving offspring.)
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A Brother's Price / int_3012325a	type	Exotic Extended Marriage
A Brother's Price / int_3012325a	comment	Six years before the start of the story, Keifer Porter gets away with torturing and raping one of his younger wives by convincing Eldest that she "provoked him". Due to Love Makes You Stupid, he actually succeeds with this.
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A Brother's Price / int_3052f23e	type	Sink the Lifeboats
A Brother's Price / int_3052f23e	comment	Awareness of this trope leads to a very cold practice: if a family has committed treason, when they are executed so are all of their children. Right down to the infants. The only exceptions happen if the family is ruled to not be working together in concert as is proper, like the Whistler family was generations before the book's start. Several characters find this practice monstrous, but others are ruthlessly pragmatic. Things come to a head when the mothers of Ren's five-year-old "niece" Eldie Porter are found trying to kill the Queens and Princesses, and it's explicitly stated that if she's allowed to live, this trope will come into play. Fortunately, the Whistlers have a third option in mind.
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A Brother's Price / int_30d1e0df	type	Full-Name Basis
A Brother's Price / int_30d1e0df	comment	Full-Name Basis: Everyone refers to the eldest sister of a family with her full name. They have to, as the eldest sister of every family is called "Eldest". When there are children, the name is changed to "Mother Elder + Lastname".
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A Brother's Price / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
A Brother's Price / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Cullen Moorland, the only non-Whistler male to have a speaking role in the book, and his cousin the princess Lylia, who smuggles him lewd tintypes and educates him on what she knows. They have a pact that whoever has sex first tells the other everything. Cullen is seen as harmless and kind of adorable; Jerin finds Lylia slightly threatening in an exciting way.
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A Brother's Price / int_30facef7	type	Bright Castle
A Brother's Price / int_30facef7	comment	Bright Castle: The castle in the capital of Mayfair has lots of windows, which would be expensive but doable in a culture with technology roughly equivalent to the early 1800s, basically a groundscraper. It is also very nice and bright inside and offers a spectacular view of the city it overlooks from the cliff.
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A Brother's Price / int_319cc4d7	type	Low Fantasy
A Brother's Price / int_319cc4d7	comment	Low Fantasy: There's no magic, but it is very clearly not our world. The narrative is not clear on whether it is post-apocalyptic, or the environment just happens to be detrimental to the health of male sperm and/or male fetuses in the womb. The heroism and battles are more of the low-fantasy type, too.
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A Brother's Price / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
A Brother's Price / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Towards the end of the novel Cullen is pushing for his sisters to marry Jerin's cousin Dail. Apparently, the idea is being taken seriously by both families.
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A Brother's Price / int_326a740c	type	Scatterbrained Senior
A Brother's Price / int_326a740c	comment	Scatterbrained Senior: The Porters had some mothers who were rather scatterbrained, and described as "ancient". They died in an explosion, caused by a bomb the Porter family had planted there. The younger ones wanted to get rid of the scatterbrained seniors who they feared would spill their murderous secrets.
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A Brother's Price / int_32987ad9	type	Family Eye Resemblance
A Brother's Price / int_32987ad9	comment	Family Eye Resemblance: All ten of the princesses described have green eyes. Likewise, the Whistler family tends to have blue eyes.
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A Brother's Price / int_32e7cb8d	type	Waking Up Elsewhere
A Brother's Price / int_32e7cb8d	comment	Waking Up Elsewhere: Ren is a bit confused when she wakes up after her first night at the Whistler home, until her brain boots up enough that she remembers why she's where she is. Near the end of the book, Jerin panics a little. His memory of the last night is fuzzy since he almost drowned and got knocked about after going over that Inevitable Waterfall, but soon he recognizes it as his cousin Dail's room.
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A Brother's Price / int_33ba64e0	type	Flowers of Femininity
A Brother's Price / int_33ba64e0	comment	Flowers of Masculinity: As part of the book's theme of inverted gender norms, Jerin has tiny flowers braided into his long hair when he's presented at the Royal ball.
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A Brother's Price / int_3495b94d	type	Gendercide
A Brother's Price / int_3495b94d	comment	Gendercide: People aren't so much sterile as mostly unable to produce male offspring. This results in a world where there is about one boy born for every ten girls. It is never mentioned what lead to this, but it could be a post-apocalyptic setting, with environmental pollution being the cause of frequent stillbirth of male babies. Society adapted to this, and the setting is quite cozy by post-apocalyptic standards. There is, however, literal gendercide mentioned in an offhand comment about a family which has thirty daughters (borne by ten mothers or so, but only one husband), and only one son, with someone saying that they would probably "litter the land with the dead bodies of female babies if they thought they could get away with it", as it is suspected they keep having babies in the hope for a second son.
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A Brother's Price / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
A Brother's Price / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Jerin balks when the royal tailors tell him he must wear his new trousers without underwear; they're deliberately made to show off his, er, assets, and won't fit snugly enough unless he's going commando. He reluctantly gives in, despite saying he both feels and looks naked.
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A Brother's Price / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
A Brother's Price / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: Repeatedly; thankfully the Whistlers are there. The plot is kicked off because Princess Odelia chases down some cannon smugglers who double back and attack her, only for a Whistler to drive her off. Later in Mayfair, Princess Ren leads a great number of soldiers of the Queens' Justice to a mill where intel points a Criminal Conspiracy are hiding some of the cannons. Aware that it could be a trap, Eldest and Corelle Whistler go out ahead of them. The enemy actually uses the cannons, and with the soldiers filling the street... Later Ren leads an attack on some dissidents only for it to turn out she's set her riverboat against an ironclad outfitted with the remaining cannons. All these traps were laid by the Porters who are sisters-in-law of the princesses, and know how they think.
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A Brother's Price / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
A Brother's Price / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Keifer Porter has committed a lot of unmotivated nastiness in the backstory. Among other things, he told his wives' little cousin that eating too many cookies would make his "you know what" fall off. And no, he was not talking about teeth. He also beat up and raped one of his child-wives because she criticized him, which may or may not qualify, depending on whether one counts the fact that Trini might have been discouraged from opposing him a second time as a net gain. His only redeeming action, if one may call it that, was demanding that Ren be sent out of the opera house because her crying at a sad scene in the opera annoyed him. Would also be dog-kicking, if not for the fact that the building exploded minutes later, and Ren survived because she was outside. Most probably that was not his intention, though.
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A Brother's Price / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
A Brother's Price / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: We only learn the name of Jerin's father - or which of his mothers gave birth to him - because he takes the time to look at his birth certificate. We learn neither about say, Princess Ren (he's from the Moorland family, and that's it).
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A Brother's Price / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
A Brother's Price / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: The Brindles, suspected to be incestuous, are seen as thoroughly repulsive to both Jerin and, to his relief, Eldest Whistler, who promises she won't trade him for their brother. Kij and Keifer Porter had sex and even a daughter before Keifer was killed.
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A Brother's Price / int_35dff943	type	Property of Love
A Brother's Price / int_35dff943	comment	Property of Love In this setting, men are technically the property of their birth family, and later the property of their wives. While this doesn't come up much in the narrative — men are never treated like property — it is played for drama, as Jerin is aware that if his sisters committed a crime and were punished for it, he would be part of the property that would be taken away from them. Also, Jerin's grandmothers abducted his grandfather, who was a prince, from a castle under siege, and were able to legally marry him and have his ancestry handwaved as he was considered war loot. The marriage, apparently, was a very happy one, so this is a straight example.
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A Brother's Price / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
A Brother's Price / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: What everyone hopes for in when negotiating a marriage. This can go wrong in any number of ways, such as if you're one of the younger sisters like Trini was, and can't shake your smitten Eldest sister from her choice after she missed some obvious character flaws in her choice of a husband. That's how you end up in an abusive relationship.
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A Brother's Price / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
A Brother's Price / int_362461f6	comment	Sex between a man and a woman in which the man is willing is often referred to as him "servicing" her. Brothels stocked with men used to get poorer women pregnant are called "cribs".
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A Brother's Price / int_363aca80	type	Virgin Tension
A Brother's Price / int_363aca80	comment	Virgin Tension: When Jerin gets kidnapped, it's a big concern - even if they can get him back - that he will be raped first, making him an unsuitable husband. He's not a virgin by this point, but it's thematically similar.
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A Brother's Price / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
A Brother's Price / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: "Easy as mud: dirt and water," "Bad apples only come from apple trees," and "It's a tasteless stew, but it's all we have to eat." The Whistlers also have a family-specific saying, variations on "Catch a shining coin."
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A Brother's Price / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
A Brother's Price / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: Played With Captain Tern comments that Miss Skinner should have gone to the cribs long ago, as she is viewed as desperate for a husband. However, this is due to My Biological Clock Is Ticking - in vitro fertilization doesn't seem to be known to this society. Other women are said to "act like a cat in heat", implying that they want to get laid, but that's not considered a good thing; not for young women who still have a chance to marry a husband (who, unlike a crib captive, would be free of STDs and therefore preferable). Presumably it's more socially acceptable to go to a whore - that doesn't preclude STDs, but isn't talked about in the same scandalized tones as women of means visiting a crib.
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A Brother's Price / int_392e570c	type	Nocturnal Emission
A Brother's Price / int_392e570c	comment	Nocturnal Emission: Jerin washes the blankets "soiled by dreams" of a woman. It's a good thing for him he does the whole laundry, so there's no embarrassment.
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A Brother's Price / int_392eb4f9	type	Mysterious Stranger
A Brother's Price / int_392eb4f9	comment	Mysterious Stranger: Cira when she first turns up. The spoilered name is not her real name.
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A Brother's Price / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
A Brother's Price / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Keifer had the petulance and sense of entitlement of a spoiled child, throwing tantrums to get his wives to do his bidding and blaming them for the abuse he inflicted on them.
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A Brother's Price / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
A Brother's Price / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: Replete with these, there's Corelle, who goes to chase the neighbour boy's pants, even though she should stay home and guard the farm; Lylia, who is looking forward to her wedding night so much that her sisters think she'll happily marry any relatively handsome young man; and Cullen, who is very interested in the dirty pictures his cousin Lylia provides. Jerin wants to stay chaste and pure until he marries, but his hormones make this very difficult.
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A Brother's Price / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
A Brother's Price / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Itâ€™s never stated exactly what the Whistlersâ€™ great grandmother Elder did that got their grandmothers booted from the army and having to join the thieves guild out of necessity other than it was treason.
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A Brother's Price / int_3c689563	type	Interesting Situation Duel
A Brother's Price / int_3c689563	comment	Interesting Situation Duel: There's the climatic fight on board a steamship that is slowly approaching a waterfall, Hera's Step, with the steering wheel destroyed, so that whoever wins, they risk dying anyway in the fall.
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A Brother's Price / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
A Brother's Price / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: Keifer Porter abused his wives, psychologically as well as physically, and managed to convince the eldest wives, who could have divorced him, that it was all in good fun (or, in one case, that the thirteen-year-old he tortured and raped provoked him). Possibly, Balin Brindle is a victim of this. He is rumored to have sex with his mothers (actually all but one are aunts, who fill the social role of mothers), which is seen as damage to his reputation, but no one does anything about it, like investigate whether he is forced to do it.
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A Brother's Price / int_3cc421ad	type	Ruler Protagonist
A Brother's Price / int_3cc421ad	comment	Ruler Protagonist: Princess Rennsellaer is a major viewpoint character and takes an active role in governing the country, as the Queens are retiring and passing power on to the Princesses. The antagonists are conspirators against the crown.
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A Brother's Price / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
A Brother's Price / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: The everyday clothes are given no description other than color and possibly cut, but when the main cast stays at the palace and are given new clothes so that they don't look out of place, these new clothes are described in detail.
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A Brother's Price / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
A Brother's Price / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: The adult princesses save one have agreed on their communal husband and now have to convince the sister who doesn't want to marry anyone. For this purpose, they conspire to get the young man in the playroom with their kid sisters, and have the reluctant sister walk by, so that she can witness how kind and patient he is with the kids. While she is impressed, she isn't convinced, as, to her, the secret test is not secret enough—he could be faking it in order to get to marry them.
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A Brother's Price / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
A Brother's Price / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Princess Odelia is saved from certain death by the Whistler family. She promptly plans to fake unconsciousness in order to steal a kiss from the son of the family. As this culture highly values male chastity, this is Serious Business, and other characters point out she's being an ungrateful bastard. Her sister Ren is even worse, justifying herself by saying that it's not like he'll marry into nobility anyway. Jerin enjoys it, but still... bad manners. To a lesser extent, the Whistler grandmothers, who kidnapped Prince Alannon, and married him only after they were knighted for their role in winning the civil war... by the very same government that wondered where Alannon was. (Somewhat justified, as Prince Alannon was part of the losing part of the royal family, and being returned to his relatives might not have been good for his health.) The only actual "bastard" in the book is a very sweet kid.
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A Brother's Price / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
A Brother's Price / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: The gossip around the Whistler home is that the younger Brindle sisters were actually not fathered by their alleged father, but by Balin Brindle, the son of the family. There's a twelve-year gap in births, and the father is described as very frail and feeble. And then there is Kij Porter's daughter Eldie, whose father, too, is someone other than is officially claimed.
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A Brother's Price / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
A Brother's Price / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Here, the last lines of the novel, occurring after great strife, ends with Jerin's point of view and this slightly ambiguous sentence.
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A Brother's Price / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
A Brother's Price / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: The first major action Jerin takes is to go out, pick the injured princess Odelia up out of a river, and carry her home. His sister Heria found her but wasn't big or old enough to carry her so far herself, and sending out the other middle sisters to get her would leave the boys and the littlest girls mostly unprotected, so Jerin went with Heria to protect him. This is the incident portrayed on the misleading cover.
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A Brother's Price / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
A Brother's Price / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Corelle comes across as this in the first chapter. There are indications that Princess Eldest was enforcing orders to her siblings with a riding crop. She also half-convinced Trini that it was her own fault that Keifer hurt her. Borderline with Eldest Whistler. None of her siblings seem to find it at all surprising when she slaps Corelle hard during an argument over Corelle's interest in Balin Brindle.
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A Brother's Price / int_427ca0d0	type	Animal Theme Naming
A Brother's Price / int_427ca0d0	comment	Animal Theme Naming: We only ever see one member of the Tern family; Captain Raven Tern, but it's mentioned that she has or had a sister named Hawk. Sisters of this family seem to function as Hypercompetent Sidekicks to princesses they are assigned to, helping them as they learn to govern.
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A Brother's Price / int_4376f049	type	Career Versus Man
A Brother's Price / int_4376f049	comment	Career Versus Man: Subverted : Jerin meets his former schoolteacher Miss Skinner, who quit her job to get married. However, she was working as a teacher in the first place to make money so that her sisters and she could afford a husband. Now that they have enough money, they'll marry, and she returns to her home to get her share of the husband's... company. Not so much "career versus man" as "career in order to get a man". She comes from an artist family but became a teacher due to her lack of talent and interest in seeing the world.
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A Brother's Price / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
A Brother's Price / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: Gender flipped with Jerin, Miss Skinner whose families trade was painting portraits of men for betrothal negotiations tells him he's among the most beautiful men alive. This bears out in the book and whenever he's not in a fortified structure he's aware of the constant threat posed by women who might abduct and rape him. When he actually is abducted, it's largely political due to his Royal Blood.
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A Brother's Price / int_4497346d	type	Love Confessor
A Brother's Price / int_4497346d	comment	Love Confessor: Ren confesses her love for Jerin, and intention to marry him, not to him, but to her closest female friend, Raven. Given the family's missteps with Keifer, the Queen Mother decreed that it must be a unanimous decision of all the older sisters to marry, and given the traumas inflicted, Ren doesn't think she can achieve this.
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A Brother's Price / int_44c38f1f	type	Motherhood Is Superior
A Brother's Price / int_44c38f1f	comment	Motherhood Is Superior: Inverted, as it is men's responsibility to care for the children... if there is a man in the family. Also, it is expected of teenage brothers to care for their baby sisters, and the failure to do so is noticed by potential wives: when Balin Brindle leaves it to his frail old father to care for the babies, Summer Whistler does not approve. She understandably wants to marry a man who is good with children.
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A Brother's Price / int_44e64e96	type	Female Gaze
A Brother's Price / int_44e64e96	comment	Female Gaze: Many of the viewpoint characters will focus on a man's lips or hands, "Men's Fashion Magazines" tout the codpiece, as it lets potential wives see what they're buying.
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A Brother's Price / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
A Brother's Price / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Averted by the Whistlers. Jerin gives his "word of honor" he will cooperate and not try to escape if only the villains will spare Cira, who is a little shocked when he breaks his word at the first opportunity. He retorts that you meet liars and traitors on their own level—and in his opinion allowing himself to be raped would be much worse.
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A Brother's Price / int_4540f0b9	type	Mistaken for Dying
A Brother's Price / int_4540f0b9	comment	Mistaken for Dying: When it is announced that Jerin will leave, his youngest sister says, she doesn't want him to go away "just like papa did" ... and is explained that her father died, while Jerin could eventually come back for a visit once he's married.
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A Brother's Price / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
A Brother's Price / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Men are married and expected to start servicing their wives at sixteen. But only a generation ago, that age was only thirteen, and the Moorlands were fathered by a boy who was married off at that age. Cullen Moorland expresses relief that the age of marriage is higher now. It is not mentioned what the age is for girls, but one family tries to get Eldest Whistler to give them Jerin for a night, in exchange for some money, so that he can father a baby with their youngest sister, who is just sixteen. The problem is not so much avoiding teen pregnancies as getting pregnant before one hits menopause. Some, if not most, of these marriages can include wives that aren't born yet; the husband would naturally have to wait a while if they wish to include everyone.)
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A Brother's Price / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
A Brother's Price / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Jerin and Princess Ren find out that they are third cousins, sharing great-great-grandmothers. His grandfather was thought to be lost by family, but instead had been abducted and married to his grandmothers. This relation is distant enough that it does not hurt the romance, and in fact the Royal Blood that Jerin thus possesses means it's possible for them to marry.
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A Brother's Price / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
A Brother's Price / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Jerin's father died within a year of the book's start. Mother Elder was with him the night before he catastrophically slipped and fell, and initially thought she wasn't pregnant but going through menopause. Also implied to be the case with Eldie Porter. The official reason of her existence is that Kij went to a crib to cope with Keifer's death. To be born in the right timeframe to make this believable, she must have been conceived quite a short time before the theater exploded. Cullen was this, his father having died before he was born.
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A Brother's Price / int_46d3f869	type	Family Business
A Brother's Price / int_46d3f869	comment	Family Business: Whole families can be focused on a profession, examples include service, painters, tailors, farmers and of course governance for the royalty. Individual members can go off and do things, of course.
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A Brother's Price / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
A Brother's Price / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Justified Cullen Moorland hid behind a curtain to eavesdrop on a conversation between his sister Eldest, and Eldest Whistler. As Eldest Whistler specifically asked for a private conversation, Cullen has some suspicions about what they're going to talk about. He is correct, Whistler asks Moorland for Cullen's hand in marriage. He is delighted.
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A Brother's Price / int_478ae179	type	And Now You Must Marry Me
A Brother's Price / int_478ae179	comment	And Now You Must Marry Me: Near the climax, Kij Porter and her sisters kidnap Jerin Whistler for this purpose. With his Royal Blood, they'd have a shot at the throne if the women already on it were all killed. He promises that if they don't kill his companion, a thorn in their side for ages, then he will marry them willingly, please them in bed, never run away or tell the sordid tale to anyone, and care for their children. He is lying like a rug and escapes at the first opportunity.
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A Brother's Price / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
A Brother's Price / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Played Straight with Keifer Porter, who would not only hurt a child, he would rape a child, too. The rape is downplayed in the narrative, as his "servicing" her, as that's how sex is usually described in the setting, and he is married to her. It is averted with Captain Raven Tern, who would, indeed, prefer to not corner the frightened children in the Whistler farm, because she might have to kill one if there'd be a fight. The law of the land is that, for some crimes, the whole family is put to death, including children. None of the heroes like this. In the end, the Whistler family plays a vital part in avoiding the execution of a child.
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A Brother's Price / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
A Brother's Price / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: Inasmuch as this is possible in a non-illustrated book. Egan Wainwright was repeatedly called handsome, to the point of being shown to visiting royalty. When he's found murdered and stripped, the narration says he had "no dignity in death" and notes scrawny hairy legs and a paunchy stomachnote Granted, these flaws would have been concealed rather effectively by clothing, and his corpse may be bloated by decomposition. Somewhat justified, though; this is a world where men are so rare and so rarely seen that anyone with all his teeth and both eyes are considered attractive.
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A Brother's Price / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
A Brother's Price / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: What Jerin really wants is to marry into a family he'll love instead of simply enduring. He gets his wish, falling in love with all the princesses. This isn't a common view for the setting but he has chance to expect it as one of his own cousins was able to choose what family he married into.
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A Brother's Price / int_48f7eeb2	type	Heir-In-Law
A Brother's Price / int_48f7eeb2	comment	Heir-In-Law: Again this Society is matriarchal, but a father with royal blood confers status, and the protagonist is kidnapped to be such.
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A Brother's Price / int_493bc214	type	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
A Brother's Price / int_493bc214	comment	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: While searching for the missing cannons the combined Whistler-Queen's Justice group finds Egan Wainwright, a man who was buried on the lone prairie, together with his kidnappers, who were apparently killed by their employers. The man's corpse is dug up and sent to be buried with his family; the bandits are just left where they are.
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A Brother's Price / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
A Brother's Price / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Jerin doesn't have any male friends and he doesn't like the neighbor's boy, Balin Brindle. The only non-related woman he has close contact with prior to the plot is his teacher Miss Skinner. She's a kind of family friend, and Jerin had a crush on her. When he meets the young nobleman Cullen, they become friends immediately, as both of them are thrilled to finally have someone their own age to talk to.
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A Brother's Price / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
A Brother's Price / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Princess Ren is friends with one of her sisters-in-law, Kij Porter, but doesn't like her snobbish mothers-in-law. As her husband (who was a jerk) is dead, and there were never any children, Ren hopes that she won't have much to do with the Porters in the future, when she and her sisters have remarried. (As all sisters in a family marry one husband, and are considered mothers of all the children of that marriage, there's usually lots of mothers-in-law.) Keifer Porter, the princesses' late husband, poisoned their father, making him the worst son-in-law ever.
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A Brother's Price / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
A Brother's Price / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along:Kij Porter, who Ren considered a close friend and even family member despite her flaws.
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A Brother's Price / int_4b2c373	type	Impractically Fancy Outfit
A Brother's Price / int_4b2c373	comment	Impractically Fancy Outfit: Jerin and his sisters attend a ball at the palace. Their clothes (paid for by the royal family) are made of fabric that would be ruined if it came in contact with rain and Jerin has to be sewn into his outfit, as it is too tight to put on the normal way.
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A Brother's Price / int_4c21a018	type	Virgin in a White Dress
A Brother's Price / int_4c21a018	comment	Virgin in a White Dress: Dru Hightower is a man who is commonly known to be Defiled Forever. He appears in white at a ball, and another character points out that this is likely an attempt to distract from his extramarital indiscretion.
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A Brother's Price / int_4c9d226e	type	Formerly Fit
A Brother's Price / int_4c9d226e	comment	It's briefly mentioned that noble husbands often have trouble getting enough exercise because of their sheltered lives, and may gain weight in later life as a result.
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A Brother's Price / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
A Brother's Price / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: A heavy stone paperweight is pressed into service on two separate occasions, once for good and once for evil.
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A Brother's Price / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
A Brother's Price / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Jerin is seduced in the kitchen, and the lovemaking takes place on the kitchen floor. His partner lampshades that this is highly inappropriate by mentioning the hearth ... having extramarital sex goes against Jerin's obligations towards his family, and her seducing him, the son of the house, is a violation of Sacred Hospitality.
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A Brother's Price / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
A Brother's Price / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: Ren asks Captain Raven Tern for advice on whether Jerin would make a good husband. Raven replies that Jerin is a bit like Ren's father (who was poisoned some years ago), but more strong-willed. She points out that this is a good thing, as Ren's father did nothing to prevent the princesses' abusive husband (who also died in the meantime) from, well, abusing them. Jerin is more of a spirited young gentleman and would not give up so easily.
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A Brother's Price / int_4fc172d5	type	Divorce Requires Death
A Brother's Price / int_4fc172d5	comment	Divorce Requires Death: Some commit suicide to get out of an unhappy marriage. There is an interesting example with Keifer Porter who dies in an accident. Which was actually an attempt on the lives of his wives, in which he was involved. His death actually was an accident, unless one counts it as Hoist by His Own Petard. Divorce is technically possible, but requires the consent of the women involved. There is a tragic opera, Barren Winter, wherein one aria is the lament of an infertile man who begs to be allowed a divorce so his wives can have children; given it brings a Civil War, you feel for the guy.
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A Brother's Price / int_50166c5d	type	Good Pays Better
A Brother's Price / int_50166c5d	comment	Good Pays Better: Jerin's grandmothers were common thieves, until one of them was caught by some military officers and argued that thieves would make excellent spies for the government. She succeeded, and after the war, the surviving sisters were knighted. Jerin's family is quite well off when the novel takes place, and while they do have the skills to be excellent thieves, they are firmly on the side of good and government.
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A Brother's Price / int_5176892c	type	MandatoryFatherhood
A Brother's Price / int_5176892c	comment	Mandatory Fatherhood: It's all very well if a woman doesn't want to get pregnant. She's generally got plenty of other sisters who can continue their bloodline. It's also considered nothing noteworthy if she finds small children annoying. Men, on the other hand, are rare and have to marry, are seriously looked down on if they turn out to be infertile, and are expected to do the softer sides of childrearing. A husband or brother who doesn't tend crying children is not well-liked.
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A Brother's Price / int_52132531	type	Marriage Before Romance
A Brother's Price / int_52132531	comment	Marriage Before Romance: A given in arranged marriages and a man marries all the sisters in a family sororal polygyny, which with family sizes up to thirty, makes it impossible for everyone to be in love with each other prior to the wedding. Jerin manages to marry for love but is not in love with all of his wives by the end of the book - which is a good thing, considering that some of them are still children. He considers this normal and is optimistic about his future happiness.
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A Brother's Price / int_533d53a0	type	Fantasy Americana
A Brother's Price / int_533d53a0	comment	Fantasy Americana: Horses are the main means of transport, with riverboats used for bulk transportation, guns are the preferred weapon, and everyone defends their own house. Bandits and robbers are everywhere. It all seems very much like the Wild West - that is, before the princesses are mentioned. Cooking ingredients such as maple syrup and potatoes imply that the setting is somewhere in North America. Some readers take the decreased fertility and stillbirths of males to mean it takes place somewhen in the future after mankind wrecked the environment, rebuilt civilization, and forgot about it. The Whistler family lives on a farm they built themselves, surrounded by wilderness, with the only neighbors living half a day's ride away by horse.
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A Brother's Price / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
A Brother's Price / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Jerin is thrown into an adventure he had no intention of being part of, and survives, using skills that up to then had just been hobbies, to outwit the villains. More precisely, he is kidnapped, and has to escape, for which his lock-picking skills (yes, his family does that as a hobby, and to honor family tradition) come in handy.
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A Brother's Price / int_5456f857	type	Too Important to Walk
A Brother's Price / int_5456f857	comment	Too Important to Walk: Jerin doesn't walk anywhere in the capital city Mayfair once he's invited to the royal palace. Justified, as a pretty boy like Jerin would certainly attract kidnappers if he walked around in public. (He does walk when he's at home, but there, his sisters know where everyone lives, and everyone knows not to mess with the Whistler clan). It's briefly mentioned that noble husbands often have trouble getting enough exercise because of their sheltered lives, and may gain weight in later life as a result.
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A Brother's Price / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
A Brother's Price / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: Men are extremely rare and protected in this world, so when some of the heroes find one who was killed, the ones who never knew their fathers are disgusted, but the ones who did have loving fathers are horrified, furious, even panic-stricken. Most didn't know the man in question, but this is the crime that really drives them to despise those responsible.
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A Brother's Price / int_55d33017	type	Sheltered Aristocrat
A Brother's Price / int_55d33017	comment	Sheltered Aristocrat: Cullen Moorland is exceptionally sheltered even by Queensland standards and cannot wait to cook, clean and take care of his home and wives like other men.
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A Brother's Price / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
A Brother's Price / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: Ren finds Eldest Whistler almost as striking and beautiful as her brother Jerin.
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A Brother's Price / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
A Brother's Price / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Six years before the start of the story, Keifer Porter gets away with torturing and raping one of his younger wives by convincing Eldest that she "provoked him". Due to Love Makes You Stupid, he actually succeeds with this. A milder example would be Odelia, who is really hurt, but pretends to be unconscious in the hopes that handsome Jerin will enter the room where she lies without a chaperone so that she can steal a kiss. She's not even able to sit up, so her plan likely involved asking Jerin for a kiss.
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A Brother's Price / int_56f083a1	type	Likes Older Women
A Brother's Price / int_56f083a1	comment	Likes Older Women: A desirable trait given that men are considered to be of marriageable age at sixteen. Jerin, for example, had a crush on his teacher, and later falls in love with a woman who is about ten years older than him.
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A Brother's Price / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
A Brother's Price / int_586db75d	comment	My Boy Is Not A Slut: Chastity and purity are among the virtues that are mentioned to make Jerin look like a good potential husband. While Women's sleeping around is also frowned upon in this setting, due to the inversion of STD Immunity, it isn't seen as much of a problem, at least if their sleeping around is with other women.
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A Brother's Price / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
A Brother's Price / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Common, but just because the sex ratio is skewed doesn't mean that men can't be abusive.
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A Brother's Price / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
A Brother's Price / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Odelia and Ren, respectively; over time, however, it's deconstructed. Odelia's avoidance of her noble duties is largely a coping mechanism for her own trauma following the loss of her father and older siblings. From her point of view, their responsibilities made them all targets, and she doesn't want to follow them to the grave. Meanwhile, Ren's responsibility was forced on her when all of her older sisters died at once, and she found herself in a role she had never been prepared for, having to downplay her own grief and suffering to both rule the kingdom and manage a host of sisters who had never had to listen to her previously.
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A Brother's Price / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
A Brother's Price / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: Cira puts lip paint on Jerin to better disguise him as a whore, then they start kissing and she laughingly says she'll have to do it over.
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A Brother's Price / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
A Brother's Price / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: One of the Porter sisters turned Cira's lover against her years ago. When she's abducted while trying to save Jerin]] he says he'll do anything they want forever if they don't kill her. So they don't. Instead, they tie them to a bed, Jerin on it, Cira at the foot and gag her so she's there while one of them "rapes his mouth".
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A Brother's Price / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
A Brother's Price / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Jerin gets abducted by women who wish to marry him to take control of the throne. Cira is seized when she tries to help him, and the Porters would be quite happy to kill her. So Jerin tells them that if she dies, they will have to rape him to get with child, he'll have to be always tied up to keep him from escaping, he will not raise their children, he will tell everyone, ever, always, what they did. If she lives, he'll be loyal, please them in bed, cook for them, tend their kids, be a good husband. He's lying, hoping to wait for them to let their guard down so he and Cira can escape.
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A Brother's Price / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
A Brother's Price / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Bandits are the reason why Jerin meets Odelia, and they are always there as a danger to be dealt with by the women. When Jerin is kidnapped, it turns out that the mastermind behind it was the same as with the other crimes, and it is all part of one big plan.
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A Brother's Price / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
A Brother's Price / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: General Wellsbury seems to have gained this reputation solely by conscripting The Whistlers, who'd been a family of soldiers blacklisted from service after a motherâ€™s treason, then joined the thieves' guild out of desperation. When caught stealing by Wellsbury, Tea Whistler had the chutzpah to tell her that they'd make excellent spies. They lied, they stole, they ignored orders, and they turned the tides in the War of the False Eldest since their duties were expanded from spying to wreaking general mayhem behind enemy lines. Her memoirs are still easily found 80 years later.
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A Brother's Price / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
A Brother's Price / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Downplayed, Jerin fights back when kidnapped and eventually is given some kind of injection. While it does make him stop fighting effectively instantly, he's still conscious in an increasingly distorted way for several minutes.
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A Brother's Price / int_5c36a51	type	All Women Are Prudes
A Brother's Price / int_5c36a51	comment	All Women Are Prudes Averted: Women talk openly about sex, and many women are seen chasing after men they desire. Both sexes are expected to remain chaste until marriage, because of STD risk, but it's clear that most people like sex very much. (And others are just not interested in it.)
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A Brother's Price / int_5c49af66	type	Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty
A Brother's Price / int_5c49af66	comment	Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty: Inverted. The novel features a broad Stereotype Flip of most gender roles, set in an analogue of the nineteenth century. Therefore, the noted attributes of women are strength, confidence, intelligence, competence etc, with ugliness being a detriment but fairly minor, but although men are expected to be able to run a household and raise children, their beauty is extremely important.
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A Brother's Price / int_5d162996	type	Extended Disarming
A Brother's Price / int_5d162996	comment	Extended Disarming: The Whistlers are going to meet the Queen Elder but can't go armed into the palace. Eldest politely informs the majordomo that there are rifles in their luggage, and they disarm. Summer carries one six-shooter and three knives. Corelle carries no knives but two six-shooters and a derringer. Eldest has as many knives as Summer, as many guns as Corelle, and also carries two pairs of brass knuckles and a wire garrote. The majordomo is unmoved until Jerin surrenders his single derringer and knife, at which point she's quite startled.
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A Brother's Price / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
A Brother's Price / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Gender-Inverted like many such tropes, because males are unlikely to come to full term. A boy can feel lucky if his father is still around when he reaches adulthood, and a man will be considered handsome if he has both eyes and all of his teeth. Families consist of a group of sisters, the husband they married, and children. Children within a family can have up to thirty girls with only one boy. A family with four boys and twenty-eight girls is considered uncommonly lucky. It is mentioned that, at social meetings, men gather together for the rare opportunity to talk to someone of their own gender who isn't their father or a rare brother.
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A Brother's Price / int_5dcb7ce7	type	Fashion Magazine
A Brother's Price / int_5dcb7ce7	comment	Fashion Magazine: The Men's fashion magazine for the coming season shows up in the first chapter with Corellenote who borrowed it from the Brindles showing Jerin what he should wear when they show him around the neighborhood. The men in them wear much tighter, more revealing clothes than Jerin is willing to consider, and he thinks they are not proper, but it's different for the nobility. He ends up wearing such an outfit. It's implied that these may count as Poor Man's Porn as many women aren't likely to see a man who isn't their relation and even then that's only for moderately wealthy families.
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A Brother's Price / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
A Brother's Price / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: This aspect of Queensland marital customs is not explored, but seeing as a husband is expected to care for little sisters (ie: his future wives) as well as his own children he definitely has an opportunity to mold them into the kind wives he wants them to be.
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A Brother's Price / int_5e70919d	type	Catch the Conscience
A Brother's Price / int_5e70919d	comment	Catch the Conscience: Years ago the royal family visited the Durham Theater, to see a performance about the civil war in which their own family was involved and victorious. It seems to be a relatively neutral performance, with no attempts to veil the horrors of war. This trope works so well that Ren even starts crying, and is sent outside because her tears annoy Keifer, where she argues with Halley about the morality of killing the children.The theatre then explodes, and the two of them are the only survivors.
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A Brother's Price / int_5ee2f7cc	type	My Secret Pregnancy
A Brother's Price / int_5ee2f7cc	comment	My Secret Pregnancy: Culturally enforced, people don't even talk much about late-term pregnancies and try to hide early ones out of superstitious fear of something going wrong with it. After her brother and several other family members died in an explosion at a theater, a grieving Kij Porter visited a crib and got with child, but it turns out she made the story about the crib up; she had in fact been impregnated by her brother and hid it until she had an excuse not to; because of her noble birth, it would have taken a lot to get her to go to a crib. The fear of sexually transmitted diseases, even after she'd proven clean, has sunk a few marriage alliances for her family.
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A Brother's Price / int_5f251b1b	type	Poor Man's Porn
A Brother's Price / int_5f251b1b	comment	It's implied that these may count as Poor Man's Porn as many women aren't likely to see a man who isn't their relation and even then that's only for moderately wealthy families.
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A Brother's Price / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
A Brother's Price / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: The fact that Jerin's grandfather was a kidnapped prince makes him a Suddenly Suitable Suitor for the current princesses, since royals can't marry commoners. What it doesn't do is make him eligible to rule in any way. Men in this setting just don't, nor does he have any desire to. However, it does mean that a noble family could kidnap and marry him, making those sisters eligible. Theoretically true of Jerin's cousin Dail too, but presumably he's not quite of marriageable age yet, or the conspirators don't know about him.
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A Brother's Price / int_5fc6e50d	type	Give Away the Bride
A Brother's Price / int_5fc6e50d	comment	Give Away the Bride: The bridegroom is given away at the betrothal. His sister walks him to his eldest bride, who then clasps his right hand in her hands. The full wedding ceremony takes place in the temple of Hera later.
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A Brother's Price / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
A Brother's Price / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Mentioned. The family is bound by law to provide hospitality to the injured soldier, and Ren's words after she seduced Jerin imply that she knows this to be a breach of the rules of hospitality.
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A Brother's Price / int_600571df	type	Royal Harem
A Brother's Price / int_600571df	comment	Royal Harem: Played With, while men marry all the sisters in the family, (the other type of harem) the men's quarters are the most heavily guarded part of the palace, into which the heroines of adventure novels sneak to rescue their beloved from his abusive wives, or such.
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A Brother's Price / int_60a66fb1	type	Head-Tiltingly Kinky
A Brother's Price / int_60a66fb1	comment	Head-Tiltingly Kinky: At the Mayfair ball Kij Porter asks Jerin if it's true that his grandfather was trained in "The Paths of Pleasure" and passed this knowledge to him. He is very embarrassed as it is not an appropriate topic of conversation, but eventually admits that his father and grandfather gave him The Talk, and he sort of knows what it's all about. When another character mentions that Jerin can do "magic" (talking about magic tricks, it's Low Fantasy), the woman who had sex with him immediately thinks of their encounter and hopes that he didn't do ''that'' in front of the children.
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A Brother's Price / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
A Brother's Price / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: Odelia feigns being more badly hurt than she actually is out of hope for Jerin to keep tending her, fantasizing about stealing a kiss from him. She later mentions how good he was at comforting her when she first woke up.
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A Brother's Price / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
A Brother's Price / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: The villains are quite successful, having killed half of the royal family, with the intent to become Queens themselves, but then make the mistake of messing with the Whistler family. Instead of asking to marry one of the Whistler cousins, who have just as much royal ancestry (which is the thing they're after), they kidnap the recently engaged Jerin. This ends badly for them.
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A Brother's Price / int_615cad18	type	Outdoor Bath Peeping
A Brother's Price / int_615cad18	comment	Outdoor Bath Peeping: heavily implied as Jerin's grandmothers stumbled upon their later husband while he was taking a bath... in a place they were raiding. They decided to steal him, too.
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A Brother's Price / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
A Brother's Price / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The villains kidnap a husband in order to invoke this trope. However, it fails, as one of his wives has infiltrated the lower class criminals hired to do the job. So it is more of a "your sister has her husband, and we are trying to get them both."
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A Brother's Price / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
A Brother's Price / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Inverted. Right in the first chapter, Jerin gently chides a little sister who's bawling over a cut knee with "Hush, hush, big girls don't cry." This is a world of relatively stoic women and much more tender men who do cry. Being so rare and thus protected, men like Jerin are allowed to cry. Aside from the aforementioned little sisters, no women sheds tears in this book, not even his wife after he's kidnapped or when she thinks he's dead. She plans to sink to the ground and grieve only after he has been avenged.
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A Brother's Price / int_6370e1c0	type	Gender Rarity Value
A Brother's Price / int_6370e1c0	comment	Gender Rarity Value: Men are carefully secluded and protected from "husband raids", which are illegal but always at the edge of Jerin's mind. It's mentioned that outside of some public events, a woman may never see an unveiled man who isn't her father or grandfather or, if she's lucky, her brother or her husband. Women who were fathered in the cribs may never have seen a man at all. The trope is ever-present in many of the forms that the local culture has taken.
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A Brother's Price / int_640a7996	type	Fancy Dinner
A Brother's Price / int_640a7996	comment	Fancy Dinner: A fancy, only-family dinner is used as a test for whether the Whistler family can be presented as guests of the royal family without embarrassment, or whether they need to be taught manners first. They easily pass, as their grandfather, Prince Alannon, had their grandmothers wrapped around his little finger, and insisted on good table manners and etiquette.
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A Brother's Price / int_64c38832	type	Inevitable Waterfall
A Brother's Price / int_64c38832	comment	Near the end of the book, Jerin panics a little. His memory of the last night is fuzzy since he almost drowned and got knocked about after going over that Inevitable Waterfall, but soon he recognizes it as his cousin Dail's room.
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A Brother's Price / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
A Brother's Price / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: Again a gender-reversed example, when Jerin gets abducted, his multiple wives all want to go after the kidnappers. Ren manages to change their minds, pointing out that this is just what the kidnappers want, making this a subversion. She, of course, does go after the kidnappers.
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A Brother's Price / int_6537cc1a	type	All Girls Like Ponies
A Brother's Price / int_6537cc1a	comment	All Girls Like Ponies: Part of the book's broad inversion of most gender roles. The two most prominent young men in the book, Jerin and Cullen, both adore horses, Cullen more so than Jerin. Cullen's sisters don't let him near them because he had some "great-great-grandfart that got kicked in the head and died". His cousin sometimes takes him to the stables to pet them over a low wall, but won't let him get closer. He's deeply envious of Jerin, whose family raises horses and lets him ride the older, gentler mares.
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A Brother's Price / int_658c0cdc	type	Common Hollywood Sex Traits
A Brother's Price / int_658c0cdc	comment	Common Hollywood Sex Traits: Averted in A Brother's Price, where Jerin's wives all clean him up before leaving his bedroom, observing proper hygiene each time. Sororal Polygyny only works if every sis leaves him as she found him, after all.
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A Brother's Price / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
A Brother's Price / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: The protagonists find the corpse of a man who likely died from blood loss after his tongue was cut out. They conclude that the women who killed his family and kidnapped him wanted to keep him around, but didn't want him to be able to talk, and were too incompetent to silence him without killing him. Later on, one of Jerin's kidnappers advises her sisters not to talk too much in front of Jerin, as she would like her future husband to have a tongue.
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A Brother's Price / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
A Brother's Price / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: Deconstructed Kij dances with Jerin, compliments him, and starts a conversation about his being schooled in "the paths of pleasure". He's only embarrassed, and happy when his sisters come to his rescue. He has a much better time with Ren.
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A Brother's Price / int_65fcc287	type	Lima Syndrome
A Brother's Price / int_65fcc287	comment	Lima Syndrome: Implied to have happened with the Whistler Grandmothers. The Whistlers didn't let Prince Alannon go - since the rest of his family was executed and he was reported missing, he decided to be philosophical about it - but they did "run themselves ragged" doing what they could to make him happy.
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A Brother's Price / int_6627e429	type	Children Are a Waste
A Brother's Price / int_6627e429	comment	Children Are a Waste: PlayedWith Only one male baby is successfully born for every nine girls; they tend to spontaneously miscarry, abort, or die as small children. Boys, therefore, are economically valuable. A family — several sisters married to one man — usually tries to have one male child to swap for a boy who will marry their daughters, and others to sell for a "brother's price". With those ratios it's rare for a family to have multiple sons, but some like the Brindles keep trying, often becoming rather careless with their newborn daughters. Society views this as tremendously indulgent, and a family constantly producing children is seen as wasting its time and energy. No one begrudges the Whistlers their 32 children though due to their abundance of boys.
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A Brother's Price / int_66835c91	type	The One Guy
A Brother's Price / int_66835c91	comment	The One Guy: Most men can expect to be the only brother in their family. Jerin, who is lucky enough to have brothers, becomes the only guy when he is invited to Mayfair for a season along with some of his sisters. He meets Cullen, who is the only guy in the Moorland family and is excited about getting to talk to another male.
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A Brother's Price / int_66b98472	type	Erotic Dream
A Brother's Price / int_66b98472	comment	Erotic Dream: Jerin has some of those after his first sexual experience... it is a good thing that he is the one who has to wash the bedsheets, anyway.
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A Brother's Price / int_66dbffe8	type	Schoolmarm
A Brother's Price / int_66dbffe8	comment	Schoolmarm: Miss Skinner, a very typical schoolmarm, who taught Jerin's sisters, and occasionally came to the Whistler farm to give lessons to Jerin and his younger brothers. She's very prim and proper, telling Jerin to wear his veil when she meets him on a ship, and not to talk to strange women. (Jerin protests that she's not a stranger, she's his dear old teacher). She is also unmarried, but not due to any restrictions, it's just very hard to find a husband. When she meets Jerin, she tells him that she's going home to get married, having amassed enough wealth to be able to afford a husband - her motivation to become a teacher in the first place. To complete the stereotype, Jerin recalls having had a crush on her when he was younger.
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A Brother's Price / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
A Brother's Price / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Moms: The Whistler mothers are elsewhere for a good chunk of the opening, though they do come back and immediately take charge. Come the move of the action to Mayfair they disappear from the narrative again, only to come roaring back.
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A Brother's Price / int_66e48100	type	The Kindnapper
A Brother's Price / int_66e48100	comment	The Kindnapper: The backstory has the Whistler Grandmothers having kidnapped Grandfather Alannon, and did everything to make him feel at home on their farm. It turned out well though. That his family was killed in a civil war, and he might have been sold as a Sex Slave or killed, too, if he hadn't been kidnapped, might have had something to do with it. Him being Silk Hiding Steel and his new wives driving themselves dizzy to make sure he was happy and comfortable were other factors.
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A Brother's Price / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
A Brother's Price / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Jerin is seen as very beautiful, and...people tend to take liberties. He's very uncomfortable with it and has to all but hide behind his protective sisters.
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A Brother's Price / int_6844f0d5	type	Undressing the Unconscious
A Brother's Price / int_6844f0d5	comment	Undressing the Unconscious: Jerin strips off the wet clothes of an unconscious, injured Odelia after he rescues her, picking her out of the river.
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A Brother's Price / int_69e690c2	type	Romance Novel
A Brother's Price / int_69e690c2	comment	Romance Novel: Jerin mentions the adventure novels his sisters read, which always involved secret passages into the men's quarters. The daring heroines used them to save their true loves from heartless mothers, cruel sisters, abusive wives, and vile kidnappers.
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A Brother's Price / int_6a94f84f	type	Romance Cover Scene
A Brother's Price / int_6a94f84f	comment	Romance Cover Scene: Got stuck with one of these. It is a lie. Jerin is depicted on the cover with a woman in his arms. While he does carry a woman in the novel, he throws her over his shoulder, and it isn't a romantic scene, he is carrying her because she's unconscious due to a head wound. He does get into a relationship with her much, much later. Well, at least he is allowed to wear a shirt, and the woman is rather faithfully depicted as wearing trousers instead of a flowing dress.
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A Brother's Price / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
A Brother's Price / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Initially the book seems to suggest that in this world if a marriage is unhappy it's because the wives have all the power over the husbands. Certainly, that's what Jerin is afraid of. Later we see that the husband can foster and spread misery just as well himself, and either may be blamed.
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A Brother's Price / int_6b4b3eba	type	Lady Land
A Brother's Price / int_6b4b3eba	comment	Lady Land: What Queensland appears to be, since men are so carefully protected. There's a big procession in the capital at the end of the book, in which it's noted that there are even some men at the upper stories of buildings watching.
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A Brother's Price / int_6b53db7b	type	Help Mistaken for Attack
A Brother's Price / int_6b53db7b	comment	Help Mistaken for Attack: Ren thinks she's being attacked when Eldest Whistler tackles her, but she's actually being saved from a trap that's going to take her head off. Something like this ensues when Cira offers Jerin her help. Unsurprisingly, as he had seen her working together with his kidnappers. She had been infiltrating them.
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A Brother's Price / int_6c10754e	type	Secret Art
A Brother's Price / int_6c10754e	comment	Secret Art: The so-called "Paths of Pleasure" is treated as this. Jerin is asked whether his grandfather passed it on to him. It is, essentially, the art of keeping all wives happy in a polygynous marriage. Jerin is very embarrassed when asked about it— he doesn't think it should be discussed in public.
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A Brother's Price / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
A Brother's Price / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Kareem Wakecliff killed herself upon hearing about four catastrophic events happening to her family in one day: a shipwreck, a fire that claimed the lives of every family member under ten, smoke inhalation and burns killing the adults who'd tried to save them, and a Death by Childbirth. It's also noted that men sometimes kill themselves to escape bad marriages.
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A Brother's Price / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
A Brother's Price / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: A triple whammy — Mother Eldest Whistler, Eldest Whistler and Princess Halley have either given birth or are expecting by at the end of the book.
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A Brother's Price / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
A Brother's Price / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: Jerin wishes this trope was in effect but the power devolves to Eldest Whistler on their trip to Mayfair. This is okay but it doesn't protect him from the attentions of the Porters.
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A Brother's Price / int_6dac7d2e	type	Lust Object
A Brother's Price / int_6dac7d2e	comment	Lust Object: Jerin Whistler to lots of women. Justified—he is a very beautiful man where a good standard is a man who has all his own teeth and no deformations. The non-related women who don't lust after him warn him to not go out unveiled in public, as other women might not be so decent.
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A Brother's Price / int_6f54cbdf	type	The Ditherer
A Brother's Price / int_6f54cbdf	comment	The Ditherer: The War of the False Eldest can be laid at the feet of Titia of the Main royal family, at least according to a play. The Branch family had a fertile husband while the Main's was infertile. This gave the Branch a good claim to inherit Queensland as they had a secured lineage. The problem could have been easily resolved by divorcing the infertile husband (who, at that point, asked for it, as he didn't want to be responsible for war) and marrying one who was fertile, but the woman on whom the decision hinged dithered so much that it came to war. Apparently, she was a habitual ditherer, and couldn't make a decision to save her life or those of her sisters.
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A Brother's Price / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
A Brother's Price / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Eldest Whistler promises Ren not to take unnecessary risks while scouting, and does refrain from acts to keep it. Subverted with Jerin when you are threatened with death you do what you can to survive.
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A Brother's Price / int_70447aa7	type	Culture Justifies Anything
A Brother's Price / int_70447aa7	comment	Culture Justifies Anything: While the idea of doing things differently is Discussed when Ren and Jerin walk in the Royal Gardens they come to the conclusion that it is impossible to change such fundamental things about their culture. Likely used to lampshade the Deliberate Values Dissonance. However, it's averted by Whistlers' and the royal princesses' characters, who think that just because men are rare doesn't justify using them for breeding like cattle.
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A Brother's Price / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
A Brother's Price / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: Gender Fliped, this is considered a cultural trait downright encouraged in any given Eldest. Eldest Whistler is an unquestionable Cool Big Sis. She's the leader of her generation of the family and wears authority like her Badass Longcoat, coolly unemotional in most cases and enforcing discipline on her younger sisters with less concern for how they feel about it than what is best for the family. Rebellious Corelle, in particular, is at the brunt of her calm displeasure. She's softer and kinder to her little brother Jerin, wanting him to be happy and becoming absolutely enraged when she believes he's been raped, and she becomes slightly less aloof over the course of the story, while always remaining level-headed and dignified.
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A Brother's Price / int_71019994	type	Unwanted Harem
A Brother's Price / int_71019994	comment	Unwanted Harem: Men who marry do so with all the sisters of a family at once, and these can be large. Jerin's worst nightmare is being married to the Brindle family. There are thirty of them. He'd prefer a smaller family, with only around ten women he'd be expected to "service" and perform childcare and housekeeping for.
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A Brother's Price / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
A Brother's Price / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: The day after the Princess Ren seduces Jerin she comes to the kitchen to watch him cook. He gives her a spoon dipped in maple syrup, and she licks it off, deliberately reminding him of last night.
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A Brother's Price / int_71aa1244	type	Late Pregnancy Realization
A Brother's Price / int_71aa1244	comment	Late Pregnancy Realization: Mother Eldest Whistler first thinks her weight gain is early menopause when she doesn't get her period anymore. She is delighted to find out it is in fact Someone to Remember Him By given her husband had slipped on some ice not a few months prior.
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A Brother's Price / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
A Brother's Price / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: The noble house Wakecliff is mentioned in passing as having suffered one, having been wiped out over the winter save for a few women past bearing by a series of what would be serious tragedies in their own rightnote (Shipwreck (10 or so dead), late night fire gutting the kids' wing of thier palace (23 under ten, 6 adults fatally injured trying save them), stillbirth that killed the mother as well (kid was a boy), suicide (she got word of the preceding events on the same day), carriage-wreck (six more dead), & alcohol poisoning (Eldest Wakecliff started drinking heavily over all of this)
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A Brother's Price / int_72595768	type	Darwinist Desire
A Brother's Price / int_72595768	comment	Darwinist Desire: Queensland noble society as such caters to Darwinist desires, though the protagonists don't seem to care. Probably due to inbreeding and genetic mutation being a common problem (the fact that very few males are born hints to this) a prospective husband is checked for deformities and sperm count before the wedding takes place.
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A Brother's Price / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
A Brother's Price / int_727a65e0	comment	There are indications that Princess Eldest was enforcing orders to her siblings with a riding crop. She also half-convinced Trini that it was her own fault that Keifer hurt her.
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A Brother's Price / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
A Brother's Price / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Played With - husbands are expected to be submissive to their wives, so nobody would find this funny in comedy. On the other hand, Jerin's grandmothers are said to have been Roosterpecked Wives - what grandpa wanted, grandpa got. His being an extremely handsome man and prince of the realm may have had something to do with that. As Jerin recalls, his grandfather never had to resort to nagging, and the marriage was a happy one for all involved.
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A Brother's Price / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
A Brother's Price / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: The Porters try this in two stages. Legally, they're sisters-in-law to the princesses, whose late husband was brother to the villains and married the princesses to gain that connection for his family. Under their country's inheritance laws, if all the princesses were to die, without any having had a child to inherit the crown, the villains have a claim to the thrones as heirs to their sisters-in-law. When the princesses find a new husband, the villains decide to kidnap and forcibly marry him, since his royal blood would strengthen his wives' claim to the thrones.
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A Brother's Price / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
A Brother's Price / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The common English cover tries to sell the novel as a Romance Novel, with a relatively short-haired man carrying an unconscious woman to safety. Jerin does pick up Odelia once, with his sister there to guard him, and it is in many ways a romance novel, but this cover is very misleading as to the roles of those two characters. It also shows him as very visibly armed, which the long-haired Jerin never visibly is.
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A Brother's Price / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
A Brother's Price / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Jerin is good with kids but doesn't let them walk all over him, even the little princesses, which makes him look that much more suitable as a husband.
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A Brother's Price / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
A Brother's Price / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Jerin has twenty-eight sisters and three brothers. Then again, they were born to twelve mothers so that's less than three apiece. Families with decent male birthrates (or a lot of money to buy more husbands) can split occasionally to work against this, but for a family like the Brindles (thirty women and only one brother), it will only get worse.
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A Brother's Price / int_75a63013	type	Farmer's Daughter
A Brother's Price / int_75a63013	comment	Farmer's Daughter: Jerin is a male version of this trope, also a Farm Boy, but with several women being attracted to his innocent sweetness, and ALL of his relatives wielding rifles, he's a farmer's son, too.
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A Brother's Price / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
A Brother's Price / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: The expected societal norm. (Which didn't stop the royal family from executing their own in the eponymous Cousin war, but royalty is always a special case.) Corelle Whistler constantly tells her brother Jerin that his clothes are not nice enough, his accent is too posh, and his hands are too rough, but if he's under attack from outsiders, she'll come to his rescue instantly. His eldest sister tells him at one point that he's a Whistler, and need not be worried about anything, because his family will always be there for him.
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A Brother's Price / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
A Brother's Price / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Eldie Porter's parents were culturally brother and sister, genetically full-blooded cousins. note Most "siblings" in this setting are closer to half-siblings, sharing a father and having mothers who are also half-sisters themselves. The characters in question here have different fathers, but their mothers happened to be full- rather than half-sisters. They were raised as brother and sister.
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A Brother's Price / int_77a8fd8a	type	STD Immunity
A Brother's Price / int_77a8fd8a	comment	STD Immunity: So thoroughly Averted that it has a major cultural impact. Venereal disease is widely and intensely feared, thus the focus on keeping men virgins until marriage.
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A Brother's Price / int_77bc8a56	type	Unable to Support a Wife
A Brother's Price / int_77bc8a56	comment	Unable to Support a Wife: Women must have enough money to pay the sisters of one of the rare men the eponymous "Brother's Price", and support the husband. As all the sisters in a family usually share one husband, this is supposedly doable for most, but Jerin's former teacher is still overjoyed that she and her sisters can finally afford a husband. The existence of Cribs implies some sort of cut-off between an upper class able to afford the Brother's price and a lower class that needs them.
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A Brother's Price / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
A Brother's Price / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: Used in a rather serious situation, Cira insists that Jerin is not her boyfriend, and she is not interested in him at all. This is important, because the villains want to make a show of raping Jerin, with her Forced to Watch. She takes the fun out of it by claiming she's a lesbian. She's actually bi and rather attracted to Jerin, who, unbeknownst to him, is engaged to marry her.
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A Brother's Price / int_786325b8	type	Doting Grandparent
A Brother's Price / int_786325b8	comment	Doting Grandparent: Jerin mentions that while his mothers sometimes talk down to him, Grandfather Alannon didn't. The grandfather also gave Jerin a very valuable piece of jewelry before his death. Alannon was a prince, and the piece of jewelry plays a role in the plot as proof of Jerin's royal ancestry.
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A Brother's Price / int_78848a7b	type	Harmless Lady Disguise
A Brother's Price / int_78848a7b	comment	Harmless Lady Disguise: Women are not the "harmless" sex in this world, but in a sense it still applies. Whores are women who prostitute themselves to other women and often try to look like men (which in this setting means adopting long hair, elaborate colorful clothing and makeup, and of course deeper voices and a flirtatious aspect). At one point Jerin goes out disguised as one of them and is amazed at how little attention is paid to him.
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A Brother's Price / int_78bf3e7e	type	Practice Kiss
A Brother's Price / int_78bf3e7e	comment	Practice Kiss: Cullen and Lylia have tried it, but since they're cousins who were raised together, Cullen cheerfully admits that it was like kissing a sister.
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A Brother's Price / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
A Brother's Price / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: In the denouement, when Jerin returns to his fianceÃ©s after getting kidnapped, he tearfully confesses that he may have slept (he doesn't remember the night clearly) with his rescuer, Cira, and is now Defiled Forever, so he can't marry them. Whereupon his bride Halley, whom he has not met yet, turns around to show her face: She is Cira, and remembers well that he resisted her attempts to seduce him.
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A Brother's Price / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Brother's Price / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: All of the Whistler grandmothers were fathered on trips to "cribs", sort of brothels that women too poor to marry visit with the aim of becoming pregnant. So in a sense, they are Daughters of Prostitutes.
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A Brother's Price / int_79da445d	type	Oblivious Adoption
A Brother's Price / int_79da445d	comment	Oblivious Adoption: This is invoked with Neddie at the end of the novel. She is actually the child of a family executed for treason, and a toddler at the time she is adopted. The Whistlers do everything to help her fit in, from dyeing her hair to giving her the same tattoos her "sisters" have. They seem to hope that she will forget about her birth family, and not want revenge once they tell her the truth when she comes of age. Wanting to keep the adoption under wraps is justified by the cultural norms of the setting — the major religion frowns on adoption. The main character speculates that this is because the skewed birthrate makes boys so much more valuable than girls, and abandonment of excessive female children might be more prevalent if other families could be convinced to take them in. An oblivious adoption is the only option to avoid scorn.
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A Brother's Price / int_79eb1e2e	type	Neutral Female
A Brother's Price / int_79eb1e2e	comment	Neutral Female: Gender Inverted for the whole society. A good historical example is Jerin's grandfather Alannon, who was kidnapped by Jerin's grandmothers, out of a castle under siege. Apparently, he was just taking a bath when the spies found him, and decided to take him with them. It's encouraged by society, as men are seen as too valuable to harm and "husband raids" were only outlawed in the last generation. Jerin averts this trope, as he has his own ideas about whom he wants to marry, and it just so happens that the women who kidnap him are less attractive than the set of sisters he is engaged to marry. (Alannon was apparently not engaged, and as his kidnappers did everything to make him happy, and his family had been executed, anyway, he decided to just go with it.)
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A Brother's Price / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
A Brother's Price / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: The Whistlers are perfectly secure in their lands and pay their taxes but compared to the power players of Queensland they're country bumpkins and have barely any money to spend. The idea of purchasing a trading post would be a major investment for them but could well break their bank; a season in Mayfair for Jerin is a huge opportunity for them.
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A Brother's Price / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
A Brother's Price / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: Eldest Whistler, upon finding a murdered man she vaguely knew, removes her greatcoat to cover his nakedness. While he's dead and can't feel the cold, it's shameful to leave the poor man like that.
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A Brother's Price / int_7ab1aba3	type	Plenty of Blondes
A Brother's Price / int_7ab1aba3	comment	Plenty of Blondes: In what may be an example of heredity, families more often than not all share the same hair color. This leads to the royal family being all red-haired, and some noble family being all blondes. With family sizes of up to fifty people or so, that is lots of red-haired and blonde people for a Fantasy Americana setting. Though the royal family might have achieved the red hair by inbreeding: They don't marry cousins, but they also don't marry commoners, leading to a very small pool of marriageable noblemen for the princesses to choose from.
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A Brother's Price / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
A Brother's Price / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: As they go over the Inevitable Waterfall Cira cries "Jerin, I love you!" They both survive. Fortunately for them, both Cira turns out to be one of the Princesses and so Jerin's wife—which she thought he knew when she made her declaration.
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A Brother's Price / int_7dccc8ed	type	Raised by Dudes
A Brother's Price / int_7dccc8ed	comment	Raised by Dudes: Men are seen as, and act as, the more nurturing sex; they are expected to be the primary childrearers. Due to the scarcity of males, however, some families have no resident "father." Children of such households would necessarily be raised by the less-nurturing gender - that is, women - and might be expected to lack some of the finer social skills of their "properly" reared counterparts. Cullen was one of these.
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A Brother's Price / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
A Brother's Price / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: In a non-villainous example. Ren wants to get her mother to withdraw her Parental Marriage Veto, and accuses her of this trope after she convinced all her present adult sisters to marry Jerin, and her mother still denies consent on the grounds that the absent Halley — who may or may not be still alive — hasn't been asked.
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A Brother's Price / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
A Brother's Price / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: The Wakecliff family had some very bad and rather suspicious times. A family of fifty-eight all died within one season. Eldest Wakecliff, the head of the family, took to drinking heavily and later died of alcohol poisoning after going on a binge when she heard about six of her kin dying in a carriage accident.
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A Brother's Price / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
A Brother's Price / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The book opens with Jerin multitasking at House Husband duties, cooking and looking out for his younger siblings, and mostly passively trying to put up with his big sister. That same moment also foreshadows that his sister Corelle is a troublemaker. Captain Tern of the Royal Guard, is established as a sensible person when she waits for Queens Justice (this world's equivalent of police) to arrive instead of using her authority to demand entry into the farm where Jerin lives. In-universe, Lylia attempts to evoke this by setting up events so that the first time Trini meets Jerin, she'll see him playing with their younger sisters and notice how kind and good with children he is. Trini sees through it immediately, but later begrudgingly admits to being impressed by what she saw.
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A Brother's Price / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
A Brother's Price / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Mothers and/or sisters get to choose who a man will marry, families differ on which gets the deciding vote. Jerin claims that one of his uncles was allowed to "choose his wives" probably meaning he was given his choice off of a shortlist of acceptable offers.
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A Brother's Price / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
A Brother's Price / int_813afa05	comment	Some sons from lower-class families actually suffer this fate and by the times they're located in the cribs they really are Defiled Forever.
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A Brother's Price / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
A Brother's Price / int_8183248	comment	On the positive side, there is Jerin's grandfather, who taught him a lot, and also was a prince, which becomes important in the plot, and the grandmothers, thanks to whom Jerin has many of the abilities of a trained spy.
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A Brother's Price / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
A Brother's Price / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Given the setting, any organized crime is expected to be managed by an evil matriarch, as families are very close, and usually all members of a family are brought to court for a crime one of them committed. Rank is determined by age, the eldest sister in a family is named Eldest and becomes Mother Elder when she has her first child. The evil matriarch in any given family of criminals is therefore the Mother Elder. Strictly enforced discipline, and the fact that criminal individuals are thrown out of lawful families, more or less guarantees that a family that turns to crime will have an evil matriarch in charge. The villains actually murdered their own mothers (who were in on the conspiracy, so likely evil matriarchs themselves) in order to shut them up, as the family "doesn't age well" and tends to senility. The main villain already has one child, and is the Eldest of the family, so she is well on her way to becoming an evil matriarch herself.
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A Brother's Price / int_81f8731	type	Chosen Conception Partner
A Brother's Price / int_81f8731	comment	Chosen Conception Partner: Has male prostitutes whose sole job is to father children in a "crib", which comes in several versions: private, open to everybody and with a reputation for being plague houses, and military, based around the Order of the Sword. So being this is no great compliment to a man; only comparatively rich women or those with a brother to swap can afford to fulfil a Darwinist Desire and purchase a single husband for their family.
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A Brother's Price / int_83445b04	type	Pun
A Brother's Price / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: When discussing whores - women who "service" women for money - Jerin naively says they lack certain vital equipment, and Cira tells him they wear ivory prosthetics referred to as bones.
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A Brother's Price / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
A Brother's Price / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Unwanted pregnancy seems rare, even Teen Pregnancy isn't an issue, given how hard it is to find a good sperm donor and the constant risk of sexually-transmitted disease. Still, after the death of some family members, grieving Kij Porter went to a Crib and "didn't catch anything other than a baby". She keeps the baby. Subverted in that Kij Porter is not really a good girl, and the child's father is not who she claims; the truth is much grimmer.
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A Brother's Price / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
A Brother's Price / int_83a30cd3	comment	Middle Child Syndrome: Corelle seems to have a bad case of this. In fact dividing a family's numerous daughters into "eldest", "middle" and "youngest" cadres seems to be standard practice in Queensland. Since family authority goes strictly by seniority you can imagine how much this must suck for assertive younger sisters.
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A Brother's Price / int_83ab1b39	type	The Tragic Rose
A Brother's Price / int_83ab1b39	comment	The Tragic Rose: Thematic version, Ren has a dream in which Trini cuts off the heads of roses that somehow look like another sister, Halley, and bleed. Trini is a rather tragic character, as she still suffers from the trauma inflicted on her by Keifer, and stands in the way of the potential marriage with Jerin, so there's a romantic element there too. Halley is missing and believed dead. Trini often likes to work in the garden and is seen working on the roses for real, too.
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A Brother's Price / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
A Brother's Price / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: What the Cribs obviously represent. Distribution of husbands isn't fair and neither are a lot of things in our world. So families and individuals that can't afford a brother's price use the Cribs to get pregnant. While conditions are said to vary, any man in there is undoubtedly a Sex Slave, used almost every night, having to take numerous drugs to ensure they're able to perform and exposed to numerous STDs.
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A Brother's Price / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
A Brother's Price / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Jerin fears this fate - if he becomes unmarriageable by being Defiled Forever, his sisters will have no other choice than to sell him as Sex Slave. There is even an offer by some women they meet to rent Jerin for a night. His eldest sister is not amused. He is kidnapped later on, which would eventually lead to some form of slavery, but he is rescued. Some sons from lower-class families actually suffer this fate and by the times they're located in the cribs they really are Defiled Forever.
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A Brother's Price / int_847257ff	type	My Biological Clock Is Ticking
A Brother's Price / int_847257ff	comment	My Biological Clock Is Ticking: Sort of. Eldest Whistler, twenty-eight years old, would like to have one child before menopause. Having seen her mothers pregnant she's aware that sometimes they seem miserable, other times they almost glow, and she wants to experience it once. After that, she laughingly tells Jerin, she'll be happy to let her sisters bear the children.
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A Brother's Price / int_8498284	type	Be a Whore to Get Your Man
A Brother's Price / int_8498284	comment	Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Or, "Be Scantily-Clad to Get Your Women", A magazine of "men's fashions" includes codpieces to let prospective wives have a better view of what they're buying. Jerin is scandalized, more so when he has to go to court and actually wear one.
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A Brother's Price / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
A Brother's Price / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Balin Brindle; he's only a minor off-screen character, but some readers would like to know whether he really "serviced" his mothers, whether it was consensual and whether he was able to marry well (or at all). The reader never does find out who changed the docket for the Wakecliff inheritance case, or what the outcome was.
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A Brother's Price / int_867b1f57	type	By the Hair
A Brother's Price / int_867b1f57	comment	By the Hair: When women sneak into the royal men's quarters and abduct Jerin in they seize him by his long-braided hair, and he screams.
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A Brother's Price / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
A Brother's Price / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Royal princesses have to be this, it comes with the job; they have a working understanding of microbiology and Germ Theory for example. The elder princesses died in an explosion of the opera house. The survivors of that explosion still remember what the opera was about and how moving the aria sung at the time before they left was.
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A Brother's Price / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
A Brother's Price / int_87317385	comment	The Jailbait Wait: Sort of. When a man is married into a family, he marries all of the sisters, regardless of age—including children and any unborn or yet-to-be-conceived daughters of the mothers. He's not to service his wives until they are of age, and a chunk of the responsibility for caring for and nurturing younger wives falls to him.
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A Brother's Price / int_882cd7d1	type	Double In-Law Marriage
A Brother's Price / int_882cd7d1	comment	Cullen Moorland ends up betrothed to Jerin's older sisters. He would like to get his sisters married to a brother of his wives, for a Double In-Law Marriage that would allow him frequent contact with his sisters and because they would give their husband the aristocratic lifestyle that Cullen saw wowed Jerin and his sisters in the beginning, but is willing to settle for Jerin's cousin Dail, who is nearly of age to be married.
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A Brother's Price / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
A Brother's Price / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Somewhat, by our standards. More attention is paid to beautifying males, who have long flowing hair and do domestic things. Jerin is actually somewhat feminine by their standards, since he was taught to do things men usually don't learn.
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A Brother's Price / int_89283763	type	Insatiable Newlyweds
A Brother's Price / int_89283763	comment	Insatiable Newlyweds: Justified, sex before marriage is frowned upon. When Jerin's sisters get married, they tell their parents-in-law that their husband Cullen looks so well because he's getting so much "exercise", "riding"... while one of the wives has her hands all over his body. He's a very happy young man, and presumably not only because he's fond of horses.
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A Brother's Price / int_8976acda	type	Civil War
A Brother's Price / int_8976acda	comment	Civil War: The War of the False Eldest, which took place several generations ago, is important for many reasons: It was during this war that the Whistlers went from a group of thieves and smugglers to a family of the landed gentry, and stole themselves a secretly royal husband. It establishes the ability of a big enough family to "split"—but also explains why the royal family in particular can't take this option anymore, and why a family thinking about splitting would be wise to have a second line of work for the new branch to take on. The aftermath of the war set a major precedent for the extermination of rebel houses down to the very last child, nobility or not. An opera about this conflict also becomes an important part of the backstory in and of itself. The destruction of the locks that bypass the waterfalls of Hera's Step in the war starts the Porters smuggling, stealing and murdering to get the means to rebuild them, according to Kij anyway.
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A Brother's Price / int_89778ef8	type	Trend Aesop
A Brother's Price / int_89778ef8	comment	Trend Aesop: While Jerin is too sensible to follow any trends Corelle insists he needs to wear tight trousers with a codpiece, as that's the latest fashion. She gets her wish when Jerin is sponsored to go to the royal ball for a season, along with some of his sisters. All the fashionable clothes do is attract attention that Jerin would rather not have. The Tailor family, who make his and his sisters' clothes for the ball, tell them that there's a new fad every two weeks or so at court. The Whistlers think it is pretty silly, and immediately make plans to sell their new clothes before they return home, as what is fashionable at court is unwearable elsewhere, the textile used would be ruined by rain.
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A Brother's Price / int_89b8bdc0	type	Kind Restraints
A Brother's Price / int_89b8bdc0	comment	Kind Restraints: Cira holds Jerin in a way that makes him unable to move and puts her hand over his mouth, as they're just beside the road on which the women who kidnapped Jerin are riding, and she plans to trick them into riding past. Jerin thinks she's one of them, so he struggles a lot.
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A Brother's Price / int_89dcfbdb	type	Quitting to Get Married
A Brother's Price / int_89dcfbdb	comment	Quitting to Get Married: Jerin meets his old teacher, Miss Skinner, on a ship. She is getting married, and quitting her job. Played with in that she doesn't have to quit, and she doesn't even know the man she's going to marry - it's just that her sisters and she had finally saved enough money to be able to afford a husband.
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A Brother's Price / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
A Brother's Price / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of traditional gender roles, and the idea that men cannot be victimized by women, or by social systems.
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A Brother's Price / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
A Brother's Price / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Keifer Porter may have been dead for six years, but damned if his presence isn't still felt and his actions aren't still causing problems. On the positive side, there is Jerin's grandfather, who taught him a lot, and also was a prince, which becomes important in the plot, and the grandmothers, thanks to whom Jerin has many of the abilities of a trained spy.
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A Brother's Price / int_8bd16732	type	The Law of Conservation of Detail
A Brother's Price / int_8bd16732	comment	The Law of Conservation of Detail: Most things the narrative mentions end up being relevant to the plot, and if they aren't, they are there for exposition, such as showing the reader how this Speculative Fiction Low Fantasy world works or to establish a character.
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A Brother's Price / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
A Brother's Price / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: According to pretty much everyone who knew him Keifer was very, very pretty but also very, very stupid. Cullen averts this trope by being of at least average intelligence, if a bit keet.
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A Brother's Price / int_8f7059b	type	A Match Made in Stockholm
A Brother's Price / int_8f7059b	comment	A Match Made in Stockholm: Decades ago, Jerin's grandfather Prince Allanon was abducted by the Whistlers, a band of soldier-spy True Companions calling themselves sisters, much to his dismay. Since this was part of a Civil War and not long after that the entire side of the prince's family was executed for treason, he decided there wasn't much point in going back. Later such 'husband raids' became illegal. He did grow fond of his initially involuntary wives, who fell over themselves to make him comfortable and happy. Giving him the freedom to set standards on his male children's education was a major point as well.
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A Brother's Price / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
A Brother's Price / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Jerin's sister Heria, having forgotten the password, confirms her identity by uttering swearwords that would have "made her grandfather blush and her grandmothers proud". Apparently, her grandmothers were even worse.
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A Brother's Price / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
A Brother's Price / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Spoilery example aside, Ren and Jerin share great-great-grandmothers, making them third cousins. There's also mention of a Practice Kiss having been tried between cousins Lylia and Cullen. It is later made clear that cousin marriages are acceptable as long as the biological relationship is no closer than first half-cousins. The princesses can't marry their cousin Cullen because his biological mother and the late Prince Consort were full siblings.
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A Brother's Price / int_9058da25	type	Nuclear Family
A Brother's Price / int_9058da25	comment	Nuclear Family: Here a nuclear family is made of a group of sisters, their husband, and their children. Thirty children are not uncommon, but considered irresponsible if there's only one boy. Overlaps with The Clan, as the children are technically half sisters, half cousins - but as far as the protagonists are concerned, they're sisters.
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A Brother's Price / int_92762b69	type	Significant Green-Eyed Redhead
A Brother's Price / int_92762b69	comment	Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: The royal princesses all fit this trope.
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A Brother's Price / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
A Brother's Price / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The main villain seems to have this as a matter of policy, regularly killing the river trash they hire for dirty work.
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A Brother's Price / int_935212c	type	Feminine Women Can Cook
A Brother's Price / int_935212c	comment	Proper Men can Cook: Given the Inversion of gender roles cookery seen as a very good skill for a man, especially a future husband, to have. However, this is not Real Men Cook as men are expected to occupy the domestic sphere exclusively with no formal profession. Jerin, staying out of the kitchen to avoid tempting visiting women, finds that one of his sisters has prepared only potatoes for the visiting Queen's Justice's dinner and has to recruit siblings to help him make it into a full meal.
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A Brother's Price / int_93789581	type	Elder Abuse
A Brother's Price / int_93789581	comment	Elder Abuse: Eldest Picker is an old woman who still beats her younger (but equally old) sisters if they don't obey, and complains she can't hit them as hard as before, because they break so easily now. It's played for laughs, and not quite clear how bad she really is; she seems like a Cool Old Lady. (It is normal that the eldest sister is in charge, but this is usually not enforced with violence). In a darker example, there is also the Porters, who murder their mothers when they become senile and scatterbrained.
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A Brother's Price / int_939bf44a	type	Personal Effects Reveal
A Brother's Price / int_939bf44a	comment	Personal Effects Reveal: When Jerin is moved into the palace husband quarters, he finds evidence that predecessor Keifer killed his father-in-law, father of the princesses.
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A Brother's Price / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
A Brother's Price / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Jerin and Ren when Ren seduces him. He stresses that he really really wanted it, was enthusiastic when he realized that otherwise his only intimacy might be with the Brindles, and was quick to protest that Ren stopped when he said no after Eldest Whistler called it rape... but before he gave in he was babbling uncomfortably and looking for excuses to leave while she touched him. Basically his heart was saying "Yes, yes, yes" and his mind was saying "No, no, no" fatally complicating the issue of consent.
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A Brother's Price / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
A Brother's Price / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: Dressing families in the same color or variations thereof is the latest fashion trend, as Jerin, Eldest, Summer and Corelle are told by the group of the provided Tailor family whose job it is to outfit them for the upcoming season. As seen from the royal family dinner they attend a few hours later, they're good at their job, though they had good canvas to paint on.
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A Brother's Price / int_94c57c5c	type	Abduction Is Love
A Brother's Price / int_94c57c5c	comment	Inverted in one case where Jerin's grandfather was the one who taught the whole family table manners and such stuff. The Grandmas were uncultured soldiers before they acquired their husband, and became rooster-pecked wives, who would do anything to make him happy.
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A Brother's Price / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
A Brother's Price / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Comes into play at the end of the book. The method for preventing a Cycle of Revenge triggered by executing traitor parents while leaving their children alive is to... execute the children too. Ren finds this monstrous and distressing, but she does have to admit that no one will take in little Eldie Porter, and if she does, the child will surely resent Ren's little sisters and future children and probably try to take revenge on them. And a five-year-old will not fare well if turned out on the streets. Fortunately, the Whistlers are nearby and listening; their great-grandmother Elder was executed for treason but, because the family was so mixed and not cohesive, the judges believed her story that she had acted alone, and the family went on to serve the crowns without resentment. Eldest (Jerin's sister) comments that she believes, based off the lack of resemblance between her great-grandmothers, that they were unrelated women who banded together and claimed each other as sisters, so in light of that they're not ones to worry about bloodlines, and they agree to take Eldie in and raise her as their own, citing that one more girl amongst twenty-eight is unlikely to stand out.
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A Brother's Price / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
A Brother's Price / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: A mild version when Ren explains to Jerin that he is allowed to say 'no' to women. She mentions that she probably sounds "quite the hypocrite", as she was quite insistent in her efforts to seduce Jerin.
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A Brother's Price / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
A Brother's Price / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Ten of the twenty princesses of the realm were killed in an explosion at an Opera. After their own father was poisoned prior to said explosion. The queens have to endure losing their husband and half of their daughters. Due to Polyamory, it is unclear who lost a daughter and who (technically) a niece, but as their society doesn't differentiate between the two, their feelings likely don't, either.
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A Brother's Price / int_95f4a369	type	Attack on One Is an Attack on All
A Brother's Price / int_95f4a369	comment	Attack on One Is an Attack on All: The Whistler response to a threat to their sisters-in-law, the princesses. As Eldest says, "We Whistlers have an unbreakable rule â€” you mess with one of us, you mess with us all!" This is said while at least a dozen rifles, in the hands of experts, are being aimed at the offenders.
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A Brother's Price / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
A Brother's Price / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When confronted by Jerin and Cira at the end of the book, Big Bad Kij Porter claims that all of her own and her family's misdeeds - which at the latest count include treason, murder and attempted murder (including members of her own family), piracy, kidnapping, and smuggling - are actually the fault of the royal family, because the Big Bad's family lost money and property in the War of the False Eldest.
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A Brother's Price / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
A Brother's Price / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender Inverted, simply due to the sheer paucity of men. Someone who kills a man is therefore instantly seen as a monster; meanwhile, the deaths of criminal women and female marines alike are only remarked on in passing. There is a single case of a family where only the fifteen-year-old brother survived, and that was because spies for the enemy abducted him before the enemy killed every single other family member. This is in the backstory, and the narrative is not clear on whether the enemy would have killed the brother, or instead considered him neutral and arranged a suitable marriage for him.
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A Brother's Price / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
A Brother's Price / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Played straight with Jerin, who resembles his grandfather who was a royal prince in looks and behavior. Discussed with Neddie Whistler, who is adopted into the Whistler clan despite her family being villains. The Whistlers obviously don't believe in this trope.
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A Brother's Price / int_985d3ad0	type	Cross-Cast Role
A Brother's Price / int_985d3ad0	comment	Crosscast Role: Has an In-universe all-female opera ensemble performing the Barren Winter about the Civil War, including a sad monologue by a man involved in said war. He is played by a woman who sings in the alto range. Another necessity with the dearth of men available for such roles.
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A Brother's Price / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
A Brother's Price / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: A husband can usually be sure it's his, and the mothers who get pregnant via visiting a "crib" have an interest in truthfully documenting fatherhood, to avoid inbreeding in the future. However, there are rumors about the Brindles, namely that the younger children were not actually fathered by the frail and feeble father of the family, but the son.
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A Brother's Price / int_98ff7254	type	Long-Haired Pretty Boy
A Brother's Price / int_98ff7254	comment	Long-Haired Pretty Boy: For any attractive man, it is the expected style; the prettiness is negotiable.
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A Brother's Price / int_9ba281f0	type	Knighting
A Brother's Price / int_9ba281f0	comment	Knighting: Jerin's grandfather Alannon was a prince, so Jerin's grandmothers had to wait until they were knighted (for heroism in war) to marry him, as mere commoners couldn't marry a prince. Apparently, their sense of propriety didn't stop them from keeping their husband a secret from his remaining family ... of course, since his branch of the family was executed for treason by the other branch, he didn't see much of a point in getting in touch with the family, either.
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A Brother's Price / int_9c1c527b	type	Hub City
A Brother's Price / int_9c1c527b	comment	Hub City: Mayfair, Capital of Queensland is this. The rich from all over the country come to the place for balls and it's a major legal and trade destination for the country too. It took its place from the previous castle due to the War of the False Eldest.
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A Brother's Price / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
A Brother's Price / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Cullen is telling Jerin about his Practice Kiss with Lylia, he says it was like kissing his own sister, then adds, "I'm sure kissing your sister wouldn't be the same". By the end of the book, Cullen is married to some of Jerin's sisters, at least one of whom is pregnant. When they're made to leave the theater, during a play about an attempted coup, Ren and Halley argue over whether the entire family—even the youngest children—of the would-be royal usurpers should have been killed. Ren argues for mercy to the children, while Halley is adamant that ending the whole family was the only practical course. They repeat the argument at the end of the book, when they learn which family has been trying to kill off the royal sisters. There is also a young child in that family. When Jerin is listening in on his kidnappers talking, he hears Cira mention that she was second in line in the age-based sister hierarchy before and it didn't work out for her. The missing princess Halley became second eldest after Ren when their sisters died at the theater explosion.
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A Brother's Price / int_9dbb9688	type	Fantastic Honorifics
A Brother's Price / int_9dbb9688	comment	Fantastic Honorifics & Fantastic Naming Convention: The eldest daughter of a family is always named "Eldest". (If she dies as an adult, the next in line is not renamed, but keeps her (normal) name - it can be a title for select daughters when there is a large enough age gap groups of children in the new generation) This is also the honorific used for her, until she has her first child. Then she's called "Mother Elder [Lastname]", e.g. the eldest of the reigning Queens is "Queen Mother Elder". Should the Eldest of a family dies another sister can be called Eldest without changing their name.
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A Brother's Price / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
A Brother's Price / int_9ec132e7	comment	Accomplice by Inaction: The princesses' late father is mentioned to have been an Extreme Doormat, who stood by and watched while his son-in-law emotionally abused the younger princesses, and one time even tortured and raped one of them in the room next door. Though it is not clear whether the latter is just an exaggerated accusation- he might not have been there at the time. There is also Eldest, the eldest princess, who could have divorced their husband. She was told about his crime afterward, but did nothing, because the (very beautiful) husband had her wrapped around his little finger.
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A Brother's Price / int_9ed576e1	type	Evil Orphan
A Brother's Price / int_9ed576e1	comment	Evil Orphan: Discussed and a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance, adoption is seen as "a hidden evil" warned of in scripture. When a family commits treason, if it's not believed to be divided then every member down to the youngest is killed to prevent a Cycle of Revenge or You Killed My Father situation. There is treason in the book, and while Ren does not want to kill her five-year-old 'niece' Eldie, her sister Halley ruthlessly reminds her that none of the child's relatives will take them, and if they take the child, Eldie will eventually know why their family was killed and turn on them.
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A Brother's Price / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
A Brother's Price / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: The Queens are largely retired by now, leaving running the country to the older Princesses. Once the older Princesses have had their first daughter they will outright retire and pass the titles on to their daughters.
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A Brother's Price / int_a16d511d	type	Insecure Love Interest
A Brother's Price / int_a16d511d	comment	Insecure Love Interest: Both Jerin and Cira/ Princess Halley, though for different reasons. Jerin because he's being kidnapped at the time and has his whole future threatened. Cira because she thinks her scars mar her beauty.
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A Brother's Price / int_a1b74f5d	type	And That's Terrible
A Brother's Price / int_a1b74f5d	comment	And That's Terrible: Ren feels the need to deliver a speech of that kind to the soldiers who accompany her. In her opinion, they're insufficiently shocked by finding the dead body of a man who was raped and died of having his tongue cut off. She asks what the rapists intended to tell their children (if they succeeded in conceiving). That their father was raped and had his tongue cut off? Most terrible things that are done are lampshaded to be terrible by at least one protagonist, or the narrative itself, just in case the reader misses it. (Which, with marital rape is a justified concern. Maybe female-on-male rape warrants a "and that's terrible", too.)
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A Brother's Price / int_a1e2cedd	type	Hooked Up Afterwards
A Brother's Price / int_a1e2cedd	comment	Hooked Up Afterwards: As expected from the Jane-Austen-style plot elements, there is one match in the making at the end of the novel, Jerin's cousin Dail would like to marry the Moorland sisters, and Cullen Whistler, nÃ©e Moorland approves of the idea Also, depending on how you define it, Jerin doesn't "hook up" with all of his wives on the wedding night, as some of them are not yet of age.
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A Brother's Price / int_a20460b8	type	Hot Consort
A Brother's Price / int_a20460b8	comment	Hot Consort: Men who marry the Princesses/Queens of Queensland are not called princes or kings, but consorts. Keifer was chosen because the elder princesses were smitten by his looks and his sisters let them sample the merchandise before marriage, but he was an idiot. Jerin has more going for him intellectually, but Ren does emphasize his beauty.
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A Brother's Price / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
A Brother's Price / int_a2484b0e	comment	As seen from the royal family dinner they attend a few hours later, they're good at their job, though they had good canvas to paint on.
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A Brother's Price / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
A Brother's Price / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: The Whistler mothers, and recently deceased father are/were good parents. They are absent for most of the plot, but the way in which the elder siblings take over their role clearly shows that they had good role models.
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A Brother's Price / int_a3f6dba3	type	Action Duo
A Brother's Price / int_a3f6dba3	comment	Action Duo: Jerin and Cira become this. While she's good at fighting, Jerin is very talented at sleight of hand and lockpicking. While he was just kidnapped, and needs to escape, she got herself into the action intentionally.
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A Brother's Price / int_a3f6fcb0	type	Action Mom
A Brother's Price / int_a3f6fcb0	comment	Action Mom: Kij Porter, a mother, a badass and a captain of her own ship. And the Big Bad.
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A Brother's Price / int_a48bc6e3	type	Terrifying Rescuer
A Brother's Price / int_a48bc6e3	comment	Terrifying Rescuer: While on the hunt for the lost cannons Ren initially thinks Eldest Whistler's flying tackle is an attack on her (she thinks Eldest is aware of just how close Ren and Eldest's unmarried brother Jerin had gotten the night before, and in this society, would react violently to this event). Turns out Eldest was knocking Ren clear of a trap that would have killed her.
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A Brother's Price / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
A Brother's Price / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: The settings solution for 5-10 girls to 1 boy split is for boys to marry all sisters in a family. Jerin, of course, goes on to marry all of the princesses of the realm.
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A Brother's Price / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
A Brother's Price / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: When the heroes find the naked corpse of a man, one of the leaders covers the body with her cloak, and it is arranged for the body to be transported back to the man's home, so that he can be buried with his wives, who were killed in the same attack where he was captured.
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A Brother's Price / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
A Brother's Price / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Ren, Lylia and Halley get away with kissing a boy they are not married to, which should usually draw his sisters' ire, and/or make him a bit angry, as it could easily end with him being Defiled Forever. This is most likely intentional, as it is a gender-swapped setting, and it is lampshaded that boys are raised to be unable to say "no" to women, but at the same time expected to be chaste. To her credit, Ren does some of the lampshading, and acknowledges that she probably sounds like a hypocrite for telling her victim that he should be allowed to say no. He liked the kisses, but that doesn't excuse it. Played With in the case of Keifer Porter, who was never punished for the rape, abuse and murder he committed, but did die in an accident later on - in which, however, lots of innocent people also died.
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A Brother's Price / int_a74e8ba4	type	Thieves' Guild
A Brother's Price / int_a74e8ba4	comment	Thieves' Guild: Official name: Sisterhood of the Night. The Whistlers bullied the Sisterhood into training them to be a whole team of thieves decades ago as they rebuilt themselves from a fall from grace, it was successful. Captain Tern is very surprised to hear the 'bullied' part, but it's apparently possible.
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A Brother's Price / int_a77e19fc	type	YouKnowTooMuch
A Brother's Price / int_a77e19fc	comment	You Know Too Much: When Jerin tries to warn the river trash that their employers the Porters will kill them because they will be able to identify those employers, the river trash don't believe him. But he's right.
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A Brother's Price / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
A Brother's Price / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Keifer, while genuinely stupid, used to act childish and ostensibly hysterical to manipulate his wives and achieve his own ends. Jerin gets in on the act later.
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A Brother's Price / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
A Brother's Price / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Justified, if you change the definition of "mother". All sisters of a child's birth mother who are still part of the same family groupnote Aunts are possible, in cases where there were so many sisters the family split into two groups. This has happened at least once with the Whistlers, with another split likely in the current generation are her mothers. This makes possible a situation in which someone's mother is the same age as her, or possibly even younger.
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A Brother's Price / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
A Brother's Price / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Jerin meets Ren when he sneaks to the kitchen to get something to eat (he hasn't eaten all day because he didn't want to show his face with so many strange women in the house), Ren startles him, and he nearly falls into the fireplace, so she has to catch him.
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A Brother's Price / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
A Brother's Price / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: The villains are fond of hiring 'river trash' for transportation and dirty work, then killing them when it's done. Captain Tern actually sets out to track them by looking into records of ship crews who've all been killed.
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A Brother's Price / int_a893dd09	type	Lewd Lust, Chaste Sex
A Brother's Price / int_a893dd09	comment	Lewd Lust, Chaste Sex: All the sex scenes are like this. While it is only touching with clothes in between, we get full details, but once the clothes come off, it's only hinted at what they actually do. The scenes where we actually are told what goes where, with no cut, are the ones that aren't meant to be erotic.
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A Brother's Price / int_a90df178	type	Guyliner
A Brother's Price / int_a90df178	comment	Guyliner: Averted, interesting given how much the book plays with gender roles. Even at court, Jerin is not put in makeup other than penciled chalk under his nails. When makeup does come up in the story, it's worn by women - specifically whores, women who sometimes dress as men to attract other women - they wear lip paint to draw attention to their mouths and suggest that they know how to use them. Jerin ends up disguised as a whore, and his companion has to apply the makeup herself.
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A Brother's Price / int_a9ba5cdc	type	Deliver Us from Evil
A Brother's Price / int_a9ba5cdc	comment	Deliver Us from Evil: For many women, the desire to get pregnant is actually their motivation to turn to a life of crime in the first place, This trope is arguably played straight historically with the Whistlers.
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A Brother's Price / int_aa819622	type	Let's Wait Awhile
A Brother's Price / int_aa819622	comment	Let's Wait a While: Despite the undeniable attraction Jerin feels for Ren, he doesn't want to "go all the way" until they're engaged. Well, he does want to, but he knows they shouldn't, and he feels ashamed for going as far as he did.
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A Brother's Price / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
A Brother's Price / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The men-as-property and polygyny aspects aside, the whole family is usually held accountable for the actions of one member so that a family can't simply commit treason and then sacrifice one person, becoming more willing to repeat the offense as revenge. This means that if treason is committed, the whole family is executed down to the children. Ren is distressed at the thought of killing her little "niece" Eldie Porter, but the Whistlers took the third option and adopted her without telling her what her mothers did. One of the aspects of the setting's sororal polygyny means that your sister falling in love with the man you want to marry is actually a good thing in the setting. If you can afford the brother's price, that is.
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A Brother's Price / int_aaff69d0	type	Unexpected Successor
A Brother's Price / int_aaff69d0	comment	Unexpected Successor: Ren didn't expect to be the leader of her generation of the royal family—note that she isn't named Eldest.
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A Brother's Price / int_ab1064b3	type	Modesty Towel
A Brother's Price / int_ab1064b3	comment	Modesty Towel: Jerin averts this - he puts on a "bathing gown" in order to be somewhat more clothed in case he meets one of the female guests of the house. He does.
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A Brother's Price / int_ab89e132	type	Men Are Uncultured
A Brother's Price / int_ab89e132	comment	Men Are Uncultured: Inverted in one case where Jerin's grandfather was the one who taught the whole family table manners and such stuff. The Grandmas were uncultured soldiers before they acquired their husband, and became rooster-pecked wives, who would do anything to make him happy. Justified in all the other cases as men can't get into any trades whatsoever, and none of the media is really aimed at them.
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A Brother's Price / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
A Brother's Price / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: About half of the royal family died in an explosion prior to the plot. Ren and Halley watched, having just left the building. They were the youngest who had been allowed to come to the theater, their even younger toddler and baby sisters weren't there. It is revealed later that their father was poisoned before that.
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A Brother's Price / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
A Brother's Price / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: This happens when they arrive in Mayfair, before Jerin is kissed by a dashing stranger.
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A Brother's Price / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
A Brother's Price / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: A whole set of them, set up far, far in advance and referenced a few times to keep the reader's memory fresh. Jerin was taught to read and write, and how to run, climb, ride, shoot, and defend himself, as well as how to pick locks, use sleight of hand, and know when to lie. He's still a Non-Action Guy, but spirited about it.
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A Brother's Price / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
A Brother's Price / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Ren and Halley survive the attack in the theater basically thanks to Keifer being an ass and sending Ren home. Better yet, this basically foils the attackers' plan of weakening the royal family by ultimately leaving the two most competent princesses (after their older sisters were implied cases of Love Makes You Dumb) as the eldest. Better yet, Keifer was actually part of the enemies' party and was supposed to survive. His stupidity killed him, the Porters' Eldest, the princesses who sympathized with the Porters, and ultimately his family's influence at the court. What was left were the middle princesses, who remembered him and the rest of the Porters unfavorably and had learned their lesson how to and how not to choose and treat a husband, in charge now. Really, good job. Trini is very, very reluctant to get married again and actively avoids both Jerin and her other sisters to the best of her ability. When Ren comes to her with legitimate arguments in favor, nothing at all seems to sway her until Ren offhandedly mentions the Porters have offered for Jerin. Immediately, Trini stops arguing and agrees with the marriage on the spot at least partly to spite the Porters. Had they not offered for Jerin, there was a good chance that Trini would've stayed against the marriage long enough to prevent it through sheer stubbornness. Making this even more entertaining, neither the villains nor Ren ever seem to notice how they practically handed Ren Trini's vote on a silver platter.
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A Brother's Price / int_adf84dea	type	What Beautiful Eyes!
A Brother's Price / int_adf84dea	comment	What Beautiful Eyes!: When Jerin first sees Cira, he's struck first by the scar on her face, then by the fact that it gives her face a degree of character and boldness that it otherwise lacks, and then she lifts his veil:
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A Brother's Price / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
A Brother's Price / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: One of the princesses refuses to stay out of combat: "We had to all but sit on her to keep her where things are safer."
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A Brother's Price / int_aeda9dd8	type	Private Tutor
A Brother's Price / int_aeda9dd8	comment	Private Tutor: The schoolteacher of Jerin's sisters occasionally came to the family's house to act like this for Jerin and his younger brother, who would be in danger of kidnapping outside the house. The Princesses also had dedicated tutors as well and worked with things like microscopes which are cutting edge science for them.
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A Brother's Price / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
A Brother's Price / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: While Jerin and his family are on a trip to Mayfair for his season, a family that was on its way to the cribs tries to pay his sisters for a night's use of him to impregnate one of their daughters, who's also a virgin and clean. They reason that no one can tell if a man is a virgin, and this would profit everyone. Eldest Whistler is having none of it. Somewhat subverted in that Captain Tern was there, if overlooked, and reported this incident, making the Whistlers look better.
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A Brother's Price / int_b097493c	type	Madonna-Whore Complex
A Brother's Price / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna-Whore Complex: Here "whores" are women who dress like men, and satisfy other women sexually, as about one boy is born for every ten girls. Protagonist Jerin is very careful about staying husband material, and when someone tells him that oral sex (something he was advised to do with his wives as part of The Talk) is something that whores do, he is very embarrassed about having something in common with whores. (Male prostitutes exist, too, but are mainly for making babies, so they don't do oral). He is also worried about being a Technical Virgin, as a man who is not pure and could have an STD won't find wives, and may be sold to the "cribs"—brothels where women go to get pregnant.
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A Brother's Price / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
A Brother's Price / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Cira says this a couple of times while rescuing Jerin from kidnappers, some of whom she kills. She would, of course, normally not have exposed a delicate young man to such cruelty. In the backstory, some princesses, after seeing a play about a civil war, at the end of which toddlers were executed, reason that their ancestors did what they had to do, as any survivors would have led to a You Killed My Mother situation. That said, when faced with a similar decision at the end, they ultimately choose to Take a Third Option to avoid either option.
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A Brother's Price / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
A Brother's Price / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Marital Gang Rape License, to be precise, though it's more because of the babies than for fulfilling sexual needs. It's even discussed—women admit that in this society, where a family's existence can literally depend on having a son (to swap for a husband) and the odds of conceiving one are so low, they just can't afford to raise boys to say "no." Jerin is terrified of the prospect of having to "service" the thirty less-than-desirable Brindle women. Cuts both ways—Keifer, the first husband of the princesses attacked and raped and tortured Trini, but convinced her older sister that "she provoked him", and got off with no punishment at all. When he dies sometime after the incident, he is not missed. Some double standards exist; Trini raping him wouldn't have been seen as so easily forgivable, but if Keifer had raped some random woman all he would be punished for is adultery.
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A Brother's Price / int_b1e9444f	type	Baby Factory
A Brother's Price / int_b1e9444f	comment	Baby Factory: The men in the cribs are the male variant since their purpose is to "service" women while they themselves are drugged.
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A Brother's Price / int_b20515e0	type	Hand on Womb
A Brother's Price / int_b20515e0	comment	Hand on Womb: Upon their arrival at Jerin's wedding, Cullen is seen doing this to Eldest Whistler, hinting at a pregnancy.
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A Brother's Price / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
A Brother's Price / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: Notably averted by the fact that all sisters of a family rule together, and their daughters are all considered heirs to the throne. Men presumably cannot inherit the throne, but as boys are so rare that a family with four boys out of thirty-two children is considered lucky, this is not a problem that is likely to ever present itself.
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A Brother's Price / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
A Brother's Price / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: A man marries all the sisters of a family, but as the younger wives may not yet be interested in men, they can have a sexless marriage with him until they come of age. Or forever, considering that some wives may still be toddlers when the wedding takes place. With between ten and thirty women sharing one husband, it is presumably no problem if one or two sisters want to be celibate.
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A Brother's Price / int_b3987997	type	Men Act, Women Are
A Brother's Price / int_b3987997	comment	Men Act, Women Are Averted, as men have Gender Rarity Value and if women didn't do things, not much would get done.
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A Brother's Price / int_b3de4c5b	comment	Sex God: Played Straight with Jerin, as well as his grandfather Alannon, whom he remembers fondly; we learn that both he and Jerin's father gave Jerin The Talk about pleasuring women. It is later revealed that Alannon was trained in some obscure art of lovemaking.
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A Brother's Price / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
A Brother's Price / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Lampshaded when Ren admits that it is hypocrisy to tell Jerin he is allowed to reject women, after having seduced him against his (rational) wishes at the beginning of the novel. And the whole Whistler clan, whose grandfather was kidnapped by their grandmothers, but who, of course, would be furious if someone kidnapped their brothers.
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A Brother's Price / int_b4fb00f6	type	Mistaken for Pedophile
A Brother's Price / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: Played With — Odelia takes Jerin to play with her younger sisters, the youngest of whom are toddlers, while the eldest is primary school age. She leaves him alone with them, and no one even thinks that this could be, in any way, inappropriate. However, when Lylia later tells Ren that "Jerin can do magic", she is a bit worried for a moment. As she seduced Jerin earlier, and can think of only one magic-like thing he can do ... she hopes he didn't do "that" in front of the children. Turns out Jerin can do completely innocent magic tricks of the "make a coin appear out of thin air" kind.
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A Brother's Price / int_b503102e	type	Terrified of Germs
A Brother's Price / int_b503102e	comment	Terrified of Germs: Well, of sexually transmitted diseases. Since a man marries every sister in a family and is expected to "service" any of them who are of age, a single member of that group with an STD will pass it on to all of them, which in several cases has led to that family dying out. Fear of venereal disease has really affected the culture.
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A Brother's Price / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
A Brother's Price / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The Porters They seem to consider hammering on others' Berserk Buttons to be a hobby, based on such idiocies as not only setting off the princesses by kidnapping their new husband, but also setting off his birth family, who are very loyal to their sisters-in-law and very skilled in combat. Of course, lack of brainpower does seem to run in the family, since their brother, the previous Prince Consort, got himself killed by failing to get clear of a bomb that he knew was going to go off and when in time.
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A Brother's Price / int_b66699a2	type	Mundane Luxury
A Brother's Price / int_b66699a2	comment	Mundane Luxury: Jerin revels in simply getting to sit down and eat a meal without having to prepare it himself first.
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A Brother's Price / int_b6a868f1	type	Intimate Psychotherapy
A Brother's Price / int_b6a868f1	comment	Intimate Psychotherapy: Subverted, Kij Porter, a noblewoman, is said to have gone to a "crib" (a brothel), in order to cope with the death of several of her relatives. Due to high prevalence of STDs, a noblewoman wouldn't usually have sex out of wedlock, so her grief is universally considered the reason why she did something so utterly foolish. It is not mentioned whether it actually helped. It's later learned that she most likely did not actually use a crib, but claimed she had to cover her daughter's true paternity.
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A Brother's Price / int_b6c6e9ed	type	Violence Is Disturbing
A Brother's Price / int_b6c6e9ed	comment	Violence Is Disturbing: Jerin is disturbed when he witnesses violence. When he has to shoot someone in order to save his rescuer, he's shocked. Other characters, who are mostly women and thus by the standards of the setting raised for this, are a bit more matter-of-fact about the violence they have to do, but it's clear none of them enjoys it.
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A Brother's Price / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
A Brother's Price / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: The awareness of this trope, and a desire to avert it, is the reason beyond a particularly unsavory aspect in the setting. Families tend to be tightly-knit and very collective. It would be easy for a family caught committing treason to pin it on one sister, who would be executed and leave the others alive and wanting vengeance. So, unless it's believed that this was not a proper family and sisters were not united - as happened to the Whistlers well before the story's start - the whole family is killed. Right down to the babies. Men - and Princess Ren - hate this practice, and it's well-established that Children Are Innocent of their parents' crimes, but it's seen as ruthlessly pragmatic. The descendants of the surviving Whistlers bear no grudge against the crowns, and in fact, some of them died fighting for the same people who executed their Mother Elder. They adopt Eldie out of the charitable belief that there is redemption for the innocent.
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A Brother's Price / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
A Brother's Price / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: A dead body is found with dried blood filling the mouth; the investigators conclude that the tongue was cut out and the victim likely died of it.
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A Brother's Price / int_b97c1d0b	type	Standard Hero Reward
A Brother's Price / int_b97c1d0b	comment	Standard Hero Reward: Initially appears this way. Jerin and his family saved the Princess Odelia, and the end of the book has him marrying the princesses. Really it's more complex than that; the Princess Ren persuaded her Mother Elder to sponsor the Whistlers to come to the royal court, and a lot of time and effort is spent trying to bring Jerin's sisters and Ren's family to agree to the marriage.
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A Brother's Price / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
A Brother's Price / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Averted — the fact that the Whistlers are such a well-organized family is attributed to Jerin's grandfather Alannon, as the grandmothers were just a ragtag bunch of successful soldier-spies. Jerin's father seems to have done a good job, too, and Jerin is a very competent replacement dad for his younger siblings. His love interest points out that he's good at parenting in an attempt to convince her relatives that he'd be a good match.
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A Brother's Price / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
A Brother's Price / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Has this bad, on top of every eldest sister automatically being called Eldest, real and "made up" names are freely mixed. The Whistler children for example - there are a total of twenty-eight girls/women and four boys - given in order of mention: Jerin, Corelle, Eldest, Pansy, Violet, Kai, Doric, Leia, Blush, Summer, Eva, Kira, Heria, Liam, Emma, Celain, Kettie, Birdie, and Bunny. Not all are named in the book. This effect may be due to the fact that the children were born to (and presumably named by) various mothers within the family. Here are the names of the princesses given in birth order: Rennsellaer, Halley, Odelia, Trini, Lylia, Zelie, Quin, Selina, Nora, and Mira. The princesses' grandmothers, in order of mention, are Titia, Beatrice, Cida, Merrilee, Livi, and Wren. Years ago, there was a prince Alannon in the royal family, but there was also his tragic contemporary, an infertile prince consort called... Michael.
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A Brother's Price / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
A Brother's Price / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Sort of. The first woman Jerin gets physically close to who isn't a relative is Odelia, who finds him amazingly attractive. The woman who seduces him and he first falls in love with is Ren. However, since they are sisters, marrying Ren means marrying Odelia too, and Jerin falls in love with her, too.
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A Brother's Price / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
A Brother's Price / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Captain Hawk Tern, head of the guard and expert for security, warns the royal family that the theatre they're going to visit hasn't been properly checked for safety risks. They go inside nevertheless, because their husband Keifer is impatient and prone to temper tantrums â€¦ and in the middle of the play, the theatre explodes.
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A Brother's Price / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
A Brother's Price / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: Kij Porter feels entitled to a second dance (and more flirting) with Jerin because she's a noble. When Jerin's sister Corelle comes to fetch him, stating that other women want to dance with him, too, Kij asks her: "Do you know who I am?", and Corelle, in a bored tone, recounts everything worth knowing about the Porter family, as Kij's sister already told her all of it one moment ago. This doesn't deter Kij from making a marriage offer for Jerin after the ball - after all, she's a noble, and the Whistlers are commoners, and they can't do any better than marrying their brother to a noblewoman. Or so she thinks - in the end, Jerin marries the princesses.
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A Brother's Price / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
A Brother's Price / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: The younger sisters of Balin Brindle are rumored to be actually fathered by him, on his own mothers, as his father is old and frail. The protagonists seem to think this consensual, but there is some Fridge Horror involved if you don't believe that All Men Are Perverts. Averted with Trini, who was raped by her own husband, but didn't get pregnant. The rapist doesn't seem to have fathered any other children, either, except for an incestuous child with his sister/biological cousin. Having children is also the main reason why women commit rape in this universe — men are so rare that the only three options to conceive a child are a husband (to be shared by all sisters in a family), a male prostitute, or rape. The above-mentioned male rapist, on the other hand, was just a sadist, as he had more than ten wives who were smitten with him.
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A Brother's Price / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
A Brother's Price / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Done well and with aplomb
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A Brother's Price / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
A Brother's Price / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Discussed — it's seen as a marriage-sinking trait as men who don't like children are essentially useless as a House Husband as they are expected to take on many of the nurturing aspects of childcare. Some of the Whistlers dislike Balin Brindle for wincing and doing nothing every time his little sisters/possible incestuous children start to cry in public. The fact that Keifer never could stand being around the little princesses, or even fake any degree of liking for them, is yet another mark in a very long list against him. It doesn't seem to matter to most how women feel about children, as demonstrated by Captain Raven Tern, whose discomfort around children is Played for Laughs and generally accepted, since her sisters will presumably handle carrying on their family line.
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A Brother's Price / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
A Brother's Price / int_bc74ef27	comment	Kidnapping Jerin turns out to be a Berserk Button for all the adult princesses, who nearly get into a brawl in public over who's going to do what to rescue him. When they do get him back, a combination of this and in-universe laws that all sisters are to be put to death for one's offence means they consider wiping out the entire family involved in Jerin's abduction the only reasonable response to this offense.
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A Brother's Price / int_bc959bc1	type	We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum
A Brother's Price / int_bc959bc1	comment	We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum: Jerin gets into a situation where he is in danger of being raped, but he didn't think that would happen, so he left his Chastity Dagger behind.
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A Brother's Price / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
A Brother's Price / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Ren, after seducing the Whistler family's son, Jerin, on the kitchen floor, fears the Whistlers will lure her into a trap. They don't — in fact, the family doesn't know about it, yet. Ren is not a villain but sometimes acts like a jerk, as the spoilered incident proves.
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A Brother's Price / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
A Brother's Price / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Many women are well able to appreciate the beauty in their own sex. Cira is the only one who is explicitly bi, but as her homosexual relationship is treated as nothing unusual, it can be assumed that bisexual women wouldn't exactly feel the need to "out" themselves.
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A Brother's Price / int_bd0af87b	type	Honorable Marriage Proposal
A Brother's Price / int_bd0af87b	comment	Honorable Marriage Proposal: Gender-Inverted like so many other tropes, there's about one man for every ten women, and as such, sisters will share a husband between them. Given that STD Immunity is averted, there's a very real fear that a husband who's had sex before could have picked up something, which would subsequently spread to all of his wives. At one point in the book, main character Jerin has been kidnapped by a group of women who made their marriage-intent extremely well-known earlier in the book, in addition to having been alone with Cira, who has been rescuing Jerin from kidnappers. When he mentions this trope to the latter, she reassures Jerin that she is perfectly willing to marry him to protect his reputation. He doesn't believe her, as she would never be able to pay the brother's price for him all by herself, but since she's the missing Princess Halley, she's already one of his wives, though he didn't know that at the time.
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A Brother's Price / int_bd406737	type	Anxiety Dreams
A Brother's Price / int_bd406737	comment	Anxiety Dreams: Princess Rennsellaer has been having Past Experience Nightmares about the theater explosion that killed her husband and older sisters. When she falls in love with Jerin, she starts dreaming that he's there too.
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A Brother's Price / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
A Brother's Price / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Eldest Whistler is visibly pregnant at the end of the novel, and it is speculated upon how long she has been, as if the child is born early, this could be proof of the relatives of her new husband not having been very good at chaperoning him. The premarital "dalliance" is mentioned by someone in the novel, though how far it went is left to the reader's imagination.
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A Brother's Price / int_bf1b02b	type	Fictional Currency
A Brother's Price / int_bf1b02b	comment	Fictional Currency: The Queensland Crown or "crowns", which are implied to be made of gold, then there are "Gil" for silver and quince for what are probably bronze.
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A Brother's Price / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
A Brother's Price / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: this is what men fear if they are captured. Due to Gender Rarity Value, sons and brothers are guarded well, but occasionally a man is kidnapped. Jerin gets into such a situation. His female companion is Forced to Watch. One of the male examples where this is not played for comedy at all.
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A Brother's Price / int_c00e1999	type	Midnight Snack
A Brother's Price / int_c00e1999	comment	Midnight Snack: After hiding in his room from the female visitors all day, had no opportunity to eat much, and, at midnight, Jerin decides to raid the kitchen. He meets Ren, who seduces him right there, and then sneaks back to his room... without having eaten anything. And no, Ren doesn't count
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A Brother's Price / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
A Brother's Price / int_c02ce551	comment	Straight for the Commander: The Whistlers did this as a matter of course during the Civil War given the confusion it'd throw all the subordinates into. Corelle learned her lessons well and shot the red-hooded one that the criminals were deferring to. It works.
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A Brother's Price / int_c0594195	type	Through His Stomach
A Brother's Price / int_c0594195	comment	Through His Stomach: On their engagement night, i.e. the first time they have sex, Trini who didn't seem to like Jerin much beforehand, brings him a tray of food. Probably she didn't prepare the food herself, but it's the thought that counts.
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A Brother's Price / int_c0b6ded	type	Lie Back and Think of England
A Brother's Price / int_c0b6ded	comment	Lie Back and Think of England Jerin fears that he may have to do this, as he dreads being married to the daughters of the neighboring Brindle family. Eventually, he marries a group of sisters, one of whom was raped by her previous husband and does something that looks suspiciously like a "mount him and think of England" variant of this. They do cuddle affectionately, though.
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A Brother's Price / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
A Brother's Price / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted but not completely inverted. One of the first thoughts Jerin has in the book is that if he killed the sister who's always needling him, people would shrug it off, though we quickly see that not only would he never actually hurt her, he's constantly aware that her anger, directed towards him, is much more dangerous than his anger at her. However, Keifer's assault on his young wife is taken very seriously by her middle sisters (if not the elder ones) and could have been grounds for divorce.
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A Brother's Price / int_c15af9b4	type	Creepy Physical
A Brother's Price / int_c15af9b4	comment	Creepy Physical: Jerin has to have his sperm tested before he can get married, which doesn't involve inappropriate touching — but the doctor voices her surprise at Jerin's high sperm count, much to his embarrassment. Later, his bride-to-be checks his naked body for inbred deformities, also a necessary procedure... and of course, she does so with his eldest sister present, which makes it safer, but even more embarrassing.
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A Brother's Price / int_c1e6f5bd	type	Don't Split Us Up
A Brother's Price / int_c1e6f5bd	comment	Don't Split Us Up: Played With, Jerin hopes he will be swapped for the brother of another family (and not for the eponymous brother's price in money) so that he can often visit his siblings. His toddler sisters cry when they hear he is going to leave and get married. Princess Ren has a different kind of problem: Splitting the family into two groups of sisters (as has been done in the past) is not an option, as it caused a succession war back then. So, if she wants to marry, she has to get all her sisters to agree on the same husband. Even Trini, who is reluctant to marry again after the abusive late husband, and Halley, who has been missing for months.
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A Brother's Price / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
A Brother's Price / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: This is inverted. Keifer, who was married to the princesses, fought often with his then-13-year-old wife, and at one point stunned her with a blow to the head, tied her to his bed, and abused her. This abuse includes rape, but her sisters describe it as "servicing" her, and the sexual aspect is seen as less awful than his breaking her nose and some of her fingers, blacking her eyes, burning her with a hot iron, and threatening to cut her face. On the other hand, when Eldest Whistler thinks that one of the princesses has raped her brother, she is murderously angry even though he has not been physically harmed.
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A Brother's Price / int_c2d04a04	type	Names to Trust Immediately
A Brother's Price / int_c2d04a04	comment	Names to Trust Immediately: One of Jerin's sisters seems to be named "Bunny". Which is nice for a sweet-tempered toddler, but one hopes it is just a nickname, considering how it would look if a grown woman had that name. Judging from the other members of the Whistler clan, she might grow up to become a Vorpal Bunny, albeit a lawful, good-aligned one.
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A Brother's Price / int_c30b3981	type	Mistaken for Prostitute
A Brother's Price / int_c30b3981	comment	Mistaken for Prostitute: Invoked and Jerin manages to be mistaken for a whore for a short period of time, but the disguise, consisting of makeup and a feather boa, doesn't fool the villains.
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A Brother's Price / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
A Brother's Price / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Women have the most power when they are formed into families, bands of sisters. Women of lower classes who weren't born to families, or were disowned or left, can band together and legally be considered sisters even if they are completely unrelated. They have to have a clear sense of who leads, though, and not have conflicting interests. The Whistler family started with one such band.
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A Brother's Price / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
A Brother's Price / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: When Cira reminds Jerin he gave their captors his word of honor not to try to escape: he replies with this trope.
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A Brother's Price / int_c3dc8be8	type	Kiss Diss
A Brother's Price / int_c3dc8be8	comment	Kiss Diss: Jerin does this to Kij when she makes a public move on him, stepping away from her to allow his sister to intervene. He dislikes her as a person, is already in love with at least one of the princesses, is in a culture that strongly disapproves of such contact between a man and a woman who are not married to each other, and is embarrassed by the public setting. Entitled much, Kij?
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A Brother's Price / int_c4846eda	type	Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper
A Brother's Price / int_c4846eda	comment	Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper: After Princess Odelia is hit over the head by bandits and left to die in a creek. She is found by a child, Heria, and is carried to safety by Heria's older brother Jerin, who, while not exactly weak is regarded as less capable than Odelia and her sisters. She does not get to have a Rescue Romance due to being unconscious most of the time. Her sister Ren, however, takes advantage of the situation.
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A Brother's Price / int_c489934e	type	Apron Matron
A Brother's Price / int_c489934e	comment	Apron Matron: By tradition, the first daughter to be born to a group of sisters is given the title/name Eldest. When she and her sisters marry and have daughters of their own, she becomes known as Mother Eldest, and she's the head of the family. The family's husband, if they're lucky enough to have one, takes on the softer and more nurturing aspects of childrearing, helped somewhat by Eldest's younger siblings. Eldest's role is more disciplinary, but in the case of the Whistlers at least, not without affection.
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A Brother's Price / int_c4e14ea2	type	Unorthodox Holstering
A Brother's Price / int_c4e14ea2	comment	Unorthodox Holstering: Jerin keeps a derringer in one of the pockets of his walking-robe.
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A Brother's Price / int_c57a23c9	type	Harp of Femininity
A Brother's Price / int_c57a23c9	comment	Harp of Femininity: At the royal ball there are dulcimers, harp-like instruments, are being played by women. Given how compact the narrative is it's an important distinction given the Stereotype Flip that has everything "masculine" in that world codes very closely to what "feminine" is in the western world, and vice versa.
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A Brother's Price / int_c65ba3a0	type	Chastity Dagger
A Brother's Price / int_c65ba3a0	comment	Chastity Dagger: While uncommon, as evidenced by the guards' reaction to finding he carries one, Jerin does have just such a knife on his person in case of emergencies. His grandmothers were soldiers after all.
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A Brother's Price / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
A Brother's Price / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The search party finds the naked corpse of Egan Wainwright, a man who had been renowned for his good looks in life. The corpse is described in very unappealing terms, and the protagonists are full of horror and pity.
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A Brother's Price / int_c7950d47	type	Never Be Hurt Again
A Brother's Price / int_c7950d47	comment	Never Be Hurt Again: After her abusive husband Keifer Porter died, Trini does not want to marry again, as a new husband could be just the same. (While he was bad for the whole family, he raped and tortured only Trini, and was more subtle with the others) This causes problems because it prevents her sisters from marrying, a condition ironically imposed by the Queen Mother to prevent the very thing that happened with Keifer and Trini. She is also protective of people who are in danger of facing the same fate she did - when Trini is told that the Porters intend to make an offer for Jerin, she neglects her own safety to help. By agreeing to marry Jerin herself.
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A Brother's Price / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
A Brother's Price / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: Eldest Whistler explains to Jerin that this is due to the different upbringing. Families spoil and coddle the rare boys, who as a result will be emotionally open and trusting, but teach the girls to mistrust everyone and search for weapons before hugging anyone. This might just apply to the Whistlers but it isn't quite disproven by the other male characters.
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A Brother's Price / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
A Brother's Price / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: This still exists in a matriarchy, at least in some aspects; there is gossip about a man who was caught with his wives' servant after the engagement and before the wedding, and promptly returned to his family, as "damaged goods". Apparently, he is still able to show his face in public, but it is a stain on his reputation, especially as there is no cure for STDs. On the other hand, this trope is averted in that theoretical knowledge about sex is considered to make a man more desirable. The same applies to clothes - the codpiece is very much in fashion.
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A Brother's Price / int_c9a4160b	type	Comic Sutra
A Brother's Price / int_c9a4160b	comment	Comic Sutra: Jerin and Cullen look at some erotic tintype pictures that are not described. At one point, Cullen asks "Why would anyone want to put his mouth there?". Jerin is trained in the "Paths of Pleasure" and knows a lot more about such things than Cullen, having gotten a very detailed talk from his father and grandfather. It does lead to a moment when one of the child princesses mentions Jerin did a magic trick, and an older sister is momentarily worried about which specific "magic" he demonstrated...
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A Brother's Price / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
A Brother's Price / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The late father of the princesses presumably had a name, but we never hear it. His daughters refer to him as "Papa" (apparently the customary term for one's father in this society, since Jerin's cousin also uses it referring to his own).
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A Brother's Price / int_ca8db933	type	Higher Education Is for Women
A Brother's Price / int_ca8db933	comment	Higher Education Is for Women: All education is for women. Jerin's ability to read and write is highly unusual ... not to mention his ability to read thieves' cant. He meets Cullen, whose cousin tries to teach him how to read and write, but Cullen isn't a good pupil as he considers it a waste of time.
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A Brother's Price / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
A Brother's Price / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: This is the assumed cultural role of all men, given the aforementioned gender imbalance. Some of them actively chafe at it like Cullen, who is thrilled at the chance of learning horse riding for marrying into the Whistlers. Jerin actually knowing how to do this is seen as foolish given his position as an asset for the family.
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A Brother's Price / int_ccc62785	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable
A Brother's Price / int_ccc62785	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable: A complicated example, Jerin's season in the capital is funded by the royal family supposedly as thanks for saving princess Odelia's life. But it's also a chance for the two princesses to show their potential spouse off to best advantage to the rest of the Princesses thanks to the services of Tailors.
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A Brother's Price / int_cd427ce1	type	A Man Is Always Eager
A Brother's Price / int_cd427ce1	comment	A Man Is Always Eager: Played With Jerin does have a healthy libido and his body is very ready to have sex whenever an attractive woman tries to seduce him, but he values his chastity, as he wants to marry well. He is a bit ashamed that he lacks the self-control to fight back when random women kiss him. He mentions that he would not be so eager with women he doesn't consider attractive, though.
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A Brother's Price / int_cd8aa3e8	type	Smoking Is Glamorous
A Brother's Price / int_cd8aa3e8	comment	Smoking Is Glamorous: The Princess Lylia smuggles fine cigars, wine, and pornography to her favorite cousin Cullen, who happily decides to share all of the above to Jerin, who's a bit stunned by all the luxuries of palace living.
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A Brother's Price / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
A Brother's Price / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: It would be stretching to call Princess Ren "incompetent", but she is inexperienced and still trying to adjust to being the leader and the Eldest Princess, even six years after her older sisters died in a theater explosion. She relies rather heavily on the experience and advice of Captain Raven Tern, and as the novel progresses the Captain isn't ever pushed aside, but Ren comes to stand on her own more. To consider the Captain's responsibilities, she's a direct assistant to the princesses and is trusted to escort the Whistlers to Mayfair for Jerin's season. Also acts as the field commander for retrieving the cannons.
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A Brother's Price / int_d0bab7f5	type	Royal Inbreeding
A Brother's Price / int_d0bab7f5	comment	Royal Inbreeding: Averted: one of the princesses says she wouldn't mind marrying her cousin if she absolutely must marry someone, but her sister points out that he is too close in blood (while admitting he'd otherwise be a good choice). The Whistlers and the royal family are third cousins but this doesn't typically count in most circles.
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A Brother's Price / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
A Brother's Price / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted. When the body of a man is found fresh in a shallow grave, his penis is bloody. An investigator believes he was raped by his murderers, and one or more was a virgin or menstruating.
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A Brother's Price / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
A Brother's Price / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: The corpse of Egan Wainwright is discovered. As he is half-naked, they first suspect that he was overdosed with date-rape drugs, but then someone notices a trace of blood coming from his mouth - his tongue has been cut, with the intent to silence him, but so badly that he died from it.
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A Brother's Price / int_d2096ad9	type	Aborted Declaration of Love
A Brother's Price / int_d2096ad9	comment	Aborted Declaration of Love: When he's saying goodbye to Princess Ren after coming to Mayfair, Jerin is at a loss for what to say. His sisters are close enough to possibly overhear and he doesn't want them knowing what he and she almost did lest he be considered ruined, plus she's so far above his station that they couldn't possibly marry, but he has to say something.
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A Brother's Price / int_d2771f82	type	World of No Grandparents
A Brother's Price / int_d2771f82	comment	World of No Grandparents: Grandparents are suspiciously absent. While men seem to die relatively early from diseases, no such explanation is given for the lack of grandmothers - women in general seem to live long enough to become senile. And then there are the Porters, who kill senile family members so that they don't blab secrets. This explains at least the absence of some grandparents The fact that people marry relatively late in life, going by the example of Miss Skinner, could have something to do with it.
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A Brother's Price / int_d298bc9a	type	I Wished You Were Dead
A Brother's Price / int_d298bc9a	comment	I Wished You Were Dead: Princess Halley said she wished Keifer was dead the moment before a bomb went off in the theater he—and several of her older sisters—were inside of.
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A Brother's Price / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
A Brother's Price / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: A real fear, though "normal" miscarriages and stillbirths are more common. One of the Wakefield sisters died giving birth to a stillborn son. Even the Queens have died due to this.
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A Brother's Price / int_d2ccb43e	type	Delicious Distraction
A Brother's Price / int_d2ccb43e	comment	Delicious Distraction: Jerin does this to make the news that he's leaving the family land easier for his inconsolable younger sisters.
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A Brother's Price / int_d2d09ff6	type	After-Action Patch-Up
A Brother's Price / int_d2d09ff6	comment	After-Action Patch-Up: Captain Tern is injured and needs to be tended to by various Whistlers. Twice. For a Hypercompetent Sidekick, she gets hurt a lot.
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A Brother's Price / int_d32b5dde	type	Hope Bringer
A Brother's Price / int_d32b5dde	comment	Hope Bringer: Cira kisses Jerin and tells Jerin that he gives her hope. Mostly because they've been imprisoned by the villains, and Jerin has remarkable lockpicking skills. But she seems to mean it in a more metaphorical sense, too.
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A Brother's Price / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
A Brother's Price / int_d397657d	comment	Somewhat more literally, Jerin finds evidence that the same offenders were involved in the death of the princesses' father by poisoning. Keifer, who did the actual killing, was Hoist by His Own Petard because he was Too Dumb to Live. He didn't run in time to escape a bomb his family had planted. That explosion also killed much of the royal family.
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A Brother's Price / int_d3a96fd2	type	Come with Me If You Want to Live
A Brother's Price / int_d3a96fd2	comment	Come with Me If You Want to Live: Arriving in Mayfair, Jerin sees a scarred woman with What Beautiful Eyes! who kisses him before vanishing into the crowd. Later he is kidnapped, and the scarred woman is among the kidnappers, assuring him that she'll help, introducing herself as Cira. When he gets free and escapes on horseback, Cira catches up and pulls him onto her horse, much to his dismay. But Cira does help, telling him he'll get back to his wives with his honor intact. He does, since his rescuer turns out to be Princess Halley whom he hadn't met yet.
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A Brother's Price / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
A Brother's Price / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Lampshaded with Jerin Whistler and Princess Lylia, in a tasteful and inoffensive way, chatting about the building of indoor privies and the technology involved, as it is relatively new. It is mentioned that Lylia enjoys the "innocent rudeness of the conversation".
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A Brother's Price / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
A Brother's Price / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: Practically a Whistler standard. If you are friends with them, you will never be alone. Eldest Whistler tells Jerin to hold his head high, and fear not, for he is a Whistler, and will always have the protection of his family. As there are more than fifty of them, all trained gunwomen, this is not an empty promise.
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A Brother's Price / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
A Brother's Price / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: A historical one rose to the level of an especially pointless Civil War called The War of the False Eldest. Since both sides were originally part of the same family it makes things all the more awkward. The losing branch of the family was executed down to the last woman. But not the last man: Prince Alannon was kidnapped by Whistlers during the war, became their husband, and raised up a family.
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A Brother's Price / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
A Brother's Price / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: Queensland nobility changes outfits three times a day at the very least and purchase an entirely new wardrobe every season (of which there are a lot), much to the confusion of the rural gentry Whistlers, who consider this a waste of money.
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A Brother's Price / int_d59d06c4	type	Breeding Slave
A Brother's Price / int_d59d06c4	comment	Breeding Slave: Men living in the cribs are this. They are drugged and raped to impregnate women too poor to secure a husband, and often catch and spread one or two (often deadly) STDs along the way. They are usually boys from families found guilty of treason, sold as compensation, since being male means you are property.
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A Brother's Price / int_d66c4f39	type	Matricide
A Brother's Price / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: The antagonists are evil enough to do this. The reason being the Porters needed to sacrifice someone of their family to make themselves look like fellow victims, and their mothers had become senile and were talking about family secrets too carelessly.
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A Brother's Price / int_d786481	type	Top Wife
A Brother's Price / int_d786481	comment	Top Wife: This would be the Eldest in a given family but as with many gender norms, only to an extent, given the Sororal Polygyny. A husband, as a biological male, has little to no political power, only being able to play 'favorites' to manipulate their wives. This had disastrous consequences in the backstory and Jerin makes sure to follow his father's advice and be scrupulous about sharing his time and attention evenly among his wives, never playing favorites in any way.
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A Brother's Price / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
A Brother's Price / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Jerin is noted as being skilled at k'lamour (italics in text) or oral sex, from the context. This term is only used once, and it's in a novel with no other constructed language to speak of. As the word is a kind of mangled Latin, or French (amour = love), it could also mean sex in general. Also referred to as "the paths of pleasure". He gets extremely embarrassed talking about it, and admitting his father taught him. Sex between a man and a woman in which the man is willing is often referred to as him "servicing" her. Brothels stocked with men used to get poorer women pregnant are called "cribs".
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A Brother's Price / int_d9764d48	type	Dangerous 16th Birthday
A Brother's Price / int_d9764d48	comment	Dangerous 16th Birthday: Sixteen is the age of marriage, when men leave their families to be joined to new ones. The upcoming occasion is cause for great apprehension for Jerin. While women can marry at practically any age (including before they are even born—they are considered married to their sisters' husband if they already have one) sixteen is when they come of age as well, and start to be serviced by their husband.
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A Brother's Price / int_d9b4cc7f	type	Abdicate the Throne
A Brother's Price / int_d9b4cc7f	comment	Abdicate the Throne: The queens of Queensland, aging, transferring more and more responsibility to their surviving daughters. They won't abdicate the throne until the princesses have married and produced at least one child, but are expected to do so when that happens.
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A Brother's Price / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
A Brother's Price / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: Implicitly, any army in Queensland, as men would certainly be considered too valuable to waste them in battles, unless one counts military Cribs. Jerin's grandmothers were essentially the special forces version of this trope, soldier-spies during the war of the False Eldest.
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A Brother's Price / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
A Brother's Price / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: As he leaves the farm he was raised on to go get married, Jerin is well aware that he'll never be able to come back. Doubly Subverted in that he marries women kind enough to let him visit but he knows he will never call the farm home again.
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A Brother's Price / int_daecf1c2	type	Does He Have a Brother?
A Brother's Price / int_daecf1c2	comment	Does He Have a Brother?: Played With, Ren doesn't quite believe that main protagonist Jerin is really very handsome so Odelia tells her to remember how the Whistler women look, and then imagine those features with a male body and long hair. Ren then has to admit that she would like to pursue such a man. However, it is not clearly said whether the Whistler women are absolutely out of the question, especially since this culture seems to have no taboo about sexual relationships between women.
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A Brother's Price / int_dbbba507	type	Handguns
A Brother's Price / int_dbbba507	comment	Handguns: As is typical for a Wild West setting. While the Whistlers favor rifles for serious engagements they still carry handguns around. Even Jerin has a derringer, though actually using it freaks him out.
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A Brother's Price / int_dc8ecfda	type	Futureshadowing
A Brother's Price / int_dc8ecfda	comment	Futureshadowing: It's pretty clear early on that Princess Odelia is looking for a husband, as she and her sisters aren't married. Yet we also learn that Princess Ren has some sexual experience. (Something unusual for an unmarried woman or man here) The fact that they were married, and their husband was a jerk whose death was a relief, is only revealed and shown in a nightmare-scene later. Likewise, it is known pretty early that he did something horrible to Princess Trini, and she's shy and misanthropic as a result. However, the reader (and the younger princesses) are only told later what, exactly.
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A Brother's Price / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
A Brother's Price / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The mother Whistlers and the Eldest sister are this. Naturally, they are away, selling horses in a neighboring city and visiting relatives, respectively, when the plot needs to get going. Also, Ren, who despite her reasonableness thinks that she can finish her important business in peace before talking to Jerin as he requested per messenger. Well, she is wrong, and later has a lot of guilt about this.
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A Brother's Price / int_dead632e	type	Adoption Is Not an Option
A Brother's Price / int_dead632e	comment	Adoption Is Not an Option: Adoption is forbidden by the local religion on the grounds that if the women in a family can simply give away unwanted girl children, they'll just get pregnant over and over again in the hopes of producing a boy. This is shown to have negative results when a family that can't afford to buy a husband then has no children and no one to pass their property on to after they die. Averted at the end when the Whistlers secretly adopt Eldie Porter, to prevent her being executed for the crimes of her mother.
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A Brother's Price / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
A Brother's Price / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: When Jerin gets a taste of real wealth when he finally gets engaged, he quickly finds that for him the idleness is enforced, it's confining, and he's bored. He and his sisters end up reading a newspaper "to death" and have to be rescued by friends.
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A Brother's Price / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
A Brother's Price / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Keifer was this for the princesses — he charmed the older ones with his beauty, but was a nagging, temper-tantrum-throwing man which the younger less smitten princesses could fully see. He made all of his wives unhappy to varying degrees, frankly, with the theater explosion the survivors all became (relatively) happy widows.
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A Brother's Price / int_df04089a	type	Lineage Comes from the Father
A Brother's Price / int_df04089a	comment	Lineage Comes from the Father: Lineage means different things in different circumstances. Noble or royal blood through the father gives status (most of the Queensland nobility became so by marrying a royal prince) but land and titles descend only through the female. In addition, birth certificates list the child's pedigree for generations, but solely following the maternal line.
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A Brother's Price / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
A Brother's Price / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Played for Drama There was a civil war between two branches of the royal family not so long ago, and the royal family is genre-savvy enough not to risk a repetition by splitting the family again. This means that all the princesses have to marry one husband. However, there is the additional problem that their now-deceased ex-husband was evil, and they married him against the warnings of Princess Trini. They do not want that one to repeat itself either, but Trini, who was hurt most, is understandably reluctant to marry anyone.
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A Brother's Price / int_e1311c40	type	Romancing the Widow
A Brother's Price / int_e1311c40	comment	Romancing the Widow: Jerin with the princesses. Since the former husband was a jerk, the widow status is not much dwelled on, though—it is only important insofar as Trini does not really want to remarry, for fear she could get such a jerk again.
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A Brother's Price / int_e1cee453	type	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife
A Brother's Price / int_e1cee453	comment	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: The breathtakingly handsome Jerin is worried about this trope when it comes to the Brindle sisters, all of whom he thinks "look like horses". He's also quite put off by their personalities and uncouth behavior. Instead, he marries a women who has scars all over her face and upper body, a sight which disgusted her ex-lover so much that she left her. As sororal polygyny is the norm, not all of his wives are ugly, but this one is, although he does find her eyes beautiful and greatly likes her personality.
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A Brother's Price / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
A Brother's Price / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: An interesting piece of the Queensland culture; The firstborn daughter of any family is named Eldest and raised to be the leader of her siblings. When someone outside of the family addresses Eldest, it's almost always by the last name. Eldest Whistler is introduced as Eldest Whistler, and that's how she's handled in the narration, but called Whistler when spoken to. If an Eldest dies one of her sisters is considered "eldest", but keeps her name and isn't called by her family name.
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A Brother's Price / int_e2c91d45	type	Comfort Food
A Brother's Price / int_e2c91d45	comment	Comfort Food: When they find out he's leaving to get married, Jerin's toddler sisters are inconsolable, so he comforts them by suggesting they bake a pound cake and make maple ice cream.
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A Brother's Price / int_e2f5760	type	House Husband
A Brother's Price / int_e2f5760	comment	As men are only about three to five percent of the adult population, and are regarded as more delicate and fragile than women, mostly relegated to House Husband duties. Women are far more collective than they would be in a simple patriarchy flip. Sisters, born to a set of sisters married to one man, look to the firstborn among them, their Eldest, as an authority.
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A Brother's Price / int_e32c80d9	type	Going Commando
A Brother's Price / int_e32c80d9	comment	Going Commando: An early scene where Jerin is sans pants or undergarments and just in a nightshirt heading to the kitchen for a snack, which is how he's dressed when he meets the similarly clad Princess Ren, who is bedding down there for the night. Later in the book he's scandalized to find that he is expected to wear tight clothing including a codpiece, which he can't wear anything beneath.
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A Brother's Price / int_e3497ce6	type	DoublySubverted
A Brother's Price / int_e3497ce6	comment	Doubly Subverted in that he marries women kind enough to let him visit but he knows he will never call the farm home again.
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A Brother's Price / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
A Brother's Price / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: Jerin is disguised as a female prostitute. However, as men are rare in the setting, female prostitutes try to look like men, to appeal to their female customers, most of whom would probably consider themselves heterosexual. This means that he is a man, who disguises himself as a woman, who disguises herself as a man. Due to the gender roles in that setting, the appearance he is ultimately described as having is somewhat Drag Queen like.
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A Brother's Price / int_e38c6149	type	Settle for Sibling
A Brother's Price / int_e38c6149	comment	Settle for Sibling: Due to male Gender Rarity Value, the sisters of a family marry one mannote usually all of them, though families that can afford to do so may split the sisters in half and get two husbands, so a man cannot settle for sibling, he gets all of them or none. However, the trope comes up twice in the story. Averted with the Porter sisters, who offer for Jerin but seem unwilling to consider one of his (not yet of age) brothers, or any of his (close to him in age but not of age yet) cousins, despite it being an arranged marriage, anyway. (Though they do appreciate Jerin's good looks.) Cira believes that it's because so far, only Jerin has been openly acknowledged as a grandson of the late Prince Alannon by the Queens themselves. The Porters are attempting to assassinate the princesses and seize the throne through virtue of being a prominent noble family and because their late brother was married to the princesses (it having been established earlier that inheritances can go to the family of a husband if all legitimate heirs are deceased). Having Jerin, the only officially recognized male descendant of prince Alannon and the only one currently of age to marry, as their husband would bolster their claim to the throne by letting them point out that as Jerin is the grandson of prince Alannon, the royal lineage would still be carried on through their children. Cullen Moorland ends up betrothed to Jerin's older sisters. He would like to get his sisters married to a brother of his wives, for a Double In-Law Marriage that would allow him frequent contact with his sisters and because they would give their husband the aristocratic lifestyle that Cullen saw wowed Jerin and his sisters in the beginning, but is willing to settle for Jerin's cousin Dail, who is nearly of age to be married.
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A Brother's Price / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
A Brother's Price / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Prince Allanon is a rare male example. He was a beautiful, dignified, quietly regal man who had his wives twisting themselves into pretzels to please him. And he saw to it his sons and grandsons were raised to be the same, as his grandson Jerin demonstrates.
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A Brother's Price / int_e41a9801	type	All Women Are Lustful
A Brother's Price / int_e41a9801	comment	All Women Are Lustful: When he's out in public, Jerin is eyed ceaselessly with jealousy or speculation, even with his heavily armed sisters there to protect him. When he puts his veil up for a bit, he's chastised for tempting people; later he's dissuaded from going out alone because he is not safe. In the span of the novel, he is kissed several times without his verbal consent by women, and such behavior seems to be expected of them, much like how some people in our day and age say control of their sexual urges cannot be expected of men faced with an attractive woman. As the setting is a world with few men, since they strongly tend to miscarry or be stillborn, men are kept carefully sheltered and secluded, because otherwise women abduct them in "husband raids". One such man, the very beautiful and almost-of-marrying-age Jerin, is noted to have had erotic dreams, and after some Questionable Consent is happy to be seduced by a visiting princess. Later in the book he goes out in public, surrounded by protective sisters, and a note is made that women stare at him with either envy—if only I had a man like that!—or open speculation, wondering if they could get away with stealing him. He actively fears being abducted and raped. Virginity is highly valued in unmarried men, since this world averts STD Immunity. It's an interesting use of this trope, because on the one hand part of this "lust" is greed; there's economic value in men and particularly virgins. On the other hand, lust is certainly part of it. Jerin was taught the "art" of pleasing a woman with his hands and mouth, the better to keep several wives happy; another male character employed the Lysistrata Gambit to great effect.
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A Brother's Price / int_e4dde6dc	type	Sent Into Hiding
A Brother's Price / int_e4dde6dc	comment	Sent Into Hiding: Alannon was kept secret by the Whistler grandmothers... he was a prince, although not a Hidden Backup Prince (he was not heir to the throne), and their kidnapping him from a palace under siege was not entirely legal. They were determined to keep him, even though the royal family (the one that had wiped out his branch of the family) searched for him for a long time.
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A Brother's Price / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
A Brother's Price / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: Most families seen tend towards giving their kids completely unrelated names, but the two noted sisters of the Tern family are Raven and Hawk. (One wonders if their mothers chose these names because their surname is also a bird.)
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A Brother's Price / int_e517eb5b	type	Affectionate Pickpocket
A Brother's Price / int_e517eb5b	comment	Affectionate Pickpocket: Jerin pretends to stumble against a woman and allows her to grope him in order to steal back his own gun, which she took away from him earlier. He repeats this with a different captor to get back his confiscated lockpicks.
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A Brother's Price / int_e54482ee	type	Keet
A Brother's Price / int_e54482ee	comment	Keet: Cullen is a rather excitable outgoing guy whose personality rapidly captures the heart of Eldest Whistler and others of her generation. He also helps Jerin adapt to his new royal circumstances.
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A Brother's Price / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
A Brother's Price / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: Rare male version. Judging from the description male Seasonal ballroom costume recalls David Bowie's costumes in Labyrinth with a codpiece further emphasizing The Area. Jerin's shirt has little bells sewn onto the sleeves, and he complains that he feels like his culture's equivalent of a Christmas tree. Everyone at the ball at the royal palace seems to wear some variant of this.
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A Brother's Price / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
A Brother's Price / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Little Bunny Whistler attempts this, but when she voices her belief that Daddy has "gone away", Jerin gently tells her that no, sweetie, Daddy died.
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A Brother's Price / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
A Brother's Price / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: Eldie Porter's parents — not that that makes it okay in-universe, just not so bad as it might have been. And they're still blood, just not siblings; they're what we would consider cousins.
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A Brother's Price / int_e69efe7f	type	Lysistrata Gambit
A Brother's Price / int_e69efe7f	comment	Lysistrata Gambit: Keifer often withheld sex in conjunction with throwing raging fits in order to get his wives to go along with whatever he wanted. His older wives were madly in love with him, so it tended to work. He cheated on them anyway.
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A Brother's Price / int_e78119cb	type	Girls with Guns
A Brother's Price / int_e78119cb	comment	Girls with Guns: When it's not being a Romance Novel, it is this thanks to a combination of World of Action Girls and the invention of firearms. Mainly revolvers, but rifles also show up as do cannons.
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A Brother's Price / int_e7fc5c61	type	Family Honor
A Brother's Price / int_e7fc5c61	comment	Family Honor: Enforced All family members are punished by the law if one steps out of line. One can get out of this by claiming that the family is estranged and was not working together, but it is automatically assumed that they did work together. After Heria and Jerin Whistler save the life of a princess, Queen Elder compliments Eldest Whistler (who wasn't even there at the time) for acting in accordance with the law, even though this endangered Jerin, a valuable boy. However, they also value their honor in the more abstract sense; Jerin's sister Corelle, when she notices that he's being courted by a noblewoman who thinks the Whistler family is beneath her, remarks that they will not be looked down on by their future sisters-in-law, and rescues Jerin from the unpleasant company.
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A Brother's Price / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
A Brother's Price / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in the case of Keifer Porter, who was never punished for the rape, abuse and murder he committed, but did die in an accident later on - in which, however, lots of innocent people also died.
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A Brother's Price / int_e923c801	type	Did Not Die That Way
A Brother's Price / int_e923c801	comment	Did Not Die That Way: The princesses' father died some years ago of a suspected poisoning. Which is true. However, he was not poisoned by a stranger, but by Keifer, the princesses' horrible husband. There is also Keifer himself, who was Too Dumb to Live, and died in an explosion that his co-conspirators caused, because he didn't notice his cue for getting out. No one suspected that he was Hoist by His Own Petard
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A Brother's Price / int_e993a60f	type	Defensive Feint Trap
A Brother's Price / int_e993a60f	comment	Defensive Feint Trap: In a meta-example Jerin pulls this on the younger princesses he's playing toy soldiers with. One of the older ones is very angry, but he manages to convince her that it is not cheating if you could do it with a real army.
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A Brother's Price / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
A Brother's Price / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Literacy is not ubiquitous in Queensland, justified given it's Fantasy Americana set around 1860ish, which didn't have universal literacy either. The entire Whistler clan being literate is a bit unusual when you include the males, but their grandfather had high standards.
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A Brother's Price / int_e9c022ea	type	Secretly Wealthy
A Brother's Price / int_e9c022ea	comment	Secretly Wealthy: Cira, when Jerin meets her he intuits that she's richer than she seems. His family has worked as spies for some generations, and kept up the traditions, so he knows what to look for.
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A Brother's Price / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
A Brother's Price / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Cira tells a group of women intending to group together to start a new family of "sisters", which she's been invited to join, that she's "done second in line" and that "some" felt she "was usurping my sister's authority", so she left. Details she's leaving out include that she's Halley, currently the second eldest living princess, behind Ren, that she was the natural leader of her age group among her sisters, and that she was the one who felt she was getting in the way of her current Eldest's authority, since most found it more natural to look to the more dominant Halley for leadership over the less confident Ren.
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A Brother's Price / int_ea382fea	type	Wait Here
A Brother's Price / int_ea382fea	comment	Wait Here: Subverted Jerin actually does this when Cira tells him to and does not get in trouble. Of course, he was trained to obey orders by his soldier-descended family, who have a strict chain of command. It also helps that this provides an opportunity to search his rescuer's stuff and get some more information about her.
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A Brother's Price / int_ea6abe17	type	Every Scar Has a Story
A Brother's Price / int_ea6abe17	comment	Every Scar Has a Story: Cira got her scar(s) from the incident which killed many members of her family. It's her reason for doing what she does, and it is also why she lost her lover. Jerin thinks it looks cool, though.
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A Brother's Price / int_eab4826e	type	Dismissing a Compliment
A Brother's Price / int_eab4826e	comment	Dismissing a Compliment: Jerin indirectly does this to the idea that noblewomen will pay a big "brother's price" because of his beauty. Jerin himself thinks it's just because they're his sisters that they have such a high opinion of him, and is afraid of disappointing their hopes. He needn't have worried, he fetches the sum they thought he would, and they could easily have demanded more.
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A Brother's Price / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
A Brother's Price / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Corelle. She gets better later, but her personality remains on the rougher side. Also, Keifer Porter lacks any positive qualities or sensible relatives who would prevent him from becoming cruel and spoiled rotten.
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A Brother's Price / int_eba57b3f	type	Cornered Rattlesnake
A Brother's Price / int_eba57b3f	comment	Cornered Rattlesnake: Captain Tern is genre-savvy enough to avert this. When she stands in front of the Whistler farm, and the question is presented to her why she doesn't just force them to let her in, she points out that the adults are away on business, and the house is full of toddlers and girls in their early teens, who are armed to the teeth.
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A Brother's Price / int_ebec0a20	type	You Get What You Pay For
A Brother's Price / int_ebec0a20	comment	You Get What You Pay For: If a woman wants a child they have three options: they can either swap their brother (if they have one) for a husband, they can pay the eponymous "brother's price" to marry another family's brother, or they can go to a so-called crib, which is a bit like a brothel, but more focused on conceiving children. A brother's price can range from two-thousand to five-thousand, depending on whether the man is a commoner or royalty. The men in a crib cost ten per night, but there is the risk of catching an STD, which is incurable. Considering that a woman might have to try for a dozen times or more to conceive a child, and a husband will sleep with all the sisters in a family, the "cheap" option is actually the more expensive one, as explained in the Discworld example of this trope. A family is mentioned where one sister went to a crib before she and her sisters married. The whole family (newborn children included) died from the ensuing STD.
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A Brother's Price / int_ecac4c42	type	Why Won't You Die?
A Brother's Price / int_ecac4c42	comment	Why Won't You Die?: Ren to the villain:
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A Brother's Price / int_ecc643	type	But I Would Really Enjoy It
A Brother's Price / int_ecc643	comment	But I Would Really Enjoy It: When Ren seduces Jerin, he "takes the edge off" the lust on both their parts by resorting to the techniques his father taught him for pleasing a woman, which is never described, but appears to involve oral sex. They could go from there to outright penis-in-vagina intercourse, but with great difficulty he refrains so he can remain a Technical Virgin. Also, he refuses Cira until she tells him she's another of the princesses, so it's okay, since she's one of his wives.
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A Brother's Price / int_ece948d8	type	Tender Tears
A Brother's Price / int_ece948d8	comment	Tender Tears: Jerin cries several times over the course of the book.
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A Brother's Price / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
A Brother's Price / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Any time the Eldest of the family passes the next oldest daughter is expected to step up. There's a variant where no one dies, but most of the family went away on business, leaving the about 16-year-old Corelle in charge. Corelle then decides to go court the neighbor boy, with three of the other middle sisters in tow. This results in protagonist Jerin having to leave the house with a fourteen-year-old as bodyguard for himself, and even younger sisters to guard the house and younger brothers.
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A Brother's Price / int_ed371675	type	Til Murder Do Us Part
A Brother's Price / int_ed371675	comment	Til Murder Do Us Part: This trope has an interesting variation here where Keifer Porter was involved in a plan to kill (some of) his wives. It worked, but he was Too Dumb to Live and didn't get to safety before the bomb went off.]]
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A Brother's Price / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
A Brother's Price / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Because the firstborn daughter of any family is given the title/name "Eldest", there are a lot of Eldests around. However, non-family members usually call the Eldest of some other family by her last name. Technically there are three Eldest Whistlers shown, but Jerin only calls one of them by that name - the others he calls Mother Eldest and Cousin Eldest.
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A Brother's Price / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
A Brother's Price / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Invoked to explain why boy babies are so often stillborn. It is more likely to be due to environmental issues, but the characters have no idea and thus look for a supernatural explanation.
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A Brother's Price / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
A Brother's Price / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: What kicks off the plot. The law actually compels the Whistler family to do so, but as Jerin is alone at home with his younger sisters (who aren't strong enough to carry her), some of them suggest just ignoring the injured soldier and pretend to haven't known about it if asked later. He still risks his safety by going outside to carry her to safety. Later, Queen Eldest remarks that this was something they want to encourage, which is why the Queen's generously rewarded the family. It helps that the wounded soldier is Princess Odelia, and the reward is in part an excuse to get the Queen's okay to marry Jerin.
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A Brother's Price / int_ef3bf14b	type	Child Marriage Veto
A Brother's Price / int_ef3bf14b	comment	Child Marriage Veto: Jerin vetoes a marriage to the Brindle sisters in advance. Eldest happily agrees, as she doesn't like Balin Brindle, who would be her husband if they swapped him for Jerin. Years ago Trini attempted to veto the marriage to Keifer but her veto was not heeded, which resulted in a horrible marriage. In the present Trini is widowed and, finally, allowed to veto.
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A Brother's Price / int_efe04722	type	Dances and Balls
A Brother's Price / int_efe04722	comment	Dances and Balls: Mayfair's summer season is stuffed with these. We only see the opening ball given by the Queens but presumably, the activity goes on in the background as the rest of the plot proceeds
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A Brother's Price / int_eff65ef6	type	Chained to a Bed
A Brother's Price / int_eff65ef6	comment	Chained to a Bed: Jerin's abduction is Played for Drama. The first time, he's assured that he won't be touched, and the second time after he is recaptured, he's been delivered to the women who arranged for his kidnapping, one of whom rapes his mouth. Cira, who was Bound and Gagged and chained to the foot of the bed to watch, is furious.
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A Brother's Price / int_eff7d17	type	Mysterious Backer
A Brother's Price / int_eff7d17	comment	Mysterious Backer: Cira, she seems to be one of the villains, then she announces her intent to help Jerin, and indeed does so.
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A Brother's Price / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
A Brother's Price / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Combined with Trend Aesop as the nobility tends towards this, with expensive outfits that are only intended to be worn once, with some buying whole wardrobes for just one season. Then there's talk of eating off plates of gold and having fresh fruit even in winter.
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A Brother's Price / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
A Brother's Price / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Jerin is the last one to be told that Princess Ren intends to make an offer for his hand in marriage. Justified in that it is a very good match, more than he could hope for, and no one wants to get his hopes up in case it doesn't work out in the end.
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A Brother's Price / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
A Brother's Price / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: When his father dies, Jerin steps into the child-nurturing and house-tending role, and does well at it, since he'd been helping and learning from his father all along. The downside is that when they hear he's leaving to be married, his youngest sisters react as if losing another father.
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A Brother's Price / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
A Brother's Price / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: Cullen's sisters want him to be the proper man, decorative and safe. He's horse-mad but his family won't let him near horses because "I had some great-great-grandfart that got kicked in the head and died"; he has a cousin who'll take him to the stables and let him pet them over a low wall, but that's about it. When the Whistlers, who are a lot more liberal in their treatment of men, propose, he tells his sisters he'd be happy with them. They're good to men, they aren't stodgy, they have little brothers so he'd have other men around, they'd teach him how to ri - to write and read.
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A Brother's Price / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
A Brother's Price / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Despite the fact that he is to be sold by his sisters to another family so they can secure a real estate deal, fated to never call the farm he grew up in a home again and seldom ever see his relatives (and that's if his wives are generous), Jerin is eager to bring them a good brother's price and not once does he complain about his predicamentnote (aside from begging them not to swap him for the Brindle's brother, or to a family with more than 10 sisters).
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A Brother's Price / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
A Brother's Price / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: after Jerin has been kidnapped, rescued by Cira, and re-kidnapped with her in tow, and has just picked the lock on his handcuffs.
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A Brother's Price / int_f4b744f5	type	Unkempt Beauty
A Brother's Price / int_f4b744f5	comment	Unkempt Beauty: Default for every person in the setting, who are uniformly described as beautiful or handsome in some way given there being an almost cultural taboo against makeup. Unless you work as a whore, women pretending to be male to meet the demand for non-reproductive sex. During his kidnapping this also applies to Jerin as he's normally made up while he's in the capital while here he's messed around.
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A Brother's Price / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
A Brother's Price / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Mostly averted, as women who don't want to get pregnant usually will just take a female lover or be celibate. Women who do have intercourse with one of the rare men do so with the intent to get pregnant. However, it seems that Eldest Whistler got pregnant before getting engaged, or at least this could be suspected. Not played for drama, as she marries the man anyway. Played straight (justified) for most families who desire a boy child, though, as sperm quality is seemingly low, and male babies are frequently stillborn.
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A Brother's Price / int_f51c5f3c	type	Never Say "Die"
A Brother's Price / int_f51c5f3c	comment	Never Say "Die": Played With then Subverted. When she hears that her big brother is going to leave the family to be married, little Bunny Whistler takes it in the worst possible way.
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A Brother's Price / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
A Brother's Price / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: Averted, completely. When Jerin has to shoot someone, he is shocked rather than proud. Other characters with more military upbringing aren't as squeamish, but view killing as a necessity rather as something fun.
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A Brother's Price / int_f6091f22	type	Lazy Husband
A Brother's Price / int_f6091f22	comment	Lazy Husband: Played With, keeping house is considered a man's duty, and while a Lazy Husband occasionally exists, most women evaluate a potential husband's housekeeping qualities before they marry him. The abusive Keifer Porter is said to have been very lazy on top of his abuse.
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A Brother's Price / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
A Brother's Price / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Jerin is convinced, with reason, that he and his wives have done this. After all they've gone through (betrayals, tumult, reconciliations, kidnapping, deaths, waterfalls, assignations against his virtue). The final line is.
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A Brother's Price / int_f66dfb4b	type	His Name Really Is "Barkeep"
A Brother's Price / int_f66dfb4b	comment	His Name Really Is "Barkeep": The oldest sister in any family actually is "Eldest", as while we get to know the actual names of women who have taken on the title of "Eldest" because the eldest sister died, the first-born girl of a family is never called anything other than "Eldest." Apparently, when she (or one of her sisters) has her first child, she takes on the title of "Mother Elder" to avoid confusion. (Note that regardless of who actually gave birth to the child in question, all members of the birth mother's group of sisters are considered a mother of the child.)
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A Brother's Price / int_f6a9024b	type	Altar the Speed
A Brother's Price / int_f6a9024b	comment	Altar the Speed: The Whistlers need to get Jerin betrothed as quickly as possible to a family that can afford a high brother's price upfront, so the sisters can pay for the property they've signed a contract on before the agreement expires.
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A Brother's Price / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
A Brother's Price / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: A Brother's Price can be arranged for the purpose of gold-digging by the relatives, and it very often is. Keifer Porter is a rare male example in fiction, but common in the setting. He was fully onboard with his sisters' decision to marry him to the Princesses - they got the money, and became sisters-in-law with the royals, he got fancy clothes and jewelry, a luxurious life, and was planning on having the husband's quarters redecorated with gilding and all sorts of expensive extras. The Whistlers, being a comparably poor family, are suspected of being gold-diggers, but they aren't; they want Jerin to be happy, and never even dreamt of being able to marry him to a noble family before the opportunity presented itself.
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A Brother's Price / int_f6ce4c24	type	Battle Harem
A Brother's Price / int_f6ce4c24	comment	Battle Harem: Mess with Jerin, and you will have five furious warrior princesses at your throat note The only reason the other five aren't involved is that they're too young, generally around eight years old—once they're old enough, count them in as protectors for their husband as well, not to mention fifty or sixty mothers, sisters, aunts and cousins all trained as fighters and thieves.
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A Brother's Price / int_f7057d51	type	Matriarchy
A Brother's Price / int_f7057d51	comment	Matriarchy: A variant of the "gender-flip of patriarchy," complicated by the change in male:female ratio. As men are only about three to five percent of the adult population, and are regarded as more delicate and fragile than women, mostly relegated to House Husband duties. Women are far more collective than they would be in a simple patriarchy flip. Sisters, born to a set of sisters married to one man, look to the firstborn among them, their Eldest, as an authority.
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A Brother's Price / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
A Brother's Price / int_f7883b17	comment	Ren and Halley survive the attack in the theater basically thanks to Keifer being an ass and sending Ren home. Better yet, this basically foils the attackers' plan of weakening the royal family by ultimately leaving the two most competent princesses (after their older sisters were implied cases of Love Makes You Dumb) as the eldest. Better yet, Keifer was actually part of the enemies' party and was supposed to survive. His stupidity killed him, the Porters' Eldest, the princesses who sympathized with the Porters, and ultimately his family's influence at the court. What was left were the middle princesses, who remembered him and the rest of the Porters unfavorably and had learned their lesson how to and how not to choose and treat a husband, in charge now. Really, good job.
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A Brother's Price / int_f8014e64	type	Homeschooled Kids
A Brother's Price / int_f8014e64	comment	Homeschooled Kids: Jerin and his brothers are homeschooled. This is unusual — most boys in the setting are implied to get no education at all, and their sisters actually went to a schoolhouse. The princesses, of course, had private tutors on retainer.
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A Brother's Price / int_f829585a	type	Beauty Is Bad
A Brother's Price / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: Keifer, who is described as having been very beautiful, but also stupid and cruel, is a straight example. Jerin, also noted for his beauty, subverts this by being both intelligent and very kind-natured.
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A Brother's Price / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
A Brother's Price / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Eldest Moorland is willing to accept a "Brother's Price" less than half of what her sibling Cullen is worth simply because his happiness means more to her than the money.
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A Brother's Price / int_f8d24fbb	type	BigSisterInstinct
A Brother's Price / int_f8d24fbb	comment	Big Sister Instinct: The women of Queensland care very much for their brothers, sons, and other menfolk. Basically, women are expected by other women to behave like cornered wolverines if they have "men to protect."
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A Brother's Price / int_f8ecb0a1	type	Glorified Sperm Donor
A Brother's Price / int_f8ecb0a1	comment	Glorified Sperm Donor: This is more common than not, given how rare men are in the setting; Women of the lower (therefore most populist) classes usually go to so-called "cribs" to get pregnant, and the sperm donor is documented to avoid inbreeding. Only from middle-class up do people have an actual father. The Whistler family has a shared grandfather and shared father, and may not be otherwise related at all - Jerin suspects that his grandmothers just pretended to be sisters, in order to be able to rise to middle-class.
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A Brother's Price / int_f93f49f1	type	Wedlock Block
A Brother's Price / int_f93f49f1	comment	Wedlock Block: Ren runs into problems getting her mothers to approve their marriage to Jerin when her Mother Eldest insists that all the adult princesses agree, in order to avoid some of the problems they had with Keifer. Since Halley's missing and Trini really doesn't want to remarry, it's tough-going for Ren.
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A Brother's Price / int_f9977015	type	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
A Brother's Price / int_f9977015	comment	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: A minor plot point has the princesses have to decide who gets to inherit the Wakecliffe Estate, specifically a strategically important piece of land, and use their rule-fu to make a legal decision that gives that piece of land to the crown. (They're benevolent rulers who adhere to their own rules). The three families who brought the case to court also try to invoke the trope to their personal advantage, and succeed to some degree, as the princesses only want the piece of land mentioned above, they don't care about the money, and manors, and other stuff.
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A Brother's Price / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
A Brother's Price / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Jerin, several times. He's not entirely helpless in these situations, but he'd have been in very bad shape without assistance. On the other hand, his resourcefulness and unusual skills seriously impress Cira. When he's taken captive, his own skills and his initiative are vitally important to his escape.
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A Brother's Price / int_fa3d111f	type	Maternally Challenged
A Brother's Price / int_fa3d111f	comment	Maternally Challenged: Women are not expected to care for babies, so Captain Tern's attitude (she left home because her baby sisters annoyed her so much) is considered unremarkable. Balin Brindle's lack of competence around small children, however, is considered highly unusual, and a reason to not marry him.
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A Brother's Price / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
A Brother's Price / int_fb56b948	comment	My Brother Is Off Limits: For poor families swapping brothers is one of the only ways they can guarantee a husband, for better-off ones the titular Brothers Price is an important injection of capital. For even higher ones it's an important political marriage alliance. Princess Ren severely damages her friendship with Eldest Whistler when she seduces her younger brother. It gets better when Ren makes it clear that she fully intends to marry him, as soon as she gets rid of a Parental Marriage Veto.
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A Brother's Price / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
A Brother's Price / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Awareness of this trope leads to a very cold practice: if a family has committed treason, when they are executed so are all of their children. Right down to the infants. The only exceptions happen if the family is ruled to not be working together in concert as is proper, like the Whistler family was generations before the book's start. Several characters find this practice monstrous, but others are ruthlessly pragmatic. Things come to a head when the mothers of Ren's five-year-old "niece" Eldie Porter are found trying to kill the Queens and Princesses, and it's explicitly stated that if she's allowed to live, this trope will come into play. Fortunately, the Whistlers have a third option in mind. Somewhat more literally, Jerin finds evidence that the same offenders were involved in the death of the princesses' father by poisoning. Keifer, who did the actual killing, was Hoist by His Own Petard because he was Too Dumb to Live. He didn't run in time to escape a bomb his family had planted. That explosion also killed much of the royal family.
A Brother's Price / int_fb6b207f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_fb6b207f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	A Brother's Price / int_fb6b207f
A Brother's Price / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
A Brother's Price / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: Averted, Captain Tern knows that, if she tries to force entry to the Whistler household, the Whistler girls (the oldest one who is at home at the time is about sixteen) will fight to death, regardless of what she says, as they have brothers to protect. She's not keen on killing little girls, so she decides to wait until the Queen's Justice arrives and sorts it out. She explains this thought process to Princess Rensellaer when asked why she's willing to wait for what could be hours. (Captain Tern would have to kill the girls, as it is her duty to protect the royal family, regardless of how stupid the princesses act. Fortunately, Ren agrees that they should avoid a confrontation).
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A Brother's Price / int_fd32c5a1	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_fd497586	type	You Mean "Xmas"
A Brother's Price / int_fd497586	comment	You Mean "Xmas": Jerin complains that he looks like a "midwinter tree" with all the jewelery he's wearing for the Mayfair ball.
A Brother's Price / int_fd497586	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_fd497586	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_fd6b88cb	type	Ruling Family Massacre
A Brother's Price / int_fd6b88cb	comment	Ruling Family Massacre: Decades ago the royal family split up, and the husband of the older sisters was infertile, so the younger sisters demanded that their children become heirs to the throne. This caused a civil war, after which the losing half was put to death. All of them. Except Prince Alannon, who didn't want to be a backup prince and chose to stay hidden. The main plot of the novel is some villains' attempt to overthrow the royal family by killing them all and using what weak claim to the throne a marriage to Alannon's grandson Jerin and being the royal familyâ€™s former sisters-in-law can supplant the existing royalty.
A Brother's Price / int_fd6b88cb	featureApplicability	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_fd81c335	type	Nurture over Nature
A Brother's Price / int_fd81c335	comment	Nurture over Nature: little Neddie is adopted by the Whistlers at about five years old, and, despite remembering her birth parents, she apparently never asks about them, but makes an effort to fit into the new family and is seen happily running around with her new adopted siblings. She is said to be a lot happier with their adoptive family than she ever was with her birth family. It is implied that her birth family neglected her.
A Brother's Price / int_fd81c335	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_fd81c335	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_fd8e3e9d	type	World of Action Girls
A Brother's Price / int_fd8e3e9d	comment	World of Action Girls: By default and necessity. Every Whistler, including the boys, is trained to some degree in fighting. There's a mention once of "teams of little girls" loading and aiming rifles when they think someone's about to raid the house.
A Brother's Price / int_fd8e3e9d	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_fd8e3e9d	featureConfidence	1.0
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	A Brother's Price / int_fd8e3e9d
A Brother's Price / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
A Brother's Price / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Of a sort. The firstborn female of any family is always named Eldest. The Whistlers have the Mother Elder, the oldest of the mothers, and Eldest Whistler, the eldest of their daughters. A batch of experimental prototype cannons which were stolen before the book starts, which have a major subplot devoted to them, are called the Prophets and have names derived from the in-universe mythology: Joan, Bonnye, Anna, Judith, Gregor, Larisa, Nane, and Ami.
A Brother's Price / int_fd94c4ac	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_fd94c4ac	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_fdc6d885	type	Technical Virgin
A Brother's Price / int_fdc6d885	comment	Technical Virgin: Jerin after being seduced by Ren. He has angst over it, worrying if it means his mouth isn't virgin now, or if it's a whole package deal.
A Brother's Price / int_fdc6d885	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_fdc6d885	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_fe3122a3	type	Love Before First Sight
A Brother's Price / int_fe3122a3	comment	Love Before First Sight: Given men are rare, and unmarried men are chaperoned by their sisters, for STD Immunity is thoroughly averted, and a man who is not pure anymore would be unmarriageable. As a result of this, falling in love with a description is not all that unusual. Therefore, it is no surprise that Ren spends the night in the kitchen in the hopes of meeting Jerin, of whose beauty she knows only from the description of her sister Odelia. She does meet him, and is just as smitten with him as Odelia.
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A Brother's Price / int_fe91380c	type	Nobility Marries Money
A Brother's Price / int_fe91380c	comment	Nobility Marries Money: Cullen's mothers had a brother who was married off for money and status to the princesses' mothers — and ended up killed as part of a political game, which Cullen's mothers have regretted since, one of them calling their late brother a sacrificial lamb. The Whistlers couldn't pay the price that Cullen normally would have gotten, but Cullen's eldest sister agrees to the price anyway, stating that she wants Cullen to be happy and doesn't want to bear the same regrets their mothers do. Played Straight with the marriage offer of the Porters, who are nobility, but never married a royal prince, which they seek to amend by marrying a descendant of Prince Alannon, even though he may be poorer than they are. It's also part of their political scheming. They already placed themselves in the line of succession of the monarchy and the wealth and titles that come with it by having their brother marry the Princesses, but marrying a descendant of a former prince would make their claim on the monarchy twofold if something were to happen to the Princesses — a tragedy they just so happen to be planning.
A Brother's Price / int_fe91380c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_fe91380c	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_feea44a5	type	Fully-Clothed Nudity
A Brother's Price / int_feea44a5	comment	Fully-Clothed Nudity: A nightdress that falls to the knee is practically as decent as a walking robe! ...only not, if it's all you're wearing when your trip to the kitchen for a midnight snack is interrupted by a horny princess.
A Brother's Price / int_feea44a5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_feea44a5	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_ff202ce0	type	Scar Survey
A Brother's Price / int_ff202ce0	comment	Scar Survey: Gender-reversed example, with Cira and Jerin, when they talk about the scar on her face, which is nothing compared to how her back looks. They didn't sleep with each other beforehand, but she did try to seduce him, and tries a second time after revealing her scars.
A Brother's Price / int_ff202ce0	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_ff202ce0	featureConfidence	1.0
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	A Brother's Price / int_ff202ce0
A Brother's Price / int_ff251a68	type	Doting Parent
A Brother's Price / int_ff251a68	comment	Doting Parent: What Jerin's mothers are; he's sure they would marry him to nice girls. However, as his marriage will influence whom his sisters can marry, they leave that choice to their daughters, on whom they dote almost as much. Boys are more likely to get the full attention of a parent than girls, but girls are also expected to have the power and make the decisions.
A Brother's Price / int_ff251a68	featureApplicability	1.0
A Brother's Price / int_ff251a68	featureConfidence	1.0
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A Brother's Price / int_ffe1bbf8	type	Defiant Captive
A Brother's Price / int_ffe1bbf8	comment	Defiant Captive: Jerin doesn't make things easy for his captures, using various strategies, trying to manipulate his kidnappers into thinking he's helpless and childlike is one of them. Cira, captured along with him is this, too, but is also a Badass in Distress.
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A Brother's Price / int_ffe1bbf8	featureConfidence	1.0
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

A Brother's Price	hasFeature	A Match Made in Stockholm / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	A Real Man Is a Killer / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Abdicate the Throne / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Abduction Is Love / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Abhorrent Admirer / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Aborted Declaration of Love / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Absurdly Youthful Mother / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Action Survivor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Actually, I Am Him / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	After-Action Patch-Up / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	All Abusers Are Male / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	All Men Are Perverts / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	All Women Are Prudes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Aloof Big Brother / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Altar the Speed / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Always Save the Girl / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Ambiguously Bi / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	And Now You Must Marry Me / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	And That's Terrible / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Angst? What Angst? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Animal Theme Naming / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Anxiety Dreams / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Apron Matron / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Attack on One Is an Attack on All / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Awful Wedded Life / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Babies Make Everything Better / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Badass Longcoat / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Balanced Harem / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Barefoot Poverty / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bathing Beauty / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bathroom Break-Out / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Baths Are Fun / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Battle Harem / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Behind Every Great Man / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Beneath Suspicion / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Benevolent Boss / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Best Friends-in-Law / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Best Served Cold / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Beta Couple / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bifauxnen / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Big Brother Bully / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Big Fancy Castle / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bilingual Bonus / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bonding over Missing Parents / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Booby Trap / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bookcase Passage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Born Lucky / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bottomless Bladder / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Boyish Short Hair / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Brainless Beauty / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Breeding Slave / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bridal Carry / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bright Castle / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Bumbling Dad / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	But I Would Really Enjoy It / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	By the Hair / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Call on Me / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Career Versus Man / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Catch the Conscience / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Chastity Dagger / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Child by Rape / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Child Hater / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Child Marriage Veto / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Children Are a Waste / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Chivalrous Pervert / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Chosen Conception Partner / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Civil War / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Code of Honour / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Come with Me If You Want to Live / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Comfort Food / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Comforting Comforter / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Comforting the Widow / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Comic Sutra / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Coming and Going / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Common Hollywood Sex Traits / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Conspicuous Consumption / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Constantly Curious / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Contrived Clumsiness / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Cool Big Sis / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Cool Uncle / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Coordinated Clothes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Cornered Rattlesnake / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Costume Porn / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Couldn't Find a Pen / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Covered with Scars / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Covert Pervert / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Creepy Physical / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Cross-Dressing Voices / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Cross-Cast Role / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Crosses the Line Twice / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Culture Justifies Anything / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Cultured Badass / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Curtain Camouflage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dad the Veteran / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Daddy's Girl / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dances and Balls / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dangerous 16th Birthday / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dangerous 16th Birthday / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Darwinist Desire / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Death by Childbirth / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Deceptive Legacy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Defiant Captive / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Defiled Forever / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Deliberately Cute Child / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Delicious Distraction / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Deliver Us from Evil / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Did Not Die That Way / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Did They or Didn't They? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Disappointed in You / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Disguised in Drag / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dismissing a Compliment / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Distinguishing Mark / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Diving Save / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Divorce Requires Death / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Does He Have a Brother? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Does Not Like Men / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Don't Make Me Destroy You / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Don't Split Us Up / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Doting Parent / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Double In-Law Marriage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Double Subversion / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dumb Blonde / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dumb Is Good / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dye or Die / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dying Declaration of Love / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Easing into the Adventure / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Eating the Eye Candy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Education Mama / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Effortless Amazonian Lift / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Elder Abuse / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Entitled to Have You / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Erotic Dream / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Erotic Eating / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Even the Girls Want Her / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Every Scar Has a Story / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Everybody Knew Already / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Everyone Is Armed / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Everyone Is Bi / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Everyone Loves Blondes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Everything Sounds Sexier in French / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Evil All Along / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Evil Former Friend / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Evil Matriarch / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Evil Orphan / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Exact Eavesdropping / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Exotic Extended Marriage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Extended Disarming / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Extra Digits / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fallback Marriage Pact / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Family Eye Resemblance / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Family Honor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Family Relationship Switcheroo / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Family Theme Naming / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Family Title / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fancy Dinner / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fanfic Fuel / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fantastic Drug / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fantastic Honorifics / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fantastic Naming Convention / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fantasy Americana / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Farm Boy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Farmer's Daughter / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fashion Magazine / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Female Gaze / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Feuding Families / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fictional Currency / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	First Girl Wins / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Flashback Nightmare / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Florence Nightingale Effect / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Forbidden Fruit / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fourth-Date Marriage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Freakiness Shame / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Friendless Background / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Full-Name Basis / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fully-Clothed Nudity / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Futureshadowing / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Gaia's Lament / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Gaining the Will to Kill / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Gender Rarity Value / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Gendercide / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Gibberish of Love / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Gilded Cage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Girls with Guns / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Give Away the Bride / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Glorified Sperm Donor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	God Before Dogma / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Going Commando / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Gold Makes Everything Shiny / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Good Pays Better / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Good People Have Good Sex / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Good Samaritan / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Guess Who I'm Marrying? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Guyliner / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hair Color Spoiler / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Handguns / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Happy Rain / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Harmful to Minors / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Harmless Lady Disguise / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Harp of Femininity / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hat Damage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hates Baths / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Have I Mentioned I Am Gay? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	He Knows Too Much / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Head-Tiltingly Kinky / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Heir Club for Men / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Heir-In-Law / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Held Gaze / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Help Mistaken for Attack / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Henpecked Husband / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Heroes Want Redheads / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Heroic Bastard / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hidden Backup Prince / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hidden Weapons / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Higher Education Is for Women / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	History Repeats / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Holding Hands / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hollywood Encryption / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Homeschooled Kids / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Honorable Marriage Proposal / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hooked Up Afterwards / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hope Bringer / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hormone-Addled Teenager / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hot Consort / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hot Teacher / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	House Husband / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Hypocritical Heartwarming / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Am Not Pretty / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Can Change My Beloved / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Can Still Fight! / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Have You Now, My Pretty / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Lied / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Miss Mom / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Want Grandkids / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Was Quite a Looker / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I Wished You Were Dead / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Icy Blue Eyes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Identical Grandson / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Idle Rich / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Ignored Expert / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Impossibly Tacky Clothes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Impractically Fancy Outfit / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	In the Back / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	In the Blood / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	In the Hood / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	In Touch with His Feminine Side / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Inevitable Waterfall / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Infallible Babble / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Innocent Blue Eyes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Innocent Inaccurate / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Innocent Innuendo / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Insatiable Newlyweds / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Insecure Love Interest / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Instant Sedation / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Interesting Situation Duel / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Interplay of Sex and Violence / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Intimate Psychotherapy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	It Was a Gift / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	It's All My Fault / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Kind Restraints / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Kiss Diss / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Kissing Cousins / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Knight in Sour Armor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Knighting / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lady Land / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lamarck Was Right / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Last-Second Word Swap / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lazy Husband / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Leave No Witnesses / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Leonine Contract / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Less Disturbing in Context / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Letting Her Hair Down / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lewd Lust, Chaste Sex / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lifesaving Misfortune / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Like a Duck Takes to Water / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Like Parent, Like Spouse / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Likes Older Women / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lima Syndrome / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lineage Comes from the Father / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Literally Loving Thy Neighbor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Little Miss Badass / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Little Miss Snarker / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lonely Rich Kid / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Long Hair Is Feminine / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Long-Haired Pretty Boy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Love Before First Sight / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Love Confessor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Love Is a Weakness / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Love Makes You Dumb / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Low Fantasy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lured into a Trap / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lust Object / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Lysistrata Gambit / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Made a Slave / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Madonna-Whore Complex / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Man in a Kilt / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mandatory Motherhood / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Marital Rape License / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Marriage Before Romance / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Marry for Love / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Marry Them All / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Master of Unlocking / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Maternally Challenged / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Matriarchy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Matricide / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Meet Cute / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Men Act, Women Are / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Men Are Uncultured / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Men Can't Keep House / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Men Don't Cry / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Midnight Snack / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Military Maverick / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mistaken for Dying / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mistaken for Pedophile / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prostitute / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Modest Royalty / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Modesty Towel / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Motherhood Is Superior / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Moving the Goalposts / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Multigenerational Household / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mundane Luxury / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Murder-Suicide / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	My Biological Clock Is Ticking / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	My Girl Is Not a Slut / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	My Secret Pregnancy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mysterious Backer / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Mysterious Stranger / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Names to Trust Immediately / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Naughty Is Good / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Never Be Hurt Again / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Never Mess with Granny / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	No Accounting for Taste / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	No Heterosexual Sex Allowed / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	No Longer with Us / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	No Periods, Period / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	No Range Like Point-Blank Range / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	No Warrant? No Problem! / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Nobility Marries Money / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Noble Fugitive / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Noble Male, Roguish Male / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Nocturnal Emission / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Non-Action Guy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Not in Front of the Kid / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Nouveau Riche / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Nuclear Family / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Nurture over Nature / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Oblivious Adoption / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Obliviously Beautiful / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Official Couple Ordeal Syndrome / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Offstage Villainy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Oh, My Gods! / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Old Maid / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Old Man Marrying a Child / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Older Sidekick / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	One-Gender School / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	One Size Fits All / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	One Thing Led to Another / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Orphaned Etymology / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Our Nudity Is Different / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Outdoor Bath Peeping / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Outnumbered Sibling / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Over-the-Shoulder Carry / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Parental Marriage Veto / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Past Experience Nightmare / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Penny Among Diamonds / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Perfect Health / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Perma-Shave / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Petite Pride / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Physical Scars, Psychological Scars / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Pick Up Babes With Babes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Pitbull Dates Puppy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Playing the Victim Card / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Please, Don't Leave Me / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Plenty of Blondes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Plunder / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Poison Is Evil / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Politically-Active Princess / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Post-Kiss Catatonia / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Practice Kiss / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Pragmatic Hero / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Precocious Crush / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Predator Turned Protector / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Premiseville / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Prestige Peril / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Pretentious Pronunciation / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Pretty Boy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Prevent the War / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Prince Charming / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Prince Charming Wannabe / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Princeling Rivalry / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Princess Stories / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Private Tutor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Proper Lady / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Property of Love / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Prophetic Names / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Protect This House / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Questionable Consent / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Quitting to Get Married / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Raging Stiffie / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Raised by Dudes / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Ransacked Room / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Razor Floss / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Real Men Cook / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Real Men Hate Affection / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Real Men Hate Sugar / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rebellious Princess / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Recurring Dreams / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Recursive Crossdressing / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Red-Light District / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Redhead in Green / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Redundant Rescue / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Relatively Flimsy Excuse / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Reluctant Ruler / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rescue Reversal / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rescue Sex / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rescued from the Scrappy Heap / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rich Bitch / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rich Boredom / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Roaring Rampage of Rescue / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Romance Cover Scene / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Royal Harem / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Rugged Scar / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Ruler Protagonist / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Ruling Family Massacre / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	STD Immunity / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sacred Hospitality / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sadist / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Scar Survey / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Scars are Forever / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Scatterbrained Senior / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Schoolmarm / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Make Them! / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful! / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Second Law of Gender-Bending / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Secret Art / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Secretly Wealthy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Security Cling / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Seduction-Proof Marriage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Self-Disposing Villain / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sent Into Hiding / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Serial Rapist / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Settle for Sibling / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sex God / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Shared Unusual Trait / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sheltered Aristocrat / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Short Teens, Tall Adults / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Shoulders of Doom / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Significant Green-Eyed Redhead / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Single Line of Descent / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Situational Sexuality / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sleeping Single / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Smells Sexy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Smoking Is Glamorous / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Someone to Remember Him By / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Son of a Whore / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Spare to the Throne / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Special Person, Normal Name / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Spirited Young Lady / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Spoiled Sweet / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Stab the Scorpion / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Standard Hero Reward / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Standard Royal Court / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Stealth Expert / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Stealth Parody / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Stereotype Flip / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sterility Plague / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Storyboard Body / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Strong Family Resemblance / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Suddenly Significant Rule / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Suddenly Suitable Suitor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sugar-and-Ice Personality / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Surprise Incest / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Survivor Guilt / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sympathetic Adulterer / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tall, Dark, and Handsome / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tantrum Throwing / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tastes Like Friendship / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tattoo as Character Type / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Taught by Experience / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Team Mom / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Technical Virgin / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Teens Are Short / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tell Me About My Father / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tempting Apple / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tender Tears / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Terrified of Germs / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Terrifying Rescuer / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tertiary Sexual Characteristics / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Test Kiss / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Textile Work Is Feminine / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Beautiful Elite / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Big Damn Kiss / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Captain / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Clan / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Dandy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Ditherer / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Dutiful Son / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Family That Slays Together / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Good Captain / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Gunslinger / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The High Queen / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Jailbait Wait / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Kindnapper / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Law of Conservation of Detail / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Main Characters Do Everything / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Missus and the Ex / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The One Guy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Promise / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Runt at the End / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Stool Pigeon / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Talk / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Tragic Rose / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Unfair Sex / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Theiss Titillation Theory / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Thieves' Cant / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Thieves' Guild / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	This Is Unforgivable! / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Through His Stomach / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Til Murder Do Us Part / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tomboy Princess / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tongue Trauma / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Too Important to Walk / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Top Wife / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tough Leader FaÃ§ade / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Trauma-Induced Amnesia / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Trend Aesop / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Trouser Space / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unable to Support a Wife / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Undressing the Unconscious / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unequal Pairing / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unlimited Wardrobe / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unnamed Parent / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unorthodox Holstering / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unpopular Popular Character / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unwillingly Girly Tomboy / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Vanity Is Feminine / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Verbal Judo / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Villainous Incest / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Violence Is Disturbing / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Violently Protective Girlfriend / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Virgin in a White Dress / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Wait Here / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Waking Up Elsewhere / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Walking Armory / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Was Too Hard on Him / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Watching Troy Burn / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Weakness Turns Her On / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Weddings for Everyone / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Wedlock Block / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	What Beautiful Eyes! / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	What Is One Man's Life In Comparison? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	White Male Lead / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Why Won't You Die? / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	World of No Grandparents / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	You Get What You Pay For / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	You Mean "Xmas" / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	You Need to Get Laid / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Youthful Freckles / int_696b75c2
abrothersprice	sameAs	A Brother's Price
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Action Duo / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Affectionate Pickpocket / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	All Girls Like Ponies / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Dance of Romance / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Fictional Document / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Happily Ever After / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Parenting the Husband / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Romancing the Widow / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	She Will Come for Me / int_696b75c2
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Tearful Smile / int_696b75c2

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