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Arc of a Scythe

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Arc of a Scythe	comment	Arc of a Scythe is a sci-fi novel series by Neal Shusterman that takes the teen dystopia genre and turns it on its head: rather than showing yet another science fiction Dystopia, the series deconstructs the very idea of a Utopia by taking the most common idea of Utopia and showing the consequences of a truly peaceful, conflict-free world.In the far future, humanity has successfully eradicated all diseases. There is no war. All governments are under the control of a Benevolent A.I. called the Thunderhead. There is no social or economic inequality, and mankind has even managed to conquer death itself. But with humanity no longer constrained by time, someone has to keep the population under control to avoid overcrowding the world and using up Earth's finite resources. Enter the Scythedom, an order of warriors whose sole purpose is to kill people for the long-term survival of humanity.The series follows two teenagers, Rowan and Citra, who are chosen to become the apprentices of a high ranking Scythe. As they train for a job that neither of them actually wants, they come to realize that underneath the surface, their perfect world has some very deep flaws. With their every need taken care of by the Thunderhead, humanity has lost its drive to improve and simply does things to avoid boredom rather than out of any enjoyment, while younger generations of Scythes begin developing delusions of godhood and enjoy killing for its own sake. Citra and Rowan must learn the ins and outs of the Scythedom and train to become elite killing machines while also confronting the cracks in their utopia.There are a total of four installments in the series. The first book, Scythe, was released in November 2016. The second book, Thunderhead, was released in January 2018. The third, The Toll, was released in November 2019. A fourth companion book, Gleanings, was released in November 2022. It is an anthology of short stories set in the universe, and serves as a prequel and sequel to the original trilogy.A film adaptation is in the works at Amblin Entertainment, with the series' author stating Steven Spielberg is personally involved in an undisclosed capacity; however, the film's script has gone through no less than 3 sets of writers as of April 2023, and seems to be trapped in Development Hell.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_1373df15	type	City on the Water
Arc of a Scythe / int_1373df15	comment	City on the Water: The Island of the Enduring Heart (Endura for short). In addition to being the headquarters of the World Scythe Council, it also serves as a historical attraction for tourists and a refuge for Scythes' families. Goddard sinks it at the end of the second book.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Arc of a Scythe / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Greyson completely shuts down after Verity's gleaning, and his becoming wanted by the Scythedom for attacking Scythe Constantine (and being blamed for the various attacks on Scythes Anastasia and Curie). Understandable, as this also comes after having his life essentially erased, being branded unsavory (which cuts him off from the Thunderhead, who he essentially sees as a confidante and parent figure), having several heinous crimes attributed to him, and being forced to hide amongst a Tone Cult. He snaps out of it when the Thunderhead returns his identity to normal and contacts him at the end of the second book.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_171c50a9	type	The Philosopher
Arc of a Scythe / int_171c50a9	comment	The Philosopher: Scythe Curie has quite a lot of philosophy regarding the world in her gleaning journal. The Thunderhead as well. It spends a large portion of the second book thinking about its own nature, its limitations, and its purpose in the world.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Arc of a Scythe / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Goddard is extremely ambitious and wishes to mold the Scythedom to be more like him and his followers. When he takes over in the third book we see that his vision is a nightmare of mass gleanings where Goddard has full authority over who becomes a Scythe.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Arc of a Scythe / int_1be36a63	comment	Immortal Procreation Clause: Averted. Despite the lack of non-gleaning deaths, people keep on having children, sometimes having tens of them past age one hundred. Even at the end of Scythe, the Earth has yet to find a way to balance the birth and death rate. The end of The Toll solves it with nanite diseases that will kill a random 5% of the population every 20 years.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_1beef720	type	Living Forever Is Awesome
Arc of a Scythe / int_1beef720	comment	Living Forever Is Awesome: Deconstructed. Life may go on forever and you can be revived as long as you aren't marked by a Scythe for gleaning, but humans have begun to lose their drive to create and do things, simply going through the motions of life to stave off boredom rather than out of any passion for a particular activity.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_1c0dbffc	type	Pyromaniac
Arc of a Scythe / int_1c0dbffc	comment	Pyromaniac: Chomsky is never seen without his flamethrower while out on gleaning, and refuses to part with it even when told to put it away.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Arc of a Scythe / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Scythe Goddard. Combine this with his job and it becomes particularly dangerous. Scythes are not supposed to enjoy their work (at least according to the Old Guard), but Goddard reasons that he should be allowed to enjoy what he does.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_20c11a5c	type	Second Episode Introduction
Arc of a Scythe / int_20c11a5c	comment	Second Episode Introduction: Greyson Tolliver, Scythe Morrisonnote Debatable, as Morrison is technically mentioned in the first book in passing, but retconned/promoted to being important in the second book. He would lean closer to either Promoted to Meaningful Role or Remember the New Guy?, Curate Mendoza, Scythe Brahms and Munira Atrushi are all important characters who are introduced in the second book. Taken further with Jericho and Loriana, who are introduced in the initial chapters of third book, and Cirrus, an 11th-Hour Ranger in its purest form.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2104e7d4	type	Powerful and Helpless
Arc of a Scythe / int_2104e7d4	comment	Powerful and Helpless: The Thunderhead in any matters where Scythes are involved. It can change the weather, overload the entire world with alarms and feedback in an expression of rage, and it can switch the power on or off; the Thunderhead itself acknowledges that it is godlike... but it cannot directly interfere with Scythe activities. That said, it's a little downplayed thanks to a little Loophole Abuse here and there.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Arc of a Scythe / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Scythes do the public a legitimate service by thinning population numbers to avoid overpopulation issues. Despite this, many of them range from being arrogant and entitled, believing their service to the world puts them above other people, to blatantly sadistic and Ax-Crazy, believing it's their birthright to kill. Anastasia is one of the few who actually goes out of her way to make her gleaning targets' deaths as comfortable/fulfilling for the victim as possible, taking her mentor Faraday's philosophy (which was fair and merciful but still rather cold) even further.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Arc of a Scythe / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: The Scythes, what they do is a necessary public service and many are humane about it but they do still kill people.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_22711892	type	It Never Gets Any Easier
Arc of a Scythe / int_22711892	comment	It Never Gets Any Easier: After the first time Rowan is required to choose a subject for gleaning, he asks Faraday if it ever gets easier, to which Faraday responds, "I certainly hope not."
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Arc of a Scythe / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Arc of a Scythe / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Implied/zig-zagged in the ending of The Toll. Citra is revived in her 18-year-old body on Trappist-1e, and while Rowan "turns a corner" to match that appearance, he's lived 117 years longer than her on the space vessel that brought them to the planet, meaning he's actually 135 when they reunite and get together.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Arc of a Scythe / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: While children benefit from some element of (literal) Infant Immortality, they aren't immune to being gleaned. Scythe Faraday breaks into tears at dinnertime after he gleaned a child. Off-page, Scythe Volta massacres an entire classroom of Tonist children, which leads to his self-gleaning. Citra's final scythe test? To "glean" her own younger brother. He ends up being resurrected immediately after the test, but the moment plays the trope straight.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_26e3e271	type	Immortal Life Is Cheap
Arc of a Scythe / int_26e3e271	comment	Immortal Life Is Cheap: Outside gleaning and the occasional fire, all other potential causes of death simply renders a person deadish, until they are healed back to full health at a survival center. Several characters end up deadish throughout the series.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Arc of a Scythe / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: The Thunderhead performs increasingly amoral actions to ensure that the launch goes as planned, including supplanting all the Tonists whose bodies were collected and possessing Jeri briefly to grasp the final component needed to make more of itself. While Greyson understands this, he nonetheless declares the Thunderhead "unsavoury" to him for it, saying that there must still be consequences for its actions.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Arc of a Scythe / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Curate Mendoza initially seems to be a genuinely friendly and helpful Tone Cultist, protecting Greyson and connecting with him over the fact that they are both pretending to be true believers of the Cult's beliefs. Come The Toll though and he's quickly consumed with a desire to use Greyson's influence over all Tone Cults to make himself more influential and starts taking more and more underhanded steps to gain power.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Arc of a Scythe / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Scythe Faraday was clueless to the fact that Curie was in love with him while she was his apprentice. He thought she wanted to kill him. Once they were both older and wiser, he finally recognized her attempts at flirting for what they were and started a relationship in secret.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Arc of a Scythe / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: It's not made clear if Curate Mendoza actually died in the plane crash Rand caused, the plane presumably landed in the ocean so it's likely that his body was still intact but it may have not been recovered by the Thunderhead. It's never revealed what happened to Loriana and Scythe Morrison or the other ships that weren't Astrid or Rowan's. It's likely that some of the ships survived, especially considering Astrid's had the lowest chance of survival and still reached its destination but there are still many ways that the ships could have been destroyed. Gleanings shows that at least three of them were lost but the fate of the rest isn't shown.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_293f8cd8	type	I Meant to Do That
Arc of a Scythe / int_293f8cd8	comment	I Meant to Do That: Used to horrific effect in The Toll. When Rowan's unexpectedly rescued from his Public Execution, Rand tells Goddard to pretend he intended not to execute Rowan as a lesson to the public on glorifying in death. Goddard rolls with it...then decides to make it authentic by gleaning the 30,000 people who came to watch.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Arc of a Scythe / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: "Terra nova" is Portuguese for "new ground". Citra Terranova tries to rebuild the Scythedom from a new ground.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Arc of a Scythe / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Due to his constant "splatting", Tyger was legally made a ward of the Thunderhead by his parents.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2a4222ff	type	Benevolent A.I.
Arc of a Scythe / int_2a4222ff	comment	Benevolent A.I.: The Thunderhead oversees the perfect world and makes sure that everyone is safe and comfortable and is unable to harm people.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Arc of a Scythe / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Scythe Goddard is this to Rowan after Scythe Faraday's death.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Arc of a Scythe / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: All Scythes are feared and avoided by everybody, but Scythe Curie in particular has cultivated this reputation over the years, earning herself the nickname "Grand Dame of Death".
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
Arc of a Scythe / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: Part of becoming a Scythe is casting off your original identity and thinking of yourself in terms of your persona.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Arc of a Scythe / int_2d4fa515	comment	Scythe Goddard in Scythe, the Ax-Crazy scythe who goes on mass killing sprees for the sheer pleasure of it, and tries to make the entire Scythedom follow his views.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Arc of a Scythe / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: The Madagascar Charter Region is one where people are raised without genders until they choose one when coming of age, and many choose fluidity rather than one or the other. Captain Jerico, the most prominent Madagascan character, is a woman under the sun and stars and a man under clouds, and finds others' confusion at the concept very amusing.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2da9bb9b	type	Psychopomp
Arc of a Scythe / int_2da9bb9b	comment	Psychopomp: Scythes attempt to invoke this in-universe, as they all dress in cloaks similar to grim reapers. That said, it's a taboo to actually dress in black.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Arc of a Scythe / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Scythe Brahms mostly comes off as a slimy sadist who's only a New Order Scythe because of his sadism, however Rand says that he cried Tears of Joy upon learning that she was still alive and that she saved Goddard's head, implying that he genuinely belives in Goddard's philosophy.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Arc of a Scythe / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: With the option to "turn the corner" and reset their body to a younger state, people rarely look the age they actually are.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Arc of a Scythe / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: Downplayed. The Thunderhead learning about a part of the world it is not allowed to think about stresses it immensely as a flaw in its design means that all of it could be compromised. It doesn't destroy itself, but it does declare everyone an unsavory and stops talking to humanity in the third book while it figures out what to do next.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Arc of a Scythe / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Rowan and Citra when they're forced to fight each other at the second Conclave. Also Citra when she accidentally shoots Scythe Faraday in the leg.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Arc of a Scythe / int_31df118	comment	In the third book, Goddard himself, a massively egotistical Attention Whore with a desire for power over the Scythedom, is ultimately done in when his followers abandon him and his second in command kills him in order to boost her own reputation. He is then dismissed as one of the many victims of the plagues that replaced the Scythes, his reputation in shambles.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Arc of a Scythe / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Goddard and Rowan. While Goddard's actions earn him the ire of many of the heroes, he has limited interaction with most of them aside from Rowan. Rowan hates Goddard for the abusive training he put him through, and was inspired to hunt down and kill Scythes who are evil because of Goddard. The hate becomes mutual after Rowan decapitated Goddard, who sought to get revenge by torturing Rowan before executing him publicly. This is emphasized by their constant verbal sparring where Rowan manages to get under Goddard's skin more than any other character does.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Arc of a Scythe / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: An odd example; Rowan is more than willing to kill Goddard and his cronies but he doesn't get the opportunity after the first book. In the end Scythe Rand is the one to kill Scythe Goddard, Scythe Brahms (by tricking Goddard into killing him), and Curate Mendoza for various reasons.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Arc of a Scythe / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Goddard forced a man to give up his job and house, gleaned his pool boy randomly, and forced the homeowner to take the pool boy's place.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Arc of a Scythe / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Scythe Rand proves to be far more capable and dangerous than her carefree and impulsive personality would let on. When she applies herself, she proves to be the most competent of all of the villains in the books, as evidenced by her intricate scheme in Thunderhead.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Arc of a Scythe / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Citra and Rowan show signs of being this, but because Scythes are forbidden from romantic attachment, nothing comes of it in the first book. After they go off to a different planet to help establish a colony they officially hook up due to not being Scythes any more.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Arc of a Scythe / int_37fcf16	comment	Death is Cheap: One of the major elements of the story is that humans have achieved immortality, and anyone who experiences something that should kill them in real life is quickly resurrected at Revival Centers.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Arc of a Scythe / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Most of the victims Citra kills as Scythe Anastasia react this way. While some Scythes call Anastasia out on this, the targets seem to generally appreciate this concession. In Thunderhead, Xenocrates drowns himself rather than let himself be eaten by sharks as a last act of defiance against Goddard. At the end of Thunderhead, Curie and the remaining Scythes in the Founders' Tower are calm and compassionate as they Mercy Kill the people around them when Endura sinks, and are just as calm when gleaning themselves. The non-scythes realize what's happening and accept their fate, thanking the scythes as they die.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Arc of a Scythe / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Goddard has his head transplanted onto Tyger's body in the second book. This leaves him speaking with Tyger's voice for the remainder of the book.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
Arc of a Scythe / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: Goddard's assassination of the World Scythe Council at the end of the second book. Using his own engineers and programmers, he hacked the systems keeping Endura afloat to cripple the floating city long enough to kill the Grandslayers with a shark attack. He ends up sinking the entire island.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_3e6ae9ba	type	Raised as a Host
Arc of a Scythe / int_3e6ae9ba	comment	Raised as a Host: Tyger is recruited for an unofficial Scythe apprenticeship in the second book solely for the purpose of providing a new body for Scythe Goddard's still-living head.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Arc of a Scythe / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In the climax of the first book, Rowan manages to go full One-Man Army on the Conclave, but only because they were completely unprepared. In the next two books, the antagonists make a point to send overwhelming and prepared forces against him and to overcompensate due to their fear of him, which results in him being in distress more often than not.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Arc of a Scythe / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Citra suspects that Scythe Faraday was murdered and his death was made to look like a suicide. Turns out he's actually Faking the Dead. Near the end of the first book, Rowan makes the deaths of Goddard and his crew look like they couldn't get out of the building before it burned down. A non-lethal variation occurs at the very end of the first book. To avoid being forced to kill Rowan, Citra punches him in the face to give herself plausible deniability when hitting him with her ring hand grants him immunity from gleaning for a year, then helps him escape while the Conclave debates what to do with him until his immunity runs out.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Arc of a Scythe / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: The Thunderhead did more to raise Greyson than his own parents. Being branded as an Unsavory in order to help the Thunderhead subvert the loopholes of its programming hits him hard because it means he can no longer talk to it.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Arc of a Scythe / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Curie and Faraday are fond of pulling these on Citra and Rowan. All of Book 2 is essentially one of these for humanity from the Thunderhead. Humanity fails.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Arc of a Scythe / int_40bb59d0	comment	How Citra and Rowan get out of the whole "one must kill the other" requirement of their exam." Rowan had brutally injured her at the previous Conclave, so after receiving her Scythes' ring, she punches him in the face "ignorant" of the fact that by striking him with her ring, she's granted him immunity from gleaning.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Arc of a Scythe / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In Scythe we get a mostly sweet one. Citra is a scythe, Rowan escapes with Faraday, and Goddard is dead, but Rowan is now a fugitive who kills cruel scythes, Citra has a bad reputation due to the events surrounding her apprenticeship, and many people who believe in Godard's views are still in the scythedom.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Arc of a Scythe / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Xenocrates threatens Citra with tor-turÃ©, to get more information out of her. Ultimately subverted as he doesn't go through with it.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Arc of a Scythe / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Scythe Goddard threatens to kill Esme so to manipulate High Blade Xenocrates.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_47e0dd3b	type	Cool People Rebel Against Authority
Arc of a Scythe / int_47e0dd3b	comment	Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Parodied with the "unsavouries", people who decide to defy the Thunderhead's will not because of any moral stance, but simply because they want to defy any form of authority. They essentially act like tantrum-throwing children convinced they're bad because they annoy people and break things that are easily replaced or because they frequent clubs the Thunderhead has designed for them, and very few unsavouries do things that are actually dangerous.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_48414e75	type	The Beastmaster
Arc of a Scythe / int_48414e75	comment	The Beastmaster: All life on Earth is controlled by Thunderhead nanites, save for the life around Endura which is instead controlled by scythedom nanites. The Thunderhead mostly does it to avoid roadkill, while the scythedom uses it for ambience. In the climax of Thunderhead, Goddard hacks all the sea life to make them attack the island, leading a group of sharks to devour the Grandslayers, and in The Toll, the Thunderhead provides a signal by having birds flock to a specific person.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Arc of a Scythe / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Scythe's Faraday and Curie could be considered this for the Scythedom as a whole since they're the biggest threats to Goddard's power. The Thunderhead is this for the entire series, being dedicated to protecting humanity at all costs and come the 2nd and 3rd books, it's actively working to curtail Goddard's plans.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_4b39a18	type	Hope Springs Eternal
Arc of a Scythe / int_4b39a18	comment	Hope Springs Eternal: The final chapter of the second book. Despite Goddard's victory at Endura, Citra and Rowan can be revived. Scythe Faraday and Munira are on their way to the Land of Nod to investigate a failsafe built by the founding Scythes. And after spending the entire book as an Un-person and Fake Defector on its behalf, the Thunderhead rewards Greyson's perseverance and loyalty by ensuring that he is the only human on Earth not marked as an Unsavory.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Arc of a Scythe / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The second book; Scythe Curie, the World Scythe Counsel, and everybody on the island of Endura are dead, Citra and Rowan are trapped at the bottom of the ocean, Goddard has ensured his position as High Blade of Mid-Merica. On top of that the Thunderhead has marked everybody on earth except Grayson as Unsavory, cutting off communication with all of them.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_4e887103	type	The Aloner
Arc of a Scythe / int_4e887103	comment	The Aloner: Due to the rushed launch, Sister Astrid winds up being the only living person on the ship to Kepler 186f, a journey estimated to take 1683 years. She makes her peace with it, and the future segments of "Testament of the Toll" indicate she did survive to become the mother of her people.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Arc of a Scythe / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Scythe Alighieri is an odd example, he doesn't feel bad about destroying the New Hope Colony but he does feel bad about not giving immunity to the families of those who died.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_504333fe	type	A God I Am Not
Arc of a Scythe / int_504333fe	comment	A God I Am Not: The Thunderhead makes it quite clear that it is not a deity, and will not accept any worship of it. The Tonists do anyway, making it part of their "holy trinity".
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Arc of a Scythe / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Arc of a Scythe / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Goddard was Xenocrates' apprentice, meaning they got along in the past, but now Xenocrates considers that his greatest mistake.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
Arc of a Scythe / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Played With. The Scythe Conclave does get some things done but Xenocrates normally ignores most things that pertain to the main characters due to time.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Arc of a Scythe / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Gleanings begins with Scythe Curie's first major act as a Scythe and ends with her beginning a new life as a normal person.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_5838c7c4	type	Hunter of His Own Kind
Arc of a Scythe / int_5838c7c4	comment	Hunter of His Own Kind: At the end of the first book, Rowan becomes one, going around hunting those who agree with Goddard's views or who are otherwise corrupt Scythes.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Arc of a Scythe / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Rowan's interactions with Rand and especially Goddard are non-stop snark fests with a lot of harsh jabs at each other.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_598c4d8a	type	A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
Arc of a Scythe / int_598c4d8a	comment	A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Goddard was originally the student of High Blade Xenocrates. Zigzagged; it's implied that the Moon colony genocide, easily Goddard's most heinous crime, might have had Xenocrates' involvement, approval, or commission. That being said, Goddard and Xenocrates have still soured to each other and essentially turned against one another by the time the events of first book occur.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_5ad94ef8	type	Interim Villain
Arc of a Scythe / int_5ad94ef8	comment	Interim Villain: In Thunderhead after Rand is revealed to be alive, it seems like Scythe Brahms will be taking the role of antagonist until her public resurgence. This is Subverted when it is revealed that he is actually working for Rand.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Arc of a Scythe / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Tyger, Rowan's friend, invoked several of these to make his family pay attention to him. Later on in the first book, Citra invokes this to escape Xenocrates. In fact, people do this so often that there's a word for it— "splatting".
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Arc of a Scythe / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Arc of a Scythe / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Citra is put through one when High Blade Xenocrates accuses her of murdering Scythe Faraday.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_5ec9f980	type	Drunk on the Dark Side
Arc of a Scythe / int_5ec9f980	comment	Drunk on the Dark Side: Goddard and his disciples. Instead of treating death as a solemn occasion like Faraday, or as an act of mercy, like Curie, Goddard revels in his ability to control who lives and who dies.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Arc of a Scythe / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: All Scythes select the name of a famous historical figure as an alias upon becoming ordained as a Scythe. Notable examples include Marie Curie, Michael Faraday, Volta, Robert Goddard, Nelson Mandella, and Anastasia Romanov.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Arc of a Scythe / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Grande Dame of Death, and Scythe Lucifer. Neither of these people are actually evil, but they do both have impressive kill counts.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Arc of a Scythe / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: In the third book, Scythe Morrison is recruited by Goddard to glean the Toll/Greyson, however, after Greyson spares his life he becomes his bodyguard.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Arc of a Scythe / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: High Blade Xenocrates secretly broke the rules and fathered a child, and Goddard holds his secret daughter hostage to ensure his cooperation.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
Arc of a Scythe / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: Because the sea life around Endura can be remotely puppeted through nanites, Goddard sics a school of sharks on the Grandslayers at the end of the second book.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Arc of a Scythe / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: After the Thunderhead became a thing and immortality was granted, most religions died out without the need for an afterlife, with the Tonists becoming the only major world religion. Of course, there's a degree of deconstruction around this, as many people aren't ready to cope with death on their own, show pseudo-religious fervor over the Thunderhead, and struggle with morality without any pre-existing set of ethics.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_680a5252	type	In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race
Arc of a Scythe / int_680a5252	comment	In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race: Humanity has progressed to a point where nearly everyone is a mixture of ethnicities, with genetic indexes keeping track of the percentages. Scythe Goddard nevertheless surrounds himself with scythes of distinct phenotypes, and scythe society makes sure that it gleans an even number of each race. Subverted in the case of the Permafrost people, who live near the Arctic and have stuck to themselves long enough to maintain their own ethnicity, even though it's not one of the standard genetic indexes. This allows an unscrupulous scythe to carry out his own ethnic cleansing before Rowan catches up with him.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
Arc of a Scythe / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: High Blade Xenocrates deliberately cultivates this image, keeping himself at an above-average weight to increase his presence.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Arc of a Scythe / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: In the first book, Scythe Faraday appears to suffer this trope, until he turns up alive in the last third of the book. In the second book, played tragically straight with Scythe Curie. After making sure that Citra and Rowan will survive, she self-gleans rather than drown or be devoured by sharks as the floating city of Endura sinks into the ocean.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Arc of a Scythe / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Terra nova" is Portuguese for "new ground". Citra Terranova tries to rebuild the Scythedom from a new ground.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Arc of a Scythe / int_6d332aea	comment	Volta has this reaction to all of the mass gleanings he participates in. Later when he gleans an entire room of children it proves to be too much and he is Driven to Suicide.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
Arc of a Scythe / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Faraday had one with Curie years before Citra and Rowan were born.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Arc of a Scythe / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: In Scythe, despite seemingly dying about halfway through the story, Scythe Faraday turns up alive near the end and is revealed to have faked his death. In Thunderhead, Scythes Goddard and Rand are both revealed to have survived being apparently burned to death after Rowan betrayed Goddard's cabal at the end of the first book.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_72217e12	type	Murder, Inc.
Arc of a Scythe / int_72217e12	comment	Murder, Inc.: The Scythedom are technically this, but they serve as population control so they are portrayed heroically.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Arc of a Scythe / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Rowan and Citra were adversarial even before they were put to Rand's "contest" due to their similar values but clashing opinions on how to be a Scythe. They are attracted to each other, but are both resolved to not let it grow, which just makes the feelings stronger.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_77ff94a2	type	Slimeball
Arc of a Scythe / int_77ff94a2	comment	Slime Ball: Scythe Brahms is described as such by Scythe Curie, who points out the Irony of him being ordained in the Year of the Slug. He's a cowardly New Order Scythe who's used by Scythe Rand to bring Goddard to power. He's also a massive dick who tried to exploit Rand's emotional vulnerability to have sex with her. It says a lot that he's the person Rand turned to to help with her plan. Curate Mendoza proves to be this in the third book. He constantly tries to manipulate Greyson so that he has all of the power and doesn't even believe that strongly in the Tone Cultist religion. He proves to be this even more when he decides to kill High Blade Tenkamenin by sicing a violent Tone Cult on him which kills countless others and gladly allows the Cult's Curate to be killed, all on order to push Greyson to follow his advice more. Eventually his actions get him banished by Greyson and he immediately turns to Goddard in order to kill Geyson and take over the Cults.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Arc of a Scythe / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Goddard destroyed the Mars colony where he grew up, killing everyone there including his parents.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_78f6faf4	type	Resistance as Planned
Arc of a Scythe / int_78f6faf4	comment	Resistance as Planned: The whole counter-culture of Unsavories was designed by the Thunderhead to provide humans who enjoy being rebellious and destructive with an outlet for their destructive impulses. Unlike most examples of this trope, the Unsavories are (mostly) aware of it.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Arc of a Scythe / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Rowan is this within his own family, hence his desire to find purpose in his life.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_7db984b1	type	Rule-Abiding Rebel
Arc of a Scythe / int_7db984b1	comment	Rule-Abiding Rebel: The Unsavories, to an extent. The Thunderhead set up "Anachronistic Wish Fulfillment (AWFul) clubs, full of breakable things, actors who are paid to lose every fight and cry when bullied, and challenges that are mostly very easy to overwhelm so they can play the roles of rebels without actually doing harm.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_7dbd52b8	type	Light Is Good
Arc of a Scythe / int_7dbd52b8	comment	Light Is Good: Scythe Faraday wears an ivory cloak, and is one of the most moral scythes around. And in fact, this is why black is the only cloak-color that is shunned by the Scythedom: because they are supposed to represent light in every spectrum, not darkness. Subverted with Rowan, who takes a black robe as Scythe Lucifer, to indicate he works outside the Scythedom, and to highlight their hypocrisy.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Arc of a Scythe / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Scythe Goddard is gleaned when Rowan decapitates him with a samurai sword.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_8171b426	type	Fantastically Indifferent
Arc of a Scythe / int_8171b426	comment	Fantastically Indifferent: Since nobody can permanently die unless gleaned by Scythes, society as a whole is desensitized to things like car crashes and people throwing themselves off buildings.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Arc of a Scythe / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus est Machina: The Thunderhead is functionally a god, being able to care for literally billions of people simultaneously. However, it also explicitly does NOT want to be worshiped like one.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Arc of a Scythe / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Right before she goes off in one of the ships, Citra renounces her ring and robe, deciding that Scythe Anastasia is no more.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
Arc of a Scythe / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: One man Faraday killed was a master fencer; Faraday challenged him to a duel and was killed several times before winning. The man thanked Faraday for letting him die fighting. Similarly, most of Citra's gleaning subjects have this because she lets them choose their deaths. The most prominent example of this was an actor who wanted to be gleaned onstage during a production of Julius Ceasar in which he played Ceasar. Despite a brief cringe when Citra broke character and called him out by his real name per scythe tradition, he seemed very pleased with his end, even going as far as to wink at Citra when she came onstage.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Arc of a Scythe / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Anybody who isn't gleaned or killed in space or by fire or acid can be easily resurrected, to the point that some people kill themselves on purpose for the thrill of it, knowing they'll simply be brought back. A more traditional example occurs in the first book when it is revealed Scythe Faraday didn't actually kill himself, but faked his suicide in an attempt to free Citra and Rowan from their apprenticeships. It also happens in the second book with Scythe Goddard, whose severed head was preserved until Scythe Rand could have it grafted onto the body of Rowan's friend Tyger. The third book has Goddard killed and then revived with Tyger's memories, effectively bringing him back to life. The final chapter of Gleanings has Scythe Curie being revived as one of the colonists meant to live on other planets.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_8b04eac7	type	Body Snatcher
Arc of a Scythe / int_8b04eac7	comment	Body Snatcher: Scythe Goddard's head is attached to Tyger Salazar's body in order to bring Goddard back to life.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Arc of a Scythe / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Scythe Brahms, Curate Mendoza, and Scythe Goddard are killed (in the earlier case indirectly) by Scythe Rand in brutal ways, but they are the most vile characters in the trilogy. Discussed excessively by scythes in regards to the morality of killing bad people, and used by others to rationalize brutal killings after the fact. The Mile High gleaning in particular has pro-Goddard factions claiming that people eager to watch a Public Execution deserved what they got, even though they were the ones cheering on Rowan's death moments earlier.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Arc of a Scythe / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: In the second book, Scythe Brahms, a slimy coward who acted as a proxy for Rand's schemes just so he could get revenge on Rowan, is killed when Rand manipulated Goddard into killing him by framing him for Rowan's escape as revenge for Brahm's soliciting Rand for sex. In the third book, Goddard himself, a massively egotistical Attention Whore with a desire for power over the Scythedom, is ultimately done in when his followers abandon him and his second in command kills him in order to boost her own reputation. He is then dismissed as one of the many victims of the plagues that replaced the Scythes, his reputation in shambles.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Arc of a Scythe / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: In the third book, Curate Mendoza, a power hungry Tonist who manipulates and eventually betrays the Tone Cults in an attempt at getting more power, ultimately just sets himself up as a wet works operator for Goddard with little real authority and is completely powerless to stop Rand from killing Goddard and crashing his plane with Mendoza inside.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
Arc of a Scythe / int_92264449	comment	Jabba Table Manners: Chomsky wolfs down food quickly and messily.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Arc of a Scythe / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: The third book shows that Curate Mendoza is far more power hungry and ruthless than he appears, and is willing to kill countless Scythes and innocents to gain power over the Tone Cultists.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Arc of a Scythe / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: How Citra and Rowan get out of the whole "one must kill the other" requirement of their exam." Rowan had brutally injured her at the previous Conclave, so after receiving her Scythes' ring, she punches him in the face "ignorant" of the fact that by striking him with her ring, she's granted him immunity from gleaning. It's mentioned offhandedly that this was how the Thunderhead solved the problem of abortion: by creating technology advanced enough that any unwanted pregnancies could be easily removed and placed with people who wanted them, effectively ending the debate between life and choice.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Arc of a Scythe / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: At the end of the first book when Citra's name is cleared Goddard looses it and goes on a violent mass gleaning, violating the 2nd Scythe Commandment and coming up with a weak justification for violating the Quota. In the second book, Goddard becomes even more unhinged, when his dramatic return from the dead is undercut by Citra sabotaging his attempts to become the MidMerican High Blade. And when he takes that anger out on Rowan, he becomes even more infuriated when Rowan refuses to react to his words. The third book has a very different breakdown when Citra reveals Goddard's hand in the destruction of the Mars and New Hope Colonies, he's actually morose and quiet which shows just how hopeless he thinks his situation is.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Arc of a Scythe / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: Scythe Rand goes back and forth between being a follower of Goddard and an independent. She's largely loyal to Goddard in Thunderhead but goes behind his back to free Rowan from captivity once Goddard spurns her affections. After this she still works for Goddard but seems to be in it for her own desires and not out of loyalty. In The Toll She's a very sarcastic and critical second in command to Goddard and ultimately kills him so she can be with Tyger.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Arc of a Scythe / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Scythe Goddard in Scythe, the Ax-Crazy scythe who goes on mass killing sprees for the sheer pleasure of it, and tries to make the entire Scythedom follow his views. In Thunderhead, Goddard is set up as the Big Bad of the entire trilogy, when Rand brings him back from the dead, and he proceeds to murder the Scythedom's global leadership.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Arc of a Scythe / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Goddard runs around mass gleaning, torturing, and creating enemies, but whenever it rebounds on him he finds someone else to blame. In the third book, he somehow manages to blame the old-guard scythes for the pushback against his regime. Later he claims that the Tonist resistance is just them being stubborn for no reason, not even considering that his order to glean their prophet was what provoked them.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Arc of a Scythe / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: At the end of the second book, Scythe Curie and the remaining Scythes on Endura self-glean rather than drown or be killed by sharks as the artificial island sinks into the Atlantic.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_99db27be	type	NecessaryEvil
Arc of a Scythe / int_99db27be	comment	Necessary Evil: The Scythes kill civilians in order to keep humans from overpopulating the planet.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Arc of a Scythe / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: In The Toll Goddard develops a habit of cracking his knuckles which apparently was a tic of Tyger's,
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Arc of a Scythe / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Arc of a Scythe / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Scythe Chomsky's preferred method of gleaning. In the setting's post-mortal society, death by fire is one of the few things from which one cannot be brought back, though that hardly concerns a scythe since their kills are permanent anyway. Later, Rowan does this to Goddard and his followers. It becomes his signature method as Scythe Lucifer. After this, the mainstream Scythes defy this by banning gleaning by fire.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Arc of a Scythe / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When discussing the children's rhyme about the Land of Nod and how it may be a clue to the Founding Scythes' backup, Rowan compares it to "Ring around the Rosie" being a metaphor for the Black Plague. turns out the backup is also a kind of plague.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_9e6e54db	type	The Older Immortal
Arc of a Scythe / int_9e6e54db	comment	The Older Immortal: All of humanity is immortal now, except in the off-chance that they're gleaned or die by fire, so some people are centuries old.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Arc of a Scythe / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: Agent Traxler erases Greyson's records in order to forge his cover story as "Slayd Bridger". This becomes a problem when Agent Traxler is gleaned and the new probation officer assigned to his cover identity is Locked Out of the Loop.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
Arc of a Scythe / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Scythe Chomsky at least according to Volta. Rowan's friend Tyger becomes one in the second book when he begins training with Scythe Rand. Scythe Morrison is definitely written as such, though he's more unaware than straight-up dumb.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Arc of a Scythe / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Citra has this reaction when she accidentally shoots Scythe Faraday. In fairness, she didn't realize her mentor had been faking his death and assumed that she was ambushing his killer, rather the man himself. Volta has this reaction to all of the mass gleanings he participates in. Later when he gleans an entire room of children it proves to be too much and he is Driven to Suicide.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a2c7a31	type	Internal Reformist
Arc of a Scythe / int_a2c7a31	comment	Internal Reformist: Scythe Faraday and Scythe Curie both try to keep the Scythedom on the straight and narrow.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Arc of a Scythe / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Arc of a Scythe" refers to both the arched shape of a scythe's blade and the developmental arcs the scythedom must go through.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Arc of a Scythe / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: The reason Rowan decided to take up Scythe Faraday's offer of an apprenticeship is because his family avoids him and often acts like he isn't there, leaving him feeling overlooked and ignored. Greyson Tolliver's parents liked the idea of families more than actually raising them, so they were largely absent from his life after a certain point.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Arc of a Scythe / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: By the end of the third book, Scythe Rand is completely unpunished for the crimes she commits and is actually rewarded by being reunited with Tyger. Scythe Alighieri is left unpunished for his hand in the destruction of the New Hope Colony.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
Arc of a Scythe / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Thanks to advances in medical technology and the fact that all humans are immortal from birth, anyone has the ability to "turn a corner" and have their physical age reset to look younger than they actually are.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_a9317105	type	Age Without Youth
Arc of a Scythe / int_a9317105	comment	Age Without Youth: Downplayed, people physically age at a normal rate but can "turn the corner" and reset their bodies to a younger age. Scythe Alighieri has done this so many times that his body has been permanently affected by it and his face looks off; the skin is described as being TOO smooth, almost resembling plastic.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Arc of a Scythe / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Scythe Curie is known as "The Grande Dame of Death". Rowan earns the moniker of "Scythe Lucifer" when he becomes a Hunter of His Own Kind.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Arc of a Scythe / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Chomsky's fondness for the flamethrower allows Rowan a tidy means to permanently kill Goddard's depraved circle and destroy the evidence.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Arc of a Scythe / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Goddard's genocide in Endura gets him everything he wants and allows him to create some degree of anarchy to boot. However, the victory is spoiled by a number of factors; his revenge had to happen because the Grandslayers refused to make him High Blade in the first place, he's realizing that Tyger's mind has more control than is desired, and having a Hyper-Competent Sidekick is starting to suck because Scythe Rand is pointing out facets of his plan he hadn't even thought of in the first place. By the third book he's a paranoid recluse who can't trust anyone because very few people trust him and his cult of personality doesn't make him feel much better.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Arc of a Scythe / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Rowan eventually becomes this, mostly around Scythe Goddard who goes from his normal serious self to snarking right back. High Blade Xenocrates is very sarcastic towards everyone under him. Scythe Rand is very sarcastic and is the only person who can talk back to Goddard through her snark. Greyson isn't above this when he's in a bad mood, and even when he's being outwardly polite, his internal dialogue is full of wit and venom.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Arc of a Scythe / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The final exam of all Scythe candidates is to temporarily kill someone they love to demonstrate how dedicated they are to the Scythedom's purpose.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Arc of a Scythe / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Used by Scythe Curie, Citra, Goddard, and The Thunderhead at various points, with Goddard using the limit of scythe rules to abuse his power and the other three using the other limit to stop him.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
Arc of a Scythe / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: Greyson Tolliver. When he's marked as an Unsavory for saving Curie and Anastasia, the Thunderhead, through Agent Traxler, uses him as a proxy to root out who is responsible for the attempts on the two Scythes' lives.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Arc of a Scythe / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: A rather literal example occurs in the second book After having his head grafted onto the body of Rowan's friend Tyger, Scythe Goddard finds Tyger's original temperament and personality subtly influencing him.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
Arc of a Scythe / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Scythe Anastasia's preferred method of gleaning. She injects the chosen subject with a time-delayed poison and gives them one month to decide how they wish to die. They can call her to let her know their chosen form of death or let the poison kill them painlessly in a month. If they try to get immunity from someone else, they'll be gleaned on the spot and the poison will instantly kill them if they try escaping to another region.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Arc of a Scythe / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: A key part of the second book's climax. The scythes have no fear of mortality, and so when repeated malfunctions on Endura keep piling up they just add it to the docket and even disable a few emergency systems for being too annoying. This allows Scythe Goddard to hack the system and cause a cascading chain of disasters, and the entire island sinks with nearly all hands on board.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Arc of a Scythe / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: When Citra points out that Goddard grafting his head onto Tyger's body and returning to the Scythedom like nothing happened is a violation of Scythe policy, the Grandslayers unanimously vote to disqualify Goddard from becoming MidMerican High Blade and make him repeat his apprenticeship in order to remain a Scythe.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Arc of a Scythe / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Esme lives in a mansion and is treated well by everybody there, but she is unwittingly being used as a hostage by Goddard to keep Xenocrates in his pocket.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Arc of a Scythe / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In The Toll, people start fleeing to the LoneStar Region to avoid Goddard's regime. Scythe Nietzsche suggests building a wall to stop them and Goddard shoots it down, saying that "only idiots build walls". This was released in 2019, making it a likely reference to the controversial Trump wall.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b61f1b2b	type	TouchÃ©
Arc of a Scythe / int_b61f1b2b	comment	TouchÃ©: Xenocrates' reaction when Citra punches Rowan, giving him immunity when his blood gets on her ring, and then claiming she had no idea that would happen. Xenocrates is initially stunned, then laughs and remarks that Citra will fit right in.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
Arc of a Scythe / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: Goddard surrounds himself with Scythes of various ethnicities, possibly invoked as a way to make him stand out more.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_b89ab683	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Arc of a Scythe / int_b89ab683	comment	Hyper-Competent Sidekick: The more we see of them the more clear it becomes that Scythe Rand is this to Scythe Goddard. She's the reason he ever had a chance of becoming High Blade, and after that is the voice of reason compared to Goddard's increasing insanity and paranoia.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
Arc of a Scythe / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: Whenever Goddard doesn't get something he wants, he tends to go on mass gleaning sprees or, if that's not available, start screaming and trying to break things.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ba2f9dfe	type	The Paranoiac
Arc of a Scythe / int_ba2f9dfe	comment	The Paranoiac: Scythe Goddard devolves into this after becoming High Blade. He's suspicious of most people around him, to the point of installing cannons in his home, he becomes a much bigger Jerkass than he was before, and this is on top of his already inflated ego.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Arc of a Scythe / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Happens frequently. The most notable example is that, after the first Conclave, Rowan and Citra are informed that whichever one of them is ordained as a Scythe at the Winter Conclave will be required to glean the other as their first assignment.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_bc1865fb	type	Deader than Dead
Arc of a Scythe / int_bc1865fb	comment	Among the New Order Scythes introduced in Thunderhead, Scythe Brahms is the most unlikable. He's a slimy, lazy, cowardly Scythe who kidnaps and psychologically tortures his gleaning targets by playing Brahms' Lullaby before gleaning them. When Rowan targets him and tries to force him to change his ways he instead goes on to be worse. He throws his lot in with Scythe Rand and aids her in her plan to try and kill Scythes Anastasia and Curie in order to make Goddard the MidMerican High Blade. He gleans Rowan's father, forcing his whole family to listen to the Lullaby and it's clear that he will continue to glean his family. He lures Rowan into a trap so Rand and Goddard can get their revenge on him by executing him in front of the World Scythe Counsel. This is all in tandem with him being a Jerkass who lets his dog crap on his neighbor's lawn and tries to solicit Rand for sex under the pretense of comforting her over Goddard rejecting her advances.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Arc of a Scythe / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Rowan becomes one after his experience serving as an apprentice to Scythe Goddard, killing several Scythes and being more ruthless than the other heroes.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Arc of a Scythe / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Scythe Rand apparently has so much sex that her journal is mostly just stories about her various sexual encounters.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_bfdbf829	type	Significant Name Shift
Arc of a Scythe / int_bfdbf829	comment	Significant Name Shift: A narration version. Whether Citra is addressed as Citra or as Anastasia shifts in the narration as she identifies more with one or the other, usually being Citra in more vulnerable moments and Anastasia when she acts more scythe-like. She notes late in Thunderhead that she's finally started feeling like Anastasia and the narration stays that way until near the very end, when it reverts to "Citra" as she and Rowan wait to die in the Vault, unsure of what their future will be.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c189d3b9	type	How Would You Like to Die?
Arc of a Scythe / int_c189d3b9	comment	How Would You Like to Die?: Scythe Anastasia is distinct among scythes for letting her targets choose what form of death they'd prefer, injecting them with a remote-triggered poison to ensure they don't escape but also giving them a month to decide and to put their affairs in order. Some prefer to quietly let the poison take them, but others prefer a Glorious Death: one man dresses up as James Bond to gamble and then drinks a poisoned martini, another asks to be hunted with a crossbow with two years of immunity for his family if he survives til morning (he doesn't, but she grants it anyway), and a central scene of Thunderhead is an actor who played Julius Caesar deciding he wants to be gleaned in Caesar's death scene.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Arc of a Scythe / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: At the Harvest Conclave test, Rowan snaps Citra's neck to render her deadish. His illegal move results in her loss and his disqualification, ensuring that their tie remains.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Arc of a Scythe / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: The second book ends on a devastatingly effective one. Goddard returns from apparent death thanks to being transplanted into Tyger's body and runs for the position of High Blade in opposition to Curie. Worried the vote might end up being against them, Citra raises an inquest, citing that most of his body is that of Tyger, who wasn't an officially bejeweled Scythe and thus he is technically not Goddard and thus ineligible to run for High Blade. This gets taken to the Grand Counsel and in the end, they agree with Citra. Goddard, rather than be forced to becoming an apprentice all over again, hacks the island of Endura's computer system and sinks the entire island, not only permanently killing the World Scythe counsel, but also ensuring their ruling never is heard and killing off Curie too. Citra and Rowan meanwhile are locked away in a vault by Curie to ensure they're preserved and can be revived, but they're still buried under 2 miles of ocean. Goddard is left with no opposition to his rise to High Blade.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Arc of a Scythe / int_c335b9ec	comment	Scythe Brahms is described as such by Scythe Curie, who points out the Irony of him being ordained in the Year of the Slug. He's a cowardly New Order Scythe who's used by Scythe Rand to bring Goddard to power. He's also a massive dick who tried to exploit Rand's emotional vulnerability to have sex with her. It says a lot that he's the person Rand turned to to help with her plan.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Arc of a Scythe / int_c3448a6f	comment	Scythe Chomsky at least according to Volta.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Arc of a Scythe / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The 35th chapter of Thunderhead is named "The 7-Percent Solution", which is the exact cocaine solution that Sherlock Holmes used to use. The 7-Percent solution of Thunderhead is different, however.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Arc of a Scythe / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: The Tonist's long prophesized "Great Resonance" is in fact The Thunderhead's screams of impotent fury as it finally becomes fed up with the machinations of the Scythedom and cultural and creative decline of the human race, and it distances itself from everyone but Greyson.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Arc of a Scythe / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: In full effect with Scythes. Even without the strong societal taboos, Rand acknowledges the biggest factor against everyone resisting the Scythes is that the quotas are so small and so distant that it's always something happening to "someone else". Even mass gleanings do not provoke public outcry. This finally breaks in The Toll with the Mile High gleaning, as roughly thirty thousand people and their families are all killed, ensuring that just about everyone knows someone who knows someone who was there.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c8d6d621	type	I Will Wait for You
Arc of a Scythe / int_c8d6d621	comment	I Will Wait for You: After Citra is killed during Goddard's attempt to stop the Thunderhead's spaceships, and Cirrus is unable to revive her before the ship reaches its destination, Rowan decides not to kill himself in order to wait for the ship to land and instead waits 117 years for her to be revived. A non romantic version, Sister Astrid waits 1683 years with only Cirrus as company in order to ensure that the Tone Cultists are able to establish their space colony.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Arc of a Scythe / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Scythe Curie's preferred method of gleaning is stabbing a person's heart. At the end of the first book, Rowan impales Goddard before decapitating him.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
Arc of a Scythe / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The Scythe Conclaves are full of these, with lots of power plays happening behind the scenes.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Arc of a Scythe / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Rowan spends the second book hunting down cruel scythes that abuse their positions.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_cbfe592b	type	Cannot Kill Their Loved Ones
Arc of a Scythe / int_cbfe592b	comment	Cannot Kill Their Loved Ones: At the end of Scythe, it's revealed that the final test before becoming an official Scythe is being forced to kill a relative. The reasoning is that it will weed out the apprentices who don't have the resolve to kill a loved one. Of course, since it's a futuristic society where humanity has all but conquered death, the victims will be revived within a few days. Rowan is made to temporarily kill his mother and Citra her younger brother, while two other apprentices are said to have been unable to go through with it.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Arc of a Scythe / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: The climax of Rowan's arc in the first book results in the deaths of Goddard, Volta, Chomsky, and Rand. Although in the second book, Goddard and Rand are revealed to have survived. The second book kills off Tyger, Curie, Xenocrates, the entire World Scythe Council, and everyone on Endura save for Rowan and Citra. Tyger and Curie are "resurrected" in The Toll and Gleanings respectively, by having backups of their consciousnesses put into proxy bodies. The third book kills Tenkamenin, Curate Mendoza, and Goddard, but brings Tyger back....or at least the memory backup of him that was stored in the Thunderhead.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Arc of a Scythe / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: In the first book, Scythes Volta, Rand, and Chomsky are this to Goddard, though Volta isn't as loyal as the other two. In the second book, Scythe Brahms steps up to this role along with Rand, who is revealed to have survived Rowan's betrayal at the end of the first book. After Goddard kills Brahms in a fit of rage, Rand is left as Goddard's last lieutenant.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Arc of a Scythe / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: An in-universe example. Greyson learns that the clubs that Unsavories frequent are designed by the Thunderhead to provide an outlet: the Unsavories get to beat people up without consequences, and masochists who enjoy getting beat up can get curb-stomped all they want.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_d333f7c4	type	Outside Man, Inside Man
Arc of a Scythe / int_d333f7c4	comment	Outside Man, Inside Man: Rowan is the outside man and Citra is the inside woman to the Scythedom in Thunderhead. Could be taken further, as Greyson is also an Outside Man, possible even further outside than Rowan by virtue of having no insight into the Scythedom's politics or proceedings.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Arc of a Scythe / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In the first book, Chomsky's preference for using fire ends up backfiring when Rowan kills him and the rest of Goddard's group and the fire he started ends up preventing them from being revived.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Arc of a Scythe / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Xenocrates lives in a log cabin to seem more humble, but the cabin is also perched atop the tallest building in Fulcrum City, flaunting his power as a scythe. This is lampshaded by Goddard. Goddard himself has a few moments of Hypocrisy. He claims that his Gleanings are a "gift" to his victims, but also calls himself "generous" for giving out mass immunity. He calls out Rowan for killing Chomsky and trying to kill him and Rand but also kills the World Scythe Counsel and all of the Scythes on Endura. The third book has him claiming that his actions are for the betterment of the Scythedom but Rand points out that he's really just trying to gain more personal power, and is willing to kill anyone, Scythe or not, who gets in his way.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Arc of a Scythe / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Scythe Goddard is a very sadistic one, creating plans that hurt others largely for his own enjoyment or advancement. Scythe Rand becomes this in the second book, manipulating events from the shadows in order to make Goddard High Blade of Mid Merica. The Thunderhead proves to be this in the third book, using subtle clues to lead characters to where it wants them and organizing the establishment of several off-world colonies.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Arc of a Scythe / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Gleaning" is used as a substitute for a Scythe permanently killing someone. "Ending" is used to refer to people permanently dying from other means. "Unsavoury" is used for a person who would otherwise be referred to as a criminal.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_d8b3412b	type	The Singularity
Arc of a Scythe / int_d8b3412b	comment	The Singularity: The creation of Thunderhead and the gifts it gave to humanity served as a "soft" singularity. Post-mortal humans have a hard time comprehending what life must have been like for their predecessors.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
Arc of a Scythe / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: The Toll has two: first Rowan's attempted execution complete with a long tour and a giant pyre, then the gleaning of the entire crowd.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Arc of a Scythe / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Goddard and his followers believe that Scythes are gods and should be treated as such. Several of the beta Cirri the Thunderhead makes have this mindset, such as saying that they'll have humanity worship it or that it's all powerful and can do whatever it wants.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Arc of a Scythe / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The hibernation salesman and Goddard's first victim in the story in Scythe turns out to be important in The Toll, as the Thunderhead adds it to the ever-increasing proof that Goddard has been sabotaging space travel.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e1f9753e	type	The Handler
Arc of a Scythe / int_e1f9753e	comment	The Handler: Agent Traxler is Greyson's handler. His gleaning is a sign that Greyson will have to finish his mission on his own.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e276cd	type	The Cowl
Arc of a Scythe / int_e276cd	comment	The Cowl: Rowan takes on a lot of traits and tropes from this archetype when he becomes Scythe Lucifer. Citra as Scythe Anastasia is arguably The Cape to his Cowl, but she exhibits far fewer obvious comparisons with that trope.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
Arc of a Scythe / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: All governments are under the control of the Thunderhead.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e35b1a96	type	Everything Is Big in Texas
Arc of a Scythe / int_e35b1a96	comment	Everything is Big in Texas: The Thunderhead runs a number of "Charter Regions" with social experiments, such as making employment illegal in Nepal or requesting that the inhabitants of Tasmania all choose one biological alteration. Texas is the Charter Region where it practices "benevolent anarchy" with very few rules, and as such many of the inhabitants like to play up Texan stereotypes of being rough, gun-toting rebels. Notably after the Time Skip when Goddard has already taken over most of North Merica and declared himself Overblade, Texas remains the lone holdout.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Arc of a Scythe / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: Due to having control of the weather in most circumstances and places, the Thunderhead can invoke this at-will. It most-notably does it in the third book after Greyson decides to sever his connection to the Thunderhead, declaring it "unsavory" to him. The Thunderhead accepts this, but still expresses its deep sorrow by making it rain almost everywhere.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e4157ffd	type	May It Never Happen Again
Arc of a Scythe / int_e4157ffd	comment	May It Never Happen Again: At the end of the third book Scythe Faraday activates the failsafe the original Scythes created in case the system got out of hand. The failsafe is a disease which kills random people at regular intervals and it also removes the Scythes' ability to kill people. The series was caused by the Scythedom becoming filled with sadists twisting its ideals so removing their power keeps this from ever becoming a problem again.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Arc of a Scythe / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Scythe Goddard's greatest skill is his ability to charm others into liking him and agreeing with his views.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Arc of a Scythe / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: The Tonists are people who believe in a "Great Vibration" that flows through the world, the second and third books expand on them, showing the different sects and how they practice their faith.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
Arc of a Scythe / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened: Goddard holds High Blade Xenocrates' secret illegitimate daughter hostage to ensure his cooperation, using both the threat to the girl's life and the threat of revealing Xenocrates' violation of the Scythe commandments to force the High Blade to support his controversial attitudes and actions.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Arc of a Scythe / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Among the New Order Scythes introduced in Thunderhead, Scythe Brahms is the most unlikable. He's a slimy, lazy, cowardly Scythe who kidnaps and psychologically tortures his gleaning targets by playing Brahms' Lullaby before gleaning them. When Rowan targets him and tries to force him to change his ways he instead goes on to be worse. He throws his lot in with Scythe Rand and aids her in her plan to try and kill Scythes Anastasia and Curie in order to make Goddard the MidMerican High Blade. He gleans Rowan's father, forcing his whole family to listen to the Lullaby and it's clear that he will continue to glean his family. He lures Rowan into a trap so Rand and Goddard can get their revenge on him by executing him in front of the World Scythe Counsel. This is all in tandem with him being a Jerkass who lets his dog crap on his neighbor's lawn and tries to solicit Rand for sex under the pretense of comforting her over Goddard rejecting her advances. Scythe Goddard slowly devolves into this as he commits more and more atrocities under the hypocritical guise of helping the Scythedom. His revival and rise to Overblade of North Merica only make him less likable, loosing the charm he had in the first book and making him even more smug, petty, and cruel. His backstory doesn't make things any better, he murdered his parents and destroyed two space colonies because they made the Scythedom useless and he wanted power within the Scythedom. Curate Mendoza becomes this in The Toll where the narration emphasizes how much of an underhanded, power hungry, jerk he is. Uniquely unlike several other characters who the narration paints in a bad light, he never gets to show off any Hidden Depths or likable traits and instead becomes worse with the reveal that he's behind the attack on Port Remembrance.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e66e9bfb	type	New Era Speech
Arc of a Scythe / int_e66e9bfb	comment	New Era Speech: Goddard is fond of these. He gives a particularly grandiose one in the third book at Rowan's public execution, although Rowan's escape forces him to turn it into a large-scale "The Reason You Suck" Speech on the fly.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_e6d4b4e6	type	Society of Immortals
Arc of a Scythe / int_e6d4b4e6	comment	Society of Immortals: All humans on Earth benefit from immortality.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Arc of a Scythe / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: One of the central themes of the story.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Arc of a Scythe / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: At the end of the day, this is what Goddard ultimately is, he's spiteful, petty, cruel, and beneath his mask of charm, lies a rude, egotistical monster.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Arc of a Scythe / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Rowan decides to spare Scythe Brahms hoping he would be scared into fiving up his evil ways. Instead Brahms joins Rand's scheme to make Goddard High Blade and gleans Rowan's father to lure him into a trap.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_ecc99ac2	type	Fire Keeps It Dead
Arc of a Scythe / int_ecc99ac2	comment	Fire Keeps It Dead: Burning is one of the few causes of death that can't be reversed.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_f09b6509	type	Last Episode, New Character
Arc of a Scythe / int_f09b6509	comment	Last Episode, New Character: Captain Jerico Soberanis, Loriana Barchok, Sister Astrid and Cirrus are introduced in the last book despite being major characters.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Arc of a Scythe / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: At the end of the second book. Curie and the remaining Scythes on Endura glean the non-scythes to spare them the pain of drowning or being killed by carnivorous sealife. At the end of the third book, this has become (some) Scythes' new role after the fall of the Scythedom. The nanite diseases select people at random, but Scythes use their skills to give them a quick, painless death and to comfort the family after the fact.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_f3fac450	type	Brain in a Jar
Arc of a Scythe / int_f3fac450	comment	Brain in a Jar: Scythe Goddard's head was preserved in between books, and is later grafted onto a living body to bring him back to life.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Arc of a Scythe / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Greyson's subplot in the second book. After being Un-personed and branded an Unsavory to fullfill his role as the Thunderhead's proxy, his designation is lifted and un-personing reversed at the end of the book while every other human on the planet is designated Unsavory.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Arc of a Scythe / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Tonists are mostly pacifists whose worst qualities are being a bit annoying about spreading word of the Tone. Sibilants, on the other hand, are extremist sects of Tonists and are prone to taking the words of the Toll completely out of context just so they can be extreme about it. One example is Greyson saying "Your voices are music to my ears.", which they take as a sign that all other music must be destroyed and go an instrument-breaking crusade. A group of them are responsible for killing High Blade Tenkamenin.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Arc of a Scythe / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: The ending of the second book. Goddard has assassinated the global Scythe leadership, seizing the position of High Blade of MidMerica. Scythe Curie and several high-ranking scythes are permanently dead, along with thousands of innocent civilians. Citra and Rowan are trapped in an airtight vault two miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. And the Thunderhead, furious with the politics of the Scythedom, has distanced itself from humanity in the hopes that the human race can learn to accept the consequences of their actions without having it there to solve all of their problems for them.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Arc of a Scythe / int_f9876f7e	comment	Citra suspects that Scythe Faraday was murdered and his death was made to look like a suicide. Turns out he's actually Faking the Dead.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Arc of a Scythe / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: As an intitation, Scythe Goddard leaves the Tonist curate as a monastery's sole survivor so that Rowan can glean the last person. Rowan decides he has had enough of Goddard's cruelty and abuse, and instead beheads Goddard and burns the rest of his squad.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_fd807d08	type	New Neo City
Arc of a Scythe / int_fd807d08	comment	New Neo City: The Thunderhead likes to rename cities under its rule, so St.Louis is now Fulcrum City. Inverted in the case of New York City, as the Thunderhead renamed it to Lenape City.
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Arc of a Scythe / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Arc of a Scythe / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Goddard to a certain degree, him making it so that Rowan and Citra's apprenticeship will end with one gleaning the other doesn't seem to be for any other reason than he wanted to hurt Faraday and he'll enjoy it.
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Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	City on the Water / int_43116ded
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Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	How Would You Like to Die? / int_43116ded
Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_43116ded
Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	Immortal Procreation Clause / int_43116ded
Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	Immortality Works / int_43116ded
Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	It Never Gets Any Easier / int_43116ded
Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	Master-Apprentice Chain / int_43116ded
Arc of a Scythe	hasFeature	May It Never Happen Again / int_43116ded
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