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Black Dagger Brotherhood

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Black Dagger Brotherhood	label	Black Dagger Brotherhood
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Black Dagger Brotherhood	comment	A series of paranormal romance novels written by J.R. Ward which follow the lives of the titular Brotherhood: the vampire race's most powerful warriors and protectors. Each book focuses on a different brother as he battles the de-souled human vampire hunters called lessers, and his inconvenient growing attraction to a beautiful woman. Dark Lover (Wrath and Beth) Lover Eternal (Rhage and Mary) Lover Awakened (Zsadist and Bella) Lover Revealed (Butch and Marissa) Lover Unbound (Vishous and Jane) Lover Enshrined (Phury and Cormia) Lover Avenged (Rehvenge and Ehlena) Lover Mine (John Matthew and Xhex) Lover Unleashed (Payne and Manny) Lover Reborn (Tohrment and No'One) Lover At Last (Qhuinn and Blaylock) The King (Wrath and Beth again) The Shadows (Trez and Selena; iAm and maichen) The Beast (Rhage and Mary again) The Chosen (Xcor and Layla) The Thief (Assail and Sola) The Savior (Muhrder and Dr. Sarah Watkins) Where Winter Finds You (Trez and Therese) The Sinner (Syn and Jo) A Warm Heart in Winter (Blay and Qhuinn again) Lover Unveiled (Sahvage and Mae) Lover Arisen (Balthazar and Erika) Lassiter (Lassiter and "a mysterious female") Darius (Darius and Anne; a prequel) The Beloved (Zsadist and Bella again) A Bloom in Winter (Callum and Apex)While The Black Dagger Brotherhood line of books is continuing, J.R. Ward has been writing a spinoff series about the newly recruited soldiers of the Vampire Race called The Black Dagger Legacy books. These books occur alongside the main series, revisit some of the old couples in a Where Are They Now fashion while introducing a whole new cast. Blood Kiss (Between The Shadows and The Beast; Paradise and Craeg; Butch and Marissa) Blood Vow (Between The Beast and The Chosen; Elise and Axe; Rhage, Mary, and Bitty) Blood Fury (Between The Chosen and Dearest Ivie; Novo and Peyton; Saxton and Ruhn) Blood Truth (Between The Savior and Where Winter Finds You; Boone and Helania)J.R. Ward has also added a spinoff series about a prison camp run by the Vampire aristocracy called 'The Black Dagger Brotherhood Prison Camp'' books. The Jackal (Between The Sinner and A Warm Heart in Winter; the Jackal and Nyx) The Wolf (After Claimed; Lucan and Rio) The Viper (after The Wolf; Kane and Nadya)And a series set in the same world, called the Lair of the Wolven books. Claimed (Between Lover Unveiled and The Wolf) Forever MineNow has a character page.Unmarked spoilers lay beyond. You have been warned.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Treated with remarkable sensitivity in a series otherwise very tongue-in-cheek. Ward showcases almost every form of it, from coercion to physical force, and in every gender combination. In all cases the trauma is taken seriously, and each character responds and copes in their own way.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1439161f	comment	After he starts to come out of his Heroic BSoD, this is Tohr's MO when it comes to taking down lessers
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_165d6f53	type	Punishment Box
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_165d6f53	comment	Punishment Box: Qhuinn recovers his brother from imprisonment in a barrel.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_18262b13	type	Break the Badass
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_18262b13	comment	Break the Badass: Zsadist completely loses his shit over having to whip Rhage—presumably flashing back to his own abuse.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_193c6913	type	Paranormal Romance
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_193c6913	comment	Paranormal Romance
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: A group of enormous men chiseled like Greek gods who are skilled lovers and can pulverize anything attempting to harm their woman... with some Ho Yay to boot.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1be36a63	comment	Immortal Procreation Clause: Vampire females are only fertile once every decade, and pregnancy is very highly likely to result in miscarriage or death of the mother in childbirth. As Tohrment puts it, 'It's a goddamn shellan-robber'. The reason Wrath is so resistant to having children with Beth.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Rehvenge and the symphath colony.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Wrath sums this up pretty nicely in Dark Lover.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1d311757	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1d311757	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest: Mr. O obsesses on Bella because she looks like an idealized version of his deceased girlfriend.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Wrath, though out of necessity, not by choice.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_22ecc839	type	Kryptonite Factor
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_22ecc839	comment	Kryptonite Factor: Called a "pyrocant", this can be an external factor such as a relationship, or or internal such as an addiction.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_24e5adb9	type	Beast and Beauty
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_24e5adb9	comment	Beast and Beauty: Zsadist and Bella
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2630ef75	type	Emergency Transformation
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2630ef75	comment	Emergency Transformation: Done three times, with Mary (human-turned-immortal and cancer-free), Butch (human-turned-vampire), and Jane, (human-turned-tangible-ghost.)
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_267a0440	type	My Parents Are Dead
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_267a0440	comment	My Parents Are Dead: Beth does this to Butch in Dark Lover.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_27fdd6a1	comment	Divine Parentage: Vishous & Payne.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2882c8c1	comment	Career-Ending Injury: A couple of instances: Going completely blind ends any chance Wrath had of being an active fighter again. He'd been going out secretly before, and got the go-ahead to come back to the field because the Brotherhood was down to four active members, but finally losing his sight put a stop to that before it even had a chance to get started. Payne's spinal injury at the end of Lover mine. Paralleled in Lover Unleashed with a subplot involving Manny's prize racing horse and his decision to try to repair her leg rather than having her destroyed. Thankfully they both get better.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Xhex for John. Though if you think she's any less of a hard-ass after they become an official couple, you don't know her that well...
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_29634187	type	Brains and Bondage
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_29634187	comment	Brains and Bondage: Vishous, who is well-read and the most intellectual of the brothers, enjoys bondage.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Rosalhynda/No'One/Autumn was prideful about her beauty and her father's high place in society. After being captured and forcibly impregnated, committing suicide and being resurrected as her daughter's maidservant...not so much. In fact she takes to being very servile and takes joy in doing menial tasks that were beneath her before.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Better as Friends: Several examples: Beth and Butch. He was definitely into her in Dark Lover, but she'd already gotten involved with Wrath, and he very shortly there after met Marissa. Marissa and Wrath. After they dissolve their Arranged Marriage, it's clear that Wrath still respects Marissa very much. Which is part of the reason he doesn't have her brother executed for trying to have him assassinated. Qhuinn and Layla. After a little sexual exploration, but no actual sex, Qhuinn admits to Layla that he's really in love with Blay, and then Layla meets Xcor and is instantly smitten. Qhuinn becomes Layla's Chosen Conception Partner because they both want a child, and they end up co-parenting twins with their respective mates. Phury and Bella, though it was really only Phury who had the romantic feelings.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Marissa
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2fb3170e	type	Enemy Within
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2fb3170e	comment	Enemy Within: Rhage and his tattooed "friend". Also, Phury and his Wizard. Serena's disease, the Arrest
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart and Spear Counterpart: Payne & Vishous and Doc Jane & Manny.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3016de81	type	Reincarnation Romance
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3016de81	comment	Reincarnation Romance: Selena is reincarnated as Therese courtesy of Lassiter in one of his first acts as the Scribe Virgin's successor.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Rhage's alter-ego is a fire-breathing dragon that likes to devour lessers whole, can take mortal wounds on Rhage's behalf, and can use its wings to fly. Eating lessers causes Rhage some pretty bad indigestion. Similarly, Vishous' glowing hand of doom is somewhere in the middle of the spectrum between this and Blessed with Suck . It's really useful for things like incinerating buildings, torching cars, and it can serve as a light source, emergency cigarette lighter, and at least once did the job of a makeshift defibrillator. On the other hand, he can't touch anything with it unless he's wearing a lead-lined glove and the precautions he has to take with it are clearly a burden he'd rather not bear.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Assail crosses a lot of lines in his rise to power, even working with the lessers to expand his criminal empire despite the fact that they want to exterminate all Vampires. But blood slavery? There's a line even he won't cross.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: Butch finds out about two-thirds of the way through his book that he is Wrath's cousin.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3456f3c5	type	Good Thing You Can Heal
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3456f3c5	comment	Good Thing You Can Heal: Using the Dhestroyer power really takes it out of Butch. Fortunately Vishous can use his Semi-Divine power to keep the side effects at bay.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Beth's cat, Boo, brings this out in a lot of the Brothers. Wrath is really scary to Beth until Boo leaps into his arms and Wrath starts purring. I Am comments how he hates Boo, but won't stop petting the cat whenever he visits the mansion. Phury's point when encouraging Wrath and Beth to move in with the Brotherhood is "if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat."
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_35dff943	type	Property of Love
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_35dff943	comment	Property of Love: When a male vampire bonds, he becomes the property of his female. So far, the feeling between the vampire males and their females is mutual. Averted with Xhex, who makes it clear that she's not going to put her life on hold for John's comfort.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3a95b3cf	type	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3a95b3cf	comment	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy: In Lover Reborn, Tohrment has to do this to Wrath after he's shot in the throat and bleeding out. In the back of a moving car, with a pocketknife and a straw, no less!
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: Vampire society has decayed to the point that it's been nearly a century since they celebrated their most important holidays in any meaningful way. The culture, particularly the aristocracy, is deeply patriarchal and classist. The war against the lessers has been going badly for years, and they are functionally on the verge of extinction.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3bbecc8b	type	Hell-Bent for Leather
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3bbecc8b	comment	Hell-Bent for Leather: Leather pants and jackets are pretty much the standard uniform for all the Brothers and the fighters.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Butch, while he's on the force. He had a tendency to break suspects' noses while they were being held...
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_40e993f4	type	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_40e993f4	comment	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Lash uses this to taunt John Matthew, having raped Xhex while holding her in captivity. The sex was emphatically nonconsensual.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y: All the males are referred to this way on formal occasions.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Overlapping love triangles galore. In Dark Lover we have Marissa/Wrath/Beth and Wrath/Beth/Butch.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Phury and Zsadist, though long before the series starts. John and Beth count as this too, though in a strange way. Also Wrath, Butch and Manny. Human Intrepid Reporter Jo, to Butch and Manny.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: At least once a book. Usually the protagonist of said book, but not always.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_481220f9	type	Roadside Surgery
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_481220f9	comment	Roadside Surgery: Tohr performs an emergency tracheotomy on Wrath in Lover Reborn after he was shot.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Butch's South Boston accent is sometimes rendered phonetically. Ditto Mr. D's Texan twang.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Mary and Rhage's marital troubles over her inability to conceive are solved when they take in the orphan Vampire Bitty. Mary worries over Bitty's mental health and Rhage's ability to handle the stress of being a parent- until Bitty falls in love with Rhage's GTO, treats Rhage's beast-form like an enormous puppy, and starts calling Mary "Mother." Made legally binding in Blood Vow after her uncle Ruhn makes contact with the three of them. Mary and Rhage worry that he will demand full custody as a blood relative. Ruhn worries that Bitty will grow up without knowing the love of blood-related family. Bitty decides to Take a Third Option by inviting Ruhn to live in the mansion while she's formally adopted by Rhage and Mary. Wrath signs off on the idea in a heartbeat. John Matthew is happily adopted by Tohr and Wellsie. Murhder and Sarah adopt Nate at the end of The Savior.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: Our angels are solar-powered immortal beings that dress in Elvis costumes, try (and fail) to climb down chimneys at Christmas, and can't stop watching Dr. Phil and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4a8fd6a0	type	Honor-Related Abuse
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4a8fd6a0	comment	Honor-Related Abuse: Qhuinn's parents regards him as a stain on the family because of his heterochromatic eyes. In Lover Enshrined they send Qhuinn's brother and three others as a ritual Honor Guard to beat Qhuinn to death on the side of the road for disgracing the family.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4d395e81	type	Harem Seeker
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4d395e81	comment	Harem Seeker: Subverted by Phury; he accepts the role of Primale of the Scribe Virgin and is expected to... "service" 40 of her Chosen. He manages to weasel out of this requirement, free the 40 Chosen, AND be with his beloved Cormia.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4dd46feb	type	Polar Opposite Twins
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4dd46feb	comment	Polar Opposite Twins: Zsadist and Phury in the early books; Trez and iAm later on. Averted with Assail's twin cousins, Ehric and Evale. Aside from the fact that Ehric talks more, and Evale is the strong silent type, they're personalities are nearly identical.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Vampires don't scar unless their wounds are exposed to salt or salt water, so scarring is rare, but there are notable exceptions. The ultimate in-universe example of "good scars" is the star-shaped pectoral scar that marks members of the Brotherhood. Zsadist's scars come across as "evil scars" because of his violent, unstable behavior before getting together with Bella, and he still scares the ever-loving crap out of people who don't know him.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: It's always noted just how large male vampires are, but how large they are in comparison to their female lovers is mentioned a lot. Averted with Payne and Manny, and Xhex and John.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_509e8f83	type	Affair? Blame the Bastard
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_509e8f83	comment	Affair? Blame the Bastard: Strongly implied with Butch's father.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: All of the members of the Brotherhood are this towards their mates. According to the lore, all male vampires have this tendency once mated, but males from warrior bloodlines tend to take it up to eleven. Usually this is Played for Drama, but sometimes it's Played for Laughs, usually at the expense of the male in question who often doesn't realize exactly what's going on, or is in denial. Adding to the Ho-Yay in their relationship, Vishous is also a Crazy Jealous Guy when it comes to Butch. John Matthew does the math in Lover Mine when he, Vishous, Butch and Xhex are getting ready to raid a farmhouse where a Lessening Society induction has taken place and figures out that Vishous dislikes Xhex because she hooked up with Butch one time and he's jealous that Xhex got a piece of that. (If course, John Matthew also has to talk himself down from a little bit of a bonded male moment when he realizes this.) Speaking of Butch, he coldcocks Revhenge when he realizes that Revhenge is the guy Marissa has been using for feeding. This is before he's even aware that he's half vampire. Likewise, Manny has very hostile feelings toward a couple of men who check out Payne when takes her to go see his injured racehorse. Like the example with Butch above, this is a case of the vampire part of their heritage trumping the human part. Saxton goes from being Qhuinn's favorite cousin to enemy #1 as soon as he starts sleeping with Blay. Assail seriously contemplates tracking down and murdering a man he sees out on a date with Sola before he even knew Sola's name. Basically, to quote several characters at various points in a number books, bonded males are a thing.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_50ca4422	comment	Blaylock and Qhuinn have Unresolved Sexual Tension. Blaylock starts dating Qhuinn's cousin, Saxton. Qhuinn has an encounter with Layla, and even though they figure out they're Better as Friends, they decide have a child together because they both want a family. Meanwhile, there is continued Will They or Won't They? between Blay and Qhuinn. Blay and Qhuinn eventually The Then Layla ends up in a love triangle between Throe and Xcor.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory Rape / Is The New Dead Parents: And four of the major characters get both!
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_54bbe8ae	type	Blind Mistake
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_54bbe8ae	comment	Blind Mistake: Shortly after Wrath's vision finally fails completely he makes lots of these, dropping and breaking things and even falling down the stairs at one point.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: Vampires can smell emotions. Vishous can go a step farther and read minds (and see the future). Sympaths can both read emotional "grids" and influence them. The Shadow Brothers are something between the two.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_55d2dd16	type	Hiding Your Heritage
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_55d2dd16	comment	Hiding Your Heritage: Rehvenge and Xhex. Xhex wears silices on her thighs to help contain her "bad side." Rehvenge gets outed when Phury tastes his blood.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_577a2e15	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_577a2e15	comment	Assail goes on a Roaring Rampageof Revenge when Sola is kidnapped, that includes killing eight people and ripping the throat out of the man who ordered her abduction and planned to torture and kill her.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: All over the place. Vampire society considers humans to be "rats without tails." Wrath is notably contemptuous of humans, and only moderates his position after mating Beth, who is half-human. Lessers, towards vampires. Mr. X thinks of the race as a good excuse to get away with a murder spree, and Mr. D refers to them as animals that need to be put down. Symphaths believe themselves superior to standard vampires as well as humans. Vampires don't like symphaths any better. Shadows consider all non-Shadows "Un Knowables," and inferior. Vampires are also come across as a little racist toward the doggen, but being docile by nature, the doggen either don't notice or don't care. Humans who find out about vampires nearly always assume that they conform to Bram Stoker-esque stereotypes before being corrected. In almost every instance the vampire doing the correction gets a little huffy about it.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Although most of the male characters have been around the block a few thousand times, their love interests are either virgins or women with limited and/or previously only unsatisfactory experiences. Xhex is an aversion. It is mentioned that she had a one-time, let's-see-how-this-goes thing with Rhevenge (it didn't go well, and they both decided never to repeat; a liaison with Butch that she absolutely would have repeated if Butch and Marissa hadn't finally sorted their shit out; and a long-term sexual relationship with the Brother Muhrder. Bella gender flips this; in her case, it was Zsadist who was sexually inexperienced (outside of his abuse) and it's Bella who teaches him.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Bella's father (Rehvenge's stepfather) towards their mother. This is one of the reasons Rehvenge kills him. Also, Bitty's biological father towards his wife and Bitty.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Vishous and Butch - sort of. Word of God is that Vishous would be Butch's If It's You, It's Okay guy, but he's in love with Marissa.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: John Matthew communicates by way of a pen and paper, using American Sign Language, or by whistling.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5bd1083d	type	Holy Is Not Safe
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5bd1083d	comment	Holy Is Not Safe: There's a good reason Vampires/Lessers fear and revere the Scribe Virgin/Omega. Questioning either of them over any of their pronouncements will usually bring unpleasant consequences.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Xhex has this; to John she is 'deliciously androgynous.'
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: The obvious headquarters for a secret society of vampire warriors is...Caldwell, NY. This is occasionally lampshaded.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Fritz.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Human Intrepid Reporter Jo, to Butch and Manny.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: Rhage, when his beast comes out (and the aftermath).
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Zsadist and Bella, near the end of Lover Awakened, though they get married in the end. Butch and Doc Jane for V in Lover Unleashed.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Subverted. Most of the scariest names belong to the good guys.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Male vampires are apparently hung. Zsadist is treated as being particularly notable example. This is a running theme throughout the Brotherhood, but Zsadist is definitely a standout.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_629fa757	comment	Wrath's parents. Wrath's father falls in love with his mother Ahna on sight, making this another example of a Perfectly Arranged Marriage.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Butch, at first. Later Sola and Erika. In the case of the latter two, their mates definitely find it kind of a turn on.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: One woman was killed by lessers and was stuck in limbo for awhile before the Scribe Virgin brought her back as a ghost. She's transparent in appearance, but can become corporeal if she tries. To her hellren, she is always solid.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_66b98472	type	Erotic Dream
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_66b98472	comment	Erotic Dream: Happens a lot. Manny has one about Payne after having his memory wiped in Lover Unleashed, Tohr has one about Wellsie, etc. Devina uses a near death experience to insert herself into Balthazar's dreams, turning them into this against his will.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: Phury while detoxing from drugs; he is fighting an internal battle against the reasons why he took the drugs in the first place. His Love Interest, Cormia, helps him from the outside.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Generally whenever the Brothers engage the lessers in combat. Even when the odds are literally 10:1, the Brothers can mop the floor with the Omega's men. Subverted when the Brothers engage lessers on their own. While the lessers will still be left dead, the individual Brother will usually be left bleeding out on the pavement.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6943b153	type	Carved Mark
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6943b153	comment	Carved Mark: A major part of vampire culture. The Brothers all have a star-shaped scar on their left pectoral, made by the Brothers striking them with a special gauntlet as part of the Brotherhood's initiation ritual. The mating ceremony involves males having the female's name carved into his back, and when a couple has a child, that child's name is added as well.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Havers towards Marissa, even though he's her younger brother - to the point that he tries to have Wrath assassinated because he divorced her in order to mate Beth. Rehvenge and Bella are a textbook example. Phury and Zsadist; ironically, Phury is the younger twin but has to constantly pull Zsadist's ass out of the fire. The dynamic changes after Zsadist mates Bella, and Phury goes off the rails. All of the Brothers treat John Matthew like their little brother, and Zsadist in particular takes John Matthew under his wing. Vishous toward Payne, even though it's pretty clear that Payne can take care of herself. Also, Payne toward Vishous. She incinerated their father because he abused and mutilated V. After being released from the Sanctuary, the Chosen are treated like this by the members of the Brotherhood household.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_697e3ecb	type	Involuntary Shapeshifting
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_697e3ecb	comment	Involuntary Shapeshifting: Rhage's curse turns him into a dragon whenever he loses control of his emotions. When he's in human form, it forms a tattoo on his back.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6d1c2b3f	type	Lip Losses
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6d1c2b3f	comment	Lip Losses: Zsadist suffers one of these when escaping his mistress.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6d414903	type	FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6d414903	comment	Friendly Neighborhood Vampires: Friendly is debatable, but they are the good guys, anyway.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6e23669f	type	Antagonistic Offspring
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6e23669f	comment	Antagonistic Offspring: Played with by Lash. The Omega conceived him by raping a female vampire, and then planted him in vampire society so that when he matured, Lash would know everything about their culture, where they lived, and how they protected themselves from the lessers. Lash passes for your bog standard aristocratic sociopath until he flatlines briefly after a fight with Qhuinn. He's resuscitated, but his brief "death" allows the Omega to find him again, kidnap him, kill him for real, and bring him back as a superpowered lesser. The first thing Lash does after being reborn is to murder his adoptive vampire parents and then lead the lessers on a killing spree targeting the members of the glymera.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: Upheld by vampires' ability to erase short term, non-traumatic memories from humans.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_725d5711	type	CarBomb
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_725d5711	comment	Car Bomb: How Darius dies, kickstarting the plot. Noted by the Scribe Virgin as being a "dishonorable" death.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7280652a	type	Panicky Expectant Father
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7280652a	comment	Panicky Expectant Father: Par for the course for vampires because of the high mortality rate for both the child and the mother. Tohr initially assumes that Wellsie died from complications of her pregnancy when the Brotherhood comes to tell him she was killed. Zsadist spends Bella's entire pregnancy worrying that she's going to die. Wrath in The King. Justified, because Beth really would have died if the ghost of Wrath's mother hadn't intervened. Blay and Qhuinn, after Layla nearly has a miscarriage - twice.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Inverted in The King. Beth engineers a divorce with Wrath so he can hold on to his throne when the glymera tries to remove him over the fact that his heir would not be a full-blooded vampire. They then marry in a human ceremony.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_72a6bff0	type	Eloquent in My Native Tongue
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_72a6bff0	comment	Eloquent in My Native Tongue: In a weird version, the Brothers talk like gangsters in English and Shakespeare in the Old Language.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: For such a long running series, more than a few villains have been introduced across multiple arcs. The Omega, an Omnicidal Maniac deity, looking to exterminate the Vampire race with his Mooks, the Lessers, just to spite his sister diety, the Scribe Virgin. The Fore-Lessers, the chief lieutenants of The Omega who often have their own agendas they pursue alongside that of the Omega. Lash, the child of the Omega who briefly took over the Lessening society. He is resurrected by the Omega shortly before the Omega's defeat, and returned from dhunhd to earth by Devina in Lover Arisen. The Band of Bastards led by Xcor, trying to unseat Wrath and replace the Brotherhood. They achieved what the Brotherhood couldn't- exterminating all of the Lessers in their home country. As of The Chosen Xcor and the Bastards are loyal to the King and the Brotherhood, having moved into the mansion. Throe, formerly a member of the Band of Bastards, who seems to be fomenting a coup against Wrath from within the Vampire nobility. After his first coup attempt fails, he turns to magic, and 'finds' a book of spells that allow him to summon killer shadow demons to do his bidding in The Chosen. His plan is to summon an army of them. Turns out he was being used by Devina to escape the Well of Souls and he ends up trapped there in her place. As of the end of Lover Arisen he still there. Devina, the sister of the Omega and the Scribe Virgin, and the new Big Bad as of The Sinner.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7302acc9	type	Ermine Cape Effect
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7302acc9	comment	Ermine Cape Effect: Subverted. Wrath only puts on ceremonial robes for...well, ceremonies.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: As part of their suite of mental manipulation powers, vampires are able to do this. Assail put the skill to particularly good use.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Played straight in the first few books. The Brothers and the Lessers trade enough bullets, knives, and explosives after dark to equip an army, and nobody comments on where they get all of this material- much less the cash for it. In later books the Brotherhood is forced to use Assail's drug cartel contacts to get more weaponry. Meanwhile the new Fore-Lessers increasingly comment about how cash-strapped their organization is and how they're running out of lessers faster than they can be made. The newest Fore-Lesser has turned to drug trafficking and mass conversion of Caldwell's lower level gang members to restore the society.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_77cd56b3	type	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_77cd56b3	comment	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Zsadist, as a result of his captivity as a blood slave
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7897f4af	type	Hospital Gurney Scene
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7897f4af	comment	Hospital Gurney Scene: More and more in recent books, as the war with the lessers heats up.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7aaa865a	type	After-Action Healing Drama
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7aaa865a	comment	After-Action Healing Drama: Butch and Vishous, when they're still trying to understand how his Dhestroyer powers work. Payne's arrival to the medical suite from the Scribe Virgin's dimension after Wrath accidentally breaks her spine.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Xcor and Layla, with Xcor playing the role of Catwoman.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tohr gives this to Wrath in Dark Lover after Wrath blames Darius' death on Tohr's love for Wellsie. Lassiter drops a couple of doozies on Tohr in Lover Reborn, and Tohr turn around and hits Autumn with one as well. Blay also drops the hammer on Qhuinn toward the end of Lover At Last.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Butch goes in to interrogate a would-be rapist, knees him in the crotch, and grinds his broken nose into the floor while Mirandizing him.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_80621707	comment	Trez, before meeting Selena, as a special sort of "fuck you" to his people because he didn't want anything to do with his Arranged Marriage.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Marissa, in the middle of extreme character development, quips about her eventful night.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: Zsadist initially believes this of himself, to the point of not wanting to touch his daughter because she'll "get it on her." The glymera views Marissa this way after Wrath divorces her - not he had sex with her, but instead because he didn't - the general consensus among Marissa's peers is that there must have been something wrong with her if Wrath couldn't bring himself to bed her even once in the three hundred years or so they were "together." In a more traditional way, Havers sees Marissa as soiled after he finds her in the aftermath of a sexual liaison with Butch. Generally speaking, this is how females who have sex outside of official mated relationships are viewed by the glymera. For example: Ehlena's family is already ostracized after being financially ruined, but when her fiancÃ© reveals they've had sex and accuses her of seducing him, she is considered ruined. Bella's reputation is damaged by a relationship with a male who broke it off with her after Revhenge threatened him. When No'One/Autumn is kidnapped from her family home, her father is more concerned about the damage to her reputation and to the family's reputation than her physical safety. When it's revealed that she was raped by a symphath he doesn't want her coming back to the house, and he offers Darius money for her care. In the Legacy novels, Elise's cousin is murdered, and her parents blame the dead girl for it because she had a wild sex life.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_81f8731	type	Chosen Conception Partner
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_81f8731	comment	Chosen Conception Partner: Layla asks Qhuinn to service her during her needing with a plan to get pregnant. They had been sexually, but not romantically, involved prior to this.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_838748cb	type	Sour Outside, Sad Inside
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_838748cb	comment	Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Many of the Brothers come across this way, particularly Zsadist and Vishous.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8414865	type	Aroused by Their Voice
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8414865	comment	Aroused by Their Voice: Mary's voice is so appealing John calls the suicide hotline every night just to hear her talk, and Rhage is so attracted to her voice he practically assaults her on their first meeting, trying to get her talk to him.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Humans, vampires, and symphaths are distinct species that can successfully cross-breed.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Butch, for Beth, in Dark Lover. Likewise, Saxton for Blay - even though they are together for nearly a year, Saxton knows from the start that Blay will always be in love with Qhuinn, and so the relationship will never last.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8cd7d89e	type	Black Eyes of Crazy
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8cd7d89e	comment	Black Eyes of Crazy: Piss Zsadist off and his yellow eyes turn black. Everyone who knows him thinks he has naturally black eyes, until he falls in love with Bella and starts to mellow out. Everyone is baffled to realize that he and Phury actually have the same eye color.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8cd96e6c	type	Nasal Trauma
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8cd96e6c	comment	Nasal Trauma: Beth breaks a would-be rapist's nose in self-defense. Later Butch presses the guy's broken nose into the floor to get his point across.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8eb6b1f6	type	Paranormal Investigation
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8eb6b1f6	comment	Paranormal Investigation: Two investigators, professional reporter Bill and real estate agent turned Intrepid Reporter Jo, come close to finding out the truth about Vampires in The Beast during their own investigation of the aftermath of a battle between the Lessers and the Brotherhood at an abandoned school. Their work ends up bringing Jo to the attention of the Brotherhood who recognize her as a half-breed on the cusp of transition.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8f7059b	type	A Match Made in Stockholm
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_8f7059b	comment	A Match Made in Stockholm: Vishous and Jane in Lover Unbound. Jane lampshades it at various points. And again:
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_90c30080	type	Bunker Woman
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_90c30080	comment	Bunker Woman: Happens to Bella in Lover Eternal and Lover Awakened. Also to Xhex between Lover Avenged and Lover Mine.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_950bbfa7	comment	Made legally binding in Blood Vow after her uncle Ruhn makes contact with the three of them. Mary and Rhage worry that he will demand full custody as a blood relative. Ruhn worries that Bitty will grow up without knowing the love of blood-related family. Bitty decides to Take a Third Option by inviting Ruhn to live in the mansion while she's formally adopted by Rhage and Mary. Wrath signs off on the idea in a heartbeat.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_95cde949	type	TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_95cde949	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Villified: Wrath reaches his limit with the constant politicking of the glymera, especially around his wife Beth, and, with Saxton's help, abolishes the monarchy and establishes a vampire democracy. He is elected unanimously.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_95db314b	type	Casual Kink
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_95db314b	comment	Casual Kink: Vishous practiced BDSM with both men and women, humans and vampires, before meeting Jane and no one really made a big deal about it.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The glymera as a whole. They may not necessarily be out-and-out evil, but you'd be hard-put to find any bunch of people more self-serving, cowardly, head-in-the-sand, hidebound, and obsessed with appearances than the vampire aristocracy. Between their assassination plots, their prejudices, and their backward, shallow worldview, it's hard to feel much sympathy when the raids in Lover Enshrined result in much of the glymera being killed.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_970c790a	comment	Devina, the sister of the Omega and the Scribe Virgin, and the new Big Bad as of The Sinner.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series: Twenty-two so far in the main series, plus eight more books in the spinoff series.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_98ff7254	type	Long-Haired Pretty Boy
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_98ff7254	comment	Long-Haired Pretty Boy: With rare exception, the whole Brotherhood, Wrath in particular (he can sit on the ends of his hair without much trouble.)
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: During the climax of The Beast Assail and Zsadist assault the home of a glymera aristocrat who'd plotted against the king, hastened her husband's death, and kept a blood slave. Assail brings a pistol. Zsadist brings a flamethrower.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Fritz.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: They're a separate species from humans, to start — you're born a vampire, you don't get "turned." Unless you have some vampire DNA...
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a00f2ac9	type	First Kiss
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a00f2ac9	comment	First Kiss: Zsadist and Vishous receive theirs over the course of the series. And John, though that's a little more understandable.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: This is pretty much how all the males react if someone hurts their female, but it is especially apparent in Lover Mine, when John finds out that Xhex had been raped by Lash. It's personal because he, too, had been raped, though by a stranger, as a pre-trans. John's drive to kill Lash goes from a 10 to a 20 on a scale of 1-10, and even his friends remark that by raping Xhex, Lash had signed his own death warrant.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: The starting line up of the Brothers is Tohrment, Wrath, Rhage, Vishous, Zsadist, Phury, and... Darius. Later on it's remarked on by more than one person that Butch is 'the Brother with the weird human name.' Likewise, John Matthew is singled out from the start by his peers in the first round of the training program because of his name.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a16fafdd	type	JamesBondage
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a16fafdd	comment	James Bondage: When Rehvenge is taken by the symphaths.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a20b2263	type	Purple Is Powerful
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a20b2263	comment	Purple Is Powerful : Rehvenge has amethyst eyes, and he becomes king of the symphaths in Lover Avenged.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Mr. O sews Bella's eyelids shut. Sometime between The Chosen and The Sinner Zypher loses and eye to a lesser.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Several. Only Wrath is full-blooded of all the vampires. Beth, Butch, Manny, and Jo are all human/vampire hybrids - although the latter three are really more like one-quarter vampire than one-half, because their father is a half-breed himself. Rehvenge and Xhex are vampire/symphath hybrids, but since most of the narrative is from the vampire POV, the treatment is functionally the same.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Frequently and with varying intensity. Zsadist and Phury's parents were abusive and withholding towards Phury because of his cultural status as the "cursed" twin. Jane's parents were cold and emotionally withholding following the death of her younger sister Hannah. Xcor's "nursemaid", who is strongly implied to actually be his mother, used to chain him up outside in the yard at night.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: The doggen, a subspecies of vampires able to withstand sunlight.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Phury, until he meets Cormia.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Phury, who is missing the lower half of one of his legs; Wrath, especially after he loses his sight completely; and to a lesser extent, John Matthew, who is mute because he was born without working vocal chords.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: A couple of notable instances: The end result of the chronic illness The Arrest. The victim becomes totally paralyzed and calcified so that they resemble a statue. It's implied that Payne was at least partially aware during the approximately 250 years she was kept in stasis by the Scribe Virgin. Qhuinn's brother Luchas was tortured and kept for over a year in a barrel of the Omega's blood. He was aware and in pain the whole time. Lash put him there with vague plans of turning him into a lesser in Lover Enshrined, but then Lash was killed and Luchas was forgotten until the Qhuinn and the Brotherhood found him in Lover at Last.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: That's pretty much how male vampire bonding works.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: The glymera. Any scene of their parties, balls, or political discussions involves at least a dozen brand name items, gold rings, or diamond jewelry being described. Usually subordinate to the King of the Vampires while ruling over their servants with diluted bloodlines, they prove to be just as dangerous to the Brotherhood as the Lessers. At least two attempts to unseat Wrath have been made by the glymera, one by assassination and another by invoking vampire law.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ad3d8092	type	Heartbroken Badass
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ad3d8092	comment	Heartbroken Badass: At least once a book.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Lots of characters, but especially Vishous.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ae4845db	type	Near-Rape Experience
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ae4845db	comment	Near-Rape Experience: Beth in the beginning of Dark Lover.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Lots of them. Phury and Zsadist's parents were neglectful and emotionally abusive to Phury after Zsadist was kidnapped. The Bloodletter, who abused Vishous in almost every imaginable way, and the Scribe Virgin, who refused to intervene to protect her son, and kept her daughter, Payne locked in stasis because she didn't know what to do with her. Jane's parents were cold and emotionally unavailable, particularly after the death of her younger sister, Hannah. Her mother also raises a hand to hit her when she sasses back in the car, and has their cook throw out her birthday cake as punishment. Butch's father was physically and emotionally abusive. It's implied that he was a mean drunk and not a great father to any of his children, but that he singled Butch out for beatings and especially bad treatment because he knew that Butch was the result of his mother's infidelity. Qhuinn's parents loathed him because Qhuinn was born with heterochromatic eyes and treated him like a curse on the family. While not physically abusive, they ignored and neglected him as a young child and were emotionally abusive to him as he got older. Bella's father and Rehvenge's stepfather was controlling and emotionally abusive, particularly to young Bella, and physically abused their mother. Saxton's father, who disowned him after Saxton came out, and outright says that he hates Saxton in The King. Trez and I Am's parents sold their son into sexual slavery in exchange for status and gifts. Xcor's mother used to chain him up outside at night, and his father rejected him at birth because of his cleft lip.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b1619b3c	comment	The Omega, an Omnicidal Maniac deity, looking to exterminate the Vampire race with his Mooks, the Lessers, just to spite his sister diety, the Scribe Virgin.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b1e9444f	type	Baby Factory
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b1e9444f	comment	Baby Factory: The primary job of the Scribe Virgin's Chosen. Aside from record keeping, feeding other male vampires their blood, and worshiping their goddess, they are trained to serve the Primale and deliver his children and ensure the continuing of the vampire race. After he is made the Primale, Phury sees how the system is no longer serving either the vampires as a species or the individual Chosen. He shuts the whole thing down at the end of Lover Enshrined.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Vampires are extremely long-lived, with lifespans in the high hundred to a thousand years, so any relationship between a human and a vampire is this. Rhage and Mary, Vishous and Jane, Manny and Payne, and Murdher and Sarah all find various ways around the problem (Mary is saved and Jane is brought back as a ghost by the Scribe Virgin; Manny is regenerated by close contact to Payne when her healing powers are triggered by sex; and Lassiter just gives Sarah an extended lifespan because he's a nice guy like that.) It's unclear if the other two human/vampire couples, Assail and Sola and Balthazar and Erika, will have the same good fortune.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b2598054	type	Dhampyr
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b2598054	comment	Dhampyr: Beth, as well as Butch, Manny, and Jo (and their father.)
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: Happens twice. Zsadist gets revenge on his rapist by killing her and taking her skull, though it was not planned. Xhex gets revenge on her rapist, Lash, by killing him. Wrath puts his wedding to Beth on hold until he can avenge her honor by murdering her would-be rapist, Billy Riddle.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Many of the lessers. Lash sticks out.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: It's a series of erotic novels. This one is a given.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b64e1024	type	Evil Smells Bad
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b64e1024	comment	Evil Smells Bad: Initially subverted by the lessers, who give off a strong smell of baby powder in early books. Played straight in later books when they are described as smelling like a combination of baby powder or cheap air freshener and roadkill. The change seems to start to occur after Butch starts draining the Omega's power by preventing lessers from retuning to him, implying that the weaker the Omega gets, the worse his minions smell.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: All the Brothers, but especially Zsadist. Wrath's first description in the series is "off the chain when it came to the business of vengeance, and he hunted their enemies with a single-minded purpose that bordered on the insane." The Band of Bastard is portrayed this way as well, with extra points to their Xcor and Syn, who takes things up a notch by being a vigilante serial killer who Dextered his way across Europe as a side-gig.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Phury/Bella/Zsadist; Rehvenge/Marissa/Butch; Qhuinn/Blay/Saxton.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: Subverted. Their eyes glow only in the presence of their mates or people they love.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Wellsie.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Rehvenge, Xhex. Most half-sympaths are stated to be this.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bbdf5f31	type	Everyone Is Related
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bbdf5f31	comment	Everyone Is Related: Both played straight and averted. Butch turns out to be a cousin of Wrath's, Manny is discovered to be Butch's half-brother, and later they add another half sister, Jo, to the family tree. Xcor initially believes he is the son of the Bloodletter, and would therefore be the half-brother of Vishous and Payne, but it turns out that the Bloodletter was lying to him. He is actually the son of Hharm, and is therefore Tohr's half-brother instead. John Matthew is is thought to be Darius' son due to a close DNA match, and therefore Beth's half-brother. It's initially implied, and then in Lover Mine it's outright confirmed that he is Darius reincarnated. Which still makes him related to Beth, but in a very different way. This is not revealed to the characters in the story, however, who still believe him to be Beth's brother and Darius' son. On a more squicky note, the members of the Brotherhood might not actually be brothers, but given the way the Scribe Virgin's breeding program worked, they are a lot more closely related than you'd think. Brotherhood candidates come from one of two sources, relationships between members of the Brotherhood and members of the Chosen, and the Primale (who is always a member of the Brotherhood) and members the Chosen (and daughters of the Primale and the Chosen become Chosen themselves.) Sit with those facts long enough and it becomes pretty clear that the family trees of the Brotherhood don't fork all that much, and any two probably have a lot of shared branches.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Manuel "Manny" Manello. And arguably, Rehvenge, son of Rempoon, also qualifies.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: All of them. Zsadist's arc moves him from out-and-out bad guy to this through the healing power of love.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Most of the mated main couples, though Beth and Wrath hit a rocky spot in Lover Avenged and The King. So do V and Jane in Lover Unleashed and The Thief. Xhex and John have a lot of issues with Xhex being in the field. They get better, though.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Rhage uses sex and fighting to keep his Beast under control, and he had a reputation for the number of his conquests and his sexual prowess before meeting Mary. Vishous, who had a carefully curated stable of subs, both vampire and human, and male and female, before meeting Jane. Dr. Robert Bluff, the father of Butch, Manny, and Jo by three different mothers. Qhuinn - like other examples, he stopped screwing everything that moved after he realized he was in love with Blay. Trez, before meeting Selena, as a special sort of "fuck you" to his people because he didn't want anything to do with his Arranged Marriage. Zypher, of the Band of Bastards, who has a reputation that rivals Rhage's.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Happens frequently when the glymera are unhappy with their offspring. Qhuinn is thrown out of his house by his father and all of his things are ritually burned after he kills Lash while defending John Matthew. In The King Saxton point blank asks if his father, Tyhm, hates him. Without skipping a beat he responds "Yes."
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Highly averted with Zsadist. His past as a sex slave is written very darkly, and he suffers a great deal of psychological damage as a result. Nobody faults him for killing his "Mistress" and keeping her skull. A little out of the ordinary for a series that portrays males as "macho" and always concerned with looking "weak" in front of their mates. In fact, Zsadist is probably one of the most staunch observers of these gender rules (likely stemming from his abuse), but shows just how seriously these issues are taken when he tells John Matthew that his own rape was not his fault.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c2c92862	comment	Wrath and Marissa. The relationship was never consummated, and Marissa spent over three centuries as Wrath's Unwanted Spouse.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: Pureblooded symphaths sport blue blood, even after the stuff's been exposed to the air. Half-breeds like Rehvenge and Xhex have normal-looking blood but it tastes slightly different to other vampires.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c30b3981	type	Mistaken for Prostitute
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c30b3981	comment	Mistaken for Prostitute: Butch's first interaction with Marissa. He thinks her innocence is too good to be real. It's not, and she tells him off when he tells her to drop the virgin act.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Unnamed lessers fit this trope to a T, being about as disposable as used tissues.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c6e067dc	type	Dating Do-Si-Do
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c6e067dc	comment	Dating Do-Si-Do: Diagramming the relationship of various characters would be a difficult task.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Beth starts out Dark Lover having been through the foster system and then an orphanage. By the middle of it, she is revealed to be a high-ranking aristocrat in the vampire world, thanks to her father's rank as princeps. And she inherits a lot of property as well as a butler.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father The Scribe Virgin informs Vishous that she's his mother. Butch, Manny, and Jo share the same father through different mothers, although only Manny ever met him.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ca967579	type	Torture Cellar
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ca967579	comment	Torture Cellar: Zsadist was kept in one of these as a blood slave, to the point where when he woke up chained he immediately knew what his new role in the house would be. The Brothers discover a blood slave being kept in one of these in a glymera aristocrat's house.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Per Word of God the Scribe Virgin is living out her life as Beth's cat, Boo.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: We see a flashback of Phury getting his leg caught in the side of a cliff face and then shooting himself and tearing it off at the knee to get free.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d04d13d0	type	Hemo Erotic
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d04d13d0	comment	Hemo Erotic: A vampire's feeding usually entails sex too.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Extremely common as pregnancy is very risky for vampires and human women carrying half-breed fetuses. Beth's mother dies this way, as does Haver's mate before the story begins. Bella, Layla and Beth all narrowly avoid dying in childbirth.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d2d09c16	type	After-Action Patch-Up
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d2d09c16	comment	After Action Patch Up: They're warriors, who fight. This happens between several characters. It actually makes up an important part of Vishous' book with him and Jane. Also happens between Rhage and Mary after he offers a rhythe, between Blay and Quinn, and between Marissa and Butch after he gets beat up in Rehv's club. Beth first meets Rhage when he's giving himself stitches in her downstairs bathroom. An Establishing Character Moment for Beth in Dark Lover, when she brings Rhage some Alka-Seltzer after a fight. This endears her to Wrath.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d31da2e3	comment	If It's You, It's Okay: While each are in their very happy relationships, Word of God states that Butch feels like this about Vishous.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: Life in the Bloodletter's warrior camp.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles' Heel: Sharp pointy object in the chest of a Lesser and POOF! Sunlight is this to pureblood vampires. Half-breeds may or may not be vulnerable depending.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: Layla for Xcor.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: Several examples. When Vishous heals Butch after the latter sucks up a lesser, they're usual described as being entwined with each other in a way that sounds written like fan service for slash fans. It's intimate enough that when Jane sees the process the first time, she assumes that they're gay and in a relationship. Manny figures out that sexual arousal triggers Payne's healing powers, providing a cure for her paralysis in Lover Unleashed. He even makes reference to the Marvin Gaye song Sexual Healing. There are lots of instances where people are quick to point out that feeding between for medical purposes is no more intimate than a blood transfusion, there are still more instance where feeding for medical purposes turns into sexy time, particularly when its between two people who are already romantically involved or attracted to one another.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl / Action Girlfriend: Plenty of them: This is Xhex's bread and butter. This causes problems for her and John in Lover Reborn. She wants to fight with the Brotherhood, and that makes his bonded male instincts go crazy. They eventually work it out. Payne, who Wrath notes is just as good as any member of the Brotherhood. Seeing her beat up a guy who tries to mug them is a total turn on for Manny. Sola has a cat burglar vibe going on, and she's a definite criminal. She starts off small, spying on Assail for Benloise, then she and Assail do a little mutual stalking. Things get more action-y when she's kidnapped in The King she puts a flare out in the face of one of her kidnappers, and beats the other man to death with a chain. Then in The Thief she assassinates the woman who shot her man so that they could live happily ever after. Erika, a homicide detective. Balthazar is already totally smitten, but the fact that she has his back when there's potential trouble makes him even more attracted to her.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: All the canon couples. You know it's bad when the 'softest' guy in the bunch is an alcoholic ex-cop fired for police brutality. Inverted with Xhex and John. He's damn near a saint compared to the rest of the brotherhood, and she's an assassin with no qualms about killing. Also inverted with Payne and Manny.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_de958eee	type	Antidisestablishmentarianism
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_de958eee	comment	Antidisestablishmentarianism: In Lover Eternal Rhage really likes to hear Mary talk.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: The glymera families. Their nights are spent dancing at balls or politicking over cigars and fine wine while comparing the purity of their bloodlines or arranging marriages between their children. Their homes and bodies are adorned with so much gold, jewelry, and name-brand clothing, attended by so many servants, and given such deference by common Vampires that one has to wonder where they got all of this wealth from in the first place - and why the Brotherhood fights so hard to defend them.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e062bcc4	type	Sink or Swim Mentor
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e062bcc4	comment	Sink or Swim Mentor: This is basically what the Bloodletter's war camp was writ large. In Blood Kiss, the night the first Black Dagger Brotherhood training program meets, they don't actually throw them straight into combat with lessers. But they do poison the trainees, submerge them without warning in a swimming pool, and force them into feats of endurance to prove their worthiness to join the program.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Pretty much all the gay or bisexual characters. Anyone who wants to tell Vishous or Qhuinn they're not masculine because sometimes they like to bang dudes is liable to get their ass kicked so hard they'd be coughing up combat boots. Even Saxton, a nattily dressed, well-mannered aristocrat who describes himself as a 'lover, not a fighter' isn't effeminate.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: The Brotherhood itself.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e41cf31d	comment	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge: The standard response of a bonded male to violence/threats of violence to his mate. When John discovers where Xhex was being held and sees the signs that she was violently assaulted during her captivity, he dismembers and disembowels Mr. D so violently that the kitchen of Lash's safe house is painted black with lesser blood. After he starts to come out of his Heroic BSoD, this is Tohr's MO when it comes to taking down lessers Assail goes on a Roaring Rampageof Revenge when Sola is kidnapped, that includes killing eight people and ripping the throat out of the man who ordered her abduction and planned to torture and kill her. Syn shreds a trio of lessers that get trapped in a storage building with him and Jo in The Sinner, partly because he's just like that, but mostly because they're a threat to Jo and he Does Not Like That.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Bitty's uncle Ruhn has to have her adoption papers read to him because he never learned to read. He signs the papers by making a quick self-portrait.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ea0f58c0	comment	God's Hands Are Tied: Miracles from the Scribe Virgin don't come free, and the price does not seem to be negotiable even for her. For Darius' reincarnation he willingly sacrificed his voice, but in order to grant Vishous' prayer for Jane, the goddess herself gave up her beloved songbirds. The Brotherhood may have hit their miracle limit now that the Scribe Virgin is dead/de-powered while her brother the Omega is still largely empowered.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: In Dark Lover, the lessers use these to lure civilian vampires out of hiding.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_eece5183	comment	Have You Seen My God?: As of The Beast V has discovered that the Vampire deity, the Scribe Virgin, is dead/un-ascended/no longer a deity and will be appointing a successor for the race. The Brothers are all confused by how this could happen but universally agree that this is a bad thing, especially when the war with the Lessers was swinging in their favor. As of The Chosen there is a new deity for the vampire race: Lassiter. Per Word of God the Scribe Virgin is living out her life as Beth's cat, Boo.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Rehvenge towards Bella, after the death of her father.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: After being seized by her final Arrest, Trez asks Selena to blink twice if she wants to die via lethal injection. She blinks twice, and Trez, Manny and Doc Jane assist in the act. This is a part of vampire culture. Terminal patients are often mercy killed by their families as a loophole to suicide preventing entrance to the Fade.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_f38a4690	comment	Legacy of Service: When Darius dies, he leaves Fritz, his butler, to Beth.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: When Bella goes into needing (the mating period for female vampires) for the first time, Zsadist is told that she has a nearly 0% chance of getting pregnant from the subsequent mating. Near the end of the same book, we learn that she is, indeed, pregnant.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Everyone in the series is a brand whore. We get specific brands of everything from clothes, alcohol, cigarettes, cars, household products, and pet foods. YMMV as to whether this helps anchor the story in "reality" or if it's a distraction.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_fad5b84f	comment	Either/Or Offspring: Vampires and humans have this: either the offspring live a human life, or they transition in their twenties like regular vampires and emerge vulnerable to sunlight, dependent on blood, and capable of dematerializing and rematerializing elsewhere. Vampires and symphaths are an aversion.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: EVERYONE (except Blay, whose mother and father are the the nicest, most supportive parents imaginable.) Noteable examples include: Wrath watched his parents murdered in front of him when he was a pre-trans. He was locked in an air vent at the time, and deals with a lot of guilt because he stopped screaming so his parents' murderers wouldn't be able to find him and kill him too. Zsadist is the biggest one. To sum up: stolen as an infant, enslaved, raped, beaten, gang raped, beaten and raped some more for a couple hundred years before being horribly mutilated in the course of his rescue and reunion with his brother. Oh, and his parents are dead. John Matthew was abandoned as a baby, raised in an orphanage and then sent out into the world at 16, with no idea what or who he is. As a young adult, he was raped by a man in the hallway of his apartment complex. Butch was abused by his father and blamed by his family for not telling anyone when his sister went out with the boys who later raped and murdered her. Vishous spent his childhood in a warrior camp run by his ruthless warrior father. He dislikes the combat, preferring to read. He is punished for this. When he comes into his empathic powers, he tells his father of his own death. Disturbed, his father has him tattooed as an outcast, and partially castrated. Qhuinn was treated as a living defect by his Glymera parents for his heterochromatic eyes. After Quinn killed another child of nobility defending John Matthew, his family legally disowned him, ritually burned his belongings, and dispatched an honor guard to beat him to death on the side of the road. Trez was sold by his parents in an arranged marriage to the Royal Family for wealth and status. He was treated as their meal ticket and was only saved from his living prison by the actions of his brother before meeting his beloved Selene, who quickly dies. Xcor was rejected by his father, and his mother refused to acknowledge her relationship to him, pretending instead to be a nursemaid. She chained him up chained outside her house like a dog even in winter, kept him half-starved and half-naked and beat him. Then, after his transition, he met the Bloodletter... Darius' stepfather dumped him off at the Bloodletter's war camp without anything but his journal and the clothes on his back after his mother died. Syn's father was a violent alcoholic who often beat him, and kept the body of his dead mother in their decrepit hut as a warning about what would happen if Syn stepped out of line.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Marissa is this trope. Beautiful? Check. Kind? Check. Innocent? Check. She gets past the naive stage pretty damn fast though.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Most of the brothers at some point or another, but much of Butch's character arc involves overcoming his death wish. With Marissa's help, of course.
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