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His Fair Assassin

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His Fair Assassin	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A plot-heavy historical drama/romance trilogy by Robin LaFevers, revolving around the stories of three friends: Ismae, Sybella, and Annith — who are also all half-sisters, each being a Daughter of Mortain. Growing up in a convent under the tutelage of the handmaidens of Death and raised to be assassins themselves, they find themselves drawn into the political machinations of the power struggle between Brittany and France, as Brittany fights to retain its independence while France works to seize control of the country.Grave Mercy (2012): Ismae's bookDark Triumph (2013): Sybella's bookMortal Heart (2014): Annith's book
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His Fair Assassin / int_12dd1d4c	type	RapeAsDrama
His Fair Assassin / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: D'Albret tries to rape Anne partly to ensure that no other suitor would want her.
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His Fair Assassin / int_171edb09	type	The Wild Hunt
His Fair Assassin / int_171edb09	comment	Annith travels with The Wild Hunt for quite a while.
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His Fair Assassin / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
His Fair Assassin / int_1777836c	comment	True Love's Kiss: Ismae is able to draw the poison out of Duval's body with a kiss, among other things.
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His Fair Assassin / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Of the series title by Duval.
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His Fair Assassin / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
His Fair Assassin / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: While talking to Duval, Ismae is cutting a pear and not paying attention to how much damage she is doing to it with her knife. Similarly, when Ismae is asked to assist in some embroidery, Duval comments on her lack of skill. Ismae responds that she is good at embroidery... with the back of the skull.
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His Fair Assassin / int_2f57a4cb	type	Divine Intervention
His Fair Assassin / int_2f57a4cb	comment	Divine Intervention: Mortain will mark the targets he wishes his handmaidens to kill. He also gives Ismae full understanding of her gifts, which also grants her the knowledge of how to save Duval.
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His Fair Assassin / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
His Fair Assassin / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Subverted by Beast. He's lighthearted, caring and honorable while still huge, hideous, and driven by battle lust.
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His Fair Assassin / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
His Fair Assassin / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Let's just say you shouldn't be planning on making any trips to the sovereign nation of Brittany.
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His Fair Assassin / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
His Fair Assassin / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Ismae refuses to assassinate anyone not marked for death either by the Convent or Mortain, no matter how much they need killing. The readers (and Ismae) are given a chilling look at what happens when someone steps outside of Mortain's grace: there is a void where their soul should be. Ismae has good reason not to kill anyone without Mortain's blessing.
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His Fair Assassin / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
His Fair Assassin / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Sort of. The Beast throws a sword, and while the blade doesn't hit the target, the hilt does, which stuns the soldier long enough for Sybella to finish him off.
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His Fair Assassin / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: While LaFevers Shows Her Work, she does take liberties. Notably, she compresses two years of events into one year by cutting out times when nothing interesting was happening.
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His Fair Assassin / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
His Fair Assassin / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Mortain is often referred to as a dark god, but is also considered merciful.
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His Fair Assassin / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
His Fair Assassin / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Julian jumps in front of a blade meant for Sybella.
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His Fair Assassin / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
His Fair Assassin / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom & Disappeared Dad: Ismae's mother died early and her father is never seen. Until near the end, anyway.
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His Fair Assassin / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
His Fair Assassin / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Unsurprisingly given the abuse she suffered from D'Albret, Sybella tried to hang herself in the past. She's stopped, and told he isn't really her father. This cheers her up immensely.
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His Fair Assassin / int_75b6504a	type	SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying
His Fair Assassin / int_75b6504a	comment	Somewhere, an Ornithologist Is Crying: Ismae mentions hummingbirds at least once. Hummingbirds are native to the Americas, and this takes place before Columbus's infamous hop across the pond. Ismae shouldn't even know hummingbirds exist.
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His Fair Assassin / int_763d015b	type	The Late Middle Ages
His Fair Assassin / int_763d015b	comment	The Late Middle Ages: Set in the 1488, right before the fall of Brittany to the French.
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His Fair Assassin / int_769dd1e3	type	Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
His Fair Assassin / int_769dd1e3	comment	Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt: Defied. Ismae askes if anything incriminating, such as foreign coins, were found on an assassin. Duval responds that he had French coins, but since French currency is widely used in the area, it doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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His Fair Assassin / int_77f3a070	type	Consummation Counterfeit
His Fair Assassin / int_77f3a070	comment	Consummation Counterfeit: Accidentally done. Ismae, is pretending to be the mistress of Viscount Duval in order to explain her presence at court. He visits her bedchambers every night for a few hours to keep up the ruse, but they do not have sex and Ismae is a virgin. However, when Duval tries to wake her from a nightmare, she immediately lashes out at him with a knife and ends up cutting him. The next morning, the housekeeper sees the blood on the sheets and kindly assures Ismae that "it will not always hurt so," much to Ismae's embarrassment.
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His Fair Assassin / int_792b66e2	type	Periphery Demographic
His Fair Assassin / int_792b66e2	comment	Periphery Demographic: This series has a decent number of fans who dislike like the romance and historical genres.
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His Fair Assassin / int_79d5224d	type	Wicked Stepmother
His Fair Assassin / int_79d5224d	comment	Wicked Step Father: Ismae's father is scum, to say the least.
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His Fair Assassin / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
His Fair Assassin / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: It involves 15th century European nobility, so this is more wide spread than the bubonic plague.
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His Fair Assassin / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
His Fair Assassin / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Ismae drops her goblet when the Abbess casually mentions that the convent kills people.
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His Fair Assassin / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
His Fair Assassin / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: The handmaidens are trained in "womanly arts" in addition to killing.
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His Fair Assassin / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: The French ambassador.
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His Fair Assassin / int_9a888d97	type	Finger-Licking Poison
His Fair Assassin / int_9a888d97	comment	Finger-Licking Poison: This is how Duval gets poisoned. Since this particular poison goes through the skin, the victim had no idea where it was picked up and only suspicions about who the poisoner was... Until Ismae realized that it was on the chess pieces, it quite the gutsy move considering the poisoner would also need to touch the tampered surfaces too in order to avoid suspicion.
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His Fair Assassin / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
His Fair Assassin / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: As of the end of the first book, numerous evil characters are still alive and well.
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His Fair Assassin / int_a7ea5c1c	type	LesYay
His Fair Assassin / int_a7ea5c1c	comment	Les Yay. In-universe as invoked by Sybella. She lets her treacherous handmaid read more into her relationship with Tephanie in order to piss her off. Sybella also mentions casually to Ismae that Duval has much to thank her [Sybella] for, as Sybella was the one to teach Ismae how to kiss.
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His Fair Assassin / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
His Fair Assassin / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Ismae is trained to be a Master Poisoner because she is completely immune to all poisons; the most she might feel is a light tingling sensation, and only if the poison is exceptionally strong. It's one of the rarer perks of being a daughter of Mortain. Ironically, it turns out that she is also a cure for any and all poisons. Prolonged skin-on-skin contact will draw poison out of anyone afflicted.
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His Fair Assassin / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
His Fair Assassin / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The herbwitch points out to Ismae's father that trying to kill the God of Death's lover and their child will probably not end well for him.
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His Fair Assassin / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
His Fair Assassin / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Literally, in the case of Beast: in battle (or at the faintest sniff of danger to himself or his friends) he is taken over by unshakable blood lust, and has stated that he does, in fact, enjoy his "work."
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His Fair Assassin / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
His Fair Assassin / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Sybella has no love for Mortain in the beginning, and only continues to consider herself to be his daughter because the alternative would mean considering D'Albret to be her father.
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His Fair Assassin / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
His Fair Assassin / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: All of the convent, and Ismae in particular, are willing to kill because Mortain says so.
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His Fair Assassin / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
His Fair Assassin / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Marriage to Fedric would provide Anne both a good husband and a chance to secure Brittany's borders. Then he gets assassinated.
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His Fair Assassin / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
His Fair Assassin / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Not the book, but the series appears to be shaping up this way with the second book being about Ismae's friend Sybella.
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His Fair Assassin / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
His Fair Assassin / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Several of Isame's feats could be the result of skill, luck, divine heritage, or direct intervention from Mortaine.
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His Fair Assassin / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
His Fair Assassin / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Abbess. One time she does sign a letter with her real name, Etienne de Froissard, but otherwise.
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His Fair Assassin / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
His Fair Assassin / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: This is how Ismae saves Duval, who has been poisoned. Being one of Death's daughters, and she has the ability to neutralize poison via skin-on-skin contact. While sex isn't strictly necessary, Duval certainly didn't object.
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His Fair Assassin / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
His Fair Assassin / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: While the real D'Albret was ambitious, cruel, and manipulative, it gets taken up to eleven in the series.
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His Fair Assassin / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
His Fair Assassin / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: On a few occasions, characters start to explain their actions to Ismae without being asked. Since they usually either ignore or or treat her with contempt, this raises her suspicions.
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His Fair Assassin / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
His Fair Assassin / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear the Reaper: Mortain is actually a merciful deity and kind to his daughter.
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His Fair Assassin / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
His Fair Assassin / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: Each book in the series has a different narrator, with some overlap in chronology.
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His Fair Assassin / int_ea1bf9b6	type	Improbable Antidote
His Fair Assassin / int_ea1bf9b6	comment	Improbable Antidote: Ismae herself!
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His Fair Assassin / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
His Fair Assassin / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Beast and company show up at the end to pull Sybella out of harm's way.
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