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Knights of the Borrowed Dark

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Knights of the Borrowed Dark	comment	Knights of the Borrowed Dark is a 2016 middle-grade fantasy novel written by Dave Rudden.Denizen Hardwick is an orphan. And he has been for eleven of his thirteen years of lifeâ€”that is, until he's contacted by an aunt he's never heard of before and sees her colleague destroy a reality-defying shadow monster with spoken sunrise.He's taken to a place called Seraphim Row, a candle-lit mansion of secrets, and learns that creatures called the Tenebrous tear into our world through the shadows. And his aunt is part of an ancient order of Knights who fight to beat them back. Not only that, but Denizen has fire in his own bloodstream, giving him the potential to join their fight... and possibly finally get answers about his parents as well.The Forever Court takes place six months later, with the Order still dealing with the aftermath of the events of the first book and the implications it carried. And nowhere are the effects felt stronger than in Seraphim Row. But as Denizen is adjusting to his new life of Knighthood, the Order receives an unexpected letter from the Tenebrous. And not only that, but another dangerous power is gathering in preparation for war...The final book in the trilogy, The Endless King, came out 2018 and follows Denizen and his friends as they travel to the Order's ancestral home, Daybreak. It isn't long before a shocking arrival comes bearing the even more shocking news that the Tenebrae's leader has fallenâ€”and with Usurpers targeting Daybreak, real war is rising.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_10dafb12	type	Flaming Sword
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_10dafb12	comment	Flaming Sword: Uriel's Prayer allows him to summon a sword that is literally made of fire.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: The Tenebrous don't speak using them, but the Cants are technically this.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_11627e1d	type	Real Men Get Shot
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_11627e1d	comment	Real Men Get Shot: Vivian has been shot twice now. The first time was nearly point-blank to the back, and incapacitated her for a significant amount of time before she managed to heal herself; the second time was to the shoulder, bounced off the iron of the Cost, and did literally nothing.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_116a648e	type	Half-Identical Twins
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_116a648e	comment	Half-Identical Twins: Uriel and Ambrel Croit, Justified due to their whole family looking creepily similar.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: Mercy bragging about how human she can be... followed immediately by her umbra taking out every light and even the fridge in a store.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_14c791fb	comment	Graham means â€œgrey homeâ€� and McCarron means â€œlittle dark one.â€� His nickname Grey references his PTSD and how he's stuck between light and dark.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Denizen grew up reading fantasy books, and is able to lampshade a lot of tropes. Simon, too, to a lesser extent.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: D'Aubigny and Grey.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_17d5e071	type	Weapon of X-Slaying
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_17d5e071	comment	Weapon of X-Slaying: The hammers of Mallei are the only weapons that can kill certain ancient Tenebrous.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_17e530e1	type	Punctuation Shaker
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_17e530e1	comment	Punctuation Shaker: Tenebrous names employ this sometimes, such as with Pick-Up-the-Pieces, Mocked-By-A-Husband and the title Tenebrous use for the Endless King, That-Which-Is-Endless.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: Darcie takes off her tinted glasses when explaining to Denizen her job as a Lux Precognitae.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1c169242	type	The Order
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1c169242	comment	The Order
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1c1d243c	type	Brotherâ€“Sister Team
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1c1d243c	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Team: Uriel and Ambrel. They strategize in combat very, very well... and had a meltdown when separated.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Eleven years ago, Vivian's entire cadre was wiped out by the Clockwork Three; when she learns that they've returned, rather than stay with her current cadre and at least warn them of the possible danger, she leaves. If she had communicated with them, maybe D'Aubigny could have lived, and at least something could have been done about Grey. So much of the second book involves the main characters purposefully withholding information from Greaves. And Vivian being vague with Denizen.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1d751503	type	Talking Your Way Out
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1d751503	comment	Talking Your Way Out: Denizen does a variation of this when he's kidnapped by the Croits and offers to teach them the Cants. Although it's less talking his way out of capture, and more talking his way out of being murdered and having his blood used as crusade-paint.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1daa7fce	comment	Vivian. She's been a Knight for nearly two decades and has risen to the position of Malleus, which in and of itself implies this, but she also gets shot In the Back at nearly point-blank range, survives it, gets up, and prepares to go back into battle only a few hours later.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: â€œAllow me to caw in more civilized tones.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1ebbdddb	type	Power at a Price
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1ebbdddb	comment	Power at a Price: The Cost, which turns Knights' skin to iron the more the use their powers.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1eefabd2	type	Late for School
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1eefabd2	comment	Late for School: Played With. Denizen wakes up late on the first day of classes at Daybreak and freaks out, but is stopped in the halls by Greaves, who doesn't even want him to go to class anyway.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: D'Aubigny and Grey fight Pick-Up-the-Pieces in this manner, and Denizen and Vivian get in this formation when the Croits attack.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1f80d7be	type	Wild Magic
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1f80d7be	comment	Wild Magic: The power of the Tenebrae just wants to be used... and really, just once wouldn't hurt, would it? Just let your anger out, it would be so easy to change the world, to burn the world, and come on, a hand isn't that big of a sacrifice for this kind of power! â€¦ Yeah, that's why there's a Cost.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1fe9e22	type	Childhood Friends
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_1fe9e22	comment	Childhood Friends: Simon and Denizen have known each other since they were both three years old, and their friendship is a main motivator for both of them.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: The dark.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_209d0b5f	type	Wainscot Society
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_209d0b5f	comment	Wainscot Society: The Order of the Borrowed Dark.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_21d70919	comment	The life of the Knights isn't pretty either. Joining the Order is a lifetime contract, meaning he'd have to throw away any other future he wanted to become a Knight; he is technically given a choice about it, but there are so many moral strings attached that he feels guilty even thinking about choosing, and why would he want to return to Crosscaper anyway? The magic is dangerous and unpleasant, his Dawning leaves a permanent impact on his personality since his anger fuels it whether he wants it to or not, and it comes with a Cost. The secret society is made up of soldiers engaged in total warfare, which is extremely mentally scarring, and obviously has a high mortality rate, not to mention the other unearthly horrors that could happen due to the nature of the monsters they fight.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: She may be protecting the world from shadow monsters, but Vivian still acts very rude to Denizen, refusing to speak to him and criticizing almost everything he does.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2221d1fc	type	Invisibility Flicker
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2221d1fc	comment	Invisibility Flicker: Simon inverts this, flickering into invisibility (or at least translucency) several times.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Hey, remember the Malleus's hammer in the Emissary's chest? Yeah, Vivian goes to get that after Grey steals hers. Simon's birthday also qualifies.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_230c2632	type	Glowing Eyes
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_230c2632	comment	Glowing Eyes: Knights' eyes glow when they call on their powers.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: â€œI guess I'm just a blunt instrument.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Abigail and Matt.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_24d85d41	type	Disappears into Light
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_24d85d41	comment	Disappears into Light: Mercy does this a lot... because she is made of light.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The Endless King starts off with a prologue from Director Ackerby's perspective involving what seems like a Breach at Crosscaper and Denizen asking for help. The first chapter takes place â€œsome time earlier.â€� Around the middle of the book, we get the context of that scene from Denizen's perspective.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_25cd163a	type	You Know What They Say
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_25cd163a	comment	You Know What They Say: No plan of action survives first contact.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_25dffed2	type	Headbutting Heroes
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_25dffed2	comment	Headbutting Heroes: Vivian and Greaves really don't like each other.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_26ff59b4	type	Knight Errant
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_26ff59b4	comment	Knight Errant: The Knights Peregrine.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_295008dd	type	Loophole Abuse
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_295008dd	comment	Loop Hole Abuse: The Clockwork Three aren't very specific in their orders for Grey, so he uses this to fight their control. The deal with the Forever Court was no hammers at the Concilium. They never said anything about obscene amounts of explosives in the floor.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_297ab1b9	comment	Denizen developed a skeptical view of life and some pretty severe trust issues because of his time at Crosscaper Orphanage (and reading lots of novels with this trope), and his war-hardened aunt refuses to talk to him about his parents... He eventually learns that Vivian is his mother, who left him in an orphanage because her world got his father killed, and she wanted to keep him away from it. This only ends up sucking him further in, however.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2b706ca	comment	The deal with the Forever Court was no hammers at the Concilium. They never said anything about obscene amounts of explosives in the floor.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2fc2d6e1	type	Shapeshifter Mode Lock
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_2fc2d6e1	comment	Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Downplayed. Taking some Cost from Denizen leaves Mercy permanently partially iron, but she can still change shape, it's just harder.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_30351912	type	Innate Night Vision
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_30351912	comment	Innate Night Vision: The Intueor Lucidum.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Both Grey and Vivian, to each other.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_32987ad9	type	Family Eye Resemblance
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_32987ad9	comment	Family Eye Resemblance: Denizen has the same hard grey eyes as Vivian.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_33f7b10e	type	Walk-In Chime-In
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_33f7b10e	comment	Walk-In Chime-In: â€œThat sounds like an excellent idea, because I'm about ready to retire.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3498cb66	type	Love-Obstructing Parents
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3498cb66	comment	Love-Obstructing Parents: Vivian isn't too accepting of Denizen having a crush on a Tenebrous...
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_34d54130	type	Malevolent Mutilation
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_34d54130	comment	Malevolent Mutilation: Uriel is threatened with this when Ambrel comes after him with the intent to shave off parts of his hands with a file.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_39684516	type	Kill the Ones You Love
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_39684516	comment	Kill the Ones You Love: Poor Grey. He tries to Mercy Kill Vivian and Denizen in order to prevent the Three from subjecting them to the kind of torture he was put through, and give them a quick death. But while he was dealing with the Hardwicks, he knew the Three were at Seraphim Row, and he was under the impression that they had killed everyone until Vivian told him much later that only D'Aubigny was dead.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_39ff7ffb	type	Change the Uncomfortable Subject
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_39ff7ffb	comment	Change the Uncomfortable Subject: Whenever Denizen asks about his parents around Vivian, or Vivian around the other Knights, they'll try to do this.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: The Cants gifted to Denizen turn out to be this due to how much trouble he has controlling them.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: â€œIf he so much as catches a cold, the Malleus will melt you both down and use you as scrap.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3d134824	type	Letter Motif
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3d134824	comment	Letter Motif: Grey and Greaves, probably because they're foils.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Vivian beats Grey in a matter of seconds.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3d90a738	type	Hero with a Unique Name
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3d90a738	comment	Hero with a Unique Name: Most everyone else has a real name (Vivian, Simon, Abigail, etc.) and then there's Denizen. Somewhat Subverted in book two with the introduction of Edifice Greaves, who isn't The Hero, but whose name is also a noun not usually given as a name. Turns out it's Justified; Vivian wanted to give Denizen a normal name, but his father didn't because he was never going to be normal.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Hoo boy. The writing is absolutely lovely, rife with imagery and making use of other beautiful figurative language, so many things are described like this.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Played With. The Clockwork Three want Vivian to kill Grey because they think it'd be fun. Once Grey makes it perfectly clear that he has to fight her, she doesn't even try to talk him back and ends up neutralizing—but not killing—him.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: At the end of the series, the Usurpers are dead and the Cants have been returned to the Tenebrae. Breaches have become nearly unheard of, eliminating the need for an Order that fights Tenebrous; Denizen goes to college and becomes a teacher, Abigail has gone into private security, and Ed does architecture for the Order. However, there were countless casualties during the War of Daybreak. Denizen found out the girl he had a crush on was mostly just using him, and the cost of saving the multiverse is becoming mostly iron, which he barely survives. And Vivian is dead, so he doesn't get a life with her. Still, it's more sweet than bitter.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_43555d33	type	Heroes Prefer Swords
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_43555d33	comment	Heroes Prefer Swords: Averted. All Mallei wield hammers.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_45f0bb2d	type	Hope Is Scary
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_45f0bb2d	comment	Hope Is Scary: Denizen brings this up when wondering whether Uriel was able to reason with Ambrel and get back to Trinity.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_471c46f8	type	Allegory
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_471c46f8	comment	Allegory: For bullying. The Cost also represents scars from self-harm.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Denizen and Grey.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Seraphim Row.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Subverted and Deconstructed. The Tenebrous seem to be this... until Denizen meets Mercy, who is extremely nice. This is explored further; Tenebrous, while alien to the world, are not inherently evil, and are individuals with their own desires and emotions. However, most Knights won't believe that Mercy isn't a monster, and even Denizen seems to think of her as an exception rather than proof that Tenebrous aren't all evil.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Due to the Description Porn. Special mention to the description of Os Reges Point.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4b316d47	comment	Grey taking a while to get back from Rathlath and going expressionless at the mention of the Woman in White. Actually, Grey's deterioration as a whole.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4c30f8f0	type	Twitchy Eye
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4c30f8f0	comment	Twitchy Eye: Grey develops this. Also occurs when someone is struggling to control their powers.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4c506837	type	The Snack Is More Interesting
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4c506837	comment	The Snack Is More Interesting: When asked about her thoughts on Greaves, Abigail responds with her extremely elaborate food order off the menu at the Goshawk. Then she answers the actual question.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4d1b485d	type	Dedication
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4d1b485d	comment	D'Aubigny's tatoos are based off Rudden's friend Eilish.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line Book One: â€œDenizen... I'm not your aunt. I'm your mother.â€� Book Two: â€œThe Order live?â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: Vivian says this when she commands the other Knights to stand down while she goes after the Clockwork Three. Naturally, Grey disobeys anyway.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Jack and D'Aubigny. She only comes up to his chest.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4fa637b0	type	Surprisingly Creepy Moment
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_4fa637b0	comment	Surprisingly Creepy Moment: Given that it's middle-grade, and has a fairly generic plot summary, the events of the prologue can come as an incredible shock. Happens again in chapter three. Denizen is on the way to meet his aunt, McCarron seems friendly, things are a bit weird but nothing too horrible... and then a massive Eldritch Abomination suddenly pulls itself out of the rubble of a collapsed tunnel.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Grey's handâ€”already iron from the Cost, now misshapen and filled with clockwork that seems to be growing out of him. Made even more visceral when he rips a stray strip of his skin loose without even flinching.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Uriel repeatedly throws copies of the Flaming Sword he can summon at the Redemptress.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_529a3369	type	Fights Like a Normal
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_529a3369	comment	Fights Like a Normal: All the Knights, as a way of minimizing the Cost.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends The prologue of the first book is called â€œTick,â€� and chapter 31 is titled â€œTock.â€� The epilogue of book one is Daybreak; the epilogue of book three is Sunrise.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: â€œI am very calm,â€� hissed Mercy. After giving an implied war threat.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_53b22e1f	type	Tattoo as Character Type
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_53b22e1f	comment	Tattoo as Character Type: D'Aubigny has two tattoos: a colorful dominant one across her shoulders, and a black rose on her stomach (although the meaning of that one doesn't fit). Grey has a phoenix on his shoulder blade. Both characters do have supernatural powers, although neither has actually ever even mentioned their tattoos.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5586a766	type	Luminescent Blush
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5586a766	comment	Luminescent Blush: Shockingly and hilariously Justified. Due to the fire in their blood, every single Knight can get this quite literallyâ€”and usually does, to a small extent, as a default.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_55c8bdbc	type	Death Wail
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_55c8bdbc	comment	Death Wail: When she's told that Vivian is dead, Abigail starts screaming... except her jaw is clenched so no one else could hear it.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5715081d	type	Battle-Interrupting Shout
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5715081d	comment	Battle-Interrupting Shout: It only stops the Redemptress, but Denizen yells one of these.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Zig Zagged. It is possible to control them, with extensive training, but even then it's hard; the power is triggered by strong emotions and needs to be tamped down. Most characters, especially the experienced Knights, are able to prevent any accidents from happening... but can still be seen holding their power when angry, and it leaks if used when they're emotionally unstable.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: The Knights of the Borrowed Dark, obviously. They have powers that can be used to defeat the Tenebrous, but also train extensively at hand-to-hand combat so they don't have to use their powers unless it's absolutely necessary.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: Some of the Tenebrous take forms that look vaguely like animals. Pick-Up-the-Pieces, for example, looked like a cat.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5b0e992	type	Guilt Complex
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5b0e992	comment	Naturally, the kids aren't excused from this, either. Darcie takes it hard whenever someone gets hurt, and Simon picked up a lot of long-lasting trauma from his Run or Die situation at Crosscaper. Denizen gets to experience several near-death experiences, betrayal by the second friend he's ever made, the death of someone he cared about, and witnesses other various traumatic events.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5b965319	type	Language of Magic
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5b965319	comment	Language of Magic: Kind of. The Cants are in a magic language, but it isn't exactly language; it's elemental, like speaking with the senses of nature.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: The Croits drugged Denizen and it knocked him out almost immediately.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: At the beginning of the book, Simon is this to Denizen.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: Denizen rattles one off when Mercy asks what he's nervous about. It ends with â€œso many things.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: Lampshaded. Denizen has pretty severe trust issues as a result of this, and is desperate to know anything about his parents. Grey hasn't said much about his past other than that he is an orphan, but given the negative reaction he displays whenever he brings it up, this trope is strongly implied. Simon actually seems to be the best off when it comes to this, but it still affects him.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Endless King Dragon
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_62434fe2	comment	Grey is Depressed, and there are a few moments when his mask slips, although the full extent of this isn't apparent until later. He drifts into the Unstable territory when he has a sanity slippage and still doesn't stop smiling.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Vivian Hardwick has a very distinctive one.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: What the hell does the ending of the second book mean?
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice D'Aubigny and Jack fighting the Clockwork Three so Darcie and Abigail could get away. Jack survives but is left severely wounded, and D'Aubigny dies. Vivian fights Dragon so the Neophytes can get away. She ends up killing it, but at the cost of her own life.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: Discussed and Subverted. When Malebranche asks about Denizen, Greaves guesses that he thought he'd be taller. Malebranche replies that he thinks all humans look the same.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6a2486cd	type	Graying Morality
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6a2486cd	comment	Graying Morality: The series presented itself at first as a traditional good vs. evil story. This quickly became muddy at best in book one, and the conflict became even greyer in book two. The Tenebrous aren't monstersâ€”they're complex, individual creatures capable of feeling love and grief and everything in between.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Funnily enough, however, this trope is entirely averted when it comes to the Knights' actual power, which isn't even given a real name and is simply referred to as â€œthe power of the Tenebraeâ€� or some variant thereof. It's also surprisingly averted in regards to the Endless King's mercy, up until The Reveal that it's actually a Tenebrous named Mercy.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: The Knights are engaged in one with the Tenebrous.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: An interesting case with Grey. While he doesn't actually die, he is put through a lot of shit, and breaks in a way that spurs on Denizen's character development similarly to what this trope invokes. The trope is, however, played straight with D'Aubigny.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: These are all over the place. â€œWell, you know what they say about plans.â€� "I told you not to overthink stuff." â€œIf not me, who else?â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Everything. To the point where there's a lexicon of them in the back of the third book. Tenebrae means â€œdarknessâ€� in Latin, and it's also the name of a candle-extinguishing festival. Seraphim are a type of angel associated with fire. Malleus means hammer. Hardwick means something along the lines of â€œherd and outlying farm,â€� or â€œbrave in battle.â€� Denizen's claim that it translates to â€œsafety through cautionâ€� might reference the armorial motto of the Duke of Devonshire. A denizen is an inhabitant of a certain place. Vivian means alive; she's Denizen's mother, who he previously thought was dead. Simon means â€œlisteningâ€� or â€œhe has heardâ€� and Hayes means â€œdescendant of Aodh,â€� who is a fire god. Graham means â€œgrey homeâ€� and McCarron means â€œlittle dark one.â€� His nickname Grey references his PTSD and how he's stuck between light and dark. A fuller is a blacksmithing tool, as well as a groove on the side of a blade. Corinne means â€œbeautiful maidenâ€� and her last name references Julie d'Aubigny. Darcie means â€œof the darknessâ€� and wright is a name for a craftsman. A falx is a type of sickle, and Abigail means â€œmy father is joy.â€� The surname Croit. It means â€œto place one's heart,â€� or â€œto believe,â€� but has several other possible significant meanings. It's related to croftâ€”an enclosed area of landâ€”which contrasts with the meaning of Hardwick, and can mean â€œrawâ€� or â€œfresh blood.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6c10c5d3	type	Secret War
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6c10c5d3	comment	Secret War: The one between the Knights and the Tenebrous that's been going on for centuries.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6cf80934	comment	Big Word Shout: â€œSTOPâ€� is yelled a lot.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Downplayed, but still... The conflicted character with questionable motives and ambiguous actions is nicknamed Grey? Gee, I wonder why.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: In the third book, Simon tries to come out to Denizen.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Greaves came to watch the Neophytes train without anyone noticing him arriving, which was disconcerting compared to how his entrances usually go.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Oh yeah. The book has two major plot threads that don't converge until very late in the story, with each picking up many more questions along the way. No one explains much to Denizen about anything, and nothing he uncovers about his parents gives him answers either, only deepening the mystery further. Simon, meanwhile, has no sources of information at all, and the reader has only a minimally better idea of what's going on than he does. None of this is helped by the fact that the Knights know virtually nothing about the Tenebrous, and a lot of their prior notions and ideas were called into question or straight-up debunked by later events and reveals, and new puzzle pieces were brought up right up until the end of the book. And though the major Driving Questions have been answered and some other mysteries explained by the end of the first book, so there's still a lot left open.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: â€œThere are a lot of people in Dublin. With cameras. And phones that are cameras. And phones that are cameras that can phone people with cameras.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7243f3cb	type	Dark Fantasy
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7243f3cb	comment	Dark Fantasy: It is definitely horror-fantasy.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The Endless King and the Clockwork Three in book one. In book three, there's Dragon, the Emissary, and the Opening Boy.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Implied. While he never makes any active attempts to kill himself, this actually happens twice to Grey—the Three don't kill him for his rebellion like he hoped, and Vivian spares him after they fight.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The Hardwick family motto—"Yield not to evil, but attack all the more boldly.â€� The words of the Croits. "She loved. She stole. And we knew fire."
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Grey was taken away by the Order after book one, and was absent for the entirety of The Forever Court.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_78be795b	comment	Changeling Fantasy: Lovingly Deconstructed. Denizen is whisked away from the orphanage he's lived at since he was two to meet a long-lost aunt, discovers he has magic powers, and is introduced to an exciting secret world of adventure and monsters... except all that is definitely not as glamorous as it sounds. Denizen developed a skeptical view of life and some pretty severe trust issues because of his time at Crosscaper Orphanage (and reading lots of novels with this trope), and his war-hardened aunt refuses to talk to him about his parents... He eventually learns that Vivian is his mother, who left him in an orphanage because her world got his father killed, and she wanted to keep him away from it. This only ends up sucking him further in, however. The life of the Knights isn't pretty either. Joining the Order is a lifetime contract, meaning he'd have to throw away any other future he wanted to become a Knight; he is technically given a choice about it, but there are so many moral strings attached that he feels guilty even thinking about choosing, and why would he want to return to Crosscaper anyway? The magic is dangerous and unpleasant, his Dawning leaves a permanent impact on his personality since his anger fuels it whether he wants it to or not, and it comes with a Cost. The secret society is made up of soldiers engaged in total warfare, which is extremely mentally scarring, and obviously has a high mortality rate, not to mention the other unearthly horrors that could happen due to the nature of the monsters they fight.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7986a111	type	Bonding over Missing Parents
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7986a111	comment	Bonding over Missing Parents: Downplayed, but it's definitely there between Denizen and Grey.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Denizen gets one with Mercy, before they're interrupted by Vivian.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: The Room of Swords.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Grey has one when remembers what the Clockwork Three did to him; he ends up trying to shoot Vivian and Denizen.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Pathetic, cowardly, shortâ€”
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler Of the Empty variety, there's the Man in the Waistcoat... although the smile doesn't really do much to convince anyone that he's normal. Grey is Depressed, and there are a few moments when his mask slips, although the full extent of this isn't apparent until later. He drifts into the Unstable territory when he has a sanity slippage and still doesn't stop smiling.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Denizen and Simon, respectively. Denizen is skeptical, driven, and short-tempered, while Simon is more calm, controlled, and relaxed. This is further represented by their Dawnings. Denizen's power manifested as raw and angry fire; Simon's was bending light, a difficult ability that requires a lot of patience and discipline.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Frequent at Crosscaper, and is Lampshaded by Simon.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_851dda8f	comment	Of the Empty variety, there's the Man in the Waistcoat... although the smile doesn't really do much to convince anyone that he's normal.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: An interesting case with Mercy, who's actually more ambiguously trustworthy than ambiguously evil. Despite being the Endless King's daughter, she has been nothing but kind and straightforward with Denizen, and has never done anything evil, but the ending of The Forever Court suggests that she may be up to something, or be more shady that she seems.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_857d1626	type	Power Glows
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_857d1626	comment	Power Glows: Justified, as the Knights are fighting darkness, and their powers manifest as fire.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_86ba007a	type	Bad Powers, Good People
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_86ba007a	comment	Bad Powers, Good People: Knights' powers come from the world where the Tenebrous live.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8774fb47	comment	Happens again in chapter three. Denizen is on the way to meet his aunt, McCarron seems friendly, things are a bit weird but nothing too horrible... and then a massive Eldritch Abomination suddenly pulls itself out of the rubble of a collapsed tunnel.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Deconstructed with the Croits. They believe they are chosen, Favored by the Redemptress, and it twisted them into haughty, self-important monsters who believe they are destined to own the world.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Tenebrous are driven insane from the weight of being able to see the entire multiverse above them at all times. Denizen himself almost dies from seeing it.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The Jensen Interceptor.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Thralldom is absolutely horrible. The Clockwork Three literally got inside of Grey's head, forced him to do things for them, and played with his memories.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8caa992e	type	Weak-Willed
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8caa992e	comment	Grey has never been much good at self-control.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8e07d1b8	type	Merciful Minion
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8e07d1b8	comment	Merciful Minion: Inverted and then played straight. Grey's orders were just to keep the Hardwicks at Crosscaper until the Three returned, but he decides to kill them instead... believing it to be a mercy. He ends up letting Denizen leave, which goes against his own plans and his orders.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Chapter 25. Grey is the Clockwork Three's thrall, Vivian Hardwick appears to die, and it's finally revealed what the Three want and why they're after Denizen.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8ea9eb54	type	Black Swords Are Better
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8ea9eb54	comment	Black Swords Are Better: Denizen's knife is made from a shard of a Malleus's hammer and is thus black.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The Higher Cants, which take a large Cost and are very difficult to control, to the point where they can be deadly to the user.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8f746311	type	Cargo Cult
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_8f746311	comment	Cargo Cult: The Croits... at least until the Redemptress awakens and is no longer inanimate.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_90e2b7b4	type	Theme Twin Naming
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_90e2b7b4	comment	Theme Twin Naming: Uriel and Ambrel are both named after angels, possibly.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_91489a9a	type	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_91489a9a	comment	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names: Downplayed, but the PenumbraCorp agent is named Strap.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Mercy kills the Endless King in order to replace him.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_93b39134	type	Training the Gift of Magic
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_93b39134	comment	Training the Gift of Magic: The power is hungry and dangerous, and the Cantsâ€”the only moderately safe way to even use the magicâ€”are potentially deadly without training, so this becomes necessary to everyone with a connection to the Tenebrae, whether they decide to join the Order or not.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Denizen kisses Mercy to return the Cants, so yes, a kiss literally saves the multiverse.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_94eb5311	type	Geometric Magic
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_94eb5311	comment	Geometric Magic: Justified. Mercy's cage is a poorly-drawn circle on the ground. Thoroughly Discussed and Exploited by Denizen, who realizes instantly that it's probably very dangerous.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: By the end, the Clockwork Three are both metaphorically and literally falling apart.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Due to the copious amounts of Foreshadowing and the nature of its Jigsaw Puzzle Plot, a reread (or several) can be very rewarding. To list a few examples: all of Simon's chaptersâ€”16 in particularâ€”carry heavy reread bonuses, as does the prologue, and many scenes involving Vivian or Grey take on a different light after the Reveals involving them. You can really see what Greaves is doing to see if Denizen's a thrall on the second time through.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Simon, Abigail, Darcie, and Vivian all have this reaction when Uriel mentions Denizen having taught him the Art of Apertura... in front of Greaves. When Simon, Abigail, Ed, and Matt realize that lighting Daybreak was a challenge beacon.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_98a67517	type	Creature-Hunter Organization
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_98a67517	comment	Creature-Hunter Organization: Deconstructed. The Knights' work is total warfare, and extremely taxing, physically and mentally. It's a massive responsibility, for them to risk their lives, fight, and die for a whole world of people who will hopefully never even know about what they do.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing Tons in the prologue of book one. The off-ness of the strangers foreshadows them being Tenebrous. They avoid the lights, their eyes look wrong, and when asked about their names, they say that they're â€œnewâ€�. The strangers asking about Denizen: Has he turned thirteen? Has another relative come to take him away to a new life? And the odd phenomena they mention are all related to the Tenebrae and the Knights' powers: fires, disappearances, injuries, spacial or luminal distortion, shadows moving strangely... What they say at the end of the chapter, about confusion and symmetry, and just wanting a little more misery in the world hints at their motivations. Ackerby hears ticking. Actually, their interrogation of Ackerby gives a slice into a variant of the process they used on Grey. Simon suggests that Denizen's aunt might have been waiting for him to be older, and that she might travel a lot and have a giant house. Turns out he's more right than he thinks. Before Denizen gets to Seraphim Row, basically everything Grey does is this to something about Knighthood: He drives up to Crosscaper at night with no headlights on because the ''Intueor Lucidum'' lets him see in the dark. He doesn't take off his gloves to eat because of the Cost. Vivian asking if Director Carsing still runs Crosscaper. She also hesitates while saying â€œI owe it to your parentsâ€�, probably because she was going to say â€œfatherâ€� instead. Simon is the only person still awake in Crosscaper for no explainable reason... except he's a Knight. Grey has never been much good at self-control. â€œSomething has the Tenebrae stirred up.â€� D'Aubigny promising that she'll bring Denizen home. All of what Simon overhears the man in the waistcoat say in chapter 16 turns out to be significant: The Clockwork Three have a real person with them; they've wormed into his head and can force him to do things. They also call him â€œKnight,â€� and that explosion sure looks like a Cant. It turns out this person is Grey. Them having tasted fire and the â€œtools often break in the handâ€� line both reference the events of eleven years ago, when every attempt of theirs to create a thrall ended in a casualty and Vivian hurt them worse than anyone had before. Grey taking a while to get back from Rathlath and going expressionless at the mention of the Woman in White. Actually, Grey's deterioration as a whole. Denizen's first experience with the Art of Apertura, and Grey having warned him about needing to look out for sharks in the Tenebrae. â€œI like exploring, peering up at all the different worlds.â€� Before she gives Denizen the Cants, Mercy says, â€œWait long enough and the sun always rises. Do you believe that?â€� It seems random at the time, but hints at the fact that the Knights' power was the Tenebrae's sun. Actually, all the sun imagery in reference to the Knights' powers. Special mention to Denizen's Dawn being described as like â€œa hole had been torn between here and the heart of the sun.â€� Uriel remained stone-faced while Ambrel prepared a sneak attack on Grandfather from behind. It didn't work on him, but they got Denizen this way. When Denizen asks who stole the fire from the Endless King, Mercy doesn't answerâ€”she changes the subject and starts talking about the rarity of human and Tenebrous working together, and how it's ended in pain and death every other time. â€œYou didn't speak to prisoners. They might infect you with dangerous ideas.â€� A ton for who the third Usurper is: Abigail and Matt coming across frozen Tenebrous; Denizen hearing what sounds like the Boy's sobbing; Grey's confusion and inconsistency surrounding his Aperture taking them to Crosscaper; the graffiti; Denizen wondering whether the Three were really dead; the frost on Os Reges Point.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: â€œBut that was in books, and monsters were real.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9dad9e49	type	Western Zodiac
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_9dad9e49	comment	Western Zodiac Although he probably thought he was a Taurus for most of his life, Denizen is a Libra, since he was born on October 3rd. It seems like an odd sign for him at first, since he's easily angered and has all the charisma of a rock, but it does fit with his role as The Heart, his longing for familiarity and peace, and the importance he places on deep relationships, among other traits. Simon (born October 26) is a rare heroic Scorpio—fitting, given his love of mystery novels and the significance of his detective skills.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a0a838fe	type	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a0a838fe	comment	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: In chapter 25, Grey has a gun to Denizen's head, and Denizen thinks he's been shot when it goes offâ€”but Grey moved it at the last second and fired toward Crosscaper instead.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a0f6ab07	type	Nicknaming the Enemy
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a0f6ab07	comment	Nicknaming the Enemy: All the Knights' terminology for the Tenebrous is of their own invention.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a2022cc9	comment	Matt, cut in half mid-conversation in the final battle.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Denizen's pupil explodes into iron. Yikes.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a3a8cdc	type	Black Shirt
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a3a8cdc	comment	Black Shirt: The Croits, kind of. They're waiting for the Redemptress to awaken and the War That Will Come, but are isolated from the world and are preparing for it.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Discussed when Denizen contemplates diplomacy. Later, after learning about Malebranche being a traitor, he wonders whether he counts as a Grand Vizier or not.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: Grey delivers one to the Bad-Dream Angel using Sunrise.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash Denizen running from the Woman in White in RathlÃ¡th is a scary, tense scene... and then he hilariously falls on top of a four-year old girl. It whips back quickly, though. â€œMr. Gilligan looked up, their eyes meeting for one long moment, and then his car exploded.â€� The end of chapter 24 is made of this.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: The Knights don't know a whole lot about the Tenebrous, which results in this. They warn Denizen that this is the case, though. Grey also has a habit of glossing over information, or giving incomplete/inaccurate explanations, such as when he told Denizen that the reason they lit candles in Seraphim Row was because they'd miss colors (in reality, it's because they act as anchors that prevent the house from falling into the Tenebrae).
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a5cc639b	type	Birthday Beginning
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a5cc639b	comment	Birthday Beginning: The story technically begins on the day before Denizen's birthday, which is twenty-tree minutes past midnight on October 3rd. Not that he knew this, of course.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a7e85c0a	type	Sliding Scale of Unavoidable vs. Unforgivable
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a7e85c0a	comment	Sliding Scale of Unavoidable vs. Unforgivable: Comes up in regards to Grey shooting Vivian. Denizen seems to place it more on the unforgivable end, but the action is ambiguous enough that cases could be made for both sides. People seem to have forgiven him, though.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a7f99c1f	type	Two First Names
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_a7f99c1f	comment	Two First Names: Fuller Jack.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Denizen and Simon's plotlines. Denizen is motivated by knowing that, even though he's in some very dangerous and unpleasant situations, Simon is safe; Simon, conversely, is able to keep going because Denizen is out there somewhere, away from Crosscaper, and Simon needs to be able to warn him when he gets back. In reality, neither of them are safe.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_abb9ebaa	type	Dramatic Pause
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_abb9ebaa	comment	Dramatic Pause: Greaves hesitates while speaking, and Denizen wonders whether it was an actual hesitation or intentionally one of these.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_abbea4f7	type	Dumb Struck
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_abbea4f7	comment	Dumb Struck: After Ambrel is snatched away in the Tenebrae, Uriel goes through a version of this. He can still speak, but it's only one sentence.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Mercy learning to take on a human form, and change it at will.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Man in the Waistcoat has one when he learns that Denizen has freed Mercy.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ae5686dd	type	Terrible Ticking
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ae5686dd	comment	Ackerby hears ticking. Actually, their interrogation of Ackerby gives a slice into a variant of the process they used on Grey.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_af44da04	type	Publicly Discussing the Secret
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_af44da04	comment	Publicly Discussing the Secret: Grey and Denizen do this twice, and though the first time was late at night in an empty cafe, the second was in a crowded park and, much to Denizen's dismay, Grey decided to use a Cant.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b00115aa	type	Noble Fugitive
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b00115aa	comment	Noble Fugitive: Mercy in The Endless King, due to her father being overthrown and her being Dragon's challenge.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b0cac376	type	The Usurper
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b0cac376	comment	The Usurper: In the third book, the Endless King is overthrown and three Usurpersâ€” Dragon, the Emissary, and the Opening Boyâ€”declare challenges to try to take his place on the throne by proving their strength to the other Tenebrous. Ultimately, Mercy ascends by returning the Cants.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: The consequences of messing up a Higher Cant. You could burn your mind out, or blow up, or create another Breach.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Discussed. Grey mocks this trope when talking to Denizen about how the Tenebrous aren't monsters. Kind of ironic, given that he actually exploits a variation of it later.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: A very drugged-up Denizen attempts to use the Art of Apertura. It goes about as well as one would expect.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: Denizen asks Mercy this after learning how she's been using him since the events of book one. She did genuinely like him, but she did have an ulterior motive for basically every single one of their interactions.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b6060b7	type	Run or Die
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b6060b7	comment	Run or Die: Simon. He's trapped alone in Crosscaper with the Clockwork Three, and he has no powers, so all he can hope to do is avoid themâ€”sneak, hide, run, and simply try to survive until... something happens.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b88eda46	type	Conspicuous Gloves
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b88eda46	comment	Conspicuous Gloves: The Knights each wear a pair of black leather gloves to hide the iron from the Cost. Grey is the only Knight at Daybreak to wear gloves.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b9123661	type	Welcomed to the Masquerade
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b9123661	comment	Welcomed to the Masquerade: Denizen after his Dawning.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b98b60fe	type	Dissonant Laughter
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_b98b60fe	comment	Dissonant Laughter: He only does it once, but Grey laughs going into the fight with the Bad-Dream Angel.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ba557643	type	Terms of Endangerment
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ba557643	comment	Terms of Endangerment: The Clockwork Three call Vivian â€œdear girlâ€� and Grey â€œlittle Knight.â€� The latter case is particularly creepy because it sounds almost dehumanizing, as if they were using it as part of their psychological torture.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Darcie gets very concerned about the Breach in RathlÃ¡th, but no one pays attention to her worry.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Although he probably thought he was a Taurus for most of his life, Denizen is a Libra, since he was born on October 3rd. It seems like an odd sign for him at first, since he's easily angered and has all the charisma of a rock, but it does fit with his role as The Heart, his longing for familiarity and peace, and the importance he places on deep relationships, among other traits.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_bb5e187b	type	Captured Super-Entity
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_bb5e187b	comment	Captured Super-Entity: Mercy. Just being in the real world was enough to subdue her long enough for a cage to be built to keep her in. In the third book, the Endless King.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c00afbbd	type	With Due Respect
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c00afbbd	comment	With Due Respect: The members of Vivian's cadre do not use this when they are disagreeing with her, but Grey puts the phrase in as a slightly-sarcastic afterthought when he (probably) accidentally insults her.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Uriel was expecting Greaves's reaction to the storyâ€”and the disproving thereofâ€”of the Redemptress to be a bit more... dramatic. Or just to be anything other than a flat â€œOK.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Vivian and Greaves.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c3c18143	comment	â€œMr. Gilligan looked up, their eyes meeting for one long moment, and then his car exploded.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: That the Clockwork Three are at Crosscaper. Denizen finds out in chapter 23, but the audience has known for almost the entire book.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c5ee8215	type	Magical Society
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c5ee8215	comment	Magical Society: The Order of the Borrowed Dark.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: The Croits all look extremely similar, to an almost creepy extent.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c696f3ba	type	Heroic Willpower
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c696f3ba	comment	Heroic Willpower: Invoked into a Double Subversion. It's implied that Grey tried to fight the Three's control, but either failed or became worn out. However, Denizen attempts to convince him to fight it again... and it works.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out Vivian has fought a Tenebrous named Rawhead Rex. Grey is named after Graham Tugwell, Dave Rudden's friend and writing buddy, and his phoenix tattoo is for Sarah Maria Griffin. D'Aubigny's tatoos are based off Rudden's friend Eilish. The Hardwick's and the Order's mottos are both taken from book 6 of The Aeneid. â€œThere was a phrase Denizen had heard in an old TV show the orphanage director had likedâ€”Don't mention the war.â€� Malebranche.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Interestingly, Denizen manages to reach this several times over the course of the book, probably because he never gets the answers he's looking for until the last one.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c83a589c	comment	Book One: â€œDenizen... I'm not your aunt. I'm your mother.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_c93a6560	comment	Grey never stops fighting. He also gets impaled, turns his stomach to iron, and take the Opening Boy off Os Reges Point into the Tenebraic ocean with him. And he survives all that.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: Once Mercy takes over for her father, she keeps the title â€œThe Endless Kingâ€� because Tenebrous don't have gender binaries so it doesn't matter.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_caf89e54	comment	Grey survives his Taking You with Me moment, barely, by turning his stomach to iron, and Denizen manages to save him with the Bellows Subventum.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cafdaf4e	type	Trust Password
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: Invoked by Denizen to prove to Simon that he is real. When he starts really overthinking it, it turns into more of a case of Something Only They Would Say.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cc8b2fd	type	Ascended Fridge Horror
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cc8b2fd	comment	Ascended Fridge Horror: Thralldom is discussed very openly in The Forever Court. Not only is it made explicitly clear that yes, the Three were literally inside of Grey's mind and killing him with the unbearable pressure of it, but it also provides a nasty bit of in-universe Paranoia Fuelâ€”anyone could be a thrall, and there's no way of knowing. It also addresses what has to happen to Knights who lose control to their powers in order to protect the public.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The Tenebrae, the world where the Tenebrous live, is an dark, endless expanse of... nothingness.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ceabe589	type	Incoming Ham
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ceabe589	comment	Incoming Ham: Edifice Greaves loves showy entrances.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cf4d770	type	Nightmare Fuel
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_cf4d770	comment	It also addresses what has to happen to Knights who lose control to their powers in order to protect the public.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Greaves loses half an arm at some point during the third book.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d0309fad	type	Religion is Magic
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d0309fad	comment	Religion is Magic: The Croits believe they get the Favour from their Redemptress. This isn't actually true.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: Well, iron. If the Cost progresses enough, it turns a Knight completely to ironâ€”not just their skin.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d2d09c16	type	After-Action Patch-Up
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d2d09c16	comment	After Action Patch Up: Jack gives one to D'Aubigny after RathlÃ¡th.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d3701aea	type	Prevent the War
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d3701aea	comment	Prevent the War: The reason it's so important to find and return the Endless King's mercy. The Knights are already at war with the Tenebrous, but if the Endless King Breaches, it'll become public.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Utilized in an absolutely heartbreaking way. Denizen figures out what happened to the Redemptress and the First Croit, and sympathizes enough to try to talk Her down. He cries when Uriel and the others kill Her. In the third book, Denizen can't bring himself to kill the Opening Boy because he sees himself in it.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d3e99054	type	Hair Flip
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d3e99054	comment	Hair Flip: Grey's character tic. Played for Drama when it's used to nail home just what the Three have done to him.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d63358ae	type	Give Him a Normal Life
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d63358ae	comment	Give Him a Normal Life: What Vivian wanted for Denizen.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Simon and Denizen get a sweet one at the end of chapter 20 of The Forever Court.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_db6f4a5c	type	Parents Walk In at the Worst Time
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_db6f4a5c	comment	Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: Played With hilariously. Denizen and Mercy truly were about to kiss when Vivian found them... but she thought Mercy had made Denizen a thrall. So Denizen had to awkwardly explain to her that, yes, he really was trying to kiss a Tenebrous.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: The ending of the first book.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The Emissary.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname Vivian refers to Adebayo Sall as â€œAdeâ€� and even â€œdear Ade,â€� which certainly seems like this. Simon calls Denizen the shortened â€œDen.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dd53c52b	type	Crushing Handshake
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_dd53c52b	comment	Crushing Handshake: The man in the waistcoat gives one to Ackerby in the prologue.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent: Grey, the Clockwork Three's thrall.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e16a12cb	type	Call a Human a "Meatbag"
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e16a12cb	comment	Call a Human a "Meatbag": Mocked-By-A-Husband calls humans â€œlittle meat.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: The Three letting Jack live.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e1f942b6	type	Faction Motto
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e1f942b6	comment	Faction Motto: The Order of the Borrowed Dark has one—"Linguae Centum, Sunt Oraque Centum, Ferrea Vox."
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: D'Aubigny, Jack, and Greaves.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e41cf31d	comment	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge: Uriel does this to the Redemptress for ruining his Family... as Denizen was trying to make peace with Her.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead Vivian comes back after being shot and laying in a pool of her own blood for who-knows-how-long. Grey survives his Taking You with Me moment, barely, by turning his stomach to iron, and Denizen manages to save him with the Bellows Subventum.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e49686	type	The Hero
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e49686	comment	Somewhat Subverted in book two with the introduction of Edifice Greaves, who isn't The Hero, but whose name is also a noun not usually given as a name.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Denizen delivers an absolutely epic one to Vivian. After eleven years in an orphanage, and nearly a month of being ignored and left in the dark about his parents, he confronts her about how he's been treated. He threatens to fight her to keep her from just leaving again... and it works. He gets answers. And after learning that she's actually his mother, after learning what happened eleven years ago, after learning her reasoning, he still doesn't back down.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: The Family. They all live on an isolated island and worship a giant woman made of wire, who they believe is their sleeping savior. Word of God is that they are based on accounts of people who'd left cults.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Every Knight has their own, much to Denizen's confusion: Vivian hates the word "magic," D'Aubigny insists that their fight against the Tenebrous is pest control and not "war," and Grey says Tenebrous aren't monsters.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator Vivian. She's been a Knight for nearly two decades and has risen to the position of Malleus, which in and of itself implies this, but she also gets shot In the Back at nearly point-blank range, survives it, gets up, and prepares to go back into battle only a few hours later. Grey never stops fighting. He also gets impaled, turns his stomach to iron, and take the Opening Boy off Os Reges Point into the Tenebraic ocean with him. And he survives all that.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: Downplayed and Double Subverted. Denizen tries to talk Grey out of killing him. It doesn't seem to be working, and Grey shoots anyway... but spares Denizen anyway and lets him escape. Denizen also tries this on the Redemptress.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ea0d06f0	type	Bookcase Passage
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ea0d06f0	comment	Bookcase Passage: The entrance to Retreat involves one of these. Denizen Lampshades it, of course.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ea54417c	type	My Blood Runs Hot
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ea6abe17	type	Every Scar Has a Story
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ecf510f4	type	Puberty Superpower
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_edae412c	type	Fighter, Mage, Thief
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_edae412c	comment	Fighter, Mage, Thief: When the Neophytes fight togetherâ€”Abigail is the Fighter, Denizen is the Mage, and Simon is the Thief.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_efc49c38	type	Trapped-with-Monster Plot
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_efc49c38	comment	Trapped-with-Monster Plot: Simon's plotline.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f03edab9	type	Power Degeneration
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f03edab9	comment	Power Degeneration: See Power at a Price above.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f062453	type	Burning with Anger
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f062453	comment	Burning with Anger: Denizen, sometimes. He holds his power, or his eyes start glowing, or he catches on varying degrees of literal fireâ€”he all but exploded during his Dawning. When Grey finds out the Opening Boy is still alive, the air around him catches fire.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f06b07ff	comment	In book two, Denizen truly is Locked Out of the Loop about why Greaves is apparently untrustworthy, and about all of Vivian's plans to protect him.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Subverted. Vivian being shot in the back out of nowhere. She gets better. Ambrel, too. Possibly. Matt, cut in half mid-conversation in the final battle.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: Defied. Simon very nearly dies on his birthday.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: This is iterated and reiterated to Denizen frequently.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f22249e	type	Body of Bodies
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f22249e	comment	Body of Bodies: Dragon, a stained-glass dragon Tenebrous made out of the iron corpses of Knights.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f2a167fe	type	Lamprey Mouth
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Inverted (well, depending on which side you're looking at it from) and Played With. Ambrel could be seen as Uriel's evil twin, or Uriel could be seen as Ambrel's good twin. They start out on the same side, but as the story progresses, Uriel begins having doubts and eventually preforms a Heelâ€“Face Turn, while Ambrel becomes more and more fanatic.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f300ca44	type	Cliché Storm
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f300ca44	comment	Given that it's middle-grade, and has a fairly generic plot summary, the events of the prologue can come as an incredible shock.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Invoked, Subverted, and just generally Played With. This is what Grey thinks he's doing to Vivian and Denizen. He shoots Vivian, but she survives, and Denizen manages to get away.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f3da74ff	type	Creepy Crows
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: Malebranche is made of this trope. Quite literally. Also, the Croit's emblem, the Crow and the Claw.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f4061d83	comment	Capital Letters Are Magic: As usual for the genre, this trope is employed... and it's all over the place. Not only is â€œKnightâ€� always capitalized, there's also the Cost, The Order, the King note the â€œEndlessâ€� part of his name seems to be optional in casual conversation, the Court note in reference to the Forever Court, so this one may be justified, Dawnings, Breaches, Tenebrous, the Book of Rust, Cants and Higher Cants note which are also called Epithets, and the name of every single Cant revealed so far. Funnily enough, however, this trope is entirely averted when it comes to the Knights' actual power, which isn't even given a real name and is simply referred to as â€œthe power of the Tenebraeâ€� or some variant thereof. It's also surprisingly averted in regards to the Endless King's mercy, up until The Reveal that it's actually a Tenebrous named Mercy. The Croits take this up to elevenâ€”almost all of their terminology is capitalized words.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f516f938	comment	Ambrel, too. Possibly.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f528b28d	type	Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f528b28d	comment	Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Did you just romance the Endless King's daughter?
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f65c014c	type	Conveniently Interrupted Document
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f65c014c	comment	Conveniently Interrupted Document: Page 136 of the Book of Rust has been torn out.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f672a508	type	Phlebotinum Overload
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f672a508	comment	Phlebotinum Overload: Mercy gave Denizen knowledge of all seventy-eight Cants, which he can now use at will and with minimal Cost. Cool, right?! Well... actually, no, it sucks. The Cants are still Wild Magic, and Denizen has an extremely difficult time controlling them. There's a reason most Knights only specialize in a select few of them; they want to be used, and it's painful.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f7155e6e	type	Escalating Punchline
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f7155e6e	comment	Escalating Punchline: It felt like vomiting wasps. Sharpened wasps. Holding toothpicks.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: A Knight's ultimate fate.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f90927	type	Heart Trauma
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f90927	comment	Heart Trauma: The Endless King's heart was carved out.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f951364	type	Ball of Light Transformation
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f951364	comment	Ball of Light Transformation: Mercy likes taking a form made of light.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Denizen's near-death experiences. Specifically, how many he's had, and whether or not he's used to them yet.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_faf5732b	type	I Call It "Vera"
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": Denizen calls his knife â€œFalterâ€� to invoke this trope.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fc9bac8	type	Metallic Motifs
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fc9bac8	comment	Metallic Motifs: Lots. Iron, gold, bronze...
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Denizen is very prone to thisâ€”he makes jokes about how many near-death experiences he's had, and uses a bit of it to stay calm in chapter 25. Abigail and Grey also do this a couple times.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: The Opening Boy didn't mean to hurt Grey during their fight, but ends up impaling him. Later, after cutting him off its arm, the Boy brings Grey back up to Denizen and Mercy, and acts very relieved that he's still alive.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: A lot of the names in the book have to do with darkness.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke When Simon and Abigail start theorizing on why Denizen is taking so long to try on a shirt, Abigail suggests that he might have knocked himself out with a Higher Cant again. â€œI should just try to kiss Mercy again and then Vivian would magically materialize.â€�
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil is Petty: The Clockwork Three destroy meaninglessly.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: It turns out this was the reason the first Croit even started their cultâ€”his guilt over surviving while his love, the Redemptress, did not. This helps Denizen come to terms with his own Survivor Guilt.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ff769d04	type	Thin Dimensional Barrier
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ff769d04	comment	Thin Dimensional Barrier: Although the barrier between the real world and the Tenebrae is never very stable, they almost overlap in some places, creating these spots. At Os Reges Point, the worlds are so close that they almost coexist, and so many Knights have lived at Seraphim Row and thinned the wall there that they have to light candlewards to lessen the danger of it falling into the Tenebrae.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_ffcc242c	comment	Extra-Dimensional Shortcut: The Art of Apertura Cant is somewhere between this and Shadow Walking, as it allows Knights to use shadows to enter the Tenebrae and travel through it to anywhere they've already been in the real world.
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Covered with Scars / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Creature-Hunter Organization / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Critical Hesitation Blunder / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Dissonant Laughter / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Expository Hairstyle Change / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Fighting from the Inside / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Flaming Hair / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Go Out with a Smile / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Grayscale of Evil / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Hellhound / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Hiding the Handicap / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Let's You and Him Fight / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Nothing but Skin and Bones / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Parents Walk In at the Worst Time / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Pop-Cultured Badass / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Psychic Nosebleed / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Puberty Superpower / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Pull Yourself Down the Spear / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Tattoo as Character Type / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Terrible Ticking / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	The Bus Came Back / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	They Call Him "Sword" / int_9117d34b
Knights of the Borrowed Dark	hasFeature	Trauma Button / int_9117d34b

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