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Mercy Thompson

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Mercy Thompson	comment	A series of urban fantasy novels by Patricia Briggs set in the Tri-Cities in Washington State. In the universe of Mercy Thompson, fantasy creatures like werewolves, vampires, and faeries have been in hiding for centuries, and are only recently emerging. The first three books each focus on a different kind of preternatural creature. Moon Called focuses on werewolves, Blood Bound deals with vampires, and Iron Kissed focuses on fae. The series is ongoing. All the novels are narrated by Mercy.Mercy Thompson herself is a mechanic by day, but she is also a walker — a Native American shapeshifter who can turn into a coyote at will. She was raised by werewolves, and has strong connections with the werewolf community. She also has links with vampires and fae — she fixes cars for the local vampire seethe, and her mentor is a gremlin (or calls himself one, at any rate).An offshoot of the series, set in the same world with some of the same characters, is the Alpha and Omega series, featuring Charles Cornick (the Alpha werewolf) and his mate Anna (the Omega werewolf). Omegas are rare werewolves who (a) are neither dominant nor submissive, making them an exception to the usual pack structure, and (b) tend to be peacemakers and keep other wolves calm. Alpha and Omega is set in Chicago, Cry Wolf is set in Montana, Hunting Ground is set in Seattle, and Fair Game is set in Boston. Dead Heat is set in Arizona.Alpha and Omega, Cry Wolf and Hunting Grounds were set during the events of Moon Called or soon thereafter, while Fair Game is set in the direct aftermath of River Marked, and lastly Frost Burned and Night Broken are set shortly after Fair Game.A prequel comic, Mercy Thompson: Homecoming, deals with her arrival in the Tri-Cities and meeting the main characters of the story.Mercy Thompson series Moon Called (2006) Blood Bound (2007) Iron Kissed (2008) Bone Crossed (2009) Silver Borne (2010) River Marked (2011) Frost Burned (2013) Night Broken (2014) Fire Touched (2016) Silence Fallen (2017) Storm Cursed (2019) Smoke Bitten (2020) Soul Taken (2022)
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Mercy Thompson / int_1044a759	type	Dying Race
Mercy Thompson / int_1044a759	comment	Dying Race: Walkers like Mercy are extremely rare, as they and other Native American magical beings went into decline along with the cultures that believed in them. Also, vampires wiped them out whenever they could find them, as the walkers' ability to see ghosts also allows them to locate vampire lairs by day, and their heritage lets them shrug off certain vampiric magics.
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Mercy Thompson / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
Mercy Thompson / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: Horrifyingly inverted when the Singer in Wild Sign assumes the form of Cthulhu.
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Mercy Thompson / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Mercy Thompson / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: A villain with mind-control magic is not a good thing. Thankfully, the issue is treated with tact and realism. Anna was also passed around to the males in her first pack, to try and break her. Honey mentions that unmated females belong to their alphas, and many are happy to take advantage of this. It's all but stated outright that she's been used in the past. Sage of the Marrok's Pack has also had this happen to her in the past before she joined his. Bran (and likely most other werewolves) consider turning someone into a werewolf against their will (what happened to Adam, Anna, David Christiansen, and Mac from Moon Called) to be a form of rape.
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Mercy Thompson / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Mercy Thompson / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Werewolves have recently gone public and the fae have been officially out for a decade or so. Mercy still has to spend some time explaining to people that vampires are also real, her ability to see ghosts is frequently disbelieved, and by the sixth book, someone who has relatives who shapeshift doesn't believe that Mercy can do so too. There is much Lampshade Hanging.
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Mercy Thompson / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Mercy Thompson / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Several, often with nastier consequences for werewolves than humans. For exampleâ€¦ Mercy gets a massive one after being raped by Tim in Iron Kissed. It takes Samuel most of Silver Borne to get out of an age-induced one. Stefan gets one when his menagerie is destroyed. It takes him a couple books to start returning to being a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire.
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Mercy Thompson / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Mercy Thompson / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Tim uses Orfino's Bane to make Mercy fall in love with and have sex with him in Iron Kissed. She smashes his head in with a crowbar when she snaps out of the spell.
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Mercy Thompson / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Mercy Thompson / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Zee tends to get creative when he's cussing out recalcitrant cars.
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Mercy Thompson / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
Mercy Thompson / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: The inhabitants of Bran's town treat all the pranks Mercy played on him when she was young like this. She finds the memories embarrassing and wish people would stop bringing them up.
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Mercy Thompson / int_185ea595	type	The Trickster
Mercy Thompson / int_185ea595	comment	The Trickster: Coyote himself shows up in River Marked. note Guess we know where Mercy got her healthy lack of respect for authority. His response to Mercy asking how big a prehistoric monster is? Throwing her in a river with said monster so they can find out. When Adam complained, he said he would have thought of something to keep her from getting killed. Yep. He's a trickster. In Night Broken, Mercy's brother asks her how many times Coyote has tried to kill her so far. She has to really think about it and isn't entirely happy with the answer. Mercy herself is this to some extent, though more in her past then her present. She seems to have mostly used it to get retribution when her own power as a child and a coyote in a werewolf pack would not otherwise allow it. However, since Asil states that the story of her peanut buttering the leather seats of Bran's Porche and consequently his very expensive pants reached him all the way in Spain, and even Samuel never figured out how she stole half of each pair of Leah's shoes without ever getting caught, she seems capable of fairly high-level trickery.
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Mercy Thompson / int_18805e9c	type	Give Geeks a Chance
Mercy Thompson / int_18805e9c	comment	Give Geeks a Chance: Subverted. The guy who seemed so nice was using Charm Person fae magic.
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Mercy Thompson / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Mercy Thompson / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Wolf packs in real life more closely resemble extended nuclear families than competition-enforced hierarchies. The "alpha" wolves in a pack are the parents, and the other wolves are their pups from the last few years. Actual fights between pack members are rare, with pups grown to adulthood dispersing to form their own packs rather than challenging their parents. However, the book does make it clear that werewolf behavior does not exactly parallel wild wolf behavior. (Werewolf behavior does resemble that of artificial wolf packs formed from random wolves forced together, such as those at zoos. And since werewolves generally can't have children and wind up making packs with other non-related werewolves they come across...)
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Mercy Thompson / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Mercy Thompson / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Mercy is resistant or immune to a lot of magic, particularly magic that compels behavior or otherwise interferes with her free will.
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Mercy Thompson / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Mercy Thompson / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The titles of the books tend to be significant. Particularly notable examples include: Metalworking fae like Zee are referred to as "the iron kissed", and Zee's situation is a major factor in Iron Kissed. The Silver Borne is the name of a particular artifact central to the conflict in said book. Mercy is said to have been â€œriver markedâ€� by the villain of the same book. Fire Touched refers to Aiden, a human child granted power over fire by Underhill (and who is a target for the fae as a result).
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Mercy Thompson / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Mercy Thompson / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The villain of Iron Kissed. Adam even says later that even if he had known where Mercy was going he wouldn't have been worried, since he, like Mercy, mistook the crazy, bigoted, murderous rapist for a nice guy. Technically, the werewolves themselves, who look almost perfectly human when not Changed. Fae can use glamour to look like whatever they want. Often, it's the most harmless-looking ones that are the most dangerous.
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Mercy Thompson / int_19d802b6	type	Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle
Mercy Thompson / int_19d802b6	comment	Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle: A somewhat subtle one â€” Mercy herself might deny its existence, but neither of her (prospective) beaus seem to have gotten the memo even by Silence Fallen.
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Mercy Thompson / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Mercy Thompson / int_1be36a63	comment	Also, female werewolves can't have children, as the fetuses can't survive their mothers' monthly change into wolf form. Male werewolves, meanwhile, can engender children with human women, but only the fully human fetuses are able to come to term. Mention is made of one woman who tried to get around this by staying in wolf form full-time until the birth, but doing so meant she completely lost control, ate the baby, and had to be put down. Only one werewolf woman has ever successfully managed to bear a child — Bran's wife, who was able to use her own people's magic to suppress the change long enough to bear Charles, but was so weakened by this that she died in childbirth.
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Mercy Thompson / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Mercy Thompson / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Fire Touched refers to Aiden, a human child granted power over fire by Underhill (and who is a target for the fae as a result).
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Mercy Thompson / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Mercy Thompson / int_1dfd19f9	comment	The mercenaries in Frost Burned have a kill list that includes all of Adam's wolves and everyone who's involved with them, kids included. Even Sylvia Sandoval's children, whose connection to the werewolves is tenuous at best, appear on that list. This in turn leads to a bloody Papa Wolf moment from Adam.
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Mercy Thompson / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Mercy Thompson / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: The community of Wild Sign thinks they're getting the better of a fae spirit by making an agreement to have its children in exchange for protection from black witches, but use magical birth control to prevent them from actually conceiving. Becomes Evil Is Not a Toy when they are subject to his horrifying revenge.
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Mercy Thompson / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Mercy Thompson / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: In Wild Signs, a group of white witches make a deal with an ancient being. They assume that it's a powerful fae of some sort and they'll therefore be safe so long as they hold up the letter of their bargain. Unfortunately for them, it's not fae at all, but some sort of Native American spirit that is infuriated over their breaking the spirit of the deal, and kills them for it.
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Mercy Thompson / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Mercy Thompson / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: A small case with Adamâ€™s Pack, namely Darryl and Ben, in the Moon Called comic adaptation. In the main book, they were never given any antagonistic moments, Mercy simply took their conversation at the start of book out of context (something even she felt might have been an overreaction), and they ultimately prove they were both Good All Along. Although the comic book still continues with this twist, it plays up the Red Herring moments more by giving both men a few Traitor Shots and making them slightly more antagonistic, like Darryl threatening Warren and Mercy still distrusting Ben until he saves her life in the climax. Very likely to trick newcomers of the series.
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Mercy Thompson / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Mercy Thompson / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Many of the werewolves showcase â€” and openly understand â€” this trope. Bran and Charles Cornick in particular are very aware of the nasty, brutal things they sometimes have to do to keep the peace and keep people safe.
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Mercy Thompson / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Mercy Thompson / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In Iron Kissed, the alarm system installed by Adam's firm, and its codes. Pretty much every time Mercy's Fae-created walking stick shows up, it's going to be used in the book's climax. In Night Broken, The walking stick was absent during the climax, but did show up during the last few pages of the book.
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Mercy Thompson / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Mercy Thompson / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: This is Mercy's opinion of her looks; since she works as a mechanic, she typically just wears grubby clothes with no makeup, her hair pinned back, and has oil stains up to her elbows. Other people disagree.
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Mercy Thompson / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
Mercy Thompson / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: Adam and Samuel attempt a couple of these in the early books. Quickly turns into a CMoF when Mercy breaks one up by throwing cranberry juice on them both.
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Mercy Thompson / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Mercy Thompson / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Discussed. The strongly patriarchal werewolf society is instinctively homophobic (lust tends to inspire aggression in werewolves, so male werewolves that are attracted to other male werewolves tend to cause a lot of fights); most homosexual werewolves don't survive for long. Warren is a rare and obvious example, having survived thanks to a combination of physical and psychological strength. During Moon Called, it is said that he can't reveal himself as a werewolf to his boyfriend, or the two of them will be killed. Thankfully for them, Mercy takes a third option (which both Adam and Bran were actually waiting for her to take).
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Mercy Thompson / int_2b7ec38e	type	The Scrappy
Mercy Thompson / int_2b7ec38e	comment	One person who fits this trope particularly well is Mary Jo. In Bone Crossed, Mary Jo was killed in an incident caused by vampires; as the incident happened at a fae establishment, Baba Yaga, who was there at the time, offered to revive Mary Jo as recompense. Mercy agreed, and Mary Jo was brought back to life. So how does Mary Jo thank Mercy? In Silver Borne, she joins a group in the pack that is trying to drive Mercy and Adam apart. When Mercy's trailer is blown up, she deliberately does not inform Adam that Mercy was not inside, which almost gets Adam killed when he runs in after her. All because Mary Jo was jealous that Mercy was chosen as Adamâ€™s mate instead of her, despite the fact that Mary Jo never stood a chance with Adam in the first place. Even Mercy brings up the fact she saved Mary Jo's life, but Mary Jo just brushes it off. This action has caused Mary Jo to become a near-universal scrappy for many readers. Mary Jo's gradually been getting better. Mercy confronting her over the events helped get their conflict out in the open, and it helps that the splinter faction of the pack Mary Jo was working with was revealed to have been manipulated into trying to overthrow Adam by her then-boyfriend, who was jealous of her still holding a torch for Adam despite it not being a possibility. Mercy and Mary Jo still don't really like each other, and Mary Jo tends to verbally snipe at Mercy when she can, but as both of them are committed to the pack and Adam, they've managed to establish a tenuous respect.
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Mercy Thompson / int_2c620f20	type	Cleanup Crew
Mercy Thompson / int_2c620f20	comment	Cleanup Crew: It is implied that most werewolf packs have a specialist, usually a witch, to clean up their messes. Adam's pack, for example, keeps the witch Elizaveta Arkadyevna on retainer, and the Marrok's pack has Charles Cornick, who has magical talent inherited from his mother's side of the family.
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Mercy Thompson / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Mercy Thompson / int_2d4fa515	comment	In Silence Fallen, this turns out to have been Bonarata's plan all along â€” kidnapping Mercy would bring both the werewolves and his old lover Marsilia to Milan, where they could be suborned, or used to rid himself of a particularly Ax-Crazy old werewolf he was addicted to feeding from (and possibly deal with some other plots against him besides). And it turns out that even Bonarata's machinations were the result of an even deeper gambit by Coyote to get Mercy to deal with the nature spirit that had been bound into the Golem of Prague.
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Mercy Thompson / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Mercy Thompson / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look / Really 700 Years Old: Werewolves and vampires donâ€™t age. Among the wolves, notable examples are Bran and his eldest son Samuel, who were both born before Christianity reached Wales (mention goes to Bran for looking like he hasnâ€™t reached his mid-twenties yet). Among the vampires, Wulfe is noted as looking like he's 15 despite being one of the oldest vamps alive. One thing to note: becoming a werewolf sets your appearance to sometime in your twenties to thirties, while becoming a vampire just stops you from aging further. So, while there are vampires like Wulfe with very youthful appearances, there are also vampires that look middle-aged or older.
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Mercy Thompson / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Mercy Thompson / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Many werewolves end up feeling this way about the Change. Sure, you get temper and territoriality issues, but you also get superhuman strength, a Healing Factor, and near-immortality. Many consider it more than a fair trade, which is why a number of people volunteer to be attacked in order to try to become werewolves themselves. Many don't survive, however.
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Mercy Thompson / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Mercy Thompson / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: A very powerful fae isn't especially concerned about rape or murder, but forcing someone to drink from a Mind Control goblet that many times (because it kept wearing off) is beyond the pale. Similarly, while the fae arenâ€™t above rules-lawyering and have a rather inhuman sense of justiceâ€¦ the over-the-top injustice at the end of Fair Game is enough to enrage even them. The consequences are unpleasant.
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Mercy Thompson / int_329a97a0	type	Apology Gift
Mercy Thompson / int_329a97a0	comment	Apology Gift: Shows up in the short story "Roses in Winter." Roses are a very traditional apology gift; what makes it unusual is the context. You don't typically see a bouquet of roses being given by a very dominant wolf to his Alpha as a way of diffusing a possible challenge.
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Mercy Thompson / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Mercy Thompson / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: In Iron Kissed, Mercy has to leave her clothes behind on the road after shifting to her coyote form to escape a monster fae. After shifting back and taking a shower at Adam's house, she borrows Jesse's clothes, which happen to be smaller and more form fitting. When Mercy puts on the shirt with her own skin still damp and with no bra, her breasts soak right through. In Mercy's own words she looks "like a refugee from a wet T-shirt contest."
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Mercy Thompson / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
Mercy Thompson / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: While it isn't exactly that lame to start with, seeing ghosts, most of whom just do the same thing over and over, doesn't seem that useful compared to walkers' other powers of shapeshifting and magic resistance. However, it turns out it's one of the main reasons the vampires tried to exterminate them: vampire lairs tend to have a lot of violent deaths around them, so someone who can see ghosts can locate them easily. Additionally, as Coyote is an adaptive Great Spirit who breaks the rules as he sees fit, Mercy is shown to be able to do the same. For starters, not being a werewolf should have made joining a werewolf pack impossible in the first place. Even after joining the pack anyways, she's also able to use pack bonds in an irregular fashion, such as using them to draw the silver out of her pack through her husband to the point that it manifests as pure undiluted silver, rather than the silver nitrate which has been used on the pack. This doesn't come without drawbacks, of course. An Omegaâ€™s empathy and peace powers seem like a crappy power to have around a bunch of deadly werewolves â€” right up until you make a berserker-raging werewolf king lay down and play nice with them. Anna's Omega abilities are shown to be improving as time goes on: in Dead Heat she accidentally lets off such an aura of calm through her abilities that she reduces her husband, the Salt River Pack Alpha, and a newly-minted wolf to a drunken stupor of joy and giggle fits.
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Mercy Thompson / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
Mercy Thompson / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: Since werewolves are pretty much solid muscle, they tend to sink like rocks. This makes it a favored suicide method among old werewolves who don't want to die fighting (or are strong enough that they aren't guaranteed to find someone who can kill them).
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Mercy Thompson / int_36999dd	type	This Means War!
Mercy Thompson / int_36999dd	comment	This Means War!: In Fair Game, the son of a United States senator is directly involved in kidnapping the daughter of one of the Gray Lords, torturing her to the point of permanent crippling, and would have added her to a long list of murdered victims â€” but he is acquitted, thanks to his defense team playing up the "scariness" of the victims, who were all supernaturals. The girl's father appears outside the courthouse with the Wild Hunt and declares that as this verdict has clearly shown that the United States doesn't consider the fae to be people, the fae are now at war with them. He then decapitates the murderer and orders all fae in the US to retreat into their reservations.
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Mercy Thompson / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
Mercy Thompson / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: Sufficiently powerful werewolves tend to possess one of these, at least to their pack. Adam and Samuel exhibit a combined one at the climax of Moon Called. Dana Shea (a fae) tries to use one in Hunting Grounds only to be countered by Annaâ€™s instinctive use of her own. Mercy has one in later books because she's borrowing Adam's, though she also develops an ability to command the dead that comes from her heritage. Vampires can command those they have enthralled with their gaze or through blood exchanges.
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Mercy Thompson / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Mercy Thompson / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: In Soul Taken, Mercy comments that Mary Jo, the member of the Columbia River Pack that she's had the most trouble with, has become much nicer ever since getting a boyfriend. They're still not friends, but Mercy's happy that Mary Jo is no longer sniping at her or attempting to undermine her.
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Mercy Thompson / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Mercy Thompson / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Most of the werewolves and Mercy herself can smell if you're lying, though some people can hide it better than others. Vampires can frequently do this as well, as can most fae.
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Mercy Thompson / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Mercy Thompson / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Mercy had a history as a child and teenager of playing pranks on Bran whenever she was annoyed at him for something. The stories of how she peanut buttered his pants, wrapped his brand new and very expensive car around a tree, and stole his wife's shoes have all been told. What she did that involved a chocolate Easter Bunny has not. Soul Taken finally reveals what she did: she'd given chocolate Easter Bunnies that had been laced with powerful laxatives to werewolves who'd been mean to her. She doesn't like to talk about it because after she'd done so, she'd realized that any laxative powerful enough to incapacitate a werewolf would have been life-threatening to a human, and she was therefore very lucky that all of her targets ate the chocolate themselves instead of, for example, sharing it with a human kid.
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Mercy Thompson / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Mercy Thompson / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Being a werewolf, to a large degree. Yeah, youâ€™re nearly indestructible, functionally immortal, and capable of changing into an uber-wolf at will. However, youâ€™re going to outlive every vanilla human you love (and attempting to turn them is much more likely to kill them or get them killed), the Change is agonizing and can take up to a quarter of an hour, and youâ€™ll spend the rest of your life struggling to control the bestial personality sharing space inside your head. Oh, and you canâ€™t swim. Also, female werewolves can't have children, as the fetuses can't survive their mothers' monthly change into wolf form. Male werewolves, meanwhile, can engender children with human women, but only the fully human fetuses are able to come to term. Mention is made of one woman who tried to get around this by staying in wolf form full-time until the birth, but doing so meant she completely lost control, ate the baby, and had to be put down. Only one werewolf woman has ever successfully managed to bear a child — Bran's wife, who was able to use her own people's magic to suppress the change long enough to bear Charles, but was so weakened by this that she died in childbirth. Being a White Witch can be a pain, since they're usually very weak and easy prey for less scrupulous Black Witches, who see them as an easy meal. Being part-fae sucks, since the vast majority of them are ostracized by both their non-human and human parents and both their respective races. This is coupled with a high rate of defects, and they are also seen as easy prey for their full fae brethren.
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Mercy Thompson / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
Mercy Thompson / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Whenever a fae dies, their body disintegrates into fairy dust.
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Mercy Thompson / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
Mercy Thompson / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: Several times now, injuries Mercy got from fighting evil have garnered comments along the lines of, "Whoever that man is, you should dump him."
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Mercy Thompson / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Mercy Thompson / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Many. The River Devil slaughtering Coyote and his kin is a memorable example. In Frost Burned, Adam delivers a bloody one to the rogue government agents who've captured his pack.
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Mercy Thompson / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Mercy Thompson / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The Columbia Basin Pack Note Save for Adam, Warren, Ben, Honey, Peter, and to some extent Darryl, who love and care for Mercy, or at least respect her enough to be part of the group is always this toward Mercy. No matter how many times Mercy has stood up for the pack or put her body and life on the line, the pack just refuse to accept her as Adamâ€™s mate or as a pack member, often blaming her for their troubles or ridiculing her. It gets worse in Night Broken when most of the pack takes Christyâ€™s side and show they prefer her over Mercy. The situation got so bad, that Adam finally addressed the issue in Fire Touched by promising to kill anyone who disrespects Mercy again. One person who fits this trope particularly well is Mary Jo. In Bone Crossed, Mary Jo was killed in an incident caused by vampires; as the incident happened at a fae establishment, Baba Yaga, who was there at the time, offered to revive Mary Jo as recompense. Mercy agreed, and Mary Jo was brought back to life. So how does Mary Jo thank Mercy? In Silver Borne, she joins a group in the pack that is trying to drive Mercy and Adam apart. When Mercy's trailer is blown up, she deliberately does not inform Adam that Mercy was not inside, which almost gets Adam killed when he runs in after her. All because Mary Jo was jealous that Mercy was chosen as Adamâ€™s mate instead of her, despite the fact that Mary Jo never stood a chance with Adam in the first place. Even Mercy brings up the fact she saved Mary Jo's life, but Mary Jo just brushes it off. This action has caused Mary Jo to become a near-universal scrappy for many readers. Mary Jo's gradually been getting better. Mercy confronting her over the events helped get their conflict out in the open, and it helps that the splinter faction of the pack Mary Jo was working with was revealed to have been manipulated into trying to overthrow Adam by her then-boyfriend, who was jealous of her still holding a torch for Adam despite it not being a possibility. Mercy and Mary Jo still don't really like each other, and Mary Jo tends to verbally snipe at Mercy when she can, but as both of them are committed to the pack and Adam, they've managed to establish a tenuous respect. Even Mercy shows shades of this toward Ben after Moon Called. Ben saved Mercy and Adamâ€™s life at the climax of Moon Called, even took a few shots for them. Yet, Mercy still thought very low of him at the end of the book and the following Blood Bound. But itâ€™s very heartwarmingly subverted in Iron Kissed when Ben stood up for Mercy and talked some sense into Adam over their feelings for each other. Mercy afterwards began to warm up to Ben, even personally requesting him to escort her. Since then, she trusts Ben as a loyal member of the pack. Subverted with Zee in Iron Kissed. Zee is by no means ungrateful to Mercy for trying to prove his innocence for murder. However, he is upset at her because her involvement in his case only got her into deep trouble, and her eventual rape.
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Mercy Thompson / int_400b9d22	type	Sunglasses at Night
Mercy Thompson / int_400b9d22	comment	Sunglasses at Night: Moira wears them â€” and rightfully so, given that both of her eyes were used up for magical purposes. They're not pretty. Some of the werewolves will also do this to hide the shift in eye color that signals one's wolf-side coming to the fore.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Mercy Thompson / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Played with. While Mercy is a pretty damn hardcore Action Girl, the fact that sheâ€™s mostly a Badass Normal means sheâ€™s often at the mercy of the bigger bads of the universe. So, in a compromise, sheâ€™s usually just about as fierce as the power level of the villain allows, even if it takes the help of Adam and his pack to truly win the day. Anna often ends up in this position as well, though like Mercy, sheâ€™s hardly defenseless (and has the added advantages of werewolf strength and Healing Factor, to boot). Subverted in Frost Burned. Adam and the entire pack get captured, and Mercy's the one left active. Then it's averted when Adam frees himself (with help) and slaughters their captors single-handedly.
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Mercy Thompson / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Mercy Thompson / int_434a6d40	comment	Corey Littleton is a vicious Evil Sorcerer and vampire whose primary joy is killing and torturing people to death. He was a killer even before he became a vampire.
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Mercy Thompson / int_439a64d3	type	Our Witches Are Different
Mercy Thompson / int_439a64d3	comment	Our Witches Are Different: Witches are magic-users who have power over body and mind (which differs from other magic users like wizards, who have power over objects). Witches gain power through sacrifice; the manner of the sacrifice (and what precisely is being sacrificed) gives rise to the three main varieties: White witches are witches that rely on themselves for power. They are generally more innocent and good-hearted spellcasters, but are also often weaker than black witches. There are exceptions, however — one particularly powerful white witch essentially burned out her own eye for magic. Grey witches draw power from others, but with their consent. This gives them a lot more to work with than white witches, and while they tend to get more power from negative emotions like pain or grief, the fact that they have consent to obtain their power means they avoid the worst that witchcraft has to offer. Black witches gain their powers from inflicting pain and death on others regardless of consent or reason, and are considered Always Chaotic Evil. White witches and other magical beings make particularly potent sources of power for black witchcraft. Witches in the past formed covens that could number in the dozens of bloodlines, but many of those were destroyed in The Spanish Inquisition. Organized witchcraft still hasn't really recovered from the widespread destruction of so many of its elite practitioners by the time the books take place. However, one clan of witches, the Hardestys, appear to be making a comeback and are revealed to have served as The Man Behind the Man for a number of the series' conflicts.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
Mercy Thompson / int_4631e81f	comment	Subverted in Frost Burned. Adam and the entire pack get captured, and Mercy's the one left active. Then it's averted when Adam frees himself (with help) and slaughters their captors single-handedly.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
Mercy Thompson / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: Mercy and Charles, somewhat literally. Mercy is a part-Native American shapeshifter, while Charles is a half-Salish werewolf. Hell, Charles can even talk to spirits; he just avoids doing so most of the time because he finds it distracting. Two more walkers, a couple medicine men, and the incarnations of Coyote and Thunderbird make appearances in River Marked.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Mercy Thompson / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ben is this, full stop. Heâ€™s an accused rapist (though Adam says he didnâ€™t do it) and an open misogynist. He also literally puts his life on the line for Mercy at one point, putting himself between an enraged Adam and Mercy to make a point. When someone points out in the second book that he only ever refers to women using slang terms for female genitalia, he makes an effort to stop. Darryl qualifies sometimes, too â€” he protects the pack selflessly, but he can be a real asshole about it. Zee can be (and is) a curmudgeon to pretty much everyone, but when Mercy asks, he'll bend rules even where the Grey Lords are involved.
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Mercy Thompson / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Mercy Thompson / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The eponymous River Devil eats multiple children over the course of the book. The mercenaries in Frost Burned have a kill list that includes all of Adam's wolves and everyone who's involved with them, kids included. Even Sylvia Sandoval's children, whose connection to the werewolves is tenuous at best, appear on that list. This in turn leads to a bloody Papa Wolf moment from Adam. Hopcross Jilly from the comic book of the same name enjoys killing "naughty" children for petty reasons. The Monster of the Week in Dead Heat has been abducting kids for decades, and a bunch of their mummified corpses are found in its lair.
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Mercy Thompson / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Mercy Thompson / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: It's sad to admit, but Mercy herself pretty much falls under this. The number of times she ends up hurt, injured, kidnapped, and more are endless. It's played straight for the most part, but Mercy always ends up on the short end of the stick. It's made worse since she lacks the Healing Factor that the werewolves have.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Mercy Thompson / int_4832a3bb	comment	Black witches gain their powers from inflicting pain and death on others regardless of consent or reason, and are considered Always Chaotic Evil. White witches and other magical beings make particularly potent sources of power for black witchcraft.
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Mercy Thompson / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Mercy Thompson / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The River Devil, which Coyote trapped in hopes that it would work better than killing her again. It didnâ€™t.
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Mercy Thompson / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Mercy Thompson / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: It's not usually Briggsâ€™ stock in trade, but in Cry Wolf, she does a damn good job of painting the wilds of Montana as a beautiful, if inhospitable, place.
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Mercy Thompson / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Mercy Thompson / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Werewolves are fairly pragmatic, for the most part, but Mercy is so to an even greater degree (largely due to constantly having to punch above her supernatural weight class). In Moon Called, it takes the werewolf member of a trio of trained mercenaries to restrain her completely. (Although it should be noted that they were trying to NOT harm her, while she was out for blood.) Also exemplified when Mercy silences a wolf about to take advantage of a weakened Adamâ€¦ by shooting him in the throat.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Mercy Thompson / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Annaâ€™s original pack Alpha, Leo, attempts this in order to keep her from realizing exactly how little hold he has over her. If it wasnâ€™t for Charles, it would have worked, too.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4c2c227	type	SickeningSweethearts
Mercy Thompson / int_4c2c227	comment	Sickening Sweethearts: Adam and Mercy flirt with each other shamelessly, often to the exasperation of the people around them, especially Jesse.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Mercy Thompson / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: â€œBran is funny about Mercy. If you were that funny about Mercy, I would feel the same way Leah does — no matter how likable I might find her."- Anna in Burn Bright. Note This line indicated to many readers that Bran may in fact have romantic feelings for Mercy.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4ebd9efb	type	Spree Killer
Mercy Thompson / int_4ebd9efb	comment	Spree Killer: Cory Littleton of the novel "Blood Bound", is an unconventional supernatural version. Starting off as an evil and psychopathic killer in Chicago, after gaining powers and being accidentally freed from the control of his vampiric Sire, Littleton massacred all of the inhabitants of a motel (4 people in all) and had one tortured to death as well. He then spread a Hate Plague across the entire Tri-Cities, Washington area, which induces rage in the hope of causing people to fight each other to the death, racking up his body count into the dozens.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Mercy Thompson / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: David Christiansen, especially in The Star of David short story. Having killed his cheating wife in his first Change, heâ€™s spent the rest of his life running a company of good-guy mercenaries who specialize in hostage rescue. Stefan and Adam also both show shades of this. Much of the plot of Fair Game revolves around Charles trying to be the atoner for all the people the Marrokâ€™s been making him kill. He gets better. Ben in the short story Redemption, which examines his character development through Frost Burned, the roots of his misogyny, and the truth of what happened in London.
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Mercy Thompson / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Mercy Thompson / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: An interesting case with the werewolves' Healing Factor in the earlier books. Initially, it wasnâ€™t as fast nor as strong and it appeared that it greatly required pack magic for a werewolf to heal instantly. Otherwise, it would take several days and several meals for a werewolf to completely heal all of his or her injuries, and even then it was only quicker when they are in wolf form. The later books seemed to abandon this in favor of werewolves healing nigh-instantaneously, even regrowing lost limbs. Itâ€™s especially noticeable with Adam in the earlier books (Moon Called to Silver Borne) where he would be taken out of commission as his healing would take several days; even then he could barely walk in human form after healing, vs the later books where he is more or less like Wolverine.
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Mercy Thompson / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Mercy Thompson / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In the comic "Hopcross Jilly", the titular fae attacks and devours the fingers and toes of children who behave badly. If that isn't bad enough, she then buries them alive (while still missing their parts) and dances over their burial ground. Yikes. Hopcross Jilly also ends up Hoist by Her Own Petard by this, as she keeps trying to find a reason to go after Adam's daughter Jesse and ends up burned to death, as even by Medieval standards of children's behavior (and the Fae), Jesse is a good girl. Essentially the basis for Wild Sign, where they investigate a small commune of white witches who made a compact with a being called the Singer. The locals thought that it was fae and bound to the letter of their agreement. Instead, it was a god and was royally pissed off by their attempt to violate the spirit of their agreement. What happened next was horrifying, even to Charles and the other werewolves.
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Mercy Thompson / int_529a3369	type	Fights Like a Normal
Mercy Thompson / int_529a3369	comment	Fights Like a Normal: The villain William Frost has modern hand-to-hand combat skills in addition to his vampiric abilities.
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Mercy Thompson / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Mercy Thompson / int_556a3059	comment	Anna Cornick too. Her silk is made of empathy. Her steel is made of backbone and the ability to call on Charlesâ€™ not-inconsequential power.
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Mercy Thompson / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Mercy Thompson / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: All of the Cornicks â€” even Anna, whoâ€™s only a Cornick by marriage. Also, the Hauptmans probably qualify, now that Mercy and Adam are married.
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Mercy Thompson / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Mercy Thompson / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Several instances. Most of the fae (at least those that are out to the public) live on reservations, in part because they are targets for hate crimes. And in many cases, the feeling is mutual with regard to how the fae feel about humans. And, by the end of Fair Game, it's driven the Fae into secession from human society, and while outright war has thus far been averted, tensions are still high. Jesse got beaten up in Iron Kissed because her father's a werewolf. This, in turn, nearly got her attackers murdered by an enraged Alpha. Supernatural vs. supernatural example: Most vampires hate walkers, and there was even a concerted effort by the vamps to wipe them out completely.
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Mercy Thompson / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
Mercy Thompson / int_57cf76a1	comment	Hate Plague: The demon in Blood Bound starts causing people to become more argumentative and violent just by its very presence. The more naturally-inclined a person is to violence and the longer they stay near the demon, the stronger the effect is.
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Mercy Thompson / int_57df9056	type	Glamour
Mercy Thompson / int_57df9056	comment	Yo-Yo Girl is the fae's creepy child (fae can use Glamour to appear however they wish — in general, the more harmless they appear, the more you should worry).
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Mercy Thompson / int_58510e2b	type	Sexy Packaging
Mercy Thompson / int_58510e2b	comment	Sexy Packaging: Reading the books in public can be uncomfortable, since the US covers tend to over-sexualize Mercy, showing her dressed a lot more provocatively than she is in the actual text. The UK covers are not nearly as bad. For example, the U.S. cover of Blood Bound shows Mercy in her mechanic's coveralls - but unbuttoned to her navel and with just a bra underneath. Needless to say, Mercy would never dress in such an impractical way while working on a car.
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Mercy Thompson / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Mercy Thompson / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Every time Mercy has to work with vampires other than Stefan.
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Mercy Thompson / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Mercy Thompson / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: While werewolves in the Pacific Northwest aren't so incongruous, finding a seethe of centuries-old European vampires in the Tri-Cities smacks of this trope. Justified by the seethe's founder having been exiled from Italy and consigned to whichever trackless backwoods her Maker randomly picked from an atlas, which later became an urban area.
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Mercy Thompson / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
Mercy Thompson / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: Werewolf transformations are quite painful and are often rather prolonged, with some of them taking as long as fifteen minutes. As werewolves are already rather short-tempered, it's generally a good idea to tread carefully around a recently-changed werewolf until they get themselves back under control. Averted with Mercy — as a walker, switching between coyote and human is painless and nearly instantaneous. Charles, who inherited some powers from his Native American mother, still feels pain when he shifts, but his transformations are much faster and smoother than normal. He can even clothe himself while transforming.
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Mercy Thompson / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Mercy Thompson / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Beast of Gevaudan. The Marrok. The River Devil. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The Monster (named such by vampires, of all people).
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Mercy Thompson / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Mercy Thompson / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: As of Frost Burned, Peter, the pack's only submissive wolf.
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Mercy Thompson / int_628d08d4	type	Silver Bullet
Mercy Thompson / int_628d08d4	comment	Silver Bullet: Reconstructed. Mercy uses silver bullets when she needs to actually kill a werewolf, and makes her own. After a few gun owners in Patricia Briggs's readership wrote to her that casting silver into bullets isn't nearly as easy as it sounds, Briggs consulted a metallurgist to learn how to do it properly and blogged extensively about the process.
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Mercy Thompson / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
Mercy Thompson / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: Mercy can see and talk to ghosts (and often quotes the Trope Namer when explaining it). She thinks it's part and parcel of being a walker until River Marked. Night Broken suggests it's common to all coyote walkers, as Mercy's half-brother Gary can also see ghosts.
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Mercy Thompson / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
Mercy Thompson / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: As a long-time shape-shifter, Mercy doesn't mind being seen nude by those who are familiar with shapechangers, but makes a conscious effort to keep herself covered in front of those who might misinterpret her casual nudity as casual sexuality. As a matter of fact, many of werewolves fit this as well.
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Mercy Thompson / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Mercy Thompson / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Ghosts have a few classifications according to Mercy's observations. Repeaters just repeat an action â€” either the moment of their death, or some action that was very important to them in life. Some ghosts can function in a semblance of life, but only up to a point. Still others can function nearly well as they did in life, to the point that Mercy may not realize they're dead right away. Most ghosts are mere traces left behind after the deceased person's soul has moved on. In Frost Burned, Mercy discovers a bunch of ghosts who still have their souls.
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Mercy Thompson / int_6808f23a	type	Curse That Cures
Mercy Thompson / int_6808f23a	comment	Curse That Cures: In one book a werewolf talks his father into getting turned to save him from cancer. It does cure the disease, but the father fears and refuses to accept his werewolf side, leading to his Alpha killing him before he completely loses control. Friendly Neighborhood Vampire Stefan has discovered that blood-binding humans can at least suppress several types of disease, including leukemia.
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Mercy Thompson / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Mercy Thompson / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Love is indicated several times to be a very powerful component in various types of magic.
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Mercy Thompson / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Mercy Thompson / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: All werewolves are susceptible to this, but donâ€™t mess with Mercy around Adam, or Anna around Charles. Unstoppable rage will sound pleasant compared to what happens next. Messing with Charles, Samuel, Anna, or Mercy often gets the same reaction out of the Marrok. Also what Gwyn ap Lugh aka. Alistair Beauclaire unleashes at the end of Fair Game. Poking the Berserk Buttons of ancient, powerful, magical entities is just unwise in general.
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Mercy Thompson / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
Mercy Thompson / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: Mercy's mother, in an entirely justified example. She had found out from the newspapers that her daughter had been raped and killed her rapist rather than a phone call from Mercy. Alphas and master vampires usually call their subordinates by doing this.
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Mercy Thompson / int_70c06a09	type	The Undead
Mercy Thompson / int_70c06a09	comment	The Undead: several types. Besides vampires, Bone Crossed has at least one ensorcelled, mostly-aware, decaying body. Zombies, perfectly preserved and undying bodies are mentioned, and some eventually appear in Storm Cursed. There is a zombie appearance in the short story In Red With Pearls. Also, the Fae assassin in Frost Burned is referred to as a zombie, though she was raised by a Necromancy-wielding vampire, so she might be different than the traditional sentient raised-by-witches zombies. She doesn't get enough page time to clarify this point.
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Mercy Thompson / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Mercy Thompson / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: 'Mercedes the VW Mechanic', her day job.
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Mercy Thompson / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Mercy Thompson / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Kyle, Warren's boyfriend. Played with, in that he turns it up and down depending on who he's around and who he wants to annoy.
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Mercy Thompson / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Mercy Thompson / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: At least one appears in every book, but for the most prominent we have: Corey Littleton is a vicious Evil Sorcerer and vampire whose primary joy is killing and torturing people to death. He was a killer even before he became a vampire. Travis Heuter and his nephews Les and Benedict are rapists, torturers, and killers who prey on werewolf women and fae of any gender. That said, they're not very picky with their victims and will happily kill anyone who gets in their way. One of their victims is even a young boy. The Doll Collector is a wicked fae who kidnaps children and then drains their lifeforce to create a "doll" for her collection. This process is fatal.
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Mercy Thompson / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Mercy Thompson / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Tons from Mercy and Adam in the first few books. It eases off when they become an actual couple, but they still throw jabs at each other for fun. Mercy states that she actually enjoys fighting with Adam.
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Mercy Thompson / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Mercy Thompson / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: If it's not fae, spirit, werewolf, witch, or something else from some mythology, it's probably a human. Also Bran is the inspiration for Grendel. He never actually fought Beowulf, though; that was the result of someone attaching the stories of the scariest monster they knew to the oral tradition of an already long-dead king. Patty also once said that Sam was the Sir Marrok that Bran took his title from. Sir Lancelot, however, is pure fiction.
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Mercy Thompson / int_77e8d49d	type	Clingy MacGuffin
Mercy Thompson / int_77e8d49d	comment	Clingy MacGuffin: The fairy walking stick that Mercy picks up is one of these for quite a while, until she gives it away to Coyote in River Marked. And it returns once again at the very end of Night Broken.
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Mercy Thompson / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Mercy Thompson / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Tim killed both of his parents and lived off his inheritance afterward.
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Mercy Thompson / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Mercy Thompson / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation- The Mercyverse has been adapted into comic books by Dynamite comics. Homecoming is a prequel graphic novel. Set years before the events of Moon Called, it details Mercyâ€™s first year in the Tri-Cities and her first meetings with Adam and Zee. Moon Called is an adaptation of the titular book, split into two volumes. It also contains an extra story detailing Alan â€œMacâ€™sâ€� capture at the hands of Leo. Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf is an adaptation of the titular book. Hopcross Jilly is an original comic book set after the events of Frost Burned. The comic details Mercy and Adam aiding the local sheriffâ€™s departmentâ€™s investigation into the mysterious titular fae. The comic is notable for focusing on Jesse and her hardship in school. Â
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Mercy Thompson / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Mercy Thompson / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: The fae are incapable of lying, though they can still be perfectly dishonest with the truth. Revealed to not quite be true both in passing and in actual actions. The fae can break their word or tell lies, but they are forbidden from doing so, and the punishment for such transgression is death. Nimue appears in the second Alpha & Omega book and is both a Gray Lord and the Lady of the Lake, but neither distinction stops a target being placed upon her head for breaking her word.
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Mercy Thompson / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Mercy Thompson / int_7eb73553	comment	Jesse got beaten up in Iron Kissed because her father's a werewolf. This, in turn, nearly got her attackers murdered by an enraged Alpha.
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Mercy Thompson / int_7ec1d823	type	Animal Eyes
Mercy Thompson / int_7ec1d823	comment	Some of the werewolves will also do this to hide the shift in eye color that signals one's wolf-side coming to the fore.
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Mercy Thompson / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Mercy Thompson / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Alan Mac Kensie "Mac" Fraser and Gerry Wallace. Mercy's involvement in the first novel could arguably be described as a complete coincidence. Without her connection to Alan, she may never have known about the funny business going on, or even been awake around the time that Adam was attacked. Her involvement in the foiling of the overall plot caused her to incur a debt to the vampires, a debt that would lead into the next book (Blood Bound), where she both incurs a further debt with the fae (Iron Kissed), and slights the seethe (Bone Crossed). Mercy's life may have been very different had Alan looked elsewhere for work, or if Gerry had simply had more spine.
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Mercy Thompson / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Mercy Thompson / int_808cbaeb	comment	Being a werewolf, to a large degree. Yeah, youâ€™re nearly indestructible, functionally immortal, and capable of changing into an uber-wolf at will. However, youâ€™re going to outlive every vanilla human you love (and attempting to turn them is much more likely to kill them or get them killed), the Change is agonizing and can take up to a quarter of an hour, and youâ€™ll spend the rest of your life struggling to control the bestial personality sharing space inside your head. Oh, and you canâ€™t swim.
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Mercy Thompson / int_80a2c2de	type	Monster Mash
Mercy Thompson / int_80a2c2de	comment	Monster Mash: Werewolves, vampires, various types of Fae, witches, Native American monsters, the odd Eldritch Abomination or two...
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Mercy Thompson / int_80cd6404	type	God of Fire
Mercy Thompson / int_80cd6404	comment	God of Fire: Guayota is the God of Mt. Teide, a volcano on the Canary Islands. He has the power to convert innocents into fiery dog-like monsters under his command.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8104c755	type	Werewolves Are Dogs
Mercy Thompson / int_8104c755	comment	Werewolves Are Dogs: The werewolves have a tendency to act like dogs when surrounded by those unfamiliar with werewolves. Itâ€™s stated that they have a Weirdness Censor that influences people to see them as dogs unless they are already aware of werewolves (or the werewolf is too worked up to try to hide). Mercy has done this quite a few times when in her coyote form in public. Sometimes she will wear a dog collar with Adamâ€™s name on it just in case she is seen around a neighborhood. Blood Bound had a funny scene of Mercy playing fetch with some young boys until her â€œownerâ€� came to pick her up.
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Mercy Thompson / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
Mercy Thompson / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: In Iron Kissed, Tim uses the Druid's Hide to keep himself protected from any enemy. He ends up killed by Mercy, whom he had forced into becoming his love slave.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Mercy Thompson / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Few female werewolves exist, so most males have human mates. Mercy herself has never actually met another walker before River Marked, at least, so her love interests have all been this trope. Fae/human romances also exist. Sam (werewolf)/Ariana (fae) Walkers like Mercy are the result of human/Native American spirit relations. In Mercy's case, her mother is a human and her father is Coyote (sort of). While they're still kinda in the awkward beginning stages of their romance, a fae/vampire couple is the subject of the "Fairy Gifts" short story, and they later make an appearance in Fire Touched.
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Mercy Thompson / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Mercy Thompson / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The fae are significantly less cuddly than they wish humanity to believe. Delve below the facade they present to the world and you'll find a lot of monsters from the old fairy tales that haven't changed much over the years.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Mercy Thompson / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The River Devil, which would eventually be capable of eating the entire world if left to her own devices. The fae also sort of count, both because they come from another plane of being sidelong to ours (Underhill), and their true forms can border on nightmare-inducing (such as the Doll Maker from Dead Heat). The Singer is a direct homage to this trope, as it is a nature spirit "becoming" something else and assumes the form of Cthulhu.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Mercy Thompson / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: In Silence Fallen, Adam forms a group to go Europe to save the kidnapped Mercy. In the group is Stefan Uccello, Marsilia, Honey Jorgenson, Elizaveta Arkadyevna, Larry Sethaway the Goblin King, â€œnewcomerâ€� Matt Smith (actually Bran Hidden in Plain Sight) and eventually joined by Bonarata himself.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Mercy Thompson / int_8ba9512b	comment	Besides vampires, Bone Crossed has at least one ensorcelled, mostly-aware, decaying body. Zombies, perfectly preserved and undying bodies are mentioned, and some eventually appear in Storm Cursed.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8c4bafff	type	Holy Burns Evil
Mercy Thompson / int_8c4bafff	comment	Holy Burns Evil: Any religious symbol (crucifixes, the Star of David...) up to and including Mercy's lamb necklace (representing "The Lamb of God" and not a regular sheep) can hold off a vampire or some of the nastier Fae, assuming the wielder truly believes in their chosen faith. Mercy is able to inflict a temporary burn on a vampire and make her sheep glow with the power of her faith when necessary.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Mercy Thompson / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The ending of Fair Game: the fae have declared independence, and now consider the United States a hostile nation.
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Mercy Thompson / int_8e647ba9	type	Undercover as Lovers
Mercy Thompson / int_8e647ba9	comment	Undercover as Lovers: Marsilia and Adam, on their mission to get Mercy back from Bonarata, decide to pretend to be in a polyamorous relationship with her. And Stefan. And Honey. It's unclear whether anyone actually bought it.
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Mercy Thompson / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Mercy Thompson / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Hopcross Jilly murdered hundreds of children for petty reasons because they were "bad"; for example, they were liars, disobeyed their parents, or smoked. Jesse, by being good even by Jilly's ridiculous standards burns her at a touch when Jilly tries to kill her. Jesse then uses this to burn her like a torch.
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Mercy Thompson / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
Mercy Thompson / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: Anna picked up the habit of using this from her father, and used it to snark back at her tormentors in Leo's pack without them realizing it. Some of them knew what it meant anyway, and simply kept silent.
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Mercy Thompson / int_982b6570	type	Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
Mercy Thompson / int_982b6570	comment	Stefan gets one when his menagerie is destroyed. It takes him a couple books to start returning to being a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire.
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Mercy Thompson / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
Mercy Thompson / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Ben, though he's been getting better over time. Mercy still wouldnâ€™t allow him to be alone with her sisters, though.
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Mercy Thompson / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Mercy Thompson / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: In Night Broken, the Hauptmans' lawyer Jenny does a pretty good recap of the events so far in the book. More impressive is that she manages to discuss volcano gods and such with a completely straight face. Whenever Mercy describes Stefan (a vampire) as her friend, many characters have double checked to make sure they heard her correctly.
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Mercy Thompson / int_9ee0d3eb	type	Land of Faerie
Mercy Thompson / int_9ee0d3eb	comment	Land of Faerie: Commonly known as Underhill, it was a realm apart ruled by the fae of long ago until its connections to the mortal world were severed. It is later rediscovered by the fae. Oh, and she's sapient, and is just as capricious and deadly as her former tenants.
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Mercy Thompson / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Mercy Thompson / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires become weak if they don't drink blood every so often. Most vampires keep a "flock" of humans at their house to feed on. They can avoid killing if they want to, but of the vampires we've seen, only Stefan really makes an effort to do so. Being a vampire's "sheep" has fringe benefits â€” it extends your natural lifespan and gives you resistance to blood-borne diseases like HIV or leukemia. Vampires are dead during the day (but they don't need to return to their original coffin â€” at one point, Stefan spends the day in Mercy's closet), but come back to unlife at night. They can be killed by the standard methods, but the best one is fire. Beyond that, the circumstances under which any particular vampire is created can sometimes provide them with unique abilities shared by few, if any, of their own kind.
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Mercy Thompson / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Mercy Thompson / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: Used twice by Mercy to explain injuries to a friend. The first one doesn't believe her, but the second one does.
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Mercy Thompson / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Mercy Thompson / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Moira wears them â€” and rightfully so, given that both of her eyes were used up for magical purposes. They're not pretty.
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Mercy Thompson / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Mercy Thompson / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Mercy herself, being the daughter of a vanilla human and Coyote in human form. She eventually meets other walkers like her, but descended from other Native American spirits. There are also half-breed fae (who are significantly easier to produce than full-blooded fae).
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Mercy Thompson / int_a588cd12	type	Cool House
Mercy Thompson / int_a588cd12	comment	Odder still is the fact that, despite having a Cool House, Kyle spends most of his time living with Warren in Warren's low-budget apartment.
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Mercy Thompson / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Mercy Thompson / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Anna often ends up in this position as well, though like Mercy, sheâ€™s hardly defenseless (and has the added advantages of werewolf strength and Healing Factor, to boot).
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Mercy Thompson / int_a7c0ee18	type	Domino Revelation
Mercy Thompson / int_a7c0ee18	comment	Domino Revelation: First we learn that werewolves, walkers, and vampires exist. Then come sorcerers, demons, and fairies. In-universe: the fae revealed themselves to the world, then, two decades later, so did the werewolves. Several characters voice the opinion that the vampires will probably come next, but everyone agrees it will mean a huge deal of trouble for everyone (because, contrary to the fae and the werewolves, there is simply no way to sugarcoat vampirism).
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Mercy Thompson / int_a99f4468	type	Bigot with a Badge
Mercy Thompson / int_a99f4468	comment	Bigot with a Badge: Les Heuter is an agent of Cantrip, a government policing agency in charge of monitoring supernaturals in America. He's also a monstrous Serial Killer and Serial Rapist who targets fae and werewolf women out of a mix of sadism, lust, and bigotry.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Mercy Thompson / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Vampires that grow old and powerful enough tend to acquire nicknames/titles. Examples include Stefan ("The Soldier"), Wulfe ("The Wizard"), Marsilia ("The Blade")... Mention is made of how bad you have to be when vampires go around calling you something like "The Monster". (Pretty bad, it turns out — that particular vampire could absorb powers from things he fed on and had amassed a suite of really nasty abilities, including resistance to sunlight.)
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Mercy Thompson / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
Mercy Thompson / int_abdf7d09	comment	The werewolves have a tendency to act like dogs when surrounded by those unfamiliar with werewolves. Itâ€™s stated that they have a Weirdness Censor that influences people to see them as dogs unless they are already aware of werewolves (or the werewolf is too worked up to try to hide).
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Mercy Thompson / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Mercy Thompson / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Mercy briefly considers letting the ghost of Peter's murderer be devoured by a necromancer vampire, but decides that it would go against her morals.
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Mercy Thompson / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Mercy Thompson / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Mercy's ability to see ghosts comes in handy more often as she gets embroiled in more supernatural messes.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Mercy Thompson / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: While many characters qualify (Mercy, Mary Jo, and even Stefan), Ben really takes the cake!
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Mercy Thompson / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Mercy Thompson / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Mercy, full stop.
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Mercy Thompson / int_b0e85b9d	type	Working-Class Werewolves
Mercy Thompson / int_b0e85b9d	comment	Working-Class Werewolves: Zig-zagged. Most Alpha werewolves tend to be quite well-off. Their innate desire to lead others tends to translate into having important and high-paying jobs; even if it doesn't, they can get tribute from their subordinates. Adam, the Alpha of the Tri-Cities pack, runs his own security company. However, some werewolves (particularly lone wolves without packs) still get stuck working menial jobs and struggling to make ends meet. Warren, one of the members of the Tri-Cities pack, worked as a clerk in a convenience store for a long time until his boyfriend (a well-regarded lawyer) got him licensed as a private investigator. Zack, another member of the pack, was working as a dishwasher while living in a cheap motel.
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Mercy Thompson / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Mercy Thompson / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Jesse's mother (and Adam's ex-wife) is criminally neglectful, and has been known to go on vacation without telling her daughter that she's being abandoned for a week or more. If Adam wasn't such a softie with obvious buttons that the woman knows how to push, he would have sole custody. He later gets sole custody, thanks to Jesse being as able to push her mother's buttons as well as her mother is able to push Adam's.
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Mercy Thompson / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Mercy Thompson / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In Silver Borne, the faerie queen forbids Mercy from talking about her to the werewolves or the other fae. The loophole in this case is that Mercy figures she can just talk to Jesse (who is neither a werewolf nor fae) instead, with the wolves and fae listening in. The fae love this as well, and Zee uses it frequently to feed information or aid to Mercy when he's not supposed to.
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Mercy Thompson / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Mercy Thompson / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Happens to many supernatural creatures with human mates. In particular, Samuel outlived three wives and many of their children. In Hunting Grounds, Arthur chooses to have his wife assassinated by vampires rather than suffer seeing her die of old age.
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Mercy Thompson / int_b454d74b	type	Sixth Ranger Traitor
Mercy Thompson / int_b454d74b	comment	Sixth Ranger Traitor: Subverted in Burn Bright, when Leah is set up to look like she's betrayed the pack. She's innocent. It's actually Sage, another character who's barely had any screen-time before that novel, who's the real traitor.
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Mercy Thompson / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Mercy Thompson / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Said almost word for word in River Marked about some fae who tried to kill Mercy in front of Adam. Their deaths were officially listed as "suicide by werewolf."
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Mercy Thompson / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Mercy Thompson / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Mercy in the middle with Adam and Samuel on the other two corners. Possibly a Love Quadrangle, given Stefan seems very attached to Mercy as well â€” attached enough that he protected her from the seethe and chose her over his Mistress. Stefan's attraction for her is more or less confirmed in "Night Broken". This seems to have gone away starting in Bone Crossed and definitely at the end of Silver Borne when Samuel and Ariana reunite. And, as of River Marked, it's pretty much gone, following Adam and Mercy's wedding.
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Mercy Thompson / int_bba9ea51	type	Good Stepmother
Mercy Thompson / int_bba9ea51	comment	Good Stepmother: Mercy is beloved by Jesse, the daughter of her neighbor â€” and future husband â€” Adam.
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Mercy Thompson / int_bbd981ee	type	Child Eater
Mercy Thompson / int_bbd981ee	comment	Child Eater: The comic series "Hopcross Jilly" introduces the titular Fae, who craved naughty children in particular. While she wouldn't eat naughty children whole, she would eat only their fingers and toes because it was "the parts that got them into mischief to begin with."
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Mercy Thompson / int_bbe4afdf	type	Part-Time Hero
Mercy Thompson / int_bbe4afdf	comment	Part-Time Hero: No matter what is going on around her, Mercy keeps up her day job as a mechanic. If things get REALLY bad, she'll call Zee and ask him to run her shop until the current crisis is over.
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Mercy Thompson / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Mercy Thompson / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Darryl is this in spades. Heâ€™s Adamâ€™s second, fought Warren to a standstill, and looks like a big scary African-American/Asian dude. Heâ€™s also got a Ph.D, and he teaches at the local college. Charles is a decent hacker, a very good accountant, and an excellent detective. Comes with being the Marrokâ€™s hatchet man. Lots of werewolves are Genius Bruisers, really. Being immune to aging means you have plenty of time to pick up all sorts of skills and knowledge.
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Mercy Thompson / int_bc15bc0a	type	Eternal Love
Mercy Thompson / int_bc15bc0a	comment	Eternal Love: Any long-lived werewolf pair could count, but also Sam and Ariana (Sam rescued her hundreds of years prior to the series, and they get back together shortly after they meet again).
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Mercy Thompson / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Mercy Thompson / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Mercy is one for a lot of people - Adam, Samuel, Bran, Zee, even Stefan. Hurt her and you might as well slit your own throat — it'll be a lot cleaner than what the aforementioned people will do to you. In River Marked, Uncle Mike decides to report the deaths of five minor fae (who made the mistake of trying to kill Mercy in front of Adam) as â€œsuicide by werewolf.â€� Hurting/threatening Anna around Charles gets similar results. Lizzie Beauclaire is very much so for her father the Gray Lord Alistair Beauclaire aka Gwyn ap Lugh, as shown when he calmly murders her attacker (the serial killer/rapist/senator's son Les Heuter) on national television. Like Beauclaire above, Tad is this for Siebold Adelbertsmiter AKA: Zee, or the Dark Smith of Drontheim. In Silence Fallen, it's outright stated that if someone did actually kill Mercy, Bran would declare war. He'd regret it afterwards, he might even regret it while he did it, but he would utterly destroy whomever was responsible. Mentioned in "Homecoming" when Mercy is cornered and about to be killed by werewolves.
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Mercy Thompson / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Mercy Thompson / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Subverted. When Henry attempts to take advantage of Adamâ€™s weakness during Silver Borne, Mercy simply draws her pistol and shoots him in the throat before he can finish his challenge.
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Mercy Thompson / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Mercy Thompson / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy
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Mercy Thompson / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Mercy Thompson / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Mercy as a child and teenager was prone to pranking Bran whenever he did something that made her angry. Bran is the leader of all the werewolves in North America, among the most powerful individuals of any species alive, and has a legendary temper to boot. Everyone else in the town was in awe of her, because if anyone else in the world had tried doing half of what she did, he'd have killed them.
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Mercy Thompson / int_c05de85d	type	Mindlink Mates
Mercy Thompson / int_c05de85d	comment	Mindlink Mates: Werewolf couples can be this, though the degree varies from couple to couple.
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Mercy Thompson / int_c068a80f	type	Resurrected Murderer
Mercy Thompson / int_c068a80f	comment	Resurrected Murderer: Cory Littleton started off as a wicked killer of innocents even when he was human. Cory was eventually possessed by a demon and transformed into a vampire; as a member of the undead, he now has taken to escalating his killing spree across the Tri-Cities.
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Mercy Thompson / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Mercy Thompson / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Cantrip seems to be going this way, since its members openly talk about wanting to kill all the werewolves and may have arranged a bombing attempt on a fairy reservation. Averted in Dead Heat by the Cantrip Agents Jim Marsden and his half-fae partner Hollister Leeds, who are decent, hardworking, and a far cry from the late and un-lamented Agent Les Heuter.
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Mercy Thompson / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Mercy Thompson / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Ideally, werewolf packs, which may also include any human mates or children. Inter-pack conflicts can cause issues with the cohesion of the pack as a whole, though.
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Mercy Thompson / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Mercy Thompson / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Done by the Grey Lords of the fae in the backstory. The fae coming out was an accident as far as the general public knows, but fae and other supernatural characters are aware that it was ordered (or at least, manipulated into happening) by the Gray Lords. Coming out resulted in Fantastic Racism and getting forced into reservations, so it seems like a very bad thing for fae as a whole, but over the course of the series, characters have discovered that the Grey Lords wanted to have high population densities of fae living together because that would give them access to Underhill again, a Magical Land which the power of the fae is tied to. In short, the breaking of masquerade would, one way or another, accomplish the Grey Lordsâ€™ mission. In Silence Fallen, this turns out to have been Bonarata's plan all along â€” kidnapping Mercy would bring both the werewolves and his old lover Marsilia to Milan, where they could be suborned, or used to rid himself of a particularly Ax-Crazy old werewolf he was addicted to feeding from (and possibly deal with some other plots against him besides). And it turns out that even Bonarata's machinations were the result of an even deeper gambit by Coyote to get Mercy to deal with the nature spirit that had been bound into the Golem of Prague.
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Mercy Thompson / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
Mercy Thompson / int_c949edd4	comment	Charles, who inherited some powers from his Native American mother, still feels pain when he shifts, but his transformations are much faster and smoother than normal. He can even clothe himself while transforming.
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Mercy Thompson / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Mercy Thompson / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Mercy kills the River Devil with Lughâ€™s walking stick at the end of River Marked. Jesse, a fifteen year old girl, kills Hopcross Jilly â€” a centuries-old child-murdering fae Serial Killer. Becomes literal when the Singer assumes the form of Cthulhu in order to fight Charles, Leah, Tag, and Anna. They win with the help of Bran.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ce555c91	type	Post-Modern Magik
Mercy Thompson / int_ce555c91	comment	Post-Modern Magik: Any holy symbol can affect a vampire, so long as the wielder believes in it. Mercy uses a lamb (as in "The Lamb of God") due to a distaste for crosses (her first encounter with one as a child was an up-close and personal with a full-sized crucifix, complete with dying savior painted in color). Otherwise, mostly averted.
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Mercy Thompson / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Mercy Thompson / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Mercy's foster father loved this: "Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach." Which translates as â€œJesus Christ, God Almighty, God damn the sonovabitch." Adam is particularly averse to swearing around women - Mercy considers it a personal triumph when she can drive him to slip up and actually swear around her. A lot of the werewolves do this, because many come from eras where cursing was quite the faux pas.
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Mercy Thompson / int_d13f7848	type	Planet Eater
Mercy Thompson / int_d13f7848	comment	Planet Eater: The River Devil is a snake-like demon that plans to consume Earth. The more it consumes, the bigger it gets, and it eventually plans on growing so large it can consume the world.
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Mercy Thompson / int_d78d5f96	type	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
Mercy Thompson / int_d78d5f96	comment	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence: Avoided big time in Iron Kissed. After Mercy was raped by Tim, Gray Lord Nemane was going to take all the fae items Tim stole along with the mind-warping goblet that Tim tricked Mercy into drinking from. However, Honey stood up to Nemane and argued that they needed at least the goblet as proof of Mercyâ€™s innocence in the matter. Without it, it would just appear as if Mercy had decided to randomly kill Tim after having â€œsexâ€� in the surveillance videos. After some convincing from Adam and even Samuel, Nemane acquiesced and allowed them to keep the goblet until Mercy was free of all charges.
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Mercy Thompson / int_d9c02684	type	Woman Were-Woes
Mercy Thompson / int_d9c02684	comment	Woman Were-Woes: Whilst it's perfectly possible for women to become werewolves (and the series features a number of prominent examples, most notably Anna Cornick the protagonist of the spinoff Alpha and Omega), becoming a werewolf requires having your body ravaged to the point that if you don't turn you die and the transformation itself is extremely agonising. All this means that by nature, the vast majority who survive are men. Case point: Adam Hauptman's pack, and thus the entire Columbia Basin werewolf population (which is considered quite large by their standards), only has three female members. Due to their rarity, female werewolves are highly prized, with packs even having been known to go to war to induct them into their membership. They likewise aren't able to hold rank in their own right (regardless of how dominant or powerful they are) being forced to share the status of their mate.
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Mercy Thompson / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Mercy Thompson / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Pretty much every female character in the series, Mercy in particular.
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Mercy Thompson / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Mercy Thompson / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Two of them. Adam and Mercy are the first, Charles and Anna are the second. All four have killed people for (or along with) their respective partners.
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Mercy Thompson / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Mercy Thompson / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Adam and Bran Cornick are both (usually) this.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
Mercy Thompson / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: Excalibur and Carnwennen from Hunting Grounds are shown to be this. Then again, itâ€™s Excalibur. It proves to be a werewolf weapon capable of killing said species easily when revealed. Zeeâ€™s knife also shows this, though itâ€™s balanced out a bit: over-using that particular power makes the hilt unbearably hot. Much like other (rare) enchanted weapons, it can slice through supernaturals like butter.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e1ea6835	type	Premature Empowerment
Mercy Thompson / int_e1ea6835	comment	Premature Empowerment: Common practice in Urban Fantasy stories, most notably those dealing with werewolves, vampires, or other infectious paranormals. These books feature a number of characters to whom this happened, such as both Alan Mac Kensie Frasier and Anna Cornick nÃ©e Smith.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e32c80d9	type	Going Commando
Mercy Thompson / int_e32c80d9	comment	Going Commando: In Bone Crossed, Mercy shifts to her coyote form to snag a bag from a snow elf, leaving her dress and underwear behind in a crowded bar. Uncle Mike is able to retrieve Mercyâ€™s dress for her, but her bra and panties are lost somewhere. Mercy just wears the dress without the underwear, satisfied she at least isn't naked.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: If a werewolf who spent the Wild West years as a cowboy isn't tough and muscular enough to qualify, nothing is.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Mercy Thompson / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Since Mercy can't directly confront stronger male wolves, she works indirectly by smiling and nodding and misdirecting. (Though it might be a bit of a stretch to call her a â€œproper lady.â€�) Anna Cornick too. Her silk is made of empathy. Her steel is made of backbone and the ability to call on Charlesâ€™ not-inconsequential power.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Mercy Thompson / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Played with in Wild Sign, as the Singer in the Woods survives its battle against the werewolves without the latter knowing. Then Coyote enters the scene, noses around, and finds it hiding in a cave in the form of a fingernail-sized, squid-like creature. Apparently, it tastes like eel.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Mercy. Especially at the climax of River Marked; by the end, the only thing keeping her upright (and not screaming) is willpower. Mentioned but not shown is a girl who became a werewolf at age ten. Girls rarely survive the Change to begin with â€” Mercy, Honey, and even Bran note that a ten-year-old girl that survived must have willpower to spare.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Mercy Thompson / int_e8e56799	comment	Hopcross Jilly from the comic book of the same name enjoys killing "naughty" children for petty reasons.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Mercy Thompson / int_e9604359	comment	The Monster of the Week in Dead Heat has been abducting kids for decades, and a bunch of their mummified corpses are found in its lair.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e96475ec	type	Excalibur
Mercy Thompson / int_e96475ec	comment	Excalibur and Carnwennen from Hunting Grounds are shown to be this. Then again, itâ€™s Excalibur. It proves to be a werewolf weapon capable of killing said species easily when revealed.
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Mercy Thompson / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Mercy Thompson / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The fae are bound to these whenever you make an agreement with them. It is thus possible, if difficult, to get the better of them. Subverted in Wild Sign where some locals attempt this on a local spirit, thinking that it will prevent them from being punished. It's a god, not a fae, and doesn't work. It is also pointed out that attempting to trick fae this way is still stupid; even if you succeed, you've pissed them off, and they have all the time and motive in the world to plan their revenge, which is more likely than not to be disproportionate as hell.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Mercy Thompson / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Samuel struggles with this, especially in Silver Borne. Most older creatures, be they fae, wolf, or vampire, struggle with this. Senility and madness are common problems among the long-lived magical creatures. Subverted with the Marrok, who seems to be content about his immortality.
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Mercy Thompson / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Mercy Thompson / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Several in the first book alone.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ebcf99b5	type	The Unmasqued World
Mercy Thompson / int_ebcf99b5	comment	The Unmasqued World: At least partially, and growing increasingly so as the series continues. The Fae came out about 20 years before the start of the story, making it sort of an Alternate History, although they are being far from open with the general public about exactly how much their magic can do. Werewolves came out at the end of the first book, and they too are working hard on public relations and spin control. Vampires are still considered to be a myth, but a lot of Muggle characters have found out or are starting to suspect, and some characters are wondering how and whether vampires could come out.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ec729d5d	type	Wild Wilderness
Mercy Thompson / int_ec729d5d	comment	Wild Wilderness: Mostly avoided in the Mercy Thompson books (which are pretty solidly set in Urban Fantasy), but in the Alpha & Omega series, Charles and Anna have several adventures in the Montana wilderness.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
Mercy Thompson / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Or rather, Max Schreck was (still is?) an actual vampire.
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Mercy Thompson / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Excalibur shows up, as does Carnwennen (â€œLittle White Hiltâ€�). Both are shown to be exactly as deadly as their legends say.
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Mercy Thompson / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Mercy Thompson / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Subverted: Honey, one of Adamâ€™s pack members, seems like this â€” blond, busty, and not too bright â€” right up until the point that she clues Mercy into some important points of werewolf politics that had slipped her notice. To boot, Mercy remarks that if she were allowed to hold her own rank in the pack (rather than inheriting her mateâ€™s, as all female werewolves do), Honey would be in the top tier. It's stated in Night Broken that Honey is considering going back to school in order to give her something to do with her life, which would imply that she either has previous education or is fully capable of handling it.
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Mercy Thompson / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Mercy Thompson / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: A few show up, though they're generally Really 700 Years Old (otherwise, they wouldn't be nearly as creepy). Wulfe (a.k.a. "The Wizard") is the vampires' creepy child (vampires don't age). Yo-Yo Girl is the fae's creepy child (fae can use Glamour to appear however they wish — in general, the more harmless they appear, the more you should worry). Later books introduce Aiden, a centuries-old human child who was trapped Underhill (where time passes oddly), and Tilly (a.k.a. (Underhill itself'').
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Mercy Thompson / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Mercy Thompson / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Mercy and Adam have a decently happy ending by the conclusion of River Marked... but damn if they havenâ€™t paid for it in blood and pain. Pretty much all of Anna and Charlesâ€™ happy endings are this as well.
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Mercy Thompson / int_f6a9024b	type	Altar the Speed
Mercy Thompson / int_f6a9024b	comment	Altar the Speed: Played with. In River Marked, Adam and Mercy's wedding is expedited because Mercy doesn't want to deal with her mother... who's been been playing the crazy wedding planner because she has a bet on with Bran to see how long it will take Mercy to crack. The answer: not long.
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Mercy Thompson / int_f729e5bc	type	Sequel Goes Foreign
Mercy Thompson / int_f729e5bc	comment	Sequel Goes Foreign: Silence Fallen is so far the only book not set in the United States. Parts are set in Milan, Italy, while others are in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Mercy Thompson / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Werewolves can change shape more or less at will, but changes may be spurred on by strong emotion, and they are forced to change under a full moon. Theyâ€™re also immune to disease, poisons, and old age (the physical effects, at least — especially long-lived werewolves can and do suffer from madness and dementia). The initial conversion from human to werewolf reverts physical age to mid-twenties or thirties, and most werewolves are somewhere between physically fit and musclebound. Silver is poisonous to them, and more unusually, they can't swim, or only very badly (theyâ€™ve got so much raw muscle mass, they become too dense to float). The change is agonizing, and changing from wolf to human takes several minutes. They also have minor Weirdness Censor powers that encourage Muggles to mistake them for dogs, even though they're larger than wolves and have odd anatomy for canids. It won't fool someone who already knows about werewolves and expects to see one, and an actual angry werewolf is too different and dangerous to fool anyone, but a werewolf that's stuck in wolf form but otherwise in control of himself can blend in by just having someone put a collar on him. Werewolves can stay in wolf form for weeks or months at a time, but typically lose control long before then. Last but not least, a single bite wonâ€™t Change you â€” only being savaged to the point where you either become a werewolf (and gain super healing) or die. Though there is a single instance, in Iron Kissed, of a werewolf changing into something like Crinos form from Werewolf: The Apocalypsenote Specifically, a (mostly) humanoid form with a wolf's head, rather than the series' typical "unusually large but otherwise normal wolf" form. It's implied that to get that form, the wolf and the human have to be absolutely united in one purpose and one emotion. In this case, it's Adam, enraged over Tim's brutalization and rape of Mercy. It should also be noted that it's made clear in the series that the wolf aspect of a werewolf is a distinctly separate entity, entirely sentient, that exists independent of, though intertwined with, the human half. This is part of what makes them so dangerous â€” the wolf half is capable of usurping the human half in certain situations where it feels cornered or enraged.
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Mercy Thompson / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: In Frost Burned, the mercenaries hired to kidnap and hold Adam and his pack realize that their employers are okay with letting them die or killing them if they get captured. They promptly decide to cut their losses and flee, but not before giving Adam some useful information and a way to escape. Anna gets shades of this when she kills the mate of the Alpha who brutalized her.
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Mercy Thompson / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Mercy Thompson / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. The amount of times that Mercy gets visibly battered, dirty, bloody, or some combination of the three, are beyond counting.
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