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Sapphire is a series of Web Serial Novels written by SpyHunter89 on his DeviantArt page. The chapters may be viewed here. The first episode was released in 2007, with the second carrying over into 2008. The third episode began in 2009, and is currently ongoing.Sapphire is essentially Spy Fiction; the stories are set during the Cold War; more specifically, the late 1970s and 80s. But instead of regular Russians, the antagonists (and some of the minor protagonists) have Psychic Powers.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Artemis Gilliam is an Expy of Simon Cowell. He even judges a karaoke contest at one point.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Alec, after Boris kills Ivanka. He even tries to shoot himself, but backs down before pulling the trigger. And again, when he sees Boris alive. The delay keep him from killing Boris when he decides to just shoot him... not that it would do any good against a Psychic.
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Brainwashed and Crazy
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Boris takes over Khina's mind from afar to have her assassinate Elodie. She fails.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: Many, many characters have been introduced through the author's DeviantArt page that have not had even a remote chance to show up in the story yet.
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Brother–Sister Team
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Brother–Sister Team: Subverted - Ivanka is working against her brother Boris.
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Senseless Sacrifice
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Senseless Sacrifice: Almost happened. Even after Boris killed Ivanka after promising Alec would be spared, he proceeds to kill Alec as well. He is saved, however, when his friend Andrew pulls a little Deus ex Machina. Turns out it was senseless after all. You can imagine Alec's surprise when he saw Boris alive two years later.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Psychics do this sometimes, often in their native language. For example, the call for Boris's Blood Rose attack is "Krov' roza", which in fact is Russian for its own name.
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Gratuitous Foreign Language
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: Not only are Russian, Japanese and French stock phrases used, but the Psychics call their attacks in their native language.
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Paper-Thin Disguise
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Paper-Thin Disguise: How in the world could Elodie not tell that was Nikolai behind that eye-mask!?
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Affably Evil
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The same cannot be said of Boris, who would prefer to show someone a magic trick before killing him or her.
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Gratuitous Japanese
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Michiru and Daisuke call out their Ninjutsu attacks in Japanese, Naruto-style.
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No Bisexuals
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No Bisexuals: Averted. Boris and Nikolai were both gay for each other, despite finding girlfriends later on down the line (Boris & Khina, and Nikolai & Elodie). In fact, the only fully gay character in Sapphire is Claude's coach/boyfriend, Valko Petkov.
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IntercontinuityCrossover
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Intercontinuity Crossover: SpyHunter's crossover fanfics with Totally Spies!. Contains copious amounts of Take That!.
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Not Distracted by the Sexy
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Not Distracted by the Sexy: Alec refuses to fall for Michiru. Although, they eventually try to make love, but are rudely interrupted by Daisuke.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: Ivanka offers to be executed in Alec's stead. A Senseless Sacrifice is narrowly avoided.
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Magic A Is Magic A
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Magic A Is Magic A: The details of Psychic magic have yet to be explained.
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Disney Death
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Disney Death: Double Subversion. Boris gets pinned down by a truck and riddled with a full clip of AK bullets. Yet being a Psychic, he survived the whole thing.
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Unwanted Harem
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Unwanted Harem: It's not his harem, but Alec refuses to fall for the advances of Khina and the other girls.
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Calling Your Attacks
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Calling Your Attacks: Psychics do this sometimes, often in their native language. For example, the call for Boris's Blood Rose attack is "Krov' roza", which in fact is Russian for its own name. Michiru and Daisuke call out their Ninjutsu attacks in Japanese, Naruto-style.
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Furo Scene
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Furo Scene: Between Alec and Ivanka on their honeymoon. They try to get close to each other during their bath together, but Ivanka is reminded of a time when she was raped, and suffers a Heroic BSoD before running out crying.
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"Arabian Nights" Days
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"Arabian Nights" Days: The Altair base evokes this trope. However, although it is based in Iran (as was the real Arabian Nights, bonus!), the base is under control of the Soviet Union and a Renegade Russian third party...
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Ring of Fire
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Ring of Fire: Daisuke creates a green ring of fire during his duel with Michiru. She defeats him by teleporting out of the ring, then leaps back into it and skewers him.
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Psychic Powers
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Psychic Powers: Many of the villains - and some of the allies - are Psychics, and demonstrate all manner of powers. Even ninjas are Psychics, in a sense. Alec makes the connection that "ninjutsu is probably some variation on the whole psychic philosophy".
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Spell My Name with an S
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Spell My Name with an S: Elodie Duchamp's first name was originally written without the accent mark. However, after the author did some research and learned that there is a French name with the accent mark but not without, it has been retconned as such. The only reason it's not written like that on This Very Wiki is because the accented 'E' gets corrupted to 'É'.
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Body Snatcher
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Body Snatcher: Ivanka takes posession of Khina's body to save Alec. It works, but she is discovered because Khina was two months pregnant.
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No One Could Survive That!
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No One Could Survive That!: Boris being pinned down by a truck and riddled with a full clip of AK bullets. Yet being a Psychic, he survived the whole thing.
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Recycled IN SPACE!
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Recycled In Space: It's James Bond... with Psychics. The plot for Episode II also draws many comparisons to You Only Live Twice.
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Dirty Communists
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Dirty Communists: Mostly averted. All the Russians/North Koreans/miscellaneous Communists in the story are either good and/or being played by the bad guys (a Renegade Russian third power).
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Gender-Blender Name
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Gender-Blender Name: Not only does Claude sound rather feminine in English, it is a gender-neutral name in his native French.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Boris has "Comrade Alec", and Artemis Gilliam has "Seriously!".
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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And again, when he sees Boris alive. The delay keep him from killing Boris when he decides to just shoot him... not that it would do any good against a Psychic.
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The '80s
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The '80s: Episodes II and III take place mainly in 1982 and 1989, respectively.
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Ninja
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Even ninjas are Psychics, in a sense. Alec makes the connection that "ninjutsu is probably some variation on the whole psychic philosophy".
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Renegade Russian
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Renegade Russian: Boris Rubanenko. Officially, he pledges allegiance to the Soviet Union. However, in Episode I he plans to nuke the West AND East indiscriminately, so that both sides will be weak enough for a Psychic takeover. Not to mention trying to start another war between North Korea and Japan in Episode II, plus whatever he has up his sleeve for Episode III...
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WhyDontYaJustShootHim
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Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: Averted by Alec. After their first few encounters, his way of greeting Boris involves shooting him in the head. It never works. It even gets lampshaded: "You should have learned by now, that will never work on me... Comrade Alec." "Always worth a try." The same cannot be said of Boris, who would prefer to show someone a magic trick before killing him or her.
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Lampshaded.
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The Unpronounceable
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The Unpronounceable: Alec has trouble pronouncing Khina's name in the Episode I bonus chapter, since the glottal 'kh' sound does not occur in (American) English.
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Highly-Visible Ninja
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Highly-Visible Ninja: Aika Akagi has a shiny red Spy Catsuit and green hair.
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Subverted: Elodie uses a cigarette holder, not because she's an evil Baroness, but because she's rich and glamorous. That still doesn't stop Alec from trying to make her quit.
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The Charmer
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The Charmer: Alec refuses to fall for more than one woman at a time - even if the woman in question has been kidnapped for three years.
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Something about a Rose
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Something about a Rose: Boris's 'Blood Rose' attack. Which involves killing the victim by teleporting it into his/her heart.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Andrew, who saves Alec from Boris's firing squad in Episode III.
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Cloak and Dagger
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Cloak and Dagger: The Delta Defense Alliance and Omega Order are both fictional organizations not officially aligned with any real-world government.
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Cartwright Curse
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Cartwright Curse: Somewhat. Ivanka gets killed, but only five years after she marries Alec, which in turn was four years since they first met.
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TheSeventies
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The '70s: Episode I takes place mainly in 1978.
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Goggles Do Something Unusual
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Goggles Do Something Unusual: Michiru and Daisuke use Psychic-scanning Aura Vision binoculars.
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