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The Black Swan

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The Black Swan	comment	A fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey, also known as the author of the Heralds of Valdemar and Elemental Masters series.Once upon a time there was a princess named Odette who was kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Eric von Rothbart and subjected to an unusual curse: she is human only at night under moonlight; by day she is a beautiful white swan.This novel is not about her. This is about the other swan.Odile von Rothbart is the dutiful daughter of her father and a rising sorceress in her own right. She keeps his palace without complaint, though she longs for more of her father's approval. Like the Baron, she believes the swan maidens are fickle, faithless creatures who deserve their situation because they have been untrue to their men. But then one day, Odette defies the sorcerer to give her a chance to prove her rehabilitation...Perhaps the two swans are not so different after all.Not to be confused with 2010's Black Swan film by Darren Aronofsky, or the 1942 swashbuckler movie by Tyrone Power. Also not related to the Dark Swan novel series by Richelle Mead.
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The Black Swan / int_117c6f30	type	Old Man Marrying a Child
The Black Swan / int_117c6f30	comment	Old Man Marrying a Child: One of the "little swans" was taken from an arranged marriage to an older man. However, the problem was his cruelty (he was known to beat his wives), not his age. She later marries Siegfried's elderly tutor, who likes her but never dared to hope that a young girl like her would want him.
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The Black Swan / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Black Swan / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Yup. From the selfish prince to the priests. The heroes grow out of it and become sympathetic characters.
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The Black Swan / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Black Swan / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Siegfried chases, catches, and has sex with a gypsy girl in the woods. It's not until some time later that he realizes it wasn't consensual... and it takes him a bit longer yet to accept the actual harm he did. When he finally does, it leads to a moment of genuine contrition and a Heel–Face Turn.
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The Black Swan / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
The Black Swan / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Clothilde used one to marry the King. She contemplates using the same formula on Siegfried or his new bride to keep them infatuated with each other (and thus extend her reign).
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The Black Swan / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
The Black Swan / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Daughter: Odile to her father; too bad for him he does not appreciate it.
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The Black Swan / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Black Swan / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Daughter" Girl: Odile, so very much. She could easily have become Daddy's Little Villain except that Baron von Rothbart either 1) didn't think of it or 2) was unwilling to share power... least of all with a woman.
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The Black Swan / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Black Swan / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Three times is Odile referred to as the titular Black Swan, once spoken by one of the swan maidens.
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The Black Swan / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
The Black Swan / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Odile accepts what her father does without question, believing he acts in her best interests. When she considers, for example, that he might have magically changed her appearance or hair color, she takes it as a reasonable precaution — it never even occurs to her to be outraged or disturbed. She eventually realizes that her father only thinks about himself.
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The Black Swan / int_1b8cef9c	type	The High Queen
The Black Swan / int_1b8cef9c	comment	The High Queen: Likely Odette's mother. Once she becomes married to Siegfried and both are crowned king and queen Odette likely will emulate this. On another note, Clothilde presents the world an image of it, but deep down she is anything but.
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The Black Swan / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Black Swan / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Siegfried and Benno, Odile and Odette in the end.
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The Black Swan / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Black Swan / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Queen Clothilde, and initially Siegfried as well.
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The Black Swan / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Black Swan / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Odile casually mentions at one point that wizards are generally warded against ordinary weapons but not gold or silver, and that she and her father carry little silver daggers for spells that require Blood Magic.
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The Black Swan / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
The Black Swan / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: Averted for Clothilde, she gets the real thing, Fire and Brimstone Hell if the religious beliefs shown throughout the book are any indication.
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The Black Swan / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
The Black Swan / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: Three different occasions — Odette for the flock, Siegfried for Odette, and (awesomely) the flock for Odette and Siegfried.
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The Black Swan / int_275773bd	type	Curse Escape Clause
The Black Swan / int_275773bd	comment	Curse Escape Clause: If Odette can get a man to swear fidelity to her and remain true for a month, the curse will be broken. This is evidently a convenient lie by Von Rothbart — the swan 'curse' is simply a spell, and it ultimately dies with its caster.
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The Black Swan / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Black Swan / int_27ab0123	comment	On Siegfried's end of things, Queen Clothilde deliberately raised him so that he wouldn't be fit for the throne. She wants to continue her reign as regent, even if it means having him killed.
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The Black Swan / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Black Swan / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Odile, though in terms of friendship, not love. She'd known the flock for years but had never bothered trying to get to know them (and had assumed they wouldn't have anything interesting to say anyway).
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The Black Swan / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
The Black Swan / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: A few of the "flock" get some characterization beyond Odette and Odile. The most prominent are the four "little swans" and Jeanette, one of the black swans.
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The Black Swan / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Black Swan / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Clothilde. She wants to murder her son to keep the throne; unusually for this trope, she's otherwise a good ruler. This fits with the theme of the book which brings up the Madonna-Whore Complex (tastefully at that) and shows that things are never gonna be that clear cut.
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The Black Swan / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
The Black Swan / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Siegfried (at his mother's careful encouragement), likes to lord his prowess in academic and athletic pursuits over others, leading him to alienate both old and young nobles. He grows out of it.
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The Black Swan / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Black Swan / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Von Rothbart is a fantasy example, making Odile the Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter.
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The Black Swan / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
The Black Swan / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Von Rothbart demands it from his daughter. Lady Adelaide in Clothilde's court definitely is one.
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The Black Swan / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
The Black Swan / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Von Rothbart has no mirrors in his home because "mirrors show the truth." Used literally on Siegfried in his nightmares; though it was more the mirror shows what you can become if you don't shape up NOW.
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The Black Swan / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
The Black Swan / int_38047858	comment	Squishy Wizard: Averted by Von Rothbart, who according to Odile specifically disdains sorcerers who rely on their magic at the expense of mundane strength and combat skill. To that end, he's kept his body quite fit, is very adept with a sword, and has warded himself against most metals used in weapons although the one he neglects to does him in eventually.
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The Black Swan / int_3974efe4	type	Requisite Royal Regalia
The Black Swan / int_3974efe4	comment	Requisite Royal Regalia: Odette always wears a coronet. As a swan, she wears a crown-shaped pendant.
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The Black Swan / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Black Swan / int_3aec9e5e	comment	It could quite possibly be a mixture of not liking competition and being Properly Paranoid on his part, as well as his general misogyny.
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The Black Swan / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Black Swan / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Though it's prevalent throughout the book (including for weapons!), Odile's ballgown is the moment. Think Pimped-Out Dress plus Domino Mask plus black swan wings plus jewels all over. (It's the page image). Odile is embarrassed at how over-the-top it is and notes that the only reason it's wearable at all is because it's magic.
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The Black Swan / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Black Swan / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: While the ballet can vary on how evil Odile is supposed to be, in this story she is unambiguously Odette's friend and ally by the time Rothbart uses her to spring the trap on Siegfried at the ball. She is ultimately the one who makes sure the good characters get a happy ending.
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The Black Swan / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Black Swan / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Von Rothbart, Queen Clothilde, and Uwe.
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The Black Swan / int_45e7465	type	Beautiful Tears
The Black Swan / int_45e7465	comment	Beautiful Tears: One of the freshly-caught swan maidens at the beginning of the book. Odile's inner monologue is full of acid comments about how it looks nice by moonlight but would be hideous in the full light of day.
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The Black Swan / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Black Swan / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Siegfried after quite a bit of character development and a Heel Realization - he later graduates to a truly good guy, after meeting Odette. Benno at times hits this, mostly around Odile, whom he ends up falling for.
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The Black Swan / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Black Swan / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: The Von Rothbart manor is rather luxurious, boasts a very large pond and extensive manicured gardens and also invisible and highly efficient serving spirits, that are implied to be demonic in nature and bound into servitude by Von Rothbart. They also spy on the inhabitants of the house.
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The Black Swan / int_486f44a1	type	Swans A-Swimming
The Black Swan / int_486f44a1	comment	Swans A-Swimming: Nearly every mention of the flock as swans includes a note about how lovely they are.
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The Black Swan / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Black Swan / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Siegfried, after a nightmare makes him understand how badly he's acted — in general, not just to the gypsy girl, although she is the catalyst. He begins acting much more kindly towards men in the court and a commoner lover of his, worrying his mother who hoped he would never mature into a potential King.
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The Black Swan / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Black Swan / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: As Odette herself points out, betrayal of a man doesn't warrant imprisonment for life. Not only is it excessive, it gives the swans no reason to repent and change their ways, as Von Rothbart ostensibly intends that they should.
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The Black Swan / int_55d33017	type	Sheltered Aristocrat
The Black Swan / int_55d33017	comment	Sheltered Aristocrat: Siegfried in the beginning is very selfish and self-centered, largely through the efforts of his mother, who wants to make him unfit to rule. Later he starts to become a better person, much to the relief of the royal advisers and the others around him.
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The Black Swan / int_57df9056	type	Glamour
The Black Swan / int_57df9056	comment	Glamour: Siegfried sees Odile as Odette at the ball. She is unable to tell him otherwise.
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The Black Swan / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
The Black Swan / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Von Rothbart can skillfully use both magic and his sword. He is aware of the squishy wizard trope, and consciously acted to avert it this way, along with warding himself against any damage from normal weapons. However, he remains unwarded against gold or silver, so he can use a small silver dagger for blood magic. It's what does him in at the end.
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The Black Swan / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Black Swan / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The gypsy girl. Just think — if Seigfried hadn't encountered her, he truly wouldn't have been suitable for Odette...and thus Rothbart would have won simply because Seigfried wouldn't have truly loved Odette.
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The Black Swan / int_615cad18	type	Outdoor Bath Peeping
The Black Swan / int_615cad18	comment	Outdoor Bath Peeping: Siegfried spies a gypsy girl bathing in a river. It doesn't end well.
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The Black Swan / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Black Swan / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Both Odile and Siegfried.
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The Black Swan / int_6205f4e5	type	Courtly Love
The Black Swan / int_6205f4e5	comment	Courtly Love: Discussed between Siegfried, Benno, and Wolfgang. Benno is particularly convinced that high-class women are to be adored but not touched; neither he nor Siegfried hold lower-class girls in such esteem. They get better.
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The Black Swan / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
The Black Swan / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Siegfried is very handsome, taking after his beautiful mother. Even after he stops actively pursuing women, plenty of them throw themselves at him.
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The Black Swan / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Black Swan / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Odile has only a father. Losing his wife is hinted to be the Baron's Start of Darkness.
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The Black Swan / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Black Swan / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Siegfried's best friend is called Benno and brings to mind Benvolio from Romeo and Juliet. Odette and Odile are variants of the same name.
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The Black Swan / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Black Swan / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The gypsy girl. This has a lot of Fridge Brilliance to it, as the Roma have a strong culture around purity and for a Roma girl to lose her virginity — especially to an outsider — before marriage makes her "dirty" and "unclean" by their culture, not to mention an automatic outcast. Medieval culture in general frowned on this too of course. Odette and Siegfried attempt suicide near the climax when it appears that Von Rothbart will separate them.
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The Black Swan / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Black Swan / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Odile to her father, as she realizes tragically late in the story. Worse for her is the realization that she would have been a witting pawn if he'd asked because she was that desperate for her father's approval.
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The Black Swan / int_7503483d	type	Original Position Fallacy
The Black Swan / int_7503483d	comment	Original Position Fallacy: Odile doesn't have any problem with her father keeping a 'flock' of captive women, thinking they deserve it for being disloyal to their fathers or husbands. She doesn't realize until the ball that her father thinks of her as just another swan: someone he can use and steal magic from as needed.
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The Black Swan / int_75898be8	type	Tomboy Princess
The Black Swan / int_75898be8	comment	Tomboy Princess: Princess Honoria is an avid and expert hawker and hunter, though she also keeps up a front of being feminine and proper.
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The Black Swan / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Black Swan / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Odile and Benno have a lighter version of this, mostly thanks to their first meeting being... interesting.
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The Black Swan / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
The Black Swan / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Odile initially. At one point she feels a pang of utter hatred at men and all the wrongs they can do. She has good reasons for it.
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The Black Swan / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Black Swan / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Odile literally stabs Von Rothbart in the back, though he more than has it coming.
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The Black Swan / int_78da8795	type	Dowry Dilemma
The Black Swan / int_78da8795	comment	Dowry Dilemma: Once the curse is broken, Odile realizes the former swan maidens will have difficulty finding husbands without any dower. She provides for their futures by dividing her father's fortune among them.
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The Black Swan / int_796a7bfc	type	Twice-Told Tale
The Black Swan / int_796a7bfc	comment	Twice-Told Tale: The base story is Swan Lake, told from the perspective of a character who is usually a minor villain.
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The Black Swan / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Black Swan / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Odile has dere dere as her default mode, but Benno seems to bring out her tsun side.
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The Black Swan / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Black Swan / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Common, given that the time period is Renaissance...ish. Most of the characters are resigned to the idea as a fact of life, provided their intended mate isn't unbearable: the ones who most strenuously object are Odette (her father promised her mother on her deathbed that Odette could marry for love) and one of the Little Swans, who was going to be sent to an abusive older man.
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The Black Swan / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Black Swan / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Clothilde full stop. She plans to kill Siegfried after he produces a heir and a spare so she can keep on ruling.
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The Black Swan / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
The Black Swan / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: The Baron's view of his magical punishments. It doesn't particularly matter to him whether it's real betrayal, treachery which he enticed or tricked the other person into, or just something that is betrayal from a certain point of view.
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The Black Swan / int_82a4fadc	type	Our Liches Are Different
The Black Swan / int_82a4fadc	comment	Our Liches Are Different: Siegfried seems to think that the gypsy girl has come back from the dead as a lich to torment him even though he ordered that her corpse be staked and buried at a crossroads to prevent such a thing.
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The Black Swan / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
The Black Swan / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: This is Swan Lake from Odile's point of view.
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The Black Swan / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
The Black Swan / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Dragon with an Agenda: Uwe secretly resents Queen Clothilde and has his eyes on the throne for himself. He doesn't get very far with this.
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The Black Swan / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Black Swan / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The secondary villains of the book end up being killed by Baron von Rothbart's magic and few mourn once they realize what they were plotting. Nobody really mourns for Von Rothbart after Odile kills him either.
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The Black Swan / int_903e9dc9	type	Regent for Life
The Black Swan / int_903e9dc9	comment	Regent for Life: Clothilde's intentions. She'd prefer to be reigning queen, but time and custom won't allow it.
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The Black Swan / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
The Black Swan / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Odile begins to suspect early on that her father only cares about himself, but she dismisses it because she's been trained from an early age not to question him. She also believes it's not right for a daughter to think such things of her own father.
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The Black Swan / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Black Swan / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Siegfried's priest, upon hearing that he accidentally raped a commoner and possibly drove her to suicide, assigns him a trivial penance and hints that she was asking for it. He is replaced near the end of the book by a Good Shepherd.
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The Black Swan / int_9521acf7	type	The Scourge of God
The Black Swan / int_9521acf7	comment	The Scourge of God: Baron von Rothbart sees himself as this, particularly to the swan maidens and Clothilde.
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The Black Swan / int_952e4e06	type	Utility Magic
The Black Swan / int_952e4e06	comment	Utility Magic: Odile creates several spells which do nothing but basic housekeeping. This meets with the approval of her father, who himself uses enslaved spirits/demons as his household staff.
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The Black Swan / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Black Swan / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Siegfried again.
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The Black Swan / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Black Swan / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Baron von Rothbart. Unsurprisingly, Odile herself begs not to be called "Baroness" at the end.
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The Black Swan / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
The Black Swan / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Von Rothbart. He believes all women (and most men) are naturally faithless.
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The Black Swan / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
The Black Swan / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Siegfried, even after he stops actively pursuing women.
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The Black Swan / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Black Swan / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Odette and Siegfried attempt suicide rather than let Von Rothbart separate them. Odile killing Rothbart and then saving them allows them to have their happy ending.
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The Black Swan / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
The Black Swan / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: Siegfried is quite the skirt chaser before he wises up (and even after he reforms, he still has no trouble attracting the ladies), but once he meets Odette, he has zero interest in anyone but her.
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The Black Swan / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Black Swan / int_9c8701b5	comment	It's unclear if Lackey intended it at the time, but the hawk-princess (also an enthusiastic falconer) is also Foreshadowing. Some time after the book (both in-universe and real time) Honoria received A Day in the Limelight in the short story "Wide Wings", where she body-swaps with a magical hawk (who did an earlier Body Swap herself, and states that she was the latest in a long line of girls to do so) in order to escape her arranged marriage.
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The Black Swan / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Black Swan / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Von Rothbart's attitude toward his daughter. He is always scornful when Odile attempts to master higher magics but praises her when she applies her magic to domestic pursuits. She is not amused when she realizes this. It could quite possibly be a mixture of not liking competition and being Properly Paranoid on his part, as well as his general misogyny.
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The Black Swan / int_9de7a5d0	type	Fix Fic
The Black Swan / int_9de7a5d0	comment	Fix Fic: For Swan Lake.
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The Black Swan / int_a1e2cedd	type	Hooked Up Afterwards
The Black Swan / int_a1e2cedd	comment	Hooked Up Afterwards: Broadly hinted for Odile and Benno.
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The Black Swan / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
The Black Swan / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: This is how von Rothbart puts an end to Clothilde's wickedness. Her fellow plotter Uwe is caught in it as well but survives long enough to make a full confession and reveal everything. Had Clothilde survived, she would have been humiliated and lost everything she had worked for. Soon after that Odile does the same to him.
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The Black Swan / int_a7016efe	type	Lonely Rich Kid
The Black Swan / int_a7016efe	comment	Lonely Rich Kid: Odile before she starts befriending the swans. Siegfried is a subversion, he has a very good friend in Benno. Double subverted in that no one else really likes him until he shapes up.
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The Black Swan / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Black Swan / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Arguably Siegfried; yes, he was haunted by guilt and shame for a while, but his victim killed herself, with only his priest knowing, so he gets no punishment (not that he likely would anyway, as a noble.) However, considering that it seems the gypsy girl got to become an angel and he was redeemed and made a point of becoming a better person, it's justified.
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The Black Swan / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
The Black Swan / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Odile and Benno's first meeting Crosses the Line Twice into this.
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The Black Swan / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
The Black Swan / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: While high born women are treated with respect, they are still considered pawns and chattel by their fathers. Lower class women on the other hand are constantly disrespected and mistreated. Even Clothilde's scheming is largely prompted by her frustration that she would not be allowed to rule in her own right. The finale with Odile being brought onto the council suggests that Siegfried is working on fixing this, if only a little.
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The Black Swan / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Black Swan / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Siegfried for Odette, and Odette quickly follows him. Interestingly, one mostly sees this happening from Odile's (an outsider's) view, which actually enhances the heartwarming aspects of it.
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The Black Swan / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Black Swan / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The misogyny of the times is a key theme, Roma people are so insignificant that even a priest doesn't care if one is raped and later kills herself, and old men marrying young women isn't considered odd if the parties involved like each other.
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The Black Swan / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
The Black Swan / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: Siegfried's recurring nightmare about the gypsy girl.
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The Black Swan / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Black Swan / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Odile mentions learning how to swim early in the book, and how nobles rarely cultivate the skill. In the climax when Siegfried and Odette are drowning, Odile jumps in to save them with the aid of the peasant girls in the flock.
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The Black Swan / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
The Black Swan / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: As Odile starts to spend more time enjoying the company of others and revels in what an incredible pleasure it is she starts to wonder why her father isolates himself from others.
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The Black Swan / int_b097493c	type	Madonna-Whore Complex
The Black Swan / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna-Whore Complex: How most men in the story view women, especially Von Rothbart. The finale suggests people are working on fixing this, especially Siegfried due to his character development revolving around him learning respect for women.
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The Black Swan / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
The Black Swan / int_b0cd3349	comment	The gypsy girl. This has a lot of Fridge Brilliance to it, as the Roma have a strong culture around purity and for a Roma girl to lose her virginity — especially to an outsider — before marriage makes her "dirty" and "unclean" by their culture, not to mention an automatic outcast. Medieval culture in general frowned on this too of course.
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The Black Swan / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Black Swan / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Odile's father has been neglecting his daughter and undermining her self esteem all her life. He also steals her magical energy regularly and uses People Puppets magic on her to further his plans. Few people can blame Odile for killing him. On Siegfried's end of things, Queen Clothilde deliberately raised him so that he wouldn't be fit for the throne. She wants to continue her reign as regent, even if it means having him killed.
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The Black Swan / int_b136ed26	type	Big Fancy Castle
The Black Swan / int_b136ed26	comment	Big Fancy Castle: Siegfried's castle is a few times larger than the large Von Rothbart manor.
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The Black Swan / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Black Swan / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Just about everyone. The sympathetic characters eventually grow out of it as part of their Character Development.
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The Black Swan / int_b5fb096b	type	People Puppets
The Black Swan / int_b5fb096b	comment	People Puppets: Von Rothbart uses magic to take control of Odile at the ball so that she can seduce and distract Siegfried — or at least, not warn him.
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The Black Swan / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Black Swan / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Played With. Odette is still an important character, but her own POV is never given.
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The Black Swan / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Black Swan / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Odette and the rest of the flock turn into swans due to a spell cast by Baron von Rothbart, in contrast to the voluntary shapeshifting of Von Rothbart and Odile.
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The Black Swan / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Black Swan / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Von Rothbart presents himself as the self-appointed punisher of faithless women, though in reality it's an excuse to amass power for himself and occasionally indulge his desire to Pay Evil unto Evil.
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The Black Swan / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
The Black Swan / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: At their fateful appearance at Clothide's ball, Von Rothbart puts his loving and obedient daughter under his direct control with magic, making her dance like a puppet to deceive Siegfried. She is shocked and traumatized, to say the least. At the end, when his true colors are out, he still tries to force her to aid him instead of just asking for help, and she severs their father-daughter bond for good.
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The Black Swan / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Black Swan / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Siegfried is an accomplished rider, hunter, and fighter, but he also knows enough Greek to read Aristophanes and other classical authors in the original.
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The Black Swan / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Black Swan / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Early in the book, Odile decides to impress her father by cleaning the Great Hall. Since she does it with magic, it's a really cool scene.
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The Black Swan / int_d53d0080	type	Vampiric Draining
The Black Swan / int_d53d0080	comment	Vampiric Draining: Mages can steal energy from other people to power their spells. Von Rothbart has been doing it to his flock (without their consent) for years.
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The Black Swan / int_da512040	type	Fantasy Contraception
The Black Swan / int_da512040	comment	Fantasy Contraception: At the end, Odile gives Odette two magical necklaces. One is a fertility charm, and the other is "the opposite."
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The Black Swan / int_dae3844e	type	Hidden Disdain Reveal
The Black Swan / int_dae3844e	comment	Hidden Disdain Reveal: Clothilde secretly despises her accomplice Uwe and plans to be rid of him once Siegfried is out of the way. At the ball, Odile has a chance to observe that Uwe hates Clothilde too.
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The Black Swan / int_db361e64	type	Princess Classic
The Black Swan / int_db361e64	comment	Princess Classic: Odette, with a touch of Rebellious Princess.
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The Black Swan / int_dd6749e1	type	The Von Trope Family
The Black Swan / int_dd6749e1	comment	The Von Trope Family: Baron von Rothbart and his daughter, as in the original story.
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The Black Swan / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Black Swan / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The swan for Odette and Odile, an eagle-owl for Baron von Rothbart, and Princess Honoria (one of Siegfried's potential brides at the ball) is garbed as a hawk. It's unclear if Lackey intended it at the time, but the hawk-princess (also an enthusiastic falconer) is also Foreshadowing. Some time after the book (both in-universe and real time) Honoria received A Day in the Limelight in the short story "Wide Wings", where she body-swaps with a magical hawk (who did an earlier Body Swap herself, and states that she was the latest in a long line of girls to do so) in order to escape her arranged marriage.
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The Black Swan / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
The Black Swan / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Odette, Odile and a few of the princesses (Honoria and Evangeline in particular) that Siegfried is to choose from. In fact Clothilde considers Honoria too strong-willed to make a proper and biddable daughter-in-law. Also Clothilde herself is a darker aspect of it.
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The Black Swan / int_e44da6cc	type	Makeup Is Evil
The Black Swan / int_e44da6cc	comment	Makeup Is Evil: Downplayed. Clothilde's first scene shows all the makeup she uses to hide her aging face, and she is one of the main antagonists. However, this isn't a sign of vanity or deception, just the grim necessity of being an aging woman in a world where women are only valued for their beauty.
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The Black Swan / int_e45ce099	type	The Wise Prince
The Black Swan / int_e45ce099	comment	The Wise Prince: By the end of the book Siegfried can be considered this.
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The Black Swan / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Black Swan / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: It's only thanks to Odile's intervention that Siegfried and Odette manage to avert this trope and get their happy ending.
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The Black Swan / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Siegfried swears to marry the woman who is standing next to him and in specific Rothbart's daughter. Whoops.
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The Black Swan / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: While Odile is quite composed and witty, when she goes to the fete that Clothilde throws she feels very embarrassed and self-conscious because she has grown up in isolation with just her father and the flock as company, and is not used to having so much attention on her. Her over-the-top costume did not help either. This is also Von Rothbart's paper-thin excuse to have all the mirrors covered at the fete.
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The Black Swan / int_eca6c7f9	type	Gratuitous Princess
The Black Swan / int_eca6c7f9	comment	Gratuitous Princess: Not only Odette, but six other princesses as bridal candidates for Siegfried.
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The Black Swan / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
The Black Swan / int_ed43de19	comment	Hunting "Accident": Subverted with Clothilde's husband, who had one of these genuinely, although she is far from unhappy about it. She tries to encourage her son's hunting pursuits in the hopes that he'll have one too, being aware that any attempt to arrange one would look suspicious.
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The Black Swan / int_efe04722	type	Dances and Balls
The Black Swan / int_efe04722	comment	Dances and Balls: The climax begins at one of these.
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The Black Swan / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
The Black Swan / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Odile frequently uses her magic to make life more comfortable and convenient, if only because it's the one use of her talents that seems to please her father. Aside from the aforementioned cleaning of the Great Hall, she keeps the floors clean, the clothing washed, and repeatedly uses small magics to great effect to make everyone comfortable as she and the flock travel to Siegfried's kingdom. Her father does the same on a larger scale, enslaving the Silent Ones (the invisible servants) just so they can make his life easier. Of course, he never has to worry about running low on magical energy since he can take it from his daughter and the flock.
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The Black Swan / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Black Swan / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Even after character development, Siegfried's good sense can be hijacked by a beautiful woman. Clothilde employs this to great effect when she announces that he's about to turn 18 and needs to get married, which distracts him so much that he never considers that it's time for her to get off the throne so he can be King.
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The Black Swan / int_f1ac9897	type	Female Misogynist
The Black Swan / int_f1ac9897	comment	Female Misogynist: Odile, as you'd expect for a woman who so closely identifies with her heavily misogynistic father. She firmly believes that women are treacherous and fickle by nature (and she's the rare exception to the rule). It takes her quite a while to grow out of it. Clothilde is the same, often sneering and looking down at other women. Unlike Odile, Clothilde never changes her stance.
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The Black Swan / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
The Black Swan / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: Uwe uses his dying breaths to confess to everything he and Queen Clothilde did. Justified given the times: Uwe knew he was dying and wanted to avoid punishment in the afterlife with a Deathbed Confession.
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The Black Swan	hasFeature	Beautiful Tears / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Dowry Dilemma / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Female Misogynist / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Hunting "Accident" / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Mundangerous / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Not Like Other Girls / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Outdoor Bath Peeping / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	People Puppets / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Straw Misogynist / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Swans A-Swimming / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	The Scourge of God / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	The Wrongful Heir to the Throne / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Twice-Told Tale / int_8d26774c
The Black Swan	hasFeature	Utility Magic / int_8d26774c

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