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The Lunar Chronicles

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The Lunar Chronicles	comment	The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer is a series of young adult novels that retells classic fairy tales within a sci-fi setting.Earth is in turmoil. For over a decade, humanity has been fighting against a deadly plague with no cure in sight. As if that wasn't enough, a war is threatening to break out between Earth and Luna. The current ruler of Luna, Queen Levana, is especially determined to gain control of Earth through whatever means is necessary. And since she has powerful Lunar magic and advanced technology on her side, taking Earth by force is a definite possibility.There's just one thing that stands in her way: there's a rumor that her niece, Princess Selene, is still alive and living on Earth. If true, then Selene could be humanity's ticket to overthrowing the tyrannical Levana and saving humanity from becoming Lunar playthings. Assuming, of course, that Selene would even want to reclaim her birthright at all.This series includes: Cinder (2012): Based on Cinderella. Scarlet (2013): Based on Little Red Riding Hood. Cress (2014): Based on Rapunzel. Fairest (2015): A prequel novella that explores Queen Levana's past. Winter (2015): Based on Snow White. Stars Above (2016): A collection of short stories, including four previously released novellas. The Keeper Glitches (2014) The Little Android (2014): Based on The Little Mermaid. The Mechanic The Queen's Army (2012) After Sunshine Passes By Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky (2014) The Princess and the Guard Something Old, Something New: A novella set two years after Winter Wires and Nerves (2018): A two-part graphic novel that takes place after Winter and before Something Old, Something New. COVID-128 (2020): A short story about the characters living in a COVID-19 style pandemic. Cinder's Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding! (2022): A Choose Your Own Adventure-style e-book where the reader chooses Cinder's path on her way to her and Kai's wedding. An animated film adaptation in development at Locksmith Animation directed by NoÃ«lle Raffaele (DC Super Hero Girls).Due to the way the series progresses, spoilers from the first book have been left completely unmarked. You have been warned!
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: Wolf forces an unwanted kiss onto Scarlet. It's the only way to give her the ID chip she needs to escape the cell without the guards seeing.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
The Lunar Chronicles / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Michelle Benoit, a decorated air force pilot who risked her life for years protecting Selene, and even after weeks of torture, still has the strength left to defy her captors.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
The Lunar Chronicles / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: According to Meyer, Cinder was modeled after Mew Azama, the actress who played Sailor Jupiter in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
The Lunar Chronicles / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Cinder enters a Heroic BSoD after accidentally brainwashing someone into taking a bullet for her, just like Levana and her thaumaturges throughout the series.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Wolf, after Scarlet is kidnapped.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1589afa2	type	Freakiness Shame
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1589afa2	comment	Freakiness Shame: Wolf ends up further mutilated by Levana and is heavy with self-loathing, but fortunately for him Scarlet doesn't mind.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_17dbe19a	type	Internalized Categorism
The Lunar Chronicles / int_17dbe19a	comment	Internalized Categorism: Cinder in regards to her cyborg status. And later, her Lunar blood.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1a0881b	type	Muggle Born of Mages
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1a0881b	comment	Muggle Born of Mages: Shells are Lunars born without the ability to manipulate bioelectricity, making them not much different from your average Earthen. The key difference is the fact that they're immune to Lunar glamour and mind control.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1a5cae38	type	Love Imbues Life
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1a5cae38	comment	Love Imbues Life: While she always had a "faulty personality chip" and was more aware than her peers, Star's first steps into true sapience begins when she starts having feelings for Daratan.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1c8e096e	comment	Winter and Jacin. They've been in love with each other pretty much since childhood, but have never been able to act on it since she's a Lunar princess and he's just a palace guard. Not to mention Levana hates Winter out of petty jealousy, while Jacin earns the ire of Aimery Park thanks to Winter's feelings for him, so they each have to be careful about maintaining some distance to prevent people from using them against each other. Of course, Winter rarely puts much effort into hiding her feelings, leaving it to Jacin to maintain a pretense of decorum, not that it fools anyone.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Cress takes a while to warm up to Iko after her personality chip is installed into her new escort droid body, because the last time she saw it, it was practically sitting in Thorne's lap as he played cards.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1d3c92da	type	Failsafe Failure
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1d3c92da	comment	Failsafe Failure: To make sure she passed as Earthen, Cinder was implanted with a chip in her spine that suppresses her Lunar powers. Dr. Erland disabled it while inspecting her, allowing her to access her mental-manipulation abilities, but also making her vulnerable to being detected as Lunar.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Emperor Kai has to make decisions that affect the entire planet. He tries so hard to secure peace with the Lunars while not becoming a doormat to Levana. Although he is by far the youngest of the Earthen Union leaders, he is doing the most, personally, to deal with Levana. Arguably justified, as he is the one she is determined to marry. Cinder is this as well, especially in Winter when she leads the revolution. Winter herself also gets in on the action, though in a different way; while Cinder is on the front lines of the fight, Winter essentially runs her PR, recruiting the people to Cinder's cause. She even manages to recruit several packs of Levana's mutant wolf soldiers to their side.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
The Lunar Chronicles / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Cinder and Thorne at the climax of Scarlet, very briefly. A thaumaturge soon manipulates Thorne into pointing his gun at Cinder, forcing her to shoot him in the leg with a tranquilizer.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Lunar Chronicles / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Cress is convinced she's the Damsel in Distress in a classic fairytale and destined for a Rescue Romance with Thorne. She's not entirely wrong, but his blindness and a confluence of other unlucky circumstances means she does quite a bit of the rescuing on her own.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_222059fa	type	Fairytale Motifs
The Lunar Chronicles / int_222059fa	comment	Fairytale Motifs: Star's story is basically a sci-fi The Little Mermaid. An android, different and more curious than her peers, risks it all to become human enough to woo the man she loves, even losing her voice, but ultimately realizes he loves another and dies. However, having loved someone, she's grown enough to gain a soul so she can live on after death.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_2414efbe	type	Alpha and Beta Wolves
The Lunar Chronicles / int_2414efbe	comment	Alpha and Beta Wolves: The organization of Levana's genetically engineered Wolf Man Super Soldiers is based on the common but mistaken belief that wolf packs adhere to a strict social hierarchy involving alphas, betas, and omegas. This is even an important plot point in the series, as wolf DNA was specifically chosen to create these soldiers in order to make them easier to organize and control. It also helps Wolf overcome his conditioning to obey the thaumaturges. After falling in love with Scarlet, he recognizes her as his mate which means his instinct to protect her overrides his instinct to kill at the command of his superiors.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_2562da69	type	Great Escape
The Lunar Chronicles / int_2562da69	comment	Great Escape: When Cinder accidentally breaks into Thorne's prison cell, he persuades her to help him escape in return for the use of his spaceship.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
The Lunar Chronicles / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Averted. Cinder dons Peony's beautiful dress to go to the ball, but because of the rain and the car crash she sustained on the way there, she walks in soaking wet and spattered with oil. Not that she particularly cares, as the only reason she's going to the ball is to warn Kai about Queen Levana's plan. Kai doesn't really mind either. Cinder's inability to clean up nicely for more than five minutes even becomes a running gag.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
The Lunar Chronicles / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: Scarlet came to live with her grandmother when she was seven.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_27ebe639	type	Prince Charming
The Lunar Chronicles / int_27ebe639	comment	Prince Charming: Prince Kai. He's completely sincere about it, too!
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_288685dd	type	World War Whatever
The Lunar Chronicles / int_288685dd	comment	World War Whatever: The far future setting is some time after a World War IV.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_29fb4ade	type	Withholding the Cure
The Lunar Chronicles / int_29fb4ade	comment	Withholding the Cure: Levana presents Kai with a sample of a cure for letumosis only days after his father died of it, measured in the exact does that would have cured him. She refuses to provide any more until Kai agrees to marry her and crown her empress.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Lunar Chronicles / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Zig-zagged. Cinder would be considered disfigured by some due to being a cyborg, but otherwise her appearance is average. Her stepmother Adri and stepsister Pearl are described as beautiful, but are as stuck-up and abusive as youâ€™d expect, given their fairytale roles. However, the younger stepsister, Peony, is sweet and kind to Cinder despite her prettiness. Many Lunars appear beautiful thanks to their glamour; Levana in particular is stunning to look at, but underneath her glamour she is severely scarred. Her stepdaughter, Princess Winter, is even more beautiful without any glamour than Levana is with glamour, to the point where the scars on Winter's face only add to her beauty.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: A "shell" is a Lunar who cannot use the Lunar gift or be affected by it.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Lunar Chronicles / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Channary is implied to have been an even worse ruler than her sister. She was sadistic, manipulative, and regularly tormented Levana in their childhood. She once cut off the feet of her favorite seamstress so that the woman would have nothing better to do than sit around making more dresses for her. She was also the one who initiated the shell extermination program. This is not to say that Levana was much better, as the other entries on this list can attest.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
The Lunar Chronicles / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: Scarlet willingly walks into the pack's lair, knowing full well they're expecting her and she'll probably be captured and tortured. What she didn't know is that Wolf is a part of the trap. He approached her by order of the pack, not on his own after he supposedly ran away. His job was to convince her to tell him what she knew about Princess Selene of her own free will, and afterwards to deliver her to the pack.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Lunar Chronicles / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: After having Cinder arrested and forcibly brought home, making it clear she'll be kept on a very tight leash from now on, and taking Cinder's foot so she'll be forced to hobble around on makeshift crutches, Adri reveals that she finally went through with her threats to tear up Iko and sell her useful parts. Thankfully, most people don't think Iko's personality chip is "useful"....
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Lunar Chronicles / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Dr. Dimitri Erland, who is researching a cure for letumosis using drafted cyborg test subjects. He's a Lunar keeping his mind control powers in check, which has the side effect of making him a little unhinged.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_36ae9f5d	type	Traumatic Haircut
The Lunar Chronicles / int_36ae9f5d	comment	Traumatic Haircut: Cress gets a haircut after her satellite crashes on Earth. To be fair, the haircut itself isn't really traumatic, it's the crashing.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_377effa6	type	My Own Private "I Do"
The Lunar Chronicles / int_377effa6	comment	My Own Private "I Do": Scarlet and Ze'ev's wedding happens a few days before the official date so she can have a quiet ceremony with her friends rather than a huge media fiasco.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
The Lunar Chronicles / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Cinder's cyborg implants will display an orange light in her vision when they detect a lie. It even works on Lunar glamours.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_3cec8223	type	Electronic Eyes
The Lunar Chronicles / int_3cec8223	comment	Electronic Eyes: Cinder's eyes are synthetic, and she can call up any type of internet-based feed and view them directly. Iko is delighted with her color-changing android eyes at the end of Winter.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
The Lunar Chronicles / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Due to shyness and protocol, Cinder and Kai have some trouble adjusting from "Linh-mei" and "Your Highness" to their given names.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_420e223e	type	Girl in the Tower
The Lunar Chronicles / int_420e223e	comment	Girl in the Tower: Well, a satellite.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Lunar Chronicles / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: What practically every Lunar is capable of through their mind-control abilities. Poor Scarlet in particular is taken prisoner and given to a Lunar noble family where she is tortured with intense illusions of her body being invaded by vermin, coerced by Sybil to chop off her own finger during her interrogation, and locked in a small cage in the royal menagerie to be gawked at by Lunars expecting her to perform tricks for their amusement.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
The Lunar Chronicles / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: According to Jacin, he taught himself to put all his emotions and thoughts aside during duty in order to not attract attention - since guards are expected to be "brainless puppets" that are supposed to be easily controlled. Invoked. Guards on Luna are deliberately selected to be as weak and mindless as possible so it would be easier for a superior to force them to take a bullet for them. As a result, even Lunar civilians can control them.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_478ae179	type	And Now You Must Marry Me
The Lunar Chronicles / int_478ae179	comment	And Now You Must Marry Me: Queen Levana is determined to get a legitimate claim to Earth via marriage to an Earthen leader. Prince Kai just happens to be a perfect target: he's young, handsome, available, and, most importantly, desperate. She uses an antidote to the letumosis virus as a bargaining chip, knowing that he won't be able to tolerate that refusal will lead to the deaths of more innocents. Kai is loathe to give in not just because she's a tyrant, but also because he knows their union will certainly end with his death and the eventual takeover of Earth. However, the brutal attacks from the Lunar Special Operatives wears down his resistance to the point where he's practically begging Levana to marry him. They do eventually marry with Levana being crowned Empress the following day (not that she gets to celebrate for very long).
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_4a6dda60	type	If We Survive This
The Lunar Chronicles / int_4a6dda60	comment	If We Survive This: When Peony falls ill, Cinder promises her that if she gets well she'll introduce her to the Prince at the annual ball. She gets Kai to agree, but Peony succumbs before she can make good on her promise.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_4b32995a	type	Friend-or-Idol Decision
The Lunar Chronicles / int_4b32995a	comment	Friend-or-Idol Decision: It is implied that Cinder will abolish the lunar monarchy and marry Prince Kai, becoming his Empress.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_4d3827ef	type	Not Quite Saved Enough
The Lunar Chronicles / int_4d3827ef	comment	Not Quite Saved Enough: Scarlet does find her grandmother, but she's been tortured to the point she can barely move, making escape impossible. She only manages a few moments with Scarlet before goading Ran into killing her, since she knows Scarlet won't leave without her. Also, after Erland gives Cinder the letumosis cure, she races to New Beijing's quarantine area to give it to a dying Peony. She ultimately manages to get past the med-droids and reaches Peony's side, but the poor girl dies right as Cinder is about to give her the cure.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_533bc7ae	type	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
The Lunar Chronicles / int_533bc7ae	comment	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: A lot of people seem to believe cyborgs are no longer capable of human emotion.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_547b632	comment	Space-Filling Empire: There are now only six nations in the world, each of them spanning continents, and together they form the Earthen Union. Emperor Kai rules over the Eastern Commonwealth, which is composed of all of Asia and many of the surrounding islands. It is implied that these huge mega nations were founded at the end of WWIV as part of the Treaty of Bremen, which was the birth of the Earthen Union. The damage from WWIII and WWIV is probably why many of these nations are so big—the loss of life was probably massive, and depending on the weaponry used, huge swathes of land could still be uninhabitable. The massive evacuations in wartime and the poisoning of land by radiation and chemical warfare would have forced many disparate cultures to be mixed in unconventional ways. We see this most clearly in the Commonwealth, which has developed an Asian fusion culture.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
The Lunar Chronicles / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Averted. In the scene where Jacin resuscitates Cinder from drowning, the narration explicitly talks about the revivee's ribs cracking and the whole experience not being pretty at all.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
The Lunar Chronicles / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Luna. Levana, the Big Bad and an Evil Overlord, rules it with an iron fist with the help of a powerful military and treats the lower classes as little more than slaves made to serve the aristocracy. Luna is also the Arch-Enemy of the Earthen Union, which acts as The Federation, as the Lunar royal family has long sought to conquer the planet. Levana becomes increasingly brazen in her threats to do so at the beginning of the series.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Lunar Chronicles / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: After three reasonably sized books and a novella, Meyer threw us a curveball with the final book being a 800+ page monster.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_5791e14f	type	The Future
The Lunar Chronicles / int_5791e14f	comment	The Future: The series takes place 126 years after World War IV.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Lunar Chronicles / int_57b80b45	comment	Cinder and Kai suffer from this on multiple fronts. To start with, he's the Crown-Prince of the Eastern Commonwealth (and soon Emperor), while she's a lowly mechanic. Furthermore, she's a cyborg subject to intense Fantastic Racism by Kai's own government. Finally, it turns out that she's not only a Lunar (and thus technically an illegal immigrant and sworn enemy of the Earthen Union) but the rightful heir to the Lunar throne, meaning that Queen Levana is out for her blood while attempting to force a marriage union on Kai.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_57df9056	type	Glamour
The Lunar Chronicles / int_57df9056	comment	Glamour: Lunars have the ability to create illusions and is frequently used to alter their appearance. The effect only works on the naked human eye so they tend to dislike reflective surfaces, recording devices, androids, and cyborg technology, as all of these can either see or reveal their true appearance.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Lunar Chronicles / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Star's story in a nutshell. She goes to extreme lengths and risks death just to get a locket back to the man she loves, but ultimately realizes that he has no feelings for her and gives it up, along with her chance to get a functioning body, so he can be with the one he loves.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_60b03a94	type	Parental Issues
The Lunar Chronicles / int_60b03a94	comment	Parental Issues: Affects nearly the whole cast. Scarlet's mother left when she was very young, and her father, Luc, is a drunk who barely cares about her. Cress believed her parents gave her up to be killed as an infant and has only had manipulative "Mistress" Sybil as any sort of parental figure for the majority of her life. Princess Winter is regularly mocked and abused by her stepmother Queen Levana. Not to mention Cinder's reluctance to think of cruel queen Channary as her birth mother.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
The Lunar Chronicles / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Averted. Channary toys with the idea of marrying Selene to Prince Kaito of Earth who, hilariously, falls in love with her as Cinder in the first book, but she quickly drops the idea in favor of murdering the Empress and marrying the Emperor himself. Channary dies before she can do more than consider it, though. Later, the Empress dies of letumosis without any additional interference.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Lunar Chronicles / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Helped along by Fantastic Racism - apparently it's a fairly common practice for members of the Lunar nobility to take in captives for their children to practice their glamour on. Scarlet spends some time this way after being abducted to Luna, and the little monster in question chiefly seems to enjoy tormenting her with visions of vermin invading her body.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
The Lunar Chronicles / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: The protagonists form one. Cinder is Melancholic, as The Leader of the Lunar rebellion against Levana who constantly strives to do the right thing despite the difficult decisions she has to make. Scarlet is Choleric, being a Hot-Blooded Fiery Redhead. Cress is Phlegmatic, as she's a Teen Genius and socially awkward Shrinking Violet. Finally, Winter, a mostly bubbly and cheerful Cloud Cuckoolander, is Sanguine.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Lunar Chronicles / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Marissa Meyer was a Sailor Moon fangirl, and there are many references to the series (long-lost moon princess, you say?).
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_68a5e1c3	type	Humans Are Psychic in the Future
The Lunar Chronicles / int_68a5e1c3	comment	Humans Are Psychic in the Future: At some point after colonizing the moon centuries ago, Lunars developed the ability to manipulate bioelectric energy. This enables them to create powerful illusions and control the minds and bodies of other people.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Lunar Chronicles / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Scarlet's grandmother had a fling with a Lunar while visiting the moon as part of a diplomatic mission. This resulted in the birth of her son, Luc, Scarlet's father, making Scarlet 1/4 Lunar. She doesn't seem especially bothered by being part Lunar thanks to her grandmother raising her to be open-minded about such things. The thing that bothers her is that her grandmother was keeping such a huge secret from her, and that she never intended to tell her. Wolf is a Lunar spy whose purpose was to gain Scarlet's trust, coax information out of her, and then deliver her to a Lunar thaumaturge so she can be tortured in front of her grandmother to get the woman to talk. And, of course, Cinder is actually the long-lost Princess Selene, rightful heir to the Lunar throne who was smuggled to Earth after Levana tried to have her killed.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
The Lunar Chronicles / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: In-Universe, Cinder gets uncomfortable reactions from those around her once she's "outed" as a cyborg and the need to make greater use of her abilities prompts her to casually open up her prostheses to adjust wires or use her brain implant to link herself to a machine. When Cinder's Lunar abilities begin to show, they are extremely strong and uncontrolled, having been suppressed for many years and hence never trained by Cinder. It results in a sometimes extreme Glamour, which Kai finds outright painful to look at.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
The Lunar Chronicles / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Cinder is widely considered to be the best mechanic in New Beijing, to the point where the Prince of the Eastern Commonwealth becomes her customer.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
The Lunar Chronicles / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Cinder and Kai's conversation while dancing at the ball. Cinder thinks he's talking about her being a cyborg, but he's actually referring to her stepsister's recent death.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Lunar Chronicles / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: A dying Michelle provokes Ran into killing her.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_733f713f	type	HumanAlien
The Lunar Chronicles / int_733f713f	comment	Human Alien: At some point after colonizing the moon centuries ago, the humans of the moon somehow evolved the ability to manipulate bioelectricity. Physically, "Lunars" look just like "Earthens".
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
The Lunar Chronicles / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Levana attempts to force Cinder to shoot herself in the head. While Cinder is forced to pull the trigger, her cyborg programming kicks in and allows her to force the gun away from her head, shooting the ceiling instead. Levana attempts this again during the Final Battle in Winter, and Cinder responds in kind. However, their gifts are almost evenly matched at this point, with neither being able to get the other to pull the trigger without losing control of their own limbs. Levana ultimately gets exhausted first and surrenders. Cinder feels enough pity for her to accept, Levana pulls an I Surrender, Suckers and stabs Cinder with her other arm. Thankfully, Cinder manages to shoot Levana dead and survives.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Lunar Chronicles / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: The aristocracy of Luna mind-control servants into following commands instead of asking, use people as puppets for amusement, and otherwise treat the lower classes as furniture, ornamentation, or expendable meat shields. In stark contrast, Winter has earned the adoration of the people by treating them kindly and politely.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Lunar Chronicles / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Queen Levana has an unfortunate habit of succumbing to this where the main characters are involved. When she has Cinder right in front of her, Levana just keeps talking instead of going for the kill, giving Cinder enough time to think of an escape.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_758cb30a	type	United Europe
The Lunar Chronicles / int_758cb30a	comment	United Europe: The European Federation (comprising continental Europe and Greenland) is one of six megacountries formed after World War IV.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Lunar Chronicles / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Scarlet and Wolf. For just one example, Scarlet resorts to actually winging Wolf's arm with a bullet to make him back off of killing Ran, after failing to get through to him by any other means. This act seems to impress Wolf immensely.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Lunar Chronicles / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: Ran impersonates Michelle in order to get information out of Scarlet. It works right up until "Michelle" refers to Scarlet as "weak". Knowing that the real Michelle always saw her granddaughter as strong, Scarlet sees through the deception and recoils in horror, leading to the "Grandmother, what big eyes you have!" moment that reflects the original fairytale.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
The Lunar Chronicles / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: Prince Kai assumes Linh Cinder, the best mechanic in new Beijing, is a man. Naturally, he's embarrassed when he realizes the sixteen year old girl he thought was a shophand is Linh Cinder.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_796a7bfc	type	Twice-Told Tale
The Lunar Chronicles / int_796a7bfc	comment	Twice-Told Tale: Each book is a retelling of a classic fairytale, mostly following the original's basic plotline while simulatounsly adapting it into a scifi setting.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
The Lunar Chronicles / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Jacin, a Lunar royal guard. He isn't loyal to Levana, but he is a bit of an asshole.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
The Lunar Chronicles / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The Earthen Union, an alliance of six Space-Filling Empires spanning the different continents of Earth in a decades-long cold war with Luna, which acts as The Empire. While they're mostly good and their constituent governments generally work in the people's best interests, they do have some issues, not the least of which include flagrant discrimination against cyborgs.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Lunar Chronicles / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Scarlet opens with an introductory scene in which the title character is so enraged by the authorities' lackluster investigation of her grandmother's disappearance, she hurls produce at the wall of the tavern she's supposed to be selling it to. She follows this almost immediately by reading the riot act to the tavern's patrons for their mockery of Cinder. These scenes thoroughly establish Scarlet to have a strong sense of justice and determination, an unusually open mind about cyborgs and Lunars, and a hell of a temper.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
The Lunar Chronicles / int_80b57bec	comment	Scarlet and Wolf. She's a normal Earthen citizen, while he's a Lunar Super-Soldier sent to Earth to kidnap her grandmother in order to hunt down Princess Selene (i.e., Cinder). While Wolf ultimately defects to Cinder's rebellion against Levana after he and Scarlet fall in love, he spends most of the climax of Scarlet under the control of his thaumaturge superior and holding Scarlet prisoner, before saving her from his psychotic little brother. Then, early on in Cress, Scarlet is captured by Sybil and spends the remainder of the book imprisoned on Luna. Finally, in Winter, they briefly reunite, only for Wolf to be captured by Levana's forces, subjected to further genetic enhancements, and placed back under the control of a thaumaturge. Thankfully, he manages to escape their control once again and returns to Scarlet's side.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Lunar Chronicles / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Cinder, Cress, and Winter all have an abusive mother figure. Cress actually has two, including the birth mother who disowned her after discovering she was born a shell.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
The Lunar Chronicles / int_830b0ac9	comment	Levana attempts this again during the Final Battle in Winter, and Cinder responds in kind. However, their gifts are almost evenly matched at this point, with neither being able to get the other to pull the trigger without losing control of their own limbs. Levana ultimately gets exhausted first and surrenders. Cinder feels enough pity for her to accept, Levana pulls an I Surrender, Suckers and stabs Cinder with her other arm. Thankfully, Cinder manages to shoot Levana dead and survives.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_83c7baa0	type	Step Servant
The Lunar Chronicles / int_83c7baa0	comment	Step Servant: Linh Cinder is a cyborg, meaning she is considered a second-class citizen. After her adoptive father died, his wife, Linh Adri, blamed Cinder for it and forced her to act as the breadwinner of the family by working as a mechanic, as well as doing all the work around the house.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Lunar Chronicles / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Three of the four featured couples are Earthen/full Lunar pairs.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Lunar Chronicles / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: It would probably be faster to list the characters who weren't smartasses. The biggest contributors are probably Cinder, Scarlet, and Thorne, but even those without naturally sarcastic personalities, like Wolf, Cress, and Winter, occasionally get in on the action.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
The Lunar Chronicles / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: Dr. Erland insists that the Lunarian power of being able to control others is simply the manipulation of living things' bioelectricity, not magic. In the first two books, humans are convinced that the Lunars are using their powers to hide their space ships. It turns out that it was actually Cress scrambling the signals from her satellite.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
The Lunar Chronicles / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: Star's escort body finally fails her, but she doesn't mind as her death frees her and lets her feel as infinite and majestic as the stars she's loved her whole life.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Lunar Chronicles / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: What the crew of Thorne's Rampion gradually becomes, and a multinational one at that. There's a Chinese cyborg, an American criminal, a perky android, a French farm girl, a genetically-modified soldier, and a Lunar shell hacker.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_8f6f3188	type	Swiss-Army Appendage
The Lunar Chronicles / int_8f6f3188	comment	Swiss-Army Appendage: Dr. Erland gives Cinder a shiny new titanium hand complete with a flashlight, screwdriver, and even a tranquilizer gun at the end of Cinder in order to help her escape prison.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
The Lunar Chronicles / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: Cinder's cyborg brain can see through Lunar glamours. Once her true face is exposed to all of Luna, Levana is so devastated that she has great difficulty maintaining her glamour.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_94c57c5c	type	Abduction Is Love
The Lunar Chronicles / int_94c57c5c	comment	Abduction Is Love: Subverted. There's a lot more at stake in Cinder and her crew's abduction of Kai than just their feelings.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Lunar Chronicles / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Jael, a Lunar thaumaturge who controls Wolf and Ran's pack.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_98412467	type	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul
The Lunar Chronicles / int_98412467	comment	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Queen Levana can pacify an angry mob just by looking at them. It's how she controls Luna.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Lunar Chronicles / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: We get another reason to view Queen Levana as this to Cinder, as she is secretly a childhood burn victim.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_a0cdc32e	type	I Am Who?
The Lunar Chronicles / int_a0cdc32e	comment	I Am Who?: Cinder's reaction to Dr. Erland telling her that she's really a Lunar and the missing Princess Selene.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_a16d511d	type	Insecure Love Interest
The Lunar Chronicles / int_a16d511d	comment	It's only averted with Cress and Thorne, who don't have much standing in the way of them getting together other than their own respective insecurities. While he's an Earthen and she's a Lunar, they're both fugitives from their respective home-worlds, so it's not much of an issue.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_a22c6d89	type	The Evil Prince
The Lunar Chronicles / int_a22c6d89	comment	The Evil Prince: While she calls herself Queen, due to Lunar tradition, Levana's technically a princess. A princess who incinerated her three-year-old niece in order to ascend the throne. She also spent ten years raping and brainwashing Winter's father while wearing his dead wife's face.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_a4a91366	type	It's All Junk
The Lunar Chronicles / int_a4a91366	comment	It's All Junk: Inverted. Cinder ends the series by dropping her childhood cyborg foot into a lake. She hated the foot and everything it represented, making this cathartic to her rather than sad.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_a5ad0aa4	type	Little Red Fighting Hood
The Lunar Chronicles / int_a5ad0aa4	comment	Little Red Fighting Hood: Scarlet. She starts a tavern brawl, is not hesitant to use the gun she keeps on her person at all times, and is willing to face potential capture and torture by a gang of bizarre thugs if it means she can get her grandmother back.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_a620688	type	Non-Human Lover Reveal
The Lunar Chronicles / int_a620688	comment	Non-Human Lover Reveal: Twofold for Cinder and Kai's relationship. At the ball, in front of Levana and thousands of onlookers, Kai finds out Cinder's a cyborg and Lunar.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Lunar Chronicles / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Adri and Pearl are implied to get rich off of Garan's inventions and avoid punishment for years of child abuse. On the other hand, this is after they've gone through a severe Break the Haughty at Levanna's hands, and they're still going to be social pariahs once they get back home. Not to mention Cinder is highly likely to become their country's empress.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Lunar Chronicles / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: A dramatic example: Cinder resists Levana's attempt to force her to shoot herself in the head when her cyborg programming overrides Levana's bioelectric manipulation.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Multiple characters throughout the series have one: Adri is this to Cinder. (While technically she's Cinder's adoptive mother, Cinder refers to her and her daughters as her step-family.) Adri verbally abuses Cinder, mostly in regards to her cyborg nature, and uses her as the family's sole source of income, rather than getting a job herself. Levana is this to Winter. When she was 12 or 13, Levana used her gift to make Winter cut her own face with a knife. Not to mention how she publicly humiliates her in front of the Lunar court more often than not. Sybil keeps Cress locked away in a satellite that orbits Earth. She is responsible for bringing Cress food and water and is the closest thing to a mother that Cress has ever known. Sybil is emotionally distant and verbally abusive.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Cinder realizes early on that people will have to die for the rebellion to succeed, and grudgingly makes her peace with it.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b2176eb6	type	Now or Never Kiss
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b2176eb6	comment	Now or Never Kiss: Thorne promises to give Cress "a kiss worth waiting for" if they ever get into a life-threatening situation. He does.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: Kai asks Cinder this after discovering she's a Lunar. Cinder's answer is painfully unclear to anyone but the reader.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Gender-flipped. Thorne's father was very controlling of him from a very young age, to the point where Thorne was seeking out financial independence by age thirteen.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b8b7a21a	type	Fairy Tale Free-for-All
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b8b7a21a	comment	Fairy Tale Free-for-All: The series is a futuristic fantasy retelling of several fairy tales, with its main characters being counterparts to Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: Cinder learns that she spent eight years inside of one in Michelle's basement.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_b994e8cb	type	Understanding Boyfriend
The Lunar Chronicles / int_b994e8cb	comment	Understanding Boyfriend: We learn that Kai doesn't care that Cinder's a cyborg. Her being Lunar is another deal entirely, only because it means that she might have been brainwashing him the entire time. In Cress, he shamefully admits that he probably would have stopped speaking to Cinder if she had told him she was a cyborg. But with everything going on, he winds up getting over that long before he sees her again. He also realizes that Cinder never brainwashed him, because if she had, he wouldn't still like her after they've been separated. Plus thanks to Levana, he knows what being manipulated feels like, and he never got that feeling from Cinder.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Lunar Chronicles / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Levana forces Kai to choose between Cinder's life and peace with Luna. He chooses to give up Cinder for the sake of the entire planet.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_bafd7e6d	type	FieryRedHead
The Lunar Chronicles / int_bafd7e6d	comment	Fiery Red Head: Scarlet has a fierce temper, as illustrated with her produce-smashing in her very first scene.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_bc502e4b	type	You Are What You Hate
The Lunar Chronicles / int_bc502e4b	comment	You Are What You Hate: Like most people, Cinder is prejudiced against the Lunars. Turns out she is one, and their rightful queen at that!
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_bd620d3c	type	In Love with the Mark
The Lunar Chronicles / int_bd620d3c	comment	In Love with the Mark: Wolf falls for Scarlet after she shoots him. It Makes Sense in Context.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_c0e5fc39	type	Celeb Crush
The Lunar Chronicles / int_c0e5fc39	comment	Celeb Crush: Cinder's stepsisters and her android friend Iko have it bad for Prince Kai. Cinder thinks he's good-looking (but won't admit it out loud) and doesn't develop a crush on him until she actually meets him.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Lunar Chronicles / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Subverted. Levana brainwashed Evret Hayle into starting a relationship with her, two weeks after his wife Solstice died giving birth to their daughter. She glamoured herself to look like Sol and brainwashed him into having an affair with her, which culminated into forcing him to take her virginity. Levana then coerced him into marrying her, and continued to brainwash and rape him for ten years. Despite hating what she's doing to him and begging her to stop, Evret still tries to show Levana kindness, in the hopes that she'll be kind to others in turn. He even sacrifices his life to save hers. He gives her every chance to become not evil and she refuses, displaying what a monster she really is.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_c3ecb1cb	type	Cinderella Plot
The Lunar Chronicles / int_c3ecb1cb	comment	Cinderella Plot: The series follows a teenage cyborg named Cinder who lives in New Beijing with her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters (a mean one and a nice one). Since her stepmother refuses to work, she is the one who provides the money for the family by working as a mechanic. One day prince Kai visits her shop and they form a connection and eventually fall in love. Meanwhile Cinder learns about a plot against the kingdom and goes to the ball to warn Kai. Cinder has to flee when things go wrong, leaving behind her cyborg foot.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
The Lunar Chronicles / int_c8146c52	comment	Synthetic Plague: It turns out that the Lunar monarchy has been developing letumosis for generations for use in biological warfare. Levana unleashed it by exposing Lunars in the working class domes to the disease, knowing that they would be the most likely to flee to Earth. She then allowed them to escape, knowing they were carrying the disease with them. The plan was to both reduce the Earthen population and to use the antidote as a political bargaining chip.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Lunar Chronicles / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Dr. Erland confesses to Cress that he is her father just before dying of letumosis.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Lunar Chronicles / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Thorne literally shakes some sense into Cress after their dangerous escape. Thorne headbutts Cinder to snap her out of a panic attack after she indirectly kills someone with her Lunar powers. Cinder tries this several times on Wolf after he falls into a Heroic BSoD following Scarlet's capture by Sybil, imploring him to snap out of it so they can survive and at least have a chance to rescue her. It doesn't really work until she uses her gift on him to escape the Eastern Commonwealth soldiers sent to capture them.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_cb1fe02e	type	Magic by Any Other Name
The Lunar Chronicles / int_cb1fe02e	comment	Magic by Any Other Name: The Lunars' manipulation of bioelectric energy apparently has a science to it, but in practice it works more like magic, to the point where many Earthens refer to it as such. Dr. Erland says that calling it such just gives the Lunars more power.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
The Lunar Chronicles / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: Winter suffers badly from Lunar sickness since she refuses to use her mental-manipulation abilities.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Lunar Chronicles / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Princess Winter, the Snow White of the story, is black.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Lunar Chronicles / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Cinder and "Captain" Thorne.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_daecc607	type	BigSisterBully
The Lunar Chronicles / int_daecc607	comment	Big Sister Bully: Levana bitterly recounts how she was used as mind-control practice and tortured by her elder sister Channary.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Lunar Chronicles / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: It's mentioned early on that Queen Levana's niece, the Lunar princess Selene, died in a fire when she was young. Most of her body was never actually found, leading Kai to suspect she was rescued and hidden on Earth somewhere. He's right. Cinder is Princess Selene, which explains practically every question about her backstory.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
The Lunar Chronicles / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Most androids seen act like a typical computer program, having limited responses and being incapable of understanding things that don't fit their programming. However, Adri's housekeeping android Iko acts like a teenage girl with a love of fashion due to a "faulty" Personality Chip, and Kai's android Nainsi has been operating for so long that she's developed her own fully-fledged personality.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Lunar Chronicles / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Cinder and Cress both refer to the maternal figures in their lives as their "legal guardians" when discussing them with other people. Cinder's not very consistent with it, but she will correct people when she's particularly mad at Adri.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Lunar Chronicles / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Most of the main couples, although they all Earn Their Happy Endings: Cinder and Kai suffer from this on multiple fronts. To start with, he's the Crown-Prince of the Eastern Commonwealth (and soon Emperor), while she's a lowly mechanic. Furthermore, she's a cyborg subject to intense Fantastic Racism by Kai's own government. Finally, it turns out that she's not only a Lunar (and thus technically an illegal immigrant and sworn enemy of the Earthen Union) but the rightful heir to the Lunar throne, meaning that Queen Levana is out for her blood while attempting to force a marriage union on Kai. Scarlet and Wolf. She's a normal Earthen citizen, while he's a Lunar Super-Soldier sent to Earth to kidnap her grandmother in order to hunt down Princess Selene (i.e., Cinder). While Wolf ultimately defects to Cinder's rebellion against Levana after he and Scarlet fall in love, he spends most of the climax of Scarlet under the control of his thaumaturge superior and holding Scarlet prisoner, before saving her from his psychotic little brother. Then, early on in Cress, Scarlet is captured by Sybil and spends the remainder of the book imprisoned on Luna. Finally, in Winter, they briefly reunite, only for Wolf to be captured by Levana's forces, subjected to further genetic enhancements, and placed back under the control of a thaumaturge. Thankfully, he manages to escape their control once again and returns to Scarlet's side. Winter and Jacin. They've been in love with each other pretty much since childhood, but have never been able to act on it since she's a Lunar princess and he's just a palace guard. Not to mention Levana hates Winter out of petty jealousy, while Jacin earns the ire of Aimery Park thanks to Winter's feelings for him, so they each have to be careful about maintaining some distance to prevent people from using them against each other. Of course, Winter rarely puts much effort into hiding her feelings, leaving it to Jacin to maintain a pretense of decorum, not that it fools anyone. It's only averted with Cress and Thorne, who don't have much standing in the way of them getting together other than their own respective insecurities. While he's an Earthen and she's a Lunar, they're both fugitives from their respective home-worlds, so it's not much of an issue.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_e8d46c29	type	Backstory
The Lunar Chronicles / int_e8d46c29	comment	Backstory: The various stories in Stars Above dramatize important events that had previously been background material for the four girls as well as Ze'ev, Jacin, Michelle, Iko, and Thorne.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Lunar Chronicles / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Wolf and his spiteful, ambitious brother Ran.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
The Lunar Chronicles / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Emperor Rikan dies early on in the book, leaving eighteen-year-old Kai in charge.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_efacc623	type	Drama-Preserving Handicap
The Lunar Chronicles / int_efacc623	comment	Drama-Preserving Handicap: Cinder's cyborg brain is damaged before the climax of Winter, meaning she cannot count on it to save her from Levana like it did before in Cinder.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_efe04722	type	Dances and Balls
The Lunar Chronicles / int_efe04722	comment	Dances and Balls: The Peace Festival. These are also a regular occurrence on Luna, especially during Channary's reign.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Lunar Chronicles / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Some characters who become important later on in the series get cameos during previous books. The computer hacker with long hair who warns Cinder about Kai's impending murder in the first book turns out to be Cress, who becomes the heroine of the third. Jacin is one of the Lunar royal guards that is part of Levana's entourage when she goes to Earth in Cinder. He's a background character until Cress. Jerrico, the captain of the royal guard, is also present in Cinder and makes an appearance in Cress. He isn't named until Winter.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Lunar Chronicles / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Jacin is loyal to his princess alone. He means Princess Winter.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Lunar Chronicles / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: While the revolution was necessary, it's also incredibly bloody and very traumatizing to everyone who went through it.
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The Lunar Chronicles / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
The Lunar Chronicles / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Cinder's "pumpkin", an ancient orange wreck of a ground car she finds in a junkyard and attempts to fix. It barely gets her to the palace before crashing into a tree.
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