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Their Bright Ascendancy

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Their Bright Ascendancy	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Their Bright Ascendancy is a series by K. Arsenault Rivera set in a fictional fantasy world inspired by East Asia. O-Shizuka is the privileged empress of Hokkaro, and as a child she was bound by fate to Shefali, the quiet daughter of the leader of the nomadic Qorin people. Both of them were born with two pine needles marking their brows, and both of them are destined to be gods. North of Hokkaro is the Wall of Flowers, the only thing keeping the Traitor God from invading into the land of the living, and whatever else happens, it is Shizuka and Shefali's fate to go north and face him. While it is a fantasy epic, it is primarily a love story between the two women.The first book, The Tiger's Daughter, is a hybrid-epistolary novel that tells the story of how Shefali and O-Shizuka met, became friends and, eventually, lovers, told through a letter written by Shefali to Shizuka, now Empress many years after they last parted.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The second book, The Phoenix Empress, picks up where The Tiger's Daughter left off, reuniting Shefali and O-Shizuka, and diving into O-Shizuka's story of what happened to her while they were separated while also progressing the present-day narrative of Shefali's fight against her affliction.The third book, The Warrior Moon, continues where The Phoenix Empress left off, with Shefali and Shizuka's army's march across the Wall, with narratives from other characters occuring in the interrim, especially Sakura, Otgar, and Baoyi.The main books in the series are The Tiger's Daughter The Phoenix Empress The Warrior MoonA short story was published along with The Tiger's Daughter, and more short stories are forthcoming An Excerpt from the Poet Prince, O-Itsuki's Unfinished Memoir Sixteen Swords (forthcoming)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: How Otgar and Alshara's relationship is implied to have started. Played With in that Alshara wasn't actually Shizuru's widow, but was deeply in love with her, and that Otgar didn't know Shizuru at all. Also, Otgar is Alshara's niece.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: Much of the books are flashbacks from Shefali's or Shizuka's perspective, narrated to the other.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Both Shizuka and Shefali are trained as warriors by age eight.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_16838478	type	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_16838478	comment	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Whatever affliction Shefali is suffering is usually referred to as "[the/my/her] affliction". It has no correspondence to any actual disease.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: Shizuka, her mother, and their legendary ancestor Minami Shiori are all noted to be preternaturally skilled with a sword.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Every single man who goes up against Shizuka in a duel.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Poor Shefali is exiled twice. First when she loses control and tears a group of bandits apart, after which her mother exiles her from her clan and the Qorin people (a fate usually reserved for horrible criminals and kinslayers) and again when she kills a demon in front of the Emperor with her bare hands. This second one is a step down from the execution that would otherwise have happened, but it's still on the condition that Shefali retrieve a Phoenix feather, which takes her the full time between then and the 'present' timeline.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1b8cef9c	comment	Yui Minami O-Shizuka is an interesting aversion. She has almost all of the qualities of The High Queen, except the calm demeanor. She's attempted to cultivate it as an affect, but at her heart Empress Yui is hot-headed, tempestuous, and demanding. But her demeanor aside, Shizuka is good and bright, spreads hope to the people around her, connects to others easily, fights for everything that is good and right in the world, and generally otherwise fits the trope of The High Queen.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Shefali's pretty stoic, being pretty quiet and reserved when she's not around Shizuka and not speaking much. Her mother takes it up to eleven with a vow of silence that she's only broken a handful of times.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: The blackblood. If a demon or infected's blood mixes with yours, you die in horrible agony over the course of three days, being tormented by demons, and rise as a deformed monster. Unless you are yourself a god. Then it takes a few years.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Burqila Alshara was already the daughter of a clan chief, but she became Kharsa by beating everyone who challenged her.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Shizuka never gets cold, doesn't ever need to worry about being burned, can start fires, and can set her blade on fire.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: O-Shizuka is the Royal Niece, and later Empress, of Hokkaro, while Shefali is next in line to be Kharsa (warlord) of the Qorin. Both of them go to war against the Traitor God, and succeed in overthrowing him at great cost to themselves.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Shefali can turn into a giant wolf, which she initially assumes to be the result of her blackblood affliction turning her into a demon. In the third novel, the Traitor God himself tells her that her wolf form is actually due to her divine nature, not her affliction.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Shizuka makes two deals with malicious supernatural entities, both of which backfire on her. The first is when she gives up her ability to shed tears to the blackblood-corrupted river goddess Mizuha in exchange for safe passage across the Kirin River. The second time she lets the Spider eat her heart in exchange for Shefali being spared, and Rikuto kills Shefali immediately afterwards.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: The Dragon Guard and the Phoenix Guard. Which serve as bodyguards to the throne and which serve throughout the greater empire depends on whether an emperor or empress holds the throne.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: In The Phoenix Empress it's revealed that Yoshimoto made a deal with the Demon General Amari to send Shizuka on a suicide mission to the Wall of Flowers, thereby removing his impudent niece as a threat to his reign. This backfires as she not only survives, but the first thing she does is vengefully depose and exile him.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The novel opens with Shizuka as empress, and Shizuka and Shefali already separated. Shefali's epistolary flashbacks tell the story of how this happened.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Barsalai Shefali, the silent and terrifying Qorin, is frequently noted to be much like her mother, Burqila Alshara. Minami Shizuka, the hot-headed, impetuous lady warrior, is likewise noted to be much like her mother, Minami Shizuru — to Shizuru's chagrin.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Mutually, between Shizuka and Shefali. Shizuka doesn't put two and two together about Shefali taking Shizuka riding on her horse, despite that being something only married couples do in Qorin culture, even after years living with the Qorin; Shefali doesn't notice the significance of Shizuka, who has powers that let her heat things and start fires at will, constantly claiming she's cold in order to snuggle with Shefali. They work it out eventually.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Shizuka comes off to the reader this way, during The Tiger's Daughter. Initially a haughty empress, reading Shefali's letters slowly deconstructs Shizuka for the reader, so she becomes less the frosty empress and more a woman alone.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Burqila Alshara is explicitly named the most dreaded woman in all Hokkaro. Many, even among her own people, call her The Destroyer.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Shizuka goes through this over the course of the series; starting off The Tiger's Daughter as an arrogant and pugnacious princess before having her face scarred and losing her beloved wife to exile. In The Phoenix Empress she's sent off to war by her hated uncle, watches her best friend/cousin get murdered right in front of her by a malevolent water goddess, and causes a tsunami by avenging her; leaving her with PTSD. In The Warrior Moon she literally gives up her heart to save Shefali only to watch her life be murdered in front of her, her mortal self is is only remembered as an incompetent alcoholic barely worthy of a footnote in the annals of history, and as a deity her title is the "Heartless Sun" and she's blamed for the suffering that Hokkaro went through during her war against the Traitor.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_2bf993ad	comment	Secret Relationship: Shizuka and Shefali for much of their teenage years, until they marry to prevent Shizuka's uncle from executing Shefali.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_2c136406	comment	Standard Royal Court: Complete with conniving nobility.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: There's an undercurrent of this to Shizuka's reign before she reunites with Shefali. She's not a bad queen, but her servants fear her due to her alcoholism and PTSD making her unpredictable and temperamental. In the third novel, after she apotheosizes her mortal self is remembered only as an incompetent alcoholic barely worth a footnote in the annals of history.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_30849c3e	comment	Ruling Couple: Shizuka and Shefali, Empress Phoenix and Empress Wolf.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_30b6f084	type	Canis Major
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_30b6f084	comment	Canis Major: After being afflicted by the blackblood, Shefali gains the ability to partially or fully transform into a demonic wolf, earning her the title of "Empress Wolf" in the second book. In the third novel, the Traitor himself reveals that Shefali's ability to turn into a wolf was would have acquired upon apotheosis, and he just decided to give it to her early.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: The Mother, the Daughter, the Sister, the Father, the Son, the Grandfather, and the Grandmother are deities revered by Hokkaran culture, and in the third novel they are revealed to be reincarnating entities who apotheosise. Shefali — an incarnation of the Grandmother, is deified as the Warrior Moon; and Shizuka — an incarnation of the Daughter, becomes deified as the Heartless Sun.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Barsalai Shefali and Minami Shizuka.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_37c95f05	comment	Asleep for Days: When Shefali is infected with the blackblood.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Shefali's adventures while in exile are briefly touched upon, but never exposited in any great detail.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_438e4dd6	comment	Demon of Human Origin: In The Tiger's Daughter it's indicated that the demons that serve the Traitor are particularly powerful blackbloods, though the second and third novel somewhat retcon this, establishing the at least some of the demons are Yōkai — with only those that chose to serve the Traitor being imbued with the blackblood. Shefali herself becomes a demon called Steel-Eye after contracting the blackblood; and by the time of the second novel she has claws and fangs, her skin has turned grey and her ears have become pointed, and she can transform into a monster at will — though as the Traitor's influence over her grows she starts losing control.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_4565d81d	comment	Single-Stroke Battle: One of Shizuka's many nicknames is "One-Stroke Shizuka" due to her ability to almost-effortlessly defeat almost any opponent with a single slash.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: In Warrior Moon, due to the Year Outside, Hour Inside nature of the land beyond the Wall of Flowers, Otgar and Sakura find their homes drastically changed when they return to them. Otgar is disgusted and outraged by what she sees as the degeneration of Qorin culture in Alshara's absence, and forcibly brings the renegades in line. Sakura, meanwhile, falls into a depression upon realizing everyone she knew and loved from her past has either died or moved on, with only Shefali and Otgar to comfort her.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: Shefali is, according to Word of God, at least a foot taller than Shizuka. Shizuka states at one point that Shefali can, when Shizuka's in the saddle of her horse, kiss her without taking a foot off the ground.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_4ee5989a	comment	Bizarre Alien Senses: As a blackblood, Shefali can smell people's histories and personal backgrounds. This is also why the Demons she encounters call her Steel-Eye.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first book contains an explicit sex scene, with the context being Shefali describing her and Shizuka's first time in lurid detail in a letter written to her. This is the only scene of its kind in the entire series — all others being subjected to Sexy Discretion Shots.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The Emperor hates his niece. So he conspires with a Demon General to have her killed and has her raise an army of peasants and sends her off to war.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Shizuka, who at eight years old is already declaring herself a god destined to go beyond the Wall of Flowers and kill the Traitor God.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Hokkaro assimilated the surrounding nations to become a massive empire, referring to the assimilated territories as the Empire's Children.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Sakura is a former prostitute of noble lineage who wanted to learn how to read.....and goes on to become one of the most scholarly characters of the series. But she can never make her robes match because she doesn't care about what the rules of fashion are.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: Ren is a Singing Girl, noted to have the nicest house in her village. Once she moves to Fujino she runs an entire establishment of these.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: After everything Shizuka endured, between losing her wife and suffering through war, she's developed an addiction.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: After ascending to the throne, Shizuka begins wearing more traditional attire, including how she wears her hair and how she shapes her eyebrows.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Shizuka trying to strangle Shefali certainly establishes Shizuka as being uncontrollable.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: When Shefali and Shizuka fight their first demon together, which ends with Shefali being infected with the blackblood.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Shefali was already badass, and then she got the blackblood, which granted her superhuman strength, senses, claws, and fangs.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_ba72eebb	comment	Waif-Fu: While Shefali's perspective is probably biased, we have nothing else to go off of, and thus Shizuka is often described as small and delicate.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Shefali is so good with a bow that she never misses if she doesn't want to. Even in the dark. Even blindfolded. Being a god helps.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Shefali and Shizuka have their disagreements and difficulties, but they're very much in love and happy to be married.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Avatar: The Last Airbender. Shizuka references a popular Qian-Lai song called "Four Seasons, Four Loves."
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: The blackblood is an affliction that turns those infected into predatory monsters. Shefali contracts it from the demon Leng in The Tiger's Daughter and struggles to resist the ensuing bloodlust and hallucinations, eventually becoming a demon called Steel Eye.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: The Qorin, technically, if you want to get creative in how you describe what a deel is.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_d0309fad	comment	Religion is Magic: All notable magic powers seem to belong specifically and exclusively to those born as gods every few generations (e.g., Shizuka is immune to heat and fire and can make plants grow, Shefali can shapeshift into a wolf and generate cold, the Traitor has mind-control powers and can mutate people using the blackblood).
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_d3b02ffb	comment	I Know Your True Name: You must speak a Demon's name and then cut off its head to kill it permanently. If you don't speak the name, it will rise again later. Luckily, Shefali and Shizuka's divine nature gives them knowledge of demon's names: Shefali just knows, and Shizuka sees their name in glowing characters in the air around them.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child: Lai Baoyi is very cheerful and very cute. At least until she grows up, becoming embittered and frustrated with the state of the empire and her predecessor, regarding both her deified aunts with contempt for their shortcomings and failures.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: In the third novel, it's revealed that those destined to become deities suffer this fate upon their apotheosis, with their mortal lives being conflated with their predecessors' or forgotten about entirely.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: Shizuka ascending the Phoenix Throne.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Minami Shizuka, Empress Yui, the Phoenix Empress, Daughter of Heaven, Light of Hokkaro, Celestial Flame, Flower of the Empire, etc, etc. As a goddess she is given the cruel moniker of the Heartless Sun.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: Midway through The Tiger's Daughter, Shizuka comes down with a nasty fever and, afraid she might not live through the night, has sex with Shefali — who notes in her retelling of the incident that Shizuka shouldn't have engaged in such strenuous activities in her condition. When Shefali's mother enters the ger the next morning, Shefali tries to pass off Shizuka's nakedness as them simply sharing body heat, but everyone sees through it. Alshara is unamused, but Otgar is impressed and teases Shefali over it.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed in Story: Shefali notes people are retelling stories of the legendary Tumenabayar with Shefali as the protagonist. This foreshadows the reveal in the third novel that Tumenabayar was Shefali's predecessor as a Deity of Human Origin.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: An interesting case in that even the main characters claim to be gods. The deities appear to all be mortals with godly souls. It's speculated by the characters that most of the world's past gods were deified mortals who sought some sort of claim over their powers, and that most of the gods in the past were people just like them — which is eventually confirmed in the third novel.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: Many of the noble characters, but naturally special props to Shizuka and Shefali.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Shefali and Shizuka both.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: When Shefali is exiled due to the blackblood, her mother renames her Barsalyya Shefali Alshar. Barsalyya is contrasted with her previous name: where Barsalai means 'Tiger-Striped', Barsalyya means 'The Tiger's Daughter'. This is especially hurtful, since the 'yya' prefix is a matronymic, meaning Shefali has been stripped of the right to formally be called Alshara's daughter, and thus has been essentially disowned. When she returns, she gets a Meaningful Rename back to Barsalai Shefali Alsharyya due to having mastered her affliction and completed many heroic feats during her adventures.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Shizuka tried to strangle Shefali as a child and no one seems to care so long as she apologizes.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_f4d61c26	comment	Creepy Uncle: Gender-flipped. Midway through The Tiger's Daughter, it's revealed that Burqila Alshara is sleeping with her niece, Dorbentei Otgar. Otgar is the same age as Alshara's son, and it's implied this relationship has been going on for three years or so. So far as creepiness goes, it's consensual on Otgar's part but Shefali, Alshara's daughter and Otgar's cousin, is majorly squicked out, especially since they don't appear to have told anyone.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Read the first two books and try to convince yourself the third is going to be okay. This series is depressing. The only thing we have going for us is that it's a queer author who hopefully wants to subvert Bury Your Gays. Shefali is killed in the third book, but comes back from the dead as the new moon goddess after making a deal with the Mother.
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Their Bright Ascendancy / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: When Shizuka is injured by a group of bandits, Shefali's blackblood infection progresses in response to her extreme rage and she develops claws and fangs. When Shizuka's face is mutilated by a demon possessing Kagemori, Shefali fully turns into a demon. In the third book the Traitor God claims all he did was give Shefali access to a corrupted version of her godly form, which is proven to be the case when following her resurrection and apotheosis she becomes able to transform into a giant wolf at-will.
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