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Darkest Powers
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A series of Young Adult novels by Kelley Armstrong, set in the same universe as her adult series The Otherworld. The series is divided into trilogies, each narrated in first person by a different character. Darkest Powers is the name of both the entire series, and of the first trilogy in the series.The first trilogy, Darkest Powers, is narrated by Chloe Saunders, a fifteen-year-old girl who's diagnosed with schizophrenia when she starts seeing ghosts. She's sent to a group home for mentally disturbed teenagers but she soon starts to realize that there's more to her problems than insanity.The second trilogy, Darkness Rising, is narrated by Maya Delaney, a sixteen-year-old girl with a birthmark in the exact shape of a cat's paw. A newcomer to her tiny town also starts to pay attention to her - and her birthmark. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Derek again, in The Reckoning, after he kills Liam by breaking his neck. Again, the fact that Liam was going to kill them doesn't stop Derek from suffering a Heroic BSoD over it. | |
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | |
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Derek is assumed to be this by almost everyone he meets, when in fact, metaphorically, the opposite is true. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery: All of the kids are underestimated at some point or another, but especially Chloe. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Derek is extremely popular with the fans, and most of the Mary Sues created for the series seem to be paired with him. In-canon example: Simon. He smiles, and the world practically falls at his feet. Played with in Dangerous, when he rants to Derek with this: “So let me get this straight: You save my ass and you’re a loser. I stick up for you because of it and I’m a hero. How does that work?” Though, Derek also counts as an in-universe example, due to how when he Changes from his wolf form to human, he doesn't have any clothes on. He gets Chloe with this at least once on accident. | |
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Long Lost Sibling: Tori and Simon. | |
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Playing with Fire | |
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Playing with Fire: Rae, naturally. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: Derek is really, really good at this trope sometimes. For example: | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Chloe makes a deal with Diriel (the female demi-demon) in The Reckoning and ends up freeing her in exchange for her help escaping the Edison Group's facility. However Diriel honestly seemed to like Chloe, and didn't try to find loopholes in the terms of their deal. When her Lord, a full demon, appeared, she might even have been trying to protect Chloe from him by telling him that Chloe is weak and not worthy of his notice. She also apologized to Chloe when the full demon called her back before she could complete their bargain. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Chloe. Not at the moment, obviously, but most necromancers go insane later in life — and the more powerful they are, the more likely it is to happen. And the faster it will happen. Considering Chloe is very likely the most powerful necromancer in existence... It's likely that the 'madness' aspect of necromancy is something that the Edison Group tried to fix, but only time will tell if they succeeded. Necromancers go mad because they're constantly plagued by spirits rather than because of any genetic quirk. | |
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No Sparks | |
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No Sparks: Simon and Chloe, when they kiss after their date. | |
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Unwanted Assistance | |
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Liz's mom was... er, in her life, so to speak, but she was pretty messed up and was often put into a mental institution by the court system whenever she was arrested again for some kind of petty crime. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: Diane frames Tori, her own daughter, for murder, knowing that it will result in Tori's death. Dr. Todd Banks murdered his nephew, Royce. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Chloe, with her father. Although he loves her, she admits that he probably never really wanted kids and only had Chloe because her mother wanted a child so much; even so, she says that even if he doesn't really know what to make of her, she's "like a puppy left to him by someone he loved very much, and he struggles to do right by it even if he isn't much of a dog person." Simon and Derek, although their father (foster father, in Derek's case) didn't leave them voluntarily. Played straight in Derek's case; he has no idea who his parents are, but then again, he doesn't really care. Liz and Rae. | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Tori. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Liz in The Reckoning, when she shows up again out of nowhere and distracts a vicious, psychotic Volo half-demon ghost from killing Chloe long enough for Chloe to banish him | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Chloe and Derek. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Tori doesn't try to murder Chloe, exactly, but Chloe could have easily been killed by what Tori did do to her. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Aunt Lauren for Chloe; Liz's nana. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Derek. | |
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Mad Oracle | |
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Mad Oracle: Necromancers eventually go insane due to their powers. | |
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Tall, Dark, and Snarky | |
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Tall, Dark, and Snarky: The fans view Derek as this, for sure. Simon in canon too, just without the "dark" part - not only is he legitimately good-looking and of a decent height, the whole reason he was attacked by those three guys in Dangerous was because his snark owned theirs. Of course, all of this still wasn't enough to score the girl in the end. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: In The Summoning, Tori lures Chloe down into a basement crawlspace, then hits her over the head with a brick, binds and gags her, and locks her in. Oh, and leaves her there, without telling anyone. And why? Because the Chloe had the gall to talk to the guy Tori liked. | |
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Noble Wolf | |
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Noble Wolf: Derek has a instinctive need to protect his "pack". | |
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Power Incontinence | |
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Power Incontinence: Chloe, who is at risk of raising the dead in her sleep, or if she summons too hard. Derek can't control his Changes (yet). Liz, when she was alive, would unknowingly make things fly, and hurl them at people who angered her. Tori's magic occasionally lashes out when she's upset or angry, such as when she threw a lightning bolt at Chloe. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: Derek manages to invoke this trope like crazy, and not be self-absorbed or emo about it. Probably because he doesn't whine about it, and is only ever obvious about it under completely understandable circumstances. It generally crops up in two situations: First, when something bad happens to the people around him simply because he's with them, and because they're considered just collateral damage in the assailants' quest to kill/capture Derek. Unfortunately, that kind of thing happens a lot, and he often feels that his family (and Chloe) would be safer and far better off without him. Second, it occasionally causes him to have a Heroic BSoD if he's hurt someone with his strength due to his mind basically shutting down and recognizing nothing but his up to eleven "remove the threat" instinct when anyone he cares about is threatened. It should be noted that he's only ever harmed people who were a serious and/or potentially deadly threat, but to Derek, it doesn't make a difference. | |
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Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke | |
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Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Chloe and Tori, whose power levels are of the scale. To get a better idea of how ridiculously strong Chloe is, in The Reckoning, Chloe is taken to a graveyard for some lessons from an adult necromancer. When trying to summon a ghost, Chloe accidentally rips open the earth itself, summoning several undead animals and at least one human zombie. Raising the dead isn't something a necromancer is supposed to be capable of doing until he or she has had a few years of training and even then only with the help of a ritual. Chloe just raised several dead accidentally. | |
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Painful Transformation | |
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Painful Transformation: Derek, of the physical sort. And how. | |
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Savage Wolves | |
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Savage Wolves: Liam and Ramon are wolf creatures; Liam is a monster and Ramon is practically a saint in comparison slightly less of a monster. | |
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Witch with a Capital "B" | |
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Witch with a Capital "B": Almost averted by Tori. When talking to her mother, she calls Chloe a "B— witch." Which is ironic, considering that Tori herself is unknowingly a hereditary witch. | |
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Smitten Teenage Girl | |
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Smitten Teenage Girl: Tori when it comes to Simon. Chloe also scolds herself for acting like this whenever Derek calls for her in The Reckoning. Particularly when he was about to begin his third Change; she had to exercise an enormous amount of control to keep from immediately leaping up and running to him because she remembered she was supposed to be mad at him at the time. She eventually gave in, though only because he was blatantly afraid of what was happening to him and she didn’t want him to go through it alone. | |
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Rich Bitch | |
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Rich Bitch: Refreshingly averted with Chloe who just takes some things for granted. After learning about this trait she fixes it as fast as possible. Tori is much closer to this trope. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Chloe's mother is dead, Rae's (biological) mother is nowhere to be found, and Simon's mom is mostly a mystery, but it's implied that she left Kit and Simon voluntarily. Liz's mom was... er, in her life, so to speak, but she was pretty messed up and was often put into a mental institution by the court system whenever she was arrested again for some kind of petty crime. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
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Unstoppable Rage: Derek is not going to be very happy with you if you threaten or harm Chloe and/or Simon in front of him. | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend: Averted. Multiple times in The Awakening and The Reckoning, people talking to Derek will refer to Chloe as "your girlfriend", and while talking to Chloe and referring to Derek, "your boyfriend". They never deny it. For one thing, it's not worth it. For another thing, the first people to taunt them about it are two werewolves intent on killing Derek and raping Chloe afterwards, so neither of them bother to correct the werewolves. The second time is in a crowded restaurant, where Chloe unwittingly chats with a ghost for half an hour while Derek is in line, until finally a few guys at another table burst out laughing. One of them tells Derek that his girlfriend's day pass from the psych ward is expired. Chloe and Derek just leave — mostly for Chloe's sake, to just get her out of there, but about five percent because Derek clearly wanted to deck the guy. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
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The Unfavorite: Tori; her sister, who is tiny, cute, blonde, and blue-eyed) gets all the attention and love, while no matter how hard Tori tries, she can't please her mother. Tori also hates Chloe for this: Not only does Chloe look like all the things that Tori's sister is (tiny, cute, blonde, blue-eyed, etc.), Chloe also usurped Tori's spot as Lyle House's model patient, and caught the interest of Simon, on whom Tori had a crush. | |
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What Does She See in Him? | |
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What Does She See in Him?: What a lot of people are bound to think in regards to Derek and Chloe. Hell, even Chloe says as much when she realizes that she’s fallen for the jerk and not the nice guy. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Liz is a good non-obnoxious example. | |
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Plucky Girl | |
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Plucky Girl: Chloe, definitely. And Liz to the nth degree. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Derek is perfectly okay with letting Liam and Ramon pin the blame for their own so-bad-the-death-penalty-is-inevitable crimes on him before sending him off to the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, until Liam involves Chloe in the deal and literally says, "I like them young". And then Derek just attacks. Of course, you have to take into account the fact that Derek never really seems to care what people might do to him — or, at least, it doesn't cause him to lose his cool. It's when other people are threatened that he's in danger of going postal. | |
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Apocalypse Maiden | |
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Apocalypse Maiden:Margaret looks at Chloe this way after Chloe rips open the earth while simply trying to summon a ghost, and raises countless zombies accidentally. | |
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Sleep Cute | |
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Sleep Cute: When Derek finally Changes into a wolf, he's exhausted, and soon falls asleep. Chloe ends up falling asleep as well while using him as a pillow. A half-example occurs when Chloe curls up in a chair and falls asleep. She wakes up to find Derek sitting on a couch near her, making sure that she's not left vulnerable while essentially dead to the world, and she realizes that he brought her a glass of water and covered her with a blanket while she was asleep. Chloe finally accepts how very much she does love Derek after she realizes just how good it felt to wake up and have him there with her. | |
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Speech Impediment | |
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Speech Impediment: Chloe has a stutter. She can mostly keep it under control unless she's nervous or frightened. After all of the crap she's been through, she's become accustomed enough to horrible situations that her stutter doesn't crop up as often as it used to. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
| Darkest Powers / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Derek, sadly. As a werewolf, he's automatically considered by most supernaturals to be one screw up away from pure evil — which is, unfortunately, a stereotype that most werewolves fulfill — or, at the very least, a dangerous animal to be avoided with great prejudice, and killed if necessary. | |
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Sibling Triangle | |
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Sibling Triangle: Simon and Derek with Chloe. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Darkest Powers / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Derek has a minor (off-screen) freak out in The Summoning, after he accidentally throws Chloe across the room instead of what he meant to do, which was simply tug her back. In the Dangerous novella, set before the series, he goes through something like this after he paralyses a kid by throwing the kid away from Simon. Although the kid was threatening Simon with a knife, Derek still feels horrifically guilty and blames himself for what happened. Derek again, in The Reckoning, after he kills Liam by breaking his neck. Again, the fact that Liam was going to kill them doesn't stop Derek from suffering a Heroic BSoD over it. | |
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Nerves of Steel | |
| Darkest Powers / int_a1b76006 | comment |
Of course, you have to take into account the fact that Derek never really seems to care what people might do to him — or, at least, it doesn't cause him to lose his cool. It's when other people are threatened that he's in danger of going postal. | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Derek, with his family and with Chloe. He has two moments like this: Once in the Dangerous novella, and once in The Reckoning after Chloe is almost raped and murdered just because she was with him. | |
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Healing Factor | |
| Darkest Powers / int_a5fb0d24 | comment |
Healing Factor: Nothing dramatic, but Derek, being a werewolf, heals faster than humans do. He can also take more of a beating. | |
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Super-Senses | |
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Super Senses: Derek has all of them. | |
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Wicked Stepmother | |
| Darkest Powers / int_b070362d | comment |
Wicked Stepmother: Diane Enright, holy shit. In The Reckoning, Diane kills a guard in front of several guards and Edison Group members, and immediately pins the blame on Tori. Chloe calls Diane out on this, so she hits Chloe with a non-lethal, but still painful, spell, and pins that on Tori too, claiming that she's out of control. Of course, nobody wants to dispute this, lest they get zapped by the psychotic witch as well. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
| Darkest Powers / int_babc974 | comment |
Sadistic Choice: Chloe has one of these every time she decides to raises a corpse or two or release a demi-demon who originated from a Hell dimension. | |
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Too Powerful to Live | |
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Too Powerful to Live: Margaret and Russell see the kids as this. | |
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Necromancer | |
| Darkest Powers / int_c81e2bba | comment |
Necromancer: Chloe. She's a rare example of a protagonist necromancer who is honestly good. | |
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Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! | |
| Darkest Powers / int_c87660d5 | comment |
Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Chloe manages to snap Derek out of his berserker rage at the last second with a verbal slap, delivered in the form of a scream of Big "NO!". It's lucky that Chloe's a good person, considering the girl she saved from being smashed with inhuman force against a brick wall (and subsequently rendered crippled or dead) had been trying to carve up Chloe's face with a switchblade about two seconds previously. | |
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Last-Minute Hookup | |
| Darkest Powers / int_c9c317cd | comment |
Last-Minute Hookup: Chloe and Derek, though this is justified, considering they're running for their lives, which sort of puts romance on the back burner. | |
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I Just Want to Be Special | |
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I Just Want to Be Special: Rae is very excited to learn that she's a half-demon, and moreover, an Exustio, which is the highest-ranking and most powerful kind of fire half-demon, thus making her special. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Darkest Powers / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The Darkest Powers series is the young adult spinoff to The Otherworld series and shares its universe. It is slightly toned down for a teenage audience. The sexual elements have been removed, as have profanity, but it's still rather violent. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Chloe's attempt to convince Rae that the Edison Group are actually really bad people. As is typical of this trope, Rae refuses to listen. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Averted with Chloe who has one at the start of the story. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Derek. It's fine for him to throw himself into harm's way and nearly get himself killed, but if Chloe or Simon do anything remotely risky, you can be certain that Derek is going to give them an earful. | |
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Lightning Bruiser | |
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Lightning Bruiser: Derek, of the fast-moving big bruiser variety. | |
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Superpowerful Genetics | |
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Superpowerful Genetics | |
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They Would Cut You Up | |
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They Would Cut You Up: What Simon, Tori, Chloe, and Derek fear will happen to them if the Edison Group gets a hold of them again. | |
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Our Souls Are Different | |
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Our Souls Are Different | |
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JerkAssWoobie | |
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Jerk Ass Woobie: Tori, definitely. Derek takes this up to eleven and then Serial Escalation | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
| Darkest Powers / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Derek finds Chloe locked in the basement crawlspace in The Summoning, which wouldn't be that much of a Big Damn Hero moment if it weren't for the fact that she'd just raised both corpses that were in the crawlspace with her. In The Awakening, Derek tracks Chloe down in just enough time to save her from having her face carved up. In The Reckoning, when Liam finally attempts to kill Chloe, Derek tackles him from the bushes, having managed to finish Changing back to human form. At the end of The Reckoning, when Chloe and Lauren are being held at gunpoint by Diane Enright — Derek, in wolf form, comes out of nowhere and takes her down. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Tori, though she starts to get better. Derek... improves. | |
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Moment Killer | |
| Darkest Powers / int_ece6f910 | comment |
Moment Killer: Exactly how many times did people walk in on Chole and Derek's almost-kissing or just-started-kissing moments? Simon deserves a first place ribbon for cockblocking. | |
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Puberty Superpower | |
| Darkest Powers / int_ecf510f4 | comment |
Puberty Superpower: All of them; puberty is when supernaturals first start to come into their powers. | |
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Naïve Newcomer | |
| Darkest Powers / int_ed05cfee | comment |
Naïve Newcomer: Chloe. | |
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Romantic Runner-Up | |
| Darkest Powers / int_f2fe3a61 | comment |
Romantic Runner-Up: Simon, although he avoids the general cliche of this trope by being a guy that lots of girls would love to date, while Derek, who gets the girl is more YMMV. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Master of the Mixed Message | |
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Master of the Mixed Message: Derek may quite possibly be the Trope Codifier, or at least capable of giving the current record holder a run for her/his money. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
| Darkest Powers / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Chloe. The Reckoning cements this, because when Chloe's other options are taken away from her and she's facing a short and painful future, she takes the only path left to her. After a guard is killed by Diane Enright (who framed her daughter for it) and Chloe is taken to a different room and imprisoned, she raises the guard from the dead and forces him to walk to her room and open the door. She releases his soul back to the afterlife as quickly as she can... But then she makes a deal with the demi-demon, Diriel, that is bound to the building. Chloe releases Diriel, and transfers her to the guard's body, so Diriel can help her escape. Then, later, Dr. Davidoff is holding Chloe, Derek, Lauren, Tori, and Simon at gunpoint, and is going to kill at least one of them. Diane is dead on the floor behind him, with her gun beside her. Chloe shoves Diane's soul back into her body to raise her from the dead and forces her to shoot Davidoff in the back, killing him. Not bad for a tiny girl who is usually dismissed as useless in a fight. | |
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