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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded

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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded	comment	Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded is a Web Serial Novel which began publication in April 2024. It tells the story of Carl Meier, a civil servant in a dystopian regime. Carl lives alone, works for his city's Security Force, and has a secret habit of reading banned books. The plot kicks off when Carl's superior, Eisenherz, assigns Carl an apprentice—a naive and ambitous young woman named Elena, who happens to be Eisenherz's niece.Another plot thread involves a prostitute named Jenny; her rich client, BÃ¤umer; and a Black Market book dealer called Crow.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_1152876e	type	Faux Yay
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_1152876e	comment	Faux Yay: Played for drama. When Eisenherz suspects Carl of being gay, Carl plays along to deflect attention from a different secret. The ruse doesn't involve a fake relationship, though.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_1285edb8	type	Fugitive Arc
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_1285edb8	comment	During Crow's Fugitive Arc, his inability to buy cigarettes is one of the many, many things stressing him out.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_16063d6b	type	Secret Shop
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_16063d6b	comment	Secret Shop: Crow's bookstore is highly illegal, so getting into it involves making an appointment via a third party, exchanging hand signals, and whistling.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Carl is the author of two in-universe textbooks, Theory and Practice of Basic Conversation and Theory and Practice of Escalated Conversation. The author bio from one of these books is quoted as exposition.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2034121a	type	Eat the Rich
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2034121a	comment	Eat the Rich: Jenny reads a joke in a propaganda magazine that references this:
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Downplayed; it isn't clear to what extent Eisenherz is promoting Elena's career in the Security Force, but he does admit to using his position to ensure she's assigned the most suitable training supervisor. Elena realizes he's pulling strings for her and resents it.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Eisenherz states that he is the closest thing his niece, Elena, has to a father.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_298a9d75	type	Detrimental Determination
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_298a9d75	comment	Detrimental Determination: After the raid, Crow avoids drinking the drugged tap water in order to keep his head clear. He overcomes thirst by sheer willpower, but it backfires on him: he becomes so dehydrated that his cognition is impaired and his eyes dry out.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2b2c66c3	type	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2b2c66c3	comment	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: The oppressive government publishes a propaganda magazine that includes invoked lame, borderline nonsensical jokes.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: The government spikes the water with AMP-M, which is amphetamine-like in low doses, but at higher doses induces a lethargic, zombie-like state.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: While speaking with Elena, Carl has a flashback to first meeting her when she was very, very little. Then he takes another look at the woman in front of him.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2e0cb5	type	Rhyming Names
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_2e0cb5	comment	Rhyming Names: "Unified Municipal Security Force" is shortened to "Security Force" in dignified contexts. But when the agents are making dark jokes about it, they call it "Uni Muni."
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_327b5216	type	Black Market
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_327b5216	comment	Black Market: The first chapter alone mentions contraband trade in chocolate, coffee, and banned books.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: Played with. Carl burns the occasional book, not because he's the Culture Police, but to destroy evidence of his own illegal reading habits.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_37065c74	type	Hangover Sensitivity
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_37065c74	comment	Hangover Sensitivity: When we first meet Jenny, she's having the kind of morning where even indirect sunlight is too much.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: The "maddened by thirst" aspect of this trope is played out in an unusual environment: A character becomes debilitatingly dehydrated in the middle of a bustling city because of his refusal to drink the drugged water.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_3c8be88f	type	Bird-Poop Gag
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_3c8be88f	comment	Bird-Poop Gag: A minor character has designed a rainwater-collecting apparatus that's "supposedly birdshit-proof."
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_424c9a9b	comment	Technician Metzger bruises the bodies of his conversation partners in a patterned, ritualized way that Carl thinks is obviously fetishistic.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_4376f049	type	Career Versus Man
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_4376f049	comment	Career Versus Man: Implied. The title "Mrs." exists within this universe, but the women we see working for the Security Force all use the title "Miss." Meanwhile, at least one male employee is explicitly a family man.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_4ea822ce	type	Songs in the Key of Lock
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_4ea822ce	comment	Songs in the Key of Lock: Part of the process for gaining entry to Crow's bookstore is whistling a musical password.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: Carl's friend Felix has sometimes tried to sell him smuggled chocolates.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Played for Drama. Eisenherz is suspicious about Carl's sexuality because Carl is unmarried and has been seen entering a gay bar. Eisenherz is willing to turn a blind eye to this, despite social norms, because he thinks Elena will be safer being trained by someone who's not into girls.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_6070670f	type	Complete-the-Quote Title
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_6070670f	comment	Complete-the-Quote Title: Chapter 5 is titled "Gin and Beer." The chapter does, in fact, show characters drinking these beverages—but it also focuses heavily on a character who's suffering from dehydration. The source of the quote, a passage from Rudyard Kipling's "Gunga Din," is about soldiers' need for water.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_680c8fd	type	Outranking Your Job
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_680c8fd	comment	Outranking Your Job: Carl is the head of his department, but still performs some of the same tasks as the technicians who report to him. He does it to improve their morale, or at least that's what he tells Eisenherz.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: The building Carl works in is known as the Glass House, because it doesn't have any windows.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_71105dfc	comment	Since Everybody Smokes, prisoners' tobacco rations are limited so cigarettes can be used as a carrot during Perp Sweating.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Jenny engages in sex work at least casually. She's very intuitive about others' feelings and becomes impulsively generous when drunk.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_79cd85f0	type	First Gray Hair
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_79cd85f0	comment	First Gray Hair: Carl finds a gray hair in the opening scene. It's not specified whether it's his first, but he immediately thinks about his age.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_7ba4adea	type	Black Market Produce
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_7ba4adea	comment	Black Market Produce: BÃ¤umer treats Jenny to all sorts of dubiously sourced luxury foods, including citrus fruits.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The story takes place in the year 19â€”. The Commie Land setting implies it's during The Cold War, but the technology level skews just a tad early for this: for example, the narrative points out that the elevator is automatic (i.e., doesn't have a human operator), and people have radios but not televisions in their homes. On the other hand, CCTV does exist, though it may not be widespread.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_824e6bd5	type	Fascists' Bed Time
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_824e6bd5	comment	Fascists' Bed Time: Characters frequently worry about getting inside before curfew.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_8414865	type	Aroused by Their Voice
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_8414865	comment	Aroused by Their Voice: Jenny enjoys listening to the farm report on the radio, less because it's relevant to her studies and more because the announcer has an attractive voice.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The setting is implied to be a German-speaking Commie Land, has a northern land border (so not the GDR)—and calls its currency "dollars."
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_87dccc00	type	Living a Double Life
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_87dccc00	comment	Living a Double Life: Downplayed. Carl works for the oppressive regime, but secretly enjoys reading banned books.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_977a6ec0	type	Girl Friday
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_977a6ec0	comment	Girl Friday: Greta Davidek, Carl's assistant. Carl entrusts her with so much responsibility that she's able to take over his entire job on short notice.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_9960c0f	type	This Bed of Rose's
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_9960c0f	comment	This Bed of Rose's: When Crow is on the run, Elena offers him hospitality.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_9d6f3607	type	Fag Hag
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_9d6f3607	comment	Fag Hag: Crow describes Jenny as having a campily quasi-flirtatious relationship with the patrons of the Pine Tree Tavern:
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: A character becomes so dehydrated that his eyes dry out, leaving him unable to close them and temporarily half-blind.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Carl, the protagonist, deliberately abstains from relationships with women.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a5eeea11	type	Professional Slacker
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a5eeea11	comment	Professional Slacker: The first time we see Carl at work, he locks himself in his office and kills time reading something completely unrelated to his job.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: Implied. The government publishes a magazine called The Worker's Respite, and one issue includes a joke that depends on the reader knowing a Marxist term.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a8d644f6	type	Bizarre Beverage Use
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_a8d644f6	comment	Bizarre Beverage Use: One character uses beer as an improvised treatment for severely dry eyes.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b1a20640	type	Undiscriminating Addict
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b1a20640	comment	Undiscriminating Addict: Jenny is a heavy drinker. When she doesn't have alcohol, she resorts to drinking tap water instead.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b26a0772	type	One-Joke Fake Show
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b26a0772	comment	One-Joke Fake Show: Crow has a customer who's devoted to a subgenre of books in which husbands and wives end up wearing each other's clothing.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Technician Metzger bruises the bodies of his conversation partners in a patterned, ritualized way that Carl thinks is obviously fetishistic. Carl himself goes home and masturbates after a good conversation.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b3ce318	type	Friendly Shopkeeper
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b3ce318	comment	Friendly Shopkeeper: Crow the bookseller repeatedly goes the extra mile, becoming an expert in one customer's favorite (incredibly narrow) subgenre and buying hard-to-sell books from another customer out of sympathy.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: BÃ¤umer brings a new assortment of "objects" to every date with Jenny. Downplayed, as all we're told about them is the materials they're made of—including wire and glass.
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Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_bb6c96a7	type	Culture Police
Only the Dead Are Cold-Blooded / int_bb6c96a7	comment	Culture Police: Some or all pre-Revolutionary books are banned. Carl notes that books printed since the Revolution don't seem to contain any ideas.
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