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Paris Is Indeed Splendid

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Paris Is Indeed Splendid	comment	Paris Is Indeed Splendid is currently available to read online at deviantart, in the gallery of blackcatmisfortunate.Due to some noted differences in strategy during WW2 (such as not betraying the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union and Japan not bombing Pearl Harbor), the Axis Powers won the war and the world has become a very different place. The plot focuses on the lives of several different people living in different countries (mostly Italy, Germany, and France) during this time, and how their relationships develop and grow through the course of the novel.While there are numerous characters, the focus is mostly centered on the lives of Dieter Hermann, a German military police officer who was deployed to a military base in Italy; Angela Romano, a cross-dressing Italian priest and twin sister to the leader of The Resistance; and Melchioras Vidoskas, a Lithuanian manservant working in Russia. Other key characters include Dieter's fiance Rosie Eckhart and his brother, Jaeger Hermann; Angela's brother Angelo Romano; Melchioras's boss, Vladeslav Sokolov; French cafe owner Jean Francis Lafayette and his American employee, James Cook; English refugee Alicen White; and Polish vagabond Feliks Pudimat.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Invoked purposefully to keep the exact year unknown, though the timeline at the beginning reveals that Hitler died in 1974. Modern cell phones exist, but there is no mention of computers, zeppelins exist and are essentially used as aerial cruise liners (though this is not stated in story), the Soviet Union still exists, etc.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Though never unattractive, Angela is a lot prettier after she quits crossdressing and grows her hair out.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Vladeslav's reaction to 'being forced to' punish Melchioras.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: While Angelo never expected that Angela would ever disobey him, the second she did he started working out a plan to not only know exactly where she was and who she was with at all times (by assigning other nuns and priests to watch her, then threatening her only confidant Benedetto), but then begins plotting how to assassinate the Fuhrer when he finds out that the German she made friends with is none other than the fiance of the Fuhrer's daughter, based on the assumption that she will continue to defy him. The one thing that he failed to take into account was that one of his nameless henchmen would tell Benedetto and he would then tell Angela about the plan before it could come to fruition... by five minutes. So it was mostly successful.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_40e993f4	type	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_40e993f4	comment	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: It's heavily implied at the end of the book that Vladeslav and Melchioras will eventually get together despite the fact that Vladeslav raped Melchioras; the fact that Melchioras didn't entirely not enjoy it also causes him to realize that he has never actually had an interest in women and might be gay.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: Vladeslav and Angelo.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Dieter and Angela to an extent; Vladeslav is also much bigger than Melchioras and can easily pick him up with one hand.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_525478f9	type	Consulting Mister Puppet
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_525478f9	comment	Consulting Mister Puppet: The 'good' and 'bad' voices in Vladeslav's head eventually inhabit the Cheburashka and Vinni Pukh respectively, causing him to talk to them.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: After Vladeslav and Melchioras's marriage, Natasha waits outside the guest room door to confirm that the marriage was consummated. They fake it to get her to go away without realizing that Feliks, who is hiding in the closet, didn't hear them agree to fake it. It doesn't end well for Melchioras when he 'innocently' brings it up again.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: Averted in that this is how Natasha intends to marry Vladeslav off to a total stranger; played straight when that stranger is Melchioras in drag, who Vladeslav has feelings for.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: James Cook. Guess why he goes to Paris and what he ends up doing. Also Vladeslav's nickname for Melchioras, Antosha, means 'invaluable', which is what Melchioras ends up being to him.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: One chapter, appropriately titled "Holidays", focuses on different holiday traditions in Germany, Italy, France, and Russia.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Strict, by-the-book military officer Dieter and somewhat spontaneous, ever-hopeful Angela; also Vladeslav, who has been either isolated or tortured by his family for his entire life, and Melchioras, who deeply loves his family.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Angelo's obsession with Angela, and the way he tries to (and does) control every aspect of her life, resembles an abusive relationship more than it does an overbearing family member. He's also the only person who has seen her naked and occasionally forces her to strip in front of him.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Melchioras is beaten and raped because of a comment that Feliks made.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Dieter taking on four Nazis to help Angela, who he does not know and never intends to meet again at that point. Angela standing up to a mob of angry Italians to help Dieter even though she's terrified of Germans. Jaeger and Natasha are monsters from the second they appear. Angelo using Dieter and Angela's friendship to plan an assassination, then going through with it even though it means sacrificing Angela's life. Vladeslav's reaction to 'being forced to' punish Melchioras. Melchioras protecting Vladeslav from Natasha even after multiple beatings, and then essentially agreeing to marry him so that he won't be miserable for the rest of his life.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_8a164766	type	Never Got to Say Goodbye
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_8a164766	comment	Never Got to Say Goodbye: Angelo assumes that Angela died in the assassination attempt and despite being an abusive bastard he regrets not getting to say anything of meaning to her beforehand.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_9139687c	type	Hates Baths
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_9139687c	comment	Hates Baths: Justified with Angela as Angelo uses them as a form of humiliating punishment.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_95db314b	type	Casual Kink
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_95db314b	comment	Casual Kink: Vladeslav has a thing for male crossdressers, most likely as a result of his family's attempts to force him to be sexually attracted to women.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The happy Christmas episode is then followed by a chapter titled "Brutalities"; also some of the changes in points of view create this.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: A different work from this troper (that has yet to be written) that borrows from Paris Is Indeed Splendid's universe reveals that Feliks is actually a trickster god that knew exactly what he was doing the entire time, even when he appeared to be bumbling and making stupid mistakes — why he did it remains a mystery, but then again, tricksters don't need reasons.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: Dieter's outlook on the Third Reich, though he's well aware of the horrors his country has committed and is not the least bit proud of them.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Most of the characters have at least one, most notably Vladeslav, and being German or even remotely construed as having feelings toward Angela will bring down Angelo's unholy wrath like nothing else.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Almost any German by default, though Dieter mostly just wants to be a good officer and make his family proud; contrast with his younger brother, who just likes torturing/killing people for the hell of it and considers Germans to be better than everyone else. Angelo prescribes to this ideology and uses it to brainwash Angela and everyone else.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To A Kitten Named Woof, of all things, and the syringes found in the cellar are a Shout-Out to the author's other work, ALiCE (2014).
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Possibly just out of paranoia, but almost immediately after Dieter and Angela meet, Angelo suspects that she may have feelings for him and this conviction only grows over time. Also, after Vladeslav returns Melchioras's cross, everyone can tell that Melchioras wants to forgive him but is refusing to do so out of stubbornness and not because he really believes Vladeslav to be evil.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_eb7a5313	type	Famous Ancestor
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_eb7a5313	comment	Famous Ancestor: General Hermann is so well known that Dieter's boss has a framed photograph of himself shaking hands with the General in his office.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_eee99653	type	Can't Have Sex, Ever
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_eee99653	comment	Can't Have Sex, Ever: A great deal of Vladeslav's mental instability is his family driving into him from an early age that homosexuality is evil and causes nothing but horrifying problems. It doesn't help that Melchioras is exactly his type.
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Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Paris Is Indeed Splendid / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Vow of celibacy aside, God help you if Angelo even so much as thinks you might have any but the purest thoughts about Angela, or any thoughts about Angela at all for that matter.
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