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The Moorchild
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Moorchild is a story about a changeling girl (Moql/Saaski), abandoned by the Moorfolk (read: Fair Folk) for being half human, who never quite fits into human society because of her eldritch nature. Her human parents are ridiculed for her strangeness by the intolerant villagers, but take it in stride and do their best to provide for her. She often runs off to play on the Moor, the only place where she feels at peace. | |
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| The Moorchild / int_29292e6d | type |
Walking the Earth | |
| The Moorchild / int_29292e6d | comment |
Again after the townsfolk learn Saaski's true nature. She makes one last stop to drop off the real Saaski, though. She's just as happy Walking the Earth with Tam, as she never quite felt at home in Torskaal anyway. | |
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You Can See Me? | |
| The Moorchild / int_2f9d1595 | comment |
You Can See Me?: See the picnic example under Glamour Failure. The same Folkish man (Pittitiskin) comes back while Saaski is playing her pipes and asks this. When he asks her which eye she can see him best out of, her Genre Savvy reminds her that whichever eye she says will be struck blind, so she replies "I got eyes in the top of me head, like." | |
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Rapid Aging | |
| The Moorchild / int_3687d605 | comment |
When Moql's biological father leaves the mound, he ages instantly into an old man, because five and fifty years have passed in the normal world where only a season has passed in the Mound. | |
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Food Chains | |
| The Moorchild / int_38473375 | comment |
Food Chains: Humans who eat Folk food in the Mound are subject to its Year Outside, Hour Inside effect and instantly age for the time they've been gone in the human world as soon as they leave the Mound. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| The Moorchild / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Saaski returns the baby she was swapped for, before she and her friend Tam begin Walking the Earth. It's implied they'll go to the King's City and become street musicians, but you have to wonder if two kids can make a living that way - and we don't know whether Saaski will be persecuted as a changeling in other places, either. She's also learned to feel human emotion, so she'll more than likely miss her parents after a while. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
| The Moorchild / int_44606d14 | comment |
Becoming the Mask: Saaski manages to make herself forget her past life in the Mound almost entirely. | |
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Narnia Time | |
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Narnia Time: "Time runs different in the Mound", the Mound being the home of the Folk. A human who's lured in can stay for what feels like a season or at most a year, and then when kicked out discover that a few decades have passed and he has aged accordingly. Mound time doesn't affect you if you don't have their food or drink. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: The Moorchild features a toned down but clearly Scottish dialect, being set in Scotland. | |
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Lonely Together | |
| The Moorchild / int_4d0fea06 | comment |
Lonely Together: Saaski and Tam. Saaski because the villagers are scared of her, and Tam because he's an orphaned goatherd. | |
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? | |
| The Moorchild / int_5028baf2 | comment |
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: When Saaski is almost drowned by one of the village kids, her goatherd friend Tam asks, "Don't you just hate them for that?" Saaski replies that she doesn't know what he means by "hate". After a bit of fumbling, he explains that it's the complete and total opposite of "love". This is less than helpful. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
| The Moorchild / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: From Saaski's point of view, Old Bess. As a baby, she retains enough Folk survival instinct to view Old Bess as an enemy who wanted to kill her, even after she forgets about her life as Moql. As she grows up, though, Old Bess becomes a mentor to her and the first person she goes to when she remembers being half Folk. | |
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Men Don't Cry | |
| The Moorchild / int_62663d88 | comment |
Men Don't Cry: When Moql learns she's to be banished from the Mound, she begins to cry. Pittittiskin remarks, "Crybabying, eh? That's a human trick, it is." | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: The other children pick on Saaski because she's "eldritch" and "freaky-odd", and their teasing often turns violent. When a prank could have turned deadly (an older, stronger boy tries to push her in a deep pond), nobody helps her. And later in the book, they practically beat her for trying to join in a game. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| The Moorchild / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Technically, unmeaningful name; Saaski remarks that Anwara's baby wasn't given a real name - simply "lekka", the Moorfolk's word for "stolen". | |
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No Ontological Inertia | |
| The Moorchild / int_704d7e91 | comment |
No Ontological Inertia: When Moql's biological father leaves the mound, he ages instantly into an old man, because five and fifty years have passed in the normal world where only a season has passed in the Mound. Used again in reverse with Yanno and Anwara's real daughter, who de-ages upon leaving the Mound. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
| The Moorchild / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: The Moorfolk. They kidnap children and replace them with their injured, elderly, and misbegotten, they play pranks and steal from humans, and they have no concept of love, hate, or empathy. | |
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Wistful Amnesia | |
| The Moorchild / int_860c8ce3 | comment |
Wistful Amnesia: Partially subverted; Saaski occasionally gets the feeling that she's missing something, but usually subconsciously pushes the wistfulness away. | |
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| The Moorchild / int_90984c54 | type |
Glamour Failure | |
| The Moorchild / int_90984c54 | comment |
Glamour Failure: Many, many times. Moql gets found out to be half human after an Epic Glamour Fail. While out on the Moor for a picnic, Saaski saw one of the folk stealing bits of her friend Tam's lunch. She laughs and asks Tam why he let the little man steal it. Tam looks to where she's pointing and says there isn't anything there. When Saaski and Tam break into the Mound to get Saaski's parents' real daughter back, Tam sees everything as being all fancy. When Saaski puts special ointment on one of his eyes, he can see things as they truly are out of that eye, but only if he closes his "lying eye". When out and about, the Moorfolk have a thing for slapping runes on everything they see. Why not? It's not like anyone is going to be able to see or read them. | |
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Wild Hair | |
| The Moorchild / int_95a70bb1 | comment |
Wild Hair: Another trait Saaski inherited from the Folk. Her hair is described as looking pale and bushy, like a heap of straw. | |
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Not So Different | |
| The Moorchild / int_993cf18f | comment |
Not So Different: What Old Bess comes to realize about herself and Saaski. | |
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Stranger in a Familiar Land | |
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Stranger in a Familiar Land: When Saaski returns to the Mound with Tam on their rescue mission. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
| The Moorchild / int_a2cbad1 | comment |
Half-Human Hybrid: Saaski is the misbegotten daughter of a pretty Folk girl named Talabar and a Fisherman whose name nobody in the Mound remembers. | |
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Good Parents | |
| The Moorchild / int_a30c287 | comment |
Good Parents: Anwara and Yanno. Anwara is fiercely protective of Saaski, and although it takes him longer to warm to her, Yanno is as well. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
| The Moorchild / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: The village children and their parents who eventually form a mob threatening to burn Saaski on the Midsummer bonfire never change their minds, nor are they brought to any kind of account for their mistreatment. | |
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So What Do We Do Now? | |
| The Moorchild / int_b2ad812d | comment |
So What Do We Do Now?: Saaski decides to go with Tam to the King's Town to play her pipes on the street, since she can't go back to Torskaal or the Mound. | |
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Epic Fail | |
| The Moorchild / int_b4eff8a8 | comment |
Moql gets found out to be half human after an Epic Glamour Fail. | |
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Dark-Skinned Blond | |
| The Moorchild / int_bb655f46 | comment |
Dark-Skinned Blond: The Folk are a species of Dark Skinned Blonds; Saaski inherits the appearance, which becomes a point of vicious teasing. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
| The Moorchild / int_c09dbbbb | comment |
Weaksauce Weakness: The Moorfolk, and Saaski by extension, hate Rowan wood, salt, iron, yellow flowers (especially St. John's Wort), and holy water. The iron thing is a huge pain for Saaski because her adoptive father is the local blacksmith, and everything else becomes an issue on Midsummer's Eve, when the villagers weave garlands of yellow flowers and make their kids gather rowan wood for the Midsummer Bonfire. | |
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Magic Music | |
| The Moorchild / int_c928d01d | comment |
Magic Music: Subverted. Saaski's bagpipe playing is at first believed to be this, but the villagers soon realize that the music has no magical properties, it's just strange. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
| The Moorchild / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Old Bess, who becomes close to Saaski and teaches her how to read and write. | |
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DeadlyDecadentCourt | |
| The Moorchild / int_d4f9a68f | comment |
When Saaski and Tam break into the Mound to get Saaski's parents' real daughter back, Tam sees everything as being all fancy. When Saaski puts special ointment on one of his eyes, he can see things as they truly are out of that eye, but only if he closes his "lying eye". | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
| The Moorchild / int_da12bcfb | comment |
You Can't Go Home Again: Moql getting kicked out of the mound, or so she thought. Again after the townsfolk learn Saaski's true nature. She makes one last stop to drop off the real Saaski, though. She's just as happy Walking the Earth with Tam, as she never quite felt at home in Torskaal anyway. | |
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Mood Ring Eyes | |
| The Moorchild / int_da3bdd2e | comment |
Mood Ring Eyes: Saaski has eyes that change color depending on her moods, a telltale sign that she is actually a changeling. | |
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The Ditz | |
| The Moorchild / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Most of the younger Moorfolk, and plenty of the adults. Most notable is Tinkwa; he promised to help Saaski and Tam out of the Mound, but when he vanished, Saaski shrugged and assumed that he had forgotten. | |
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Little People | |
| The Moorchild / int_e4ef338a | comment |
Little People: Intersects with the Fair Folk to create the Moorfolk. | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
| The Moorchild / int_e529d5c3 | comment |
Torches and Pitchforks: On Midsummer's Eve, the adults of the village go after Saaski with (iron) torches, salt, St. John's Wort, and a cross made of rowan wood. While she survives the mob, they set a deadline of tomorrow evening before they'll return to Burn the Witch!. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| The Moorchild / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue and Orange Morality: The Folk. They have very little empathy even towards each other, and think nothing of robbing and occasionally seducing humans. On the other hand, they're nowhere near the evil creatures that humans believe them to be and are capricious rather than malicious. | |
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Changeling Tale / int_21834e53 | |
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Children's Literature / int_21834e53 | |
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Glamour Failure / int_21834e53 | |
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The Blacksmith / int_21834e53 | |
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The Fair Folk / int_21834e53 | |
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