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The War of the Flowers

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The War of the Flowers	comment	Urban Fantasy novel by Tad Williams. Theo Vilmos is the thirty-year-old lead singer of a small band in California, whose life is going nowhere until he starts getting hit by the worst string of bad luck imaginable. First his girlfriend has a miscarriage, and then she leaves him, taking the house. He's forced to move back in with his emotionally distant mother, and then she dies too, and he's forced to sell her house and move to a backwoods cabin. His only consolation is the discovery of an old book written by his mysterious great uncle, Eamonn Dowd, which seems to be part autobiography, part fairy tale and Theo entertains notions of getting published.Then Theo is attacked by an undead horror, gets dragged into a magical world by a six-inch tall (and very foul-mouthed) sprite named Applecore, and finds out that not only is the world in Uncle Eamonn's book very real, but most of it, particularly the sinister Lord Nidrus Hellebore, seems to want him dead.Theo travels through the strangely-modern world of Faerie, encountering along his way among others the goblin revolutionary Mud Bug Button; Poppy, beautiful daughter of Hellebore's partner in crime, Lord Aulus Thornapple; and the enigmatic Remover of Inconvenient Obstacles, who has his own stake in things that runs deeper (and closer to home) than Theo can possibly imagine ...
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The War of the Flowers / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The War of the Flowers / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The treatment of the goblins closely parallels what both African and American natives suffered at the hands of white imperialists.
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The War of the Flowers / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
The War of the Flowers / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Though the ruling class of Faerie are just called "fairies", they are very close to typical fantasy elves in a lot of respects.
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The War of the Flowers / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The War of the Flowers / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Most of the fairy lords are very good at keeping neutral expressions, regardless of what they're really feeling.
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The War of the Flowers / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The War of the Flowers / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The goblins; they view eating someone as being a high honor to them.
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The War of the Flowers / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The War of the Flowers / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Theo's nymph-bond turns out to be crucial in the climax. He enters the water and thereby surrenders to their claim, causing the irrha to lose its lock on him and go after the Terrible Child instead.
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The War of the Flowers / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
The War of the Flowers / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: Well, maybe not real, but a mortal's perceptions certainly color how they see Faerie.
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The War of the Flowers / int_2588feac	type	Winged Humanoid
The War of the Flowers / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: Some species of fairy, though the fairy lords have no wings, and those who wish to imitate them often have their wings surgically removed.
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The War of the Flowers / int_26d0fa3b	type	Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action
The War of the Flowers / int_26d0fa3b	comment	Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: People continually mistake Theo and Applecore for a couple. Later, Applecore does get together with Cumber, a fairy Theo's size. In fact, a number of large-sized fairies hit on Applecore. When Theo asks how intercourse would work, he's told there is surgery to address the issue.
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The War of the Flowers / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
The War of the Flowers / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: The state that Erephine Primrose has been left in after her soul was separated from her body. Funnily enough, her condition is completely perplexing to the fairies, since they don't believe in or think about souls, even though it's one of the first things a human would think of if they saw her like that.
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The War of the Flowers / int_2f074524	type	Enigmatic Minion
The War of the Flowers / int_2f074524	comment	Enigmatic Minion: The Remover of Inconvenient Obstacles.
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The War of the Flowers / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The War of the Flowers / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist/ Evil Sorcerer: The line between the two is a bit blurry here, as the fairies consider magic and science to be the same thing, but there are some definite examples who fit both tropes - Nidrus and Anton Hellebore, the Remover of Inconvenient Obstacles, and Count Tansy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
The War of the Flowers / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Theo is described like this several times.
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The War of the Flowers / int_39eba631	type	The Slacker
The War of the Flowers / int_39eba631	comment	The Slacker: Theo.
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The War of the Flowers / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The War of the Flowers / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Theo, Applecore, and Poppy all count.
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The War of the Flowers / int_47e61b99	type	Narnia Time
The War of the Flowers / int_47e61b99	comment	Narnia Time: Time flows differently in Faerie, though exactly what this means varies.
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The War of the Flowers / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The War of the Flowers / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Old Night.
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The War of the Flowers / int_4be57029	type	Beast of Battle
The War of the Flowers / int_4be57029	comment	Beast of Battle: Hellebore releases dragons to lay waste to his opponents. Also, unicorns.
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The War of the Flowers / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
The War of the Flowers / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: Lord Thornapple is the official First Councillor of the Realm, though in practice he takes enough of advice from Hellebore that he's the one really calling the shots.
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The War of the Flowers / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The War of the Flowers / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: The fairies are powered by mortal belief. As that's waned, they've had to find other sources of power for their civilization, primarily by draining the magic out of other, live fairies. Hellebore, of course, has a plan to change things...
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The War of the Flowers / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
The War of the Flowers / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted with a vengeance - Theo is surprised and more than a little squicked to learn that fairies have bodily functions the same as everybody else.
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The War of the Flowers / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
The War of the Flowers / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Streedy. After Theo tricks the irrha into killing the Terrible Child, Hellebore's magic is disrupted and literally tears him apart.
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The War of the Flowers / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The War of the Flowers / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The Flowers are generally the same as rich, arrogant humans looking down on everyone else. Pretty much everyone feels about goblins the way some racists feel.
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The War of the Flowers / int_5f9d7299	type	EnfanteTerrible
The War of the Flowers / int_5f9d7299	comment	Enfante Terrible: The Terrible Child is a changeling from the human world, raised in the land of Faerie as a means to link the two realms. Thanks to Hellebore's influence, the Child is both pettily evil and powerfully wrong.
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The War of the Flowers / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
The War of the Flowers / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: All the male fairy lords are described as slim, pale, and supernaturally handsome.
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The War of the Flowers / int_63cbd757	type	Binding Ancient Treaty
The War of the Flowers / int_63cbd757	comment	Binding Ancient Treaty: The reason why the goblins accept their low station in life. However, the treaty could have been broken all the time if the goblin willing to destroy the artifact representing the treaty were willing to die for it.
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The War of the Flowers / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The War of the Flowers / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Button breaks the oath rod holding the goblins bound to the fairy lords, knowing that even though the other goblins will be pleased by their freedom, they will be compelled by tradition to kill him. They do. Also Theo throwing himself into the Well so the nymph will claim him, confusing the irrha and causing it to go for his "twin", the Terrible Child, instead.
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The War of the Flowers / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The War of the Flowers / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The irrha.
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The War of the Flowers / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
The War of the Flowers / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: Eamonn Dowd.
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The War of the Flowers / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
The War of the Flowers / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Poppy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The War of the Flowers / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: All goblins have these. The current generation of goblins are mostly named for common household items to reflect their lowly place in fairy society.
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The War of the Flowers / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
The War of the Flowers / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Theo's friend Johnny. Theo himself has done drugs on occasion, but not enough to become an addict.
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The War of the Flowers / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
The War of the Flowers / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: Faerie is a mirror universe to our more familiar world, powered by humans' belief in the supernatural. As that has faded over centuries, Faerie has become starved of energy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The War of the Flowers / int_78be795b	comment	Changeling Fantasy: Theo, aka Septimus Violet, is revealed to be a changeling. The Terrible Child is the mortal who was switched out when he was slipped in, and Dowd did the switching.
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The War of the Flowers / int_7d81759e	type	Magical Land
The War of the Flowers / int_7d81759e	comment	Magical Land: Faerie, deconstructed.
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The War of the Flowers / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The War of the Flowers / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Applecore.
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The War of the Flowers / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
The War of the Flowers / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: Faerie pretty much runs on this - as a general rule of thumb, if Real Life has done it with science, Faerie will have the magical equivalent.
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The War of the Flowers / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
The War of the Flowers / int_838343d6	comment	Fairy Tale: Deconstructed.
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The War of the Flowers / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The War of the Flowers / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The fairy aristocrats - they're not The Legions of Hell by any means, but they're hardly friendly either.
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The War of the Flowers / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The War of the Flowers / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Remover's true form and the irrha may count. Old Night definitely does.
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The War of the Flowers / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
The War of the Flowers / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: The reason the Remover always cloaks himself in shadow - the last person who looked at him directly, Erephine Primrose, went insane on the spot. Theo catches only a quick glimpse of him, enough to know he doesn't want to see any more.
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The War of the Flowers / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
The War of the Flowers / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: The irrha, which isn't actually a single animated corpse but a spirit that possesses and animates new bodies as it needs them to fulfill the task it was summoned for.
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The War of the Flowers / int_9136471a	type	Our Goblins Are Different
The War of the Flowers / int_9136471a	comment	Our Goblins Are Different: Here a sympathetic, downtrodden race enslaved by the fairies.
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The War of the Flowers / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The War of the Flowers / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Anton Hellebore to the Remover. Nidrus Hellebore isn't very happy about this, as while he didn't trust the Remover, he did find him very useful.
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The War of the Flowers / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The War of the Flowers / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: At best, the fairy lords are obnoxious but harmless (like Zirus Jonquil or Rufinus weft-Daisy). Most are simply casually cruel because they don't know any other way to act. A few, like Hellebore and company, are actively and knowingly malevolent. Very rarely you'll meet a genuinely decent one, like Caradenus or Poppy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The War of the Flowers / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Subverted. It starts off with Lords Hellebore, Thornapple, and Foxglove forming one, but Hellebore's intelligence, ruthlessness, and force of personality gradually marginalizes Foxglove and demotes Thornapple into The Dragon.
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The War of the Flowers / int_978b5f6d	type	Screw You, Elves!
The War of the Flowers / int_978b5f6d	comment	Screw You, Elves!: Being raised human, Theo is frequently irritated when the inhabitants of Faerie try to pull the Can't Argue with Elves shtick.
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The War of the Flowers / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
The War of the Flowers / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: The fairies. The implications, however, are defied.
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The War of the Flowers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The War of the Flowers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Even before Theo enters Fairie, the story occasionally implies that there's something unusual about him - examples are his amazing singing voice and the fact he looks very attractive to both women and men as well as his constant feeling that he doesn't belong.
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The War of the Flowers / int_a32a1881	type	Supporting Leader
The War of the Flowers / int_a32a1881	comment	Supporting Leader: Button.
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The War of the Flowers / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The War of the Flowers / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Dowd, lampshaded.
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The War of the Flowers / int_ab62343b	type	Bee-Bee Gun
The War of the Flowers / int_ab62343b	comment	Bee-Bee Gun: The standard fairy sidearm fires literal Magitek bees, which keep flying forever, unless they hit something first.
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The War of the Flowers / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The War of the Flowers / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Neither Anton Hellebore nor the Terrible Child seem to need much reason to do evil beyond personal enjoyment. This is directly contrasted with Lord Hellebore, who always has a purpose for his evil actions, albeit usually one that only justifies things to him.
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The War of the Flowers / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
The War of the Flowers / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: The Remover captures Theo for the express purpose of explaining his history and plans to him. This is because it's the last bit of familial duty he feels he owes him.
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The War of the Flowers / int_b37fcad5	type	Science Destroys Magic
The War of the Flowers / int_b37fcad5	comment	Science Destroys Magic: The Evil Overlord of the Faeries says that this is why life sucks in their world, but he may be lying.
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The War of the Flowers / int_b408c009	type	City of Adventure
The War of the Flowers / int_b408c009	comment	City of Adventure: The City is the focal point for the first half of the book, up until Hellebore fully reveals his villainy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_b4a7b5ef	type	The Queen's Latin
The War of the Flowers / int_b4a7b5ef	comment	The Queen's Latin: The fairies all have English or Irish accents despite being from Another Dimension. This is justified because of how the magic of Faerie works - it translates languages for visiting mortals, and they hear the words and accents they expect.
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The War of the Flowers / int_b58642b1	type	Trapped in Another World
The War of the Flowers / int_b58642b1	comment	Trapped in Another World: Theo, though it turns out he was actually from Faerie originally, and decides to stay in the end.
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The War of the Flowers / int_b5fb096b	type	People Puppets
The War of the Flowers / int_b5fb096b	comment	People Puppets: Hellebore turns Theo into this during the climactic chapters but the fact that Theo's mind is still free becomes a plot point.
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The War of the Flowers / int_b749f89d	type	Our Ogres Are Hungrier
The War of the Flowers / int_b749f89d	comment	Our Ogres Are Hungrier: They're basically a whole race of Dumb Muscle bodyguards - who are named for whatever their favorite toy was as a child.
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The War of the Flowers / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The War of the Flowers / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Applecore is this trope in miniature.
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The War of the Flowers / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The War of the Flowers / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: All the Hellebores seem to have them.
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The War of the Flowers / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
The War of the Flowers / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: Though the city it takes place in is part of a completely separate world, despite its modernity.
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The War of the Flowers / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The War of the Flowers / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Theo is a ne'er-do-well who is roped into a heroic journey. Even after he becomes more purely heroic, he never manages to establish much action cred.
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The War of the Flowers / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The War of the Flowers / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Hellebore is an egotistical sadist with a flair for the theatrical. Of course he likes this one.
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The War of the Flowers / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The War of the Flowers / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Assassinations are just one of the many services the Remover offers, if you can meet his price.
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The War of the Flowers / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
The War of the Flowers / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: Standard operating procedure for the irrha and also for its summoner, Dowd/the Remover.
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The War of the Flowers / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The War of the Flowers / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: The Remover is really none other than Great Uncle Eamonn Dowd himself - though, because Theo is a changeling, he's actually not Theo's great uncle. He's the Terrible Child's great uncle..
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The War of the Flowers / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
The War of the Flowers / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: The Remover. The position has been held by at least two people - Dowd and his unnamed predecessor - but Dowd suspects many more.
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The War of the Flowers / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The War of the Flowers / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Streedy after his "accident".
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The War of the Flowers / int_cd54b574	type	Switched at Birth
The War of the Flowers / int_cd54b574	comment	Switched at Birth: Theo/Septimus and the Terrible Child.
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The War of the Flowers / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The War of the Flowers / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Poppy is first introduced as a self-centered, spoiled child of a fairy lord, but suffers terribly once her father's villainy is revealed. When she comes to Theo in Goblin Town, she's a shell of her former lively self.
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The War of the Flowers / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The War of the Flowers / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Nidrus Hellebore and the Remover play very complex and long-running games. Hellebore, of course, plans to create an apocalypse in Theo's world in order to restore humanity's belief in the supernatural, and the Remover has been opposing him.
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The War of the Flowers / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
The War of the Flowers / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Hellebore plans to unleash a cataclysm on Earth to knock civilization back to the dark ages, thereby giving the fairies a stronger supply of the belief and superstition they need to run their civilization and keeping him stably in power.
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The War of the Flowers / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
The War of the Flowers / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: The natural laws of Faerie are based on this: "You want it, you get it, you pay for it." The fairies consider this far more logical than the mortal world's laws of physics. This also plays a role in the story. That he betrayed Dowd is on reason why Dowd was able to defeat and steal the body of the Remover. That they betrayed their fellow lords by waking the dragons is why Hellebore and his fellows end up losing.
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The War of the Flowers / int_d7a5fa23	type	Symbolically Broken Object
The War of the Flowers / int_d7a5fa23	comment	Symbolically Broken Object: Mud Bug Button shows up on television and breaks a small stick. The goblin underclass of The City immediately begin rioting and revolting against their Faerie overlords because that stick was the physical manifestation of the treaty that kept them in subjugation.
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The War of the Flowers / int_d852da6d	type	The Starscream
The War of the Flowers / int_d852da6d	comment	The Star Scream: Hellebore and a few other of the highest fairy lords to Oberon and Titania. When the King and Queen were exhausted following the last Giant War, the fairy lords struck and sealed them in a can so they could take over.
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The War of the Flowers / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The War of the Flowers / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The most powerful individual creatures in Faerie, basically, hunted almost to extinction for this reason, though Hellebore bred a handful for when he needed to go for both destruction and grand theatricality.
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The War of the Flowers / int_da38c13f	type	Lamarck Was Right
The War of the Flowers / int_da38c13f	comment	Lamarck Was Right: The Remover states that evolution works in a "Lamarckian" way in Faerie.
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The War of the Flowers / int_da512040	type	Fantasy Contraception
The War of the Flowers / int_da512040	comment	Fantasy Contraception: It gets mentioned in passing.
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The War of the Flowers / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The War of the Flowers / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Applecore certainly tries, but since she's six inches tall, the amount of damage she can do is limited.
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The War of the Flowers / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
The War of the Flowers / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Theo's birth parents, the Violets, were powerful fairy lords, but their real passion was music. Theo is somewhat upset to learn that the only thing that made him special, his singing ability, wasn't even really his. Although he's an especially talented musician even in Faerie, this talent doesn't play a role in his final victory.
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The War of the Flowers / int_dd963bd3	type	Our Giants Are Bigger
The War of the Flowers / int_dd963bd3	comment	Our Giants Are Bigger: An Always Chaotic Evil race that tried to conquer Faerie several centuries previously. They failed, but provided the opening Hellebore and his peers needed to seize power.
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The War of the Flowers / int_e24a1629	type	Sugar-and-Ice Personality
The War of the Flowers / int_e24a1629	comment	Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Poppy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_e542d8c1	type	Goth
The War of the Flowers / int_e542d8c1	comment	Goth: How Theo first describes Poppy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_e6f961a1	type	Garage Band
The War of the Flowers / int_e6f961a1	comment	Garage Band: Theo is the lead singer in one. He notes that for a man of thirty, this is rather embarassing.
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The War of the Flowers / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The War of the Flowers / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Count Tansy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
The War of the Flowers / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Theo is not happy when Dowd/the Remover tells him that his real name, Septimus, literally means "Number Seven".
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The War of the Flowers / int_eb27c1f2	type	Sealed Good in a Can
The War of the Flowers / int_eb27c1f2	comment	Sealed Good in a Can: Oberon and Titania.
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The War of the Flowers / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The War of the Flowers / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The Terrible Child, who was created to destroy a world.
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The War of the Flowers / int_f3f1a9e2	type	Not My Driver
The War of the Flowers / int_f3f1a9e2	comment	Not My Driver: The trip to the Hellebore club is such a bad idea that Theo briefly wonders whether their driver has been replaced and the whole thing is an elaborate trap.
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The War of the Flowers / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
The War of the Flowers / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Dowd's undoing.
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The War of the Flowers / int_f8e7ac96	type	Overlord Jr.
The War of the Flowers / int_f8e7ac96	comment	Overlord Jr.: Anton Hellebore doesn't share Lord Hellebore's grandiose ambitions, but instead is a burgeoning sadist and psychopath, eagerly torturing his father's enemies, including Poppy.
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The War of the Flowers / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The War of the Flowers / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Inverted. The Remover's true form is monstrous, but is also sickly and weak. He can temporarily turn himself into a more able (and somewhat better-looking) form when he has to leave home on business.
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The War of the Flowers / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The War of the Flowers / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: All the fairy noble houses are named for flowers... hence the title of the book.
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The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Convenient Miscarriage / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Dungeon Punk / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Enigmatic Minion / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Fairy Sexy / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Go for the Eye / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Human Resources / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	I Ate WHAT?! / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	I Choose to Stay / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Legacy Character / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Our Fairies Are Different / int_afcf7822
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The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	Science Destroys Magic / int_afcf7822
The War of the Flowers	hasFeature	The Antichrist / int_afcf7822
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