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When We Were Animals

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When We Were Animals	comment	Lumen Ann Fowler has led two lives. Growing up in the town of Poliwakanda, more affectionately known as Pale Miranda, she was little Lumen Fowler: doting daughter, brilliant student; well-mannered and soft-spoken, Lumen kept to herself and stayed out of trouble. Now, as Ann Borden, she is a demure housewife, a loving mother, and though she smiles and attends PTA meetings as expected, beneath that smile is a Dark Secret and a Mysterious Past she has locked away.You see, the residents of Pale Miranda are a bit different from the rest of the world. When a teenager hits puberty, they begin to breach during the full moon—reverting to savage beasts with ravenous appetites for destruction, unmitigated lust, and an unbridled primal instinct, for one full year. The town allows the teens to run wild, but little Lumen, whose mother never breached, fights it. Desperately hoping to keep her promise to her father, Marcus, she watches as her best friend Polly begins to breach, followed by her childhood crush Peter Meechum, rival Rosebush Lincoln, and the ever-mysterious Blackhat Roy Ruggle, believing herself to be above such animalistic brutality. Until she is thrust into the pull of the moonlight and finally breaches for the first time, and she loses control of the life she had once meticulously strove to keep.Written by Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals is a Coming of Age Story with a dash of Gothic Horror released in 2015, nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.
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When We Were Animals / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
When We Were Animals / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Marcie Klapper-Witt has shades of this.
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When We Were Animals / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
When We Were Animals / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The teenagers that go breach are primal beasts ravaging a town during each full moon. Also, the dysfunctional relationship between Blackhat Roy and Lumen has some decidedly dark undertones, ending in a violent interlude that ultimately plays a part in someone's death, can sound a lot like an abusive and toxic relationship.
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When We Were Animals / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
When We Were Animals / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Lumen, full stop, to the point to where she hides going breach from him because she had promised she never would as a little girl.
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When We Were Animals / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
When We Were Animals / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Lumen's absence of a period, the "coal hole"—a small storage area in the house behind a hidden panel, where Lumen liked to hide as a child—and Lumen's books.
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When We Were Animals / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
When We Were Animals / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Rosebush Lincoln. Polly has her moments after she breaches.
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When We Were Animals / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
When We Were Animals / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Blackhat Roy's father.
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When We Were Animals / int_2b374ed1	type	It's Not You, It's Me
When We Were Animals / int_2b374ed1	comment	It's Not You, It's Me: Essentially how Lumen dumps Peter Meechum.
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When We Were Animals / int_2d56138a	type	Like a God to Me
When We Were Animals / int_2d56138a	comment	Like a God to Me: Mr. Hunter explains that because her mother never went breach but willingly joined those who did, even while pregnant with Lumen, once the secret was out that she had been pretending the whole time all of the breachers viewed her as this, including Mr. Hunter himself.
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When We Were Animals / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
When We Were Animals / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: The only person aside from Lumen to truly receive any is Blackhat Roy. When he's first introduced, he's the town's Jerkass Delinquent, but as the story progresses he shows himself to be a bit of a Broken Bird with an undefined disorder that genuinely, in his way, loves Lumen. He's pretty much the only character aside from Lumen herself that is not a Satellite Character.
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When We Were Animals / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
When We Were Animals / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenagers: Played with. Instead of being a typical example of this trope, once the teens begin puberty they revert to a primal nature and run the streets, stark naked, destroying everything and generally acting like animals, every night of the full moon for one year.
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When We Were Animals / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
When We Were Animals / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "It was that mine."
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When We Were Animals / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
When We Were Animals / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Lumen breaking Rosebush Lincoln's arm with a metal bat during PE class after getting fed up with her catty behavior.
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When We Were Animals / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
When We Were Animals / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks
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When We Were Animals / int_59af9477	type	Delinquents
When We Were Animals / int_59af9477	comment	Delinquents: All the teens have shades of this when they go breach, but Blackhat Roy is the character designated to this role.
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When We Were Animals / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
When We Were Animals / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: How Lumen feels about her father's death on prom night.
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When We Were Animals / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
When We Were Animals / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The story wavers between flashbacks to Lumen's childhood and teen years, and present-day housewife Lumen.
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When We Were Animals / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
When We Were Animals / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: When her father begins dating Margot Simons, Lumen sees her as an attempt at this.
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When We Were Animals / int_657d1ef	type	Psychotic Love Triangle
When We Were Animals / int_657d1ef	comment	Psychotic Love Triangle: Peter Meechum, Lumen, and Blackhat Roy. Also Peter Meechum, Lumen, and Rosebush Lincoln.
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When We Were Animals / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
When We Were Animals / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: You find out relatively early on that Lumen's mother died when she was young, and she was raised by her father. Subverted when she finds her mother's long dead, decomposed body.
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When We Were Animals / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
When We Were Animals / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: THE WHOLE BOOK is written in this way, due to Lumen's Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
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When We Were Animals / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
When We Were Animals / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: When Lumen finds out through Mr. Hunter that the dead girl in the mine shaft at the quarry is the corpse of her mother.
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When We Were Animals / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
When We Were Animals / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Blackhat Roy Ruggle, after cutting open Lumen's face while having sex with her when they weren't breaching, struggling with his feelings for Lumen, not being able to come to terms with his own issues, and accidentally burning her house down (unwittingly killing her father in the fire), jumps to his death. He begs Lumen to help him, and she closes her eyes and lets him jump after saying she didn't know how.
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When We Were Animals / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
When We Were Animals / int_75d6bf40	comment	Also, the dysfunctional relationship between Blackhat Roy and Lumen has some decidedly dark undertones, ending in a violent interlude that ultimately plays a part in someone's death, can sound a lot like an abusive and toxic relationship.
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When We Were Animals / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
When We Were Animals / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Averted. Lumen becomes an orphan toward the end of the book, but it is not through their own design.
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When We Were Animals / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
When We Were Animals / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Blackhat Roy to Lumen. It's hinted that he doesn't quite understand his feelings for Lumen and struggles with them, in addition to his own insecurities and inadequacies, whereas Lumen shows no deeply romantic feelings toward Blackhat Roy. This, in part, leads to his suicide. Mr. Hunter to Lumen's mother, Felicia.
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When We Were Animals / int_7cb9e33	type	Dying Declaration of Hate
When We Were Animals / int_7cb9e33	comment	Dying Declaration of Hate: Played with rather poignantly. Before leaping to his death at the quarry, Blackhat Roy admits to Lumen that he hated her for what he had done to her and how he had made her feel, making it an anguished Dying Declaration of Love.
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When We Were Animals / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
When We Were Animals / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Mr. Hunter.
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When We Were Animals / int_835d1cd2	type	Satellite Love Interest
When We Were Animals / int_835d1cd2	comment	Satellite Love Interest: Pete Meechum. Also her husband, Jack.
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When We Were Animals / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
When We Were Animals / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blackhat Roy is the red to Lumen's blue.
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When We Were Animals / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
When We Were Animals / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Poliwakanda. Its location is never given, and it seems to be a generic backwater town somewhere in the US.
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When We Were Animals / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
When We Were Animals / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Blackhat Roy.
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When We Were Animals / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
When We Were Animals / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: It's hard to feel sympathy for Rosebush when she gets the bones in her arm shattered by a metal bat.
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When We Were Animals / int_9cc1e9ec	type	Unwanted False Faith
When We Were Animals / int_9cc1e9ec	comment	Unwanted False Faith: Ultimately why Lumen breaks up with Peter Meechum.
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When We Were Animals / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
When We Were Animals / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Lumen Ann Fowler.
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When We Were Animals / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
When We Were Animals / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: When Lumen first discovers the corpse in the mine shaft, she begins speaking to it and stroking its hair. When she discovers it's the body of her mother she flees the school dance to go to the mine shaft and pay her respects properly, introducing herself as her daughter. Also, the name of Lumen's son.
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When We Were Animals / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
When We Were Animals / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Blackhat Roy Ruggle. Very rarely will he ever be referred to as anything other than Blackhat Roy, and if he's being called "Roy", it's Played for Drama.
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When We Were Animals / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
When We Were Animals / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Marcus Fowler is a doting father, but has no idea how to deal with his pubescent daughter or her issues. On a greater scope, the adults of Pale Miranda seem to have no control over the damage done by the breaches, nor do they seem inclined to care or investigate the cause behind them. They just let the kids run wild and terrorize everyone, opting instead to lock the doors, shut the blinds, and keep everyone inside the house that isn't a teenager breaching once night falls and the full moon rises.
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When We Were Animals / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
When We Were Animals / int_ad1ab367	comment	The Masochism Tango: When Lumen and Blackhat Roy have sex for the first (and only) time, culminating in the two attacking each other violently and Blackhat Roy cutting her face open badly enough to where she needed stitches. Ultimately subverted, in that Blackhat Roy realizes the severity of what had happened, tends to stay away from Lumen afterward, and feels insurmountable guilt over it.
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When We Were Animals / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
When We Were Animals / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: No one really understands why the teenagers of Poliwakanda ("Pale Miranda") go breach on the nights of the full moon, but the townsfolk do their damndest to make sure no one ever finds out about it.
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When We Were Animals / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
When We Were Animals / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: You have names like Marcus, Polly and Roy next to names like Lumen, Rosebush, and Hondy. Also, Roy Ruggle is exclusively referred to in the novel as Blackhat Roy. The last names are guilty of this as well. You have surnames like Fowler, Hunter, and Lincoln...and then Steptoe, Ruggle and Pilt.
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When We Were Animals / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
When We Were Animals / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: The sex that the teens of Pale Miranda engage in during breach nights is said to be this, essentially. Also, when Lumen confronts Blackhat Roy at his home, demanding he hurt her, before the two have incredibly violent sex resulting in Blackhat Roy seriously injuring Lumen.
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When We Were Animals / int_c9a71d47	type	Innocence Lost
When We Were Animals / int_c9a71d47	comment	Innocence Lost: Lumen starting her period for the first time after having violent sex with Blackhat Roy serves as a metaphor for this.
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When We Were Animals / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
When We Were Animals / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Lumen. Some chapters are just strange, unbridled ramblings about the meaning of her name. Also, she breaks into her husband's coworker's house at one point.
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When We Were Animals / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
When We Were Animals / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Lumen and Blackhat Roy.
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When We Were Animals / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
When We Were Animals / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: A big concern of teenage Lumen's is the fact that she is, for all intents and purposes, amenorrheicnote meaning she is not having her period, but is not pregnant, and is a key plot point to Lumen's character development.
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When We Were Animals / int_d5bc2131	type	House Fire
When We Were Animals / int_d5bc2131	comment	House Fire: The Fowler house burns down on prom night. It's not explicitly admitted, but Blackhat Roy more or less tells Lumen he started the fire by accident. Unbeknownst to Blackhat Roy, whose guilt over the fire is what ultimately drives him to commit suicide, Marcus Fowler was trapped in the coal hole and killed in the blaze while searching for Lumen, whom he'd thought had come home.
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When We Were Animals / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
When We Were Animals / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The body of the dead girl in the mine shaft.
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When We Were Animals / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
When We Were Animals / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: Lumen and the girl's body in the mine shaft.
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When We Were Animals / int_e7cb46d3	type	Satellite Character
When We Were Animals / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Satellite Character: Most of the characters outside Lumen's immediate family and love interests. Special mention goes to Polly, who is introduced as her childhood best friend, but falls to the wayside once she begins to breach and Lumen does not.
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When We Were Animals / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
When We Were Animals / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Rosebush Lincoln.
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When We Were Animals / int_f0fc8518	type	High-School Dance
When We Were Animals / int_f0fc8518	comment	High-School Dance: The climax of the novel occurs on prom night.
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When We Were Animals / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
When We Were Animals / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: How Lumen talks, with just a dash of Cloudcuckoolander thrown in for good measure.
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When We Were Animals / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. Lumen gets a deep gash in her face at one point, resulting in stitches. Also, most of the girls who breach walk away from the night covered in bruises with chunks of hair ripped out of their scalps.
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