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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic)
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Hope For The Heartless is a The Black Cauldron fanfic by TheCacklingCactus, featuring as the main character the Horned King, the film's Big Bad.The story starts almost two months after the events of the movie. Following the Horned King's defeat and death at the hands of the pig-keeper Taran and his friends, his soul was sealed inside the Black Cauldron and trapped into endless suffering. However, the Fates themselves unexpectedly contact him and set him free for the period of eighteen months. Before that time frame is up, he must perform a seemingly impossible assignment: he must earn a human's love in spite of all his sins. If he succeeds, he will deserve his permanent freedom from the Cauldron. Otherwise he shall be re-imprisoned for all eternity.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Horned King finds himself resurrected, his castle restored to the way it was, and the Black Cauldron placed on the spot from where he used it. Of his old forces, only two return: Creeper and the only survivor of his two gwythaints. The Fates have also provided him four invisible creatures (who are fittingly called the Invisibles) as servants and counselors.Soon the Horned King gets an unexpected visitor during a stormy night: Avalina, a 14-year-old brush farmer from the outskirts of Prydain. He initially intends to kill her, but being reminded of the task the Fates have given him, he decides to let her live. Nevertheless, he keeps her as his prisoner to keep Prydain unaware of his return. During the long months the prisoner and her jailer spend time together, the Horned King's task may yet prove out to be possible to complete.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Has two small fan videos in YouTube. One is made by Faerydae and is titled as "Horned King X Avalina Save Me". The other is made by Akemi Rain and is titled as "'Hope For The Heartless' Fanvideo".Official Description: The Horned King is released from the Cauldron & mysteriously brought back to Prydain. Not even he knows why, except that the Fates have given him an impossible task he must complete before his time is up, or his soul will be sent back to the Cauldron. For all Eternity. For a short time, he controls his own Fate. Will he spend it wisely, or give in & revert back to his old ways? | |
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Original Characters: The most important ones are Avalina, her brother Arran and their mother, the Invisibles, Mitternacht and Gethin. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: Creeper is as cowardly as he was in the movie. It's kinda justified since he's only two feet tall and not a match for a grown human face-to-face. He has also spent his entire life under his terrifying master and with bullying soldiers, so he's naturally insecure. However, this trope is hinted to become subverted slowly. | |
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Dream Weaver | |
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Dream Weaver: Arawn. He repeatedly torments Avalina through her dreams to keep her fear of the Horned King fresh. The dreams include the Horned King at his scariest, the Cauldron-Born, and deaths of her beloved ones. The Invisibles are this as well, protecting Avalina from Arawn by changing the bad images he creates into positive ones. However, they can't alter natural nightmares. | |
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Green Eyes | |
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Green Eyes: Avalina's eyes are bright green with a rim of bright gold around the irises. When the Horned King sees them clearly for the first time, they remind him of forests and sunlight. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Completely averted throughout the fights shown in the story. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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The Horned King slowly shifts from a Card-Carrying Villain to a Noble Demon. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic B.S.O.D.: Avalina enters this mode several times. One of the most notable ones is her weeks-lasting depression after the Horned King becomes angry with her for ruining his revenge on Taran. She avoids him out of fear, spending most her days either in her room or with Mitternacht and crying constantly. She can barely eat or sleep and weakens physically. She’s temporarily pulled out of it by her above mentioned Eureka Moment, but goes back into it after hearing the Horned King saying (thanks to Arawn) that she means nothing to her. Mitternacht and her snowfight with Creeper help her to her feet, but she gets fully past this only after the Horned King saves her from drowning and apologizes for his behavior. | |
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Walking Wasteland | |
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Walking Wasteland: The Horned King. The ground and lake around his castle are lifeless, and the sun never shines there. Even after Avalina manages to bring some life there (even an entire forest), any plants brought near him quickly die. When he teleports to a forest clearing Avalina's captors have camped in, even the trees die. However, when he's made by Avalina to come to her garden for the first time, his presence doesn't kill off or scare any of the animals or plants. | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Creeper assists his master and Addie in slaughtering Avalina's captors with his claws (as he doesn't know how to wield weapons), enjoying every second of it. He's as bloodthirsty as the Horned King, he just doesn't often get to show it. | |
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Redemption Quest | |
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Redemption Quest: The Horned King is given a chance for something no soul condemned to the Black Cauldron has before received; to redeem himself. | |
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Ancient Evil | |
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Ancient Evil: Before his defeat and imprisonment to the Black Cauldron, Arawn existed at least centuries before the Horned King — who's himself over a thousand years old — came into existence. | |
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Creating Life Is Unforeseen | |
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Creating Life Is Unforeseen: Creeper was originally a non-living statue until the Horned King was preparing a concoction for an unstated purpose. The statue fell off the decaying castle that served as the work area and Creeper was born. That experiment had taken centuries to get to that point, and the Horned King despises Creeper for ruining it like that. | |
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Being Tortured Makes You Evil | |
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Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Avalina guesses that Creeper was turned evil with the constant abuses the Horned King put him through. | |
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Only the Chosen May Ride | |
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Only the Chosen May Ride: Mitternacht. His original rider (Avalina's maternal knight uncle) allowed no-one else to ride him. After the knight died, the horse furiously rejected everyone who tried to tame him. Avalina earned his trust slowly, and Mitternacht hasn't allowed anyone else to ride him, not even King Gwydion. However, through Avalina's gentle encouragements, he allows the Horned King to ride him. | |
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Fight Off the Kryptonite | |
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Fight Off the Kryptonite: The Horned King when he has to dive in the castle's lake to save Avalina from drowning. | |
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Papa Wolf: The Horned King slowly becomes one toward Avalina, especially after his above-mentioned Declaration of Protection. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: At the Horned King's demand, Avalina tells him how she came into the possession of Mitternacht four years earlier. Her story takes the length of eight and a half chapters. | |
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Magical Incantation | |
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Magical Incantation: In order to get from the Fates the truth behind the Horned King's resurrection and Avalina's association with him through Hen-Wen, Dallben says an incantation similar to the one he used in the movie. The pain-transference prayer to the Fates is cast in the same way. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: The Horned King becomes this as part of his Character Development; even though he remains dark, calculative and ruthless, he switches using his parole from the Cauldron to have revenge to taking care of the girl who has brought to his long life more than he's ever had. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The world of Prydain from the movie is expanded upon. One of the examples is the role of Arawn, who was merely hinted to be the monstrous soul trapped inside the Black Cauldron. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Before Taran and Eilonwy start telling Dallben about their almost fateful encounter with the Horned King and Avalina, Taran makes him promise not to tell anyone about what they're about to tell him. Dallben is shocked of it sounding similar to what he told the boy when using Hen-Wen's oracular powers in the movie. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: The first Invisible among the others. It certainly feels itself to be the only sane one in the castle at times. | |
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Beast and Beauty | |
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Beast and Beauty: The Horned King and Avalina are a non-romantic version of this trope. | |
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Post-Victory Collapse | |
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Post-Victory Collapse: This happens to the Horned King after he has slaughtered the Mad Pack. Justified since he lost much of his "blood". | |
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Go Through Me | |
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Go Through Me: When the Horned King is about to finish what he started on Taran, Avalina comes between them, pleading him to stop. Eventually the lich concedes after remembering how Taran saved Avalina from falling to the chasm created by the earthquake and leaves with her. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When the Horned King and Avalina encounter Taran and Eilonwy by chance while reaching a beautiful lookout, the lich is consumed by his bottled up hatred towards the boy and starts beating him up severely. He hardly notices pushing Avalina and Eilonwy out of the way repeatedly when they try to stop him. He's interrupted only by a sudden earthquake. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The Invisibles nickname the Horned King "the ol'Bonehead". This is a reference to Disney animators' protest against the producers' renaming of their movie Basil of Baker Street into a more American-sounding The Great Mouse Detective. They wrote a hilarious list of "new American titles" for past Disney movies, such as The Girl with the See-through Shoe. The Black Cauldron was renamed… The Evil Bonehead. | |
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Holding Hands | |
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Holding Hands: After the Horned King has told Avalina of how his actions made his current appearance, she senses again his downcast existence. For the first time she comes next to him voluntarily and takes his hand. After the initial shock, he returns the gesture. It's not many days after this that his heart comes back to life. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Avalina. Not that she wasn't pretty before, but when the Invisibles make her wear silk dresses (something brush farmers hardly can afford for) and fix her hair for her meals with the Horned King, she can hardly recognize the beautiful young lady staring back at her from the mirror. | |
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Hellish Horse | |
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Hellish Horse: Before being tamed by Avalina, Mitternacht was seen as one due to his violent rejection of a new rider. He was even called Diafol Ceffyl, which means Devil Horse in Welsh. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Avalina's father died four years earlier. | |
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Debt Detester | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_28e69c98 | comment |
Debt Detester: During the below mentioned Go Through Me situation, the Horned King remembers how Taran saved Avalina from certain death and grudgingly admits to himself that he owes the pig-keeper. Before he leaves with Avalina, he decides to repay the debt in his own twisted way; by putting back in place the boy's shoulder that was dislocated during the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown the lich gave Taran. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_294ed981 | comment |
See the Bilingual Bonus section above for more information. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2969dda7 | type |
Nightmare Fetishist | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2969dda7 | comment |
Nightmare Fetishist: The Horned King collected his slain soldiers to form the Cauldron-Born for centuries. They were his corrupted joy, and are still at some level as shown when he collects with Creeper the remaining Cauldron-Born outside the castle to make Avalina feel easier there. Instead of ordering the Invisibles to make them vanish, he stores them to the dungeon level's cells where Avalina never goes, a level above the room containing the Black Cauldron. He does this despite knowing that he can't use them for anything anymore. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2ab79021 | type |
Emerging from the Shadows | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2ab79021 | comment |
Emerging from the Shadows: Avalina's two first meetings with the Horned King has him concealing himself in shadows. During their third meeting, he reveals himself fully to her by slowly walking out of the shadows. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2ae29c0d | type |
The Dreaded | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2ae29c0d | comment |
The Horned King and Mitternacht. The horse was called Death by everyone, as well as feared and hated, believed to be a lost cause. Avalina proved that assumption to be unfounded while having a limited time period to do that, and the music helped in that. The third Invisible notes the similarities with Mitternacht and the Horned King's stories. Also, the lich becomes as protective of Avalina as Mitternacht. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2d4fa515 | type |
Ax-Crazy | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
Ax-Crazy: We get the Mad Pack, an entire pack of thirty-seven wolves of these. They suffer from an incurable disease similar to rabies, leading them to kill humans and animals just for the sake of killing. They've lost all their reason and natural instincts to the point that they attack on sight anything that moves, even an undead creature such as the Horned King. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2dae4381 | type |
My Master, Right or Wrong | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2dae4381 | comment |
My Master, Right or Wrong: The Invisibles are instructed by the Fates to obey the Horned King regardless of their own opinions. However, they can't harm anything on his orders or help him in harming them (but neither they can stop him from harming others by his own hand). | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2e7d6711 | type |
Enemy to All Living Things | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2e7d6711 | comment |
Enemy to All Living Things: Played with. The Horned King doesn't actively despise animals, but they instinctively avoid him or go mad in his presence. Even the gwythaint which is used to his aura of Death won't let him come near her, but through Avalina's gentle urging, Mitternacht finds the mind to approach the lich and allow him to pet him. Eventually the horse even allows the Horned King to ride him. When the Horned King seems to lose his Walking Wasteland trait and visits for the first time Avalina's garden, the animals don't seem to mind him more than they mind normal humans in general. Played straight with Arawn who hates all sorts of life. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2e7d6711 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2e9ce126 | type |
FragileFlower | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2e9ce126 | comment |
Fragile Flower: Avalina. She's so easy to bring close to tears. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_2e9ce126 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_327a8110 | type |
Life/Death Juxtaposition | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_327a8110 | comment |
Life/Death Juxtaposition: The Horned King is the walking epitome of death and Avalina of life. However, the former gradually loses this status, leading the latter to continue this dynamic with Arawn. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_327a8110 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_32e05e5e | type |
The Prankster | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_32e05e5e | comment |
The Prankster: The second and the third Invisible. They pull various and creative pranks on the Horned King. Since he can't physically hurt them, he can only rage at them. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_32e05e5e | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3496b29a | type |
Heart Is an Awesome Power | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3496b29a | comment |
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Avalina is not a fighter or a magic user, but her aura of Life and great compassion even for the likes of the Horned King allow her to accomplish some things many people wouldn't even dream of, like befriending the lich in question, causing his heart to reawaken, riding a gwythaint and causing an entire healthy forest to grow in a lifeless area. The Horned King himself lampshades this trope twice at least. In one instance he says it to comfort Avalina during one of her moments of self-loathing. The other instance is when he refuses to give in to Arawn's temptations. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_373283c9 | type |
This Cannot Be! | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_373283c9 | comment |
This Cannot Be!: This is the reaction of the various characters as they find out that the Horned King is alive. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_373283c9 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_39f43252 | type |
Villainous Lament | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_39f43252 | comment |
Villainous Lament: During one rainy night, the Horned King reflects on his dormant memories, his choices, his reawakened heart, his inability to dream, Avalina and her purity. He feels that he has lost much that he can't regain. While he doesn't sing, pieces of "Nemo" by Nightwish have been added to the narration. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_39f43252 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3b451101 | type |
Leaking Can of Evil | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3b451101 | comment |
Leaking Can of Evil: Arawn's spirit cannot exit the Black Cauldron, but he can communicate with others in their thoughts and influence their dreams. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3b451101 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3b99a9e0 | type |
Reality Warper | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3b99a9e0 | comment |
Reality Warper: The Invisibles can conjure just about any kinds of objects, and it's heavily implied that they can even travel between dimensions. Lampshaded by the Horned King, who muses on how invoking Take Over the World would've been significantly easier if he'd had similar abilities. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3b99a9e0 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3cb1d38d | type |
Bad Boss | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3cb1d38d | comment |
Bad Boss: The Horned King is this towards Creeper as much as he was in the movie, but Avalina's influence causes this trope to become downplayed. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3e22702 | type |
O.C. Stand-in | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3e22702 | comment |
O.C. Stand-in: The gwythaint. It's revealed to be a female and quickly befriends Avalina. Avalina names her Taranau Adeon, though she's called Addie by everyone. It's revealed that the other gwythaint, which died at the end of the movie, was her mate and had impregnated her before his death. The baby is born by the spring. One of the Horned King's former henchmen (the one who kidnaps Avalina) is revealed to be the one who almost killed Taran in the movie when the boy fell to the mess hall while trying to rescue Hen-Wen. The author chose that man to be the main threat to Avalina out of the bandits because his behavior during his brief appearance indicated that he enjoyed killing regardless of the victim's age. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3e22702 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3e458831 | type |
Water Wake-up | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3e458831 | comment |
Water Wake-up: Avalina gets one after she's captured by the Horned King's former men. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3e458831 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3ed17fe0 | type |
Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3ed17fe0 | comment |
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Avalina. The Horned King is amazed at how she is able to stubbornly hold onto her values despite everything she goes through because of him or otherwise. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3ed17fe0 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3f45f1e6 | type |
Adaptational Heroism | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3f45f1e6 | comment |
Adaptational Heroism: The movie's Horned King was an absolute, irredeemable sociopath. Here, he eventually becomes a Noble Demon. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3f45f1e6 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3f9a789a | type |
Teleportation Sickness | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3f9a789a | comment |
Teleportation Sickness: The Horned King's teleportation spell is physically draining for him, especially over a long distance. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_3f9a789a | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_40c57041 | type |
Manipulative Bastard | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bastard: Arawn. Since he apparently cannot do anything physical from the Cauldron, he uses mind games to try and ruin the Horned King's relationship with Avalina. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_40c57041 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4127eb1 | type |
ShutUpHannibal | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: The Horned King does this when Arawn starts trying to mess up with his head again after killing his former soldiers. Arawn tries to tempt his former apprentice with the sensation of killing again, even suggesting him to throttle Avalina as a practice for Taran's death. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4127eb1 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_41435fc2 | type |
Pie in the Face | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_41435fc2 | comment |
Pie in the Face: The Invisibles do this to the Horned King in front of Avalina as a way to lessen her fear of the lich that has risen because of Arawn. And it works! | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_41435fc2 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4160410d | comment |
Damsel in Distress: Avalina needs to be rescued by the Horned King several times. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4160410d | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4252627f | type |
Determined Homesteader | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4252627f | comment |
Determined Homesteader: Brush farmers are portrayed this way. They make their farms in Prydain's wilderness and visit civilization only twice or thrice a year. They work with a zest and a zeal not seen in industrial farmers. They're known for being honest, as they readily aid a neighbor in their time of need, and brave for choosing to live in Prydain's wilderness, which is known of its beasts. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4252627f | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_443b78cd | type |
Tranquil Fury | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: The Horned King is in this mode when he kills his former soldiers. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_446c5792 | type |
Villainous Rescue | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_446c5792 | comment |
Villainous Rescue: After the Horned King scares Avalina to flee the castle with Mitternacht, they're chased by the Mad Pack. They're eventually cornered, but before the wolves can kill them, the Horned King teleports there and kills most of the remaining wolves. He does this because Avalina is his only chance to remain free from the Black Cauldron. When Eilonwy is about to fall into a newly-formed chasm caused by a sudden earthquake, the Horned King grabs her. He does that only due to realizing that the princess is dear to Avalina (he has come to genuinely care for her at this point). Then he takes her hostage to ensure that Taran won't try to flee. When Avalina is close to drowning in cold water, the Horned King dives in to save her, fully aware of the dangers to himself. Just when Avalina is about to be killed by the bandits who kidnapped her, the Horned King teleports there with Creeper and Addie just in time to free her and slaughter all the bandits. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_446c5792 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4478c66d | type |
Flashback Nightmare | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4478c66d | comment |
Flashback Nightmare: The first chapter narrates the Horned King's death as shown in the movie. The next chapter reveals that it was all Avalina's dream. After the Horned King nearly kills him, it's revealed that Taran has replayed the above mentioned scene without variation almost every night for months. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_44e6fde4 | type |
The Sleepless | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_44e6fde4 | comment |
The Sleepless: The Horned King. The only explanation he gives Avalina for this is that "there is no rest for the wicked". He falls asleep for the first time in a millennium when he's in Avalina's garden for the first time. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_46c1dc8e | type |
Someone to Remember Him By | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_46c1dc8e | comment |
The gwythaint. It's revealed to be a female and quickly befriends Avalina. Avalina names her Taranau Adeon, though she's called Addie by everyone. It's revealed that the other gwythaint, which died at the end of the movie, was her mate and had impregnated her before his death. The baby is born by the spring. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_46f3f271 | type |
From Camouflage to Criminal | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_46f3f271 | comment |
From Camouflage to Criminal: Since the Horned King's demise, the few of his soldiers who survived have been terrorizing several villages and wanted while taking refuge in the wilderness. The Horned King is not surprised to learn that the barbarians have continued their ways even without him directing them. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_46f3f271 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Creeper starts out as the Jerkass he was in the movie, but he slowly softens up to Avalina. The Horned King, while still completely ruthless against anyone else, eventually comes to treat Avalina, Creeper, the Invisibles, Mitternacht and the gwythaints as his Nakama. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: After the Horned King reveals his identity to Avalina, he almost chokes her to death. Then he allows her to starve for days, almost causing her death. After those instances, he threatens multiple times to hurt her. Even after he warms up to her, he still feels no remorse for hurting Taran or Eilonwy. A group of bandits (who happen to be the Horned King's former henchmen) kidnap Avalina and intend to sell her into slavery illegally. They have done this to numerous other children and even killed them. The bandit who kidnapped Avalina eventually gets fed up with her and is mere moments from stabbing her throat with a dagger when the Horned King arrives with Creeper and Addie to rescue her. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_47d35854 | comment |
Intergenerational Friendship: The Horned King (who's over a thousand years old) and Avalina (who's 14 at the start of the story) slowly form this, though the lich shows shades of a Parental Substitute. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: The Horned King has to endure the Invisibles' numerous pranks without being able to retaliate physically. The first Invisible is constantly trolled by its fellows. Creeper retains this status from what was shown in the movie. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_485eb589 | type |
Sealed Evil in a Can | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: The Horned King will be forever imprisoned to the Black Cauldron if he doesn't fulfill the task the Fates have granted him. Meanwhile, the Cauldron contains the spirit of the Horned King's former master Arawn (though it's implied that there are others). | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: This trope (along with Battle Discretion Shot) is usually averted, like with the deaths of the Mad Pack wolves. However, when the Horned King, Creeper and Addie kill the bandits who kidnapped Avalina, she flees back to the castle under the lich's orders and the slaughter is left under the reader's imagination. However, in both of those instances, the remains are shown later. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: When the Horned King starts teaching Avalina self-defense with the dagger he has given her, he encourages this philosophy; don't look for a fight, keep the weapon concealed if possible, take the first chance to flee from the fight, aim for the enemy's closest part to you and kill if there is no other way out. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At one point, when the Horned King attempts to leave and get away from the Invisibles, Avalina happily reminds that they haven't sung yet. The chapter ends with the Invisibles singing a combination of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows". | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4a57732a | type |
Friendless Background | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4a57732a | comment |
Friendless Background: Creeper has been abused by everyone around him for his entire life, and the Horned King has been doing evil for his own benefit for centuries. For both of them, Avalina is their first friend. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4a57732a | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4a8c4e5f | type |
Big "WHAT?!" | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4a8c4e5f | comment |
Big "WHAT?!": After Creeper and Avalina search for quite a while a suitable boy's name for Addie's baby and agree upon one, she announces that they'll just have to pick one from the girl's side as well. This trope is Creeper's reaction. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4b4f6a2f | type |
Mood-Swinger | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4b4f6a2f | comment |
Mood-Swinger: The Horned King notes that Avalina seems to be able to switch between joyfulness and sadness in a moment. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4b4f6a2f | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4ba070fd | type |
Drunken Song | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4ba070fd | comment |
Drunken Song: Creeper sings some parts from "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" after drinking too much mead. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: When Avalina and the Horned King encounter by chance two persons on a hill, the lich is consumed by hatred and the chapter ends with him saying "Pig-Keeper". | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4e7c4536 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4f292929 | type |
Tall, Dark, and Snarky | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4f292929 | comment |
The Horned King can be one, especially towards the Invisibles. It's the only way he's able to compete against them with his inability to touch them physically. He may also qualify as Tall, Dark, and Snarky; he's taller than other characters with his height of about 6.5 feet, he's knowledgeable, and while he has no hair, he has a dark aura. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4f4bbeff | type |
Interspecies Friendship | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4f4bbeff | comment |
Interspecies Friendship: There's Avalina (human) with the Horned King (lich), Creeper (goblin) and the Invisibles (creations of the Fates). She's also pretty close to Mitternacht (horse) and quickly befriends Addie (gwythaint). Also, Mitternacht and Addie become playmates through the races they have, with Avalina riding Mitternacht and Creeper riding Addie. Later, Addie's baby Gethin is added to the picture. | |
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Beneath the Mask | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_4fbc0887 | comment |
Beneath the Mask: Avalina is over time able to sense — mostly during the music hours — that the Horned King is under his cold and scary shell a very lonely, desperate and unloved person. Mitternacht (or Malwolaeth/Diafol Ceffyl, as he was called at the time) was viewed as a monster by everyone, but Avalina was able to see that he just didn't know how to express his sorrow over the death of his rider other than through rage. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_53136954 | type |
Book Dumb | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_53136954 | comment |
Book Dumb: As a brush farmer, Avalina has never had the best of education, but the Horned King recognizes her as a bright child and passionate learner. Not satisfied with the idea of such potential being wasted on meager tasks, the lich starts educating her himself. Avalina argues that Creeper has potential also and convinces the Horned King to educate him as well. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_53136954 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_54844c6e | type |
From Dress to Dressing | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_54844c6e | comment |
From Dress to Dressing: After the Horned King wipes out the entire Mad Pack and falls unconscious, Avalina uses his shredded robe to make him bandages. Later she uses the fabric of her own skirt and cloak to do the same to Taran after the Horned King nearly kills him. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_554063c6 | type |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_554063c6 | comment |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him: Or If You Leave Him To Die, You Will Be Just Like Him when Avalina has the chance to escape the wounded and unconscious Horned King. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_554063c6 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_563a542f | type |
Eating Optional | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_563a542f | comment |
Eating Optional: Inverted. While the Horned King doesn't feel hunger like humans do, his body needs sustainment like mortal bodies. Since he cannot taste or smell anything, eating is not a pleasant experience to him. It's implied that he can require sustainment through other ways and eats only because that's the only option available currently. | |
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No Honor Among Thieves | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5937a87c | comment |
No Honor Among Thieves: It's made clear that the bandits who kidnap Avalina are working together only because there's strength in numbers and wouldn't need much to turn on each other. When one of the more paranoid ones keeps voicing his fear of gwythaint ghosts, he's killed by Avalina's captor. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5963b221 | type |
Eviler than Thou | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5963b221 | comment |
Eviler Than Thou: Arawn towards the Horned King. The Death Lord was the only one who surpassed his former apprentice in cruelty. He even chews at the Horned King for becoming "a disgrace to the name of Evil". | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5b2efa6c | type |
Music Soothes the Savage Beast | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5b2efa6c | comment |
Music Soothes the Savage Beast: When the Horned King first hears Avalina playing piano and singing, he notices that it has a soothing effect on him. He makes it a routine for her to play him music for an hour daily. It helps Avalina to get under his shell in the long run. When Avalina encountered Malwolaeth (Mitternacht) for the second time, she managed to get close to him by singing about loss. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5ca80293 | type |
Pragmatic Villainy | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5ca80293 | comment |
Pragmatic Villainy: The Horned King describes himself as someone who doesn't believe in any sort of waste, especially when it pertains to him. For example, after saving Avalina from the Mad Pack, he's close to killing her out of fury but doesn't do it because then everything he went through to keep her would be for naught. The Horned King describes his former master Arawn this way; while heartless, the Death Lord of Annuvin doesn't believe in attacking something for no reason because it would be a waste of time, resources and energy. Instead, he would spot a potential threat and eliminate it without expending extra energy. Therefore, the reason he torments Avalina at all is because he sees her as a threat to his own long-term plans. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5dda1915 | type |
Evil Makes You Monstrous | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5dda1915 | comment |
Evil Makes You Monstrous: When Avalina finally finds the courage to ask the Horned King if his appearance is inherent or the result of something that happened in the past, he lampshades this trope beautifully (adding some Anatomy of the Soul traits to the mix). | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5eb92325 | type |
Declaration of Protection | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5eb92325 | comment |
Declaration of Protection: After the Horned King saves Avalina from drowning and she uses a prayer to the Fates to transfer his water-caused pain to herself and accepts his apology for the cruel treatment he has given her for the past weeks after preventing his revenge on Taran, he realizes how much he values her life over Taran's death and internally swears to protect her. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5f930b19 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5f930b19 | comment |
Taran is apparently named after some historical person. When the Horned King finally learns the boy's name from Eilonwy, the lich thinks that the pig-keeper is "as arrogant and useless as his namesake". | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_5f930b19 | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_603b77ec | type |
Savage Wolves | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_603b77ec | comment |
Savage Wolves: The Mad Pack is a large pack of rabid wolves that has been terrorizing animals and humans of Prydain for twenty years, increasing in numbers over the years. The incurable disease they suffer from causes them to attack and kill anything that moves. By the time they're faced, their number is thirty-five. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_61066d95 | type |
Fictional Counterpart | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_61066d95 | comment |
Fictional Counterpart: The author has invented the language of Mrenagy to substitute Germany. It doubles as a Significant Anagram because "Mrenagy" is the word "Germany" rearranged. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_61c96b0a | type |
Fertile Feet | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_61c96b0a | comment |
Fertile Feet: Avalina turns out to be this, having an extraordinarily strong aura of Life. She gets the permission to try to tend a garden on the Horned King's lands during the autumn. Slowly her work brings results; by the spring, some green grows, worms appear in the soil, some birds appear to eat them, and the sun shines a little bit through the permanently cloudy sky. Suddenly an entire healthy forest appears in the place of dead trees in one night. The Invisibles had apparently put Creeper to fly with Addie and spread magical treedust all over the area to speed up the trees' growth. However, they say that Avalina had to first want the trees to grow. After Avalina's birthday, the lake's water becomes clean again, fish appear in it, and a deer herd briefly drinks the water. More animals appear soon after. The Horned King wonders how Avalina's aura's effects have not been noticed before. The Invisibles theorize that because everything grew by itself where she lived before, her aura's influence wasn't needed. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_6201e8b0 | type |
I Have Your Wife | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_6201e8b0 | comment |
When Eilonwy is about to fall into a newly-formed chasm caused by a sudden earthquake, the Horned King grabs her. He does that only due to realizing that the princess is dear to Avalina (he has come to genuinely care for her at this point). Then he takes her hostage to ensure that Taran won't try to flee. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_630910ba | type |
Finger-Twitching Revival | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_630910ba | comment |
Finger-Twitching Revival: While being treated by Avalina after his nearly fatal fight with the Mad Pack, the Horned King twitches his fingers when he regains consciousness. | |
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Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_630910ba | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_65fcc287 | type |
Lima Syndrome | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_65fcc287 | comment |
Lima Syndrome: The Horned King imprisons Avalina in order to keep his resurrection a secret. After months of living with her, he genuinely starts to care for her. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_68a91d1c | type |
Honest Advisor | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_68a91d1c | comment |
Honest Advisor: The Invisibles serve as this to the Horned King. They are not afraid to bring forth their opinions to him since he can do nothing to hurt them physically. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_68cac7e0 | type |
Animate Dead | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_68cac7e0 | comment |
The Horned King reveals that he collected slain soldiers to form the Cauldron-Born for centuries before being even sure of the Cauldron's existence. It's a reference to what he said about them after they had been created; "all dead from centuries past". (The scene is actually shown in one of the Bad Dreams made by Arawn.) | |
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I Am a Monster | |
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The Horned King acknowledges himself as a monster (and initially is that by all means and purposes), but due to Avalina's influence, he slowly becomes more along the lines of a Noble Demon. Even then he thinks that he's the Master of All Evil, despite what other people may say. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name/Meaningful Rename: Avalina lampshades these tropes, arguing that names do matter and that if one's name no longer suits their personality, they should be renamed. Mitternacht means Midnight in Germany (though the author has invented Mrenagy as the language). He was originally called Malwolaeth (Death in Welsh) or Diafol Ceffyl (Devil Horse in Welsh). After Avalina won his trust, she renamed him. Avalina eventually christens the female gwythaint as Taranau Adeon, which means "Thunder Wings". The gwythaint appreciates it, though she's called Addie by everyone. After Addie's baby is born and turns out to be a male, he's given a name Avalina has chosen with Creeper: Gethin, meaning "dark" or "dusky". She picked it up because of him being quite dark. Though the Horned King tells her that all gwythaints are dark when born and most lighten as they age, she has a feeling that Gethin will be quite dark when he grows up. After the Horned King has regained a living heart, Avalina promises to invent him a new name. She eventually comes up with Morvenius, which apparently means "Release of a gentle man". The lich is honored by the meaning. Taran is apparently named after some historical person. When the Horned King finally learns the boy's name from Eilonwy, the lich thinks that the pig-keeper is "as arrogant and useless as his namesake". | |
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Beware the Silly Ones | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_6c75e0e4 | comment |
Beware the Silly Ones: The Prankster duo of the Invisibles. They're nearly all the time fun-loving and optimistic sidekicks squeezing enjoyment out of nearly every situation, no matter how bad it might be. However, if you touch something they care about, they instantly turn into something Mother Nature herself couldn't rival in vindictiveness and malice. The first Invisible lampshades it this way when the Horned King locks up Avalina after revealing his identity to her, being pretty sure that the twins might do horrible things to the lich regardless of the Fates' instructions. | |
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Waif Prophet | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_6f7c8268 | comment |
In order to get from the Fates the truth behind the Horned King's resurrection and Avalina's association with him through Hen-Wen, Dallben says an incantation similar to the one he used in the movie. | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The Horned King and Avalina, respectively. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: In the movie, the Horned King was a Non-Action Big Bad. In this story, he gets in some action scenes, proving in all of them that he's not someone to be trifled with. | |
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Horrifying the Horror | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_79f9249 | comment |
Horrifying the Horror: Even before his eventual Character Development, the Horned King — himself The Dreaded to nearly everyone — has this mindset big-time toward both the Cauldron and Arawn. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Taran is revealed to have had Flashback Nightmares of the Horned King's death almost every night. While his friends seem to have moved on with their lives, his dreams have driven him to regret his dreams of becoming a warrior or wishing that he had never been involved in the first place or even that he had thrown himself to the Black Cauldron instead of Gurgi. He continuously dwells upon the morality of his actions back then, never finding a comforting answer. He hasn't told anyone of his dreams, but he has a feeling that Dallben and Eilonwy know. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: Avalina's first scene has her remembering one of the tales she knows, finding herself wondering how the Horned King could have become a monster and pitying the vanquished warlord despite herself. | |
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The Dark Side Will Make You Forget | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_818fa473 | comment |
The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: The Horned King has for so long been absorbed in his goal of finding the Black Cauldron in order to take over the world that he has forgotten much of his long past. He doesn't remember who he was before becoming Arawn's apprentice or the reason for his desire to conquer the world. As he spends time with Avalina, he receives several flashbacks of his past life. | |
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Foreign-Language Tirade | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_84dbbd8c | comment |
Foreign-Language Tirade: After one of the Invisibles' infuriating pranks on him, the Horned King curses them under his breath in all the languages he knows, but retains himself from using English since Avalina is present. | |
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Song of Courage | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_8574b725 | comment |
Song of Courage: When Avalina and Mitternacht have to return from her family to the Horned King's castle, they're understandably sad. When they come to the border of lich's lands, Avalina starts to sing "Blowin' In The Wind" by Bob Dylan. With its help, the horse and his rider are able to enter the castle, looking proud like soldiers. | |
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Plucky Girl | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_85debad9 | comment |
Plucky Girl: Avalina. Despite everything she goes through throughout story (and before it), she remains a pure and positive girl. | |
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Reflective Eyes | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_88384522 | comment |
Reflective Eyes: When the Horned King is about to choke Avalina to death after revealing his identity to her, he sees his own reflection in her eyes. Death reflected back at him actually makes him flinch before he locks the girl in the dungeons. | |
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Friendly Tickle Torture | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_88bc1e5 | comment |
Friendly Tickle Torture: After his heart starts beating again after centuries, the Horned King develops the habit of giving these to Avalina at the end of their plays. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: The story is narrated mostly through the Horned King's point of view, in addition to Avalina's. | |
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Character Signature Song | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_8acdad69 | comment |
Character Signature Song: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" seems to have become this for The Prankster Invisibles. Later the Invisibles sing endlessly "Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows". At the end of the 142nd chapter, the Invisibles combine the aforementioned songs. | |
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What a Drag | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_8c52888c | comment |
What a Drag: We get a humorous version when Creeper is stuck in the rope tied around a running Gethin. | |
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I Would Say If I Could Say | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_8e0075dc | comment |
I Would Say If I Could Say: The Horned King acts like this regarding the positive emotions and hope that start awakening in him. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_8ec0abf | type |
The Voiceless | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_8ec0abf | comment |
The Voiceless: Invoked. The Invisibles are instructed that no-one besides the Horned King or Creeper is to hear them speaking. However, after the Invisibles disobey that order several times, the Fates eventually give up trying to enforce it. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: A bandit group kidnaps Avalina from the Horned King's (their former master's) lands with the intention of selling her illegally into slavery, like they have done to numerous other children (if they haven't killed them first) for months. They're all slaughtered by the Horned King, Addie and Creeper (the same little goblin they all used to bully in the past). | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Horned King kills his former soldiers partly because of this trope after saving Avalina. | |
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DefrostingIceKing | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_95f2d65e | comment |
Defrosting Ice King: Avalina gets inside the Horned King's chilling shell over time. | |
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Big Bad | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Arawn, the Death Lord of Annuvin and the Horned King's former master who was sealed inside the Black Cauldron centuries ago. He becomes the main antagonist because he wants to have his former apprentice re-imprisoned with him so that he can continue torturing him forever. For that end, he's doing everything in his power to prevent Avalina from saving the Horned King's soul. He also qualifies as the Non-Action Big Bad because of his status as a trapped spirit. | |
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Never My Fault | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: When Avalina is rescued by the Horned King, Creeper and Addie from the bandits, the one who captured her tries to kill her again, accusing her of leading the lich back to them. In reality, it's he who caused this to happen by kidnapping Avalina from the Horned King's lands in the first place. Also, she did warn them that she's under the lich's protection (they didn't believe her as they didn't know of his resurrection). | |
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Time Abyss | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_98a63dc6 | comment |
Time Abyss: The Invisibles are creations of the Fates themselves, and it's stated that they've existed at least a millenium. | |
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Not So Different | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_993cf18f | comment |
Not So Different: The Horned King and Mitternacht. The horse was called Death by everyone, as well as feared and hated, believed to be a lost cause. Avalina proved that assumption to be unfounded while having a limited time period to do that, and the music helped in that. The third Invisible notes the similarities with Mitternacht and the Horned King's stories. Also, the lich becomes as protective of Avalina as Mitternacht. After enduring numerous pranks from the Invisibles for many months, the Horned King makes a mental recapitulation about them and finds in them two traits that remind him of himself; the Invisibles are deeply passionate about their work, like he had been about world domination, and like him, they have endless drive and ruthless determination to make something work, no matter how difficult that might be. | |
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EvilCounterpart | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: The evil and death Arawn represents are the perfect antithesis of the goodness and life Avalina represents, including their respective roles in regards to the Horned King. | |
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Knife Fight | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_9c20a410 | comment |
Knife Fight: While teaching Avalina to handle her dagger, the Horned King says that this trope is a myth. It's not a civilized duel, but a real fight with victory as the goal. | |
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His Story Repeats Itself | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_9c5472c7 | comment |
His Story Repeats Itself: After hearing Avalina's story of how she met and tamed Mitternacht, the third Invisible notes how her situation with the horse back then is not so different from her current situation with the Horned King (or the horse's situation back then with the lich's situation right now). | |
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Single-Minded Twins | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_9ccedbed | comment |
Single-Minded Twins: The second and the third Invisible act like these a lot of the time. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: When the Horned King first gets a good look at Avalina's green eyes, they remind him of forests and sunlight. When the Horned King wakes up after his exhausting battle with the Mad Pack and finds himself back in his castle, he looks for less than a second like he's been slapped in the face. Many chapters and months later, he's actually slapped in the face by Avalina of all people. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: There are numerous references to the events of the movie. It's remembered that the Black Cauldron was left to the Witches of Morva, though it's currently situated right in the spot inside the Horned King's castle from where he used it. The Horned King was never told Taran's name onscreen, which is why he keeps referring to him as "Pig-Keeper" even after Eilonwy tells him the name. Taran asks Dallben to promise not to tell anyone about what he and Eilonwy are about to tell him. Dallben is shocked by being on the receiving end of his own words. When Creeper sees the Horned King diving in the lake in order to save Avalina, he remembers how Taran agreed to comply with the lich's demands in order to save Hen-Wen's life. That's the closest thing the goblin has witnessed to this scenario — someone saving someone else's life with great personal risk. The Horned King reveals that he collected slain soldiers to form the Cauldron-Born for centuries before being even sure of the Cauldron's existence. It's a reference to what he said about them after they had been created; "all dead from centuries past". (The scene is actually shown in one of the Bad Dreams made by Arawn.) While Avalina is weeding her garden one day, she ends up finding one of the former Cauldron-Born. She realizes that the area around the castle's drawbridge is full of them, and there are probably hundreds of them. This event was written after the author remembered a certain scene from the movie: when the Black Cauldron's power left the Cauldron-Born, many of them "died" on the lands around the drawbridge. The Invisibles had removed the skeletons inside the castle and the courtyard when they were reformed, but since they can't go outside that circle and the area was restored to the way it was before, of course the skeletons would still be there. The Horned King's former henchmen are assuming that the lich's castle was never destroyed. That's explained by the fact that they fled well before the castle exploded. They also assume that Creeper and both of the gwythaints — along with anyone else inside the castle at the time — met their ends at the hands of the Cauldron-Born, like they witnessed happening to some of their own. | |
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Empathic Healer | |
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Empathic Healer: There is a prayer to the Fates that allows the prayer to transfer the pain of someone else into themselves. Avalina uses this after the Horned King saves her from drowning and the water inside his body leaves him in a painful state. Fortunately, the prayer transfers only the pain, not the cause of it. | |
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One-Man Army | |
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One-Man Army: The Horned King against the Mad Pack of about thirty Ax-Crazy wolves. Only after they're all dead he collapses. | |
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Infinite Supplies | |
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Infinite Supplies: The Invisibles can conjure things out of thin air, even stuff that shouldn't exist in the setting or timeline the story takes place. They are always vague about where they get the stuff. When they disobey the Fates, they're confiscated of this ability for a while several times. | |
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What Is This Feeling? | |
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What Is This Feeling?: The emotionless Horned King is confused by the pleasant feelings Avalina wakes up in him. His memories about them are faded to the extend that he has to describe them to her so that she can guess what they are. At one point, when the lich has wine in his mouth, it feels strange. After the Invisibles confirm that they’ve done nothing to his food, they realize that he has regained his sense of taste. | |
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Get Out! | |
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Get Out: The Horned King tells Avalina this after the above mentioned Armor-Piercing Slap. He does this again when she later comes to start the music hour. | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
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Secret Keeper: When the Horned King allows Avalina to return to her mother and brother for three days to say her farewells, she convinces them to keep all about her situation a secret. They reluctantly agree, both to prevent mass panic from erupting from the knowledge of the Horned King's return and because they can't possibly do anything without endangering Avalina's life. Months later, after Taran and Eilonwy's almost fateful encounter with the Horned King and Avalina, they recount it to Dallben. They eventually decide to remain silent for the same reasons as Avalina's family. | |
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Purple Is Powerful | |
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Purple Is Powerful: Avalina isn't fond of purple as it reminds her of bruises and injuries, but after pondering about it while being bedridden, she realizes that it can also represent royalty, pride and wealth. | |
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Cool Horse | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_a588c1cf | comment |
Cool Horse: Mitternacht, Avalina's faithful mount. He is a black Friesian that was originally the mount of a great knight (who happened to be Avalina's maternal uncle). When the knight was killed in combat, the horse became furious with grief, allowing no-one to ride him before Avalina. He's very protective of her and strong-willed, being the first known horse that hasn't lost its sanity for being near the Horned King for so long. He can even give humbling looks to the lich and scare away the spirit of Arawn from tormenting Avalina's dreams. | |
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Stockholm Syndrome | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_a5f998ea | comment |
Stockholm Syndrome: Played with. During the long months in the Horned King's castle, with the lich and Creeper being the only speaking creatures to talk to, Avalina finds herself not hating the Horned King like she should after the kindness he has shown her lately and the subtle changes in him since their first meeting (despite the initial cruelty and his countless sins before that). She realizes that a part of her wants to stay with him since he listens to her much more than her family. (Her increased chances of reading and playing piano, along with getting a chance to ride Addie, are also a factor.) | |
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Really700YearsOld | |
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Really 700 Years Old: The Horned King is revealed to be over one thousand years old. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Arawn was in the movie merely hinted to be the cruel king sealed in the Black Cauldron. The fic makes him the Big Bad to the Horned King's Villain Protagonist. | |
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Emerald Power | |
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Emerald Power: The Horned King describes at one point Avalina's eyes to resemble sunlit emeralds. | |
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Musical Chores | |
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Musical Chores: While tending to Mitternacht the day following her arrival to the Horned King's castle, Avalina sings a slightly altered version of S.J. Tucker's "Ravens in the Library". | |
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Super-Strength | |
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Super Strength: The Horned King is strong enough to swing a massive log over his head like a club, throw off of himself numerous wolves swarming over him and break a rock by squeezing it with some of his fingers. According to himself, he easily possesses the strength of ten men at least. | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like in the movie, the Horned King's normally pitch black eyes turn blood red with black slit pupils when he's very angry. | |
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Mordor | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_aa2bd65c | comment |
Mordor: The Horned King's lands. The sky is permanently in red clouds, the lake's water is lifeless and poisonous, trees are dead, nothing green grows in the soil, and no animals of any kind appear. Despite this, Avalina tries to tend a garden there. She starts by the fall and gets results in the spring, making this trope subverted. See the Fertile Feet section above for more details. | |
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Nakama | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_ab182bc2 | comment |
The Horned King, while still completely ruthless against anyone else, eventually comes to treat Avalina, Creeper, the Invisibles, Mitternacht and the gwythaints as his Nakama. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: The Horned King does something beneficial to Prydain while saving Avalina's life multiple times. First he puts an end to the Mad Pack, the Ax-Crazy pack of Savage Wolves that has terrorized the humans and animals for two decades. Months later, the lich kills (with Creeper and Addie's help) the children-kidnapping and killing bandits who were his soldiers. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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After the Invisibles perform "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for the first time and Avalina wonders if she could the sheet music for it, the Horned King's horrorstruck look screams this trope. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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The Horned King describes his former master Arawn this way; while heartless, the Death Lord of Annuvin doesn't believe in attacking something for no reason because it would be a waste of time, resources and energy. Instead, he would spot a potential threat and eliminate it without expending extra energy. Therefore, the reason he torments Avalina at all is because he sees her as a threat to his own long-term plans. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: The Horned King can be one, especially towards the Invisibles. It's the only way he's able to compete against them with his inability to touch them physically. He may also qualify as Tall, Dark, and Snarky; he's taller than other characters with his height of about 6.5 feet, he's knowledgeable, and while he has no hair, he has a dark aura. The Invisibles are very sarcastic, qualifying also as Servile Snarkers. Creeper has several moments of being sarcastic. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: When the badly injured Horned King passes out after killing the entire Mad Pack, Avalina has the chance to leave him to die and return home. Her heart opposes this idea and battles against her head. Eventually she gives in to her heart and brings the lich back to his castle, telling her head that she couldn't ever forget leaving someone to die willingly and she'd be guilty of murder as much as the Horned King. | |
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Instant Birth: Just Add Water! | |
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Instant Birth: Just Add Water!: Downplayed. It's not revealed how long Addie is in labor when her baby is ready to be born, but after the water breaks, it takes several minutes for the birth to be complete. | |
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Toilet Humour | |
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Toilet Humour: During one of the Invisibles' conversations, The Prankster duo repeatedly use the term "poop". The disgusted first Invisible eventually snaps and demands them to find a substitute for it, threatening to arrange the things so that they can never touch glitter or sparkly stuff again. The duo sounds initially shocked but then they take away their comrade's triumph by calling it a "dung heap". | |
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Shadow Archetype | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_b5e63cc4 | comment |
Shadow Archetype: Arawn is this to the Horned King. The Death Lord of Annuvin is the Horned King's eviler former mentor who also sought the Black Cauldron in order to conquer the world. After his death, he has for centuries been imprisoned for life inside the Cauldron. Simultaneously Arawn represents what the Horned King was before Avalina came to his life and what the master is trying to turn his apprentice back into, and what he would become should he remain forever trapped in the Cauldron. | |
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Psychoactive Powers | |
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Psychoactive Powers: Weeks after the incident with the Horned King's former soldiers, thick and thorny rosebushes grow on the borders of lich's lands, barring the area from the rest of Prydain. The only explanation the lich can come up with is that the phenomenon is a manifestation of Avalina's fear of intruders coming to hurt her again in her little haven. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Taran, Eilonwy and any of their friends have been mentioned many times, but they have appeared only in a couple of chapters so far. | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_ba0ff694 | comment |
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!: After the Invisibles perform "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for the first time and Avalina wonders if she could the sheet music for it, the Horned King's horrorstruck look screams this trope. This is Creeper's reaction when Avalina figures out Addie's pregnancy. | |
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Impossible Task | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_bd6b86df | comment |
Impossible Task: The Horned King doesn't believe that he can gain a human's love, especially in the beginning. Some of the Invisibles, especially the first one, share the sentiment. | |
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Comforting Comforter | |
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Comforting Comforter: When Avalina falls asleep while in the library, the room gets cooler. The Invisibles' can't provide her a blanket due to their conjuring abilities being confiscated at the time, so the Horned King has to give his fur stole. | |
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First Time Feeling | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_bf68ac04 | comment |
First Time Feeling: The Horned King doesn't have a beating heart and due to that, no emotions. He explains to Avalina that he feels only twisted, muted versions of the real things. However, after experiencing for months something resembling positive emotions, his heart comes alive after centuries of being dormant. His emotions become stronger after this, both the positive and negative ones. After Avalina prevents his chance to have revenge on Taran, he’s angry at her for weeks. Eventually she realizes that because the lich hasn't had to deal with real emotions for centuries, of course he would be overwhelmed by them. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
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Weaksauce Weakness: Water causes the Horned King severe burns. Snow has the same effect if it melts on him. Diluted water (such as tea) burns him as easily as pure water, though not as severely. However, he seems to be able to digest wine. | |
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Alien Blood | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_c2f7db18 | comment |
Alien Blood: The Horned King has thick blackish substance in the place of his life-force. It's only called blood due to lack of a better term, and it apparently hurts the Invisibles if they touch it. | |
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Irony | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: At one point Avalina has to puncture an abscess in Mitternacht's frog, but she has never done that before. The contradictory information she gets from books makes her unsure, as she doesn't want to hurt her horse. The Horned King advises her to trust her own judgement about what alternative would be best and not let doubt, second-guessing and the opinions of others to hinder her decision making. It turns out that this is exactly what the Horned King’s former master Arawn had told him centuries ago. That advice had helped him to become both a powerful warlord and such a monstrous being. | |
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_c3b51bb3 | comment |
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Avalina breaks down and decreases herself due to her physical weakness after being released from her sickbed she has spent time in after nearly drowning. The Horned King puts an end to it and explains to her that she has a different kind of strength (other than physical, mental or emotional) that's also the most uncommon version of it. | |
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Dem Bones | |
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Arawn. He repeatedly torments Avalina through her dreams to keep her fear of the Horned King fresh. The dreams include the Horned King at his scariest, the Cauldron-Born, and deaths of her beloved ones. | |
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Chastity Dagger | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_c65ba3a0 | comment |
Chastity Dagger: The Horned King has the Invisibles craft a dagger for Avalina, and he gives it to her a week after her 15th birthday. He encourages her to keep it hidden if possible and use it should the need rise. | |
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The Nicknamer | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_c83cd6b8 | comment |
The Nicknamer: The second and the third Invisible invent all kinds of nicknames for people, mostly for the Horned King. | |
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Even the Rats Won't Touch It | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_c8d69cac | comment |
Even the Rats Won't Touch It: When Arran's friend Yale shows him the remains of the Mad Pack a fortnight after the pack's demise, the wolves' meat has been left untouched by scavengers. Only flies, maggots and gnats touch them. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_c93a6560 | comment |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: While Avalina and Mitternacht are fleeing from the Mad Pack, they jump over a five feet tall log that has spear-like branches sticking out of it. Two of the wolves are impaled by them as they jump. Their deaths are slow as their remains prove two weeks later. | |
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Resurrected for a Job | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_cbac6f8a | comment |
Resurrected for a Job: The Horned King is restored to his physical form and put on a Redemption Quest. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: All the thirty-seven wolves of the Mad Pack die either while chasing Avalina and Mitternacht or while fighting the Horned King. Later the bandit group of over twenty men (who are all former soldiers of the Horned King) who kidnap Avalina are slaughtered by the Horned King, Creeper and Addie. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The Horned King was bad in the movie, but the exploration of his character makes him less menacing. While there are no musicals in the movie, this story provides many songs (both sad and happy ones). Avalina and the Invisibles also lessen seriousness of the pace. While the Horned King's past as a ruthless warlord is reminded of and some darker elements have been included (like the Mad Pack and Arawn), the story is overall more idealistic than the movie. | |
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The Corruption | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_cf168867 | comment |
The Corruption: Avalina describes hatred this way while she withers under the Horned King's anger toward her. She says that it's the only emotion that doesn't need a living heart to stem from and is a demon of its own right. | |
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Armor-Piercing Slap | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d043ab87 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Slap: Played with. During the Horned King and Avalina's argument about her interference in the lich's chance to have his revenge on Taran, she suddenly slaps his face. While it doesn't hurt him physically (she can't hit hard), he's shocked that anyone slaps him at all and that it's her of all people. Unfortunately, the slap only makes him hold anger toward her for weeks. | |
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Talking with Signs | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff | comment |
Talking with Signs: Since the Invisibles are forbidden to talk to Avalina, they communicate to her through parchments with text written on them. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d129e13e | comment |
Eureka Moment: After enduring weeks of cold shouldered treatment from the Horned King after preventing his revenge on Taran, Avalina is saddened at how his recently reawakened heart seems to be dying again. She suddenly realizes from the word heart that since the Horned King now has real emotions after centuries due to having a living heart to receive them from, of course his now stronger anger would overwhelm him. | |
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Big "SHUT UP!" | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d1e7f24a | comment |
Big "SHUT UP!": When the Horned King starts begging for mercy when the Fates say that Arawn can imprison him should his Redemption Quest fail, they silence him this way. | |
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Please Spare Him, My Liege! | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d1fc4a16 | comment |
Please Spare Him, My Liege!: When the Horned King is about to kill Creeper for hitting Avalina's face while she was in the dungeons and seemingly defying the order to stay out of the girl's sight, Avalina begs the lich to spare the goblin, reasoning that because she didn't see him clearly, he didn't defy the order. Deciding that a good argument deserves a reward, the lich lets Creeper live. After that incident, Avalina does this several more times when the Horned King intends at different point to punish Creeper and kill Taran. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: After the Horned King keeps Avalina locked up in the dungeons for two weeks with a barely sufficient feeding, one of the two prankster Invisibles finds her barely alive. It immediately rushes to scream at the Horned King's face about his cruelty towards Avalina and indifference for the chance he's been granted to be free of the Cauldron. It outright orders him to go to the dungeons and see the poor girl. The lich actually does that (though he claims that the reason is not the Invisible) and decides to let the Invisibles nurture Avalina back to health. | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d3a4af1e | comment |
Sympathy for the Devil: Avalina towards the Horned King even before meeting him. One night (in the second chapter) she wonders what might have led him to become such a monster. The sympathy grows when she gets to know him over time, pushing away any hatred. After playing over the Horned King's death nearly every night for months and realizing how desperate the lich was at the time, Taran feels against his will slightly guilty for ruining everything the Horned King had worked for and given any value to. | |
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Dog Pile of Doom | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d4385289 | comment |
Dog Pile of Doom: The A Type version occurs during the Horned King's fight against the Mad Pack. | |
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Cry into Chest | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d5eed41c | comment |
Cry into Chest: Avalina does this several times with the Horned King after his heart comes back to life. | |
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Kick the Morality Pet | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d86fcde6 | comment |
Kick the Morality Pet: After Avalina convinces the Horned King to spare Taran, the lich is angry at her. After the argument that involves the above mentioned Armor-Piercing Slap, he seethes at her for weeks, prompting her to avoid him out of fear, cry daily and weaken physically. He hardly tries to rectify the situation out of anger and pride, and the situation worsens when Arawn prompts him to say out loud that Avalina means nothing to her and that he should have killed her long time ago. The lich realizes her presence only after saying that. The situation is resolved after the Horned King saves Avalina from drowning and he apologizes for his behavior. | |
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Our Dragons Are Different | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d88e125e | comment |
Our Dragons Are Different: The Horned King tells Avalina that despite resembling dragons, gwythaints aren't those. He tells of his encounter with one dragon. It was built like a gwythaint, but it had four legs and bronze colored scales, and it was as large as two peasant houses put together. It didn't breathe fire (but he has heard tales from people who have actually seen firebreathers), but spat lava instead. He explains that some dragon types can accomplish this by eating rocks and digesting them into a lava-like substance. | |
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Longest Pregnancy Ever | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d89c1e6 | comment |
Longest Pregnancy Ever: A gwythaint's pregnancy lasts about a year. | |
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Soul Jar | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d8e1b5a3 | comment |
Soul Jar: The Black Cauldron. See the Sealed Evil in a Can section above. | |
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Bad Dreams | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_db1888f0 | comment |
Bad Dreams: Avalina gets these several times. In one of them she's included to the event when the Horned King created the Cauldron-Born in the movie, the scene ending with her being killed by them. In another one, the Cauldon-Born are advancing unstopped throughout Prydain, killing one by one Mitternacht, Arran and Avalina's mother, with Avalina being killed by the Horned King at the end. It's revealed that these dreams are caused by Arawn who's trying to keep Avalina's fear of the Horned King fresh. The Invisibles can drive Arawn away from her nightmares, but they cannot prevent natural bad dreams. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_db6230b7 | type |
Lightning Bruiser | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_db6230b7 | comment |
Lightning Bruiser: The Horned King proves himself to be this during his fight against the Mad Pack. Not only he has Super Strength (see below for more information), but his normally slow and deliberate moving hides deceptively well that he has snake-fast reflexes. He also receives multiple wounds from the wolves, losing much of his black substitute for blood, but he nonetheless keeps fighting and passes out only after killing all the wolves. It should also be noted that he wasn't at his best at the time, having received water on his face earlier, and having to use the teleportation spell twice to get there. | |
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SillyLoveSong | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_dbe10fe5 | comment |
Silly Love Song: When Avalina rides with the Horned King to her secret ridge, The Prankster Invisibles start singing loudly a parodied version of "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", much to the first Invisible's discomfort. The fourth Invisible joins in, leading poor Dusty to run with its ears covered. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_dfe120e5 | type |
Functional Magic | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_dfe120e5 | comment |
Functional Magic: A distinction is made between a spell and a prayer made to the Fates; a spell's effects can be reversed unless otherwise noted (which is done rarely), while a prayer's effects can't be reversed by anyone else than the one who made the prayer in the first place. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e21faf11 | comment |
Friend to All Living Things: Avalina. The mere thought of hurting others horrifies her. This allows her to befriend Addie the gwythaint. She likes horses in particular. | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e24a1629 | comment |
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: The Horned King slowly develops this. Avalina is usually the only one whom he allows to see his sugar side. Everyone else gets his ice side. | |
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Closed Circle | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e2a6ebc1 | comment |
Closed Circle: The Invisibles are bound to the Horned King's castle and its courtyard. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole Plot Reference: The story has more than one similarity to the infamous Beauty and the Beast story; a young smart peasant girl is imprisoned in a scary castle for months by a monstrous royalty who must earn a human's love to save himself from a Fate Worse than Death. Slowly the prisoner and her captor grow closer, with a turning point being when the captor scares the prisoner to flee the castle on horseback and saving her from Savage Wolves, nearly dying in the process. The prisoner then nurses her captor back to health. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Avalina becomes one for the Horned King (with some strong Morality Chain vibes included), and, to a lesser extent, Creeper as well. | |
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Empathic Environment | |
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Empathic Environment: Weeks after the incident with the Horned King's former soldiers, thick and thorny rosebushes grow on the borders of lich's lands, barring the area from the rest of Prydain. The only explanation the lich can come up with is that the phenomenon is a manifestation of Avalina's fear of intruders coming to hurt her again in her little haven. | |
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Expy | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: The Prankster duo of the Invisibles clearly bear a striking resemblance to someone unspecified. Reviewers have suggested that to be Fred and George Weasley, but the Word of God has it that this is not the case. | |
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Grief Song | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e680af6f | comment |
Grief Song: When Avalina met Malwolaeth (Mitternacht) for the second time, she realized that he acted like a savage beast because he didn't know how else to express his grief over the death of his rider. Having lost her father not long ago, the girl knew the feeling and sang "Adiós" by Jesse y Joy. It was a start for her friendship with the horse. | |
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Dark Is Evil | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e8b0f099 | comment |
Dark Is Evil/Dark Is Not Evil: Dark is shown from both sides of the morality spectrum. Arawn is without doubt Dark Is Evil played straight. Mitternacht is a black and intimidating warhorse, but also Avalina's faithful companion. The Horned King slowly shifts from a Card-Carrying Villain to a Noble Demon. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e8cae797 | comment |
Freudian Trio: The Invisibles, although there are four of them. The first Invisible acts as The Superego, the second and the third both act as The Id, and the fourth acts as The Ego. The first Invisible acts as the group's leader, trying to keep others in line and being very frustrated by The Prankster duo's antics. The second and the third Invisible are wild and like-minded pranksters who give little regard for the opinions of others. The fourth Invisible is the most sensitive and reserved one, observing the others' antics and being amused about them, sometimes even joining The Prankster duo's schemes. | |
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Blood-Splattered Warrior | |
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Blood-Splattered Warrior: After the battle against the Mad Pack, the Horned King's covered in the wolves' red blood and the black substance that functions as his blood. | |
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Never Learned to Read | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed | comment |
Never Learned to Read: Creeper. At Avalina and the Invisibles' urging, the Horned King attempts reluctantly to teach him. | |
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God's Hands Are Tied | |
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God's Hands Are Tied: All that's made clear about the Fates' reasons for granting the Horned King a chance to redeem himself is that they're obliged to it by circumstances beyond their range of control and that they're not happy about that. | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
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You Are Number 6: The narration refers to the four Invisibles (when their point of view is in question) as the first, second, third and fourth Invisible. | |
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Groin Attack | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: A tied up Avalina gives this to the bandit who captured her in an effort to try and escape. It angers him so much that he tries to kill her. | |
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| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Creeper starts out as the Jerkass he was in the movie, but he slowly softens up to Avalina. | |
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Constantly Curious | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_ecf4f7ce | comment |
Constantly Curious: Avalina. Once she gets the courage to ask the Horned King about a variety of subjects, she can easily become excited of what she learns. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
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The Invisibles are very sarcastic, qualifying also as Servile Snarkers. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_f16da697 | comment |
Undying Loyalty: Mitternacht towards Avalina. If you ever befriend a gwythaint, it would be loyal to you for life. If you ever give a gwythaint a reason to either hate or love you, it would do so with no happy medium. | |
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Being Evil Sucks | |
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Avalina is over time able to sense — mostly during the music hours — that the Horned King is under his cold and scary shell a very lonely, desperate and unloved person. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: When Avalina and the Horned King ride on Mitternacht to her secret place, Creeper decides to take his chance and leave his master's servitude. Addie is against it and he ends up striking her jaw. He doesn't know how to apologize and attempts to leave again. When he's at the drawbridge, he hears her sorrowful cry that reminds him of the one she made after realizing her mate was dead. He goes back and manages to apologize. She accepts it. After the Horned King saves Avalina from drowning and she uses a prayer to transfer his pain to herself, he apologizes for his lately cold treatment of her for preventing his revenge on Taran, admitting that he cares more about having her with him than having Taran killed. She happily accepts the apology. After this, Mitternacht also lets go of his ire towards the lich for causing distress in his rider for weeks. | |
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Anger Born of Worry | |
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Anger Born of Worry: The Horned King is angry and concerned when Avalina uses the pain-transfer prayer to take his water-caused pain for herself. When she recovers from it, he promises that if she does that ever again, he'll make sure she'll regret it once she can stand again. | |
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No Sense of Humor | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_f5e6ed44 | comment |
No Sense of Humor: The Horned King starts out as this, but Avalina's influence causes this trope to become subverted. However, if you're not Avalina, you can expect the Horned King to show rather sarcastic humor. | |
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EarnYourHappyEnding | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: The Fates tell the Horned King that he has to earn his freedom from the Black Cauldron like he alone earned his demise. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_f8e010ce | comment |
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The Horned King is numerous times amazed at Avalina’s purity and her ability to call a monster such as him her friend, having never believed that such a gentle creature can exist. The same applies to Creeper. | |
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RunningGag | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: The Invisibles putting glitter and confetti on the Horned King to annoy him. The use of the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for humor. | |
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Living Emotional Crutch | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_fbd1aeb | comment |
Living Emotional Crutch: Avalina causes pleasant feelings in the Horned King with her aura of Life and beautiful piano playing. After several months, they cause his heart to beat again. It eventually reaches a point where just mentioning her name makes his anger dissipate. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: When the Invisibles first perform "Yankee Doodle Dandy" in front of the Horned King and Avalina, the girl wonders if she could get the sheet music. Many weeks (and several chapters) later, she makes the Horned King play with the piano a tune he finds faintly familiar. She reveals it to be that song. He's irritated by this and promises (unmaliciously though) to make her pay for that. Later (more chapters later), when they're spending time in Avalina's secret place, he catches her in the middle of their play, reminds her of that promise and gives her a Friendly Tickle Torture. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
| Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Shown Their Work: The author has done research for the chapter involving the Horned King giving Avalina her dagger about self-defense with a knife from any available sources. Also, the detail about the blade-preserving oily fur lining the scabbard has been recorded in ancient sheaths. See the Bilingual Bonus section above for more information. The text indicates that the author is knowledgeable about horses. | |
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