History Fanfic / LifeAfterDeathTrilogy

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Otto’s not a MadScientist out to TakeOverTheWorld- he just wants to be left alone so he can conduct his research and spend time with his family. Robin Goodfellow is a changeling whose faerie ‘species’ is a hobgoblin. Also, she’s a girl.

* DeadFic: There were plans to write this story as trilogy. There is only Book I.

* DevelopmentHell: After publishing 17 chapters, the authors were yanking the entire thing for a (fourth) rewrite. And then it turns into a DeadFic.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: A relatively mild version, when [[spoiler: Otto punches Oberon, the King of the Faeries, in the face and forbids him from EVER coming near his family]]

* FlatWhat: Rather common from Otto when Robin does something that breaks the laws of physics or otherwise is very faerie-ish.

* GoodParents: Otto and Robin to Mouse.
* GoodShepherd: Father Everett

* HappilyMarried: Otto and Rosie in the backstory, Otto and Robin, Curt and Martha Connors.
* HealingHands: Various faeries, including Robin, Jack Pook, and Titania.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Mouse to Otto, though she’s really only functionally an orphan.
* HeroicBSOD: Otto, after the [[spoiler: becoming a hobgoblin incident]].
* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler: Robin. More like Humanity ''Re''-ensues.]]
* ImaginaryFriend: Bob the Invisible Octopus, to Mouse.

A fanfiction trilogy cowritten by [=SilverGryphon8=] (also known as Obi's Second Cousin or Lady Holmes) and Gamine Madcap and illustrated by [=SilverGryphon8=].

The series is currently being rewritten for the third time to include some of the authoresses' new ideas. The new edition should start going up in spring of 2011. In the meantime, the older version will remain available.

The trilogy is posted on Website/FanFictionDotNet under Gamine Madcap’s profile and on Website/DeviantArt under SilverGryphon8’s profile. The illustrations for the series can also be found at that location.

Book II:
Currently Unpublished

Book III:
Currently Unpublished

Updates are fairly regular, being primarily based on how quickly Gryphon can get the illustrations up.

The fic (and several sibling fics) have now officially been moved to their own website! They can be found here: http://talonandtail.webs.com/

* AbusiveParents: Torbert Octavius to Otto. There’s a scene during which a momentary glimpse of Robin’s hobgoblin form triggers a flashback about Otto’s father coming to beat him after having his glasses broken by school bullies one too many times that leaves Otto whimpering. Mary Octavius’s manipulation of her son has flavors of this as well.
* ActionMom: Robin.
* AdaptationDistillation: Otto’s past is based partly on the film and partly on the comics, particularly ‘’Doctor Octopus: Year One‘’. Also, the faeries can be argued to be distillations of various mythologies.

* AlliterativeName: It’s based off a Stan Lee creation- what do you expect?
* AllMythsAreTrue: Faeries are ''just'' the beginning.

* ArchEnemy: Canonically, Otto and Peter Parker are these to each other. Averted here, with Peter eventually becoming [[spoiler: one of Otto’s interns after he earns a pardon and can legitimately set up a new, government-sponsored lab]].

* BadassBookworm: Otto.
* BadassLongcoat: Otto and Robin.
* BadassNormal: The Leandros brothers. Later, [[spoiler: Robin]].
* BattleCouple: Otto and Robin become this pretty quickly.
* BetaCouple: Curt Connors and his wife Martha.
* TheBigBad: On Robin’s side of things, Hob.
* BiggerOnTheInside: The boxes Robin brings to help Otto and Mouse pack; also, Robin’s pockets.

* TheChessmaster:

* CombatTentacles: Otto. He is, after all, Doctor Octopus.

* CuteMute: Mouse. To a lesser extent, the actuators when they’re trying to be charming.
* CyberSpace: Otto can access this through the actuators.
* {{Cyborg}}: Otto.
* DeadFic

* DevelopmentHell: After publishing 17 chapters, the authors are yanking the entire thing for a (fourth) rewrite. And then it turns into a DeadFic.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Robin gets a few, as well as some very BadDreams.
* EverythingSensor: The actuators come equipped with these, though the four more or less each have specialties.
* EverythingIsOnline: Otto takes great advantage of this when he does things like check criminal records and set up false identities.
* EvilGenius: Otto, of the solitary variety.

A fanfiction trilogy cowritten by [[IHaveManyNames SilverGryphon8/Obi’s Second Cousin/LadyHolmes]] and Gamine Madcap and illustrated by SilverGryphon8.

* GreenEyes: Robin’s eyes are brilliant green, fitting her status as a faerie, except when they turn red.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Robin’s eyes glow red when she becomes the hobgoblin.

The trilogy is posted on Fanfiction.net under Gamine Madcap’s profile and on Website/DeviantArt under SilverGryphon8’s profile. The illustrations for the series can also be found at that location.

* ActionMom: Robin

* BadassBookworm: Otto
* BadassLongcoat: Otto and Robin

* YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever: The four plutonium batteries Otto uses to power the tentacles. At one point he mentions that he's rigged a failsafe in them that will deliberately overload the batteries in the event of his death as a way to keep the tentacles from falling into anyone else's hands, essentially making a quartet of small nuclear bombs. Vindictive as he might be, this trope does get averted in that Otto knows full well that nuclear reactor =/= nuclear bomb and the damage his little batteries would inflict is nowhere near the annihilation of half of Washington DC he threatens.

* {{Tricksters}}: Robin, primarily. Many other faeries are indicated to be examples of this. Also, Peter Parker/Spiderman, to a lesser extent.

* CrowningMomentofFunny: Numerous.
---> Mo: ''otto’s got a cru-ush otto’s got a cru-ush''\\
Otto: Shut up Mo.
* CrowningMomentofHeartWarming: Quite a few moments between Otto and Mouse.

* CrossOver: Primarily SpiderMan with Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream, with dashes of various Marvel comics, the CalLeandros books, Series/{{Bones}}, a brief mention of Series/DoctorWho, as well as others. Note: This Robin is not the Robin of the CalLeandros books.

The story is set in the Spiderman movieverse beginning roughly a year and a half after the events of the second film. Otto Octavius, having survived nearly drowning, is alive and well and in hiding with his intelligent actuators Flo, Mo, Larry, and Harry. He reluctantly befriends Mouse, a CuteMute of a little girl when she tries to use the warehouse Otto has been living in as a hideout from the druggies she is forced to share her home with. When Mouse arrives at the warehouse one day showing signs of a recent beating, Otto sets out to permanently deal with the problem. He meets [[AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goodfellow]], who helps him and the actuators eradicate the group of druggies and proceeds to more or less adopt Mouse. The series then follows Otto and Robin’s growing romance, Mouse’s adjustment to a ‘normal’ (relatively) home, and the pesky little problem of people who keep trying to kill all three of them, while it crosses over with a variety of series.

* CrossOver: Primarily SpiderMan with AMidsummerNightsDream, with dashes of various Marvel comics, the CalLeandros books, Series/{{Bones}}, a brief mention of Series/DoctorWho, as well as others. Note: This Robin is not the Robin of the CalLeandros books.

The trilogy is posted on Fanfiction.net under Gamine Madcap’s profile and on DeviantArt under SilverGryphon8’s profile. The illustrations for the series can also be found at that location.

* DevelopmentHell: After publishing 17 chapters, the authors are yanking the entire thing for a (fourth) rewrite.

* CrossOver: Primarily SpiderMan with AMidsummerNightsDream, with dashes of various Marvel comics, the CalLeandros books, {{Bones}}, a brief mention of Series/DoctorWho, as well as others. Note: This Robin is not the Robin of the CalLeandros books.

* NaughtyTentacles: Implied during an interview with FBI Agent Seeley Booth and Robin:
--->Robin: Have you ever made love to a man with six hands?

* AntiHero: Otto. Lands towards the III side between Type II and Type III on the SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes

* HazelEyes: Mouse. It’s implied she might develop some sort of minor psychic ability.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Lizard's abhorrent, and not too fond of mammals either. Curt Connors in human form, on the other hand, is a very kind man.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Lizard. He’s not too fond of mammals either. Curt Connors, on the other hand, is a very kind man.

A fanfiction trilogy cowritten by [[IHaveManyNames SilverGryphon8/Obi’s Second Cousin/LadyHolmes]] and Gamine Madcap and illustrated by SilverGryphon8.

The story is set in the Spiderman movieverse beginning roughly a year and a half after the events of the second film. Otto Octavius, having survived nearly drowning, is alive and well and in hiding with his intelligent actuators Flo, Mo, Larry, and Harry. He reluctantly befriends Mouse, a CuteMute of a little girl when she tries to use the warehouse Otto has been living in as a hideout from the druggies she is forced to share her home with. When Mouse arrives at the warehouse one day showing signs of a recent beating, Otto sets out to permanently deal with the problem. He meets [[AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goodfellow]], who helps him and the actuators eradicate the group of druggies and proceeds to more or less adopt Mouse. The series then follows Otto and Robin’s growing romance, Mouse’s adjustment to a ‘normal’ (relatively) home, and the pesky little problem of people who keep trying to kill all three of them, while it crosses over with a variety of series.

Book III:

* AlternateUniverseFic: Though set more or less in the film universe, Otto didn’t die after destroying the second reactor (obviously) and things deviate from there.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Larry is armed with a retractable spike.
* TheChessmaster:

* LickingTheBlade: Robin, though it’s more often Licking the Claw.

* SplitPersonality: Otto Octavius and Doctor Octopus are treated as two not entirely separate personalities, with Ock only showing up when Otto is really, really pissed off. Less separate people than polar opposites of the same individual, with a bit of a sliding scale between the two. Otto is afraid of Ock’s lack of inhibiting morals.

* {{Technopath}}: Otto is a low-grade one of these, rather like a low-level [[GirlGenius Spark]]. He’s brilliant enough on his own to develop his inventions; his technopathy primarily manifests itself by making him unconsciously smooth out the little kinks in his design so that they actually ''work''.

* TropeOverdosed:

* YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever: The four plutonium batteries Otto uses to power the tentacles. At one point he mentions that he's rigged a failsafe in them that will deliberately overload the batteries in the event of his death as a way to keep the tentacles from falling into anyone else's hands, essentially making a quartet of small nuclear bombs. Vindictive as he might be, this trope does get averted in that Otto knows full well that nuclear reactor =/= nuclear bomb and the damage his little batteries would inflict is nowhere near the annihilation of half of Washington DC he threatens.
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Much BetterThanItSounds. Really.

* ToyShip: Mouse and Billy Connors. WordOfGod indicates the authors haven’t yet decided if they’ll eventually become a couple or the PlatonicLifePartners.

* XanatosGambit: The various people trying to kill Otto and Robin are part of a couple of these.

* CrossOver: Primarily SpiderMan with AMidsummerNightsDream, with dashes of various Marvel comics, the CalLeandros books, {{Bones}}, a brief mention of DoctorWho, as well as others. Note: This Robin is not the Robin of the CalLeandros books.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Otto’s reaction after [[spoiler: attacking and basically raping Robin during the hobgoblin!Otto sequence]].

* ThrowItIn: [[spoiler: The hobgoblin!Otto sequence in Book II]]. Originally, [[spoiler: Robin’s hobgoblin powers were supposed to be accessible to her alone, and not able to be granted to anyone else]]. Then the writers got to playing with the idea and they decided they loved it too much to not include it.

* ToyShip: Mouse and Billy Connors. WordOfGod indicates the authors haven’t yet decided if they’ll eventually become a couple or the StraightWillAndGrace.

A fanfiction trilogy cowritten by [[IHaveManyNames SilverGryphon8/Obi’s Second Cousin]] and Gamine Madcap and illustrated by SilverGryphon8.

*AntiVillain: Otto