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* AmbiguouslyBi: Carver Ridges asks Ferdinand out, but also seems very... into Clink.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: AmbiguouslyBi:
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Carver Ridges asks Ferdinand out, but also seems very... into Clink.



* AmbiguouslyGay: Wilfred Harding.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Wilfred Harding. Harding, whose admiration for Clink comes across as romantic.



* GenderBenderName: Ferdinand.



* KnightInSourArmor

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* KnightInSourArmorKnightInSourArmor: Clink.



* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Since the book is speech-to-text, "Enter Enter" will often show up when the writer wants to start a new paragraph.

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* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Since the book is speech-to-text, [[ArcWords "Enter Enter" Enter"]] will often show up when the writer wants to start a new paragraph.



* TearJerker: The origin of why Clink eats hotdogs at funerals: [[spoiler: When Clink was little, his father passed away. He acted as callous as possible because he believed it made him stronger than all the people sobbing. But when he's alone, he completely breaks down.]]

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* TearJerker: TearJerker:
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The origin of why Clink eats hotdogs at funerals: [[spoiler: When Clink was little, his father passed away. He acted as callous as possible because he believed it made him stronger than all the people sobbing. But when he's alone, he completely breaks down.]]

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* AlasPoorVillain: A strange case; Carver Ridges doesn't really have any redeeming qualities or a tragic backstory, but Clink is still shaken up by watching him die despite killing dozens of people before him.



* HardboiledDetective

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* HardboiledDetectiveHardboiledDetective: Clink's internal monologue paints him as one.



* PoliceBrutality: Clink kills first and asks questions later. At the end, he calls out the other [NotSoDifferentRemark police for their brutality, as well]].

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* PoliceBrutality: Clink kills first and asks questions later. At the end, he calls out the other [NotSoDifferentRemark [[NotSoDifferentRemark police for their brutality, as well]].


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* ShoutOut: Clink fights the bad guy at an office Christmas party like in Die Hard.


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* UltimateJobSecurity: How Clink hasn't been arrested yet, let alone fired as a Detective, is anybody's guess.
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* UpToEleven: From what can be parsed of the plot, EVERYTHING is.

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* UpToEleven: From what can be parsed of the plot, EVERYTHING is.----
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Disambiguating Foe Yay.


* FoeYay: Carver seems rather... interested in Clink. He also tries to ask Ferdinand on a date.
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* PoliceBrutality: Clink kills first and asks questions later. At the end, he calls out the other [NotSoDifferent police for their brutality, as well]].

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* PoliceBrutality: Clink kills first and asks questions later. At the end, he calls out the other [NotSoDifferent [NotSoDifferentRemark police for their brutality, as well]].
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* NoodleIncident: "ever since the day you had made that deal with that being from the Dark Realm that shadowy creature that game show host I need like it's rag dolls [...] Ever since that day he had had a very special curse. Joseph Klink age 29 felt other people's pain and they felt his."
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* ImprobableWeaponsUse: Clink impales his enemies writing pen when he has no other weapon.

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* ImprobableWeaponsUse: ImprobableWeaponUser: Clink impales his enemies writing pen when he has no other weapon.
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* ImprobableWeaponsUse: Clink impales his enemies writing pen when he has no other weapon.



* MoodWhiplash: The last few chapters are edited and deal with grief, empathy, toxic masculinity, and accountability; and for the most part, play rhem straight.

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* MoodWhiplash: The last few chapters are edited and deal with grief, empathy, toxic masculinity, and accountability; and for the most part, play rhem straight.them straight.
* PoliceBrutality: Clink kills first and asks questions later. At the end, he calls out the other [NotSoDifferent police for their brutality, as well]].


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* RefugeInAudacity: A policeman who abuses his authority and relishes killing people? Pretty terrible. Him killing a dozen men with an office pen? Hilarious.
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Clink: Begins: Unabridged Version (2018) is an experimental crime novel by Casper Grey. The story was spoken into a phone through speech-to-text and, save the last few chapters, remained unedited. This leads to RougeAnglesOfSatin and general MindScrew.

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Clink: Begins: Unabridged Version (2018) is an experimental crime novel by Casper Grey.Gray. The story was spoken into a phone through speech-to-text and, save the last few chapters, remained unedited. This leads to RougeAnglesOfSatin and general MindScrew.
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* EggsBreadMilkSquick: "His crime was a simple one as old as murder and robbery and police brutality, taking barbed wire and putting it down people's throats."

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* EggsBreadMilkSquick: BreadEggsMilkSquick: "His crime was a simple one as old as murder and robbery and police brutality, taking barbed wire and putting it down people's throats."
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* EggsBreadMilkSquick: "His crime was a simple one as old as murder and robbery and police brutality, taking barbed wire and putting it down people's throats."


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* InsaneTrollLogic: Carver Ridges's defense; "in court was simple enough was dental floss he said. headlines in new Niles that day that week that month red I thought it was dental floss and had a confused looking innocent looking picture of the man and ignorant as they always were. is only district attorney Mathis Howard finally came up with a hole in this defense people don't put dental floss down their throats so ridges attorney opted the First Amendment to bear arms."

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** Clink himself has been married before, but seems to enjoy the gay bar...



* AntiHero: Clink.



* MoodWhiplash: The last few chapters are edited and deal with grief, empathy, toxic masculinity, and accountability; and for the most part, play rhem straight.

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* HardboiledDetective
* KnightInSourArmor
* MoodWhiplash: The last few chapters are edited and deal with grief, empathy, toxic masculinity, and accountability; and for the most part, play rhem straight.straight.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: The protagonist is a police detective, not a private eye; but his rambling thoughts could still be taken as this.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Carver Ridges asks Ferdinand out, but also seems very... into Clink.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Wilfred Harding.


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* FoeYay: Carver seems rather... interested in Clink. He also tries to ask Ferdinand on a date.
* GenderBenderName: Ferdinand.


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** [[spoiler: Wilfred's death.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: The last few chapters are edited and deal with grief, empathy, toxic masculinity, and accountability; and for the most part, play rhem straight.



* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A variant; most of the words are spelled right, but because the book is written in unedited speech-to-text, there's next to no punctuation and the words may be completely different from what Grey intended.

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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A variant; most of the words are spelled right, but because the book is written in unedited speech-to-text, there's next to no punctuation and the words may be completely different from what Grey Gray intended.


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* TearJerker: The origin of why Clink eats hotdogs at funerals: [[spoiler: When Clink was little, his father passed away. He acted as callous as possible because he believed it made him stronger than all the people sobbing. But when he's alone, he completely breaks down.]]
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A variant; most of the words are spelled right, but because the book is written in unedited speech-to-text, there's next to no punctuation and the words may be completely different.

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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A variant; most of the words are spelled right, but because the book is written in unedited speech-to-text, there's next to no punctuation and the words may be completely different.different from what Grey intended.
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* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Since the book is speech-to-text, "EnterEnter" will often show up when the writer wants to start a new paragraph.

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* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Since the book is speech-to-text, "EnterEnter" "Enter Enter" will often show up when the writer wants to start a new paragraph.
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* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Since the book is speech-to-text, "EnterEnter" will often show up when the writer wants to start a new paragraph.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A variant; most of the words are spelled right, but because the book is written in unedited speech-to-text, there's next to no punctuation and the words may be completely different.
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Clink: Begins: Unabridged Version (2018) is an experimental crime novel by Casper Grey. The story was spoken into a phone through speech-to-text and, save the last few chapters, remained unedited. This leads to RogueAnglesOfSatin and general MindScrew.

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Clink: Begins: Unabridged Version (2018) is an experimental crime novel by Casper Grey. The story was spoken into a phone through speech-to-text and, save the last few chapters, remained unedited. This leads to RogueAnglesOfSatin RougeAnglesOfSatin and general MindScrew.
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[[caption-width-right:314:"bodies bodies everywhere but not a drop to investigate. I f****** hate funerals said clink next to the preacher as he spoke and ate a hotdog".]]
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* BeserkButton: Cold Chinese food.
* EmpathyPowers: "Ever since that day he had had a very special curse. Joseph Klink age 29 felt other people's pain and they felt his."

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* BeserkButton: BerserkButton: Cold Chinese food.
* EmpathyPowers: TheEmpath: "Ever since that day he had had a very special curse. Joseph Klink age 29 felt other people's pain and they felt his."
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Clink: Begins: Unabridged Version (2018) is an experimental crime novel by Casper Grey. The story was spoken into a phone through speech-to-text and, save the last few chapters, remained unedited. This leads to RogueAngelsOfSatin and general MindScrew.

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Clink: Begins: Unabridged Version (2018) is an experimental crime novel by Casper Grey. The story was spoken into a phone through speech-to-text and, save the last few chapters, remained unedited. This leads to RogueAngelsOfSatin RogueAnglesOfSatin and general MindScrew.



AxCrazy: Carver Ridges and Clink are both this.
BeserkButton: Cold Chinese food.
EmpathyPowers: "Ever since that day he had had a very special curse. Joseph Klink age 29 felt other people's pain and they felt his."
SociopathicHero: Clink.
UpToEleven: From what can be parced of the plot, EVERYTHING is.

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* AxCrazy: Carver Ridges and Clink are both this.
* BeserkButton: Cold Chinese food.
* EmpathyPowers: "Ever since that day he had had a very special curse. Joseph Klink age 29 felt other people's pain and they felt his."
* SociopathicHero: Clink.
* UpToEleven: From what can be parced parsed of the plot, EVERYTHING is.
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->''"Joseph Klink swerves his eyes around like a vulture searching for its food found no food malaysian hot s*** looks like it's cold Chinese again today he murmured to himself through the side of his mouth."''
-->-- '''The first line of the book.'''

Clink: Begins: Unabridged Version (2018) is an experimental crime novel by Casper Grey. The story was spoken into a phone through speech-to-text and, save the last few chapters, remained unedited. This leads to RogueAngelsOfSatin and general MindScrew.

The story tells of Joe Clink, an irritable police detective with a penchant for killing. He must go up against his arch foe, a serial killer who shoves barbed water down peoples' throats. Oh, and [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Clink also has some sort of empathy curse given to him by a demon]].

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!!This work provides examples of:

AxCrazy: Carver Ridges and Clink are both this.
BeserkButton: Cold Chinese food.
EmpathyPowers: "Ever since that day he had had a very special curse. Joseph Klink age 29 felt other people's pain and they felt his."
SociopathicHero: Clink.
UpToEleven: From what can be parced of the plot, EVERYTHING is.

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