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* ChurchLady: Emma Grace Baker is a teenage, exclusively negative example. Out of all the seniors she seems to be the most vocal and obnoxious about religious matters. She gossips about her classmates by saying that she's praying for because they "haven't been saved" (openly bisexual Chloe Green being one of those classmates), she shushes Chloe while sitting rows behind her when the latter tries to talk to Smith during Mr. Wheeler's sermon, gives her a horrified look when Chloe turns a hymnal upside down and shakes it to check it for any of Shara's letters and she's once given a personal testimony to the school about how her "diabetes has brought her closer to Jesus".
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* ChurchLady: Emma Grace Baker is a teenage, exclusively negative example. Out of all the seniors she seems to be the most vocal and obnoxious about religious matters. She gossips about her classmates by saying that she's praying for them because they "haven't been saved" (openly bisexual Chloe Green being one of those classmates), she shushes Chloe while sitting rows behind her when the latter tries to talk to Smith during Mr. Wheeler's sermon, gives her a horrified look when Chloe turns a hymnal upside down and shakes it to check it for any of Shara's letters and she's once given a personal testimony to the school about how her "diabetes has brought her closer to Jesus".
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* AbusiveParents: Shara’s parents seem to be more worried about how people are reacting to Shara’s disappearance than her actual disappearance. When Shara is finally found, she reveals that [[spoiler:her parents have known where she's been the entire time, as they have security cameras installed on their pier and a tracker “secretly” installed on her car. They haven’t made any attempts to get her to come home or even contact her because they prefer to ignore any behaviors they don’t like from her until they go away. After Shara’s livestream, in which she confesses that she intentionally flunked her Harvard interview so that she wouldn’t be accepted. When she [[ComingOutStory comes out of the closet,]] they take her phone, the ''steering wheel'' from her car, and her ''door from its hinges.'']]
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* AbusiveParents: Shara’s parents seem to be more worried about how people are reacting to Shara’s disappearance than her actual disappearance. When Shara is finally found, she reveals that [[spoiler:her parents have known where she's been the entire time, as they have security cameras installed on their pier and a tracker “secretly” installed on her car. They haven’t made any attempts to get her to come home or even contact her because they prefer to ignore any behaviors they don’t like from her until they go away. After Shara’s livestream, in which she confesses that she intentionally flunked her Harvard interview so that she wouldn’t be accepted. When she accepted and [[ComingOutStory comes out of the closet,]] they take her phone, the ''steering wheel'' from her car, and her ''door from its hinges.'']]
* TheCharmer: Applies to Smith, he's one of the most popular kids at Willowgrove with his peers and the staff both and he knows it. When it seems that Rory and Chloe are about the be caught sneaking into the air ducts through the library to break into the principal's office, Smith shows up and distracts the librarian with charm. Shara seems to be a female variation as well. Though we really never get to see her in action on-screen, we know that everyone thinks so highly of her that she can get almost anything she wants just by asking for it politely. For example, it turns out [[spoiler: that it wasn't Chloe's bad luck or their similar positions at the top of the class that got them paired up in chemistry, Shara just asked to be partnered with Chloe off-screen and their teacher approved.]]
* CrocodileTears: From Chloe's perspective, Shara used these once while convincing their PE class that she must've lost her cross necklace while jogging in the football field. What actually happened was that Shara threw out the necklace a week before at the library, unaware that Chloe was there and watching. Chloe then took the necklace from the trash after she left. Though it's evident that Shara was putting on a show to their class to cover up what she had done[[note]]as the class goes out to search the field on their hands and knees, Shara makes no effort to discourage them or even pretend to look herself[[/note]], she really did regret losing her chain. Only ten minutes after she had thrown it out in in the library, she went back for it, even frantically searching when she couldn't find it in the trash. [[DownplayedTrope It's plausible that her tears did come from a place of genuine emotion, even if her version of events was pure fabrication.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: At the end of the book, [[spoiler: Principal Wheeler is exposed for accepting bribes from rich parents to raise their students' test scores. The one who leaked this information? His own daughter, who he had been ignoring and micromanaging her entire life.]]
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* KissKissSlap: After they stop arguing and start kissing [[spoiler: on the Graduation]], [[spoiler: Chloe]] actually stops to throw [[spoiler: Shara]] into the lake.
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* SlapSlapKiss: A nonphysical, zigzagged example. [[spoiler: Chloe's confrontation of Shara on the Graduation leads to them fighting over [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech all of the other's flaws]] and ends with them kissing a second time.]]
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* TheSocialExpert: Shara embodies this trope. She's keenly aware of how the people around her feel about each other and about her. Not only that, but she's good at fitting into the image that they have of her regardless of how far from true it is. Using deception and her knowledge of people, she's able to predict what they'll do in any given situation and manipulate them into behaving however she likes.
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%%* NotSoDifferent
%%** Downplayed when it comes to False Beach vs SoCal (and similar areas). They clearly are very different which is recognized by the book, but they're still not completely alien to each other. Though the queer community in False Beach is hardly visible, it is shown to exist. At Dixon's party, Chloe is surprised to hear the song [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]], Smith responds to this by saying that "everyone knows Mr. Brightside".
%%** Played quite straight with Chloe, her friends and many of their peers. Chloe and her friends stick together as they're the closest kids to openly queer there is, but there are still closeted queer kids that they learn about through the book, many of who they saw as cis and straight. Ash compares it to an MMORPG: everyone is playing the same game at the same time, but they're all at different points in the game. There's always someone who has already passed or has yet to reach the "quest" another person is on.
%%** Downplayed when it comes to False Beach vs SoCal (and similar areas). They clearly are very different which is recognized by the book, but they're still not completely alien to each other. Though the queer community in False Beach is hardly visible, it is shown to exist. At Dixon's party, Chloe is surprised to hear the song [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]], Smith responds to this by saying that "everyone knows Mr. Brightside".
%%** Played quite straight with Chloe, her friends and many of their peers. Chloe and her friends stick together as they're the closest kids to openly queer there is, but there are still closeted queer kids that they learn about through the book, many of who they saw as cis and straight. Ash compares it to an MMORPG: everyone is playing the same game at the same time, but they're all at different points in the game. There's always someone who has already passed or has yet to reach the "quest" another person is on.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Chloe’s moms, to an extent. When Chloe comes home still wearing Shara’s crucifix after forgetting to take it off, she has to explain to her parents that it belongs to another girl, and she was wearing it to “mess with her”. Her mama says it reminds her of how she used to [[SexyShirtSwitch wear Chloe’s mom’s welding apron around the house when she was]] [[ReadyForLovemaking “in the mood”,]] [[ParentalSexualitySquick to Chloe’s horror.]] Her parents then tease her about having “a thing for a Christian girl”, [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend which Chloe vehemently denies.]] Later in the novel, when they come home early from a pottery class while Chloe [[spoiler:[[ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTimes is alone with Shara in her room after having just spent an ambiguous length of time making out with her,]] [[MeetTheInLaws they invite Shara to stay for dinner.]] They then proceed to tell Shara about the time a five-year-old Chloe punched a mall Santa. Later, when Shara asks and Chloe is too distracted to try to stop her, they dramatically recount the story of how they met. After that, Chloe’s mom asks Shara is she wants to hear her [=DeNiro=] impression.[[note]]She does it whenever she cooks Italian. According to Chloe, it's a bad one.[[/note]]]]
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Chloe’s moms, to an extent. When Chloe comes home still wearing Shara’s crucifix after forgetting to take it off, she has to explain to her parents that it belongs to another girl, and she was wearing it to “mess with her”. Her mama says it reminds her of how she used to [[SexyShirtSwitch wear Chloe’s mom’s welding apron around the house when she was]] [[ReadyForLovemaking “in the mood”,]] [[ParentalSexualitySquick to Chloe’s horror.]] Her parents then tease her about having “a thing for a Christian girl”, [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend which Chloe vehemently denies.]] Later in the novel, when they come home early from a pottery class while Chloe [[spoiler:[[ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTimes [[spoiler:[[ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime is alone with Shara in her room after having just spent an ambiguous length of time making out with her,]] [[MeetTheInLaws they invite Shara to stay for dinner.]] They then proceed to tell Shara about the time a five-year-old Chloe punched a mall Santa. Later, when Shara asks and Chloe is too distracted to try to stop her, they dramatically recount the story of how they met. After that, Chloe’s mom asks Shara is she wants to hear her [=DeNiro=] impression.[[note]]She does it whenever she cooks Italian. According to Chloe, it's a bad one.[[/note]]]]
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* ChurchLady: Emma Grace Baker is a teenage, exclusively negative example. Out of all the seniors she seems to be the most vocal and obnoxious about religious matters. She gossips about her classmates by saying that she's praying for because they "haven't been saved" (openly bisexual Chloe Green being one of those classmates), she shushes Chloe while sitting rows behind her when the latter tries to talk to Smith during Mr. Wheeler's sermon, gives her a horrified look when Chloe turns a hymnal upside down and shakes it to check it for any of Shara's letters and she's once given a personal testimony to the school about how her "diabetes has brought her closer to Jesus".
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* SoapboxSadie: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, it seems Chloe was some variation of this when she first transferred to Willowgrove, but with less soapboxing and more genuine action. Regardless, she was never very successful with making change. By the time of the book, she has largely given up on Willowgrove and has resigned herself to rebelling through minor dress code violations.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As with a significant number of works that were written and take place in [[TheNewTwenties the early New '20s]], no explicit reference is made to the Covid-19 pandemic. ''Shara'' specifically takes place in 2022, but even when earlier years are brought up in the story there are still no mentions of the pandemic.
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* ButchLesbian: Chloe’s best friend, Georgia, is described as a “backpacking granola baby butch”. She also went through “half a dozen different lesbian aesthetics” after coming out to Chloe before settling on her current style. They included things like wearing leather jackets, getting short haircuts, and planning to join the soccer team. One of them consisted of [[LipstickLesbian “high femme red lipstick and drawn-on tattoos”.]]
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* ButchLesbian: ButchLesbian
** Chloe’s best friend, Georgia, is described as a “backpacking granola baby butch”. She also went through “half a dozen different lesbian aesthetics” after coming out to Chloe before settling on her current style. They included things like [[[HellBentForLeather wearing leatherjackets, jackets,]] [[BoyishShortHair getting short haircuts, haircuts,]] and [[LesbianJock planning to join the soccer team. team.]] One of them consisted of [[LipstickLesbian “high femme red lipstick and drawn-on tattoos”.]]]]
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}, since she's not explicitly referred to as one and not much description of her is given, but Chloe's mom seems to be another butch lesbian. For one, she was the one who gifted Georgia a carabiner which Chloe says helped her realize her butch identity. For two, she owns a welding company. In general, she seems to be significantly more masculine than both her wife and daughter.
** Chloe’s best friend, Georgia, is described as a “backpacking granola baby butch”. She also went through “half a dozen different lesbian aesthetics” after coming out to Chloe before settling on her current style. They included things like [[[HellBentForLeather wearing leather
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}, since she's not explicitly referred to as one and not much description of her is given, but Chloe's mom seems to be another butch lesbian. For one, she was the one who gifted Georgia a carabiner which Chloe says helped her realize her butch identity. For two, she owns a welding company. In general, she seems to be significantly more masculine than both her wife and daughter.
* TheDogBitesBack: At the end of the book, [[spoiler: Principal Wheeler is exposed for accepting bribes from rich parents to raise their students' test scores. The one who leaked this information? His own daughter, who he had been ignoring and micromanaging her entire life.]]
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* ThePastorsQueerKid: This is the case for [[spoiler: Shara]]. Though False Beach is quite a conservative and religious community in general, her parents are especially influential. They are actively involved in church activities and [[spoiler: her father is principal of Willowgrove, a Christain academy. They both mistreat Shara even before she comes out, and they're far from approving after she does.]]
* PerformanceArtist: Chloe and most of her friends are self-identified "theatre kids" and "Shakespeare gays". Their senior year they got to perform Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, largely because they demanded it. Benjy in particular is a gay boy who frequently gets lead roles in Willowgrove's school plays and musicals, can play piano and aspires to be on Broadway one day. Their theatre teacher, Mr. Truman, has not confirmed himself to be gay[[note]]he actually can't since he works for Willowgrove[[/note]], but to Chloe and her friends he very obviously is.
* PerformanceArtist: Chloe and most of her friends are self-identified "theatre kids" and "Shakespeare gays". Their senior year they got to perform Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, largely because they demanded it. Benjy in particular is a gay boy who frequently gets lead roles in Willowgrove's school plays and musicals, can play piano and aspires to be on Broadway one day. Their theatre teacher, Mr. Truman, has not confirmed himself to be gay[[note]]he actually can't since he works for Willowgrove[[/note]], but to Chloe and her friends he very obviously is.
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** One of many students spreading rumors about Shara following her disappearance claims to have heard that Shara had been sent away by her parents to hide a pregnancy. Benjy points out that this is a Series/{{Riverdale}} plotline, as well as [[TakeThat a really stupid idea.]]
** Chloe also says that Shara "looks like she lives in the hills of Sweden and spends all her time embroidering flowers on linen shirts like an extra in Film/{{Midsommar}}".
** Chloe's friend group plans on watching Film/{{Labyrinth}} during one of their regular movie nights.
** Georgia's a big Creator/JaneAusten fan.[[note]]She's read all her works. [[RepeatedForEmphasis All of them.]][[/note]]
** Chloe also says that Shara "looks like she lives in the hills of Sweden and spends all her time embroidering flowers on linen shirts like an extra in Film/{{Midsommar}}".
** Chloe's friend group plans on watching Film/{{Labyrinth}} during one of their regular movie nights.
** Georgia's a big Creator/JaneAusten fan.[[note]]She's read all her works. [[RepeatedForEmphasis All of them.]][[/note]]
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* TransparentCloset: Played with. Chloe and her friends are about the closest thing to openly queer at Willowgrove, but not all of them are even out. Chloe and Ash ''are'' openly queer (Chloe is bisexual and Ash is nonbinary), but technically Georgia and Benjy aren't as they've only told their very close friends about their sexualities (lesbian and gay respectively). Despite this, plenty of homophobic jocks in his grade bully Benjy. Georgia is described as butch, but she's closeted to her parents. Also applies to their theatre teacher and director Mr. Truman, who literally cannot come out while working at Willowgrove in order to keep his job. [[spoiler: As a more downplayed example, Shara also becomes this to Chloe once the latter correctly assumes that she's in love with her and that's why she ran away.]]
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* RagsToRiches: Downplayed with Rory. Despite how he presents himself at school, he actually lives in the country club, the richest part of town. The reason for this is because his parents had split up and he moved in with his mother and rich stepfather. He resents living in the country club with his mom and stepfather and would prefer to live with his dad, even though he's not nearly as well off financially.
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* RagsToRiches: Downplayed with Rory. Despite how he [[LowerClassLout presents himself at school, school,]] he actually lives in the country club, the richest part of town. The reason for this is because his parents had split up and he moved in with his mother and rich stepfather. He resents living in the country club with his mom and stepfather and would prefer to live with his dad, even though he's not nearly as well off financially.
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* {{Epigraph}}: The novel [[{{Epiraph}} opens]] with lyrics to [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]].
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** [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]] is quoted at the beginning of the book. It's also played at Dixon's party. [[note]]Music/{{HayleyKiyoko}}'s [[note]]The Music/HayleyKiyoko cover of it is even the final song on Chloe's official character playlist.[[/note]]
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* {{Dedication}}: Dedicated to queer kids living in the Bible belt.
* {{Epigraph}}: The novel [[{{Epiraph}} opens]] with lyrics to [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]].
%%* NotSoDifferent
%%** Downplayed when it comes to False Beach vs SoCal (and similar areas). They clearly are very different which is recognized by the book, but they're still not completely alien to each other. Though the queer community in False Beach is hardly visible, it is shown to exist. At Dixon's party, Chloe is surprised to hear the song [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]], Smith responds to this by saying that "everyone knows Mr. Brightside".
%%** Played quite straight with Chloe, her friends and many of their peers. Chloe and her friends stick together as they're the closest kids to openly queer there is, but there are still closeted queer kids that they learn about through the book, many of who they saw as cis and straight. Ash compares it to an MMORPG: everyone is playing the same game at the same time, but they're all at different points in the game. There's always someone who has already passed or has yet to reach the "quest" another person is on.
%%** Downplayed when it comes to False Beach vs SoCal (and similar areas). They clearly are very different which is recognized by the book, but they're still not completely alien to each other. Though the queer community in False Beach is hardly visible, it is shown to exist. At Dixon's party, Chloe is surprised to hear the song [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]], Smith responds to this by saying that "everyone knows Mr. Brightside".
%%** Played quite straight with Chloe, her friends and many of their peers. Chloe and her friends stick together as they're the closest kids to openly queer there is, but there are still closeted queer kids that they learn about through the book, many of who they saw as cis and straight. Ash compares it to an MMORPG: everyone is playing the same game at the same time, but they're all at different points in the game. There's always someone who has already passed or has yet to reach the "quest" another person is on.
* {{Pastiche}}: Casey [=McQuiston=] has stated that they took inspiration from many other dramas and romcoms that they loved as a teenager. Among those works, Creator/JohnGreen novels are included. They have also named three works for being especially influential: Literature/PaperTowns, LIterature/TheSevenHusbandsOfEvelynHugo and Literature/GoneGirl. All of these works feature a girl or woman whose mysterious nature kicks off the plot (which often follows her dissapearance). This is also the case with Shara.
** [[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]] is quoted at the beginning of the book. It's also played at Dixon's party. [[note]]Music/{{HayleyKiyoko}}'s cover of it is even the final song on Chloe's official character playlist.[[/note]]
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* SignatureScent: Shara always smells like lilacs. Chloe repeatedly mentions this in her note to Georgia in which she freaks out because Shara had just kissed her with no explanation before class that day. She also mentions "lilacs" as a contender for the "best smell" during a conversation with Rory and Smith, [[FeeFiFauxPas without really meaning to say it.]]
* SirSwearsALot: Chloe swears a significant amount, as is the status quo with a Casey [=McQuiston=] protagonist. {{Deuteragonist}} Rory also has this trait. Chloe especially loves to drop the line "Shara fucking Wheeler" before performing some sort of dangerous feat during the search for her.
* SirSwearsALot: Chloe swears a significant amount, as is the status quo with a Casey [=McQuiston=] protagonist. {{Deuteragonist}} Rory also has this trait. Chloe especially loves to drop the line "Shara fucking Wheeler" before performing some sort of dangerous feat during the search for her.
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* SignatureScent: Shara always smells like lilacs. Chloe repeatedly mentions this in her note to Georgia in which she freaks out because Shara had just kissed her with no explanation before class that day. She also mentions "lilacs" lilacs as a contender for the "best smell" during a conversation with Rory and Smith, [[FeeFiFauxPas without really meaning to say it.]]
* SirSwearsALot: Chloe swears a significant amount, as is the status quo with a Casey [=McQuiston=] protagonist. {{Deuteragonist}} Rory also has this trait. Chloe especially loves to exasperatedly drop the line "Shara fucking Wheeler"before performing when she has to perform some sort of dangerous feat during the search for her.
* SirSwearsALot: Chloe swears a significant amount, as is the status quo with a Casey [=McQuiston=] protagonist. {{Deuteragonist}} Rory also has this trait. Chloe especially loves to exasperatedly drop the line "Shara fucking Wheeler"
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* TheBeautifulElite: Shara is a member of the closest thing that False Beach has to this. Her father is principal of Willowgrove, which is the most prestigious and highly regarded school in town; her entire family is rich, and they live in the country club with other rich families; and, of course, Shara herself is considered extremely beautiful inside and out by pretty much the entire town.
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* ADickInName: Georgia points out that JerkJock Dixon literally has "dicks" in his name[[note]]phonetically[[/note]].
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* ObviouslyNotFine: Chloe avoids telling her friends that she's looking for Shara to avoid dealing with their reactions. She doesn't do a very good job of hiding the fact that something's bothering her though. Just two days after Shara's disappearance she tells her friend Benjy that "[she's] good" when he asks only for him to immediately point out that she came to school with only one of her eyes done. The emergency liner pen she had been keeping in her locker that she ends up using to correct her mistake had apparently been sitting in there untouched for so long that she needed to scribble with it on her hand to get it working.
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* ObviouslyNotFine: Chloe avoids telling her friends that she's looking for Shara to avoid dealing with their reactions. She reactions, but she doesn't do a very good job of hiding the fact that something's bothering her though. her. Just two days after Shara's disappearance disappearance, she tells her friend Benjy that "[she's] good" when he asks only for him to immediately point out that she came to school with only one of her eyes done. The Notably, her emergency liner pen she had been keeping sitting untouched in her locker that she ends up using to correct her mistake had apparently been sitting in there untouched for so long that she needed to scribble with it on her hand to get it working.working and fix her mistake.
* RagsToRiches: Downplayed with Rory. Despite how he presents himself at school, he actually lives in the country club, the richest part of town. The reason for this is because his parents had split up and he moved in with his mother and rich stepfather. He resents living in the country club with his mom and stepfather and would prefer to live with his dad, even though he's not nearly as well off financially.
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* SmellsSexy: Chloe embarrasses herself a couple of times thinking about Shara's [[SignatureScent signature lilac perfume.]] She also vividly remembers that Shara was wearing mint and vanilla flavored lip balm when she kissed her.
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* SmellsSexy: SignatureScent: Shara always smells like lilacs. Chloe embarrasses herself a couple of times thinking about Shara's [[SignatureScent signature lilac perfume.]] repeatedly mentions this in her note to Georgia in which she freaks out because Shara had just kissed her with no explanation before class that day. She also vividly remembers that Shara was wearing mint mentions "lilacs" as a contender for the "best smell" during a conversation with Rory and vanilla flavored lip balm when she kissed Smith, [[FeeFiFauxPas without really meaning to say it.]]
* SirSwearsALot: Chloe swears a significant amount, as is the status quo with a Casey [=McQuiston=] protagonist. {{Deuteragonist}} Rory also has this trait. Chloe especially loves to drop the line "Shara fucking Wheeler" before performing some sort of dangerous feat during the search for her.
* SirSwearsALot: Chloe swears a significant amount, as is the status quo with a Casey [=McQuiston=] protagonist. {{Deuteragonist}} Rory also has this trait. Chloe especially loves to drop the line "Shara fucking Wheeler" before performing some sort of dangerous feat during the search for her.
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* TakeThat: While describing her partiality for villains, Chloe mentions that although she is bisexual and a "monster fucker" (a title Georgia bestowed on her for her tendency to be drawn towards romance novels featuring at least one morally grey main character who may or may not be a literal monster), many villainous traits she finds unattractive in men specifically. As an example of an unattractive male villain, she uses [[Franchise/StarWars Kylo Ren]].
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* TakeThat: While describing her partiality for villains, Chloe mentions that although she is bisexual and a "monster fucker" (a title Georgia bestowed on her for her tendency to be drawn towards romance novels featuring at least one morally grey main character love interest who may or may not be a literal monster), many villainous traits she finds unattractive in men specifically. As an example of an unattractive male villain, she uses [[Franchise/StarWars Kylo Ren]].
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* BeneathTheMask: Shara may ''seem'' like a warm and helpful [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]] to the residents of False Beach, but underneath that persona she's actually [[IceQueen somewhat distant and cold.]] She's still a good person though... At least that's what her friends believe. It turns out that underneath her distant personality she's actually a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch who's not afraid of lying or using blackmail to get what she wants.]] But then it turns out that what she wants is almost always harmless to others, or [[GuileHero even better for them]] (eg. she uses underhanded tactics to [[spoiler: get Rory and Smith together]] for "social capital"). It seems that it's really only Chloe who she targets so maliciously. Turns out this is because [[spoiler: she's deep in the closet and crushing on her. Her homophobic upbringing and the pressure she felt from everyone in False Beach to be the perfect girl they saw her as meant that she couldn't even admit her sexuality to herself until she kissed Chloe the second time on the Graduation. And then after Shara realizes she's a lesbian, Chloe realizes that Shara is not a complete saint or a bitch masquerading as one or an innocent victim who was broken by her experiences or a clever hero who works to help others with stealthy methods. She's more like all of those things at the same time.]]
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* BeneathTheMask: Shara may ''seem'' like a warm and helpful [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]] to the residents of False Beach, but underneath that persona she's actually [[IceQueen somewhat distant and cold.]] She's still a good person though... At least that's what her friends believe. It turns out that underneath her distant personality she's actually a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch who's not afraid of lying or using blackmail to get what she wants.]] But then it turns out that what she wants is almost always harmless to others, or [[GuileHero even better for them]] (eg. she uses underhanded tactics to [[spoiler: get Rory and Smith together]] for "social capital"). It seems that it's really only Chloe who she targets so maliciously. Turns out this is because [[spoiler: she's deep in the closet and crushing on her. Her homophobic upbringing and the pressure she felt from everyone in False Beach to be the perfect girl they saw her as meant that she couldn't even admit her sexuality to herself until she kissed Chloe the second time on the Graduation. And then after Shara realizes she's a lesbian, Chloe realizes that Shara is not a complete saint or a bitch masquerading as one or an innocent victim who was broken by her experiences or a clever hero who works to help others with stealthy methods. She's much more like all of those things at the same time.]]a complex person than she initally thought]]
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* ADickInName: Georgia points out that JerkJock Dixon literally has "dicks" in his name[[note: phonetically]].name[[note]]phonetically[[/note]].
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* ObviouslyNotFine: Chloe avoids telling her friends that she's looking for Shara to avoid dealing with their reactions. She doesn't do a very good job of hiding the fact that something's bothering her though. Just two days after Shara's disappearance she tells her friend Benjy that "[she's] good" when he asks only for him to immediately point out that she came to school with only one of her eyes done. The emergency liner pen she had been keeping in her locker that she ends up using to correct her mistake had apparently been sitting in there untouched for so long that she needed to scribble with it on her hand to get it working.
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* ClosetKey: [[spoiler: Chloe]] turns out to be one for [[spoiler: Shara.]] [[spoiler: Shara]] was previously ''deep'' in the closet, to the point that [[NotSoStoic she jumped out of a moving car]] when her best friend tried to come out as bisexual to her and did not suspect that she was anything but straight as she was [[spoiler: obsessing over Chloe and developing a long, elaborate plan to hurt her academic performance by forcing her to pay attention to Shara instead of school.[[note]]And for the '''second''' time, no less![[/note]]
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* ClosetKey: [[spoiler: Chloe]] turns out to be one for [[spoiler: Shara.]] [[spoiler: Shara]] was previously ''deep'' in the closet, to the point that [[NotSoStoic she jumped out of a moving car]] when her best friend tried to come out as bisexual to her and did not suspect that she was anything but straight as she was [[spoiler: obsessing over Chloe and developing a long, elaborate plan to hurt her academic performance by forcing her to pay attention to Shara instead of school.[[note]]And for the '''second''' time, no less![[/note]]less![[/note]]]]
