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* XMeetsY: A ComingOfAgeStory meets a CosmicHorrorStory!
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* XMeetsY: A ComingOfAgeStory meets a CosmicHorrorStory!CosmicHorrorStory!
* [[spoiler:YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Craig feels this way about himself by the end of the story.]]
* [[spoiler:YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Craig feels this way about himself by the end of the story.]]
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* TotallyRadical: Jackie speaks in a constant stream of stoner/skater slang. YMMV on whether it's immersive or annoying.
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* ShoutOut: CrashBandcioot, SpyroTheDragon, a whole slew of 90's Cartoons and various grunge bands and classic rappers all get the first-name treatment.
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* ThemeSong: Jackie's favorite song is "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks. She dances to it at one point.
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* DysfunctionJunction: Jackie's parents are dead, Craig's mom works all the time, and all the other potential moral guardians are very amoral and do very little guarding.
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* FreeRangeChildren: Parents seem almost nonexistent in this world.
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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Fang. To a lesser degree, Amy.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Literally everything in the JAC universe.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Literally everything in the JAC universe.
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* JerkAss: Jackie, to everyone.
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* JerkAss: Jackie, Jackie Parker, to literally everyone. [[AmazonChaser Craig takes it as good-natured ribbing.]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Fang is implied to have a [[StalkerWithACrush creepy crush]] on Craig, though it's not dwelled upon for very long.
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* AntiRoleModel: Jackie. Also Craig, to a lesser extent.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: the titular characters.
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* Hellishpupils: Chupacabras have red eyeshine, while Parachildren have white ones.
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* JerkAss: Jackie, to everyone.
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* MoodWhiplash: Goes from standard SliceOfLife in the 90's to LovecraftLite NightmareFuel in literally the first page of Chapter Four.
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* UpliftedAnimal: Some of the creatures are sentient, to varying degrees. Though we see very little of it, it is implied some of them have native cultures and are slave races to Jykunne.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Jackie's a bit taken with the creatures, at first.
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* PerkyGoth: Jackie's pretty vicious, but a bit energetic and affectionate to Craig all things considered.
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* HollywoodSatanism: While Satan is never actually referenced, most of the magic in the book resembles either this or HollywoodVoodoo.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The very first scene has an elderly woman sending Craig into a panic attack because [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she screamed at him for using the Lord's Name in Vain]].
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The very first scene has an elderly woman sending Craig into a panic attack because [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she screamed at him for using the Lord's Name name in Vain]].vain]].
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The very first scene has an elderly woman sending Craig into a panic attack because [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she screamed at him for using the Lord's Name in Vain]].
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* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Most of the creatures are pulled from Urban Legends. Chupacabras, Mothmen, a {{Expy/Slenderman Expy}} and Rods all show up at one point or another.
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* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Most of the creatures are pulled from Urban Legends. Chupacabras, Mothmen, a {{Expy/Slenderman Expy}} Slenderman {{Expy}} and Rods all show up at one point or another.
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* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Most of the creatures are pulled from Urban Legends. Chupacabras, Mothmen, a {{Expy Slenderman Expy}} and Rods all show up at one point or another.
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* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Most of the creatures are pulled from Urban Legends. Chupacabras, Mothmen, a {{Expy Slenderman {{Expy/Slenderman Expy}} and Rods all show up at one point or another.
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* GreyAndBlackMorality: How the Maraw Sorceresses view Jackie and Craig against Jykunne's Horde, since Jackie and Craig are at least from the same species as they are. [[FantasticRacism It doesn't stop them from referring to Jackie and Craig as "animals," "beasts" or "meat," however.]] Alternately...
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Humans vs. Monsters for territory and mere survival. There's really not much outside of biology to seperate the two, and Will makes a point of the irony of this.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Humans vs. Monsters for territory and mere survival. There's really not much outside of biology to seperate the two, and Will makes a point of the irony of this.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Jykunne briefly explains his motivations, telepathically. [[MindRape Craig says it hurts to think about.]]
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* BodyHorror: Of the PG-13 variety.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Jackie's constantly 'blasting' off her inhaler, and an asthma attack is ultimately what kills her in the end.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Jackie's constantly 'blasting' off her inhaler, and an asthma attack is ultimately what kills her in the end.]]
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* FramingDevice: A [[AuthorAvatar fictionalized Kent John Starrett]] frames the story as having been something Craig actually recounted to him, hence the colloquial language the book is told in.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: Talon's Diary, which she keeps chained to her wrist. A combination of a teenage girl's SecretDiary and a record of unholy black magic and mad science experiments, it's pink has a heart drawn around the Necronomicon Sigil on the front. Craig gets a glimpse of the inside and sees [[BreadMilkEggsSquick crude diagrams of people vivisected in human sacrifice.]]
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* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids]]: An atmosphere of perpetual hopelessness, PG-13 swearing and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath shockingly violent combat with unearthly creatures]] places this one firmly in the 'teens only' category.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Yep kids, life is vicious, miserable and totally indifferent to your suffering, so be sure to cling to those precious few bight spots for the brief time that they last!
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Monsters are disemboweled, decapitated, dismembered, skull-split, set ablaze and dissected. But they're not human, and they bleed black or green, so the effect is lessened...somewhat.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Monsters are disemboweled, decapitated, dismembered, skull-split, set ablaze and dissected. But they're not human, and they bleed black or green, so the effect is lessened...somewhat.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Jackie, Craig, and various other characters get seriously slashed up for a book that's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids nominally for preteens and young adults.]]
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* EvilSorceress: The Maraw: Talon, Screech and Fang.
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* CrapsackWorld: rampant bullying, idiot adults, wild monsters, obscene Lovecraftian deities and a shadowy secret society dedicated to hushing it all up. Life is hard, man.
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* CrapsackWorld: rampant bullying, idiot adults, wild monsters, obscene Lovecraftian deities and a shadowy secret society dedicated to hushing it all up. Life is hard, man.
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* TheBully: Travis Bach, though as the book goes on he's revealed to have HiddenDepths.
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* BookDumb: Craig gets straight C's, as the stresses of the bullying he endures takes too much of his energy for him to do well in school. Contrast with Jackie, who is implied to be [[BrilliantButLazy]] BrilliantButLazy.
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* BookDumb: Craig gets straight C's, as the stresses of the bullying he endures takes too much of his energy for him to do well in school.
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* BookDumb: Craig gets straight C's, as the stresses of the bullying he endures takes too much of his energy for him to do well in school. Contrast with Jackie, who is implied to be [[BrilliantButLazy]]
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* BookDumb: Craig gets straight C's, as the stresses of the bullying he endures takes too much of his energy for him to do well in school.
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* TheNineties: Takes place sometime in the late spring/early summer of 1997.
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