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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Teresa at one point uses a removable showerhead to try to masturbate, but it only feels "quite nice" and she doesn't reach orgasm. She then tries it the old fashioned way and still no luck, at which point she gives up and apparently never tries again.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: There is ''something'' wrong with Theres, and it's unclear how much of it can be blamed on her abnormal upbringing.
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* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red steel-toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
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* AccidentalMurder: Being taught that love is something found inside the mind, [[spoiler:Theres kills and dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.]]
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* {{Asexuality}}: Tying into above, Teresa eventually thinks this about herself, since she doesn't have any sexual feelings for anyone. Even when she [[spoiler: tries to give a boy a blowjob]], it's more because she's just doing it not to be left out.
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* FirstPeriodPanic: Averted; Theres gets her first period just after she and Jerry move into a new apartment, but her only response is to blankly tell him that she's bleeding. Jerry is the one who get nervous (because he hadn't anticipated this happening) and has to go out to get her some pads.
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* FirstPeriodPanic: Averted; Theres gets her first period just after she and Jerry move into a new apartment, but her only response is to blankly tell him that she's bleeding. Jerry is the one who get gets nervous (because he hadn't anticipated this happening) and has to go out to get her some pads.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; Theres gets her first period just after she and Jerry move into a new apartment.
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''Little Star'' is a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of ''Literature/LetTheRightOneIn''.
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''Little Star'' is a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Creator/JohnAjvideLindqvist, author of ''Literature/LetTheRightOneIn''.
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* AccidentalMurder: Being taught that love is something found inside the mind, [[spoiler:Theres kills and dismembers both both of her adoptive parents to find it.]]
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* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red steel toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
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* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red steel toed steel-toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
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* BlondesAreEvil: Theres definitely isn't normal and the ideas she forms from her upbringing mean that she's on a ''much'' different moral wavelength than other people.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler: When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex complex, after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler: When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
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* ImprovisedWeapon: When Max Hansen tries to seduce Theres, she breaks the stem off her champagne goblet and stabs him with the broken end.
* IntertwinedFingers: Theres does this to Teresa in the very last scene of the book as they prepare to [[EatenAlive commit suicide by wolf]].
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her to the point that she is terrified of going outside. This ends up shaping her entire worldview, which isn't normal to begin with.
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and [[spoiler:dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.]] Jerry also notes later that she will accept anything anyone tells her as long as it doesn't contradict something she was told before.
* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red steel-toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
* IntertwinedFingers: Theres does this to Teresa in the very last scene of the book as they prepare to [[EatenAlive commit suicide by wolf]].
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her to the point that she is terrified of going outside. This ends up shaping her entire worldview, which isn't normal to begin with.
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and [[spoiler:dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.]] Jerry also notes later that she will accept anything anyone tells her as long as it doesn't contradict something she was told before.
* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red steel-toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: When Max Hansen tries to seduce Theres, she breaks the stem off her champagne goblet goblet, and stabs him with the broken end.
* IntertwinedFingers: Theres does this to Teresa in the very last scene of the book as they prepare to [[EatenAlive commit suicide bywolf]].
wolf.]]
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by tellingher her, that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her her, to the point that she is terrified of going outside. This ends up shaping her entire worldview, which isn't normal to begin with.
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and[[spoiler:dismembers [[spoiler: dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.]] Jerry also notes later that she will accept anything anyone tells her her, as long as it doesn't contradict something she was told before.
* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of redsteel-toed steel toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
* IntertwinedFingers: Theres does this to Teresa in the very last scene of the book as they prepare to [[EatenAlive commit suicide by
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and
* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When [[spoiler: When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]]]
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''Little Star'' is a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of ''LetTheRightOneIn''.
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''Little Star'' is a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of ''LetTheRightOneIn''.
''Literature/LetTheRightOneIn''.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Teresa at one point uses a removable showerhead to try to masturbate, but it only "feels nice" and she doesn't reach orgasm. She then tries it the old fashioned way and still no luck, at which point she gives up and apparently never tries again.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Teresa at one point uses a removable showerhead to try to masturbate, but it only "feels feels "quite nice" and she doesn't reach orgasm. She then tries it the old fashioned way and still no luck, at which point she gives up and apparently never tries again.
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* AccidentalMurder: Being taught that love is something found inside the mind, [[spoiler:Theres dismembers both both of her adoptive parents to find it.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Theres is this as a result of her upbringing.
* CreepyChild: Theres.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: First chunk of the novel is effectively about Lennart and Leila raising Theres [[spoiler:before she kills them.]] Then there's a significant chunk about Theres growing up, followed by a section on Theresa's life before the two finally meet around the midpoint of the novel.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Theres is this as a result of her upbringing.
* CreepyChild: Theres.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: First chunk of the novel is effectively about Lennart and Leila raising Theres [[spoiler:before she kills them.]] Then there's a significant chunk about Theres growing up, followed by a section on Theresa's life before the two finally meet around the midpoint of the novel.
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* AccidentalMurder: Being taught that love is something found inside the mind, [[spoiler:Theres kills and dismembers both both of her adoptive parents to find it.]]
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Teresa at one point uses a removable showerhead to try to masturbate, but it only "feels nice" and she doesn't reach orgasm. She then tries it the old fashioned way and still no luck, at which point she gives up and apparently never tries again.
* {{Asexuality}}: Tying into above, Teresa eventually thinks this about herself, since she doesn't have any sexual feelings for anyone. Even when she [[spoiler: tries to give a boy a blowjob]], it's more because she's just doing it not to be left out.
* BlondesAreEvil: Theres definitely isn't normal and the ideas she forms from her upbringing mean that she's on a ''much'' different moral wavelength than other people.
* ChastityCouple: When they're little, Teresa worries that Johannes expects them to be boyfriend and girlfriend, but he assures her this isn't the case and ends up dating another of their classmates. She also initially thinks that she might be attracted to Theres, but when Theres finds the concept alien, Teresa drops it and is just as happy that it's not going to happen.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Theres is this as a result of herupbringing.
upbringing. Or she might have been that way in any case, she's certainly different.
* ComingOfAgeStory: A very creepy one, too. Teresa was a fairly normal child but grew up to be a mostly shunned outsider; Theres started out weird and just got weirder.
* CreepyChild:Theres.
Theres is the most prominent example, but Teresa and the other "Wolves" have shades of this as well; they just had normal upbringings and are better at hiding their quirks.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The "Wolves" murder thirty people at "Sing Along at Skansen" and are all captured, and Theres and Teresa are about to head into the wolf enclosure, all but ensuring their own deaths.]]
* DualWielding: [[spoiler: The Wolves do this when perpetrating the massacre at the concert; they all have a knife and a power drill.]]
* EatenAlive: What is about to happen [[spoiler: to Theres and Teresa at the end of the novel.]] Wolves are not renowned for being understanding about incursions on their territory.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: First chunk of the novel is effectively about Lennart and Leila raising Theres [[spoiler:before she kills them.]] Then there's a significant chunk about Theres growing up, followed by a section onTheresa's Teresa's life before the two finally meet around the midpoint of the novel.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Teresa at one point uses a removable showerhead to try to masturbate, but it only "feels nice" and she doesn't reach orgasm. She then tries it the old fashioned way and still no luck, at which point she gives up and apparently never tries again.
* {{Asexuality}}: Tying into above, Teresa eventually thinks this about herself, since she doesn't have any sexual feelings for anyone. Even when she [[spoiler: tries to give a boy a blowjob]], it's more because she's just doing it not to be left out.
* BlondesAreEvil: Theres definitely isn't normal and the ideas she forms from her upbringing mean that she's on a ''much'' different moral wavelength than other people.
* ChastityCouple: When they're little, Teresa worries that Johannes expects them to be boyfriend and girlfriend, but he assures her this isn't the case and ends up dating another of their classmates. She also initially thinks that she might be attracted to Theres, but when Theres finds the concept alien, Teresa drops it and is just as happy that it's not going to happen.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Theres is this as a result of her
* ComingOfAgeStory: A very creepy one, too. Teresa was a fairly normal child but grew up to be a mostly shunned outsider; Theres started out weird and just got weirder.
* CreepyChild:
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The "Wolves" murder thirty people at "Sing Along at Skansen" and are all captured, and Theres and Teresa are about to head into the wolf enclosure, all but ensuring their own deaths.]]
* DualWielding: [[spoiler: The Wolves do this when perpetrating the massacre at the concert; they all have a knife and a power drill.]]
* EatenAlive: What is about to happen [[spoiler: to Theres and Teresa at the end of the novel.]] Wolves are not renowned for being understanding about incursions on their territory.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: First chunk of the novel is effectively about Lennart and Leila raising Theres [[spoiler:before she kills them.]] Then there's a significant chunk about Theres growing up, followed by a section on
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* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her to the point that she is terrified of going outside.
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and [[spoiler:dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.]]
* NoNameGiven: Theres is given no name by Lennart and is only named afterwards by his son.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and [[spoiler:dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.]]
* NoNameGiven: Theres is given no name by Lennart and is only named afterwards by his son.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
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* ImprovisedWeapon: When Max Hansen tries to seduce Theres, she breaks the stem off her champagne goblet and stabs him with the broken end.
* IntertwinedFingers: Theres does this to Teresa in the very last scene of the book as they prepare to [[EatenAlive commit suicide by wolf]].
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her to the point that she is terrified of going outside. \n This ends up shaping her entire worldview, which isn't normal to begin with.
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and [[spoiler:dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.]]
]] Jerry also notes later that she will accept anything anyone tells her as long as it doesn't contradict something she was told before.
* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red steel-toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
* NoNameGiven: Theres is given no name by Lennart and is only named afterwards byhis son.
Jerry. She calls herself "Little One" for a long time.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; Theres gets her first period just after she and Jerry move into a new apartment.
* TeensAreMonsters: Teresa gets drunk at a party and ends up vomiting after trying to give her classmate Micke a blowjob. One of the "cool" kids films the whole thing and uploads it to social media.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
* IntertwinedFingers: Theres does this to Teresa in the very last scene of the book as they prepare to [[EatenAlive commit suicide by wolf]].
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her to the point that she is terrified of going outside.
* LiteralMinded: Theres is this. Being told that love is something found inside the mind, she believes it to be a literal object and [[spoiler:dismembers both of her adoptive parents to find it.
* NiceShoes: Teresa buys a pair of red steel-toed Doc Martens. She later uses them [[GroinAttack to great effect]] on the guy who filmed her and Micke.
* NoNameGiven: Theres is given no name by Lennart and is only named afterwards by
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; Theres gets her first period just after she and Jerry move into a new apartment.
* TeensAreMonsters: Teresa gets drunk at a party and ends up vomiting after trying to give her classmate Micke a blowjob. One of the "cool" kids films the whole thing and uploads it to social media.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
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''Little Star'' is a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of ''LetTheRightOneIn''.
A man discovers an abandoned infant in the woods. He becomes obsessed with the child and raises her with his wife in his basement. Years later, a catastrophic incident occurs and the couple's adult son takes the girl to Stockholm and enters her to perform in a performance show. From there, the girl meets a fellow outcast named Teresa on the internet. Together, the two become close friends but their pairing proves to be deadly.
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!!These works provide examples of:
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Theres is this as a result of her upbringing.
* CreepyChild: Theres.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: First chunk of the novel is effectively about Lennart and Leila raising Theres [[spoiler:before she kills them.]] Then there's a significant chunk about Theres growing up, followed by a section on Theresa's life before the two finally meet around the midpoint of the novel.
* HorribleHollywood: In Sweden. Personified by Max Hansen, a sleazy and perverted talent agent that attempts to take advantage of Theres in more ways than one.
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her to the point that she is terrified of going outside.
* NoNameGiven: Theres is given no name by Lennart and is only named afterwards by his son.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
''Little Star'' is a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of ''LetTheRightOneIn''.
A man discovers an abandoned infant in the woods. He becomes obsessed with the child and raises her with his wife in his basement. Years later, a catastrophic incident occurs and the couple's adult son takes the girl to Stockholm and enters her to perform in a performance show. From there, the girl meets a fellow outcast named Teresa on the internet. Together, the two become close friends but their pairing proves to be deadly.
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!!These works provide examples of:
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Theres is this as a result of her upbringing.
* CreepyChild: Theres.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: First chunk of the novel is effectively about Lennart and Leila raising Theres [[spoiler:before she kills them.]] Then there's a significant chunk about Theres growing up, followed by a section on Theresa's life before the two finally meet around the midpoint of the novel.
* HorribleHollywood: In Sweden. Personified by Max Hansen, a sleazy and perverted talent agent that attempts to take advantage of Theres in more ways than one.
* LiesToChildren: Lennart convinces Theres to not leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people" like her to the point that she is terrified of going outside.
* NoNameGiven: Theres is given no name by Lennart and is only named afterwards by his son.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Max Hansen develops a masochistic complex after being wounded by Theres. [[spoiler:When "The Wolves of Skansen" ultimately torture him to death, he has an orgasm.]]
