History Literature / Partials

* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: The Senate's stance towards the Voice.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Everyone, since most of the population was killed by the RM virus. In ''Partials'', Jayden and Madison are said to be the only direct genetic relatives left.

* FailsafeFailure: Inverted. [[spoiler:[=ParaGen=] designed a fail-safe for Partials in that they would dissolve after twenty years.]]

* ImmortalProcreationClause: Partials. [[spoiler: except for the immortal part.]]

* TheMedic: Kira is a nurse.

* PowerOfTrust: [[spoiler:Literally: it's one of the Partials' pheromones]].
* PrideBeforeAFall: [=ParaGen=]. Just watch their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZejPM3Vm7A commercial]].
* PromotionToParent: All the adults who take in the orphaned children. Technically true for all women 18 and older (and their significant other), although their parenthood never lasts long.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Voice tends to have destructive habits in their protesting.
* ShownTheirWork: The biology behind the RM virus is accurate, except that the virus doesn't actually exist.
* SlaveMooks: Partials were essentially this until they rebelled.

* TheyWalkAmongUs: The Senate warns that the Partials look like normal people.
** The Voice is comprised of normal people, rebelling against the government.

* ChildlessDystopia: Since there hasn't been any children born in so long, many survivors have little hope for the future of humanity.

* HiveMind: [[spoiler: Sort of. The Partials' pheromones means that they can sense each other's emotional states.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. For years, every baby born has died of the RM virus within days. The ''first line'' of the book reports such a death.

''Partials'' is a 2012 young-adult science fiction novel by Creator/DanWells.

* WeHaveBeenResearchingPhlebotinumForYears: The medics have been researching the RM virus for years. [[spoiler:And so have the Partials]].

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* ImmortalInfertility: Partials. [[spoiler: except for the immortal part.]]

* AfterTheEnd:

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter / BabyFactory: This is the logic behind the Hope Act--without babies the human race will die out.

* InfantImmortality: Subverted. For years, every baby born has died of the RM virus within days. The ''first line'' of the book reports such a death.

%%* TheVirus: The RM virus is one that causes a SterilityPlague.

%%* AfterTheEnd

%%* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: ''Everyone.''

%%* InfantImmortality: Subverted.

'''Kira:''' [[ThisIsThePartWhere This is the point at which]] you would traditionally suggest a bright side.

->'''Marcus:''' Look on the bright side.
->...
->'''Kira:'''This is the point at which you would traditionally suggest a bright side.
->'''Marcus:'''I've never been a real traditional guy. Besides, I'm not saying I know a bright side, I just think this would be a great time to look at one.

->'''Jayden:''' Press the attack and hope for the best.
->'''Kira:''' Hope is not a strategy.
->'''Jayden:''' It's not plan A and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.
%%* TheVirus: The RM virus

* WeHaveBeenResearchingPhlebotinumForYears: The medics have been researching the RM virus for years. [[spoiler: And so have the Partials]].
%%* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman?: Partials. It's even {{lampshaded}} in their name.

* ChekhovsGun:
** [[spoiler:When Kira decides to study RM, the first thing she needs is a blood sample from a human. Any human. She doesn't use her own.]]

%%* TheMedic: Kira

* PowerOfTrust: [[spoiler: Literally: it's one of the Partials' pheromones]].

%%* SuperSoldier: Partials

* YouFailBiologyForever: Averted (see Shown Their Work)

* ActionGirl: Kira is this.

* AnyoneCanDie: And how! [[spoiler: Skinny and Scruffy, Gianna, Jayden...]]
* ApocalypseHow
* AfterTheEnd
* ArtificialHuman: Partials.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: ''Everyone.''
* CrapsackWorld
* DepopulationBomb: The Break
* {{Determinator}}: Kira
* DuringTheWar
* {{Dystopia}}

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke
* TheGovernment: The Senate
* GovernmentConspiracy

* HopelessWar

* InfantImmortality: Subverted.
* LaResistance: The Voice.
* TheMedic: Kira

* SlaveToPR: The Senate

* SuperSenses: Partials
* SuperSoldier: Partials

* TheVirus: The RM virus
* UntrustingCommunity [[spoiler: The Senate with regards to Samm]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Basically everyone.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman?: Partials. It's even {{lampshaded}} in their name.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Kira can hear better and see farther than people chosen as scouts/trackers because of their senses.]]

** [[spoiler:Kira can hear better and see farther than people chosen as scouts/trackers because of their senses.]]

** [[spoiler:Kira can hear better and see father than people chosen as scouts/trackers because of their senses.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:When Kira decides to study RM, the first thing she needs is a blood sample from a human. Any human. She doesn't use her own.]]

* ChekhovsGun: When Kira decides to study RM, the first thing she needs, is a blood sample from a human. Any human. She doesn't use her own.

* TheyWalkAmongUs: The Senate warns that the Voice looks like normal people.

* FailsafeFailure: Inverted. [[spoiler:[=ParaGen=] designed a failsafe for Partials in that they would dissolve after ten years.]]