History Literature / Survivor1999

%%* TheAntiChrist:
* ArrangedMarriage%%:

%%* AsTheGoodBookSays: Tender would often (incorrectly) quote the bible

%%* {{Callback}}: [=McDonald's=]
%%* CompressedVice:
%%* ConditionedToAcceptHorror
* {{Cult}}: The Creedish Cult %%where Tender had spent the first sixteen years of his life
* CursedWithAwesome: Fertility Hollis dreams about the future. This means she knows everything. This also means [[PrescienceIsPredictable a life without surprise and discovery]].
** As much as she hates her omniscience, she rather not offed herself like her brother and mother did.
%%* DangerDeadpan:
%%* DieLaughing: [[spoiler:Adam Branson]]
%%* DrivenToSuicide:

%%* FootballHoligans:

%%* GroupIdentifyingFeature:
%%* HateSink: The agent

* ImprovisedWeapon: At one point, Tender wards off the angry mob of football fans with a flaming bride's bouquet and then massive flocks of doves to drive back police enforcements. [[note]][[ItMakesSenseInContext Yeah, you better read the chapter first to understand]][[/note]]
* IronicName: Fertility who, despite her name, is sterile and cannot conceive children. This is further exemplified by her job as a surrogate mother for rich, equally-barren couples.
%%* IsThisThingOn:
* KissingCousins: The Creesdish Cult deliberately adverts it by pairing the Adams with Biddys as far away from their family tree as possible. %%However, judging how the populace of the cult is, around 300 members, .... (check book)
%%* KilledMidSentence:
%%* LovesMyAlterEgo:

%%* MistakenForGay:

** Upon birth, every male, barring firstborns, is named Tender (a worker who tends) and every female is Biddy (as in to do one's bidding) since their sole purpose is to devote their lives in servitude towards the human race.

%%* TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy:

%%* RoseColoredGlasses:
%%* RunawayBride: [[spoiler: Gender-inverted with Tender]]
%%* SmallRoleBigImpact: Trevor Hollis, Fertility's brother,

%%* StickyFingers: The main character has the bad habit of shoplifting

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Averted. [[spoiler: Tender only lasts about a minute, maybe less, before ejaculating although he somehow ended up impregnating Fertility]]
* DieLaughing: [[spoiler:Adam Branson]]

* HateSink: The agent

** Upon birth, every male, barring firstborns, is named Tender (a worker who tends) and every female is Biddy (to do one's bidding[[note]]UnfortunateImplications aside[[/note]]) since their sole purpose is to devote their lives in servitude towards the human race.

** When a Biddy marries an Adam, her name is changed to Author (associated with creation) and her main role is to give birth to as many children as possible. The previous generation of Adam and Author is renamed to elder once the marriage with the current generation is done, symbolizing how they're now the oldest and wisest in the family.

* NightmareFetish: Fertility finds all the future tragedies she witnesses in her dreams fascinating and even makes lunch dates out of upcoming ones. It's because of this trait that she didn't commit suicide in addition to becoming ConditionedToAcceptHorror.

* HowWeGotHere: The book starts out when our protagonist, Tender Branson, hijacked an airliner after releasing all of its passengers and monologues his life-story via the airline's black box (the cockpit flight recorder). From there, the rest of the story is a huge flashback as to why the transpiring events Tender had gone through led up to that moment, only interjected by brief reminders of the airplane's engines going out.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Tender offhandedly mentions the 7 younger brothers and 5 sisters he used to have besides his older twin brother. It's a staple in Creedish culture to have around ...per family

** Even the Church's name derives from the word "creed", meaning a system of religious beliefs or faiths. %%The "[[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy Church Church]]" if you will.

%%* NightmareFetish:

* TheOmniscient: The power to predict everything and everywhere in the world runs in Fertility's family. %%However, this doesn't come without its disadvantages, having a life lacking any surprise can do a number DrivenToSuicide

%%* PuppetKing: More like Puppet Religious Figure Celebrity

%%* ReplacementGoldfish: Following the Creedish tradition of keeping a pet to prevent ...kept going after six hundred and forty fish ...recent Number six forty-one.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The couple who employed Tender. For all their wealth and talks about etiquette, they are hopelessly incapable of doing the most basic of household chores. By the time Tender came back from his stint as a celebrity messiah, the house he meticulously cleaned and tidied turn into the aftermath of an out-of-control teen party.

* NoNameGiven: Tender's caseworker and publicity agent were never proper names, being called "The caseworker" and "The agent" respectively, due to identity protection.
* NonIndicativeName: The plane's black box was noted to be orange in color in the story's beginning.

%%* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The couple who employed Tender. For all their wealth and talks about etiquette, they are hopelessly incapable of doing the most basic household chores

%%* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Lampshaded by Fertility [[spoiler: upon finding Tender burying Adam]]

%%* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Tender offhandedly mentions the 5 younger brothers and ...sisters he used to have besides his older twin brother. It's a staple in Creedish culture to have around ...per family

** Even the Church's name derives from the word "creed", literally meaning a system of religious beliefs or faiths. %%The "[[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy Church Church]]" if you will.

%%* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The couple who employed Tender. For all their wealth and talks about etiquette, they are hopelessly incapable of doing basic household chores

* SoleSurvivor: Over the course of ten years, the Creedish Cult began offing themselves till Tender Branson is the last one standing [[spoiler:although it's later revealed his older twin brother, Adam, was the other unknown survivor]]. This, of course, attracted the media's attention, put Tender upfront in the limelight and [[FromBadToWorse things go downhill from there]].

* TheVoice: In-universe example, Tender has never seen the man and woman who employed him as their domestic helper and only communicates with them through a speakerphone.

%%*TheAntiChrist:

%%* AsTheGoodBookSays:

* {{Cult}}: %%The Creedish Cult where Tender had spent the first sixteen years of his life

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Averted. [[spoiler: Tender only lasts about a minute, maybe less, before ejaculating. Although, he somehow ended up impregnating Fertility]]

* KissingCousins:

%%* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Tender offhandedly mentions the 5 younger brothers and ...sisters he used to have besides his older twin brother. It's a staple in Creedish culture to have around ...

%%** First-born sons are named Adam, after the first man in the bible, who'll inherit the land and take responsibility as the patriarch
%%** When a Biddy marries an Adam, her name is changed to Author (associated with creation) and her main role is to give birth to as many children as possible. The previous generation of Adam and Author is renamed to elder once the marriage with the current generation is done, symbolizing how
%%**Even the Church's name derives from the word "creed" which literally means a system of religious beliefs or faiths.

%%* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The couple who employed Tender. For all their wealth and talk about etiquettes, they are hopelessly incapable of