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* CreepyChild: Edie Dorkins, an 8-year-old girl who lives at a bombsite and "collects" the ghosts of bombing victims to be her family.
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* CreepyChild: Edie Dorkins, an 8-year-old girl who (in the first book) lives at a bombsite bombsite, wears an incendiary device around her neck, and "collects" the ghosts of bombing victims to be her family.
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* CreepyChild: Edie Dorkins, an 8-year-old girl who lives at a bombsite and "collects" the ghosts of bombing victims to be her family.
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: [[spoiler:The Webster sisters inform Angelo that he was meant to die in his thirteenth bombing mission, but because he honoured them with a ritual of pouring beer over his plane, they decided to spare him. However, that didn't stop him from being killed shortly afterward by military police who mistakenly believed he murdered his friend Frank.]]
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* WorldTree: The last remaining root of Yggdrasill exists beneath the Wyrd Museum.
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* WorldTree: The last remaining root of Yggdrasill exists beneath the Wyrd Museum.Museum.
* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:While Ted and Neil are able to save Jean and her son by traveling back in time, the deaths of Angelo and Frank play out just as they did before. Ted (an alias for the spirit of Angelo trapped in a teddy bear) angrily asks the Webster sisters why they let it happen this way again, and Ursula responds that they never intended for anything to change in the first place, thus having tricked him.]]
-->''"The path we all follow is already woven for us."''
* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:While Ted and Neil are able to save Jean and her son by traveling back in time, the deaths of Angelo and Frank play out just as they did before. Ted (an alias for the spirit of Angelo trapped in a teddy bear) angrily asks the Webster sisters why they let it happen this way again, and Ursula responds that they never intended for anything to change in the first place, thus having tricked him.]]
-->''"The path we all follow is already woven for us."''
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In the first book, Neil goes back in time to World War II London with a teddy bear haunted by the spirit of an American airman to save the latter's life and those he loves.
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* LuckyRabbitsFoot: Jean asks Angelo if he has one of these, to which he responds "What luck did it ever bring the rabbit?"
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* GoodLuckCharm: The American GI Angelo Signorelli has a collection of these because he is terrified of dying on a mission.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Webster sisters were princesses of the land of Askar, and were tasked with governing the fates of mortals. They've done this for centuries.
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* HappilyAdopted: Edie Dorkins, who becomes the heir of the Webster sisters and is treated like a daughter by them.
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* DatingCatwoman: Protagonist [[spoiler:Urdr/Ursula]] was at one point deeply in love with [[spoiler:[[BigBad Woden]]]] and he with her, but eventually he became the most deadly enemy of she and her sisters. Near the end of the trilogy, the two die together, having revealed that they still have feelings for one another in spite of all that has occurred.
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* DatingCatwoman: Protagonist [[spoiler:Urdr/Ursula]] was at one point deeply in love with [[spoiler:[[BigBad Woden]]]] and he with her, but eventually he became circumstances would result in him becoming the most deadly enemy of she and her sisters. Near the end of the trilogy, the two die together, having revealed that they still have feelings for one another in spite of all that has occurred.
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* DatingCatwoman: Protagonist [[spoiler:Urdr/Ursula]] was at one point deeply in love with [[spoiler:[[BigBad Woden]]]] and he with her, but eventually he became the most deadly enemy of she and her sisters. Near the end of the trilogy, the two die together, having revealed to that they still have feelings for one another that they are still deeply in love in spite of all that has occurred.
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* DatingCatwoman: Protagonist [[spoiler:Urdr/Ursula]] was at one point deeply in love with [[spoiler:[[BigBad Woden]]]] and he with her, but eventually he became the most deadly enemy of she and her sisters. Near the end of the trilogy, the two die together, having revealed to one another that they are still deeply in love in spite of all that has occurred.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Angelo and Jean. Their relationship is doomed from the start as Jean is married (though her husband is missing in action and presumed dead by most). Then circumstances arise which lead to [[spoiler:the death of Angelo and, prior to Ted and Neil going back in time to save her, Jean]]. In the final book [[spoiler:Neil meets with the elderly Jean in the present day and she tells him her husband did eventually return]].
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* StarCrossedLovers: StarCrossedLovers:
** Angelo and Jean. Their relationship is doomed from the start as Jean is married (though her husband is missing in action and presumed dead by most). Then circumstances arise which lead to [[spoiler:the death of Angelo and, prior to Ted and Neil going back in time to save her, Jean]]. In the final book [[spoiler:Neil meets with the elderly Jean in the present day and she tells him her husband did eventuallyreturn]].return]].
** [[spoiler:Woden]] and [[spoiler:Urdr/Ursula]]. Any chance for happiness they had was destroyed when the former chose to attain godhood by being nailed to Yggdrasill.
** Angelo and Jean. Their relationship is doomed from the start as Jean is married (though her husband is missing in action and presumed dead by most). Then circumstances arise which lead to [[spoiler:the death of Angelo and, prior to Ted and Neil going back in time to save her, Jean]]. In the final book [[spoiler:Neil meets with the elderly Jean in the present day and she tells him her husband did eventually
** [[spoiler:Woden]] and [[spoiler:Urdr/Ursula]]. Any chance for happiness they had was destroyed when the former chose to attain godhood by being nailed to Yggdrasill.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Angelo and Jean. Their relationship is doomed from the start as Jean is married (though her husband is missing in action and presumed dead by most). Then circumstances arise which lead to [[spoiler:the death of Angelo and, prior to Ted and Neil going back in time to save her, Jean]]. In the final book [[spoiler:Neil meets with the elderly Jean in the present day and she tells him her husband did eventually return]].
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* StarCrossedLovers: Angelo and Jean. Their relationship is doomed from the start as Jean is married (though her husband is missing in action and presumed dead by most). Then circumstances arise which lead to [[spoiler:the death of Angelo and, prior to Ted and Neil going back in time to save her, Jean)]].Jean]].
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* StarCrossedLovers: Angelo and Jean. Their relationship is doomed from the start as Jean is married (though her husband is missing in action and presumed dead by most).
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* StarCrossedLovers: Angelo and Jean. Their relationship is doomed from the start as Jean is married (though her husband is missing in action and presumed dead by most). Then circumstances arise which lead to [[spoiler:the death of Angelo and, prior to Ted and Neil going back in time to save her, Jean)]].
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* WildChild: Edie, at least early on, as at the bombsite she speaks very little and has a tendency to behave in an animalistic fashion.
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* PluckyGirl: Edie Dorkins. Her house was bombed during World War II and the rest of her family killed, but she wasn't fazed and simply made the bombsite her home, befriending the ghosts she met there.
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* PluckyGirl: Edie Dorkins. Her house was bombed during World War II and the rest of her family killed, but she wasn't fazed and simply made the bombsite her home, befriending the ghosts she met there.became a tough and independent WildChild.
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* SomeCallMeTim: As time went on, the Nornir began calling themselves Ursula, Veronica, and Celandine, which are modern equivalents of their original names: Urdr, Verdandi, and Skuld.
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* AerithAndBob: Though they usually go by their more modern-sounding aliases, the true names of the Webster sisters are Urdr, Verdandi, and Skuld. The other main characters have typical names like Neil, Josh, and Edie.
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* HeelFaceTurn: One of Woden's two ravens, Memory, befriends Neil and is given the new name Quoth.
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* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Just before both of their deaths, [[spoiler:Woden]] tells [[spoiler:Ursula]] that he truly loved her.
-->''"Then at the final moment of Doom, know this," he said. "When we were together in the gardens beneath Yggdrasill, my heart was yours."''
-->''"Then at the final moment of Doom, know this," he said. "When we were together in the gardens beneath Yggdrasill, my heart was yours."''
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Miss Veronica was the most beautiful of the Nornir in her youth.
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* IronLady: Miss Ursula, the stern caretaker of the Wyrd Museum and eldest of the Nornir.
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* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler:The barmy old tramp Tommy, who has an obsession with angels, turns out to actually be one.]]
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A trilogy of children's Main/{{Fantasy}} books by Creator/RobinJarvis, Creator/RobinJarvis aimed at kids and young adults. They are heavily influenced by Myth/NorseMythology.
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* LateToTheRealization: Despite the two having the same voice and other more subtle clues, it takes Neil a while to figure out that [[spoiler:Angelo]] and [[spoiler:Ted]] are one and the same. The latter even remarks with amusement that it took the boy long enough.
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* LateToTheRealization: Despite the two having the same voice and other more subtle clues, it takes Neil a while to figure out that [[spoiler:Angelo]] and [[spoiler:Ted]] are one and the same. The latter even remarks with amusement that it took the boy long enough.
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* LateToTheRealization: Despite the two having the same voice, voice and other more subtle clues, it takes Neil a while to figure out that [[spoiler:Angelo]] and [[spoiler:Ted]] are one and the same. The latter even remarks with amusement that it took the boy long enough.
