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* OutnumberedSibling: Gus is the only male out of his parents' four children.
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* TheSouthpaw: Kuro is left-handed. He has to get used to using his right hand after he injures his left arm.
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* DistinguishingMark / MarkOfShame: Kuro's birthmark is a combination of the two, being viewed by himself and others as a stigma, as it marks him as the Dillo with No Heart.
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* DistinguishingMark / MarkOfShame: DistinguishingMark: The cross-shaped mark on Kuro's birthmark is a combination of the two, being viewed by himself and others as a stigma, as it marks chest identifies him as the Dillo with No Heart.Heart and the subject of the prophecy.
* MarkOfShame: Because of the stigma associated with his mark, Kuro has been treated as a pariah for his whole life.
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* WorldOfFunnyAnimals (also WorldOfMammals): All characters are anthropomorphic armadillos, hedgehogs, or does.
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* WorldOfFunnyAnimals (also WorldOfMammals): WorldOfFunnyAnimals: All characters in the story are anthropomorphic armadillos, animals.
* WorldOfMammals: The three sapient species that appear in the story (armadillos, hedgehogs,or does.and does) are all mammals.
* WorldOfMammals: The three sapient species that appear in the story (armadillos, hedgehogs,
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* ASinisterClue: Played with. The left-handed Kuro is hated by most of his fellow Dillos because of the stigma of being born with the mark, but he isn't actually bad or evil.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Spinehog group becomes one of these once Kuro joins them. Shy, introverted and insecure Kuro is melancholic; kind-hearted big-brother figure Morty is phlegmatic; cheerful and quirky Gus is sanguine; abrasive and aloof Clyde is choleric.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Spinehog group becomes one of these once Kuro joins them. Shy, introverted and insecure Kuro is melancholic; kind-hearted kindhearted big-brother figure Morty is phlegmatic; cheerful and quirky Gus is sanguine; abrasive and aloof Clyde is choleric.
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* GentleGiant: Morty is a seven-foot-tall, brutish-looking Spinehog, but he is never seen angry, becomes close friends with Kuro shortly after their first meeting, and ends up being the first person to whom the armadillo can truly open up about his feelings. His gentle personality is also justified in-universe, in that he can afford to be gentle because no one would be stupid enough to pick a fight with a Spinehog his size.
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* GentleGiant: Morty is a seven-foot-tall, brutish-looking Spinehog, but he is never seen angry, becomes close friends with Kuro shortly after their first meeting, and ends up being the first person to whom the armadillo can truly open up about his feelings. His gentle personality is also justified in-universe, in that he can afford to be gentle kind because no one would be stupid enough to pick a fight with a Spinehog his size.
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* ComicallyCrossEyed: Gus.Gus is a quirky character whose eyes are mentioned to usually be looking in different directions.
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* GentleGiant: Morty. It's Morty is a seven-foot-tall, brutish-looking Spinehog, but he is never seen angry, becomes close friends with Kuro shortly after their first meeting, and ends up being the first person to whom the armadillo can truly open up about his feelings. His gentle personality is also justified in-universe, in that he can afford to be gentle because no one would be stupid enough to pick a fight with a Spinehog his size.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:Cyrus was once in love with Kuro's mother, Sylvia. Even her stern, hard-nosed father Bertrand approved of Cyrus as a potential son-in-law, but Sylvia did not reciprocate his affection and married his friend Theodore instead.]]
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[spoiler:When Kuro is told his sacrifice won't be carried out, he is so confused he begins to question the decision, and Cecilia slaps him in the face to make him come to his senses.]]
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* ColourfulThemeNaming: Kuro and Lord Shiro are named after the Japanese words for the colors black and white, respectively.
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* DistinguishingMark / MarkOfShame: Kuro's birthmark is a combination of the two, being viewed by himself and others as a stigma, as it marks him as the Dillo with No Heart.
* DontGoInTheWoods: Dillos are strongly discouraged--or, in the case of children, expressly forbidden--from going into the Nymphwoods.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Kuro's parents both passed away some time before the events of the story.
* FurryReminder: While the characters are indistinguishable from humans in most scenes, Kuro curls into a ball at two points in the story, and Gus is once seen sharpening his claws with a rock. In another scene, Morty picks his teeth with one of his own spines.
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* YourFavorite: [[spoiler:In one of the final scenes, Cecilia brings Kuro a mug of cocoa in his room; he tearfully recalls that his mother used to make it for him.]]
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''The Armadillo with No Heart'' is a fantasy novel written by troper Tropers/{{Bluethorn}} under the pen name Felix Williams and published in 2017. Set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, the novel tells the story of a young anthropomorphic armadillo named Kuro (the titular "Armadillo with No Heart"), residing in the peaceful seaside village of Greentown, which is populated entirely by his race, the Dillos.
Unfortunately for Kuro, he is not like other Dillos. He was born with an unusual cross-shaped birthmark on his chest, and because of the mark, he has grown up with the burden of being destined for sacrifice on his sixteenth birthday, as his fellow armadillos believe him to be tied to an old prophecy foretelling the birth of an armadillo with a cross-shaped mark and the downfall of their race if he is left alive.
Shortly before the date arrives, however, Kuro decides to run away. From there on, the story focuses on both the dangers he faces as he comes into contact with the outside world for the first time and his emotional struggles caused by the rejection he has faced over the years, as well as his need for acceptance. Along the way, he makes some unusual friends and learns that the world is much larger than the town he has known all his life.
The story can be found on Wattpad [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/137096857-the-armadillo-with-no-heart here]].
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!!''The Armadillo with No Heart'' provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Gus' father threw him from a second-floor window when he was a baby, knocked out half of his teeth by banging his head on a table when he was four, and eventually tried to kill him by smashing his head with a cane.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:Cyrus was once in love with Kuro's mother, Sylvia. Even her stern, hard-nosed father Bertrand approved of Cyrus as a potential son-in-law, but Sylvia did not reciprocate his affection and married his friend Theodore instead.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Gus, though it's not obvious at first, as he hides it behind a laid-back and childlike demeanor.]]
* BigBad: Lord Shiro.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Lily arrives at the square just in time to stop her father from killing Kuro.]]
* CallARabbitASmeerp: The anthropomorphic armadillos are Dillos, and the hedgehogs are Spinehogs.
* ClassicalAntihero: Kuro lacks the traditional attributes of a hero, being timid and cowardly.
* ComicallyCrossEyed: Gus.
* CoveredInScars: Gus has bite scars on his arms and scratch marks all over his chest and stomach. [[spoiler: He eventually reveals that he inflicted the injuries on himself as a means to release his latent anger.]]
* EyesAlwaysAverted: At one point, Clyde remarks in his inner monologue that Kuro has a hard time looking others in the eye due to his shyness.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Subverted. Lord Shiro tells Cyrus to rip out Kuro's eyes prior to the latter's execution, but Cyrus refuses.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Spinehog group becomes one of these once Kuro joins them. Shy, introverted and insecure Kuro is melancholic; kind-hearted big-brother figure Morty is phlegmatic; cheerful and quirky Gus is sanguine; abrasive and aloof Clyde is choleric.
* GentleGiant: Morty. It's also justified in-universe, in that he can afford to be gentle because no one would be stupid enough to pick a fight with a Spinehog his size.
* HappilyMarried: Although we don't see much of Henry and Cecilia, it's clear that they are this.
* HeroAntagonist: Cyrus. He's trying to catch Kuro so the latter can be brought home to be sacrificed, and is thus ostensibly an antagonist, but is still very much a heroic character who abides by a code to protect the innocent and is ashamed at what he is being forced to do under orders. [[spoiler:He eventually pulls a near HeelFaceTurn by standing up to the real villain, and turns fully to the side of good moments later after being saved by Kuro.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Clyde is abrasive and unfriendly, but he clearly cares about Morty and Gus, [[spoiler:and is willing to risk his life even for people he barely knows, such as Kuro.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Clyde and Bertrand. The former is killed in the struggle with two Northport guards in the Outer District; the latter dies of his illness towards the end.]]
* KnightTemplar: Lord Shiro clearly believes that his intended sacrifice of Kuro is the right thing to do, although he is so deluded that he makes no attempt to justify it even to himself.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Kuro has two of these moments: the first is when Clyde is murdered by Northport guards as an indirect result of his actions. The second is when he becomes horrified upon having stabbed Lord Shiro in the stomach, even though it was done in self-defense.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, the one who receives this speech at the end is not the villainous Lord Shiro, but Kuro himself, when his aunt Cecilia calls him out on going along with the intended sacrifice to paint himself as a martyr rather than fighting for his own life as he should have done.]]
* UrbanSegregation: Northport is split into the Inner District, home to the upper and middle Spinehog classes, and the Outer District where the lower-class citizens live. See WretchedHive below.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: All characters are anthropomorphic armadillos, hedgehogs, or does.
* WretchedHive: Northport's Outer District, where the houses are falling apart, the streets are dirty, criminals run rampant, and survival of the fittest is the law.
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''The Armadillo with No Heart'' is a fantasy novel written by troper Tropers/{{Bluethorn}} under the pen name Felix Williams and published in 2017. Set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, the novel tells the story of a young anthropomorphic armadillo named Kuro (the titular "Armadillo with No Heart"), residing in the peaceful seaside village of Greentown, which is populated entirely by his race, the Dillos.
Unfortunately for Kuro, he is not like other Dillos. He was born with an unusual cross-shaped birthmark on his chest, and because of the mark, he has grown up with the burden of being destined for sacrifice on his sixteenth birthday, as his fellow armadillos believe him to be tied to an old prophecy foretelling the birth of an armadillo with a cross-shaped mark and the downfall of their race if he is left alive.
Shortly before the date arrives, however, Kuro decides to run away. From there on, the story focuses on both the dangers he faces as he comes into contact with the outside world for the first time and his emotional struggles caused by the rejection he has faced over the years, as well as his need for acceptance. Along the way, he makes some unusual friends and learns that the world is much larger than the town he has known all his life.
The story can be found on Wattpad [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/137096857-the-armadillo-with-no-heart here]].
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!!''The Armadillo with No Heart'' provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Gus' father threw him from a second-floor window when he was a baby, knocked out half of his teeth by banging his head on a table when he was four, and eventually tried to kill him by smashing his head with a cane.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:Cyrus was once in love with Kuro's mother, Sylvia. Even her stern, hard-nosed father Bertrand approved of Cyrus as a potential son-in-law, but Sylvia did not reciprocate his affection and married his friend Theodore instead.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Gus, though it's not obvious at first, as he hides it behind a laid-back and childlike demeanor.]]
* BigBad: Lord Shiro.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Lily arrives at the square just in time to stop her father from killing Kuro.]]
* CallARabbitASmeerp: The anthropomorphic armadillos are Dillos, and the hedgehogs are Spinehogs.
* ClassicalAntihero: Kuro lacks the traditional attributes of a hero, being timid and cowardly.
* ComicallyCrossEyed: Gus.
* CoveredInScars: Gus has bite scars on his arms and scratch marks all over his chest and stomach. [[spoiler: He eventually reveals that he inflicted the injuries on himself as a means to release his latent anger.]]
* EyesAlwaysAverted: At one point, Clyde remarks in his inner monologue that Kuro has a hard time looking others in the eye due to his shyness.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Subverted. Lord Shiro tells Cyrus to rip out Kuro's eyes prior to the latter's execution, but Cyrus refuses.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Spinehog group becomes one of these once Kuro joins them. Shy, introverted and insecure Kuro is melancholic; kind-hearted big-brother figure Morty is phlegmatic; cheerful and quirky Gus is sanguine; abrasive and aloof Clyde is choleric.
* GentleGiant: Morty. It's also justified in-universe, in that he can afford to be gentle because no one would be stupid enough to pick a fight with a Spinehog his size.
* HappilyMarried: Although we don't see much of Henry and Cecilia, it's clear that they are this.
* HeroAntagonist: Cyrus. He's trying to catch Kuro so the latter can be brought home to be sacrificed, and is thus ostensibly an antagonist, but is still very much a heroic character who abides by a code to protect the innocent and is ashamed at what he is being forced to do under orders. [[spoiler:He eventually pulls a near HeelFaceTurn by standing up to the real villain, and turns fully to the side of good moments later after being saved by Kuro.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Clyde is abrasive and unfriendly, but he clearly cares about Morty and Gus, [[spoiler:and is willing to risk his life even for people he barely knows, such as Kuro.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Clyde and Bertrand. The former is killed in the struggle with two Northport guards in the Outer District; the latter dies of his illness towards the end.]]
* KnightTemplar: Lord Shiro clearly believes that his intended sacrifice of Kuro is the right thing to do, although he is so deluded that he makes no attempt to justify it even to himself.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Kuro has two of these moments: the first is when Clyde is murdered by Northport guards as an indirect result of his actions. The second is when he becomes horrified upon having stabbed Lord Shiro in the stomach, even though it was done in self-defense.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, the one who receives this speech at the end is not the villainous Lord Shiro, but Kuro himself, when his aunt Cecilia calls him out on going along with the intended sacrifice to paint himself as a martyr rather than fighting for his own life as he should have done.]]
* UrbanSegregation: Northport is split into the Inner District, home to the upper and middle Spinehog classes, and the Outer District where the lower-class citizens live. See WretchedHive below.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: All characters are anthropomorphic armadillos, hedgehogs, or does.
* WretchedHive: Northport's Outer District, where the houses are falling apart, the streets are dirty, criminals run rampant, and survival of the fittest is the law.
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