History Literature / TheEyesOfMyPrincess

%%* PoisonousFriend: Mariscal Adalid.

* DownerEnding: The original ending. [[spoiler:During the party, Jose Carlos realizes that Sheccid is actually a stoner who ReallyGetsAround and not the beautiful girl he idealized in his dreams. He gets so broken that he writes a book based on the plot story, but he changes the part of the party, and portrays Sheccid as a terminal IllGirl who ends up with him but dies later, due to an unknown illness. He is satisfied with the story, believing it to be the real thing; but by now Jose Carlos is broken and has distanced himself from everyone.]] The adaptation makes a DistantFinale, [[spoiler:in which after years he publishes the book, an adult Ariadne confronts him and forces him to accept the AwfulTruth.]]

%%* NiceGuy: Jose Carlos takes it UpToEleven.

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[[caption-width-right:240: A Deconstructed Love Story]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Part of why Mario loathes his mother so much was because after his father died, she started dating men regularly.

* AboveTheInfluence: All the guests during the WildTeenParty scene.
* AccidentalPervert: Poor Jose Carlos is labelled as a pervert for a long time by Ariadne and Sheccid during the first chapers, just because he happened to be in the porn producer's car.
* AdultsAreUseless: Completely averted.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Played straight with Sheccid, after she falls for Adolfo.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Jose Carlos towards Sheccid. And a handful of girls towards him, no less.

* BadassTeacher: Miss Jennifer.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Joaquin, for Sheccid. However they are NotBloodSiblings.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Deghemteris.

* ClassRepresentative: Carmen Beatriz.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Jose Carlos, for Sheccid. Not that it stops him, [[spoiler: at least until his HeroicBSOD.]]
* DotingParent: Jose Carlos’s parents.
* DownerEnding: The original ending. [[spoiler:During the party, Jose Carlos realizes that Sheccid is actually a stoner who ReallyGetsAround and not the beautiful girl he idealized in his dreams. He gets so broken that he writes a book based on the plot story, but he changes the part of the party, and portrays Sheccid as a terminal IllGirl who ends up with him but dies later, due to an unknown illness. He is satisfied with the story, believing it to be the real thing; but by now Jose Carlos is broken and has distanced himself from everyone.]]
** BittersweetEnding: The adaptation makes a DistantFinale, [[spoiler:in which after years he publishes the book, an adult Ariadne confronts him and forces him to accept the AwfulTruth.]]

* EmbarrassingNickname: Sheccid thinks it is. She doesn't complain about it because she hates her real name.
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: During the infamous WildTeenParty.
* FirstLove: The main theme. And a deconstruction of it.

* FriendshipMoment/AFriendInNeed: Several times.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: See DespairEventHorizon below.

* HandsomeLech: Mario was this before he got abducted.
* HeroicBSOD: Once again, I point you to DespairEventHorizon.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ariadne, for Jose Carlos.

* LoveEpiphany
* NiceGuy: Jose Carlos takes it UpToEleven.

* ParentalAbandonment
* SchoolIdol: Sheccid.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jose Carlos and Mario respectively.
* ShesAllGrownUp: Ariadne, as Jose Carlos notes in TheStinger.
* SirSwearsALot: Adolfo, when he drops the “charming prince” act.
* SmugSnake: Adolfo, again.
* StepfordSmiler: Sheccid is a Type A.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sheccid.
* TheSeventies
* TheStoner: Mario, post-abduction. [[spoiler: And Sheccid/Justina.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Rafael and Salvador.
* TimeSkip: In TheStinger

* TroubledButCute: Sheccid, at least to Jose Carlos.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Marcela and debatably Ariadne.

* WouldHitAGirl: Adolfo. Sheccid learns this the hard way.

* AssholeVictim: Justine and Mario.
* BetterAsFriends: Jose Carlos regarding Ariadne and [[spoiler: Sheccid/Lorenna]].

* BadLiar: Jose Carlos is this to the extreme. Even Mario lampshades it from time to time.
* BreakTheHaughty: Dear god, Mario...

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Lorenna]] and Justine.

* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler: Sheccid/Lorenna and her cousin Justine.]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Poor Miss Jennifer got fired because of meddling too much into her students lives.
* PoisonousFriend: Mariscal Adalid.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[spoiler: Justine, Lorenna's identical cousin. And for a while Jose Carlos after he [[TookALevelInJerkass Takes A Level In Jerkass]].]]

* StalkerWithACrush: Ariadne, surprisingly, turns out to be this.
* TheEighties
* TookALevelInJerkass: Jose Carlos, of all people.
* TookALevelInKindness: Mario, see RedemptionEqualsDeath above.

* TrulySingleParent: [[spoiler: Lorenna]] has a young daughter.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Ariadne.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Ivonne has unnatural green eyes.

* SecondYearProtagonist

''The Eyes of My Princess'' (Los ojos de mi princesa) is a 2004-novel by the Mexican author of self-help books Carlos Cuauhtemoc Sanchez. Originally published in 1996 with the name of ''Sheccid's Strength'' (La fuerza de Sheccid), the novel is dedicated to young readers and deals with the themes of FirstLove, drugs and sex, while promoting the more conservative values on those topics.

** Mario was [[spoiler: either killed by the pimps or died from AIDS. But he reconciled with Jose Carlos before leaving and [[DyingAsYourself DiedAsHimself]].]]

* Lorenna and Jose Carlos [[spoiler: are HappilyMarried to Willian and Yvonne respectively. They meet again in 2014 and Lorenna finally confesses that Jose Carlos was her LivingEmotionalCrutch and loved him all along. Even so, they're aware that it's part of the past and are happy with their current family. Jose Carlos never sees her again afterwards, but he acknowledges it's for the best.]]

** After [[spoiler: Justine's death]], Joaquin [[spoiller: returns to the Deghemteri household and reforms his bad habits.]]

** Mario was [[spoiler: either killed by the pimps or died from AIDS. But he reconciled with Jose Carlos before leaving and [[DyingAsYouself DiedAsHimself]].]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding:

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* WhatBeautifulEyes: Ivonne has unnatural green eyes.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: During Jose Carlos's time as a jerkass, he meets Mario again, who is planning to escape to another town for returning Jose Carlos's documents. He gives him some cash and waves him goodbye coldly, much to Mario's surprise. Jose Carlos inmediately regrets it and runs across the sreet to find him, but by now Mario is gone. And Jose Carlos is conscious that Mario will either die from the AIDS or if his BadBoss finds him. Poor Jose Carlos is left with regrets about it by it during the rest of the book.]]

* AssholeVictim: Mario.

* DespairEventHorizon: Poor Jose Carlos after he realizes Sheccid’s true personality.

* WhatIf: The ending, in which Jose Carlos, refusing to accept that [[spoiler:his beloved Sheccid is actually a promiscuous stoner, he writes a LighterAndSofter book in which Mario is never abducted and lives a normal life while Jose Carlos and Sheccid end up together as a couple but later dies due to an illness. He is satisfied with it, thought, at least until TheStinger.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Adolfo.
* YouthfulFreckles: Ariadne has this.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Jose Carlos, when he was young, because he was smarter and had nerdy looks.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Horribly averted in Mario’s case. According to him, his mother ReallyGetsAround in his childhood, [[InsaneTrollLogic so he sees no problem with getting involved in pornography and sex.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It is revealed that [[spoiler: Lorenna]], with the help of Miss Jennifer, were the one who called the cops in the middle of the WildTeenParty (of the first book) in order to arrest them all. It ended up badly, since [[spoiler: Lorenna]]'s mother dies shortly after and her father and even her protective big brother Joaquin distance from her shortly after. And Miss Jennifer gets fired from the school for her trouble.

* AboveTheInfluence: All the guests during the party scene.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: During the infamous party scene.

* BittersweetEnding: Jose Carlos finally finds Sheccid again [[spoiler: (whose real name is Lorenna). It turns out that she loved Jose Carlos all along and the stoner girl from the previous book was a cousin who happens to look like her. Because of his disseaperance and HeroicBSOD, she now resents him, causing him to TookALevelInJerkass. Ariadne doesn't hang out with Jose Carlos anymore and Mario is slowly dying from AIDS and escapes to another town. While Jose Carlos goes through a LastMinuteHookUp with a girl called Ivonne, who fills his idealistic expectatives.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: During Jose Carlos's time as a jerkass, he meets Mario again, who is planning to escape to another town for returning Jose Carlos's documents. He gives him some cash in order to escape and waves him goodbye coldly, much to Mario's surprise. Jose Carlos inmediately regrets it and runs across the sreet to find him, but by now Mario is gone. And Jose Carlos is conscious that Mario will either die from the AIDS or if his BadBoss finds him. Poor Jose Carlos is left with regrets about it by it during the rest of the book.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: During Jose Carlos's time as a jerkass, he meets Mario again, who is planning to escape to another town for returning Jose Carlos's ID. He gives him some cash in order to escape and waves him goodbye coldly. He inmediately regrets it and tries to look for him, but by now Mario is long gone. Poor Jose Carlos is affected by it during the rest of the book.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Possibly the fate of [[spoiler: poor Mario]]. After Jose Carlos meets him in a dangerous red zone in order to search for Sheccid, Mario starts loosening up a bit and confesses that he has come to hate the lifestyle he came to love in the first book. But it's not after [[spoiler: Mario passes out and is taken to the hospital (where the doctors find out he is dying of AIDS) and Jose Carlos is the only one to visit him, he decides to TookALevelInKindness, steals Jose Carlos's ID from the BadBoss that previously stole it and escapes to another town forever after making amends with his OnlyFriend. Not to mention he is slowly succumbing to the AIDS]]. Yes, he was an asshole in the books, but it's hard not to feel sorry for the poor guy in the end.

* TrulySingleParent: [[spoiler: Lorenna]] has a young daughter.

* AccidentalPervert

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Jose Carlos, when he was young.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited

* BookDumb: Hector, the big guy from Cuba.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Jose Carlos, for Sheccid.

* GondorCallsForAid

* TheStoner: Mario [[spoiler: And Sheccid/Justina.]]

* WhatIf: The ending, in which Jose Carlos, refusing to accept that [[spoiler:his beloved Sheccid is actually a promiscuous stoner, he writes a book in which they end up together as a couple but later dies due to an illness. He is satisfied with it, thought, at least until TheStinger.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Jose Carlos finally finds Sheccid again [[spoiler: (whose real name is Lorenna). It turns out that she loved Jose Carlos all along and the stoner girl from the previous book was a cousin who happens to look like her. Because of his disseaperance and HeroicBSOD, she now resents him, causing him to TookALevelInJerkass. Ariadne doesn't hang out with Jose Carlos anymore and Mario is slowly dying from AIDS and escapes to another town. While Jose Carlos goes through a LastMinuteHookUp with a girl called Ivonne, who fills his idealistic expectatives and they have a daughter called Sheccid.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Jose Carlos towards Mariscal.

* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[spoiler: In the end it is implied that Mario is dying of AIDS. Since it is in TheSeventies, Mario has no idea about it.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: Mario, see RedemptionEqualsDeath above.

* DespairEventHorizon: Poor Carlos after he realizes Sheccid’s true personality.

* DotingParent: Carlos’s parents.
* DownerEnding: The original ending. [[spoiler:During the party, Carlos realizes that Sheccid is actually a stoner who ReallyGetsAround and not the beautiful girl he idealized in his dreams. He gets so broken that he writes a book based on the plot story, but he changes the part of the party, and portrays Sheccid as a terminal IllGirl who ends up with him but dies later, due to an unknown illness. He is satisfied with the story, believing it to be the real thing; but by now Carlos is broken and has distanced himself from everyone.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ariadne, for Carlos.

* BittersweetEnding: Jose Carlos finally finds Sheccid again [[spoiler: (whose real name is Lorena). It turns out that she loved Jose Carlos all along and the stoner girl from the previous book was a cousin who happens to look like her. Because of his disseaperance and HeroicBSOD, she now resents him, causing him to TookALevelInJerkass. Ariadne doesn't hang out with Jose Carlos anymore and Mario is slowly dying from AIDS and escapes to another town. While Jose Carlos goes through a LastMinuteHookUp with a girl called Ivonne, who fills his idealistic expectatives and they have a daughter called Sheccid.]]

* LastMinuteHookUp: [[spoiler: Jose Carlos ends up with a girl called Ivonne.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Jose Carlos, of all people.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Ariadne.

* BittersweetEnding
* DidNotGetTheGirl
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[spoiler: In the end it is implied that Mario is dying of AIDS.]]
* LastMinuteHookUp
* RedemptionEqualsDeath