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* BlueAndOrangeMorality
** The Yith are more interested in their acquisition of knowledge than any petty human concerns like World War III breaking out. However the idea of the humans misusing body-theft (as [[ItsAllAboutMe opposed to themselves]] for data acquisition or racial survival) does annoy them.
** Aphra has to talk the Elders out having some human witnesses to their meeting bound as thralls so she can use them as slaves or breeding stock. She makes it clear that after what she witnessed in the concentration camps she's not going to indulge in slavery or rape of a prisoner.
** The Yith are more interested in their acquisition of knowledge than any petty human concerns like World War III breaking out. However the idea of the humans misusing body-theft (as [[ItsAllAboutMe opposed to themselves]] for data acquisition or racial survival) does annoy them.
** Aphra has to talk the Elders out having some human witnesses to their meeting bound as thralls so she can use them as slaves or breeding stock. She makes it clear that after what she witnessed in the concentration camps she's not going to indulge in slavery or rape of a prisoner.
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* AxCrazy: The Mad Ones Under The Earth are this by reputation; even the Yith are wary of them.
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* InTheBlood: A distant ancestor of Audrey may have been a human experiment by the Mad Ones Under The Earth, and it's speculated that her fearless nature might have something to do with this. [[spoiler:Unfortunately SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan also applies, as whatever is in her blood activates to resist her being possessed by an EldritchAbomination, with the risk of taking her over instead.]]
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* {{Blackmail}}: The FBI get admittance to Miskatonic University by blackmailing one of the professors who enjoys forcing his attentions on his maids. So the FBI make sure to provide him with a maid who happens to be working for the FBI.
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* {{Blackmail}}: The FBI get admittance to Miskatonic University by blackmailing one of the professors who enjoys forcing his attentions on his maids. So the FBI make sure to provide him with a maid who happens to be working for the FBI.them.
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* {{Blackmail}}: The FBI get admittance to Miskatonic University by blackmailing one of the professors who enjoys forcing his attentions on his maids. So the FBI make sure to provide him with a maid who happens to be working for the FBI.
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* GrandTheftMe: Spector first comes to Aphra because the FBI is worried that the Soviets might have gotten hold of the ability to do so, and use it to take over government officials for sabotage or subversion. [[spoiler:Aphra finds evidence that [[Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep Ephraim Waite]] might have passed on his knowledge to a Russian student, but decides to keep this to herself for fear it will spark a WitchHunt that will be worse than any actual sabotage.]]
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* GrandTheftMe: GrandTheftMe:
** Spector first comes to Aphra because the FBI is worried that the Soviets might have gotten hold of the ability to do so, and use it to take over government officials for sabotage or subversion. [[spoiler:Aphra finds evidence that [[Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep Ephraim Waite]] might have passed on his knowledge to a Russian student, but decides to keep this to herself for fear it will spark a WitchHunt that will be worse than any actual sabotage.]]]]
** The Yith do this as a GodTest, momentarily swopping with the person they're speaking to.
** Spector first comes to Aphra because the FBI is worried that the Soviets might have gotten hold of the ability to do so, and use it to take over government officials for sabotage or subversion. [[spoiler:Aphra finds evidence that [[Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep Ephraim Waite]] might have passed on his knowledge to a Russian student, but decides to keep this to herself for fear it will spark a WitchHunt that will be worse than any actual sabotage.
** The Yith do this as a GodTest, momentarily swopping with the person they're speaking to.
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* ShoutOut: The Irregulars interview Daniel Upton, still in an asylum after the events of ''Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep''.
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* SoleSurvivor: Aphra and Caleb are the only survivors of those captured in the Innsmouth raid, and were only released because the US government had forgotten they existed and so they were freed along with the Japanese internees when the war ended.
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Lampshaded when Audrey gets information from Barlow just by looking vulnerable and pouting at him. She notes that Spector wouldn't fall for it (ostensibly because he never switches his brain off, but actually because he's a closet homosexual).
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Lampshaded when Audrey gets information from Barlow just by looking vulnerable and pouting at him. She notes that Spector wouldn't fall for it (ostensibly because he never switches his brain off, but actually because he's a closet homosexual). Aphra can't help being envious of this.
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* SummoningRitual: Barlow's team attempt a non-generalised summoning ritual which is a ''very'' bad idea as you don't know who is going to show up.
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* SummoningRitual: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:The Yith choses to abandon Trumball's body just when they really need its help, because Barlow's team have accidentally summoned an EldritchAbomination that has taken up residence in Sally and Audrey.]]
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** Aphra and Caleb use this to make contact with the Deep Ones, who they haven't seen in two decades and who have had no news of what happened to those caught in the Innsmouth raid.
** Barlow's team attempt a non-generalised summoning ritual which is a ''very'' bad idea as you don't know who is going to show up.
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** Aphra and Caleb use this to make contact with the Deep Ones, who they haven't seen in two decades and who have had no news of what happened to those caught in the Innsmouth raid.
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** Members of a religious group to continually 'prove' their loyalty; in this case Spector (Jewish) and Aphra (Aeonist) but it could just as easily be Muslim in the present day.
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* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: The Yith possessed Trumball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning.]]
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* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: The Yith possessed Trumball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning. To the Yith this is AFateWorseThanDeath, though Mary proves too determined to allow it to hold her back.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: As frequent in this series, the treatment of Miskatonic University of the Innsmouth books and records resembles museums and academic institutions taking artifacts from cultures that they refuse to return. All in the name of "preserving historical relics."
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: BehindEveryGreatMan: Mary is actually the hidden brains behind Barlow's team, though ostensibly only his secretary.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** As frequent in this series, the treatment of Miskatonic University of the Innsmouth books and records resembles museums and academic institutions taking artifacts from cultures that they refuse to return. All in the name of "preserving historical relics.""
** Members of a religious group to continually 'prove' their loyalty; in this case Spector (Jewish) and Aphra (Aeonist) but it could just as easily be Muslim in the present day.
* EurekaMoment: Subverted; the Irregulars break into Barlow's office to search it, but don't find anything useful. Aphra suddenly realises where Barlow would hide something important and rushes off there [[spoiler:but it's actually because she's been caught in a summoning spell.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** As frequent in this series, the treatment of Miskatonic University of the Innsmouth books and records resembles museums and academic institutions taking artifacts from cultures that they refuse to return. All in the name of "preserving historical relics.
** Members of a religious group to continually 'prove' their loyalty; in this case Spector (Jewish) and Aphra (Aeonist) but it could just as easily be Muslim in the present day.
* EurekaMoment: Subverted; the Irregulars break into Barlow's office to search it, but don't find anything useful. Aphra suddenly realises where Barlow would hide something important and rushes off there [[spoiler:but it's actually because she's been caught in a summoning spell.]]
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* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed that all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as possible.
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Lampshaded when Audrey gets information from Barlow just by looking vulnerable and pouting at him. She notes that Spector wouldn't fall for it (ostensibly because he never switches his brain off, but actually because he's a closet homosexual).
* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed that all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as possible. Still traumatised from her decades in a US government concentration camp where she saw [[EverybodysDeadDave everyone except her brother die]], she's really not happy at the [[AdultFear potential heartbreak involved in raising children]]. In fairness the stakes are a bit higher than normal; as far as they know Aphra and Caleb are the LastOfTheirKind who can have children. The Deep Ones are effectively immortal but they can be killed, so it may well be a question of species survival.
* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed that all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as possible. Still traumatised from her decades in a US government concentration camp where she saw [[EverybodysDeadDave everyone except her brother die]], she's really not happy at the [[AdultFear potential heartbreak involved in raising children]]. In fairness the stakes are a bit higher than normal; as far as they know Aphra and Caleb are the LastOfTheirKind who can have children. The Deep Ones are effectively immortal but they can be killed, so it may well be a question of species survival.
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* PowerIsSexy: Aphra has the 'Innsmouth look' so knows she's ugly by any standard, but finds herself being hit upon by Jesse under the assumption that she's a Deep One priestess.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero
** Trumball tries to hypnotise her way past the FBI men at the university gate. This only gets them arrested and arouses the suspicions of Barlow's team.
** Several of Audrey's friends stumble into Aphra's meeting with the Deep Ones. One gets injured and the others are coerced into silence, but this only drives them into seeking the help of Barlow's team.
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: All the conflict in the story is caused by the different agendas of the two FBI teams working at Miskatonic, although they're ostensibly looking for a Russian spy who may not even exist.
* SummoningRitual: Barlow's team attempt a non-generalised summoning ritual which is a ''very'' bad idea as you don't know who is going to show up.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero
** Trumball tries to hypnotise her way past the FBI men at the university gate. This only gets them arrested and arouses the suspicions of Barlow's team.
** Several of Audrey's friends stumble into Aphra's meeting with the Deep Ones. One gets injured and the others are coerced into silence, but this only drives them into seeking the help of Barlow's team.
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: All the conflict in the story is caused by the different agendas of the two FBI teams working at Miskatonic, although they're ostensibly looking for a Russian spy who may not even exist.
* SummoningRitual: Barlow's team attempt a non-generalised summoning ritual which is a ''very'' bad idea as you don't know who is going to show up.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In this case, the Aeonist cult is very much like many NewAge religious cults that take the religious beliefs of marginalized communities then repackage them.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** In this case, the Aeonist cult is very much like many NewAge religious cults that take the religious beliefs of marginalized communities then repackagethem.them.
** For the post-9/11 world, a religion being demonised because of the actions of a few criminal fanatics.
** In this case, the Aeonist cult is very much like many NewAge religious cults that take the religious beliefs of marginalized communities then repackage
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Spector lets Aphra read the file on what happened to her mother. She was taken to a government experimental station, put through various tests, then left to die of dehydration while her reactions were observed and recorded by scientists the whole time.
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''The Innsmouth Legacy'' by Ruthanna Emrys is a {{Deconstruction}} of and sequel to ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. The premise is the Deep Ones of Innsmouth, Massachusetts were actually a deeply spiritual and peaceful people rather than the depraved cultists in the novella.
Aphra Marsh is one of the two surviving Deep One hybrids from the original Innsmouth Raid, having spent her formative years in United States concentration camps (that would eventually be used for the internment of Japanese citizens during [=WW2=]). Understandably bitter about her experience, she's become assistant to an occult bookstore owner in San Fransisco and lives there with a Japanese family.
Aphra Marsh is one of the two surviving Deep One hybrids from the original Innsmouth Raid, having spent her formative years in United States concentration camps (that would eventually be used for the internment of Japanese citizens during [=WW2=]). Understandably bitter about her experience, she's become assistant to an occult bookstore owner in San Fransisco and lives there with a Japanese family.
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''The Innsmouth Legacy'' by Ruthanna Emrys is a {{Deconstruction}} of and sequel to ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. The premise is the Deep Ones of Innsmouth, Massachusetts were actually a deeply spiritual and peaceful people rather than the depraved cultists in the novella. \n Aphra Marsh is one of the two surviving Deep One hybrids from the original Innsmouth Raid, having spent her formative years in United States concentration camps (that would eventually be used for the internment of Japanese citizens during [=WW2=]). Understandably bitter about her experience, she's become assistant to an occult bookstore owner in San Fransisco and lives there with a Japanese family.
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* FantasticRacism: More or less the {{Deconstruction}} and {{Reconstruction}} of the trope is the point of the book.
->''"There are two ways to write fantastic oppression. One uses the imagined oppression to stand in for real experiences. You can tell powerful stories that way, but it can also make the real thing invisible, or twist the truth in strange ways. I love the X-Men, but if someone can kill you by accidentally dropping their glasses, it actually does have different legal and societal implications than if they’re gay or Jewish. My single favorite moment in X-Men is a confrontation between Magneto and Kitty Pryde, both Jewish, that engages with the intersection of real and imagined oppression. It lets the imagined one have its own nature rather than trying to stand in for something else. That’s what I’m interested in doing with Aphra’s stories. What looks the same about hatred or internment, no matter who and what you are? What changes when there’s real magic involved? What happens when you get Jews and Nikkei and Deep Ones together in a room after World War II—what do they have in common, what’s different, what can they learn from that parallax?"''
-->--'''Ruthanna Emrys'''
->''"There are two ways to write fantastic oppression. One uses the imagined oppression to stand in for real experiences. You can tell powerful stories that way, but it can also make the real thing invisible, or twist the truth in strange ways. I love the X-Men, but if someone can kill you by accidentally dropping their glasses, it actually does have different legal and societal implications than if they’re gay or Jewish. My single favorite moment in X-Men is a confrontation between Magneto and Kitty Pryde, both Jewish, that engages with the intersection of real and imagined oppression. It lets the imagined one have its own nature rather than trying to stand in for something else. That’s what I’m interested in doing with Aphra’s stories. What looks the same about hatred or internment, no matter who and what you are? What changes when there’s real magic involved? What happens when you get Jews and Nikkei and Deep Ones together in a room after World War II—what do they have in common, what’s different, what can they learn from that parallax?"''
-->--'''Ruthanna Emrys'''
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Aphra Marsh is one of the two surviving Deep One hybrids from the original Innsmouth Raid, having spent her formative years in United States concentration camps (that would eventually be used for the internment of Japanese citizens during [=WW2=]). Understandably bitter about her experience, she's become assistant to an occult bookstore owner in San Fransisco and lives in San Fransisco there with a Japanese family.
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Aphra Marsh is one of the two surviving Deep One hybrids from the original Innsmouth Raid, having spent her formative years in United States concentration camps (that would eventually be used for the internment of Japanese citizens during [=WW2=]). Understandably bitter about her experience, she's become assistant to an occult book store bookstore owner in San Fransisco and lives in San Fransisco with a Japanese family.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Professor Trumball [[spoiler: had a relationship with a (probable) woman in a Yith's body while they were both in the future. She also had a very close relationship with her maid that she was upset had been severed by the Yith. There's other hints too. {{Justified}} by the time period.]]
* AntiNihilist: Aphra's entire religion is based around this as it has the view eventually even the Deep Ones will die out and become extinct. However, you should treasure what time you have on the Earth as well as the fact your race will remembered by the Yith.
* AntiNihilist: Aphra's entire religion is based around this as it has the view eventually even the Deep Ones will die out and become extinct. However, you should treasure what time you have on the Earth as well as the fact your race will remembered by the Yith.
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* AntiNihilist: Aphra's entire religion is based around this as it has the view eventually even the Deep Ones will die out and become extinct. However, you should treasure what time you have on the Earth as well as the fact your race will be remembered by the Yith.
* AntiNihilist: Aphra's entire religion is based around this as it has the view eventually even the Deep Ones will die out and become extinct. However, you should treasure what time you have on the Earth as well as the fact your race will be remembered by the Yith.
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* LovecraftLite: The Deep Ones are a noble culture that, if not pacistific, then at least no danger to surfacers.
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* LovecraftLite: The Deep Ones are a noble culture that, if not pacistific, pacifistic, then at least no danger to surfacers.
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* EvilCounterpart: Barlow and his team are depicted as these to Spector's Irregulars. They are FantasticRacist practicing ScienceHero types who ignore all the religious elements of Aphra''s advice.
* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as possibly.
* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as possibly.
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* EvilCounterpart: Barlow and his team are depicted as these to Spector's Irregulars. They are FantasticRacist practicing ScienceHero types who ignore all the religious elements of Aphra''s Aphra's advice.
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* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed that all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as
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* IncompatibleOrientation: May be the situation with Audrey and Aphra as she's implied to have no interest in sex.
* MythologyGag: Aphra's final speech is a parody of H.P. Lovecraft's ''The Horror at Red Hook'' where she looks at New York as a beautiful celebration of humanity using the same reasons as why the writer treated it as a WretchedHive.
* MythologyGag: Aphra's final speech is a parody of H.P. Lovecraft's ''The Horror at Red Hook'' where she looks at New York as a beautiful celebration of humanity using the same reasons as why the writer treated it as a WretchedHive.
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* MythologyGag: Aphra's final speech is a parody of H.P. Lovecraft's ''The Horror at Red Hook'' where she looks at New York as a beautiful celebration of humanity using the same reasons as for why the writer treated it as a WretchedHive.
* MythologyGag: Aphra's final speech is a parody of H.P. Lovecraft's ''The Horror at Red Hook'' where she looks at New York as a beautiful celebration of humanity using the same reasons as for why the writer treated it as a WretchedHive.
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* {{Asexual}}: Aphra Marsh is speculated to be this and it reflects her interior thoughts. She only thinks about sex and romance in terms of reproduction.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: {{Deconstructed}} as Aphra treats the Mi-Go as having this when they actually have a morality very similar to the Federation from ''Star Trek.''
* FourthDateMarriage: Aphra intends to breed with Frank, much to his surprise and irritation since they don't really like each other.
* IncompatibleOrientation: May be the situation with Audrey and Aphra as she's implied to have no interest in sex.
* MythologyGag: Aphra's final speech is a parody of H.P. Lovecraft's ''The Horror at Red Hook'' where she looks at New York as a beautiful celebration of humanity using the same reasons as why the writer treated it as a WretchedHive.
* PerspectiveFlip: Aphra gets one of these when she's confronted by the Mi-Go about a lot of her cultural preconceptions about space travel, the Yithians, and the importance of the body.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Mi-Go are willing to use their mind-control powers to try to take over the world--to prevent humans from destroying themselves.
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* {{Asexual}}: Aphra Marsh is speculated to be this and it reflects her interior thoughts. She only thinks about sex and romance in terms of reproduction.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: {{Deconstructed}} as Aphra treats the Mi-Go as having this when they actually have a morality very similar to the Federation from ''Star Trek.''
* FourthDateMarriage: Aphra intends to breed with Frank, much to his surprise and irritation since they don't really like each other.
* IncompatibleOrientation: May be the situation with Audrey and Aphra as she's implied to have no interest in sex.
* MythologyGag: Aphra's final speech is a parody of H.P. Lovecraft's ''The Horror at Red Hook'' where she looks at New York as a beautiful celebration of humanity using the same reasons as why the writer treated it as a WretchedHive.
* PerspectiveFlip: Aphra gets one of these when she's confronted by the Mi-Go about a lot of her cultural preconceptions about space travel, the Yithians, and the importance of the body.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Mi-Go are willing to use their mind-control powers to try to take over the world--to prevent humans from destroying themselves.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Professor Turnball [[spoiler: had a relationship with a (probable) woman in a Yith's body while they were both in the future. She also had a very close relationship with her maid that she was upset had been severed by the Yith. There's other hints too. {{Justified}} by the time period.]]
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Professor Turnball Trumball [[spoiler: had a relationship with a (probable) woman in a Yith's body while they were both in the future. She also had a very close relationship with her maid that she was upset had been severed by the Yith. There's other hints too. {{Justified}} by the time period.]]
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* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: The Yith possessed Turnball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Professor Turnball serves as this [[spoiler: as long as she's possessed by one of the Yith.]] She gets much better once that's no longer the case.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Professor Turnball serves as this [[spoiler: as long as she's possessed by one of the Yith.]] She gets much better once that's no longer the case.
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* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: The Yith possessed Turnball Trumball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: ProfessorTurnball Trumball serves as this [[spoiler: as long as she's possessed by one of the Yith.]] She gets much better once that's no longer the case.
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* CIABadFBIGood: CIAEvilFBIGood: More like FBI Good, US military bad. Ron Spector is a decent, honorable, and enlightened man for his time. However, he's a figure that still represents the authorities which ruined Aphra's life.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: As frequent in this series, the treatment of Miskatonic University of the Innsmouth books and records resembles musuems museums and academic institutions taking artifacts from cultures that they refuse to return. All in the name of "preserving historical relics."
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* KickTheDog: The [[spoiler: Yith]] Turnball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning.
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* KickTheDog: The [[spoiler: Yith]] The Yith possessed Turnball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning.]]
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* ''A ''The Litany of Earth'' (novella)(novella, 2014)
* PerspectiveFlip: This is the view of the Mythos from the perspective of the Deep Ones.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Aphra is appalled by all the liberties which the Aeonist cult has taken with her people's religion. She also notes that it has convinced people to swim out into the ocean to achieve immortality, missing that only applies to Deep Ones and the majority of people who do it will just drown.
* CIABadFBIGood: More like FBI Good, US military bad. Ron Spector is a decent, honorable, and enlightened man for his time. However, he's a figure that still represents the authorities which ruined Aphra's life.
* CIABadFBIGood: More like FBI Good, US military bad. Ron Spector is a decent, honorable, and enlightened man for his time. However, he's a figure that still represents the authorities which ruined Aphra's life.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In this case, the Aeonist cult is very much like many NewAge religious cults that take the religious beliefs of marginalized communities then repackage them.
* NewAge: The Aeonist cult is a post-[=WW1=] religious group that is adapting Deep One beliefs into a religion for humans.
* TooDumbToLive: Aphra struggles to hold back her opinion on the Aeonist cult that more or less amounts to this.
* NewAge: The Aeonist cult is a post-[=WW1=] religious group that is adapting Deep One beliefs into a religion for humans.
* TooDumbToLive: Aphra struggles to hold back her opinion on the Aeonist cult that more or less amounts to this.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: As frequent in this series, the treatment of Miskatonic University of the Innsmouth books and records resembles musuems and academic institutions taking artifacts from cultures that they refuse to return. All in the name of "preserving historical relics."
* TokenEvilTeammate: Professor Turnball serves as this [[spoiler: as long as she's possessed by one of the Yith.]] She gets much better once that's no longer the case.
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''The Innsmouth Legacy'' by Ruthanna Emyrs is a {{Deconstruction}} of and sequel to ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. The premise is the Deep Ones of Innsmouth, Massachusetts were actually a deeply spiritual and peaceful people rather than the depraved cultists in the novella.
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''The Innsmouth Legacy'' by Ruthanna Emyrs Emrys is a {{Deconstruction}} of and sequel to ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. The premise is the Deep Ones of Innsmouth, Massachusetts were actually a deeply spiritual and peaceful people rather than the depraved cultists in the novella.
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* {{Cult}}: Aphra encounters one of these devoted to Cthulhu and immortality. She is appalled by their misinterpretation of Aeonist beliefs and cultural appropriation.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Caleb fulfills this role for Aphra. His confrontational angry personality contrasts strongly against Aphra's more sedate one.
* EvilCounterpart: Barlow and his team are depicted as these to Spector's Irregulars. They are FantasticRacist practicing ScienceHero types who ignore all the religious elements of Aphra''s advice.
* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as possibly.
* KickTheDog: The [[spoiler: Yith]] Turnball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning.
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* {{Cult}}: Aphra encounters one of these devoted to Cthulhu and immortality. She is appalled by their misinterpretation of Aeonist beliefs and cultural appropriation.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Caleb fulfills this role for Aphra. His confrontational angry personality contrasts strongly against Aphra's more sedate one.
* EvilCounterpart: Barlow and his team are depicted as these to Spector's Irregulars. They are FantasticRacist practicing ScienceHero types who ignore all the religious elements of Aphra''s advice.
* IWantGrandkids: Aphra is nonplussed all the Elders want her to breed as quickly as possibly.
* KickTheDog: The [[spoiler: Yith]] Turnball removes Mary's ability to read as punishment for her attempting a too-powerful summoning.
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[[https://www.tor.com/2014/05/14/the-litany-of-earth-ruthanna-emrys/ The ''Litany of Earth'' is available for free from Tor's website.]]
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* OldShame: The United States' opinion of the Innsmouth Raid. Subverted when it's discovered it's more Ron Spector's opinion on it as many government agents think they did nothing wrong.
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''The Innsmouth Legacy'' by Ruthanna Emyrs is a {{Deconstruction}} of and sequel to ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. The premise is the Deep Ones of Innsmouth, Massachusetts were actually a deeply spiritual and peaceful people rather than the depraved cultists in the novella.
Aphra Marsh is one of the two surviving Deep One hybrids from the original Innsmouth Raid, having spent her formative years in United States concentration camps (that would eventually be used for the internment of Japanese citizens during [=WW2=]). Understandably bitter about her experience, she's become assistant to an occult book store owner in San Fransisco and lives in San Fransisco with a Japanese family.
FBI Agent Ron Spector approaches her one day and reveals the US government has "changed" and wants her help in dealing with supernatural threats. Nonplussed by the audacity of the request, she is soon persuaded due to the number of people put in danger by tampering with forces they do not understand. While the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is LighterAndSofter here, it is not exactly "safe" either.
Books in the series include:
* ''A Litany of Earth'' (novella)
* ''Winter Tide'' (2017)
* ''Deep Roots' (2018)
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This series contains the following tropes:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Resoundingly averted with the Deep Ones and other species shown to be alien but not evil.
* AntiNihilist: Aphra's entire religion is based around this as it has the view eventually even the Deep Ones will die out and become extinct. However, you should treasure what time you have on the Earth as well as the fact your race will remembered by the Yith.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Aphra's gods are depicted as having a cold but beautiful view of the world. The Yithians zig-zag over this trope with Aphra considering them to have this but sometimes challenged that they may simply be evil (since they are going to commit genocide against future inhabitants of Earth to survive their own apocalypse).
* BroadStrokes: To H.P. Lovecraft's writing. In addition to the obvious change that the Deep Ones weren't AlwaysChaoticEvil, the Elder Things and Yithians seem to have been combined into one species.
* DarkIsNotEvil: A major part of the series is how the Cthulhu Mythos isn't evil.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Done throughout the story with the Deep Ones' treatment deliberately invoking that of the Japanese during [=WW2=] both in-universe and out.
** The accusations of HumanSacrifice and other evil practices are called "blood libel" several times by characters.
* InsistentTerminology: Aphra never stops correcting people that Deep Ones are ''also'' human, just a branch of it, unlike Yithians or other race.
* LighterAndSofter: The Cthulhu Mythos is portrayed this way with the majority of monsters just being reasonable and sympathetic aliens. They may have BlueAndOrangeMorality but doesn't make them malevolent. Human evils, by contrast, are treated exactly the way they would be normally with no attempt at sympathy.
* LovecraftLite: The Deep Ones are a noble culture that, if not pacistific, then at least no danger to surfacers.
* OldShame: The United States' opinion of the Innsmouth Raid. Subverted when it's discovered it's more Ron Spector's opinion on it as many government agents think they did nothing wrong.
* RefugeInAudacity: Ron Spector for coming to a victim of internment and genocide in order to get their help against the supernatural.
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: All of the inhabitants of Innsmouth, Massachusetts died either during arrest or in the camps save two. Despite this, the majority of characters tapdance around what the United States did.
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Aphra Marsh is one of the two surviving Deep One hybrids from the original Innsmouth Raid, having spent her formative years in United States concentration camps (that would eventually be used for the internment of Japanese citizens during [=WW2=]). Understandably bitter about her experience, she's become assistant to an occult book store owner in San Fransisco and lives in San Fransisco with a Japanese family.
FBI Agent Ron Spector approaches her one day and reveals the US government has "changed" and wants her help in dealing with supernatural threats. Nonplussed by the audacity of the request, she is soon persuaded due to the number of people put in danger by tampering with forces they do not understand. While the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is LighterAndSofter here, it is not exactly "safe" either.
Books in the series include:
* ''A Litany of Earth'' (novella)
* ''Winter Tide'' (2017)
* ''Deep Roots' (2018)
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This series contains the following tropes:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Resoundingly averted with the Deep Ones and other species shown to be alien but not evil.
* AntiNihilist: Aphra's entire religion is based around this as it has the view eventually even the Deep Ones will die out and become extinct. However, you should treasure what time you have on the Earth as well as the fact your race will remembered by the Yith.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Aphra's gods are depicted as having a cold but beautiful view of the world. The Yithians zig-zag over this trope with Aphra considering them to have this but sometimes challenged that they may simply be evil (since they are going to commit genocide against future inhabitants of Earth to survive their own apocalypse).
* BroadStrokes: To H.P. Lovecraft's writing. In addition to the obvious change that the Deep Ones weren't AlwaysChaoticEvil, the Elder Things and Yithians seem to have been combined into one species.
* DarkIsNotEvil: A major part of the series is how the Cthulhu Mythos isn't evil.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Done throughout the story with the Deep Ones' treatment deliberately invoking that of the Japanese during [=WW2=] both in-universe and out.
** The accusations of HumanSacrifice and other evil practices are called "blood libel" several times by characters.
* InsistentTerminology: Aphra never stops correcting people that Deep Ones are ''also'' human, just a branch of it, unlike Yithians or other race.
* LighterAndSofter: The Cthulhu Mythos is portrayed this way with the majority of monsters just being reasonable and sympathetic aliens. They may have BlueAndOrangeMorality but doesn't make them malevolent. Human evils, by contrast, are treated exactly the way they would be normally with no attempt at sympathy.
* LovecraftLite: The Deep Ones are a noble culture that, if not pacistific, then at least no danger to surfacers.
* OldShame: The United States' opinion of the Innsmouth Raid. Subverted when it's discovered it's more Ron Spector's opinion on it as many government agents think they did nothing wrong.
* RefugeInAudacity: Ron Spector for coming to a victim of internment and genocide in order to get their help against the supernatural.
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: All of the inhabitants of Innsmouth, Massachusetts died either during arrest or in the camps save two. Despite this, the majority of characters tapdance around what the United States did.
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