History Literature / TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Aura prior and after the war. The former was a peaceful civilisation kept through humanitarian charters, while the latter is a cutesy Teletubbies-like land. In between, humanity's greed and corruption festered on the inside of the former and lead to a nuclear holocaust, the ensuing radiation and mutations leading to the current adorable life forms.*

* MeaningfulName: The Muggles are named in a ceremony because of a particular sign or a behavior that shows in its infancy. However, some of the names don't have clear origins (Rah and Zyn, Yur and Golda, Peter...), some inexplicably match for lovers or spouses (Pitter and Patter, Pick and Pluck), and some imply that the Muggle is doomed to a flawed life, such as Boggs, who is implied to [[ThePigPen smell bad and be covered in mud]] ''since birth''.

* DescriptionPorn: Stouffer puts very elaborate descriptions of details that aren't vital to the story. To wit, the elements that ''are'' relevant are mostly glossed over or barely mentioned.

* PlotHole: The Muggles use elaborate flower arrangements in their naming ceremony, which is described as "traditional". By "traditional", it's implied it was that way before Rah and Zyn's arrival, when there was no plant life alive at that point.

* PlotHole: So many that the "plot" resembles a block of Swiss cheese. [[PlotHole/TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles Most of them are listed in this page]].

* InfantImmortality: Taken to the logical extreme. Place two infants (toddlers?) on a raft and shove them out to sea, let them stay on the raft for ''one full week'' before having the happy sea creatures come to their aid, and then consider how they avoid being horribly sunburnt, half-drowned or maybe ''all'' drowned, salt-burnt, and/or dehydrated and probably dead from that alone. They're ''certainly'' not going to be shiny, happy babies by that point, and that's even leaving in such an important detail as NobodyPoops.
** The lack of sunburn could possibly be {{Handwave}}d with the fact that Lady Catherine apparently covered them with a blanket before sending them off. It's still really a weak explaination, because that doesn't excuse their heads, and there is no more mention of the blanket, nor does it appear in the pictures.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Stouffer doesn't seem to know the difference between radiation and fallout, as she talks of purple clouds of radiation. ''Fallout'' could conceivably be purple, as mentioned above, but radiation itself is invisible.

%%* FriendToAllLivingThings: Rah.

%%* MoodWhiplash: From ParanoiaFuel to TastesLikeDiabetes back to NightmareFuel in record time.

%%* TheResenter: Zyn

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The writing style is a style of writing with many unnecessary repetitions that she repeats unnecessarily many times. Stouffer would be hopeless on ''Radio/JustAMinute''. Also see the quote under FunetikAksent below.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Zyn, the supposed bad guy, becomes more and more ugly and thin as he descends in depression, especially after residing in the Manchineet Tree. The Nevils get the same tretament, growing long claws and hair.

* AerithAndBob: The Nevils' names are Teeter, Jitters, Fraidy, Boggs, Stubby, Patch and...Peter ([[SubvertedTrope altough he prefers to be called "chops"]]).

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The story impies that helping someone out of depression is useless, because they're inherently evil. It also implies that a person is only good if he sticks to the norm and stays idle.

* StupidEvil: It takes the Nevils several days of living in a radioactive tree to decide that it was a bad idea.

* OcularGushers: Someone cries so much that ''they cause a flash flood''.

* BigShadowLittleCreature: The "Shadow Monsters" on Dezra are nothing but Zyn and the Nevils' heavily distorted shadows.

* AlternativeCalendar: And clearly not that helpful, since "The Year of the Purple Haze" does little to distinguish a year from any of the 500 other years in which the world was blanketed with a [[TechnicolorScience purple]] cloud of fallout.
** IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every year seems to be named after a particular parable from ''The Ancient Book of Tales''. For example, "The Year of the Gilded Cage" refers to an incident in which pirates stole a number of animals taken to be sold and released them on Aura, keeping only the gold cages.

* BigShadowLittleCreature: The "Shadow Monsters" on Dezra are nothing but Zyn and the Nevils' heavily distorted shadows. [[WhatAnIdiot And somehow they're afraid of them.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Zyn's StartOfDarkness comes from his [[CainAndAbel resentment]] of his brother, and is handled with [[{{Anvilicious}} all the subtlety you'd expect]].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Rah.

* MeaningfulName: This book has a very bad example of this trope: the Muggles are supposed to be named in a ceremony because of a particular sign or a behavior that shows in its infancy. However, some of the names don't have clear origins (Rah and Zyn, Yur and Golda, Peter...), some inexplicably match for lovers or spouses (Pitter and Patter, Pick and Pluck), and some lead to UnfortunateImplications, such as Boggs, who is implied to [[ThePigPen smell bad and be covered in mud]] ''since birth''.
* MoodWhiplash: From ParanoiaFuel to TastesLikeDiabetes back to NightmareFuel in record time.

* NeverSayDie: Despite gleefully recounting the annihilation of all life that doesn't fall into the TastesLikeDiabetes category earlier on, the book describes the BigBad's plan as making Rah "sleep forever".

* OcularGushers: If you want to {{Narm}}ify a touching goodbye scene, you can't do better than have someone cry so much that ''they cause a flash flood''. Evidently the [[ElementalBaggage vast volume of water involved]] was stored in one of the massive {{plot hole}}s.

* ShowDontTell: One of the book's main problems. Qualities of characters are stated, but never actually shown.
** In a particular example, it is stated that Zyn has become jealous and is losing all of his self-esteem, and that he and Rah were very close until now. Stouffer doesn't actually describe how and why it happens, and what part of his personality is losing. This also cements Zyn's status as DesignatedVillain.

* TalkingAnimal: A few with cute alliterative names show up, without much consequence; that [[BigApplesauce some of them have New York accents]] would be a major source of FridgeLogic in any other book, but here it barely registers.

* [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma Wanton Cruelty To The Common Apostrophe]]: Very frequently, including on Stouffer's own website.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world prior and after the war. The former was a peaceful civilisation kept through humanitarian charters, while the latter is a cutesy Teletubbies-like land. In between, humanity's greed and corruption festered on the inside of the former and lead to a nuclear holocaust, the ensuing radiation and mutations leading to the current adorable life forms.*

** Early in the book the main characters (who are babies) survive for ''eight days'' on a raft without food or water (for the record, your average adult can barely survive half that time with no water, let alone a baby.)

** How allergies are treated in this book. One can't simply pass out after having an allergy: in most cases, there would be cutaneous eructions, rashes and severe irritations. The worst that could happen are asthma or respiratory problems that could lead to lacks of oxygen and therefore fainting. This means that, even if Zyn didn't intend to kill Rah, provoking an allergy on him so that he has no air and faints, would mean giving him a slow and painful death.

* RandomEventsPlot

%%* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Zyn

* OrwellianRetcon: According to Stouffer, the book was always titled "The Legend of Rah and the Muggles". However, there is no evidence prior to 2000 to back up this claim, as it was only titled "The Legend of Rah", and the "Muggle" term was copyrighted much after.

** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: What he really comes off as. He's not even scary, just angry-more like. In another story, would come off as a well-written redeemable bully.