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* TheSpeechless: After her physical transformation is complete, Maren loses the ability to speak. She communicates through gestures.
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* TheSpeechless: After her physical transformation is complete, Maren loses the ability to speak. She communicates through gestures. [[spoiler:She regains her voice once she is immersed in seawater.]]
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* SnakeOilSalesman: While Maren can still walk, she and Clara go to the county fair, where a man named Dr. Phipps sells a variety of mysterious concoctions that he claims can cure every known ailment. Maren and Clara have been warned not to buy anything from him, but some of the other fairgoers get suckered. Over the next few days, many people get sick from taking the elixirs. Auntie makes herbal remedies to help them.
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* SnakeOilSalesman: While Maren can still walk, she and Clara go to the county fair, see a traveling show, where a man named Dr. Phipps sells a variety of mysterious concoctions that he claims can cure every known ailment. Maren and Clara have been warned not to buy anything from him, but some of the other fairgoers customers get suckered. Over the next few days, many people get sick from taking the elixirs. Auntie makes herbal remedies to help them.
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* HealingShiv: Shortly after Maren, Clara, and O'Neill set off on their journey, Scarff uses Osbert to deliver them a magic dagger which heals wounds and can only be used once. [[spoiler:After O'Neill is shot in the chest, he begs Clara to use the dagger on Maren, who is dying from being away from the ocean for too long, but she knows she won't be able to transport Maren without his help, so she traces the wound with the dagger, which heals the damage in seconds.]]
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* GroinAttack: When Clara is being forced to work in Dr. Phipps' show, Soraya dresses her up as "Princess Hatsumi" and tells her to stand in the Gallery of Wonders pretending not to speak English. When a customer sexually harasses her, she knees him in the groin. Soraya warns her not to assault a paying customer again.
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* SuperhumanTrafficking: Maren, Clara, and O'Neill are captured by Dr. Phipps, his wife Soraya, and their son Jasper, who keep Maren in a jar and put her on display to be gawked at by customers.
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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Maren becomes smaller and smaller the longer she is away from the ocean. By the end of their journey, she fits in a two-quart jar.
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* DeliveryStork: A stork delivered Clara to Auntie just three days after she took in Maren. Clara is afraid she'll turn into a stork.
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* DeliveryStork: A stork Auntie tells Clara that she was delivered Clara to Auntie by a stork just three days after she took in Maren.Maren arrived. Clara is afraid she'll turn into a stork. [[spoiler:It turns out she was actually found on the steps of an abandoned orphanage by Scarff, [[ExactWords whose middle name, Corraghrain, means stork]]. Auntie thought Clara would be jealous if she wasn't delivered through magic like Maren was.]]
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* TheSpeechless: After her physical transformation is complete, Maren loses the ability to speak. She communicates through gestures.
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* SnakeOilSalesman: While Maren can still walk, she and Clara go to the county fair, where a man named Dr. Phipps sells a variety of mysterious concoctions that he claims can cure every known ailment. Maren and Clara have been warned not to buy anything from him, but some of the other fairgoers get suckered. Over the next few days, many people get sick from taking the elixirs. Auntie makes herbal remedies to help them.
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* DeliveryStork: A stork delivered Clara to Auntie just three days after she took in Maren. Clara is afraid she'll turn into a stork.
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** One October night, Auntie heard a knock at the door. When she opened it, there was nothing there but a giant conch shell on the path. Auntie took it in and set it on the table. When she tipped it, baby Maren fell out.
** The girls' friend O'Neill was found by a priest in a basket under an apple tree in a churchyard. The priest was too old to raise a child and didn't want to send him to the OrphanageOfFear, so he gave him to the traveling merchant Scarff. Scarff took O'Neill to Llanfair Mountain, wanting to give the girls a brother, but O'Neill cried whenever he was out of Scarff's sight, so Scarff took him on his travels and raised him as his son.
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** One October night, Auntie heard a knock at the door. When she opened it, there was nothing there but a giant conch shell on the path. Auntie took it in and set it on the table. When she tipped it, baby Maren fell out.
** The girls' friend O'Neill was found by a priest in a basket under an apple tree in a churchyard. The priest was too old to raise a child and didn't want to send him to the OrphanageOfFear, so he gave him to the traveling merchant Scarff. Scarff took O'Neill to Llanfair Mountain, wanting to give the girls a brother, but O'Neill cried whenever he was out of Scarff's sight, so Scarff took him on his travels and raised him as his son.
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* {{Masquerade}}: The protagonists hide Auntie's faerie nature, Maren's transformation, and Osbert's existence from everyone except Scarff and O'Neill for fear of what the townspeople might do to them if they knew about magic.
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''The Mermaid's Sister'' is a 2015 young adult fantasy novel by Carrie Ann Noble.
Clara and her adopted sister Maren live with their ParentalSubstitute Auntie Verity and their pet wyvern Osbert in a cottage on Llanfair Mountain, Pennsylvania in the early 1870s. They have always known that Maren comes from the sea, and at the age of sixteen she starts to transform into a mermaid. If she can't reach the ocean, she will sicken and die. But the journey from Llanfair Mountain to the seashore is long and dangerous.
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!!''The Mermaid's Sister'' contains examples of:
* BathtubMermaid: When Maren's legs fully turn into a tail, Auntie buys a large metal tub, a luxury in 1871. She lives in that tub for several months.
* BodyToJewel: When Maren cries, her tears turn into pearls.
* CannotTellALie: Auntie's mother was Faerie, so she's incapable of saying or even thinking a lie.
* HideYourOtherness: During the first year or so of Maren's transformation, she can still go out in public, wearing gloves to hide her webbed hands while her scales are all under her clothes. After her feet turn into fins, this becomes impossible, but for a few months she can still receive visitors as long as her body is hidden under a blanket.
* PainfulTransformation: Maren regularly suffers pain in her legs for months. Once they fully combine, the pain mostly goes away.
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Clara and her adopted sister Maren live with their ParentalSubstitute Auntie Verity and their pet wyvern Osbert in a cottage on Llanfair Mountain, Pennsylvania in the early 1870s. They have always known that Maren comes from the sea, and at the age of sixteen she starts to transform into a mermaid. If she can't reach the ocean, she will sicken and die. But the journey from Llanfair Mountain to the seashore is long and dangerous.
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!!''The Mermaid's Sister'' contains examples of:
* BathtubMermaid: When Maren's legs fully turn into a tail, Auntie buys a large metal tub, a luxury in 1871. She lives in that tub for several months.
* BodyToJewel: When Maren cries, her tears turn into pearls.
* CannotTellALie: Auntie's mother was Faerie, so she's incapable of saying or even thinking a lie.
* HideYourOtherness: During the first year or so of Maren's transformation, she can still go out in public, wearing gloves to hide her webbed hands while her scales are all under her clothes. After her feet turn into fins, this becomes impossible, but for a few months she can still receive visitors as long as her body is hidden under a blanket.
* PainfulTransformation: Maren regularly suffers pain in her legs for months. Once they fully combine, the pain mostly goes away.
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