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* DeathByOriginStory: The first book, Origins, begins with Corbin "The Rook" Underwood's funeral.
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* SweetPollyOliver: Roxy Galán-Grant pretended to be a boy named Roy Grant back when she first worked with the Commander as the Champ. She did so to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of a teenage girl working with a man in the 80s, and her fear that he wouldn't have taken her as a sidekick knowing she was a girl.
** SweetOnPollyOliver: DoubleSubversion, Sophia Galán fell head over heels for "Roy" and was only upset that she'd have to find a way to tell her parents she was dating a girl when she learned the truth.
** SweetOnPollyOliver: DoubleSubversion, Sophia Galán fell head over heels for "Roy" and was only upset that she'd have to find a way to tell her parents she was dating a girl when she learned the truth.
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* MeaningfulName: Pretty much everyone!
** Elouise "Ellie" Lark has birdlike wings, reminiscent of a sun lark's. The name Elouise is sometimes associated with the Greek word "helios", meaning "sun" - particularly appropriate as Ellie's posterpower derives from sunlight.
** Malek Underwood's first name means "king" in Arabic, rather appropriately for the son of the Queen.
** Aside from the obvious speedster pun in Zipporah "Zip" Chance's name, "Zipporah" means "bird" - you could say that she and Mal (Kinglet) are birds of a feather.
** Elouise "Ellie" Lark has birdlike wings, reminiscent of a sun lark's. The name Elouise is sometimes associated with the Greek word "helios", meaning "sun" - particularly appropriate as Ellie's posterpower derives from sunlight.
** Malek Underwood's first name means "king" in Arabic, rather appropriately for the son of the Queen.
** Aside from the obvious speedster pun in Zipporah "Zip" Chance's name, "Zipporah" means "bird" - you could say that she and Mal (Kinglet) are birds of a feather.
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* CostumedNonsuperHero: Sheriff Galán-Grant, baseline human, used to be the Champ to John's Commander.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Nurse Bliss has the power to affect quantum probability, which means good things tend to happen when she's around.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Nurse Bliss has the power to affect quantum probability, which means good things tend to happen when she's around.around.
* WordOfGod: Kitty is pretty interactive and answers asks and has posted a short story on her tumblr. There's also the character dossiers posted at http://maillardets.tumblr.com/ which provide background information.
* WordOfGod: Kitty is pretty interactive and answers asks and has posted a short story on her tumblr. There's also the character dossiers posted at http://maillardets.tumblr.com/ which provide background information.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Most, if not all, of the characters have puns in their names. Also, Maks in particular seems to embrace puns. "But I tigress."
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* ShroudedInMyth: The truth about what happened to Mal and his Dad during their three year disappearance has an entire forest of EpilepticTrees surrounding it. For perspective, the more ''believable'' rumors revolve around ancient cults and/or brainwashing.
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* BiTheWay: Maks. "You mean I can't have both?"
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* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: It was raining during the Rook's funeral. Mal even lampshades this, commenting that it was wither the best or worst day to have a funeral because of the rain.
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* Troperiffic: Acknowledged by the author and obvious to a reader with even the most basic knowledge of comic books.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Maks, who has the ability to store and manipulate bioelectric energy, trails sparkly blue motes when his power is active.
* FatAndProud: June is large and curvy and [[BigBeautifulWoman fabulous]].
* FatAndProud: June is large and curvy and [[BigBeautifulWoman fabulous]].
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* NotGoodWithPeople: Mal Underwood.
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* ChessMotifs: The Set, consisting of the Queen (Amira), the Rook (Corbin), and the Knight (John). Also, little pictures of chess pieces break the gap between POV switches.
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* NiceGuy: Ernest is essentially a golden retriever in human form.
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* PhotographicMemory: Mal Underwood has an eidetic memory. His mother, Amira, has perfect recall as a side-effect of her powers; she is unable to forget anything.
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* EmotionControl: Jack Willard's power of empathic emotional manipulation allows him to project his own emotions onto others. When he's happy, so is everybody else around him. When he's frightened or angry, [[EmotionBomb all hell breaks loose]]. There's a reason his moniker is Riot.
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** PlayingWithFire: June Hovick has the power to create and control creatures made of fire. Kenneth McKay also has pyrokinetic powers.
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** PlayingWithFire: June Hovick has the power to create and control creatures made of fire. Kenneth McKay [=McKay=] also has pyrokinetic powers.
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* BigEater: Zip needs to eat a lot as a result of her enhanced metabolism.
* CombatClairvoyance: Ida Mae Sullivan has a limited precognitive ability, allowing her to see about five seconds into the future and thus predict where her opponents will be and what they will do next.
* ElementalPowers: A power category all of its own, designated by red bands.
**BlowYouAway: Cindy Dunn has the power of aerokinesis (specifically oxikinesis).
**GreenThumb: Bice Cortadino's power of spermatophyte manipulation allows her to control any seed-bearing plant.
**MakingASplash: Ofelia D has the power of hydrokinesis
**PlayingWithFire: June Hovick has the power to create and control creatures made of fire. Kenneth McKay also has pyrokinetic powers.
**BlowYouAway: Cindy Dunn has the power of aerokinesis (specifically oxikinesis).
**GreenThumb: Bice Cortadino's power of spermatophyte manipulation allows her to control any seed-bearing plant.
**MakingASplash: Ofelia D has the power of hydrokinesis
**PlayingWithFire: June Hovick has the power to create and control creatures made of fire. Kenneth McKay also has pyrokinetic powers.
* {{Invisibility}}: Clay Dilinger has the power to manipulate light in order to make himself or other objects appear invisible.
* KidSidekick: Roxy Galán-Grant was a teenager when she became the Commander's sidekick, Li'l Champ. Ernest inherited the name from her at the age of nine. Both Marshall and Mal Underwood have served as their father's sidekick.
* KidSidekick: Roxy Galán-Grant was a teenager when she became the Commander's sidekick, Li'l Champ. Ernest inherited the name from her at the age of nine. Both Marshall and Mal Underwood have served as their father's sidekick.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Ellie Lark's posterpower allows her to convert sunlight into sound energy; she can use this to shriek loudly enough to burst eardrums.
* PowerNullifier: Rosario has the power to suppress other posters' abilities.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Corbin Underwood had this power.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Corbin Underwood had this power.
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* SuperHeroSchool: Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity. Also, there are apparently other similar institutions, but Maillardet's is considered the best.
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* SuperHeroSchool: Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity. Also, there are apparently other similar institutions, but Maillardet's is considered the best.best.
* SuperSpeed: This is Zip's posterpower.
* SuperStrength: Ernest and his father, John, both have this power.
* SuperToughness: Ernest and John Wright both have this power.
* ThinkingUpPortals: Jenny Chambers is able to create portals between any surface she can visualise, and her abdomen.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Nurse Bliss has the power to affect quantum probability, which means good things tend to happen when she's around.
* SuperSpeed: This is Zip's posterpower.
* SuperStrength: Ernest and his father, John, both have this power.
* SuperToughness: Ernest and John Wright both have this power.
* ThinkingUpPortals: Jenny Chambers is able to create portals between any surface she can visualise, and her abdomen.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Nurse Bliss has the power to affect quantum probability, which means good things tend to happen when she's around.
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* CodeName At the beginning of their third block of training, all students at Maillardet's are asked to choose a moniker, a code name to be used in the field.
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* LegacyCharacter: Mal, Ernest and Rosario are all legacy posters with heroic parents. Mal was the Little Bird to his father's Rook, taking over the sidekick role that was originally his brother Marshall's. Ernest serves as his dad's sidekick, Champ (formerly Li'l Champ), a name he inherited from the Commander's original sidekick, Roxanne Galán-Grant. [[spoiler: It is suggested that Ernest will ultimately take over from his father as the Commander, and that June will work alongside him in a similar capacity to the Queen.]]
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* CaptainPatriot: The Commander is portrayed as this to the public more or less. He's said to be America's favorite hero by June.
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* DominoMask: Ernest wears one for the Night Games. He used to wear it as Champ, too. June notes that it isn't meant to keep his identity secret (since no BPHA-certified hero as a secret identity), but rather to look professional and also provide night-vision, thermal-vision, and be used as corrective lenses since Ernest wears glasses.
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* BadassFamily: The Underwoods, obviously.
* ChessMotifs: The Set, consisting of the Queen (Amira), the Rook (Corbin), and the Knight (John). Also, little pictures of chess pieces break the gap between POV switches.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Most, if not all, of the characters have puns in their names. Also, Maks in particular seems to embrace puns. "But I tigress."
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Amira bint Balqis.
* SuperHeroSchool: Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity. Also, there are apparently other similar institutions, but Maillardet's is considered the best.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Amira bint Balqis.
* SuperHeroSchool: Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity. Also, there are apparently other similar institutions, but Maillardet's is considered the best.
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* PowerLevels: After power types, posthuman abilities are ranked by strength and usefulness. Labels go from Alpha (rarely exhaustible/highly reliable) to Delta (mostly useless/extremely limited).
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* PowerLevels: After power types, posthuman abilities are ranked by strength and usefulness. Labels go from Alpha (rarely exhaustible/highly reliable) to Delta (mostly useless/extremely limited).limited).
* SidekickGraduationsStick: Thoroughly lampshaded as part of a Maillardet's programme, sidekicks ''literally'' graduate from being sidekicks.
* SidekickGraduationsStick: Thoroughly lampshaded as part of a Maillardet's programme, sidekicks ''literally'' graduate from being sidekicks.
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* BadassNormal: Sheriff Galán-Grant is baseline human, yet Sheriff of Foundation. If that doesn't tell you all you need to know, she also becomes sidekick to one of the hardest hitters out there.
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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Ernest’s mother Gloria had passive pheromone powers she could not control. [[FromBadToWorse It only spiraled from there.]]
* CircusBrat: Maks comes from a circus family and it shows.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Power types among posthumans are labeled by color. Red for Element Kinesis, Orange for Body Control, Gold for Transportation, Green for Energy Control, Blue for Reality Manipulation, Purple for Psionics, and Pink for Support/Passive.
* CircusBrat: Maks comes from a circus family and it shows.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Power types among posthumans are labeled by color. Red for Element Kinesis, Orange for Body Control, Gold for Transportation, Green for Energy Control, Blue for Reality Manipulation, Purple for Psionics, and Pink for Support/Passive.
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* DeathIsCheap: Mal’s powers in a nutshell. As a blue-band Alpha with traumatic event negation, Death ''literally'' has a reset button for him.
* DoomMagnet: There’s a reason the Underwoods have a specific tag for them on tumblr titled “A tragic flock of Underwoods”
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Jack Willard was an underage soldier fighting in WWII before he got temporally displaced and wound up in the present.
* LargeHam: ''MAKS.''
* Main/{{Missing Mom}}: Ernest was raised by hisfather.father.
* PersonalityPowers: By the boatload.
* PowerLevels: After power types, posthuman abilities are ranked by strength and usefulness. Labels go from Alpha (rarely exhaustible/highly reliable) to Delta (mostly useless/extremely limited).
* DoomMagnet: There’s a reason the Underwoods have a specific tag for them on tumblr titled “A tragic flock of Underwoods”
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Jack Willard was an underage soldier fighting in WWII before he got temporally displaced and wound up in the present.
* LargeHam: ''MAKS.''
* Main/{{Missing Mom}}: Ernest was raised by his
* PersonalityPowers: By the boatload.
* PowerLevels: After power types, posthuman abilities are ranked by strength and usefulness. Labels go from Alpha (rarely exhaustible/highly reliable) to Delta (mostly useless/extremely limited).
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The Posterchildren Smashwords:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312080#longdescr
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The Posterchildren Smashwords:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312080#longdescrcom/books/view/312080#longdescr
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*Action Duo: Zip and Mal, June and Ernest
*Cute Kitten: Several, most notably Qitt, Mal's cat.
*Missing Mom: Ernest was raised by his father.
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*Action Duo: Zip and Mal, June and Ernest
*Cute Kitten: Several, most notably Qitt, Mal's cat.
*Missing Mom: Ernest was raised by his father.
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The Posterchildren, by Kitty Burroughs, is a series of YA Superhero novels with LGBTQ themes and more puns than you can shake a stick at. The story follows the four main characters: Mal Underwood, June Hovick, Ernest Wright, and Zip Chance, alternating between each of their points of view as they go through training at Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity.
From the Smashwords page description for the first book, Origins: "Nestled in the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest, Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity is widely accepted as being the premiere training facility for young posthumans. The Academy accepts superpowered posterchildren from ages six through seventeen, guiding them through the training that they'll need if they want to become legally licensed heroes. Maillardet's Academy advertises itself as being for all types, welcoming the offspring of the greatest heroes of today - like Ernest Wright, the son of the Commander - along with new posters just learning to control their powers - like Juniper Hovick, a temperamental New Yorker with a flaming menagerie. Maillardet's is where the heroes of tomorrow are assembled today, so the pressure to perform is high. For disgraced legacy poster Malek Underwood, the third block of his training begins with him being knocked from his pedestal as the top student in the school, then paired with an almost-failing lesbian speedster named Zipporah Chance. Though they come from different backgrounds, Ernest, Juniper, Malek, and Zipporah all have the same goal: surviving the year. If they're ever going to become heroes, they have to make it to finals, first."
The Posterchildren was funded entirely through an Indiegogo Campaign that started in December 2012 and ended January 2013. The first book, The Posterchildren: Origins, was released online April 26, 2013.
Kitty's tumblr: http://quipquipquip.tumblr.com/
The Posterchildren Smashwords:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312080#longdescr
From the Smashwords page description for the first book, Origins: "Nestled in the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest, Maillardet's Foundation for the Future of Humanity is widely accepted as being the premiere training facility for young posthumans. The Academy accepts superpowered posterchildren from ages six through seventeen, guiding them through the training that they'll need if they want to become legally licensed heroes. Maillardet's Academy advertises itself as being for all types, welcoming the offspring of the greatest heroes of today - like Ernest Wright, the son of the Commander - along with new posters just learning to control their powers - like Juniper Hovick, a temperamental New Yorker with a flaming menagerie. Maillardet's is where the heroes of tomorrow are assembled today, so the pressure to perform is high. For disgraced legacy poster Malek Underwood, the third block of his training begins with him being knocked from his pedestal as the top student in the school, then paired with an almost-failing lesbian speedster named Zipporah Chance. Though they come from different backgrounds, Ernest, Juniper, Malek, and Zipporah all have the same goal: surviving the year. If they're ever going to become heroes, they have to make it to finals, first."
The Posterchildren was funded entirely through an Indiegogo Campaign that started in December 2012 and ended January 2013. The first book, The Posterchildren: Origins, was released online April 26, 2013.
Kitty's tumblr: http://quipquipquip.tumblr.com/
The Posterchildren Smashwords:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312080#longdescr
