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->In the middle of the ocean, there was a girl who lived upon a rock.\\
This was not an ocean like the one you have imagined.\\
Nor was the rock like the one you have imagined. The girl, however, ''might'' be as you imagined--assuming you imagined her as thoughtful, soft-spoken, and overly fond of collecting cups.
This was not an ocean like the one you have imagined.\\
Nor was the rock like the one you have imagined. The girl, however, ''might'' be as you imagined--assuming you imagined her as thoughtful, soft-spoken, and overly fond of collecting cups.
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* CassandraTruth: The officers become slowly convinced that Tress is actually a member of the (debatable real) King’s Mask, a cabal of assassins working directly for the king. Since the King's Masks allegedly have to deny they're a member when asked, her attempts to persuade them otherwise only serve to convince them more.
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* CassandraTruth: The officers become slowly convinced that Tress is actually a member of the (debatable (debatably real) King’s King's Mask, a cabal of assassins working directly for the king. Since the King's Masks allegedly have to deny they're a member when asked, her attempts to persuade them otherwise only serve to convince them more.
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* CondescendingCompassion: The narrator makes a point of how [[spoiler:Huck]]'s "I didn't tell you to protect you" is basically a double whammy of "ILied" and "you can't be trusted to make your own decisions" all rolled into a single line that's supposed to seem noble.
* CondescendingCompassion: The narrator makes a point of how [[spoiler:Huck]]'s "I didn't tell you to protect you" is basically a double whammy of "ILied" and "you can't be trusted to make your own decisions" all rolled into a single line that's supposed to seem noble.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Surrounded by guns and a newly Elantrian Hoid, Riina decides to flee the planet as Tress asked.]]
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* KingIncognito: Charlie claims to be a groundskeeper rather than the duke's son to get around his inter-class relationship with Tress. It's...[[ImplausibleDeniability not a great disguise]].
-->'''Charlie:''' Tress, I'm afraid I've lied to you. You see...I'm not the groundskeeper. I'm...um...the duke's son.\\
'''Tress:''' Amazing. [[SarcasmMode Who would have thought that Charlie the groundskeeper and Charles the duke's heir would be the same person, considering they're the same age, look the same, and wear the same clothing?]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Surrounded by guns and a newly Elantrian Hoid, Riina decides to flee the planet as Tressasked.demanded. Hoid notes that the ancient witch actually may have been able to win that fight, but one doesn't become an '''ancient''' witch by fighting unnecessary battles.]]
-->'''Charlie:''' Tress, I'm afraid I've lied to you. You see...I'm not the groundskeeper. I'm...um...the duke's son.\\
'''Tress:''' Amazing. [[SarcasmMode Who would have thought that Charlie the groundskeeper and Charles the duke's heir would be the same person, considering they're the same age, look the same, and wear the same clothing?]]
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* ThroughHisStomach: Tress managed to win over the Dougs of ''Crow's Song'' by helping Fort prepare one meal a day, plus dessert.
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* TheDeadHaveNames: While all the unimportant sailors are labeled "Dougs" to not clog up the story, [[spoiler:Hoid does give the name and history of a single Doug, Pakson, after he's killed by the Crimson Sea.]]
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* HostileWeather: What makes the Crimson Sea so dangerous is the unpredictable storms that can activate the spores.
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* ThePardon: Part of the reason Salay, Ann, and Fort help Tress is because the King's Mask could petition the king for a royal pardon for their piracy. Unfortunately for them, Tress isn't a member of the King's Mask. [[spoiler:The crew does ultimately earn a pardon and more for driving the Sorceress off Lumar.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: Tress is surprisingly adept at this, when push comes to shove.
** During her DarkestHour when [[spoiler:Crow was going to sell her into slavery to the dragon Xisisrefliel, Tress instead pretends that ''she'' was actually the one her to sell ''Crow''.]] The [[spoiler:dragon]] is so amused by the obvious bluff that he decides to hear her out.
** After Tress watches [[spoiler:Hoid become an Elantrian]], she commands the blatantly powerful demigod to handle [[spoiler:the Sorceress]] for her, on the grounds that [[spoiler:he's still her cabin boy]].
** During her DarkestHour when [[spoiler:Crow was going to sell her into slavery to the dragon Xisisrefliel, Tress instead pretends that ''she'' was actually the one her to sell ''Crow''.]] The [[spoiler:dragon]] is so amused by the obvious bluff that he decides to hear her out.
** After Tress watches [[spoiler:Hoid become an Elantrian]], she commands the blatantly powerful demigod to handle [[spoiler:the Sorceress]] for her, on the grounds that [[spoiler:he's still her cabin boy]].
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Tress actually averts this at every opportunity, carefully gathering information and planning her actions instead of jumping to conclusions. The narrator considers it one of the rarest traits for a story's hero.
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* ATeamFiring: Ann, for all her love of guns and cannons, can't shoot straight to save her life. She's more of a threat to the people ''behind her'' than in front. [[spoiler:It's revealed to stem from a mix of undiagnosed micropsia and her own failures weighing on her confidence]].
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Laggart]] has one when he comes to realize that Tress' kindness is just that: completely authentic kindness. Having spent his life thinking everyone everyone would get you if you didn't get them first, he's ''horrified'' to realize that maybe ''he's'' the only cruel one. [[spoiler:While he's still not perfect, the epilogue would confirm that he is improving.]]
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* PunchClockVillain: The crew of the ''Crow's Song'' might be pirates, but they're pretty friendly aside from that. All but Crow and Laggart are even against killing and are fine with just taking a ransom fee.
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* DamselInDistress: Tress notes that it's a pretty common fate for the women of most stories and suspects she's doomed to become one. [[spoiler:She actually does get captured by the Sorceress at the end but comes to realize that everyone needs help every once in a while, and having earned the love and respect of people who'll risk their life for yours is quite and accomplishment in and of itself.]]
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: Hoid is one of the most powerful and cunning members of the cosmere ''and'' knows where the Sorceress is located. Shame he spends the novel cursed into a blathering idiot instead of helping.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: Hoid is one of the most powerful and cunning members of the cosmere ''and'' knows where the Sorceress is located. Shame he spends the novel cursed into a blathering idiot instead of helping.
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* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Crow controls her crew through fear. Not only is she practically unkillable, she's genuinely terrifying even without her powers. She tricks the crew into becoming deadrunners, then frightens them under heel. [[spoiler:Tress instead wins their loyalty much faster and firmer through kindness.]]
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* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Fort's "Awakened tablet with Connection circuits" is blatantly some form of magically created tablet computer, complete with predictive text. [[spoiler:Riina takes this even further, creating full blown Investiture computers, AI, cameras, and even a rocket ship.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After overcoming so many problems with brilliance and sheer determination, Tress finds herself at a loss for how to [[spoiler:overcome the Sorceress's defenses]] and wonders what's wrong with her. The answer is incredibly mundane: she's ''tired''. The narrator points out that while stories love to portray clever heroes as always ready for acts of cleverness, pushing an actual person too far will eventually wear them down.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After overcoming so many problems with brilliance and sheer determination, Tress finds herself at a loss for how to [[spoiler:overcome the Sorceress's defenses]] and wonders what's wrong with her. The answer is incredibly mundane: she's ''tired''. The narrator points out that while stories love to portray clever heroes as always ready for acts of cleverness, pushing an actual person too far will eventually wear them down.
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* LemonyNarrator: 'Very' lemony and sarcastic. Fittingly, it's [[spoiler: Hoid, the Cosmere's resident DeadpanSnarker supreme]]. For the first five chapters alone:
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Riina, a minor character from ''Literature/MistbornSecretHistory'', returns after a seven-year real-world absence]].
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* Homage: Sanderson stated that the story was directly inspired by ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', both in content and in light fairy-tale vibe.
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--> '''[[spoiler: Hoid]]''': They were so good at being unique, they often did it together.
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--> '''[[spoiler: Hoid]]''': He was six and a half feet tall and had a jaw so straight, it made other men question if they were
--> '''[[spoiler: Hoid]]''': It was delivered by [[spoiler: Hoid the cabin boy.]] (Yes, that’s me. What tipped you off? Was it perhaps the name?)
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Tress is a very boring girl on a very boring island. She spends her day collecting cups, which she talks about with her very boring friend Charlie the gardener, who is most certainly not secretly the duke's son. No one else cares for either of them, but they enjoy their time together.
One day, the duke declares that his son must travel the kingdom and be married. Charlie (who, lo and behold, turns out to be the duke's son after all) promises Tress that he will do everything in his power to bore every potential suitor to death until his father has no choice but to bring him back to the island to be with Tress. Unfortunately, the duke catches wind of this, and after the first few failures sends Charlie off to sail the Midnight Sea and woo the sorceress. When his ship disappears, he is immediately declared dead, a more suitable heir is named, and everyone is happy.
Months pass, and Tress realizes that truly, no one cares. No one liked Charlie, who was always boring and never fighting or getting soldiers killed like a real noble should. The new heir is much better at that. It's much easier to just let it be, to let things continue as they always have.
This, Tress realizes, means that she'll have to rescue Charlie herself. Her first mission is to leave a home she has never wanted to leave--an island that she is forbidden from ever escaping.
''Tress of the Emerald Sea'' is a novel of ''Literature/TheCosmere'' by Creator/BrandonSanderson, the first of his "secret projects" written during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AlienSea: The "seas" are massive reservoirs of colored pollen that rain down from the geostationary moons. Moisture causes the pollen to rapidly and violently grow, with the only thing that holds it back being salt and silver.
* TheBore: Charlie is incredibly, unbelievably boring. His own servants, people explicitly hired to listen to him, usually find excuses to interrupt him so that they don't have to listen to his inane ramblings. Tress, of course, loves his stories, the way he makes up histories for the cups she shows him. When he has to marry a princess, he cranks this up until the knob falls off to make sure that no one will consider marrying him.
* IncrediblyLameFun: Tress collects cups. She was having enough fun with that, and then Charlie started making up stories about the cups. Everyone else on the island finds both of them insufferably boring.
* UriahGambit: When Charlie makes too much of a nuisance of himself, he is sent to sail the Midnight Sea and attempt to woo the sorceress who lives there. He is declared dead basically the second his ship is out of sight.
One day, the duke declares that his son must travel the kingdom and be married. Charlie (who, lo and behold, turns out to be the duke's son after all) promises Tress that he will do everything in his power to bore every potential suitor to death until his father has no choice but to bring him back to the island to be with Tress. Unfortunately, the duke catches wind of this, and after the first few failures sends Charlie off to sail the Midnight Sea and woo the sorceress. When his ship disappears, he is immediately declared dead, a more suitable heir is named, and everyone is happy.
Months pass, and Tress realizes that truly, no one cares. No one liked Charlie, who was always boring and never fighting or getting soldiers killed like a real noble should. The new heir is much better at that. It's much easier to just let it be, to let things continue as they always have.
This, Tress realizes, means that she'll have to rescue Charlie herself. Her first mission is to leave a home she has never wanted to leave--an island that she is forbidden from ever escaping.
''Tress of the Emerald Sea'' is a novel of ''Literature/TheCosmere'' by Creator/BrandonSanderson, the first of his "secret projects" written during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AlienSea: The "seas" are massive reservoirs of colored pollen that rain down from the geostationary moons. Moisture causes the pollen to rapidly and violently grow, with the only thing that holds it back being salt and silver.
* TheBore: Charlie is incredibly, unbelievably boring. His own servants, people explicitly hired to listen to him, usually find excuses to interrupt him so that they don't have to listen to his inane ramblings. Tress, of course, loves his stories, the way he makes up histories for the cups she shows him. When he has to marry a princess, he cranks this up until the knob falls off to make sure that no one will consider marrying him.
* IncrediblyLameFun: Tress collects cups. She was having enough fun with that, and then Charlie started making up stories about the cups. Everyone else on the island finds both of them insufferably boring.
* UriahGambit: When Charlie makes too much of a nuisance of himself, he is sent to sail the Midnight Sea and attempt to woo the sorceress who lives there. He is declared dead basically the second his ship is out of sight.
