History Literature / TrylleTrilogy

%%* TheBeard: [[spoiler: Wendy is this for Tove at first.]]

* TheHerosBirthday: The books look back on Wendy's sixth birthday and show her eighteenth birthday.

%%* DisposableFiance: Tove in ''spades''.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The Trylle do ''not'' like wearing shoes. Ever. Even at the fanciest of balls, you can bet that everyone will be barefoot.

The Trylle Trilogy is a fantasy book series by American author Amanda Hocking. It follows the story of Wendy Everly, an almost eighteen-year-old teenaged girl who lives with her aunt Maggie and brother Matt. She recounts her sixth birthday party, when her less-than-stable mother grows convinced that Wendy stole the baby she gave birth to, and proceeds to attempt to kill her.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler: Wendy and Loki’s son, Oliver, is this for the Trylle because he’s the first member of the royal family, if not the first child to not be a changeling.]]

* AgeAppropriateAngst
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The Trylle, Vittra, Trackers, and [[spoiler: Vittra hobgoblins]].

* AmicableExes: [[spoiler: Wendy and Finn. She and Tove are also this after their annulment]]

** Elora and [[spoiler: Oren]]
** [[spoiler: Wendy and Tove]]
* AudienceSurrogate: Wendy
* AuraVision: Tove
* AxCrazy: Kim Everly, Wendy's [[spoiler: host]] mom.
* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter]]: [[spoiler: Wendy and Loki]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Loki]]
* BattleCouple: Wendy and Finn, Wendy and Tove, and Wendy and [[spoiler: Loki]]
* TheBeard: [[spoiler: Wendy is this for Tove at first.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Matt is very protective towards Wendy [[spoiler: he later acts as such towards Rhys]]
* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: The powers the Trylle possess drain their energy and eventually [[spoiler: accelerated aging]].

* {{Brainwashed}}: Loki has the ability to do this to a person. [[spoiler: He starts to do it to Wendy in ''Torn'', but stops, saying that he wants her to ''want'' to leave with him.]]
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Wendy is portrayed thus as she, as a Trylle, simply does not fit into human society.
* ChangelingTale
* CharmPerson: Wendy with her persuasion.

* ComingOfAgeStory
* CompellingVoice: Several Trylle have this ability, however, it only works on trackers or humans.

* DawsonCasting: In-universe example. The Trackers pose as high school seniors to get close to the changelings in order to bring them back to Forening. [[spoiler: Duncan]] in ''Torn'' is 27.

** Less extreme example with [[spoiler: Matt and Willa]].
* [[spoiler: DisneyDeath]]: [[spoiler: Loki]]
* DisposableFiance: Tove in ''spades''.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The Trylle do ''not'' like wearing shoes. Ever. Even at the fanciest of balls, you can bet that everyone will be bare foot.

* FallenPrincess: [[spoiler: By the epilogue, Wendy's narration reveals that Willa willingly gave up her title as a Marksinna so she could openly be in a relationship with Matt.]]

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Trylle words seem to be Swedish. They call the changeling human children mänsklig ("human"), the village where the Trylle live is called Förening ("Association"), the village where the Vittra trolls love is Ondarike ("evil empire/kingdom"), and the royalty titles include Markis and Markisinna ("Marquis" and "Marchioness").
** The word 'Trylle' itself is the Scandinavian verb for doing magic.

* HappyMarriageCharade: Both [[spoiler: Elora and Oren's and Wendy and Tove's]] marriages were this, but they both ended in divorce.

* HealingFactor: Those descended from the Vittra. Especially [[spoiler: Oren]].
* HealingHands: Aurora Kroner and [[spoiler: Sara]].
* TheHerosBirthday: The books look back on Wendy's sixth birthday and show her eighteenth birthday

* HypnoticEyes: Loki's power, which he inherited from his father.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Wendy

* LongLostRelative: Rhys to Matt
* LoveDodecahedron: So much. ''So'' much.
* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather]]: [[spoiler: Wendy's biological father turns out to be the king of the Vittra. Surprise, Wendy!]]

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: The reasoning everyone tries to use against Wendy for taking her role as Princess of the Trylle.
** [[spoiler: Also the reason Elora married Oren.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: The Trackers. Makes sense, seeing as how their job requires them to pose as high school students, but [[spoiler: Wendy's second Tracker, Duncan takes the cake, as he's 27 posing as an 18 year old.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: A practice of the Trylle. Finn replies with, quite simply, "it's what we do".

* PrecisionFStrike: Dropped exactly once by Finn in Switched.
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Wendy by the end of the third book, even though it was too early for her to know.]]
* PreppyName: Michael Conrad Everly, The name that Wendy might have received if she were a boy comes pretty close to being this.

* PsychicNosebleed

* QuirkyCurls: Wendy has these, as do most of the Trylle.

* RichBitch: Willa. She's pretty much a bitch to everyone, especially the manskligs and Trackers. She gets better in later books and does genuinely care about Wendy, though.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Elora is revealed to have done much to keep the peace between the Trylle and the Vittra. [[spoiler: When Wendy becomes Queen, she fights hard to stop the changeling practice and to promote equality in Forening.]]
* SecondLove: [[spoiler: Loki for Wendy, Also Finn and Mia for each other]]
* SecretlyWealthy: Even ''Wendy'' doesn't know how much money her family really has, thinking that her mother's hospital bills and their constant moving has eaten away at their fortune. [[spoiler: Turns out, they've been living far below their means.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Wendy decapitates Oren by the third book]]
* SexlessMarriage: [[spoiler: Wendy and Tove's marriage was this for the short time it lasted.]]

* ShotgunWedding: [[spoiler: The epilogue reveals that Wendy was four months pregnant when she and Loki married.]]

* TeensAreMonsters: [[IncrediblyLamePun Literally]].
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Wendy gets pregnant and gives birth to her and Loki’s son when she’s eighteen.]]

* TheUnfavorite: Kim much prefers Matt and the son Michael she didn't even know to Wendy, even telling her to "leave Michael alone" as he is a "good boy".

** Willa suspects that her father prefers her mankslig Rhiannon
* UptownGirl: [[spoiler: Wendy for Finn at first. Willa, being a noblewoman, is also this for Matt]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Elora. When Wendy first meets her, she appears to be around 50. We find out in ''Torn'' that she's actually only 39. [[spoiler: She dies of old age by the end of ''Ascend''.]] Using her powers caused her age prematurely.

** {{Seer}}: Elora can paint pictures of future events, however, she doesn't know the context of the events.

* SuddenlySexuality: [[spoiler: Tove is gay.]]

* HateSink: The Chancellor (a sick pervert who always complains about how Elora runs things), Aurora Kroner (constantly puts down Wendy and Elora and takes over planning Wendy's wedding), and Markisinna Laris (refuses to use her powers to help her people and kingdom and demands that Wendy be handed over to Oren on a sliver platter) all serve as these.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler: Wendy and Loki’s son, Oliver, is his for the Trylle because he’s the first member of the royal family, if not the first child to not be a changeling.]]

* GreenEyes: Tove has mossy green eyes.

* DeadGuyJunior: Willa reveals that the original name her human family gave her was Nikki, but she chose her current name at her naming ceremony because it was the same one her late mother picked. Also overlaps with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Trylle words seem to be Swedish. They call the changeling human children mänsklig ("human"), the village where the Trylle live is called Förening ("compound"), the village where the Vittra trolls love is Ondarike ("evil empire/kingdom"), and the royalty titles include Markis and Markisinna ("Marquis" and "Marchioness").

** When Wendy hears the word changeling, she immediately thinks of the movie of the same name starring Angelina Jolie
** It's revealed that Matt picked out Wendy's name after reading PeterPan.

* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler: It is revealed in the third book that Elora knew that she was dying and deliberately put up a cold front when she and Wendy officially meet so that her inevitable death wouldn't hurt so much.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Chancellor and Elora]]

* SexlessMarriage: [[spoiler: Wendy and Tove's]] marriage was this for the short time it lasted.

* FallenPrincess: [[spoilers: By the epilogue, Wendy's narration reveals that Willa willingly gave up her title as a Marksinna so she could openly be in a relationship with Matt.]]

* HealingFactor: Those decended from the Vittra. Especially [[spoiler: Oren]].