Line #26 DarthWiki/Abe


1	''"We blow up squirrels, not mortals. We have standards."''
2	--> Kaidyn, book 1
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4	A book series about the adventures of two teenage girls, [[AlliterativeName Kaidyn Kurtis and Leila Logan]], who discover they can see ghosts, along with their pet [[TeamPet rottweiler]], [[FluffyTheTerrible Boo]] and CoolHorse, Bones, and of course, their ghost friends, Gilligan and his wife, Holly, Aidan Cricket [[spoiler: Kaidyn's future husband]], and [[NoNameGiven Antonio, who has no last name given in any of the books]], [[spoiler: Leila's future husband]]. And of course, [[SpiritAdvisor Abe.]]
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7	!!The series provides examples for the following tropes:
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9	* ActionGirl: Leila and Kaidyn, obviously. Leilani, too, ''especially'' in book 3. Alina from book 3 might also qualify, and Kaidyn's older sister Kennedy was originally designed to be this way. In the sister series, Abe: The Next Generation, Jay, Daffy, Cody, and Leilani-Kate all show signs of this.
10	* AllergicToLove: Cody, even though she's 6.
11	* AlliterativeName: Kaidyn Kurtis, Keegan Kurtis, Kennedy Kurtis, Kate Kurtis ([[spoiler: formally]] desceased), Leila Logan, Lars Logan, Landon Logan, Leilani Logan, Lincoln Logan, Lucas Logan, Lottie Logan, Lillie Logan, and Leah Logan.
12	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler: Hayden is crushing on Leilani-Kate. She is peacefully oblivious.]] Same with Aidan in the first book. [[spoiler: Though something about him makes a reader think that he knows Kaidyn is still in love with him.]]
13	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: Boo's puppies,]] Snake, Marrow, and Rainbow. Justified, as Rainbow is the only girl in her litter.
14	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Aidan and Kaidyn get one of these per book. [[spoiler: Jay and Will do too in the sister series.]]
15	%%* BabiesEverAfter: The sister series pretty much owns this trope.
16	* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted. The births of [[spoiler: Jay, Hayden, and Daffy]] pretty much ruin their parents lives.
17	* BadSanta: Cody hates Santa, due to what her brother Will told her as a child.
18	* BadassFamily: Jay, Hayden, and Daffy [[spoiler: are just as much of this as their parents, Kaidyn and Aidan, were in their younger years.]] Same with Will, Leilani-Kate, and Cody, [[spoiler: Leila and Antonio's children.]]
19	%%* BigBad: Frederick. That sexy devil.
20	* BoyMeetsGhoul: Kaidyn and Aidan, Leila and Antonio, Jay and Sterling, and Daffy and Turner. It's kind of inevitable in an action-romance story with ghosts.
21	* CannotSpitItOut: Aidan, about Frederick [[spoiler: the evil prince of Ghost England, who ends up trying to marry Kaidyn because of the debt she was in from buying highly expensive smoothies.]] But it might have been because Kaidyn wouldn't let him.
22	** A better example might be Jay and [[spoiler: Will]] telling each other their feelings about each other. And Hayden telling Leilani-Kate.
23	** So basically, it runs in the family.
24	* ChekhovsGun: Daffy's purple eyes. In the first book she's mentioned in, book three, it's just a distinguishing trait. But in the next two books, which follow her as a child and pre-teen, it becomes a way for ghosts to recognize her. Leilani's love of history too. She mentions it while playing hide and seek with her brothers, Jay, and Hayden, and then uses it at the end to save Antonio and Aidan.
25	* ChekhovsGunman: Russ and Terra. They appeared briefly at a bar in the first book, when Leila and Kaidyn [[spoiler: get shot]], and appear again in the second book, with [[spoiler: Terra's tongue cut out to prevent her from speaking]], showing Kaidyn [[spoiler: just how evil the prince she's falling for is.]]
26	** Daffy and Leilani also count. In the first book Daffy's in, she's just a baby that got kidnapped. But in the next two books, she becomes an ActionGirl. In the first book Leilani is in, she's a ChildProdigy, and has to come along to save Kaidyn. In the second book she's in, she's a fifteen year old TeenGenius who ends up using her smarts to save Aidan and Antonio.
27	* ClingyJealousGirl: Alina was originally designed to be a a clingy sociopath girlfriend for Frederick. The idea was scrapped when Kaidyn finds out that Frederick [[spoiler: wouldn't care if Alina was thrown out a window to her demise. Of course they don't throw her.]]
28	%%* CoolBigSis: Kennedy, Leila, and Jay.
29	* DeadGuyJunior: Will, named after William Gilligan, the first ghost besides Abe that Leila and Kaidyn meet.
30	* {{Delinquents}}: Kaidyn and Leila are 13 in book 1, and they have previously spent the equivalent of 2 months in prison. Leila even previously had a boyfriend who was put in for life, [[spoiler: before ending up with Antonio at the end of book 1.]]
31	* DisappearedDad: Leila, Kaidyn, Antonio, Aidan, and pretty much every character in the original three books has no dad referered to, or appearing. Daffy makes it her mission to find as many of her grandparents as possible.
32	* FakeOutMakeOut: Jay and Will have one in the fourth book, and Daffy and Riley have 2 in the sixth.
33	* [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]]: While Jay had other crushes and boyfriends, by the end of the series, she and [[spoiler: Will]] are a couple. Bonus points, as he was not only the first one she was attracted to, but also her best friend since infancy.
34	* FlatWhat: Cody's response to why She and Daffy phased through a wall in a ghost hotel.
35	* FullNameBasis: Leilani-Kate. But she is named after [[spoiler: her aunt]] Leilani, so they need a way to tell them apart.
36	* GenderBlenderName: Jay, Cody, and Daffy are girls. Hayden is a boy.
37	* HeroicBSOD: Will goes into this when he finds out [[spoiler: Jay has left home to live with Holly and Gilligan.]] Her note to him doubles as a TearJerker.
38	* IronicEcho: "When you told me you loved me, we became one. If it concerns you, it concerns me." Or some veriation. Used by Kaidyn to Aidan in the first two books. But when Aidan uses it on Kaidyn, it might be the [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments sweetest yet.]]
39	--> Aidan: "Kaidyn, you're fine. Where do you need to go?"
40	--> Kaidyn: "The hospital. Now."
41	--> Aidan: "Did your water break?"
42	--> Kaidyn: "No! I still have five months. I just need to make sure 3 (Daffy) is okay. It's fine. It doesn't concern you."
43	--> Aidan: "You said 'I do.' If it concerns you, it concerns me, Mrs. Cricket.
44	* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Leila goes to Yale.
45	* JustFriends: Will and Jay. Just friends my butt!
46	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Frederick's. Alina poisons him in a kiss, which is how he killed her.]]
47	* KissingUnderTheInfluence: [[spoiler: Jay]] kisses Will while possessed by a demonic spirit. [[spoiler: Sure, neither of them remembered it later, and it almost killed Jay, but they locked lips. ''Passionately.'']]
48	* LoveTriangle: The second variation. A is Will, B is Sterling, and C is Jay. [[spoiler: She goes with Sterling, but then he becomes overly perfect, even by Jay's standards, so she leaves him. To be alone.]]
49	* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Kaidyn.]] If you even ''think'' about hurting Daffy, Jay, or Hayden, you won't live to regret it.
50	* MeaningfulName: Daffy's. Daffy is short for Daffodil, which represents her bright demeanor. But her nickname, Daffy, when coupled with her middle name, Spiridon, literally means Silly Little Spirit.
51	** Cody's first name is Calamity. Man, that fits her perfectly.
52	* MissingMom: While both Leila and Kaidyn's mothers make appearances in book 1, they're brief, neither one appears again, aside from being refrenced, and Kaidyn's even dies.
53	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Daffy, [[spoiler: releasing Frederick back into the world in book 4.]] Even Lampshaded by Jay in the next book.
54	--> Daffy: You remember that box I opened?
55	--> Jay: The one that specifically said 'Do Not Open?'
56	--> Daffy: ''(annoyed)'' YES, the one that said 'Do Not Open!'
57	* NoNameGiven: Antonio. It's not until the sister series that they reveal his surname to be Vega.
58	* OddNameOut: Aidan and Kaidyn [[spoiler: are married, with three kids.]] Two are Jaydin and Hayden. What is the third? Daffy.
59	* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Aidan.]] Don't touch his kids. Don't touch his wife. Ever.
60	* ProperlyParanoid: Aidan in book 3. He doesn't want anything happening to Kaidyn, or any of [[spoiler: their kids.]]
61	* PromotionToParent: Kennedy, and, when in the Ghost World, Jay takes this role as well.
62	* RunningGag: Nobody ever listening to Daffy, Cody and Daffy playing TheMatchmaker for Will and Jay, and Hayden trying [[CannotSpitItOut and failing]] to tell Leilani-Kate he loves her.
63	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Will and Hayden, but only in the first book. After that, Will goes into a fit of depression, and Hayden TakesALevelInBadass.
64	* ShoutOut: Cody has not trusted love since [[Literature/NewMoon Edward left Bella in the second book.]]
65	* SlapSlapKiss: Will and Jay go from being best friends, to being flirty, to beating the crap out of each other verbally. And then, of course, [[spoiler: they make out. Then scream at each other.]] And the cycle repeats.
66	** Subverted hilariously in book 5.
67	-->Will: You know, I wish I HADN'T saved you.
68	-->Jay: Oh, really?
69	-->Will: YES REALLY!
70	-->Jay: I wish you hadn't saved me, too!
71	-->Will: Wanna make out?
72	--> {{Beat}}
73	-->Jay: NO!
74	* ShirtlessScene: Aidan, washing feathers out of Kaidyn's hair. No, [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga that's not the reason why their there.]] [[spoiler: Kaidyn bit a pillow during a BigLippedAlligatorMoment dream.]]
75	* SnarkKnight: Jay and Kaidyn. Jay personally believes that if you can twist the mean girl's words in a sarcastic manner, then you're set for the rest of your junior high expirience!
76	* TechnicolorEyes: Daffy and Kate have purple eyes. The former fits the mysterious half of the trope, while the latter merely has them for family resemblence.
77	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jay and Leilani-Kate, or Cody and Leilani-Kate.
78	* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Daffy is 7 and already has a vocabulary larger than most 13 year olds. She understands personal space (though she rarely respects it), and is a trusted budding mad scientist.
79	* YouAreNumberSix: Throughout Kaidyn's [[spoiler: third pregnancy]] they refer to Daffy as 3 or Number 3.
80	* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Riley and Daffy only call each other by their last names. When he actually calls her by her first name, it stuns her into silence. When she yells at him later, she says his first name, James, instead of calling him Riley.

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