Line #34 Literature/TobyAlone


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: A hero is born...]]
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4	Toby Alone is a children's book written by French author Timothee de Fombelle, and translated into English by Sarah Ardizzone.
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6	In december 2023, a cartoon series has been released in France.
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8	!!This work contains examples of the following tropes:
9	* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Leo [[spoiler:kidnapped Elisha to force her to marry him]].
10	%%* AxCrazy: Leo becomes a subtle version of this in the second book.%%How?
11	* BadBoss: Joe Mitch and later Leo Blue. Joe ''encourages' bullying among his workers and later hires Leo to conduct slave raids against the Grass people.
12	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Berenice "Bernie" Alzan, who love bashing the heads of inmates and study the bruises.
13	* DreadfulMusician: Mano Asseldor, leading to him being the BlackSheep of his family.
14	* EvilFormerFriend: Leo to Toby, after he joined the side of Joe Mitch.
15	* FaceHeelTurn: Leo betrays Toby and becomes a [[spoiler: cruel, [[FantasticRacism racist]] dictator]].
16	* FantasticRacism: The Grass persons are often looked down to by the Tree people, many of whom who think they are evil (or cannibalistic). Leo Blue even made a plan to [[spoiler:[[FinalSolution murder all of the Grass persons]] by setting fire to the Prairie]].
17	* GiveGeeksAChance: Sim used to be a complete nerd who had no time to date. That is, until pretty Maya Alnorell appears at his door. They fall in love and soon marries each other.
18	* HeelFaceTurn:
19	** Nils Amen when he [[spoiler: pretends to be Toby to distract the searchers from finding Toby]].
20	** Leo Blue when he [[spoiler: joins the good side]] and [[spoiler: later kills Joe Mitch]].
21	* IncestantAdmirer: [[spoiler: Leo to Elisha]], [[SurpriseIncest unaware of the fact]] that [[LongLostRelative she's his half-sister]]. She does not return his feelings.
22	%%* InsaneEqualsViolent: Leo qualifies for this.%%How?
23	* {{Lilliputians}}: All of the Tree people and the Grass people are tiny humanoids no more than a few centimeters tall.
24	* LostLenore: Downplayed, as Norz Amen is not a prominent character. Norz's wife Lili Amen dies prior to the book events due to DeathByChildbirth, leading to Norz mourning and neglecting his son Nils.
25	* NoBloodForPhlebotinum: Joe Mitch and other people fighting for the Tree Stone and the Balina.
26	* MouseWorld: All the characters are either tiny Tree people or equally tiny Grass people, capable of going their whole lives in the branches of a single oak or in a tiny patch of grass.
27	* ObliviousAdoption: Toby found out that [[spoiler: Sim and Maya Lolness are not his biological parents.]]
28	%%* Sadist: Joe Mitch.
29	* StupidEvil: Joe Mitch is an extreme example of this, unable to even speak like a normal person or speak his own full name. {{Lampshaded}} by Sim.
30	* SurpriseIncest: Downplayed as it is [[IncestantAdmirer unrequited]]. [[spoiler: Leo falls in love with Elisha, only to know that [[LongLostRelative she is his half-sister]] later.]]
31	* TreetopWorld: Apart from the period where Toby lives alongside the Grass people, the entire story is set in a single oak tree home to a civilization of minuscule people. However, Sim, Toby's father, hypothesizes that ''other'' trees might exist.
32	* UnmournedDeath: Sim Lolness wasn't moved at all by the death of Maya's mother, his burdensome mother-in-law. He kept doing his routine activities until his wife Maya called him out.
33	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Toby to Leo, and also when he thinks Elisha left him.
34	-->Elisha! Whose side are you on! You've deserted me! And so has Leo! [[{{Angst}} Why don't friends last for life?]]
35	* {{Yandere}}: Ilaya. She decides to [[spoiler: [[IfICantHaveYou murder Toby]]]], who she is in love with when Toby decides to leave the Prairie and leave her [[spoiler: to rescue his family and Elisha]].
36	** Granted, Toby unintentionally and indirectly causes [[spoiler: the death of Ilaya's fiance Vidof]].
37	** Also Leo to Elisha. He [[spoiler: kidnaps her to the Nest and [[StalkerWithACrush stalks her]] as "Shadow"]].

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