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TheAgeless: Vampires in [[OurVampiresAreDifferent this incarnation]] are less indestructible than many, and can be hurt or fall ill, and potentially die from either.
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JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Barak is not a conventionally nice person. He takes the traditional vampire view that humans are basically animals. But even before he became a vampire, without that rationale, he was a pirate and slave trader. He doesn't have any problem with breaking the law, or about other people in general. But when a ''friend'' needs help...
KidsAreCruel: Kyros, the only other young (chronologically, not physically) vampire in the community, makes the fledgling Alexis' life a misery, and goes as far as [[spoiler:attempting to kill him]].
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JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Barak is not a conventionally nice person. He takes the traditional vampire view that humans are basically animals. But even before he became a vampire, without that rationale, he was a pirate and slave trader. He doesn't have any problem with breaking the law, or about hurting other people in general. But when a ''friend'' needs help...
KidsAreCruel: Kyros, the only other young (chronologically, though not physically) vampire in the community, makes the fledgling Alexis' life a misery, and goes as far as [[spoiler:attempting to killhim]].
him, and almost succeeding]].
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WhoWantsToLiveForEver: The plot is ''based'' around the fact that Alexis doesn't.
YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Barak]] attacks [[spoiler:Philip]] to give Alexis time to escape, telling him to "Run, you damn fool".
YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Barak]] attacks [[spoiler:Philip]] to give Alexis time to escape, telling him to "Run, you damn fool".
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WhoWantsToLiveForEver: The plot Not Alexis. This is ''based'' around central to the fact that Alexis doesn't.
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A Lonely Road is a novel, [[strike:in the final stages of polishing]] now finished, but yet to be submitted to any publishers. As for when it will be published... how long does it usually take an unknown author to get a first novel accepted by a publisher and then actually published? A Lonely Road is a working title, and if it's used at all it will be the title of the trilogy of which this is the first instalment.
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A Lonely Road is a novel, [[strike:in [[strike:currently in the final stages of polishing]] now finished, but yet to be submitted to any publishers. As for when it will be published... how long does it usually take an unknown author to get a first novel accepted by a publisher and then actually published? A Lonely Road is a working title, and if it's used at all it will be the title of the trilogy of which this is the first instalment.
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A Lonely Road is a novel, <s>in the final stages of polishing</s> now finished, but yet to be submitted to any publishers. As for when it will be published... how long does it usually take an unknown author to get a first novel accepted by a publisher and then actually published? A Lonely Road is a working title, and if it's used at all it will be the title of the trilogy of which this is the first instalment.
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A Lonely Road is a novel, <s>in [[strike:in the final stages of polishing</s> polishing]] now finished, but yet to be submitted to any publishers. As for when it will be published... how long does it usually take an unknown author to get a first novel accepted by a publisher and then actually published? A Lonely Road is a working title, and if it's used at all it will be the title of the trilogy of which this is the first instalment.
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A Lonely Road is a novel, currently in the final stages of polishing but subject to some last-minute ScheduleSlip. I plan to have the final self-edit completed no later than 21 December 2012 - and then the world can end if it wants to - but as for when it will be published... how long does it usually take an unknown author to get a first novel accepted by a publisher and then actually published? A Lonely Road is a working title, and if it's used at all it will be the title of the trilogy of which this is the first instalment.
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A Lonely Road is a novel, currently in <s>in the final stages of polishing polishing</s> now finished, but subject yet to some last-minute ScheduleSlip. I plan be submitted to have the final self-edit completed no later than 21 December 2012 - and then the world can end if it wants to - but as any publishers. As for when it will be published... how long does it usually take an unknown author to get a first novel accepted by a publisher and then actually published? A Lonely Road is a working title, and if it's used at all it will be the title of the trilogy of which this is the first instalment.
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A Lonely Road is a novel, currently in the final stages of polishing but subject to some last-minute ScheduleSlippage.ScheduleSlip. I plan to have the final self-edit completed no later than 21 December 2012 - and then the world can end if it wants to - but as for when it will be published... how long does it usually take an unknown author to get a first novel accepted by a publisher and then actually published? A Lonely Road is a working title, and if it's used at all it will be the title of the trilogy of which this is the first instalment.
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TheQuietOne: The monosyllabic Darius.
Really700YearsOld: Not even close. Alexis is over 2500 years old, and he's not even the oldest person he knows.
Really700YearsOld: Not even close. Alexis is over 2500 years old, and he's not even the oldest person he knows.
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The reality of being a teenage vampire is that you only get to stay in one place for a few years before people start to [[NotGrowingUpSucks look at you funny]]. And that's if you're lucky. A chance encounter with an old friend forces eternally seventeen-year-old Alexis Micros to uproot his new life and move on yet again. Misadventures ensue as he crosses most of [[EagleLand the US]], eventually coming to rest in Los Angeles.
The death of a stray cat is the final straw in a chain of introspection, brushes with death, and encounters with old and new friends and enemies that leads Alexis to the decision to reveal the existence of vampires to the world.
Having found a journalist who will listen, the resulting interview becomes an extended flashback to his human life and first years as a vampire, in Ancient Greece. When, back in the present day, it is published, Alexis must now face the wrath of his fellow vampires.
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!!A Lonely Road contains examples of:
TheAgeless: Vampires in [[OurVampiresAreDifferent this incarnation]] are less indestructible than many, and can be hurt or fall ill, and potentially die from either.
ByronicHero: Alexis fits this trope.
TheDeterminator: Does two and a half years seem like a long time to hold a grudge? Try two and a half ''millenia'', and [[spoiler:Philip]] is still so determined to kill Alexis that being thrown off a cliff won't stop him.
ElderlyImmortal: Youthful vampires are comparatively rare, and middle aged and older is not uncommon. Notably Barak, whose age is ambiguous, but certainly well into middle age.
ExpositionOfImmortality: The Incriminating Evidence version kicks off the story, when Fergus recognises his old friend, still the same teenager he was ten years ago. The Such Memories! version comes up more than once, most notably in an extended flashback that takes up a third of the novel.
HappinessInSlavery: Before he was a vampire, Alexis was a mild case of type one: though not averse to the idea of manumission, he wasn't unhappy as a slave and made no active attempt to win his freedom.
JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Barak is not a conventionally nice person. He takes the traditional vampire view that humans are basically animals. But even before he became a vampire, without that rationale, he was a pirate and slave trader. He doesn't have any problem with breaking the law, or about other people in general. But when a ''friend'' needs help...
MyGrandsonMyself: Barak mentions that he once spent over seventy years in one place, pretending to be four generations of his family.
NotGrowingUpSucks: Being forever a teenager makes immortality harder on Alexis than most older vampires.
WhoWantsToLiveForEver: The plot is ''based'' around the fact that Alexis doesn't.
YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Barak]] attacks [[spoiler:Philip]] to give Alexis time to escape, telling him to "Run, you damn fool".
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The reality of being a teenage vampire is that you only get to stay in one place for a few years before people start to [[NotGrowingUpSucks look at you funny]]. And that's if you're lucky. A chance encounter with an old friend forces eternally seventeen-year-old Alexis Micros to uproot his new life and move on yet again. Misadventures ensue as he crosses most of [[EagleLand the US]], eventually coming to rest in Los Angeles.
The death of a stray cat is the final straw in a chain of introspection, brushes with death, and encounters with old and new friends and enemies that leads Alexis to the decision to reveal the existence of vampires to the world.
Having found a journalist who will listen, the resulting interview becomes an extended flashback to his human life and first years as a vampire, in Ancient Greece. When, back in the present day, it is published, Alexis must now face the wrath of his fellow vampires.
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!!A Lonely Road contains examples of:
TheAgeless: Vampires in [[OurVampiresAreDifferent this incarnation]] are less indestructible than many, and can be hurt or fall ill, and potentially die from either.
ByronicHero: Alexis fits this trope.
TheDeterminator: Does two and a half years seem like a long time to hold a grudge? Try two and a half ''millenia'', and [[spoiler:Philip]] is still so determined to kill Alexis that being thrown off a cliff won't stop him.
ElderlyImmortal: Youthful vampires are comparatively rare, and middle aged and older is not uncommon. Notably Barak, whose age is ambiguous, but certainly well into middle age.
ExpositionOfImmortality: The Incriminating Evidence version kicks off the story, when Fergus recognises his old friend, still the same teenager he was ten years ago. The Such Memories! version comes up more than once, most notably in an extended flashback that takes up a third of the novel.
HappinessInSlavery: Before he was a vampire, Alexis was a mild case of type one: though not averse to the idea of manumission, he wasn't unhappy as a slave and made no active attempt to win his freedom.
JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Barak is not a conventionally nice person. He takes the traditional vampire view that humans are basically animals. But even before he became a vampire, without that rationale, he was a pirate and slave trader. He doesn't have any problem with breaking the law, or about other people in general. But when a ''friend'' needs help...
MyGrandsonMyself: Barak mentions that he once spent over seventy years in one place, pretending to be four generations of his family.
NotGrowingUpSucks: Being forever a teenager makes immortality harder on Alexis than most older vampires.
WhoWantsToLiveForEver: The plot is ''based'' around the fact that Alexis doesn't.
YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Barak]] attacks [[spoiler:Philip]] to give Alexis time to escape, telling him to "Run, you damn fool".
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