History Fanfic / NatureStudies

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: at least with the Great Apes.

* DistaffCounterpart: Ponder Stibbons runs the High Energy Magic Building, manages potentially deadly magics, has to deal with Mustrum Ridcully, has to keep the Bursar in Dried Frog Pills, and teaches ham-fisted students. Johanna Smith-Rhodes has the Animal Management Unit, keeps potentially lethal animals under control, deals with Lord Downey, has to keep the Guild Treasurer in Dried Frog Pills, and has to prevent pupils getting over-confident. They have a ''lot'' in common....

* KissCatatonia: Johanna kisses Ponder for the first time on the threshold of Vetinari's office. She has to kick him on the ankle to shock him out of an "ngggh" moment where his faculties temporarily go sky-diving in ecstacy.

A [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5318396/1/Nature-Studies romantic thriller]] from the ''{{Discworld}}'', set against a backdrop of Howondalandian wildlife! (Continued in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7485737/1/Zoo-Tales Zoo Tales]]'')

* [[FishOutOfWater CityMouse]]: Emmanuelle-Marie Lapoignard Les Deux-Epées, an Assassin school teacher who is most at home in cities and finds the wide open green spaces, and anything to do with large wild animals, most expressly not her ''tasse de thé''.

* WhatMeasureisANonCute: Practically every animal species represented at the Animal Management Unit, as the arachnophobic Emmanuelle-Marie Lapoignard Les Deux-Epées discovers, much to her discomfort. Assassins hold these animals in high regard for other reasons.

* FluffyTamer: Johanna, who inadvertently introduces the circus discipline of lion-taming to the Disc. A lioness she masters here is later called Lucinda Rustie, after a particularly vicious Guild School pupil. Later on, she tames and raises a lion cub to adhulthood, calling her pet ''[[ShoutOut Klarenz]]'' after an uncle with a visible eye problem.

* ShoutOut: Too many for this page. Listed '''[[/ShoutOut/NatureStudies here]]'''.

* {{Tomboy}}: Johanna, who has always dressed in [[DarkestAfrica safari chic]] of boots, trousers, tunic and bush hat.

* [[/ShoutOut/NatureStudies ShoutOuts]].

* FluffyTamer: Johanna, who inadvertently introduces the circus discipline of lion-taming to the Disc. A lioness she masters here is later called Lucinda Rustie, after a particularly vicious Guild School pupil. Later on, she tames and raises a lion cub to adhulthood, calling her pet ''Klarenz'' after an uncle with a visible eye problem.

* Tomboy: Johanna, who has always dressed in [[DarkestAfrica safari chic]] of boots, trousers, tunic and bush hat.
* WhatMeasureisANonCute: Practically every animal species represented at the Animal Management Unit, as the arachnophobic Emmanuelle-Marie Lapopignard Les Deux-Epées discovers, much to her discomfort. Assassins hold these animals in high regard for other reasons.

The Guild of Assassins in Ankh-Morpork breeds and studies animals for its own specialised uses. ''Interesting'' animals, such as venomous snakes, scorpions, poisonous spiders, boa constrictors, Bombardier Beetles, the Venomous Chaffinch of the Genuan Delta, the Impatient Vulture of the Central Howondalandian Plain (which likes to hurry things along a little) and so on. What it doesn't yet have are large carnivorous hunting animals, like [[PantheraAwesome lions, tigers, panthers]], et c. The Animal Management Unit's founder and director, Howondalandian Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes (who teaches Nature Studies and elementary biology at the Guild school) is keen to get some but has had her request turned down on cost and practicality reasons.

The Guild of Assassins in Ankh-Morpork breeds and studies animals for its own specialised uses. ''Interesting'' animals, such as venomous snakes, scorpions, poisonous spiders, boa constrictors, Bombardier Beetles, the Venomous Chaffinch of the Genuan Delta, the Impatient Vulture of the Central Howondalandian Plain (which likes to hurry things along a little) and so on. What it doesn't yet have are large carnivorous hunting animals, like [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy lions, tigers]], [[PantheraAwesome panthers]], et c. The Animal Management Unit's founder and director, Howondalandian Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes (who teaches Nature Studies and elementary biology at the Guild school) is keen to get some but has had her request turned down on cost and practicality reasons.

A [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5318396/1/Nature-Studies romantic thriller]] set against a backdrop of Howondalandian wildlife! (Continued in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7485737/1/Zoo-Tales Zoo Tales]]'')

* DistaffCounterpart: Ponder Stibbons runs the High Energy Magic Building, manages potentially deadly magics, has to deal with Mustrum Ridcully, has to keep the Bursar in Dried Frog Pills, and teaches ham-fisted students. Johanna Smith-Rhodes has the Animal Management Unit, keeps potentially lethal animals under control, deals with Lord Downey, has to keep the Guild Treaurer in Dried Frog Pills, and has to prevent pupils getting over-confident. They have a ''lot'' in common....

The Guild of Assassins in Ankh-Morpork breeds and studies animals for its own specialised uses. ''Interesting'' animals, such as venomous snakes, scorpions, poisonous spiders, boa constrictors, Bombardier Beetles, the Venomous Chaffinch of the Genuan Delta, the Impatient Vulture of the Central Howondalandian Plain (which likes to hurry things along a little) and so on. What it doesn't yet have are large carnivorous hunting animals, like lions, tigers, panthers, et c. The Animal Management Unit's founder and director, Howondalandian Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes (who teaches Nature Studies and elementary biology at the Guild school) is keen to get some but has had her request turned down on cost and practicality reasons.

A [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5318396/1/Nature-Studies romantic thriller]] set against a backdrop of Howondalandian wildlife!

A romantic thriller set against a backdrop of Howondalandian wildlife!

* WhipItGood: Johanna's rescue of Sam Vimes which has long-reaching consequences.

* AcademyOfAdventure: the Assassins' Guild School, verging as always on BoardingSchoolOfHorror. Johanna's Nature Trails are things of renown, designed to ensure students remain watchful of the majesty and diversity of Nature at all times, lest it turn and surprise them.

* NinjaSchool: the A.G. School.
* SchoolOfHardKnocks: the ever-resent potential for damage to the unlucky and unwary, as pupils called Brian and Catherine discover.

* HilarityInZoos: Where the recaptured animals end up: the new Ankh-Morpork City Zoo, in which Johana succeeds in getting her large predatory cats. And at Guild expense.