History Literature / DarkLife

* AfterTheEnd: The Book takes in where future where [[FloodedFutureWorld the ocean has risen due to Gobal Warming and the Eastcoast has somehow fallen into the sea]]. The people who live on land are [[OverpopulationCrisis crammed in tiny apartment in gigantic building and see space as a status symbol]], [[SettlingTheFrontier are trying to colonize the ocean floor]] and the [[GovernmentExploitedCrisis Government keep using it as an expect to abuse it power.]]

* KissOfLife: After Gemma drowns in book 1.

* {{EMP}}: Part of how the Seablite gang escaped, the used one when they attack the Peavy's homestead [[spoiler:--this due to Eel's Gift.]]

%%* KissOfLife: After Gemma drowns in book 1.

* TheGreatFlood: There is mentions of a new sect of Christianity called the new Puritan who believe that global warming was this.

-->”Can’t switch horse midstream,” the Representatives said with every cancelled election. An appropriate metaphor, consider 20 percent of the continent was now underwater.

** Not must later we learn that the Prisoners that escape Seablite Prison and become the Seablite Gang were teenager Richard Stiair, Gemma’s brother, was one of them.
** Closer to the Climax we learn that Dr. Theo Kunze used to go be Dr. William Metzger, the Doctor who wrote the supposedly hoax article about on Dark Gifts he did at Seablite, which was created to test his theory about how they formed and the ‘Wealth discredit him so people would not be scared off from moving subsea.

* AfraidOfDoctors: Ty, is terriefied of any medical or doctor related, he does not even trust the Territory's doctor, who is a family friend, enough to go see him for a routine checkup, thought he does mention he would rather he be the one fixing him up if he got attack by a shark. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] [[spoiler: Give what he has been through after he develop his Dark Gift.]]

* TheGreatFlood; The is mentions of a new sect of Christianity called the new Puritan who believe that global warming was this.

* AfterTheEnd: The Book takes in where future where [[FloodedFutureWorld the ocean has risen due to Gobal Warming and the Eastcoast has somehow fallen into the sea]]. The people who live on land are [[OverpopulatedCrisis crammed in tiny apartment in gigantic building and see space as a status symbol]], [[SettlingTheFrontier are trying to colonize the ocean floor]] and the [[GovernmentExploitedCrisis Government keep using it as an expect to abuse it power.]]

* BaldOfAuthority: Shade, the Leader of the [[Submarine Pirates Seablite Gang]] has one.

* AfraidOfDoctors: Ty, is terriefied of any medical or doctor related, he does not even trust the Territory's doctor, who is a family friend, enough to go see him for a routine checkup, thought he does mention he would rather he be the one fixing him up if he got attack by a shark. {{Justified}} [[spolier: Give what he has been through after he develop his Dark Gift.]]
* AfterTheEnd: The Book takes in where future where [[FloodedFutureWorld the ocean has risen due to Gobal Warming and the Eastcoast has somehow fallen into the sea]]. The people who live on land are [[Overpopulated Crisis crammed in tiny apartment in gigantic building and see space as a status symbol]], [[SettlingTheFrontier are trying to colonize the ocean floor]] and the [[GovernmentExploitedCrisis Government keep using it as an expect to abuse it power.]]

* AfraidOfDoctors: Ty, is terriefied of any medical or doctor related, he does not even trust the Territory's doctor, who is a family friend, enough to go see him for a routine checkup, thought he does mention he would rather he be the one fixing him up if he got attack by a shark. {{Justified}} [[spoliers: Give what he has been through after he develop his Dark Gift.]]

* AfraidOfDoctors: Ty, is terriefied of any medical or doctor related, he does not even trust the Territory's doctor, who is a family friend, to run dygoiss one him, thought he does mention he would rather he be the one fixing him up if he got attack by a shark. {{Justified}} [[Spoliers: Give what he has been through after he develop his Dark Gift.]]
* AfterTheEnd: The Book takes in where future where [[FloodedFutureWorld the ocean has risen due to Gobal Warming and the Eastcoast has somehow fallen into the sea]]. The people who live on land are [[Overpopulated Crisis crammed in tiny apartment in gigantic building and see space as a status symbol]], [[SettlingTheFrontier are trying to colonize the ocean floor]] and the [[GovernmentExploitedCrisis: Government keep using it as an expect to abuse it power.]]

** Gemma, [[{{Irony}} Since she is a topsider who came subsea]].

* PeopesRepublicOfTyrany: You would think that a government called the Commonwealth of States would be an example of TheFederation. While it does look like they may be an actual federation (you know like the United Sates, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland or Russia), but they are far from fitting [[PropagandaMachine the]] [[CorruptPolitician Trope’s]] [[GovernmentExploitedCrisis definition]].

* ResignToAntarctica: Both Rangers Grimes and Dr. Kunze were both assigned to the Benthic Territory because they both have black mark on their records, but the pioneers do not care to ask them about it since many of them came down there to [[StartingANewLife start anew]]. We never learn about Grime’s, but we do Doc/s [[spoiler: It turn out was the one who wrote the “hoax” article about Dark Gifts and was discreated by [[TheGovernment the ‘Wealth]] ]]
* RuinsOfTheModernAge: Ty spent a lot of time around Coldsleep Canyon looking for the remains of the cities of the old North American East Coast, which fell into the sea during the massive landslide that created said Canyon.

* SaveTheVillain: Ty with Shade--Twice!
* SeaMonster: Of the real-life varieties: Red Devil Squid, giant sharks...

* TrueCompanions: The Seablite Gang.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Gemma: Heights. And the ocean, for a while. Ty: Doctors and anything medical.

* {{EMP}}: Part of how the Seablite gang escaped--thanks to Eel's Gift.

* FakingTheDead: Shade[[Spoilers: /Richard.]]
* FantasticSlurs: The TitleDrop "Dark Life" is what the Topsiders called the pioneers.

** Gemma, [[{{Iorny}} Since she is a topsider who came subsea]].

* FutureSlang: There is "Glacial!", which is used in place of Cool or Awesome, "Let's make wake." which Means some like "let's move" and "Gem 'o Ocean" a phare used by the pioneers to describe something that is beautiful.

-->’’’Ty’’’’”Can’t switch horse midstream,” the Representatives said with every cancelled election. An appropriate metaphor, consider 20 percent of the continent was now underwater, Ty.

* ResignToAntarctica: Both Rangers Grimes and Dr. Kunze were both assigned to the Benthic Territory because they both have black mark on their records, but the pioneers do not care to ask them about it since many of them came down there to [[StartingANewLife start anew]]. We never learn about Grime’s, but we do Doc/s [[Spoilers: It turn out was the one who wrote the “hoax” article about Dark Gifts and was discreated by [[TheGovernment the ‘Wealth]] ]]

* VigilanteExecution: What the settlers try to do to Shade, [[Spoilers: before Ty stop them.]]

%%* AfraidOfNeedles: Ty.
%%* TheAlcatraz: Seablite Prison.

%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Zoe, especially given the nature of her Dark Gift.
%%* ArtificialGills: The liquid oxygen.
%%* BaldOfAuthority: Shade--sometimes.

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Seablite gang.
%%* DarkIsNotEvil: Dark Life, Dark Gifts.
%%* DarkSecret: A number of people have these.

%%* FakingTheDead: Shade/Richard.

%%* FishOutOfWater: Many.
%%** Gemma, with undertones of BlitheSpirit.
%%** Ty, in the stack cities.
%%** The Seablite Gang, pretty much everywhere.

%%* FutureSlang: "Glacial!" "Let's make wake."

%%* IGaveMyWord: Shade to Ty.
%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: Ty.
%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Gemma.

%%* KidHero: Ty and Gemma are both 15.

%%* LargeAndInCharge: Shade.

%%* NoSocialSkills: The Seablite Gang, according to Shade.

* OfficialCouple: Ty and Gemma, of course.

* OverpopulationCrisis: Though it is mostly due [[FloodedFutureWorld sea levels rising leaving less land to go around]] than a population boom, most the Topsiders live in one room apartments (some have two) crammed into buildings. To put things into persecutive Gemma, after learning there are only 22 kids living in the entire Benthic Territory remarks that she would consider it private if there are that many girls in the shower room with her.

* RuinsOfTheModernAge: On the seafloor after massive landslides.

%%* SaveTheVillain: Ty and Shade--Twice!

%%* ShutUpKiss: Ty and Gemma, once in each book.

%%* ThickerThanWater: Gemma and Richard.
%%* TrueCompanions: The Seablite Gang.

%%* UnderwaterRuins: The remains of the coastal cities of our time.

%%* VigilanteExecution: What the settlers try to do to Shade.

%%* LuminescentBlush: Quite literal, in Ty's case.

* PluckyGirl: Gemma.

* ShutUpKiss: Ty and Gemma, once in each book.
* SonicStunner: Ty, eventually.

* SunkenCity: Any city that is coastal in our time.

* FantasticSlurs: The TitleDrop "Dark Life" what the Topsiders called the pioneers.

%%* TheMovie: In production!

* SunkenCity: Any city that is coastal in our time.* SuperSenses: Ty's biosonar. Gemma's hearing.

%%* OfficialCouple: Ty and Gemma, of course.
%%* {{Outlaw}}: The Seablite gang.

%%* PlayingWithSyringes: Seablite prison.
%%* PluckyGirl: Gemma.

%%* ShockAndAwe: Zoe's ability.
%%* ShutUpKiss: Ty and Gemma, once in each book.
%%* SonicStunner: Ty, eventually.

%%* SubmarinePirates: The Seablite gang.
%%* SunkenCity: Any city that is coastal in our time.
%%* SuperSenses: Ty's biosonar. Gemma's hearing.

%%* TattooedCrook: Shade.

* FantasticSlurs: The TitleDrop "Dark Life" for the mutated people.

%%* DeterminedHomesteader: The pioneers.
%%* DeterminedHomesteadersChildren:

%%* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Shade--sometimes.

%%* BaldWomen: Mel the bartender.

* ClimateChange: The setting is based on much higher ocean levels, the remnants of coastal cities on the sea floor, and the lack of available land for anyone who wants to live on the surface.

* {{Jailbait}}: Twenty-three-year-old Jibby keeps hitting on fifteen-year-old Gemma.

* GlobalWarming: The setting is based on much higher ocean levels, the remnants of coastal cities on the sea floor, and the lack of available land for anyone who wants to live on the surface.

--> Ty: Are you going to throw up?
--> Gemma: No! [{{Beat}}] ...maybe.

** BishieSparkle: Gemma seems to think this of Ty.

%%** Gemma--with undertones of BlitheSpirit.

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Ty has his moments.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Zoe, especially given the nature of her Dark Gift.

* BioluminescenceIsCool: The settlers develop a bioluminescent shine from eating certain species of fish.
** Also, a number of real bioluminescent creatures make cameos: Jellyfish, green lanternsharks, lanternfish, a siphonophore, algae plumes...

** Or alligators.

* EyeTropes
** KaleidoscopeEyes: Part of Shade's Dark Gift.
** MonochromaticEyes: Shade can do this.

* FishOutOfWater: Many.
** Gemma--with undertones of BlitheSpirit.
** Ty, in the stack cities.
** The Seablite Gang, pretty much everywhere.

* IceKing: Pretty earns the description "human freezer-burn".

* KidHero: Ty and Gemma are both 15.
* KissOfLife: After Gemma drowns in book 1.

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Ty promises Gemma this.

* NoSocialSkills: The Seablite Gang, according to Shade.

* SunkenCity: Any city that is coastal in our time.
* SuperSenses: Ty's biosonar. Gemma's hearing.

* UnderwaterRuins: The remains of the coastal cities of our time.

* VigilanteExecution: What the settlers try to do to Shade.

%%* EvilAlbino: Shade--sometimes.

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