History Literature / FindingSnowflakes

* {{Fangirl}}: Marley, especially present when she witnesses [[IncestIsRelative Paris's]] [[YaoiFangirl and Eliott's]] interactions.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Implied to take place between Carrie and Violet.

*** (Despite this, both of them are fairly lonely and have a twisted outlook of life. May double as NotSoDifferent in some aspects.)

* BrokenBird: Carrie.

* BrutalHonesty: Unintentionally, Eliott.

* ChildhoodFriends: Violet and Carrie.

* CrashIntoHello: Kind of. More like snowball-into-face-hello.

* TheCynic: Carrie. Eliott has his moments, too.

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Eliott. ''Big time''.
* StepfordSmiler: Carrie is the Depressed type.

* TheCasanova: Paris.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Eliott.
* UsedToBeMoreSocial: Implied to have happened to Eliott.

* YouAreNotAlone

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of many high-school romance clichés, particularly in YA. For example, the two main leads don't suddenly turn love into their priority; they had lives before, and these do not disappear once the romance kicks in. There's a notable lack of contrived coincidences (aside from, conversely, the story's beginning itself). RealityEnsues.

** [[RealityEnsues This isn't always for the better.]]

* FatGirl: Carrie, of the insecure variety.

* {{Adorkable}}: Marley, who keeps making outdated pop culture references whilst thinking she's "in", likes yelling, [[Anime/DragonBallZ "Kamehameha!"]] during volleyball and ships herself with every guy that talks to her just to see how dating someone feels like.
** Eliott, who thinks of fictional characters as "almost-friends" and is prone to admiring everyone for things as insignificant as licking their elbows, isn't any better.

* StepfordSmiler: Carrie is a Type A.

* ManChild: Carrie's mother borders on {{Cuckoolander}} sometimes.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Paris treats his brother like trash and hangs out with a group of people that made fun of [[Cloudcuckoolander Marley]], and while he participates in trying to kick her off the cafeteria table she was "hogging for herself" (even though she was just EatingLunchAlone as usual), he ends up defending her after one of his friends crosses the line. Even when they go away, due to him realizing she's just there because she has no other friends, he ends up sitting with her for the lunch break's duration.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Paris treats his brother like trash and hangs out with a group of people that made fun of {{Cuckoolander Marley}}, and while he participates in trying to kick her off the cafeteria table she was "hogging for herself" (even though she was just EatingLunchAlone as usual), he ends up defending her after one of his friends crosses the line. Even when they go away, due to him realizing she's just there because she has no other friends, he ends up sitting with her for the lunch break's duration.

* {{BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine}}: Eliott and Carrie often share this routine, with the former as the tsukkomi and the latter as the boke. They occasionally flip roles, however.

* BrilliantButLazy: Eliott has quite a vast range of knowledge, most notably [[GrammarNazi grammar]], math and music. His grades are still atrocious, quite possibly because he doesn't even ''bother'' bringing homework and usually naps or reads during class.

* CelibateHero: [[spoiler: Notably averted with Eliott, who apparently dated--and slept with--a girl prior to Carrie.]]

* ClassicalAntiHero: Often plagued by self-doubt and a really low self-esteem, Eliott.

** Carrie deconstructs the ManicPixieDreamGirl in that she may cheer the main character up, but she's rather sad herself. In fact, Eliott ends up helping her up as much as--if not more--she helps him.
** Eliott himself is more than the typical MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold. The world did not randomly decide to turn against him one day. His loneliness has only worse over time due to his own social ineptitude and aversion to crowds. At one point, he calls it a, "Self-imposed isolation."

* EatingLunchAlone: Eliott, though he'll insist fictional characters ''technically'' count as companions.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During Eliott and Carrie's first meeting, the former stayed silent--if not outright hostile--while the latter seemed to pay this no mind... at least at first. When she apologizes and vows to shut up, Eliott suddenly bursts into a rant about [[NoSocialSKills he kept trying to talk to her, but didn't know how to do it.]]

* FalseFriend: It is implied that Carrie's ''whole'' group of "friends" is actually this towards each other.

* GenkiGirl: Carrie, big time. This is subverted, however, as it is implied many--if not most--of her antics are due to her StepfordSmiler tendencies.

* GentleGiant: Eliott stands at 6'7 and is generally pacific... [[BewareTheNiceOnes unless you somehow manage to get to his bad side.]]
* GrowingUpSucks: Throughout the story, Carrie's main motivation--according to her--is to 'find the cure for adulthood'.

* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Eliott.

* OddFriendship: Marley and Carrie.

* SadClown: Carrie, implied to be this.

* ShrinkingViolet: More socially-awkward than anything else, Eliott. Marley, too, to an extent.

* SirSwearsALot: Eliott, to the point of driving Carrie uncomfortable during his worst instances of this. After a while, he managed to tone it down. At least around her.
* SlasherSmile: Whenever forced to smile, Eliott does this.

* TakeThatMe: Usually, during Eliott's narration, he'll end up fantasizing about completely unrealistic situations (often involving him getting out of his "Self-imposed isolation" in some contrived, stupid way) only to quickly lampshade it by thinking something along the lines of, "That only happens in badly-written romances, anyway..."

* WhenHeSmiles: To Carrie, getting Eliott to smile is the equivalent of a musician acing a partiture after months of practice--as hard and rewarding.

* FriendToAllChildren: Carrie's quite fond of them and viceversa. [[FaceOfAThug It's not hard to see why.]] Averted with Eliott, who claims to despise them.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The snowy, 'dead' path Eliott and Carrie walk through every day, the changing seasons, and a few chapter titles all symbolize character growth in one way or another.

* {{Adorkable}}: Marley, who keeps making outdated pop culture references whilst thinking she's "in", likes yelling, [[DragonBallZ "Kamehameha!"]] during volleyball and ships herself with every guy that talks to her just to see how dating someone feels like.

* Deconstruction: Of many high-school romance clichés, particularly in YA. For example, the two main leads don't suddenly turn love into their priority; they had lives before, and these do not disappear once the romance kicks in. There's a notable lack of contrived coincidences (aside from, conversely, the story's beginning itself). RealityEnsues.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: It's not as much as Carrie being "short" (she's 5'6), but Eliott being a giant (6'5).

* OneHeadTaller: Carrie and Eliott.

* SixStudentClique:
** The Muscle -- Eliott
** The Quirk -- Marley
** The Pretty One -- Violet
** The Smart One -- Charlie
** The Wild One -- Carrie

* GentleGiant: Eliott stands at 6'5 and is generally pacific... [[BewareTheNiceOnes unless you somehow manage to get to his bad side.]]

* MotorMouth: Carrie, during her {{LargeHam hammier}} moments.

* {{Adorkable}}: Marley, who keeps making outdated pop culture references whilst thinking she's "in", likes yelling, [[DragonBallZ "Kamehameha!"]] during volleyball and ships herself with every guy that talks to her just to see how dating someone feels like. Eliott, who thinks of fictional characters as "almost-friends" and is prone to admiring everyone for petty things like licking their elbows, isn't any better.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Somehow, Charlie manages to be a compulsive Netflix user, sleep half the class periods and associate absolutely everything with ducks whilst also being part of the student council and getting the highest grades in his class.

** Carrie deconstructs the ManicPixicDreamGirl in that she may cheer the main character up, but she's rather sad herself. In fact, Eliott ends up helping her up as much as--if not more--she helps him.

* (Despite this, both of them are fairly lonely and have a twisted outlook of life. May double as NotSoDifferent in some aspects.)

* BookDumb: Carrie. As an example, she thought China's capital was Hong Kong.

* BrilliantButLazy: Eliott.

* {{Fangirl}}: Because of her tendency to over-exaggerate situations, Marley is especially prone to this.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The snowy, 'dead' path Eliott and Carrie walk through every day, the changing seasons, and a few chapter titles all symbolize character growth in one way or another. This isn't always for the better.

* YouAreNotAlone

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Somehow, Charlie manages to be a compulsive Netflix user, sleep half the class periods and associate absolutely everything with ducls whilst also being part of the student council and getting the highest grades in his class.

* DeadpanSnarker: Due to his InnocentlyInsensitive nature, Eliott is prone to snarking. This becomes much more present in his inner monologues.

* CharacterTics: When nervous, Eliott drums his fingers onto whatever he can find.

* ClassicalAntiHero: Often plagued by self-doubt and a really low self-esteem, Eliott could qualify as one.

* BokeAndTsukkomi: Eliott and Carrie often share this routine, with the former as the tsukkomi and the latter as the boke. They occasionally flip roles, however.

{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Marley. She walked around half the school give give someone a pencil despite being perfectly able to give it to him later (he sits next to her). Most of her conversations get progressively weirder as they go on, too. In one instance, the original topic was Carrie, but then she moved on to contemplating whether or not she would date herself and if doing so would make her bi. And then she said God was a potato.

* GenkiGirl: Carrie, big time. This is subverted, however, as it is implied many--if not most--of her antics are due to her StepfordSmiler tendencies.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Carrie and Charlie. They even share the same first and last letters in their name!

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Although she occasionally shows a very intuitive mind, Marley often falls into this.

* CloudCuckooLander: Marley. She walked around half the school give give someone a pencil despite being perfectly able to give it to him later (he sits next to her). Most of her conversations get progressively weirder as they go on, too. In one instance, the original topic was Carrie, but then she moved on to contemplating whether or not she would date herself and if doing so would make her bi. And then she said God was a potato.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted with Carrie. While she may have come across as that carefree girl trying to break the male lead from his shell, it is shown eventually that she, too, needs to come out of a shell.
* NoSocialSkills: When talking, more often than not, Eliott either limits himself to one-liners or breaks into long, confusing rambles until he runs out of breath. He also tends to lack tact. To put it lightly.

* FalseFriends: It is implied that Carrie's ''whole'' group of "friends" is actually this towards each other.

* BunnyEarsLaywer: Somehow, Charlie manages to be a compulsive Netflix user, sleep half the class periods and associate absolutely everything with ducls whilst also being part of the student council and getting the highest grades in his class.