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* SuperOCD: Martin
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* MeaningfulName: Little Kitten of Death
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* MeaningfulName: Little Kitten of DeathDeath, Julia and Valentina
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* ThemeTwinNaming: Played straight with Elspeth and Edwina, averted with Julia and Valentina.
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* ThemeTwinNaming: Played straight with Elspeth and Edwina, averted played with for Julia and Valentina.Valentina. (St. Valentine legend.)
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* GenerationXerox: Apparently Elspeth and Edie's relationship was much like Julia and Valentina's, including how close they were and how they react to outsiders, though [[spoilers:Elspeth]] notes that they dressed differently when they were together.
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* GenerationXerox: Apparently Elspeth and Edie's relationship was much like Julia and Valentina's, including how close they were and how they react to outsiders, though [[spoilers:Elspeth]] [[spoiler:Elspeth]] notes that they dressed differently when they were together.
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* EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler:Elsepth and Edie's switch, which they thought Jack didn't know about.]]
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* EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler:Elsepth [[spoiler:Elspeth and Edie's switch, which they thought Jack didn't know about.]]
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* ShoutOut: Doctor Who, The Girl In the Fireplace, after the River Song arc of Doctor Who, as well as the Episode mentioned, were inspired by TheTimeTravelersWife, Audrey Niffenegger's other novel.
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* ShoutOut: Doctor Who, The Girl In the Fireplace, after the River Song arc of Doctor Who, as well as the Episode mentioned, were inspired by TheTimeTravelersWife, Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife, Audrey Niffenegger's other novel.
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[[caption-width-right:330:From the same woman who wrote TheTimeTravelersWife]]
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[[caption-width-right:330:From the same woman who wrote TheTimeTravelersWife]]
Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife]]
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Just having one instance and one non-instance isn\'t quite a subversion.
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* ThemeTwinNaming: Played Straight with Elspeth and Edwina, subverted with Julia and Valentina
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* ThemeTwinNaming: Played Straight straight with Elspeth and Edwina, subverted averted with Julia and ValentinaValentina.
* TheUnsmile
--> “I’m fine,” Robert said. He smiled. The effect was grotesque.
* TheUnsmile
--> “I’m fine,” Robert said. He smiled. The effect was grotesque.
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* TheNotSecret: [[spoiler:Elsepth and Edie's switch, which they thought Jack didn't know about.]]
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* TheNotSecret: EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler:Elsepth and Edie's switch, which they thought Jack didn't know about.]]
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* MayDecemberRomance - Robert and Elspeth and later [[spoiler:Valentina and Robert, Julia tries to invoke this with Martin but it gets rejected pretty quickly
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* MayDecemberRomance - Robert and Elspeth and later [[spoiler:Valentina and Robert, Julia tries to invoke this with Martin but it gets rejected pretty quicklyquickly]]
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->''"I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised."''
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[[caption-width-right:330:From the same woman who wrote TheTimeTravelersWife]]
When their estranged aunt Elspeth dies, a pair of too-close, twin girls named Valentina and Julia are left her apartment in London under the condition that they live in the flat at least one year before they sell it and that they never let their parents enter it. Their aunt is an enigma, and all they know of her is that she was their mother's twin and there was some sort of falling out. The story centers on the twins year in the flat, as they get to know Elspeth's former lover Robert who lives in the flat below them as well as Martin, a man with severe OCD who lives in the flat above them, as well as their discovery of the aunt they were never allowed to know.
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!! Her Fearful Symmetry provides examples of:
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Both pairs, though Valentina and Julia different on the inside since Valentina's organs are mirrored and her heart is not strong.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Edie [[spoiler:and Julia]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Little Kitten of Death and Elspeth by way of "hooking" the soul back in the body]]
* CuteGhostGirl: Elspeth [[spoiler:then Valentina]]
* CuteKitten: Little Kitten Of Death
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Elspeth (as she is referenced on this page and through most of the book) was actually born Edie and is the girls real mother. The woman who raised the girls was originally Elspeth and she was the one who actually loved their father, but as a test they switched places and the original Edie got pregnant)]]
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: Julia and Valentina, and it is also implied that [[spoiler: Elspeth and Edie use to be this close]]
* GenerationXerox: Apparently Elspeth and Edie's relationship was much like Julia and Valentina's, including how close they were and how they react to outsiders, though [[spoilers:Elspeth]] notes that they dressed differently when they were together.
* GhostlyChill: Whenever [[spoiler: Elspeth and later Valentina]] occupy the same space as one of the living people the person reports feeling this.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Halfway through the book, Valentina starts wearing the clothes that she made just for her. Julia tries to avoid doing this.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Subverted, [[spoiler:Elspeth and Valentina]] can both change their clothes
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: From a poem by William Blake "Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
* MayDecemberRomance - Robert and Elspeth and later [[spoiler:Valentina and Robert, Julia tries to invoke this with Martin but it gets rejected pretty quickly
* MeaningfulName: Little Kitten of Death
* NoMedicationForMe: Martin
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Originally how the girls attempt to [[spoiler:communicate with Elspeth]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Elspeth and [[spoiler:later Valentina]]. Different in that they have to work to get stronger so they can maintain a corporeal form, they start off as clouds that just like sunlight. They are stuck in one place, the apartment in this case and they have the ability to interact with objects. The stronger they get the more they can force people to see them, and [[spoiler:they can be hooked back into bodies as well as unhooking other people's souls, effectively killing them.]]
* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler: Elspeth, who is really Edie, the girl's mother, ends up helping Valentina hatch a plan to fake being dead so that julia would let her live her own life, and then when Robert is supposed to help Valentina get back into her body, Elspeth steals the body instead, leaving Valentina a ghost]]
* [[spoiler:{{Reincarnation}}: Elspeth steals Valentina's body in the end]]
* ShoutOut: Doctor Who, The Girl In the Fireplace, after the River Song arc of Doctor Who, as well as the Episode mentioned, were inspired by TheTimeTravelersWife, Audrey Niffenegger's other novel.
* SuperOCD: Martin
* TheNotSecret: [[spoiler:Elsepth and Edie's switch, which they thought Jack didn't know about.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: Played Straight with Elspeth and Edwina, subverted with Julia and Valentina
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler: Permanently for Edie and Elspeth]]
* YouCanSeeMe?: Elspeth when she realizes Valentina can see her
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[[caption-width-right:330:From the same woman who wrote TheTimeTravelersWife]]
When their estranged aunt Elspeth dies, a pair of too-close, twin girls named Valentina and Julia are left her apartment in London under the condition that they live in the flat at least one year before they sell it and that they never let their parents enter it. Their aunt is an enigma, and all they know of her is that she was their mother's twin and there was some sort of falling out. The story centers on the twins year in the flat, as they get to know Elspeth's former lover Robert who lives in the flat below them as well as Martin, a man with severe OCD who lives in the flat above them, as well as their discovery of the aunt they were never allowed to know.
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!! Her Fearful Symmetry provides examples of:
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Both pairs, though Valentina and Julia different on the inside since Valentina's organs are mirrored and her heart is not strong.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Edie [[spoiler:and Julia]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Little Kitten of Death and Elspeth by way of "hooking" the soul back in the body]]
* CuteGhostGirl: Elspeth [[spoiler:then Valentina]]
* CuteKitten: Little Kitten Of Death
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Elspeth (as she is referenced on this page and through most of the book) was actually born Edie and is the girls real mother. The woman who raised the girls was originally Elspeth and she was the one who actually loved their father, but as a test they switched places and the original Edie got pregnant)]]
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: Julia and Valentina, and it is also implied that [[spoiler: Elspeth and Edie use to be this close]]
* GenerationXerox: Apparently Elspeth and Edie's relationship was much like Julia and Valentina's, including how close they were and how they react to outsiders, though [[spoilers:Elspeth]] notes that they dressed differently when they were together.
* GhostlyChill: Whenever [[spoiler: Elspeth and later Valentina]] occupy the same space as one of the living people the person reports feeling this.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Halfway through the book, Valentina starts wearing the clothes that she made just for her. Julia tries to avoid doing this.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Subverted, [[spoiler:Elspeth and Valentina]] can both change their clothes
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: From a poem by William Blake "Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
* MayDecemberRomance - Robert and Elspeth and later [[spoiler:Valentina and Robert, Julia tries to invoke this with Martin but it gets rejected pretty quickly
* MeaningfulName: Little Kitten of Death
* NoMedicationForMe: Martin
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Originally how the girls attempt to [[spoiler:communicate with Elspeth]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Elspeth and [[spoiler:later Valentina]]. Different in that they have to work to get stronger so they can maintain a corporeal form, they start off as clouds that just like sunlight. They are stuck in one place, the apartment in this case and they have the ability to interact with objects. The stronger they get the more they can force people to see them, and [[spoiler:they can be hooked back into bodies as well as unhooking other people's souls, effectively killing them.]]
* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler: Elspeth, who is really Edie, the girl's mother, ends up helping Valentina hatch a plan to fake being dead so that julia would let her live her own life, and then when Robert is supposed to help Valentina get back into her body, Elspeth steals the body instead, leaving Valentina a ghost]]
* [[spoiler:{{Reincarnation}}: Elspeth steals Valentina's body in the end]]
* ShoutOut: Doctor Who, The Girl In the Fireplace, after the River Song arc of Doctor Who, as well as the Episode mentioned, were inspired by TheTimeTravelersWife, Audrey Niffenegger's other novel.
* SuperOCD: Martin
* TheNotSecret: [[spoiler:Elsepth and Edie's switch, which they thought Jack didn't know about.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: Played Straight with Elspeth and Edwina, subverted with Julia and Valentina
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler: Permanently for Edie and Elspeth]]
* YouCanSeeMe?: Elspeth when she realizes Valentina can see her
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