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Written by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Steinman76 Matthew Keville]], ''Hometown'' is a story of small-town horror that currently exists in (now complete!) [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/category/fiction/hometown-fiction/ serial form]] on the [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/ author's blog]].
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* [[spoiler: DragonInChief: Spook. Without him, the Heart Eater has no sentience of its own, being nothing but the spirit equivalent of an ant lion.]]
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Written by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Steinman76 Matthew Keville]], ''Hometown'' is a story of small-town horror that currently exists in (ongoing) (now complete!) [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/category/fiction/hometown-fiction/ serial form]] on the [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/ author's blog]].
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Written by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Steinman76 Matthew Keville]], Hometown ''Hometown'' is a story of small-town horror that currently exists in (ongoing) [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/category/fiction/hometown-fiction/ serial form]] on the [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/ author's blog]].
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** Angelina is constantly warned by her elder female relatives that any sexual activity ''at all'' will result in this.
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** Angelina is constantly warned by her elder female relatives that any sexual activity ''at all'' will result in this.this.
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* BadassPreacher: Father Sheehan. While many holy men have used their holy symbols to drive away evil spirits, fewer have used them to physically ''beat them to death''.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. While it turns out that Vicki doesn't need an abortion (but rather some help in overcoming her eating disorder), abortion was definitely considered as an option.
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* StockNessMonster: Shady. An odd and suspicious case, since all sightings report a creature ''far'' too large to survive and stay hidden in the bodies of water where the sightings took place.
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* StockNessMonster: Shady. An odd and suspicious case, since all sightings report a creature ''far'' too large to survive and stay hidden in the bodies of water where the sightings took place.place.
* TeenPregnancy: A recurring theme. In the opening scene, we see a couple having unprotected sex, leaving the girl to fret about the possibility of this before something attacks her out of the mist, rendering the question moot. When we first meet Val, she is discussing with Vicki her relief at avoiding this. In addition to an earlier scare that happened offscreen, Vicki has a brief scare that she may have a ChildByRape from Rodney, but it turns out that her ''real'' problem is that her eating disorder has stopped her from menstruating. Vicki and possibly Val themselves are a result of this. Overall, this is treated as the surest way for a young woman to be trapped in Belford forever.
** Angelina is constantly warned by her elder female relatives that any sexual activity ''at all'' will result in this.
* TeenPregnancy: A recurring theme. In the opening scene, we see a couple having unprotected sex, leaving the girl to fret about the possibility of this before something attacks her out of the mist, rendering the question moot. When we first meet Val, she is discussing with Vicki her relief at avoiding this. In addition to an earlier scare that happened offscreen, Vicki has a brief scare that she may have a ChildByRape from Rodney, but it turns out that her ''real'' problem is that her eating disorder has stopped her from menstruating. Vicki and possibly Val themselves are a result of this. Overall, this is treated as the surest way for a young woman to be trapped in Belford forever.
** Angelina is constantly warned by her elder female relatives that any sexual activity ''at all'' will result in this.
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* DateRape: Rodney does this to Vicki at least once via ButLiquorIsQuicker. Given the [[ValuesDissonance time, place and social class in which she lives]], she doesn't recognize it as such.
** Darren's stock-in-trade.
** Darren's stock-in-trade.
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* AbusiveParents: The first time we see Brenda Powers, she throws a glass at her daughter's face. Vicki ducks it with no difficulty, since it had happened so many times before, she knew it was coming.
** Both Natasha VanDyne's mother and Valerie Robard's grandmother count as emotionally abusive.
** Both Natasha VanDyne's mother and Valerie Robard's grandmother count as emotionally abusive.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Natasha and Darren get away with a lot of things that kids from poorer families would not.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Played with. Kara experiments a bit with Jason, but although it goes well, all it does is confirm that she really is gay.
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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Rafael de la Cruz is a tireless, hard-working, conscientious sheriff who cares deeply for his community. He is also a good father...and he considers it his duty, as a good father, to ensure that his daughter has no further contact with her lesbian best friend. Who knows what happened during all those sleepovers over the years?
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*** "Psycho Mike" is this for Team Jerk Jock.
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* BigFriendlyDog: Buddy. At first.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The easiest way to tell if someone has become a Changed One. Sometimes the symptoms are subtle, but when the local BigFriendlyDog turns murderous, you have a pretty good clue.
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* TheBigGuy: Angelina isn't extraordinarily large, but fills this role by [[ActionGirl sheer physical power and training]]. "Big Dave" Baumann is a more traditional version. Jason is tall, but doesn't have a lot of bulk.
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* TheBigGuy: Angelina isn't extraordinarily large, but fills this role by [[ActionGirl sheer physical power and training]]. At one point she pulls two (murderously angry) fighting girls apart, and they immediately stop trying to get at each other, because: "Both of them knew, even through their fury, that they couldn’t get through Angelina Cruz to each other. They might as well be on opposite sides of a solid wall. Perhaps they could hurt her, but then she would crush them both, and they still wouldn’t get a chance to get at each other."
** "Big Dave" Baumann is a more traditional version. Jason is tall, but doesn't have a lot ofbulk.bulk.
*** "Psycho Mike" is this for Team Jerk Jock.
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** Psycho Mike, to the point of being AxCrazy.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Psycho Mike" Higgmann. The Reaper. The Roadster. [[spoiler: The Heart Eater.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Psycho Mike" Higgmann. The Reaper. The Roadster. [[spoiler: The Heart Eater.]]
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* PsychoForHire: Except for Alma Lorn, the ghosts seem to serve this purpose for [[spoiler: The Heart Eater]].
** "Psycho Mike" Higgmann fills this role for Darren.
** "Psycho Mike" Higgmann fills this role for Darren.
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* GoodBadGirl: Vicki. The other sexually-active members of the cast don't quite have the self-confidence to pull it off.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Reaper. The Roadster. [[spoiler: The Heart Eater.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Angelina Santos-De La Cruz is kind, friendly, generous, non-judgmental, well-behaved and religious. And she will ''break your arm'' if you threaten her friends.
* GoodBadGirl: Vicki. The other sexually-active members of the cast don't quite have the self-confidence to pull it off.
* GoodShepherd: Father Sheehan. He's seen far too much sorrow in all his years on the job, but he's there for his parishioners in their time of grief.
* GoodBadGirl: Vicki. The other sexually-active members of the cast don't quite have the self-confidence to pull it off.
* GoodShepherd: Father Sheehan. He's seen far too much sorrow in all his years on the job, but he's there for his parishioners in their time of grief.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Luther Harfield's weapon of choice.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Alma Lorn, Luther Harfield, and The Roadster. Maybe the Reaper, too, but there's some question as to whether he was ever alive. All are very solid when they manifest, and seem to be under the control of a greater force. [[spoiler: Dissolve into mist if dispelled or destroyed.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Alma Lorn, Luther Harfield, and The Roadster. Maybe the Reaper, too, but there's some question as to whether he was ever alive. All are very solid when they manifest, and seem to be under the control of a greater force. [[spoiler: Dissolve into mist if dispelled or destroyed.]]]]
* StockNessMonster: Shady. An odd and suspicious case, since all sightings report a creature ''far'' too large to survive and stay hidden in the bodies of water where the sightings took place.
* StockNessMonster: Shady. An odd and suspicious case, since all sightings report a creature ''far'' too large to survive and stay hidden in the bodies of water where the sightings took place.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Alma Lorn, Luther Harfield, and The Roadster. Maybe the Reaper, too, but there's some question as to whether he was ever alive. All are very solid when they manifest, and seem to be under the control of a greater force. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Dissolve into mist if dispelled or destroyed.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Alma Lorn, Luther Harfield, and The Roadster. Maybe the Reaper, too, but there's some question as to whether he was ever alive. All are very solid when they manifest, and seem to be under the control of a greater force. [[Spoiler [[Spoiler: Dissolve into mist if dispelled or destroyed.]]
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* JerkJock: Darren Edwards
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* JerkJock: Darren EdwardsEdwards
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It's the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York.
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It's the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season. It happens every Fall.
Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren't found at all. Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories.
There's something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry. Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start...changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.
Written by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Steinman76 MatthewKeville, Keville]], Hometown Currently is a story of small-town horror that currently exists in (ongoing) [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/category/fiction/hometown-fiction/ serial form]] on the [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/ author's blog]].
Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren't found at all. Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories.
There's something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry. Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start...changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.
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It's the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York.
Written by Matthew Keville, Hometown Currently exists in (ongoing) [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/category/fiction/hometown-fiction/ serial form]] on the [[http://horizondream.wordpress.com/ author's blog]].
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* AlphaBitch: Natasha VanDyne
* JerkJock: Darren Edwards
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Hometown contains examples of:
* AlphaBitch: Natasha VanDyne
* JerkJock: Darren Edwards
