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* FaceOfTheBand: In-universe. Neon Shadow has other members, but Nico and Ty are the ones the girls focus on.
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Romantic Two Girl Friendship has been renamed to Pseudo Romantic Friendship. All misuse and ZC Es will be deleted and all other examples will be changed to the correct trope.


* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Harper and Rawnie become very close over the course of the book, to the point where they're teased about possibly being gay.
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* TheFerryman: In the afterword a Charon-like ferryman appears as the school principal, demanding gold or something worth its weight in gold.

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* TheFerryman: In the afterword afterworld, a Charon-like ferryman appears as the school principal, demanding gold or something worth its weight in gold.
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''The Friendship Song'' is a YoungAdult novel by Nancy Springer.

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''The Friendship Song'' is a YoungAdult novel by Nancy Springer.
Springer published in 1992.

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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: The main plot of the book involves Harper and Rawnie going to the underowlrd to rescue their favorite rock singer after he falls into a coma during a concert.

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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: The main plot of the book involves Harper and Rawnie going to the underowlrd underworld to rescue their favorite rock singer after he falls into a coma during a concert.


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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Harper and Rawnie become very close over the course of the book, to the point where they're teased about possibly being gay.
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* GenderBlenderName: Gus' name is male but she's female, though [[spoiler:this doens't exactly apply in the afterlife]].

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* GenderBlenderName: Gus' name is male but she's female, though [[spoiler:this doens't doesn't exactly apply in the afterlife]].

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One day Harper and Rawnie learn Neon Shadow is coming to town. Despite a fight spurred on by mean people at school, the girls procure tickets. But when Nico collapses onstage and hovers between life and death, Harper and Rawnie must brave what they find in the backyard to save him...

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One day Harper and Rawnie learn Neon Shadow is coming to town. Despite a fight spurred on by mean people at school, the girls procure tickets. tickets to the concert. But when Nico collapses onstage and hovers between life and death, Harper and Rawnie must brave what they find in the backyard afterworld to save him...



* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Harper realizes that the hot dog vendor probably won't be Aly if she looks at her again.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: In the afterworld, Harper realizes that the hot dog vendor probably won't be Aly if she looks at her again.again, but took the form as something she was familiar with.



* ConvenientComa: Nico enters one, and becomes neither alive nor dead.
* CoolOldLady: Gus.

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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Ty leaves Nico behind to continue the tour, leaving Harper, Rawnie, and Nico himself devastated and wondering if it was all a lie]].
* ConvenientComa: Nico enters one, one after the concert, and becomes neither alive nor dead.
* CoolOldLady: Gus.Gus won Harper's dad over with her love of rock music and weird art sculptures.



* TheFerryman: He appears as the school principal, demanding gold or something worth gold.

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* TheFerryman: He In the afterword a Charon-like ferryman appears as the school principal, demanding gold or something worth its weight in gold.



* GenderBlenderName: Gus.
* MeaningfulName: Harper; Orpheus carried a harp.
* OrpheanRescue

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* GenderBlenderName: Gus.Gus' name is male but she's female, though [[spoiler:this doens't exactly apply in the afterlife]].
* HurtComfortFic: Harper and Rawnie are fond of these sorts of scenarios in-universe, with Ty usually saving Nico from some kind of trouble, or both of them dying together but being comforted with their unbreakable friendship.
* MeaningfulName: Harper; Orpheus carried Harper is named after Orpheus' instrument of choice, a harp.
* OrpheanRescue
harp.



* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Gus is ''ancient''.

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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: The main plot of the book involves Harper and Rawnie going to the underowlrd to rescue their favorite rock singer after he falls into a coma during a concert.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Gus is ''ancient''.''ancient'' despite looking middle-aged at most.



* ThresholdGuardians: The boatman and the hot dog vendor.
* TheUnderworld

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* ThresholdGuardians: The boatman and the hot dog vendor.
vendor guard various stations of the underworld, as do piranha-like goldfish.
* TheUnderworld
TheUnderworld: Gus' backyard turns out to be a form of the afterlife, which Harper and Rawnie enter to save Nico.
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* TheUnderworld

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* TheUnderworldTheUnderworld

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Harper and Rawnie learn Neon Shadow is coming to town. Despite a fight spurred on by mean people at school, the girls procure tickets. But when Nico collapses onstage, Harper and Rawnie must brave what they find in the backyard to save him...

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One day Harper and Rawnie learn Neon Shadow is coming to town. Despite a fight spurred on by mean people at school, the girls procure tickets. But when Nico collapses onstage, onstage and hovers between life and death, Harper and Rawnie must brave what they find in the backyard to save him...


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* CoolOldLady: Gus.
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* SadlyMythtaken: Lampshaded, as [[spoiler: Aengus]] admits that he's not the lord of ''all'' the dead, just creative people like artists, poets, and musicians.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Gus is short for [[spoiler: Aengus, the lord of the dead]].

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* SadlyMythtaken: Lampshaded, as [[spoiler: Aengus]] admits that he's not the lord of ''all'' the dead, just creative people like artists, poets, and musicians. \n The character in actual mythology is a god of love, youth and poetic inspiration.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Gus Gus Mccog is short for [[spoiler: Aengus, Aengus Mac Og, the lord of the dead]].

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* AlphaBitch: Alabaster. Making it worse is that she's a skinhead.



* AlphaBitch: Alabaster. Making it worse is that she's a skinhead.


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* SadlyMythtaken: Lampshaded, as [[spoiler: Aengus]] admits that he's not the lord of ''all'' the dead, just creative people like artists, poets, and musicians.
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* TheLibby: Alabaster. Making it worse is that she's a skinhead.

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* TheLibby: AlphaBitch: Alabaster. Making it worse is that she's a skinhead.
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* ThresholdGuardians: The boatman and the hot dog vendor.

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* ThresholdGuardians: The boatman and the hot dog vendor.vendor.
* TheUnderworld
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Death comes for Nico in the form of a giant winged snake.
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* ConvenientComa: Nico enters one, and becomes neither alive nor dead.
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* FaceOfTheBand: In-universe. Neon Shadow has other members, but Nico and Ty are the ones the girls focus on.


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* ForeignQueasine: The hot dogs offered in the underworld [[spoiler: are worms]]. This makes Rawnie feel ill as she'd come ''very'' close to eating one.

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But when Nico collapses onstage, Harper and Rawnie must brave what they find in the backyard to save him...

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Harper and Rawnie learn Neon Shadow is coming to town. Despite a fight spurred on by mean people at school, the girls procure tickets. But when Nico collapses onstage, Harper and Rawnie must brave what they find in the backyard to save him...


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* ThePowerOfFriendship: The titular song exemplifies this, and Harper and Rawnie believe in it not only for them, but also Nico and Ty. [[spoiler: Except Ty doesn't reciprocate]].
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* TheFerryman: He appears as the school principal, demanding gold or something worth gold.
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* AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler: Gus is both herself and Aengus, a male]].


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* GenderBlenderName: Gus.
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* TheLibby: Alabaster. Making it worse is that she's a skinhead.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Gus is ''ancient''.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Harper realizes that the hot dog vendor probably won't be Aly if she looks at her again.
* AndYouWereThere: Harper and Rawnie meet people from school in the underworld, or at least it's how it ''looks'' to them.



* OrpheanRescue

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* OrpheanRescueOrpheanRescue
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Gus is short for [[spoiler: Aengus, the lord of the dead]].
* ThresholdGuardians: The boatman and the hot dog vendor.
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* MeaningfulName: Harper; Orpheus carried a harp.
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Harper is not having a good day. Her dad's married a woman named Gus, they're moving in with her, and now she must adjust to a new school and a new mother. There's something strange about Gus and her house, too. The backyard is littered with junk, people have been known to get lost in it, and Harper can hear faint music playing at night. Thankfully, it's not as bad as it seems, as she also meets a new friend, Rawnie. Together with their love of rock band Neon Shadow--and especially lead singers Nico and Ty--the two friends vow to stick together.

But when Nico collapses onstage, Harper and Rawnie must brave what they find in the backyard to save him...

!!This book contains examples of:

*OrpheanRescue

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