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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: The bonding between Siss and Unn seems to be the start of one, but then Siss bolts. They never meet again.

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* BigBadassBirdOfPrey: A great bird is circling over the IcePalace. Siss is painfully aware of it. It comes dangerously close moments before the sees dead!Unn entrapped in the ice.


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* FeatheredFiend: A great bird is circling over the IcePalace. Siss is painfully aware of it. It comes dangerously close moments before the sees dead!Unn entrapped in the ice.
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* ReleasingFromThePromise: Unn`s aunt does this for Siss at the end of the book, because, as she states, Siss shall not promise to the point that it destroys her.

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* DawsonCasting: The movie adaptation. Line Storesund (Siss) was turning 13, and Hilde Martinsen (Unn) had turned 14 at the time of filming, while the girls in the book were said to be 11 years old. The {{age lift}} resulted in some sexual implications not clearly stated in the book.
* DeadLittleSister. Unn becomes this for Siss.

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* DawsonCasting: The movie adaptation. Line Storesund (Siss) was turning 13, and Hilde Martinsen (Unn) had turned 14 at the time of filming, while the girls in the book were said to be 11 years old. The {{age lift}} resulted in some sexual implications not clearly stated in the book. \n* DeadLittleSister. Unn becomes this for Siss.
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* RejectionAffection: When Siss tries to make Unn come play, or at least hang with the other girls, she is flatly rejected. And that rejection turns into a "friendship crush" for Siss. Nobody ever let her down before.


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* ShrinkingViolet: Unn at school is perceived that way. It turns out she is a ''buttload'' more self confident that she lets on.
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* GoodParents: The parents of Siss come out as this. They may not be well informed on the problems Siss is facing, but they are there for her all the way.
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* CoolOldLady: Unn`s aunt. She turns out to be the only one to call Siss out on her mistaken promise, and helps her move on. Apparently, she has had the same problem herself.

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* CoolOldLady: Unn`s aunt. She turns out to be the only one to call Siss out on her mistaken promise, and helps her move on. Apparently, she has had the same problem herself. Also, when the authorities started to press Siss for questions, she intervened to protect her. She (and the local doctor) made sure Siss was left alone.
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* EmptyChairMemorial: Unn`s empty place in the classroom. When a new girl enters class, the teacher tells her to sit on Unn`s empty chair, but Siss intervenes, forcing the girl to sit another place. The teacher does not press the matter because of Siss and her issues.
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* TakeItToTheBridge: Inverted because the bridges are packed with snow, and therefore impassable.
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* DontGoInTheWoods: A feeling that something sinister is lurking there, urges Siss to speed up, first on her way to Unn, and even more so on her way home again. Her path goes through a forest, of course.
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* BigBadassBirdOfPrey: A great bird is circling over the IcePalace. Siss is painfully aware of it. It comes dangerously close moments before the sees dead!Unn entrapped in the ice.

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* BirdsOfAFeather: When the two girls sit together in Unn`s room, they look in a mirror together, and discuss whether or not they are. Through the book, Siss gets more and more like Unn in behaviour.

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* ArtShift: Sometimes, the author goes from prose to poetry and back again during the course of the story.
* AtTheCrossroads: Most prominently commented upon in the passage of the bridges, so filled with snow they are becoming unpassable. This passage is written as {{poetry}}, not as prose.
* BirdsOfAFeather: When the two girls sit together in Unn`s room, they look in a mirror together, and discuss whether or not they are. Through the book, Siss gets more and more like Unn in behaviour.
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* HeelRealization: Siss walks alone to the frozen waterfalls, and comes to see an image of the frozen Unn in the ice. This helps her accept that Unn is gone for good.
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* HumanPopsicle: Not played for laughs. This is what eventually became of Unn, and the image Siss saw in the ice implies the same thing.
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* CueTheSun: Most prominently invoked when Unn is sitting alone in the centre of the IcePalace, slowly freezing into the ice. The sun shines through the ice from above, giving light, but no warmth. This "eye" watching her is the last Unn sees.
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* EyesNeverLie: Siss feels the eyes of Unn fixed upon her from two rows in front of her. Her other friends tell her that she also looks intently in the direction of Unn. And they call her out on it pretty soon.

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* EyesNeverLie: Siss feels the eyes of Unn fixed upon her from two rows in front of her.behind. Her other friends tell her that she also looks intently in the direction of Unn. And they call her out on it pretty soon.
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* YouAreNotAlone: See TakeMyHand. Also commented on by Unn`s aunt, who releases Siss from a pointless promise.

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* YouAreNotAlone: See TakeMyHand. Also commented on by Unn`s aunt, who releases Siss from a pointless promise.promise.
** Siss is an inversion of Unn, who went alone to the IcePalace and got lost. Siss had her friends with her.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: On a [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolical level]], Unn`s journey to the center of the IcePalace.
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* HeroicBSOD: Played straight and implied for ''every single member'' of the search team when they have to admit defeat in front of the inpenetrable IcePalace.
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* DawsonCasting: The movie adaptation. The girls who played Siss and Unn were about 14 at the time of filming, while the girls in the book were said to be 11 years old. The {{age lift}} resulted in some sexual implications not clearly stated in the book.

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* DawsonCasting: The movie adaptation. The girls who played Siss Line Storesund (Siss) was turning 13, and Unn were about Hilde Martinsen (Unn) had turned 14 at the time of filming, while the girls in the book were said to be 11 years old. The {{age lift}} resulted in some sexual implications not clearly stated in the book.
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* DawsonCasting: The movie adaptation. The girls who played Siss and Unn were about 14 at the time of filming, while the girls in the book were said to be 11 years old. The {{age lift}} resulted in some sexual implications not clearly stated in the book.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: And ''how''. Could be the subtitle of the novel.
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* EyesNeverLie: Siss feels the eyes of Unn fixed upon her from two rows in front of her. Her other friends tell her that she also looks intently in the direction of Unn. And they call her out on it pretty soon.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This is {{the sixties}}, and the setting is rural Norway. When Unn is missing, her aunt has to ''walk all the way'' to the nearest farm, where she knows there is a telephone, and ''then'' call the police. The searching band likewise relies on appointed meeting places to make confirmation. No cell phones in this time and place.
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* LesYay: Implied in the film adaptation, not so much in the book.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: When the two girls sit together in Unn`s room, they look in a mirror together, and discuss whether or not they are.

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* BirdsOfAFeather: When the two girls sit together in Unn`s room, they look in a mirror together, and discuss whether or not they are. Through the book, Siss gets more and more like Unn in behaviour.



* CannotSpitItOut: Unn wishes to tell Siss something important, but stops short.

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* CannotSpitItOut: Unn wishes to tell Siss something important, but stops short. Later, Siss shuts everyone out on the crucial information she has on Unn.

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