History Literature / Twig

* InMediaRes: The story begins in the middle of one of the orphan's missions.

* HannibalLecture: Sly uses this to turn the tables on his interrogator in Taking Root 1.7, using his enhanced intelligence and some quick guesswork to learn far more about her than she manages to learn about him, then turn this around to make her doubt herself. He's doing well enough that when TheCavalry arrives to rescue him, he's ''disappointed''.

* AlternateUniverse: The divergence point seems to be a massive leap forward in biotechnology sometime in the early 19th century.

* HannibalLecture: Sly uses this to turn the tables on his interrogator in Taking Root 1.7, using his enhanced intelligence and some quick guesswork to learn far more about her than she manages to learn about him.

* AcademyOfAdventure: Radham Academy are the ones funding the group, but only one of them is a student.

** The dime store novel that had a man in a bird mask is referencing ''Face'', a thriller story that was focused-tested at the same time Pact was.

* MarshmallowHell: Happens to Sly once upon getting hugged by an older student in Taking Root 2.5.

** "Barber John and the Dark Forest Monster" is ''{{Literature/Pact}}'s'' climactic chapter, again told from the perspective of the villain, [[spoiler:Barbatorem]].

** "Barber John and the Dark Forest Monster" is ''{{Literature/Pact}}'s'' climactic chapter, again told from the perspective or the villain.

** "Barber John and the dark forest monster" is ''{{Literature/Pact}}'s'' climactic chapter, again told from the perspective or the villain.

* ShoutOut: The dime store novels in [[https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/taking-root-1-5/ Taking Root 1.5]] reference previous works of Wildbow's.

** The Doll Man series is the story of [Literature/Worm]] from the perspective of Mannequin.
** "Barber John and the dark forest monster" is [[Literature/Pact]]'s climactic chapter, again told from the perspective or the villain.

* ShoutOut: The titles of the dime store novels in [[https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/taking-root-1-5/ Taking Root 1.5]] reference both ''Worm'' and ''Pact''.

* MadScientist: They are everywhere. Radham Academy is suggested to be one of many, institutions of scientists which twist and warp the communities that spring up around them.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The viewpoint characters are a group of tweens, only one of whom (a budding MadScientist) is not an ArtificialHuman.

* {{Biopunk}}: Bioaugmentation is a very common thing in this universe.

* AcademyOfAdventure: The mysterious Academy are the ones funding the group, but only one of them is a student.

* MadScientist: They are everywhere. There's enough of them that a group of orphans came make a living hunting them down and reporting them to the Academy. Who may or may not be an organization of MadScientist's.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The viewpoint characters are a group of tweens.

''[[https://twigserial.wordpress.com Twig]]'' is the third WebSerialNovel from Wildbow, following on from his superhero novel ''{{Literature/Worm}}'' and the Modern Fantasy/Horror ''{{Literature/Pact}}''. The story follows a group of children from the Lambsbridge Orphanage; Sly, Gordon, Helen, Lillian and Jamie, as they make their way in a world where the [[BackFromTheDead dead can come back]], {{Immortality}} is within reach and [[BioAugmentation bio-engineered monsters]] roam the streets

* {{Biopunk}}
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits

''[[https://twigserial.wordpress.com Twig]]'' is the third WebSerialNovel from Wildbow, following on from his superhero novel ''{{Literature/Worm}}'' and the Modern Fantasy/Horror ''{{Literature/Pact}}''. The story follows a group of children from the Lambsbridge Orphanage; Sly, Gordon, Helen, Lillian and Jamie, as they make their way in a world where the [[BackFromTheDead dead can come back]], {{Immortality}} is within reach and [[BioAugmentation BioEngineered monsters]] roam the streets

* {{Biopunk}}

* AlternateUniverse

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