History Literature / UnlikelyEden

* AnAxeToGrind: Heather's weapon of choice.

* InfantImmortality: Averted so very much during the destruction of Heather and Alison's home at the opening. It's not overly graphic at all, but it's made clear that children do, in fact, die.

* DesignerBabies - [[spoiler: Heather, Alison, Gunnar etc.]]
* GadgeteerGenius / WrenchWench - Gunnar.
* PsychoactivePowers coupled with PlacebotinumEffect where "Preferred Weapons" are concerned.
* SpecialPersonNormalName - It's a plot point that all the Coalition soldiers have fairly mundane names, so much so that when pseudonyms (or nicknames) are used, the protagonists remark on the unfamiliar nature.[[spoiler: Hjordis and Gunnar for instance]]
* SwitchingPov - Heather and Alison take turns narrating
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming - Each installment is named for the last word (or few words) of the passage.

* BullyingADragon - an example that very nearly gets the 'bully' removed from play
** LampShaded as well:
-->'''Alison:''' "I couldn’t understand why he would choose to start a fight when surrounded by what he saw as the “enemy”.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom - Sort of. More like Glowing Eyes Of ''Activation'' that ''sometimes'' mean Doom
-->'''Heather:''' "When I’d seen some of them stumble, I’d thought she’d made it happen, but her eyes hadn’t flashed; they were just distracted."
* PowerGlows - see above
* BadAssAdorable - Heather and Alison (and, to an extent, Gunnar)
* CuteBruiser - Heather
* DrivingStick - The Kraken, Adelaide's rig, probably doesn't have an internal combustion engine, but mysteriously, it does have a manual transmission.
* FluffyTheTerrible - Buttons
* GentleGiant - Buttons again
* InfantImmortality - Averted so very much during the destruction of Heather and Alison's home at the opening. It's not overly graphic — at all, but it's made clear that children do, in fact, die.
* PropheticFallacy - Many of the reasons for the girls situation can be traced back to a questionable interpretation of a specific prophecy.
* RobotBuddy - Buttons, yet again
* MyLittlePanzer - Buttons is popular isn't he? Subverted in that he's an abandoned prototype that never made it to market due to terryfying the children in the test group.
* AnAxeToGrind - Heather's weapon of choice.
* ImprovisedWeapon - Technically Heather's ''axe'' is one of these
* GirlsWithGuns - Guess why [[spoiler: Gunnar chose her nickname]]?
* TheGunslinger - [[spoiler: Gunnar again]]
* SuperSoldier - Quite a bit of them
* BadAssArmy - there are at least two of these potentially.
* HumansByAnyOtherName - "Otherkind"
* HumansAreFlawed
* ShoutOut - [[http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/60205 Big Wheels and Sailor]] make appearances as transports in the yard when Heather and Alison first get to Greywall.
* FantasticCasteSystem - All Coalition soldiers are engineered to be one of four castes. Visibly they are indistinguishable, but their abilities are all specialized for their combat roles. This governs everything from who leads, to the formation of friendships.
* FutureSlang - mostly in the form of colloquial terms for things that don't exist in the present
*** "Ours/Ourkind" - meaning the enhanced soldiers (self referential)
*** "Otherkind" - meaning ordinary humans (from the soldiers' point of view)
*** "Kins" - members of the Kinetic caste (encompassed by the Ours/Ourkind moniker)
*** "Probs" - members of the Probability caste (encompassed by the Ours/Ourkind moniker)
*** "Folding out" - transporting or moving things with the use of foldspace technology
*** "Flash" - referring to the situational bioluminescence of the soldiers' eyes. See the GlowingEyesOfDoom entry above.
* MadOracle - Subject Five. Complete with the accompanying CrypticConversation
-->'''Subject Five:''' "Survivors quelled the Beholder’s wrath, you were brought by Victor but not beholden be"
* YouAreNumberSix - Subject Five.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming -

** The manufacturer of the Kraken's EMP weapon is Dragonwalk Industries. The EMP itself is simply referred to by Gunnar as a "Dragonwalk"
* ManlyTears - from a ''little girl'' no less.
* RollerBladeGood - Heather in the first installment (Techically Roller ''Skate'' Good)
* BerserkButton - Heather witnesses someone she's just met killed by a soldier. The following occurs.
-->'''Heather:'''The tingle was so strong, it felt like my skin was on fire.

-->I saw the Beholder tearing through that wall again. I saw the children hit with debris, killed where they stood.

-->If I’d been wearing the skates, I’d have been faster. He’d noticed me when I’d started my charge, and I saw him laugh. Adelaide had tried to grab me, but just like in that hallway, I knew exactly where everything was and where I had to be.

-->I saw the walls of my everything crumbling around me. I saw the bodies, crushed and bloody as they congratulated one another on a job well done. I saw it all. And then I hit him with it. ''[[SingleStrokeBattle All of it]]''.
* FasterThanLightTravel - Of the "Jump Drive" variety repurposed as transporters and teleporters (and potentially a ''weapon'').

* TheBechdelTest - passes easily.

!!''{{UnlikelyEden}}'' provides examples of:

* CuteKidsAndRobots - Buttons was ''intended'' to be cute in universe (see below) and spends a great deal of time with the protagonists who happen to be cute kids.

Written by Daine Salmon, ''[[http://99.244.26.237/ Unlikely Eden]]'' is a weekly updated Web serial told from the alternating points of view of two 10-year-old girls. The story begins with the [[DoomedHometown destruction of the girls' home, a large pseudo-military school/orphanage.]] This forces them to escape into the surrounding area (the world they do not understand) where they immediately run afoul of the residents of a small outpost. Through a fortunate coincidence, they encounter and are aided by a crotchety old trucker and his teenage ward, who become their only friends besides each other. Throughout the course of the story, they gradually begin to learn the complicated sequence of events that led to the destruction of their home. From prophecies to roller skates to robot teddy bears, there's never a dull moment.

* PlainName - It's a plot point that all the Coalition soldiers have fairly mundane names, so much so that when pseudonyms (or nicknames) are used, the protagonists remark on the unfamiliar nature.[[spoiler: Hjordis and Gunnar for instance]]

Written by Daine Salmon, ''[[http://99.244.17.124/ Unlikely Eden]]'' is a weekly updated Web serial told from the alternating points of view of two 10-year-old girls. The story begins with the [[DoomedHometown destruction of the girls' home, a large pseudo-military school/orphanage.]] This forces them to escape into the surrounding area (the world they do not understand) where they immediately run afoul of the residents of a small outpost. Through a fortunate coincidence, they encounter and are aided by a crotchety old trucker and his teenage ward, who become their only friends besides each other. Throughout the course of the story, they gradually begin to learn the complicated sequence of events that led to the destruction of their home. From prophecies to roller skates to robot teddy bears, there's never a dull moment.

* GattacaBabies - [[spoiler: Heather, Alison, Gunnar etc.]]

* GadgeteerGenius / WrenchWench - Gunnar.

* PsychoactivePowers