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* CounterfeitCash: The phouka uses disappearing fairy gold (or rather hundred-dollar bills) to buy Eddi a motorcycle. When she realizes what he's done she makes it clear that is not okay, even if the guy he did it to is a jerk, and makes her point by urging the phouka to consider the possible impact on uninvolved bystanders if, for example, the guy were to spend or hand on some of the cash before the magic wears off.
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* MagicalCounterfeiting: The phouka uses disappearing fairy gold (or rather hundred-dollar bills) to buy Eddi a motorcycle. When she realizes what he's done she makes it clear that is not okay, even if the guy he did it to is a jerk, and makes her point by urging the phouka to consider the possible impact on uninvolved bystanders if, for example, the guy were to spend or hand on some of the cash before the magic wears off.
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* SkunkStripe: Willy Silver.
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: The main cast spend a scene discussing possible names for their new band, starting with jokes like "Free Food" and "Girls in Lingerie 24 Hours"[[note]]"Hard on the lingerie," Carla said gravely.[[/note]] before ultimately hitting upon "Eddi and the Fey." When Eddi protests that nobody will know what it means, Carla counters with the names of several famous real-life rock bands including Jefferson Airplane, and point out that at least it's something people can look up in a dictionary (not to mention a lot better than [[MyspeldRokband InKline Plain]]).
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: The main cast spend a scene discussing possible names for come up with the name of their new band, starting with jokes like "Free Food" band halfway through their first gig, after the phouka explains that having Eddi (who is linked to the fey in several ways) and "Girls two fey in Lingerie 24 Hours"[[note]]"Hard the band makes their music faerie enough to serve as MagicMusic. Carla immediately seizes on the lingerie," Carla said gravely.[[/note]] before ultimately hitting upon phrase "Eddi and the Fey." When Eddi protests that nobody will know what it means, Carla counters with the names of several famous real-life rock bands including Jefferson Airplane, Fey" and point out that at least it's something people can look up in a dictionary (not to mention a lot better than [[MyspeldRokband InKline Plain]]).suggests it as their band name.
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: Eddi & The main cast spend a scene discussing possible names for their new band, starting with jokes like "Free Food" and "Girls in Lingerie 24 Hours"[[note]]"Hard on the lingerie," Carla said gravely.[[/note]] before ultimately hitting upon "Eddi and the Fey." When Eddi protests that nobody will know what it means, Carla counters with the names of several famous real-life rock bands including Jefferson Airplane, and point out that at least it's something people can look up in a dictionary (not to mention a lot better than [[MyspeldRokband InKline Plain]]).
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* CounterfeitCash: The phouka uses disappearing fairy gold (or rather hundred-dollar bills) to buy Eddi a motorcycle. When she realizes what he's done she makes it clear that is not okay, even if the guy he did it to is a jerk.
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* CounterfeitCash: The phouka uses disappearing fairy gold (or rather hundred-dollar bills) to buy Eddi a motorcycle. When she realizes what he's done she makes it clear that is not okay, even if the guy he did it to is a jerk.jerk, and makes her point by urging the phouka to consider the possible impact on uninvolved bystanders if, for example, the guy were to spend or hand on some of the cash before the magic wears off.
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* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed [[RaceNameBasis by the name of his species]] (although he uses the alias of [[AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goode]] among humans not in the know). Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
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* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed [[RaceNameBasis by the name of his species]] (although he uses the alias of [[AMidsummerNightsDream [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goode]] among humans not in the know). Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
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* InvisibleToNormals.
* IOweYouMyLife: Meg feels indebted to Eddi after Eddi saves her life--which is not a feeling that the fay are comfortable with--but Eddi absolutely refuses to take advantage of it, even when she needs Meg's help to [[spoiler:rescue Willy from the Unseelie Court]].
* IOweYouMyLife: Meg feels indebted to Eddi after Eddi saves her life--which is not a feeling that the fay are comfortable with--but Eddi absolutely refuses to take advantage of it, even when she needs Meg's help to [[spoiler:rescue Willy from the Unseelie Court]].
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* InvisibleToNormals.
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* IOweYouMyLife: Meg feels indebted to Eddi after Eddi saves her life--which is not a feeling that thefay fey are comfortable with--but Eddi absolutely refuses to take advantage of it, even when she needs Meg's help to [[spoiler:rescue Willy from the Unseelie Court]].
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* NatureSpirit: glaistig and many other fairies.
* NeverTrustATitle: there are no strategically relevant oaks in the novel.
* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed [[RaceNameGiven by the name of his species]] (although he uses the alias of [[AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goode]] among humans not in the know). Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
* NeverTrustATitle: there are no strategically relevant oaks in the novel.
* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed [[RaceNameGiven by the name of his species]] (although he uses the alias of [[AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goode]] among humans not in the know). Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
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* NatureSpirit: The glaistig and many other fairies.
* NeverTrustATitle:there There are no strategically relevant oaks in the novel.
* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed[[RaceNameGiven [[RaceNameBasis by the name of his species]] (although he uses the alias of [[AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goode]] among humans not in the know). Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
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* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed [[RaceNameGiven by the name of his species species]] (although he uses the alias of [[AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goode]] among humans not in the know). Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
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* ThePowerOfFriendship: The special bond between Eddi and phouka, created by Eddi's answer to the Queen, gives her a special power over fairies' fate.
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* ThePowerOfFriendship: The special bond between Eddi and the phouka, created by Eddi's answer to the Queen, gives her a special power over fairies' fate.
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* MyspeldRokband: [=InKline Plain=], Stuart Kline's band, which Eddi is still a member of at the beginning of the novel. Apparently, nobody ever spells it 'correctly'.
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* MyspeldRokband: [=InKline Plain=], Stuart Kline's band, which Eddi is still a member of at the beginning of the novel. Apparently, nobody ever spells it 'correctly'.novel, described as "the most misspelled band in Minneapolis."
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* BetaCouple: Carla and Dan.
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* CounterfeitCash: The phouka uses disappearing fairy gold (or rather hundred-dollar bills) to buy Eddi a motorcycle. When she realizes what he's done she makes it clear that is not okay, even if the guy he did it to is a jerk.
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* CharmPerson: [[spoiler:Willy]] does this to Eddi; she is unsurprisingly furious when she finds out.
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A fantasy novel by Emma Bull and one of the pioneering works of UrbanFantasy, ''War for the Oaks'' is the story of Eddi [=McCandry=], a Minneapolis rock singer who's just quit her band and broken up with her boyfriend. There's also the matter of TheFairFolk moving in -- quite literally -- with her, and an impending war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts into which she's just been drafted.
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A fantasy novel by Emma Bull Creator/EmmaBull and one of the pioneering works of UrbanFantasy, ''War for the Oaks'' is the story of Eddi [=McCandry=], a Minneapolis rock singer who's just quit her band and broken up with her boyfriend. There's also the matter of TheFairFolk moving in -- quite literally -- with her, and an impending war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts into which she's just been drafted.
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* BlackBestFriend (and a MuggleBestFriend): Carla.
** Except Calra isn't black, she is of Italian descent IIRC. Dan, the band's keyboard player and Carla's eventual boyfriend is black.
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* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: When Edi is under a spell that removes all glamours, a side-effect is that she can hear her voice as she sounds to other people, which is a bit disorienting.
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* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: When Edi Eddi is under a spell that removes all glamours, a side-effect is that she can hear her voice as she sounds to other people, which is a bit disorienting.
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A fantasy novel by Emma Bull and one of the pioneering works of UrbanFantasy, ''War for the Oaks'' is the story of Eddi [=McCandry=], a Minneapolis rock singer who's just quit her band and broken up with her boyfriend. There's also the matter of TheFairFolk moving in -- quite literally -- with her, and an impending war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts into which she's just been drafted.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Eddi & the Fey.
* TheBaroness: the Queen of Unseelie Court.
* BlackBestFriend (and a MuggleBestFriend): Carla.
** Except Calra isn't black, she is of Italian descent IIRC. Dan, the band's keyboard player and Carla's eventual boyfriend is black.
* [[spoiler:BodyguardCrush]]: Eddi and the phouka.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness.
* DuetBonding: Eddi and Willy.
* ElementalBarrier: around the battle area.
* ElvishPresley.
* TheFairFolk: Two courts: the Seelie and Unseelie courts, roughly corresponding to good and evil.
* FairyCompanion: The phouka and Meg to Eddi.
* FairySexy: many examples.
* GenderBlenderName: An offbeat one, too.
* IceQueen: two of them.
* InterspeciesRomance.
* InTheStyleOf: Eddi and her band like to try it as a kind of exercise.
* InvisibleToNormals.
* IOweYouMyLife: Meg feels indebted to Eddi after Eddi saves her life--which is not a feeling that the fay are comfortable with--but Eddi absolutely refuses to take advantage of it, even when she needs Meg's help to [[spoiler:rescue Willy from the Unseelie Court]].
-->'''Eddi''': I hope you'll help me--but not because you think you owe it to me. Do it because you want to do me a favor, or [[spoiler: Willy]] a favor, or because you think it's right. Or don't do it. I can't blame you if you don't.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Willy Silver]].
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted.
* LoveableRogue: Most of the (non-evil) faeries, but the Phouka in particular.
* MagicMusic: True to folklore, the music of the faeries is impossible to resist, as audiences soon find.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Hedge]].
* MundaneUtility: the magic of phouka and Meg.
* MyspeldRokband: [=InKline Plain=].
* NatureSpirit: glaistig and many other fairies.
* NeverTrustATitle: there are no strategically relevant oaks in the novel.
* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed by the name of his species. Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
* NotQuiteSavedEnough: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Willy]].
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The special bond between Eddi and phouka, created by Eddi's answer to the Queen, gives her a special power over fairies' fate.
* ThePowerOfRock: Present throughout the novel [[spoiler: including the final battle]].
* SkunkStripe: Willy Silver.
* UsefulNotes/TwinCities: The setting of the book; all the places mentioned in the novel are real.
* UrbanFantasy: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]].
* YourMindMakesItReal: that is why phouka warns Eddi against doubt.
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A fantasy novel by Emma Bull and one of the pioneering works of UrbanFantasy, ''War for the Oaks'' is the story of Eddi [=McCandry=], a Minneapolis rock singer who's just quit her band and broken up with her boyfriend. There's also the matter of TheFairFolk moving in -- quite literally -- with her, and an impending war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts into which she's just been drafted.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Eddi & the Fey.
* TheBaroness: the Queen of Unseelie Court.
* BlackBestFriend (and a MuggleBestFriend): Carla.
** Except Calra isn't black, she is of Italian descent IIRC. Dan, the band's keyboard player and Carla's eventual boyfriend is black.
* [[spoiler:BodyguardCrush]]: Eddi and the phouka.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness.
* DuetBonding: Eddi and Willy.
* ElementalBarrier: around the battle area.
* ElvishPresley.
* TheFairFolk: Two courts: the Seelie and Unseelie courts, roughly corresponding to good and evil.
* FairyCompanion: The phouka and Meg to Eddi.
* FairySexy: many examples.
* GenderBlenderName: An offbeat one, too.
* IceQueen: two of them.
* InterspeciesRomance.
* InTheStyleOf: Eddi and her band like to try it as a kind of exercise.
* InvisibleToNormals.
* IOweYouMyLife: Meg feels indebted to Eddi after Eddi saves her life--which is not a feeling that the fay are comfortable with--but Eddi absolutely refuses to take advantage of it, even when she needs Meg's help to [[spoiler:rescue Willy from the Unseelie Court]].
-->'''Eddi''': I hope you'll help me--but not because you think you owe it to me. Do it because you want to do me a favor, or [[spoiler: Willy]] a favor, or because you think it's right. Or don't do it. I can't blame you if you don't.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Willy Silver]].
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted.
* LoveableRogue: Most of the (non-evil) faeries, but the Phouka in particular.
* MagicMusic: True to folklore, the music of the faeries is impossible to resist, as audiences soon find.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Hedge]].
* MundaneUtility: the magic of phouka and Meg.
* MyspeldRokband: [=InKline Plain=].
* NatureSpirit: glaistig and many other fairies.
* NeverTrustATitle: there are no strategically relevant oaks in the novel.
* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed by the name of his species. Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
* NotQuiteSavedEnough: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Willy]].
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The special bond between Eddi and phouka, created by Eddi's answer to the Queen, gives her a special power over fairies' fate.
* ThePowerOfRock: Present throughout the novel [[spoiler: including the final battle]].
* SkunkStripe: Willy Silver.
* UsefulNotes/TwinCities: The setting of the book; all the places mentioned in the novel are real.
* UrbanFantasy: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]].
* YourMindMakesItReal: that is why phouka warns Eddi against doubt.
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