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* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Paul, Mark's brother, pronounces his last name (Jenner) in a very distinctive way. When a foreign solder greets Mark with the correct pronunciation of his last name, it tips him off that his brother is involved with the country's military in some way.
** Marcos pronounces his name like "Mars-sauce", rather than "Mar-kohs" as one might expect.
** Marcos pronounces his name like "Mars-sauce", rather than "Mar-kohs" as one might expect.
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* ArtificialAnimalPeople: The plot revolves around a group of human-animal hybrids being created in a lab. Their hybrid anatomy makes them prone to disabilities -- Lucy, a human-tiger hybrid, is unable to speak English properly thanks to her cat-like lips.
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* CatGirl: Lucy. The whole story is basically a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the CatGirl trope, as Lucy was created in an illegal hybridisation experiment, and is a hybrid of a human girl and a white tiger. As a result, she suffers from disabilities thanks to her awkward, cat/human anatomy, such as not being able to speak English properly (her lips aren't as flexible and can't produce the right sounds).
* CloningGambit: Invoked when [[spoiler: Lucretia considers Lucy to be her successor/replacement.]]
* ConLang: Two - the tribal language, and the Benedictean language spoken by the natives. Random terms from either language are inserted here and there into the story, usually (but not always) with a description of what they mean (though there is a glossary included at the back).
* CloningGambit: Invoked when [[spoiler: Lucretia considers Lucy to be her successor/replacement.]]
* ConLang: Two - the tribal language, and the Benedictean language spoken by the natives. Random terms from either language are inserted here and there into the story, usually (but not always) with a description of what they mean (though there is a glossary included at the back).
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* CatGirl: Lucy. The whole story is basically a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the CatGirl trope, as Lucy was created in an illegal hybridisation hybridization experiment, and is a hybrid of a human girl and a white tiger. As a result, she suffers from disabilities thanks to her awkward, cat/human anatomy, such as not being able to speak English properly (her lips aren't as flexible and can't produce the right sounds).
* CloningGambit: Invoked when[[spoiler: Lucretia [[spoiler:Lucretia considers Lucy to be her successor/replacement.]]
* ConLang: Two- -- the tribal language, and the Benedictean language spoken by the natives. Random terms from either language are inserted here and there into the story, usually (but not always) with a description of what they mean (though there is a glossary included at the back).
* CloningGambit: Invoked when
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** Chapter 1 also has him narrating "One false move, just upsetting the wrong natives, and this jungle could rain spears or bullets, neither of which would be significantly slowed by a veritable wall of foliage." [[spoiler: He later ends up getting shot at, with a tree getting in between him and the bullet - though, as he foreshadowed, it didn't help much.]]
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** Chapter 1 also has him narrating "One false move, just upsetting the wrong natives, and this jungle could rain spears or bullets, neither of which would be significantly slowed by a veritable wall of foliage." [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He later ends up getting shot at, with a tree getting in between him and the bullet - though, as he foreshadowed, it didn't help much.]]
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* GuineaPigFamily: Dr Faulkner experimented on both his wife and daughter. [[spoiler:His unfortunate death resisting arrest gives the press ample opportunity to demonise him for this. If they'd been able to ask why, there could have been a happy ending before the book started.]]
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* GuineaPigFamily: Dr Dr. Faulkner experimented on both his wife and daughter. [[spoiler:His unfortunate death resisting arrest gives the press ample opportunity to demonise demonize him for this. If they'd been able to ask why, there could have been a happy ending before the book started.]]
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* [[spoiler:CloningGambit, invoked when Lucretia considers Lucy to be her successor/replacement]]
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* GuineaPigFamily: Dr Faulkner experimented on both his wife and daughter. [[spoiler:His unfortunate death resisting arrest gives the press ample opportunity to demonise him for this. If they'd been able to ask why, there could have been a happy ending before the book starts]]started.]]
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* BilingualBonus: Lucy's Mandarin Chinese is often untranslated in direct speech, though it's usually explained or implied in context what she's saying. Nurse Chǎ also inserts random Mandarin words into her speech.
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* BilingualBonus: Lucy's Mandarin Chinese is often untranslated in direct speech, though it's usually explained or implied in context what she's saying. Nurse Chǎ also inserts random Mandarin words into her speech.speech, such as calling Lucy 'kitten' before we know she's the catgirl.
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* GuineaPigFamily: Dr Faulkner experimented on both his wife and daughter. [[spoiler:His unfortunate death resisting arrest gives the press ample opportunity to demonise him for this. If they'd been able to ask why, there could have been a happy ending before the book starts]]
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* BulletTime: Happens when [[spoiler:Mark gets shot at]], though it's actually just his perspective rather than something that's actually happening.
* NoodleIncident: Mark mentions his first visit to Tehran in chapter 5, but nothing is mentioned about it besides the fact that it was "a farce" and apparently something really bad happened to him there.
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* NoodleIncident: Mark mentions his first visit to Tehran in chapter 5, but nothing is mentioned about it besides the fact that it was "a farce" and apparently something really bad happened to him there.
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* StealthPun: When Mark [[spoiler:gets hit by a stray bullet]], everything seems to go into super-slow-motion. [[spoiler:In other words, BulletTime.]]
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* HuskyRusskie: Though it's never mentioned what country Barishkov comes from, he is mentioned as speaking with a heavy Russian accent.
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* HuskyRusskie: Though it's never mentioned what country Barishkov apparently comes from, from [[VideoGame/PapersPlease Arstotzka]], he is mentioned as speaking with a heavy Russian accent.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A recurring debate in the story, and something Mark himself constantly battles with. It's often mentioned that public opinion the hybrids is divided between "these are intelligent creatures and should have the same basic rights as humans" and "these are monsters and should be killed" (and others besides).
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A recurring debate in the story, and something Mark himself constantly battles with. It's often mentioned that public opinion on the hybrids is divided between "these are intelligent creatures and should have the same basic rights as humans" and "these are monsters and should be killed" (and others besides).
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Mark catches himself referring to the creatures as "monsters" while cornered by one in the jungle, despite expressing the belief that they should be treated like humans.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Mark catches himself referring to the creatures as "monsters" while cornered by one in the jungle, despite expressing the belief that they should be treated like humans.humans.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''.
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* NamesTheSame: Mark teams up with a native called Marcos, whose name is basically a Spanish-esque version of Mark. Mark even mentions this in his narration, though the pronunciation is somewhat different.
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* NamesTheSame: OneSteveLimit: Mark teams up with a native called Marcos, whose name is basically a Spanish-esque version of Mark. Mark even mentions this in his narration, though the pronunciation is somewhat different.
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Sandpaper Kiss is a novel by Angel Raymond Wedge, a science fiction/fantasy tale about animal-human hybrids, government conspiracies, romance, and searching for the truth.
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Sandpaper Kiss is a novel by Angel Raymond Wedge, a science fiction/fantasy tale about animal-human hybrids, government conspiracies, romance, and searching for the truth.
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The book is available for purchase online at Amazon and Kindle, with physical paperback copies upcoming. You can order a copy at http://www.gofundme.com/sandpaperkiss .
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The book is was originally available for purchase online at Amazon and Kindle, with physical paperback copies upcoming. You can order through a copy at http://www.gofundme.com/sandpaperkiss .
crowdfunder, but is now on Amazon. http://hyperurl.co/sandpaperkiss .
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* BigBad: Though most of the characters in this story are just as "good" or "evil" as normal people are, Barishkov is probably the likeliest candidate for this trope.
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* BigBad: Though most of the characters in this story are just as "good" or "evil" as normal people are, Barishkov is probably the likeliest candidate for this trope. [[spoiler:Until it turns out he's actually TheDragon to Paul Jenner.]]
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* TitleDrop: "'Kitty,' I whispered one day as she tended my injuries with her gentle sandpaper kiss."
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A recurring debate in the story, and something Mark himself constantly battles with. It's often mentioned that public opinion the hybrids is divided between "these are intelligent creatures and should have the same basic rights as humans" and "these are monsters and should be killed" (and others besides).
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A recurring debate in the story, and something Mark himself constantly battles with. It's often mentioned that public opinion the hybrids is divided between "these are intelligent creatures and should have the same basic rights as humans" and "these are monsters and should be killed" (and others besides).besides).
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Mark catches himself referring to the creatures as "monsters" while cornered by one in the jungle, despite expressing the belief that they should be treated like humans.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Mark catches himself referring to the creatures as "monsters" while cornered by one in the jungle, despite expressing the belief that they should be treated like humans.
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* NamesTheSame: Mark teams up with a native called Marcos, whose name is basically a Spanish-esque version of Mark.
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** Marcos pronounces his name like "Mars-sauce", rather than "Mar-kohs" as one might expect.
* NamesTheSame: Mark teams up with a native called Marcos, whose name is basically a Spanish-esque version of Mark. Mark even mentions this in his narration, though the pronunciation is somewhat different.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Paul, Mark's brother, pronounces his last name (Jenner) in a very distinctive way. When a foreign solder greets Mark with the correct pronunciation of his last name, it tips him off that his brother is involved with the country's military in some way.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Mark has shades of this, both in dialogue and in narration.
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* NoodleIncident: Mark mentions his first visit to Tehran in chapter 5, but nothing is mentioned about it besides the fact that it was "a farce" and apparently something really bad happened to him there.
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** Chapter 1 also has him narrating "One false move, just upsetting the wrong natives, and this jungle could rain spears or bullets, neither of which would be significantly slowed by a veritable wall of foliage." [[spoiler: He later ends up getting shot at, with a tree getting in between him and the bullet - though, as he foreshadowed, it didn't help much.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mark's narration in chapter 1 has him saying "While I don’t know if my future family would involve babies or kittens crawling around our feet, that’s all in the hands of genetics, and you can’t fight nature." [[spoiler: He ends up with CatGirl Lucy by the end of the story.]]
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Sandpaper Kiss is a novel by Angel Raymond Wedge, a science fiction/fantasy tale about animal-human hybrids, government conspiracies, romance, and searching for the truth.
Mark Jenner is a journalist, working for a small, unnamed magazine company. When enlisted by his politician brother to investigate the case of a world-renowned scientist, Professor Conrad Faulkner, allegedly kidnapping his now-dead daughter and disappearing, Mark discovers a lab hidden deep in the jungle, where strange hybrid creatures are being created and experimented on. Meanwhile, one of the hybrids seems to have some connection to Faulkner's daughter...
The book is available for purchase online at Amazon and Kindle, with physical paperback copies upcoming. You can order a copy at http://www.gofundme.com/sandpaperkiss .
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!! ''Literature/SandpaperKiss'' contains examples of:
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Sante Benedicté is not a real city, and it's never mentioned which part of the world it's in, though given the dense jungle and presence of natives and tribesmen, and their customs and beliefs, a likely candidate would be Central or South America.
* BigBad: Though most of the characters in this story are just as "good" or "evil" as normal people are, Barishkov is probably the likeliest candidate for this trope.
* BilingualBonus: Lucy's Mandarin Chinese is often untranslated in direct speech, though it's usually explained or implied in context what she's saying. Nurse Chǎ also inserts random Mandarin words into her speech.
* CatGirl: Lucy. The whole story is basically a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the CatGirl trope, as Lucy was created in an illegal hybridisation experiment, and is a hybrid of a human girl and a white tiger. As a result, she suffers from disabilities thanks to her awkward, cat/human anatomy, such as not being able to speak English properly (her lips aren't as flexible and can't produce the right sounds).
* ConLang: Two - the tribal language, and the Benedictean language spoken by the natives. Random terms from either language are inserted here and there into the story, usually (but not always) with a description of what they mean (though there is a glossary included at the back).
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Nurse Chǎ, who taught Lucy to speak Chinese, often inserts random Chinese words into her otherwise-English dialogue.
* HuskyRusskie: Though it's never mentioned what country Barishkov comes from, he is mentioned as speaking with a heavy Russian accent.
* ScaryBlackMan: Uvi probably comes closest to this trope.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A recurring debate in the story, and something Mark himself constantly battles with. It's often mentioned that public opinion the hybrids is divided between "these are intelligent creatures and should have the same basic rights as humans" and "these are monsters and should be killed" (and others besides).
Mark Jenner is a journalist, working for a small, unnamed magazine company. When enlisted by his politician brother to investigate the case of a world-renowned scientist, Professor Conrad Faulkner, allegedly kidnapping his now-dead daughter and disappearing, Mark discovers a lab hidden deep in the jungle, where strange hybrid creatures are being created and experimented on. Meanwhile, one of the hybrids seems to have some connection to Faulkner's daughter...
The book is available for purchase online at Amazon and Kindle, with physical paperback copies upcoming. You can order a copy at http://www.gofundme.com/sandpaperkiss .
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!! ''Literature/SandpaperKiss'' contains examples of:
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Sante Benedicté is not a real city, and it's never mentioned which part of the world it's in, though given the dense jungle and presence of natives and tribesmen, and their customs and beliefs, a likely candidate would be Central or South America.
* BigBad: Though most of the characters in this story are just as "good" or "evil" as normal people are, Barishkov is probably the likeliest candidate for this trope.
* BilingualBonus: Lucy's Mandarin Chinese is often untranslated in direct speech, though it's usually explained or implied in context what she's saying. Nurse Chǎ also inserts random Mandarin words into her speech.
* CatGirl: Lucy. The whole story is basically a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the CatGirl trope, as Lucy was created in an illegal hybridisation experiment, and is a hybrid of a human girl and a white tiger. As a result, she suffers from disabilities thanks to her awkward, cat/human anatomy, such as not being able to speak English properly (her lips aren't as flexible and can't produce the right sounds).
* ConLang: Two - the tribal language, and the Benedictean language spoken by the natives. Random terms from either language are inserted here and there into the story, usually (but not always) with a description of what they mean (though there is a glossary included at the back).
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Nurse Chǎ, who taught Lucy to speak Chinese, often inserts random Chinese words into her otherwise-English dialogue.
* HuskyRusskie: Though it's never mentioned what country Barishkov comes from, he is mentioned as speaking with a heavy Russian accent.
* ScaryBlackMan: Uvi probably comes closest to this trope.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A recurring debate in the story, and something Mark himself constantly battles with. It's often mentioned that public opinion the hybrids is divided between "these are intelligent creatures and should have the same basic rights as humans" and "these are monsters and should be killed" (and others besides).
