• Brilliant, but Lazy
• Cloud Cuckoolander
• Deadpan Snarker
• The Ditz / Genius Ditz
• The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: My chief interests can be described as "Pokémon, Portal, Potter, ponies, and Zim".
• Meganekko

• Horrible Harry
• Warbears
• Princess Academy
• Doodlez
• The Phrase That Pais
• Pon And Zi

LEAVE.

HEDIED.

DYING.

NOMORE.

IMDEAD.

— The Unown

A Pokémon creepypasta, written by an anonymous person and made known to the Internet on an unknown date.

The story concerns a hacked used copy of Pokémon Silver Version. The player, "..." (actually Gold), starts off with five Unown spelling out "leave" and a Cyndaquil nicknamed "Hurry" that is at 1 HP and only knows Leer and Flash. Gold walks around for a little bit and checks his Pokégear, finding no cards, just a Map card. After a little more exploring with Hurry's Flash and an encounter with a sign that says "TURN BACK NOW", Hurry faints and the Unown that spell "leave" are replaced by Unown that spell "hedied".

Provides examples of:

• Body Horror: The shiny Celebi is missing an eye, an antenna, an arm, and a leg from one side of its body. Yeesh.
• Downer Ending
• The Hero Dies
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel
• Infant Immortality: Averted horribly. It's a Pokémon creepypasta, what'd you expect?
• Killed Off for Real: Gold, Red, Cyndaquil, and the shiny Celebi.
• Kill 'Em All: The only characters who are still alive by the end are the Unown. It's also implied that everyone that ever existed in the game's universe is gone.
• Mind Screw
• Nothing Is Scarier: Almost no music or Pokémon cries are heard throughout the entire game.
• Sacrificial Lion: Cyndaquil's death is just the tip of the iceberg.
• Taking You with Me: Shiny Celebi uses Perish Song on Red's Pikachu near the end, which kills them both.
• Tears of Blood: Gold gets these partway through the story.

• Lawful Good: Harold, Cody, Beth, Trent, DJ
• Neutral Good: Lindsay, Katie, Sadie, Bridgette, Geoff
• Chaotic Good: Izzy, Sierra, Tyler, Owen
• Lawful Neutral: Noah, Courtney
• True Neutral: Heather, Gwen
• Chaotic Neutral: Chef, Duncan, Ezekiel, Eva
• Lawful Evil: Blaineley
• Neutral Evil: Alejandro, Justin
• Chaotic Evil: Chris

Epic Fail

• Bilingual Bonus: There are several pieces of paper with Chinese writing on them around the maze. One of them says "no smoking".
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Subverted. See Failure Is the Only Option below.
• Everything's Better With Bunnies: Pink bunnies!
• Failure Is the Only Option: Even if you (somehow) manage to navigate the maze and find the girl bunny, you both get stepped on by somebody's foot and the only other option is to start over.
• Humans Are Bastards: One interpretation of the game's events is that the maze was set up by a human who separated the bunny and his girlfriend for the pleasure of seeing him fail to find her one way or another. Hmmm...
• The Maze: Is nigh-impossible to solve without drawing a very complicated map.
• Mind Screw: The setting of the game raises way more questions than it answers. Why is the bunny in a maze? Why is he separated from his girlfriend? Why are there land mines and UFOs floating around the maze?
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: The bunnies.
• Stuff Blowing Up: What happens if you accidentally step on a land mine.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The girl bunny has a bow on her head.

Duncan hooked up with Gwen because she has a similar personality, likes the same things, and doesn't kick him in the nuts every time he ticks her off. Bonus points for her being his Morality Pet.

At first, it looked like Duncan didn't give two shits when Gwen was eliminated, but he continued to drop hints in following episodes:

1. In Sweden Sour, he carved a picture of her face into the side of the chair with his knife.

2. In African Lying Safari, Heather mentioned to Duncan that he caused Gwen's elimination in an attempt to get him off his game. He glared at her.

3. This exchange from Niagara Brawls, after Chris announces one person is coming back:

Cody: (excited) Gwen? Is it Gwen?!

Duncan: (smiles) That wouldn't suck.

4. In this Polish clip (his Drop of Shame video) one of the things he says is "Gwen! I'll see you soon!"

Now get a chicken pot pie, three feet of dental floss, a first edition copy of Wuthering Heights and a dozen able men and meet me in Singapore in three weeks.

• Aww, here it goes!
• But you still need a giraffe to do that! Or at the very least, three oxen and a skilled driver!
  • But what if you only have two oxen and the driver sucks at three-point turns?
    • Go to the hardware store nearest you and get a box of silver nails, a hammer, and a ten foot length of rubber hose. Trust me, that works every time.
    • The nails should actually be tungsten, not silver. You also will want a roll of gaffer tape and a street map of Wichita.
    • Your forgetting the Labradoodles? Geez, how can anyone forget that?
    • Ah, you're all forgetting that the Labradoodles must be bred in a small, little-known kennel on the outskirts of Gloppen, Norway. One must be named Andrew and the other Sir Henry. Don't try to run away from the flying panda, he will only catch you. Wait for him, then hit him with the mallet you got from Pillsburg, while singing the Cuban national anthem.
    • How on earth did you forget about the iPad with Windows 7 hacked-installed in there along with a copy of Final Fantasy III wrapped in tinfoil stolen from a man with a black-and-white beard? Without that, you'll end up with nothing but a lightbulb and a cuckoo clock!
    • But then you can use the cuckoo clock to wake up the velociraptors to chase away the horde of Hello Kitty fans before they can throw you in the pit of cherry syrup! But only if you also have a Game Boy Color and a flying green whale. Do not forget the whale, or it will show up later and eat the cupcakes you got from Alice Cooper, right when you're about to shoot Candle Jack in the left big toe!
    • But! But, people! What about the lychee-honey marshmallows and the 1986 hardcover of 20ThousandLeaguesBeneathTheSea in Islandic and the casset tape of Away, Away with Rum, by Gum on loop and the dry erase board?! For chrissakes, what chance have we of an icecube in hell if we haven't a water-zombie from Mars-Shinatty-chan to be carried on a palanquin by the veloceraptors? Or if we were to forget the flourescent green and neon pink yarn balls to distract the elephants with? Man! We wouldn't get anywhere!
    • Am I the only one who remembers to bring the re-entry equipment from a decommissioned space shuttle, three gallons of custard, a cucumber and some duct tape to escape the four dimensional space/time rifts- I mean really? How can you forget such an iconic vegetable!
• Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?? Because if you are, you'll also need some pineapples (one small princess can be substituted), six links to the Sugar Wiki, And Zoidberg. Oh, and Trope-Tan will kill you if you leave her out of this one.
  • And if we do? Will the backup plan involve some top-quality Nightmare Retardant?
  • That's...actually pretty good. See, my idea was going to use the usual stuff—you know, guava paste, some dental floss, two pencils (chopsticks work, too), a sponge...you know, the usual stuff. But, come to think of it, just to be on the safe side, we should get a machete handle and the February issue of National Geographic...preferably from 1973. Now, come on, Jumpy!
• Awww, come on guys! Don't leave me out of this one! Hold on, I'll get my wire hanger, my peanut butter, my gecko, that little alien dude from Serial Experiments Lain, and a net for CandleJa
• This segment is really starting to read like an Infocom game walkthrough. Like all the random stuff you need to do to prevent being killed when the frog you kiss turns into a hot member of the opposite sex in Leather Godesses of Phobos
  • Oh no, for that you need a can of whipped topping, a machete, a copy of Battlefield Earth, a garter belt, an air guitar, six quarts of canned squid, a shopping cart, and a tube of krazy glue. Also recommended are a tub of green jello and a racing form.
    • ...Canned squid? Fresh works much better, especially if line-caught at dawn. And blue jello is much less likely to panic the bears.
  • Don't forget the box of puppies, it'll distract the fangirls long enough for you to get the bears into the ice cream truck.
    • You forgot to take out the cherry ice cream and replace it with granola though. That way you can use the marshmallow gun feed the Shoggoth and lead it to Shangrala, while still keeping the chocobo's alive.
    • GOD, no! If you use granola, the Shoggoth will do that thing with the tubas (you know what I'm taking about) and then there'll be cheese-wiz all over the place. Again. If you MUST replace the cherry ice cream, you'll need an ordinary housecat, heavy-duty pliers, a framed photograph of Stephen Hawking, and two quarts of liquified strawberry danish. Seriously, guys.
    • It doesn't have to be framed. And a photograph of Winston Churchill will work just as well, unless the Shoggoth is over eight hundred years of age.
    • In which case the photograph should by substituted for fifty feet of latex, an assortment of dried root vegetables (I find that carrots,turnips and potatoes work best)and a small nearly extinct reptile from the Cretaceous era. You will then need a small bone needle (must be under five centimeters), neon urple thread and a small mountain from the Himalayas to deal with the resulting mess.
• ... And that is how you have the perfect weekend in Vegas.
  • Close, but we need a metric ton of sponges and a bushel of freshly-cut fir branches for that.
    • And don't forget the truckload of tube socks made in Venezuelan factories worked by extremely tall dwarfs.
    • And before you go there, we need to mix together banana peels, exactly 5 strands of fur from a calico cat, a PSP and a tie worn by Obama. Feed this to the pigs, and make them into bacon. This bacon could turn out to be very useful, you know, plus, it's really tasty.
    • It's actually tastier if you use mephit skin instead of cat fur (mmmmmm...mephits).
• Fantastic. Now give back my pancreas, or all I can say about your eventual fate is that it will involve three members of a barbershop quartet and a pound of instant coffee.
  • but surely using a smal ping-pong ball, a broomstick, a Ford Fiester, 15 rubber bands, a Cheeky Girls CD, three small terriers and a large pack of Tesco's lima beans would be a far more memorable punishment.....
  • Oh, God, please don't use the lima beans! PLEASE!! Do you know how hard it is to get the smell out of there after you're done?!
    • Hey, let me find a dozen more gophers and three and a half gallons of red paint and I can finish constructing an effective defense.
• Well... seems like that didn't work out. Next time, we'll use a box of mangoes and some duct tape, and it would be best to bring 145 Euros. Just in case. Don't worry about the giant apples, we'll take care of them with a paper plane(made from the instructions for building a green, wooden chair), a parking ticket and some cinnamon. Does that sound okay?
  • Close. But you're gonna need 30 cans of Spaghetti-Os, a toothbrush, a copy of Brütal Legend, three Uwe Boll movies (doesn't matter which ones), a tube sock, and an autographed copy of One More Day signed by Joe Quesada. Oh! And don't forget the motor oil. And you'd probably best make sure that the police are paid off first...
    • Ok, as long as I can bring the Hello Kitty chainsaw, three bears and a bottle of cucumber juice.
    • No, no, no! The bears will eat the Uwe Boll movies! You need a dozen meerkats to pull that off effectively (though the customary bribe is double normal if meerkats are involved).
• Alright guys, we've only got three days to get ready for Homecoming, but our float's been destroyed! So what I need you guys to do is get me a watermelon, eighteen feet of chicken wire, fifteen bushels of half-sour pickles, a bust of Van Buren, some candy corn liquor, a left tap shoe from Brazil, a bucket of pelicans, Eleven copies of Beat It, a spool of dental floss flavored like ham, a hefty black lady with a lot of rhythm, twenty pounds of cardboard, a photo album of a Red Headed Step Child's time at summer camp, a bottle of tobasco, three rolls of duct tape, a pancake shaped like Lincoln, two thirds of the Senate's votes, a goat's pancreas, and The Bare Naked Ladies! Now if anyone needs me, I'll be in Istanbul getting the soap!
  • ...You can get better soap for that in Shanghai. And the pancake really ought to be shaped like Jefferson, or the shoe will cause the pelicans to explode. Substitute geese, it should still work.
    • If you want the tobasco sauce to work properly, you're going to need 32 lbs. of Wensleydale cheese, 1500 copies of Philosophy Of The World, a gun with no bullets, some bullets, one copy of E.T. for the Atari 2600, 3/4 of the Mexican Armed Forces, and a missing Doctor Who serial. Though the serial is, of course, optional, it is reccomended as it may also strengthen the effect of the dental floss. And from my personal experience, the pancake usually works best if shaped like Jackson or Taft.
    • The Doctor Who serial can be obtained from the head waiter at a Denny's restaurant, but only if you dress up in WWI-era uniform, sing to him the Bohemian Rhapsody backwards and give him a hundred-year-old dollar bill. If the waiter's name is Fred, also give him a Hungarian porno DVD. Should he ask you about the old lady dressed like a pirate, tell him that she is in Buenos Aires.
    • What if she really is in Buenos Aires? If he finds her, we'll never be able to find the Wolf of Time, And withoout that, we won't find Bin Laden.
    • In that case, we'll just have to improvise; as long as we've got enough kerosene to placate all the llamas (And I mean all of them) and a lifesize porcelain bust of Chairman Mao, we should be in with a reasonable chance of success.
    • I JUST remembered...if we want this to work at all, we mustn't forget that we need two truckloads of Swanson TV dinners, a man named Mr. Big, (last time I checked, he's somewhere in New Orleans) a Superbowl ring, (preferably from XXIV or XLI) a DVD copy of Superman IV signed by Gloria Tesch, a pair of Dr. Dre Beats, AND, most importantly, a Blu-ray copy of Sharktopus. And remember, the Mexican Armed Forces AND The Bare Naked Ladies must sing "Friday" by Rebecca Black in 7/4 time while suspended above an apartment complex in Chile.
    • 9/8 time would be more convenient, as otherwise you would also need twelve unconscious meerkats to lie beside the performers on a lunar eclipse with the sprinklers turned on.
    • Turning on the sprinklers on in Chile is...different than doing so anywhere else. To do this, go up to the main office of the complex. Stand in front of the door for EXACTLY three minutes, and a man named Simon should let you in. Hand him the inanimate carbon rod that you got from Harold Camping, and whisper the words "Bad Wolf." He will turn on the sprinklers and hand you a bar of Godiva Chocolate. Put the chocolate in your front left pocket, and lead the performers up to the rooftop. If you see a rabbit with its fur dyed blue, you've done everything right.
  • Hey everybody, I'm back. I couldn't find the soap in Istanbul, and the flight attendant told me "The Cat Sours the Milk" so we all know what that means. That's why I stopped by Shanghai as suggested and got the soap. Then I hit up the Belgian Parliament snack machine, the one in the 4th hallway on the left, and bought every bag of pretzel twists in it. The duck is golden brown on the left side, which means we're halfway done. Now fetch me a stout shako, two refined, a barrel of Purple Flurp, the pilot episode of "Limozeen, but they're in space!", a toothless baby alligator and all the levels. All of them. Oh! And a pumpkin
    • What pumpkin?
    • Take a Disney Cruise Line ship and sail to England. You will then need fifty red jellybeans, a glitched copy of Pokémon White, a pencil with silver glitter on it, and a bottle of hair dye on fire to give to the passerby in a Nyan Cat t-shirt so he will do the Caramelldansen for you, which will signal the magical radioactive squirrels to bring you the first 15 episodes of Adventure Time on a CD, which you need along with a bag of exactly 53 Whoppers to calm down the rabid taxi driver located in Chipping Sodbury. (Watch out for the shiny Duckletts!) The now not-rabid taxi driver will give you a cabbage to save the floating puppies in Diagon Alley. Then, enter Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, buy 19 love potions and use them to open the door to the backroom. You should find the pumpkin there.
    • Nope, no pumpkin. All I found was some rotten chicken pot pie, three feet of dental floss, a first edition copy of Wuthering Heights, a dozen dead guys, and an outdated plane ticket to Singapore.

(Will write a summary here when I have time.)

Provides examples of:

• Altum Videtur: Mr. Penderwick is fond of quoting Latin phrases at random.
  "Skye, quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem."
• Big Friendly Dog: Hound.
• Blue Eyes: Skye.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Jane gets hers when she asks Dexter (a publisher) to read the book she's writing, and his response is to leaf through it for two seconds and tell her it's lousy.
  • When Mrs. Tifton goes on a tirade about the Penderwicks to Jeffrey, not even Batty is spared from her wrath. Unfortunately, Batty is standing right outside the door.
• Cheerful Child: Batty
• Child Hater: Mrs. Tifton, to all but her own son.
• Cool Big Sis: Rosalind, natch.
• Costume Porn: The descriptions of the dresses that the Penderwick sisters wear to Jeffrey's birthday party.
• Daddy's Girl: All four Penderwick sisters embody this trope, justified because of their Missing Mom.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: For Jeffrey moreso than the Penderwicks.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Inverted - Skye teaches herself algebra problems for fun!
• Everything's Better With Bunnies: Yaz and Carla, Cagney's pet rabbits.
• Evil Matriarch: Mrs. Tifton, oh god Mrs. Tifton.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Penderwicks' dog is named Hound.
• Five-Man Band
  • The Hero: Rosalind
  • The Lancer / The Smart Guy: Jane
  • The Big Guy: Skye
  • The Chick: Batty
  • Sixth Ranger: Jeffrey
  • Team Pet: Hound
• Follow in My Footsteps: Mrs. Tifton wants Jeffrey to become a soldier just like his dad. Unfortunately for her, Jeffrey has something else in mind.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Batty
• The Ghost: Teddy Robinette. According to Jeffrey, he's a stuck-up bully from a rich family, but we never actually see him on-page.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Skye is brash, rough and a master of Brutal Honesty, but when push comes to shove she'll defend her friends and her family at all costs.
• Military School Of Horrors: Pencey Military Academy, where Mrs. Tifton wants to send Jeffrey. Uh-oh...
• Missing Mom: The Penderwick family. Conversely, Jeffrey has a Disappeared Dad.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Ms. Horriferous, the villain in Jane's story Sabrina Starr Rescues a Boy.
• Non Sequitur Thud: "Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia."
• Pet the Dog: For all her other flaws, Mrs. Tifton does genuinely love Jeffrey and wants the best for him.
• Ship Tease: Skye with Jeffrey and Rosalind with Cagney.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Skye is mentioned to be the only one of her sisters to look like her mother.
• Stock Animal Diet: Yaz and Carla's love of carrots.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Skye is the Tomboy to Jane's/Rosalind's Girly Girl.
• Tribute To Fido: The author has a dog named Cagney.

• Asshole Victim: The Companion Cube.
• Comedic Sociopathy: "I'll see you in hell, Cube."
• Jerkass: Both turrets as well as the Companion Cube.
  (the Companion Cube flies out of nowhere and knocks the turrets over)
  Companion Cube: Pwned, bitches! Dominated!
  Turret #1: Go to hell, Cube.
  Turret #2: Get your ass off me.
• Kill It with Fire: Ditto.
• Leet Lingo: Ditto.
• Precision F-Strike
  Turret #1: (as they're both heading toward the incinerator) You had to open your big mouth.
  Turret #2: I wonder if there will be cake.
  Turret #1: Fuck you.
• Rule of Funny: The turrets apparently have Facebook accounts, watch Lost, and play Halo, Call of Duty 4, and tic-tac-toe.
• Theme Tune Cameo: When the turrets hum Still Alive.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Three times.
  Companion Cube: Pwned, bitches! Dominated!
  • And:
  Turret #2: Halo 3 is Call of Duty 4's bitch.
  Turret #1: You are a bitch. I think I hate you more every day.
  • And:
  Turret #1: What should I say now?
  Turret #2: (to Chell) Come out, bitch!
• Unusual Euphemism: "Yes, I would insert my floppy into her disk drives."

On Halloween night, a little kid in a ghost costume, the titular "Jinx", walks up to a seemingly abandoned haunted house to see if he can get some more candy. When no one answers, he walks in — and the door slams shut behind him, leaving him to explore the house to try and find a way out. After running around the house and collecting all manner of random objects, Jinx finds Dr. Frantic trapped in a room with his crazed robot assistant and hits a nearby button that opens a portal that takes the three of them to an unknown location, setting the stage for the sequel.

In Jinx 2: Miracle in the 34th Dimension, Jinx, Dr. Frantic and the malfunctioning robot are teleported to the 34th Dimension, unknowingly pissing off Evil Santa by knocking one of the engines off his jet-powered sleigh and crashing it (accidentally, of course). This time, Jinx has to rescue Dr. Frantic from Evil Santa's headquarters, make it to the North Pole, and...that's it. In the end, our heroes (along with an unlucky E.L.F., one of Evil Santa's Mooks) are sent through another portal to another unknown dimension.

In Jinx 3: Escape From Area Fifty-Two, Jinx, Dr. Frantic and the E.L.F have arrived in their own dimension...in the middle of the desert, where they are promptly captured by Area 52 personnel. Now, our heroes are faced with an even more daunting task: find the chip board that activates the hovercar in the hangar so it can take them home.

• Ambiguous Gender: Jinx, because 1) we never see what his/her face looks like and 2) nobody ever refers to him as anything other than "Jinx" or "the kid in the ghost costume".
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: "THOUSAND FOOT EASTER BUNNY!!!!"
• Bad Santa: Evil Santa in Jinx 2.
• Butt Monkey: The Area 52 operative in Jinx 3. First, Dr. Frantic knocks him out with a flood of water and trades clothes with him while he's out cold. Then Jinx steals his wristwatch communicator, and later his lab coat (by that point, he only has his boxers and Jinx's ghost costume). After that, the E.L.F. steals Jinx's costume from him, replacing it with the former's purple suit. Poor guy just can't catch a break.
• Circling Birdies: The aforementioned operative gets them when you KO him.
  Dr. Frantic: That's funny...whenever I get knocked out, I see stars.
• Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: This is actually a plot point in Jinx 3 — disguises must be used to sneak past the guards and get into the six-armed chimp's cage and the alien spaceship.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Major Downer, the head government guy in Jinx 3.
• The Faceless: Jinx, due to the ghost costume he/she always wears. Even when he/she has to put on Dr. Frantic's lab coat in Jinx 3, we don't see his/her face.
• Hammer Space: Jinx's tiny little Halloween basket is somehow big enough to hold a lunch tray, a spork, a peanut butter sandwich, a wristwatch communicator, a roll of duct tape, two keys, a plunger, a flashlight, a bucket, and a pile of bananas. Can anyone say "Holy Toledo"?
• Mook Face Turn: The E.L.F. at the beginning of Jinx 3. Not like he had much choice, anyway — they couldn't have sent him back home.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Jinx and Dr. Frantic suddenly know Morse code in Jinx 3.
• Stock Sound Effects
• Trademark Favorite Food: Dr. Frantic likes peanut butter. A lot.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The Area 52 operatives apparently don't have a problem with strapping the E.L.F. to a table and using a precision zapper to kill him to see what his innards look like. (Don't worry, you get to save him before any of that stuff actually happens.)
• You Are Number Six: The E.L.F.s are identified this way — the note on the GEM-erator in Jinx 2 is from E.L.F #80,286.

• Normal: Fairly generic hero-archetype. The Everyman.
• Flying: Daydreams a lot. Airheadedness level depends on individuals. May be slightly more optimistic than before.
• Rock: Tough person who can stand up to a lot before going down. More drive to battle others and prove they are superior.
• Ground: Similar to Rock, but slightly more soft-spoken and defensive.
• Fighting: Stoic Blood Knight on a quest for power. When faced with any task, will never give up.
• Steel: Cold, calculating, and defensive, but when threatened with enough force will reveal true intents or feelings.
• Bug: Simple-minded or childish, and prefers to annoy people rather than outright attack or challenge them.
• Poison: Feign a kindly personality in order to disguise a vicious heart.
• Ghost: Prankster by nature, they enjoy scaring people, but usually have little truly malicious intent.
• Fire: Hot-blooded and energetic, and also hedonistic at the best of times. Sometimes have little control of their temper or physical strength when inexperienced.
• Water: Mood Swinger who can go from serene to furious in 0.6 seconds, but typically cheerful and relaxed.
• Grass: Calm, sweet Yamato Nadeshiko-type person who dislikes conflict.
• Ice: A loner who pretends to hate the world around them, but in reality is emotionally and physically sensitive.
• Psychic: One with a honed sense of empathy who fights for what they believe is morally good, for the people they love, or for both.
• Electric: Like Fire, but more unpredictable, less easily angered, and with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Dark: Sadistic and often cruel, but are willing to form alliances in times of need and may express rare moments of kindness towards the few they care about.
• Dragon: Wise, powerful, arrogant, and regal, often the leader of their team or band of friends.

Runaway is a 2006 companion novel to Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy by Wendelin Van Draanen, showcasing the journey of Holly Janquell, an orphaned 12-year-old girl who's run away from her fifth foster home.

The book manifests as the entries Holly writes in her journal that was originally given to her by her teacher, Ms. Leone, for a school assignment. Fed up with being mistreated by abusive foster parents, Holly escapes the house and starts her new life as a wandering homeless "sea gypsy".

• Action Girl
• Alpha Bitch: Camille.
• Ascended Extra: Holly was a minor character in Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy before she got her own book.
• Blade on a Stick: Holly improvises — hers is made by taping a knife to a broom handle.
• Broken Bird: Holly, and how.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Louise, the senile old lady Holly meets at the homeless shelter, is a darker example since she is implied to actually be insane.
• Dark and Troubled Past: That's putting it mildly.
• Department of Child Disservices
• Dirty Old Man: Mr. Bender is more than enough to fix this trope, and it's implied that Mr. Fisk was one too.
• Drugs Are Bad: Holly's mother was a heroin addict and died of a drug overdose.
• Dude Magnet: Holly imagines a teenage Louise to be one in her poem "The Ballad of Lady Louise".
  Soon suitors came calling with chocolates so creamy,
  She ate sweets and thought each young man was quite dreamy,
  But a renegade boy is who made her all steamy,
  That naughty young Lady Louise!
• Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of the book, Holly finally finds a loving family.
• Guile Hero: Holly, justified by the fact that she is a homeless orphan and has to be this in order to survive.
• Heroes Love Dogs
• Hidden Depths: Holly turns out to be really good at writing poetry.
• Karma Houdini: The Benders never do get punished for what they did to Holly.
• Killed Off for Real: Holly's parents, and Louise
• Like Is, Like, a Comma: One of the cheerleaders who nearly discovers Holly hiding in the locker room talks this way.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Very, VERY cynical.
• Street Urchin: Three guesses. The first two don't count.
• Wild Mass Guessing: In-universe, when Holly writes a poem about what she believes to be Louise's past. It's pretty depressing.

• The Alcoholic: You can buy as many drinks from Remy as you want. Buying a drink will cause a special effect (e.g. snowflakes falling) to appear on the screen. It will also alter the text of your forum posts to appear as if you are drunk.
• Alcohol Hic: If you make a "drunk post", whatever you typed will be accented with a written hiccup ("hic") every seven words or so.
• Allegedly Free Game: Some of the cooler pets can only be bought with crystal shards, which are only available by donating real money to MagiStream.
• All Genes Are Co Dominant: White holly jackalope + black holly jackalope = spotted holly jackalope. White pegasus + black pegasus = a chance of getting a pinto pegasus.
• Always Chaotic Evil: Amphistas.
• The Archer: Centaurs' sprites depict them with a bow and arrows.
• Big Badass Bird of Prey: Rocs.
• Big Eater: Tzunun mice and elephant snails.
• Brother-Sister Incest / Parental Incest: It is possible to do this when breeding your creatures, but a standard rule that many lineages (creature families) adhere to is "no inbreeding".
• Carnivore Confusion: The description of phoenix hatchlings says that they like to eat beetles. However, there are three different varieties of beetle available to keep as pets. Keep in mind that all companion creatures have been established to possess human-level intelligence.
• Cats are Mean: Played straight with black and calico tienkos; averted with winged cats.
• Cool Horse: Minicorns, unicorns, kelpies, resurrection horses, pegasi, and enoxes (well, sorta).
• Cool Pet: Every single creature on the list, from the leviathans to the alicantos to the telvian panthers.
• Dolphins Dolphins Everywhere: Caeralisi.
• Elemental Powers: Plenty to go around.
  • An Ice Person: Snow vevex rays, icists, ice phoenixes, frigaes reindeer, ice gryphons, frost unicorns, ice dragons, and ice octopi.
  • Casting a Shadow: Namista's spiders and coria alagos.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Ankylocrocs, earth unicorns, and amphipteres.
  • Green Thumb: Viridis crabs, vasant beetles, earth ferrets, rose imps, brontotheriums, and farir.
  • Light 'Em Up: Arkai birds, vanil and ashen shaas and sun vevex rays.
  • Making a Splash: Koi fish, goldfish, araxies, krakens, dragon turtles, kaerans, karadis dragons, and raiti seals.
  • Playing with Fire: Hellhounds, drakes, anaugi, phoenixes (the ice kind too), sacred scarabs, cerberuses, calidaes reindeer, fire gryphons, delrochs, amarth alagos, bone dragons, resurrection horses, and asaento butterflies.
  • Poisonous Person: Raza cobras, sideraes, amphistas, and abeoth frogs.
  • Psychic Powers: Ebbene sharks, tropical tarsiers, cascara butterflies and razan lemurs.
  • Shock and Awe: Raiju and storm vevex rays.
  • Soul Power: Decessus and perytons.
• Everything's Better With Bunnies: Kamar rabbits, as well as the different varieties of jackalope.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: Celestial puvias, birds with rainbow feathers.
• Everything's Deader with Zombies: Decessus are sentient, intelligent zombie rats!
• Everything's Prettier With Butterflies: Asaento and cascara butterflies. Unfortunately, they're both retired donation pets.
• Everything's Worse With Bees: Subverted with aculeusi, as they produce magical honey with helpful medicinal properties.
• Everything's Worse with Bears: Subverted with nandi bears — according to their description, they are very loyal to their master.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture
  • Synara City is Northern Europe (possibly Denmark/Norway/Sweden).
  • Arkene is Antarctica.
  • The Jungle of Raza is South America.
  • Voltar is the Middle East.
  • Etain Desert is Africa.
  • Callisto Islands is either the Bahamas or Florida.
  • Silva Forest is North America.
  • Alasre Mountains is Tibet.
• Fluffy Tamer: Some of the pets you can have include hippogryphs, cerberuses, phoenixes, poisonous spiders, dragons...
• Fridge Horror: What happens when you freeze an egg? Is the baby inside killed, or condemned to remain stuck inside its egg for all eternity?
• Gameplay and Story Segregation:
  • The official description of aculeusi states that a magi can only have one aculeus as a companion. This is not true.
  • The description of raiju describe their mating habits. However, they are still not breedable.
• Giant Spider: Namista's spiders are big even as hatchlings. Keep spiders also deserve a mention.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Gold farir, gold crystalwings, golden pearl wyrms, golden alicantos, and golden aculeusi.
• Human Popsicle: You can turn hatchlings into these so that they never reach adulthood no matter how many people click on them.
• Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: There are quite a few varieties of dragons, including amphistas, emerald wyverns, pearl wyrms, rewin dragons, karadis dragons, and dragon turtles.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tienkos are the poster creatures for Cats are Mean, but according to their descriptions, they are very protective of their magi.
• Lost Forever:
  • Donation pets are retired either in the middle or at the end of each month. With the exception of certain crystalwing species, none of them can breed.
  • This also applies to certain special holiday pets such as lucinis birds (Valentine's Day 2012) and jackalopes (Easter 2010). Thankfully, unlike donation pets they can breed, and there are plenty of nice users with these pets willing to gift one.
• Master of Illusion: Saebra unicorns.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Lots!
  • Chimeras and capricorns are created by breeding an ibex with a manticore or koi fish, respectively.
  • A gryphon and a fire or ice phoenix can make a fire or ice gryphon, while a fire or ice gryphon and a pegasus can make a solar or lunar hippogryph. Not to mention the gryphons themselves, half eagle and half lion.
  • Non-breeding example: tenvaes gryphons appear to be half blue jay and half squirrel, while cardinal gryphons are half cardinal and half leopard.
  • Hippocampi are half fish and half horse. Dragon turtles, peacock phoenixes and elephant snails are exactly what their names imply.
  • Niveus, noctis and tevera enoxes look like bird/horse/dragon mash-ups.
  • Ashevors appear to be snakes with toucan heads.
  • Centaur, mermaid and naga allies.
• Multiple Head Case: Cerberuses (three heads), amphistas (two heads), and chimeras (also two heads).
• One Gender Race: Delrochs are an all-male species.
• Panthera Awesome: Kuras tigers and azure and imperial liyans.
• The Phoenix: Fire and ice phoenixes, as well as peacock phoenixes. Dusk and dawn cinersi, too.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: A majority of the hatchlings, even if they don't look so adorable when they grow up.
  • Some creatures remain cute even into adulthood. Tzunun mice and holly jackalopes, anyone?
• Sdrawkcab Name: Anaugi.
• Super Speed: Tzunun mice have this ability. Deconstructed in that they require lots of food in order to retain it.
• Swans A Swimming: Soladis swans.
• Turtle Power: Dragon turtles and vosmari.
• Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Winged cats and tzunun mice.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Freezing eggs and/or hatchlings.
• Whale Egg: Cat, bird, dog, dragon, ferret, turtle, crab, horse — it doesn't matter what it is; if it's a creature, it comes from an egg.

Tropes that apply to all of them

• Aerith and Bob: They're all discarded fanfiction characters (in-universe) from different universes, so this is a given.
• Competitive Balance
  • Fragile Speedster: Tatiana
  • Glass Cannon: Damien
  • Lightning Bruiser: Karina
  • The Mario: Fumiko and Nae'in
  • Mighty Glacier: Leon
• Five-Man Band
  • The Hero: Karina
  • The Lancer: Leon
  • The Big Guy: Damien
  • The Smart Guy: Tatiana
  • The Chick: Fumiko
  • Sixth Ranger: Nae'in
  • Team Pet: Cloud
• Power Crystal: They are the wielders of the Heroes' Treasures.
• Six Token Band: Fantasy-style - a witch, a human, a Firebender, a cat-girl, an elf, and an Irken.
• True Companions

Karina

• Action Girl
• Anti-Hero: Type III/IV
• Bully Hunter: Her purpose in life.
• Cute Witch
• Determinator
• Hair of Gold
• Iconic Item: Her half of the Sapphire of Valor, which she shares with Léon.
• Knight Templar: As the story progresses, she grows out of it.
• Magic Wand: She's from the Harry Potter universe, so this is her Weapon of Choice.
• Pintsized Powerhouse
• Shut Up, Hannibal!
• Weaksauce Weakness: Anti-magic barriers stop her cold in her tracks.

Léon

• Adorkable
• Badass Normal
• Cool Helmet
• Cool Sword
• Glacier Waif
• Iconic Item: His half of the Sapphire of Valor, which he shares with Karina.
• The Klutz: At first, but it lessens once he learns to handle the weight of his armor.
• Knight in Shining Armor: In training to be one.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive guy to Damien's manly man.
• Undying Loyalty

Damien

• Badass
• Big Brother Mentor
• Blood Knight
• Does Not Like Ice Cream: "It burns! IT BURNS!!!"
• Iconic Item: His half of the Ruby of Courage, which he shares with Fumiko.
• Lightning Bruiser
• Made of Iron
• Playing with Fire: He's a Firebender, after all.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly man to Leon's sensitive guy.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Snowy weather, ice cream, popsicles...just cold things in general. No wonder he wasn't happy when the team had to cross through a Slippy Slidey Ice World on their way to retrieve the Emerald of Wisdom.

Fumiko

• Action Girl
• Battle Couple: With Damien, eventually.
• Cat Girl
• Cats Hate Water: She can't swim to save her life, which becomes a huge problem when the group has to cross the Deathmatch River.
• Does Not Like Citrus Fruits
• Drop the Hammer: A replica of King Dedede's hammer is her Weapon of Choice.
• Genki Girl
• The Hedonist
• Iconic Item: Her half of the Ruby of Courage, which she shares with Damien.
• The Klutz
• Leeroy Jenkins
• Prehensile Tail
• Verbal Tic: "WOOOOOO-HOOOOOO!"

Tatiana

• Action Girl: Within the group, her main purpose is to be The Smart Girl, but she can be this too if needed.
• The Chessmaster: A benevolent version, although her plans don't always work the way she expects.
• Fragile Speedster
• Green Thumb: Her staff has a magic green crystal set into the top which she uses to focus her earth powers.
• Iconic Item: Her half of the Emerald of Wisdom, which she shares with Nae'in.
• Made of Iron: The only one in the team to avert it.
• Our Elves Are Different
• Shrinking Violet: Not quite...
• The Power of the Sun: Along with her earth magic, she has this capability as well, to heal or to hurt.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Cloudy days dampen her mood, weaken her powers and make it harder for her to focus.
• White Mask of Doom

Nae'in

• Aliens Speaking English
• Awesome Backpack: His PAK.
• Character Tic: Whenever he gets annoyed, he unfolds his Spider Limbs from his backpack and uses them to lift himself up.
• Dual Wielding: His weapons of choice are a pair of handguns, which he stores in his PAK.
• Hollywood Hacking
• Iconic Item: His half of the Emerald of Wisdom, which he shares with Tatiana.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: It takes a while with some practice, but he becomes quite good at this.
• Little Green Man: Specifically, he is an Irken.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much
• Purple Eyes
• Spider Limbs
• The Stoic: Most of the time, although he does have hammy moments from time to time like an Irken should.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Meat, beans, and water.
• What Is This Thing You Call Love?: He has little understanding of human emotions and is still learning about them, love included.

Cloud

• Amplified Animal Aptitude
• Cats Hate Water: He doesn't like to swim any more than Fumiko does.
• Cool Pet
• Elemental Powers
  • Extra Ore Dinary: Iron Tail.
  • Non-Elemental: As an Eevee. Still knows Quick Attack, Trump Card, Swift, and Take Down.
  • Psychic Powers: As an Espeon.
  • Soul Power: Shadow Ball.
• Fragile Speedster: Swift, agile, and hits like a truck, but one clean blow and he hits the floor.
• Mind Over Matter: His Psychic is strong enough to permanently disable a master computer.
• Power Crystal: The gem in his head.
• Team Pet
• Weaksauce Weakness: Dark-type attacks, dark magic, impenetrable barriers, and physical force. And metal.

• Age: Approximately 14-15
• Weapon: Wand, cherry wood, dragon heartstring core, 11 inches, flexible
• Items and Equipment: Red and gold shield pendant, portable tent, hammerspace backpack, medical supplies, Sapphire of Valor
• Strengths: Knowledge of powerful combat spells
• Good Qualities: Determined, heroic, levelheaded
• Weaknesses: Anti-magic barriers, complicated puzzles
• Personality Flaws: Very aggressive towards her enemies, doesn't know when to quit, often lacks patience

• Age: Approximately 14-15
• Weapon: Iron sword with sheath, 2½ feet in length
• Items and Equipment: Armor (pieces of it), hammerspace backpack, Sapphire of Valor, magic map, portable tent
• Strengths: Skilled with fencing/swordfighting and hand-to-hand combat
• Good Qualities: Loyal, honest, patient and calm
• Weaknesses: Can be easily outmatched by a faster opponent, poor range of vision
• Personality Flaws: Can't break a promise, panics easily, sticks heavily to Honor Before Reason

• Age: 17
• Weapon: None
• Items and Equipment: Hammerspace backpack, thick winter cloak, portable tent, matches, Ruby of Courage
• Strengths: Firebending ability
• Good Qualities: Fierce, brave, passionate, skilled, Big Brother Mentor
• Weaknesses: Cold objects (ice cubes, ice cream, cold water, snow, etc.)
• Personality Flaws: Hides a deep sense of insecurity and sometimes doesn't know how to say what he thinks

• Age: 14½
• Weapon: King Dedede's hammer, 4 feet in length
• Items and Equipment: Backpack, portable tent, food supplies, adventure logbook, Ruby of Courage
• Strengths: A balance in all areas
• Good Qualities: Energetic, friendly, optimistic
• Weaknesses: Water, citrus scent, has no special ability in any field
• Personality Flaws: Clingy, easily worried and stressed out

• Age: 11
• Weapon: Magic wooden staff, 3 feet tall
• Items and Equipment: Backpack, portable tent, notebook and pencil (for planning), Emerald of Wisdom
• Strengths: Powerful sun and earth magic. Can solve puzzles and logic-based problems in a pinch.
• Good Qualities: Intelligent, resilient, loyal
• Weaknesses: Cloudy days, fire
• Personality Flaws: