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* CatSmile: When she smiles, Harry notes the similarity to a cat.
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* BodyHorror: How they're born, chest-burster fashion.

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* BodyHorror: How they're born, chest-burster fashion.ChestBurster: Grendelkin reproduce by impregnating human virgins, producing a fetus that rapdily grows to maturity before tearing its way out of its mother's womb.



* EvilCounterpart: To River Shoulders - or perhaps more accurately, to his son, Irwin Pounder. Apparently Grendel was one of the Forest People who went really, ''really'' bad. Kemmler bad. And it was so bad that it biologically warped all of his descendants. Unfortunately, it also led to Vadderung and the Valkyries hunting down the Forest People and chasing them out of Europe, all the way to the Americas.

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* EvilCounterpart: To River Shoulders - -- or perhaps more accurately, to his son, Irwin Pounder. Apparently Grendel was one of the Forest People who went really, ''really'' bad. Kemmler bad. And it was so bad that it biologically warped all of his descendants. Unfortunately, it also led to Vadderung and the Valkyries hunting down the Forest People and chasing them out of Europe, all the way to the Americas.



* ShoutOut: They're descended from the Grendel character described in [[{{Literature/Beowulf}} Beowulf]].

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* ShoutOut: They're descended from the Grendel character described in [[{{Literature/Beowulf}} Beowulf]]. Literature/{{Beowulf}}.
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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Meryl was self-sacrificing and had a soft, quiet voice, both unusual traits for trolls in most fiction.
* BrawnHilda: Meryl was muscular and ugly.
* DeadlyUpgrade: Granted, making her Choice to be a full troll didn't kill her in and of itself, but it ended her ability to live in the human world.

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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Meryl was is self-sacrificing and had has a soft, quiet voice, both unusual traits for trolls in most fiction.
* BrawnHilda: Meryl was is muscular and ugly.
* DeadlyUpgrade: Granted, making her Choice to be a full troll didn't doesn't kill her in and of itself, but it ended ends her ability to live in the human world. world.



** She sacrifices her humanity to become a powerful troll so she can help save Lily
** Her rushing against Aurora's thorns and combat against Talos led to her saving Lily, as well as the world, at the cost of her total life.
* KilledOffForReal: Died of her injuries in the climax of ''Summer Knight''.
* SuperStrength: Even before completing her transformation she was strong enough to toss prople around like tennis balls. Post transformation she can smash through trees.
* UndyingLoyalty: In order to save Lily, she pushed her way through a poisoned barrier of thorns while battling mighty Sidhe warriors Talos, Lloyd and Korrick and kept going despite getting a hole through her chest and an arm cut off. She dies from the injuries.

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** She sacrifices her humanity to become a powerful troll so that she can help save Lily
Lily.
** Her rushing against Aurora's thorns and combat against Talos led leads to her saving Lily, as well as the world, at the cost of her total life.
* KilledOffForReal: Died She dies of her injuries in the climax of ''Summer Knight''.
* SuperStrength: Even before completing her transformation transformation, she was is strong enough to toss prople around like tennis balls. Post transformation Post-transformation she can smash through trees.
* UndyingLoyalty: In order to save Lily, she pushed pushes her way through a poisoned barrier of thorns while battling the mighty Sidhe warriors Talos, Lloyd and Korrick and kept keeps going despite getting a hole through her chest and an arm cut off. She dies from the injuries.
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A powerful Fae and one of the [[http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,21772.msg947681.html#msg947681 Kings of Summer]], who leads TheWildHunt. First encountered in ''Dead Beat'', where, as a result of the plot, he became one of Harry's mortal enemies. He commands the Wyldfae of Summer.

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A powerful Fae and one of the [[http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,21772.msg947681.html#msg947681 Kings of Summer]], Summer, who leads TheWildHunt. First encountered in ''Dead Beat'', where, as a result of the plot, he became one of Harry's mortal enemies. He commands the Wyldfae of Summer.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: It's mentioned that she was responsible in part for Johann Gutenberg and the Brothers Grimm becoming powerful and significant, and even helped Walt Disney get off the ground. Amusingly, Harry mentions that she actually ''despises'' Disney ("both the company and the man") since she sees the {{Disneyification}} of fairy tales he helped popularize as coddling and weakening humanity.

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: It's mentioned that she was responsible in part for Johann Gutenberg and the Brothers Grimm becoming powerful and significant, and even helped Walt Disney get off the ground. Amusingly, Harry mentions that she actually ''despises'' Disney ("both the company and the man") since she sees the {{Disneyification}} {{Disneyfication}} of fairy tales he helped popularize as coddling and weakening humanity.

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