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-->"[Kroko. Lilo. Dolly. Sly. There is little point in me beating about the bush: (...) the majority of us have gained, for lack of a better word, superpowers.]"\\

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-->"[Kroko.->"[Kroko. Lilo. Dolly. Sly. There is little point in me beating about the bush: (...) the majority of us have gained, for lack of a better word, superpowers.]"\\






* FantasticRecruitmentDrive: Villainous variation. [[spoiler:Dr Wood manages to drum up a large number of toys to side with him within a matter of five days. Justified, because in canon he has already been shown as very good at persuasion and charisma, and he is at the point of his therapy when that trait is even more enhanced.]]
** He's actually banked far too much on this by the time Chapter 16 rolls around - [[spoiler:the success of his sermon depends on his audience trusting him so blindly because of aforementioned charisma that they will not ask for direct proof of what he can do. But Lilo of all toys shows up to prove him wrong, untangling the web of lies.]]

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* FantasticRecruitmentDrive: Villainous variation. [[spoiler:Dr Wood manages to drum up a large number of toys to side with him within a matter of five days. Justified, because in canon he has already been shown as very good at persuasion and charisma, and he is at the point of his therapy when that trait is even more enhanced.]]
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]] He's actually banked far too much on this by the time Chapter 16 rolls around - [[spoiler:the success of his sermon depends on his audience trusting him so blindly because of aforementioned charisma that they will not ask for direct proof of what he can do. But Lilo of all toys shows up to prove him wrong, untangling the web of lies.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: In Chapter 12, after Sly manages to trigger a RantInducingSlight.

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* PrecisionFStrike: In Chapter 12, after Sly manages to trigger a RantInducingSlight.aRageBreakingPoint.
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* ElementalPersonalities: A variant with Dolly, who unconsciously calls upon elemental magic depending on her current emotional state; anger creates fire, sadness creates rain, pain creates cold and ice, etc. As Dolly has a severe mood disorder, running over a vast emotional gamut but mostly anger and depression, her elemental emanations are liable to change at any time.
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* MoralDissonance: Inverted to some extent with Sly, backed with WhatTheHellHero. Sly has no qualms about using his "sparks" to cause harm to the toys he needs to fight, even if Dolly has expressly said he's not to. He also doesn't mind giving pretty severe shocks to Lilo in order to aid his powers. But when it comes to [[spoiler:doing the same thing to Dub, in a piecemeal form of electroshock therapy, which we know from canon is the only way his character arc can proceed?]]
-->'''Sly:''' [No, I can't [[spoiler:give sparks to Dub]]. I don't want to. It's wrong.]

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* SuddenlyVoiced (a necessity)



* ThankTheMaker / OhMyGods!: Zigzagged. Usually the toys invoke God and Goddamn in the traditional way, but other times they say Steiff instead, in a reference to Steiff being the first company to create stuffed toys en masse. At one point, Dolly even says "For the love of Beanie Babies". Justified because, aside from Sly (who explicitly invokes UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, specifically Shiva), none of the toys in canon really ''have'' a belief system. Notably, [[AGodAmI Wood is an exception to both of these tropes.]]

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* ThankTheMaker / OhMyGods!: ThankTheMaker: Zigzagged. Usually the toys invoke God and Goddamn in the traditional way, but other times they say Steiff instead, in a reference to Steiff being the first company to create stuffed toys en masse. At one point, Dolly even says "For the love of Beanie Babies". Justified because, aside from Sly (who explicitly invokes UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, specifically Shiva), none of the toys in canon really ''have'' a belief system. Notably, [[AGodAmI Wood is an exception to both of these tropes.]]

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-->"[Kroko. Lilo. Dolly. Sly. There is little point in me beating about the bush: (...) the majority of us have gained, for lack of a better word, superpowers.]"
-->Sly was the only one to vocalize a reaction: "[Awesome!]"

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-->"[Kroko. Lilo. Dolly. Sly. There is little point in me beating about the bush: (...) the majority of us have gained, for lack of a better word, superpowers.]"
-->Sly
]"\\
Sly
was the only one to vocalize a reaction: "[Awesome!]"



--> Dolly: [Wood's the only one with any horrible intent [[note]]Absicht[[/note]], so it's safe to-]
--> Sly: [He doesn't ''have'' a view [[note]]Ansicht, a Malapropism both by spelling and by way of Sly using the wrong sense of the word for the context[[/note]], he can't see us through the hood.]
--> Dolly: [Yes he can, and I said intent, not view.]

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--> Dolly: -->'''Dolly:''' [Wood's the only one with any horrible intent [[note]]Absicht[[/note]], so it's safe to-]
--> Sly:
to-]\\
'''Sly:'''
[He doesn't ''have'' a view [[note]]Ansicht, a Malapropism both by spelling and by way of Sly using the wrong sense of the word for the context[[/note]], he can't see us through the hood.]
--> Dolly:
]\\
'''Dolly:'''
[Yes he can, and I said intent, not view.]



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In Chapter 13, Dr Wood explains to Dub the statistics of a submarine (in kilometres as opposed to miles) to prove a point about how being unaerodynamic isn't a detriment to speed and performance. Dub's response?
--> "Ooh, you work in the metric system! I like-y."

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint:
**
In Chapter 13, Dr Wood explains to Dub the statistics of a submarine (in kilometres as opposed to miles) to prove a point about how being unaerodynamic isn't a detriment to speed and performance. Dub's response?
--> "Ooh, --->"Ooh, you work in the metric system! I like-y."



--> Dolly: [You really think I'm going to willingly trigger myself by walking out in front of a dog with [[spoiler:Dub]] in, what, a wheelbarrow or something, so he can catch my fear?]
--> Sly: [No! I think [[spoiler:Dub]] would be in a wagon, not a wheelbarrow. I don't even know what is a wheelbarrow.]

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--> Dolly: --->'''Dolly:''' [You really think I'm going to willingly trigger myself by walking out in front of a dog with [[spoiler:Dub]] in, what, a wheelbarrow or something, so he can catch my fear?]
--> Sly:
fear?]\\
'''Sly:'''
[No! I think [[spoiler:Dub]] would be in a wagon, not a wheelbarrow. I don't even know what is a wheelbarrow.]



** CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Depending on the situation, Kroko or Dolly can operate as this.

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** * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Depending on the situation, Kroko or Dolly can operate as this.



--> Sly: [No, I can't [[spoiler:give sparks to Dub]]. I don't want to. It's wrong.]
* MotorMouth: Sly again, in Chapters 1 and 14 especially.

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--> Sly: -->'''Sly:''' [No, I can't [[spoiler:give sparks to Dub]]. I don't want to. It's wrong.]
* MotorMouth: MotorMouth:
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Sly again, in Chapters 1 and 14 especially.



--> Dolly: [How is that my fucking problem?]

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--> Dolly: -->'''Dolly:''' [How is that my fucking problem?]



* ScamReligion: [[spoiler:As in canon, from Chapter 5 onward.]]



--> In that recurring theme of their long-distance relationship to time recently...

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--> In -->In that recurring theme of their long-distance relationship to time recently...



--> Dolly: Look, Ah dornt like it either, but [the German language] jist doesnae work 'at way. We've bin '''ower''' thes.
--> Dub: Says she who says "over" as "ower".
--> Dolly: Leave mah accent out ay thes, ye ass!

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--> Dolly: -->'''Dolly:''' Look, Ah dornt like it either, but [the German language] jist doesnae work 'at way. We've bin '''ower''' thes.
--> Dub:
thes.\\
'''Dub:'''
Says she who says "over" as "ower".
--> Dolly:
"ower".\\
'''Dolly:'''
Leave mah accent out ay thes, ye ass!
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It can be found on Website/LiveJournal [[http://posseesse.livejournal.com here]], or backed up on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/729464/chapters/1354969 here]].

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It can be found on Website/LiveJournal [[http://posseesse.livejournal.com here]], or backed up in its most complete form on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/729464/chapters/1354969 here]].

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* AltumVidetur: The title of the story, and of each chapter, [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming are all Latin phrases]], some more recognizable than others, that indicate the content within. (EG: ''A posse ad esse'' means 'from being able to being'.) Overlaps with PretentiousLatinMotto for the particularly obscure ones (Incepto Ne Desistam, anyone?).


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* GratuitousLatin: The title of the story, and of each chapter, [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming are all Latin phrases]], some more recognizable than others, that indicate the content within. (EG: ''A posse ad esse'' means 'from being able to being'.) Overlaps with PretentiousLatinMotto for the particularly obscure ones (Incepto Ne Desistam, anyone?).
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* ApologizesALot: Kroko, sometimes Dolly in a sadder mood. Most [[{{Egregious}} egregiously]] done in Chapter 6, when he allegedly manages to say sorry for yelling at Lilo forty times in the space of three minutes.

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* ApologizesALot: Kroko, sometimes Dolly in a sadder mood. Most [[{{Egregious}} [[JustForFun/{{Egregious}} egregiously]] done in Chapter 6, when he allegedly manages to say sorry for yelling at Lilo forty times in the space of three minutes.

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It can be found on Website/LiveJournal [[http://posseesse.livejournal.com here]], with an [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/729464/chapters/1354969 AO3 backup]] as well.

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It can be found on Website/LiveJournal [[http://posseesse.livejournal.com here]], with an or backed up on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/729464/chapters/1354969 AO3 backup]] as well.here]].



* VirtualSoundtrack: On the LJ copy, each post has a certain song outlined in the 'Music' qualifier; on AO3, this is recreated in the author's notes. The soundtrack is also accompanied with a moodlet to show the central character and overall theme of each chapter: for example, Chapter 2's theme is conflict.

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* VirtualSoundtrack: VirtualSoundtrack:
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On the LJ copy, each post has a certain song outlined in the 'Music' qualifier; on AO3, Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, this is recreated in the author's notes. The soundtrack is also accompanied with a moodlet to show the central character and overall theme of each chapter: for example, Chapter 2's theme is conflict.
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* {{Trigger}}: Dolly carries over her adverse reaction to dog bones, and fear of dogs in general, from the original canon. Kroko's aquaphobia also shows signs of this, since it leads to a couple of panic attacks. These have both hindered and helped the team over the course of the fic.

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* {{Trigger}}: TraumaButton: Dolly carries over her adverse reaction to dog bones, and fear of dogs in general, from the original canon. Kroko's aquaphobia also shows signs of this, since it leads to a couple of panic attacks. These have both hindered and helped the team over the course of the fic.
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It can be found on LiveJournal [[http://posseesse.livejournal.com here]]. Recently given an [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/729464/chapters/1354969 AO3 backup]] as well.

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It can be found on LiveJournal Website/LiveJournal [[http://posseesse.livejournal.com here]]. Recently given here]], with an [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/729464/chapters/1354969 AO3 backup]] as well.
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* ShoutOut: While the original was rife with shout-outs to deep or otherwise psychological works, the author makes those in this more contemporary. In Chapter 9, ''{{Minesweeper}}'' and SuperTed of all things are name-dropped, and [[spoiler:the writingasm scene]] in Chapter 10 has shades of [[spoiler:the "I WILL READ" scene in Theatre/{{Fame}}]]. Chapters 14 and 16 also includes thinly-veiled shout-outs to another Die Anstalt fanfic, "Sparkles and the Great Escape".

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* ShoutOut: While the original was rife with shout-outs to deep or otherwise psychological works, the author makes those in this more contemporary. In Chapter 9, ''{{Minesweeper}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}'' and SuperTed WesternAnimation/SuperTed of all things are name-dropped, and [[spoiler:the writingasm scene]] in Chapter 10 has shades of [[spoiler:the "I WILL READ" scene in Theatre/{{Fame}}]]. Chapters 14 and 16 also includes thinly-veiled shout-outs to another Die Anstalt fanfic, "Sparkles and the Great Escape".
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''A Posse Ad Esse'' is an AlternateUniverseFic for obscure web game ''VideoGame/DieAnstalt''. Specifically, an AU where the six main characters all gain superpowers. Considering these characters are all disabled cuddly toys (five patients and a doctor, to be exact), the inevitable result is conflict, confusion and a different kind of therapy: experience.

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''A Posse Ad Esse'' is an AlternateUniverseFic for the obscure web game ''VideoGame/DieAnstalt''. Specifically, an AU where the six main characters all gain superpowers. Considering these characters are all disabled cuddly toys (five patients and a doctor, to be exact), the inevitable result is conflict, confusion and a different kind of therapy: experience.



* [[spoiler:ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Played for Drama, in that it's the up-to-that-point SecretWeapon doing it.]]

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* [[spoiler:ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Played for Drama, ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: [[spoiler:PlayedForDrama, in that it's the up-to-that-point SecretWeapon doing it.]]



* [[OnlySaneMan Only Neurotypical Toy]]: Applied more literally than usual to Dub [[spoiler:(pre-Chapter 13's AngstComa, anyway)]]; despite having been in an asylum for the best part of six months, he persists in his belief that he didn't need to be admitted there. But, as Dr Wood puts it, "Toys without problems don't tend to be found in asylums."

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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Neurotypical Toy]]: OnlySaneMan: Applied more literally than usual to Dub [[spoiler:(pre-Chapter 13's AngstComa, anyway)]]; despite having been in an asylum for the best part of six months, he persists in his belief that he didn't need to be admitted there. But, as Dr Wood puts it, "Toys without problems don't tend to be found in asylums."



* [[PowersInTheFirstEpisode Powers in the First Chapter]]

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* [[PowersInTheFirstEpisode Powers in the First Chapter]]%%* PowersInTheFirstEpisode



* [[spoiler:SavageWolves (to Dolly anyway, Lyall zerself is actually a NobleWolf)]]

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* [[spoiler:SavageWolves (to SavageWolves [[spoiler:To Dolly anyway, Lyall zerself is actually a NobleWolf)]]NobleWolf]]
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* FiveManBand: While not entirely cohesive, properly established by now.
** TheLeader: Dolly, reluctantly.
** TheSmartGuy: Lilo
** TheBigGuy in training: [[spoiler:Lyall]]
** TheLancer: Dub
** TheChick: Kroko
** TagalongKid: Sly, mentally speaking, albeit he doesn't get kidnapped
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* MaxTrope: Dub's [[TheGhost unseen but oft-mentioned owner]], unnamed in canon, is here given the name of - well - [[CaptainObvious Max]]. [[spoiler:Given Dub's [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation retooled-mostly-by-accident backstory]], this can come across as DevelopingDoomedCharacters.]]
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** Lilo too, when he's given the ability to communicate at all. Usually in writing.

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* AnAssKickingChristmas: Played with. The story starts "literally three days until Christmas", but only Dr Wood knows this. The other patients have [[TimeDissonance very little concept of time passing]], and no reliable clocks [[spoiler:once they are forced to leave the asylum]], relying on the sun setting and other visual cues just to figure out whether it's morning, afternoon or night. Nonetheless, the prose attempts to make clear that the two first fight scenes between hero and villain sides occur on Christmas Day, four hours apart.

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* AnAssKickingChristmas: Played with. The story starts "literally three days until Christmas", but only Dr Wood knows this. The other patients have [[TimeDissonance very little concept of time passing]], passing, and no reliable clocks [[spoiler:once they are forced to leave the asylum]], relying on the sun setting and other visual cues just to figure out whether it's morning, afternoon or night. Nonetheless, the prose attempts to make clear that the two first fight scenes between hero and villain sides occur on Christmas Day, four hours apart.



* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Spinne.

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* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Spinne. [[spoiler:Lyall, to a certain extent.]]



* [[OnlySaneMan Only Neurotypical Toy]]: Applied more literally than usual to Dub [[spoiler:(pre-Chapter 13's AngstComa, anyway)]]; despite having been in an asylum for the best part of six months, he persists in his belief that he didn't need to be admitted there. But, as Dr Wood puts it:
--> "Toys without problems don't tend to be found in asylums."

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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Neurotypical Toy]]: Applied more literally than usual to Dub [[spoiler:(pre-Chapter 13's AngstComa, anyway)]]; despite having been in an asylum for the best part of six months, he persists in his belief that he didn't need to be admitted there. But, as Dr Wood puts it:
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it, "Toys without problems don't tend to be found in asylums."



* PronounTrouble: [[spoiler:Lyall is gender-neutral, and goes by ze/zer/zer pronouns - despite the fact that the equivalent in German linguistics is ''es'', not ''ze''. Since Dolly's natural tongue indicates that she was made in Scotland, though, and Lyall therefore must have been made at the same time in the same place, we can let it slide. Dolly sometimes slips up and uses 'it' instead of ze, while Sly persisted for a while in calling zer Ze-Sir instead of Lyall, since he was the one most confused about the existence of that particular gender identity.]]

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* PronounTrouble: [[spoiler:Lyall is gender-neutral, and goes by ze/zer/zer pronouns - despite the fact that the equivalent in German linguistics is ''es'', not ''ze''. Since Dolly's natural tongue indicates that she was made in Scotland, though, and Lyall therefore must have been made at the same time in the same place, we can let it slide. At first, Dolly sometimes slips kept slipping up and uses used 'it' instead of ze, while Sly persisted for a while in calling zer Ze-Sir instead of Lyall, since he was the one most confused about the existence of that particular gender identity.]]



* ShipTease: Kroko and Dolly seem to be getting a couple - most notably so far: "sweetie".
* ShoutOut: While the original was rife with shout-outs to deep or otherwise psychological works, the author makes those in this more contemporary. In Chapter 9, ''{{Minesweeper}}'' and SuperTed of all things are name-dropped, and [[spoiler:the writingasm scene]] in Chapter 10 has shades of [[spoiler:the "I WILL READ" scene in Theatre/{{Fame}}]]. Chapter 14 also includes a thinly-veiled shout-out to another Die Anstalt fanfic, "Sparkles and the Great Escape".

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* ShipTease: Kroko and Dolly seem to be getting got a couple - most notably so far: "sweetie".
dotted through various chapters, until Chapter 17 bumped it into overdrive.
* ShoutOut: While the original was rife with shout-outs to deep or otherwise psychological works, the author makes those in this more contemporary. In Chapter 9, ''{{Minesweeper}}'' and SuperTed of all things are name-dropped, and [[spoiler:the writingasm scene]] in Chapter 10 has shades of [[spoiler:the "I WILL READ" scene in Theatre/{{Fame}}]]. Chapter Chapters 14 and 16 also includes a thinly-veiled shout-out shout-outs to another Die Anstalt fanfic, "Sparkles and the Great Escape".



* TimeDissonance: A constant, given the toys' current location condition and time dilation being a shared symptom.
--> In that recurring theme of their long-distance relationship to time recently...



* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:On some level, Dr. Wood honestly believes he's helping others via the Claw Association, but Chapter 9 also beats in that he's also doing it for emotional validation and the belief he should be God.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:On some level, [[spoiler:Early on, Dr. Wood honestly believes he's believed he was helping others via the Claw Association, but Chapter 9 also beats over time his POV chaters beat in that he's also doing it more for emotional validation and the belief he should be God.psychological ego validation, to bolster his undiagnosed NPD.]]
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* TheNicknamer: [[spoiler:Lyall.]] Dolly = "Doll"; Sly = "snake boy"; Dr Wood = "Woodster"; Lilo = "Savvy"; Dub = "turtle"; Kroko doesn't have one. "Doll" has been the most consistent. [[spoiler:It's a sign of zer starting to respect Dolly more when ze uses her actual name].

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* TheNicknamer: [[spoiler:Lyall.]] Dolly = "Doll"; Sly = "snake boy"; Dr Wood = "Woodster"; Lilo = "Savvy"; Dub = "turtle"; Kroko doesn't have one. "Doll" has been the most consistent. [[spoiler:It's a sign of zer starting to respect Dolly more when ze uses her actual name].name]].

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** A slightly weirder meta-example of a Callback: In Chapter 5, one of the few German phrases Dub knows is "''Himmel Auf'' - not sure what it means, but I heard it in a song once or twice." Twelve chapters later, the soundtrack for Chapter 17 is... "Himmel Auf" by Silbermond.



* TheNicknamer: [[spoiler:Lyall.]] Names so far: Dolly = "Doll", Sly = "snake boy", Dr Wood = "Woodster". Lilo and Dub, [[spoiler:ze]] just refers to as their species. "Doll" has been the most consistent.

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* TheNicknamer: [[spoiler:Lyall.]] Names so far: Dolly = "Doll", "Doll"; Sly = "snake boy", boy"; Dr Wood = "Woodster". "Woodster"; Lilo and Dub, [[spoiler:ze]] just refers to as their species.= "Savvy"; Dub = "turtle"; Kroko doesn't have one. "Doll" has been the most consistent. [[spoiler:It's a sign of zer starting to respect Dolly more when ze uses her actual name].
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* AllThereInTheManual: The physical depictions and names of some of the Claw Association members can only be found in the Chapter 16 Postface.


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** He's actually banked far too much on this by the time Chapter 16 rolls around - [[spoiler:the success of his sermon depends on his audience trusting him so blindly because of aforementioned charisma that they will not ask for direct proof of what he can do. But Lilo of all toys shows up to prove him wrong, untangling the web of lies.]]
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Downplayed. We hear some details of Lilo's plan, but we have to witness the particulars for ourselves as they happen.
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* ActualPacifist: While hinted at in previous chapters, Kroko confirms himself as one of these in Chapter 10, to the point where he doesn't even want the primary antagonist to get hurt. Of course, just because he doesn't wish to harm anyone [[BewareTheNiceOnes doesn't mean he]] ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes can't]]''...

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* ActualPacifist: While hinted at in previous chapters, Kroko confirms himself as one of these in Chapter 10, to the point where he doesn't even want the primary antagonist to get hurt. Of course, just because he doesn't wish to harm anyone [[BewareTheNiceOnes [[CorneredRattlesnake doesn't mean he]] ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes can't]]''...
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* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Spinne.
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* ActualPacifist: While hinted at in previous chapters, Kroko confirms himself as one of these in Chapter 10, to the point where he doesn't even want the primary antagonist to get hurt. Of course, just because he doesn't wish to harm anyone [[BewareTheNiceOnes doesn't mean he ''can't'']]...

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* ActualPacifist: While hinted at in previous chapters, Kroko confirms himself as one of these in Chapter 10, to the point where he doesn't even want the primary antagonist to get hurt. Of course, just because he doesn't wish to harm anyone [[BewareTheNiceOnes doesn't mean he ''can't'']]...he]] ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes can't]]''...
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* ActualPacifist: While hinted at in previous chapters, Kroko confirms himself as one of these in Chapter 10, to the point where he doesn't even want the ''primary antagonist'' to get hurt.

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* ActualPacifist: While hinted at in previous chapters, Kroko confirms himself as one of these in Chapter 10, to the point where he doesn't even want the ''primary antagonist'' primary antagonist to get hurt. Of course, just because he doesn't wish to harm anyone [[BewareTheNiceOnes doesn't mean he ''can't'']]...
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* ThankTheMaker / OhMyGods!: Zigzagged. Usually the toys invoke God and Goddamn in the traditional way, but other times they say Steiff instead, in a reference to Steiff being the first company to create stuffed toys en masse. At one point, Dolly even says "For the love of Beanie Babies". Justified because, aside from Sly (who explicitly invokes UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, specifically Shiva), none of the toys in canon really ''have'' a belief system.

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* ThankTheMaker / OhMyGods!: Zigzagged. Usually the toys invoke God and Goddamn in the traditional way, but other times they say Steiff instead, in a reference to Steiff being the first company to create stuffed toys en masse. At one point, Dolly even says "For the love of Beanie Babies". Justified because, aside from Sly (who explicitly invokes UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, specifically Shiva), none of the toys in canon really ''have'' a belief system. Notably, [[AGodAmI Wood is an exception to both of these tropes.]]
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* PronounTrouble: [[spoiler:Lyall is gender-neutral, and goes by ze/zer/zer pronouns - despite the fact that the equivalent in German linguistics is ''es'', not ''ze''. Since Dolly's natural tongue indicates that she was made in Scotland, though, and Lyall therefore must have been made at the same time, we can let it slide. Dolly sometimes slips up and uses 'it' instead of ze, while Sly persisted for a while in calling zer Ze-Sir instead of Lyall, since he was the one most confused about the existence of that particular gender identity.]]

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* PronounTrouble: [[spoiler:Lyall is gender-neutral, and goes by ze/zer/zer pronouns - despite the fact that the equivalent in German linguistics is ''es'', not ''ze''. Since Dolly's natural tongue indicates that she was made in Scotland, though, and Lyall therefore must have been made at the same time, time in the same place, we can let it slide. Dolly sometimes slips up and uses 'it' instead of ze, while Sly persisted for a while in calling zer Ze-Sir instead of Lyall, since he was the one most confused about the existence of that particular gender identity.]]

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