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* PosthumousCharacter: Jess's mom, Evelyn Wheatley, is referred to frequently and has a palpable absence in more home-life scenes, but never appears, even in flashbacks. The movie left it ambiguous where she might be, but in this series we learn early on that she died when he was too young to remember her. [[spoiler: Eventually, it is revealed that she was lost at sea, and was the only person who believed her husband's mermaid sighting story.]]
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* Masquerade: Both lampshaded and then humorously averted: when she finds out about merpeople, Sam's sister excitedly asks what else is real, since she's now behind the masquerade. However, as far as anyone knows, merpeople are the only unusual thing about this universe, and mostly follow real-world marine biology rules, so there are no further grand secrets to be revealed (this doesn't stop her from then getting into researching various other cryptids in her free time).

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* Masquerade: TheMasquerade: Both lampshaded and then humorously averted: when she finds out about merpeople, Sam's sister excitedly asks what else is real, since she's now behind the masquerade. However, as far as anyone knows, merpeople are the only unusual thing about this universe, and mostly follow real-world marine biology rules, so there are no further grand secrets to be revealed (this doesn't stop her from then getting into researching various other cryptids in her free time).
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* Masquerade: Both lampshaded and then humorously averted: when she finds out about merpeople, Sam's sister excitedly asks what else is real, since she's now behind the masquerade. However, as far as anyone knows, merpeople are the only unusual thing about this universe, and mostly follow real-world marine biology rules, so there are no further grand secrets to be revealed (this doesn't stop her from then getting into researching various other cryptids in her free time).
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* MagicPants: Cody somehow is never naked before or after transforming back to human form. Whether he just carries shorts with him or if it's some form of magic is left ambiguous, and he is never actually shown transforming, just going underwater and coming back up with either legs or tail. When asked about this on their tie-in tumblr, the author has explained that it just would get in the way of the story, so doesn't see the need to worry about this detail.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: despite indications that Sean's showdown with Cody in senior year would be of status-quo-shaking proportions, it's a rather anticlimactic argument. Not a whole lot more than a pair of awkward teens who just continue to dislike each other, with no real resolution to what Sean expected to be a grand conspiracy against him, when he finds out that Cody just doesn't care.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: despite Despite indications that Sean's showdown with Cody in senior year would be of status-quo-shaking proportions, it's a rather anticlimactic argument. Not a whole lot more than a pair of awkward teens who just continue to dislike each other, with no real resolution to what Sean expected to be a grand conspiracy against him, when he finds out that Cody just doesn't care.
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* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]. Also EwanMcGregor for Nathan, specifically in The Phantom Menace.

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* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]. Also EwanMcGregor Creator/EwanMcGregor for Nathan, specifically in The Phantom Menace.
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* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]. Also Ewan McGregor for Nathan, specifically in The Phantom Menace.

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* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]. Also Ewan McGregor EwanMcGregor for Nathan, specifically in The Phantom Menace.
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* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]

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* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]Jess]]. Also Ewan McGregor for Nathan, specifically in The Phantom Menace.

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* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]



* ClosetKey: Sam for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: Cody for Jess]]

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* ClosetKey: Sam CoolDownHug: The solution Nathan (and soon after, Jess and Sam) provides for [[spoiler: Lilly]] and [[spoiler: helping Cody through his accidental caffeine poisoning, inspired by the thunder-shirt for Jess]]Nathan's Pomeranian. Since caffeine makes him incredibly jittery and sensitive, it helps a lot.


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* CuddleBug: As his merpeople touch-telepathy gets stronger as he grows up, Cody becomes this, especially with Jess.
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* SleepCute: [[spoiler:Cody and Jess, a couple times. The first happened after Jess gets badly beaten up by Sean and two other swim team bullies, and Cody came over to make sure he was OK and ended up staying the night, combining this with hurt/comfort]]
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* PettyChildhoodGrudge: While they don't openly say it, by the time senior year rolls around, several swim team members see Sean's hatred of Cody as this. Depending on one's point of view, they're not entirely wrong.
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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/{{Brink}} make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens. As of February 2024, the same author has [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3319141 "a mini-series for the Brink! characters set in the same universe"]]

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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/{{Brink}} make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens. As of February 2024, the same author has [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3319141 "a a mini-series for the Brink! characters set in the same universe"]]universe]]
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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/{{Brink}} make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens.

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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/{{Brink}} make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens. As of February 2024, the same author has [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3319141 "a mini-series for the Brink! characters set in the same universe"]]
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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/Brink ! make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens.

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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/Brink ! Film/{{Brink}} make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens.
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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/Brink! make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens.

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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Film/Brink! Film/Brink ! make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens.
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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Movie/ThePrincessDiaries and Movie/Brink! make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens.

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* VacationCrossover: Characters from Movie/ThePrincessDiaries Film/ThePrincessDiaries and Movie/Brink! Film/Brink! make quick cameos at a few points in the story while visiting the beach town, since all three movies take place roughly around the same time, in the same part of the world, and are all Disney movies aimed at teens.
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* GradeSkipper: Both Cody Griffin and Jess Wheatley skipped grades before the story began.

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* GradeSkipper: Both Cody Griffin and Jess Wheatley skipped grades before the story began.began: Cody went straight to first grade thanks to his parents' enthusiastic homeschooling, Jess skipped 3rd grade for being ahead in academics.
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* AlienCatnip: Cody cannot drink alcohol because it messes with his biology and makes him drunk faster.

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* AlienCatnip: Cody cannot drink alcohol because it messes with his biology and makes him drunk faster. He is also extremely sensitive to caffeine, becoming jittery and light-sensitive on even small amounts.
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* WildTeenParty: The afterparty of the junior year Sadie Hawkins dance at Amanda's house

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* WildTeenParty: The afterparty of the junior year Sadie Hawkins dance at Amanda's househouse
* WouldHurtAChild: Mats Neslund and his assistant, to a terrifying degree
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* HighSchoolDance: Two large episodes revolve around the homecoming dance and the Sadie Hawkins dance, respectively.

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* HighSchoolDance: Two Several large episodes revolve around the these, including homecoming dance and the Sadie Hawkins dance, respectively.Hawkins.



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Sean and Cody; Amanda and Sam.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Sean and Cody; Amanda and Sam.Sam (though as the story goes on, it is more like these two have been more or less co-orbiting teammates, which Amanda sometimes has interpreted as friendship).
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* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Averted. When Jess tries to research relevant merpeople information, even with specific language from print sources, he's mired in websites and forums of unrelated and fictional content, as expected for the subject matter. It's months of regular searching and reading before he finds anything relevant to what he was looking for, and even then it is only a fragment of a lead. His username is also a realistically-vague set of initials and numbers.
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[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2378653 ''Creatures that Defy Logic'']] is an ongoing series by Anarchiteuthis for the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie ''Film/TheThirteenthYear''. It takes place immediately after the movie ends and continues through the main characters' high school careers. It began on June 24th, 2021 and as of August 20th, 2023, it has 102 parts and 647,022 words. Minor spoilers are unmarked.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2378653 ''Creatures that Defy Logic'']] is an ongoing series by Anarchiteuthis for the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie ''Film/TheThirteenthYear''. It takes place immediately after the movie ends and continues through the main characters' high school careers. It began on June 24th, 2021 and as of August 20th, December 21st, 2023, it has 102 106 parts and 647,022 over 700,000 words. Minor spoilers are unmarked.
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* LikeBrotherAndSister: Sam affectionately tells Jess he's like her little brother in junior year.

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* LikeBrotherAndSister: Sam affectionately tells Jess he's like her little brother in junior year. From starting the series as basically strangers, it's a heartwarming moment in their character development.

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* LikeBrotherAndSister: Sam affectionately says Jess is like her little brother.


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* LikeBrotherAndSister: Sam affectionately tells Jess he's like her little brother in junior year.

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