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** Played straight in Sunrise, as the complete collapse of the government leads to the complete abandonment of the camps, which allows the refugees to easily escape and flee westward.
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** Played straight in Sunrise, as the complete collapse of the government leads to the complete abandonment of the camps, which allows the refugees to easily escape and flee westward.eastward.
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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Red is a bloody tyrant who bases his law on vengeance and an eye for an eye mentality. [[spoiler:However, his brutal methods do not endear him well to the majority of Stockton, most of whom are more than happy to revolt when Ed tells them about Speranta. This is contrasted with Alex, who obtains power naturally and bases his law on the US constitution and the Bill of Rights.]]
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* FirePurifies: After killing all three of the last surviving members of a dying flenser gang, a suggestion to bury the remains comes up. Alex vetos it, stating that nothing short of burning the entire building down would suffice.
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Red is a bloody tyrant who bases his law on vengeance and an eye for an eye mentality. [[spoiler:However, his brutal methods do not endear him well to the majority of Stockton, most of whom are more than happy to revolt when Ed tells them about Speranta. This is contrasted with Alex, who obtains power naturally and bases hislaw laws on the US constitution and the Bill of Rights.]]
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Red is a bloody tyrant who bases his law on vengeance and an eye for an eye mentality. [[spoiler:However, his brutal methods do not endear him well to the majority of Stockton, most of whom are more than happy to revolt when Ed tells them about Speranta. This is contrasted with Alex, who obtains power naturally and bases his
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* UncleanlinessIsNexttoUngodliness: many of the flenser gangs have degenerated even further than they have in previous books. Three of the last surviving members of one particular gang are found in an abandoned JCPenny in a filthy den full of rotting human remains. At least one or two are afflicted with debilitating illnesses, and the one flenser still healthy enough to put up a fight is still little more than a mindless, drooling animal.
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** In Sunrise, this means that it's a lot easier for Alex to find Darla a wedding ring than it is to scavenge for other supplies. Everybody has already taken the food, weapons, and other tools, but they don't waste time with jewelery that does nothing but look pretty.
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* NoFEMAResponse: A rather horrifying subversion: FEMA does respond, but it would have been better had they not. Instead of helping people, FEMA restricts the movement of refugees, and their camps operate more like concentration camps rather than refugee camps. To make matters worse, they execute non-compliant individuals by locking them up in doghouses and subjecting them to starvation diets. This is done because apparently it's easier to just say that they died from exposure to the elements rather than straight up admit to murdering them. Darla and Alex escape when the former offers to be a prostitute for the utterly corrupt captain of the FEMA camp, then takes her opportunity to steal a bulldozer and break open the doghouse that Alex is locked away in.
** Conditions somewhat improve in Ashen Winter, when the Colonel convinces FEMA to feed the refugees with the grain found in an abandoned ship in the middle of the Mississippi river. He even allows the protagonists to escape the camp in exchange for vital information in taking down a prison gang. He still follows orders to prevent the refugees from migrating eastward, however.
** Played straight in Sunrise, as the complete collapse of the government leads to the complete abandonment of the camps, which allows the refugees to easily escape and flee westward.
** Conditions somewhat improve in Ashen Winter, when the Colonel convinces FEMA to feed the refugees with the grain found in an abandoned ship in the middle of the Mississippi river. He even allows the protagonists to escape the camp in exchange for vital information in taking down a prison gang. He still follows orders to prevent the refugees from migrating eastward, however.
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* NoFEMAResponse: A rather horrifying subversion: FEMA does respond, but it would have been better had they not. Instead of helping people, FEMA restricts the movement of refugees, and their camps operate more like concentration camps rather than refugee camps. To make matters worse, they execute non-compliant individuals by locking them up in doghouses and subjecting them to starvation diets. This is done because apparently it's easier to just say that they died from exposure to the elements rather than straight up admit to murdering them. Darla and Alex escape when the former offers to be a prostitute for the utterly corrupt captain of the FEMA camp, then takes her opportunity to steal a bulldozer and break open the doghouse that Alex is locked away in.
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** Might be subverted by the end of Sunrise, as Alex has succeeded in building a new city named Speranta, basing its law off of constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights, even succeeding in building a working series of windmills and greenhouses to provide electricity and food for its people. While the world is still no place for WideEyedIdealists, the protagonists still [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn their happy ending]], while the villains fail to survive because their own brutal methods are detrimental to their survival.
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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Red is a bloody tyrant who bases his law on vengeance and an eye for an eye mentality. [[spoiler:However, his brutal methods do not endear him well to the majority of Stockton, most of whom are more than happy to revolt when Ed tells them about Speranta. This is contrasted with Alex, who obtains power naturally and bases his law on the US constitution and the Bill of Rights.]]
* StupidEvil: The flenser's main survival method [[spoiler:turns out to be their own undoing in the long term, as they end up turning on each other in response to their food supplies running out, and those still alive are suffering from debilitating illnesses that are a direct result of their cannibalistic lifestyle.]]
** Red cares more about satisfying his ego, his sadism, and bloodlust than about winning his people over so that they will follow him. [[spoiler:They're more than happy to abandon him in favor of moving to Speranta.]]
* StupidEvil: The flenser's main survival method [[spoiler:turns out to be their own undoing in the long term, as they end up turning on each other in response to their food supplies running out, and those still alive are suffering from debilitating illnesses that are a direct result of their cannibalistic lifestyle.]]
** Red cares more about satisfying his ego, his sadism, and bloodlust than about winning his people over so that they will follow him. [[spoiler:They're more than happy to abandon him in favor of moving to Speranta.]]
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* HumansAreBastards: The apocalypse brings out both the best and worst in people, but mostly the worst.
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** Cannibalism as a strategy for survival is brutally deconstructed in Sunrise, where various flenser gangs have turned on each other, sealing their own doom as organizations. Many of the survivors have also acquired prion diseases, making them relatively easy to pick off by anyone who hates the flensers.
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** Almost the entirety of Ashen Winter deals with the conflict that the protagonists have with various gangs of depraved cannibals and slave traders.
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The Ashfall Trilogy, written by Mike Mullian, Mullin, chronicles the story of 16 year old Alex Halprin, a survivor in the aftermath of Yellowstone's supervolcanic eruption. After a rather traumatic home invasion experience while staying with his friends, he decides to run away and look for his parents eastward under the ashcloud. He puts on a pair of skis and takes off.
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The Ashfall Trilogy Trilogy, written by Mike Mullian, chronicles the story of 16 year old Alex Halprin, a survivor in the aftermath of Yellowstone's supervolcanic eruption. After a rather traumatic home invasion experience while staying with his friends, he decides to run away and look for his parents eastward under the ashcloud. He puts on a pair of skis and takes off.
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* NoFEMAResponse: A rather horrifying subversion: FEMA does respond, but it would have been better had they not. Instead of helping people, FEMA restricts the movement of refugees, and their camps operate more like concentration camps rather than refugee camps. To make matters worse, they execute non-compliant individuals by locking them up in doghouses and subjecting them to starvation diets. This is done because apparently it's easier to just say that they died from exposure to the elements rather than straight up admit to murdering them. Darla and Alex escape when the former offers to be a prostitute for the utterly corrupt captain of the FEMA camp, then takes her opportunity to steal a bulldozer and break open the doghouse that Alex is locked away in.
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** first mentioned in Ashfall when a mother of several young children screams at Alex, accusing him of being a satanic cannibal interested in eating her nearly-dead daughter. After calming her down and giving her assistance, she reveals that she was properly paranoid: her husband had been murdered and eaten by a gang of cannibals.
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** first mentioned in Ashfall when a mother of several young children screams at Alex, accusing him of being a satanic cannibal interested in eating her nearly-dead daughter. After calming he calms her down and giving gives her assistance, she reveals that she was properly paranoid: her husband had been murdered and eaten by a gang of cannibals.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Obviously, since it's the apocalypse, and food is scarce.
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* CrapsackWorld: The entire world is plunged into a volcanic winter, and the resulting apocalypse brings out both the best and the worst in humanity. Opportunistic bandits roam the countryside, and cannibalism is not unheard of. Even when spring comes, it's going to be a very long time before things return to pre-eruption life.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Both inverted and played straight, naturally. Everything that was valuable in the pre-eruption world is worthless (gold, dollar bills, etc), but things like firearms or vitamin C rich foods like kale or fruit loops becomes extremely valuable.
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Along the way, he encounters both the best and the worst that humanity has to offer. A few people willing to assist him, others interested in killing him and taking his supplies. He falls injured after an encounter with an escaped convict in Mrs Edmund's barn, and her daughter, Darla, later follows him out on his journey to find his parents eastward.
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Along the way, he encounters both the best and the worst that humanity has to offer. A few people willing to assist him, others interested in killing him and taking his supplies. He falls injured collapses in Mrs Edmund's barn after an encounter a run-in with an escaped convict in Mrs Edmund's barn, named Target, and her daughter, Darla, later follows him out on his journey to find his parents eastward.
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Alex's weekend started out as he liked it: alone in his house to play videogames. Up until something collides with his house, setting it on fire, and the power and phone lines go out at the same time.
And it only gets worse from there.
The Ashfall Trilogy chronicles the story of 16 year old Alex Halprin, a survivor in the aftermath of Yellowstone's supervolcanic eruption. After a rather traumatic home invasion experience while staying with his friends, he decides to run away and look for his parents eastward under the ashcloud. Heis accompanied by 18 year old Darla Edmunds, who followed him out after being orphaned by puts on a pair of opportunistic gangsters.
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Along the way, he encounters both the best and the worst that humanity has to offer. A few people willing to assist him, others interested in killing him and taking his supplies. He falls injured after an encounter with an escaped convict in Mrs Edmund's barn, and her daughter, Darla, later follows him out on his journey to find his parents eastward.
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Along the way, he encounters both the best and the worst that humanity has to offer. A few people willing to assist him, others interested in killing him and taking his supplies. He falls injured after an encounter with an escaped convict in Mrs Edmund's barn, and her daughter, Darla, later follows him out on his journey to find his parents eastward.
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* FedToPigs: A terrifying take on the trope: Alex and Darla come across a half eaten corpse in a pig pen, and they realize that the guy must have injured himself, leaving himself vulnerable to his own starving pigs.
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* FedToPigs: A terrifying take on the trope: Alex and Darla come across a half eaten corpse in a pig pen, and they realize that the guy must have injured himself, leaving himself vulnerable to his own starving pigs.
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* SmitingEvilFeelsGood: Lampshaded and then Averted. Alex does not feel any satisfaction from killing Target and avenging Mrs Edmund's death. He simply feels numb horror at all the senseless death Target had caused.
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* StupidCrooks: Zig-zagged. Target is smart enough to cause plenty of damage and carnage in his wake, but he's too stupid to realize that he has to reload his double barreled shotgun. This ends up saving Alex's and Darla's lives.
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* KillingIntent: Implied when Darren kills several home invaders, even as one of them tries to flee for his life. This terrifies Alex enough for him to retreat to his own ruined house.
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