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* FateWorseThanDeath - [[spoiler: Instead of allowing Dunston to pass to [[AscendtoaHigherPlaneofExistence Guinea Land]] after killing him, Rudy forces his tormented soul to a purgatory-type world where he is forced to outrun murderous spirits for all eternity. He is finally freed of this torture when Ti-Jeanne shoots the duppy bowl, and his spirit returns to earth by occupying Baby's body.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath - [[spoiler: Instead of allowing Dunston to pass to [[AscendtoaHigherPlaneofExistence [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Guinea Land]] after killing him, Rudy forces his tormented soul to a purgatory-type world where he is forced to outrun murderous spirits for all eternity. He is finally freed of this torture when Ti-Jeanne shoots the duppy bowl, and his spirit returns to earth by occupying Baby's body.]]
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* ProtagonistTitle: It could refer to Ti-Jeanne living in the circular remenants of Metropolitan Toronto, but more as a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Girl_in_the_Ring_(song) the song]], and the Ring games that are mentioned in {{Epigraph}}s.
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It's set about [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture more than twelve / thirteen years in the future]] of 1999, given lines and news that has not occurred at the time, like:
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In the twelve years since the Riots, repeated efforts to reclaim and rebuild the core were failing\\\
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TEMAGAMI INDIANS TAKE ONTARIO TO COURT: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TEMEAUGAMI ANISHNABAI LAND CLAIM FEDERAL GOVT.
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* UrbanHellscape: Implied by one of the newspaper headlines Ti-Jeanne reads that are "twelve, thirteen years old" or so:
--> [[AC:Crime at all-time high but budget cuts force Ontario provincial police to downsize]]
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''Brown Girl in the Ring'' is a 1999 novel by Creator/NaloHopkinson. Ti-Jeanne, a [[TeenPregnancy young mother]] lives in what remains of Central Toronto after it was abandoned by the wealthy and powerful. Speaking of the wealthy and powerful, the premier of Canada needs a human heart to replace her own. She calls on Rudy, who is a powerful gangster who controls the flow of [[FantasticDrug Buff]] to procure it for her. He deputizes Tony, Ti-Jeanne's baby father, to do the killing for the organ. Frightened, Tony calls on Ti-Jeanne and her grandmother Gros-Jeanne for help. And so Ti-Jeanne's journey begins.
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''Brown Girl in the Ring'' is a 1999 novel by Creator/NaloHopkinson. Ti-Jeanne, a [[TeenPregnancy young mother]] mother]], lives in what remains of Central Toronto after it was abandoned by the wealthy and powerful. Speaking of the wealthy and powerful, the premier of Canada needs a human heart to replace her own. She calls on Rudy, who is a powerful gangster who controls the flow of [[FantasticDrug Buff]] to procure it for her. He deputizes Tony, Ti-Jeanne's baby father, to do the killing for the organ. Frightened, Tony calls on Ti-Jeanne and her grandmother Gros-Jeanne for help. And so Ti-Jeanne's journey begins.
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* BodyHorror - Crazy Betty gouged her eyes out years ago and walks around blind with the holes in her head still visible.
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* AndIMustScream - The duppy is conscious of what it's doing when Rudy sends it after his victims, although it despises him and wants to be free. The reveal that [[spoiler: it's actually Mi-Jeanne's soul ramps this trope up to eleven. She is ordered by Rudy to kill Ti-Jeanne, and the helpless mother is fully aware and helpless to stop the spirit as she burns her own daughter alive.]]
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* ThePigPen: The street kids. Justified in that they live in the filth and squalor of the abandoned subway. Their odor and grimy appearance are often mentioned.
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* SleazyPolitician: Downplayed with Premier Uttley. She's only seeking a human heart instead of the typical pig heart for her transplant to look good in her upcoming reelection campaign, not out of any moral stance on pig farming.
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''Brown Girl in the Ring'' is a 1999 novel by Nalo Hopkinson.Creator/NaloHopkinson. Ti-Jeanne, a [[TeenPregnancy young mother]] lives in what remains of Central Toronto after it was abandoned by the wealthy and powerful. Speaking of the wealthy and powerful, the premier of Canada needs a human heart to replace her own. She calls on Rudy, who is a powerful gangster who controls the flow of [[FantasticDrug Buff]] to procure it for her. He deputizes Tony, Ti-Jeanne's baby father, to do the killing for the organ. Frightened, Tony calls on Ti-Jeanne and her grandmother Gros-Jeanne for help. And so Ti-Jeanne's journey begins.
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* FamilyThemeNaming - Gros-Jeanne, Mi-Jeanne and Ti-Jeanne - Big, Medium and Small Jeanne - Grandmother, mother and child.
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* FlayingAlive: Rudy does this to his zombified housekeeper Mabel while a paralyzed Tony isForcedToWatchForcedToWatch.
* ForcedToWatch: A paralyzed Tony is forced to watch while Rudy {{flay|ingAlive}}s Mabel alive.
* {{Hologram}}: Presumably, it's what a "deeplight projector" makes, as it creates the visuals and noise of angry kids made to scare people away from the actual kids who live in the subway.
* FlayingAlive: Rudy does this to his zombified housekeeper Mabel while a paralyzed Tony is
* ForcedToWatch: A paralyzed Tony is forced to watch while Rudy {{flay|ingAlive}}s Mabel alive.
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* TheParalyzer: Synapse Cordons and their portable version, the Dazer. Synapse Cordons uses "baseball-sized lump[s] of what looked like modelling clay" to create "stake[s] sprouting a good eight feet high" that define the cordon's borders, and kicking the cordon creates a "synapse surge of current", a.k.a a "daze charge" inside the field, that "short-circuit[s] [the] neuromuscular system".
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''Brown Girl in the Ring'' is a 1999 novel by Nalo Hopkinson. Ti-Jeanne , Ti-Jeanne, a [[TeenPregnancy young mother]] lives in what remains of Central Toronto after it was abandoned by the wealthy and powerful. Speaking of the wealhy wealthy and powerful, the premier of Canada needs a human heart to replace her own. She calls on Rudy, who is a powerful gangster who controls the flow of [[FantasticDrug Buff]] to procure it for her. He deputizes Tony, Ti-Jeanne's baby father, to do the killing for the organ. Frightened, Tony calls on Ti-Jeanne and her grandmother Gros-Jeanne for help. And so Ti-Jeanne's journey begins.
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* RaisedByGrandparents - Ti-Jeanne has a DisappearedDad and MissingMom and so is raised by her grandmother.
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* LukeIAmYourFather [[spoiler: LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: Toronto crime lord and [[HollywoodVoodoo obeah man]] Rudy has his offices in the main pod of the CN Tower.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Rudy is [[spoiler:Ti-Jeanne's grandfather]].
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'Baby'.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent - OurZombiesAreDifferent: Type V Voodoo zombies.
*RaisedByGrandparents - RaisedByGrandparents: Ti-Jeanne has a DisappearedDad and MissingMom and so is raised by her grandmother.grandmother.
* TeenPregnancy: Ti-Jeanne is a teenager, pregnant with Tony's baby.
* VoodooZombies: Rudy, the gang lord, controls several zombies, [[spoiler:one of which is his own daughter, Mi-Jeanne]], using a process taught to him by a Ioa.
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* {{Voudoun}} - Ti-Jeanne's grandmother is a practitioner. [[spoiler: Ti-Jeanne's spiritual father is Papa Legeba, and Ti-Jeanne is 'ridden' by several spirits. Baby as well]]
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* DomesticAbuser - Rudy is depicted to have hit his wife [[spoiler: Gros-Jeanne]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather [[spoiler: Rudy is Ti-Jeanne's grandfather]]
* NoNameGiven - Ti-Jeanne's child is named only 'Baby'
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