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* FlawExploitation: Lucretia has remarkable awareness of what is going on around her making trying to follow her directly too dangerous. Unfortunately she doesn’t seem to notice when someone around her is being watched. This is what let Isaiah find her so quickly

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* FlawExploitation: Lucretia has remarkable awareness of what is going on around her making trying to follow her directly too dangerous. Unfortunately she doesn’t seem to notice when someone around ''around'' her is being watched. This is what let Isaiah find her so quickly
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%%* AnythingThatMoves: Lucretia at least claims to be this way.
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* WeaponOfChoice: A couple of different examples.

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* WeaponOfChoice: WeaponBasedCharacterization: A couple of different examples.


There is a word for people like that. A [[PoliticalCorrectness pre-packed fluffy-feeling word the government’s spin doctors had come up with]].

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There is a word for people like that. A [[PoliticalCorrectness pre-packed fluffy-feeling word the government’s spin doctors had come up with]].
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* RealityEnsues: Just because Perks started to appear didn't mean the world became subseptible to comic-book clichés like everybody feared. For example, while crimes by Peaks did happened, most police stations have at least one cell that is heavily reinforced and more secure to deal with the possibility of them.

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* RealityEnsues: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Just because Perks started to appear didn't mean the world became subseptible to comic-book clichés like everybody feared. For example, while crimes by Peaks did happened, most police stations have at least one cell that is heavily reinforced and more secure to deal with the possibility of them.



* RequiredSecondaryPowers: According to Lucretia SuperStrength is the only way a woman could maintain the MostCommonSuperPower without [[RealityEnsues Reality Ensuring]].

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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: According to Lucretia SuperStrength is the only way a woman could maintain the MostCommonSuperPower without [[RealityEnsues Reality Ensuring]].reality biting.

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* TheAlcoholic: Lucretia

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* %%* TheAlcoholic: Lucretia



* AnythingThatMoves: Lucretia at least claims to be this way.
* AttackDrone: Isaiah's gun emplacements

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* %%* AnythingThatMoves: Lucretia at least claims to be this way.
* %%* AttackDrone: Isaiah's gun emplacements



* AwesomeButImpractical: When first seen wearing at least part of her assigned armor, Robles complains that she wonders what the designers were thinking to give a highly distinctive and unique sort of armor to an undercover operative.
** The 2011 Tourney had been a revolutionary design when it had come out, making use of new discoveries to add a recycling feature to the basic hydrogen cell design, converting some of the water byproduct back into hydrogen to refill the cell. Unfortunately, the technologies involved, mostly in composites and alloys, were far too expensive for mass production. Few could afford what was meant to be a vehicle for the general population, and by the time the revolutionary design could be supported economically, technologies had moved past it, and there was no reason to go back to it.
*** In addition as production stopped on it, the cost of maintenance started to go up sharply, which meant that it tended to require a lot of expense. The amount of paper it consumed in receipts and bills, in combination with the considerably sized round bump between the seats and the trunk as well as the six-wheeled frame gave the vehicle a unique nickname. Termite
* BadassNormal: Robles and Kali

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* AwesomeButImpractical: AwesomeButImpractical:
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When first seen wearing at least part of her assigned armor, Robles complains that she wonders what the designers were thinking to give a highly distinctive and unique sort of armor to an undercover operative.
** The 2011 Tourney had been a revolutionary design when it had come out, making use of new discoveries to add a recycling feature to the basic hydrogen cell design, converting some of the water byproduct back into hydrogen to refill the cell. Unfortunately, the technologies involved, mostly in composites and alloys, were far too expensive for mass production. Few could afford what was meant to be a vehicle for the general population, and by the time the revolutionary design could be supported economically, technologies had moved past it, and there was no reason to go back to it.
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it. In addition as production stopped on it, the cost of maintenance started to go up sharply, which meant that it tended to require a lot of expense. The amount of paper it consumed in receipts and bills, in combination with the considerably sized round bump between the seats and the trunk as well as the six-wheeled frame gave the vehicle a unique nickname. Termite
* BadassNormal: Robles and KaliBadassNormal:



* BatmanGambit: Lucretia's normal plans for dealing with problems.

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* %%* BatmanGambit: Lucretia's normal plans for dealing with problems.



* EthicalSlut: Lucretia.

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* %%* EthicalSlut: Lucretia.



* GuileHero: Lucretia

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* %%* GuileHero: Lucretia



* HeroicBystander: Lucretia

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* %%* HeroicBystander: Lucretia



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lucretia

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* %%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lucretia



* HotLibrarian: Lucretia

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* %%* HotLibrarian: Lucretia



** Isaiah uses attack drones and gizmos.

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** Isaiah uses attack drones and gizmos.gizmos.
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--> '''Robles''': ''How do you lug those things around without getting a back-ache?''
--> '''Lucretia''': ''Because I could lift this car if I had to. Makes my little bit of extra-baggage up front about as heavy as crap in comparison.''
* [[HotLibrarian Sexy Librarian]]: Lucretia

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--> '''Robles''': -->'''Robles''': ''How do you lug those things around without getting a back-ache?''
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back-ache?''\\
'''Lucretia''': ''Because I could lift this car if I had to. Makes my little bit of extra-baggage up front about as heavy as crap in comparison.''
* [[HotLibrarian Sexy Librarian]]: HotLibrarian: Lucretia
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''Bystander'' is a [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bystander/12460159 self-published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBS2 novel]] written by Luke "{{Tropers/Thrythlind}}" Green and set in 2035 Seattle detailing the plight of superpowered parolee Lucretia, starting with her interfering with a bank robbery and blowing outward from there.

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''Bystander'' is a [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bystander/12460159 self-published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBS2 self-published novel]] written by Luke "{{Tropers/Thrythlind}}" Green and set in 2035 Seattle detailing the plight of superpowered parolee Lucretia, starting with her interfering with a bank robbery and blowing outward from there.

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''Bystander'' is a [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bystander/12460159 self-published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBS2 novel]] written by Luke "{{Tropers/Thrythlind}}" Green and set in 2035 Seattle detailing the plight of superpowered parolee Lucretia. Starting with her interfering with a bank robbery and blowing outward from there.

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''Bystander'' is a [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bystander/12460159 self-published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBS2 novel]] written by Luke "{{Tropers/Thrythlind}}" Green and set in 2035 Seattle detailing the plight of superpowered parolee Lucretia. Starting Lucretia, starting with her interfering with a bank robbery and blowing outward from there.







''Note from the Author: I tend to use these pages as sounding boards for ideas as well as a form of self-promotion. For my original fictions, I do most of my troping on my own files offline, because I don't want to spoil anything...as I am wont to do when ranting about my stories. However, currently most of the entries were done by me as part of a way of figuring out how to summarize the setting. From here on out, however, this page will be only occasionally updated by me specifically. (Though I might run a promotion that involves troping my stuff.)''

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Lucretia nearly got her self killed (well not really) because of this. While the act itself turnout not to be lethal as Robles pointed out if she was in the right frame of mind she would have never gotten into the situation in the first place.
* AnIcePerson: Lucretia, though the temperature more affects her physical abilities than that she has control over it.

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Lucretia nearly got her self herself killed (well not really) because of this. While the act itself turnout not to be lethal as Robles pointed out if she was in the right frame of mind she would have never gotten into the a situation in the first place.
* AnIcePerson: Lucretia, though the temperature more affects her physical abilities than that
she has control over it.could have avoided if sober.



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Lucretia has a habit of dumping her bodyguards one instance ended up with her being shoved in a garbage truck by a bunch of racist garbage men.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Lucretia has a habit of dumping her bodyguards ended in one instance ended up with her being shoved in a garbage truck by a bunch of racist garbage men.



** Played with in that Lucretia speaks most of languages with understandable but poor grammar. So, it's more realistic than most.

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** Played with in that Lucretia speaks most of languages with understandable but poor grammar. So, it's more realistic than most.



* RealityEnsues: Just because Perks started to appear the world didn’t become subseptible to comic-book clichés like everybody feared. For example while crimes by people with greater than normal abilities did happened most [[CardboardPrison police stations have at least one cell]] that is heavily reinforced and more secure to deal with the possibility of a peak.

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* RealityEnsues: Just because Perks started to appear didn't mean the world didn’t become became subseptible to comic-book clichés like everybody feared. For example example, while crimes by people with greater than normal abilities Peaks did happened happened, most [[CardboardPrison police stations have at least one cell]] cell that is heavily reinforced and more secure to deal with the possibility of a peak.them.



* SkewedPriorities: After realizing that the bank she was in was about to be robbed Lucretia made sure to deal with it so that she could get her check deposited.

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* SkewedPriorities: After realizing that the bank she was in was about to be robbed robbed, Lucretia made sure to deal with it so that she could get her check deposited.



*** Robles' avatar is designed to receive a large number of attachments to alter it's use.
*** Kali's avatar has a poison reserve
** Sightseer is noted as a sniper but doesn't get to show that off much.
** Isaiah uses attack drones and gizmos

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*** Robles' avatar is designed to receive a large number of attachments to alter it's its use.
*** Kali's avatar has a poison reserve
reserve.
** Sightseer is noted as a sniper but doesn't get to show that off much.
sniper.
** Isaiah uses attack drones and gizmosgizmos.
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[[PsychicPowers Empaths]]. [[SuperStrength Superstrength]]. [[SupernaturalMartialArts Kung Fu Masters]]. [[PettingZooPeople Petting Zoo People]].

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[[PsychicPowers Empaths]]. [[SuperStrength Superstrength]]. [[SupernaturalMartialArts Kung Fu Masters]]. [[PettingZooPeople Petting Zoo People]].
Masters]].
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Lucretia nearly got her self killed (well not really) because of this. While the act itself turnout not to be lethal as Robles pointed out if she was in the right frame of mind she would have never gotten into the situation in the first place.


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** The 2011 Tourney had been a revolutionary design when it had come out, making use of new discoveries to add a recycling feature to the basic hydrogen cell design, converting some of the water byproduct back into hydrogen to refill the cell. Unfortunately, the technologies involved, mostly in composites and alloys, were far too expensive for mass production. Few could afford what was meant to be a vehicle for the general population, and by the time the revolutionary design could be supported economically, technologies had moved past it, and there was no reason to go back to it.
*** In addition as production stopped on it, the cost of maintenance started to go up sharply, which meant that it tended to require a lot of expense. The amount of paper it consumed in receipts and bills, in combination with the considerably sized round bump between the seats and the trunk as well as the six-wheeled frame gave the vehicle a unique nickname. Termite


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* FlawExploitation: Lucretia has remarkable awareness of what is going on around her making trying to follow her directly too dangerous. Unfortunately she doesn’t seem to notice when someone around her is being watched. This is what let Isaiah find her so quickly


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* HiddenInPlainSight: According to Lucretia one of the best ways to look unimportant, is to look like you [[SmallNameBigEgo thought you were important]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Lucretia has a habit of dumping her bodyguards one instance ended up with her being shoved in a garbage truck by a bunch of racist garbage men.


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--> '''Detective Assaf''': ''Nothing in what the peak had done was an accident. From her entrance to her exit, she’d calculated each step to produce the desired result. She’d given the impression that she was flighty and incautious. The lawyer was supposed to know she was hiding something, but then she started acting in a manner disproportionate to the magnitude of what she was hiding. She’d let him dig her into a corner and gave her big reveal, which provoked the thug into action with the suddenness of her proclamation. All while making her look like an air-headed ex-con with a selfish streak.''


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* RealityEnsues: Just because Perks started to appear the world didn’t become subseptible to comic-book clichés like everybody feared. For example while crimes by people with greater than normal abilities did happened most [[CardboardPrison police stations have at least one cell]] that is heavily reinforced and more secure to deal with the possibility of a peak.


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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: According to Lucretia SuperStrength is the only way a woman could maintain the MostCommonSuperPower without [[RealityEnsues Reality Ensuring]].
--> '''Robles''': ''How do you lug those things around without getting a back-ache?''
--> '''Lucretia''': ''Because I could lift this car if I had to. Makes my little bit of extra-baggage up front about as heavy as crap in comparison.''


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* SkewedPriorities: After realizing that the bank she was in was about to be robbed Lucretia made sure to deal with it so that she could get her check deposited.


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* TooDumbToLive: The racist garbage men who felt it was a good idea to attack Lucretia after she had just offhandedly flung one of them across the ally
* {{Tsundere}}: Lucretia is normally an easy-going charge, aside from her tendency to lose her watchers at times, but there are times the girl could simply be a headache.


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* UnskilledButStrong: Lucretia is fast and strong, but she can’t fight worth anything.
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* OneOfUs: The author. As obvious by his intro.



** Isaiah uses attack drones and gizmos

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** Isaiah uses attack drones and gizmos
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->''"[[HeroicBystander I'm just a bystander.]]"''

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->''"[[HeroicBystander I'm ->''"I'm just a bystander.]]"''"''




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-> "[[HeroicBystander I'm just a bystander.]]" - Lucretia



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-> "[[HeroicBystander
->''"[[HeroicBystander
I'm just a bystander.]]" - Lucretia


]]"''
-->-- '''Lucretia'''





''Bystander'' is a [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bystander/12460159 self-published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBS2 novel]] written by Luke "{{Tropers/Thrythlind}}" Green and set in 2035 Seattle detailing the plight of superpowered parolee Lucretia. Starting with her interfering with a bank robbery and blowing outward from there.

Free chapters are [[http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/38934686 available here.]]

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A [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bystander/12460159 self-published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBS2 novel]] written by Luke "{{Tropers/Thrythlind}}" Green and set in 2035 Seattle detailing the plight of superpowered parolee Lucretia. Starting with her interfering with a bank robbery and blowing outward from there.

Public Chapters are available here: http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/33997458

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'''Tropes Found In Bystander:'''

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\nA [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bystander/12460159 self-published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBS2 novel]] written by Luke "{{Tropers/Thrythlind}}" Green and set in 2035 Seattle detailing the plight of superpowered parolee Lucretia. Starting with her interfering with a bank robbery and blowing outward from there.\n\nPublic Chapters are available here: http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/33997458\n\n----\n'''Tropes Found In Bystander:'''!!This novel provides examples of:

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* EthicalSlut: Lucretia.



* FunctionalAlcoholic: Lucretia. She only drinks when she's partying. She just happens to drink a very, very large amount. And then burn her clothes.



** Partially subverted in that Lucretia speaks most of languages with understandable but poor grammar. So, it's more realistic than most.

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** Partially subverted Played with in that Lucretia speaks most of languages with understandable but poor grammar. So, it's more realistic than most.
* OneOfUs: The author. As obvious by his intro.

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[[caption-width:300:[[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Lucretia]] wearing the outfit she picked for her [[DeadpanSnarker first meeting with her parole officer.]]]]

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[[caption-width:300:[[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Lucretia]] [[caption-width:300:Lucretia wearing the outfit she picked for her [[DeadpanSnarker first meeting with her parole officer.]]]]



* [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Silver Haired Pretty Girl]]: Lucretia

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