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* SpannerInTheWorks: How Z often ends up for the plots he stumbles onto.
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* XanatosGilligan: How Z often ends up for the plots he stumbles onto.
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* FemmeFatale: Jace fits all the criteria for one. She's a sexy BiTheWay gorgeous blonde who is utterly amoral and a ConsummateProfessional.
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* BiTheWay: Jace turns out to be this way in ''Influx.''
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* BlackAndBlackMorality: A.I. is outright evil in its methods, even if it's goals are benign (for Aellisars at least). Z is much nicer than them and he's an antihero who murders an innocent man when the mission calls for it.
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* EvilVersusEvil: A.I. is outright evil in its methods, even if it's goals are benign (for Aellisars at least). Z is much nicer than them and he's an antihero who murders an innocent man when the mission calls for it.
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[[caption-width-right:217: Evil in the name of good is still evil.]]
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* CrapsaccharrineWorld: The Aellisar World in ''Influx'' is depicted as a place with CrystalSpiresAndTogas for the wealthy and hell on Earth for the poor.
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* CrapsaccharrineWorld: CrapsackWorld: The Human World is full of monsters who feed on humans with impunity as well as government agencies who actively work to cover it all up.
** CrapsaccharineWorld: The Aellisar World in ''Influx'' is depicted as a place with CrystalSpiresAndTogas for the wealthy and hell on Earth for the poor.
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Forced to assume the identity of an innocent man he's murdered, Z struggles with what little remains of his conscience as he attempts to unravel a complicated series of plots designed to push the Human and Aellisar worlds to war. It may be too late to save his humanity but can he keep himself from becoming a monster?
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Deep'': an introductory novella.
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* AttractiveBentGender: This, obviously, occurs when he assumes a female form of an attractive woman. Jace is more than a little into Z's female form in ''Influx.''
* TheAtoner: Z would dearly like to become one of these but can't as long as he's required to do evil in the service of A.I.
* TheAtoner: Z would dearly like to become one of these but can't as long as he's required to do evil in the service of A.I.
* BiTheWay: Jace turns out to be this way in ''Influx.''
* ChasteHero: Z refuses to have sex with his Theodor's wife as his own personal MoralEventHorizon but also punishes himself by denying himself sex with anyone else in some small way of atoning.
* CrapsaccharrineWorld: The Aellisar World in ''Influx'' is depicted as a place with CrystalSpiresAndTogas for the wealthy and hell on Earth for the poor.
* CrapsaccharrineWorld: The Aellisar World in ''Influx'' is depicted as a place with CrystalSpiresAndTogas for the wealthy and hell on Earth for the poor.
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** Vampires and humans, unsurprisingly, have it for one another when encountered.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Z is this but only in order to assume the forms of the dead.
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* MoralityPet: Z has made Theodor's family into one of these for himself. He's aware of the massive hypocrisy of said action.
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* NoPreggerSex: Z is claiming this to prevent his wife from being suspicious why he doesn't want to be intimate. She's getting very impatient.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're a race of fairies who are capable of living amongst humans without glamour.
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The ''Clandestine Daze'' series is set in an UrbanFantasy world where fairy-like race called the Aellisar (called "Aels") live alongside humanity. They have their own nations, politics, and spies. Z is one of those spies, working for an unnamed intelligence service nicknamed A.I. He is a doppleganger, possessed of the ability to assume the identity and memories of anyone.
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The ''Clandestine Daze'' series by Creator/TimMarquitz is set in an UrbanFantasy world where fairy-like race called the Aellisar (called "Aels") live alongside humanity. They have their own nations, politics, and spies. Z is one of those spies, working for an unnamed intelligence service nicknamed A.I. He is a doppleganger, possessed of the ability to assume the identity and memories of anyone.
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* DesignatedHero: The audience may not believe the Aellisar being kept secret is a good thing since they're portrayed as a mostly unscrupulous group. That may just be the fact the majority of ones we meet are spies, though.
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* {{Squick}}: How Z's powers work.
** Z's reaction to the prospect of sex with Theodor Crane's wife since he murdered her husband and is wearing his body. Thankfully, that's avoided.
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The ''Clandestine Daze'' series, published by Creator/RagnarokPublications, series is set in an UrbanFantasy world where fairy-like race called the Aellisar (called "Aels") live alongside humanity. They have their own nations, politics, and spies. Z is one of those spies, working for an unnamed intelligence service nicknamed A.I. He is a doppleganger, possessed of the ability to assume the identity and memories of anyone.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Played with. Jace is so lovely, other men tend to treat anyone she talks to like shit.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Played with. Jace is so lovely, other men tend to treat anyone she talks to like shit. Justified in that she's an Ael.
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The ''Clandestine Daze'' series, published by Creator/RagnarokPublications, is set in a an UrbanFantasy world where a fairy-like race called the Aellisar (called "Aels") live alongside humanity with humanity. They have their own nations, politics, and spies. Z is one of those spies, working for an unnamed intelligence service nicknamed A.I. He is a doppleganger, possessed of the ability to assume the identity and memories of anyone.
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* AssholeVictim: Notably averted with Theodor Crane. He seems to have been a genuinely decent man.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: A victim begs for his life before Z ignores his pleas, murders him, and assumes his shape. He almost retches during the last part, though.
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* {{Mangst}}: Z suffers from the fact he's a disposable commodity to a ruthless intelligence agency which ''will'' discard him if its convenient. Also, he's a murderer of innocents who's deaths may or may not be justified in the service to the greater good.
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* AllTheOtheReindeer: Dopplegangers are this to other Aels.
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* SpyFiction: Very much of the Stale Beer variety, though given it's about fairies, perhaps stale mead.
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* SpyFiction: Very much of the Stale Beer variety, though given it's about fairies, perhaps stale mead.Stale Mead.
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The ''Clandestine Daze'' series, published by Creator/RagnarokPublications, is set in a world where a fairy-like race called the Aellisar (called "Aels") live alongside humanity with their own nations, politics, and spies. Z is one of those spies, working for an unnamed intelligence service nicknamed, nicknamed A.I. He is a doppleganger, possessed of the ability to assume the identity and memories of anyone.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Z drops an extra twenty-dollar tip to the bartender despite the fact the man probably spit in his drink out of jealousy (since Z looked like he was on a date with the ridiculously sexy Jace).
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* VillainProtagonist: One way of reading the series given Z kills an innocent man in the first few pages of ''Eyes Deep.'' The rest of the book, however, treats him as an UnscrpulousHero.
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* VillainProtagonist: One way of reading the series given Z kills an innocent man in the first few pages of ''Eyes Deep.'' The rest of the book, however, treats him as an UnscrpulousHero.UnscrupulousHero.
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* VillainProtagonist: One way of reading the series given Z kills an innocent man in the first few pages of ''Eyes Deep.'''' The rest of the book, however, treats him as an UnscrpulousHero.
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''No one trusts a doppelganger, and for good reason. Behind every stolen identity lies murder.''
The ''Clandestine Daze'' series, published by Creator/RagnarokPublications, is set in a world where a fairy-like race called the Aellisar (called "Aels") live alongside humanity with their own nations, politics, and spies. Z is one of those spies, working for an unnamed intelligence service nicknamed, A.I. He is a doppleganger, possessed of the ability to assume the identity and memories of anyone.
As long as he eats their eyes.
The first novella, ''Eyes Deep'', was released in November of 2014.
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This series contains the following tropes:
* ArcWords: No one trusts a doppleganger.
* {{Antihero}}: Z will murder the innocent and do other crimes to protect the Aellisar races from discovery. He hates himself for it, though.
* BecomingTheMask: Always a danger with dopplegangers.
* BlackAndBlackMorality: A.I. is outright evil in its methods, even if it's goals are benign (for Aellisars at least). Z is much nicer than them and he's an antihero who murders an innocent man when the mission calls for it.
* DesignatedHero: The audience may not believe the Aellisar being kept secret is a good thing since they're portrayed as a mostly unscrupulous group. That may just be the fact the majority of ones we meet are spies, though.
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Averted. Z knows ''exactly'' what it would be if he slept with Theodor Crane's wife.
* FairFolk: The Aellisar are fairy-like beings but are never referred to as such. They also, aside from their superpowers, act like 21st century humans.
* FantasticRacism: Various Aellisar races have this with humanity. They also have it with each other.
** Dopplegangers are call ''ersatz'' and considered to be the lowest of the low amongst the Aellisar races.
* FemmeFatale: Jace fits all the criteria for one.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: A.I. is one of these by nature since the Aellisar are a race of fairy-like beings.
* GrandTheftMe: An odd example as dopplegangers can become people for all intents and purposes but keep their own bodies.
* ItGetsEasier: Jace attempts to reassure Z by saying this following Theodor Crane's murder. Z doesn't want it to.
* KickTheDog: Our hero does this, possibly crossing the MoralEventHorizon, ''in the opening pages.''
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: A common tool of A.I. for dealing with humans.
* TheMasquerade: The Aellisar have one and rigorously enforce it.
* MedievalStasis: Thoroughly averted by the Aellisar world. It's every bit as advanced as humanity in the 21st century.
* NecessarilyEvil: Z considers himself to be this. He believes the horrible deeds he does are justified in the name of the greater good. He may be right, or he may be very-very wrong.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Aels are a modern 21st century people.
* {{Squick}}: How Z's powers work.
** Z's reaction to the prospect of sex with Theodor Crane's wife since he murdered her husband and is wearing his body. Thankfully, that's avoided.
* XanatosGambit: Z deals with these on a regular basis as part of his intelligence work.
* XanatosGilligan: How Z often ends up for the plots he stumbles onto.
* VillainProtagonist: One way of reading the series given Z kills an innocent man in the first few pages of ''Eyes Deep.''
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Z has this as a power. It requires eating eyeballs. He finds it as disgusting as anyone else.
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The ''Clandestine Daze'' series, published by Creator/RagnarokPublications, is set in a world where a fairy-like race called the Aellisar (called "Aels") live alongside humanity with their own nations, politics, and spies. Z is one of those spies, working for an unnamed intelligence service nicknamed, A.I. He is a doppleganger, possessed of the ability to assume the identity and memories of anyone.
As long as he eats their eyes.
The first novella, ''Eyes Deep'', was released in November of 2014.
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This series contains the following tropes:
* ArcWords: No one trusts a doppleganger.
* {{Antihero}}: Z will murder the innocent and do other crimes to protect the Aellisar races from discovery. He hates himself for it, though.
* BecomingTheMask: Always a danger with dopplegangers.
* BlackAndBlackMorality: A.I. is outright evil in its methods, even if it's goals are benign (for Aellisars at least). Z is much nicer than them and he's an antihero who murders an innocent man when the mission calls for it.
* DesignatedHero: The audience may not believe the Aellisar being kept secret is a good thing since they're portrayed as a mostly unscrupulous group. That may just be the fact the majority of ones we meet are spies, though.
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Averted. Z knows ''exactly'' what it would be if he slept with Theodor Crane's wife.
* FairFolk: The Aellisar are fairy-like beings but are never referred to as such. They also, aside from their superpowers, act like 21st century humans.
* FantasticRacism: Various Aellisar races have this with humanity. They also have it with each other.
** Dopplegangers are call ''ersatz'' and considered to be the lowest of the low amongst the Aellisar races.
* FemmeFatale: Jace fits all the criteria for one.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: A.I. is one of these by nature since the Aellisar are a race of fairy-like beings.
* GrandTheftMe: An odd example as dopplegangers can become people for all intents and purposes but keep their own bodies.
* ItGetsEasier: Jace attempts to reassure Z by saying this following Theodor Crane's murder. Z doesn't want it to.
* KickTheDog: Our hero does this, possibly crossing the MoralEventHorizon, ''in the opening pages.''
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: A common tool of A.I. for dealing with humans.
* TheMasquerade: The Aellisar have one and rigorously enforce it.
* MedievalStasis: Thoroughly averted by the Aellisar world. It's every bit as advanced as humanity in the 21st century.
* NecessarilyEvil: Z considers himself to be this. He believes the horrible deeds he does are justified in the name of the greater good. He may be right, or he may be very-very wrong.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Aels are a modern 21st century people.
* {{Squick}}: How Z's powers work.
** Z's reaction to the prospect of sex with Theodor Crane's wife since he murdered her husband and is wearing his body. Thankfully, that's avoided.
* XanatosGambit: Z deals with these on a regular basis as part of his intelligence work.
* XanatosGilligan: How Z often ends up for the plots he stumbles onto.
* VillainProtagonist: One way of reading the series given Z kills an innocent man in the first few pages of ''Eyes Deep.''
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Z has this as a power. It requires eating eyeballs. He finds it as disgusting as anyone else.
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