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* AdultFear: The possibility of losing one's child by drowning.
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After Delroy and his half-brother Mario play a prank on Delroy's mother Pearl by slipping a frog into a pot, Delroy hears the frog swear revenge on him. A few weeks later, while Delroy and Mario are out fishing, they stumble across a mythical river-creature known as a "River Mumma," and she makes eye-contact with Delroy--something his mother had previously warned him to avoid happening. Then, while swimming in the lake at a Labor Day festival a few days later, Delroy meets a mysterious boy who gets him sucked into a whirlpool...
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After Delroy and his half-brother Mario play a prank on Delroy's mother Pearl by slipping a frog into a pot, Delroy hears the frog swear revenge on him. A few weeks later, while Delroy and Mario are out fishing, they stumble across a mythical river-creature known as a "River Mumma," and she makes eye-contact eye contact with Delroy--something his mother had previously warned him to avoid happening. Then, while swimming in the lake at a Labor Day festival a few days later, Delroy meets a mysterious boy who gets him sucked into a whirlpool...
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Gorem warns Delroy against going home while he's still in frog form. Sure enough, when Delroy risks going to the village and heading to his house, he's not recognized as anything but a frog, and his family--thinking him dead--is holding a wake for him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory. In the same way, King Nimrod cheated on his wife with Javan's mother.
* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory. In the same way, King Nimrod cheated on his wife with Javan's mother.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Gorem warns Delroy against going home while he's still in frog form. Sure enough, when Delroy risks going to the village and heading to his house, he's not recognized as anything but a frog, and his family--thinking him dead--is holding a wake for him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory. In the same way, King Nimrod cheated on his wife with Javan's mother.him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory. In the same way, King Nimrod cheated on his wife with Javan's mother.
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Misuse. It\'s Genre Savvy, not just \"savvy\".
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* CassandraTruth: The reason Delroy doesn't tell anyone about being able to see the River Mumma is because [[GenreSavvy he knows]] he wouldn't be believed.
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* CassandraTruth: The reason Delroy doesn't tell anyone about being able to see the River Mumma is because [[GenreSavvy he knows]] knows he wouldn't be believed.
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Bashron. Just look at the page image.
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Bashron. Just look at the page image.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Delroy's father, who also fathered Mario, prefers Mario to Delroy.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Three examples.
** Delroy's father, who also fathered Mario, quite obviously prefers Mario to Delroy.
** Delroy's father, who also fathered Mario, quite obviously prefers Mario to Delroy.
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** Javan, the prince of the Marog Kingdom, is likewise not acknowledged by his father Nimrod, because Nimrod didn't marry Javan's mother. Also, Queen Zillah is a Well Done Daughter Girl for her daughter, Rana.
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** Javan, the prince of the Marog Kingdom, is likewise not acknowledged by his father Nimrod, because Nimrod didn't marry Javan's mother. Also, mother.
** Queen Zillah is a Well Done Daughter Girl for her daughter, Rana.
** Queen Zillah is a Well Done Daughter Girl for her daughter, Rana.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Tevon's abusive father had actually tried to save Tevon from drowning, but died himself in the attempt]].
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Gorem warns Delroy against going home while he's still in frog form. Sure enough, when Delroy risks going to the village and heading to his house, he's not recognized as anything but a frog.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Gorem warns Delroy against going home while he's still in frog form. Sure enough, when Delroy risks going to the village and heading to his house, he's not recognized as anything but a frog.frog, and his family--thinking him dead--is holding a wake for him.
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* ChekhovsArmory: Every single item Delroy and Gorem take with them on their quest becomes useful at some point later in the novel, but special mention goes to [[spoiler:the River Mumma stone and the arrowhead tip]].
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* ChekhovsArmory: Every single item Delroy and Gorem take with them on their quest becomes useful at some point later in the novel, but special mention goes to [[spoiler:the River Mumma stone and the arrowhead tip]].novel.
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* TheDragon: Coronella is this for her husband, Bashron, guarding the place where he resides. [[DragonTheirFeet Except she's not so keen on loyalty to him]] because he's had multiple wives before her, who he got rid of either by divorce or murder, and because he's very cruel, so naturally she's always watchful for her own safety.
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* TheDragon: Coronella is this for her husband, Bashron, guarding the place where he resides. [[DragonTheirFeet Except she's not so keen on loyalty to him]] him because he's had multiple wives before her, who he got rid of either by divorce or murder, and because he's very cruel, so naturally she's always watchful for her own safety.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]]. She doesn't go too far away, though. [[spoiler:Which is a good thing, as she protects Gorem when he tries to hide from a thrashing Bashrom]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]]. She doesn't go too far away, though. [[spoiler:Which is a good thing, as she protects Gorem when he tries to hide from a thrashing Bashrom]].Bashron]].
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]]. She doesn't go too far away, though. [[spoiler:Which is a good thing, as she protects Gorem when he tries to hide from a thrashing Bashrom]].
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]]. She doesn't go too far away, though. [[spoiler:Which is a good thing, as she protects Gorem when he tries to hide from a thrashing Bashrom]].
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Bashron. Just look at the page image.
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* TheEvilPrince: [[spoiler:Javon]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: King Nimrod. Queen Zillah, too, but only to a point.
* RebelliousPrincess: Princess Rana, daughter of Queen Zillah.
* RebelliousPrincess: Princess Rana, daughter of Queen Zillah.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Rana assists Gorem and Delroy along the latter half of their quest, despite her mother's objections. She helps through her ability to communicate with bats and her knowledge of healing herbs.
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** Javan, the prince of the Marog Kingdom, is likewise not acknowledged by his father Nimrod, because Nimrod didn't marry Javan's mother.
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** Javan, the prince of the Marog Kingdom, is likewise not acknowledged by his father Nimrod, because Nimrod didn't marry Javan's mother. Also, Queen Zillah is a Well Done Daughter Girl for her daughter, Rana.
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* AmazonBrigade: The Womarogs, blue female marogs armed with spears and bows with arrows, led by [[spoiler:Queen Zillah, King Nimrod's long-thought-dead wife]].
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* AmazonBrigade: The Womarogs, blue female marogs armed with spears and bows with arrows, led by [[spoiler:Queen Zillah, King Nimrod's long-thought-dead wife]].Queen Zillah.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]] does this at every opportunity. It first happens with an attempt to put doubt in Delroy's mind about Gorem at the start of the journey, telling him that Gorem will betray him to get the stone, and its subsequent power, for himself.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]] does this at every opportunity. It The first incidence of it happens with an attempt to put doubt in Delroy's mind about Gorem at the start of the journey, telling him that Gorem will betray him to get the stone, and its subsequent power, for himself.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Delroy's recorder-playing skill, mentioned in the initial chapters, comes in handy much later in the novel [[spoiler:when he uses it to befriend Bashron's wife Coronella]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: Delroy's recorder-playing skill, mentioned in the initial chapters, comes in handy at a number of different points much later in the novel [[spoiler:when he uses it to befriend Bashron's wife Coronella]].novel.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Javon is shot to death by the Womarog archers during the final battle]].
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: Delroy and his mother are Catholic, and Delroy recites a Hail Mary the first time he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]] tries to put doubt in Delroy's mind about Gorem at the start of the journey, telling him that Gorem will betray him to get the stone, and its subsequent power, for himself. [[spoiler: Then he pushes Delroy down into the cavern where the snake resides]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]] tries to put doubt in Delroy's mind about Gorem at the start of the journey, telling him that Gorem will betray him to get the stone, and its subsequent power, for himself. [[spoiler: Then he pushes Delroy down into the cavern where the snake resides]].
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: Delroy and his mother are Catholic, and Delroy recites a Hail Mary the first time he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
Kingdom, and prays several similar prayers at different points thereafter.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]]tries does this at every opportunity. It first happens with an attempt to put doubt in Delroy's mind about Gorem at the start of the journey, telling him that Gorem will betray him to get the stone, and its subsequent power, for himself. [[spoiler: Then he pushes Delroy down into the cavern where the snake resides]].himself.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]]
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* CurseCutShort: Delroy's narrative about Aunt Dahlia in the first chapter.
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* CurseCutShort: Delroy's narrative about Aunt Dahlia in the first chapter.chapter causes this.
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* DisappearedDad: Delroy's father, after Pearl ditched him upon finding out he'd gotten Dahlia pregnant. Since then, he hasn't been a prominent figure in Delroy's life.
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* DisappearedDad: Delroy's father, after Pearl ditched him upon finding out he'd gotten Dahlia pregnant. Since then, he hasn't been a prominent figure in Delroy's life.life, though he's still present at the time the story begins.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In Gorem's back-story as Tevon, he had wanted to die the day he went missing while swimming five years previously]].
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* TheDragon: Coronella is this for her husband, Bashron, guarding the place where he resides. [[DragonTheirFeet Except she's not so keen on loyalty to him]] because he's had multiple wives before her, who he got rid of either by divorce or murder, and because he's very cruel, so naturally she's always watchful for her own safety.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In Gorem's back-story as Tevon, he had wanted to die the day he went missing while swimming five yearspreviously]].before the start of the plot]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In Gorem's back-story as Tevon, he had wanted to die the day he went missing while swimming five years
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* GodivaHair: The River Mumma.
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* GodivaHair: The River Mumma.
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Delroy transforms into a frog-like creature when he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Delroy transforms into a frog-like creature marog when he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: What Delroy thinks has happened to him, at first, when he first experiences InvoluntaryShapeshifting.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: What Delroy initially thinks has happened to him, at first, when he first experiences InvoluntaryShapeshifting.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played straight with Bashron. Subverted by his wife Coronella, who Delroy mistakes for the snake guarding the stone at first, but who turns out to be very helpful.
* TheResenter: It's implied that Javan dislikes Delroy because King Nimrod chose Delroy as successor instead of him.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]].
* TheResenter: It's implied that Javan dislikes Delroy because King Nimrod chose Delroy as successor instead of him.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]].
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played straight with Bashron. Subverted by his wife Coronella, who Delroy mistakes for the snake guarding the zeta stone at first, but who turns out to be very helpful.
* TheResenter:It's implied After Javan, King Nimrod's illegitimate son, first appears in the story, Delroy suspects that Javan dislikes Delroy him because King Nimrod chose Delroy as successor to the Marog Kingdom instead of him.
Javan himself.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]]. She doesn't go too far away, though. [[spoiler:Which is a good thing, as she protects Gorem when he tries to hide from a thrashing Bashrom]].
* TheResenter:
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]]. She doesn't go too far away, though. [[spoiler:Which is a good thing, as she protects Gorem when he tries to hide from a thrashing Bashrom]].
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* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler:It turns out that Gorem had once marked a passageway close to the Womarogs' kingdom, and had they foud out about it earlier on, they could have come home long ago. Gorem himself groans when he realizes this fact]].
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* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler:It turns out that Gorem had once marked a passageway close to the Womarogs' kingdom, and had they foud found out about it earlier on, they could have come home long ago. Gorem himself groans when he realizes this fact]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory. In the same way, King Nimrod cheated on his wife with Javan's mother.
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...and he winds up in the mysterious Marog Kingdom, inhabited by the marogs, frog-like creatures who have chosen him to succeed their king, Nimrod. But before he can be deemed worthy of the throne, Delroy is first tasked with retrieving a special stone from a venomous snake...
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...and he winds up in the mysterious Marog Kingdom, inhabited by the marogs, frog-like creatures who have chosen him to succeed their king, Nimrod. But before he can be deemed worthy of the throne, Delroy is first tasked with retrieving a special mystical zeta stone from a venomous snake...
dangerous snake-creature. What follows next is an adventure where Delroy, now as a marog himself, must traverse steep rocky pathways, caves and rivers, avoid menacing rat-like creatures, and fend off treachery on his quest to save the Marog Kingdom.
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* AbusiveParents: Tevon Gromes, the boy who died by drowning five years earlier, had a drunken father who regularly beat him and his brothers. [[spoiler:It's why Gorem, revealed to be a transformed Tevon, doesn't want to go back to the village]].
* AmazonBrigade: The Womarogs, blue female marogs armed with spears and bows with arrows, led by Queen Zillah, King Nimrod's long-thought-dead wife.
* AmazonBrigade: The Womarogs, blue female marogs armed with spears and bows with arrows, led by Queen Zillah, King Nimrod's long-thought-dead wife.
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* AbusiveParents: Tevon Gromes, the a boy who died by drowning five years earlier, before the beginning of the plot, had a drunken father who regularly beat him him, his mother and his brothers. [[spoiler:It's why Gorem, revealed to be a transformed Tevon, doesn't want to go back to the village]].
* AdultFear: The possibility of losing one's child by drowning.
* AmazonBrigade: The Womarogs, blue female marogs armed with spears and bows with arrows, led byQueen [[spoiler:Queen Zillah, King Nimrod's long-thought-dead wife.wife]].
* AdultFear: The possibility of losing one's child by drowning.
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* BigBad: Bashron.Bashron, the giant snake guarding the zeta stone. [[spoiler:Javan is also a contender for this]].
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Marogs look exactly like frogs, and merats are indistinguishable from normal rats.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Marogs look exactly like frogs, and merats are indistinguishable from normal rats.
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* BringMyBrownPants: Delroy is so frightened of the sght sight of Bashron that he pees all over himself.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Marogs and womarogs look exactly likefrogs, frogs (though womarogs are blue), and merats are indistinguishable from normal rats.
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Delroy's recorder-playing skill]].
* TheChosenOne: Delroy is chosen to succeed King Nimrod as ruler of the Marog Kingdom.
* TheChosenOne: Delroy is chosen to succeed King Nimrod as ruler of the Marog Kingdom.
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* ChekhovsArmory: Every single item Delroy and Gorem take with them on their quest becomes useful at some point later in the novel, but special mention goes to [[spoiler:the River Mumma stone and the arrowhead tip]].
* ChekhovsSkill:[[spoiler:Delroy's Delroy's recorder-playing skill]].
skill, mentioned in the initial chapters, comes in handy much later in the novel [[spoiler:when he uses it to befriend Bashron's wife Coronella]].
* TheChosenOne: Delroy is chosen to succeed King Nimrod as ruler of the Marog Kingdom. However, he's more concerned with finding a way to get back to normal, and as such doesn't really want to rule the Marog Kingdom at all. It doesn't quite become a RefusalOfTheCall, though, since he agrees to undergo the quest to help King Nimrod, if only to find a way to get back to normal.
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* TheChosenOne: Delroy is chosen to succeed King Nimrod as ruler of the Marog Kingdom. However, he's more concerned with finding a way to get back to normal, and as such doesn't really want to rule the Marog Kingdom at all. It doesn't quite become a RefusalOfTheCall, though, since he agrees to undergo the quest to help King Nimrod, if only to find a way to get back to normal.
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''Delroy in the Marog Kingdom'' is a novel by Billy Elm (the pen-name of Jamaican author Helen Williams), published in 2009 as part of the Island Fiction series of stories.
After Delroy and his half-brother Mario play a prank on Delroy's mother Pearl by slipping a frog into a pot, Delroy hears the frog swear revenge on him. A few weeks later, while Delroy and Mario are out fishing, they stumble across a mythical river-creature known as a "River Mumma," and she makes eye-contact with Delroy--something his mother had previously warned him to avoid happening. Then, while swimming in the lake at a Labor Day festival a few days later, Delroy meets a mysterious boy who gets him sucked into a whirlpool...
...and he winds up in the mysterious Marog Kingdom, inhabited by the marogs, frog-like creatures who have chosen him to succeed their king, Nimrod. But before he can be deemed worthy of the throne, Delroy is first tasked with retrieving a special stone from a venomous snake...
!!Tropes present in ''Delroy in the Marog Kingdom'':
* AbusiveParents: Tevon Gromes, the boy who died by drowning five years earlier, had a drunken father who regularly beat him and his brothers. [[spoiler:It's why Gorem, revealed to be a transformed Tevon, doesn't want to go back to the village]].
* AmazonBrigade: The Womarogs, blue female marogs armed with spears and bows with arrows, led by Queen Zillah, King Nimrod's long-thought-dead wife.
* BerserkButton: Delroy's mother Pearl doesn't take well to being called an idiot. And she really, really doesn't like Dahlia.
* BigBad: Bashron.
* BigFriendlyDog: Bogle, Mario's Rottweiler.
BringMyBrownPants: Delroy is so frightened of the sght of Bashron that he pees all over himself.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Marogs look exactly like frogs, and merats are indistinguishable from normal rats.
* CassandraTruth: The reason Delroy doesn't tell anyone about being able to see the River Mumma is because [[GenreSavvy he knows]] he wouldn't be believed.
--> Worse, what if someone found out about it--someone like Aunt Dahlia? Wouldn't she love to know I was some kind of crackpot!
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Delroy's recorder-playing skill]].
* TheChosenOne: Delroy is chosen to succeed King Nimrod as ruler of the Marog Kingdom.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Delroy and his mother are Catholic, and Delroy recites a Hail Mary the first time he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]] tries to put doubt in Delroy's mind about Gorem at the start of the journey, telling him that Gorem will betray him to get the stone, and its subsequent power, for himself. [[spoiler: Then he pushes Delroy down into the cavern where the snake resides]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Coronella's explanation about how her husband Bashron, the snake who's guarding the zeta stone, will kill Delroy and his companions if he gets hold of them.
--> '''Coronella:''' First of all, he will singe you with his breath, like this... ''(blows breath)'' Except that his breath is hot like fire. Then he will slice you with his tongue to see how you taste. Then he will sink his fangs into your flesh and inject his poison. The poison works slowly, painfully, digesting your organs. The screams I hear from his victims wrench my heart, to the point where I fear for my own safety. After a few hours, while you are still alive, he will swallow you whole.
* CurseCutShort: Delroy's narrative about Aunt Dahlia in the first chapter.
--> Aunt Dahlia is a real--I tried to stop the "b" word from jumping into my mind.
* DeathGlare: Gorem gives Delroy one when the latter suggests finding out a weak spot on Bashron and coming back for the stone another day.
--> If looks could kill, I'd have died right there under Gorem's stare.
* DisappearedDad: Delroy's father, after Pearl ditched him upon finding out he'd gotten Dahlia pregnant. Since then, he hasn't been a prominent figure in Delroy's life.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Delroy doesn't like cabbage. Also, Mario doesn't eat peanuts due to being allergic.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In Gorem's back-story as Tevon, he had wanted to die the day he went missing while swimming five years previously]].
* EvilDetectingDog: When Delroy sees the River Mumma for the first time, Mario's dog Bogle can see her too, although Mario himself can't. Subverted later, though, when it turns out that the River Mumma is in fact a servant of King Nimrod.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Delroy blinds Bashron with his poison glands]].
* GodivaHair: The River Mumma.
* HandicappedBadass: Bashron is deaf. Doesn't make him any less terrifying.
* HeroicBSOD: Delroy has one in Chapter 13 [[spoiler:on realizing that his father might have drowned trying to save him at the lake]].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Delroy wants to go back to being a human.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Delroy transforms into a frog-like creature when he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
* MeaningfulName: King Nimrod explains that Delroy's name has significance, which is one reason why he has been chosen to be Nimrod's successor. It leads to a MeaningfulRename, with Nimrod calling him "Roydel."
--> '''Nimrod:''' As you may be aware, Roy, spelt R-o-i, is French for king.
* OlderThanTheyLook: River Mumma, who appears no older than Delroy's mother Pearl, is about one hundred years old.
* {{Reincarnation}}: What Delroy thinks has happened to him, at first, when he first experiences InvoluntaryShapeshifting.
--> They say that when you die, unless you've been very good, you come back as an animal. I was beginning a new life as a frog!
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played straight with Bashron. Subverted by his wife Coronella, who Delroy mistakes for the snake guarding the stone at first, but who turns out to be very helpful.
* TheResenter: It's implied that Javan dislikes Delroy because King Nimrod chose Delroy as successor instead of him.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Delroy's attempt to save a little boy (actually Gorem in disguise) from drowning in the lake at the Labor Day festivities? That was one of King Nimrod's tests to find a worthy successor.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler:It turns out that Gorem had once marked a passageway close to the Womarogs' kingdom, and had they foud out about it earlier on, they could have come home long ago. Gorem himself groans when he realizes this fact]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: Delroy's father, who also fathered Mario, prefers Mario to Delroy.
--> I hadn't discovered anything I could do that would please Papa.
** Javan, the prince of the Marog Kingdom, is likewise not acknowledged by his father Nimrod, because Nimrod didn't marry Javan's mother.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Gorem warns Delroy against going home while he's still in frog form. Sure enough, when Delroy risks going to the village and heading to his house, he's not recognized as anything but a frog.
* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory.
After Delroy and his half-brother Mario play a prank on Delroy's mother Pearl by slipping a frog into a pot, Delroy hears the frog swear revenge on him. A few weeks later, while Delroy and Mario are out fishing, they stumble across a mythical river-creature known as a "River Mumma," and she makes eye-contact with Delroy--something his mother had previously warned him to avoid happening. Then, while swimming in the lake at a Labor Day festival a few days later, Delroy meets a mysterious boy who gets him sucked into a whirlpool...
...and he winds up in the mysterious Marog Kingdom, inhabited by the marogs, frog-like creatures who have chosen him to succeed their king, Nimrod. But before he can be deemed worthy of the throne, Delroy is first tasked with retrieving a special stone from a venomous snake...
!!Tropes present in ''Delroy in the Marog Kingdom'':
* AbusiveParents: Tevon Gromes, the boy who died by drowning five years earlier, had a drunken father who regularly beat him and his brothers. [[spoiler:It's why Gorem, revealed to be a transformed Tevon, doesn't want to go back to the village]].
* AmazonBrigade: The Womarogs, blue female marogs armed with spears and bows with arrows, led by Queen Zillah, King Nimrod's long-thought-dead wife.
* BerserkButton: Delroy's mother Pearl doesn't take well to being called an idiot. And she really, really doesn't like Dahlia.
* BigBad: Bashron.
* BigFriendlyDog: Bogle, Mario's Rottweiler.
BringMyBrownPants: Delroy is so frightened of the sght of Bashron that he pees all over himself.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Marogs look exactly like frogs, and merats are indistinguishable from normal rats.
* CassandraTruth: The reason Delroy doesn't tell anyone about being able to see the River Mumma is because [[GenreSavvy he knows]] he wouldn't be believed.
--> Worse, what if someone found out about it--someone like Aunt Dahlia? Wouldn't she love to know I was some kind of crackpot!
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Delroy's recorder-playing skill]].
* TheChosenOne: Delroy is chosen to succeed King Nimrod as ruler of the Marog Kingdom.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Delroy and his mother are Catholic, and Delroy recites a Hail Mary the first time he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Javan]] tries to put doubt in Delroy's mind about Gorem at the start of the journey, telling him that Gorem will betray him to get the stone, and its subsequent power, for himself. [[spoiler: Then he pushes Delroy down into the cavern where the snake resides]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Coronella's explanation about how her husband Bashron, the snake who's guarding the zeta stone, will kill Delroy and his companions if he gets hold of them.
--> '''Coronella:''' First of all, he will singe you with his breath, like this... ''(blows breath)'' Except that his breath is hot like fire. Then he will slice you with his tongue to see how you taste. Then he will sink his fangs into your flesh and inject his poison. The poison works slowly, painfully, digesting your organs. The screams I hear from his victims wrench my heart, to the point where I fear for my own safety. After a few hours, while you are still alive, he will swallow you whole.
* CurseCutShort: Delroy's narrative about Aunt Dahlia in the first chapter.
--> Aunt Dahlia is a real--I tried to stop the "b" word from jumping into my mind.
* DeathGlare: Gorem gives Delroy one when the latter suggests finding out a weak spot on Bashron and coming back for the stone another day.
--> If looks could kill, I'd have died right there under Gorem's stare.
* DisappearedDad: Delroy's father, after Pearl ditched him upon finding out he'd gotten Dahlia pregnant. Since then, he hasn't been a prominent figure in Delroy's life.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Delroy doesn't like cabbage. Also, Mario doesn't eat peanuts due to being allergic.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In Gorem's back-story as Tevon, he had wanted to die the day he went missing while swimming five years previously]].
* EvilDetectingDog: When Delroy sees the River Mumma for the first time, Mario's dog Bogle can see her too, although Mario himself can't. Subverted later, though, when it turns out that the River Mumma is in fact a servant of King Nimrod.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Delroy blinds Bashron with his poison glands]].
* GodivaHair: The River Mumma.
* HandicappedBadass: Bashron is deaf. Doesn't make him any less terrifying.
* HeroicBSOD: Delroy has one in Chapter 13 [[spoiler:on realizing that his father might have drowned trying to save him at the lake]].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Delroy wants to go back to being a human.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Delroy transforms into a frog-like creature when he's transported to the Marog Kingdom.
* MeaningfulName: King Nimrod explains that Delroy's name has significance, which is one reason why he has been chosen to be Nimrod's successor. It leads to a MeaningfulRename, with Nimrod calling him "Roydel."
--> '''Nimrod:''' As you may be aware, Roy, spelt R-o-i, is French for king.
* OlderThanTheyLook: River Mumma, who appears no older than Delroy's mother Pearl, is about one hundred years old.
* {{Reincarnation}}: What Delroy thinks has happened to him, at first, when he first experiences InvoluntaryShapeshifting.
--> They say that when you die, unless you've been very good, you come back as an animal. I was beginning a new life as a frog!
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played straight with Bashron. Subverted by his wife Coronella, who Delroy mistakes for the snake guarding the stone at first, but who turns out to be very helpful.
* TheResenter: It's implied that Javan dislikes Delroy because King Nimrod chose Delroy as successor instead of him.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When Coronella sees that her warnings about Bashron won't dissuade the heroes, she decides it's time to leave, citing that she doesn't want to hear [[CruelAndUnusualDeath their death cries]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Delroy's attempt to save a little boy (actually Gorem in disguise) from drowning in the lake at the Labor Day festivities? That was one of King Nimrod's tests to find a worthy successor.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler:It turns out that Gorem had once marked a passageway close to the Womarogs' kingdom, and had they foud out about it earlier on, they could have come home long ago. Gorem himself groans when he realizes this fact]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: Delroy's father, who also fathered Mario, prefers Mario to Delroy.
--> I hadn't discovered anything I could do that would please Papa.
** Javan, the prince of the Marog Kingdom, is likewise not acknowledged by his father Nimrod, because Nimrod didn't marry Javan's mother.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Gorem warns Delroy against going home while he's still in frog form. Sure enough, when Delroy risks going to the village and heading to his house, he's not recognized as anything but a frog.
* YourCheatingHeart: Delroy's father cheated on Pearl with Dahlia in the backstory.
