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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Max Demian appears older than his actual age due to having a gentleman-like disposition.
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''Demian'', or ''Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth'' is a 1919 ComingOfAge German novel by Creator/HermannHesse.
!!''Demian'' contains the following tropes:
* TheAce: Max Demian is not only smarter than everyone in his age group but is capable of trouncing the bully who has the protagonist in his thrall. Emil Sinclair thinks that he seems like an adult among children and forms what can only be described as a platonic crush on him.
* TheDescendantsOfCain: A central theme of the novel. The title character (whose forehead does have a certain brightness) speculates that the whole story of Cain killing Abel was propaganda from [[TallPoppySyndrome ordinary people who felt threatened by the genuinely gifted]].
* IfOnlyYouKnew: Sinclair feels a moment of pity and resentment that his family doesn't know he's being blackmailed into petty crime by a bully; he thinks the trope name almost word for word when his father scolds him for getting his boots muddy.
* InnocenceLost: The beginning of ''Demian''.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Frau Eva (Max's mother) is described as having male features alongside feminine cues. She looks quite a bit like her son.
* LastNameBasis: Emil Sinclair and Max Demian call each other by surname. Demian's mother, on the other hand, is "Frau Eva" to Sinclair almost from the start, which her son duly notes as the name people call her when they are in love with her.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sinclair develops what can only be described as an awed crush on the title character, and it continues throughout the book. When he meets Frau Eva, who looks like a feminine version of her son, he falls in love immediately.
* StacysMom: Sinclair is immediately smitten with Demian's mother, who is not only aware of this but once rather unsubtly hints that [[MayDecemberRomance he could have her]] if he'd just be bold enough to try.
''Demian'', or ''Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth'' is a 1919 ComingOfAge German novel by Creator/HermannHesse.
!!''Demian'' contains the following tropes:
* TheAce: Max Demian is not only smarter than everyone in his age group but is capable of trouncing the bully who has the protagonist in his thrall. Emil Sinclair thinks that he seems like an adult among children and forms what can only be described as a platonic crush on him.
* TheDescendantsOfCain: A central theme of the novel. The title character (whose forehead does have a certain brightness) speculates that the whole story of Cain killing Abel was propaganda from [[TallPoppySyndrome ordinary people who felt threatened by the genuinely gifted]].
* IfOnlyYouKnew: Sinclair feels a moment of pity and resentment that his family doesn't know he's being blackmailed into petty crime by a bully; he thinks the trope name almost word for word when his father scolds him for getting his boots muddy.
* InnocenceLost: The beginning of ''Demian''.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Frau Eva (Max's mother) is described as having male features alongside feminine cues. She looks quite a bit like her son.
* LastNameBasis: Emil Sinclair and Max Demian call each other by surname. Demian's mother, on the other hand, is "Frau Eva" to Sinclair almost from the start, which her son duly notes as the name people call her when they are in love with her.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sinclair develops what can only be described as an awed crush on the title character, and it continues throughout the book. When he meets Frau Eva, who looks like a feminine version of her son, he falls in love immediately.
* StacysMom: Sinclair is immediately smitten with Demian's mother, who is not only aware of this but once rather unsubtly hints that [[MayDecemberRomance he could have her]] if he'd just be bold enough to try.
