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** BodySurf: [[spoiler: Effectively the means by which Revenant's powers function. Revenant themselves can never die, at least not in the traditional sense - they can possess corpses, reanimating them to serve as their bodies. She can do this with more than one body, and the one-sided conversation she has with Sleepwalker in 2.08 implies that she has an entire network of spare bodies at her disposal.]]
* ChildSoldiers: While this is, for the most part, averted by official organisations, gangs and groups of vigilantes recruit Deviants at a young age. Of Cerberus, half of its members are teenagers, Cass is one of the youngest active Deviants in the story at 15, and Lisa 'Vanquish' Rees, trained extensively as a ruthless covert operative by Alpha, is perhaps the closest the setting comes to the trope proper.
* ChildSoldiers: While this is, for the most part, averted by official organisations, gangs and groups of vigilantes recruit Deviants at a young age. Of Cerberus, half of its members are teenagers, Cass is one of the youngest active Deviants in the story at 15, and Lisa 'Vanquish' Rees, trained extensively as a ruthless covert operative by Alpha, is perhaps the closest the setting comes to the trope proper.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Draconian, one of the central members of Terminus, and their nemesis Frostbite - are essentially the setting's equivalent of dragons, complete with wings and breath-based projectiles.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Draconian, one of the central members of Terminus, and their his nemesis Frostbite - are essentially the setting's equivalent of dragons, complete with wings and breath-based projectiles.
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* LapPillow: At one point, Cass is knocked unconscious, only to wake up with her head on Loudspeaker's lap.
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* SuperHeroOrigin: While every Deviant naturally develops their powers at puberty, Cass's first experience with them is shown in detail.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Draconian, one of the central members of Terminus, and their nemesis Frostbite - are essentially the setting's equivalent of dragons, complete with wings and breath-based projectiles.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Keeper leaves the Grims after they give her daughter to the Degenerates.
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* CreepyCute: Crowd. She may be a vigilante who helps slaughter human traffickers, but she's also a 9-year old child trapped in a young adult's body. It's strangely adorable, a trait only helped by her mannerisms.
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* FoeYay: Played with. Zeal can enact a particularly {{Squick}}-y version of this, and does so with... disturbing satisfaction. [[spoiler:In a flashback, it's revealed that she's done so to several prominent characters, including several members of Cerberus.]]
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Revenant and (maybe) Insinuation.
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** [[spoiler: Vortex]] even states that the Grims hate the Degenerates, but try to work with them in order to prevent a potential gang war. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
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* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler: After abandoning the identity of Genesis, Cass is approached by an enigmatic Deviant named Psychosis, who informs her of an impending calamity and calls her the 'Pariah', a figure destined to play a vital role in the events to come. Cass, however, wants absolutely nothing to do with it.]]
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* KidHero: The Newborns, a team of Deviants in training, are an entire group of these - for a given definition of 'kid'. Many of the prominent Deviants within the cast are also fairly young themselves, though how heroic they are tends to vary between individuals.
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* IAmAHumanitarian: Marrow, a cannibalistic Deviant who gains powers from those he eats. [[Tsunami is out for his blood in the wake of him killing Spore, a former member of Terminus.]]
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* IAmAHumanitarian: Marrow, a cannibalistic Deviant who gains powers from those he eats. [[Tsunami [[spoiler: Tsunami is out for his blood in the wake of him killing Spore, a former member of Terminus.]]
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* IAmAHumanitarian: Marrow, a cannibalistic Deviant who gains powers from those he eats. [[Tsunami is out for his blood in the wake of him killing Spore, a former member of Terminus.]]
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* EyeScream: Havoc's calling card. [[spoiler: Michelle's gruesome death exemplifies how she operates.]]
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* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler: After dealing with an ever-increasing degree of stress in being a superhero, culminating in her killing Degenerate henchmen during a rescue operation, Cass hangs up her hat. It takes until the conclusion of the second arc for her to don her armour again.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler: During the mission to rescue Keeper's daughter, Jeannine, Cass kills one Degenerate and is indirectly responsible for the deaths of two more. This has a profound impact on her, both psychologically and emotionally, and feeds directly into the above.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler: During the mission to rescue Keeper's daughter, Jeannine, Cass kills one Degenerate and is indirectly responsible for the deaths of two more. This has a profound impact on her, both psychologically and emotionally, and feeds directly into the above.]]
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** [[spoiler: Arguably Revenant. Unsurprisingly, the person with the ability to resurrect infinitely by possessing other people's dead bodies and re-awakening their consciousness turns out to be a real nutcase. They use their powers to trap "sinners" in an eternal "Hell", making them watch Revenant use their bodies for terrible and demeaning things.]]
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* MysteriousWatcher: [[spoiler:Havoc is shown watching the Jansen house, a chapter before she kills Michelle.]]
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* SupervillainLair: The Degenerates live in a tavern-esque lair in the sewers.
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* SupervillainLair: The Degenerates live in a tavern-esque lair in the sewers.sewers.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: At one point, Cass forces herself to vomit to get a tracking device out of her body.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: At one point, Cass forces herself to vomit to get a tracking device out of her body.
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* SuperpowerLottery: Tsunami, hands down. Control of massive amounts of water at once, durability and strength on an absolutely massive scale - hell, she doesn't even have to use existing water, she can just make it herself!
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* SuperpowerLottery: Tsunami, hands down. Control of massive amounts of water at once, durability and strength on an absolutely massive scale - hell, she doesn't even have to use existing water, she can just make it herself!herself!
* SupervillainLair: The Degenerates live in a tavern-esque lair in the sewers.
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* DividedWeFall: The heroes tend to fight each other more than the villains they're supposed to be taking down.
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* Superhero: If one is very lenient with the term "hero".
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* CreepyCute: Crowd. She may be a vigilante who helps slaughter human traffickers, but she's also a 9-year old child trapped in a young adult's body. It's strangely adorable, a trait only helped by her mannerisms.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: The Degenerates, a group of human traffickers and considered to be the general scum of the Earth by everyone else in the story.
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* {{Mook}}: The various gangs have quite a few between them.
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* {{Mook}}: The various superpowered gangs have quite a few unpowered members between them.
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''[[https://deviantnovel.wordpress.com/ Deviant]]'' is an in-progress superhero WebSerialNovel by Kataclysm, updated every Tuesday and Friday.
In 2009, the world changed as Seattle fell to a tsunami, one created seemingly from nothing. The rise of “Deviants”, superhumans with unique abilities and powers, was almost immediate in the wake of the incident. Factions quickly formed, fighting amongst themselves and with each other, and once-mundane criminals became lethally efficient killers. Heroes rose up in response, but the struggle against their adversaries is never-ending.
The story itself takes place in [[NextSundayAD 2025]], and centers around Cassandra "Cass" Jansen, a teenager who can create armor and weapons from nothing. Initially, Cass struggles to make a name for herself as a vigilante superhero, as well as find her missing father, in an alternate future version of Phoenix, Arizona, where the city has become a hub for heroes and villains alike. Of course, her original aim lasts for all of a few chapters, as Cass quickly finds herself wrapped up in a conflict that quickly spirals out of control.
!! This story provides examples of:
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: As the story progresses, it's common for chapters to bounce between multiple different viewpoints, as the cast grows too large for Cass' viewpoint to fully encompass.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cerberus might be a group that has very little qualms about mowing down a bunch of gang mooks, but that's about the extent of any activities that could be considered "villainous", as they spend most of their time fighting people ''far'' worse than them. Notably, [[BadPowersBadPeople the Degenerates.]]
* FoeYay: Played with. Zeal can enact a particularly {{Squick}}-y version of this, and does so with... disturbing satisfaction.
* ImmuneToBullets: Played with. [[spoiler:Cass gets shot by Godsend during the first arc, but manages to - somehow - power through it.]] This resilience is noted by several characters, as a Deviant being able to tank something like this is fairly rare. The only other example shown in-story so far is Tsunami, who is very much an outlier.
* {{Mook}}: The various gangs have quite a few between them.
* NextSundayAD: ''Deviant'' takes place in 2025, a scant six years away from when the first chapter was published.
* SociopathicHero: Insinuation, for a given value of "hero".
* SuperpowerLottery: Tsunami, hands down. Control of massive amounts of water at once, durability and strength on an absolutely massive scale - hell, she doesn't even have to use existing water, she can just make it herself!
In 2009, the world changed as Seattle fell to a tsunami, one created seemingly from nothing. The rise of “Deviants”, superhumans with unique abilities and powers, was almost immediate in the wake of the incident. Factions quickly formed, fighting amongst themselves and with each other, and once-mundane criminals became lethally efficient killers. Heroes rose up in response, but the struggle against their adversaries is never-ending.
The story itself takes place in [[NextSundayAD 2025]], and centers around Cassandra "Cass" Jansen, a teenager who can create armor and weapons from nothing. Initially, Cass struggles to make a name for herself as a vigilante superhero, as well as find her missing father, in an alternate future version of Phoenix, Arizona, where the city has become a hub for heroes and villains alike. Of course, her original aim lasts for all of a few chapters, as Cass quickly finds herself wrapped up in a conflict that quickly spirals out of control.
!! This story provides examples of:
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: As the story progresses, it's common for chapters to bounce between multiple different viewpoints, as the cast grows too large for Cass' viewpoint to fully encompass.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cerberus might be a group that has very little qualms about mowing down a bunch of gang mooks, but that's about the extent of any activities that could be considered "villainous", as they spend most of their time fighting people ''far'' worse than them. Notably, [[BadPowersBadPeople the Degenerates.]]
* FoeYay: Played with. Zeal can enact a particularly {{Squick}}-y version of this, and does so with... disturbing satisfaction.
* ImmuneToBullets: Played with. [[spoiler:Cass gets shot by Godsend during the first arc, but manages to - somehow - power through it.]] This resilience is noted by several characters, as a Deviant being able to tank something like this is fairly rare. The only other example shown in-story so far is Tsunami, who is very much an outlier.
* {{Mook}}: The various gangs have quite a few between them.
* NextSundayAD: ''Deviant'' takes place in 2025, a scant six years away from when the first chapter was published.
* SociopathicHero: Insinuation, for a given value of "hero".
* SuperpowerLottery: Tsunami, hands down. Control of massive amounts of water at once, durability and strength on an absolutely massive scale - hell, she doesn't even have to use existing water, she can just make it herself!
