History Literature / EmilyTheStrangeTheLostDays

* HeartwarmingMoments: While it's not of much help to Emily when she returns to Blackrock, she receives a letter from Molly Merriweather's mother wishing her luck in figuring out who she is and where she belongs. Especially since she writes in the end that, should she be unable to find where she belongs, she's always welcome to return to their home. As overbearing as Mr and Mrs Merriweather sound to be, they definitely have their hearts in the right place being willing to open up their home to her, even knowing she's not their daughter.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Earwig tries her best to steer clear of people, including sleeping days and exploring the town at night. She is very good with cats.
* NoSocialSkills: Raven.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In universe, it was stated that Attikol once rearranged the streets of San Francisco to match a woman's favorite TV show, ''Series/TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco''.

* MemoryGambit: The plot of thos book, though it takes Earwig a long time to discover it.

* SadistTeacher: The entire staff of Blackrock's school apears to be this.

* BatmanGambit: An unusual variant. [[spoiler: Emma, before she died, arranged for her as yet unborn grand niece to inherit what she owned, but that she would have to do so secretly. She knew that her grand niece would be super smart and have to hide her mind from a boy who would be born four years after her grand niece (thus four years after her own death). She also arranged for a then thirteen-year-old boy to get some money to buy his way onto the City Council when he was old enough and to assist her greand niece when she showed up.]]
* BlatantLies: On the bus, Earwig just wasn't intersted in talking to her seatmate. After the Normal Guy just described what he was doing in Wichita:

** [[spoiler: Molly's parents]] are worse. They are raising a [[FreeRangeChildren free-range child]] and when a girl looking like their dauighter, just with amnesia runs away from them, the mother just writes to her to wish her luck.

* ''Calvinball'': Calamity Poker evolved as a card game with rules so contradictory that the day and phase of the moon can alter whether a hand wins or doesn't. Even with an official rulebook, the rules are still very convoluted.

* ''Doppelganger'': Not a true version, but to a girl with amnesia, meeting a girl who looks nearly exactly like her and the deceased founder of the town where she was who also looked like her, it can be creepy.

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* MemoryGambit: The plot of thos book, though it takes Earwig a long time to discover it.
* NightmareFetishist: Earwig loves her nightmares.

* KindHeartedCatLover: Earwig is this with all local cats, especially the four which we learn are actually hers.
** Hilda combines this and CrazyCatLady due to her age and possible senility.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler: Raven calls upon birds to poop on Attikol and many other of the traveling show employees after Attikol loses the card game.

* ''Main/Doppelganger'': Not a true version, but to a girl with amnesia, meeting a girl who looks nearly exactly like her and the deceased founder of the town where she was who also looked like her, it can be creepy.

A girl wakes up in a small town on a park bench on a small plot of grass with no memory of who she is, where she is, or even why she is there. In her diary, she talks of encountering a dumb as nails diner worker, the employees of a small traveling show including a boy who can read minds, and a girl who looks exactly like her as she tries to figure out how to regain her memories and what she is doing in this odd town.

* BlatantLies: On the bus, Earwig just wasn't intersted in talking to her seatmateand. After the Normal Guy just described what he was doing in Wichita:

AdultsAreUseless: a thirteen-year-old girl who has amnesia is alone in a small town and lives in a box behind a diner. Why should anyone care?
[[spoiler: Molly's parents]] are worse. They are raising a [[FreeRangeChildren free-range child]] and when a girl looking like their dauighter, just with amnesia runs away from them, the mother just writes to her to wish her luck.
ArcNumber: The book starts on page 13 and Emily has a penchant for making lists with 13 items.
BatmanGambit: An unusual variant. [[spoiler: Emma, before she died, arranged for her as yet unborn grand niece to inherit what she owned, but that she would have to do so secretly. She knew that her grand niece would be super smart and have to hide her mind from a boy who would be born four years after her grand niece (thus four years after her own death). She also arranged for a then thirteen-year-old boy to get some money to buy his way onto the City Council when he was old enough and to assist her greand niece when she showed up.]]
BlatantLies: On the bus, Earwig just wasn't intersted in talking to her seatmateand. After the Normal Guy just described what he was doing in Wichita:

ConvectionSchmonvection: Somewhat justified. While the Liquid black rock was stated to feel as if it was burning Earwig, it did so in a nice way and apparently wasn't hot per se. It was magic lava.
CorruptPolitician: The mayor and council members can all be bribed.
KindHeartedCatLover: Earwig is this with all local cats, especially the four which we learn are actually hers.

Main/Doppelganger: Not a true version, but to a girl with amnesia, meeting a girl who looks nearly exactly like her and the deceased founder of the town where she was who also looked like her, it can be creepy.
MemoryGambit: The plot of thos book, though it takes Earwig a long time to discover it.
FreeRangeChildren: Why are Emily's (Earwig's) parents not searching for her? Also [[spoiler: Molly's parents let her go anywhere she wants as long as her grades are good.]]
GenerationXerox: Emily (Earwig) found out that [[spoiler: her great aunt]] looked very much like her
Hammerspace: Emily's pockets can hold a lot.
KindHeartedCatLover: Emily loves the four cats she finds, who also seem to love her as well.
TheNicknamer: Earwig is this since she doesn't know anyone's name and can't be bothered to learn them. Molly is known for doing this to her friends, but refuses to allow anyone to nickname her.
NotGoodWithPeople: Earwig tries her best to steer clear of people, including sleeping days and exploring the town at night. She is very good with cats.
[[NotHimself Not Herself]]: How Emily knows she is not Molly and Molly's parents realzie she is not their daughter.
PerkyGoth: She dresses in black clothing and finds scary things cool, but she also celebrates when good things happen to her and often writes a lot of exclamation points when excited
PoliceAreUseless: See AdultsAreUseless above. They give her a ticket for living in a refrigerator box behind teh El Dungeon as opposed to finding her a place to stay. Like the CorruptPolitician above, they are also on the take.
PsychicStatic: Subverted. Earwig builds a machine that amplifies the thoughts of cats and uses it on her cats so that they'll drown out her own thoughts and prevent Jakey from discovering that she's lying to him. [[spoiler: He later reveals in a letter that he knew she was lying the whole time and that her plan, while a neat trick, didn't work on him because he can only read human thoughts.]]
TeenGenius: And how. Even without her memries, she can easily fix broken electronics, plus a lot more...
ThirteenIsUnlucky: Inverted. Thirteen is Emily's favorite number.