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* CoveredWithScars: Both Syvier and Craig from the previous book, but also Palamabron, a girl with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure Lichtenberg figure]] down her right face, arm and side.

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* AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler: The Proxy Horde]] is this to the Raquin Dynasty.

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* AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler: The Proxy Horde]] is this to the Raquin Dynasty. And [[spoiler: Indrid Cold's race, the [[HumanoidAbomination Ultraterrestrials]], are this to the Proxy Horde.]]


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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: How humans view [[spoiler: The conflict between the Proxy Horde and the Ultraterrestrials, and how they in reflection view the conflict between the sivs and the conjurors.]]


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* HumanoidAbomination: The black-eyed children, Harlequins, Shadow-beings, and our returning 'friend' Indrid Cold.

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* BabiesEverAfter: The purpose of the Proxy Horde [[spoiler: is to breed more telethesics into existence who they can control and use to overthrow civilization.]] PlayedStraight with [[spoiler: Will and Amy's son, William Watson V.]]



* Really700YearsOld: The Concordia House can preserve people for decades at the same age, meaning that Palamabron has stayed twenty-one even though she was born in 1918. Her romance with Craig is substantially less [[squicky]] than it would be, as it's explained that human proxies remain the same mental and developmental age they were when they arrived in Concordia.

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* Really700YearsOld: The Concordia House can preserve people for decades at the same age, meaning that Palamabron has stayed twenty-one even though she was born in 1918. Her romance with Craig is substantially less [[squicky]] {{squicky}} than it would be, as it's explained that human proxies remain the same mental and developmental age they were when they arrived in Concordia.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What Syvier views her hunt for Craig as.

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* Really700YearsOld: The Concordia House can preserve people for decades at the same age, meaning that Palamabron has stayed twenty-one even though she was born in 1918. Her romance with Craig is substantially less [[squicky]] than it would be, as it's explained that human proxies remain the same mental and developmental age they were when they arrived in Concordia.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What Syvier views her hunt for Craig as.
* UncannyValley: in spades, but most especially with the non-human proxies such as the becs, harlequins and shadow-beings.
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Noted for being a surprisingly sympathetic and bittersweet, if BloodierAndGorier expansion on the previous two novels. Starrett hasn't confirmed if he will continue the series or not, although he originally planned it as a five-book saga.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler: The Proxy Horde]] is this to the Raquin Dynasty.
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* ArtifactTitle: The Proxy Horde is named for the proxies of the WebOriginal/SlenderMan and WebOriginal/FearMythos, the worlds in which ''Literature/JackieAndCraig'' was originally based back in 2011-2014, before being altered and published in 2017.

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* ArtifactTitle: The Proxy Horde is named for the proxies of the WebOriginal/SlenderMan Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos and WebOriginal/FearMythos, Franchise/TheFearMythos, the worlds in which ''Literature/JackieAndCraig'' was originally based back in 2011-2014, before being altered and published in 2017.
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* ArtifactTitle: The Proxy Horde is named for the proxies of the SlenderMan and FearMythos, the worlds in which ''Literature/JackieAndCraig'' was originally based back in 2011-2014, before being altered and published in 2017.

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* ArtifactTitle: The Proxy Horde is named for the proxies of the SlenderMan WebOriginal/SlenderMan and FearMythos, WebOriginal/FearMythos, the worlds in which ''Literature/JackieAndCraig'' was originally based back in 2011-2014, before being altered and published in 2017.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler: the black-eyed children are shadow-beings inhabiting human bodies, while Indrid Cold may be some strange parody of an extinct and ancient human race.]] The Harlequins play this straight, being [[spoiler: genetically modified humans that fell completely under the Proxy Horde's control.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Proxy Horde.


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* ArtifactTitle: The Proxy Horde is named for the proxies of the SlenderMan and FearMythos, the worlds in which ''Literature/JackieAndCraig'' was originally based back in 2011-2014, before being altered and published in 2017.
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* AnachronismStew: Within the Concordia House, where children and adolescents captured from their various eras [[YourMindMakesItReal bring their various eras with them.]]
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''Teenage Wastelands: Escape From Concordia'' is a novel by Kent J. Starrett, following the second book in the ''[[Franchise/TeenageWastelands]]'' saga and (possibly) concluding the series.

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''Teenage Wastelands: Escape From Concordia'' is a novel by Kent J. Starrett, following the second book in the ''[[Franchise/TeenageWastelands]]'' ''Franchise/TeenageWastelands'' saga and (possibly) concluding the series.
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* MindRape: What the nighthawks do to people in their sights, [[spoiler: and the proxies do better.]]
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* TheNineties: come to a screeching halt on New Year's Eve of 2000, and the book takes a permanent turn for the AlternateHistory established in the previous novel.

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* TheNineties: come to a screeching halt on New Year's Eve of 2000, and the book takes a permanent turn for the AlternateHistory established in the previous novel.novel.
* CloudCuckooLand: What the Concordia House is, to any who enter. [[spoiler: it turns out to be a telethesic proxy deception.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What Syvier views her hunt for Craig as.
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[[caption-width-right:1000: ''Pala had lived in the same house for seventy years. That didn't bother her greatly - she was still twenty-one.'']]
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''Teenage Wastelands: Escape From Concordia'' is a novel by Kent J. Starrett, following the second book in the ''[[Franchise/TeenageWastelands]]'' saga and (possibly) concluding the series.

War has swallowed the country. In the aftermath of the preceding novel, the Raquin Dynasty has declared full-on war on the Outland - their word for out society - with a series of meteorological attacks on five major cities on New Year's Eve of 2000. In response, America has locked its borders and declared a counterattack on conjurors wherever they found them.

In the midst of all this, Craig Steiger is on the run from Raquin Syvier, Empress of this ecoterrorist group. Will and Amy, searching for him and investigating the paranormal, begin to notice a harsh uptick in the amount of phenomenon arising in and out of the rural parts of America. Soon, they begin to suspect that the Raquin Dynasty may not have started this war. And they begin to seek out who - or what - did.

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* TheNineties: come to a screeching halt on New Year's Eve of 2000, and the book takes a permanent turn for the AlternateHistory established in the previous novel.

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