History Literature / Everlost

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Allie and the [=McGill=].]] See BecomingTheMask. They both [[spoiler:dislike Mary]] too.

->''"[[{{IChooseToStay}} Linger]] or [[{{AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence}} light]]; the choice will be yours."''

* {{Blackmail}}: Twice for [[spoiler:Allie]] by [[spoiler:the Haunter]] and [[spoiler:the [=McGill=]]]. The former, she [[TakeAThirdOption took a third option]], but with the latter, Allie agrees [[ScheherezadeGambit for the]] [[BlatantLies most part]].

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Despite [[BlatantLies "helping"]] [[BigBad the [=McGill=]]] in order to free [[JamesBondage Nick and Lief]], it is subtly shown that Allie at times sympathizes with and secretly likes the power she has with the [=McGill=], which is probably why her master plan is prolonged for weeks.]]

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Nick, Allie, Mary, and Mikey.]]

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Allie almost/could have become this.
* [[spoiler:IHaveYour[[strike:Wife]] [[{{James Bondage}} Friends]]]]: Allie to the rescue.

* ImpliedLoveInterest: Thanks to the {{Ship Tease}}, Allie and [[spoiler:the [[{{Big Bad}} McGill]]/[[{{Heel Face Turn}} Mikey]] [[{{Rescue Romance}} McGill]].]]

* JustFriends: Nick and Allie.
* KidHero

* LimitedWardrobe: Justified, due to JacobMarleyApparel.

* LookBehindYou
* LoveAtFirstSight: Nick towards Mary.
* LoveHurts: Nick and Mary oh so much, [[spoiler:the [=McGill=]]] could count too.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Nick, for the most part, when it comes to Mary.

* MeaningfulName
* MeetCute: Meet Mary.
** [[BoyMeetsGirl Nick meets Allie]] first, but they are PlatonicLifePartners.

* MoodWhiplash
* MoralityChain: Arguably Allie for [[spoiler:the [[BigBad [=McGill=]]] / [[HeelFaceTurn Mikey]] [[RescueRomance [=McGill=]]].]]

* TheMovie: Rumored to become one.

* OddCouple: Nick and Lief.

* OlderThanTheyLook

* OurGhostsAreDifferent

* PlatonicLifePartners: Nick and Allie. You'd think they'd become the OfficialCouple because they're the [[BoyMeetsGirl main]] [[FirstGirlWins characters]], but they're just friends.

* PluckyComicRelief: Lief after he becomes a CloudCuckoolander.

* ProphecyTwist: See {{Foreshadowing}}.
* ThePunishment: Getting chimed.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Johnnie-O and the Altar Boys.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: See QuirkyMinibossSquad.
* RedOniBlueOni: Allie and Mary, Vari and Nick
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:The Haunter.]]

* SmokingIsCool: Johnnie-O.

* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Allie does grow to sympathize with the [=McGill=] a little.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Mary, kind of.

* TakeMyHand: [[spoiler:"Hold on to me, and don't let go."]]
* TeamMom: Mary.

* TitleDrop
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Nick, who foils Mary's scheme in the end of the novel.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Arguably, Allie and Mary.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld
* TrueCompanions: Nick, Allie, and Lief.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Nick, Lief, and Allie; Nick, Vari, and Mary.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Nick and Mary.
* {{Utopia}}: The Twin Towers, where Mary takes in Afterlights and give them a perfect-like home.
* UnwillingSuspension: Chiming
* WhatTheHellHero: See {{Becoming The Mask}}.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Mary.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Allie to the [=McGill=]. [[spoiler:It's one of the reasons why he decides to rescue her in the end.]]

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The ''Hindenburg'' (or Zeppelin LZ-129).

* BrattyHalfPint: Vari can be seen as this at times.
* BrokenBird: Mary.

* CharacterDevelopment

* TheChessmaster: Allie seemed to have been getting there.

* Cliffhanger
* [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Guy]]: Vari.

* CoolAirship: The ''Hindenburg.''
* CoolBoat: The ''Sulphur Queen.''
* CoolHorse: [[spoiler:Shiloh, the Famous Diving Horse.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Allie.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Johnnie-O and the [=McGill=]/Mikey [=McGill=] to Allie.]]

* [[spoiler:DidNotGetTheGirl]]: [[spoiler:Nick after he betrays Mary. But there's always FoeYay.]]
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: [[spoiler:Allie]] tricking [[spoiler:the [=McGill=]]] into beliving that she was teaching him how to [[spoiler:{{Body Surf}}]].
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Whenever [[spoiler:the [=McGill=]]] begins showing genuine kindness towards [[spoiler:Allie]].

* DoggedNiceGuy: Nick at first.
* EarnYourHappyEnding

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:The [=McGill=].]]
* [[spoiler:TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]: [[spoiler:According to the [=McGill=], this is what the Afterlights who sink to the center of the earth are waiting for.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:The Haunter.]]
* FishOutOfWater: Nick and Allie.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Nick.
** TheLancer: Allie.
** TheSmartGuy: Mary.
** TheBigGuy: [[spoiler:Johnnie-O.]]
** TheChick: Lief, mainly because he doesn't do much other than being the TagalongKid and a CloudCuckoolander. Nick also shows signs of being TheChick because of his NonActionGuy status [[spoiler:untill he TookALevelInBadass.]]
** [[spoiler:TheSixthRanger]]: [[spoiler:Mikey [=McGill=].]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The fortune cookies.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Johnnie-O and his gang. And Mikey [=McGill=].]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: Nick's crush on Mary.

!!This series provides examples of:

A novel by Neal Shusterman. The first novel of ''Literature/TheSkinjackerTrilogy''.

Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident, but their souls [[ReroutedFromHeaven don't exactly get to where they're supposed to]] either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bandits of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.

-->'''Allie:''' Great. I'm playing Wendy to a delinquent PeterPan and the lost boys of Juvie Hall.

* RetroGaming: It's not Lief's choice since items that pass into Everlost are sometimes difficult to find, but it is implied he is playing ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' on the GameBoy at one point, and he also becomes obsessed with playing ''VideoGame/PacMan'', playing it for five days straight.

* ShoutOut::

-->'''Lief:''' This game's stupid. Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?

-->'''Allie:''' 'Ghost' implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like [[CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper]] to you?

--->'''Allie:''' 'Ghost' implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like [[CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper]] to you?

--->'''Vari:''' Soon everyone'll just call you Chocolate. Or ''Hershey''. Yeah, that's it. You'll be ''Hershey''.
--->'''Lief:''' This game's stupid. Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?
--->'''Allie:''' Great. I'm playing Wendy to a delinquent PeterPan and the lost boys of Juvie Hall.
--->'''Allie:''' Don't try to charm me. The 'Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast' thing doesn't work with me, okay?

* RetroGaming: It's not Lief's choice since items that pass into Everlost are sometimes difficult to find, but it is implied he is playing ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' on the GameBoy at one point, and he also becomes obsessed with playing {{Pac-Man}}, playing it for five days straight.

* ShoutOut: Quite a bit (mostly said by Allie because she's our resident DeadpanSnarker / LittleMissSnarker):
-->'''Allie:''' 'Ghost' implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like [[CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper]] to you?

-->'''Vari:''' Soon everyone'll just call you Chocolate. Or ''Hershey''. Yeah, that's it. You'll be ''Hershey''.
-->'''Lief:''' This game's stupid. Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?
-->'''Allie:''' Great. I'm playing Wendy to a delinquent PeterPan and the lost boys of Juvie Hall.
-->'''Allie:''' Don't try to charm me. The 'Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast' thing doesn't work with me, okay?
** There's also a pair of afterlights in the Twin Towers who died on Halloween, dressed as a skeleton and a zombie. Their names are [[TheXFiles Skully and Molder]].

Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident, but their souls don't exactly get to where they're supposed to either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bandits of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.

Nick and Allie survive the car accident, but their souls don't exactly get to where they're supposed to either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bandits of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.

* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Allie does grow to sympathize the [=McGill=] a little.]]

* TagalongKid: Lief for Nick and Allie, Vari for Mary [[spoiler:until she accidently leaves Vari behind and then he becomes the new [=McGill=].]]

* RetroGaming: It's not Lief's choice since items that pass into Everlost is sometimes difficult to find, but it is implied he is playing ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' on the GameBoy at one point, and he also becomes obsessed with playing {{Pac-Man}}, playing it for five days straight.

* LuminescentBlush: When Allie names the unnamed boy she and Nick meet "Lief," which causing Lief to blush as if he had been kissed.

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Despite [[BlatantLies "helping"]] [[BigBad the [=McGill=]]] in order to free [[JamesBondage Nick and Lief]], it is subtly shown that Allie at times sympathizes with and secretly likes the power she has with the [=McGill=], which is probably why her master plan had prolonged for weeks.]]

** Gender-reversed when Allie is the first meets [[{{Tagalong Kid}} Lief]].

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Allie and the [=McGill=] on each other.]] [[spoiler:Throughout Allie's ScheherezadeGambit and BlatantLies, she knows she has some sort of power over the [=McGill=] and enjoys it, which causes her to have some ConflictingLoyalty because while she strongly desires to rescue [[TrueCompanions Nick and Lief]], she feels StockholmSyndrome a little sympathetic]] towards the [=McGill=]. [[spoiler:Meanwhile, the [=McGill=] develops a strong case LimaSyndrome for Allie, which is troubling for him because he knows Allie will abandon him and escape with her friends, if given the chance. However, because of the [=McGill's=] {{Blackmail}} over Allie, he also knows that she would do what he wants for the sake of her [[ThePowerOfFriendship friends]].]]

-->'''Allie:''' Thank you, [[{{Google}} Mr. Google]]. The next time I need crucial information, I'll type in some keywords.

* BigBad: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The [=McGill=]]]. [[spoiler:Mary Hightower, though she is more of a {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}.]]
** [[spoiler:Until {{Everwild}}, that is.]]