History Literature / Pin

* DisabledLoveInterest: Ursula's boyfriend Stan has a wooden leg from his time in the war and issues around it.

* GoldDigger: Leon worries Stan is this.

* BrotherSisterIncest and IncestSubtext: While short of on-page direct intercourse for Leon and Ursula the likelihood it happened is all but confirmed. They do have an on-page threesome with Pin. [[spoiler: Leon controls the really inanimate Pin to penetrate Ursula.]] It is said that they used to do this a lot before Pin moved downstairs. Given their openness about sex throughout their whole life, it seems probable the threesomes involved direct incest on their part.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Due to how they are raised, Leon and Ursula have sex rather early and at generally show this only gets worse as the story goes on. For instance, Ursula has an abortion at age 14. Their father even asks if Leon would like to watch while he performs it, but Leon decides against it.
* UnusualEuphemism: The Doctor teaches his children to refer to sexual desire as "the Need."

Pin is a novel by Andrew Neiderman written in 1981. A story summed up by it's front cover tag line, "Brother Sister Madness Sin, Now the Terror will Begin". This story being notable as an example of the kind of works Neiderman would write as the ghost writer for ''Creator/VCAndrews'' except here Miss Andrews was still alive and this one was under his real name.

In the story proper, we meet brother and sister Leon and Ursula. They have a rather unique childhood and young adulthood. And of course we can't forget Pin, their father's anatomically correct medical dummy. And Pin's just a normal part of the family.

* AbusiveParents: Leon and Urusla's parents have several strange ideas compared to what normal parents do. Their father is very frank and honest to a cold level and their mother is so strict she never removes plastic sheets from the furniture.

* BrotherSisterIncest and IncestSubtext: While short of on-page direct intercourse for Leon and Ursula the likelihood it happened is all but confirmed. They do have an on-page threesome with Pin. [[spoiler: Leon controls the really inanimate Pin to penetrate Ursula.]] It is said that they used to do this a lot before Pin moved downstairs. Given their openess about sex throughout their whole life, it seems probable the threesomes involved direct incest on their part.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Due to how they are raised, Leon and Ursula have sex rather early and at generally show this only gets worse as the story goes on.
** Urusula has an abortion at age 14, which their father even asks is Leon would like to watch while he performs it, Leon decides against it.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Leon murdering Stan is this, as he feels Stan is going to take Ursula away from him. Mind you that, Leon and Ursula are siblings and Leon see's Pin as alive and part of this situation. So according to Leon he's trying to turn this square back into a triangle.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Leon's transformation so to speak if foreshadowed by moments where he feels a pain in his leg, like it's become hardened and stiff like wood.]]
** [[spoiler: While you may miss it on your first read, the reveal is as well. At no point does anyone actually respond to what Pin says when Leon thinks he is talking. Because it's all in Leon's head.]]

In the story proper, we meet brother and sister Leon and Ursula. They have a rather unique childhood and young adulthood. And of course we can't forget Pin, their fathers anatomically correct medical dummy. And Pin's just a normal part of the family.

* AbusiveParents: Leon and Urusla's parents have never strange ideas compared to what normal parents do. Their father is very frank and honest to a cold level and their mother is so strict she never removes plastic sheets from the furniture.

* ClingyJealousGuy: Leon doesn't handle Stan's arrival very well as he feels he is leading Ursula away from him and Pin.

** [[spoiler: Leon thinks Pin is alive when he's not and feels Ursula is going to leave him and Pin behind with Stan. So he and Pin plot to murder Stan to get rid of him and then leads his sister on to a get back together threesome with himself and Pin. When he gets caught he tries to blame the whole thing on Pin, which causes Ursula to snap and destroy Pin with an axe. Leon collapses becoming like Pin himself with Ursula becoming his caretaker. So even though they both lost their sanity at least they got each other.]]

* ShoutOut: Pin is short for ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''

* BrotherSisterIncest/IncestSubtext: While short of on-page direct intercourse for Leon and Ursula the likelihood it happened is all but confirmed. They do have an on-page threesome with Pin. [[spoiler: Leon controls the really inanimate Pin to penetrate Ursula.]] It is said that they used to do this a lot before Pin moved downstairs. Given their openess about sex throughout their whole life, it seems probable the threesomes involved direct incest on their part.

** [[spoiler: Leon thinks Pin is alive when he's not and feels Ursula is going to leave him and Pin behind with Stan. So he and Pin plot to murder Stan to get rid of him and then leads his sister on to a get back together threesome with himself and Pin. When he gets caught he tries to blame the whole thing on Pin, which causes Urusla to snap and desroy Pin with an axe. Leon collapses becoming like Pin himself with Ursula becoming his caretaker. So even though their both lost their santies at least they got each other.]]
* ShoutOut: Pin is short for ''Literature/Pinocchio''.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted fully with Pin who is antaomically correct and is able to be used as a sex toy.

* TheBeautifulElite: Played with, while by the standards of their house and wealth Leon and Ursula put them upper class, they are very twisted.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: After Leon witnessing Ursula destory Pin, he collapses on the floor unable to move by himself essentially becoming the new Pin.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: While short of on-page direct intercourse for Leon and Ursula it is implied. That being said they do have a threesome with Pin. [[spoiler: Leon controlling the really inanimate Pin to penetrate Ursula. It is also said like this happened many times before and in the end where Leon believes himself to be Pin it is implies Urusla uses Leon for this still.]]
* DisabledLoveInterest: Ursula's boyfriend Stan has a wooden leg from his time in the war.

* DrivenToMadness: Ursula eventually explodes [[spoiler: after already knowing Leon was going crazy and finding out he killed Stan. But of course Leon blames it all on Pin, so Ursula grabs the axe and chops the hell out of Pin. But when this turns Leon into the new Pin, she dresses him up and continues living on with her brother/dummy in her own little world.]]

* FullFrontalAssault: Not entirely but Ursula is topless when she destorys Pin.

* TheReveal: While the story is told through Leon's perspective the reveal happens in a conversation he eavesdrops on but disbelives.

* BrotherAndSisterIncest: While short of on-page direct intercourse for Leon and Ursula it is implied. That being said they do have a threesome with Pin. [[spoiler: Leon controlling the really inanimate Pin to penetrate Ursula. It is also said like this happened many times before and in the end where Leon believes himself to be Pin it is implies Urusla uses Leon for this still.]]

* ParentalFavortism: Their father tends to give Ursula the easier questions during his quiz rounds putting her ahead of Leon who is given much harder ones.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Due to how they are raised, Leon and Ursula have sex rather early and at generally show this only gets worse as the story goes on.