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* AllThereInTheManual: If you've read thecitysmith's extensive blog, Rungholt's travels and letter writing are clear references to [[spoiler: Atlantis]] and Dresden's fate is more of a ForegoneConclusion
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* BodyHorror: Dresden [[spoiler: ''loses his face'']].
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* ForegoneConclusion: If you've read the blog, you know Dresden and Rungholt [[spoiler: are in the ranks of the Lost Cities]].
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* QueerRomance: The main couple are both men.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Hamburg
* BigFancyHouse: Hamburg again
* BigFancyHouse: Hamburg again
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* BlessedWithSuck: Cities live a long time and are difficult to kill, but feel the pain of their citizens as well as from any geographical damage, barely have free will, and are often hit with crippling loneliness.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: a common ability for Cities. Done to horrible effect with Dresden and the noise he keeps hearing.
* DrivenToSuicide: Arguably the ending.
* DrivenToSuicide: Arguably the ending.
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* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Cities can read their children's thoughts. Dresden is gay, a poc, and [[spoiler: has to watch the Nazis rise to power]].
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* AscendedExtra: Dresden and Rungholt were only briefly mentioned on thecitysmith's blog, and not at all in the original Paris Burning fanfic.
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* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Dresden.
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->''The people called them the Cities.''
-->-- '''Series tagline'''
''Soft as Thunder (Beggars at the Feast)'' is a speculative fiction and romance novella by R. L. White (known online as thecitysmith) set in the {{Literature/Cityverse}}.
Dresden, a German City, is contented with his quiet life restoring books. That is, until Rungholt, a not-yet-City, passes through. As the two develop a relationship, they face complications unique to being the personifications of a city and a town, but some that are not so different than the issues that a human couple would cope with.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Dresden feels this when he leaves his borders.
* BittersweetEnding: Can charitably be called this, rather than a DownerEnding.
* TheBlackDeath: One of the events that Dresden and Rungholt experience together.
* BreakTheCutie: Everyone, but especially [[spoiler: Dresden and Hamburg]].
* ColorMeBlack: Inverted, and played for horror.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The culmination of [[spoiler: Rungholt’s bell motif]].
* GreedyJew: Subverted. Hamburg, who is Jewish, lives in a very comfortable, finely-decorated house, and does not seem to want for anything. He uses this to care for orphans he adopts and their descendents, as well as taking care of any guests who happen to pass by.
* IntrepidMerchant: Rungholt initially travels with a merchant in a mutually beneficial relationship where Rungholt gets to see the world and the merchant sells more wares because Rungholt is a PrettyBoy who flirts with the customers.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Both the main and alternate title reference songs from Les Miserables; the bridge of ‘’I Dreamed a Dream’’ and the reprise of ‘’Master of the House’’, respectively.
* NiceGuy: Hamburg.
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The main romance is between two men, both of whom are acknowledged to have had relationships with other men.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: Overlapping with MayflyDecemberRomance between Dresden and Augustus. One is a nigh-immortal anthropomorphic city, while the other is a mortal man.
* TraumaCongaLine: Dresden, especially after [[spoiler: the Nazi Party come into power]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Rungholt stays with Dresden during the Black Death, partially to nurse him, and [[spoiler: partially as an excuse to abandon his people]]. Dresden calls him out on it.
-->-- '''Series tagline'''
''Soft as Thunder (Beggars at the Feast)'' is a speculative fiction and romance novella by R. L. White (known online as thecitysmith) set in the {{Literature/Cityverse}}.
Dresden, a German City, is contented with his quiet life restoring books. That is, until Rungholt, a not-yet-City, passes through. As the two develop a relationship, they face complications unique to being the personifications of a city and a town, but some that are not so different than the issues that a human couple would cope with.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Dresden feels this when he leaves his borders.
* BittersweetEnding: Can charitably be called this, rather than a DownerEnding.
* TheBlackDeath: One of the events that Dresden and Rungholt experience together.
* BreakTheCutie: Everyone, but especially [[spoiler: Dresden and Hamburg]].
* ColorMeBlack: Inverted, and played for horror.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The culmination of [[spoiler: Rungholt’s bell motif]].
* GreedyJew: Subverted. Hamburg, who is Jewish, lives in a very comfortable, finely-decorated house, and does not seem to want for anything. He uses this to care for orphans he adopts and their descendents, as well as taking care of any guests who happen to pass by.
* IntrepidMerchant: Rungholt initially travels with a merchant in a mutually beneficial relationship where Rungholt gets to see the world and the merchant sells more wares because Rungholt is a PrettyBoy who flirts with the customers.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Both the main and alternate title reference songs from Les Miserables; the bridge of ‘’I Dreamed a Dream’’ and the reprise of ‘’Master of the House’’, respectively.
* NiceGuy: Hamburg.
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The main romance is between two men, both of whom are acknowledged to have had relationships with other men.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: Overlapping with MayflyDecemberRomance between Dresden and Augustus. One is a nigh-immortal anthropomorphic city, while the other is a mortal man.
* TraumaCongaLine: Dresden, especially after [[spoiler: the Nazi Party come into power]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Rungholt stays with Dresden during the Black Death, partially to nurse him, and [[spoiler: partially as an excuse to abandon his people]]. Dresden calls him out on it.
