History Literature / Teeth

* IHaveNoSon: Mrs. Delaney refuses to acknowledge [[spoiler:Teeth, aka Daniel, because he is a ChildbyRape.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Teeth has ''something'' going on with him, though it's understandable with what he's gone through. For that matter, everyone on the island is a bit detached from reality.

%%* HalfHumanHybrid: Teeth.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Teeth was born through a "union" when [[spoiler:his father, a fish, raped his mother, a human.]]

* AbortedDeclarationOfLove
* AlliterativeName: Diana Delaney, [[spoiler: Daniel Delaney.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi / AmbiguouslyGay: Rudy and Teeth, respectively. Rudy, at least, is confirmed by WordOfGod to be bisexual.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The fishermen.]]
* BadassBookworm: Diana.

* {{Bookends}}: Rudy discussing his thoughts on the ocean.

* ChildByRape: YMMV on if [[spoiler: the fish that impregnates Mrs. Delaney was actually sentient enough to know what it was doing, but either way, Teeth is this.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Teeth.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: For a variety of reasons.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The 'wind' that Rudy hears at night and believes to be screaming.
** [[spoiler: Rudy says early on that the island feels like the perfect place for a murder.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Teeth.

* HomoeroticSubtext: And how.

* HypocriticalHumor: With Teeth, often.

* JerkassWoobie: Teeth.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The fishermen.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: Teeth uses these often.

* OddFriendship: Rudy and Teeth.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and lampshaded.

* ReallyGetsAround: Rudy's easy.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Diana thinks so.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: If Teeth is gay, this is him, though it's hard to apply any human standards to him. Rudy is more of a straight bi.]]
* TemptingFate: Anytime things are going well, Rudy does this.
* WhatTheHellHero: Rudy and Teeth both give one to each other at one point.

A novel by Creaotr/HannahMoskowitz, ''Teeth'' is about Rudy, a sixteen year old whose family moves to a small island home to Enki fish. This breed has the magical ability to cure anything from cuts to cancer, and the inhabitants of the island all benefit.

A novel by Hannah Moskowitz, ''Teeth'' is about Rudy, a sixteen year old whose family moves to a small island home to Enki fish. This breed has the magical ability to cure anything from cuts to cancer, and the inhabitants of the island all benefit.

* HalfHumanHybrid

* HumanMomNonHumanDad

* IfItsYouItsOkay
* IHaveNoSon

* RapeAsBackstory

* Foreshadowing:

* Hypocritical Humor: With Teeth, often.

* ChekovsGun: A literal one, in fact -- [[spoiler: Mrs. Delaney's gun is mentioned in passing by Diana and later used to murder the fishermen.]]

* BaddassBookworm: Diana.

* ForTheEvuls: [[spoiler: It's never explained why the fishermen do the things that they do.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi / AmbiguouslyGay: Rudy and Teeth, respectively. [[spoiler: Though their relationship is all but confirmed, they avoid defining it.]]

* DysfunctionJunction: [[spoiler: Teeth is a victim of abandonment and sexual assault, Diana grew up more or less on her own and has trouble interacting with people, and Rudy has been coping with his brother's illness and feelings of inadequacy.]]

* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler: After Daniel Delaney is abandoned by his mother, he renames himself after the ''teeth'' he's growing in.]]

* StraightGay: [[spoiler: If Teeth is gay, this is him, though it's hard to apply any human standards to him.]]

* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Rudy yells at [[spoiler: Mrs. Delaney for allowing the town to hunt Teeth]], she responds thusly.

* {{Malaproper}}: Teeth.

* WhatTheHellHero: Rudy gives this to Teeth.

[[caption-width-right:235:''Now we're living on this island that is so small and isolated that it really feels like it's another world, with rules like none I learned growing up. We came here from Middle America. We stepped into a fairy tale.'']]

[[caption-width-right:235:''At home I never would've believed this shit. I used to be a reasonable person. But now we're living on this island that is so small and isolated that it really feels like it's another world, with rules like none I learned growing up. We came here from Middle America. We stepped into a fairy tale.'']]

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[[caption-width-right:317:''At home I never would've believed this shit. I used to be a reasonable person. But now we're living on this island that is so small and isolated that it really feels like it's another world, with rules like none I learned growing up. We came here from Middle America. We stepped into a fairy tale.'']]

->''At home I never would've believed this shit. I used to be a reasonable person. But now we're living on this island that is so small and isolated that it really feels like it's another world, with rules like none I learned growing up. We came here from Middle America. We stepped into a fairy tale.''

A novel by Hannah Moskowitz, ''Teeth'' is about Rudy, a sixteen year old whose family moves to a small island home to ''Enki fish.'' This breed has the magical ability to cure anything from cuts to cancer, and the inhabitants of the island all benefit.

[[quoteblock]]''Rudy: I don't know why they think I've changed. It's Dylan. The difference is Dylan, playing back. I haven't changed. Why would I have changed?''[[/quoteblock]]

A novel by Hannah Moskowitz, ''Teeth'' is about Rudy, a sixteen year old whose family moves to a small, relatively unknown island. This island is home to Enki fish, a breed with the magical ability to cure illnesses. There, Rudy copes with his younger brother's touch-and-go recovery from cystic fibrosis. He meets the only two other teenagers on the island -- Diana, a book smart girl who rarely leaves her house, and Teeth, a caustic, self-destructive merboy.

->''Rudy: I don't know why they think I've changed. It's Dylan. The difference is Dylan, playing back. I haven't changed. Why would I have changed?''

* DoesNotGetTheGirl: For a variety of reasons.

* WhamLine:

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: the fishermen.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: [[spoiler: Teeth is a victim of abandonment and sexual assault, Diana grew up more or less on her own and has trouble interacting with people, and Rudy has been coping with his brother's illness and feelings of inadequacy.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: the fishermen.]]

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A novel by Hannah Moskowitz, ''Teeth'' is about Rudy, a sixteen year old whose family moves to a small, relatively unknown island. This island is home to Enki fish, a breed with the magical ability to cure illnesses. There, Rudy copes with his younger brother, Dylan's, touch and go recovery from cystic fibrosis. He meets the only two other teenagers on the island -- Diana, a book smart girl who rarely leaves her house, and Teeth, a caustic, self-destructive merboy.

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