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* TheFirstSuperheroes: Henry is the only time traveller in the novel and has difficulty convincing doctors that his condition is real (and convincing his friends why he acts so oddly). Later on he jumps into the future where he is referred to as Chrono-Impaired [[spoiler: by his ten year old daughter, who has the same condition]] basically revealing that by that point, time travel has become accepted as a thing.
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** Clare as a teenager refuses to go on ''any'' date with any guy, and keeps rejecting guys even though sometimes guys express interest in her. This leads to her classmates thinking she's a lesbian. Granted, that's a less far-fetching conclusion than "I already met my future man when I was a child because he time-traveled from the future to me so I know it's a given I end up with him".
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** Clare as a teenager refuses to go on ''any'' date with any guy, and keeps rejecting guys even though sometimes guys express interest in her. This leads to her classmates classmate thinking she's a lesbian.lesbian (mistakingly). Granted, that's a less far-fetching conclusion than "I already met my future man when I was a child because he time-traveled from the future to me so I know it's a given I end up with him".
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* MistakenForGay: Henry gets attacked when seen walking in a bad alleyway in flamboyant clothes while travelling through time.
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* MistakenForGay: MistakenForGay:
** Henry gets attacked when seen walking in a bad alleyway in flamboyant clothes while travelling throughtime.time.
** Clare as a teenager refuses to go on ''any'' date with any guy, and keeps rejecting guys even though sometimes guys express interest in her. This leads to her classmates thinking she's a lesbian. Granted, that's a less far-fetching conclusion than "I already met my future man when I was a child because he time-traveled from the future to me so I know it's a given I end up with him".
** Henry gets attacked when seen walking in a bad alleyway in flamboyant clothes while travelling through
** Clare as a teenager refuses to go on ''any'' date with any guy, and keeps rejecting guys even though sometimes guys express interest in her. This leads to her classmates thinking she's a lesbian. Granted, that's a less far-fetching conclusion than "I already met my future man when I was a child because he time-traveled from the future to me so I know it's a given I end up with him".
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* LysistrataGambit: When Clare keeps having miscarriage after miscarriage, at which point her and Henry's relationship is badly affected by it, Henry starts to want to adopt a baby instead--which doesn't go over wel with Clare and they start fighting over it. Henry then considers resolving the whole situation by refusing to have sex, for the better good of their relationship. However in the same paragraph already, Henry [[SubvertedTrope quickly abandons this idea]].
->'''Henry:''' Maybe I could go on a strike. Sure, that's it: a sex strike. ''[...]'' Fat chance. [[AManIsAlwaysEager I'd be groveling on my knees within days]].
->'''Henry:''' Maybe I could go on a strike. Sure, that's it: a sex strike. ''[...]'' Fat chance. [[AManIsAlwaysEager I'd be groveling on my knees within days]].
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* NewspaperDating: Henry prefers to avoid this trope - he's more likely to ask a friend what the date is.
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* NewspaperDating: NewspaperDating:
** Henry prefers to avoid this trope - he's more likely to ask a friend what the date is.
** Henry prefers to avoid this trope - he's more likely to ask a friend what the date is.
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At the age of 5, Henry developed [[InvoluntaryTimeTravel Chrono Displacement Disorder]]. At any time, especially when under stress, he can and will disappear and reappear in another time and location, mostly within his lifetime. [[YouCantFightFate He can't ever change anything in the past]], and [[ForegoneConclusion he knows something very bad happens to him in his forties]]. He's had to learn [[JustifiedCriminal how to fight, pick locks, and steal for every time he's thrown somewhere]], as [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou he is basically helpless, unarmed, and naked wherever he arrives.]] Anything that isn't truly part of him stays behind, to the extent he had to have a tooth pulled just because he kept losing the filling. Sometimes he ends up getting to [[DeusAngstMachina live through the same traumatic situations in his life]] [[TraumaCongaLine over and over and over and over again]].
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At the age of 5, Henry developed [[InvoluntaryTimeTravel [[UnstuckInTime Chrono Displacement Disorder]]. At any time, especially when under stress, he can and will disappear and reappear in another time and location, mostly within his lifetime. [[YouCantFightFate He can't ever change anything in the past]], and [[ForegoneConclusion he knows something very bad happens to him in his forties]]. He's had to learn [[JustifiedCriminal how to fight, pick locks, and steal for every time he's thrown somewhere]], as [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou he is basically helpless, unarmed, and naked wherever he arrives.]] Anything that isn't truly part of him stays behind, to the extent he had to have a tooth pulled just because he kept losing the filling. Sometimes he ends up getting to [[DeusAngstMachina live through the same traumatic situations in his life]] [[TraumaCongaLine over and over and over and over again]].
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* KidFromTheFuture: [[InvoluntaryTimeTravel Chrono Displacement Disorder]] is hereditary.
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* KidFromTheFuture: [[InvoluntaryTimeTravel [[UnstuckInTime Chrono Displacement Disorder]] is hereditary.
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* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: This is Henry's default position when it comes to explaining any strange behavior people observe from him, because of course the truth of [[InvoluntaryTimeTravel Chrono Displacement Disorder]] is too far out to be accepted. On the few occasions co-workers have caught him naked in the library, he refuses to explain himself, because he won't lie, but he knows the truth won't be believed. [[spoiler: Eventually they do learn the truth, when a naked future-Henry appears in an area that no one can get in or out without the use of welding equipment. Proving Henry right, the boss refuses to believe future-Henry's explanation about time travel... until a fully-clothed present-Henry appears after learning of the situation when he shows up for work.]]
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* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: This is Henry's default position when it comes to explaining any strange behavior people observe from him, because of course the truth of [[InvoluntaryTimeTravel [[UnstuckInTime Chrono Displacement Disorder]] is too far out to be accepted. On the few occasions co-workers have caught him naked in the library, he refuses to explain himself, because he won't lie, but he knows the truth won't be believed. [[spoiler: Eventually they do learn the truth, when a naked future-Henry appears in an area that no one can get in or out without the use of welding equipment. Proving Henry right, the boss refuses to believe future-Henry's explanation about time travel... until a fully-clothed present-Henry appears after learning of the situation when he shows up for work.]]
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->"Things get kind of circular, when you're me. Cause and effect get muddled."
-->--'''Henry'''
-->--'''Henry'''
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** On one occasion, Henry bumps into Gomez unexpectedly, and asks Gomez the time. (Henry doesn't wear a watch because it would just get [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou left behind if he disappears.]]) Gomez tells him, and adds the date and year, to which Henry thanks him, but since he's not traveling at the moment, he knows the date already.
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** On one occasion, Henry bumps into Gomez unexpectedly, and asks Gomez the time. (Henry doesn't wear a watch because it would just get [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou left behind if he disappears.]]) Gomez tells him, and adds the date and year, to which Henry thanks him, but since he's not traveling at the moment, he knows the date already.
