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* CentralTheme: Love, in both its good side and how it can be used to justify horrible actions.
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* EmergencyTransformation: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when [[spoiler:Hawk Man]] is slowly dying form grandmother's venom, but refuses to shape shift to heal himself because it would ModeLock him into [[spoiler:a hawk]] and thus allow him not to [[spoiler:see Night Song again, since he's still holding out the hope that she will come back.]]
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* EmergencyTransformation: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when [[spoiler:Hawk Man]] is slowly dying form from grandmother's venom, but refuses to shape shift to heal himself because it would ModeLock him into [[spoiler:a hawk]] and thus not allow him not to [[spoiler:see Night Song again, since he's still holding out the hope that she will come back.]]
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Meanwhile, Grandmother Moccasin, a lamia, awakes after a thousand-year rest, and laments her past, involving her only daughter, Night Song, being lost to Hawk Man. All the while, her "brother", the Alligator King, is the prime target of Gar-Face
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The Alligator King, who [[spoiler: manages to devour Gar-Face whole]].
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The Alligator King, who [[spoiler: manages [[spoiler:manages to devour Gar-Face whole]].
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* BridgeLogic: Puck is able to escape at one point using a falling tree as a bridge [[spoiler:(the same tree that Grandmother is buried under.]]
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The Alligator King, who [[spoiler: manages to devour Gar-Face whole]].
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The Alligator King, who [[spoiler: manages to devour Gar-Face whole]].WiseTree: All trees are sentient and wise, especially the thousand-year old tree that Grandmother is buried under
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* RedeptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Grandmother breaks Ranger's chain to save him]] and ends up getting killed in the process.
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* RedeptionEqualsDeath: RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Grandmother breaks Ranger's chain to save him]] and ends up getting killed in the process.
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* CuriosityKilledTheCast: One involving literal cats! Puck sneaking outside of the underneath triggers a lot of horrible things happening to him and his family later on.
* FirstTimeInTheSun: Puck sneaks out and is elated to be able to bask in the sunlight for the first time.
* HappilyAdopted: The kittens by Ranger, and Night Song by Grandmother, at least at first.
* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: [[spoiler:Hawk Man]] discovers [[spoiler:Night Song's]] footprints change when she transforms back from a human into a snake. Given that she can only turn into a human once in her life...
* KidHero: Puck and Sabine.
* KnightTemplarParent: Grandmother tries to keep her daughter Night Song away from Hawk Man believing that she is protecting her, but to accomplish this she [[spoiler:tricks her into transforming and thus never being able to see Hawk Man again]], with tragic results.
* KnightTemplarParent: Grandmother tries to keep her daughter Night Song away from Hawk Man believing that she is protecting her, but to accomplish this she [[spoiler:tricks her into transforming and thus never being able to see Hawk Man again]], with tragic results.
* OhCrap: Puck and the calico when they realize Gar Face is trying to take them to the water.
* ThePlace: The titular underneath.
* RedeptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Grandmother breaks Ranger's chain to save him]] and ends up getting killed in the process.
* RedeptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Grandmother breaks Ranger's chain to save him]] and ends up getting killed in the process.
* TheOutsideWorld: The kittens are very enthusiastic to explore outside the titular underneath, despite the dangers.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Ranger is hated by Gar-Face for refusing to kill a bobcat because she had kittens.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: When Ranger is hated by Gar-Face for refusing refuses to kill a bobcat because she had kittens.kittens, Gar Face shoots him and then chains him in his yard.
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* IronicEcho:Throughout the book, Grandmother Moccasin repeats to herself, "There is a price." [[spoiler:In the end, she realizes the price isn't a punishment for her betrayal. The price was sorrow, sorrow for interfering with love. Before she dies]], she realizes that her words are true, but not in the way she thought.
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* IronicEcho:Throughout IronicEcho: Throughout the book, Grandmother Moccasin repeats to herself, "There is a price." [[spoiler:In the end, she realizes the price isn't a punishment for her betrayal. The price was sorrow, sorrow for interfering with love. Before she dies]], she realizes that her words are true, but not in the way she thought.
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* {{Xenofiction}}: Pretty much all of this book is from the perspective of animals.
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* AfterlifeAntechamber: The hummingbird [[spoiler:AKA Night Song and Hawk Man's daughter]] serves as this, as the messenger to the recently dead who guides them to a vague afterlife.
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* CruellaToAnimals: Gar Face is a bit too happy about abusing and killing various animals.
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* EmergencyTransformation: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when [[spoiler:Hawk Man]] is slowly dying form grandmother's venom, but refuses to shape shift to heal himself because it would ModeLock him into [[spoiler:a hawk]] and thus allow him not to [[spoiler:see Night Song again, since he's still holding out the hope that she will come back.]]
* ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler:Gar Face]] ends up [[spoiler:being eaten by the alligator king when he tries to kill him.]]
* ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler:Gar Face]] ends up [[spoiler:being eaten by the alligator king when he tries to kill him.]]
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* OrphansOrdeal: Very much so. Puck goes through a lot after losing his family [[spoiler:with one of his parents being dead]], as well as [[spoiler:Hawk Man and Night Song's daughter.]]
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* SerpentOfImmortality: Grandmother is a lamia trapped in snake form who is thousands of years old.
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* StrongerWithAge: Why the alligator king is so huge.
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* NearlyNormalAnimals: Most of the cast is this.
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* NearlyNormalAnimals: NearlyNormalAnimal: Most of the cast is this.
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* AbusiveParents: Gar Face's father, who [[spoiler:scarred his face, thus his name.]]
* CuteKitten: Puck and Sabine, though their cute antics don't end well for them.
* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler:Night Song]] after she is [[spoiler:unable to see Hawk Man thanks to ModeLock.]]
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* ModeLock: All shapeshifters can only transform into a human and back once, after which they are stuck in their animal form permanently.
* MutualKill: While not strictly deadly for one side, [[spoiler:Hawk Man]] manages to lock Night Song in a jar while being hit by her venom.
* NearlyNormalAnimals: Most of the cast is this.
* MutualKill: While not strictly deadly for one side, [[spoiler:Hawk Man]] manages to lock Night Song in a jar while being hit by her venom.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Grandmother has been trapped in a jar for a thousand years.
* SnakesAreSinister: Grandmother at times, [[spoiler:tricking her daughter into transforming permanently into her snake form to keep her away from Hawk Man]], though she regrets [[spoiler:her daughter's resulting death]] and ultimately [[spoiler:breaks Ranger's chain.]] Night Song, on the other hand, is clearly not sinister.
* StarCrossedLovers: Night Song and Hawk Man. Grandmother is ''not'' happy with their relationship.
* ThreeLinesSomeWaiting: The plot is split between the family at the Underneath, [[spoiler:Puck, while he is alone after Gar face tries to kill him]] and Grandmother's story from a thousand years ago, which only connects to the main plot much later in the story.
* SnakesAreSinister: Grandmother at times, [[spoiler:tricking her daughter into transforming permanently into her snake form to keep her away from Hawk Man]], though she regrets [[spoiler:her daughter's resulting death]] and ultimately [[spoiler:breaks Ranger's chain.]] Night Song, on the other hand, is clearly not sinister.
* StarCrossedLovers: Night Song and Hawk Man. Grandmother is ''not'' happy with their relationship.
* ThreeLinesSomeWaiting: The plot is split between the family at the Underneath, [[spoiler:Puck, while he is alone after Gar face tries to kill him]] and Grandmother's story from a thousand years ago, which only connects to the main plot much later in the story.
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: The kittens' mother.]]
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With themes of loss, love, and mystery, the book is filled with {{Tear Jerker}}s all the way though the novel.
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With themes of loss, love, and mystery, the book is filled with {{Tear Jerker}}s all the way though the novel.Jerker}}s.
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* [[spoiler:DeathByNewberyMedal]]: The kittens' mother.
* FreudianExcuse: Not quite an excuse, but he's somewhat sympathetic due to his face being [[spoiler:scarred by his abusive father]]. Not much of one, though, because even before that he poisons and kills birds just to torment his mother.
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* [[spoiler:DeathByNewberyMedal]]: DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: The kittens' mother.
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* FreudianExcuse: Not quite an excuse, buthe's Gar-Face is somewhat sympathetic due to his face being [[spoiler:scarred by his abusive father]]. Not much of one, though, because even before that he poisons and kills birds just to torment his mother.
* FreudianExcuse: Not quite an excuse, but
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* CompleteMonster: Obviously, the guy who [[spoiler:throws two cats in a bag into a river]]. He also abuses and neglects his dog just because of one slip-up.
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* FreudianExcuse: Not quite an excuse, but he's somewhat sympathetic due to his face being [[spoiler:scarred by his abusive father]]. Not saying much, though, because even before that, he poisons and kills birds just to torment his mother.
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* HeelFaceTurn: A very heartwarming one. [[spoiler:"Grandmother, who had spent a thousand years in a jar, had finally chosen love. This time she did what she could to help it along." She'd broken the chain tying Ranger to the tree.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Obviously, the guy who [[spoiler:throws two cats in a bag into a river]]. He also abuses and neglects his dog just because of one slip-up.
* FreudianExcuse: Not quite an excuse, but he's somewhat sympathetic due to his face being [[spoiler:scarred by his abusive father]]. Not saying much, though, because even before that, he poisons and kills birds just to torment his mother.
* FreudianExcuse: Not quite an excuse, but he's somewhat sympathetic due to his face being [[spoiler:scarred by his abusive father]]. Not saying much, though, because even before that, he poisons and kills birds just to torment his mother.
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