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* ForWantOfANail: Red and Blue are agents on opposite sides of a time war trying to alter every timeline to ensure the respective futures they hail from come about. They ''are'' capable of wiping out armies on their own, but subtle changes are more common. Red's first letter to Blue describes her carefully micromanaging events so that a single doctor in the 21st century works from home one day, thus causing two timelines to merge into one that will eventually lead to the formation of the Agency.
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* NatureVersusTechnology: In this world, there are only two possible futures: one is the Garden, a biological society filled with OrganicTechnology that prefers to move at nature's pace; the other is the Agency, an aloof, technological society that prefers mechanical efficiency. These two groups are locked in a TimeWar and send out agents that try and ensure their futures come to pass.
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* NatureVersusTechnology: In this world, there are only two possible futures: one is the Garden, a biological society filled with OrganicTechnology that prefers to move at nature's pace; the other is the Agency, an aloof, technological society that prefers mechanical efficiency. These two groups are locked in a TimeWar Time War and send out agents that try and ensure their futures come to pass.
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* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: Red knows that her mission to save Blue will likely end in her death but she doesn't care.]]
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* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: Red [[spoiler:Red knows that her mission to save Blue will likely end in her death but she doesn't care.]]
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* FleshVsSteel: The time war is being fought between two potential futures, one high-tech and populated by digitized human minds, and the other filled with sufficiently advanced OrganicTechnology.
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* FleshVsSteel: FleshVersusSteel: The time war is being fought between two potential futures, one high-tech and populated by digitized human minds, and the other filled with sufficiently advanced OrganicTechnology.
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* TimeTravelRomance: Red and Blue fall in love up and down thousands of timelines.
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* TimeTravelRomance: Red and Blue fall in love up and down thousands of timelines.timelines.
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* ShoutOut: One letter, written while Red is harvesting lumber for Genghis Khan's armies, begins "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?", a line from a ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' comic.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Some of the nicknames Red and Blue use for each other reference songs and poems, such as ''[[Music/Eiffel65 Blue Da-Ba-Dee]]'', or ''My Apple Tree, my Brightness''.
** One letter, written while Red is harvesting lumber for Genghis Khan's armies, begins "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?", a line from a ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' comic.
** Some of the nicknames Red and Blue use for each other reference songs and poems, such as ''[[Music/Eiffel65 Blue Da-Ba-Dee]]'', or ''My Apple Tree, my Brightness''.
** One letter, written while Red is harvesting lumber for Genghis Khan's armies, begins "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?", a line from a ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' comic.
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* ShoutOut: One letter, written while Red is harvesting lumber for Genghis Khan's armies, begins "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?", a line from a ''Comics/CalvinAndHobbes'' ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' comic.
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* ShoutOut: One letter, written while Red is harvesting lumber for Genghis Khan's armies, begins "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?", a line from a ''Comics/CalvinAndHobbes'' comic.
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* NatureVersusTechnology: In this world, there are only two possible futures: one is the Garden, a biological society filled with OrganicTechnology that prefers to move at nature's pace; the other is the Agency, an aloof, technological society that prefers mechanical efficiency. These two groups are locked in a TimeWar and send out agents that try and ensure their futures come to pass.
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* MirrorMatch: [[spoiler: Red actually fights her future self, the Seeker, at one point, with it technically ending in a draw (although obviously the Seeker runs away before Red realized who she was fighting.]]
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* MirrorMatch: [[spoiler: Red actually fights her future self, the Seeker, at one point, with it technically ending in a draw (although obviously the Seeker runs away before Red realized who she was fighting.fighting).]]
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* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them, Red's Agency (a technological utopia), and Blue's Garden (a biopunk one), constantly fighting each other over the various timelines to try and [[RetGone cut each other out of the universe]].
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* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them, Red's Agency (a technological utopia), utopia) and Blue's Garden (a biopunk one), constantly fighting each other over the various timelines to try and [[RetGone cut each other out of the universe]].
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A 2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Creator/MaxGladstone. Two agents on rival sides of a time war exchange letters across time and space.
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A 2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Creator/MaxGladstone.
The novel is about two agents on rival sides of a time
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* StarCrossedLovers: Despite being on opposite sides of the time war, agents Red and Blue fall in love with each other. They are explicitly compared to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' in the text.
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* {{Motif}}: Go games, which are mentioned in passing as resembling the time war and the letters exchange between Red and Blue.
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* {{Motif}}: Go games, Go, an Chinese board game invented some two thousand years ago, which are is mentioned in passing as resembling both the time war and the letters exchange between Red and Blue.
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* ForWantOfANail: Red and Blue are commandos on opposite sides of a time war trying to alter every timeline to ensure the respective futures they hail from come about. They ''are'' capable of wiping out armies on their own, but subtle changes are more common. Red's first letter to Blue describes her carefully micromanaging events so that a single doctor in the 21st century works from home one day, thus causing two timelines to merge into one that will eventually lead to the formation of the Agency.
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* ForWantOfANail: Red and Blue are commandos agents on opposite sides of a time war trying to alter every timeline to ensure the respective futures they hail from come about. They ''are'' capable of wiping out armies on their own, but subtle changes are more common. Red's first letter to Blue describes her carefully micromanaging events so that a single doctor in the 21st century works from home one day, thus causing two timelines to merge into one that will eventually lead to the formation of the Agency.
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** MirrorMatch: [[spoiler: Red actually fights the Seeker at one point, with it technically ending in a draw (although obviously the Seeker runs away before Red realized who she was fighting.]]
* {{Motif}}: Go games, which are mentioned in passing as resembling the time war and the letters exchange between Red and Blue.
* {{Motif}}: Go games, which are mentioned in passing as resembling the time war and the letters exchange between Red and Blue.
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* BoringButPractical: Red thwarts Blue's plans of finding a specific doctor at a hospital by making the doctor's car engine fail, which makes her decide to work from home and see her nieces instead. Red also keeps the hospital from being full by making a bomb threat.
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* AlternateTimeline: There are thousands of them, called strands. A strand's past is called upthread, its future is downthread. Far downthread, all strands merge into one of two possible futures (also called Shifts), the Agency and the Garden. To ensure they come to pass, both Shifts send time travelers like Red and Blue to alter the course of each strand, working to "braid" them together so that they merge into their respective futures while unbraiding the attempts of other time travelers to do the same for the enemy.
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* PenPals: What Red and Blue end up becoming.
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* PenPals: What Red and Blue end up becoming. Initially their exchange of letters begins as [[CallingCard a way to taunt each other]] over foiling each other's plans, but they grow more personal as they tell each other more about themselves and begin finding common ground.
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* FleshVsSteel: The time war is being fought between two potential futures, one high-tech and populated by digitized human minds, and the other filled with sufficiently advanced OrganicTechnology.
* ForWantOfANail: Red and Blue are commandos on opposite sides of a time war trying to alter every timeline to ensure the respective futures they hail from come about. They ''are'' capable of wiping out armies on their own, but subtle changes are more common. Red's first letter to Blue describes her carefully micromanaging events so that a single doctor in the 21st century works from home one day, thus causing two timelines to merge into one that will eventually lead to the formation of the Agency.
* ForWantOfANail: Red and Blue are commandos on opposite sides of a time war trying to alter every timeline to ensure the respective futures they hail from come about. They ''are'' capable of wiping out armies on their own, but subtle changes are more common. Red's first letter to Blue describes her carefully micromanaging events so that a single doctor in the 21st century works from home one day, thus causing two timelines to merge into one that will eventually lead to the formation of the Agency.
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* AtlantisIsBoring: Both Red and Blue are of this opinion, something they bond over early in their correspondence. Apparently there have been several Atlantises, none of which they enjoyed.
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* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: Red knows that her mission to save Blue will likely end in her death but she doesn't care.]]
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* {{Biopunk}}: Blue's Garden is highly, ''highly'' advanced OrganicTechnology.
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* {{Biopunk}}: Blue's Garden is highly, ''highly'' highly advanced OrganicTechnology.OrganicTechnology with a corresponding degree of invasiveness.
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* AnimalMotifs: Birds play an important role to both protagonists
* AtlantisIsBoring: Both Red and Blue are of this opinion, something they bond over early in their correspondence
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim
* ButterflyOfDoom: Occasionally how Red or Blue completes a mission
* ColorMotif: Obviously
* CouldntFindAPen: Being time travelers Red and Blue use some interesting methods to write and deliver their letters
* DatingCatwoman: They are on rival sides of the war, after all
* FriendlyEnemy: At first, though it develops into something more
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler:The Seeker that shows up at the end of most chapters is actually Red from the future]]
* PenPals: What Red and Blue end up becoming
* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them, even
* TimeTravelRomance
* AtlantisIsBoring: Both Red and Blue are of this opinion, something they bond over early in their correspondence
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim
* ButterflyOfDoom: Occasionally how Red or Blue completes a mission
* ColorMotif: Obviously
* CouldntFindAPen: Being time travelers Red and Blue use some interesting methods to write and deliver their letters
* DatingCatwoman: They are on rival sides of the war, after all
* FriendlyEnemy: At first, though it develops into something more
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler:The Seeker that shows up at the end of most chapters is actually Red from the future]]
* PenPals: What Red and Blue end up becoming
* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them, even
* TimeTravelRomance
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* AnimalMotifs: Birds play an important role to both protagonists
protagonists.
* AtlantisIsBoring: Both Red and Blue are of this opinion, something they bond over early in theircorrespondence
correspondence. Apparently there have been several Atlantises, none of which they enjoyed.
*BreakHisHeartToSaveHim
{{Biopunk}}: Blue's Garden is highly, ''highly'' advanced OrganicTechnology.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Red and Blue try this in the end, [[spoiler:with Red rejecting Blue so that she won't open her next letter, which will be deadly to her. Blue opens it anyway to save Red, and Red is forced to seek other measures.]]
* ButterflyOfDoom:Occasionally how While they're not adverse to creating minor or major disasters, both Red or and Blue completes prefer to change very small things to bend the timelines, like making sure someone is late or one person has a mission
religious motivation.
* ColorMotif:Obviously
Red and Blue, obviously, named for the colors they prefer. Their true names are revealed to each other, but not the reader.
* CouldntFindAPen: Being time travelers with very high levels of technology, Red and Blue use some interesting methods to write and deliver theirletters
letters, ranging from marbling in the fat of a seal to the bubbles in a boiling test tube.
* DatingCatwoman: They are on rival sides of the war, afterall
all.
* EpistolaryNovel: The majority of the novella (with a few exceptions) is Red and Blue's letters to each other.
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Red and Blue have both retconned and re-retconned so many different timelines that they think nothing about killing people within them to serve a greater goal, since most of the time their involvement will just be erased anyway.
* FriendlyEnemy:At first, though it develops into Red and Blue always [[WorthyOpponent respected each other]], but as they exchange letters they become genuine friends, and then [[DatingCatwoman something more
more]].
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler:The Seeker that shows up at the end of most chapters is actually Red from thefuture]]
future]].
* PenPals: What Red and Blue end upbecoming
becoming.
* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:The final letter reveals that Red and Blue have both gone rogue, and are now planning on remaking the timelines around each other to finally end the conflict.]]
* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them,even
Red's Agency (a technological utopia), and Blue's Garden (a biopunk one), constantly fighting each other over the various timelines to try and [[RetGone cut each other out of the universe]].
*TimeTravelRomanceTimeTravelRomance: Red and Blue fall in love up and down thousands of timelines.
* AtlantisIsBoring: Both Red and Blue are of this opinion, something they bond over early in their
*
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Red and Blue try this in the end, [[spoiler:with Red rejecting Blue so that she won't open her next letter, which will be deadly to her. Blue opens it anyway to save Red, and Red is forced to seek other measures.]]
* ButterflyOfDoom:
* ColorMotif:
* CouldntFindAPen: Being time travelers with very high levels of technology, Red and Blue use some interesting methods to write and deliver their
* DatingCatwoman: They are on rival sides of the war, after
* EpistolaryNovel: The majority of the novella (with a few exceptions) is Red and Blue's letters to each other.
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Red and Blue have both retconned and re-retconned so many different timelines that they think nothing about killing people within them to serve a greater goal, since most of the time their involvement will just be erased anyway.
* FriendlyEnemy:
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler:The Seeker that shows up at the end of most chapters is actually Red from the
* PenPals: What Red and Blue end up
* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:The final letter reveals that Red and Blue have both gone rogue, and are now planning on remaking the timelines around each other to finally end the conflict.]]
* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them,
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* ButterflyOfDoom: Occasionally how Red or Blue completes a mission
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* DatingCatwoman: They are on rival sides of the war, after all
* FriendlyEnemy: At first, though it develops into something more
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* ColorMotif: Obviously
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A 2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Creator/MaxGladstone. Two agents on rival sides of a time war exchange letters across time and space.
!!Tropes present in this work:
* AnimalMotifs: Birds play an important role to both protagonists
* AtlantisIsBoring: Both Red and Blue are of this opinion, something they bond over early in their correspondence
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim
* CouldntFindAPen: Being time travelers Red and Blue use some interesting methods to write and deliver their letters
* PenPals: What Red and Blue end up becoming
* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them, even
* TimeTravelRomance
[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
A 2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Creator/MaxGladstone. Two agents on rival sides of a time war exchange letters across time and space.
!!Tropes present in this work:
* AnimalMotifs: Birds play an important role to both protagonists
* AtlantisIsBoring: Both Red and Blue are of this opinion, something they bond over early in their correspondence
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim
* CouldntFindAPen: Being time travelers Red and Blue use some interesting methods to write and deliver their letters
* PenPals: What Red and Blue end up becoming
* TimePolice: Two rival groups of them, even
* TimeTravelRomance