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->''"Planet of origin... Vampiru?"''
''Vampiru'' (now renamed ''Cross'') is a WebSerialNovel on [=WattPad=], written by [[http://www.wattpad.com/u/ShaylaRah ShaylaRah]], found [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/1898797-cross here]]. It is a mixture of the vampire and science fiction genres. As of December 2013, it is completed and edited, and a sequel called ''[[http://www.wattpad.com/story/7534823-10-30-the-day-before-yesterday-sequel-to-cross 10:30, The Day Before Yesterday]]'' is in progress.
There's a new teacher at Dani Tamari's school - Professor David Cross. What no one knows is that David is really an alien vampire, who's hiding on Earth after killing his father. Meanwhile, a whole load of alien vampires, led by Lady Terror De Mon, are recruiting humans to their cause and murdering Earth's leaders.
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!! Both books provide examples of:
* AerithAndBob: Terror, Nightmare, Grievous, Attykcca, Vlad, Carmilla, Ruthven, Orlok, Abihira, Legina, Angerona, Anahita, Sébastien, Moon, Phantom, Gadget, Sirius and... Dani, Edward, David, Lacey, Jackson, Janice, Niall, Celeste, Gareth, Steven, Jack, Biff, Richard, Autumn and Christian.
* AuthorAppeal: Works by Creator/CharlesDickens, ''Literature/WatershipDown'', ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and ''Series/LostInSpace'' are all mentioned.
* AuthorAvatar: Dani?
* BrickJoke: In ''Cross'', Boone tried to behead O'Hara with a pillow (ItMakesSenseInContext). In ''10:30, The Day Before Yesterday'', O'Hara is afraid he'll try to do so again.
* DaywalkingVampire
* DeadpanSnarker: David, Dani, Dracula, Abihira, Sirius...
* {{Dracula}}: Vlad Dracula and his cousin, Nicolae (AKA Sébastien).
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: David, Sirius, Abihira and Dracula.
* FurAgainstFang
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: David spends half his time pointing out all the "odd" (to him) things about humanity. Other non-humans also do this, to varying degrees of cynicism.
* LemonyNarrator: [[spoiler: Phantom]] has quite a dry sense of humour. He/she/it even ''stops narrating'' at times to snark at the reader!
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Not a cast of thousands, or even a hundred, but there are a lot of major characters and named background characters.
* {{Oireland}}: ''Northern'' Ireland.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These vampires:
** [[WizardsFromOuterSpace Are from outer space]].
** [[TearsOfBlood Cry blood instead of water]].
** [[BizarreAlienBiology Females don't have breasts]].
** [[BizarreAlienBiology They reproduce asexually]] (whatever ''that'' means) and can have up to five hundred children. Sibling rivalry must be a problem.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
* ShipTease: Dani/David, which is hinted at several times. Hopefully ShipSinking still applies and [[TrollingCreator the author's just messing with the reader's head]]...
** ShipSinking: WordOfGod says there will not be a romance between Dani and David.
* SwitchingPOV
* UndeathlyPallor: All vampires.
* [[WizardsFromOuterSpace Vampires From Outer Space]]
* WorldOfSnark
!!''Cross'' provides examples of:
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Phantom sees itself as this.
* AbusiveParents: David's father.
* ActionGirl [=/=] DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler: Dani. When Grievous tries to rape her,]] she picks up a copy of ''Literature/LittleDorrit'' and hits him over the head with it. Repeatedly.
** And again, when she's attacked by a werewolf.
* {{Adorkable}}: Sébastien. He really has no clue how to handle children...
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Abihira.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: ''David''. Murdering your father, running from the police, killing a random drunk, manipulating a twelve-year-old girl... Enough said.
** Vlad and Abihira also qualify.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The way Nightmare tortured a werewolf bears a strong resemblance to some of the methods used by the Gestapo.
* AnimalisticAbomination: The werewolf.
* AsianAndNerdy: Autumn, the only explicitly Asian character, is a nurse. Gadget, the computer expert, hasn't been described but is probably Northern Irish like most of the characters.
* AssholeVictim: David's father.
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Grievous tries this on Dani.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Abihira Rah, Lucius Sinistrah Jr.
* BigBad: Terror.
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Nightmare]].
* BilingualBonus:
** Celeste's line: ''Mangez merde, vous chienne''. It means "[[PrecisionFStrike Eat s***, you bitch]]".
** After [[spoiler: Nightmare kills a man]], the crowd start yelling "Killer", "Madwoman", and "Someone call the police!" in Romanian.
* {{Blackmail}}: Terror is doing this to some government official on another planet.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking:
** Dani struggles to sleep after watching ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'' late one night. When she closes her eyes she pictures herself standing in the bedroom watching Dracula lean over Mina. Any action she takes suddenly places her in the bed with Professor Cross drinking her blood.
** In a variant, Cross rescues Dani one night, hypnotizes her to sleep, and takes her home. He places Dani back in her bed, lost in thought from his problems, and several minutes pass before he realizes he's feeding from her wrist.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Between David's parents.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Dani's parents]].
* CannotCrossRunningWater: Implied by this line:
-->'''Narrator:''' ... [N]ot far away, running water could be heard. That was a most unwelcome sound. [David] didn't know if water on Earth was poisonous, but fear of the deadly water on their own planet was too deeply ingrained in every Vampiruan for them to see it as anything but an enemy.
* CharacterTitle: "Cross" is the surname David chose for his alias.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: Nightmare's ability to raise the temperature of objects.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Dani, David, Nightmare, Grievous, and Abihira ''all'' end up in Rome.]]
* CrashIntoHello: Dani first meets David when she crashes into him.
* CreepyRavens: David takes the shape of a raven in chapter 29, freaking out the [=InGEN=] team. Nevermore, his pet [[spoiler: who is really Terror in disguise]], is also a raven.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: Dani and Celeste.]]
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Nightmare, from a vampire's point of view.
* DeathGlare: All over the place.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: In the references to Dracula's past, he was in love with Mina. Obviously, he didn't get her.
* DisposableSexWorker and DisposableVagrant: Mentioned.
-->'''David:''' ''[thinking]'' The only humans likely to be up at this time were drunks or whores. Neither would be missed, and killing one would be doing humanity a favour. There were only two problems: humans tended to notice the deaths of even the lowest of the low, and he had no wish to drink blood poisoned with alcohol or disease.
* DissonantSerenity: Nightmare wonders why Sébastien was so upset... after she had just tortured and murdered a werewolf. While ''[[{{Squick}} licking blood off her hands]]''.
* {{Dracula}}: Vlad Dracula and his cousin, Nicolae (AKA Sébastien).
* EasilyForgiven: David, to some degree. Yes, he killed his father, but Jackson and Lacey (and, apparently, the author) think he was quite justified in his actions. He is forced to stay on Earth to help clear up the mess he's partly responsible for, though.
* EvilCounterpart: Abihira for David.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin [=/=] InWhichATropeIsDescribed: "When In Rome... Literally!" and "In Which The Catacombs Are A Nightmare".
* FlashStep: David crosses a room thirty metres wide in five seconds.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In chapter 4, Dani stays up late watching ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', and has nightmares about it that turn into images of herself and David.
** While [[spoiler: Dani is being held prisoner in Sébastien's mansion]], she hears someone mentioning locations in Rome. Guess where the latest chapters are taking place?
* FreudianExcuse: David was abused by his father.
* FunetikAksent: O'Hara and Orlok.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''In'''ter-'''G'''alactic '''E'''mergency '''N'''etwork.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See BilingualBonus.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Celeste]] is half-human, half-werewolf, and turns into a werewolf.
* HotForTeacher: Gareth says that most of the girls have crushes on David. Whether or not this lasts after they have to sit through one of his classes isn't mentioned.
** WordOfGod says Dani and David will not have a romantic relationship. Thankfully.
* IdenticalGrandson: According to Terror, Abihira greatly resembles her mother.
** [[spoiler: Dani is descended from Mina, and looks slightly like her.]]
* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler: Dani]] looks slightly like [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Mina]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Why, ''hello'', David!
** And he pales in comparison to certain other characters - Sébastien, for instance, is annoyed when Nightmare killed a werewolf... because [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint she made a mess of the floor]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sébastien. Sort of. His interactions with Dani are somewhere between this trope and {{Adorkable}}.
* LackOfEmpathy: ''David''.
* LiteralCliffhanger: A variant at the end of chapter 36.
* LooksLikeOrlok: [[TropeNamer Orlok]], [[CaptainObvious obviously]].
* LoopholeAbuse: Used by Dani to justify going outside during dinner time.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: [[spoiler: Dani]] was heading this way after [[spoiler: her parents' deaths]]. She's snapped out of it by the sequel.
* ManipulativeBastard: '''David.'''
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Common among vampire families.
* MeaningfulName:
** Terror De Mon, and her children Nightmare and Grievous (her other child, Attykcca, is an OddNameOut).
** Gadget is the [=InGEN=] team's computer expert.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lady Terror De Mon, Nightmare De Mon, Grievous De Mon.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: In chapter 22, one character tells another to light a "freaking" candle. [[LemonyNarrator As the narrator comments afterward]], "freaking" was not the word used.
* {{Narrator}}: [[spoiler: Phantom]].
* NoNameGiven [=/=] OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Gadget is ''always'' called Gadget.
* NoodleIncident:
** This exchange:
--->'''Boone:''' Sir, we've picked something up on the monitor.\\
'''Jackson:''' What is it this time? Another passenger plane that happens to have gone off schedule somehow? Another secret government test?
** That time Abi got caught in her own web.
** The Moscow incident.
* NotSoDifferent: Abihira says she and David are this. And she's right.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Dani goes on her period and as a result awakens David's hunger and indirectly causes the death of a drunk.
* OnlySaneWoman: Lacey.
* [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Orlok]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Nightmare's army. Made from aborted babies.]]
* PunBasedTitle:
** "When In Rome... Literally!", in which the main characters and three villains end up in Rome.
** "In Which The Catacombs Are A Nightmare", which is a pun on Nightmare being (sort of) in the Catacombs of Rome.
** "Seeing Red". Nightmare's clothes are red, and [[spoiler: her explanation of her plans makes David, Dani, and possibly Abihira see red]].
* PunnyName:
** Possibly unintentional, but David's alias is David ''Cross''. Traditional vampires are afraid of crosses.
** [[spoiler: Celeste]]'s mother is called Moon.
* PutOnABus: Most of the characters in Northern Ireland.
* [[Literature/TheVampyre Ruthven]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: David killed his father. And doesn't regret it..
* ShoutOut:
** Dani has a picture of the characters of ''Series/LostInSpace'' on her wall, she watches ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', and her favourite book is ''Literature/WatershipDown''.
** The [[ItMakesSenseInContext voice in Dani's head]] likes to be called "Phantom". Dani and Phantom... Is that a ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' reference or unintentional?
** Vlad's full name is [[Film/VanHelsing Vladislaus]].
** [[spoiler: Dani]] uses a copy of ''Literature/LittleDorrit'' to attack [[spoiler: Grievous]].
** Chapter 35 has one to Poe's ''The Raven''.
** Chapter 37 has one to ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. And before that, a werewolf was described as "...something Dr. Frankenstein might have dreamed up".
** Vlad's middle name is Alexandru, which is the name of one of Dracula's followers in ''Literature/{{Department 19}}''.
* SpotOfTea: Lacey.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Between Abihira and her mother. [[spoiler: And between Dani and Mina, though in that case it's downplayed.]]
* TakeThat:
** Edward's name might be a TakeThat to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
** Another TakeThat to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' comes from Nightmare.
** David also gives a TakeThat to politicians in chapter 31:
-->'''David:''' ''[to Terror]'' The day you apologize for anything will be the day that a politician tells the truth.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: David.
* TheVoice: Dani frequently argues with her subconsciousness. David does at times, too. It hasn't yet been explained if a character's subconsciousness is another character entirely... or [[FridgeHorror someone else speaking into their mind]].
* [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Those Two Villains]]: Carmilla and Ruthven.
* ThreeAmigos: Dani, Steven, Gareth.
* ThisIsReality: Used at least once when [[spoiler: Dani is a prisoner in Sébastien's mansion]].
* TitledAfterTheSong [=/=] RefrainFromAssuming: Chapter 38, ""Crazy" Is, I Believe, The Medical Term", gets its title from a line in an Icon For Hire song, "Iodine".
* TokenMinority: Most of the characters are Northern Irish or aliens, so Akiko "Autumn" Tsukiyama stands out a bit because she's Japanese.
* TooDumbToLive: ''Dani''. She tells [[spoiler: Edward]] about [=InGEN=], after promising not to tell anyone. And then [[spoiler: Edward apparently told Terror]].
* TrashOfTheTitans: Edward's room, which "could charitably be called a mess".
* VampireVords: Orlok.
!!''10:30, The Day Before Yesterday'' provides examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Sirius Sangue.
* BigRottenApple
* BodyHorror: That corpse. Dear god, that ''corpse''...
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Christian.
* ChekhovsGunman:
** "The Obnoxious Person", who first appeared on the plane and reappears later.
** Helena and Hazel have both been mentioned before.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Helena, who has [[FieryRedhead red hair]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* DisappearedDad: Helena. Technically a MissingMom too, since she's adopted.
* EvilRedhead: Montparnasse.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Leslie, who has multiple arms and eyes (and no gender). Subverted, since their real name is Saelethaemonta.
* GenderBlenderName: Hazel is a man and Leslie isn't anything at all.
* HumanoidAbomination: Leslie, for a given value of humanoid.
* LetMeGetThisStraight:
-->'''Captain Black:''' So let me get this straight. You want us to go with you to stay with someone you don't know, and we're waiting for an alien to come and take us there. Is that it?\\
'''Hazel:''' More or less.
* NoBiologicalSex: Leslie again.
* NotQuiteDead: Nightmare.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Christian,]] who was born in ''1889''.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Mephysto looks like a demon and has a demonic-sounding name, but she (yes, she) might be just another alien.
* PublicDomainCharacter: [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]] and [[FrankensteinsMonster Adam]] appear in chapter 18.
* ShoutOut:
** The policeman Leslie lives with is called [[Manga/BlackButler Claude Faustus]].
** Leslie, when described by Officer Murray, sounds similar to [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians Pitch]], but with more eyes and arms.
** One of Grievous's assassins is called [[Literature/LesMiserables Montparnasse]].
* TakeThat:
** The reference to [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Marvin McGinty]] is obviously one to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_McGuinness Martin McGuinness]].
** Vlad gives a TakeThat to the film versions of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
* TheGrimReaper: Helena's job.
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''Vampiru'' (now renamed ''Cross'') is a WebSerialNovel on [=WattPad=], written by [[http://www.wattpad.com/u/ShaylaRah ShaylaRah]], found [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/1898797-cross here]]. It is a mixture of the vampire and science fiction genres. As of December 2013, it is completed and edited, and a sequel called ''[[http://www.wattpad.com/story/7534823-10-30-the-day-before-yesterday-sequel-to-cross 10:30, The Day Before Yesterday]]'' is in progress.
There's a new teacher at Dani Tamari's school - Professor David Cross. What no one knows is that David is really an alien vampire, who's hiding on Earth after killing his father. Meanwhile, a whole load of alien vampires, led by Lady Terror De Mon, are recruiting humans to their cause and murdering Earth's leaders.
----
!! Both books provide examples of:
* AerithAndBob: Terror, Nightmare, Grievous, Attykcca, Vlad, Carmilla, Ruthven, Orlok, Abihira, Legina, Angerona, Anahita, Sébastien, Moon, Phantom, Gadget, Sirius and... Dani, Edward, David, Lacey, Jackson, Janice, Niall, Celeste, Gareth, Steven, Jack, Biff, Richard, Autumn and Christian.
* AuthorAppeal: Works by Creator/CharlesDickens, ''Literature/WatershipDown'', ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and ''Series/LostInSpace'' are all mentioned.
* AuthorAvatar: Dani?
* BrickJoke: In ''Cross'', Boone tried to behead O'Hara with a pillow (ItMakesSenseInContext). In ''10:30, The Day Before Yesterday'', O'Hara is afraid he'll try to do so again.
* DaywalkingVampire
* DeadpanSnarker: David, Dani, Dracula, Abihira, Sirius...
* {{Dracula}}: Vlad Dracula and his cousin, Nicolae (AKA Sébastien).
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: David, Sirius, Abihira and Dracula.
* FurAgainstFang
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: David spends half his time pointing out all the "odd" (to him) things about humanity. Other non-humans also do this, to varying degrees of cynicism.
* LemonyNarrator: [[spoiler: Phantom]] has quite a dry sense of humour. He/she/it even ''stops narrating'' at times to snark at the reader!
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Not a cast of thousands, or even a hundred, but there are a lot of major characters and named background characters.
* {{Oireland}}: ''Northern'' Ireland.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These vampires:
** [[WizardsFromOuterSpace Are from outer space]].
** [[TearsOfBlood Cry blood instead of water]].
** [[BizarreAlienBiology Females don't have breasts]].
** [[BizarreAlienBiology They reproduce asexually]] (whatever ''that'' means) and can have up to five hundred children. Sibling rivalry must be a problem.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
* ShipTease: Dani/David, which is hinted at several times. Hopefully ShipSinking still applies and [[TrollingCreator the author's just messing with the reader's head]]...
** ShipSinking: WordOfGod says there will not be a romance between Dani and David.
* SwitchingPOV
* UndeathlyPallor: All vampires.
* [[WizardsFromOuterSpace Vampires From Outer Space]]
* WorldOfSnark
!!''Cross'' provides examples of:
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Phantom sees itself as this.
* AbusiveParents: David's father.
* ActionGirl [=/=] DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler: Dani. When Grievous tries to rape her,]] she picks up a copy of ''Literature/LittleDorrit'' and hits him over the head with it. Repeatedly.
** And again, when she's attacked by a werewolf.
* {{Adorkable}}: Sébastien. He really has no clue how to handle children...
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Abihira.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: ''David''. Murdering your father, running from the police, killing a random drunk, manipulating a twelve-year-old girl... Enough said.
** Vlad and Abihira also qualify.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The way Nightmare tortured a werewolf bears a strong resemblance to some of the methods used by the Gestapo.
* AnimalisticAbomination: The werewolf.
* AsianAndNerdy: Autumn, the only explicitly Asian character, is a nurse. Gadget, the computer expert, hasn't been described but is probably Northern Irish like most of the characters.
* AssholeVictim: David's father.
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Grievous tries this on Dani.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Abihira Rah, Lucius Sinistrah Jr.
* BigBad: Terror.
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Nightmare]].
* BilingualBonus:
** Celeste's line: ''Mangez merde, vous chienne''. It means "[[PrecisionFStrike Eat s***, you bitch]]".
** After [[spoiler: Nightmare kills a man]], the crowd start yelling "Killer", "Madwoman", and "Someone call the police!" in Romanian.
* {{Blackmail}}: Terror is doing this to some government official on another planet.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking:
** Dani struggles to sleep after watching ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'' late one night. When she closes her eyes she pictures herself standing in the bedroom watching Dracula lean over Mina. Any action she takes suddenly places her in the bed with Professor Cross drinking her blood.
** In a variant, Cross rescues Dani one night, hypnotizes her to sleep, and takes her home. He places Dani back in her bed, lost in thought from his problems, and several minutes pass before he realizes he's feeding from her wrist.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Between David's parents.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Dani's parents]].
* CannotCrossRunningWater: Implied by this line:
-->'''Narrator:''' ... [N]ot far away, running water could be heard. That was a most unwelcome sound. [David] didn't know if water on Earth was poisonous, but fear of the deadly water on their own planet was too deeply ingrained in every Vampiruan for them to see it as anything but an enemy.
* CharacterTitle: "Cross" is the surname David chose for his alias.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: Nightmare's ability to raise the temperature of objects.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Dani, David, Nightmare, Grievous, and Abihira ''all'' end up in Rome.]]
* CrashIntoHello: Dani first meets David when she crashes into him.
* CreepyRavens: David takes the shape of a raven in chapter 29, freaking out the [=InGEN=] team. Nevermore, his pet [[spoiler: who is really Terror in disguise]], is also a raven.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: Dani and Celeste.]]
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Nightmare, from a vampire's point of view.
* DeathGlare: All over the place.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: In the references to Dracula's past, he was in love with Mina. Obviously, he didn't get her.
* DisposableSexWorker and DisposableVagrant: Mentioned.
-->'''David:''' ''[thinking]'' The only humans likely to be up at this time were drunks or whores. Neither would be missed, and killing one would be doing humanity a favour. There were only two problems: humans tended to notice the deaths of even the lowest of the low, and he had no wish to drink blood poisoned with alcohol or disease.
* DissonantSerenity: Nightmare wonders why Sébastien was so upset... after she had just tortured and murdered a werewolf. While ''[[{{Squick}} licking blood off her hands]]''.
* {{Dracula}}: Vlad Dracula and his cousin, Nicolae (AKA Sébastien).
* EasilyForgiven: David, to some degree. Yes, he killed his father, but Jackson and Lacey (and, apparently, the author) think he was quite justified in his actions. He is forced to stay on Earth to help clear up the mess he's partly responsible for, though.
* EvilCounterpart: Abihira for David.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin [=/=] InWhichATropeIsDescribed: "When In Rome... Literally!" and "In Which The Catacombs Are A Nightmare".
* FlashStep: David crosses a room thirty metres wide in five seconds.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In chapter 4, Dani stays up late watching ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', and has nightmares about it that turn into images of herself and David.
** While [[spoiler: Dani is being held prisoner in Sébastien's mansion]], she hears someone mentioning locations in Rome. Guess where the latest chapters are taking place?
* FreudianExcuse: David was abused by his father.
* FunetikAksent: O'Hara and Orlok.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''In'''ter-'''G'''alactic '''E'''mergency '''N'''etwork.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See BilingualBonus.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Celeste]] is half-human, half-werewolf, and turns into a werewolf.
* HotForTeacher: Gareth says that most of the girls have crushes on David. Whether or not this lasts after they have to sit through one of his classes isn't mentioned.
** WordOfGod says Dani and David will not have a romantic relationship. Thankfully.
* IdenticalGrandson: According to Terror, Abihira greatly resembles her mother.
** [[spoiler: Dani is descended from Mina, and looks slightly like her.]]
* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler: Dani]] looks slightly like [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Mina]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Why, ''hello'', David!
** And he pales in comparison to certain other characters - Sébastien, for instance, is annoyed when Nightmare killed a werewolf... because [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint she made a mess of the floor]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sébastien. Sort of. His interactions with Dani are somewhere between this trope and {{Adorkable}}.
* LackOfEmpathy: ''David''.
* LiteralCliffhanger: A variant at the end of chapter 36.
* LooksLikeOrlok: [[TropeNamer Orlok]], [[CaptainObvious obviously]].
* LoopholeAbuse: Used by Dani to justify going outside during dinner time.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: [[spoiler: Dani]] was heading this way after [[spoiler: her parents' deaths]]. She's snapped out of it by the sequel.
* ManipulativeBastard: '''David.'''
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Common among vampire families.
* MeaningfulName:
** Terror De Mon, and her children Nightmare and Grievous (her other child, Attykcca, is an OddNameOut).
** Gadget is the [=InGEN=] team's computer expert.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lady Terror De Mon, Nightmare De Mon, Grievous De Mon.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: In chapter 22, one character tells another to light a "freaking" candle. [[LemonyNarrator As the narrator comments afterward]], "freaking" was not the word used.
* {{Narrator}}: [[spoiler: Phantom]].
* NoNameGiven [=/=] OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Gadget is ''always'' called Gadget.
* NoodleIncident:
** This exchange:
--->'''Boone:''' Sir, we've picked something up on the monitor.\\
'''Jackson:''' What is it this time? Another passenger plane that happens to have gone off schedule somehow? Another secret government test?
** That time Abi got caught in her own web.
** The Moscow incident.
* NotSoDifferent: Abihira says she and David are this. And she's right.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Dani goes on her period and as a result awakens David's hunger and indirectly causes the death of a drunk.
* OnlySaneWoman: Lacey.
* [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Orlok]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Nightmare's army. Made from aborted babies.]]
* PunBasedTitle:
** "When In Rome... Literally!", in which the main characters and three villains end up in Rome.
** "In Which The Catacombs Are A Nightmare", which is a pun on Nightmare being (sort of) in the Catacombs of Rome.
** "Seeing Red". Nightmare's clothes are red, and [[spoiler: her explanation of her plans makes David, Dani, and possibly Abihira see red]].
* PunnyName:
** Possibly unintentional, but David's alias is David ''Cross''. Traditional vampires are afraid of crosses.
** [[spoiler: Celeste]]'s mother is called Moon.
* PutOnABus: Most of the characters in Northern Ireland.
* [[Literature/TheVampyre Ruthven]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: David killed his father. And doesn't regret it..
* ShoutOut:
** Dani has a picture of the characters of ''Series/LostInSpace'' on her wall, she watches ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', and her favourite book is ''Literature/WatershipDown''.
** The [[ItMakesSenseInContext voice in Dani's head]] likes to be called "Phantom". Dani and Phantom... Is that a ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' reference or unintentional?
** Vlad's full name is [[Film/VanHelsing Vladislaus]].
** [[spoiler: Dani]] uses a copy of ''Literature/LittleDorrit'' to attack [[spoiler: Grievous]].
** Chapter 35 has one to Poe's ''The Raven''.
** Chapter 37 has one to ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. And before that, a werewolf was described as "...something Dr. Frankenstein might have dreamed up".
** Vlad's middle name is Alexandru, which is the name of one of Dracula's followers in ''Literature/{{Department 19}}''.
* SpotOfTea: Lacey.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Between Abihira and her mother. [[spoiler: And between Dani and Mina, though in that case it's downplayed.]]
* TakeThat:
** Edward's name might be a TakeThat to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
** Another TakeThat to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' comes from Nightmare.
** David also gives a TakeThat to politicians in chapter 31:
-->'''David:''' ''[to Terror]'' The day you apologize for anything will be the day that a politician tells the truth.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: David.
* TheVoice: Dani frequently argues with her subconsciousness. David does at times, too. It hasn't yet been explained if a character's subconsciousness is another character entirely... or [[FridgeHorror someone else speaking into their mind]].
* [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Those Two Villains]]: Carmilla and Ruthven.
* ThreeAmigos: Dani, Steven, Gareth.
* ThisIsReality: Used at least once when [[spoiler: Dani is a prisoner in Sébastien's mansion]].
* TitledAfterTheSong [=/=] RefrainFromAssuming: Chapter 38, ""Crazy" Is, I Believe, The Medical Term", gets its title from a line in an Icon For Hire song, "Iodine".
* TokenMinority: Most of the characters are Northern Irish or aliens, so Akiko "Autumn" Tsukiyama stands out a bit because she's Japanese.
* TooDumbToLive: ''Dani''. She tells [[spoiler: Edward]] about [=InGEN=], after promising not to tell anyone. And then [[spoiler: Edward apparently told Terror]].
* TrashOfTheTitans: Edward's room, which "could charitably be called a mess".
* VampireVords: Orlok.
!!''10:30, The Day Before Yesterday'' provides examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Sirius Sangue.
* BigRottenApple
* BodyHorror: That corpse. Dear god, that ''corpse''...
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Christian.
* ChekhovsGunman:
** "The Obnoxious Person", who first appeared on the plane and reappears later.
** Helena and Hazel have both been mentioned before.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Helena, who has [[FieryRedhead red hair]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* DisappearedDad: Helena. Technically a MissingMom too, since she's adopted.
* EvilRedhead: Montparnasse.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Leslie, who has multiple arms and eyes (and no gender). Subverted, since their real name is Saelethaemonta.
* GenderBlenderName: Hazel is a man and Leslie isn't anything at all.
* HumanoidAbomination: Leslie, for a given value of humanoid.
* LetMeGetThisStraight:
-->'''Captain Black:''' So let me get this straight. You want us to go with you to stay with someone you don't know, and we're waiting for an alien to come and take us there. Is that it?\\
'''Hazel:''' More or less.
* NoBiologicalSex: Leslie again.
* NotQuiteDead: Nightmare.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Christian,]] who was born in ''1889''.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Mephysto looks like a demon and has a demonic-sounding name, but she (yes, she) might be just another alien.
* PublicDomainCharacter: [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]] and [[FrankensteinsMonster Adam]] appear in chapter 18.
* ShoutOut:
** The policeman Leslie lives with is called [[Manga/BlackButler Claude Faustus]].
** Leslie, when described by Officer Murray, sounds similar to [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians Pitch]], but with more eyes and arms.
** One of Grievous's assassins is called [[Literature/LesMiserables Montparnasse]].
* TakeThat:
** The reference to [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Marvin McGinty]] is obviously one to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_McGuinness Martin McGuinness]].
** Vlad gives a TakeThat to the film versions of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
* TheGrimReaper: Helena's job.
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