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* BadassBaritone: Adair is implied to have one.


* BelatedBackstory: A lot of characters undergo this in the first nine chapters.
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* AngstWhatAngst: This tends to happen a lot throughout the story (especially Into the Void and The Rescue: Part 2).

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* AngstWhatAngst: This tends to happen a lot throughout the story (especially Into the Void and The Rescue: Part 2).
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''Willow Falls'' is a story about a boy named Edward Allens, but people call him Poe. It's not like people think of Edgar Allan Poe when they think of his name or anything. This town is full of mythological creatures or things you didn't even know existed before reading this. It's known to be inspired somewhat by ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' and is very obscure, being only available on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn as of now.

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''Willow Falls'' ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/140652 Willow Falls]]'' is a story about a boy named Edward Allens, but people call him Poe. It's not like people think of Edgar Allan Poe when they think of his name or anything. This town is full of mythological creatures or things you didn't even know existed before reading this. It's known to be inspired somewhat by ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' and is very obscure, being only available on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn as of now.
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** Midori starts out as naive and unable to speak anything but Japanese and {{Engrish}}, but eventually can speak English pretty well (besides [[{{BreakTheCutue}}saying 'ru' instead of 'l' and 'r'...]]) and by The Rescue: Part2, can fend for herself.
** In the beginning, Poe is a very dull and sophisticated character, but as {{Characterization Marches On}, he gains an actual personality and some feelings to boot.

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** Midori starts out as naive and unable to speak anything but Japanese and {{Engrish}}, but eventually can speak English pretty well (besides [[{{BreakTheCutue}}saying [[{{BreakTheCutie}}saying 'ru' instead of 'l' and 'r'...]]) and by The Rescue: Part2, can fend for herself.
** In the beginning, Poe is a very dull and sophisticated character, but as {{Characterization Marches On}, On}}, he gains an actual personality and some feelings to boot.

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* CharacterDevelopment: There are many cases of this.
** Midori starts out as naive and unable to speak anything but Japanese and {{Engrish}}, but eventually can speak English pretty well (besides [[{{BreakTheCutue}}saying 'ru' instead of 'l' and 'r'...]]) and by The Rescue: Part2, can fend for herself.
** In the beginning, Poe is a very dull and sophisticated character, but as {{Characterization Marches On}, he gains an actual personality and some feelings to boot.

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* AngstWhatAngst: This tends to happen a lot throughout the story (especially Into the Void and The Rescue: Part 2). After the story is rewritten this will occur less often, hopefully.

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* AngstWhatAngst: This tends to happen a lot throughout the story (especially Into the Void and The Rescue: Part 2). After the story is rewritten this will occur less often, hopefully.




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* BreakTheHaughty: By the time What's On The Menu? rolls around, Adair gets this bad.
* CatsAreMean: {{Inverted}} with Midori.
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* BreakTheCutie: In Revenge, Midori gets broken. ''Bad''. Also literally.
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* BondingOverMissingParents: Adair and Midori after Midori is adopted into the family and [[spoiler:Maxwell is turned into stone.]]

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** '''''Don't say 'ru'.'''''



** BewareTheSillyOnes: Bean. Definitely Bean.
** BigEgoHiddenDepths: Drake at first seems like a bit of a douchebag, but as shown in In Memoriam, [[spoiler:he's really lonely after dying alone in a fire and being unaware of his own death and just assuming his family has been ignoring him for so long.]]

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** * BewareTheSillyOnes: Bean. Definitely Bean.
** * BigEgoHiddenDepths: Drake at first seems like a bit of a douchebag, but as shown in In Memoriam, [[spoiler:he's really lonely after dying alone in a fire and being unaware of his own death and just assuming his family has been ignoring him for so long.]]]]
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BewareTheSillyOnes: Bean. Definitely Bean.
BigEgoHiddenDepths: Drake at first seems like a bit of a douchebag, but as shown in In Memoriam, [[spoiler:he's really lonely after dying alone in a fire and being unaware of his own death and just assuming his family has been ignoring him for so long.]]

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** BewareTheSillyOnes: Bean. Definitely Bean.
** BigEgoHiddenDepths: Drake at first seems like a bit of a douchebag, but as shown in In Memoriam, [[spoiler:he's really lonely after dying alone in a fire and being unaware of his own death and just assuming his family has been ignoring him for so long.]]

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BewareTheSillyOnes: Bean. Definitely Bean.
BigEgoHiddenDepths: Drake at first seems like a bit of a douchebag, but as shown in In Memoriam, [[spoiler:he's really lonely after dying alone in a fire and being unaware of his own death and just assuming his family has been ignoring him for so long.]]
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''Willow Falls'' is a story about a boy named Edward Allens, but people call him Poe. It's not like people think of Edgar Allan Poe when they think of his name or anything. This town is full of mythological creatures or things you didn't even know existed before reading this. It's known to be inspired somewhat by Webcomic/{{Gunnerkrigg Court}} and is very obscure, being only available on Website/{{Archive Of Our Own}} as of now.

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''Willow Falls'' is a story about a boy named Edward Allens, but people call him Poe. It's not like people think of Edgar Allan Poe when they think of his name or anything. This town is full of mythological creatures or things you didn't even know existed before reading this. It's known to be inspired somewhat by Webcomic/{{Gunnerkrigg Court}} ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' and is very obscure, being only available on Website/{{Archive Of Our Own}} Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn as of now.
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-->-- '''Adair'''

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-->-- '''Adair''''''Adair'''

''Willow Falls'' is a story about a boy named Edward Allens, but people call him Poe. It's not like people think of Edgar Allan Poe when they think of his name or anything. This town is full of mythological creatures or things you didn't even know existed before reading this. It's known to be inspired somewhat by Webcomic/{{Gunnerkrigg Court}} and is very obscure, being only available on Website/{{Archive Of Our Own}} as of now.

The author is going to try to rewrite the story soon so the plot and flow is improved, as of now the plot is a "train wreck" as she calls it.

There are currently only twenty-three short chapters. The names of the chapters in order are...
#The New Kid In Town
#A Day in the Limelight
#Nevermore
#A Guide on Fantastical Creatures and Dark Matter
#Lost and Found
#Nightmares
#Freedom
#Light and Darkness
#Into the Void
#Serenity
#The Widow
#Urban Legends
#Face-Heel Turn
#Revenge
#A Not-So Tearful Reunion
#The Willow By the Falls
#Memories
#Seven Sins
#What's On the Menu?
#In Memoriam
#What Walks On Two Legs
#The Rescue: Part 1
#The Rescue: Part 2

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* AbstractApotheosis: Bean could be considered one for the sin of gluttony. He's a reincarnation of Beelzebub, who was the personification of gluttony. However, this is mentioned solely in Urban Legends (chapter twelve) and never again, so it may as well have been {{retcon}}ned.
* AmnesiacDissonance: This happens to Poe in chapter sixteen, [[spoiler:Beforehand, everyone else has known about his evil side as early as A Day in the Limelight (chapter two) or Nevermore (chapter three). In The Rescue: Part 2 (chapter twenty-three), it's revealed that the evil side wasn't Poe at all, but a demon.]]
* AngstWhatAngst: This tends to happen a lot throughout the story (especially Into the Void and The Rescue: Part 2). After the story is rewritten this will occur less often, hopefully.
* AnimalJingoism: Wata, who is [[AnimalMotifs associated with wolves by the author,]] tends to make Midori, a Nekomata, a common target of his harrassment. This is also shown when Fenrir immediately targets Midori after involuntarily going into his wolf form in Into the Void.
* BackstoryOfTheDay: It almost seems like this in "In Memoriam" (chapter twenty) for Drake, since a majority of the somewhat short chapter compared to the ones before and after it was spent with him talking about how he died and got to Willow Falls to Wata.
* BadassBaritone: Adair is implied to have one.
* BaitTheDog: Depending on how you see it, this applies to Drake either in Revenge or as early as Into the Void. For the work in a whole this kicks in in Nightmares.
* BelatedBackstory: A lot of characters undergo this in the first nine chapters.
* BenchedHero: Poe can be seen as this after the first nine chapters are done with. [[spoiler: Mostly because from A Day In the Limelight to some time between A Not-So Tearful Reunion and The Willow By the Falls he was temporarily taken over by a {{Superpowered Evil Side}}.]]
* BeneathTheMask: Several characters show this.
** Poe is a huge example of this. Beneath his mask is [[spoiler: a {{Superpowered Evil Side}} that turns out to be a demon.]]
** On the outside, Adair is all serious and stoic, but on the inside he's very caring of close ones, especially Midori.
** On the outside, Drake is a jerk who's Wata's partner in crime, but on the inside he's lonely and kind of insecure. Also extremely arsonphobic thanks to dying in a fire in the late 1800s.
* BerserkButton: Lots.
** Don't hurt Midori or do anything to her that could negatively affect her, especially if Adair is around.
** Don't fuck with Poe or do something to smudge his reputation if Milo is near.
** Don't put Adair's life in danger when he's with Midori. [[{{beware the nice ones}} You'll severely regret it.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Also lots.
** Milo starts out as the nicest guy in the story. After [[spoiler: Poe becomes 'Enoch' and crosses the {{Moral Event Horizon}} in Into the Void,]] he becomes more bitter, even snapping at Poe at times. This climaxes in The Rescue: Part 2, where he [[spoiler: ''beats Watson up'' after he reveals himself as the {{Big Bad}} behind most of the chaos in the story.]]
** Midori is an innocent little girl with an ambiguous age, who, despite lots of timeskips, still never hits puberty and seems to be under the age of thirteen the entire time. [[spoiler:In "The Rescue: Part 2", she changes not only into the form of a cat, but a ''panther-sized one'' and ''rips the tongue of Bean's second mouth off' after Bean tries to strangle Adair with it.]]

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->''"What have I told you about tormenting Midori, you burnt slice of whole-wheat bread?"''
-->-- '''Adair'''

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