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9	The Eric Project is a ''Series/TrueBlood'' fanfic that tells Eric Northman's adventures to [[QuestForSex get Sookie into his pants]], overcome Bill and being awesome in general. Written entirely from Eric's [[PointOfView point of view]] and in first person, the fic is an AffectionateParody that uses almost the entirety of the show's canon.
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13	* AdaptationExpansion: The fic covers many scenes we didn't see on season 1 and 2 (mostly from Eric's perspective, obviously), and speculates with some of season 3.
14	%%* AffectionateParody: Applies to all the characters.
15	%%* AllMenArePerverts: [[spoiler: Sookie]] realizes this by the end of the fic.
16	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Eric does this with several vamps through the story, including [[spoiler: Godric, Lorena and Bill]].
17	%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Sophie-Anne, [[HilarityEnsues to Eric's dismay]].
18	%%* BelligerentSexualTension: Eric and Sookie, later becoming actual {{UST}}.
19	%%* BreakoutCharacter: Sophie-Anne.
20	* TheCaligula: [[spoiler:Sophie-Anne]] becomes this by the end of the fic, when she finds out [[spoiler: Eric was planning to kill her beloved William]].
21	%%* TheCasanova
22	%%* TheChessmaster: Hence the fic title. Sophie-Anne also personifies this trope.
23	%%* ComedicSociopathy: Most of the vampires. BlackComedy for human characters.
24	* DontSaySuchStupidThings: Eric tries to convince [[spoiler: Godric not to kill himself]].
25	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Eric would never touch children or teenagers.
26	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Eric likes the attention he gets from both genders, however, [[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat he will flatly deny to be gay or bisexual.]]
27	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Subverted [[spoiler:with Godric. [[DarkerAndEdgier It was all a lie, kids]]]]
28	* FurAgainstFang: Eric and Alcide are the exception to this (mostly because Alcide reminds Eric of himself), but there's still [[spoiler: an epic [[FinalBattle werewolves vs. Eric battle by the end of the fic]]]].
29	%%* HandsomeLech: What [[spoiler: Bill]] actually is.
30	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bffs Eric and Godric, and surprisingly, Eric and ''Alcide'', [[RuleofCool just because I can]].
31	%%* HurricaneOfPuns: When Eric talks about and to Bill.
32	* IntimatePsychotherapy: PlayedForLaughs when [[spoiler: Eric comforts Sookie after Bill's kidnapping]]
33	* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: The Eric Project is the book Eric writes after his Sookie Experience.
34	* LovableSexManiac: Eric's lust for Sookie gets really funny when you read it from Eric's PointOfView.
35	* LoveDodecahedron: [[spoiler: Bill, Eric and Alide end up fighting for [[DudeMagnet Sookie]], Debbie and Laura [[AxeCrazy go crazy with jealousy]], and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensues]]]].
36	* LoveTriangle: Bill/Sookie/Eric.
37	* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Eric lies about Godric and cries just to gain Sookie's sympathy and love]]
38	%%* PlayedForLaughs: The whole point.
39	* PointOfView: First-person Eric.
40	%%* QuestForSex
41	%%* RebelliousSpirit: [[spoiler: Jessica]], later turning into ChaoticEvil.
42	%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Parodied with Bill and Eric.
43	%%* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Parodied with Sookie.
44	* SlashFic: Parodied when [[spoiler: Eric and Godric pretend to be all-time lovers just so Sookie would see Eric as a woobie]]. Eric actually [[spoiler: [[{{Pastiche}} uses real yaoi lines and plots to scheme his plan]]]].
45	* SpecialGuest: Alexander Skarsgard, [[spoiler: [[ActorAllusion who contacts Eric to ask him if he can play his life on a tv series]]]], and Motley Crue, [[spoiler: [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll who offer a concert at Fangtasia]]. They also play a small but significant role in the V subplot]].
46	* TakeThat: On chapter 5, Eric [[spoiler: pwns Music/LadyGaga by suggesting that her voice sounds like burping]]. There are also various references to ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' and teenage vampire romances in general.
47	%%* ThreatBackfire: [[spoiler: Sam Merlotte kicks ass]].
48	* TitledAfterTheSong: Chapter 6, [[Music/MotleyCrue ''Girls, Girls, Girls'']]
49	* TwoGuysAndAGirl: [[spoiler: Alcide ends up interested in Sookie as well, something Eric did not see coming]].
50	%%* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
51	* {{Yandere}}: Eric's biggest fangirl, [[spoiler:Laura, is the typical tween fangbanger who goes from [[ClingyJealousGirl having a crush with Eric]] to be [[NotSoHarmlessVillain crazily obsessed with him.]] When she starts thinking Sookie is not "good enough" for Eric she goes in a [[AxeCrazy race to murder both.]] She's supposed to [[ParodySue represent Mary Sues on True Blood fanfiction]]]].

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