Line #5 Literature/MyOldFriendGideon

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1	A short story part of ''Literature/TheNeverMythos'' by [=lordoftheclowns=][[note]]Known here as Tropers/{{Scraggle}}[[/note]]. It can be found [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3327282/1/My-Old-Friend-Gideon here]].
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3	Leonard Staple, waiting in a destitute neighborhood in some broken-down corner of Toronto, is picked up by a concerned old friend. Or he would be an old friend, if Leonard could just remember who he was...
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5	!!Tropes:
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7	* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Gideon is the friendliest HumanoidAbomination ever, acting entirely polite to his victims, even claiming to be an old friend]].
8	* BadSamaritan: [[spoiler:Gideon offers to help people down on their luck, even claiming to have known them. He takes them home and feeds them to his "sister"]].
9	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Leonard is presumably devoured by Gideon's "sister."]]
10	* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:"Lila" Gideon's "sister" is described as a "drooling mass" and devours humans]].
11	* RememberTheNewGuy: InUniverse. Gideon claims to be an old friend of Leonard's, who doesn't remember him, but chalks it up to fading memory. [[spoiler:Too late, Leonard realizes he never knew Gideon, he was watching him the whole time]].
12	* ShoutOut:
13	** At one point Leonards thinks he sees [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] in a window.
14	** Gideon tells Leonard [[Music/DavidBowie "Earth to Major Tom"]].

Context Literature / MyOldFriendGideon