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"]]. |
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