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6	''[[http://starlingstory.tumblr.com/post/49493973211/starling-chapter-one Starling]]'' is a serial novel authored by tumblr user gogglesque (also known as Ursula), and illustrated by tumblr user theyoungdoyley, first posted on May 3rd, 2013.
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8	Set in the undefinably-semi-distant future at Astris Academy, the ultimate off-shoring school for the children of the wealthy, ''Starling'' is the story of Roy Calabi, the teenage clone of a man instrumental in Earth's violent victory over the planet Empyrean in an interstellar war some forty years ago. In the name of cultural exchange, Astris has just enrolled its first Empyrean student, a stellaraptor named Elliott Blue, and he's in Roy's class.
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10	Needless to say, it's very awkward.
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12	If the story reminds you eerily of an anti-colonial, queer Ender's Game, you'd be on the right track. The working title of Starling was ''Ender's Gay''.
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17	!!This work contains examples of:
18	%%* ApologisesALot: Roy
19	%%* BrilliantButLazy: Kira
20	* TheBroCode: Roy's not too happy about [[spoiler:Kira dating Cosmo]]
21	* CasualInterstellarTravel: [[spoiler:Astris' junior class takes a school trip to Empyrean]]
22	* ClonesArePeopleToo: Despite the efforts of his adoptive parents and the media, Roy is his very much his own person.
23	%%* EpistolaryNovel: Chapter 13
24	%%* FantasticRacism
25	%%* FantasticSlurs: "Please don't call me an alien."
26	* GenderRarityValue: The morph ratios of Stellaraptor populations seems to fluctuate in response to environmental pressures.
27	%%* HighSchool
28	%%* HumansAreTheRealMonsters
29	%%* TheFuture
30	%%* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: There Is No Stellaraptor Consensus.
31	* NamingYourColonyWorld: Empyrean- "belonging to or deriving from heaven".
32	%%* NewTransferStudent: Elliott
33	* NukeEm: Whether Jet's bomb drop was a desperate, heroic tactic that won a terrifying, deadly war or a horrific act of terrorism against the civilians of a planet just trying to defend itself is a point of serious inter-species contention.
34	* OrphanedSeries: The series hasn't updated since 2017, ending on chapter 29 out of a planned 32. Though the author [[https://starlingstory.tumblr.com/post/181188499533/find-me-jack-gogglesque-in-the-next-world has stated]] that they plan to finish it, there have been no further updates.
35	%%* SpaceStation: Astric Academy
36	%%* TameHisAnger: Roy's inherited a bit of a temper and he's mad about it.

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