Line #36 Literature/ThePrincess99


1	[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_pretty_99.jpg]]
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3	''The Princess 99'' is an independently published book that started out online.
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5	The story starts off normal enough: Axel, a farm girl, goes into the city so she can attend Edgewood Academy, a school for wizards (or Crafters as they're called in the book). Then she meet Skye, an alien girl, and things go from weird to nightmarish and crazy from that point on.
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7	In all honesty, it's best described as "What if Harry Potter took place during 1920s New Orleans and aliens were involved?"
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9	The updated print version with reworked spelling and grammar can be purchased for print or download [[http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-princess-99/7156834 here]] or the first draft can be read [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2630765/1/The_Princess_99_Bird_of_Prey here]] for free.
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11	The first book in the series is ''Bird of Prey''.
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13	Not to be confused with ''Anime/PrincessNine''.
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15	!!Tropes used:
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17	%% * ActionGirl: Skye, Maree-Celee, the Moimettes
18	* AdaptationExpansion: The print version contains chapters that weren't in the online one, and some extra scenes between other characters as well.
19	%% * AdultsAreUseless: Subverted somewhat. Prof. Wilde helps Axel while Prof. Marius ''doesn't''.
20	* {{Animesque}} : The illustrations in the book seem to range from art nouveau to anime-like to NightmareFuel.
21	%% * AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Justified with the Moimettes. Inverted from time to time with Skye.
22	%% * BerserkButton: Actually mentioned and part of the series. Becomes important after [[spoiler: Axel's breakdown]]
23	%% * BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Flow]].
24	%% * TheBigGuy: Prof. Nev is described as enormous.
25	%% * BittersweetEnding: It may ''seem'' happy but you have to consider [[spoiler: Axel's lost innocence]].
26	%% * BlackEyesOfEvil
27	* BlessedWithSuck: Pai is kind and sensitive towards other due to his empathy [[spoiler: but his sensitivity also gives him nightmarish seizures]]
28	%% * BondCreatures The Familiars .
29	%% * BreakTheCutie [[spoiler: Poor, poor Axel...]]
30	* ButtMonkey Not only does Ambrose get turned into custard, but he ends up naked in front of not only his uncle, but several of Edgewood's students and teachers.
31	%% * CharacterTitle
32	%% * ChildrenAreInnocent (Hahaha.......''no'')
33	%% * CloudCuckooLander : Eulalie. Just...Eulalie.
34	%% * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Skye does this to annoy Marius mostly.
35	%% * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Axel]]
36	%% * ElegantGothicLolita: The Moimettes
37	%% * ExtremeDoormat: Pai with his sister.
38	%% * TheFairFolk: ''The Jealous Dead'' chapter.
39	%% * {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Axel's dreams and Pai's seizures]]
40	* GenreDeconstruction: The story is full of stock characters for the genre. A ChosenOne? Check. DeadpanSnarker for a teacher whose kind of an asshole? Check. A GodModeSue? Check. They go to a WizardingSchool and have {{Mons}}. However, the DeadpanSnarker is only in that condition because [[spoiler: his wife and child died horribly, leaving him an empty shell of a man]]. Skye's nearly-omnipotent powers don't successfully make life easier or make her happier. Not only that, but the ghosts in the school are not...pleasant like in some other works.
41	%% * GoodIsNotNice: Lion & Unicorn.
42	%% * {{Hammerspace}}: Skye and her weapons.
43	%% * IJustWantToBeNormal: (Pai and later [[spoiler: Axel]])
44	%% * IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: Haypenny and Marius at one point, then Axel and Marius]]
45	%% * InTheNameOfTheMoon: Skye's first appearance.
46	%% * KidsAreCruel: Especially the rich ones.
47	%% * LargeHam: Skye, Brig, and a good chunk of the House kids.
48	%% * LittleMissBadass: Maree-Celee, Brig.
49	%% * MakeMeWannaShout: Axel and any Crafter of Song, really.
50	%% * ManipulativeBastard
51	%% * MarshmallowHell: Skye and Ambrose on several occasions.
52	* MeaningfulName: All of the member of Birds of Prey are named after, well, birds of prey except for [[spoiler: Axel's codename, ''The Cuckoo'', named after a bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other birds and takes advantage of the unknowing parents. This fits since Axel is an unknowing killer. Though, Flow does admit that this is "unique" at best.]]
53	%% * MouthyKid: Brig, Ambrose, Maree, Jacq, Skye, and a good chunk of the students
54	%% * NoNameGiven Maree's mother and [[spoiler: the identity of Axel's actual parents]], but this may be up for debate in future installments.
55	%% * OurDemonsAreDifferent
56	%% * OurSoulsAreDifferent : The Familiars and the Crafters
57	* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Skye, an alien from a far-off future, is said to be stuck in the 1920s-like past.
58	%% * OutdatedOutfit: Done on purpose with the Moimettes
59	%% * PapaWolf: Docteur Haypenny and his daughter.
60	%% ** And inverted with Ambrose and his dad.
61	%% * ParentalAbandonment (Mentioned by Flow at the very beginning)
62	%% * TheReveal [[spoiler: Princess Aurore and the serial killer]]
63	%% * TheRoaringTwenties
64	%% * ScholarshipStudent
65	%% * ShipTease: Skye and Ambrose, though it's debatable if Skye even realizes how he feels.
66	%% * ShoutOut: "Who built this place - Tim Burton?"
67	%% * ShrinkingViolet: Prof. Colette, Axel, Pai
68	%% * SlasherSmile: Flow
69	%% * TheSpeechless: The Familiars, except for [[spoiler: Nev]]
70	%% * TechnicolorEyes (Red is rather popular)
71	%% * ThereWasADoor: Haypenny and Prof. Wilde
72	%% * ThatCameOutWrong: "You ruined it for everybody!"
73	%% * TomatoInTheMirror
74	%% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Skye and Axel. Maree-Celee and Pumpkin.
75	%% * TortureTechnician [[spoiler: Flow]]
76	%% * TragicMonster
77	%% * TwistEnding
78	%% * WizardingSchool: Edgewood Academy, Brightwood University, Blackthorne College. The entire book also makes fun of this genre as well.
79	* WellIntentionedExtremist : Everyone in the Birds of Prey organization has very good intentions, since they only want civil rights for Muggles, ''er'' Nons. Though they try to achieve this in a [[spoiler: {{Tykebomb}} horrifying manner]]

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