Line #14 Literature/ViridianSaga


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3	->''"Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You’re… [[Film/TheRoom2003 you're tearing me apart!]]"''
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5	A series of young adult ParanormalRomance novels by JustForFun/SerraElinsen. It is about a girl named [[MeaningFulName Andromeda]] "Andi" Slate who falls in love with Riley Bay, the human guise of none other than Cthulhu himself. Andi is a really special girl; she has dreams of him in her dreams and notices... strange things about him.
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7	Two sequels were meant to be written but ultimately ended up in DevelopmentHell before being cancelled.
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9	[[Characters/ViridianSaga Character sheet]] under construction.
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11	!!This saga contains examples of:
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13	* AbductionIsLove: What makes this story so different from other paranormal romances and weirdly interesting is that there are real stakes. It is ''always'' difficult to know what Riley is up to and you can genuinely wonder whether it's going to be the cute kind of kidnapping or not when Riley ties up Andi and brings her to his house while she is passed out.
14	* AffectionateParody: Of both the ParanormalRomance genre and of CosmicHorror. For the former, it exaggerates every trope to a ludicrous extent, but at the heart of it it's still a convincing if unsettling love story.[[note]]As in: it's a love story between an ExtremeDoormat and a super-duper-ultra-alpha male who's unapologetically evil - but they actually have great chemistry and their respective dysfunctions make them fit together perfectly.[[/note]] For the latter, it's Cthulhu turned into a heartthrob, which might not ''quite'' have been what Lovecraft had in mind... but the dark poetry and grandeur of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is still very much present.
15	* AlienGeometries: Riley's home is like this.
16	* BeautifulAllAlong: Riley to Andi after he reveals his true form. Closet zoophilia rules!
17	%%zce* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: [[spoiler:Riley does this in chapter 19]]
18	* TheCassandra: Very cleverly SubvertedTrope. Andi is GenreSavvy enough to know that no one will believe her if she spills the beans about Riley's crime. So she jumps all the boring asking for help and seeing AdultsAreUseless and immediately interrogates the potential criminal on her own where no one can see them.
19	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Riley dramatically reveals his true nature.
20	-->'''Riley:''' ''I'' once walked among the stars, a giant. ''I'' once slumbered here, in a space between spaces. ''I... am the Priest All-High of the Great Old Ones.''
21	-->'''Andi:''' Does that mean... [[CelibateHero that you can't...]] you know, ''be'' with someone?
22	-->'''Riley:''' (''tired sigh'') No, that is not what it means.
23	* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: The premise.
24	* FatBestFriend: Bridget "Bree" Fifan. Her full name is actually [[SignificantAnagram an anagram for "big fat friend".]]
25	* ForTheEvulz: One of the most refreshing examples of innovation in this book is how Riley isn't humanized via HiddenDepths or CharacterDevelopment or FreudianExcuse, nor idealized with DracoInLeatherPants by the writer. Though Andi isn't especially harsh, it's clear that Riley is just a StarfishAlien bastard whose sheer selfishness has to be reckoned with, but since this selfishness makes him want to spend some time with Andi too, we love him for that.
26	* GenreSavvy: Andi, who almost guesses [[spoiler:Riley is extraterrestrial]] before her self-issues make her choose to doubt herself... ''[[HeroicSelfDeprecation yet again]]''.
27	* LovecraftLite: To an extreme.
28	* LoveTriangle: Will Andi end up with Cthulhu or her childhood friend?
29	** Made all the more poignant because she knows her friend since not-so-long, so they didn't even get to ''build'' part of what concretely a relationship.
30	* MeaningfulName:
31	** Ms. Scarlett Epistola. Epistola means "letter" (as in "the thing you send home from camp", or an {{epistolary novel}}).
32	** Riley ''Bay'' is secretly a sea creature-thing; also, Riley is a pun about R'lieh, the city where Cthulhu is "dead yet dreaming".
33	** Andromeda Slate: the character is supposed to be empty and thus is a blank slate. Also, in Myth/ClassicalMythology, Andromeda was a princess who was sacrificed to a sea monster.
34	* MythologyGag: No names are given, but Nyarlathotep mentions how he and Nikola Tesla used to mess with HP Lovecraft.
35	* NoodleIncident: Half of Uncle Neil's life. Also, the villain is repeatedly described as a "woman scorned", but we never actually learn what happened.
36	* OnlySaneMan: Andi, who has to deal with moody but deep Riley, insensitive intrusive mom and the WomanScorned antagonist.
37	* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:How Andi and Riley overcome the Cult's first attempt at an apocalypse]]
38	** LampShaded and made fun of by Neil
39	%%* NarrationEcho: So many times!
40	* PurpleProse: How else could so much emotion be conveyed into a book?
41	* PropertyOfLove: This is present in the couple because of Riley's trouble with petty human laws and comfort zones and his sheer, ultimate and entirely fulfilled vision of love.
42	* ScrewDestiny: Riley's entire purpose is to send out his Call when the stars are right and end the world. For Andi's sake, he declares that he's going to do no such thing, and to hell with the universal order. The villain is a doomsday cultist who's trying to prod him into getting with the program again.
43	* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Cthulhu becomes human due to a prophecy that the protagonist will ruin his plan to destroy the world. Turns out, due to that very investigation [[LoveRedeems he falls in love with her,]] and doesn't want to destroy the world anymore.
44	* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Oh so played straight with the way Ms. Epistola dresses compared to Andi.
45	* SheIsAllGrownUp: Vic at the end. DeconstructedTrope because he has lost all the attaching traits of the dorky UnluckyChildhoodFriend he used to be when [[spoiler:Ms. Epistola's MindRape]] turned him into a decent LoveInterest.
46	* ShoutOut:
47	** Two to Franchise/HarryPotter, both hidden in Uncle Neil's shop.
48	** And another to ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' in the garage.
49	** One that only counts as a ShoutOut [[spoiler:because of the parody nature--[[TheRoom2003 "You're tearing me apart!"]]]]
50	** The {{tagline}}, "In dreams he came..." is a lyric in the title number from ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
51	* SesquipedalianSmith: Andromeda Slate.
52	* TomeOfEldritchLore: Two in the series including the Necronomicon.
53	* WordsCanBreakMyBones: According to Riley.
54	-->'''Riley:''' Words have power. Words ''cut.'' All reality, the planet within which we stand and the universe within which it spins, ''all'' are shaped by words. Some believe the very universe itself was ''created'' with a word. Well, Andromeda, open your mind's eye to this hideous truth: the universe shall ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end]]'' with but a word.
55	%%* YouGoGirl: Andi confronting Riley.

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