Fearless (novel)

Fearless is a young adult novel series by Francine Pascal. The story follows Gaia Moore, a teenager who was born with the inability to feel fear, as her terrorist uncle "Loki" messes up her life.

In 2003, the series was loosely adapted into a TV show starring Rachael Leigh Cook in which Gaia is an FBI agent. Only one episode was filmed; it never aired.

A short follow-up book series in which Gaia joins the FBI, Fearless FBI, was published in 2005.


 * Action Girl: Gaia
 * Alpha Bitch: Heather. She eventually stops being this and even jumps to Gaia's defense when the FOH start mocking her in the final book.
 * Amnesiac Dissonance: following his Convenient Coma.
 * Back From the Dead:, but the implication is that reports of his death were exaggerated and that he was actually held prisoner by Loki's Mooks.
 * Blessed with Suck: Gaia is fond of pointing out that humans feel fear for a reason.
 * Also, her supreme fighting skills come with a serious drawback: She can't hold back when fighting, so even a simple brawl causes her to overexert herself, which results in her passing out once the fight is over.
 * Brainwashed: We learn was once a nice person, before getting Brainwashed... then it's never mentioned again.
 * Cain and Abel: Loki and Tom
 * To the point where, when Gaia demands Tom's location from Loki, he sarcastically asks her "Am I my brother's keeper?"
 * Cardboard Prison: Loki spends, like, one chapter in a supposed "maximum security" prison before escaping.
 * It helped that he had people working for him inside the prison.
 * Cloning Blues:
 * Cuckoo Nest
 * Cursed with Awesome: Loki's point of view on Gaia's fearlessness. His attempts to recreate it don't go so well though.
 * Girl Posse: Whom Gaia dubs the "Friends of Heather", in reference to the Alpha Bitch. Said Alpha Bitch pulls a Heel Face Turn later on, while the rest of them continue to act like like little harpies.
 * A God Am I: One villain actually calls himself "God". He's quite delusional, and is viewed with nothing but contempt by the other villains.,
 * Loki as well, after the Norse god of trickery.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Gaia
 * It's Not You, It's My Enemies: A major hindrance to all of Gaia's relationships.
 * Love At First Sight
 * Manipulative Bastard: Loki
 * Out of the Inferno: Referenced metaphorically in "Blood": After Gaia is stopped from almost killing Skizz, Tom Moore watches her as she attends  funeral. When she gives her tear-filled speech on her friend's behalf, Tom reflects that Gaia has "been through the fire and emerged tempered, not charred."
 * Parental Abandonment: Gaia's uncle killed her mother and her father is off working for the CIA.
 * Poor Communication Kills: If any of the characters ever actually explained anything to each other clearly and truthfully, 90% of the tragedy and Wangst wouldn't happen.
 * Professor Guinea Pig:.
 * Psycho Serum: Loki's various "Phobosan" drugs.
 * Redemption Equals Death:.
 * The Mole: Anyone Gaia ever trusts. Ever. Including but by no means limited to, , , , , , and . And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
 * Sequel Series: Fearless: FBI
 * Spot the Imposter: Between Tom and Loki
 * Suspiciously Apropos Music: The band Fearless.
 * Truth in Television: The scientific journal Current Biology recently reported on the curious case of a woman who does not experience the emotion of fear.
 * Francine Pascal once said that she got the idea for the series from a similar article that she read.
 * Villainous Breakdown: early on,  near the end.
 * Wicked Stepmother: Ella, in the first major story arc (well, technically wicked foster mother, but her foster father is a friend of her biological father's, and Ella is his new wife, so close enough).