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The [[NaNoWriMo]] project of troper [[Kriegsaffe No 9]]. The first book (of a planned three) is nearing completion. You can find it at his website [http://kriegsaffeno9.deviantart.com/gallery/?23654779#NaNoWriMo-09 here]. He swears he'll stop adding tropes to this entry after this one... last... edit... and leave the thing to its own devices.

Among the characters are Shell, a holy woman who is 13 years old and [[Bizarre Alien Biology|13 years pregnant]]; her bodyguard Pom, an awkward [[Action Girl|yet thoroughly badass]] wasp girl; Culex Nit, Pom's adoptive mother and [[Authority Equals Asskicking|the leader]] [[Asskicking Equals Authority|of their people]]; Casse Ulrich, a [[Broken Bird|tragic lady]] with a [[Dark Action Girl|dark secret]]; and Madeline Blueberry, a humble but skilled baker [[The Messiah|who is not who she seems.]]

 

 

* [[The Abridged Series]]: Serves the dual purpose of recapping the story and taking the piss out of it.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: There's a prequel series, "Beginnings," which lays out some of the back story for the story. One earlier story is essentially a prototype for the novel and is currently non-canon.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: The fate of spiders struck down by wasps.

* [[Asshole Victim]]: {{spoiler|Fitz.}}

* [[Barrier Warrior]]: Shell, and other members of her lineage.

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Incarnates are [[One-Gender Race|all female]], each with their own method of reproduction, along with other genetic quirks and oddities which define their specie.

* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Pom is tall, athletic, and has short hair (though in this setting ''every'' woman has short hair unless they are mothers).

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Razorborn cybernetics is most definitely impossible. It works anyway.

* [[Entry Pimp]]: (cough cough)

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: [[Anti-Hero|Casse]], in the first draft, before she was reassigned to protagonist in the coming revision.

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: The Razorborn make no sense whatsoever, and they like it that way, thank you very much.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Wasps kick the dog just to continue existing. Spiders kicked the dog one too many times.

** That would be an actual flamethrower mounted for a ''cyborg's giant robot body.'' Fire in general is a good weapon to use against spiders, particularly when delivered by grenades.

* [[Luminescent Blush]]: Pom sports one near the end of Book 1 after being [[Glomp|glomped]] by Shell.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]] / [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Spiders take on the role of both werewolf (animalistic combat-ready brawler) and vampire (suave, intelligent plotter with a supernatural edge). That's the stereotype, at least.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Used, played with, and averted. Cockroaches have no visual traits in common with cockroach motes (as they're called) beyond brown skin and hair, unless they're one of a handful that resemble [[Squick|human-sized normal ol' cockroaches]]. Wasps can sprout wings at will and wear color-coded armor based off of spider wasp color patterns, but otherwise look human. Spiders, scorpions, and mosquitoes look human [[Voluntary Transformation|until it's too late.]]

* [[Retcon]]: It's not technically a retcon if the story's not finished yet, is it? Still, some major details are going to be changed for the second version.

* [[Shapeshifting]]: Spiders, scorpions, and mosquitoes can transform into giant versions of regular arthropods. Mosquitoes turn into man-sized mosquitoes. Spiders, depending on their breed, on average turn into something the size of a horse. Scorpions turn into something the size of a small house.

* [[Tear Jerker]]: Casse's backstory ohgod. This Troper has next to no maternal instinct, and yet... *sob*

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Shell is small and academic, Pom is tall and athletic.

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