Feeling Sorry for Celia: Difference between revisions

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P.S. You also don't seem to understand how to get a snow tan. You look like a slice of watermelon.''|'''''Elizabeth's first letter'''''}}

 

* [[Green Eyes]]: Elizabeth has them.

* [[In Harm's Way]]: Celia is always running away from home to go on "adventures", though she usually at least calls Elizabeth to tell her where she's going.

* {{spoiler|[[Long Lost Sibling]]}}

* [[Manatee Gag]]: Some of Elizabeth's letters from the various imaginary organizations could be considered this. They don't really advance the plot, they're pretty much just there to be funny.

* [[Maternally Challenged]]: Both Elizabeth and Celia's mothers have their own flavor of this trope, with Elizabeth's mother being the more usual super-busy sucessful career gal. She even has a sort of heart-to-heart with Elizabeth and says she feels bad for being so absent (which, of course she does ''by fax''.) Celia's mother is ''too'' loving and supportive of Celia, not putting any limits on her because, "Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see." Which is why she never calls the police when Celia runs away.

* [[Miss Conception]]: Subverted when {{spoiler|Christina}} thinks she might be pregnant. Though what happened to her could very well lead to concieving a child, she remains worried about it even after having her period, thinking that it might be a "false period" and that she could be pregnant anyway.

* [[Pretty White Kids With Problems]]: Subverted in the fact that while all the characters have problems to deal with, they're not pulled straight from the typical Teen Drama and the characters don't whine about them. Instead of [[Wangst|Wangsting]] about not fitting in and no one understanding them, they instead take the odd troubles life deals them relatively in stride.

* [[Scrapbook Story]]: Quite!

* [[The Power of Friendship]]

* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Celia and Saxon}} believe that their relationship is this way, so they make a [[Suicide Pact]], although when interrogated about it later, {{spoiler|Celia}} can't understand why everyone was so worried, exclaiming "I wasn't actually going to do it!"

* [[Walking the Earth]]: One of Celia's reasons for joining a traveling circus.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Elizabeth's father's infidelity is actually a plot point when {{spoiler|it turns out Elizabeth has a half-brother, Ricky Clarry, who was conceived only a few months after Elizabeth.}}

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