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''[[Midnighters]]'' is a young-adult book series written by Scott Westerfeld. It's set in the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma (which, incidentally, does exist in [[Real Life]]). The main premise is that there are 25 hours in a day. The 25th hour is nicknamed "the blue time" because everything has a slightly blue glow, and takes place right [[Time Stands Still|after]] the stroke of midnight.
This is much [[Worse Than It Sounds (Darth Wiki)|Worse Than It Sounds]] for the Heroes, because creatures called darklings and [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|slithers]] inhabit the blue time, which are as nasty as they sound. Also, technology and most ordinary people become [[Time Stands Still|frozen in time]], and look like they came straight out of [[Uncanny Valley]], according to the [[Five-Man Band|Midnighters]] crew.
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They're the heroes, and are the only people who can walk around and be not frozen in the blue time. They are Jessica, Jonathan, [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Melissa]], [[Jerkass|Rex]] and [[Embarrassing First Name|Desdemona]] (who goes by Dess, for obvious reasons). They all have nonstandard [[Stock Super Powers|powers]] (and are very sensitive to light).
Jessica's power is {{spoiler|[[Game Breaker|that she can make technology work in the blue time]]}}, and Jonathan is an acrobat, which means he has an extreme ability [[Le Parkour|to jump]]. Melissa is a mindcaster, which means she can read minds (and she can't stop, she's [[Blessed
Not to be confused with the [[The Authority|Midnighter]].
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Rex's father. {{spoiler|That is, until Melissa mind-rapes him.}}
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Constanza Grayfoot is the fashion obsessed queen of the school who struts about with her girl posse and dreams of being an actress in L.A. She's part Native American, not blonde, and is more harmlessly superficial than actually evil, so she's not a straight example.
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* [[Beta Couple]]: {{spoiler|Rex and Melissa}}
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The last book.
* [[Blessed
* [[Chosen One]]: The Flame-bringer.
* [[Cursed
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: The real protagonist of the trilogy is either {{spoiler|Jessica, Rex, or Dess.}}
** [[Word of God]] says it's {{spoiler|Jess}}, which means that {{spoiler|Rex and Dess}} are [[Supporting Protagonists]].
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Dess and Melissa.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: {{spoiler|Angie, eventually.}}
* [[Good
* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Melissa. {{spoiler|She gets better, though.}}
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|Anathea, a Seer from 50 years ago that got turned into a "Halfling," a human-Darkling hybrid. She gets progressively weaker, so the Darklings try to make a new one out of Rex. It works for a while, but he gets better. Though he still carries some of the traits, like an aversion to math, metal, and the number 13, and has the occasional predatory instinct slip.}}
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* [[Mind Rape]]: Mindcasters are good at this. {{spoiler|Melissa accidentally mind raped Rex and Johnathan on a small scale when they touched her, her mind raping was responsible for Rex's father turning into a vegetable.}}
** {{spoiler|Poor Dess gets mind raped pretty badly twice in the second book. First by Madeline, although that wasn't entirely mind rape as she planted useful information and then gave Dess a trick to freely block and unblock it. Second by Melissa, trying by brute mental force to tear down said barrier and get said information out of Dess.}} She certainly isn't happy about it, but she survives with her sanity intact. Mostly.
* [[Never Mess
* [[Numerological Motif]]: With 12 (for the Darklings) and 13 (for the Midnighters). Factors of both numbers exert equal power as well.
* [[The Ophelia]]: Melissa.
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: While he may have gotten the time frames wrong (see [[Fridge Logic]] and the [[Just Bugs Me]] page), Westerfeld still had to do a decent amount of research, primarily on numbering systems, making this series overall a welcome subversion of [[Writers Cannot Do Math]].
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: One of the characters in the running for overall series main character is {{spoiler|Dess, [[The Smart Guy]].}}
* [[Telepathy]]: The Mindcaster power. But unless you know how to control it properly, [[Blessed
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: For Slithers and Darklings, that is. If you're a human, it's your best weapon.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Of the "moving incredibly fast" variety.
** actually, {{spoiler|[[A Wizard Did It|a Darkling did it]]}}.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: {{spoiler|Rex }}
* [[Town
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The Lore conveniently neglects to mention the things the area's {{spoiler|[[Ancient Conspiracy|old Midnighters]]}} did to stay in power.
* [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]
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