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Our protagonist is Eddie Russett, a young man and member of the House of Red. As punishment for having humiliated a prefect's son, he is banished to the village of East Carmine for a month of menial labor, along with his father, who is sent to replace the village's recently-deceased medical practicioner. After making himself at home and meeting the quirky locals, he falls head-over-heels for a feisty Achromatic named Jane, whose violent temper is as rare in Chromatacia as is the shape of her nose. Smitten, Eddie begins to stalk her, and in doing so he accidentally stumbles on an incredible secret, one that will rock their world to its foundation. Together, for better or worse, Eddie and Jane become the seeds of a revolution...
Not to be confused with the [[Web Comic]] or [[Interactive Fiction]] [[Name's the Same|of the same name]]. Also, [[Similarly Named Works|avoid confusing it with]] the BDSM novel ''
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]] - Violet deMauve, first for Doug, then for Eddie.
* [[After the End]]
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* [[G-Rated Drug]] - Specific colors have this effect on the citizenry, including Lincoln.
* [[How We Got Here]] - The book starts with Eddie inside a [[Man-Eating Plant|Yateveo]]. The first 9/10ths of the book are explaining how he ended up in such a pickle.
* [[I Wish It
* [[Loophole Abuse]] - How a surprising amount of things are accomplished in Chromatacia, really. Stuck between the inviolable rules and the need for certain things to get done (things usually required by ''other'' rules), loopholery has become a proud tradition.
* [[Lovable Rogue]] - Tommo Cinnabar. A snitch, drug addict, and all-around ne'er-do-well with a [[Money Fetish]], but a charming and likeable one nonetheless.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] - {{spoiler|[[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]}}
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** When Eddie is Zane's house in Rusty Hill, there's a television playing '[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.
** The Oz Memorial and all the works of art.
** Most characters have last names relating to their colors, however grays are only referred to as G-(insert number here). So we end up having a character Zane the Grey. Jane is arguably an allusion to the same.
** Subtler than the others, but throughout Eddie refers to the Ishihara, the test all citizens take in order to have their colour perception levels certified. In real life, the Ishihara test is used for a similar purpose - to test colour-blindness, rather than colour-perception. (This troper is red-green colourblind. He's had more than a few Ishiharas)
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] - Eddie and {{spoiler|Jane}}. At first {{spoiler|due to different social standing, and the fact she keeps threatening to kill him}}, later {{spoiler|due to him being a very strong Red and her being a very weak Green, and complementary colors must never mate}}.
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