Dreamsnake: Difference between revisions

* [[Automaton Horses]]: Averted.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: The heroine goes by "Snake." There's a [[Cool Pet|blatantly obvious]] explanation, but even so.

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: {{spoiler|Dreamsnakes, as it turns out.}}

* [[But We Used a Condom|But I Know My Biocontrol]]: {{spoiler|The reason for Gabriel's self-imposed chastity.}}

* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: {{spoiler|Especially when committed upon an undersized and burn-scarred twelve-year-old by her [[Abusive Parents|psychotic surrogate father]].}}

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Subverted by the fact that Snake's eponymous animals effectively serve as her medical kit. Invoked by the fact that someone's violent ophiophobia is what gets Snake into trouble in the first place. Reconstructed with sand vipers; not even Snake can find much that she likes about the damn things.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Mountainside is ''made'' of this trope. Melissa's burn scars{{spoiler|—earned in an act of heroism, at the age of ''eight''—}}make so much of a social outcast out of her that when her foster father verbally abuses her in front of the mayor, the mayor ''argues that it's for her own good''. {{spoiler|It takes the revelation that he's been molesting her for him to be declared unfit.}}