The Stoneheart Trilogy: Difference between revisions

* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: The Gunner usually hides thing from George and/or Edie. The Walker lampshades this quite a few times.

* [[Dean Bitterman]] / [[Sadist Teacher]]: Killingbeck. Just his ''[[Meaningful Name|name]]'' pretty much sums him up.

* {{spoiler|[[Distressed Damsel]]: When Edie gets captured by the Minotaur.}}

{{quote| '''George:''' Look, I'm sorry— [''gets slapped by Edie''] What the... Why did you...?<br />

'''Edie:''' Don't be sorry for me. Don't treat me like I'm soft. And don't like me. }}

* [[Extra Strength Masquerade]]: Because the regular [[Muggles]] can't see what they wouldn't normally see, anything out of the ordinary they may see is totally ignored.

{{quote| '''{{spoiler|The Gunner}}:''' Right. Follow me. And, Edie--try not to get lost, eh?<br />

'''George:''' [''notices Edie grinning''] What?<br />

* [[The Mentor]]: The Gunner towards George and later Edie.

* [[Nakama]]: Slowly but ever surely George, Edie, and the Gunner are forming this.

* [[Power Trio]]: Arguably -- George (Superego), Edie (Id), and the Gunner (Ego).

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: {{spoiler|The Walker}}'s deal to {{spoiler|the Gunner}} -- go into battle with no weapons at all... or sealing {{spoiler|Edie}} to a terrible fate.

*** Although that [[Incest Yay Shipping|won't stop some people...]]

* [[Shout Out]]: In a memory recollected by George, his father had belched following a meal and said, [[Shrek|"Better out than in."]]

* [[Last of His Kind]]: Edie to the Glints. [[Fantastic Racism|Not that anyone's complaining...]]

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* [[Eye Scream]]: Edie to the {{spoiler|Walker}}. It [[Good Thing You Can Heal|heals almost instantly]], of course, but he is now forever doomed to walk the earth with only one eye, which really, really pisses him off.

** Also, the Walker's assistant/slave Glint, who ''sewed her eyes shut'' so that she wouldn't have to glint the horrible things that have happened in his house anymore.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Spout, the gargoyle

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Little Tragedy}}

* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Edie's backstory is pretty much one of these.

** To elaborate, {{spoiler|Edie's mother, a recovering alcoholic, was driven completely off the deep end when her heart stone was stolen by the Walker in a scene that just screams attempted rape. Her sanity then proceeds to gradually unravel until, finally, she tries to kill Edie's stepfather with a kitchen appliance. This results in her being committed to an insane asylum where she spends the rest of her life, leaving Edie alone with her alcoholic stepfather. The next Edie hears of her is when her stepfather informs Edie that her mother has committed suicide (in actuality, she jumped off the roof to keep the Walker from finding Edie). It is then that Edie glints the aforementioned attempted rape scene, and, horrified that her stepfather simply sat back and smiled throughout the entire thing, runs away. This prompts her stepfather to run after her ''with a knife'', smiling and talking about how they ought to head back to the house together. When he finally catches up to her, Edie hits him over the head with a rock, knocking him into a quary and killing him. She then runs away to London, where she spends the period before the story hopping between youth hostels and believing she's insane. Before she meets George, a Londoner who can also see the moving statues, and he promptly tells her to bugger off. And then she dies. And that's ''on top of'' her inherant power that shows her horrible flashbacks of the past whenever she touches a rock.}}

** Especially the part where {{spoiler|the Walker attempts to rape Edie's mom while Edie's watching (via a flashback) and her stepfather just sits there and ''laughs''. It's pretty clear that, were this not a kids' book, there would be nothing "attempted" about it.}}