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* [[Dark Secret]]: A number of people have these.
* [[Dark Secret]]: A number of people have these.
* [[Determined Homesteader]]: The pioneers.
* [[Determined Homesteader]]: The pioneers.
** [[Determined Homesteaders Children]]:
** [[Determined Homesteader's Children]]:
* [[Disaster Scavengers]]: The Surfs.
* [[Disaster Scavengers]]: The Surfs.
* [[EMP]]: Part of how the Seablite gang escaped--thanks to Eel's Gift.
* [[EMP]]: Part of how the Seablite gang escaped--thanks to Eel's Gift.
* [[Everythings Better With Sparkles|Everything's Better With Sparkles]]: Eating bioluminescent abyssal fish gives the settlers shiny skin.
* [[Everything's Better With Sparkles]]: Eating bioluminescent abyssal fish gives the settlers shiny skin.
** [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Gemma seems to think this of Ty.
** [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Gemma seems to think this of Ty.
* [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks|Everything's Even Worse With Sharks]]: At least, when they think you'd make a good meal.
* [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks|Everything's Even Worse With Sharks]]: At least, when they think you'd make a good meal.
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* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: Ty, about his time as a medical experiment.
* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: Ty, about his time as a medical experiment.
* [[Forced Into Evil]]: The surfs. As soon as the coercion stops and the misunderstandings clear up, they're friends.
* [[Forced Into Evil]]: The surfs. As soon as the coercion stops and the misunderstandings clear up, they're friends.
* [[Form Fitting Wardrobe]]: The dive skins.
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]: The dive skins.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Zoe and her menagerie.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Zoe and her menagerie.
* [[Future Slang]]: "Glacial!" "Let's make wake."
* [[Future Slang]]: "Glacial!" "Let's make wake."
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* [[Jail Bait]]: Twenty-three-year-old Jibby keeps hitting on fifteen-year-old Gemma.
* [[Jail Bait]]: Twenty-three-year-old Jibby keeps hitting on fifteen-year-old Gemma.
* [[Justified Criminal]]: Both the Seablite gang and the Drift surfs.
* [[Justified Criminal]]: Both the Seablite gang and the Drift surfs.
** See also Type II [[Sliding Scale of Anti Villains|Anti-Villain]].
** See also Type II [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Anti-Villain]].
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: The Seablite gang eventually gets to the "stealing from the rich" part.
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: The Seablite gang eventually gets to the "stealing from the rich" part.
* [[Kid Hero]]: Ty and Gemma are both 15.
* [[Kid Hero]]: Ty and Gemma are both 15.
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* [[Parents in Distress]]
* [[Parents in Distress]]
* [[Pastimes Prove Personality]]: Angelic little Zoe...collects a menagerie of poisonous, sharp-toothed, or otherwise incredibly dangerous sea creatures.
* [[Pastimes Prove Personality]]: Angelic little Zoe...collects a menagerie of poisonous, sharp-toothed, or otherwise incredibly dangerous sea creatures.
* [[Physical Scars Psychological Scars]]: The Seablite gang. Their time as medical experiments in Seablite left them with plenty of both.
* [[Physical Scars, Psychological Scars]]: The Seablite gang. Their time as medical experiments in Seablite left them with plenty of both.
* [[Playing With Syringes]]: Seablite prison.
* [[Playing With Syringes]]: Seablite prison.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Gemma.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Gemma.
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* [[Underwater Ruins]]: The remains of the coastal cities of our time.
* [[Underwater Ruins]]: The remains of the coastal cities of our time.
* [[Vigilante Execution]]: What the settlers try to do to Shade.
* [[Vigilante Execution]]: What the settlers try to do to Shade.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes|Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?]]: Gemma: Heights. And the ocean, for a while. Ty: Doctors and anything medical.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?]]: Gemma: Heights. And the ocean, for a while. Ty: Doctors and anything medical.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Wild West Pioneers meets the ''[[X-Men]]'' [[Recycled in Space|UNDER THE OCEAN!]]
* [[X Meets Y]]: Wild West Pioneers meets the ''[[X-Men]]'' [[Recycled in Space|UNDER THE OCEAN!]]


Revision as of 22:38, 8 January 2014

Dark Life is a series of books written by author Kat Falls. She describes it as a combination of Wild West Pioneers, the ocean, and the X Men. There are currently two books, Dark Life (2010) and Rip Tide (2011).

It follows the adventures of Ty, an undersea pioneer, and his friend Gemma, a "Topsider" looking for her missing brother. Together, they explore the undersea wilderness, encounter a gang of outlaws, and find out some of the dark secrets of their world.

This work contains examples of:

  "Pretty doesn't say 'stow it'! He just throws a knife at your head and calls it a warning!"

  • Bioluminescence Is Cool: The settlers develop a bioluminescent shine from eating certain species of fish.
    • Also, a number of real bioluminescent creatures make cameos: Jellyfish, green lanternsharks, lanternfish, a siphonophore, algae plumes...
  • Bizarrchitecture: The settlers' houses are shaped like jellyfish or other invertebrate sea creatures, because those shapes deal with the water pressure better.
  • Bribe Backfire: Mayor Fife and Captain Reevis. He pretends he was "fanning himself" with the money.
  • But Your Wings Are Beautiful: Gemma about Ty's Gift.
  • By No I Mean Yes:

 Ty: Are you going to throw up?

Gemma: No! [[[Beat]]] ...maybe.

  "You mean the bunk the stinks so bad even you won't sleep in it?"

  1. ↑ His powers actually make him more suited to be the counselor of the group.
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