Annie's Stories
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In an Alternate Universe, around the '80s, on "The Day", people shrank. The world was in outrage and fear, and decided to make the little people second-class citizens. Well, worse really, pets with no rights (except maybe being registered).
This is the story of one of them, Annie, at that time a high-schooler, who was found by a pre-teen boy who decided to "adopt" her as a pet. She was probably lucky it wasn't in his teens. It Gets Worse, but mostly Played For Laughs. Ray turns out to be a decent fellow (after his teenager phase, at least) and treats Annie at least decently, and they start to have a more equal relation (as much as they can have compared to their heights).
Tropes present in this work
- Bait And Switch: Most titles will give you the impression that something happens to the girls, when it's actually about something different and usually more benign. Even "New World Order" is an overreaction to what happens next. For example, one chapter is titled "No Annie At All" is not about, say, Annie getting lost/being kidnapped, but it's about Denise in High School.
- Because Destiny Says So.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: The sylphs can basically run around anywhere (provided they aren't caught or locked up), can hear things over a large distance, whether some insulation tries to stop that, their metabolism run much, much faster, but if they're fed by ordinary-sized humans, they're not going to have a feeding problem or a food supply problem. This is however Blessed With Suck, since being small means you can be crushed by big things or ordered by them around, needing lots of food means you're at the pity of your giant again, and hearing everything, all the time is not a good thing.
- Crapsaccharine World: Don't be fooled by the happy-happy relationship between Ray and Annie, Annie described the world pretty much in a nutshell from the first chapter. It is that bad.
- Dark And Troubled Past: Well, for Annie, it was mostly one night... but was it a bad night.
- For others it was much, much worse.
- Deliberate Value Dissonance: Annie's one of the few to get out of her way to point out how life used to be for the sylphs before The Day.
- Moderate Doormat: Ray as the story progresses and he's at the whim of more and more females a tenth his size.
- Door Stopper: 125 chapters.
- Fantastic Racism: And how.
- Fetish Fuel Future: Despite the sympathetic twists, this is the author's favorite topic for stories, on that site at least.
- Gaia's Vengeance: The leading theory on the sylphing.
- Genius Ditz: Pet. She's ditzy and may not be a grammar fan, and she may give the impression of being raised into a Rich Bitch, but she's all heart and all "street smarts". Denise is actually surprised when Pet saves her.
- Giant Foot Of Stomping: The sylphs are in constant danger of this in public places, though mostly accidental.
- The Missus And The Ex: Ray, Denise and Deliah. All is good until Denise gets shrunken and has a Heroic BSOD, and a few days contemplates that Ray would live her for Deliah, seeing that now she's only - legally - property and won't be treated as a wife anymore. Ray fixes this by reofficializing their marriage, and marrying Annie and Pet too, so they won't feel left out.
- Mood Whiplash.
- Noodle Incidents: A few, especially those involving Cold Blooded Torture.
- Tenchi Solution: Marry Them All.
- Unperson: So much so that sylphs are made to stay naked and are treated as household pets and/or wild animals.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Ray and Annie of course, with healthy doses of Deadpan Snarker, especially from her.
- Wangst: Some in-universe characters feel Annie is this, considering Ray a good guy who is used too much of a mild doormat for her. I repeat, this is not from the readers (to be fair, they know better and sympathize more with Annie), it is from other characters in-story.
- Wham Chapter: Though the chapter's title isn't too obvious, the "Timeline" is freaky and it goes downhill from there: "New World Order #1"
- Who Names Their Pet "Pet"?: A 5 year old, though it's deconstructed, since the mother and Denise's parents agreed.
