Fearless (novel)

Fearless is a young adult novel series by Francine Pascal. The story follows Gaia Moore, a teenager who was born with the inability to feel fear, as her terrorist uncle "Loki" messes up her life.

In 2003, the series was loosely adapted into a TV show starring Rachael Leigh Cook in which Gaia is an FBI agent. Only one episode was filmed; it never aired.

A short follow-up book series in which Gaia joins the FBI, Fearless FBI, was published in 2005.

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Provides examples of:

• Action Girl: Gaia
• Alpha Bitch: Heather. She eventually stops being this and even jumps to Gaia's defense when the FOH start mocking her in the final book.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: Oliver/Loki following his Convenient Coma.
• Back From the Dead: Sam, but the implication is that reports of his death were exaggerated and that he was actually held prisoner by Loki's Mooks.
• Blessed with Suck: Gaia is fond of pointing out that humans feel fear for a reason.
  • Also, her supreme fighting skills come with a serious drawback: She can't hold back when fighting, so even a simple brawl causes her to overexert herself, which results in her passing out once the fight is over.
• Brainwashed: We learn Tatiana was once a nice person, before getting Brainwashed... then it's never mentioned again.
• Cain and Abel: Loki and Tom
  • To the point where, when Gaia demands Tom's location from Loki, he sarcastically asks her "Am I my brother's keeper?"
• Cardboard Prison: Loki spends, like, one chapter in a supposed "maximum security" prison before escaping.
  • It helped that he had people working for him inside the prison.
• Cloning Blues: Josh
• Cuckoo Nest
• Cursed with Awesome: Loki's point of view on Gaia's fearlessness. His attempts to recreate it don't go so well though.
• Girl Posse: Whom Gaia dubs the "Friends of Heather", in reference to the Alpha Bitch. Said Alpha Bitch pulls a Heel Face Turn later on, while the rest of them continue to act like like little harpies.
• A God Am I: One villain actually calls himself "God". He's quite delusional, and is viewed with nothing but contempt by the other villains.,
  • Loki as well, after the Norse god of trickery.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Gaia
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: A major hindrance to all of Gaia's relationships.
• Love At First Sight
• Manipulative Bastard: Loki
• Out of the Inferno: Referenced metaphorically in "Blood": After Gaia is stopped from almost killing Skizz, Tom Moore watches her as she attends Mary's funeral. When she gives her tear-filled speech on her friend's behalf, Tom reflects that Gaia has "been through the fire and emerged tempered, not charred."
• Parental Abandonment: Gaia's uncle killed her mother and her father is off working for the CIA.
• Poor Communication Kills: If any of the characters ever actually explained anything to each other clearly and truthfully, 90% of the tragedy and Wangst wouldn't happen.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Loki with the Phobosan 2.0.
• Psycho Serum: Loki's various "Phobosan" drugs.
• Redemption Equals Death: Ella.
• The Mole: Anyone Gaia ever trusts. Ever. Including but by no means limited to Oliver, Ella, George, Josh, Natasha, Tatiana, and Yuri. And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
• Sequel Series: Fearless: FBI
• Spot the Imposter: Between Tom and Loki
• Suspiciously Apropos Music: The band Fearless.
• Truth in Television: The scientific journal Current Biology recently reported on the curious case of a woman who does not experience the emotion of fear.
  • Francine Pascal once said that she got the idea for the series from a similar article that she read.
• Villainous Breakdown: Ella early on, Loki near the end.
• Wicked Stepmother: Ella, in the first major story arc (well, technically wicked foster mother, but her foster father is a friend of her biological father's, and Ella is his new wife, so close enough).