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Alexandra Quick (Fanfic)
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Alexandra Quick is the main character in a series of fan fictions written by Inverarity (currently on the sixth book out of seven) that is set in the Harry Potter universe, but is almost completely unrelated otherwise. Quick is a young witch who, much like Potter, was raised as a Muggle in the United States, and much like Harry, she is whisked away to Charmbridge Academy at age eleven to learn how to control her magical talents. Unlike Harry, she has a fascination with Dark Magic and is generally ostracized by her peers for it. Worse yet, someone appears to be trying to kill her...The series is notable for being Darker and Edgier while still managing to capture the same feeling as Harry Potter, as well as exploring magic beyond that the students are taught in schools. With one of the most realistic and coherent portrayals of Magical America, Alexandra Quick is a lot more than fanfiction, it's closer to the Star Wars novels set in earlier eras with less Lucas guidance.Titles in the series are Alexandra Quick and the Thorn Circle, the Lands Below, the Deathly Regiment, the Stars Above, the World Away, and the Wizard War. The series can also be found on Archive of Our Own.Has a Character Sheet under construction. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: When compared to Harry Potter. This is not a bad thing. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: A known enemy of the established government makes a terrorist attack upon a harmless target, killing people. In response, society goes mad, the transport system becomes hard to navigate, and harsh laws are put in place that supposedly protect the country and crack down on enemies, but are easily abused to keep people locked up without trial. Lands Below and Deathly Regiment weren't written that close to 9/11 (2008 and 2010, to be exact), but the similarities are there. | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain: Darla. | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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John Manuelito, see Not-So-Harmless Villain above. | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: The Grimm Sisters. Lilith was the smart one, Hecate was the pretty one (technically the charismatic one, since they're identical) and Diana was a third side best described as "The Bossy One". | |
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Sins of Our Fathers | |
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Sins of Our Fathers: All of Thorn's children get incredible amounts of shit for being related to him, even the ones who barely met him and have no loyalty to him. In World Away, Alexandra is repeatedly targeted by a girl whose father and uncle died on the Roanoke Underhill. Even when Alexandra points out that she didn't have anything to do with the Roanoke Underhill, the girl rebuts that killing Alexandra will hurt Abraham Thorn. | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: Many. Including Larry Albo, Benjamin and Mordecai Rash, Billy Boggleston and at one point even Anna. | |
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The Rival | |
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The Rival: Larry Albo. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: Alexandra herself, Abraham Thorn, Diana Grimm, Darla Dearborn, Maximillian. This series is notable not only for having many Byronic heroes but also because so many of them are female. | |
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Parents as People | |
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Parents as People: A major theme of the series. None of the parents in the story have been shown to be outright Abusive Parents yet, but they all have significant flaws. The only parental figure that is close to ideal is Thalia King. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: Lilith Grimm seems to have a major in this trope. She's a cold hearted lying bitch, but she does truly care about Alexandra. Alexandra as well, she's hostile, arrogant, rude and manipulative, but she's ultimately a good person. Maximilian also. Lilith and Maximillian are actually subversions. Word of God is that they are both actually neutral-aligned. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: Wizard War has a variant: Diana Grimm turns on the Confederation to protect Alexandra and Archie, because she's so horrified at the murder of children that she can't keep working for them. But as someone who always stood for law and justice, she refuses to join the Dark Convention (since they're Dark wizards) or the Thorn Circle (because she hates Abraham Thorn), so she has no idea what she's going to do. | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: Alexandra apparently really resembles her mother, Hecate Grimm. Too bad we can't see the resemblance, since Hecate is a cat, and when she's human, she has no memory whatsoever. | |
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City in a Bottle | |
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City in a Bottle: It's revealed in World Away that there's a group of Ozarkers who actively want to invoke this trope- the Ozarkers originally moved as far away from other wizards as they could, but gave up when they realised that there was nowhere they could go that didn't have the Confederacy or an equivalent, and so they settled for being a Hidden Elf Village. However, they still want to leave, and go to another world where they're the only people. | |
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That | |
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That: At the end of Deathly Regiment, after rescuing Innocence, Innocence tells Diana Grimm everything, including Alexandra being forced to use Crucio on her to snap her out of her trance. Grimm's response is to tell Innocence that she was obviously mistaken, since using that spell would result in Alexandra being expelled, even if it was out of necessity. Innocence agrees that she obviously remembered it wrong. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: The Generous Ones. They're incredibly generous, but they're not nice: They shower their guests with gifts because each gift accepted is a debt that the new owner now owes them. Most of these guests are in no position to repay. | |
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My Master, Right or Wrong | |
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My Master, Right or Wrong: Ms. Shirtliffe says she views Dean Grimm this way. | |
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Narrative Profanity Filter | |
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Narrative Profanity Filter: Both played straight and averted- 'shit' and 'fuck' have been used in the stories, but there have also been scenes where people mutter curses, or, in one memorable case, say them in Chinese. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Alexandra is slightly more pragmatic about this than Harry, her philosophy is best described as thou shalt not murder. Outside of combat she adheres strictly to this rule even to the point of sacrificing herself to save Darla, but in the heat of battle she's willing to use potentially deadly force she has killed at least one, possibly two people in this manner and isn't terribly remorseful about either. It's implied she may be willing to consider exceptions to this rule. She stated after the fact that she didn't know if she would have killed John Manuelito if she caught him, though while pursuing him her plan was to merely find him and summon help rather than engage him directly, she did use potentially lethal spells during her duel with him. Wizard War shows that while Alexandra is prepared to kill someone attacking her, she doesn't have it in her to kill a defenceless, unarmed man, even a really despicable one. | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power: Abraham Thorn and his daughter Alexandra have an almost supernatural ability to inspire others' loyalty. It's how Thorn's children still think well of him despite his deeds, and how Alexandra still has friends. It's also very easily abused. In the first book, Dean Grimm stops Alexandra's mischief-making by telling her flatly that she will not be punished for any further transgressions… it's her friends who'll be punished. Alexandra is horrified and promptly starts being good. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Artifact of Doom: There's quite a variety of evil or dark artifacts in this series. Obols are tokens enchanted with a ritual that requires a human sacrifice, they can be used to force an elf to open a portal to the Lands Below, or as payment to allow someone to return from the Lands Beyond. The Death Token is a special and possibly unique item given to Alexandra by the Grim Reaper himself. It was enchanted to kill whoever Alexandra gave it to and resurrect Maximillian in their place. We never found out whether it would have worked as advertised. Mistletoe Wands are wands without a proper core that can only be used for extremely dangerous curses. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Darla takes Innocence to the Lands Below to sacrifice her. Alexandra rushes off to rescue both of them. Unfortunately, by the time she gets there, Darla has opened a portal to the Lands Beyond, and once that happens, somebody has to die. It's Darla. | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist: Julia, whose optimism can be very depressing given who she is. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: According to the Ozarkers, "Troublesome" is a mythological figure who is brave and quick-witted, but who causes calamities even when she's trying not to. People used to name their daughters Troublesome, but at the time of the stories, it's considered to be bad luck. However, according to the Grannies, a group of old, powerful Ozark witches, the fact that everyone has stopped naming girls Troublesome is bad luck in itself. In Stars Above, Alexandra is Named Troublesome, which deflates some of the tension. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: This is Alexandra's entire schtick. It borders on stupidity at times, most notably when after learning that Darla has taken Innocence to the Lands Below, Alexandra rushes off to save them both without actually packing supplies or making a plan. To be fair, though, she had exactly zero time to waste. Alexandra's other big problem is that she often believes that whatever she does, no matter how bad, should be excused if it was done with good intentions, or if it was an accident that occurred during an attempt to do something good. During the first three books, she doesn't get expelled because her aunt, Dean Grimm, is protecting her, but in the end of the fourth book, Grimm tells her that her actions were too dangerous and she has no choice but to expel Alexandra. In Wizard War, Shirtliffe and her soldiers have Alexandra dead to rights, but Shirtliffe agrees to duel her one on one out of respect. Alexandra wins because she fights dirty. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Alexandra. Self-centered, obsessive, rude and manipulative? check. Brave, loyal and noble to the point of self-sacrifice? Oh good lord, check! | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Deathly Regiment reveals that the Confederation sacrifice a child of the Elite every seven years. World Away takes it further by revealing that actually, they've been sacrificing a child every day, but they mostly use Muggle children because wizards don't care about Muggles. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil | |
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Always Neutral Evil: Hags. | |
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Skin Walker | |
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Skinwalker | |
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Badass Teacher | |
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Badass Teacher: Dean Grimm and Ms. Shirtliffe. | |
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President Evil | |
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Likewise, the series as a whole still has no clear villain as of the end of Book 4. The most promising candidates are probably Governor General Hucksteen, who we have barely seen and has had minimal impact on the plot so far, Abraham Thorn, who generally has the same goals as the protagonist and goes out of his way to protect her, or some combination of the two. And there's still plenty of room for a dark horse candidate, like the Dark Convention, who haven't really been seen. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Pretty much the entire Confederation. Diana Grimm seems like this at first, she is arrogant, condescending, manipulative, pretends to be Alexandra's friend just to use her against her father and has a tendency to freak out whenever things don't go her way. However, The Stars Above show that she may genuinely care about stopping Thorn to avenge her sister. Or alternatively to use him as a scapegoat, since it's not currently revealed whether it was herself or Thorn who broke Hecate's mind. | |
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But Thou Must! | |
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But Thou Must!: Non-video game example: Constance and Forbearance are provisionally engaged to Benjamin and Mordecai Rash, the idea being that as they're at the same school, they'll get to know each other and get an education. Once they all graduate, Benjamin and Mordecai will ask Constance and Forbearance to marry them. Technically, Constance and Forbearance can say no, but they both know that they're expected to say yes, that there's a very large number of people all expecting them to say yes, and that all those people will be extremely unamused should they say no. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: The prologue of World Away shows that Abraham Thorn and Elias Hucksteen were formerly on good enough terms that their children played together regularly. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: In the Lands Below, Anna gets furious at Alexandra for continually going out, late at night, with Max, who is significantly older than her, and returning hours later exhausted and covered in bruises. Max is Alexandra's brother, and he's teaching her new spells. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Much like the stories they are based on, wizards in the AQ-universe tend to look down on Muggles, Muggle-borns, House-Elves and non-humans. They are, however, genuinely shocked, appalled and/or confused when David and Alexandra try to explain mundane racism and sexism to them. There's an extra level to the pureblood/Muggle-born/half-blood hatred: Only pureblood children are eligible to be sacrificed as part of the Deathly Regiment. The Elect, the oldest and most powerful pureblood families, feel that this sacrifice has given them the right to their privileges, and so they get angry at Muggle-borns and half-bloods demanding the same rights and respect as the purebloods, even though they've given up nothing. The amount of hatred toward Squibs is horrifying. The Confederacy made Claudia barren for being a Squib. And she wasn't the only one. The series also differs from canon in that Magical America has good-old-fashioned mundane racism as well. The Chinese and Japanese despise each other, and the Chinese are pretty chauvinistic towards most other races as well, while the Ozarkers and some of the other cultures seem to look down on "Furriners" and blacks in particular, and the Ozarkers themselves are considered hillbilly white trash by pretty much everyone else. Even in these cases, though, the discrimination is far more cultural than racial, based on backgrounds and grievances with collective groups more than simply skin color or race. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: In Wizard War, Alexandra is forced to work with Hela Punuk, who she mutually hates after the events of World Away. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Alexandra and Darla both start to lose it as Book 3 goes on. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: The Confederacy are a bunch of douchebags, especially with the whole sacrificing kids every seven years thing. But that being said, Abraham Thorn is still an incredible dick. When Alexandra finds out about the above, she points out to the Generous Ones that they didn't have to accept what the Confederacy offered. In return, they pointedly ask her why they should value the lives of the sacrificed children, since the Confederacy don't. Alexandra doesn't have an answer for that. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: Claudia is actually Alexandra's sister, not her mother- she's a Squib who was forced to live as a Muggle. Alex's real mother is Dean Grimm's sister Hecate, who has been forced to live as her cat, Galen, because of a Memory Charm that gave her permanent anterograde amnesia. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: The older Pritchard girls, Constance and Forbearance. The younger, Innocence, seems to be both this and Non-Indicative Name. Innocence's toad familiar, Misery. Misery gets kidnapped by Darla and tortured to fuck Innocence over repeatedly. Charmbridge Academy, probably named after the Invisible Bridge. Diana Alecto Grimm is named after the Roman goddess of archery and hunting, and a demon of vengeance from Greek mythology; this gives something of a clue as to her personality. Alexandra's middle name is Octavia. In Roman times, people would often get given a numerical name to denote their place in the family: Alexandra is the eighth child of Abraham Thorn. | |
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Noble Bigot | |
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Noble Bigot: A lot. Unlike Harry Potter, where most of the racist characters are vilains, this series includes many sympathetic characters with rather bigoted views including, but not limited to, Maximillian, Geming Chu, Larry (to a point), and Henry Tsotsie. | |
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Noble Demon | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_7360a6b6 | comment |
Noble Jerkass / Even Jerks Have Standards: Larry Albo is shown to be this by book four: While he continues to antagonise Alexandra, he shows a strong sense of honor when Alexandra is forced to forfeit a duel against him, he refuses to accept the stipulation that the loser (Alexandra) will have to be his slave for a year, knowing that Alexandra didn't lose fairly. And when he is attacked by a giant snake while talking to Alexandra (Which is her familiar but he doesn't know it), he apparates away but almost immediately apparates back, probably because he realized he left her alone with a giant snake. When he realizes she's in no danger, he claims he came back to watch her get eaten. | |
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Almighty Janitor | |
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Almighty Janitor: House Elves (and their extraplanar cousins) have a much larger role in this story and the dangerous power of their magic, especially relative to untrained students is emphasized several times. | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: Alexandra and 'Troublesome': as a nickname, as a descriptor, as the sign she was born under according to Ozark astrology, as her Name… | |
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ChildhoodFriend | |
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Childhood Friend: Brian to Alexandra. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Alexandra spends a lot of Wizard War reminding everyone who still lives in and works for the Confederation that they murder children every day, and by not fighting them, they're supporting and enabling the murder of children. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the climax of the Stars Above, Alexandra lets a nemesis spirit through the wards around Charmbridge, letting in John, who sends a murder of crows in and several malignant ghosts. Dozens of students are hurt and a couple come close to dying. Nice one, Alexandra. That's not the half of it. In World Away, Alexandra releases Typhon and Echidna, a.k.a. the parents of almost every single monster in Greek mythology, into the World Away. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Constance and Forbearance are 'bespoke'- essentially, they're not technically engaged yet, but their prospective grooms, Benjamin and Mordecai Rash, will ask them to marry them after they've graduated, and it's expected that they'll say yes. They can say no, but it would upset a lot of people, not just their families, because to the Ozarkers, twins marrying twins is one of a number of powerful combinations. | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: Trollbooths. | |
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Straight Gay | |
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Straight Gay: Max and his friend Martin. Stuart, too. And, as is finally revealed in the fifth book, Anna. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
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The Fair Folk: The Generous Ones. | |
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Brainy Brunette | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_8748f851 | comment |
Brainy Brunette: The Thorns and the Grimms. Black hair, intelligence, and magical talent run in both families. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: Present since the start, but it really comes to the forefront from the climax of Deathly Regiment onwards. It's invoked all over the place in Wizard War: Yes, the daily murder of children is an absolute atrocity... but nobody has clean hands, not the Thorn Circle, not the Dark Convention, and not even the other wizarding governments, most of whom live in countries where wizarding civilisation was built on sacrifices that occurred a long time ago. Nobody really gets to claim absolute moral superiority here. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_89434320 | comment |
Protagonist-Centered Morality: See Honor Before Reason, above, for an in-universe example. Another example is after Abraham Thorn shuts off the paths to the Lands Below and a train derails, killing dozens and rolling over Muggle houses: Alexandra is furious, pointing out that her friends could have been on that train, but Thorn tells her that he made sure that none of her friends were on the train, and that he actually warned the Confederacy, but they chose not to listen. Alexandra then pointedly asks him if he warned the Muggles, which he didn't. | |
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Time Master | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_908ad334 | comment |
Time Master: Abraham Thorn is a big fan of time stop spells, and he implies that the spells he uses are so difficult as to be more or less unique to him. | |
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Activist-Fundamentalist Antics | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_921932c7 | comment |
Activist-Fundamentalist Antics: ASPEW want to liberate the elves who work at Charmbridge, but they can't comprehend that the elves are terrified of freedom and don't want it. Pretty much none of them have ever even talked to an elf, and while they've discussed undoing the enchantments that make the elves love working, they've built up an idealistic idea that they're going to liberate the oppressed slaves. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Diana Grimm seems like this at first, she is arrogant, condescending, manipulative, pretends to be Alexandra's friend just to use her against her father and has a tendency to freak out whenever things don't go her way. However, The Stars Above show that she may genuinely care about stopping Thorn to avenge her sister. Or alternatively to use him as a scapegoat, since it's not currently revealed whether it was herself or Thorn who broke Hecate's mind. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: Who really Obliviated Hecate Grimm? Diana Grimm claims that it was Thorn, Thorn claims that Diana blames everything on him and that it was an Auror. Both sides have equal validity at this point. Did Abraham Thorn send Max and Alexandra into the Lands Below knowing that at least one of them would die? On the one hand, Thorn is insanely protective of his children, Max refused to take Alexandra along in the first place and Thorn flat-out denied it twice; on the other, Thorn knew about the Deathly Regiment and probably guessed that if he wanted the same thing as the Confederacy, he'd probably pay the same price, namely a life. | |
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Big Bad | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: One for every book except Book 2 and Book 5. For The Thorn Circle it turns out to be Ben Journey For The Deathly Regiment it's Darla Dearborn For The Stars Above it seems to be John Manuelito, and he actually assumes the role for the climax, but it's eventually revealed that he wasn't involved until Alexandra came to New Mexico to mess up his plans and the actual Greater-Scope Villain of book 4 is still unknown. | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_99dfd4fc | comment |
Nothing Is the Same Anymore: After the end of World Away: The entire world knows that the Confederation abduct and murder children every day to sustain themselves. The Thorn Circle and the Dark Convention have declared war on the Confederation, multiple Territories are trying to secede, and in the prologue of Wizard War, Hermione Granger tells Hucksteen that the rest of the world is going to enforce a ban on the Confederation that will prevent every citizen from leaving the country, as well as breaking off trade with them until the Confederation has a new leader and the Deathly Regiment ends. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: ...And The World Away pretty much establishes the Governor-General and the more corrupt members of the Confederation as this. Especially the end when its revealed that on-top of the Deathly Regiment with its Human Sacrifice of a pure-blood child every 7 years but the additionally they've been kidnapping Muggle children and sacrificing one everyday to maintain their control over the country since the foundation of the Confederation. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: By book four, Alexandra has become much more adept at thinking before she acts, making her a much more effective hero. John Manuelito, see Not-So-Harmless Villain above. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: When the Mors Mortis Club are seeing visions in a special brazier, Darla cries out 'My sister!'. What she saw becomes the foundation for most of Deathly Regiment. When Diana Grimm confronts Alexandra with the derailment of the Roanoke Underhill, a nearby Muggle mistakes Grimm for Alexandra's mother. And the Grimm triplets were identical. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: Wizard War reveals that like in Harry Potter, one of Alexandra's neighbours is a Squib who's been keeping an eye on her since she was a child. However, unlike in Harry Potter, the Squib in question, Mrs Wilborough, is doing so because she's a member of the Thorn Circle. | |
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Too Clever by Half | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_a3a4a800 | comment |
Too Clever by Half: Alexandra tends to do ridiculously stupid things in incredibly clever and Badass ways. This usually doesn't win her many points with adults since most of her exploits still end in tears, but after her rampage through the New Mexico desert in book four the Navajo Auror, and even both Grimm sisters seem so impressed that she gets off with minor punishments. | |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_a7ba94de | comment |
Inferiority Superiority Complex: Alexandra has an overinflated opinion of her abilities, but incredibly low self worth. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Zig-zagged. The adults do attempt to help, but many refuse to believe Alexandra when she warns them or tells them what's happening, and often she ends up taking action because she can't see any sign that the adults aren't being useless. | |
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Fatal Flaw | |
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Fatal Flaw: Alexandra's is Honor Before Reason, along with a pumped-up sense of her own morality- in essence, she often ignores potential consequences or side effects and goes for the main goal, but when people inevitably get hurt because of her, she often won't acknowledge that it was her fault and resorts to 'I never meant to do it' or 'It happened for a good cause'. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Anna's father runs for Congress, and is arrested under a new act which allows the government to keep him imprisoned for six months without a trial. He's arrested under suspicion of conspiring with the government's sworn enemy, but it's really suspected that he was arrested to keep him from becoming Congressman. However, the unjustness of his situation draws many followers to his cause, and other Asian wizards and witches throw their oar in with him. At the end of Deathly Regiment, he makes Congressman and is charged with nothing. | |
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Invoked in World Away: Alexandra is repeatedly targeted by a girl called Harriet whose father and uncle died on the Roanoke Underhill, and who wants to kill Alexandra as revenge. At one point, when the two have a one-on-one fight, Harriet claims that 'You did this to me', but Alexandra rebuts that Harriet chose her path of revenge, and nobody made her do anything. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: There's an in-universe one for just about everyone when Darla and Alexandra duel. Like almost everyone else, Alexandra just uses a Stunning Spell, but Darla casts Avada Kedavra at her. (To be fair, Darla didn't intend it to work, or expect it to, but casting a Killing Curse made everyone sit up.) | |
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I Warned You | |
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I Warned You: After the climax of Lands Below, Abraham Thorn tells the Confederacy that he's going to shut down their train lines by blocking off the Lands Below. They don't listen, and he does it. After a train crashes into solid rock and rolls over several houses, they start listening. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Alexandra is the biggest one. Both Grimm sisters and Ms. Shirtliffe are also snarky as hell. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_afc6df04 | comment |
What You Are in the Dark: After spending the entire school year trying to kill Alexandra, Ben Journey finally gets her alone, tied up and helpless, with a broken ankle and no wand… but he can't bring himself to kill a helpless child, and when he finally tries, he is killed in turn. Alexandra and Hela confront Franklin Percival Brown, an Accountant who abducted children to sacrifice to keep the wizard world going. Both of them despise him, and for Alexandra it's personal because he took Bonnie Seabury, but neither of them have it in them to kill an unarmed, defenceless man, even one as despicable as Brown. Madame Erdglass solves the problem- she won't kill him either, she just turns him into a pig and takes him away. | |
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Stupid Evil | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_affd30b0 | comment |
Stupid Evil: The Confederacy, with regard to the way they treat the Thorn children. The Thorns are constantly harassed, called evil and maligned for existing when few if any of them ever had anything to do with Abraham's crimes, and apparently nobody in the Confederacy ever thought that maybe if they treated them like people, they wouldn't be inclined to turn against the Confederacy and help Abraham. It's ramped up in World Away, when even after Alexandra's list of feats gets longer and longer, the Confederacy still insist on harassing, insulting and trying to sabotage her. | |
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The Ace | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Max. Larry, in terms of dueling. Across several books, he and Alexandra duel many times and despite rigorous training, he is the one person she's never quite been able to beat. In World Away, where both he and Alexandra compete in a national junior wizard's decathlon, Larry is the runaway winner and it's not even close. Or rather, he would have been had not the final event concluded with an attack by the Thorn Circle, requested by Alexandra as a distraction for means of her own. | |
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Five-Token Band | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_b7e74b77 | comment |
Five-Token Band: Justified and mildly deconstructed. Alexandra's core group of friends is formed from those in her class who, for whatever reason, do not fit in with the mainstream school culture. The deconstruction comes when the diverse cultural backgrounds of the group, and the intra-group conflicts they sometimes cause, are explored rather than ignored as is typical for this trope. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_b8e38fc5 | comment |
Metaphorically True: Everything that Abraham Thorn says to Alexandra when they meet in Lands Below. For example, he talks about Claudia, but never calls her Alexandra's mother. | |
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Mirror Character | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_ba5bbda5 | comment |
Mirror Character: Abraham Thorn and Anna's father, Geming Chu: like Thorn, Chu is a pureblooded Congressman, the head of a great family and an accomplished wizard who hates and despises the existence of the Deathly Regiment. However, Chu believes that he can work with the system and get the Regiment stopped legally, while Thorn doesn't think that can happen, which is why he founded a terrorist organisation and became an Enemy of the Confederation. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Alexandra's language has gotten progressively more foul as the series progresses but she has so far only dropped one F-bomb. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Abraham Thorn constantly shifts between Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain. Essentially, Thorn is a Deconstruction of an Anti-Hero. Showing the trope from the perspective of those victimised by his Shoot the Dog moments. | |
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When All You Have Is a Hammer… | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_bf698238 | comment |
When All You Have Is a Hammer…: In World Away, after Alexandra becomes able to open the World Away at will, doing so is her solution to quite a few of the problems that later crop up. | |
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True Companions | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: Alexandra and Anna. Both grew up as only children, and despite Alexandra later learning she has more sisters than she knows what to do with, to each other they are the sisters they chose... despite a truly colossal amount of arguing. If anything, it's strengthened by Anna's declaration of love in World Away. Most friends would be at least uncomfortable in the situation of a best friend expressing romantic interest, but Alexandra is heartbroken that she can't feel the same way. In her own words, Alexandra loves Anna more than any friend, as much as any family, as much as she loves or ever will love anyone... but it's not romantic love. She goes so far as to offer to take a Love Potion or take Anna back to her room, just to give her even a part of what she wants, rather than hurt her. Anna declines, as it wouldn't be real or permanent, so they are not a couple, but their friendship is stronger than ever. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Alexandra becomes one. | |
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Kappa | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_c34a3286 | comment |
Kappa: Encountering one is Alexandra's first real step into the wizarding world. | |
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Hope Spot | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: At the climax of Deathly Regiment, Darla, having learned that her sister is to be sacrificed, has taken Innocence to the Lands Below to sacrifice her instead. At first, Alexandra manages to freeze them both and cuts a deal with the Generous Ones: She owes them her life for having accidentally killed their old leader, but they will collect in seven years, as opposed to right then. It looks like Alexandra will be able to rescue all of them, but when she tries to get Darla out, Darla fights her off and tries to sacrifice Innocence. Alexandra rescues Innocence, and Darla sacrifices herself. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: When Alexandra first encounters Hagar, the raven enters her room by knocking on the window, and is described as having "A Lordly mien". From Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven: Another one to The Raven: The library elves are named Bran and Poe, Bran is welsh for 'Raven' while Poe is the author of the poem. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: After the events of Stars Above, Sonja claims that her Third Eye has opened and that she's now a seer. She constantly spews prophecies, but the majority are so vague that they could mean anything- and yet, sometimes they do seem to be legitimate... | |
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Cry for the Devil | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_cc2db2cb | comment |
Cry for the Devil: Darla. She just wanted to keep her little sister alive, and she ended up killing people and nearly killing a child to do it. | |
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Word of God | |
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Lilith and Maximillian are actually subversions. Word of God is that they are both actually neutral-aligned. | |
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Colonel Badass | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_cd23ee7d | comment |
Colonel Badass: Ms. Shirtliffe is a reserve colonel as well as defense teacher. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: Diana Grimm considers her sister, Hecate, to be dead. Hecate is technically alive… as a cat. And while she can be turned back to human, as a human she suffers from incredibly severe retrograde and anterograde amnesia, so she can neither remember anything nor can she make new memories. Max. Accepting his death takes Alexandra a long time, and it's the most important subplot in Deathly Regiment. Eventually she concedes that there really isn't a way to get him back. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: Benedict Journey and Darla Dearborn are both Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds and Abraham Thorn, if you consider him a villain, is a Well-Intentioned Extremist. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Madam Erdglass reveals herself to be one in Wizard War: She's a long-time enemy of the Confederation and ally of Abraham Thorn's who's been quietly fighting them for years. She also rescued Roger Darby when Franklin Percival Brown tried to have him sacrificed. | |
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WorldHalfEmpty | |
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World Half Empty | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Anna gives Alexandra an epic one in the Deathly Regiment, pointing out that Alexandra has been neglecting everything important in favour of a quest she knows can never succeed. Dean Grimm gives Alexandra one in the end of Stars Above, telling her that no excuse will cut it because the amount of collateral damage she caused was so big and so severe that the Dean has no choice but to expel her. | |
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Hypocrite | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: It's an open secret among the Elite families of the Confederation that they must sacrifice a child from among their number every seven years to the Deathly Regiment in order to maintain their power. It's how they justify their high place in society and keep other families and groups from reaching their heights when they don't have to make the same sacrifices. The conspiracy blows up when Alexandra, after raiding a secret Confederation archive, finds a register that shows that those seven year sacrifices are just the icing on the cake; the cake itself, the creamy filling, the apertif, and the whole three course meal before it comes from the daily sacrifice of children going back centuries, without regard to their background or family status. In fact, most of those chosen are kidnapped Muggles: Why pick one of your own and get noticed when there are millions of children outside your society who will never be missed by anyone you know and whose lives don't matter as much as yours? | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Troublesome, an Ozarker legend about a girl who's annoying, causes trouble for everyone and is extremely unlikeable, but who can also be very kind and is very brave. Constance and Forbearance start out calling Alexandra 'Troublesome' as a nickname, but eventually that becomes her capital-N Name, which they use to call down the Stars Above. | |
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Alone with the Psycho | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_dfe687c9 | comment |
Alone with the Psycho: Alexandra is captured by Manuelito at the climax of book 4. | |
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No Antagonist | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_e0aed924 | comment |
No Antagonist: Unlike the other three books, which each have a clear villain behind the events of the story (even if we still don't know who it is in the Stars Above), Alexandra Quick and the Lands Below does not have any single main villain and the plot is driven almost entirely by the actions of Alexandra and Max, unless you consider Abraham Thorn the villain. World Away also does not have a clear villain, though a couple turn up throughout the story. Likewise, the series as a whole still has no clear villain as of the end of Book 4. The most promising candidates are probably Governor General Hucksteen, who we have barely seen and has had minimal impact on the plot so far, Abraham Thorn, who generally has the same goals as the protagonist and goes out of his way to protect her, or some combination of the two. And there's still plenty of room for a dark horse candidate, like the Dark Convention, who haven't really been seen. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
| Alexandra Quick (Fanfic) / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: Alexandra and Thorn in particular, with their raven familiars. Diana Grimm is associated with Owls. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Alexandra calls out her aunt, Diana in Wizard War for all the bullshit that happened because of how hostile most of the adults in her life were. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Instead of the Every Flavour Jelly Beans, there's 99-Flavour Ice-Cream. It includes flavours like wet dog and washing powder. | |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child: The entire Confederacy. Deathly Regiment reveals that every seven years, the Confederacy give a young pureblood child to the Generous Ones, who send the child to the Lands Beyond. World Away makes it even worse- the Confederacy have been killing a child (normally a Muggle) every day to keep their power. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When Alexandra tries to confort Mary Dearborn over the death of her sister, she is chewed out for it by Ms Shirtliffe, one of the few teachers that Alexandra actually likes and respects. Similarly, when Anna gets in a fight with Tomo and Alexandra tries to break it up, she gets yelled at for involving herself in the fight. | |
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The Unmasqued World | |
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The Unmasqued World: At the end of World Away, a dragon flies through Times Square. A furious politician winds up screaming at Hucksteen that no, they cannot Obliviate the entire internet, and that millions of people have seen the footage. Wizard War shows that even months afterwards, random acts of magic are still breaking out in Muggle America. Alexandra gets a reporter's magical cameras to observe and broadcast a conversation with her father where she reveals that not only are the Confederacy sacrificing a pure-blood child every seven years, they're sacrificing a Muggle child every day. | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: Valeria for Alexandra. Until Alexandra steals Valeria's Time-Turner and gets Valeria in a world of trouble. Lucilla and Drusilla take up the role in Book 5. | |
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Asian and Nerdy | |
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Asian and Nerdy: Anna. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: In the Stars Above, Darla's little sister Mary comes after Alexandra because she was fed false information by someone claiming to be John so that she'd try to kill Alexandra. Alexandra talks her out of it, thankfully. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: This is Abraham Thorn's entire schtick. Needless to say, he does not like the way things are run in the Confederacy and he does not pull his punches. Alexandra has hints of this too. The difference is that she will never deliberately sacrifice someone else (even an enemy) to accomplish her goals. Her conscience and empathy are what prevent her from being this. | |
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MacGyvering | |
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MacGyvering: Alexandra refuses to acknowledge the word 'impossible', and will always come up with a plan. | |
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All Trolls Are Different | |
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All Trolls Are Different: These ones work in tollbooths. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Every child of Abraham Thorn has a Roman name (Maximilian, Claudia, Julia, Valeria, Livia, Lucilla, Drusilla), and Alexandra's middle name is Octavia. The Thorn family has traditionally used obscure Old Testament names, like Absalom, Joshua, Enoch, or Abraham. Abraham didn't have any sons carrying the Thorn name, so he started the above theme for his own children. The Grimm sisters- Lilith Tisiphone Grimm, Diana Alecto Grimm, and Hecate Megaera Grimm all have the name of a Fury for a middle name. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: Alexandra has no problem with using, manipulating, hurting or lying to her friends to get what she wants. She does feel horrible about it, and does her best to make amends, but she's very often a horrible friend. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: At the beginning of Lands Below, David and Alexandra hatch a plot to get Angelique to notice David, but they break it off when it seems as if Angelique doesn't care. But at the end of the book, there's a throwaway line from Angelique to Alexandra, saying "I really do like David, you know", while blushing. | |
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