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Tales of MU

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Tales of MU	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Tales of MU is an online erotic prose fiction series. Originally described by the author as an experiment in using LiveJournal to promote her stories, it has since taken on a life of its own. The first four plotlines have been collected into self-published print editions.The story revolves around the life of Mackenzie "Mack" Blaise, a self-hating half-demon student at Magisterius University, a college of enchantment in an alternate universe where Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy and magic exist in place of modern technology. While not quite a deconstruction, it makes frequent joking allusions to common tropes of fantasy gaming.At least for the first half or so of the first year's chapters, the story frequently veers off into sexual territory, arguably at the expense of the plot, but usually by offering a different take on a difficult or sensitive topic. For instance, the second book offered Mackenzie's attempt to describe in first-person narrative her first orgasm, without her realizing that's what she was having. As the story progresses, the sexual content becomes much less frequent, but when it shows up, it does so with gusto.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 338 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number. Though there has been no official word on the story being over, it has not been updated since February 2017.The story can be found here. Definitely Not Safe for Work! Also not related to the other MU college.
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Tales of MU / int_10add6ee	type	Kill the God
Tales of MU / int_10add6ee	comment	Kill the God: Coach Callahan was at one point charged with three counts of deicide, but only one was successful.
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Tales of MU / int_10cb9a31	type	Axes at School
Tales of MU / int_10cb9a31	comment	Axes at School: Justified; the grounds around the school are sometimes anything but safe.
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Tales of MU / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Tales of MU / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: It's hinted early on that Mackenzie's grandmother might have once been a famous demon-slaying paladin. Mackenzie, of course, has never heard of any of it and finds the whole thing ridiculous, even as the evidence continues to mount, until it's finally confirmed in Y1-422. Coach Jillian "Jilly" Callahan has retired from being a mercenary and a successful dragon-slayer to teaching in the combat-athletics department of MU, but has not in any way retired from being badass. This gets even more ridiculous when more of her past is revealed. She is also known as Gillian Gottmörder and she received an imperial pardon for three counts of attempted deicide (one of which succeeded, but they don't have a law to cover that), two counts of genocide, five counts of high treason against the Imperial Republic (which normally merits summary execution), and her various "petty" murders and property destructions. She also apparently stopped at least two attempts by the giants to retake the world. She has also killed seven greater dragons. Possibly eight. One loses track.
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Tales of MU / int_1171ed72	type	Sexy Shirt Switch
Tales of MU / int_1171ed72	comment	Sexy Shirt Switch: Invoked when, after spending the night with Ian, Mackenzie calls Law Agent Arthur Kent, expecting to get his "echo trap" (i.e., answering machine). When Kent answers and asks Mack whether she's aware that she's naked, her response is that she borrowed her girlfriend's shirt (said girlfriend being Amaranth).
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Tales of MU / int_1246c26c	type	Villainous Lineage
Tales of MU / int_1246c26c	comment	Villainous Lineage: Half-demons are mostly this played straight, though how demonic they are and which demons they resemble is a bit random depending on their Horror Hunger. That said, they tend to have significantly less control over that hunger than their full-blooded parents, see below. Hilariously, The Man himself, the only full-blooded demon to have appeared in the series as of yet, is the practical living example that half-demons do NOT behave like demons; he said so himself. He is anything but beastly. The second-year OT story "Methods, Motivations, and Meetings" reveals that in the distant past, Lord Khersis cursed female part-demonsnote although it's noted in-story that the wording and whether it was a literal curse or just strong words are matters of theological debate so that it is very difficult for them to successfully breed with other demonbloods. See Living Aphrodisiac below for the side effect.
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Tales of MU / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Tales of MU / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Multiple occurrences, played with frightening realism. Puddy's abuses of Mack and the things Two is manipulated into doing are the most pointed instances.
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Tales of MU / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Tales of MU / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: Quoth Mack:
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Tales of MU / int_14a5a8e2	type	Nerds Are Sexy
Tales of MU / int_14a5a8e2	comment	Nerds Are Sexy: Taken to an extreme: the "nerd" character is a gorgeous nymph, naked except for her nerd-glasses. Mack is an introverted geek strongly hinted to be better-looking than she considers herself to be (even Belinda calls her "cute", and she's got serious issues with Mack).
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Tales of MU / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Tales of MU / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Once a month, Mack turns into a murderous psychopath, and the only cure is bleeding. The difference being that it's somebody else's blood, not hers. It doesn't save her from having to do the real thing, either. Also, see Fantastic Racism below.
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Tales of MU / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Tales of MU / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate/What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Lampshaded in "Brimstone?".
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Tales of MU / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Tales of MU / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: The professor of Pre-Republic History sums it up very succinctly. Evidently they can um... make love for 15 hours straight. That's right, fifteen hours. This also has elements of a deconstruction, as the perfection of the elves takes a toll on their ability to enjoy life, and most end their lives by suicide. Shown the downside of with Steff the half-elf, who considers her own lifelike drawings to be crude doodles and her boyfriend's skillful harpsichord playing to be terrible. This is besides Steff's many crippling psychological problems, many of which have to do with her feeling inadequate compared to her elven relatives. In the spinoff More Tales of MU, the main character and his elven boyfriend Iason visit Treehome, the place where the elven "middlings" (essentially the elven equivalents of twentysomethings) live. Every single middling is a creep and/or violent pervert (like the elven woman who seduces Jamie, then tries to castrate him to spite Iason). There's also the fact that every single elf, upon learning that Jamie has put on a magical bracelet that lets Iason turn him into a stag any time he wants to, up to and including Jamie's own elven grandfather, have stopped treating Jamie like a separate being and instead seem to view him as a sort of extension of Iason. Truly, in the MUniverse, Our Elves are More Fucked Up. Also possibly deconstructed with the revelation that elves don't even need to breathe, and do so only rarely; this is played for as much sheer creepiness factor as possible.
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Tales of MU / int_171f4d57	type	Dungeon Punk
Tales of MU / int_171f4d57	comment	From a national perspective: The Imperial Republic of Magisteria is America mixed with the Roman Empire in a Dungeon Punk world. The island of Yokan is a version of Japan populated by Little Bit Beastly yokai. Members of a totally original race of little people who live in cozy holes in shires have a rural English-type culture. The forest-dwelling elves have Ancient Greek names and culture. The dwarves are basically German. Early discussions of the ideas outsiders have of subterranean elves mirror American ideas of the Muslim world. When we see the culture up close, though, there's no resemblance whatever. Pointedly, the "European" cultures don't seem to have colonized nearly as much of the world at any point.
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Tales of MU / int_1808775	type	Phenotype Stereotype
Tales of MU / int_1808775	comment	Phenotype Stereotype: MU-niverse elves as a general rule have long, ultra-fine and wispy hair that rarely varies far from platinum blonde, and as a result is hard to do anything with other than let it hang. Part of Glory's wanting to change her hairstyle is being tired of this.
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Tales of MU / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Tales of MU / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The story is told from Mack's first-person perspective, and she's often clearly less than honest with herself, let alone the reader. Subjectivity creeps in even when it's not obvious. Barley telling her version of her most evil moment takes a hard left turn at "unreliable" and heads straight on into Delusionalville. What makes this example even more interesting is that she told it to a character who is a mind-reader; therefore Barley clearly believes her version of the story. Any time Puddy opens her mouth. The Q&A session, in which the author invited readers to post questions for certain characters, who then answered them, takes this trope to extremes. Some characters are more unreliable than others, of course...
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Tales of MU / int_1a01fd1c	type	Kayfabe
Tales of MU / int_1a01fd1c	comment	Kayfabe: Apparently it's an open secret that all the "soap opera for men" drama in professional gladiator leagues is scripted.
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Tales of MU / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
Tales of MU / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: Orcs have not been seen so far, perhaps because they're not native to the continent on which the story takes place, but they form part of the cultural backdrop. "Going orcshit" is a common expression, and a history class revealed that orcs occupied the role of Hessian mercenaries in the equivalent of the American Revolution: mooks for hire with a vicious rep. The same class revealed their racial Berserk Button: attacking orc women and children. Callahan is also part orc.
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Tales of MU / int_1c45d4d7	type	Our Nudity Is Different
Tales of MU / int_1c45d4d7	comment	Our Nudity Is Different: A nymph's divine beauty is meant to be seen, and the act of wearing clothes in public, denying others the pleasure of seeing (and holding) such beauty, is indecent by nymph standards. Mack learns about this upon walking in on Amaranth trying on a bathrobe in her own room.
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Tales of MU / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Tales of MU / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Vice-Chancellor Embries has a gloriously-decorated office and snazzy attire, a silver tongue, and a tea set of which he is very fond. He is also an ancient dragon with a taste for human flesh.
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Tales of MU / int_1c712be8	type	Yaoi Fangirl
Tales of MU / int_1c712be8	comment	Yaoi Fangirl: Missy, one of the characters in More Tales of MU is very clearly one of these. What makes it funny is that previously, the gay sex itself spawned a conversation in the comments concerning the existence of such fangirls.
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Tales of MU / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Tales of MU / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: These show up every now and then. One was a comment from Hazel in Y2-82 about her wargaming strategy: In one story, we hear that law enforcement declared the victim of a certain murder to be a person of Non-Primary Concern.
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Tales of MU / int_1eb49c19	type	Stripperiffic
Tales of MU / int_1eb49c19	comment	Stripperiffic: Grace is introduced to Mack and the audience wearing only a set of elaborately-tied (and very sheer) scarves that leaves nothing to the imagination.
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Tales of MU / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Tales of MU / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: The Y2 side story "Splish, Splash" reveals that Mack Daddy has made deals with Callahan and one other of Mack's teachersnote not professors; Callahan made sure to word that precisely regarding Mack's instruction over the course of the second year. The reasons for this are as of yet unrevealed. Callahan's reward was for Mack Daddy to give truthful answers to three questions. He ducked out on the third one rather than answer.
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Tales of MU / int_1fe9e22	type	Childhood Friends
Tales of MU / int_1fe9e22	comment	Childhood Friends: The chapters after the Khersentide airship cruise (starting at Y2-298) introduce Rowan Hartley, who is revealed to have been one of Mack's closest friends from her early childhood. Problem is, she can't remember him at all, which leads to a BIG reveal about their pasts when Mack tries to figure this out.
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Tales of MU / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
Tales of MU / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Prevalent in elven culture, due to increased sexual potency. Among the more disciplined underground variety, it seems more common among the "halfkind" as they are not expected to show responsibility or constraint.
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Tales of MU / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Tales of MU / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: This shows up frequently: Mack and half-demons and demons in general are a bit of a zig-zag. They all have to eat something from a human on a regular basis to remain alive (or on the terrestrial plane for full demons), but whether it's a physical organ/fluid/tissue depends on the specific demon. Several races are known maneaters, including mermaids and ogres. The "gray" elf Mercy runs a shop catering specifically to races who feed on humans and other intelligent races. Dragons face no legal repercussions for feeding on humans. Chancellor Embries is strongly implied to have eaten several of his secretaries, and Y1-488 all but says outright that he did the same to Iona, although the story has set things up so that the latter may never be known for sure.
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Tales of MU / int_22ecc839	type	Kryptonite Factor
Tales of MU / int_22ecc839	comment	Kryptonite Factor: Both holy symbols/gestures for any demonblood.
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Tales of MU / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
Tales of MU / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: The OT story "The Centre Cannot Hold" is a letter written by one of the inhabitants of the island cluster of Malbus, who are tasked to monitor the "evil star" Malbus and repel the monstrosities that try to come through it. The letter is written with the knowledge that its author is most likely dead, and in the hopes that its reader will take up the task of the watch on Malbus or find people who can.
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Tales of MU / int_2313c3f0	type	Exclusive Clique Clubhouse
Tales of MU / int_2313c3f0	comment	Exclusive Clique Clubhouse: At the start of the story, most of the non-human students at Magisterius University are housed in Harlowe Dorm. While the official reasoning from MU's higher-ups is that this is done so these students don't feel pressured to conform to human ways, it's broadly hinted that there's an air of "keep the freaks contained in one place" behind the decision, and Harlowe residents are sometimes called "Harlots" by the rest of the student body. However, at the start of the main character's second year of studies, many of the Harlowe residents relocate to different dorms with no apparent trouble.
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Tales of MU / int_23d6eccb	type	Non-Mammal Mammaries
Tales of MU / int_23d6eccb	comment	Non-Mammal Mammaries: Parodied by the mermaids. They have breasts but are ignorant of lactation. Instead, they are used to get free beer and lure sailors to their doom.
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Tales of MU / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Tales of MU / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Iason, of all people, seems like this compared to other young elves. Ian has a pretty good streak throughout the Veil storyline, not just lampshading every toss of the Idiot Ball between Mack and Amaranth but accurately identifying the underlying behaviors that have caused repeated problems and suggesting ways to fix them. He is, of course, entirely ignored. In the early parts of the story, Celia is this to the rest of the Harlowe girls, and she's not nice about it.
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Tales of MU / int_2462a9ba	type	Multi-Armed and Dangerous
Tales of MU / int_2462a9ba	comment	Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Used in an odd fashion with Mariel. She has four arms, and is browbeaten by Puddy into spying on Mack.
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Tales of MU / int_259dd888	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Tales of MU / int_259dd888	comment	Set Swords to "Stun": Justified in Callahan's classes, as the roster would be drastically reduced after each class if they used their real weapons instead of the nonlethal "mocked" versions they use.
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Tales of MU / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Tales of MU / int_2a090d00	comment	Ian has a pretty good streak throughout the Veil storyline, not just lampshading every toss of the Idiot Ball between Mack and Amaranth but accurately identifying the underlying behaviors that have caused repeated problems and suggesting ways to fix them. He is, of course, entirely ignored.
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Tales of MU / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Tales of MU / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: Sooni assures the Harlowe residents that she isn't going to use Mack's demonic heritage against her in their floor's election for school Senate. Just a few seconds earlier, she had implied that Mack wanted to eat their relatives.
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Tales of MU / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Tales of MU / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: According to Glory, Callahan is this to elves. Callahan confirms this in a later story.
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Tales of MU / int_2ce616ef	type	Heinz Hybrid
Tales of MU / int_2ce616ef	comment	Heinz Hybrid: Coach Callahan is a Dwelgrorc (quarter each dwarf, elf, ogre, and orc). The dwarf and elf quarters are from different parents, of course.
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Tales of MU / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
Tales of MU / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Callahan, an amoral murderer who was pardoned for her crimes because the Empire needed her skills that badly.
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Tales of MU / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
Tales of MU / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: Hissy speaks just about every language that's been mentioned in the story and can apparently pick up new ones very easily, as they're all simpler than her native Lizardfolk language.
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Tales of MU / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Tales of MU / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: The immortal elves don't like to talk about dying. The pale-skinned surface elves "take leave" when ennui sets in. Their dark-skinned cousins "greet the goddess".
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Tales of MU / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Pala looks like this, but because of her awkwardness comes off as a Huge Schoolgirl as well. She is, however, a storm giant, if a small one.
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Tales of MU / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Tales of MU / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Glory is one for Mack and Nicki. This also becomes a Stealth Pun, as the exploration of this particular hookup happens on an airship.
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Tales of MU / int_32e9f9b4	type	Anything That Moves
Tales of MU / int_32e9f9b4	comment	Anything That Moves: Or nearly so, for the nymphs; justified by the fact that they live on sexual energy, which in turn fertilizes their fields.
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Tales of MU / int_33a82edb	type	HammerSpace
Tales of MU / int_33a82edb	comment	Hammerspace: Amaranth. Especially overt in her case, as unlike most Hammerspace users, Amaranth doesn't even have clothing as a supposed hiding place for items she puts "away". Also, lampshaded early in the series when Mack keeps trying to catch her bringing something Out or putting it Away. Nymphs are the incarnations of small bits of agricultural land, so they essentially are walking 'empty places to put/grow stuff' and it's just inherent to their nature to have a place to put things. Other characters use spells or enchanted containers to accomplish the same effect in a way that Mack considers more 'normal'.
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Tales of MU / int_351205d2	type	Friends with Benefits
Tales of MU / int_351205d2	comment	Friends with Benefits: While on the airship cruise with Glory and her court, Mack's friendship with Nicki upgrades to this.
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Tales of MU / int_35dff943	type	Property of Love
Tales of MU / int_35dff943	comment	Property of Love: Ogres have a strict chain of people-ownership, romantic and otherwise, which leads to Victor treating Mackenzie like a simple object because she's too far down the chain of sexual dominance.
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Tales of MU / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Tales of MU / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: Many, many examples.
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Tales of MU / int_382c7a57	type	Now You Tell Me
Tales of MU / int_382c7a57	comment	Now You Tell Me: After getting ambushed by Belinda, Mack goes to soothe her aches in the dorm's tubs. She encounters Feejee, who warns her that Belinda is looking to pick a fight with Mack.
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Tales of MU / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
Tales of MU / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: Martha Blaise's mindset is far more appropriate for someone from a time much before hers, in Glory's opinion.
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Tales of MU / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Tales of MU / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: This happens gradually with several characters, with Mack being the most prominent. A large chunk of Y2-130 is a conversation between Mack and Chessa, an RA from another dorm, in which Mack discusses both her development and the potential for Chessa to do the same. Several chapters feature Mack noting this in-story about other characters. In the second-year OT story "The Healing Process", Barley, of all people, shows a remarkable improvement in maturity and self-awareness. Belinda's confrontation with Mack actually led her to some revelations about her life and how people interact with each other, and to take more classes.
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Tales of MU / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Tales of MU / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The pitchfork, which induces rage in its bearer. It's infernal in origin, and Mack is addicted to it although it's far enough away that this isn't a pressing concern.
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Tales of MU / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Tales of MU / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What"
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Tales of MU / int_3cb17a19	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
Tales of MU / int_3cb17a19	comment	Superpowered Evil Side: The side of Mackenzie that some fans have taken to calling Kenzie is a form of this. Kenzie is triggered by hunger instead of desperation in battle, and is essentially just Mack but with no moral/ethical binders and no compunctions about use of her demonic abilities.
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Tales of MU / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
Tales of MU / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: Callahan has apparently willed herself into and out of hell at least once after dying, if the conversation between herself and Mack Daddy can be taken at face value...and it most likely can.
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Tales of MU / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Tales of MU / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: A few times characters stop to Author Filibuster about how important it is to follow certain rules, methodology, and so on in a dom/sub relationship. These same characters, and others, then go on to bend or break nearly all those rules, with no apparent backlash from the story or other characters. The author did point out in the FAQ that the excessive-harm aspect of this is countered by various characters being invulnerable, possessed of regeneration powers, or just having easy access to magical healing.
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Tales of MU / int_4159744	type	The Magic Poker Equation
Tales of MU / int_4159744	comment	The Magic Poker Equation: Sooni tries to invoke this law by telling Mack to draw first. It kind of works; Mack draws a king and Sooni draws an ace, but with a shout of "Nobody did ever say aces were high" from the audience, all hell breaks loose.
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Tales of MU / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
Tales of MU / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: While some magic "just works", such as divine healing, much of the mechanics of magic are explained, in excruciating detail. For example: enchantment works somewhat differently for each caster, but the methods of figuring out those variations is highly formalized. Though if you poke too hard at how the universe works, it will poke back.
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Tales of MU / int_460ffa29	type	Transparent Closet
Tales of MU / int_460ffa29	comment	Transparent Closet: Mack, at first.
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Tales of MU / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Tales of MU / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: Dee gives the others a glowing picture of her subterranean elven culture as a "structured meritocracy" where everyone has a place and all contribute to the common good. Side stories that show what's happening while she's on the surface indicate that she has a very one-sided view of her culture.
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Tales of MU / int_47fa30cf	type	Emotion Eater
Tales of MU / int_47fa30cf	comment	Emotion Eater: Samuel, a part-demon student introduced in a side story that takes place some time before the main story, feeds on children's laughter. The moss that Mack collects in the forest with Amaranth combines this with Empathic Environment. It's revealed to be passion’s flame moss, which apparently feeds off sexual energy. It grows best in "trysting spots", and its glow and heat increase when exposed to lovemaking.
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Tales of MU / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Tales of MU / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Mackenzie and Two both in the early chapters, mainly due to Mack's various personal issues and Two's lack of ability to function outside her "programming." Both have since moved beyond this.
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Tales of MU / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Tales of MU / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Averted for many traditional "monster races", especially the subterranean elves (don't call them "Dark Elves", and "Drow" is a serious racial slur, up there with "spider jockey" and "cowl head") who simply have a bad reputation due to cultural misunderstandings. Played more straight with demons, ogres, and mermaids.
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Tales of MU / int_491071bf	type	Fantasy Counterpart Appliance
Tales of MU / int_491071bf	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Appliance: Magical TVs and refrigerators are mentioned by name, crystal balls are used as computers (complete with "aethernet") and mirrors are like phones (including pocket-sized "smart" mirrors).
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Tales of MU / int_49fd7ad5	type	Troll Bridge
Tales of MU / int_49fd7ad5	comment	Troll Bridge: Played entirely straight; it's in The Campus Labyrinth. The troll doesn't let anyone pass unless they can exact change.
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Tales of MU / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Tales of MU / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Played straighter in a non-canon filler story by a guest author, with anthropology students treated as patronizing jackasses who need killin' because they're just so darn annoying that even all-loving pacifists will countenance their murder.
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Tales of MU / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Tales of MU / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: Healing magic, Mack's invulnerability - and how.
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Tales of MU / int_4de0f392	type	Your Normal Is Our Taboo
Tales of MU / int_4de0f392	comment	Your Normal Is Our Taboo: Played for Blue-and-Orange Morality, most notably with nymphs, who have been granted their humanoid bodies as a gift to those who created them from the great Mother Khaele. What this means is that they must expose themselves at all times, and wearing clothing is their taboo. They also are given these bodies (as opposed to their "other body," that is, the field that is also a physical part of them) to engage in frequent sexual activity with others, which causes both their field and humanoid form to become healthier and sustained. Elven cultural hangups about heterosexual intercourse mean that implying that an elf enjoys it is a dire insult. Played with regarding Dee's (dark) elf culture as well, where the heavily-matriarchal society in which she was raised gives Dee some less-than-humanizing views of men, resulting in some Deliberate Values Dissonance when she talks with surface-dwellers about their "fathers," a concept with significantly diminished importance in her society.
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Tales of MU / int_4f28244e	type	Is This What Anger Feels Like?
Tales of MU / int_4f28244e	comment	Is This What Anger Feels Like?: Two is like this when under the influence of the cursed pitchfork, which induces rage in its bearer.
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Tales of MU / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Tales of MU / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Vice-Chancellor Embries, nearly literally.
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Tales of MU / int_4fdf21ad	type	Magical Girlfriend
Tales of MU / int_4fdf21ad	comment	Magical Girlfriend: Sort of sadly subverted with the bonus story "A Boy's Prayer", which implies that Amaranth manifested the way she is (as a buxom, nerdy, glasses-wearing Love Freak) because one lonely, geeky twelve-year-old boy, uh, fertilized her field with fantasies and desires of such a woman. The subversion (and sadness) is that after she manifested exactly according to his desires, he never even got to meet her.
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Tales of MU / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Tales of MU / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: MUniverse demons need to feed from humans to survive, and they have a craving for human flesh well beyond said need... and most of the rest is hearsay. They have a strong association with fire, and have been shown to possess humans and tempt them.
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Tales of MU / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
Tales of MU / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: While magic works and is commonplace, belief in the power of scientific thinking is generally regarded as either dangerously deluded or childish fantasy. This especially comes into ply when deaing with the Mechans, who are treated as the counterpart to Wiccans in our universe. While it's a bit muddled by the fact that the author, like most authors, lives in a universe with empirically-determinable physical laws, the setting actually does a pretty good job of setting the "physics" up such that the magical view is actually the correct one. Mack's arguments against the Mechans, especially, are 100% valid in terms of what science actually is (in terms of being a method of working out how the world works, not just the set of laws that the system uncovers in ours). The "science" that the Mechans follow relies heavily on ignoring large swaths of empirical data in favor of cherry-picking only a few examples that fit their existing theory, and is in every real sense the opposite of science. To one-up even that, devices reliant on real-world physics and mechanics do work... but only when they've specifically been isolated from magic, such as in an extremely restrictive and uncommon set of physical circumstances. The Mechan faith is the equivalent of someone in the real world creating a physics model without gravity, arguing strenuously against the idea of gravity and ignoring any evidence that it existed, and then pointing to how things behave in free-fall in orbiting space stations as if they "validated" the world view. The comparison to real-life Wiccan magic is, if anything, overly generous; Wicca can at least attribute matters of happenstance to its rituals, but the Mechans are empirically outright wrong.
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Tales of MU / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
Tales of MU / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Generally speaking: MUniverse dwarves mostly follow the standard model, with a few additions. Their names have a Germanic flavor, they count in base seven, and while they seem like a One-Gender Race, it's been explained that male and female dwarves just don't get along. The one full-blooded female dwarf who appeared was not described with a beard. Dwarves have a strong disposition for secrecy and privacy, though the college-going ones are willing to make exceptions for attractive women of other races. One recurring minor character, Gebhard, shows a somewhat fussy and fastidious nature. More specifically: One-sixty-fourth dwarf Puddy has a special license to booze it up on the normally dry campus of MU.
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Tales of MU / int_52e23ce	type	Inn Between the Worlds
Tales of MU / int_52e23ce	comment	Inn Between the Worlds: The Inn of the Black Door, which serves as a meeting place for characters from several of Alexandra Erin's stories and which Pala likes to frequent.
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Tales of MU / int_537b4ea	type	Snake People
Tales of MU / int_537b4ea	comment	The half-naga Celia never misses a chance to snark about the more mammalian members of the cast.
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Tales of MU / int_53c7c51b	type	And Call Him "George"
Tales of MU / int_53c7c51b	comment	And Call Him "George": Used with Sooni and her "Baby Kai-Kai." Usually funny in a Crosses the Line Twice way, until she crossed the line a third time and refused to get Kai treatment for a cracked skull until it was almost too late.
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Tales of MU / int_545cece9	type	Make Up or Break Up
Tales of MU / int_545cece9	comment	Make Up or Break Up: One of the minor plot points since the time that Ian and Mack got together is the two of them trying to work around the unique hurdles of their relationship, since they're in a poly relationship that includes Steff and Amaranth. Over time, this takes an increasing toll on Ian, and it comes to a head after Mack and Glory sleep together, a situation neither he nor Steff were pleased at all about possibly happening. In Y2-235, while they don't completely break up, Ian does give Mack the "I need some space so I can figure things out" decision.
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Tales of MU / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
Tales of MU / int_54f999c	comment	Alternate Character Interpretation: Invoked by the author.
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Tales of MU / int_551d5d7b	type	Fashion-Based Relationship Cue
Tales of MU / int_551d5d7b	comment	Fashion-Based Relationship Cue: Middling elven females wear a veil over the lower half of their face to indicate that boys are off-limits. They can also gift this veil (as well as other things, such as underwear) to someone to indicate their interest in them, which is how Grace and Nicki's relationship begins.
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Tales of MU / int_5586a766	type	Luminescent Blush
Tales of MU / int_5586a766	comment	Luminescent Blush: Mack gets the text equivalent from a suggestive comment from Steff in Y2-2.
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Tales of MU / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Tales of MU / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: A recurring theme: Harlowe Dorm is where most of the non-human students are housed and is generally looked down upon by the rest of the campus. Several races have analogues to real ethnic groups, like the Dark Elves to Middle Easterners, complete with corresponding ethnic slurs; see Fantastic Slurs below. The half-naga Celia never misses a chance to snark about the more mammalian members of the cast.
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Tales of MU / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Tales of MU / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: From a national perspective: The Imperial Republic of Magisteria is America mixed with the Roman Empire in a Dungeon Punk world. The island of Yokan is a version of Japan populated by Little Bit Beastly yokai. Members of a totally original race of little people who live in cozy holes in shires have a rural English-type culture. The forest-dwelling elves have Ancient Greek names and culture. The dwarves are basically German. Early discussions of the ideas outsiders have of subterranean elves mirror American ideas of the Muslim world. When we see the culture up close, though, there's no resemblance whatever. Pointedly, the "European" cultures don't seem to have colonized nearly as much of the world at any point. Dragons fill the cultural role of ancient Rome, both literally in that the various 'draconic' tongues are expressed as Latin varying from classical to pidgin depending how 'high' it is, and more figuratively in that their time of dominion was a time of great magical advancement but with low cultural value on 'lesser' life, the details of which have mostly been lost in an intervening 'dark age' save for the dominant religions being rooted in dragon cults.
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Tales of MU / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Tales of MU / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The Emily Center is gradually revealed to be alive, and frightened of Mack for some reason. They eventually come to an understanding, and Mack is permitted entry again.
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Tales of MU / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
Tales of MU / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: The Owl-Turtle Thing to Mack in the second year.
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Tales of MU / int_5a4ae281	type	Hellish Pupils
Tales of MU / int_5a4ae281	comment	Hellish Pupils: In More Tales of MU, a dragon is described as having "jagged diagonal pupils".
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Tales of MU / int_5abd41e	type	Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention
Tales of MU / int_5abd41e	comment	Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention: Lord Khersis and Mother Khaele are strongly type 4.note God Walks Among Us Khersians also believe in the Great Star Drake, a type 2note The Watchmaker. The Elven Gods are either type 3note God Works In Mysterious Ways or 1Anote The Gods Have Left the Building, depending on who you talk to.
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Tales of MU / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: It's a D&D-influenced fantasy world, immortal beings abound.
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Tales of MU / int_5de6f598	type	Our Better Is Different
Tales of MU / int_5de6f598	comment	Our Better Is Different: The dark elves use "lower" as a synonym for "better" where humans would use "higher", which can lead to some very convoluted metaphors.
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Tales of MU / int_5e283fb4	type	Tattoo Sharpie
Tales of MU / int_5e283fb4	comment	Tattoo Sharpie: Amaranth writes "Nymph's Toy" on Mack's forehead with a literal magic marker, which only comes off if she uses the attached eraser.
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Tales of MU / int_5f168ae3	type	I Kiss Your Foot
Tales of MU / int_5f168ae3	comment	I Kiss Your Foot: Crops up occasionally between Mackenzie and Amaranth or Mackenzie and Sooni. Mack most certainly does not want to worship at their feet. Nope. Not at all.
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Tales of MU / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Tales of MU / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: The hobbit-like burrow gnomes have multiple meals throughout the day. One side effect of Mack's demonic half is that, while she does have her limits, she can eat much more than a normal person could handle without adverse effects.
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Tales of MU / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Tales of MU / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: This is implied to be a natural ability of gnomes.
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Tales of MU / int_63c6a75c	type	Evil Lawyer Joke
Tales of MU / int_63c6a75c	comment	Evil Lawyer Joke: When Mack has to visit her lawyer in his office and discovers the elevator is warded against infernal entry, this comes into play in the form of a joke regarding how long a law firm could last if infernal beings weren't permitted to enter its offices.
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Tales of MU / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
Tales of MU / int_649f5bec	comment	Creepy Souvenir: While Mack is with Glory and her court on the airship cruise, Oberrad House is attacked by a group of middlings from Treehome, but they are thwarted by a mysterious something or someone, with several injured, including one who lost a finger. At the end of Y2-294, the mystery defender is revealed to be Kai, who shows up to give Mack the finger (fulfilling the chapter subtitle) and drop the hint that she'd like to join them in a few years, once she's out from under Sooni's thumb.
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Tales of MU / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Tales of MU / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Pretty much every major character is turned on by one aspect or another of BDSM.
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Tales of MU / int_67b9dd47	type	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear
Tales of MU / int_67b9dd47	comment	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: An in-story version in Y2-336. As Mack is communicating with the entity in Hazel's necklace, her responses work as a sort of Cliffs Notes version of the conversation for Hazel and Amaranth.
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Tales of MU / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
Tales of MU / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: Due to wound-simulating weapons and cheap healing magic to cover actual injuries, straight-out combat takes the place of tamer sports. "Skirmish" is the team sport in the Imperial Republic. One-on-one gladiatorial bouts are a runner-up in popularity.
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Tales of MU / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Tales of MU / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Celia's snarky comments are often tactless, intolerant and insensitive... but that doesn't mean they're not accurate. She is, for example, the first one to explicitly point out Puddy's abusive tendencies. Sooni's constant insistence that Mack is pushily trying to seduce her is annoying, manipulative, jerkish, and pretty much correct.
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Tales of MU / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Tales of MU / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Y2-298 sets two big reveals in motion, one that's been brewing for quite some time (namely, that Mack's weird way of avoiding talking about her mother's death is the result of memory tampering) and one that is tied to how Mack is introduced to Rowan (namely, that prior to her demonic side emerging, she had a bit of telepathic ability).
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Tales of MU / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Tales of MU / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley:invoked Elves can induce this in others, especially with the whole "not needing to breathe" thing. When Mack and Glory have their first night together, Mack notes how Glory moves through a bed that's nothing but stacked pillows like she's walking through water, and describes the way elves walk as "so unnaturally fluid, so unearthly graceful." Mack's descriptions in Y1-488 indicate that Chancellor Embries can cause this, on account of his being a dragon shapeshifted to human form.
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Tales of MU / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Tales of MU / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Explicitly averted. The laws of magic don't like it when mortals start poking around; see Magic Versus Science and Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum below.
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Tales of MU / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Tales of MU / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: A mermaid named Feejee.Reference: The island of Fiji A swan princess named Leda.Reference: Leda and the Swan A transgender half-elf named Steff Johnson. The chapter titles and subtitles often go this route when they're not full-on Double Entendres.
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Tales of MU / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Tales of MU / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: Several: "Pinkskins" for humans. "Treefuckers" for elves. Unconventionally, "drow" is a slur for dark elves, along with "cowl head" and "spider jockey". "Halfling" is a subtly racist nickname for gnomes. The inhabitants of the non-human dorm, Harlowe Hall, are collectively referred to as "harlots".
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Tales of MU / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Tales of MU / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Mack brings Nicki to one in Y2-264. Amaranth brings Glory to one in Y2-314, which leads to a talk between them and Steff about elven cultural hangups about sex, and to Mack wondering about how her grandmother would've reacted to everything she'd been exposed to sex-wise.
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Tales of MU / int_6fb07cc4	type	Science Is Wrong
Tales of MU / int_6fb07cc4	comment	Science Is Wrong: The conflict of science vs. fantasy in the MUniverse is first shown when Amaranth brings Mack to a Mechan gathering in the first year, and is exhaustively discussed/argued between Mack and someone from a science-based plane in the second-year OT story "Magisterius University and the Methods of Obstinancy".
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Tales of MU / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
Tales of MU / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: Iona and Feejee's first taste of Mackenzie.
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Tales of MU / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Tales of MU / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Two pointed instances of people trying to fight Mack in the first year: In Y1-113, Belinda sucker-punches Mack and tries to fight her, but a combination of Mack demonstrating her strength and applying some verbal judo causes Belinda to back down and leave. In Y1-121 and 122, Rocky and Hissy confront Mack over the way Belinda's been acting since their fight, but at this point Mack is blood-hungry and rather demonic, and it goes very badly. Hissy is nearly driven insane when she tries to read Mack's mind, and Rocky gets a finger bitten off.
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Tales of MU / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Tales of MU / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Played with by Vice-Chancellor Embries. He's a "noble" dragon, employed by MU as their ace in the hole against the campus being razed to the ground again. He does, however, have an unfortunate habit of eating his secretaries.
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Tales of MU / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Tales of MU / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: While several characters have faded out of the spotlight, the Leighton twins are specifically noted to not be around anymore, having apparently left MU at the start of the second year even though they signed up for classes. Steff mentions that they had complained that being at MU felt "[...] like their senior year of high school all over again."
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Tales of MU / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Tales of MU / int_762b9223	comment	Also Played for Laughs: Amaranth's constant attempts to justify her various fetishes in terms of her theological role as this is the character's primary source of humor. Among other things, she's in a long-running argument with her god-mother over where the line of intelligence is between normal fantasy-world interspecies relations and actual bestiality. Specifically, she really wants horses to be reclassified as 'smart enough'.
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Tales of MU / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
Tales of MU / int_77473d35	comment	What we've seen of the worship of Khersis is very much like Christianity, except in a world where gods are known to speak to mortals, demons are real, and exorcism works. Considering the one passage from the Khersian holy book that's been referenced parallels the gospels directly, and one creation myth says he was born of a great dragon from a crystal egg, he may be a literal "Crystal Dragon Jesus". We don't know if he has any dark secrets yet, but some of his followers are assholes.
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Tales of MU / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
Tales of MU / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: After one chapter reintroduced fan un-favorite Jamie in the second year and he started acting like he might want to hang out with Mackenzie (or maybe do more than just hang out with her), the readers' reaction in the comments was predictable. In the chapters immediately afterwards, a bunch of characters had a big conversation about how Jamie really isn't all that bad, honest.
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Tales of MU / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
Tales of MU / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: Mack even protests that the nymph she's having sex with isn't her girlfriend, she's her owner. Apparently that's better...somehow. This does set the stage for someone else to become her acknowledged girlfriend once she's less terrified of the term.
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Tales of MU / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Tales of MU / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Female human students are customarily addressed as "Ms. (Last Name)", while other races are referred to as "Miss (Given Name)", as modern-style surnames are mostly used by humans. Half-human Mackenzie eventually insists on being addressed as "Ms. Mackenzie".
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Tales of MU / int_7ac0b680	type	Fantastic Fantasy Is Mundane
Tales of MU / int_7ac0b680	comment	Fantastic Fantasy Is Mundane: In Mack's world, speculative fiction is categorized into "Magic-Fiction" and "Fantasy". As a kid, Mack used to watch a TV show in the fantasy genre about bikers with chainsaws.
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Tales of MU / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Tales of MU / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Pretty much a way of life for elven middlings in Treehome (and, it's implied, for middlings in general), as Steff lays out in Y2-151. It's really not a nice way to live for anyone there, which is why Glory's so keen to remove her court from there and establish their own space.
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Tales of MU / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
Tales of MU / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: The story is Mackenzie's college life in first-person.
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Tales of MU / int_7e38c1a7	type	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue"
Tales of MU / int_7e38c1a7	comment	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": One bonus story is a piece of fanfiction written ages ago by Mack. She manages to insert herself into it... after switching the gender, so there can be a romance with a canon character. It manages to show up a few of her issues... Meanwhile, just down the corridor from her, Sooni is busy churning out a far more extreme fanfic on her favourite anime, Pretty Neko Science Princess, with herself in the title role.
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Tales of MU / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
Tales of MU / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: Mermaids can change at will between three forms: standard lady-half/fishie-half mermaid, an intermediate form with a distinctly humanoid lower half covered in scales, and fully human-like. They can also assume a sort of fighting form by growing scale-armor all over their bodies and claws on their hands. It's implied they can also change their faces to a... less appealing form. They're also fond of eating people; their mythology says that their goddess inspired the land-dwellers to build ships for the express purpose of providing them with food. While it's possible for them to mate with humans, they normally reproduce by spawning.
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Tales of MU / int_80a2c2de	type	Monster Mash
Tales of MU / int_80a2c2de	comment	Monster Mash: The story initially appears to be based on this to most readers, though it is not exactly on a voluntary basis. Magisterius University has graciously established a separate dorm for the non- and part-humans, supposedly to make them feel less pressured to conform to human ways but in actuality at least in part to keep the freaks out of sight. The characters' foibles, both personal and racial, make up a significant part of the series. The second year throws a twist into this formula. as a substantial fraction of the main cast simply moves out of Harlowe, including several second-string cast members who are obviously nonhuman, and don't catch so much as a sarcastic remark in retaliation. Mack herself is physically the most dangerous and potentially uncontrolled superpower-holder on the campus, and considered simply joining a 'human' dorm as an option (meaning she wasn't so much as pressured to live with the other invincible people). It's pretty thoroughly voluntary, many characters' insistence aside.
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Tales of MU / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Tales of MU / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Harlowe Dorm, full stop. For most of the first year, in one building, and mostly on one floor, you have in communion: the sexually repressed and socially stunted Mack, the inferiority complex-laden Steff; the socially incompetent and very easily manipulated Two; the seriously deluded Alpha Bitch Sooni; the violent, thuggish Puddy; the bullying Leighton twins; and other characters who are just as out of sorts with everyone else.
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Tales of MU / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Tales of MU / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: The aforementioned crystal balls, as well as pretty much all the technology you'd expect in a modern university, only powered by magic.
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Tales of MU / int_8361d1f7	type	Twinmaker
Tales of MU / int_8361d1f7	comment	Twin Maker: The mockboxes used in Callahan's fighting classes not only create spectral duplicates of weapons but of people. The mocked versions think and behave exactly like the original but their "lifespan" only lasts as long as the box is active.
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Tales of MU / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Tales of MU / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted; Hazel reveals in Y2-86 that she did indeed have an abortion. Her being in a place to have one at all is just one more in a long list of black marks her mother's family has against her.
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Tales of MU / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Tales of MU / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: What we've seen of the worship of Khersis is very much like Christianity, except in a world where gods are known to speak to mortals, demons are real, and exorcism works. Considering the one passage from the Khersian holy book that's been referenced parallels the gospels directly, and one creation myth says he was born of a great dragon from a crystal egg, he may be a literal "Crystal Dragon Jesus". We don't know if he has any dark secrets yet, but some of his followers are assholes. The "Mechans" are expies of Wiccans. Arkhanites are similarly somewhere between a parody/straw version and an expy of agnosticism, accounting for the occasional physical presence of a god by worshiping a god who... isn't entirely sure that he's a god, and told his followers basically not to bother him about the question because there are more interesting questions to think about.
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Tales of MU / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Tales of MU / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Elves historically fall into this trope, and some wild adolescent elves still live there. Faeries exist, too, and are the only thing that the badass elven hunter is afraid of (apart from bears).
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Tales of MU / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Tales of MU / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Mack hates Skirmish players, though Amaranth of course is more understanding. Belinda is one, though this seems more tragic in her case, or at least something unfortunate she's trying to move beyond, when we see her later. Pretty much every example seen on-screen in Y1 demonstrates that Mack is correct and Amaranth is incorrect (every skirmish player we meet is at best a conniving, selfish prick), so largely this trope is played straight. Subverted for arena duelists, though, who are generally in it for the sport/fun (they overwhelmingly play fair with only one exception), are respectful to each other and everyone else, and don't have a stick up the rear about it.
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Tales of MU / int_869ffa6b	type	Random Number God
Tales of MU / int_869ffa6b	comment	Random Number God: In Y2-271, Glory and Mack discuss the possibility of whether or not there's a god of magic, which leads to describing said god as using dice, complete with a spin on Albert Einstein's quote "God does not play dice with the universe."
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Tales of MU / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Tales of MU / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Callahan gets off a doozy in Y1-421:
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Tales of MU / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Tales of MU / int_8774fb47	comment	Goblins are short marsh-dwellers who worship/live in fear of sleeping Eldritch Abominations. Before becoming civilized by the human empire, they favored direct forms of problem solving, like throwing people into bogs or biting them to death.
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Tales of MU / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Tales of MU / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Lily Binder has apparently become aware that she's a character in a story and is not happy about it, since it's not her storynote she's from Star Harbor Nights, one of Alex Erin's older works and she's apparently been stuck in a kind of stagnation for almost seven years...which happens to be how old Tales of MU was at that point.
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Tales of MU / int_89295a38	comment	Buxom Is Better: Inverted by elves. Elven women tend to be modestly endowed, and thus their standard for "buxom" is lower than human, which makes Amaranth, who by human standards is very buxom, comically oversized. The point comes up in Y2-262 during the brief three-way conversation between Amaranath, Glory, and Mack, when Glory flat-out says that Amaranth's breasts are "a bit much". Shortly thereafter:
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Tales of MU / int_8a2d8868	type	Not Afraid to Die
Tales of MU / int_8a2d8868	comment	Not Afraid to Die: Callahan. She reveals to Mack Daddy that she's killed herself several times, and has no fear whatsoever of death, or even hell.
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Tales of MU / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Tales of MU / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Trying to read an infernal being's mind is bad news for the telepath. In Y1-121, Hissy gets a full dose of Mack's mind and nearly claws her face off from the trauma. She eventually has to have the memories of the encounter scrubbed from her mind.
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Tales of MU / int_8b49514e	comment	Magical Computer: Played with: students use crystal balls to "gaze the ethernet".
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Tales of MU / int_8c170cb1	type	Ethical Slut
Tales of MU / int_8c170cb1	comment	Ethical Slut: Amaranth personifies this trope. Nymphs are naturally extremely promiscuous, but she also spends a lot of time strengthening her girlfriends' polyamorous relationships and encouraging safe sexual exploration among her friends. She's naturally opposed to the concept of "sexual shaming" and believes that the world would be a much better place if people allowed themselves to admit and (consensually) explore their sexual desires. However, nymphs frequently stray into Blue-and-Orange Morality territory in general and essentially live there permanently when it comes to sexual matters. Sometimes this makes them more ethical about it from a human perspective, and other times they'll openly condone rape or take BDSM play as an excuse to try to micromanage every action and even private thought of a partner and bully them into behavior they're uncomfortable with or that is actively harmful. Amaranth's own kink involves snuff fantasies, so she takes it up to 11 on a regular basis without any particular malice (it is, after all, what gods do, even minor ones).
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Tales of MU / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
Tales of MU / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: The side story "How Suzi Broke Her Leg" has a rather over-the-top exaggeration. Maliko pushes Suzi off a staircase, and when that doesn't hurt her badly enough, breaks Suzi's leg...all so they can go to the medical center and get away from Sooni's brainstorming for her fanfiction.
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Tales of MU / int_8d5d1cf4	type	Killing Your Alternate Self
Tales of MU / int_8d5d1cf4	comment	Killing Your Alternate Self: The Doppleganger Paradox - “it means perfect duplicates of intelligent beings won’t be able to rest until they’ve destroyed each other”. Coach Callahan thought that was just her, but since she has slaughtered everything up to & including a deity, it's not that surprising.
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Tales of MU / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Tales of MU / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Due to a narrow selection of male partners, Dee's mother is the spitting image of her great-great-grandmother, the family's current matriarch. Not one to waste an opportunity, the matriarch uses her descendant as assassin bait.
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Tales of MU / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
Tales of MU / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Explicitly averted, as the story is in a "medieval fantasy setting, five hundred years later," with Magitek in place of modern technology. A side story set two hundred years earlier resembled America's colonial period. Well, somewhat averted. The most socially and economically advanced state in the setting (the counterpart to the USA) is a full (not constitutional) monarchy with no concept of civil rights and an economic system based on slavery, and it goes downhill from there. Magic literally cannot be advanced through systematic study because the setting's gods are bastards, and the only reason labor exploitation hasn't become an issue is that mass production really hasn't become a thing yet. Essentially it's still medieval stasis, just of a later, less terrible part of the Middle Ages than usually depicted, more akin to the 1300s to 1400s than the 1000s.
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Tales of MU / int_8f842f45	type	Multiple Head Case
Tales of MU / int_8f842f45	comment	Multiple Head Case: The Leighton twins, as a result of a teleportation accident.
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Tales of MU / int_90b98fbb	type	The Needless
Tales of MU / int_90b98fbb	comment	The Needless: Ever since Mack's demonic side emerged, she hasn't needed to defecate. She can vomit, so whatever is in her that processes her food is past her stomach.
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Tales of MU / int_90e2b7b4	type	Theme Twin Naming
Tales of MU / int_90e2b7b4	comment	Theme Twin Naming: Lara and Sara Leighton.
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Tales of MU / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Tales of MU / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Seth and Lacey are polymorphed into mice by magic wards as a punishment for trying to take the dwarven sword in one of Mack's classes off its stand. Shortly afterwards, Lacey is eaten by a cat. Eloise catches Seth before he can suffer the same fate.
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Tales of MU / int_9136471a	type	Our Goblins Are Different
Tales of MU / int_9136471a	comment	Our Goblins Are Different: "Goblinoids", an order of humanoids that aren't mammalian or reptile. They aren't Always Chaotic Evil, but that hasn't stopped them from occupying the "adventurer fodder" role in times past. They often exhibit an extremely patriarchal culture while their method of reproduction can put just about anybody off the idea of kids forever. Goblins are short marsh-dwellers who worship/live in fear of sleeping Eldritch Abominations. Before becoming civilized by the human empire, they favored direct forms of problem solving, like throwing people into bogs or biting them to death. Hobgoblins follow the "larger, stronger goblin" stereotype, but instead of being wicked and cruel they're slow and methodical, being seen by humans as reliable workers. In the goblins' own language, "hobgoblin" roughly translates as "house-boy". Hobgoblins make up the majority of the labor pool in goblin society, until the humans came and started mucking things up, filling the poor impressionable hobgoblins' heads with such fantastic notions as being paid for their work.
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Tales of MU / int_916ecb1	type	But I Can't Be Pregnant!
Tales of MU / int_916ecb1	comment	But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Hazel went through some severe denial, even claiming that it was impossible because she was on top. It's not until Y2-86 that she can finally talk to everyone else about her struggle with the issue. Of course, at that point it's irrelevant; see Good Girls Avoid Abortion below.
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Tales of MU / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Tales of MU / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Subverted. Mackenzie's lawyer is named Lee Jenkins, an obvious Shout-Out, but he's a calm, competent Good Lawyer.
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Tales of MU / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
Tales of MU / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: Not everyone's been connected yet, but a lot of the backstory chapters seem to be pointing in this direction.
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Tales of MU / int_95a18ad7	type	Devil in Disguise
Tales of MU / int_95a18ad7	comment	Devil in Disguise: The Man looks like a normal human but is anything but. Less literally, Chancellor Embries, though the disguise is something of an open secret among actual government officials and certain staff members.
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Tales of MU / int_9620c3a1	type	God-Emperor
Tales of MU / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: The rulers of the counterparts to Japan and Britain. Averted by the Emperor of the Imperial Republic of Magisterion, who is constitutionally limited so that he can't be one. He is unique in being a mere mortal, while the Nameless One that the founder of his dynasty rebelled against is still alive.
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Tales of MU / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Tales of MU / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: It's not entirely certain that the overall story will have one, but so far, Mercy, Mack Daddy, and Chancellor Embries have been the most likely candidates for various reasons, with Mercy's plans to enslave Mack and use her to breed an army of demonspawn as the most obvious plan.
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Tales of MU / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Tales of MU / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Official policy of the subterranean elves.
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Tales of MU / int_9a08517a	type	Elves Versus Dwarves
Tales of MU / int_9a08517a	comment	Elves Versus Dwarves: A gnomish folk tale depicts elves and dwarves as the descendants of quarreling twin brothers, who grew into their current forms by attempting to emphasize their imagined differences.
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Tales of MU / int_9a0870ae	type	Screw Yourself
Tales of MU / int_9a0870ae	comment	Screw Yourself: Acantha makes out with her mockboxed replica of herself in Y2-166.
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Tales of MU / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Tales of MU / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A plot point that Mackenzie occasionally has to deal with due to her variety of non-human having essential dietary requirements of human flesh; especially prominent when she's trapped in the Labyrinth and runs across the adventuring party, including a priestess of the goddess of peace and is shot in the shoulder. The resulting argument among the party isn't whether they should save Mack, but whether they should kill her now or let her bleed to death after they abandon her. Also sometimes goes the other way. Mack's misadventure in the labyrinth sparks mass protests and outrage where human students stumble in all the time and die or are maimed, or are sent in unprepared to die during classes. Leda's death shuts down the entire campus for most of a week when dozens of literally identical murders of humans get a shrug and an immediate dismissal. Most of the non-humans with any backstory have a long and extensive history of getting pardoned for things up to and including genocide due to patrons that shield them for little more than their species, while the vanilla humans can be sold into slavery for being a few cents short of paying for their coffee.
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Tales of MU / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
Tales of MU / int_9c88cfb	comment	Mermaid Problem: Feejee and Iona, the two mermaid characters, can shapeshift between a fish-tailed form and human legs. This is played straight by Feejee having a human boyfriend, and subverted by the mermaids revealing that humans are a delicacy and Feejee repeatedly mock-eating Mack while emphatically denying that she is gay.
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Tales of MU / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Tales of MU / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: For example, in the "Mask" chapter.
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Tales of MU / int_9d725e12	type	FanFic
Tales of MU / int_9d725e12	comment	The author used to "forbid" people to write fanfiction for the series. Now, Fan Fic is allowed, but proper credit must be given to the author for the world and characters and the author does not want to know about it under any circumstances.
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Tales of MU / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Tales of MU / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Sooni. It's not Played for Laughs, but it can sometimes be pretty funny.
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Tales of MU / int_9de2bf95	type	Filler
Tales of MU / int_9de2bf95	comment	Filler: The series attempts to present a close-to-real-time story, which makes some parts seem written just to make the deadline. For example: one of the early chapters was devoted to Amaranth and Mack walking a few streets, getting on a subway-equivalent, getting out, and walking into a building.
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Tales of MU / int_9e0d0926	type	Sex Is Violence
Tales of MU / int_9e0d0926	comment	Sex Is Violence: The aforementioned fight between Mack and Sooni:
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Tales of MU / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Tales of MU / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Played with. On the one hand, necromancy is considered a legitimate specialty for aspiring wizards as long as they follow the rules. On the other hand, the only necromancy student we ever meet is Steff, who hates most of the world and plans on going off to live with an ogre prince, where she won't have to follow any regulations and will also act as his official torturer. At one point, she mentions the possibility of having sex with Mackenzie's reanimated corpse should Mackenzie die prematurely. On the gripping hand, in many other ways Steff is given a very sympathetic portrayal. Additionally, while other forms of magic are shown gradually to have their own dangers, an off-screen incident involving Necromancy is the first actual student death mentioned (it kills several) and the slain students are simply "recycled" for parts without comment by the Necromancy faculty, which is exceptionally sociopathic even for the serial's already somewhat-insane standards of adult behavior and treated as expected by everyone else, even when other deaths and even general danger are often played up by campus authorities and other students to the hilt.
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Tales of MU / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Tales of MU / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Several characters are only part-human, with Mack being half demon as the most significant story-wise.
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Tales of MU / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
Tales of MU / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Used as an alternative to All Myths Are True, as seen in the myths of different races.
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Tales of MU / int_a43fd672	type	Continuity Overlap
Tales of MU / int_a43fd672	comment	The delving students who Mack encounters after the botched teleport spell (see Continuity Overlap above). One wants to kill her for XP, another (Seth) is ambivalent about whether she lives or dies, and another (Lacey) half-heartedly argues to let her live. This gets reinforced even more by Seth's petulant attitude when he's caught by Eloise after he and Lacey mess with a dwarven sword as a prank in a second-year side story.
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Tales of MU / int_a4adc15c	type	Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum
Tales of MU / int_a4adc15c	comment	Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum: Want to scientifically analyse the world of Tales Of MU? "Well, this is where a lot of the unique undead, cursed artifacts, and tainted lands come from. This is how magical abominations are created." Plus, space isn't always orthogonal: distances can shift between points, and some areas are bigger inside than when measured without. The faery realm exists alongside the mundane world, the realm of giants exists "above" it, and there are gods aplenty. Elves don't need to breathe. The world itself may be sitting in a magical pocket universe rather than orbiting a star...
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Tales of MU / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Tales of MU / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: Extremely common among main characters. It is mentioned that this kind of relationship is significantly more common among non-humans, although while the story seems to confirm this, the source is of questionable credibility.
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Tales of MU / int_a6f23b2d	type	Skepticism Failure
Tales of MU / int_a6f23b2d	comment	It's hinted early on that Mackenzie's grandmother might have once been a famous demon-slaying paladin. Mackenzie, of course, has never heard of any of it and finds the whole thing ridiculous, even as the evidence continues to mount, until it's finally confirmed in Y1-422.
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Tales of MU / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Tales of MU / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: If you ask Amaranth, Barley is one, having not been sufficiently punished by their "mother", the fertility goddess Mother Khaele, for openly wearing clothes, being relatively monogamous, and for attempting to rape Mack. However, Amaranth isn't exactly the best judge, and it becomes even murkier when we get a closer look at Khaele herself, as she's an evil-leaning neutral fertility god who shows her love for the land creatures she's responsible for in the form of tidal waves, hurricanes, and plagues. Thus, she may just not see these behaviors as being as much an issue as Amaranth does. Also, it's implied that her problem with Barley's rape attempt, which Amaranth reacts to with horror, is disapproval over contact with a half-demon, not the actual rape, as evidenced by her public frustration with Amaranth and lack of retaliation against Barley. Basically the person responsible for "karma" is just not remotely on the same page as the reader on morality.
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Tales of MU / int_a77dc648	type	Our Kobolds Are Different
Tales of MU / int_a77dc648	comment	Our Kobolds Are Different: Kobolds are goblinoids, an order of humanoids that aren't mammalian or reptilian. They resemble goblins, but with red skin instead of green. They live in mines beneath mountains and fight dwarves for territory while trying to protect their wealth from human looters. Their society is rigid and more stratified than the goblins'.
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Tales of MU / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
Tales of MU / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: Subverted. In the final chapter of Volume I, Mack's therapist suggests that she write about her experiences at MU in order to help work out her issues. The final paragraph of that chapter mentions that she got 17 pages into said autobiographic writing, and then got bored and gave up.
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Tales of MU / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Tales of MU / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Played straight with most of the staff, parents, etc, as is tradition for the school-adventures genre. Occasionally taken to an extreme with adults simply dropping the main characters into life-threatening situations with remarkable power and efficiency, then being immediately ineffectual again when they should by all logic be able to undo the problem just as easily. Special mention goes to the gods, who are theoretically walking, physical presences in the world, but (in a parody of D&D pantheons and how players interpret them) have commandments and belief systems so utterly meaningless that the faithful can declare anything they're doing to be in accordance with divine will and anything the non-faithful do as a vile abomination against nature. Since the protagonist is a half-demon who is literally damaged by the presence of sacred things, the complete lack of any real guiding code for any faith becomes painfully relevant on a regular basis. The most over-the-top example is probably when it's revealed that the goddess of reproduction doesn't have a coherent position on abortion. Pretty much the one human behavior she's supposed to govern, and she basically shrugs it off as not worth interfering with and is as obstinately unhelpful in providing guidance as is divinely possible. Averted, however, with Lee Jenkins and the other lawyers of the setting, who are largely Reasonable Authority Figures and good enough at their job that, not only do they often come off as the Only Sane Man even compared to the main cast, frequently a lawyer's presence is a sign that whatever cliffhanger was hung in the previous post is about to go away quietly without further drama.
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Tales of MU / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Tales of MU / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Many would qualify, but the most eyebrow-lifting so far is between Caron and Nae, a dwarf and kobold who are lovers, although their races are blood enemies.
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Tales of MU / int_aa7dc8ce	type	Luke Nounverber
Tales of MU / int_aa7dc8ce	comment	Luke Nounverber: Elves take epithet names that are often in this form, but are disappointed that Jamie Bowman, a quarter-elf raised in human society, does not have any archery skill. Dwarves have clan names that are either of the "Oakenshield" variety or are Dwarvish equivalents like "Sternbauer".
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Tales of MU / int_aa8f52c7	type	Porn with Plot
Tales of MU / int_aa8f52c7	comment	Porn with Plot: Roughly half of the first "year" of the story was either pure sex or sexually-themed material. Since then, the sexual content has drastically decreased but still comes up every now and then.
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Tales of MU / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Tales of MU / int_aabe2fb	comment	Played with regarding Dee's (dark) elf culture as well, where the heavily-matriarchal society in which she was raised gives Dee some less-than-humanizing views of men, resulting in some Deliberate Values Dissonance when she talks with surface-dwellers about their "fathers," a concept with significantly diminished importance in her society.
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Tales of MU / int_abbfeda	type	Spectral Weapon Copy
Tales of MU / int_abbfeda	comment	Spectral Weapon Copy: The mockbox in Coach Callahan's classes produces a magical copy of whatever's placed inside it; this is used to create duplicates of weapons that can deal blows and cause pain but not actually injure the students.
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Tales of MU / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
Tales of MU / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile: Mack has gotten off a couple of doozies:
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Tales of MU / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Tales of MU / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Nicki and Grace's reaction in Y2-146 to Mack telling them that, because of the dreary weather and the curtains being covered, they missed a day of classes while shacked up in Nicki's room...getting to know each other.
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Tales of MU / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Tales of MU / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: One of the best in the country!
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Tales of MU / int_affdffd9	type	Stupid Good
Tales of MU / int_affdffd9	comment	Stupid Good: Early on, Maliko seems to assume this about Mack.
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Tales of MU / int_b15f2cdb	type	Expospeak
Tales of MU / int_b15f2cdb	comment	Expospeak: Lots...and lots...and lots of it in chapters featuring Mackenzie's classes. In those parts the reader is treated to many paragraphs of world-building and other details.
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Tales of MU / int_b40bb08a	type	Living Weapon
Tales of MU / int_b40bb08a	comment	Living Weapon: Callahan's conversation with Mack Daddy in the Y2 side story "Splish, Splash" indicates that she was created to be the Death of the Undying, rather than having simply become it.
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Tales of MU / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Tales of MU / int_b486877f	comment	Squick: Elves have a deep-seated cultural aversion to genital contact. Glory even says it's squicky in Y2-214 when talking about the reasons why elves avoid hetero relationships, and Steff notes in the previous chapter that any sexual hijinks that she, Mack, and Amaranth could get up to with Glory would, for the other elves present, pale in comparison to the kinkiness of using their enhanced hearing to eavesdrop on Nicki (a human) going down on Grace (an elf, and Glory's sister to boot).
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Tales of MU / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Tales of MU / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Sums up approximately 68% of the Q&A responses quite accurately.
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Tales of MU / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Tales of MU / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Starting with the nymphs and working one's way down the cast sheet. The list of characters to whom this trope does not apply is very short.
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Tales of MU / int_b53ba00f	type	Easy Sex Change
Tales of MU / int_b53ba00f	comment	Easy Sex Change: Played with. Dee gives Steff a draught of the "halfkind" potion to help resolve some of her body issues. The potion knocks Steff out for several chapters worth of story time, and the eventual result is that just as it does with dark elves, Steff now has a much more obviously feminine body, including breasts, but also has a noticeably bigger penis. Items that instantly switch your sex are common and inexpensive, but legally problematic to use on a regular basis because they're "classified as cursed" (a reference to an actual D&D item).
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Tales of MU / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Tales of MU / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Sooni's cosplay with Kai is all over this...until she nearly kills Kai.
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Tales of MU / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Tales of MU / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: When Mackenzie finally learns Steff's "secret", the readers are suddenly subjected to a long and jarring explanation about what being a trans woman is really like, drawn mostly from the author's own childhood experiences.
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Tales of MU / int_b5fb096b	type	People Puppets
Tales of MU / int_b5fb096b	comment	People Puppets: One of Embries' many talents.
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Tales of MU / int_b7059ab0	type	Dungeon Crawling
Tales of MU / int_b7059ab0	comment	A plot point that Mackenzie occasionally has to deal with due to her variety of non-human having essential dietary requirements of human flesh; especially prominent when she's trapped in the Labyrinth and runs across the adventuring party, including a priestess of the goddess of peace and is shot in the shoulder. The resulting argument among the party isn't whether they should save Mack, but whether they should kill her now or let her bleed to death after they abandon her.
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Tales of MU / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Tales of MU / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Quoth Mack:
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Tales of MU / int_b826ab9a	type	Living Clothes
Tales of MU / int_b826ab9a	comment	Living Clothes: In Y2-197, Steff enchants Mack's jeans with an undead animation spell in an attempt at magical bondage. It goes hilariously awry because they didn't account for her belt and boots. Once off her, the jeans try to wrap around Mack's head and eventually have to be destroyed.
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Tales of MU / int_b95cd640	type	Huge Schoolgirl
Tales of MU / int_b95cd640	comment	Huge Schoolgirl: Amaranth is over six feet tall. Pala, despite being a college student, comes off as a mixture of this trope and Statuesque Stunner. Of course, her own perspective is the inverse of this trope; as a storm giant, she is rather small in her own estimation, even as she awkwardly towers over everyone else at MU.
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Tales of MU / int_b9922ce5	type	Literal Ass-Kicking
Tales of MU / int_b9922ce5	comment	Literal Ass-Kicking: During their fight in Y2-126, Nae bites Mack on the ass.
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Tales of MU / int_b99f51b2	type	An Odd Place to Sleep
Tales of MU / int_b99f51b2	comment	An Odd Place to Sleep: Glory's bed is nothing but a deep pile of pillows in a hollow frame.
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Tales of MU / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Tales of MU / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Justified given the setting of multiple D&D species of intelligent beings with wildly different cultures mashing up.
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Tales of MU / int_ba12ccff	type	Thought-Aversion Failure
Tales of MU / int_ba12ccff	comment	Thought-Aversion Failure: Referenced by Mack in Y2-335 in regards to the...whatever it is...in the necklace trying to get her to act naturally while it's talking in her head.
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Tales of MU / int_bbca7a41	type	Mirror Match
Tales of MU / int_bbca7a41	comment	Mirror Match: In Y2, Callahan's final test in her class is for each student to fight multiple mocked duplicates of themselves. Mack's fight ends with her letting her demonic side out and trying to attack one duplicate, only to be shocked back to herself by the duplicate's reaction to seeing "herself" in that state, which opens Mack up to be knocked out.
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Tales of MU / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Tales of MU / int_bbfaa837	comment	Mackenzie, a sheltered girl who spent most of her life living with a very parochial Knight Templar grandmother, gets the "fun" of being both a victim of discrimination and bigotry and occasionally making ignorant remarks that offend and horrify her friends. That being said, she will allow herself to be proven wrong, unlike your garden-variety bigot, and gradually gets past this.
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Tales of MU / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Tales of MU / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't insult a gnome's parents; that gnome will jack you right up.
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Tales of MU / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Tales of MU / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Demons are required to feed on humans, either something physical or intangible, depending on the individual. Even ones who feed on blood apparently find human flesh tasty, as do other races such as ogres and mermaids...why did you think they were so attracted to sailors?. With members of these races integrated at a human university, it can lead to culture clash.
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Tales of MU / int_be8cb2da	type	Missing Episode
Tales of MU / int_be8cb2da	comment	Missing Episode:invoked Two to date, each revolving around events that have been made ultra-secret for narrative reasons. Hence, the chapter headings and links are nonexistent. Y1-489 covers the time in Embries’ office where he deals with the matter of Leda's death, magically forcing Mack to bear witness while preventing her from passing on the experience to anyone else, including those who are viewing the world through her thoughts and perceptions (i.e. the readers). Y2-337 covers Mack taking Hazel's necklace to a hiding place and returning to campus. Her last wish was a means of covering her tracks by forgetting everything from when she left to when she got back to safety.
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Tales of MU / int_bf2412a1	type	Recap Episode
Tales of MU / int_bf2412a1	comment	Recap Episode: Y2-295 serves as a very abbreviated summary of where Mack is in her life and retreading of information the reader already knows about Mack, presented as her mulling over what she's going to say in a "introduce yourself to your fellow students" exercise in one of her classes. The next two chapters do the same for Two and Amaranth respectively, while 299 does this for Ian and Steff.
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Tales of MU / int_c01f38d7	type	IFeelAngry
Tales of MU / int_c01f38d7	comment	I Feel Angry: Two is absolutely adorable when she's (briefly) under the influence of a Boundless Rage Curse.
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Tales of MU / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
Tales of MU / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: The Bane of Khersis, placed by Lord Khersis on humans who had mated with demons after casting the demons into hell. See Villainous Lineage and Living Aphrodisiac below for more details.
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Tales of MU / int_c3182167	type	Golem
Tales of MU / int_c3182167	comment	Golem: In the MUniverse, golems are created as living tools who must obey orders. Their level of sentience varies; some have more developed personalities than others. They can be "emancipated" by ordering them to consider themselves free beings. Two is one such golem, with a rather uniquely constructed personality.
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Tales of MU / int_c3743565	type	Time Dissonance
Tales of MU / int_c3743565	comment	Time Dissonance: Averted for long-lived races, used for the Fragile Speedster sylphs. Mariel makes a reference to "that time of the week", and perceives everyone else as moving at a snail's pace.
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Tales of MU / int_c3fc7139	type	Wutai
Tales of MU / int_c3fc7139	comment	Wutai: The island nation of Youkan is a direct equivalent of Feudal Japan, but modernized in the same way that the main setting is, including an equivalent of anime that Sooni is very fond of.
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Tales of MU / int_c7faa8e3	type	Sexiled
Tales of MU / int_c7faa8e3	comment	Sexiled: Mack and her various partners use a sock on the doorknob. Her roommate Two is very rule-oriented, and doesn't mind as long as they remember to take the sock down afterward. Amaranth (who normally doesn't wear clothes at all) recently bought an entire pack of socks for the purpose of hanging on the doorknob... or so she claims.
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Tales of MU / int_c85adb75	type	Semantic Superpower
Tales of MU / int_c85adb75	comment	Semantic Superpower: Fairy gifts: One character is blessed with the gift of "is always the strongest person in the room". When a dragon enters the same room as her, things start getting out of hand. Another character has the gift "divine laughter", a sparkling laughter which is appreciated by everyone except demonbloods, who react unfavorably to the "divine" part.
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Tales of MU / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Tales of MU / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Nae in Y2-126, as a result of smashing the mocking cabinet in Callahan's class via a kick from Mack. She turns out to be all right as a result of her strange anatomy.
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Tales of MU / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Tales of MU / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Intentionally invoked with Amaranth's intelligence. She was specifically created according to a worshiper's mental image of a 'nerdy' girl, but since none of her worshipers are themselves particularly clever or intellectual and she's mentally and spiritually a field of grain, the actual 'intelligence' she ended up with is limited entirely to the superficial. She's reasonably eloquent, wears sexy librarian glasses, and collects books. That's it. Played for Drama in that the 'self' images of demigods are divinely-enforced by patron deities. No matter how many times her uninformed advice and general inability to understand much of anything ends in disaster, even suggesting that she's not the smartest person in the room essentially puts her into a blue-screen of death. Additionally, it's implied that this kind of mental block is the preferable state for a nymph. Another nymph showed genuine curiosity and tried to expand her worldview beyond sex and it quite literally drove her insane within a week.
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Tales of MU / int_ca855eaf	type	Love Letter Lunacy
Tales of MU / int_ca855eaf	comment	Love Letter Lunacy: One of the minor second year subplots is Nicki (and the rest of the crew) learning she has a elven secret admirer via being slipped a thong and veil in Y2-125. In Y2-146, we finally learn that it's Grace.
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Tales of MU / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Tales of MU / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The ruler of the old empire is always referred to as The Unnameable One. Justfied in-story; MUniverse tradition has it that the sound denoted by "kh" is reserved for the names of the gods, and that it is blasphemy for anyone who is not a god to have it in their name. As an immortal vampire, the Unnameable One is old enough to predate this tradition, and is named Khulrakh. It is blasphemy to call him by his name, and an insult to a sitting emperor to call him anything but his name. Thus, he is Unnameable. One of Mackenzie's professors has never been named in canon, but that's more of a subtle Running Gag.
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Tales of MU / int_cabd513c	type	Jedi Mind Trick
Tales of MU / int_cabd513c	comment	Jedi Mind Trick: The OT story about the events that led to the razing of MU decades prior to the main story reveal that Mack Daddy can subtly influence people's thoughts. He does this to Jennifer and Eugene to try to maneuver Samuel into a trap. Professor Ariadne Einhorn may also have been under his influence, and might still be to the story's present day.
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Tales of MU / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Tales of MU / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Though it's never made explicit in the narrative, Word of God has it that Tales of MU is "translated" from Pax, the fictional language Mackenzie speaks.
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Tales of MU / int_cd3527d9	type	Negative Space Wedgie
Tales of MU / int_cd3527d9	comment	Negative Space Wedgie: Malbus, one of the planets in the celestial sphere of the MU-niverse, which is unusual in that it doesn't behave like the other planets, remaining at a fixed point constantly and not matching the other planets' appearance. It's actually a tear in the "material" of the celestial sphere through which the monstrous beings that inhabit the chaos beyond occasionally attempt to come through.
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Tales of MU / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Tales of MU / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: The Arkhanites - more like Flat Earth Solipsists, but close enough. The Mechans.
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Tales of MU / int_cf7b362	type	Horror Hunger
Tales of MU / int_cf7b362	comment	Half-demons are mostly this played straight, though how demonic they are and which demons they resemble is a bit random depending on their Horror Hunger. That said, they tend to have significantly less control over that hunger than their full-blooded parents, see below.
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Tales of MU / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Tales of MU / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: A gorgon is among the Harlowe Hall residents. Though normally a background character, she got a spotlight story where she described her culture. She has the traditional Medusa gaze, which is normally restrained by a shimmery membrane over her eyes. The effect wears off, though one seeing her own uncovered eyes in a mirror could lead to an endless cycle of petrifying and thawing.
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Tales of MU / int_d0a09849	type	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence
Tales of MU / int_d0a09849	comment	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Every devout Khersian thinks this way about Mack. Considering she's half-demon and Khersis exists to purge the world of demons, and demons feed on humans, there is some justification. However, since she's the protagonist, we are sympathetic to her situation. It doesn't help that the characters who most dehumanize demons in the setting are either Jerkasses like Gloria and Ariadne or the bastard Mercy.
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Tales of MU / int_d0b94038	type	You Keep Telling Yourself That
Tales of MU / int_d0b94038	comment	You Keep Telling Yourself That: Mack does this a lot to Puddy in Y1-472 and 473, trying to make Puddy see that she's deluded herself about her importance in Mack's life. It doesn't work.
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Tales of MU / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Tales of MU / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted; Mackenzie's period is not only mentioned, but becomes a plot point. It turns out any female can overdraw magic on their period, leading to potential disaster.
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Tales of MU / int_d1da2c36	type	Played for Drama
Tales of MU / int_d1da2c36	comment	Played for Drama in that the 'self' images of demigods are divinely-enforced by patron deities. No matter how many times her uninformed advice and general inability to understand much of anything ends in disaster, even suggesting that she's not the smartest person in the room essentially puts her into a blue-screen of death.
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Tales of MU / int_d2d520f4	type	Our Ghouls Are Creepier
Tales of MU / int_d2d520f4	comment	Our Ghouls Are Creepier: Ghouls are vicious undead predators who arise "when a waterlogged corpse is exposed to the light of the new moon", but unlike skeletons or zombies they can breed and form colonies. Other than that they fit the model of zombie ghouls.
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Tales of MU / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
Tales of MU / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: Of the core cast, only Ian and Two are not either gay, bisexual, or Steff.
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Tales of MU / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Tales of MU / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Dee's pretty good at this when necessary, but has also been on the receiving end.
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Tales of MU / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Tales of MU / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: At then end of Y2-85, Two gives a two-star review to the shop whose owner wanted Mack for Mercy because it was very clean.
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Tales of MU / int_d4d775c9	type	My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
Tales of MU / int_d4d775c9	comment	My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: Here.
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Tales of MU / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
Tales of MU / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: Lizardwoman "Hissy" has a real name that's a combination of hisses and rattles. The nymphs are identified by sensory impressions of sun and wind; the pair who elect to go to college name themselves after their fields, becoming Amaranth and Barley.
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Tales of MU / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
Tales of MU / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Of the three nekos, Maliko is by far the most obvious in her kissing up to Sooni, always agreeing with and flattering her.
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Tales of MU / int_d63f8a53	type	The Alternet
Tales of MU / int_d63f8a53	comment	The Alternet: The Magitek ethernet, not like real world ethernets at all. Forums are known as tapestries (threads, get it?).
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Tales of MU / int_d813c00a	type	RPG Mechanics 'Verse
Tales of MU / int_d813c00a	comment	RPG Mechanics 'Verse: Done very subtly but played completely straight and not for laughs. Specifically, it's a Tabletop RPG Mechanics Verse, with gods and other extremely powerful entities in the role of Game Master. For example, Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies is a known and well-understood phenomenon in adventuring circles, and No Fair Cheating is a codified fundamental principle of magic, on par with the Laws of Thermodynamics. It's made explicit in one side story.
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Tales of MU / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Tales of MU / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Played with. Actual swearing is rendered in the familiar English, but local variants exist to replace such things as "gee" and "gosh."
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Tales of MU / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Tales of MU / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Vice-Chancellor Edmund Embries. A silver-scaled classical Western dragon capable of taking on human form, he is sexy, charming, and very creepy.
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Tales of MU / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Tales of MU / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: A rare non-sinister variety: if a nymph is killed, she reappears in the field she's bound to. To truly kill her would require destroying her field first.
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Tales of MU / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
Tales of MU / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Both Maliko and Suzi to Sooni.
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Tales of MU / int_d9e924a5	type	Weapons Kitchen Sink
Tales of MU / int_d9e924a5	comment	Weapons Kitchen Sink: Comes into play in Callahan's class, Mixed Melee, in which the main character, variously armed with a dagger, a pitchfork, and a quarterstaff, has to spar against Gloria, a Knight Templar with a sword. The lack of parity is at times remarked upon as well. The lack of parity is the point of "mixed" melee, and a reference to Dungeons and Dragons mechanics, where weapons all kind of work the same way despite obvious mismatches. Since the setting is explicitly an RPG mechanics universe, those are the rules that apply. And the D & D trope itself is a reference to the general melee, an actual historical tournament event where you picked whatever weapon you liked to bring to the massive mock-battle where the last man standing took the prize (not necessarily a WISE tradition, obviously, but a real one).
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Tales of MU / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Tales of MU / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Several. Subverted with the half-ogres, as Victor is described as better looking than Belinda.
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Tales of MU / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Tales of MU / int_d9ee7048	comment	More Tales of MU also translates elvish into English, since that narrator is bilingual.
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Tales of MU / int_d9fe8277	type	I'm Standing Right Here
Tales of MU / int_d9fe8277	comment	I'm Standing Right Here: Glory hits Steff, Amaranth, and Ian with this in Y2-231 when they're discussing the potential issues of Mack spending the night with Glory alone.
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Tales of MU / int_da512040	type	Fantasy Contraception
Tales of MU / int_da512040	comment	Fantasy Contraception: "Rings of Protection From Pregnancy", which are single-use, and are packaged in foil packets. Unfortunately most of them use cold magic, which Mack is vulnerable to.
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Tales of MU / int_db72910e	type	LoveYouAndEverybody
Tales of MU / int_db72910e	comment	Love You and Everybody: Both used and averted. It's the well-known nymph belief system, so the first time Amaranth tells Mack that she loves her, Mack objects that Amy loves everyone, which Amy readily admits before telling Mack that she loves her specifically and deeply. That being said, Amaranth does at times find it hard to love everybody, especially those who mean ill towards Mack, and Barley seems to have thrown this idea to the wind.
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Tales of MU / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Tales of MU / int_dd082289	comment	A Million is a Statistic: In the "Veil murder" arc, several students died that night, but Leda is the only one who gets much attention, specifically because she was foreign royalty.
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Tales of MU / int_dd963bd3	type	Our Giants Are Bigger
Tales of MU / int_dd963bd3	comment	Our Giants Are Bigger: Giants are a mixture of the Dungeons & Dragons version and various mythological influences, as most MU races are. They're apparently primordial beings who warred with the forces of chaos, the gods, and the dragons in some combination before leaving the world for another plane, possibly by climbing a stalk or a trunk. Only one of them has been seen in the main story, a badly undersized storm giant named Pala (Icelandic for "small") who "commutes" to Magisterius University.
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Tales of MU / int_dee04580	type	Our Gnomes Are Weirder
Tales of MU / int_dee04580	comment	Our Gnomes Are Weirder: Gnomes are the same as halflings in older Dungeons & Dragons and Tolkien's Hobbits, but with typical MU-twists. The natural stealth associated with halflings and gnomes works like a combined Perception Filter and Weirdness Censor, and it gets stronger the more of them are standing in one place. A gnomish professor has to remind her class she's there and is completely ignored by the administration. In a setting where Word of God is that technology doesn't work, they get away with clocks and pianos, but nobody notices. The gnomes themselves don't appear to have noticed they have this power.
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Tales of MU / int_df1a0454	type	Fantasy Pantheon
Tales of MU / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: Played with. Rather than form a unified pantheon, most of the gods deny each others' divinity, and all teach contradictory theology/mythology. Mack Daddy even asserts that a god is just anyone who is powerful enough to smite anyone who claims otherwise.
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Tales of MU / int_df6a6ad3	type	Speculative Fiction LGBT
Tales of MU / int_df6a6ad3	comment	Speculative Fiction LGBT: The culture of the subterranean elves features an "ornamental" third gender of MtFs called "halfkind," who undergo a magical transformation that enhances both breasts and male organs, and who serve mostly as a status symbol for their families. Dee eventually gives Steff the halfkind potion to try to help her with some of her issues.
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Tales of MU / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Tales of MU / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: When The Man faces off with Samuel at the tower, his plan falls apart when he's seen holding a pitchfork after Samuel falls off the tower, screaming, with a cut from the pitchfork on his face. "The half-demon is seen as a killer" theory (which is what The Man was aiming for) seems rather unlikely when there's a stranger holding the murder weapon still up on the tower.
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Tales of MU / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
Tales of MU / int_dfc3e10a	comment	Well, somewhat averted. The most socially and economically advanced state in the setting (the counterpart to the USA) is a full (not constitutional) monarchy with no concept of civil rights and an economic system based on slavery, and it goes downhill from there. Magic literally cannot be advanced through systematic study because the setting's gods are bastards, and the only reason labor exploitation hasn't become an issue is that mass production really hasn't become a thing yet. Essentially it's still medieval stasis, just of a later, less terrible part of the Middle Ages than usually depicted, more akin to the 1300s to 1400s than the 1000s.
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Tales of MU / int_e0d0fb13	type	Please Put Some Clothes On
Tales of MU / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: This forms an ongoing argument between Feejee the mermaid, who spends a lot of time more fish than human and sees breasts as entirely non-sexual, and her human boyfriend Rick, who doesn't want to be dating the Innocent Fanservice Girl.
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Tales of MU / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Tales of MU / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Though it's never made explicit in the narrative, Word of God has it that Tales of MU is "translated" from Pax, the fictional language Mackenzie speaks. More Tales of MU also translates elvish into English, since that narrator is bilingual. The rotating viewpoint side stories tend to translate all dialogue into English, regardless of what language is actually being spoken.
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Tales of MU / int_e192c0a7	type	Standard Female Grab Area
Tales of MU / int_e192c0a7	comment	Standard Female Grab Area: Subverted in Y1-473, when Mack stops Puddy from grabbing her arm simply by telling her that she'll start screaming.
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Tales of MU / int_e1ec1b15	type	Make a Wish
Tales of MU / int_e1ec1b15	comment	Make a Wish: The entity in Hazel's necklace claims to not be a genie, but has the power to grant wishes. When it asks Mack if getting her pitchfork back is what she wishes for, she responds with a carefully-worded wish for the entity to start spilling the beans about what it really wants. Later on, she makes an even more carefully worded wish to keep the entity from (hopefully) causing any more problems in the future, and then makes two final wishes that allow her to get rid of the necklace safely and to forget what she did with it.
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Tales of MU / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Tales of MU / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Generally averted. Plenty of characters with different viewpoints on any number of topics are portrayed quite realistically: Mackenzie, a sheltered girl who spent most of her life living with a very parochial Knight Templar grandmother, gets the "fun" of being both a victim of discrimination and bigotry and occasionally making ignorant remarks that offend and horrify her friends. That being said, she will allow herself to be proven wrong, unlike your garden-variety bigot, and gradually gets past this. Played straighter in a non-canon filler story by a guest author, with anthropology students treated as patronizing jackasses who need killin' because they're just so darn annoying that even all-loving pacifists will countenance their murder. Played comedically straight by the newspaper editor and the unnamed feminist who objected to a bake sale by the school's equivalent of a Gay/Straight Alliance.
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Tales of MU / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Tales of MU / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things (With Benefits): Amaranth, because of what she is, is both a loving and nurturing companion, especially to those she knows personally (or, at least, what she tries to be) and extremely promiscuous. Barley is initially the same way, but her jealousy of and frustration with Amaranth cause her to rebel against everything a nymph should be. Played with a bit, in that it's a compulsion that the nymphs don't necessarily want, it constantly snowballs into Blue-and-Orange Morality, and more than once it's just off-the-charts creepy. Attempts to fulfill the 'nurturing' part also sometimes go horribly wrong since the nymphs' hard-wired innocence is maintained by a divinely-enforced ignorance. Also Played for Laughs: Amaranth's constant attempts to justify her various fetishes in terms of her theological role as this is the character's primary source of humor. Among other things, she's in a long-running argument with her god-mother over where the line of intelligence is between normal fantasy-world interspecies relations and actual bestiality. Specifically, she really wants horses to be reclassified as 'smart enough'.
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Tales of MU / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Tales of MU / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The nekoyokai from Japan-like "Yokan" fall into this category, with names like "Maliko" that almost sound Japanese but not quite. However, a bit of plot indicates that all Yokano names are originally Japanese-derived, but that there is a story-related reason why all four of the characters introduced from that region have jarringly un-Japanese nicknames.
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Tales of MU / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Tales of MU / int_e3cee2e7	comment	The moss that Mack collects in the forest with Amaranth combines this with Empathic Environment. It's revealed to be passion’s flame moss, which apparently feeds off sexual energy. It grows best in "trysting spots", and its glow and heat increase when exposed to lovemaking.
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Tales of MU / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Tales of MU / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Laurel Ann, Mack's mother, as revealed in a handful of side stories.
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Tales of MU / int_e50eac65	type	No Adequate Punishment
Tales of MU / int_e50eac65	comment	No Adequate Punishment: Callahan was once charged with three counts of attempted deicide. One of those attempts was successful, but the law doesn't cover successful deicide (presumably because nobody thought it was possible to kill a god) so "attempted" is the closest fit.
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Tales of MU / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Tales of MU / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Mack and her submissiveness/love of abuse. Sooni's spoiled and increasingly bizarre antics. Steff's general cluelessness. All of the main characters—including Sooni—get some major character development in one way or another, actually learning and growing... but Steff just becomes more and more of a dumbass as the series progresses.
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Tales of MU / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Tales of MU / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Mack does not want to worship at Sooni's feet...or kiss her ass...or lick her pussy while being called filth... A simultaneous use and inversion: Mack's response for whenever anyone has asked about her mother's death is to say "It wasn't my fault" and then change the subject as quickly as possible. Not very specific, but no one called her on how suspicious that sounded...until the ridiculous owl-turtle thing did so, which got her wondering about how her mother really did die. This is revisited in Y2-300, when Mack's recollection of meeting someone who remembered her but she didn't remember brings the topic back up, confirming for Dee the ROTT's suspicion that Mack's memories have been altered.
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Tales of MU / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Tales of MU / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: Melanie's letter to Samuel in the final chapter of the OT story about the razing of MU.
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Tales of MU / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Tales of MU / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Revealed to have happened to Mack and Rowan. Mack's memories of what happened to her mother and of her childhood friendship with Rowan have either been completely removed or buried, and tied to a compulsion to avoid talking about the subject. According to Dee, Rowan's memories of what happened around the time that Mack's demonic side emerged have been "destroyed", a much messier version of the memory excision Hissy had to have when she tried to read Mack's mind in the first year.
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Tales of MU / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Tales of MU / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: This begins setting in in different ways as the...whatever it is...that seems to have come up around Hazel's ring begins causing shenanigans. Shiel gets uncharacteristically angry and punches Mack in the knee, leaving her bed-ridden for a day to deal with the pain. Later on, Amaranth doesn't remember Mack complimenting her on being smart, normally something she'd latch onto and cherish. Putting these pieces together leads Mack and Amaranth to the suspicion that the thing is manipulating people to keep Mack away from it.
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Tales of MU / int_e85d2182	type	Made of Phlebotinum
Tales of MU / int_e85d2182	comment	Made of Phlebotinum: The MUniverse is driven by Magitek, the physics are based on A Wizard Did It, and from the point of view of people in other worlds, a knife that was said to be "barely enchanted" is made out of magic.
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Tales of MU / int_e99f2959	comment	Webcomic Time: Tales of MU started in June of 2007, and at the time of its hiatus, the story is now at about the halfway point of the second year of Mackenzie's college term. To emphasize how strongly this trope is in play, 10 months of that time is a time-skip in a single update. Roughly three to four months of time has actually passed on-screen. It's even somewhat invoked, with some chapters focusing on things that no sane person would consider 'part of the story' just to maintain the glacial pace, like the characters walking from one doorway to another across the street complaining about lunch being sub-par.
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Tales of MU / int_eac3ee70	type	April Fools' Day
Tales of MU / int_eac3ee70	comment	April Fools' Day: An update was posted in 2009, announcing production plans for a Syfy channel spin-off TV show, of which the author claimed pride but apparently had little creative control, resulting in significant deviations from the core themes of the novel. It linked to the writer's Livejournal crossposting, where comments revealed the prank. A few commenters disbelieved the announcement because it referenced "the newly branded Syfy channel" at the end, and were double-pranked to discover Sci Fi Channel's renaming on April 1st, though it was widely known earlier.
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Tales of MU / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Jamie, the lead character from More Tales of MU, shows up in the second year and appears to want to try to patch up his relationship with Mack. In Y2-249, when Mack goes into the Inn of the Black Door, she meets Lily Binder and Morgenstern from Star Harbor Nights, another of Alexandra Erin's works.
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Tales of MU / int_eb8e12d6	comment	Rules Lawyering: Hazel does this to justify her wargaming strategy and gets called on it.
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Tales of MU / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The Leighton twins are bullies and jackasses, especially Tara. It was worse before they were merged; in their current state, they spend more time sniping at each other than others. In the first year, Mackenzie drifted into this territory whenever she got into an argument...which was fairly frequently. She's gotten much better in the second year. Celia, partly because of her generally surly attitude and partly because of her contempt for anything mammalian. The delving students who Mack encounters after the botched teleport spell (see Continuity Overlap above). One wants to kill her for XP, another (Seth) is ambivalent about whether she lives or dies, and another (Lacey) half-heartedly argues to let her live. This gets reinforced even more by Seth's petulant attitude when he's caught by Eloise after he and Lacey mess with a dwarven sword as a prank in a second-year side story.
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Tales of MU / int_ec3ff1f7	comment	In Which a Trope Is Described: A subversion in that the descriptions are misleading...except a few times when they're not, and you spend the whole chapter looking for the twist... When they visit town for the first time, the town's name is revealed at the end of one chapter to be "Enwich." The subtitle for that chapter? "In which the town is named." The chapter title "Girly Fight", in conjunction with the subtitle "In Which Mackenzie Gets The Finger", implies that Mack is in a word fight. However, in one of the most hilaristurbing scenes in the world, she Mind Rapes one of the adversaries to the point that her corrupted memory had to be removed, and she rips the other's fingers off with her teeth. Perfectly logical. Mack gets the finger, and all of the participating parties are girls.
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Tales of MU / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: In Y2-313, what is shaping up to be a four-way between Amaranth, Mack, Steff, and Glory is derailed (albeit temporarily) by a discussion about a ring Hazel is wearing that is most likely cursed.
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Tales of MU / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Tales of MU / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: The story spent a few years in real time (a few months in-story) using backstory snippets to set up Mackenzie's grandmother as a very complex character who genuinely loves Mack even though she sometimes has an odd way of expressing it. When we finally actually meet her in-story, however, she's an obnoxious one-dimensional obstructionist combining all the worst traits of a Straw Conservative and a Beloved Grandsmother, who gives the audience (and the characters!) absolutely no reason to sympathize with her viewpoint.
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Tales of MU / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: These crop up frequently. Mackenzie even lampshades one of the more unusual ones:
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Tales of MU / int_f9f2c33	comment	One of Mackenzie's professors has never been named in canon, but that's more of a subtle Running Gag.
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Tales of MU / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Maliko's attempt to get Mackenzie to help her figure out how to use the washing machines in Harlowe:
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Tales of MU / int_fd497586	comment	You Mean "Xmas": Khersentide, a winter solstice feast that celebrates important events in the life of Lord Khersis and involves ornaments and presents.
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Tales of MU	hasFeature	Spock Speak / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Standard Fantasy Setting / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Statuesque Stunner / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Steven Ulysses Perhero / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Stupid Good / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Succubi and Incubi / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Super-Senses / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Super-Powered Evil Side / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Taken for Granite / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Tattoo Sharpie / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	The Alternet / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	The Fair Folk / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	The Fair Folk / int_dca06c9f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	The Immodest Orgasm / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	The Klutz / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	The Needless / int_dca06c7f
TheStoryofO	seeAlso	Tales of MU
Tales of MU	hasFeature	The Unpronounceable / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Theme Twin Naming / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Time Dissonance / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	To Serve Man / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Torture Technician / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Troll Bridge / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Weapons Kitchen Sink / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Web Serial Novel / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Webcomic Time / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	When Trees Attack / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Who Wants to Live Forever? / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Wizarding School / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Word of God / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Wrong Context Magic / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Wutai / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Yaoi Fangirl / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	You Are Number 6 / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	You Mean "Xmas" / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Your Normal Is Our Taboo / int_dca06c7f
Hogwarts Hocus (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Tales of MU
talesofmu	sameAs	Tales of MU
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Is This What Anger Feels Like? / int_dca06c7f
Tales of MU	hasFeature	Late to the Punchline / int_dca06c7f

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