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** Diana Grimm is associated with Owls.
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* ShoutOut: When Alexandra first encounters Hagar, the raven enters her room by knocking on the window, and is described as having "A Lordly mien". From [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Allan Poe's]] ''The Raven'':
--> ''Open, then, I threw the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter/ In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore./ Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;/ But, with mien of Lord or Lady, perched above my chamber door."
** Another one to ''The Raven'': The library elves are named Bran and Poe, Bran is welsh for 'Raven' while Poe is the author of the poem.
--> ''Open, then, I threw the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter/ In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore./ Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;/ But, with mien of Lord or Lady, perched above my chamber door."
** Another one to ''The Raven'': The library elves are named Bran and Poe, Bran is welsh for 'Raven' while Poe is the author of the poem.
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** It runs in the family. Alexandra hovers between Type III and Type IV on the scale while Maximillian is a pretty solid Type IV. Lilith Grimm and Henry Tsotsie also qualify as type III while Diana Grimm, if you consider her a hero, is a Type V.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Benedict Journey]] and [[spoiler: Darla Dearborn]] are both Type II JerkassWoobie Anti-Villains and Abraham Thorn, if you consider him a villain, is a Type III WellIntentionedExtremist.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Benedict Journey]] and [[spoiler: Darla Dearborn]] are both Type II JerkassWoobie Anti-Villains and Abraham Thorn, if you consider him a villain, is a Type III WellIntentionedExtremist.
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* FiveTokenBand: Justified and mildly deconstructed. Alex's core group of friends is formed from those in her class who, for whatever reason, do not fit in with the mainstream school culture. The deconstruction comes when the diverse cultural backgrounds of the group, and the intra-group conflicts they sometimes cause, are explored rather than ignored as is typical for this trope.
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'''Alexandra Quick''' is the main character in a series of fan fictions written by [[http://inverarity.livejournal.com/ Inverarity]] (currently on the fourth book out of seven) that is set in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe, but is almost completely unrelated otherwise. Quick is a young witch who, much like Potter, was raised as a Muggle in the United States, and much like Harry, she is whisked away to Charmbridge Academy at age eleven to learn how to control her magical talents. Unlike Harry, she has a fascination with Dark Magic and is generally ostracized by her peers for it. Worse yet, someone appears to be trying to kill her...
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'''Alexandra Quick''' is the main character in a series of fan fictions written by [[http://inverarity.livejournal.com/ Inverarity]] (currently on the fourth fifth book out of seven) that is set in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe, but is almost completely unrelated otherwise. Quick is a young witch who, much like Potter, was raised as a Muggle in the United States, and much like Harry, she is whisked away to Charmbridge Academy at age eleven to learn how to control her magical talents. Unlike Harry, she has a fascination with Dark Magic and is generally ostracized by her peers for it. Worse yet, someone appears to be trying to kill her...
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* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Deathly Regiment'', Alex discovers that there is a possible way to [[spoiler: go back in time and save Max's life]]: a Time-Turner. As it turns out, [[spoiler: her sister Valeria]] is a Historicist who owns one, and both she and Alex go to Roanoke during the holidays. Alex steals the Time-Turner, gets back to Charmbridge and goes down into the basement… [[spoiler: and gets knocked out by Darla. When she's found, the Time-Turner is confiscated, Valeria gets in a huge amount of trouble and Alex never gets her chance, though it's pointed out that if she'd succeeded, she would have had to find a way to live undetected for six months, so it's probably better that she didn't.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Deathly Regiment'', Alex discovers that there is a possible way to [[spoiler: go back in time and save Max's life]]: a Time-Turner. As it turns out, [[spoiler: her sister Valeria]] is a Historicist who owns one, and both she and Alex go to Roanoke during the holidays. Alex steals the Time-Turner, gets back to Charmbridge and goes down into the basement… [[spoiler: and gets knocked out by Darla.[[EpilepticTrees someone with a wand]]. When she's found, the Time-Turner is confiscated, Valeria gets in a huge amount of trouble and Alex never gets her chance, though it's pointed out that if she'd succeeded, she would have had to find a way to live undetected for six months, so it's probably better that she didn't.]]
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'''Alexandra Quick''' is the main character in a series of fan fictions (currently on the fourth book out of seven) that is set in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe, but is almost completely unrelated otherwise. Quick is a young witch who, much like Potter, was raised as a Muggle in the United States, and much like Harry, she is whisked away to Charmbridge Academy at age eleven to learn how to control her magical talents. Unlike Harry, she has a fascination with Dark Magic and is generally ostracized by her peers for it. Worse yet, someone appears to be trying to kill her...
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'''Alexandra Quick''' is the main character in a series of fan fictions written by [[http://inverarity.livejournal.com/ Inverarity]] (currently on the fourth book out of seven) that is set in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe, but is almost completely unrelated otherwise. Quick is a young witch who, much like Potter, was raised as a Muggle in the United States, and much like Harry, she is whisked away to Charmbridge Academy at age eleven to learn how to control her magical talents. Unlike Harry, she has a fascination with Dark Magic and is generally ostracized by her peers for it. Worse yet, someone appears to be trying to kill her...
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* DesignatedHero: Alex can get like this at times.
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* ExactWords: Everything that Abraham Thorn says to Alexandra when they meet in ''Lands Below''.
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* MetaphoricallyTrue: Everything that Abraham Thorn says to Alexandra when they meet in ''Lands Below''. [[spoiler: For example, he talks about Claudia, but never calls her Alexandra's mother.]]
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* ExactWords: Everything that Abraham Thorn says to Alexandra when they meet in ''Lands Below''.
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* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: Darla takes Innocence to the Lands Below to sacrifice her. Alexandra rushes off to rescue both of them. Unfortunately, by the time she gets there, Darla has opened a portal to the Lands Beyond, and once that happens, somebody has to die. It's Darla.]]
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** Likewise, the series as a whole still has no clear villain as of the end of Book 4. The most promising candidates are probably [[PresidentEvil Governor General]] [[FatBastard Hucksteen]], who we have barely seen and has had minimal impact on the plot so far, [[LukeIAmYourFather Abraham]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Thorn]], who generally has the same goals as the protagonist and goes out of his way to protect her, or [[EvilVersusEvil some]] [[BigBadDuumvirate combination]] of the two. And there's still plenty of room for a dark horse candidate.
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** Likewise, the series as a whole still has no clear villain as of the end of Book 4. The most promising candidates are probably [[PresidentEvil Governor General]] [[FatBastard Hucksteen]], who we have barely seen and has had minimal impact on the plot so far, [[LukeIAmYourFather Abraham]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Thorn]], who generally has the same goals as the protagonist and goes out of his way to protect her, or [[EvilVersusEvil some]] [[BigBadDuumvirate combination]] of the two. And there's still plenty of room for a dark horse candidate.candidate, like the Dark Convention, who haven't really been seen.
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* NotSoDifferent: Abraham Thorn and Anna's father, Geming Chu: [[spoiler: like Thorn, Chu is a pureblooded Congressman, the head of a great family and an accomplished wizard who hates and despises the existence of the Deathly Regiment. However, Thorn formed a terrorist organisation to try to stop it, while Chu believes that he can work with the system and get the Regiment stopped legally. Thorn doesn't think that can happen.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: Abraham Thorn and Anna's father, Geming Chu: [[spoiler: like Thorn, Chu is a pureblooded Congressman, the head of a great family and an accomplished wizard who hates and despises the existence of the Deathly Regiment. However, Thorn formed a terrorist organisation to try to stop it, while Chu believes that he can work with the system and get the Regiment stopped legally. legally, while Thorn doesn't think that can happen.happen, which is why he founded a terrorist organisation and became an Enemy of the Confederation.]]
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** Dean Grimm gives Alexandra one in the end of ''Stars Above'', telling her that no excuse will cut it because the amount of collateral damage she caused was so big and so severe that [[spoiler: the Dean has no choice but to expel her.]]
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* NoodleIncident: Alexandra and Julia apparently ran into a ghost pirate fleet between ''Deathly Regiment'' and ''Stars Above''.
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* NotSoDifferent: Abraham Thorn and Anna's father, Geming Chu: [[spoiler: like Thorn, Chu is a pureblooded Congressman, the head of a great family and an accomplished wizard who hates and despises the existence of the Deathly Regiment. However, Thorn formed a terrorist organisation to try to stop it, while Chu believes that he can work with the system and get the Regiment stopped legally. Thorn doesn't think that can happen.]]
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* RuleAbidingRebel: Abraham Thorn views Anna's father, Geming Chu, as this: [[spoiler: like Thorn, Chu is a pureblooded Congressman, the head of a great family and an accomplished wizard who hates and despises the existence of the Deathly Regiment. However, Thorn formed a terrorist organisation to try to stop it, while Chu believes that he can work with the system and get the Regiment stopped legally. Thorn doesn't think that can happen.]]
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** [[spoiler: Did Abraham Thorn send Max and Alexandra into the Lands Below knowing that at least one of them would die?]] On the one hand, Thorn is insanely protective of his children and Max refused to take Alexandra along in the first place; on the other, [[spoiler: Thorn knew about the Deathly Regiment and probably guessed that if he wanted the same thing as the Confederacy, he'd probably pay the same price, namely a life.]]
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** [[spoiler: Did Abraham Thorn send Max and Alexandra into the Lands Below knowing that at least one of them would die?]] On the one hand, Thorn is insanely protective of his children and children, Max refused to take Alexandra along in the first place; place and Thorn flat-out denied it twice; on the other, [[spoiler: Thorn knew about the Deathly Regiment and probably guessed that if he wanted the same thing as the Confederacy, he'd probably pay the same price, namely a life.]]
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* RuleAbidingRebel: Abraham Thorn views Anna's father, Geming Chu, as this: [[spoiler: like Thorn, Chu is a pureblooded Congressman, the head of a great family and an accomplished wizard who hates and despises the existence of the Deathly Regiment. However, Thorn formed a terrorist organisation to try to stop it, while Chu believes that he can work with the system and get the Regiment stopped legally. Thorn doesn't think that can happen.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Deathly Regiment'', Alex discovers that there is a possible way to [[spoiler: go back in time and save Max's life]]: a Time-Turner. As it turns out, [[spoiler: her sister Valeria]] is a Historicist who owns one, and both she and Alex go to Roanoke during the holidays. Alex steals the Time-Turner, gets back to Charmbridge and goes down into the basement… [[spoiler: and gets knocked out by Darla. When she's found, the Time-Turner is confiscated, Valeria gets in a huge amount of trouble and Alex never gets her chance.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Deathly Regiment'', Alex discovers that there is a possible way to [[spoiler: go back in time and save Max's life]]: a Time-Turner. As it turns out, [[spoiler: her sister Valeria]] is a Historicist who owns one, and both she and Alex go to Roanoke during the holidays. Alex steals the Time-Turner, gets back to Charmbridge and goes down into the basement… [[spoiler: and gets knocked out by Darla. When she's found, the Time-Turner is confiscated, Valeria gets in a huge amount of trouble and Alex never gets her chance.chance, though it's pointed out that if she'd succeeded, she would have had to find a way to live undetected for six months, so it's probably better that she didn't.]]
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* MortonsFork: According to the Ozarkers, "Troublesome" is a mythological figure who is brave and quick-witted, but who causes calamities even when she's trying not to. People used to name their daughters Troublesome, but at the time of the stories, it's considered to be bad luck. However, according to the Grannies, a group of old, powerful Ozark witches, the fact that everyone has stopped naming girls Troublesome is bad luck in itself. [[spoiler: In ''Stars Above'', Alexandra is Named Troublesome, which deflates some of the tension.]]
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** Diana Alecto Grimm is named after the roman goddess of archery and hunting and a demon of vengeance from Greek mythology, this gives something of a clue as to her personality.
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** Alexandra's middle name is [[spoiler: Octavia. In Roman times, people would often get given a numerical name to denote their place in the family: Alexandra is the eighth child of Abraham Thorn.]]
** Alexandra's middle name is [[spoiler: Octavia. In Roman times, people would often get given a numerical name to denote their place in the family: Alexandra is the eighth child of Abraham Thorn.]]
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** Similarly, when Anna gets in a fight with Tomo and Alex tries to break it up, she gets yelled at for involving herself in trouble.
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* NoodleIncident: Alexandra and Julia apparently ran into a ghost pirate fleet between ''Deathly Regiment'' and ''Stars Above''.
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** There's an extra level to the pureblood/Muggle-born/half-blood hatred: [[spoiler: Only pureblood children are eligible to be sacrificed as part of the Deathly Regiment.]] The Elect, the oldest and most powerful pureblood families, feel that this sacrifice has given them the right to their privileges, and so they get angry at Muggle-borns and half-bloods demanding the same rights and respect as the purebloods, even though they've given up nothing.
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* ThatDidntHappen: A non-sexual example: at the end of ''Deathly Regiment'', [[spoiler: after rescuing Innocence, Innocence tells Diana Grimm everything, including Alexandra being forced to use ''Crucio'' on her to snap her out of her trance.]] Grimm's response is to tell Innocence that she was obviously mistaken, since using that spell would result in Alexandra being expelled, even if it was out of necessity. Innocence agrees that she obviously remembered it wrong.
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* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: ASPEW want to liberate the elves who work at Charmbridge, but they can't comprehend that the elves are terrified of freedom and don't want it. Pretty much none of them have ever even talked to an elf, and while they've discussed undoing the enchantments that make the elves love working, they've built up an idealistic idea that they're going to liberate the oppressed slaves.
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** [[spoiler: Max.]] Accepting his death takes Alexandra a long time, and it's the most important subplot in ''Deathly Regiment''. Eventually she concedes that there really isn't a way to get him back.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A known enemy of the established government makes a terrorist attack upon a harmless target, killing people. In response, society goes mad, the transport system becomes hard to navigate, and harsh laws are put in place that supposedly protect the country and crack down on enemies, but are easily abused to keep people locked up without trial. ''Lands Below'' and ''Deathly Regiment'' weren't written that close to 9/11 (2008 and 2010, to be exact), but the similarities are there.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Anna's father runs for Congress, and is arrested under a new act which allows the government to keep him imprisoned for six months without a trial. He's arrested under suspicion of conspiring with the government's sworn enemy, but it's really suspected that he was arrested to keep him from becoming Congressman. However, the unjustness of his situation draws many followers to his cause, and other Asian wizards and witches throw their oar in with him. At the end of ''Deathly Regiment'', he makes Congressman and is charged with nothing.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: See HonorBeforeReason, above, for an in-universe example. Another example is after [[spoiler: Abraham Thorn shuts off the paths to the Lands Below]] and a train derails, killing dozens and rolling over Muggle houses: Alexandra is furious, pointing out that her friends could have been on that train, but [[spoiler: Thorn tells her that he made sure that none of her friends were on the train, and that he actually warned the Confederacy, but they chose not to listen.]] Alexandra then pointedly asks him if he warned the Muggles, which he didn't.
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* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Deathly Regiment'', Alex discovers that there is a possible way to [[spoiler: go back in time and save Max's life]]: a Time-Turner. As it turns out, [[spoiler: her sister Valeria]] is a Historicist who owns one, and both she and Alex go to Roanoke during the holidays. Alex steals the Time-Turner, gets back to Charmbridge and goes down into the basement… [[spoiler: and gets knocked out by Darla. When she's found, the Time-Turner is confiscated, Valeria gets in a huge amount of trouble and Alex never gets her chance.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler: Who really Obliviated Hecate Grimm? Diana Grimm claims that it was Thorn, Thorn claims that Diana blames everything on him and that it was an Auror. Both sides have equal validity at this point.]]
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* ButThouMust: Non-video game example: Constance and Forbearance [[spoiler: are provisionally engaged to Benjamin and Mordecai Rash, the idea being that as they're at the same school, they'll get to know each other and get an education. Once they all graduate, Benjamin and Mordecai will ask Constance and Forbearance to marry them. ''Technically'', Constance and Forbearance can say no, but they both know that they're expected to say yes, that there's a very large number of people all expecting them to say yes, and that all those people will be ''extremely unamused'' should they say no. The twins aren't deluding themselves, they're both pretty resigned to marrying the Rash brothers, even though they're dickheads.]]
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* Chekhov'sGunman: Troublesome, an Ozarker legend about a girl who's annoying, causes trouble for everyone and is extremely unlikeable, but who can also be very kind and is very brave. [[spoiler: Constance and Forbearance start out calling Alex 'Troublesome' as a nickname, but eventually that becomes her capital-N Name, which they use to call down the Stars Above.]]
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* Chekhov'sGunman: ChekhovsGunman: Troublesome, an Ozarker legend about a girl who's annoying, causes trouble for everyone and is extremely unlikeable, but who can also be very kind and is very brave. [[spoiler: Constance and Forbearance start out calling Alex 'Troublesome' as a nickname, but eventually that becomes her capital-N Name, which they use to call down the Stars Above.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When the Mors Mortis Club are seeing visions in a special brazier, Darla cries out 'My sister!'. [[spoiler: What she saw becomes the foundation for most of ''Deathly Regiment''.
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* GenerationXerox: Alex apparently really resembles her mother, [[spoiler: Hecate Grimm. Too bad we can't see the resemblance, since Hecate is a cat, and when she's human, she has no memory whatsoever.]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Constance and Forbearance are 'bespoke'- essentially, they're not ''technically'' engaged yet, but their prospective grooms, Benjamin and Mordecai Rash, will ask them to marry them after they've graduated, and it's expected that they'll say yes. They ''can'' say no, but it would upset a lot of people, not just their families, because to the Ozarkers, twins marrying twins is one of a number of powerful combinations.]]
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* FatalFlaw: Alex's is HonorBeforeReason, along with a pumped-up sense of her own morality- in essence, she often ignores potential consequences or side effects and goes for the main goal, but when people inevitably get hurt because of her, she often won't acknowledge that it was her fault and resorts to 'I never meant to do it' or 'It happened for a good cause'.
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