History Fanfic / AlexandraQuick

* {{Hypocrite}}: It's an open secret among the Elite families of the Confederation that they must [[spoiler: sacrifice a child from among their number every seven years to the Deathly Regiment in order to maintain their power.]] It's how they justify their high place in society and keep other families and groups from reaching their heights when they don't have to make the same sacrifices. [[spoiler:The conspiracy blows up when Alex, after raiding a secret Confederation archive, finds a register that shows that those seven year sacrifices are just the icing on the cake; the cake itself, the creamy filling, the ''apertif'', and the whole three course meal before it comes from the '''daily''' sacrifice of children going back centuries, without regard to their background or family status. In fact, most of those chosen are kidnapped Muggles: Why pick one of your own and get noticed when there are millions of children outside your society who will never be missed by anyone you know and [[MoralDissonance whose lives don't matter as much as yours]]?]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Anna and Alex.

* 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, Chu believes that he can work with the system and get the Regiment stopped legally, while Thorn doesn't think that can happen, which is why he founded a terrorist organisation and became an Enemy of the Confederation.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Called out and defied: In ''World Away'', Alexandra is repeatedly targeted by a girl called Harriet, whose father and uncle died on the Roanoke Underhill, and who wants to kill Alexandra as revenge. At one point, when the two have a one-on-one fight, Harriet claims that 'You did this to me', but Alexandra rebuts that Harriet chose her path of revenge, and nobody ''made'' her do anything.

* 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.

''Alexandra Quick'' is the main character in a series of fan fictions written by [[http://inverarity.livejournal.com/ Inverarity]] (currently on the 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...

* NoAntagonist: [[spoiler: Unlike the other three books, which each have a clear villain behind the events of the story (even if we still don't know who it is in the Stars Above), Alexandra Quick and the Lands Below does not have any single main villain and the plot is driven almost entirely by the actions of Alexandra and Max, unless you consider Abraham Thorn the villain.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Claudia is actually Alexandra's sister, not her mother- she's a Squib who was forced to live as a Muggle. Alex's real mother is Dean Grimm's sister, who has been forced to live as her cat, Galen, because of a Memory Charm that gave her permanent anterograde amnesia.]]

* TheRival: Larry Albo.

* WideEyedIdealist: Julia, whose optimism can be very depressing given who she is.

** There's an in-universe one for just about everyone when Darla and Alexandra duel. Like almost everyone else, Alexandra just uses a Stunning Spell, but Darla casts ''Avada Kedavra'' at her. (To be fair, Darla didn't intend it to work, or expect it to, but casting a Killing Curse made everyone sit up.)

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hypocrite Hypocrite]]: It's an open secret among the Elite families of the Confederation that they must [[spoiler: sacrifice a child from among their number every seven years to the Deathly Regiment in order to maintain their power.]] It's how they justify their high place in society and keep other families and groups from reaching their heights when they don't have to make the same sacrifices. [[spoiler:The conspiracy blows up when Alex, after raiding a secret Confederation archive, finds a register that shows that those seven year sacrifices are just the icing on the cake; the cake itself, the creamy filling, the ''apertif'', and the whole three course meal before it comes from the '''daily''' sacrifice of children going back centuries, without regard to their background or family status. In fact, most of those chosen are kidnapped Muggles: Why pick one of your own and get noticed when there are millions of children outside your society who will never be missed by anyone you know and [[MoralDissonance whose lives don't matter as much as yours]]?]]

* BigBad: One for every book except [[spoiler: Book 2]].
** [[spoiler: For The Thorn Circle it turns out to be Ben Journey]]
** [[spoiler: For The Deathly Regiment it's Darla Dearborn]]
** [[spoiler: For The Stars Above it seems to be John Manuelito, and he actually assumes the role for the climax, but it's eventually revealed that he wasn't involved until Alexandra came to New Mexico to mess up his plans and the actual GreaterScopeVillain of book 4 is still unknown.]]

* CoolBigSis: Valeria for Alexandra. [[spoiler: Until Alexandra steals Valeria's Time-Turner and gets Valeria in a world of trouble.]]

* {{Pun}}: Trollbooths

* [[Main/Hypocrite Hypocrite]]: It's an open secret among the Elite families of the Confederation that they must [[spoiler: sacrifice a child from among their number every seven years to the Deathly Regiment in order to maintain their power.]] It's how they justify their high place in society and keep other families and groups from reaching their heights when they don't have to make the same sacrifices. [[spoiler:The conspiracy blows up when Alex, after raiding a secret Confederation archive, finds a register that shows that those seven year sacrifices are just the icing on the cake; the cake itself, the creamy filling, the ''apertif'', and the whole three course meal before it comes from the '''daily''' sacrifice of children going back centuries, without regard to their background or family status. In fact, most of those chosen are kidnapped Muggles: Why pick one of your own and get noticed when there are millions of children outside your society who will never be missed by anyone you know and [[MoralDissonance whose lives don't matter as much as yours]]?]]

* [[Main/Hypocrite]]: It's an open secret among the Elite families of the Confederation that they must [[spoiler: sacrifice a child from among their number every seven years to the Deathly Regiment in order to maintain their power.]] It's how they justify their high place in society and keep other families and groups from reaching their heights when they don't have to make the same sacrifices. [[spoiler:The conspiracy blows up when Alex, after raiding a secret Confederation archive, finds a register that shows that those seven year sacrifices are just the icing on the cake; the cake itself, the creamy filling, the ''apertif'', and the whole three course meal before it comes from the '''daily''' sacrifice of children going back centuries, without regard to their background or family status. In fact, most of those chosen are kidnapped Muggles: Why pick one of your own and get noticed when there are millions of children outside your society who will never be missed by anyone you know and [[MoralDissonance whose lives don't matter as much as yours]]?]]

* [[Hypocrite]]: It's an open secret among the Elite families of the Confederation that they must [[spoiler: sacrifice a child from among their number every seven years to the Deathly Regiment in order to maintain their power.]] It's how they justify their high place in society and keep other families and groups from reaching their heights when they don't have to make the same sacrifices. [[spoiler:The conspiracy blows up when Alex, after raiding a secret Confederation archive, finds a register that shows that those seven year sacrifices are just the icing on the cake; the cake itself, the creamy filling, the ''apertif'', and the whole three course meal before it comes from the '''daily''' sacrifice of children going back centuries, without regard to their background or family status. In fact, most of those chosen are kidnapped Muggles: Why pick one of your own and get noticed when there are millions of children outside your society who will never be missed by anyone you know and [[MoralDissonance whose lives don't matter as much as yours]]?]]

** Larry, in terms of dueling. Across several books, he and Alex duel many times and despite rigorous training, he is the one person she's never quite been able to beat. In ''World Away'', where both he and Alex compete in a national junior wizard's decathlon, Larry is the runaway winner and it's not even close. [[spoiler: Or rather, he would have been had not the final event concluded with an attack by the Thorn Circle, requested by Alex as a distraction for means of her own.[[/spoiler]]

** The series also differs from canon in that Magical America has good-old-fashioned mundane racism as well. The Chinese and Japanese despise each other, and the Chinese are pretty chauvinistic towards most other races as well, while the Ozarkers and some of the other cultures seem to look down on "Furriners" and blacks in particular, and the Ozarkers themselves are considered hillbilly white trash by pretty much everyone else.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Alex. Self-centred, obsessive, rude and manipulative? ''check''. Brave, loyal and noble to the point of self-sacrifice? ''Oh good lord,'' '''''check!'''''

* TrueCompanions: Alex and Anna. Both grew up as only children, and despite Alex later learning she has more sisters than she knows what to do with, to each other they are the sisters they ''chose''... despite a truly colossal amount of arguing. [[spoiler: If anything, ''strengthened'' by Anna's declaration of love in ''World Away''. Most friends would be at least uncomfortable in the situation of a best friend expressing romantic interest, but Alex is heartbroken that she can't feel the same way. Alex loves Anna more than any friend, as much as any family, as much as she loves or ever will love anyone... but it's not ''romantic'' love. She goes so far as to offer to take a LovePotion or [[IfItsYouItsOkay take Anna back to her room]], just to give her even a part of what she wants, rather than hurt her. Anna declines, as it wouldn't be real or permanent, so they are not a couple, but their friendship is stronger than ever.[[/spoiler]]

* TooCleverByHalf: Alexandra tends to do ridiculously stupid things in incredibly clever and Badass ways. This usually doesn't win her many points with adults since most of her exploits still end in tears, but after [[spoiler: her rampage through the New Mexico desert in book four]] the Navajo auror, and even both Grimm sisters seem so impressed that she gets off with minor punishments.

* 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.]]

Titles in the series are Alexandra Quick and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3964606/1/Alexandra_Quick_and_the_Thorn_Circle the Thorn Circle]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4684861/1/Alexandra_Quick_and_the_Lands_Below the Lands Below]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5784632/1/Alexandra_Quick_and_the_Deathly_Regiment the Deathly Regiment]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7689884/1/ the Stars Above]]'' and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13353323/1/ the World Away]]''.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Present since the start, but it really comes to the forefront from the climax of ''Deathly Regiment'' onwards.

* HolyShitQuotient: The entire series is good at this, but the ''Stars Above'' in particular seems to be fueled by unleaded HSQ.

* DarkerAndEdgier: When compared to Literature/HarryPotter. [[TropesAreTools This is not a bad thing]].

Titles in the series are Alexandra Quick and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3964606/1/Alexandra_Quick_and_the_Thorn_Circle the Thorn Circle]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4684861/1/Alexandra_Quick_and_the_Lands_Below the Lands Below]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5784632/1/Alexandra_Quick_and_the_Deathly_Regiment the Deathly Regiment]]'' and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7689884/1/ the Stars Above]]''.

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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 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...

** [[spoiler: For The Stars Above it seems to be John Manuelito, and he actually assumes the role for the climax, but it's eventually revealed that he wasn't involved until Alexandra came to New Mexico to mess up his plans and the actual BiggerBad of book 4 is still unknown.]]

* BrickJoke: At the beginning of ''Lands Below'', David and Alexandra hatch a plot to get Angelique to notice David, but they break it off when it seems as if Angelique doesn't care. But there's a throwaway line from Angelique to Alex, saying "I really do like David, you know", while blushing.