History Fanfic / BlackSky

* AscendedExtra: The author really does use the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters from both material sources, and she does it so well.

* BadassFamily: The House of Black most certainly qualifies. As stated in the page quote, the Black Family strives to "hold all the cards" even if dark lords and school headmasters are dealed in as well.

* BecomingTheMask: When his twin is petrified by Slytherin's Basilisk, George goes and hides amongst the Slytherin fourth-years under the "Jerry Prewett" persona, a reserved and quite serious young man -- {{Justified|Trope}} by his depression over Fred's condition. However, he refused to relinquish the persona when Fred was cured and it's mentioned he identifies more as Jerry than George nowadays.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hufflepuff House as a whole.

* BrickJoke: Blaise is appaled by Dorea's tendance to endanger herself and says at one occasion that if she was a fairy tale princess, she would marry the dragon rather than run away like any human being possessed of common sense. Sure, Dorea goes and find herself the wife to the ill-tempered, possessive and ruthless Xanxus, who's flattered by the comparison. [[spoiler: Oh, and he's also the heir to the Sabina Principality, making Dorea a princess by marriage.]]

* CassandraTruth: Because of Sirius confessing under Veritaserum that the Potters never produced offspring together, nobody gives any credit to Dumbledore's claim that a child ''was'' present on the scene of Voldemort's downfall.

* DivineRightOfKings: Downplayed with the various Lordships in the Magical World. Only the Family Head can use the full extend of the Family Magic, but the Head by law isn't always the Heir to the Family Magic.

* FairyTaleMotifs: Xanxus and Dorea are often compared to a princess and the dragon guarding her, the key divergence being the ''marriage'' between the two parties.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Blaise complains about Dorea running head first into danger, declaring she would rather marry a dragon than do the reasonable thing and flee to save her life. Her future husband is not a dragon, but he's ridiculously unsafe to know.

* BecomingTheMask: When his twin is petrified by Slytherin's Basilisk, George goes and hides amongst the Slytherin fourth-years under the "Jerry Prewett" persona, a reserved and quite serious young man - {{Justified|Trope}} by his depression over Fred's condition. However, he refused to relinquish the persona when Fred was cured and it's mentioned he identifies more as Jerry than George nowadays.

* BirdsOfAFeather: The wedding ritual used by Dorea deliberately invokes this, as it's supposed to find a spouse sharing the bride/groom's interests. Meaning that Dorea and Xanxus are very compatible with each other - people love to note how they are just terrifying as fuck for everyone.

* CurbStompBattle: Terrence Higgs flattens two of Don Nonno's Guardians for assaulting his client, which makes him a bit of a legend amongst the Vongola Alliance.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: An ongoing theme

** When Spiderman finds themselves on a kinda date with Daphne Greengrass, their Squad Leader Hawkeye purposely stays in the room to ensure Spiderman is not going to goof off or be hurt by the witch. Daphne doesn't protest his presence, apparently considering him as Spiderman's chaperone - someone watching over a younger one's virtue and reputation.
* DevotedToYou: Xanxus is hopelessly, willingly and utterly bewitched by Dorea. Seeing him crumple and dote on her with all his might is actually very sweet.
** Skies are able to inspire this amongst their followers, which is called Sky Attraction and is generally seen as a problem. Exhibit A is Gokudera who obsesses so much over Tsuna he's basically LovingAShadow.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Dorea certainly thinks this about Bellatrix's death, crushed to death by a Venomous Tentacula controled by Neville.

* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Bellatrix Lestrange, while strictly speaking more of a cousin than an aunt to Dorea, certainly qualifies.

** Many of the Vongola employees considers Federico's tendances to chase anything wearing a skirt as a FatalFlaw, and Squalo even declares that he will end up killed by a furious male relative after one of too much affairs. Sure, Catrin the Storm Guardian to Aria Giglio Nero - who's old enough to be her grandfather and certainly dotes on her as if he were - reduces him to ashes after seeing him exiting his Sky's bedroom.

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]: James couldn't sire children so potions were used with Sirius as the donor.

** It's also invoked by the Vongola Family. Daniela is explicitly mentioned as having many siblings but being the only one with Sky Flames, she became Ottava after her father. This trope also prevents Maria-Chiara Vongola - Timoteo's daughter and lastborn child - to be considered as a successor since she's not a Sky.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Everyone amongst the Vongola knows that Stefano Torretta - the cover name for Theodore Nott - was assigned to Federico Vongola's service after the Ottava's death in order to stop the skirt-chaser from banging every woman he sees. Federico actually ''asked'' for Stefano to be conscripted in his household [[spoiler: because he didn't wanted his Nonna's last Rain Guardian wasting away from depression and heartbreak]].

* IdenticalStranger: Draco Malfoy bears an uncanny resemblance to Alaude Le Tellier, first Vongola Cloud Guardian, leading some to speculate about a possible blood relation.

** Encasing his adopted son in ice because they were fighting gets some leeway. However, Don Nono keeps Xanxus on ice almost six years while his subordinates and family pester him for release on the grounds Xanxus deserve all of his attention when freed and he currently has too much on plate. As Daniela Vongola points it, Timoteo is Boss of the Vongola Alliance: he will ''never'' have the opportunity to devote himself to one single matter. There's also the time factor, since [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Xanxus will need to readapt to the world after freed]] and Nono's hesitations mean the gap is growing more and more. Finally, when Ottava - who was very close with her adopted grandson - dies, he ''still'' refuses to let Xanxus attend her funeral, uncaring that his son may want to say good-bye.
** So, Xanxus is free again - not because Nono finally decided to be reasonable - he was at large long enough to reconnect with his wife and have a baby girl with her, and he's visibly pissed off about his imprisonment, saying Don Vongola can "wait on him for once". Does Nono let him space to breath and calm himself? Wrong! He immediately demands to talk with Xanxus since he's his father and of course they need to talk ''right now''. When Xanxus deliberately avoids him by spending time with his wife and kids and leaving on Varia missions, Nono starts to harass the Varia by constantly phoning them, visibly not getting the clue he's very much unwanted.

** Bel asking to meet her young daughter is enough to make Erica Lanza - Timoteo Vongola's grandddaughter - Activate her [[spoiler: Sky]] Flames.

* NoodleIncident: How Lucretia Prewett met Feng's - the Storm Arcobaleno - mother: it involved a Chinese zombi, a Blessing and his little sister.

* PuppetKing: The reason why Aria Giglio Nero keeps mum about the fact she successfully carried and birthed Federico Vongola's child: the Vongola ''would'' try to use Yuni and [[MamaBear she won't have it]].

* StealthInsult: Dorea is the queen of these.
** Beautifully delivered by Dorea when Dumbledore tries to ingrate himself to her by suggesting to cast protective charms upon Hermione for the Second Task. Dorea answers she would prefer Professor Moody - actually Barty Crouch Jr under Polyjuice - as the caster as ''he'' takes seriously his students' well-being. That's right, Dorea would rather trust a ''Death Eater'' than the so-called Leader of the Light.

* StupidSexyFlanders: When Xanxus returns to the Varia from being iced, quite a lot of the post ice recruits get the hots for him despite a lot of them not being attracted to men. It is because he has siren and Veela blood.

* SuccessionCrisis: Dorea ''needs'' to marry and bear a son to be the Black Heir sooner than later, since becoming [[SheIsTheKing Lord Black]] would endanger her health because of the Family Magic's toxicity. She manages to snatch a husband and fall pregnant at fifteen years old, avoiding a big clusterfuck just in time for her father's death one year later.
** The Ruling Prince of Sabina has to be [[HeirClubForMen the firstborn son]] of the precedent ruler, which poses quite a conundrum for Timoteo Zabini's succession. He ''did'' produce offspring from his short-lived marriage... a daughter, it is. ''Her'' son is considered the Heir to Sabina, but his status stays shaky because of the female line of inheritance.
*** [[spoiler: Then Dorea's brand-new husband is revealed to be [[HiddenBackupPrince the Prince's bastard son]], currently missing and impossible to find. And no, his unborn son cannot inherit because he's ''already'' the Black Heir, and his son ''after'' that has to become the Potter Heir. By luck, they ''do'' find him before too much time has passed, meaning he can inherit the crown and siring a proper heir.]]
** And of course, the infamous Vongola Succession Matter: Don Nonno - who's very elderly and as such needs to retire soon - had three eligible sons but he dragged his feet so much they all died before being instated. So he decides to force a civilian teenager into the role, in spite of the kid being very much ''hostile'' to the idea. The Alliance does not like this perspective and would rather support Xanxus as Heir candidate... but he has no Vongola blood so can't be picked.

* TeenPregnancy: Dorea falls pregnant three days after her fifteenth birthday. Bonus points for being an unplanned event, in spite of the wedding being very much planned.

* UnequalRites: The Dying Will Flames are very different from wizardry, being explicitly from the soul - which gave it the name Soulfire in the magic communities - while wizardry comes from the blood. Narcissa blatantly considers Soulfire-users as different from magic-users, but places them above Muggles as they nonetheless possess power.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Xanxus is utterly floored to learn [[spoiler: he's actually RoyalBlood, and the heir to a magical nation]] as he was considered as a SonOfAWhore gutter trash unfit for the Vongola.

* VengefulWidow: Angelique Zabini - Blaise's mother - was passionately in love with her first husband. What did she do after his death at the hands of Voldemort's followers? Why, she married his killers and murdered them after bankrupting them.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green for Terrence Higgs. {{Justified|Trope}} as he's helping the Weasley twins to experiment with hair dye. It prompts Talbot to dub him "Green Knight".

* CrazyAwesome: Beware a Mist, for their only limit is ''imagination''. Meaning you're susceptible to be attacked by Pokemon or music notes.

** Many of the Vongola employees considers Federico's tendances to chase anything wearing a skirt as a FatalFlaw, and Squalo even declares that he will end up killed by a furious male relative after one of too much affairs. Sure, the Storm Guardian to Aria Giglio Nero - who's old enough to be her grandfather and certainly dotes on her as if he were - reduces him to ashes after seeing him exiting his Sky's bedroom.
** In universe foreshadowing, but Timoteo Vongola has a deep, hypocritical distaste for the Varia and their services, despite making use of them regularly. Enrico is murdered by Squalo, the Rain Officer. Massimo by Belphegor, the Storm Officer. Federico is killed by the retired Varia Quality Catalin, Aria Giglio Nero's Storm Guardian. Vongola Skies are known for their intuition and foresight. In some subconscious level Nono knew that Varia would murder his boys. He feels instinctive loathing for the Varia, but chalks it up as having moral superiority over the 'amoral killers'.

** In universe foreshadowing, but Timoteo Vongola has a deep, hypocritical distaste for the Varia and their services, despite making use of them regularly. Enrico is murdered by Squalo, the Rain Officer. Massimo by Belphegor, the Storm Officer. Federico is killed by the retired Varia Quality Catalin, Aria Giglio Nero's Storm Guardian. Vongola Skies are known for their intuition and foresight. In some subconscious level Nono knew that Varia would murder his boys.

* MamaBear: A pregnant Aria Giglio Nero decides to delay her baby's birth a la [[AnimeAndManga/OnePiece Portgas D. Rouge]] because otherwise her daughter would be suspected to be Federico's as well (she is) and she refuses to let Yuni become a puppet for the Vongola Family.

** PlayedForDrama when Xanxus learns Dorea's age when she married him. For a witch, marrying is okay when you have your [=OWLs=], so girls often find a husband when they are fifteen or sixteen years-old. But in a Mafia world, having a sexual experience with someone under sixteen years old is considered as pedophily, meaning that Xanxus is flat-out horrified to discover he slept with a barely fifteen-years-old. He gets over it easily enough, though.

* ValuesDissonance: In-universe examples: The Wizarding world has its own social code, meaning that the Muggleborns are often rude and insulting without any malice. Dorea has to break it to a eleven years-old Hermione and gave her books about etiquette in order to correct her demeanour.
** A Zabini auditor feels justified in burning alive a Mafia heir because the guy was a rapist, and quotes ancient Roma laws recommanding it as a punishment to Squalo.
** PlayedForDrama when Xanxus learns Dorea's age when she married him. For a witch, marrying is okay when you have your [=OWLs=], so girls often find a husband when they are fifteen or sixteen years-old. But in a Mafia world, having a sexual experience with someone under sixteen years old is considered as pedophily, meaning that Xanxus is flat-out horrified to discover he slept with a barely fifteen-years-old. He gets over it easily enough, though.
** Zabini, particularly the Royals, equate closed-couple dancing as foreplay to sex, or more intimate than sex when between a married couple. This was never explained to Dorea in enough detail, so when she tried to dance with one of her Guardians, Xanxus flew into a BerserkerRage and burned her arm, causing her personal ward to throw him out the window in shock. They make up later though.
** Due to the dancing thing mentioned above, when Nono forced Xanxus to dance with marriageable of Guardian eligiable young women at Vongola Alliance Balls, he was essentially pimping Xanxus out. Luckily, Xanxus had some Veela blood, to whom dancing equates to hunting, so he could fall back on those instincts by imagining his dance partners dead. Nevertheless, the violent daydreaming while not being able to actually kill, the feeling of wrongness from being whored out and being automatically disliked for being a whore's son meant Xanxus was teetering on the edge of insanity when he met Squalo.
** When Spiderman finds themselves on a kinda date with Daphne Greengrass, their Squad Leader Hawkeye purposelly stays in the room to ensure Spiderman is not going to goof or be hurt by the witch. Daphne doesn't protest his presence, apparently considering him as Spiderman's chaperone - someone watching over a younger one's virtue and reputation.

** The majority of all Lightnings have been brainwashed into being the ideal MeatShield. Needless to say, socialising was not included in their training. Tyrant and Lektor have been making progress on deprogramming them, though.

** Dorea is [[spoiler: a descendant of Giotto Vongola Primo, because his mother remarried a Potter. Yes, she is eligible for Decima]], but would rather avoid that mess or break the system entirely.

** One tries to attack Dorea [[OnlyTheWorthMayPass in a friendly way]] but her [[DeflectorShields personal Flame Ward]] throws him into the wall, breaking the majority of his bones. It only reacted this harshly because [[spoiler: she was pregnant with her's and Xanxus' fourth child]].

** Zabini, particularly the Royals, equate closed-couple dancing as foreplay to sex, or more intimate than sex when between a married couple. This was never explained to Dorea in enough detail, so when she tried to dance with one of her Guardians, Xanxus flew into a BeserkerRage and burned her arm, causing her personal ward to throw him out the window in shock. They make up later though.

* DivineRightOfKings: Downplayed with the various Lordships in the Magical World. Only the Family Head can use the Family Magic, but the Head by law isn't always the the Heir to the Magic Family.

** The Zabini. They are descended from a Titan, a wizard powerful enough to be worshipped as a Forge/Fire God, the predatory avian Sirens and some Veela here and there. These fireproof peoples have their own separate nation, like poetry, art and music of all kinds. They are also EnragedByIdiocy, think the death sentence is perfectly reasonable if properly monitored and strong enough to physically rip you in half. Xanxus fits right in.

* BecomingTheMask: When his twin is petrified by Slytherin's Basilisk, George goes and hides amongst the Slytherin fourth-years under the "Jerry Prewett" persona, a reserved and quite serious young man - {{Justified}} by his depression over Fred's condition. However, he refused to relinquish the persona when Fred was cured and it's mentioned he identifies more as Jerry than George nowadays.

* EvilAunt: Bellatrix Lestrange, while strictly speaking more of a cousin than an aunt to Dorea, certainly qualifies.

* HalfTruth: When Dumbledore asks Sirius the whereabouts of Rose Potter, James and Lily's daughter, Sirius answers that Rose Potter doesn't exist and James and Lily never had a child together. Lily ''did'' have a daughter, but Dorea is actually Sirius' by blood, James having adopted her because of his unability to produce an Heir.

* HasTwoDaddies: James couldn't sire children so potions were used with Sirius as the donor.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Everyone amongst the Vongola knows that Stefano Torretta - the cover name for Theodore Nott - was assigned to Federico Vongola's service after the Ottava's death in order to stop the skirt-chaser from banging every woman he sees. Federico actually ''asked'' for Stefano to be conscripted in his household [[spoiler: because he didn't wanted his Nonna's last Rain Guardian wasting away from depression and heartbreak.]]

** Squalo took over the Varia before giving it to Xanxus by [[spoiler: cutting off his own dominant hand and engaging former Varia Head and Sword Emperor Tyr in a days-long battle, beheading Tyr by the end.]]

** Tsuna's RagtagBunchOfMisfits was unofficially tested for psychiatric issues and the results are that Kyoya Hibari and Takeshi Yamamoto are the more normal and well-adjusted members in the band. For the record, Hibari is an AxeCrazy {{Jerkass}} and Yamamoto was DrivenToSuicide over a perceived failure at fourteen years old.

* TheJoysOfTorturingMooks: There are plenty of low-level Varia around, most of whom aren't named, making them handy canon fodder.
** Dorea visits Xanxus at Varia HQ, travelling on Sirius' motorbike. When mooks try to tamper with the unattended bike, the Magic on it turns them into rabbits for anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes. Some Varia assassins catch on and start filming gleefully.
** Lektor's first act after becoming Officer, is to [[spoiler: sacrifice a mook to [[MagicalLibrary the Varia Archive]] on the provided altar]] in exchange for personal information on his Lightnings.
** One tries to attack Dorea [[OnlyTheWorthMayPass in a friendly way]] but her [[DeflectorShields personal Flame Ward]] throws him into the wall, breaking the majority of his bones. It only reacted this harshly because [[spoiler: she was pregnant with her's and Xanxus' fourth child.]]
** Xanxus decides to bring a nesting King Cobra home as a present for Dorea, so makes a box out of his Mist Flames to put it in and makes an Apprentice Lightning named Tokki(meaning 'rabbit') carry it around the rest of the day, sit next to it during the midnight watch and the entire next day. Anything made with Mist Flames tends to abruptly evaporate once it reaches it's limit; Xanxus knows it will last a long time, but Tokki and the other mooks don't. Also, the box isn't even closed, so Tokki has to grab the snake and lift through the warded door when it goes hunting in the middle of the night. He also stares at the box, worrying that the snake's eggs will hatch into aggravated an deadly little cobras. Xanxus also rests the box on his lap when they take the plane home and goes to sleep, leaving the mooks to stare in horror at the snake snuggling underneath his jacket for warmth.
** Tokki is later Named Serpentari (meaning 'Snake Handler') for the aforementioned 'Snake In A Box' incident, and is getting really tired of his comrades putting live snakes in his bed.

* UnEqualRites: The Dying Will Flames are very different from wizardry, being explicitely from the soul - which gave it the name Soulfire in the magic communities - while wizardry comes from the blood. Narcissa blatantly considers Soulfire-users as different from magic-users, but places them above Muggles as they nonetheless possess power.

** Dorea is [[spoiler: a descendant of Giotto Vongola Primo, because his mother remarried a Potter. Yes, she is eligible for Decima,]] but would rather avoid that mess or break the system entirely.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green for Terrence Higgs. {{Justified}} as he's helping the Weasley twins to experiment with hair dye. It prompts Talbot to dub him "Green Knight".

* {{Doorstopper}}: Already more than 800,000 words and still ongoing.

** Tokki is later Named Serpentari(meaning 'Snake Handler') for the aforementioned 'Snake In A Box' incident, and is getting really tired of his comrades putting live snakes in his bed.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10727911/1/ Black Sky]]'' is a fanfic written by Umei no Mai. It begins with it's focus in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' setting but elements of ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' become more prominent as the story develops.

* TheWoobie: Tsuna is definitely this, from what little flashes we see of him. After [[spoiler: Lektor becomes the new Lightning Officer and Xanxu's Lightning Guardian,]] Twelve Years Later Lambo starts gaining horrific scarring. Tsuna blames himself.
** After fighting Mukuro and straining every muscle in his body, Tsuna suffers his new Mist being abruptly taken away by the Vindice, being stuck in hospital without his friends being able to visit during the weekdays, every single tiny movement like blinking or breathing hurting so badly that he can only cry silently before he gets his dose of painkillers, and he's still scared out of his mind about being trained to be Decimo. Fortunately, [[spoiler: his paternal grandma, yes, Iemitsu's mum, [[NeverMessWithGrandma Grandma Carla Alliata, just found out that she has an adorable grandson to dote on]]. She bursts into the Hospital and proceeds to tell Tsuna how wonderful and how much more intelligent than his father he is. She also says that she doesn't care about him being Decimo, she just wants him to try his best and be a good friend. She then sits by his bedside and reads manga with him.]] Reviewers mentioned that they cried tears of joy at this cute and fluffy scene.

* MissionFromGod: When she accidentally activates the Resurrection Stone, Dorea invokes a strange entity who asks her to find his long-lost son and care for him until his natural death. [[spoiler: It's implied the son is actually Kawahira.]]

** The Zabini. They are descended from a Titan, a wizard powerful enough to be worshipped as a Forge/Fire God, the predatory avian Sirens and some Veela here and there. These fireproof peoples have their own separate nation, like poetry, art and music of all kinds. They are also AllergicToIdiocy, think the death sentence is perfectly reasonable if properly monitored and strong enough to physically rip you in half. Xanxus fits right in.

* BadassCrew: The Varia.

* HeinzHybrid: The Zabinis boast descent from Titans by their Siren ancestry, a magical species created by the Palikoi, sons of the female Titan Aitna and her consort Hephaestus (here a powerful wizard rather than a god). They also have Veela blood and frequently marries humans in order to produce ''sane'' offspring, as an excess of Siren blood makes you a little ''bit'' feral.

* KlingonPromotion: The Varia has current and historical examples of this. Belphegor became Storm Officer [[spoiler: at eight years old]] by breaking in and murdering his predecessor. Squalo took over the Varia before giving it to Xanxus by [[spoiler: cutting off his own dominant hand and engaging former Varia Head and Sword Emperor Tyr in a days-long battle, beheading Tyr by the end.]] This is subverted when Xanxus returns to the Varia and kills [[TheMole Ottabio]] for being a dirty traitor and puts all of Cloud Division through TrainingFromHell. The Vongola spy takes this to mean Xanxus is the new Cloud Officer, not recognising Xanxus as Nono's disgraced adopted son.

** Lektor is TheSociopath. And not even a particularly high-functioning one. He may or may not be a cannibal, joined the Varia solely to fund his research, is happy doing paperwork, will HumanSacrifice to the local MagicalLibrary in exchange for paperwork, thinks that [[DisproportionateRetribution [[spoiler: turning someone inside out(painless, but resulting in four hours of sensory deprivation)]] is an appropriate punishment for stealing a book]] and relies on holding Tarot readings to decipher peoples feelings. Even more terrifying is that his Patronus is a rabbit. Although, it's stated that he's fond of Monty Python. Which makes the rabbit Patronus even more horrifying.

* StealthInsult: Beautifully delivered by Dorea when Dumbledore tries to ingrate himself to her by suggesting to cast protective charms upon Hermione for the Second Task. Dorea answers she would prefer Professor Moody - actually Barty Crouch Jr under Polyjuice - as the caster as ''he'' takes seriously his students' well-being. That's right, Dorea would rather trust a ''Death Eater'' than the so-called Leader of the Light.

** Dorea visits Xanxus at Varria HQ, travelling on Sirius' motorbike. When mooks try to tamper with the unattended bike, the Magic on it turns them into rabbits for anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes. Some Varia assassins catch on and start filming gleefully.

** One tries to attack Dorea [[OnlyTheWorthMayPass in a friendly way]] but her [[DeflectorShields personal Flame Ward]] throws him into the wall, breaking the majority of his bones.

* ObliviousToLove: Daphne adores Dorea but knows her feelings aren't returned.