History Fanfic / MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower

* TechnologyUplift: Maria introduces the concept of intravenous infusion to Sorcier from her old world, disguising it as something she read about in an ancient Friedonian book. It would prove instrumental in saving Katerina when her [[spoiler:Dark Magic-induced coma]] lasted several weeks.

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The Student Council, which includes the Third and Fourth Prince of Sorcier, the son and daughter of the Prime Minister, several other high-ranking nobles, and Maria, rumoured to have wandered the countryside, taking down Dark Magic wielding mages. They handle most of the paperwork involved in running the school, and no mention is made of a headmaster for the Academy.

* AmazonChaser: [[spoiler:Raphael Walt]] is unashamed about his attraction to Maria Campbell, who he admits is more skilled then him at swordsmanship [[spoiler:and Dark Magic.]]

* [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Armor Piercing Comment]]: [[spoiler: Sirius Dieke]] goes utterly berserk the first time Katarina [[spoiler: calls him "Rafael Walt"]]. This also prompts the InternalReveal of [[spoiler: Maria realizing that Katarina is "an idiot" instead of a cunning and subtle seductress.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: The Third Prince mentions to the Wards of the Kingdom that they would no longer be able to meet their savior, [[spoiler:Miss Maria Campbell]], to their sorrow. He then introduces them to their new guardian, [[spoiler:Lady Maria, Knight of Sorcier,]] to they joy of everyone, especially after she gives him a kick in the shin for making the kids cry.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: The dark magic spirit tries to possess Maria when Rafael's body gives out, only to end up in a HopelessBossFight against the memories and experience of Lady Maria of Cainhurst.]]

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Sophia expresses a burning interest in the firearms Maria's making, even putting in a commission and asking if they can be made with multiple barrels, self-reloading, and big enough to "remove bridges, castles, dragons and inconvenient gods", a desire that makes Keith and even Maria feel disturbed.

* ChekhovsSkill: Katarina's training in swordsmanship, introduced in Chapter 2, doesn't get used properly until [[spoiler:the School Festival's play, where the heroine, played by Maria, has an epic [[FinalFight final duel]] with the villaness, played by a disguised Katarina, to the amazement of everyone.]]

* CoolHat: Maria of Cainhurst had a nifty tricorne hat that Maria Campbell misses. She finally replaces it just before [[spoiler: the climactic fight against Sirius Dieke]].

* TheCorruptor: Sirius uses his dark magic to exacerbate people's hate towards each other.

* CurbStompBattle: Maria versus [[spoiler: Sirius is about as fair as putting a novice against one of the best swordswomen in Yharnam can be expected to be. The following BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between the Dark Spirit possessing Sirius and Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower is if anything, even more unfair.]]

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. Maria quickly finds that she cannot rely on her past life's memories in a fight because her body is untrained. However, later on when fighting [[spoiler: Sirius]] her using a dagger in her off hand instead of a shortsword causes it to repeatedly undershoot her swings with it. Given that she's ''not'' aiming to kill, however, this turns out to her advantage.

* ForScience: One of the Ministry employees researching blood types injects another person's blood into his own, which turns out to be incompatible. After nearly dying for blood clotting, he exclaims that they should repeat the experiment. At which point, Maria knocks him out.

* FriendToAllChildren: The Third Prince towards the Wards of the Kingdom, ie the children Maria rescued, earning him the unintentional nickname of Uncle Prince.

* HeyYou: Katarina repeatedly called Maria "Maria", which Maria insists is improper for a noble to address a mere commoner by. [[spoiler:Even after Maria becomes knighted, she still insists that it's improper for her as a lowly knight to be called "Maria", rather than "Lady Campbell"]]. Maria threatens to forget how to bake, which spooks Katarina enough that she starts calling her "Miss Campbell" in her thoughts.
** Later, Maria allows Katarina to call her "[[spoiler:Lady]] Maria" and herself call Katarina "Lady Katarina", rather than "Lady Claes", after she impresses her with [[spoiler:her training and swordsmanship during the Student Festival's play.]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Maria spends much of the story thoroughly convinced that [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Katarina]] [[ObliviousToLove Claes]] is some sort of highly intelligent master seductress.

* InSpiteOfANail: Despite forging a genuine friendship with Maria, [[spoiler:Raphael Walt still goes through with his revenge on the nobility, putting Katarina in a Dark-Magic induced coma.]]

* KingIncognito: It's implied that the King and Queen of Sorcier attended the Student Festival as Lady Redmane and her butler.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: One use of dark magic. [[spoiler: Maria later inverts this to recall specific memories (cookie instructions) that she had forgotten.]]
* LostTechnology: The books from the long fallen Marvelous Kingdom of Friedonia describe medical procedures such as intravenous infusions, blood transfusions, and ABO blood typing, which have seemingly been lost to time by present day.

** The ABO blood typing, which is named Sword, Shield, Armed, or Bared type blood. Otherwise known as Campbell-typing, as she was the only one who remembered to take notes during the discovery.

* PenPushingPresident: The Student Council in General and the President in particular. Sirius and Maria even have a running joke about being the Head Clerk instead of the President.

** There are vast and long-lasting complications to the aftermath of [[spoiler: the fight with the dark spirit]]. At the same time, [[spoiler: no one was permanently harmed, and Rafael is a victim of the Marchioness possessed by a dark spirit, so he gets off with probation once he's freed.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It takes ritual murder to give someone dark magic, but having dark magic on its own is not a crime because most people dabbling in dark magic usually give powers to a (disposable) third party first, in order to test whether it works, so those victims get probation.
** It likely says something about [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} Yharnam]] that Maria believes the only reason she would be summoned to the capital is for some kind of execution.

** The Student Festival's play is based off ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''.

* SimplemindedWisdom: Katarina observes that if Sirius really wanted to kill her he'd have killed her after putting her to sleep, so he probably is wants to talk about something.

* SoProudOfYou: Maria is so proud of Katarina for [[spoiler:not only showing up to partake in the play even though she didn't want to, but also for her training and swordsmanship, allowing the two of them to put on an epic final duel between the heroine and villianess, that she even allows her to [[FirstNameBasis call her "Lady Maria"]] in private.]]

* StrangelyArousing: Maria, who found the description of blood transfusions in an ancient medical textbook to be very erotic, to the point where she [[spoiler:pounced on Raphael when they later met.]]

* TechnologyUplift: Maria introduces the concept of intravenous infusion to Sorcier for her old world, disguising it as something she read about in an ancient Friedonian book. It would prove instrumental in saving Katerina when her [[spoiler:Dark-Magic induced coma]] lasted several weeks.

-->'''Maria''': ''"It would be in the coin of greatest value to the realm, lives and power."''

Can be read on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/maria-campbell-of-the-astral-clocktower-hamefura-bloodborne-crossover-yes-really.870472/ spacebattles]] or [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13654825/1/Maria-Campbell-of-the-Astral-Clocktower Fanfiction dot net]].

** Katarina's name from her past life is revealed to be Yamada Tae, from ''Anime/ZombielandSaga''.

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: The dark magic spirit tries to possess Maria when Rafael's body gives out, only to ends up in a HopelessBossFight against the memories and experience of Maria of Cainhurst.]]

* FracturedFairyTale: Mary Hunt uses the tale of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Goodwife Bathory]] baking nobles into pies as evidence against trusting Maria (a commoner).

* FlashStep: Quickening is specifically noted to be something separate from Maria's BloodMagic and thus something she can perform in Sorcier.

* HeyYou: Katarina repeatedly called Maria 'Maria' which Maria insists is improper for a noble to address a mere commoner by. [[spoiler:Even after Maria becomes knighted, she still insists that it's improper for her as a lowly knight to be called 'Maria', rather than 'Lady Campbell']]. Maria threatens to forget how to bake, which spooks Katarina enough that she starts calling her 'Miss Campbell' in her thoughts.

** Contrary to her [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny personality,]] Katarina's swordsmanship is BoringButPractical and she diligently practices in the early mornings before class.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It takes ritual murder to give someone dark magic, but having dark magic on its own is not a crime because most people dabbling in dark magic first give powers to a (disposable) third party in order to test whether it works, so those victims get probation.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Maria threatens to 'forget' how to bake sweets whenever Katarina misbehaves, usually by calling Maria improperly.

** The King of Sorcier, Artorias Stuart, who was teased for being easily mistaken for a maiden, reminiscent of Saber, ie the female King of Camelot who hid her gender, Artoria Pendragon from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.

* StrangelyArousing: Maria who found the description of blood transfusions in an ancient medical textbook to be very erotic, to the point where she [[spoiler:pounced on Rapheal when they later met.]]

** Taken UpToEleven when all of her various heroic deeds earn her a ''knighthood'', yet Maria ''still'' can't seem to [[HumbleHero wrap her head around the idea that what she did was in any way out of the ordinary]].

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Once Maria [[spoiler: figures out that Katarina is naive and innocent,]] she becomes so protective that the others long for the days Maria avoided everyone.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Maria has too many bad memories to realize her new life is LighterAndSofter than her old life as a Cainhurst Vileblood.

** A Katarina Interlude, which is written in the format of [[Literature/Worm Worm's in-universe Parahuman Online forums.]]

* OneNoteCook: Raphael Walt's tea is so distinctive, Katarina and Maria can TheNoseKnows it.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Mary considers Prince Geordo to be "The '''ADVERSARY''' And Enemy Of The Alliance" due to his engagement to Katarina. Keith also refers to him this way at one point.

* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: A prime case. Maria of Cainhurst was a noble of the highest house, with the instilled etiquette and upbringing thereof, before she was reborn as Maria Campbell, a low-born commoner of (self-claimed) questionable parentage. Her former life's manners don't so much as shine through, but blaze like a beacon of eldritch propriety, skewed morals, and unblemished comportment. She frequently corrects nobles on their improper behaviours and assumptions, while remaining unfailingly polite, as behooves a commoner.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Maria has too many bad memories to realize her new life is LighterAndSofter than her life as a Cainhurst Vileblood.

* RealityEnsues: Because Katarina's friends were by her bedside [[spoiler: during her coma]] their grades dropped enough that Prince Jeord couldn't become Student Council President.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It takes ritual murder to give someone dark magic, but having dark magic on its own is not a crime because most people dabbling in dark magic first give powers to a (disposable) third party to test whether it works, so those victims get probation.
* RefugeInAudacity: When rumors begin claiming that Katarina is pregnant [[spoiler: since she's in a coma and her classmates don't know why]], the one naming Mary Hunt [[DudeLooksLikeALady as the father]] is so outrageous Maria pauses to consider it.

** Later averted when Prince Geordo tries everything short of an abuse of power to bring his grades up and qualify to become Student Council President, but fails.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Mary considers Prince Geordo to be "The ADVERSARY And Enemy Of The Alliance" due to his engagement with Katarina.
* SupremeChef: Maria's sweets (and threats to stop making them,) are about the only thing able to make Katarina behave.

* TempleOfDoom: One of the school's test is set up to resemble this. [[WrongAssumption Maria naturally assumes it to be genuinely lethal, and is astonished that all her classmates survive.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Maria observes that [[spoiler: the Dark Magic spirit]] could have had revenge by the third month of the prior school year by asking friends for help.

* [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Armor Piercing Comment]]: [[spoiler: Sirius Dieke]] goes utterly berserk the first time Katarina [[spoiler: calls him “Rafael Walt”]]. This also prompts the InternalReveal of [[spoiler: Maria realizing that Katarina is “an idiot” instead of a cunning and subtle seductress.]]
* AssimilationBackfire: [[spoiler: Sirius attempting to posess Maria opens him up to being pulled into her dream with her. Her ''Hunter's'' Dream.]]
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: The dark magic spirit tries to possess Maria when Rafael’s body gives out, only to ends up in a HopelessBossFight against the memories and experience of Maria of Cainhurst.]]

--> "...a shrewd, cunning mind possessed of great power and influence … a subtle and manipulative seductress without compare."
* TheCorruptor: Sirius uses his dark magic to exacerbate people’s hate towards each other.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Katarina is proven right in her guess that the Student Council President didn’t really want them dead and in her refusal to kill him after he passed out.
* CurbStompBattle: Maria versus [[spoiler: Sirius posessing him is about as fair as putting a novice against one of the best swordswomen in Yharnam can be expected to be. The following BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between the Dark Spirit posessing Sirius and Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower is if anything, even more unfair.]]
* TheCynic: Maria, due to her past life’s experiences.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Zig-zagged. Maria quickly finds that she cannot rely on her past life’s memories in a fight because her body is untrained. However, later on when fighting [[spoiler: Sirius]] her using a dagger in her off hand instead of a shortsword causes it to repeatedly undershoot her swings with it. Given that she's ''not'' aiming to kill however, this turns out to her advantage.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Maria versus [[spoiler: the spirit of Dark Magic in her dreams]]. Maria's [[spoiler: astral self is ''7 feet tall'' and still dwarfed by the spirit. In this case, David rips goliath apart until Goliath is about the same size as David, then proceeds to tear Goliath's metaphorical heart out.]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Rafael''': “Miss Campbell, would you take a walk with me?” ]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Maria''': “"Oh? Are you trying to get me alone for some nefarious purpose, former-Head Clerk?"]]
* GrowlingGut: Maria mistakes Katarina’s for an actual beast at one point.
* HealingHands: Maria’s Light Magic, which can mend soreness and broken bones alike.

* HiddenDepths: Despite her JadeColoredGlasses, Maria has a strong sense of justice and later [[spoiler: works to keep Katarina “safe” from her harem, as she believes Katarina is not mentally competent to consent to intimate behavior]].
** Contrary to her [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny personality,]] Katarina’s swordsmanship is BoringButPractical and she diligently practices in the early mornings before class.
* HumbleHero: Maria insists that her summer holidays’ actions didn’t qualify her for any kind of reward.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Maria, repeatedly. Usually of blood, but she’d settle for alcohol too.

* {{Irony}}: Light magic can’t be used to generate visible light.
* JustIgnoreIt: Maria’s first strategy at handling nasty rumors, until Katarina starts poking at Maria’s love life. It mostly works afterward for non-Katarina annoyances.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: One use of dark magic. [[spoiler: Maria later inverts this to recall specific memories (cookie instructions) she had forgotten.]]

* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler: Rafael Walt]] repeats Katarina’s words when he thanks Maria.

* NailedToTheWagon: No matter her cravings, Maria Campbell literally can’t get any blood in this world like Maria of Cainhurst drank because the magic is different.
* NotBloodSiblings: Zig-zagged. Maria briefly believes that Katarina is trying to seduce her and that they may be half-siblings, but neither assumption is true.

* NotSoDifferent: Maria and Katarina have totally opposite personalities – one wearing JadeColoredGlasses and the other living in a RoseTintedNarrative – but they both constantly misinterpret others’ actions and motivations, coming across as similarly oblivious to personal relationships and significant developments. Sirius even points out that both are good at making people think they’re [[ObfuscatingStupidity less knowledgeable]] than they are (and he doesn’t even know about Katarina’s meta-knowledge).
* OneNoteCook: Raphael Walt’s tea is so distinctive, Katarina and Maria can TheNoseKnows it.
** Maria bakes excellent pastries, though she can’t successfully make them with blood yet.

* RealityEnsues: Because Katarina’s friends were by her bedside [[spoiler: during her coma]] their grades dropped enough that Prince Jeord couldn’t become Student Council President.
** There are vast and long-lasting complications to the aftermath of [[spoiler: the fight with the dark spirit]]. At the same time, [[spoiler: no one was permanently harmed, and Rafael is a victim of the Marchioness possessed by a dark spirit, so he gets off with probation once he’s freed.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: When rumors begin claiming that Katarina is pregnant [[spoiler: since she’s in a coma and her classmates don’t know why]], the one naming Mary Hunt [[DudeLooksLikeALady as the father]] is so outrageous Maria pauses to consider it.

* SimplemindedWisdom: Katarina observes that if Sirius really wanted to kill her he’d have killed her after putting her to sleep, so he probably is wants to talk about something.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Mary considers Prince Geordo to be “The ADVERSARY And Enemy Of The Alliance” due to his engagement with Katarina.
* SupremeChef: Maria’s sweets (and threats to stop making them,) are about the only thing able to make Katarina behave.

* TempleOfDoom: One of the school’s test is set up to resemble this. [[WrongAssumption Maria naturally assumes it to be genuinely lethal, and is astonished that all her classmates survive.]]

* ThinkNothingOfIt: Whenever recompense for Maria’s actions is discussed.
--> '''Third Prince''': Not even reimbursement? You did spend a lot of money so those children can stay at an inn.
--> '''Maria''': That was money well spent in their care. I parted with it gladly.
* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: A prime case. Maria of Cainhurst was a noble of the highest house, with the instilled etiquette and upbringing thereof, before she was reborn as Maria Campbell, a low-born commoner of (self-claimed) questionable parentage. Her former life’s manners don’t so much as shine through, but blaze like a beacon of eldritch propriety, skewed morals, and unblemished comportment. She frequently corrects nobles on their improper behaviours and assumptions, while remaining unfailingly polite, as behooves a commoner.

Can be read on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/maria-campbell-of-the-astral-clocktower-hamefura-bloodborne-crossover-yes-really.870472/ spacebattles]].

--> [[spoiler: ''Rafael'': “Miss Campbell, would you take a walk with me?” ]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Maria'': “"Oh? Are you trying to get me alone for some nefarious purpose, former-Head Clerk?"]]

--> ''Third Prince'': Not even reimbursement? You did spend a lot of money so those children can stay at an inn.
--> ''Maria'': That was money well spent in their care. I parted with it gladly.

* DavidVersusGoliath: Maria versus [[spoiler: the spirit of Dark Magic in her dreams]]. Maria's [[spoiler: astral self is **7 feet tall** and still dwarfed by the spirit. In this case, David rips goliath apart until Goliath is about the same size as David, then proceeds to tear Goliath's metaphorical heart out.]]

--> [[spoiler: **Rafael**: “Miss Campbell, would you take a walk with me?” ]]
--> [[spoiler: **Maria**: “"Oh? Are you trying to get me alone for some nefarious purpose, former-Head Clerk?"]]

--> **Third Prince**: Not even reimbursement? You did spend a lot of money so those children can stay at an inn.
--> **Maria**: That was money well spent in their care. I parted with it gladly.

* DavidVersusGoliath: Maria versus [[spoiler: the spirit of Dark Magic in her dreams]]. Maria's [[spoiler: astral self is 7bfeet tall and still dwarfed by the spirit. In this case, David rips goliath apart until Goliath is about the same size as David, then proceeds to tear Goliath's metaphorical heart out.]]

--> [[spoiler: Rafael: “Miss Campbell, would you take a walk with me?” ]]
--> [[spoiler: Maria: “"Oh? Are you trying to get me alone for some nefarious purpose, former-Head Clerk?"]]

* NoNameGiven: Averted, as the dream sequence reveals that Monkey Girl was named Yamada Tae.

In this case, the canon [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Maria Campbell]] awakens her past life's memories as [[BloodMagic Maria]] [[BloodKnight Cainhurst]] years before she and Katarina (reincarnated as per canon) meet.

* DavidVersusGoliath: Maria versus [[spoiler: the spirit of Dark Magic in her dreams]]. Maria's [[spoiler: astral self is 7-feet tall and still dwarfed by the spirit. In this case, David rips goliath apart until Goliath is about the same size as David, then proceeds to tear Goliath's metaphorical heart out.]]

* MistakenForRomance: Maria mistakes several nobles as [[DecadentCourt trying to seduce her]] several times. Later on, classmates mistake her as confessing love to Nicol Ascort.

** Later averted when Prince Geord tries everything short of an abuse of power to bring his grades up and qualify to become Student Council President, but fails.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Mary considers Prince Jeord to be “The ADVERSARY And Enemy Of The Alliance” due to his engagement with Katarina.

A crossover between VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} and LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom (yes, really,) by Creator/ShadowCrystalMage, this story explores what happens when a story based around someone who knows they're [[GenreSavvy in an Otome Game]] runs into someone reincarnated without meta-knowledge.

* TheAtoner: How Maria Campbell feels after Maria Cainhurst.

* [[spoiler: BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: The dark magic spirit tries to possess Maria when Rafael’s body gives out, only to ends up in a HopelessBossFight against the memories and experience of Maria Cainhurst.]]

* CoolHat: Maria Cainhurst had a nifty tricorne hat that Maria Campbell misses. She finally replaces it just before [[spoiler: the climactic fight against Sirius Dieke]].

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Averted. Maria quickly finds that she cannot rely on her past life’s memories in a fight because her body is untrained.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Maria versus [[spoiler: the spirit of Dark Magic]].

* NailedToTheWagon: No matter her cravings, Maria Campbell literally can’t get any blood in this world like Maria Cainhurst drank because the magic is different.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Maria has too many bad memories to realize her new life is LighterAndSofter than her life as a Cainhurst.

A crossover between VideoGame/[[Bloodborne]] and LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom (yes, really,) by Creator/ShadowCrystalMage, this story explores what happens when a story based around someone who knows they're [[GenreSavvy in an Otome Game]] runs into someone reincarnated without meta-knowledge.

A crossover between VideoGame/{Bloodborne} and LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom (yes, really,) by Creator/ShadowCrystalMage, this story explores what happens when a story based around someone who knows they're [[GenreSavvy in an Otome Game]] runs into someone reincarnated without meta-knowledge.

A crossover between VideoGame/Bloodborne and LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom (yes, really,) by Creator/ShadowCrystalMage, this story explores what happens when a story based around someone who knows they're [[GenreSavvy in an Otome Game]] runs into someone reincarnated without meta-knowledge.