History Fanfic / NoHoper

%%* RationalFic

A DeadFic, it has since been resurrected as the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3693505 NoHoper Series]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, starting with [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49678486/chapters/125389999 'LightBringer',]] attributed to the author and fellow Troper [[CameBackStrong now known as KevinBurnett]]. This new version of the fic is set to be 30 chapters long and updates every week, starting from the end of August 2023.

!! Both versions of ''[=NoHoper=]'' provide examples of:
* AlternateUniverseFic
* AppealToObscurity
* ByronicHero
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Crossover Crossover]]
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DeconstructionFic
* FantasticRacism
* FixFic
* FusionFic
* HateFic
* InnerMonologue
* LetsSeeYouDoBetter
* LightIsNotGood
* PsychologicalHorror
* RationalFic
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism
* SwitchingPOV
* TransplantedCharacterFic
* UnreliableNarrator
* WellIntentionedExtremist
* WholePlotReference
* VanHelsingHateCrimes
* YouAreWhatYouHate

* {{Familiar}}: Cleo

* FreakOut: [[spoiler: Light, when Drew gives him the newcomer Hazing of Extreme Gore.]]

* HateFic

* [[SmallNameBigEgo Small Name, Big Ego]]: From the author, no less, and usually in [[CouchGag Couch Gags]].

* TalkingAnimal: Cleo. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that having a Feline Affinity is pretty common for vampyres in HON-verse (an affinity that would allow for such communication), and subverted in that it's Light's affinity and thus only he seems to understand her wittering. Of course, WordOfGod proclaims this development as simply for the RuleOfFunny.

* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: when Neferet assumes Light [[spoiler: has been possessed by Kalona, her lover and the BigBad]]. Light has no clue what's going on but for the sake of self-preservation plays along with it. [[TheBaroness When the scary vampyre lady]] asks you if you're [[AGodAmI a God]], [[{{Film/Ghostbusters 1984}} say yes.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Aphrodite, when she confesses her romantic feelings for Zoey.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob
* AlternateHistory

* AnArmAndALeg
* ArcWords:
** ''"Whatever happens is supposed to happen."''

* BadassBookworm: Light, as shown not only by his physical prowess as a fencer, but all the books he carries (and reads, if his liberal use of ShoutOuts, including to Lovecraft, Jonathan Swift, Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', Melville's 'Moby-Dick' and H.G. Well's 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' (to name a few) is anything to go by).

---> '''Neferet:''' "Shall we hear from someone ''worthwhile'', for a change?"

* BodyHorror

---> '''Light:''' “Who, me? The unlicensed, emotionally vulnerable, exploited minor? The one you taught to unknowingly commit murder from the age of 12 and forced to commit murder for you 13 more times? The one this security camera can attest was knowingly held under an unenforceable contract to be executed no matter what he chose? The one who was bribed into carrying out your dirty work with money, academic opportunity and emotional bribery? The one this House of Night already suspects was mentally warped by your study? Yes, between me and the man who [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau ''Dr Moreau’d'']] his way through 15 orphaned children, [[DeadpanSnarker ''I'' should be worried.]]"

* CurbStompBattle: [[GoForTheEye Damien is not prepared for his bout]].

* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Light has one with the rest of the circle, portraying himself as the observant tactician ready to call the others out when required when he stays quiet, only to ask Damien if he actually overheard the boy refer to him as "Schrodinger's Queer".
* EvilPrincipal

* GayBestFriend: Subverted from canon, as Damien and Jack gain new dimensions.
* GeniusBookClub: Light's propensity for literature references, not to mention

** Soichiro tells Yamamoto to accompany Sayu to a New Year's temple visit, as "This isn't [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh 'Azumanga Daioh'."]]
* GratuitousLatin: Zoey refers to [[BrownNotePerson the Grand High Priestess Shekinah's aura]] as a ''Divina Gloria''.
* [[{{Main/Hallucinations}} Hallucinations]]: During a medical procedure, Light looks into the corner of the clinic room to see a [[EldritchAbomination great floating eye]]. It's not certain if it's real or not, but when he's back in the clinic room again in the next chapter, it's no longer there, but a surveillance camera is.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters

* LimitedSocialCircle: Zoey and her circle, emphasis on ''limited''.
* [[{{Main/Matriarchy}} Matriarchy]]: Played with, taking the Enlightened Matriarchy envisioned by the original authors and emphasising its actual state as a Patriarchy Flip that only reinforces the same patriarchal gendered stereotyoes, making vampyre society a Matriarchy in Name Only. For example, as vampyre men are only valued for physical prowess and talents and vampyre women are valued for intellectual and spiritual talents as high priestesses, vampyre men do not have significant power except as professors or warriors, with no room for advancement (as "high priests" are not a thing). It can still raise an eyebrow if too many vampyre men are on staff teaching ''liberal arts'' subjects.

* MedicalHorror

* NobleBigot

* OCStandIn:
** Professor Vento, previously only named briefly in the [[Literature/TheHouseOfNight House of Night]] series and never once seen, is a seen character, a vampyre man named Professor Aston Vento, who teaches Music and was formerly Stevie Rae's mentor.
* OhCrap:
** Light has one such moment when Professor Penthesilea finds his copy of Akira Suzuki's ''Criminal in the Coffin''; after getting 20 detentions just for talking back in an earlier lesson, he could be forgiven for thinking he'd earn a suspension (or an unfortunate accident) for carrying around anti-vampyre propaganda in a vampyre school. [[spoiler: She simply asks to borrow it.]]

* OppositesAttract: Light and Jack, the former being a paranoid genius ice queen and the latter being... well, [[{{Main/Keet}} Jack.]] Light starts to makes an effort to reach out and be his friend, starting with a token gift.

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Our Vampyres Are Different]]: Some established facts about the vampyres of the House of Night series lore are different or expanded upon, mostly to [[FixFic make it make sense]].

* ProfessorGuineaPig

---> Only now did I understand it: the vampyre always wanted a sacrifice; she just wanted it ''alive''.

* ShoutOut

** A number of references are made to the works of [[Creator/HPLovecraft H.P. Lovecraft]] throughout.

*** Light likens the ritual to that in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Dagon Dagon]], based on [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth The Shadow Over Innsmouth]].

** Light notes that the Drama class is mostly female with one of these to all-female musical theatre company [[Creator/TakarazukaRevue the Takarazuka Revue]].
** At the idea of Neferet hiring a replacement who would be [[EvilTeacher just as terrible as her]], Light declares that [[{{WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons}} he for one "would welcome our new overlord"]].

** Diana tells Light that her migraines "would have turned [[Creator/CharlieSheen Charlie Sheen]] [[HeelFaithTurn to God]]."

---> '''Zoey''': "Me, questionable? I don’t even ''question''. I might be a vamp, but I’m a good little American vamp. Support the troops, celebrate Thanksgiving, ''Obey''. I love the [[Film/TheyLive bubble-gum business]], [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Disney mouse-ears and all]]."
*** The [[Film/TheyLive 'They Live']] reference comes right back when Drew wears a shirt for the Cleansing ritual depicting one of the blue aliens from the film, right along with their infamous slogan, 'OBEY'.

** Funnily enough, many of the fictional vampire films we know and love, including [[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire 'Interview with the Vampire']], [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Nosferatu Nosferatu]], and [[Film/VampiresKiss Vampire's Kiss]] are still present in this world to be name-dropped; they just [[SpellMyNameWithAnS spell 'vampire' with an 'i']] for distinction's sake.

---> '''Light''': “I don’t put my faith solely in things like ‘religion’. Shinto says I should aim to be ‘godlike’, and Ernie Hudson once said, ''‘if someone asks if you’re a god, say yes’''. ''My'' point is, I need hard evidence, people lie, and ''The Ghostbusters'' is hardly a good source of life advice.”

** Light's choice of reading material in the Starbucks is the thematically relevant [[Literature/LetTheRightOneIn ''Let the Right One In'']].
** Light suggests Dr Primrose could refuse any interview he wants if he helps him in his plot, or even [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow "take a few]] - be the [[Creator/TomCruise Tom Cruise]] of Vrykanthropology if you wanted".

** Shekinah and Neferet, about the [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight Series:]]
---> '''Neferet''': "If that isn't bad enough, you know who else has a Literature degree from BYU? [[Creator/StephenieMeyer Stephenie Meyer]]."
---> '''Shekinah''': "Ah. Not to taint her with another person's reputation, but she may genuinely be unsuitable."
* [[{{Main/Technobabble}} Technobabble]]: Light describes the scientific basis for Marking in vampyre fledglings - or "vrykanthrophysic metamorphosis" - and his process for creating a vaccine against it.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm
* YouDoNotWantToKnow

** When back in their room after his minor surgical procedure, Light apparently started telling Jack suggestive jokes [[Literature/NewMoon while under the influence of Percocet]].

* BadassBookworm: Light, as shown not only by his physical prowess as a fencer, but all the books he carries (and reads, if his liberal use of ShoutOuts is anything to go by).

* GenreSavvy: Light refers to [[MotherGoddess Nyx]] as [[MotherOfAThousandYoung "the Mother of a Million Children"]] - all Lovecraftian implications included.

** Funnily enough, many of the fictional vampire films we know and love, including [[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire 'Interview with the Vampire']] and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Nosferatu Nosferatu]], are still present in this world to be name-dropped; they just [[SpellMyNameWithAnS spell 'vampire' with an 'i']] for distinction's sake.

* [[{{Main/Matriarchy}} Matriarchy]]: Played with, taking the Enlightened Matriarchy envisioned by the original authors and emphasising its actual state as a Patriarchy Flip that only reinforces the same patriarchal gendered stereotyoes, making vampyre society a Matriarchy in Name Only. For example, as vampyre men are only valued for physical prowess and talents and vampyre women are valued for intellectual and spiritual talents as high priestesses, vampyre men do not have significant power except as professors or warriors, with no room for advancement (as "high priests" are not a thing). It can still raise an eyebrow if too many vampyre men are on staff teaching ''liberal arts'' subjects.

A DeadFic, it has since been resurrected as the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3693505 NoHoper Series]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, starting with [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49678486/chapters/125389999 'LightBringer',]] attributed to the author and fellow Troper [[CameBackStrong now known as KevinBurnett]]. This new version of the fic updates every week, starting at the end of August 2023.

* GratuitousLatin: Zoey refers to [[spoiler: [[BrownNotePerson the Grand High Priestess Shekinah's aura]] as a ''Divina Gloria''.]]