History Literature / HereticalEdge

* DoNotCallMePaul: Felicity Chambers ''hates'' her first name, as it's a reminder of the mother who abandoned her, and insists on being called Flick instead. [[spoiler: At least until she learns ''why'' Joselyn vanished.]]

* WhamEpisode: Arc 5, [[https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/visitations-5-01/ Visitations]]. [[spoiler: Just for starters, Flick meets Ammon. Things only go downhill from there.]]

* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]: The day Flick Chambers turns eighteen promises to make her life a whole lot more dangerous. [[spoiler: Because the magical agreement keeping her safe from the Necromancer that kidnapped her mother will expire when she's an adult.]]

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler: Joselyn Chambers left her family to save Flick from being kidnapped into a life of servitude by an extremely dangerous and [[CompleteMonster legitimately evil]] Stranger.]]
* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]: The day Flick Chambers turns eighteen promises to make her life a whole lot more dangerous. [[spoiler: Because as soon as she's an adult, the magical agreement keeping her safe from the Necromancer that kidnapped her mother will expire.]]

* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]: The day Flick Chambers turns eighteen promises to make her life a whole lot more dangerous.

* IHateYouVampireDad: The father of one Hannah Owens was a [[AbusiveParents violently abusive alcoholic]]. Now he's a vampire. Their idea of a family reunion is trying to kill each other roughly once a year. [[spoiler: By the way, Hannah Owens is Avalon Sinclaire's birth name.]]

* IHateYouVampireDad: The father of one Hannah Owens was a [[AbusiveParents violently abusive alcoholic. Now he's a vampire. Their idea of a family reunion is trying to kill each other roughly once a year. [[spoiler: By the way, Hannah Owens is Avalon Sinclaire's birth name.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Avalon Sinclaire, the daughter of Headmistress Sinclaire, used to be a student at Eden's Garden. [[spoiler: Born Hannah Owens, [[DeathByChildBirth her mother died giving birth to her]], which led her father to become a [[AbusiveParents violently abusive alcholic]]. She was almost violently killed by a stranger when she was eleven and was taken to Eden's Garden to save her life. She was happy until an EntitledBastard who had helped her out in the past began sexually harassing and eventually assaulted her, and she killed him in self defense. She was then adopted and by Gaia Sinclaire, but now has to deal with Crossroads people that hate Eden's Garden giving her shit for having spent time there and the brother of the guy she killed is gunning for her. Oh, and apparently her father is still out there and she's determined to make herself a SelfMadeOrphan.]]

* DramaticIrony: There's a fair amount of this due to the story following the [[Worm/Literature]] model of using third person interludes to expand on an otherwise first person narrative.

* DramaticIrony: There's a fair amount of this due to the story following the [[Literature/Worm]] model of using third person interludes to expand on an otherwise first person narrative.

** There is also an ([[OneSideOfTheStory apparently]]) EvilCounterpart in Eden's Garden, another school which is much more... friendly to Strangers than Crossroads Academy is.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Avalon Sinclaire, the daughter of Headmistress Sinclaire, used to be a student at Eden's Garden. [[spoiler: Born Hannah Owens [[DeathByChildBirth her mother died giving birth to her]], which led her father to become a [[AbusiveParents violently abusive alcholic]]. She was almost violently killed by a stranger when she was eleven, and was taken to Eden's Garden to save her life. She was happy there until someone began sexually harassing her, which escalated to the point where she killed him in self defense. She was adopted and taken in by Gaia Sinclaire, but now has to deal with Crossroads people that hate Eden's Garden giving her shit for having spent time there and the brother of the guy she killed is gunning for her. Oh, and apparently her father is still out there and she's determined to make herself a SelfMadeOrphan.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Avalon Sinclaire, the daughter of Headmistress Sinclaire, used to be a student at Eden's Garden. [[spoiler: She later tells Flick that she's adopted, and her biological mother was killed by her father.]]

* HalfHumanHybrid: Asenath, daughter of the Akharu warrior Tiras and a Chinese woman. .

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Common among the teachers at Crossroads. For example, Professor Virginia Dare is ''probably'' the very same Virginia Dare who was born in Roanoke in 1587. Headmistress Gaia Sinclaire has been kicking around since the Middle Ages, and [[spoiler: Flick and Ammon's mother]] was born around the turn of the twentieth century.

* [[TellMeAboutMyFather Tell Me About My Mother]]: Flick has absolutely no desire to learn about or think of her MissingMom in any capacity... [[spoiler: until she finds out that Sheriff Chambers graduated from Crossroads in 19''22''. Flick suddenly finds herself very interested in her mother's past.]]

* {{Masquerade}}: Enforced by the Heretics, who are capable of messing with people's memories to keep Bystanders from learning about the Strangers. The fact that the Strangers are hidden from ordinary people (much like [[DoctorWho The Silence]] or the creatures in[[PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Mist]]) helps keep it up.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Asenath, daughter of the Akharu warrior Tiras.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: According to [[UnreliableExpositor Crossroads Academy]], all Strangers everywhere are pure evil monsters out prey on humanity. [[spoiler: The second interlude makes it clear that the "Monsters" are exactly as complex as humans, and there ''are'' good ones.]]

** [[Spoiler: Flick's mother]] apparently caused enough trouble in the past that Flick was almost not allowed to enroll in Crossroads. The staff was evenly divided between those who were willing to let her in and those who would have denied her the chance to enter. The headmistress had to break the tie.

* SmallGirlHugeGun: One of Flick's classmates, Scout, is soon given a {{Magitek}} sniper rifle that's as long as she is tall.

* [[MainMasquerade]]: Enforced by the Heretics, who are capable of messing with people's memories to keep Bystanders from learning about the Strangers. The fact that the Strangers are hidden from ordinary people (much like [[DoctorWho The Silence]] or [[PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Mist]]) helps keep it up.

* [[/MainMuggles]] are called "Bystanders" by the Heretics in this universe.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: According to [[UnreliableExpositor Crossroads Academy]], all Strangers everywhere are pure evil monsters out to wipe out humanity. [[spoiler: The second interlude makes it clear that the "Monsters" are exactly as complex as humans, and there ''are'' good ones.]]

* [[Main/Masquerade]]: Enforced by the Heretics, who are capable of messing with people's memories to keep Bystanders from learning about the Strangers. The fact that the Strangers are hidden from ordinary people (much like [[DoctorWho The Silence]] or [[PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Mist]]) helps keep it up.

* [[Main/Muggles]] are called "Bystanders" by the Heretics in this universe.

* [[Masquerade]]: Enforced by the Heretics, who are capable of messing with people's memories to keep Bystanders from learning about the Strangers. The fact that the Strangers are hidden from ordinary people (much like [[DoctorWho The Silence]] or [[PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Mist]]) helps keep it up.

* [[Muggles]] are called "Bystanders" by the Heretics in this universe.

''[[https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/ Heretical Edge]]'' by Cerulean is a WebSerialNovel centered around Felicity "Flick" Chambers as she enters a world where she will be taught to use her extraordinary gifts to protect the mundane world from the monsters that lurk within the shadows.

* MissingMom: When Flick was six, her mother ran off with some random guy she pulled over for speeding. That's why she started calling herself Flick instead of Felicity, the name her mom chose. [[spoiler: Ammon's interlude makes it clear there's more to this story.]]

''[[https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/orientation-1-02/ Heretical Edge]]'' by Cerulean is a WebSerialNovel centered around Felicity "Flick" Chambers as she enters a world where she will be taught to use her extraordinary gifts to protect the mundane world from the monsters that lurk within the shadows.

* DumbBlonde:
** Inverted: Flick is actually quite smart.

* FakeOutOpening: The beginning of Heretical Edge begins with the ending lines of an action movie that Flick is watching.
* OnlyKnownbyTheirNickname: Felicity Chambers is known to everyone as "Flick" - so much so that her classmates believed that it was her real name.