History Literature / Katalepsis

Nightmares and hallucinations have plagued Heather Morell all her life. Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child after the loss of her twin - a sister nobody else believes ever existed - and now struggling with her mental health at university, Heather teeters on the verge of giving up on life. A chance meeting ends in a revelation: she is not crazy, her visions are all too real, and probably want to eat her soul.

-->"She can take her help," Evelyn snapped, "and shove it up her rotten cu-"
-->I scooped my shoes off the floor, one in each hand, swung them wide and slapped the soles together as hard as I could.

* DimensionalTraveler: Heather, unknowingly, unwillingly, reluctantly, [[spoiler:and heroically]].

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Heather calls herself one. Throughout the story, she frequently has lewd thoughts about multiple characters even in tense, serious situations, but she tends to keep the thoughts to herself.

* WhatTheHellHero: Thrust into the leadership position with Raine and Evelyn incapacitated, Heather decides to [[spoiler:kill an intervening police officer to stop her from interrupting]]. Lozzie calls Heather out on it before it happens.

* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: [[spoiler:Evelyn eventually figures out how to make glasses that the wearer is capable of seeing pneumasomatic life through]]

* HealingFactor: One of Twil’s powers as a result of being a werewolf is accelerated healing. She is capable of healing cuts in a matter of minutes.

* QueerRomance: Heather’s open about being a lesbian, and this seems to apply to several other characters to varying degrees as well.

* TheTeamNormal: Raine. Everyone else has some flavor of supernatural wierdness: Heather has her brainmath/Abyssal powers [[spoiler: and is as much Abyssal entity as human]], Evve's a wizard, Twil's a werewolf, Lozzie has own flavor of Outside powers [[spoiler: and is as Outsider as she is human]], Zheng is an ancient unbound demonhost and [[spoiler: Sevens is a fairly powerful Outsider]]. Raine is just good at stabbing and shooting people.

* TransparentCloset: When [[spoiler:Heather]] comes out to their mother, they're bluntly told that [[EverybodyKnewAlready she'd always known]], and they weren't exactly subtle.

* {{Tsundere}}: While Evelyn usually comes off as harsh and grouchy, she has a soft spot for [[spoiler:Twil]], which she is reluctant to admit.

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Edward's plan for returning from the abyss involves him first dying, even if he never technically died.]]

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[Edward's plan for returning from the abyss involves him first dying, even if he never technically died.]]

* TheTeamNormal: Raine. Everyone else has some flavor of supernatural wierdness: Heather has her brainmath/Abyssal powers [[spoiler: and is as much Abyssal entity as human]], Evve's a wizard, Twil's a werewolf, Lozzie has own flavor of Outside powers [[spoiler: and is as Outsider as she is human]], Zheng is an ancient unbound demonhost and [[Sevens is a fairly powerful Outsider]]. Raine is just good at stabbing and shooting people.