History Literature / RachelGriffin

* BloodBrothers: Rachel and Sigfried swear a blood oath to each other in Book 3. Both of them take great pride in announcing their siblingship.

* [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Powered By A Beloved Child]]: one spell needs human sacrifice -- and not only that, those offering the human must love this person enough for the spell to work. It ''has'' been successfully cast--thousands of times.

* RunningGag: Siefried's flying, flaming skunk seems to be turning into one.
** In Book 3, Rachel has him purposely skunk a boy who has been mean to her, and considers several strategies to keep the skunk incidents and Sigfried's reputation separate.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Rachel, who has perfect recall, [[spoiler: receives a gift that prevents her memory/mind from being tampered with at all, rendering her completely immune from Obscurations--and geasses.]]

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Rachel, who has perfect recall, [[spoiler: recieves a gift that prevents her memory/mind from being tampered with at all, rendering her completely immune from Obscurations--and geasses.]]

* EvilIsSexy: In-universe for Vladimir Von Dread.

* WhipItGood: A magical whip is used offensively, with deadly results.

* RevealingTic: Sandra Griffin’s tension is betrayed (to Rachel), by her pinkie finger going rigid. [[spoiler: the Griffins share this characteristic with Cassandra March, the Grand Inquisitor’s wife.]].

* AintNoRule: Against having your friends hit you to get you into the infirmary.

%%* YourWorstNightmare

* ApatheticCitizens: Rachel realizes that she and [[spoiler: Vladimir von Dread]] are the only people truly interested in [[spoiler: saving the multiverse from ultimate destruction.]]

* [[spoiler: ApocalypseHow: Book one hints at a Class 5 or 6--planetary extinction or destruction. Book two implies a danger of Class Z, omniversal annihilation.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Hell}}: One of the downsides of a demo boss is that he really can send you there.]]
* HesJustHiding: In-Universe. [[spoiler: Enoch Smythwick, the student who had seemingly made a HeroicSacrifice in the previous book, is revealed to have survived but been concealed in case of further reprisals. At least, that was what had happened after the RealityWarper was done with it. . . .]]

* ICanStillFight

* IntrepidReporter: Valerie Hunt (formerly Foxx), Fearless Girl Reporter!
** SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: As cover for investigating a murder attempt--on herself.

* IGaveMyWord: Rachel carefully manipulates one incident to avoid this, so she won't have to break it.

* MindControlEyes

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Vladimir Von Dread (which is lampshaded: another character remarks she's always thought it was pronounced "Dreed"). Dr. [[MeaningfulName Mordeau]].

* PokeInTheThirdEye

* PostDramaticStressDisorder: by book 3, Rachel is developing a nasty case of PTSD, worsened by her inability to seek help.

* PsychicNosebleed: [[spoiler: Valerie while trying to throw off the geas]]. Overlaps with DeadlyNosebleed, as she passes out from blood loss soon after being found.

* RulesLawyer: Used and subverted. At one point, Rachel is able to avoid technically [[IGaveMyWord promising]] something; but trying it again on a forewarned adult who requires her to promise in order to share information falls flat.

* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: Juma O'Malley's mother has a SuperpoweredEvilSide, Serena--who is TheDragon to the BigBad.]]

* WeirdAside

* AwesomeMcCoolName: They settle on “The Die Horribly Debate Club.” The other alternatives were even worse.

* NotAGame: Used by Zoe to complain of Nastasia's rigid rule-keeping; they are not playing a game of D&D and the princess is not LawfulGood.

* AdultsAreUseless: the adults in the school are useful for helping you get to the infirmary after you've been {{Baleful Polymorph}}ed by bullies, but not for helping you get rid of an invisible wraith feeding on one of the students, and they are all prone to giving stupid orders to the heroes, such as "stay here quietly while we fight off the bad guys."

* BadassBoast: "So swears Dread!" Unfortunately, this is immediately skewered by Rachel and Sigfried, who were eavesdropping: "So swears Griffin!" "So swears Smith!"

* BackToBackBadasses
* BalefulPolymorph: Vladimir von Dread turns [[spoiler: Gaius Valiant]] into a sheep. Temporarily.

* GenerationXerox: There are an awful lot of "John" and "Wendy" Darlings, all related to the famous original family.

* [[spoiler: GeniusLoci: Idunn's daughter, the titular Elf of the second book.]]

* GoThroughMe

* [[spoiler: GoodWingsEvilWings: the Raven]].

** The List goes on and on. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Seriously, it does.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Try keeping track of all the students.

* AdultFear: Serena O’Malley. [[spoiler: the evil personality of Juma O’Malley’s mother, she is willing to murder friends and slaughter children—including her own son, while he’s screaming and pleading with her to wake up to her “good” self]].
** Ambrose Griffin is shown to have this when he learns that Rachel has been involved with [[spoiler:The Raven]]--who for all he knows is an extremely dangerous being of enormous power.

* YouCanBarelyStand
* YourWorstNightmare

* {{Glomp}}: Joy does this to the [[PrincessClassic too-gracious-to-decline]] [[HatesBeingTouched Nastasia]] at every opportunity. A line from Sakura Suzuki suggests she does it to everybody.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Lucky, Sigfried's familiar and sidekick.

''Books of Unexpected Enlightenment'' are a YA book series by Creator/LJagiLamplighter (author of the ''Literature/ProsperosDaughter'' trilogy). Thus far, the book series is made of 5 book:

1) ''The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin''
2) ''The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel''
3) ''Rachel and the Many-Splendored Dreamland''
4) ''The Awful Truth About Forgetting''
5) ''The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering''

''The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin'' is a 2013 YA novel by Creator/LJagiLamplighter (author of the ''Literature/ProsperosDaughter'' trilogy), followed by ''The Raven, the Elf, and Rachel'' and ''Rachel and the Many-Splendored Dreamland''. These are the first in a projected series of novels about the eponymous heroine's adventures at school and beyond.

* BadDreams: Freka Starkadder has nightmares after [[spoiler:her brothers' execution]].

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[spoiler: the jumbo jet]] seems to be one, although it may be expounded in another book.

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Rachel wears a polka-dot hairbow, Sakura Suzuki wears bells on her ponytails.

* DuetoTheDead: Halloween is filled with death-honoring rituals. Also, Gaius tells a ghost, [[spoiler:one of the musicians of the Titanic,]] about the monument raised in their honor, and he is pleased and honored by it.

* CasualDangerDialogue: When the wraith, which Rachel can see but Sigfried can't, attacks Rachel, she reports the fact calmly and tries describe its position.