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* FromACertainPointOfView: Jenny's first letter home after getting to college describe's X's habit of blowing stuff up on a regular basis as "Moving in has been a blast."
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* MetaphoricallyTrue: Jenny's first letter home after getting to college describe's X's habit of blowing stuff up on a regular basis as "Moving in has been a blast."
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* BalefulPolymorph: Many people briefly by Aylia, until seeing her sister's more sadistic version put her off it.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Aylia's ever-more-complicated extended family makes up about a third of the central cast.
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* RapunzelHair: A common phenomena in Aylia's world. Must be all that ambient magic...
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* TricksterMentor: Dron is a teacher who told his students outright that half of what he will teach them is lies, and has failed entire classes before. He gets away with this because (a) he co-founded the university and (b) ''he's a freaking dragon.''
** He also grades and reviews students based not on what they know about his subject, but what ''they learned from him''. This leads to him flunking one of the most talented students because she already knew everything he could teach her, and thus learned nothing from him.
*** There was a short arc where he tried his usual method on X in order to learn about her. [[CrazyAwesome It]] [[StuffBlowingUp didn't]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments work.]]
** He also grades and reviews students based not on what they know about his subject, but what ''they learned from him''. This leads to him flunking one of the most talented students because she already knew everything he could teach her, and thus learned nothing from him.
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* TricksterMentor: Dron is a teacher who told his students outright that half of what he will teach them is lies, and has failed entire classes before. He gets away with this because (a) he co-founded the university and (b) ''he's a freaking dragon.''
**'' He also grades and reviews students based not on what they know about his subject, but what ''they learned from him''. This leads to him flunking one of the most talented students because she already knew everything he could teach her, and thus learned nothing from him.
***him. There was a short arc where he tried his usual method on X in order to learn about her. [[CrazyAwesome It]] [[StuffBlowingUp didn't]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments It didn't work.]]
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The strip was completed, with a grand total of 2,100 entries, on May 27, 2011.
2011. A backup can be found [[https://archive.org/details/a-magical-roomate here]].
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'''''[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]]''''' is a web-based comic by Emily Martha Sorensen, who is now making Webcomic/ToPreventWorldPeace.
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'''''[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]]''''' is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen.
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'''''[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]]''''' is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen.
Martha Sorensen, who is now making Webcomic/ToPreventWorldPeace.
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Actually averted. X buys her way into [[spoiler: the wizarding school]] with aluminium foil she bought in our world. She keeps using said foil to buy whatever she needs, and ends up crashing aluminium market and undermining the economy of a country that's a major exporter of aluminium.
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Actually averted. X buys her way into [[spoiler: the wizarding school]] with aluminium foil she bought in our world. She keeps using said foil to buy whatever she needs, and ends up crashing the aluminium market and undermining the economy of a country that's a major exporter of aluminium.
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* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:While there have been kinks on a small scale, our world as a whole remained mostly unaware of the other world... then GORGONS and DRAGONS and TALK SHOWS oh my!]]
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* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:While [[spoiler: While there have been kinks on a small scale, our world as a whole remained mostly unaware of the other world... then GORGONS and DRAGONS and TALK SHOWS oh my!]]
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** In comic twenty two, Aylia off-handedly mentions her cousin being turned into a dragon. In comic 562, a dragon shows up for Albert's wedding....
*** ...and eleven strips later, briefly mentions the oracle of Lycanth. This becomes a plot point in EIGHT HUNDRED strips, kicking off a small story arc.
* TheChosenOne: Aylia is suspected of being a Child of Prophecy... [[spoiler:but it's actually X.]]
** Daria is also Child of Prophecy, which directly caused her parents to be murdered. [[AngstWhatAngst She likes being happy, though.]]
*** ...and eleven strips later, briefly mentions the oracle of Lycanth. This becomes a plot point in EIGHT HUNDRED strips, kicking off a small story arc.
* TheChosenOne: Aylia is suspected of being a Child of Prophecy... [[spoiler:but it's actually X.]]
** Daria is also Child of Prophecy, which directly caused her parents to be murdered. [[AngstWhatAngst She likes being happy, though.]]
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** In comic twenty two, Aylia off-handedly offhandedly mentions her cousin being turned into a dragon. In comic 562, a dragon shows up for Albert's wedding....
*** ...and eleven strips later, she briefly mentions the oracle of Lycanth. This becomes a plot point in EIGHT HUNDRED strips, kicking off a small story arc.
* TheChosenOne: Aylia is suspected of being a Child of Prophecy...[[spoiler:but [[spoiler: but it's actually X.]]
** Daria is also a Child of Prophecy, which directly caused her parents to be murdered. [[AngstWhatAngst She likes being happy, though.]]
*** ...and eleven strips later, she briefly mentions the oracle of Lycanth. This becomes a plot point in EIGHT HUNDRED strips, kicking off a small story arc.
* TheChosenOne: Aylia is suspected of being a Child of Prophecy...
** Daria is also a Child of Prophecy, which directly caused her parents to be murdered. [[AngstWhatAngst She likes being happy, though.]]
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: X is loaded. [[spoiler:With aluminum. She also plans to make a net profit off of another pointless grey metal...]]
** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting [[spoiler:aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold. Even today the process is extremely energy-intensive, making recycling this metal as much of an economic necessity for the industries that use it as an environmental cause, and giving countries with cheap geothermal power a way to "export" it by importing the ore and exporting the metal.
** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting [[spoiler:aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold. Even today the process is extremely energy-intensive, making recycling this metal as much of an economic necessity for the industries that use it as an environmental cause, and giving countries with cheap geothermal power a way to "export" it by importing the ore and exporting the metal.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: X is loaded. [[spoiler:With [[spoiler: With aluminum. She also plans to make a net profit off of another pointless grey metal...]]
** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting[[spoiler:aluminum]] [[spoiler: aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold. Even today the process is extremely energy-intensive, making recycling this metal as much of an economic necessity for the industries that use it as an environmental cause, and giving countries with cheap geothermal power a way to "export" it by importing the ore and exporting the metal.
** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example: the Gorgon's culture places great importance on family and family ties. Aylia despises her parents, and the Gorgon can't stand to hear a child being so disrespectful, causing a breach in their friendship that gets worse when Aylia finds out that the Gorgon's in an arranged marriage (she has no objection to it, BTW). It only gets better once the Gorgon actually meets Aylia's mother, finds that she is incredibly neglectful to Aylia, and the two finally agree to simply not bring it up.
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example: the Gorgon's culture places great importance on family and family ties. Aylia despises her parents, and the Gorgon can't stand to hear a child being so disrespectful, causing a breach in their friendship that gets worse when Aylia finds out that the Gorgon's in an arranged marriage (she has no objection to it, BTW).BTW; [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend she's also quite furious when Aylia insults her fiance to his face]]). It only gets better once the Gorgon actually meets Aylia's mother, finds that she is incredibly neglectful to Aylia, and the two finally agree to simply not bring it up.
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** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting [[spoiler:aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold. Even today the process is extremely energy-intensive, making Aluminum recycling as much of an economic necessity for the industries that use it as an environmental cause.
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** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting [[spoiler:aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold. Even today the process is extremely energy-intensive, making Aluminum recycling this metal as much of an economic necessity for the industries that use it as an environmental cause.cause, and giving countries with cheap geothermal power a way to "export" it by importing the ore and exporting the metal.
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Actually averted. X buys her way into [[spoiler: the wizarding school]] with aluminium foil she bought in our world. She keeps using said foil to buy whatever she needs, and ends up crashing aluminium market and undermining the economy of the country that exports the most aluminium.
* BabiesEverAfter: The only characters who end the story married but without children are Eric and Linnea (Who adopt), and possibly Kuralla.
* BabiesEverAfter: The only characters who end the story married but without children are Eric and Linnea (Who adopt), and possibly Kuralla.
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Actually averted. X buys her way into [[spoiler: the wizarding school]] with aluminium foil she bought in our world. She keeps using said foil to buy whatever she needs, and ends up crashing aluminium market and undermining the economy of the a country that exports the most that's a major exporter of aluminium.
* BabiesEverAfter: The only characters who end the story married but without children are Eric and Linnea(Who (who adopt), and possibly Kuralla.
* BabiesEverAfter: The only characters who end the story married but without children are Eric and Linnea
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Actually averted. X buys her way into [[spoiler: the wizarding school]] with aluminium foil she bought in our world. She keeps using said foil to buy whatever she needs, and ends up crashing the economy.
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** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting [[spoiler:aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold.
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[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]] is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen.
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* CerebusSyndrome : The author has specifically said she is trying to avert this. For the most part, she's been successful.
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* ExactWords: Alassa's fiance told her that he wouldn't cheat on her ''before the wedding''. The epilogue stated that in the years ''after'' the wedding, Alassa caught her husband cheating on her at least four times before she figured out a way to make him stop.
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* ExactWords: Alassa's fiance fiancé told her that he wouldn't cheat on her ''before the wedding''. The epilogue stated that in the years ''after'' the wedding, Alassa caught her husband cheating on her at least four times before she figured out a way to make him stop.
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* {{Magitek}} Many readers will laugh at the following exchange:
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'''Aylia:''' Nah, her machine's aren't talismans. Give magical engineering a few hundered years, and it will have its own name too.
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'''Aylia:''' Nah, her machine's machines aren't talismans. Give magical engineering a few hundered hundred years, and it will have its own name too.
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[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]] is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen. It's the story of a wizard-in-training, Aylia of Umbria, who is sent to our world to attend college as her sister is attending school in their world, and their mother (who is originally from our world) wanted one daughter to go to school in her world. Things become increasingly complicated with the addition of her roommates, who start off as (fairly) normal and get stranger and stranger, and their lives begin to get intertwined in ways nobody expects...
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[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]] is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen. It's the story of a wizard-in-training,
Aylia ofUmbria, Umbria always knew what she wanted to do with her life: as a magical genius, she wants to go to a prestigious wizarding school and become a master of the craft. Unfortunately, she's got a problem: her parents. Her father, Joralan, is a royal duke without a brain, who goes along with what his wife says because that's what he thinks a good husband should do. Her mother, Lettie, is sent from our world, and has managed to convince herself that her delusions are true. What delusions? Well, to start, she thinks Aylia wants to go to college. In our world. Without learning any magic at all.
[[CaptainObvious Aylia disagrees.]]
Unfortunately, her hands are tied: as a noble, the laws state that Aylia must obey her parents' wishes until she turns twenty, and that's a couple of years off. So with no other options, it's off to our world for Aylia.
In another world (no pun intended), Aylia would go toattend college as and do one of our degrees, becoming good friends with her sister is attending school in their world, roommates all the while... except for three things:
1. Not only does Aylia not care about her degree, she also doesn't care about any of those weird things like studying, schoolwork, not telling people the truth about who you are andtheir mother (who is originally where you're from, and ''not doing magic in front of people who don't know that it exists.''
2. People fromour world) wanted her world start showing up constantly: her parents, her sister, her cousin the werewolf, the werewolf who bit her cousin... you get the idea.
3. Her roommates consist of onedaughter incredibly nice girl who just wants everyone to go to school in her world. Things become increasingly complicated with the addition of her get along, one girl who hates having weird roommates, and a monosyllabic girl with a one-letter name who start off likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow things the fuck up.]] And as (fairly) college progresses, the ratio of normal roommates to weird roommates starts sliding in favour of the weird, and get stranger and stranger, and their lives begin to get intertwined in ways nobody expects...
doesn't stop.
And it only gets weirder from there.
Aylia of
[[CaptainObvious Aylia disagrees.]]
Unfortunately, her hands are tied: as a noble, the laws state that Aylia must obey her parents' wishes until she turns twenty, and that's a couple of years off. So with no other options, it's off to our world for Aylia.
In another world (no pun intended), Aylia would go to
1. Not only does Aylia not care about her degree, she also doesn't care about any of those weird things like studying, schoolwork, not telling people the truth about who you are and
2. People from
3. Her roommates consist of one
And it only gets weirder from there.
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* CoolSword: Loretta lands somewhere between LadyOfWar and ActionGirl. And yes, [[IncrediblyLamePun she has a freeze blade.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There are twenty epilogues, but not all of the main characters were covered- for instance, Stefanee, Lullela, Joralan, Letitia, Adelaide, Sissy and Nicole.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There are twenty epilogues, but not all of the main characters were covered- for instance, Stefanee, Lullela, Joralan, Letitia, Adelaide, Sissy and Nicole. WordOfGod says that the reason these characters weren't covered is because one can pretty much guess how they ended up.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Aylia, many times, until seeing her sister's more sadistic version put her off it.
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* CoolSword: Loretta lands somewhere between LadyOfWar and HotChickWithASword. And yes, [[IncrediblyLamePun she has a freeze blade.]]
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* [[HumansAreBastards Humans Are Big Meanies]]: Well, in the opinion of that one mermaid, anyway...
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* [[HumansAreBastards [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans Are Big Meanies]]: Well, in the opinion of that one mermaid, anyway...
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* NightmareFuel: A boy tentatively mentions marriage to Alassa, which, given that they're ''technically'' dating, is understandable. Alassa then transforms the boy into a rat, does not place any protective charms on him, and basically begins calling "Here, kitty, kitty!" It's a good thing the queen was paying attention...
** "[It's not murder] if he's a rat at the time and there's no proof he used to be a human." [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight...]]
** Aylia actually did the same thing to her fiance. Of course, the prince in question had just flatly stated that he expected her to give up all of her own interests and copy his, and she probably just brought up the concept of cats to make him want to break the engagement once he changed back, as Aylia didn't want a boyfriend at all, much less a fiance arbitrarily selected by her insane mother. Bobby's comment was much more innocent, and Alassa was serious.
*** It actually gets worse- usually, shapeshifting magic has built-in protective charms so that the shifted person will be unharmed while changed. Aylia, who only shifted people as pranks, always kept the protection charms in, Alassa, who intended to kill him, left them out on purpose.
** In an early strip, Alassa turns up in Aylia's dorm and announces that she wants a familiar. Aylia asks what it has to do with her, and Alassa reminds her that their father has a mirror that turns humans into cats... Thankfully, nothing actually happens.
** "[It's not murder] if he's a rat at the time and there's no proof he used to be a human." [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight...]]
** Aylia actually did the same thing to her fiance. Of course, the prince in question had just flatly stated that he expected her to give up all of her own interests and copy his, and she probably just brought up the concept of cats to make him want to break the engagement once he changed back, as Aylia didn't want a boyfriend at all, much less a fiance arbitrarily selected by her insane mother. Bobby's comment was much more innocent, and Alassa was serious.
*** It actually gets worse- usually, shapeshifting magic has built-in protective charms so that the shifted person will be unharmed while changed. Aylia, who only shifted people as pranks, always kept the protection charms in, Alassa, who intended to kill him, left them out on purpose.
** In an early strip, Alassa turns up in Aylia's dorm and announces that she wants a familiar. Aylia asks what it has to do with her, and Alassa reminds her that their father has a mirror that turns humans into cats... Thankfully, nothing actually happens.
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->''"I'm Aylia, I'm from a [[MagicalLand magical world]], and I don't want to be here."''
[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]] is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen. It's the story of a wizard-in-training, Aylia of Umbria, who is sent to our world to attend college as her sister is attending school in their world, and their mother (who is originally from our world) wanted one daughter to go to school in her world. Things become increasingly complicated with the addition of her roommates, who start off as (fairly) normal and get stranger and stranger, and their lives begin to get intertwined in ways nobody expects...
The strip was completed, with a grand total of 2,100 entries, on May 27, 2011.
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!!This webcomic provides examples of:
* AbdicateTheThrone: Any King or Queen of Umbria when his or her companion dies, because there must be two people on the throne.
** Victoria cons her parents into doing this in favor of her firstborn in the epilogue.
* AbusiveParents: Maybe not abusive in the usual sense, but Duchess Lettie, who refuses to believe that her children are anything other than what she thinks they are (i.e. intelligent, just like her, completely obedient and loyal and protective of each other), and Duke Joralan, who never steps in to help but will always stand by his wife, are ''not'' good parents to Aylia and Alassa.
** Also, Lettie's parents were ''horrible'' to her- hence why she ran off to get married as soon as possible.
** Jenny and Reg also have highly unpleasant parents.
*** Well, Jenny's father is okay. Jenny's mother, on the other hand, happened to be Lettie's horrible babysitter when she was younger... and hasn't really changed.
* TheAgeless: Oracles live for as long as they want. They can be killed by outside forces, but otherwise, they will live until they decide to die - unlike their counterparts, Sages, who do die of old age.
* AllThereInTheManual: The author provides a running commentary and various extras which expand the comic universe.
* ArtEvolution
* BabiesEverAfter: The only characters who end the story married but without children are Eric and Linnea (Who adopt), and possibly Kuralla.
* BerserkButton: "Apologize to my '''SWORD!'''"
** The Gorgon has a long, hard to pronounce name. To get around this, she asks people to simply call her 'The Gorgon', because shortening names is ''not'' a good thing in Gorgon society. She does not like people who manage to screw up something as simple as ''calling her by her species''.
** The Crown Prince of Ligand steadily annoys Aylia as soon as he's introduced, but he ''really'' pisses her off when he says that since he was hoping for a wife of royal blood but the princess of Umbria vanished, Aylia was 'close enough' and would do. Aylia may not be the princess, but as the niece of King Richard, she is of royal blood, and she's actually of higher status than he is (Umbria is a much larger country than Ligand, and more important).
* BigOlUnibrow: Born werewolves all have unibrows. This makes them look like they are constantly glaring.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Humorously inverted with Daria, who is absolutely disgusted that humans eat ''plants''.
** And later, completely shocked to find out Fairies eat BUGS!!!! The horror, the horror!
* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:While there have been kinks on a small scale, our world as a whole remained mostly unaware of the other world... then GORGONS and DRAGONS and TALK SHOWS oh my!]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Loretta is rich, intelligent, empathetic, friendly, outgoing, and utterly obsessed with those long metal stabby things called swords.
* CerebusSyndrome : The author has specifically said she is trying to avert this. For the most part, she's been successful.
* ChekhovsGun: Plenty.
** In comic twenty two, Aylia off-handedly mentions her cousin being turned into a dragon. In comic 562, a dragon shows up for Albert's wedding....
*** ...and eleven strips later, briefly mentions the oracle of Lycanth. This becomes a plot point in EIGHT HUNDRED strips, kicking off a small story arc.
* TheChosenOne: Aylia is suspected of being a Child of Prophecy... [[spoiler:but it's actually X.]]
** Daria is also Child of Prophecy, which directly caused her parents to be murdered. [[AngstWhatAngst She likes being happy, though.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Daria.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "That's it. You have now lost all privileges to call my instrument by its proper name. From now on, you will call it 'pufferball.' Or 'squeegy-toy.'"
* CoolSword: Loretta lands somewhere between LadyOfWar and HotChickWithASword. And yes, [[IncrediblyLamePun she has a freeze blade.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: What we're told in the comic is that due to Daria being a Child of Prophecy, her parents were killed. What the extras tell us is that an Oracle freedom fighter used Daria's being a Child of Prophecy as a lever in order to get Dragoria to attack them, leading hundreds of dragons to attack Dragoria. Over a hundred thousand humans died, and maybe five dragons (not including Daria's family).
* DeadpanSnarker: Almost everyone snarks once, but X keeps the snarks deadpan.... by making them monosyllabic!
* DumbBlonde: Alassa, for the most part, except for [[NightmareFuel that one time...]]
** It's implied that she did ''try'' to become AlphaBitch in her wizarding school, and failed due to almost everybody else not being idiots.
* EvilTwin: Alexis likes to think that X is her evil twin.
* ExactWords: Alassa's fiance told her that he wouldn't cheat on her ''before the wedding''. The epilogue stated that in the years ''after'' the wedding, Alassa caught her husband cheating on her at least four times before she figured out a way to make him stop.
* FantasticRacism: While usually averted, there are a few big examples, such as werewolves disliking trespassers.
** In fact, Victoria's relationship with Mordran is outright attacked by both of their parents, simply because he's not a purple fairy and she's royalty.
** "You're Mountain clan." "You're Desert clan."
** Also, made werewolves are utterly despised by born werewolves (though born werewolves don't despise born werewolves who have a made werewolf parent)
* FlatEarthAtheist: Sissy, full stop.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Back when the strip first started, the author commented that while Jenny wasn't as boy-crazy as her roommate Nicole, she could still be swept off her feet by a Prince Charming. Seven strips later, she meets Alyia's cousin, Prince Albert Charming, who she later marries.
* FromACertainPointOfView: Jenny's first letter home after getting to college describe's X's habit of blowing stuff up on a regular basis as "Moving in has been a blast."
* GenkiGirl: Daria, usually. Also Steffanee, and Loretta around swords.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:X and her twin sister, due to their mother's antics during pregnancy, are roughly two percent fairy.]]
* [[HumansAreBastards Humans Are Big Meanies]]: Well, in the opinion of that one mermaid, anyway...
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Nicole, Alexis, Aylia (the latter two don't want to be [[WeirdnessMagnet the Child of Prophecy.]])
* InterspeciesRomance: This actually figures heavily into the backstory, as four members of the core cast wouldn't even have been born if it hadn't happened.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Duchess Lettie is a rare non-Japanese example. And she's in her forties!
-->'''Lettie:''' Aylia! Where are you? I've got a wonderful surprise! I've gotten a fiance for you!
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Aylia's ever-more-complicated extended family makes up about a third of the central cast.
* LoopholeAbuse: The fairy kingdom of Daironya has a law that marriages can only be performed by a member of a higher fairy race than the couple involved. Normally, this isn't a problem, but Victoria, the Crown Princess, and her boyfriend Mordran, a black fairy (a race that aren't meant to be marrying purple fairies, the nobility of the fairy world) can only be married by Victoria's parents, the King and Queen, who are very opposed to their relationship. Faced with an ultimatum of either losing Mordran or her throne, Victoria defaults to another law that says that it's perfectly legal for the heir to a throne to trick the current ruler out of it. And that's exactly what she does.
** There's also a law that forbids purple fairy monarchs from marrying other fairies, which can't be changed as all the purple fairies would have to agree to the change. Victoria doesn't force her parents to make her the queen, she just forced them into a contract that made them marry her and Mordran, and forbid them from designating anyone else as their heir.
*** And then, once she finds that she cannot get the nobles to support her claim to the throne due to her unorthodox marriage, she tricks her parents into abdicating in favor of her infant son - and naming her as his regent.
* MadeOfExplodium: Well, it's more like "X carries around Explodium and pours it on whatever she wants," but X being X, the principle stands.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Apparently, while different species have specialized talents and there are different disciplines of magic, they all follow the same rules. However, like physics, those rules haven't all been discovered yet...
* {{Magitek}} Many readers will laugh at the following exchange:
-->'''Loretta:''' Daria's a sorceress?\\
'''Aylia:''' Nah, her machine's aren't talismans. Give magical engineering a few hundered years, and it will have its own name too.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Magic and technology are roughly on the same level, but there are some core differences in operation which make one a better choice then the other. There's a fairy that wears glasses instead of using a spell to correct her vision.
* MundaneUtility: All over the place. Lampshaded after Aylia rejoined with her clone:
-->'''Aylia:''' Oh good, it worked. Back to my book!\\
'''Jenny:''' Don't act like it was an everyday occurrence.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: X.
* NeedsABetterDescription: This page needs an all around revamp...
* NightmareFuel: A boy tentatively mentions marriage to Alassa, which, given that they're ''technically'' dating, is understandable. Alassa then transforms the boy into a rat, does not place any protective charms on him, and basically begins calling "Here, kitty, kitty!" It's a good thing the queen was paying attention...
** "[It's not murder] if he's a rat at the time and there's no proof he used to be a human." [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight...]]
** Aylia actually did the same thing to her fiance. Of course, the prince in question had just flatly stated that he expected her to give up all of her own interests and copy his, and she probably just brought up the concept of cats to make him want to break the engagement once he changed back, as Aylia didn't want a boyfriend at all, much less a fiance arbitrarily selected by her insane mother. Bobby's comment was much more innocent, and Alassa was serious.
*** It actually gets worse- usually, shapeshifting magic has built-in protective charms so that the shifted person will be unharmed while changed. Aylia, who only shifted people as pranks, always kept the protection charms in, Alassa, who intended to kill him, left them out on purpose.
** In an early strip, Alassa turns up in Aylia's dorm and announces that she wants a familiar. Aylia asks what it has to do with her, and Alassa reminds her that their father has a mirror that turns humans into cats... Thankfully, nothing actually happens.
* NoodleIncident: The Spaghetti Incident. It apparently involved spaghetti and a borrowed book, and is the reason why Adelaide is more careful about loaning her books out nowadays.
* OneLetterName: X (real name [[strike: Alexandra]] Elzandra.) Rather humorously used by Aylia, who tells Alexis when they first meet that she was expecting her to be named something like 'Y'.
* OpenSecret: The existence of our world is highly classified. [[BlatantLies Nobody outside the nobility knows about it.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They're long-lived flying saurians who look more like reptilian rhinos than graceful lizards.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Even from each other!
* PromotionToParent: Cecelia, after being accidentally turned into a dragon, is taken in by a dying dragon with a young son. Cecelia turns into a dragon permanently so she can raise him.
* ProphecyTwist: Kuralla retrieves her lost prophecy and tells a [[IJustWantToBeNormal relieved Aylia]] that [[spoiler: the Child of Prophecy will be 'born one of two sisters', not 'one of two sisters'- thus Aylia, who is the older sister, cannot be the Child of Prophecy.]]
* RapunzelHair: A common phenomena in Aylia's world. Must be all that ambient magic...
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Averted... almost. The few characters that are pretty much run the plot with their antics.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Cecelia's adopted son Gavin. He's ''adorable''.
* RunningGag: X gets weird roommates.
* [[HighSchoolDance Sword Dance]]: Yep.
* TricksterArchetype: Mermaid society is in fact based on being as outright annoying as you can be. The author goes into depth about this [[AllThereInTheManual on the forum,]] where she explains it's a natural stress outlet when you're not at the top of the food chain.
* TricksterMentor: Dron is a teacher who told his students outright that half of what he will teach them is lies, and has failed entire classes before. He gets away with this because (a) he co-founded the university and (b) ''he's a freaking dragon.''
** He also grades and reviews students based not on what they know about his subject, but what ''they learned from him''. This leads to him flunking one of the most talented students because she already knew everything he could teach her, and thus learned nothing from him.
*** There was a short arc where he tried his usual method on X in order to learn about her. [[CrazyAwesome It]] [[StuffBlowingUp didn't]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny work.]]
* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example: the Gorgon's culture places great importance on family and family ties. Aylia despises her parents, and the Gorgon can't stand to hear a child being so disrespectful, causing a breach in their friendship that gets worse when Aylia finds out that the Gorgon's in an arranged marriage (she has no objection to it, BTW). It only gets better once the Gorgon actually meets Aylia's mother, finds that she is incredibly neglectful to Aylia, and the two finally agree to simply not bring it up.
* VerbalTic: Daria almost always begins speaking by repeating a word.
* WeddingsForEveryone: Four weddings take place during the story, and another ten are mentioned in the epilogue. The only major character who doesn't end up married at the end of the story is X.
* WeirdnessMagnet: This is a recognized trait of children of prophecy.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There are twenty epilogues, but not all of the main characters were covered- for instance, Stefanee, Lullela, Joralan, Letitia, Adelaide, Sissy and Nicole.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Twenty of them.
* WingsDoNothing: [[spoiler: X and Alexis. Their wings aren't strong enough to hold them up, though X can fly with them if she drinks a weightlessness potion.]]
* WorthlessYellowRocks: X is loaded. [[spoiler:With aluminum. She also plans to make a net profit off of another pointless grey metal...]]
** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting [[spoiler:aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold.
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->''"I'm Aylia, I'm from a [[MagicalLand magical world]], and I don't want to be here."''
[[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate]] is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen. It's the story of a wizard-in-training, Aylia of Umbria, who is sent to our world to attend college as her sister is attending school in their world, and their mother (who is originally from our world) wanted one daughter to go to school in her world. Things become increasingly complicated with the addition of her roommates, who start off as (fairly) normal and get stranger and stranger, and their lives begin to get intertwined in ways nobody expects...
The strip was completed, with a grand total of 2,100 entries, on May 27, 2011.
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!!This webcomic provides examples of:
* AbdicateTheThrone: Any King or Queen of Umbria when his or her companion dies, because there must be two people on the throne.
** Victoria cons her parents into doing this in favor of her firstborn in the epilogue.
* AbusiveParents: Maybe not abusive in the usual sense, but Duchess Lettie, who refuses to believe that her children are anything other than what she thinks they are (i.e. intelligent, just like her, completely obedient and loyal and protective of each other), and Duke Joralan, who never steps in to help but will always stand by his wife, are ''not'' good parents to Aylia and Alassa.
** Also, Lettie's parents were ''horrible'' to her- hence why she ran off to get married as soon as possible.
** Jenny and Reg also have highly unpleasant parents.
*** Well, Jenny's father is okay. Jenny's mother, on the other hand, happened to be Lettie's horrible babysitter when she was younger... and hasn't really changed.
* TheAgeless: Oracles live for as long as they want. They can be killed by outside forces, but otherwise, they will live until they decide to die - unlike their counterparts, Sages, who do die of old age.
* AllThereInTheManual: The author provides a running commentary and various extras which expand the comic universe.
* ArtEvolution
* BabiesEverAfter: The only characters who end the story married but without children are Eric and Linnea (Who adopt), and possibly Kuralla.
* BerserkButton: "Apologize to my '''SWORD!'''"
** The Gorgon has a long, hard to pronounce name. To get around this, she asks people to simply call her 'The Gorgon', because shortening names is ''not'' a good thing in Gorgon society. She does not like people who manage to screw up something as simple as ''calling her by her species''.
** The Crown Prince of Ligand steadily annoys Aylia as soon as he's introduced, but he ''really'' pisses her off when he says that since he was hoping for a wife of royal blood but the princess of Umbria vanished, Aylia was 'close enough' and would do. Aylia may not be the princess, but as the niece of King Richard, she is of royal blood, and she's actually of higher status than he is (Umbria is a much larger country than Ligand, and more important).
* BigOlUnibrow: Born werewolves all have unibrows. This makes them look like they are constantly glaring.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Humorously inverted with Daria, who is absolutely disgusted that humans eat ''plants''.
** And later, completely shocked to find out Fairies eat BUGS!!!! The horror, the horror!
* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:While there have been kinks on a small scale, our world as a whole remained mostly unaware of the other world... then GORGONS and DRAGONS and TALK SHOWS oh my!]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Loretta is rich, intelligent, empathetic, friendly, outgoing, and utterly obsessed with those long metal stabby things called swords.
* CerebusSyndrome : The author has specifically said she is trying to avert this. For the most part, she's been successful.
* ChekhovsGun: Plenty.
** In comic twenty two, Aylia off-handedly mentions her cousin being turned into a dragon. In comic 562, a dragon shows up for Albert's wedding....
*** ...and eleven strips later, briefly mentions the oracle of Lycanth. This becomes a plot point in EIGHT HUNDRED strips, kicking off a small story arc.
* TheChosenOne: Aylia is suspected of being a Child of Prophecy... [[spoiler:but it's actually X.]]
** Daria is also Child of Prophecy, which directly caused her parents to be murdered. [[AngstWhatAngst She likes being happy, though.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Daria.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "That's it. You have now lost all privileges to call my instrument by its proper name. From now on, you will call it 'pufferball.' Or 'squeegy-toy.'"
* CoolSword: Loretta lands somewhere between LadyOfWar and HotChickWithASword. And yes, [[IncrediblyLamePun she has a freeze blade.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: What we're told in the comic is that due to Daria being a Child of Prophecy, her parents were killed. What the extras tell us is that an Oracle freedom fighter used Daria's being a Child of Prophecy as a lever in order to get Dragoria to attack them, leading hundreds of dragons to attack Dragoria. Over a hundred thousand humans died, and maybe five dragons (not including Daria's family).
* DeadpanSnarker: Almost everyone snarks once, but X keeps the snarks deadpan.... by making them monosyllabic!
* DumbBlonde: Alassa, for the most part, except for [[NightmareFuel that one time...]]
** It's implied that she did ''try'' to become AlphaBitch in her wizarding school, and failed due to almost everybody else not being idiots.
* EvilTwin: Alexis likes to think that X is her evil twin.
* ExactWords: Alassa's fiance told her that he wouldn't cheat on her ''before the wedding''. The epilogue stated that in the years ''after'' the wedding, Alassa caught her husband cheating on her at least four times before she figured out a way to make him stop.
* FantasticRacism: While usually averted, there are a few big examples, such as werewolves disliking trespassers.
** In fact, Victoria's relationship with Mordran is outright attacked by both of their parents, simply because he's not a purple fairy and she's royalty.
** "You're Mountain clan." "You're Desert clan."
** Also, made werewolves are utterly despised by born werewolves (though born werewolves don't despise born werewolves who have a made werewolf parent)
* FlatEarthAtheist: Sissy, full stop.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Back when the strip first started, the author commented that while Jenny wasn't as boy-crazy as her roommate Nicole, she could still be swept off her feet by a Prince Charming. Seven strips later, she meets Alyia's cousin, Prince Albert Charming, who she later marries.
* FromACertainPointOfView: Jenny's first letter home after getting to college describe's X's habit of blowing stuff up on a regular basis as "Moving in has been a blast."
* GenkiGirl: Daria, usually. Also Steffanee, and Loretta around swords.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:X and her twin sister, due to their mother's antics during pregnancy, are roughly two percent fairy.]]
* [[HumansAreBastards Humans Are Big Meanies]]: Well, in the opinion of that one mermaid, anyway...
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Nicole, Alexis, Aylia (the latter two don't want to be [[WeirdnessMagnet the Child of Prophecy.]])
* InterspeciesRomance: This actually figures heavily into the backstory, as four members of the core cast wouldn't even have been born if it hadn't happened.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Duchess Lettie is a rare non-Japanese example. And she's in her forties!
-->'''Lettie:''' Aylia! Where are you? I've got a wonderful surprise! I've gotten a fiance for you!
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Aylia's ever-more-complicated extended family makes up about a third of the central cast.
* LoopholeAbuse: The fairy kingdom of Daironya has a law that marriages can only be performed by a member of a higher fairy race than the couple involved. Normally, this isn't a problem, but Victoria, the Crown Princess, and her boyfriend Mordran, a black fairy (a race that aren't meant to be marrying purple fairies, the nobility of the fairy world) can only be married by Victoria's parents, the King and Queen, who are very opposed to their relationship. Faced with an ultimatum of either losing Mordran or her throne, Victoria defaults to another law that says that it's perfectly legal for the heir to a throne to trick the current ruler out of it. And that's exactly what she does.
** There's also a law that forbids purple fairy monarchs from marrying other fairies, which can't be changed as all the purple fairies would have to agree to the change. Victoria doesn't force her parents to make her the queen, she just forced them into a contract that made them marry her and Mordran, and forbid them from designating anyone else as their heir.
*** And then, once she finds that she cannot get the nobles to support her claim to the throne due to her unorthodox marriage, she tricks her parents into abdicating in favor of her infant son - and naming her as his regent.
* MadeOfExplodium: Well, it's more like "X carries around Explodium and pours it on whatever she wants," but X being X, the principle stands.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Apparently, while different species have specialized talents and there are different disciplines of magic, they all follow the same rules. However, like physics, those rules haven't all been discovered yet...
* {{Magitek}} Many readers will laugh at the following exchange:
-->'''Loretta:''' Daria's a sorceress?\\
'''Aylia:''' Nah, her machine's aren't talismans. Give magical engineering a few hundered years, and it will have its own name too.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Magic and technology are roughly on the same level, but there are some core differences in operation which make one a better choice then the other. There's a fairy that wears glasses instead of using a spell to correct her vision.
* MundaneUtility: All over the place. Lampshaded after Aylia rejoined with her clone:
-->'''Aylia:''' Oh good, it worked. Back to my book!\\
'''Jenny:''' Don't act like it was an everyday occurrence.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: X.
* NeedsABetterDescription: This page needs an all around revamp...
* NightmareFuel: A boy tentatively mentions marriage to Alassa, which, given that they're ''technically'' dating, is understandable. Alassa then transforms the boy into a rat, does not place any protective charms on him, and basically begins calling "Here, kitty, kitty!" It's a good thing the queen was paying attention...
** "[It's not murder] if he's a rat at the time and there's no proof he used to be a human." [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight...]]
** Aylia actually did the same thing to her fiance. Of course, the prince in question had just flatly stated that he expected her to give up all of her own interests and copy his, and she probably just brought up the concept of cats to make him want to break the engagement once he changed back, as Aylia didn't want a boyfriend at all, much less a fiance arbitrarily selected by her insane mother. Bobby's comment was much more innocent, and Alassa was serious.
*** It actually gets worse- usually, shapeshifting magic has built-in protective charms so that the shifted person will be unharmed while changed. Aylia, who only shifted people as pranks, always kept the protection charms in, Alassa, who intended to kill him, left them out on purpose.
** In an early strip, Alassa turns up in Aylia's dorm and announces that she wants a familiar. Aylia asks what it has to do with her, and Alassa reminds her that their father has a mirror that turns humans into cats... Thankfully, nothing actually happens.
* NoodleIncident: The Spaghetti Incident. It apparently involved spaghetti and a borrowed book, and is the reason why Adelaide is more careful about loaning her books out nowadays.
* OneLetterName: X (real name [[strike: Alexandra]] Elzandra.) Rather humorously used by Aylia, who tells Alexis when they first meet that she was expecting her to be named something like 'Y'.
* OpenSecret: The existence of our world is highly classified. [[BlatantLies Nobody outside the nobility knows about it.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They're long-lived flying saurians who look more like reptilian rhinos than graceful lizards.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Even from each other!
* PromotionToParent: Cecelia, after being accidentally turned into a dragon, is taken in by a dying dragon with a young son. Cecelia turns into a dragon permanently so she can raise him.
* ProphecyTwist: Kuralla retrieves her lost prophecy and tells a [[IJustWantToBeNormal relieved Aylia]] that [[spoiler: the Child of Prophecy will be 'born one of two sisters', not 'one of two sisters'- thus Aylia, who is the older sister, cannot be the Child of Prophecy.]]
* RapunzelHair: A common phenomena in Aylia's world. Must be all that ambient magic...
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Averted... almost. The few characters that are pretty much run the plot with their antics.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Cecelia's adopted son Gavin. He's ''adorable''.
* RunningGag: X gets weird roommates.
* [[HighSchoolDance Sword Dance]]: Yep.
* TricksterArchetype: Mermaid society is in fact based on being as outright annoying as you can be. The author goes into depth about this [[AllThereInTheManual on the forum,]] where she explains it's a natural stress outlet when you're not at the top of the food chain.
* TricksterMentor: Dron is a teacher who told his students outright that half of what he will teach them is lies, and has failed entire classes before. He gets away with this because (a) he co-founded the university and (b) ''he's a freaking dragon.''
** He also grades and reviews students based not on what they know about his subject, but what ''they learned from him''. This leads to him flunking one of the most talented students because she already knew everything he could teach her, and thus learned nothing from him.
*** There was a short arc where he tried his usual method on X in order to learn about her. [[CrazyAwesome It]] [[StuffBlowingUp didn't]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny work.]]
* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example: the Gorgon's culture places great importance on family and family ties. Aylia despises her parents, and the Gorgon can't stand to hear a child being so disrespectful, causing a breach in their friendship that gets worse when Aylia finds out that the Gorgon's in an arranged marriage (she has no objection to it, BTW). It only gets better once the Gorgon actually meets Aylia's mother, finds that she is incredibly neglectful to Aylia, and the two finally agree to simply not bring it up.
* VerbalTic: Daria almost always begins speaking by repeating a word.
* WeddingsForEveryone: Four weddings take place during the story, and another ten are mentioned in the epilogue. The only major character who doesn't end up married at the end of the story is X.
* WeirdnessMagnet: This is a recognized trait of children of prophecy.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There are twenty epilogues, but not all of the main characters were covered- for instance, Stefanee, Lullela, Joralan, Letitia, Adelaide, Sissy and Nicole.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Twenty of them.
* WingsDoNothing: [[spoiler: X and Alexis. Their wings aren't strong enough to hold them up, though X can fly with them if she drinks a weightlessness potion.]]
* WorthlessYellowRocks: X is loaded. [[spoiler:With aluminum. She also plans to make a net profit off of another pointless grey metal...]]
** TruthInTelevision. Until a cheap process for extracting [[spoiler:aluminum]] from ore was developed in the mid 1880s, it really was worth more than gold.
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