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Mirrored
is a Little Witch Academia fanfic written by AevumAce.
Akko went about her daily routine working hard to get one step closer to become like Shiny Chariot when all of a sudden, a certain prodigal witch started acting differently.
Mirrored provides examples of:
- Affectionate Nickname: The Blazing World's version of Hannah and Barbara refers to their Diana as "Annie", to Earthen Diana's confusion at first (which almost broke her cover).
- Bathos: When the Stanship 2.0 gets attacked by a storm in the North Pole, Akko begs for Princess Diana to do something about it with her Kinesis powers, only for Princess Diana to say she can't help anyone here because...
Amanda: "She has SEASICKNESS!"
- Failed a Spot Check: Lotte, Sucy, the Green Team, and Ursula not noticing "Akko" and "Diana" acting Out of Character is one thing. Nobody noticing "Akko" and "Diana" having literally glowing eyes (which is actually pointed out much later) is another.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Subverted. Atsuko and Princess Diana (and by extenstion possibly all Blazing World humans) have glowing eyes, but neither of them are really malicious in any way.
- Grand Theft Me:
- It is highly implied that Akko is actually temporarily possessed by Atsuko in her meetup with Diana in the gardens.
- Princess Diana takes control of Earthen Diana to speak at the palace.
- Guns Are Worthless: Downplayed. Constanze uses a gun for a grand total of two times in this story, and both times the gun gets destroyed by its intended target before she can fire off a single shot.
- Halfway Plot Switch: Started out as Akko and Diana becoming girlfriends, who then has to investigate the alleged tricksters/doppelgangers that are pretending to be them. Later, it turns out that said "doppelgangers" are really Akko and Diana from a literal mirror dimension (identified as Atsuko and Princess Diana to differentiate them from Akko and Diana), who just wanted to go back home, but the ritual involved in the process got interrupted, resulting in the wrong Diana being taken into the mirror dimension. Now it becomes a quest for Akko and friends to rescue their Diana while getting Princess Diana back to her home.
- Human Aliens: The Blazing World's inhabitants look human for the most part aside from the ability of Kinesis, and they even identifies themselves as such. But Princess Diana being able to have voluntary control of her involuntary muscles implies that the Blazing World may have a different definition of "human" than the Earthen World. And that's not even including the fact that Atsuko and Princess Diana's eyes literally glows.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: The Blazing World has a law forbidding its inhabitants from reading other peoples' minds.
- Not What It Looks Like: The Blaze reveals that Amanda and her friends stumbled upon Atsuko and Princess Diana having it their way, and mistook it for Diana sexually harassing Akko.
- Atsuko and Princess Diana got hit with this again later when they are preparing for the ritual that will take them back home. Unfortunately, the ritual involved the use of blood (Diana's in this case), among other things that wouldn't look out of place in a Satanic ritual, and you can probably guess what Akko and friends (and Ursula) thought they were looking at when they interrupted it trying to save Diana. The fact that the ritual summons a thunderstorm as a side effect isn't helping Atsuko and Princess Diana's case either.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Anytime when Atsuko and Princess Diana impersonates their Earthen counterparts.
- The very first chapter begins with Diana of all people inviting Akko over to play pranks while acting all giddy about it. We later find out that was actually Princess Diana.
- Psychic Powers: The Blazing World's entire population possesses Kinesis, which includes telekinesis and teleportation.
- Rewatch Bonus: Akko's meetup with Diana in the gardens begins with Akko speaking to Diana in a very formal way as well as using romantic vocabulary, as though she has become a totally different person, only to go right back to her usual self after getting shoved (accidentally) by Diana, and acting as though the aforementioned conversation never happened. On your first reading, you'd scratch your head wondering why Akko is acting like that, even if you're buying into the doppelganger theory. But on future rereads, you'd realize it was probably Atsuko using Psychokinesis note on Akko.
- Shipper on Deck: A rare example of this trope being the main focus of a story. Atsuko and Princess Diana, who are already in a (secret) relationship, decides to ship their Earthen counterpart for no reasons other than seemingly because they can. They succeed, but it ended up working against them much later, when Akko's love for Diana became the reason the Mirrors' rituals for returning home gets messed up, kicking off the second half of the story.
