Moonlite Seasons is a Fantasy/Slice of Life/ Coming of Age Story about a young witch who moves to a cottage in between an Enchanted Forest and a town, and must now assist the inhabitants of the place and those who visit with her magic while forging new relationships.
In a World… where the ever present moon changes color every day (in this world being 24 hour cycles called hues), Clarity begins working for the Witchcraft and Wizardry Association as one of many witches, in her case being assigned to the town of Inkbrook. What follows are generally laid back stories about Clarity and the people she gets acquainted with, as well as the growth they experience, all with the influence of witchcraft and alchemy around them.
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Moonlite Seasons contains examples of:
- Alchemy Is Magic: The story describes alchemists as people that use ingredients and machines or brew potions to extract magic from nature. Witches and fairies don't need it, but most know some recipes to compliment their natural abilities, specially the former.
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: The marketplace of Inkbrook sells things such as rainbow perfume, dragon eggs and ghost silk.
- Coming of Age Story: Clarity is seventeen when the story starts so she's almost an adult, and part of the story is her adapting to living on her own in a place different from where she grew up.
- Curse: Two are mentioned in chapter two: Burn Kisses, of unknown effects, and Sugar Haunt which apparently causes everything you eat to taste sweet. An unamed cousin of Starlight cursed them with Sugar Haunt as a prank.
- Familiar: Witches and wizards' magical companions. Opera, the protagonist's familiar, is a living gingerbread cookie made by her. She speaks in gibberish but her partner seems able to understand her regardless.
- Fantastic Racism: The reaction of some characters to Clarity's presence show that there's some prejudice against witches.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Beast/human children. They appear as Little Bit Beastly humans.
- Healing Potion: Healing Dew alleviates mild pain. According to our main character, there are also recipes for more serious ailments.
- Innocently Insensitive: Happens in chapter 2, when Starlight says outloud they expected Clarity to be brewing some poison and in 3 when the delivery witch Shahrazad tells the protagonist to her face that she doesn't look her age.
- Our Witches Are Different: In this case, witches is a term for females of a race who look and think mostly like humans and beasts but can use some magic without the complex rituals and need for ingredients of normal people. The males are wizards.
- Slice of Life: The story is about the daily life of a witch girl who just moved to a new home to work as a Solitary Sorceress. Conflicts are low stakes and personal.
- Talking Animal: Beasts are intelligent animals who are able to speak, live in civilization and wear clothes. They can also marry and have children with humans.
- Weird Moon: One that changes color every twenty four hours. It's also indicated its color affects magic.
