History Literature / BringMeToLife

[[caption-width-right:200:Clockwise from the top left: Tara Gilesbie, [[Fanfic/MyImmortal Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]], Creator/OscarWilde, and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe]]

Tara Gilesbie is failing her English class. [[TheBGrade No, she's not one of those honors kids who claim that they're failing when they really have a B.]] She has a literal F on her report card for English. So when she's asked to write a short story to bring up her grade, she does the only sane thing that a girl like her could do.

* BookDumb: Tara.

* CameBackWrong: Both Wilde and Poe.
* CampGay: Creator/OscarWilde is the UrExample for this trope. It's inevitable that he's going to have some Camp Gay tendencies.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Wilde and Poe.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: Tara.
* ComicTrio: Wilde is the leader, Poe is the idiot, and Tara is the Only Sane Woman.
* TheDandy: Wilde.
* EmoTeen: Tara is one.

* FromBadToWorse: Bringing in Poe only made My Immortal worse.
* GentlemanSnarker: Wilde, when he's sane.
* TheGhost: Tara's boyfriend Justin and Tara's Satanist friend Annabelle.
* GiftedlyBad: Both Poe and Wilde, post-resurrection.
* {{Goth}}: Poe seems to think that he's one. Subverted because he definitely isn't.
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: Tara, but subverted because she is emo, not goth.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/OscarWilde and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Wilde's crush on Poe.
* LameComeback: "Yeah, well you're a prep!"

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Wilde's reaction when he regains his sanity and sees My Immortal.
* OddFriendship: Tara's friendship with Wilde and Poe.
* OminousLatinChanting: Apparently this is involved in the resurrection.
* OnlySaneWoman: Tara.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Tara.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Oscar Wilde's writing after he CameBackWrong.
* RunningGag: "Edgar Allan Poe, who I hate..."
* SanitySlippage: Wilde.
* SanityStrengthening: This happens to Oscar Wilde, but it is followed by SanitySlippage.

* StylisticSuck: Any of the "original drafts" of My Immortal.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wilde gives one to Poe.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: "Necromany for Dummies."

* TheWoobie: InUniverse, Wilde and Poe argue over who fits this trope better.

* BiTheWay: Wilde is bisexual. However, [[ButNotTooBi he seems to prefer men.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wilde gives one to Poe.

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"Bring Me To Life" is a [[GenreBusting "short, semi-historical metafanfic"]] about the origins of Fanfic/MyImmortal based on a discussion on the WildMassGuessing page. It was written by Tropers/{{RandomTroperWhoLikes1R}}.

The official summary:

A brief tale of how the worst's worst piece of literature, "Fanfic/MyImmortal", came about.

It can be found [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/60730487-bring-me-to-life here]].

!!Tropes:

* BackFromTheDead: Creator/OscarWilde and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe both come back from the dead.
* BasementDweller: Poe and Wilde live in Tara's basement.
* BeamMeUpScotty: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] InUniverse. One of Wilde's misattributed quotes is on a poster in Tara's room, and he claims that he never said that.

---> ''And that was when Oscar Wilde gave him what could best be described as a dude-you’re-so-retarded look.''

* CloudCuckoolander: Wilde and Poe.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: Tara.
* ComicTrio: Wilde is the leader, Poe is the idiot, and Tara is the Only Sane Woman.
* TheDandy: Wilde.

---> ''To sum things up, you can't get arrested for being gay, but you can get arrested for marrying your thirteen year old cousin. Any questions?''
* TheWoobie: InUniverse, Wilde and Poe argue over who fits this trope better.
* WeirdnessCensor: Presumably this is why Tara's mother doesn't notice that Wilde and Poe are living in her house until near the end of the story.

Can be found [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/60730487-bring-me-to-life here]].

---> ''And that was when Oscar Wilde gave him a dude-you’re-so-retarded look.''