History Fanfic / Luminosity

* AscendedExtra: Many characters, including Gianna, Rachel, and Santiago.

** [[spoiler:Cody]] explains to Elspeth that [[spoiler:the free wolf pack]] don't worry too much about humans seeing something suspicious, since it would be hard to get on the Volturi's bad side any more than they already are, unless they "kill one of their wives or something". Later, [[spoiler:Marcus turns against Aro after learning the latter was responsible for killing Didyme]].
** In ''Radiance'', Elspeth muses that she shouldn't expect [[spoiler:her power to be able to restore relationships snipped by Chelsea]], "any more than I should expect to bring people back from the dead just by pointing out that they had previously lived". She later [[spoiler:does essentially this, resurrecting people whose memories she got from Addy through Aro by prompting human victims of [[MySkullRunnethOver the mnemic blast]] to identify those memories as their own]].

** Bella's policy towards herself. She refuses to lie to herself about things like her motives for setting up Mike with Jessica (to deflect his attention from herself), or the shallowness of her initial attraction to Edward (based on his good looks and wealth, although she grows to find deeper things attractive about him over time after getting to know him).

* MayflyDecemberRomance: All the wolves with human imprints will be stricken with this (unless the imprints turn, which would cause other problems). The issues that can arise from this are explored in Flash 13 ("Staying Human").

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: When lesbian vampire couple [[spoiler:Maggie and Gianna]] want a child, they manage to find a sperm donor that ''might'' be a distant nephew of one woman -- this is in doubt mainly because [[spoiler:Maggie]] thinks her sister-in-law was cheating on her brother all those generations back.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: All the human imprints and male werewolves will be stricken with this unless the imprints turn. Which would cause other problems.
* MeaningfulEcho: Vampires and shapeshifters agree, vampire bites are ''not fun''.
* [[MindRape Mind Rapist]]: Chelsea. To a heartbreaking extent. Also [[spoiler:''Elspeth'']], of all people, if briefly.
* MercyKill: Humans in the throes of vampire transformation almost always beg for this. [[spoiler: Gianna almost persuades Maggie to do it, too, because Maggie's power lets her know that Gianna was sincere about wanting to die.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Any vampire without his/her mate will approach/cross the DespairEventHorizon. Any vampire with his/her mate is euphoric. This happens.

** Marcus's power to see relationships doesn't get a great deal of use in canon, and has often been mocked by the fandom or hatedom. In ''Luminosity'', Marcus is the reason Chelsea is able to keep the Volturi together -- he sees relationships in much greater detail than she [[RequiredSecondaryPowers feels them]], and can point out the beginnings of internal conflicts that she would otherwise miss. His power also allows him to notice Allirea's presence via relationships involving her. At one time, it also made him effectively immune to Chelsea's power, since he could catch her using it on him and call her out, but after Didyme died he stopped caring enough to bother.

* IfItsYouItsOkay: ''[[InvokedTrope Invoked]]'' by [[spoiler:Victor]], a gay werewolf who gains a female imprint. This is explained in [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/radiance/ch6.shtml Chapter 6 of "Radiance".]] (The actual imprinting is mentioned in [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/chapters/ch21.shtml Chapter 21 of "Luminosity".]])
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Somewhere around there at least. Werewolves and half-vampires grow to maturity then live forever.
* ImmortalityHurts: In ''Radiance'', [[spoiler: the Volturi]] keep several vampires disassembled for easy storage. [[spoiler: Including Edward and Alice.]]
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: See above.

* ImmortalitySeeker: Bella. [[spoiler: Her ultimate goal is this for ''everyone''.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Juvenile werewolves dislike being referred to as "children", on the grounds that this is the word for juvenile ''humans'', and insist that the correct term for them is "puppies".
* InterspeciesRomance: Bella/Edward, and werewolf/imprint relationships, from Twilight itself. Several vampire/human relationships, hence the existence of hybrids, who tend to have relationships with members of the other species.
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* KillItWithFire: Probably the best way to kill a vampire.

-->I want those [[FantasticSlur lee]]...ders of the supernatural world gone.
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* LesbianVampire: Maggie is a lesbian and a vampire, but otherwise doesn't fit the archetype. Rather than a sultry seductress, she's only interested in finding true love. [[spoiler:Which she does, in Gianna.]]

* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler:Gianna]]. To the extent nobody even suspected she was gay.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Bella does not understand why anyone wouldn't want to live forever.

** Maggie. Elspeth is an inversion--her Magic doesn't let her lie.
** The same ability also lets Elspeth play this straight--and unusually, she can figure out the ''objective'' truth! It needs time and guesswork, though.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Both vampires and werewolves are biologically subject to this.

* TheGenericGuy: David, the poor bastard. [[spoiler:In ''Radiance'' he gets a personality, and comes off more as a NiceGuy with OnlySaneMan tendencies.]]
* GenreSavvy: Bella realizes her life is like a romance novel.
* {{Guile Hero}}ine: The main difference is that Bella is this. To the point that she successfully [[spoiler:talks her anti-mindreading shield into giving her protection from fire.]]

* [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Have You Tried Not Being A Vampire]]: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in Chapter 24.
* HealingFactor: As per ''Twilight'' canon, vampires have this. Also the wolves, and hybrids.

** [[spoiler:Elspeth]]’s power grew in this direction.
** Also, Allirea's witchcraft. She's briefly mentioned in ''Luminosity'', where it's said that she can divert notice from herself. She doesn't actually make herself invisible, just [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight uninteresting]]. Probably not useless, but nowhere near as cool as, say, Alice's magic. And then you actually ''meet'' her.

** Marcus's power to see relationships doesn't get a great deal of use in canon, and is often mocked by the fandom or hatedom. In Luminosity, Marcus is a lynchpin for the Volturi -- according to Elspeth, losing Marcus would make the Volturi fragment within weeks. It also happens to be a way to notice Allirea's presence, if only indirectly. He also was effectively immune to [[MindRape Chelsea's power]] - and moreover, he could catch her using it on him and call her out - but then Didyme died and he stopped caring.

''Luminosity'' is a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' {{rational|Fic}} {{fanfic}} series by Alicorn, which can be read [[http://luminous.elcenia.com here]].

* ExactWords:

** One side effect of Elspeth's power is that she is a bad liar. She gets around this several times with half-truths, technically accurate but misleading statements, and the truth that could easily be mistaken for metaphor.

* ExpositionBeam: Elspeth eventually learns how to do this.
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* FantasticSlur: Leech for vampire, as in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books.
* FacelessEye: [[spoiler: Aro keeps one of these on a necklace.]] Even creepier is the fact that [[spoiler: it belongs to Marcus]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Aro fits, he is powerhungry and does nothing to hide it, also he has a tendency of killing everyone that slights him even a little bit as seen with the immortal children. Still, Bella notes that he does behave like a doting uncle when he gives her Gianna (to eat) and has an annoying tendency to refer to people by unwanted endearments even while sentencing them to death as shown with the Denalis' mother.
* FilibusterFreefall: {{Inverted|Trope}}; the fic was intended as an AuthorTract on the idea of "luminosity" (i.e. self-awareness), but the vampire story took over and the rationality talk was eventually left behind entirely.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: After Elspeth breaks the remnants of Chelsea's conditioning on Eleazar he's able to admit that [[{{Sadist}} Jane's centuries of revelry]] in [[AgonyBeam her power]] aren't magically excused by her [[DarkAndTroubledPast admittedly horrible mortal life.]]

* ForScience: Addy claims to be motivated by this, but [[spoiler:until the fall of the Volturi,]] she seems equally likely to be a HiddenAgendaVillain.

* ForWantOfANail: As noted earlier, at the beginning of the fic, the main divergence from Twilight canon is that Bella has a different personality - there are also characters introduced who don't exist and Chelsea is more powerful than she's implied to be in Twilight - most other of the departures from canon happen as a direct result of Bella's decisions.

** This:
-->"It would be sort of hard to have the Volturi after us more than they already are. I mean, I guess it's technically possible, we could kill one of their wives or something," he mused.
** Not to mention carefully selecting truths to avoid [[LivingLieDetector Maggie]] could be taken as foreshadowing for [[spoiler: Elspeth]]'s power.
** Regarding Nathan's power:
--> "Nathan, the one from the Isle of Man, is [a witch]," I told her, "but he won't say what it is that he does."
--> "That's obnoxious," my mother pronounced. "Is he planning to enlighten us at any point in the future?"

* DomesticAbuse: Esme suffered this from her human husband in her backstory, as hinted in the main story and shown full-on in Flash 16 ("Esme").

* AlternateUniverseFic: [[WhatIf What if]] Bella was a rationalist and constantly monitoring her own thoughts?

* ContinuityNod: The phrase "informed of [[{{Masquerade}} things]]", first used in Chapter 17 of ''Luminosity'', is repeated in Chapter 48 of ''Radiance'', and [[spoiler:stated as the official term]] in Flash 14.

* DespairEventHorizon: Vampires who lose their mates approach this, a few cross it.

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* DomesticAbuse: Allirea gets an especially horrifying version from Demetri. Also, hinted to be Esme's backstory. (This was later confirmed in one of the Flashes.)

''Luminosity'' is a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' {{rational|Fic}} {{fanfic}} series by Alicorn, available [[http://luminous.elcenia.com here]].

* {{Catchphrase}}: Chelsea constantly thinks 'Everyone must love me.'
* CerebusSyndrome: The story definitely gets darker towards the end, including character deaths.
* CessationOfExistence: What Edward believes will happen to all vampires if they are killed, in contrast to humans, who get an afterlife. Bella, on the other hand, thinks that no afterlife exists, even for humans.
* CloneByConversion: [[spoiler:Elspeth's power]] turns out to be capable of doing this by [[spoiler:implanting thousands of memories into a given person]]. While vampires can handle this, humans end up [[MySkullRunnethOver with]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation big]] [[MindRape problems]] .. and as it turns out, [[spoiler:with a bit of makeup, it's not to hard to mislead them as to which set of memories are their own]].

* ContinuityNod: The repetition of the phrase "informed of [[{{Masquerade}} things]]" from [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/chapters/ch17.shtml Chapter 17 of "Luminosity"]] in [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/radiance/ch48.shtml Chapter 48 of "Radiance"]], and stated as the official term in [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/flashes/14.shtml the fourteenth Flash]].
%% ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Pera and Razi just ''happen'' to be mates.]]
%%--> '''Siobhan''': "[[LampshadeHanging Well, that was convenient.]]"
%% Ditto: [[spoiler:Brady imprinting on Pera]] and arguably [[spoiler:Jacob imprinting on Elspeth - though that one's from the original canon, too]]
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Subverted. [[spoiler:Allirea does not love Demetri and definitely doesn't want to bear his children, so she gets her vampire father Joham to punch her repeatedly in the stomach until she miscarries. She's had to do this three times and it's just as horrible as it sounds.]]
* CreepyChild: Yes, apparently, as of the latest Flash, Adelaide always was that creepy.
* ChristmasEpisode: [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/fic/sparkmas.shtml Sparkmas]].

* CurseCutShort: By way of lightning powers.

%%* BaldMystic: Bella. Mixed with BaldHeadOfToughness. The reason she's like that is because vampire hair grows extremely slowly, and Bella's survived being set on fire twice. (So she's bald, but what about the mystic part?)
* BarrierWarrior: Bella is a mental version and Renata is a physical version.
* BerserkButton:

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Volturi are overthrown, notable sympathetic characters like Didyme and the Clearwaters are resurrected, all the main good guys make it out alive, and vampires are forbidden from snacking on humans. On the other hand, Elspeth never recovers from her mind rape by Chelsea and her once-close relationship with her "mama" is now heartbreakingly cold and, at best, needs to be rebuilt from the ground up]].
* BlatantLies: These become a plot point in ''Radiance'', [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/radiance/ch8.shtml chapter 8]]. [[spoiler: Elspeth has to constantly lie in order to keep her power suppressed, or else it will break through the effect that's making her an UnusuallyUninterestingSight.]].

** Bella's policy towards herself. She admits she is attracted to Edward for shallow reasons like his good looks and his wealth, which enables her to avoid needless romanticizing.

** [[spoiler:Elspeth's Magic]]'s policy toward ''everything''.

* AccidentalPun: When Bella is told she shouldn't simultaneously be around Edward and sharp objects, Emmett points out that Edward ''is'' a sharp object. Bella remarks that he has a point.
* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Bella has long hair throughout the entire story in the novel and in the film adaptation. She starts out with long hair here, but eventually goes bald.
* AdaptationNameChange: Renesmee is called Elspeth in this fic. In a TakeThat to the original, Bella brings up the "mix 'Renee' with 'Esme'" idea that led to the creation of the canon's name, but laments that "there's just no way to put them together in a way that sounds like a name and not a Franchise/{{Pokemon}}."
* AffablyEvil: Most of the Volturi's lower-ranking members, but most notably Addy.
* AlienCatnip: Vampires react this way to human blood.
* AlternateUniverseFic: WhatIf Bella was a rationalist and constantly monitoring her own thoughts?
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Luminosity'''s website has a [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/characters.shtml well-updated page]] to keep track of the large cast. It also has information not stated in the fic, such as that David's last name is Baxter (although this information later showed up in the "Flashes" section of the novel also).
* AndIMustScream: Attempting to use morphine to ease the pain of the [[PainfulTransformation vampire transformation]] paralyzes the patient without doing anything about the pain at all.
* ArtifactName: In "Molly", the title character chooses "ultravioletcolorblind" as her screenname, due to being the only human in her friend group of mostly half-vampires. When she gets turned later and sees the color for the first time, she immediately thinks that she's going to have to change it.

* AuthorTract: The fic was created to explain the concept of "luminosity", i.e. self-awareness. Then the story took over and the author tract was forgotten.

* AllThereInTheManual: ''Luminosity'''s website has a [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/characters.shtml well-updated page]] to keep track of the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. It also has information not stated in the fic, such as that David's last name is Baxter (although this information later showed up in the "Flashes" section of the novel also).

''Luminosity'' is a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' {{rational|Fic}} {{fanfic}} by Blog/LessWrong contributor Alicorn, available [[http://luminous.elcenia.com here]] or in a slightly less well-edited form [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6137139/1/Luminosity here]].

The story begins with the same set-up as the ''Twilight'' books; however, Bella is, as opposed to her canon self, an extremely introspective rationalist who is constantly investigating the reasons for her thoughts. The first lines of the story detail that a bit.

Some of the original plot remains intact early on, but by the time the first book ends, Bella's different decisions have stacked to the point that the plot is completely unrecognizable. The author has finished a sequel, ''[[http://luminous.elcenia.com/radiance/ch1.shtml Radiance]]'', also available [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6460146/1/Radiance here]], and a series of seventeen short stories called "Flashes".

There is an inactive [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=5dt6ub9yrpgzcwi5gjw1r0mf&page=1 Luminosity discussion thread]].

There are even some RecursiveFanfiction [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/all4.shtml stories]] set in the same continuity, one finished, [[http://sanitydamage.tumblr.com/tagged/never+forgotten/page/6 Never Forgotten]] and one ongoing: [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/fic/sky.shtml Sky]]

See ''FanFic/IfBellaWereSane'' for this fic's LighterAndSofter, DenserAndWackier counterpart.

* RapunzelHair: Elspeth, due to her mother's "neuroses", and the fact that her hair grows "like bamboo," usually has hair down to her ankles; it's often pointed out how amazing it is that she can work with it.

* BaldMystic: Bella. Mixed with BaldHeadOfToughness. The reason she's like that is because vampire hair grows extremely slowly, and Bella's survived being set on fire twice.

* BadLiar: Elspeth, sort of. She's so good at telling the truth, due to her power, that people notice when she stops. She [[spoiler:and Addy with her power]] ''can'' get away with lying to someone who has never heard her speak truth before, but this is of course a rare situation.

* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Bella has long hair throughout the entire story in the novel and in the film adaptation. She starts out with long hair here, but eventually gets a BaldOfAwesome she never had in the novel or film.

* BaldOfAwesome: Bella because the reason she's like that is because vampire hair grows extremely slowly, and [[spoiler: Bella's survived being set on fire ''twice'']].

* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Bella has long hair in the novel and in the film adaptation. She starts out the same way, but eventually gets a BaldOfAwesome.

* MostFanficWritersAreFans: The author readily admits that they liked the original Twilight and the fanfic was lar

* BaldWomen: Bella. Overlaps with BaldOfAwesome because the reason she's like that is because vampire hair grows extremely slowly, and [[spoiler: Bella's survived being set on fire ''twice'']].

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