History Literature / TalesOfMu

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 100 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 99 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 98 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

* SympathyForTheDevil -- At then end of Y2-85, Two gives a two-star review to the shop [[spoiler:whose owner wanted Mack for Mercy]] because it was ''very'' clean.

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 97 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 96 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

The story, at least for the first half or so of the first year's chapters, frequently veers off into sexual territory, arguably at the expense of the plot, but usually by offering a different take on a difficult or sensitive topic. For instance, the second book offered Mackenzie's attempt to describe in first-person narrative her first orgasm, without her realizing that's what she was having. Overall, the sexual content has become much less frequent, but when it does show up, it does so with gusto.

* An unnamed [[ChekhovMIA full-blooded demon]] that Mack calls "the man" and some fans call (the) Mack Daddy. He's been seen in bonus flashback stories with Mack's mother and has appeared to Mack in her dreams. Immediately after the first dream, all Mack's toiletries were spiked with a potion to make people express their innermost feelings - presumably to bring out her evil side, though it didn't quite work out that way. His exact motivations are unknown, but they probably ain't good.
* Some Sort Of Ridiculous Owl-Turtle Thing: Not exactly a villain, but snarky and annoying (to the characters) and mildly antagonistic. The ROTT was something that Two dreamed up after being told that dreams contain a lot of things that are sort of muddled and part one thing and part another. She [[LiteralMinded took it literally]] and dreamed up a creature that looks like [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a ridiculous cross between an owl and a turtle]]. It was mostly just there as comic relief at first, but ever since it escaped Two's mind by hitching a ride with [[spoiler:Dee]], and then started showing up in other people's dreams as well, it's been becoming gradually more and more sinister...[[spoiler:until the second year, when it begins training Mack on how to defend herself from Mack Daddy in her dreams. It hasn't stopped being irritating, though.]]

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 94 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

* AnythingThatMoves -- Or nearly so, for the nymphs; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that they live on sexual energy, which in turn [[JustForPun fertilizes]] their fields.

* BlessedWithSuck -- Mack can only be harmed by magic...in a setting where magic items are more common than concluded plot threads. She's also ''very'' vulnerable to divine energy, especially if it's Khersis-based. By which we mean, ''any'' lay worshipper can make the Arms of Khersis, a simple hand sign, and ''floor'' her. [[hottip:*:Even "lapsed" believers and casually-placed trinket-grade Khersian symbols can cause her debilitating pain. The possibility has been raised that countermeasures might exist, but Mack has so far refused to consider such an unholy action.]]

** Several characters, gradually over the course of the series, with Mack being the most prominent.

* DevilInDisguise: [[spoiler:The Man]]

** Some of Ian's encounters with Mack, despite her loving every minute of it, strike him as uncomfortably close.

* GodEmperor -- The rulers of the counterparts to Japan and Britain, the Emperor of the Imperial Republic of Magisterion is constitutionally limited so that he can't be one.

** Mack Daddy [[spoiler:eats the heart of a virgin roughly every 13 months]].

** Mackenzie borders on being one whenever she gets into an argument...which is frequently.

** The delving students who Mack encounters after the botched teleport spell (see ContinuityOverlap above); one wants to kill her for XP, another (Seth) is ambivalent about whether she lives or dies, and another (Lacey) half-heartedly argues to let her live. This gets reinforced even more by [[spoiler:Seth's]] petulant attitude when [[spoiler:he's caught by Eloise after he and Lacey mess with a dwarven sword as a prank]] in a second-year side story.
* KarmaHoudini -- Amaranth feels that [[spoiler:Barley]] hasn't been appropriately handled by [[spoiler:Mother Khaele]] for what amounts to blasphemy for a nymph.

* MissingEpisode -- Y1-489. It would cover the time in [[spoiler:Embries’]] office where he deals with the matter of [[spoiler:Leda’s death]], magically forcing Mack to bear witness, while preventing her from passing on the experience to anyone else, including those who are viewing the world through her thoughts and perceptions (i.e. the readers). Accordingly, the entire narrative (including chapter heading and link) cannot be seen.

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong / TemptingFate -- Lampshaded in "Brimstone?".

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 93 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 89 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

* TransparentCloset - Mack, at first.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion -- [[{{Averted}}; Hazel reveals in Y2-86 that she did indeed have an abortion. Her being in a place to have one at all is just one more in a long list of black marks her mother's family has against her.]]

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 86 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories. Specific chapters will be referred to with the Y__-__ format; first blank is the year, second is the chapter number.

* TheBully -- Puddy, to just about everyone but especially Mack and Mariel.
* ButICantBePregnant -- [[spoiler:Hazel]] went through some ''severe'' denial, even claiming that it was impossible because ''[[YouFailBiologyForever she was on top]]''. [[spoiler:Amaranth was shocked when Hazel appeared to not be pregnant in the second year, but didn't say anything to her at that point. Hazel admits in Y2-86 that it took her a while to admit to herself that she was pregnant.]]

** The Leighton twins.

* BigEater -- The hobbit-like gnomes.

* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons -- The story takes place in "the future" of a D&D-esque medieval fantasy setting, with many of its tropes used, subverted, or played with in the contemporary, multi-racial setting. Nonhuman races are somewhat-recognizable versions of various D&D creatures, with standard D&D premises about them often treated as humans' stereotypes of those races. VancianMagic is not used, but magical weapons and such are quite similar to D&D magical items. Except when they aren't what they sound like; for example, [[IncrediblyLamePun Rings of Protection]] are contraceptive items.
** The Health facility is named the Gygax Memorial Healing Center.

* EasySexChange -- Played with. Dee gives Steff a transformative potion to help resolve some of her body issues. The eventual result is that [[spoiler:Steff now has a much more obviously feminine body, including breasts, but also has a noticeably bigger penis]].

* {{Ephebophile}} -- [[spoiler:The available evidence implies that Mack Daddy could have started having sex with Laurel Anne when she was 12 or 13. She was definitely pregnant with Dan when she was 15.]]

* {{Expospeak}} -- Lots...and lots...and ''lots'' of it whenever Mackenzie makes it to class. In those parts the reader is treated to many many paragraphs of world-building.

** Mack and her submissiveness/love of abuse
** Steff's general cluelessness

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion -- [[{{Averted}}; Hazel reveals in ch. 86 of year 2 that she did indeed have an abortion. Her being in a place to have one at all is just one more in a long list of black marks her mother's family has against her.]]

* TheImmodestOrgasm: Mack has a couple of these, in chs. 412 and 496.

* InTheBlood -- Mack is convinced that she's irredeemably evil, despite several people close to her firmly disagreeing. It doesn't help that all of the previous half-demon students at the university have come to bad ends, and in the setting, half-demons are usually institutionalized. There's also her extreme vulnerability to divine energy; even someone invoking Khersis near her can harm her. Her grandmother ''really'' doesn't help things when she tells Mack in ch. 420 that because of her demon blood, Mack is (probably) inescapably damned, and the best she can do is to live as long as she can suppressing her infernal nature as much as possible.
** Hilariously, The Man himself, the only full blooded demon to have appeared in the series as of yet, is the practical living example that half-demons do NOT behave like demons, he said so himself. He is anything but beastly.

** Implied to be a motive for [[spoiler:Two's creator designing her to be completely hairless except for her head]]. [[spoiler:Two does later deny that her owner used her sexually.]]

* LuminescentBlush -- Mack gets the text equivalent from a suggestive comment from Steff in ch.2 of the second year's storyline.

* MissingEpisode -- Ch. 489. It would cover the time in [[spoiler:Embries’]] office where he deals with the matter of [[spoiler:Leda’s death]], magically forcing Mack to bear witness, while preventing her from passing on the experience to anyone else, including those who are viewing the world through her thoughts and perceptions (i.e. the readers). Accordingly, the entire narrative (including chapter heading and link) cannot be seen.

** Mermaids named Iona and Feejee.

** It's hinted early on that Mackenzie's grandmother might have once been a famous demon-slaying paladin. Mackenzie, of course, has never heard of any of it and finds the whole thing ridiculous, even as the evidence continues to mount, [[SkepticismFailure until it's finally confirmed in chapter 422]].

* StandardFemaleGrabArea -- Subverted in ch. 473, when [[spoiler:Mack stops Puddy from grabbing her arm simply by telling her that she'll start screaming]].
* StealthPun -- These show up every now and then, such as a comment from Hazel in ch. 82 (second year) about her wargaming strategy:

* SympathyForTheDevil -- At then end of ch. 85 of year 2, Two gives a two-star review to the shop [[spoiler:whose owner wanted Mack for Mercy]] because it was ''very'' clean.

* YouKeepTellingYourselfThat -- Mack does this a lot to [[spoiler:Puddy]] in chs. 472 and 473, [[spoiler:trying to make Puddy see that she's deluded herself about her importance in Mack's life. It doesn't work]].

* AnythingThatMoves -- Or nearly so, for the nymphs; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that they live on sexual energy, which in turn feeds their fields.

** Invoked by [[spoiler:Embries]] in ch. 488.
* {{Brainwashed}} -- Mack, to a degree, as a result of what happened between her and [[spoiler:Embries. He uses his draconic power to force her to be unable to tell anyone about what he made her watch, even through telepathy, other "subtle" means, or even story narrative - so we don't get to see it either. No telling when, or even if, this will be undone]].

* ButICantBePregnant -- [[spoiler:Hazel]] is in ''severe'' denial, even claiming that it's impossible because ''[[YouFailBiologyForever she was on top]]''. [[spoiler:Amaranth was shocked when Hazel appeared to not be pregnant in the second year, but didn't say anything to her. Hazel admits in ch. 86 that ]]

* CallBack: In an early chapter, [[spoiler:Mack orders Two to not talk to or sell herself to a slaver they run into]]. In ch. 85 of year two, [[spoiler:Two tells Mack essentially the same thing when they run into a shopkeeper who wants to obtain Mack, with the implication that she'd then be sold to Mercy]].

* DungeonsAndDragons -- The story takes place in "the future" of a D&D-esque medieval fantasy setting, with many of its tropes used, subverted, or played with in the contemporary, multi-racial setting. Nonhuman races are somewhat-recognizable versions of various D&D creatures, with standard D&D premises about them often treated as humans' stereotypes of those races. VancianMagic is not used, but magical weapons and such are quite similar to D&D magical items. Except when they aren't what they sound like; for example, [[IncrediblyLamePun Rings of Protection]] are contraceptive items.

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 85 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories.

* AnythingThatMoves -- Or nearly so, for the nymphs; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that they live on sexual energy.

* TheBully -- Puddy, to both Mack and Mariel.
* ButICantBePregnant -- [[spoiler:Hazel]] is in ''severe'' denial, even claiming that it's impossible because ''[[YouFailBiologyForever she was on top]]''. [[spoiler:This appears to not be an issue in the second year, which Amaranth was shocked by but didn't say anything to Hazel about.]]

* An unnamed [[ChekhovMIA full blooded demon]] that Mack calls "the man" and some fans call (the) Mack Daddy. He's been seen in bonus flashback stories with Mack's mother and has appeared to Mack in her dreams. Immediately after the first dream, all Mack's toiletries were spiked with a potion to make people express their innermost feelings - presumably to bring out her evil side, though it didn't quite work out that way. His exact motivations are unknown, but they probably ain't good.
* Some Sort Of Ridiculous Owl-Turtle Thing: Not exactly a villain, but snarky and annoying (to the characters) and mildly antagonistic. The ROTT was something that Two dreamed up after being told that dreams contain a lot of things that are sort of muddled and part one thing and part another. She [[LiteralMinded took it literally]] and dreamed up a creature that looks like [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a ridiculous cross between an owl and a turtle.]] It was mostly just there as comic relief at first, but ever since it escaped Two's mind by hitching a ride with [[spoiler:Dee]], and then started showing up in other people's dreams as well, it's been becoming gradually more and more sinister...

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 82 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot -- Golems aren't technically robots, but they tend to be the magical equivalent, complete with all the associated MagicalComputer tropes.

* RPGMechanicsVerse -- Done very subtly, but played completely straight and not [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs.]] Specifically, it's a Tabletop RPG Mechanics Verse, with gods and other extremely powerful entities in the role of GameMaster. For example, RocksFallEveryoneDies is a known and well-understood phenomenon in adventuring circles, and NoFairCheating is a codified fundamental principle of magic, on par with the Laws of Thermodynamics.

** To elaborate, the entire schedule slip saga went like this: Started out daily. Then the author missed a Sunday or two. Then the author decided to take weekends off and made it M-F. Then three times a week. Then to the "[[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever it updates when it updates]]" schedule. It's now on an "updates every 4th day"-schedule

* SetSwordsToStun -- {{Justified}} in Callahan's classes, as the roster would be drastically reduced after each class if they used their real weapons instead of the nonlethal "mocked" versions they use.

* CloudCuckooLander: Sooni. It's ''not'' PlayedForLaughs, but it can sometimes be pretty funny.

* BigBad: It's not entirely certain that the overall story will have one, but so far, [[spoiler:Mercy, Mack Daddy, and Chancellor Embries]] have been the most likely candidates for various reasons, with [[spoiler:Mercy's plans to enslave Mack and use her to breed an army of demonspawn]] as the most obvious plan.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast -- While most of the more intimidating characters have innocuous names, "Mercy" has been known to [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel terrify some of the (fully-grown) readers.]]

* {{Asexuality}} -- Two, which made having Mack as a roommate a trying experience for her at times.

* RealityEnsues -- Sooni acts like a classic {{Tsundere}}, but later discovers that [[spoiler:repeatedly hitting Kai in the head with a wooden sandal will cause damage. In this case, hemorrhaging in the brain]]]

* StealthPun -- These show up every now and then, such as a comment from Hazel in ch. 82 (second year) about her wargaming strategy:
-->'''Mack''': Wait, your strategy is to hide most of your army and just move them around until your opponent gives up?\\
'''Hazel''': It’s an acceptable military strategy! It’s called ‘going ape’, I think.

* MagicVersusScience -- While magic works and is commonplace, belief in the power of scientific thinking is generally regarded as either dangerously deluded or childish fantasy. The Mechans are treated as the counterpart to Wiccans in our universe. See also ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum.

* MissingEpisode -- Ch. 489. It would cover the time in [[spoiler:Embries’s]] office where he deals with the matter of [[spoiler:Leda’s death]], magically forcing Mack to bear witness, while preventing her from passing on the experience to anyone else, including those who are viewing the world through her thoughts and perceptions (i.e. the readers). Accordingly, the entire narrative (including chapter heading and link) cannot be seen.

* NoPeriodsPeriod -- Inverted; what happens to Mack during her cycle is one of the curses of her half-demon nature and a minor plot point.

* OurElvesAreBetter -- The professor of Pre-Republic History sums it up very succinctly. Evidently they can um... ''make love'' for ''15 hours straight.'' That's right, fifteen hours. This also has elements of a deconstruction, as the perfection of the elves takes a toll on their ability to enjoy life, and most end their lives by suicide.
** Shown the downside of with Steff the half-elf, who considers her own lifelike drawing to be crude doodles and her boyfriend's skillful harpsichord playing to be terrible. This is besides Steff's many, many crippling psychological problems, many of which have to do with her feeling inadequate compared to her elven relatives.

** Steff for Victor
** Mack for Amaranth

** It's hinted early on that Mackenzie's grandmother might have once been a famous demon-slaying paladin. Mackenzie, of course, has never heard of any of it and finds the whole thing ridiculous, even as the evidence continues to mount, [[SkepticismFailure until it's finally confirmed in chapter 422.]]

* ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum -- Want to scientifically analyse the world of Tales Of MU? ''"Well, this is where a lot of the unique undead, cursed artifacts, and tainted lands come from. This is how magical abominations are created."'' Plus, space isn't always orthogonal: distances can shift between points, and some areas are bigger inside than when measured without. The faery realm exists alongside the mundane world, the realm of giants exists "above" it, and there are gods aplenty. Elves don't need to breathe. And the world itself may be sitting in a magical pocket universe rather than orbiting a star...

** Mack does not want to worship at Sooni's feet...or kiss her ass...or lick her pussy while being called filth...
** A simultaneous use and inversion: For the first year and part of the second, whenever anyone asked about her mother's death, all Mack would say is "It wasn't my fault." Not very specific, but no one called her on how suspicious that sounded...[[spoiler:until the ridiculous owl-turtle thing did so, which got her wondering about how her mother really did die.]]

* TalkingIsAFreeAction -- Subverted, multiple paragraphs are often devoted to Mack's thoughts and observations to what's going on around her, but she is constantly being called out by those around her for "spacing out" when she does this.

* TookALevelInBadass -- [[spoiler:Mack]], in small but definite increments as [[spoiler:she starts being really proactive about defending herself from Mack Daddy and trying to find out about her mother.]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- Two does this twice:
** The [[http://logo.cafepress.com/3/9332958.4073523.jpg runes on her forehead]] resemble the word "TWO", hence her name.
*** For more clarification, she was used to seeing labels on everything in her creator's lab, so she thought the life-giving runes on her head were her "label". The same line of logic explains...
** ... [[CompanionCube Hand Wash]], her teddy bear.

** Mack has had to deal with this all her life since she's a half-demon.
*** She is, however, pretty racist herself, at least at the start.

* {{Filler}}/FillerStrips -- The series attempts to present a close-to-real-time story, which makes some parts seem written just to make the deadline. For example: one of the early chapters was devoted to Amaranth and Mack walking a few streets, getting on a subway-equivalent, getting out, and walking into a building.

* FlatEarthAtheist -- The Arkhanites - more like Flat Earth Solipsists, but close enough.
** Also, the Mechans.

* [[FriendToAllLivingThings Friend]] (With Benefits) [[FriendToAllLivingThings To All Living Things]] -- Amaranth, and initially Barley.
* GenreSavvy -- Mack is smart enough to realize that "we have to solve this by ourself" isn't by far the smartest thing to say when dealing with a powerful demonic artifact. Also, during her fight with Belinda she comments how well the half-ogre girl fits a number of high school jock clichés.

* GoneHorriblyWrong -- It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Amaranth's personality is a result of a socially-awkward twelve year old interfering with her creation process. He wanted Amaranth basically to be a savior-of-nerds, then was too afraid to have any contact with her, leaving her in the dark about the whole thing.]] "Horribly" is an overstatement, but it's definitely caused problems.

* HammerSpace -- Amaranth. Especially overt in her case, as unlike most HammerSpace users, Amaranth doesn't even have clothing as a supposed hiding place for items she puts "away". Also, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] early in the series when Mack keeps trying to catch her bringing something Out or putting it Away.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday -- Mack did this a ''lot'' in the early chapters when she was trying to sort out her sexuality; it's all but disappeared now.

** Several races, including mermaids and ogres,

* TheImmodestOrgasm
** Inventively and humorously played with in ch. 412. [[spoiler:At the conclusion of Mack and Amaranth's spanking session in the S&M club, Mack orgasms so intensely that she sets herself on fire...which trips the club's sprinkler system: a magical thunderstorm over the stage.]]
** Mack has one ch. 496, as a result of [[spoiler:dreams about Sooni resulting from stress from schoolwork]].

** Amaranth is a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]]. She's nude practically 24x7, and functions as a fanservice character, but in-story she has legitimate social and spiritual reasons for doing so. As a nymph, her body is considered a gift, and thus ''covering'' it is the taboo -- an [[InvertedTrope inverse]] of the standard nudity taboo.

** The delving students who Mack encounters after the botched teleport spell (see ContinuityOverlap above); one wants to kill her for XP, another (Seth) is ambivalent about whether she lives or dies, and another (Lacey) half-heartedly argues to let her live. This gets reinforced even more by [[spoiler:Seth's]] petulant attitude when [[spoiler:he's caught by Eloise]] after [[spoiler:he and Lacey mess with a dwarven sword as a prank]] in a second-year side story.

* LeeroyJenkins -- Subverted. Mackenzie's lawyer is named Lee Jenkins, an obvious ShoutOut, but he's a calm, competent [[GoodLawyersGoodClients good lawyer]].

->''"The way I heard it, the founders felt that being forced to kill random monsters would somehow give the students a valuable experience...you know, help us build character? How getting into fights is supposed to make somebody a better sorcerer or bard is beyond me..."''\\
-- '''Steff''', ''Tales of MU''

* [[YouAreNumberSix Two]], a golem. She was designed to want to do what she's told, then set free when her creator's wife was creeped out. She initally has to be given specific instructions on how to act like a normal person, but has slowly become more self-sufficient and independent. She replaces Puddy (see below) as Mack's roommate.

* An unnamed [[ChekhovMIA full blooded demon]] that Mack calls "the Man" and some fans call (the) Mack Daddy. He's been seen in bonus flashback stories with Mack's mother and has appeared to Mack in her dreams. Immediately after the first dream, all Mack's toiletries were spiked with a potion to make people express their innermost feelings - presumably to bring out her evil side, though it didn't quite work out that way. His exact motivations are unknown, but they probably ain't good.
* Some Sort Of Ridiculous Owl-Turtle Thing: Not exactly a villain, but snarky and annoying (to the characters) and mildly antagonistic. The ROTT was something that Two dreamed up after being told that dreams contain a lot of things that are sort of muddled and part one thing and part another. She [[LiteralMinded took it literally]] and dreamed up a creature that looks like [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a ridiculous cross between an owl and a turtle.]] It was mostly just there as comic relief at first, but ever since it escaped Two's mind by hitching a ride with [[spoiler: Dee]], and then started showing up in other people's dreams as well, it's been becoming gradually more and more sinister...

Chapter 496, plus a number of side stories, concluded Mack's first year at MU. The second year has reset the chapter numbering; so far, 71 chapters of the second year have been released, along with more side stories, so almost all the tropes below and on the YMMV page are contained in the first year's stories.

* AGodAmI -- Invoked by The Man in his "rebel theology" lesson: a god is anyone who can say this and then back it up by having the power to smite/kill anyone who disagrees with the claim.

* AerithAndBob -- [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] given the setting of multiple [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] species of intelligent beings with wildly different cultures mashing up.

* ButICantBePregnant -- [[spoiler:Hazel]] is in ''severe'' denial, even claiming that it's impossible because ''[[YouFailBiologyForever she was on top]]''.

* TheDitz -- Keri [=LaBelle=]. While she does have the occasional insightful or worthwhile question, most of the time she's a complete moron. Problem is, her (well-deserved) reputation for ditziness gets a bit [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in the mind of the teacher that she and Mackenzie have together, to the point where he's borderline verbally abusive to her.