History Literature / TheLiteraryLegacyOfOphelia

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* AllMythsAreTrue - to an extent.
* ChildhoodFriend - Ophelia and Kanon.
** ChildhoodFriendRomance - of the victorious kind.
* CirclesOfHell
** FireAndBrimstoneHell
** BloodyBowelsOfHell
* CouncilOfAngels - the seven archangels and their subordinates.
* DysfunctionJunction
* FantasyKitchenSink
* EnemyMine - Mikaela and Lucifer both want Celia's head on a pike, and they reluctantly team up to do so.

* IronicEcho - ''"Raise your head and die."'' and ''"Do it for her."''

* OddCouple / OppositesAttract - Ophelia and Kanon.
* OddFriendship - Ophelia and Lucifer. The former frequently questions her sanity on this.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent - divided up into classical hierarchies with the seven archangels on top; cannot harm beings of faiths other than their own Judeo-Christian; ascended souls are limited in power while natural-born angels have the SuperPowerLottery; weak to jade stones, Devil's Trap circles, and salt-ignited fires.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent - souls of those who made contracts in exchange for saving their lives; ranked 72 led by Bael/Hecate are the most powerful, the rest are generally AxeCrazy FacelessMasses; generally a step less powerful than angels, but they may harm beings of other faiths; each have standard SuperPowerLottery fodder plus a specialty of their own; weak to consecrated ground/blessed objects, Devil's Trap circles, and holly branches.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld / TimeAbyss - Belial and Xander are both around 2,000 years old, an incredible age for demons (who usually get replaced every couple of centuries, according to Lucifer), but both are trumped by Mikaela and the rest of the archangels, who've been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

* VitriolicBestBuds - Kanon and Sariel.
* WeaksauceWeakness - angels with jade stones, demons with holly branches.

* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Ophelia
** TheLancer - Belial
** TheSmartGuy - Kanon
** TheBigGuy - Xander
** TheChick - Ira
** TheSixthRanger - Hecate

Several hundred years after a nuclear apocalypse rips apart the world and society rebuilds itself, New Versailles city is the center of the newborn world, in more ways than one, little does the human population know. Ophelia Krueger, a resident of the city, doesn't like her name. She's not insane, or a doormat...or so she likes to think. Eternally living in the shadow of her ''wonderful'' older sister Celia, she strives to be as "normal" as possible--nothing extraordinary, nothing horrible, because naturally she could never be as ''wonderful'' as Celia. Except she's forced to face the cold hard facts when, one day, she discovers her parents have been brutally murdered as a part of a demonic summoning ritual, and Celia is nowhere to be found, with her fingerprints all over the crime scene. Everything she thought "normal" about her life is abruptly thrown out the window, as she finds her own family and many she knew growing up were entwined in a world full of magic--including her childhood friend and longtime boyfriend, Kanon, who [[BrutalHonesty tactfully]] informs her that by discovering the crime scene before Celia could complete the ritual properly, she inherited the demonic contract Celia was trying to get in the first place.

Unfortunate as her situation becomes, the demon girl Belial is not as ruthless and evil as Ophelia predicted. But a single demon from a large council isn't nearly enough to stop Celia's murky "master plan" that may very well wipe New Versailles off the map.

* AfterTheEnd
* AllMythsAreTrue
* ApocalypseHow - Type 2, bordering on Type 3A.
* BetaCouple - Xander and Belial.

* ItsPersonal - Mikaela's reasoning for wanting to kill the Whore of Babylon, aside from said figure being a bringer of the apocalypse and Mikaela being an angel.
* LateToTheTragedy - Sariel manages to find Ophelia at the harbor and seal off her magic, but only after Celia and Alice have left and the Wrath seal was broken.

* NoodleIncident - when Mikaela blew up China.
** and how Kanon came to be associated with PachelbelsCanon.
** what the Whore of Babylon did to piss of Mikaela so badly.

* LateToTheParty - Sariel manages to find Ophelia at the harbor and seal off her magic, but only after Celia and Alice have left and the Wrath seal was broken.

A story by {{Tropers/Undefines}}, it can be read in its highly unfinished state [[http://papermoons.dreamwidth.org over here]].

* OddCouple / OppositesAttract - Ophelia (ditzy doormat with confidence issues and a knack for judo), and Kanon (genius asshole with too much pride who can't run a block to save his life).

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld / TimeAbyss - Belial (born in the 1100s), and Xander (born in the early middle ages). Both end up trumped by Mikaela and the other angels, however.

* CouncilOfAngels

* ScrewFate - Mikaela is a strong supporter of this. Comically, it's mainly because of her intense desire to kill the Whore of Babylon, despite her not being the one destined to ("the beast with seven heads and ten horns").