History PlayingWith / MaybeMagicMaybeMundane

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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

** Magic and the supernatural are known to be real and are [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic accepted fields of study]]. Alice's ability to be "guided by the wind" is [[WrongContextMagic outside of any well-documented school of magic]], and she does show any other of the expected supernatural abilities, but some mages admit it's ''possible'' that it's related to one of the more esoteric fields.

** Magic and the supernatural are known to be real and are [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic accepted fields of study]]. Alice's ability to be "guided by the wind" is [[WrongContextMagic outside of any well-documented school of magic]], but some mages admit it's ''possible'' that it's related to one of the more esoteric field.

* '''Downplayed''': While it is true that the wind has led Alice to important events the opposite is also true, with various instances of her following the wind only to find nothing of interest. Therefore, the most likely explanation is that Alice was wrong about the wind guiding her movements.

* '''Straight''': Alice claims that the wind guides her movements, coincidentally whenever she follows the direction of the wind she is taken to the place she needs to be at the right time, whenever this is just an impressive stroke of luck or there is actually some supernatural force at work is never disclosed.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice has not just been guided by the wind, but has accomplished outright unbelievable acts such as flying thanks to her relationship with it, yet the narrator and the other characters still treat this as something that could be explained rationally.
* '''Downplayed''': While it is true that the wind has led Alice to important events the opposite is also true, with various instances of her following the wind only to find nothing of interest.
* '''Justified''': The story is being narrated by Alice herself, so the dilemma boils down to wherever or not the audience decides to believe her.

* '''Subverted''': Alice never had any powers and there was never anything mysterious about it, the Big Bad has actually been manipulating Alice's movements with a weather-control machine.
* '''Double Subverted''': However in the climax of the story the wind actually acts out to help Alice find a way to beat the bad guy, thus raising the mystery again.

** Alice never had any powers and there was never anything mysterious about it, the Big Bad has actually been manipulating Alice's movements with a weather-control machine. However in the climax of the story the wind actually acts out to help Alice find a way to beat the bad guy, thus raising the mystery again. It is eventually revealed that a previously unseen good guy was using his own weather-control machine to guide Alice, but he then reveals that he found the machine by following the wind.

* '''Enforced''': The work features supernatural events based on Abrahamic religious beliefs. If the writers explictly show them to be false, it risks angering MoralGuardians by implying that ReligionIsWrong and that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If they reveal said events to be true, the work will instead be criticized as an {{Anvilicious}} AuthorTract. As such, the writers deliberately keep it ambiguous to avoid any complaints.

* '''Discussed''': "Let me guess, we will never find out if Alice has powers or not isn't it?, it's as if reality purposely kept some things from being explained as to keep things interesting".

* '''Implied''': The veracity of Alice's powers is never questioned by the narrator or characters, but neither it is reassured, leaving the audience to speculate about it.
* '''Deconstructed''': Eventually, the inability to decipher the mystery about Alice's powers leads other characters to question other unrelated simple or logical explanations, trying to find supernatural subtexts where there is none and getting more confused, ultimately leading to the message that one should not stop trying to make sense out of things or everything falls apart.

* '''Enforced''': The work features supernatural events based on Abrahamic religious beliefs. If the writers explictly show them to be false, it risks angering religious MoralGuardians by implying that ReligionIsWrong and that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If they reveal said events to be true, the work will instead be criticized as an {{Anvilicious}} AuthorTract. As such, the writers deliberately keep it ambiguous to avoid any complaints.

* '''Enforced''': The work features supernatural events based on Abrahamic religious beliefs. If the writers explictly show them to be false, it risks angering religious MoralGuardians by implying that ReligionIsWrong and that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If they reveal said events to be true, the work will instead be criticized as an {{Anvillicious}} AuthorTract. As such, the writers deliberately keep it ambiguous to avoid any complaints.

* '''Enforced''': The work features supernatural events based on Abrahamic religious beliefs, and the writers cannot prove or disprove them without making the work look like an AuthorTract, or riling up religious MoralGuardians.

* '''Enforced''': The writers actively turn down any explanation theory the fans propose.

** [[WeHardlyKnewThee Alice dies before it can be elaborated upon]] and nobody else has similar apparent abilities to confirm or deny it.

* '''Invoked''': Alice makes sure to act as mysteryous as she can about her powers, never giving consistent answers to people who ask about them.

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Defied''': Even though the true nature of Alice's powers is never explained the narrator insists there is an explanation behind it all.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Averted''': Alice is eventually either outed as a charlatan who simply used analytical methods to track important events or [[RealAfterAll the supernatural properties of her skills are confirmed]].

* '''Averted''': Alice is eventually either outed as a charlatan who simply used analytical methods to track important events or the supernatural properties of her skills are confirmed.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice's powers are finally explained, but the explanation only raises further undisclosed paranormal implications.

* '''Subverted''': Alice never had any powers and there was never anything mysterious about it, the Big Bad has actually been manipulating Alice's movements with a clime control machine.

* '''Reconstructed''': However, Alice intervenes and convinces them that not being able to explain every single mystery or acknowledge that something is supernatural doesn't devalues simple or rational explanations, much less it means they should abandon their rational train of thought.

'''Basic Trope''': The veracity of a supernatural event is purposely left to the critera of the audience.

* '''Lampshaded'': "Just like the wind who is constantly in movement, refusing to stay in one place, there are some things that just refuse our explanation", muses a philosophical character when questioned about Alice's powers.

* '''Discussed": "Let me guess, we will never find out if Alice has powers or not isn't it?, it's as if reality purposely kept some things from being explained as to keep things interesting".