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During a car ride home after getting expelled from school, Luz's mother decides that it's time she learned about her father.

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During After a car ride home after getting mysterious incident gets Luz expelled from school, Luz's mother Camila decides that it's time she learned about her father.
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* HowDadMetMom: Camila tells Luz about how she met Belos, by way of stumbling through a portal into the Boiling Isles and right into his throne room.
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!'''Chapter 1 -- "Magic is real?"'''
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: While Belos can speak English, he refers to Spanish as "That Human dialect."
* CheapGoldCoins: Belos says that snails (the default currency at the Boiling Isles) are all made of gold, thus the treasure he brought with him as a gift would be worth a lot more in the Human realm.
* CrazyPrepared: Belos had a chest full of treasure (to ensure Camila and Luz lived comfortably) and an orb that can open a portal to the Boiling Isles brought with him in the event that Camila turned down his proposal to make her his Empress.

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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Played with. While Belos can speak English, with it being the native language of the Boiling Isles, he doesn't understand Spanish, which he refers to Spanish as "That Human dialect."
* CheapGoldCoins: Discussed. Belos says notes that while the gold and diamonds that make up snails (the default currency at of the Boiling Isles) are all made of gold, thus pretty commonplace on the treasure Isles, he brought with him as a gift would be worth a lot more in knows that they're the Human realm.
exact opposite on Earth, so he gifts her a chest full of them.
* CrazyPrepared: Belos had gifts Camila a chest full of treasure (to to ensure Camila she and Luz lived comfortably) and could live comfortably, as well as an orb that can open a portal to the Boiling Isles brought with him if she ever does want to return, both of which he had ready in the event that Camila turned down his proposal to make her his Empress. him down.



* ForWantOfANail: Instead of a book report gone wrong having the principal suggest she be sent to a correctional summer camp, a magical mishap causes more far severe damage that gets her outright expelled, and Camila decides that both she and Luz should permanently move to the Boiling Isles so Luz can finally meet her father and learn to control her powers.

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* ForWantOfANail: Instead of a book report gone wrong having the principal suggest she be sent to a correctional summer camp, Luz trying to stop a bully causes a magical mishap causes more far severe damage that gets leads to her getting outright expelled, and expelled. As such, Camila decides that both she and Luz should permanently move to the Boiling Isles so Luz can finally meet her father and learn to control her powers.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While she was trying to stop a bully, she most definitely didn't want what happened to happen.
--> '''Luz''': Maybe I'm the freak accident... I didn't want to hurt anyone, I just want to help...
* NoodleIncident: Camila somehow fell through a portal from the human realm right into Belos' throne room. In-between the seven months from then to when Belos managed to send her back, they fell in love and she wound up pregnant with their daughter. Six years later, Belos manages to make it back, hoping to bring Camila back and finding out about Luz.
* PowerIncontinence: The story begins with Luz accidentally setting a bully's hair on fire and making snakes appear in her clothes. This has been a recurring problem all of her life, her wayward magic causing her to come across as some kind of delinquent.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While she was trying to stop a bully, she most definitely didn't want what happened to happen.
plan on things escalating the way they did.
--> '''Luz''': Maybe I'm the freak accident... I didn't want to hurt anyone, I just want to help...
* NoodleIncident: Camila somehow fell through a portal from the human realm right into Belos' throne room. In-between the seven months from then to when Belos managed to send her back, they fell in love and she wound up pregnant with their daughter. Six years later, Belos manages to make it back, hoping to bring Camila back and finding out about Luz.
help...
* PowerIncontinence: The story begins with Luz accidentally setting a bully's hair on fire and making snakes appear in her clothes. This has clothes, before nearly drowning her in a torrent of water when trying to put the flames out. Magical flare-ups like this have been a recurring problem all of her life, making her wayward magic causing her to come across as some kind of delinquent. To put things into perspective, the fic's inciting incident is one of the ''better'' years she's had.


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* RejectedMarriageProposal: Camila rejects Belos's proposal, not because she doesn't love him (she absolutely does), but rather because she wants Luz to [[GiveHerANormalLife safely grow up on Earth]], rather than in the chaos of the Boiling Isles.
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* CheapGoldCoins: Belos says that snails (the default currency at the Boiling Isles) are all made of gold, thus the treausre he brought with him as a gift would be worth a lot more in the Human realm.

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* CheapGoldCoins: Belos says that snails (the default currency at the Boiling Isles) are all made of gold, thus the treausre treasure he brought with him as a gift would be worth a lot more in the Human realm.



* PowerIncontinence: The story begins with Luz accidentally setting a bully's hair on fire and making snakes appear in her clothes. This has been a recurring problem all of her life, her wayward magic causing her to come across as some kinf of delinquent.

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* PowerIncontinence: The story begins with Luz accidentally setting a bully's hair on fire and making snakes appear in her clothes. This has been a recurring problem all of her life, her wayward magic causing her to come across as some kinf kind of delinquent.

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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: While Belos can speak English, he refers to Spanish as "That Human dialect."



* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Belos blatantly admits that he fell in love with Camila treated him as an equal, having grown complacent and lonely with his authority as TheEmperor.

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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Belos blatantly admits that he fell in love with Camila because she treated him as an equal, having grown complacent and lonely with his authority as TheEmperor.TheEmperor.
* MetaGuy: When Camila tells her about the time Belos came to the human world, Luz describes it as a tragic love story with her as a "plot point."
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* CheapGoldCoins: Belos says that snails (the default currency at the Boiling Isles) are all made of gold, thus the treausre he brought with him as a gift would be worth a lot more in the Human realm.
* CrazyPrepared: Belos had a chest full of treasure (to ensure Camila and Luz lived comfortably) and an orb that can open a portal to the Boiling Isles brought with him in the event that Camila turned down his proposal to make her his Empress.
--> '''Camila''': ...You planned this, didn't you? In case I said no?\\
'''Belos''': Well, yes... sadly...


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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Belos blatantly admits that he fell in love with Camila treated him as an equal, having grown complacent and lonely with his authority as TheEmperor.


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* NoodleIncident: Camila somehow fell through a portal from the human realm right into Belos' throne room. In-between the seven months from then to when Belos managed to send her back, they fell in love and she wound up pregnant with their daughter. Six years later, Belos manages to make it back, hoping to bring Camila back and finding out about Luz.
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!'''Chapter 1 -- "Magic is real?"'''

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!!Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
* ForWantOfANail: Instead of a book report gone wrong having the principal suggest she be sent to a correctional summer camp, a magical mishap causes more far severe damage that gets her outright expelled, and Camila decides that both she and Luz should permanently move to the Boiling Isles so Luz can finally meet her father and learn to control her powers.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While she was trying to stop a bully, she most definitely didn't want what happened to happen.
--> '''Luz''': Maybe I'm the freak accident... I didn't want to hurt anyone, I just want to help...
* PowerIncontinence: The story begins with Luz accidentally setting a bully's hair on fire and making snakes appear in her clothes. This has been a recurring problem all of her life, her wayward magic causing her to come across as some kinf of delinquent.
--> '''Luz''': Mama, I- I'm so sorry that I got myself expelled! I- I didn't mean to set that girl's hair on fire, it was an accident! I- it's just that- things just happen! Like, like when I was taking a test and I didn't know the answer! And the smart boy's paper appeared on my desk!
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-->[-Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31391228/chapters/77629928 HERE]]-]
-->[-Website/FanFictionDotNet: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13721320/1/Learning-How-To-Be-a-Princess HERE]]-]
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