History Sandbox / Elisabel

''Characters Who First Appear in Chapter Four'''

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'''Tropes That Apply to Places and Species'''

[[folder:Earth]]
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted
* PocketDimension: Contains several, which is how TheMasquerade has been kept up.
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[[folder:Gaia's Domain]]
* HiddenElfVillage: In some ways. Gaia has taken in many refugees from the Fairy Kingdom and various abusive situations, and believes participating (especially martially) in outside matters would be detrimental to their well-being.
* PocketDimension: It's physically located somewhere on Earth, but is surrounded by magic barriers and most can only access it through long-distance portals.
* {{Small, Secluded World}}
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[[folder:Fairyland and Fairies]]
* TheFairFolk
* {{Immortality Begins at Twenty}}
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[[folder:The Mirror World and Its Inhabitants]]
* ChildlessDystopia
* NonEuclideanGeometry
* UncannyValley
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[[folder: Shadowland and the Shadow-folk]]
* {{Void Between the Worlds}}: A flat, featureless plain with only two sources of light (the "Two Lamps" of Earth and Fairyland).
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[[folder:Gaia's Forest]]
* PocketDimension

'''Tropes That Apply to Places and Species'''

[[folder:Fairyland]]

[[folder:The Mirror World]]

[[folder: Shadowland]]

[[Shadowland]]

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'''Gaia's Forest'''

'''Fairyland'''

* {{Immortality Begins at 20}}

'''The Mirror World'''

'''Shadowland'''

[[folder:Tropes of the Setting in General]]
'''Earth'''
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted

* WorldBetweenWorlds

The story focuses on Doran O'Callaghan, a fairy raised by humans who helps people that are having trouble with fairies or [[AllMythsAreTrue other paranormal creatures]]. Sort of a human-monster diplomat, though he'd be better able to do his job if the Fairy Queen didn't hate his guts.

The story focuses on Doran O'Callaghan, a fairy raised by humans who helps people that are having trouble with fairies or [[AllMythsAreTrue other paranormal creatures]]. Sort of a human-monster diplomat, though he'd be better able to do his job if the Fairy Queen didn't hate his guts.

'''Tropes that apply to Doran himself:'''

* AmbiguousDisorder: In keeping with the lore, some of his fairy traits parallel stereotypical traits of autism (the [[CannotTellALie difficulty with untruths]], the lack of instinct for human social norms, and unusually-paced childhood development). It helped him relate to his adopted human father and brother, who are both autistic (though they both show different traits than Doran, of course).
* CannotTellALie: It's a fairy thing. Worse for him than for most, since he refuses to work around it with technically-true but misleading phrases the way other fairies do.
* CelibateHero: He's around forty and has never had a love interest or much wanted one. Not sure whether it's [[ASexuality just how he was built]] or whether it's because he grew up with humans and could always subconsciously sense that they were a different, incompatible species.
* ChangelingTale: Was traded in as a baby for a human infant. When the human parents noticed the change, they went full BadassNormal, made friends with some paranormal experts, and snuck into Fairyland to get their son back. Except by this time they'd ''also'' gotten attached to baby Doran (he didn't choose to be an impostor, after all), so they defied Fairyland ''again'' to keep him and raise him as their son's "twin brother".
** And that's why the Fairy Queen hates his entire family's guts.
* TheComicallySerious: When he's put into a situation that clashes too much with his terse, no-rhetoric demeanor.
* EyesAlwaysAverted: He likes to look to the side when he's talking or listening. Helps him pay attention to the words.
* {{Face of a Thug}}: He's seven feet tall, untalkative, has resting stern face and a slightly misshapen lip because of the scars that go from his mouth to his chin. You wouldn't guess from looking at him how quietly anxious he is to do right by people.
* {{Friend to All Children}}: Sometimes they're scared by his height and appearance, but Doran likes kids and tries to do his best by them. When confronted with a child who's been having a bad time, he has a way of sitting down by them, speaking with his usual quietness but (conspicuously) ''not'' his usual gruffness, and listening intently without looking directly at them. That quiet, unpushy respect and attention seems to come across as comforting to a lot of kids.
* GentleGiant: For a given value of "gentle" (he's not the sentimental type, but he's a good person and awkwardly, scrupulously caring) and of "giant" (he's thin as a stick, but seven feet tall).
* GlowingEyes: Fairies have the tapetum lucidum. Gives him good night vision and also makes him freaky-looking.
* HappilyAdopted: Twice - first by Mr. and Mrs. O'Callaghan, who defied the Fairy Queen to give him a loving upbringing, and then by his godparents (the paranormal experts) who took him in after the Queen finally assassinated the O'Callaghans.
* NoSocialSkills: Which makes it an interesting choice that he tries to be a negotiator (an entirely social job) between multiple species with vastly differing cultures. It exhausts him, but it's something he's extremely personally invested in, and anyway he thinks ''someone'' has to do it.
* OddCouple: It seems every friendship he develops over the story has to fit this mold, whether it's with the talkative Jon, the flamboyant and morally-ambiguous Big Ears, or the idealistic Niomi.
* RaisedCatholic: Very plot-relevant, since fairies get several of their powers (the ability to tell the future, plant illusions in people's heads, and put curses or general spells on people) from their yearly [[DealWithTheDevil tithe to hell]]. Doran, being baptized and never having taken part in the practice of tithing, has no access to those powers. He doesn't really mind . . .
* RedOniBlueOni: Doran is the blue to ''everyone's'' red, but especially Jon's, his godmother's, and Niomi's.
* ScaryTeeth: He has twice as many canine teeth as a human would, and they are unusually large.
* SuperStrength: One of the fairy powers he didn't lose with baptism.


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[[folder:Chapters 2-3, and characters that first appear there]]

'''The leannán sídhe'''
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheMuse: An abusive one who tries to control her "work partner" to think and write about nothing but her.
* {{Pride}}: Her whole motivation is that she thinks she deserves to have art made in her name, and that other people ([[FantasticRacism or at least humans]]) matter so little that it's all right if they starve as long as they're giving her the honor she deserves.

'''Thomas Butler'''
* ByronicHero: Not smart, self-centered, or morally ambiguous enough to fit every detail of this trope, but he has the idealism, discontent, romanticism, and artistic talent for it.
* SiblingYinYang: Much quieter and more openly serious than his older brother Jon, though not really any more mature.

'''Jonathan Butler'''
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's four years older than Thomas, and when Tom goes missing, he stays in Ireland looking for him so long that his job in America fires him.
* ConspiracyTheorist: He definitely believes there's Something Out There, and his main interest is cryptids. He'd be delighted to find out there really ''is'' something weird in the bog, if that "something weird" hadn't kidnapped and nearly killed his brother.
* EagleLand: A mild version. A loud-voiced extrovert from the Midwest who's into American cryptids such as Bigfoot and Mothman.
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[[folder:Chapter 4, and characters that first appear there]]

'''Ellen Healy'''

'''Bridget Gallagher'''

'''Roderick Gallagher'''

'''Robert Gallagher'''

'''Lucas Scott'''

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'''Big Ears'''

* HappilyAdopted: Twice - first by Mr. and Mrs. O'Callighan, who defied the Fairy Queen to give him a loving upbringing, and then by his godparents (the paranormal experts) who took him in after the Queen finally assassinated the O'Callighans.

* ByronicHero: He isn't one (not that brooding, unconventional, or morally ambiguous), but gives the air of one to those who don't know him well.
* {{Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling}}

* BigBrotherInstinct

'''Tropes that apply to other people/places/plots in the Doranverse:'''

* AssholeVictim: Anyone who sacrifices cats to summon Big Ears, a powerful wish-granting cat fairy, [[JackassGenie gets what's coming to them]].
* TheFairFolk: The fairies, kitsune, and other creatures from various bodies of folklore all fit this trope.
* HappilyMarried: Doran's parents, Doran's godparents, ''and'' Doran's little sister and brother-in-law, because this is something my sister and I [[AuthorAppeal like to write]].

* AssholeVictim: Anyone who sacrifices cats to summon Big Ears, a powerful cat fairy who can grant wishes, [[JackassGenie gets what's coming to them]].

* SuperStrength: One of the fairy powers he didn't lose with baptism.

* AmbiguousDisorder: In keeping with the lore, some of his fairy traits parallel stereotypical traits of autism (the [[CannotTellALie difficulty with untruths]], the lack of instinct for human social norms, and a childhood development that was delayed in some areas and accelerated in others). It helped him relate to his adopted human father and brother, who are both autistic (though they both show different traits than Doran, of course).

* EyesAlwaysAverted: He likes to look to the side when he's talking or listening. Helps him pay attention to the words.
* {{Friend to All Children}}: Sometimes they're scared by his height and appearance, but Doran likes kids and tries to do his best by them. When confronted with a child who's been having a bad time, he has a way of sitting down by them slouchily, speaking with his usual quietness but (conspicuously) ''not'' his usual gruffness, and listening intently without looking directly at them. That quiet, unpushy respect and attention seems to come across as comforting to a lot of kids.

* ChasteHero: He's around forty and has never had a love interest or much wanted one. Not sure whether it's [[ASexuality just how he was built]] or whether it's because he grew up with humans and could always subconsciously sense that they were a different, incompatible species to himself.

* HappilyAdopted: Twice - first by Mr. and Mrs. O'Callighan, who loved him so much they defied the Fairy Queen to give him a loving upbringing, and then by his godparents (the paranormal experts) who took him in after the Queen finally assassinated the O'Callighans.

* TheComicallySerious: When he's put into a situation that clashes too much with his terse, rhetoricless demeanor.

* {{Friend to All Children}}: Sometimes they're scared by his height and appearance, but Doran likes kids and tries to do his best by them. When confronted with a child who's been having a bad time, he has a way of sitting down by them, speaking with his usual quietness plus some extra softness, and listening intently without looking directly at them; many kids are reassured by that quiet, unpushy respect.

* RaisedCatholic: Very plot-relevant, since fairies get several of their powers (glamour, foresight, the ability to curse people) from their yearly [[DealWithTheDevil tithe to hell]]. Doran, being baptized and never having taken part in the practice of tithing, has no access to those powers. He doesn't really mind ...

* HappilyAdopted: His human parents are ''awesome'' and he will happily tell you so. Unfortunately it's a case of {{Deceased Parents Are the Best}}.

* ChangelingTale: Was traded in as a baby for a human infant. When the human parents noticed the change, they made friends with some paranormal experts, went full BadassNormal, and stormed Fairyland to get their son back. Except by this time they'd ''also'' gotten attached to the fairy baby (he didn't choose to be an impostor, after all), so they defied Fairyland ''again'' to keep baby Doran and raise him with their son as twins.

* GlowingEyes: Fairies have tapeta lucida. Gives him good night vision and also makes him freaky-looking.
* NoSocialSkills: Which makes it an interesting choice that he tries to be a negotiator (an entirely social job) between multiple species with vastly differing cultures. It exhausts him, but it's something he's extremely personally invested in, and anyway he thinks ''someone'' has to do it.

* {{Friend to All Children}}: Sometimes they're scared by his height and appearance, but Doran likes kids and tries to do his best by them. When confronted with a child who's been having a bad time, he has a way of sitting down by them and talking softly and listening intently without looking directly at them; many kids are reassured by that quiet, unpushy respect.

[[folder:Tropes that apply to Doran himself]]
* Ambiguous Disorder: In keeping with the lore, some of his fairy traits parallel stereotypical traits of autism (the [[CannotTellALie difficulty with untruths]], the lack of instinct for human social norms, and a childhood development that was delayed in some areas and accelerated in others). It helped him relate to his adopted human father and brother, who are both autistic (though they both show different traits than Doran, of course).

* Face of a Thug: He's seven feet tall, untalkative, has resting stern face and a slightly misshapen lip because of the two red scars that go from his mouth to his chin. You wouldn't guess from looking at him how quietly anxious he is to do right by people.