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* ''Literature/TheRedMaidenGracesStory'': Written as a semi adaptation of the Celtic Legends of the Dearg Due and Abartach.


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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25581199/chapters/62081836 Unlife is Strange]]'' is a crossover fic on Archive Of Our Own by [[Tropers/{{Beast}} GOTFa2]].

It serves primarily as a crossover between ''Franchise/LifeIsStrange'' and ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018''. However, it features numerous cameos and plot connections that both ''VideoGame/{{Control}} and ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' are considered secondary crossovers; the Federal Bureau of Control is a significant presence, and the cast from ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' are recurring and supporting characters.

The story focuses on Rachel Amber who, following her death, is picked by the vampiric goddess the Red Queen, to be her latest champion to spread her wicked disease, the Blood of Hate, across the world. Following the events of [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange the first game]], Rachel is resurrected as a vampire, and taken in by the Mother's Children -- a cult and AncientConspiracy of vampires and wicked humans seeking to spread the Red Queen's will. The Mother's Children are said to be led by Mordred himself.

Yes, ''[[Myth/ArthurianMythology that]]'' Mordred.

Fighting against them is the follow up the the former Ascalon club, aptly named, New Ascalon; led by William Marshall's "heir", Lady Elisabeth Ashbury, whose lover, Jonathan Ried is no closer to finding a cure for the Blood of Hate despite a century of searching. With the "present day" storyline set in 2020, the story also features a flashback storyline, covering Rachel's years as a vampire in Los Angeles. Thrust into this new unlife, Rachel is warned not to seek out connections from her old life, which is easier said than done when familiar faces appear to her, and she finds herself fighting the destiny that the Mother's Children hoped for her.

In the present day, the Red Queen begins to stir, and her "children" begin enacting their plan a century in the making. Roped into this is [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2 Sean Diaz]], who is attacked by the Mother's Children in their search for his brother Daniel, who has disappeared with his friends Chris Eriksen and Sarah Lee Hackerman when Beaver Creek is attacked. Approached by a group of vampire hunters, collaborating with the FBC, Sean is offered a deal; he works with them for the duration of this crisis and their investigations, and he may earn his freedom and that of his brothers. Getting increasingly more to lose when Sean discovers his girlfriend Cassidy is pregnant, he agrees to their terms.

Besides having an EnsembleCast among protagonists of ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'' and ''Franchise/LifeIsStrange'', this story also has "Routes". While it's a ContinuationFic, it doesn't follow a specific ending of ''VideoGame/LifeIsAStrange'' or ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2 2]]''; instead certain chapters are labeled as '''Route A''' ("Sacrifice Arcadia Bay[=/=]Parting Ways'') or '''Route B''' (''Sacrifice Chloe[=/=]Redemption"), depending on what timeline the reader wishes to follow, while the bulk of the story is written from a neutral perspective for either ending.

This fic is also part of ''The Fog Of Worlds Saga'', alongside ''Fanfic/LovesSacrifices'', another crossover fic by the same author. 

!!''Unlife is Strange'' contains examples of...

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* AbusiveParent:
** The Red Queen, being the "mother goddess" of the vampire race, sees her "children" as tools and weapons at best, and slaves and traitors at worst. She has a biological child in Myrddin Wilt, and is his sworn enemy, along with all his champions. She behaves as a toxic motherly figure to all her champions as well. She is also Mordred's adoptive mother, raising him to be a proxy champion when his biological mother -- her previous champion, Morgause -- died, seeing Mordred as a weapon and in stilling that he is loyal only to her.
** Sean Prescott's abuse of Nathan is highlighted even more here. It's revealed when Nathan was a kid, he suffered a severe head injury after trying to swing over a handlebar as a kid, and never visited him once while he was in the hospital. It's also revealed that Prescott once made Nathan join a junior hockey team as a kid, and when his team lost a game, Nathan's father "forgot" him at the skating rink for three hours before picking him up. [[spoiler:So when Nathan becomes a vampire, he has no remorse in killing and feeding on his father.]]
* AdaptationalAbomination: Inverted with the Red Queen and Myrddin Wylt. In ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', the two were primordial vampires, existing with no apparent corporal form. Myrddin claims to have never been human, and his mothers origins escape even him. Here, it’s revealed that Myrddin was once the Celtic God Lugh, and that his mother once had a corporal humanoid form of her own. In Arthur's time, this form was named "Morgana" and the partial basis for Morgan Le Fay. This form still exists, albeit only appearing in dreams, visions and hallucinations.
* AdaptationalBadass
** Rachel, although this can be explained by her becoming a vampire; taking a level in badass just comes with it. In the game, she isn't really an ActionGirl, only getting into an altercation with Damon Merrick, where she is immediately stabbed and hospitalized. As a vampire, she becomes a lot more tough and aggressive, getting into multiple fights and dispatching numerous other vampires over the story. She gets into two fights with Mordred, during which she manages to severely injure him (albeit through fighting dirty); and fights her way through a hospital infested with Skals, using a fire axe.
** Elisabeth Ashbury is a rather downplayed example. In ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', she normally abstains from any kind of combat or getting her hands dirty, due to being TheAtoner. However, when she becomes the head of New Ascalon, she and her partners are swept into an EnemyCivilWar with the old Ascalon club, and reactionaries within the Guard of Priwen. This necessitates her having to get her hands dirty over the past century, and she fears becoming [[IHatePastMe Lady Blackwood]] again. With that said, she personally leads a rescue mission for [[spoiler:Jonathan, during which she kills several of Mordred's followers; and in '''Route B'', helps fight off a vampire attack on Blackwell Academy.]]
** Downplayed with Steph Gingrich. She is not exactly an ActionGirl in the games, or in this story, and her canon counterpart is pretty mundane. However, it's soon discovered she (unwittingly) has a power of her own, regarding a Tulpa effect. The Steph that Rachel meets and dates in LA is in fact a LivingDream of the "real" Steph, who goes back and forth between her "real" life and Tulpa life. With that said, she is little more of a "hands on" badass than her canon counterpart -- with exception of [[spoiler:incapacitating Mordred by ramming him with a car, and shooting him in the mouth and throat; which temporarily ''killed'' him.]]
** Mark Jefferson, of all people, gets this trope, however downplayed. [[spoiler:When attacked in prison by a swarm of skals, he manages to hold them off and outrun them -- albeit through fighting dirty and getting a few others killed to distract the skals -- and manages to escape the prison on his own through quick thinking and acting fast. However after his escape, he's left exhausted and found shortly after by the Guard of Priwen; the Guard later conscripts him in part of his escape and in part of his ties to "persons of interest".]]
* AdaptationalJerkass:
** James Amber. While in ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm Before the Storm]]'', he already paid a drug dealer to abduct his ex-wife and force her to go through an addiction relapse, in this story, despite the truth coming out to Rachel, he seemingly expected her to come back to him. Despite his supposed concerns, did nothing when he (correctly) suspected an affair between Rachel and Jefferson. Following confirmation of Rachel's death, he attempted to posthumously push her memory as a perfect daughter, victim and student while demonizing Chloe as a toxic influence on Rachel's life. All this to say, Rachel is further disgusted by her father when she's resurrected.
** Played With, in regards to Mark Jefferson. While his canon counterpart is a BitchInSheepsClothing, he at least attempted to put on the front of a charming, charismatic teacher who forms close bonds with his students. Here, his affair with Rachel is portrayed with more outwardly grooming connotations; he blatantly takes advantage of her vulnerabilities, lets his narcissism slip through here and there, and passive aggressively dismissive of Rachel when she opens up about her own issues. In an attempt to "comfort" Rachel regarding her mother's death, he effectively tells her she shouldn't waste tears on a junkie.
** In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'', Lisbeth Fischer was a BitchInSheepsClothing, but at least put on a motherly facade for her congregation. As part of her AdaptationalVillainy here, she is a lot more outwardly snide and passive agressive, and can barely put on her "Reverend Mother" front without it being immediately shot down.
* AdaptationalKarma:
** In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', whatever karma dealt Sean Prescott isn’t elaborated upon in either ending. In this story, in both routes, it is revealed that in addition to the Dark Room being exposed — along with Nathan's involvement — numerous of Prescott's dirty laundry and Arcadia Bay's corruption became unearthed. Despite Prescott's attempts to control the narrative, when the FBC and New Ascalon step in, they prove too overwhelming for Sean Prescott. He would then abandon his family to deal with the fallout. [[spoiler:It's also revealed that New Escalon had abducted Prescott, keeping him captive and later feeding him to his transformed son.]]
** In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'', Hank Stamper gets no real punishment for his assault and attempted abduction of Sean Diaz, even remaining a VillainWithGoodPublicity after the fact. In both "Routes" if this story, this uncovered by Daniel's testimony, and when questioned, Hank's wife folds immediately. While Hank was convicted, he didn't see jail time, instead being made to wear an ankle bracket, with his gas station sometimes being vandalized by Sean and Dnaiel's supporters.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** In the '''Route A''' timeline, David Madsen is a lot more down to earth and understanding of Chloe when they meet after the storm. Similarly, Chloe is a lot more accepting of David when the two work together in finding Joyce. David even tries to reassure her when he notices her SurvivorsGuilt, and looks out for her while at a memorial service. This is more in line with their relationship in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'' following the "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" ending.
** Mary Reid; in ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', she is vicious, vindictive and broken as she turns into a vampire, though it is stated she used to be a more loving and hopeful woman before her death. In this story, we see a lot of the woman she used to be, and even when resurrected and ForcedIntoEvil, she is open about her vulnerabilities, and makes an effort to reconnect with her brother. By 2013, she cut her ties with the Mother's Children completely. She also had genuine feelings for Rachel during their fling, though they both maturely agree that a long term relationship wouldn't have had worked.
** Geoffrey [=McCullum=] is a lot more tolerant of Jonathan Reid, with them having more of an understanding after [=McCullum=] was turned as per the game. By the 1920's the two attempt to bridge an EnemyMine between their factions when they learn of the Red Queen's followers and their reach, only to be met with backlash from reactionaries within both factions. During his and Reid's alliance, [=McCullum=] is more interested in protecting the innocent, preferring to find a cure for the Blood of Hate as opposed to exterminating the infected, lamenting when he does so. A stark contrast to his militant hatred for vampires in the game.
* AdaptationalSexuality:
** In canon, the exact sexual orientation of Victoria and Kate is not elaborated. Here, they are depicted as not only being sapphics, with Victoria being AmbigouslyBi, but gradually falling in love after they befriend one another.
** In ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', Mary Reid's sexuality isn't elaborated, but is mentioned as having a husband. In this story, Mary is depicted as a deeply closeted lesbian, who only married out of societal expectation, despite having no real romantic feelings for her husband. The only proof of their intimacy is when they had a son together. In the present day, Mary sometimes seduced and slept with young women as part of her service to "The Mother's Children", and had a fling with Rachel shortly before she went missing.
** As the cast of ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' are introduced in this story, Mike, Matt, Jessica and Emily are portrayed as bisexual and are suggested to be in a swinging or polyamorous relationship between the four. Sam is portrayed as a lesbian, and has a regular on and off romantic[=/=]sexual relationship with Emily
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The Red Queen, while already malignant being in ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', she's made even worse here. She's portrayed as a corruptive influence, maliciously targeting individuals and hitting them where it hurts. In ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', it's implied she targets women already wronged and bitter at the world. Here, she goes out of her way to ruin the lives of women to systematically create the ideal champion. She attempted to do this Chole Price, setting her up to go on a downward spiral when she noticed how happy Chloe was with her father, as a ''toddler''. She calls upon the corruption to Arcadia Bay to hurt and corrupt other women, and demands Chloe be made a blood sacrifice lest Arcadia Bay be wiped off the map.
** Lisbeth Fischer, while already a BitchInSheepsClothing cult leader in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'', has a more heinous past that she's being investigated for -- from dealing drugs when she was younger, working with a far right militia, and protecting predators in her congregation over the decades; it is also heavily implied that the conversion therapy camp she works with engages in regular sexual abuse. Upon being reached out to by the Mother's Children, she makes a bargain with Mordred [[spoiler:to send his followers to wipe out two whole towns, just to spite the Diaz brothers for escaping her.]] Mordred himself is a little taken aback by this pettiness.
* AffablyEvil: Mordred's outwardly portrays himself as a chummy, and talkative playboy, with a number of quirks and eccentricities that make him come off as endearing; such as a genuine enthusiasm for popular culture, especially music. When he meets Rachel, he loves to joke and seems genuinely empathetic to her past and plight. It makes it easy to forget that he's a dreaded, apocalyptic cult leader with a proud history of mass murder and conquest. He also tries and fails to kill Mark Jefferson on Rachel's behalf, as per a promise he made with her, despite having no reason to uphold his end of the deal at this point. On the other hand...
** FauxAffablyEvil: The above interactions with Rachel can be seen in a grooming context, as he's trying to get her to join his cause. When she isn't soled on his initial pitch, he resorts to threats and blackmail to get her in line, whilst still acting like he's got his hands tied. From that point onwards, he interacts with others with a more stereotypical FauxAffablyEvil front, of the "Condescendingly Friendly" type. However, it seems he has a genuine friendship with his partner, Bathory.
* AgeGapRomance: As per canon, Rachel has had affairs with both Frank Bowers and Mark Jefferson, and is revealed here to have had a fling with Mary Reid. While Rachel was eighteen and nineteen during these affairs, Frank and Jefferson were significant older men. Both affairs are portrayed as a self destructive coping mechanism on Rachel's part. Although Frank had genuine feelings for her, Jefferson is more predatory with their power imbalance, blatantly preying on her vulnerabilities. As for Mary Reid, she is a century old vampire, who was turned at the age twenty seven. While she developed genuine feelings for Rachel, when they meet again, they both agree that an actual relationship between them wouldn't work.
* AlternateSelf:
** When Rachel meets and hooks up with [[spoiler:Steph in LA, it is later discovered ''this'' Steph technically isn't ''the'' Steph. Rather she is a LivingDream Tulpa; being a version of Steph who lived a different life than her canon counterpart -- as seen in ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeTrueColors True Colors]]''. Steph goes back and forth between her "real" life and her Tulpa life, with both initially thinking that her other life is a dream.]]
** Chloe has two versions of herself in the '''A''' and '''B''' timelines. Following "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" in the '''A''' timeline, Chloe would settle down with Max living a seemingly mundane domestic life with her, and their son. In the ''B''' timeline following her death, Chloe is resurrected as a vampire intended to be the Red Queen's champion; [[spoiler:however she is found and rescued by Reid and Ashbury, and would initially isolate herself in her recovery. In the present day, Vampire!Chloe has since been conscripted as an FBC field agent.]]
* AlternateTimeline: Certain chapters are designated '''Route A''' and '''Route B''', which designate the timeline this story takes place in, depending on what version of the story the reader wishes to follow. Chapters designated '''Route A''' take place is a timeline following "[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Sacrifice Arcadia Bay]][==][[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2 Parting Ways]]"; while '''Route B''' takes place in a "Sacrifice Chloe[=/=]Redemption" timeline.
* ArchEnemy:
** Besides Reid and Ashbury fighting against the Red Queen on principle, when the Queen realizes that Reid is seeking out the means to destroy her for good, coming close to finding it. As recompense, the Queen seeks to hurt Jonathan on a personal level; resurrecting his sister, Mary to create new champions for her. To force Mary to do so, she takes the soul of Mary's son hostage. When Mary herself eventually turns against her, the Queen is now a FamilialFoe to the Reid and Ashbury family.
*** It is also revealed the Queen took root in Arcadia Bay in the 90's, during which she became fixated on Chloe Price after seeing her as a happy toddler. Besides bringing further corruption and pain to Arcadia Bay, the Queen wanted to make Chloe her "ideal" champion, and would manipulate events in her life to make her bitter and miserable in hopes of eventually killing and turning her. In ''Route B''' she succeeds, [[spoiler:although Chloe managed to slip through her fingers upon turning; in the present day, Vampire!Chloe has seemingly joined the fight against her.]]
** Mark Jefferson serves as one to Max and Rachel, with his betrayals and crimes making him a very personal antagonist. In Rachel's case, his grooming relationship with her is emphasized along with his betrayal, and hand in her murder. In the present day, [[spoiler:Jefferson is conscripted into the Americanized Guard of Priwen, and learns of the Red Queen, Rachel and how several of his former victims and students are persons of interest; Jefferson joins their causes in part to get revenge on those who put him away, and to finish Rachel off.]]
** Lisbeth Fischer has since become this to Sean and Daniel Diaz. It is revealed after Sean, Daniel and the Hackerman siblings escaped her compound, Fischer made numerous attempts to abduct Daniel, whose testimony has started an FBI investigation against her and her cult. [[spoiler:When she is roped in with the Mother's Children, Fischer requests that they siege Beaver Creek, Boone County Penitentiary and Puerto Lobos, all to punish the boys for defying her. When Mordred encounters Sean and his friends in both routes, he is acting as a go-between for Fischer, despite being the bigger threat and having more influence than she does.]]
* AttemptedRape: Early on, Rachel goes out looking for fresh blood, she is picked up by a man who tries to coerce oral sex out of her in exchange for a ride. Rachel pretends to be more helpless than she actually is to go along with this, but seeing as she was a vampire, [[GroinAttack you can probably guess where this is going]]...
* TheAtoner:
** As a vampire, Rachel comes to regret a lot of her self-destructive habits in life, especially cheating on Chloe. When she begins her romance with Steph, she sincerely tries to do right by her. When she nearly has sex with Sam and Emily in a moment of weakness, she feels horrible for it coming clean to Steph, taking all responsibility. [[spoiler:It's soon revealed that the Steph that Rachel was dating is a Tulpa of the "real" Steph -- Tulpa!Steph tends to disappear and reappear in Rachel's life and memories. Rachel's fling with Sam and Emily occurred during such a disappearance, though Rachel herself doesn't think this absolves her.]]
** As per the games, Lady Ashbury is this for her murderous past as Lady Blackwood, intending to use her position in New Ascalon to help undo the work of the Red Queen, and distance herself from her past. However, over the years, her war against the Mother's Children leads to her getting her hands dirty, making her fear that she could become Lady Blackwood yet again. She is also encouraging of Nathan's own atonement, telling him that she has done worse than him as Blackwood, therefore his redemption isn't that hard of a sell to her.
** Nathan Prescott, in both routes, is shown as sincerely regretting his actions in the game. Following his arrest in '''Route B''', Nathan accepts his imprisonment, refusing to accept his family's attempts to bail him out -- curiously, he would assault guards and even his lawyer to ensure he stays in jail -- and makes a genuine effort to befriend Sean Diaz while they're in jail. After his death and transformation in both routes, Nathan initially thinks he is in Hell of some sort and believes he deserves to be there. According to Myrddin Wilt, he picked Nathan as his newest champion, partially so that he'd help undo the damage he's done in the Dark Room.
** In both routes, Victoria Chase has become this following the Storm[=/=]Chloe's death; besides being remorseful for bullying Kate, she is further broken down by Jefferson's abduction of her[=/=]surivors guilt, and the revelations of Jefferson and Nathan's crimes. She tries to better herself from that point onwards, even befriending Kate over time when the latter makes it clear she forgives her. Over the years, the end up romantically involved.

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* BadassAndChildDuo: Sort of. In the 2020 storyline, [[spoiler:Rachel happens upon Daniel Diaz, Chris Eriksen and Sarah Lee Hackerman, rescuing them shortly after the vampire attack the town; technically making this a ''quartet''. She protects them while trying to keep their heads down, otherwise playing this trope straight. Daniel also takes a level in badass himself, getting more control of his powers, reguarly using them to protect his friends. He and Rachel team up to incapacitate a would be abductor.]]
* BailEqualsFreedom: Downplayed if not subverted. In both Routes, Sean Diaz is given restricted freedom as part of his deal with the FBC and American Guard of Priwen, which comes with conditions. He is ostensibly free in his services to them, but will only have his slate wiped clean if he plays ball by the end of the investigation and crisis. He privately compares it to being on a leash, but otherwise adjusts to the deal decently.
* BaitTheDog: Morded introduces himself to Rachel as a joking, friendly, and empathetic individual, with a well intended goal. However, Rachel sees through the red flags in the short time they spend together, and after Mordred helps rescue Steph from kidnappers, he threatens Steph's life and Rachel's to bring Rachel into line. A more literal example of this occurs in the ninth chapter; where Mordred apparently kills a guard dog after just petting it.
* BenevolentBoss: ZigZagged with Mordred. Despite being TheDreaded, he generally seems to be a down to Earth and agreeable boss to his human underlings; he jokingly intimidates one who was embezzling off him, before asking if he just needed a raise. It's unclear how much of this is genuine or a manipulation tactic on his end, as he uses this front to try to win Rachel over. On the other hand, he appears to be genuine friends with Elisa Bethany, 
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: As with ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', multiple historical and mythic figures were vampires, with many historical events being what smoke screens for battles with the Red Queen over the centuries. The most prominent examples are that King Arthur was a vampire, and Mordred was a dhampir. Mordred's coharts consist of "Elisa Bethany", who is in fact Elizabeth Bathory, a former champion of the Red Queen; and Alexander "Sawney" Bean, whose wife was another former champion of the Queen's. Other examples include Beowulf and Cú Chulainn being champions of Myrddin; while figures such as Queen Medb or Grendell's mother were champions of the Red Queen -- with Grendel himself being a dhampir. Furthermore, it is revealed that the entity known as Myrddin Wilt was originally worshiped as the Celtic god, Lugh.
* BigBad: The Red Queen, despite being asleep for much of the story, being the one who turned Rachel, and the "mother goddess" that Mordred and his followers intend to usher into the world. While there are plenty of antagonists who serve as more personal obstacles for the protagonists, the lot of them either work for her, or unwittingly serve her will, with the threat of her apocalypse looming over the story. It is her deeds that directly or indirectly set up the conflicts for each protagonist arcs; notably, she personally saw to it that Chloe would go on a downward spiral; was the source of much of Arcadia Bay's corruption; and the Storm to try to force Max to sacrifice Chloe.
* BigBadWannabe:
** Steph's initial girlfriend, Cathy Mortimer. When Steph ([[spoiler:or at least, her Tulpa]]) first meets Rachel in LA, she has been dating Cathy for some years; with it being immediately being clear that Cathy is a toxic and controlling girlfriend. Had this story been a romantic drama, with a focus on domestic abuse, someone like Cathy would probably be the main antagonist -- alas, she is the StarterVillain of a story involving vampires, cults, conspiracies and a GodOfEvil -- which takes place over the span of eight years, no less. To add insult to injury, Mordred has Rachel kill Cathy and her co-harts as a ''trial run'' to get her first kills.
** Sean Prescott, despite being the GreaterScopeVillain in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' is reduced to this in both '''Route A''' and '''Route B''', following Nathan's death[=/=]Chloe's death, and Jefferson and Nathan's crimes being exposed, Despite Prescott's attempts to cover things up and try to control the narrative, he proves utterly helpless when both the FBC and New Ascalon's interference. When their investigations uproot too much of Prescott's dirty laundry, the most he can do is uproot his funds in Arcadia Bay, leaving it to economic collapse, and his family to deal with the fallout. He is then held captive by New Ascalon, who later feeds him to a transformed Nathan.
* BigBrotherInstinct: When Sean Diaz and his partners learn that vampires are real, and are nearly abducted by them, they also learn that vampires previously attacked Beaver Creek in search for Daniel; who has also disappeared with his friends. Sean has no hesitation to try going on the run to find his brother and ensure his safety. Luckily, Sean works out a deal with the FBC and the American Guard of Priwen, to work under their field agents in their investigations, and their own search for Daniel. If Sean fulfills his end of the deal, he can have his brother and his freedom.
* BigGood: "Myrddin Wyllt", the Red Queen's biological son, sworn enemy and another primordial vampire; with his original identity being revealed as the Celtic God, Lugh. Much like his mother, he is asleep most of the time, but his champions are leading the battle against Mordred and his followers; making New Ascalon vs the Mother's Children a proxy war. He also turned Nathan Prescott into a vampire upon his death, offering him a chance to right his wrongs in life; and states [[spoiler:that he -- through another being called Nodens -- granted Max her powers to keep Chloe alive, stealing away one of his mother's champions.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: PlayedWith. With how loose his standards are, Mordred seems to operate with a moral code that makes sense only to himself; in '''Route A''', he claims that he would never kill a bride on her wedding day, but thinks nothing of massacring ''everyone'' else. He ''claims'' to have standards against rape...so long as ''he's'' not the one doing the deed, in which case he has no issue working with rapists or exploiting victims of sexual assault to achieve his goals. He also tries to kill Mark Jefferson to keep a promise he made to Rachel, even when he had no reason to keep the promise at that point (with Rachel turning against him years before).
* BondVillainStupidity: In chapters 14 and 15, Mordred doesn't go for the kill when having the chance; while he doesn't attack Rachel with lethal intent during their first fight, he does let his emotions get the better of him, which lets Rachel get an edge on him. He also keeps recorded evidence of his crimes in an apartment he's hiding out in -- [[SubvertedTrope although in that case]], he correctly suspected a sting operation against him, and used the evidence as bait for a death trap. Later on, he captures Jonathan Reid, having him tortured for a week, rather than just killing him -- while he expected a rescue, he didn't really have a counterplan beside "setting the place on fire and trying to flee".
* BoxedCrook:
** Sean Diaz becomes this in both routes. After his encounters with Mordred in either Routes '''A''' and '''B''', Sean makes a deal with the FBC and Guard of Priwen; they grant him a "restricted" freedom for the duration of the outbreak and investigations surrounding it, so long as he works under field agents in their investigations. If Sean accepts these conditions to the end of the investigations, he will be granted his full freedom, fully exonerated with his slate wiped clean as a fugitive ('''Route A''') or a prisoner ('''Route B''').
** [[spoiler:Mark Jefferson also becomes this, having his own encounter with Mordred in prison. After barely escaping with his life, Jefferson is found by the American Guard of Priwen. They make a similar deal as they did with Sean, due to Jefferson being connected to multiple "persons of interest" in their investigations. However, Jefferson's crimes are 100% proven and his case was publicized, so it's not likely he will get a clean slate from this deal.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mordred is TheDreaded DarkMessiah of a vampiric cult, worshiping his adopted EldritchAbomination mother, whose goal is to usher in her apocalypse; he has a history of mass murder and torture of both the innocent and wicked to achieve his goals. When Rachel meets him, he's an eccentric playboy with a love for pulp culture, and at times a bit of a goofball, who likes to crack jokes, with a pretty down to earth personality on his off time. As Rachel learns, yes, these facts do co-exist.
* ButICantBePregnant: A variation. [[spoiler:In the present day, Rachel is in disbelief to learn she has a son -- after all, she would be the ''first'' to know if she got pregnant. And for the times she slept around, she was always "careful" with her male partners. This is because her son was artificially conceived behind her back; when Max and Chloe were looking for a sperm donor, Mordred and his followers tampered with the procedure, using Rachel's blood — tampered to function as a semen substitute — to impregnate Chloe's ovum.]]
* CainAndAbel: Subverted with Jonathan and Mary Reid. The Red Queen resurrected Mary in hopes that she would create more champions for Jonathan to fight, putting the siblings at eternal odds. But when the two actually reunite, Jonathan opts to save and try to heal Mary of her afflictions. And when they reunite in the "present" day (2013), it appears their sibling relationship was on and off, but they work together to help save Rachel from the Mother's Children.
* CanonWelding: Among the games that are the main part of the crossover, and cameos and references to others, there are two ''non'' gaming titles mentioned as part of this fic's universe; that being [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''. Both the Boiling Isles of the former, and the titular dimension of the latter are given repeated but passing mentions as being dimensions that the FBC uncovered, and are trying to investigate. In '''Route B''', Vampire!Chloe is taken to Luz Noceda's home town of Gravesfield, Connecticut to keep her head down during a recovery period. It also appears that there's an ongoing investigations of "[[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne The Owl Woman]]" in the area.]]
* ChildByRape: According to this story, Mordred is the product of incestuous rape; when the Red Queen had her then champion, Morgause rape her half-brother, Arthur. Mordred is not shy about bringing up this part of his past, and it's implied to be a sore spot. [[spoiler:From a medical standpoint, Bill Price Caulfield could be seen as a child of RapeByFraud, due to the tempering of his artificial conception.
* ChildhoodBrainDamage: In one flashback, it's revealed Nathan suffered this, which is implied to be a partial source of his mental health issues. As a kid, Nathan was on a swing set, and tried to go up over the bar. He ended up slipping and landing head first onto the bar, and was hospitalized as a result.
* CoDragons: While Mordred himself is TheDragon to the Red Queen, as leader of the Mother's Children, he has two prominent vampires at his own left and right hand.
** "Elisa Bethany", is in fact Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a former champion of the Red Queen's, who was "sterilized" (unable to create other vampires) centuries ago. She still has considerable amounts of power, influence and authority to her family name, which she uses to financially back Mordred and his operations. Them apparently being genuine friends may help the matter.
** Alexander "Sawney" Bean, a figure of Scotland and English folklore, is portrayed as a vampire whose wife was a former champion of the Red Queen. He is stated to be the one responsible for the creation of the Skals within the Mother's Children, and a more hands-on enforcer to Mordred's will. [[spoiler:He is also responsible for bringing Lisbeth Fischer, and her cult into the fold, and leading the attack on Beaver Creek at her request and Mordred's permission.]]
* CombatPragmatist: One of the reasons Rachel becomes an AdaptationalBadass, besides her vampire abilities, she fights dirty. Rachel often relies on striking hard against soft softs on her opponents; attacking the eyes, neck, groins or just going for the head. By hitting below the belt, Rachel quickly gets the edge on her opponent. Even if her fangs or strength isn't enough, she often uses quick thinking and [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] to get another shot. During her second fight with Mordred, she incapacitates him with a pipe bomb, with his resulting injuries making their fight a lot more even.
* TheCorrupter: The Red Queen isn't above playing "Devil on the Shoulder" to the humans in her influence. She also was able to draw in the corruption in Arcadia Bay to create an essential champion factory. Her favorite subject was Chloe Price, who she wanted to warp into a new champion by having the world screw her over, and personally making sure she becomes an unstable individual.
* TheCorruption: Like with ''VideoGame/''Vampyr2018'', the Red Queen's essence is the "Blood of Hate", the closest she currently has to a corporeal form on Earth. It's explained that the Blood of Hate is as much of a spiritual affliction as it is a physical one, directly compared to the {{Wendigo}}; twisting and distorting its victims on both a physical level as it does a spiritual one. The more detached of humanity one is, the more their hearts are filled with hate, the more monstrous it's infected become. It doesn't even force its victims to become these monsters, it just unleashes their buried depravity.
* CuttingOffTheBranches:
** {{Averted}} with the endings of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange''  and ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2 the second game]]: rather than following a specific ending, certain chapters are designated '''Route A''' -- which follows the "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay[=/=]Parting Ways" endings; and ''' Route B''' -- which follows the "Sacrifice Chloe[=/=]Redemption" endings. Outside these "Routes", the story is written from a neutral perspective. However there are minor deviations; '''A''' chapters establishes ninety seven survivors of the storm, a lot of them consisting of staff and students of Blackwell Academy.  In '''B''', Sean Diaz is bailed out of prison for the time being, after being conscripted by the FBC after serving two years, as opposed to the fifteen years he serves in "Redemption".
** PlayedStraight in other points. With the first game, it is established that Max successfully talked Kate out of killing herself; and the '''Route A's''' timeline establishes Kate as a survivor of the storm. It is also confirmed that Chloe told Rachel the truth about her father at the end of ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm Before the Storm]]''. With the second game, the good morality route is considered canon, as well as Sean and Cassidy's romance and having sex; however the romance option was considered moot, as both Sean and Cassidy hook up with Finn over the years, staring a polyamorist relationship. When ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeTrueColors True Colors]]'' became included in this story, it's revealed not only is Alex and Steph's romance canon to this timeline, but the two leaving Haven Springs is considered the canon ending.
** It is seemingly confirmed that the PacifistRun of ''VideoGame/{{Vampyr}}'' is portrayed as canon, with it also being confirmed that Reid turned Geoffrey [=McCullum=] into a vampire as well.
** With ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', it is established that the EveryoneLives ending is canon; the "Blackwood Eight" all seem to maintain positive relationships, or at least in a much better place than they were at the end of the game. Similarly, in a cameo of Eric King from ''VideoGame/HouseOfAshes'' establishes that not only did he survive, but a reply from the author states the EveryoneLives ending to be canon here too.

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* DaywalkingVampire: PlayedWith. While sunlight is considered harmful to standard vampires, many have found a way to circumvent this. If fed the blood of a damphyr -- which are naturally immune to these effects -- a vampire ''can'' withstand daylight for a period depending on how much they feed on. Mordred sells his blood as a narcotic, allowing his vampire followers to go about as they please. Over the past century, Reid's work had found a way to synthesize damphyr blood, thus allowing vampires to regularly travel by daylight, no problemo, provided they have a continuous and steady dose. 
* DarkIsNotEvil: Myrddin Wylt is thought of as a dark and menacing presence to those who glimpse him; when Nathan and Jefferson both see him in their near death experiences, they mistake him for the devil coming to take them to Hell. When he actually speaks, he is true to his goals of fighting his mother, and has an overwhelmingly calm and understanding demeanor in the way he talks. Ironically, this story portrays him as once being the Celtic deity, Lugh, who is considered a GodOfLight.
* DarkMessiah: Mordred is the acting leader of The Mother's Children, a cult of humans and vampires that worship the Red Queen, and is held as a near mythical figure among these people, and the vampire community. When Escalon realizes his presence, who the Queen picked as her champion doesn't matter, what matters is if they can get to them before he does.
* {{Dhampyr}}: It is possible in this universe for a child to be conceived between a vampire human union. There are two notable examples in this story.
** Mordred is one such example; with Arthur being human back when the vampric Morgause raped him. He's considered an exceptional example, as it is rare for a damphyr to live past a regular human lifespan. Let alone the 900 years Mordred walked the Earth. Apparently, another damphyr similar to Mordred existed centuries before him, known as [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} Grendel]].
** [[spoiler:Max and Chloe's son, Bill Price Caulfield is an unwitting dhamphyr. Born from Chloe's ( human) ovums -- which she donated shortly before first game, hence his existence in both routes -- and being impregnated by Rachel's blood. Meaning both his biological mothers are vampire, and at least human at the time her eggs were donated.]]
* Decomposite Character: The Red Queen on two accounts, in regards to InUniverse and in real world myths. 
** In Myth/ArthurianLegend, Morgana Le Fay and Morgause were originally separate characters, and often portrayed as sisters. Later depictions would pass Morgana and Morgause as one and the same. In this universe, Morgause played the essential role of Morgana in the King Arthur story, with the Red Queen -- who is named "Morgana" here -- simply being the source of her power; Morgause was simply her champion at the time. Of course, Morgana did step in at the time Mordred was born, but it would seem their exact role was something lost in translation.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Vampyr}}'', the Red Queen is thought of as being The Morrigan goddess of Myth/CelticMythology. However, this story follows an interpretation of the goddess in which she was three women, and that the Morrigan was a title. The Queen herself claims to be "The Last Daughter of the Morrigan" and goes by "Morgana".
* DemotedToDragon
** [[spoiler:Lisbeth Fischer was an ArcVillain in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'', and one of the more influential antagonists. In this story, her cult is reached out to by the Mother's Children, and effectively takes control of their compound. After the Red Queen is revealed to Fischer, she is all too happy to serve under the Mother's Children, provided ''she'' gets the "salvation" their mother goddess offers. She is also the one who makes a request for Mordred to seek out the Diaz brothers -- leading to Mordred and his followers besieging two towns as well as assaulting a prison. While she is set up as a personal nemesis to Sean and Daniel, she is still technically working under Mordred.]]
** [[spoiler:After surviving his encounter with Mordred in prison, Mark Jefferson -- former BigBad of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' -- is conscripted into the American Guard of Priwin, under its apparent leader, Pierre Margot. This is less about Jefferson's combat prowess, and more about his connections to "persons of interest" in their investigations; Jefferson would instead work under them in their investigations, intending to use his new position as an opportunity to seek revenge on those who escaped him, or got him exposed and arrested.]]
* DogKickingExcuse:
** In '''Route B''', following the "Redemption" ending of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'', Sean Diaz was found innocent in Officer Matthews death, to the chagrin of his detractors. However, the production was all too eager to make a case against him for multiple other -- albeit smaller -- felonies and misdemeanors he and Daniel got up to do during their journey. For this, even when Sean was found innocent of Matthews' death, these smaller crimes were used to get him a fifteen year sentence. Luckily, he's let off after two years thanks to a deal he made with the FBC, but Sean is a little cynical at how people ''wanted'' him to be guilty of something, and looking for ''anything'' to pin him down for. It was less about getting justice for Matthews, and more about making an example out of Sean.
** As part of her HeroWithBadPublicity status, the same media outlets that try to elevate Rachel or Nathan's victimhood, also look for any and all details to try to demonize Chloe to the public; taking her history of delinquency and troubled relationship with her family, almost making them out to be worse than the kidnapping, torture and murder that Nathan was involved in. It's implied this has less to do with what Chloe actually ''did'', and more about what Chloe's ''is''; being a lower class, rebellious girl with a troubled home life, who needed to be made an example of. This is used to make Chloe a "Bad Victim" in a GoodVictimsBadVictims dynamic the media tries to push, with Rachel or Kate being "Good Victims".
* TheDreaded:
** Mordred is public enemy number one among New Ascalon, having a rep for hiding in the shadows or plain sight, and generally doesn't reveal himself until he wants to. According to InUniverse history, Mordred brought all of Europe to its knees in Arthur's time. In the present day, he murders those who know who he is, and tries to speak out of him. Mary Reid ends up going to Ascalon for protection when she tries to do so, and even then it's implied she barely escaped. When Rachel sees his friendly playboy act, she too quickly sees why everyone is afraid of him, even when he tries to hide it.
** On the heroic side of things, Jonathan Reid and Lady Ashbury are seen as this to their enemies and detractors. When Mordred introduces himself to Rachel, he tries to sell Reid and Ashbury as extremists who will put down any and all of the Red Queen's champions. Reid also had a reputation for coming the closest to actually killing Mordred than King Arthur himself. In a collaboration between the FBC and New Ascalon, Reid and Ashbury have a public reputation of getting the results they want and making anyone who stands in their way "disappear". An attempt to blackmail them by Sean Prescott only ended with Prescott's dirty laundry being unearthed, and Prescott himself being abducted. So while Mordred was trying to manipulate Rachel, it's not like their reputation is unearned.
** PlayedForLaughs with [[spoiler:Dracula]]. There is a RunningGag when a human character discovers the existence of vampires, they snark at the idea of [[spoiler:Dracula]] being among them — any vampires present will immediately warn them that he's ''not'' something to joke about, and that warning them not to say his name. Notably, members of the Mother's Children, ''including Mordred'', are the ones who give these warnings. [[spoiler:Ashbury claims he was charming.]]
** Also PlayedForLaughs in [[spoiler:Tulpa!Steph. After she became an FBC scout for a rescue mission — during which she (briefly) killed Mordred — she became something of an InUniverse MemeticBadass; because of the LivingDream nature of her Tulpa Effect, not many in the FBC can recall "Agent Gingrich" despite having documented her. As a result, many in the FBC jokingly bring her up and play on the mystery surrounding her, like an office boogeyman; or suggest she handles "Godzilla level assignments" overseas. When the ''real'' Steph approaches the FBC for help, many are surprised to see she actually exists.]]
* EldritchAbomination: For a bulk of the story, the Red Queen's current form is a sentient, spiritual being made from Blood, that corrupts and distorts all it contacts with, and can manifest herself as a voice in the back of people's heads.
** AngelicAbomination: The Red Queen's true[=/=]original appearance is seen in hallucinations and dreams, described as an ethereally beautiful, angel-like woman whose red hair and dress is seemingly made from blood, and constantly flowing. Her hallucinatory presence is also shown to cause the sun to turn red, water to turn to blood, and tree leaves to turn red -- as if she's making the world bleed just by being in it.
* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The Fog of Worlds. Its exact nature is uncertain, but it's thought to be a bridge of sorts between realms and timelines; as well as the next world. Entering the Fog is ill advised, and those exposed to it suffer nosebleeds, unless they can stop themselves from talking or thinking about it. It also appears in the story ''Fanfic/LovesSacrifices'', which ties the two stories together. Rachel, Nathan, and Max (in '''Route B''') both experience it, and Steph is revealed to have had prolonged exposure to it when she's revealed to have a LivingDream Tulpa.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
** Mordred admits no matter who he loved in life, his loyalty will always be to the Red Queen, who "adopted"and raised him from childhood. While he's leading a cult that sees her as a goddess, Mordred genuinely sees her as his mother, and puts her wants and desires before his own. He also holds his biological mother, Morgause, in high regard centuries after her death, despite her presumably dying giving birth to him. So much so, he overlooks Morgause's rape of Arthur, but hypocriticallty [[BlamingTheVictim condemns]] Arthur for being a ChildByRape of Uther and Igraine.
** Subverted with Mark Jefferson. It's mentioned in his backstory that his mother Lydia Jefferson raised Mark alone after his father left him, and that she encouraged his artistic hobbies and dreams. [[spoiler:After he left college, Lydia was left dying of cancer, and Mark all but states that he exploited her condition to use as his first "subject", using her passing to elicit sympathy from the community and boost her career.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Downplayed with Mordred, as he mentions that despite his atrocities and genocidal end goal, he has had hundreds of people he loved and cared for over the centuries. But in that same speech, he mentions that his loyalty is ultimately to his "mother", and her desires will always come before his own. At the same time, Mordred does show genuine friendship and affection to one of his CoDragons, Lady Bathory; although, them being loyal to the same cause mitigates any conflict of loyalty on their part.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Downplayed, if not Subverted, with Mordred. It’s mentioned in BlueAndOrangeMorality, Mordred has a personal "code" of morality that only seems to make sense to him. As a result, a lot of his alleged standards are loose or hollow
** It is stated he has standards against rape due to the [[ChildByRape circumstances of his birth]]. At the same time, he has no issue working with sexual predators or exploiting victims of sexual assault, as long as it serves his purposes. As it stands, Mordred has no real issues with sexual assault, so long as ''he himself'' doesn't get ''his'' hands dirty. Though in the present day, when Mordred introduces himself to Sean Diaz, (in '''Route A''') he has two of his girls have sex for entertainment, with both girls looking uncomfortable, further demonstrating how hollow these standards are.
** Also in '''Route A''', Mordred claims it’s against his code to kill a bride on her wedding day, but when leading the attack on a wedding, ''everyone else'' is fair game.
** A more comedic example is when Mordred introduces himself to Rachel; for all his love of pop culture, Morded brings up the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom as an example of how low humanity has sunk. He even shudders while bringing it up and warns Rachel not to go down that rabbit hole.
* EvilReactionary: The Guard of Priwen also become split when Geoffrey [=McCullum=] affirms that the Mother's Children are the greater threat among the vampires, and a mutual enemy with New Ascalon. [=McCullum's=] proposal of an EnemyMine only leads to an EnemyCivilWar, that is still occuring in the present day. Of [=McClullum's=] detractors, the leader was Jean Margot, whose apparent present day descendant, Pierre. In the present day, the Guard has become assimilated within the FBC; Margot isn't too happy with the way the FBC allows "undesirables" (vampires) into their alliance, not liking their new direction, especially with their new director.
* FelonyMisdemeanour:
** Chloe is subjected to this as part of James Ambers' media campaign following Rachel's death; painting Chloe as a "bad influence" on his daughter, and the blame for all of Rachel's troubles. Sean Prescott similarly attempts to use this to detract attention away from Nathan's crimes, and discredit Chloe as a victim. In both smear campaigns, Chloe's troubled home life, delinquency, and vandalism is treated almost as bad, if not ''worse'' than Nathan's and Jefferson's history of kidnapping, torture and murder. James Amber even seems to hold Chloe being a "bad influence" as more responsible for Rachel's death than her ''actual killers''.
** In both routes, an investigation into Officer Matthews' death ultimately exonerates Sean Diaz. Unfortunately, Sean committed a series of (comparatively smaller) felonies and misdemeanors over his journey with Daniel, that his detractors especially want him to answer for. In fact, it's mentioned there was a wave of disappointment when Sean's innocence for Matthews' was proven. In '''Route B''', they manage to pin a fifteen year sentence on Sean from these. Though it's implied to be less about what Sean ''did'' and more about making an example of a minority who stepped out of line, in an especially conservative climate.
* FormerTeenRebel:
** In the present day chapters, Chloe has seemingly parted from being the rebellious punk she was in the games. In '''Route A''' Chloe has settled down with Max as a suburban mom in Seattle, raising their son Bill. In '''Route B''', following her death and transformation, [[spoiler:Vampire!Chloe has become a field agent for the FBC over the years.]]
** Inverted with Kate Marsh. In Blackwell Academy tried to be a nice and faithful Christian girl, even in the wake of her trauma. However, in both timelines, her already shaken faith gradually fell apart when her church tried to exploit her as a perfect victim while crediting ''themselves'' as the ones who saved her -- while ignoring that their initial rejection of her contributed to her trauma. Over time, Kate became more outgoing and rebellious, taking a tomboyish look, going to parties and even taking drugs. She also comes out as a lesbian and begins a romantic relationship with Victoria Chase. By then, the only difference seen between Chloe and Kate was that Kate had a better support system, and this a (slightly) healthier individual.
* FreudianExcuse:
** While Rachel had a rebellious phase and was a bit of a trouble maker as a teenager, it's implied her especially toxic traits are the result of learning that her father had her mother kidnapped and drugged. With this, Rachel took up a series of maladaptive and self destructive coping mechanisms over the last three years of her human life.
** Mordred's own tragic history is brought up here and there, being conceived when the Red Queen had his mother rape Arthur. Following his biological mother's death, the Red Queen — then known as "Morgana" raised him to be a replacement champion. According to Bill's dreams of Mordred's past, he UsedToBeASweetKid. Just what she did to warp him into a monster ''could not'' have been pretty. It's implied she had such a hold on Mordred, that he literally puts her will before his own, even if he doesn't ''want'' too.
** Subverted with Mark Jefferson. It is mentioned his father abandoned him as a child, but had a mother who supported his hobbies as he grew up. [[spoiler:It turns out Jefferson repaid his mother by making her his first "subject" in his career while she was dying of cancer, exploiting her as she died and using her death to milk sympathy.]]
** While it's already known that Nathan has one in the form of his abusive father, we learn more about the abuse in a flashback. One example is that Nathan's father had Nathan join a junior hockey team as a kid, and "forgot" him at the rink for three hours when Nathan's team lost a game. It is also revealed that Nathan suffered a severe head injury as a kid, trying to go up over the bar on a swing set; not only did Mr. Prescott did not visit his son while he was hospitalized, it's implied the brain damage Nathan suffered was a partial cause to his mental health issues.
* FugitiveArc:
** Subverted with Sean Diaz. In '''Route A''', he's a fugitive returning to the United States; in '''B''', he's a prisoner who was bailed out by the FBC. He prepares to go on the run to find his missing brother, after discovering he went missing following a vampire attack. However, the FBC manage to cut him a deal -- he gets conditional freedom, so long as he works under their field agents for their investigations into the latest outbreak. If he plays ball for the duration of the investigations, he will be officially exonerated of his felonies and misdemeanors, and be allowed to go free with his brother.
** Played a little more straight with Daniel Diaz. [[spoiler:While he is not a fugitive from the law, the Mother's Children put a price on his head, and have been actively attacking Beaver Creek. As such, he and his friends Chris and Sarah Lee have to go on the run after barely escaping an attack. They run into Rachel, who is also a fugitive of the Mother's Children, and they team up to protect each other while keeping their heads down.]]

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* GoodVictimsBadVictims: InUniverse. Rachel's death and Kate's trauma get exploited by the media to make them out to be the "good" victims, against Chloe being "bad" victim. In both routes, Chloe's delinquent history and troubled home life is used to make her out to be this toxic influence, a scapegoat for Rachel's troubles, and[=/=]or distract from Nathan's crimes. Neither Rachel nor Kate themselves are pleased with this.

** In Rachel's case, after her death was uncovered, her father James tried to start a media campaign painting Rachel as the perfect student, daughter and victim; while painting Chloe as a toxic influence on Rachel's life that led to her troubled behaviour. This was seemingly done as retaliation for Chloe telling Rachel the truth about her mother's abduction in ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm Before the Storm]]. Going by James' narrative, Chloe's influence is apparently more to blame for Rachel's downward spiral and death, than even Rachel's ''actual abductors and murderers''.

** In Kate's case, she is subjected to the "Perfect Victim" treatment by the media and her church, with everyone treating her a lot nicer after her survival and[=/=]or Chloe's death, playing up how kind and innocent Kate is, especially within her church. It's treated less like they genuinely care for Kate as a ''person'', but more about using her victimhood to make ''themselves'' look better for supporting her. This is in contrast to Chloe being used as a scapegoat for Rachel's troubles, with Kate even being described as an "Anti Chloe" for the following media circus. Notably, when Kate begins acting out, shedding her "Good Christian Girl" image in favour of being a Chloe-esque-rebel, the people who "supported" her are quick to wash their hands of her.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Besides the story making the Red Queen this for ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' -- being the direct and indirect source of Chloe's troubles in life, and calling upon the corruption in Arcadia Bay -- it is revealed there are other eldritch horrors that are beyond the Queen herself. While they themselves have no real role in this story, they are mentioned as "observing" it.

* GroinAttack:

** In the third chapter, when Rachel goes out on her first "hunt" for fresh blood, she is picked up by a guy named Carter, who attempts to coerce oral sex out of her in exchange for a ride. Rachel pretends to be more helpless then she actually is to go along with this...and then she uses her fangs on him.

** In the fifth chapter, set in the '''Route B''' timeline, it is briefly mentioned that Sean was made to witness a PariahPrisoner being beaten down and mutilated by a mob of angry prisoners. This perp was a child murderer[=/=]rapist, who received a penectomy [[note]]surgical removal of the penis[[/note]] with a broken piece of glass from the other inmates. It was one of many instances of extreme violence Sean became desensitized by while in prison. Coincidentally, this predator was also named "Carter".

* HandOnTheWomb: How Cassidy tells Sean she's pregnant. When she couldn't come out and say, she just takes Sean's hand, places it on her stomach, and lets him connect the dots.

* HasTwoMommies: Max and Chloe's son, Bill Price Caulfield, who exists in both timelines; being born from Chloe's donated ovums, with Max being the surrogate who carried him to term. In '''Route A''', Max and Chloe raise him together when they settle in Seattle. In '''Route B''', Max raises him as a single mother following Chloe's death… [[spoiler:Or so we thought, as Vampire!Chloe keeps a distant eye on her son, and Max is aware of this.]]

** Regardless of the timelines, it is later revealed that [[spoiler:Bill actually has ''three'' mommies, with Rachel being his ''other'' biological mother -- Mordred and his followers took a sample of Rachel's blood, and tampered with it to function as a semen substitute. While keeping an eye on Max and CHloe, they used Rachel's blood to impregnate Chloe's eggs, and impregnated Max with the embryo while Max and Chloe were looking for a sperm donor.]]

* TheHeavy: While the Red Queen is the BigBad, and Mark Jefferson is another secondary antagonist, Mordred covers this basis. The Red Queen is "asleep", has no physical form, and little direct influence on the living world, but Mordred is leading a cult in her name and is preparing for her awakening. While Jefferson serves as a personal antagonist to Max, Chloe and Rachel, he's currently nowhere near the threat level of Mordred or the Red Queen. Mordred is also a direct or indirect antagonist to all the protagonists, effectively making him the overarching threat under the Queen.

* HeelFaceTurn:

** Nathan makes one in both routes, but it's more pronounced the Route B timeline; having accepted his arrest when his crimes are exposed, and shown true remorse for them. Nathan refuses his family's attempts to lighten his sentence --ironically by attacking prison guards and even his lawyer -- and makes an effort to befriend Sean Diaz while in prison. After he is murdered in prison, Wylt turns him into another vampire champion to help undo the Queen's work in Arcadia Bay. The same occurs in '''Route A''', but his transformation occurs after Jefferson kills him, shortly before the storm, therefore Nathan doesn't get time in prison to accept responsibility for what he's done. In either case, Nathan is firmly on the side fighting the Red Queen as of his death[=/=]transformation.

** Mary has had a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor over the past century. After she is resurrected and forced into the Red Queen's services, she spends her time on and off with her brother, despite attempts to reconnect. As of 2013, Mary seemingly makes a firm turn against the Red Queen, wanting to help her brother and Rachel in earnest.

* HeelRealization:

** Victoria Chase has one in both '''Route A''' and '''B''' timeline; be it after Kate's suicide attempt, her abduction, and the storm; or after Chloe's death and Nathan's arrest; the remorse weighs heavily on Victoria to the point she believes herself to be a monster. It's a lot more pronounced in the '''Route B''' timeline, where she has a breakdown of her own shortly after Chloe's funeral, brought about by SurvivorsGuilt. Ironically, Kate is one of the first people to forgive Victoria, with their subsequent friendship and romantic relationship helping the two heal after Blackwell.

** Rachel has one shortly after her resurrection and transformation. During her recovery, she looks back on her former life, and relationship with Chloe, and it hits her how much she hurt Chloe with her affairs. Flashbacks show that Rachel had these realizations in the past, but they weren't enough to stop herself. With her new chance at life, she tries to do right by Steph ([[spoiler:or at least her Tulpa]]) when the two begin dating. When Rachel nearly cheats on Steph ([[spoiler:during a "disappearance" period of her Tulpa]]), she immediately regrets it and comes clean, and shows a sincerity in wanting to better herself.

* HeelFaithTurn: Inverted with Kate, after having a CrisisOfFaith following her victimization. When the truth of her assault comes out, Kate's church is all too happy to try to exploit her trauma, in order to credit ''themselves'' for saving her -- despite the fact their rejection of her ''contributed'' to her trauma. All this to say, Kate becomes further disillusioned by her church; she gradually steps away from her faith in favor of becoming a rebellious punk and party girl in the same vein as Chloe and Rachel were. This is portrayed as when Kate truly begins to heal, as she gains a better support system in her friends as opposed to her toxic church community.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Two fold with ''VideoGame/UntilDawn''.

** Following the EveryoneLives ending, the main cast of ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' have ended up in a witness protection deal with the FBC, and some have even joined as field agents. While they mostly have their own thing going on, Sam, Mike, Matt, Jessica and Emily are recurring supporting characters throughout the story, and become casual acquaintances with the ''Franchise/LifeIsStrange'' cast.

** Predating them is the DIbikad family, an Ojibwe-Cree family who are the last survivors of the Pâhkwêkan club; a First Nations group of vampire and werewolf hunters dating back to the colonial era. They fell out of power over the nineteenth century; while they successfully killed numerous vampires, unfortunately colonists used this as a pretense to crack down on Pâhkwêkan. Their last operations were in Blackwood Pines, where Maxwell Dibikad was the sole survivor. His modern day descendant, Vanessa works as an agent for the FBC, who gets caught up in investigating Mordred's operations, and her uncle, Jack, was the Stranger of ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' proper. Vanessa hopes to get the Pâhkwêkan re-instated through her work with the FBC.

* HeroWithBadPublicity:

** While "Hero" is a little much, Chloe gains a divisive reputation following the storm in '''Route A''' or her death in '''Route B'''. After Rachel's death is discovered, Rachel's father starts something of a smear campaign, propping Rachel up as a perfect daughter, student and victim; while painting Chloe as this toxic influence on his daughter, which was apparently ''more'' to blame for Rachel's death than ''her actual murderers''. With this, Chloe's troubled history, home life and delinquency is regularly used against her. Even with Jefferson and Nathan's crimes being exposed, they are downplayed by the campaign in comparison to Chloe's history; especially both by those [[VillainWithGoodPubliclity sympathetic to Nathan]], or those looking to prop Rachel and Kate up against Chloe.

** ZigZagged with Sean Diaz having more of a split reputation. It's implied to be caused by his race and the political climate. Sean is seen as either a criminal who got away or a modern heroic outlaw in the '''Route A''', with many wanting him to answer for Officer Matthews' death. In both routes, there was ultimately an investigation that exonerated Sean of Matthews' death; however, the response by conservative media outlets and Sean's detractors was one of disappointment. In '''Route B''', Sean was still sentenced to fifteen years for a series of misdemeanors he got up to during his journey, partly because his detractors were ''that'' eager to pin him down for something.

* HeroicBSOD: Chloe undergoes one in both routes.

** In '''Route A''', Chloe is in a state of constant stunned silence in the wake of the storm, brought about by SurvivorsGuilt, something that was expedited with the discovery of her mother's body. For weeks, Chloe would go through the motions, barely reacting to anything around or or talking to others. She recovers enough by the memorial service, to give a speech about living for those who can't anymore, but it still did a number on her.

** In '''Route B''', it's revealed Chloe spent months after her death in a nightmare state, where the Red Queen forcibly turned her and tried to break her down. Upon her transformation into a vampire, [[spoiler:she would react in horror when she is made to feed on Frank, and wanders aimlessly back to her house, beside herself in horror and disbelief at what she's become. When Jonathan Reid finds her, Chloe just wants to die, remarking that she thought she'd see her dad again. Luckily, she is taken under the protection of New Escalon; it's revealed by 2020, Chloe has sufficiently recovered and now works as a field agent for the FBC.]]

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* ImprovisedWeapon: An example of Rachel being a CombatPragmatist is using these. When mere vampire strength or her teeth aren't as effective, she will utilize whatever she can get her hands on as a makeshift weapon. When Mordred's followers attempt to abduct her, Rachel uses one as a meat-shield and [[GrievousHarmWithABody battering ram]], breaks a broom in half, using it to impale two of them; in two separate fights, she uses broken pieces of glass like a knife; and during her first fight with Mordred, she breaks off the rib of a lackey she just mutilated, and uses it to stab Mordred into the wall. In that same fight, she uses a small TV to smash his head, swinging it by the cable like a mace.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Lisbeth Fischer has such a ridiculously self centered view of herself, seeing herself as not only above her congregation but she takes the exposure and investigations of her crimes to be a very personal slight against her. She has no issue throwing her lot in with the Mother's Children and [[spoiler:requests the massacre of Beaver Creek and Puerto Lobos, to spite the Diaz brothers for defying her.]] Even Mordred was a little taken aback by how she petty was for it.

* ItsAllMyFault: In '''Route A''', Chloe feels this was in the aftermath of the storm, put into a near catatonic state of self loathing for weeks until she gives a speech as a memorial service. Beforehand, she was barely responsive to the world around her, and was operating on autopilot.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon:

** Because the Red Queen has no current physical form of her own, and is "asleep" for much of the story, her "son" Mordred serves as a more active and visible antagonist for the protagonists to contend with, acting as a more personal nemesis in the narrative. He acts as an EvilMentor turned adversary for Rachel; and while the Red Queen made personal attacks against the Reid's, Mordred is still seen as the de-facto ArcVillain of their storyline.

** While calling her TheDragon is stretching it, [[spoiler:Lisbeth Fischer becomes subservient to the Mother's Children as part of their deal. However, she quickly becomes a nemesis for the Diaz brothers; it was Daniel's escape and testimony that exposed more of her crimes; and for this, she makes a request for the Mother's Children to bring them to her, and destroy their homes as an act of revenge. While Mordred attacks Sean in Route's '''A''' and '''B''', he is acting on Fischer's request and treating the whole thing like a job to do, putting Fischer's vendetta towards the brothers at the center of these attacks.]]

** [[spoiler:When Mark Jefferson is forcibly conscripted into the American Guard of Priwen, he does so because of his connections to "persons of interest"; that being the survivors of Arcadia Bay and especially the Dark Room -- specifically his former students. While the Guard has a professional interest in monitoring and investigating them, Jefferson is taking this as an opportunity to get revenge on his former victims after his exposure and arrest.]]

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Initially, Lisbeth Fischer was ''just'' a self serving and manipulative cult leader, though the investigations against her and her vendetta against the Diaz Brothers causes her to do some desperate and destructive things; [[spoiler:by making her deal with the Mother's Children, she requests to them that they sack Beaver Creek and Puerto Lobos as an act of spite against the Diaz brothers. The attack on Beaver Creek alone sees a few hundred being killed, with the bodycount escalating over the next week.]] However, the investigations against Fischer shown her criminal history includes [[spoiler:dealing drugs and protecting predators within her congregation; ran weapons for a militia; and when she was a teenager, had groomed a younger teenage boy in her church.]] She crossed the line years ago, but now she's sinking even lower.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:

** In both routes, it's revealed Sean Prescott was unable to cover up his corruption, or Nathan's involvement with the dark room, especially when the FBC and New Ascalon began looking into him. Besides a failed attempt to control the narrative, Prescott could do nothing as his dirty laundry was revealed, and his assets fell apart. [[spoiler:New Ascalon would then abduct Prescott, holding him for an extended period of time (months in '''Route A'''; years in '''Route B''') before feeding him to his resurrected and transformed son.]]

** Cathy Mortimer, a toxic and abusive girlfriend to Steph ([[spoiler:or rather Tulpa!Steph]]), who previously kept getting away with wrongdoings due to her rich family, and influence on social media. This includes nearly driving her previous girlfriend and abuse victim to suicide by starting a smear campaign against her. Her luck runs out when she gets the bright idea of having Steph kidnapped and isolated, around the same time Mordred decides Rachel needs her first kill. While Rachel does maim Cathy to save Steph, it's Mordred himself who finishes her off.

** In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'', Hank Stamper never receives any real punishment for his assault and abduction of Sean Diaz, even maintaining his VillainWithGoodPublicity status after the fact. In both routes, it turns out Daniel eventually revealed the truth of this attack. When Hank was questioned by the FBI, his wife Doris folded immediately. While Hank was convicted, he didn't see jail time, but instead had to wear an ankle bracelet and had to pay a heavy settlement to Daniel's grandparents to keep them from pursuing the case further. On top of that, Hank's business was often vandalized and harassed by Sean's supporters after the truth came out.

** In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'', James Amber receives no real punishment for having his ex wife abducted and drugged -- besides potentially having his relationship with Rachel ruined, and even that is up to the players. This story states that Chloe did tell Rachel the truth about the abductions; in retaliation, James attempted to start a smear campaign against Chloe, blaming her "bad influence" for Rachel's troubles and death. As a vampire, Rachel further revealed James' lies by writing an autobiography under the pen name "Vivian Manning", which dismantled James' narrative completely.

* LesbianVampire: Subverted with Rachel, as she is bisexual. Played more [[AccidentalPun straight]] Mary Reid, who is portrayed as being closeted lesbian and gradually came out after her transformation. [[spoiler:And '''Route B''' gives us Vampire!Chloe, who despite being "dead" to most of her friends and family, still had a secret affair with Max over the years.]]

* LivingDream: [[spoiler:How Steph's tulpa manifests. It is a version of Steph that lived a radically different life than her, that regularly disappears and reappears in other peoples lives and memories, filtered by [[EldritchLocation The Fog of Worlds]]. While the Real!Steph, lived the same life as her canon counterpart, Tulpa!Steph is a version of her that moved to LA and started a career as a stage actress, ending up in a relationship with the vampiric Rachel Amber, and later became an FBC scout. While Steph is pulled back and forth between these two lives, both remember the other life as a dream.]]

* LoveRedeems:

** ZigZagged with Rachel. While she may have sincerely loved Chloe, and began to realize how much her affairs hurt her, it wasn't enough to stop her at the time. When Rachel is resurrected as a vampire, she openly regrets how she hurt Chloe, and tries to do right by Steph, stopping herself from sleeping with Sam and Emily. [[note]] This occured due to Steph's "tulpa" status; Tulpa!Steph disappears out of people's lives and memories at different intervals. Rachel's near-fling with Sam and Emily occurred during such an instance.[[/note]] Afterwards, Rachel is steadfast in trying to better herself for her loved ones.

** Victoria plays this a little more straight. Besides being remorseful for what happened to Kate, she begins bettering herself while she and Kate befriend each other; over the years they become a couple, with Victoria putting her AlphaBitch days behind her completely. Rather than love itself being what redeemed Victoria, her relationship with Kate is used to juxtapose how the two heal from what happened. The more Kate heals, and the more Victoria betters herself, the closer the two become, culminating in them being romantically involved.

** Averted with Morded. By his own admission, he has had countless loved ones in his near millenia of life, even getting married and starting families at various points. But he maintains that his true loyalty is to his "mother", who is not only a damning influence on him, but not even his loved ones could stand in his way. As it stands, the only other person Mordred shows genuine affection for in the present day is Bathory; and considering they are both loyal to the Red Queen and her cause, this VillainousFriendship is hardly redeeming for either of them. 

* LovingAShadow: In both Routes, Kate comes to this conclusion about her ostensible supporters. After Kate's victimhood is exploited, the following media circus and her church community prop her up as this "perfect" victim of Jefferson and the Dark Room. Over time, Kate realizes this was less about actually supporting her, and more to pat themselves on the back for it. She concludes they care less about Kate as a ''person'', and more of her ''image''; that being of a sad, but innocent "Good Christian" girl, who needs to be protected. When Kate adopts a more tomboyish punk look and attitude, similar to Chloe, these same people wash their hands of Kate almost immediately.

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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Averted with the Pâhkwêkan. While they ''were'' a group of vampire hunters from the Ojibwe and Cree nations, but have no special or mystical knowledge or power to their name. By all accounts, they were mundane, but effective fighters and hunters, trying to survive the increasing vampire presence in the Americas. In fact, their history states that a "vampire settler" from centuries before was the one who taught them about vampires and how to fight them.

* MagicVsScience: What makes the Blood of Hate such a hard disease to fight or cure, is due to the eldritch nature of the Red Queen. It's a spiritual disease as much as it is a medical one, and cannot be fully understood by scientific law. Jonathan Reid, despite being a vampire with plenty of experience with the supernatural, approaches the Blood of Hate as a disease to cure through medical means, as opposed to the manifestation of a vampiric deity. Hence why his search for the cure went on for over a century.

* MamaBear: In the present day storyline, Rachel acts this way towards Daniel Diaz, Chris Eriksen and Sarah Lee Hackerman. While she acts more like a big sister towards them, she otherwise fits the bill. She finds and rescues them during the Beaver Creek attack, protecting them from skals while they keep their heads down over the next week. When Sawney Bean directly comes after them, and threatens to harm Sarah Lee, Rachel (with Daniel's help), absolutely brutalizes the guy, torturing him and ''crucifying him to a post'' (which he ends up surviving). [[spoiler:As it so happens, it occurs when Rachel learns of her son, Bill -- who was artificially conceived behind her back.]]

* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: [[spoiler:This occurs with Max and her pregnancy with Bill. While Max and Chloe ''wanted'' to have a baby, using artificial insemination, Mordred and his followers tampered with the procedure. Rather than using a sperm donor, the Mother's Children used Rachel's blood -- tampered to serve as semen substitute -- which was used to fertilize Chloe's ovum. Thereby, Bill's conception would be seen as RapeByFraud from a medical perspective.]]

* MisanthropeSupreme: Mordred, despite his apparent love for pop culture, has a very low opinion of society and the human race. He intermixes his WellIntentionedExtremist selling points by talking of how awful humanity is; claiming that his genocidal endgame is to exterminate what he sees as a corrupt society and build a better one from its ashes. He believes that the people who murder, rape and pillage is just humanity at it's base nature, and that the "good" people are putting up a front. It's heavily implied this worldview was instilled by his "mother", with the Red Queen being a hateful deity herself.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter:

** The Red Queen exploited the Dark Room to find a woman who was wronged and miserable enough to serve as her champions, taking a pick from Jefferson's victims. Because Rachel was the only one who couldn't escape her fate, the Queen picked her. However, the Queen had a special interest in Chloe having set up multiple events and tragedies in her life to make her miserable and toxic; her end goal being to make Chloe her champion after Nathan kills her. [[spoiler:While she succeeds in turning Chloe in '''Route B''', Chloe manages to escape her influence almost immediately.]]

** Similar to the Dark Room, Alexander "Sawney" Bean is responsible for creating armies of skals -- a ghoulish and often feral breed of vampires -- for the Mother's Children. Rather than infecting them and being done with it, Bean would set up "factories" where hundreds of abducted people are sadistically and inhumanly tortured -- sometimes even for years -- until they lose their humanity. When they are turned into skals, they become ''more'' monstrous as a result.

* MiseryPoker:

** A more lighthearted example occurs in a flashback, when Nathan and Rachel are discussing their troubled relationships with their fathers. It's not treated as them trying to one up each other's trauma, but the two getting a genuine understanding of each other.

** A more grim example occurs in another flashback. During Rachel's affair with Jefferson, she opens up to him about some of her troubles at home -- especially her biologcal mother, who recently died from an overdose. Rather than show compassion or understanding, Jefferson "comforts" Rachel by saying she shouldn't let her losses hold her back. Jefferson mentions how his mother died of cancer and how he quickly got over it, comparing it to a bee sting. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that Jefferson all but admits to exploiting his dying mother for his first art piece, and to generate sympathy from the community.]]

* MoreDespicableMinion: While Morded himself is a ruthless, cold blooded, and even sadistic leader to the Mother's Children, has little if any moral standards, and certainly not above torture and murder -- he also fairly humanized qualites, can be charming and funny at times; and has a layer of tragedy in that he was bred and groomed to be a loyal soldier to his eldritch "Mother", to the point it's implied he ''can't'' turn against her, even if he wanted too. The same cannot be said of his CoDragons, Bathory and Alexander "Sawney" Bean.

** Bathory is a sadistic aristocrat, who lives up to the stories surrounding her; is the one responsible for grooming Mary to be a "glorified cult prostitute", and has a enslaved staff of children and young teenagers that she regularly feeds on and abuses, with the implications of sexual violence. In '''Route A''', she ventures into Arcadia Bay, where she ends up slaughtering Joyce Price and massacres the Blue Whales diner during the storm; in '''Route B''' she leads the attack on Arcadia Bay after awakening the vampiric Chloe. In both Routes, she ends up torturing and is all but stated to have raped Warren Graham. The closest she has to any humanizing qualities is that it is implied she is a genuine friend to Mordred; but considering they are both loyal to the same cause, this is hardly a ''redeeming'' factor on her part.

** Alexander "Sawney" Bean also lives up to the legends surrounding him. He is Mordred's choice of PsychoForHire, and is RapePillageAndBurn in vampire form, getting his hands dirty when Mordred won't. He is such a feared name in the supernatural community, that even a hardrend hunter like [=McCullum=] sees him as some sort of boogeyman. Bean is also responsible for the mass creation of skals for Mordred; abducting hundreds of people at a time, and torturing them into broken wrecks while infecting them with the Blood of Hate -- with the desired result of creating even more monstrous skals. He also takes a special interest in terrorizing 12 year old Sarah Lee, and leads the attack on Beaver Creek.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:

** As with the games, Victoria displays genuine regret over bullying Kate, especially following her attempted suicide and learning what she went through in the Dark Room. It gets so bad that it leads to her having a breakdown and spending time in a clinic. She makes a sincere effort to move past her AlphaBitch days and even ends up befriending Kate while they recover, soon ending up romantically involved with her.

** Rachel is shown to regret hurting Chloe and cheating on her, it wasn't enough for her to stop her going through with it, and was very reluctant to admit it. After her resurrection and transformation, Rachel is a lot more open with her regrets and tries to move past her toxic and self destructive behavior, especially when she ends up dating ([[spoiler:Tulpa]] Steph. When she nearly relapses and cheats on Steph, Rachel stops and hates herself even more for it, before confessing to her.

* NeverMyFault: Even years after ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm Before the Storm]]'', James Amber is very reluctant to admit any fault for his relationship with Rachel falling apart. When he was exposed by Chloe for having Rachel's (biological) mother kidnapped and forcibly drugged, Rachel all but disowns her father, and ends up taking a series of maladaptive coping habits. James seems to blame this on Chloe for telling Rachel the truth, as opposed to the crime he was exposed of committing. He even implied that Chloe's "bad influence" is what led to Rachel's downward spiral and death. [[spoiler:When Rachel meets her father in the present day, he implies that Rachel "running away" caused his second wife to leave him, as opposed to the fallout of ''his own'' actions.]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Cathy Mortimer, on the surface level, is just a RichBitch and a toxic girlfriend to Steph, at first seeming like she poses no real threat. When she learns that Steph has been seeing Rachel behind her back, she breaks Steph's hand and takes her to an isolated spot to "break her down"; it is revealed that Cathy is friends with gangsters involved in human trafficking, who she asks to help break Steph down in isolation. It's further revealed that Cathy abused a previous girlfriend, and started a smear campaign against her on social media, nearly pushing her to suicide. While small fry in the grand scheme of things, a VillainyFreeVillain she is not.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Mordred tries to sell himself as a revolutionary to Rachel -- and the other girls turned by his mother -- trying to change society for the better through his mother's apocalypse. He prattles on about how corrupt and dirty society and the human race is, and why it's his goal not to destroy the world, but clear the "filth", and build a better one on its ashes. Rachel doesn't buy it, seeing the red flags early on, and lets him know she read ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' in freshman year. When he fails to sell Rachel on this, he later resorts to threats and blackmail to pull her in line.

* OmnicidalManiac: While Mordred makes no bones that his end goal is genocidal, he at least tries to sprinkle it in WellIntentionedExtremist rhetoric -- claiming that he and his followers will simply rebuild a better world over a corrupt one, the Red Queen makes no such platitudes. The destruction and corruption of humanity is her end goal in itself. Any rhetoric from her followers is just that.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Despite being the main antagonist of the story, the Red Queen is "asleep" for much of it, relying on her followers to act as her proxies. This is because her "true" self has no current body of her own, manifesting only as the Blood of Hate until she can fully awake. Even when she creates an avatar from the Blood, it is expressly stated to be akin to her shadow or puppet, [[FightingAShadow and not the same as facing the real deal]]. Even so, she can manifest her power in ways that affect the world, despite being "asleep"; the storm in Arcadia Bay is apparently one such instance; and she can appear to others through visual and auditory hallucinations.

* PariahPrisoner:

** In '''Route B''' this is ZigZagged during Sean Diaz's prison time. Sean was made to witness several prisoners being subjected to abuse for one reason or another, and was almost a target of this from Skinheads due to being a minority. He was made to witness a CopKiller get beaten by guards to the point of brain damage; and witnesses a pedophilic murderer get castrated by the other prisoners. Sean manages to turn the tables on his prisoner status by getting a graphic novel published from prison, at which point many guards and other prisoners congratulate him.

*** In that same route, Nathan became this after killing Chloe. When the truth of the Dark Room came out, on top of Nathan's privileged status as a rich white boy, he was made a special target of ire from the other prisoners. He's kept isolated enough that his safety isn't seriously compromised until a prison riot occurs. During which, Nathan is cornered and murdered in the shower by other prisoners. This is also what triggers his transformation into a vampire in this timeline.

** Mark Jefferson was presumably this in both routes. After he was imprisoned, he was kept in isolation for his safety, thus avoiding retaliation from the other prisoners. This did not stop a disguised Mordred from infiltrating the prison and beating the stuffing out of him.

* PayEvilOntoEvil: Occurs at multiple instances, where an AssholeVictim is at the receiving grisely retatliation.

** During her early days in LA, Rachel goes on her first hunt for fresh blood, but doesn't have it in her to harm an innocent. However, when a man picks her up off the side of the road, and tries to coerce Rachel for oral sex in exchange for a ride, Rachel -- being a vampire -- pretends to be more helpless then she actually is to go along with his threat. [[GroinAttack Then she uses her fangs on the guy]].

** A more tame example is mentioned in passing. When word of Hank Stamper's assault and attempted abduction of the Diaz brothers came out, Hank was regularly harassed at his gas station by the Diaz brother's supporters, who would often vandalize his station as well.

** In '''Route B''', Sean regularly witnessed other prisoners be assaulted and even killed, ostensibly in retaliation for their crimes. He witnesses a CopKiller inmate get beaten by the guards to the point of brain damage, and the gentital mutilation of a child rapist and murder. Nathan Prescott is also murdered by other prisoners for his part in the Dark Room.

** Cathy Mortimer is shown to be a toxic and abusive girlfriend to Steph. When she learns that Steph has been seeing Rachel, she breaks Steph's hand, and takes her to an isolated farm house to "break her down". At her side, are friends in a gang that are involved with trafficking. Mordred uses this to encourage Rachel into commiting her first kill as a vampire. While Rachel kills Cathy's friends, she only maims Cathy herself, and Mordred takes it upon himself to finish her off. The aftermath is described by reports as looking "as if coyotes and a mountain lion fought over their remains".
** [[spoiler:After Sean Prescott tried to control the narrative of the Dark Room, and sweep everything under the rug, New Ascalon made him "disappear" after spilling his dirty secrets. They kept him captives for months ('''Route A''') or years ('''Route B''') before being fed to his newly transformed son.]]

** When Alexander "Sawney" Bean leads an attack on Beaver Creek, and hunts down Daniel Diaz and his friends, he takes a special liking to terrorizing Sarah Lee Hackerman. As recompense, [[spoiler:Daniel and Rachel attack Bean together, brutalizing and maiming him, before leaving him ''crucified'' as a message to the Mother's Children. Bean is shown to have survived this.]]

* PhotoOpWithTheDog: In both routes, when Kate's victimhood of the Dark Room came to light, her church community and the media circus were quick to prop Kate up as this perfect victim to stand with. This is less out of genuine care for Kate or her well being, and more about patting themselves on the back for supporting her. This especially stands out with Kate's church and her more religious family members; they like to credit ''themselves'' for helping Kate when she needed them, when it was ''their rejection'' of her that played a significant part in her trauma. It says something that Kate bonds with her ''actual former bully'' during that time, and healed a lot better in ''that'' relationship.

* PrecursorHero: It is mentioned that multiple figures in English and Celtic folklore were also champions of Myrddin Wylt. Thes figures include [[Myth/CelticMythology Cú Chulainn]], Literature/{{Beowulf}}, and most prominently King Arthur. Of them all, Arthur is stated to have destroyed the Red Queen's physical form, and saved Europe from Mordred's scourge. Unlike the legends, when Arthur departed to Avalon, it is believed he departed to the Americas to live out his supposed last days. Some believe he was also the one who taught Pâhkwêkan's founders of vampires and how to fight them. In the present day, many aren't sure if he's actually dead or just in hiding.

** PredecessorVillain: Likewise, it is mentioned that the Red Queen's previous champions include [[Myth/CelticMythology Queen Medb]], [[Literature/{{Beowulf Grendel's mother]] -- with Grendel himself having been a dhampir; described as a "Proto Mordred''. In Arthur's times, the Queen's champion was Morgause, who along with the Queen herself (then known as Morgana), was the basis behind Morgan Le Fay. Under the Queen, Morgause raped Arthur, impregnating herself with Mordred. While she is long dead by the time Mordred grew up, his survival gives Morgause a posthumous influence in the present day.

* PsychopathicManchild: Downplayed with Mordred. He's certainly vicious, viceful, and lets his emotions get the better of him at times. But he's fairly strategic and pragmatic with his planning. With that said, Mordred has a series of quirks and eccentricities; he lives a playboy lifestyle as a front, he genuinely has fun with his role; hosting parties and orgies at his penthouse; has an open love pop culture, music, and fandoms (but draws a line at ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''); and isn't shy about his sense of humour -- while luring a sting operation to his safe-house for a DeathTrap, he leaves a giant sucker among the evidence to find, as if he were pulling some sort of prank.


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* ShadyLadyOfTheNight: Played With regarding Mary Reid. When resurrected by the Mother's Children, her purpose was to mark young women for the Red Queen, and[=/=]or infect them with her essence. While this doesn't ''always'' involve sex, Mary does sometimes sleep with them; as she did when she had a fling with Rachel. With her services to the Mother's Children, Mary has been often called a "Glorified Cult Prostitute".

* StalkerWithoutACrush: Mordred and his followers are to the former students of Blackwell -- specifically those who were in Mark Jefferson's class. This is not out of any romantic or sexual interest. Rather, he believes any one of them could be marked by his mother, and made into her champions. In 2015, he attended the same university  as them in Seattle to get close to them, becoming acquainted with Victoria and Kate. Mordred even goes as far as [[spoiler:tampering with Max and Chloe's attempts at artificial insemination -- impregnating Chloe's ovumns using Rachel's blood to another possible carrier for his mother.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Rachel ends up being with Steph. This is because the "Steph" who Rachel fell in love with and dated, wasn't the real deal; rather she was a tulpa of the LivingDream variety that the "real" Steph (representing her canon counterpart) unwittingly conjured up. Both Real!Steph and Tupla!Steph fades in and out of people's lives and memories as they transfer from one life to another, both remembering the other life as a dream. Because of this, after everything Rachel and Tulpa!Steph goes through, their ship ultimately sinks by 2020. However, the real Steph -- now dating Alex Chen -- begins to recall her Tulpa life, and is looking into it with Alex.]]

* StarterVillain: Cathy Mortimer serves as the initial ArcVillain in Rachel's flashback chapters, during her time in LA. She is a RichBitch and toxic and controlling girlfriend to Steph ([[spoiler:or rather, the Tulpa!Steph]]). She is also a serial abuser, having previously abused another girlfriend, and started a smear campaign against her. She later breaks Steph's hand when she starts seeing Rachel, before trying to isolate and "break" Steph with the help of some traffickers she's aquinted with. She is dealt with shortly after Rachel meets Mordred, with Mordred using this as an opportunity to get Rachel her first kill.

* StealthSequel: [[spoiler:To ''Fanfic/LovesSacrifices'', despite them supposedly being set on different worlds and timelines. Apparently, the two stories are connected by an EldritchLocation called "The Fog of Worlds" — which brought [[VideoGame/{{Control}} the FBC]] to investigate and "expand" into other timelines and worlds. When Rachel experiences the Fog of Worlds, she has glimpses of another life, where she meets Beca Mitcell, one of the protagonists of ''Fanfic/LovesSacrifices''.]] This also doubles as a POVSequel, [[spoiler:as Beca's perspective of these encounters are shown in ''Fanfic/LovesSacrifices'' itself, and according to the notes, will carry over into future chapters; as well as Rachel's perspective into this story.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Rachel is resurrected as a vampire, she has been dead and buried in a junkyard for over six months and has decayed considerably. She initially has a zombie-like appearance while her body tries to repair itself. She has to keep her head down, and it takes a couple of months for her body to repair itself enough for her to go out in public. [[spoiler:The same thing happens with Vampire!Chloe in '''Route B''', having been dead for eight months before she is resurrected, and also having to keep her head down has her decay is reversed.]]

* SurvivorsGuilt:

** Chloe suffers this after the storm in '''Route A''', being put in a state of self loathing when she sees how many people had to die for ''her'' survival. Especially when she realizes her mother was killed. While she soon pushes it behind during the memorial service, she spends a few weeks just going through the motions, barely responsive to others around her. She soon resolves to live for those who can't.

** Victoria suffers this in both routes, but it's more pronounced in '''Route B'''. Besides her remorse for bullying Kate, Victoria's self loathing is compounded when Jefferson and Nathan's crimes are exposed -- especially when Victoria learns ''she'' was on their list too. Realizing what Kate has been through, on top of Nathan killing Chloe, Victoria has a breakdown, believing that ''she'' deserved what happened to Kate and Chloe, and that it's not fair that they got what they didn't deserve.

* SympatheticAdulterer: ZigZagged with Rachel. Her cheating on Chloe is portrayed as being wrong, and something she hates herself over -- not that it initially stopped her from doing so. Her affair with Jefferson is also expressly shown as a grooming dynamic, with Rachel as the victim. Becoming a vampire, Rachel has a lot more self loathing for her cheating past and tries to do better by Steph. While she almost sleeps with Sam and Emily, it was due to [[spoiler:Tulpa!Steph having periods where she disappears from people's lives and memories like a LivingDream; Rachel's near fling with Sam and Emily occurred during such a period, not that Rachel herself thinks it excuses her.]]

* TradingBarsForStripes: The Americanized Guard of Priwen has taken to recruiting criminals, prisoners and such as foot soldiers and guerilla's to their cause. In both routes, they recruit Sean Diaz despite his fugitive[=/=]prisoner status, because of his connection to Daniel, and the Mothers Children's interests in him. In return for seeing this case through, Sean will be completely exonerated come the end of this crisis. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, they also recruit Mark Jefferson due to his connections with multiple persons of interest; with Jefferson transparently using this as an opportunity to get the ones who got away.]]

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Mordred's appearance is described as handsome, but plain enough that no one would pay him a second glance unless he ''wanted'' them too. This is something he uses for his MasterOfDisguise bit. He's hinted to the person who greeted Rachel when she first arrived in LA, but when they meet in the sixth chapter — which occurs several months later — Rachel doesn't recognize him, comparing him to a generic male model that she had a passing glance at.

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter:

** While living in LA, Rachel went by two false identities as a cover; when roped into Mordred's dirtier business, she went by "Scarlet Rivers"; for her public identity, Rachel went by "Vivian Manning", working as a professional photographer, before eventually becoming a writer. She wrote an exposé about Arcadia Bay in the guise of writing a biography, as well as a series of vampire books called ''The Lost Chronicles''.

** Exaggerated with Mordred, who almost takes it to [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Roger Smith]] extremes. Part of his MasterOfDisguise schtick is that he adopts numerous personas and aliases that help him blend in to the public. From ruthless crime bosses, to powerful playboys and mundane university students, Mordred has several named personas to go with each disguise.

* TheUnchosenOne: Rachel was not the Red Queen's desired champion in Arcadia Bay; the Queen always wanted Chloe Price, but hoped to exploit the Dark Room victim as backup champions. While she succeeds in turning Chloe in the '''Route B''' timeline, Chloe slips through her fingers almost immediately, finding herself in New Aascalon's protection. In '''Route A''', the Queen couldn't take Kate as Max successfully saved her in this timeline, with Kate also surviving the storm. She settles for Rachel because she's the only one who'd die no matter one, and even that doesn't stop the Queen from trying to claim the others.

* TheUnmasquedWorld: PlayedWith. While this is a world where the supernatural is very commonplace, but is effectively covered up by the FBC and the organizations it assimilated. However, in '''Route A''': The Red Queen briefly manifests her spirit in Arcadia Bay, with many Storm survivors seeing her; in '''Route B''', a vampire outbreak occurs months after Chloe's death, with the incident also being covered up. In 2020, following the attack on Beaver Creek, and Puerto Lobos, it would seem it's a lot harder to cover up; many survivors and officers seem to realize vampires are real, and openly discuss them. If the Masquerade isn't broken, it's at least cracked.

* VillainOfAnotherStory: The Makkapitew, the fiercest of the Blackwood Pines {{Wendigo}} of ''VideoGame/UntilDawn''. While there are multiple other antagonists, most of them are either below the Red Queen or serve her, wittingly or not. The Makkapitew is implied to be in a weight class on the same as the Red Queen, and while their paths may have crossed, they generally are focused with their own concerns. It's mentioned the Makkapitew was the one who wiped the Pâhkwêkan huntsmen, and continuously stalks and antagonizes the ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' cast after they escaped Mount Washington, and is a FamilialFoe to the surviving Dibikad family. A passing mention also implies that the Makkapitew to be a manifestation of Ithaqua.

* VillainSong: Of a sort. Two Music/HeatherDale songs are referenced in connection to Mordred.

** One of Bill's dreams of Mordred's past indicates that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VSxKojYtQ78 Mordred's Lullaby]] was a genuine lullaby that his mother sang to him as a child. It's chorus (''"Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me"'') appears to be a mantra of sorts for the Red Queen and her children.

** Another dream shows Mordred rallying Arthur's Knights against him, during which he is WaxingLyrical with the final chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=csm20AxHB6c Crashing Down]], a Heather Dale song told from Mordred's perspective, which also told of how he swayed Arthur's men to him.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity:

** While calling Rachel a villain ''is'' a bit of a stretch, this story is not shy about showing her toxic and self destructive habits, or her vices, putting her in the category of a flawed anti-hero. With that said, her father was all too eager to push this narrative to the media that Rachel was the ideal daughter, student and innocent victim; blaming her issues on outside "toxic" influences (Chloe). All this does is make Rachel iirated, and she releases an expose which uncovers her bad habits, and implicitly her father's.

** ZigZagged with Nathan Prescott. While his and Jefferson's crimes were exposed to the world, Nathan ended up with a divided reputation in the following media circus. Even when Sean Prescott fails to spin the narrative, there are people across social media who express nothing but sympathy and compassion for Nathan; downplaying the severity of his crimes and even implying that he was the only ''real'' victim in all this. When James Amber did a smear campaign against Chloe, many of Nathan's supporters were quick to highlight her delinquency, while also playing off Nathan's crimes as being no big deal in comparison.

* WickedCultured: Despite his misanthropy, Mordred has a genuine enthusiasm for popular culture, and a special affinity for music, taking any chance he gets to play or sing a song from the past century. It's implied he uses his playboy lifestyle and identities to rub shoulders with the rich and famous, attends concerts and explores different fandoms. But he apparently draws a line at the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom. It's mentioned he worked as a lounge singer a few times. Her attended a Music/DemiLovato concert that Rachel attended while following her, and mentions he couldn't get her songs out of his head. Because of these quirks, it's almost easy to forget Mordred is a vampiric cult leader, who plans to -- and ''has'' committed -- acts of genocide.

* WouldHurtAChild: While we don't see Mordred directly harm any children, he at the very least gave the "Okay" for Beaver Creek to be sieged for the expressed purpose of abducting twelve year old Daniel Diaz. In '''Route A''', one of the vampires turned for his attack on Puerto Lobos is a young boy. As for his underlings, Bathroy had a manor full of child slaves when she regularly feeds on and implicitly does ''other'' kinds of abuse to them that are left unmentioned; his other underline, Alexander "Sawney" Bean, and his followers have no issues torturing and turning children in their "factories'', and especially takes an unsettling interest in terrorizing Sarah Lee.

* YourSoulIsMine: The Red Queen, as a death goddess, has some dominion over those who died under her. Both directly and indirectly. When Mary's young son Connor dies of the plague caused by her, the Queen snatches his soul from the afterlife, keeping him captive to ensure Mary serves her will. In '''Route B''', [[spoiler:the Queen traps Chloe in a nightmarish purgatory after her death, hoping to break her down in preparation for her transformation.]]

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* AdaptationalKarma: 

In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', whatever karma dealt Sean Prescott isn’t elaborated upon in either ending. In this story, in both routes, it is revealed that in addition to the Dark Room being exposed — along with Nathan's involvement — numerous of Prescott's dirty laundry and Arcadia Bay's corruption became unearthed. Despite Prescott's attempts to control the narrative, when the FBC and New Ascalon step in, they prove too overwhelming for Sean Prescott. He would then abandon his family to deal with the fallout. [[spoiler:It's also revealed that New Escalon had abducted Prescott, keeping him captive and later feeding him to his transformed son.]]

* BigBad: The Red Queen, despite being asleep for much of the story, being the one who turned Rachel, and the "mother goddess" that Mordred and his followers intend to usher into the world. While there are plenty of antagonists who serve as more personal obstacles for the protagonists, the lot of them either work for her, or unwittingly serve her will, with the threat of her apocalypse looming over the story. It is her deeds that directly or indirectly set up the conflicts for each protagonist arcs; notably, she personally saw to it that Chloe would go on a downward spiral; was the source of much of Arcadia Bay's corruption; and the Storm to try to force Max to sacrifice Chloe.

** Sean Prescott, despite being the GreaterScopeVillain in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' is reduced to this in both '''Route A''' and '''Route B''', following Nathan's death[=/=]Chloe's death, and Jefferson and Nathan's crimes being exposed, Despite Prescott's attempts to cover things up and try to control the narrative, he proves utterly helpless when both the FBC and New Ascalon's interference. When their investigations uproot too much of Prescott's dirty laundry, the most he can do is uproot his funds in Arcadia Bay, leaving it to economic collapse, and his family to deal with the fallout. He is then held captive by New Ascalon, who later feeds him to a transformed Nathan.

* BigGood: "Myrddin Wyllt", the Red Queen's biological son, sworn enemy and another primordial vampire; with his original identity being revealed as the Celtic God, Lugh. Much like his mother, he is asleep most of the time, but his champions are leading the battle against Mordred and his followers; making New Ascalon vs the Mother's Children a proxy war. He also turned Nathan Prescott into a vampire upon his death, offering him a chance to right his wrongs in life; and states that he -- through another being called Nodens -- granted Max her powers to keep Chloe alive, stealing away one of his mother's champions.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mordred is TheDreaded DarkMessiah of a vampiric cult, worshiping his adopted EldritchAbomination mother, whose goal is to usher in her apocalypse; he has a history of mass murder and torture of the innocent and wicked to acheive his goals. When Rachel meets him, he's an eccentric playboy with a love for pulp culture, and at times a bit of a goofball, who likes to crack jokes, with a pretty down to earth personality on his off time. As Rachel learns, yes, these facts do co-exist.

* ChildByRape: According to this story, Mordred is the product of incestous rape; when the Red Queen had her then champion, Morgause rape her half-brother, Arthur. Mordred is not shy about bringing up this part of his past, and it's implied to be a sore spot. [[spoiler:From a medical standpoint, Bill Price Caulfield could be seen as a child of RapeByFraud, due to the tempering of his artificial conception.

* CombatPragmatist: One of the reasons Rachel becomes an AdaptationalBadass, besides her vampire abilities, she fights dirty. Rachel often relies on striking hard against soft softs on her opponents; attacking the eyes, neck, groins or just going for the head. By hitting below the belt, Rachel quickly gets the edge on her oppennent. Even if her fangs or strength isn't enough, she often uses quick thinking and [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] to get another shot. During her second fight with Mordred, she incapacitates him with a pipe bomb, with his resulting injuries making their fight a lot more even.

* TheCorruption: Like with ''VideoGame/''Vampyr2018'', the Red Queen's essence is the "Blood of Hate", the closest  she currently has to a corporeal form on Earth. It's explained that the Blood of Hate is as much of a spiritual affliction as it is a physical one, directly compared to the {{Wendigo}}; twisting and distorting its victims on both a physical level as it does a spiritual one. The more detached of humanity one is, the more their hearts are filled with hate, the more monstrous it's infected become. It doesn't even force its victims to become these monsters, it just unleashes their buried depravity.

** {{Averted}}  regarding the endings of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange''  and ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2 the second game]]: rather than following a specific ending, certain chapters are designated '''Route A''' -- which follows the "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay[=/=]Parting Ways" endings; and ''' Route B''' -- which follows the "Sacrifice Chloe[=/=]Redemption" endings. Outside these "Routes", the story is written from a neutral perspective. However there are minor deviations; '''A''' chapters establishes ninety seven survivors of the storm, a lot of them consisting of staff and students of Blackwell Academy.  In '''B''', Sean Diaz is bailed out of prison for the time being, after being conscripted by the FBC after serving two years, as opposed to the fifteen years he serves in "Redemption". 

* DarkIsNotEvil: Myrddin Wylt is thought of as a dark and menacing presence to those who glimpse him; when Nathan and Jefferson both see him in their near death experiences, they mistake him for the devil coming to take them to Hell. When he actually speaks, he is true to his goals of fighting his mother, and has an overwhelmingly calm and understanding demeanour in the way he talks. Ironically, this story portrays him as once being the Celtic deity, Lugh, who is considered a GodOfLight.

* DarkMessiah:  Mordred is the acting leader of The Mother's Children, a cult of humans and vampires that worship the Red Queen, and is held as a near mythical figure among these people, and the vampire community. When Escalon realizes his presence, who the Queen picked as her champion doesn't matter, what matters is if they can get to them before he does.

 ** In Myth/ArthurianLegend, Morgana Le Fay and Morgause were originally separate characters, and often portrayed as sisters. Later depictions would pass Morgana and Morgause as one and the same. In this universe, Morgause played the essential role of Morgana in the King Arthur story, with the Red Queen -- who is named "Morgana" here -- simply being the source of her power; Morgause was simply her champion at the time. Of course, Morgana did step in at the time Mordred was born, but it would seem their exact role was something lost in translation.

** In '''Route B''', following the "Redemption" ending of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'', Sean Diaz was found innocent in Officer Matthews death, to the chagrin of his detractors. However, the production was all too eager to make a case against him for multiple other -- albeit smaller -- felonies and misdemeanours he and Daniel got up to do during their journey. For this, even when Sean was found innocent of Matthews' death, these smaller crimes were used to get him a fifteen year sentence. Luckily, he's let off after two years thanks to a deal he made with the FBC, but Sean is a little cynical at how people ''wanted'' him to be guilty of something, and looking for ''anything'' to pin him down for. It was less about getting justice for Matthews, and more about making an example out of Sean.

** As part of her HeroWithBadPublicity status, media outlets that try to elevate Rachel or Nathan's victimhood, look for any and all details to try to demonize Chloe to the public; taking her history of deliquency and troubled relationship with her family, almost making them out to be worse than the kidnapping, torture and murder that Nathan was involved in. It's implied this has less to do with what Chloe actually ''did'', and more about what Chloe's ''is''; being a lower class, rebellious girl with a troubled home life, who needed to be made an example of. This is used to make Chloe a "Bad Victim" in a GoodVictimsBadVictims dynamic the media tries to push, with Rachel or Kate being "Good Victims".

Eldritch Location: [[spoiler:The Fog of Worlds. Its exact nature is uncertain, but it's thought to be a bridge of sorts between realms and timelines; as well as the next world. Entering the Fog is ill advised, and those exposed to it suffer nosebleeds, unless they can stop themselves from talking or thinking about it. It also appears in the story ''Fanfic/LovesSacrifices'', which ties the two stories together. Rachel, Nathan, and Max (in '''Route B''') both experience it, and Steph is revealed to have had prolonged exposure to it when she's revealed to have a LivingDream Tulpa.]]

 

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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25538953/chapters/61967356#workskin Love's Sacrifices]]'': Is mainly a crossover between ''Film/PitchPerfect'' and ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries''. It also includes tie ins to multiple works, but mostly ''Film/GingerSnaps'', and ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse''.

* ''Literature/TheRedMaidenGracesStory'': Written as a semi adaptation of the Celtic Legends of the Dearg Due and Abartach.

* ''Literature/TheRedMaidenGracesStory'': Written as a semi adaptation of the Celtic Legends of the Dearg Due and Abartach.


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[[folder:''Love's Sacrifices'']]
''Love's Sacrifices'' is a crossover fic on AO3, written by [=GOTFa2=], serving as a crossover between the ''Film/PitchPerfect'' trilogy and ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries''.

Set in 2021, starting months after the events of ''Film/TheCarmillaMovie'', Laura Hollis and her recently re-vamprized girlfriend, Carmilla Karnstein, plan to start a family. They learn of an experimental procedure that would allow two women to conceive together.

Looking for a surrogate, they are approached by Chloe Beale, who offers her services. Chloe, a long time fan of Laura's vlogs and with secret history with the supernatural, has also joined a polyamorous relationship with other Barden Bellas -- Beca Mitchell, Stacie Conrad and Aubrey Posen, who are raising Stacie's daughter Bella together. To help prepare for parenthood, Carmilla and Laura move into the Bellas' vacation home in Bailey Downs.

With Chloe being a surrogate to a dhampir child, Beca has a series of concerns and anxieties from a past she buried in her subconscious, as memories of her own horrid encounters with the supernatural, which creep to the surface. But besides these worries, another figure from Carmilla's past emerges; a past so painful that Carmilla also preferred to bury and forget it. This figure, the mysterious Count Karnstein seeks to undo the good Carmilla and Laura have done, and destroy everything close to Carmilla's heart, caring not for the innocents in the crossfire, which now include the Barden Bellas.

While this is mainly a crossover between ''Carmilla'' and ''Film/PitchPerfect'', there are several cameos and references to other works, predominantly ''Film/GingerSnaps'' with it's setting in Bailey Downs -- and [[spoiler:''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' with revelations of Carmilla's past CanonWelding her history with that of the Mikaelson family.]] This fic is also part of the ''Fanfic/FogOfWorldsSaga'', alongside ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'', another crossover fic by the same author.

See also ''Fanfic/MissionToSilas'', a loose prequel to this story, set in 2004, which crosses ''Carmilla'' over with ''Film/TheCraft'', ''Film/GingerSnaps'' and ''Film/{{DEBS}}''

!!''Love's Sacrifices'' contains examples of…
* AbusiveParent: Count Falco Karnstein was this of the emotional variety. Being a teenage parent, Falco was openly resentful of Mircalla for upturning his life, and would often remind her that she caused her mothers death, and generally wants to distance himself from her as much as possible. He doesn't treat his later son, Elias any better, intending to mold him into a more masculine image and heir, and taking him on dangerous expeditions when the boy was ''four''. [[spoiler:During his later encounter with Ithaqua, Falco becomes deluded into thinking he's the heir to the King in Yellow, and plans to kill his children as part of a blood sacrifice.]]
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In mythology, the demoness Lamashtu is often depicted as a HumanoidAbomination, with features of MixAndMatchCritters. In this story, Lamshtu's usual form is an attractive, petite young woman with fae-like features, red hair and striking blue eyes. Though her VoluntaryShapeshifting shows that her "truer" self has angel-like wings, with animalistic fangs and claws. According to this story, Lamashtu's animalistic depictions are a case of InUniverse AdaptationalUgliness in order to dehumanize her.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange:
** Carmilla's backstory and her past as Mircalla is changed significantly from what she describes in the web series; in the series, Mircalla was implied to be a simple but troubled noble-woman before she was murdered at eighteen years old. According to this story, Mircalla had a more troubled family life, with an abusive father, and was unwittingly surrounded by supernatural influences, and met her adoptive mother and sister well before her murder and transformation. [[spoiler:She also became acquainted with the Mikaelson family before she turned, and is revealed to be part of the Petrova family line]]. On top of ''all that'' ? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking She was murdered at nineteen rather than eighteen]]. This is handwaved by Carmilla saying she only ever told the "censored" version of her backstory; while the backstory told here is the "uncensored version".
** A Downplayed example, but in ''Film/PitchPerfect'', the only time Beca really talks about her past is that she didn't have many friends who were girls. In this story, it's depicted that Beca had one serious "friendship" with a girl named Katerina, that bordered onto a romantic relationship...unfortunately she was a ToxicFriendInfluence, a secret vampire, [[spoiler:and exposed Beca and their small friend group to the influence of an EldritchAbomination.]]
* AdaptationalKarma: In ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', Theo Straka disappears from the show towards the end of the final season, despite murdering Danny, and being TheDragon to Inanna throughout. While his final fate is never brought up in canon, here it's revealed Theo was initially imprisoned for his complicity. While he escapes from prison early on, becoming TheDragon to Count Karnstein, Theo becomes the KarmicButtmonkey and TheChewtoy, suffering all kinds of abuse and indignities over the story. This includes being beaten up, being on the receiving end of emasculating insults and briefly arrested again.
* AdaptationalNationality: In ''Film/PitchPerfect'', there's nothing that indicates that Chloe isn't American, but in this fic, it's revealed she originally lived in Bailey Downs, Ontario, thereby making her Canadian.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Occurs in multiple instances.
** Early on, it is revealed that Chloe grew up in Bailey Downs, a fictional town in [[CanadaEh Ontario]], and a setting of ''Film/GingerSnaps'' and ''Series/OrphanBlack''; it is also where a good chunk of the story takes place. Not only that, but Chloe and her family were neighbors and acquaintances with the Fitzgerald family of the former series. To top it all off, in one flashback chapter, a younger Chloe snuck outside her house and witnessed the Beast of Bailey Downs' attack on Ginger; when she approached the sisters the next day, Brigitte brushed off her concerns to try to keep her out of it.
** Subverted on Beca's end, it's revealed she grew up in [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Haddonfield, Illinois]]. Despite this, the InUniverse UrbanLegend of Michael Myers was never a significant factor in Beca's life, nor did she seemingly interact with any of the characters of that franchise...though it's suggested that Corey, a young boy she babysat once, ''may'' have been a younger [[Film/HalloweenEnds Corey Cunningham]].
*** While the whole story isn’t elaborated on, it’s mentioned that the Bellas' previously survived a killing spree shortly after Bella Conrad was born. According to chapter notes, there is meant to be a prequel fic that crosses over with ''Film/{{Scream}}''. This does raise questions regarding ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' being part of this universe, when it is a work of fiction in ''Film/{{Scream}}'', but it’s mentioned that in this timeline, [[ShowWithinAShow at least two movies were made based]] on the "urban legends" of Michael Myers.
** According to the chapter notes, a sequel fic with ''Series/{{Legacies}}'' is being planned, and this was to establish Carmilla's history with ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' through flashback chapters. [[spoiler:Carmilla is a descendant of the Petrova family - thereby making her (at least) an distant aunt to Elena Gilbert, and Isobel Flemming. Furthermore, Carmilla knew the Mikaelson's in the years leading up to her mortal death, and even had a romantic fling with Rebekah Mikaelson. It's also revealed that Inanna was a mentor and adopted mother to Silas, and thought highly enough of him that she named her university after him.]]
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In ''Film/PitchPerfect'', the relationship between Beca, Chloe, Aubrey and Stacie doesn't really go beyond platonic, despite the ShipTease between Beca and Chloe. Here, the four girls are depicted as being in a polyamorous relationship, and raising Stacie's daughter Bella.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Despite popular shipping between the two, the sexual orientation of Stacie and Aubrey is never elaborated in ''Film/PitchPerfect'', with Stacie only hooking up with male partners in the movie. Here, they are not only bisexual, but are in a same sex polyamorous relationship with Beca and Chloe.
* AlternateUniverse[=/=]AlternateTimeline: While not expressly explained, the revelation of [[spoiler:the FBC and Rachel Amber stepping into this story implies some sort of scenario is occurring tying this fic to ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange''; despite the fact ''this'' story is seemingly a different world and timeline, where the events of ''that'' story aren't acknowledged. It’s implied other worlds and timelines exist through the "Fog of Worlds" an EldritchLocation that seemingly bridges these stories together.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: The identity of the present day Count Karnstein. There are two primary candidates, both from Carmilla's human life as Mircalla. There is Count Falco Karnstein [[spoiler:Carmilla's AbusiveFather, who attempted to have her killed and was subjected to a KarmicTransformation after being left for dead; though it's currently implied he is her brother Elias, who she was once close too, but drifted apart before he eventually murdered her.]]
* AnimalMotifs:
** Lamashtu has hyenas. Whenever she shows her real fangs, they are constantly described as hyena-like in appearance. Her evil laughter is often described as sounding like that of hyenas. This, along with her cute seeming appearance, is meant to make her come off as more unsettling to those who see[=/=]hear it.
** Hastur's iconography frequently uses Dragon or Snake images, and as allusions to describe him. Glimpses of his true form imply that he is a DraconicAbomination, and the Yellow Sign is described here as being "three golden serpents, devouring the world".
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: There is no doubt Lamashtu is pure evil, and she is a CardCarryingVillain for it. What annoys her, is her sister Inanna's "self righteousness". Inanna does plenty of monstrous things herself under the guise of reuniting with a lost loved one, while Lamashtu has no such romantic delusions; claiming that unlike Inanna, she sees Hastur for what he is, and not the romantic mask he put up for her. It's even implied Hastur might respect Lamashtu more than his supposedly beloved Inanna, for seeing the real him, and being more "honest" with herself.
* BigBad: The mysterious Count Karnstein, another dark figure of Carmilla's past -- and a relative of hers -- is the leader of a conspiracy to undo her and Laura's heroism, and finish Innana's work as revenge against Carmilla for a yet to be revealed slight. With that said, it's soon revealed his partner in crime, the demoness Lamashtu is [[DragonInChief in more control of things than he is, and is the bigger threat between the two]].
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: It is revealed that Mircalla's murderer in her mortal life was her younger brother Elias, who she was once close to as a child. It’s revealed that he was manipulated by evil spirits into pursuing his perceived destiny, and initially wanted his beloved sister to join him. When she dismisses his "fantasies'', Elias feels that his sister abandoned him, and therefore murdered her as an attempted blood sacrifice to the Great Old Ones.]]
* CameoCluster: Besides the main crossovers within this story, there are several cameos of other works used for world building. A few of these cameos are plot relevant. Naturally, these overlap with CrossoverCameo.
** ''Series/OrphanBlack'': The characters Cosmia Niehaus and Delphine Cormier have a brief but critical cameo in the opening chapter. The whole reason Carmilla and Laura were able to conceive in the first place was because of fertility experiments the two were running. Basically, the ''whole plot'' happens because Laura, Carmilla and Chloe, agreed to be their subjects.
** ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'': The town of Whitechapel is depicted as a neighboring town to Bailey Downs that the protagonists briefly visit. Their reasoning for doing so is the characters from this series are revealed to have had a dhampir child of their own, and Carm, Laura and the Bella's wanted to know what they were in for.
** Averted with ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}''. While Beca lived in Haddonfield as a teenager, and was aware of it's infamous boogeyman and history, she never had any meaningful encounters with anyone from that series; with a [[AmbiguousSituation possible]] exception of babysitting a young [[Film/HalloweenEnds Corey Cunningham]] one night. Basically, Michael Myers is treated more as an InUniverse UrbanLegend, or an infamous part of Haddonfield's history, but had no impact on Beca's life. Hell, Michael isn't even referred to by ''name''.
* CanadaEh: The present day storyline is mostly set in Bailey Downs, a fictional town in Ontario were both ''Film/GingerSnaps'' and ''Series/OrphanBlack'' take place. Cameos of both are featured in this story. It's further shown that Chloe grew up there, thereby making her Canadian as well. Also, Laura and Carmilla are residents of Toronto, while Danny and her agency operate from Ottawa.
* ChildByRape: It is revealed that Carmilla[=/=]Mircalla, and her half brother Elias were products of their father coercing two other young noble women into sexual encounters. Elias outright calls himself this when he finds this out.
* CutenessProximity: Initially, Carmilla tries to act aloof and distant towards babies and small children before Laura talked her into having one. But when Carmilla is forced to interact with them for an extended period of time, her aloofness soon gives way. When she becomes acquainted with three year old Bella Conrad, she almost immediately warms up to her, becoming a loving aunt figure to her during their interactions.
** CutenessOverload: Taken to a comical extreme when Carmilla initially meets Bella; after a minute of trying to maintain her composure around the toddler, Carmilla's demeanor quickly gives way before [[TheGlomp snatching Bella up in a bear hug]], gushing and squealing at the top of her lungs at how cute Bella is...much to both of their utter embarrassment.
* CreepyChild: Elias Karnstein was a more tragic example. Elias was originally a sweet but abused nobleman's son. In his state of isolation, [[spoiler:Elias was approached by Inanna and later Lamashtu, when he was dragged along Falco's expeditions. The revelations they gave the boy made him come off as this to those around him, especially when takes up TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior. At the same time, Elis tried to maintain his relationship with his sister, Mircalla, but she distanced herself more and more over the next few years. Resigning himself to his perceived destiny, Elias murders Mircalla as an attempted blood sacrifice.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Lamashtu apparently loves inflicting this. Most of the time, Lamashtu's murders lean into NothingIsScarier and we ''usually'' avoid seeing the worst of it. The few we ''do'' see, tells us that what she normally does is ''not'' pretty. In one such instance, Lamashtu bites an unfortunate victim’s tongue out, before eviscerating him lengthwise, and opening his rib cage, causing his innards to fall out.
* DarkerAndEdgier: To both ''Film/PitchPerfect'' and ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries''.
** In the case of ''Film/PitchPerfect'', the source material is a pretty light hearted trilogy, and whatever drama they ''do'' have, they don't go anywhere ''near'' as heavy as this fic. Here, the Barden Bellas are roped into a plot of vampires, cults, elder gods and a conspiracy that entails mass murder. On top of that, Beca is given a DarkAndTroubledPast regarding a toxic relationship she was in, [[spoiler:and an encounter with an EldritchAbomination that she suppressed for years.]] With that said, it's mentioned that the Bellas' had survived a [[Film/{{Scream}} Ghostface]] spree years back, which implies they aren't ''too'' far out of their element.
** In ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', while the series does have its share of darkness and heavier subjects, a lot of the time the nastier stuff is left to the imagination. Also the series sometimes plays these subjects for dark comedy. While aspects of this story can be as light hearted as canon, the darker stuff is grim even by the standards of the source material, going farther with the violence and horror imagery that is only implied in the web series. Especially when ''Lamashtu'' comes into the story.
* DealWithTheDevil: The "Crimson List" is a list consisting of dozens of Silas Alumni who have signed a blood pact with Inanna and Hastur. Following Inanna's defeat, all power of that pact goes to Hastur, and those on the list can be used as a blood sacrifice to re-open the final gate to hell. Tracking them down and sacrificing them one by one is the Count Karnstein's aim to undo Carmilla's heroism. [[spoiler:Later on, Lamashtu tries to rope Bella into putting her name on that list.]]
* DeathByChildBirth: Mircalla's biological mother, Jana Hoffman, died of complications as soon as Mircalla was born. While there's nothing concrete, it's speculated InUniverse that Falco may have poisoned her in an effort to avoid having to raise a child; at the very least, he's resentful that Mircalla didn't die with her mother.
* DogKickingExcuse: Throughout Mircalla's childhood, her father Count Falco made it no secret that her birth was responsible for her mother's death. Though it's not because he actually ''cared'' for her mother, but because he resented having to raise Mircalla despite himself being a teenager. In fact, other characters wonder if Falco poisoned her mother in an effort to induce a stillbirth, and his only response to Jana's death is disappointment that Mircalla didn't die with her. Carmilla herself concludes that Falco was using her mothers death as a flimsy excuse to put her down all the time.
* DraconicAbomination: What is implied to be Hastur's true form. Idols and symbols tied to Hastur are heavy in its use of dragon and serpent iconography. In the brief instances a manifestation of Hastur is seen, these manifestations are described as resembling a giant dragon, [[ShockAndAwe made from lightning]] no less.
* DragonInChief: While Count Karnstein is the one leading the conspiracy to finish what Inanna started, his partner in crime, Lamashtu holds more power and influence in their dynamic, being Inanna's sister. Not only that, but Lamashtu cared not for Karnstein's goals, nor Inanna's, having her own reasons to try to awaken Hastur. Once her involvement is revealed, it is quickly realized that the Count and his followers need ''Lamashtu'' more than the other way around. Lamashtu herself describes the Count as doing the heavy lifting for ''her'', all but spelling out the Count is a PuppetKing.
* EldritchAbomination:
** Hastur, in a way that mixes with HumanoidAbominaton. Despite being "dead", a sliver of his spirit can look into the world, and even through the future via the dreams of mortals; it's implied that his "human" form was his "mask" and that his truer self is a massive dragon-like being, made from lighting.
** [[spoiler:Whatever Beca saw during her and Katerina's "game" in High School. When put under, Beca saw what could only be described as having horns and wings, and was of a massive size. When she woke up, Beca's mind repressed what she saw; her mind even blocked out the being's name (which is only spelled as "_ _ _ _ _ _ _"). One of Beca's other friends wasn't so lucky, waking up in a MadnessMantra ("''Thamoús, Pan ho mégas téthnēke. Thamous panmégas téthnēke.''") to the point of hospitalization.]]
* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The Fog of Worlds. Its exact nature is uncertain, but it's thought to be a bridge of sorts between realms and timelines; as well as the next world. Entering the Fog is ill advised, and those exposed to it suffer nosebleeds, unless they can stop themselves from talking or thinking about it. It also appears in the story ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'', which ties the two stories together. It's implied to be what Beca saw during her own encounter with an EldritchAbomination, and has to return to it to find a way to combat Lamashtu; but when she awakens from it, she's left with no memory of this counter.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Inverted with Lamashtu, who is usually on the ''receiving'' end of this trope. Lamashtu has disdain for her sister Inanna for her "self righteousness" and romantic delusions; see AtLeastIAdmitIt. Both Inanna and Mattie are put off by Lamashtu's cruelty and sadism, especially towards young children, and are reluctant to work with her unless she's "leashed". Although in Inanna's case, she acts more annoyed at her sister's buffoonery than out of any moral standards.
** Subverted with Theo Straka. While he's initially put off by Lamashtu's work, it's implied he just finds her mutilation and cannibalism habits gross, but has little issue looking the other way for her murdering of children, even if it makes him uncomfortable. [[spoiler:Later on, Theo himself ends up killing a couple of children while breaking into a family's house, implying that he's over this standard entirely.]]
* EverybodyHatesHades: InUniverse. ''Film/TheExorcist'' is referenced as a work of fiction in this fic, and so most characters familiar with Pazuzu know him from the movie. As such many are reluctant to call upon Pazuzu to help deal with Lamashtu. It has to be clarified that the movie was SadlyMythtaken in its depiction.
* FirstLove:
** Back when she was in high school, Beca had befriended a girl named Katerina, and their relationship bordered on romantic and sexual attraction. Unfortunately, Katerina was a ToxicFriendInfluence who would attempt to groom Beca, and [[spoiler:exposed her and one other friend to an EldritchAbomination during a "game" at a slumber party.]]
** In flashbacks to Carmilla's mortal life as Mircalla Karnstein, [[spoiler:it's revealed that Mircalla's first romantic and sexual relationship was with [[Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse Rebekah Mikaelson]]. They met when the Mikaelson's stayed with Mircalla and Elias as their wardens. Unfortunately, when Mircalla was later murdered, Rebekah put her behind her as just another fleeting romance that wasn't going anywhere. In the present day, while both Carmilla and Rebekah are seemingly aware of their current survival -- it's mentioned that Laura previously interviewed the Mikaelsons' -- it's unknown if they saw each other again in the centuries after Carmilla was turned, or if their relationship was completely put behind them.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: Throughout the flashback chapters of Mircalla's life, there are repeated mentions of a war that engulfed the Earth thousands of years ago. It's talked about, but not shown in any real capacity. It describes how Hastur and his half-brother first arrived on Earth and fought each other for it. With their arrival, gods, monsters and titans all over the world bowed to one brother or another, while a third party fought against them both. It is said that an Earthly champion had slain both Hastur and his half-brother, bringing an end to that war.
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** Hastur, who serves as a greater threat and the motivation for this fic's antagonists. Having previously attempted to conquer the world, Hastur was slain millenia ago by an earthly hero. Resurrecting and reuniting with him was previously the motivation of his lover, Inanna. In the present day, the Count seeks to awaken him by sacrificing those who made a blood pact with Hastur and Inanna. It is also shown that despite being "dead", he can still manipulate others from beyond the veil, as he apparently saw Bella Conrad dreaming of him from the far past. [[spoiler:Soon enough, he attempts to rope Bella into a blood pact with him.]]
** Hastur's son, Ithaqua, is often mentioned and described as an influential being in his own right, and a mediator between mankind and Hastur himself. However, Ithaqua is currently stated to be sealed in another world, and cannot directly interact with this one. [[spoiler:Even so, he is one of the beings that tried to corrupt and mould Elias throughout his childhood, and would even tempt the boy's father into further madness, as well as disfiguring him.]]
* HistoricalRapsheet: Or a mythological and folkloric one, mixed with OneMythToExplainThemAll. Besides Lamashtu playing the same role as her mythological counterpart, it's revealed she has been wandering the Earth for centuries, and is (or was at least the influence behind) numerous Boogey-woman figures across Europe, and later North America. This includes the legend of Black Annis, and in a ShoutOut mention, [[Film/TheBlairWitchProject the Blair Witch]].
* ImAHumanitarian: Lamashtu, as per mythology, is said to have a sweet tooth for children and pregnant women, and is even depicted as feeding on them – albeit we never see the [[NothingIsScarier worst of it]]. It’s implied to be an aspect of her cruelty on Lamashtu's part, rather than anything she needs for sustenance, as she eats regular food just fine.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Both Danny and Theo take their rivalry personally. On Danny's end it was due to Theo's murder of her; on Theo's end, he sees Danny as being EasilyForgiven for her part in Inanna's schemes, thinking that it's unfair that ''he'' gets imprisoned for it. Of course, Theo's murder of Danny, and the fact that she was brainwashed into participating was recorded onto Laura's vlog for the world to see, which does more to help Danny's case, over Theo's.
* LivingMacGuffin: The Crimson List, which consists of former Silas students and staff who have willingly signed a blood pact with Hastur and Inanna. For this, the Count seeks out these students in hopes of sacrificing them to Hastur in a bid to open the last gate to Hell. At the time of the story, there are few living people on that list, and it's implied [[spoiler:Lamashtu tricked Bella into making a new blood pact with Hastur.]]
* OutsideContextProblem: On the ''Film/PitchPerfect'' side of things, their usual antagonists are rival acapella teams, and crime boss in the third movie. But because they are pulled into a crossover with ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', they now have cults, conspiracies, demons and elder gods on their hands. While it's mentioned they previously survived a killing spree shortly after Bella's birth, this story's antagonists are clearly in a different weight class than a presumably mundane murderer.
* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Invoked. In onr of his AbusiveParent tactic towards Mircalla, Count Falco would often remind her that her mother died giving birth to her, especially on her birthday. It's made obvious that Falco himself doesn't believe or care about this -- in fact, it's speculated InUniverse that he may have poisoned Jana in an effort to terminate her pregnancy -- but is using this as a reason to put Mircalla down all the time.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Theo Straka, as per his canon counterpart, is an arrogant, cowardly OpportunisticBastard, and is reduced to a KarmicButtMonkey and TheChewToy for much of his appearances. Initially, he serves as TheDragon to Count Karnstein and Lamasthu, hoping to take revenge on the Silas Gang for his previous imprisonment, and appears to be a lot more passive than his bosses. [[spoiler:Then, while breaking and entering into a house after escaping imprisonment again, Theo cold bloodily kills the family living there himself, including their children.]]
* NothingIsScarier:
** More often than not, when Lamashtu personally kills someone, there is little to no description of the actual killings or their aftermath. What is usually described is quick and vague, leaving the worst of it to the imagination. When others see the aftermath, it's clear that what happened was ''not'' pretty. And as mentioned in CruelAndUnusualDeath, the rare time we see a full killing by Lamashtu, it’s pretty grisly.
** [[spoiler:Whatever Beca saw during a ritual game as a teenager, isn't elaborated or described, but whatever it was left her mind blanking it out. Even its name is blanked out from ''us'' reading it.]]
* PredecessorVillain:
** Carmilla's adoptive mother, Dean Lilita Morgan aka Inanna. In ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', Inanna was the OverarchingVillain, whose goal was to open the gates of Hell and reunite with her lover Hastur in HellOnEarth. At the time of the present day story, the Dean has long since been defeated, but serves as a motivation for the present antagonists. Count Karnstein seeks to undo the good Carmilla did for the world as an act of revenge, by finishing what Inanna started. The Count's followers are seeking the Crimson List -- people who have made a blood pact with Inanna and Hastur -- as further sacrifices. Furthermore, flashbacks to Carmilla's human life show that Inanna had her eyes on Mircalla and her brother Elias, years before Mircalla's murder, and has been influencing and grooming them throughout their childhoods'.
** From Beca's own flashbacks as a teenager, Katerina was a girl that Beca befriended in her past, and a seeming romantic interest. It's quickly shown that she was a ToxicFriendInflucne and attempted to groom Beca throughout their "relationship". If that wasn't enough, it turns out not only was Katerina a vampire, [[spoiler:but she exposed Beca to an EldritchAbomination during a ritual "game" at a slumber party. While that arc is still ongoing, whatever became of Katerina in the present day left a subconscious impact on Beca that is resurfacing the more she surrounds herself with the supernatural.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Of a CanonWelding sort, where the relatives aren't even of the ''same work''. [[spoiler:As part of tying in with ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'', flashbacks detailing Carmilla's mortal life reveal that the Karnsteins are descendants from Katerina Pretova[=/=]Katherine Pierce, and her daughter Nadia. This would also imply that Carmilla or her brother Elias ''[[AmbiguouslyRelated might]]'' be ancestors to Isobel Flemming and Elena Gilbert -- or at least, distant aunt or uncle.]]
* SavedByCanon: This story was written as an interquel between ''Film/TheCarmillaMovie'' and its Stinger, which depicts Carmilla and Laura holding a baby. This at least assures ''their'' survival, and that of their baby. Though this currently leaves everyone else's fate up on the air...
* SatanicArchetype: The way Hastur is described, he is a being who tried to usurp the gods of the former world, and invokes LightIsNotGood with his presence being indicated by bright and golden lights. He sired a son named Ithaqua, who while not explicitly TheAntichrist, was at least a DarkMessiah serving as a mediator between mankind and his father. The way Inanna's relationship with Hastur is described, portrays him as a tempter and manipulator; Inanna's former status as the "Queen of Heaven" may even bring to mind both Fallen Angels, and Eve being tempted by the serpent. And speaking of, Hastur's symbols, idols and iconography are heavy on dragon and serpent imagery — which may even invert this trope; Inanna claims that they inspired the Serpent of Eden and the Dragon of Revelation, indicating that ''Satan'' may be an archetype to ''Hastur''.
* SequelHook:
** Inverted. It's mentioned that the Barden Bellas' survived a killing spree years back, shortly after Bella's birth. However the details are kept purposefully vague with little elaboration. According to chapter notes, there are plans for a prequel focusing on how Beca, Chloe, Stacie and Aubrey first got together, and cover Bella's biological father...but will also be crossing over with ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''.
** In a more strait example, according to chapter notes, a sequel is already being planned that will crossover with ''Series/{{Legacies}}''. [[spoiler:This is why the Mikaelsons appear in Mircalla's later flashbacks -- to establish Carmilla as having a history with them. Further welding ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' to ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'', it is revealed that Mircalla and Elias Karnstein are descendants of the Petrova line, with the implication that they could be related to the current Petrova descendant, Elena Gilbert.]]
* SexForSolace: Apparently, [[AllWomenAreLustful Stacie]] finds sex to be a stress reliever for her girlfriends and herself during times of severe anxiety, and helps her keep a clear head; the "clarity" helps her partner open up about their troubles, with Stacie being an attentive and understanding listener. This is the case when Beca opens up to Stacie about her resurfacing trauma after their PostCoitalCollapse.
* ShowWithinAShow: While Beca grew up in Haddonfield, it turns out that ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films exist InUniverse. However, it seems AlternateHistory is at play; the way they are described makes it seem they are closer to the Rob Zombie's films than ''Film/Halloween1978'' or any of it's sequels — albeit made a ''lot'' earlier than the real world remakes.
--> In 1989, this musician[=/=]director went and made a movie "BasedOnATrueStory" based around the killing spree in '78, and a sequel the following year that was more glamorized, and told its own story. It was kind of like when they made those ''[[Film/{{Scream}} Stab]]'' movies based on what happened in Woodsboro.
--> The [[Film/Halloween2007 first movie]] was based loosely on the actual killing spree, but got backlash for their whitewashing of the killer, and playing him in a sympathetic light. The [[Film/HalloweenII2009 sequel]] was less biographical, and was based on urban legends following the initial killings, such as how the killer's sister supposedly died or disappeared.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Two examples of CanonWelding.
** In a CrossoverCameo with ''Series/OrphanBlack'', Dr. Delphine Cormier and Cosima Niehaus are running experimental procedures to aid in fertility treatments. This includes an experiment of combining two ovums to create an embryo. While the two only appeared in the first chapter so far, the modern day plotline pretty much happens because Carmilla, Laura and Chloe agreed to be subjects for their treatments.
** Another example is Mircalla and Elias' grandmother, Lena, who only appears in a few flashbacks of Carmilla's mortal life, and is stated to have died in Elias' early childhood. She is one of the few stable parental figures in her early childhood, and encouraged Mircalla's reading habits. In turn, this got Mircalla and Elias -- especially the latter -- to have a little more fantastical ambitions in life. [[spoiler:Furthermore, it's revealed she is a Petrova, and direct descendant of [[Series/TheVampireDiaries Katerina and Nadia Petrova]] -- thereby putting Mircalla, Elias and their father in their bloodline. This is also the reason by beings such as Inanna and her followers set their sights on the Karnstein family in the first place.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Mircalla was this to Rebekah Mikaelson in her last few years as a mortal. They had a brief romantic and sexual affair, but that went nowhere on account of Mircalla's murder. Both Mircalla and Rebekah acknowledge that they wouldn't have had a future regardless; Rebekah accepts that their romantic fling was just that, and Carmilla having put their relationship behind her.]]
* StealthSequel: [[spoiler: To ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'', despite them supposedly being set on ''different'' worlds and timelines. Apparently, the two stories are connected with by an EldritchLocation called "The Fog of Worlds" -- which brought [[VideoGame/{{Control}} the FBC]] to investigate and "expand" into other timelines and worlds; these expansions are behind the "Agency" that Danny now works for. It's protagonist, Rachel Amber, also reaches out to Beca from this Fog, having experienced it in her own story, and tries to help Beca understand what she witnessed years ago.]] This also doubles as a POVSequel, as [[spoiler:some of Rachel's own perspective of these encounters are carried over into ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'' itself, and according to the notes, will carry over into future chapters.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Out of the Bellas, Stacie is the most outwardly upbeat next to Chloe, and maintains a cheerful persona for most of the story. However, she is mostly doing this for her daughter's benefit as she's trying to keep Bella in the dark of what's really happening around them. There are several instances where Stacie shows a more vulnerable and scared side when it comes to keeping Bella in the dark, and she is a lot more scared for her daughter than she lets on. It's implied that finding out Bella's father was a "very bad man" did a number on Stacie.
* TeenagePregnancy: Mircalla was a product of this, as her mother and father were adolescents when she was conceived. One of the reasons her father Falco resents her so much was because his parents forced him to accept responsibility so early on.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter:
** As with canon, "Carmilla" is an alias for the long deceased Mircalla Karnstein after she turned into a vampire. She had multiple pseudonyms over the centuries, all being anagrams over the centuries, with "Carmilla" being a recurring one.
** Also going with canon, Inanna had lived under the pseudonym of "Lilita Morgan" in the present day. In flashbacks to Mircalla's mortal life, Inanna also went by "Lady Lilith Morrigan".
** When awakened in the seventeenth century, Lamashtu has since gone over various alias' while living among mortals. When she first awoke, she passed herself off as a governess named "Adeen Curt". I’m the present day, she poses as a seemingly timid, but plucky young woman named "Tara Vaughan". It's also briefly mentioned she went by "[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject Elly Kedward]]" for some time.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: In this fic, the existence of the supernatural is apparently common knowledge, explicitly compared to the world of ''Series/TrueBlood''. Part of it was Carmilla and Laura's exploits being put on the internet, which gives them something of a celebrity status. With that said, it seems the general public prefers to keep the existence of monsters on the back of their minds and go about as normal.
* VillainOfAnotherStory:
** Bella's biological father. While it isn't elaborated upon here, Stacie tells Carmilla that he was a ''very'' bad man, and wants Bella to have ''nothing'' to do with him. In chapter notes, it's stated that the Bellas' will be in an upcoming prequel fic crossing over with ''Film/{{Scream}}'', which is vaguely mentioned in this story.
** In flashback chapters dealing with Beca's life in Haddonfield, Michael Myers is this. While Beca is aware of her hometowns infamous history, it never had any real impact on her life; she hasn't even interacted with any characters from the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' franchise -- though it is implied a young boy she babysat ''might'' be [[Film/HalloweenEnds Corey Cunningham]]. Michael Myers is treated as more of an InUniverse UrbanLegend, with the different timelines being treated with BroadStrokes, but these urban legends are more like background noise in Beca's own life.
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Set in 2021, starting months after the events of ''Film/TheCarmillaMovie'', Laura Hollis and her recently re-vamprized girlfriend, Carmilla Karnstein, plan to start a family. They learn of an experimental procedure that would allow two women to conceive together. 
Looking for a surrogate, they are approached by Chloe Beale, who offers her services. Chloe, a long time fan of Laura's vlogs and with secret history with the supernatural, has also joined a polyamrous relationship with other Barden Bellas -- Beca Mithcell, Stacie Conrad and Aubrey Posen, who are raising Stacie's daughter Bella together.  To help prepare for parenthood, Carmilla and Laura move into the Bellas' vacation home in Bailey Downs.  

While this is mainly a crossover between ''Carmilla'' and ''Film/PitchPerfect'', there are several cameos and references to other works, predominantly ''Film/GingerSnaps'' with it's setting in Bailey Downs -- and [[spoiler:''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' with revelations of Carmilla's past CanonWelding her history with that of the Mikaelson family.]] This fic is also part of the ''Fanfic/FogOfWorldsSaga'', alongside ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'', another crossover fic by the same author.  

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In mythology, the demoness Lamashtu is often depicted as a HumanoidAbomination, with features of MixAndMatchCritters. In this story, Lamshtu's usual form is an attractive, petite young woman with fae-like features, red hair and striking blue eyes. Though her VoluntaryShapeshifting shows that her "truer" self has angel-like wings, with animalistic fangs and claws. According to this story, Lamashtu's animalistic depictions are a case of InUniverse AdpatationalUgliness in order to dehumanize her.

*** While the whole story isn’t elaborated on, it’s mentioned that the Bellas' previously survived a killing spree shortly after Bella Conrad was born. According to chapter notes, there is meant to be a prequel fic that crosses over with ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''. This does raise questions regarding ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' being part of this universe, when it is a work of fiction in ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'', but it’s mentioned that in this timeline, [[ShowWithinAShow at least two movies were made based]] on the "urban legends" of Michael Myers.

** CutenessOverload: Taken to a comical extreme when Carmilla initially meets Bella; after a minute of trying to maintain her composure around the toddler, Carmilla's demeanour quickly gives way before [[TheGlomp snatching Bella up in a bear hug]], gushing and squealing at the top of her lungs at how cute Bella is...much to both of their utter embarrassment.

** In the case of ''Film/PitchPerfect'', the source material is a pretty light hearted trilogy, and whatever drama they ''do'' have, they don't go anywhere ''near'' as heavy as this fic. Here, the Barden Bellas are roped into a plot of vampires, cults, elder gods and a conspiracy that entails mass murder. On top of that, Beca is given a DarkAndTroubledPast regarding a toxic relationship she was in, [[spoiler:and an encounter with an EldritchAbomination that she suppressed for years.]] With that said, it's mentioned that the Bellas' had survived a [[Franchise/{{Scream}} Ghostface]] spree years back, which implies they aren't ''too'' far out of their element.

* OutsideContextProblem: On the ''Film/PitchPerfect'' side of things, their usual antagonists are rival acapella teams, and crime boss in the third movie. But because they are pulled into a crossover with ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', they now have cults, conspiracies, demons and elder gods on their hands. While it's mentioned they previously survived a killing spree shortly after Bella's birth, this story's antagonists are clearly in a different weight class than a presumably mundane murderer.* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Invoked. As part of his AbuseParent tactic towards Mircalla, Count Falco would often remind her that her mother died giving birth to her, especially on her birthday. It's made obvious that Falco himself doesn't believe or care about this -- in fact, it's speculated InUniverse that he may have poisoned Jana in an effort to terminate her pregnancy -- but is using this as a reason to put Mircalla down all the time.

* SavedByCanon: This story was written as an interquel between ''Film/TheCarmillaMovie'' and its Stinger, which depicts Carmilla and Laura holding a baby and that of their babies. This at least assures ''their'' survival. Though this currently leaves everyone else's fate up on the air...

** In flashback chapters dealing with Beca's life in Haddonfield, Michael Myers is this. While Beca is aware of her hometowns infamous history, it never had any real impact on her life; she hasn't even interacted with any characters from the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}} franchise -- though it is implied a young boy she babysat ''might'' be [[Film/HalloweenEnds Corey Cunningham]]. Michael Myers is treated as more of an InUniverse UrbanLegend, with the different timelines being treated with BroadStrokes, but these urban legends are more like background noise in Beca's own life.

** Early on, it is revealed that Chloe grew up in Bailey Downs, a fictional town in [[CanadaEh Ontario]], and a setting of ''Film/GingerSnaps'' and ''Series/OrphanBlack''; it is also where a good chunk of the story takes place. Not only that, but Chloe and her family were neighbours and acquaintances with the Fitzgerald family of the former series. To top it all off, in one flashback chapter, a younger Chloe snuck outside her house and witnessed the Beast of Bailey Downs' attack on Ginger; when she approached the sisters the next day, Brigitte brushed off her concerns to try to keep her out of it.

** According to the chapter notes, a sequel fic with ''Series/{{Legacies}}'' is being planned, and this was to establish Carmilla's history with ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' through flashback chapters. [[spoiler:Carmilla is a descendant of the Petrova family - thereby making her (at least) an distant aunt to Elena Gilbert, and Isobel Jemmings. Furthermore, Carmilla knew the Mikaelson's in the years leading up to her mortal death, and even had a romantic fling with Rebekah Mikaelson. It's also revealed that Inanna was a mentor and adopted mother to Silas, and thought highly enough of him that she named her university after him.]]

* AlternateUniverse[=/=]AlternateTimeline: While not expressly explained, the revelation of [[spoiler:the FBC and Rachel Amber stepping into this story implies some sort of scenario is occurring tying this fic to ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange''; despite the fact ''this'' story is seemingly a different world and timeline, where the events of ''that'' story aren't acknowledged. It’s implied other worlds and timelines exist through the “Fog of Worlds” an EldritchLocation that seemingly bridges these stories together.]]

** Hastur;s iconography frequently uses Dragon or Snake images, and as allusions to describe him. Glimpses of his true form imply that he is a DraconicAbomination, and the Yellow Sign is described here as being "three golden serpents, devouring the world".

** [[spoiler:Whatever Beca saw during a ritual game as a teenager, isn't elaborated or described, but whatever it was left her mind blanking it out. Even its name is blanked out from ''us'' reading it.]]

** Inverted. It's mentioned that the Barden Bellas' survived a killing spree years back, shortly after Bella's birth. However the details are kept purposefully vague with little elaboration. According to chapter notes, there are plans for a prequel focussing on how Beca, Chloe, Stacie and Aubrey first got together, and cover Bella's biological father...but will also be crossing over with ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''.

--> In 1989, this musician[=/=]director went and made a movie "BasedOnATrueStory" based around the killing spree in '78, and a sequel the following year that was more glamorized, and told its own story. It was kind of like when they made those ''[[Franchise/{{Scream}} Stab]]'' movies based on what happened in Woodsboro.

* StealthSequel: [[spoiler: To ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'', despite them supposedly being set on ''different'' worlds and timelines. Apparently, the two stories are connected with by an EldritchLocation called "The Fog of Worlds'' -- which brought [[VideoGame/{{Control the FBC]] to investigate and "expand" into other timelines and worlds; these expansions are behind the "Agency" that Danny now works for. The protagonist, Rachel Amber, also reaches out to Beca from this Fog, having experienced it in her own story, and tries to help Beca understand what she witnessed years ago.]] This also doubles as a POVSequel, as [[spoiler:some of Rachel's own perspective of these encounters are carried over into ''FanficUnlifeIsStrange'' itself, and according to the notes, will carry over into future chapters.]]

** Bella's biological father. While it isn't elaborated upon here, Stacie tells Carmilla that he was a ''very'' bad man, and wants Bella to have ''nothing'' to do with him. In chapter notes, it's stated that the Bellas' will be in an upcoming prequel fic crossing over with ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'', which is vaguely mentioned in this story.

* AbusiveParent: Count Falco Karnstein was this of the emotional variety. Being a teenage parent, Falco was openly resentful of Mircalla for upturning his life, and would often remind her that she caused her mothers death, and generally wants to distance himself from her as much as possible. He doesn't treat his later son, Elias any better, intending to mold him into a more masculine image and heir, and taking him on dangerous expeditions when the boy was ''four''. [[spoiler:During his later encounter with Ithaqua, Falco becomes deluded into thinking he's the heir to the King in Yellow, and plans to kill his children as part of a blood sacrifice.]]* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In mythology, the demoness Lamashtu is often depicted as a HumanoidAbomination, with features of MixAndMatchCritters. In this story, Lamshtu's usual form is an attractive, petite young woman with fae-like features, red hair and striking blue eyes. Though her VoluntaryShapeshifting shows that her "truer" self has angel-like wings, with animalistic fangs and claws. According to this story, Lamashtu's animalistic depictions are a case of InUniverse AdpatationalUngliness in order to dehumanize her.
* AdaptationBackstoryChange: 

** A Downplayed example, but in ''Film/PitchPerfect'', the only time Beca really talks about her past is that she didn't have many friends who were girls. In this story, it's depicted that Beca had one serious "friendship" with a girl named Katerina, that bordered onto a romantic relationship...unfortunately she was a ToxicFriendInfluence, a secret vampire, [[spoiler:and exposed Beca and their small friend group to the influence of an EldritchAbomination.]]* AdaptationalKarma: In ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', Theo Straka disappears from the show towards the end of the final season, despite murdering Danny, and being TheDragon to Inanna throughout. While his final fate is never brought up in canon, here it's revealed Theo was initially imprisoned for his complicity. While he escapes from prison early on, becoming TheDragon to Count Karnstein, Theo becomes the KarmicButtmonkey and TheChewtoy, suffering all kinds of abuse and indignities over the story. This includes being beaten up, being on the receiving end of emasculating insults and briefly arrested again.* AdaptationalNationality: In ''Film/PitchPerfect'', there's nothing that indicates that Chloe isn't American, but in this fic, it's revealed she originally lived in Bailey Downs, Ontario, thereby making her Canadian.
* AdaptationalOriginConnection: Occurs in multiple instances.

** Subverted on Beca's end, it's revealed she grew up in [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Haddonfield, Illinois]]. Despite this, the InUniverse UrbanLegend of Michael Myers was never a significant factor in Beca's life, nor did she seemingly interact with any of the characters of that franchise...though it's suggested that Corey, a young boy she babysat once, ''may'' have been a younger [[Film/HalloweenEnds Corey Cunningham]].*** While the whole story isn’t elaborated on, it’s mentioned that the Bellas' previously survived a Ghostface killing spree shortly after Bella Conrad was born. According to chapter notes, there is meant to be a prequel fic that crosses over with ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''. This does raise questions regarding ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' being part of this universe, when it is a work of fiction in ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'', but it’s mentioned that in this timeline, [[ShowWithinAShow at least two movies were made based]] on the "urban legends" of Michael Myers.** According to the chapter notes, a sequel fic with ''Series/{{Legacies}}'' is being planned, and this was to establish Carmilla's history with ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' through flashback chapters. [[spoiler:Carmilla is a descendant of the Petrova family - thereby making her (at least) an distant aunt to Elena Gilbert, and Isobel Jemmings. Furthermore, Carmilla knew the Mikaelson's in the years leading up to her mortal death, and even had a romantic fling with Rebekah Mikaelson. It's also revealed that Inanna was a mentor and adopted mother to Silas, and thought highly enough of him that she named her university after him.]]* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In ''Film/PitchPerfect'', the relationship between Beca, Chloe, Aubrey and Stacie doesn't really go beyond platonic, despite the ShipTease between Beca and Chloe. Here, the four girls are depicted as being in a polyamorous relationship, and raising Stacie's daughter Bella.

* AlternateUniverse[=/=]AlternateTimeline: While not expressly explained, the revelation of [[spoiler:the FBC and Rachel Amber stepping into this story implies some sort of scenario is occurring tying this fic to ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange''; despite the fact ''this'' story is seemingly a different world and timeline, where the events of ''that'' story aren't acknowledged. It’s implied other worlds and timelines exist through the “Fog of Worlds” an EldritchLocation that seemingly bridges these stories together.]]* AmbiguousSituation: The identity of the present day Count Karnstein. There are two primary candidates, both from Carmilla's human life as Mircalla. There is Count Falco Karnstein [[spoiler:Carmilla's AbusiveFather, who attempted to have her killed and was subjected to a KarmicTransformation after being left for dead; though it's currently implied he is her brother Elias, who she was once close too, but drifted apart before he eventually murdered her.]]* AnimalMotifs:** Lamashtu has hyenas. Whenever she shows her real fangs, they are constantly described as hyena-like in appearance. Her evil laughter is often described as sounding like that of hyenas. This, along with her cute seeming appearance, is meant to make her come off as more unsettling to those who see[=/=]hear it.** Hastur’s iconography frequently uses Dragon or Snake images, and as allusions to describe him. Glimpses of his true form imply that he is a DraconicAbomination, and the Yellow Sign is described here as being "three golden serpents, devouring the world".* AtLeastIAdmitIt: There is no doubt Lamashtu is pure evil, and she is a CardCarryingVillain for it. What annoys her, is her sister Inanna's “self righteousness”. Inanna does plenty of monstrous things herself under the guise of reuniting with a lost loved one, while Lamashtu has no such romantic delusions; claiming that unlike Inanna, she sees Hastur for what he is, and not the romantic mask he put up for her. It's even implied Hastur might respect Lamashtu more than his supposedly beloved Inanna, for seeing the real him, and being more "honest" with herself.* BigBad: The mysterious Count Karnstein, another dark figure of Carmilla's past -- and a relative of hers -- is the leader of a conspiracy to undo her and Laura's heroism, and finish Innana's work as revenge against Carmilla for a yet to be revealed slight. With that said, it's soon revealed his partner in crime, the demoness Lamashtu is [[DragonInChief in more control of things than he is, and is the bigger threat between the two]].* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: It is revealed that Mircalla's murderer in her mortal life was her younger brother Elias, who she was once close to as a child. It’s revealed that he was manipulated by evil spirits into pursuing his perceived destiny, and initially wanted his beloved sister to join him. When she dismisses his "fantasies'', Elias feels that his sister abandoned him, and therefore murdered her as an attempted blood sacrifice to the Great Old Ones.]]* CameoCluster: Besides the main crossovers within this story, there are several cameos of other works used for world building. A few of these cameos are plot relevant. Naturally, these  overlap with CrossoverCameo.

* CanadaEh: The present day storyline is mostly set in Bailey Downs, a fictional town in Ontario were both ''Film/GingerSnaps'' and ''Series/OrphanBlack'' take place. Cameos of both are featured in this story. It's further shown that Chloe grew up there, thereby making her Canadian as well. Also, Laura and Carmilla are residents of Toronto, while Danny and her agency operate from Ottawa.* ChildByRape: It is revealed that Carmilla[=/=]Mircalla, and her half brother Elias were products of their father coercing two other young noble women into sexual encounters. Elias outright calls himself this when he finds this out.

* CreepyChild: Elias Karnstein was a more tragic example. It’s revealed Elias was originally a sweet but abused nobleman’s son. In his state of isolation, [[spoiler:Elias was approached by Inanna and later Lamashtu, when he was dragged along Falco's expeditions. The revelations they gave the boy made him come off as this to those around him, especially when takes up TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior. At the same time, Elis tried to maintain his relationship with his sister, Mircalla, but she distanced herself more and more over the next few years. Resigning himself to his perceived destiny, Elias murders Mircalla as an attempted blood sacrifice.]] * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Lamashtu apparently loves inflicting this. Most of the time, Lamashtu's murders lean into NothingIsScarier and we ''usually'' avoid seeing the worst of it. The few we ''do'' see, tells us that what she normally does is ''not'' pretty. In one such instance, Lamashtu bites an unfortunate victim’s tongue out, before eviscerating him lengthwise, and opening his rib cage, causing his innards to fall out. * DarkerAndEdgier: To both ''Film/PitchPerfect'' and ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries''. 

** In ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', while the series does have its share of darkness and heavier subjects, a lot of the time the nastier stuff is left to the imagination. Also the series sometimes plays these subjects for dark comedy. While aspects of this story can be as light hearted as canon, the darker stuff is grim even by the standards of the source material, going farther with the violence and horror imagery that is only implied in the web series. Especially when ''Lamashtu'' comes into the story.* DealWithTheDevil: The "Crimson List" is a list consisting of dozens of Silas Alumni who have signed a blood pact with Inanna and Hastur. Following Inanna's defeat, all power of that pact goes to Hastur, and those on the list can be used as a blood sacrifice to re-open the final gate to hell. Tracking them down and sacrificing them one by one is the Count Karnstein's aim to undo Carmilla's heroism. [[spoiler:Later on, Lamashtu tries to rope Bella into putting her name on that list.]]* DeathByChildBirth: Mircalla's biological mother, Jana Hoffman, died of complications as soon as Mircalla was born. While there's nothing concrete, it's speculated InUniverse that Falco may have poisoned her in an effort to avoid having to raise a child; at the very least, he's resentful that Mircalla didn't die with her mother.
* DogKickingExcuse: Throughout Mircalla's childhood, her father Count Falco made it no secret that her birth was responsible for her mother's death. Though it's not because he actually ''cared'' for her mother, but because he resented having to raise Mircalla despite himself being a teenager. In fact, other characters wonder if Falco poisoned her mother in an effort to induce a stillbirth, and his only response to Jana's death is disappointment that Mircalla didn't die with her. Carmilla herself concludes that Falco was using her mothers death as a flimsy excuse to put her down all the time.* DraconicAbomination: What is implied to be Hastur's true form. Idols and symbols tied to Hastur are heavy in its use of dragon and serpent iconography. In the brief instances a manifestation of Hastur is seen, these manifestations are described as resembling a giant dragon, [[ShockAndAwe made from lightning]] no less.

* EldritchAbomination: 

** [[spoiler:Whatever Beca saw during her and Katerina's "game" in High School. When put under, Beca saw what could only be described as having horns and wings, and was of a massive size. When she woke up, Beca's mind repressed what she saw; her mind even blocked out the being's name (which is only spelled as "_ _ _ _ _ _ _"). One of Beca's other friends wasn't so lucky, waking up in a MadnessMantra ("''Thamoús, Pan ho mégas téthnēke. Thamous panmégas téthnēke.''") to the point of hospitalization.]]* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The Fog of Worlds. Its exact nature is uncertain, but it's thought to be a bridge of sorts between realms and timelines; as well as the next world. Entering the Fog is ill advised, and those exposed to it suffer nosebleeds, unless they can stop themselves from talking or thinking about it. It also appears in the story ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'', which ties the two stories together. It's implied to be what Beca saw during her own encounter with an EldritchAbomination, and has to return to it to find a way to combat Lamashtu; but when she awakens from it, she's left with no memory of this counter.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:** Inverted with Lamashtu, who is usually on the ''receiving'' end of this trope. Lamashtu has disdain for her sister Inanna for her "self righteousness" and romantic delusions; see AtLeastIAdmitIt. Both Inanna and Mattie are put off by Lamashtu's cruelty and sadism, especially towards young children, and are reluctant to work with her unless she's "leashed". Although in Inanna's case, she acts more annoyed at her sister's buffoonery than out of any moral standards.** Subverted with Theo Straka. While he's initially put off by Lamashtu's work, it's implied he just finds her mutilation and cannibalism habits gross, but has little issue looking the other way for her murdering of children, even if it makes him uncomfortable. [[spoiler:Later on, Theo himself ends up killing a couple of children while breaking into a family's house, implying that he's over this standard entirely.]]
* EverybodyHatesHades: InUniverse. ''Film/TheExorcist'' is referenced as a work of fiction in this fic, and so most characters familiar with Pazuzu know him from the movie. As such many are reluctant to call upon Pazuzu to help deal with Lamashtu. It has to be clarified that the movie was SadlyMythtaken in its depiction.* FirstLove:

** In flashbacks to Carmilla's mortal life as Mircalla Karnstein, [[spoiler:it's revealed that Mircalla's first romantic and sexual relationship was with Rebekah Mikaelson. They met when the Mikaelson's stayed with Mircalla and Elias as their wardens. Unfortunately, when Mircalla was later murdered, Rebekah put her behind her as just another fleeting romance that wasn't going anywhere. In the present day, while both Carmilla and Rebekah are seemingly aware of their current survival -- it's mentioned that Laura previously interviewed the Mikaelsons' -- it's unknown if they saw each other again in the centuries after Carmilla was turned, or if their relationship was completely put behind them.]]* GreatOffscreenWar: Throughout the flashback chapters of Mircalla's life, there are repeated mentions of a war that engulfed the Earth thousands of years ago. It's talked about, but not shown in any real capacity. It describes how Hastur and his half-brother first arrived on Earth and fought each other for it. With their arrival, gods, monsters and titans all over the world bowed to one brother or another, while a third party fought against them both. It is said that an Earthly champion had slain both Hastur and his half-brother, bringing an end to that war.

* HistoricalRapsheet: Or a mythological and folkloric one, mixed with TheOneMythToExplainThemAll. Besides Lamashtu playing the same role as her mythological counterpart, it's revealed she has been wandering the Earth for centuries, and is (or was at least the influence behind) numerous Boogey-woman figures across Europe, and later North America. This includes the legend of Black Annis, and in a ShoutOut mention, [[Film/TheBlairWitchProject the Blair Witch]].* ImAHumanitarian: Lamashtu, as per mythology, is said to have a sweet tooth for children and pregnant women, and is even depicted as feeding on them – albeit we never see the [[NothingIsScarier worst of it]]. It’s implied to be an aspect of her cruelty on Lamashtu's part, rather than anything she needs for sustenance, as she eats regular food just fine.* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Both Danny and Theo take their rivalry personally. On Danny's end it was due to Theo's murder of her; on Theo's end, he sees Danny as being EasilyForgiven for her part in Inanna's schemes, thinking that it's unfair that ''he'' gets imprisoned for it. Of course, Theo's murder of Danny, and the fact that she was brainwashed into participating was recorded onto Laura's vlog for the world to see, which does more to help Danny's case, over Theo's.* LivingMacGuffin: The Crimson List, which consists of former Silas students and staff who have willingly signed a blood pact with Hastur and Inanna. For this, the Count seeks out these students in hopes of sacrificing them to Hastur in a bid to open the last gate to Hell. At the time of the story, there are few living people on that list, and it's implied [[spoiler:Lamashtu tricked Bella into making a new blood pact with Hastur.]]* OutsideContextProblem:  On the ''Film/PitchPerfect'' side of things, their usual antagonists are rival acapella teams, and crime boss in the third movie. But because they are pulled into a crossover with ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', they now have cults, conspiracies, demons and elder gods on their hands. While it's mentioned they previously survived a killing spree shortly after Bella's birth, this story's antagonists are clearly in a different weight class than a presumably mundane murderer.* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Invoked. As part of his AbuseParent tactic towards Mircalla, Count Falco would often remind her that her mother died giving birth to her, especially on her birthday. It's made obvious that Falco himself doesn't believe or care about this -- in fact, it's speculated InUniverse that he may have poisoned Jana in an effort to terminate her pregnancy -- but is using this as a reason to put Mircalla down all the time.* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Theo Straka, as per his canon counterpart, is an arrogant, cowardly OpportunisticBastard, and is reduced to a KarmicButtMonkey and TheChewToy for much of his appearances. Initially, he serves as TheDragon to Count Karnstein and Lamasthu, hoping to take revenge on the Silas Gang for his previous imprisonment, and appears to be a lot more passive than his bosses. [[spoiler:Then, while breaking and entering into a house after escaping imprisonment again, Theo cold bloodily kills the family living there himself, including their children.]]

** More often than not, when Lamashtu personally kills someone, there is little to no description of the actual killings or their aftermath. What is usually described is quick and vague, leaving the worst of it to the imagination. When others see the aftermath, it's clear that what happened was ''not'' pretty. And as mentioned in CruelAndUnusualDeath, the rare time we see a full killing by Lamashtu, it’s pretty grisly.** [[spoiler:Whatever Beca saw during a ritual game as a teenager, isn't elaborated or described, but whatever it was left her mind blanking it out. Even its name is blanked out from ''us'' reading it.]]
* PredecessorVillain:** Carmilla's adoptive mother, Dean Lilita Morgan aka Inanna. In ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'', Inanna was the OverarchingVillain, whose goal was to open the gates of Hell and reunite with her lover Hastur in HellOnEarth. At the time of the present day story, the Dean has long since been defeated, but serves as a motivation for the present antagonists. Count Karnstein seeks to undo the good Carmilla did for the world as an act of revenge, by finishing what Inanna started. The Count's followers are seeking the Crimson List -- people who have made a blood pact with Inanna and Hastur -- as further sacrifices. Furthermore, flashbacks to Carmilla's human life show that Inanna had her eyes on Mircalla and her brother Elias, years before Mircalla's murder, and has been influencing and grooming them throughout their childhoods'.
** From Beca's own flashbacks as a teenager, Katerina was a girl that Beca befriended in her past, and a seeming romantic interest. It's quickly shown that she was a ToxicFriendInflucne and attempted to groom Beca throughout their "relationship". If that wasn't enough, it turns out not only was Katerina a vampire, [[spoiler:but she exposed Beca to an EldritchAbomination during a ritual "game" at a slumber party. While that arc is still ongoing, whatever became of Katerina in the present day left a subconscious impact on Beca that is resurfacing the more she surrounds herself with the supernatural.]]* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Of a CanonWelding sort, where the relatives aren't even of the ''same work''. [[spoiler:As part of tying in with ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'', flashbacks detailing Carmilla's mortal life reveal that the Karnsteins are descendants from Katerina Pretova[=/=]Katherine Pierce, and her daughter Nadia. This would also imply that Carmilla or her brother Elias ''[[AmbiguouslyRelated might]]'' be ancestors to Isobel Flemming and Elena Gilbert -- or at least, distant aunt or uncle.]]
* SavedByCanon: This story was written as an interquel between ''Film/TheCarmillaMovie'' and its Stinger, which depicts Carmilla and Laura holding a baby and that of their babies. This at least assures ''their'' survival. Though this currently leaves everyone else's fate up on the air…
* SatanicArchetype: The way Hastur is described, he is a being who tried to usurp the gods of the former world, and invokes LightIsNotGood with his presence being indicated by bright and golden lights. He sired a son named Ithaqua, who while not explicitly TheAntichrist, was at least a DarkMessiah serving as a mediator between mankind and his father. The way Inanna's relationship with Hastur is described, portrays him as a tempter and manipulator; Inanna's former status as the "Queen of Heaven" may even bring to mind both Fallen Angels, and Eve being tempted by the serpent. And speaking of, Hastur's symbols, idols and iconography are heavy on dragon and serpent imagery — which may even invert this trope; Inanna claims that they inspired the Serpent of Eden and the Dragon of Revelation, indicating that ''Satan'' may be an archetype to ''Hastur''. 
* SequelHook: 

* ShowWithinAShow: While Beca grew up in Haddonfield, it turns out that ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films exist InUniverse. However, it seems AlternateHistory is at play; the way they are described makes it seem they are closer to the Rob Zombie series than ''Film/Halloween1978'' or any of it's sequels — albeit made a ''lot'' earlier than the real world remake duology.

** Another example is Mircalla and Elias' grandmother, Lena, who only appears in a few flashbacks of Carmilla's mortal life, and is stated to have died in Elias' early childhood. She is one of the few stable parental figures in her early childhood, and encouraged Mircalla's reading habits. In turn, this got Mircalla and Elias -- especially the latter -- to have a little more fantastical ambitions in life. [[spoiler:Furthermore, it's revealed she is a Petrova, and direct descendant of [[Series/TheVampireDiaries Katerina and Nadia Petrova]] -- thereby putting Mircalla, Elias and their father in their bloodline. This is also the reason by beings such as Inanna and her followers set their sights on the Karnstein family in the first place.]]* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Mircalla was this to Rebekah Mikaelson in her last few years as a mortal. They had a brief romantic and sexual affair, but that went nowhere on account of Mircalla's murder. Both Mircalla and Rebekah acknowledge that they wouldn't have had a future regardless; Rebekah accepts that their romantic fling was just that, and Carmilla having put their relationship behind her.]]
* StealthSequel: [[spoiler: To ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'', despite them supposedly being set on ''different'' worlds and timelines. Apparently, the two stories are connected with by an EldritchLocation called "The Fog of Worlds'' -- which brought [[VideoGame/{{Control the FBC]] to investigate and "expand" into other timelines and worlds; these expansions are behind the "Agency" that Danny now works for. The protagonist, Rachel Amber, also reaches out to Beca from this Fog, having experienced it in her own story, and tries to help Beca understand what she witnessed years ago.]] This also doubles as a POVSequel, as [[spoiler:some of Rachel's own perspective of these encounters are carried over into ''FanficUnlifeIsStrange'' itself, and according to the notes, will carry over into future chapters.]]

** ''Literature/{{Awesiaki}}'': A StealthSequel to the above, that I have been considering distancing myself from as there's tropes that made it into the final story I am not proud of.
* Untitled Haunted Highschool story: ''TBA''

''VideoGame/SirenheadSouthpoint''

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25538953/chapters/61967356#workskin Love's Sacrifices]]'': Is mainly a crossover between ''Film/PitchPerfect'' and ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries''. It also includes tie ins to multiple works, but mostly ''Film/GingerSnaps'', but they don't go much beyond cameos.

*** A Brigitte Fitzgerald based side story; mostly to set up ''Still Here Breathing''. Though it will also feature Silas University.
** ''A Pitch, Vicious, Scream'' (working title): A crossover between ''Film/PitchPerfect'', ''Series/ScreamTVSeries'' and ''Series/SweetVicious''. Currently planned to be a direct prequel to ''Love's Sacrifices''.
** A sequel to ''Love's Sacrifices'': set to include ''Series/{{Legacies}}'' (and by extension ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse''). May include ''Film/TheCraftLegacy'' to tie in ''Still Here Breathing''.

* Untitled Haunted Highschool story: ''TBA''




!!Welcome to the New Age
This story takes place in an AlternateTimeline to ''Series/The100''

During the 2030's, humanity was forced to flee Earth after monsters called "Titans" rampaged across the globe in what was called, "[[Film/GodzillaFinalWars The Final Wars]]", an event which prominently featured the legendary monster, Godzilla. The only survivors were thought to be the inhabitants of twelve national space stations that were in orbit at the time, which have since joined into a single large station called the Ark. On this ship, laws are harsh and resources are dwindling — so the Ark's leaders turn to Earth as a potential solution. One hundred juvenile delinquents are sent down to Earth in a dropship to see if it is fit for habitation again. The camp quickly comes into contact with the Grounders, clans of people who also survived the apocalypse.

In a similar but significantly altered version of the first two seasons, many of the 100 have built a truce with the Grounders early on, some going as far as integrating with the people. When the Ark returning to Earth causes monsters of a bygone age to re-awaken,Godzilla being among them, both Skaikru and Triku's alliance, led by Clarke Griffin and Commander Lexa try to lead their people through what may be the second "Final Wars".

With Godzilla once again walking among humanity, a new challenger emerges; "[[Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah The Destroyer]]" whose power brings ruin to the world around it, and turns the Titans against Godzilla. To make matters worse, despite the threat at hand, not everyone among the Sky People or Grounders are willing to come together; instead using the chaos to settle old grudges and wars. During this time, former Chancellor Jaha leads a group in search of a fabled "City of Light." Jaha discovers an artificial intelligence named A.L.I.E. who leads them to discover the remains of the fabled Mechagodzilla, and plan to fix it up for use against the re-emerging monsters.

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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** In canon, Clarke and Raven don't go beyond platonic in their relationship. In this timeline, it's established Raven had an on and off relationship with Clarke on the Ark, before her relationship with Finn. Clarke and Raven are Amicable Exes, but it's implied they still have a small torch for each other. On that note, Raven starts a casual open relationship with Anya shortly into the integration.
** In canon, Madi was adopted and raised by Clarke between seasons four and five. Here, she's found earlier and ends up being raised by both Clarke, Lexa, and their friends who integrated into Polis.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange
** In ''Series/The100'', the old world ended in multiple events leading to a Nuclear Apocalypse by A.L.I.E's "solution" to an overpopulation crisis. Here, it's explained that monsters called Titans [[Film/Godzilla2014 awoke]] in the 2010's, causing havoc [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 every]] few [[Film/GodzillaVsKong years]], until an unseen event called "The Final Wars" occurred in the late 2020's and early 2030's, which eventually saw nuclear weapons being used against them. Also, A.L.I.E is revealed to have been created through the AI of a destroyed Mechagodzilla, who deliberately set off the nukes due being HauntedTechnology.
** Lexa's childhood isn't given too much exploration in the show. Here ,it's mentioned she was separated from her people around Madi's age, and was lost in the land of "Canda"; which according to Grounder mythology, is inhabited by creatures such as vampires and werewolves. Lexa goes over this during a campfire story, describing how she ended up in the Kingdom of Tornto, before being rescued and raised by "[[WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries Two Vampire Queens]]", before being returned to her people. No one seriously believes the story, but Lexa insists up and down that it's true.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: A.L.I.E is written here as having an internet like archive, allowing her to access and provide information of the old world. She likes to flex this by bringing up bloodlines of those she talks too. She addresses Lexa as being "of the [[Series/TheVampireDiaries Salvatore and Gilbert family]]" and Clarke descends from "[[Series/TheOriginals The Mikaelsons]] and-" before being interrupted.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Initially, Finn Collins wasn't too far off from his canon character. Though here, he cheated on Raven despite knowing she's still alive (while Clarke wasn't aware). He goes on the same Grounder massacre he went on in season two, but his friends are a ''lot'' less forgiving or defensive of him as they were in canon. What little remorse Finn has for the massacre is pushed back when his friends agree to let him be executed. This segways into AdaptationalVillainy below.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** Anya isn't as antagonistic in this timeline as in canon. While the 100 do get into a similar conflict here than in season one, this time it's cut short by Mount Weather entering the fray far earlier. By then things quickly turn into an EnemyMine situation. As a result, Anya slowly becomes more understanding of Clarke and her friends, eventually becoming a lover to Raven.
** Dowplayed, but Pike's anti grounder mindset isn't as extreme as it was in canon. Here, the children in his group were killed by The Destroyer, with younger Ice Nation grounders trying to help them only to get killed by their elders. This gave Pike a more empathetic view of young Grounders, believing their systems are the problem. Since it was a monster who killed Skaikru's children, Pike's trauma is directed elsewhere. Pike still has harmful rhetoric and beliefs regarding Grounders, but isn't committing the same war crimes like he did in the series, rather simply colonizing them. It's ''Finn'' who ends up being the extremist. Furthermore, it's implied that Pike's team's prejudice of Grounder's was more so born from Finn relaying his experiences with them.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** In canon, A.L.I.E brought about a nuclear apocalypse as a flawed solution to an overpopulation crisis, and her City of Light plans was a well intentioned goal to save humanities survivors from a nuclear fallout. In this timeline, A.L.I.E's AI was created from salvaging Mechagodzilla's remains (which were [[Film/GodzillaVsKong originated from Ghidorah's remains]], believing it was a powerful enough computer to empower A.L.I.E. What they didn't account for was Mechagodzilla's HauntedTechnology to infect A.L.I.E's AI. The City of Light is in turn, a goal to reconstruct Mechagodzilla and assimilate its victims into a False Utopia. A.L.I.E's response when the overpopulation crisis and the nuclear fallout is brought up ?
-->(''smirks and chuckles'') Oh, you believed that bluster ?
** Finn Collins gets this treatment after going further off the deep end. Regrouping with Pike's people, Finn's initial remorse takes a back seat when he adopts a more extreme version of Pike's rhetoric, and lets his feelings of "betrayal" for Raven and Clarke cloud his judgement. By the end of the story, he gets top billing as the story's human antagonist, becoming one of the final (and more personal) threats for his former friends.
* AgeLift: In the show, Clarke's adopted daughter Madi is twelve in the present day. This story takes place around the time of seasons two and three, where Madi would be four or five without the TimeSkip. In the epilogue, Madi has since grown into her canon age.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: At one point, Lexa tells a campfire story (mainly to Madi) a story of a land called "Canda", neighboring their country but is overrun by supernatural monsters such as vampires, werewolves, and humans descended from demons. It's a Grounder legend that no one seriously believes, but Lexa claims up and down that she was lost there as a young girl. She was briefly raised by two vampire queens before being returned to her people; her peoples disbelief is ridiculous considering how many of them genuinely believe the Titans to be divine beings of sorts.
* BattleCouple: Clarke and Lexa are the couple who have eachothers backs throughout most of the story. This comes to a head during the story's final battle. In a mirror of season three's climax, Clarke manages to take control of Mechagodzilla via a telepathic link, but is nearly overwhelmed by Ghidorah's influence[=/=]A.L.I.E. To give her an edge, Lexa has Raven link her directly into Mechagodzilla's battle grid, via the Flame. This allows both Clarke and Lexa to control Mechagodzilla, and give both Godzilla an edge against the Destroyer.
* BigBadEnsemble:
** A.L.I.E, in a repeat of the City of Light arc, is working for a different goal than in canon; here she is trying to reconstruct Mechagodzilla. It's revealed that Mechagodzilla's salvaged technology was used in A.L.I.E's construction, including its AI. Furthermore, it's revealed that Mechagodzilla [[Film/GodzillaVsKong was constructed from one of Ghidorah's remains]], allowing a piece of Ghidroah's spirit to live in the AI. Now it's trying to enslave humanity to rebuild its mechanical body and pick up where it left off. When this is revealed, it becomes the heroes' goal to stop these plans and hijack them.
** The Destroyer, this world's version of [[Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah Desotroyah]]. An aberration Titan whose very presence toxifies and pollutes the world around it. While other monsters appear as fighting fodder, The Destroyer is Godzilla's main concern. Godzilla's goal is to kill the Destroyer before it does irreparable damage to the world. When Clarke comes to the conclusion that Godzilla alone can't beat it, she decides humans need to aid Godzilla if humanity should have a fighting chance. From there Clarke leads her Team in hijacking control of the rebuilt Mechagodzilla, seeing the Destroyer's ultimate demise.
* CanadaEh: Mentioned to be a place inhabited by vampires, werewolves and such building their own Grounder Kingdoms. In the Grounder tongue, it's called "Canda". Lexa apparently spent some time there as a child, in a land called "Tronto", but no one believes her story.
* CanonWelding: Besides the main crossover, there's other cameos that include...
** Based on A.L.I.E's mentions and glimpses of the past, shows and movies such as Series/{{Victorious}}, and ''Film/PitchPerfect'' are canon to this world's past. In fact, in an earlier encounter with A.L.I.E has it's mentioned that Raven is a descendant of a "noted singer/actress" named Tori Vega.
** ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'': During Clarke and Lexa's confrontation with A.L.I.E, Lexa is said to be a descendant of the Gilbert and Salvatore family; Clarke (and by extension, Abby) is called a descendant of "the Mikaelson family and-", before being interrupted.
** It appears ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is canon here as well, if Lexa's story of "Two Vampire Queens" is any indication. Carm is even name dropped in Lexa's story, while the other queen (Laura) was apparently nicknamed "Cupcake".
** In the DistantEpilogue, it's revealed that ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'' ends up being the future to this version of ''Series/The100''. The epilogue also has Eretria brought before Clarke and Lexa, where she fills them in on what's going on.
* ChangedMyMindKid: Towards the end of the story, Clarke and Lexa have a split on the best way to go about the threat of the Destroyer and Mechagodzilla. Clarke goes with Raven's plan to take control of the Mech from Abby and her followers, joining her friends in their plan, while Lexa wants to lead her people to safety. Seeing the Destroyer make its way to their hideout, Lexa joins Clarke and the two join Mechagodzilla's telepathic link to help fight the Destroyer.
* TheDreaded:
** The Titans in general are this, being classified as either protectors or destroyers depending on who you ask. Their mythology speaks of a monster who returned from the dead at least twice. Many Grounders refuse to speak it in fear of his return. Younger Grounders such as Lexa, Anya and Luna don't even know its name, all they know is even "The Destroyer" cannot compare to this entity. This monster's name is Ghidorah.
** Mechagodzilla is also this to Trikru, believing that it's HauntedTechnology, and that should it awaken, it's evil spirit (Ghidorah) will wake with it. They are absolutely right.
* FallenHero: Finn was considered the most moral and idealistic of the 100 (affair aside) but by the third act, he's become a monstrous shell of his former self. Like in canon, the traumatic experiences he's been through and belief that Clarke and Raven are in danger lead him to commit the same acts in season two. His execution averted, he becomes more cynical and ruthless as the Titans awaken. Becoming a leader of the increasingly Anti Grounder Arkadia, Finn lets his resentment to Clarke and Raven cloud his mind, dehumanizing everyone around him, murdering and imprisoning allies who speak against him, burning every bridge, and is will to sacrifice humanities future to spite them.
* FamousAncestor: See CanonWelding.
** A.L.I.E displays her knowledge of the past by tracing character lineage back from the old world. For example, Raven is a descendant of a singer and actress from the 2010's and 2020's named [[Series/{{Victorious}} Tori Vega]], something Raven briefly acts proud of...only to admit she doesn't know who Tori Vega is.
** Lexa's a descendant of the "[[Series/TheVampireDiaries Gilbert and Salvatore family]]", while Clarke is a descendant of "A [[Series/{{Legacies}} Mikaelson]] and a-" before being interrupted
* FromBadToWorse: After spending the story desperately trying to survive a second monster apocalypse, Clarke and Lexa led their people into the coming new world (which turns out to be that of ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'') Unfortunately, by the time they awake, King Ghidorah has, or is about to be, awakened. The only upside is that it looks like Godzilla's gonna be cleaning up that mess again, for what good that does to humanity.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Throughout the story, we are told King Ghidorah is more monstrous than the Destroyer, and supposedly spearheaded "The Final Wars". While all Grounders dread Godzilla and the other monsters, they especially fear that one day Ghidorah will return in a new form. Furthermore, it's revealed Mechagodzilla was originally created using a previously severed head as a supercomputer of sorts; the HauntedTechnology is what corrupted A.L.I.E, and it's all but spelled out that this A.L.I.E is a manifestation of Ghidorah's spirit. Ghidorah himself is alluded to as having returned in a reborn form in TheStinger.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Initially, Mechagodzilla is a weapon that Skaikru and chipped Grounders plan to rebuild against the Titans, with A.L.I.E being the main AI. However, A.L.I.E is implied to be a manifestation of Ghidorah's lingering influence, effectively making Mechagodzilla, yet again, Ghidorah reborn. Luckily, Clarke and Lexa manage to sever A.L.I.E'S control over the Mech, giving them temporary control to turn the tide against the Destroyer.
* HeroOfAnotherStory:
** In the epilogue, Clarke, Lexa and their people seem to have stepped out of their story and into a ContinuationFic of ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles''. A captured Eretria brings them up to speed on what's happening; apparently she and her friends have their own thing going on in the wake of Ghidorah awakening in their time.
** If A.L.I.E's archive is any indication, ''Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'' is canon to this world; as well as ''Film/PitchPerfect'' and ''Series/{{Victorious}}''. This begs the question of all these different characters; what was their reaction to the existence of Godzilla and other monsters ? Did they survive the Final Wars ? Did they survive [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Ghidorah's first reign]] ?
*** Clarke and Abby are stated to be descendants of [[Series/TheOriginals Hope]] [[Series/{{Legacies}} Mikaelson]], while Lexa is apparently a descendant of Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore. Tori Vega had at least one child that Raven descended from; but the fates of the actual characters are up in the air.
** It's revealed that not only ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is canon to this timeline, but Carmilla and Laura have survived well past the apocalypse, with Laura having become a vampire. As of now, they rule as Heda's of a supposedly mythic kingdom of vampires and werewolves, in the land of "Tronto, Canda". While they don't appear in the story proper, they and their kingdom are the subject of a story Lexa tells at a campfire; apparently, Lexa found herself lost in Tronto as a small child, but was found and raised by Carmilla and Laura for a few years before being returned to her people. During this story, Lexa gives a pitch perfect (if comically exaggerated) imitation of their mannerisms.
* MagicRealism: The fic starts out ostensibly as a grounded, sci-fi survival story. While the Titans are believed to be divine by the Grounders, the Sky People tend to believe them to be extraordinary, if mundane, animals. Over time, the existence of actual magic and the supernatural is made more apparent to the characters and the world, such as the lands of Canda being ruled over by vampires and werewolves. The future Clarke and Lexa led their people to, turns out to be ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles''.
* NotSoAboveItAll[=/=]NotSoStoic: The usually regal, calm and collected Lexa, has a few moments where she more openly shows emotion and learns to laugh. The one that takes the cake is when she tells a campfire story regarding her time in Canda, and being raised by "The Vampire Queens" (Carmilla and Laura). Throughout, Lexa gives a rather theatrical performance the more she gets into her story, complete with a comically exaggerated imitation of Carm and Laura's personalities and mannerisms.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist:
** Finn becomes this after escaping execution. He adopts Pike's rhetoric from season three and takes it to a more extreme place. He continuously asserts his extremism is for the good of Skaikru, painting the Grounders as threats, even with the monsters reawakening. It soon becomes clear his actual reasons are revenge for his death sentence, decrying the Skaikru who turned him over and integrated with the Grounders as "traitors". He [[CrazyJealousGuy signals Clarke and Raven out upon discovering their new relationships]], and towards the end, doesn't even bother hiding his true motives. During the climax, he's willing to screw over the world's best chance at survival to spitefully kill his exes.
** For most of the story, A.L.I.E isn't too far off from her canon characterization, save for wanting to rebuild and control Mechagodzilla. She insists up and down that it's the one thing that can save the world from the threat of a second Final Wars, and that her reason for the missile strike was to solve an OverpopulationCrisis and to bring the Final Wars to an end. It soon turns out that, no, Mechagodzilla just wanted to finish the fight [[Film/GodzillaVsKong it and Godzilla had in Hong Kong]]. When these supposed threats are brought up to her, upon this reveal.
-->'''A.L.I.E:''' Oh (''chuckles'') You believed that bluster ?
* NominalHero: Godzilla is presented as an aggressive and destructive beast who doesn't hesitate to attack humans if pushed hard enough, nor is he particularly careful in fighting other monsters, but he's the only one who stands a chance of defeating the Destroyer, whose explicitly out to wipe out all life. After the climax, he regards the humans who saved his life before leaving without any further hostilities.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent[=/=]OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They don't appear in the story, but apparently overrun the lands of "Canda". Lexa recalls a story where she ended up there, and was raised by two vampire queens who ruled the city of Tornto. No one believes her story, despite insisting up and down that its true.
* ShipTease: Quite a few WLW pairings are teased; Clexa is the main couple, while Ravanya is the BetaCouple. As for Princess Mechanic, we get mention that Clarke and Raven had an on and off relationship in the past; they are the two who have the most "platonic" interactions, airing out their issues, concerns and helping each other outside of their relationships. Even Lexaven is teased in Raven's interactions with Lexa.
* ThreesomeSubtext: Despite Raven's current relationship with Anya, there's some rather heavy subtext between Raven + Clarke + Lexa. Raven and Clarke used to sleep with eachother, and it's implied there's still a small torch between them. While Clarke is with Lexa for most of the story (and much of the drama revolves around their relationship), Lexa bears no jealousy towards them. In fact, Lexa ends up sharing a few intimate seeming hugs with Raven, and they spend a lot of time staring into each other's eyes. Despite this, they are still faithful to their significant others.
* TheUnfought: Played With. Despite his importance to the backstory, Ghidorah never appears in the flesh. He's talked about a lot, and the Grounder's fear his return. In the epilogue, it's revealed Ghidorah is, or has been, loosed upon the world. Were this gets played with is, Mechagodzilla's neural network was created through [[Film/GodzillaVsKong the recovered brain of one of Ghidroah's previously severed heads]], and part of Ghidorah's consciousness lingers in it's AI...which was used to build A.L.I.E. It's all but directly stated that this version of A.L.I.E is a manifestation of Ghidorah's consciousness, and while she's certainly confronted, neither she nor Mechagodzilla are directly fought. Clarke and Lexa take control of Mechagodzilla when they sever A.L.I.E's link before she can re-take control.

* Untitled Haunted Highschool story: ''TBA''