Line #29 FanFic/Luminosity


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3	->''"My favorite three questions are, ''What do I want?'', ''What do I have?'', and ''How can I best use the latter to get the former?''\
4	Actually, I'm also fond of ''What kind of person am I?'', but that one isn't often directly relevant to decision making on a day-to-day basis."''
5	-->--'''Bella''' establishing her character.
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7	''Luminosity'' is a ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' {{rational\|Fic}} [[{{fanfic}} fanfiction series]] by Alicorn, which can be read [[http://luminous.elcenia.com here]].
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9	The story begins with the same premise as the ''Twilight'' books, with teenager Bella Swan moving to Forks, Washington and meeting [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]] the Cullens. Unlike her canon self, however, Bella is deeply dedicated to introspection and knowing her own mind, and is constantly investigating her thoughts and feelings, and the reasons for them, by analyzing them in her [[SecretDiary notebooks]].
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11	When Bella encounters the Cullens, she quickly begins to piece together that something strange is going on. After finding out the truth, she must figure out how she feels about the possibility of becoming a vampire, as well as about [[RomanticVampireBoy Edward]].
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13	As she learns more about the vampire world, however -- such as the fact that vampires are [[LegalizedEvil permitted to feed on humans]] freely as long as they stay discreet, and that trying to maintain connections with human loved ones as a vampire puts both parties in danger of being {{killed\|ToUpholdTheMasquerade}} -- she realizes there may be even bigger issues at hand.
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15	Some of the original plot remains intact early on, but over the course of the first book, Bella's different decisions stack to the point that it diverges entirely from the plot of the original.
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17	The series consists of three installments: the first book, ''[[http://luminous.elcenia.com/chapters/ch1.shtml Luminosity]]''; the sequel, ''[[http://luminous.elcenia.com/radiance/ch1.shtml Radiance]]''; and a series of seventeen short stories, titled ''[[http://luminous.elcenia.com/flashes/1.shtml Flashes]]'', which expands further on the world and characters of Luminosity and the aftermath of the events depicted in the two main books.
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19	There are a number of RecursiveFanfiction [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/all4.shtml stories]] set in the same continuity, including some longer-form stories: [[http://sanitydamage.tumblr.com/tagged/never+forgotten/page/6 Never Forgotten]] and [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/fic/sky.shtml Sky]]. There is also an inactive [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=5dt6ub9yrpgzcwi5gjw1r0mf&page=1 Luminosity discussion thread]].
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21	Alicorn is cooperatively writing / roleplaying a set of Luminosity crossovers called [[Roleplay/{{Glowfic}} Effulgence and Incandescence]]. She is also currently writing a series called ''Literature/{{Elcenia}}''.
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24	!!Provides examples of:
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26	* EleventhHourSuperpower: Throughout the first book, Bella ponders the nature of her power and experiments with increasing its flexibility. It comes to a head in the climax, as she succeeds in getting her shield to [[spoiler:protect her from physical damage]] just in time to save her when she's [[spoiler: set on fire]].
27	* AccidentalPun: When Bella is told she shouldn't simultaneously be around Edward and sharp objects, this exchange takes place:
28	-->'''Emmett:''' Edward ''is'' a sharp object.\
29	'''Bella:''' Point. Uh, no pun intended.
30	* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Bella starts out with the same long hair she has in the source material, but later winds up bald after [[spoiler:surviving being set on fire]].
31	* AdaptationNameChange: Elspeth, who was Renesmee in canon. Bella actually brings up the "mix 'Renee' with 'Esme'" idea that led to the creation of the canon name, but [[TakeThat laments]] that "there's just no way to put them together in a way that sounds like a name and not a Franchise/{{Pokemon}}."
32	* AffablyEvil:
33	** Many of the Volturi guard fit this trope, interacting quite amicably with [[spoiler:the residents of the wolf village]].
34	** Addy in particular will start up a friendly chat with just about anyone, even if she's currently threatening, kidnapping, or imprisoning them. It's to the point where [[spoiler:Edward]] actually has to remind himself he shouldn't be having a civil conversation with one of the people responsible for [[spoiler:keeping him in the witch dungeon and (he thinks) killing Bella]].
35	* AlienCatnip: Human blood has addictive properties for vampires. It also seems to have mind-altering effects; at one point, a vampire who's recently [[VegetarianVampire switched to animal blood]] remarks that she thinks her head is now clearer.
36	* AlternateUniverseFic: What if Bella was a rationalist and constantly monitoring her own thoughts?
37	* AllThereInTheManual: The website has a [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/characters.shtml page]] to keep track of the large cast, listing the characters and their status as of the end of the second book. It also has information not stated in-story, such as that David's last name is Baxter (although this information later shows up in ''Flashes'').
38	* AndIMustScream:
39	** Attempting to use morphine to ease the pain of the [[PainfulTransformation vampire transformation]] paralyzes the patient without doing anything about the pain at all.
40	** It's possible to hold a vampire captive by [[ImmortalityHurts breaking them into pieces too small to reassemble of their own accord]] and keeping them that way. [[spoiler:In ''Radiance'', it's revealed that the Volturi have been keeping a collection of witches, including Edward and Alice, imprisoned like this for several years, for Addy to copy and use their powers.]]
41	* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: As a Cullen, Bella can access essentially unlimited funds, "But if you need more than a couple million dollars at a time, let Alice know so she can spook her stockbrokers first." She doesn't like to be entirely frivolous with it, but she does use it when needed, and recognises that penny-pinching would be silly.
42	--> I didn't bring up the financial imposition. (It would be ridiculous and probably insulting. If they hadn't already thought of sending Alice and a spare thousand dollars to toy with Wall Street, they should all have been set on fire for stupidity: they had to be many times richer than they looked.)
43	* ArtifactName: In-universe. In Flash 9 ("Molly"), the title character chooses "ultravioletcolorblind" as her screenname, due to being the only human in her friend group of mostly half-vampires. When she gets turned later and sees the color for the first time, she immediately thinks that she's going to have to change it.
44	* AscendedExtra: Many characters
45	** Bella makes sure to get Gianna's contact information, curious about the only other human she knows who keeps regular contact with vampires. [[spoiler:Gianna later reaches out when she's afraid the Volturi are about to eat her, and Bella rescues her.]]
46	** Rachel is Bella's first pick of latent wolves to visit, and becomes the pack alpha as a result.
47	** Santiago's role in Volterra gets more screen time, especially in Radiance, where she helps to [[spoiler:manage the captive/tamed wolf packs]].
48	* AscendedFridgeHorror:
49	** One oft-cited bit of fridge horror in [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga canon]] is the fact that, as a vampire, Bella will eventually have to disappear and let her parents think she's died. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Luminosity'', she has to do just that after falling afoul of the Volturi. She does get to reunite with them in ''Radiance'', by then almost six years have passed.]]
50	** In canon, vampires can only be destroyed by fire, so their bodies can theoretically be [[ImmortalityHurts broken into arbitrarily many pieces]] with no lasting effects once they're put back together. This is taken to its logical conclusion with [[spoiler:the "witch dungeon", where the Volturi keep prisoners broken into gravel for ''years'' so Addy can [[PowerCopying copy]] and use their powers]].
51	* AuthorTract: The fic was originally created to explain the concept of "luminosity", i.e. self-awareness. Then the story took over and the author tract was forgotten.
52	* BadassBoast: Delivered by Elspeth of all people in Chapter 49 of ''Radiance''.
53	-->"''That's right''. [[spoiler:I am the ''princess'' of the ''Golden Empire''. I can erase a human personality with my ''thoughts''. I remember more centuries of experiences than you can even count. ''I can resurrect the dead.'']] And you are going to ''calm down and listen to me''."
54	** Also, earlier in the story. Chapter 31, [[spoiler:when Elspeth blasts Demetri with the memories of the last five and a half years of his involuntary mate's life:]]
55	--->"''Pay attention when I tell you things,''" I hissed at him.
56	* BadLiar: Elspeth's power makes her ''incredibly'' good at telling the truth... and as a result, people notice when she stops. She [[spoiler:and Addy with her power]] ''can'' get away with lying to someone who has never heard her speak truth before, but this is of course a rare situation.
57	* BarrierWarrior: Characters with shield powers tend to function as this. Bella's shield protects against mental attacks, while Renata's deflects physical ones.
58	* BerserkButton:
59	** Bella ''does not'' react well to being interrupted. Notably, she also doesn't like the fact that this is a button for her, and [[DefiedTrope uses her luminosity to keep it under control]], to the point where it's barely noticeable even when she's a newborn vampire and could more or less kill anyone before thinking about it.
60	--->But my annoyance was the ascription of motive to the secretary, glued down with entitlement and habit. If the motive were recognized to be nonexistent and the entitlement dissolved and the habit ''fought'' as a thing in my brain that I did not welcome, they ceased to trouble me.
61	** Siobhan apparently has a strong opinion on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute name of a certain set of islands]]. Nobody ever pushes the button on-screen, but Maggie stops Jake from using the name "British Isles", warning him that "it would be an inauspicious way to start your day if you provoked Siobhan into perforating your face".
62	* BewareTheMindReader:
63	** Bella’s initial reaction to learning about Edward’s power. She's extremely relieved to learn that it [[PsychicBlockDefense doesn't work on her]].
64	** A lot of the tension of the first book comes from the need for Bella to hide things from people who ''are'' vulnerable to mind-reading, to keep her secrets safe from [[BigBrotherIsWatching Aro]].
65	* BigBrotherInstinct:
66	** Gianna toward Ilario. Later inverted, as he takes on a protective role toward her after [[spoiler:he becomes a vampire but before she does.]]
67	** Leah toward Seth [[spoiler:and both of them toward Cody]].
68	** Both of Paola Greco's older brothers display this, but especially Rino.
69	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Volturi are overthrown, notable sympathetic characters like Didyme and the Clearwaters are resurrected, all the main good guys make it out alive, and vampires are forbidden from snacking on humans. However, there's no way to restore the relationships Chelsea cut away, including Elspeth's once-close bond with her "mama" -- the closest they can do is offer to use her power to create new artificial relationships in their place, which many people refuse. Although at least the final chapter implies Elspeth is on the road to building new relationships with her parents from the ground up.]]
70	* BlatantLies: These become a plot point in ''Radiance''. [[spoiler: Elspeth has to constantly lie in order to keep her power suppressed, or else it will break through the effect that's making her an UnusuallyUninterestingSight]].
71	* BrutalHonesty:
72	** Bella's policy towards herself. She refuses to lie to herself about things like her motives for setting up Mike with Jessica (to deflect his attention from herself), or the shallowness of her initial attraction to Edward (based on his good looks and wealth, although she gets to know him as a person over time).
73	---> If I'd let myself believe the pretty justifications for it all, went along with the self-aggrandizing delusion, I'd be mistaken about the one topic I most adamantly refused to be mistaken about:\
74	Inside Bella Swan's skull, who's driving this thing?
75	** [[spoiler:Elspeth's Magic]]'s policy toward ''everything''. This becomes extremely useful when it turns out it helps her [[spoiler:fight off Chelsea's power, which functions by making you lie to yourself]].
76	* BuffySpeak: All non-ancient characters use this to some degree, but especially Bella, Elspeth, and [[spoiler: Cody Clearwater.]]
77	* CallingMeALogarithm: One reason that Bella doesn't use her notebook in front of her peers is because the notebook was thrown in a bathroom puddle after a classmate looked over her shoulder and got confused about why they were described as "wee".
78	* CerebusSyndrome: The story definitely gets darker towards the end of the first book. This carries through much of the second book, although things do eventually take a turn for the better.
79	* CessationOfExistence: What Edward believes happens to vampires if they're killed (in contrast to humans, who get an afterlife). Bella, meanwhile, believes this is what happens to everyone who dies.
80	* CharacterCatchphrase: Chelsea constantly thinks "Everyone must love me."
81	* CloneByConversion: [[spoiler:Elspeth's power]] turns out to be capable of doing this by [[spoiler:implanting thousands of vampire lifetimes' worth of memories into a person's mind]]. While vampires can handle this, humans end up [[MySkullRunnethOver with]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation big]] [[MindRape problems]]... and as it turns out, [[spoiler:with a bit of makeup, it's not to hard to mislead them as to which set of memories are their own]].
82	* CompellingVoice: Pyotr has the power to give a command and the hearer ''will'' obey, though it only has about a 20% success rate, with absolutely no discernible pattern.
83	* ContinuityNod: The phrase "informed of [[{{Masquerade}} things]]", first used in Chapter 17 of ''Luminosity'', is repeated in Chapter 48 of ''Radiance'', and [[spoiler:stated as the official term]] in Flash 14 ("Resurrection").
84	* ConvenientMiscarriage: Painfully averted. [[spoiler:Allirea does not love Demetri and definitely doesn't want to bear his children, so she gets her vampire father Joham to punch her repeatedly in the stomach until she miscarries. She's had to do this twice and it's just as horrible as it sounds.]]
85	%%* CreepyChild: The first section of Flash 4 ("Mimicry"), depicting Addy's childhood, shows her to have been this.
86	* ChristmasEpisode: [[http://luminous.elcenia.com/fic/sparkmas.shtml Sparkmas]], a collection of holiday-themed RecursiveFanfiction available on the website.
87	* CruelToBeKind:
88	** While enduring the pain of vampire transformation, and failing to persuade Edward to MercyKill her, Bella instead asks him to ''break her spine''. Which he does, with surgical precision, giving her a few hours of reduced pain until the venom fixes it again (and it would be too risky to re-break it). Bella appreciates the relief so much that when she's later talking to another potential convert, she blithely talks about breaking their spine as a pain relief option without thinking about how that sounds to them.
89	** After Bella and co [[spoiler:successfully depose the Volturi]], they [[spoiler:have to kill Jane as part of it, and have Addy snip her from Alec]]. This is necessary because [[spoiler:his entire life up until then had been centered around her, so letting him keep his connections would have driven him mad with grief]] -- but leaves the problem that [[spoiler:he doesn't have anything ''else'' to fill in the hole she left, so he just kinda... drifts]]. They did at least ''ask'' first, but it's still not super pleasant.
90	* CureYourGays: {{Invoked}} by Victor, who was upset that he was forced out of the closet by werewolf telepathy instead of being able to come out on his own terms, so he went out and deliberately found an imprint. He still ''sort of'' considers himself gay, but since he's imprinted on a woman, he is effectively [[SingleTargetSexuality Maureen-sexual]] and his original orientation doesn't matter anymore.
91	* DespairEventHorizon: Vampires that lose their mate approach or cross this.
92	* DestructoNookie:
93	** Unlike canon, Bella is a vampire by the time of her honeymoon, so it's rather more ''intense''.
94	---> Edward promised me that it wouldn't bother Esme that some of her furniture would need replacing. We arranged to be out, swimming around in the warm water, when the cleaning crews came through to pick up the remains of feather pillows and the splinters of bedframes.
95	** This actually sets up a major plot point, because one of the cleaning crew goes on to recognise Edward for what he is from a local legend. [[spoiler:The details of said legend are the first clue that Edward can still father children even if Bella can't bring them to term post-transformation.]]
96	* DiabolusExMachina: Most of the many turns for the worse for the protagonists are logical consequences of events set in motion earlier, but Pera [[spoiler:turning out to be Bella's singer at the worst possible moment]] really came from nowhere.
97	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Amongst all of Bella's grand plans, she didn't consider that [[spoiler:awakening the Quileute wolves would result in them patrolling their territory and killing marauding vampires, thus drawing exactly the kind of attention that they don't want from the Volturi.]]
98	* DistractedByTheSexy: Common side effect of the mate bond when the vampire mates first meet.
99	%%* DomesticAbuse: Esme suffered this from her human husband in her backstory, as hinted in the main story and shown full-on in Flash 16 ("Esme").
100	* DramaticIrony: Bella's first impression of Emmett is that "he looked like he was planning to go to college on a weightlifting scholarship, or like he'd done it a few years ago and was only sitting in a high school cafeteria for kicks." This being a ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' fanfic, the audience probably knows full well that all the Cullens do indeed go back to high school after college, repeatedly in fact.
101	* EarnYourHappyEnding
102	-->[[spoiler:I still usually can't remember my dreams, but I'm told, and have every reason to believe, that they are happy ones.]]
103	* EveryCarIsAPinto: Bella [[{{conversed trope}} talks]] about the lack of realism this trope has in chapter 3.
104	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Apparently a common trait of vampire mate-bonds, to the point where it's a RunningGag for someone to ask "was I this bad?" and be told that they were actually ''worse''.
105	* ExactWords: Used in various contexts:
106	** Edward describes Esme's near-death (which justified her EmergencyTransformation) as having "fallen off a cliff". This is true, but he deliberately leaves out ''[[DrivenToSuicide why and how]]'' this happened. Bella only figures it out much later.
107	** When Bella is reasoning about whether vampires automatically go to hell, she asks Carlisle whether ''all'' vampires have killed someone, and he confirms that "We have not all killed people," which reassures her. As she learns more about the Cullens, however, she realises that Carlisle himself might be the only exception.
108	** It's possible to hide things from Maggie, whose power [[LivingLieDetector detects lies]], through carefully selected true statements. In the first book, when Bella needs to conceal [[spoiler:the existence of Cody Clearwater]], she tells Edward that if Maggie asks about [[spoiler:Bella's scar from being bitten by Cody]], he should say that [[spoiler:"a baby half-vampire bit her"]], and let Maggie assume that [[spoiler:the baby in question was Elspeth]].
109	** One side effect of Elspeth's power is that people can tell when she's lying. She gets around this several times with half-truths, technically accurate but misleading statements, and truths that could easily be mistaken for metaphor.
110	--->"My interest is... professional," I said, choosing my words carefully. "I'm not a relative, but I'm not some random person off the street who wants to stare, either. I've seen symptoms like theirs before, although not so prolonged." \
111	She raised an eyebrow at me. "You look seventeen." \
112	"You're more than a decade off," I told her.
113	* ExpositionBeam: Elspeth's power is, at its core, to ''communicate''. While she starts off only able to show people her own memories via physical contact and be very convincing when she's telling the truth, [[spoiler:with Addy's help -- and never mind whether Elspeth ''wants'' her help --]] she's eventually able to adapt the power to telepathically sent very large amounts of information in an instant. [[spoiler:She can even take one step further and [[MySkullRunnethOver weaponize it by sending more information than the target can handle]], dazing vampires briefly and completely mind-shattering humans]].
114	* FacelessEye: [[spoiler:Aro keeps one of these on a necklace.]] Even creepier is the fact that [[spoiler:it belongs to Marcus]]
115	* FauxAffablyEvil:
116	** Aro maintains an outwardly benevolent demeanor, using [[TermsOfEndangerment terms of endearment]] for everyone even when he's about to kill them (as seen with the Denalis' mother). At one point, he deliberately brings the newly-turned VegetarianVampire [[spoiler:Bella]] near the human [[spoiler:Gianna]], expecting that she'll lose control and eat her; his response when this fails is to tell [[spoiler:Bella]] how impressed he is with her self-control, and explain kindly that he'd intended to give [[spoiler:Gianna]] to her as a gift. However, he'll readily respond with violence to any slight in situations where he doesn't need to present himself as merciful (e.g. his treatment of the immortal children in Flash 12).
117	** Chelsea is courteous and pleasant whenever we see her talk. In her first appearance, she's reassuring a terrified captive that there's no reason to be afraid and that she doesn't intend to harm her. When we see her perspective in a flashback, however, it becomes clear that this is a façade; she's privately disdainful of anyone she sees as beneath her, and only acts friendly so that it will be easier to use [[MoreThanMindControl her power]] to [[LoveHungry make them love her]].
118	* FilibusterFreefall: {{Inverted\|Trope}}: the fic was originally intended as an AuthorTract on the idea of "luminosity" (i.e. self-awareness), but the vampire story took over and the more didactic elements that appeared early in the first book fell by the wayside.
119	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: After [[spoiler:Elspeth]] breaks the remnants of Chelsea's conditioning on Eleazar, he's able to admit that [[{{Sadist}} Jane's centuries of revelry]] in [[AgonyBeam her power]] aren't excused by her [[DarkAndTroubledPast admittedly horrible mortal life.]]
120	* FridgeHorror: InUniverse, Elspeth doesn't realize that [[spoiler:Brady is dead]] until two weeks later, when she realizes that she doesn't miss him -- Chelsea "snipped" their friendship before his execution.
121	* ForScience: Addy describes her motivations as this.
122	-->'''Addy:''' [[spoiler:''Until and unless you actually try to leave, I'm not going to interfere. I'm a student of witchcraft. If you can learn to [[FightingFromTheInside beat]] [[MoreThanMindControl Chelsea,]] well, wouldn't that be interesting?'']]
123	* ForWantOfANail: The main divergence from ''Twilight'' canon is that Bella has a different personality. There are also characters introduced who don't appear in ''Twilight'', and Chelsea is more powerful than her canon self is implied to be, but most of the other departures from canon happen as a direct result of Bella's decisions.
124	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
125	** In the very first chapter, Bella says of likely causes of death: "If I somehow eliminated them all, I'd be immortal." This foreshadows, not only the vampire plotline that readers know is coming, but [[spoiler:the fact that, at the end of the first book, Bella manages to further eliminate [[KillItWithFire one of the only causes of death]] she's still subject to as a vampire, thereby surviving her execution at the hands of the Volturi]].
126	** [[spoiler:Cody]] explains to Elspeth that [[spoiler:the free wolf pack]] don't worry too much about humans seeing something suspicious, since it would be hard to get on the Volturi's bad side any more than they already are, unless they "kill one of their wives or something". [[spoiler:Marcus later turns against Aro after learning the latter was responsible for killing Didyme]].
127	** In ''Radiance'', Elspeth muses that she shouldn't expect [[spoiler:her power to be able to restore relationships snipped by Chelsea]], "any more than I should expect to bring people back from the dead just by pointing out that they had previously lived". Later, [[spoiler:she does essentially this, resurrecting people whose memories she got from Addy through Aro by prompting human victims of [[MySkullRunnethOver the mnemic blast]] to identify those memories as their own]].
128	* TheGenericGuy: In the first book, David doesn't get much characterization, instead serving mainly as an example of what typical newborn vampires are like when they turn without advance warning. In ''Radiance'', where he's had enough time to get control of his vampiric instincts, he gets the chance to display a [[NiceGuy personality]].
129	* GenreSavvy: Early on, when considering how to approach the situation with [[RomanticVampireBoy Edward]], Bella likens it to a ParanormalRomance novel.
130	* {{Glomp}}: When Bella decides that [[spoiler:she can get eggs harvested before she turns, and make Rosalie an aunt someday]], Rosalie just stares at her, then suddenly wraps her in a careful but very firm hug.
131	* GuileHero: Bella typically gets herself and others out of bad situations by outsmarting the villains or coming up with clever solutions to problems. When James decides to come after her, and [[spoiler:manages to get around the Cullens and kidnap her]], she tricks him into [[spoiler:taking her to Volterra, where he's executed for his recklessly conspicuous actions, while convincing the Volturi to let her live and be turned on schedule]]. Later, she actually manages to [[spoiler:convince her own shield to give her protection from fire, by reminding that part of herself that the integrity of her mind can't be preserved without a body to inhabit]].
132	* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in Chapter 24.
133	* HealingFactor: As per ''Twilight'' canon, vampires can reattach severed pieces of their bodies with no lasting physical harm done. Half-vampires and werewolves have a more traditional version of this, healing from severe injuries many times faster than a human would.
134	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
135	** At the beginning of ''Radiance'', Elspeth's power, while fun, seems more or less useless for the kinds of life-or-death situations that come up in the series. By the end of the book, it's proven capable of [[spoiler:deprogramming people affected by Chelsea's power, including Elspeth herself; creating internal sub-selves to efficiently process millions of years' worth of memories; putting a vampire into an incapacitated state that lasts several hours; outright erasing a human's consciousness; and ''resurrecting people''.]]
136	** Allirea's power also falls under this. She's briefly mentioned in ''Luminosity'', where it's said that she can divert notice from herself. She doesn't actually make herself invisible, just [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight uninteresting]]. Probably not useless, but nowhere near as cool as, say, Alice's power. And then you actually ''meet'' her.
137	--->I peered at him. He looked like he was in pain, but I hadn't hurt him, he hadn't touched the door, I would have heard if he'd hit himself against the stone of the cell... I supposed he could have had a heart attack, but that didn't seem likely in someone his age. The drops of his blood perfuming the air didn't have any scent of disease on them. It was peculiar, really. The only thing that had happened to him since he'd started his description of Heidi was that the stranger in the cell had sunk her teeth into his neck and started sucking his blood.\
138	"What's wrong?" I finally thought to ask, but he seemed as confused as I and just gestured jerkily at his throat. A few seconds passed, and he stopped screaming. I touched his wrist and checked his pulse. He was definitely dead. Maybe he'd had a heart attack after all. It wasn't impossible for teenagers, and he was under a lot of stress. That wouldn't have anything to do with his neck, though - as far as I know. I'm not a doctor.
139	** Marcus's power to see relationships doesn't get a great deal of use in canon, and has often been mocked by the fandom or hatedom. In Luminosity, Marcus is the reason Chelsea is able to keep the Volturi together -- he sees relationships in much greater detail than she [[RequiredSecondaryPowers feels them]], and can point out the beginnings of internal conflicts that she would otherwise miss. His power also allows him to notice Allirea's presence via relationships involving her. At one time, it also made him effectively immune to Chelsea's power, since he could catch her using it on him and call her out, but after Didyme died he stopped caring enough to bother.
140	* HeterosexualLifePartners: According to Elspeth, Vladimir and Stefan are without mates, but they've spent the last few ''millennia'' hanging around each other.
141	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All the chapters in book two are words for a person, ending in an "er" sound. (Liar, Runner, etc.). The thirty-fifth chapter went as far as to invent the word "genealoger" in order to fit this pattern (the actual word is "genealogist").
142	* IfItsYouItsOkay: ''[[InvokedTrope Invoked]]'' by Victor, a gay werewolf who deliberately gains a female imprint.
143	* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Somewhere around there at least. Werewolves and half-vampires grow to maturity, then live forever.
144	* ImmortalityHurts: In ''Radiance'', [[spoiler:the Volturi]] keep several vampires disassembled for easy storage. [[spoiler: Including Edward and Alice.]]
145	* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Vampires tend to get pretty casually hit with damage that would be way more than enough to kill a human. Aside from the aforementioned practice of keeping them in pieces as an imprisonment method, vampires are seen tearing each other's limbs off in minor scuffles or friendly sparring sessions.
146	* ImmortalityInducer: Take a human, add some venom in the bloodstream and you have an immortal vampire in three days.
147	* ImmortalitySeeker: Bella. Unusually for this trope, she's not just concerned with herself, but believes immortality should be available to everyone.
148	* InsatiableNewlyweds: Unlike canon, Bella is already a vampire by the time of the honeymoon -- indestructible, untiring, not even needing to breathe. Once they arrive on Isle Esme, there's a SexyDiscretionShot and then the narrative picks up ''days'' later, when she needs to hunt. And then, after dinner, it cuts away again for even longer.
149	* InsistentTerminology: The juvenile werewolves Elspeth meets in [[spoiler:the wolf village]] dislike being referred to as "children", on the grounds that this is the word for juvenile ''humans'', and insist that the correct term for them is "puppies".
150	* InterspeciesRomance:
151	** Bella and Edward. We later see more examples of vampire/human relationships when a vampire meets their mate as a human. These tend not to remain interspecies for long, since the vampire typically turns their mate immediately, but there are some exceptions, such as [[spoiler:Gianna and Maggie]].
152	** Werewolves with their imprints, at least in the majority of cases where the relationship is romantic.
153	** Flashes 6 and 7 show examples of hybrid/vampire and hybrid/human romances. [[spoiler:It's also possible for a wolf to imprint on a hybrid, as seen with Jacob and Elspeth.]]
154	* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Weaponizing Elspeth's power by [[MySkullRunnethOver sending enough information to completely overload their mind]]]] can only be used on any given target once. Future attempts do essentially nothing, because even [[spoiler:thousands upon thousands of entire vampire lifetimes' worth of memory flooding your mind all in less than a second]] simply doesn't have the same effect on someone who's already experienced it once.
155	* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Bella is willing to kill Aro as a probably-necessary step to remove him from power, but it's Chelsea that she wants personal vengeance on for [[spoiler:using her power on Elspeth and Edward]] in ''Radiance''.
156	* KillItWithFire: The usual way to kill a vampire.
157	* LastSecondWordSwap: Jacob, talking to some vampires who are on his side about some vampires who aren't:
158	-->'''Jacob:''' I want those [[FantasticSlur lee]]...ders of the supernatural world gone.
159	* LesbianVampire: Maggie is a lesbian and a vampire, but otherwise doesn't fit the archetype. Rather than being a sultry seductress, she's only interested in finding true love. [[spoiler:Which she does, in Gianna.]]
160	* LiesToChildren: Bella tells Maggie that Gianna is the Cullen family's "pet human". This is not at all literally true, but is much simpler than explaining the full situation. This leads to some confusion when Maggie wants to ''meet'' the pet human.
161	* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler:Gianna]]. To the extent that nobody even suspected she was gay.
162	* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Bella sees it this way, and has a hard time understanding why anyone wouldn't. Nevertheless, she's adamantly against turning anyone into a vampire without consent.
163	* LivingLieDetector:
164	** Maggie. In ''Radiance'', there's also Charles, whose power works the opposite way, detecting truth and honesty.
165	** Elspeth is an inversion: her power gives her a boost to her persuasiveness when she's telling the truth, which means she sounds much less convincing by comparison when she's not. As a result, everyone else can tell when she's lying.
166	** Elspeth also works out a way to make her power function as a limited version of the trope played straight -- and unusually, she can figure out the ''objective'' truth. Since her power helps her land on the best way to communicate things to people, she can sometimes make inferences about them based on this information, and on at least one occasion this allows her to confirm or deny a claim someone makes that may or not be a lie.
167	* LoopholeAbuse: Addy, wanting to stay hidden from Alice, exploits the fact that anyone whose actions will be affected by a werewolf is invisible to her. [[spoiler:No matter how distant the effect is -- she kept up on the wolves' Twitter feeds and "made a variety of trivial but highly visible decisions based on the number of words in each message".]]
168	* LoveAtFirstSight: Both vampires and (male) werewolves are biologically subject to this (through mate bonds and imprinting, respectively).
169	* MadLove: Demetri loves Allirea, and does not understand that she doesn't love him back, [[spoiler:not even when Elspeth tells him so, ''repeatedly'', right before he is killed]].
170	* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: When lesbian vampire couple [[spoiler:Maggie and Gianna]] want a child, they manage to find a sperm donor that ''might'' be a distant nephew of one woman -- but they can't be sure, because [[spoiler:Maggie]] suspects her sister-in-law was cheating on her brother all those generations back.
171	* MayflyDecemberRomance: A number of the wolves (who don't age) imprint on ordinary humans. The only way out of this trope is either for the wolf to stop phasing and resume aging like a human, or for the human partner to become a vampire (which would create new problems). The issues that can arise from this are explored in Flash 13 ("Staying Human").
172	* MercyKill: It's common for humans in the throes of the three-day [[PainfulTransformation vampire transformation]] to beg to be killed to escape the pain. [[spoiler: Gianna almost persuades Maggie to do it, too, because Maggie's power lets her know that Gianna was sincere about wanting to die.]]
173	* MetaphoricallyTrue: Flash 17 shows that, when Bella asked Edward how long vampire marriages last, he had considered answering "as long as they want to". This would have been technically accurate, but avoids the somewhat important detail that vampire mate-bonds are ''eternal'', which Edward was scared might freak Bella out. Alice sternly reminds him that even a lie-by-omission like this one would ''definitely'' drive Bella away, so he gives her the unvarnished truth.
174	* MindRape:
175	** Chelsea can cut away your connection to anyone you love, leaving you indifferent to them. This results in things like a mother and father not caring when [[spoiler:their baby is killed]], or another victim watching impassively as her former loved one is killed ''right in front of her''.
176	** [[AgonyBeam Jane's power]] doesn't do any physical damage, but the purely mental experience of pain she can induce is enough to cause severe and lingering emotional effects on those we see subjected to it.
177	** [[spoiler:Elspeth]]'s power turns out to be capable of this as well, by [[spoiler:sending someone a massive enough payload of implanted memories to render a vampire comatose for several hours or [[MySkullRunnethOver destroy a human's consciousness entirely]]. Or, in Demetri's case, simply sending him the memories that prove Allirea doesn't love him like he's been telling himself.]]
178	* MythologyGag: According to Addy, Bella's magic tastes like apple.
179	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After figuring out that the Volturi could learn of the Quileute wolves' existence at any time, and might kill them if and when they do, Bella activates them so they'll be able to defend themselves. This goes fine until [[spoiler:some of the wolves find Laurent eating humans near La Push and kill him, leading his mate Irina to seek revenge by informing the Volturi, who more-or-less enslave the wolves via [[MoreThanMindControl Chelsea's power]] and [[LeaveNoSurvivors kill every non-wolf on the reservation]].]]
180	* NeverFoundTheBody: [[KillItWithFire Incinerating a vampire]] doesn't leave behind much of a corpse.
181	* NobodyHereButUsStatues: As a newborn vampire, Bella is too sensitive to blood for regular airline travel, so she instead gets put in a large suitcase, with a tag attached indicating that she's a sculpture by an anonymous artist. It helps that she has rock-hard cold skin and can remain completely motionless indefinitely.
182	--> The time I was investigated during our stop Stateside, I heard some confused mumbles about why such a pretty statue was being transported without any packing peanuts and in the same bag as a set of assorted language primers and a box of contact lenses. I didn't think this inquisitiveness would go anywhere untoward. I probably wasn't even the strangest-looking thing they'd seen that month.
183	* NotGrowingUpSucks: The immortal children kept and later killed by Aro are a heartbreaking example. So is Alec, eternally fourteen and likely unable to mate due to his youth [[spoiler:even after his twin sister, who has basically been his sun and moon for centuries, is killed, leaving him totally alone in the world and extremely unlikely to make new friends]].
184	* NoteToSelf:
185	** One of the defining traits of this version of Bella is that she records, organizes and analyzes her own thoughts. A rare case where this trope is employed to protect not against speculative-fiction amnesia, but against the normal human tendency to forget things. [[spoiler: Although, after Bella becomes a vampire and has extreme difficulty remembering her mortal life, these records are very helpful in allowing her to recover much of it.]]
186	** Siobhan uses this as a way to [[spoiler:get around Allirea's power]].
187	* OfferedTheCrown: [[spoiler:Bella becomes Empress because the rebels discuss it and come to the conclusion that she's the only one suited to the job who's actually willing to take it. Siobhan, the one who actually came up with the strategy that defeated the Volturi, makes it clear she has zero interest in ruling the world, and would only grudgingly step up to fill the power vacuum if no other candidates were available. Bella, on the other hand, has been planning to take over the world since she found out about the Volturi early in the first book, and is thrilled to be offered her dream job.]]
188	* OminousLatinChanting: Elspeth offers to provide some in chapter 52 of "Radiance", while [[spoiler:resurrecting Harry and Sue Clearwater with her power]]. This leads to some amusement when it turns out she doesn't really have a deep enough voice for the purpose.
189	* {{Omniglot}}:
190	** Learning languages is a lot easier for vampires and hybrids, due to their perfect recall and faster processing speed. Naturally we see many who are examples of this trope, including Bella, who learns ten languages in the space of a few months.
191	** Aro is a more literal example, since he has the memories of everyone he's ever touched, including their knowledge of whatever language(s) they spoke. As a result, he's fluent in virtually every known language, both living and dead. [[spoiler:Later, this also applies to everyone who ends up with those memories, including Elspeth.]]
192	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The vampire from Cardiff is referred to exclusively with such epithets as "Cardiff Bint", because the main source of information on her is [[LivingLieDetector Maggie]], who despises her for being a pathological liar.
193	* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Edward believes that humans, but not vampires, have souls and thus an afterlife. Bella spends the earlier parts of the first book pushing him to question this belief, mainly by questioning exactly what a soul is.
194	* ParentalHypocrisy: [[spoiler:After overthrowing the Volturi]], Bella tells Elspeth that she's not to make her a grandmother until she's at least forty-five. This is substantially older than Bella's parents were when she had Elspeth, and when Elspeth points out the contradiction, Bella declares that "[[spoiler:I rule the world]] and I am allowed to be slightly hypocritical." ... as a lighthearted joke, before moving on to remind Elspeth that she had actual reasons why she had Elspeth so young. Elspeth isn't in a hurry to have kids anyway.
195	* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Enforced by magic; mated vampires are ecstatically happy together. Of course, things can still go wrong, if, say, they have very different views on the value of human life, or only one of them is a vampire...
196	* PersonalityPowers: Par for the course, since the form a power takes is shaped by the way the person thinks. Some notable examples:
197	** Bella is deeply committed to the integrity and privacy of her mind and keeping control of her own thoughts. She can shield herself from powers that would detect or interfere with what’s going on in her mind.
198	** Elspeth longs to express her true self and connect with others by telling them her story. She can telepathically send her thoughts and memories to others, has supernaturally-enhanced credibility when saying things she knows to be true, and can pick the best words to communicate to any given person.
199	** Pera is a timid introvert who can move herself and others in and out of the "hiding place", a separate layer of physical space where no one can see or interact with you.
200	** Chelsea is obsessed with being loved by everyone, and can't stand when someone dislikes her or likes someone else more than her. She can manipulate relationships between people, either building them up from "seeds" or cutting them away.
201	** Allirea does not like to be noticed or acknowledged most of the time, and her power is appropriately to be [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight perceived as unimportant]]. She also demonstrates the ChickenAndEggParadox that often comes up with this trope -- she's had this power since birth and being "faded" is her default state, so it could just as easily be that this personality trait developed in response to her power as vice-versa.
202	* PetTheDog: Santiago does this a couple times; for example, by giving dance lessons to Gwyn.
203	* PowerCopying: Addy can copy the powers of any witch by touching them. Downside is, she can only keep one at a time, and switching powers on contact is automatic and involuntary.
204	* PowerOfLove:
205	** Mate bonds and imprinting are both immune to magical manipulation, or otherwise react differently to magic, and both form when the vampire or werewolf first sees their mate/imprint. This allows Brady to break free of the Volturi's control when he imprints on Pera, whom they've kidnapped.
206	** The same phenomenon is later deliberately {{exploited}}, when the rebels realize they may be able to recruit members of the Volturi guard by getting them to mate to someone on their side at the right moment.
207	** Tragically averted in the case of strong naturally-formed bonds. The strength of, say, a parent's love for their child does mean it takes more time and effort for Chelsea to completely cut away, but that doesn't help if the person is a prisoner and Chelsea has all the time in the world...
208	* PowerPerversionPotential: "Among the enhanced vampire senses is touch."
209	* PrecisionFStrike: Exactly two f-bombs are dropped in the entire series. The first one is PlayedForLaughs, when [[spoiler:Cath and Ilario mate-bond]] and Maggie is annoyed at their timing. The second one is ''not'', when [[spoiler:Bella gives Chelsea a ReasonYouSuckSpeech before killing her]].
210	* PrefersProperNames: Allirea sees nicknames as childish and refuses to use them. Elspeth figures out that the "Del" who [[PowerCopying copies powers]] and betrayed Pera is the same person as the "Addy" who Bella has warned her to avoid, because Allirea insists on referring to her by her full name, Adelaide.
211	* PrimalScene: A magical variant: some time after Elspeth is [[spoiler:blasted with all the memories Aro has ever read]], she's horrified to realize this means she now has Edward's memories of his and Bella's honeymoon.
212	* PunyEarthlings: Multiple vampires express this attitude toward humans, but Chelsea is a stand-out example:
213	-->"There is really no point to humans except as food; it's almost charmingly futile, the way they build their disgusting towns and form their trivial societies."
214	* RapidHairGrowth: Elspeth has this as a half-vampire, and spends the early chapters of ''Radiance'' with hair down to her ''ankles''. When she finally gets it cut to her mid-back, she remarks that it will only take about six months to grow back.
215	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: As expected in a vampire story, a number of characters are centuries or millennia old.
216	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
217	** Elspeth delivers one to [[spoiler:Demetri]] in chapter 31 of ''Radiance'', calling him out for [[spoiler:convincing himself Allirea loves him]] and laying out the real truth. Due to the nature of her power, it results in a CriticalHit.
218	** Later, Bella delivers one to Chelsea [[spoiler:before killing her.]]
219	---> '''Bella:''' Do you have any idea what you ''destroyed''? What you have casually ruined for everyone around you for thousands of years now? I'm given to understand that you put a lot of stock in love. You want everyone to love you, is that right? No one really does. You can't create that.
220	* RedStringOfFate: {{Deconstructed}} to various degrees with both the vampire mate bond and the wolf imprint systems.
221	* ReduceAggro: [[spoiler:Allirea's power is used for this in the final confrontation with the Volturi, deflecting notice from herself and Nathan while they first hold off the wolves long enough for Elspeth to deprogram them all, and then enter the compound and take apart most of the vampires inside.]]
222	* RelationshipCompression: Simultaneously inverted and played straight. On the one hand, Bella tempers her attraction to Edward and doesn't come to feel she's in love with him until she's gotten to know him over months. However, she also decides pretty quickly that she wants to be a vampire for its own sake, even knowing this will include forming a reciprocal [[OneTrueLove mate bond]] to Edward. [[spoiler:They're married less than a week after her turning, about five months after they first met and over a year earlier than they did in canon.]]
223	* TheRemnant: Vladimir and Stefan. Their regime governed the vampiric world until the Volturi destroyed it, [[CruelMercy allowing them to live as a novelty]]. Thousands of years later, they're still very [[BestServedCold eager to see their usurpers destroyed.]]
224	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Alice]] predicts some form of this as a possibility, should [[spoiler:Marcus]] find out about [[spoiler:Aro killing Didyme]].
225	* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Bella deliberately plans one, after realising that becoming a vampire will mean she's as supernaturally devoted to Edward as he is to her. Once she decides that immortality is still worth it, she suggests that they announce that they're an item, then finish out the school year as "the showiest, most sickeningly inseparable couple in the universe," so that it will be plausible to everyone when they elope together over the summer. Even before summer, though, she finds herself liking their sort-of-fake relationship -- and of course, for Edward it's real all along.
226	--> With as little history experiencing and labeling romantic emotions as I had, I might not even be able to tell when I stopped pretending.
227	* RunningGag: Discussing unimportant things. [[spoiler:Specifically, the very-''not''-unimportant but UnusuallyUninterestingSight Allirea.]]
228	* SexyDiscretionShot: "Among the enhanced vampire senses is touch."
229	* ShipperWithAnAgenda: Bella sets Mike up with Jessica to get his attentions off of herself. She subconsciously starts coming up with more "noble" reasons, but quickly notices this and rejects it as the self-deception it is -- they might indeed be cute together, and Mike might indeed be better off with Jessica than pining over Bella, but she knows that those aren't her ''actual'' reasons and she doesn't want to go around believing false things about ''her own thoughts''.
230	* ShootTheDangerousMinion: [[spoiler:Caius]] tries this on [[spoiler:Addy]], having figured out that her power allowed her to [[spoiler:blackmail Aro]]. Suffice it to say, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain it doesn’t go as planned]].
231	* ShoutOut:
232	** Creator/LarryNiven's essay ''[[http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html Man Of Steel, Woman Of Kleenex]]'' is name-dropped by way of explanation for why it would be unsafe for Bella to have sex with Edward as a human.
233	** When Rachel tells Bella about using the Alpha voice, she responds: "[[ComicBook/SpiderMan ...With great power, comes great responsibility?]]"
234	** When Bella and Edward are looking for names derived from Elizabeth for [[spoiler:their hybrid daughter, whom they want to name after Edward's human mother]], Bella is amused to see that one of the names is Series/{{Buffy\|the Vampire Slayer}}.
235	* ShrinkingViolet: Pera.
236	* SiblingYinYang: Leah is snarky and unafraid of confrontation, while her brother Seth is earnest and agreeable.
237	* SingleTargetSexuality: Vampires with mates and werewolves with imprints.
238	* SocietyOfImmortals: The Golden Coven is working to create one.
239	* SorryImGay: Done by proxy. Bella doesn't approve of Elspeth dating, since she's [[YoungerThanTheyLook really only five and a half years old]], so this is one of her stock lies that she tells boys who take an interest (since Elspeth herself [[BadLiar can't]]).
240	* SpySpeak: When Billy Black comes to warn Bella away from the Cullens, they have a coded conversation where both use indirect, plausibly-deniable language to talk about vampires and werewolves.
241	* StalkerWithACrush:
242	** Chelsea was a particularly monstrous one in the past. [[spoiler:Upon meeting Afton, she followed him home, severed his ties to his family and bound him to her with her power, and then ate the entire family before turning him. She then spent the time he was turning cutting away every other relationship he had so that he would love only her. And she ''didn't even need to''; if she had just turned him, he would have bonded to her on first sight as usual, which is a connection far beyond what her power can bestow.]]
243	** Demetri is mated to the half-vampire Allirea. However, since half-vampires aren't subject to the vampire mate bond, it doesn't go the other way. Demetri refuses to believe that she doesn't love him, instead convincing himself that her attempts to run away from him are just a game she's playing. And given [[ScarilyCompetentTracker his power]], he can find her no matter where she runs.
244	** Bella speculates that most vampires who meet their mates as humans are this. After all, if you think nothing of ''eating'' humans, there's no reason you'd feel the need to earn the approval of one before turning them, especially if it's your mate who's guaranteed to love you back once turned. [[spoiler:Once Bella takes over the world, this practice is outlawed.]]
245	* StarterVillain: James and Victoria. [[spoiler: They both wind up dying fairly unceremoniously.]]
246	* TheStrategist: Siobhan. [[spoiler:This is, in fact, her power.]]
247	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Allirea. Creepy and obsessed with vengeance when we first meet her, but devoted to her family, especially her children.
248	* SummonBiggerFish:
249	** When Bella runs out of other options, she ends up using this method to [[spoiler:escape from James, by convincing him that the Volturi are offering a reward for humans with valuable powers, which he'll get if he brings Bella to them.]]
250	** [[spoiler:This later comes back to bite her when Irina]] proves to have been paying attention, and repeats Bella's strategy [[spoiler:to retaliate against the wolves who killed Laurent]].
251	* SuperiorSpecies: As per canon, Joham believes that he is creating one by fathering vampire-human hybrids. [[spoiler: Bella eventually reveals that she's partially sympathetic to the idea, wanting to populate the world with hybrids, who have the agelessness of vampires but can have children and eat non-blood foods like humans - although she doesn't condone how he left a string of prospective mothers to die.]]
252	* SuperpowerLottery: As per ''Twilight'' canon, there are humans (and vampires) with unusual powers, including Edward's mind reading, Alice's precognition, and Bella's mental shield. In this fic, people with such powers are called "witches".
253	* SupportingLeader: [[spoiler:Siobhan]] eventually becomes this in ''Radiance'', coming up with strategy for the rebels.
254	* SwitchingPOV: Used in the second book, where Elspeth is the viewpoint character, but many sections show the perspectives of other characters via their memories which are sent to Elspeth by Addy. [[spoiler:This includes the day Elspeth spends effectively comatose after being blasted with Aro's millions of years of memories. The events of that day are narrated by Addy, via after-the-fact memory transfer.]]
255	* TakeThat: Bella’s comments on how a name [[{{Portmanteau}} combining Renée and Esme]] would sound like a Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
256	* TalkingToThemself: This is what happens when Elspeth tries using her power to send to herself. She eventually works out that [[spoiler:the other her is a personification of her magic]].
257	* TalkingYourWayOut: When Bella is held captive by [[spoiler:James, she tricks him into taking her to the Volturi instead of eating her.]]
258	* ThroneRoomThrowdown: The final battle for control over the vampire world takes place in the Volturi throne room.
259	* TimeAbyss: Aro falls under this, not by actually having been alive for that long, but because he has so many memories of so many vampires that, going by remembered time, he may be older than humanity. [[spoiler:By the same logic, this also ends up applying to Addy, Elspeth, and everyone else who ends up with Aro's memories.]]
260	* ThrowTheDogABone: Marcus spends most of the story (and the preceeding two thousand years) brooding over Didyme (and being forced to see his severed half of their mate bond, because of his power). He finally gets thrown a bone in one of the final chapters of ''Radiance'', when [[spoiler: she is resurrected in a human’s body and their mate bond reforms]].
261	* TokenEvilTeammate:
262	** [[spoiler:Addy]] is briefly this in ''Radiance''.
263	--->[[spoiler:'''Maggie''']]: Jesus! Wow, I've killed a lot of people, but I never [[spoiler:coerced a five-year-old into provoking somebody into torturing her so I could get my jollies playing with her power]]. Most Evil Person In The Car Award goes to [[spoiler:Addy]].
264	** [[spoiler:She becomes this again for good at the end of the book, when she secures a job in the Golden Coven.]]
265	* TwinTelepathy: {{Discussed\|Trope}} when Rachel first activates as a werewolf -- as a child, when Becky fell down the stairs and broke her arm, Rachel didn't feel anything, so she knows there's no such thing as a magical twin link, but she always pretended it was real anyway, and the way she feels as a werewolf without a pack is the way she imagined she'd feel if Becky were to die.
266	* UnreliableNarrator: While Bella is shielded from mental powers, Elspeth isn't. This leads to multiple examples of this in ''Radiance'':
267	** Whenever Allirea is discussed, Elspeth elides the conversation with phrases like "they were talking about something unimportant", due to Allirea's PerceptionFilter making Elspeth disregard her existence.
268	** On a darker note, [[spoiler:Elspeth spends a few chapters effusively praising the Volturi while making no mention of the things they've done to her and other people, after being subjected to Chelsea's power.]]
269	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: This is Allirea's power. Except when she's actively suppressing it, everyone (except Demetri, whose mate bond to her overrides the power, and Bella, who is immune to all mental powers) forgets about her existence, even when looking right at her.
270	* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Demetri]] in Chapter 31 of ''Radiance'', thanks to Elspeth. He then [[TurnsRed flies into a frenzy.]]
271	* TheWatson: Bella plays this role early in the first book, peppering the Cullens with all the questions the audience might have about vampires, and even setting up some experiments to test their abilities.
272	* WeakButSkilled: Vladimir and Stefan. They have no powers to speak of whatsoever, yet they're some of the oldest vampires ''in existence'', and Elspeth thinks either of them could defeat [[ActionGirl Sio]][[AmazonianBeauty bhan]] in a fair fight. Even though they're physically smaller, have ancient, brittle skin, and [[spoiler: Siobhan has witchcraft.]]
273	%%* WeaselWords:
274	%%** These help hide [[spoiler:whether Elspeth's telling the truth]].
275	%%** Also used to hide things from Maggie.
276	* WhamEpisode: To the point that you can refer to people as pre- and post-the following spoiler: Oh, this is interesti--[[spoiler:''did Edward just '''die'''''?]]
277	* WhamLine: When [[spoiler:Elspeth is brought to the wolf village]]:
278	-->'''Chelsea:''' You look nervous. I don't mean to frighten you. I really do want the best for everyone here, yourself included. I promise that whatever terrible stories you've heard about what I do, it's not so bad. [[spoiler:You didn't feel a thing, did you?]]
279	* WhatCliffHanger: A ''lot'' of chapters end on these, but some stand out:
280	** Chapter 26 of ''Luminosity'': [[spoiler:"That was my last peaceful day."]]
281	** Chapter 18 of ''Radiance'': [[spoiler:"And then the world went dark and silent and airless, as though I'd ceased to have a body, and I was completely alone with my thoughts."]]
282	** Chapter 35 of ''Radiance'': [[spoiler: "'Quite a story,' agreed Alice's voice, softly."]]
283	* WildCard:
284	** Addy is completely amoral, possesses an [[PowerCopying ability]] that is uniquely suited for making things more chaotic, and follows an inscrutable agenda, sometimes working against the protagonists, and other times working against the Volturi, to the point that it's almost impossible to predict what she'll do next. [[spoiler:She eventually makes it clear that her sole goal in life is to play around with various copied powers, which makes it relatively simple to get her to join the Golden Coven after the Volturi's deposal -- what they actually ''want'' from her amounts to a lot of playing around with powers anyway.]]
285	** To a much lesser extent, since he hasn't actually appeared in the fic (but been mentioned a few times), Joham is this as well, due to his solitary tendencies, as well as his scientific curiosity and stated goals of creating a SuperSoldier MasterRace.
286	** Marcus almost becomes this when a certain secret ([[spoiler:that Aro killed his mate Didyme, to keep her from leading Marcus away from being a Volturi king]]) starts to leak and threatens to reach him. When Alice considers showing him the secret, she sees ''way'' more possible reactions from Marcus than usual, from trying to kill Aro/[[RevengeByProxy Sulpicia]]/himself/''everyone'', to leaking Volturi secrets to Carlisle/Chelsea/Rachel, to flat disbelief despite the indisputable proof, to ordering the local CompellingVoice to make him forget, to just ''walking away''. In the end, though, [[spoiler:Aro, having expected this, breaks him into rubble before anyone tells him anything]].
287	* WouldHurtAChild:
288	** Averted by most vampires, even those who don’t care much for human life. Elspeth observes that vampires typically don’t eat young children, simply because [[PragmaticVillainy there’s not much blood in them]].
289	** When Chelsea first meets Afton, he’s said to be in his late teens, and has six younger siblings. [[spoiler:In preparation for turning him (and [[EvilIsPetty out of spite that he loves them more than her]]), she eats his entire family, including the siblings.]]
290	** Subverted with [[spoiler:Sasha: she was executed for turning a toddler, but it turns out she was framed.]]
291	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Addy successfully [[spoiler:talks Elspeth into helping her get most of the captive witches emotionally tied to the Volturi via Chelsea's power]], her life is threatened because [[spoiler:Caius, having been informed by Chelsea that Addy is letting Elspeth work against her just to see if she can pull it off, no longer trusts her enough to keep her around when the formerly-captive witches are now available to provide their powers directly]].
292	%%* YouWereTryingTooHard: [[spoiler:Elspeth]] finds a way around a power-restriction this way. (what way?) Considering that witch powers are personality-based, it makes sense.

Context FanFic / Luminosity