Line #13 Literature/KatIncorrigible


1	''Kat, Incorrigible'' is a series of children's books by Creator/StephanieBurgis about Kat's adventures in an alternate Regency, with magic, revolving about her sisters' marriages and her own discoveries of magical abilities.
2
3	The books are:
4	* ''A Most Improper Magick'' or ''Kat, Incorrigible''
5	* ''A Tangle of Magicks'' or ''Renegade Magic''
6	* ''A Reckless Magick'' or ''Stolen Magic''
7
8	----
9	!!Tropes featured:
10
11	* AntiMagic: One of Kat's Guardian abilities is breaking the spells of others, such as witches.
12	%%%* ArrangedMarriage: One is contemplated for Elissa
13	%%%* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Renegade Magic'', Kat uses Lady Forthington's inaction against the BigBad's plot to coerce her into recanting her accusation against Angeline and instead to support her marriage to Fredick.]]
14	* BlueBlood: The Guardians are a hereditary group of mages. They expel anyone who does anything as improper as merchant work.
15	** Of course, all of "Society" is filled up of the well-bred, well feed etc. who would be scandalized to learn that their fellow blue bloods are mages.
16	%%%* ClingyMacGuffin: the mirror
17	* CrushBlush: Elissa, when Sir Neville is flattering
18	%%%* DancesAndBalls: The climax of ''A Most Improper Magic'' starts at one
19	* DeathByChildbirth: Kat's mother died ten days after her birth.
20	%%%* DefiledForever: If Viscount Scarwood ruins you. . . .
21	* DispelMagic: In ''A Most Improper Magick'', Kat finds she can spontaneously break spells by verbally denying them.
22	%%%* DuelToTheDeath: Well, a duel. Not to the death.
23	%%%* AFateWorseThanDeath: invoked in a joke
24	%%%* GirlInTheTower: What Sir Neville did to his first wife.
25	%%%%* GreenEyedMonster: Attributed to Sir Neville
26	* TheHighwayman: Miscreants haunt the roads, and this requires others to have armed guards.
27	* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Charles's Oxford buddies try to sacrifice him to Sulis Minerva for power.]]
28	* ImportantHaircut: Kat does it as part of her SweetPollyOliver attempt
29	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Elissa reads too many Gothics, and tries to make the sacrifice even when it's foolish.
30	%%%* IWillWaitForYou: Angeline, in front of the mother with the veto
31	* LoveAtFirstSight: Elissa is quite taken with a man with no money, but refuses to consider it.
32	%%%* LoveSpell: Angeline casts one.
33	* LoveTriangle: In the BackStory, as Kat realizes that her mother and father were in one with Lady Fotherington, who was her mother's nemesis.
34	%%%* MacGuffin: The will, in ''Improper Magic''
35	* MagicMirror: Portals are a big thing for the Guardian Order and some of them are mirrors. They are used to reach the main hall and function as proof of membership. Kat finds her mother's [[spoiler: and loses it saving her brother]].
36	%%%* MoreHeroThanThou: Mr. Collingwood and Elissa
37	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Viscount ''Scarwood''.
38	* OldMaid: Stepmama was on the verge of this when she married Papa, and now she has three step-daughters.
39	* ParentalMarriageVeto: Mrs. Carlyle waves it about with great vigor to prevent Angeline and Fredrick's marriage, and is ''still'' trying to break it up ''four days before the ceremony''.
40	* ThePromise: Kat vows to restore her mother's mirror.
41	* ProperLady: Elissa is a paragon of manners and grace, which also makes her (in Kat's own words) the prissiest person Kat's ever known.
42	%%%* PromotionToParent: Kat's sisters
43	%%%%* RansackedRoom: A burglar ransacks the house.
44	* SinsOfOurFathers: Kat is blamed for her mother's misdeeds
45	* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: In the opening of ''Tangle''. While the reason would have been legitimate -- the man is underage and can not marry without parental permission -- it is not, in fact, his wedding.
46	* SpellBook: Their mother's books contain spells, and both Kat and Angeline use them (Guardian magic and witchcraft, respectively).
47	* SweetPollyOliver: Kat's first attempt to save Elissa from the arranged marriage involved pretending to be a boy.
48	* TalkAboutTheWeather: Angeline complains about unintelligible conversation; must they start to talk about the weather?
49	%%%* TearsOfRemorse: In the BackStory, their mother, after she revealed her magic.
50	%%%* ThickerThanWater: Elissa's motive to submit to an arranged marriage.
51	%%%* UnableToSupportAWife: Mr. Collingwood; Elissa can not marry him.
52	* WrongGenreSavvy: Elissa thinks she's the heroine of a Gothic. Interestingly, her husband is described as looking ''exactly'' like a stereotypical Gothic villain but also as meek and affectionate so as to be the opposite.

Context Literature / KatIncorrigible