Fanfic / There's More Magic Out There

The Mystery Gang. ^note Left to right: Kagami the catgirl, Chloe the werewolf, Alix the witch, Juleka the vampire, Alya the fox selkie, Sabrina the changeling, and Aurore the succubus.

There's More Magic Out There is a Miraculous Ladybug fanfic by Sorry Just Another Person.

Juleka Couffaine is a vampire. She's always been one, but while she's gotten used to the little ways it makes her life different — her need to drink blood, her inability to cross moving water, and so on — she's been feeling lonely. After all, she's the only magical creature she knows. But then one day in class, she notices that Alya has a fox-skin jacket around her waist, and the jacket seems almost magical. She investigates Alya, and after discovering the reporter is also a magical being, begins investigating the other people she knows as well... and discovers that many of them are indeed hiding their own supernatural natures. With new bonds now formed, Juleka and the newly christened "The Mystery Gang" now endeavor to work together, pooling their knowledge and inquisitive spirits in order to help each other and make sense of the magical world around them.

As an aside, the story received Recursive Fanfiction written its own comments section. Known simply as the "Paladin Rose AU" (due to lacking an actual title), it was penned mostly by CartoonAddict564, with some assistance from SorryJustAnotherPerson themselves. The story focuses on Rose Lavillant as a paladin, with her parents' zeal to smite evil creatures and to trade back the "fake" fey Sabrina for the human one bringing her into conflict with the Mystery Gang. Soon Rose, Juleka and the others must find a way to stop the fanatical paladin order, as well as deal with Hawkmoth and other magical enemies (such as the mysterious monster-hunting wizard Felix Graham de Vanily). It starts here and is complete at roughly 100,000 words; its tropes are listed below in its own section.

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There's More Magic Out There provides examples of the following tropes:

• An Arm and a Leg: Chloe rips off Juleka's leg after Juleka accidentally screws up the spell keeping Chloe from running wild on the full moon. Fortunately, Juleka can heal.
• Abusive Parent:
  • Alya and Nora's birth father stole their mother's skin and forced her to marry him, with both girls hiding their selkie nature from him out of fear of what he might do to them beyond yelling. All three managed to escape after Nora knocked him down in her bear form.
  • Sabrina's mother blames Changing!Sabrina for the disappearance of her original daughter, despite the fact that Sabrina had nothing to with it.
  • When she finds out that Chloe is a werewolf, her mother Audrey insults her with derogatory dog terms and even considers putting her own daughter on a leash. She even outright says in public that she doesn't have a dog as a daughter.
• Accidental Proposal: Apparently for selkies giving their skin (essentially their soul) is a sign of a proposal, something Alya doesn't know until Luka tells her after she gives her fox skin to Juleka. In following chapter, both Kagami and Rose also playfully tease Juleka about being engaged to Alya.
• Adaptation Species Change: Considering the premise of the fic, there is a lot of species changes.
  • Juleka is a vampire.
  • Alya is a fox selkie, Nora is a bear selkie and they got it from their mother (who lost her skin to their birth father). Ondine and her family are later revealed to be selkies as well.
  • Sabrina is a changeling.
  • Chloe is a werewolf.
  • Kagami is a nekomata.
  • Aurore is a succubus and Mireille is later revealed to be an Incubus.
  • Nino is a gargoyle.
  • Kim is a siren.
  • Mylene is a druid.
  • Rose is a Grim Dog.
• All for Nothing: Roger's plan to trade Fae!Sabrina for her human counterpart with help from the Monster Hunters ultimately ends as this. Having lived with the Fae since she was a baby, Human!Sabrina has no connection to her old name, much less her life as a human. The trade wouldn't have worked even if Human!Sabrina wanted to, since Fae!Sabrina doesn't want to give up her life with her friends.
• Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: As a succubus, Aurore would end up showing traits that remind others of who they are attracted to. For Juleka, Aurore appears cute like Rose, and for Alya she picks up some of Nino's mannerisms and tics. This gets deconstructed, as among her other insecurities and issues as a succubus, it makes Aurore feel she's a reflection of people's desires rather than her own person. However, she can happily tell that the only person Sabrina sees from her is Aurore herself.
• Archnemesis Dad: The vampire king Rowan Bloodwalker becomes this to his daughter Juleka when he regains his memories, attempting to corrupt her into a monsterous vampire like herself. He was also the monster that killed Rose's parents and indirectly lead her to be buried alive. Thankfully, Juleka is able to defeat him with the help of her comrades.
• Atrocious Alias: In one of their chat sessions, Alix gives Aurore and Mylene the handlers "ate glue once" and "weed dealer" respectively. Neither of them are amused.
• Badass in Distress: Juleka becomes this after Nathaniel's parents and him kidnap her
• The Bet: In chapter 56, Rose, jealous that her girlfriend has sampled everyone's blood but her own, bets that she will have Juleka drinking her own blood in one weeks time using her "Girlfriend Convincing Power", with the condition that she has one try per day. Rose fails to do so, but the couple enjoyed their little game.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Juleka spends much of the Incubus arc completely stoned after eating expired fairy snacks beforehand . That said, when Mirellie tried to desperately brainwash her to fight on her behalf, Juleka backhands her off... with enough force to send her flying.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • In Chapter 4, it's initially suspected that Alix is a werewolf; her complaining about "this time of the month" while vaguely explaining that it has nothing to do with that time of the month, the strange scent that follows her around, and Juleka overhearing her annoyance at the full moon and her clothes tearing. At the end of the chapter, Juleka and the others find out that Alix is actually a witch. The real werewolf is Chloe, which is lightly foreshadowed throughout the chapter.
  • Alya assumes that Nino is going to tell her that he's Carapace after the Anansi incident. Instead he reveals himself to be a gargoyle.
• Big Damn Kiss: In chapter 54, after the Gang was able to defeat Mireille, Sabrina, out of frantic worry and relief for Aurore, pulls her into a kiss.
• Bird People: Chapter 48 ends with the reveal that Kim is one of them.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Mireille, out of fear that Aurore would expose her as an Incubus, brainwashed the other staff at KidsTV and sent them to attack the Mystery Gang. She later used her powers on Alix, making her think that Mireille is her only friend and that the others are their enemies.
• Breather Episode:
  • Chapter 25 to 27 focuses on Chloe and Alix getting akumatized and the latter trying to burn Audrey and the rest of Paris before Ladybug and Chat Noir stopped them. Chapter 28 focuses on the others recovering from the events of said Akuma, with The Reveal that Juleka and Rose have been dating without Juleka realizing it.
  • Chapter 36 to 39 are about the Mystery Gang saving Sabrina from being traded for her human counterpart and the immediate fallout, with Sabrina emmanipating herself from her father and moving in with the Couffaines. Chapter 40 focuses on Sabrina and Aurore spending the day together, along with Aurore's internal struggles when it comes to her powers.
  • Chapter 44 and 46 had the Mystery Gang entering a haunted mansion that forces them to face their worst fear, along with Juleak finding her amnesiac vampire father and then fighting him after he regains his memories. Chapter 47 is about them visiting a spa operated by the Loch Ness Monster to relax and destress.
• Bullying a Dragon: Tomoe Tsurugi was originally the guardian Nekomata for the Tsurugi Family after being blinded and enslaved by an ancestor. She’s still a powerful yokai nonetheless, as Kagami's father found out when he tried to force himself on her in drunken lust, leading to her killing him and taking over the company.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: After getting more in-touch with her fae side, Sabrina discovers that she's lost the ability to outright lie.
• Cast Full of Gay: None of the main characters are straight. According to the story:
  • Kagami is in love with both Adrien and Marinette, so either bisexual or pansexual.
  • Alya and Aurore are bisexual.
  • Sabrina is panromantic asexual.
  • Juleka is a lesbian.
  • Alix is demiromantic
• Censor Steam: In chapter 47, the Mystery Gang arrives at a bath house / spa for monsters, which intentionally uses the steam to cover up naked individuals. Alya and the others don't hesitate to lampshade this.
• Changeling Tale: Sabrina is a fey who was used to 'replace' a human child. That child was taken away to the fey world, though Sabrina has begun having visions of her.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Belief is a major component of magic in this universe. This also ties into the Weirdness Censor of the other non-monster characters, they don't believe in monsters so they can't see the signs.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Chapter 4 ends with the group realizing that the werewolf they've accidentally let loose and is about to attack them is Chloe.
  • Chapter 20 ends right after Nino reveals himself as a gargoyle to Alya.
• Cursed with Awesome: Juleka both really appreciates her vampire abilities and gets annoyed by some of the little things about it, such as her enhanced senses. In general, she arguably has the most constantly useful abilities of the team, but in turn has the most day-to-day problems dealing with them as well.
• Date Peepers: Very frequently, with monster powers involved.
  • At the end of the first chapter, Alya, in her fox form, spies on Juleka and Rose when the two are together. After Rose points out the fox, Juleka chases her fellow monster away.
  • Downplayed with Kagami in chapter 12, who watches Marinette and Adrien in her cat form while the two are only hanging out and not dating. She runs into Juleka who was doing the same... in her dire wolf form.
  • In chapter 29, Juleka is on a date with Rose and is conflicted if it's okay to kiss her after finding out they've been dating for months. She suddenly hears Alix's voice yelling in her head to just kiss Rose already, revealing that the witch was watching them the whole time.
• Darker and Edgier: The backstories of the mystery gang tend to be shadier than what canon suggests they are. Juleka being the exception to this rule whose backstory is mostly the same bar a few tweaks to her family that don't really affect her (like Luka being her half brother).
• A Day in the Limelight: The first half of chapter 50 is about Maeve, Rose's guardian and an ancient Fae, and focuses how she adopted Rose after she became a Grimm and became a proper parent for her. The second half focuses on Rowan, Juleka's dad, as he’s made to adjust to the modern world by Juleka.
• Dead All Along: In chapter 41, Rose reveals to Juleka that she's been dead for years. She's a Grim Dog of her graveyard since she was the first buried there after her parents' death.
• The Dividual: Little Red and Wicked Witch appear, but changed via one akuma at the same time, reminding Ladybug of the Sapotis.
• Druid: Chapter 51 reveals that Mylene is a druid, using her powers to protect the nature in Paris.
• Easily Forgiven: Juleka forgives Nathaniel for trying to kill her in chapter 35. This is justified since she saw he was being forced by his parents to do so all for a test he ended up failing. It takes a bit longer for the rest of Mystery Gang to do so, particularly Alix as she is upset that one of her closest friends was a monster hunter.. Thankfully, Alix is able to reconcile with Nathaniel by the end of chapter 36.
• Entertainingly Wrong: During the Little Red/Wicked Witch fiasco, Ladybug is convinced that the raging Wicked Witch is an Akumatized Chloe, given the latter's volatile nature and having been humiliated by own her mother. When she and Chat find Chloe, then learn she was Akumatized into Little Red, a Broken Bird that sees the Witch as her sole protector. The two then find out that Wicked Witch is Alix.
• Everybody Has Standards:
  • Anarka hates the law and its restriction, but she's willing to cooperate if it means getting blood packs from the government for her daughter Juleka.
  • Alya might hate her birth father for taking her mother's selkie skin and forcing her to marry him, but she doesn't want her friends to try and kill him and get into trouble, especially now that he is long gone from her and her family's life.
  • When Rose makes her declaration that she'll get Juleka to drink her blood by the end of the week even if she has to use force, Juleka freaks out and thinks that Rose will take her blood packs. Rose is horrified and states she wouldn't dare do that since Juleka needs them to live. She also clarifies that she's only going to tease Juleka into tasting her blood, rather than outright forcing her to.
• Everyone Can See It:
  • More than once character has been genuinely surprised that Juleka and Rose aren't in a relationship, with their chemistry. Turns out they are, Juleka just hasn't noticed.
  • Adrien and Marinette's feeling are obvious to their friends.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: Indirect variant. Alya admits she was afraid of revealing her Selkie nature to Nino because of what happened between her mother and her birth father.
• Food Chains: According to the blog, Sabrina is learning cooking so that she can make these.
• Foreshadowing: Chapter 16 has the different sections separated by Morse Code, which spell out Gargoyle, which is the next monster to appear.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • Trixx decided to stay with Alya permanently once he realized that she was a fox selkie.
  • Following the events of Style Queen, Chloe is so caught up trying to get her phone back from her mother and call Alix that she misses the box holding the Bee Miraculous. She doesn't become the Bee Hero until the events of Malediktator, with Ladybug directly choosing her.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: After the events of Wicked Witch and Little Red and learning about Chloe's own Freudian Excuse, Marinette heads over to her to try and forgive her for her past actions only for Chloe to stop her and apologize for her own Alpha Bitch behavior. While she admits that her mother caused her plenty of issues, she also admits that she could have seen a therapist or talked to someone about them instead of taking out her frustrations on her classmates. While Chloe has been improving thanks to her friendship with the Mystery Gang, she would be fine if Marinette continues to call her out on her attitude.
• Glorified Sperm Donor: Alya directly refers to her and Nora's biological father, who stole their mother's selkie skin and forced her to marry him, as this, viewing Otis, who their mother met after fleeing the bastard, as her father instead.
• Healing Factor: Both Chloe and Juleka have one from being a werewolf and vampire respectively. Juleka's is more powerful, being able to grow back a torn-off limb
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Ignoring the fact that neither of them is heterosexual, Juleka and Alya are the closest members of the Mystery Gang without any Ship Tease or romantic bond between them. In chapter 59, Alya gives Juleka her fox skin^note which both know is hiding a camera so they can record the events of the Walpurgisnacht ball that Juleka and Anarka are going to, letting Juleka know that she trusts her with it.
• Incompatible Orientation: Juleka thinks she has this with Rose as Juleka is attracted to her while Rose is attracted to a very male prince. Alya is convinced that it’s not this trope and Juleka simply hasn't asked. Alya is very much in the right, so much that Juleka not noticing things is very much in play.
• Immortality: Characters like Anarka and Juleka are this, Juleka because of her vampiric blood and Anarka because she married a fae a few hundred years back who granted her immortality.
• Improperly Paranoid: After Aurore found out that Mireille was an incubus and was using her powers to control humans (including manipulating others to vote for her in the Weather Girl contest), Mireille fears that Aurore will expose her, and brainwashes the people at KidsTv+ Studios to have Aurore fired. Later, when she sees Aurore and the rest of Mystery Gang sneaking inside, she fears that they will hurt her. Mireille chooses to turn the staff into her army to protect herself, and later brainwashes Alix to fight on her behalf.
• I See Dead People: Kagami, a nekomata, can see ghosts and peer slightly into people’s souls. She is apparently able to share this ability temporarily thanks to her magic fire.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: For some reason, almost everyone seems to have completely forgot that Juleka sent the guy who was sexually harassing Aurore to the ER, with even Aurore herself having forgotten until reminded, and whenever one of the magical characters starts wondering about why that is, they tend to get distracted and forget as well.
• The Legend of Chekhov: Juleka and her class read a poem regarding a female pirate and a fairy queen, and how they fall in love. In chapter 34, Juleka learns that the pirate in the story was her mother Anarka, who became immortal after marrying the fae.
• Lower-Deck Episode: The fic technically counts as this, as the mystery gang's adventures take place in the background of the show's second season. All of Ladybug and Chat Noir's battles with Hawkmoth simply happen offscreen and play out as they did in canon unless otherwise stated, such as the events of Style Queen being altered due to Chloe's character development and close relationship with Alix in this fic.
• Mama Bear: Anarka Couffaine is protective of both of her children and their friends, seen especially when she yells at Roger Raincomprix to leave her daughter Juleka alone, along with giving him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech of how much he hurt and neglected Sabrina while he was obsessed of getting the original back. And in chapter 46, she terrifies her ex-lover Rowan, a vampire lord, into submission for not only leaving her and her children on their own years ago but also harming Juleka when he gets his memories back.
• Mundane Utility: Played for Drama, as Mireille has used her Incubus powers to manipulate humans to her favor, even using it to win the Weather Girl contest in "Stormy Weather", and is surprised that Aurore never did the same with her Succubus powers. Mireille sees this use of power as a way to fit in the world of humans that looks down on Succubi and Incubi.
• Mutual Masquerade: The glamours that hide magical things from the sight of the average person also affect other magical beings to some extent. Before the events of the story, none of the characters are aware that they're surrounded by fellow magical beings and demons outside, with few even having mutual knowledge of one or two other person (e.g. Alix and Chloe). On top of this, all the "traditional" supernatural and mythological happenings are completely separate from those surrounding the Miraculous. As such, not only do the Mystery Gang have no idea that Marienette and Adrien are superheroes, but the superheroes and villains are completely unaware that witches, werewolves, and the like are even real, much less that there are a bunch of them in the same Parisian classroom.
• Necromancer: In Chapter 38, the Mystery Gang runs into animated corpses while rescuing Sabrina, which have been haunting the fae territory. Alix describes necromancy as a twisted and disgusting form of magic, and anything brought to life with it will be without a soul. Chapter 43 reveals that the Necromancer's ultimate goal is to bring back his father, so he can kill him himself and be free of his torment.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Alix is revealed to deliberately downplay her intelligence, in part because she doesn't want to ruin the dynamic she has with her non-magical friends.
• Oblivious to Love: Rose and Juleka had been dating for months without Juleka noticing.
• Our Demons Are Different: Aurore is a succubus who lacks full control of her power, resulting in her trying to avoid touching anyone lest she accidentally charm them. She has (small) wings and horns, and also a tail.
  • The blog reveals that Mireille is also a demon, albeit one who is much more willing to use her powers to benefit herself. Chapter 53 confirms that she is an Incubus.
• Our Fairies Are Different: Sabrina is a changeling, which means she can’t tell direct lies, can’t give or receive something without paying an equivalent exchange, and she can’t break her word. On the plus side, she's learning how to use fey magic in helpful ways, such as by making plants grow.
  • The blog says that fey’s appearances depend on their court’s “theme”. That usually being animals in the place they dwell. The one in our setting is deer. So the fey have antlers.
    • They also add that Fey have tails, and specifically the ones in our setting, can have hooves. What Sabrina will have is unknown.
• Our Gargoyles Rock: Chapter 20 reveals that Nino is a Gargoyle. He explains he was brought to life in his parents' attempt to bring back his older brother from the dead, only for Nino to be a separate individual instead.
• Our Kelpies Are Different: In Chapter 31, the gang runs into a vicious kelpie that shapeshifts into a friendly-looking horse form to lure in prey, though its true form has rows and rows of teeth, backward hoofs, and a mangled swapish form. It's also intelligent, able to speak to the gang and taunts how it will enjoy eating them.
• Our Mages Are Different: Alix is a witch who specializes in paper charm magic, and had taken to helping Chloe stay under control during full moons, with Chloe later becoming her familiar. Her big brother Jalil and Juleka's half-brother Luka are also mages.
• Our Sirens Are Different: Kim is a Siren, able to transform his arms into wings.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Juleka needs blood to live, can't stand garlic, Must Be Invited every time she enters a residence not her own (though she is rather flexible with what she considers an "invitation"), and cannot cross running water (unaided, boats and bridges give her no issue), but she lacks some other vampire weaknesses. She can go out in the sun just fine, and her reflection is visible in most reflective surfaces (though not ones with silver in them). She can also shift into a bat and a large dire wolf, though she can't fly outside of her bat form. She still needs to eat normal food in addition to blood, and needs to feed more often if she uses her powers, like her Healing Factor, which regenerates a lost leg fairly quickly. She was also born a vampire instead of being turned, having inherited it from her father, and gets a blood supply from the government so she doesn't go around biting people.
  • However it seems that the healing factor doesn’t completely heal, and Juleka will experience phantom pain.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Chloe has three forms: her regular human one, her 'normal wolf' one she can shift to voluntarily, and her behemoth wolf form which she shifts into during the full moon.
• Parental Abandonment / Parental Neglect: Sabrina's parents didn't take the knowledge that she was a fey who had replaced their real child well. Sabrina's mother abandoned the family, and Sabrina's father Roger Raincomprix grew distant, not really knowing what to do with the fey Sabrina and wishing he could trade her back for the real one.
• Parents as People: Aurore's parents are well meaning to their adopted daughter, and Word of God confirms they do love her, but doctoral advice on avoiding accidentally being affected by Aurore's seduction power has left Aurore touch starved.
• Paste Eater: Aurore had eaten glue once when she was four, and she is annoyed that Alix brought that back up by using it as her chat room name. Kim happily boasts he ate glue a few times in the past, and when Juleka wonders what glue actually tastes like, he actually goes out to eat it because he forgot how it tasted.
• Persecution Flip: Played for Laughs in Chapter 8, when Chloe and Alix teases Alya of being the only straight girl (though Alya states that she's actually bisexual) in the Mystery Gang (Juleka and Chloe are gay, Alix is demiromantic, and Sabrina is asexual).
• Philosopher's Stone: In chapter 60, the grand prize at the Walpurgisnacht auction is revealed to be this.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Kagami asks Aurore why she became a weather girl, Aurore jokes it’s because her boobs can predict the weather. Kagamai, having not seen the movie, thinks Aurore is being literal and wonders if it’s a succubus power until the latter clarifies that it was a reference.
• Power Perversion Potential: While a very tame take on the idea, Kagami takes advantage of being able to turn into a cat to get all the time she wants on her crush Marinette's lap and all the affection she could want from her while Marinette has no idea (about Kagami's feelings or the fact that she can transform into 'Muffin').
• Plot Parallel: In chapter 36, the plot of the canon episode "Reverser" (where Nathaniel mistakenly believes that Marc and Marinette were trying to trick him with a fan journal about Ladybug, which leads Marc to get Akumatized into the titular akuma) happens at the same time as Alix getting enraged after finding out that Nathaniel's family are monster hunters and that he nearly killed Juleka. Alix even lampshades this trope after she and Nathaniel reconcile, advising him to give Marc a chance to explain himself just as she gave Nathaniel one.
• Psychic Link: Chloe and Alix develop this after the two rekindle their familiar bond following Chloe forcibly breaking it, gaining the ability to send telepathic messages to each other. This later becomes how Chloe confesses her love to Alix.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After finding Chloe emotionally distraught from Audrey's cruel words, Alix falls into a powerful rage that leads both of them to be Akumatized into Little Red and Wicked Witch. Wicked Witch wants to burn down the world for hurting her Little Red, and especially wants to burn Audrey to ashes.
• Scars Are Forever:
  • Chloe's scar on her ankle from when she became a werewolf.
  • It’s confirmed that Nora has a bear trap scar from when she and her mother and sister ran away from their 'sperm donor'.
• Secret-Keeper: As of Chapter 53, only Juleka and Kagami know that Rose is a Grim Dog, while the rest of the Mystery Gang thinks she’s a normal human.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: It's implied that Tikki knows that "Mittens"/Kagami isn't a normal cat, given she always hides whenever the latter visits Marinette.
• Secret Test of Character: Nathaniel's parents, both Monster Hunters, kidnap Juleka and tell their son that she had killed innocent people and that they must kill her. Under their pressure, Nathaniel gives in and stabs Juleka, though thankfully the knife turns to ash on contact. Ultimately, it turns out the test was for Nathaniel to realize his parents were lying and stand up for himself and Juleka, and he failed that. Nathaniel, meanwhile, freaks out that he nearly killed his friend over a test.
• Selkies and Wereseals:
  • Alya is a fox selkie who can shapeshift when she puts her fox-skin, disguised as a jacket, on. Her big sister Nora is a bear selkie. Her mother is a selkie too, but she can't shift because a human stole her skin to force her to be his wife. She eventually fled with her older two daughters and married her current husband Otis, who is the father of the twins, who didn't inherit the selkie gene.
  • In chapter 49, it's revealed that Ondine and her family are also selkies.
• Shout-Out:
  • Juleka hates The Twilight Saga, but all but quotes it when she says that ”It’s the fluorescence” in regard to Alya commenting on how red her eyes are.
  • Alix's style of magic deliberately draws from The Kane Chronicles and The Owl House, being heavily based on drawing runes.
  • Juleka quotes Hellsing Ultimate Abridged during a fight with Chloe "So- are you gonna come at me? Am I gonna come at you? Perhaps we should come together?" (Though that last sentence is a paraphrase.)
  • When discussing shapeshifting magic with Chloe, Alix references Steven Universe, specifically the "holograms with mass" explanation for Gems.
• Stock Ness Monster: The Loch Ness Monster, better known as Madame Nessie, runs a spa for various monsters and takes on a humanoid form. She's also Anarka's several-centuries old adopted daughter.
• Synchronization: Alix and Chloe accidentally make a familiar pact, resulting in them being able to feel each other’s pain and emotions. At one point, Alix uses this knowledge to attempt secretly taking away some of the werewolf transformation pain from Chloe.
• That Came Out Wrong: In the first chapter, Alya invokes this when Juleka says she likes her skin, acting like Juleka made an accidental creepy comment about her human skin to deter attention away from her fox skin. Juleka replies that she meant Alya's selkie skin.
• Take That!: In Chapter 28, when thinking about how Chloe and Alix could be so close after fighting them as Little Red and Wicked Witch, since they've never publicly displayed having any deep bond before then, Marinette theorizes that they could secretly be half-sisters. She then immediately dismisses the idea of Chloe having a secret sister as being on par with "a dumb plot twist in some dumb kids show". The chapter was published less than two months after the actual show revealed that Chloe does have a secret half-sister.
• True Love's Kiss: Chloe snaps Alix out of Mireille's control by giving her this, at the suggestion of a stoned Juleka.
• Twin Switch: Prior to Sabrina and Aurore's date in chapter 55, Ainsel, Sabrina's human counterpart, arrives ahead of them and pretends to be Sabrina. Aurore quickly realizes the other girl isn't Sabrina, and confirms by asking her if she brought a charger, which the fae-raised human doesn't know what it is.
• The Un-Reveal: In Chapter 54, Mylene confirms that Ivan is magical, though she gets interrupted before she could clarify what kind of monster or magic-user he is.
• Walpurgisnacht: An arc focused on Walpurgisnacht starts in chapter 59. The ball is described as a gathering between magic and arcane users to come together for dancing and discussion.
• Wham Line:
  • At the end of Chapter 41, from Rose to Juleka after visiting the former's parents' grave.
  Rose: Do you want to see my grave now?
  • In Chapter 53, Aurore finds out that Mireille is an Incubus, and both of them talk casually about their demonic nature and their work at KidsTV, including the Weather Girl contest that lead to Aurore being Akumatized into Stormy Weather. The conversation remains civil until Mireille explains why she was shocked at the results.
  Mireille: God, right? So crazy. I don't blame you one bit. Man. It really should've been even, with both of us using our powers and all that^note Mireille revealing that she had used her powers to win the votes for Weather Girl, and later expressing shock that Aurore never did the same.

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The 'Paladin Rose' AU provides examples of the following tropes:

• Badass in Distress: What happens to Nora once Felix defeats her.
• Knight Templar / Knight Templar Parent: Rose's parents are examples. They have paladin powers but care more about slaughtering magical creatures than actually doing good works.
• The Paladin: Rose is one. Her parents start as them, but go off the rails over the story as they become more and more convinced that Juleka 'corrupted' her daughter.
• The Power of Love: Once Rose learns that her parents sold the city out to Hawkmoth just to get her back, she gives in to her despair and allows herself to be akumatized. The resulting akuma, Devil, is so strong that the Miraculous heroes can't stop it, meaning Juleka has to try to break through the akumatization and talk Rose down by invoking their love.
• Soul Jar: Felix uses these and draws on the powers of his captured souls.
• Spared By Adaptation: In the main story, Rose's parents were killed years ago by a monster. Here they are alive and are major antagonists.

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Sorry Just Another Person's blog provides examples of the following tropes:

• Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: One recurring segment on the blog is an 'Ask the Gang' feature in which random people can ask the mystery gang questions about their lives or their powers. The questions range from asking whether they have certain abilities to asking if the vampires sparkle. It is unknown whether it is canon or not, though the information that they give on themselves can reasonably be assumed to be.
• Our Monsters Are Different: The blog’s anons have discussed possible akumatizations for the various members of the Mystery Gang (most of which will likely never get used, sadly), and most involve evil twists on their magic powers:
  • Alix's Official akumatization is Wicked Witch, a stereotypical green-skinned witch flying on a broom.
  • Alya's fan-suggested akumatization is Skintaker, a monster who can steal people's skins to trap or control them, much like how people can steal selkie skins to trap or control them.
  • Aurore's fan-suggested akumatization, Lovesucker, lets her drain the love from devoted couples in order to gain power and bring the couples under her power, just like some succubi are able to do in various myths.
  • Chloe's Official akumatization is Little Red, a wolf that has the werewolf power of biting someone to make them part of her wolf pack.
  • Juleka's fan-suggested akumatization is Carmilla, which gives her more vampire powers (particularly the power to enthrall others)
  • Kagami's fan akumatization, Nya-Nya Kitty, was a zany anime catgirl.
  • Sabrina's fan-suggested akumatization, Fairy Devil, is a fae lord who is able and willing to entrap humans via unfair deals and fae food.
    • The author states on the blog that they don’t have plans for the other akumas but have used Little Red and Wicked Witch in the official story
• Our Fairies Are Different: The blog reveals that Caline Bustier is an incredibly powerful fey as well.

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