History Fanfic / TheForbiddenDrink

* BgWhat: The Hexsquad's joint reaction upon learning about Skara being Queen of the Elemental Mages.

* BirthdayEpisode: This story's plot is about Amity trying to find a birthday present for Luz.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: After Hunter becomes a Titan, his massive power boost allows Flapjack's spirit to physically manifest.]]

* BrickJoke: One PlayedForDrama. After Willow gets scarred scarred by [[spoiler:Odalia]] in Chapter 22, Luz throws a boulder into the atmosphere to release her anger. In the epilogue, said boulder [[spoiler:ends up hitting an Archivist, letting them know that there are still living Titans.]]

* OhCrap: Cat and Skara's reaction when they realize that the Titan Trappers are heading for the Heart, and might even be looking to get Titan power themselves.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: In Chapter 11, Luz, Amity, Boscha, and Amelia break into Skara's house to find out what she's hiding and why she's pushing away all her friends. Discovering the break-in, Skara attacks the group, refusing to talk things out and just being desperate to get them out of the house before they discover [[spoiler: her parents' coffins]].

* MakeSureHesDead: [[spoiler: Cat kills Odalia by stabbing her through the eye, then drops her off the roof of Hexside, and then Skara sets her on fire, just to be sure.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Odalia's reaction upon finding herself facing the Hexsquad after they've gained Titan powers and are understandably enraged at her actions.]]
* OhNoNotAgain: [[spoiler: Luz's reaction to being mortally wounded again, this time by Odalia.]]

** [[spoiler:Tracey is now capable of using glyph magic.]]

** The cloaked figure who attacks Eda and Raine while they're exploring Melody Manor is [[spoiler: Skara's great-uncle]] and a member of a lost tribe of witches that were long ago banished to another Titan beyond the Boiling Isles, [[spoiler: of which Skara's family are royalty]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The Hexsquad go on one against [[spoiler: Odalia]] once they realize they're the one who maimed Cat, going into full UnstoppableRage when they scar Willow as well.

* SequelHook: As of the end of the story, the threat of [[spoiler: Skara's relatives]] the Elemental Mages is still on the horizon, and worse, in the final scene [[spoiler: the Archivists are shown awakening, having become aware of the new Titans]].

* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: Odalia's reaction when Amity turns into a Titan.]]

* TitleDrop: Luz says that it's time for the return of the Titans when [[spoiler: her friends prepare to drink her blood and become Titans too.]]

* YouKilledMyFather: An indirect example. [[spoiler: Skara holds Odalia responsible for her parents' deaths because she knew about the draining spell and didn't warn anyone about it.]]

** [[spoiler: Odalia goes after Luz with a blade that belonged to the Archivists, and is thus designed to cancel out a Titan's HealingFactor.]]

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: After Hunter becomes a Titan, his massive power boost allows Flapjack's spirit to physically manifest.]]

* CasualDangerDialog: Eda's commentary on [[AliensSpeakingEnglish witches speaking English]] comes up in the middle of a fight with a mysterious masked figure. Raine has to remind her to focus.

* EmotionalPowers: [[spoiler: Their rage at Odalia for nearly killing Luz, on top of everything else she's done, speeds up the Hexsquad's transformation into Titans as the blood they ingested reacts to their emotions.]]

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Odalia]] is finally killed by Cat ramming her hook through their eye into the brain.

* FaceYourFears: [[spoiler: Tracey does this in Chapter 29 after being attacked by Grom. Finding herself surrounded by mirrors which depict her pre-scarring and pre-CharacterDevelopment self mocking her, she finally decides to stop hating herself for what she was like and what she's suffered, fighting back to shatter all the mirrors and escape the illusion.]]

* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: [[spoiler: It's revealed in Chapter 26 that Skara is a princess of the Elemental Mages, a subspecies of witches long ago banished to another Titan.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: While there's no evidence that Tracey and Masha even know each other canonically, here it's revealed in Chapter 13 [[spoiler: that they're cousins]].

** [[spoiler: Odalia only mutilated Cat in order to harm Amity by proxy]].

[[folder:Amity's Mission]]

* MamaBear: Eda is ''furious'' to find the Titan Trappers attacking her kids, and slaughters them in response.

[[folder:Titanic Problems]]

The story is now complete, and is followed by the sequel ''The Forbidden Drink II: Return of the Titans'', which can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14269749/1/The-Forbidden-Drink-II-Return-of-the-Titans here]] or [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49515073/chapters/124969075 here]]. It's expected for there to be three main stories making up what is called the ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3667156 Blue Beverage AU]]'', though a short side story called ''Return of the Titans: Amity's Mission'' (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14310646/1/Return-of-the-Titans-Amity-s-Mission here]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/52521532 here]]) has also been published.

Beware of spoilers for the first story in the sequel's section.

* TakeThat: A book on the history of Creator/{{Disney}} is treated as a TomeOfEldritchLore, and Malphas describes the company worse than Belos.

The story is now complete, and is followed by the sequel ''The Forbidden Drink II: Return of the Titans'', which can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14269749/1/The-Forbidden-Drink-II-Return-of-the-Titans here]] or [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49515073/chapters/124969075 here]]. It's expected for there to be three main stories making up what is called the ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3667156 Blue Beverage AU]]'', though a short side story called ''Return of the Titans: Amity's Misson'' (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14310646/1/Return-of-the-Titans-Amity-s-Mission here]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/52521532 here]]) has also been published.

* TakeThat: A book on the history of Creator/{{Disney}} is treated as a TomeOfEldritchLore, and Malphas describes the company as worse than Belos.

The story is now complete, and is followed by the sequel ''The Forbidden Drink II: Return of the Titans'', which can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14269749/1/The-Forbidden-Drink-II-Return-of-the-Titans here]] or [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49515073/chapters/124969075 here]]. It's expected for there to be three stories making up what is called the ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3667156 Blue Beverage Trilogy]]''.

* AdaptationalExpansion: Chapter 10 shows how Lilith got her harpy form.

The story is now complete, and is being continued with the sequel ''The Forbidden Drink II: Return of the Titans'', which can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14269749/1/The-Forbidden-Drink-II-Return-of-the-Titans here]] or [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49515073/chapters/124969075 here]]. It's expected for there to be three stories making up what is called the ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3667156 Blue Beverage Trilogy]]''.

* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler:Despite the fact that Odalia personally wronged them by driving their friendship apart, Amity and Willow opt not to kill her, though not without severely wounding and torturing her beforehand, instead deciding to let Skara, whose parents died from the Draining Spell and whom Odalia allowed to die by doing nothing about it, and Cat, whom Odalia crippled for life and ripped out her eye while she was a puppet, finish her off.]]

* EyeScream: During the fight with [[spoiler:Kikimora, Camila shoots at her, and said shot goes through one of her head "fingers" and hits her eye.]]

* GodzillaThreshold: With Luz continuing to avoid Amity and the rest of the Hexsquad, Amity binds herself and Luz together with an Everlasting Oath which will kill Amity unless Luz tells the truth about why she's been avoiding her and their friends, forcing Luz to confess why.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Odalia]]. Not only did they damage Cat's body in the previous story, they [[spoiler:fashioned her missing eye into a ring and has been looking for a way to kill Luz.]]

* LoveConfession: In Chapter 26, Cat tells Skara that she has feelings for her and was afraid of never getting to tells her if she stayed a puppet. Skara blushingly confesses her own feelings and the girls hook up, leading to an AlmostKiss.

** In Chapter 28, [[spoiler:the rest of the Hexsquad drink Luz's blood to become Titans as well, in order to become strong enough to beat Odalia.]]