History Fanfic / UnderCoverOfDarkness

* ArcherArchetype: Phoebe. She only uses a crossbow.

* CrapsackWorld: It ''is'' a ZombieApocalypse after all.
%%* DaylightHorror

-->"We could go the cliché route and name her after our dead mothers, but she doesn't look like a 'Linda Jean.' Y'know what, let's just not name her after anyone we know that's dead."

* TheDragon: Janet.

* EvilRedhead: Janet.

* HandicappedBadass: Mikey. He's a talented sniper, and the others don't treat him different.

* TheHero: While most of them have had their moments, Ralphie is definitely the main one.

--> This was the look of a girl who died once, was stabbed with an arrow, and would now have multiple facial scars. This was a girl who shot her share of maulers. This was a girl who was no longer afraid of anything.
-->No, not a girl.
-->''A woman''.

* LateToTheTragedy
* TheLeader: Ralphie. Type II/III.

* MamaBear: Wanda to William.

* NotSoWeak: Phoebe.

* PapaWolf: Ralphie to Robbie.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Dorothy Ann's weapon of choice is her revolver. Later, Robbie wields one.
* SawedOffShotgun: Keesha's Mare's Leg.
* SexForSolace: [[spoiler: Arnold and Wanda.]]

--> All three were stubborn as hell. [Dorothy Ann] couldn't remember if Ralphie and Phoebe were always that way or just became more and more like one another over the years, but either way, Robbie was definitely their brother.

* ShowerOfLove: Arnold and Phoebe in chapter eleven.

* SleptThroughTheApocalypse
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Phoebe.

* WallBangHer: Arnold has Phoebe against the glass in a guard tower.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Arnold and Ralphie and by chapter twenty [[spoiler:Arnold with nearly everyone, including Phoebe.]]

* ZombieApocalypse
* ZombieFic
* ZombieInfectee: Mostly dealt with a shot to the head or the infected part cut off.

* LoveTriangle: A [[TriangRelations type 4]] between Arnold, Phoebe, and Wanda. Thinking his girlfriend was dead, Arnold began an affair with Wanda, ending it once he saw Phoebe was alive.

%%* AsianAirhead: Wanda. Type one.

* AnAxeToGrind:
** Tim's weapon of choice is a hatchet.
** Ralphie carries one, too, which he used to amputate [[spoiler: Tim's grandfather Hershel's]] leg when he's bitten by a mauler.

* BreakTheCutie: Phoebe, considering [[spoiler:she woke up alone in an abandoned hospital after the apocalypse happens and the next day has to kill a friend to keep her from turning into a zombie.]] It has gone downhill from there, considering [[spoiler:she gets impaled with an arrow, scars her face, gets her nose broken, breaks up with Arnold because he got another girl pregnant, loses half her ear from a mauler, is wanted for murder, and is tortured when arrested.]]

* FriendlySniper: Mikey.
* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler:Carlos and Keesha's first time.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex
* HandCannon: Keesha's "Mare's Leg".

* HateAtFirstSight: Janet to Phoebe.

* HypotheticalCasting: The cover of the fic uses actors for the grown versions of the gang, Janet, Carlos' brother Mikey, and the OC little brother of Ralphie and Phoebe, Robbie. The actors used were [[Series/GameOfThrones Kit Harington]] (Ralphie), Crator/NatashaOKeeffe (Phoebe), [[Series/GameOfThrones Richard Madden]] (Arnold), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Tim), Jennifer Lawrence (D.A.), Camille Cresencia-Mills (Wanda), Antonia Thomas (Keesha), Sebastian de Souza (Carlos), Deborah Ann Woll (Janet), Luke Pasqualino (Mikey), and [[Series/TheWalkingDead Chandler Riggs]] (Robbie).

* OneBulletLeft: In chapter fourteen, [[spoiler:Phoebe uses her last arrow with her, which she was stabbed with after a fall, to kill a mauler]].

* ATasteOfTheLash: In chapter 28, [[spoiler: Phoebe]] is flogged with a cat o' nine tails by [[spoiler: Janet]] while [[spoiler: Arnold]] is forced to listen.

* AnyoneCanDie: Averted until chapter 34 when [[spoiler: Arnold, half of the OfficialCouple,]] dies. [[spoiler: Tim, Dorothy Ann, Wanda, and Janet]] follow soon after.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: In chapter 25, [[spoiler: Tim's cousin Maggie dies saving Mikey and Robbie as Wanda starts giving birth]].

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. The first character killed "on screen" is [[spoiler: Tiffany, a blonde white girl]], and the first of the main eight to die is [[spoiler: Arnold]].
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Mikey makes [[spoiler: Dorothy Ann]] a metal prosthetic with a knife attached after she loses her arm in chapter 28.

%%* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler: Phoebe]] in chapter 28.

* BreakTheCutie: Phoebe, considering [[spoiler: she woke up alone in an abandoned hospital after the apocalypse happens and the next day has to kill a friend to keep her from turning into a zombie]]. It has gone downhill from there, considering [[spoiler: she gets impaled with an arrow, scars her face, gets her nose broken, breaks up with Arnold because he got another girl pregnant, loses half her ear from a mauler, is wanted for murder, and is tortured when arrested]].

** Wanda and William would take on guard duty as a team [[spoiler: when he was alive, of course]].
* ByronicHero: Arnold. A charming nice-guy pretty-boy who broods over the deaths of his parents, the supposed death of his girlfriend, the end of his and Ralphie's friendship, and having to confess his affair with Wanda to his not-dead girlfriend, Phoebe. His arrogance and temper drives the others away from him, and finding out about him and Wanda has Phoebe end their relationship. [[spoiler: He eventually leaves the group, believing his absence will ease the tension and let the others, especially Phoebe, move on, despite the fact he still loves her very much.]]

* CloseCallHaircut: Wanda shoots [[spoiler: Phoebe]], who she mistakes for a mauler, but the bullet only grazes her scalp.

%%* CoveredWithScars: [[spoiler: Phoebe]].

** Played straight in the epilogue [[spoiler: with Arnold and Phoebe's daughter Arya, whose middle name is "Ann"]].
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Arnold's last words before the Governor kills him]].

* DivorceIsTemporary: [[spoiler: Arnold and Phoebe]] get back together in chapter 27. When he asks her to remarry him, she tells him, "Technically, we never divorced."

* EatenAlive: Most victims of the maulers, including [[spoiler: Carlos' mother and Tim's cousin, Maggie]].

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Arnold when the Governor kills him]].

* {{Fingore}}: During a blackout rage, [[spoiler: Wanda]] cuts off [[spoiler: Phoebe's]] left ring finger. She later tells Janet that, unlike her, she didn't enjoy the torture.

* ForcedToWatch: In chapter 27, Carlos is forced to watch and listen as [[spoiler: Janet has Phoebe arrested and then stripped]]. In chapter 28, [[spoiler: Arnold]] is forced to watch when [[spoiler: Janet and her officers parade a beaten and naked Phoebe]] through town. He then has to listen as she's whipped, and she has to hear him being beaten.

** Storge: The Terese-Tennelli siblings, the Ramon brothers, the Reynoldses, and [[spoiler: Wanda and William before he died]].

* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler: Carlos and Keesha's first time]].

* HandCannon: Keesha's "Mare's Leg."

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In chapter 23, after realizing that his presence in the group is causing too much tension, [[spoiler: Arnold]] leaves the group and goes out on his own. Before he leaves, he writes a letter to [[spoiler: Phoebe]], telling her that he just wants her happy and safe.
* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler: Phoebe, who still had her signature flip]] shaves her hair into a short fauxhawk.

** Ralphie cuts off [[spoiler: Tim's grandfather Hershel's]] leg to save him after he's bitten.
** [[spoiler: Dorothy Ann]] cuts off half of her own arm when she's bitten twice.

** In chapter four, [[spoiler: Phoebe shoots Tiffany in the head after she's bitten to save her from becoming a mauler]].
** In chapter sixteen, [[spoiler: a mauler-William is shot by Phoebe, which causes Wanda to take her anger and grief out on her, breaking Phoebe's nose in the process]].
** In chapter twenty, [[spoiler: Carlos' mother is attacked by a mauler, and Ralphie shoots her to save her from changing]].

* MurderSuicide: In chapter 35, [[spoiler: Janet]] shoots [[spoiler: the Governor]] before turning the gun on herself.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Janet]] thinks this after she inadvertently [[spoiler: kills Judith]].

* NotUsingTheZWord: They're called "maulers."
* OhCrap: Happens often, with the characters often thinking "''Shit!''", with exception to Ralphie and Phoebe's little brother, Robbie, who thinks "''Crap!''".
* OneBulletLeft: In chapter fourteen, [[spoiler: Phoebe uses her last arrow with her, which she was stabbed with after a fall, to kill a mauler]].
* OneThingLedToAnother: How [[spoiler: Ralphie and D.A.]] get together.

* RecklessGunUsage: Wanda when she shoots [[spoiler: Phoebe, who she thought was a mauler]], despite the others telling her to hold her fire. Thinking she has the shot, she fires. Ralphie takes her rifle from her as a result.

* SexForSolace: [[spoiler: Arnold and Wanda]].

*** Some of the chapter names: "The Night's Watch," "The Perlsteins of Winterfell," "There Must Always Be a Stark in Winterfell," "Valar Morghulis," "Nymeria the Warrior Queen," "What is Dead May Never Die," and "Family, Duty, Honor."

*** Arnold calls Janet "Ramsay Bolton."

*** While crying over [[spoiler: Dorothy Ann's]] body, Phoebe quotes Loras Tyrell, "When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."
*** Robbie goes by "Robb" in the epilogue (Phoebe's idea), and [[spoiler: Arnold and Phoebe's daughter]] is named "Arya."

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Arnold and Ralphie and by chapter twenty [[spoiler: Arnold with nearly everyone, including Phoebe]].
* WithThisRing: Phoebe takes off to a mauler-infested Walkerville to look for a wedding ring for Arnold but is nearly killed by [[spoiler: Janet]].

* AbandonedHospitalAwakening
* ActionGirl: Keesha, Wanda, Dorothy Ann, ''and'' Phoebe.
* ActionSurvivor: All of them.

* AlphaBitch: Janet.
* AmicableExes: Arnold and Tiffany.

* AsianAirhead: Wanda. Type one.
* AutoErotica: [[spoiler: Carlos and Keesha]] in chapter fifteen.
* BadassBeard: Arnold and Ralphie.
* BadassBoast: Phoebe to the prisoners in chapter 22.

* BadassBookworm: Dorothy Ann.
* BatterUp
* BetaCouple: Ralphie and Dorothy Ann.
* BettyAndVeronica: Phoebe and Wanda to Arnold.

* BigDamnHeroes
* BigNo

* BitchAlert: Janet's reappearance in chapter 24.

* BoomHeadshot
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler: Phoebe]] in chapter 28.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Arnold and Phoebe.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Ralphie and Phoebe have done their share of asskicking together, such as taking on a group of maulers while keeping five prisoners under control.
** Also, Wanda and William would take on guard duty as a team [[spoiler: when he was alive, of course]].

* CampUnsafeIsntSafeAnymore

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Ralphie.

* CoolBike: Phoebe's 1968 Honda CB 350 is pretty damn cool and pretty useful.
* CoveredWithScars: [[spoiler: Phoebe]].

* DaylightHorror

* {{Adorkable}}: Phoebe.

* HypotheticalCasting: The cover of the fic uses actors for the grown versions of the gang, Janet, Carlos' brother Mikey, and the OC little brother of Ralphie and Phoebe, Robbie. The actors used were [[Series/GameOfThrones Kit Harington]] (Ralphie), Natasha O'Keeffe (Phoebe), [[Series/GameOfThrones Richard Madden]] (Arnold), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Tim), Jennifer Lawrence (D.A.), Camille Cresencia-Mills (Wanda), Antonia Thomas (Keesha), Sebastian de Souza (Carlos), Deborah Ann Woll (Janet), Luke Pasqualino (Mikey), and [[Series/TheWalkingDead Chandler Riggs]] (Robbie).

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9046140/1/Under-Cover-of-Darkness Under Cover of Darkness]]'' is a 145,227 word, multi-chapter ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' {{Fanfic}} by Creator/{{the ultimateSora}}. It's a big ShoutOut of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', the story following a similar storyline, but it does have its obvious differences. It's not a true crossover, as none of the characters from TWD appear, nor is the story set in Georgia. Like in the ultimateSora's other fics, which put the gang in Ms. Frizzle's class during the 1995-1996 school year, the fic [[TwentyMinutesIntoThePast is set in 2005-2006]], making them 18-19. Only part of it takes place in [[HollywoodNewEngland Walkerville]], though later chapters do bring the town back.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9046140/1/Under-Cover-of-Darkness Under Cover of Darkness]]'' is a 145,227 word, multi-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[Creator/TheUltimateSora the ultimateSora]]. It's a big ShoutOut of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', the story following a similar storyline, but it does have its obvious differences. It's not a true crossover, as none of the characters from TWD appear, nor is the story set in Georgia. Like in the ultimateSora's other fics, which put the gang in Ms. Frizzle's class during the 1995-1996 school year, the fic [[TwentyMinutesIntoThePast is set in 2005-2006]], making them 18-19. Only part of it takes place in [[HollywoodNewEngland Walkerville]], though later chapters do bring the town back.

* ZombieInfectee: Mostly dealt with a shot to the head or the infected part cut off.

** ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': Since the story is set in 2005, it's made clear the references are from the book series, not [[Series/GameOfThrones the show]]. As Phoebe's a fan of the books, references are sprinkled throughout.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Phoebe's crossbow, which is silent and has reusable ammo.

* RedheadedHero: Arnold and Phoebe.

** ''{{Misfits}}''

*** "[[AStormOfSwords You're mine...mine as I'm yours, and if we die, we die. All men must die, Arnold Perlstein, but first we'll live.]]"

* HypotheticalCasting: The cover of the fic uses actors for the grown versions of the gang, Janet, Carlos' brother Mikey, and the OC little brother of Ralphie and Phoebe, Robbie. The actors used were [[GameOfThrones Kit Harington]] (Ralphie), Natasha O'Keeffe (Phoebe), [[GameOfThrones Richard Madden]] (Arnold), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Tim), Jennifer Lawrence (D.A.), Camille Cresencia-Mills (Wanda), Antonia Thomas (Keesha), Sebastian de Souza (Carlos), Deborah Ann Woll (Janet), Luke Pasqualino (Mikey), and [[Series/TheWalkingDead Chandler Riggs]] (Robbie).

** ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': Since the story is set in 2005, it's made clear the references are from the book series, not [[GameOfThrones the show]]. As Phoebe's a fan of the books, references are sprinkled throughout.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9046140/1/Under-Cover-of-Darkness Under Cover of Darkness]]'' is an in-progress, multi-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[Creator/TheUltimateSora the ultimateSora]]. It's a big ShoutOut of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', the story following a similar storyline, but it does have its obvious differences. It's not a true crossover, as none of the characters from TWD appear, nor is the story set in Georgia. Like in the ultimateSora's other fics, which put the gang in Ms. Frizzle's class during the 1995-1996 school year, the fic [[TwentyMinutesIntoThePast is set in 2005-2006]], making them 18-19. Only part of it takes place in [[HollywoodNewEngland Walkerville]], though later chapters do bring the town back.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: In chapter 25, [[spoiler: Maggie dies saving Mikey and Robbie as Wanda starts giving birth]].

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. The first character killed "on screen" is [[spoiler: Tiffany, a blonde white girl]], and the first of the main eight to die is [[spoiler: Arnold]]. Tim and Keesha, the main black characters, are both alive and well as of chapter 34.

*** Phoebe: "[[AStormOfSwords You're mine...mine as I'm yours, and if we die, we die. All men must die, Arnold Perlstein, but first we'll live.]]"

* AnyoneCanDie: Averted until chapter 34 when [[spoiler: Arnold, half of the OfficialCouple,]] dies. Now it's possible anyone could go in the coming chapters.

* DeadGuyJunior: Averted with Judith Perlstein.

*** Some of the chapter names: "The Night's Watch," "The Perlsteins of Winterfell," "There Must Always Be a Stark in Winterfell," "Valar Morghulis," and "Nymeria the Warrior Queen."

* ZombieInfectee: Mostly dealt with a shot to the head or the infected part cut off.
* ZombieFic

* ZombieInfectee: Mostly dealt with a shot to the head or the infected part cut off.