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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS. As is typical with dewicking projects, zero-context examples were deleted, as it is impossible to tell if they are misuse.
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* BalefulPolymorph: A typical Shee punishment.
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''Obsidian Mirror'' is a Sci-Fi / Fantasy novel written by Catherine Fisher.
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''Obsidian Mirror'' is a Sci-Fi / Fantasy novel {{novel}} written by Catherine Fisher.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Jake accuses Venn of this, and the latter actually seems shocked that anyone could believe he would hurt David, who was his best friend. Jake later admits that he needed someone to blame for his father's disappearance, and Venn was the easiest choice.choice.
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Jake learns that his father and Venn, along with Venn's servant Piers, had been experimenting on a obsidian mirror called the Chronoptika. The Chronoptika allows a person to travel through time, and Venn wanted to use it to bring his wife Leah back from the dead. While experimenting with it one day, David, Jake's father, vanished through the mirror, and no one has been able to find him since. Meanwhile, Sarah, a girl who time traveled back from a BadFuture, Maskelyne, who claims to be the original owner of the mirror, and his cohort, Rebecca, are all trying to obtain the mirror for different reasons. The leader of the world in the BadFuture also time travels back to try and stop Sarah.
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Jake learns that his father and Venn, along with Venn's servant Piers, had been experimenting on a obsidian mirror called the Chronoptika. The Chronoptika allows a person to travel through time, and Venn wanted to use it to bring his wife Leah back from the dead. While experimenting with it one day, David, Jake's father, vanished through the mirror, and no one has been able to find him since. Meanwhile, Sarah, a girl who time traveled time-traveled back from a BadFuture, Maskelyne, a sorcerer who claims to be the original owner of the mirror, and his cohort, Rebecca, questionably-girlfriend Rebecca are all trying to obtain the mirror for different reasons. The leader of the world in the BadFuture also time travels back to try and stop Sarah.
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* AffectionateNickname: Maskelyne always calls Rebecca "Becky"; nobody else does.
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* AffectionateNickname: Maskelyne always calls Rebecca "Becky"; nobody else does."Becky".
* CargoEnvy: “Are you really jealous of a mirror, [Rebecca]?”
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* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in The Slanted World.
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* SenseFreak: Gideon gets a brief moment at the end of ''The Slanted Worlds'', being shocked that Piers' soup tastes "of...things" in comparison to Shee food.
* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope inThe ''The Slanted World.Worlds''.
* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in
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* AffectionateNickname: Maskelyne always calls Rebecca "Becky"; nobody else does.
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* IdenticalGrandson: [[spoiler:Sarah is easy to mistake for her grandmother Leah. Her and Venn's first interaction is a WrongNameOutburst on this.]]
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* BalefulPolymorph: A typical Shee punishment.
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** InterruptedSuicide: After their first failure Sarah has to talk him out of shooting himself on the assumption the mirror will never work.
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* AndIMustScream: Going into the mirror without a bracelet or protection apparently forces one to live TheSlowPath in some kind of spacetime void until it decides to spit one back out again. Maskelyne did it deliberately, being about to be police-raided.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: At the end of ''The Obsidian Mirror'', [[spoiler:Sarah]] tells Venn that he does successfully rescue Leah, and [[spoiler:she knows this because she is their great-granddaughter]]. Only problem is, he hasn't already done it yet so now he has to figure out ''how''.
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* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Piers is heavily implied to be a genie, what with his ability to acquire clothing and various tools out of nowhere, his uncanny cooking and electrical skill, and the fact that Maskelyne is able to trap him in a china pot.
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Cross-wicked everything from Bad Future through Icy Blue Eyes with the exceptions of the Fair Folk and Driven to Suicide tropes.
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* UnfazedEveryman: Wharton's job is to deliver Jake safely to Wintercombe Abbey, but he ends up sticking around for the whole story. All things considered, he handles the discovery of the experiments on the Chronoptika, Venn's scheme to bring his wife back, [[spoiler: that Peirs is more than human]], that Sarah is from a BadFuture, and that [[spoiler: David is lost time]] pretty well. He even steps up to the plate when Venn and Jake vanish through the mirror and Piers goes missing to keep the mirror safe himself.
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* UnfazedEveryman: Wharton's job is to deliver Jake safely to Wintercombe Abbey, but he ends up sticking around for the whole story. All things considered, he handles the discovery of the experiments on the Chronoptika, Venn's scheme to bring his wife back, [[spoiler: that Peirs Piers is more than human]], that Sarah is from a BadFuture, and that [[spoiler: David is lost time]] pretty well. He even steps up to the plate when Venn and Jake vanish through the mirror and Piers goes missing to keep the mirror safe himself.
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Not Sure that the attempt to Cross Wick Big Bad actually took. The page has locked me out at the moment so I need to come back to this one. Skipping Despair Event Horizon because the characters cross this and come back thanks to the mirror so I\'d like a 2nd opinion on it before I add it.
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Cross Wicked Bad Future, Big Bad,
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* KidFromTheFuture: Sarah [[spoiler: who is actually Venn's great-grandaughter.]]
* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent: It's an Obsidian Mirror.
* PortalToThePast: How the Mirror works.
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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Combined with WriteBackToTheFuture. Jake gets a letter from his father that is written using a variety of tenses because David has no idea when Jake will see the letter.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Jake accuses Venn of this, and the latter actually seems shocked that anyone could believe he would hurt David, who was his best friend. Jake later admits that he needed someone to blame for his father's disappearance, and Venn was the easiest choice.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Overlaps with TheNeedsOfTheMany. [[spoiler: Sarah asks Venn and Jake a variant of this question after she tells them that in the BadFuture the Chronoptika is destroying the world. Neither of them really care, seeing as both of them want their loved ones back and need the mirror to achieve their goals.]]
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Overlaps with TheNeedsOfTheMany. [[spoiler: Sarah asks Venn and Jake a variant of this question after she tells them that in the BadFuture the Chronoptika is destroying the world. Neither of them really care, seeing as both of them want their loved ones back and need the mirror to achieve their goals.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: UnfazedEveryman: Wharton's job is to deliver Jake accuses safely to Wintercombe Abbey, but he ends up sticking around for the whole story. All things considered, he handles the discovery of the experiments on the Chronoptika, Venn's scheme to bring his wife back, [[spoiler: that Peirs is more than human]], that Sarah is from a BadFuture, and that [[spoiler: David is lost time]] pretty well. He even steps up to the plate when Venn of this, and the latter actually seems shocked that anyone could believe he would hurt David, who was his best friend. Jake later admits that he needed someone to blame for his father's disappearance, vanish through the mirror and Venn was Piers goes missing to keep the easiest choice.
mirror safe himself.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Overlaps with TheNeedsOfTheMany. [[spoiler: Sarah asks Venn and Jake a variant of this question after she tells them that in the BadFuture the Chronoptika is destroying the world. Neither of them really care, seeing as both of them want their loved ones back and need the mirror to achieve their goals.]]]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Jake accuses Venn of this, and the latter actually seems shocked that anyone could believe he would hurt David, who was his best friend. Jake later admits that he needed someone to blame for his father's disappearance, and Venn was the easiest choice.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Overlaps with TheNeedsOfTheMany. [[spoiler: Sarah asks Venn and Jake a variant of this question after she tells them that in the BadFuture the Chronoptika is destroying the world. Neither of them really care, seeing as both of them want their loved ones back and need the mirror to achieve their goals.
* YouKilledMyFather: Jake accuses Venn of this, and the latter actually seems shocked that anyone could believe he would hurt David, who was his best friend. Jake later admits that he needed someone to blame for his father's disappearance, and Venn was the easiest choice.
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* IcyBlueEyes: Venn has these, befitting his status as an IceKing [[spoiler: and as the implied Winter King of the Shee.]]
* ILied: Gideon isone on the receiving end of this twice, once from Jake and once from Sarah.
* ILied: Gideon is
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: [[spoiler: Sarah wants to destroy the mirror to save the future. If she can destroy it the world will be saved, but there will be no way for Venn and Jake to get Leah and David back. Sarah tries to get them to see that the fate of the world is more important, but they don't see it like that.]] See also WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison below.
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* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in The Slanted World.
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* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in The Slanted World.World.
* YouKilledMyFather: Jake accuses Venn of this, and the latter actually seems shocked that anyone could believe he would hurt David, who was his best friend. Jake later admits that he needed someone to blame for his father's disappearance, and Venn was the easiest choice.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Overlaps with TheNeedsOfTheMany. [[spoiler: Sarah asks Venn and Jake a variant of this question after she tells them that in the BadFuture the Chronoptika is destroying the world. Neither of them really care, seeing as both of them want their loved ones back and need the mirror to achieve their goals.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Jake accuses Venn of this, and the latter actually seems shocked that anyone could believe he would hurt David, who was his best friend. Jake later admits that he needed someone to blame for his father's disappearance, and Venn was the easiest choice.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Overlaps with TheNeedsOfTheMany. [[spoiler: Sarah asks Venn and Jake a variant of this question after she tells them that in the BadFuture the Chronoptika is destroying the world. Neither of them really care, seeing as both of them want their loved ones back and need the mirror to achieve their goals.]]
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Cross Wicked Last Name Basis, The Lost Lenore, Parental Abandonment, The Reveal. Not sure about cross-wicking Luke You Are My Father since that\'s a variation on the trope.
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Besides the Chronoptika and everyone after it, Wintercombe Abbey is bordered by a forest said to belong to the Shee, and the Queen of the Shee, Summer, wants Venn to return to them. Gideon, a human boy taken by the Shee, wants Jake to help him get free and back to the time he came from, since if he leave the wood he will die, being as he is a human who is hundreds of years old.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Venn family is rumored to be half-Shee.
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* IceKing: Venn is a male example, cold and distant, and implies he has been like this his whole life except when he was married to Leah. Played with in that [[spoiler: it's implied that he is the Winter King of the Shee, and the counterpart to Summer.]]
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* TheReveal: Two-fold. [[spoiler: The first is that Sarah is Venn's great-grandaughter. The second is that her existence proves that Venn will succeed in bringing Leah back, because he and Leah had no children before she died. To prove that her great-grandmother is Leah and not Summer, Sarah gives Venn a diamond brooch that he buried with Leah.]]
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* EntitledToHaveYou: How Summer views Venn. She was the RomanticRunnerUp the first time around when she lost to Leah.
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: A variation. [[spoiler: Before she leaves, Sarah tells Venn that she is his great-grandaughter.]]
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* TheRival: Summer views Leah as a romantic one, and she calls Leah one to Venn's face when he begs her to let him go through the Summerland to bring Leah back.
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* LostLenore: Leah to Venn. his desire to get her back kicks off the experiments with the mirror.
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* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in The Shattered Worlds.
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* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in The Shattered Worlds.Slanted World.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Discussed trope. When relating the history of the Chronoptika and how he came to have it, Venn admits that at the time David and Piers were working it and caring for him, because after Leah died he was suicidal.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Discussed trope. When relating the history of the Chronoptika and how he came to have it, Venn admits that at the time David and Piers were working on it and they were also caring for him, because after Leah died he was became suicidal.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Janus]] is implied by Sarah to be one. He [[spoiler: rules the world in the future she's from.]]
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jake suffers from this trope, though in his father's case it was unintentional. His mother is said to be alive, but she doesn't seem to have much time for or interest in her son, and is only mentioned in passing in the first book. Sarah also suffers from this, though her parents are explicitly stated to have been arrested by the BigBad of the BadFuture.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jake suffers from this trope, though in his father's case it was unintentional. His mother is said to be alive, but she doesn't seem to have much time for or interest in her son, and is only mentioned in passing in the first book. Sarah also suffers from this, though her parents are explicitly stated to have been arrested by the BigBad of the BadFuture.BadFuture.
* PortalToThePast: How the Mirror works.
* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in The Shattered Worlds.
* PortalToThePast: How the Mirror works.
* TrappedInThePast: Sarah wants to [[spoiler: break the mirror to keep Janus from using it to conquer the world. If she succeeds, she'll suffer from this trope, but she is willing to do it.]] [[spoiler: David]] also suffers from this trope in The Shattered Worlds.
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* DisappearedDad: David to Jake. This trope is what kicks off the story, as Jake is desperate to find his father again.
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* LostLenore: Leah to Venn. his desire to get her back kicks off the experiments with the mirror.mirror.
* ParentalAbandonment: Jake suffers from this trope, though in his father's case it was unintentional. His mother is said to be alive, but she doesn't seem to have much time for or interest in her son, and is only mentioned in passing in the first book. Sarah also suffers from this, though her parents are explicitly stated to have been arrested by the BigBad of the BadFuture.
* ParentalAbandonment: Jake suffers from this trope, though in his father's case it was unintentional. His mother is said to be alive, but she doesn't seem to have much time for or interest in her son, and is only mentioned in passing in the first book. Sarah also suffers from this, though her parents are explicitly stated to have been arrested by the BigBad of the BadFuture.
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* BadFuture: Sarah is from one; she traveled through time to try and prevent it form happening.
* DespairEventHorizon: For Venn, it was the death of his wife. For Jake, it's his father's disappearance.
* DrivenToSuicide: Discussed trope. When relating the history of the Chronoptika and how he came to have it, Venn admits that at the time David and Piers were working it and caring for him, because after Leah died he was suicidal
* TheFairFolk: The Shee, and how.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Summer, Queen of the Shee.
* IceKing: Venn is a male example, cold and distant, and implies he has been like this his whole life except when he was married to Leah. Played with in that [[spoiler: it's implied that he is the Winter King of the Shee, and the counterpart to Summer.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Gideon just wants to go back to the time he came from and live as a human again.
* LastNameBasis: Venn's first name is Oberon. Most people just call him Venn.
* LostLenore: Leah to Venn. his desire to get her back kicks off the experiments with the mirror.
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* BadFuture: Sarah is from one; she traveled through time to try and prevent it form happening.
* DespairEventHorizon: For Venn, it was the death of his wife. For Jake, it's his father's disappearance.
* DrivenToSuicide: Discussed trope. When relating the history of the Chronoptika and how he came to have it, Venn admits that at the time David and Piers were working it and caring for him, because after Leah died he was suicidal
* TheFairFolk: The Shee, and how.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Summer, Queen of the Shee.
* IceKing: Venn is a male example, cold and distant, and implies he has been like this his whole life except when he was married to Leah. Played with in that [[spoiler: it's implied that he is the Winter King of the Shee, and the counterpart to Summer.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Gideon just wants to go back to the time he came from and live as a human again.
* LastNameBasis: Venn's first name is Oberon. Most people just call him Venn.
* LostLenore: Leah to Venn. his desire to get her back kicks off the experiments with the mirror.
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Obsidian Mirror is a Sci-Fi / Fantasy novel written by Catherine Fisher.
When his father disappears, Jake Wilde is desperate to find him. Jake believes he knows exactly who to blame for the disappearance: his mysterious godfather, Oberon Venn. After getting himself kicked out of boarding school, Jake comes to Wintercombe Abbey, Venn's estate, where he tries to unravel his father's disappearance.
Jake learns that his father and Venn, along with Venn's servant Piers, had been experimenting on a obsidian mirror called the Chronoptika. The Chronoptika allows a person to travel through time, and Venn wanted to use it to bring his wife Leah back from the dead. While experimenting with it one day, David, Jake's father, vanished through the mirror, and no one has been able to find him since. Meanwhile, Sarah, a girl who time traveled back from a BadFuture, Maskelyne, who claims to be the original owner of the mirror, and his cohort, Rebecca, are all trying to obtain the mirror for different reasons. The leader of the world in the BadFuture also time travels back to try and stop Sarah.
Besides the Chronoptika and everyone after it, Wintercombe Abbey is bordered by a forest said to belong to the Shee, and the Queen of the Shee, Summer, wants Venn to return to them. Gideon, a human boy taken by the Shee, wants Jake to help him get free and back to the time he came from, since if he leave the wood he will die, being as he is a human hundreds of years old.
Obsidian Mirror was followed by The Slanted World and The Door in the Moon.
When his father disappears, Jake Wilde is desperate to find him. Jake believes he knows exactly who to blame for the disappearance: his mysterious godfather, Oberon Venn. After getting himself kicked out of boarding school, Jake comes to Wintercombe Abbey, Venn's estate, where he tries to unravel his father's disappearance.
Jake learns that his father and Venn, along with Venn's servant Piers, had been experimenting on a obsidian mirror called the Chronoptika. The Chronoptika allows a person to travel through time, and Venn wanted to use it to bring his wife Leah back from the dead. While experimenting with it one day, David, Jake's father, vanished through the mirror, and no one has been able to find him since. Meanwhile, Sarah, a girl who time traveled back from a BadFuture, Maskelyne, who claims to be the original owner of the mirror, and his cohort, Rebecca, are all trying to obtain the mirror for different reasons. The leader of the world in the BadFuture also time travels back to try and stop Sarah.
Besides the Chronoptika and everyone after it, Wintercombe Abbey is bordered by a forest said to belong to the Shee, and the Queen of the Shee, Summer, wants Venn to return to them. Gideon, a human boy taken by the Shee, wants Jake to help him get free and back to the time he came from, since if he leave the wood he will die, being as he is a human hundreds of years old.
Obsidian Mirror was followed by The Slanted World and The Door in the Moon.
