History Literature / ZeroSight

* WitchSpecies: Magical abilities are inherited, though the strength of the mage varies between siblings.

[[AC: Work in progress.]]

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* GangOfBullies: The Splotches.
* HeroSecretService: The ICE.

* OldMoney: The Bathorys

* WizardingSchool: Elliot College.

* {{FlayingAlive}}:

* WorldOfSnark: Almost everyone shows the inclination, even the generally serious agents of DEA.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The BiggerBad's plan succeeds, Lambda Squad loses two members and Rei has to leave Elliot to face the consequences of breaking her kin's laws to protect Dieter]].

* WizardsLiveLonger: The magus have much longer lifespans than the [[Muggles Imperiti]], but it's not specified how much.

* Flaying: What Rei does to a mook and the punishment for illegal weft linking.
* Foreshadowing: Every time Dieter gets hurt someone mentions that he heals quickly, and for some reason Rei's blood cures his wounds but no one else's. It's only on the ending chapters of the second book that we learn why: [[spoiler:he is a Damphyr]].

* HapillyMarried: Saddie's parents.

* Muggles: The magus call them Imperiti.

->''My libido had just burst out of the closet and was tripping over the furniture yelling "Who? What? Where?" (Please excuse him. He doesn't get out much)''
-->--'''Dieter Resnick''', '''''Zero Sight'''''

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The BiggerBad's plan succeds, Lambda Squad loses two members and Rei has to leave Elliot to face the consequences of breaking her kin's laws to protect Dieter]].

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Rei is incampable of understanding why Dieter cares about her and why he feels the need to help a dying girl when there are humans dying all the time around the world.
* FantasticRacism: The Magus to the Nostophorus. Justified in that the vampires are uniformily evil.

* {{Masquerade}}: Humans are not aware of the existance of vampires, werewolves, wizards and other magical creatures.

* WorldOfSnark: Almost everyone shows the inclination, even the generally serious agends of DEA.

* Masquerade: Humans are not aware of the existance of vampires, werewolves, wizards and other magical creatures.

* EldritchAbomination: The Lidérc egg, which hatches into a six armed rape monster and attracts werewolves.
* OurMagesAreDifferent: They work using the four classical elements, and each mage has an element they are strong with, one they have affinity with, one they are neutral to and one they are weak against.

* EldritchAbomination: The Lidérc egg, which hatches into a six armed TentacleMonster and attracts werewolves.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade:
** Swords from the Midden can cut a person in half. [[spoiler:Dieter conjures one for Rei twice, and describes it as a white-hilted short sword about two feet long, as transparent as sheet of glass]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The [BiggerBad bigger bad's]] plan succeds, Lambda Squad loses two members and Rei has to leave Elliot to face the consequences of breaking her kin's laws to protect Dieter]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Lidérc egg, which hatches into a six armed rape monster and attracks werewolves.

* SacredHospitality: The principles of Xenia are taken seriously in-universe and [[spoiler:Dieter uses it to prevent Rei from being killed by a member of the council of mages]].

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Swords from the Midden can cut a person in half. [[spoiler:Dieter conjures one for Rei twice, and describes it as a white-hilted short sword about two feet long, as transparent as sheet of glass]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of Zero Sum Dieter plays to Anna's plans and destroys a seal that was holding back an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abomination]], Lambda Squad loses two members and Rei has to leave Elliot to face the consequences of breaking her kin's laws to protect Dieter]].

There are currently two novels in the series, with a third one planned. Unfortunately, due to lack of updates on any of the author's social accounts and the novel's website, there's little chance that it will ever be finished

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of Zero Sum Dieter plays to Anna's plans and destroys a seal that was holding back an [[EldritchAbomination]], Lambda Squad loses two members and Rei has to leave Elliot to face the consequences of breaking her kin's laws to protect Dieter]].

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:At the end of Zero Sum Dieter plays to Anna's plans and destroys a seal that was holding back an [[EldritchAbomination]]]].

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Swords from the Midden can cut a person in half.
** [[spoiler:When Dieter creates the weft link between him and Rei in the abandoned warehouse he conjures one for the first time. Though we never get it, Rei implies that she had help to cut one of the trolls in half.]]
** [[spoiler:During the showdown at the end of book two Dieter uses Hans blood as fuel to create mana and send it to Rei, allowing her to [[OneWingedAngel manifest]]. Once again he conjures the blade and this time we get a description: a white-hilted short sword about two feet long, as transparent as sheet of glass.]]
* AbusiveParents: Hello, Mister Resnick. Rei's parents also count, though that might just be standard for the nostophoros.
* ActionGirl: If the woman is not a Beater (normal human), you can bet she kicks ass.
* AfterActionPatchUp: Rei uses black band-aids and [[spoiler:her own blood]]. Rooster uses his hands.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: So far all every vampire and werewolf seems to fit the trope. Even Rei has trouble with most of the 'good' human emotions.
* Badass: Most of the Magus that get named the book fit this trope.
* BadassCrew: Lambda Squad. A group of combat trained, charm resistant Magus accompanied by a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]. They can teleport between locations, use [[DeathRay death ray]] spells, conjure [[AbsurdlySharpBlade absurdly sharp blades]] and more.
* BadassBookworm:
** Dieter: He is mostly out of shape, Harvard and Duke were in a bidding war over his application, and [[spoiler:by the end of book two he can kill three people with a single spell]].
** Jules Nelson, Adept Magus, the youngest student granted that title in a generation
* BattleCouple: Dieter and Rei, as well as all other Weft Pairs.
* BigBad: Diego Carrera, the two hundred years old Mexican Magus who is waging war against the all other Magus.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Rei's half-sister, Anna, who is pulling the strings behind the series BigBad]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Jules saves Dieter from an ACT powered Saddie during the showndown in Las Vegas]]
* ShoutOut: Rei likes My Fair Lady and both she and her sisters love Die Hard

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Swords conjured from the Midden.
** [[spoiler:The first time is when Dieter creates the weft link between him and Rei in the abandoned warehouse. Though we never get to see the blade he conjured for Rei, she implies that she had help to cut one of the trolls in half.]]
** [[spoiler:The second time is when Dieter uses Hans blood as fuel to create mana and send it to Rei, allowing her to [[OneWingedAngel manifest]]. Once again he conjures the blade, which is short sword about two feet long, as transparent as sheet of glass and white-hilted.]]

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