Line #32 Fanfic/MortisMagister


1	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12950901/1/Mortis-Magister Mortis Magister]]'' is a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' [[TheForties 1940s]] AlternateUniverse FixFic with prime-universe BigBad Tom Riddle being an AntiHero this time around.
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3	!! Tropes appearing in this fan fic include:
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5	* AbsentMindedProfessor: Binns. Oh, Merlin, Binns. He can't get anyone's name right (apparently through historical association); Dumbledore becomes Dimbleby, Bonaparte becomes Wellington, Finnegan becomes Flaherty, Perkins becomes Potter and vice versa... Subverted in that he'll throw cricket balls at anyone not paying attention, and he'll become very interesting indeed if someone stays awake long enough to ask a question.
6	* BigBad: Most probably Grindelwald and ThoseWackyNazis. It's a 1940s fic, after all.
7	* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Malfoy Sr was in either one of these or an AncientConspiracy. It's implied that some of their rituals centred on the [[{{AppliedPhlebotinum}} Deathly Hallows]]. Or that they're British Nazis. Or both. Then there's Slughorn's [[InsistentTerminology definitely-not-a-society]] that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial doesn't even have a ''name'']]...
8	* {{Bookworm}}: Tom Riddle and Seraphine Bonaparte. Abraxas, to a lesser extent.
9	* CoolCar: Abraxas Malfoy's silver 1938 Talbot-Lago. For visual reference, it's this [[https://www.sportscarmarket.com/profile/1938-talbot-lago-t150c-ss-teardrop-coupe]]... and did we mention it '''flies'''?
10	* CoolTeacher: "Nick" Flamel and Horace Slughorn.
11	* TheDarkArts: Conversed and played with every which way. The government definition, essentially, boils down to a) BloodMagic, b) anything whose only use is as a weapon (jinxes and hexes) or c) anything PoweredByAForsakenChild. The majority of magical schools teach b), some even teach a)---but only a very few call a spade a spade. Per WordOfGod, even Dark Alchemy exists; Muggles call the result UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons once they discover it.
12	* DeadpanSnarker: Tom. Frequently. Also many of the teachers.
13	* DoomedByCanon: We all know that Merope Riddle is dead, that Tom Riddle Sr is a Muggle, and exactly what happened between Dumbledore, his brother, and Gellert Grindelwald.
14	* EnlightenedSelfInterest: Is the Slytherins' hat.
15	* ExpospeakGag: Malfoy Sr rattles off a LongList of upper-class period synonyms for "gay" (catamite, paederast, a practitioner of the Greek vice)... then finishes it off with the modern "homosexual".
16	* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Heavily [[ImpliedTrope implied]] in the case of Lucius Malfoy's colleagues. Unusually, it's the vampirism that's implied, rather than the friendliness, but with a name like Lucy Westenra...
17	* FunetikAksent: The Malfoys speak in Traditional Received Pronunciation (a la [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1M9ipiZfPk]]; see UsefulNotes/BritishAccents) and this is reflected in the text by his droppin' apostrophes all over the place and speakin' in a frightfull-ear posh way (going to work on a Seturday, for example). [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the case of Seraphine Bonaparte, who's from Corsica and speaks in GratuitousFrench.
18	* HighClassGlass: Lucius Malfoy Sr. wears one.
19	* InterspeciesRomance: Informed for one of the Blacks. Implied that this actually is the case---or at least interspecies '''sex'''---for Abraxas Malfoy.
20	* {{Magitek}}: Borgin and Burke's shop is one that repairs these (and makes them on occasion). In general, this is what wizards use instead of or in addition to "Muggle" technology.
21	* MissingMum: Merope Riddle.
22	* MissingReflection: Malfoy's mirrors are a smartphone Fantasy Counterpart; Lucy doesn't show up in them, though her voice carries just fine, making it more like a normal mobile phone for her.
23	* {{Narcissist}}: Tom. In a way, it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] and discussed at length.
24	* NerdGlasses: Abraxas wears the 1940's equivalent. He's as far away from socially awkward as possible (he suffers from crippling depression, as if to compensate), but he's in the most demanding class of all (think high school quantum mechanics).
25	* PostmodernMagik: Most magic in this book is in this style.
26	* TheSociopath: Tom is one of these, but high-functioning and not criminally violent. Some of his actions literally qualify for KickTheDog, though.
27	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Sex, drugs, and swing, in the case of Abraxas Malfoy. The drug he's on is unspecified, though given his pain issues and its identification as "German poison", it's almost certainly methadone.
28	* SlobsVersusSnobs: The Malfoys are explicitly Snobs, in an Edwardian Britain kind of way. The Weasleys are Slobs, both out of poverty and a conscious rejection of the Malfoy way of life.
29	* StepfordSmiler: Abraxas Malfoy. He knows his time is running out, thanks to a progressive disease comparable to Huntington's, and feels accordingly.
30	* ValuesDissonance: Lucius Malfoy Sr (Jr, per WordOfGod, hasn't been born yet). He's remarkably progressive but makes jokes about gay characters Albus Dumbledore and Hector Fawley, and two of his dogs are named offensive things (one is an ethnic slur, the other is a FantasticSlur).
31	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Quoted word-for-word by Seraphine. Tom answers that...

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