Line #36 Literature/MagicalsAnonymous


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2	[[caption-width-right:209:Face adversity with a smile.]]
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4	->''"While all and any are welcome to attend the regular meetings of Magicals Anonymous, or even pop by at our drop-in surgery, we do ask that if you are inclined to spontaneous combustion or actively leaking organic fluids from the unwinding hollows of your flesh, you use the overalls provided"''
5	-->-- '''Notice pinned to the offices of Magicals Anonymous, 89C Little Lion Street, London'''
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7	'''Magicals Anonymous''' is an UrbanFantasy series by Kate Griffin (a pen name of Creator/CatherineWebb]). It is a sequel to the [[Literature/MatthewSwift Matthew Swift]] series that follows a new protagonist, shaman Sharon Li.
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9	The story opens with the formation of a new community support group for the mystically inclined. Meanwhile, London faces new threats that not just any old magician will be able to face alone.
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11	The novels include:
12	* ''Stray Souls'' (2012)
13	* ''The Glass God'' (2013)
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16	!! Tropes featured include:
17	* AbusiveParents: After being stripped of his wizard powers, [[spoiler: Huntley]] pushed his daughter into casting dangerous, advanced spells far too young, using the sudden glut of his attention after years spent ignoring her for his career to manipulate her to the point that [[spoiler: she was ''happy'' to fuel the glass god from her own life and die for him.]]
18	* [[AmbitionIsEvil Ambition Is Evil]]: [[spoiler:Arthur Huntley.]]
19	* [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personification]]
20	* [[AnyoneCanDie Anyone Can Die]]: Toned down from the previous series, but still apparent.
21	* [[ArcWords Arc Words]]: In ''Stray Souls'': "Don’t look back. It wants you to look back."
22	* {{Backstory}}: The previous series functions as this for characters like the Midnight Mayor and organizations like the Aldermen.
23	* [[BadassBureaucrat Badass Bureaucrat]]: The Aldermen.
24	* [[BarbarianTribe Barbarian Tribe]]: The Tribe.
25	* [[BarrierMaiden Barrier Maiden]]: Greydawn
26	* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware the Nice Ones]]: At the end of ''The Glass God'', Sharon herself says that she's all about cups of tea and talking about your issues and trying to understand your fellow beings' point of view, and Matthew is fire and lightning and is probably the one who'll be remembered as a badass, but that doesn't make her an ''ounce'' less dangerous. Packs an extra punch because she says it [[spoiler: right after she's sacrificed Huntley to Old Man Bone and he realizes what she's done.]]
27	* [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Heroes]]: [[spoiler:Rhys and Sharon]] each do this for each other in ''Stray Souls''; [[spoiler:Sally and later Matthew Swift]] in ''The Glass God''.
28	* [[BlessedWithSuck Blessed with Suck]]: Magicals Anonymous exists for people like this.
29	** Kevin is a vampire, which would normally be pretty awesome, except his body rejects any blood type that isn't O and he is ''very'' [[TerrifiedOfGerms mysophobic]].
30	* [[BloodMagic Blood Magic]]: Plays a major role in ''Stray Souls''.
31	* [[TheChosenOne The Chosen One]]: Rhys says he was "almost" this for the urban druids.
32	* [[DoctorsOrders Doctor's Orders]]: Where Dr. Seah is involved, this is bound to happen.
33	* [[DeadlyEuphemism Deadly Euphemism]]: What Sharon and Rhys initially think Kelly means by "decontamination". (Subverted, however, as she really does just mean cleaning up.)
34	--> '''Rhys''': "There's something about people all in black saying decontamination, see, which really makes my nose itch."
35	* [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]]: Old Man Bone.
36	* FluffyTheTerrible: Dog.
37	* [[GoodIsNotNice Good Is Not Nice]]: Most Aldermen characters fall under this. They may be polite, but they will not hesitate when confronted.
38	* [[HellYesMoment "Hell Yes" Moment]]: [[spoiler:The return of the Midnight Mayor]] in ''The Glass God''.
39	* [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]]: Sharon has one after [[spoiler:killing Zhanyi]].
40	* [[HumanResources Human Resources]]
41	--> '''Gretel''': "Are humans resources?"
42	--> '''Kevin''': "''God'', yes. But like everything else on the planet, they're a resource that's been screwed up."
43	%%* [[IAmLegion I Am Legion]]: The blue electric angels.
44	* [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Sometimes when Jess is upset, she turns into pigeons, whether she wants to or not.
45	%%** Also, [[spoiler:Zhanyi, the striga]].
46	%%* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Matthew being trapped in the telephone lines.]]
47	%%* [[LetsGetDangerous Let's Get Dangerous]]: Rhys, most prominently. Kelly and Kevin also have their moments.
48	%%* [[MagicalSociety Magical Society]]: Many.
49	%%* [[TheMedic The Medic]]: Dr. Seah.
50	%%* [[MightyGlacier Mighty Glacier]]: Gretel.
51	%%* [[MotorMouth Motor Mouth]]: Kelly; Sharon.
52	%%* {{Necromancer}}: Mr. Roding.
53	%%* [[OccultBlueEyes Occult Blue Eyes]]: Matthew Swift. Other characters feel uncomfortable making direct eye contact.
54	* [[OhCrap Oh Crap]]: Happens in ''The Glass God'' when the lights go out while they're in a room with someone who turns into a monster in the dark.
55	%%* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Our Angels Are Different]]
56	* [[PluckyGirl Plucky Girl]]: Kelly Shiring, to the point her optimism routinely draws incredulous looks.
57	%%* [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The glass elemental.
58	%%* [[PowerIncontinence Power Incontinence]]: A few of the people who attend MA meetings, but Rhys and Jess specifically.
59	%%* [[PresentDay Present Day]]
60	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how!
61	* RousingSpeech: A later "scholar's" version of Sharon's Rousing Speech is contrasted with what she really said.
62	* [[RunOrDie Run or Die]]: This is often the case given frequent encounters with insurmountable enemies.
63	* [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!]]: The Midnight Mayor's attitude toward restricting politics.
64	* [[SomeoneHasToDoIt Someone Has to Do It]]: Crompton's rationale for making sacrifices to Old Man Bone; [[spoiler:Sharon using Old Man Bone's blade on Arthur]].
65	* [[SpiritAdvisor Spirit Advisor]]: Dez to Sharon, much to her disappointment.
66	* [[SwitchingPOV Switching P.O.V.]]: The narration generally follows Sharon, but commonly shifts elsewhere.
67	* [[TalkingWithSigns Talking with Signs]]: Sally the banshee, out of politeness for other peoples' eardrums and internal organs.
68	* [[TearJerker Tear Jerker]]: [[spoiler: The death of the Builders. You'd think the [[MisfitMobilizationMoment first victory]] of Magicals Anonymous would be a triumphant scene, but [[DyingAlone the way the builders go]], you actually feel sorry for them.]]
69	* TemptingFate: Immediately after Sharon argues that the Builders wouldn't want to be in a room full of all sorts of magical creatures, it's revealed that they have in fact already infiltrated the Magicals Anonymous meeting.
70	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Swift gives an actual one over Sharon's phone.
71	* [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
72	* WouldHurtAChild: When the chips are down, [[spoiler: Kelly Shiring kills the teenager powering the glass god.]] Not that she's happy about it; this is one of the few times she loses her perpetual peppy smile.

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