Fanfic / Amulet Serosity

Ever since the beginning, the beings of light, and the beings of darkness, lived in complete balance and harmony with each other, bringing peace to the world with the best of their skills. However, if one day, this perfect harmony were to shatter, something really horrible would happen...

The sky would darken, filled with terror and screams. The land would shatter, with shock and despair. Finally, the Earth would die, gasping sorrowfully for her final breath. To stop that calamity from ever happening, one day... A trio of heroes would appear on the world's edge.

A human. A monster. And a princess from the Dark.

Only they, with their talents of leadership, strength, and magic, could be able to seal the fountains and banish the Angel's Heaven. Only they could be able to save the world from its fate and restore the rightful balance between light and dark...

Today, there is a single fountain of Darkness - a geyser of pure energy - that is giving this world shape. Recently, however, a new fountain was spotted on the horizon. Thanks to it, the balance of the two worlds is shifting once more...

— Chapter 4, The Prophecy

Amulet Serosity is a Deltarune Massive Multiplayer Crossover Fusion Fic fanfic created by Minecraft Fan 11 (known on Archive of Our Own as ArtyMyella). It is the "sequel/spinoff" of (or, as the summary puts it, "A story that is somehow related to") Mysterioustale.

Pacifica is a 15/16-years old teenager, and the only human living in the only magical town in America; Hometown, Oregon. While most of her family has some talent to speak of, Pacifica is an outsider due to her bitter, sad personality, and to make matters worse, she's the target of the most popular boy in the local high school. She and him, however, are barely aware they are destined to work together, along with someone who lives in the dark, to save the world from oblivion.

So far, the characters that appear in this work are from Gravity Falls, Sonic the Hedgehog, Friday Night Funkin', and Steven Universe. A returning character from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is also there.

Tropes in Amulet Serosity include:

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Played With. Pacifica was spared from being raised by her horrible Northwest parents from her canon show (a narrative line in Chapter 1 heavily hints they're still her biological parents, but she was Happily Adopted before they could do anything). But she's the All the Other Reindeer to a degree to the town, dearly misses her adoptive brother Tails who's out in college, and is the only one who knows Senpai's secret (and she is verbally abused by him when they are far from everyone). The narration in the first paragraph of Chapter 3 heavily hints that the combined stress drove her to Self-Harm.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Donwplayed with Peridot. She is more of a goofy Iron Butt Monkey without many physical means in a fight in canon, and her Extra-ore-dinary powers are more used for alternate means. Here, she weaponizes it with metal spears and is slightly more competent in combat, but it doesn't change how she comes across as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
  • Also downplayed with Pacifica. In her parent work, she's an Action Survivor and Badass Pacifist. Here, she holds an ax and seems more willing to get dirty.
• Age Lift: Pacifica is uplifted from a 12/13-years old preteen to Kris' age (a late teenager). Peridot, meanwhile, is possibly a genuine kid of toddler age range instead of the equivalent for a Time Abyss species.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Pacifica is, in spite of being a pretty cynic and introspective teenager, comparatively much nicer than her canon self, and is not out to bully others. Justified, since she grew up with a loving family instead of Abusive Parents that tried to mold her into an Alpha Bitch, and planned for her to become something worse.
• The Bully: Senpai is this for Pacifica, tormenting her with terror and verbal insults simply because she knows his facade is a lie and she refuses to be with him. This also extends to the younger major characters (Cream and Peridot), both of whom he treats with disdain.
• Broken Bird: Pacifica. Her only full-time active caretaker is her adoptive mother, her adoptive brother is in college, she's stressed because of Senpai's emotional bullying and the fact she can't communicate about it to anyone... in a nutshell, she didn't catch much of a break.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Peridot certainly didn't lose the haughty attitude yet from one work to the fic.
• Blue Is Heroic: In the Dark World, Pacifica gains blue skin, hair, and mostly outfit, and she's The Leader among The Chosen Many.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Senpai, just like in Friday Night Funkin, is this in spades. His classmates whisper about how he's so nice, smart, and perfect, but Pacifica is aware of how much of a selfish, forcing bully he is. Unfortunately, she knows her classmates (and presumably the whole town) are oblivious of that truth, so she can't run for them to help.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Cream is the nicest of the protagonists, polite and hopeful to a fault, and even with some shades of childish naivete. It doesn't stop her from being pretty serious, honest, and scolding whenever the topic is Senpai's behavior and how much he emotionally scarred Pacifica.
• Cool Board: Peridot rides a skateboard. She uses her metal-controlling powers to make it power, simply for Rule of Cool.
• Catchphrase Insult: Downplayed with Senpai, who still uses "worm" to describe some characters. Played very straight, though, with Peridot and her iconic "clod".
• Child Mage: Cream is the youngest character of the whole ensemble, yet is the White Mage, skilled particularly at healing and inducing sleep.
• Color Motif:
  • Pacifica wears blue (respectively, cyan in the Light World and darker shades in the Dark World), symbolizing her being The Hero, her femininity, but also her melancholic character.
  • Senpai wears blue and pink in the Light World, helping in enhancing the The Ace facade he has. In the Dark World, instead, his skin is red (which can be associated with anger and violence; and is also the color of his real form as the narration described) and purple (supernatural forces and power), and his clothes are brown and gold (respectively, filthiness/decay and heroism), showing his decaying facade, how he's not as pretty as he appears to be, yet how he's destined to become heroic.
  • Cream wears orange, associated with warmth and enthusiasm, combining with her The Cutie attitude.
  • Peridot's major color, green, is more on the ironic side, however, as it mostly tends to symbolize tranquility and balance, contrasting her initial snotty brat attitude.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Slightly veering onto "Contrasting Spin-Off Main Character" instead, but nonetheless counts.
  • While Pacifica, like Coraline, is a Deadpan Snarker and a brave hero going through The Homeward Journey that embodies Blue Is Heroic in the hair, their similarities sort of end there. Coraline is a spirited, more talkative preteen whose reason to be rude is simply frustration with her home's moving stress and, once that gets out of her head and she learns about the Underground (by going there on curiosity), she grows less rude and becomes nicer, not to mention her becoming an Actual Pacifist. Pacifica is a quieter, relatively more polite, and more introspective late teen who has a slightly harder life that justifies her cynism and never expected to be The Hero. She didn't even choose to visit The Dark World; she was dragged there, unwittingly, and by force.
  • Senpai and Cream are The Hero's inhuman sidekicks of opposing gender, with the girl being heart-driven and the boy appearing more eloquent in comparison, like Dipper and Mabel. Unlike them, respectively, Senpai is a selfish, abrasive jerk (contrasting Dipper's snarky, but genuinely nice persona), and Cream is comparatively more soft-spoken, mature and timid (contrasting Mabel's kiddy, energetic and loud persona). Also, while the twins were unable to physically help Coraline and served as Spirit Advisors, Senpai and Cream exist physically along with Pacifica, and the former is a machete welding The Berserker, while the latter is the White Mage.
• Cool Teacher: Downplayed, but Ami, a returning character from Mysterioustale, seems to be this as one of Hometown's teachers, coming across as cherry and goofy.
• Darker and Edgier: Than Mysterioustale. The stakes are higher, the heroes, side characters, and villains alike are more jaded/mean/broken (especially the protagonist, Pacifica), and it only mildly shies away from a swear and Self-Harm.
• Elective Mute: Pacifica is hinted, but not stated yet, to be a downplayed version of this trope, being capable of talking, but choosing to do it in short sentences, and only with some select group of people. Namely, the ones that treat her with any sort of human decency, which is why in the early chapters, she refuses to speak to Senpai.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Peridot has her canonical metal-bending powers. She weaponizes them by throwing metal as thin, spear-shaped shards.
• Entitled to Have You: It's mildly hinted through the story, especially early, that Senpai wants Pacifica to be close to him, especially with how frequently he refers to her as "his". This is one of the reasons why Pacifica hates him and yet fears him.
• Foil:
  • Pacifica and Senpai: The quieter, but more warm-hearted outcast (plus the sole human of Hometown), and the talkative but suffocating popular one.
  • Cream and Peridot: The younger, but much more mature and visibly kind and pacific White Mage princess, and the (slightly) older, but very immature and egotistical metal-bender darkness princess.
• Fisher Kingdom: Once Pacifica and Senpai find their way into the Dark World, their appearances change. Pacifica's skin and hair color change to blue and she obtains a dress with a belt and a chest plate, and Senpai gains red hair, purple skin, and brown and gold outfits.
• Good Morning, Crono: Pacifica is woken up by her adoptive mother, Amy Rose, in the first chapter, unaware she's about to embark on an adventure.
• Happily Adopted: Pacifica was born from "a particularly black-hearted family" (namely, the Northwests), but was adopted by Amy and Sonic. She grows up with a much healthier family than she possibly could've had...
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Double Subverted with Pacifica, who is a Knight in Sour Armor but definitely The Hero, and so far Subverted with her bully, Senpai.
• The Heart: Cream the Rabbit is probably the most wholehearted, genuinely heroic of The Chosen Many.
• Lemony Narrator: Like in its predecessor, this fic's narration has some dry wits.
• Light Liege, Dark Defender: A example where the Dark Defender is the central character. Cream is more of a Martial Pacifist who hates fighting that isn't used for the means of self-defense and protecting a loved one and is a lovably sweet, wise, and polite child. Pacifica holds an ax in battle with serious finesse and is much more cynical, brooding, and introspective thanks to being an outcast and the amount of bullying she suffered. Pacifica handles the aggressiveness and strategies, and receives Cream's support and kindness in return.
• Mr. Exposition: Cream's introduction involves her explaining to Pacifica and Senpai the prophecy, and later she teaches the former about how to get across the Dark World. Amethyst, in Chapter 7, explains the Lightners and Darkner's relationship in the past, and a bit of the Kingdom's backstory.
• Morality Pet: Downplayed. Pacifica is mostly good-natured, if not neutral-minded on her own, but she's fundamentally broken, jaded, and anti-social. Cream wants to bring out her best during the quest.
• No Fourth Wall: Exaggerated. The reader is a character. Specifically, they are the SOUL that Pacifica has.
• Power Trio: The Chosen Many (Pacifica, Senpai, and Cream) form one... except that it's more dysfunctional compared to others.
  • Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Cream is Beauty (the Nice Girl White Mage), Pacifica is Brains (the Broken Bird Knight in Sour Armor and The Leader), and Senpai is Brawn (The Berserker and Bitch in Sheep's Clothing).
  • Nice Mean And In Between: Cream is the Nice (a sweet Nice Girl that uses Japanese politeness mannerisms and has a soft-spoken voice), Senpai is the Mean (the story doesn't waste time to show that, underneath his The Ace facade, he's aloof, forcing, and abusive), Pacifica is the In-Between (brooding and cynical but not mean and unheroic, and just sought to survive the perils of high school before entering the Dark World).
• The Quiet One: Pacifica is much less of a talker than Coraline in Mysterioustale ever was, only addressing some people and just addressing them with pretty short sentences. It almost borders on a downplayed version of Elective Mute.
• Red Right Hand: Downplayed. Senpai is an Anti-Hero bordering on Nominal Hero, and in the Dark World, his real appearance (described as a red wisp) leaks through his Shapeshifter Default Form (specifically, on the left side of his face and his right hand).
• Significant Anagram: Amulet Serosity is Mysterioustale's anagram. It is also the name of the symbol of the magical beings.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Preferred form variation. Senpai is described to actually be a red wisp but takes an animesque boy appearance to blend in better and enhance his persona. In the Dark World, this form of his suffers Glamour Failure and pieces of his real self can be seen.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Downplayed with Pacifica, who's more The Quiet One, snarky, and grumpy than a full-blown jerk, but terribly mangled deep down.
• Teens Are Monsters:
  • Defied and Averted with Pacifica, who is just trying to survive high school and eventually is revealed to be The Hero and leader of a trio of prophetic heroes.
  • Also Averted with Pacifica's classmates, as she seems to have a neutral or slightly positive relationship with them, and she can't fully blame them for not helping her against Senpai as they are blissfully unaware of his true nature.
  • Played straight with Senpai, though. For his entire class and the teachers, The Ace. For Pacifica, her tormentor, bully, and her worst nightmare.
• Trapped in Another World: Pacifica and Senpai enter a world behind their high school's supply closet. Specifically, the Dark World.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Played with. Cream the Rabbit is presumably her canon age here as well (six), and yet is aware of the prophecy and has an eloquent vocabulary for her age. This notably makes her a Foil to Peridot.
• White Magician Girl: Cream is the kind, sweet and empathetic White Mage of the Fun Gang, frequently using Japanese Politeness and treating everyone she meets courteously.

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