Tinka og Sjælens Spejl is a Danish Jule Kalender that first aired in 2022 on Danish TV2. It is the sequel to Tinkas Juleeventyr and Tinka Og Kongespillet.
Some time after Tinka og Kongespillet, the new Assembly is having difficulties since Tinka and the others are having problems agreeing on which issues throughout the realm to prioritize and how to resolve them. When Falke, Birk and Grot decide to remove Tinka from the leader position, Tinka starts losing faith in herself. Tinka goes to speak to Ingi in the Tower of Loneliness, leading to the discovery that Storm may have had a second child. Tinka sets out to find out if she truly does have a sibling in the human world, not realizing she's playing right into Ingi's plans...
In the human world, Lasse is starting to get serious about a potential music career, Maja decides to take a different approach to her online dating, and she and Mikkel consider whether they should sell their farm and move somewhere else, and Astrid tries to figure out what to do when she realizes that her new friend at school seemingly isn't quite as enthusiastic about Christmas as her.
Tropes
- Accidental Misnaming: Flora has some difficulty remembering the names of the other three members of the Assembly, which is one of the reasons they start to catch on that something is up and decide to follow her to find out why "Tinka" is acting so strange.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Tinka comments that Fileas seems more concerned about saving his own skin rather than stopping Ingi's plans, and asks him one of these:Tinka: "Fileas, you know that Flora and I are the only family you have left, right?"
- Character Tics: Nissetegneren's left eyebrow twitches when someone makes a correct assumption about the answer to a question he doesn't want to answer due to his oath to only serve the king. Flora quickly catches on to this, and exploits it to narrow down the places to search for the crystal that Ingi wants her to find. In the finale, when Nissetegneren sees how miserable Tinka is without Lasse, he tips Tinka off to this tic so she can use the same method to find out how to restore the connection between the worlds.
- Chekhov's Gun: The "loser frog", a small plastic frog that Tinka brought back from the human world. When Tinka learns that an item from the human world might help restore the link between her world and the human world after the events of the moonless night, she quickly goes to find it.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- The Assembly have Tinka removed from the leader position because they don't agree with her ideas for which regions' issues to prioritize and how to deal with them. It quickly becomes apparent that removing Tinka from her position didn't solve anything, since Falke, Birk and Grot can't agree on which of them should take over, and other nisser start getting even more annoyed with the lack of anything being done.
- Tinka and Flora decide to switch lives for four days, giving each other some basic info on how to act around certain people. Of course, there's still a lot they don't know about each other's worlds (plus, the fact that Tinka doesn't know how to read) and how to handle the other twin's responsibilities, and they realize they have to quickly work out how to obtain the necessary info from others to keep up the act.
- Everyone Has Standards: While he is initially going along with Ingi's plans in hopes of becoming king, Fileas gradually starts to question what exactly Ingi is planning. While supposed to trap Flora in one of the troll crypts while pretending to guide her back home, Fileas finds the petrified trolls, and recalling the words of a children's rhyme he heard earlier, pieces together that Ingi intends to free them, and quickly decides to get out of there and take Flora to the actual portal back to the human world.
- Half-Human Hybrid: In addition to the usual Fantastic Racism Tinka has had to deal with, her half-human status ends up also playing a bigger part when she discovers the existence of her twin sister, Flora, and that Ingi's plan to revive the trolls requires both of them for a ceremony that will make "two halves into two wholes", in other words, one (Tinka) would become fully nisse and one (Flora) fully human.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Grimbold hid his riddle in a "place no one would look for it". It turns out to be hidden in a well-known rhyme sang by nisse children.
- Loophole Abuse: Nissetegneren has sworn an oath to only serve the nisse king, but reluctantly provides some info to Tinka and the others over the course of the series when necessary. In a few instances, Flora exploits a Character Tic of his to get the info she needs. In the finale, Nissetegneren takes pity on a forlorn Tinka and tips her off to his tic so he can give her the information she needs without going against his oath.
- Love Epiphany: Over the course of the series, Tinka and Lasse realize they've developed romantic feelings for each other.
- Missed Him by That Much: When Tinka and Lasse first visit the school lodgings to look for Tinka's sibling, Lasse can't find the person's name on the board, and they decide to head home so Lasse can look into it some more online first. Just after they leave, Tinka's twin sister Flora and a faculty member happen to walk by.
- Poor Communication Kills: While exchanging info with Flora before the two decide to switch places for four days, Tinka tells her to stay away from Ingi. Flora mishears her and Tinka doesn't have time to correct her before she goes through the portal, leading Flora to seek out Ingi while in nissenes realm.
- Saying Too Much: While Flora goes to visit Ingi while pretending to be Tinka, Ingi asks if she found her relative. Flora tells her she didn't find any twin, leading Ingi to quickly catch on to what's going on.
- Starcrossed Lovers: It seems Tinka and Lasse might end up like this after the connection between the two worlds is severed, leaving the magic renewal ceremony once a year the only time they would be able to see each other, but it is ultimately averted since Tinka ultimately finds a way to restore the connection between their worlds.
- Stunned Silence: When Tinka and Flora meet for the first time, they spend several seconds just staring at each other when they see how similar they look.
- There Is Another: The discovery of the existence of Tinka's sibling, another Half-Human Hybrid, is what kicks off the plot.
- The Snack Is More Interesting: The woman at the office where Lasse and Tinka go to get information on the previous occupants of the house where Tinka suspects she may have once lived seems to be more interested in finishing eating her pastry than looking into the information that Lasse and Tinka want. When the woman briefly leaves to wash her hands, Lasse decides to just take a peek at her computer screen and write down the last name of the woman who used to live there so he can look up online if anyone else with the same last name lives nearby.
- True Love's Kiss: Grimbold's riddle states that this can stop the trolls should the ritual be carried out. In the end, it comes down to Lasse having to correctly identify which twin is Tinka, the two having been rendered unconscious after the ritual was carried out and wearing each other's clothes due to a failed attempt to confuse Ingi to stall for time. He manages to guess right, destroying the trolls, but it also comes at the cost of severing the link between nissenes realm and the human world, causing him and the now fully human Flora to be forcefully sent back to the human world when it's all over.
- Twin Switch:
- After Tinka and Flora first meet and spend a couple of days getting to know each other, they decide to switch lives for four days since Tinka isn't ready to face everything going on at home yet. Tinka, while not managing a flawless impersonation of the more confident Flora, still manages to act convincingly enough to fool even Lasse. Flora isn't quite as good at keeping up the act, but since nissene don't know about her existence, no one really suspects anything except for the Assembly, and Ingi, who realizes the truth when Flora mentions not having found a twin in the human world.
- They try it again to stall for time after Ingi has captured them both for Grimbold's ritual, knowing Ingi needs to lock them down in specific positions in the crypt based on which twin is the oldest and youngest. Ingi starts to catch on, and has the trolls threaten Fileas for going against her orders earlier, knowing Tinka will plead for him to be spared, allowing Ingi to confirm which twin is which.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Lasse unwittingly distracts Tinka just as she, Falke, Birk and Grot are about to head through a portal that will lead them to wherever they think about. As a result, they end up outside of the map of Nissenes Realm, and must make their way through the dangerous Helvard Forest to get back to the town.
- Unwitting Pawn:
- Ingi tells Tinka about the existence of her sibling, knowing Tinka will try looking into it. She needs both Tinka and the second Half-Human Hybrid for a ritual to revive the trolls.
- When Ingi realizes that it is Flora, who doesn't know about Ingi's crimes, who is the one who got stuck in Nissenes Realm after Ingi closed the portals, Ingi is able to manipulate Flora into aiding her Plan B under the pretense that she'll help her return home.
- Wham Shot: As Ingi is looking through the scrolls Tinka left with her in episode 2, as she uses her troll-eye to look through the royal family tree, she notices that besides Tinka, a second unknown person is listed, revealing that Storm had a second child.
