History Fanfic / TheLightOfAbyss

* AbusiveParents: Odalia, as in canon. Amity is keeping her developing ability as TheEmpath secret because she fears that Odalia will force her to switch into the Oracle track so Amity will be more like her, and she cares more about Amity severing her apprenticeship to Lilith than Lilith using Amity to get back at Eda. In addition, besides Amity's necklace having a tracking enchantment that she could have used to find Amity at any point after she ran away but didn't, and the canon telepathic communication that she used, it ''also'' has spells that she can use to [[EmotionBomb make Amity feel bad]] and bring up the memories of the ''previous'' times it was used on command, which Eda says are similar to spells that were used on ''slaves'' in the early savage ages and have been illegal since the early Deadwardian era for just that reason. And we later learn that she used to be ''physically'' abusive as well when Amity was younger, Edric and Emira citing a time she beat Amity with a belt for spilling some orange blood on the kitchen floor (despite it being an accident and having cleaned it up already).

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Suzy's mutant power may only be to control the clothes she's wearing, but it's ''Omega'' level. Making them float through the air and strong enough to hold her weight is just the ''first'' thing that she figured out

* PaperTiger: For all of Clara and her cronies' bluster upon finding out they are mutants, it did not take much for them to immediately back down when faced with heavy resistance.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Gus creates an ''Fanfic/OldManHenderson'' illusion to distract the coven scouts and keep them away from Eda's petrification ceremony, but doesn't tell Amity this, so when she hears that they've dealt with "the insane human", she thinks that Luz is captured or dead. The only reason that he avoids being thrashed by her is that witch puberty hit him like a truck and she figured that the after-effects of his growth spurt were painful enough,

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: When Amity hears that one of the three mutants who gained their powers in Gravesfield during Knull's invasion has the ability to mentally control the clothes she's wearing the witch clearly thinks this, with Masha lampshading that a lot of mutants can have overly specific powers.

* AbusiveParents: Odalia, as in canon. Amity is keeping her developing ability as TheEmpath secret because she fears that Odalia will force her to switch into the Oracle track so Amity will be more like her, and she cares more about Amity severing her apprenticeship to Lilith than Lilith using Amity to get back at Eda. In addition, besides Amity's necklace having a tracking enchantment that she could have used to find Amity at any point after she ran away but didn't, and the canon telepathic communication that she used, it ''also'' has spells that she can use to [[EmotionBomb make Amity feel bad]] and bring up the memories of the ''previous'' times it was used on command, which Eda says are similar to spells that were used on ''slaves'' in the early savage ages and have been illegal since the early Deadwardian era for just that reason.

* InUniverseCatharsis: Bump lampshades this with Grom, saying that a lot of former Grom Kings and Queens have

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Neurological variant, Amity has undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder in this fic.

* CompressedAdaptation: The Fanfic has been streamlined with several episodes being skipped over and plot developments happening earlier than in Canon. The author expresses annoyance at doing retellings and prefers to focus only on parts of the story that has leeway for change.

* Jacob Hopkins still holds one of Camila's children prisoner threatening dissection with Camila beating him up for it.

* Camila beats the snot out of Jacob Hopkins with La Chancla for kidnapping Luz and also tasering her while keeping her prisoner.

* MamaBear: Eda quickly takes Amity under her wing during her time as a runaway, and later makes it clear to Alador that if Odalia drives her away again, Eda's outright keeping her. She also threatened to run Principal Bump through a woodchipper if Luz was named Grom Queen.

** Clara and her friends may not be evil so much as rather petty jerks. But they seem to have a hard time understanding that Amity genuinely loves Luz for who she is, quirks and all.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Clara and her cronies turn out to be this, acting like they are better than everyone else when they don't really have much worth bragging about, Scott acting like some jock without being on any teams, Suzy criticizing other people's clothing, and Clara acting like every mean girl stereotype and overreacting to everything.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Amity compares herself to Hecate, Luz starts to draw positive comparisons between her girlfriend and the character but gets sidetracked into how Azura's relationship with Hecate is one of the most well-written and Healthy romances in fiction which is an opinion the author has expressed in a number of places in regards to Lumity.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A mutual example during the Gravesfield Arc: Luz starts self-deprecating and calling herself 'not a real witch' after realizing that the glyphs don't work in the human realm when she trie to show Camila what she's learned, prompting Amity to start hyping up her accomplishments in regard to magic and in general finishing with how Luz has made a lot of lives better. At the end of the arc, when Camila asks Amity about herself the witch reflexively downplays her talents and emphasizes her flaws prompting Luz to note how she's too humble and hype her up in turn.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Amity's Abomination form is noted to have a "cute" look to it by Lilith.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 23 reveals that [[spoiler: Odalia is working with Mephisto to manipulate events into Luz becoming the Demon Realm's Queen in Black, replacing the Titans (who are explained to have been the Demon Realm's Elder Gods).]]

** While Stan still fondly remembers his brief marriage to Eda, she doesn't remember him at all when they reunite during the Gravesfield arc. Which is telling, considering that she ''does'' recall stealing his car and driving it off a cliff.

** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in Chapter 25. When Amity expresses doubt in the theory that witches are a human subspecies that resulted from interbreeding with biped demons due to it being implausible that creatures with different evolutionary histories would be compatible, Masha interrupts with the tidbit that humans can breed with anything sapient and carbon-based, albeit with the caveat that sometimes outside help is needed to make it work mechanically. Supposedly it has something to do with the experiments of the Celestials. Amity has to force herself to think about how crazy that sounds and not how she and Luz could have a child together when they grow up if they really wanted to.

* LogicalLatecomer: Amity, as someone from another dimension, is the only one that recognizes just how horrifying and bizarre the Marvel Universe truly is while Luz and Masha are already used to it.

** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in chapter 25, when Amity expressed doubt in the theory that witches are a human subspecies that interbred with mutants due to it being implausible that creatures with different evolutionary histories would be compatible, Masha interrupts with the tidbit that humans can breed with anything sapient and carbon-based, albeit with the caveat that sometimes outside help is needed to make it work mechanically. Supposedly it has something to do with the experiments of the celestials. Amity has to force herself to think about how crazy that sounds and not how he and Luz could have a child together when they grew up if they really wanted to.

* DramaticIrony: When she notices that Amity is upset by learning of Gravesfield's witchhunting past, Luz reaasures her that that was a long time ago and they'll never have to deal with witch hunters, still ignorant to the true nature of Emperor Belos at the time.

* FlatWhat: Vee's reaction to first hearing about Luz's taxidermy project from the pilot.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Luz has symbiote essence that was passed down from her parent's time as hosts and awakened by the background magic of the Isles, but she lacks an actual secondary symbiote consciousness, [[spoiler:even after awakening her full symbiote form]], making her more of a human/symbiote hybrid than a human host of a symbiote. Author notes even compare her directly to [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl April Parker]], and when [[spoiler:Mephisto]] is explaining the nature of her powers, he explicitly describes it as her having ''four'' parents (Camilla, Manny, and their symbiotes).

* MissedHimByThatMuch: When Ford ended up in the Isles, he went looking for Eda since he heard that she had a portal back to Earth, but he couldn't find her. Apparently she was with Stan in Vegas at the time.

* HumanSubspecies: Eda subscribes to the theory that Witches like herself are descended from humans that ended up in the Demon Realm thousands of years ago that managed to learn to stomach the food and adapt to it over the generations, with occasional interbreeding with the more human-like biped demons being responsible for throwback traits like Boscha's ThirdEye, citing how there are too many similarities between humans and Witches for them to be completely unrelated. Luz compares them to Atlanteans or Inhumans. Interestingly, the Emperor's Coven ''hates'' this idea, which means that it would get Eda's vote even if it didn't make sense. More evidence comes up later with the existence of "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes to be the Witch equivalent of mutant powers, which is later confirmed.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Masha does this a couple of times after meeting Amity and Luz, assuming that the former being a witch is a learned skill [[spoiler:like their own magic]] rather than her species, and jokingly commenting on the latter's cheesy choices in romantic music. To their credit, they immediately apologize when they realize that Amity is taking offense and that Luz is being reminded of past experiences with bullying.

** Clara turns out to be this in Chapter 22 after Luz finally gets the courage to tell her and her cronies off for what terrible people they are and how jealous they are of Luz's happiness. Amity bruising Clara's ego one too many times finally drives her to hit her with a sonic scream while their backs were turned, knocking out Luz and sending everyone else tumbling into the flooded graveyard.

* BrickJoke: When the subject of Luz's KlatchianCoffee first comes up, it's mentioned how she jokingly prays to Loki when making it. Several chapters later, Vee reveals that when she was impersonating Luz at camp and Loki came to visit [[spoiler: Masha]], he told her that no prayers to him could ever help that "abomination".

* EasilyForgiven: Unlike canon, Eda eventually works up the motivation to interrogate Owbert about the events of "Escape of the Palisman" (which occurred offscreen), but because Owlbert forgave Luz, Eda only made Luz take him out for ice cream in order to earn her trust back.

* HumanSubspecies: Eda subscribes to the theory that Witches like herself are descended from humans that ended up in the Demon Realm thousands of years ago that managed to learn to stomach the food and adapt to it over the generations, with occasional interbreeding with the more human-like biped demons being responsible for throwback traits like Boscha's ThirdEye, citing how there are too many similarities between humans and Witches for them to be completely unrelated. Luz compares them to Atlanteans or Inhumans. Interestingly, the Emperor's Coven ''hates'' this idea, which means that it would get Eda's vote even if it didn't make sense. More evidence comes up later with the existence of "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes to be the Witch equivalent of mutant powers.

** Then there's "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes are the equivalent of mutant powers in witches. They can fall roughly into one of the nine main types of magic or align with the basic spells anyone can use, but aren't sealed by sigils and don't require spell circles or use bile, though a user can still tire themselves out with them. Despite this, for some reason most witches who have them only really use them much if they're aligned with the type of magic they specifically use, with Amity keeping her own abilities as TheEmpath secret so Odalia won't try to force her into the Oracle track just so she'll be more like her mother, since she ''likes'' Abomination magic.

** Amity starts to develop abilities as TheEmpath, with Luz theorizing that she has the witch equivalent of the mutant gene.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Luz hears that there was an AlienInvasion while she was in the Isles, she barely bats an eye besides asking ''which'' alien faction was behind it ''this'' time.

** Stan mentions that he and Ford went looking for witches in Salem and instead found ghosts.

** In chapter 24, Luz quotes Dr. Doofenschmirtz upon finding herself being captured by Jacob Hopkins and facing dissection, "If I had a nickel for every time I almost got dissected, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is weird it happened twice.

* {{Crossover}}: Aside from being a mix of Creator/MarvelComics and ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Luz and Amity end up bumping into [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Stan and Ford]] while in Gravesfield.

** Coffee on the boiling isles is referred to as bitter bean blood, as in Webcomic/WitchesAmongHumans, though Eda does clarify briefly that it's just differant words for the same thing.