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[http://amr.comicgenesis.com/index.html A Magical Roommate] is a web-based comic by Emily Sorensen. It's the story of a wizard-in-training, Aylia of Umbria, who is sent to our world to attend college as her sister is attending school in their world, and their mother (who is originally from our world) wanted one daughter to go to school in her world. Things become increasingly complicated with the addition of her roommates, who start off as (fairly) normal and get stranger and stranger, and their lives begin to get intertwined in ways nobody expects...

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: This actually figures heavily into the backstory, as four members of the core cast wouldn't even have been born if it hadn't happened.

* [[Kawaiiko]]: Duchess Lettie is a rare non-Japanese example. And she's in her forties!

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Aylia's ever-more-complicated extended family makes up about a third of the central cast.

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: The fairy kingdom of Daironya has a law that marriages can only be performed by a member of a higher fairy race than the couple involved. Normally, this isn't a problem, but Victoria, the Crown Princess, and her boyfriend Mordran, a black fairy (a race that aren't meant to be marrying purple fairies, the nobility of the fairy world) can only be married by Victoria's parents, the King and Queen, who are very opposed to their relationship. Faced with an ultimatum of either losing Mordran or her throne, Victoria defaults to another law that says that it's perfectly legal for the heir to a throne to trick the current ruler out of it. And that's exactly what she does.

* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: Apparently, while different species have specialized talents and there are different disciplines of magic, they all follow the same rules. However, like physics, those rules haven't all been discovered yet...

* [[Magitek]] Many readers will laugh at the following exchange:

'''Aylia:''' Nah, her machine's aren't talismans. Give magical engineering a few hundered years, and it will have its own name too. }}

* [[Muggles Do It Better]]: Magic and technology are roughly on the same level, but there are some core differences in operation which make one a better choice then the other. There's a fairy that wears glasses instead of using a spell to correct her vision.

* [[Mundane Utility]]: All over the place. Lampshaded after Aylia rejoined with her clone:

'''Jenny:''' Don't act like it was an everyday occurrence. }}

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: X.