Chatoyant College
Chatoyant College is a slice of life urban fantasy webfiction work created by Clare Miller. The plot centers around a group of three friends who are attending the only US college that teaches magic.
You can find it here (archived).
Tropes used in Chatoyant College include:
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Faerie in disguise at a party.
- Friends with Benefits: Corrie and Byron
- Functional Magic: There are various kinds of magic in the story but it is clear in the lessons, and hinted at in the story for the other kinds, that there are strict rules to how it is applied:
- Inherent Magic: This is magic that comes from within a person. It depends on the magical abilities of the person concerned and it broadly follows the 4 elements: earth, air, water and fire.
- Trance Magic: This is when someone utilizes the magic in the stuff around them. One needs to go into a trance to access it and it is more flexible.
- Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad: Corrie finds out, in Books 5 and 6, that her (missing) father is actually a werewolf. The reason why he was not within her life is because her mother chucked him out because he neglected to mention that fact until she was pregnant.
- Interspecies Friendship: Corrie/Dawn and Professor Lal, the gang and Troy, and Dawn and Tom
- Interspecies Romance: Edie and Leila, and Dawn's Aunt Pru and Tom.
- Magic A Is Magic A: There are strict rules on what can be achieved with each type of magic.
- True Sight: In Book 1 we find out that Dawn has the gift of true sight. Later, we find out this is because Dawn's Aunt Pru was given a special ointment by a faerie man.
- Wacky College: The college is like other American colleges only that it teaches magic and not everybody there is human.