Picatrix
Winnie Foster's been having a bad day. First, she finds out that she's been passed up for a promotion at work - and then as she heads home, she realizes her car's been stolen.
While walking home, she decides to take a shortcut through the woods. Just when she thinks it can't get any worse, she suffers a fall and finds herself thrown into another world where demons and angels are a reality, and a troupe of magical girls is after her to join.
So what's she do? She runs away with the demon king after being offered to him as a sacrificial bride.
A web comic by J.L. Haram, Picatrix can be found here.
Not to be confused with a certain treatise on magic and astrology originally written in Arabic in the 11th century.
Tropes used in Picatrix include:
- Amnesiac Liar: Eric decides that it's a great idea to have Winnie pose as his wife while they're traveling. "Accidents" happen. Hilarity ensues.
- An Ice Person: Winnie's magic is shown to be this.
- Arranged Marriage: Adam tries to escape one of these.
- Badass Damsel: Winnie, after having gotten lost, drugged, kidnapped, offered as a sacrificial bride, and abducted again, still manages to strike (something resembling) fear into the heart of the Demon King.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Arguably, Winnie and Eric.
- Bishie Sparkle: It happens.
- Bishonen: Several.
- Cassandra Truth: Winnie tries to tell Eric where she's really from. It doesn't go over well [dead link].
- Dead Little Sister: Mara
- Erotic Eating
- Fan Nickname: Nina, aka "Pink Haired Bitch."
- Fan Service
- Half-Identical Twins: Samael and Mara
- Human Sacrifice: But in this case, it's a sacrificial brides.
- Identical Stranger: Princess Hazel and Winnie
- Immortality Begins At Twenty: Both the demons and angels seem to have this going for them.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Eric.
- Love Triangle: One of these results in an attempted Murder the Hypotenuse
- Magical Girl: There's a small group that works as demon hunters, with costumes and all [dead link].
- Mayfly-December Romance: Azrael's a demon, Winnie's a human. At least Winnie doesn't care. [dead link]
- Mistaken for Cheating: Azrael... Poor Az.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Someone tries this. It doesn't really work out in their favor.
- Or did it? The character has yet to get any comeuppance for this...
- Naked on Arrival: Well, not quite, but when Winnie is found by Eric and his men... Her state of dress is questionable. [dead link]
- Oblivious to Love: Adam's just a touch too jealous when it comes to Vanessa. Of course, he doesn't get it.
- Power Crystal: All the magical girls have these in the first incarnation of the comic [dead link].
- Power Nullifier: Azrael almost gets Winnie to use this in order to prevent her from accidentally killing him [dead link].
- Series Hiatus: It happens from time to time...
- The Empath: Lucy, whose powers seem to promptly take care of Azrael's emo streak.
- Theme Naming: The magical girls are named after seasons, the angels and demons have mostly angelic or demonic names...
- The Mourning After: Azrael spends 40 years angsting after Winnie "dies".
- Tomes of Prophecy and Fate: Apparently all the kings have one of these.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: In the case of the demons, who can change form into cats.
- White-Haired Pretty Boy: Samael.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Winnie.