The Spellbook
The Spellbook is a Family Guy fanfic written by Ander Arias.
It follows Meg's adventures after Peter bought her a real spellbook for her 18th birthday. Even if Peter thought it was just and old, dusty book, it soon became apparent that the book had real spells. she tries to use her newly acquired magic powers mostly for good, such as helping Brian to win back Jillian, although she also uses it for other less noble uses such pulling pranks on Connie.
Over the course of the story, Meg meets a boy named Matt, they become a couple and married due to Meg becoming pregnant. Meg would later give birth to a baby girl named Rosie who would be born with magic powers, due to the spellbook's influence. Not much later, Jillian would become pregnant and give births to twin children.
However, Meg also releases the spirit of Miriam, a french witch who was burned by the inquisition, and the original owner of the spellbook, who wants it back for its own evil purposes.
The fanfiction can be read here.
It contains examples of the following tropes:
- A Day in The Limelight: Chris in "Too much Crazy in Love"
- Adrenaline Makeover: Starting in chapter 39 Meg has a witch outfit for whenever she's in a fight.
- Arch Enemy: Meg and Miriam
- Ascended Extra: Jillian is the most prominent example.
- Author Appeal: it's not hard to guess that the author really likes WWE...
- And what the author doesn't like, especially concerning Family Guy...
- Berserk Button: never say "abortion" in front of Life...
- Or never mention World of Warcraft in front of Matt...
- Beta Couple: Brian and Jillian
- Bi the Way: Nathalie according to "Trading Roles"
- Blond Brunette Redhead: Maya, Sophie and Rosie, respectively.
- Blow You Away: Meg infused Matt with wind based powers so he could help her to defeat The Doom Knight.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Many gags, the most prominent being Stewie trying to win the audience and drag the attention to him.
- Butt Monkey: It seems that Peter picked Meg's bad luck. Stewie may also become this when he futilely tries to draw everybody's attention.
- Other characters seem to enjoy reminding Brian how much a big loser he is. Let's say that the author isn't kind to the main MacFarlane voiced characters.
- Card Carrying Villain: Miriam and her sisters.
- Child Mage: Rosie could be considered this.
- Convenience Store Gift Shopping: How Meg got the spellbook. Peter blew up most of the money Lois gave him to buy Meg a present, and the spellbook was the only thing he could buy with the remaining money.
- Crossover: Chapter 22, with Meg's Family
- Deconstructed Trope: the Camp Gay trope is deconstructed in chapter 45 via Cutaway Gag.
- Different As Night and Day: Kyle and Maya. However, personality aside, the biggest difference would be that Kyle is a dog while Maya is human.
- Dumb Blonde: poor Maya takes after her mom Jillian.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Miriam and her sisters are made of this.
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Miriam and her sisters.
- Evil Twin: Miriam, Lorraine and Jeanne serves as this for Meg, Lois and Jillian, respectively.
- Fiery Redhead: Rosie, all the fiery a one year old baby can be.
- Floating Timeline
- Freaky Friday Flip: Meg and Lois switch bodies in "Trading Roles"
- Follow the Leader: the author openly admitted that this story is very similar to Meg's Family because he likes it.
- Gratuitous French: Miriam and her sisters use some french words when they speak.
- Green Thumb: Daphne
- Its Not Supposed to Win Oscars: many people said that this story lacks depth and complexity. Even if that's true, the author stated that the story is only attempting to be funny.
- Killed Off for Real: Herbert
- Lampshade Hanging: quite a lot. One prominent example is Rosie pointing out that everybody can understand her but nobody understands Stewie.
- Loads and Loads of Characters
- Hot Mom: Jillian and maybe Meg.
- Hot Witch: Daphne
- Interspecies Romance: Brian and Jillian
- Magical Girl: Meg and Rosie
- The Mentor: Daphne
- McGuffin: the titular Spellbook
- The Obi Wan: Daphne is this to both Meg and Rosie.
- Official Couple: Meg and Matt.
- Out of Focus: Chris. Not that he was too prominent to begin with...
- Perky Goth: Rosie when she's 15.
- Spared by the Fanfic: Dianne Simmons.
- Status Quo Is God: subverted quite often: Meg and Matt got married, and had a kid, Meg, Matt and Lois didn't lose their powers after the chapter they gained them was over and Brian and Jillian got two children.
- Take That: to Family Guy itself
- A recent chapter mocks Family Guy's portrayal of gay characters.
- Not to mention in the fanmails portions Brian and Lois have pointed that they've done so to their canon counterparts.
- A recent chapter mocks Family Guy's portrayal of gay characters.
- Throw the Dog A Bone: Tne entire point of this fanfic is this for Meg. Also, Brian wins Jillian's heart back, and they have two children.
- Took a Level In Badass: Sophie in "be a Bad Girl, Sophie", with Super Powered Evil Side.
- Took a Level In Dumbass: Jeanne suffers from this after taking over Jillian's body.
- The Unfavorite: Maya, to Brian.
- Later this is inverted when Brian learns that Kyle has conservative views.
- Unto Us a Son And Daughter Are Born: Brian and Jillian's twin children, Kyle and Maya.
- What the Hell Hero: Brian disowning his son after learning that he's a conservative.
- Word of God: At the end of each chapter, the author, posing as the characters, answers some questions from the readers.