History Characters / PrincessTheHopefulForcesOfDarkness

* AndIMustScream: Dethroned are perpetually trapped in their pain and regrets, unable to feel any form of hope. To make things worse, just killing them won't even free them, as they will just reform unless someone help their soul find redemption.

* CameBackWrong: How they are born; Whenever someone dies while having crossed the DespairEventHorizon, this can result in the creation of a Cataphract with a twisted parody of his appearance and memories.
* DeathByDespair: How they are born.

* BurnTheWitch: The Catholic Church decimated the Pongamia in Europe, forcing the survivors to flee to America. This is a rare case of the trope where [[KickTheSonOfABitch the victims completely had it coming]].

* EnemyCivilWar: One of the Dethroned's most dangerous qualities is their ability to {{Avert}} this trope. Darkspawn subsumed by a Dethroned will at the very least leave each other alone, and may even work together. This becomes particularly dangerous if the Dethroned has the Queen of Misery Hex, which lets Mnemosynes and Cataphractoi that she subsumes retain their intelligence. Few things can be as dangerous as having several Cataphractoi active in the same area without infighting.

* CripplingOverspecialization: They were made to trap the souls of servants of the Light in the Dreamlands, which they are very good at; however, this is literally the ''only'' thing they can do; their ban forces them to focus on souls touched by the Light whenever they get the opportunity, their abilities are so focused on manipulating the Dreamlands they would be ''even more'' powerless than regular Dreamlanders should they somehow end up in the physical world, and they barely have any mean to fight. The moment the Radiant Queens saw through their illusions, they were summarly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]].

* EvilWillFail: Even without a Princess around, Dark Cults rarely last very long, as their ObviouslyEvil attitude [[RealityEnsues makes it only a matter of time before the police take care of them]]. And when ''that'' doesn't happen, their victims tend to become Stormwracked, who are likely to [[TheDogBitesBack avenge themselves]].

The Darkness is said to be many things. A force of nature, an alien parasite upon worlds, total anathema to the Light. What is known by Princesses is that it's made of everything evil in the world, and empowered by depravity and taint. The Darkness corrupts all it touches, and even with the Radiant trapped in the Dreamland, it has not stopped it's ravenous pursuit to corrupt all that lives. How it twists and turns is captured in this section.

* EvilIsEasy: One of the main appeal of the Darkness is that, compared to most other occult sources of power in the setting, it's relatively easy to access; all you have to do is perform a small occult ritual and be willing to hurt people. On the flipside, it's pretty much dragging you to evil after this.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Taken to the extreme; they are firm believers in this trope, therefore they think happiness is a bad thing and prevent you from evolving when mistery confronts you with reality and makes you grow. They then use this as an excuse to harm and cause suffering to everyone around them under the pretense of "endoctrinating" people.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Aside from their name of "Dethroned" and the example Witch in the Woods, most of their Hexes have [[SarcasmMode lovely names]]. Fortress of Regrets, Misery Voyeur, Cry of Anguish, One Thousand Weeping Eyes, Welcome to My Personal Hell, etc.

** The sample Dethrowned is an Expy of the witch from {{Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked}}.