History Characters / TrappedOnDraconica

* DarkChick: The girl of Team Evil filling many roles.

* BladeOnAStick: His halbred. Late in the story [[AncestralWeapon he uses his mother's halbred. ]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Daniar effortlessly defeats mooks, has trouble with TheDragon but can't defeat Gothon. Howver,she couldn't defeat TheBrute either.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is more skilled and competent than any of her subordinates despite their greater age.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Who do you think raised the four Badass Princesses? This is a king not afarid to lead from the front.

* LampshadeHanging: One of his many shoutouts was used to lampshade a particularly relevant plotpoint: [[spoiler: "This must be how [[StarWars Luke Skywalker felt!]]"]]

* {{Expy}}: of [[StarWars Darth Vadar]]

* HealingHands: Even the brink of death is not an obstacle. [[spoiler: After she becomes an angel this power goes UpToEleven and death itself is no longer an obstacle.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: [[spoiler: He's awkward in personal relationships, especially with women.]]

* JerkAss: He's rude, insenstive, and downright mean. [[spoiler: His jerkass behavior is a mask to compensate for inner toughness. He's actually an {{Adorkable}} self-depricating MommasBoy.]]

* OurElvesAreBetter: They're called 'shadori', and have purple skin. He doesn't put on airs and in fact it's the opposite. His human soldiers think they're better than him and don't want to be led by him.

* ChildOfRape: [[spoiler: Gothon captured his mom and raped her before she escaped.]]

* FlyingBrick: Daniar's use of this trope is justified: She is a dragokin, a human blessed by a dragon god with dragon-like powers, and what are dragons know for besides flying, breathing fire, and great strength?

* SuperStrength: Because she's a dragokin, she can really pack a punch.

* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler: with Kalak, and is understandably miffed that he stays aloof afterward.]] As per the trope it worked because it was spontaneous. [[spoiler: ''Legacy of the Dragokin'' reveals that this was not her first time.]]

!! The following apply to her in ''Legacy of the Dragokin''

* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: As a dragokin she can handle mooks. After dying and becoming an angel she can effortlessly NoSell the Big Bad's best shot.]]

!!The following applies to him in Legacy of the Dragokin

!!The following applies to him in ''Legacy of the Dragokin''

!!The following tropes apply to her in ''Legacy of the Dragokin''

!!The following tropes apply to him in ''Legacy of the Dragokin''

!!The following tropes apply to her in ''Legacy Of the Dragokin''

* BadassNormal: She can emulate Daniar's ThouShallNotKill philosophy despite lacking her dragokin durability, strength, and breath weapon.

** ''Legacy of the Dragokin gives her two more: 1. [[spoiler: She's wants to have children but can't because she's sterile; 2. After her mom died everyone focused on Daniar and ignored her. ]]

!!!The following tropes apply to her in ''Legacy of the Dragokin''

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Accepting a power boost from Mordak]] transforms her ice weapon into flying ice daggers and increases her strength above dragokin levels.

!!The following tropes apply to it/him in ''Legacy of the Dragokin''

* GoodParents: He did such a good job raising the dragokin that three of them became superheroes.

* BigSisterInstinct: [[spoiler: Her CrowningMomentOfAwesome is a big electric BOOM to save Daniar from wind witches. "LEAVE… MY SISTER… ALONE!"]]

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: At first she couldn't stand [[spoiler: Kalak]] because he was a {{jerkass}}. When she finds out this is a JerkassFacade and he's actually a good guy, she's all over him.

* HeManWomanHater: A strange example. He grew up surrounded by female soldiers, idolizes his warrior queen mother and has a great relationship with his sister (who has seen more combat than him) but doesn't take Princess Daniar seriously and for some reason thinks women care about nothing but shopping and pinning flowers to their dresses. [[spoiler: WordOfGod says this is part of his JerkAssFacade because he felt insecure among so many strong women when he himself had never seen combat.]]

* JerkAss: He's rude, insenstive, and downright mean.
* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler: His jerkass behavior is a mask to compensate for inner toughness. He's actually an {{Adorkable}} self-depricating MommasBoy.]]

* ButNowIMustGo / IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: He tries to TakeAThirdOption and go home but use his power to travel between worlds to visit Draconica, but Dronor says he has to take that power away. After thinking about his worried sick mother and encouragement from Erowin he decides to go home.]]

* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: Implied to be pregnant at the end.]]

* SuperStrength: Because she's a dragokin.
* TheTease: Accussed of this by Kalak.
* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler: with Kalak, and is understandably miffed that he stays aloof afterward.]] As per the trope it worked because it was spontaneous. [[spoiler: Legacy of the Dragokin reveals that this was not her first time.]]

* OverProtectiveMom / FantasyForbiddingMother: She doesn't want Benji to follow in her foot steps so she does everything she can to keep him away from battle and danger. [[spoiler: Benji is not her first child; that one died because she jumped into battle while pregnant thus causing her to overcompensate.]]
* PregnantBadass: A flashback reveals she was this at one point. [[spoiler: Deconstructed as a belly wound killed the fetus.]]

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: Mordak kills her and yet she comes back to help out on two occasions.]]
* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest: She's Ben's twin sister and she's in love with him, but she might not have known before becoming an angel.]]
* [[spoiler: CameBackStrong: As a dragokin she can handle mooks. After dying and becoming an angel she can effortlessly NoSell the Big Bad's best shot.]]

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Even the non-cute ones.

* [[spoiler: MindLinkMates: "We're twins; united in body and soul." Presumably being Ben's twin serves as an 'anchor' or something and that allows her to stick around and help after Mordak kills her.]]

* [[spoiler: SpiritAdvisor: After dying she takes this role until the climax.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Adorkable}}: He's awkward in personal relationships, especially with women.]]

* [[spoiler:ChildOfRape: Gothon captured his mom and raped her before she escaped.]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: After transforming into Mordak, he kills himself to prevent himself from killing Daniar.]]

* [[spoiler: JerkassFacade. His jerkass behavior is a mask to compensate for inner toughness. He's actually an {{Adorkable}} self-depricating MommasBoy.]]

* [[spoiler: LoveRedeems: His relationship with Daniar makes him a kinder and nobler person. Thus giving him HeroicWillpower.]]

* [[spoiler: YouKillItYouBoughtIt: By killing Mordak he turns into Mordak.]]

* [[spoiler: DealWithTheDevil: Allows Mordak to resume control over his body to escape certain doom by drowning.]]
* [[spoiler: FightingFromTheInside: He's gotten better at this since the last book. He can come out and hold control for a brief period at a time whenever Daniar or Benji are in trouble.]]

* [[spoiler: ThePowerOfLove: He uses this to temporarily overturn Mordak's control and then to exorcise the monster from his own body in addition to Zarracka's.]]

* TeamPet: Specifically Kalak's.

* [[spoiler: BigSisterInstinct: Her CrowningMomentOfAwesome is a big electric BOOM to save Daniar from wind witches. "LEAVE… MY SISTER… ALONE!"]]
* [[spoiler: ChangedMyMindKid: Initally refused to help Daniar but later came to save her after the Easatern Alliance was slaughtered.]]

* [[spoiler: TheEmpress: From marrying Taurok after he replaces Gothon.]]

* [[spoiler: SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Noble Taurok has her blushing like a schoolgirl.]]
* SuperStrength: Hinted to be the most powerful of the Dragonkin. Is shown lifting Kalak off the ground with one hand and bending steel bars like they were nothing.

* [[spoiler: TheEmperor: Succeeds Gothon as emperor of Baalaria]]
* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: Betrays Gothon in the final act to join Team Good.]]

* SecondLove: [[spoiler: To Rana]].
* [[spoiler: SixthRanger: Joins the heroes in time for the climax.]]

* BadassGrandpa: Technically he was always this but now his granddaughter is fifteen and his age comes up more often.

* [[spoiler: TheMole: Taurok placed her inside Daniar's group to mine intel but Lydia herself was unaware of this.]]

* [[spoiler: NotSoStoic: after Abyss {{Mind Rape}}s her]] and [[spoiler: when cheering for Benji.]]

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Implied since Kazebar is possessing him.]]

* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: Possessed by Kazebar from before the start.]]
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Inverted. Lucia is slender, skilled with magic, avoids fighting, and holds little interest in gold or industry. Thus, he's closer to an elf than a traditional dwarf. Whether all dwarves are like this is unknown because he's the only one in the setting

* [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask: She pretended to be Benji's sympathetic 'Auntie Zarracka' to enlist his help escaping and ultimately became genuinely fond of him.]]
* [[spoiler: BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: First spares Benji and later wants to adopt him because he helped her escape and said he wished she were his mother instead of Daniar.]]

* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: She joins the battle against the BigBad without a devious agenda and later volunteers to go back to her cell. She's as surprised as anyone.]]
* [[spoiler: LoveRedeems: Benji's affection kicks off her ultimate HeelFaceTurn.]]

* [[spoiler:HeroKiller: Erowin; nearly Daniar and Kalak.]]
* [[spoiler: YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Can invoke this on anyone that defeats it.]]

* [[spoiler:BodySurf: How he has always survived but now he can plan for it. He offered Zarracka power because it would allow him to make her his backup body. He hoped to do this to the BigBad but the heroes anticipated that it and prevented it.]]

* [[spoiler: RasputinianDeath: He's killed or exorcised three times in this book: the first time Kalak and Zarracka beat him up in the mindscape, then Kalak kissed the evil out of Zarracka (his back up body) then Kthonia scattered his physical remains into a thousand pieces with a hurricane gust. The two from the previous book brings the grand total up to five. Justified by a combination of YouKillItYouBoughtIt and BodySurf.]]

* [[spoiler: AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Dronor dies and becomes a spirit, but his level of power doesn't change. Likely because he's already the single most powerful being in the setting.]]

* [[spoiler: EleventhHourRanger: His daughters rescue him at the very end so he can join the final showdown.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Beethoven Was an Alien Spy}}: In the book's epilogue,it's revealed he escaped at the last minute to take possession of an unborn child from a different world at a different era. This child's name is Adolf.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad: He's the true cause of the conflict and the only truly evil member of Team Evil.]]
* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: He's possessing Lucia.]]
* [[spoiler: EvilPlan: Manipulate Gothon to use his resources to find Ben and steal the power to travel between worlds. He will use this power to gather advanced technology, magic, magical technology etc until he becomes a god and takes over the univese.]]
* [[spoiler: FallenHero / VillainWithGoodPublicity. Pre-series he was Draconica's number 1 humanitarian. To reward his good work Dronor granted his son the power to travel between worlds, believing that if any human deserved this honor it would be Kazebar's family line. Whether he was tempted by this power or if he was EvilAllAlong is not made clear.]]
* [[spoiler: AGodAmI: He has a god-complex so great he thinks he's surpassed Dronor.]]
* [[spoiler: GodwinsLaw: In the epilogue he's reborn as a child named 'Adolf'. [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler The narration notes that this name will resonate through history.]]]]
* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather: He's Ben's biological father.]]
* [[spoiler: SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Gives a BreakingSpeech at the end about how idealism is foolish and everything is about power.]]
* [[spoiler: WeUsedToBeFriends: [[PalsWithJesus with Dronor.]]]]

* [[spoiler: CharacterDeath: by a random mook arrow]]

* BrotherSisterTeam: With her brother, Kalak.

* [[spoiler: CharacterDeath: Early on in the last stand.]]

* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His final thoughts while he dies and his army is slaughtered.]]

* BadassPrincess: Famous in-universe for enforcing her dad's law.

* HeManWomanHater: A strange example. He grew up surrounded by female soldiers, idolizes his warrior queen mother and has a great relationship with his sister (who has seen more combat than him) but doesn't take BadassPrincess Daniar seriously and for some reason thinks women care about nothing but shopping and pinning flowers to their dresses. [[spoiler: WordOfGod says this is part of his JerkAssFacade because he felt insecure among so many strong women when he himself had never seen combat.]]

* AmazonChaser: All he knows of [[spoiler: Rana]] is that she's a BadassPrincess. After Storming a Castle together he wants her to be his wife.

* BadassPrincess: A princess from Leondia.

* [[spoiler: AManIsNotAVirgin: Justified here. According to Leondian law, no one can take part in combat unless they have at least one child. Being a virgin means being a non-combatant which means being deadweight.]]

* [[TeacherStudentRomance Hot For Teacher]]: A swamp monster creates an illusion lure of whatever the target finds most alluring. For Ben it was one of his teachers in tight clothing.

* MacguffinBoy: Emperor Gothon makes it clear early on that his reason for conquering Britannia was to capture Ben. [[spoiler: He thinks it's because Ben's soul can save his dying wife, but it's acutally because Kazebar wants the boy's latent power to travel between worlds.]]

* Bishonen: Despite being nearly sixty, he has more fangirls than any other of the male characters.

* Bishonen:

** The prequel novella <i>All Hail Emperor Gothon</i>

* [[spoiler: GodwinsLaw: In the epilogue he's reborn as a child named 'Adolf'. [[AdolfHitler The narration notes that this name will resonate through history.]]]]

* LoveRedeems: His CharacterDevelopment is jumpstarted by a desire to 'look macho' in front of Erowin, his crush.

* SupportingProtagonist: It's his story but Daniar gets the limelight. He lampshades this in the bonus art at the end, where he complains to the author and artist about how he is a 'bit character in his own story'.

* TheHero: She leads the group, she fights the battles, she has the HeroicSpirit. It's lampshaded by Ben in the bonus art how she gets the 'meaty story lines' despite not being TheProtagonist.

* OneWomanArmy: After he kingdom is conquered, Daniar's plan for reclaiming it is to find Rana, as if her big sister is all the help she'll need. Gothon really doesn't want her to succeed, because he thinks so too.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His opinion of himself. Ben tells him that another guy in Earth History tried the same thing and is remembered as 'one of the biggest bastards in history'.

* AmazonChaser: All he knows of [[spoiler: Rana]] is that she's a BadassPrincess. After Storming a Castle together he wants her to be his badass empress.

* RoseHairedGirl: The cover shows pink hair but her strong and passionate personality betteres fits FieryRedhead.

* [[spoiler: TheEmpress: From marrying Taurok after he succedds Gothon.]]

* RoseHairedGirl: The cover shows pink hair but her passionate personality betteres fits FieryRedhead.

** LampshadeHanging: One of them was used to lampshade a particularly relevant plotpoint: [[spoiler: "This must be how [[StarWars Luke Skywalker felt!]]"]]

* BigSisterInstinct: Toward Erowin.
** BigSisterMentor: Taught her martial arts and tries to keep her away from bad habits like drinking during the day.

* TheLeader: A type II for Team Good; she has her head on straight and guides her teammates which are either too cowardly, too bloodthirsty or too kind to otherwise hold together.
* PlayingWithFire: Her BreathWeapon.

* RoseHairedGirl: Strong and passionate type.

* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler: with Kalak, and is understandably miffed that he stays aloof afterward.]] As per the trope it worked because it was spontaneous.
** [[spoiler: Legacy of the Dragokin reveals that this was not her first time.]]

* BadassDamsel: She looks and acts like TheIngenue, and she is, but she's no slouch at defending herself.

* DetectEvil: One of her powers is detecting 'hostile intent' in strangers.

* HealingHands: Even the brink of death is not an obstacle. [[spoiler: After she becomes an angel this power goes UpToEleven: death itself is no longer an obstacle.]]

* BladeOnAStick: His halbred.
** AncestralWeapon: Later uses his mother's halbred.
* BloodKnight: Like all leondians, he loves fighting
* [[spoiler:ChildOfRape: Gothon captured his mom and raped her before she escaped]]

** [[spoiler: JerkassFacade. It's a mask to compensate for inner toughness. He's actually an {{Adorkable}} self-depricating MommasBoy.]]
* TheLancer: Sets a contrast with Daniar.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: First a deconstruction: a childhood spent on martial training means he has no idea how to do anything more than fight and march. Then a reconstruction: "‘I don’t deny that I was frightened that day. And I know that fear is unacceptable in our laws. But we all were frightened once. At the beginning of our training, we were just scared little children....Our kingdom is gone, we’d just be rovers, wanderers, nomads, vagabonds – call us what you will. I call us homeless soldiers, reduced to petty mercenaries." That shared childhood of training makes them a unified culture.

* Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: He dies sometime between the end of the first and the beginning of the second; presumably of old age. Kalak's problems start because of this.

* BlowYouAway: Rana's BreathWeapon is the ability to exhale hurricane force breath. Hinted to be powerful as Zarracka states she can "knock back entire legions with just a sneeze".

* DoesNotLikeMen: She calls them things like 'useless' and 'violent' and 'quick to hide behind women when they can't handle their own problems'.

* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Her isolation seems from [[spoiler: Daniar actidentally stealing her crush, Tyrone. In truth, Zarracka killed him because she failed to steal him from Daniar.]]

** LightningCanDoAnything: Her sisters have a straightfoward BreathWeapon but she can do much more: [[BarrierWarrior create a barrier]], [[MindRape temporarilly reprogram someone's mind into thinking they're a different species]], [[MundaneUtility keep her dress free of dust]].

* TookALevelInKindness: She has a warmer and kinder personality here because she's no longer in bitter isolation and dropped the 'I hate men' mindset.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Daniar effortlessly defeats mooks, has trouble with TheDragon but can't defeat Gothon. Also subverted as she couldn't defeat TheBrute either.

* HappilyMarried: With Sophia before she got sick. [[spoiler: Subverted. He hated her for never providing him with an heir, struck her during a fight, and deluded himself into thinking they were happy while devoting the rest of his life to saving her from an illness he cooked up yet genuinely believes. Double subverted. Sophia's ghost appears as he dies, kisses him, and they depart to the afterlife truly happy.]]

* NobleTopEnforcer: Taurok insists on fighting fair and hates getting civilians involved in [[BigBad his boss']] pursuit of the heroes. Gothon, by contrast, will do anything to accomplish his EvilPlan.[[spoiler: He would have turned on Gothon long ago if the guy didn't have his family hostage. Ultimately does so anyway.]]

* TheLeader: Type IV. Her subordinates are inspired by 'heart' in fighting for her country.

* {{Nepotism}} According to her critics, the only reason she's a general is because her grandfather is the emperor.

** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: after Abyss {{Mind Rape}}s her]] and [[spoiler: when cheering for Benji.]]

* BerserkButton: The song 'goblin queen'.

** Gothon in the final arc, who says that his empire is 'not a cat house'.

* AnIcePerson: Her BreathWeapon.

* MindControl: [[spoiler: Thanks to Mordak]] she develops this power.

* HumanityIsInfectious: Spending ten years in a human's mind absorbing emotions and watching him interact has allowed this mindless weapon to develop a sense-of-Self.

* TheGoodKing: Of Britannia

* [[spoiler: {{Beethoven Was an Alien Spy}}: In the book's epilogue,it's revealed he escaped at the last minute to take possession of an unborn child from a different world at a different era. Named Adolf.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad He's the true cause of the conflict and the only truly evil member of Team Evil.]]

* [[spoiler: EvilPlan: Manipulate Gothon to use his resources to find Ben and steal the power to travel between worlds. He will use this power to gather advanced technology, magic, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs magical technology]] etc until he becomes a god and takes over the univese.]]

* BadassPrincess: from Leondia.

* ClingyJealousGirl: As soon as they meet, she throws petty insults at Daniar and pulls Kalak away from her. Ritchie says she's like this with every girl Kalak has contact with. He thinks it's BigSisterInstinct but by insisting that Kalak never has to have a child (and thus, never have sex with another woman) she borders IncestSubtext

* ProudWarriorRaceGirl:
* BrotherSisterTeam: With her brother, Kalak

* HonorBeforeReason: Lots of 'better to die on your feet than live on your knees' sort of lines from him. Whether he believes this himself or is just using it as propaganda is up for debate.
* TheLeader: of the Eastern Alliance. He believes himself to be Type IV but he's actually a Type III
* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His final thoughts.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He tells Gothon where the Eastern Alliance's HQ is and how to defeat their army.

* HotForTeacher: A swamp monster creates an illusion lure of whatever the target finds most alluring. For Ben it was one of his teachers in tight clothing.

* MissFanservice: Her first outfit is a low-cut dress. Her second is a ChainmailBikini. This lampshaded by many people: