History DarthWiki / BrightReversions

* IllGirl: subverted - she suffered from a chronic illness when she was young, and her first impressive act of Mad Science was a successful search for a cure - but she wasn't particularly cute when she began her research, and the side effects didn't improve her looks at all.

* {{Meganekko}}: has the stereotypical cuteness and personality traits, despite being male.

* RapunzelHair: several characters have a moderate version of this (waist to thigh length).

* ActionGirl: mostly focused on handguns. She has some DarkActionGirl elements, but her amicable (once they got past the initial FoeYay period) relationship with Maria is atypical for that trope.

* SpotOfTea: since most of the human or half-human characters come from counterparts to the British Isles, Russia, or East Asia, the majority of the cast are tea-drinkers.

* TheUbermensch: Valeriya ''wants'' to be one of these, at least. One of her {{Character Filibuster}}s is about the importance of knowing the difference between immutable natural law and mere social convention, and she's a firm believer in the power of human effort over abstract historical forces.

* OurElvesAreBetter: played with. Traditionally, subterranean dark elves ''think'' that they're better than everyone else, but xenophobia and [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying Villainy]] have put their civilization at something of a disadvantage lately, and they've been in slow decline for the past couple of centuries, as other subterranean races have become relatively more powerful. The biggest current ideological split in dark elven society has been between those who believe that modernization is the best path to restoring their power (mostly mages, merchants, and professionals), and those who advocate a stronger embrace of ancestral tradition (mostly the clergy). Even among the "modernization" faction, "ideological debate" in practice seems to involve a lot of people getting poisoned or stabbed. There are also surface-dwelling dark elf communities, whose culture is more of a mixed bag.

* BiTheWay

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* VictorianBritain: Bodie, Maria, Marius, and some other characters hail from a FantasyCounterpartCulture version, although most of them ''aren't'' [[BritainIsOnlyLondon "Londoners."]]

* CommonEyeColors / TechnicolorEyes: most fullblood orcs (including Maria) have SupernaturalGoldEyes; Jin and Bodie's eyes are light golden brown; Marianne, Marius Villiers, and Sasha Markov have some variation of blue-gray or grayish blue; Ekaterina's are a strong clear blue; Valeriya's are pewter-gray; Poppaea's are green (with red hair); Gerard has brown eyes (and fairly dark skin); and dark elves tend to have eyes of all the colors that standard-issue non-albino humans' eyes ''don't'' come in - reds, purples, and warm pastels. Eris has lavender eyes, and Tanis' are a light peachy orange.

* BlondesAreEvil: or at least terribly untrustworthy. Although she really only gets into ChronicBackstabbingDisorder mode after Maria dies, and by that time her hair's gone silver.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: ''Bright Reversions'' orcs are tall, muscular, greenish-skinned {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s with CuteLittleFangs. Their culture has Scottish and Norse influences, but the majority of orcs practice a fantasy counterpart version of OrthodoxChristianity. And they're not stupid or brutish, just mentally stuck in the Bronze Age in some ways.

* NaughtyTentacles / CombatTentacles

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: subversion, as he's nice and stays that way.

* {{Bishounen}}: many of the men. Marius (also a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy), Gerard, even Tanis in a nerdy sort of way.

* MrFanservice: Marius Villiers, a troubled but gentlemanly, gay WhiteHairedPrettyBoy with an [[ShirtlessScene aversion to wearing shirts]].

* TheMessiah, BoisterousBruiser: Maria is an odd mixture of these personality types when she isn't killing people. The fact that she's so darn likable, as well as one of the greatest warriors of her generation, winds up making some people rather nervous.

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: she's not explicitly magical, but has mysterious origins.

* MeLoveYouLongTime: inverted with Jin and Maria's relationship. The [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy counterpart "Asian"]] is a man, the "Westerner" is a woman (and an orc, if you want to get technical).

* ShoutOut: Zhenya, Valeriya's pet electric eel, is named after the PsychoElectro BigBad of ''MetalGearSolid'' 3.

* CommonEyeColors / TechnicolorEyes: most fullblood orcs (including Maria) have EyesOfGold; Jin and Bodie's eyes are light golden brown; Marianne, Marius Villiers, and Sasha Markov have some variation of blue-gray or grayish blue; Ekaterina's are a strong clear blue; Valeriya's are pewter-gray; Poppaea's are green (with red hair); Gerard has brown eyes (and fairly dark skin); and dark elves tend to have eyes of all the colors that standard-issue non-albino humans' eyes ''don't'' come in - reds, purples, and warm pastels. Eris has lavender eyes, and Tanis' are a light peachy orange.

* EyesOfGold: some orcs and dark elves.

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* HotAmazon: once she stops crossdressing.

* BadassLongcoat: standard outerwear for most of the cast. Valeriya and Tanis even have {{Badass Labcoat}}s. Even non-longcoat wearing characters generally have some part of their outfit that can flap dramatically in the breeze.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Marius Villiers, a troubled but gentlemanly, gay WhiteHairedPrettyBoy with an [[ShirtlessScene aversion to wearing shirts]].

''Bright Reversions'' is a currently unfinished work of fiction by {{Floria}}. It is set in a world similar to late nineteenth century Earth, with the addition of magic and supernatural powers, intelligent nonhuman races, and some SteamPunk style retro high tech. It centers around a half-orc female soldier, Boudicca "Bodie" Skullsplitter, but has a large cast.

* PinkBishoujoGhetto: borderline example, due more to authorial preference for writing female characters than anything deliberate.

* {{Kuudere}}: Bodie tends to come across like this, although she's normally less brusque than some examples of the trope. However, members of her own culture (who tend towards the BoisterousBruiser side of things) would be more likely to see her as a mild ShrinkingViolet.

* {{Yangire}}: she was very cute as a young girl: tiny, with long golden hair, huge blue eyes, and refined manners - and no more trustworthy then than she was as an older woman.
** By the time she reached her twenties, she was [[TheBaroness a bit more overtly intimidating]].

* {{Pettanko}}: this actually came in handy during her SweetPollyOliver days.

* TheCombatPragmatist: all the Furies are trained to be this - the justification is that, when you're fighting someone larger and stronger, going for his weak points is only fair.

* [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Huge Girl Tiny Bishonen]]: Bodie and Tanis.

* ValuesDissonance: Elspeth's distress at the thought of Bodie's mother having married a foreigner, and her slightly too fervent denial that she could possibly be attracted to [[{{Bifauxnen}} "him"]] due to Bodie's ethnic heritage and lower social status.