History DarthWiki / SnapTheChessboardAndRun

** Out of the (female) characters of the main arc, the only ones who ''don't'' count as this are Adrianna Lane and Millie. In the many side arcs, however, there are a lot of [[TheChick chicks]], [[GirlNextDoor girls next door]], {{Naive Everygirl}}s, and [[{{Housewife}} housewives]] who feature as important characters.

** Wine is Wrath. Her single-minded hatred of the rich and the Roses, to the exclusion of all else - to the exclusion of ''actually helping her people,'' sometimes - consumes her. This becomes a major problem once the war starts, since she would rather KillEmAll than make alliances with "outsiders," even if it means her people being wiped out.

* AngryBlackMan: Although the narrow black-versus-white race dynamics usually implied in this trope are not quite so rigid in the Alternate Universe, Wine is certainly a young black woman who is furious at the establishment to a frightening degree.

* {{Beastess}}: Olive is depicted as this by propaganda: her nickname as Public Enemy #2 is "The Brute."

* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Olive is burly, hard-drinking, uptight, and tough as the devil's boots, but her real motivation is her desire to love and be loved. She is torn apart by her relationship with Wine (who she practically raised), not to mention deeply hurt by her father's neglect. Notably, she is the only one to treat Melody like the [[IllGirl fragile, mentally ill girl]] she is, rather than just writing her off as evil.

* CryingLittleKid: Makes use of a few of these as the war spreads.

* HairDecorations: Melody wears a pink bow in her hair, to symbolize her girliness and innocence.

* EvilAlbino: Not exactly the same, but Wine has vitiligo. Interestingly, her vitiligo progresses along the course of the series, so that by the end (after her redemption) she actually ''is'' albino.

* LandOfOneCity: The Alternate Universe, or at least the plot-centric part of it (AKA Earth), has only one populated city: the Shining City, a sparkling city on a hill that is entirely populated by the rich, and looks and acts more than a little like Disneyworld. Outside of that perfect city, the slums stretch on seemingly forever. Most of the plot-related action in the slums takes place in the Inner Slums, a ramshackle "city" of its own surrounding the Shining City. It is the most densely populated part of the slums, the most strictly guarded by the Roses, and the location of the large factories where Wine's rebellion brews behind closed doors. However, the slums extend across hundreds of miles, changing from tenement houses and factories to plantation farms and the feared and deadly strip-mine tent cities on their way, before petering out into wilderness. Olive spends a lot of time on the fringes of this massive city-state, and even in the wilderness outside it. She is one of the only people in hundreds of years to happen upon the ruins of what was once, it seems, a world very similar to ours.

* LandOfOneCity: The Alternate Universe, or at least the plot-centric part of it (AKA Earth), has only one populated city: the Shining City, a sparkling city on a hill that is entirely populated by the rich, and looks and acts more than a little like Disneyworld. Outside of that perfect city, the slums stretch on seemingly forever. Most of the plot-related action in the slums takes place in the Inner Slums, a ramshackle "city" of its own surrounding the Shining City. It is the most densely populated part of the slums, the most strictly guarded by the Roses, and the location of the large factories where Wine's rebellion brews behind closed doors. However, the slums extend across hundreds of miles, changing from tenement houses and factories to plantation farms and the feared and deadly strip-mine tent cities on their way, before petering out into wilderness.

* LandOfOneCity: The Alternate Universe, or at least the plot-centric part of it (AKA Earth), has only one populated city: the Shining City, a sparkling city on a hill that is entirely populated by the rich, and looks and acts more than a little like Disneyworld. Outside of that perfect city, the slums stretch on seemingly forever. Most of the plot-related action in the slums takes place in the Inner Slums, a ramshackle "city" of its own surrounding the Shining City. It is the most densely populated part of the slums, the most strictly guarded by the Roses, and the location of the large factories where Wine's rebellion brews behind closed doors. However, the slums extend across hundreds of miles.

* Wine Red

* TheLadette: Olive fits this trope more than {{Tomboy}}. She is a major heavyweight (although this is portrayed as a problem, and by the end of the story, she quits drinking), loves to brawl, wins pit fights for money even when blackout drunk, doesn't take care of herself very well at all (again, treated as a problem, as at least part of her lack of hygiene is a form of self-sabotage), and don't even get me started on the swearing. The only thing she lacks is the sex, as Olive is a HeartbrokenBadass with a [[BruiserWithaSoftCenter gooey center]], and not the type to engage in casual sex.

** Music channels, consisting mostly of singers in expensive outfits on expensive sets singing peppy songs about how wonderful life is. Most of these songs are little more than jingles for the state.
** Cartoons, usually Looney-Tunes style slapstick comedy with people getting banged on the head a lot. Tends to include a lot of grotesquely comedic caricatures of the poor. A common trope is for the situation to get completely out of hand and be wrapped up by a [[heroic Rose entering the scene and fixing all the problems, usually by doing little more than snapping his fingers. DeusExMachina]]