History FanFic / GoNotGently

* AbductionIsLove: Played with, because Tango [[spoiler:is barely conscious that what he's doing is trying desperately to grab on to his ToyShip happy memories. Once he recalls what actually happened when he was Vivi, he becomes a lot less possessive of Eiko.]]

* BeautifulAllAlong

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tango dies, but having [[DyingAsYourself regained his sanity and kindness]], and the black mages stabilize their biology thanks to his efforts; in addition, it turns out that he [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy left something]] with Eiko.]]

* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Black Tango is Vivi, after his desperate attempts to survive turned him into a Black Waltz model black mage, and drove him insane with pain; he barely remembers the friendship he had with the party. Subverted due to LoveRedeems, causing him to regain his mind and realize the survival of the black mages doesn't require destroying the rest of the planet.]]

* AbductionIsLove
* AbusiveParents: Tango, to the Black Mages.

* AxCrazy

* BittersweetEnding

* FallenHero

* GigglingVillain

[[ThirteenIsUnlucky Thirteen]] years have passed since the events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', and Eiko Carol Fabool has grown into an intelligent, self-possessed young woman and the [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses heir]] to the regency of Lindblum. She is [[HappilyAdopted beloved by her parents]], keeps in touch with [[HappilyEverAfter her old adventuring buddies]], and is well on her way to becoming [[WrenchWench a talented airship engineer]].

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Eiko Carol, Queen Garnet (formerly), Princess Cornelia

%%* AbductionIsLove
%%* AbusiveParents: Tango, to the Black Mages.
%%* ActionGirl
%%* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler:Eiko comes very close to becoming one.]]
%%* ArrangedMarriage
%%* AxCrazy

%%* BattleCouple: Dagger and Zidane, Beatrix and Steiner, [[spoiler:Eiko and Tango]].
%%* BeautifulAllAlong

%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
%%* BirthDeathJuxtaposition
%%* BittersweetEnding
%%* BlackCloak
%%* ChildrenAreInnocent
%%* BreakTheCutie: Both Eiko [[spoiler:and Tango/Vivi]].
%%* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu
%%* CatchPhrase: ''I exist only to kill.''
%%* ChewToy: [[spoiler:Tango]], as it turns out.
%%* CurbStompBattle: Tango vs. [[spoiler:Zidane]].

%%* DeadGuyJunior: Vivi and [[spoiler:Vita]].

%%* DrivenToVillainy

%%* EldritchAbomination: A few of them!

%%* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Eiko Carol, Queen Garnet (formerly), Princess Cornelia
%%* EvilFormerFriend

%%* FallenHero
%%* FatalAttraction

%%* FreakinessShame
%%* FromMyOwnPersonalGarden: Not just the food, but the [[spoiler:minions, too.]]
%%* FuroScene [[ShowerOfAngst Of Angst]]
%%* GetItOverWith: Subverted, painfully. It's amazing how fast you change your mind when the strangling actually starts...
%%* GigglingVillain
%%* GladToBeAliveSex: Possibly the least joyful example(s), ever.

%%* HappilyAdopted
%%* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]]
%%* HerHeartWillGoOn
%%* HeroicSacrifice
%%* TheHighQueen: Everybody in Alexandria loves Queen Garnet.
%%* HurtComfortFic
%%* IDidWhatIHadToDo

%%* LimaSyndrome

%%* LoveHurts: And ''how''.
%%* TheMourningAfter: Poor, poor Vivi.
%%* MamaBear

%%* MoodSwinger

%%* MotiveRant: Several.
%%* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine
%%* NotQuiteDead
%%* OmnicidalManiac
%%* OneWingedAngel

%%* PimpedOutDress:
%%* ThePollyanna: The Black Mages. My gosh, the Black Mages.

%%* PurpleProse: Undeniable at times, but this fic [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools makes it look good]].

%%* RageAgainstTheHeavens

%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

%%* SheIsAllGrownUp
%%* SoWhatDoWeDoNow
%%* SomeoneToRememberHimBy
%%* StillGotIt
%%* StockholmSyndrome

%%* SummonMagic

%%* TalkingInBed

%%* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:The identity of Black Tango.]]
%%* {{Tomboy}}: Eiko.
%%** Also Cornelia, to an extent.

%%* TranquilFury
%%-->"Don't move. I don't like it when you move."

%%* UnstoppableRage
%%* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans
%%* VillainousBreakdown
%%* VillainousCrush

%%* PurpleProse: Undeniable at times, but this fic [[TropesAreNotBad makes it look good]].

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* CryForTheDevil: It's strange how easily Tango can get [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds pitiable]] so quickly

* FoeYay
-->[[spoiler:"He had a pretty neck, now that it was clean. He was generally fifty times more palatable, and he smelled a bit like soap. I suddenly wondered why I had done it at all(...)"]]

->''For my birthday, when I was ten, Papa gave me hair ribbons and chocolate and a new set of spanners and the chance to pilot an airship without Erin at the co-pilot's wheel. For Vivi's birthday, when he was twelve, he got a houseful of dead children and left us a very gentle little note and went off and Stopped.\\

Why?''

* [[spoiler:AbductionIsLove]]
* AbusiveParents: Tango, to the Black Mages.
* ActionGirl
* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler:Eiko comes very close to becoming one.]]
* ArrangedMarriage
* AxCrazy

* BattleCouple: Dagger and Zidane, Beatrix and Steiner, [[spoiler:Eiko and Tango]].
* BeautifulAllAlong
* BerserkButton: Don't tell Tango what to do. Also, don't hurt his "children".
** That goes for Eiko, too.
-->You do ''not'' blow up Eiko Carol's people in Eiko Carol's city!
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* [[spoiler:BirthDeathJuxtaposition]]
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]
* BlackCloak
* [[ChildrenAreInnocent Black Mages Are Innocent]]
* BreakTheCutie: Both Eiko [[spoiler:and Tango/Vivi]].
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu
* CatchPhrase: ''I exist only to kill.''
* ChewToy: [[spoiler:Tango]], as it turns out.

* CurbStompBattle: Tango vs. [[spoiler:Zidane]].

* DeadGuyJunior: Vivi and [[spoiler:Vita]].

* DrivenToVillainy

* EldritchAbomination: A few of them!

-->Oh, Gods, [[spoiler:Vivi, Vivi]] wouldn't kill ''Steiner'', would he?
** As a matter of fact, no, he wouldn't.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Eiko Carol, Queen Garnet (formerly), Princess Cornelia
* [[spoiler:EvilFormerFriend]]

* TheFaceless: Tango and the black mages.
** Although they are [[AvertedTrope far from]] being FacelessGoons.
* [[spoiler: FallenHero]]
* FatalAttraction

* [[spoiler: ForgottenChildhoodFriend]]: Played with. [[spoiler:Nobody forgot Vivi]], but over the years of loneliness and self-exile, [[spoiler:he's [[LeftForDead rewritten his own history]] a little in his head...]]
* FreakinessShame
* FromMyOwnPersonalGarden: Not just the food, but the [[spoiler:minions, too.]]
* FuroScene [[ShowerOfAngst Of Angst]]
* GetItOverWith: Subverted, painfully. It's amazing how fast you change your mind when the strangling actually starts...
* GigglingVillain
* [[spoiler: GladToBeAliveSex]]: Possibly the least joyful example(s), ever.

* HappilyAdopted
* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]]
* [[spoiler: HerHeartWillGoOn]]
* HeroicSacrifice
* TheHighQueen: Everybody in Alexandria loves Queen Garnet.
* HurtComfortFic
* IDidWhatIHadToDo

* [[spoiler:IntimatePsychotherapy]]: Harshly averted. It fixes nothing.

* LimaSyndrome

* LoveHurts: And ''how''.
* TheMourningAfter: Poor, poor Vivi.
* MamaBear

* [[MommasBoy Momma's Boy]]: Rain loves his "mother" very, very much.
* MoodSwinger

* MotiveRant: Several.
* [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Dine]]
* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]
* OmnicidalManiac
* OneWingedAngel

* PimpedOutDress:
* ThePollyanna: The Black Mages. My gosh, the Black Mages.

* PurpleProse: Undeniable at times, but this fic [[TropesAreNotBad makes it look good]].

* RageAgainstTheHeavens

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* SheIsAllGrownUp
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow
* [[spoiler:SomeoneToRememberHimBy]]
* StillGotIt
* StockholmSyndrome

* SummonMagic

* TalkingInBed

* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:The identity of Black Tango.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: Eiko.
** Also Cornelia, to an extent.

* TranquilFury
-->"Don't move. I don't like it when you move."

* UnstoppableRage
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans
* VillainousBreakdown
* [[spoiler:VillainousCrush]]

* RaceAgainstTheClock: Black Mages have a limited lifespan, and [[spoiler:Tango and Eiko]] won't let them Stop without a fight.

[[ThirteenIsUnlucky Thirteen]] years have passed since the events of FinalFantasyIX, and Eiko Carol Fabool has grown into an intelligent, self-possessed young woman and the [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses heir]] to the regency of Lindblum. She is [[HappilyAdopted beloved by her parents]], keeps in touch with [[HappilyEverAfter her old adventuring buddies]], and is well on her way to becoming [[WrenchWench a talented airship engineer]].

* CurbStompBattle: Tango vs. [[spoiler:Zidane]]. [[ItGotWorse It gets worse.]]

** Generally something of a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* ButYourWingsAreBeautiful

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* CryForTheDevil: It's strange how easily Tango can flicker from borderline CompleteMonster to [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds pitiable]] so quickly

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Arguably, [[WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis this all could have been avoided]] if Eiko had let the Lindblum air force take on Tango...although, then again, he might have just [[DownerEnding slaughtered them all and moved on to Alexandria]].

--> --'''Eiko Carol'''

->''For Vivi's birthday, when he was twelve, he got a houseful of dead children and left us a very gentle little note and went off and Stopped. Why?''

* MoralEventHorizon: Tango crosses it when he confesses to having [[spoiler:climbed in at Princess Cornelia's bedroom window and strangled her]].
** [[spoiler:It turns out he [[NotQuiteDead failed to kill her]], though it's left unclear whether he [[EvenEvilHasStandards lost his nerve]] or [[CompleteMonster was simply thwarted]] by the arrival of Steiner and the guards.]]

* NightmareFuel: Some of Eiko's ill-fated summoning attempts stray thoroughly into this.
-->"Rain, if you hear something happening in here - not right, me screaming maybe, possibly gore running under the doors and my intestines hitting the wall - you run grab your father and ''don't look back."''
** She's only partly joking.

* {{Squick}}: You don't want to know what Tango looks like under that hat. [[spoiler:At least, not until Eiko gets done [[SheCleansUpNicely cleaning him up]].]]
** Some of the aftermaths of Eiko's eidolon battles also qualify.

* TheWoobie: So many. ''So, so many.''
** Even Tango falls into this category in some scenes. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Sort of.]]

[[ThirteenIsUnlucky Thirteen]] years have passed since the events of FinalFantasyIX, and Eiko Carol Fabool has grown into an intelligent, self-possessed young woman and the [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses heir]] to the regency of Lindblum. She is [[HappilyAdopted beloved by her parents]], keeps in touch with her old adventuring buddies, and is well on her way to becoming a talented airship engineer.

* GetItOverWith: Subverted, painfully.

* BreakTheCutie

* CryForTheDevil

There are only two disappointments in her perfect life: her [[TheMagicGoesAway fading connection]] to her eidolons, and the lingering pain of losing her childhood friend, Vivi Ornitier, when she was ten. Otherwise, everything about her life seems almost too good to last.

* PetTheDog/KickTheDog: Tango vacillates wildly between these, with regards to the Black Mages. [[MoodSwinger Sometimes in the same scene.]]

There are only two disappointments in her perfect life: her fading connection to her eidolons, and the lingering pain of losing her childhood friend, Vivi Ornitier, when she was ten. Otherwise, everything about her life seems almost too good to last.

''GoNotGently'' is quite possibly the best-known FFIX fanfiction on the internet, and certainly among the best. It tackles the darker side of many of the same questions about life, death, and survival that were raised by the original game, and provides some very interesting explorations of the inner workings of magic and summoning on Gaia. In the process, it paints vivid, well-painted portraits of all the familiar FFIX heroes thirteen years down the line, and adds a small but judicious handful of original characters to the mix.

Oh, and there are black mages. [[{{Squee}} Lots and lots of black mages.]]

* AbusiveParents: Tango, to the black mages.
* BabiesEverAfter: Resulted in Princess Cornelia of Alexandria. Aww.

* ThePollyanna: The black mages. My gosh, the black mages.

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-->[[spoiler:He had a pretty neck, now that it was clean. He was generally fifty times more palatable, and he smelled a bit like soap. I suddenly wondered why I had done it at all...]]

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