History FanFic / Overlady

** The Heart of Darkness is held by [[spoiler: the overlady of Albion, Tiffania Westood]], and makes the bearer's lieutenants or trusted underbosses far more powerful and skilled than they would be otherwise, which is mainly why [[spoiler: Tiffania's orphans are so dangerous and capable of being so much more Evil than they otherwise be as children]].

* DysfunctionalFamily: The Vallières. The Duke's and Karin's marriage is strained, following Henrietta's dethronement and the peace treaty with the Albion Rebellion, both of which Karin is furiously against. The eldest child, Eleanor, is distant and [[spoiler:responsible for the middle child, Cattleya, getting turning into a vampire]], and the youngest, Louise, is believed to be dead from their POV.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The current generation of Vallières are the paragon of noble and good virtues, a far cry from the ObviouslyEvil of previous generations. Most of the foul, wretched beings Louise speaks to, as well as the house staff who served them during their evil heyday, blame this on [[TheHero Karin]], claiming that she lured the Duke away from his ObviouslyEvil heritage, and are delighted that [[EvilOverlord Louise]] is going back to her roots, so to speak.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8753582/1/ Overlady]]'' is a crossover between ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' and ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' by @/EarthScorpion.

* HornyDevils: Scarron. Is an incubus. A "confirmed bachelor" incubus. With a half-incubus daughter. (No, not "succubus". Yes, "daughter".)

* DoubleMeaning: Eleanore de Valliere's "praise" of Francoise de Montespan[[note]]Viscount Wardes' new fiancee[[/note]] during their debate is filled to the brim with this and DoubleEntendre--such as praising de Montespan for her dedication to wards[[note]]the magical constructs[[/note]], the long nights [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow she spent working on wards]], or how her devotion to wards [[NeverASelfMadeWoman led to her current social and political success]].

* RantInducingSlight: Louise manages to remain fairly stoic when hearing all that's happened during her time in the Tower, but learning that her fiancé Wardes is already sleeping with another woman (instead of going through the traditional period of mourning) launches her into a rant that manages to impress Scarron. Wardes remains a sore spot for her, and she goes into further rants later on.

* InTheBlood: One of the fic's themes.
--> "Hundreds of years of de la Vallière blood welled up inside her, demanding to stay inside her body."

* OneTrueLove: Princess Henrietta of Tristain and Prince Wales of Albion have this, which goes poorly like in the ''Familiar of Zero'' canon. True Love is a recognized phenomenon in-universe, and it renders Henrietta totally immune to demonic allures since she only sees her memories of him when affected. [[spoiler: Deconstructed over the course of ''Overlady'', as Henrietta literally cannot move on from her Prince's death; she's motivated to become a powerful necromancer solely to bring him back the dead, and she feels like that no-one will ever love her like he did. In the bad future after Eleanore breaks time itself, Henrietta becomes a tyrant that invades Albion, kills everyone there in revenge for its government causing Wales' death, and then crashes the island into the Abyss pursuing revenge. She conquers a third of it before dying, then becomes a psychotic undead tyrant warring with the Abyss]].

* OxymoronicBeing: Athe the Doubter is worshiped by being ignored and denying his existence as his realms include doubt and disbelief, and as such, atheists are amongst his favored mortals. A shrine dedicated to him is one that is deliberately ignored that the worshipper turns away from, while reading from atheist writings or biology books, then denying the existence of gods if he or his servants call.

** At the very least, the bear carpet one seems to be true.

** It's not just to the minions. Emperor Lee has heard the one about more wands as well, and he lives across the ocean with a language barrier in the way.

** The Mind of Evil amplifies the bearer's magic and any magical artifacts/beings under their control, its location is unknown in the present day, [[spoiler: but it's implied to be held by whoever created the Albion steam golems]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Igni tries to fight Baelogi after she possesses Francoise, only for the burgeoning dark goddess to logically deny the existence of Minions hard enough that he [[FadingAway faded from existence entirely]], making him extremely double-dead]].

* OneTrueLove: Princess Henrietta of Tristain and Prince Wales of Albion have this, which goes poorly like in the ''Familiar of Zero'' canon. True Love is a recognized phenomenon in-universe, and it renders Henrietta totally immune to demonic allures since she only sees her memories of him when affected. [[spoiler: Deconstructed over the course of ''Overlady'', as Henrietta literally cannot move on from her Prince's death; she's motivated to become a necromancer solely to bring him back the dead, and she feels like that no-one will ever love her like he did. In the bad future after Eleanore breaks time itself, she becomes an undead tyrant that invades Albion, kills everyone there, and then crashes the island into the abyss pursuing revenge]].

* PlayingWithFire: Louise has learned a fire-based spell and uses it for everything, up to and including warming her bath. Best of all, it is adorably [[TechnicolorFire pink!]] She also threatens to set people on fire a lot.

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: [[spoiler:Kirche and all of her sisters. Their Father is a very powerful (both personally and politically), self-centered (and[=/=]or incredibly stupid) man with extremely sexist views on women who had no luck siring (legitimate) sons, so he raised his daughters as sons, and considers the female gender as a flaw they can actually grow out of. Kirche didn't even know she was a girl until she was 9.]]

** Averted later on with the Albion orphans under Tiffania's care, who are both the source of Evil plots and schemes for the dark elf faction that Tiffania belongs too, but are also [[spoiler: part of their overlady's fighting forces, made much more lethal by Tiffania's artifact]].