History FanFic / SpiritOfRedemption

* InterspeciesRomance

* TheTeam: The Young Guns

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Cathartic way for Eli to kill Brennia's murderer.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Tel and Lin before CharacterDevelopment.

* VirtualReality: The sower devices can create these.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Fors and Dempsey.
* WarIsHell: Point hammered again and again. And then some more.
* WaveMotionGun: The Biotic weapons on the batarian ships.

** Because of the number of characters that where in canon plus the [=OCs=] that keep being introduced, it isn't hard to go by several chapters without having some of them even mentioned. It doesn't help that midway through the story, they are scattered around the galaxy. The most proeminent are probably Tel and Mazz. The first disappears after he, Eli and Lin go to bootcamp together, and comes back only four years later (about 50 chapters), and even then becomes only a background character.

* ThreeAmigos: Garrus, Lantar and Sam.

* BareYourMidriff: [[spoiler: Serana's wedding outfit with Lin.]]

%%* CoolPet: Shepard's pet varren Urz. Inverted with Solanna's dog and Makur's pet snow leopard.

%%* CoolPet: Shepard's pet varren Urz. Inverted with Solanna's dog and Makur's pet snow leopard.

* KillEmAll: Every time Garrus is deployed in an "Archangel" mission, that's the expected outcome.

* WeaponOfChoice: Rinus pointedly says that he prefer shotguns, but he does know how to use the other weapons on the arsenal.

** Taken UpToEleven during the epilogue where [[spoiler:the Spectres kept in stasis and the Reaper threat took airs of legend after 50.000 years, even among fellow Spectres.]]

* KnifeNut: Seheve.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just try counting them all. We dare you.

** Because of the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters that where in canon plus the [=OCs=] that keep being introduced, it isn't hard to go by several chapters without having some of them even mentioned. It doesn't help that midway through the story, they are scattered around the galaxy. The most proeminent are probably Tel and Mazz. The first disappears after he, Eli and Lin go to bootcamp together, and comes back only four years later (about 50 chapters), and even then becomes only a background character.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Most of the hybrid kids shown, with the exception of Estevan.

* StunGun: Dara likes to use her whenever possible, and the batarian utilize stasis guns, reverse engineered from Collector Tech.

%%* BadassMustache: Sam

* GoodIsNotSoft: Exemplified by Shepard's speech under BadassBoast.

* NotSoDifferent: Humans and turians are remarked semi-regularly to be this.

* InfantImmortality: Zigzagged. Played straight with the kids of the Spectres but several thousand children do die during the plagues and the wars.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Inverted with the "NCAI's", especially EDI and Pelagia.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Batarian vibro-swords

* AbsurdlyYouthfulParent: The reaction people have upon meeting Dempsey and Madison, after the later passes through the Alliance military academy.

* AcePilot: Kallixta

* [[CoolPet Alien Pet]]: Shepard's pet varren Urz. Inverted with Solanna's dog and Makur's pet snow leopard.
* AfterTheEnd: The whole of chapter 162.
* TheAlcatraz: Kanak'Khoria Prison on Khar'sharn.

* ApocalypseHow: Pre-fic Planetary/Physical Annihilation with the asari homeworld.
** Mind you, [[spoiler: Thessia fell to the Reapers in Mass Effect 3, too, but then we can blame Cerberus for accelerating that process.]]

* TheAtoner: Lantar

* ArrangedMarriage

* AxCrazy: Lina Vasir

* BackFromTheDead: And the rather unpleasant hops and jumps that the courts had to make to bring back Dempsey.
** [[spoiler:Joysinger defies rachni custom and gives birth to an exact copy of Dances after he dies of old age using his DNA and memories.]]

* BadassMustache: Sam
* BadassNormal: Sam, Kasumi

* [[spoiler: BarehandedBladeBlock: Dara when a Vibrosword was about to relieve Eli's body from the weight of his head.]]

* BattleCouple: Shep/Garrus, Dara/Rel, Sam/[[spoiler:Kasumi, Dara/Eli, Dempsey/Zasha]], and a whole buttload more.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Dara.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Fors.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: Several. Usually at the end of an arc, but some are interspersed.

* BigDamnHeroes: The Young Guns perform one to a group of fleeing civilians on Astaria.
* BigEater: Dempsey, due to his biotics and gene mods.
* [[BigFriendlyDog Big Friendly Varren]]: Urz.
* BigGood: The Spectres.

* BlessedWithSuck: Dempsey is this in double. He can use both biotics and a chip in his brain that lets him use tech skills with his mind, but every time he uses both in sequence he has splitting headaches. He has a krogan regeneration gene mod that can heal almost any damage, but also has to contend with the krogan Bloodrage when he gets angry, to which the headaches don't help.
** [[spoiler:The gene mod also means that his natural lifespan is greatly extended, meaning he'll outlive most of his family and the people he calls friends.]]

* BlandNameProduct: ''Code of Honor'', an extranet game that Madison plays.
* BlankWhiteEyes: James has this literally.
* BloodyHorror: One of the tactics of [[spoiler:the Yahg.]]

* BodyHorror: The fate of the victims of the [[spoiler:nanites the batarians used during the husk war.]]
* BoyMeetsGirl: Eli and Dara during the first trip from Bastion to Mindoir on the Normandy. Dempsey and Zhasa on the barracks on the base. Fors and Chissa when he's recounting how they meet during his marriage ceremony.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Anyone who is victim to the Dominate ability is this for a few minutes.
* BreakTheCutie: Dara, Lin and Eli during their time on the Turian Military, before the tryouts for the Spectres. [[spoiler:Caelia in the epilogue.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Siara on Tuchanka.

* [[BreatherEpisode Breather Chapter]]: Several. The one that stands out the most is probably the one with Fors', Lin's and Dempsey's bachelor party.
* ButtMonkey: Lin and his knee; mostly his knee.
* CannotKeepASecret: Serana, among Eli, Lin and her brothers, cannot lie worth a damn.

* CallBack: So many that it would take an entire page.

* CasualDangerDialogue: On occasion.
* [[EpisodeOnAPlane Chapter On A Plane]]: Several chapters take place entirely aboard an SR ship.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Kella and Brennia.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: It's practically a coming of age story.

* CheerfulChild: Almost all the children related directly or indirectly to the spectres are this on some level. [[spoiler: Until they're not. Caelia is the foremost example.]]
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The Sower devices.
* ChekhovsGun: Azure Dust's effect on rachni, which takes over 5 years to fire.
** [[spoiler:Eli's quilt.]]

* CoolSword: Batarian [[VibroWeapon vibroswords]].

* CheshireCatGrin: Serana.
* ChickMagnet: Eli, during his period on Macedyn. He says that he stands out because he's an oddity. [[spoiler: In his own words, "A human wrapped in a turian wrapped in an asari."]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: James Dempsey's backstory. Madison Dempsey's too.

* TheClan: Every turian has it's own, with they own different pattern of facepaint. It differs from canon in that a turian without facepaint isn't considered immediately dishonest, but part of the Imperial family.
* ClassifiedInformation: The Spectres keep several secrets '''very''' close to them, sometimes even from other Spectres.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Subverted. Serana has almost always moved instinctively this way thinking ''"Mine"'' about [[spoiler:both Eli and, later, Lin]], but almost never actually acts on those feelings.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lin comes across as this, before his and Eli's turn to go for bootcamp.
* CodeName: Every Spectre ends up getting one by the end.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Dara, Fors and Zasha suffer this on a prison on Lorek.]]

* ConfusionFu / CombatPragmatist: Also known as Mindoir-Mixed Style
* ContaminationSituation: [[spoiler:During the attack using engineered diseases on Bastion.]]

* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Eli with Dara, at least three times. Everyone in the vicinity with Glory, late on the story.
* CoolHorse: Dara receives one as a Christmas gift from Sam and Kasumi. From a human point of view, riding a ''rlata'' would qualify as well.
* CoolShip: The SR's.

* CrusadingLawyer: Mr. Maxwell, his crusade? AI rights

* CuteKitten: Loki and Lucy.
* CurbStompBattle: A few

* {{Cyborg}}: Shepard, [[spoiler:Dempsey.]]
* DamselInDistress: Several.
** Ellie, Dara and their families at the climax of the Redemption arc.
** [[spoiler:Siara, Ylara and an asari merc]] during the Omega campaign.
** [[spoiler:Dara, during the birthsong of Joy-singer.]]
** [[spoiler:Dara and Zhasa, when they were captured by batarians]] during a botched operation on Lorek.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Spectres armor is black.

* TheDeadHaveNames: Shepard during the funeral after the AEC attack on the base lists every single of the people that died during the attack by name and some tidbit about them.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Siara after the events that led her to be sent to Tuchanka.
* DeathByAThousandCuts: According to the characters the ''Wing Chun'' fighting style is this.
* DeathByOriginStory: Dara's mom and Eli's dad.
* DeathGlare: Almost characters have been described to have one at one point or another, specially when it comes to their own [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]].

* DespairEventHorizon: When a turian crosses this line he's generally regarded and/or regards himself as a "''mor'loci''".

* DiabolusExNihilo: During the Terra Nova campaign a Thresher Maw attacks the Spectre convoy out of nowhere.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Only once.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: The Lystheni dalatrass on Garvug. Well, one of them.]]

* DoesntLikeGuns: Ellie at first.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The various "Bite me" comments that are thrown around, considering turian mating ways. Lampshaded to hell and back too.

* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:The Lystheni Dalatrass is this to Avek, and the rest of the batarians during the batarian/yahg war.]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: The ''Centurions'' during the turian bootcamp sequences.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Oh, so very much. Though, as noted in the story, there's no such thing as a Happilly ever after. It's just a new beggining.
* EasilyForgiven: Averted with Lantar and later with Seheve.
* EccentricMentor: Mordin to Dara.
* ElectricTorture: [[spoiler:Zhasa suffer from this on Lorek after she, Fors and Dara are captured by the batarians.]]

* EmpathyDollShot: Eli's recovered doll in the Omega campaign during the war.

* EscapePod: Every ship has them. [[spoiler:Seheve and Rel [[TheirFirstTime first time]] is aboard one.]]
* EveryonesBabySister: Serana.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: During the Terra Nova campaign a Thresher Maw attacks the Spectre convoy out of nowhere.

* PowerArmor: The quarians and the geth have made [[IronMan War Machine]] battle suits for the Quarians to wear. [[spoiler:Instad of buying new armor after the First battle of Kar'Shan, Siara buys an Atlas mech]].