History Fanfic / ArmoredCoreFromTheAshes

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Done a lot, though can also be subverted with relative ease as well.

%%** Actually, at least one character is this at any given time - a side effect of having LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

* BrokenAce: Ghost is the literal definition of this trope. He's a master NEXT pilot, a brilliant {{Chessmaster}}, a textbook MagnificentBastard, and has astounding physical abilities, capable of taking on armies with his bare hands. He's also a [[NietzcheWannabee nihilistic monster]], a SelfMadeOrphan with a [[IDidWhatIHadToDo ruthless streak the size of a small continent]], willing to commit [[OmnicidalManiac omnicide]] to bring peace to the world. And that's just the beginning.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Played straight with Daven, who was just a basic mechanic before and partly during[[ArmoredCoreForAnswer Armored Core For Answer]]. He proceeded to become the third-command in ORCA, and a high-ranked pilot.

* BerserkButton: Demons. That is all.

** Requiem. That is all.

* BigNo

* ConsolationPrize

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Ghost.
** Although often averted by Ghost as well, normally due to him considering his defeated enemies (in some cases) to be [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponents]] or because they still have a part to play in his massive gambit.

*** YMMV on this trope's applicability to Ghost; he borders on Complete Monster.

* AntiHero: Ghost.
** Specifically, Type III at the start, moving onto Type IV and Type V pretty quickly.
** Alternately, he could be considered a VillainProtagonist.

* AppliedPhlebotinum

* AwesomeButImpractical: Do you really have to ask?

* {{Badass}}: Every pilot, as it takes great skill for even lower-ranks.
** Ghost seems to deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoke this trope]] on every possible occasion with his (occasionally ridiculous) showmanship.

* Fanon: Does it look like this is an official story put as canon by From Software?

* LadyAndKnight: An odd, gender-flipped version between Ghost and [[spoiler: an insane, severely yandere Fiona Jarnefeldt]] that is also heavily subverted by Ghost's skill.

A cooperative fanfiction, set almost immediately after the events of ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore for Answer''. It's written by multiple fanfiction authors (Zero Reaper, Krimzon-8, [=xXThe perfect SoldierXx=], n147258, Sakai the Demon and Precursor), each of whom has multiple characters featured.

A cooperative fanfiction, set almost immediately after the events of ''Armored Core for Answer''. It's written by multiple fanfiction authors (Zero Reaper, Krimzon-8, [=xXThe perfect SoldierXx=], n147258, Sakai the Demon and Precursor), each of whom has multiple characters featured.

** Ghost can variously be interpreted as either a darker [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] expy or a more powerful [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] expy. As it turns out, the author designed him as both.

* AwesomeButPractical: Almost all the character's NEXTs and weapons.

* BadassAbnormal: Demons, Angels and anyone augmented.

* DadTheVeteran: Zach, V'Rugh, Berlioz, Joshua, Jean Pierre the Fifth, Sahdana, Takafumi, Nikola. [[As of confirmed living as of the Sahara, Zach is the only one alive.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Everyone. Absolutely everyone.
** But Ghost most of all. Hell, even the authors don't know whether he's good or evil yet. He seems to express a lot of both, though.

* AngstWhatAngst: Happens occasionally, especially when something that should be traumatic happens to Ghost and he barely flinches.
** Possibly justified by the fact that he's A) a cold-blooded, ruthless killer who's watched everyone he's ever known die and B) he's possibly insane.

* {{Anvilicious}}

** Subverted - They're all fighting each other most of the time.
*** Although after further examination, Ghost is the one who basically wiped the Thermidor family off the face of the Earth. Maybe he's just the family's resident internal grim reaper.

* BetaCouple: Daven and Wynne had problems, but got over them fairly well. The Beta Couple to these two is Zach and Menno, though Menno is dead.
** Although that said, nobody in this fic seems to stay dead for long.
*** [[spoiler: Very much so. Miranda Smith (aka Menno Ruh) has been confirmed to be alive. Same with Fiona Jarnefeldt.]]

* BreatherBoss: Some characters are the big enemy to take down, but are not overly difficult.
* BrokenAce: Ghost is the literal definition of this trope. He's a master NEXT pilot, a brilliant {{Chessmaster}}, a textbook MagnificentBastard, and has astounding physical abilities, capable of taking on armies with his bare hands. He's also a [[NietzcheWannabee nihilistic]] [[CompleteMonster monster]], a SelfMadeOrphan with a [[IDidWhatIHadToDo ruthless streak the size of a small continent]], willing to commit [[OmnicidalManiac omnicide]] to bring peace to the world. And that's just the beginning.

* ChaoticGood: Ghost in the beginning. [[spoiler:He then goes down to NeutralEvil at best.]]
* ChaoticNeutral: Razer

* CompleteMonster: Sebastian, with his experiments.
** Ghost seems to be becoming this, at least in the eyes of some characters.
** Not to mention Stein.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Too many to list.
** There will be a second page for this in due time.

** Not to mention Ghost; he constantly wears black and dark grey clothing, all of his mechs are painted black and blood-red, he has black hair and (under the influence of his Demon abilities) red eyes - hell, even his ''name'' screams this... but he's the hero.

* DesignatedHero
* DespairEventHorizon: Holly when Ghost seemed to die. He got better.
** Ghost on multiple occasions. Each time, he dips deeper into insanity...

* EngagingChevrons: If you don't like the relatively short launch sequences.

* EvilIsCool: Ghost.

* LadyAndKnight: An odd, gender-flipped version between Ghost and [[spoiler:Fiona Jarnetfeld]] that is also heavily subverted by Ghost's skill.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Averted. Ghost and Kruger are shown to be, by some margin, the most powerful human beings in all of history, who could almost be called gods because of the fact that ''no-one can touch them'' on the battlefield. This is something that Ghost [[AGodAnI does not forget]].

* TrueCompanions: Averted with Ghost's team. They're all psychopathic monsters to some degree or another, and little more than UnwittingPawns to Ghost.

** Ghost can variously be interpreted as either a darker [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] expy or a more powerful [[DeathNote Light Yagami]] expy. As it turns out, the author designed him as both.

** Possibly justified by the fact that he's A) a cold-blooded, ruthless killer who's watched everyone he's ever known die and B) he's [[{{Understatement}} possibly insane]].

* CradlingTheirKill: Ghost after he accidentally shot Holly. [[IGotBetter She got better]]... [[LaserGuidedAmnesia sort of]].

* DespairEventHorizon: Holly when Ghost seemed to die. [[IGotBetter He got better.]]

** Possibly justified by the fact that he's A) a cold-blooded, ruthless killer who's watched everyone he's ever known die and B) he's possibly insane.

* ChaoticGood: Ghost in the beginning.

** Interestingly inverted with Ghost, who, since he was nineteen, has been possibly the largest single force in the world, having more or less dictated the course of the [[WorldWarWhatever Lynx War]], was pulling the strings behind ORCA, and is [[well, until recently]] the commander of the world's second-largest military faction.

** Although often averted by Ghost as well, normally due to him considering his defeated enemies (in some cases) to be [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponents]] or because they still have a part to play in his massive Xanatos Gambit.

* EvilPlan: Ghost has an especially large XanatosGambit plan.