History Fanfic / MomentaryWeakness

** [[spoiler: PlayedForLaughs with Ghondor, who, in the midst of an awesome climatic moment, has her first words upon arriving in Alrest be [[SirSwearsalot swearing at the top of her lungs]][[EmbarrassingFirstName about her name]].]]

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Milly and Vahn act as such regularly, though Vahn is more successful due to Milly's temperament and repeated insistence on being almost an adult (despite being 9).

* BackupFromOtherworld: In ''Endless Strength'', [[spoiler:Nia finishes processing all the data from Aionios right as their enemies are staging their final assault on the castle. She has to put the City people somewhere, and summons most of them right in the central chamber, ready to fight]].
-->'''[[spoiler:Lost Numbers]]:''' For the true Queens!

** [[spoiler: During the BigDamnHeroes moment in the castle battle, not only does Nia summon Monica, Ghondor, Gray and the rest of the Lost Numbers to help, she also summons Guernica Vandham, who died at the start of ''Xenoblade 3''. Nia explains that, due to him touching the Ouroboros Stone and being off-seen by Noah and Mio, she had the oppoertunity to create a partial record of him in Origin.]]

** Mio is the Beauty, due to taking more supportive roles compared to her siblings, [[spoiler: even being a healer in Alrest compared to her defensive class in Aionios]]. On a more comedic note, she's the only Gormotti between her siblings and thus more likely to weaponise her adorableness.

** Milly is the Brawn, frequently performing acrobatic maneuvers and the most enthusiastic with combat training. [[spoiler: Her more aggressive [[BareFistedMonk hand-to-hand fighting style]] leads to her blade weapons manifesting as WolverineClaws and combat boots]].

* HadToBeSharp: Vahn is a little disappointed that he can't summon his Blade weapon yet, especially since his friend Juniper, who is about the same age as him, can. Morag and Brighid point out that this is probably because Juniper ''needed'' their weapon at some point. [[spoiler:Milly, Vahn, and Mio all manage to summon their weapons for the first time during the attack on the castle]].

** It's mentioned in the sequel series that Gray and Rozana did, in fact, adopt Eunie. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Nia had to summon most of the City characters to help repel the assault on the castle, leaving them on the wrong planet from their daughter with no easy way to reunite]].

** Milly is the Brawn, frequently performing acrobatic maneuvers and the most enthusiastic with combat training. [[Her more aggressive [[BareFistedMonk hand-to-hand fighting style]] leads to her blade weapons manifesting as WolverineClaws and combat boots]].

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Milly and Vahn act as such regularly, though Vahn is more successful due to Milly's repeated insistence on being almost an adult (despite being 9).

** [[spoiler: During the BigDamnHeroes moment in the castle battle, not only does Nia summon Monica, Ghondor, Gray and the rest of the Lost Numbers to help, she also summons Guernica Vandham, who died at the start of ''Xenoblade 3''. Nia explains that, due to him touching the Ouroboros Stone and being off-seen by Noah and Mio, allowed her to create a partial record of him in Origin.]]

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:During the BigDamnHeroes moment in the castle battle, not only does Nia summon Monica, Ghondor, Gray and the rest of the Lost Numbers to help, she also summons Guernica Vandham, who died at the start of ''Xenoblade 3'']]

* MamaBear: It doesn't take long for people to notice that Nia tends to glare at Noah when he spends too much time with Mio... [[MortonsFork or when he doesn't spend enough time with Mio]].

The first series is a number of mostly unconnected vignettes about Nia traveling with Ouroboros, with special focus on Nia relationship with Mio and how that affects the others. ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42625821/chapters/107072754 Endless Strength]]'' is about what happens when the Endless Now ends, and the world of Alrest has to deal with the consequences.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Milly takes over the training of the guard for a day, insisting that they follow the normal exercise routine she does with her father every day. One young guard chuckles that this will be an easy day. Another guard points out that she's the daughter of the most powerful, dedicated people in the world.

* HADToBeSharp: Vahn is a little disappointed that he can't summon his Blade weapon yet, especially since his friend Juniper, who is about the same age as him, can. Morag and Brighid point out that this is probably because Juniper ''needed'' their weapon at some point. [[spoiler:Milly, Vahn, and Mio all manage to summon their weapons for the first time during the attack on the castle]].

* HasTwoMommies:
** Mio has ''three''--Pyra, Mythra, and Nia (Mum, Mom, and Mam). Nia is the one who bore her, but she's absolutely the daughter of all three of them (and Rex). Noah makes the mistake of asking how this works, and Nia is happy to explain. Noah, who has barely been introduced to the idea of parents at all, is very confused by Nia's rambling explanation of what happens when three girls and a boy have a marathon love-making session extended by healing powers, resulting in all three girls pregnant with babies who are genetically the children of all four of them. Not helped is Nia constantly going on tangents about how Pyra and Mythra are sisters, and technically the same person, and also Mythra created Pyra, and they're the daughters of God, and their brother was evil but he's dead now (dead-dead, not like when their husband died), and also it's been a long time since she got any so she keeps going on asides about how hot and sexy they are. Noah is left ''very'' overwhelmed.
--->Nia found herself wishing for the little diagrams on coloured paper her kids had made to help explain it to friends, teachers, visiting state officials, guards, and Finch. Repeatedly, in Finch's case.
** Played with in Sena's case. She has a Papa and a Mama... who are Morag and Brighid. Morag implies that the entire reason she lets Sena call her Papa is because she thought it would be too confusing for them both to be some variant of "mother."

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:During the BigDamnHeroes moment in the castle battle, not only does Nia summon Monica, Ghondor, Gray and the rest of the Lost Numbers to help, she also summons Guernica Vandham, who died at the start of ''XC3'']]

* ParentalSubstitute: PlayedForLaughs. Eunie mentions she was going to ask Gray and Rozana to be her parents, but after hearing about Mio's situation she decides she'll hold out for more.

** Mio has ''three''--Pyra, Mythra, and Nia (Mom, Mum, and Mam). Nia is the one who bore her, but she's absolutely the daughter of all three of them (and Rex). Noah makes the mistake of asking how this works, and Nia is happy to explain. Noah, who has barely been introduced to the idea of parents at all, is very confused by Nia's rambling explanation of what happens when three girls and a boy have a marathon love-making session extended by healing powers, resulting in all three girls pregnant with babies who are genetically the children of all four of them. Not helped is Nia constantly going on tangents about how Pyra and Mythra are sisters, and technically the same person, and also Mythra created Pyra, and they're the daughters of God, and their brother was evil but he's dead now (dead-dead, not like when their husband died), and also it's been a long time since she got any so she keeps going on asides about how hot and sexy they are. Noah is left ''very'' overwhelmed.

** Played with in Sena's case. She has a Papa and a Mama... who are Morag and Brighid. Morag implies that the entire reason she lets Sena call her Papa is because she thought it would be too confusing her them both to be some variant of "mother."

-->"He..." The guard gasped, trying to get his breath. "He puts his own daughter through ''that?!" Water skins were being passed around the training grounds after she let them take a break, though she was still hopping about checking in on the soldiers.\\