History Fanfic / OneiroiSeries

* OedipusComplex:
** Tiasal [[spoiler:has a little thing for family members and people who remind her of them.]]
** Deirdre [[spoiler:has a full-out Electra Complex and, apparently, wants to sleep with anyone who she considered to be a father figure as a child, actual father included. And brothers. And cousins. And anyone else, really.]]

The premise of the series begins when [[AntiHero Vaarsuvius]], instead of escaping from Xykon with [[MadeOfIron O-Chul]], gets captured and starts to [[StockholmSyndrome fall in love]] with [[AntiVillain Redcloak]] while he [[LimaSyndrome tries]] to interrogate [[AmbiguousGender him/her]]. After that, it got worse, and everything bad that could possibly happen to Redcloak, Vaarsuvius, and everyone else involved, [[DeusAngstMachina happens]].

* GauzeGauzeKiss: Redcloak was in charge of healing Vaarsuvius (to the point where [[spoiler:she]] could survive interrogation) when they started the whole thing.

The premise of the series begins when [[AntiHero Vaarsuvius]], instead of escaping from Xykon with [[MadeOfIron O-Chul]], gets captured and starts to [[StockholmSyndrome fall in love]] with [[AntiVillain Redcloak]] while he [[LimaSyndrome tries]] to interrogate [[AmbiguousGender him/her]]. After that, it got worse, and everything bad that could possibly happen to Redcloak, Vaarsuvius,[[spoiler: Tiasal, their daughter,]] and everyone else involved, [[DeusAngstMachina hap]][[DespairEventHorizon pens]].

Interestingly enough, the series has a lot of MoodWhiplash if you read the separate [[HappilyEverAfter end]][[DownerEnding ings]]. The Tiasal Ending is very light and fluffy while the Deirdre Ending [[DrivenToSuicide makes the readers want to kill themselves.]] The DownerEnding provides an interesting character study of a broken mind [[BreakTheCutie (and the Cuties she's tearing apart)]] while [[HappilyEverAfter the happy ending]] makes you feel good.

* ElectraComplex:
** Tiasal [[spoiler:has a little thing for family members and people who remind her of them.]]
** Deirdre [[spoiler:has a full-out Electra Complex and, apparently, wants to sleep with anyone who she considered to be a father figure as a child, actual father included. And brothers. And cousins. And anyone else, really.]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler:In ''Dumped on the Rooster'', Redcloak [[DrivenToSuicide tried to kill himself]] [[NoKillLikeOverkill by cutting his own throat and stabbing himself]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation after remembering something that everyone forgot]].]]

* HandsOffParenting: It's implied that Aula and Tiberius worked like this, but they seem to be loving people, so it's possible that they were actively involved in their child's life but still held onto unorthodox [[EthicalSlut phil]][[AnythingThatMoves oso]][[ParentalIncest phies.]]

* OedipusComplex: Tiasal [[spoiler:has a little thing for family members and people who remind her of them.]] Deirdre [[spoiler:has a full-out Electra Complex and, apparently, wants to sleep with anyone who she considered to be a father figure as a child, actual father included. And brothers. And cousins. And anyone else, really.]]

* ReadyForLovemaking: Vaarsuvius pulls a weird version of this when she and Redcloak have a fight during a short oneshot set in the [[HappilyEverAfter Tiasal]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding Ending.]]

* MissingMom: Justified. She died because she had difficulty with childbirth and then [[WhatAnIdiot tried to join in a fight against Tsukiko and Xykon.]] It didn't turn out well.

* BreakTheCutie: Every Cutie is broken to tiny pieces. [[UpToEleven Then put back together just to be broken again.]]

* ActionGirl: Tiasal, Aula, [[spoiler:and Vaarsuvius]].

* AmbiguousInnocence: Tiasal has a touch of this.
* AxCrazy: Deirdre~
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: No, they really don't.
** And they're making things a lot more difficult for [[ActionGirl Mijung]] and [[CowardlyLion Yutrin.]]
* BastardBastard: Deirdre's not a nice woman.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Seriously.

* BreakTheHaughty: Poor, poor V.

* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: [[spoiler: Deirdre's a little ''too'' close with Terentius...]]
** And now it's official. [[spoiler:Terentius masturbated to his sister when he ''thought'' she was sleeping. They are now in a sexual relationship.]]
* [[spoiler:ButWeUsedACondom]]: WordOfGod (and a side note from Blackwing) says that Vaarsuvius and Redcloak [[spoiler:use protection spells. They didn't work]].

* ChildrenAreInnocent: No, they're definitely not.

* CreepyChild: I can't be the only one who thinks Tiasal's creepy, even before the whole [[spoiler:'going crazy']] fiasco.
* CuteAndPsycho: Deirdre.

* DarkActionGirl: Deirdre.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Even the characters who didn't have one in canon have one here.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Yes, Deirdre's this too. One of the rare examples where one character has both sides, though she leans further towards being a DarkMagicalGirl.

* DisappearedDad: Justified. He was sort of dead at the time.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted in some way that we won't tell you about.
** Played with in the cast. Tsukiko and Xykon treat it like it's one big joke, but they don't think it [[spoiler:wasn't sick and disgusting, and they've never said Redcloak wanted it]], whereas [[spoiler:Right-Eye]] gets physically ill when he thinks too much about it and takes it gravely seriously, though he's much more sympathetic towards the rapist than he probably would have been had the sexes been reversed [[spoiler:though the fact she's his hopelessly insane niece probably has something to do with that]].

* DrivenToVillainy: Deirdre.

* JekyllAndHyde: Tiasal and Deirdre.

* MoodSwinger: Deirdre has elements of this.
* NobodyThinksItWillWork: Well, did you really think anyone would?

* [[spoiler:OedipusComplex]]: Tiasal [[spoiler:has a little thing for family members and people who remind her of them.]] Deirdre [[spoiler:has a full-out Electra Complex and, apparently, wants to sleep with anyone who she considered to be a father figure as a child, actual father included. And brothers. And cousins. And anyone else, really.]]

* [[spoiler:PapaWolf]]: Redcloak does ''not'' take kindly to someone threatening [[spoiler:Tiasal]].

* PedophilePriest: Master.
* PervertDad: Tiberius, probably. Aula to a greater extent, though she happens to be a pervert mom.

* RapeAsDrama: The author to like this trope a disturbing amount. It makes you wonder...
** Actually, the author handles this trope in an interesting way. [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius]], who was a victim of rape years before, at first seems like the rape was a little pointless save for to add a dimension of character development. Then she actually demonstrates that it served a purpose when [[spoiler:she uses her experience to pull out sympathy and tact she usually has none of to talk to her daughter about it]] and when she explains that she no longer sees it as a source of shame, but a source of pride, since she was able to survive and thrive in life afterwards. It's an interesting deviation from what most (attempted) tactful rape stories do, ie [[DefiledForever showcase how broken and horribly the victim was affected decades afterwards.]]
*** Possibly redone in a more traditional way if one thinks that [[spoiler:''Dumped on the Rooster'' takes place after or during the Deirdre Ending]], when [[spoiler:Redcloak]] acts deeply traumatized and has an obviously severe case of PTSD.

* SickeninglySweethearts: Aula and Tiberius. No debate.

* SplitPersonality: Tiasal and Deirdre have a really nasty one going on.

* TearsOfFear: Well, certainly tears of pain...

* TraumaCongaLine: One for everyone.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Deirdre, which is probably the most tragic part of her story.
* TheVamp: Deirdre. Full stop.
* [[spoiler:VillainousIncest]]: Deirdre.
** Also, WordOfGod says that there is a slim possibility that [[{{Revenge}} Servius]] was [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius's half-brother. He [[RapeAsDrama raped her.]]]] WordOfGod also says that Servius's mother, who knows about the circumstances, considers this [[SinsOfOurFathers is a fitting karmic punishment]] for [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius and [[EthicalSlut Aula]]]] because the latter slept with her husband.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Deirdre, debatably.
** ...That is to say, the "Destroyer Of Worlds" part isn't debatable, but the "{{Woobie}}" part is? Because she's definitely Destroying Worlds.

* SexFaceTurn: After Redcloak slept with Vaarsuvius [[spoiler:and she gave birth to his child]], he was much more receptive to changing his alignment. (No, wrong [[CharacterAlignment alignment]].) This makes one of the rare situations where the man is the one doing the turning and the woman's converting.

* WomanInWhite: Two [[CreepyChild creepy children]] who fit: one is the ghost of [[AmbiguousInnocence Snow, one of the servant children who (it seems) was murdered soon after giving birth to a stillborn.]] The other is a MysteriousWaif who we have no idea about, she just wants Elf to remember being Vaarsuvius for some reason.

* {{Shotacon}}: Again, [[PedophilePriest Master.]]

* {{Lolicon}}: [[PedophilePriest Master]] is very into this.

** And now, a love for puzzles and lyric reading helps out too. [[spoiler:The lyrics of the lullaby the... who knows, the mist sings, taken away from the story attached to it about the Highland clearances, sounds like it's about people being shipped off to be slaves, which matches the implication that, somewhere along the line, V and many other elves were forced into slavery. Taken with the story, it's about people being violently displaced, which also matches the description of V's [[WorldWarOne World War-esque flashback.]] ''Then'' [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory there's the mention of dreams]], which the Oneiroi were the gods of, so the mist person might be part of the Oneiroi, and the crazy women chasing them might be part of it too.]]]]

* ForeShadowing: Greek mythology really helps out with picking up hints and foreshadowing in ''Dumped on the Rooster'' (a story that seems to be canon but may or may not be). Like the mention of [[spoiler:gold apples, which could either be related to Eris and the Apple of Chaos or the Hesperides and Hera. Or the river Lethe, which was the river of oblivion that dead people drank or bathed in when they died to forget their entire lives. And was I the only one that was a little curious about the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology middle-aged woman]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate standing at a crossroads, holding a snake?]]]]
*** And now, a love for puzzles and lyric reading helps out too. [[spoiler:The lyrics of the lullaby the... who knows, the mist sings, taken away from the story attached to it about the Highland clearances, sounds like it's about people being shipped off to be slaves, which matches the implication that, somewhere along the line, V and many other elves were forced into slavery. Taken with the story, it's about people being violently displaced, which also matches the description of V's [[WorldWarOne World War-esque flashback.]] ''Then'' [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory there's the mention of dreams]], which the Oneiroi were the gods of, so the mist person might be part of the Oneiroi, and the crazy women chasing them might be part of it too.]]]]

* ForeShadowing: Greek mythology really helps out with picking up hints and foreshadowing in ''Dumped on the Rooster'' (a story that seems to be canon but may or may not be). Like the mention of [[spoiler:gold apples, which could either be related to Eris and the Apple of Chaos or the Hesperides and Hera. Or the river Lethe, which was the river of oblivion that dead people drank or bathed in when they died to forget their entire lives. And was I the only one that was a little curious about the [[ClassicalMythology middle-aged woman]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate standing at a crossroads, holding a snake?]]]]

* LoveGoddess: [[ClassicalMythology Aphrodite]] in ''Pawns of the Gods''. She's the bitch who [[spoiler:practically molested Mijung, made her unborn child destined to be a bombshell who no one (except family) would be able to stop themselves from having sex with, and then spitefully cursed her to [[EasyAmnesia forget her husband.]]]]

* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: Sort of. Redcloak admits his love to Vaarsuvius, but it's in a language [[spoiler:she]] doesn't speak.
* ActionGirl: Tiasal, Aula,[[spoiler: and Vaarsuvius]].

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted.

* BilingualBonus: If you speak classical latin or are EXTREMELY familiar with Greek mythology, the titles provide hints to the story.
** Greek mythology really helps out with picking up hints and foreshadowing in ''Dumped on the Rooster'' (a story that seems to be canon but may or may not be). Like the mention of [[spoiler:gold apples, which could either be related to Eris and the Apple of Chaos or the Hesperides and Hera. Or the river Lethe, which was the river of oblivion that dead people drank or bathed in when they died to forget their entire lives. And was I the only one that was a little curious about the [[ClassicalMythology middle-aged woman]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate standing at a crossroads, holding a snake?]]]]
*** And now, a love for puzzles and lyric reading helps out too. [[ViewersAreGeniuses I wonder why the author puts this stuff in a fanfiction?]] [[spoiler:The lyrics of the lullaby the... who knows, the mist sings, taken away from the story attached to it about the Highland clearances, sounds like it's about people being shipped off to be slaves, which matches the implication that, somewhere along the line, V and many other elves were forced into slavery. Taken with the story, it's about people being violently displaced, which also matches the description of V's [[WorldWarOne World War-esque flashback.]] ''Then'' [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory there's the mention of dreams]], which the Oneiroi were the gods of, so the mist person might be part of the Oneiroi, and the crazy women chasing them might be part of it too *deep breath*... you see, [[MindScrew that story alone could have a WMG page.]]]]

* ManlyTears: Most of the main men get a few in there. Terentius when he thought [[DeadLittleSister his sister died.]] Redcloak when [[spoiler:Tiasal was born in an AU oneshot. And then again after he got raped and murdered by that self-same daughter...]]

* DeadLittleSister: Terentius and Octavius ''thought'' they had one. [[spoiler:It turns out badly when they find Deirdre and she uses Terentius's feelings against him.]]

* CowardlyLion: Yutrin is so wussy, he has a [[HeroicBSOD mini BSOD]] of fear when [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Mijung]] ''snaps'' at him. But when you think about it, he [[TheSoCalledCoward is actually pretty badass.]] Despite his fear of Mijung ([[FantasticRacism and humans in general]]), he stays with her and [[IWillProtectHer takes care of her because she's pregnant and needs him,]] even though he's convinced she can and will kill him. [[CowardlyLion He's still chicken, though.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted so ''very'' hard.

* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: [[spoiler:Deirdre]] points to this rationale as the reason for raping [[spoiler:Redcloak]]. [[spoiler:She]] manipulates the situation so the victim can't help but get physical pleasure from the rape, [[MoralEventHorizon maximizing the trauma sustained.]] [[spoiler:She probably also planned it so that his own body betrayed him to the point where he can't help but blame himself.]] But on it's own, the trope is averted hard.

The premise of the series begins when [[AntiHero Vaarsuvius]], instead of escaping from Xykon with [[MadeOfIron O-Chul]], gets captured and starts to [[StockholmSyndrome fall in love]] with [[AntiVillain Redcloak]] while he [[LimaSyndrome tries]] to interrogate [[AmbiguousGender him/her]]. After that, ItGotWorse, and everything bad that could possibly happen to Redcloak, Vaarsuvius,[[spoiler: Tiasal, their daughter,]] and everyone else involved, [[DeusAngstMachina hap]][[DespairEventHorizon pens]].

The premise of the series begins when [[AntiHero Vaarsuvius]], instead of escaping from [[CompleteMonster Xykon]] with [[MadeOfIron O-Chul]], gets captured and starts to [[StockholmSyndrome fall in love]] with [[AntiVillain Redcloak]] while he [[LimaSyndrome tries]] to interrogate [[AmbiguousGender him/her]]. After that, ItGotWorse, and everything bad that could possibly happen to Redcloak, Vaarsuvius,[[spoiler: Tiasal, their daughter,]] and everyone else involved, [[DeusAngstMachina hap]][[DespairEventHorizon pens]].

* ChildEater: WordOfGod says that, after they give birth, [[ImAHumanitarian grown servant girls are cooked and served to the rest of the servant kids.]] [[CompleteMonster Master]] needs to [[KillItWithFire die.]]

* CompleteMonster: Master.

* EvilIsSexy: Deirdre's description boils down to '[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Crazy]] [[EvilIsSexy bombshell]] with an [[OedipusComplex Electra Complex]] who [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer you'd still do]]'.

* LoveGoddess: [[ClassicalMythology Aphrodite]] in ''Pawns of the Gods''. She's the bitch who [[spoiler:practically molested Mijung, made her unborn child destined to be a bombshell who no one (except family) would be able to stop themselves from having sex with, and then [[CompleteMonster spitefully cursed her]] to [[EasyAmnesia forget her husband.]]]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Some people feel that [[spoiler:Deirdre]] flew right past when [[spoiler:she raped her father]]. Most of the readers seem to still be sympathetic, though.

* PedophilePriest: [[CompleteMonster Master.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:...And then everyone [[DeusAngstMachina is murdered, tortured, and driven crazy.]]]][[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5330392/1/In_the_Arms_of_Morpheus: The Oneiroi Series]] by Water-Smurf was started as a CrackPairing idea on the [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]] forums, and since then, it has turned into a multi-story epic that [[http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/2131952/L.png: requires a chart to make sense of.]]

!!Tropes:

** ...That is to say, the "Destroyer Of Worlds" part isn't debatable, but the "{{Woobie}}" part is? Because she's definitely Destroying Worlds.