History Fanfic / QueenOfBloodSirWill

** Steven, Sophia's mother's boyfriend. [[spoiler: He was willing to [[WouldHurtAChild throw a 13-year-old Sophia to a group of thugs]] [[HumanShield as a distraction for him to escape]], which caused her to trigger. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Not that he escaped alive anyway]].]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Bonesaw]] does a similar thing to [[spoiler:Brandish and Flashbang]] that she did to [[spoiler:Grue]] in canon and planned to add [[spoiler:Glory Girl]] as well.

* DemonicVampires: Vampirism originated as curse created by devils to lure power-hungry mortals into damning themselves when they lacked the willpower to either feed on animals or take the blood of humans without killing them.

** [[spoiler:Despite having been subjected to a rather humiliating CurbStompBattle just beforehand that involved the destruction of ''his entire homeworld'' at the hands of Abaddon, Dracul manages to use his Hellfire magic (which he had previously "infected" the Entity with while subjecting Abaddon to a [[TheWorfBarrage Worf Barrage]]) to sustain a long-enough connection to Abaddon's Sting shard to cause the Entity to essentially ''self-destruct''. Furthermore, when Scion and Eden are later investigating Abaddon's shards as they prepare to begin the Cycle anew, Dracul is again able to use his connection to Abaddon's shards via aforementioned Hellfire magic to cause Eden's new "Path to Victory" shard (which she had scavenged from Abaddon) to basically be stuck in a causal loop, distracting Eden long enough to cause her to crash into the Earth (ultimately setting her up to be killed by Contessa and Doctor Mother).]]

* {{Gotterdammerung}}: This, Red Dawn, the Betrayal, and most popularly Ragnarok, are the names given to [[spoiler: Zion's attack on the world]].

** [[spoiler:An evac ship is set up to get at least some people out of the way of Zion's attack... only for Scion to atomize it as soon as he notices it.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Doctor Mother was in charge of a whole organization of secret parahumans against an inter-dimensional threat, without any powers of her own. When that threat finally got worse, she finally Triggered with the power to uncontrollably teleport to other dimensions and used it to warn them of the incoming dimensional threat -- not knowing that the threat had already been defeated.]]

* UnstoppableRage: Bakuda's bombing spree really pisses off Taylor. By the time she's done, Oni Lee has been crippled (and later Birdcaged) and Bakuda has been given to the succubi with the only condition being she stays alive. [[spoiler: She regrets her decision on the latter point.]]

* AdaptationalDeviation: The fanfic itself was written both prior to the release (and finishing) of Worm’s sequel Ward, and was also written during the earlier years of the growth of Worm’s fandom online, resulting in multiple bits of popular {{Fanon}} effectively sneaking their way in.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Madison Clements.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed with Amy Dallon.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Thanks to having been transformed into a vampire, Taylor is far more openly emotional, direct, flirtatious, and more prone to mood swings & fits of rage than her canonical counterpart.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Sophia Hess.

** Armsmaster loses both of his legs to a Bakuda bomb. Due to the immediate pressing situation, he doesn't have time to let Panacea heal him, so Dragon makes him [[ArtificialLimbs high tech prosthetics.]]

** Meridia has her arms torn off by the Siberian. It would've killed her if [[spoiler: Taylor hadn't [[EmergencyTransformation vampirized]] her.]]

* AnnoyingArrows: Taylor laughs at an arrow to the chest, even one [[spoiler: from Shadow Stalker's crossbow that is shadow-phased to pierce defenses.]]

* {{Expy}}: Some [[spoiler: ex-Gray Boy victims that become Chronos' TimeMaster champions]] are taken from some of Ack's Worm fics, such as Andrea from ''FanFic/{{Recoil}}'' and Robin from ''Fanfic/HopeComesToBrocktonBay''.

* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Taylor impersonates Eden to catch Scion off guard]].

** Neptune is hypothesized to be a Case 53 but isn't really persuaded of this, since he ''does'' have vague recollections. [[spoiler: Indeed, he's Danny Hebert's projection, which gives him subconscious access to his Master's wants and memories, explaining how he could call Taylor Little Owl - a nickname Annette gave her.]]

* {{FTL}}: [[spoiler:In the epilogue, humanity manages to reverse-engineer Vista's power to create an FTL engine]].

** [[spoiler: Lisa takes Bakuda out of Castlevania's walls and back into the real world while Scion is rampaging, to deny him another chance to home in on their shards and find the castle within the Shadow Plane. [[SubvertedTrope She survives.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Death sacrifices his corporeal avatar to grievously injure Scion's body, delaying him long enough for Castlevania to flee into the Shadow Plane out of the Entity's reach]].
* HiddenDepths: Explored as part of a CallForward to ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' where a certain event was expanded upon; Glory Girl's trigger event in canon was getting fouled in a basketball game. While that still happens here, the reason why this qualifies as a trigger is given much more depth.[[note]]Fully aware of the toxicity of her home situation, all of Vicky's hopes were pinned on that game to get a basketball scholarship, move out to college, and take Amy and Dean with her away from [[ControlFreak her mother]]. Getting fouled and the resulting free throw was the big chance she was waiting for, all her hopes culminated into one moment, and when she didn't make it, her crushed hopes are what caused her trigger.[[/note]]

** It took a long time, but when [[spoiler: Dracul, searching through Abbadon's shards, found his [[ArmorPiercingAttack Sting]] shard, he triggered it and caused Abbadon to destroy himself. He did a lesser version of this with Eden, nudging her Queen Administrator shard to screw with PTV just enough to distract her and cause her to crash]].
** [[spoiler: With her blood possession power, Taylor commandeers Eden's brain-dead body and uses it to get close to Zion and stab him while his guard is down]]. Yes, you read that right: [[spoiler:'''she hijacked an Entity''']].

** [[spoiler: Danny and Hannah start seeing each other after Ragnarok. By the time Taylor awakens from her year-long healing coma, they are married and have a kid]].
** Alucard starts dating [[spoiler: Narwhal/Grace after the final battle. The fact that she seems to be the reincarnation of his wife Sonia is just one part of it.]]

*** [[spoiler: Shatterbird, who manipulates silicon and caused the most direct pain and collateral damage of the Nine, is set on a beach where she will hear all the screams of her victims until she is able to experience all of their pain.]]
*** [[spoiler: Mannequin, a tinker specializing in enclosed environments, is trapped in his family's house. And his family, whose loss made him snap in the first place, aren't there - as his father told him, all the harm he had done meant he can't go where they are.]]
*** [[spoiler: Manton, whose cannibalistic serial-killing rampage was in vengeance for his daughter's death, is trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop of a moment where he failed to save his daughter, ending with her turning into the Siberian and eating him alive.]]

*** [[spoiler: Jack was a nihilist with no ambition but his own sadistic fun. After death, he suffers CessationOfExistence because [[BarredFromTheAfterlife he has no place to go.]] Death adds that if he could he would trap Jack in the bunker he grew up in for eternity.]]
*** [[spoiler: The two Slaughterhouse Nine members who ''didn't'' have free choice in their actions end up with pretty good deals.]] See ThrowTheDogABone below.
** Not a literal hell like what the above end up in, but Shadow Stalker finally gets to live out her ideal world where the only law is survival of the fittest: [[spoiler: an alternate world where humans never evolved and dinosaurs never went extinct.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Doctor Mother was in charge of a whole organization of secret parahumans against an inter-dimensional threat, without any powers of her own. When that threat finally got worse, she finally Triggered with the power to uncontrollably teleport to other dimensions and used it to warn them of the incoming dimensional threat - not knowing that the threat had already been defeated.]]

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Clockblocker delivers a sincere, if irreverent salute from him, the Wards and the Protectorate to Director Piggot when she resigns, [[spoiler: so that she can dedicate her time to being the Goddess of Fire]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Besides the canon Worm jerks, [[spoiler: Dracul particularly despises the former God of Light, Solin. When he's able to enter the Realm of Light, he finds the jackass is a plagiarist to boot, copying designs from Ariel's and Dracul's own temples rather than develop something new.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: A paranoid asshole Saint might be, but [[spoiler: the Simurgh taking over all but one of the Dragon suits ''was'' a fairly good reason to activate Ascalon.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Kaiser manages to leave Brockton to live like a king in Hawaii with Fenja and Menja, abandoning his organization.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: The deaths of the Nine. Bonesaw is messily liquefied after three agonizing hours of AndIMustScream, the Siberian's projector is teleported to the Earth's core, Crawler is almost completely vaporized by Dragon, with what tiny little of him was left sent flying on a 4-year trajectory to Jupiter, and Mannequin is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and his organs [[KillItWithFire incinerated by holy fire]]. Hatchet Face is messily devoured by a newly vampirized Meridia, Shatterbird is ripped apart by Taylor, Burnscar is herded into an ambush, and Jack Slash receives a beatdown and a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Dracul, before finally being executed by Taylor, Vlad the Impaler-style. The SoleSurvivor, Cherish, is unceremoniously captured at the Endbringer shelter after having [[HoistByHisOwnPetard her powers redirected at herself]], and is now held under house arrest in an isolated location by Dragon.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: Hatchet Face thinks he's saving the world from "monsters" by killing every cape who walks his path. [[{{Hypocrite}} Keep in mind what supervillain team he's a part of]].]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: Scion ''does'' understand why humanity is fighting them, he just doesn't care or empathize with them]].

* LifeDrain: One of the main powers of the Void Sword.

* LiquidAssets: [[spoiler:Solin became the God of Light in the first place through a ritual that killed ''everyone'' above him in the hierarchy he lived in.]]

** Demons are the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the SevenDeadlySins -- i.e., [[HornyDevils succubi]] are demons of lust/desire -- and are mentioned as [[TheHeartless originating from human vice]] but are only given true physical form via [[EldritchLocation the Shadow Plane]]. They technically possess a form of BornAgainImmortality -- if slain, their "substance" returns to the Shadow Plane where they will slowly (and painfully) reform; said process also has them losing some of their memory. Furthermore, if they're subjected to a particularly ''brutal'' death, then they can be permanently killed (whereupon whatever remains of their essence is "reclaimed" by other demons). It's also mentioned that some demons [[WasOnceAMan were originally humans]] who "descended" to their current state thanks to either other demons or the Lord of Darkness. Demons as they currently exist were first created by the Lord of Darkness immediately prior to Dracul, who somehow figured out how to create them out of the Shadow Plane. Finally, it's also noted that their personalities and abilities are heavily related to whatever sins they're "based on" -- i.e., demons of anger/wrath are feral brutes, while succubi are able to be fully sapient since their "parent sin" is comparatively more refined.
** Meanwhile, devils are "simply" just sufficiently vile human souls who have been tortured in Hell long enough by other devils that they have "transcended" the limitations of humanity and now torture other captive souls until either said souls [[TheAtoner fully repent]] [[KarmicReformHell and are granted a second chance in Heaven]] (or a chance at {{reincarnation}}), or those souls become more devils and continue the endless cycle. In essence, devils are human souls who go from Hell's prisoners to Hell's jailors.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: You become one by drinking another's blood, but only if you're consenting to the transformation (though it's possible to coerce a potential vamp forcefully), otherwise it just kills you and animates your corpse as a mindless ghoul (Alucard being an exception because of his blood connection to his father). They still have souls and free will, but are saturated with the power of Darkness, causing them to have tendencies to becoming {{Mood Swinger}}s and TheUnfettered. Taylor is specifically mentioned to be a "unique" case since she was technically sired through being granted Dracul's Divine Mantle as the Lord of Darkness.

When I'm done here today, I'm going to go home, make myself a nice drink, and forget all about you. This isn't even a game to me, [[spoiler: Jack.]] You're a pest. You're a cockroach, and this time you can't scurry away into the darkness before the boot comes down. The only thing anyone's going to say about you after today is, "good riddance," and move on. Your obituary's going to say, "Here died [[spoiler: Jack Slash]], a complete waste of oxygen. He died as he lived, accomplishing ''jack shit.''" A shame your dad didn't just save us all the trouble and ''cut your throat when you were born.''

*** And one last one for Sophia [[spoiler: after she is handed to Taylor by Cauldron]], after a SecretTestOfCharacter makes it very clear there's no redemption for someone as [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] and [[NeverMyFault regretless]] as her.
** Director Piggot gives one to [[spoiler: Nilbog, when, as the new Lady of Fire, she [[TheDogBitesBack returns to reduce his kingdom to cinders]].]] After all, [[spoiler: a self-proclaimed god-king who created and ruled over monsters cannot begin to compare to the other god-queen she knows, a girl who got terrifying powers, became a literal bloodsucker, and ''still'' managed to save the world]].

** [[spoiler: As the new Lady of Light, Dragon can now turn into her namesake.]].
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler: In the wake of Scion's death, Kaiser pragmatically abandons the Empire with Menja and Fenja, skipping to Hawaii]].

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: Death tells Scion that he will fail in his attempt to prevent humanity from becoming a threat to the Entities by eliminating them first and that his actions will only ensure that they do become a threat to his kind]].
* SelfRestraint: [[spoiler: Alexandria could probably escape from even the Birdcage if she really tried... so she isn't going to try. She'll accept whatever punishment for her Cauldron crimes is dished out]].
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: David responds to Zion's line that broke him in canon by [[TalkToTheFist blasting him in the face]].]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Zion:''' ''You needed worthy opponents.'']]
--> [[spoiler: '''David:''' [[InsultBackfire And I have him.]]]]

* StupidSexyFlanders: The succubi are prone to causing this.
* SuccubiAndIncubi
** Castlevania has 30-ish succubi guarding the portal room. Any intruder who enters through the portals will probably get seduced and killed, trying to get by.
** Taylor's monstrous form looks very succubus-like. Probably because Taylor drank the lead succubi Meridia's blood as a tribute of loyalty.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: The Simurgh purposefully allows the Vancouver capes to strike her core and finish her]].
* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: Scion]], DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife, finds one to [[LastStand stake his life on]]: [[spoiler: with magic slowly permeating the universe, empowering it and its inhabitants bit by bit, he decides to HoldTheLine and eradicate all the magic and magic users from the world before it threatens the other Entities and their Purpose]].

*** [[spoiler: Chronos frees all of Grey Boy's victims, and those that choose to join him in fighting for Earth's survival are given [[TimeMaster time manipulation]] powers.]]
*** [[spoiler: Lorkhan finds Moord Nag and gives her a boost (and apparently takes her as a lover).]]
*** [[spoiler: Scylla gives the essence/powers of [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow Malphas the Crow Witch]] to a woman who's circumstances vaguely mirrored Malphas's origins (losing a lover and falling off a cliff without dying). As the woman (Alexis) was being chased by [[AssholeVictim criminals]] at the time, this was appreciated.]]

** [[spoiler: The two Slaughterhouse Nine members who ''didn't'' have free choice in their actions end up with pretty good deals. Riley (who was brainwashed by Jack) is reunited with her mother in heaven; her sentence is merely that she has to "live" with the memories of what Bonesaw did. Mimi's powers forced her into sociopathy, which produced Burnscar as a separate soul that actually ''wanted'' to do horrible things. Mimi is sent on to reincarnate, to atone for what few sins are actually hers, while Burnscar is summarily [[CessationOfExistence wiped from existence]].]]
** [[spoiler: Even Shatterbird's and Mannequin's punishment will end one day, at which point they'll be free to leave.]]
** [[spoiler: Even all the destruction he caused, Dracul giving his powers to Taylor to allow another world to survive and him finding a fragment of the man he was through his years of torture is enough to earn him reincarnation.]]

** [[spoiler: Defied ''with extreme prejudice'' for Mannequin and Manton/Siberian; the former is sealed away in the memory of his home before the Simurgh attacked, [[IronicHell without his family and knowing his father is disappointed in him]], while Manton is given a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by his daughter and told [[YouAreNotMyFather she hates him utterly and never wants to see him again]], and ends up being constantly killed by a memory of her turning into the Siberian.]]
** [[spoiler: Even Zion and Eden are reunited in the afterlife, right before they enter the Sea of Souls to be reincarnated.]]

** [[spoiler: Castlevania manages to survive Scion's initial blast, which Scion thought would destroy it utterly]].
** [[spoiler: Taylor admits to herself that she greatly underestimated Zion's power as ''just'' a little bit stronger than an Endbringer]].

* WalkingWasteland: [[spoiler: One of the powers of the Lord of Fall]].

* WeakenedByTheLight: While Taylor is merely annoyed by sunlight, capes with light-based powers really hurt her. [[spoiler:Simply looking at Purity hurts Taylor's eyes, and touching her burns off most of her skin.]]

* WeatherManipulation: [[spoiler: A power of Taylor's, outclassing even Leviathan's rain calling]].

* WorfHadTheFlu: {{Invoked}}; [[spoiler:the Simurgh/Ariel deliberately fights with her [[MindControl song]] muted, doesn't use most of her tactics, and actively prevents her core from regenerating in order to allow the heroes to [[DeathSeeker end her torment]].]]

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler: Kill a Castlevania-verse god, and it's possible to steal their power if you know how. [[KlingonPromotion The power of Darkness especially is apparently passed down this way a lot.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Pan and Agreus did this to the previous gods of Spring and Fall because, as their predecessors showed through their constant warfare, which left the brothers the [[LastOfHisKind last two satyrs alive]], taking the power doesn't mean you're worthy of it]].
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: A mild version, when [[spoiler: Dracul comments on Taylor's summary execution of Jack Slash, Vlad the Impaler-style.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Death puts himself in Scion's way when the Entity attacks Castlevania, buying enough time for the castle to flee into the Shadow Plane.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: In canon Taylor is straight, here she was also straight but due to having the very heterosexual ''male'' Dracul in her head, she now technically qualifies as bisexual, much to her confusion.

** [[spoiler:The Endbringers are, in reality, the various gods from the Castlevania-Earth that the Entities have [[FaceMonsterTurn captured, tortured, enslaved and mutated]]. The Simurgh's psychic scream is in fact a manifestation of the perpetual agony she feels from being forced to kill like this, and said suffering is so great that she actually lets herself be killed to almost solely to escape said pain.]]

* ChekhovsGun: About two-thirds of the way through the story, the British government request that Taylor establish a Shadow Gate leading from Oxford to the moon, where a moon base is set up. [[spoiler: Piggot bringing Doormaker to the moon allows him to open a Door to the moon's surface in the dimension where Zion stores his body - [[AchillesHeel just outside of his senses]].]]

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler:Hell's torment is not actually eternal. The repentant either eventually get allowed into Heaven or are reincarnated to try again, while those that regret nothing eventually turn into devils, turning from prisoner to jailer.]]

** [[spoiler:Working together with Dragon (and some more "minor" assistance from various other capes in Vancouver), Taylor manages to ''kill'' the Simurgh. Later on, the two of them also work together to kill ''both'' Behemoth and Leviathan, and Taylor eventually gains enough power to '''hijack Eden's corpse'''.]]

* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler: Just like Clairvoyant, Zion's senses give him full awareness of everything around his planet-sized body, but just like Clairvoyant, that sense does not quite extend outside the atmosphere, meaning that anything appearing there (such as on that dimension's moon) might not be noticed quickly enough.]]

* AllPowerfulBystander: [[spoiler: Scion just flies over the Leviathan battle and watches]].

** [[spoiler: Both Behemoth and Leviathan lose at least an arm in their respective battles.]]

** [[spoiler: The Endbringers are other various gods from the Castlevania Earth that the Entities have [[FaceMonsterTurn captured, tortured, enslaved and mutated]]. The Simurgh, whose Scream manifests the agony she feels from being forced to kill like this, actually lets herself be killed to escape the pain.]]
*** [[spoiler: Eidolon/Apostle and Noelle see the screaming when they free the god Chronos; they watch him expend [[WordOfGod two weeks worth]] of agonized wailing compressed into a few seconds.]]
** [[spoiler: Dracul himself is trapped in [[GroundhogDayLoop a personal hell]] in the middle of space, forced to watch his old world burn while being constantly exposed to the sun. Even Death can't reach him and kill him.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor [[GrandTheftMe possesses]] Bonesaw's body to undo her experimentation on Brandish and Flashbang, all while the psychotic child is still awake for it.]]

* ApocalypseHow: ApocalypseHow/Class1 example: [[spoiler: Zion's final battle with humanity leaves Earth-Bet scarred, the atmosphere contaminated with volcanic ash, multiple cities and regions all but wiped off the map, and society disrupted, but ultimately still standing at the end.]]

** More directly in the canon omake, [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/36950200/ Brothers]] which is obliquely referred to [[spoiler: when Pan and Agreus are introduced in the fic proper.]] Other omakes by the same author (specifically the Champion of Chronos trilogy and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/32258989 Corvus]]) were taken as material for actual chapters, though tweaked.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Actually played for sympathy in regards to Burnscar and Bonesaw, and why their deaths give them a second chance rather than the {{Ironic Hell}}s of the rest of the S9; Riley was completely {{Brainwashed}} and unable to make moral decisions, so she is judged only for [[ChildrenAreInnocent her actions as Riley]], while Mimi was under the control of a SuperpoweredEvilSide-she was a bit of a coward, but given how her powers literally were in control of her, the Burnscar personality is destroyed and Mimi is reincarnated for a second chance.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Danny and Hannah marry and have a daughter, Rose, during the year that Taylor is asleep]].

*** [[spoiler: When Dragon dies as a result of Saint activating the Ascalon program during the Simurgh battle, the mantle of Light bonds to her and brings her back from the dead.]]
** [[spoiler: Amy spends a few days dead after accidentally drinking Taylor's blood.]]

* BenevolentConspiracy: [[spoiler: Cauldron moves closer to this after Taylor arrives]].
* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: Doctor Mother finally Triggers at the end - with the power to uncontrollably teleport through dimensions when she gets stressed enough. She tries to use it to warn other dimensions of Scion's rampage, but she doesn't know that Taylor and her allies had already stopped him.]]

* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Manton's daughter, as under Disappointed In You. She's also rather annoyed that the projection he used to murder was not only based on her, it was also ''naked'']].

* CavalryBetrayal: [[spoiler:In the middle of his rampage, Zion sees Eden's avatar flying towards him, and embraces her in joy... only for Taylor, who has possessed her body, to stab him with the Void Sword. He's ''really'' caught flat-footed by this]].

* CompositeCharacter: The Castlevania characters draw elements from the various games. For instance, Alucard's original name is Adrian but he has the appearance and backstory of his ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' continuity self.

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Bonesaw]] has a backup brain in case someone tries to take control of her. Fortunately, Taylor proves the more powerful.

--> ''Just because someone is dark, doesn't mean they're the bad guy. There are beautiful things in the night as well as in the day.''

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler:Hell's torment is not actually eternal. The repentant either eventually get allowed into Heaven or are reincarnated to try again, while those that regret nothing eventually turn into demons, turning from prisoner to jailer.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: You become one by drinking another's blood, but only if you're consenting to the transformation (though it's possible to coerce a potential vamp forcefully), otherwise it just kills you and animates your corpse as a mindless ghoul (Alucard being an exception because of his blood connection to his father). They still have souls and free will, but are saturated with the power of Darkness, causing them to have tendencies to becoming {{Mood Swinger}}s and TheUnfettered.
* ThePaladin: Madison triggers and gains the abilities and knowledge of the Belmont line. [[TheAtoner In an attempt to make up for the bullying she helped put Taylor through]], she promises to better herself and chooses Paladin as her cape name to show her commitment to that promise.

* PersonalizedAfterlife: One of the fanfic's Interludes -- specifically, one "starring" Death -- shows this happening with the [[spoiler:Slaughterhouse Nine]], with each also doubling as an IronicHell. Each gets sent to a separate environment crafted to torment each one individually based on their sins in life ([[spoiler:There are two exceptions-Bonesaw/Riley gets to go to heaven because Jack Slash tortured her to the point where she was not acting under her own free will in performing her atrocities, and Burnscar/Mimi gets to be reincarnated because most of her evil deeds were because her power messed with her head]]).
** [[spoiler: Shatterbird, a silikinetic who caused perhaps the most direct pain of the Slaughterhouse Nine through using her power as a terror weapon]], is sent to a beach and tormented with the screams of her victims until she has experienced all their pain.
** [[spoiler:Mannequin/Alan Gramme was a tinker specializing in enclosed environments who went murderously insane after his family died.]] He gets trapped inside a replica of his family's house, with his actual family gone (with all the pain he caused, he can't go where they've gone) and his dad stopping by to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Scion]] heals [[spoiler: Kevin Norton]] of his cancer when he notices the poor state of his health, and chooses to [[spoiler: MercyKill him in an instant, before he realizes what's happening, so he won't be caught up in the upcoming rampage.]]

* WhipItGood:
** Taylor uses her blood control to make the shadow whip.
** After she triggers, Madison recreates the Vampire Killer that the Belmonts used to fight Dracul.
*** [[spoiler: Gabriel/Dracul made use of both types of whips during his (un)life.]]
** In a canonized backstory omake, Pan's predecessor had a whip of his own. It didn't help him.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Bonesaw]] does a similar thing to [[spoiler: Brandish and Flashbang]] that she did to [[spoiler: Grue]] in canon and planned to add [[spoiler: Glory Girl]] as well.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, we learn that Apostle's powers are fading, likely as a result of Scion's death. He's got what should be enough power to help make Bet fully livable again after freeing the rest of the gods, but after that, he's going to be completely tapped.]]
* BullyingADragon: Director James Tagg, to Scarlet Dragon. Even knowing how powerful she is, the feats she accomplished, and [[spoiler: the S-Class threats she has put down]], [[TooDumbToLive he still tries to apply pressure to get her under the government's thumb]].
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: As the new Lady of Fire]], Piggot has duties elsewhere in the world and so must resign as Director of the Brockton Bay PRT. However, Renick, the Protectorate and the Wards won't let her leave without [[ItHasBeenAnHonor a full salute]]... delivered by Clockblocker.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: Manton's daughter, as under Disappointed In You. She's also rather annoyed that the projection he used to murder was not only based on her, it was also ''naked'']].
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: Neptune is not a Case 53, he's a projection created by Danny Hebert after he triggered by trying to drown himself, with Danny himself being unaware of the connection.]]
* CavalryBetrayal: [[spoiler: In the middle of his rampage, Zion sees Eden's avatar flying towards him, and embraces her in joy... only for Taylor, who has possessed her body, to stab him with the Void Sword. He's ''really'' caught flat-footed by this]].
* CessationOfExistence: [[spoiler: Jack Slash's]] fate. Taylor and her demons don't want him, Hell and its devils don't want him, he is definitely too monstrous for Heaven, and he has caused far too much pain for {{Reincarnation}} to be an option, so he is effectively BarredFromTheAfterlife. As such, this is his only fate.

* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: Bakuda suffers this at the hands of the succubi. Taylor is very angry that it happens but can't blame anyone but herself since she effectively ordered it in a fit of rage, and didn't specifically mention that they couldn't torture Bakuda...]]

** Taylor, with the mantle she's inherited, is only mildly annoyed by normal sunlight, though more intense light, like Purity's, can still affect her.

** [[spoiler: Merida is trying to develop the ability as well, but it looks like it will take a while]].
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:The Simurgh, and presumably the other Endbringers, want to die in order to escape the mutilation and programming the Entities forced on them.]]
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler: Hell's torment is not actually eternal. The repentant either eventually get allowed into Heaven or are reincarnated to try again, while those that regret nothing eventually turn into demons, turning from prisoner to jailer.]]

** [[spoiler: Taylor, did you and Dragon just ''kill'' the Simurgh?]]
*** [[spoiler: ''And'' Behemoth and Leviathan?]]
*** [[spoiler: And did Taylor just '''hijack Eden's corpse'''?!]]
** [[spoiler: Dracul, did you cause Abaddon to ''self-destruct''?]]
*** [[spoiler: And did you also distract ''Eden'' into ''crashing''?]]
* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler: Doctor Mother, at the end, when she gains powers that throw her through dimensions when she gets stressed enough. She gets shunted across Earths uncontrollably, still desperately trying to warn everyone of Scion and Eden... unaware that the threat has been averted.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Twelve years ago, Emily Piggot's squad was wiped out by Nilbog and his monster kingdom, leaving her one of two {{Sole Survivor}}s, crippled and scarred for life. Twelve years later, Emily Piggot, [[EmpoweredBadassNormal now a goddess empowered by the mantle of fire]], comes back to reduce him and his kingdom to ''ash''.]]
--> ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner By the way]], [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya my name is Lady.]]''
* DomedHometown: [[spoiler: After the global climate is drastically altered after Ragnarok and Scion's death, cities all over the world are enclosed inside domes called arcologies, to preserve them from the resulting long winter.]]

* DramaPreservingHandicap: The author has repeatedly said that Death is incapable of killing anyone unless it is specifically their time to die. Otherwise he would have killed the Endbringers long ago. While he can kill people inside Castlevania he has to do it the way mortals do and can't just snap his fingers and kill someone.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Heartbreaker's defeat and capture is uneventful and humorous, courtesy of an army of Dragon suits, Dragon's increased processing power after [[spoiler: becoming a goddess, and Canary's secret release from the Birdcage.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, but in the end Scion is defeated, Dracul freed and reunited with Lisa in a new reincarnation, Taylor and her new sister Rose are obviously very close, and humanity is recovering and heading for the stars]].
* {{Elseworld}}: [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/39515629/ Ambassador of Blood]] a crossover between this and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/emissary-a-deputy-recursive-crossover-worm-au-canon.532150/ Emissary]] which the author had a lot of fun with in co-writing.

** Every time the Slaughterhouse 9 are mentioned, the impression of Dracul reminds Taylor that they are beneath him. [[RunningGag Every time.]] Taylor begins to snark back to the impression when it happens in later chapters.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Averted. [[spoiler: Zion ''does'' understand why the humans are fighting him - he's seen it play out countless times, individuals trying to make their lives, however short, mean something. He just doesn't ''care''.]]
* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: The S9 being this is the focus of Dracul's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jack Slash. When it comes down to it, the Slaughterhouse 9 are actually somewhat pathetic in the long term, based primarily around Jack's [[GlorySeeker ego]] and desire to prove his own selfishness as a valid way of looking at the world. To an EvilOverlord, even on a purely selfish level, this is quite possibly the most pointless, self-defeating goal in the world – the planet may remember Jack and spit on his name, but when it comes down to it, he will remain a footnote, as nobody will ''care'' who such a small-minded monster was.]]

* FaceMonsterTurn[=/=]WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: Or rather, Was Once A ''God''. This is the true nature of ALL Endbringers, formerly the Gods of Castlevania that were captured, tortured, mutilated and enslaved by the entities.]]

** Alucard mentions he identified his wife reborn by the fact she already knew his birth name when they were introduced. [[spoiler: Meaning he immediately realizes how significant Narwhal calling him ''Adrian'' when [[INeverToldYouMyName he never told her his name]].]]
* {{FTL}}: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, humanity manages to reverse-engineer Vista's power to create an FTL engine]].
* FromASingleCell: [[spoiler: Dragon]] reduces [[spoiler: Crawler]] to a single piece of bone and, after checking, assumes he's dead. He eventually regenerates, not that it does him much good [[spoiler: in interplanetary space]].
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: [[spoiler: Sophia's Master/Stranger training allows her to spot one in her SecretTestOfCharacter and break out]].

* GodOfDarkness and GodOfLight: Solin and Dracul, the Gods of Light and Darkness respectively were bitter enemies. Thankfully, their successors, Taylor and Dragon, get along great.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Having completed her plan to have Dragon ascend to be the new Lady of Light and free herself from the enslavement of the Entities, the Simurgh/Ariel dies with a smile on her face. Ariel got better.]]

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: [[MakingASplash Neptune]] rescuing Taylor when she's buried alive while the Simurgh's attack. [[spoiler: The first person Neptune saved was Daniel Hebert who screamed at him that his daughter was the one who needed saving rather than Daniel himself. Unbeknownst to Daniel ''and'' Neptune, he actually triggered when he attempted suicide and developed a projection... Neptune. So Neptune ''did'' rescue the one Daniel wanted him to save, but it meant even more since Neptune exists ''because'' of Mr. Hebert: Daniel ''managed to save his daughter'' when he was unable to before.]]
* HellHasNewManagement: [[spoiler: Dracul escapes going to Hell partially because they're afraid that this will happen if they send him there]].

** Eidolon gets a big one [[spoiler: when he learns that he is responsible for the Endbringers. He actually leaves for an alternate Earth and contemplates killing himself with his powers there before resolving to make up for his mistakes and free the Castlevania-verse gods as Apostle.]]
** [[spoiler: Janus's reaction when Zion's defences obliterate Hyperion.]]

* HiddenDepths:
** Glory Girl's trigger event in canon was getting fouled in a basketball game. While that still happens here, the reason why this qualifies as a trigger is given much more depth. [[note]]Fully aware of the toxicity of her home situation, all of Vicky's hopes were pinned on that game to get a basketball scholarship, move out to college, and take Amy and Dean with her away from [[ControlFreak her mother]]. Getting fouled and the resulting free throw was the big chance she was waiting for, all her hopes culminated into one moment, and when she didn't make it, her crushed hopes are what caused her trigger.[[/note]]

** The first lines of the story are [[spoiler: Dracul's divine mantle of darkness]] hijacking Taylor's Trigger event, granting her his power instead.

** [[spoiler: With her blood possession power, Taylor commandeers Eden's brain-dead body and uses it to get close to Zion and stab him while his guard is down]]. Yes, you read that right: [[spoiler: '''she hijacked an Entity''']].
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler: How Gallant, of all people, manages to take down Cherish: by blasting her with the very same emotions of fear and despair that she herself was forcing onto everyone else.]]

** [[spoiler: An evac ship is set up to get at least some people out of the way of Zion's attack... only for Zion to atomize it as soon as he notices it.]]
** [[spoiler: Zion gets one when he sees Eden, alive and well, flying towards him, and they embrace... [[CavalryBetrayal only for her to stab him through the front]], having been possessed by Taylor.]]

* IdiotBall: [[WordOfGod The author]] has stated a distinct distaste for it and is actively attempting to not give anyone the ball.

** [[spoiler: Jack Slash's death, Vlad the Impaler-style. Mannequin too, although not nearly as viscerally.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor, in Eden's body, with the Void Sword, does this to Zion]].
* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler: Behemoth and Leviathan take ''extreme'' damage in their battles, the latter even losing his ''head'', but keep going]].

** The fate of many of the [[spoiler: Slaughterhouse Nine, after going to Brockton Bay resulted in a TotalPartyKill.]]

* LightIsNotGood: Part of the reason Castlevania's native world went tits-up was that the god of Light, for several centuries, was Solin, a DirtyCoward so terrified of death he began a crusade against ''every other god'' purely to gain more followers [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly to power his existence with]], and his manipulations to that effect turned [[KnightInShiningArmor Gabriel Belmont]] into [[EvilOverlord Dracul]]. [[spoiler: {{Defied}} by his power (which is about order, reason, and knowledge) after his death, being stuck to such a selfish ass for so long caused it to become ''really picky'' about its next host, a standard that paid off when it found [[BigGood Dragon]].]]
* LiquidAssets: [[spoiler: Solin became the God of Light in the first place through a ritual that killed ''everyone'' above him in the hierarchy he lived in.]]

* MakingASplash: Neptune, an OC Case 53 member of the Brockton Bay Protectorate, who is entirely composed of water and can manipulate it at will. [[spoiler: After he is dissipated in the fight with the Simurgh, he re-emerges, along with another water construct named Salacia, as a projection of Danny Hebert]].

** After Taylor unlocks her [[ScaledUp dragon form]], she renames herself from Scarlet Knight to Scarlet Dragon.
** [[spoiler: After being awoken to the true nature of the Endbringers and the Castlevania gods they once were, Eidolon makes it his goal to break them free of the Entities' chains, and rebrands himself Apostle.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Scion views his killing Kevin Norton painlessly before his rampage as this.]]
* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler: What turned William Manton into the Siberian (killing Hero, a member of Cauldron, because they couldn't save his daughter Annie) – and why Annie's ghost kicks off his IronicHell by telling him she hates him, utterly.]]

* PapaWolf: An example by proxy, [[spoiler: since Daniel Hebert wasn't there to protect Taylor when the Simurgh rampaged in Vancouver... but his projection Neptune was.]]
* PersonalizedAfterlife: Interlude: Death shows this happening with the [[spoiler: Slaughterhouse Nine]], doubling as IronicHell. Each gets sent to a separate environment crafted to torment each one individually based on their sins in life ([[spoiler:There are two exceptions-Bonesaw/Riley gets to go to heaven because Jack Slash tortured her to the point where she was not acting under her own free will in performing her atrocities, and Burnscar/Mimi gets to be reincarnated because most of her evil deeds were because her power messed with her head]]).

** [[spoiler:Hatchet Face, a HeroKiller,]] is pursued by a wolf pack, now the prey instead of the predator.

* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler: Alucard ]]

* AlphaStrike: [[spoiler: While Taylor engages Scion's avatar, the other heroes attack his main body, opening with a gigantic laser blast from the moon in that dimension. Afterwards, every remaining fighter teleports in to the surface
and attack up close.]]

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Mourneblade, Alucard's new sword. A result of Castlevanian alloys and magic, Alucard's blacksmithing, Armsmaster's Tinker skills, nanothorn tech, and [[spoiler: Endbringer flesh]].

* AlphaStrike: [[spoiler: What the defenders finally do once they get into the dimension housing Zion's real body.]]

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler: Hell's torment is not actually eternal. The repentant either eventually get allowed into Heaven or are reincarnated to try again, while those that regret nothing eventually turn into demons. Turning from prisoner to jailer.]]

** The succubi in Castlevania. Taylor repeatedly notices that they are [[{{Gainaxing}} very bouncy]] and tend not to wear much in the way of clothing. [[StupidSexyFlanders Even Vicky can't stop looking.]]

* HornyDevils
** Castlevania has 30-ish succubi guarding the portal room. Any intruder who enters through the portals will probably get seduced and killed, trying to get by.
** Taylor's monstrous form looks very succubus-like. Probably because Taylor drank the lead succubi Meridia's blood as a tribute of loyalty.

* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Death remarks that he had wanted to say "Worse. Wisonsin" when he is asked in Burnscar went to Hell.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: Piggot has apparently been gifted [[PlayingWithFire incendiary powers]], following Behemoth and Leviathan's deaths, likely by the newly-released Ifrit. It's later confirmed that the god actually chose to stay dead and passed on his mantle to her]].

* SmallNameBigEgo: [[spoiler: Sophia post getting sent back to prehistoria finds out quickly the real truth of Predators and Prey when a Duck-billed dino she's hunting escapes her because she alerted it and gets its family involved: predators and prey are ''not'' the static categories she'd been treating them as. A species that is predator to one is prey to another - and, sometimes prey turn the tables and kill their would-be predators. And more often than not, the Predators ''lose''. This is true of even the top ones. So there's little hope for a jumped-up wannabe like her.]]

* SmallNameBigEgo: [[spoiler: Sophia post getting sent back to prehistoria finds out quickly the real truth of Predators and Prey; that more often than not the Predators ''lose'' when a Duck-billed dino she's hunting escapes her because she alerted it and gets its family involved. This is true of even the top ones. So there's little hope for a jumped-up wannabe like her.]]

* FaceMonsterTurn=/=WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: Or rather, Was Once A ''God''. This is the true nature of ALL Endbringers, formerly the Gods of Castlevania that were captured, tortured, mutilated and enslaved by the entities.]]

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Sophia post getting sent back to prehistoria finds out quickly the real truth of Predators and Prey; that more often than not the Predators ''lose'' when a Duck-billed dino she's hunting escapes her because she alerted it and gets its family involved. This is true of even the top ones. [[SmallNameBigEgo So there's little hope for a jumped-up wannabe like her]].]]

* DemonOfHumanOrigon: [[spoiler: Hell's torment is not actually eternal. The repentant either eventually get allowed into Heaven or are reincarnated, while those that regret nothing eventually turn into demons. Turning from prisoner to jailer.]]

* DemonOfHumanOrigion: [[spoiler: Hell's torment is not actually eternal. The repentant either eventually get allowed into Heaven or are reincarnated, while those that regret nothing eventually turn into demons. Turning from prisoner to jailer.]]