History Literature / GiveUsForever

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Malachor and Dasrian beat [[spoiler:and nearly kill]] depraved self-righteous, megalomaniacal serial killer Urizen. The latter did it because he's disgusted by him, the former because he annoyed him.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ezekial, or Urizen, isn't just one of the nastiest angels to have come out of Heaven's ranks, but a prejudiced scumbag who wants to wipe out the demons and devils in earnest and, more personally, possessed of a vile misogyny toward the {{transgender}} Belial which translates to sick, twisted obsession. [[spoiler:This, however, is largely a result of the Black Sun corrupting him; Ezekial was always a prejudiced {{jerkass}}, but the Black Sun bloats it to horrific levels]].

* TitleDrop: During his WorldOfCardboardSpeech Hardestadt says "I'll make mistakes, and I might keep making them... but I'll keep going. That's what we're holding on our backs... the burden of tomorrow".

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: [[spoiler:Hardestadt gives one to his own mother that also serves as a TitleDrop, telling her the reason a "world without tears" can't exist is because it's ''their'' responsibility to make sure the suffering of themselves and everyone else isn't for nothing--because without the suffering needed to grow, people aren't who they are.]]:
-->'''Hardestadt''': [[spoiler:I'm against you. That's my conviction[...] I won't deny I have my flaws, I won't deny I'll make mistakes, and I might kept making them... but I'll keep going. That's what we're holding on our backs... the burden of tomorrow.]]
** [[spoiler:He has another at the very end of the story, rebutting Aleviel for the last time and telling her she's awful at playing the part of a villain.]]

''Give Us Forever'' is, collectively, the fifth and sixth parts of ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils''. The first part, ''Shadow of the Dragon'', can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3336041/1/Give-Us-Forever-Shadow-of-the-Dragon here]], and the second part ''The Burden of Tomorrow'' can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3337315/1/Give-Us-Forever-The-Burden-of-Tomorrow here]].

* BadassGrandpa: The original Hardestadt had to be in at least his late sixties and was fully capable of going a round with the Dragon.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThink: Hardestadt still grapples with the questions of his own morality and if he even deserves happiness for his sins. His friends are around to remind him that while they can't pardon him for what he's done, his actions since have defined him as a good person.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Baba Yaga is an ancient old woman, and quite, quite deadly. Easily one of the most powerful beings in the story so far

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Aleviel's justification for her actions. While they could arguably be called necessary, the fact that she assumed she knew better than everyone else and made her decision without consulting anyone, causes her loved ones to point out that there ''could'' have been another, less cruel way to achieve her ends.

** As sincere as Aleviel's intention may be to give her son a "world without tears", she's utterly unhesitating to put him through horrific psychological torture and ''kill'' him to remake him "perfectly."

* InternalReveal: While Aleviel's alliance with Malachor was revealed to the audience at the end of ''Shadow of the Dragon'', it's only in chapter 6 of ''The Burden of Tomorrow'' that Hardstedt and his friends discover it.
* InTheirOwnImage: Aleviel's ultimate goal is to remake the world clean of all flaws--including Hardestadt himself.

* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler:Aleviel's entire plot is one of these. The emotional anguish she puts Hardestadt and his allies through is no lie, but her "remake the Teraverse" plot is a complete farce. Hardestadt even tells her she's terrible at playing the part of a conniving villain.]]

* TheChessmaster: Aleviel has masterminded ''everything'' in both stories. Even all of Baba Yaga's schemes, a consummate chessmaster herself, was within Aleviel's oversight and ultimate design, all for the purpose of remolding the Teraverse itself.

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Most of Malachor's evil is to create someone to destroy him, longing to die and be free of the nightmarish existence that is his entire life.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ezekial, or Urizen, isn't just one of the nastiest angels to have come out of Heaven's ranks, but a prejudiced scumbag who wants to wipe out the demons and devils in earnest and, more personally, possessed of a vile misogyny toward the {{transgender}} Belial which translates to sick, twisted obsession.

** Aleviel is shattered by all the pointless bloodshed she caused in the war of Heaven and Hell and the paradox of her loving nature conflicting with that, and boils down her actions to "what is one more drop of blood in an ocean?".

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Vicious as Aleviel has become, everything she does is for the creation of a new world, where she no longer has to weigh all the lives she failed to save--whether lost at the hands of those like Ezekial or Apophis, or killed by herself in the long past--and to this end is willing to do whatever it takes, even murdering her own son, [[SunkCostFallacy justifying everything as merely one more drop in an ocean of blood and sins]].

* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:The reason for a lot of Malachor's evil? He can't kill himself thanks to his curse and so he finds people with potential, murders everything they care for and hopes they'll grow strong enough to kill him.]]

* IAmTheNoun: Urizen claims to be the Black Sun's 'Lawmaster.' [[spoiler:When he discovers he was being manipulated by Malachor and Dasrian he rants about this but it comes of as pathetic posturing and he is killed shortly after]].