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* AnythingThatMoves: Played with in Kenichi's case; the fact that he sleeps with anyone who shows interest indicates a lack of confidence rather than the typical Casanova personality.
** Played straight with Aubrey.
** Played straight with Aubrey.
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* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler: Kenichi is alive]]
* AfraidOfNeedles: Most Langleys, probably because of their high risk of being poisoned. Lux Langley III suggests that it has happened so often over the centuries that they've built up immunities to the most popular toxins.
* AmbiguousGender Alexi and Lux Langley II
* AfraidOfNeedles: Most Langleys, probably because of their high risk of being poisoned. Lux Langley III suggests that it has happened so often over the centuries that they've built up immunities to the most popular toxins.
* AmbiguousGender Alexi and Lux Langley II
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* AfraidOfNeedles: Most
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* AppliedPhlebotinum
* [[BANGFlagGun BANG Knife Finger]]
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* BrainUploading: The Fates
* BodyHorror
** The curse Ginger put of Lux II for killing her lover--[[spoiler: his body is constantly melting, leaving it up to him to re-sculpt it constantly. He can't.]]
** Demetrius London. You don't want to know ([[BodyHorror No,]] [[{{Mutants}} you]] [[{{Deconstruction}} don't]] (Ask him, he'll [[NightmareFetishist gladly explain]]).).
* BuildingOfAdventure: the Langley palace/skyscraper.
* ButtMonkey: Vox Langley. Or we can be just slightly more liberal and say everybody.
* CrapsackWorld: So much that it gets ridiculous, especially in the case of Lorre.
* CreepyChild: Both Lux III and Demetrius London.
* BodyHorror
** The curse Ginger put of Lux II for killing her lover--[[spoiler: his body is constantly melting, leaving it up to him to re-sculpt it constantly. He can't.]]
** Demetrius London. You don't want to know ([[BodyHorror No,]] [[{{Mutants}} you]] [[{{Deconstruction}} don't]] (Ask him, he'll [[NightmareFetishist gladly explain]]).).
* BuildingOfAdventure: the Langley palace/skyscraper.
* ButtMonkey: Vox Langley. Or we can be just slightly more liberal and say everybody.
* CrapsackWorld: So much that it gets ridiculous, especially in the case of Lorre.
* CreepyChild: Both Lux III and Demetrius London.
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* {{Cyberpunk}}: To apply the term very loosely.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Londons are some of the nicest people in the story.
* DeathSeeker: Inspector Takei has problems.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Archduke]]: Lux III, who has spent the first fourteen years of his life surrounded by his father's staff, all embittered against the Langleys and with no hope for the youngest one. It's still hard not to defrost while around Kenichi 24 hours a day.
* DoorStopper
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Or there, or there, or there either.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Londons are some of the nicest people in the story.
* DeathSeeker: Inspector Takei has problems.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Archduke]]: Lux III, who has spent the first fourteen years of his life surrounded by his father's staff, all embittered against the Langleys and with no hope for the youngest one. It's still hard not to defrost while around Kenichi 24 hours a day.
* DoorStopper
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Or there, or there, or there either.
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* IAmNotPretty: Oh, shut up, Aubrey.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm
* {{Hikikomori}}: Seventeen-year-old Demetrius London, though not so much due to social ineptitude.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Ginger appears to be a practitioner of this. Her actual powers are much more serious.
* {{Immortality}}: Corvus, a trickster sent permanently back to earth by Death because he knew she would humiliate him and escape anyway.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Seventeen-year-old Demetrius London, though not so much due to social ineptitude.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Ginger appears to be a practitioner of this. Her actual powers are much more serious.
* {{Immortality}}: Corvus, a trickster sent permanently back to earth by Death because he knew she would humiliate him and escape anyway.
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* LoveDodecahedron: See above.
* MadDoctor: Anima/[[spoiler: Ginger]]
* MadDoctor: Anima/[[spoiler: Ginger]]
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: 2/4 still counts, right?
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot It's a robot!]]]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot It's a robot!]]]]
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* PetTheDog: Lux III every now and then with Kenichi, in spite of usually acting critical and cold. Most notably, when he thinks Kenichi has fallen to his death on the reactor level.
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* RoyallyScrewedUp
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Lux III]]
* TeenGenius: Demetrius.
* TricksterArchetype: Corvus, a mythical immortal from the region's ancient lore.
* TheUnfettered: Lux II
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Lux III]]
* TeenGenius: Demetrius.
* TricksterArchetype: Corvus, a mythical immortal from the region's ancient lore.
* TheUnfettered: Lux II
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* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler: Kenichi is alive]]
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* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Somewhere, the London family picked up a rogue gene that causes their hair to go white prematurely--and by that, we mean at about two years old.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: What Ginger appears to be a practitioner of. Her actual powers are much more serious.
* HoYay: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally averted.]]
** [[spoiler: Or is it? Lux III's first crush is in fact on Kenichi, though due to age and sexuality-related constraints making it impossible for that to work, Lux never lets him find out.]]
* HoYay: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally averted.]]
** [[spoiler: Or is it? Lux III's first crush is in fact on Kenichi, though due to age and sexuality-related constraints making it impossible for that to work, Lux never lets him find out.]]
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* HollywoodVoodoo: What Ginger appears to be a practitioner of. of this. Her actual powers are much more serious.
* HoYay: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally averted.]]
** [[spoiler: Or is it? Lux III's first crush is in fact on Kenichi, though due to age and sexuality-related constraints making it impossible for that to work, Lux never lets him find out.]]serious.
* HoYay: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally averted.]]
** [[spoiler: Or is it? Lux III's first crush is in fact on Kenichi, though due to age and sexuality-related constraints making it impossible for that to work, Lux never lets him find out.]]
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* NamestoRunAwayFromVeryFast: Langley, literally. When Lux II mysteriously vanishes, the entirety of his staff vacates the house within a couple of hours, abandoning Lux III tied up in his bedroom. Only Kenichi, an inexperienced guard that Lux II only kept around for the lulz, comes back to make sure he doesn't die.
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* NamestoRunAwayFromVeryFast: NamestoRunAwayFromReallyFast: Langley, literally. When Lux II mysteriously vanishes, the entirety of his staff vacates the house within a couple of hours, abandoning Lux III tied up in his bedroom. Only Kenichi, an inexperienced guard that Lux II only kept around for the lulz, comes back to make sure he doesn't die.
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* TheFisherKing: When Duke Vox Langley was given control of the city of Lorre, he completely stopped its maintenance in favor of maintenance of his own deadly physical augmentations. It got ugly outside.
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* TheFisherKing: FisherKing: When Duke Vox Langley was given control of the city of Lorre, he completely stopped its maintenance in favor of maintenance of his own deadly physical augmentations. It got ugly outside.
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[[strike: The three clones of Bloodmist, the god of lava, have been magically released from their 452483249289 year imprisonment beneath Mt. Thunderhead, casting their sinister shadows on the Year of the Dragon. Can a mild-mannered young blacksmith and his ragtag party of adventurers]]
As much as it sounds like a bad fantasy title, the name of troper AFGNCAAP's ongoing serial story actually refers to this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad Dark Triad]], the three problematic personality deficiencies narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. These and more have become fixtures of the Langley line of archdukes, a family that has been decaying in sanity for centuries in the center of what is shaping up to be some kind of mirror-Australia. But in 2041, Lux Langley II kills the wrong guy. Soft-spoken artist Aubrey London probably never imagined that he would be the string that, once cut, would unravel the country's most infamous bloodline. On the other hand, his surviving lover Ginger imagined [[{{Yandere}} a whole lot]], particularly for Lux II's more innocent son.
The disaster unfolds against the backdrop of a future where technology is taking its most eldritch shapes, and where one can go for love where no one has gone before.
This is a normally private writer's exercise in openness. The first draft of each chapter hits the thread first, and then the editing process is open to watch. You might not find polish there yet, but you will find polish''ing''--and might even get to help.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=tidtg401cxm6c9gm5tsunsnz&page=1#1 Here it is.]]
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!!Tropes Found In This...Thing...So Far:
* AfraidOfNeedles: Most Langleys, probably because of their high risk of being poisoned. Lux Langley III suggests that it has happened so often over the centuries that they've built up immunities to the most popular toxins.
* AmbiguousGender Alexi and Lux Langley II
* AnythingThatMoves: Played with in Kenichi's case; the fact that he sleeps with anyone who shows interest indicates a lack of confidence rather than the typical Casanova personality.
** Played straight with Aubrey.
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* [[BANGFlagGun BANG Knife Finger]]
* BookDumb: Not assertive enough to tell anyone about his learning disability, Kenichi Zimmer has locked himself into this for years.
* BrainUploading: The Fates
* BodyHorror
** The curse Ginger put of Lux II for killing her lover--[[spoiler: his body is constantly melting, leaving it up to him to re-sculpt it constantly. He can't.]]
** Demetrius London. You don't want to know ([[BodyHorror No,]] [[{{Mutants}} you]] [[{{Deconstruction}} don't]] (Ask him, he'll [[NightmareFetishist gladly explain]]).).
* BuildingOfAdventure: the Langley palace/skyscraper.
* ButtMonkey: Vox Langley. Or we can be just slightly more liberal and say everybody.
* CrapsackWorld: So much that it gets ridiculous, especially in the case of Lorre.
* CreepyChild: Both Lux III and Demetrius London.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kenichi is completely lacking in confidence and has the demeanor furthest imaginable from "badass"--yet handily dispatches an assassin with an old sword.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: To apply the term very loosely.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Londons are some of the nicest people in the story.
* DeathSeeker: Inspector Takei has problems.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Archduke]]: Lux III, who has spent the first fourteen years of his life surrounded by his father's staff, all embittered against the Langleys and with no hope for the youngest one. It's still hard not to defrost while around Kenichi 24 hours a day.
* DoorStopper
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Or there, or there, or there either.
* FaceOfAThug: Though not exactly looking ''criminal'', Aubrey London appears pretty damn intimidating. As useful as that is in the story's {{Wretched Hive}}s, though, he isn't so comfortable with that reaction to him. If you want him to be yours forever, call him pretty. But expect him to deny it. Excessively.
* IAmNotPretty: Oh, shut up, Aubrey.
* TheFisherKing: When Duke Vox Langley was given control of the city of Lorre, he completely stopped its maintenance in favor of maintenance of his own deadly physical augmentations. It got ugly outside.
* GeniusCripple: Demetrius London, who, despite being unable to walk or even leave his room, wraps all of the city of Iosethep around his little finger to keep [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Lux III]] safe.
* GildedCage: Lux III's family is so hated that leaving the Langley skyscraper overtly is suicidal for him.
* GrievousBottleyHarm
* {{Hikikomori}}: Seventeen-year-old Demetrius London, though not so much due to social ineptitude.
* HollywoodVoodoo: What Ginger appears to be a practitioner of. Her actual powers are much more serious.
* HoYay: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally averted.]]
** [[spoiler: Or is it? Lux III's first crush is in fact on Kenichi, though due to age and sexuality-related constraints making it impossible for that to work, Lux never lets him find out.]]
* {{Immortality}}: Corvus, a trickster sent permanently back to earth by Death because he knew she would humiliate him and escape anyway.
* KansasCityShuffle: Demetrius London pulls the entire city of Iosethep into one of these by spreading the misinformation that the Langley skyscraper is locked down because Lux II's curse has spread to his mind, and he is loose in the building as a berserk monstrosity. The police tape off the premises as a safety hazard and stand guard to keep anyone from getting too close, but little do they know that what they're really doing is [[spoiler: protecting the not-so-monstrous Lux III inside from the civilians who hate him.]]
* LoveChart: The author keeps one just to see the visual mess. [[http://tinyurl.com/4gz9d6u It's getting worse]].
* LoveDodecahedron: See above.
* MadDoctor: Anima/[[spoiler: Ginger]]
* NamestoRunAwayFromVeryFast: Langley, literally. When Lux II mysteriously vanishes, the entirety of his staff vacates the house within a couple of hours, abandoning Lux III tied up in his bedroom. Only Kenichi, an inexperienced guard that Lux II only kept around for the lulz, comes back to make sure he doesn't die.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: 2/4 still counts, right?
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot It's a robot!]]]]
* PapaWolf: Never threaten the safety of one of Aubrey London's loved ones. The last time that happened, the debacle ended in him killing a zombie with a pair of scissors. No, wait--that was the time before the last time. The ''last'' time, the perpetrator narrowly escaped death by ''spoon''. Seriously, [[TooDumbToLive don't do it.]]
** Kenichi is approaching this status as well. He becomes quite competent at kicking ass when Lux III is threatened. [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Unless spiders are involved]].
* PetTheDog: Lux III every now and then with Kenichi, in spite of usually acting critical and cold. Most notably, when he thinks Kenichi has fallen to his death on the reactor level.
* PosthumousCharacter: Aubrey is shredded by Lux II's ninjas in the first chapter, but remains very much alive in many characters' minds--one in particular.
* RoyallyScrewedUp
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Lux III]]
* TeenGenius: Demetrius.
* TricksterArchetype: Corvus, a mythical immortal from the region's ancient lore.
* TheUnfettered: Lux II
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Somewhere, the London family picked up a rogue gene that causes their hair to go white prematurely--and by that, we mean at about two years old.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kenichi and Lux III both are terrified of spiders. Unfortunately, they are the only two people remaining in the Langley skyscraper when a particularly large one crawls across the ground floor. HilarityEnsues as they treat it like a large-scale enemy.
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As much as it sounds like a bad fantasy title, the name of troper AFGNCAAP's ongoing serial story actually refers to this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad Dark Triad]], the three problematic personality deficiencies narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. These and more have become fixtures of the Langley line of archdukes, a family that has been decaying in sanity for centuries in the center of what is shaping up to be some kind of mirror-Australia. But in 2041, Lux Langley II kills the wrong guy. Soft-spoken artist Aubrey London probably never imagined that he would be the string that, once cut, would unravel the country's most infamous bloodline. On the other hand, his surviving lover Ginger imagined [[{{Yandere}} a whole lot]], particularly for Lux II's more innocent son.
The disaster unfolds against the backdrop of a future where technology is taking its most eldritch shapes, and where one can go for love where no one has gone before.
This is a normally private writer's exercise in openness. The first draft of each chapter hits the thread first, and then the editing process is open to watch. You might not find polish there yet, but you will find polish''ing''--and might even get to help.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=tidtg401cxm6c9gm5tsunsnz&page=1#1 Here it is.]]
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!!Tropes Found In This...Thing...So Far:
* AfraidOfNeedles: Most Langleys, probably because of their high risk of being poisoned. Lux Langley III suggests that it has happened so often over the centuries that they've built up immunities to the most popular toxins.
* AmbiguousGender Alexi and Lux Langley II
* AnythingThatMoves: Played with in Kenichi's case; the fact that he sleeps with anyone who shows interest indicates a lack of confidence rather than the typical Casanova personality.
** Played straight with Aubrey.
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* [[BANGFlagGun BANG Knife Finger]]
* BookDumb: Not assertive enough to tell anyone about his learning disability, Kenichi Zimmer has locked himself into this for years.
* BrainUploading: The Fates
* BodyHorror
** The curse Ginger put of Lux II for killing her lover--[[spoiler: his body is constantly melting, leaving it up to him to re-sculpt it constantly. He can't.]]
** Demetrius London. You don't want to know ([[BodyHorror No,]] [[{{Mutants}} you]] [[{{Deconstruction}} don't]] (Ask him, he'll [[NightmareFetishist gladly explain]]).).
* BuildingOfAdventure: the Langley palace/skyscraper.
* ButtMonkey: Vox Langley. Or we can be just slightly more liberal and say everybody.
* CrapsackWorld: So much that it gets ridiculous, especially in the case of Lorre.
* CreepyChild: Both Lux III and Demetrius London.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kenichi is completely lacking in confidence and has the demeanor furthest imaginable from "badass"--yet handily dispatches an assassin with an old sword.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: To apply the term very loosely.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Londons are some of the nicest people in the story.
* DeathSeeker: Inspector Takei has problems.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Archduke]]: Lux III, who has spent the first fourteen years of his life surrounded by his father's staff, all embittered against the Langleys and with no hope for the youngest one. It's still hard not to defrost while around Kenichi 24 hours a day.
* DoorStopper
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Or there, or there, or there either.
* FaceOfAThug: Though not exactly looking ''criminal'', Aubrey London appears pretty damn intimidating. As useful as that is in the story's {{Wretched Hive}}s, though, he isn't so comfortable with that reaction to him. If you want him to be yours forever, call him pretty. But expect him to deny it. Excessively.
* IAmNotPretty: Oh, shut up, Aubrey.
* TheFisherKing: When Duke Vox Langley was given control of the city of Lorre, he completely stopped its maintenance in favor of maintenance of his own deadly physical augmentations. It got ugly outside.
* GeniusCripple: Demetrius London, who, despite being unable to walk or even leave his room, wraps all of the city of Iosethep around his little finger to keep [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Lux III]] safe.
* GildedCage: Lux III's family is so hated that leaving the Langley skyscraper overtly is suicidal for him.
* GrievousBottleyHarm
* {{Hikikomori}}: Seventeen-year-old Demetrius London, though not so much due to social ineptitude.
* HollywoodVoodoo: What Ginger appears to be a practitioner of. Her actual powers are much more serious.
* HoYay: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally averted.]]
** [[spoiler: Or is it? Lux III's first crush is in fact on Kenichi, though due to age and sexuality-related constraints making it impossible for that to work, Lux never lets him find out.]]
* {{Immortality}}: Corvus, a trickster sent permanently back to earth by Death because he knew she would humiliate him and escape anyway.
* KansasCityShuffle: Demetrius London pulls the entire city of Iosethep into one of these by spreading the misinformation that the Langley skyscraper is locked down because Lux II's curse has spread to his mind, and he is loose in the building as a berserk monstrosity. The police tape off the premises as a safety hazard and stand guard to keep anyone from getting too close, but little do they know that what they're really doing is [[spoiler: protecting the not-so-monstrous Lux III inside from the civilians who hate him.]]
* LoveChart: The author keeps one just to see the visual mess. [[http://tinyurl.com/4gz9d6u It's getting worse]].
* LoveDodecahedron: See above.
* MadDoctor: Anima/[[spoiler: Ginger]]
* NamestoRunAwayFromVeryFast: Langley, literally. When Lux II mysteriously vanishes, the entirety of his staff vacates the house within a couple of hours, abandoning Lux III tied up in his bedroom. Only Kenichi, an inexperienced guard that Lux II only kept around for the lulz, comes back to make sure he doesn't die.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: 2/4 still counts, right?
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot It's a robot!]]]]
* PapaWolf: Never threaten the safety of one of Aubrey London's loved ones. The last time that happened, the debacle ended in him killing a zombie with a pair of scissors. No, wait--that was the time before the last time. The ''last'' time, the perpetrator narrowly escaped death by ''spoon''. Seriously, [[TooDumbToLive don't do it.]]
** Kenichi is approaching this status as well. He becomes quite competent at kicking ass when Lux III is threatened. [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Unless spiders are involved]].
* PetTheDog: Lux III every now and then with Kenichi, in spite of usually acting critical and cold. Most notably, when he thinks Kenichi has fallen to his death on the reactor level.
* PosthumousCharacter: Aubrey is shredded by Lux II's ninjas in the first chapter, but remains very much alive in many characters' minds--one in particular.
* RoyallyScrewedUp
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Lux III]]
* TeenGenius: Demetrius.
* TricksterArchetype: Corvus, a mythical immortal from the region's ancient lore.
* TheUnfettered: Lux II
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Somewhere, the London family picked up a rogue gene that causes their hair to go white prematurely--and by that, we mean at about two years old.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kenichi and Lux III both are terrified of spiders. Unfortunately, they are the only two people remaining in the Langley skyscraper when a particularly large one crawls across the ground floor. HilarityEnsues as they treat it like a large-scale enemy.
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