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** Mansia is out-universe derived from "brugmansia," a flower also called "angel's trumpets." Given that Mansia is Zelpea's [[DragonWithAnAgenda "advisor,"]] unofficial messanger,

[[folder:The Elements as a Whole]]

* AlmightyJanitor: The Elements are actually among one of the most powerful teams in the entire setting, with the full might of all 1,002 of them by the endgame being strong enough to give all but a collective team made of the ''other'' strongest characters in the world a beatdown. Individually, they're each at least around the upper-middle in terms of Biome Artist strength, with some such as Iris and Lithlaun being more powerful than that. However, they begin the story ranked pretty low; Alexia's morality-based essay in the Licensing Exam Written Test was ''so'' bad (and the Written Test takes the majority of the overall score) that her passing all other parts of the Licensing Exam with at least 90% just ''barely'' let her pass, and since the Biome Artist system has a "strong as the weakest link" mentality, that automatically put her four much better-performing teammates to her starting level as well. This same mentality also at first drags ''down'' the ranking of some other teams that merge with their group. Alexia spends at least half the story trying to build her reputation, and the reputation of the other Elements, up
* AnimalMotifs: The Elements altogether have an ant motif. They have SuperStrength even by ("common," they're nothing special compared to the top fighters) Biome Artist/mage standards,
* BadassArmy: A single Element can stand well on their own and beat up armies of inexperienced thugs or mooks; they can also give a pretty good battle against even the more elite mooks working for the Big Four. The gang together
* BattleHarem: Not in the traditional sense of being devoted spouces -- when it comes to genuine ''romantic'' relationships, the Elements are far more complicated on this front. Zoap and Arime only consider one-another as actual romantic partners for the bulk of the story, [...] They are described in-universe and out- (by Water) as "less of a polycule and more like a polycule ''of polycules,'' if that makes sense." They're eventually just a collective group of hundreds of teams of people who range from couples to bands of upwards of [not actually sure what the "upper limit" would be, or how this would factor in two or more particular teams becoming close to the point where they effectively just "merge" completely, which the initial quintet will do with the Bright Tertiaries, Frida, Lara, etc.]
* ColorCodedCharacters: While their entire might has ''so'' many characters of colors that are placed closely to each other on the spectrum, in hue, brightness, ''and'' to a lesser extent saturation [there won't be as many "non-saturated" colors, both because they're honestly kinda ugly, and because they blur together wayyy too quickly. There would be like... ten? fully saturated shades and then like four "light" or "dull" ones, although the two transparent ones will use light/dull shades that aren't used for their own regions as the unofficial color to represent them in like... icons and such, since in most mediums it's kind of difficult to use partial transparency], all of the "main" members of the team are spaced out far enough apart and spread evenly that they each stand out when it's only them together. The main twenty-four [Not-Nymphs] use the twelve primary, secondary, and tertiary colors of the RGB spectrum, half use bright shades, the other half dark shades. As for Zoap and Arime, they each have their own sets of colors (yellow, chartreuse, orange, and occasionally cyan for Zoap; blue, purple, azure, and occasionally red for Arime), but most primarily Zoap is associated with yellow while Arime is associated with blue.
* FiveTokenBand: They are the in-universe equivalent of such, as their numbers eventually end up consisting of exactly one person of each of the 1,002 races.
* MagneticHero: They start out officially as a band of five -- even before that, they are a duo (Zoap and Alexia) who quickly team up with a trio (Cassandra, Lana, and Bethany) to attempt to help each other pass the Licensing Exam, before deciding they actually like each other and becoming permanent companions. Then they take in Frida, Eansy, and [some third person just so that Eansy wouldn't stand out too much and be a bit "obvious," maybe another Bright Quaternary] as a team who had recently lost their home. Their missions involve them befriending at least one of the squads they team up with and/or (often in the case of the "main twenty-six") a single Biome Artist not part of a team that wants to join them. The squads eventually end up assimilating with the Elements anyway for one reason or another, usually just from liking them. Noteably, Atbash ''wanted'' the Elements to become this, assuming that the initial five she tested were "edgy loners who shut themselves off from most of the world"
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Most of them are "odd" to some degree, social misfits or just otherwise for one reason or another not engaged with their home region's culture. This also applies to ''all'' of the "main twenty-six," with Zoap being the closest to someone who "fits in," and even that's something of a stretch.
* TookALevelInBadass: While all of them were superhumans by the beginning of the story, they still become significantly stronger and especially more skilled as it goes on.
** The "initial quintet" of Zoap, Alexia, Cassandra, Lana, and Bethany in particular are soon established to be big fish in a small pond, especially during [[WakeUpCallBoss their final Licensing Exam test where Atbash gives them just a small taste of what dealing with other full-fledged Biome Artists would be like.]] Over the course of the story, they take Atbash's advice, both improving their own skills

[[folder:Both Main Leads]]

-->''Their love song: [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance "It Has to be This Way"]]''

* BirdsOfAFeather: They seem like OppositesAttract but the pair have more in common than
* FatAndSkinny? I mean they're a couple and not like a comedy duo: The central members of the Elements consist of the heavyset Arime and the considerably more slender Zoap.
* OddNameOut: When Hedge starts considering the Elements "sages" unofficially, he gives all of the "main" (primary, secondary, and tertiary-colored characters of the bright and dark regions) Elements single-syllable titles. Meat, Flame, Stone, Volt, and so on. [This wasn't actually what I had in mind when my previous character sheet mockups had the captions "Sage of ____," I didn't have anything in particular ironed out until just now.] Zoap and Arime are the only "main" characters who get titles that are more than one syllable.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Downplayed as several sub-plots tend to be running per chapter. Nearly every chapter prior to the two of them joining together has one of the two in the A-plot, with the other making a major subplot. Towards the beginning, the main focus was on Zoap and company, first the bulk of the Licensing Exam chapters covered his POV

[[folder:Zoap Bloodblade]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Sage of ]]

The {{protagonist}} of this story. Initially a Human working as an assistant at an animal shelter, the economic crisis results in him getting laid off. This was a plan engineered by Mansia to try to get him to work under Zelpea,

* BarrierWarrior: Zoap can make shields out of pure magic energy,
* BerserkButton: Zoap is normally one of the nicest souls in the entire setting, but he has two things (besides threatening loved ones, which A: [[Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope is not this trope,]] and B: practically all of his loved ones, ''especially'' the other Elements, can more than fend for themselves) that can make him immediately get mad.
** Cheating on tests. He takes evaluations and especially education seriously, so it ''royally'' pisses him off if he finds out that someone had cheated on a test, ''especially'' something as crucial as the Biome Artist Licensing Exam. When the Elements are on a mission where they join [someone,] she eventually confesses that she never became an official Biome Artist, and
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zoap isn't the most powerful or vicious of the Elements, but pissing him off is still a ''very'' bad idea even by [[BadassArmy Element]] standards, pushing him will get results eventually. [...] He has been described by other characters as a "ticking time bomb,"
** He has high levels of raw physical strength. He demonstrates this at one point when harassed by a group of mooks under Kat by punching one of them, a muscular fighter significantly taller than him, and casually blowing a hole in her torso. He then elaborates that he ''purposefully'' avoided any vital organs so as to not actually kill anyone,

** [[spoiler:This reaches a head in the finale; towards the end of the final battle, he completely flips his lid, screams loud enough to be heard miles away, and ]]
* BoringButPractical: Competes with Alexia in being one of the most "normal" of the Elements, except whereas Alexia tends to use "standard" Plant Arts a lot without as much flash as, say, fire, ice, lightning, or water powers, Zoap would rather not use Biome Arts at ''all'' unless necessary. If he can just talk his way out of something, he will, which frustrates some of the more showy members of his group like Bethany.
** His main combat feats are [[BarrierWarrior defensive.]] The shields made out of a yellow flame-like substance look cool at first, but they're nothing in terms of flare compared to some of the other advanced Biome Arts
** As standard Neutral mage use, Zoap focuses on the "non-super" biomes, so the trees he works with are ordinary trees in contrast to the gargantuan vine-y trees of Bright Green,
* ClusterBleepBomb: He wins an escalating flirt-off with Bethany by promissing to do something where the text is written out with "'''(bleep)'''." This is the ''only'' time in the entire story that dialogue is censored[[note]]Unless one counts the rare moments of the narrator simply not wanting to transcribe something a character said, which is almost always just due to the idiocy/long-windedness of what is being said rather than vulgarity[[/note]], and considering what is said that ''isn't'' censored, how racy the snippets that aren't censored get [I'm not gonna jot it down here LOL, in fact I didn't write the scene at all yet], and how his speech leaves '''[[TheGadfly Bethany]]''' flushed and fanning herself and the Elements to all look at him speechless (two things that ''very'' rarely happen in the Elements' home), he must have said something ''incredibly'' raunchy. [[NothingIsFunnier The contents of which are left to the readers' imagination.]][[note]]Water has also said that the speech was always planned to be "censored" and no "uncensored" one exists.[[/note]]
* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Zoap may be very forgiving and slow to anger, but a small handful of people have earned his outright ''scorn,'' and
** The most obvious is BigBad Zelpea. Zoap ''starts'' trying to downplay her actions and defend her, and this is at least before she revealed her genocidal intentions, but
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: It takes him a ''lot'' until he finally admits that Zelpea is just an awful person with no redeemable qualitites, and that any ounce of good he might have seen in her when they were children has long since faded, assuming it was never an act to begin with. He tries to throw up Zelpea's story as a FreudianExcuse, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse but none of the Elements buy it.]] Part of this stems from being "friends" with Zelpea in the past, and feeling guilty that lashing out at her would mean personal bias and go against his MO of forgiveness. Zelpea [[EvilCannotComprehendGood has the opposite problem]] and is fully convinced that there is no such thing as a truly "good person" -- that someone who seems to be nice is lying to either others (like Zelpea herself) or to themselves (she accuses Zoap of doing this, and those words get him to think it over) -- so it evens out in a sense.
* HandicappedBadass: He gets his right arm -- his dominant arm -- cut off by Arime's plasma blade in the prologue. He still manages to put up a good fight with just his left arm, and he takes the Biome Artist Licensing Exam with a Biome Arts-made prosthetic of his own creation while waiting for medics to grow him a new one. With just one arm and a hastily-made artificial wood/vine one, he aces the Exam, and while Atbash "plays dirty" by manipulating his prosthetic during the final test, Zoap eventually just rips it off and tries to fight her with one arm completely gone. At the end of Chapter 5, he grows a new one and never loses a limb in the story again (or suffering any other handicapping injury for a long period of time), taking him out of this trope.
* IronicName: "Bloodblade" sounds like a name given to an edgy warrior or a parody of such a thing. Zoap is actually really nice and hates the idea of getting violent. His parents share this trait with him. ''Several generations in the past,'' on the other hand, his maternal ancestors at least genuinely ''were'' intimidating and bloodthirsty, but at one point down the line a WhiteSheep among them decided to shed that and start a new generation of pacifism and generosity, which carried on down to
* MrFanservice: Ideally there'd be some game adaptation where the player could toggle the Elements' gender and sex/body type at will, but I'm nowhere near that level at coding and this would require a massive budget anyway, so it's just a webnovel. And in that webnovel, Zoap is the only man of the Elements, and
* NervesOfSteel: Zoap may ''dislike violence,'' but that doesn't mean he ''scares easily.'' Even compared to [[BadassArmy the Elements,]]
** Ironically, he is one of the few characters that isn't directly afraid of [[TheDreaded Zelpea,]] despite[[note]]or even ''because'' of, as he's familiarized himself with her tactacs[[/note]] being her main target of abuse for a period of time. He's ''concerned'' when she controls innocents and/or his teammates for their well-being, but Zelpea herself never intimidates him no matter what nightmarish imagry she tries to throw at him or how much power (physical or political) she flexes over him. When Zelpea takes control over a host of miners and tries to make them injure themselves and each other, has her "main host" reveal to Zoap that the "dream" where he called out Zelpea was the ''real'' Zelpea entering his head, and then taunting him by asking if he'll tell the actual Zelpea off, Zoap just counters that by calling her the coward for using a proxy puppet and not meeting him in person.
* NotQuiteFlight: His top ability by the beginning of the story is called Gliding, or the Gliding Arts, and it enables him an unsteady [...] In Chapter 5, Atbash notices his Glide abilities -- and reacts to it by taking off in ''full'' Flight at sound-breaking speed, emphasizing that what the story had been building up as Zoap's "unique ability" isn't anything special in the big picture, ''and'' how the quintet are [[WakeUpCallBoss hopelessly outmatched against this person compared to their previous tests in the Licensing Exam.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Zoap almost never swears, in stark contrast to his first harmette Alexia being one of the top LadySwearsALot of the Elements (and this speaks volumes; ''Biome Artists'' is filled with foul language in general [hahaha insert shitty if Vivziepop wrote a harem anime joke here]). His first swear in the story, and his only one for a ''good'' while, is right when he's finally at his breaking point with working as Zelpea's Royal Shield. He tells her "Go fuck yourself, Princess." It stands out because of his clean mouth up to that point. This moment also gets him famous in-universe,
* RealMenWearPink: Zoap occasionally dabbles in gardening, he's ''really'' fond of helping animals, and he is also a good cook (particularly when it comes to vegetable-based dishes). Regarding the last part, he was even the Elements' unofficial chef[[note]]typically each Element cooks for themselves, as Biome Artist training includes learning to make your own meals out of almost anything in times of survival or just to try to deal with a low budget/resources. But if they have the "luxury" of someone having the time to prepare something for everybody, usually that "someone" was Zoap[[/note]] before Elfriede came along.
* ScrewDestiny: Not for any ''actual'' "fate" or "destiny," as the setting doesn't have any real predetermination, but there ''are'' a couple of in-universe made up prophecies, namely involving the Bloodblade and Blossom clans. Zoap doesn't take kindly to those, putting it mildly.

* I know it says TheOneGuy can't be a protagonist and kinda assumes that doing so falls this under the HaremGenre, and this story is ''technically'' "harem genre" but in a really loose way and it purposefly avoids a shitload of harem tropes, so uh, whatever: Zoap is the only man of the Elements. It's implied that the world as a whole and ''especially'' the realm of Biome Artistry is largely matriarchal,
* I'm not sure what trope, if any, this would fall under. There isn't anything for "runt of the family" as far as I can tell: Zoap's parents, brother, and a good chunk of his extended family are giants. Zoap himself, however, is not.

[[folder:Arime [Don't have a last name thought of yet; assume this for any other "Element," I do want to give them ''all'' surnames said in-story] ]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Sage of Plasma[?] ]]

The {{deuteragonist}} of this story. A well-respected and fairly high-ranking Saypant Biome Warrior that is also an activist whose goal is helping the less fortunate, particularly trying to clean up the Saypant Metropolis and its slums. She boasts a tough and gritty "bike gangster" aesthetic, but underneath that lies a very dorky hero who adores the card game ''The Collector'', vows to collect every single installment of the ''[[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Plant Ants]]'' franchise even the ones aimed at very young audiences, and all-around constantly worries for the safety of her allies and lovers. Underneath her popularity lies a dark secret: Arime is also Head Janitor; she and her team, the Grime Crime, masquerade as vigilantes-posing-as-a-criminal-gang called the Janitors, where they resort to significantly less-ethical tactics to break up black markets, stop people trafficking rings, and expose corrupt government leaders. The story opens up with the Janitors' biggest mission yet: A seige on the Blossom Kingdom Castle to steal their Relic, intending to take its power and distributing it to the general populace, easing the economic crisis going on (particularly in Bright Green and the Metropolis). She met Zoap about two years before the start of the story, becoming long-distance/online friends that took a liking to each other and grew closer -- [[CannotSpitItOut not that either would be fast to admit it in that way.]] Unfortunately, with Zoap being hired as one of the Blossom Kingdom's defenders at the time [long story short, this is ''not'' a ContrivedCoincidence, although it ''is'' a result of at least one of the villains' plans biting the BK in the ass], they clash. Zoap manages to destroy part of Arime's disguise and soon figures out that she and the Head Janitor are one and the same,

As a member of one of the two "Neutral Races," Arime was not born with any particular superbiome leaning, and like most Neutrals her default Biome Arts sway away from a particular type of biomass. She does, however, specialize in using Plasma Arts, considered an InfinityPlusOneElement among the [...] Her signature move is the Plasma Strike,

* {{Acrofatic}}: She's the most heavy-set of the "main twenty-six" Elements [hrm, if I have the "mains" ''only'' be the primary, secondary, and tertiary-colored ones of bright and dark, plus Zoap and Arime, that's twenty-six, so I could work with the alphabet thing after all that I kinda dropped a long time ago... I mean, there's Iris and Maria who are both quaternaries and based off of "main" deans ] yet one of the most agile and fast of them, if not the Elements as a whole. (Behind obvious super speedsters like Iris.)
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
** By the beginning of the webnovel, she is this to Zoap. She has amassed ten loyal followers and many more fans while Zoap's "party" barely has Alexia at the time.
* AntiVillain: Arime genuinely has good intentions and almost exclusively fights people worse than she is, with the biggest hiccup being when she crosses paths with Zoap in the Kingdom Invasion at the start. Even when she's set against her more-than-friend and pushes through, she very much hates the idea but feels that it is absolutely necessary for the betterment of other people. When she fights Zoap, she sees it as giving up her wants (to be in a normal relationship with him) in favor of the needs of the other residents of the Slums.
* BadassBiker: Arime not only gives herself a "biker gang" image as the Janitors, but her motorcycle in of itself is a powerful weapon that she can use as an advanced chainsaw.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Averted, along with the bulk of the Saypant race, but Arime is the first of them introduced so she
* DramaticIrony: She is revealed to be Head Janitor before the Janitors themselves are even elaborated upon, with her
* TheDreaded: Thanks to her alter-ego, she manages to strike the fears in to both other heroes ''and'' the criminals out there. Arime ''as Arime'' has a mighty track record of taking down elite criminals and pulling off missions flawlessly, to the point of being one of the few ten-star Biome Artists/Warriors out there[[note]]Dualite in general uses ten stars for their "star system" unlike the common five stars in RealLife. Getting a ten star rating is ''no'' easy feat[[/note]]. As Head Janitor, she puts the image of a terrifying bike gang leader that can tear through anything, .
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Two, factoring the InMediasRes opening and the "proper" beginning of the story.
** In the flashforward to the end of the Yellow Moon Saga[??? I'm thinking back to this idea of dividing the story again], it covers Zoap and the Elements arriving at the top of the Central Tower [I did a quick Google search of this term and the results were about ''Breath of the Wild''[='=]s Central Hyrule Tower, so I assume there isn't like any real life location with this name... which kinda surprised me], with her leaping from an at-the-time unknown spot and directly confronting Zoap. Their conversation isn't given too much context until the story proper, but it
** In the "regular" beginning, she first crops up when Alexia has a phone conversation with Zoap that Arime also partakes in. [...Maybe? I want to have Zoap's introduction be in-between Alexia's opening exposition and the phone conversation but uh...] She's immediately suspicious of Alexia asking Zoap if she can stay at his place while Alexia job hunts, though she doesn't speak up about it. The ''moment'' the conversation ends, Arime calls up Alexia privately, just threats "Hurt him and I'll hurt you" in a much more menacing tone than she had prior, and hangs up immediately after.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** As Head Janitor, she has a CodeOfHonour that she follows by near-religiously, and expects her own allies to do the same. Absolutely no harming the homeless. Don't kill unless the person in question ''leads''
**
** Despite Arime's general "motorcycle punk gang member" aesthetic and being on the tomboyish side, she draws the line at certain behavior that even she finds offputting:
*** Arime dislikes tattoos and ''really'' dislikes piercings, to the point of saying she considers them turn-offs and the latter even a potential dealbreaker for entering a relationship with her.
*** Passing gas. Deliberately doing so in a loud manner or right to her face[[note]]she can tell if it's an accident, but this is only said via WordOfGod as this has not happened in ''Biome Artists''. In Water's words, "It's not that kind of story," so farts and burps just don't come up very often[[/note]] is one of the few ways to [[BerserkButton actually piss her off]] without threatening loved ones or innocents.
* ExtraOreDinary: Plasma is Arime's go-to element usually, but she is also a very competent Metal Artist,
* GoodIsNotSoft: Arime is genuinely interested in improving the state of the world and for the most part is a reasonable Biome Artist. Even pre-HeelFaceTurn, she can interact well with civilians and other heroic Biome Artists, and is an enjoyable friend to have. When it comes to various disgraced Biome Artists, crime lords, or ''especially'' corrupt politicians, that's when
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Arime is, on the surface, a tough and gritty bike punk-themed Biome Artist who also has (had after the first saga) an alter ego as a vicious gang leader. She is generally pretty levelheaded in the face of danger, and has a SeenItAll attitude towards crime rings that include sex traffickers and the like. Even ''she's'' very disturbed by, if not scared shitless of, [[spoiler:Dragon, Zelpea's artificial humanoid ]] [...] Played more humorously, Zoap's parents are also among the very few people who scare her -- they're both buff, powerful giants who aren't ''too'' happy with her cutting off his arm back in the first chapter.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: While Arime often fights with Plasma Arts or Metal Arts, she also uses her own motorcycle as a weapon. By grabbing it, having the wheels turn bladed, and weilding it like a chainsaw.
* {{Irony}}:
** Near the beginning, she gets in a three-way phone call with Zoap and Alexia (Alexia called Zoap to ask about staying over while he was already chatting with Arime; they decided to simply make the call go three ways) where she's very suspicious about Alexia asking to stay over. Fearing Alexia may be a PrettyFreeloader, once Zopa leaves Arime quickly threatens her with six simple words: "Hurt him and I'll hurt you." In the same chapter, about a month later, ''Arime'' ends up being the one who hurts Zoap during the fight on the Blossom Kingdom, and [[AnArmAndALeg far more]] than what she worried Alexia might do (a financial hurt). Once it's been proven that Arime is the Head Janitor, Alexia wastes no time to throw Arime's words back in her face over this.
* MsFanservice: The ''only'' character in the story who can successfully get ''Zoap'' flustered, which speaks volumes. Much like Zoap himself, Arime lands on this not by being especially flirty or wearing less than the others on average, but just by a consequence of having a higher sex drive, she's shown being more "active" than the other Elements and when the story is written from the POV of her partner (most commonly Naytileek, Bethany, or Zoap himself), she's described very sensually. She's this of the Grime Crime (and later Elements) in-universe, as it's ''heavily'' implied that her charity pinups get much spicier than those of the other teammates who do them with her.
* NightmareFetishist: Her initial friends/lovers are less conventional than Zoap's, and that's saying something. Naytileek, her closest friend of the Crime Grime, essentially acts like an archetypical {{yandere}} except that she genuinely respects the boundaries and well-being of her targets of affection. [Other examples?] It's quite telling that once the Brights start warming up to her, one of the first ones she gets along with is fellow Nightmare Fetishist and wannabe/[[spoiler:eventual ''successful'']] horror writer [[PerkyGoth Bethany.]]
* Or should ParentalSubstitute go under the parent's sheet?: Arime's parents were killed by a mugger when she was young, and she spent her early years as an orphan until she tried to break in to Rot's hideout. Rot, feeling sorry for her, decided to take her in and give her some thieving pointers, before eventually raising her as a sort of daughter.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Why the Janitors' attack on the Blossom Kingdom even happens. She had her hacker friends discover a few misused funds and illegal transactions Zelpea (actually Mansia using Zelpea as a puppet ruler) pulled off, came to the conclusion that Zelpea has to be stopped, but ''only'' thought that her actions were limited to messing with the economy. What Arime did ''not'' know at the time was that Zelpea was actually much worse than that. The Janitor attack was a last-ditch effort to stop Zelpea's greed from getting further, [...] There's also how she incorrectly attributes Zelpea to this, when Mansia really was the one to blame for that, and many other behind the scenes manipulations
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Janitors pre-HeelFaceTurn, many of them confess that they're in it for the thrill,

[[folder:Princess Zelpea Blossom '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zelpealol.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Scourge of Dualite. Shut up I can't fucking draw okay? And I refuse to use AI art. And I didn't realize that I forgot the shoes until I already got this ready. That green thing in her hands is the Bright Green Relic by the way. [[labelnote:Click here to see Pure Zelpea]]Basically picture a ''Terraria'' Nymph (blood on her hands, waist, and around her mouth; nude and green rotting skin) but with her hair falling out, it's blonde like the above, and she has a sword through her chest prototyped [=B1=] Jack Noir-style. The sword's blade is reflective and has characters on it, alternating in blue and yellow. And she has these wings from her back made of blood and electric-ish energy. I might draw this[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Perfect Zelpea]]I'm currently picturing that she'd look kinda like a "statue" (or just gray) with glowing eyes and mouth or something and radiating a ton of light, but that's highly subject to change[[/labelnote]]]]

-->''There is no such thing as mutual love. With any "equal" partner, you are expected to give as much as you take. We all hate this. I'm just smart enough to stop it. Getting with someone who shows feelings or tries to pull you in another direction is just a dirty half-measure. The only true happy relationship is one of absolute control, and it's only happy for the one party. That's what I'm after. My goal is someone who will do anything for me flawlessly, without a breath asking for anything in return, or asking for mercy. It's what you want too. It's what we all want. An obediant drone. Look all around you. Every single person you call a "lover," a "girlfriend," they've all done something to get under your skin, haven't they? They've acted in a way that you didn't like. Arrogance. Decietfulness. Dependence. Annoying behavior. All you've done is surround yourself with compromises, out of your weakness. Make no mistake, I've given up trying to get you to crawl back to me. At least with your sanity still intact. I just want to break you by putting this in your mind. The next time you have a fight with any of your teammates, remember this conversation. You ''could'' have taken them long ago and made them in to an army of slaves who would never tell you no. Admit it, Shield, it sounds tempting, doesn't it? That's because it's in our primal instinct, it's the urge of what we want. That goes for everyone on the planet; there is also no such thing as a good person. Anyone who claims to be is either lying to other people, like I had been. Or lying to themselves, like '''you.'''''

[Context of the "Scourge of Dualite:" The other Big Four are nicknamed "Scourge of Dualite's X," Kat being "Oceans," Scraps being "Ground," Enery being "Depths?", and Pearl being "Skies." To kinda represent Zelpea being a bigger threat than all of them, she's classed as just a threat to the world as a whole.]

The princess and current leader of the Blossom Kingdom, effectively the setting's "Human Nation." Initially seeming like a distant and cold ruler, she is in reality a genocidal asshole who only sees others as means to deliver her things she wants.

Exclusive to the game is '''Perfect Zelpea,''' a hypothetical version of her had there have been a thousand Relics (one for each non-Neutral race), faced at the end of the [[BossRush Dream Arena's]] Trial of the Epilogue [postgame superboss rush -- except [=Ninthee 3D=] maybe] and Trial of Dualite ["grand" rush of all bosses akin to Pantheon of Hallownest].

* BigBadEnsemble: She's the leader of the Blossom Kingdom faction of the story, the most vile and powerful of the antagonist groups. However, she's not the BigBad as the vast majority of the story sees the Big Four as villain groups that the heroes are trying to take down, and Zelpea not only has zero hand in their actions, [[EvilVersusEvil they're getting in the way of her goals and she wants to take them down too.]]
* BrightIsNotGood: Zelpea may dress in dark magenta and black, but she wields the glowing gemstone-like Relics and often flashes brightly when using them. She's also the
* ControlFreak: Zelpea's main goal is to control as much of the world as she possibly can. She's bored with being limited to the Blossom Kingdom and hates that the Regions are constantly putting pressure on her
* FanDisservice: She fights the world naked [FYI this isn't unusual here, there's an assload of fighting naked. All the heroes/Elements are basically nudists who only wear things in the first place because they have to by law; there is '''no''' ReluctantFanserviceGirl among them. And yeah, they end up naked in the final showdown pretty early on.] once the sun burns her clothing off, as she only pretended to have a sense of modesty when trying to get supporters, and with her ultimate form within reach
* FinalBoss: The fight on Zelpea is the final battle in the webnovel. In the video game adaptation, she's the final boss of the main quest. Her upgraded version, Perfect Zelpea, is the intended "final" challenge of the postgame (at the end of the Boss Rush), or one of them along with [=3D=] Ninthee or Iris.
* HateSink: ''Nothing'' is likeable about Zelpea. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is her punching established NiceGuy and animal-friend Zoap for being ''early'' to a meeting, and she only gets worse from there. She is an insanely bigotted, sociopathing asshole that abuses her "childhood friend" Zoap and her artificial creation/"daughter" Dragon, even trying to kill the latter shortly after she first gained consciousness after finding out that she doesn't have Zelpea's Relic immunity. Pretty much every scene with her in it highlights either her hypocrisy, cruelty,
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: By the beginning, Zoap ''insists'' that there is some
* MaliciousMisnaming:
** [I got this idea from Bill Cipher calling the Zodiac characters by their wheel symbols. Zelpea's possession's are inspired by Bill's body hijacking, and I wanted this to have a similar "misnaming" character thing, except Zelpea will ''purposefully'' do this as a taunt to say "Yeah, this isn't the person that this looks like talking, ''I'm'' controlling them."] She repeatedly calls Zoap "Shield" even long after he quit/she banished her from the kingdom. This is apparently supposed to try to drill his old role in his head. When she possesses other people, she'll deliberately have them call Zoap that to freak him out.
* TheNapoleon: She's about a head and a half shorter than Zoap or Arime (who are the same height) and confirmed to be shorter than any Element in fact, and is the only boss in the game shorter than the gang, but she's a vicious genocidal
* OneWomanArmy: She's already dangerous with even one Relic on account of Relic energy being able to kill any living being without Royal Blood [[RequiredSecondaryPowers (or helpful bacteria that could live in one with royal blood)]], and can fight on armies on her own. With all Relics, it takes the ''entire'' global army against practically her alone, plus the 1,002-fold might of the Elements having consumed a special potion that lets them ''resist'' Relic energy (but by no means makes them ''immune'' to it, it still hurts like hell and in the game it deals heavy damage), and the world's army just ''barely'' wins by the skin of their teeth canonically.
* PersonalityPowers: Zelpea is a manipulative ControlFreak; it's not that unexpected that she is the only character in the story who uses a variant of the Biome Arts that [[PeoplePuppets directly controls people.]] Justified in that anyone can learn any Biome Art should they put the effort in to it, and she specifically studied this ([[DangerousForbiddenTechnique illegal]]) Biome Art ''because'' she wanted to control others.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the {{Fantastic|Racism}} sense, she hates any nonhumans; even the Saypants, who her ancestors had collaborated with. Zelpea views the biome-races as just walking food sources to her, and she tries to rationalize that eating them would not be cannibalism if they aren't the same species as her. Part of this is dishonesty and she wouldn't mind eating other Humans as well, but that's another trope. In the non-fantastic sense, she is explicitely [[FemaleMisogynist misogynistic,]] claiming men are naturally suited to be better fighters than women despite being a woman who is also one of the most powerful characters in the setting. The story also heavily implies that her emphasis on reproduction and distaste towards couples that cannot reproduce extends to LGBT relationships; she is briefly seen pondering "reworking the definition of marraige" (Dualite is a NonHeteronormativeSociety) and she is the only character in the entire story who deadnames Arime.
* PurpleIsPowerful: She wears purple[[note]]technically by the story's color naming scheme, "dark magenta"[[/note]] as part of her kingdom's royalty colors and, thanks to her RoyalBlood letting her use Relics ''and'' her People Arts and Plasma Arts studies, she is one of the strongest characters in the entire setting.
* TheSociopath: The quote at the top of the folder sets the tone pretty well. Zelpea has zero care or empathy for others at all, a very self-centered attitude, [...]. She ''attempts'' to use charm, but she often fails and relies on directly controlling others instead.
* UnskilledButStrong: Relic magic is ''extremely'' powerful, and she can use it more freely than a lot of other characters. However, thanks to CripplingOverspecialization, she hasn't studied much in the way of combat ''techniques,'' meaning that anyone with skilled dodging and strategy (which is ''every'' Element) can just not be hit by her. In the video game, this is translated in to her attacks dealing ''obscene'' damage even in Princess form[[note]]as in, she can roughly sevenshot even an endgame tank build on the easiest difficulty, in a game where even the "strong" bosses at least give about a dozen hits if you're reasonably equipped. Pure Zelpea can ''fourshot'' an endgame tank build on the easiest difficulty[[/note]], let alone her Pure and Perfect forms.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Most of ''Biome Artists'' is a pretty easygoing BattleHarem story with cartoonish and not overly threatening [[VillainOfTheWeek Villains of the Week;]] even the overlooming {{Arc Villain}}s, the Big Four, are standard fantasy supervillains. Zelpea on the other hand is an abusive, genocidal tyrant with ''no'' redeeming qualities whose MO involves puppeting other people; chapters where she's the center stage villain are much more serious and horror-driven than the rest of the story. It speaks volumes that she has a higher kill count than any other character in the story combined[[note]]Potentially excluding historical figures[[/note]], whether only factoring named character deaths or [[AMillionIsAStatistic unnamed casualties.]]
* VillainousPrincess: As King and Queen Blossom are technically ''alive'' through most of the story, she spends most of that time as the princess and sitting leader of the Blossom Kingdom,

Actually thinking about Singularity, Ninthee as a potential game successor, then thinking of Ninthee self-replacating to be more akin to Singy/[=RunGif .GIFfany=], and then how I already had it planned that "Responder" would command an army of robotic bodies to be a MirrorBoss to the Elements as my "solution" with trying to have a big army vs army mirror showdown but also have Arime's gang slowly turn over to the Elements without resulting in really sluggish pacing, I'm thinking of maybe just "merging" the Responder character idea with what I have of Ninthee. I mean, hell, Ninthee was just thought up as a "game boss fight" and the game is extremely unlikely to be a thing that would be made, so might as well try to have that concept exist in some form in the prose story.

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* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro:
** Alexia is first presented as some kind of wise and mature forest fairy-like figure before she breaks in to a ClusterFBomb when she's called to a work meeting that announces that she's among the layoffs. Turns out that Alexia puts on a guise of the former, but she's really more like the latter, at least at first.
** Aside from the InMediasRes beginning, Arime's first scene starts by describing a cardboard prop of a pleasant-looking PrincessClassic-looking figure, followed by Arime herself bursting that in to flames. Her punk/biker gang-like appearance is then described, especially having her pull her shades down to do a text version of revealing her black sclera. All of this paints her as a threatening villain. Turns out that the "princess cutout" is of Zelpea, who later in the chapter is revealed to be an asshole at best, and at the end of the chapter a genocidal wannabe conqueror. Out of context, it looks like this is some cruel ObviouslyEvil punk destroying a cute image of a princess; in context, the "punk" is the hero, and her apparent dislike towards the princess is ''fully'' justified.
* CensoredForComedy: When Bethany and Zoap have an escalating flirt-off in Chapter [4????], Zoap "wins" by going on something ''so'' graphic that his speech is peppered with multiple instances of "'''{bleep)'''" written out in the text. This is the only instance in the story of any text being censored like this, and given what ''is'' said elsewhere (including the parts of Zoap's speech that ''aren't'' "bleeped," which get explicit), it just leads one to wonder exactly what was it he said that even got ''[[LoveableSexManiac Bethany]]'' hot and bothered and left the other Elements who heard it speechless.
* ChekhovsGun:
** In the first chapter, Arime-as-Head-Janitor severs Zoap's arm, which goes flying off in to the distance and lands somewhere in the Castle Town (as the fight takes place high in the air). Zoap goes looking for it for reattaching in-between the Janitors' departure and the meeting Zelpea would hold, but doesn't find it. [[spoiler:It turns out the arm landed by some guards, who were told to seize something like it ("a large amount of his DNA") without question and bring it to the Lab immediatley. Zelpea uses the large amount of cells within to have a stable source of magic/DNA to make a "clone," Dragon. Before Dragon's proper reveal, the arm-severing is used as the main symbol of Zoap and Arime's troubled relationship -- even though Zoap gets a new one regrown later, ]]
* DramaticIrony:
** The first chapter reveals that Arime is Head Janitor, and by extention the Grime Crime are her Janitor sidekicks, just before the story even says who the Janitors ''are,'' let alone far before the future-Elements know. Zoap ends up highly suspecting Arime by the midpoint of the same chapter, and even with Arime trying to gaslight him
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Alexia is introduced giving students of a class taking a field trip an abridged history lesson regarding the Core Empire. She doesn't sugarcoat them at all, already implying that whoever the Core Empire is, she finds them nothing short of evil. Throughout this, she portrays herself as a
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Alexia's EstablishingCharacterMoment is supposed to also double as this for the entire webnovel, namely by being an early hint that this is ''not'' going to be like a typical harem story. Even if it becomes apparent that her "forest guardian" image is an act, one might expect Alexia's real personality to be more reserved, easily flustered -- anything but her delivering the story's first swear (of many) and blowing the hell up at her now-former boss and coworkers at being laid off. The fact that she's laid off in the first place also paints this in a more "relatable" light than other fantasy works; these aren't RPG archetypes and the fantasy world doesn't run on "video game logic," they're people with jobs and the like, and have to deal with a relatively realistic economy, also setting up that Biome Artistry is an ''occupation.''
* ForegoneConclusion:
** The very first scene reveals that Zoap, at one point, gets a massive "colorful" army by his side. It doesn't go over the details of anyone except for Alexia, but [...] This also confirms that Alexia will be alive up until this point. He will also confront Arime in the tallest building of a giant city ''and'' he'll start openly badmouthing Zelpea, though the "why" and "how" are left vauge. Respectively, Zoap and Arime were good friends at the beginning of the first chapter, and while his relationship with Zelpea was a lot rockier, he ''at first'' regards her pretty well. So it's pretty evident that something will happen and both of those relationships will go to shit.
** The first chapter ends with Alexia making a half-hearted promise that she and Zoap would be capable of saving the world once they become Biome Artists, followed by the narrative outright saying that they ''will,'' and this is the story of how they do that. Meaning it's confirmed at the end of Chapter 1 that, unless the narrative is referring to the abstract team and not Zoap and Alexia ''specifically,'' that the two of them will survive to the end and that at some point a world-class threat will show up and their team will fend it off.
* GenreDeconstruction:
** Of romantic comedies as a whole.
* HeroicFantasy: ''Biome Artists'' avoids BlackAndWhiteMorality in favor of BlackAndGrayMorality [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil (with various shades of gray, the Elements and their allies being the lightest)]], and there are no confirmed deities nor pretermination, so it's not a HighFantasy. At the same time, its plot winds up dealing with large-scope incidents involving the fate of the world, and fighting against the strongest gangs on the planet -- a little too fantastic for LowFantasy. It's mostly about the characters and their struggles with a world that tries to aim for realism even in its outlandish idea of there being over one thousand races, but through SerialEscalation
* HourglassPlot: Typically, mostly before Arime joins the group, her B-plot will parallel the A-plot with Zoap in some sense,
** Zoap and Arime's team dynamics in general throughout the Yellow Moon Saga. At first, Zoap is companionless [...] Even the formatting of the first and last chapters of the Saga features this. The Yellow Moon Saga starts with Zoap and his team going through a whole "arc" where they are stuck in the Licensing Exam, while Arime has more episodic adventures that effectively serve as a preview of how Zoap and co. will be once they become Biome Artists. Towards the end, it's Arime that's in a serial arc
* InMediasRes: [I'm ''still'' not sure about this] The story opens up with a flash-forward to the leadup of Zoap and Arime's final battle in the Metropolis, with the Elements going up the Central Tower elevator. Very little context is given to this, all that is explained is Zoap having a large colorful army, and Arime similarly surrounding herself with robots. All the while, Alexia gives exposition about the Core Empire -- which is "happening in the present" -- after the flashforward ends, it is revealed that Alexia's exposition is a lecture that she is giving school students, [...] While the story teases the flash-forward as being some event at the end of the whole story, it turns out it's just by the end of the first Saga,
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Atbash isn't ''normally'' a jerk to others, but she has a special distain to the Elements (at the time the nameless quintet team; they don't name their group until just after passing the Licensing Exam) because she thinks they were unworthy of the title of "Biome Artist" and shouldn't have gone as far as they did in the Exam. The intent of this is, despite her both trolling the five through the test and being blunt about disliking them, she makes sense -- all of them except Zoap have pretty poor track records in general, with Lana being a former physical bully (that ''has'' shown progress in making ammends with her past victims, ), Bethany and Cassandra both having egos the size of the sun, and Alexia generally showing poor cooperation and a habit of wanting to take control of others. Even Zoap is considered an "enabler,"
* RunningGag:
** In whatever ways the Elements upgrade their home, they keep talking about making sure that it (and later on, all buildings) have a pretty good amount of bathrooms -- never enough to outnumber the people living there, but still in an unusually high count. The reason ''why'' they are in vehement agreement of this is kept a mystery as part of the gag, with a NoodleIncident being alluded to that one of the initial five (later implied to be Cassandra) witnessed something ''awful'' happen first-hand that resulted from a building that didn't have enough bathrooms, but the ''exact'' details are never divulged onpage.
** If [[AbhorrentAdmirer Neon]] is involved in a chapter ''at all,'' expect him to say something that makes him sound rapey thanks to his NoSocialSkills, if not paedophillic. Another related joke is that the "traits he looks for in a partner" are things that the Elements as a whole are ''not'' ("vulnerable," "coddle-able," "naive," "innocent," etc), yet for whatever reason he pins after the Elements more than anyone else even though he all-but says that what they're ''actually'' like are not his type.
** Almost every child the Elements run across that gets named (and even a couple who are unnamed) turns out to be an EnfantTerrible. First Alexia takes a quick babysitting mission for a kid whose idea of playing a game is roleplaying a genocide Zelpea would do,
** If two or more of the Big Four leaders are in the same room together, or even remotely near each other in the same space, expect one of them to attempt to launch a surprise attack on the other, and ''maybe'' said other trying to return the favor, despite them initially being calm and rational towards one-another. [[spoiler:This dies off in more serious Enemy Mine situations, ]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter:
** The Biome Artist Licensing Exam in general ''openly'' says that its scores are weighed heavily in favor of the Written Test (usually but not always the first, and ''all'' Exams globally for the past several hundred years have included a Written Test), but it does not elaborate ''how.'' Specifically, the modern ones are weighted on the essay -- which is usually a question that tries to get the taker's ethics judged. As Atbash explains in her final custom test, the Global Region Union [Ah I just barely came up with this name. I dunno. But yeah, the regions are generally really interconnected, to the point where in a sense they're basically one huge nation. The Metropolis is close by them, but for several reasons the Blossom Kingdom is way more of its own thing. The typical fantasy "walled kingdom" border around the Blossom Kingdom is even called "''the'' border" because it's the only real national border on the entire planet] are trying to tweak the Exam practices to weed out assholes who get licenses just because they're good with magic and memorized science facts.
** Atbash's test itself. She ''doesn't'' think the future-Elements are worthy of getting a license, believing that they'll just become five more assholes abusing undeserving power granted to them, but she can't just fail them on the spot. Instead, she gives them a "last chance" in a sense, if they can puzzle out what she wants out of them, she'll (begrudgingly at first, but she warms up to them) give them licenses.
* WhamEpisode:
** "Canyon [something]" sees the gang running in to Zelpea for the first time since the first chapter,
** "The New Invention" marks the end of the episodic side of the Yellow Moon Saga (episodic adventures won't return until a good way in to the Blue Moon Saga), ''finally'' setting up the very long teased yet delayed Bright Chartreuse Region (the sixth and final Bright Tertiary, with the early chapters putting a lot of emphasis on the other five and making a point in leaving this one out)

!! "Arcs...?"

Yellow Moon Saga:
* Introduction/Kingdom Invasion Arc (Chapter 1)
* Biome Artist Licensing Exam Arc (Chapters 2-5)
* Four Tertiaries Arc (Chapters 6-14) [Thinking that at least at the beginning this'll "alternate" between a chapter on one of the Tertiaries -- except Jasmine and Kristen, the "green tertiaries" -- and a chapter with the Elements working with a team (Quaternaries and Shades/Tints/etc) that gets merged in with them. So like, one VillainOfTheWeek chapter where the focus "newcomer" is just one, and one where the new addition is a squad.]
* [Lara and?] Jasmine Arc (Chapters 15-)
* Quinary Crew Arc () [Thinking there would be a mostly-silly storyline about all twenty-four "Bright Quinary" future-Elements all kinda being this soft rival gang or something, either teaming up with the Elements or whatever. They'd be sent on a mission together, and it may play out like the usual "mission with a group of the week" in the Four Tertiaries Arc, except it'd be an arc length because 24 characters to introduce and add to the group would be longer to go through than 3-maybe like 10 as the "normal maximum." So naturally the mission may be extra long.]
* Dichrome Arc
* Bright Chartreuse Factory Arc
* Metropolis Invasion Arc

Blue Moon Saga:
* Naytileek Arc
* Genetic Engineered Creatures Arc?

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* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** The main reason why [[AbhorrentAdmirer Neon's]] creepy behavior is (at first) played for laughs while Eansy's is not is because, in addition to Neon only ''saying'' creepy things rather than ''acting'' on them (again, at first), he is ''so'' blunt about his stalking and almost comes off as deliberately trying to be as revealing as possible that [[TooDumbToLive he practically confesses to people then and there.]] It's telling that one of his earlier scenes is complimenting a stranger in a bar for looking "worried" because he likes his partners "young and vulnerable," which scares off the entire table.
** One of the D-rank missions Alexia is seen doing over a brief montage is babysitting a kid whose idea of a game is called "Zelpea Kills People." It's one thing that this girl is fascinated by the BigBad's racist attitude and makes a game out of it where ''she'' takes on the role of Zelpea. The story then throws away any sublety by having her scenario specifically be Zelpea burning the ''Black'' Region to the ground, followed by her saying a line that wound be horrendous in and out of context, and is also verbatim taken from ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''. The immediate next scene, after a JawDrop from the Element, is Alexia complaining to her parents

* [[TheStationsOfTheCanon Fuck]]: Zoap/his replacement working with Alexia in the Blossom Kingdom, before it gets attacked by the Janitors/Grime Crime. They then take the Licensing Exam with Lana, Bethany, and Cassandra, and will very often go through the same tests and end it on Atbash's coins. After that, things can ''relatively'' branch out, but expect them to piss off one of the Big Four (usually Kat) and

-->The fact that Zelpea has a bigass sword sticking through her but she almost never actually uses it in the fight; she ''still'' sticks with guns because she knows that she sucks at actual swordfighting.

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-->If we're talking fucked up BA ships I think I've got one to top all else: Zelpea/Dragon.
--->...Yeah I can't think of anything worse than that. It's got just about everything. Abuse, arguably incest (even if you consider Dragon more of a "clone" than a "daughter" like Zoap does, ''Zoap'' also didn't "raise" her like Zelpea and Mansia sorta did (badly), and Dragon consider Zelpea her mother more than she considers Zoap her father),

"Important:"
* WordOfGod:
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** Neon's name is ''not'' based on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (and thus isn't a comment on its own criticism of otaku culture, neither a positive nor negative comment). Water said he was just thinking of a name at random, "Leon" came to mind, and to both fit in with the fantasy setting and since he already had a character in ''Blessed, Unfortunately'' named Leon, he just switched a letter and decided that this guy would somewhat randomly be named after the noble gas. Neon being the chemical element with the atomic number [[ArcNumber ten]] is just a nice coincidence.
** ''Every'' time an Element is the "default plant skirt" Biome Artist uniform, if not most skirted outfits in general, they are GoingCommando under it. Most regions don't care about even the most belling of skirts with nothing underneath as long as there is ''something'' that can half-assed be considered a cover; Bright Green is one of the exceptions, but people would only be fined if said skirt is flipped over by some external force and the Biome Artist/civilian doesn't correct it, and in most places even that's not enforced.

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Recap/FazbearFrightsIntoThePit

->''"I'm homicidal, and I've got a taste.\\
I want to wipe out the Monster race.\\
I've got to patience, I've got to resolve.\\
I will slaughter, screw the dialogue."''
-->-- '''Frisk''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MobkO51msMI ♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody]]"
[[https://www.youtube.com/@lhugueny Logan Malloryianan Hugueny-Clark]], better known as LHUGUENY (also known as Movie Musicals), is a [[Website/YouTube YouTube]] animator who does [[SongParody musical parodies]] of various video games and films. He started in 2011 with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clPcFp14I_M ♪ TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Animation Parody]]", a parody of the 1997 film ''{{Film/Titanic|1997}}''.
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!! ♪ TROPES THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody
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* AutoTune: Most of the voices are Auto-Tuned.
* Parody: Nearly every video is a parody of a film or video game.
* SoBadItsGood: Despite the terrible animation and overly Auto-Tuned voices, the videos have a bit of a cult following (especially "♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody").
* SongParody: Self explanatory.
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[[folder:"♪ TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Animation Parody"]]
* Parody: {{Film/Titanic|1997}} (1997)

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Chiori made an EarlyBirdCameo in the ''Roses and Muskets'' event, she was first seen sharing intelligence in SpySpeak. This is an odd introduction for a fashion designer, [[spoiler: [[{{Foreshadowing}} but is absolutely perfect for a former member of the Shuumatsuban.]]]]

LetsPlay/Vinewrestle

''LiveAction/BreakingBad''
''Series/BreakingBad''
Series/BreakingBad

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[[quoteright:578:[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yogisneaky.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:578:He's not only smarter, but sneakier than the average bear.]]
When becoming a cat burglar, you have to earn rules before you become one. Some include, come out of the dark because that is when people don't really come outside, wear black cloth to camouflage through the dark, and don't make any sounds, which is the exact reason walking on tip toes were created.

This trope is where a character [[Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tries to move quietly and sneakily by walking on the tip of their toes,]] often accompanied by exaggerated gestures and expressions. This is usually done for comedic effect, as the character is either oblivious to the noise they are making or overestimates their [[Main/StealthExpert stealth skills.]] Sometimes, the character may be caught by someone [[Main/BeingWatched who was watching them all along,]] or they may [[Main/AgonyOfTheFeet accidentally step on something that makes a loud sound and alerts everyone.]]

Sneaky tip toes are a common way of moving around when someone wants to be stealthy or playful. They involve lifting the heels off the ground and balancing on the toes of the feet, making as little noise as possible. Sometimes, sneaky tip toes are used to sneak up on someone and surprise them, or to avoid being detected by someone who might be angry or annoyed. Other times, sneaky tip toes are used to reach something that is too high or far away, or to pretend to be a dancer or a spy. Sneaky tip toes can be fun and exciting, but they can also backfire if the person is not careful enough.

Tip toes aren't always used for sneakiness though. They are also used for ballet, which is a common dance for ballet dancers. You can find the trope [[Main/StraightToThePointe here.]]

This trope is commonly associated with Main/ClassyCatBurglar. Sometimes can be used with Main/TheSneakyGuy.
!!Examples:
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* [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010 How to Train Your Dragon]]: Hiccup uses this trope to approach a wounded dragon in the forest. He is curious by the creature, but he also fears its reaction.
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* Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther: Inspector Clouseau tip toes to a hotel room where he thinks the Pink Panther diamond is hiding, but he accidentally causes a big mess.
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* [[VideoGame/TombRaiderI Tomb Raider]]: There is a trophy called "On Tiptoes" that you can earn if you don't alert ay enemies.
* VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild: There is a mechanic called "Stealth" that allows the player to tip toe and reduce the noise they make.
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* Used pretty much in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. An example includes Sylvester sneaking up to eat Tweety.
* Bart Simpson occasionaly uses this trope when being a sneaky little brat in WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.
* Used in sneaky scenes in WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants.
* Used in the WesternAnimation/YogiBear cartoons when the eponymous character sneaks for picnic baskets.
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[[folder:[=NeedsMoreDeepWater=] (Me, my planned newer username since "Great Pikmin Fan" is what I came up with as a teenager and I think it's a bit cringe now, also I want to have more of a name not tied to a trademarked franchise) Glossary]]

* '''Agg:''' Intentional mispelling of "ass" that came from the old ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage''. During the Presidential Election Arc, everyone is taking a sauna steam together, and IIRC the story briefly mentions Stan going around and talks about his "agg" for some reason (I'm not rereading through that behemoth badfic for the context).
* '''Fuggetaboutit:''' Best Boy Enzo of the ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' series says this often.
* '''Getti(n)g Carp Past the Radar:''' Intentional mispelling of "GettingCrapPastTheRadar,"
* '''Grandma's Toenail Fungus:''' Term for grossout humor of the sort I don't like (which is most but not all grossout humor).

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** Alexia specializes with [[GreenThumb wood powers,]] moreso than the others as plant mass is considered a "default" ability of source. She also prides herself in being a "forest guardian" figure, and on the surface acts like a

** [[MakeSomeNoise Sound Artist]] Hilda is generally very quiet and hesitates showing off any of her music unless she feels she has perfected it. She ''can'' get pretty energetic at times when she feels more confident in her creations, but she's otherwise

* Oh shoot FormulaWithATwist might be exactly what I'm looking for (entry's written on the perspective of the webnovel): ''Biome Artists'' is a "HaremGenre fantasy" but only in a loose, technical sense. I'd like to try to find a way to make this short. Since my first draft at this was really long holy fuck.
* OnlySixFaces?
** Most of the characters are made with the same "character creation template," and have just a handful of body types out of
* QuicksandBox: After completing the Licensing Exam, suddenly almost all of the world is opened, and the only locations that cannot freely be visited (effectively just the Blossom Kingdom and inner layers of the Overgrowth) are gated behind the Main Quest. North, west, south, east, up, down, or any direction in between. The game nudges the player to do the recruitment quests of the secondary and tertiary-regional characters in the same order they joined the Elements in the webnovel[[note]]Frida, Hilda, Gratia, Dottie, Elfriede, Lara, Jasmine, [the "gray" one], Edna, Lithlaun[?], Naytileek, [[/note]], with a helping of minor Recruitment Quests in-between each, also spending most of the time on the Surface layer for the earlygame,

-->''There is no such thing as mutual love. With any "equal" partner, you are expected to give as much as you take. We all hate this. I'm just smart enough to stop it. Getting with someone who shows feelings or tries to pull you in another direction is just a dirty half-measure. The only true happy relationship is one of absolute control, and it's only happy for the one party. That's what I'm after. My goal is someone who will do anything for me flawlessly, without a breath asking for anything in return, or asking for mercy. It's what you want too. It's what we all want. An obediant drone. Look all around you. Every single person you call a "lover," a "girlfriend," they've all done something to get under your skin, haven't they? They've acted in a way that you didn't like. Arrogance. Decietfulness. Dependence. Annoying behavior. All you've done is surround yourself with compromises, out of your weakness. Make no mistake, I've given up trying to get you to crawl back to me. At least with your sanity still intact. I just want to break you by putting this in your mind. The next time you have a fight with any of your teammates, just remember this conversation. You ''could'' have taken them long ago and made them in to an army of slaves who would never tell you no. Admit it, Shield, it sounds tempting, doesn't it? That's because it's in our primal instinct, it's the urge of what we want. There is also no such thing as a good person. Anyone who claims to be is either lying to other people, like I had been. Or lying to themselves, like '''you.'''''

* '''The Sus:''' Gumball and Darwin play ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' and sus sussity sus sus sussss.\\
\\
I don't even normally like ''Among Us'' jokes but I just think a ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode called "The Sus" would be funny as hell. It has to be that show specifically. Almost all of its episodes go by a TheTheTitle and it seems like the kind of show that would actually reference ''Among Us'', although probably not by direct name like that.

* RunningGag:

* Four Tertiaries Arc (Chapters 6-13) [Thinking that at least at the beginning this'll "alternate" between a chapter on one of the Tertiaries -- except Jasmine and Kristen, the "green tertiaries" -- and a chapter with the Elements working with a team (Quaternaries and Shades/Tints/etc) that gets merged in with them. So like, one VillainOfTheWeek chapter where the focus "newcomer" is just one, and one where the new addition is a squad.]
* [Lara and?] Jasmine Arc (Chapters 14-)
* Quinary Crew Arc ()

*

[[folder:Ideally Again]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fazbear Frights testing]]

Recap/FazbearFrightsIntoThePit

->''"I'm homicidal, and I've got a taste.\\
I want to wipe out the Monster race.\\
I've got to patience, I've got to resolve.\\
I will slaughter, screw the dialogue."''
-->-- '''Frisk''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MobkO51msMI ♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody]]"
[[https://www.youtube.com/@lhugueny Logan Malloryianan Hugueny-Clark]], better known as LHUGUENY (also known as Movie Musicals), is a [[Website/YouTube YouTube]] animator who does [[SongParody musical parodies]] of various video games and films. He started in 2011 with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clPcFp14I_M ♪ TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Animation Parody]]", a parody of the 1997 film ''{{Film/Titanic|1997}}''.

!! ♪ TROPES THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody
[[AC:In general]]
* AutoTune: Most of the voices are Auto-Tuned.
* Parody: Nearly every video is a parody of a film or video game.
* SoBadItsGood: Despite the terrible animation and overly Auto-Tuned voices, the videos have a bit of a cult following (especially "♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody").
* SongParody: Self explanatory.
[[AC:Movie/Video Game Musicals]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIJCZeRzVw Link Test]]

You can cut and tweak [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Monsoon's]] speech and end up with a [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]]-esque quote:
-->FREE WILL IS A MYTH, RELIGION IS A JOKE, MEMES ARE THE DNA OF THE SOUL!

If you've read any of this guy's works it shouldn't be a surprise that he'd be drawn to the Shifting Mound's design above the other forms. I mean, shit, in half of his ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fanfics he turns [=.GIFfany=] in to something whose looks aren't too far off from being like that.

[[folder:Bringing Back Singularity Since She is an Example of That]]

-->''[[pink:Get out.]]''

An immensely powerful being "several layers above" the plain of reality ''Terraria'' itself takes place in, accessed by using the Suspicious Looking Disc, an item that only becomes available after clearing at least five of the "Medallion Challenges" (seven tied to superbosses, three tied to the "extra" difficulty modes -- [[HarderThanHard Savage,]] [[ZergRush Bounty,]] and [[GlassCannon Greed]]), The Singularity is faced after the gauntlet of fourteen Apocalypse Vessels. She is intended to be the ultimate final boss of ''Nymph Quest'', or the superboss of the superbosses, although the Master's final form and Home-J are on par with her in difficulty, just in different ways. Lore-wise, the Singularity is also [[Characters/GravityFallsCreaturesAndOtherOddities .GIFfany]] from the bad ending of ''[=Run: .GIFocalypse=]'' (or at least, one interpretation of how the bad ending's "epilogue" plays out) after eons of exponentially growing her power, having all of the other copies of her game assimilated to her and Soos' soul absorbed. For information on Soos' portrayal, see the Lost Soul's entry below. For information on the "Deans," or the Apocalypse Vessels faced before her, see the Apocalypse Vessel folders above.

Singularity herself has two forms. She starts out as just "The Singularity," a more humanoid form. Once that is defeated and a cutscene plays where she is severed from the countless other [=AIs=], she gets mad and becomes Singularity, Eternal Perfection, an abstract form of distorted images deliberately designed to be mind-breaking.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Is on both ends of this.
** Singularity can and will oneshot nearly any other boss if summoned to her arena, vanilla or ''Nymph Quest''. With the exception of The Master, who will take two {{Badass Fingersnap}}s instead of one for whatever reason,
** Somewhere in-between her layer of existence and the Terrarians, there are ClockRoaches that bear resemblance to the monsters from ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', called Time Eaters and Existence Eaters. Singularity not only has them as '''pets''' that she summons late as Eternal Perfection, but it's confirmed that even they cannot eat the [=.GIFfinum=] that makes up her subworld/arena.
** Her dialogue implies that even with her power, an unbounded Bill Cipher could beat her. Defeat her in a world with For the Worthy in the mix, and a figure heavily implied to be Bill himself will appear and crush her with an enormous hand, turning her in to a bloody mist.
** Summoning the TrueFinalBoss of ''Nymph Quest TEST'', a creepypasta-esque thing just referred to as ".," will have Singularity freak out before being oneshotted. This is also permanent until/unless the player uses the Forbidden Revival that the scenario drops --
* AntagonistTitle: The 1.0 update that adds her is titled "The Crime Lord, the God, and the Beyond." [[BigBad Nyxza]] is the aformentioned Crime Lord. [[FinalBoss Gaia]] is the God. '''''She''''' is the Beyond.
* BeigeProse: Her Eternal Perfection form has the shortest Bestiary entry out of anything in the entire game[[note]]Not counting the comments from Vince, the Oread, or the Dryad, although they don't have too much to say about her either[[/note]], vanilla or ''Nymph Quest''. Whether this is because of her transcendent nature implying that she's messing with reality on a conceptual level or if the Bestiary itself fails to describe her due to that nature is left ambiguous.
-->''Is.''
* BishonenLine: Subverted. She's less mutilated-looking than her predecessor Vessels and looks more like some sort of evil goddess, and her being the final battle in the event suggests that this ends with something more humanoid looking. Then it turns out "The Singularity" is just her first phase. She proceeds to melt and reform as ''Singularity, Eternal Perfection,'' a being ''so'' eldritch it's hard to even find a comparison point to describe what it looks like[[note]]Her appearance in this form was made with taking random objects, pairing them so that they're transparently layered over each other, and then using various Paint.net distortion effects on them that still gives them recognizeable ''traits'' but not to the point of resembling ''actual'' real-world objects. This was inspired by an image made to simulate what someone undergoing a stroke might see, or the infamous "Name one thing in this photo" image[[/note]]. Her abilities also go from technological/light themed to downright surreal,
* TheFaceless: Subverted. On any difficulty lower than Savage Mode, her face will appear to be a scrambled glitchy mess
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** A statue of the Singularity can be found deep in the Magma Lakes. It is twice the size of the usual statue, painted deep pink, and has a unique shine effect where its "face" is constantly giving off light.
* FourthWallObserver: Singularity plays around with the fourth wall aplenty
** When using the Suspicious Looking Disc and loading her arena, the "generating world" text will quickly just say "You shouldn't be here" and "Get out," both addressed to the player.
* MechanicalAbomination: Crossed with HumanoidAbomination, as she had long ago been given a "flesh" and "blood" body in the events of ''[=.GIFocalypse=]''. She is a former dating sim accidentally made sapient that, after many events, transformed herself in to a reality-transcending god with so many "copies of her game"/bodies that she had created that it far exceeds even Graham's number
* NightmareFace:
* ResetButton: One of her drops is "R Key," a ShoutOut to an item from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' that effectively "resets" a world (mainly removing event/boss flags and turning it back to Pre-Hardmode; this also cleans the Bestiary as a consequence),
* VillainousBreakdown:
* WalkingSpoiler: The ultimate challenge of the mod not added until the 1.0 release (and the eponymous "Beyond" of the update's title), her nature is meant to be a major surprise

-->''Apeirophobia personified.''

[[/folder]]

-->TBH I feel like this whole 15-boss event was made as a "fuck you" to anyone who said "Calamity is harder" at the earlier versions.

** Frida is the main [[AnIcePerson coldness-user]][[note]]This is considered distinct from "using ice" in that Frida specificially specializes in transferring heat from one location to another, "freezing things" by effectively sucking their heat dry (er, cold). "Ice powers," which ''are'' common to her home of the Bright Cyan Region, are more around manipulating literal solid [=H2O=], and are considered the same thing as water powers since they have the exact same chemical makeup. Functionally, though, she's an ice-user, and does on occasion manipulate ice[[/note]] of the Elements. She is very HotBlooded, vengeful, cocky, and one of the most violent of the gang (which is an achievement). Her EstablishingCharacterMoment in Chapter 4 sees her dramatically spinning around in a chair and pointing a gun at Lana, revealing that a battle with her was Lana's Custom Individual Test in the Entry Exam.

* QuicksandBox: After completing the Entry Exam, suddenly almost all of the world is opened, and the only locations that cannot freely be visited (effectively just the Blossom Kingdom and inner layers of the Overgrowth) are gated behind the Main Quest. North, west, south, east, up, down, or any direction in between. The game nudges the player to do the recruitment quests of the secondary and tertiary-regional characters in the same order they joined the Elements in the webnovel[[note]]Frida, Hilda, Gratia, Dottie, Elfriede, Lara, Jasmine, [the "gray" one], Edna, Lithlaun[?], Naytileek, [[/note]], with a helping of minor Recruitment Quests in-between each, also spending most of the time on the Surface layer for the earlygame,

* AlmightyJanitor: The Elements are actually among one of the most powerful teams in the entire setting, with the full might of all 1,002 of them by the endgame being strong enough to give all but a collective team made of the ''other'' strongest characters in the world a beatdown. Individually, they're each at least around the upper-middle in terms of Biome Artist strength, with some such as Iris and Lithlaun being more powerful than that. However, they begin the story ranked pretty low; Alexia's morality-based essay in the Entry Exam Written Test was ''so'' bad (and the Written Test takes the majority of the overall score) that her passing all other parts of the Entry Exam with at least 90% just ''barely'' let her pass, and since the Biome Artist system has a "strong as the weakest link" mentality, that automatically put her four much better-performing teammates to her starting level as well. This same mentality also at first drags ''down'' the ranking of some other teams that merge with their group. Alexia spends at least half the story trying to build her reputation, and the reputation of the other Elements, up

* MagneticHero: They start out officially as a band of five -- even before that, they are a duo (Zoap and Alexia) who quickly team up with a trio (Cassandra, Lana, and Bethany) to attempt to help each other pass the Entry Exam, before deciding they actually like each other and becoming permanent companions. Then they take in Frida, Eansy, and [some third person just so that Eansy wouldn't stand out too much and be a bit "obvious," maybe another Bright Quaternary] as a team who had recently lost their home. Their missions involve them befriending at least one of the squads they team up with and/or (often in the case of the "main twenty-six") a single Biome Artist not part of a team that wants to join them. The squads eventually end up assimilating with the Elements anyway for one reason or another, usually just from liking them. Noteably, Atbash ''wanted'' the Elements to become this, assuming that the initial five she tested were "edgy loners who shut themselves off from most of the world"

** The "initial quintet" of Zoap, Alexia, Cassandra, Lana, and Bethany in particular are soon established to be big fish in a small pond, especially during [[WakeUpCallBoss their final Entry Exam test where Atbash gives them just a small taste of what dealing with other full-fledged Biome Artists would be like.]] Over the course of the story, they take Atbash's advice, both improving their own skills

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Downplayed as several sub-plots tend to be running per chapter. Nearly every chapter prior to the two of them joining together has one of the two in the A-plot, with the other making a major subplot. Towards the beginning, the main focus was on Zoap and company, first the bulk of the Entry Exam chapters covered his POV

** Cheating on tests. He takes evaluations and especially education seriously, so it ''royally'' pisses him off if he finds out that someone had cheated on a test, ''especially'' something as crucial as the Biome Artist Entry Exam. When the Elements are on a mission where they join [someone,] she eventually confesses that she never became an official Biome Artist, and

* HandicappedBadass: He gets his right arm -- his dominant arm -- cut off by Arime's plasma blade in the prologue. He still manages to put up a good fight with just his left arm, and he takes the Biome Artist Entry Exam with a Biome Arts-made prosthetic of his own creation while waiting for medics to grow him a new one. With just one arm and a hastily-made artificial wood/vine one, he aces the Exam, and while Atbash "plays dirty" by manipulating his prosthetic during the final test, Zoap eventually just rips it off and tries to fight her with one arm completely gone. At the end of Chapter 5, he grows a new one and never loses a limb in the story again (or suffering any other handicapping injury for a long period of time), taking him out of this trope.

* NotQuiteFlight: His top ability by the beginning of the story is called Gliding, or the Gliding Arts, and it enables him an unsteady [...] In Chapter 5, Atbash notices his Glide abilities -- and reacts to it by taking off in ''full'' Flight at sound-breaking speed, emphasizing that what the story had been building up as Zoap's "unique ability" isn't anything special in the big picture, ''and'' how the quintet are [[WakeUpCallBoss hopelessly outmatched against this person compared to their previous tests in the Entry Exam.]]

[[folder:"Old Man" Hedge]]

One of the most elite Biome Artists/Warriors in the world,

He is also the story's "Token [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]]-inspired character."

* RetiredBadass: He was #1 of the Top Ten for a good several years of his life. He is ''still'' an extremely powerful asskicker,
* TheWorfEffect: As one of the characters getting far in the competition of "The strongest 'regular' character in ''Biome Artists''," he finds himself as the guniea pig of the story's power scaling more than once:
** He has a BigDamnHeroes moment where he jumps in to hold off Zelpea during her first act of war. He manages to duel her evenly,
**
** [[spoiler:One of the many signs that the Overgrowth, at least the inner layers, is full of unfathomably powerful monsters is that it is revealed that Hedge once went there with a squad of 99 other fighters that he like to think of as ''stronger'' than he was (at the time, though he still questions if he surpassed their strongest members in the present). Hedge was not only the only one of them who made it in to Layer 8 and out alive (many were killed in shallower layers, and the rest died ''in'' Layer 8), but he was scared shitless the entire time and claims that he barely survived.]]

[[/folder]]

-->''There is no such thing as mutual love. With any "equal" partner, you are expected to give as much as you take. We all hate this. I'm just smart enough to stop it. Getting with someone who shows feelings or tries to pull you in another direction is just a dirty half-measure. The only true happy relationship is one of absolute control, and it's only happy for the one party. That's what I'm after. My goal is someone who will do anything for me flawlessly, without a breath asking for anything in return, or asking for mercy. It's what you want too. It's what we all want. An obediant drone. Admit it, Shield, it sounds tempting, doesn't it? Look all around you. Every single person you call a "lover," a "girlfriend," they've all done something to get under your skin, haven't they? They've acted in a way that you didn't like. Arrogance. Decietfulness. Dependence. Annoying behavior. All you've done is surround yourself with compromises, out of your weakness. Make no mistake, I've given up trying to get you to crawl back to me. At least with your sanity still intact. I just want to break you by putting this in your mind. The next time you have a fight with any of your teammates, just remember this conversation. You ''could'' have taken them long ago and made them in to an army of slaves who would never tell you no. The idea sounds tempting, doesn't it? That's because it's in our primal instinct, it's the urge of what we want. There is also no such thing as a good person. Anyone who claims to be is either lying to other people, like I had been. Or lying to themselves, like '''you.'''''

[[folder:Cool Moments (Video Game Imagining Mostly)]]

[[caption-width-right:350:]]

It's the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Nymph Quest'', one of the more over-the-top mods of ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}''

* When Alexia tries to pump Zoap up by telling him that, when they become Biome Artists, they'll save the world, the game actually gives you a Main Quest: Save the World. The description is unknown for a majority, but it soon becomes clear that this is ''actually'' something the RagtagBunchOfMisfits will end up pulling off.
* Taking down any of the Big Four:
** Scraps forms a HumongousMecha with his Metal Arts that can dwarf mountains and block out the sun from where the Elements are. The goes full ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' as the fight ''begins'' with this mech punching down on the gang, but the Elements present all rapid-fire blow against the fist, push it back, ''suplex it'' to one of his metal sheets, and then [[ColossusClimb run along it]] to reach him, all while he has massive chunks of it break off
** When Pearl becomes available for her showdown, she summons an enormous cyclone -- as in, it's visible from several miles away,
** Enery effectively fights with a "mini" Death Star near the mantle of Dualite. Before even starting the fight, the Elements surf across magma and dodge laser beams
** Kat summons a tower theatre stage in the middle of the ocean. Using a form of the WeatherManipulation ''all'' of the Big Four have, she turns the sky and ocean half red and half teal, and even manages to make the moons appear colored as such too. Unlike the rest of the Big Four, Kat's acting like this fight is a "ritual" and her dance-like motions imply that she's not taking the fight that seriously at first, effortlessly spinning out of the way as she summons colossal fleshy tendrils
* Zelpea gets a villainous one in the endgame. After finding out that the Sword of the Center is in the core of the Sun, she lifts the Blossom Castle in the sky and uses Alchemical Arts to make miles' worth of bricks and adds on to the castle, making a colossal fortress that serves as the final dungeon. Halfway through it, she launches it in space, using Glow Warps to bring her entire castle and the Relics to the Sun at FTL speeds. By the final battle, Zelpea has the ''entirety'' of Dualite's forces after her -- worldwide, every single army across all 1,000 Regions (and the Metropolis), made of billions -- and all 1,002 Elements regardless of recruitment status. Canonically, Zelpea ''almost wins'' in a fight against what is effectively the world times a thousand and with magic powers. She may be an awful piece of shit, but she's also a ''hell'' of a OneWomanArmy.
* In the FinalBoss:
**
** The game pulls a reverse BossRush, where the player gets to play as the Big Four in turns as they each beat down on Zelpea. All of them are PurposeflyOverpowered, meaning that Scraps summons skyscraper-sized mecha hands that deal about as much damage as you would expect them to,
* Beating Perfect Zelpea, an idealized form of Zelpea based on there being a thousand Relics rather than "just" one hundred, and in a scenario where Zelpea has burnt most of the planet down to a wasteland. As bleak as the background is, this is basically countering Zelpea's ultimate fantasy, and in her home turf given her DreamWalker skills. Her dialogue heavily implies that the Dream Arena is some place that she can manipulate easily, to RealityWarper levels -- it's possible to still beat her. And unlike the story mode Pure Zelpea fight (or Princess Zelpea) fight but like their Dream Arena counterparts, this victory is done ''without'' the aide of the World Army.
* "Serious Iris." Another postgame {{superboss}}, and intended to be the ''final'' final challenge that's borderline unbeatable. Iris manages to perfect a chemical and has finished working on her Dino Beams. The result is a boss fight that could give all 1,001 of the other Elements a good run for their money. Iris' attacks include a rapid beam spam of the strongest poison in the game, using a KillerYoyo to throw the team leader literally ''around the entire world'' (and she'll keep attacking them from there as they essentially fall sideways across the whole planet), and all the while Iris is so durable that the strongest moves in the game can only deal the faintest ScratchDamage. Some players have reported that they aborted the Love Potion Route not because of the cruelty involved in it, not because it sees [[HateSink Zelpea]] pull a KarmaHoudini and win, but because they knew in advance Iris would be the FinalBoss, and the thought of challenging her without Arime's assistance
** In [[EarnYourBadEnding the Love Potion Route]] itself, should you take damage (which is very likely), Iris will go from her usual unsure and self-deprecating self to finally getting some confidence as she realizes that she's on the path of saving the world.

[[folder:Speedrun This Shit]]

!! General Rules

Unless stated otherwise by category, timing begins upon pressing "Accept" on the "Wake Up" prompt and ends when pressing "Accept" on the "Get Medal" prompt in the final mission. For Love Potion Route runs, the timing ends when pressing to close Zelpea's final dialogue box.

Collision Deletion and Credits Warping are currently banned in all major categories.

!! Cats

"Shortest to Longest" for "main." Except Love Potion Route.
* Defeat Zelpea/Save the World (Any%)
* All Major Recruits (Primary/Secondary/Tertiaries of Bright and Dark Regions; Arime)
* All Bosses (Includes Postgame & Dream Arena)
* 1,002 Elements (All Recruits)
* All Quests
* Love Potion Route

Smaller.
* 100% (Stuff like all outfits and the like... I can't imagine what else would fill out the percentage since "All Quests" may just cover everything. Okay, there's the "house rewards")

Memes.
* Nipple %
*

[[folder:Elements' Home, "video game"]]

!! Trophy Rack/"House Rewards"

At any point in the game, the Main Bedroom (Sleeping Bedroom in later house upgrades) will have a series of shelves, with things added to them based on completing certain "extra" challenges. Most of these challenges are considered optional even for

* '''Sword of the Center Replica:''' Defeat Zelpea and beat the main campaign. [Sword may look different depending on if she was killed or arrested/placed back in rehab.]
*
*
*
* '''Thought Bubble Trophy:''' Complete the Dream Arena.
* '''Hedge's Sword:''' Defeat Hedge.
*
* '''Iris' Yoyo:''' Defeat Serious Iris.

Godhome Hall of Gods-esque text for not meeting the bosses in the main game:
* Dragon: "I'm being kept in the lab I was born in, deep underground!"
** Hard-Training Dragon (It fits her character that her "powered up form" name would... sound underwhelming): "Hi! I'd like a rematch when you take care of Mom/Dad. :)"
* Responder: "I wait in the "
** Tuned Responder: ""
* Kat: "I await under the blood moons by the sea to perform the ultimate show."
** Nightmare Kat: "Rematch me after the Tyrant's reign comes to an end, and you will see true horror."
* Scraps: "I prepare for a glorious fight in
** Nightmare Scraps: "I have a harder fight for you once the Princess/Prince/Monarch is out of the way."
* Enery: "I calculate a battle of heat and power in the magma sea below the crust."
** Nightmare Enery: ""
* Pearl: "Comfortable in the skies, I chart my army's plans high above."
** Nightmare Pearl: ""
* Zelpea: "You can't escape me forever, Shield." (The only one that talks to/addresses Zoap ''directly.'' She's a DreamWalker so the game would suggest she may or may not be using some kind of powers to mess with Zoap.)
** Pure Zelpea: "This should be my fantasy, realized. It's the fate of the world."
** Perfect Zelpea:
*** If Zelpea hasn't been fought in the waking world yet: "This is ''my'' world, I'll show up in this form if you try to rise to the top here."
*** If Zelpea was killed: "See you in hell."
*** If Zelpea was apprehended: "You think you have me defeated, but I will stay in the deepest reaches of your mind. Shield, face me at the bottom of the lowest challenge!" (In a reverse of ''Hollow Knight'', you'll be ''descending'' the "Trials," or at least the final one.)

[[folder:One of my favorite and least-favorite ''Binding of Isaac'' items]]

The '''R Key''' is a special Hardermode endgame/postgame consumable that resets all world checks, including Hardmode status, NPC spawn flags, event clears, and variables such as the number of Shadow Orbs/Crimson Hearts and Altars have been destroyed. Essentially, it "resets the world," although blocks, chest contents, and living [=NPCs=] remain in the state they were in. (If any NPC is killed without their spawn requirement being re-fulfilled, they will not respawn until the criteria is met.) If there is a "lack" of Orbs/Hearts, Altars [well actually 1.4.5 is gonna have a way to generate them... not sure if smashing them will be effective], or Fallen Logs in the world (see stats), the game will attempt to randomly generate them in roughly appropriate areas, if any are present. Like many of Singularity's "debug item"-themed drops, this has little if any practical function, and is simply added as an item

One R Key is always dropped by Singularity on any difficulty. Using an R Key is the only way to "replay" certain scenarios involving Singularity,

* Type: Item
* Consumable: Yes
* Use Time: [Er, instant?]
* Tooltip:
** ''Resets the state of the world to the beginning of the game''
** ''Converts the world back in to Pre-Hardmode''
** ''Bestiary status is still saved, but boss kill flags are all reset''
** ''Living [=NPCs=] will still be present, but may need to have their flags reset if they die''
** ''[='It's time to start over'=]''

!! Trivia

* This is one of the ways without world hopping to have the Hallow in Pre-Hardmode, technically. ''Nymph Quest'' also introduces
* The R Key is a direct reference to the item from ''The Binding of Isaac'' with the same name. It has a similar purpose, "resetting" a run back to the beginning, but with the player retaining all of their items

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fazbear Frights testing]]

Recap/FazbearFrightsIntoThePit

->''"I'm homicidal, and I've got a taste.\\
I want to wipe out the Monster race.\\
I've got to patience, I've got to resolve.\\
I will slaughter, screw the dialogue."''
-->-- '''Frisk''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MobkO51msMI ♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody]]"
[[https://www.youtube.com/@lhugueny Logan Malloryianan Hugueny-Clark]], better known as LHUGUENY (also known as Movie Musicals), is a [[Website/YouTube YouTube]] animator who does [[SongParody musical parodies]] of various video games and films. He started in 2011 with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clPcFp14I_M ♪ TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Animation Parody]]", a parody of the 1997 film ''{{Film/Titanic|1997}}''.
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!! ♪ TROPES THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody
[[AC:In general]]
* AutoTune: Most of the voices are Auto-Tuned.
* Parody: Nearly every video is a parody of a film or video game.
* SoBadItsGood: Despite the terrible animation and overly Auto-Tuned voices, the videos have a bit of a cult following (especially "♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody").
* SongParody: Self explanatory.
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[[folder:"♪ TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Animation Parody"]]
* Parody: {{Film/Titanic|1997}} (1997)

[[AC:Other videos]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Chiori made an EarlyBirdCameo in the ''Roses and Muskets'' event, she was first seen sharing intelligence in SpySpeak. This is an odd introduction for a fashion designer, [[spoiler: [[{{Foreshadowing}} but is absolutely perfect for a former member of the Shuumatsuban.]]]]

LetsPlay/Vinewrestle

''LiveAction/BreakingBad''
''Series/BreakingBad''
Series/BreakingBad

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[[quoteright:578:[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yogisneaky.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:578:He's not only smarter, but sneakier than the average bear.]]
When becoming a cat burglar, you have to earn rules before you become one. Some include, come out of the dark because that is when people don't really come outside, wear black cloth to camouflage through the dark, and don't make any sounds, which is the exact reason walking on tip toes were created.

This trope is where a character [[Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tries to move quietly and sneakily by walking on the tip of their toes,]] often accompanied by exaggerated gestures and expressions. This is usually done for comedic effect, as the character is either oblivious to the noise they are making or overestimates their [[Main/StealthExpert stealth skills.]] Sometimes, the character may be caught by someone [[Main/BeingWatched who was watching them all along,]] or they may [[Main/AgonyOfTheFeet accidentally step on something that makes a loud sound and alerts everyone.]]

Sneaky tip toes are a common way of moving around when someone wants to be stealthy or playful. They involve lifting the heels off the ground and balancing on the toes of the feet, making as little noise as possible. Sometimes, sneaky tip toes are used to sneak up on someone and surprise them, or to avoid being detected by someone who might be angry or annoyed. Other times, sneaky tip toes are used to reach something that is too high or far away, or to pretend to be a dancer or a spy. Sneaky tip toes can be fun and exciting, but they can also backfire if the person is not careful enough.

Tip toes aren't always used for sneakiness though. They are also used for ballet, which is a common dance for ballet dancers. You can find the trope [[Main/StraightToThePointe here.]]

This trope is commonly associated with Main/ClassyCatBurglar. Sometimes can be used with Main/TheSneakyGuy.
!!Examples:
[[folder: Films-Animated]]
* [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010 How to Train Your Dragon]]: Hiccup uses this trope to approach a wounded dragon in the forest. He is curious by the creature, but he also fears its reaction.

[[folder: Films – Live-Action]]
* Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther: Inspector Clouseau tip toes to a hotel room where he thinks the Pink Panther diamond is hiding, but he accidentally causes a big mess.
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* [[VideoGame/TombRaiderI Tomb Raider]]: There is a trophy called "On Tiptoes" that you can earn if you don't alert ay enemies.
* VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild: There is a mechanic called "Stealth" that allows the player to tip toe and reduce the noise they make.
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* Used pretty much in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. An example includes Sylvester sneaking up to eat Tweety.
* Bart Simpson occasionaly uses this trope when being a sneaky little brat in WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.
* Used in sneaky scenes in WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants.
* Used in the WesternAnimation/YogiBear cartoons when the eponymous character sneaks for picnic baskets.
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If you've read any of this guy's works it shouldn't be a surprise that he'd be drawn to the Shifting Mound's design above the other forms. I mean, shit, in half of his ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fanfics he turns [=.GIFfany=] in to something whose looks aren't too far off from being like that.

[[https://youtu.be/cUaDq9EieIQ?t=331 "Hoaleng"]] might not be a bad name for like a fantasy setting or something. I'm gonna try to keep this in mind.

[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grumm.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:1000:I shall crush puny, so-called warriors in the name of the Magnificence. We shall not rest! We shall not show mercy! We shall be VICTORIOUS!]]

-->''There is no such thing as mutual love. With any "equal" partner, you are expected to give as much as you take. We all hate this. I'm just smart enough to stop it. Getting with someone who shows feelings or tries to pull you in another direction is just a dirty half-measure. The only true happy relationship is one of absolute control, and it's only happy for the one party. That's what I'm after. My goal is someone who will do anything for me flawlessly, without a breath asking for anything in return, or asking for mercy. It's what you want too. It's what we all want. An obediant drone. Admit it, Shield, it sounds tempting, doesn't it? Look all around you. Every single person you call a "lover," a "girlfriend," they've all done something to get under your skin, haven't they? They've acted in a way that you didn't like. Arrogance. Decietfulness. Dependence. Annoying behavior. All you've done is surround yourself with compromises, out of your weakness. Make no mistake, I've given up trying to get you to crawl back to me. At least with your sanity still intact. I just want to break you by putting this in your mind. The next time you have a fight with any of your teammates, just remember this conversation. You ''could'' have taken them long ago and made them in to an army of slaves who would never told you know. The idea sounds tempting, doesn't it? That's because it's in our primal instinct, it's the urge of what we want. There is also no such thing as a good person. Anyone who claims to be is either lying to other people, like I had been. Or lying to themselves, like '''you.'''''

[[caption-width-right:350:Scourge of Dualite. Shut up I can't fucking draw okay? And I refuse to use AI art. And I didn't realize that I forgot the shoes until I already got this ready. That green thing in her hands is the Relic by the way. [[labelnote:Click here to see Pure Zelpea]]Basically picture a ''Terraria'' Nymph (blood on her hands, waist, and around her mouth; nude and green rotting skin) but with her hair falling out, it's blonde like the above, and she has a sword through her chest prototyped [=B1=] Jack Noir-style. The sword's blade is reflective and has characters on it, alternating in blue and yellow. And she has these wings from her back made of blood and electric-ish energy. I might draw this[[/labelnote]]]]

* FanDisservice: She fights the world naked once the sun burns her clothing off, as she only pretended to have a sense of modesty when trying to get supporters, and with her ultimate form within reach

* HateSink: ''Nothing'' is likeable about Zelpea. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is her punching established NiceGuy and animal-friend Zoap for being ''early'' to a meeting, and she only gets worse from there.

* Love Potion Route.

* Nightmare Kat: "Rematch me after the Tyrant's reign comes to an end, and you will see true horror."

* Pearl: "Comfortable in the skies, I

*** If Zelpea hasn't been fought in the waking world yet: "This is ''my'' world, I'll show up in this form if you try to rise to the top of my ranks."

*** If Zelpea was apprehended: ""

[[folder:Wikipedia Summary of the Game]]

''So much'' is subject to change that I don't consider this really spoiling anything about my huge project webnovel thing.

!! Setting and Characters

!! Yeah Pretend the Above is Out of the Way, So Synopsis:

Arime and her ten lovers, under their Janitor personas, attack the Blossom Kingdom and steal all but one of the Relics, in an attempt to distribute them and their energy to an underground market lead by "Rot" where they would be used to supply power and resources to the poor. After Zoap and his former college study partner Alexia try and fail to defend the kingdom from this attack, Zoap and Zelpea get in a heated argument that results in the latter banishing the former from her kingdom. With neither Zoap nor Alexia having a job, they decide to team up with three other people and register to become Biome Artists. After passing the Exam, a former enemy-turned-friend of one of the teammates nudges the group, now dubbed the Elements, to try to do something about the Janitors.

Eventually, the Elements start locating Relics and become involved with the Big Four, a group of four different powerful crime gangs wanted globally that are each fighting each other in their own search for the stolen Relics. Zelpea ends up hunting Relics in secret, both the seventy-four[ish? She'd have about 3/4ths of them by the start, but maybe not ''exactly'' 3/4ths of them, and it would be said that she was slowly finding a few over the years and adding them] she had prior to the Janitor attack and attempting to unearth the remainders. Zelpea is caught attacking civilians during a Relic search and is promptly dethroned under the threat of the rest of the world declaring war on the Blossom Kingdom, resulting in her advisor Mansia taking temporary lead instead.

[...]

Regardless of whether Zelpea is killed or arrested, the ending sees an award ceremony where the Elements and their allies are congratulated for preventing Zelpea's incineration of most of the world. It is announced that the former Blossom Kingdom's remaining leadership (which varies depending on the player's actions)

-->'''Alexia:''' [...] In fact, we are going to save the world.\\
MAIN QUEST: SAVE THE WORLD.\\
Description: ??????????

-->FREE WILL IS A MYTH, RELIGION IS A JOKE, MEMES ARE THE DNA OF THE SOUL!

* "Animation/38Parrots"

* {{Pixellation}}:
** Home-J's boss trophy depicts a pixellated set of yellow blocks. The tooltip is "I hope to the gods that's his nose..."

** [[MakeSomeNoise Sound Artist]] Hilda is generally very quiet and hesitates showing off any of her music unless she feels she has perfected it. She ''can'' get pretty energetic at times
** Maria specializes in [[HavingABlast explosives.]] While her [[SirSwearsALot foul mouth]] and hot temper ''do'' fit this, she is also analytical, inventive (her debut sees her attacking the Elements on a highly advanced super-tank ''of her creation from scratch''), and [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness very eloquent]] (in a SophisticatedAsHell sort of way). Her merely using explosives is also a flip of the stereotype associated with the Bright Cerise Region in-universe, which generally focuses more on gentle [[MindOverMatter "pushes and pulls"]] and energy "pulses." Bright Cerise is generally considered one of the more peaceful and passive of the regions.

[[folder:About the "Game Adaptation" on the Characters/ Page]]

!! World

The elephant in the room is the game's world, and for better or worse it's one of the highlights. If you've heard of ''VideoGame/TheCrew2'' or ''VideoGame/{{Fuel}}'', having gigantic open worlds you can travel through, it's a bit like that. This game simulates an entire planet. It's not the ''surface area'' of Earth, but it is one ''massive'' sphere that uses ''Super Mario Galaxy''-esque gravity walking to navigate around, with landmasses

Quantity over quality is a concern when dealing with something like this. And I am sad to say, there are issues with the setting as it is now. Granted, each Region may be ''visually distinct'' in some way, shape, or form, and there's a good variety in the world, but when it comes to ''gameplay content'' that's where the ball drops slightly. There's a... decent amount of enemy variety if you go across multiple different "hues" of Regions, but in terms of ''gameplay,'' going in one general area is like going through them all.

Fast travel is, get ready for this to be a recurring theme here, complicated. Once the tutorial is over, your party of five gets the Glide, where they can float around at much higher speeds than walking, this intending to be used to get from Point A to Point B. Noteably, this can only be ''initiated'' in a town, and it's on a time and distance/altitude limit. If it runs out in the early game, you'll be forced to land, and will have to find another town to use it in. Until the lategame with the Bright Chartreuse Pocket Teleporters that serve as one of the final upgrades to this system (after a series of speed, duration, distance etc upgrades), you don't have ''instant'' travel. In fact, the times in the tutorial where you go from one Region to another via cutscene are some of the ''very'' few moments in the game where you are automatically moved from one general area to the next. For most of the game, you have to move around manually. All this combines to create an immersive scenario where it is very likely that you'll be stranded in the wilderness. One moment you feel like you're in control, flying over

[Maybe I should actually look in to these before writing a statement like this, even for an imagined video essay thing:] As a whole, the setting seems like a Tolkienesque fantasy land at first glance, but the world of ''Biome Artists'' is actually more like ''Star Trek'' than it is like ''Lord of the Rings'' [...] Obviously, with just the one planet (that has known life), and a fixed number of races living within that planet.

!!! Regions/Kingdom/City

One of the key things of the setting of ''Biome Artists'' is that it does not have "nations" or "countries" as we know them in the real world. There is exactly one kingdom, the Blossom Kingdom, who quickly become the antagonistic faction. There is also this very much literally city-state called the Metropolis, or unofficially the Saypant Metropolis, a massive high-tech city that spans an entire continent and reaches up to the skies and below the ground. The entire rest of the world is softly divided based on "superbiome," magically-enhanced areas created by these giant flower bunkers used to hide out an apocalypse in the game's lore, but these aren't exactly hard borders

!!! Layers

The setting is soft-divided in to three "layers:" The Surface, Underground, and Sky. Underground, by the way, is not to be confused with at-sealevel caves you'll find scattered around, nor is the Sky to be confused with big patches of floating islands off of cliffs that as it turns out are also at the surface. You're really gonna want a map because this game loves to mess around with your perception of depth in certain spots. For example: [Video shows a bright, "sunny"-looking area with what appears to have a sky just tinted slightly greenish in all directions, and a clear drop to some land below, while on a floating platform.] Would you believe me if I told you that this is actually part of the Underground layer? Fake sky. Or this, [shows a dark, cavern-like spot with ominous glowing lines moving through the rocks, and huge looming plants], this is actually up in the Sky, it's just a massive structure that you can go inside. Generally, the Sky has 300 of the Regions, the Underground has another 300, and the majority 400 of them that also include almost all the "main" areas and largest ones are on the Surface. While the Saypant Metropolis and ''technically'' the Blossom Kingdom span all three layers. However, there's quite a few Regions that ''do'' span multiple layers, and a small handful of ones that are very skinny horizontally yet span all three. But each and every Region is still categorized to one of the three "primarily," and when going by that, that's where you get the 300-400-300 from.

Let's get the elephant out of the room now: Yes, this is highly inspired by the world of ''Tears of the Kingdom'' and its Sky/Surface/Depths split. One very clear difference is that the Sky and "Depths" here have their own civilizations and towns just as with the Surface, making them feel more like extentions of one big map rather than two other more distinct zones that have their own specialties in gameplay. Whether this is better or worse is up to the player. Water has talked in length about how he'd imagine an open world game that used the idea taking advantage of the vertical teiring to have different categories of biomes. The surface would have relatively "realistic" and grounded locations. Your ordinary forests, mountains, lakes, and so on. The sky would include more lighthearted-looking and fairytale esque "good biomes," while the caves would be full of grimy, ominous "evil biomes," both being characterized by the same traits you'd see in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' and ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}''. ''Biome Artists'' unsurprisingly realizes this idea... to a degree. As I just showed there are some spots Underground that look like sky fantasy zones, and some spots in the Sky that look dark and forboding. And the Surface has its fair share of Weird Shit(TM) too, it's just that the other two layers are on average a lot weirder. But these are only in aesthetics; just about all the Regions are peaceful, the exceptions are ones involving Major Recruitment Quests, and they contain about the same amount of content in terms of enemies and the like. Again, the three layers of ''this'' game are really just vertical expansions of the map and not much more, there's no specialization and little attempt to differentiate the feeling of playing through the game from one layer to another. One minor difference between this and ''Tears of the Kingdom'' I'd just like to point out is that ''Tears'' has a minor puzzle to figure out where its Surface and Depths are mirror images of each other [I don't think this is a spoiler, the game explicitely says this in one of the loading tips, although I'm not sure what exact requirement to get this loading tip to show up is], while the Sky lacks such a counterpart. Meanwhile in ''Biome Artists'', it's the Sky and the Underground that are the parallels to each other, with "empty spots" in the Sky corresponding to impenetrable cavern wall Underground, most Regions having some counterpart across the Surface while the Surface itself has a more unique geographic layout, and so on. A small difference but still one I want to mention is that rather than ''Tears'' starting in the Sky and highly encouraging that you drop down to the Surface once the tutorial is over, then eventually check out the Depths when you're ready, ''Biome Artists''[='=] tutorial is entirely on the Surface and once that's over, it's up to you to decide if you want to first go up or down. Or just stay on a level plain.

Speaking of which, ''going'' up or down is a puzzle in of itself. As soon as your starting party of five become certified, they also unlock the Glide ability. This is limited in its reach, you can't just keep going up indefinitely, and you upgrade this

!!! Other

While the Overgrowth is meant to be "the scary place" of the setting I'd just like to point out that it's only one of a series of ten Wonders of Dualite. Most of them aren't too special, but Number Two on the list I find scarrier than the Overgrowth. The planet has a massive, perfectly circular drop in the ocean visible from space. Despite the sci-fi bend of the setting, it took until only about fifty or so years before the start of the story before their scientists could actually observe what's at the bottom. It's a lot of nests for massive seamonsters. I just want to point out that this location is thalassophobia incarnate. It is completely optional when going for All Recruits,

!! Quests

There's three types of quests recognized by the game: Main Quests, Recruitment Quests, and Bonus Quests. But you can split the first two categories up further. The Main Quests are the main storyline; the opening bits before you truly gain your freedom, followed by the progression needed in order to fight the final boss. I won't drag the ''Breath of the Wild'' inspiration in here too much, but I will say this: One of the biggest differences between this and ''Breath'' in mission structure is that ''all'' of the Main Quests ''need'' to be completed before the final boss. You cannot just jump right to the end from beating the tutorial. Speaking of which, this is where we divide the Main Quests. There's the Tutorial, which you have to do at the start of the playthrough. The Tutorial Quests are also unique in that they're the only Main Quests where you gain party members, in this case the "Entry Exam Four," not counting Zoap himself. After that are the Blossom Kingdom Quests, the linear central plot that leads directly to the final boss; and the Big Four Quests, four different chains of quests that can generally be taken on at any time and scale in difficulty. Thing is, you need to complete the Big Four quests in order to reach the endgame, as the Blossom Kingdom Quests will not be available at a certain point determined by how many of the Big Four Quests you have done. Amusingly, there's a set of postgame quests that are considered Main Quests, something of an extention to the story

Recruitment Quests make up a bulk of the game. The whole thing about "One thousand (and one) party members," yeah, that's where it comes in. These quests involve at least one character joining the party. Again, I divide them in to "Major" and "Minor" Recruitment Quests, with the Major ones being much longer and having a boss of some sorts, and a more "unique" recruit given at the end that was a major character in the webnovel. There's nine Major Recruitment Quests [depending on how the Dark Duodecet would go... hell, potentially twenty-one?], in the order the game nudges you to do them: Frida's, Gratia's, Dottie's, Hilda's, Elfriede's, Lara's, Jasmine's, Arime's, and Kristen's.

There's ''less'' Bonus Quests than there are Main Quests or especially Recruitment Quests, these are basically just Recruitment Quests that have no recruitments on them. Most of these are postgame, such as superbosses or extra difficult versions of past minigames.

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-->''Wait hang on if Zoap is loosely Soos and Zelpea is loosely [=.GIFfany=] who the hell is Arime? She's really nothing like Melody.''\\
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1: [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim Roxanne Richter.]] I'm actually not joking. Basically Water wrote a ''Gravity Falls'' badfic idea dump that eventually went to some very bizarre ''Scott Pilgrim'' parody with various villains taking 2: Speaking of the fanfiction thing, she actually kinda is "like Melody" going by Water's lore where Melody's "magician" was actually this powerful

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* BerserkButton: Zoap is normally one of the nicest souls in the entire setting, but he has two things (besides threatening loved ones, which A: [[Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope is not this trope,]] and B: practically all of his loved ones, ''especially'' the other Elements, can more than fend for themselves)

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zoap isn't the most powerful or vicious of the Elements, but pissing him off is still a ''very'' bad idea even by [[BadassArmy Element]] standards, pushing him [...] He has been described by other characters as a "ticking time bomb,"

* NotQuiteFlight:

[[caption-width-right:350:Shut up I can't fucking draw okay? And I refuse to use AI art. And I didn't realize that I forgot the shoes until I already got this ready. That green thing in her hands is the Relic by the way. [[labelnote:Click here to see Pure Zelpea]]Basically picture a ''Terraria'' Nymph but with her hair falling out, it's blonde like the above, and she has a sword through her chest prototyped [=B1=] Jack Noir-style. The sword's blade is reflective and has characters on it, alternating in blue and yellow. And she has these wings from her back made of blood and electric-ish energy. I might draw this[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Perfect Zelpea]][[/labelnote]]]]

* OneWomanArmy: She's already dangerous with even one Relic on account of Relic energy being able to kill any living being without Royal Blood [[RequiredSecondarySuperpowers (or helpful bacteria that could live in one with royal blood)]], and can fight on armies on her own. With all Relics, it takes the ''entire'' global army against practically her alone,

"Final Zelpea fight is envisioned to play out like a cross between the final bosses of ''VideoGame/BugFables'', ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', and maybe to an extend ''VideoGame/PizzaTower''. For the latter case think 'fairytale princess gone wrong' in a similar vein as '[[spoiler:cartoon clown gone wrong]].' Having floating [=TVs=] displaying her everywhere would be cool but I can't think of a lore way her powers would make them, since it's established that even creating simpler things is kinda rough on Biome Artists, Zelpea just studied how to kill and control people and not even like make simple metal structures, let alone complex televisions. Maybe Anis just got people to mass-produce [=TVs=] and had them lying around dormant and Zelpea, in creating the Neo Blossom Castle, brought them up."
-->'''Zelpea:''' Stop hiding you coward! Shield, fight me like a man!\\
'''Zoap:''' [[evil:[[gold:'''''REEEAAAAAARRGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!''''']]]]\\
'''Zelpea:''' Er on second thought nevermind.

Unless stated otherwise by category, timing begins upon pressing "Accept" on the "Wake Up" prompt and ends when pressing "Accept" on the "Get Medal" prompt in the final mission.

* Defeat Zelpea (Any%)

* All Major Recruits (Primary/Secondary/Tertiaries of Bright and Dark Regions; Arime)

Regardless of whether

I'd adapt the bit at the end of Chapter 1 where Alexia would say something that ends on "We're gonna save the world" (I currently have that conversation ''written'' but it's a really cringe shoe-horn way so I want to rewrite it before I publish the chapter), but after it you get a "Main Quest: Save the World" prompt. This would basically be the game's equivalent of "Defeat Ganon" or "Find Zelda." For most of the game's main campaign, going to it on the quest menu will just have the description as "??????????" ([[ArcNumber ten]] question marks). And no location or character will be "highlighted." Until right near the end, around the time of either the final battle or the sequence leading up to it when Zelpea makes the "Neo Blossom Castle," the description changes to "Defeat Zelpea" and it locks on her/the end of the NBC "dungeon."

I died in a ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' Daily Run through a stupid means (tried to get an item that grants extra lives by weaving through spikes in a Devil Room, I grabbed the item, got pushed on to the spikes because of the effect of another item I was aware could be a risk, what I was ''not'' aware of was that if you die before the item is finished being "added to your inventory" the extra lives it gives doesn't count and it's a permanent death) not in the best mood right now.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Janitors, many of them confess that they're in it for the thrill,

** He has a BigDamnHeroes moment where he jumps in to hold off Zelpea

[[folder:Elements' Home Plans]]

At the end of Chapter 5, the gang buys an empty area that they'd build their home in using [[GreenThumb Biome Arts.]] This is... a semi-common thing among BA groups that just start out,

Beginning: It's just a really hastily-put together square thing, they only have a main room, three separate bathrooms (this will be something of a RunningGag among them, they'll hint at some potential [[NoodleIncident "disaster"]] that would have them all want to pack extra bathrooms, so that's why this will keep coming up here), and a bedroom with one bed just large enough for the initial five to sleep in. The main room also doubles as dining/cooking, and at first they can't afford a TV or individual devices, so they just all have one smartphone that they use for missions and share.

Later on: Their home grows as more teams (and, for the more major characters, individuals) join up with them, first expanding out horizontally. A kitchen being its own room is the first thing added: Using magic and especially the Biome Arts-subclass of magic drains quite a lot of energy after all, so they eat more than the average person. More floors are added a bit later, with the second story (and later third) being only bedrooms and such. Later on they will separate a building for meeting business, and it's a "guest building" where someone simply giving the Elements a brief visit can go over to talk with them without intruding too much on the personal lives of the gang.

It becomes a tradition of theirs that each person who joins also uses their Biome Arts to make a thing in the house, adding something, preferably functional but like just giving it support or extending it or so is fine.

Late in the story (and in-between it'd be working up to get there): Their "home" would consist of multiple buildings. The south end (closest by the road) is the "main office" so to speak, or the "meeting area," and is where the missions are looked at and done. Loads of people come over to here and talk with them; it's effectively the place guests come to ask the Elements for stuff in-person. North is the living areas. It looks like an apartment complex or a hotel, each Element can have their own room, effectively functioning as a "dormitory" but at the same time it's their actual homes, ''and'' there's also a pair of freaking enormous bedrooms. One is for actual sleeping. The other is... yeah, primarily screwing ''but'' the bed is for ''comfort'' so like, there's a giant television there and other stuff they use. They have this ediquete that you ''could'' sleep in that bedroom for some emergency or if you just get exhausted partying there, but don't be an ass if someone else's noise wakes you up. (None of them would deliberately wake up a person who falls asleep there.) The east is their entertainment center. It'll eventually have an arcade and such. Areas for sports. Tables for card games. Maybe a movie area. West's for training and such, it has combat arenas (it might be the sports place I'm not sure on that), a swimming pool for both exercise and enjoyment... so like, maybe a hottub would be near it for convenience, despite not fitting the theme. And PS, because "water people" are the norm as are water powers, swimming pools in this setting go incredibly deep. Like, pools IRL that deep divers train in are casual swimming pools here. At the center of the buildings might just be like a park with a Biome Arts-created fountain or something, to look fancy and give them the impression of some polished company or something like that. Splitting this in to four buildings might seem impractical, and it sorta is they'll admit; members like Bethany just thought it would look cool and make them seem more professional and "bigger" if they split up their place in to multiple buildings, giving the Elements the impression of a larger group than they would if they had one colossal mansion, and... nobody really gave any major ''objections'' to it, though they do admit it can be a little inconvenient having to go out in the open to get from, say, the arcade to the training area to the living quarters. Although as all of them know Biome Arts and such, they're in zero danger even being outside at night and the night air even in bad weather is nothing to them. All four buildings have a collection of bathrooms, especially in the living area.

If this sounds like it veers to the "big fancy rich fantasy" that BA is actually trying not to be, reminder: There's 1,002 of them total, and while this would be before they reach that point, their home won't be ''that'' big until the halfway mark at the earliest, and overall things are still crowded.

Also at any point the homes just look like pretty mid wooden shacks. Like, even when it becomes large and elaborate, they're just ''big'' wooden shacks. Some Elements like decorating and such and will touch it up on occasion, but another RunningGag would just be that their places look kinda like half-assed ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' NPC "wood box" homes.

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The fantasy "game idea" would just have the home kinda auto-upgrade once enough recruits are added. Obviously, it'd be near-impossible to actually code in the home having one thing for each individual recruit, but it would grow at set intervals. The only comparisons I'm aware of are the Waddle Dee Town in ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' growing when you rescue more Dees, and the Rescue Corps. site in ''VideoGame/Pikmin4'' expanding thrice when you save enough castaways to give them more room. In-game, this is where you swap around your party. I'm not sure how to avoid ArbitraryHeadcountLimit, but it ''is'' canon to the webnovel that the Elements do not just go at every mission by sending their full force at once, they form "teams" even in the early chapters when they don't break the double digits (like, after the "initial five" pass the Entry Exam, even before Frida and her friend I haven't decided on and their "friend" Eansy fully join up, I was thinking that their first big mission will have just two of them and Frida go while the other three stay behind, and for smaller missions the story doesn't focus on just one of them goes since it's really simple stuff like finding lost crap), so there's a reason that's ''there'' for not having the full team out and presumably causing tons of lag. ''Then again'' Big Four and Zelpea stuff would have the Elements all go at once, story-wise.

I know games can on paper have over a thousand characters ''just existing in them,'' I mean you've got the Pokedex+human [=NPCs=] and there's ''Tears of the Kingdom'' having 1,000 Koroks+[=NPCs=], but ''all at once'' is another story. Games with ''100'' at once are a thing (''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'', ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''), but I know that even in ''Pikmin 4'' if you get like 300 through glitching the game starts shitting itself. ''VideoGame/UltraCustomNight'' also has hundreds of toggleable hazards and the like but that's a game made with an engine for [=2D=] adventure games so that's different.

[[folder:More Geography Lessons (Reminder the "color name Region" thing is a placeholder, they'll have proper names later. "Hoaleng" might even be one of them.)]]

The '''Bright Green Region''' is one of the Thousand Regions and a main location of ''Biome Artists''. It is the largest and most influential Region, holds the largest population, it is one of the world's five superpowers (along with the Metropolis, Bright Blue, Bright Red, and Bright Yellow), and it is where main characters Zoap Bloodblade and Alexia [surname] were both born and raised, along with where their team of the Elements live.

!! Description

Like all Regions, Bright Green has a decent portion of it devoted to the superbiome of its associated Flower Bunker; in this case, the superbiome is nicknamed the "Deep Woods," a series of exceptionally large and exaggerated forests. Noteably, while several regions have one to three large patches of the superbiome, Bright Green has "chunks" of Deep Woods mixed in with "regular" [...] This region is known to be one of the cultural melting pots; while the majority of the population are Bright Green [Not-Nymphs] and Humans

Bright Green is considered relatively prudish by most other parts of the world. While toplessness is allowed with no comment as with most of Dualite, lower nudity is explicitely illegal in most of the region, and unlike most similar regions, these rules are more strictly enforced. According to Bethany (a Bright Yellow Regional who often mocks Bright Green for being prudish and even claims Zoap and Alexia )

!! Areas of Note

!!! Elements' Home

-->''Main Article: Element Home''

The Elements' Home/Base is located in a wide field close to the urban [...I'm actually not sure yet, but it's near a city and a "large forest" although it's out in a plain. It's ''not'' near the capital]

The Elements' home makes its debut in Chapter 5, when the team purchases the land it would be built on and use their Biome Arts to create a place for themselves in a limited, primitive initial state. From there, it becomes a major location through the entire story, making an appearance in nearly every chapter as the place the Elements live between missions. It is grown as more Biome Artists join/merge with their team, especially as any newcommers are encouraged to contribute at least one thing to the home, often adding material to increase its size.

!!! Capital

!!! Core Empire Ruins/Blossom Kingdom Border

The Blossom Kingdom is enclaved by Bright Green towards the north [??? I had been picturing it being very close to the Elements homes until very recently, when I decided that for a lot of reasons that would be obvious with knowledge of the basic premise of the story, they wouldn't want to be doing that].

!! Other

* [I haven't named this yet]:
* Boreggon: [Game-exclusive] A town located towards the west

!! Trivia

* This is the first region shown in the story. Not counting the flash forward to Zoap and Arime's final battle (set in the Metropolis, not a region technically), it is the first location shown.

[[folder:More Wishful Thinking]]

* OnceOriginalNowCommon: At the time one of the stories that dunked on, like, some normal harem conventions. Love interests who were powerful, swore like sailors (namely Alexia and Maria),
* SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer: As an open world game that simulates an entire planet while only a fraction is part of the main questline,
** Getting all one thousand [Not-Nymph] recruits (and Arime). While most of them mercifully join in teams (the exceptions all have longer and more involved quests, and recruiting ''them'' unlocks a major ability tree/a new type of Cast [basically the setting's equivalent to Signs in ''Witcher'']), there are still hundreds of sidequests that take you to areas you otherwise don't even have to go near
** The 1.1 update finally lets the player experience (a truncated version of[[note]]There are apparently tens of thousands of cards in the setting, yet the game "only" has 200 as of update 1.3.1.6. It's still plenty. The game also shrinks down the deck count from 40 to 30 for balance issues (in-universe, standard decks are made of 30 cards as well, for consistency)[[/note]]) ''The Collector'', a ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh''-esque card battle game. It's easy to see why Zoap and Arime both love the game, and hard to understand why about half the Elements don't. It is possible to beat the main campaign, get all 1,002 Elements, ''and'' defeat every single boss without even touching this game once,

[[folder:''Not'' Wishful Thinking]]

* MisaimedFandom:

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