History Roleplay / Leyline

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alexis, because he needs his feet free to grab things and sleep like a bat, and Chandi just because.

* GreenLanternRing: All Runes, to some extent. Rune magic allows significant control over a wide level of concepts related Rune's domain, even on a metaphorical level.
** The Awakener and Harmony show the greatest levels of this. Both only have a single rune, [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer which they use for everything.]] The Awakener has used a Rune of Endings to enchant itself and other team members, create barriers, dispel magic and heal status effects, and pick up and toss around a spaceship, while Harmony's character concept is built on using her Rune of Harmony to tie into the songs of various elements, giving her access to any Rune at the cost of extra actions and a backfire risk.
** Serpico's ArtAttacker power is similar to a GreenLanternRing as well, due to its normal function of creating various colored weapons to fight with.

* [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Arbiters Can Breathe In Space]]

* AssimilationPlot: On the world of Utopia
* AwesomenessByAnalysis:
** Asch.
** Serpico has traces of this too, but focused only on psychology.
* BattleAura: Like flight, all Arbiters have access to one of these
* BeautyBrainsandBrawn: Lumina, Asch, and Chandi respectively.
* BerserkButton: Chandi has a lot of them. Harmony as well, if something triggers certain past memories.

* BlowYouAway: Chandi's Wind Rune, and Serpico's Yellow Ink

* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Harmony's inner dialogues with the MUSE program.

* CoolTeacher: Athena

* DramaticWind: A common trope caused by Chandi's Wind god nature.

* EnthrallingSiren: Harmony is implied to be this by MUSE when she actually sings herself, but she has yet to do so in front of others.

* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Ryuusei]] gives a set of these to Chandi to use her to fight against the Arbiters.
* {{Flight}}: Alexis has wings; but all Arbiters can fly nonetheless.

* FunctionalMagic: Rune magic

* HairTriggerTemper: As mentioned before, Chandi has a LOT of [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]]
* HealingFactor: The Awakener is the only main character who ''doesn't'' have one of these.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Asch gets a bit intense when facing demons.

* {{Invisibility}}: The Stealth runes (didn't last long at all)

* KarmaHoudini: Shin's speciality. The only reason he's still an Arbiter.

* MagnificentSevenSamurai:
** TheHero: Lumina.
** TheLancer: Chandi
** TheBigGuy: The Awakener. Big Guy incarnate.
** TheSmartGuy: Asch.
** [[TheMentor The Old Guy]]: Harmony(?). Her history and MUSE implies a much older personality than first expected.
** [[NaiveNewcomer The Young Guy]]: Alexis. Naive and easily spooked.
** TheFunnyGuy: Serpico. For given definitions of [[SlasherSmile funny]].
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Someone taught Ryuseii his Memory Rune and then wiped his mind once he was defeated. ]]
* MightyGlacier: The Awakener, full stop.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Kanon]] claims to be one.
* MorphWeapon: Alexis' Cloak of Darkness.
** Chandi's Bracelet of Alteration
* MysteriousWaif: Harmony, for the most part.
* TheNicknamer: Chandi and Serpico both have a fondness for calling others by anything but their names.

* PlayingWithFire: Ryuseii, one of the early villains.
* {{Psychopomp}}: The Awakener's new part-time job.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Well, sort of. The job of the Arbiters involves maintaining balance, and sometimes this comes at the price of fighting other gods.
** Played straight, however, by Xen and his Team, who have reasons to distrust gods.
* RazorWind: A common use of Chandi's Wind Rune, and Serpico's Yellow Ink.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: For all Arbiters.
* RunningGag:
** Walnut.
** WAAAAAAAAAALNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!
* TheSacredDarkness: Alexis' Dark rune.

* ShoutOut: MUSE is full of them.
* SpellBlade: The Awakener's preferred use for its rune.
* SplitPersonality: Asch. 3 and counting so far. Her [[TheStoic normal personality]], [[{{Troll}} Aschley the Witch]], and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Sheppard the intensely persistant]].

* SymbioticPossession: MUSE may be capable of this.
* TheSonsAndTheSpears: Athena uses a variant of this particular trope to help Alexis strengthen the power of his Cloak of Darkness.

* TouchOfDeath: Used on occasion by Alexis. At least once on himself.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Alexis' Cloak of Darkness doesn't handle light very well.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The group's and writer's reactions to Chandi attempting to erase Shin's memories.]]
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Asch is at one point brought back from KnightTemplar extremes by Serpico's cheerful approval. May have been intentional on his part.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: The Dracaii of the first mission world. [[spoiler: Very much averted in the eyes of the Arbiters by Ryuusei, the owner of the world.]]

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Kanon]] claims to be one.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Asch.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Alexis has neither arms nor hands, and has to use his feet or tail instead.

* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler: Serpico's]] entire home ''planet'' was destroyed shortly before he joined the Arbiters.

* Alexis: A [[PettingZooPeople Bat-person]] from a primitive planet. This ascended mortal is big on elemental powers [[CastingAShadow themed to the night]], and a big believer in both DarkIsNotEvil and LightIsNotGood.

* Lumina: A MagicGirl demi-god. Good with ShockAndAwe and force powers. Has a SpiritAnimal fox as an EmpathicWeapon. Also has the power to regress things.

* FiveManBand: Of the MagnificentSevenSamurai role distribution.
** TheHero: Lumina.
** TheLancer: Chandi
** TheBigGuy: The Awakener. Big Guy incarnate.
** TheSmartGuy: Asch.
** [[TheObiWan The Old Guy]]: Harmony(?). Her history and MUSE implies a much older personality than first expected.
** [[NaiveNewcomer The Young Guy]]: Alexis. Naive and easily spooked.
** TheFunnyGuy: Serpico. For given definitions of [[SlasherSmile funny]].

* Asch Sheppard: What happens when a GreatDetective decides to [[DemonSlaying fight the forces of darkness]]. Formerly of a group called the Mystery Breakers, this serious mortal prefers to fight through knowledge, learning the truths of a story and using it as a weapon. Likes to used [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi colored words.]]

** Asch is a remix of multiple ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' characters, primarily Battler, Beatrice and [[ChurchMilitant Dlanor]].

** Serpico has roots in characters from MedakaBox and is named after a character from {{Berserk}}.
** Asch is a remix of multiple UminekoNoNakuKoroNi characters, primarily Battler, Beatrice and [[ChurchMilitant Dlanor]].
** The Awakener wears [[{{Persona 3}} Nyx's mask]] and its [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Nemesis]] [[ThisIsADrill drill sword]] is reminiscent of [[FateStayNight Ea]].

** Lumina is an older, more mature version of {{Sailor Moon}}.

* MysteriousWaif: Harmony, as far as the characters are concerned.

* BeautyBrainsandBrawn: Lumina, Asch, and Chandi respecitvely.

* Let'sSplutUpGang: In the latest mission the team splits up between a group of four and three. [[spoilers: The group of four to save Athena from another Dark Crystal, and the group of three to stop a bomb that'll blow up the Arbiter Academy.]]