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**Kotetsu too, as the lone reincarnate cop.

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* CityOfAdventure: So far the game is restricted to Locke City and the land around it. Characters can leave, but being too far away removes their echoes and related memories, which return when they do.



* InstantExpert: Skill echoes tend to have this effect. Of course, having a power or item returned but not the skill [[HowDoIShotWeb is always an option]].



* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: There aren't many physical differences between this Earth and ours, but one is Locke City, somewhere on the northern half of the East Coast.



* PastLifeMemories: Slowly gaining in number. Trouble is they tend to come with minimal context, if any.

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* PastLifeMemories: Slowly gaining in number. Trouble is they tend to come with minimal context, if any.any, and can be misleading.



* RememberTheNewGuy: The AU premise means that newly apped characters are checked over by other muns who can agree that their characters knew each other, and discuss what this knowledge entails. In-universe new characters haven't really seen anything of the odd goings-on and were somewhere in the background having "normal" interactions with the other characters, clueless until they received their first echo and a number of their own.

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* RememberTheNewGuy: The AU premise means that newly apped characters are checked over by other muns who can agree that their characters knew each other, and discuss what this knowledge entails.entails - friends, enemies, coworkers, family. In-universe new characters haven't really seen anything of the odd goings-on and were somewhere in the background having "normal" interactions with the other characters, clueless until they received their first echo and a number of their own.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most odd hair colors are the result of dye, but a few characters have had Echoes causing their hair to grow out in some wild color.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most odd hair colors are the result of dye, but a few characters have had Echoes [[LockedIntoStrangeness causing their hair to grow out in some wild color.color]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Chris runs for it once the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent pseudo-werewolves]] make their appearance on the evening of the Dead District hunt, to her hunting party's momentary frustration - they're forced to focus on the monsters almost straight away.
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** "Fenn Forster" ([[Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle Fai Flourite]] also goes by "Fay" most of the time.

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** "Fenn Forster" ([[Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle Fai Flourite]] Flourite]]) also goes by "Fay" most of the time.
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** "Fenn Forster" ([[Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle Fai Flourite]] also goes by "Fay" most of the time.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The variety in the reincarnated characters is... extensive.

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* RedHerring: Some people have noticed similarities between their odd memories/powers/returned items/etc. Unfortunately, few of them are from the same world/canon in the first place.

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* RedHerring: Some people have noticed similarities between their odd memories/powers/returned items/etc. Unfortunately, few of them are from the same world/canon in the first place.place.
* ReincarnationRomance Youou and Fay (Kurogane and Fai) are [[RedStringOfFate soulmates]], and are instantly drawn to each other.

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* AlternateUniverse: In a sense! Each character has been born as a human or animal and lived out their life normally, though of course "normal" can be variable. Some characters have had lives closely paralleling their preincarnation's, with families, friends, and enemies paralleling important characters in the preincarnations' lives. Some, less so. Reincarnates tend to be happier and better adjusted, but that's a broad rule.

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* AlternateUniverse: In a sense! Each character has been born as a human or animal and lived out their life normally, though of course "normal" can be variable.is as variable as on any Earth. Some characters have had lives closely paralleling their preincarnation's, with families, friends, and enemies paralleling important characters in the preincarnations' lives. Some, less so. Reincarnates tend to be happier and better adjusted, but that's a broad rule.



* HowDoIShotWeb: When a power is returned, it doesn't automatically come with much knowledge about how to ''use'' it.



* ParanoiaFuel: None of reincarnates know who to trust, including whether or not they should be sharing information about themselves with others on the network.

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* ParanoiaFuel: In-universe. None of reincarnates know who to trust, including whether or not they should be sharing information about themselves with others on the network.



* RunningGag: If a reincarnate has dead parents or other family, it tends to be thanks to a hit-and-run with a drunk driver. This has led to OOC speculation that it's the ''same'' driver for all of them, and jokes about apping this character.

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* RunningGag: If a reincarnate has dead parents or other family, it tends to be thanks to a hit-and-run with a drunk driver. hit-and-run. This has led to OOC speculation that it's the ''same'' driver driver, possibly drunk, for all of them, and jokes about apping this character.

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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The reincarnate students of Mr. Lyall's class contrast plainly - playful trickster [[YuGiOh Bakura]] is sanguine; bold-natured and anti-authoritarian [[SCryEd Kenji]] is choleric; serious and fretful [[EternalDarkness Anthony]] is melancholic; balanced [[TheHero hero]] of a past life [[GundamUnicorn Banagher]] is phlegmatic.



* GenderBlenderName: Sandy ([[Film/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]])

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* GenderBlenderName: Sandy ([[Film/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]])Rogers]]).
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* FlashBack: Preincarnation memories can take this form. Otherwise they may return in dreams, or bit by bit.


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* TheMasquerade: This early in the game, characters try to hide any obvious changes.


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** [[EverybodyMustGetStoned Aaron will end up drugging everyone in the game at some point.]]
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: And ordinary college students.

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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: And ordinary college students, and a couple of ordinary middle school students.

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* AerithAndBob: Most characters whose preincarnations had names that would stick out in Locke City, USA have reincarnations with more standard names. Not all.

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* AerithAndBob: Most characters whose preincarnations had names that would stick out in Locke City, USA have reincarnations with more standard names. Not all.all; in the city are Brendan Lionel Blake ([[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittania]]) and Fenn Forster ([[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Fai Fluorite]]) alongside [[GundamUnicorn Banagher Links]] and [[MassEffect Mordin Solus]], for example.


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* SacrificialLamb: Mod-controlled [[Videogame/TheWalkingDead Paul Ben]]'s informal execution served as a warning to the rest of the reincarnations to keep the strange things happening to them among themselves.


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* WeaselMascot: [[TheParasolProtectorate Mr. Lyall]] has adopted a class pet in the form of Stella the surprisingly clever ferret, who is the reincarnation of [[{{Redwall}} Romsca]].
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* TheGadfly: [[{{Hakuouki}} Souji}}]].

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* TheGadfly: [[{{Hakuouki}} Souji}}]].Souji]].



** Casval's reputation as the LittleBlackDress of the game, OOCly.

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** Casval's reputation as the LittleBlackDress of the game, OOCly.[=OOCly=].
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* TheGadfly: [[{{Hakuoki}} Souji}}]].

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* TheGadfly: [[{{Hakuoki}} [[{{Hakuouki}} Souji}}]].
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* IntellectualAnimal: Characters born into animal bodies have "intelligence" as their first echo.
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** [[ASongOfIceAndFire Robb]] sometimes gets this as well. See: the most awkward morning after in history.
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* TheGadfly: [[{{Hakuoki}} Souji}}]].


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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Souji.


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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Aaron Strider]] and [[TheParasolProtectorate Randolph Lyall]] are two that come to mind.
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* ButtMonkey: [[Anime/TigerAndBunny Kotetsu Kaburagi]] sometimes has elements of this. See: autocorrect, the crapsuit.

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* IHaveManyNames: Aaron Strider ([[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Aragon]]) has a preincarnation with a ''lot'' of them, to his dismay as he begins learning them one by one.

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* IHaveManyNames: Aaron Strider ([[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Aragon]]) Aragorn]]) has a preincarnation with a ''lot'' of them, to his dismay as he begins learning them one by one.



* LittleBlackDress: Casval Mass (Full Frontal). Well, Out Of Character.

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* LittleBlackDress: Casval Mass (Full Frontal).([[GundamUnicorn Full Frontal]]). Well, Out Of Character.


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* ManipulativeBastard: Casval.


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** Casval's reputation as the LittleBlackDress of the game, OOCly.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: And ordinary college students.

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* AlternateUniverse: In a sense! Each character has been born as a human or animal and lived out their life normally, though of course "normal" can be variable. Some characters have had lives closely paralleling their preincarnation's. Some, less so. Reincarnates tend to be happier and better adjusted, but that's a broad rule.

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* AlternateUniverse: In a sense! Each character has been born as a human or animal and lived out their life normally, though of course "normal" can be variable. Some characters have had lives closely paralleling their preincarnation's.preincarnation's, with families, friends, and enemies paralleling important characters in the preincarnations' lives. Some, less so. Reincarnates tend to be happier and better adjusted, but that's a broad rule.



* FrameUp: Jack Sears being blamed for the deaths of Paul Ben and his family.

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* FrameUp: Jack Sears being blamed for the deaths of [[Videogame/TheWalkingDead Paul Ben Ben]] and his family.



* HeKnowsTooMuch / MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The NPC Paul Ben's essentially televised death on the reincarnations' network, just because he decided to go to the police with knowledge of the weird happenings. Followed up with the murder of the ''rest of his family'' as well in a staged fire.
* IAmWho: Bound to be ''constant''

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* HeKnowsTooMuch / MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The NPC [[Videogame/TheWalkingDead Paul Ben's Ben]]'s essentially televised death on the reincarnations' network, just because he decided to go to the police with knowledge of the weird happenings. Followed up with the murder of the ''rest of his family'' as well in a staged fire.
* IAmWho: Bound to be ''constant''Frequent, especially since many players enjoy providing misleading echoes.


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* InvisibleToNormals: Anything on the network is invisible and inaudible to characters who have no echoes yet.


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* RememberTheNewGuy: The AU premise means that newly apped characters are checked over by other muns who can agree that their characters knew each other, and discuss what this knowledge entails. In-universe new characters haven't really seen anything of the odd goings-on and were somewhere in the background having "normal" interactions with the other characters, clueless until they received their first echo and a number of their own.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch / MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The NPC Paul Ben's essentially televised death on the reincarnations' network, just because he decided to go to the police with knowledge of the weird happenings. Followed up with the murder of the <i>rest of his family</i> as well in a staged fire.

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* HeKnowsTooMuch / MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The NPC Paul Ben's essentially televised death on the reincarnations' network, just because he decided to go to the police with knowledge of the weird happenings. Followed up with the murder of the <i>rest ''rest of his family</i> family'' as well in a staged fire.

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* FrameUp: Jack Sears being blamed for the deaths of Paul Ben and his family.



* HeKnowsTooMuch / MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The NPC Paul Ben's essentially televised death on the reincarnations' network, just because he decided to go to the police with knowledge of the weird happenings. Followed up with the murder of the <i>rest of his family</i> as well in a staged fire.



* IHaveManyNames: Aaron Strider ([[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Aragon]]) has a preincarnation with a ''lot'' of them, to his dismay as he starts to learn them.

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* IHaveManyNames: Aaron Strider ([[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Aragon]]) has a preincarnation with a ''lot'' of them, to his dismay as he starts to learn them.begins learning them one by one.


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* ParanoiaFuel: None of reincarnates know who to trust, including whether or not they should be sharing information about themselves with others on the network.


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* RedHerring: Some people have noticed similarities between their odd memories/powers/returned items/etc. Unfortunately, few of them are from the same world/canon in the first place.

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* AerithAndBob: Most characters whose preincarnations had names that would stick out in Locke City, USA have reincarnations with more standard names. Not all.



* GenderBlenderName: Sandy ([[Film/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]])



* IHaveManyNames: Aaron Strider ([[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Aragon]]) has a preincarnation with a ''lot'' of them, to his dismay as he starts to learn them.
* InSeriesNickname / CodeName: Paranoia about the network has led some characters into adopting these.



* SpecialPersonNormalName: Common! Though there are {{Meaningful Rename}}s which may occur later.



* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Eastern Versus Western name orders have resulted in tag confusion in the past.

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* TomboyishName: Chris Starsky ([[{{Franchise/Transformers}} Starscream]])
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Eastern Versus Western name orders have resulted in tag confusion in the past. Julien ([[VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend Yuuya]]) actually goes by [=BondJulesBond=] online.
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Technically! Not that most know it.

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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Technically! Not that most know it.it.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most odd hair colors are the result of dye, but a few characters have had Echoes causing their hair to grow out in some wild color.

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* LittleBlackDress: Casval Mass (Full Frontal). Well, OOCly.

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* LittleBlackDress: Casval Mass (Full Frontal). Well, OOCly.Out Of Character.
--> CASVAL IS NOT A SHIP SLUT FYI
--> he just has a lot of love to go around
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* LittleBlackDress: Casval Mass (Full Frontal). Well, OOCly.

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* AlternateUniverse: In a sense! Each character has been born as a human or animal and lived out their life normally, though of course "normal" can be variable. Some characters have had lives closely paralleling their preincarnation's. Some, less so. Reincarnates tend to be happier and better adjusted, but that's a broad rule.



* BroughtDownToNormal: Sorta. Well, reincarnates start with no supernatural abilities. They can pick those up as Echoes.



* CelebrityParadox: Technically the reincarnations aren't Otakukin due to this. At least, in-game.



* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
* PaintingTheMedium: Each reincarnate has their own number which can access the network - through just about anything, from a phone to a computer to a water trough, a ''wooden'' computer, or a wall. Players using peculiar mediums sometimes toy with font and coloration.



* TitleDrop: "I wanted to save the earth."

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* SummonEverymanHero: Though the everymen aren't at any lesser advantage early in the game.
* TitleDrop: "I wanted to save the earth.""
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Eastern Versus Western name orders have resulted in tag confusion in the past.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Technically! Not that most know it.
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* AmnesiacDissonance: There are quite a few villains reincarnated as basically heroic characters.

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* AmnesiacDissonance: There are quite a few villains reincarnated as basically heroic characters.characters, and heroic characters who might not be bad people, but aren't on the same level as their preincarnations.
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[[http://savetheearth.dreamwidth.org/profile Save The Earth]] is a panfandom AU memory-loss JournalRoleplay game on Dreamwidth. Its premise? The Planet Earth is alive and sentient in some way, and guides the placement of souls into bodies. In order to protect itself against extrareality-based threats it pulls the souls of dead beings from destroyed universes in and incarnates them into Earthly bodies.

As that threat makes itself known these reincarnates find their everyday lives disrupted as they become gradually more like their preincarnated selves... to '''Save The Earth'''!

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* AmnesiacDissonance: There are quite a few villains reincarnated as basically heroic characters.
* BodyHorror: Not all reincarnates' bodies match their preincarnations.
* ForgotTheCall: Dropped characters lose their echoes, their memories of these strange events, and return to their normal lives.
* IAmWho: Bound to be ''constant''
* IdentityAmnesia: Justified!
* PastLifeMemories: Slowly gaining in number. Trouble is they tend to come with minimal context, if any.
* RunningGag: If a reincarnate has dead parents or other family, it tends to be thanks to a hit-and-run with a drunk driver. This has led to OOC speculation that it's the ''same'' driver for all of them, and jokes about apping this character.
* TitleDrop: "I wanted to save the earth."

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