History Sandbox / Aazkaal

* TokenEvilTeammate: Pretty much everyone else in the team Dark creates to escape the Zone (even Bugor) have higher moral standards than Dark himself, and certainly have shorter list of victims.

* {{Determinator}}: Just like Dark himself, when she sees the goal, she doesn't give up until she succeeds at it, or dies trying. Dark notices this trait at very firsts days, when she survives her horrific injuries that would've killed anyone else, and doesn't let them break her, and it later becomes innate part of her character, especially when she has to save her family.

* MeaningfulName: Dark called her "Lobastik" because at one point she had disproportionally huge head ("lob" means "forehead" in Russian), which he jokingly compared to T-Rex. Her head became mostly normal in time (albeit with still bigger forehead than normally), but the name sticks, to the point that even her biological parents agreed to let her keep it with minimal modifications.

*** When Chinese and Tungus sends assassin after Bugor, Dark captures said assassin and, after lying that he's poisoned, sends him to bring "Tungus' head", promising antidote if he does; assassin takes that order literally. Both Bugor and Tyson reacts very negatively: Bugor calls it barbarism, while Tyson by that point grew to believe that they're actually fighting for the better tomorrow, so Dark [[KickTheDog harshly reminds him]] that they aren't good guys: they're only [[VillainWithGoodPublicity playing good guys to advance their goals]].

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Dark starts going too deep into remembering his StartOfDarkness, to the point that he starts devolving into [[AxCrazy his mindset at the time]] and goes nearly hysterical, Katrine snaps him out of it with a slap. Dark, after resisting the instinctive impulse to kill her, thanks her for that.

** While Dark can't just kill Maggie, given her friendship with Katrine, he can't let her go either, since she knows too much about their operation (and soon would know even more).

* HumansAreBastards: Platan, when asked to release Maggie, points out that it were ''humans'', not the dragons, who created the Zone and made it into the hellhole it is now, and it was ''their'' idea to make all sentences here permanent without a chance for parole. Dragons are only the observers, [[AlienNonInterferenceClause without much rights to intervene]] -- and it's the only thing which prevents Platant to indulge his hatred to Dark and end his miserable life.

** When Katrine tells Dark that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he has changed for the better]], Dark thinks that she doesn't know him well enough and how much darkness there still is; him killing Toddler already disproves her theory about him redeveloping conscience. He remains silent, however.
** While initially she started believing that Dark [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold may be not as bad after all]], Katrine gets disillusioned with him after observing his subsequent actions, realising that she just let herself to be fooled. [[SubvertedTrope Unknowingly to her]], it's exactly the moment when Dark himself started doubting himself and his motives.

* LikeASonToMe: After spending so much time and efforts trying to make that little dragon to survive, Dark grows attached to Lobastik as his own daughter (Katrine even more so). Once he loses any hope to escape the Zone himself, he concentrates on educating Lobastik, giving a promise to himself that she wouldn't become "[[WildChild a Mowgli]]".

* OffWithHisHead: Once Bugor won the election and became a mayor, one of the bank co-owners, man called Tungus, sent an assassin after Bugor, only for that assassin to get captured. Dark scares him shitless by [[TheDreaded just mentioning his old name]], and offers him to redeem himself by bringing a head of his client to Bugor (for extra motivation, he tricks him into believing that he was injected with a deadly virus, and has only limited time to exchange the head for the cure). The guy ''literally'' brings Tungus' severed head, to Bugor's [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgust]].

* OlderThanSheLooks: Similarly to Katrine, she can't remember how old she is, only that she did undergo six rejuvenation sessions, which means she's older than seventy. According to her, women on the Zone never keep track on their age, because not knowing it makes it easier to keep hope that the life would change one day.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: For Katrin, Dark killing Simone was his most horrific atrocity he ever committed on the Zone, for which she only forgives him once she realises that he's changed since then. For Dark, it was just one of many victims (there's no innocents on the Zone), and he actually remembers garrotte he used to kill her better than the girl herself.

** Dark's attempts to teach Lobastik how to fly. No matter what he and Katrine tries, it invariably fails. Games, exercises, a pet parrot (that one she ate out of curiosity; she didn't like it, but it was fun to hunt for it)... In the end, she ends up flying on her own to protect Dark from one of attackers, though.

* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: At first, when Platan and Dorian visits them after the death of mayor, Dark thinks that they are on the verge of a failure, and that the dragons knows everything about them, but then Bugor points out that they just proved that they ''don't'' know everything. They know about the death of a mayor, which is logical, since someone like him would be under surveillance, but it was a surprise for them that Dark spared Maggie; they know about attack on the hospital, but still struggle to understand what it was purposed to achieve. That means, they have no means to spy on their base of operation.

** During Dark's absence (when he, Tyson and Conan were on the expedition in the desert), Katrin was forced to reveal the secret to Maggie to have at least someone to help her, and to take care of the dragon if something happens to her. As Dark refused to listen to Katrin who tried to explain this, insisting on her going to Tyson who awaits her, it causes conflict when Dark busts Maggie in the bunker. Fortunately, Maggie explains everything before Dark decides to just shoot her, and he agrees with her arguments.

** Tonara immediately trusts Dark, believing him to be very wise (true) and moral (''not'' true) person. Dorian tries to break that dangerous illusion by telling her about all the deaths caused by Dark during the last year (Toddler, the mayor, Chinese's people), and, when it fails, shows his niece the photo of Simone, and tells how Dark has slept with her, and then strangled with a string, almost beheading her.

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