History TabletopGame / PrincessTheHopeful

** The Court of Tears and the Court of Cups share one. Cups Kingdom was called "Calat" and it's capital is "Alhambra". Calat Alahambra is a real life place.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Arguably one to Literature/SailorNothing. The game also oddly enough, shares many of the same themes as TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming thought handled slightly differently.

[[PoesLaw Or so the original authors thought.]] The idea was deemed to have genuine merit, and after a CerebusRetcon or two, ultimately [[PubertySuperpower Blossomed]] into a fan line with popularity rivaling that of ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' - a tale of what it means to be a living avatar of Hope and Light in a world where Despair and Darkness have [[TheBadGuyWins essentially won]]. (''World Of Darkness'' [[CrapsackWorld being what it is]], there is little surprise in that the resulting concept resembles ''Literature/SailorNothing'' much more than ''Anime/SailorMoon''.)

* BadassBookworm: A possibility for Diamonds, but a certainty for Alhambra's Order of the Tortoise - librarians and archivists who're trained to fight to the death in protection of their collection, and who archive Alhambra's best Bequests.

* TheCorruption: Taint, the metaphysical presence of the All-Consuming Darkness - it can infest locations where evils great or mundane are committed, and can infect people who stay in it too long. These 'Darkened' develop VillainTeleportation and the ability to draw power from the pain of other people. Their moral compass inverts, making their [[FatalFlaw Vice]] far more emotionally rewarding than their Virtue (i.e. indulging it restores all Willpower rather than just one point). Those who lose further [[SanityMeter Integrity]] will often develop [[LovecraftianSuperpower Umbrae]] as the Darkness warps them physically. A Darkened who hits Integrity 0 with at least one Umbra dies in their sleep and becomes a [[TheHeartless Darkspawn]], a monster whose only impulse is to serve the Dark. Darkened who hit zero ''without'' having acquired Umbrae (usually nasty or unstable people ''before'' becoming Tainted) become Mnemosyne, which retain their bodies and intellects [[HumanoidAbomination and nothing else]].

* DarknessEqualsDeath: Very much so, especially for Alhambra - if they don't keep the lanterns burning, any particularly dark area begins to be eaten by the All-Consuming Darkness, even spawning monsters to put out the lanterns.

** The Dethroned - Princesses who attempted to transform at Belief 0 and became completely corrupted by the Darkness - are this to both the Nobility (as overwhelmingly powerful monsters, and a horrifying reminder of what happens when a Princess fails to keep her Belief) and the forces of the Darkness themselves (creatures of the Darkness can be psychically enslaved by Dethroned, and new Dethroned are only knowingly created by [[GodzillaThreshold especially desperate individuals]]).

* LotusEaterMachine: The Dreamlands is far from a perfect prison anymore, but its original purpose is still intact - spend too long there, and it's possible to forget it's not the real world, and that the physical world is nothing but a horrible nightmare. By the way, what makes it such an effective trap isn't that it's a {{Utopia}}; It's that the rules of the place means evil always loses sooner or later, without irreplaceable sacrifice or damning yourself in the process. [[WorldHalfEmpty Think about what that says about the World of Darkness for a second]].

* MinmaxersDelight: Specchio charms are horrendously useful for self-buffing. Take a few charms they use, such as ''Beauty is Talented'' (adds ''Striking Looks'' bonus to any dice rolls for a few turns), Gems from ''Enduring Beauty'' (gives equipment bonuses when added to Bequests or you can crush them to add their resources/availability as a number of automatic successes to any roll that's in line with Specchio), and ANY skill enchancing charm by invoking the Specchio Invocation (it can be invoked for free if the target of the charm is the using Princess, in which case all Skill Enhancer charms target the Princess), and you have at minimum a +2 bonus with an automatic single success (if the gem was crushed) or a +3 bonus instead (if used in a Bequest). At maximum aka Specchio 5? It's a +7 Bonus and Five automatic successes (if the gem was crushed) or a +12 Bonus (if used in a bequest). Really, Specchio could easily reach levels of broken if it didn't cause insanity and (on the part of the Gems) require HumanResources to get them from. This makes sense when you realize this is exactly what a Princess of Mirrors would ''want'' to be - the [[TheHero brave Princess]] who is [[ItsUpToYou always strong enough to save the day on her own]], [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything because they're]] TheChosenOne [[ItsAllAboutMe while everybody else is just a helpful secondary character]].

** The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution in 1805, the end of slavery and beginning of a long march of progress princesses could support.

The ''extremely'' out-of-date wiki can be found [[http://princesswod.wikia.com/wiki/Princess:_The_Hopeful_Wiki here]] There is now a downloads page for some of the most complete supplements, as well as the Dream and Vocation corebooks, which can be found [[https://sites.google.com/site/princessthehopeful/princess-the-hopeful?authuser=0 here]]. A larger and more complete collection of all fan-materials for those, as well as the Royalty and Crystal versions, can be found [[https://sites.google.com/site/princessthehopeful/princess-the-hopeful?authuser=0 here]]There also is a Hunter-related supplement whose trope page is [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigilDarkAndLight here]].

Fan supplements for the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' have always been a popular pastime among forum denizens of [=RPGnet=]. However, ''Princess: The Hopeful'' is unique in that it originated as a parody. Combining ''World of Darkness'' with the trappings and glitter of MagicalGirl anime? Surely no one would be able to take it seriously.

* BlessedWithSuck: Since this is the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness, this par for the course. You are a MagicalGirl with the ability to smite the darkness with the PowerOfLove but now, the evil and corruption of the world is a source of literal ''pain and suffering'' for you. The forces of Darkness, are ''extremely'' dangerous adversaries who are not above targeting your friends of loved ones if they ever found about them. The inevitable double life that comes from being a Princess is exhausting, and makes any semblance of stability all but impossible. Last but not least, you are just as likely to be targeted by Tears and Storms as you are by the Darkness.

* DeconReconSwitch: This game takes advantage of the darker setting to deconstruct the MagicalGirl genre, by pointing out all the consequences fighting evil would have on young girls (trauma from battle, exhaustion caused by the workload of a double-life, confrontation with sometimes horrifying opponents), acknowledging that not all the problems in the world can be fixed by a speech on friendship, that good and evil aren't always clear-cut and that sometimes, evil winning and death are very real possibilities. It also doesn't shy away from how difficult it would be to be a genuinely good person in a place as dangerous and rotted as the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness. However, it also justifies a lot of the abilities Magical Girls have, encourages players to follow strategies outside the genre such as training mortals into monster hunters, gives the protagonists very real power, and acknowledges that, for all the hardship, they can ''[[EarnYourHappyEnding still]]'' win.

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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Aside from unusual cases, such as the Queen of Storms and the Queen of Mirrors, the Queens are largely this, since ruling a small country and getting at least close is the most important requirement to gain that status.

* AlternateShowInterpretation: The Gameline has two different versions, Dream and Vocation: