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* SecondLove: Lucette can become this to [[spoiler:Rod who was in love with Vicoria]] or [[spoiler:Rumpel who used to be engaged to another woman]].
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: This happens with both Fritz and Waltz's routes, as they spoil each other. [[spoiler: Waltz reveals his curse and it's broken offscreen in Fritz's route, but he tells Lucette what it is and they break it fairly early in his plotline, anyway. The fact that Fritz and Varg are the same person is revealed in Waltz's route, but Fritz's route keeps it a mystery for most of it]].
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: This happens with both Fritz and Waltz's routes, as they spoil each other. [[spoiler: Waltz [[spoiler:Waltz reveals his curse and it's broken offscreen in Fritz's route, but he tells Lucette what it is and they break it fairly early in his plotline, anyway. The fact that Fritz and Varg are the same person is revealed in Waltz's route, but Fritz's route keeps it a mystery for most of it]].
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* TearJerker: All of the Bad Endings.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: This happens with both Fritz and Waltz's routes, as they spoil each other. [[spoiler: Waltz reveals his curse and it's broken offscreen in Fritz's route, but he tells Lucette what it is and they break it fairly early in his plotline, anyway. The fact that Fritz and Varg are the same person is revealed in Waltz's route, but Fritz's route keeps it a mystery for most of it]].
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* AllInTheManual: Dicesuki's official tumblr answers questions and provides trivia not in the game, from character's birthdays to the guys' thoughts on crossdressing.
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* LineageComesFromTheFather: Subverted. Lucette is royalty through her father, the King, but as she learns later on, [[spoiler:she is both a witch ''and'' the heir to the Tenebrarum Crystal through her mother, which is ultimately much more important to the story and serves as the driving force behind the plot.
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* LineageComesFromTheFather: Subverted. Lucette is royalty through her father, the King, but as she learns later on, [[spoiler:she is both a witch ''and'' the heir to the Tenebrarum Crystal through her mother, which is ultimately much more important to the story and serves as the driving force behind the plot.]]
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* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Lucette, in Waltz's bad ending. He becomes Hildyr's servant in order to protect Lucette, and is determined to find a cure, even though Hildyr insists that there isn't one.]]
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* TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:Happens to Waltz, in his bad ending. Lucette has been made into an EmptyShell, and Waltz carries out Hildyr's dirty work in order to remain close to her (he's likely also being blackmailed, since Hildyr knows he is in love with her).]]
* TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:Happens to Waltz, in his bad ending. Lucette has been made into an EmptyShell, and Waltz carries out Hildyr's dirty work in order to remain close to her (he's likely also being blackmailed, since Hildyr knows he is in love with her).]]
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** Lucette can also do this in [[spoiler:Waltz's bad ending. Lucette's mother is holding Waltz hostage and nearly kills him, but Lucette persuades her to spare his life - in exchange, she allows her mother to drain her of her magic power. It doesn't kill her, but she becomes an empty, soulless husk, and her Mother's perfectly obedient puppet.]]
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* AmnesiacHero: It isn't obvious at first, but as the story goes on, Lucette begins to realize there are a lot of inexplicable gaps in her childhood memories. [[spoiler: It turns out that her memories were selectively erased by her mother, in order to ensure her absolute loyalty and obedience.]]
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Lucette, the crown princess of Angielle, is not your typical fairytale heroine. [[IceQueen Cold-hearted and bitter]], she deeply resents her new stepmother and siblings after her beloved mother's death during the kingdom's Great War between fairies and witches and the only beings the displays any affection toward are her [[LonelyDollGirl dolls]] which has led to her being hated or feared by everyone else in the kingdom.
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Lucette, the crown princess of Angielle, is not your typical fairytale heroine. [[IceQueen Cold-hearted and bitter]], she deeply resents her new stepmother and siblings after her beloved mother's death during the kingdom's Great War between fairies and witches and the only beings the she displays any affection toward are her [[LonelyDollGirl dolls]] which has led to her being hated or feared by everyone else in the kingdom.
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Lucette, the crown princess of Angielle, is not your typical fairytale heroine. Cold-hearted and bitter, she still grieves for her mother who died during the Great War between fairies and witches and deeply resents her new stepmother and siblings. Known as the "Ice Princess" among the palace staff, the only beings she displays any affection for are her dolls.
However, that all changes one day when one of Lucette's dolls reveals herself to be a witch and inflicts her with the Fairytale Curse, an enchantment created by wicked witches to punish humans with curses based on well-known fairytales. In Lucette's case, the curse is a twisted version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" that causes her to go from RichesToRags and almost everyone else to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forget that she was ever the princess of Angielle]].
Lucette must break the curse by performing three good deeds, a task that's easier said than done for someone like her. Along the way, she comes into contact with a variety of characters afflicted by the Fairytale Curse too -- her stepbrother Rod who's rendered mute by the [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid Mermaid Curse]], a puppeteer named Waltz who's trapped in a child's body by the [[Literature/PeterPan Neverland Curse]], an amnesiac man who calls himself Rumpel after his [[Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}} Rumpelstiltskin Curse]], a flamboyant crossdressing man named Karma who refuses to divulge the full details of his curse, and her knight Fritz who's always been kind to her but may have a hidden dark side -- who she can work together with to undo each other's curses and even fall in love with.
However, it turns out that there is far more at stake than a princess needing to learn compassion, and Lucette getting her fairytale ending with her man of choice will require a lot more work than three good deeds.
This visual novel can be downloaded for free on [[https://dicesuki.itch.io/cinderella-phenomenon Itch.io]] or [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/568770/ Steam]].
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!!This game contains the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Jurien.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Lucette with Rod (who starts out hating her), Karma (who exasperates her with his narcissism and snark), and Rumpel (whose shameless flirting irritates her).
* BittersweetEnding: Almost every good ending is attained at the cost of at least one major character's death. Fritz's good ending in particular is filled with a lot more tragedy than any other character's good ending.
* BlessedWithSuck: Karma's curse is that any woman who looks at him falls in love with him. This doesn't sound all that bad compared to being forgotten by your family, losing all your memories, or being stuck in a child's body until you learn that [[spoiler:the curse also transforms Karma into a beast whenever he begins to fall in love with someone which always inevitably scares them off]].
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Karma tries this with Lucette on his route. It doesn't work.
* ChivalrousPervert: Rumpel flirts with everyone in a skirt (including [[WholesomeCrossdresser Karma]] before he learned his true gender) but once he makes his feelings for Lucette clear, he stops the flirting with others.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[spoiler:Rumpel used to be a doctor who did his best to cure every patient who came to him without expecting any payment in return. This is not portrayed by the narrative as an entirely good thing, as Rumpel's refusal to accept payment from many of his patients soured his relationship with his fiancee and his insistence on saving every single one of his patients drove him to make [[DealWithTheDevil deals with a witch]] that cost him his engagement ring and eventually his memories.]]
* CruelToBeKind: Delora's reason for cursing Lucette, believing that she needed a major change to force her to become a better person.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Delora, the witch who cursed Lucette, has an appearance befitting a stereotypically evil witch but she turns out to be a genuinely well-intentioned JerkWithAHeartOfGold who's best friends with the fairy Parfait.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Lucette's CharacterDevelopment on each route is marked by her gradually warming up to the people she spends time with.
* DrivenToVillainy: [[spoiler:According to Parfait and Delora, Hildyr used to be a genuinely kind witch until humans began killing witches.]]
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:In Rod's bad ending, he confesses that he was starting to love Lucette while he's dissolving into dust. Garlan also attempts to give one to Jurien after his HeroicSacrifice to save her on Fritz's route, but dies before he can finish it.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: While not outright evil, Lucette spends a long time believing that any kindness anyone else shows her is either false or done only because they want something from her in return and can't comprehend that people would honestly care about her well-being.
* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler:Lucette's mother, Hildyr, raised her to be a cruel and unfeeling girl who would hate anyone who wasn't her beloved mother.]]
* FallenPrincess: What Lucette becomes thanks to the curse.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Lucette and Waltz became friends as children, but Lucette's mother wiped her memories of him.]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Rod, Lucette's stepbrother, is a romance option.
* FlowerMotifs:
** Lilies are Lucette's favorite flower and are given to her by her love interest on some routes.
** Roses are a prominent motif of Karma's wardrobe and [[spoiler:hint that his curse is based on "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast"]].
* FracturedFairyTale: The Fairytale Curse operates like this, forcing people to live out a warped version of the original fairy tale.
* FunWithAcronyms: Karma's given name turns out to be the acronym of his OverlyLongName. His brother has an even worse acronym than him.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler:Hildyr became this after being DrivenToVillainy by humans turning on witches. She forced the king to marry her by threatening to kill his true love Ophelia if he didn't and terrorized the humans of Angielle to such an extent that they hated and feared her daughter based on her mother's reputation alone. Add to ''that'' how she gets resurrected in some routes, filled with the same hatred and bitterness towards humanity as before, and you understand why Parfait and Delora wanted to make sure that Lucette wouldn't follow in her mother's footsteps.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Emelaigne, a sweet and cheerful girl who sincerely just wants to be friends with Lucette.
* HelloInsertNameHere: Lucette is the default name for the protagonist, but you can name her anything else you like.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Garlan and Parfait in Fritz's route. Fritz/Varg also performs this in some routes.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Rod tried to adopt this attitude towards Vicoria, letting her marry another man without telling her that he was the one who actually saved her, but couldn't resist still wishing to become a prince to find some way of getting her to return his feelings. Also, in Fritz's good ending, his split personality Varg willingly erases himself because he grew to love Lucette too and knew that only Fritz could make her happy.]]
* InNameOnly: Most characters' curses have a clear connection to the fairytale they were derived from, but Fritz's curse has only a very tenuous connection with the fairytale it's named after. If the words "[[spoiler:Red Riding Hood]]" were taken out, you'd probably think that his curse was based more on the tale of [[spoiler:JekyllAndHyde]] than anything else.
* ItsAllMyFault: As Lucette [[CharacterDevelopment learns to care about other people]], she starts blaming herself when they become hurt as a result of protecting her.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Fritz tries to be this for Lucette and Lucette, in spite of initially treating him almost as coldly as she does everyone else, views him as the only person she can trust to any extent.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Alcaster wants to ursurp King Genaro because he believes that the kingdom has grown too soft under his rule and needs a more iron hand to become strong again, even if he has to kill Genaro and condemn his own son to a curse that will eventually destroy his identity to do it.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Rumpel's curse caused him to lose all memories of who he was and while people he knew before he was cursed still recognize him, they've lost the memory of his name too.
** Lucette's identity as the crown princess of Angielle is forgotten by everyone who isn't a fairy, witch, or afflicted by the Fairytale Curse too. [[spoiler:Her mother also erased many of her childhood memories to mold her into a completely obedient daughter with the same cold heart as her.]]
** On Fritz's route, [[spoiler:Fritz himself has no memory of transforming into Varg or what he does when he's Varg]].
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:Lucette's mother Hildyr]] has a softer and gentler-seeming appearance and wardrobe than [[DarkIsNotEvil Delora]]'s and her magic is colored pure white, but she [[KickTheDog kicks the most puppies]] out of the entire cast.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: On Waltz's route, it's implied that [[spoiler:Hans Grimm]] grew to regret [[spoiler:writing the fairytales that caused humans to believe that all witches were evil and tried to correct his mistake but that it was too late at that point for him to undo the damage he'd caused]].
* MythologyGag: Rod's red plush bunny who speaks for him is named Sebby, a reference to Sebastian from Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Waltz's curse makes him look 12 years old, but he's actually 22 years old and acts far more mature than Karma and Rumpel.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Parfait and Delora not explaining to Lucette upfront about the full reasons behind Delora cursing her causes problems in several routes, ''especially'' in Fritz's route where [[spoiler:Mythros]] uses this lack of communication to turn Lucette against them.
* ThePowerOfLove: Lucette can break [[spoiler:Rod or Karma]]'s curses this way.
* SecondLove: Lucette can become this to [[spoiler:Rod who was in love with Vicoria]] or [[spoiler:Rumpel who used to be engaged to another woman]].
* SoProudOfYou: Lucette's father tells her this on Waltz's route [[spoiler:just before he dies]].
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler:Fritz is being slowly overtaken by Varg, the more ruthless personality created by his curse.]]
* SpoilerCover: The fairytales that Karma and Fritz's curses are based on are kept a secret in all routes except their own, but the symbols on the game's opening screen kind of give them away. [[spoiler:Not very many fairytales have a rose or red cloak as a major element, after all.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Rod on his route. Lucette herself displays some major Type A tsundere behavior towards Karma and Rumpel on their routes.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Lucette first encounters Karma in his female disguise and doesn't learn that he's actually a man until later on.
* WhenSheSmiles: Several characters are clearly taken aback whenever Lucette displays one of her rare smiles.
* WickedStepmother: Completely averted with Ophelia who remains kind to Lucette in spite of Lucette continually treating her with contempt.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:In several routes, Mythros disposes of Alcaster when his goals start interfering with his own. And in the routes where Hildyr is resurrected, she always kills Mythros when she feels that a display of total ruthlessness is in order.]]
However, that all changes one day when one of Lucette's dolls reveals herself to be a witch and inflicts her with the Fairytale Curse, an enchantment created by wicked witches to punish humans with curses based on well-known fairytales. In Lucette's case, the curse is a twisted version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" that causes her to go from RichesToRags and almost everyone else to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forget that she was ever the princess of Angielle]].
Lucette must break the curse by performing three good deeds, a task that's easier said than done for someone like her. Along the way, she comes into contact with a variety of characters afflicted by the Fairytale Curse too -- her stepbrother Rod who's rendered mute by the [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid Mermaid Curse]], a puppeteer named Waltz who's trapped in a child's body by the [[Literature/PeterPan Neverland Curse]], an amnesiac man who calls himself Rumpel after his [[Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}} Rumpelstiltskin Curse]], a flamboyant crossdressing man named Karma who refuses to divulge the full details of his curse, and her knight Fritz who's always been kind to her but may have a hidden dark side -- who she can work together with to undo each other's curses and even fall in love with.
However, it turns out that there is far more at stake than a princess needing to learn compassion, and Lucette getting her fairytale ending with her man of choice will require a lot more work than three good deeds.
This visual novel can be downloaded for free on [[https://dicesuki.itch.io/cinderella-phenomenon Itch.io]] or [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/568770/ Steam]].
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!!This game contains the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Jurien.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Lucette with Rod (who starts out hating her), Karma (who exasperates her with his narcissism and snark), and Rumpel (whose shameless flirting irritates her).
* BittersweetEnding: Almost every good ending is attained at the cost of at least one major character's death. Fritz's good ending in particular is filled with a lot more tragedy than any other character's good ending.
* BlessedWithSuck: Karma's curse is that any woman who looks at him falls in love with him. This doesn't sound all that bad compared to being forgotten by your family, losing all your memories, or being stuck in a child's body until you learn that [[spoiler:the curse also transforms Karma into a beast whenever he begins to fall in love with someone which always inevitably scares them off]].
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Karma tries this with Lucette on his route. It doesn't work.
* ChivalrousPervert: Rumpel flirts with everyone in a skirt (including [[WholesomeCrossdresser Karma]] before he learned his true gender) but once he makes his feelings for Lucette clear, he stops the flirting with others.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[spoiler:Rumpel used to be a doctor who did his best to cure every patient who came to him without expecting any payment in return. This is not portrayed by the narrative as an entirely good thing, as Rumpel's refusal to accept payment from many of his patients soured his relationship with his fiancee and his insistence on saving every single one of his patients drove him to make [[DealWithTheDevil deals with a witch]] that cost him his engagement ring and eventually his memories.]]
* CruelToBeKind: Delora's reason for cursing Lucette, believing that she needed a major change to force her to become a better person.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Delora, the witch who cursed Lucette, has an appearance befitting a stereotypically evil witch but she turns out to be a genuinely well-intentioned JerkWithAHeartOfGold who's best friends with the fairy Parfait.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Lucette's CharacterDevelopment on each route is marked by her gradually warming up to the people she spends time with.
* DrivenToVillainy: [[spoiler:According to Parfait and Delora, Hildyr used to be a genuinely kind witch until humans began killing witches.]]
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:In Rod's bad ending, he confesses that he was starting to love Lucette while he's dissolving into dust. Garlan also attempts to give one to Jurien after his HeroicSacrifice to save her on Fritz's route, but dies before he can finish it.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: While not outright evil, Lucette spends a long time believing that any kindness anyone else shows her is either false or done only because they want something from her in return and can't comprehend that people would honestly care about her well-being.
* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler:Lucette's mother, Hildyr, raised her to be a cruel and unfeeling girl who would hate anyone who wasn't her beloved mother.]]
* FallenPrincess: What Lucette becomes thanks to the curse.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Lucette and Waltz became friends as children, but Lucette's mother wiped her memories of him.]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Rod, Lucette's stepbrother, is a romance option.
* FlowerMotifs:
** Lilies are Lucette's favorite flower and are given to her by her love interest on some routes.
** Roses are a prominent motif of Karma's wardrobe and [[spoiler:hint that his curse is based on "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast"]].
* FracturedFairyTale: The Fairytale Curse operates like this, forcing people to live out a warped version of the original fairy tale.
* FunWithAcronyms: Karma's given name turns out to be the acronym of his OverlyLongName. His brother has an even worse acronym than him.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler:Hildyr became this after being DrivenToVillainy by humans turning on witches. She forced the king to marry her by threatening to kill his true love Ophelia if he didn't and terrorized the humans of Angielle to such an extent that they hated and feared her daughter based on her mother's reputation alone. Add to ''that'' how she gets resurrected in some routes, filled with the same hatred and bitterness towards humanity as before, and you understand why Parfait and Delora wanted to make sure that Lucette wouldn't follow in her mother's footsteps.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Emelaigne, a sweet and cheerful girl who sincerely just wants to be friends with Lucette.
* HelloInsertNameHere: Lucette is the default name for the protagonist, but you can name her anything else you like.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Garlan and Parfait in Fritz's route. Fritz/Varg also performs this in some routes.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Rod tried to adopt this attitude towards Vicoria, letting her marry another man without telling her that he was the one who actually saved her, but couldn't resist still wishing to become a prince to find some way of getting her to return his feelings. Also, in Fritz's good ending, his split personality Varg willingly erases himself because he grew to love Lucette too and knew that only Fritz could make her happy.]]
* InNameOnly: Most characters' curses have a clear connection to the fairytale they were derived from, but Fritz's curse has only a very tenuous connection with the fairytale it's named after. If the words "[[spoiler:Red Riding Hood]]" were taken out, you'd probably think that his curse was based more on the tale of [[spoiler:JekyllAndHyde]] than anything else.
* ItsAllMyFault: As Lucette [[CharacterDevelopment learns to care about other people]], she starts blaming herself when they become hurt as a result of protecting her.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Fritz tries to be this for Lucette and Lucette, in spite of initially treating him almost as coldly as she does everyone else, views him as the only person she can trust to any extent.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Alcaster wants to ursurp King Genaro because he believes that the kingdom has grown too soft under his rule and needs a more iron hand to become strong again, even if he has to kill Genaro and condemn his own son to a curse that will eventually destroy his identity to do it.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Rumpel's curse caused him to lose all memories of who he was and while people he knew before he was cursed still recognize him, they've lost the memory of his name too.
** Lucette's identity as the crown princess of Angielle is forgotten by everyone who isn't a fairy, witch, or afflicted by the Fairytale Curse too. [[spoiler:Her mother also erased many of her childhood memories to mold her into a completely obedient daughter with the same cold heart as her.]]
** On Fritz's route, [[spoiler:Fritz himself has no memory of transforming into Varg or what he does when he's Varg]].
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:Lucette's mother Hildyr]] has a softer and gentler-seeming appearance and wardrobe than [[DarkIsNotEvil Delora]]'s and her magic is colored pure white, but she [[KickTheDog kicks the most puppies]] out of the entire cast.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: On Waltz's route, it's implied that [[spoiler:Hans Grimm]] grew to regret [[spoiler:writing the fairytales that caused humans to believe that all witches were evil and tried to correct his mistake but that it was too late at that point for him to undo the damage he'd caused]].
* MythologyGag: Rod's red plush bunny who speaks for him is named Sebby, a reference to Sebastian from Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Waltz's curse makes him look 12 years old, but he's actually 22 years old and acts far more mature than Karma and Rumpel.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Parfait and Delora not explaining to Lucette upfront about the full reasons behind Delora cursing her causes problems in several routes, ''especially'' in Fritz's route where [[spoiler:Mythros]] uses this lack of communication to turn Lucette against them.
* ThePowerOfLove: Lucette can break [[spoiler:Rod or Karma]]'s curses this way.
* SecondLove: Lucette can become this to [[spoiler:Rod who was in love with Vicoria]] or [[spoiler:Rumpel who used to be engaged to another woman]].
* SoProudOfYou: Lucette's father tells her this on Waltz's route [[spoiler:just before he dies]].
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler:Fritz is being slowly overtaken by Varg, the more ruthless personality created by his curse.]]
* SpoilerCover: The fairytales that Karma and Fritz's curses are based on are kept a secret in all routes except their own, but the symbols on the game's opening screen kind of give them away. [[spoiler:Not very many fairytales have a rose or red cloak as a major element, after all.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Rod on his route. Lucette herself displays some major Type A tsundere behavior towards Karma and Rumpel on their routes.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Lucette first encounters Karma in his female disguise and doesn't learn that he's actually a man until later on.
* WhenSheSmiles: Several characters are clearly taken aback whenever Lucette displays one of her rare smiles.
* WickedStepmother: Completely averted with Ophelia who remains kind to Lucette in spite of Lucette continually treating her with contempt.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:In several routes, Mythros disposes of Alcaster when his goals start interfering with his own. And in the routes where Hildyr is resurrected, she always kills Mythros when she feels that a display of total ruthlessness is in order.]]
