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* DrawAggro: When you use the "Taunt" command, enemies will spend a turn attacking the squire instead of Hugh.


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* IShallTauntYou: If the squire wants enemies to attack him instead of Hugh during a turn, he can use the "Taunt" command to first stick out his tongue and then slap his rear.
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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Played with for Boss, which is really a nickname. [[Spoiler: His real name is Barry Octavius Salem Sharpe, and he took the first letter of each word to form the cool sounding Boss.]]

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** Princess Kamala Copperheart [[spoiler:grew up in a family with sexist views that expects little of women. Her younger brother is a SpoiledBrat but will still inherit the throne since he's male, and her father thinks her plans for diplomacy are foolish. This has caused Kamala to develop a hidden temper that isn't displayed if you're not boplaying her route.]]

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** Princess Kamala Copperheart [[spoiler:grew up in a family with sexist views that expects little of women. Her younger brother is a SpoiledBrat but will still inherit the throne since he's male, and her father thinks her plans for diplomacy are foolish. This has caused Kamala to develop a hidden temper that isn't displayed if you're not boplaying playing her route.]]



* FantasticDrug: [[spoiler:Drowser, a drug that both acts quickly and is highly addictive, so this is an extremely dangerous fantastic drug. Giselle is on a personal quest to develop a cure for drowser addiction, especially since her former mentor Donis has also become addicted to this drug.]]



* FieryRedHead: Vel is... [[PlayingWithATrope not entirely this]]. She tries her best to imitate Milly, but her true nature is much more sensitive and sweet. She does play it straight in her own way occasionally, especially in her ending.

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Vel is... [[PlayingWithATrope not entirely this]]. She tries her best to imitate Milly, but her true nature is much more sensitive and sweet. She does play it straight in her own way occasionally, especially in her ending.ending.
** A straighter example is [[spoiler:Princess Kamala, surprisingly. Most of the time she's innocent and friendly, but if you play her route, it's revealed that she actually has a hidden temper, and a lot of Kamala's route is her learning to get a handle on her anger.]]


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* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:Vel and Matilda believe that the Alkosi royal family allowed Bordemer to be destroyed on ''purpose'', to get rid of future naval competition, and on Vel's route she ends up attacking Kamala over this. Actually, according to Kamala, it's because the Alkosi nation is so wealthy that the royal family is "sheltered", so they were unaware of how bad things were for others. So they might be negligent, but they didn't deliberately let Bordemer families die.]]


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* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Matilda, the spirit possessing the armor of Sir Grand, is obsessed with getting revenge for what happened to her Bordemer, her hometown. She wants revenge on the Alkosi nation, even though it was pirates who destroyed the town, because Matilda mistakenly believes the Alkosi family ''deliberately'' allowed the pirates to destroy Bordemer because it was a fishing village that might someday have been competition for Alkosi. Vel, another citizen of Bordemer, also wants revenge, but is more reluctant about it than Matilda is.]]
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* TheHero'sBirthday: The game starts with the Squire celebrating his new career as well as his birthday... only to learn that same day he has to get ready for war in four months.

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* TheHero'sBirthday: TheHerosBirthday: The game starts with the Squire celebrating his new career as well as his birthday... only to learn that same day he has to get ready for war in four months.
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* TheHero'sBirthday: The game starts with the Squire celebrating his new career as well as his birthday... only to learn that same day he has to get ready for war in four months.

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* AffectionateParody: There are a lot of funny moments poking at the dating sim genre and how the squire himself is not nearly as much of a badass as he likes to think he is, but there is also a well crafted story split between multiple heroines and a lot of world-building lore despite the intro movie stating the player was likely here "for the ladies".



** Maxing out your intelligence reveals, they [[SubvertedTrope _aren't_]] this. They actually put pride on trickery and deceit. Their folk heroes are generally clever rather than barbarians.



* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Arnold Boden, the Squire's "Pops", originally came to Caerulia as a Gregnar spy, but then he met the love of his love and had Amy. He changed his ways, but not without a sleeper agent killing his wife to send a message.]]



** Hugh also counts. He is close friends to Pops, the Squire's adopted father, and while he has a bad rep of being a womanizer, he is still a high ranking logistics officer and pushes the squire to take his duties seriously.



** Princess Kamala Copperheart [[spoiler:grew up in a family with sexist views that expects little of women. Her younger brother is a SpoiledBrat but will still inherit the throne since he's male, and her father thinks her plans for diplomacy are foolish. This has caused Kamala to develop a hidden temper that isn't displayed if you're not playing her route.]]

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** Princess Kamala Copperheart [[spoiler:grew up in a family with sexist views that expects little of women. Her younger brother is a SpoiledBrat but will still inherit the throne since he's male, and her father thinks her plans for diplomacy are foolish. This has caused Kamala to develop a hidden temper that isn't displayed if you're not playing boplaying her route.]]


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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Played with for Boss, which is really a nickname. [[Spoiler: His real name is Barry Octavius Salem Sharpe, and he took the first letter of each word to form the cool sounding Boss.]]


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* IronButtMonkey: The squire goes through a lot of abuse, both in expeditions and in story, just to fulfill his duties.


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* NoodleIncident: How Hugh got his Squire in the first place. It's implied that the latter saved Hugh from an embarrassing peeping situation, but as far as Hugh is concerned, the story is that the Squire saved him from a pack of wolves.
* NotBloodSiblings: It's possible for the squire to romance Amy, his stepsister.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler: The Gregnars are normally seen as barbaric brutes, but have a strong spy network and prefer to use assassination tactics as a form of fear mongering. Clues of their cleverness come up after obtaining 10 intelligence, where the Squire realizes that a Gregnar fairy tale had a smart hero instead of a big dumb brute.]]


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* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler: The Ocarina of Love]]
* SnipeHunt: Hugh convinces the Squire to go on expeditions in the forest to find the rare "Ocarina of Love", an instrument said to bring people closer together. [[spoiler: It turns out to be RealAfterAll when all the slimes, wolves and bandits have been coordinating together because of the ringleader using it to brainwash them.]]
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** Maxing out your intelligence reveals, they [[SubvertedTrope _aren't_]] this. They actually put pride on trickery and deceit. Their folk heroes are generally clever rather than barbarians.
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* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler:If the squire begins a relationship with either Kamala or Beatrice, he becomes an unofficial "royal bodyguard" in addition to being the new queen's lover.]]
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** Amelia Boden sings, which the squire isn't looking forward to as she sings like a banshee [[spoiler:but thanks to off-screen coaching by Serena, Amelia actually sings ''very'' well for this contest.]]
** Giselle Renouve performs a magic trick by turning a rabbit into crows, though Giselle says it's real magic.
** Princess Beatrice du Cae shows off her skill at archery by shooting an apple off the squire's head.
** Princess Kamala Copperheart performs a dance using curved swords.
** Vel Scharfe lifts an entire barrel of ale with one hand and drinks out of it.

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** Amelia Boden sings, [[spoiler:sings, which the squire isn't looking forward to as she sings like a banshee [[spoiler:but but thanks to off-screen coaching by Serena, Amelia actually sings ''very'' well for this contest.]]
** Giselle Renouve performs [[spoiler:performs a magic trick by turning a rabbit into crows, though Giselle says it's real magic.
magic.]]
** Princess Beatrice du Cae shows [[spoiler:shows off her skill at archery by shooting an apple off the squire's head.
head.]]
** Princess Kamala Copperheart performs [[spoiler:performs a dance using curved swords.
swords.]]
** Vel Scharfe lifts [[spoiler:lifts an entire barrel of ale with one hand and drinks out of it.]]
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* TalentShow: The Ladies of the Lake contest, held on Month II Day 16, is both a beauty contest and a talent show combined into a single Caerulian tradition. Each contestant shows off a special talent, as follows:
** Amelia Boden sings, which the squire isn't looking forward to as she sings like a banshee [[spoiler:but thanks to off-screen coaching by Serena, Amelia actually sings ''very'' well for this contest.]]
** Giselle Renouve performs a magic trick by turning a rabbit into crows, though Giselle says it's real magic.
** Princess Beatrice du Cae shows off her skill at archery by shooting an apple off the squire's head.
** Princess Kamala Copperheart performs a dance using curved swords.
** Vel Scharfe lifts an entire barrel of ale with one hand and drinks out of it.
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* AlternativeCalendar: The game consists of four months out of the Caerulian year, divided into Month I, Month II, Month III, and Month IV. Each month consists of 30 days, and each week consists of 6 days instead of 7. There is no Sunday, and one of the "Traditions" conversations with Princess Beatrice reveals the reason for the missing day: a past king was rejected by a woman he was interested on that day, so in an event known as the "Daylight Slayings", he publicly stripped it off the calendar.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:If the squire doesn't end up romantically involved with a lady, but still maxes out his stats, then the ending will be this trope: the squire bemoans his lack of luck in love, but he and Hugh still manage to beat the Gegners and win the war for Caerulia, so the squire still has a knightly future to look forward to.]]

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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Caerulia is based on medieval Europe like many fantasy settings, but Alkosi, where Princess Kamala is from, appears to draw influence from Middle Eastern and East Indian cultures, and the Gegners, from what little we see of them, appear to be fantasy counterpart Vikings.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** The squire himself [[spoiler:wasn't able to do anything when bandits raided his village and killed his biological parents, which is how he got adopted by Amelia and her father. Part of why he wants to become a knight someday is so he'll never be that helpless again, and he can protect people in the future.]]
** Amelia Boden is normally a bright and cheery girl, but [[spoiler:in part she's putting on a brave face and smiling all the time since she thinks it'll make her more like her deceased mother, who died of an illness.]]
** Princess Kamala Copperheart [[spoiler:grew up in a family with sexist views that expects little of women. Her younger brother is a SpoiledBrat but will still inherit the throne since he's male, and her father thinks her plans for diplomacy are foolish. This has caused Kamala to develop a hidden temper that isn't displayed if you're not playing her route.]]
** Vel Scharfe [[spoiler:was a resident of a small village named Bordemer, and one day she helped out some shipwrecked merchants by pointing them to her village. They turned out to be pirates that then proceeded to [[UngratefulBastard repay her kindness by wiping out Bordemer]], and Vel has blamed herself ever since, so she's working towards Matilda the spirit's desire for revenge and imitating Matilda's idea of strength as a way of coping with her guilt.]]
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Caerulia is based on medieval Europe like many fantasy settings, but Alkosi, where Princess Kamala is from, appears to draw influence from Middle Eastern and East Indian cultures, and the Gegners, from what little we see of them, appear to be fantasy counterpart Vikings.cultures.


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* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Kamala feels this way about her temper, even when it leads her to do good deeds, and Vel feels this way about her role in the fall of Bordemer, which she copes with by pursuing Matilda's ideas of justice and strength.]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Gegners are a horde of dangerous barbarians, they're the bad guys you're going to war with after four months, and as the squire's voice-over tells you in the opening cinematic, that's all you need to know about them. In fact, this actually kicks off the larger plot: Caerulia and Alkosi have a very troubled history, but the Gegners are so dangerous and such a massive threat to peace that the two countries are attempting to hash out an alliance just to deal with them.


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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Caerulia is based on medieval Europe like many fantasy settings, but Alkosi, where Princess Kamala is from, appears to draw influence from Middle Eastern and East Indian cultures, and the Gegners, from what little we see of them, appear to be fantasy counterpart Vikings.
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* BeautyContest: The Ladies of the Lake contest, held on Month II Day 16, is both a cultural tradition in Caerulia and a beauty contest; participants in this contest both dress up in swimsuits and show off their special talents. The winner of this contest gets to go for a swim in the otherwise difficult-to-reach Lake Caerulia, and be blessed by the Fertility God, Caerulia's patron deity. There are five judges for this contest [[spoiler:but Marshal Flinkman bows out since he objects to Princess Kamala's participation this year, so the squire gets appointed as a last-minute replacement. He also ends up casting the "tiebreaker vote" that decides who wins the contest.]]
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* FragileSpeedster: The squire is this in comparison to Hugh. He can't directly attack enemies and he doesn't have as much HP, but he's also much faster than Hugh or the enemies are; if you choose any action except Cheer, the squire will always go first.
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* BeneathTheMask: The squire really looks up to Sir Grand, a female knight who works for Princess Beatrice. Sir Grand is usually decked out in an armor and a mask, but if you play a certain route, you eventually find out who she is: [[spoiler:She's a combination of Matilda, a spirit possessing the armor, and Vel Scharfe, one of your possible love interests, who needs to wear the armor so it can move.]]


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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Vel Scharfe, one of your possible love interests, likes to hang out in the tavern, drink ale, and pick fights. [[spoiler:Then this is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when it turns out Vel secretly has a sensitive personality and actually hates drinking; she only acts like this trope because she thinks it will make her more like Matilda, the spirit who trained Vel in combat.]]
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* FissionMailed:
** [[spoiler:In the first battle, you always get knocked out by a Masterinq that isn't supposed to be in the area. However, this will not cause a GameOver, and you'll still obtain 30 gold for "winning" the battle.]]
** Near the end of some romance arcs, [[spoiler:the squire and love interest have a very minor argument and you lose 200 affection with her. Not to worry, this is supposed to happen, and you can still make up the lost affection points through gifts and conversation.]]
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: At first, the story pokes fun at the squire for just being "the support" to Hugh's heroism. But as the story goes on, it becomes clear that the squire's support actually helps Hugh a ''lot'', and in a lot of the romance arcs, the woman goes through a really tough time, and the squire's support allows him to become a source of strength for her.


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* MightyGlacier: Hugh, the knight you serve, is very strong. However, he's also ''slow''; he always goes last in battles, after both the squire and the enemies have taken their turns. This is partially why the squire's support is so important, as without the squire, Hugh would eventually become overwhelmed by enemies.
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* ChivalrousPervert: The squire is not exactly subtle about his desire to no longer be a virgin, but he's also serious about helping people out as a squire, and as the story goes on he becomes a source of support to Hugh and to the woman he seeks a relationship with.


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* TheProtagonist: You play as Hugh's squire, whose goal is to become a worthy knight (and to seek a romantic relationship).
* TookALevelInBadass: The protagonist's goal is to do this, and he can succeed if you train his stats high enough.

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* FieryRedHead: Vel is... [[PlayingWithATrope not entirely this]]. She tries her best to imitate Milly, but her true nature is much more sensitive and sweet. She does play it straight in her own way occasionally.


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* FieryRedHead: Vel is... [[PlayingWithATrope not entirely this]]. She tries her best to imitate Milly, but her true nature is much more sensitive and sweet. She does play it straight in her own way occasionally, especially in her ending.
* LettingHerHairDown: Vel gets this in her ending.
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* Ojou Ringlets: Beatrice has these. Calling them fake is a bit of a BerserkButton.

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* {{Stripperiffic}}: Previously the fashion for nobles, who believed the favour of the Fertility God would shine on the one(s) with the most exposed skin. [[ExposedToTheElements Frostbite and a plague of bug bites put an end to that.]]

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* {{Stripperiffic}}: Previously the fashion for nobles, who believed the favour of the Fertility God would shine on the one(s) with the most exposed skin. [[ExposedToTheElements Frostbite and a plague of bug bites put an end to that.]]]]
* Ojou Ringlets: Beatrice has these. Calling them fake is a bit of a BerserkButton.
* YaoiFangirl: Pamu is one of these as you find out when you meet her. Seems to ship the Squire with Sir Hugh.
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* FireyRedHead: Vel is... [[PlayingWithATrope not entirely this]]. She tries her best to imitate Milly, but her true nature is much more sensitive and sweet. She does play it straight in her own way occasionally.

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* FireyRedHead: FieryRedHead: Vel is... [[PlayingWithATrope not entirely this]]. She tries her best to imitate Milly, but her true nature is much more sensitive and sweet. She does play it straight in her own way occasionally.
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The game is available for purchase through [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/849740/Love_Esquire__RPGDating_SimVisual_Novel/ Steam.]]
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* MultipleEndings: Depending on who is romanced, as well as whether or not the Squire can survive the upcoming war.

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* ChainmailBikini: It's mentioned during an event that warriors of the kingdom used to wear such armour due to the belief it would bring the protection of their [[LoveGoddess patron god]] by exposing their bodies. [[RealityEnsues It did not.]]
* MultipleEndings: Depending on who is romanced, as well as whether or not the Squire can survive the upcoming war.war.
* Stripperiffic: Previously the fashion for nobles, who believed the favour of the Fertility God would shine on the one(s) with the most exposed skin. [[ExposedToTheElements Frostbite and a plague of bug bites put an end to that.]]
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'''''Love Esquire''''' is a VisualNovel/RPG made by Yangyang, released on October 8th, 2019. The game has suggestive content, but is not outright explicit ([[BleachedUnderpants at least not without the mods made by the developers]]).

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'''''Love Esquire''''' is a VisualNovel/RPG made by Yangyang, Yangyang Mobile, creators of VisualNovel/TheLetter, released on October 8th, 2019. The game has suggestive content, but is not outright explicit ([[BleachedUnderpants at least not without the mods made by the developers]]).
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[[caption-width-right:350:The squire, & the five main love interests, recreating Michelangelo's ''The Creation of Adam''.]]

'''''Love Esquire''''' is a VisualNovel/RPG made by Yangyang, released on October 8th, 2019. The game has suggestive content, but is not outright explicit ([[BleachedUnderpants at least not without the mods made by the developers]]).

War is approaching, and our protagonist hopes of finding romance before dying in combat for their kingdom. This is difficult, as he is not a valiant hero; he's a mere squire to an egotistic knight named Hugh. However, by providing support in Hugh's quest, the Squire will improve as well, perhaps enough to woo the heart of a fair maiden with a troubled past...
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!!''Love Esquire'' provides examples of the following:

* TheCameo: Pamu from ''VideoGame/CrushCrush'' is the kingdom's Grand Archivist, & WebVideo/JesseCox provides the voice and appearance for "Boss".
* MultipleEndings: Depending on who is romanced, as well as whether or not the Squire can survive the upcoming war.

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