History VisualNovel / TickTack

* OperaGloves: Ai occasionally wears very long, white gloves. Usually she wears much shorter ones, however.

* ExcitedShowTitle: See the exclamation marks.

* ForWantOfANail: Make little tweaks to the timeline can drastically effect what happens to Nerine in the future.

* GuideDangIt: To get everything you want out of this story, you need to juggle historical accuracy values, multiple sets of relationship values pointing towards different characters, view scenes in the right order and avoid doing everything too fast or Itsuki will send you back to your own time. You can get a good ending fairly easily without the precise knowledge of a walkthrough, but you’ll be missing important scenes and events.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Hair color is all over the place. There’s dark reds, purples and blues to go around.

* YourCheatingHeart: Pursuing events with Ai or Sage and not pushing them towards Forbesii leads to Rin having an affair. [[spoiler:Works out okay somehow. Nerine is an understanding girl, apparently.]]

* BlackComedyRape: When Nerine [[spoiler: turns into a loli offscreen, causing her to fall out of her now-too-big clothes]], she was found by Ria, who later jokes to Rin what would happen if it was Itsuki who've had found her. This causes Nerine to visibly cry at the mere though.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Rin mocks Mayumi early on for not having a route in ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}.''
* ButLiquorIsQuicker: Ai has to get herself really drunk [[spoiler:before switching to going after Rin.]]

* TheDevil: Thanks to human misunderstandings, a race that is more like elves are known as devils. Rin dryly notes that satanic cultists around the world would commit suicide if they could see what a dork 'the devil' is.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Both Red Nerine, [[LikeFatherLikeSon and]] Ai can, to various extent, try to rape Rin. Former has event, that can happen if she loses her memories... except her body still remembers Rin, and she wants to know what it feels like. She is rather forceful, straddling him despite his objections, and he will point it out later that she basically raped him, [[EasilyForgiven even if won't be slightest angry about it]]. Latter will joke about forcing him to sleep with her if he refuses her advances after she falls for him (Sage takes rejection more gracefully, if through tears), and although she seems capable to go through it, with her being decent magician, she quickly lets Rin take the lead once she persuades him to go through with it.

* InterclassRomance: Sage is a maid. Forbesii is the crown prince. Nerine is the result.

** If you pursue Sage, Forbesii will marry Ai instead and the purple haired Nerine will replace the Nerine Rin knew. Sage quits working for Forbesii and doesn't show up in the present [[spoiler:unlike Ai.]]

** You can pile up a lot of affection points with Ai [[spoiler:and make her give up on Forbesii and go for Rin instead.]] Rin goes back to his time and when he gets home [[spoiler:Ai has been waiting for him for twenty years. Nerine is confused but apparently it’s just not that big of a deal that Rin now has two lovers.]]

** Nerine’s personality and aspects of her appearance flip based on whether or not you’re matching the 'real' timeline of events. Sage is Nerine’s mother, but if the timeline isn’t followed properly her mother will instead be Ai. The blue Nerine is calm and polite while the purple Nerine is energetic and chatty. They both have Nerine’s memories though [[spoiler:unless you keep screwing with the timeline.]]

* ISeeLondon: Thanks to the Thunder Kick, numerous people get to enjoy Sage’s underwear.

* ArrangedMarriage: Ai’s marriage to Forbesii was arranged before they even met. She loves the idea. He doesn’t seem to really care.

* BlackComedyRape: When Nerine [[spoiler: turns to loli offscreen, causing her to fall out of her now-too-big clothes]], she was found by Ria, who later jokes to Rin what would happen if it was Itsuki who've had found her. This causes Nerine to visibly cry at the mere though.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Downplayed in [[spoiler: Red]] Nerine Good Ending. While walking with Rin, she notes she would get jealous, if he played with girls she doesn't know, implying it would be okay if he fooled around with Kaede or Sia.

* TheDevil: Thanks to human misunderstandings, a race that is more like elves are known as devils. Rin dryly notes that satanic cultists around the world would commit suicide if they could see what a dork lacking in dignity 'the devil' is.

* MarryThemAll: There are endings where you also hook up with Ai along with whatever version of Nerine is with you. The purple Nerine even says pretty bluntly 'Yeah, so long as it’s a girl I know it’s okay.'

** If you pursue Sage, Forbesii will marry Ai instead and the purple haired Nerine will replace the Nerine Rin knew.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Both Red Nerine, [[LikeFatherLikeSon and]] Ai can, to various extent, try to rape Rin. Former has event, that can happen if she loses her memories... except her body still remembers Rin, and she wants to know what it feels like. She is rather forceful, straddling him despite his objections, and he will point it out later that she basically raped him, [[EasilyForgiven even if won't be slightest angry about it]]. Latter will joke about forcing him to sleep with her if he refuses her advances after she falls for him (Sage takes rejection more gracefully, if through tears), and although she seems capable to go through it, with being powerful magician, she quickly lets Rin take the lead once she persuades him to throught with it.

* LeathalChef: Nerine and Cineraria.

* GenkiGirl: Ria is like some sort of perverse mix of Sia and Asa from the original, making her cheery, meddlesome and rash.

''Tick! Tack!'' Is one of several sequels to ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' and the only one so far to be translated into English. It is a direct continuation of Nerine’s ending and begins when Mayumi, Nerine, Rin and Itsuki accidentally activate a magical device and hurl themselves twenty years into the past and into the demon world, where they meet a younger Forbesii, his fiancée Ai and the maid Sage. As it turns out, Nerine’s mother is actually Sage, but due to the distraction that their appearance caused, Sage was unable to give Forbesii the gift she had intended that would have led to him proposing to her.

* ThemeNaming: Almost the entire cast is named for plants, though Forebesii's unseen father is named after a kind of sea nymph.

** Ai is written in katakana and refers to a plant known as persicaria tinctoria which has historically been used as a source for indigo dye.

* ThemeNaming: Almost the entire cast is named for plants, though Forebesii's unseen father is named after a kind of sea nymph and Ai also means nothing in particular, though it's a homonym for several possible words.

* ThemeNaming: The devils seem to be named for plants apart from Ai.

* TheCasanova: Despite his failure to get on Sage, Nerine or Ai’s good sides, he’s still noted to be very popular.

* MarryThemAll: There are endings where you also hook up with Ai or Sage along with whatever version of Nerine is with you. The purple Nerine even says pretty bluntly 'Yeah, so long as it’s a girl I know it’s okay.'

** Nerine’s personality and aspects of her appearance flip based on whether or not you’re matching the 'real' timeline of events. Sage is Nerine’s mother, but if the timeline isn’t followed properly her mother will instead be whatserface. The blue Nerine is calm and polite while the purple Nerine is energetic and chatty. They both have Nerine’s memories though [[spoiler:unless you keep screwing with the timeline.]]

* MismatchedEyes: Mayumi has heterochromia, presumably a result of having been born between a devil and a human.

* FacelessProtagonist: You never see Rin’s face.

* FacelessProtagonist: You never see RIn’s face.

* FreakyFridayFlip:
** Nerine’s personality and aspects of her appearance flip based on whether or not you’re matching the 'real' timeline of events. Sage is Nerine’s mother, but if the timeline isn’t followed properly her mother will instead be whatserface. The blue Nerine is calm and polite while the purple Nerine is energetic and chatty. They both have Nerine’s memories though [[spoiler:unless you keep screwing with the timeline.]]
** Ria casts a spell on Itsuki that makes him think he’s a girl. Terror ensues.

* TheLongPath: [[spoiler:Ai waits twenty years for Rin if he seduces her. Nerine is pretty understanding somehow, though she doesn’t want Ai to monopolize him.]]

* Casanova: Despite his failure to get on Sage, Nerine or Ai’s good sides, he’s still noted to be very popular.

* Meido: Sage was hired to help with the housework one year before, though Forbesii keeps irritating her by trying to take over the cooking.

* Tsundere: Sage lets her emotions out through kicks. She’s pretty nice to Rin though.

* FreakyThursdayFlip