History YMMV / AbraxasHrodvitnon

** San can be seen as an interesting, formerly semi-villainous example; who individually doesn't quite cross into [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Destroyer of Worlds]] territory because he isn't as personally motivated as his brothers are to be an OmnicidalManiac, nor does he have the [[{{Jerkass}} behavior type]] for a JerkassWoobie. [[spoiler:San and his brothers were tortured and forcibly transformed into Ghidorah by an alien civilization who captured them, and whilst Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother were DrivenToVillainy by their trauma, San grew curious about the alien "little ones" and other small, technological species, which angered his brothers who were [[BigBrotherBully Big Brother Bullies]] toward him ever after their StartOfDarkness]]. For an unknown length of time which could've been millions of years, San was starved of affection while attached to his brothers. And immediately after he gets a new sibling in the form of Vivienne who is better than his brothers, she for the first several months doesn’t trust him, and he shares in a lot of, if not all, of her TraumaCongaLine.

* TakeThatScrappy: Emma Russell posthumously remains unforgiven by Vivienne and her own daughter especially for her actions. In Chapter 12, Madison rightfully calls out the things about the character that made her UnintentionallyUnsympathetic in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', and Mark questions if her HeroicSacrifice really made up for all the harm she caused millions of people.

* TakeThatScrappy: Emma Russell posthumously remains unforgiven by Vivienne and her own daughter especially for her actions, and Mark Russell questions if her HeroicSacrifice really made up for all the harm she caused millions of people.

%%* CompleteMonster: Ichi and Ni.

* TakeThat:
** Bits of Jonah's vicious rant at Vivienne in Chapter 5 seem like the author subtly calling out the [=MonsterVerse=] writers for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter wasting Sally]] [[WeHardlyKnewYe Hawkins' character]], and for the way the characters in ''King of the Monsters'' seem to quickly forget about Vivienne after the writers DroppedABridgeOnHer (in contrast to their reactions to Serizawa's sacrifice)[[note]]This isn’t counted as a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]], because it's shown during the fic that Monarch and the Russells really do miss Vivienne and regard her highly[[/note]].
** Though he isn't a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] per se, TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that Mark Russell gets in Chapter 8 (his first in-the-flesh appearance in the story), coupled with how he's viewed by many people at Monarch due to his former Titan-hating reputation and the YouShouldHaveDiedInstead over Vivienne's death; seem like the author pulling a subtle Take That at the character. It was rather satisfying for readers who disliked Mark in the film.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The [=MonsterVerse's=] canon has been criticized for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter doing barely anything with Vivienne's character]] before she was killed off in an unceremonious manner, plus her characterization was largely confined to the supplementary and spin-off materials. Here, as one of the story's two main {{protagonist}}s she is given much more development and brought BackFromTheDead.

** Though he isn't a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] per se, TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that Mark Russell gets in Chapter 8 (his first in-the-flesh appearance in the story), coupled with how he's viewed by many people at Monarch due to his former Titan-hating reputation and the YouShouldHaveDiedInstead over Vivienne's death; seem like the author pulling a subtle Take That at the character. It's rather satisfying for readers who disliked Mark in the film.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Vivienne's characterization is expanded upon by the author, who is evidently a Sally Hawkins fan. In canon, Vivienne was popular enough that [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter some audiences were vocally displeased]] by her [[DroppedABridgeOnHer untimely death]], but was largely presented as a SatelliteCharacter to Serizawa and had little personality of her own.

* TakeThat: Bits of Jonah's vicious rant at Vivienne in Chapter 5 seem like the author subtly calling out the [=MonsterVerse=] writers for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter wasting Sally]] [[WeHardlyKnewYe Hawkins’ character]], and for the way the characters in ''King of the Monsters'' seem to quickly forget about Vivienne after the writers DroppedABridgeOnHer (in contrast to their reactions to Serizawa's sacrifice)[[note]]This isn’t counted as a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]], because it’s shown during the fic that Monarch and the Russells really do miss Vivienne and regard her highly[[/note]].
* UnexpectedCharacter: The Skullcrawlers were quite a surprise to a few readers.

** There's a humorous moment where Vivienne's VolcanicVeins appear like [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 something intimate]] when she encounters Godzilla.

** Jonah stating "Long live the king" in response to King Ghidorah taking over the Titans in the movie becomes this [[spoiler:after he becomes part of the Many]]. Whereas his line in the film was somewhat sarcastic, [[spoiler:as the Many he's genuinely a Ghidorah-worshipping fanatic]].

** It's amusing, and uplifting for the pro-Titan crowd, when you realize that Vivienne, a woman who reveres the Titans as {{Physical God}}s, was thought by the world to have been eaten by one of the very monsters she worshipped (it's worth noting Ghidorah was the only Titan she truly feared, even while it was frozen), but the world will likely at some point find out she has actually been elevated to godhood among the Titans' ranks.

** Overlapping with HilariousInHindsight, it's both uplifting and amusing when you realize that Vivienne, a woman who reveres the Titans as {{Physical God}}s, was thought by the world to have been eaten by one of the very monsters she worshipped (it's worth noting Ghidorah was the only Titan she truly feared, even while it was frozen); but the world will likely at some point find out she has actually been elevated to godhood among the Titans' ranks.

** [[spoiler:Ghidorah, with its decidedly Lovecraftian psychic influence, also makes this trope]].

* {{Squick}}: Monster X's BodyHorror in its first form and the chronic agony which comes with it. Viv and San's HeroicRROD was probably the squickest example. [[spoiler:Then there's also the reveal of what the {{Artificial Zombie}}s look like]].

** The author intended San to have shades of this. It's up to you whether he comes off as creepy, cute, or a bit of both.

** Godzilla and Mothra have one affectionate physical interaction which could be read as subtextual. Fitting since the author is a shipper.

* CreepyAwesome: [[spoiler:Ghidorah, with its decidedly Lovecraftian psychic influence, makes this trope]].

** Overlapping with HilariousInHindsight, it's both uplifting and amusing when you realize that Vivienne, a woman who reveres the Titans as {{Physical God}}s, was thought by the world to have been eaten by one of the very monsters she worshipped (it's worth noting Ghidorah was the only Titan she truly feared, even while it was frozen); but the world will at some point find out she has actually been elevated to godhood among the Titans' ranks.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Vivienne's characterization is expanded upon by the author, who is evidently a Sally Hawkins fan. In canon, although Vivienne was popular enough that [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter some audiences were not pleased]] by her [[DroppedABridgeOnHer untimely death]], she was largely a SatelliteCharacter to Serizawa who had little personality of her own.

** Somewhat. It's open to interpretation in the film whether Vivienne died instantaneously from being crushed when Ghidorah's jaws shut around her, or was slowly crushed with the ice, or went down its oesophagus still alive. In this fic, it's confirmed by Vivienne's flashbacks it was the latter.

** Overlapping with HilariousInHindsight, it's both uplifting and amusing when you realize that Vivienne, a woman who reveres the Titans as {{Physical God}}s, was thought by the world to have been eaten by one of the very monsters she worshipped (it's worth noting Ghidorah was the only Titan she truly feared, even while it was frozen), but she has actually been elevated to godhood among the Titans' ranks.

** Jonah crosses it when he uses Viv and San as guinea pigs for testing ammunition due to their HealingFactor. InUniverse, Vivienne certainly feels he's absolutely crossed the line when it's revealed in Chapter 6 that [[spoiler:he's been using the mercenaries' refugee labor as unwilling test-subjects for experiments with Ghidorah's DNA]].

** PlayedForLaughs when Vivienne encounters Godzilla after her transformation, as her VolcanicVeins effect unintentionally appears to Titans like [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 something intimate]].
* {{Squick}}: Monster X's BodyHorror in its first form and the chronic agony which comes with it. Viv and San's HeroicRROD was probably the squickest example. Then there's also the reveal of [[spoiler:what the {{Artificial Zombie}}s look like]].
* TakeThat: Bits of Jonah's vicious rant at Vivienne in Chapter 5 seem like the author subtly calling out the [=MonsterVerse=] writers for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter wasting Sally]] [[SatelliteCharacter Hawkins’ character]], and for the way the characters in ''King of the Monsters'' seem to quickly forget about Vivienne after the writers DroppedABridgeOnHer (which is in contrast to their reactions to Serizawa's sacrifice)[[note]]This isn’t counted as a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]], because it’s shown during the fic that Monarch and the Russells really do miss Vivienne and regard her highly[[/note]].

** San can be seen as an interesting, formerly semi-villainous example; who individually doesn't quite cross into [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Destroyer of Worlds]] territory because he isn't as personally motivated as his brothers are to be an OmnicidalManiac, nor does he have the [[{{Jerkass}} behavior type]] for a JerkassWoobie. [[spoiler:San and his brothers were tortured and forcibly transformed into Ghidorah by an alien civilization who captured them, and whilst Ichi (Eldest Brother) and Ni (Elder Brother) were DrivenToVillainy by their trauma, San grew curious about the alien "little ones" and other small, technological species, which angered his brothers who were [[BigBrotherBully Big Brother Bullies]] toward him ever after their StartOfDarkness]]. For an unknown length of time which could've been millions of years, San was starved of affection while attached to his brothers. And immediately after he gets a new sibling in the form of Vivienne who is better than his brothers, she for the first several months doesn’t trust him, and he shares in a lot of, if not all, of her TraumaCongaLine.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Vivienne's characterization is expanded upon by the author, who is evidently a Sally Hawkins fan, whereas in canon she was a SatelliteCharacter who had little personality of her own [[WeHardlyKnewYe before her]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter untimely demise]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: In canon, Vivienne was a SatelliteCharacter with little CharacterDevelopment of her own. In this fic, her characterization is expanded upon by the author, who is evidently a Sally Hawkins fan.

** It's stated in Chapter 5 that San is “hard-wired” to act as the sentry head, first for Ghidorah and now for Monster X, which might be literal or metaphorical. [[spoiler:After Ghidorah's origin is revealed in Chapter 10, this could actually mean that San endured [[{{Lobotomy}} having his brain physically altered]] (or the neurological equivalent for his and his brothers' BizarreAlienBiology), probably while he was conscious. Furthermore, it could mean that Ichi and Ni underwent the same thing to make them malicious and psychotic respectively, in which case their StartOfDarkness is more tragic than it already appears to be]].
** The fic does this for Serizawa's HeroicSacrifice in the movie and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it. It's suggested in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/11 Chapter 11]] that he was motivated not just by the necessity of reviving Godzilla but also partly by the hope he'd be with Vivienne in death -- but she was actually being slowly brought back to life the entire time, so his sacrifice instead cut off their chances of seeing each-other again.

** A bittersweet case, but Vivienne Graham's Monarch Sciences bio states she always wanted a life of adventure since the museum incident in her childhood -- losing her humanity by being transformed into part of a chimera Titan, she certainly has that now.
** Overlapping with HilariousInHindsight, it's both amusing and uplifting when you realize that Vivienne, a woman who reveres the Titans as {{Physical God}}s, was thought by the world to have been eaten by one of the very monsters she worshipped (it's worth noting Ghidorah was the only Titan she truly feared, even while it was frozen), but she has actually been elevated to godhood among the Titans' ranks.
** Remember Serizawa's Tearjerker HeroicSacrifice? Well, when Godzilla brings his revival up in Chapter 9...

** With Ghidorah (San's brothers Ichi and Ni), it's definitely not a case of if but when they cross it. They destroyed numerous worlds before arriving on Earth (San and Ni/Elder Brother could probably be excluded from this MEH-crossing, due to San's [[TheAtoner Atoner]] CharacterDevelopment coupled with the implication Ichi/Eldest Brother was the trio's leader); Ichi/Eldest Brother ordered San to transform Vivienne out of utter spite with the intention of granting her a FateWorseThanDeath; [[spoiler: Ghidorah has been attempting vicious MindRape and BreakThemByTalking on Viv and San (for San's EvilDoppelganger this might count as an MEH); and then there's Ghidorah's psychic influence driving Jonah and his paramilitary, including poor Sergeant Travis, mad]].

** Godzilla and Mothra have one affectionate physical interaction which could be read as subtextual, fitting since the author is a shipper.
** PlayedForLaughs when Vivienne first encounters Godzilla after her transformation, as her VolcanicVeins efffect unintentionally appears to Titans like [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 something intimate]].
* {{Squick}}: Monster X's BodyHorror in its first form –- Viv and San's HeroicRROD was probably the squickest example. Then there's also the reveal of [[spoiler:what the {{Artificial Zombie}}s look like]].
* TakeThat: Bits of Jonah's vicious rant at Vivienne in Chapter 5 also seem like the author subtly calling out the [=MonsterVerse=] canon writers for [[WeHardlyKnewYe wasting Sally]] [[SatelliteCharacter Hawkins’ character]], and for the way the characters in ''King of the Monsters'' seemed to quickly forget about Vivienne after the writers DroppedABridgeOnHer (which was in contrast to their reactions to Serizawa's sacrifice)[[note]]This isn’t counted as a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]], because it’s shown during the fic that Monarch and the Russells really do miss Vivienne and regard her highly[[/note]].

** Vivienne of course, with the TraumaCongaLine she endures onwards from the point where she gets EatenAlive by Ghidorah (see her character folder for details). And as a cherry on the cake, there's the fact that before that she did have some SurvivorGuilt over the deaths of people she felt responsible for or personally knew that were caused by Titans and Jonah's mercenaries.

* TakeThat: ZigZagged. Bits of Jonah's vicious rant at Vivienne in Chapter 5 also seem like the author subtly calling out the [=MonsterVerse=] canon writers for [[WeHardlyKnewYe wasting Sally]] [[SatelliteCharacter Hawkins’ character]], and for the way the characters in ''King of the Monsters'' seemed to quickly forget about Vivienne after the writers DroppedABridgeOnHer (which was in contrast to their reactions to Serizawa's sacrifice)[[note]]This isn’t counted as a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]], because it’s shown during the fic that Monarch and the Russells really do miss Vivienne and regard her highly[[/note]].

* CrazyAwesome: Vivienne's PTSD driving her into an UnstoppableRage proves useful a couple times, although as San and Godzilla note, she needs to learn to remain in control when attacking others to avoid losing herself.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: A bittersweet case, but Vivienne Graham's Monarch Sciences bio states she always wanted a life of adventure since the museum incident in her childhood -- losing her humanity by being transformed into part of a chimera Titan, she certainly has that now.

** Overlapping with HilariousInHindsight, it's both amusing and uplifting when you realize that Vivienne, a woman who reveres the Titans as {{Physical God}}s, was thought by the world to have been eaten by one of the very monsters she adored (though it's worth noting Ghidorah was the only Titan she truly feared even while it was frozen), but instead she has actually been essentially elevated to godhood.

** Overlapping with HilariousInHindsight, it's both amusing and heartwarming when you realize that Vivienne, a woman who reveres the Titans as {{Physical God}}s, was thought by the world to have been eaten by one of the very monsters she adored (though it's worth noting Ghidorah was the only Titan she truly feared even while it was frozen), but instead she has essentially ascended to godhood on their level.

** With Ghidorah (San's brothers Ichi and Ni), it's definitely not a case of if but when they cross it. They destroyed numerous worlds before arriving on Earth (San and Ni/Elder Brother could probably be excluded from this MEH-crossing due to San's [[TheAtoner Atoner]] CharacterDevelopment coupled with the implication Ichi/Eldest Brother was the trio's leader), Ichi/Eldest Brother ordered San to transform Vivienne out of utter spite with the intention of granting her a FateWorseThanDeath, [[spoiler: Ghidorah has been attempting vicious MindRape and BreakThemByTalking on Viv and San, and then there's Ghidorah's MoreThanMindControl effects on Jonah's paramilitary]].

** With Ghidorah (San's brothers Ichi and Ni), it's definitely not a case of if but when they cross it. They destroyed numerous worlds before arriving on Earth, Ichi/Eldest Brother ordered San to transform Vivienne out of utter spite with the intention of granting her a FateWorseThanDeath, [[spoiler: Ghidorah has been attempting vicious MindRape and BreakThemByTalking on Viv and San, and then there's Ghidorah's MoreThanMindControl effects on Jonah's paramilitary]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Morbidly, somewhat. The way the fic makes Serizawa's sacrifice HarsherInHindsight is very Shakespearian (see above).
* MoralEventHorizon: Jonah crosses it when he uses Viv and San as guinea pigs for testing ammunition due to their HealingFactor. InUniverse, Vivienne certainly feels he's absolutely crossed the line when it's revealed in Chapter 6 that [[spoiler:he's been using the mercenaries' refugee labor as unwilling test-subjects for experiments with Ghidorah's DNA]].

** After the suffering Jonah has put Vivi and San through in the story's first act, seeing him undergoing a slow SanitySlippage in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/6 Chapter 6]] and also seeing Vivi and San get one over on him verbally does feel pretty good.

** San can be seen as an interesting, formerly semi-villainous example; who individually doesn't quite cross into [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Destroyer of Worlds]] territory because he isn't as personally motivated as his brothers are to be an OmnicidalManiac, nor does he have the [[{{Jerkass}} behavior type]] for a JerkassWoobie. [[spoiler:San and his brothers were tortured and forcibly transformed into Ghidorah by an alien civilization who captured them, and whilst Ichi (Eldest Brother) and Ni (Elder Brother) were DrivenToVillainy by their trauma, San grew curious about the alien "little ones" and other small, technological species, which angered his brothers who were [[BigBrotherBully Big Brother Bullies]] toward him ever after their StartOfDarkness]]. For an unknown length of time which could've been millions of years, San was starved of affection while attached to his brothers. And immediately after he gets a new sibling in the form of Vivienne who is better than his brothers, she for the first several months doesn’t trust him, and he shares in a lot of if not all of her TraumaCongaLine.

** After the suffering Jonah has put Vivi and San through in the story’s first act, seeing him undergoing a slow SanitySlippage in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/6 Chapter 6]] and also seeing Vivi and San get one over on him verbally does feel pretty good.

** Somewhat. It’s open to interpretation in the film whether Vivienne died instantaneously from being crushed when Ghidorah’s jaws shut around her, or was slowly crushed with the ice or went down its oesophagus still alive. In this fic, it’s confirmed by Vivienne’s flashbacks it was the latter.
** It’s stated in Chapter 5 that San is “hard-wired” to act as the sentry head, first for Ghidorah and now for Monster X, which might be literal or metaphorical. [[spoiler:After Ghidorah’s origin is revealed in Chapter 10, this could actually mean that San endured [[{{Lobotomy}} having his brain physically altered]] (or the neurological equivalent for his and his brothers’ BizarreAlienBiology), probably while he was conscious. Furthermore, it could mean that Ichi and Ni underwent the same thing to make them malicious and psychotic respectively, in which case their StartOfDarkness is even more not-their-fault than it already superficially appears to be]].
** The fic does this for Serizawa’s HeroicSacrifice in the movie and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it. It’s suggested in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/11 Chapter 11]] that he was motivated not just by the necessity of reviving Godzilla but also partly by the hope he’d be with Vivienne in death -- but she was actually being slowly brought back to life the entire time, so his sacrifice instead cut off their chances of seeing each-other again.
* HilariousInHindsight: Morbidly, somewhat. The way the fic makes Serizawa’s sacrifice HarsherInHindsight is very Shakespearian (see above).
* MoralEventHorizon: Jonah crosses it when he uses Viv and San as guinea pigs for testing ammunition due to their HealingFactor. InUniverse, Vivienne certainly feels he’s absolutely crossed the line when it's revealed in Chapter 6 that [[spoiler:he's been using the mercenaries' refugee labor as unwilling test-subjects for experiments with Ghidorah's DNA]].
* {{Squick}}: Monster X’s BodyHorror in its first form – Viv and San’s HeroicRROD was probably the squickest example. Then there’s also the reveal of [[spoiler:what the {{Artificial Zombie}}s look like]].
* TheWoobie: San can be seen as an interesting, formerly semi-villainous example; who individually doesn’t quite cross into [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Destroyer of Worlds]] territory because he isn’t as personally motivated as his brothers are to be an OmnicidalManiac, nor does he have the [[{{Jerkass}} behavior type]] for a JerkassWoobie. [[spoiler:San and his brothers were tortured and forcibly transformed into Ghidorah by an alien civilization who captured them, and whilst Ichi (Eldest Brother) and Ni (Elder Brother) were DrivenToVillainy by their trauma, San grew curious about the alien “little ones” and other small, technological species, which angered his brothers who were [[BigBrotherBully Big Brother Bullies]] toward him ever after their StartOfDarkness]]. For an unknown length of time which could’ve been millions of years, San was starved of affection while attached to his brothers. And immediately after he gets a new sibling in the form of Vivienne who is better than his brothers, she for the first several months doesn’t trust him, and they’re in a state of chronic agony due to their CameBackWrong form. And when they finally leave their initial captivity and BodyHorror behind, [[spoiler:Ghidorah comes BackFromTheDead and tries to get under San’s skin as well as Vivienne’s]].

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