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1	[MASSIVE PAGE WIP]
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3	''W@tchtower Grotto'' is a work in progress story of a currently unclear medium, that Tropers/TeamKarasu has been messing with and tweaking for about 11 years.
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5	!!''W@tchtower Grotto'' provides examples of:
6	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Forrest and Mikami have occasional moments like this, in which Mikami stops hiding how much he cares about Forrest.
7	* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Forrest and Mikami most notably.
8	* BirdsOfAFeather: Luz and Yukai-toki bond over their nigh-identical ideas of, and approaches to justice.
9	* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Orelo and Pendragon, respectively, were this when they first met. They've changed radically as they've grown up together.
10	* DestructiveRomance: [[spoiler: Kutsuuko and post-revelation Nana never quite reach this level, but they approach it and often dance just around its borders with the way that they keep [[SarcasmMode completely randomly and inadvertently]] running into each other. Kutsuuko knows Nana broke him, and Nana knows he broke Kutsuuko. Most likely because of how long they were together and because of Kutsuuko's left-over UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome paired with Nana's sense of [[MustMakeAmends guilt and obligation]], there's this underlying feeling that they are fated to be together, one way or another.]]
11	%%* DivineDate: Nageki and Kyuun.
12	* DomesticAbuse: One of the most consistent themes of the story relates to just how many kinds of domestic abuse there are, and how trauma affects different people in different but equally valid ways.
13	* EarnYourHappyEnding: No one gets out of this story unscarred, and those who get happy endings, or at least the promise of a future happy ending, have to work their asses off for it between the external AND internal forces that stand against them. [[spoiler: [[GroundhogPeggySue Mikami]] most of all.]]
14	* EatingTheEyeCandy: Nageki does this with Kyuun quite a bit, when they're supposed to be enemies.
15	* EveryoneIsBi: There are very, very few straight characters in W@tchtower Grotto. There are slightly more gay characters, but most of the cast is bisexual.
16	* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Only serves to amplify Luz's attraction to Yukai-toki.
17	* FriendsWithBenefits: Nageki and Kyuun after she and her party pull him back out of his own head. They never become an OfficialCouple, but they do end up [[PlatonicLifePartners very close friends, emotionally and physically]].
18	* HighSchoolSweethearts: Pendragon and Orelo knew they were going to get married years before they actually did, and they've been maintaining a healthy, stable marriage for a long time now.
19	* [[LadyAndKnight Lord And Knight]]: Kyuun and Yonbanme have a dynamic like this, during all phases of Kyuun's character development.
20	* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Averted for Nageki and Kyuun and similar mortal/immortal couples.
21	* MeaningfulName: Most characters' names.
22	* PlatonicLifePartners: Nageki and Kyuun, Desiderius and Annabelle, and Yukai-toki and Mezzo-Forte.
23	%%* PlotArmor
24	* PrecociousCrush: [[AbhorrentAdmirer Kutsuuko]] has one on Nageki.
25	* SchoolgirlSeries: It begins as this.
26	* VillainousCrush: Kutsuuko's on Nageki, though he has no real power (or desire) to force her to be his.
27	* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Part of Nageki's attraction to Kyuun is her desire to protect him and save him.
28
29	!Characters
30
31	Characters will primarily be separated by location. This page is in the process of being cleaned up.
32
33	[[foldercontrol]]
34
35	[[folder:The Main Heroes]]
36	!! Nageki Shikimori
37	* CelibateHero: She at first seems this way, not showing any romantic or sexual interest in anyone. And then she meets Kyuun.
38	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Hot pink.
39	* FramesOfReference: Hers are circular, and she's one of the most friendly and easygoing characters of the cast.
40	* MaleGaze: [[RareMaleExample Rare Female Example]], in the fact that what Nageki ahem, [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciates]], about Kyuun's appearance is in his slender waist, hips and legs. On top of his personality, that is, which she finds incredibly amusing and endearing, even after he returns to his normal self.
41	* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Mizune.
42	%%* RoseHairedSweetie
43	%%* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
44	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
45
46	!! Mizune Tamazuna
47	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Baby blue.
48	* FashionHurts: She endures the pain, though. [[spoiler: It's a source of where some of her dysphoria comes from, the idea that fashion hurts for her at all. What worries her is the idea that fashion hurts for every girl, but they don't complain about it because they've had to hurt their whole lives, while Mizune has 'only' had to hurt from the time she started presenting as a woman.]]
49	%%* GirlyBruiser
50	%%* [[PinkGirlBlueBoy Pink Girl, Blue Girl]]: With Nageki.
51	* ThePollyanna: Though she's an awfully quiet lady, she tries her best to be the optimist to Nageki's realist.
52	* TransTribulations: [[spoiler: Her human world equivalent, unfortunately, cannot safely live and present as a girl. She's closeted, and presents entirely as a boy.]]
53	* ShrinkingViolet: She starts out this way.
54	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mizune's girly-girl. [[spoiler: As Mizune grows more comfortable with herself and understands that she doesn't have to dress as femininely as possible at all times to be a real woman, Mizune and Nageki's wardrobes swap this trope depending on their whims.]]
55	%%* TrueBlueFemininity
56
57	!! Annabelle
58	* ArousedByTheirVoice: [[spoiler:Part of his secret crush on Desiderius.]]
59	%%* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Teal.
60	%%* DefrostingIceQueen
61	* GrumpyOldMan: Often behaves as such, because he sees himself as one due to the way he's aged.
62	* InconvenientAttraction: [[LoveHurts Any attraction Annabelle experiences feels particularly inconvenient]], he's terribly insecure when it comes to intimacy of any kind and feels like being attracted to anyone younger than him makes him a horrible monster because of how old he technically is. For Desiderius, it's especially inconvenient because he knows Desiderius wouldn't love him back [[spoiler: he would, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queerplatonic just not exactly romantically]]]], and for Amaya it's especially inconvenient because he feels like he's taking advantage of what he sees as a precocious, innocent crush.
63	%%* OnlySaneMan
64	* OlderThanTheyLook: Annabelle's maturity flip-flops between that of an elderly man and a young adult depending on the situation, which makes it hard for him to figure out how old he "truly" is. He errs on the side of more elderly, being afraid of assuming he's young enough to date someone around him when he is not. [[spoiler: His true self is absolutely a young adult, but seeing himself from time to time as an old man helps him cope with this dilemma. He doesn't realize this yet and won't for a long time.]]
65
66	!! Mikami Bimromav
67	%%* BelligerentSexualTension: With Forrest.
68	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
69	%%* TheDeterminator
70	%%* [[spoiler: GroundhogPeggySue]]
71	* PreacherMan: He ends up being this, and he is [[Film/PulpFiction the son of one.]]
72	%%* [[spoiler: RippleEffectProofMemory]]
73	%%* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
74	%%* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
75	%%* StraightMan: To Forrest's [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]].
76	* [[spoiler: TimeTravelRomance: Saving his friends and the rest of the world takes second-place priority to making sure Forrest is alright. Of course, it isn't so bad that he would stay in a timeline in which everyone died ''but'' Forrest, but... It would be very, very tempting.]]
77	* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, towards Forrest.
78
79	!! Forrest Nagakawa
80	* BelligerentSexualTension: With Mikami, though he loves every second of it, being the instigator.
81	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark green.
82	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He has the most fun delivering these.
83	%%* TheGadfly
84	* TheMentallyDisturbed: Forrest lives with a psychotic disorder (unsure exactly which kind) that comes with visual and, very rarely, auditory hallucinations. His hallucinations tend to put maggots and insects in places they don't belong. [[spoiler: Combine that with the Black Plague-like diseased he witnessed spreading (and was lucky to never contract) in his hometown as a child, and you get a real fucking nightmare of a brain time. This event that wiped out most of his hometown traumatized him, and he is left with mild symptoms of PTSD today.]]
85	* [[spoiler: StepfordSmiler]]
86	* [[StraightManAndWiseGuy Wise Guy]]: To Mikami's StraightMan.
87	[[/folder]]
88
89	[[folder:Pamater]]
90	!! Kaur
91	%%* AllWitchesHaveCats
92	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
93	* [[spoiler: [[{{Ephebophile}} Hebephile]]: One who is extremely self-loathing, one who has never harmed a child, and one who has never engaged with child pornography of any kind or any medium. He is desperately trying to find some kind of 'cure' for his problem, and is starting to, without hesitation, consider straight-up castration if it means it'll fix who he is.]]
94	%%* IntrepidMerchant
95	%%* MagicLibrarian
96	%%* PowerCrystal: Sells these.
97	* [[spoiler: ThereAreNoTherapists: There in fact are, and one plays a crucial role in him figuring out the root of his desires and eliminating them altogether.]]
98	%%* TheRedMage
99
100	!! Himeko Shikimori
101
102	!! Gendo Shikimori
103
104	!! Carroll
105
106	[[/folder]]
107
108	[[folder:Mellifluora]]
109	!! Rabbi Bimromav
110
111	!! Vehal Bimromav
112	[[/folder]]
113
114	[[folder:Somnepoch]]
115	!! [wip]
116	[[/folder]]
117
118	[[folder:Illicichor]]
119	!! [wip]
120	[[/folder]]
121
122	[[folder:The Tradegium]]
123	!! Ischel Calgaround
124	* ShoutOut: His last name is one to ''Music/EvilliousChronicles''.
125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:The Golden Principality]]
128	!! The Golden One
129	* ShoutOut: To a certain far-right Youtuber. And not necessarily a flattering one.
130
131	!! Sir Swain Gozelinus Weekender
132	[[/folder]]
133
134	[[folder:The Diamondpoint Kings]]
135
136	General tropes for the Diamondpoint Kings include:
137	%%* TheBeautifulElite
138	* CoolCrown: All of them except Desiderius sport one of these.
139	%%* DudeLooksLikeALady
140	%%* ErmineCapeEffect
141	* FormFittingWardrobe: All of them [[spoiler: except Yukai-toki, who wears a long poncho-like cloak.]]
142	%%* HotGod
143	* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: All of them, but Nana is the least awful offender.
144	* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
145	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Except Kyuun, who just goes with what Nana, Hachi and Desiderius decide. [[spoiler: Even then, Desiderius just goes with what Nana and Hachi decide, he's just better at presenting the illusion of free will by trying to somehow, anyhow, get another voice into the discussion, but usually fails.]]
146	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Though not all of them are good people, their wardrobe has nothing to do with their personality.
147
148	[[/folder]]
149	[[folder:The Country in Midnight]]
150	!! Nana of the Stars
151	* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler: That was the nature of his relationship with Arya, and part of what made it so hard for the boy to pinpoint was the fact that Nana wasn't like this with his friends and acquaintances. It seemed to be reserved for those he knew intimately, which was a list that consisted of Arya and Arya alone.]]
152	* AbominationAccusationAttack: [[spoiler: In response to Yukai-toki's threat to reveal the less palatable details of his relationship with Arya to the public - something that was somewhat of a desperate bluff to begin with, he didn't even know if the public would care - Nana dishes out one of these by shooting back an elaborate story that Yukai-toki is only getting this worked up because he's jealous. Which wouldn't be a big deal if any old person did this, but... [[ManipulativeBastard It's Nana]]. And the story is just elaborate to make Yukai-toki think twice about his motivations, giving Nana extra time to prepare in case Yukai-toki really was going to make good on that threat. Luckily, he never gets a chance to.]]
153	* BelievingTheirOwnLies: [[spoiler: This is one of the ways Nana grew into such a horrible person, no one was keeping him in check and he, who absolutely had the intelligence to know what he was doing if he simply sat down with himself and was honest for once, simply put all his power into believing his own lies rather than changing for the better before it was too late.]]
154	* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: Far, far too late to actually make a difference in Arya's wellbeing, but there is a point at which Nana realizes he deserves every bit of Arya's ire towards him, and he dug the grave he is currently lying in. It leads to him becoming a much more humble, selfless person, stepping down from his position of power and becoming a wandering knight, since he can't exactly do the noble thing and die, being immortal. His motivation in this is not to be forgiven or for his sins to be wiped away, but rather, to become a tool to people who could use him for good. It's not exactly the healthiest way of developing as a person, to give up your own autonomy and personhood in the attempt to become better, but it's a massive improvement over ''tyrannical abuser''.]]
155	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Purple.
156	* TheEmpath: Nana's near-psychic ability to be able to tell what people think of themselves and others, and what they plan to do next all boils down to supernatural levels of intuition and empathy. However, he seems to have only one blind spot: himself. In fact, his magic mirror doesn't even seem to work on his own self; all he sees is his normal reflection staring back at him. This is something he admits to feeling quite anxious about.
157	* {{Ephebophile}}: [[spoiler: He, to this day, would not admit it, but he was and still is. Nana justified his attraction to Arya with the fact that they technically did fall in love when they were both young, and it couldn't possibly be his fault that Arya stopped aging, so how can he just stop being in love? That logic, faulty, as it is, implies he has never had romantic or sexual interest in any minor after Arya, which is not true.]]
158	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: He lops most of his hair off, leaving it about shoulder-length after his big revelation. And holy fuck, is it excruciatingly painful, as the stars in his hair can ''feel''.]]
159	%%* [[spoiler: FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon]]
160	%%* {{Gaslighting}}: This is just something he likes doing to people.
161	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: By the end of things, anyway, far past the point of "too late" for either he or Arya to end up incredibly fucked up.]]
162	* ManipulativeBastard: It's hard to deny that the genius King of the Country in Midnight is anything but a master manipulator, but it's clear that he only uses his talents for the good of his people. [[spoiler: Well, probably.]]
163	* MaritalRapeLicense: [[spoiler: With Arya, he subconsciously believed he had this, particularly when Arya started drifting away from him.]]
164	* NeverMyFault: By use of InsaneTrollLogic that's sane enough that he consistently fools ''himself'' into believing he's done nothing wrong.
165	* NiceToTheWaiter: Nana's apparent sympathy for the underdogs in society make him seem very, as the kids say, ''woke'', but this is only true until you realize why he sympathizes with them, and how.
166	* RoyalBrat: He may have played this trope straighter as a young child with all the embarrassingly spoiled behavior and pouting that comes with it, but now that he is a man, he retains most of the sinister implications of this trope with just about none of its associated childish behavior.
167	* SexualExtortion: [[spoiler: There were several times when he withheld affection, conversation, reassurance and validation from Arya until he got what he wanted.]]
168	* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
169	* TragicDream: [[spoiler: His involved living happily ever after with Arya. Then he violently murdered the dream. The only person he has to blame is himself.]]
170	* TroubledAbuser: [[spoiler:Nana himself being a victim of [[ParentalNeglect primarily emotional]], but sometimes [[ParentsAsPeople physical neglect]] as a child does inform a lot of his more toxic neuroses, such as his entitlement to being unconditionally loved and accepted. However, [[Supernatural cool motive, still pedophilic abuse.]]]]
171	* UniversallyBelovedLeader: The people of that country know that he is charismatic, intelligent, attractive, and that he is taking care of their basic needs just about as much as they would expect any king to. [[spoiler:This translates to blind approval, which gets incredibly unfortunate for those who ''do'' know what he's really like.]]
172	* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: [[spoiler: This is the attitude Nana took with much of his abuse towards Arya, genuinely believing that he was reacting as every rational, normal person would in his circumstances.]]
173
174	!! [[spoiler:Gossick]]
175	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Periwinkle purple.
176
177	[[/folder]]
178	[[folder:The State in Thunderclouds]]
179	!! Hachi of the Storm
180	%%* BlingOfWar
181	* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted painfully towards Annie, who Hachi supposedly loves.
182	%%* ChestOfMedals
183	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Navy blue.
184	* CondescendingCompassion: A hallmark of Hachi's [[SarcasmMode lovely personality]] is making you feel like an idiot commoner whenever you make a mistake or speak in [[spoiler: perceived]] ignorance.
185	%%* {{Ephebophile}}: And unnervingly comfortable with himself about it.
186	* {{Kneecapping}}: [[spoiler: Hachi is the reason Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
187	%%* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: He's not quite as good at it as Nana is, but he wishes he was.]]
188	* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: One of Hachi's biggest claims to his ego is the fact that technically, he isn't anywhere near as awful as Nana is - so that means you might as well not complain about him, and in fact, [[UnfortunateImplications ought to feel grateful that he's not as bad as he could be]], right? Annie's heard this song and dance too many times to count.
189	* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Hachi uses this one on Annie frequently, hoping it'll result in SlapSlapKiss. [[CommentBackfire It doesn't.]]
190
191	!! Annie
192	* BerserkButton: His is feeling like people aren't respecting his personal boundaries, and with most people, he lets his discomfort be known. Loudly. [[spoiler: Not with Hachi, the person who has given him this trigger.]]
193	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
194	%%* HairTriggerTemper
195	* HatesBeingTouched: It's easy to assume this is just another part of his angry, standoffish personality. [[spoiler: It comes from somewhere.]]
196	* [[spoiler: {{Kneecapping}}: Hachi did this to him years ago, which is why Annie needs a cane to walk.]]
197	%%* OlderThanTheyLook
198
199	[[/folder]]
200	[[folder:The Kingdom in Clearing]]
201	!! Kyuun of the Woods
202	%%* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
203	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Persian blue.
204	* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kyuun is the most [[AccidentalPun diamond-studded]] of the four kings with jewelry in his hair and on his robe.
205	* LackOfEmpathy: Cognitive empathy is what he's lacking in, largely due to his depression - he can barely see an inch ahead of his nose. Given the fact that his behavior seems to fit the description for Asperger's on that trope's page to a T, he could have a condition I haven't paid close attention to.
206	* MadGod: Becomes much more mentally unstable than he already is under the weight of his new power, when he rebels against the other four diamondpoint kings.
207	* TheMentallyDisturbed: He is severely depressive with occasional manic upswings (currently unsure if this fits the criteria of bipolar disorder since said upswings are relatively mild for most stories I've heard, and they are rare) over the course of his story, and he only begins to learn how to live with it when he is far away from the toxic, oppressive colleagues who have controlled him into silence in the face of injustice.
208	%%* ObliviousToLove
209	* PungeonMaster: As a MadGod, he's a huge fan of time puns. Nageki even joins in with him eventually.
210	* TheQuietOne: He tends to let his louder counterparts do the talking. [[spoiler: And he hates it.]]
211	* [[spoiler: SacredFirstKiss: [[SpitTrailKiss Hachi took his]]. It didn't affect him ''quite'' the same as most recipients of this trope, and he doesn't want to call it ''traumatic'', but... There's a reason he's so afraid of Hachi, and that reason is most likely mild trauma - more from the fact that Hachi (and people like Hachi, like Nana) [[ParanoiaFuel could have done worse]].]]
212	* [[spoiler: UnfitForGreatness: Which is why his advisor, Yonbanme and he step down from the throne in the end.]]
213
214	!! Yonbanme
215	* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: He is positively determined not to let this side of his personality hurt innocent people. Not-so-innocent people like Nana and Hachi, on the other hand...]]
216	* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:By the standards of the Diamondpoint Kings and their collective agenda, oh yes.]]
217	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black.
218	%%* FormFittingWardrobe
219	* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Kyuun. Kyuun is a bit ObliviousToLove due to his severe depression, and to be fair, Yonbanme has never exactly ''said'' it... But that doesn't mean everyone around him can't tell right away.
220	* IKissYourHand: He does this with Kyuun every so often, prompting a little dazed, flustered stammering from his king.
221	* OlderThanTheyLook: The one witch who subverts this trope by actually looking much closer to his true age than a very young adult.
222	%%* ScaryShinyGlasses: Happens sometimes.
223	* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Though he possesses a level of self-awareness most {{Yandere}} characters don't. He would never hurt Kyuun, even if Kyuun falls in love with someone else. But if anyone, ANYONE, makes any unwanted advance of any kind on his king? That's the point at which he has to start fighting the murderous intrusive thoughts... Or don't.]]
224
225	[[/folder]]
226	[[folder:The Palace in Anemone]]
227	!! Desiderius of the Sea
228	* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:For as awful as they were to his brother, Pastor, Desiderius' parents were even crueler to him. Desiderius' father, in particular, felt that he was preparing Desiderius for the burden and agony of being king by subjecting him (often by proxy through his guards) to horrific psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse/torture. Desiderius' mother did nothing to stop her husband, and it's unclear if she refused to act out of fear or out of sheer apathy.]]
229	* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for just about everything that goes wrong, whether it actually is his fault or something he was complacent in, or not.
230	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Cornflower blue.
231	* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Just one of the many ways his senile father thought he was preparing Desiderius for the pain of the position of king is, he would order his guards to beat and rape Desiderius quite often. It didn't help things that the guards, even ones who seemed kind and well-intentioned, started doing their jobs a little too well, with a little too much enthusiasm.]]
232	* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Between the trauma of his abusive childhood and the knowledge that he cowardly stood by as just about the same kind of abuse was being inflicted upon one of his colleagues' advisors.]]
233	* [UnfitForGreatness: [[spoiler:Which is why his advisor, Annabelle and he switch roles in the end.]]
234
235	!! Pendragon
236	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mahogany.
237
238	!! Orelo
239	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Currant red.
240
241	!! Espino
242	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark purple.
243	%%* WalkingSpoiler
244
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:[[spoiler: The Spire in Wonder]]]]
248	!! [[spoiler:Yukai-toki of the Forgotten Lullaby]]
249	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Prussian blue.
250	%%* CombatStilettos
251	%%* DarkIsNotEvil
252	* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Subverted in the sense that he's got the dark eyeshadow and lipstick one might expect of a villain, but he is actually the most morally upright of the Diamondpoint Kings.
253	* [[spoiler: {{Fetish}}: One for being worshipped. He doesn't tend to think much of it and doesn't really think of it as such, especially after spending so long in the Forgotten Lullaby. And then comes Luz.]]
254	* PapaWolf: These were his feelings for Arya, which Nana [[AbominationAccusationAttack tried to portray as something else]] in order to get him to doubt himself.
255	%%* WalkingSpoiler
256
257	!! [[spoiler:Mezzo-Forte]]
258	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Mint green.
259	%%* WalkingSpoiler
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:The Pearl Sovereignty]]
263	!! Pastor
264	* AbusiveParents: His parents were the first to instill him with the idea that he, due to his disorders, is completely inept and helpless, and thus might as well not even be alive.
265	%%* BuryYourDisabled[[spoiler: Well, maybe.]]
266	%%* [[spoiler: TheChainsOfCommanding]]
267	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Coral pink.
268	* ColorCodedEyes: Pastor's eyes used to be dark green, and he falls in line with the idea of green eyes signifying sexy free spirits.
269	* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. This isn't true of Pastor at all. His developmental disabilities most certainly affect his life and make it difficult for him to function "normally" in society, but because everyone he knows has treated him as if his disabilities make him helpless and inept (even Arcane, who is supposedly on his side!) from birth until now, he has more problems with resentment of the people around him and learned helplessness than anything else.
270	%%* EthicalSlut
271	* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: To escape the bondage of royalty and pursue the life he has always wanted, and not the one that has been thrust upon him.]]
272	* HollywoodAutism: Averted, he doesn't have any special skillsets tied to his autism.
273	%%* [[spoiler: ReluctantRuler]]
274	* SociallyAwkwardHero: Despite being very charming, he has issues reading unspoken social cues sometimes.
275	* TheStoic: But certainly not the joyless.
276	%%* ZeroPercentApprovalRating
277
278	!! Arcane Ariatongue
279	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Orchid purple.
280	%%* RoyalWe
281	[[/folder]]
282
283	[[folder:The World Beyond the Mirror]]
284	!! [[spoiler:North of the Mirror]]
285	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dark red.
286	%%* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon
287	[[/folder]]
288
289	[[folder:wip]]
290	!! Kutsuuko[[spoiler:/Arya Kurosawa]]
291	%%* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
292	* BrokenBird: It's clear right away that someone has hurt this sweet young boy. [[spoiler: Holy shit.]]
293	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Bright red.
294	%%* [[spoiler: DarkMagicalBoy]]
295	%%* [[spoiler: DeadpanSnarker]]
296	%%* DefiledForever: [[spoiler: Certainly sees himself this way.]]
297	%%* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time - but holy shit, he knows now.]]
298	%%* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
299	* [[spoiler: FreudianExcuse: If you'd been through what he had for as long as he had, you might be a little pissed off at the world, too, and you might be a little drunk off of power, too.]]
300	%%* [[spoiler: GrewASpine]]
301	%%* HatesBeingTouched
302	* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler: (dubiously canon) He ends up growing so powerful that his body can't hold the magical strength inside him, and it literally falls to pieces from this.]]
303	%%* [[spoiler: JerkassWoobie]]
304	%%* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Irreversibly so[[spoiler:, one would think.]]
305	* MouthyKid: [[spoiler: If anything from Nana has rubbed off onto Kutsuuko, it is that talent at dealing out tongue-lashings to those who you think deserve it - only from Kutsuuko, he's not stretching the truth.]]
306	%%* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
307	%%* ProneToTears: [[spoiler: It's an act.]]
308	* RapeLeadsToInsanity: [[spoiler: A case of TruthInTelevision, the sexual abuse and grooming he went through makes him psychologically and emotionally unstable, paranoid and misanthropic - but this is obviously not the way ''all'' survivors respond to trauma.]]
309	%%* ShrinkingViolet
310	%%* [[spoiler: SourOutsideSadInside]]
311	%%* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[spoiler: None that he knows of or has the strength to seek out!]]
312	* TheMentallyDisturbed: He shows clear signs of PTSD with the way he frightens and starts crying so easily when people press him too hard about the man who hurt him, the poor thing... [[spoiler: Yep, and the symptoms are much less soft and palatable than they at first appear - they're what real PTSD often looks like in young survivors.]]
313	%%* [[spoiler: TragicVillain]]
314	%%* WalkingSpoiler
315	%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds:[[spoiler: Quite literally, as he tries to destroy the world.]]
316
317	!! [[spoiler:Arya Kurosawa/Kutsuuko]]
318	* AbusiveParents: He had emotionally abusive parents who never accepted his best efforts, no matter how hard he worked to please them. This set him up to believe for much of his life that he had to work ''hard'' and ''suffer'' to make people approve of him and love him.
319	* [[LadyOfBlackMagic Boy of Black Magic]]: Not only on account of being a witch, his personality was certainly like this - cold, elegant, graceful - to people other than Nana.
320	%%* [[spoiler: BreakTheCutie]]
321	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Light pink.
322	%%* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: He lived through it and didn't know it for the longest time.]]
323	%%* ExtremeDoormat
324	%%* GiantPoofySleeves
325	* MindRape: It seems like Pendragon did this to him, entirely on accident, by stabbing him through the heart when they fought. When she saw him screaming and curling up on the floor, she started to put the pieces together, and to this day she feels absolutely terrible for doing that to him. [[spoiler: What she doesn't know is, that's not what happened at all. Her attack only jolted his conscience enough for him to fully realize how miserable he was, and what Nana was [[DomesticAbuse really doing]] to him. The recognition of severe trauma hit him all at once.]]
326	%%* OlderThanTheyLook:
327	%%* [[spoiler: QuestionableConsent]]
328	%%* ShrinkingViolet
329	%%* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[spoiler: Not when no one wants you to know they do!]]
330	* UnequalPairing: [[spoiler: Nana and Arya were this, not only as king and advisor but fully-grown adult and teenager.]]
331
332	[[/folder]]
333
334	[[folder:The Diamond Court]]
335	!! Amaya Lasker
336	* AmbiguousGender: Amaya is nonbinary.
337	* DumbBlonde: Averted, Amaya is one of the smartest characters in the cast.
338	* GovernmentConspiracy: Xe's aware one is going on, but xe has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
339	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Though [[SecretIdentity xe isn't exactly a delicate, fragile little flower]].
340	* MeaningfulName: Amaya's PenName, Nirami, comes from the verb "Niramu", meaning "to glare at".
341	* PenName: Xeyr's in xeyr politically inflammatory pamphlets is [[MeaningfulName Nirami]].
342
343	!! Lucerne "Luz" Fortunato
344	* AmbiguousGender: Luz is agender, or they prefer for their gender to be thought of as "none".
345	* TheDeterminator: Luz stops at nothing to reach the Forgotten Lullaby, [[spoiler: even if it means inadvertently killing a palace guard in a fight over demands for information.]]
346	%%* ForGreatJustice
347	* GovernmentConspiracy: Once they become aware one's going on, and has been going on for years, they become utterly obsessed with it and only grow more and more entrenched in it, losing more and more to it until they finally solve it, [[spoiler: essentially showing up on Yukai-toki's doorstep in the Forgotten Lullaby, covered in blood (belonging to them and possibly others too they don't remember?), missing one of their memories in the ritual to get them there, disheveled and unkempt, not having slept in days, and at first completely incomprehensible in their speech.]]
348	* SanitySlippage: The deeper and deeper they go down the rabbit hole, trying to figure out what happened to Yukai-toki and where he went, this happens.
349
350	[[/folder]]
351	[[folder:The Rebellion]]
352	!! Pidgeon
353	%%* LargeHam
354	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Garnet red.
355	* FramesOfReference: His are circular, with swirls in the lenses, he's a silly sort of character who wants to be received as a mad scientist.
356	%%* OpaqueNerdGlasses
357	%%* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
358	* VillainBall: He loves holding it. It is his favorite of all the balls. It's great. He loves it!
359
360	!! Vehal Bimromav
361	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale purple.
362
363	!! Contralto
364	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White.
365	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Averted, his eyesight is just fine and he's certainly considered the smartest of the rebels.
366	* {{Yandere}}: Though he's a little embarrassed of himself about it.
367
368	[[/folder]]
369	[[folder:Extra Sidecharacters]]
370	!! Ose Shalom
371	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Suvi and Yisra.
372	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pecan brown.
373	* DissonantSerenity: It seems that nothing can shake his calm demeanor.
374	* TheHecateSisters: Ose Shalom is the Mother, and Suvi and Yisra are his Crone and Maiden, respectively.
375	%%* PerpetualSmiler
376
377	!! Suvi and Yisra
378	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of fate itself, with Ose Shalom.
379	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black and white.
380	* TheHecateSisters: Suvi is the Crone and Yisra is the Maiden, with Ose Shalom as their Mother.
381	%%* PerpetualFrowner: Suvi.
382	%%* PerpetualSmiler: Yisra.
383
384	!! Sir Knight[[spoiler:/Nana and the Stars that Ceased to Shine]]
385	* [[spoiler: CharacterDevelopment: Nana's attitude and very way of thinking and feeling has changed ''drastically'' since Arya took revenge on him. He's practically a different person.]]
386	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Pale dark blue.
387	%%* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
388	* TheDeterminator: No matter how obviously depressed and exhausted he is, there is nothing he can't do.
389	* [[spoiler: {{Ephebophile}}: That's something about himself that hasn't seemed to disappear. He still loves Arya, against his better judgment, the only difference now is he hates himself for it and he refuses to make that Arya's problem by being upfront about it.]]
390	* TheMentallyDisturbed: He's got some pretty heavy depression, depersonalization disorder, and he has apparently developed a psychotic disorder of some kind: he experiences delusions that tell him that his bare skin is venomous, and he must cover it all, at all times, or else he will hurt people. [[spoiler: Delusions they may be, but when the truth about who he is comes out, said delusions don't seem quite so random anymore.]]
391	* MustMakeAmends: One thing Nageki and her party know about their knightly friend is that he feels the need to repent for something he did in his past, but no one figures it's that bad since he's such a great dude! [[spoiler: Hahaha, oh.]]
392	* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: He's definitely got it. [[spoiler: It turns out he's got very good reason to distrust his own mind and body when thrown into a sexual situation.]]
393
394	!!Terran "Terrandus" Denzo
395	* BigBrotherInstinct: Bordering on KnightTemplarBigBrother for his three-year-old little sister, Curie.
396	* GreenThumb: Terrandus' magic centers on the manipulation of plantlife.
397	%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
398	%%* HairAntennae
399	* InSeriesNickname: People call him Terrandus more often than they call him Terran. Kutsuuko [[FullNameBasis calls him by his full name]] nearly all the time.
400	* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short, even for a 15 year old, but that doesn't get in his way, much.
401	* TechnicalPacifist: He certainly prefers to be one! But if someone forces him to take care of business, then there's nothing he can do about that.
402	%%* TheQuietOne
403	* {{Yandere}}: Look, he's not responsible for what happens to you if you hurt someone he cares about. Even if you don't hurt them badly, or just say something mean to them, he still can't help but feel that immediate rush of borderline-homicidal anger that comes over him when he argues with himself in his head, graciously deciding not to make you regret it. Bear in mind, not actually-homicidal. He's a pacifist! He doesn't kill anyone. He just knows people can take a lot of pain before they keel over.
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