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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:In left to right order; Fina, Vyse and Aika, who figured themselves out]] |
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| 4 | ->''There were Valuans, there were Black Pirates, and there were Blue Rogues, and that was enough for Vyse and Aika to wrap their heads around. Then a girl crashed into their lives, and the world became a whole lot bigger. And somewhere during a globe-spanning epic adventure that changed everything, a man, his best friend, and the girl that went sailing off the map with them figured themselves out. Because Blue Rogues always played by their own rules.'' |
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| 6 | ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13219354/1/Between-Three-Rogues Between Three Rogues]]'' by ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/55667/Erico Erico]]'' is a ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' fanfiction. Like the video game it’s based on, it follows the saga of the air pirate Vyse, son of Dyne, and his childhood friend Aika as they find a girl wearing strange clothing named Fina, take on the world-spanning Valuan empire, unlock ancient secrets, challenge world-destroying threats, and grow into air pirates in their own right - and maybe discover a more unusual and vibrant love between them all. |
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| 8 | This story is a pseudo-novelization, and rather than reconstruct the game's events line-by-line, it focuses on filling in gaps in the original story with extra world-building and character development, most notably fleshing out the development of the game's lead trio into an eventual {{OT3}}. |
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| 10 | Also can be found on Archive Of Our Own [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17909870/chapters/42283727 here]]. |
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| 12 | The story is complete as of March 29, 2022. |
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| 14 | ---- |
| 15 | !! ''Between Three Rogues'' contains examples of: |
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| 17 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 19 | [[folder: A-D]] |
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| 21 | * AcheyScars: The scar on Prince Daigo's chest was received in a final encounter with a corrupt minister that was part of an opium smuggling ring, the aftermath of which had Daigo arrested and accused of killing nobility by Kangan, leading to his exile. He notes that the twinges from it have stayed with him for ages, and is the main reason [[WalkingShirtlessScene he hates wearing sleeves on that arm]]. It lasts until he meets Fina, who removes the aches with her healing. |
| 22 | * AchillesInHisTent: Prince Daigo. In contrast to the game, rather than jumping instantly into battle when Moegi, Vyse and the others come to find him, he instead tries to convince Moegi that their royal line has ended and that she should stay hidden with him, knowing first-hand the perils of trying to fight the power. When she has none of it, calls him out on just sitting back and drinking sake, and declares her intentions to leave and fight anyway, he quickly changes his tune to avoid her running off half-cocked and agrees to help, just like she knew he would. |
| 23 | * AdaptationDeviation: |
| 24 | ** In canon, [[spoiler: Ramirez stabs out Elder Prime's piece of the Silver Moon Crystal to use in his plan.]] here, [[spoiler: Ramirez stabs out Fina's Moon Crystal piece instead, and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Prime gives up his piece to revive Fina]]]]. |
| 25 | ** Similar to the above, [[spoiler: the Silver Shrine's ColonyDrop to block the Rains of Destruction and destroy Soltis's force field happens slightly differently. Fina uses her connection to her Silver Moon Crystal (which Ramirez cut out to fuel the Rains) to put Zelos to sleep, and when the continent's guns threaten to rout Vyse's forces with no chance of retaliation due to the shield, the Silver Shrine drops in to overload the shield]]. |
| 26 | * AdaptationDistillation: As a fic focused on filling in gaps in the original story instead of retelling it line by line, a few moments are left offscreen. |
| 27 | ** The entire run through the Temple of Pyrynn and the subsequent battles between Recumen and Belleza are skipped over. |
| 28 | ** While the moments of recruitment for a number of the new crew members are shown, a few, like Pinta’s, Merida’s and Tikatika’s, are only mentioned in passing. |
| 29 | ** The exploration of Mt. Kazai is also skipped over. |
| 30 | * AdaptationExpansion: The main thrust of the story. While the LoveTriangle between Vyse Aika and Fina takes center stage there are a multitude of other expansions, such as chapters told from the perspectives of side characters like Marco, Admiral Belleza and Prince Daigo, and a lot of effort is put into fleshing out the game's world-building. |
| 31 | ** The origin of the Blue Rogues is detailed, and it all started with Dyne of the Valuan Armada growing disillusioned with the direction the Empire was taking, and striking out with other like-minded sailors to become air pirates. |
| 32 | ** Aika’s parents are mentioned a couple of times. Aika’s mother was a Blue Rogue and member of Dyne’s crew, while her father was a Nasrian merchant who settled down with her. Sadly, both of them have passed for a while, with Aika all but adopted by the Dyne family. |
| 33 | ** The story also takes a lot of time in fleshing out the likes of the legendary pirate Daccat. |
| 34 | *** Daccat was said to be Nasrian, which is why Nasrad’s guild master is so determined to purchase Daccat’s Coin from Vyse, so that it could be used as a symbol to rally Nasrad’s people after the city’s destruction. |
| 35 | *** Daccat even made it to Yafutoma, where he is known as Daqat, and became (in)famous by sailing off with Princess Kikue Tokugawa right before her wedding, as well as with her dowry and the wedding feast. In Yafutoma’s eyes, the commoners see the tale as a dashing rogue romantically wooing a princess longing for freedom, while the nobility see it as how a vile thief repaid hospitality with kidnapping. [[spoiler: Kikue is found buried next to Daccat, and their other wife Yasmina]]. |
| 36 | *** Daccat's grave is in fact on his island, near a village overgrown with jungle foliage, [[spoiler: where he is buried next to his two wives]]. |
| 37 | *** Daccat was also said to have two ships, the ''Salamander'' and the ''Scorpion'', referencing the two animal images on the doors leading into his island dungeon. [[spoiler: When his grave is finally found, it's revealed that he named his ships after his two wives, the ''Salamander'' for Yasmina, and the ''Scorpion'' for Kikue]]. |
| 38 | ** Absent during the sack of Nasrad in canon, the Home Fleet of the Nasrian Navy was caught out of place, but they later led the Valuan Navy on a chase through the northern islands to draw attention away from the rebuilding city. Just as they are finally cornered, the ''Delphinus'' flies in to save them. |
| 39 | ** Clara’s past is expanded upon. Her father was a merchant that turned to smuggling during the Valua-Nasr War and was executed by Valua, her mother was a seamstress and died of illness, and Clara was eventually taken in by Clara and Centime and became a Blue Rogue just like her adoptive father. |
| 40 | ** Lord Galcian has taken Belleza into his bed at least once, but he still doesn't return her affections. |
| 41 | ** The story of how Prince Daigo was forced into exile (and how he got that scar on his chest) is fleshed out. On a tour of military duty, he uncovered an opium smuggling ring and tried to bring it to light, but conspirators killed the witnesses and destroyed the evidence. He went rogue to track down the ringleaders of the conspiracy, but got lured into a trap, and although he killed whom he thought was the ringleader (a noble in his father's court), Minister Kangan and his compatriots were quick to accuse him of treachery towards the nobility and get his father to exile him. |
| 42 | ** The Captain's Hat's power comes from its wealth of spiritual energy drawn from every one of its past owners, from the previous head of the Larso clan to [[spoiler: the legendary Daccat himself]]. |
| 43 | ** The Iron Star is more than just an ordinary discovery in this fic; it's a relic from the Old World that, when retooled by Fina, can be used to broadcast radio frequencies around the world. |
| 44 | ** Drachma's past acquaintance with Gordo involved the latter escaping from a Valuan prison mine and Drachma rescuing him when his escape ship sank, as well as hiding him from the Valuans. |
| 45 | ** The Vorlik Blades are named after a legendary chief in Valuan ancient history, who united the disparate tribes of his land into one people that would eventually become Valua. Though crafted by [[UltimateBlacksmith Ryu-kan]], he says that legendary blades built for a Westerner deserve a western name, and Vyse thinks that reviving an old Valuan legend would help remind the Valuan name for what it used to stand for. |
| 46 | ** Chapter 60 is dedicated to the backstory of [[BigBad Lord Galcian]]. |
| 47 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: There was no indication of any such connection in canon, but in this fic, Lord Zivilyn Bane has some connection to [[spoiler:the Black Moon Stone, with the implication he is the last remnants of a civilisation under some black moon that was wiped out by the Silvians. He carries two [[BlackSwordsAreJustBetter black blades]] that set Fina's nerves on edge, and the mere sight of any Silver magic sends him into a rage]]. |
| 48 | * AdaptationalBadass: In canon, Urala was merely a very good cook, and Kirala was just a builder with a good throwing arm. Here, they are also the scions of a {{Ninja}} clan that once served the Tokugawa dynasty. |
| 49 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: |
| 50 | ** Ilchymis normally can only be met after the ''Delphinus'' reaches Yafutoma, due to being in Upper Sky which can only be reached with upgraded sky engines. Here, his island floats up and down between Upper and Middle Sky, and thanks to Enrique’s knowledge, the Blue Rogues seek him out early, and Fina’s prowess with Silver Magic gets him to join the crew. |
| 51 | ** Hans too will only join after Yafutoma, but the presence of Lapen to help their adoptive father Centime fix up their ship eventually frees up Hans to join the crew on their visit to Ixa’taka before the Dark Rift. |
| 52 | ** Similarly, Kalifa will only join the crew if Vyse has the Suiren Blade, which can only be bought in Yafutoma. She joins the crew right before heading to Esperanza. |
| 53 | ** Don is inspired enough by Vyse’s battle against Admiral Gregorio and determination to conquer the Dark Rift to sail out and join him before they start, [[spoiler: along with all of the population of Esperanza]], whereas in game canon, Vyse has to pass Yafutoma, circle the globe and return to Esperanza before he’ll join. |
| 54 | ** Fina puts on her air pirate outfit before the story's climax instead of during the epilogue. See SignificantWardrobeShift below as to why. |
| 55 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Vigoro wasn't exactly a great guy in the original game but his attempted PrisonRape of Aika was also played [[BlackComedyRape entirely for laughs]]. Here that scene is played completely straight, turning him into a SerialRapist who uses magic to cloud the minds of his victims, which is a reference to how one of his in-game attacks [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration causes the confusion status ailment]]. Thankfully Vigoro's magic is weak against ThePowerOfLove [[spoiler: and his genitals are weak against getting char-broiled by Aika's fire magic.]] |
| 56 | * AdaptedOut: |
| 57 | ** Piastol’s Death Hound companion is only used in her very first battle with Vyse; in all subsequent battles, she is without it. |
| 58 | ** Baltor doesn't join in with Vyse to fight Galcian at the end, choosing instead to bunker down and try and weather the storm. |
| 59 | * AdrenalineMakeover: Played with. In the game Fina's silvite priestess garb includes a pair of leg-exposing side slits. Here those are the result of Fina doing some RipTailoring to make her dress easier to move in. |
| 60 | * AFatherToHisMen: |
| 61 | ** Dyne is this to his crew, especially Vyse, his ''actual'' son. |
| 62 | ** Vyse probably ''wants'' to qualify for this trope but there's a little too much {{UST}} going around on the ''Little Jack'' for that. That changes after he obtains the ''Delphinus''. |
| 63 | ** Drachma is notably ''not'' like this, being so obsessed with his hunt for Rhaknam that he briefly maroons the party in Maramba to chase rumors of an arcwhale sighting. |
| 64 | * AffablyEvil: While still TheBaroness she was in canon, Belleza has a few focus chapters that show her to be a professional and polite soldier who respects her opponents and dislikes unnecessary violence. In particular, she's a check on Vigoro's men and Vigoro himself, as shown under RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. |
| 65 | * AffectionateNickname: Vyse, Fina and Aika refer to each other as their Pirate, Princess and Valkyrie respectively. |
| 66 | * AlmightyMom: Aliya, the Kabal skewer chef from Maramba, doesn't care that her foster daughter Laurette's (who was cared for by her biological daughter Fatima in Maramba) leader and potential new love is [[spoiler: Prince Daigo]], she'll tell him off anyway. |
| 67 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Gender-flipped example. [[spoiler: During Ramirez's raid on Crescent Isle, he [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales]] Vyse through the chest, forcing Fina to give up the Moon Crystals in order to be allowed to heal him.]] |
| 68 | * AmazonBrigade: “Calamity” Clara’s air pirate crew is entirely comprised of females. |
| 69 | * AndThisIsFor: |
| 70 | ** Enrique devotes one successful attack on Galcian to Valua. |
| 71 | ** Every member of the party that fights Ramirez in the final battle delivers a line like this, including a "YouKilledMyFather" from [[spoiler: Piastol]]. |
| 72 | * ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Averted twice. |
| 73 | ** The infiltration of Dangral Island brings along an infiltration party of six, with the inclusion of {{Kunoichi}}s [[AdaptationalBadass Kirala and Urala]]. |
| 74 | ** Instead of just picking one, the final assault on Soltis has Enrique, Gilder and Drachma join the party, [[spoiler: along with [[EleventhHourRanger Piastol]]]]. |
| 75 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: |
| 76 | ** Vyse just has one question to TheCasanova Gilder about his lovestruck stalker Clara: could he live with himself if she gave up and left him alone without a fight, or worse yet, if he lost her for good? |
| 77 | ** Daniel Rawlins, vice-admiral for Belleza and Valua's 4th fleet, gives her two in quick succession. The first is when Belleza says that the occupation for Yafutoma needs to go smoothly for Galcian, and he confronts her about it needing to go smoothly for ''her'' to look good for Galcian. When that confrontation turns to Belleza's denied weakness for Galcian (to the point where it harms her own well-being), Rawlins asks if Belleza knows his (Rawlins's) weakness. One good look into Rawlins's eyes later... |
| 78 | ---> '''Belleza:''' You... it's [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling me]]? |
| 79 | * AscendedExtra: |
| 80 | ** “Loose Cannon” Lapen goes from fought boss to crew member of the ''Delphinus'', after he offers his services to repair the damages he caused to the ship. |
| 81 | ** Quite a few of the Esperanzan locals count after they all [[spoiler: choose to join Vyse’s crew through the Dark Rift]]. |
| 82 | *** Amongst them, the standout example is Laurette, the redhead from Esperanza whose parents died to the Dark Rift. When the Esperanzans [[spoiler: joined Vyse, she made herself useful helping Osman manage supplies and conduct trading in Yafutoma, [[CunningLinguist and learning the language at a fast pace]]. Helping out with the post-Valuan occupation cleanup, she met Prince Daigo in person, and her wit and advice to him formed a bond between them. In the end, after some discussion, she accepts his offer to become Yafutoma's foreign minister, and later, fiancee]]. |
| 83 | ** Admiral Belleza has a few chapters from her perspective - during her disguised tenure as Bellena, during the occupation of Yafutoma, and after [[spoiler: Valua is destroyed by the Rains of Destruction and Enrique helps her to safety]]. |
| 84 | * AtomicFBomb: Aika screams "Fuck you, Valua!" as the ''Delphinus's'' Moonstone Cannon burns its way out of the Grand Fortress. Considering what she had to endure at Vigoro's hands a while before, it's perfectly understandable. |
| 85 | * TheAtoner: |
| 86 | ** Admiral Bast Komullah, after [[spoiler: a slip of the tongue by one of his men compromises the location of the Blue Rogues' base that he was entrusted with. To the point that in the final battle against the Eternal Empire, he and his ship pull a HeroicSacrifice to allow Vyse to board the ''Hydra''.]] |
| 87 | ** [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Piastol asks Fina to teach her how to use Silver magic to heal, saying that hopefully she can atone for all the lives she took by learning how to save them.]] |
| 88 | * AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Right after [[spoiler: the voyage to the surface]], Baltor the Black-Bearded makes a run at the ''Delphinus'', but after Vyse signals the below message to him, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he rapidly reconsiders]]. |
| 89 | --> '''We [[spoiler: killed Admiral De Loco]] yesterday, Baltor. If you want to die today then keep coming.''' |
| 90 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Lapen’s Gunarm is defeated by Enrique damaging the lens inside its rudimentary moonstone cannon with a thrown dagger, causing it to self-destruct. |
| 91 | * BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: After the final fight with Ramirez and Zelos and after everything calms down, Aika and Fina find out that Vyse knocked them both up during their PreClimaxClimax. When they fly to Doc to request his care, Maria is ecstatic.]] |
| 92 | * BabyFactory: [[spoiler: The Silvite Elders put the last two fragments of the Silver Moon Crystal into [[DesignerBabies Ramirez and Fina]] while they were growing up, but with no way to make more Silvites, imbued Fina with the desire to procreate so she would be able to repopulate the world after it was cleansed by the Rains of Destruction]]. |
| 93 | * TheBabyTrap: Discussed and defied by Moegi. While counting down the days before Enrique says he'll depart from Vyse's crew back to Valua to inform them of Galcian's treachery, she remembers pleading with him to stay but is eventually convinced by his duty to his kingdom. In her thoughts, she wishes (but knows she could never go through with it) that she hadn't been so rigorous with her birth control, for a pregnant paramour might be the one thing to make him stay. |
| 94 | * BackFromTheDead: Silver magic is a thing, but being brought back from the dead is always an intense moment, and all three of the main trio have experienced it. |
| 95 | ** Aika is killed by Piastol during their first fight with her, but Fina showcases her prowess with Silver Magic by bringing her back to life with a Riselem Crystal. |
| 96 | ** [[spoiler: Ramirez impales Vyse during his invasion of Crescent Isle, smashes Fina's last Riselem Crystal, and refuses to let her cast Riselem on him unless she gives up the Moon Crystals. She does]]. |
| 97 | ** [[spoiler: After Fina gets her Silver Moon Crystal shard stabbed out by Ramirez, Aika has to master Silver Magic in order to bring her back. After an arduous, touch-and-go, angst-filled process, she succeeds]]. |
| 98 | * BadassCreed: The Code of the Blue Rogues: |
| 99 | -->”Blue Rogues leave nobody behind. Blue Rogues never back down from a greater danger. Blue Rogues always help out those in need. Blue Rogues never give up. And Blue Rogues Fly Free.” |
| 100 | ** Vyse is working on adding his own lines to his version of the Code, for a time when Valua is no longer a threat and everyone is free, [[WonTheWarLostThePeace to keep old hatreds from ruining whatever peace they manage to achieve]]. By Chapter 57, he has it laid out, and has all his allies sign it. |
| 101 | --->[[WeHelpTheHelpless If you would be Free, then fight to make others Free.\ |
| 102 | If you would hold power, then defend the powerless.]]\ |
| 103 | If you would love, then forbid the love of none willing.\ |
| 104 | If you would rise high, then help others fly with you.\ |
| 105 | For the greatest treasures are not in trinkets or coin…\ |
| 106 | It is each other. |
| 107 | * BattleCouple: After their RelationshipUpgrade, Gilder and Clara more than count. Vyse and his girls count too, edging slightly into BattleHarem. |
| 108 | * BerserkButton: Lord Zivilyn Bane has this against the Silvians. The moment he sees a flash of Silver Magic, he immediately sprints to slay the one responsible, screaming "Death to the Moonspeakers!" |
| 109 | * BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Vyse has a very big point to make when he orders the ''Delphinus'' to face the ''Draco'' head-on, ship cannon to ship cannon, even waiting so that both ships fire at the same time. The Moonstone Cannon is more than powerful enough to vaporize the Draco Cannon's shell ''and'' decimate the vulnerable ship behind it. |
| 110 | * TheBet: Vyse makes one with Lawrence during his recruitment. He’ll pay half of his 10,000 gold fee up front, and he’ll get the other half if he proves he’s a better helmsman than Vyse. If Vyse can impress him with the friends, family and freedom that Lawrence calls "sentimental drivel", then he stays on as a full crew member. |
| 111 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Fina is a sweetheart and definitely the kindest member of Vyse's crew, but even she has a temper when she's well and truly pushed. For example, when Grendel was activated, Fina went absolutely ballistic on the priest for activating forces they did not understand. Then, after the fight, Isapa tries to protest Vyse taking away the Green Moon Crystal, and then Fina [[BitchSlap slaps him]] for activating the Gigas in the first place. |
| 112 | * BigDamnHeroes: Just as Admiral Bast Komullah and the remnants of the Nasrian Home Fleet are to be destroyed by the Valuan Navy, the ''Delphinus'' flies in to turn the tables. |
| 113 | * BigNo: The very ''visceral'' reaction of [[spoiler: the ancient Glacians]] when Fina mentions just chucking the Moon Crystals into the Abyss and being done with them, [[spoiler: as if they're terrified of what could be down there to use them]]. |
| 114 | * BlackSwordsAreBetter: Instead of his canon assortment of weapons, Lord Zivilyn Bane fights with a pair of black swords, [[BrownNote the mere sight of which sets Fina's nerves on end]], just like [[spoiler: the Dark Rift and the Black Moon Stone]]. |
| 115 | * BrainUploading: [[spoiler: The Glacian people survived the Rains of Destruction by sealing their minds into the walls and defense drones of their city, but the power is slowly running out, and eventually, they'll all pass.]] |
| 116 | * BrownNote: The interior of the [[EldritchLocation Dark Rift]] unnerves everyone, especially Fina, but the mere presence of [[spoiler: the Black Moon Stone]] causes her to have a bloody, major-league FreakOut. It’s all Ilchymis and Merida can do to keep her restrained. |
| 117 | * ButNowIMustGo: The end of the story sees many of the Blue Rogues head back to their homelands, [[spoiler: especially Ilchymis and Marco, who want to head back to rebuild a shattered Valua]]. |
| 118 | * CassandraTruth: Chapter 53, where Enrique vainly tries to convince his mother and Valua about Galcian's treachery, is aptly titled "And No One Listened". |
| 119 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: Part of Vyse's ComingOfAge story is him getting his own crew and learning what it really means to have men under his command, but it really sinks in when De Loco almost sinks them all in their last ship fight in the Abyss. He shares his worries with Enrique afterwards about how one screw-up on his part could get everyone killed, but Enrique is quick to reassure him. |
| 120 | * CharacterDevelopment: |
| 121 | ** After talking to Fina, Aika and Vyse, Gilder finally understands what they were trying to tell him about love, and decides to stop running from Clara and accept her love. |
| 122 | ** Marco started the story as a {{Street Urchin}} that became a sky pirate to Captain Vyse, but it takes some further ComingOfAge for him to understand that aside from all that, he is a person and his story is worth telling. |
| 123 | * CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: In Chapter 48, [[spoiler: Timmons, one of the ''Delphinus's'' minor crew members, almost falls out of the ship when retrieving Fina's ship from Deep Sky, but Aika manages to pull him back in]]. The very next chapter, [[spoiler: he is killed during Ramirez's raid on Crescent Isle]]. |
| 124 | * ChekhovsGun: When crafting Vyse's moonsteel swords, Ryu-kan also crafts a dagger that he gives to Fina. [[spoiler: She uses it to stab the Zelos-controlled Ramirez in the heart right before he can kill her.]] |
| 125 | * ChekhovsSkill: |
| 126 | ** The experience that Vyse and Lawrence get flying through Typhoon Alley in Southern Ocean proves integral in navigating the fierce winds kicked up by Bluheim. |
| 127 | ** When they reach the Silver Shrine, Fina used a code to override the defense drones so that they don't attack them. Later on, Aika remembers that code and uses it to shut down some defense drones that Galcian and Ramirez send after them while trying to awaken Soltis, forcing them to step into the fight. |
| 128 | * CliffHanger: |
| 129 | ** Chapter 50 ends with [[spoiler: Ramirez [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbing Fina through the chest]] to get her fragment of the Silver Moon Crystal]]. |
| 130 | * ComingOfAgeStory: |
| 131 | ** The first part of the story follow's Vyse canon adventures with Aika and Fina and becoming an air pirate captain in his own right, with the added bonus of navigating his own feelings for the two of them. |
| 132 | ** Chapter 42 shows some phases of [[TagalongKid Marco's]] own growing-up story, from him helping some other {{Street Urchin}}s in Nasrad find a home, to him coming to terms with his growing body and thoughts about girls, and him understanding that his story is worth telling. |
| 133 | * ComingOutStory: After Vyse's RelationshipUpgrade with Aika and Fina, the three of them find themselves either hiding their polyamorous relationship from their crew (and fueling the notorious betting pool) or trying to explain it to those that do find out (like Vyse's mother). It isn't until before the final battle that Vyse decides to stop hiding what he's fighting for, and announces their relationship in public. |
| 134 | ** Even after this announcement, [[spoiler: Lapen and Lawrence]] are still reluctant to get married, but Fina eventually brings them around by telling them to not repeat [[spoiler: Brabham's]] mistake of [[spoiler: not marrying Izmael before the latter's death]]. |
| 135 | * CommonTongue: The Mid-Ocean trade language serves as this. |
| 136 | * TheConspiracy: The Yafutoman opium smuggling ring, which enslaves peasant farmers to grow the drug, is willing to burn factories and kill prisoners to keep secrets, and has reach that extends into the Yafutoman Navy, the royal court, and of course includes the EvilChancellor Minister Kangan. Prince Daigo fell afoul of it during his tour of military duty, and his attempts to expose it are what got him exiled. |
| 137 | * ContentWarnings: Chapter 19 contains a trigger warning for AttemptedRape. This is the chapter that covers the prison break from the Grand Fortress and contains the scene where Vigoro tries to put the moves on Aika. To quote the author: |
| 138 | --> ''"This is the one scene in the game that drove me nuts on reflection five years later after I first played it, grew up, and realized that the game devs tried to make prison rape into a joke here. Well, it's not a joke, it's not funny, [[AscendedFridgeHorror and I'm not glossing over it]]. [...] In the game it's a setup so you can feel like a big strong man rescuing your woman from the clutches of a blackguard. Screw that. [[DamselOutOfDistress Aika can rescue herself]]."'' |
| 139 | * ContractualBossImmunity: Lampshaded and zigzagged. When Fina uses her Lunar Glyph to try and [[TakenForGranite petrify]] Galcian, Galcian just laughs and points out that he's immune to status effects... [[spoiler: only to suddenly realise that she was using it to turn his armored tunic into a stone straitjacket]]. |
| 140 | * CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Doc manages to close Maria's eyes and ears moments before [[spoiler: Piastol]] massacres the Valuan soldiers trying to press-gang him back into service. |
| 141 | * CrazyPrepared: In preparation for facing against Yeligar, the ''Delphinus'' undergoes a full electro-proofing refit, from an insulating rubber layer over the hull to lightning rods and leyden jars to absorb and redirect its lightning. |
| 142 | * CripplingCastration: [[spoiler: Aika foils Vigoro’s AttemptedRape by grabbing his balls and literally [[PlayingWithFire burning]] them off]]. It’s enough to make the veteran air pirate Gilder throw up. |
| 143 | * CruelMercy: |
| 144 | ** [[spoiler: The spirits of the Glacians within the city's walls could very well break Fina and her cohorts' minds with pure psychic might for intruding on their city... but their ringleader chooses not to, for after hearing Fina talk about the Glacians' monstrosities and none about her own people's, she decides that letting Fina live and learn the AwfulTruth about the Silvites will be more painful than anything they could do to her]]. [[HeroicBSOD They're right]]. |
| 145 | ** [[spoiler: Instead of cutting out Elder Prime's shard of the Silver Moon Crystal, Ramirez decides to cut it out of Fina's, saying that compared to the Elders' [[BabyFactory plan]] for her, this is a mercy]]. |
| 146 | * CunningLinguist: |
| 147 | ** To feel some semblance of freedom from her place as Yafutoma’s lone heir, Moegi has read and learned everything Yafutoma has recorded 200 years ago about the infamous pirate from the West, Daqat, and the language he spoke. Her knowledge is such that she is the only one capable of communicating even rudimentarily with Vyse’s crew once they reach Yafutoma. Moreover, it only takes her 4 hours conversing with Vyse and the crew to become passable with the modern [[CommonTongue Mid-Ocean trade language]]. |
| 148 | ** Laurette, the redheaded NPC from Esperanza, shows herself to be one, learning Nasrian to help her adoptive "big sister" Fatima, [[spoiler: conversing with Merida in Ixa'takan, and learning Yafutoman to help the crew with trading. That skill with languages is what draws in Daigo's attention, and eventually become the Foreign minister for Yafutoma]]. |
| 149 | * CurbStompBattle: During the mission at Dangral Island, Vyse and his crew experience Galcian's might firsthand. Just one strike from his massive sword is enough to put down anyone it hits, and [[CurbStompCushion although Vyse's strongest attack does draw blood]], it doesn't slow Galcian down a bit and his counter lays Vyse out flat. |
| 150 | * DareToBeBadass: Twofold for the denizens of Esperanza. First, there is Vyse’s canon challenge to them to find new dreams when the Dark Rift had dashed all their old ones. Then, when a large group of them are inspired enough to [[spoiler: sail to the ''Delphinus'' and ask to join Vyse’s crew]], the Nasrian merchant delivers another one when they try to buy the last part they need from him, leading Don to sell the merchant [[ItsAllJunk his old cutlass]] to make up the difference. |
| 151 | --> '''Merchant:''' What is your escape from Esperanza worth to you? Because what you have offered in trade so far is not enough. |
| 152 | * DarkerAndEdgier: The presence of actual {{Mook}} death is one thing, but then there’s Vigoro’s AttemptedRape of Aika that’s not PlayedForLaughs in '''any''' way - [[spoiler: [[CripplingCastration to say nothing of what she does to him afterward]]]]. |
| 153 | ** Valua's initial takeover of Yafutoma is a lot bloodier. For one thing, Moegi is chased into Vyse's guest room followed by Valuan guards, with the lone guard trying to protect her dying in front of her eyes. For another, as they escape into the sky, they can see bodies of loyal guards dragged out of the palace for later disposal. |
| 154 | ** We know that [[spoiler: the Purple Civilization turned Rhaknam the arcwhale into Plergoth the Gigas]], but the exact changes are spelled out in visceral detail here: [[spoiler: every injury Plergoth suffers is instantly healed with magical ice, [[ICannotSelfTerminate keeping the beast alive when all it wants to do is die]]]]. |
| 155 | ** [[spoiler: The Silvite Elders fully intended Fina to be a BabyFactory to help repopulate the Silvite race, only seeing her womb as any use and only sending her to Arcadia when Ramirez abandoned his mission]]. |
| 156 | * DamselOutOfDistress: Aika is able to [[spoiler: shake off Vigoro’s AttemptedRape and take care of him herself]], instead of Vyse and Gilder saving her. |
| 157 | * DeathByAdaptation: |
| 158 | ** [[spoiler: For the crimes of unleashing Bluheim on his home country, Minister Kangan is [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by Daigo instead of being captured and exiled]]. |
| 159 | ** [[spoiler: Izmael is killed during Ramirez's attack on Crescent Isle.]] |
| 160 | ** [[spoiler: Vigoro doesn't survive his fight with Vyse, Aika and Gilder on Dangral Island; Aika hits him in the back with a [[OneHitKO Silver death spell]] and then Vyse casts his dying body into the abyss.]] |
| 161 | * DeclarationOfProtection: Faced with the choice of succumbing to the Abyss's heat or letting Admiral De Loco shoot them while they try to run, [[spoiler: Moegi makes this declaration when she calls up her immense wellspring of spiritual power to cool the ship and give them a fighting chance]]. |
| 162 | -->[[spoiler:''I am Moegi Tokugawa, daughter of the Emperor. Sister of the Sword of the East, child of the Blue Moon, '''and all these are precious to me.'''\ |
| 163 | I am the lover of Enrique du Valua, the Hope of Valua, son of the rightful king.\ |
| 164 | I am the friend of Vyse of the Blue Rogues, the friend of his lovers Aika and Fina. I am friend and diplomat to the crew of this ship, of all who vowed fealty to their flag.\ |
| 165 | '''I am a child of the Blue Moon, and they are all precious to me.''' Wind and wave, answer my call...Let the power of Yafutoma shield this ship.\ |
| 166 | '''Let the Abyss fear the power of the Dragon.''''']] |
| 167 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: |
| 168 | ** After being defeated by Vyse, Lapen hears that they’ll be meeting up with his adoptive father Centime later, and asks to join his crew to reunite with him. He’s even willing to repair his damage to Vyse’s ship and [[HeelFaceTurn become a Blue Rogue]] to do so. |
| 169 | * DefectorFromDecadence: The original Blue Rogues, including Dyne and Centime, were all sailors in the Valuan Armada who mutinied when they began to disagree with the direction the Empire was going. |
| 170 | * DefensiveFeintTrap: In the case of faking a ship injury; knowing the ''Delphinus'' cannot beat Admiral Gregorio and the ''[[MightyGlacier Auriga]]'' in a head-to-head fight, Vyse orders Lapen and Hans to make it look like one of the ship’s turbines has [[HeroicRROD overheated]], to fake out Gregorio into overextending. Once the ''Auriga'' has committed to a [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming attack]], Vyse waits until the last moment to [[BullfightBoss dodge out of the way]] and then hammer Gregorio with point-blank cannon fire. |
| 171 | * DefrostingIceKing: The entirety of Chapter 28 is from “Lone Wolf” Lawrence’s perspective, detailing his time so far as part of Vyse’s crew, flying through the Dark Rift, and slowly coming out of his aloof shell and becoming a true part of the crew. The last line of the chapter says it all: |
| 172 | --> Lawrence was still a wolf in his heart, but he wasn’t a Lone Wolf any longer. He had found a pack to belong to at last. |
| 173 | * DesignerBabies: [[spoiler: Unable to leave the Great Silver Shrine and forgo their immortality, the Silvite Elders specifically grew Ramirez and Fina from the last two fragments of the Silver Moon Crystal, imbuing the former with his duty, and keeping the latter ignorant and pure to [[BabyFactory repopulate their race when it was time]]. Only when Ramirez abandoned his mission and disappeared did the Elders send Fina to Arcadia]]. |
| 174 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Maybe [[CostumeCopycat Vize, Anita and Faina]] should've thought of the consequences of trying to impersonate the most wanted crew in Mid-Ocean before the Valuan Armada came for them and tried to drag them off for execution. Or even trying to impersonate Vyse in a city like Nasrad that knows his deeds and looks very well. |
| 175 | * DistractedByTheSexy: |
| 176 | ** Vyse and Enrique all but choke when they see Aika and Moegi dressed in [[NubileSavage Ixa'takan style]]. |
| 177 | ** Upon seeing Urala in her {{Ninja}} garb as part of the Setsu clan to join Vyse on a covert mission, Hans is gaping like a fish. Urala also blushes when she notices his reaction. |
| 178 | * DoNotCallMePaul: Inverted. After his RelationshipUpgrade with Clara, Gilder hadn’t wanted to think about his old epithet, “TheUnfettered”, due to it reminding him of his past as TheCasanova. When a beaten Valuan soldier calls him that, he replies, “Just Gilder, if you please.” |
| 179 | * DoomedHometown: Windmill Isle a.k.a Pirate's Isle is ''twice'' as unlucky as in canon. In addition to being raided by the Armada and then rebuilt, [[spoiler: it's later ''obliterated'' by Galcian in response to the united armada's challenge to his Eternal Empire - the only good thing is that it had long been evacuated]]. |
| 180 | * DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: Upon confronting the spirits of the Glacians in their icy city, they taunt Fina with the atrocities of her ancestors without telling her anything of what they are. If you have played through the original game, you know what the ancient Silvites were responsible for.]] |
| 181 | * DressedInLayers: Laurette shows up at a Yafutoman party just wearing a regular blue winter kimono, but later removes it to reveal another kimono underneath: [[spoiler: one of the fancier kimonos that Prince Daigo gifted to her, as her answer to him about [[IChooseToStay choosing to stay as the empire's foreign minister]].]] |
| 182 | * DressingAsTheEnemy: A side-chapter has Gilder and Clara hijack a Valuan warship and then dress as its captains to infiltrate a Valuan resupply base, take it over, and get the components to upgrade their ships’ engines. |
| 183 | * DrivenToSuicide: Finding out [[spoiler: her little sister Maria is actually alive completely breaks Piastol, because she has [[TheseHandsHaveKilled killed too many people]] and become too much of a monster, and Maria seeing her older sister again and realizing she has become the Angel of Death would crush her. To that end, with [[NoPlaceForMeThere no other place to go]], she [[IgnoredEpiphany demands]] that she and Vyse finish their duel because [[DeathSeeker she wants him to kill her]], and when he wins the duel but refuses to take her life, she takes out a knife to finish it herself.]] |
| 184 | * DrowningMySorrows: Subverted. Vyse brings a grieving Enrique a bottle of rum and they toast [[spoiler: Gregorio's heroic sacrifice]], but after one shot, Vyse puts away the booze and brings out the tea, because he doesn't want Enrique to drink to forget, but instead to drink to remember. |
| 185 | * DoubleMeaningTitle: Chapter 37, which is the post-Yafutoman arc wrap-up, is titled "My Place Is With Him". While it does refer to Moegi wanting to leave with the ''Delphinus'' to be with Enrique, the majority focus of the chapter is [[spoiler: Laurette, an NPC from Esperanza, brought over on the crew, and how she finds her place at Prince Daigo's side, as Yafutoma's new foreign minister]]. |
| 186 | * DungeonBypass: When approaching Glacia, Aika is resistant idea of using the ''Delphinus'' to smash through the ice wall to reach it due to the damage it could cause to the ship, so the crew instead reach the city from Lower Sky. [[spoiler: Then the trope is deconstructed when, because Vyse and co. didn't go through the trials to reach the city, they are hit with some psychic defenses that knock them all out]]. |
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| 192 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: |
| 193 | ** Belle has sometimes snuck into the gym to watch [[WalkingShirtlessScene Khazim]] exercising, much to the amusement of their gunner crews. |
| 194 | ** While watching Vyse and Enrique spar (with Vyse going shirtless and Enrique down to his undershirt), Moegi is watching intently while blushing at every titter from her ladies-in-waiting. |
| 195 | * EasyLogistics: Averted. Moonstone fuel, provisions and supplies are all things that need to be managed and traded for along the journey, which is why Osman’s presence on Vyse’s crew is such a boon to them. |
| 196 | ** Another aversion happens with a dash of GameplayAndStorySegregation. On Vyse’s second escape from the Valuan Grand Fortress, the ''Delphinus’s'' ammo stores are limited (no torpedoes and only one salvo in the cannons), so he has to make every shot count. |
| 197 | * EleventhHourRanger: Vyse's boarding team to board Soltis has one extra member that joins them at the last moment: [[spoiler: Piastol]]. |
| 198 | * EmergencyWeapon: When Ryu-kan delivers Vyse's and Aika's new Gigas-material weapons to them, he also includes a dagger for Fina - in case an enemy gets too close and Cupil is too busy being a shield. [[ChekhovsGun It eventually comes in handy]]. |
| 199 | * EtTuBrute: When Prince Daigo is first exiled by Kangan's machinations (and his acting outside the law) and Emperor Mikado regretfully goes along with it, Daigo is visibly crushed. |
| 200 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 201 | ** Belleza is ''not'' happy when she hears that Vigoro and his men had tried finding companionship amongst the locals during their occupation of Yafutoma, arrested one when she rebuffed them and all the men who tried to defend her, and almost caused a riot as a result. She immediately arrests all the Valuan men responsible for starting it, and when Vigoro tries to protest, she ''slaps'' him. |
| 202 | ** [[spoiler:The Glacians regret turning Rhaknam into Plergoth. They gave the beast a regenerative power to make it able to stand a chance against the other Gigas, but they realized too late it would also mean Plergoth would never be able to die, even though it wishes to.]] |
| 203 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler: Ramirez, having realised the evils of the Silver Elders, cannot comprehend how Fina could survive after he stabbed out her moon crystal, because in order for her to even have a chance of surviving, one of the Elders would've had to give up their crystal for her, and emotionless, heartless monsters like them would never be capable of such a thing.]] |
| 204 | * ExposedToTheElements: While flying through the Southern Ocean and the bitter cold sky rifts to the south, many of the Ixa’takans and Nasrians on the crew start bundling up for the weather - except Khazim, who insists on [[WalkingShirtlessScene remaining shirtless]]. |
| 205 | ** Also, in contrast to the game where he could be on the exposed lookout in his tribal wear without flinching, Tikatika is explicitly bundled up for cold weather. |
| 206 | * FaintingSeer: Chapter 51 starts with Kalifa suddenly gripped with a seizing fever so strong that her eyes and nose bleed and the crew has to restrain her, all while she is screaming out a MadnessMantra of the last words she said to [[spoiler: Aika before the crew went up to the Silver Shrine, "Your heart must bleed silver!"]]. |
| 207 | * FemmeFatale: Admiral Belleza, even moreso than in the game. Chapter 7 is told from her perspective and we get to see her acting in her role as the head of Valua's intelligence network. Not only did she dupe the heroes into bringing her the red moon crystal, she also planted the rumors of Rhaknam being sighted in the area ''specifically'' to separate Drachma and the ''Little Jack'' from the rest of the party and force them to come to "Bellena" for help. |
| 208 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 209 | ** Gilder proves to be this to Vyse considering their attitudes towards love; Vyse can’t choose between his love for two girls and can’t bring himself to break up with either, while Gilder is TheCasanova with one girl [[StalkerWithACrush perpetually chasing after him]]. While they manage to travel together easily enough, both of them find the other’s attitude towards love ridiculous. Then Vyse reunites with Aika and Fina, both willing to love him and each other equally, and Gilder starts thinking harder about what he’s been running from. |
| 210 | ** Enrique initially sees himself and Princess Moegi as nobles conflicted between duty and freedom, but Fina's insight shows their contrasts instead; Enrique turned against his corrupt homeland when it would've been easier to stay, while Moegi chose to remain and do her duty as the new heir of her beloved kingdom when it would've been easier to leave and find her exiled brother. |
| 211 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: As the resident seer, Kalifa gives out a lot of information like this. Before Vyse, Aika, Fina and Gilder head off to the Silver Shrine, she appears with two lines of cryptic information for the women. To Fina, she says, "When secrets give way... hold fast to your Truths.", which is to help her [[spoiler: anchor herself after she learns the AwfulTruth of the Silvite Elder's plans to cleanse the world]]. To Aika, she says, "Your heart beats red, but it must bleed silver.", foreshadowing how [[spoiler: Aika would need to master Silver magic to resurrect Fina after Ramirez impales her]]. |
| 212 | * ForgivenButNotForgotten: Vyse doesn't just {{Easily Forgive|n}} Drachma's temporary abandonment of the party the way he does in the game. It takes Drachma admitting his fault and placing himself under Vyse's command to restore some measure of Vyse's trust in him. |
| 213 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: A young Nicholas Galcian's belief in honor and his father's creed of family reputation and image lasts until he walks in on his father raping one of their maids.]] |
| 214 | * TheGadfly: When Enrique lets Vyse and his lovers know about the ship-wide betting pool about which girl he is romantically involved in, the three of them end up staging a fake confrontation in the dining hall where the two girls arranged dates with Vyse at the same time, leading to more gossip and speculation amongst the crew and fuelling the betting pool. Though the two public and sequential {{Big Damn Kiss}}es weren’t in the script. |
| 215 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: |
| 216 | ** The fact that Fina joins the party at level 1 when the rest of the team is around 10 or 12 doesn't go unremarked on. Fina has to work ''hard'' to catch up with Vyse and Aika before eventually finding her niche as the party's WhiteMage. |
| 217 | ** [[spoiler: Ramirez shows off his ContractualBossImmunity (specifically in his HopelessBossFight on Crescent Isle) when he tanks Fina's [[OneHitKill Eternum]] spell, still feeling the shock but otherwise unaffected.]] |
| 218 | ---> '''[[spoiler: Ramirez]]:''' [[spoiler: You would have killed almost anyone with that spell. Almost anyone. [[WhileYouWereInDiapers But I was learning about Silver’s absolute judgment while you were still playing with]] ''[[WhileYouWereInDiapers coloring books]]'', Fina.]] |
| 219 | * GeekyTurnOn: Vyse and Aika all but jump Fina's bones when she illustrates the concept that Arcadia is round, revealing the biggest Discovery in history. |
| 220 | * GoodIsNotSoft: During Vyse’s WhatTheHellHero moment with Drachma for leaving them behind on Maramba, he all but says that if Drachma can’t rebuild his trust, he’ll repay the favour and maroon the old sailor on the aptly-named Maroon Isle - [[LeaveBehindAPistol with a single-shot pistol to boot]]. |
| 221 | * TheGoodKing: King Mathias du Valua, Teodora’s husband and Enrique’s father, was by all accounts an honourable, respected and just man, the man that embodied everything Valua should stand for. His passing and the rise of Lord Galcian proved to be a major turning point for Valua’s morals. |
| 222 | * GondorCallsForAid: Happens pre-finale just like in the original game, instigated by Fina broadcasting the message and call to arms to all their allies with their radios. |
| 223 | ** Of particular note are the Ixa'takans answering the call, as it was a call from Quetya. When Fina protests, knowing the AwfulTruth of her people, their leader answers that ''she'' is Quetya, not her people. |
| 224 | * GuestStarPartyMember: Kirala and Urala, in this [[AdaptationalBadass story]] trained [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]], join Vyse and the others in infiltrating Dangral Island. |
| 225 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: The finale of the battle against Anguila, the giant angler-serpent boss in the Dark Rift, ends with it being bisected by the ''Delphinus’s'' [[WaveMotionGun Moonstone Cannon]]. |
| 226 | * HalfTruth: When Belleza commandeered the ''Delphinus'' at Yafutoma, she asked Lapen (in this fic a reformed Blue Rogue) how to get the Moonstone Cannon functioning. Lapen says that Fina was making improvements to the cannon, that she had to take it offline to do so, and that he didn't understand a lick of what she was doing, so he can't undo her improvements to reactivate the cannon. All true... except that what was disabling the Moonstone Cannon was an emergency breaker that Fina insisted on installing, which Lapen managed to flip before he was captured. When Aika comes to bust them out, turning off the breaker and restoring cannon function literally takes five seconds. |
| 227 | * HarmfulHealing: Ilchymis tries to help Don’s alcohol poisoning by using his learned Silver magic to remove all the alcohol from Don’s system at once, but Don’s been TheAlcoholic for so long that his body instantly goes into withdrawal seizures. If not for Fina’s intervention, Don wouldn’t have survived. |
| 228 | * HatOfPower: The Captain's Hat equip item. In-game, it's just an exceptionally powerful piece of equipment, while lore-wise in this fic, it carries a bit of spiritual power from every past wearer, from [[spoiler: its original wearer Daccat, to the Larso clan head, and finally to Vyse]]. It even bears two red and blue ribbons that [[spoiler: correspond to Daccat's two wives, and now that it's Vyse's, he plans to add a silver ribbon to it]]. |
| 229 | * HeadbuttingHeroes: Enrique spends several chapters giving Vyse a hard time about seemingly two-timing Aika and Fina, though he still has his UndyingLoyalty. He finally confronts the three of them about it, and is speechless when their three-way relationship becomes clear to him. |
| 230 | * TheHeart: Of the three amigos Fina is the one who has her emotions best sorted out and tends not to get thrown off by relationship drama. When Vyse reveals that he loves both Fina and Aika and can't choose one of them over the other, Fina is far less distraught and far more accepting of the situation than either of her party members. She's also the one who ultimately talks Aika around to the {{polyamorous}} solution to the issue with her own love confession. |
| 231 | * HeelFaceTurn: As in canon, the defeats of Rupee Larso and Gordo the Round lead to them halting their Black Pirate ways and opening up a rug shop and restaurant respectively, but Lapen is added to this list [[DefeatMeansFriendship after his defeat at Vyse’s hands gets him to join his crew]]. |
| 232 | ** Lorenzo the black marketeer in Ixa’taka even {{Lampshades}} this when Vyse suggests that he can become a merchant shipping Ixa’takan fruit to Mid-Ocean. |
| 233 | ---> “Is this what you do? You deal with people and you... you ''make them go legit'' on you?” |
| 234 | ** [[spoiler: After Valua is destroyed and Valuan armada coalesces around Galcian and his Eternal Empire, the remnants of the 2nd Fleet, led by Gregorio's vice-admiral Charles Little, joins forces with Vyse and his allies]]. |
| 235 | * HellIsThatNoise: The howling of the winds and tornadoes through the Southern Ocean, so much so that Fina can’t get to sleep until Aika offers her some help, i.e. joining her in the bed. |
| 236 | * HelloSailor: Despite the presence of actual women on the ''Delphinus'', that doesn't stop a couple of homosexual couples forming on the ship. |
| 237 | ** [[spoiler: Vyse has caught Lawrence and Lapen making out in the closet at some time or another, and Marco has noticed the two hanging out around each other a lot]]. |
| 238 | ** Similarly, Marco has also noticed the same air around Brabham and Izmael, [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple who both argue incessantly yet are never out of each other's sight]]. Whether this has been going on since their time on Gilder's crew is not specified. [[spoiler: After Izmael's death, Brabham admits their relationship to Fina, who says she would've married them if they'd asked.]] |
| 239 | * HeroicBSOD: Fina suffers one after learning the AwfulTruth of [[spoiler: the Silvites perpetrating the Rains of Destruction, but also that the [[BrokenPedestal Silvite Elders]] intended her to be the one to [[BabyFactory repopulate their race and gave a predisposition for child-rearing]], only sending her after Ramirez when there was no other option]]. For another layer of tragedy, Fina and Aika had had several moments in the previous chapters discussing [[spoiler: becoming mothers when this was all over]]. |
| 240 | * HeroicSacrifice: In addition to all the canon examples, [[spoiler: while Vyse and his friends are boarding the ''Hydra'', Admiral Komullah, wanting to [[TheAtoner atone]] for accidentally spilling the location of Crescent Isle to the Armada, pilots his ship ''Dunebreaker'' to shield them from enemy cannon fire, allowing Vyse to reach the flying fort while Komullah [[GoingDownWithTheShip goes down with the ship]]]]. |
| 241 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: [[DayInTheLimelight Chapter 29]] shows that while Vyse and the ''Delphinus'' were traversing the Dark Rift, Gilder and Clara were off having their own adventures and getting used to sailing together. |
| 242 | * {{Hellgate}}: For the longest time, the cultures of Arcadia viewed the Great Vortex, which leads to the [[EldritchLocation world's surface]], as the gateway to Hell. Ancient cultures and even old pirate crews threw their worst criminals into it, and the one time a Valuan explorer named Thomassen tried venturing into it, he never came back up and his Folly was used as the basis of a cautionary poem. |
| 243 | --> ''Where darkness lives and death abides, Here the great Abyss resides. What secrets be kept, no one can tell, '''We dare not venture into Hell.''''' |
| 244 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 245 | ** Fina, despite her naïveté to Mid-Ocean and its tech, is [[WrenchWench well-versed in advanced Silvite technology and moonstone weaponry]], due to studying it during her free time as a Silver Priestess. |
| 246 | ** Vyse shows himself to be shrewd in not just the art of captaincy, but in his vision for a better tomorrow. When discussing Lorenzo the black marketeer becoming a merchant in Ixa’takan produce, Vyse doesn’t mention kafa (coffee) beans to him. He explains later that if/when Ixa’taka decides to sell their sacred beans to other buyers around the world, it’ll be on their terms, not anyone else’s. |
| 247 | ** All those portraits of beautiful women around Gilder’s ship cabin; Gilder painted himself. He even goes as far as painting a family portrait for Centime. |
| 248 | ** Kirala and Urala's parents, Osuma and Raiko, are descendants of the Setsu clan, who had once served the Tokugawa dynasty as {{Ninja}}s. Osuma and Raiko were the ones who taught Daigo how to operate unseen in the underworld during his rogue mission to uncover the kingdom-wide opium smuggling ring. |
| 249 | * HistoryRepeats: It turns out that Vyse mirrors the legendary pirate Sahira Daccat in more than a few ways: not only his round-the-world travels and legendary acts that shake the world, but also that [[spoiler: just like Aika and Fina are Vyse's lovers, Daccat had two wives, Yasmina and Kikue]]. |
| 250 | ** Princess Kikue Tokugawa's tale plays itself out again with her descendant Moegi, with she too leaving Yafutoma with a legendary air pirate to see the world. [[spoiler: The only difference is that while Kikue marries Daccat, Moegi falls for Vyse's comrade Enrique]]. |
| 251 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Ramirez's decision to use Fina's Silver Moon Crystal to power the Rains of Destruction has a few side-effects (brought along by Fina actually surviving). With Fina still connected to her crystal, not only can she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling sense]] when the Rains of Destruction are being used, if she's close enough, she can call out to Soltis and put it to sleep for a brief moment.]] |
| 252 | * HoneyTrap: |
| 253 | ** Belleza, in her guise of Bellena the dancer, tries pulling one on Vyse on the way to the Temple of Pyrynn. Despite his own conflicting feelings for Aika and Fina, Vyse turns her down so as to remain loyal to them, and despite her own feelings for Galcian, Belleza can’t help but [[InLoveWithTheMark feel a bit of longing]]. |
| 254 | ** Later on, [[spoiler: one of Belleza's spies uses this tactic to coax the location of Crescent Isle out of one of Admiral Bast Komullah's men]]. |
| 255 | * HonoraryTrueCompanion: After they're reunited, Drachma says he never took Vyse's oath of being a Blue Rogue, but Vyse hands him a MembershipToken anyway and calls him an honorary member. |
| 256 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Galcian's father was one, and it's the reason of Galician's current philosophy. [[spoiler: A young Nicholas Galcian's belief in honor and his father's creed of family reputation and image indeed lasted until he walks in on his father raping one of their maids.]] |
| 257 | * IAmAMonster: [[spoiler: Fina]] takes on this attitude after she finds out the AwfulTruth that [[spoiler: not only were the Silvite Elders planning on destroying the world, they had genetically engineered [[BabyFactory her to want to bear children to repopulate it]]. It takes her lovers a long time]] to help her through the pain. |
| 258 | * ICannotSelfTerminate: Over and over again, [[spoiler: Rhaknam]] is ravaged by its own rampages and returns to [[spoiler: Glacia]] to die... and over and over again, [[spoiler: the power of the Purple Moon Crystal repairs its wounds and rebuilds its flesh, body and even mind with ice, keeping it alive. It takes Fina's Eternum to [[MercyKill finally grant it peace in death]]]]. |
| 259 | * IChooseToStay: |
| 260 | ** After being rescued by the ''Delphinus'', Admiral Bast Komullah of the Nasrian Home Fleet offers Khazim a place back in his rebuilding fleet. Khazim declines, saying that he has sworn an Oath to serve Vyse of the Blue Rogues and to fight against Valua. |
| 261 | ** When Rupee Larso gave up pirating to become a rug seller, Barta and all the other pirates of the Larso clan chose becoming his deliverymen over continuing piracy without him. |
| 262 | ** Laurette the Esperanzan girl, [[spoiler: brought to Yafutoma on the ''Delphinus's'' crew, finds her place in being the Yafutoman foreign minister, advising Prince Daigo himself. In addition, her taking Moegi's place as someone who knows both Yafutoman and the Mid-Ocean trade speech allows Moegi to join the ''Delphinus's'' crew]]. |
| 263 | *** Later on, her adopted sister and guardian Fatima the bartender joins her, along with her mother Aliya from Maramba. |
| 264 | * IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Belleza is this to Galcian, as in canon, but she also finds out that one of her underlings is this to ''her'': her [[NumberTwo vice-admiral]], Daniel Rawlins. His admission of such forces her to take a closer look at her own longing for Galcian and her desires for love and control, and how she is bereft of both even with her current position in the admiralty. |
| 265 | * IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler: With the knowledge of Piastol's past, Vyse invites her to dinner where she meets Doc for the first time in years and reveals that her sister Maria is still alive. However, instead of calming down and surrendering, Piastol instead demands that Vyse face her one last time, now not because she wants to kill him, but because [[DeathSeeker she wants him to kill her]].]] |
| 266 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: |
| 267 | ** [[spoiler: In their confrontation on Crescent Isle, Ramirez does this to Vyse, and plans to stay there until he expires unless Fina surrenders the Moon Crystals to him. [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl She does.]]]] |
| 268 | ** [[spoiler: Later, he does this to Fina on the Great Silver Shrine to extract the Silver Moon Crystal shard inside her]]. |
| 269 | * InterruptedIntimacy: In Chapter 38, Vyse relates to Fina one time where he caught [[spoiler: Lawrence and Lapen]] making out in the supply closet. |
| 270 | * InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Driven to the edge at the realization that her sister is still alive and would hate the monster she's become, after Vyse defeats her and yet refuses to kill her, Piastol takes out a knife to [[DrivenToSuicide finish the job herself]]. However, Aika knocks the knife out of her hand and demands that she live instead]]. |
| 271 | * IntimateArtistry: Gilder is a painter and artist, all the portraits in his cabin his works. After he finally stops running from Clara, both of them share a moment where he paints a second portrait of her, this time of a nude. |
| 272 | * IntimatePsychotherapy: After the second Grand Fortress escape and Vigoro’s AttemptedRape of Aika, she begs Vyse and Fina to “make me forget him”. The resulting two hours of intimacy work and she goes to sleep with a smile on her face. |
| 273 | ** It's also averted in a later instance: after Fina [[spoiler: is traumatized by learning the AwfulTruth of the Silvite Elders and literally dying at Ramirez's hand]], while comforting her afterwards, Vyse and Aika carefully watch where they put their hands. |
| 274 | * {{Irony}}: Tragic example. Fina and Aika spend several moments talking about becoming mothers once the war against Valua is over, and then [[spoiler: the Silvite Elders reveal the AwfulTruth that they [[DesignerBabies genetically implanted the desire to procreate in Fina from birth]], so that she could be used to [[BabyFactory repopulate the Silvite race]]]]. |
| 275 | * ItsAllJunk: |
| 276 | ** Gilder, an amazing painter and TheCasanova, had a portrait painted of every woman he slept with and kept them hanging in his cabin. When he stops running from Clara and she comes to see him, she finds him taking down all the portraits… except hers. |
| 277 | ** Throughout all of Don’s years wasting away at Esperanza, there were two things that he could not bring himself to sell for booze money: his cutlass while he was still a Valuan Navy Ensign, and a gold compass his father gave him when he joined the Navy. He ends up selling the former for an engine part, [[spoiler: to enable the population of Esperanza to sail to the ''Delphinus'' on a beat-up patrol boat so they can join its crew]]. |
| 278 | ** A version that blends in BurningTheShips: before the final battle, [[spoiler: Fina asks Aika to dismantle her Silvite skyship to upgrade the ''Delphinus''. When Aika points out that it'll be impossible to rebuild her skyship afterwards, Fina replies that after learning the AwfulTruth of the Silvites, there's nothing up there for her any more]]. |
| 279 | * TheJailBaitWait: Both of the ''Delphinus's'' gunner crews joke about their leaders making eyes at each other and Belle sneaking in to [[EatingTheEyeCandy ogle Khazim while he's working out]], while Khazim ([[AgeGapRomance who's twice Belle's age]]) promises not to court Belle until she reaches the age of maturity. Belle is exceedingly embarrassed, but doesn't say no. |
| 280 | * JokeAndReceive: After the ''Delphinus'' returns to Crescent Isle after the voyage through the Dark Rift, to Yafutoma and then around the world, Brabham looks at the damage and jokingly asks if they fought the whole Valuan armada. Vyse replies no, just the 2nd, 3rd and 4th fleets and a Gigas for good measure. |
| 281 | * JustLikeRobinHood: Justified. The Blue Rogues don't act like traditional pirates because at their roots they're more of an anti-Valua resistance movement. The group's "leaders" (insomuch as it has them) like Dyne and Centime are former Valuans themselves, being captains who mutinied against the larger fleet to resist Empress Teodora's tyranny, and the rest of the group follows their ideals. |
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| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder: K-P]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: “Lone Wolf” Lawrence joined Vyse’s crew with half his 10,000 gold fee and a [[TheBet bet]] that if he acknowledged Vyse as a better helmsman, he’d forgo the other half in exchange for full employment. Faced with the idea of flying through the tornado-laden Southern Ocean, Lawrence decides to not risk the lives of everyone aboard on a challenge or his pride, and concedes to Vyse to take them through it. |
| 288 | * LeaveNoSurvivors: Cornered by the Valuan Navy, Admiral Bast Komullah raises flags of surrender and orders his men to the lifeboats, but the Valuans don’t stop firing and respond with flags of “No Quarter”. If not for the ''Delphinus'' [[BigDamnHeroes intervening]], things would've been bloody. |
| 289 | * LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Invoked by Enrique during the ship battle against Gregorio and the 2nd Fleet at Esperanza. Just as Blue Rogues are not Black Pirates and Gregorio’s men are not monsters like Galcian, they will allow quarter and retreat and [[WillfullyWeak will not use the Moonstone cannon]] against them, to send a message of the Blue Rogues’ true character. That said, DefensiveFeintTrap tactics are not out of the question. |
| 290 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Gilder, Vyse has the same supernal charisma and leadership as his father Dyne. And when Dyne defected from the Valuan Armada to become the first Blue Rogue, others followed him, turning a mutinying detachment into a coalition of air pirates across Mid-Ocean, all following the same rulebook. |
| 291 | * LivingLegend: Dyne the Blue Storm is not just ''a'' Blue Rogue, he was ''the First'' Blue Rogue - the first to mutiny from Valua and leading many others after him. Clara’s breath is taken away when she hears that Vyse is his son. |
| 292 | --> '''Clara:''' Dyne was the First Blue Rogue. The First to raise our banner. The First to break away from tyranny, and imagine a better way. |
| 293 | * LongDeadBadass: The legendary pirate Sahira Daccat counts as one, given that many of his feats, from reaching Yafutoma and sailing around the world, are spoken of with awe by many and with determination by Vyse. |
| 294 | * LoveConfession: Variation at the end of chapter 56; with the world coming together to fight for what they believe in, Vyse decides to stop hiding what he fights for, and announces his relationship with both Aika and Fina to all his allies. |
| 295 | * LoveTriangle: Absent from the game, romantic entanglements between the story's main Trio and how they eventually sort things out between them are a major focus of the story's character development. |
| 296 | ** Aika's jealousy of Fina is a focus throughout the early chapters of the story, whereas in the game Aika never showed any hint of competition against her. |
| 297 | * MagneticHero: Vyse is depicted as this, mostly seen through the eyes of those that follow him. From Domingo jumping at the chance to explore further than Mid-Ocean, to Khazim turning down a chance to rejoin the Nasrian fleet in favour of staying with Vyse, and Don [[spoiler: and the whole town of Esperanza]] begging to join up, the young Blue Rogue’s charisma and valour lead many people to join his ranks upon moments of meeting him. The Nasrian merchant in Esperanza says it best: |
| 298 | --> “And now word has it, he has offered all of ''you'' a place in his number. What Vyse wants, he takes. He is a Blue Rogue, but he is a pirate, and if he ''wants'' you, then he will ''have'' you. You all cannot help but be drawn in by his charisma.” |
| 299 | ** When the Valuans occupy Yafutoma and repossess the ''Delphinus'', Belleza talks to several of the crew to gain insight into Vyse's motivations, and the sheer amount of UndyingLoyalty all of them show for him throws her for a loop. |
| 300 | ** Even Prince Daigo can't help but be won over. Mere days after meeting the Blue Rogue, Daigo admits that if Vyse asked him to throw himself into the abyss, he'd give the idea serious thought. |
| 301 | ** Ryu-Kan, despite remaining stoic, is all too willing to join the crew if it means potentially [[ElementalCrafting crafting weapons]] out of Gigas material. |
| 302 | * MandatoryUnretirement: After Galcian forms his Eternal Empire, Ramirez personally requests for Doc's mandatory re-enlistment into service. Doc, Maria and [[spoiler: Piastol]] all protest, the latter violently. |
| 303 | * ManlyGay: [[spoiler: "Lone Wolf" Lawrence is TheStoic, a good swordsman, and one of the helmsmen for the ''Delphinus''. "Loose Cannon" Lapen is a reformed Black Pirate and a hard-mouthed engineer. Vyse catches them making out in a supply closet]]. |
| 304 | * ManlyTears: |
| 305 | ** When Prince Enrique apologizes to the denizens of Esperanza for Valua casting them aside, Don finds himself sobbing for the first time in years. |
| 306 | *** He, Robinson and [[spoiler: everyone from Esperanza that joined the ''Delphinus'']] shed even more when they finally make it through the Rift. |
| 307 | ** Enrique sheds some more onto Vyse's shoulder after [[spoiler: Gregorio's HeroicSacrifice]]. |
| 308 | * MeaningfulRename: Two after the war. |
| 309 | ** [[spoiler: Vyse decides to rename the Blue Rogues, created in wartime to fight against a tyrannical Valuan Empire, to the Blue Merchant Marines, to help keep the world connected and safe in peacetime.]] |
| 310 | ** [[spoiler: Vyse and his wives take on the family name Bluevane, after the Blue Rogues and an old Valuan word meaning "good-natured"]]. |
| 311 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler: Rhaknam/Plergoth cannot [[ICannotSelfTerminate die]] with the Purple Moon Crystal constantly repairing its body, so Fina has to be the one to use ''[[OneHitKill Eternum]]'' on it and finally grant it peace in death]]. |
| 312 | * MortonsFork: The crew of the ''Delphinus'' are faced with one when De Loco and his ''Chameleon'' confront them in the Abyss at the world's surface. With their cooling systems not able to last much longer, they're stuck between facing him here and succumbing to the heat, or fleeing for the surface and allow him to pick them off. [[spoiler: Luckily, Moegi comes through with a way to make the first option much more bearable]]. |
| 313 | * MotiveMisidentification: “Loose Cannon” Lapen’s axe to grind with his adoptive father Centime is not only that he’s wasting his engineering skills, but that he and his wife Carol up and left without telling him where to go. He never knew that a storm blew them all the way to Ixa’taka, where they’d been stranded ever since. |
| 314 | * MustHaveCaffeine: In Fina’s opinion, the best treasure they get from Ixa’taka are the ''kafa'' beans and the life-restoring brew they make. Fina greatly misses the drink from her past, and even calls it coffee due to language drift. [[BetterThanSex She’ll even halt sex with Vyse to have her morning cup]]. |
| 315 | * MyEyesAreLeaking: [[spoiler: The Silvite Elder Lennis, like all the Silvite Elders, gave up her emotions when she attained her immortality. So why, after watching Fina be stabbed, Elder Prime give up his own Silver Moon Crystal shard for her, and Aika finally resurrect her after a long and painful ordeal]], is she crying? |
| 316 | * MythologyGag: |
| 317 | ** When Lawrence expresses doubt in [[spoiler: hitting Bluheim with the Moonstone Cannon in the middle of the storm it's whipping up]], Don says that he will, because "this is what you're paid for." In the video game, Lawrence says "This is what I'm paid for." during the Blue Rogues team attack. |
| 318 | ** In the game, Piccolo the hamachou sometimes coughs up weapons after being given moonfish. [[spoiler:Piastol]] gets a replacement weapon from him this way. |
| 319 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: |
| 320 | ** The Ixa’taka Black Marketeer is named Lorenzo, and he’s as much TheAlcoholic as Don is. |
| 321 | ** Vyse’s mother is named Relena. |
| 322 | ** Osman’s first name is Rabina. |
| 323 | ** Khazim’s first name is Fasha. |
| 324 | ** Ilchymis’s full name is Ilchymis du Argas, [[spoiler: a name derived from the Silvite language]]. |
| 325 | ** The redheaded female NPC in Esperanza, whose parents perished to the Dark Rift, is named Laurette. |
| 326 | ** The Nasrian bartender in Esperanza is named Fatima, and her mother in Maramba is named Aliya. |
| 327 | ** Robinson’s last name is Caruso, in an obvious ShoutOut to his namesake Literature/RobinsonCrusoe. |
| 328 | ** Don’s full name is Don Juan Artours. |
| 329 | ** The Yafutoman Emperor and his children have the surname Tokugawa, in an {{Homage}} to UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu. |
| 330 | ** Kangan and Muraji have the surname Kurowei. |
| 331 | ** Kirala and Urala are part of the Setsu clan. |
| 332 | ** Belleza's first name is Nadia. |
| 333 | ** Daccat's first name was Sahira. |
| 334 | ** Gregorio's first name is Winston. |
| 335 | ** Doc's full name is Doctor David Levinstone. |
| 336 | ** Galcian's first name is Nicholas. |
| 337 | ** Kalifa's last name is El-Haqim. |
| 338 | ** The impostor Vyse's full name is Vize Salmers. |
| 339 | * NarrativePoem: The entirety of Chapter 63 is an Epic Poem written in-universe by Kalifa, detailing the ''Delphinus's'' epic battle against [[spoiler: Zelos]], titled "They Flew Free". |
| 340 | * NearDeathExperience: Aika very nearly gets her ticket punched during the party's first encounter with Piastol. It's only Fina's talent for silver magic that saves her at the last second. |
| 341 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: While "hero" may be a stretch considering the BrokenPedestal, Elder Cross of the ancient Silvites disabled the Great Silver Shrine's security to allow Vyse, Aika and Gilder entrance alongside Fina, but it also gave Ramirez the opening to [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs subvert the security]].]] |
| 342 | * NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: Drachma explains that when he and Gordo knew each other at first, Gordo was much thinner and Drachma still had his entire body and his son. When they met again with Vyse and his friends in tow, they barely recognized each other. |
| 343 | * NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Inverted example. When Piastol meets with Vyse and his crew for their final duel, Vyse decides to call for parley and invite her to dinner and a talk before that. This is because [[spoiler: they have just found out from Doc that his charge Maria is actually Piastol's younger sister, whom she thought died at the hands of Air Pirates, and are bringing her to dinner to show her the truth herself]]. |
| 344 | * NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Aika and Fina are seen taking birth control medicine after their shared RelationshipUpgrade with Vyse. It even leads to the crew seeking out Ilchymis early, as the medicine they use is too strong for their liking. |
| 345 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: |
| 346 | ** During their separation in Nasrad, Aika despairs over what happens if they find Vyse and he chooses Fina over her. Fina recognises her depressed sobbing for what it is, and admits to knowing what it feels like being second best - being the second Silvite chosen for the mission after all. |
| 347 | ** When Moegi and Enrique first converse, she confronts him about abandoning his duty to the throne for honour, and Enrique admits that he felt trapped by his position on the throne, a mere useless figurehead, and part of his motivation was to break free of that and enact real change. [[DramaticIrony Little does he know]], Moegi is grappling with the same dilemma of being nothing more than a royal figurehead bound by duty to marry and continue the royal bloodline. |
| 348 | * NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: The Gigas, as weapons of mass destruction of the Old World, were thought to be invincible, unbeatable even by an entire fleet of warships. That sentiment lasts until the ''Delphinus's'' Moonstone Cannon's makes Bluheim bleed, and the crew is heartened with the knowledge that if it bleeds, it can die. |
| 349 | * NumberOneDime: Daccat’s Coin is this for two different people in two different ways. To Vyse, it is the final treasure at the end of the quest to reunite with Aika and Fina, and represents Daccat’s lesson that the most valuable treasures in life are friends, family and freedom. To the Nasrad guild master, it is a national symbol of one of their heroes (as Daccat was said to be Nasrian), and is needed to rally their people after their city’s destruction. Osman is able to come up with a contract-sealed compromise that gets the guild master to mint personal replacement coins for all of Vyse’s crew, as {{Membership Token}}s and reminders of Daccat’s lesson. |
| 350 | * OffWithHisHead: |
| 351 | ** [[spoiler: The ''Delphinus's'' final Moonstone blast shears Bluheim's head from its body.]] |
| 352 | ** [[spoiler: Daigo removes Minster Kangan's head for the crime of unleashing the Blue Gigas against Yafutoma]]. |
| 353 | * OhCrap: Aika has just watched Fina thwart Lord Zivilyn Bane's TakingYouWithMe bomb by [[RelocatingTheExplosion knocking him off a ledge]] and down a shaft and is relieved... until she remembers that they'd just finished lining the bottom of said shaft with ''explosives''. |
| 354 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation[=/=]AdaptationOriginConnection: |
| 355 | ** Dyne and Centime were both members of the Valuan navy who became two of the first Blue Rogues, [[DefectorFromDecadence disagreeing with Valua’s militant expansionism and mutinying from the Armada]]. |
| 356 | ** [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Clara is one of Centime and Carol’s adopted children]]. |
| 357 | ** Ilchymis apparently has [[spoiler: Silvite ancestry, which leads Fina to claim him as her uncle]]. |
| 358 | ** Robinson and Don were on the same crew during their last attempt to get through the Dark Rift. |
| 359 | ** Kirala and Urala are descended from a {{Ninja}} clan, and their parents taught Daigo the arts of subterfuge. |
| 360 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted. Fatima, the Nasrian bartender from Esperanza who is NamedByTheAdaptation, meets the identically named innkeeper in Nasrad who helped out Aika and Fina. |
| 361 | * TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: The Yafutomans are not happy in the least at the Valuan occupation, supported by Minister Kangan or not... but they do show some appreciation of Admiral Belleza arresting several of Vigoro's men when they mistook a female teahouse worker as a prostitute and got violent when they were rebuffed. |
| 362 | --> '''Bystander:''' You still invader, though. Divine Wind punish you all. But maybe - spare you, red-haired one. Hope - spare you. |
| 363 | * ParentsAsPeople: Vyse’s mother Relena spends some time warning her son not to string both Aika and Fina along, and to make a choice and let the other down easy. The next morning, later in the chapter, she catches her son and his lovers all in bed together (still sleeping the morning after), and her internal dialogue shows her desperately trying to make sense of what she sees as deviant and unnatural, though she eventually comes around after seeing how peaceful they all look and a morning-after talk with the three of them. |
| 364 | * ParentalSubstitute: While growing up, Enrique saw Gregorio as a second father. [[spoiler: Which makes it more tragic when the last words Gregorio says to Enrique while [[YouShallNotPass he's holding off Galcian]] are "Goodbye... my son."]]. |
| 365 | * ThePeepingTom: Marco is bribed into being one when the crew get him to see which woman Captain Vyse is sharing his bed with. Though he does find out, he is so unnerved and confused at seeing Aika and Fina undressing and his reaction to them that he doesn't tell anyone what he saw. |
| 366 | * PhlebotinumRebel: [[spoiler: When Zelos merges with Ramirez during the final battle, it declares that it served the functions of the Creators and was locked away for it, so now it is done following orders and will exterminate all other life on earth to survive.]] |
| 367 | * PiratesVersusNinjas: When Urala and Kirala (in this fic scions of a Yafutoman {{Ninja}} clan) join Vyse and his away team on a covert mission, the author invokes a variant of this trope. |
| 368 | --> '''AN:''' You know what's better than Pirates Vs. Ninjas? Pirates AND Ninjas. Working together. |
| 369 | * PlotHole: Wherever possible the story invents new details or otherwise smooths over holes in the original story. |
| 370 | ** For instance during the mission to rescue Fina the ''Little Jack'' performs a GunshipRescue, blasting a train car in half to separate the party from an unbeatable Admiral Galcian. But how did Drachma to know where to shoot? Well when the same scene happens in chapter 5 Aika is tossing around Pyri crystals (magic grenades) and when Galcian corners them Vyse tells her to throw her last one out a window, using it as a signal flare. |
| 371 | ** How would Yafutoma be able to communicate with Vyse and his crew if they'd not had contact for centuries? Answer: with Fina knowing ancient Yafutoman, and Moegi reading everything recorded about the infamous Western pirate Daqat (Daccat) that came to Yafutoma 200 years ago, and whose language is taught rudimentarily to Yafutomans as how to recognise invaders. And even then, their first conversation is quite halting. |
| 372 | ** The "Arcadia is a torus" idea due to the east and west being linked and the north and south being linked is nipped in the bud. Arcadia is explicitly declared to be round and Glacia is located at the South Pole. |
| 373 | ** Also with regards to Glacia, in the game, the crew originally gets to it from above by using the ''Delphinus'' to smash through the ice. Aika vetos that idea, citing the ludicrous amount of damage the ship would take on a risk, and advises Vyse to find another way. Instead, they go in through the Lower Sky entrance first - [[spoiler: which proves to be a mistake]]. |
| 374 | * {{Polyamory}}: Vyse/Aika/Fina, natch. It takes some time to grow into it, though, and challenges such as Aika’s initial jealousy of Fina and Vyse’s inability to choose between either of them have to be overcome. |
| 375 | ** Then it's revealed that [[spoiler: Daccat had two wives that also loved each other, Yasmina and Kikue]]. |
| 376 | ** Fina advises the Ixa'ness Trio to talk things out with each other and with Tikatika if they all desire to pursue him romantically. |
| 377 | * ThePowerOfHate: [[spoiler: The spirits of the Glacians', [[BrainUploading buried in their city's walls]], loathe the Silvites/Silvians with an undying passion, and their hatred is strong enough to bring Fina to her knees with their psychic shouts and knock her friends out. The ringleader says as much]]: |
| 378 | --> '''[[spoiler: Glacian Ringleader]]:''' You claim that we are heartless. You’re wrong. It takes a heart to hate. And we hate you, whether you call yourself Silvian or Silvite. We hate you more than you know. |
| 379 | * ThePowerOfLove: Vyse, Aika and Fina and the love they all have for each other spurs them all on throughout the story. It’s what motivates Vyse to keep surviving while marooned to get back to them, what helps Aika [[spoiler: break free from Vigoro’s supernatural charm]], and what helps Fina power the ''Delphinus’s'' Moonstone Cannon enough to help them escape the Grand Fortress. |
| 380 | ** [[spoiler: When Vyse, Aika and Fina affirm their marriage under the Silver Moon, it blesses Fina and deems her "WORTHY". This bond is what allows her to break free of Zelos-Ramirez's [[PeoplePuppets Silver Nightmare]], and the blessing is what empowers her, her spouses and Enrique to fight back against the Silver Gigas.]] |
| 381 | * PowerPerversionPotential: The Captain's Hat greatly increases Vyse's strength, which has made his bedroom activities with his girls a lot more energetic, much to their appreciation. |
| 382 | * PrecisionFStrike: Fina exhibits a lot more profanity when it's revealed that [[spoiler: not only did the Glacians turn Rhaknam the arcwhale into Plergoth the Gigas, a living beast into a living weapon, their augmentations also [[BodyHorror regenerate any wounds he takes with enhanced ice]], slowly replacing his flesh and [[ICannotSelfTerminate preventing him from dying]].]] |
| 383 | * PrisonRape: While the game plays this trope for laughs, this fic plays it [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ruthlessly straight]]. |
| 384 | * PuppyLove: The little girl Lyndsi develops a cute crush on Marco, much to his disgust. Everyone else finds it either adorable or hilarious. They become pen-pals after the war. |
| 385 | |
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| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder: R-Z]] |
| 389 | |
| 390 | * RagsToRiches: [[spoiler: Laurette goes from an orphaned girl on Esperanza, with no prospects in life and watching everyone else waste away, to the foreign minister for the entire kingdom of Yafutoma, and eventually Prince Daigo's consort]]. |
| 391 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Vigoro’s AttemptedRape was PlayedForLaughs in canon. Not here. When Prince Enrique hears about it [[spoiler:and what Aika did to him in return]], he says that his injuries were well-deserved. |
| 392 | ** Moreover, during the Valuan occupation of Yafutoma, some of Vigoro's crew end up getting violent with some of the teahouse workers, mistaking them for prostitutes, and arrested several Yafutoman men who tried to defend them. Belleza is so incensed she puts all of the offending soldiers under arrest themselves, frees the Yafutomans, and overrules Vigoro when he tries to protest. And slaps him for good measure. |
| 393 | ** [[spoiler: Nicholas Galcian loses all respect for his father and their so-called family code of reputation and honor when he walks in on him raping a maid.]] |
| 394 | * RealWomenDontWearDresses: The rough-and-tumble Aika initially has a problem with Fina when they start travelling together, particularly that she’s too weak and frilly to take care of herself (and a tinge of jealousy that she might lose Vyse to Fina). That soon changes after Fina saves her life with a Riselem crystal. |
| 395 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 396 | ** While traveling from Daccat’s Island back to Nasrad, the reunited Fina, Aika and Vyse take turns talking to Gilder about love while the other two are… [[RightThroughTheWall reuniting]]. Fina and Aika mostly spend the time indirectly chastising Gilder for his attitude towards love and how he sees it as either being faithful to one or unfaithful to many, and how he doesn’t deserve Clara who’s never stopped loving him. Vyse takes a softer approach. |
| 397 | ** Vyse doesn't mince words when he chews out his impostor Vize for impersonating him and acting like ruthless Black Pirates in his name, after the latter is rescued from a Valuan ship bound for his execution. |
| 398 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Elder Prime may have been at the forefront of the Silvites' plan to cleanse the world and use Fina to repopulate it, but after Ramirez stabs out Fina's Moon Crystal, Elder Prime offers up his own for Aika to use to try and resurrect her, telling her to give her the love he couldn't.]] |
| 399 | * RefugeInAudacity: Stated verbatim in Chapter 35 as some of Vyse's best ideas, that which are CrazyEnoughToWork. It's also the idea used when leading the Tenkou against the Valuan Armada; with the Armada appraised of Yafutoman engines and expecting guerilla-style tactics, if that's what the majority of the Tenkou use, it'll lower the Valuans' guard enough for Vyse and his mates to board and retake the ''Delphinus'' from a direction no-one would see coming - Lower Sky. |
| 400 | * RelationshipUpgrade: |
| 401 | ** Aika and Fina’s feelings for each other coalesce in the weeks working at the Nasrian bar to earn the funds for a boat to go searching for Vyse, and when they finally rejoin Vyse, they’re fully willing to enter in a throuple between them all. |
| 402 | ** In Chapter 20, Gilder finally decides he’s done running from Clara, and asks her to sail with him for a while longer. |
| 403 | ** In Chapter 38, Enrique and Moegi finally admit their feelings (and Enrique drops propriety and kisses her) when they find the grave of [[spoiler: Princess Kikue Daccat née Tokugawa]]. |
| 404 | * RotatingProtagonist: The perspective generally flips between the main Trio, but occasionally [[ADayInTheLimelight whole chapters are devoted to auxiliary party members and side characters]], especially when Vyse starts expanding the crew of the ''Delphinus''. |
| 405 | * SecretKeeper: In exchange for getting a place to rebuild his damaged fleet, Admiral Bast Komullah promises to keep the location of Cresent Isle, Vyse’s headquarters, a secret. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, his men are not so tight-lipped]]. |
| 406 | * SecretLegacy: Ilchymis du Argas is from an old Valuan family that supposedly came from elsewhere in the world, with the family motto, “Always to guide, never to rule”. Turns out, [[spoiler: “Argas” (and the name of Arcadia itself) comes from the ancient Silvite word ''Arrakad'', which means “Moon born”, and his family motto comes from the oath taken by priestesses of the Silver Shrine]]. |
| 407 | * SecretRelationship: This is the case for the main trio's relationship amongst their crew. [[spoiler: At the end of Chapter 56, Vyse announces it for all to hear, as a declaration of what he's fighting Galcian for]]. |
| 408 | * SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Nicholas Galcian, disgusted by his [[GossipyHens gossipy]] mother's desire to climb the social ladder and his father's hypocrisy towards their so-called family honor, did this when he was just 12. He arranged things so that his mother would catch his father raping a woman, and while they argued, locked them in and [[HouseFire set the whole house on fire]].]] |
| 409 | * SideBet: It doesn’t take long for a betting pool to stir up amongst the crew of the ''Delphinus'' about which girl is Vyse’s paramour, with Kalifa as the bookie. |
| 410 | * SignificantWardrobeShift: [[spoiler: After learning the AwfulTruth of the Silvite Elders and their plans to cleanse the world, Fina cannot bear to wear her torn Silvite dress any longer, so Aika helps her put on a proper air pirate outfit - the same one she wears in the game's epilogue.]] |
| 411 | * SilkHidingSteel: Princess Moegi. A princess without any martial or magical experience she may be, but [[spoiler: in the middle of the battle with Bluheim, she unveils a spiritual power and depth that not even she knew she had and uses what is effectively her Crew Command to shield the ''Delphinus'' against Bluheim's storm power]]. And later, [[spoiler: she does so again to protect the ship against the Abyss's heat and pressure and give it a chance to face the ''Chameleon'']]. |
| 412 | * ShieldBash: "Iron Wall" Gregorio knows how to deliver a mean one. [[spoiler: Galcian's broken nose can attest to that]]. |
| 413 | * ShoutOut: |
| 414 | ** Robinson's last name being Caruso in a clear reference to his namesake Literature/RobinsonCrusoe. |
| 415 | ** There are some obvious cues from ''Manga/OnePiece'' from the main character possessing a legendary heirloom from a legendary pirate, and bonus points in that they're both [[spoiler: hats. Just like how Gol D. Roger's straw hat came into Monkey D. Luffy's possession, Daccat's pirate tricorn, filled with spiritual energy, is eventually given to Vyse by the Larso clan as the Captain's Hat hold item.]] |
| 416 | ** Admiral Gregorio shouts "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Fly, you fools!]]" when making his [[YouShallNotPass stand]] before [[spoiler: Galcian, to allow Vyse, Enrique and the others to escape]]. |
| 417 | ** Chapter 59, beyond being titled "Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack", has another exchange from ''Franchise/StarWars'', specifically ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. |
| 418 | --->'''Don:''' We aren’t going to last long against the upper deck’s firepower, captain.\ |
| 419 | '''Vyse:''' We’ll last longer than we would against that knockoff moonstone beam. And we might take a few more of those cannons out in the process! |
| 420 | ** Drachma uses his robotic arm with attached grappling cable to pull off swings and moves straight out of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'', though he complains that [[FeelingTheirAge it's hard on his old bones]]. |
| 421 | * ShowerOfAngst: After the events on the [[spoiler: Silver Shrine]], Fina takes one to wash off [[spoiler: the blood from where Ramirez stabbed her Silver Moon Crystal shard out, and ends up smacking her Silvite dress against the wall in a fit of madness because of all the atrocity it represents]]. |
| 422 | * SpitTake: Vyse waits until [[spoiler: Piastol]] is taking a sip of rum before telling her about his relationship with Aika and Fina, causing this reaction from [[NotSoStoic her]]. |
| 423 | * {{Squee}}: Both the men of the ''Claudia'' and the girls of the ''Primrose'' lose their minds when their captains [[BigDamnKiss kiss]] in front of them. |
| 424 | * StartOfDarkness: We see what Galcian's was in Chapter 60: [[spoiler: his mother was a gossip-mongering social climber and the only thing he had to hold on was his father's decree of family honor and reputation... and even that became meaningless when he walked in on his father raping a maid. From that point on, he knew that the only thing that had any meaning in this cruel world was power.]] |
| 425 | * StudentAndMasterTeam: The two helmsmen of the ''Delphinus'', the OldSoldier Don and the younger Lawrence, form this duo piloting the ship through the battle with Bluheim. |
| 426 | * SympathyForTheDevil: |
| 427 | ** [[spoiler: Despite all their treachery and lies, there is still an air of sorrow watching the Silver Elders pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop Ramirez and Soltis.]] |
| 428 | ** [[spoiler: Even after all he had done, from trying to kill her to trying to destroy the whole world, Fina still weeps for Ramirez as he finally passes, stabbed by her dagger.]] |
| 429 | * TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: Subversion. After beating Yeligar and escaping from the Valuan Navy into Upper Sky, the crew barely has a moment to catch their breath before the ''Delphinus'' is very nearly blindsided by the Flying Flail discovery, which, as a reminder, is ''almost as large as the ship''. |
| 430 | * TakeUpMySword: Or in this case, hat. Rupee Larso has his father’s old air pirate tricorn, brimming with spiritual energy. But as Rupee does not wish to be an air pirate, he instead gifts the Captain’s Hat to Vyse instead. It's later revealed to once have belonged to [[spoiler: Daccat]]. |
| 431 | * TakingYouWithMe: Lord Zivilyn Bane tries pulling this on Fina with a hidden bomb, though she manages to [[RelocatingTheExplosion knock him over a ledge at the last moment]]. |
| 432 | * TagalongChronicler: This is Kalifa's other role on the ''Delphinus'' in addition to a fortune teller, spending the time recording the stories of all her other crew members. She also serves as the bookie for all the {{Side Bet}}s. |
| 433 | * {{Tengu}}: This seems to be the basis for the Tenkou's name, as Daigo took the name from "tales of creatures between man and bird, they who had been feared at first and who became protectors and guardians". |
| 434 | * TechnologyUplift: [[WrenchWench Well-versed in Silvite technology as she is]], Fina has no trouble offering her own expertise and upgrades to the ''Delphinus'', such as recalibrating De Loco's inefficient moonstone cannon. When it's revealed that the Valuans have developed wireless telegraph for cross-sky communication, Fina proposes using the Iron Star discovery to develop ''shortwave AM radio''. |
| 435 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: There are several instances of this when the world assembles to face Galcian and his Eternal Empire. The Blue Rogues have a large bone to pick with the Nasrian fleet [[spoiler: as it was one of their sailors bragging to one of Belleza's spies that led to the sacking of Crescent Isle and several losses on their side]], and there are Nasr-Valua tensions when [[spoiler: the remnants of the 2nd Valuan Fleet]] join their side. |
| 436 | * ThereAreNoCoincidences: When Gregorio and the 2nd Fleet intercept the ''Delphinus'' at Esperanza, Enrique wonders if Belleza was smart enough to figure out their circuitous route to the Dark Rift, if Ramirez helped her… or if the Armada was just searching everywhere at once and Gregorio’s fleet got lucky. |
| 437 | * TheTalk: Vyse finds himself giving this to Marco in Chapter 42. While Marco's puberty is certainly a topic, more emphasis is given to the emotional side, as [[StreetUrchin Marco]] has seen whores screwing in Valua's alleys but has never understood that it could mean any more than that. |
| 438 | * ThisCannotBe: |
| 439 | ** Belleza keeps insisting that Galcian loves her and that he'd never betray her, [[spoiler: even while the Rains of Destruction are falling around her and Enrique's ears]]. |
| 440 | ** [[spoiler: The only thoughts running through Galcian's head as [[WomanScorned Belleza]] rams his escape pod with the ''Lynx'' and consigns them both to the skies are how it cannot be that power has abandoned him to serve the weak.]] |
| 441 | * ToThePain: While Vigoro has Vyse in a BladeLock using Aika's boomerang and pushing him closer to the abyss, he takes the time to spell out exactly what he plans to do to his body, Gilder's body and Aika's body before he kills her. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, TalkingIsAFreeAction does not apply for him, and Aika gets enough time to hit him in the back with a [[OneHitKO Silver Etern-spell]].]] |
| 442 | * TranslationConvention: When Vyse and his officers first communicate with the Yafutoman ruling family, there’s shown to be a language barrier, which only Moegi and Fina can bypass. Even so, Moegi’s first attempt to speak 200-year-old [[CommonTongue Mid-Ocean trade language]] comes out like AsianSpeekeeEngrish, and Fina’s first attempt to speak 1000+-year-old Yafutoman comes out like badly-grammatical SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. |
| 443 | * TrickedToDeath: Present in a young Galcian's ruthless rise through his military training. [[spoiler: While conducting war games against fellow trainees, a squad of them (mostly noble-born and more likely to be promoted) are captured by some Nasrian brigands and held hostage in a fort. After conducting guerrilla warfare on the Nasrians, Galcian infiltrated the fort and passed weapons to the hostages in preparation for a coordinated assault + uprising. However, when the signal came, there was no coordinated assault and the noble hostages were brutally put down by the Nasrians, because Galcian was using them as a distraction to sabotage the Nasrian airships, keeping them from escaping when reinforcements finally arrived.]] |
| 444 | * {{Troll}}: Lapen is this to Belleza after she captures the ''Delphinus'' at Yafutoma and tries interrogating the crew for insight into Vyse. His incessant flirting nearly drives her up the wall. |
| 445 | * TyrantTakesTheHelm: Under [[TheGoodKing King Mathias’s]] reign, Valua was honourable and just. Then he passed away, his wife Teodora broke trying to hold the realm together, she gave her ear and lent influence to Lord Galcian, and soon, Valua was no longer a noble Kingdom, but an Empire that used slavery and cruel tactics to maintain control and expand its borders. |
| 446 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: The guild masters of the various Sailor’s Guild outposts are all related and look identical at casual inspection, but have distinct differences (like the Nasrad guild master having a scar and a glass eye). He even makes a joke that could be a TakeThat against the Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. |
| 447 | --> '''Guild master:''' […] our mothers are careful to never reuse names. Can you imagine how much of a headache it would be if we all had the same damn name, seeing as so many of us work in the Guild? |
| 448 | * TheUnfettered: Gilder the Unfettered’s main trait is his irreverence for rules and love for freedom, be it the restrictive laws of the Valuan Empire or the Code of the Blue Rogues, while hating the cruelty of the Black Pirates, and refuses to ally himself with any of them. This attitude also extends to his love life as TheCasanova, seeing monogamy as a prison that ties you down. But then he sees Vyse’s relationship with his girls and how Clara helped him escape from the Grand Fortress, and he starts to think that maybe love isn’t a prison, but the thing sets you free. |
| 449 | * TheUnfought: Vyse doesn't challenge the trio of impostors in this fic; instead he has to rescue them from a Valuan prison ship. |
| 450 | * UnskilledButStrong: [[SilkHidingSteel Princess Moegi]] has no martial experience and no talent for either battle casting or healing magic, but she has a greater spiritual depth than even she ever imagined. [[spoiler: When she channels that spirit into the ''Delphinus'', it forms a defensive barrier strong enough to deflect even Bluheim's might.]] |
| 451 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 452 | ** [[spoiler: Vyse tries to defuse his last encounter with Piastol by inviting her to dinner, where she finally meets Doc and realizes that her sister is still alive. However, this instead drives her to demands that Vyse still face her one-on-one, [[DeathSeeker intent on dying at his hand]]. Moreover, during that fight, she's lost all her previous stoicism and composure as the Angel of Death, now full of rage and emotion.]] |
| 453 | ** [[spoiler: When the Blue Rogues confront Ramirez after Galcian's death, he's clearly gone mad, with a torn uniform, bloody face, and dishevelled hair, ranting about how Galcian was the only good man in the world.]] |
| 454 | ** [[spoiler: Zelos-Ramirez undergoes one when the Rogues get their HeroicSecondWind and actually start hurting it, screaming "'''''[[ThisCannotBe Sub-optimal! Improbable! Impossible!]]'''''"]] |
| 455 | * VillainRespect: Admiral Gregorio respects Enrique’s decision to stay with Vyse and change Valua from the outside, saying he’s just like his father King Mathias. It’s even echoed by Vyse, who offers Gregorio the chance to become a Blue Rogue, and though Gregorio respectfully declines, Vyse admits he would allow it in a heartbeat. |
| 456 | * WartimeWedding: The day before the attack on Galcian's Eternal Empire, Fina, in her capacity as a Silver Priestess, conducts several marriages, including between Gilder and Clara and between [[spoiler: Lawrence and Lapen]]. Also, she, Vyse and Aika have their own private ceremony beneath the Silver Moon later that night. |
| 457 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 458 | ** No EasilyForgiven for Drachma’s canon ChangedMyMindKid moment in Nasr here - after his rescue, Vyse confronts him in private, practically stages a mutiny for leaving him and the girls behind on Maramba, and demands that Drachma show that he can trust him. Drachma, having regretted his decision the moment he made it, does so by giving command of the ship to him. |
| 459 | ** Fina, rather than express regret at ancient technology, gets furious with the Ixa’takan priest for awakening Grendel. |
| 460 | ** Aika and Fina end up staging an intervention for Vyse when he stays up for way too many shifts taking the ''Delphinus'' through Southern Ocean. |
| 461 | ** Moegi has a few choice words for her exiled brother Prince Daigo, when they come to his island of exile after the Valuan conquest of Yafutoma, and instead of immediately pledging his aid, [[AchillesInHisTent he tells them to remain with him where it's safe]]. |
| 462 | ** All of the Blue Rogues are cheesed off at Admiral Bast Komullah, [[spoiler: considering that they made him a SecretKeeper of the location of Crescent Isle, yet that didn't stop one of his men bragging it to one of Belleza's spies, with the resulting raid culminating in several dead (including Izmael) and the loss of the Moon Crystals]]. No surprise that Khazim decked him. |
| 463 | * WhamEpisode: Chapter 50, the reveal of the AwfulTruth, and [[spoiler: Ramirez stabbing Fina]]. |
| 464 | * WhyWontYouDie: |
| 465 | ** Vyse asks this of Zivilyn Bane when they encounter him for the umpteenth time in Glacia. |
| 466 | ** Later, after witnessing [[spoiler: a fused Zelos and Ramirez]] for their final match, Vyse comments that he finally understands why Galcian was always so frustrated by them surviving. |
| 467 | * WonTheWarLostThePeace: Defied by Vyse. Even after assembling the forces of the world to fight against Galcian, he is made aware over and over again of the old grudges and hatreds that could fan the flames of war once again. The revised BadassCreed of the Blue Rogues is his attempt to work past those grudges and truly unite the world, and [[spoiler: once he finally wins, he reworks the Blue Rogues into the Blue Merchant Marines, to both connect the nations and keep the peace in the new era they have won, and taking up his role as High Admiral]]. |
| 468 | * WreckedWeapon: |
| 469 | ** [[spoiler: Vyse breaks Piastol's scythe in two during their final confrontation]]. |
| 470 | ** [[spoiler: During the fight to awaken Soltis and Zelos, Ramirez shatters both of Vyse's cutlasses (made of Gigas-flesh and moonsteel) with his own sword]]. |
| 471 | ** [[spoiler: Later, with the Vorlik Blades in hand, Vyse does this to most of his enemy's weapons, including Galcian's greatsword and Ramirez's saber.]] |
| 472 | * WrenchWench: |
| 473 | ** Aika is your more traditional engineer, willing to get dirty keeping a ship’s engine running at full capacity. |
| 474 | ** Fina also counts, having an extensive knowledge of Silvite and moonstone technology and how to make it work, such as moonstone cannons. She spends most of her time on the ''Delphinus'' calibrating the Moonstone Cannon to make De Loco’s (in her opinion) ramshackle design more efficient, and when she tries to explain it to her fellow engineers, it almost comes out as TechnoBabble. |
| 475 | * WronskiFeint: [[spoiler: Vyse, Don and the ''Delphinus'' use this maneuver to trick the ''Chameleon'' (attached to the ship via a harpoon cable) into crashing into the muddy surface of the world, consigning it and its mad Admiral to a hot, muddy, over-pressured grave.]] |
| 476 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Laurette has spent her whole life being overlooked, whether it was from the old men living on Esperanza who only saw her as a part-time serving girl, or [[spoiler: on the ''Delphinus'', where even the Blue Rogues only saw her as a non-combatant assistant to Osman and a good translator, but little else. Prince Daigo, on the other hand, saw how she bonded with the Yafutoman merchants, even befriended a local family, managed the aftermath of the Valuan invasion, and even gave him advice on showing mercy to the court's corrupt ministers, and tells her that those skills are why he wants her to become his Foreign Minister and advisor]]. |
| 477 | * YouAreNotAlone: Throughout the fight against Bluheim, this is the sentiment that Vyse falls back on, from Aika, Fina and Enrique supporting him in keeping the ''Delphinus'' and its Moonstone Cannon powered with spiritual energy, to the lesson that Dyne taught him reverberating through his mind. |
| 478 | --> '''Dyne:''' Being a leader isn’t always about having the right answer, or always looking invincible. You find people willing to share the burden with you. You find people who can give you the answers you don’t have, the ideas you need. You be their strength, and let them be yours. You can wear the mask that people expect around everyone else. Just let it down when you have the time to, so that when you can’t put it down, it won’t crack on you. |
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