Line #223 Roleplay/RideAloneComplex


1	[[GaidenGame Sequel spinoff]] to ''Roleplay/KamenRiderHourOfTheVoid'', set [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo sixty years later]] in a slightly alternate reality. Yet another play-by-IRC on Rizon, this one using [=#RideAloneComplex=] and DM'ed by the [[BlatantLies illustrious]] [[PowerPerversionPotential Haken_Browning]] of Team Phantom Tiger and /m/erotica fame, it serves as a testbed for the [[http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33038675/FrontPage uTOHpia]] {{Toku}}-themed e-splat for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' (itself drafted by those KRV players carrying over to RAC who mourned the loss of the system in its shift to near-pure freeform).
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3	RAC functions more as a "Good End" to the previous game (when it isn't busy reading more like [[AuthorTract a scathing in-character critique thereof]]); the heroes won, and some serious efforts on [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming FangOreo's]] part have brought [[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Grongi]], [[Series/KamenRiderKiva Fangires]], [[Series/KamenRider555 Orphenochs]], and [[Series/KamenRiderKabuto Worms]] out into society under their own power - especially Fangires, with a [=FangOreo=]-backed Development & Pioneer engineering a LifeEnergy feeding substitute (and Coca-Cola {{Expy}}) known as FN-TAU.
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5	The bright future has its dark spots, however: though the kaijin races are mostly integrated into society, they bring with them a whole new grade of criminal activity against both humans and their own kind. To counter their threat, the [=FangOreo=] construct a "public security firm" (more like "[[LawEnforcementInc privately-owned military]]"), "[[FunWithAcronyms Justice Unlimited Nocturne-Kinetic Elimination Riders]]", or [[VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}} JUNKER]], which is sort of a "good guy" version of ZECT, complete with various "trooper" level mooks and more elite Riders, represented by [=PCs=] and [=NPCs=] across the spectrum...to say nothing of the various foreign and domestic henshin tech rivals cropping up amid the [[Series/KamenRiderDecade All-Riders]] expo.
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7	Find it [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34299673/FrontPage here.]]
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10	!!As usual, tropes referring specifically to one character's assets go on the [[Characters/RideAloneComplex character sheet]]. Anyway, Ride Alone Complex provides examples of:
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12	* AgeAppropriateAngst: ZigZagged with Kenoko. Counting summers, she's 78 years old, but she's still 18 years old physically due to having an unaging body. She angsts ''about'' the fact that most of her old friends are gone with the ''attitude'' of an 18-year-old. Michelle, on the other hand, subverts it, by acting like a nineteen-year-old girl who is having too much fun.
13	** Please note that Michelle is a 97-year-old Showaborg who looks like she's about one-third her actual age. That would give most 97-year-old women a reason to act like that.
14	* ArcWords: "[[WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko A World Without Danger]]" is rapidly cropping up as something a lot of characters are looking for.
15	* ArtificialHuman: Kenoko and Michelle (yes, Alexice's mother), and that's just the [=PCs=].
16	** Now including Saki and Stuart (two people from Kenoko's past), and the recently Showaborg'd Miyami (one person from Kenoko's present.)
17	* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: What appears to be a primary motivation for tapping new Riders, considering how Rebecca and Haru got in and how eagerly Xander was lifted to [=OsuTrooper=].
18	* AuthorAppeal: One for every contributor, it seems:
19	** [[BunnyEarsLawyer Haken]]: {{Shout Out}}s of practically every sort (particularly to Platform/PlayStation 1 and [[Platform/PlayStation2 PS2]]-era video games). Also YuriFan and EthicalHedonist (mostly EthicalSlut) of the highest order.
20	** [[AlmightyJanitor Athon]]: [[SubvertedTrope Subverting expectations]] and fluent English for one of the game's two Brazillian players.
21	** [[BromanticFoil Advent]]: YuriFan with romantic twist.
22	** [[TheLastDJ Axel]]: Martial arts stuff and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky commentary.]] His SignatureStyle is characters who are [[ByronicHero powerful combatants but emotionally crippled]].
23	** [[BornLucky Raven]]: IndyPloy with a lesser DeadpanSnarker attitude than Axel. Or HotBlooded. Or a {{Keet}}/GenkiGirl. It's hard to tell sometimes. [[TheLadette Though]] [[TheStoic those]] [[BadassBookworm aren't]] [[AxCrazy all]] [[DitzyGenius he]] [[MagnificentBastard enjoys]].
24	*** [[RedOniBlueOni Perspective:]] Raven is a somewhat HotBlooded, optimistic DeadpanSnarker; Axel is [[JadeColoredGlasses a highly cynical]] AloofBigBrother [[TheSnarkKnight Snark Knight]].
25	** Nahd: Taking up Haken's MGS reference specialization of old.
26	** [[NewMeat Verloren]]: Not-blissful-at-all complete ignorance of the KRV/RAC cosmology.
27	** [[AscendedFanboy Cole]]: Characters who are [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than They Look]], or who utilize either ObfuscatingStupidity or CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.
28	%%* BadassBiker: Kenoko primarily.
29	* BadassBookworm: Akebara.
30	** On the metascale, Axel and Raven are type-2 VitriolicBestBuds who turn into [[BadassBookworm Badass Bookworms]] if you screw with the other one. Actually, that describes [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Axel's attitude]] [[BigBrotherInstinct towards most of the other players]].
31	* BadassBystander: Xander.
32	* BadassFamily: By extension, Haruka/Yukari/Kaoru and Haru.
33	* BadassLongcoat: Kenoko again, especially in Nigo mode.
34	* BadassNormal: Rebecca.
35	* BadassTeacher: Aelita.
36	* BeatPanel: Axel uses it in his writing style, often simply saying [[VisibleSilence "beat".]]
37	* BerserkButton: Clearly [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Judgment-Time the chance of]] a [[http://tabletopkamenrider2.pbworks.com/Week+13+-+Time+Trippin%27+Wedding mind control-and-kidnapping mix]] isn't simply a meta sticking point to the RAC authors.
38	leads to IHaveManyNames when he's playing in a different game that uses "nickup" rules - "Xiaohu", "Wei_Angxian", and "Fionna" are all Axel as well.
39	* BlatantLies: Everything Tomoe says to Kenoko in [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/Lion%2C-Hopper this scene]]. [[LoveMakesYouDumb And Kenoko believes every word.]]
40	* BrickJoke: Invoked continuously and furiously by Haken and Axel regarding discarded or swerved-away elements from [[Roleplay/KamenRiderHourOfTheVoid their]] [[Roleplay/SuperRobotWarsG prior]] [[Roleplay/MusouVerse games]].
41	* BrokenBird: Kenoko's defining trope pre-Calibur, and one Haruka swerves into in places during Week 03. Then there's Henne Valkyria, whose spontaneous ejections of Raven Orphenoch feathers make it a bit too literal.
42	* CasualDangerDialogue: Pink Lemonade do it - but then they're really allowed to, being a [[GameBreaker Game Breaking]] proto-BattleCouple of [[GeniusBruiser Genius,]] [[LightningBruiser Lightning Bruisers]].
43	* CharmPerson: This is Akebara's signature non-Rider power. [[spoiler: As she explains to Haru, everything about her is carefully calculated to evoke this.]]
44	* ColonelBadass: Haruka.
45	* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Haruka's tapping of Kenoko for JUNKER amounts to this, because Kenoko is suffering PhlebotinumBreakdown.
46	* CoolBike: This being Franchise/KamenRider, but Kenoko's Jet Sliger really stands out, given that it can ''drive through the air'' (literally; road appears in the air in the manner of [[Series/KamenRiderDenO the Denliner]]).
47	** Vincent's [=MultiRunner/ViRunner=] has four forms: One street-level, one that can [[RammingAlwaysWorks Ramming Speed]], one with twin {{BFG}}s, and one that can TimeTravel whilst going ludicrously fast... [[Anime/YuGiOh By using cards to power it up.]]
48	* CoolCar: Akebara's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Firebird 1978 Pontiac Firebird]], which she uses in the manner of [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Akio's Car]]. Ake talks to it to the point of CargoShip, too.
49	* CouchGag and/or EvolvingCredits: The workspace's main page often changes, having things struck out and shuffled about as the situation in-character changes.
50	* CreatorBreakdown: Well, it was bound to happen [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/41468551/Meet%20The%20JUNKERs%20-%20The%20Note%20Page sooner or later]]:
51	--> '''Haken:''' So we got a little more in-depth about this entire mess last night, and we've come to the conclusion that it wasn't [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou Couch]] that was right, but [[SmallNameBigEgo Gue]]. Furthermore, I have [[HeWhoFightsMonsters become Gue]]. Guys. Help me change back. Please.
52	* DareToBeBadass: Akebara, to Rebecca, during their first meeting. Which is ironic, because she was on her way to fulfill such a dare from Wyll at the time.
53	* DeathIsCheap: So it appears with anyone using the [=uTOH=] template for [[Series/KamenRiderBlade Undead]] or buying up similar powers. [[spoiler:Including Wyll, who didn't even know he BOUGHT resurrection when brought back through his contract with Leksi.]]
54	* DefeatMeansFriendship: Or, in Miyami's case, devotion based off of infatuation due to Kenoko's ranks of the [[CharmPerson Distracting Looks]] feat. This is at least the second time that this has caused a situation involving one of Axel's characters.
55	** Distracting Looks winds up not even factoring into [[WorthyOpponent Henne]] and [[StalkerWithACrush Kyon]] being "Befriended."
56	* DisproportionateRetribution: Wyll, to Ake's unnamed father, in her backstory.
57	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34457010/Rebecca%27s-Riding-Lesson Rebecca's Riding Lesson.]] Just... wow.
58	** It's even funnier when you consider the ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' ShoutOut that opens the scene.
59	** And of course there's Ake's car, which is [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration statted out to invoke this.]]
60	** Kenoko's line of thought [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35938173/Two-Lions-on-the-Mountain when grappling with Saki]]. Axel apparently likes this trope.
61	* DramaticEllipsis: Kenoko and Akebara's player (best known as Axel) is ''really prone to this''.
62	* FacePalm: Wyll does one in-character when the [[ChewingTheScenery Proto Driver]] mispronounces the [[Film/KamenRiderZX ZX]] henshin as "Zed-Ex" - it's meant to be "Zeh-Cross". Kenoko is also occasionally fond of them.
63	* FeverDreamEpisode: [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/I%27m-Still-In-A-Dream Haruka slogging through]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The Sorrow's river]], accosted by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech KRV's Maya vi Inoue]] and saved only though the intervention of her fellow Riders and some Cobra Unit Emotion Gaia Memory weirdness. [[spoiler:Initially intended as foreshadowing for a potential MidseasonUpgrade, but A) [[IronicEcho Axel bitched backstage about the idea of Haruka having a Midseason Upgrade]], and B) the VideoGame/ParasiteEve-themed upgrade that [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Moment-of-Humanity Haruka eventually settled on]] had better BrickJoke value.]]
64	* FiringOneHanded: Oh how very mocked by Korin and Aelita in [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Smart-Brains-And-Sagarcs-Butt-Heads the former's Faiz initiation duel]]:
65	--> '''Psyga!Aelita:''' following Korin missing with Single Mode Rule Number 1: One-handed shooting is for [[GangstaStyle gangstas]] and faggots. Don't be either!
66	--> ''(Psyga's Flying Attacker flips into Blaster Rifle mode)''
67	--> '''Aelita:''' Corollary 1A! Underslung weapons are just plain ridiculous! ''(lets loose with BURST MODE...and misses)''
68	--> '''Faiz!Korin:''' [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Self-demonstrating article]], Aelita-san!
69	* FirstNameBasis: Kenoko with everybody because that's just how she is. Akebara's own habit (barring calling Kenoko [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics Senpai]]) seems like a mistake (being born and raised in Japan), until you realize she was taught by Wyll, [[FridgeBrilliance who isn't Japanese to begin with.]]
70	* FridgeBrilliance: Much of Axel's writing style seems to rely on it - for example, Nigo's threats to the [=FangOreo=] are more {{Narm}} than anything... until you find out that Nigo is just everything Kenoko represses, and she was never any good at making threats.
71	** Also Wyll's theme songs - the out-of-universe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0g2oG_w2g Throw Your Arms Around Me]], a bittersweet AntiLoveSong about a one-night stand, and the in-universe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaxuDUcu55M Scott Pilgrim-by-Plumtree]] that he uses as his alarm clock - the given theme song of an apparent NonActionGuy who is in fact a dangerous fighter and has a reputation as a [[TheCharmer ladykiller]].
72	* FunetikAksent: [[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Grongi]] [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Cockney]]. Now more than ever, given an actual non-American is writing the lesser Grongi characters now.
73	* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Ake to Kenoko after Haruka's attempt [[NiceJobBreakingItHero misfires]], snapping her out of her HeroicBSOD.
74	** Also used by Aelita towards Rebecca, just before she makes the switch from [[Series/KamenRiderBlack BLACK]] to [[Series/KamenRiderDecade a Decade]] from some CrapsackWorld [[TimeyWimeyBall alternate future]] where SHOCKER wins. Seen [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Trolling-at-30%2C000-Feet here.]]
75	* GoodGuyBar: It's heavily implied that Wyll's bar is this, seeing as how he never quite manages to charge JUNKER personnel.
76	** If Alex is manning the bar though, you're paying for your drinks, JUNKER or not. [[InsistsOnPaying Just as well Haruka wants to pay off the freebies.]]
77	** Along with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Bronze]]-expy 365 serving as the LocalHangout.
78	* HeroicBSOD: Kenoko has one when [[BreakTheBadass Haruka threatens to send her back to THI.]]
79	** As does Haru following Ake's [[UnPerson treatment of her]] post-Fangout.
80	* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[KnightInSourArmor Wyll]] and [[KnightInShiningArmor Alex]]. Although Alex switch-hits and Wyll is practically asexual except where [[IfItsYouItsOkay certain people are involved]] (or if it's for a job).
81	* HollywoodHealing: Averted in Axel's writing style - when his characters get hurt, it shows until they heal (though Kenoko has HealingFactor). [[spoiler: The fact that Xander manages to [[WalkItOff walk off a broken arm]] is {{Foreshadowing}} of his status as a Native.]]
82	* HoYay: Axel and Haken, according to some members of the fanbase - mostly the people who see Axel as MrFanservice.
83	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: There are... what, 3 male [=PCs=] and one male DMPC? And then there's so damn many female characters that it'll hurt too much to count them.
84	** Thankfully manages to avert the girls-only CompetenceZone that plagued its predecessor.
85	** With the addition of three new male [=PCs=] (Masaki, Joe, and Adriel), this is starting along the path to being less than accurate.
86	* IgnoreTheFanservice: Axel, when Haken propositions him (or rather, his characters). Ironic given that he's playing Akebara.
87	* InJoke: Wyll calls the [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Kinder Surprises]] he gets for Aelita "suicide capsules", which is only funny if you know Axel personally ([[WeaksauceWeakness he's hypoglycemic]] [[WriteWhoYouKnow and so are two of his characters]]).
88	* IndyPloy: Ake declares that she will do this in [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35161948/Ake-Gets-Grilled this session]].
89	** Also Raven and Axel's preferred method of strategy, with Raven preferring a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass relaxed approach]] whereas Axel [[MagnificentBastard switches plans at the speed of light.]] Tends to cause massive amounts of frustration when one of his plans is blocked only for him to use the blocking method [[XanatosSpeedChess as leverage for something else.]]
90	* KidnappedByAnAlly: This is how Haruka eventually taps Kenoko. Kenoko is not pleased.
91	** Somewhat subverted with Tenpai later "kidnapping" Becca, in that no one (except maybe Axel) knew if he's really an ally, due to his preferences towards [[{{Ubermensch}} doing things his own way.]] Not to mention that she stayed with him willingly. Once again, Kenoko is not pleased.
92	* LampshadeHanging: The page with all the [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34327113/Preludes preludes]] lampshades how hard Kenoko got shafted in KRV proper.
93	* LargeHam: The majority of Haken's characters. Yes, even Aelita.
94	** The Proto Driver is this in the Pink Lemonade preludes. WordOfGod is that Wyll toned it down for RAC proper.
95	---> Proto Driver: >>[[SayMyName KIIIIIIIIIIIIIING COOOOOOBRRRAAAAAAAA]]<<
96	* LastGirlWins: Used as an almost-cruel subversion of FirstGirlWins - after doing a ShipTease (and then some) with Alice and [[HoYay Alex]] for all of KRV (plus some playful flirting with [[PairTheSmartOnes Haruka]] and more serious attempts with [[WillTheyOrWontThey Faruko]])... Wyll apparently ends up with Aelita.
97	** Played more of its own accord with Kenoko settling with Rebecca after all of her KRV relationships wind up irrevocably burnt. (Excepting maybe Haruka, but then she's already married and constantly barred from using CharmPerson to set the mood.)
98	*** Though Kenoko merely points out that she doesn't have to use it to set the mood...
99	* LesYay: [[OneTrueThreesome Yukari, Haruka, and Kaoru]], obviously.
100	** Kenoko and Rebecca started off as an OfficialCouple, but with their Tenpai-induced breakup it seems Kenoko's moved on to a more swinging-friendly setup.
101	** The Ake-Haru-Korin-Miyuki LoveTriangle discussed below.
102	** Kyon's infatuation with Henne is played as an over-the-top [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of Haruka's infatuation with Yukari.
103	* LethalJokeCharacter: Haruka [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Working-From-Bed constantly]] [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/The-Next-Decade touts]] [[Series/MaskedRider Black RX Unit 2]] as one of these. Only time will tell if it takes.
104	** Given that Masaki [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Set-a-Mask-to-Kill-a-Mask is now its owner]], that's half of it settled, at least.
105	* LetsGetDangerous: Wyll, of all people, demonstrates this in Akebara's backstory - after doing nothing for all of the prequel, he turns up and [[BuffySpeak dusts]] a Fangire in a heartbeat with his never-seen-in-KRV Proto-Decade Driver. There's also the part where he and Aelita ''completely rolled'' SHOCKER's Alaska facility singlehandedly, mowing through pseudo-Riders like mooks and making [[VideoGame/ArmoredCore Nineball]] look like trash.
106	** Akebara demonstrates her own during, of all places, her seduction of Haruka... where the ''entire thing'' is carefully plotted on her part. [[ManipulativeBastard Watch that girl.]]
107	* LittleMissBadass: Haru, Ake, and Aelita [[BadassAdorable sort of]].
108	* LoveTriangle: Haru-Korin-Miyuki-Xander-Ake is a weird setup where:
109	** Xander [[ShipperOnDeck ships Haru and Korin]] but [[MatchmakerCrush crushes on Haru]],
110	** Miyuki [[SubordinateExcuse "works" for Haru]], [[ShipperOnDeck ships Haru and Korin]], but [[MatchmakerCrush crushes on Korin]],
111	** Korin is into Haru in a big way (but totally willing to reciprocate Miyuki's crush on her), and
112	** Ake is completely unaware that this setup exists and exhibits SingleTargetSexuality towards Haru, who is the initiator of their one intimiate moment (thus far) that is SafeSaneAndConsensual.
113	*** Further, while Xander and Miyuki both exhibit IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy, Miyuki has shades of DieForOurShip - she and Korin both briefly consider (and are told by Punchy [[ConversationalTroping in those exact words]]) stooping to MurderTheHypotenuse when they see Haru and Ake holding hands.
114	*** And then, Korin turns out to be pseudo-tsundere for Xander. The entire situation gets talked out and has a thorough LampshadeHanging when [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/38924157/Observing-Hypercubes Xander and Korin go over it.]]
115	** Kenoko actively averts a love triangle situation between herself, Becca, and newcomer [[NewOldFlame Saki]] [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35950947/More-LionHill-Pillowtalk when she realises the trope could come into play]].
116	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Kenoko does this in her introduction chapter, being blown up and [[IncendiaryExponent set on fire]] by a robot monster. Not only does she ignore it, she ''[[SmokingIsCool chains her smoke off the robot's burning corpse]]''.
117	* MauveShirt: Rebecca basically starts as this, turns out to be awesome, and gets an instant promotion to main character.
118	** And still more on the way, as [[AscendedExtra the extras from the Preludes just keep on Ascending]].
119	* MotiveRant: Kenoko has one after Haruka refuses to let her turn down a "job offer", related to her time as the brainwashed SHOCKER Rider-2. Hearing her admit to [[EvilFeelsGood enjoying herself during it]] is creepy, as well as her bleeped out threat concerning Yukari and Kaoru.
120	** Despite a general "Neutral Zone" tone throughout the game wiki, Haken's own liner notes eventually [[AuthorFilibuster spiral towards this]] regarding the foundation of RAC and a few loose ends in KRV that this game finds itself scrambling to gloss over/swerve away from.
121	* MundaneUtility: Ake has spent years learning how to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate people's emotions for reasons of subterfuge (and gambling)]], but also uses it to help snap Kenoko out of a HeroicBSOD (and give advice on hopefully helping her).
122	* NerdsAreSexy: Haruka and Wyll.
123	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Not any specific character (barring Haruka, of course), but ''the setting itself''.
124	** DM'S NOTE: The official line is "[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers Nanoha StrikerS]] meets TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} meets Franchise/KamenRider".
125	*** The official line seems to have been refined to "''Franchise/TouhouProject'' meets Franchise/KamenRider" by the middle of Week 04: everyone not on the "Evil" chunk of the alignment chart is friendly to one another, even when they're tearing into each other with vicious debates and/or henshin firepower that pushes M&M's limits.
126	* NoEnding: Cancelled right after the gigantic clusterfuck of a Christmas feast thanks to the new hires being insufferable to schedule around. [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Kill-Notice Haken's postscript]] indicates the original ending plans involved [[TrashTheSet making QUITE the mess of the set]].
127	* OutWithABang: How room got cleared out for the crew's new Kuuga:
128	--> '''Haken:''' Oh no, this isn't [[AuthorsSavingThrow an appeasement thing.]] [[RuleOfFunny This is just me finding Aoki being fucked to death hilarious.]]
129	* PaintingTheMedium: Mostly to do with talking Devices and attacks, co-opting KRV's [[DependingOnTheWriter on-again, off-again]] tradition of TV-Nihon RainbowSpeak:
130	** Punchy's speech is written [={{LIKE THIS}}=].
131	** Proto Driver and [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Gaia Memory]] calls are >>LIKE THIS<<. Except when the latter get written-out [=[<ASCII>///]==] Memories.
132	** [[color:orange:[=[Kivat]=]]] and [[color:purple:[=[Kivaara]=]]] get colored text in single squarebrackets.
133	** Now joining the pack is a talking [[Series/KamenRider555 Autovajin]] with +speech noted in plus signs+.
134	** Vincent's [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment OrgDriver]] seems pretty fond of being written /Like This.
135	** Leo, as well as Lydia and Tricia's mental communications with him and each other, are written <<like this>>.
136	** Xander's [[Series/KamenRiderOOO Birth]] equipment calls are bordered with ()empty parentheses() to denote Cell Medals.
137	*** Going a bit further, dropping a /whois on Haken or Axel will reveal that their identities on rizon are set to kamenritt@JUNKER.[=DevPio=].jp.rac and ascherw@Boss.RSF.au.rac respectively.
138	*** Add Raven to the list, with [=ALukles=]@mist.iwatodai.uk.rac.
139	* PairTheSpares: Miyuki and Korin.
140	** Slightly later, Xander and Korin.
141	* ParentalAbandonment: Let's see. Kenoko's parents are dead (and she had all but run away from home in KRV to begin with), Miyuki and Korin have been kicked out (well, Korin ragequit, but it was totally justified because her parents ''sucked''), Xander doesn't have any (ItMakesSenseInContext), Rebecca's are presumably in America, Ake's are both dead (see SelfMadeOrphan on her page), Leksi's unseen uncle foists her off on the "Peanut Gallery" at the earliest opportunity...
142	** And now Vincent joins the fray. as even Alex claims to not know who provided that X chromosome. [[spoiler: He does know. He's just staying quiet at her request.]]
143	* PhysicalGod / RealityWarper: Ace and Sieg's take on how the RAC timeline came to differ from that of the [=SHOCKERverse=] whose future they came from seems to paint Haruka as this. [[spoiler:Between the oft-mentioned cavorting with Oscar Mike, the IC motive behind [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Omake%3A-Haruka%27s-Last-Stand Haruka's (and possibly the whole FangOreo's)]] [[RageQuit tactical hiatus]] from KRV, and [[RealitySubtext Haken simply being the DM]], they're probably right.]]
144	** Now confirmed [[spoiler:[[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Equinox-of-Insanity at least for the latter]], Haruka ragequitting KRV explicitly cited as the reason the RAC timeline exists as is]].
145	* ThePowerOfLove: Wyll and Ake believe heavily in it.
146	* PungeonMaster: Haken himself, and his penchant for {{Multiple Reference Pun}}s. To wit:
147	** Haruka, the resident NinjaPirateZombieRobot, who's more or less an [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Gardevoir]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Strangelove]] wearing [[VideoGame/PhantasyStarPortable Ursula Replica]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII wielding a Do Anything Gunblade]].
148	** Aelita, who's shifted from being the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The Boss]] to Haruka's Strangelove to being the Laguna to her Squall - not to mention the TronLines.
149	** Jack, the mecha otaku with a name recycled from Haken's [[Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight Torque backup]] for KRV (in and of itself an approximation of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Naked Snake's real name]]) and a personality/demeanor that can best be described as [[VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject "Pirohiko Ichimonji without the dying right off the bat"]].
150	** Korin being some blender of ''VideoGame/Persona3'''s original red-headed Takeba (whose given name is [[OneSteveLimit being hijacked by Yukari]]), the {{Meganekko}} of the same name from the {{Hentai}} ''Nightmare Campus'', and a fuzzy mix of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil regulars of ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
151	** Even the {{Mauve Shirt}}s get a turn; Zu-[[Anime/MazingerZ Gara-Da]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} "Gary" Oku]] managing to earn a [[MemeticMutation "MOTHERFUCKING"]] between his first and last names, and Ivan [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon Pupurin]] straddling the line between ObfuscatingStupidity and AxCrazy.
152	** And then there's Wyll's AddictionDisplacement, itself a StealthPun that relies on GeniusBonus and was never picked up in either KRV or RAC until Axel realised that he'd forgotten to and explained it OOC. Wyll smokes self-rolled lemongrass cigarettes. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbopogon#Anti-cancer_properties Citral, found in lemongrass, causes apotosis in cancerous cells in sufficient quantities.]] [[DontExplainTheJoke So Wyll is smoking anti-cancer cigarettes.]]
153	* RageQuit: Casualties so far include [[YuriFan XAN]] and [[GuestStarPartyMember Couch]].
154	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Thanks to being swamped in coursework, Raven wound up dropping playing Michelle in favour of promoting Vincent to main character. Reactions were... generally sad.
155	* RefugeInAudacity: Hardboiled Wyll (see below) [[ShowWithinAShow makes a cross-dimensional call into Haruka and Aelita's talk show]], asks RAC!Aelita for tips on picking up HPL!Aelita, ''and gets them''.
156	* TheRival: Meta example: Axel to Raven, Haken and Athon; Raven back to him.
157	* RunningGag: Meta example: Axel is actually [[Series/KamenRiderOOO Ankh]].
158	** Not meta example: Miyuki's HighlyVisibleNinja status.
159	** Back on the meta scale: Hakenruka's assortment of character body pillows (ostensibly for those nights when Haruka can't have the real deal), pulled out with each IRC signoff.
160	---> '''Haken:''' pulling out a Royce bodypillow
161	---> '''Axel:''' You could have picked something with a little more class.
162	---> '''Haken:''' That would [[ShipTease leave you without]] [[HotForTeacher an Aelita pillow]].
163	---> '''Axel:''' [[DontExplainTheJoke I like the double-layered 'class' pun.]]
164	* ShipTease: Every goddamn Pink Lemonade-centric session.
165	* ShoutOut: Oh man, where to begin. Haken and Axel both really like ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Wyll's GoodGuyBar is a Whole-Setpiece-Reference to Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon, [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34546625/The-Last-Days-of-SHOCKHOUND The Last Days of SHOCKHOUND]] prelude is a whole-title reference to ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND'' and a WholePlotReference to the Laguna portions of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' (with the awareness caveats of the [[LetsPlay Altimate Rewrite]] version), and another suggested title for it was "The Man With The Proto Driver" (a reference to Laguna's SugarWiki/{{Awesome\|Music}} BattleThemeMusic, "The Man With The Machine Gun")... [[Website/FourChan with]] this [[BunnyEarsLawyer group]], it's probably not going to stop anytime soon.
166	** Oh God the HurricaneOfPuns during aforementioned session's final fight: [[VideoGame/ArmoredCore Nineball]] gets worn down enough that its AI degrades into that of [[Franchise/TouhouProject another (9)]]...only for Aelita to chain its cries of [[ThisCannotBe "You can't do this to the Strongest!"]] into a riff on [[Series/KamenRiderKabuto Tendou Souji's]] challenge to [[Series/KamenRiderStronger Jo Shigeru]]. One must wonder if it was Wyll calling Aelita a smartass afterwards or [[RealitySubtext Axel calling Haken one]].
167	** Given that Wyll is a self-noted super-exaggerated AuthorAvatar who has all of Axel's negative traits and none of his positive ones...
168	*** Same episode, Wyll steals the Anime/MazinkaiserSKL BadassBoast. Which is probably pretty damn accurate -- see the [[Awesome/RideAloneComplex Awesome page]] for details.
169	** Kenoko refers to someone entering their kaijin form as [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer "vamping out"]].
170	** [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/FangLemon-Happy-Hour Wyll references]] Australian musical comedy trio [[http://www.3pod.com.au/ Tripod]], using the first line of their song ''The Lonesome/Gregarious Cowboy''.
171	** Masaki's personality is this to Lucky Star's Anime Tenchou, despite Masaki's passions having a different focus (Rider-tech) than said store manager's (getting Konata to actually ''buy something'').
172	** And then Haruka goes for the goddamn gold during [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Primal-Eyes the debut]] of [[VideoGame/ParasiteEve Kamen Rider Libera]]:
173	*** Bronze: The Gear is debuted on Christmas Eve.
174	*** Silver: Its main armament seems to focus on [[VideoGame/ParasiteEve2 PE2-era]] Parasite Energy.
175	*** Gold: Its activation {{Invocation}} parrots one that [[WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko co-creator Aelita]] is all too familiar with.
176	*** Platinum: Haruka's fighting a frenzied Ake at the time, and is herself a little loose in the head from IXA's initial no-sell being reminiscent of [[DiabolusExMachina the LAST Fangire to wield the Mk.XI]]...who shares a name with [=PE1=]'s {{Superboss}}.
177	*** Extra Credit: All sessions save one with the development of Libera as a primary or secondary focus share a title with a theme from one of the PE games (yes, including ''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday'').
178	* ShownTheirWork: The location visited in [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Limonade+Rose-sur-Seine Limonade Rose-sur-Seine]] [[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/14/ile.seguin.jean.nouvel/index.html?hpt=C2 is based on an actual construction project]].
179	** Axel is this kind of writer, though the anti-cancer cigarettes joke is [[DrinkingGame/TVTropes probably the most]] JustForFun/{{egregious}} piece of ShownTheirWork ever.
180	* ShowWithinAShow: Dr. Sana-chan and Nurse Zecross's "Body Communication" is [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35255176/Omake:-Body-Communication-ep01 back, baby]]. And even taking multi-dimensional calls.
181	* ShrugOfGod: Particularly hilarious example: [=AdventFalls=] (who mostly writes {{Yuri\|Genre}}) hadn't decided whether Rebecca was straight/gay/bi by the time he suddenly had to for Akebara's [[CharmPerson Distracting Looks]] feat. So he ''rolled dice for it''.
182	* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: Akebara. All the time. Either from her headphones or her CoolCar's radio.
183	* SpinOffspring: Haru, of [[HomosexualReproduction the entire FangOreo]]. (Though Haruka merely counts as an Aunt, due to [[FirstGirlWins Kaoru being Yukari's First Girl]].)
184	* SuperPoweredEvilSide: This is why Kenoko is quietly dying of PhlebotinumBreakdown - she's convinced that if she transforms into [[Film/KamenRiderTheFirst Rider-2]], then [[GratuitousJapanese "Nigo"]] will come out and start killing people.
185	** And rightly so - if Nigo was heroic, taking on all three members of [=FangOreo=] in their strongest forms ([[GameBreaker except Haruka]]) and managing to completely kite their strategy until Kaoru ''stopped her personal timeflow'' would probably qualify as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in its own right.
186	*** Fortunately, ever since Kenoko obtained her MidSeasonUpgrade, she hasn't really had to worry about that.
187	* TakingUpTheMantle: My how very [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]], especially in the wake of later Week 03 Monday sessions and the debut of the new Kuuga.
188	--> '''Couch/Kouta Tsukamoto:''' Meanwhile, from my standpoint, I'm the new guy. I'm liable to jump to conclusions early on both in and out of character because I -wasn't- there for all the sources of all this bitterness, I just see the aftereffects. So this character's story arc is more about someone who knows in his heart, but can't necessarily articulate, what being a Rider means, and in some cases is likely to know that what he sees isn't it. Thus resulting in more of an externally-driven story arc - reacting to the people around him who've become jaded for one reason or another, attempting to live up to what Kuuga's legacy once was and should be again, and hopefully providing some aid for others in a position to receive it.
189	* TalkingInBed: Used for the aptly named [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35468149/KenokOreo-Pillow-Talk Pillow Talk]], complete with a LampshadeHanging.
190	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Wyll is Tenpai.]]
191	* TheTease: [=FangOreo=]. All of them. Even after the siring of Haru via yet-unexplained means of HomosexualReproduction.
192	** And Akebara, ''wow''. Though given her backstory and way of conduct, this actually has darker undertones...
193	* ThatManIsDead: Invoked in the semi-canon "20 years ago" omake, by Kenoko to Haruka, RE herself.
194	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Invoked in those exact words by Kenoko when Haru-as-Shark-Fangire actually notices her. She then [[CurbStompBattle knocks Haru flat in one punch.]]
195	* ThrowItIn: Haken's modus operandi for creating short-notice rollplay/freeform encounters. You can tell which ones are born from thus due to being lifted from various video games ([[VideoGame/ParasiteEve Crab Yummy]], [[VideoGame/ArmoredCore Nineball]] and [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter Tigrex]], [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} the Roserade Fangire]], and so on).
196	** That last one leads to a rather hilarious DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything moment, considering she winds up captured and not killed...
197	** Axel is guilty of ''requesting'' this, wanting to play anything he stats out (which is why he stats nothing until he's sure he can play it).
198	** Raven's just as guilty of this too -- Vincent was promoted to main character and Luca came into being entirely because he was bored waiting for a bus home a few times.
199	* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much everyone in KRV that didn't carry over is understood to have done so ([[RealitySubtext even if Kenoko]] [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor wasn't around to see it]]). Even [[IdiotHoudini Aoki]].
200	* TurnInYourBadge: Invoked by Yukari following Haruka and Ake letting a revitalized Kenoko loose on THI. To say Ake considers it [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished an insult to Haruka]] would be an understatement.
201	* VitriolicBestBuds: Xander and Haru are Type 2.
202	** [[ABoyAndHisX Kenoko and Punchy]], [[RedOniBlueOni Alex and Wyll]]... Axel really like this trope, probably because most of his friendships seem to be like this.
203	* WhamEpisode: Tuesday evening of week 2. [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35280677/Def-Jam Kenoko hospitalizes Ake for using Becca as a guinea pig]], [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/I%27m-a-Shark Haru vamps out into Shark Fangire form]] [[FantasticRacism in front of Ake]], [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/The-Lion-Wished-For-Courage and we find out what's behind Kenoko's trust/esteem issues as well as what completely terrifies her]].
204	* WhatTheHellHero:
205	** Akebara and Vincent. Ake seems to be shaping up. This [[CharacterDevelopment used to be Wyll's schtick]].
206	** ''Used to be''? Miyuki sure asked that question, if in different words, straight to Wyll's face at least once during Week 03.
207	** Haruka is diving headfirst by Wednesday of Week 03.
208	* WithFriendsLikeThese:
209	-->'''Haken:''' In a shocking twist, Kenoko's beef with Chiyoko is NOT META AT ALL.
210	-->'''Axel:''' ''[[SarcasmMode Thanks.]]''
211	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Wyll delivers this in the manner of a ThisIsGonnaSuck - except the subject matter is the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' Velociprey and then a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Tigrex]]. (Remember, they're on [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Isla del Monstruo]] at the time.)
212	* YouAreNotAlone: Haruka's response to Kenoko's ThatManIsDead. Unfortunately it doesn't stick.
213	** More effective [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/37607590/Working-From-Bed when Haruka does it with Ake]] later.
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215
216	Now has a FilmNoir-esque DarkerAndEdgier AlternateUniverse spinoff, [[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35211635/Hardboiled-Pink-Lemonade Hardboiled Pink Lemonade]], set in a CrapsackWorld where [[BigBad SHOCKER]] [[TheBadGuyWins wins]] and most of the SEES Riders are killed. Focuses on [[KnightInSourArmor Wyll]] [[TallDarkAndSnarky Ascher]] and [[PlayfulHacker Aelita]] [[ActionGirl Schaeffer]], running a PrivateDetective agency called [[MythologyGag Pink]] [[TitleDrop Lemonade]]. Makes frequent use of the PrivateEyeMonologue both to transition between scenes and to let the two characters act seperately while sharing screentime.
217
218	!![[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35211635/Hardboiled-Pink-Lemonade Hardboiled Pink Lemonade]] provides examples of:
219
220	* AffectionateParody: Haken [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on how FilmNoir everything is in his very first line.
221	* BadassLongcoat: Wyll and Aelita in their various styles.
222	* CityNoir: A cross between this and CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain. Despite the city itself being lit up like a Dutch brothel, it's perpetually thunderstorming overhead, and Wyll can tell it's towards evening because the sky starts letting loose bolts of green lightning. Oh, and the city's name? [[MeaningfulName Neon]].
223	* DarkerAndEdgier: To both RAC core and Series/KamenRiderDouble.
224	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: There's a few lines here and there which imply that everything is in black and white. Possibly inspired by ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur'' or ''VideoGame/InFamous''.
225	* DepravedBisexual: Implied with Kenoko. Gets worse when you think about why her EliteMook cohorts are completely used to it, and why they feel the need to stand and around and watch.
226	* FaceHeelTurn: Kenoko, showing what could have happened if her psyche had unbalanced in the other direction - she ran back to [[BigBad SHOCKER]], because they wanted her and Tomoe didn't.
227	* FateWorseThanDeath: [[OneTrueThreesome FangOreo]] end up stuck in the [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus-filled]] caboose of [[GrimReaper Django's]] Liner, with the implication that by this stage they've been broken into what amounts to mindless dolls... making Aelita's message even worse (see TearJerker below).
228	* FilmNoir: The first thing you'll notice, obviously.
229	* HopelessBossFight: Kenoko vs. anyone at this stage.
230	* MythologyGag: So, so many to ''[[Roleplay/MusouVerse Rider Quest]]'' and some meta stuff that never got into KRV or RAC:
231	** Wyll's [[HandCannon weapon]] of [[RevolversAreJustBetter choice]] is the same model as the too-big-to-use [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Daiki]] that Jack toted in ''[=RiderQuest=]''.
232	*** Which causes a rather amusing averted reference to it where Wyll asks if Aelita knows what he likes about it... "[[CompensatingForSomething Apart from the obvious]]?" "Actually, [[{{BFG}} pretty much the obvious]]."
233	** Aelita's use of a Five-seveN is a reference to [[strike:her status in KRV and RAC as [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The Boss]]]] actually just her being French and needing a spiffy European-made semi-automatic answer to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Wyll only having five shots to his name at a time]].
234	** The detective agency takes on the Wyll/Aelita pairing name.
235	** Wyll and Aelita being a devastatingly competent tagteam was brought up in KRV (and, in fact, was part of Wyll's plans [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor before he was]] PutOnABus), and hinted at briefly in RAC, but here we get to see it at full force.
236	** Wyll finds a clue that's in hex - a la the binary and hex messages in ''[Roleplay/MusouVerse Musou Quest]]''.
237	* NoNameGiven: The FemmeFatale who walks into the agency.
238	* PlayfulHacker: Aelita, but with the "playful" turned down [[TheCracker a long way]].
239	* PrivateDetective: Wyll and Aelita, obviously. And the trope is played straight with a vengeance.
240	* PrivateEyeMonologue: Found in the first episode and on the archive page, and implied to be the lead-in to each episode. Also used as a narrative device to allow Wyll and Aelita to do their own thing in different places while sharing screentime.
241	* ReTool: Somewhat of ''[[Roleplay/MusouVerse Rider Quest]]''.
242	* {{Ronin}}: The word is used, but it appears to be FutureSlang.
243	%% This is a zero context example. Please do not uncomment until further context has been added. * ShipTease: For the [[PairTheSmartOnes Pink Lemonade]] ship.
244	* ShowSomeLeg: Aelita to Kenoko to get her Gear back in action. Kenoko never was the sharpest tool in the shed.
245	* SmokingIsCool: Wyll's [[AddictionDisplacement lemongrass habit]] is back, [[FilmNoir naturally.]]
246	* TallDarkAndSnarky: Wyll, to go with his KnightInSourArmor view.
247	* TemptingFate: Wyll asks Aelita not to early on, [[IronicEcho and then realises at the end of the first episode that he did it too.]]
248	* TronLines: Aelita.
249	* WordSaladTitle: And intentionally, once Axel noted that it [[InherentlyFunnyWords felt amusing to say out loud]].
250	----
251
252	Even after a thorough polishing to remove large swaths of IC natter, the [[http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33038675/FrontPage uTOHpia]] e-splat remains quite tropable as its proprietors take on the nuances of [=M&M2e=] along with several oddities from RAC, KRV, and even canon Kamen Rider.
253
254	!!The [=uTOHpia=] splat provides examples of:
255
256	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33550995/Drawbacks,%20Flaws,%20and%20Complications%20-%20Staff%20Commentary You be]] [[HoYay the judge.]]
257	* ConversationalTroping: Oh my yes.
258	* GrapplingWithGrapplingRules: [=TerminAxel=] goes out of his way to [[http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33394659/Fighting+for+Squishy+Humans+-+Commentary pinpoint all the right feats to break Grappling]].
259	* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The splat, while being rooted in ''Kamen Rider'', contains (or will contain) sections dedicated to ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', ''Series/MetalHeroes'', ''Series/{{GARO}}'', ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', and other more esoteric series, like ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''.
260	* ProductPlacement: Right there on the mainpage... except the "products" are [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming named for ships from the primary game.]]
261	* PlayerArchetypes: Somewhat more foggy, but still quite noticeable. Terminal-slash-Axel is TheRealMan and uses a BadassNormal template in CharlesAtlasSuperpower style (check out his feat setups). Haken is TheLoonie and prefers {{Genius Bruiser}}s running thematic variants of the FlyingBrick. Both are TheMunchkin of the highest order, but also have a sense of scale about it.
262	* JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary: InUniverse. [[http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/34191740/Acknowledgments And gain Special Thanks credits for it too]].

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