Line #27 YMMV/TheSkyTides


1	%%* ActorShipping: Munshipping was ''huge'', and only some of it was joking!
2	* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Complaints were made when the game first started about the structure, which kept everyone in mod-controlled {{Cast Herd}}s instead of letting individual players run their own airships. This structure actually ''helped'' in the end by preventing the rampant character limbo caused by drops by keeping all the ships under mod control and having ready replacements for captains and first mates who dropped the game, as well as by allowing the plot to progress at a believable pace set by people who knew what was going on. And the game? It lasted from 2008 to 2011 and had a proper beginning, middle, and end.
3	* AngstWhatAngst: [[Franchise/AceAttorney Edgeworth]] made jokes about his own "death".
4	* ArcFatigue: Cutoff dates were implemented for plots that dragged out too long.
5	* ArchivePanic: Fanwriter-tan expresses this at the beginning of the feature, and only picked up the series near the very end because her friend list was filled with reactions to the game's OTP hooking up. Her anxiety fades as the feature goes on, and by the time she hits season two, she's officially addicted.
6	* AwesomenessWithdrawal: "It's... it's actually ''over''. Why? ;A;" was a common refrain for months. The reason that sequel supporters, reboot supporters, and SpiritualSuccessor supporters alike stated for their positions: everyone missed ''TST'' and wanted more in some way.
7	* BishonenJumpSyndrome: Lampshaded constantly.
8	* TheCatchPhraseCatchesOn: "Peanut butter cups" has become slang for "EveryoneIsBi" even [=OOCly=].
9	* CatharsisFactor: The ending arc. ''Finally'', after almost three years of being innocent bystanders to terrorist plots, getting there too late, or being tricked into helping them out? The characters -- and, thus, the players -- really get to '''''fight back'''''. Judging by the last-minute return of player-favourite [=NPCs=] and former [=PCs=], the mods definitely know this is a factor here.
10	* CharacterRerailment: The ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' cast set out to deliberately do this when canon started shilling its villains and throwing its heroes at the altar to the point of making them boring.
11	* ContinuityLockout: The mod team did their best to avert this by explaining previous plot-relevant events in info posts for later ones that were in some way related.
12	* CrackPairing: Many of them are game-canon. Many of them [[ItMakesSenseInContext only make sense in context]], such as age gaps being smaller or nonexistent (as a lot of characters who were younger in canon were aged up in the AU) and things that happened to get the characters to understand each other.
13	** In-universe, Joshua's fanfics mostly consist of "crack pairings"... but then again, some of them ended up game-canon.
14	* CreepyAwesome: Why do you think Kefka was brought back as an NPC?
15	** Kefka nothing, ''Gin'' wins here. He had piles of CR and was the nominal villain of the second arc (well, technically, Aizen was, and for those very reasons, he fits here too), and the things he did in the game were legendary, from eating Ika-chan to scarring Shinjiro badly enough that he can't even ''think'' of pursuing his own relationships even after Gin's been out of his life for a year. The best thing he did, though, on the Creepy Awesome scale, was setting up his own EngineeredPublicConfession to get rid of his victim's ghost, while making sure that, even if everyone heard him admitting to killing Jean Morris, ''no one would believe him.''
16	** "Everyone is moe for Kaoru" became a minor meme in the third arc, partially because of her CreepyChild deadpan, AmbiguousInnocence, and capability of mass destruction.
17	* CrossoverShip: Quite, quite common.
18	* DryDockedShip: Angel/Zou is the one that first comes to mind, but speculation, headcanon, and outright game-canon have hooked many characters up in the game's backstory while leaving them single now.
19	* ExpectationLowerer: The characters go on exciting adventures that affect the fate of the world, but the players seem to be just as concerned with how badly they fail at their day-to-day lives.
20	* FanNickname: Too many to list, but...
21	** '''Ships''': Ammy (''Amestris''), [=AmTetris=] (same), Firetruck (''Fiertia''), Silvy (''Silvana''), Vicky (''Victoria II''). A number of names were suggested for ''Serenity'', but none of them stuck.
22	** '''Player Characters''': Moose ([[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou Beat]]), Rou ([[Manga/{{Gintama}} Hijikata Toshirou]]), Tsunicorn ([[VideoGame/{{Lunar}} Leo]]), [=vK=] ([[Franchise/AceAttorney Manfred von Karma]]), von Karmasaurus Perfex (same), Watanoodle ([[Manga/XxxHOLiC Watanuki Kimihiro]]), Zou ([[Manga/PeacemakerKurogane Hijikata Toshizou]])
23	** '''[=NPCs=]''': There's a whole series of {{mook}}s who have received names. It started with Guard-kun and moved to his compatriots: Mage-kun, Servant-kun...
24	** '''Pairings''' (game-canon and not): Lungshipping (Toshizou/Souji), [[{{Expy}} Proxyshipping]] (Neku/Roxas), [[HeterosexualLifePartners Team Yuribait]] (Nena/Sara), Bentoshipping (Watanuki/Ichigo)
25	** '''Places''': Crapmork (Kropmork), Kinkston (one-off town Jinkston), [[Franchise/SilentHill Silent Antrim]] (Antrim, naturally, though it's also the official name for the plot that took ''place'' in Antrim)
26	* FanonDiscontinuity: An AbortedArc where the ''Silvana'' was invaded by robots wasn't ''technically'' retconned out, but people tended not to acknowledge it after.
27	* FridgeHorror: After the effects of [[spoiler:the Hegua Lake explosion]] really sunk in, it took a while for the muns to realize that, hey, some of the characters' homes and families are gone now...
28	** Nobody who's tried to explore the lower cloud layer has ever returned. It seems like a throwaway bit of flavour text to set the world in a sort of Age of Exploration, but much, ''much'' later in the game, we find out that [[spoiler:there's a giant snake under there, and when you think about it, it probably ate them all.]]
29	* GameplayDerailment: Shiphopping had to be clamped down upon months after the game started, as people specifically apped characters with clear intent to ''never'' keep them on one ship.
30	* HamAndCheese: The players of [[Franchise/AceAttorney Manfred von Karma]], [[VideoGame/{{Lunar}} Leo]], and [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Itou]] had a field day with this one after all their characters were hit by Berserk during a StatusEffects plot. Their conversation over their journals in the middle of the battle [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments became one of the most memorable moments in that entire plot]].
31	** '''''[[MemeticMutation RED'S A GOOD COLOR FOR THE DECK!!!!]]'''''
32	* HarsherInHindsight: Hey, you know those falling islands that were a big deal back in "Season 1"? Yeah... after ClimaxBoss [[spoiler:Jormungandr]] was revealed, it's pretty easy to tell what happened to them now.
33	* HoYay: The game is actually considerably light on [[HideYourLesbians same-sex ships actually hooking up]] compared to other roleplays. It makes up for it with this trope in spades.
34	* IdiosyncraticShipNaming: A lot of people in the game ''really'' didn't like {{Portmanteau Couple Name}}s for some reason or another, and many of the players took it upon themselves to think of new ship names because of this. The results were... mixed, but names like "Bentoshipping" get about as much use as their counterparts like "Ichiwata".
35	* IKnewIt: A plot took place in the town of Spoons. One player pointed out that this sounded like [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Forks]], and some jokes were made about how they would be fighting sparklepires. Many days later, more details about the plot were revealed...
36	* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Way, way too many characters are far too much fun to ship with everyone they know. In fact, it's almost a requirement in memes.
37	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Since there's no auto-resurrect in this setting, it's well-known that character death only comes when the mun fully intends to drop the character. Of course, with the ending coming up, the muns had less to lose...
38	* MemeticMutation: Are you a bad enough dude to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kill the president]]?[[labelnote:Explanation]]An important [[MidSeasonTwist mid-series twist]] had the crew of the ''Silvana'' believing they were saving the president of Ivona, but instead killed him themselves.[[/labelnote]]
39	** Go to bed, [X].[[labelnote:Explanation]]A stock phrase when a character (or player) was being ridiculous, usually because it was late and/or they were drunk.[[/labelnote]]
40	** An older one: [[Manga/DeathNote Mello]] is Music/{{Elvis\|Presley}}![[labelnote:Explanation]]A glitch on LJ caused some icons to be swapped out between unrelated journals. One memorable instance was one of Mello's most commonly used icons being swapped out for an icon of Elvis Presley, for some reason.[[/labelnote]]
41	** von Karmasaurus Perfex''/''Dinosaur von Karma. See AscendedMeme.
42	** Ichigo being [[CargoShip planesexual]].[[labelnote:Explanation]]The logical conclusion of some WhyDontYouMarryIt jokes about how he seems to care about his plane more than most people.[[/labelnote]]
43	** Kaoru likes beds.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Kaoru doesn't like much at all, and one of the first things that she got attached to (despite herself) that started her slow HeelFaceTurn was sleeping in a bed instead of on the floor.[[/labelnote]]
44	** Dice ship everything![[labelnote:Explanation]]The players often threw their characters into non-canon RNG-based dice games, usually inappropriate ones, where just about every ship would get teased or more at some point.[[/labelnote]]
45	** Rou can only have what he doesn't want.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hijikata Toshirou, given the FanNickname "Rou," is constantly denied what he either secretly or openly wants, [[DidNotGetTheGirl including his series-long pining crush]], yet ends up with a small menagerie of adoring pets because he's {{tsundere}} at best toward them.[[/labelnote]]
46	** EveryoneIsBi.
47	*** Peanut butter cups![[labelnote:Explanation]]An IC explanation of sexual orientation given to a very clueless ManChild using food metaphors.[[/labelnote]]
48	* MindGameShip: Gin/Shinjiro, oh, boy, Gin/Shinjiro. So wrong and so creepy, but if you like that kind of thing... yeah. In the invented AU where ''TST'' is a real show, the ship has a huge MisaimedFandom.
49	* MoralEventHorizon: [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Gin]] eating {{Ika-chan}}.
50	* NewbieBoom: After the SeriesHiatus, a lot of new players apped in with the soft reboot.
51	* PlayerPunch: We ''liked'' that town/NPC/large section of the continent!
52	* RewatchBonus: Go read some old logs knowing what you know now.
53	* RonTheDeathEater: Parodied in a KinkMeme story making fun of bad fanfiction, in which the ParodySue deposes a suddenly evil main character who would have shown the viewers no sign of being evil just for the sake of the fanbrat author's plot. The kicker? It's [[HilariousInHindsight Bradley]], who actually ''is'' a hidden villain.
54	* SavedByTheFans: Edgeworth was supposed to be KilledOffForReal when [[spoiler:Bradley caught him investigating the murder on the ''Amestris''.]] Another mun who knew what was going on made the case that other character arcs would have more satisfying conclusions were he to live.
55	** Narrowly averted. [[spoiler:Kaoru]] was ''this'' close to saved before a rush of "Just so you know, I'm not killing off any of my characters, okay?" messages took over Plurk's TST contingent after [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]] died. Her mun... stopped worrying about character death in finales being overdone.
56	* SuperCouple: Don't tell me Ness/Joshua doesn't fit.
57	* TearJerker: Muns have freely admitted to crying IRL at many of the more dramatic scenes with characters they played or stalked.
58	* VillainDecay: Averted; everyone pretty much stayed at their original threat level throughout. Due to strings of coincidences leading to apps and drops, no major villain stuck around in the spotlight for more than a year or so, so (in a blessing in disguise) there wasn't even much of an opportunity for them to start to suck!
59	* TheWoobie: Oh, heck, no matter who it is, usually ''someone'' will bawl their eyes out [=OOCly=] when a character is having a rough time.
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