All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted in that she didn't know Warp was Warp when they first met. It's up for debate whether Erin would really have wanted a romantic relationship with Warp if their first couple of meetings had been in a firefight with the two on opposite sides.
Ascended Fangirl: Erin, from fangirl to Ranger - pretty much the original reason for the whole thing: a fangirl who has to make a life for herself in the BLoSC-verse.
Author Avatar: Played straight in the original story, Watermark; continued, albeit more subdued, in every For Good-verse fic since.
Awesome Mc Cool Name: Seemingly subverted in the very ordinary-sounding "Erin Frame"... but then we remember that "Erin" is the anglicized name of the goddess of Ireland.
The Captain/The Good Captain: Strongly implied that Erin will be the captain of her future Ranger team. Not to mention how she pretty much aced a training sim while in the captain's chair.
Confirmed now in the Ships 50.
Dangerously Genre Savvy: She is not only a BLoSC fangirl who knows pretty much how events will unfold for the next two years, but she's also the only character who has purposefully lampshaded tropes in calling them by name. Since she has her terminology so accurate (the Sherlock Scan, for crying out loud!), one can infer that she herself is/was a TV Troper.
Brown Eyes: The color acts as a reminder of her Spanish-Jewish heritage and as a symbol of her normalcy amongst so many blue eyes (Buzz, Mira, Warp). Also contrasted, sometimes, with Ricki's alien Purple Eyes.
Subverted when Mira tells Erin that brown eyes are much rarer in the 31st century, and thus very pretty.
Death Glare: Aimed most often at her fellow cadets.
Forgotten Family: As one reviewer pointed out, Erin seems to forget about her family. The author admitted to the reviewer that, in the long course of writing the fic (the rewrite has been going since early 2010), she actually forgot about the Frame family!
Fixed with "Answers", in which Erin is revealed to be depressive, and her permanent separation from her family does not help.
Important Hair Cut: Played with. In the original series, Erin's hair was waist-length, in the Long Hair Is Feminine tradition. However, in Breakaway, her long hair is burnt in the first chapter and must be cut. She does not let it grow back, out of sheer pragmatism - long hair gets in the way.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Despite the fact that Erin's getting a bit Darker and Edgier, she will always be pure in heart. It's just a long-established part of her character.
Informed Messianic Judaism: The definitely Christian Erin is known to be part Spanish-Jewish - her middle name is Elisheba - but that part of her heritage receives painfully little elaboration.
The Kirk: Tied in with the phenomenon of Memetic Badass. When Commander Nebula and Buzz Lightyear are reviewing cadet assessments, the Commander tells Buzz that Erin is getting to be legendary among the cadets as a sort of "Captain Kirk".
Love Redeems: Another long-established part of Erin's character... her love helps Warp to make a Heel Face Turn.
Must Have Caffeine: In Watermark, she averted this trope - now she lives and breathes it.
Took a Level in Badass: Erin levels up between Breakaway chapters 9 and 10 (with months in-between the two) - shining as The Captain in chapter 11. Chapter 12 has a flashback showing her in the process of leveling up, courtesy of her brother.
Purple Eyes: Ricki is described as having prominent violet eyes, the color and size contrasting sharply in one scene with Erin's very normal, very human Brown Eyes.
Sherlock Scan: Ricki isn't just a Sherlockian - she's a Sherlockian who can do the same kind of analysis Holmes did.
The Medic: Specifically studying battle surgery to be one of the few Space Rangers actually certified to do so.
Odd Friendship: With each of her dorm-mates: something like occasional partners-in-crime with Erin, one-sided antagonism with Ricki, and just plain friendship with the much more idealistic Ice.
Pintsized Powerhouse: Invoked by the narrative's introduction for Windy (who is 5'5", at least 4 inches shorter than every other girl).
Running Gag: Windy takes her role as Dr. McCoy so seriously that she actually calls Ricki a "green-blooded hobgoblin" and, in general, enjoys annoying poor Ricki. Lucky for Windy that the Child Prodigy of their team is so good-natured.
Catch Phrase: Averted - the infamous "To infinity and beyond!" is never used in the fics.
Character Development: One of the long-established purposes of the series is to develop Buzz's characterization by giving him a sister. The original story, for all its faults, did well in this regard by showing enough scenes with Buzz and Erin that would bring them to a close sibling relationship. Breakaway still shows Buzz awkward with his new-found sibling status in the beginning, and it also shows Buzz giving Erin a brotherly hug before she enters the Academy. On the other hand, a lot of the development of the original version in-between the two points in time is lost, including driving lessons and pancakes.
It seems, however, that the author is also trying to be more subtle about the changes: "For Buzz, well… one would rarely ever be able to tell how life was affecting him or not affecting him. For all his many and varied emotional displays, he seemed never to change."
Character Development: She's coming to accept Warp as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, thanks to Erin. Plus, Mira admits to self-same honorary sis that she has issues in her own love life - despite having an odd relationship with her old boyfriend, she's also falling for her own captain.
Cyborg: The way that the author chose to get around the problem of Zurg's half-mechanical, half-organic appearance in the show. Specifically, he is a full-bodied cyborg.
Wicked Cultured: Bing Crosby, The Sound of Music, comic books... well, it's not Wicked Cultured in the traditional sense of the word, but he's an alien emperor, for crying out loud! He's that interested in thousand-year-old human pop-culture!
Adaptational Attractiveness: In the author's semi-canonical illustrations, Warp's good looks are often played up. Newer illustrations even portray him sans the goatee and with longer, styled hair.
Adorkable: Whenever he's not trying to be The Dragon and lets himself be, well, himself.
Eye Scream: When Zomega was first introduced, she was introduced with her cybernetic red eye. The Backstory for that has never been revealed, but considering her past, it can't pretty.
Purple Eyes: Zomega's one natural eye is described as indigo, a flexible name that could describe a dark blue or a blue-purple. It is actually her one visible human trait.
