The Emo Game is a three part story under some sort of progress by Padur Karil and his best friend. The plot revolves around a group of twelve Emo Teens who get murdered by a group of punkish kids. The Emo Kids are rescued by a "Goddess" who goes by the name The Empress. The Empress recruits the kids to participate in an interstellar quest to rid the galaxy of the evil "Shifters". She bestows upon this group elemental powers, and gives them missions.
Characters of Part One: The Emo Game
- Devon: The Hero, Fire
- Ben: The Lancer, Sand
- Big Ben: The Big Guy, Rock
- Matthew: The Smart Guy, Ben's brother. Lightning
- Krista: The Heart, Water
- Billy: Devon's older brother and the Sociopathic Hero, Lava
- Natalie: The Action Girl, Ben and Matthew's sister, Knight
- Pierce: An Ice Person, Ice
- Chaney: Also The Heart, Nature
- Luke: The Kid Sidekick, Squire
- Ryan: The Jerkass, Wood
- Christina The Drag-Along, Air
- Max: The Thirteenth Ranger, Metal
Tropes present in Part one.
- Betty and Veronica: Krista and Chaney.
- Black-and-Grey Morality: With some Lighter Shades Of Grey thrown in for good measure.
- Breaking the Fellowship
- Buy Them Off: The team gets sent to the future to get revenge on the people who killed them. Billy finds their leader, now an old man, who has apparently undergone a Heel–Face Turn. The man offers him everything he owns to spare his life. Billy throws him off a ledge to his death.
- Cain and Abel: Devon and Billy eventually do come to blows. Billy is the good guy in the situation.
- Cowardly Lion: Pierce, overlaps with Heroic Self-Deprecation, below.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Max dies when The In collapses while he is inside.
- Dwindling Party: In Order: Pierce, Krista, Max, Natalie, Luke, Ryan, Big Ben, Billy, Matt, Christina, Devon, Ben
- Ensemble Cast
- Fantastic Racism: Emos are cracked down on around the world. Justified in that as far as normal people see, they go around attacking innocent civilians and they're not too far from the truth
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Three of each:
- Cynics: Ben, Billy, Ryan
- Optimists: Matthew, Devon, Cheney
- Realists: Natalie, Krista, Luke
- Apathetic: Big Ben, Christina, Pierce
- Good Morning, Crono: The story starts with Ben waking up for a normal day of school.
- God Guise: When Christina is sent back to ancient Egypt when the Empress splits the team up for "Correctional" purposes, this happens
- Heel–Face Turn: Billy slowly evolves from a sociopathic murderer to a competent, tough love style leader, partly due to influence from Matthew and Big Ben
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Pierce is by far the strongest of the team, but constantly underestimates himself, shrinks back from glory, and often lets it get in the way of acting decisively resulting in his own death
- I Am a Humanitarian: The owner of The In, whose closets are freezers with former In patrons in them.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Pierce gets killed after deciding against his better judgement to take an escape route Ben insisted was the right one.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Ben, by about a third of the way through.
- Knight Templar: Natalie, and her crusade against shifters and less than good emo elementals.
- Little Miss Badass: Natalie is the smallest character, but is by far the most competent fighter of the group.
- Mistaken for Pregnant: Ryan, by an amazonian tribe who is convinced he has god's baby.
- Mood Whiplash: The whole thing, but especially the In / Empress Domain Arc which quickly went from cannibalistic horror, to jokes about driving a Jupiter and Purple Squid to heartbreak to Heroic BSoD and Freak Out on the part of Devon
- Odd Friendship: The violent, aggressive Billy and the peace-loving timid Matthew end up becoming close partners near the end.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: Elementals' hair colors change to reflect their element.
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Tauriens are Seven feet tall, Golden, and have funny eyes.
- Sand Worm: There are plenty of them on the desert planet Ben gets sent to.
- Sanity Slippage: Everyone to a degree, but especially Devon. He never really gets better.
- Send Me Back: Matthew and Billy after being pulled out of Camelot, and Ben when the Empress brings him back from the desert planet. The Empress denies both pleas.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Devon is quiet, generally kind, well meaning, a little shy, and
Neutral Good. Billy is loud, rarely even tries to be nice really, and swings between Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil, and a bit near the end, Lawful Evil / Lawful Neutral. - Technical Pacifist: Matthew abhors violence, and finds a technique to use his lightning powers to disable shifters without killing them, once disabled he experiments with them in an attempt to cure them of being shifters
- The Secret of Long Pork Pies: The owner of The In and his "bacon"
- Will Not Tell a Lie: Inverted with the fauns in Neverland, who will kill themselves in an attempt to prove their Blatant Lies.
- Wolf Man: Max and the rest of his race of dog-people.
- The Wonderland: The Empress's personal realm, where she regularly sends characters for punishment.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Devon
Tropes present in Part Two
- Awesome McCoolname: Sir Espion Castor is given a huge book of names and titles on his way to earth, and told to pick from them to choose his human name.
- Being Human Sucks: Sir Espion Castor is a human adopted and raised by the much more technologically advanced, as well as telekenetic and telepathic Atnirian aliens, on their planet. Since he has none of these abilities, and both the Atnirian spoken AND written language has telepathic elements, he grew up believing he was a SEVERELY mentally disabled, illiterate, short Atniarian with a mutation that made his skin the wrong color.
- Final Girl: Cheney, for the original team.
- Patricide Josef kills Ben immediately upon meeting him, believing that his father had run from his duty to save his people and abandoned him and his mother.
- Waif Prophet: The Seeress who accompanies Josef subverted in that she actually isn't any kind of seer, just manipulating him for her own protection and gain.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Josef will do literally anything to become the savior of his people from dwarven tyranny.
