Angrish: Sec's fourth attempt at Dwarf Fortress is described as "UNINTELLIGIBLE SOUNDS OF INTENSE RAGE." Italics and caps included in story. Justified as, well, It'sDwarfFortress.
Anti-Hero: Obviously Dalek Sec, but he's apparently mellowed out to the point where he'll help Homura Akemi. For a good reason, of course.
Badass: Sec. Note what happens when he deals with Familiars.
Also, see the Dalek Inquisitor General. The Spacebattles forums have somehow built him up into the Dalek version of Chuck Norris, except that "While Chuck Norris facts are fictional and wishful thinking,these are real." The author himself is "surprisingly not surprised," that somehow the DIG has become sort of a "Fate Worse Than Death," on the forums.
To elaborate on the "real" nature of facts about the Dalek Inquisitor General, most of the facts about Dalek X were pulled by the author from the Tenth Doctor novel Prisoner Of The Daleks:
The last time the DIG and The Doctor met, a planet exploded.
Missions involving the DIG tend to leave more dead bodies than there are enemies.
He survived an explosion that killed a Dalek fleet. It made him angrier.
He has a reputation amongst Daleks of being so ruthless that other Daleks are horrified.
Badass Pacifist: Madoka, who convinces Sec not to crush Kyoko's skull during their first encounter with her. When you can talk an Omnicidal Maniac out of killing someone, there really isn't anything else you could possibly be but this.
Bad Boss: Sec's former commander, The Dalek Inquisitor General. To the point that he got promoted to Supreme simply by virtue of surviving five consecutive missions under his command.
See below for a perfect example in Who Wants to Live Forever?. Madoka thinks that immortality is a curse after hearing Homura talk about it. Sec, on the other hand, is proud to have lived to be a quarter of a million years old.
Cassandra Truth: "I AM AN IM-PERIAL-ISTIC SPACE NAZI." Though played with in that he says that he deliberately tells the truth because it's so ridiculous that everyone just forms their own conclusions anyway.
Character Focus: Read this page. Notice how someone keeps getting mentioned.
Word Of God has it that this is to make up for the fact that he wants to make a believable and interesting character out of something that usually isn't.
He has also stated that he'd like to get more PMM characters and elements in on the action, with a little less focus on the Doctor Who side of the crossover.
Continuity Nod: Given the events of Satellite Five where it's revealed that the Dalek Emperor has been doing pretty much exactly what Kyubey has in this story, you'd be surprised at the attitude that Sec takes towards Kyubey's cultural manipulation of humanity to be more pliant. However, if you remember "Daleks In Manhattan," the human spirit and their capacity for endurance, rebuilding, and survival against all odds were things that Sec very much admired, calling it "Almost Dalek." It makes sense that he hates Kyubey...
Cosmic Plaything: Dalek Sec is absolutely convinced that the universe (or at least some god-like entity) is actively screwing with him. He isn't happy about it. Atall.
Crack Fic: Played with. The general idea of the fic, that a Dalek would turn into a hero, is very, very crack-y. The rest of the fic isn't.
And earlier we have Sec vs. KrimehildGretchen. Thankfully, he gets better.
The Dalek Inquisitor General, a pre-Time War Dalek, got teleported onto a ship occupied by the 2010 Daleks, and shredded them like a tank through wax paper.
The hunt for seven witches that Homura and Sec go on is openly called "Curb Stomping."
Homura: There was nothing there that could've caught fire, there was nothing there to spark a fire, and there was absolutely no reason at all for a Grief Seedto catch fire.
Sec: CO-RRECT.
Homura: Then why did that thing catch fire?
Sec attempts to play Dwarf Fortress...and somehow manages to trash 69 fortresses in a few minutes.
Even Evil Has Standards: Played with. Sec's human morals tell him that what the Incubators are doing is wrong even though as a Dalek he approves intellectually of the concept behind their operation. What he doesn't approve of is the Incubators undermining the human race's right to self-determination by manipulating their cultural and social evolution to make them more pliable and easy to manipulate.
Also, Sec's opinion that it would be cruel to put anything inside the improvised Dalek shell he constructs in chapter 2.
Exact Words: Kyubey, but that's nothing new. Sec also mentions to Madoka that Walpurgisnacht will devastate "The Area." What she hears is "Destroy the city." What he means is "Annihilate the entire star system".
Fate Worse Than Death: Spending any period of time with the Dalek Inquisitor General (DIG) is considered this.
To the point that one fan suggested that he be timelocked with the Coalition. In response, someone replied that this would be cruel, as "What would he do once he ran out of people to kill?" One branch of thought stated that he would kill them even harder, another stated that he would break into the afterlife to continue his mad orgy of destruction.
Flat "What.": Homura gives one when she realizes that even though she's severed the link between her soul gem and her body, and is effectively deaf, she can still hear Sec ranting.
Fluffy the Terrible: Kyubey, as in the main series. The difference is that from the beginning we know he's one of these instead of being the standard Magical Girl mascot. Also, while he/it tries to use Cuteness Proximity to appeal to human females, it fails hard against Sec.
For Want of a Nail: Besides the obvious, Sec's presence has changed a lot of the storyline.
For example: the conversation between Madoka and Homura in chapter 4, which has Homura revealing to Madoka that Puella Magi do not age. This causes Madoka to later figure out part of the reason why Homura is so insistent in not having her contract with Kyubey, as well as giving much Fridge Horror for the poor girl.
Groundhog Day Loop: Still very much in effect here. Homura's not getting out of this thing any time soon.
Hold Your Hippogriffs: Dalek Sec, being a non-human, has a few of these. His main one is "SON-OF-A-THAL!"
Humanity Is Infectious: Zig-zagged all over the place. On one hand, Dalek Sec now has human emotions. However, it's because of his attempt at hybridization in "Daleks in Manhattan," but he's also trying to work through those feelings. And while he's trying to examine human culture... it doesn't always go quite as simply as some of the more iconic examples of this trope. See also, Dwarf Fortress or his reaction to Avatar. But on the other OTHER hand, he views humans as a great species because Humans Are Warriors. See below for more clarification.
Humans Are Special: To a degree, Dalek Sec thinks this. It's mostly because of our endurance and our martial skills.
Humans Are Warriors: Dalek Sec seems to think this. Part of his inner monologue implies that humans are only second to the Daleks themselves when it comes to war. He is not at all amused that the Incubators see them as cattle.
No Social Skills: Homura. To the point that DalekSec is considered to have better social skills.
Kyouko: A little brusque, aren't we?
No Indoor Voice: Sec. Homura wonders wherever it's just because the Dalek likes the sound of it's own voice.
And later taken Up to Eleven when Homura tries tuning him out by partly severing the connection from her Soul Gem to her body, only to discover that she can still hear him.
The author, on the Spacebattles Forums, has stated that Daleks can do deadpan, but only one way: LOUD-LY! The original post had the word in greatly increased font size.
Not With the Safety On, You Won't: heavily subverted. Though Sec admits that there is a safety on his death ray, "no Dalek to his knowledge had ever used it."
Omniscient Morality License: The Incubators, who have not only been exploiting the human race since the stone age but have also been conducting social engineering projects to make humans easier to manipulate. Sec implies that they're responsible for creating the cultural image of the Magical Girl which misleads so many young girls into contracting with them.
Reality Warper: Dalek Sec inadvertently warps space-time by projecting a block-transfer equation onto a wall... which is hovering above the wall... even after the projector is turned off.
Really 700 Years Old: There's no indication as to how many times Homura's repeated the Groundhog Day Loop, but she's done it enough times to memorize nearly every single event in Mitakihara that could be remotely relevant to her cause, and learn nearly every single possible route in which events could unfold. Whoa.
Dalek Sec claims that he is two hundred and fifty thousand years old.
Refuge in Audacity: Sec's strategy for remaining inconspicuous is to advertise the fact that he's an alien super-Nazi at every opportunity. Naturally, nobody believes him, and they come to their own conclusions.
This actually seems to be a common theme with any of Dalek Sec's ideas. Like the time he strapped an orbital defense array to a Killcruiser to defeat the Skaro Degradations, or the time he stole a Time Lord prision ship and crossed the barrier between the universes, or the whole fiasco of Daleks in Manhattan.
Running Gag: Sec never succeeds in his first attempt. Or in his second. Or third. And yes, this applies to everything, up to and including video games.
The entire Curb-Stomp Battle against Uhrmann is a shout out to the Bolo series. Her defeat is even called a "Bolostomp," in the author's notes.
Word Of God has it that Sec's use of the word "Thal" as a swearword is a shout out to Second Empire.
Sayaka seems to be chanelling Shirou Emiya at times.
Homura has taken to wearing a long scarf arund her neck. Cue Dalek Sec muttering about "Jellybabies."
Kyouku believes, in chapter five, that Sec's emotions are stuck on "Always Angry, All the Time" which is the battle cry of one of 4 Chan's homegrown (original) Space Marine Chapters, the Angry Marines.
One of the members of the Coalition is based on the story 1984, especially in its use of newspeak.
Another race is the Cybermen. They end their meetings with the traditional CylonCatch Phrase, "By Your Command."
Sec is shown playing an unnamed game, but Word Of God and clues, plus the rage and anger it invokes, shows that the game is Dwarf Fortress.
Take That: To the 2010 new Daleks, where it's shown that a single pre-Time War Dalek is capable of shredding an entire ship full of them. On the other hand, the Dalek responsible is the Dalek Inquisitor General, AKA one of the few beings in the cosmos that Sec fears more than the Doctor.
Dalek Sec rants so loudly about the movie Avatar that when Homura severs the link between her body and her soul gem, rendering her deaf, she can still hear him.
Tempting Fate: While watching Homura battle Walpurgisnacht Sec concludes that the witch isn't looking his way, and wouldn't attack him. A few seconds later he realizes what he just did and, sure enough, there's a slew of familiars headed his way. Cue a Dalek-flavored F-Strike.
Sec: SON-OF-A-THAL!
This:
Kyouko: Besides, what're you gonna do about it?
Sec: I WILL IN-FLICT WHAT IN TECH-NI-CAL TE-RMS IS KNO-WN AS A VIO-LENT-LY PAIN-FUL DE-ATH.
Kyouko: With what? A plunger?
Sec: I WILL TA-KE TH-AT AS A CHA-LLEN-GE.
He then proceeds to kick Kyouko's butt up and down the alley with nothing but his plunger arm.
Unexplained Recovery: Sec, obviously. Absolutely no indication of how he managed to survive is given, or how he managed to get his casing back, or how his previous condition was negated. Lampshaded at once, with Sec promptly deciding that he doesn't want to know how he managed to survive.
In chapter four, the Doctor claims that when Amy rebooted the universe at the end of series six, it accidentally brought back everything that had ever died. Most of it died again, like it did in the original timeline, but Sec was somehow thrust into the Void, where he eventually wound up in the PMM universe. Word Of God states that the reason why the Doctor and Sec were able to get to the PMM universe is because someone came here during the first time war.
To clarify: When Amy rebooted the universe, everything that had been killed was brought back to life, and everything that was supposed to die, died. Sec...didn't, and instead fell through the Void, connecting both universes with a Time Space stream, which allowed The Doctor to come here. As well as other things.
Unstoppable Rage: Dalek Sec. All the damn time. This is actually fairly common for a Dalek.
Dalek Sec wasn’t quite near the I-will-kill-everyone-on-this-planet-with-their-own-internal-organs stage yet, but he was certainly getting there.
Noted slightly earlier that what a human considers "Unstoppable Rage," is merely "Miffed," to a Dalek. If any other life form in existence felt what a Dalek considers unstoppable rage, they would explode.
Wham Episode: Chapter 4. The Doctor is in the house.
Chapter Five: One of the coalition members is the Cybermen!
What Measure Is A Non-Dalek: Some members of the Cult of Skaro, who were all modified to be able to "Think Like the Enemy", had nagging suspicions about this.
Subverted with Dalek Sec, and the subversion is justified: increased age means more combat experience, so having survived a very long time is a badge of honor for him. Also, he wants to restore his race eventually, and given his first attempts to create Dalek Embryos (in Daleks in Manhattan) and his first attempt at making a casing (chapter two of this story), he's probably gonna be around for a while...
because of Time Shenanigans, he has now appeared in the universe of one certain series...That of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Oh dear.In his investigations of temporal space, he meets one Homura Akemi, and, hopefully, they can finally fix this Groundhog Day Loop that she's stuck in.Or not.Now on Spacebattles! This is the first thread, now closed.
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