Hello, I'm Myne, Conveniently an Orphan for 8 years, after receiving my two skills God's Eye and Cut&Paste, I've set off on my heroic journey!
Myne, an orphan since the age of 7 (novel) or 10 (manga), recently turned 15 and went to the capital to receive an oracle for his God-given skills, as is required upon reaching adulthood. On his way back home, riding a carriage, he starts playing with his [God's Eye] skill and notices a thief in the wagon. After using his [Cut&Paste] skill to disable the thief as much as possible, he has an epiphany, realizing that the [Cut&Paste] skill can be used on anything he can see, and because of his [God's Eye] skill, he can see the thief's skills. What would happen if he used [Cut&Paste] on the thief's skills and applied them to himself? It works, and he then proceeds to steal the skills of the bandit gang that attacks the carriage, expecting their plant to sabotage the adventurer party hired on as escorts. Thus begins Myne's heroic tale...Associated Tropes:
- Adaptational Villainy: The antagonists are worse in the manga than the original novel. Case in point, the demons only wanted to Take Over the World in the original work, but in the manga, they are Omnicidal maniacs that want to end all life on the planet for unknown reasons.
- Always Chaotic Evil: The "demon" race and its allies are unflinchingly hostile to humans, elves, dwarves, etc. and are also quite cruel to each other. Justified by the fact that they were created as weapons of conquest by the God of Evil.
- Badass Bystander: Divine beasts like Fenrir walk the world to maintain the Balance Between Good and Evil, not interfering with the affairs of man, monster, demon, or beast, unless directly attacked or they're enforcing said balance. Claude, an arrogant aristocrat, hires thugs to kidnap some of Fenrir's cubs, nearly dooming humanity to extinction for the affront, and a king under attack from the demon army threatens the balance by using an other-world summon ritual. Fortunately for said king, the demon army attacked the divine beast sent to punish him, thus drawing the beast's ire instead and leaving the king's punishment up to the humans.
- Beyond the Impossible: Using [God's Eye] and [Cut&Paste] the way Myne does is so outside the box that even The God of the World didn't know it was possible.
- Black-and-Grey Morality: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, etc. have good and bad mixed among them. Monsters and the "demon" races are Always Chaotic Evil. Even the "moderate" demon kings are very, very passive-aggressive, seeing nothing wrong with the more radical kings' actions, but just itching for an excuse to cry "self-defense" as the impetus for conquest. In fact, there is only one Demon to ever make a Heel–Face Turn, and she did it when she was rescued by Myne, after which she turned on her abusive Bad Boss as Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal.
- Freudian Excuse: The orc race has two very, very good reasons to be hostile to humans. 1.) They can only reproduce by kidnapping and raping human women. 2.) Despite being recognized as a sentient race, orcs are hunted by humans because their flesh is considered a delicacy, even Myne, the All-Loving Hero does it. The remainder of their body-parts are also used in alchemy.
- God's Hands Are Tied: Due to an ancient pact between the god of the world and the god of evil, the more god interferes directly with the world, the more the invading evil god can meddle, so the god of the world usually limits his interference to the skill-blessing ceremony, as all the evil god's army already has their own version of skills.
- It Runs in the Family: Skills tend very strongly to run in families. That's why the royalty can, and will, decide who citizens marry, to preserve their national strength against the always hostile demon races and other human kingdoms.
- RPG Mechanicsverse: Deconstructed. Only Myne, the main character, is even aware of the system, but being a native who's never played an RPG videogame nor read a light-novel doesn't understand the mechanic, and while most people gain levels slowly through hard training and fighting monsters near their level, so their levels go up so slowly they don't even realize it's happening. Myne, on the other hand, frequently gets into fights with enemies way, way above his level, plus he took an XP boosting skill from a slime at one point, not knowing what it was, but sensed that it's dangerous for a monster to have. As such, his levels rise at a meteoric rate and he has difficulty controlling his strength.
- Shot Gun Wedding: The royalty of the human countries can and will make royal decrees telling their citizens who to marry. Myne learns this first hand when the first princess comes to his back-water town, and after some adventures, issues a royal decree that he has to marry her and the very same receptionist Aisha who helped him sign up at the adventurer's guild, revealing that Aisha is a legendary hero in her own right.
