History VideoGame / FragileHearts

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Invoked and discussed with the "Army" assembled by Zelda. As Haddy puts it "Even the black guy has blonde hair, for crying out loud!"

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Played straight with a couple of people. The Queen's portrait in ''Fragile Hearts 1'', though, states that "If you think that she has blue hair, there's something wrong with you!" when examined.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Quite a few buildings are like that, and Gulliver usually has a lot to say abou that.

* DummiedOut: In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', here’s a house in Orin that cannot be entered, and when you go in there, it says "Available in next version’s release!".

** Tradition continues in ''Fragile Hearts 2'', where there’s a book in the Witches Palace library called "Fragile Hearts Review". Examining it simply results in a comment from Maddy "This is entirely inaccurate. It’s less then 5 stars!"

* {{Expy}}: King Arfur and his land of Cameltoe is a rather obvious parody of the Arthur’s legend. He was helped to win the throne by a wizard named Midard, who hoped that he would bring an era of peace. Instead, he’s waged war after war in order to find that peace.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', the party is always limited to 4 people, due to the default VideoGame/RPGMaker 2003 limitations.

* TheBadGuyWins: Invoked with Episode Seven of the first game, which is titled: “Spoiler Alert, Bad Guy Wins the Day”. The next episode title just says “Ignore that last title.”

* BitingTheHandHumour: In the library, you can find a book called “RMN” (short for RPG Maker Network, the website on which the game is published.) Book describes it as “A wonderful little haven on the internet where game creators go to erase any small bit of confidence they may have had in their projects. Also, the best place to download such highly acclaimed titles as Legendary Legend, Tic Tac Toe the rm2k3 edition, Dragon Creed, The New Disciples, and lots of highly praised {{Vaporware}}. Seriously, though, don’t knock the vaporware. It’s likely cooler than you. “

* ButThouMust: When Zelda asks if you’re ready to depart into the cave to search for the Why-Caliber, you can answer “No” or “Yes”. Zelda then replies “I’ll have you know that the answer I was looking for was “Yes.” if you refuse.

** Similarly, the parents of Tobin died from accidentally eating poison mushrooms, leaving him alone to be raised by his Nan.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: A couple of rooms in the castle have practically the same layout. It’s lampshaded near the end when you’re storming the castle, and examining the bedside table will give you a message “You’re extremely glad this place has a different lay-out than the other rooms.”

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Invoked and discussed with the “Army” assembled by Zelda. As Haddy puts it “Even the black guy has blonde hair, for crying out loud!”
* DearNegativeReader: Invoked with Gulliver upon entering a shop, who first complains about it being much bigger on the inside, then says that “If there were some kind of an amateur builders network, you can be sure I’d write a very angry review about this very thing!”
** Then, there was also a person called LWG (short for Little Wing Guy) in the Dream Sequence, who was one of the users who gave poor review to the demo version of the game (available [[rpgmaker.net/games/2662/reviews/1401 here]] ) and was apparently punished by being trapped in the reviewer’s circle. When Gulliver suggests changing his rating to 5/5, he replies “Is that why I’m here? I would rather die before that happens.”
** Tradition continues in ''Fragile Hearts 2'', where there’s a book in the Witches Palace library called “Fragile Hearts Review”. Examining it simply results in a comment from Maddy “This is entirely inaccurate. It’s less then 5 stars!”

* DontExplainTheJoke: Early in the game, there’s a fireplace Ferus can examine, and the trope applies to the description in full. “You could start the fire and use it to cook meat, but you would rather eat your meat raw. You’re like one of those body builders who like to eat their eggs raw and stuff."

** There’s a rare non-sexual one where Cracker Soldier says “My brethren have fallen. Save me!” with Fergus replying “You first.”, since he acts as a save point.
* DreamSequence: Parodied with the Episode Six “In which we get bored and watch something else”. Most of it is Gulliver’s dream sequence, which occurs firstly in some crystal heaven (or, as he describes it, “Why do my dreams always look so vibrant and gay?”) , before shifting to the DevelopersRoom.

* DummiedOut: In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', here’s a house in Orin that cannot be entered, and when you go in there, it says “Available in next version’s release!”.

* ElementalPowers: Haddy can buy various elemental spells at the magic shops, or have them given by the conveniently waiting goddesses of certain element (the latter always elicits a sarcastic comment of some sort from Gulliver.) These are numbered in increasing order of power (i.e. Fire 1 < Fire 2) and are usually labelled with some sort of ironic comment in the description. I.e. Rock has “, Chris” in the description.

** MakingASplash: Tide spells

* FlavorText: There’s a lot of it when you try to interact with items, and most of it calls you silly for bothering to do so. In a library, for instance, interacting with a window gets you this: “You look out of the window to see that someone is flipping you off.”

** In the Items Shop in Orin, when examining a bookshelf: “If you want to know, yes, it IS getting really annoying describing all this useless crap.”
** Beds in ''Fragile Hearts 2'': “JUST GET ON WITH THE GAME ALREADY!” and “You’re not seriously gonna check every one of these beds, are you?” (These are copy-pasted several times along with other bed descriptions.)
** Shelf in [=FH2=]: “You were expecting to find loot in here? This is all Square Enix’s fault.”
* GiantSpaceFleaOutOfNowhere: Played for laughs with a guy with a sword, described only as a “Some Asshole”.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', Maddy’s attempt to summon a fire demon to rescue her town from soldiers currently holding them captive ends up incinerating all of them, while leaving the soldiers completely unharmed.
* HealingCheckpoint: Zig-zagged. Usually, checkpoints don’t heal, and Fergus actually gets into an argument with “Cracker” who acts as a checkpoint, about it. Very rarely, they do heal and restore the party, but it doesn’t

* HopelessBossFight: The battle against Bounty Hunter in [=FH2=] will be lost even if you actually won it.

* LimitBreak: Inverted for Maddy in ''Fragile Hearts 2''. Having full health allows her to perform double attacks. During boss fights, she’ll deal more damage in this manner then by employing her supposedly unique summoning abilities.
* IdiotHero: Fergus is most certainly one.
* InnocentBigot: In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', a girl from the Academy complains that her sister is “a total racist all the time. She’s almost as bad as that black guy from back home.”
* TheInternetIsForPorn: In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', a witch says she wants to invent a really addictive information tool for anything and everything, but mostly for porn.
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Fergus, I’m Your Mother]]: Happens early on, when the “Hooded Man” Fergus is fighting turns out to be his mother.

* MirrorMatch: The battles against Mimics in the Secret Tunnel are a subversion. They look the same as your characters, but they don’t have the same skills. Instead, all of them can cast Confuse, and that’s it.

* NoFourthWall: There are plenty of characters who like to outright break it, most notably Gulliver. At one point, Fergus even says: “Just what we need, another person who thinks life is nothing but a game!”

* OptionalSexualEncounter: Parodied when you can ask the Item Shop owner in Orin “Do you sell condoms?” When he says yes, Fergus breaks the fourth wall and says you've found a secret sexual encounter between him and Haddy, only to get hit painfully by her and mocked by Gulliver.

* PrisonRape: When Maddy and Gulliver are put in prison in Fragile Hearts 2, she complains about it, only for Gulliver to say “At least we haven’t been raped yet.”

** Lampshaded in [=FH2=] when Vam says “Fergus… and an unlikely band of misfits… “ to which Gulliver replies with “I smell a franchise.”

* RareCandy: Two types. There are the typical Attack, Defence, etc. Increases. Then there also the IN Stat + 1, AT Stat + 1, etc. , which also permanently increase a given stat by one, but they can only be used in battle.

* SweetPollyOliver: The so-called “Hooded Man” turns out to be the mother of Fergus.
* StrawMisogynist: Gulliver is one, often making sexist jokes and even once replying to a girl saying how lucky she was to be born in a city of witches with “Not quite lucky enough to be born a man, though, huh?”
* SelfDeprecation: You can find a book titled This Library, and reading it continues the sentence: was originally meant to have book pictures with text on them, but resizing didn’t work out, so now it’s plain text. Lame, huh?”
** That’s nothing in comparison to the “[=SBester=]’s Biography” book. It describes the creator of the game as “The genius creator behind such titles as Eden Legacy, Eden Legacy II, Eden Legacy III, Eden Legacy Deluxe and Trilogy Editions, and the upcoming Eden Legacy IV with Amerk. Obviously, that means he’s known for his ingenuity and diversity. While he had hoped to live out his days performing in the artistic porn productions, his oversensitive nature led to him creating low-budget [=RPGs=] instead.”
*** [=FH 2=] contains [=SBester’s=] Biography Part II”, again full of similar self-deprecation.

* ShoutOut: I’m much too old for this shit.

** In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', Battle Axe is described as “Like the rapist guy uses in Little Red Riding Hood.”
** “Hi, I’m [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard]], and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.”
** Fragile Hearts 2 borders on ReferenceOverdosed.
* TakeThat: The descriptions of a lot of items like to do that. The description on a bronze shield, for instance, states that “you aren’t good enough for gold or silver.”
** Then, in ''Fragile Hearts 2'', you can meet a girl called “Smart Cookie” in the Witches Academy, who says that “I read a book called Film/BattleRoyale last week. It was great! I think I’m going to re-write it with a female lead, make the characters white, and call it “Literature/TheHungerGames.”

* TheChosenOne: Parodied very much in both games. You spend about half of Fragile Hearts searching for Clive, who is chosen to defeat the Evil Overlord. When you do find him, it turns out that he’s lost all of his limbs in a hunting accident, and so the role is reluctantly given to Fergus. At the end of the game, however, Clive does sort of finish off the evil overlord - [[spoiler: he’s fired at him out of a cannon, killing both of them.]]
** Before that, you’re told that the previous chosen one who defeated the evil overlord was a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwhich: he choked on it during a fight, allowing Midard to encase him in stone.
** In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', the new chosen one is Tobin, a rather shallow and egotistical person who is also transgender. He escapes his town after it turns out that the anti-magical army is after him – not because they believe in the prophecy (they don’t), but because they want to use him to lure in the remaining powerful witches, and thus deal with their magical problem.
*** At the end of the game, he might or might not actually end up defeating the new Demon-God before he reaches the height of his powers. [[spoiler: if you fight him normally, then Tobin will approach Bazur sexually once he’s defeated, causing him to back away in horror and fall into the lava below. If you let Meera try to deal with him, however, then Bazur simply loses all of his Demon-God powers after Meera commits suicide out of unrequited love for him.]]
* VideoGameStealing: Averted. When you examine merchant’s goods as Haddy, you get a response of “You can’t steal this crap, what do you think this is, [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]?”

** In ''Fragile Hearts 2'', Bazur, a demon, and random bounty hunter, do it to Meera, an angel of all people,. When Bazur dismisses “There’s nothing lower than a bounty hunter!” she replies with “Except for the Jews...”. Not only does Bazur say “Aren’t angels supposed to be nice to all people?”, but the Bounty Hunter also calls her out.
** Then, the development hell section for ''Fragile Hearts 2'' has “Old Guy 2” in the cast room. In his own words: “If you allowed Midard to live in [=FH1=], you’ll see me around. If you allowed him to die, then @#%$ YOU!”
* WhoWritesThisCrap: ''Fragile Hearts 2'' has a moment where a random citizen named Harold can be asked about a chosen one, whereas he lists that the chosen one was a Cameltoe knight who accidentally decapitated a princess, but that the real chosen one was a guy with no limbs, and a chosen one before that was a sandwhich. When Meera says that those myths are quite odd, he replies that only a psycho would come up with all of that.
* WorldLimitedToThePlot: A library book called History of the World makes fun of it, saying that “Not much is currently known about the world we’re living in. The general assumption is that it began when the evil overlord first appeared, as that is as far back as our records reach.”
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Played for laughs with the save points, which all appear like anthropomorphised crackers. Some of them get offended when described as that, because they’re Sliced Breads, and one got offended because Fergus accidentally used “you all” in a conversation.
* YouBastard: A description for Ivory Armor states that “An elephant died for you to have this.”
** The joke is continued in the sequel, where description for the Titanium Armor states “Nick Faldo died for you to have this.”

''Fragile Hearts'' is a series of freeware parody [[RolePlayingGame RPGs]], made in VideoGame/RPGMaker by [=SBester=]. It currently consists of two games, with a total of five planned out.

The sequel, ''Fragile Hearts 2: Shattered Dreams'', is set 3 years after the original and imports a few choices from it. This time, the world is threatened by the potentrial rise of a Demon-King, who is due to be born after a naïve angel Meera and cynical demon Bazur end up in bed together after a drunken night. Meanwhile, Haddy’s younger sister, Maddy, ends up the lone survivor of an assault at Witches Academy by a Cameltoe army [[AntiMagicalFaction intent to rid the world of magic users]], and who are looking for a person chosen to defeat the Demon-King, purely so that they can lure the remainer of witches into their trap alongside him. Little do they know that the chosen one is Tobin, a young transgender person who’s been under their nose all along...

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Parodied at the Senna’s funeral. When asked to play, the piano player initially begins a cheerful melody before changing it to a melancholy one after being shouted at by the king. Then, when the evil overlord appears, she begins to play foreboding music, and is then told to stop.

'''Fragile Hearts''' is a series of freeware parody [[RolePlayingGame RPGs]], made in VideoGame/RPGMaker by [=SBester=]. It currently consists of two games, with a total of five planned out.

The first game begins with Fergus, a rather mediocre knight who accidentally kills the princess he’s supposed to be marrying. He instantly becomes a hunted man, but this soon becomes least of kingdom’s problems as an Evil Overlord manages to break the spell containing him and return with an evil army. Fergus soon joins forces with Haddy, a young, and unemployed witch, her formerly human, foul-mouthed talking cat Gulliver, and Midard, a once-mighty wizard now crippled by dementia. Together, they end up the kingdom’s only hope to defeating Evil Overlord.

The sequel, ''Fragile Hearts 2: Shattered Dreams'', is set 3 years after the original and imports a few choices from it. This time, the world is threatened by the potentrial rise of a Demon-King, who is due to be born after a naïve angel Meera and cynical demon Bazur end up in bed together after a drunken night. Meanwhile, Haddy’s younger sister, Maddy, ends up the lone survivor of an assault at Witches Academy by a Cameltoe amry intent to rid the world of magic users, and who are looking for a person chosen to defeat the Demon-King, purely so that they can lure the remainer of witches into their trap alongside him. Little do they know that the chosen one is Tobin, a young transgender person who’s been under their nose all along...

* PaletteSwapping: Lieutenants are just Guards with green pants instead of purple and who also wear purple shirts. Captains have lime-green pants and light-blue shirts.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: In Fragile Hearts 2, the party is always limited to 4 people, due to the default RPGMaker 2003 limitations.

* BadGuyWins: Invoked with Episode Seven of the first game, which is titled: “Spoiler Alert, Bad Guy Wins the Day”. The next episode title just says “Ignore that last title.”
* BlackComedy: The game’s opening essentially plays child marriage and accidental child murder for laughs. The rest of the game, and the sequel, has plenty of jokes like tha.t

* BookDumb: Gulliver is very much one, and there’s a moment in Fragile Hearts 2 where you can examine the bookshelf in someone’s house containing classic novels. It then turns out that he thinks Literature/MobyDick is porn and that Literature/GulliversTravels is about him. Also, the only thing he remembers from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is the giant squid.

* DamageSpongeBoss: Evil Overlord at the end of Fragile Hearts 1 doesn’t do much damage and his only skill is MP Steal, but he has a whole lot of health, resulting in a very protracted fight, especially if you [[spoiler: didn’t accept Midard’s offer to sacrifice himself in order to weaken the Overlord before the battle.]]
** Vam and [[spoiler: Bazur]] in Fragile Hearts 2 are the same. The former is entirely devoid of skills, and his relatively high amount of health is his only defining characteristic. The latter does have Kill Stuff (small chance of insta-kill) and Darkness 3 AreaOfEffect spell later in battle. His health is so great, however, that there’ll still be about 10-15 minutes of chipping it away after he’s already run out of MP to cast anything.

** Then, there was also a person called LWG (short for Little Wing Guy) in the Dream Sequence, who was one of the users who gave poor review to the demo version of the game (available [[rpgmaker.net/games/2662/reviews/1401/ here]] ) and was apparently punished by being trapped in the reviewer’s circle. When Gulliver suggests changing his rating to 5/5, he replies “Is that why I’m here? I would rather die before that happens.”
** Lastly, there’s a book in the Witches Palace library called “Fragile Hearts Review”. Examining it simply results in a comment from Maddy “This is entirely inaccurate. It’s less then 5 stars!”

* DevelopersRoom: Episode Seven of both games is split between the character-specific flashbacks and the “Development Hell” section, where you wander as Gulliver.

* DontExplainTheJoke: Early in the game, there’s a fireplace Ferus can examine, and the trope applies to the description in full. “You could start the fire and use it to cook meat, but you would rather eat your meat raw. You’re like one of those body builders who like to eat their eggs raw and stuff.
* DoubleEntrendre: Gulliver specialises in making these.

* DreamSequence: Parodied with the Episode Six “In which we get bored and watch something else”. Most of it is Gulliver’s dream sequence, which occurs firstly in some crystal heaven (or, as he describes it, “Why do my dreams always look so vibrant and gay?”)
* DrivenToSuicide: This can happen at the end of Fragile Hearts 2 to [[spoiler: Meera, if you let her try to talk Bazur out of fighting. She’ll talk a bit more about her love for him, only to then say she realises it’s not meant to be, and jump off into the lava. This tragedy also purges Bazur of the dark power within him.]]
* DummiedOut: In Fragile Hearts 2, here’s a house in Orin that cannot be entered, and when you go in there, it says “Available in next version’s release!”.
* EasilyForgiven: The Queen of Cameltoe speaks normally to Fergus in Fragile Hearts 2, and doesn’t seem to recall that he accidentally killed her daughter just three years earlier.

** The fact that crabs, fish and other underwater enemies are immune to Tide spells is rather obvious. Their simultaneous immunity to Icicle spells is slightly harder to explain, but still makes sense. But why the hell do skeletons and [[PirateNinjaRobot zombie giants]] Deadbeats have those immunities?
* EnergyAbsorption: There’s an enemy called Wormy that loves to use MP Steal ability. Thieves can do the same, and it's also the only ability of the FinalBoss.
** Bazur in Fragile Hearts 2 can also use MP Steal, though he'll rarely need to.

** Beds in Fragile Hearts 2: “JUST GET ON WITH THE GAME ALREADY!” and “You’re not seriously gonna check every one of these beds, are you?” (These are copy-pasted several times along with other bed descriptions.)
** Shelf in FH2: “You were expecting to find loot in here? This is all Square Enix’s fault.”
* GiantSpaceFleaOutOfNowhere: Plaed for laughs with a guy with a sword, described only as a “Some Asshole”.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: In Fragile Hearts 2, Maddy’s attempt to summon a fire demon to rescue her town from soldiers currently holding them captive ends up incinerating all of them, while leaving the soldiers completely unharmed.

** HonorBeforeReason: Vam in Fragile Hearts 2 fights Fergus and others alone, in spite of having a huge army right behind him.
* HopelessBossFight: The battle against Bounty Hunter in FH2 will be lost even if you actually won it.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Gulliver loves doing that to point out game’s flaws. Upon entering the item shop for the first time, he complains about how the building is BiggerOntheInside, and that it makes him feel like he’s in an old JRPG.
* LifeDrain: Bazur in Fragile Hearts 2 can perform HP Steal, though it never really restores much health for him.
* LimitBreak: Inverted for Maddy in Fragile Hearts 2. Having full health allows her to perform double attacks. During boss fights, she’ll deal more damage in this manner then by employing her supposedly unique summoning abilities.

* InnocentBigot: In Fragile Hearts 2, a girl from the Academy complains that her sister is “a total racist all the time. She’s almost as bad as that black guy from back home.”
* TheInternetIsForPorn: In Fragile Hearts 2, a witch says she wants to invent a really addictive information tool for anything and everything, but mostly for porn.

* MilesGloriosus: Fergus is sort-of one, who has accomplished much less than the other two soldiers in the opening. They play along with it once they see the princess, though, since neither actually wants to marry her.

* NoArcInArchery: Played straight in Fragile Hearts 2 with Maddy’s bow attacks.
* NoFourthWall: There are plenty of characters who like to outright break it, most notably. At one point, Fergus even says: “Just what we need, another person who thinks life is nothing but a game!”

* OptionalSexualEncounter: Parodied when you can ask the Item Shop owner in Orin “Do you sell condoms?” When he says yes, Fergus breaks the fourth wall and says you've found a secret sexaul encounter between him and Haddy, only to get hit painfully by her and mocked by Gulliver.
* PalleteSwapping: Lieutenants are just Guards with green pants instead of purple and who also wear purple shirts. Captains have lime-green pants and light-blue shirts.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Exxagerrated in both games.

* Sarcasm: Now, now is the perfect time to be sitting around. Good job, no, GREAT job.
** If you think you’re going to happen upon items by examining these stupid decorations, you’re wrong.

** In Fragile Hearts 2, Battle Axe is described as “Like the rapist guy uses in Little Red Riding Hood.”
** “Hi, I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.”

** Then, in Fragile Hearts 2, you can meet a girl called “Smart Cookie” in the Witches Academy, who says that “I read a book called Film/BattleRoyale last week. It was great! I think I’m going to re-write it with a female lead, make the characters white, and call it “Literature/TheHungerGames.”

** In Fragile Hearts 2, the new chosen one is Tobin, a rather shallow and egotistical person who is also transgender. He escapes his town after it turns out that the anti-magical army is after him – not because they believe in the prophecy (they don’t), but because they want to use him to lure in the remaining powerful witches, and thus deal with their magical problem.
*** At the end of the game, he might or might not actually end up defeating the new Demon-God before he reaches the height of his powers. [[spoiler: if you fight him normally, then Tobin will approach Bazur sexually once he’s defeated, causing him to back away in horror and fall into the lava below. If you let Meera try to deal with him, however, then Bazur simply loses all of his Demon-God powers after Meera commits suicide out of unrequited love for him

** In Fragile Hearts 2, Bazur, a demon, and random bounty hunter, do it to Meera, an angel of all people,. When Bazur dismisses “There’s nothing lower than a bounty hunter!” she replies with “Except for the Jews...”. Not only does Bazur say “Aren’t angels supposed to be nice to all people?”, but the Bounty Hunter also calls her out.
** Then, the development hell section for Fragile Hearts 2 has “Old Guy 2” in the cast room. In his own words: “If you allowed Midard to live in [=FH1=], you’ll see me around. If you allowed him to die, then @#%$ YOU!”
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Fragile Hearts 2 has a moment where a random citizen named Harold can be asked about a chosen one, whereas he lists that the chosen one was a Cameltoe knight who accidentally decapitated a princess, but that the real chosen one was a guy with no limbs, and a chosen one before that was a sandwhich. When Meera says that those myths are quite odd, he replies that only a psycho would come up with all of that.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Played straight with a couple of people. The Queen's portrait in Fragile Hearts 1, though, states that "If you think that she has blue hair, there's something wrong with you!" when examined.