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* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler:His tail is what keeps him balanced bipedal as Megalo Grandis, true, but even without it nothing is stopping him from RunningOnAllFours immediately after his tail is severed in an attempt to immobilize him.]]
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* BashBrothers: He and Nanu share this dynamic in ''Truth and Ideals'' for what little amounts of time on-page the two have together. Nanu ends up developing some of Grandis' quirks later down the road as well for that matter.
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* GrumpyBear: When he's at his most tame he comes across as this if he doesn't know about you very much; when he's more familiar with you he'll treat you rather casually, but only if he has some semblance of familiarity with your person. It ''also'' varies on whether or not Grandis is going through an arc in which he's in a more somber mood, such as when we first see his RageAgainstTheHeavens rant in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tends to give the vibes a lot of being a crazy homeless guy, but he's at least ironically the more responsible of the Big Three by actually bothering to pay attention to what's going on and actively try and take part in it when he can, whereas Ultima and Dragora are both even bigger perpetual slackers than he is.
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** [[spoiler:Exalted Grandis, at least in terms of the upcoming reveal of his design anyways, is an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/YuGiOh Exodia]] due to the fact his artwork will combine multiple sheets of paper together to draw his design together.]]
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* TheGiant: [[spoiler:Exalted Grandis is '''massive''' compared to his prior forms.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Exalted Grandis is his Phase 7 form, which rarely gets utilized because Grandis normally doesn't possess the natural means of becoming the form without outside interference, most commonly using the Ultra Card to awaken the form. If he does show up as this form, it typically means whomever his opponent is will begin to suffer a severe beatdown to where calling it a CurbStompBattle would be tame as to what Exalted Grandis [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown does to his targets...]]]]
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* PopularityPower: {{Averted}}; Grandis is TheJuggernaut, but usually those who best him either have stamina that can far outlast Grandis' own, or enter the fight with near full stamina while Grandis is already weakened. Any combination of those two factors will lead to Grandis losing the fight. [[spoiler:Exalted Grandis' literally only reason for giving TheWorfBarrage to Ogudomon is the sheer, sudden increase of power caught Ogudomon by surprise with everything Ogudomon tries to defend itself with being smashed apart to tiny pieces because Exalted Grandis is big enough to flat out crush Ogudomon in his '''''hand'''''.]]
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** [[spoiler:When Grandis sees Kizmel in a badly damaged condition, and then sees White Rabbit going in for the kill against Henry's family, Grandis uses the Ultra Card to Hyper Evolve into Phase 7 Exalted Grandis and pulverize Ogudomon and White Rabbit to bloody stains on the ground using his gargantuan size advantage.]]
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** Because of his abilities being CastFromStamina, [[spoiler:he spends much of his time in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' sleeping because he's mode locked into his Phase 4 form, which simply burns stamina through ordinary movement alone, not even taking into account all 100% of his base power is unrestrained in this form as well. As a result, considering it's far easier to waste power in this form, he spends much of his time asleep as to make sure he can make every drop of his stamina count for when he needs it the most.]]
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** [[spoiler:He completely decimates an already abandoned area of the state to glass when he transforms into Exalted Grandis and uses his immense strength and gargantuan size to pulverize Ogudomon, resulting in the place looking nothing less than like an impact crater from an asteroid.]]
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*** [[spoiler:How he uses it; after Enric leaves Kizmel in a badly damaged state, Grandis activates the Ultra Card and goes into '''''[[OlympusMons Phase 7]]''''' ''and pulverizes Enric into a bloody pulp into the ground, all the while everyone observes as the now 500 meter tall colossus that Grandis had become gives a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Enric.'']]
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* JumpScare: A very, ''very'' drunk Grandis notices the cast of [=DinoSquad RX=] at Black Spruce Bog late at night, and suddenly yells out what exactly they're doing there and sends them running off in terror. Grandis then passes out asleep, dead drunk.
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* OneOfTheKids: He can interact very well with teenagers or younger, considering he qualifies as a BadassGrandpa much of the time considering his immense age but otherwise having the appearance of someone younger in their [=20s=]. As a result of this, despite Grandis' TimeAbyss nature, he can both interact well with those much younger due to his PsychopathicManchild tendencies, but he's not completely inept with interacting with normal adults either.
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** [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} "WUT ARE Y'ALL DOIN' IN MAH SWAHMP?!"]][[labelnote:context]]He debuts in ''[=DinoSquad RX=]'' completely drunk off of his ass, screaming this line at the top of his lungs to the characters present at Black Spruce Bog late at night, which sends everyone running for the hills terrified in response despite the fact that almost everyone who is capable of transforming is in their much more powerful dinosaur forms, whereas Grandis is only Phase 1, his weakest form.[[/labelnote]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Click [[labelnote:here]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/megalo_grandis_coth_smaller.png[[/labelnote]] to see [[spoiler:[[SuperPoweredEvilSide Megalo Grandis]]]].]]
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** In ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' Chapter 13's CliffHanger ending, [[spoiler:just as everything seems fine after the fight with Necrozma, nobody was keeping an eye on Grandis during his date, which because of Enric ends up being ruined with Grandis being forced into drastic measures to flat out kill Enric in a blind rage. Using the Ultra Card everyone else was busy looking for but couldn't find, Grandis forces himself to Hyper Evolve into Phase 5, which instead of his normal Shining Grandis form, he becomes [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Megalo Grandis]].]]
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** [[spoiler:TheReveal that Grandis had the Ultra Card on him the whole time between Chapters 10-14's arc about Raiga questioning where it is from Impmon, whom she believed had stolen it when he had also stolen the Key Card.]]
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* AscendedExtra: During the duration of ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' up to ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', he's in a more major role than he's normally supposed to have; in ''Truth and Ideals'' he doesn't appear until the very end and ultimately has a very small role as he always should, but ''Digimon Re: Tamers'', ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and ''Reflection Code'' are all part of a CharacterArc for Grandis that causes him to be featured in ADayInTheLimelight.
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** He's normally anything but a TokenWhite, but he ultimately becomes this in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', ''Reflection Code'', '''and''' ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' by virtue of being the only White character to also be an [[{{Eagleland}} Eaglelander]] ''and'' be a part of the main cast proper. In ''Reflection Code'', he's surrounded by Whites who are of European origins, and only in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' of those three is he anywhere near characters who are Whites specifically from the US.
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* TokenWhite: Technically what he is in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', but most noticeably in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' as well. Technically subverted with the former, though, because of taking place in the same universe and time frame as ''Reflection Code'', in which he's not the only one present in the latter. It's more obvious in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' because he's an AscendedExtra in that particular fic, whereas the other two mentioned he's a MinorMajorCharacter instead.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A gradual shift that takes a year before he shows it, but one year after ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' ends, he begins to show signs of {{Super Dickery}}.
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* TokenWhite: Technically what he is He's the go to [[{{Eagleland}} Eaglelander]] in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', but most noticeably in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' as well. Technically subverted with the former, though, because of taking place in the same universe and time frame as ''Reflection Code'', in which he's not the only one present in the latter. It's more obvious in '''and''' ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' because he's an Tamers''. He's technically not the sole white to appear in some of them, especially ''Reflection Code'' and ''Digimon Re: Tamers'', but due to his AscendedExtra status in that particular fic, whereas both fics, he more or less fits the other two mentioned bill as he's a MinorMajorCharacter instead.
otherwise surrounded by either Whites from European origins, all sorts of types of Asians be it full or half, various AmbiguouslyBrown characters of differing descents, and other ethnicities one would find in Europe such as Germans, French, or even Russians.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A gradual shift that takes a year before he shows it, but one year after ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' ends, he begins to show signs of{{Super Dickery}}.SuperDickery.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A gradual shift that takes a year before he shows it, but one year after ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' ends, he begins to show signs of
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** According to the author's mentor, Grandis has been consistently compared to [[UsefulNotes/NorseMythology Odin]].
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* DropTheHammer: He has a stainless steel warhammer as part of his regular arsenal as Phase 4. [[spoiler:He ''specifically'' opts to use the [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Hat of Discipline]] against Darigus in Chapter 8 of ''Digimon Re: Tamers''.]]
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** [[spoiler:Grandis suddenly having to bail from a plan against Darigus because of a phone call from someone the rest of the ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' cast have no clue exists, and yet the only verification they get that whoever it is means serious business is when Grandis immediately tells Ryo and Henry [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he needs to go off and shower]], prompting the two young adults to ask [[CueTheFlyingPigs "Since when did]] [[ThePigPen Grandis]] [[WhamLine ever shower?"]].]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Sorry Vilemon, but unfortunately for you I have a date with my girlfriend to attend to." When we later see this girlfriend, we learn that this fic takes place ''long'' before ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and Chronicler hasn't even been conceived yet and Grandis' wife is still alive, although they're not married yet.]]
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* UsefulNotes/{{Depression}}: Has fallen into this a tiny bit by the time ''Truth and Ideals'' occurs.
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** Has fallen into this a tiny bit by the time ''Truth and Ideals''occurs.occurs.
** This isn't the first time, either; [[spoiler:''Digimon Re: Adventure'' takes place exactly one month after the birth of Chronicler, and thus the death of Grandis' wife and for all he knew Chronicler's death as well. Here he's beginning to develop into what he ultimately was before the events of the breakout from which ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code'' use in their stories. He spends much of the time in ShapeshifterModeLock as his Phase 4 form because he's too frustrated with what had happened to safely revert back into his prior forms, especially considering the entire reason for the Mode Lock is because he ''almost'' achieved Phase 5 in the process of overwhelming rage and emotion.]]
** Has fallen into this a tiny bit by the time ''Truth and Ideals''
** This isn't the first time, either; [[spoiler:''Digimon Re: Adventure'' takes place exactly one month after the birth of Chronicler, and thus the death of Grandis' wife and for all he knew Chronicler's death as well. Here he's beginning to develop into what he ultimately was before the events of the breakout from which ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code'' use in their stories. He spends much of the time in ShapeshifterModeLock as his Phase 4 form because he's too frustrated with what had happened to safely revert back into his prior forms, especially considering the entire reason for the Mode Lock is because he ''almost'' achieved Phase 5 in the process of overwhelming rage and emotion.]]
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* PetTheDog: His interaction with the main characters in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' showcases he actually does care about their well being, especially concerning the recent arrival of Enigma and [[spoiler:Darigus]].
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** His interaction with the main characters in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' showcases he actually does care about their well being, especially concerning the recent arrival of Enigma and[[spoiler:Darigus]].[[spoiler:Darigus]].
** [[spoiler:When he's shown resting in another abandoned building in a flashback in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'', a younger Meiko and Meicooomon find him as some feral Digimon are going after the duo. Grandis, considering he's currently in Phase 4 form, scares off the attackers as he simply slumps down and doesn't mind Meiko and Meicoomon taking shelter next to him. To be fair he's just too apathetic to so much as bother either of the two at the moment, but it still counts nevertheless as he doesn't chase them off like the others.]]
** His interaction with the main characters in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' showcases he actually does care about their well being, especially concerning the recent arrival of Enigma and
** [[spoiler:When he's shown resting in another abandoned building in a flashback in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'', a younger Meiko and Meicooomon find him as some feral Digimon are going after the duo. Grandis, considering he's currently in Phase 4 form, scares off the attackers as he simply slumps down and doesn't mind Meiko and Meicoomon taking shelter next to him. To be fair he's just too apathetic to so much as bother either of the two at the moment, but it still counts nevertheless as he doesn't chase them off like the others.]]
* PowerFloats: [[spoiler:His Shining Grandis form by default floats above the ground, even though he's perfectly capable of standing on the ground.]]
* RealityEnsues: Because of his abilities being CastFromStamina, [[spoiler:he spends much of his time in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' sleeping because he's mode locked into his Phase 4 form, which simply burns stamina through ordinary movement alone, not even taking into account all 100% of his base power is unrestrained in this form as well. As a result, considering it's far easier to waste power in this form, he spends much of his time asleep as to make sure he can make every drop of his stamina count for when he needs it the most.]]
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Spends large chunks of ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' stuck in his Phase 4 form. [[spoiler:He overwhelmed his armor's circuitry when he first transformed into Phase 5 Shining Grandis sometime prior, meaning if he has to master Phase 5 first before he can safely power down from Phase 4.]]
** [[spoiler:Shining Grandis is one to [[Franchise/BlazBlue Nu-13]] in terms of weaponry.]]
* SuperMode: Much of the time, his Phase 4 form is considered this. [[spoiler:PlayedStraight a lot less subtly with Phase 5 Shining Grandis, however.]]
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** In ''Digimon Re: Adventure'', sometime after his presence is established like any other fic in the continuity, [[spoiler:Grandis throws everyone for a loop by literally [[SuperMode going above 100% of his power by ascending into Phase 5;]] '''[[SuperMode Shining Grandis]]'''.]]
** While Chapter 1 is rather vague about it, [[spoiler:''Digimon Re: Tamers'' not only has him appear, but he has much, much lengthier hair than normal and is in a rather uncharacteristically good mood much of the time.]]
** In ''Digimon Re: Adventure'', sometime after his presence is established like any other fic in the continuity, [[spoiler:Grandis throws everyone for a loop by literally [[SuperMode going above 100% of his power by ascending into Phase 5;]] '''[[SuperMode Shining Grandis]]'''.]]
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* ContinuityNod: By the time ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' takes place, he's a hermit living in the wilderness. While not specifically Aokigahara just yet, nor is it the hermitage in France, he instead takes refuge in an abandoned elementary school campus from which Taichi and several of his friends originally attended back when it was still being used.
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** [[spoiler:Grandis shows an OhCrap moment towards Ruki using the Soul Link; he does ''not'', however, show anything like this towards Darigus a few chapters later. While many could associate the fact Darigus is probably more familiar with Grandis, he reacts to Darigus with a hint of exhaustion and a rather solemn acknowledgement. Either something about Darigus just reminded him of something very, very emotionally troubling, or Grandis has more reason to be concerned over the Soul Link than he even remotely does Darigus.]]
* OutsideContextProblem[=/=]OutsideContextHero: Part of the main issue with first encounters with Grandis is the unknown factor Grandis may or may not have to some depending on the universe he's currently in, especially considering Grandis can showcase many, many attributes that just makes him feel completely out of place in a given story at any given time, be it his SirSwearsALot nature, his PhysicalGod and TimeAbyss nature, his general ability to serve as TheJuggernaut until one can notice his stamina flaws, among other factors.
* OutsideContextProblem[=/=]OutsideContextHero: Part of the main issue with first encounters with Grandis is the unknown factor Grandis may or may not have to some depending on the universe he's currently in, especially considering Grandis can showcase many, many attributes that just makes him feel completely out of place in a given story at any given time, be it his SirSwearsALot nature, his PhysicalGod and TimeAbyss nature, his general ability to serve as TheJuggernaut until one can notice his stamina flaws, among other factors.
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* PhysicalGod: One of the Ultimorian Deities.
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* TheBigGuy: As one of the Ultimorian Deities he's considered this, but he's more TheMentor to anyone else or TheJuggernaut with his usual roles taken to the extremes.
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* CastFromStamina: Part of Grandis' CripplingOverspecialization is that far, far too many of his abilities run off of his stamina alone; his overall stamina is actually his ''weakest'' stat when compared to his other physical capabilities, meaning because of the fact a majority of Grandis' abilities use up such immense portions of stamina at a time, one simply has to wear down Grandis' stamina to gain the upper-hand against someone otherwise considered to be TheJuggernaut.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Powerful melee abilities that Grandis uses one after another which heavily deplete his stamina bit by bit; even if his stamina is increased to a certain point, the moment he's finally exhausted all of it, he's rendered from TheJuggernaut to NotSoInvincibleAfterAll.
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* TheJuggernaut: Is infamous for being one of the toughest Ultimorian Deities because he's the embodiment of the immovable object in his particular universe of origin, with a small set of quantities of the unstoppable force. It's by all means shown that Grandis actually ''has'' these kind of incredible feats of strength to begin with, rather than PopularityPower having a hand in his victories.
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: What many discover of Grandis' powers once they are in the know about his poor stamina management.
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* PopularityPower: {{Averted}}; Grandis is TheJuggernaut, but usually those who best him either have stamina that can far outlast Grandis' own, or enter the fight with near full stamina while Grandis is already weakened. Any combination of those two factors will lead to Grandis losing the fight.
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* SophisticatedAsHell: Grandis is indeed prone to insults like these, but they're nowhere near the extremely gratuitous [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] as the author himself tends to be for this trope.
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* InkSuitActor: Phase 2 Grandis is designed as one to the author himself, befitting his role of an AuthorAvatar proper.
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* BigFun: When he's in a good mood and shows more whiter shades of morality.
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* BoisterousBruiser: As Phase 4, which while he does have very small ColdHam moments as Phase 1-3, he doesn't generally reach this level in those same forms until Phase 4.
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* CatchPhrase: "Whatever, you sick [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]." Or, alternatively, any time he gets to drop a PrecisionFStrike in general.
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* CharacterTics: His near consistent sounds of exhaustion in his voice; generally sounding very bored with life at many times. It's only when he's going through OOCIsSeriousBusiness does he drop most of this, though.
* ColdHam: In Phases 1-3.
* ColdHam: In Phases 1-3.
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* EnthusiasmVersusStoicism: He has his moments of the former, but he very much heavily leans towards the latter. His BoisterousBruiser status as Phase 4 doesn't count; that's just an old habit for that specific form.
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* LargeHam: As Phase 4. Heck technically ''all'' of his forms, but Phase 4 is just far less subtle about it.
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** Some of Grandis' quotes, much like the author, are sometimes lyrics from different songs altered to fit the context of whatever he's talking about. In Oshiro Roy's case, he specifically describes him as [[Music/{{Voltaire}} "the thorn in his side, makes him wriggle and writhe, and this is the life he sees because the Devil tips his hat to thee."]]
* SirSwearsALot: Not as noticeable in ''Truth and Ideals'' due to that fic having ObligatorySwearing as a whole, but Grandis is guaranteed to drop a PrecisionFStrike if not a full on ClusterFBomb at least OnceAnEpisode. He's also the one of the few characters who'll consistently swear regardless of which fic he's present in.
* SirSwearsALot: Not as noticeable in ''Truth and Ideals'' due to that fic having ObligatorySwearing as a whole, but Grandis is guaranteed to drop a PrecisionFStrike if not a full on ClusterFBomb at least OnceAnEpisode. He's also the one of the few characters who'll consistently swear regardless of which fic he's present in.
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* DeepSouth: Sometimes has his accent slip into this depending on how he chooses to word things.
* UsefulNotes/{{Depression}}: Has fallen into this a tiny bit by the time ''Truth and Ideals'' occurs.
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** Impmon as [=NeoDevimon=] is performing a scan on the various main characters at one point, and can't help but notice [[spoiler:telekinetic restraints on Grandis that don't belong to him]]. While [=NeoDevimon=] glances over this due to not understanding the meaning of it, [[spoiler:anybody who has read Chapter 18 of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' will recognize these as the PeoplePuppets restraints on Grandis on place by the author.]]
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** Impmon as [=NeoDevimon=] is performing a scan on the various main characters at one point, and can't help but notice [[spoiler:telekinetic restraints on Grandis that don't belong to him]]. While [=NeoDevimon=] glances over this due to not understanding the meaning of it, [[spoiler:anybody who has read Chapter 18 of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' will recognize these as the PeoplePuppets restraints on Grandis on place by the author.]]
* HumanAliens: He's the native human species from the Ultimorian Multiverse, but he's an alien everywhere else for obvious reasons.
* HumanSubspecies: His species is repeatedly stated in all but its actual name so far to be ''Homo sapiens ultimorius'' ("Working Man of Ultimoria").
* HumanSubspecies: His species is repeatedly stated in all but its actual name so far to be ''Homo sapiens ultimorius'' ("Working Man of Ultimoria").
* KingInTheMountain: His entire portrayal as the King of the Ultimorian Deities in a nutshell.
* [[spoiler:PeoplePuppets:]] [[spoiler:Telekinetic restraints, presumably placed on Grandis by the author himself, exist as to make Grandis into what he is best known as here. As demonstrated in a {{Flashback}} in Chapter 18 of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', if these restraints are severed or forcefully negated, Grandis exhibits behavior that ultimately [[{{Averted}} averts]] his AuthorAvatar status by showing small glimpses of his ''real'' self before the restraints are restored.]]
* PetTheDog: His interaction with the main characters in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' showcases he actually does care about their well being, especially concerning the recent arrival of Enigma and [[spoiler:Darigus]].
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* TrashOfTheTitans: His "house" from ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code'' amounts to this; just a partially retrofitted old storage building, that isn't very big nor very clean. The ferret related objects are oddly the most clean about his place though.
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** The Hermitage in ''Reflection Code'' briefly qualifies, as Grandis has yet to move into his hidden home in Aokigahara at the time the first few parts of ''Reflection Code'' take place.
** His "house" from ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code'' amounts to this; just a partially retrofitted old storage building, that isn't very big nor very clean. The ferret related objects are oddly the most clean about his place
** The Hermitage in ''Reflection Code'' briefly qualifies, as Grandis has yet to move into his hidden home in Aokigahara at the time the first few parts of ''Reflection Code'' take place.
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! UD-03 GRANDIS[[spoiler:/Martin W. Mollohan]]
!!! Species: ''H. s. ultimorius''
!!! Threat Category: 0
!!! Weakness: Soul link devices, incredibly loud noises even more so than most predator eye users, anybody who can outlast him in regards to stamina.
!!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!!! Voice Actor: [[Creator/ChronicleKing Martin "Marty" W. Mollohan]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Do me a favor and drop the pretenses already, alright?"]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Whatever, you sick [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]."]]
'''Grandis'''. The leader of the bunch, who thinks everyone knows him well (at least to be fair, they should). He's noted as being the leader as dictated by Ultima and Dragora Galaxia, because whomever is the King of the Ultimorian Deities is the only known individual who can actually best Ultima and Dragora Galaxia in a fight, and never anyone else unless Grandis either gives up the throne, or somebody takes it from him by force. Grandis is known as "The Enforcer" as to why he's an Ultimorian Deity at all; his job is to intervene in situations in which one or more Ultimorian forces are at odds at each other should they pose too big of a threat for the universe. Originally, this job was to simply mock him, as until the recent era of {{The Multiverse}}, the Ultimorians were unable to leave their own native multiverse, but now that everyone is scattered across space and time, his role has an actual meaning again.
[[spoiler:On the surface, he appears to be using the name of the author himself; '''Martin W. Mollohan''', but this appears to be because Grandis, despite his usual impressions he gives, is often seen as a {{Puppet King}} in more ways than one; it is briefly implied in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' that Grandis has a mind separate from the author himself, but it's constantly being pushed to the sidelines in favor of Grandis serving as a lab rat for everyone else. Regardless, he's stated by the author to be a more idealistic, albeit incredibly exaggerated, take on his more aggressive personality; while some friends have compared him to Odin, the author instead feels "Bowser as a good guy" better sums up the nature of his character, especially considering Grandis' physical abilities.]]
Grandis is an enigma of a character once you're in the know about any of the above information, or to anything of what is below. Being a character who is guaranteed to appear OnceAnEpisode will do that for you, even among his fellow Ultimorian Deities and his son, whom sometimes don't even get appearances as often as Grandis does. To date, Grandis is the first Ultimorian Deity who has finished his debut arc in terms of establishing his overall presence and character, but due to his lazy nature, he tends to give Ultima the primary leadership of the whole group unless Grandis has his hand forced otherwise. In such a situation, Grandis will be the one calling the shots. Oddly enough, Grandis ''does'' seem to call the shots a lot more often when he's in a role of leadership ''not'' of the Ultimorian Deities; why he's this inconsistent has yet to be cleared up, but it's already been established he's already an OxymoronicBeing due to the fact he's ThePigPen despite having a SuperOCD attitude towards everything not related to himself.
Grandis' first two phase forms tend to be interchanged between each other in terms of which one is considered his "default". Pictured to the right on top is Phase 1 Grandis standing next to an empty armor of his Phase 4 form. Below those two is Phase 2 Grandis, appearing with much lengthier hair, a goatee, and being a very fat in appearance man. Phase 1 Grandis is for when Grandis needs to conserve as much energy as possible; making himself practically skeletal in the process of doing so. If Grandis has enough energy to sustain his presence for a very long time, he'll often times used a pseudo-Phase 1 form which heavily resembles his Phase 2 form; it simply isn't powered up to the full Phase 2 power proper. Not a whole lot changes in Grandis' arsenal between his Phase 1 to Phase 3 forms, but once he becomes Phase 4, that's when he pulls a LetsGetDangerous and decides to showcase how much power he has hidden within any given fic he appears in. If for whatever reason Grandis decides he needs ''more'' powerful, well, let's just put it this way; [[WhamLine you're]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucked]][[WhamLine , kiddo.]]
!!! Tropes that apply to Grandis
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Well kind of from AlcoholInducedIdiocy, but his first meeting with Chronicler in person does not go well, as in, he physically beats down Chronicler without holding back without making it clear that he was just testing Chronicler's Phase forms.]]
* AchillesHeel: SensoryOverload is the most obvious once you're familiar with the major weakness of his predator eye combined with an already heightened negative reaction to LoudOfWar with his {{UsefulNotes/Autism}}.
* AlliterativeName: [[spoiler:Like the author himself, '''M'''artin '''M'''ollohan. According to himself he once believed his middle name also counted, until he learned it actually starts with a '''W'''.]]
* AlmightyJanitor: A ''very'' literal example; often times when Grandis is posing as a civilian, he's in some way or form a guy who works as a janitor or at least as a groundskeeper type of job. The {{Irony}} comes into play when you consider Grandis himself is ThePigPen type of cleanliness, and yet he has SuperOCD about everything else except himself.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: According to Grandis himself, he's an albino, yet he otherwise looks like a normal white male. He states that had this not been the case, all of his skin would be burning red and his hair would be bright orange.
* AnimalMotif: ''Dimetrodon''. See AscendedMeme below as to why, because he was originally considered a Ceratopsian up until then.
* AscendedMeme: Why his AnimalMotif is currently ''Dimetrodon'' pertains to an odd naming convention the author had while playing ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved''; the author, every time he got one, would name his ''Dimetrodon'' tames after Grandis because of their natural air conditioning abilities, which are abilities [[spoiler:that heavily tie into how the Grandis armor functions as well as give massive hints to weak spots in the armor itself]]. Not helping matters into this is the fact an actual species of ''Dimetrodon'' is literally called ''[[ShapedLikeItself D. grandis]]''.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Had to kick Ultima and Dragora's asses to get the role he's in now. [[spoiler:When the two threaten to glass the ''Sword Art Online'' multiverse just to prevent EXODUS from escaping, Grandis doesn't waste time in proceeding to kick both of their asses again [[IronicEcho to remind them who is their one true king]].]]
* AuthorAvatar: Flat out confirmed by the author without any real attempts to hide it, but the behavior Grandis is known for is more of a heavily [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] version of himself who behaves more violently, is a LargeHam who can most definitely speak for himself directly, and doesn't have any medical issues holding him down for the most part. [[spoiler:He appears to even be a much more ''[[PeoplePuppets literal]]'' version of this as implied by Chapter 18 of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''.]]
* UsefulNotes/{{Autism}}: Has the condition by virtue of having his characterization being a {{Flanderized}} take on the author himself.
* BadassBeard: Phase 2 form. Phase 3 practically ''is'' a walking beard.
* BadassBoast:
--> ''*Various mafia members all have their guns pointed at Grandis*''
--> [[ImmuneToBullets Grandis:]] [[GenreSavvy Lone man VS many guys with guns; where have I seen this before?]]
--> ''*Said mafia members proceed to do exactly as Grandis says*''
* BadassGrandpa: Is no less than 100 years old, and clearly acts like a much, much older version of his namesake.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT call talk down to him in terms of who he is and why he does what he does; he'll give you a ''very'' swift reminder as to ''why'' he's the King of the Ultimorian Deities.
* BloodFromTheMouth: As a pure-blood Ultimorian, he displays just how much more brutal an Ultimorian can endure this trope and still survive. [[spoiler:After a gut punch through his armor by Chronicler, Grandis begins vomiting up blood into his life-support system and contaminating his frost breath as Phase 4, and by the time ''Truth and Ideals'' occurs, he's alive and well despite not having fully recovered from the attack.]]
* BodyHorror: His Phase 1 form looks more or less like a shrink-wrapped human, considering his skin hugs his bones for the most part, he lacks any form of lips to cover his teeth, and the fact his human nose is non-existent in this form in exchange for two mere nostrils alone.
* BrokenAce: He does indeed have significant power as an Ultimorian Deity, but it's clear he's a depressed wreck by the time ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' happens. Then ''Truth and Ideals'' showcases he's still depressed, and seems to get along with Nanu because of how both of them end up with the condition proper.
* BrokenPedestal:
** Chronicler doesn't exactly view him as a good figure at first, considering Grandis' ParentalNeglect.
** [[spoiler:Ken originally holds Grandis in high respect even with the fact Ken had unwittingly murdered Grandis' wife while managing to save the two's child, but because Grandis never knew Chronicler survived, Grandis had an undeniable hatred for Ken because of the fact he had murdered his wife by proxy with his efforts. When Ken goes to seek out Grandis for salvation from the Naotolis, Ken is greeted not to the {{Troll}}ing Grandis that the former had shown to Nobuyuki, but rather a Grandis who legitimately has an actual reason to truly hate Ken. The encounter between the two in ''Reflection Code'' demonstrates why Ken fears Grandis in the present three months later.]]
** [[spoiler:He's built up to be a [[TheParagon paragon]] of an adult in ''Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.'', but one BerserkButton presses too many leads to him going past the RageBreakingPoint which leads to Grandis himself ''[[{{Understatement}} utterly destroying]]'' whatever pedestal he may have ever had in the eyes of the ''Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.'' verse natives.]]
* CharacterFilibuster[=/=]AuthorFilibuster: While partially {{Justified}} considering how much of his train of thought and dialogue is translated directly from the author himself, considering Grandis is an AuthorAvatar for a good reason, Grandis does the best he can to either [[{{Defied}} defy]] or [[{{Averted}} avert]] these two tropes ever since he was criticized at a young age for his HolierThanThou attitude when he was an even bigger {{Jerkass}}.
* CosmicPlaything: How he ends up in the situations he does can only truly be explained by this.
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Ferret Man]]: Keeps a bunch of ferrets in his run down shack. [[spoiler:Later adds a beagle into all of it.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of Self Inserts. He's first shown as being less than his powerful state than what he's known for, he's currently a washout who relies too much on his inherent raw power to get by, and even then he's clearly very out of practice [[spoiler:as Damion cripples him for years, and Kirito nearly kills him had he not been stopped from landing the fatal blow.]]
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Of the HumanAliens and AmbiguouslyHuman origins.
* [[spoiler:DelayedNarratorIntroduction:]] [[spoiler:Based off of certain lines from other characters, as well as one from himself, he's implied to have appeared in every fic in the continuity by virtue of being the narrator for all of them.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Grandis has no general idea what his actual goal in life is, often because he feels like he's in a NowWhat situation in that he believes he's outlived his original purpose and no longer has any grasp on what he's needed for anymore.
* DigitalAvatar: His Lyoko Avatar is a raven hooded version of himself with two raven skulls on his shoulders, a red, regal robe, and a spear from which he quickly calls "Gungnir" and wields more akin to a sword. Doubles as a MythologyGag as Grandis has been described as an {{Expy}} of Odin already, but his Lyoko avatar just makes the references come full circle.
* {{Eagleland}}: Difficult to define him as any given version of it since he inconsistently shows traits of both, but he's at the very least a fictional analog to this particular trope and ethnicity.
* ExplosiveOverclocking: [[spoiler:His Phase 6 form busted out always causes an explosion around himself which his body completely reabsorbs back into him.]]
* {{Expy}}:
** According to the author's mentor, Grandis has been consistently compared to [[UsefulNotes/NorseMythology Odin]].
** From a design standpoint, he's always had a lot of elements of [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow Eddy's Brother]].
* FantasticNuke: He knows how to use [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Light That Burns The Sky]], which normally he just uses "Polar Vortex Bombardment" as to his own version of this.
* FatBastard/LeanAndMean: Phase 2 and Phase 1 respectively.
* {{Flanderization}}: See TakeThatUs below as to what this refers to for Grandis.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 "I know everything! I feel everything!"]][[note]][[spoiler:Referring to his role as the narrator of each of the fics.]][[/note]]
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Seems to have forgotten the fact he had met Mirror M three months prior by the time Mirror M confronts him in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''. Then again to be fair the only reason Mirror M could even tell Grandis his name was because [[spoiler:Grandis is the one to have given Mirror M his own name first.]]
* GoodIsImpotent: Generally slacks off on the job to say the least.
* GoodIsNotNice: Borderlines on a Neutral character at times considering how many times he screws over just about anyone he pleases.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Even though he throws insults towards people ''a lot'' for someone such as him, he's a NobleBigot who at least ''tries'' to be a good person, but his insults towards people are {{Downplayed}} with how frequent they occur, and the fact Grandis is more InnocentlyInsensitive at best.
* HeavySleeper: Misses out on an important meeting because of the fact nobody could wake him up and ends up causing trouble because of PoorCommunicationKills taking effect once he's finally awake.
* HermitGuru: Especially during fics like ''Reflection Code'' and ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', in which he generally lives in almost complete isolation. Even in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' he still qualifies to a lesser extent.
* HeroicAlbino: Implied; according to Grandis himself, he denies the fact he's "white" according to the logic of regular humans by stating "had it not been for this defect, [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation my skin would be beat red in its entirely.]]"
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:His bedroom in Gaia Snowfield reveals he has, at minimum, had no less than 4 dates with other women before, is an avid gamer but having next to no collection of his own, a lot of storage boxes in his room which contain stashed away reserves of food and drink mixes, as well as a, surprisingly still functional, gaming PC which has a diary within the hard drive's documents detailing Grandis' life prior to ascending into an Ultimorian Deity.]]
* HurtingHero: ''Good lord''. [[spoiler:In addition of being the only Ultimorian Deity to retain ''all'' of his prior memories from before the multiverse-wide reset, he's suffering initially from having so much anger and frustration with nobody to call a companion as none of his co-workers have been reborn yet. He tries to peacefully get Ultima and Dragora Galaxia to side with him as the Ultimorian Deity Big Three instead of violently like before, but the two Ultimorian Deities refuse to listen so the confrontation goes down exactly like it did prior. Then that's not even getting started on what happens between himself and his wife to which Chronicler has no idea so far as to how badly Grandis had been hurting ever since he was captured within this world for so long.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: His NobleBigot insults ''at best'' are considered this.
* InsaneTrollLogic: His occupation as a janitor much of the time leads to many questioning him as to why he's ThePigPen and yet he has SuperOCD for everything else in comparison.
* {{Irony}}:
** His debut in a nutshell is one from a meta-perspective.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The author has an immense hatred for Sugou Nobuyuki, and has made his hatred of him rather clear and to the point, such as [[https://chronicle-king.deviantart.com/art/FINISH-HIM-480627296 an outdated pic]] of Grandis giving his Nobuyuki's Oberon avatar the "[[Film/Godzilla2014 kiss of death]]" and [[https://chronicle-king.deviantart.com/art/Death-of-the-Fairy-King-605199888 a more recent pic]] of [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination version of Grandis killing Oberon (and his whole verse)]]. Naturally you would think Grandis would go in for the kill upon first setting sights on Nobuyuki in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', but instead, he doesn't and simply tolerates the {{Jerkass}} as he proceeds to scare the living shit out of him in the remainder of the chapter.[[/labelnote]]
** Hates the fact he's the King of the Ultimorian Deities, [[spoiler:kicks the asses of Ultima and Dragora a second time to get them both to do as he says anyways as a reminder of him being the fucking King.]]
** He takes the job of a janitor a lot and is SuperOCD, and yet can't even be bothered to avert ThePigPen for himself.
** His AbusiveParents status to Chronicler is noteworthy when you consider [[spoiler:Henry views Grandis as the "only father who truly understood him", although then again Grandis tells Henry to not push the comparison too much even if Henry views Grandis as a ParentalSubstitute.]]
* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: ''Oira'', which isn't used too often considering how many times Japanese isn't truly spoken in actual text, but Renamon does refer to Grandis with this pronoun due to being more noticeably speaking Japanese.
* KavorkaMan: He doesn't exactly try to be this outright, but there's apparently evidence in [[spoiler:his original, abandoned home in Gaia Snowfield]], that he had tallied up to no less than 4 dates prior to his upbringing as his Ultimorian Deity heritage. If this is indeed true, the tally adds up to 5 when you consider his wife he once had in his backstory in both ''Reflection Code'' and ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''.
* KnightTemplar: Sometimes his antics make him look to be more villainous than his actual role is meant to be.
* [[spoiler:LemonyNarrator:]] [[spoiler:The entirety of the narration are his internal monologues, and whenever anybody showcases a sense of MediumAwareness and are in a scene which actually discomforts Grandis, it most definitely shows.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Only really tends to showcase his true Ultimorian Deity heritage in serious situations.
* LimitBreak: "Dethrone and Destroy", a maneuver which requires Grandis [[spoiler:to bluff his injury during his fight with Chronicler]] to allow him to have enough time to trigger it. Afterwards, Grandis' agility, speed, and stamina all immensely skyrocket in activity; keep in mind, that these three areas are where he's at his weakest under his normal conditions, and in practice, [[spoiler:transform him into quite a hellish SNKBoss as we quickly see him demonstrate against Chronicler.]]
* {{Magitek}}: How his armor functions [[spoiler:as Voldemort learns the hard way.]]
* MeaningfulName: Not deliberately anyways; his name Grandis comes from his current AnimalMotif of ''Dimetrodon'', which is considered an AscendedMeme for Grandis as his original animal motif was a Ceratopsian.
* MightyWhitey: Defied; he doesn't even qualify for the WhiteMaleLead, yet alone this trope because considering every environment he goes to is always going to be alien for him no matter what, he's essentially disqualified himself from ever being this trope by proxy of never getting a chance to see how he was in his original environment.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Most of the time. Not long after his debut, he's put OutOfFocus for a while, but he still shows up when necessary. [[spoiler:Or in some situations just barges into a story for no other reason other than because he can.]]
* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:Just about anything regarding Grandis is difficult to determine, especially his actual personality in contrast to the author considering the subtle hints that implies Grandis and the author are not exactly the same as one might think, and that the differences in characterization shown through Grandis are meant to be Grandis showing his true self as much as possible, but ultimately getting subdued by the author's greater authority. Add on to the fact Grandis is allegedly omniscient, he might actually speak the truth when he claims he knows everything because his TimeAbyss nature may have allowed him to have SeenItAll.]]
* NobleBigot: He has ''a lot'' of times where he flat out throws insults left and right, but he's at least ''trying'' to be a good person despite that.
* NonindicativeName: His nickname of being a "''Dimetrodon''" doesn't make too much sense unless you either A: know what his normal name Grandis can alternatively refer to, or B: squint ''just'' hard enough with his Phase 4 form as to not this form is basically a HumongousMecha modeled after a ''Dimetrodon''.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: During the chapter of his formal introduction in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'', he's sleeping in the middle of the floor, curled up in a fashion similar to a bear would when sleeping.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When he sees Ruki using Taomon's [=DigiCore=] and using the [[ThePowerOfFriendship Soul Link]] successfully, and is subsequently blown across the room by an insulted Ruki, Grandis becomes ''floored'' that the Soul Link is actually that powerful. Eventually he later learns [[AchillesHeel that it's generally strong against Ultimorians like himself]].]]
* OnceAnEpisode: His appearances in the continuity are much more prevalent than Chronicler's because of the fact in some of the fics, Chronicler doesn't even exist yet due to not being born yet, such as is the case in ''Digimon Re: Tamers''. Grandis tends to appear consistently because he's alive and active for every part of the entire continuity.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is often referred to as "Big G" in certain scenarios, especially ''Digimon Re: Tamers''. However, Henry and Ruki both know of him as [[spoiler:Martin]] and Grandis respectively, meaning the two know him more personally, especially in the former's case.
* OnlySaneMan: What he ''thinks'' he is in ''[[CastFullOfCrazy Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.]]''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** [[spoiler:His internal monologue isn't exactly normal during the prologue of ''Reflection Code'', all things considered. He starts off as if trying to delay the inevitable with Mirror M's introduction, if merely because he's already had a fear of the "God Slayer" as it is, but the fact he's having to tell the story from his perspective is making him all the more uncomfortable knowing how hostile of an AntiHero Mirror M can tend to be at times.]]
** [[spoiler:Just how powerful Enigma is and its control over Ruki's old digivice pretty much ''requires'' him to invoke the presences of Dogma, Zenith, and Ultima just to forge Ruki a new digivice and free Taomon from the control of the old one. Grandis would ''never'' ask for such outside help had it not been for just how powerful Enigma truly is, which means Grandis is all but stating ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror he actually feels threatened by Enigma's presence.]]'']]
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:Towards Henry in ''Digimon Re: Tamers''. As Grandis and Henry are both struggling to keep an income able to keep them both afloat in the real world, the two have gotten to know each other more to where they both practically rely on each other, and ultimately a pseudo father-son dynamic forms between the two.]]
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Often provokes his enemies into doing something reckless against him just to get what he needs from a situation, usually without having to do anything other than speak. In fact, he does this to Nobuyuki almost the whole chapter of his debut.
* ThePigPen:
** The mere instant we see his "house" we clearly see he doesn't clean very well, if even at all. Also partially the reason everyone calls him things such as a hillbilly, homeless man, or hobo because of his lack of proper hygiene.
** Pointed out more in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' by virtue of his house above not existing yet, as he exists here as the janitor prior to when he serves as such in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and Impmon notices Grandis' appearance is very, very unclean in appearance.
* PsychopathicManchild: Most definitely; he's insanely childish when it comes to his job as the King of the Ultimorian Deities.
* PuppetKing:
** [[spoiler:His role as the King of the Ultimorian Deities amounts to this because Ultima is technically the leader already, they just don't want the title in case somebody is looking for the leader of the Ultimorian Deities who can actually succeed in giving Ultima hell; Grandis can take punishment from just about anyone, so putting him as the role of the King makes it easier for adversaries of the Ultimorian Deities to be dealt with without Ultima having to do the hard work. Grandis apparently is semi-aware of this... [[ExploitedTrope but he knows he can equally boss around Ultima regardless]] [[LoopholeAbuse considering as Ultima themselves put it,]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard "follow every command, request, and desire]] [[DidntThinkThisThrough of Grandis as the King of the Ultimorian Deities."]]]]
** [[spoiler:As detailed under MysteriousPast, it's subtly implied that the Grandis we know isn't who he actually truly is; he seems to show signs of being a separate entity from his AuthorAvatar incarnation, and his more noteworthy differences between himself and the author are perhaps his actual self trying to force themselves to the surface, but ultimately being subdued mentally by the author's control.]]
* RageBreakingPoint:
** [[spoiler:He deems virtually everyone so immensely idiotic in the ''Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.'' universe that he goes berserk under the assumption that he's SurroundedByIdiots.]]
** [[spoiler:The Soul Link's usage against him by Ruki has him attempt to activate his "[[LimitBreak Dethrone and Destroy]]" maneuver against her immediately, only for Ruki to NoSell it because of the Soul Link's Anti-Ultimorian properties.]]
* RefugeInAudacity:
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext "My, what gorgeous]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/413739110432243715/417089404075507712/elIN430.png tits]] [[UnfortunateName you have!"]]
** "[[InnocentlyInsensitive But that's not even the real reason why you guys are here at this hour, isn't it? You're after the]] [[IResembleThatRemark sleazy pervert]] [[DirtyOldMan trying to bed]] [[StacysMom Ruki's MILF.]]"
* SensoryOverload: Both his own version of {{UsefulNotes/Autism}} and the Predator Eyes make him ''incredibly'' sensitive to noise to where it effectively functions as a secondary AchillesHeel to him.
* ShoutOut:
** To numerous different things, most especially Kiryu from ''[=Godzilla against Mechagodzilla=]''.
** His "I know everything! I feel everything!" line is based off of some dialogue from the Demoman from ''Team Fortress 2''.
* TheSlacker: Outside of his {{Lets Get Dangerous}} side.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Invoked to be this when compared to the other Ultimorian Deities; considering Grandis functions entirely differently from the other 12, Grandis can have much, much greater wiggle room when it comes to major roles than the others ever possibly could, and thus it's more justified as to why Grandis has more appearances than his fellow deities.
* SuperOCD: Why he takes the job of janitor a lot whichever universe he winds up in next.
* TakeThatUs: He's taking virtually every negative flaw of the author and exaggerating them/bringing them to the forefront.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: {{Defied}}, {{Downplayed}}, and {{Justified}}; [[spoiler:Kazu and Kenta are both capable of doing what Grandis is needed for in the first arc of ''Digimon Re: Tamers''; hacking into a digivice or [=DigiCore=] bound to a specific Digimon or its tamer, and locking out anyone who has unauthorized access to either. However, as Kazu and Kenta are out of town, this leaves Grandis as the only other one with the knowledge of how to jury rig a digivice or [=DigiCore=] as to prevent a thief from trying to control someone else's Digimon.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Grandis Prime isn't a separate entity at all; he's the exact same Grandis you see here.]]
* TokenWhite: Technically what he is in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', but most noticeably in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' as well. Technically subverted with the former, though, because of taking place in the same universe and time frame as ''Reflection Code'', in which he's not the only one present in the latter. It's more obvious in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' because he's an AscendedExtra in that particular fic, whereas the other two mentioned he's a MinorMajorCharacter instead.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A gradual shift that takes a year before he shows it, but one year after ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' ends, he begins to show signs of {{Super Dickery}}.
* TrashOfTheTitans: His "house" from ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code'' amounts to this; just a partially retrofitted old storage building, that isn't very big nor very clean. The ferret related objects are oddly the most clean about his place though.
* {{Troll}}: He's clearly having a blast tormenting Nobuyuki in his debut.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Definitely shows shades of his sympathetic qualities at times; his generally poor living arrangements, his seeming desire as a DeathSeeker who knows he can't have what he ultimately desires just yet, and even his desire to be on good terms with Chronicler.
* WellDoneDadGuy: Desperately wants to be on good terms with Chronicler after having been absent from most of his life.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: When he ends up coming across more as a villainous character he does show some spades of this.
* WhamEpisode:
** [[spoiler:Him busting out Shining Grandis out of the blue to kill of Nobuyuki's remnants once he realizes just how much of the blame on Mirror M's current existence is truly to blame on him after all.]]
** [[spoiler:His entire sub-arcs in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' both qualify, as Grandis in both is a ''huge'' OutsideContextHero[=/=]OutsideContextProblem that none of the cast have any remote clue as to how to properly deal with him just yet other than leave him be and hope for the best.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Sorry Vilemon, but unfortunately for you I have a date with my girlfriend to attend to." When we later see this girlfriend, we learn that this fic takes place ''long'' before ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and Chronicler hasn't even been conceived yet and Grandis' wife is still alive, although they're not married yet.]]
* WhamShot: While Chapter 1 is rather vague about it, [[spoiler:''Digimon Re: Tamers'' not only has him appear, but he has much, much lengthier hair than normal and is in a rather uncharacteristically good mood much of the time.]]
* WhiteMaleLead: Considering he's an American analog ethnicity, kind of a given, but he barely qualifies since his mixed race heritage son is the actual lead of the story whereas Grandis is much more at home being a MinorMajorCharacter instead, leading to the trope being {{Defied}}.
! UD-03 GRANDIS[[spoiler:/Martin W. Mollohan]]
!!! Species: ''H. s. ultimorius''
!!! Threat Category: 0
!!! Weakness: Soul link devices, incredibly loud noises even more so than most predator eye users, anybody who can outlast him in regards to stamina.
!!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!!! Voice Actor: [[Creator/ChronicleKing Martin "Marty" W. Mollohan]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandis.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Do me a favor and drop the pretenses already, alright?"]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_g_small.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Whatever, you sick [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]."]]
'''Grandis'''. The leader of the bunch, who thinks everyone knows him well (at least to be fair, they should). He's noted as being the leader as dictated by Ultima and Dragora Galaxia, because whomever is the King of the Ultimorian Deities is the only known individual who can actually best Ultima and Dragora Galaxia in a fight, and never anyone else unless Grandis either gives up the throne, or somebody takes it from him by force. Grandis is known as "The Enforcer" as to why he's an Ultimorian Deity at all; his job is to intervene in situations in which one or more Ultimorian forces are at odds at each other should they pose too big of a threat for the universe. Originally, this job was to simply mock him, as until the recent era of {{The Multiverse}}, the Ultimorians were unable to leave their own native multiverse, but now that everyone is scattered across space and time, his role has an actual meaning again.
[[spoiler:On the surface, he appears to be using the name of the author himself; '''Martin W. Mollohan''', but this appears to be because Grandis, despite his usual impressions he gives, is often seen as a {{Puppet King}} in more ways than one; it is briefly implied in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' that Grandis has a mind separate from the author himself, but it's constantly being pushed to the sidelines in favor of Grandis serving as a lab rat for everyone else. Regardless, he's stated by the author to be a more idealistic, albeit incredibly exaggerated, take on his more aggressive personality; while some friends have compared him to Odin, the author instead feels "Bowser as a good guy" better sums up the nature of his character, especially considering Grandis' physical abilities.]]
Grandis is an enigma of a character once you're in the know about any of the above information, or to anything of what is below. Being a character who is guaranteed to appear OnceAnEpisode will do that for you, even among his fellow Ultimorian Deities and his son, whom sometimes don't even get appearances as often as Grandis does. To date, Grandis is the first Ultimorian Deity who has finished his debut arc in terms of establishing his overall presence and character, but due to his lazy nature, he tends to give Ultima the primary leadership of the whole group unless Grandis has his hand forced otherwise. In such a situation, Grandis will be the one calling the shots. Oddly enough, Grandis ''does'' seem to call the shots a lot more often when he's in a role of leadership ''not'' of the Ultimorian Deities; why he's this inconsistent has yet to be cleared up, but it's already been established he's already an OxymoronicBeing due to the fact he's ThePigPen despite having a SuperOCD attitude towards everything not related to himself.
Grandis' first two phase forms tend to be interchanged between each other in terms of which one is considered his "default". Pictured to the right on top is Phase 1 Grandis standing next to an empty armor of his Phase 4 form. Below those two is Phase 2 Grandis, appearing with much lengthier hair, a goatee, and being a very fat in appearance man. Phase 1 Grandis is for when Grandis needs to conserve as much energy as possible; making himself practically skeletal in the process of doing so. If Grandis has enough energy to sustain his presence for a very long time, he'll often times used a pseudo-Phase 1 form which heavily resembles his Phase 2 form; it simply isn't powered up to the full Phase 2 power proper. Not a whole lot changes in Grandis' arsenal between his Phase 1 to Phase 3 forms, but once he becomes Phase 4, that's when he pulls a LetsGetDangerous and decides to showcase how much power he has hidden within any given fic he appears in. If for whatever reason Grandis decides he needs ''more'' powerful, well, let's just put it this way; [[WhamLine you're]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucked]][[WhamLine , kiddo.]]
!!! Tropes that apply to Grandis
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Well kind of from AlcoholInducedIdiocy, but his first meeting with Chronicler in person does not go well, as in, he physically beats down Chronicler without holding back without making it clear that he was just testing Chronicler's Phase forms.]]
* AchillesHeel: SensoryOverload is the most obvious once you're familiar with the major weakness of his predator eye combined with an already heightened negative reaction to LoudOfWar with his {{UsefulNotes/Autism}}.
* AlliterativeName: [[spoiler:Like the author himself, '''M'''artin '''M'''ollohan. According to himself he once believed his middle name also counted, until he learned it actually starts with a '''W'''.]]
* AlmightyJanitor: A ''very'' literal example; often times when Grandis is posing as a civilian, he's in some way or form a guy who works as a janitor or at least as a groundskeeper type of job. The {{Irony}} comes into play when you consider Grandis himself is ThePigPen type of cleanliness, and yet he has SuperOCD about everything else except himself.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: According to Grandis himself, he's an albino, yet he otherwise looks like a normal white male. He states that had this not been the case, all of his skin would be burning red and his hair would be bright orange.
* AnimalMotif: ''Dimetrodon''. See AscendedMeme below as to why, because he was originally considered a Ceratopsian up until then.
* AscendedMeme: Why his AnimalMotif is currently ''Dimetrodon'' pertains to an odd naming convention the author had while playing ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved''; the author, every time he got one, would name his ''Dimetrodon'' tames after Grandis because of their natural air conditioning abilities, which are abilities [[spoiler:that heavily tie into how the Grandis armor functions as well as give massive hints to weak spots in the armor itself]]. Not helping matters into this is the fact an actual species of ''Dimetrodon'' is literally called ''[[ShapedLikeItself D. grandis]]''.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Had to kick Ultima and Dragora's asses to get the role he's in now. [[spoiler:When the two threaten to glass the ''Sword Art Online'' multiverse just to prevent EXODUS from escaping, Grandis doesn't waste time in proceeding to kick both of their asses again [[IronicEcho to remind them who is their one true king]].]]
* AuthorAvatar: Flat out confirmed by the author without any real attempts to hide it, but the behavior Grandis is known for is more of a heavily [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] version of himself who behaves more violently, is a LargeHam who can most definitely speak for himself directly, and doesn't have any medical issues holding him down for the most part. [[spoiler:He appears to even be a much more ''[[PeoplePuppets literal]]'' version of this as implied by Chapter 18 of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''.]]
* UsefulNotes/{{Autism}}: Has the condition by virtue of having his characterization being a {{Flanderized}} take on the author himself.
* BadassBeard: Phase 2 form. Phase 3 practically ''is'' a walking beard.
* BadassBoast:
--> ''*Various mafia members all have their guns pointed at Grandis*''
--> [[ImmuneToBullets Grandis:]] [[GenreSavvy Lone man VS many guys with guns; where have I seen this before?]]
--> ''*Said mafia members proceed to do exactly as Grandis says*''
* BadassGrandpa: Is no less than 100 years old, and clearly acts like a much, much older version of his namesake.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT call talk down to him in terms of who he is and why he does what he does; he'll give you a ''very'' swift reminder as to ''why'' he's the King of the Ultimorian Deities.
* BloodFromTheMouth: As a pure-blood Ultimorian, he displays just how much more brutal an Ultimorian can endure this trope and still survive. [[spoiler:After a gut punch through his armor by Chronicler, Grandis begins vomiting up blood into his life-support system and contaminating his frost breath as Phase 4, and by the time ''Truth and Ideals'' occurs, he's alive and well despite not having fully recovered from the attack.]]
* BodyHorror: His Phase 1 form looks more or less like a shrink-wrapped human, considering his skin hugs his bones for the most part, he lacks any form of lips to cover his teeth, and the fact his human nose is non-existent in this form in exchange for two mere nostrils alone.
* BrokenAce: He does indeed have significant power as an Ultimorian Deity, but it's clear he's a depressed wreck by the time ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' happens. Then ''Truth and Ideals'' showcases he's still depressed, and seems to get along with Nanu because of how both of them end up with the condition proper.
* BrokenPedestal:
** Chronicler doesn't exactly view him as a good figure at first, considering Grandis' ParentalNeglect.
** [[spoiler:Ken originally holds Grandis in high respect even with the fact Ken had unwittingly murdered Grandis' wife while managing to save the two's child, but because Grandis never knew Chronicler survived, Grandis had an undeniable hatred for Ken because of the fact he had murdered his wife by proxy with his efforts. When Ken goes to seek out Grandis for salvation from the Naotolis, Ken is greeted not to the {{Troll}}ing Grandis that the former had shown to Nobuyuki, but rather a Grandis who legitimately has an actual reason to truly hate Ken. The encounter between the two in ''Reflection Code'' demonstrates why Ken fears Grandis in the present three months later.]]
** [[spoiler:He's built up to be a [[TheParagon paragon]] of an adult in ''Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.'', but one BerserkButton presses too many leads to him going past the RageBreakingPoint which leads to Grandis himself ''[[{{Understatement}} utterly destroying]]'' whatever pedestal he may have ever had in the eyes of the ''Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.'' verse natives.]]
* CharacterFilibuster[=/=]AuthorFilibuster: While partially {{Justified}} considering how much of his train of thought and dialogue is translated directly from the author himself, considering Grandis is an AuthorAvatar for a good reason, Grandis does the best he can to either [[{{Defied}} defy]] or [[{{Averted}} avert]] these two tropes ever since he was criticized at a young age for his HolierThanThou attitude when he was an even bigger {{Jerkass}}.
* CosmicPlaything: How he ends up in the situations he does can only truly be explained by this.
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Ferret Man]]: Keeps a bunch of ferrets in his run down shack. [[spoiler:Later adds a beagle into all of it.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of Self Inserts. He's first shown as being less than his powerful state than what he's known for, he's currently a washout who relies too much on his inherent raw power to get by, and even then he's clearly very out of practice [[spoiler:as Damion cripples him for years, and Kirito nearly kills him had he not been stopped from landing the fatal blow.]]
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Of the HumanAliens and AmbiguouslyHuman origins.
* [[spoiler:DelayedNarratorIntroduction:]] [[spoiler:Based off of certain lines from other characters, as well as one from himself, he's implied to have appeared in every fic in the continuity by virtue of being the narrator for all of them.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Grandis has no general idea what his actual goal in life is, often because he feels like he's in a NowWhat situation in that he believes he's outlived his original purpose and no longer has any grasp on what he's needed for anymore.
* DigitalAvatar: His Lyoko Avatar is a raven hooded version of himself with two raven skulls on his shoulders, a red, regal robe, and a spear from which he quickly calls "Gungnir" and wields more akin to a sword. Doubles as a MythologyGag as Grandis has been described as an {{Expy}} of Odin already, but his Lyoko avatar just makes the references come full circle.
* {{Eagleland}}: Difficult to define him as any given version of it since he inconsistently shows traits of both, but he's at the very least a fictional analog to this particular trope and ethnicity.
* ExplosiveOverclocking: [[spoiler:His Phase 6 form busted out always causes an explosion around himself which his body completely reabsorbs back into him.]]
* {{Expy}}:
** According to the author's mentor, Grandis has been consistently compared to [[UsefulNotes/NorseMythology Odin]].
** From a design standpoint, he's always had a lot of elements of [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow Eddy's Brother]].
* FantasticNuke: He knows how to use [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Light That Burns The Sky]], which normally he just uses "Polar Vortex Bombardment" as to his own version of this.
* FatBastard/LeanAndMean: Phase 2 and Phase 1 respectively.
* {{Flanderization}}: See TakeThatUs below as to what this refers to for Grandis.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 "I know everything! I feel everything!"]][[note]][[spoiler:Referring to his role as the narrator of each of the fics.]][[/note]]
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Seems to have forgotten the fact he had met Mirror M three months prior by the time Mirror M confronts him in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''. Then again to be fair the only reason Mirror M could even tell Grandis his name was because [[spoiler:Grandis is the one to have given Mirror M his own name first.]]
* GoodIsImpotent: Generally slacks off on the job to say the least.
* GoodIsNotNice: Borderlines on a Neutral character at times considering how many times he screws over just about anyone he pleases.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Even though he throws insults towards people ''a lot'' for someone such as him, he's a NobleBigot who at least ''tries'' to be a good person, but his insults towards people are {{Downplayed}} with how frequent they occur, and the fact Grandis is more InnocentlyInsensitive at best.
* HeavySleeper: Misses out on an important meeting because of the fact nobody could wake him up and ends up causing trouble because of PoorCommunicationKills taking effect once he's finally awake.
* HermitGuru: Especially during fics like ''Reflection Code'' and ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', in which he generally lives in almost complete isolation. Even in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' he still qualifies to a lesser extent.
* HeroicAlbino: Implied; according to Grandis himself, he denies the fact he's "white" according to the logic of regular humans by stating "had it not been for this defect, [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation my skin would be beat red in its entirely.]]"
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:His bedroom in Gaia Snowfield reveals he has, at minimum, had no less than 4 dates with other women before, is an avid gamer but having next to no collection of his own, a lot of storage boxes in his room which contain stashed away reserves of food and drink mixes, as well as a, surprisingly still functional, gaming PC which has a diary within the hard drive's documents detailing Grandis' life prior to ascending into an Ultimorian Deity.]]
* HurtingHero: ''Good lord''. [[spoiler:In addition of being the only Ultimorian Deity to retain ''all'' of his prior memories from before the multiverse-wide reset, he's suffering initially from having so much anger and frustration with nobody to call a companion as none of his co-workers have been reborn yet. He tries to peacefully get Ultima and Dragora Galaxia to side with him as the Ultimorian Deity Big Three instead of violently like before, but the two Ultimorian Deities refuse to listen so the confrontation goes down exactly like it did prior. Then that's not even getting started on what happens between himself and his wife to which Chronicler has no idea so far as to how badly Grandis had been hurting ever since he was captured within this world for so long.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: His NobleBigot insults ''at best'' are considered this.
* InsaneTrollLogic: His occupation as a janitor much of the time leads to many questioning him as to why he's ThePigPen and yet he has SuperOCD for everything else in comparison.
* {{Irony}}:
** His debut in a nutshell is one from a meta-perspective.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The author has an immense hatred for Sugou Nobuyuki, and has made his hatred of him rather clear and to the point, such as [[https://chronicle-king.deviantart.com/art/FINISH-HIM-480627296 an outdated pic]] of Grandis giving his Nobuyuki's Oberon avatar the "[[Film/Godzilla2014 kiss of death]]" and [[https://chronicle-king.deviantart.com/art/Death-of-the-Fairy-King-605199888 a more recent pic]] of [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination version of Grandis killing Oberon (and his whole verse)]]. Naturally you would think Grandis would go in for the kill upon first setting sights on Nobuyuki in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', but instead, he doesn't and simply tolerates the {{Jerkass}} as he proceeds to scare the living shit out of him in the remainder of the chapter.[[/labelnote]]
** Hates the fact he's the King of the Ultimorian Deities, [[spoiler:kicks the asses of Ultima and Dragora a second time to get them both to do as he says anyways as a reminder of him being the fucking King.]]
** He takes the job of a janitor a lot and is SuperOCD, and yet can't even be bothered to avert ThePigPen for himself.
** His AbusiveParents status to Chronicler is noteworthy when you consider [[spoiler:Henry views Grandis as the "only father who truly understood him", although then again Grandis tells Henry to not push the comparison too much even if Henry views Grandis as a ParentalSubstitute.]]
* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: ''Oira'', which isn't used too often considering how many times Japanese isn't truly spoken in actual text, but Renamon does refer to Grandis with this pronoun due to being more noticeably speaking Japanese.
* KavorkaMan: He doesn't exactly try to be this outright, but there's apparently evidence in [[spoiler:his original, abandoned home in Gaia Snowfield]], that he had tallied up to no less than 4 dates prior to his upbringing as his Ultimorian Deity heritage. If this is indeed true, the tally adds up to 5 when you consider his wife he once had in his backstory in both ''Reflection Code'' and ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''.
* KnightTemplar: Sometimes his antics make him look to be more villainous than his actual role is meant to be.
* [[spoiler:LemonyNarrator:]] [[spoiler:The entirety of the narration are his internal monologues, and whenever anybody showcases a sense of MediumAwareness and are in a scene which actually discomforts Grandis, it most definitely shows.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Only really tends to showcase his true Ultimorian Deity heritage in serious situations.
* LimitBreak: "Dethrone and Destroy", a maneuver which requires Grandis [[spoiler:to bluff his injury during his fight with Chronicler]] to allow him to have enough time to trigger it. Afterwards, Grandis' agility, speed, and stamina all immensely skyrocket in activity; keep in mind, that these three areas are where he's at his weakest under his normal conditions, and in practice, [[spoiler:transform him into quite a hellish SNKBoss as we quickly see him demonstrate against Chronicler.]]
* {{Magitek}}: How his armor functions [[spoiler:as Voldemort learns the hard way.]]
* MeaningfulName: Not deliberately anyways; his name Grandis comes from his current AnimalMotif of ''Dimetrodon'', which is considered an AscendedMeme for Grandis as his original animal motif was a Ceratopsian.
* MightyWhitey: Defied; he doesn't even qualify for the WhiteMaleLead, yet alone this trope because considering every environment he goes to is always going to be alien for him no matter what, he's essentially disqualified himself from ever being this trope by proxy of never getting a chance to see how he was in his original environment.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Most of the time. Not long after his debut, he's put OutOfFocus for a while, but he still shows up when necessary. [[spoiler:Or in some situations just barges into a story for no other reason other than because he can.]]
* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:Just about anything regarding Grandis is difficult to determine, especially his actual personality in contrast to the author considering the subtle hints that implies Grandis and the author are not exactly the same as one might think, and that the differences in characterization shown through Grandis are meant to be Grandis showing his true self as much as possible, but ultimately getting subdued by the author's greater authority. Add on to the fact Grandis is allegedly omniscient, he might actually speak the truth when he claims he knows everything because his TimeAbyss nature may have allowed him to have SeenItAll.]]
* NobleBigot: He has ''a lot'' of times where he flat out throws insults left and right, but he's at least ''trying'' to be a good person despite that.
* NonindicativeName: His nickname of being a "''Dimetrodon''" doesn't make too much sense unless you either A: know what his normal name Grandis can alternatively refer to, or B: squint ''just'' hard enough with his Phase 4 form as to not this form is basically a HumongousMecha modeled after a ''Dimetrodon''.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: During the chapter of his formal introduction in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'', he's sleeping in the middle of the floor, curled up in a fashion similar to a bear would when sleeping.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When he sees Ruki using Taomon's [=DigiCore=] and using the [[ThePowerOfFriendship Soul Link]] successfully, and is subsequently blown across the room by an insulted Ruki, Grandis becomes ''floored'' that the Soul Link is actually that powerful. Eventually he later learns [[AchillesHeel that it's generally strong against Ultimorians like himself]].]]
* OnceAnEpisode: His appearances in the continuity are much more prevalent than Chronicler's because of the fact in some of the fics, Chronicler doesn't even exist yet due to not being born yet, such as is the case in ''Digimon Re: Tamers''. Grandis tends to appear consistently because he's alive and active for every part of the entire continuity.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is often referred to as "Big G" in certain scenarios, especially ''Digimon Re: Tamers''. However, Henry and Ruki both know of him as [[spoiler:Martin]] and Grandis respectively, meaning the two know him more personally, especially in the former's case.
* OnlySaneMan: What he ''thinks'' he is in ''[[CastFullOfCrazy Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.]]''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** [[spoiler:His internal monologue isn't exactly normal during the prologue of ''Reflection Code'', all things considered. He starts off as if trying to delay the inevitable with Mirror M's introduction, if merely because he's already had a fear of the "God Slayer" as it is, but the fact he's having to tell the story from his perspective is making him all the more uncomfortable knowing how hostile of an AntiHero Mirror M can tend to be at times.]]
** [[spoiler:Just how powerful Enigma is and its control over Ruki's old digivice pretty much ''requires'' him to invoke the presences of Dogma, Zenith, and Ultima just to forge Ruki a new digivice and free Taomon from the control of the old one. Grandis would ''never'' ask for such outside help had it not been for just how powerful Enigma truly is, which means Grandis is all but stating ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror he actually feels threatened by Enigma's presence.]]'']]
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:Towards Henry in ''Digimon Re: Tamers''. As Grandis and Henry are both struggling to keep an income able to keep them both afloat in the real world, the two have gotten to know each other more to where they both practically rely on each other, and ultimately a pseudo father-son dynamic forms between the two.]]
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Often provokes his enemies into doing something reckless against him just to get what he needs from a situation, usually without having to do anything other than speak. In fact, he does this to Nobuyuki almost the whole chapter of his debut.
* ThePigPen:
** The mere instant we see his "house" we clearly see he doesn't clean very well, if even at all. Also partially the reason everyone calls him things such as a hillbilly, homeless man, or hobo because of his lack of proper hygiene.
** Pointed out more in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' by virtue of his house above not existing yet, as he exists here as the janitor prior to when he serves as such in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and Impmon notices Grandis' appearance is very, very unclean in appearance.
* PsychopathicManchild: Most definitely; he's insanely childish when it comes to his job as the King of the Ultimorian Deities.
* PuppetKing:
** [[spoiler:His role as the King of the Ultimorian Deities amounts to this because Ultima is technically the leader already, they just don't want the title in case somebody is looking for the leader of the Ultimorian Deities who can actually succeed in giving Ultima hell; Grandis can take punishment from just about anyone, so putting him as the role of the King makes it easier for adversaries of the Ultimorian Deities to be dealt with without Ultima having to do the hard work. Grandis apparently is semi-aware of this... [[ExploitedTrope but he knows he can equally boss around Ultima regardless]] [[LoopholeAbuse considering as Ultima themselves put it,]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard "follow every command, request, and desire]] [[DidntThinkThisThrough of Grandis as the King of the Ultimorian Deities."]]]]
** [[spoiler:As detailed under MysteriousPast, it's subtly implied that the Grandis we know isn't who he actually truly is; he seems to show signs of being a separate entity from his AuthorAvatar incarnation, and his more noteworthy differences between himself and the author are perhaps his actual self trying to force themselves to the surface, but ultimately being subdued mentally by the author's control.]]
* RageBreakingPoint:
** [[spoiler:He deems virtually everyone so immensely idiotic in the ''Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.'' universe that he goes berserk under the assumption that he's SurroundedByIdiots.]]
** [[spoiler:The Soul Link's usage against him by Ruki has him attempt to activate his "[[LimitBreak Dethrone and Destroy]]" maneuver against her immediately, only for Ruki to NoSell it because of the Soul Link's Anti-Ultimorian properties.]]
* RefugeInAudacity:
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext "My, what gorgeous]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/413739110432243715/417089404075507712/elIN430.png tits]] [[UnfortunateName you have!"]]
** "[[InnocentlyInsensitive But that's not even the real reason why you guys are here at this hour, isn't it? You're after the]] [[IResembleThatRemark sleazy pervert]] [[DirtyOldMan trying to bed]] [[StacysMom Ruki's MILF.]]"
* SensoryOverload: Both his own version of {{UsefulNotes/Autism}} and the Predator Eyes make him ''incredibly'' sensitive to noise to where it effectively functions as a secondary AchillesHeel to him.
* ShoutOut:
** To numerous different things, most especially Kiryu from ''[=Godzilla against Mechagodzilla=]''.
** His "I know everything! I feel everything!" line is based off of some dialogue from the Demoman from ''Team Fortress 2''.
* TheSlacker: Outside of his {{Lets Get Dangerous}} side.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Invoked to be this when compared to the other Ultimorian Deities; considering Grandis functions entirely differently from the other 12, Grandis can have much, much greater wiggle room when it comes to major roles than the others ever possibly could, and thus it's more justified as to why Grandis has more appearances than his fellow deities.
* SuperOCD: Why he takes the job of janitor a lot whichever universe he winds up in next.
* TakeThatUs: He's taking virtually every negative flaw of the author and exaggerating them/bringing them to the forefront.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: {{Defied}}, {{Downplayed}}, and {{Justified}}; [[spoiler:Kazu and Kenta are both capable of doing what Grandis is needed for in the first arc of ''Digimon Re: Tamers''; hacking into a digivice or [=DigiCore=] bound to a specific Digimon or its tamer, and locking out anyone who has unauthorized access to either. However, as Kazu and Kenta are out of town, this leaves Grandis as the only other one with the knowledge of how to jury rig a digivice or [=DigiCore=] as to prevent a thief from trying to control someone else's Digimon.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Grandis Prime isn't a separate entity at all; he's the exact same Grandis you see here.]]
* TokenWhite: Technically what he is in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', but most noticeably in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' as well. Technically subverted with the former, though, because of taking place in the same universe and time frame as ''Reflection Code'', in which he's not the only one present in the latter. It's more obvious in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' because he's an AscendedExtra in that particular fic, whereas the other two mentioned he's a MinorMajorCharacter instead.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A gradual shift that takes a year before he shows it, but one year after ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' ends, he begins to show signs of {{Super Dickery}}.
* TrashOfTheTitans: His "house" from ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code'' amounts to this; just a partially retrofitted old storage building, that isn't very big nor very clean. The ferret related objects are oddly the most clean about his place though.
* {{Troll}}: He's clearly having a blast tormenting Nobuyuki in his debut.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Definitely shows shades of his sympathetic qualities at times; his generally poor living arrangements, his seeming desire as a DeathSeeker who knows he can't have what he ultimately desires just yet, and even his desire to be on good terms with Chronicler.
* WellDoneDadGuy: Desperately wants to be on good terms with Chronicler after having been absent from most of his life.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: When he ends up coming across more as a villainous character he does show some spades of this.
* WhamEpisode:
** [[spoiler:Him busting out Shining Grandis out of the blue to kill of Nobuyuki's remnants once he realizes just how much of the blame on Mirror M's current existence is truly to blame on him after all.]]
** [[spoiler:His entire sub-arcs in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' both qualify, as Grandis in both is a ''huge'' OutsideContextHero[=/=]OutsideContextProblem that none of the cast have any remote clue as to how to properly deal with him just yet other than leave him be and hope for the best.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Sorry Vilemon, but unfortunately for you I have a date with my girlfriend to attend to." When we later see this girlfriend, we learn that this fic takes place ''long'' before ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and Chronicler hasn't even been conceived yet and Grandis' wife is still alive, although they're not married yet.]]
* WhamShot: While Chapter 1 is rather vague about it, [[spoiler:''Digimon Re: Tamers'' not only has him appear, but he has much, much lengthier hair than normal and is in a rather uncharacteristically good mood much of the time.]]
* WhiteMaleLead: Considering he's an American analog ethnicity, kind of a given, but he barely qualifies since his mixed race heritage son is the actual lead of the story whereas Grandis is much more at home being a MinorMajorCharacter instead, leading to the trope being {{Defied}}.
