History Characters / ImperiumNova

* ScarsAreForever: Has a vertical scar over his breastbone from when he was initiated into the Void Engineers. Also has [[SkunkStripe white hair on the sides of his head]] from the trauma it inflicted.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: See Iowerth Quest.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Had a series of adventures in Dreamscape with his future wife and brother-in-law, as schoolchildren.

* HistoricalVillainUpdgrade: After his fall, the new emperor Dominic Constantine made sure to destroy his reputation, removing him from the list of legitimate emperors and giving him the nickname "the Disgraced Tyrant".

* TheRemnant: In the centuries preceding the New Empire, Alderamin was a major regional power. Now, most Alderamini are among the most conservative people in the galaxy. The New Empire often faces a [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating zero-percent approval rating]].

* ShoutOut: The entire House is one to VideoGame/{{Touhou}}.

* PoweredArmor: One battalion in each Quest Regiment is composed of Air Cavalry. Basically hundreds of [[IronMan Iron Men]].

* KiAttacks

* SugarWiki/TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife: [[invoked]] House Suzumiya’s player certainly thinks so.

* EvilAlbino or HeroicAlbino: Depends; mostly heroic. They tend to have white hair and fur for their ears and tails, blood red eyes, and pale skin.

* EvilAlbino They ARE vampires.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Fluorescent irises; aging that keeps a Lunarian at around their 30-40's until around age 70, after which they rapidly age to "make up the difference", and the [[PettingZooPeople obvious]].

* PettingZooPeople: Rabbit ears and tails. They also happen to be the royal family of an entire race of similar people called the Lunarians.

'''Consort Rosetta Delandi'''

* GloriousLeader: self-proclaimed "Savior of Baade"
* LargeHam: Has a tendency to do big and ponctuated speeches, which can be found [[https://imperiumnova.info/wiki/baade:archive:emperor_ehno_delandi_s_speeches here]].

* NewEraSpeech: His self-coronation speech, a non villainous example, as it marked the end of the Second Interregnum.

* ShoutOut: He's Richard {{Sharpe}} in SPAAAAAAACE, even to the extent of looking like him.

* TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife: House Suzumiya’s player certainly thinks so.

* [[BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma]]
** CombatPragmatist
** ShockAndAwe
** KiAttacks
** KnifeNut: Glass dagger, more exactly, in addition to her organometallic sword and pistol.

* BadassGrandma
** BadassNormal
** CombatPragmatist

* Expy: Owes a bit to [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Professor Charles Xavier]]

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Of TheSovietUnion (with a dash of North Korea)

* ShoutOut: To a certain [[TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya teenage deity]], among many others…

* RulingCouple: Minister Adonijah and Charlotte act as this, since Charlotte is in charge of the (extremely important to the House) Technology sphere.

Being a game in which the plot is entirely based on RP interactions, ImperiumNova tends to have quite the colourful cast.

* TheFaceless: Her upper face, with curtains, veils, and fans, to be exact. How this would work in a non-visual medium like that of ImperiumNova, the author of House Houraisan has no idea.

[[folder: House Qwib-Qwib]]

* EstrogenBrigadeBait

* AuthorAppeal (Everywhere.)
* BadassInANiceSuit (Both the men and women of the House. House Houraisan's secondary motto? "There's never an excuse to not dress one's best".)
* BizarreAlienBiology (Fluorescent irises; aging that keeps a Lunarian at around their 30-40's until around age 70, after which they rapidly age to "make up the difference", and the [[PettingZooPeople obvious]].)
* EvilAlbino or HeroicAlbino (Depends; mostly heroic. They tend to have white hair and fur for their ears and tails, blood red eyes, and pale skin.)
* TheFaceless (At least, the women of the House with respect to their upper faces.)
* FantasyCounterpartCulture (Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Manchurian/Mongolian/Uighur/Vietnamese People IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!)

* GlowingEyesOfDoom (Their specie's natural threat response, and both a voluntary and involuntary action.)
** RedEyesTakeWarning (House Houraisan have red eyes, to be precise.)
* HalfHumanHybrid (Of which only females exhibit Lunarian phenotypes.)
* HumanAliens (Ignoring the ears and tails. Probably descended from a common ancestor anyways.)
* ISeeDeadPeople (And also that water fairy over there, as well as my own God of Space Flight. Really, Lunarians are giant cosmic antennas for all sorts of supernatural things.)
* KungFuWizard (The Void Mages and Lunarian Animist Priests.)
* PettingZooPeople (Rabbit ears and tails. They also happen to be the royal family of an entire race of similar people called the Lunarians.)
* PsychicPowers (Usually because of at least basic training in Void Magecraft.)

* ShoutOut (The entire House is one to VideoGame/{{Touhou}})
* ThePowerOfTheVoid (It cost them a civilization.)

* BrilliantButLazy (She's absolutely dedicated to her House and all, but the problem is that she has /zero/ motivation for the dirty/boring paperwork associated with running a House.)
* CheshireCatGrin (More of a subtle smile, but still a bit unsettling.)
* TheFaceless (Her upper face, with curtains, veils, and fans, to be exact. How this would work in a non-visual medium like that of ImperiumNova, the author of House Houraisan has no idea.)
* GameplayAndStorySegregation (Mechanistically, she's a solartologist. This is explained as her mostly paying lip service to the religion.)
* TheHighQueen (Exudes raw charisma.)
* HappilyMarried (To Grimbold Godwinson.)
* HotScientist (Will run the House's psionics research.)

** TheTrickster (Likes to mess with people's head - to detrimental or beneficial effect.)

** GagBoobs (36DD!)
** HartmanHips (CHILDREARING HIPS!)

** MasterOfIllusion (Especially of the MindScrew variety.)

* SquishyWizard (She might be able to mess your head up really badly, but she's not much in an actual fight.)
* {{Stripperific}} (Tends to show her assets off with low-cut dresses and kimonos that stay up by virtue of miracle or tape.)

* AltarTheSpeed and ShotgunWedding (She and her husband Tatsuaki had to get married a bit faster than usual for certain reasons.)
** ButWeUsedACondom (Too bad he put it on wrong.)

** KnifeNut (Glass dagger, more exactly, in addition to her organometallic sword and pistol.)
* CheshireCatGrin (Always wears this.)
* TheFaceless (Also always wears an opaque black visor or eye veil.)
* HappilyMarried (To Tatsuaki Houraisan.)

* TheSpymaster (Runs House Houraisan's intelligence operations.)

* BrilliantButLazy (Easily the most intelligent person in her House; let's see her actually do anything.)
** {{Greed}} (Want to motivate her to do something? Offer her money.)
* TheFaceless (A full face veil.)
* HappilyMarried (To Mitsusuke Houraisan.)
** PairTheSmartOnes (Her husband and her.)
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] (Sees herself as this.)

* ButWeUsedACondom (Too bad he put it on wrong.)

* LargeHam (Tends to be one.)
* TallDarkAndHandsome (Was this when he first met Chika, and still is this.)
* LadykillerInLove and ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou (The only woman in his life that he had to work to get in bed with - and exactly the reason why he fell in love with her.)
** ChivalrousPervert (He still has an eye for the ladies.)
** {{Irony}} (In the end, it might have been Chika that seduced him, rather than the other way around.)

** PairTheSmartOnes (With Mayako.)
* MadMathematician (Not really mad, but he's had mathematics articles that he wrote published.)

* BookDumb (She's intelligent, but just not in an academic sense.)
* TheFaceless (Veils, curtains, fans or visors, as usual.)
* HappilyMarried (With Iowerth Quest)
** FirstKiss (She still hasn't fully forgiven Iowerth for taking it, rather than her giving it to him.)
* TheOjou (Much more than Misako.)
* ShesGotLegs (Just ask Iowerth Quest.)

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld (See Iowerth Quest)

* HappilyMarried (To Constancia Invernigon... the writer for House Houraisan thinks.)
* ILikeSwords (Big time.)
* [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Saeko]] (... I will skin you alive, Iowerth.)
* SeriousBusiness (Obsessed with certain things, like a certain expy of a certain [[Yugioh Children's Card Game]], and bizarre little projects, but otherwise kind of apathetic.}
* StoicSpectacles / BespectacledBastard (Depends on your point of view.)
* TheRival (To Iowerth Quest.)

* HappilyMarried (With Maggidh Crow.)

** PerfectlyArrangedMarriage (Eventually reveals itself as this.)

* WaifFu (Every female Mckenna is pretty short and rather delicate, therefore being easy to underestimate. Some of them though are downright dangerous, especially when allowed near anything sharp)
* WeCanRebuildHim (The reason for actually being able to pull off Waif Fu when it matters. Dagmar Mckenna is one of these, having undergone a full body replacement)
* GloriousMotherRussia (The Mckennas are Galactic Communists and never lose an opportunity to decry the bourgeois exploitation of the Emperor)
* PoweredArmour (Hey, it's the future)

* BrilliantButLazy (She'll spend an hour a day making decisions, no more)
* NeverMessWithGranny (She's getting on in years, but maintains a vindictive streak a mile long.)

* LadyOfWar ("Chief issuer of threats and promises")

* VillainWithGoodPublicity (Chief of the would be dictatorial Red Union, propaganda and misdirection is in her blood.

* AllThereInTheManual (Much of the backstory can only be found in supplementary materials... like this page.)
* AwfulTruth (Most are.)
* BeAllMySinsRemembered (Virtually every Savoie up to Clement was morally ambiguous at best, and a monster at worst. Every reform-minded Savoie starts with quite the chip on their shoulder because of this.)
* BigBrotherIsWatching (Interplanetary computer network that might possibly be sentient? Hm...)
* CivilWar (YES.)
* DarkIsNotEvil in Cosmic Balance, and LightIsNotGood. (Or so it is believed.)
* TheExtremistWasRight (Valerian Savoie appeared - literally - out of nowhere in the Nokh Revolts and used brutal and morally questionable tactics to defeat a far more monstrous foe, and then leveraged his achievements to force governmental reform upon the devastated Empire, along with recognition as a noble and head of the newly-created House Savoie. Vices aside, he built his institutions to last.)
* FastRoping (The elimination of Jago Ragnarok.)
* FlauntingYourFleets (House Savoie used the size and pedigree of the Alderamini navy as a deterrent against other Houses. Now, if only they had the crews to operate them all at once...)
* ForgottenSuperweapon (How about an entire golden-age fleet?)
* [[EmpireWithADarkSecret House With A Dark Secret]] (Or ten.)
* GreatOffscreenWar (The civil war between Philippe and Joseph was overshadowed by the Valerian conflict.)

*** '''The War of Sheliak Independence''' (Between House Savoie and the combined forces of House Inviquantus and the Wazn Houses.)
*** '''The Rexist Revival''' (A religious crusade preceded by decades of buildup.)
*** '''The Solidor-Neco War''' (A war that split the Alderamini electorate into two factions.)
*** '''The Nokh Revolt''' (The sudden and violent uprising of the native Alani and the "native" C'alani.)
* AHouseDivided (Hoo boy.)
* InTheOriginalKlingon (Alderamin views itself as the last bastion of Golden Age culture. This is ''barely'' true, but defensible.)
* OurFounder (Valerian Savoie.)
* TheRemnant (In the centuries preceding the New Empire, Alderamin was a major regional power. Now, most Alderamini are among the most conservative people in the galaxy. The New Empire often faces a [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating zero-percent approval rating]].)
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules (The House was severely hampered by restrictions placed upon it by the treaty that allowed it to operate both on Alderamin and in the "New Empire". That treaty was largely self-imposed. However, Daniel would turn the situation on its head by forcing a new, largely favorable agreement in exchange for not stealing the local throne entirely.)
* SuspiciouslySmallArmy (House Savoie kept most of its troops on Alderamin. Because of this, their military became something of a paper tiger when dealing with offworld threats.)

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade (By the time Joseph assassinated the electorate, Clement had gone from being seen as a traitor to Alderamin to being the planet's greatest gift the humankind.)
* InHarmsWay (Yes, let's piss off every powerful noble on Alderamin, in addition to the other nobles around the galaxy that already hate my House based on ancient history! Splendid idea!)
* TheLastDJ (The real deal.)

* WhiteSheep (Ascended to the throne by exposing his older brother's hypocrisy.)

* AmbitionIsEvil (Well...)

* SmugSnake (Often left this impression.)

* SuckSessor (Surely, the people who assassinated his father couldn't have imagined the enormity of what they had done.)

* TheChainsOfCommanding (One guess as to which job Joseph absolutely ''does not'' want to have right now.)
* CharacterDevelopment (The Joseph of today is nothing like the Joseph of 25 years ago.)
* CuttingTheKnot (How do you deal with that pesky electorate? You KILL them.)
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit (Joseph pulls a form of this on the electorate. Since the members of the electorate also had the most to gain from assassinating Clement, they might have even had it coming.)
* DeceptiveDisciple (His interest in his faith has always been slim at best. The Head of Faith, his insane uncle, may be partly to blame.)
* TheDutifulSon (He wasn't exactly crazy about taking over for 'ol pops.)
* EasilyForgiven (Subverted. He hasn't actually been forgiven for his abandonment by anyone; most others are either preoccupied or too pragmatic to force the issue. The exceptions are in no position to do anything, though.)
* TheExile (Self-imposed, and it didn't last. He wishes it did.)
* FailureKnight (He abandoned his House and his home after making a mockery of himself. He hasn't forgotten.)
* HeWhoFightsMonsters (A more cynical observer would say YouAreWhatYouHate.)
* HeadInTheSandManagement (He was a major supporter of House Valeria in the early stages of the war.)
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves (His latest epiphany as to the fate of the Empire.)
* TheLastDJ (Saw himself as this at first. Now, not so much.)
* MoreThanMindControl (It's clear that he's under the absolute will of ''something'', but he isn't brainwashed.)
* ThePawn (As of his triumphal return. To who or what, only he knows.)
* RebelLeader (For a short time, although it's unclear how 'rebellious' this faction actually was.)

* ShameIfSomethingHappened (What he used to keep the electorate quiet long enough to properly frame and dispose of them.)
* SmugSnake (He had his moments, which almost always backfire spectacularly.)
* SympatheticMurderer (Er...)
* TelepathicSpacemen (Of a sort.)
* TyrantTakesTheHelm (He stole the Alderamini throne by setting up the entire electorate, and then using their families as bargaining chips before coldly disposing of them. The electorate, that is, not the families. Many other key figures seem to be brainwashed.)
** BaitAndSwitchTyrant (But it turns out that he's the puppet, and a particularly [[TheFettered unhappy one]].)
* TheUsualAdversaries (Joseph was tired of the centuries-old antagonism between Alderamin and Mirfak, and made it a priority to end it. If only the desire had been mutual.)
* WhileRomeBurns (He abandoned his House after making a very public, very reputation-ruining, mistake. House Savoie was lucky enough to see the return of Philippe soon afterwards, but it's not something that anyone will be forgetting soon. His brothers especially have it in for him.)
* WhiteSheep (He tried.)

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs (The civil war against Joseph ended poorly and suddenly.)
* PutOnABus (When House Nagendra collapsed, Philippe panicked and ran to House Valeria, hoping to join another power bloc before the Dominion set their sights on Alderamin. He was held captive for more than a galactic year before he escaped.)

* AwfulTruth (He didn't take it very well.)
* GrandTheftPrototype (David managed to steal some of the advanced technology being developed on Agena.)

* OnlySaneMan (Perhaps one of the benefits of being the youngest.)
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight (What he's aiming for.)
* SpaceCadet (Before dropping out of military school.)
* WhiteSheep (Doing better than Joseph is.)

* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster (Yeah, once or twice.)
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy (Might be the case.)
* MindControlConspiracy (It all seems to point ''towards'' him, but never ''to'' him.)
* PassedOverInheritance (Due to the circumstances of his birth, he only got the raw end of the deal.)
* [[spoiler:PelagianVillain (This could be the case.)]]
* ReassignmentBackfire (It probably wasn't the wisest choice.)
* ReassignedToAntarctica (His post on Agena was ''meant'' to be something like this.)
* TheOnlyOne (As the eldest male heir, his choices are more limited than it may seem.)
* WeAreEverywhere (The recipient, not the claimant.)

* FieldPromotion (When Joseph, Philippe, and David were all absent and/or missing, she took the reigns and tried to calm the chaos.)
* PutOnABus (Currently serving with House Yweraar.)

* GirlFriday (Doing the odd jobs since 5 AR)

* [[spoiler:HiddenAgendaVillain (What does he want? Nobody knows.)]]

* TheManBehindTheCurtain (Signs point to yes.)

* [[spoiler:TheSlowPath (A variation without time travel.)]]

* CodeName (Both of them.)
* DeepCoverAgent (Within financial operations, commissioned by House Inviquantus.)
* GoingNative (Orders stopped coming in, he decided to reveal himself to the current head of House Savoie - who had previously worked for his former masters.)

* HazyFeelTurn (His identity never really changed, only his employer.)
* MoleInCharge (Became a very high-level employee before he defected.)

Being a game in which the plot is entirely based on RP interactions, ImperiumNova tends to have quite the colourful cast. NeedsMoreLove.

* HotDad

* HotDad

* HotDad

* HotMom (She's not married, but never mind. Silja's attractive and uses it for her own ends.

* HotMom (Two daughters have not hurt her figure in any way.)

* HotMom

* HappilyMarried: to [[HotMom Heulfryn]] [[MsFanservice Boudicca]], widely regarded as the galaxy's number one sex symbol, although a certain Lunarian Queen might have something to say about that...

* ShoutOut: The house name is a reference to MassEffect.