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It's the [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture year 2089]] and Dr. Janet Dreyfus, Dr. Henry Lanselius, and Joakim LeQuin are [[ThreeAmigos best of friends]]. Janet is an up-and-coming young geneticist at [[MegaCorp Tempus Corp]]; Henry her [[AffablyEvil amicable]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing superior]]; and Joakim a [[ArtificialHuman Model]] whom Henry nurtured to have a [[BecomeARealBoy personality and consciousness of his own]]. For a while, everything seems perfectly fine among the friends... but Henry's controlling tendencies begin to disturb the other two, and Janet and Joakim, for their part, [[StarCrossedLovers find themselves falling in love.]] Eventually Joakim and Janet break away from Henry and [[HopeSpot get married]], but their happiness is cut short when Henry reappears and tells them that something [[TheConspiracy "grand and terrible"]] is going on and only they can stop it. Joakim instead drives Henry away and he and Janet continue to live in peace, but he begins to suspect Janet of [[MistakenForCheating cheating on him]] with Henry, and one day after a heated argument, Janet disappears and reemerges in the morgue--killed in a car accident.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: [[TheHero Joakim]], [[TheLancer Henry]], and [[TheHeart Janet]] start off as straight-up ThreeAmigos, but eventually acquire all of the baggage of a TwoGuysAndAGirl setup. Although Henry and Joakim don't clash over their feelings for Janet so much as their feelings for each other.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: [[TheHero Joakim]], [[TheLancer Henry]], and [[TheChick Janet]] start off as straight-up ThreeAmigos, but eventually acquire all of the baggage of a TwoGuysAndAGirl setup. Although Henry and Joakim don't clash over their feelings for Janet so much as their feelings for each other.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: In the first arc, Joakim lands in a field of quetzalcoatluses. Since he knows nothing about dinosaurs, he assumes they're pterodactyls.

It's the [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture year 2089]] and Dr. Janet Dreyfus, Dr. Henry Lanselius, and Joakim LeQuin are [[ThreeAmigos best of friends]]. Janet is an up-and-coming young geneticist at [[MegaCorp Tempus Corp]]; Henry her [[AffablyEvil amicable]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing superior]]; and Joakim a [[ArtificialHuman Model]] whom Henry nurtured to have a [[PinocchioSyndrome personality and consciousness of his own]]. For a while, everything seems perfectly fine among the friends... but Henry's controlling tendencies begin to disturb the other two, and Janet and Joakim, for their part, [[StarCrossedLovers find themselves falling in love.]] Eventually Joakim and Janet break away from Henry and [[HopeSpot get married]], but their happiness is cut short when Henry reappears and tells them that something [[TheConspiracy "grand and terrible"]] is going on and only they can stop it. Joakim instead drives Henry away and he and Janet continue to live in peace, but he begins to suspect Janet of [[MistakenForCheating cheating on him]] with Henry, and one day after a heated argument, Janet disappears and reemerges in the morgue--killed in a car accident.

* AmplifierArtifact: One of the [[GreenLanternRing many, many uses]] of the Lawful Scepter. It amplifies Razhum's and Hina's powers. [[spoiler: And Joakim's.]]

* BlondBrunetteRedhead: Henry, Joakim, and Janet respectively.

* CityNoir: Vigilante's city combines this with WretchedHive.
* CliffHanger: The ending of the Prelude.

* EntropyAndChaosMagic: The villains use this.

* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: Joakim's home world is like this.

* GreenLanternRing: On the most basic level the Lawful Scepter acts like this.

* MacGuffin: The Lawful Scepter is this...for about an arc, at least.
* MindScrew: But hopefully it'll be less mindscrewy than ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''.
* TheMultiverse

* OrderVersusChaos: The overarching conflict, pretty much.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The zombies in Vigilante's city. They're especially vulnerable to fire, and they are sentient, cunning, and well-organized.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler: The villains]] can be seen as this. As can [[spoiler: Jocasta]].
* PlotParallel: The story is full of them.

* [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Scepter Of Plot Advancement]]: The Lawful Scepter.

* StarCrossedLovers: Joakim and Janet.

* WalkingTheEarth: The words, more like.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Ebley and Razhum, and how.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: In the first arc, Joakim lands in a field of quetzalcoatluses. Since he knows nothing about dinosaurs, he assumes they're [[StockDinosaurs pterodactyls.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: And how. The ''Blue Sky'' crew just keeps swelling.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Ebley and Razhum, and how.
* YaoiGuys: Ebley and Razhum ''might'' be this, and Adam and Japheth definitely are (with Mal as a third vertex on a love triangle).

** GeometricMagic and InstantRunes in the cistern world. Can be used to manifest [[ElementalMagic elemental powers]] and [[SummonMagic summon spirits]].

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: [[TheHero Joakim]], [[TheLancer Henry]], and [[TheChick Janet]] start off as straight-up ThreeAmigos, but eventually acquire all of the baggage of a TwoGuysAndAGirl setup. Although Henry and Joakim don't clash over their feelings for Janet so much as their feelings for [[BiTheWay each other]].

Always a genius engineer, he spends the next ten years building a TimeMachine, in the hopes of going [[TimeTravel back in time]] and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong preventing Janet's death]]. Finally, he succeeds, but he soon discovers that his machine doesn't just [[TimeyWimeyBall travel through time]] [[YouFailPhysicsForever but through]] [[TheMultiverse dimensions]] as well. So begins a grand world-hopping adventure, in which Joakim [[TrueCompanions gains friends and allies]]; learns shocking truths about himself, Janet, Henry and the multiverse; and [[ReluctantHero against his will]] finds himself drawn into a universe-spanning battle between [[OrderVersusChaos the forces of chaos and order.]]

* BigDamnKiss: Joakim and Janet's first kiss. [[spoiler: And later, their kiss at the Aestus midsummer ball.]]

* [[spoiler: EntropyAndChaosMagic: The villains use this.]]

* MindScrew: But hopefully it'll be less mindscrewy than TsubasaReservoirChronicle.

So that's '''Broken Memory''' in a nutshell. It's an ongoing WebFictionSerial by [[{{Tropers/Bickazer}} Bickazer]], and it can be found here [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2802535/1/Broken_Memory here]]. ''Prelude to Broken Memory,'' a {{Prequel}} that covers Joakim's backstory, can be found here [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2790427/1/Prelude_to_Broken_Memory here]]. Very loosely inspired by Ludo's RockOpera ''Broken Bride'', and believe it or not, was originally meant to be a Kingdom-Hearts-based MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. Yeah...needless to say, that is no longer the case.

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* {{Expy}}: A few, given its origins. Joakim and Janet are obviously modeled off the (nameless) protagonist and his wife in ''Broken Bride.'' And Razhum and Ebley, believe it or not, are very, ''very'' loosely based off [[KingdomHearts Zexion and Demyx.]]

* YaoiGuys: Ebley and Razhum ''might'' be this, and Adam and Japheth definitely are (with Mal as a third vertex on a love triangle).

* CoolAirship: The ''Blue Sky'' is an airship that looks like a flying galleon. For bonus cool points, it's made of [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome magically reinforced paper.]]

* AuthorAppeal: Tons, naturally. I have an apparent fondness for [[PaleSkinnedBrunette Pale Skinned Brunettes]], and there's HoYay up to the wazoo and plenty of [[BodyguardCrush Bodyguard Crushes]] to go around. And of course the ridiculously epic plot, what can I say.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Joakim and Razhum often have dreams like this. [[spoiler: Joakim learns it's because Janet and Henry are deliberately feeding him the dreams to guide him back to them...OrIsIt?]]

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Shows up surprisingly often. Ned/Mika is a pretty [[IncrediblyLamePun straight]] example, but we also have [[BiTheWay Henry/Joakim]] and [[spoiler: Ivar/Traveler.]]

So that's '''Broken Memory''' in a nutshell. It's an ongoing serial story by [[{{Tropers/Bickazer}} Bickazer]], and it can be found here [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2802535/1/Broken_Memory here]]. ''Prelude to Broken Memory,'' a {{Prequel}} that covers Joakim's backstory, can be found here [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2790427/1/Prelude_to_Broken_Memory here]]. Very loosely inspired by Ludo's RockOpera ''Broken Bride''. My most ambitious project to date, and it NeedsMoreLove.

* Physical God: [[spoiler: The villains]] can be seen as this. As can [[spoiler: Jocasta]].

* MindScrew: And how. Though hopefully it'll be less mindscrewy than TsubasaReservoirChronicle.

* OrderVersusChaos: The overarching conflict, pretty much. [[spoiler: Although it's not a simple case of chaos = evil, even though the villains are using chaos. Instead, it's a matter of [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil balance]], which the villains are upsetting.]]

* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: The villains can be seen as this. And so can Jocasta.]]

* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: The villains can be seen as this.]]