History DarthWiki / SpeedSounds

* [[spoiler:CloningBlues: She's a twin of the first clone of her series.]]

* MyHeroZero
* NiceGirl

* CloningBlues

* TheChick

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Next-in-line to inherit the Star League, because she's so powerful. Outpowering Mei's magic proves it.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Got at his place by beating his two brothers: the Downtown Commissary and Baron Sudou. [[spoiler:Bad news for him: Part 3 pits him against [[SuperpoweredAlterEgo Primal Ryoku]].]]

* FiveManBand: Each arc has one for the villain. [[spoiler:Each BigBad is killed.]]

* RealityEnsues: She spends the early Part 1 fighting Ryoku and Yuuzou, but that leaves them with enough time to recover, while the wear gets to her.

* FlowerInHerHair: [[spoiler:The evidence that her inner magic is Plantlife is that it grew naturally after her would-be death.]]

* BadassGrandpa: He fights Primal Ryoku to a draw after having seemingly killed Shisui.

* SecretWeapon: In a way, she was the Star League's trump card, and few actually knew her.

* SquishyWizard: The epitome of it. She has power on par with the Star Magister himself, enough to overpower Mei and Yuna (the other two magic specialists), [[spoiler:and to fight off the Star Magister's mind control without help]].

* BlackSheep: She's one of the rare persons to not descend in a way from the Imperator's father.

'''''WARNING:'' Spoilers ahead!'''

!!The Downtown Commissary [[note]](下市 保安官''shimoichi no hoankan'', Sheriff of Downtown)[[/note]]

* TakingYouWithMe: He attempted this with his DeathActivatedSuperpower, [[spoiler:but failed]].

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Averted: [[spoiler:Season 2's EliteMook Joudan has an EarlyBirdCameo at the very beginning and has his inner magic fully mastered, being the strongest character in the setting this side of the Imperator himself. Kasaru, his superior and TheDragon, is weaker than him until the end to Part 2.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:During the last arc, he leaves the City with Mei after Joudan blew up the Big Mall and did the same, because the power struggles will destroy the City like Downtown.]]

!!Zero / [[spoiler:"Type-0"]]

* RealityEnsues: She spends the early Part 1 fighting Ryoku and Yuuzou in succession, and the wear gets to her.

* LoopholeAbuse: He has the right to drive without license if he's on a Black Squaddron operation, which is why he's bad at driving.

--> Black Squadron leader, and one of the highest-rankers in the Downtown Police. He's often at odds with the Commissary due to his choice of companions. Tall and imposing, he tries to intimidate the Konvicts out of action while he investigates about the reasons they get so much focus from the Downtown Police.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:In Part 3, he reforms the Black Squaddron under the Imperator by his orders, but [[FaustianRebellion tries to undermine him from his position]]. He eventually succeeds in killing him.]]

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:while possessed, she kills Baron Sudou who, unknown to her, is her father.]]

!!Joudan [[note]](上段 ''Joudan'')[[/note]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Ryoku's last mission with the Mafia was to snatch the latest Predator 3-wheel scooter model, but Joudan promptly roflstomped him and left Ryoku with the older model he had used to beat him with.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the Star League is destroyed. Unlike Kasaru raising Jun and Shiki joining him later, Joudan just blasts his way out of the town, proving that nobody could ever punish him.

* TakeOverTheWorld: Intends to have the Star League take over the Imperial Magus, then using them to strip the Imperator of his powers by threat and/or kill him. [[spoiler:Joudan and Type-10 unwittingly drew too much attention to the Star League instead.]]

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Though nobody knew of his intentions before his death. Zhen Kurqj learns about his agenda, he sets out to fulfill it.]]

* BadassGrandpa: Fights Primal Ryoku to a draw after having seemingly killed Shisui.
* BigBad: One of the most archetypal.

* PaperThinDisguise: Her name as "Zero" poorly disguises her status.

* CurbStompBattle: Hands one of those to Ryoku, his Mafia boss, and outside karting she can pretty much beat almost everyone.

* AboveTheInfluence: [[spoiler:She refused to obey to the Star Magister DeathActivatedSuperpower mind control.]]

* PersonaNonGrata: Becomes this after refusing the PuppetKing treatment.

* KungFuWizard: Assisting to his show filmings only shows Ryoku and Zero that he can take a lot of punishment, as he doesn't take stunt doubles. He's also strong both physically and magically, but was known as a MasterOfNone.

* BadassCrew: The Black Squadron starts as a villainous example.
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: Three of them, the Downtown Commissary and the Imperator eventually causing the City's demise.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The fic ends with the City entirely destroyed and its ruins fallen down the bottomless cliff. Only WOrdOfGod confirms anyone but Ryoku as a survivor of the city going down.]]

* EveryoneIsRelated: The society is somewhat inspired by feudal and pre-revolution France, and the social standards as well as the inbreeding of nobility is kept there. Every single character descends from two persons (quite the TangledFamilyTree since four OfficialCouple pairings are brought up).

* LeeroyJenkins: In the beginning to Part 2, Yuuzou, Mei and Souki all directly strike back at the Star League. [[spoiler:As the middle of it proves, they all lost.]]

* RotatingProtagonist: In the first part, Ryoku and Yuuzou switch main protagonist status. Every time one rescues the other, he gets captured for his trouble.
* SolidGoldPoop: Blonde hair is so rare that the few blondes in the setting (Ryoku, Ikura) are sometimes assulted for it and/or hide it.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Averted: [[spoiler:Season 2's EliteMook Joudan has an EarlyBirdCameo at the very beginning and has his inner magic fully mastered, being nearly on par with the Imperator. Kasaru, his superior and TheDragon, is weaker than him until the end to Part 2.]]

* {{Expy}}: To [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Himura Kenshin]]. Same ponytail, NiceGuy who you shouldn't piss[[spoiler:, and even the orange hair when [[SplitPersonalityMakeover under the influence of his Primal Magic]]]].

* HellBentForLeather

* PurpleIsPowerful: Her eyes.

!!Type-0 / Souki [[note]](双基 ''souki'')[[/note]]

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:The "ki" in her name is a counter for objects, and "sou" is her "number", as in: [[YouAreNumberSix she's the twin of the first]].]]

* [[spoiler:SuperPrototype: As she demonstrates by defeating Shiki by herself.]]

--> A Downtown Police captain, and the Commissary's daughter. One of Downtown's most trained fighters, she excels at identifying and manipulating BattleAura. She is the one to identify Ryoku and get the huge bounty he had on his head, but as she didn't manage to ''keep'' him jailed, she's threatened of execution by her father.

* TheBrute: He's as much of an asskicker as Ikura, except he knows his stuff about racing too.

* AerithAndBob: The only one with a very unreal, non-American, non-Japanese name. His name is a butchering of the word "courage".

* BastardUnderstudy: It's a known reason why the Commissary doesn't like him, not that he can do anything about that. [[spoiler:Subverted when he does pull off the kill on the Imperator as he fully announces a rightful order to everyone in the Imperial Stadium. Though, the Imperator had other plans.]]

!!Type-10/Juuki [[note]](十基 ''juuki'')[[/note]]
--> An emotionally-unstable Star League magician, she's actually mind-controlled by a parasite (which is the thing named Juuki, not the girl), her real personality only surfacing in brief lapses. When brainwashed, she disguises as the Steel Serpent, a poison-wielding mass murderer who spreads terror through the working class sector of the Upper-City. [[spoiler:She is actually Ryoku's long-lost twin sister who was kidnapped and forced comatose by the Star League.]]
* AxCrazy: In the second part, where she's an antagonist.

* DemotedToExtra: The third part has her get raised by Kasaru since, her parasite killed, she's essentially a teenage girl with the mind of a one-year-old kid.
* DemonicPossession: A parasitic symbiote is the actual thing named Juuki, and is often in control of her until Kasaru kills it [[spoiler:just before doing so on the Magister]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the Star League is destroyed. Unlike Kasaru, Shiki and Juuki joining together, he just blasts his way out of the town, proving that nothing could punish him.

--> A cunning and gifted Star League high-ranking mage, as well as Juuki's personal therapist. He tries to get her to open to him as he knows something's wrong with her. [[spoiler:He's actually biding his time to take over the Star League, and kills the Magister after the Konvicts defeat him, only then learning the truth.]]

!!Type-4/Shiki [[note]](四基 ''shiki'')[[/note]]

* BlackSheep: Besides Mei, she's the only person to not descend in a way from the Imperator's father.

%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* KungFuWizard: Powerful both physically and magically, and able to endure beatdowns as proven in his show since he doesn't take stunt doubles.

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Inflicts this on all of Shiki and Souki's sister-clones. While Shiki broke out by herself and Souki was snapped out of it by Mei, there were still about six of them murderously targeting the Imperator. He kills all six, and even takes the effort to add some more flashiness to his action, much like killing one with a SpinningPiledriver.]]

* WorthyOpponent: Considers the Konvicts as such, all but Souki. [[spoiler:Souki makes her swallow her pride in the end.]]

!!!Type-1/Ikki, Type-2/Niki, Type-3/Sanki, Type-5/Goki, Type-6/Rikki, Type-7/Shikki, Type-8/Hakki, Type-9/Kuki
--> Clones from the Star League that also double as the Star Magister's BodyguardBabes. [[spoiler:Products of the same cloning experiment that created Souki and Shiki.]]
* BareFistedMonk: Type-5 was just physically strong, and rioted in the rich district of the city in order to reach the Imperator on a formal visit. [[spoiler:Ban proved he was stronger than her and gives her a SpinningPiledriver for her trouble.]]

* ColdSniper: Type-3. [[spoiler:She ends up sabotaging her own plan by going in the open and attempting to shoot the Imperator, but Ban kills her quickly.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Type-1 and Type-7 both long-dead.
** Type-1 was siamese with Souki, and when they parted both, she died instantly.

* NobleDemon: Type-9 defied openly the whole Tops Police to battle. [[spoiler:However, Ban came along, shielded the few shots directed at him, and buried her]].
* SuicideAttack: Type-2's plan of choice is crashing her kart right in the Imperator at high speed. [[spoiler:She crashes into a wall of dirt summoned by Ban and dies in the accident.]] Type-8's plan was to infiltrate the High Palace and explode when the Imperator sat on his throne. [[spoiler:Ban found her before the Imperator did and bashes her head in]].
* TheWorfEffect: They're talked up as potential threats to the Imperator himself by Shiki considering they're six, but since each works on her own and progressively gets crazier, Ban single-handedly kills all of them.
* YouGotMurder: Type-6 disguised herself as a delivery girl to hit the Imperator by surpise. [[spoiler:Ban came to receive her and killed her.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss [[spoiler:And a somewhat easily-defeated one at that. Ryoku kills him, even without Primal Magic.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Hates the fact that he's been sent to Downtown with the garbage.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He sees Downtown's people as garbage essentially, despite having been demoted to one.

!!Baron Sudou [[note]](男爵 角藤 ''danshaku Sudou'', Baron Sudou)[[/note]]
--> Leader to an underground [[LaResistance resistance]], he was supposed deceased for 16 years. Only Yuuzou gets to meet him, because the moment he hears one hint about his abandoned twins son and daughter, he wanders the street to meet them, meeting his untimely end at the hands of Juuki [[spoiler:who, unknown to him, is his daughter]].

* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Victim of the [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of this trope.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He dies less than 1 day following his first appearance.]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: Shiki mentions having gone through that at his hands to unlock her inner magic. She's scarred enough to remember it, and it happened immediately following her birth.
* EvilOldFolks: 55 years old, and probably the biggest {{jerkass}} of the whole family.
* MindControl: [[spoiler:His Death Wish. However, since he's dead, he's unconscious and therefore the results become unpredictable and based on his last desire, to kill the Imperator.]]

* TakeOverTheWorld: Intends to have the Star League take over the Imperial Magus, then using them to strip the Imperator of his powers by threat and/or kill him. [[spoiler:Joudan and Juuki unwittingly drew too much attention to the Star League instead.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: He issues an open one-on-one challenge to the Konvicts to avoid too many deaths in the Tops Police.

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Though nobody knew of his intentions before his death.]]

* EvilOldFolks: Apparently, even the Imperator was more popular than him, to the point that the Imperator wasn't hated but beloved for killing him.

* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: To Ryoku.

* GreenEyes

* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: In case straight-up fighting doesn't work, he always packs Star Grenades, ready to throw them to sow destruction as a way to escape lost battles.

* FiveBadBand: Each arc has one. [[spoiler:Each BigBad is killed.]]

--> Mei's [[TheRival rival]] for longer than even Yuuzou remembers, she was sent to guard her in Downtown's jail until Mei was dead. She tries to undermine Mei directly rather than having to do with any of the other Konvicts, but she tends to break from Kuugai's orders to do so.

--> A former indicator of Kuugai, he's a street crook who lived by himself. Famed in the streets for his strength, he's unknowingly to all cooperating with the Black Squadron. He beat up Yuuzou several times already, but the Konvicts realize his affiliation a bit late.

!!Kuugai [[note]](空外 ''Kuugai'')[[/note]]

--> The Princess herself, since she's the oldest of the Imperator's offspring. [[spoiler:Kuugai is her bastardized younger brother.]] She plots to take over the throne "early" because of the Imperator's growing unpopularity, and of course she doesn't want the Konvicts to interfere.

* RebelliousPrincess: More like a "backstabbing bitch of a daughter", she is to the Imperator.

* ColdSniper: Sanki. [[spoiler:She ends up sabotaging her own plan by going in the open and attempting to shoot the Imperator, but Ban kills her quickly.]]

* LeeroyJenkins: In the beginning to Part 2, Yuuzou, Mei and Souki all directly strike back at the Star League. [[spoiler:As the middle of it proves, they lost.]]

!!Souki [[note]](双基 ''souki'')[[/note]]

!!Juuki [[note]](十基 ''juuki'')[[/note]]

* DemonicPossession: A parasitic symbiote is the actual thing named Juuki, and is in control of her until Kasaru kills it [[spoiler:just before doing so on the Magister]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She forgets much when her parasite is killed, to the point she barely remembers how to talk.

* TryingTOCatchMeFightingDirty: In case straight-up fighting doesn't work, he always packs Star Grenades, ready to throw them to sow destruction as a way to escape lost battles.

--> A cunning and gifted Star League high-ranking mage, as well as Juuki's personal psychologist. He tries to get her to open to him as he knows something's wrong with her. [[spoiler:He's actually biding his time to take over the Star League, and kills the Magister after the Konvicts defeat him, only then learning the truth.]]

!!Shiki [[note]](四基 ''shiki'')[[/note]]

!!!Ikki, Niki, Sanki, Goki, Rikki, Shikki, Hakki, Kuki

* BareFistedMonk: Goki was just physically strong, and rioted in the rich district of the city in order to reach the Imperator on a formal visit. [[spoiler:But Ban ultimately proved he was stronger than her and gives her a SpinningPiledriver for her trouble.]]

* DeathByOriginStory: Ikki is already dead [[spoiler:she was siamese with Souki, and when they parted both, Ikki died instantly]], and Shikki was murdered by Shiki.
* NobleDemon: Kuki defied openly the whole Tops Police to battle. [[spoiler:However, Ban came along, shielded the few shots directed at him, and buried her]].
* SuicideAttack: Niki's plan of choice in third season is crashing her kart right in the Imperator at high speed. [[spoiler:She eventually crashes into a giant rock summoned by Ban.]] Hakki's plan was to infiltrate the High Palace and explode when the Imperator sat on his throne. [[spoiler:Ban eventually finds her before and bashes her head in]].
* YouGotMurder: Rikki disguised herself as a delivery girl to hit the Imperator by surpise. [[spoiler:Ban came to receive her and killed her.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The fic ends with the City entirely destroyed and its ruins fallen down the bottomless cliff.]]

* RoyalsWhoCanActuallyDoSomething: Technically duchess of another city, but nonetheless is able to fight.

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Brutally averted: [[spoiler:Season 2's EliteMook Joudan has an EarlyBirdCameo at the very beginning and has his inner magic fully mastered, being nearly on par with the Imperator. Kasaru, his superior and TheDragon, is weaker than him until the end to Part 2.]]

* BadassPrincess: Technically duchess of another city, but nonetheless is able to fight.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* PsychicPowers: She uses them to track Ryoku and Yuuzou, teach the former about magic, and when she recovers she uses them.

* PsychicPowers: She uses them to track Ryoku and Yuuzou, teach the former about magic, and when she recovers she uses them ForMassiveDamage.

* PuppetKing: Defied. Shisui was GenreSavvy enough to refuse the Imperator's promotion of him to the Burgmaster's place.

* {{Expy}}: To [[RurouniKenshin Himura Kenshin]]. Same ponytail, NiceGuy who you shouldn't piss[[spoiler:, and even the orange hair when [[SplitPersonalityMakeover under the influence of his Primal Magic]]]].

* StormingTheCastle: The ending Part 2 is the invasion of [[spoiler:Star League HQ, the Wand Tower]].

--> Clones from the Star League that also double as the Star Magister's {{bodyguard babe}}s. [[spoiler:Products of the same cloning experiment that created Souki and Shiki.]]

It happens in an isolated city, surrounded by a forest at the north and a gaping hole in the bottom. The city itself is cut in half by a landslide-caused fissure, now literally separating Downtown from the Upper-City.\\
The story is that of Downtown assassin mechanic {{Ninja}} Ryoku. He lives alone since he remembers, and is known as "The Man with the Mask" through Downtown Police and Mafia alike. Despite two years of action without getting recognized, he gets captured while rescuing high-profile criminal Yuuzou [[FriendToAllLivingThings for no apparent reason]]. Yuuzou then proceeds to liberate him along with a mysterious girl named Mei in the process, getting captured in the process. Ryoku gets entangled in their struggle against the Downtown Police, specifically the Black Squadron, a team that seems devoted to keeping Yuuzou and Mei in check. Ryoku discovers the involvement of the Star League (the Upper-City's magician class). Their run is stopped when the band saves a girl dumped from the Upper-City from the Downtown Police's custody. The team of four escapees manages to put out the Black Squadron before attacking the Downtown Commissary to end their captivity in Downtown and allow the team a quick way up to the Upper-City. Ryoku eventually kills the Commissary, and Downtown entirely goes down in an earthquake due to the man's DeathActivatedSuperpower. The incident costs a lot of Downtown lives, and causes an influx of Downtown people forcing their way to the Upper-City in the dozen of minutes Downtown takes to entirely fall.\\

After the panic in the Upper-City has settled down (and many Downtown intruders killed), Yuuzou, Mei and Souki immediately strike back at the Star League while Ryoku's laying low. Though, hiding in the mines leaves him open to a mass-murdering poison-wielder called the Steel Serpent due to the person's disguise. After a second meeting, Ryoku manages to shatter the snake mask, revealing a female face that seems too familiar. The Serpent eventually escapes and Ryoku understands from her way of escaping that the Star League has a hand in that, so he takes his friends' path of war against the Star League. Through the course of several fights, he discovers the Star League's involvement with the pillagers who ransacked Downtown, as well as re-meeting the Serpent as Juuki, a psychologically-unstable agent. He soon attracts the attention of elite mage Kasaru, eventually allowing Yuuzou to break free. They quickly rescue Mei and Souki to evade the League's clutches, freeing the latter from {{brainwashing}} in the process. The Star League has to unveil Shiki (Souki's strongest "sister"-clone) to stop the Downtown fugitives, though Shiki eventually fails, leaving the Magister open to attack right at the Wand Tower. Following the incident, the Wand Tower crumples as the Star League is destroyed.\\

Then, the Imperator gets active in reaffirming his control over the City, using the Tops Police to wipe out any remains of the Star League, recruiting the Black Squadron's remaining members into them as well. Archmage-in-training Ban steps up to the menace the Magister posed after his death, as Shiki and Souki's sister-clones are driven crazy and try public attempts at killing the Imperator, and even the fugitives. On orders and being supervised by his cousin, Princess Rangiku, Ban eliminates most of them successfully. Ban eventually gets all the credit, leaving the Burgmaster (the leader of the Tops Police) wide open to a frontal assault as the fugitives took an opportunity to attack him. When Ryoku kills him, Ban and Rangiku eventually find out about his true plans, having a "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" reaction to their doing. They soon are back to action regarding Joudan (the former Star League pillager leader), eventually blasts his way out of the city from the Big Mall, causing massive property damage. Yuuzou and Mei, as well as Gouhei from the Black Squadron, follow before hermit Shisu resurfaces and takes over as Burgmaster, instilling order into the City again. Ryoku and Souki eventually join forces with now-fellow-fugitives Kasaru and Shiki (resurfacing from apparent death) to fight the Imperator's soldiers. Eventually, plans collide as Ryoku, finding the Imperator, also finds Shisui near-death at his feet. Ryoku fights the Imperator to a draw, but in the aftermath, he discovers the Black Squadron's leader Kuugai's return as the latter murders the Imperator. Though, he has no time to establish a fairer order as the Imperator's DeathActivatedSuperpower destroys the whole city, leading everyone to leave before it falls to its doom like Downtown did.

* BadassGrandpa