History DarthWiki / TheEveningTurnsToMidnight

* BeautifulDreamer: [[spoiler:Roberto watches over Johan when he is not asleep but drugged unconscious. Apparently the sight is [[ADateWithRosiePalms quite moving]].]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Yeah um.

* DomesticAbuser: Friedrich. (Also, for that matter, in Adrien's backstory, you have a Marchetti.)

The story of Ingrid's hellish marriage, the young Adrian's [[CreepyChild eerily advanced intelligence]] showing up before he's even two years old, and the death of Ingrid's second child Klara is intercut with the goings-on at an Italian medical start-up called GeneCo, where Giuseppe Largo and his son Rottissimo, or Rotti, are doing some medical experimentation of their own, though at this point with a far more benign purpose. When the Weidts flee to America and become the Veidts, the scope expands again to encompass the American rash of superheroes, the equally unpleasant childhood of young Walter Joseph Kovacs, and the rise of Dr. Manhattan. Ingrid and Adrian end up each contributing to the murder of Friedrich Weidt, but Ingrid herself dies only a few months later, leaving Adrian to seek his fortunes elsewhere.

By the 1960s, GeneCo is in America as well and now run by Rotti Largo, there is a deadly outbreak of organ failures, and Veidt and Kovacs have both taken on costumed identities as crimefighters, alongside others such as the brutal Comedian, hopeful Nite Owl and the young Silk Spectre, who in many ways becomes the glue of the heroes' shaky partnership. Veidt is reunited with a childhood acquaintance named Anna, and they briefly fall in love before an acrimonious breakup. At around the same time, a young schoolgirl named Lucie Baillon is raped by a young pimp, is thrown on the streets by her parents, and ultimately gives birth to a child she names Adrien, who becomes the great joy of her life. Anna meets another man, Michael, while still pregnant, who promises to help raise her children, but he turns out to be working for a government conspiracy related to the same program that produced Adrian and Anna themselves, but he [[HeelFaceTurn chooses to help her dodge the program anyway]]. He ends up [[RedemptionEqualsDeath shot for his trouble]], and while Anna is trapped by the agents of the breeding program her twin children are taken from her and denied names.

A young blind woman named Magdalene Defoe becomes a cabaret singer for money and is quickly introduced to the harsh realities of life in the lower echelons of the entertainment industry until she meets, and secretly falls in love with, Largo's fiancee Marni. Veidt enters into business and becomes acquainted with a Dr. Nathan Wallace, whom he brings along onto a partnership with GeneCo to cure the organ failures, but their experimental cures fail to save the Silk Spectre, who dies at seventeen. Wallace falls in love with Marni, who ends up leaving Largo for Wallace, and Largo murders her and frames Wallace for it, using his leverage in politics to make Wallace instrumental in his plan to legalize organ repossession. Veidt abandons their partnership in disgust and begins a slow plan to do something about this pending nuclear war business.

The title comes from an English translation of "Die Schatten Werden Laenger" from ''{{Elisabeth}}'' (though not a literal translation). If you don't want to read any further self-indulgent troping, the author herself invites you to please enjoy [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZyrA2GdHAs this video]] of the song as performed by attractive Hungarians.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Played with. Adrien Baillon is TrueNeutral, Adrian Veidt straddles the line between AntiHero and AntiVillain. Johan and Friedrich definitely count.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[LexLuthor Luthor]] and Largo.

The setting is a kind of UltimateUniverse-style AU of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', in which those characters and most other fictional superheroes all share a universe. It's also an AU of ''[[RepoTheGeneticOpera Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'', and of ''{{Anime/Monster}}''. All of these have been relocated to fit on the same contemporaneous timeline. The author's hope is that all of the intertwining plotlines and [[OneDegreeOfSeparation close, coincidental relationships between just about everybody]] will lend it a ''Les Miserables''-on-[[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs crack]] feeling, but only time will tell. The ''basic'' plots of those stories remain intact, but what actually plays out tends to go very much OffTheRails due to the crossover nature.

The story begins with the marriage of [[TheIngenue Ingrid Kurtz]] to Lt. Friedrich Werner Weidt of the 1--th Regiment of the Wehrmacht]] in 1938. Unfortunately for the young bride, her handsome new husband turns out to also be a CompleteMonster with ties to [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi superscience]], who volunteers their unborn child for genetic experimentation that will make the baby suitable to one day help produce, along with one of the other experimented-on children, the final planned generation of "supermen".

* MindRape: Still Johan's preferred M.O. [[spoiler: though it's practically ''involuntary'' on his part.]] Basini is recovering from a rather [[TheConfusionsOfYoungTorless inexpert attempt]].

The setting is a kind of UltimateUniverse-style AU of ''{{Watchmen}}'', in which those characters and most other fictional superheroes all share a universe. It's also an AU of ''[[RepoTheGeneticOpera Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'', and of ''{{Anime/Monster}}''. All of these have been relocated to fit on the same contemporaneous timeline. The author's hope is that all of the intertwining plotlines and [[OneDegreeOfSeparation close, coincidental relationships between just about everybody]] will lend it a ''Les Miserables''-on-[[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs crack]] feeling, but only time will tell. The ''basic'' plots of those stories remain intact, but what actually plays out tends to go very much OffTheRails due to the crossover nature.

The story begins with the marriage of [[TheIngenue Ingrid Kurtz]] to [[GoodLookingPrivates Lt. Friedrich Werner Weidt of the 1--th Regiment of the Wehrmacht]] in 1938. Unfortunately for the young bride, her handsome new husband turns out to also be a CompleteMonster with ties to [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi superscience]], who volunteers their unborn child for genetic experimentation that will make the baby suitable to one day help produce, along with one of the other experimented-on children, the final planned generation of "supermen".

* HairOfGold: Definitely the assumption about Adrien, but you can throw your idea of "good" [[TrueNeutral out the window]].