History FanFic / SpellbindingRadiance

%%* HeroesWantRedHeads: John apparently really wants Jill.

** [[spoiler:Kieran]] and [[spoiler:Gatrie]] both had few lines, so their deaths weren't so bad.
** Conversely, [[spoiler:John's]] and [[spoiler:Jill's]] deaths both subvert this trope by being anti-climatic despite their huge roles. [[spoiler:Sothe]] also plays this straight in having a huge death scene despite having almost no lines in the story. [[spoiler:It is, however, excusable given the fact that it firmly establishes that AnyoneCanDie is in FULL swing, since Sothe is one of the few people who CANNOT die in Path of Radiance under ANY circumstance.]]

* ISuckAtSummaries: Arguably, the FF.net summary of this story.

* TakeThat: There are quite a few in Chapter 74, although the ones to the new ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' movie, the new ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' movie, and ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' are the most prominent. It seems like the author just MIGHT have something against sequels...

* TheArtifact: Karla seems to be this.
* TheLostLenore: Type B, assuming [[spoiler:you consider Jay and Jill to be the same person]].
* TheNotLoveInterest: Mist seems to be this way.
** WordOfGod agrees with this trope.

* UnfortunateName: Jay's ''REAL'' name is [[WikiWord [=LisaMarie=]]] Pheobe. Really. [[spoiler: It's also Jill Fizzart, but she's not embarrassed about that one.]]

* WeWorkWellTogether: Dawn Brigade.

* YourMom: John and Boyd have a rather weird exchange of these in chapter 37.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Ike and Mist both get one after the events of the Serenes Forest.
** Ilyana also gets a chapter to herself.
** Rhys gets one as well.
** Jill gets one later on.
** Jay gets one even later on.
** Selena is having one to the point of becoming an AscendedExtra with the latest filler arc.
* ActionGirl: Just about every woman in the fic.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Princess/Queen Elincia seems to fit the bill quite nicely.
* AlmostKiss: Boy, does this happen a lot.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Karel to Karla

* AscendedExtra: Patrick as of the Dawn Brigade arc.

* BetterAsFriends: John and pretty much every girl in the story he becomes close to.
** PlatonicLifePartners: It started with Elincia and John, now Micaiah and John are moving in that direction.
** JustFriends: John and Karla seemed to be this for a while.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mist
* BigDamnHeroes: Several:

** [[spoiler:Petrine's death involves a huge one against the Black Knight.]]
** Soren manages to pull one off in Chapter 74, marching in on the battle with Ashnard as if he owned the place and insisting that he would take care of the Mad King himself.
* BigEater: Ilyana.
** Then again, she canonically is like that.
** Burning the food stores becomes a BerserkButton for her later on.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:When Jill dies.]]
* BlackMagicianGirl: Nino.
* BlahBlahBlah: John does this in the one time Soren's tactical meetings has been shown in story (Chapter 47). The situation results in John coming back to attention at the wrong time.
* BrickJoke: See MagicAIsMagicA below.

* ButterflyOfDoom: Okay, so technically John isn't time travelling, but he DOES know what's going to happen in the future thanks to [[GenreSavvy playing the game god knows how many times]]. Sadly, his very presence in Tellius is enough to make sure that a LOT of stuff is changed.
* CanonForeigner: A lot of the cast of Blazing Sword somehow manages to end up on Tellius, as well as a few cast members from Sacred Stones. The entire Black Fang even shows up in Crimea as an honest mercenary company in Begnion. And then there's Carin, [[spoiler:A.K.A. Cassandra from ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur''.]] Ashley has also been confirmed to be one, with [[MythologyGag many hints]] dropped to the observant that she's from [[spoiler: ''Franchise/MassEffect''; more specifically, her iteration from the self-insert fanfic FanFic/MassVexations by Foxwolf's friend Herr Wozzeck.]]
** [[spoiler: Confirmed, as of chapter 44 of Mass Vexations 2.]]

* CelibateHero: John has traces of it, although this is more based on the fact that he fears he may still be drawn back into his own world - thus leaving the object of his affection alone - than it is an aversion to romance. After he comes to terms with the fact that he's probably not going back to his own world, he becomes a bit more like a mild case of ChasteHero instead.
* ClusterFBomb: John let one go in chapter 88 when they found themselves surrounded by tigers.

* ChickMagnet: Arguable, depending on how you interpret the girls' friendships with John.

* CurbStompBattle: Poor John finds himself on the losing end of these frequently...

* DeadpanSnarker: Jay, oh so very much...
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Karel. Also Karla to a small extent.]]

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: John and Jill on that night of stargazing.
* DidYouJustHaveSex: Essentially Zihark tries to thinly assert his inquisition about this to John in the beginning of chapter 67 before Boyd just outright does everything but say it. Cue the embarrassed reaction from Jill.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Guess who defeats Ashnard after he's [[OneWingedAngel revived though the power of the medallion a la Hard Mode]]. No, it's not Ike. No, it's not one of the Laguz. Nope, not John. Given up yet? [[spoiler: It's PATRICK.]] He's about as surprised as the reader.

* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler: Patrick as of the Radiant Dawn arc.]]
* DramaticEllipsis: The author of this fanfiction loves this about as much as Poe loves dashes.

* EasyCommunication: Happens all the time in the story. Lampshaded by John when he is temporary leader of the Crimean Revolutionary Army and he has no idea how to issue commands to the entire army like Ike.
* EccentricMentor: Lute. Just... Lute.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: John and Jill. You know it's pretty bad when someone like Petrine made note of it.
* EvilFormerFriend: Petrine and Selena seem to have shades of this.
* EvilOverlord: [[spoiler: Ashnard]] in the first part of the fic.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Patrick!]] And ''HOW!''
* FanservicePack: Nino after the beginning of the Radiant Dawn portion of the story.
* FauxlosophicNarration: Beginning of Chapter 13 seems to fall into this category.
* [[spoiler:FirstLawOfResurrection: John finds a way to come back to life twice. The first time, Gatrie takes the price. The second time, the other people in the camp are given a one-use staff that they use to bring John back to life.]]
* FirstPersonSmartass: John seems to be this a good deal of the time. Bonus points in that virtually no one gets his pop culture remarks when he does voice them. [[spoiler:Well... until [[FanFic/MassVexations Ash]] comes along, anyway.]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: As part of an AprilFoolsDay prank, John and [[FanFic/MassVexations Art]] found themselves in this situation.
* FreeRangeChildren: Nino, Linde, Mist... and a young man in charge of a massive revolutionary army.
* FriendlyEnemy: John and Petrine
* FruitOfTheLoon: While not a fruit, it seems the artichoke had become this for a while.

* GivingRadioToTheRomans: John comes into Tellius with a pocket watch (which is never explained what happened to it until the Radiant Dawn arc), a wallet, a trumpet mouthpiece for some reason, and his cell phone. Subverted when he throws the cell phone into the water instead of using it to improve life for the citizens of Tellius.
** WordOfGod says that throwing the cell phone was supposed to be a symbolic action of letting go of the past.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Chapter 33... the holiday celebration chapter.
* GrassIsGreener: Has been lampshaded in more recent chapters, too.
* GroinAttack: John suffered a rather nasty one at the hands of Patrick. [[SmallNameBigEgo He considers it one of his many specialties.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: It's a little known fact that [[RecurringCharacter recurring]] BitCharacter Patrick (that guy with a crush on Ilyana) is supposed to be one, with him being the main character of a SpinOff fanfic created by one of Foxwolf Jackson's friends. Sadly, his story is currently DeadFic. [[spoiler: Subverted in that Patrick has now become a recurring antagonist instead.]]
** In an entirely different way, there is a Supporting Protagonist of Another Story with [[spoiler:Ash. It's not explicitly stated in Foxwolf's fic itself, but those who have read FanFic/MassVexations can immediately catch that Ash is from that fic. She even mentions Art, the hero of that story, at one point. And then there's Chapter 83, in which this is outright stated to be the case in an A/N, as well as in Ash's descriptions of the ME universe.]]
* HeroesWantRedHeads: John apparently really wants Jill.
* HurricaneOfPuns: If Patrick wasn't one already, he certainly became one upon [[spoiler: stealing General Wallace's [[RunningGag chained axe God of War bullshit]]]].
* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime:
** "Are you an orange?"
* IJustWantToBeNormal: An interesting version of this trope in that John 'is' normal... in his world. Now, he just wants to be normal by the standards of Tellius.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: John and Elincia seem awfully close together... if only we could have a WordOfGod to sort that awkward friendship between the two out.
** WordOfGod has stated that it's more a case of PlatonicLifePartners.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Instead of selecting from the normal Fire Emblem arsenal of swords, lances, knives and axe, [[spoiler:Shinon]] decides to use a staff composed of two sections connected by magic [[spoiler:during his final battle with John, since a bow wouldn't really be practically in the situation.]] John actually planned on this. WordOfGod has said that this random change to [[spoiler:Shinon]] was part of the reason the chapter took so long to write.
** Patrick attempts to be one of these when using [[spoiler: Wallace's spring loaded chain axe]] despite having no prior training with it at all. The results were [[OhCrap as]] [[EpicFail expected]].
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: There is a small, hilarious exchange between John and Titania in their mock date.
-->'''John:''' Well, um... you're like a really great mom... or something
-->'''Titania:''' ... what?
-->'''John:''' Uh, I think I gotta go to the bathroom.

* InverseDialogueDeathRule: This trope has been played straight and subverted in the fic.
** [[spoiler:Kieran]] and [[spoiler:Gatrie]] both had little lines so their death wasn't so bad.
** Conversely, [[spoiler:John's]] and [[spoiler:Jill's]] deaths both subvert this trope were rather anti-climatic despite their huge roles. [[spoiler:Sothe]] also plays this straight in having a huge death scene despite having almost no lines in the story. [[spoiler:It is, however, excusable given the fact that it firmly establishes that AnyoneCanDie is in FULL swing, since Sothe is one of the few people who CANNOT die in Path of Radiance under ANY circumstance.]]
* InvisibleParents: John's parents.

* {{Joisey}}: John's from there.
* LadyOfWar: Princess Elincia and Mist can qualify as one, although Mist starts as a WhiteMagicianGirl.
* LampshadeHanging: So many!

* LethalChef: Tanith, and how!
** This is from actual canon.
* LightbulbJoke: Chapter 35!
-->'''John''': Hey, Jill! How many wyvern knights does it take to screw in a light bulb?
-->'''Jill''': A... light bulb?
-->'''John''': Three! Two to fight over who's going to do it and one to bark orders!
** This Gem from chapter 43
-->'''John''': How many people in Daein does it take to screw a chandelier into a palace ceiling?
-->'''Jill''': How many?
-->'''John''': "Five! King Ashnard holds the chandelier and the four riders turn the palace!"

* MarshmallowHell: Happens at least once to poor [[ChasteHero John]]. Subverted, however, as the act was performed by Mia, and it was really more a result of the girl's [[GenkiGirl unbridled enthusiasm and obliviousness to John's pleas to let go]] rather than her chest size.

* [[MetaGuy Meta Girl]]: Jay has evolved into one of these, snarking on things even John - with all his pop culture knowhow and genre savvy - doesn't pick up.
* MindFuck: Apparently, [[spoiler:Sophia Domivere is a ''real person'', seeing as how she and John are somehow able to be in two places at once.]]
** [[spoiler:Turns out to actually be an older Nino as Sophia Domevire.]]
* MomentKiller: Boyd seems to cause a lot of these.

* NobodyPoops
* NoodleIncident: A few in the story:

** John appears to have had bad experience with alcohol
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: [[spoiler:The Black Fang]] assisting Princess Elincia in the first arc seems to fit into this.

* RunningGag: A few:

* SelfInsertFic
* SelfOffense: John to Edward.

* SiblingRivalry: Karla and Karel.

* StealthMentor: [[spoiler:Patrick to John]] in the Radiant Dawn arc.
* SwissArmyWeapon: The staff that [[spoiler:Shinon]]uses.

** His name is not [[Disney/TheLionKing Simba]], as much as John calls King Caineghis that.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: This is Fire Emblem, after all. Not to mention that aside from the standard Path of Radiance cast, there's [[CanonForeigner other Fire Emblem characters]] such as [[VideoGame/FireEmblem Selena, Karla, Cormag, Linde, Nino...]] just to name a few as well as Carin [[spoiler:who is actually [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Cassandra Alexandra]]]] and [[FanFic/MassVexations Ash]]. There are also some original characters, such as Gabriella, Phoenix Apollo Irving, Katrina... and so on. Many characters are introduced, given seeming importance, then PutOnABus until convenient. That's just the story characters, too.

** Patrick attempts to be one of these when using [[spoiler: Wallace's spring loaded chain axe]] despite having no prior training with it at all. The results [[RealityEnsues were]] [[OhCrap as]] [[EpicFail expected]].

** This seems to have gone UpToEleven since Radiant Dawn started

** John seems to point out in his thoughts that the theory of BuxomIsBetter had translated from the video game to reality.

* BiTheWay: Karla, though any real exploration of this seems to be done off-camera

* MostCommonCardGame: The beginning of Chapter 103 sounds like an intimidating scene... until we find out it's just a game of Go Fish.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Thankfully subverted in this portrayal. Although Princess Elincia fits this trope in the original game, the author has managed to essentially restructure her character into something less sue-ish and more useful and developed.

* {{Kuudere}}: Karla, though your milage may vary.

* UnfortunateName: Jay's ''REAL'' name is [[WikiWords [=LisaMarie=]]] Pheobe. Really. [[spoiler: It's also Jill Fizzart, but she's not embarrassed about that one.]]