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** And she's doing it less and less, as she realizes that there is no reason in Creation to go back to Malfeas, given that she's essentially playing backseat driver to someone who will be the most powerful being in the dimension inside of a decade.
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: Chapter 16, written from Merela's perspective, is in the style of an Old English epic (similar to {{Beowulf}}).
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** Irukuwa also qualifies. In human form she's quite fast, and can kill power armored soldiers with thrown food jars, before she starts partial shapeshifting. In dragon form, well she's a Rhyme Dragon. Those are scary as all hell, even for dragons.
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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out in the fic itself, but she has one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms (namely Sand Through Fingers Defense), possessing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. Also she has picked up Sandstrike Blast. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.

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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out in the fic itself, but she has one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms (namely Sand Through Fingers Defense), possessing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. Also she has picked up Sandstrike Blast.Blast, which conjure the silver sands with the force of..well [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a sandblaster]]. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.
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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out, but she appears to have one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms (namely Sand Through Fingers Defense), possessing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.

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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out, out in the fic itself, but she appears to have has one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms (namely Sand Through Fingers Defense), possessing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands.sands. Also she has picked up Sandstrike Blast. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.

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A common tendency in Familiar of Zero fanfic is for Louise to summon someone else. ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'', by EarthScorpion takes the rather more unusual path of having her comprehensively fail to summon anything. And such a failure, so epic, so catastrophic, which ruins her destiny and the entire path of the narrative...

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A common tendency in Familiar of Zero fanfic is for Louise to summon someone else. ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'', Void'' by EarthScorpion [=EarthScorpion=] takes the rather more unusual path of having her comprehensively fail to summon anything. And such a failure, so epic, so catastrophic, which ruins her destiny and the entire path of the narrative...



So now Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière is running around with the Exaltation which once belonged to Queen Merela welded onto her souls, rebuilt by the crippled titans who forged reality as a tool of their vengeance against the world that betrayed them. In her right hand she carries the burning hate of Malfeas, the King of the Yozis. In her left, the endless sands of Cecelyne the Lawgiver open up. Weep, Halkeginia, for a newborn titan stands upon your shores, with nothing save her own morality protecting you from her.

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So now Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière is running around with the Exaltation which once belonged to Queen Merela welded onto her souls, soul, rebuilt by the crippled titans who forged reality as a tool of their vengeance against the world that betrayed them. In her right hand she carries the burning hate of Malfeas, the King of the Yozis. In her left, the endless sands of Cecelyne the Lawgiver open up. Weep, Halkeginia, for a newborn titan stands upon your shores, with nothing save her own morality protecting you from her.



* TheClan: Siesta's family, complete with Dragonblooded, mages, and chains of command for passing secret messages around and calling in strike teams.
* TheCorrupter: Marisalon's job. So far, she hasn't been doing that well at it, because Louise is as stubborn and pig-headed as a Conviction 5 person is expected to be.
** PoisonousFriend: She genuinely has her host's well-being at heart, however, and most of her suggestions seem to be her attempting to advise Louise on a course of action that would make her happy. It just so happens she's saying this from the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality hyper-cynical and self-centered viewpoint of a demon]].



** Marisalon: There is no love without pain.

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** Marisalon: -->'''Marisalon:''' There is no love without pain.



* TheCorrupter: Marisalon's job. So far, she hasn't been doing that well at it, because Louise is as stubborn and pig-headed as a Conviction 5 person is expected to be.
** PoisonousFriend: She genuinely has her host's well-being at heart, however, and most of her suggestions seem to be her attempting to advise Louise on a course of action that would make her happy. It just so happens she's saying this from the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality hyper-cynical and self-centered viewpoint of a demon]].
* TheClan: Siesta's family, complete with Dragonblooded, mages, and chains of command for passing secret messages around and calling in strike teams.



* UnreliableNarrator: In a manner of speaking; Louise has so far not yet visited the realm of Malfeas in person and so her knowledge of the Yozis is limited solely to what Marisalon tells her (and is certainly an example of this trope, being a neomah), but due to the effects of her Infernal Exaltation, she's developed adoring parental feelings towards Malfeas himself, to possible unfortunate consequences later on.

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* UnreliableNarrator: In a manner of speaking; Louise has so far not yet visited the realm of Malfeas in person and so her knowledge of the Yozis is limited solely to what Marisalon tells her (and (who is certainly an example of this trope, being a neomah), but due to the effects of her Infernal Exaltation, she's developed adoring parental feelings towards Malfeas himself, to possible unfortunate consequences later on.
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* MageKnight: Incredibly common. Wardes and the Griffon Knights are explicitly mage-knights in setting, and any mage who learns how to fight as well as cast counts as one. Louise is also ending up as an example of this trope; as a Slayer, she naturally picks up skill in use of weaponry inhumanly quickly.

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* MageKnight: MagicKnight: Incredibly common. Wardes and the Griffon Knights are explicitly mage-knights in setting, and any mage who learns how to fight as well as cast counts as one. Louise is also ending up as an example of this trope; as a Slayer, she naturally picks up skill in use of weaponry inhumanly quickly.
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* WhamEpisode: The entirety of the Albion arc: [[Spoiler: Wardes isn't a traitor, Louise and Prince Wales get captured while Wardes winds up [=MIA=], Louise has her first Limit Break, Louise and Wardes get married, and Scarron leads a assassination attempt on Louise.]] Canon has left the building.

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* WhamEpisode: The entirety of the Albion arc: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Wardes isn't a traitor, Louise and Prince Wales get captured while Wardes winds up [=MIA=], Louise has her first Limit Break, Louise and Wardes get married, and Scarron leads a assassination attempt on Louise.]] Canon has left the building.

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* SuperpowerLottery: Louise and Tabitha won the jackpot. Louise got a [[Exalted Infernal Exaltation]], while Slyphid/Irukuwa is vastly more powerful and intelligent than any other familiar.

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* SuperpowerLottery: Louise and Tabitha won the jackpot. Louise got a [[Exalted [[{{Exalted}} Infernal Exaltation]], while Slyphid/Irukuwa is vastly more powerful and intelligent than any other familiar.


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* WhamEpisode: The entirety of the Albion arc: [[Spoiler: Wardes isn't a traitor, Louise and Prince Wales get captured while Wardes winds up [=MIA=], Louise has her first Limit Break, Louise and Wardes get married, and Scarron leads a assassination attempt on Louise.]] Canon has left the building.

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* FlatWhat: Marisalon gives this after hearing about the elemental set up of Louise's world, particularly at the element of Void and the lack of correspondence to Wood.



* FlatWhat: Marisalon gives this after hearing about the elemental set up of Louise's world, particularly at the element of Void and the lack of correspondence to Wood.


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* KillerRabbit: Irukuwa is absurdly adorable. Then she goes and demonstrates why Rhyme Dragons scare the shit out of people by doing things like caving in the chest of a guy in power armor with a thrown honey pot and only being bothered that she had mistaken him for a statue.
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** A little FridgeLogic indicates that Louise's Infernal Exaltation was originally that of Solar Queen Marela, as Marela killed [[OurTitansAreDifferent Marduk The Beast Upon The Mountain]] and Louise remembers this during her Infernal Exaltation.
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* SuperpowerLottery: Louise and Tabitha won the jackpot. Louise got a [[Exalted Infernal Exaltation]], while Slyphid/Irukuwa is vastly more powerful and intelligent than any other familiar.
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... is enough to draw the attention of an Infernal Exaltation.

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... is enough to draw the attention of an [[TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} Infernal Exaltation.
Exaltation]].
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* Lightning Bruiser: Mages are stuck within human physical limits, although some seem to be able to enhance themselves. Exalts like Louise and [[spoiler: Scarron]] are decidedly not.

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* Lightning Bruiser: LightningBruiser: Mages are stuck within human physical limits, although some seem to be able to enhance themselves. Exalts like Louise and [[spoiler: Scarron]] are decidedly not.
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* Lightning Bruiser: Mages are stuck within human physical limits, although some seem to be able to enhance themselves. Exalts like Louise and [[spoiler: Scarron]] are decidedly not.
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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out, but she appears to have one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms, possessing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.

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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out, but she appears to have one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms, Charms (namely Sand Through Fingers Defense), possessing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.
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* ItsPersonal: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] at the end of chapter 13 by Louise. The whole Albion arc just stopped being about her mission, now it's about [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge killing Sheffield, Cromwell and Reconquesta]]
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* [[OutsideContextVillain Outside Context Protagonist]]: Sheffield finally figured out that Louise is not a mage. Unfortunately for her, she thinks Louise is a [[HalfHumanHybrid Godblood]] Familiar, because she doesn't know Exalted exist.

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* HeroicBSOD: Louise's Torment. She simply can't handle the fact that her strength failed her (since Cecelyne is all about the strong ruling the weak), and she gives up.



* OneWingedAngel: Louise has By Rage Recast, which gives her a variety of mutations when her anima flares.



** Louise and Marisalon as well-the latter honestly has good advice between her temptations towards power and AttentionDeficitOohShiny.

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** Louise and Marisalon as well-the well - the latter honestly has good advice between her temptations towards power and AttentionDeficitOohShiny.


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* WatchingTroyBurn: At the end of Chapter 12.
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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out, but she appears to have one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms, possesing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.

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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out, but she appears to have one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms, possesing possessing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.



* FlatWhat: Marisalon gives this after hearing about the elemental set up of Louise's world, particularly at the element of Void and the lack of corrospondance to Wood.

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* FlatWhat: Marisalon gives this after hearing about the elemental set up of Louise's world, particularly at the element of Void and the lack of corrospondance correspondence to Wood.

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* FlatWhat: Marisalon gives this after hearing about the elemental set up of Louise's world, particularily at the element of Void and the lack of corrospondance to Wood.

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* FlatWhat: Marisalon gives this after hearing about the elemental set up of Louise's world, particularily particularly at the element of Void and the lack of corrospondance to Wood.



* MythologyGag: An early scene involves the translatation of the runes on Louise's crysalys, and winds up being a full translation of the Scripture of The One-Handed Maiden, which is of course from the Infernal Exalted sourcebook.

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* MageKnight: Incredibly common. Wardes and the Griffon Knights are explicitly mage-knights in setting, and any mage who learns how to fight as well as cast counts as one. Louise is also ending up as an example of this trope; as a Slayer, she naturally picks up skill in use of weaponry inhumanly quickly.
* MagicalGirlWarrior: Through a twisted, hellish lens, this is Louise's status in the story. A teenage girl, empowered by a strange being to work towards "fixing" the world, given special powers to do so even as she confronts the travails of growing up and society's expectations. It's the bit where she's a hell-empowered neo-titan where things get a bit less normal.
* MagicDance: Louise, thanks to the charm Beauty Without Malice, has hypnotic, mind-controlling ''dancing''. She can't turn it off.
* MythologyGag: An early scene involves the translatation translation of the runes on Louise's crysalys, chrysalis, and winds up being a full translation of the Scripture of The One-Handed Maiden, which is of course from the Infernal Exalted sourcebook.
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I don\'t think that trope applies to Marisalon just because she can be nice to Louise.


** EthicalSlut: [[spoiler:When she ''does'' get her way, and Louise goes into a HeroicBSOD due to her ValuesDissonance, Marisalon immediately switches gears and tries-albeit ineffectually-to comfort her.]]
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* DishingOutDirt: The exact list of Louise's Charms isn't spelled out, but she appears to have one of Cecelyne's defensive Charms, possesing the ability to burst into Cecelyne's signature sands. At one point, she's mugged by hired thugs and employs this to accidentally shred one of their face's to bloody gibs.


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* FlatWhat: Marisalon gives this after hearing about the elemental set up of Louise's world, particularily at the element of Void and the lack of corrospondance to Wood.
* LoveHurts: Marisalon is a big believer in this (as such is innate to the psychological make up of a Exalted-style demon); eventually this comes out in a rather telling statement when she and Louise argue briefly on the subject.
** Marisalon: There is no love without pain.
* MythologyGag: An early scene involves the translatation of the runes on Louise's crysalys, and winds up being a full translation of the Scripture of The One-Handed Maiden, which is of course from the Infernal Exalted sourcebook.


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* PlayingWithFire: So far, most of Louise's Charms seem to be taken from Malfeas (appropriate, given that she's a Slayer) and a good deal of them relate to Malfeas' signature green fire. Most of it's for show or related to the Green Sun Prince's anima banner, but she's displayed apt use of Green Sun Flare several times. It also appears to be dealing some forms of radiation sickness to certain people, as per canon.


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* UnreliableNarrator: In a manner of speaking; Louise has so far not yet visited the realm of Malfeas in person and so her knowledge of the Yozis is limited solely to what Marisalon tells her (and is certainly an example of this trope, being a neomah), but due to the effects of her Infernal Exaltation, she's developed adoring parental feelings towards Malfeas himself, to possible unfortunate consequences later on.
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** EthicalSlut: [[spoiler:When she ''does'' get her way, and Louise goes into a HeroicBSOD due to her ValuesDissonance, Marisalon immediately switches gears and tries-albeit ineffectually-to comfort her.]]


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** PoisonousFriend: She genuinely has her host's well-being at heart, however, and most of her suggestions seem to be her attempting to advise Louise on a course of action that would make her happy. It just so happens she's saying this from the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality hyper-cynical and self-centered viewpoint of a demon]].
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Mariasalon's train of thought is easily interrupted, to say the least. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Particularly by grapes.]]


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** Louise and Marisalon as well-the latter honestly has good advice between her temptations towards power and AttentionDeficitOohShiny.
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* HornyDevil: As a neomah, this is one of the most immediately notable traits of Marisalon. Unfortunately for her, this is running into Louise's repression, and losing.
* PoweredArmour: Siesta's Lookshyian family comes with this; Louise has a terrifying encounter with a Fire Aspect in gunzosha armour.
* TheCorrupter: Marisalon's job. So far, she hasn't been doing that well at it, because Louise is as stubborn and pig-headed as a Conviction 5 person is expected to be.
* TheClan: Siesta's family, complete with Dragonblooded, mages, and chains of command for passing secret messages around and calling in strike teams.


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* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]] Louise may be empowered by the cosmic force of the creators of linear time and all fixed reality. She still lives for her mother's approval.
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Oh, and separate from the potentially apocalyptic terror in the form of a cute pink-haired girl, ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'' also rebuilds large amounts of the setting using historical research on 1600s Europe, and a cynical viewpoint on the nature of power and its use.

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Oh, and separate from the potentially apocalyptic terror in the form of a cute pink-haired girl, ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'' also rebuilds large amounts of the setting using historical research on 1600s Europe, and a cynical viewpoint on the nature of power and its use.
use, recreating the contrast between gritty fantasy and horrific power that {{TabletopGame/Exalted}} is famous for.
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Oh, and separate from the apocalyptic terror, ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'' also rebuilds large amounts of the setting using historical research on 1600s Europe, and a cynical viewpoint on the nature of power and its use.

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Oh, and separate from the potentially apocalyptic terror, terror in the form of a cute pink-haired girl, ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'' also rebuilds large amounts of the setting using historical research on 1600s Europe, and a cynical viewpoint on the nature of power and its use.
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* BadassAdorable: Irukuwa is clearly the queen of this trope, as an enthusiastic, cute girl who just happens to be a giant man-eating dragon.

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* BadassAdorable: Irukuwa is clearly the queen of this trope, as an enthusiastic, cute girl who just happens to be a giant man-eating dragon.
dragon who cutely expresses her desire to eat hearts.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Louise and Montmorency are in the early stages of this, a friendship born in hospitalising each other.
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-> ''The girl channeled all her hate into that one blow. The world seemed all too shallow, like it was painted on the night's sky, as she struck, the light around her as dark as the void compared to her own incandescent radiance. She reveled in her strength.''

A common tendency in Familiar of Zero fanfic is for Louise to summon someone else. ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'', by EarthScorpion takes the rather more unusual path of having her comprehensively fail to summon anything. And such a failure, so epic, so catastrophic, which ruins her destiny and the entire path of the narrative...

... is enough to draw the attention of an Infernal Exaltation.

So now Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière is running around with the Exaltation which once belonged to Queen Merela welded onto her souls, rebuilt by the crippled titans who forged reality as a tool of their vengeance against the world that betrayed them. In her right hand she carries the burning hate of Malfeas, the King of the Yozis. In her left, the endless sands of Cecelyne the Lawgiver open up. Weep, Halkeginia, for a newborn titan stands upon your shores, with nothing save her own morality protecting you from her.

Oh, and separate from the apocalyptic terror, ''A Green Sun Illuminates the Void'' also rebuilds large amounts of the setting using historical research on 1600s Europe, and a cynical viewpoint on the nature of power and its use.

Fanfiction.net link [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6654901/1/A_Green_Sun_Illuminates_the_Void here]].

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See ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' and ''LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima'' for the tropes of those respective universes.

!!This fanfic contains the following tropes:

* BadassAdorable: Irukuwa is clearly the queen of this trope, as an enthusiastic, cute girl who just happens to be a giant man-eating dragon.

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