History Fanfic / AGreenSunIlluminatesTheVoid

** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Giles]] is said to be a bookish, scholarly name.

** Osmond mentions someone who [[{{Firefly}} juggled geese]].

** A little [[invoked]] 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.

* PlayingWithFire: So far, most of Louise's Charms seem to be taken from Malfeas (appropriate, given that she's a Slayer) and a good number 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.

** To be more specific, this is the one of the effects of the Cecylene Charm Transcendent Desert Creature, not a default part of the Infernal Exaltation.

* 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 Reconquista]].

** 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.

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

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Mariasalon's train of thought is easily interrupted, to say the least. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Particularly by grapes.]]

* CulturalPosturing: Eleanor's primer on the world, starting with her expressed preference for writing it in a 'better' language (which she doesn't because then nobody could read it) and moving on through her repeated {{TakeThat}}s aimed at Germainia. Not least is her complaint that they 'wrongfully' hold some treasures they captured from Tristain; the ''previous sentence'' explained that those treasures were themselves stolen by Tristain during the Second Crusade.

* MythologyGag: An early scene involves the translation of the runes on Louise's 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.

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Chapter 17, written from Merela's perspective, is in the style of an Old English epic (similar to ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'').

* 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 Reconquista]].
* KillerRabbit: Irukuwu 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.

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Chapter 16, written from Merela's perspective, is in the style of an Old English epic (similar to ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'').

* FemmeFatalons: Louise's fingernails turn to brass from the Exaltation. Lampshaded repeatedly how annoying she finds this – she's already gone through multiple nail files trying to keep them trimmed, and the frequent bloodstains from accidentally stabbing her own palms are a pain to wash out of clothing.

* 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, 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.

* FemmeFatalons: Louise's fingernails turn to brass during her Exaltation. Lampshaded repeatedly, how annoying she finds this – she's already gone through multiple nail files because of them, and the bloodstains from repeatedly stabbing her own palms are a pain to keep concealed.
* 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.

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, recreating the contrast between gritty fantasy and horrific power that {{TabletopGame/Exalted}} is famous for.

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

* 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.

** 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.
* 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]]
* 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.

* 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.
* 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.

* OneWingedAngel: Louise has By Rage Recast, which gives her a variety of mutations when her anima flares.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Marisalon, as a neomah, plays a role similar to a succubus. However, from hints dropped about her past she bought her citizenship in hell with bribes and profits made from trade with Creation. Louise has also summoned a sesselja, which is basically a smart animal which likes eating poisons and mending flesh.
* [[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.

* 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.
* 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.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Louise and Montmorency are in the early stages of this, a friendship born in hospitalising each other.
** Louise and Marisalon as well - the latter honestly has good advice between her temptations towards power and AttentionDeficitOohShiny.
* 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 (who is certainly an example of this trope, being a neomah), but due to the effects of her Infernal Exaltation, she's developed a school-girl crush on Malfeas himself, to possible unfortunate consequences later on.

* [[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.
* 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.

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Chapter 16, written from Merela's perspective, is in the style of an Old English epic (similar to ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}).

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Chapter 16, written from Merela's perspective, is in the style of an Old English epic (similar to {{Beowulf}}).

* 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 (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.