History Fanfic / Constellations

* AdaptationalBadass: In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Danny Hebert was a vanilla human with a job at the Dockworkers Union. [[spoiler:Here, he is the Protectorate MinionMaster Chessman, on account of the Queen Administrator having never jumped from him to Taylor.]]

** Assault's thought after he accidentally adopts a Case 53 girl with fox ears and tail by means of giving her inarisushi is that Battery is going to murder him.

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Lung, feeling slighted, decides to backhand Taylor. Sunny takes this... ''poorly''.

** Lung also finds this out the hard way when [[spoiler: striking Taylor is immediately answered with a BoltOfDivineRetribution.]]
* AndroclesLion: Taylor and Sunny first meet Kayden and Aster on one of their walks around the town, and they hit it off on account of Sunny playing peek-a-boo with Aster. Later, when Purity is tasked to destroy the shrine and disrupt Protectorate attention by Kaiser, she stops when she sees the girl and her dog in the courtyard playing her flute, and instead sits down and has tea with her.
* AndYourRewardIsInteriorDecorating: Or ''exterior'' decorating in this case; Sunny dug hundreds of miles of underground tunnel, got Taylor to fix up the shrine, decimated the E88's cape roster, convinced Lung to buy up the shrine land and the surrounding properties and gift it all to Taylor... [[spoiler: so that the dog could dig up a hot spring on the adjacent lot.]]
** Then Sunny engineered the takedown of Coil, including the Undersiders stealing a good chunk of his money before the police found it. [[spoiler: Tattletale then turned over a tithe of the take to Brushstroke and Good Dog as thanks, providing them more than sufficient funds to build and furnish the hot springs, including the construction of a well-stocked bar.]]
** After Taylor patches things up with her father, he, his pawns and his fellow dockworkers provide Taylor with the manpower needed to properly get the structure built up.

** Oni Lee removes his mask while sitting down to dinner with [[spoiler: the Alcotts and New Wave]], because [[SacredHospitality it'd be rude to have it on]]. When one of the other guests asks about him being worried about his SecretIdentity, he finds it amusing because [[IdentityAmnesia even he doesn't know who he is]].

* ApronMatron: The "baachans", and their willingness to make sure Taylor knows everything about being a local Miko. The leader is Yuuta's grandmother, whom Taylor also calls "Baachan".

* BaitAndSwitch: InUniverse, Carol is immediately suspicious when Amy demands that Chekov (the kitten) not be removed from his hiding place of an oven mitt pillow in a drawer... only to relax when she realizes Amy just wants a picture of a kitten napping on an oven mitt pillow.

** Amaterasu/Sunny is incredibly friendly and affectionate, but when [[PrideBeforeAFall Lung backhands Taylor]], Amaterasu responds by [[spoiler: smiting him with a literal BoltOfDivineRetribution. From a circle of clear sky on a cloudy day.]]
*** [[spoiler: The skies were cloudy for the entire rest of the city before the strike, with only a small patch of clearer skies directly over the shrine for the meeting. Lung's only warning of the incoming bolt was [[ShadowOfImpendingDoom the briefest glimmer of a spark in the clear sky directly above the shrine]], before the lightning strike came down upon his head.]]
*** [[spoiler: And just to drive the point home a little further - Lung was wearing his mask at the time. His ''metal'' mask. Which ''melted onto his face''. Oni Lee had to ''cut it off him''.]]
*** Another occasion is when Sunny goes after [[spoiler: Skidmark and the Merchants for attacking the Hebert household.]] Let's just say the sun that morning was less "warming" and more "oppressive".
** In a much more minor example, [[CuteKitten Chekov]] will bat at your face if he wants you to wake up. As Mark and Vicky have found out, though, if you don't, those paws contain *claws*. It's purely innocent, but it does hurt and forces them to wake up.

* CallBack: The first time Emma encountered Taylor doing calligraphy, [[KickTheDog she dumped ink all over Taylor and then smashed her inkwell]]. Many scenes later, Taylor and Emma encounter each other again at Yuuta's house, after Emma has gone through a TraumaCongaLine that included [[spoiler: almost getting eaten by a jorogumo]] and being rescued by Yuuta, and Taylor, riding in on Sunny, wanting Baachan's help with her kimono, on her way to a meeting with the city's parahumans, not even acknowledging her. After Taylor leaves, Yuuta (who's taken up ofuda-making) points out some simple facts about Taylor, and then asks Emma to pass him his inkwell. Emma clearly remembers the first situation when she gently sets the inkwell on the table.
* CannotSpitItOut: Danny and Taylor's relationship is strained to the point that Danny cannot even ask an open-ended question about her. Even after [[spoiler: outing himself as Chessman to her]], his first question is if she got all her homework done. Things do seem to be improving after that incident though.

** After Taylor's summer project of fixing up the shrine attracts the terrible attention of Lung (even though [[spoiler: Sunny successfully chastises him]]), she tells Sunny that she doesn't want to be a hero and all she wants to do is hang out with her doggy friend. After [[spoiler: the Merchants invade her home and Sunny goes to teach them a lesson]], Taylor successfully negotiates with Oni Lee on her own and tells Sunny that it's not fair to let her do everything on her own and that she wants to help out with Cape business too.

** Mr. Henrick, Taylor's older neighbor whom she often helps out, and as it turns out, the former school superintendent. When Taylor gets accused of siccing gang members on Emma, everyone, even Danny, seems to not believe her until Mr. Henrick barges in and stands up for her, telling them how much of a good girl she is and how she sometimes comes home crying. The case against Taylor falls apart after this.
** Alan Barnes ''tries'' to be one for Shadow Stalker. Unfortunately for him and Shadow Stalker, [[spoiler: Danny Hebert, in this story a cape named Chessman, finds out about this less than an hour after the above encounter with Henrick and how Alan accused Taylor of gang membership and drug use until Henrick shut him up. Sophia Hess isn't heard from again, implying that Chessman pointed this out to Piggot and had the Character Witness revoked]].

** Throughout the story, characters have given Taylor and Sunny a gift of a handful of beads, some jewelry or the like, which they have placed in a partitioned box with segments corresponding to the 13 zodiac animals. Time will tell what significance this will play.

** Taylor meets Oni Lee this way when chasing after Sunny in the Asian district. [[spoiler: Fortunately, Oni Lee confuses her for a {{Miko}} and not only spares her, but ''apologizes''.]]
** On a visit to the Protectorate HQ, Sunny plays fetch with Taylor by throwing a toy Armsmaster halberd from the gift shop, and when Taylor tries to grab it, she runs right into the real Armsmaster right as he steps out of the elevator.
* CuteKitten: Taylor finds a box of free kittens and ends up giving one to the Dallons. They name it Chekov, and he soon becomes a very influential part of the family. Amy Dallon, AKA Panacea, also has a new hobby: taking pictures of Chekov doing adorable things, such as sleeping on an oven mitt inside a drawer or trying to fight the RodentsOfUnusualSize through the TV while watching ''Princess Bride.''
* DeathGlare: After the Protectorate has had a truly awful Halloween (full of eldritch creatures causing trouble), Armsmaster strolls into the cafeteria in the morning, apparently without a care in the world, reminding everyone to attend a briefing in 20 minutes.

* DebtDetester: Let's just say that Lung's not happy about finding himself in an honour debt to the Miko and the Ōkami she serves, and is willing to do things like [[spoiler: assault Coil's base under grounds of breaking the unwritten rules]] to repay it.

* DeclarationOfProtection: Oni Lee says as much to [[spoiler: the Alcotts and New Wave]] about [[spoiler: Dinah]].
-->'''Oni Lee:''' My sister did not choose this, but others chose for her. [[spoiler: Dinah]] has not chosen this. Others have attempted to choose for her. I do not agree with their presumption; that is why I do this.
* DisapprovingLook: [[EveryoneHasStandards Oni Lee]] levels one that's both incredulous and disappointed against his boss when he orders Lee to commission something from Parian: [[spoiler: [[{{Troll}} an Armsmaster speedo]]]].
* DonutMessWithACop: Miss Militia [[DiscussedTrope thinks about]] this trope as she goes to buy one. For all the stereotypes, donuts are great snacks for cops on the go, since they're cheap, compact, don't spoil at room temperature, and full of energy-providing sugars, carbs, and maybe even ''pudding''.
* DoubleTake: Battery, Lung and Purity all do this when they see Armsmaster with Sunny's head on his knee and petting her without even realizing it. Assault even does a SpitTake.
* DueToTheDead: Sunny grows a red spider lily outside the shrine for [[spoiler: Coil's mercenaries that tried to kidnap Dinah on the grounds, and who were killed by Oni Lee in retaliation]].

** Coil starts out his plans to waylay Brushstroke and her interfering Good Dog thinking that she made a deal with Lung and the ABB for protection. But after [[spoiler: Lung breaks into his base at the Ōkami's behest]], he realizes he got it the wrong way round; ''Lung'' is the one in debt to ''Brushstroke''.

** And later, after resolving to [[{{Troll}} mess with the Protectorate without actively antagonizing them]], he commissions [[spoiler: an ''Armsmaster speedo'']] to wear to the hot springs.

* ExtendedDisarming: Oni Lee has to go through this when [[spoiler: Mrs. Alcott]] finally agrees to invite him for dinner. Final count is four fragmentation grenades, two flashbangs, six knives, and one shortsword.
* FaceFault: Sunshine does one when, even after [[spoiler: confronting three Merchant home invaders, generating his portable army, blowing up the wall of his house, and outing himself as the hero Chessman in front of Taylor]], all Danny can say to his daughter is to ask if she's done her homework.

** The sentries that Oni Lee placed around [[spoiler: the Alcott home]] must not have been doing their jobs, if they failed to inform him that he'd be going to dinner with [[spoiler: New Wave]].
* FisherKing: Sunshine's presence around Brockton Bay has had the city still getting the spring sun even during the winter months, something Dragon has noticed.
** And that's not taking into account the [[spoiler: [[BoltOfDivineRetribution deadly accurate lightning strikes]]]] or the sunlight becoming unseasonably harsh in certain altercations.

** A frequent occurrence for the PRT when Good Dog is on the loose, ranging from finding a nose-print obscuring a camera at the top of a telephone pole to Good Dog stealing a local heroine's bike and going for a ride. While drunk.

* FriendshipTrinket: As Taylor interacts with people around Brockton Bay and slowly helps them change and improve, a turning point in their relationship is marked by them giving Taylor and Sunny a gift of a handful of beads, some jewelry or the like, which is then placed in a partitioned box with segments corresponding to the 13 EasternZodiac animals.

** Saru, the monkey: Haru, Yuuta and Souta, as they each discover their paths in life away from the ABB (Souta becoming a mechanic's assistant, Haru joining the swim team, and Yuuta learning to draw and sell protective ofuda).

** Hitsuji, the sheep: Danny, after he and Taylor rebuild their relationship, he helps renovate the [[spoiler: hot spring]] that she now owns, and they share their family recipe for meatloaf.
* FromBadToWorse: From Taylor's perspective. Having Oni Lee, Assault, Battery, and Armsmaster all show up at the shrine in short succession was bad enough, but then Lung arrives. And then Purity comes for a visit as well. Taylor asks Purity if Skidmark was anywhere in the vicinity.

* GetOut: What happens to [[spoiler: Skidmark]] after he gets Sunshine on his case: she drags him to the highway, [[BulletDancing shoots some ink bullets at his feet]], and basically runs him out of town.

* GoneHorriblyRight: When [[EnsembleDarkhorse Yuuta]] notices someone taking down Taylor's flyers, he assumes it's anti-ABB sentiment and sets out to find the perpetrators and stop them. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a [[{{Youkai}} Jorogumo]] that tricked Emma into helping her because the flyers had a ProtectiveCharm on the back.]] Yuuta winds up [[spoiler: saving Emma]] and [[spoiler: killing the [[SpiderPeople Jorogumo]]]] and then puts up Taylor's charms all over ABB Territory and the Shrine area after the encounter. His grandmother now wants to [[spoiler: set him up with [[AlphaBitch Emma]]]] and Oni Lee has officially made him [[spoiler: responsible for protecting ABB territory from further Youkai attacks.]] [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Oni Lee]] also threatened Yuuta with death if he does a bad job or [[spoiler: fails to compensate Taylor properly for her [[ProtectiveCharm talismans]].]]
** Then it becomes this trope for Oni Lee himself too, since [[spoiler: he didn't realize Yuuta wasn't a full member of the ABB when he gave Yuuta his marching orders. Conscripting an underclassman and someone who Taylor considers a friend (and indirect subordinate) has put her on his case.]]

** For a Western equivalent, picture finding the original of da Vinci's ''The Last Supper'' on the wall of an American neighborhood church after Rome has been destroyed.

* HeroicBuild: Defied with Chessman [[spoiler:a.k.a. Danny Hebert]], who's tall but thin as a rail. [[spoiler:When Danny reveals his identity, he points out that the Protectorate's penchant for this portrayal is not a good idea, and he is soon proven right as support for the Protectorate grows in the aftermath.]]

** When Sunshine decides to go after [[spoiler: Coil, the snake villain finds his escape plans and multiple timelines cut off one by one,]] until his only possible future is being arrested by the cops for speeding then handed over to the PRT.

** Lung, [[spoiler: when the ABB leader breaks into his base for apparently violating the truce]].
** Good Dog, [[spoiler: when Coil sees her chasing after him on the interstate. And even splitting timelines just puts her [[StealthHiBye right in front of him]]]].
* ImNotAHeroIm: Taylor has to reaffirm to everyone that she isn't a cape, just a regular girl with a very weird dog. Very few people believe her. Even Danny is convinced that Sunny is just a semi-independent projection manifested by Taylor's power.

'''Lung: Yes.'''
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Lung gifts the land properties for the shrine and the surrounding lots to Brushstroke, Purity comments that he got them cheap since his gang cratered the property values. [[spoiler: A moment later, Sunny digs up a hot spring on an adjacent lot (that Brushstroke now owns)]], and the property value of the land suddenly isn't so 'cratered' any more.

** As befitting the irony that comes with getting parahuman powers, Danny Hebert, the union man dedicated to helping workers and labourers get good, paying jobs, [[spoiler:triggered with the power of TheMinionMaster, giving him all the cheap, unpaid labor that anyone could ask for.]]
* KissingTheGround: After the insanity that was the Cape tea party at the shrine and finding out that [[spoiler: Sunny went to the trouble of clearing out the E88 and manipulating Lung just to own a hot spring]], Taylor is so happy to return to Winslow and normalcy that she hugs the building.

---> '''Taylor:''' Sunny, did you ''wipe out the Empire'', dig a ''hundred miles'' or so of tunnels, and then ''manipulate Lung'' into buying up the street… [[spoiler: ''[[SuddenlyShouting SO YOU COULD OWN A HOT SPRING?!]]'']]

** To a lesser extent, Chekov's presence in the household also helps bring Mark out of his depression, and keeps Amy from being so dour all the time.
* MuggingTheMonster: A trio of Merchants find themselves on the wrong end of this trope. Breaking into the home of Brushstroke, a known rogue with pacifist leanings, is one thing. Breaking into the home of [[spoiler:Chessman, a member of the Protectorate and known to [[TheMinionMaster keep literal armies in his sleeves]],]] is another...

* NobleDemon: Oni Lee may be an assassin -- but he takes the safety and neutrality of the Pawprint Shrine ''very seriously'' and [[spoiler:saves Dinah Alcott when she is almost kidnapped]].

** [[SerialEscalation And then Purity shows up as well.]] Taylor asks her if she saw the Merchants headed that way.

** [[TheMinionMaster Chessman]] [[spoiler: (Danny)]] and his debut on the cape scene, detailed [[AllThereInTheManual in a separate post]]: In retaliation for an attack on the Docks by the E88, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge he crashed an E88 rally]] with ''[[TankGoodness three fully-grown Sherman Tanks]]''.

*** When [[spoiler: Lung breaks into his base after the dragon is told by Oni Lee that Dinah's kidnapping attempt ended up on shrine grounds, and that Tattletale is cutting off his security]].
*** When [[spoiler: he realizes that Lung and Tattletale are attacking him at the behest of Brushstroke, and what that means]]:

*** When [[spoiler: he sees [[ImplacableMan Good Dog chasing him on the interstate]]. In ''multiple timelines'']].
** A pair of twins come visit Pawprint Shrine, but are suddenly terrified by Sunshine dropping back in and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quickly take their leave]]. Perhaps the [[AsianFoxSpirit fox-tails]] [[GlamourFailure on their rears]] had something to do with it.
** Miss Militia has one when Assault sends her a picture of [[spoiler: [[{{Troll}} Lung wearing an Armsmaster speedo]] in the hot springs]] and says that it's probably on the internet somewhere. The next time she's seen, she has practically shut down the base's internet and is shouting at Armsmaster not to open his email. The following is some of her panicked [=IMs=] to Assault, who notified her of it:

* OhNoNotAgain: Taylor has this reaction after she is dropped off at the Undersiders' base and Sunny goes haring off on her own, and somehow infers to Tattletale's power something that causes her to [[BigYes react excitedly]].

** [[spoiler: The Undersiders then rob Coil of most of his funds, and give Taylor a $3 million cut of the takings in exchange for Sunny setting this up.]]
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Haru, one of the ABB gang members that ends up helping Taylor fix up the shrine, has a cousin that turns out to be [[spoiler: Bakuda]].[[note]]Or rather, the nerved-up engineering student at Cornell that would have become [[spoiler: Bakuda]] if not for certain parties' intervention...[[/note]]

** In addition, the sudden influx of [[spoiler: {{Youkai}}]] on Halloween leave more than a few capes stunned at the surge of weird occurrences.

* PedestrianCrushesCar: Between her [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Power Slash]] brush powers and being strong enough to tear off bumpers, no car that Sunshine sets her interests on is getting away intact, especially not [[spoiler: Coil's little getaway Prius]].

** [[spoiler: Taylor seems to be able to see the red markings that only appear for people who see Ammy as a god, but it's unclear if she can see them all the time, or only on occasion.]]

** Every moment Oni Lee spends with [[spoiler: Dinah Alcott]] is this, from rescuing her from kidnappers and walking her home, to getting invited to dinner by her and watching her build a snowman.

* PortalDoor: [[spoiler: A door in the new hot spring opens to the land of humanoid sparrow onsen-managers.]] Rather than enter, Taylor decides to close it and go for some tea instead.

* PrideBeforeAFall: Lung, when he walks into the shrine and attacks the parahuman {{Miko}} for apparently encroaching on ABB territory. But he soon finds he got the context wrong: the Miko was tasked to care for the shrine by the Kami that is her companion, and ''he'' just encroached on ''her'' territory. [[spoiler: [[BoltOfDivineRetribution And the Kami is]] ''[[BoltOfDivineRetribution not pleased]]'']].

*** But that's not the end of it; since her mum refused to let [[spoiler: Oni Lee]] stay for dinner, Dinah has resolved to 'get lost' at the shrine every day and have [[spoiler: Oni Lee]] walk her home until her mum caves. It eventually works.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: The glamor that Karen the jorogumo uses to manipulate Emma Barnes into helping her is described as being tall, with curly (albeit blonde) hair and a mouth too wide to be pretty, and Yuuta finds those features oddly familiar when he sees her. Those features are commonly used to describe Taylor, and it's obvious that the jorogumo picked up on some of Emma's hangups about her former friend and tweaked her glamor accordingly]].

** Oni Lee also adopts the above mantra when [[spoiler: he is invited to a dinner with the Alcott family, only to also find New Wave in attendance as well]].

* SecurityCling: Yuuta wants to call his baachan after a harrowing experience, but finds it difficult because Emma, the girl he just saved from [[spoiler: a jorogumo]], won't let go of his arm.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Yuuta and his friends initially remember Taylor as a bit of a "butterface"[[note]]As in, "I would date her just because she has a chest...''but her face!''"[[/note]] from their earlier interactions with her at Winslow, but after Taylor comes out in a kimono after asking Yuuta's grandmother for help, Yuuta concludes that the clothes really do make the man, or in this case, miko.

** Coil fleeing the city first sees [[spoiler: Good Dog's face]] in his rear-view mirror, right above the [[Franchise/JurassicPark "Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear" label]].

** Oni Lee becomes this to [[spoiler: Coil's attempt to kidnap Dinah Alcott; when the girl runs into Pawprint Shrine to try and escape her kidnappers with Oni Lee in attendance, he makes short work of her pursuers and brings her home.]]
*** Extra credit for [[spoiler: Coil trying to get rid of the obvious spanner, by getting the Undersiders to "officially" invite Brushstroke and Good Dog to the meeting at Somer's Rock, only for a different spanner to snarl up his plans]].

** When Legend pays a visit to Brockton Bay, she wonders if he'll stick around long enough for an autograph, and when [[spoiler: she finds out her father is the Protectorate hero Chessman]], she wonders if she can get ''all'' the autographs.

* SurvivalMantra: Or Sanity Mantra in this case: Taylor has to repeat "[[SacredHospitality Tea time is courtesy time]]" to herself to reassure herself that nothing will go wrong, even when the Protectorate, Lung, Oni Lee and Purity have all sat down to tea at her shrine. Given the procession of insanity that is her life now, it's not surprising.

* TemptingFate: As Armsmaster is leaving for [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness his time off]], leaving Dauntless in charge, Dauntless assures him that nothing will go wrong and asks "What's the worst that could happen?" Miss Militia, Assault and Velocity instantly appear with a number of issues and Armsmaster quickly [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere clocks out]].

** Emma's TraumaCongaLine (as specified below) finally comes to an end when [[spoiler: Yuuta rescues her and his [[ApronMatron baachan]] decides to help her get her head back on straight]].
* TraumaCongaLine: Things really haven't been going Emma's way at all. She was mugged, almost killed, latched on to her rescuer Sophia as her new friend, abandoned and turned on her old friend Taylor to prove her strength, had her bullying confronted by the ABB, [[spoiler: suddenly had Sophia removed when her CharacterWitness came under scrutiny]], tried to find a new friend in Karen, [[spoiler: only to find out that Karen was a [[TsuchigumoAndJorogumo Jorogumo]] wanting to eat her]]. [[spoiler: Yuuta befriending her after rescuing her from said Jorogumo]] and not abandoning her is the first good thing that's happened to her for a while, and it's taking some time for her to rearrange her thoughts.

** [[spoiler: When Coil's men continue to pursue Dinah Alcott after she flees onto shrine grounds, Oni Lee kills the would-be kidnappers for violating the truce and walks the girl home. Then Lung goes after Coil personally, trapping Calvert between a timeline where he gets incinerated and one where he gets arrested by the PRT]].
* TsuchigumoAndJorogumo: A jorogumo shows up, manipulating and trying to eat [[spoiler: Emma Barnes]], and is promptly exorcised by some ofuda that Sunny/Amaterasu had had Taylor make in the lead-up to Halloween.

** Chapter 12 - [[spoiler: Lung finally confronts Taylor at the shrine, thinking that she's trying to muscle in on his territory. Taylor is understandably nervous at first, but eventually find her confidence, culminating in actually ''telling Lung off''. Lung strikes her and orders Oni Lee to dispose of her... and is immediately [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck by lightning]] in a way that makes it perfectly clear to Lung that this was the Kami's doing]]. The fallout of this act is shown in later chapters.
** Chapter 13 - [[spoiler: The Protectorate has taken notice of Sunny's stunt in the last chapter and the sheer WeatherManipulation involved, and have begun to investigate the shrine.]]
** Chapter 33 - [[spoiler: On Halloween, Yuuta catches Emma and her new friend Karen taking down the flyers/exorcism charms made by Taylor... and Karen turns out to be a ''[[TsuchigumoAndJorogumo Jorogumo]]'', proving that Sunny wasn't paranoid and there are {{Youkai}} now prowling about Brockton Bay.]] The next few chapters show that [[spoiler: this wasn't an isolated incident - Chapter 34 starts with the PRT dead tired from a night of weird encounters, (heavily implied to be more {{Youkai}}) and Oni Lee mentions being followed by one on Halloween in Ch. 35.]]
** Chapter 35 has [[spoiler: Purity asking Taylor to set up a meeting with Battery at Pawprint Shrine.]] It's not until Chapter 38 that we find out why - [[spoiler: Purity wants to get out of Brockton Bay, and she's willing to provide information on the Empire to do so.]]
** Chapter 39 - [[spoiler: a group of Merchant thugs break into the Hebert household, looking for Taylor/Brushstroke. A PapaWolf-induced CurbStompBattle ensues, after which Taylor finally finds out her father is Chessman.]]
** Chapter 50 - [[spoiler: Kayden/Purity finally leaves Brockton Bay,]] and [[spoiler: Taylor finally gets some closure with Emma.]] Also, a pair of twins visit Taylor, and ask if they can tell 'a few friends' about the Shrine. Nothing special, [[spoiler: except for the fact that the girls are actually disguised kitsune. Sunny's presence scares them off, but it seems like Taylor's {{Youkai}} troubles are just beginning...]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Oni Lee vows to give his men a talking to for not warning him that the Alcotts, who he was going to see, were having [[spoiler:New Wave]] over for dinner. [[spoiler:All of them]].

* XanatosSpeedChess: Upon seeing that Good Dog apparently dropped Brushstroke off at their hideout and ran off somewhere, Tattletale's power instantly garners Good Dog's plan to [[spoiler: fully take out Coil]] and immediately runs for her computer to cut off Coil's electronic escape plans.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Thanks to the influence of the baachans, Taylor is slowly adopting the mannerisms of one during Shrine Business. How else would she manage to chastise Lung for [[GladIThoughtOfIt taking credit for declaring the shrine neutral ground]] in front of the Protectorate?

* YouAndWhatArmy: [[TheMinionMaster Chessman's powers]] make him perfect at pulling it off.

* DebtDetester: Let's just say that Lung's not happy about finding himself in an honour debt to the Miko and the Ōkami she serves, and is willing to do things like [[spoiler: assault Coil's base under grounds of breaking the unwritten rules]] to repay it.
-->'''Lung:''' ''(paraphrased)'' And I'm paying debt to Ōkami, ''if it's the last thing you do!''

* YourMindMakesItReal: Implied in the later chapters, as more of the Asian immigrants and refugees find out about the shrine, and Sunny's true nature. The presence of ''onryo'' and other Japanese beings of myth are reported throughout the Asian quarters.

* ShipperOnDeck: Quite a few of the local PRT for Dragon and Armsmaster, if inference is anything to go by.
--> '''Piggot:''' ''Piggot noticed the faint sound of disappointment in Dragon’s voice, and made a mental note to adjust her bet in the shipping pools.''