History Fanfic / Overlady

* PlayingWithFire: Louise has learned a fire-based spell. And uses it for everything, up to and including warming her bath. And she threatens to set people on fire a lot.

* NecessarilyEvil: Most of the Delusional Evil types are figures of authority on the side of Good, i.e. the Popes. And Louise is convinced that everything she does and plans to do is for the greater good of Tristan.

* [[EvilOverlord Evil Overlady]]: Louise herself. She shows unsuspected talent. There's also speculation from readers that Brimir might have been one (well, an EvilOverlord).

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Ol' Phil, uneducated horse herder who's occasionally quoted in the Epitaphs. He's a crazy old man with an OopNorth accent who has an Elven conspiracy theory for everything. The snag is that he's actually right about what he talks about; as an example, he thinks Elves meet with evil creatures every year to plot and eat cheese on sticks, and they planned to blow up his herd with a ray from space. The forces of Evil ''do'' have secret meetings every year where they plot and eat expensive food, but the only Elves not killed immediately are the Dark kind, and they weren't involved in blowing Phil's herd up.
* TheRunaway: Louise runs away at the beginning of the story, after failing the summon anything during the Spring Summoning ritual. It's how she manages stumbles into the tower in the first place.
* RunningGag: Louise is confronted by angry horses (or unicorns or pegasi) every time she leaves the tower. Even Henrietta's undead mount wants to gore her.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Comprehensively averted with Louise's armor, despite the best efforts of the universe. She was offered many forms of dress for women, with little protection. She then decided that she wanted the male-style ones, which look basically like the canon Overlords' ones. She keeps getting insulted for it, but Louise can actually survive explosions and combat as a result of wearing actual armor.

* GenreSavvy: Eleanore stays within her cell despite being able to escape easily and throws away both the wand that was smuggled to her and her own spare wands. She knew Montespan set that up so she'd have actual crimes to charge her with.

* CreepyCrossdresser: One of the Minions, a Green named Fettid, enjoys wearing dresses and other feminine clothing. Though given the Minions [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent nature]] it's not entirely clear if Fettid is crossdressing at all.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Minions are short, dimwitted, and easily-distracted goblinoids prone to fighting (and killing) each other for loot...but they are ''not'' to be underestimated. During the raid on [[spoiler:the Bloody Duke's tomb]], the Greens take little time to brutally dispatch quite a few of the [[spoiler:vampires]] who were watching the fight from a distance.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though in this case, the ''standards'' apparently consist of not selling all your evil artifacts simply to have the funds to to buy expensive clothes.
** Izah'belya is honestly shocked that a six year old is summoning demons like her.

** Pure heart does not mean "good", as one demon finds out.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: [[spoiler:Cattleya tries to be one.]]

* LesbianVampire: [[spoiler:Cattleya.]]

** Turns out she killed so many Evil Villains that she crashed the economy of hell. It's called the Karinian Crash.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The band of heroes from the heroic interludes only bestow their heroic time and efforts on quests that bring in the big bucks.

* RantInducingSlight: Louise manages to remain fairly stoic when hearing all that's happened during her time in the tower, but learning that Wardes is already sleeping with another woman launches her into a rant that manages to impress Scarron.

* StealthInsult: Eleanore gives a long speech about how Madame de Montespan's expertise is wards and she has spent long hours on her hands and knees working on wards.[[note]]Madame de Montespan is Wardes new fiance after Louise was declared dead[[/note]] She further adds that no one has any doubt about her virtue, fidelity (to the church), and suitability for marriage.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Comprehensively averted with Louise's armor, despite the best efforts of the universe. She was offered many forms of dress for women, with little protection. She then decided that she wanted the male-style ones, which look basically like the canon Overlords' ones.

* TakeThat: Louise rants about the idiocy of the imperial system of measurement at one point due to it's ridiculous conversion rates.
** Jessica is very insistent that subtitles are far better than dubbing.

* ToThePain: Scarron gives a rather impressively gruesome description of what he will do to Louise if she allows Jessica to get killed.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: See DanceOfRomance above for a good example. Emperor Lee's catchprase is the epitome of this. And it's far from being the only example.
--> "Objectively suboptimal".

* {{Epigraph}}: Each part start with a quote, most of them belonging to a blatantly evil or delusional evil figures.

** [[spoiler:Cattleya]] [[Film/Dracula1931 does not drink... wine.]]

* [[EliteMooks Elite Minions]]: Literally. There's a band of five named minions conforming to the standard RPG "Fighter, Rogue, Mage, Healer, Bard" loadout who tend to end up running around on their own engaging in special operations for Louise. And stealing and breaking things when unsupervised.

* AccidentalTruth: The Reconquista accused a family of being demonologists during the rebellion as an excuse to have them all executed and found out afterwards they really were.