History Fanfic / Overlady

** It's not just to the minions. Emperor Lee has heard the one about more wands as well, and he lives across the ocean.

* ObviouslyEvil: Apparently, every generation of the Vallières apart from the current Duke and Karin. One of Louise's ancestors was a previous Overlady, and her grandmother actively summoned demons and [[BloodBath bathed in the blood]] of commoners to [[FountainOfYouth regain her youth]].

* OxymoronicBeing: Athe the Doubter is worshiped by being ignored and denying his existence as his realms include doubt and disbelief, and as such, atheists are amongst his favored mortals.

* 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.

* TakeAThirdOption: When confronted with killing [[spoiler:Cattleya]] or being killed by her, Louise throws a bunch of coins at her then beats her senseless while [[spoiler:Cattleya's]] forced to count them.

* TheUnfavourite: Eleanor. Born of unplanned pregnancy when neither the Duke nor Karin were willing to retire yet, and thus was mostly raised by the household staff, resulting in the somewhat distant relationship with her parents. [[spoiler:And then her attempt to impress them resulted in Cattleya becoming a vampire, and she was nearly disowned for this. She now lives in Amstelredamme, and very rarely comes home.]]

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Inverted. The minions raising hell while disguised as children actually helps their disguises as everyone knows children are little monsters.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Louise frequently misses other's hints that [[spoiler:her elder sister Cattleya]] is a lesbian, thinking they're talking about her [[spoiler:obvious vampirism]] instead.

* DoubleEntendre: So much of the humor in this. Especially when the subject of Scarron is raised, but there's also a running side joke about how Louise doesn't have a tall tower like previous (male) overlords.

* LesbianVampire: [[spoiler:Cattleya is all but stated to be one. During her return to the family estate, Louise found Cattelya literally face-first in her maid's crotch (granted, Cattelya was having to be sneaky about drinking blood). She's totally immune to Jessica's incubus aura when the latter's excited about the Cabal Awards (something that Jessica quickly picks up on and tries to gently point out to Louise). Cattleya also makes a point of saving young women just to hire them to be new maids]].

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Jessica reassures Louise that there's absolutely no chance of a monster breaking free during the performance and killing everyone.

** [[Disney/{{Mulan}} They'll make minions out of you.]]

* 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. Everyone in the audience is playing along, including the man overseeing the debate.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Louise frequently misses other's hints that [[spoiler:Cattleya]] is a lesbian, thinking they're talking about her [[spoiler:vampirism]].

* LesbianVampire: [[spoiler:Cattleya. During her return to the family estate, Louise found Cattelya literally face-first in her maid's crotch (granted, Cattelya was having to be sneaky about drinking blood). Cattleya also makes a point of saving young women just to hire them to be new maids]].

* MagicAIsMagicA: Incubus allure makes people see the wielder as an extremely handsome man, while succubus allure makes the wielder appear to be a very beautiful woman. The person's gender does not factor into the equation. This means some people are unfortunate enough to be a completely different gender from their allure, meaning people automatically see you as an attractive person ''of the opposite sex'', as shown with Jessica.

* ForWantOfANail: How much trouble would Tristain and Henrietta be in without Louise to clean up the mess? Let's bury her underground for three months and find out!

* {{Glamour}}: A common demon power, though minions also seem to have it somehow. Jessica suffers because, as a half-''incubus'' girl, it makes her appear as a irresistibly handsome guy, and when she gets too excited the changes become physical.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Demons who have Hero blood suffer from major FantasticRacism in the Abyss, while Humans with Demon blood in them always run the risk of being killed by intrepid Heroes above ground. This leaves half Demon, half Hero hybrids like Jessica stuck between a rock and a hard place.

* MistakenForGay: Louise a couple of times, mainly thanks to her choosing to wear sensible armour unlike the stripperific attire Overladies traditionally wear. [[spoiler:Potentially not mistaken after a recent reaction to Henrietta.]]

* NightmareFetishist: Monsieur Blanc, the butler of the Vallière household, is one. When a maid recounts a supposed encounter with a ghost, he goes into a rant about how the house used to be properly ghost-infested and the former owner (Louise's grandfather) and his wife used to positively collect and manufacture more ghosts by torturing people to death, then complaints about how Louise's parents got rid of all them, much to the butler's dismay. The two maids listening to him understandably have a little trouble sharing his enthusiasm about ghosts and torturing people.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Spoofed to hell and back when Louise walks in on Cattleya in a compromising position with one of her maids. [[spoiler:Cattleya was sucking her blood]].

* OxymoronicBeing: Athe the Doubter is worshiped by being ignored and denying his existence as his realms include doubt and disbelief.

** One dark elf is so bad that everyone (including the narration) simply calls him "Apostrophe".

* 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. Wardes remains a sore spot for her, and she goes into further rants later on.

* SeriousBusiness: Maxy the minion takes poetry very seriously and viciously beats a particularly bad bard for a) having too many syllables in one line, b) trying to rhyme lament with Gramont.

** [[spoiler:Louise]] and her "confusion" about [[spoiler:Princess Henrietta]], which starts getting worse over time. She gets very flustered by her, and keeps having to convince herself that it's her Evil blood's traditional reaction to a captive [[spoiler:princess]], and not her being sexually attracted to her.

The above sentence roughly summarises the general approach of Overlady to the conventions of the fantasy genre.

Through a series of events which are thoroughly Evil and not coincidental, Louise found herself as the new overlord - well, overlady, as she is of the feminine persuasion - of a tower and attached dungeons which might charitably be called a 'fixer-upper'. However, it also came with a full tribe of Minions, including a certain elderly goblinoid who calls himself Gnarl and was very impressed by her natural - and denied - capacity for Evil. And so began the tale of the most Evil overlady known to (some people's) history.

** Interestingly, there are some hints that they, especially Karin, aren't all that squeaky-clean as they'd like people to believed - the main piece of evidence being [[spoiler:Karin had to have a rather late ShotgunWedding due to falling pregnant with Eleanor.]]

--> Under her armour, she no has fingers. She only have more wands. For more magic.
--> They say she blow Overlord so hard he go flying up into sky and only leave tiny twinkle behind, and that where that song come from.
--> They say, if you see her and you Evil, it already too late. If you not see her, you maybe only seconds from death.
--> We only have to fight the bear carpet in her room? It not dead, you see; it just scared to move.
--> I hear there is once a sucky-bus who is falling for the Karin. Then she take it into room and when she come out, it go and become a nun.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Spoofed to hell and back when Louise walks in on Cattleya in a compromising position with one of her maids. [[spoiler:Cattleya was sucking her blood.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: Apparently, every generation of the Vallières apart from the current Duke and Karin. One of Louise's ancestors was a previous Overlady, and her grandmother actively summoned demons and [[BloodBath bathed in the blood]] of commoners to [[FountainOfYouth regain her youth.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The band of heroes from the heroic interludes only bestow their heroic time and efforts on quests that bring in the big bucks. Some of the group have an actual reason for this beyond simple greed, however.
** Kirche's reason for doing this is to gain enough money to buy her own lands and property, as she'll only be the heir to the Zebst fortune [[HeirClubForMen so long as her father doesn't have a legitimate son]], which she accepts will happen someday.

* PunctuationShaker: Most demon names are a creatively spelled human name with some apostrophes thrown in, such as Izah'belya (Isabella).

* StupidSexyFlanders: [[spoiler:Kirche in drag provokes this reaction from Montmorency.]]
** [[spoiler:Louise and her "confusion" about Princess Henrietta, which starts getting worse over time. Louise gets very flustered by the Princess, and keeps having to convince herself that it's her Evil blood's traditional reaction to a captive princess, and not her being sexually attracted to Henrietta]].

* TakeThat: Louise rants about the idiocy of the imperial system of measurement at one point due to its ridiculous conversion rates.

* ToThePain: Scarron gives a rather impressively gruesome description of what he will do to Louise if she allows Jessica to get killed. Jessica gets angry about it when she learns about it, since Scarron keeps scaring her friends off with the speech.

** [[spoiler:Louise and her "confusion" about Princess Henrietta, which starts getting worse over time. Louise gets very flustered by the Princess, and keeps having to convince herself that it's her Evil blood's traditional reaction to a captive princess, and not her personally be sexually attracted to Henrietta]].

* [[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.

* [[EvilOverlord Evil Overlady]]: Louise herself. She shows unsuspected talent for Evilness, even if she has to convince herself she's actually doing Good deeds. There's also speculation from readers that Brimir might have been one (well, an EvilOverlord).

** [[spoiler:Louise and her "confusion" about Princess Henrietta, which is getting worse over time. Louise gets very flustered by the Princess, and keeps having to convince herself that it's her Evil blood's traditional reaction to a captive princess]].

* AnachronismStew: All over the place in the Abyss. Let's see, they have enchanted mirrors which serve as TV cameras, paparazzi (who, due to the absence of cameras, rapidly sketch pictures instead), damned souls chained to toilet walls which blow out hot air to dry your hands, and several dragons are seen talking about drops in the 'hoard market'. Can be explained though because the part of Abyss where these things appear is basicly a(n even more) corrupt and hellish parody version of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, appropriately called "Los Diablos".

* 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.
** [[spoiler:Cattleya]] is quite the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} but is still a rather powerful vampire.

* SeriousBusiness: Maxy the minion takes poetry very seriously and viciously beats a particularly bad bard for a) having too many syllables in one line, b) [[PainfulRhyme trying to rhyme lament with Gramont]].

** One of the Minions finds a ring it describes as "[[Literature/LordOfTheRings precious]]."

* {{Glamour}}: A common demon power, though minions also seem to have it somehow. Jessica suffers because, as a half-''incubus'' girl, it makes her appear as a dashingly hangsome guy, and when she gets too excited the changes become physical.

* HypocriticalHumor: When it comes to "Heroes" and Delusional Evil.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Jessica specialises in making these. First she designs a cool suit of demonic armour for Louise with functional heels and blood-red cloak draped over it, which accentuates and emphasises Louise's figure, while also offering full-body protection. Later she creates a gorgeous scarlet wedding dress for [[spoiler:Cattleya]] made out of a gauzy fabric [[spoiler:''dyed in unicorn blood'' (fitting because Cattleya is a vampire)]], for both looking fabulous while also allowing for mobility in a fight.

* KarmaMeter: As a faux-novelization of the imaginary ''Familiar of Zero''-themed ''Overlord'' game, there is a morality system with three branches: Pragmatic Evil (conquer the village and exploit it), Indulgent Evil (burn the village because it pissed you off somehow), and Delusional Evil (either of above options, with the "For the Greater Good" excuse), with possible overlap between them.

* LargeHam: Vampires are noted to have a tendency towards melodrama, a trait that can actively be used against them since they love to waste time showing off and giving unnecessary speeches.

* MistakenForGay: Louise a couple of times, mainly thanks to her choosing to wear sensible armour unlike the stripperific attire overladies usually wear. [[spoiler:Potentially not mistaken after a recent reaction to Henrietta.]]

** It's not just to the minions. Emperor Lee has heard the one about more wands as well.

** Montmorency stops three hundred mercenaries from attacking her group by hiring them. Their previous employer is quite upset that worked.
* MundaneUtility: Louise uses evil fire to heat her bath.

* NightmareFetishist: Monsieur Blanc, the butler of the Vallière household, is one. When a maid recounts a supposed encounter with a ghost, he goes into a rant about how the house used to be properly ghost-infested and the former owner (Louise's grandfather) and his wife used to positively collect and manifacture more ghosts by torturing people to death, then complaints about how Louise's parents got rid of all them, much to the butler's dismay. The two maids listening to him understandably have a little trouble sharing his enthusiasm about ghosts and torturing people.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8753582/1/Overlady Overlady]]'' is a crossover between ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' and ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1768170/EarthScorpion Earth Scorpion]].

Originaly posted on Spacebattles ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/overlady-overlord-znt.241075/ Thread 1]] and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/overlady-attack-of-the-minions-thread-ii.264832/ Thread 2]]) before EarthScorpion left and went to Sufficent Velocity ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/overlady-overlord-znt.1324/ Thread 1]] and [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/overlady-attack-of-the-minions-thread-ii.1325/ Thread 2]]). The newest chapters are posted on Sufficent Velocity. On the other hand the Spacebattles thread get notification posts on the new updates on Sufficent Velocity and the FanFiction version is not always up-to-date since EarthScorpion delays posting the final edited chapters there. The Fanfiction version also does not have the achievements

This dark and malevolent tale of wickedness begins, as such things do, on a dark and stormy night. Well, no. That's a lie. It was a dark and stormy mid-afternoon. But it was still pretty sinister!

!!! See ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' and ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''. Specific tropes found in Overlady

* OlderThanTheyLook: Kirche is actually twenty. When the others are surprised, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that she got kicked out of multiple academies and is both taller and bustier than every other girl at school]].

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Subverted; Kirche is actually twenty. When the others are surprised, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that she got kicked out of multiple academies and is both taller and bustier than every other girl at school]].

* AnachronismStew: All over the place in the Abyss. Let's see, they have enchanted mirrors which serve as TV cameras, paparazzi (who, due to the absence of cameras, rapidly sketch pictures instead), damned souls chained to toilet walls which blow out hot air to dry your hands, and several dragons are seen talking about drops in the 'hoard market'. Can be explained though because the Abyss is basicly a(n even more) corrupt and hellish parody version of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, appropriately called "Los Diablos".

** Henrietta gives a laundry list of things that, according to her father, a proper princess should be able to do, [[LongList which among other things includes]] [[VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen speaking in public, defend herself from bandits, not eat poisoned sweets, not let her best be bitten by a snake, do appealing decorations, and fight evil witch-kings.]]

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

* DanceOfRomance: Averted with Louise and Lee's dance during the Cabal Awards, mainly due to the fact that both of them are wearing full plate.

* ApologeticAttacker: Louise [[spoiler:when fighting Cattleya, who is under the Bloody Duke's mind control. Cattleya does apologiza back, too.]]

* AnachronismStew: All over the place in the Abyss. Let's see, they have enchanted mirrors which serve as TV cameras, paparazzi (who, due to the absence of cameras, rapidly sketch pictures instead), damned souls chained to toilet walls which blow out hot air to dry your hands, and several dragons are seen talking about drops in the 'hoard market'.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Jessica specialises in making these. First she designs a cool suit of demonic armour for Louise with functional heels and blood-red cloak draped over it, which accentuates and emphasises Louise's figure, while also offering full-body protection. Later she creates a gorgeous scarlet wedding dress for Cattleya made out of a gauzy fabric ''dyed in unicorn blood'' (fitting because Cattleya is a vampire), for both looking fabulous while also allowing for mobility in a fight.

* 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.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Jessica specialises in making these. First she designs a cool suit of demonic armour for Louise with functional heels and blood-red cloak draped over it, which accentuates and emphasises Louise's figure, while also offering full-body protection. Later she creates a gorgeous scarlet wedding dress for Cattleya ''made out of blood'' (because Cattleya is a vampire), for both looking fabulous while also allowing for mobility in a fight.

* InsistentTerminology: Jessica is half-incubus, not a succubus or half-succubus. Given that her powers work against women and not men, it's a reasonable insistence.

** Most female villains and demons follow this to a ridiculous extent. A dark elf is noted as having "increased the amount of fabric she was wearing by at least two orders of magnitude" by putting on a cloak.