History Fanfic / TheImprovisingEngineer

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Post-Enies, when the Government deems the entire Barto Club infantry, all 250 of them, ‘EliteMooks’ worth ฿2.5 million per head:
-->'''Infantry 1''': We have bounties?
-->'''Infantry 2''': I can't believe it!
-->'''Infantry 3''': We're worth something!
-->'''Infantry 4''': Shame that it's per head, though…
-->'''Infantry 5''': Did they just officially call us mooks?!
-->'''Infantry 6''': At least we're ''elite'' mooks…
-->'''Infantry 7''': Aw man someone mixed colors in the wash, [[MauveShirt my shirt’s mauve now]].

* GenderNeutralWriting: The story is written in second-person when from Case's perspective, but switches to third-person when Case is indisposed and another character's perspective needs to take over.

* SexyWalk: Calliope's hybrid form has horns on her heels that make her always walk as if she were wearing high heels, resulting in a rather sexy walk.

* TastesLikeFeet: Devil Fruits, UpToEleven as per canon.

* AdultFear: Case considers Milly their daughter. However, her real body is a tree that can't defend itself which prompts them to make a lock for their shared room that has no key or carry her tree form around on their person at all times in a special duffel bag. [[spoiler: Then her tree form mysteriously vanishes from said duffel bag while they're introducing themself to Mr. 5, Miss Valentine, and Miss Goldenweek.]]
* AffablyEvil: Angler of the Freefall Pirates is this.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Case dishes these out to a lot of characters.

* AmbiguousGender: Case, naturally.

* BadassCrew: The Barto Club.
* BadassFamily: Again, the Barto Club.

* FlippingTheBird: Frequent.

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Case sometimes narratively observes Moirai's muscles and Calliope's curves, then admonishes themself for getting distracted or sexualizing them.

* {{BFG}}: In part 4 of Chapter 4, Case offers to upgrade Gin's storebought shotgun and turns it into, quote, "the most advanced shotgun in the One Piece world, barring anything Vegapunk might have in the works." They name it Black Water...but only so Gin won't object too much to the first name, the BFG...for Beary Fun Gun.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: The author seems fond of making characters like this and lampshading it. Cuttup and Milly are two examples.

* OneTruePairing: There's a reason there's so much ShipTease between Case, Calliope, and the Payne twins. Once the relationships reach a fever pitch, readers will get to choose [[TheyDo which of the three]] [[OfficialCouple Case will choose]]. {{Polyamory}} will be an option. [[spoiler:They choose all three of them.]]

* AdultFear: Case considers Milly his daughter. However, her real body is a tree that can't defend itself which prompts him to make a lock for their shared room that has no key or carry her tree form around on his person at all times in a special duffel bag. [[spoiler: Then her tree form mysteriously vanishes from said duffel bag while he's introducing himself to Mr. 5, Miss Valentine, and Miss Goldenweek.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: When landing at Future Country Baldimore, Case is told that they only have so much spare material for Case to work with, limiting what he can make while on the island. Then Miss Goldenweek reveals that the ''very next island'' is called 'Scrapyard Island' where the World Government dumps all its junk.

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Case sometimes narratively observes Moirai's muscles and Calliope's curves, then admonishes themselves for getting distracted or sexualizing them.

** As expected, the crew's bounties skyrocket when they attack a World Noble ''and get away with it''. Bartolomeo's shoots up to 300 million - equal to Luffy's canon bounty at this point, Gin gets Zoro's canon bounty of 120 million, Case's jumps to 98 million - two short of making him a Supernova, Mr. 5's doubles to 24 million, Miss Valentine's jumps even more to 35 million - likely because she personally damaged the World Noble's ship, Miss Goldenweek's increases to 10 million, [[spoiler:and Milly's remains the same, though she gets a new picture]].\\

** When Case uses Baldimore’s tech to give themself a few modifications, one notable one is a variation of Franky’s [[FrickinLaserBeams Radical Beam]]. Case christens their version the [[Manga/DragonBall Kumahameha]].

* BadDreams: Calliope suffers from these; having only gained her freedom recently, her time as a tyrant's slave still haunts her.