History Literature / ParisIsIndeedSplendid

%%* WhipItGood: Vladeslav and Jaeger's weapon of choice, but only one enjoys it.

While there are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, the focus is mostly centered on the lives of Dieter Hermann, a German military police officer who was deployed to a military base in Italy; Angela Romano, a cross-dressing Italian priest and twin sister to the leader of TheResistance; and Melchioras Vidoskas, a Lithuanian manservant working in Russia. Other key characters include Dieter's fiance [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Rosie Eckhart]] and his brother, Jaeger Hermann; Angela's brother Angelo Romano; Melchioras's boss, [[PsychopathicManchild Vladeslav Sokolov]]; French cafe owner Jean Francis Lafayette and his American employee, James Cook; English refugee Alicen White; and Polish vagabond Feliks Pudimat.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName / AllGermansAreNazis: Almost any German by default, though Dieter mostly just wants to be a good officer and make his family proud; contrast with his younger brother, who just likes torturing/killing people for the hell of it and considers Germans to be better than everyone else. Angelo prescribes to this ideology and uses it to brainwash Angela and everyone else.
* ActionGirl: Alicen

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove / AbortedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Angela to Dieter.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: Dieter and Rosie; [[spoiler: Natasha attempts to force one onto Vladeslav, and somewhat succeeds.]]
* TheAtoner: Dieter for his entire country; later on, [[spoiler: Vladeslav and James.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Melchioras and Angela qualify.
* CantHaveSexEver / ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: [[spoiler: A great deal of Vladeslav's mental instability is his family driving into him from an early age that homosexuality is evil and causes nothing but horrifying problems. It doesn't help that Melchioras is exactly his type.]]

* ChastityCouple: [[spoiler: Dieter and Angela, until she gives up being a nun.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Done halfway; Rosie always had a crush on Dieter but he never reciprocated.

* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Dieter to Angela [[spoiler: after the failed assassination attempt.]]

* ForeignLanguageTirade: A few times by Angelo.
* FrenchJerk: Averted with Jean and Father Alexander.
* FreudianExcuse: Vladeslav and Jaeger.
* HappyFlashback: Bits of Dieter's and Melchioras's childhoods are shown this way; subverted with Vladeslav.

* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Melchioras, meet [[spoiler: slutty maid outfit and wedding dress.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Done by both [[spoiler: Angela]] and Rosie toward Dieter, subverted with [[spoiler: Vladeslav toward Melchioras, though he's attempting to play it straight with... mixed results]].
* LikeBrotherAndSister: How Dieter sees Rosie.
* LoveTriangle: Rosie and Angela for Dieter; Jaeger and (unintentionally) Dieter for Rosie; [[spoiler: James and Vladeslav for Melchioras, though James does not reciprocate.]]
* MarryForLove: To Rosie, the aforementioned ArrangedMarriage is this. [[spoiler: Later played straight with Dieter/Angela and Jean/Alicen.]]
* TheMatchmaker: Jean.
* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: Vladeslav and Melchioras.]]

* NaziNobleman: General Hermann and Fuhrer Eckhart.

* OrphansPlotTrinket: Played straight with Melchioras's cross and subverted with Angelo and Angela's crosses.
* RepeatWhatYouJustSaid: [[FromBadToWorse It didn't end well.]]
* RescueRomance: How Dieter and Angela's friendship starts.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Rosie and Angela respectively, though Dieter's family isn't hurting for money.
* RomanticFalseLead: Rosie for Dieter, [[spoiler: James for Melchioras.]]
* RunawayFiance: Entirely averted.
* SanitySlippage: Vladeslav, on several occasions.
* SexlessMarriage: [[spoiler: What Melchioras thought he was signing up for.]]

* ShipperOnDeck: Jean for Dieter/Angela, and Angela for Vladeslav/Melchioras (at least as friends.)
* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler: Alicen to Jean.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Feliks.
* SweetTooth: Melchioras.
* TheTrickster: Feliks, right down to cross-dressing.
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: Vladeslav]]
* TrainStationGoodbye: [[spoiler: Melchioras and Feliks, non-romantically]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Rosie.
* UnwantedHarem: [[spoiler: Natasha gives one to Vladeslav.]]
* WhipItGood: Vladeslav and Jaeger's weapon of choice, but only one enjoys it.
* WhyCantIHateYou: Melchioras.

* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn / FetishFuel: Melchioras, meet [[spoiler: slutty maid outfit and wedding dress.]]

Due to some noted differences in strategy during WW2 (such as not betraying the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union and Japan not bombing Pearl Harbor), the Axis Powers won the war and the world has become a very different place. The plot focuses on the lives of several different people living in different countries (mostly Italy, Germany, and France) during this time, and [[RomanceNovel how their relationships develop and grow through the course of the novel]].

* ShoutOut: To ''Animation/AKittenNamedWoof'', of all things, and the syringes found in the cellar are a ShoutOut to the author's other work, ''Literature/ALiCEAndJOKeR''.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* ShoutOut: To ''Animation/KittenNamedWoof'', of all things, and the syringes found in the cellar are a ShoutOut to the author's other work, ''Literature/ALiCEAndJOKeR''.

* [[spoiler: CantHaveSexEver / ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: A great deal of Vladeslav's mental instability is his family driving into him from an early age that homosexuality is evil and causes nothing but horrifying problems. It doesn't help that Melchioras is exactly his type.]]

* [[spoiler: ObfuscatingStupidity: A different work from this troper (that has yet to be written) that borrows from Paris Is Indeed Splendid's universe reveals that Feliks is actually a trickster god that knew exactly what he was doing the entire time, even when he appeared to be bumbling and making stupid mistakes -- why he did it remains a mystery, but then again, [[ChaoticNeutral tricksters don't need reasons.]]]]
* [[NotWhatItLooksLike Not What It Sounds Like]]: [[spoiler: After Vladeslav and Melchioras's marriage, Natasha waits outside the guest room door to confirm that the marriage was consummated. They fake it to get her to go away without realizing that Feliks, who is hiding in the closet, didn't hear them agree to fake it. It doesn't end well for Melchioras when he 'innocently' brings it up again.]]

* RapeIsLove[=/=]NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: It's heavily implied at the end of the book that [[spoiler:Vladeslav and Melchioras will eventually get together despite the fact that Vladeslav raped Melchioras; the fact that Melchioras didn't entirely not enjoy it also causes him to realize that he has never actually had an interest in women and might be gay.]]

* [[spoiler: SexlessMarriage: What Melchioras thought he was signing up for.]]

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* RepeatWhatYouJustSaid: [[ItGotWorse It didn't end well.]]

!! This web-novel provides examples of:

* HappyFlashback: Bits of Dieter's and Melchioras's childhoods are shown this way; subverted hard with Vladeslav.

* HoYay: Played with between Dieter and Angela, since Dieter thinks that Angela is a boy, and justified with Vladeslav and Melchioras because Vladeslav actually is homosexual and attracted to Melchioras.

* [[spoiler: RapeIsLove / ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt: It's heavily implied at the end of the book that Vladeslav and Melchioras will eventually get together despite the fact that Vladeslav raped Melchioras; the fact that Melchioras didn't entirely not enjoy it also causes him to realize that he has never actually had an interest in women and might be gay.]]

* ShoutOut: To ''KittenNamedWoof'', of all things, and the syringes found in the cellar are a ShoutOut to the author's other work, ''Literature/ALiCEAndJOKeR''.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Somewhat subverted; Rosie always had a crush on Dieter but he never reciprocated.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Done by both [[spoiler: Angela]] and Rosie toward Dieter, somewhat subverted with [[spoiler: Vladeslav toward Melchioras, though he's attempting to play it straight with... mixed results]].

** [[spoiler: Angelo using Dieter and Angela's friendship to plan an assassination, then going through with it even though it means [[MoralEventHorizon sacrificing Angela's life.]]]]

* ShoutOut: To ''KittenNamedWoof'', of all things, and the syringes found in the cellar are a ShoutOut to the author's other work, ''ALiCEAndJOKeR''.