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%%* CryCute: Madeline, when the cynical and distrustful tsundere realizes [[YouAreNotAlone someone cares about her after all]].
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Babineaux envies his daughter's youth and spoils her with presents, smothering her with whatever her little heart desires--except the time of day. He's far, far too occupied with viewing the latest heartwrenching opera or inspecting the newest piece of avant garde artwork in the gallery, and when he does have time, his seething violet is busy wreaking mischief.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
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Babineaux envies his daughter's youth and spoils her with presents, smothering her with whatever her little heart desires--except the time of day. He's far, far too occupied with viewing the latest heartwrenching opera or inspecting the newest piece of avant garde avant-garde artwork in the gallery, and when he does have time, his seething violet is busy wreaking mischief.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into an increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into an increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
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* AnyoneCanDie
* AttemptedRape: Arachnid, towards Février.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Babineaux. And [[spoiler:Charlotte]], made most evident when she almost went through with [[spoiler:''strangling Arachnid in her sleep.'']]
* BittersweetEnding
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* AttemptedRape: Arachnid, towards Février.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Babineaux. And [[spoiler:Charlotte]], made most evident when she almost went through with [[spoiler:''strangling Arachnid in her sleep.'']]
* BittersweetEnding
* BlackAndGrayMorality
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* AxCrazy:
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* BreakTheCutie: Deirdre, Madeline, Sansifer, [[spoiler:Arachnid]], [[spoiler:Charlotte]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Février.
* BrokenBird: Madeline.
* CreepyChild: Charlotte.
* BreakTheHaughty: Février.
* BrokenBird: Madeline.
* CreepyChild: Charlotte.
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* CryCute: Madeline, when the cynical and distrustful tsundere realizes [[YouAreNotAlone someone cares about her after all]].
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
* DancesAndBalls
* DecadentCourt
* [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Antihero]]: Mr. Babineaux himself. Though he starts off the first four chapters, the spotlight is quickly stolen by his daughter and occasionally members of the supporting cast.
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
* DancesAndBalls
* DecadentCourt
* [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Antihero]]: Mr. Babineaux himself. Though he starts off the first four chapters, the spotlight is quickly stolen by his daughter and occasionally members of the supporting cast.
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* FoodPorn
* GirlsLove
* {{Gorn}}
* HappinessInSlavery: This happens ''twice'' to Arachnid. The first time it's [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], the second time it's [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]. {{Deconstructed}} by December, and [[AvertedTrope Averted]] oh so much with everyone else.
* TheHedonist: Arachnid.
* IKissYourFoot: Subverted. Arachnid does this both literally and metaphorically to Charlotte, but it's just to mock her by giving her a false sense of control.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mr. Babineaux and Arachnid.
* KillTheCutie: August.
* GirlsLove
* {{Gorn}}
* HappinessInSlavery: This happens ''twice'' to Arachnid. The first time it's [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], the second time it's [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]. {{Deconstructed}} by December, and [[AvertedTrope Averted]] oh so much with everyone else.
* TheHedonist: Arachnid.
* IKissYourFoot: Subverted. Arachnid does this both literally and metaphorically to Charlotte, but it's just to mock her by giving her a false sense of control.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mr. Babineaux and Arachnid.
* KillTheCutie: August.
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Mr. Babineaux.
* LoveRedeems: Février and Madeline.
* MadScientist: Germaine.
* MasochismTango: Février and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
* LoveRedeems: Février and Madeline.
* MadScientist: Germaine.
* MasochismTango: Février and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Ivy Gatsburg.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Arachnid and Deirdre are examples of Type M, possessing traits of both Type C and Type F.
* ParentalIncest
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Arachnid and Deirdre are examples of Type M, possessing traits of both Type C and Type F.
* ParentalIncest
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* PsychoLesbian: Too many to count. Arachnid, Germaine, Ingrid...
* PurpleProse
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Arachnid.]]
* RapeAsDrama
* SteamPunk
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Charlotte.]]
* TakeMyHand: This is how Février stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
* PurpleProse
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Arachnid.]]
* RapeAsDrama
* SteamPunk
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Charlotte.]]
* TakeMyHand: This is how Février stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
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* TraumaticHaircut
* {{Tsundere}}: Madeline is Type A.
* VictorianLondon
* {{Tsundere}}: Madeline is Type A.
* VictorianLondon
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* {{Yandere}}: Mr. Babineaux. Subverted with Février, though she does have a decidedly IfICantHaveYou moment towards Madeline:
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* YouTasteDelicious: Arachnid does this to both Février and Charlotte.
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A novel written during NaNoWriMo 2009 by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Belucre Belucre]].
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A novel written during NaNoWriMo UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo 2009 by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Belucre Belucre]].
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->''"Come, witch. And watch--your father, how his heart is full of love for you. It overflows, trembles--do take a drink of his life, and may you cast a favorable spell in return? He does it all for you, darling."''
-->-- '''Mr. Babineaux'''
A novel written during NaNoWriMo 2009 by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Belucre Belucre]].
Mr. Babineaux is a wealthy man in his early sixties, whose wife died because of a combination of a carriage accident and childbirth, with one daughter, Février. Février is 15 years old, and has been raised all her life by subsitute parental figures in the form of her servants. She's materialistic, immature, and has a penchant for stirring up havoc. Her trouble-making, unbeknownst by her father, is actually an attempt to get him to notice her, simultaneously feeling bitter towards him, and yet viciously jealous of anyone who takes his attention away from her.
Babineaux envies his daughter's youth and spoils her with presents, smothering her with whatever her little heart desires--except the time of day. He's far, far too occupied with viewing the latest heartwrenching opera or inspecting the newest piece of avant garde artwork in the gallery, and when he does have time, his seething violet is busy wreaking mischief.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
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!! The Tale of Mr. Babineaux provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie
* AttemptedRape: Arachnid, towards Février.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Babineaux. And [[spoiler:Charlotte]], made most evident when she almost went through with [[spoiler:''strangling Arachnid in her sleep.'']]
* BittersweetEnding
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BodyHorror: ''Lots'' of it. Charlotte's arms turning into boneless coils of flesh, the lower half of August's body being unable to survive Germaine's experiments, the twins' tongues getting cut out, Février waking up to find her mouth stitched shut, Madeline's previously healthy legs becoming withered and distorted, Deirdre forced to undergo a clitoridectomy, ect.
* BreakTheCutie: Deirdre, Madeline, Sansifer, [[spoiler:Arachnid]], [[spoiler:Charlotte]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Février.
* BrokenBird: Madeline.
* CreepyChild: Charlotte.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted with Madeline, who was almost [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] as a child. It's implied that Arachnid will die eventually this way as well.
* CryCute: Madeline, when the cynical and distrustful tsundere realizes [[YouAreNotAlone someone cares about her after all]].
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
* DancesAndBalls
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Antihero]]: Mr. Babineaux himself. Though he starts off the first four chapters, the spotlight is quickly stolen by his daughter and occasionally members of the supporting cast.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Février and Madeline both hate being sympathized for their predicaments.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, though each time she is stopped before she can go through with it.
* DysfunctionJunction: ''Everyone'' has issues, magic and non-magic characters alike.
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Magic is kept hidden from the public, even those of BlueBlood don't know of it.
* EroticAsphyxiation: Février once tried to strangle Madeline to death, not knowing that she ''liked'' being choked.
* FateWorseThanDeath: If you're captured by Octavius, the ''lucky'' ones just get their genitals mutilated, are forced to become sex slaves, and have some part of their body irreversibly mutated. If you're dead, they bring your corpse back to life and force you to do all of the above. If you're magical, you get the most ''lenient'' treatment, where either your tongue is cut out or your mouth is sewn shut.
* FeteWorseThanDeath: To celebrate Février's arrival, Arachnid hosts a dinner party...and serves them ''their own crewmates'' as the main course.
* FoodPorn
* GirlsLove
* {{Gorn}}
* HappinessInSlavery: This happens ''twice'' to Arachnid. The first time it's [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], the second time it's [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]. {{Deconstructed}} by December, and [[AvertedTrope Averted]] oh so much with everyone else.
* TheHedonist: Arachnid.
* IKissYourFoot: Subverted. Arachnid does this both literally and metaphorically to Charlotte, but it's just to mock her by giving her a false sense of control.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mr. Babineaux and Arachnid.
* KillTheCutie: August.
* KnightTemplarParent: Babineaux deconstructs this. Even before he goes on a murder spree, he forces his daughter to wear a chastity belt at all times, refuses to let her leave the house, and drugs her food to limit chances of escape.
* {{Lolicon}}
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Mr. Babineaux.
* LoveRedeems: Février and Madeline.
* MadScientist: Germaine.
* MasochismTango: Février and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
* {{Meido}}: Arachnid used to be employed as a maid.
* MyBelovedSmother: Ivy Gatsburg.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Arachnid and Deirdre are examples of Type M, possessing traits of both Type C and Type F.
* ParentalIncest
* PowerDegeneration: All witches and warlocks have a much shorter lifespan than normal humans, given magic in this case is basically a hereditary disease. All reanimated corpses are also expected to die soon, given their bodies are decaying even as their organs are forced to keep functioning.
* PsychoLesbian: Too many to count. Arachnid, Germaine, Ingrid...
* PurpleProse
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Arachnid.]]
* RapeAsDrama
* SteamPunk
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Charlotte.]]
* TakeMyHand: This is how Février stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The first four chapters are from Babineaux's perspective, who is already morally reprehensible when the story begins and a paranoid wreck by the end.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: After being subjected to Germaine's experiments so many times that her body has begun to deteriorate, December can't remember anything of her past life.
* TraumaticHaircut
* {{Tsundere}}: Madeline is Type A.
* VictorianLondon
* WideEyedIdealist: December genuinely believes that her "mothers", who treat her as little more than a pet, would never abandon her. [[DeconstructedTrope She was brutally proven wrong.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Mr. Babineaux. Subverted with Février, though she does have a decidedly IfICantHaveYou moment towards Madeline:
-->"If you make the same mistake as poppy, I'll chop off your legs so you can never leave."
* YouTasteDelicious: Arachnid does this to both Février and Charlotte.
-->-- '''Mr. Babineaux'''
A novel written during NaNoWriMo 2009 by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Belucre Belucre]].
Mr. Babineaux is a wealthy man in his early sixties, whose wife died because of a combination of a carriage accident and childbirth, with one daughter, Février. Février is 15 years old, and has been raised all her life by subsitute parental figures in the form of her servants. She's materialistic, immature, and has a penchant for stirring up havoc. Her trouble-making, unbeknownst by her father, is actually an attempt to get him to notice her, simultaneously feeling bitter towards him, and yet viciously jealous of anyone who takes his attention away from her.
Babineaux envies his daughter's youth and spoils her with presents, smothering her with whatever her little heart desires--except the time of day. He's far, far too occupied with viewing the latest heartwrenching opera or inspecting the newest piece of avant garde artwork in the gallery, and when he does have time, his seething violet is busy wreaking mischief.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
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!! The Tale of Mr. Babineaux provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie
* AttemptedRape: Arachnid, towards Février.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Babineaux. And [[spoiler:Charlotte]], made most evident when she almost went through with [[spoiler:''strangling Arachnid in her sleep.'']]
* BittersweetEnding
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BodyHorror: ''Lots'' of it. Charlotte's arms turning into boneless coils of flesh, the lower half of August's body being unable to survive Germaine's experiments, the twins' tongues getting cut out, Février waking up to find her mouth stitched shut, Madeline's previously healthy legs becoming withered and distorted, Deirdre forced to undergo a clitoridectomy, ect.
* BreakTheCutie: Deirdre, Madeline, Sansifer, [[spoiler:Arachnid]], [[spoiler:Charlotte]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Février.
* BrokenBird: Madeline.
* CreepyChild: Charlotte.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted with Madeline, who was almost [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] as a child. It's implied that Arachnid will die eventually this way as well.
* CryCute: Madeline, when the cynical and distrustful tsundere realizes [[YouAreNotAlone someone cares about her after all]].
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
* DancesAndBalls
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Antihero]]: Mr. Babineaux himself. Though he starts off the first four chapters, the spotlight is quickly stolen by his daughter and occasionally members of the supporting cast.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Février and Madeline both hate being sympathized for their predicaments.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, though each time she is stopped before she can go through with it.
* DysfunctionJunction: ''Everyone'' has issues, magic and non-magic characters alike.
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Magic is kept hidden from the public, even those of BlueBlood don't know of it.
* EroticAsphyxiation: Février once tried to strangle Madeline to death, not knowing that she ''liked'' being choked.
* FateWorseThanDeath: If you're captured by Octavius, the ''lucky'' ones just get their genitals mutilated, are forced to become sex slaves, and have some part of their body irreversibly mutated. If you're dead, they bring your corpse back to life and force you to do all of the above. If you're magical, you get the most ''lenient'' treatment, where either your tongue is cut out or your mouth is sewn shut.
* FeteWorseThanDeath: To celebrate Février's arrival, Arachnid hosts a dinner party...and serves them ''their own crewmates'' as the main course.
* FoodPorn
* GirlsLove
* {{Gorn}}
* HappinessInSlavery: This happens ''twice'' to Arachnid. The first time it's [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], the second time it's [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]. {{Deconstructed}} by December, and [[AvertedTrope Averted]] oh so much with everyone else.
* TheHedonist: Arachnid.
* IKissYourFoot: Subverted. Arachnid does this both literally and metaphorically to Charlotte, but it's just to mock her by giving her a false sense of control.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mr. Babineaux and Arachnid.
* KillTheCutie: August.
* KnightTemplarParent: Babineaux deconstructs this. Even before he goes on a murder spree, he forces his daughter to wear a chastity belt at all times, refuses to let her leave the house, and drugs her food to limit chances of escape.
* {{Lolicon}}
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Mr. Babineaux.
* LoveRedeems: Février and Madeline.
* MadScientist: Germaine.
* MasochismTango: Février and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
* {{Meido}}: Arachnid used to be employed as a maid.
* MyBelovedSmother: Ivy Gatsburg.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Arachnid and Deirdre are examples of Type M, possessing traits of both Type C and Type F.
* ParentalIncest
* PowerDegeneration: All witches and warlocks have a much shorter lifespan than normal humans, given magic in this case is basically a hereditary disease. All reanimated corpses are also expected to die soon, given their bodies are decaying even as their organs are forced to keep functioning.
* PsychoLesbian: Too many to count. Arachnid, Germaine, Ingrid...
* PurpleProse
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Arachnid.]]
* RapeAsDrama
* SteamPunk
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Charlotte.]]
* TakeMyHand: This is how Février stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The first four chapters are from Babineaux's perspective, who is already morally reprehensible when the story begins and a paranoid wreck by the end.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: After being subjected to Germaine's experiments so many times that her body has begun to deteriorate, December can't remember anything of her past life.
* TraumaticHaircut
* {{Tsundere}}: Madeline is Type A.
* VictorianLondon
* WideEyedIdealist: December genuinely believes that her "mothers", who treat her as little more than a pet, would never abandon her. [[DeconstructedTrope She was brutally proven wrong.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Mr. Babineaux. Subverted with Février, though she does have a decidedly IfICantHaveYou moment towards Madeline:
-->"If you make the same mistake as poppy, I'll chop off your legs so you can never leave."
* YouTasteDelicious: Arachnid does this to both Février and Charlotte.
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->''"Come, witch. And watch--your father, how his heart is full of love for you. It overflows, trembles--do take a drink of his life, and may you cast a favorable spell in return? He does it all for you, darling."''
-->-- '''Mr. Babineaux'''
A novel written during NaNoWriMo 2009 by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Belucre Belucre]].
Mr. Babineaux is a wealthy man in his early sixties, whose wife died because of a combination of a carriage accident and childbirth, with one daughter, Février. Février is 15 years old, and has been raised all her life by subsitute parental figures in the form of her servants. She's materialistic, immature, and has a penchant for stirring up havoc. Her trouble-making, unbeknownst by her father, is actually an attempt to get him to notice her, simultaneously feeling bitter towards him, and yet viciously jealous of anyone who takes his attention away from her.
Babineaux envies his daughter's youth and spoils her with presents, smothering her with whatever her little heart desires--except the time of day. He's far, far too occupied with viewing the latest heartwrenching opera or inspecting the newest piece of avant garde artwork in the gallery, and when he does have time, his seething violet is busy wreaking mischief.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
----
!! The Tale of Mr. Babineaux provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie
* AttemptedRape: Arachnid, towards Février.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Babineaux. And [[spoiler:Charlotte]], made most evident when she almost went through with [[spoiler:''strangling Arachnid in her sleep.'']]
* BittersweetEnding
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BodyHorror: ''Lots'' of it. Charlotte's arms turning into boneless coils of flesh, the lower half of August's body being unable to survive Germaine's experiments, the twins' tongues getting cut out, Février waking up to find her mouth stitched shut, Madeline's previously healthy legs becoming withered and distorted, Deirdre forced to undergo a clitoridectomy, ect.
* BreakTheCutie: Deirdre, Madeline, Sansifer, [[spoiler:Arachnid]], [[spoiler:Charlotte]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Février.
* BrokenBird: Madeline.
* CreepyChild: Charlotte.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted with Madeline, who was almost [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] as a child. It's implied that Arachnid will die eventually this way as well.
* CryCute: Madeline, when the cynical and distrustful tsundere realizes [[YouAreNotAlone someone cares about her after all]].
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
* DancesAndBalls
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Antihero]]: Mr. Babineaux himself. Though he starts off the first four chapters, the spotlight is quickly stolen by his daughter and occasionally members of the supporting cast.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Février and Madeline both hate being sympathized for their predicaments.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, though each time she is stopped before she can go through with it.
* DysfunctionJunction: ''Everyone'' has issues, magic and non-magic characters alike.
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Magic is kept hidden from the public, even those of BlueBlood don't know of it.
* EroticAsphyxiation: Février once tried to strangle Madeline to death, not knowing that she ''liked'' being choked.
* FateWorseThanDeath: If you're captured by Octavius, the ''lucky'' ones just get their genitals mutilated, are forced to become sex slaves, and have some part of their body irreversibly mutated. If you're dead, they bring your corpse back to life and force you to do all of the above. If you're magical, you get the most ''lenient'' treatment, where either your tongue is cut out or your mouth is sewn shut.
* FeteWorseThanDeath: To celebrate Février's arrival, Arachnid hosts a dinner party...and serves them ''their own crewmates'' as the main course.
* FoodPorn
* GirlsLove
* {{Gorn}}
* HappinessInSlavery: This happens ''twice'' to Arachnid. The first time it's [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], the second time it's [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]. {{Deconstructed}} by December, and [[AvertedTrope Averted]] oh so much with everyone else.
* TheHedonist: Arachnid.
* IKissYourFoot: Subverted. Arachnid does this both literally and metaphorically to Charlotte, but it's just to mock her by giving her a false sense of control.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mr. Babineaux and Arachnid.
* KillTheCutie: August.
* KnightTemplarParent: Babineaux deconstructs this. Even before he goes on a murder spree, he forces his daughter to wear a chastity belt at all times, refuses to let her leave the house, and drugs her food to limit chances of escape.
* {{Lolicon}}
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Mr. Babineaux.
* LoveRedeems: Février and Madeline.
* MadScientist: Germaine.
* MasochismTango: Février and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
* {{Meido}}: Arachnid used to be employed as a maid.
* MyBelovedSmother: Ivy Gatsburg.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Arachnid and Deirdre are examples of Type M, possessing traits of both Type C and Type F.
* ParentalIncest
* PowerDegeneration: All witches and warlocks have a much shorter lifespan than normal humans, given magic in this case is basically a hereditary disease. All reanimated corpses are also expected to die soon, given their bodies are decaying even as their organs are forced to keep functioning.
* PsychoLesbian: Too many to count. Arachnid, Germaine, Ingrid...
* PurpleProse
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Arachnid.]]
* RapeAsDrama
* SteamPunk
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Charlotte.]]
* TakeMyHand: This is how Février stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The first four chapters are from Babineaux's perspective, who is already morally reprehensible when the story begins and a paranoid wreck by the end.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: After being subjected to Germaine's experiments so many times that her body has begun to deteriorate, December can't remember anything of her past life.
* TraumaticHaircut
* {{Tsundere}}: Madeline is Type A.
* VictorianLondon
* WideEyedIdealist: December genuinely believes that her "mothers", who treat her as little more than a pet, would never abandon her. [[DeconstructedTrope She was brutally proven wrong.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Mr. Babineaux. Subverted with Février, though she does have a decidedly IfICantHaveYou moment towards Madeline:
-->"If you make the same mistake as poppy, I'll chop off your legs so you can never leave."
* YouTasteDelicious: Arachnid does this to both Février and Charlotte.
-->-- '''Mr. Babineaux'''
A novel written during NaNoWriMo 2009 by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Belucre Belucre]].
Mr. Babineaux is a wealthy man in his early sixties, whose wife died because of a combination of a carriage accident and childbirth, with one daughter, Février. Février is 15 years old, and has been raised all her life by subsitute parental figures in the form of her servants. She's materialistic, immature, and has a penchant for stirring up havoc. Her trouble-making, unbeknownst by her father, is actually an attempt to get him to notice her, simultaneously feeling bitter towards him, and yet viciously jealous of anyone who takes his attention away from her.
Babineaux envies his daughter's youth and spoils her with presents, smothering her with whatever her little heart desires--except the time of day. He's far, far too occupied with viewing the latest heartwrenching opera or inspecting the newest piece of avant garde artwork in the gallery, and when he does have time, his seething violet is busy wreaking mischief.
He keeps up a dignified public image, but this mannered air crumbles into increasingly haunted and paranoid state when he discovers his daughter's witchcraft, and starts fearing for her life. Driven insane, Mr. Babineaux ends up murdering and devouring his associates one by one, desperately wishing to protect his daughter--no matter the cost.
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!! The Tale of Mr. Babineaux provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie
* AttemptedRape: Arachnid, towards Février.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Babineaux. And [[spoiler:Charlotte]], made most evident when she almost went through with [[spoiler:''strangling Arachnid in her sleep.'']]
* BittersweetEnding
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BodyHorror: ''Lots'' of it. Charlotte's arms turning into boneless coils of flesh, the lower half of August's body being unable to survive Germaine's experiments, the twins' tongues getting cut out, Février waking up to find her mouth stitched shut, Madeline's previously healthy legs becoming withered and distorted, Deirdre forced to undergo a clitoridectomy, ect.
* BreakTheCutie: Deirdre, Madeline, Sansifer, [[spoiler:Arachnid]], [[spoiler:Charlotte]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Février.
* BrokenBird: Madeline.
* CreepyChild: Charlotte.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted with Madeline, who was almost [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] as a child. It's implied that Arachnid will die eventually this way as well.
* CryCute: Madeline, when the cynical and distrustful tsundere realizes [[YouAreNotAlone someone cares about her after all]].
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
* DancesAndBalls
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Antihero]]: Mr. Babineaux himself. Though he starts off the first four chapters, the spotlight is quickly stolen by his daughter and occasionally members of the supporting cast.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Février and Madeline both hate being sympathized for their predicaments.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, though each time she is stopped before she can go through with it.
* DysfunctionJunction: ''Everyone'' has issues, magic and non-magic characters alike.
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Magic is kept hidden from the public, even those of BlueBlood don't know of it.
* EroticAsphyxiation: Février once tried to strangle Madeline to death, not knowing that she ''liked'' being choked.
* FateWorseThanDeath: If you're captured by Octavius, the ''lucky'' ones just get their genitals mutilated, are forced to become sex slaves, and have some part of their body irreversibly mutated. If you're dead, they bring your corpse back to life and force you to do all of the above. If you're magical, you get the most ''lenient'' treatment, where either your tongue is cut out or your mouth is sewn shut.
* FeteWorseThanDeath: To celebrate Février's arrival, Arachnid hosts a dinner party...and serves them ''their own crewmates'' as the main course.
* FoodPorn
* GirlsLove
* {{Gorn}}
* HappinessInSlavery: This happens ''twice'' to Arachnid. The first time it's [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], the second time it's [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]. {{Deconstructed}} by December, and [[AvertedTrope Averted]] oh so much with everyone else.
* TheHedonist: Arachnid.
* IKissYourFoot: Subverted. Arachnid does this both literally and metaphorically to Charlotte, but it's just to mock her by giving her a false sense of control.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mr. Babineaux and Arachnid.
* KillTheCutie: August.
* KnightTemplarParent: Babineaux deconstructs this. Even before he goes on a murder spree, he forces his daughter to wear a chastity belt at all times, refuses to let her leave the house, and drugs her food to limit chances of escape.
* {{Lolicon}}
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Mr. Babineaux.
* LoveRedeems: Février and Madeline.
* MadScientist: Germaine.
* MasochismTango: Février and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
* {{Meido}}: Arachnid used to be employed as a maid.
* MyBelovedSmother: Ivy Gatsburg.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Arachnid and Deirdre are examples of Type M, possessing traits of both Type C and Type F.
* ParentalIncest
* PowerDegeneration: All witches and warlocks have a much shorter lifespan than normal humans, given magic in this case is basically a hereditary disease. All reanimated corpses are also expected to die soon, given their bodies are decaying even as their organs are forced to keep functioning.
* PsychoLesbian: Too many to count. Arachnid, Germaine, Ingrid...
* PurpleProse
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Arachnid.]]
* RapeAsDrama
* SteamPunk
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Charlotte.]]
* TakeMyHand: This is how Février stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The first four chapters are from Babineaux's perspective, who is already morally reprehensible when the story begins and a paranoid wreck by the end.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: After being subjected to Germaine's experiments so many times that her body has begun to deteriorate, December can't remember anything of her past life.
* TraumaticHaircut
* {{Tsundere}}: Madeline is Type A.
* VictorianLondon
* WideEyedIdealist: December genuinely believes that her "mothers", who treat her as little more than a pet, would never abandon her. [[DeconstructedTrope She was brutally proven wrong.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Mr. Babineaux. Subverted with Février, though she does have a decidedly IfICantHaveYou moment towards Madeline:
-->"If you make the same mistake as poppy, I'll chop off your legs so you can never leave."
* YouTasteDelicious: Arachnid does this to both Février and Charlotte.
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* PlotWithPorn
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* CompleteMonster: Octavius and [[spoiler: Arachnid's former master.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
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* WheelchairWoobie: Madeline, whose legs are so withered that they can't support her body weight, forcing her to rely on a wheelchair for mobility.
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* {{Yangire}}: [[spoiler: Charlotte, again.]]
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* DysfunctionJunction: ''Everyone'' has issues, magic and non-magic characters alike. Even [[WhatMeasureIsAMook the nameless servants]] who appear in a grand total of three scenes have something wrong with them.
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* DysfunctionJunction: ''Everyone'' has issues, magic and non-magic characters alike. Even [[WhatMeasureIsAMook the nameless servants]] who appear in a grand total of three scenes have something wrong with them.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, first by falling from great heights, the second time from stabbing herself. Both times she is stopped before she can go through with it.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, first by falling from great heights, the second though each time from stabbing herself. Both times she is stopped before she can go through with it.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted with Madeline, who was almost [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] as a child. It's implied that Arachnid will die this way, by getting devoured by the maggots that feast on her from the inside-out.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted with Madeline, who was almost [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] as a child. It's implied that Arachnid will die eventually this way, by getting devoured by the maggots that feast on her from the inside-out. way as well.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, first by trying to fall to her death falling from great height, heights, the second time from stabbing herself. Both times she is stopped before she can go through with it.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline.]] Narrowly subverted both times.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Madeline.]] Narrowly subverted both times.Madeline]] tries to kill herself twice, first by trying to fall to her death from great height, the second time from stabbing herself.
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Mr. Babineaux is a wealthy man in his early sixties, whose wife died because of a combination of a carriage accident and childbirth, with one daughter, Fevrier. Fevrier is 15 years old, and has been raised all her life by subsitute parental figures in the form of her servants. She's materialistic, immature, and has a penchant for stirring up havoc. Her trouble-making, unbeknownst by her father, is actually an attempt to get him to notice her, simultaneously feeling bitter towards him, and yet viciously jealous of anyone who takes his attention away from her.
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Mr. Babineaux is a wealthy man in his early sixties, whose wife died because of a combination of a carriage accident and childbirth, with one daughter, Fevrier. Fevrier Février. Février is 15 years old, and has been raised all her life by subsitute parental figures in the form of her servants. She's materialistic, immature, and has a penchant for stirring up havoc. Her trouble-making, unbeknownst by her father, is actually an attempt to get him to notice her, simultaneously feeling bitter towards him, and yet viciously jealous of anyone who takes his attention away from her.
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* AttemptedRape: Arachnid, towards Fevrier.Février.
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* BodyHorror: ''Lots'' of it. Charlotte's arms turning into boneless coils of flesh, the lower half of August's body being unable to survive Germaine's experiments, the twins' tongues getting cut out, Fevrier waking up to find her mouth stitched shut, Madeline's previously healthy legs becoming withered and distorted, Deirdre forced to undergo a clitoridectomy, ect.
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* BodyHorror: ''Lots'' of it. Charlotte's arms turning into boneless coils of flesh, the lower half of August's body being unable to survive Germaine's experiments, the twins' tongues getting cut out, Fevrier Février waking up to find her mouth stitched shut, Madeline's previously healthy legs becoming withered and distorted, Deirdre forced to undergo a clitoridectomy, ect.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Fevrier.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Fevrier.Février.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Fevrier and Madeline both hate being sympathized for their predicaments.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Fevrier Février and Madeline both hate being sympathized for their predicaments.
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* EroticAsphyxiation: Fevrier once tried to strangle Madeline to death, not knowing that she ''liked'' being choked.
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* EroticAsphyxiation: Fevrier Février once tried to strangle Madeline to death, not knowing that she ''liked'' being choked.
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* FeteWorseThanDeath: To celebrate Fevrier's arrival, Arachnid hosts a dinner party...and serves them ''their own crewmates'' as the main course.
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* FeteWorseThanDeath: To celebrate Fevrier's Février's arrival, Arachnid hosts a dinner party...and serves them ''their own crewmates'' as the main course.
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* LoveRedeems: Fevrier and Madeline.
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* LoveRedeems: Fevrier Février and Madeline.
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* MasochismTango: Fevrier and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
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* MasochismTango: Fevrier Février and Madeline initially live and breathe this trope, though as time goes on they start being kinder to each other.
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* TakeMyHand: This is how Fevrier stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
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* TakeMyHand: This is how Fevrier Février stops Madeline from [[spoiler: committing suicide.]]
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* {{Yandere}}: Mr. Babineaux. Subverted with Fevrier, though she does have a decidedly IfICantHaveYou moment towards Madeline:
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* YouTasteDelicious: Arachnid does this to both Fevrier and Charlotte.
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* YouTasteDelicious: Arachnid does this to both Fevrier Février and Charlotte.
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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Inverted. Arachnid (the viper) takes in Charlotte, Madeline, Plum, Persimmon, and Fevrier (the farmers) into her home.
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* TakeMyHand: This is how Fevrier stops Madeline from [[spoiler: jumping to her death.committing suicide.]]
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* TakeMyHand: This is how Fevrier saves Madeline from [[spoiler: falling to her death.]]
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* TakeMyHand: This is how Fevrier saves stops Madeline from [[spoiler: falling jumping to her death.]]
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09->''"Come, witch. And watch--your father, how his heart is full of love for you. It overflows, trembles--do take a drink of his life, and may you cast a favorable spell in return? He does it all for you, darling."''
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