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* AgitatedItemStomping: Jacob gets very mad at Kev for involving himself with Daigo's plot to plant fake bombs around the school, and lets out his anger by trapping Kev in a time loop and then stomping on a nearby alarm clock.
* AmbiguousSyntax: Ziz arrives on the roof of the school and projects a question for Jacob- "DISPLAY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF KNOWN ENTITIES AT THIS LOCATION - ?". Jacob assumes that Ziz is asking him if Ziz should display the list it has, when in actuality Ziz is asking Jacob for the list, leading to both parties getting annoyed with the other.
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* AprilFoolsDay: For April 1st of 2018 there's a player-supplied {{Flashforward}} where Ivy and Luna are the only remaining survivors after they kill the BigBad. They then realise that they're in an April Fools joke, and things resume as normal.
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* AprilFoolsDay: AprilFoolsDay:
** For April 1st of 2018 there's a player-supplied {{Flashforward}} where Ivy and Luna are the only remaining survivors after they kill the BigBad. They then realise that they're in an April Fools joke, and things resume asnormal.normal.
** The April Fools post for 2019 features a {{flashforward}} that seems serious at first, until Ivy plays a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ particular song.]]
** For April 1st of 2018 there's a player-supplied {{Flashforward}} where Ivy and Luna are the only remaining survivors after they kill the BigBad. They then realise that they're in an April Fools joke, and things resume as
** The April Fools post for 2019 features a {{flashforward}} that seems serious at first, until Ivy plays a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ particular song.]]
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** Hyeon's response to Josephine asking if he has superpowers; he stutters out a no, scoffs, [[ActingUnnaturally casually]] leans against the wall, and 'sarcastically' asks if Josephine has powers.
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** Hyeon's response to Josephine asking if he has superpowers; he stutters out a no, scoffs, [[ActingUnnaturally [[ActingUnnatural casually]] leans against the wall, and 'sarcastically' asks if Josephine has powers.
* BreakfastClub: Daigo's gang, which he was able to gather together by drawing in young teens who felt ostracised for some reason or another. They all then formed bonds and got up to some minor mischief, but with the advent of their superpowers, some of them were disturbed by Daigo's huge uptick in violence and cut off ties from him.
* BulletproofHumanShield: When Sebastian hurls a bunch of shadow spears at Daigo, the vampire responds by grabbing the nearby Rhys and pulling him into the crossfire, intending for him to take the blows. Rhys responds by using his power to [[ChromeChampion convert himself into metal]], deflecting the spears from both of them instead.
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* CapeBusters: In the future, a 'Post-Human Division' is set up by the FBI to capture and detain the superpowered kids. In the present, this role is carried by Sarah Travers, a government agent who's job involves identifying and monitoring the superkids.
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* CapeBusters: In the future, a 'Post-Human Division' is set up by the FBI to capture and detain the superpowered kids. In the present, this role is carried by Sarah Travers, a government agent who's whose job involves identifying and monitoring the superkids.superkids.
* CapePunk: The crux of the plot is ordinary teens in an ordinary world suddenly receiving superpowers. Thus, much of the focus is on how they all handle their powers, the many trials and tribulations that they face because of them, and the increasingly hostile response their existence garners from non-powered people.
* CapePunk: The crux of the plot is ordinary teens in an ordinary world suddenly receiving superpowers. Thus, much of the focus is on how they all handle their powers, the many trials and tribulations that they face because of them, and the increasingly hostile response their existence garners from non-powered people.
* ElementalBaggage: Any of the characters capable of controlling the elements seem to have a RequiredSecondaryPower where they can create said element from nothing. The only exception thus far is Sebastian, who is, for the moment at least, restricted to controlling his own shadow.
* {{Faceplant}}: Zia runs off from Vivian's house in a hurry, accidentally bumping into Jessica on the way and knocking her face first into the dirt.
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* IncrediblyObviousTail: The robotic drone Ziz is tasked to follow Crispin when he leaves the heroes. It makes no attempt to hide itself, so Luna gives up pretense of secrecy and warns Crispin against doing anything shady.
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* LiteralMinded: Ziz, being a robot with artificial intelligence, can struggle with understanding turns of phrases, especially when Ivy misspells them in a panic.
-->'''Ivy:''' ''[texting]'' ok please come to teh school i need you its urgent djust lanfd on the roof and dont move off ot it until i say so pls come here tell author guy i will \\
'''Ziz:''' CREATORS MESSAGE CONTAINS TOO MANY GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX ERRORS TO BE CORRECTLY PROCESSED. I WILL CONFIRM YOUR ORDERS. YOU WANT ME TO ADJUST THE LAN SETTINGS ON THE ROOF WITHOUT MOVING BUT ALSO WHILST MOVING AND MAKING SURE THE CRISPIN HAYWARD CAN EFFECTIVELY ACCESS THE INTERNET THROUGH HIS DEVICE WHICH YOU REFER TO AS I-WILL. CORRECT?
-->'''Ivy:''' ''[texting]'' ok please come to teh school i need you its urgent djust lanfd on the roof and dont move off ot it until i say so pls come here tell author guy i will \\
'''Ziz:''' CREATORS MESSAGE CONTAINS TOO MANY GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX ERRORS TO BE CORRECTLY PROCESSED. I WILL CONFIRM YOUR ORDERS. YOU WANT ME TO ADJUST THE LAN SETTINGS ON THE ROOF WITHOUT MOVING BUT ALSO WHILST MOVING AND MAKING SURE THE CRISPIN HAYWARD CAN EFFECTIVELY ACCESS THE INTERNET THROUGH HIS DEVICE WHICH YOU REFER TO AS I-WILL. CORRECT?
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: How Melissa manages to convince Dark Dragon to attack the public instead of Travers- if he kills Travers, then she'll [[WeHaveReserves just be replaced]] with a different agent; if he slaughters innocents, however, then he'll be sending a message of fear out to the world at large.
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* MoodDissonance: A flashforward shows Melissa and Daigo dancing together in the high school. Then it shows that they're dancing around the corpses of their classmates that litter the halls.
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* MoodDissonance: MoodDissonance:
** A flashforward shows Melissa and Daigo dancing together in the high school. Then it shows that they're dancing around the corpses of their classmates that litter thehalls.halls.
** Daigo's gang sets it up so that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYIv_dyhezs "Time Out of Mind"]], a laid-back tune, plays during the second school evacuation, where multiple students are dying or fighting each other.
** A flashforward shows Melissa and Daigo dancing together in the high school. Then it shows that they're dancing around the corpses of their classmates that litter the
** Daigo's gang sets it up so that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYIv_dyhezs "Time Out of Mind"]], a laid-back tune, plays during the second school evacuation, where multiple students are dying or fighting each other.
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* MythologyGag: The ''Dawn of a New Age'' novel written by Crispin refers to events in the original DONA roleplay, such as ''Music/{{Yes}}'' playing during the original empowering incident.
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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
** The ''Dawn of a New Age'' novel written by Crispin refers to events in the original DONA roleplay, such as ''Music/{{Yes}}'' playing during the original empoweringincident.incident.
** Benjy is transformed into a bug monster and starts to show attraction to [[YouSexyBeast other non-human creatures]]. In the original DONA, one {{flashforward}} showed him in a relationship with a student who had been transformed into a crocodile girl a la [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Killer Croc]].
** The ''Dawn of a New Age'' novel written by Crispin refers to events in the original DONA roleplay, such as ''Music/{{Yes}}'' playing during the original empowering
** Benjy is transformed into a bug monster and starts to show attraction to [[YouSexyBeast other non-human creatures]]. In the original DONA, one {{flashforward}} showed him in a relationship with a student who had been transformed into a crocodile girl a la [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Killer Croc]].
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* OneWordVocabulary: Hyeon can speak to animals, and a few of them have been shown capable of sentences. However, his squirrel sidekick Kwang is only able to say the word 'Mom'.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Out of nearly 40 cast members, only a handful have any siblings. Ciro and Irene are the only player characters to have brothers and sisters.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Out of nearly 40 cast members, only a handful have any siblings. Ciro and Irene are the only player characters to have brothers and sisters.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: With the exception of a few students with particularly [[DarkAndTroubledPast traumatic backstories]] or quirky personalities, much of the main cast were just regular high-school students before they were suddenly attacked and imbued with superpowers.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Jessica's power allows her to mind control others with her voice. While walking home from school, she's accosted by some boys, which she then forces to fight each other. The power and its potential very quickly get to her head, and she then tries to make them have sex with each other. That she's basically performing rape is explicitly pointed out by Zia and Ivy when she tells them, both of whom are horrified at her using her power that way.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Kwang, a grey squirrel that Hyeon picks up after killing its mother by accident. He's as cute as you'd expect from a squirrel, bolstered by his ability to only say 'Mom' in various inflections.
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* ASharedSuffering: Gaining superpowers hasn't been easy for a lot of the kids. However, they've found a silver lining in that they aren't alone, and many of them have bonded with people that they'd never spoken to before (or even disliked) due to their shared issue.
* ShipTease:
** Nadine has a crush on Jo, and their moment of intimacy during the school's second evacuation shows that, romantically or platonically, Jo desires a relationship with Nadine in turn.
** Simon and Mirielle are shown in one {{flashforward}} to have gotten together in the future. Even though it didn't work out, Simon in the present has found himself inexplicably interested in Mirielle's cheerful personality.
** Vanessa asks Lenore to pass along the number for her drug dealer, since whatever she's taking makes her look fantastic. Michal jokes afterward that Vanessa might be 'in [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld lesbians]] with her.'
* ShipTease:
** Nadine has a crush on Jo, and their moment of intimacy during the school's second evacuation shows that, romantically or platonically, Jo desires a relationship with Nadine in turn.
** Simon and Mirielle are shown in one {{flashforward}} to have gotten together in the future. Even though it didn't work out, Simon in the present has found himself inexplicably interested in Mirielle's cheerful personality.
** Vanessa asks Lenore to pass along the number for her drug dealer, since whatever she's taking makes her look fantastic. Michal jokes afterward that Vanessa might be 'in [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld lesbians]] with her.'
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: [[DiscussedTrope Mentioned]] when Ziz flies to Jacob to ask him a question. Ziz's creator wears glasses, and it regards its creator as a genius- ergo, anyone else who wears glasses must be intelligent too.
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* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: While there is a map provided of Oldport, with a given scale for how far every location is from each other, characters sometimes are quicker to arrive than would be physically possible in order to better fit the plot. This is occasionally lampshaded when it happens.
-->Outside, due to a string of green lights and coincidences that gave the bus driver his best time yet, Barbra and Jacob were dropped off.
-->Outside, due to a string of green lights and coincidences that gave the bus driver his best time yet, Barbra and Jacob were dropped off.
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* VehicularKidnapping: PlayedForLaughs. Benedict shows up at school after a night of being missing. The police are also at the school, and Hyeon assumes that they're looking for Benedict (since, being a rich white boy, his disappearance would be a big deal). Benedict's power then goes into overload, making him act erratically, prompting Hyeon to grab him and order Nadine to help get him into Hyeon's car trunk. Benedict does wise up in time to make himself comfortable in the back seat instead.
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* VillainByDefault: One of the first antagonists that any of the characters face are a group of Neo-Nazis. Naturally, they aren't good people, and none of the characters hold it against Benjy when he attacks and kills them in self-defense.
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Two years ago, there was a quite unique RP that sadly died out far too soon for its unique concept. However, in 2017 Stratovarius decided to bring the RP back under a new name - now, we have Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues. Set in Oldport, Rhode Island, the story unfolds much like the first RP - a number of kids present after school acquire powers from a bizarre supernatural incident, and have to sort out their lives and the complications resulting from their acquisition of superpowers.
The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up. Yet we can see that life goes on, and for most of the teens, while life is difficult, they've found a way forward.
[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14965006070A50966600&page=1 The RP itself.]]
The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up. Yet we can see that life goes on, and for most of the teens, while life is difficult, they've found a way forward.
[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Emmanuel, with his mother being psychotically controlling, while Jacob has an almost psycho-level MyBelovedSmother. Daigo's father and stepmother take this trope well past the MoralEventHorizon - it is stated they used racist mocking on him, outed his sexuality, ''and'' made use of physical abuse whenever possible.
* AccidentalMurder: Thankfully {{averted}}, but Zia has come [[PowerIncontinence very close to it.]]
** Daigo seems to have beaten her to it, though the accidental aspect is in question.
* AntiHero: Some of the heroes of Dawn of a New Age run the gamut - some are more moralistic, while others came from a background of trouble, all the way to the UnscrupulousHero types.
* AttackReflector: Hans develops the ability to make invisible attack reflecting fields, turning back [[JerkJock Dennis]]' punch and throwing an amplified amount of the kinetic force through Dennis' hand.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: A number of students obtained powers obviously capable of tremendous devastation, but mostly, they remain heroic, for a certain definition.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: In contrast to the Benjy from the first Dawn of a New Age, Benjy here mutates into a horrible fly monster and then escapes the school, possibly losing his sentience.
* BlessedWithSuck: Pretty much anyone who was physically transformed by their powers, including Jenna, Jessica, and Kathryn. Special mention goes to Benjy, who may have lost his intelligence in the process.
* CardCarryingVillain: Daigo is rather open about where his cards rest. He is however playing with the trope itself - he and his group, in his mind, have been given few choices but "evil" by society, and so they try to eke it out together.
* CastingAShadow: The basis of Sebastian's Fesxis-granted powerset.
* DisappearedDad: Zia's father died prior to the beginning of the RP (having committed [[SuicideIsPainless suicide]] when she was young).
* HeroWithBadPublicity: All the heroes are basically societal outcasts and people assume readily they were involved in vandalizing the school.
* MindControl: Jessica - much like in the original - has acquired the Purple Man's power set, and has already used this power to make three people copulate with each other outside their awareness. It is also entirely possible for Zia to achieve this, as evidenced by her ability to control Jessica and Ivy's [[FridgeHorror pulmonary system]] [[PowerIncontinence to nearly asphyxiate]] them.
* MindOverMatter: Hans' vector control power - it lets him control the vectors that basically all things move along. As one poster mentioned, it basically makes him the [[MarvelComics Scarlet Witch]] of the RP.
* MindScrew: The presence of the original RP as a story being promoted by an author has a number of odd characteristics, and some theorize the author has some sort of knowing of what happened.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Daigo Hiraga became a vampire after being empowered - his physical abilities increasing at night, and only increasing as he feeds. When exposed to sunlight, rather than turning to dust, he is put in a lot of pain, and cannot use his vampiric powers.
* RedStringOfFate: Mirielle can see them, as well as other colours, that mean other things. She trips over them a lot.
* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very concealing clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[StoryBreakerPower his powers]] surfaced.
* PainfulTransformation: Eric suffers one every time he is under [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry intense anger or stress]], mutating into a MonstrousHumanoid. Due to the transformations being attuned to his anger, and that repeated use of a Stage decreases the amount of effort and pain, there are potentially infinite Stages that Eric can use over time. Trouble is, [[NothingIsScarier there is no way to tell when, where, or what will trigger a new, unknown form]].
* PersonOfMassDestruction: If Ivy gets enough preparation time. Hans is capable of this once his vector range increases.
* PowerIncontinence: Zia gets it the worst - nearly suffocating people to death when she got too frustrated and being unable to turn off the telepathy in general - but a number of other students are shown having much more visible control issues.
* ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event, Hans and Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the windows and get the hell outta there" (and the latter then suggested going through the vents afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
* SymbioticPossession: Sebastian and Fesxis. While the latter can't control her host's body, she ''does'' grant him his powers, and can manafest when Sebastian loses consciousness.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Hyeon
* SuperpowerLottery: Some of the students won higher results from the empowering while others acquired basic but highly versatile powers. Among the students, [[{{Telepathy}} Zia]], [[MindOverMatter Hans]], and [[CastingAShadow Sebastian]] are some of the big winners.
* ShoutOut: Some of the names for the powers are names of fictional characters that most reflect those powers.
* TheUnfettered: Fesxis is shaping up to be one of these, although her host Sebastian is most certainly not.
** Daigo is likewise showing some tendencies of this, fitting his unscrupulous nature - he committed the first murder in the RP, and is not bothered by it very much, and in the backstory is heavily implied to have poisoned [[AssholeVictim his stepmother]].
* WifeBasherBasher: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: One of the applications of Mirielle's powers.
* TheWormThatWalks: Jenna Sanderson has become one of these, made up of various insects, arachnids, and myriapods.
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Some of the heroes come across Benjy with a monstrous appearance and surrounded by the corpses of Neo-Nazis. Believing that he's lost his
* AbandonedWarehouse: The Heritage Battlefront, a local Neo-Nazi group, shacked themselves up in an abandoned warehouse in the north of town. Benjy comes across them and ends up killing them, setting up a confrontation between him and the other superpowered kids in the derelict building.
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Ivy tries to barricade against the smoke snakes by pushing a desk against the door. It might've worked out except, as Simon points out, the snakes are made
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* AccidentalMisnaming:
** Simon is anti-social, and as a result has
** In a similar instance, Ivy is only vaguely familiar with Melissa and Irene, and so mistakenly refers to them as Marissa and Eileen.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} when Edward mispronounces Ciro's name during their introduction (Zee-ro instead of See-ro), and continues to do so after Ciro corrects him.
* AccidentalMurder:
** Zia's [[PowerIncontinence
** Daigo seems to have beaten
** Upon first discovering his vampiric abilities, Daigo accidentally murdered a man who was beating his wife. The 'accidental' part is
** In the lead up to the finals, Jacob accidentally uses his time powers to rewind a screwdriver into Barbra, killing her. Fortunately her power is immortality, but the incident still takes a great mental toll on him.
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* AdultFear: It's noted that the disappearance of several students, followed by absences during a school evacuation, is a great source of fear for the children's parents.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Ciro ruffles Michal's hair after the latter acts particularly childish. Michal doesn't know what to make of it.
* AfterActionHealingDrama: Carlie gets shot during a confrontation with Daigo, and Hyeon and Benedict must hurry to get her some treatment before she passes away.
* AirVentPassageway: Sebastian tries to hitch up into an air-vent to escape the locked high school, reasoning that he's small enough for the vent to hold him. The snakes attack before he can try it out.
* TheAllegedCar: Zia's bike, affectionally dubbed 'Frankenbike' due to being a mishmash of parts from several other bicycles.
* AlliterativeName: A few of the main characters have alliterative names- Edward Eisen, Finn Flannagan, Sebastian Smith- along with Hyeon's cousin, Jae Jung. It fits with the overall comicbook influence of the roleplay.
* AnkleDrag: One of the smoke snakes wraps around Jessica's ankle and drags her into a cloud of fog. The other students can only watch helplessly before more
* AntiClimaxCut: At one point Emmanuel calls Mirielle but is interrupted by the Dark Dragon, who sends him flying into a tree and seriously injures him. Mirielle implores Benjy to use his wings to go and rescue Emmanuel... and then it time skips to later that evening, which offhandedly mentions that the group picked up Emmanuel and bandaged him offscreen.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Hyeon dips into using flowery language to mock an overly formal text that [[TheProudElite Benedict]] sent him:
-->Verily, ‘twas not my intent to bring dishonor and misfortune upon thy Clan of the Tudor. May you convey my utmost apologies on this day to Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, whose youthful looks are as such to resemble thy siblings.
* AprilFoolsDay: For April 1st of 2018 there's a player-supplied {{Flashforward}} where Ivy and Luna are the only remaining survivors after they kill the BigBad. They then realise that they're in an April Fools joke, and things resume as normal.
* ArchetypalCharacter: Crispin tries to [[EnforcedTrope enforce]] the idea that the superpowered kids fit the archetypes present in his story. It's quickly called out as bullshit since the archetypes he points out are shoehorned (Ivy isn't the Mastermind of the group, for one example) and don't cover the rest of the kids that were empowered too.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Hyeon explaining to Benedict why they're making weed brownies instead of smoking it raw: it lasts longer that way, it's more mild if Benedict has a bad reaction and, most importantly, it's ''delicious''.
* AssuranceBackfire: Luna tries to reassure Ivy that Travers wouldn't try and kill them in a public place like a classroom. However, Ivy then says that if Travers was to murder ''everyone'' in the room, then 'technically' it could count as a private space.
* AtomicFBomb: When Finn recovers from one flashforward, Zia is able to hear that his stream of thought is one long, loud 'F' before he cuts himself off.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Three members of Daigo's gang gained powers to match their unscrupulous nature:
** Daigo himself became a vampire that grows stronger by drinking blood, or can force mutations in others
** His girlfriend, Melissa, can turn into smoke. She quickly demonstrates the
** And then his second-in-command, Devin, can manipulate acid. A fittingly poisonous power for his [[SmugSnake snake-like personality]].
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** Benjy transforms into a monstrous bug creature, who can [[HulkingOut turn further into a mindless beast when he feels threatened or angry]]. Despite this, he still has a kind personality.
** Irene has the ability to [[{{Biomanipulation}} manipulate flesh]]. In spite of her Lovecraftian superpower, she remains an OnlySaneWoman who just wishes to make
* BadPowersGoodPeople: A number of students obtained powers obviously capable of tremendous devastation, but mostly, they remain heroic, for a certain definition.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: In contrast to the Benjy from the first Dawn
** Harriet gains control of a
** Sebastian has a coldly pragmatic, eldtritch spirit possessing his body that grants him the power to control shadows. Sebastian himself, however, is a NiceGuy.
* BathroomBreakOut: {{Subverted}}. The Dark Dragon takes over Simon's body and then
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* CardCarryingVillain: Daigo is rather open about where his cards rest. He is however playing
* BeYourself:
** When asked how she can be more likable, Josephine is advised by Travers to just be herself. Otherwise she'll regret bending to other's wills once she's older.
** This is the advice that Ciro gives to Michal when the latter tries to act more suave towards Lenore.
--->"I don't think you need to act like that. I mean, people would tell you to 'be yourself' with this sort of thing, right?"
* BearHug: Zia sweeps Mirielle up into a hearty hug when they first meet each other after the empowering event.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: After Ivan strikes out with finding information in the library, he leaves and immediately comes across another superpower-related plot. He believes it to be an act of fate- which is a more reasonable assumption for him than most, since his
* BegoneBribe: Daigo tries to send off Ciro's siblings by giving them a hundred dollars. It doesn't work, and he sics his
* BehindTheBlack: Abby was with Hyeon's group when they were attacked by the snakes- something that the group doesn't realise until after the fact, since she'd been off-screen until that point.
-->Hyeon’s attentions then turned on a dime as he looked to Abby with a megawatt smile, taking the flush to her cheeks to mean something entirely different even as he belayed all shock that she had apparently been there the whole time.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Strange things happen during the blackout that shouldn't be possible in the regular setting. Ciro's phone is somehow able to register ''negative'' reception, and music plays out of destroyed speakers.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord:
** Ivy's drone Ziz manages to acquire a Nintendo Switch for her. When Luna points out that it's stealing, Ivy is horrified and tries to phrase it instead as Ziz 'getting it for free'.
** Later on Ivy needs to fetch a bucket of water to put out Michal's flames. When explaining herself to Jemimah, she nearly says that she stole the bucket, only to quickly correct that she's ''borrowing'' it.
* BlahBlahBlah: How Hyeon interprets a sci-fi movies while he's getting high.
-->"Blah blah blah aliens." \\
"Blah blah blah science!" \\
'''Hyeon:''' ''[thinking]'' Why do I even own this again..?
* BlatantLies:
** When Ciro's siblings come across Daigo's lizard monster, Daigo makes a lie on the spot about how it's actually a man in a costume. It only gets accepted because of how young the kids are.
** Hyeon's response to Josephine asking if he has superpowers; he stutters out a no, scoffs, [[ActingUnnaturally casually]] leans against the wall, and 'sarcastically' asks if Josephine has powers.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** Jenna's power transforms her into a [[TheWormThatWalks walking mass of insects]]. Most people freak out at the sight of her, and eventually it causes her to have
** Katheryn gets turned into a sentient mass of ink. She can't talk and has limited movement, meaning she has to spend most of her time cooped up in a notebook. She isn't happy with this, and urges Finn to find a way to reverse it.
** Vivian's power essentially allows her to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality]]. While incredibly powerful, it's also unpredictable and frequently has unfavourable results. Not only that, but
* CastingAShadow: The basis of Sebastian's Fesxis-granted powerset.
* DisappearedDad: Zia's father died prior to
** Jessica gains powers identical to [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} the Purple Man]]: her skin turns purple, and secretes pheromones that she can use to control people's minds. The power gets to her head and she nearly causes a group of teenage boys to rape each other. When the other characters find out about this, they understandably react with disgust, which- combined with her new, unnatural appearance- causes Jessica a great deal of angst.
** {{Zigzagged|Trope}} with Benjy and Amy. Benjy's power turned him into a giant bug monster that loses his mind if he gets too emotional. Amy was
* BloodIsSquickerInWater: Carlie and Devin are both grievously wounded during a fight in the school. As the sprinklers had been going off previously, it's noted that their blood spreads in the surrounding water.
* BluffTheEavesdropper: Upon noticing that their principal is approaching them, Ivy switches the topic of her conversation from their superpowers to what little she knows of football.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Barbra tries to stop Jacob in his tracks because her friend just disappeared, she thinks he's shrunk down and is looking for him, and also she just vomited in the area.
* BribeBackfire: Hyeon gives Abby ten dollars to help Ciro put up the flyers for Hyeon's band. She takes the bribe and then doesn't do any of the work.
* BrickJoke: Nadine mentions to Hyeon that Luna can control electricity. Josephine, who can also control electricity, later shows off her power to Hyeon, leading him to mistake her for Luna.
* BridalCarry: Hyeon supports Carlie by the knees and back and carries her away after she's seriously injured, though he struggles for a moment with how her wrestling training has made her heavy with muscle.
* BrigBallBouncing: A flash to the future shows Eddie Longhorn working at the FBI and blasély throwing a ball against his cubicle wall, showing his casual manner in spite of his serious job.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Nadine decides to keep her mouth shut about the empowerment and go on with her life. Finn proposes that, if they ignore their superpowers and let the transformed Benjy run rampant, that he'll eventually make his way to her mother's workplace and slaughter everyone there. Fortunately it doesn't come to pass, as Benjy targets a Neo-Nazi gang instead.
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: To avoid a confrontation between Nadine and the agent-turned-teacher Travers, Ciro steps in and asks Travers if they can go to the bathroom, lying about Nadine not feeling well. Travers lets them go, but the fire alarm goes off before they can leave.
* CapeBusters: In the future, a 'Post-Human Division' is set up by the FBI to capture and detain the superpowered kids. In the present, this role is carried by Sarah Travers, a government agent who's job involves identifying and monitoring the superkids.
* CarFu: A fight in the school's parking lot ends with David using his power to launch a car at his opponent. It misses them and goes soaring into the air. A little later it crashes down next to Finn and Ivy, nearly giving them a heart attack.
* CarRadioDispute: A subtle example when Finn gives Ivy a lift home. He turns the radio on to agonisingly loud Eurobeat, but Ivy is too shy to dispute it. Instead she stealthily sneaks her hand over to turn it down.
* CarryingACake: Mirielle has to carry a box of cookies into her high school. [[CuteClumsyGirl Predictably]], she trips over a step and drops the lot. Then [[BigEater Emmanuel]] comes in and starts scoffing them all up.
* CassandraTruth:
** One of the reasons why the students don't immediately tell the adults about the empowering event: who would believe them about magical music and deadly smoke snakes when the adults had been there and [[InvisibleToNormals not seen any of it?]]
** Rose banks on this trope when explaining why they should use giant bug Benjy as a distraction: even if the cops did try and tell anyone about it, no one would believe them.
** Crispin follows the same logic when he justifies why the government hasn't come for him after he exposed the 'truth' about them: he thinks they haven't hunted him down because it'd be a waste of effort, since no-one would believe him anyway.
** The principal finds Irene carting around the injured school nurse. No matter how much she tries to explain herself, he refuses to believe that she wasn't responsible for hurting the nurse.
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Hyeon edits a costume design that Abby shows him to be more devilish. This gets him on the topic of a Korean football team, Red Devils, which for reasons unknown makes him uncomfortable enough to dismiss the costume entirely and then change the subject.
* ChokeHolds: Daigo attempts to strangle Harriet after she stabbed him earlier. She's unable to escape, and only escapes death by Hyeon's timely rescue.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Usually when a player leaves their character disappears from the story with no in-game explanation. Special mention goes to Travis Murray, who was last seen exploding into a mass of electricity.
** Some of the non-player characters- Heather, Leslie, Loraine, Omar, and Thelma- disappeared before they could even be properly introduced. This was to make way for a new batch of [=NPCs=] that were part of Daigo's gang.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Ivy and Vivian learn about Crispin Hayward when they listen to the radio on their way home.
* ColdBloodedTorture: A {{flashforward}} depicts a future where the Dark Dragon group have captured a number of the kids and tortured them for a year to get information on Ivy's whereabouts.
* ColdIron: The only thing shown to affect the empowering smoke was a fire extinguisher, which was able to smack into one of the snake apparitions. Whether it's the iron in particular that they're weak to remains to be seen.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Before the empowering event, Zia stops a group of students from breaking open a window with a guitar. She points out how unnecessary it is, and that even if they ''had'' to, they could've used a chair instead of an expensive instrument. Cue Sebastian picking up a chair and trying to break the glass again.
* TheCorpseStopsHere: Irene comes across the injured Nurse Dini and tries to escort her to safety. Principal Shooter comes across them and accuses Irene of being the one who injured Dini.
* CountingToThree: Irene slowly starts to get pissed off when the other students repeatedly interrogate her and prevent her from going home. She starts a mental countdown to ten, at the end of which she plans to use her powers on them to escape. She doesn't get that far before they're interrupted.
* CoveredInGunge: Ciro gets splattered with liquified brain matter after Zia kills Daigo's monster. It's all he can do to keep from vomiting.
* CowerPower:
** Barbra hides behind Jacob when they approach the warehouse containing Benjy. She even makes it clear that she's doing it in the hopes that Jacob will take a hit for her.
** When Benjy throws up some liquid for fellow bug Jenna to eat, Luna is disgusted and hides behind Rose, who in turn hides behind Sebastian. It should be noted that Rose is taller than Seb and Luna is much taller than both.
* CreatorInJoke: One of Ivy's posts refers to Zia as the 'boneless' one, a reference to a 'Boneless Brayne' joke between the players.
* CrisisCatchAndCarry: After she tries to take a bullet for him, Benjy grabs Mirielle and attempts to climb out of the building with her. This is [[NotWhatItLooksLike misconstrued]] by his attackers as an attempt to kidnap her.
* CryIntoChest: Zia breaks down crying from the trauma of murdering Daigo's lizard monster. Her friend Ciro pulls her into a hug, and she clings to him until she gets a handle on herself and breaks away in embarrassment.
* CrystalBallScheduling: Crispin's book ''Dawn of a New Age'' mirrors the plot of the empowering incident, albeit with different characters. When Ivy and Luna realise this, they gather together a small group to hunt Crispin down and ask him about it.
* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Ciro's curiosity leads him to examine a strange disc in the Principal's office. Said device electrocutes him and gets him caught by the principal, but that in turn gains him new information and an ally, so the good outweighs the bad.
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* DePower: In one possible future, it's shown that a group called the Overseers were able to manufacture a way to create and remove powers. This is revealed when Zia confesses that she can't read minds anymore.
* DefensiveFeintTrap: The Dark Dragon pulls Emmanuel into a trap by covering himself in an electric charge and then running away. Emmanuel tries to grab him, and is sent flying into the nearest tree for his trouble.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: When the warehouse group are panicking about the arrival of the police:
-->Hans was doing some weird thing that was supposed to be a distraction, and all [Sebastian] could really do was hope that it was enough of a distraction to be a good distraction.\\
'''Fesxis:''' Very eloquent.
* DescriptionCut:
** When Benjy is sent to distract the cops and ends up getting hurt:
--->This was unmistakably a cry for help, and it would take nothing but fear to understand it as something else.\\
"They're fine!" Barbra hissed, nodding over at the dust storm after Benjy's cry of pain. "He's pretending."
** Happens again when Hyeon sets up to meet his drug dealer in the park:
--->'''Hyeon:''' Don’t worry, Longhorn might be a space cadet, but I’m sure whoever he sends will know enough to be discreet and not make a scene.
--->''[cut to the park, where Longhorn is hanging around with a conspicuous 4/20 sticker on his bag]''
--->'''Hyeon:''' Son of a ''bitch''.
** When Jacob is appraising the group in Sebastian's house:
--->Sure he thought they were pretty stupid, but at least they weren't doing anything dumb like playing around with their powers in dangerous ways that purposefully put others in harms way just because... though honestly, who would do that?
--->''[cut to Daigo, who has been doing just that]''
** Rose advises everyone to lay low and not cause any problems with their powers until summer comes around. Cut to later that night, where Ivy accidentally exposes her powers to her parents.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Jacob calls Barbra out for planning to pursue Benjy without any thought as to how she was going to go about it.
** After Zia's group siezes Crispin, Jenna goes into a panic because they don't have any plan for what to do after kidnapping a prolific author.
** Ivan only realises after he's followed Ciro to Eustis Avenue that he doesn't actually have an idea of what he could do to help with the situation there.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: While 'superhero' and 'superpowers' are thrown around by the kids, 'empowered' is also a popular term.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: When Emmanuel's mother finds him eating cookies, Mirielle informs her that he hadn't paid for them. His mother then tears into him for breaking his diet, immediately making Mirielle feel guilty. She tries to help him by saying that it was probably just stress from the night before... leading Ms. Vincent to criticise her son even more for not telling her what happened and stress-eating instead. Eventually Mirielle makes up an excuse to drag herself and Emmanuel out of the confrontation.
* DingDongDitchDistraction: Ciro turns invisible and follows Principal Shooter into his office. To get out, he knocks on the door with the plan to sneak through when Shooter opens it. He gets caught before he can do so, however.
* DisappearedDad: Due in part to the large size of the cast, many of the characters have fathers that are absent to some degree or another:
** Zia's father died prior to the beginning of the RP, having committed [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] when she was young.
** Finn's father, who's also the previous mayor of Oldport, was arrested after he was caught embezzeling funds. Finn's popularity plummeted as a result, ending with him as a social outcast.
** Little is known about Benjy's father, except that Amaya offered him a way to skip town after Benjy was born.
** Emmanuel's mother is divorced, and nothing has been said in regards to his father or where he is.
** Jessica was the unwanted result of a series of one-night stands. Thus, she has no idea who her father is.
* DisposableVagrant: Daigo's scheme involves grabbing a homeless man off the street and forcibly mutating him into a monster. He and Melissa then set the monster on the low-income neighbourhood, which is when Kev [[HeelRealization draws a line]] and works with the heroes to stop it.
* DisproportionateRetribution: David approaches Irene about working together with their powers, but she ignores them. In response, David forms his coin into a bullet and tries to ''drill a hole through her head''. It's later shown that his extreme aggressiveness was because he [[NotHimself wasn't feeling like himself]].
* {{Dissimile}}: Hyeon's description of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'':
-->[T]he greatest rock n' roll documentary ever made that actually wasn't about rock n' roll and really wasn't a documentary.
* DontAsk: Zia accidentally ends up in a stranger's house, sees them having sex in the shower, and wipes their memories in a panic. She then tromps over to Vivian's house, walks in while still soaked from the shower, and emphatically tells them all not to ask about it.
* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: While she doesn't get physical, Ivy nevertheless has a negative reaction to Hyeon giving her an unexpected shove.
-->She immediately recoiled from him with a loud shout, raised her arms in front of her and stared at Hyeon like he had just dropped cargo and took a shit on his desk.
* DoubleMeaning:
** How Hyeon manages to convey information to Nadine without Longhorn picking up on it; 'when there's smoke, there's fire', referring to the smoke snakes that Hyeon and Nadine had encountered the previous night.
** Attempted by Ciro to try and make reference to the smoke snakes to Nadine while her non-powered lackeys were hanging around; the message doesn't get through, and instead they're all led to believe that Ciro is involved with drugs.
* DoubleTake:
** When Ivy first sees Jessica, she performs a physical and mental double take when she realises that the girl's skin is purple.
** Luna does an incredibly fast double take when she looks at their exam teacher, looks back to Ivy, and then realises that said teacher is the government agent that's been hounding them.
* DramaticIrony:
** Rose wishes that she could have a voice in her head that tells her what to do. She's unaware that the person she's telling this to, Sebastian, actually ''does'' have an entity in his head that he's trying to keep secret.
** Josephine has a friendly talk with a stranger she meets in the park. The stranger in question is Sarah Travers, who has already been revealed in a different plotline to be more nefarious than Josephine suspects.
** Ivy wonders whether the person who greviously hurt the nurse is someone she knows. It's already been revealed to the reader that the culprit is Simon/Dark Dragon, Ivy's crush.
** Rose comments that she'd love to be friends with a teleporter, unaware that Lenore, who's standing right next to her, has teleportation powers.
** Amy alerts Finn to the threat of a bomb at Rogers High. Finn's response is to [[MoodDissonance burst out laughing]]- the explanation being that he'd just been trying to find a way to get the school to evacuate, and this would allow him to do so without drawing attention to himself.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: At one point, Mr. Claremont walks straight through Ivy. This is because all of the superpowered kids have been rendered intangible and InvisibleToNormals- however, observers assume that it's because Ivy has turned into a ghost, in turn causing Ivy to freak out at her seeming incorporealness.
* DudeShesALesbian: When asked what she knows of Benedict, Amy gets excited over how cute and dreamy he is. Katheryn then helpfully informs her that he's gay, shocking her little virtual heart.
* DynamicEntry: Harriet introduces herself to Sebastian's group by accidentally jamming her spear into Sebastian's back door, ripping it in half and nearly impaling Jacob.
* {{EMP}}: Luna's powers go into overload during the school evacuation until she suddenly unleashes all her electricity in a single blast, knocking out every other electronical device in the school.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing:
** When Amy is transformed into data, her clothes are left behind. This causes the other students to freak out when all they can find of her is her clothes and her phone.
** Jenna loses her clothes whenever her swarm of bugs splits apart and reforms somewhere else, leaving a pile for others to find and ponder over.
** A slight variant when Luna is transformed into electricity and absorbed by the Dark Dragon: her clothes all come with her, except for the parka that Ivy gave her, which is left in a little pile on the ground.
* EntertaininglyWrong: The reveal that they're BeingWatched reaches Hyeon's group just before Rose's invitation to meet up in a local graveyard. Hyeon comes to the conclusion that they're related, and refuses to go to the meeting since he believes it's a trap. They actually have nothing to do with each other.
* EscalatingPunchline: Fesxis' response to Sebastian offering his home to the other students:
-->'''Fesxis:''' Ah, yes, let the giant bug monster do whatever the hell he wants. What a great plan. \\
'''Sebastian:''' ''[to Harriet]'' If you and your... spear, I guess... need anywhere to stay, you can stay here, I guess. We're all in this together after all. \\
'''Fesxis:''' Ah, yes, invite the lady with a spear you know nothing about to stay with you and the bug monster. What a great plan.
* EurekaMoment: Ciro needs to find something to put under a door so that the smoke snakes can't get through. He thinks about earlier, where Hyeon used a fire extinguisher to fend them off, which gives him the idea of finding a fire blanket in the room.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Melissa is explaining to Daigo why it's actually a good thing if Ciro and his siblings escape their monster, only to suddenly realise that said monster has managed to slip out their grasp and is on the loose.
* {{Expy}}:
** In the previous DONA thread, the teenagers explicitly received their powers from comic book characters. While this is no longer the case, some of the teenagers that were carried over from the last thread still have the powers they inherited from comic books: Zia has [[ComicBook/XMen Professer Xavier's]] telepathy, Ciro has [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Susan Storm's]] invisibility and force fields, Jessica has [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Purple Man's]] mind-control pheromones, and Barbra has [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Doomsday's]] adaptive regeneration. Luna is an odd case in that she had [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Black Adam's]] powers in the original thread, but here she only maintained the ability to control and turn into electricity. Also, while not from the old thread, Lenore's powers are directly based on [[ComicBook/XMen Nightcrawler]] and Emmanuel's super speed is directly compared to Franchise/TheFlash.
** Daigo is explicitly based off of Dio from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', boasting the same appearance, fashion sense, vampiric powers, familial circumstances, and (before it was retconned) fascination with an Egyptian aesthetic. This has lessened since he was taken over by the GM and developed in a different direction.
** Finn's appearance, and the {{chess motif|s}} surrounding him, are directly inspired by [[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Battler Ushiromiya]].
** Most of the teachers have their names and appearances derived from comic book writers, e.g. Principal Creator/JimShooter, [[Creator/StanLee Mr. Lieber]].
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: So many weird events happen the first day after the empowerment that it wouldn't be unreasonable for the public to catch on to the existence of something strange: a warehouse of Neo-Nazis are found wrapped up in cocoons, an author is kidnapped in broad daylight by a swarm of insects, police officers are attacked by a giant bug monster that was previously reported on social media, and another monster wreaks havoc in front of {{Muggle}} witnesses. In spite of all this, the superpowered cast are still able to remain on the down low. There is an implication that some of the events are being [[TheMenInBlack deliberately covered up]].
* FacialDialogue: Daigo and Melissa have an entire silent conversation by emoting to each other, so as to not clue in the child they're interacting with.
* FakeRelationship:
** Amy and Hyeon have done the popular kid routine of dancing around each other, but wouldn't seriously enter in a relationship since they're BetterAsFriends.
** Devin and Jae have dated once, and it was only so that Jae could discourage people from realising she's a lesbian.
* FantasticRacism: The flashes to the future show that the reception to superpowers is likely to be a terrible one. The kids are forced to abide by curfew, are blamed for the country's degradation, and are eventually sent into hiding by the government.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Dark Dragon guard that watches over Zia in one BadFuture. He encourages her to write and makes small talk with her, but when she tries to appeal to his good nature he politely informs her of all the ways he's dreamt about killing her.
* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse:
** While most of the characters try to help each other escape from the smoke snakes, Ivy and Simon have no patience for that and immediately turn tail and run.
** It happens with Ivy again when she realises that Jessica could be capable of killing her and making everyone forget about it. Immediately after saying it, she tries to make a break for it.
** A third instance with Ivy is when Zia tries to enroll her in a fight against Daigo's monster. She points out that her power is ''really'' not suited for combat, and then makes her getaway in Finn's car.
* FlashbackCut: When Hyeon runs into Nadine he has a brief flashback to an intimate moment between them.
* {{Flashforward}}: Occasionally the GM will offer an insight into the future, or at least how the future could be if current events pan out. In the last thread these flashes were only available to the players, but here they're also seen by Finn as part of his [[{{Seer}} pre-cognition]] power.
* FogOfDoom: The smoke that envelops the school during the empowering event. It takes the shape of multiple snakes that all impale the students for an unpleasant experience.
* ForWantOfANail: The events of May 29th spark a future where the cast are discovered by the FBI and hunted for their powers. Longhorn remarks that, had the events of that day been even slightly different, then it would've spurned a worse future where their powers are ousted to the public and cause mass hysteria.
* ForbiddenFruit: The students are told to stay where they are when the school suffers a power outage. The protagonists all ignore the warning and go exploring.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The dragon mask in Simon's room hints that he has a relation to the Dark Dragon group in the future.
** Hyeon puts on "School's Out" by Music/AliceCooper and mouths along to the lyrics, including one line about the school being blown up. A few days later, Daigo and his gang set up bombs in Rogers High School.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: The cast is large and the GM usually offers multiple plots for them to follow if they choose. This results in many non-connected plots happening at the same time. \\
For example, during the first day after the empowering event: one group went to investigate a giant bug sighting at the warehouse district; another group were called to the auditorium to explain the damages there; a third group went to hunt down an author that they believed could explain what was happening; a fourth group met in the park and decided to get high while planning what to do about the smoke snakes; a fifth group formed after Daigo and his gang created a monster and set it loose on the public; and a ''sixth'' group witnessed the nurse's office getting blown up. Some plots connected, some characters passed from one group to the other, and then some had no relation to each other at all.
* FreudWasRight: Finn makes a wisecrack about Zia 'gripping Terry's shaft' (after he had transformed into a sword). She's disgusted and immediately drops the Terry-sword.
* FromBadToWorse:
** A group of students set out to find Crispin with the intention of interrogating him. It immediately goes downhill when Ivy shouts at him publicly, and gets worse when Jenna attempts to stop his escape by swarming her bugs around him.
** Daigo rigs up bombs to explode around the school. In the process of trying to defuse them, two students are gravely injured and Luna gets turned into lightning and absorbed by the Dark Dragon, giving the maniacal man a huge power boost.
* FunnyAnsweringMachine: A variation when Hyeon voices his pain from the empowering event:
-->'''Hyeon:''' Hyeon isn’t available at the moment, if you’d like to leave a message, leave it at the beep. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep oh god.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfWoman:
** Finn recites the trope word-for-word as he slaps Zia to bring her out of her panic. Zia is none too pleased, and decks him hard in response.
** A gender-flip happens when Luna gives Crispin a thunderous slap to stop him freaking out over Jenna's appearance.
** Another gender-flip when Jacob tries to insist that he can't help deal with a bomb, Lenore's response being to slap him and tell him that they're doing it regardless.
* GilliganCut:
** Ciro tells himself that he's going home to get some sense of normalcy back in his life. Cut to him in his room, having discovered his power to turn invisible.
** Hyeon expressly tells Kwang that he isn't coming along to school. The next scene has Hyeon arriving at Roger's High with Kwang in his backpack.
** When Finn shows up at Vivian's house:
--->'''Jessica:''' You don't think ''I'm'' going outside to talk to him, do you? \\
''[cut]'' \\
''[Jessica walks out to talk to Finn]''
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Nadine and some members of Daigo's gang smoke, as an indicator of their outcast status or rebellious attitude. In contrast the other characters don't smoke, [[TheStoner unless it's drugs]].
* GovernmentConspiracy: The government are trying to shush up the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent, and are possibly the ones who caused it in the first place.
* GreenAndMean: The sinister, snake-like smoke that empowers the heroes is an unnatural shade of green.
* GroundedForever: The students that are implicated in the auditorium's vandalism are threatened with detention until the end of the semester. Which rings a little hollow when the end of the school year is just a week or two away- even if Shooter meant the next semester it would still mean little to Ciro, since he's 12th grade and thus about to graduate.
* HellIsThatNoise: The sound of ticking that starts up above the 10th grade exams, which clues in some of the students below that there's bombs set in the school.
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
* HeyCatch: As a response to Adam showing off some clearly unnatural powers, Hyeon tells him to think fast and flings a hacky-sack at his head. Abby interrupts it before it can find its target.
* HistoryRepeats:
** When looking for a way out of the auditorium, Barbra suggests using Michal to start a fire. A few days later she pitches the same idea to get out of a test.
** At one point there's an emergency at Eustis Avenue and Ciro runs there to help out. Ivan isn't as aware of what's happening, but follows Ciro out of curiosity. This same event repeats later that night, when Ivy sprints off to find water for a fire and Jem appears from nowhere to curiously give chase. Jem and Ivan are also both physically imposing, frightening Ivy and Ciro.
* HomoeroticSubtext: The way that Melissa [[WeCanRuleTogether interacts with Irene]] causes Ivy to briefly mistake their conversation as flirting, rather than a threat.
* HowDoIShotWeb:
** Jacob has to spend many hours practising to fully get a grasp of his time loop power- and even then, he's still not sure how to describe it to other people.
** Due to how esoteric they
** Ciro doesn't immediately grasp what his force fields are, nor how to use them in a non-instinctive manner. This isn't helped by his [[RefusalOfTheCall reluctance]] to engage with his powers.
* {{Hyperaffixation}}: Posts that take place in Hyeon's car refer to the vehicle as the 'Hyeonmobile'.
* HypocrisyNod:
** Irene wonders what kind of parents would name their child Destiny, then admits she doesn't have much stones to throw since her own name translates to 'peace'.
** Jenna screams when she sees that Benjy has transformed into a bug monster... only to remind herself that she, too, was transformed into bugs.
* IDidntMeanToKillHim: In an act of self-defense, Harriet tries to use her spear to pin Devin's hand and stop him from using his dagger. However, a gunshot goes off nearby, disrupting her concentration and causing the spear to instead go through Devin's abdomen, injuring him gravely.
* IHaveThisFriend: Hyeon needs to find out where Daigo could have planted a bomb in the school. Remembering that his friend Longhorn had been working on the air ducts a few days ago, he calls him up and offers a 'hypothetical' situation where he and his friends are trying to find a good place to hide a bomb for a game. Longhorn, being [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Longhorn]], accepts it at face value and gives him the info he needs.
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: A situation that Ciro finds himself in while confronting Travers. He knows that she knows that he was involved in
*
* IgnoreTheDisability: Happens a few times with characters trying not to describe Ed as 'the kid in the
* IgnoreTheFanservice: In one side story Melissa tries to seduce Daigo, but fails because he's so pre-occupied with his painting. It's not until she says she's going to have sex with another guy [[CrazyJealousGuy that he pays attention to her]].
* ImHavingSoulPains:
** The smoke snakes impale the students and cause them a severe amount of pain, but don't leave any damage on their physical bodies.
** Harriet's spear Severance stabs itself through her body in order to relay information to her, leaving no physical injury but causing her to temporarily black out from the pain.
* ImprovisedTraining:
** Lacking anywhere public to test her powers, Luna practises her new lightning generation by hurling balls of electricity at a tree.
** Jemimah utilises 'oldschool' training techniques like gravel push-ups and tree targets, rather than going to the gym.
* InUniverseCatharsis: While he feels bad about it, Sebastian admits to himself that he gets some satisfaction out of seeing Jacob in pain, after the latter had been acting like an asshole.
* IncrediblyObviousTail: The robotic drone Ziz is tasked to follow Crispin when he leaves the heroes. It makes no attempt to hide itself, so Luna gives up pretense of secrecy and warns Crispin against doing anything shady.
* InfractionDistraction: Mirielle jams up a microwave and starts a minor fire for the purpose of evacuating everyone without letting them know of the much more serious danger of a bomb in the building.
* InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: Daigo's gang asks him a question about their future plans, prompting him to enter an inner monologue while they all wait around awkwardly for him to say something.
* InstantlyProvenWrong:
** Benedict tries to reason that the empowering event was all a mass hallucination. Hyeon points out the gaping hole in the wall that proves it real.
** Michal doesn't have a clue how they're supposed to find Benjy since he's probably hidden himself since they last saw him. Barbra immediately shows him a website article showing where Benjy is.
** Edward reveals at the cemetary meeting that he can create duplicates of himself, which Destiny claims is the coolest power. Then Lenore teleports in with Vivian, and Destiny is forced to admit that hers is cooler.
** Hyeon tells Benedict that Kwang is too dumb to find anything weird in the school just because Hyeon ordered him to. Kwang then springs up and immediately finds a trail of blood to follow.
* InsultMisfire: Benedict approaches Hyeon saying that he requires the help of Hyeon's 'diminutive friend'. Hyeon takes it as an insult towards his friend Longhorn's height, when really Benedict was referring to Hyeon's squirrel.
* InternalReveal:
** Feeling like he has
** Finn makes the
* InvisibleToNormals: The empowering event wasn't seen by anyone who wasn't affected by it. Other students and
* InvisibleWall: What stops the characters from [[ClosedCircle just leaving the school]] during the empowering event are a series of invisible walls set up at every exit. Normal people
* ItMakesSenseInContext:
** The weirdness of the Crispin plotline is lampshaded by Ivy:
--->(the strangeness of having her kind-of-estranged friend arguing with a kidnapped young adult novelist over a government conspiracy to give them superpowers wouldn't become apparent until later that day when she tried to go to sleep. it wouldn't be a restful sleep.)
** Ed gets some strange looks when he says that 'the nurse exploded' (he clarifies that it was her office that exploded with her in it).
* KidHero: The main cast are all teenagers, their ages ranging from 15-18. Crispin theorises that the government chose children to empower so that they could be molded into ChildSoldiers.
* KillingInSelfDefense:
** After transforming into a bug monster, Benjy is attacked by a group of Neo-Nazis. The threat on his life causes him to [[HulkingOut lose his mind]] and kill all of them.
** Daigo mutates an old man into a lizard monster. It first tries to eat Ciro's siblings, and then Ciro himself. Zia stops the latter by [[YourHeadAsplode exploding the creature's brain]].
* KirkSummation: Finn gives one to the Principal, breaking down the motivation behind his false accusation to prove Finn's own innocence.
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* LastNameBasis:
** Benedict and Finn, due to their upper-class upbringings, have a habit of referring to other characters by their last names.
** For some reason Zia is referred to by her surname, Brayne, with higher frequency than most.
** Sarah, as a result of being a government agent, is almost always referred to as Travers. Similarly, most of the parents and teachers are on a last name basis with the teenage cast.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Finn asks Ivy to recount her day, she almost tells him that she ended up kidnapping an author. She stops at 'ki-', realises that it could be interpreted as her nearly saying she ''killed'' him, and then swerves into 'kindled' instead.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** A cop in the warehouse talks about his Thanksgiving plans with his co-worker. The co-worker questions why he's talking about it when it's May and Thanksgiving is six months away. The post was written in November.
** Rose comments that time seems to have been [[WebcomicTime dragging on a lot longer]] than what it actually has.
* LessDisturbingInContext: Jacob offhandedly reveals to everyone that Benjy's killed people, which horrifies them and leaves out the important distinction that Benjy did so in self-defense. [[invoked]]
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: How some of the students react to the empowering event, wishing to wash their hands of the smoke snakes and other supernatural happenings. Naturally, they don't get their wish.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Hyeon and Nadine are constantly bickering with each other, a leftover from when they used to be a couple. They do care for each other, as shown in a quiet moment between them, but otherwise fill the space between them with snark.
-->'''Hyeon:''' ''[to Nadine about his car]'' Also, be careful with her. She’s not like you, she’s delicate.
* LiteralMetaphor: When asking around about what happened to Benjy, Ciro is informed that he 'flew the coop'. He literally flew out of the school after transforming into a bug.
* LiteralMinded: Ziz, being a robot with artificial intelligence, can struggle with understanding turns of phrases, especially when Ivy misspells them in a panic.
-->'''Ivy:''' ''[texting]'' ok please come to teh school i need you its urgent djust lanfd on the roof and dont move off ot it until i say so pls come here tell author guy i will \\
'''Ziz:''' CREATORS MESSAGE CONTAINS TOO MANY GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX ERRORS TO BE CORRECTLY PROCESSED. I WILL CONFIRM YOUR ORDERS. YOU WANT ME TO ADJUST THE LAN SETTINGS ON THE ROOF WITHOUT MOVING BUT ALSO WHILST MOVING AND MAKING SURE THE CRISPIN HAYWARD CAN EFFECTIVELY ACCESS THE INTERNET THROUGH HIS DEVICE WHICH YOU REFER TO AS I-WILL. CORRECT?
* LookBehindYou:
** Barbra causes a scene while locked in the school, only to realise that people aren't looking at her- they're looking behind her, at where supernaturally green smoke is gathering.
** In the future, Zia gets in an argument with Terry, only to realise that he's staring at something behind her. Something that the [[ChargeIntoCombatCut reader doesn't get to see]] before the flashforward ends.
** A car crashes into Daigo's monster and it's flung into the car's interior. Ciro checks on the driver when she falls out, unaware that the monster is alive and [[EnemyRisingBehind rising up behind him]] until the woman screams and points at it.
* LostInTransmission:
** The school nurse tries to alert Simon's mother about his sickness, but Simon's power causes the phoneline to break up and leaves his mother in the dark about what happened afterwards.
** It happens again when Emmanuel tries to tell Mirielle about the Dark Dragon. The Dragon's electricity causes the line to freak out, and all Miri can hear is Emmanuel saying 'OH SHIT' before the line dies.
* LoveDodecahedron: There's 30+ members of the cast, all of which are teenagers in high school, and so the romantic relations are everywhere and always changing (either due to circumstances or because CharacterisationMarchesOn). To wit:
** Amy used to like Sebastian, but now has feelings for Finn. Rose also likes Sebastian, but he hasn't noticed. Seb used to have a crush on Jae, but it faded over time. Jae used to date Devin so that people wouldn't know she's a lesbian. They've since broken up, and now Devin is crushing on Jenna while Jae likes Ivy.
** Ivy, meanwhile, likes Simon, who in turn has been experiencing some interest in Mirielle. In the future Simon hooked up with Mirielle, but they broke up again due to his work with the FBI. Speaking of Mirielle, she's inspired crushes in both Benjy and Emmanuel.
** Michal likes Luna, Lenore, and Zia. Marko also likes Zia, and is unaware that his fellow gang members Destiny and Kev have both been sweet on him (though Kev has been moving on recently to Ivan). Zia has a FriendsWithBenefits relationship with Hyeon in the future, wouldn't mind having one with Nadine now, and also has a crush on her childhood friend Ciro. Ciro is unaware of her feelings, and also those of the three other
** Nadine used to go out with Hyeon, and now has her
* LuredIntoATrap: Agent Travers assigns Daigo's group the task of finding out who has superpowers. Their plan involves creating a monster to bait out the heroically-inclined kids and
* MakeOutKids: Daigo and Melissa can barely go a minute without getting all up in each other's personal spaces, much to the discomfort of those around them.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Zia with two of her close friends, Ivan and Ciro. She's an athletic punk with a foul mouth and willingness to throw down if needed. Ivan in contrast is quiet, thoughtful, and rather physically unfit, while Ciro is kind-hearted, hates to fight, and has hobbies like cooking and cleaning.
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: The cast all
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Ivy gets lost in her own analogy when she watches Jenna jump through a portal.
-->Seriously, it was like someone had just tossed a leaking sack full of chittering, squirming beans through a door! Not even a mop would fix that kind of mess, some of the
* MetaphoricallyTrue: In one future Simon claims that he isn't the Dark Dragon. This is technically true, as the Dark Dragon is a separate personality that exists in his body.
* MilhollandRelationshipMoment:
** Michal gets himself in a tizzy when he thinks he's offended Ivan by making an ignorant remark about how he can't talk, to the point that he worries that Ivan is going to try and hurt him in payback. The reality is that Ivan was amused by Michal putting his foot in his mouth, and otherwise wasn't bothered at all.
** Jacob freaks out after he's rude to Irene while she's using her biomanipulation to fix his nose. He worries afterwards that she did something horrible to his body in retaliation: while she ''was'' annoyed with the way he acted, it wasn't to the degree that she'd then act maliciously.
* MindScrew: The presence of the original RP as
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** Ciro's mother has been in and out of his life. The last he saw of her was eight or so years ago.
** Daigo
** Abby's mother left her and her father after the latter [[ClosetKey discovered some things about his
** Katheryn's relationship with her father has defined a lot of
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* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi
* MoodDissonance: A flashforward shows Melissa and Daigo dancing together in the high school. Then it shows that they're dancing around the corpses of their classmates that litter the halls.
* MoodWhiplash: Zia's traumatic freak out after she murders Daigo's monster is immediately followed by her freaking out for a much more innocuous reason- her mother calling her to find out where she is.
* MortalWoundReveal: Daigo gloats over Carlie getting shot, only to turn around and realise that his own friend, Devin, was impaled by a spear during the tussle.
* MortonsFork:
** Jacob has this happen when Barbra tries speaking to him after the
** Happens again when Ciro restrains Daigo's monster and Daigo demands that he
* MultipleChoiceFuture: The flashes to the future that Finn experiences are not always consistent with
* MurderByMistake: Rhys attempts to shoot Daigo when he finds the boy attacking Harriet, but Daigo manages to evade the bullet and
* MusicalisInterruptus: While driving home, an inebriated Hyeon gets a tune going that's picked up by all the
* MythologyGag: The ''Dawn of a
* NakedPeopleAreFunny:
** There's a RunningGag where Jenna ends up naked due to her swarm of bugs flying out of her clothes, which is always played for humour.
** After his first stint as the Dark Dragon, Simon wakes up naked and stuck up a tree. His subsequent attempt to find clothes is presented humorously.
* NeckLift: In a fit of anger, Daigo grabs his teacher by the collar and effortlessly lifts him off the ground. This dissuades said teacher from following after him when he then storms out the room.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** In a bid to extinguish the self-immolating Michal, Ed creates a 'fireproof' Tulpa to tackle Michal and put him out. Not only is the Tulpa not actually fireproof, but it breaks Ciro's concentration and thus gets rid of the barrier that was in the process of extinguishing the fire's oxygen supply.
** Another example from the same situation: Simon tries to use his heat absorption to take care of Michal's flames. The sight of it terrifies Michal, however, and causes his flames to grow even more intense.
** Ivan helps de-escalate a situation between Daigo and Harriet by using his power to modify Daigo's thought process. However, this leads Daigo to believe that Harriet messed with his mind, and thus he confronts her later, which leads to Devin and Carlie getting seriously injured.
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The story takes place in Oldport, which is a stand-in for the real life Rhode Island city of Newport. The geography and many of the buildings are the same, but liberties are taken with specific locations and the general economy (such as low income areas existing where they wouldn't in the real world).
* NoSuchAgency: Agent Sarah Travers has a badge belonging to the Department of Justice, but the ''actual'' department she works for doesn't 'officially' exist.
* NoTimeToExplain:
** Zia tells Ciro that two people
* PainfulTransformation: Eric suffers one every time he is under [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry intense anger or stress]], mutating into a MonstrousHumanoid. Due
** Jae claims that she has no time to explain when she's dragging Jem around the school, except it takes so long to find an exit that she ends up explaining anyway.
* NoodleIncident: Mr. Claremont makes mention of a
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: With the advent of
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** Nadine comes across Hyeon and Benedict in a compromising position in front of the school. She makes fun of them for looking like a couple, receiving an embarrassed 'Shut up' in response.
** Barbra tries to convince Jacob to go along with finding Benjy, but Jacob misconstrues her intent and thinks that she's blackmailing him into following them.
** Upon coming across Ciro and Michal in the school, Lenore asks them about the smoke snakes that gave them their powers the previous night. Vanessa, a non-powered student, overhears this, and misconstrues it as an admission that Lenore and Ciro [[MistakenForJunkie were smoking weed]]. An attempted clarification falls flat, as she's too giddy at the thought of Ciro breaking the rules to listen to them.
** When Michal sets himself on fire, and the other kids converge on him to try and put it out, Ivy instead turns on her heel and books it out the park. She's not actually running away, but instead looking for a bucket of water.
* OddFriendship:
** Ivy is a neurotic, shy ShrinkingViolet. Luna is abrasive and confrontational. Their mutual love of anime and gaming led to them becoming close friends when they were children, a spark that re-ignited after they gained powers and started hanging out again.
** Zia is an outspoken punk, whereas Ciro is strait-laced and gentle. They became ChildhoodFriends after she stopped him from being bullied, and the two have been close ever since.
** Lenore and Vivian have a mutual love for Dungeons & Dragons, but otherwise couldn't be more different: while Lenore is extroverted and easy-going, Vivian is high-strung and awkward.
* OddballDoppelganger:
** One of Edward's Tulpa clones takes on traits from Ciro. It has Edward's diminutive height and white skin, but Ciro's hair, facial features, and personality. The end result is a mish-mash of the two that Ciro is uncomfortable with.
** Another Tupla that's mentioned in passing mixes Ed's traits with Destiny's ethnicity and attitude.
* OhCrap:
** Ivy's reaction to seeing that her substitute teacher is the government agent that's been hounding her and the rest of the kids. She immediately snaps to her mobile and texts her pet drone, commanding it to hurry to the school and help her.
** Simon also has a bad reaction to discovering that their teacher is Travers, mentally dropping a ClusterFBomb and having to repress the Dark Dragon from attacking her.
* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: Finn of the future sets things up so that Future Ivy can send a message back to Present Finn when he witnesses her in a flashforward. The message is that he has to kill three of the other kids before the end of summer.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted; across the main and supporting cast, there are
* OneWordVocabulary: Hyeon can
* PersonOfMassDestruction: If Ivy gets enough preparation time. Hans is
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Out of nearly 40 cast members, only a handful have any siblings. Ciro and Irene are the only player characters to have brothers and sisters.
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Zia is a very difficult opponent to fight against since her telepathy allows her to predict people's moves. Nadine finds a way to circumvent this
* PersonOfMassDestruction:
** Ivy can create machines that are far beyond what any one person should be capable of. These spurts of genius and what they'll make are random, meaning it's entirely possible for her to accidentally create a nuke.
** The upper range
** The bare bones of Vivian's power is that she can rewrite reality on a whim. In one {{Flashforward}} it's mentioned that she wiped entire cities off of the map.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: Ivy's mother has to deal with a parent complaining that her 'innocent' child got detention. The child in question had broken a beaker of sulphuric acid and could've seriously hurt himself.
* PowerIncontinence: Multiple characters have been shown to have control issues in regards to their power, to the point that it's almost rarer for a character to be in complete control of themselves.
** Zia gets it the
** Michal is repeatedly shown
** Jessica instinctively uses her CompellingVoice when she's angry or upset, [[HairTriggerTemper which tends to happen often]].
** Benjy lost control of his bug form when he was attacked by a group of Neo-Nazis. When he regained control of himself, he discovered that he'd killed them all and webbed them into cocoons.
** Harriet has some issues controlling the trajectory of Severance, nearly causing her to spear people multiple times.
* PowerMisidentification:
** Nobody knows what to think when Amy evaporates into thin air. Finn discovers soon after that she's been turned into data and uploaded onto her phone.
** Finn initially believed that Ivan's power was some form of telekinesis, after seeing him move a chess piece without touching it. Ivan clarifies that it's not kinesis, but he's unable to be any more specific than that.
* PowerNullifier: The government are in possession of small, circular devices that can be attached to the head to block out the effects of superpowers. Just touching one is enough to temporarily disable a person's power.
* PoweredArmour: Multiple flashes to the future have shown the characters wearing futuristic armour created by resident GadgeteerGenius Ivy.
* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: The cast receiving their powers is the very first event of the roleplay, though some of them don't figure out what said powers are until later.
* ThePratfall:
** Mirielle is [[TheKlutz constantly falling to the ground]] due to tripping over the strings that only she can interact with.
** Jacob [[SlipperySkid skids across a pile of vomit]] and ends up falling into it, much to his dismay.
** PlayedForDrama when Ciro takes a tumble while on the way to save his siblings. He's so pre-occupied with their safety that he barely notices the pain from it, or that he dropped his phone when he fell (Michal picks it up to return later).
* ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event,
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* ReactiveContinuousScream: Jenna realises she's naked and screams, causing Vivian to scream and throw her clothes, causing Jenna to scream in thanks. Then Crispin wakes up, making Vivian scream, making Crispin scream...
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zia doesn't mince her words when it comes to criticising Crispin's theory about the government:
-->"Crispy, your writing is bad and your stories are trite. If the government is trying this secondhand, homeopathic approach to conspiracy - what the flying fuck is the objective? Pissed off, emotionally unbalanced pubescent superhumans?"
* RedHerring: A flashforward has Zia reveal that Simon isn't the leader of the Dark Dragon, because she overheard their talk about capturing him. The reality is that the original Dark Dragon is Simon's evil split personality, so technically Simon ''is'' the leader.
* RedRightHand: {{Invoked|Trope}} by the Dark Dragon group of the future; all of them have their faces burned by the leader to mark them as a member.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: Ivy and Luna were barely on speaking terms before the empowering, having drifted apart after Luna joined up with Nadine's gang. The incident forces them back together, which Luna lampshades:
-->"I wish it didn't take the whole world crumbling for us to talk again- am I right?"
* {{Retool}}: This happens in-universe to the Post-Human Division, as shown in a {{flashforward}}. Originally a dumping ground for incompetent employees, the division got a newer, more serious coat of paint once superpowered individuals came into the picture. [[PlotParallel Fittingly,]] the division's agents are talking about a film remake when this fact is introduced.
* RevealShot:
** Principal Shooter mentions over the PA that Mr. Morrison has been replaced by a substitute for the final exams. Cut to the classroom where it's revealed that said sub is Sarah Travers, the agent that's been hunting down and monitoring all of the superpowered characters.
** Hyeon gets one of these when he sees Daigo talking with Harriet. Upon getting a little closer, he's shocked to find that they aren't talking at all- Daigo is ''strangling'' her.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Kwang, a grey squirrel that Hyeon picks up after killing its mother by accident. He's as cute as you'd expect from a squirrel, bolstered by his ability to only say 'Mom' in various inflections.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Josephine is introduced to Kwang, she asks the squirrel if he's actually a kid with shapeshifting powers. She's not too off the mark, as Kwang is the pet of the guy who can talk to and transform into animals.
* RoadBlock: The warehouse group attempt to sneak Benjy from said warehouse to Sebastian's house, but hit a snag along the way when they encounter a police barricade. They create a dust cloud to try and get through, accidentally hurting some of the cops in the process.
* RunForTheBorder: Fesxis advises Sebastian to flee the country before the {{masquerade}} is broken and
* RunningGag:
** Someone, usually Ciro, tells Michal to turn off his fire power and be careful with it. Michal apologies and does so. Then he turns it on again next scene.
** Jenna [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing losing her clothes]] due to her bug body splitting up and reforming. It happened once when she first got her power, again when she split up to catch Crispin, and then a third time when fire made her panic and lose form of herself.
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* ScreamingAtSquick:
** Jenna's appearance thoroughly disgusts Crispin, and he makes sure that everyone is aware of it. His horrified reaction causes her to experience a HeroicBSOD.
** Shortly afterwards Ed arrives, screams at Jenna, and throws a pillow at her, disorientating her swarm. Fortunately she's more annoyed at the unprovoked assault than traumatised.
** While he likes to put up a persona of being composed, Daigo quickly loses his cool and shrieks when Harriet gets snot all over him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Crispin sees Ivy, and realises that he's about to get sucked into the superhero plot, he immediately tries to jack a car and escape.
* SelfDeprecation:
** Luna mocks Crispin's novel for opening on a janitor, which is how the RP itself started.
** Crispin says it doesn't make sense that more than four children were given superpowers. After all, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a story with twenty or more main characters would be way too much of a mess]].
** Finn makes a dig at the RP when Ivy describes Crispin's book to him:
--->"Yeah, I can tell just by the name that it's shit. I mean, 'Dawn of a New Age'? Who writes a title like that?"
* SinisterScrapingSound: Daigo's lizard monster scrapes its sharp claws against the ground, emitting a terrifying noise as it pursues its prey.
* SkippingSchool: Taken to [[ExaggeratedTrope silly extremes]] the day after the empowering: nearly all of the 30+ superpowered kids end up skipping class at some point or the other. Abby and Irene are the only ones who stay in school until it's evacuated.
* SlowMotionFall: Rhys accidentally shoots Carlie in the stomach, and describes the few seconds in which she falls to the ground as feeling like an hour.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Hyeon's extended interaction with his ex-girlfriend Nadine and haughty rival Benedict is one long showcase of how sarcastic they can all be towards each other.
* SoProudOfYou: PlayedForLaughs when Mirielle uses a microwave to set off the fire alarms and Zia is proud of the bad influence she's had on her friend.
* SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb: It's revealed during the school finals that Daigo has set up multiple bombs throughout the school, which Ivy discovers when her drone finds bomb-related equipment on the roof, and Benedict discovers when his hyper mind picks up strange substances on the way to class.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Ivy figures out that Luna is really the Luna she knows, and not a monstrous imposter, when Luna bluntly tells her to nut up.
* SpySpeak:
** Both Shooter and Benedict refer to the superpowered kids as a 'study group' while in public.
** Agent Travers advises Ivy and Luna to return to the classroom quickly while they try to leave. They both freak out over the idea that she's speaking code words and delivering a hidden threat to them. Ivy tries to rebuke her, but can't actually figure out a metaphor to respond with.
* StandingBetweenTheEnemies: Josephine stops a fight between Zia and Nadine by placing herself between them. Nadine, who has a crush on Jo, comes to her senses before she can hurt the girl and then encourages Zia to leave.
* StarCrossedLovers: Mirielle and Simon were an item in the future, but broke apart after the latter joined the government that was terrorising the heroes.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The students end up locked in the school. Since they can't
* StereotypeReactionGag: Hyeon assumes that Benedict would know Devin since they're both rich white boys. Benedict shoots back that Hyeon would be offended if Benedict asked him if he knew all the Korean-Americans in town... which Hyeon can't respond to, because he ''does''
* StupidestThingIveEverHeard:
** Luna's response to Crispin's claim that they're all part of an urban legend experiment.
** Josephine says this to herself after she ponders whether a squirrel she just found could be a government-trained spy.
* SuddenlyShouting: Inverted when Mirielle asks Simon what's happening with the smoke snakes. He goes on a long, stressed tirade, before calmly eating a piece of bread and informing her that it tastes good.
* SuperheroSpeciation: No two characters have the exact same power, though there is some overlap: Simon can control plasma, which in turn lets him
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Hyeon
* SuperpowerLottery: Some of the students won
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* TakeThat:
** As bad as Crispin's novel is, Zia still thinks it's better than [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Countdown]].
** Ziz buys a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch for Ivy without using any of her money. When she worries that they've accidentally stolen it, Luna claims it's a victimless crime since it came from Amazon.
* TakingTheBullet:
** Mirielle attempts to take a slew of attacks that are aimed towards Benjy. The attackers soften their blows when they realise they'll hit her, and Benjy ends up leaping forward to take the now lessened hits for her.
** Ciro urges a civilian to get to safety before him, leaving himself vulnerable to attack from Daigo's monster.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Michal's PowerIncontinence wasn't stopped by the multiple attempts to extinguish his flames, but instead by the group calmly but sternly telling him to calm down.
* TalkingYourWayOut:
** Future Zia tries to escape imprisonment by appealing to her captor. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't work]], as her guard is [[FauxAffablyEvil much less compassionate than he seems]].
** Ciro sneaks into the principal's office and ends up getting caught. He's able to talk the principal down from his panic, and even set up an alliance with him.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The trope is referenced InUniverse; when Jenna bemoans that her parents are gonna freak out when they see her bug form, Vivian suggests sending them a text about staying at a friend's house. It's not 1988, they have plenty of ways to lie to their parents.
* TeleporterAccident: Vivian's magical portal deposits her and the gang in her house- except for Zia, who's accidentally shunted into a stranger's house. [[InterruptedIntimacy While they're having sex.]] No-one is happy.
* TemptingFate:
** Hyeon's words before they're attacked by supernatural snakes and granted superpowers:
--->"In two weeks, we’ll forget this night ever happened."
** A similar instance happens with Nadine, the night before police show up at the school:
--->"That idiot's wrong. Nothing's gonna happen and he knows it. Tomorrow we'll all be laughing at his face. Mark my words."
** When Zia's group arrives at Falstaff in search of Crispin.
--->'''Vivian:''' I mean, what are the chances of him walking out of the
--->'''Luna:''' There he is. ''[points to where Crispin is walking out of a hotel]''
** Similar to the above, when Sebastian's group is recuperating at his house:
--->'''Barbra:''' No one is just going to walk in h-
--->''[Harriet smashes through the door with her spear]''
** Travers reassures Josephine that she won't let anything bad happen to her during finals. Soon after, it's revealed that Daigo and company have planted bombs all throughout the school.
** Fesxis tells Sebastian that, in order not to spook the people who've set the bomb in the school, they shouldn't set off the fire alarm. Guess what Mirielle does just a few minutes later?
* ThatCameOutWrong:
** Ciro tries to advise Michal on controlling his power, only to realise with embarrassment that his advice sounds like it's referring to something more salacious.
--->"You just have to put up with it until you can get back to your room. Or sneak off somewhere private, like a toilet or something, and let it out..."
** Since Harriet has nowhere to stay for the
* TheirFirstTime: Nadine and Hyeon reminisce over the time they decided to try and have sex for the first time. Emphasis on ''try'', as the whole thing was awkward and they gave up before anything happened.
* ThereWasADoor: To escape the snakes, Hyeon and Ciro try holing up in a room and barricading the door. Cue the snakes bursting through the wall right besides the door.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: It takes a good minute for Ivy to explain to her parents that she has superpowers. They first take her confession to mean that she's an alcoholic, and then that she's doing drugs, only to finally realise what she means when she uses her power to reconstruct their TV remote.
* ThirdPartyStopsAttack: Happens twice in quick succession. Daigo tries to strangle Harriet until Hyeon comes in and knocks him away with a guitar case. Daigo then grabs Hyeon and tries to sink his teeth into him, only for Carlie to appear and break Daigo's nose with her fist.
* ThisIsReality: When it's suggested that the empowered kids become a legitimate superhero group, Rose shoots it down by saying they aren't in a comic book and things wouldn't end well for them if they tried it.
* ThrowingTheDistraction:
** Hyeon throws his [=iPod=] away in the hopes that the music will distract the smoke snakes that are
** Elly sets off her personal alarm and then throws it aside in the hopes that Daigo's monster will follow it rather than her. It gives her and her brother a few seconds, but the monster eventually turns its attention back to them.
* TitleDrop:
** The title of
** Besides that, the title has been [[DownplayedTrope alluded to]] a few times; Principal Shooter referred to the students as 'builders of a new age', while Daigo has said that
* TormentByAnnoyance: How Finn gets Zia's attention after she receives her telepathy; he loudly repeats her name in his head until she can't ignore it anymore.
* TransformationHorror: What happens when Daigo forces a drifter to consume his vampiric blood. His body contorts unnaturally and his skin melts off his bones as a new reptilian body grows from within him.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: PlayedForLaughs when Jae suggests punching Destiny to help awaken her power.
* TwistingTheWords: When the principal corners Mirielle and complains about 'her people' being the end of him, she intentionally misconstrues his words as him being prejudiced against the French or bakers (when they both know he's talking about 'people with superpowers').
* TheUnsmile:
** Having been called to the principal about the auditorium's destruction, Ciro forces a smile when he sees Shooter that just makes it more obvious how panicked he is.
** Shooter himself tries to offer a reassuring smile to the students while the police are investigating the school. It actually creeps them out more due to how unnatural it looks.
* UrbanLegends: The in-universe ''Dawn of A New Age'' novel, which replicates the roleplay's events, is supposedly based on an urban legend about the government experimenting on children to give them superpowers. The heroes that are told about it don't believe it for a second.
* UselessSecurityCamera: The surveillance at the school didn't pick up any of the weird happenings. To normal people (or those
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** Daigo is likewise showing some tendencies of this, fitting
* VictimizedBystander: Daigo's monster kills a man [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals and his dog]]. Their only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
* VillainTeamUp: Agent Travers, a member of the government trying to detain the cast, strikes a deal with Daigo's unscrupulous
* VillainousGentrification: Oldport has been greatly gentrified, with the
* WifeBasherBasher: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: One
* VulgarHumour: Harriet's method of getting Daigo to back away from her: she takes a good whiff of dust and then sneezes snot over him and his lackey Devin.
* WantedPoster: The future shows that the Post-Human Division have a corkboard up with pictures of all the superpowered children, each of them marked with some form of red writing.
* WatchWhereYoureGoing:
** Distracted as they are by the weird happenings in school, Zia and Simon don't notice they're careening towards each other until it's almost too late. Zia swerves at the last second and hits the lockers instead. The two are then too distracted by the arrival of the smoke snakes to interact further.
** Jae is too distracted trying to get Jem out of the school that she doesn't pay attention to where she's going, and ends up colliding with Mirielle and falling onto her behind.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: The radio show ''Sims Sensational'' is suddenly cut off by Crispin, who speaks to Ivy directly before the show resumes. No-one else is any the wiser to the interruption.
* WeNeedADistraction:
** To get out of the auditorium and away from the principal, Barbra suggests starting a fire to set off the smoke alarms. Ciro and Jacob quickly shoot down the idea.
** Nadine's plan to sneak out of finals includes kowtowing Ciro into acting as a distraction from her. A wrench is thrown in her plan when the finals teacher is revealed to be the government agent that's after the kids.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the future, Simon has turned his back on the other kids and aligned himself with the government. Future Mirielle's
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* WhamLine: Daigo and company plan something related to the school and final exams, but it's not revealed what until Ziz relays some shocking news to his creator:
-->'''Ziz:''' CREATOR, ARE THE UNITS KNOWN AS STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDUCATIONAL LECTURES ABOUT THE PRODUCTION OF EXPLOSIVES?
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Brought up when Hyeon accidentally runs over a squirrel. He'd never cared before about causing roadkill, but now that he has the ability to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal understand animals]] he's overwhelmed with guilt at his man- er, animalslaughter.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Jenna
** Ivan calls himself out once he realises that Ciro is freaked out by Ivan following him.
* WorkingWithTheEx: The morning after the empowering incident, Hyeon runs into his ex-girlfriend Nadine. The two of them join together to figure out a plan, which leads to a lot of awkardness and bickering between them (much to the amusement of Benedict, their ride-along).
* WorldOfSnark: One of Sebastian's comments hangs a lampshade on how most of the cast are prone to throwing around witty banter:
-->There was a new kid- sarcastic. He'd get along well with everyone here.
* WorryingForTheWrongReason: Zia freaks out when she gets a call from her mother while skipping school. Ciro assumes it's because her mother is angry, but Zia clarifies the real problem- her mother is ''worried''.
* WorstAid: Some of the kids try to heal Emmanuel by wrapping him in a bandage... for an ''internal injury''. Fortunately he also has
* WoundedGazelleGambit: A variation; one of
* WrittenInAbsence:
** Finn's player was absent for a month after having asked the Principal to shake his hand. The other characters in the scene comment on how the both of them seem to go into a trance for that time.
** Zia's player was pre-occupied with real life for a while, so her absense was justified as a teleporting incident gone wrong. When she returns, Zia finds herself in a stranger's home instead of Vivian's house like she intended.
* YouMustBeCold: After freezing herself to her desk and
* YourHeadAsplode: Zia performs a variation on Daigo's lizard monster, using her psychic powers to explode its brain. The result is a gooey green mess that spurts out of its eyes.
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Ivy and her mother are introduced while the latter is dealing with a complaint from one of the student's parents. The student in question had broken a beaker of sulphuric acid with his fidget spinner, just for the sake of making a video.
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* AbusiveParents: Emmanuel, with his mother being psychotically controlling, while Jacob has an almost {{Psycho}} level MyBelovedSmother. Daigo's father and stepmother take this trope well past the MoralEventHorizon - it is stated they used racist mocking on him, outed his sexuality, ''and'' made use of physical abuse whenever possible.
* AbusiveParents: Emmanuel, with his mother being psychotically controlling, while Jacob has an almost {{Psycho}} level MyBelovedSmother. Daigo's father and stepmother take this trope well past the MoralEventHorizon - it is stated they used racist mocking on him, outed his sexuality, ''and'' made use of physical abuse whenever possible.
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* PainfulTransformation: Eric suffers one every time he is under [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry intense anger or stress]], mutating into a MonstrousHumanoid. Due to the transformations being attuned to his anger, and that repeated use of a Stage decreases the amount of effort and pain, there are potentially infinite Stages that Eric can use over time. Trouble is, [[NothingIsScarier there is no way to tell when, where, or what will trigger a new, unknown form]].
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* SymbioticPossession: Sebastian and Fesxis. While the latter can't control her host's body, she ''does'' grant him his powers, and can manafest when Sebastian loses conciousness.
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** Daigo seems to have beaten her to it, though the accidental aspect is in question.
* DisappearedDad: Zia's father died prior to the beginning of the RP (having committed [[SuicideIsPainless suicide]] when she was young).
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* MindControl: Jessica - much like in the original - has acquired the Purple Man's power set, and has already used this power to make three people copulate with each other outside their awareness.
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* MindControl: Jessica - much like in the original - has acquired the Purple Man's power set, and has already used this power to make three people copulate with each other outside their awareness. It is also entirely possible for Zia to achieve this, as evidenced by her ability to control Jessica and Ivy's [[FridgeHorror pulmonary system]] [[PowerIncontinence to nearly asphyxiate]] them.
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* PowerIncontinence: Zia gets it the worst - nearly suffocating people to death when she got too frustrated and being unable to turn off the telepathy in general - but a number of other students are shown having much more visible control issues.
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* AbusiveParents: Emmanuel, with his mother being psychotically controlling, while Jacob has an almost {{Psycho}} level MyBelovedSmother. Daigo's father and stepmother take this trope well past the MoralEventHorizon - it is stated they used racist mocking on him, outed his sexuality, ''and'' made use of physical abuse whenever possible.
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* AttackReflector: Hans develops the ability to make invisible attack reflecting fields, turning back [[JerkJock Dennis]]' punch and throwing an amplified amount of the kinetic force through Dennis' hand.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: All the heroes are basically societal outcasts and people assume readily they were involved in vandalizing the school.
* MindControl: Jessica - much like in the original - has acquired the Purple Man's power set, and has already used this power to make three people copulate with each other outside their awareness.
* MindControl: Jessica - much like in the original - has acquired the Purple Man's power set, and has already used this power to make three people copulate with each other outside their awareness.
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* MindScrew: The presence of the original RP as a story being promoted by an author has a number of odd characteristics, and some theorize the author has some sort of knowing of what happened.
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** Daigo is likewise showing some tendencies of this, fitting his unscrupulous nature - he committed the first murder in the RP, and is not bothered by it very much, and in the backstory is heavily implied to have poisoned [[AssholeVictim his stepmother]].
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* RedStringOfFate: Mirelle can see them, as well as other colours, that mean other things. She trips over them a lot.
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* RedStringOfFate: Mirelle Mirielle can see them, as well as other colours, that mean other things. She trips over them a lot.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: One of the applications of Mirelle's powers.
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* ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event, Hans and Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the windows and get the hell outta there" (and the latter then suggested {{Air-Vent Passageway}} afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event, Hans and Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the windows and get the hell outta there" (and the latter then suggested {{Air-Vent Passageway}} going through the vents afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event, Hans and Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the windows and get the hell outta there" (and the latter then suggested {{Air-Vent Passageways}} Passageway}} afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event, Hans and Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the windows and get the hell outta there" (and the latter then suggested Air-VentPassageways {{Air-Vent Passageways}} afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event, Hans and Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the windows and get the hell outta there" (and the latter then suggested AirVentPassageways Air-VentPassageways afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
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* Properly Paranoid: ProperlyParanoid: During the empowering event, Hans and Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the windows and get the hell outta there" (and the latter then suggested AirVentPassageways afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
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* RedStringOfFate: Mirelle can see them, as well as other colours, that mean other things. She trips over them a lot.
* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very concealing clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[StoryBreakerPower his powers]] surfaced.
* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very concealing clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[StoryBreakerPower his powers]] surfaced.
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* RedStringOfFate: Mirelle can see them, as well as other colours, that mean other things. She trips over them a lot.
* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very concealing clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[StoryBreakerPower his powers]] surfaced.
* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very concealing clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[StoryBreakerPower his powers]] surfaced.
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* RedStringOfFate: Mirelle can see them, as well as other colours, that mean other things. She trips over them a lot.
* ReformedButRejected:Properly Paranoid: During the empowering event, Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has Sebastian jumped straight to "smash the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very concealing clothes, windows and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In get the eyes of a number of people at hell outta there" (and the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[StoryBreakerPower his powers]] surfaced.latter then suggested AirVentPassageways afterwards) when, while strange things were happening, there ''probably'' wasn't enough evidence to justify it. [[FromBadToWorse And then the smoke snakes came.]]
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* AccidentalMurder: Thankfully {{averted}},, but Zia has come [[PowerIncontinence very close to it.]]
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* TheUnfettered: Fesxis is shaping up to be one of these, although her host Sebastian is most certainly not.
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Two years ago, there was a quite unique RP that sadly died out far too soon for its unique concept. However, in 2017 Stratovarius decided to bring the RP back under a new name - now, we have Dawn of a New Age Oldport Blues. Set in Oldport Rhode Island, the story unfolds much like the first RP - a number of kids present after school acquire powers from a bizarre supernatural incident, and have to sort out their lives and the complications resulting from their acquisition of superpowers.
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Two years ago, there was a quite unique RP that sadly died out far too soon for its unique concept. However, in 2017 Stratovarius decided to bring the RP back under a new name - now, we have Dawn of a New Age Age: Oldport Blues. Set in Oldport Oldport, Rhode Island, the story unfolds much like the first RP - a number of kids present after school acquire powers from a bizarre supernatural incident, and have to sort out their lives and the complications resulting from their acquisition of superpowers.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Pretty much anyone who was physically transformed by their powers, including Jenna, Jessica, and Kathryn. Special mention goes to Benjy, who may have lost his intelligence in the process.
* CastingAShadow: The basis of Sebastian's Fesxis-granted powerset.
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* WifeBasherBasher: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.
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* WifeBasherBasher: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.behavior.
* TheWormThatWalks: Jenna Sanderson has become one of these, made up of various insects, arachnids, and myriapods.
* TheWormThatWalks: Jenna Sanderson has become one of these, made up of various insects, arachnids, and myriapods.
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* WifeBeaterBeater: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.
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* WifeBeaterBeater: WifeBasherBasher: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.
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* MindOverMatter: Hans' vector control power - it lets him control the vectors that basically all things move along. As one poster mentioned, it basically makes him the [[MarvelComics Scarlet Witch]] of the RP.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Daigo Hiraga became a vampire after being empowered - his physical abilities increasing at night, and only increasing as he feeds. When exposed to sunlight, rather than turning to dust, he is put in a lot of pain, and cannot use his vampiric powers.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Daigo Hiraga became a vampire after being empowered - his physical abilities increasing at night, and only increasing as he feeds. When exposed to sunlight, rather than turning to dust, he is put in a lot of pain, and cannot use his vampiric powers.
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* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very covering clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[SuperpowerLottery his powers]] surfaced.
* SuperpowerLottery: Some of the students won higher results from the empowering while others acquired basic but highly versatile powers. Among the students, [[{{Telepathy}} Zia]], [[MindOverMatter Hans]], and [[CastingAShadow Sebastian]] are some of the big winners.
* SuperpowerLottery: Some of the students won higher results from the empowering while others acquired basic but highly versatile powers. Among the students, [[{{Telepathy}} Zia]], [[MindOverMatter Hans]], and [[CastingAShadow Sebastian]] are some of the big winners.
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* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very covering concealing clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[SuperpowerLottery [[StoryBreakerPower his powers]] surfaced.
* SuperpowerLottery: Some of the students won higher results from the empowering while others acquired basic but highly versatile powers. Among the students, [[{{Telepathy}} Zia]], [[MindOverMatter Hans]], and [[CastingAShadow Sebastian]] are some of the bigwinners.winners.
* ShoutOut: Some of the names for the powers are names of fictional characters that most reflect those powers.
* WifeBeaterBeater: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.
* SuperpowerLottery: Some of the students won higher results from the empowering while others acquired basic but highly versatile powers. Among the students, [[{{Telepathy}} Zia]], [[MindOverMatter Hans]], and [[CastingAShadow Sebastian]] are some of the big
* ShoutOut: Some of the names for the powers are names of fictional characters that most reflect those powers.
* WifeBeaterBeater: On a more extreme end of this, we have Daigo - whose first meal as a vampire was an abusive drunk beating on his girlfriend. Daigo, being that he came from an abusive household himself, has no patience for this kind of behavior.
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* AntiHero: Some of the heroes of Dawn of a New Age run the gamut - some are more moralistic, while others came from a background of trouble, all the way to the UnscrupulousHero types.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: A number of students obtained powers obviously capable of tremendous devastation, but mostly, they remain heroic, for a certain definition.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: In contrast to the Benjy from the first Dawn of a New Age, Benjy here mutates into a horrible fly monster and then escapes the school, possibly losing his sentience.
* CardCarryingVillain: Daigo is rather open about where his cards rest. He is however playing with the trope itself - he and his group, in his mind, have been given few choices but "evil" by society, and so they try to eke it out together.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: If Ivy gets enough preparation time. Hans is capable of this once his vector range increases.
* PowerIncontinence: Zia gets it the worst - nearly suffocating people to death when she got too frustrated - but a number of other students are shown having much more visible control issues.
* ReformedButRejected: Hans Schultz in a nutshell - he used to belong to a Neo-Nazi gang, and still has the tattoos from his membership, though he covers them up with very covering clothes, and has recanted and is trying to make efforts to atone. In the eyes of a number of people at the school, however, he's still dangerous, even moreso now that [[SuperpowerLottery his powers]] surfaced.
* SuperpowerLottery: Some of the students won higher results from the empowering while others acquired basic but highly versatile powers. Among the students, [[{{Telepathy}} Zia]], [[MindOverMatter Hans]], and [[CastingAShadow Sebastian]] are some of the big winners.
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''Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues'' is a [[HaremGenre Harem Anime]] released in May of 2017, created by Studio Ghibli and released through Warner Brothers International.
The series stars young [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent everyman]] Jacob Miller, who has been yearning to leave the yoke of his commanding [[MyBelovedSmother mother.]] Though he barely understands it, what he knows is that he won't be a complete person until he finds someone else to help him put the pieces together.
Thus, the series starts in a late spring day, near the end of the school year. One day in class, with no warning for anyone, it seems like Jacob's eyes are opened and he finally comes to terms with what he's feeling...or, at least, understands it a little better. This awakening is provided by the young, eager girl who sits across from him named Jenna. Only thing is...
...Jenna is a [[WormThatWalks pile of bugs]].
What ensues is a madcap experience of love and loss, between our hero and the women who surround him. Will Jacob escape his mother's iron grasp, and find true love? Will he find the lucky she ([[HoYay or he]]) who reciprocates? Will Jenna find a way to get past the things that bug her unrequited crush? Only time will tell.
The series is known for its surprisingly [[SuperlativeDubbing high-quality dubbing]]; unlike most series which receive little attention or no dub at all, Dawn of a New Age is praised for its superstar cast of voice actors. Jacob is given life by [[Creator/DonCheadle Don Cheadle]], Jenna is played by [[TheDanza Jennifer]] [[Creator/JenniferLawrence Lawrence]], and others include [[Creator/AoiYuuki Aoi Yuuki]] as Ivy and [[Creator/ChristopherEccleston The Ninth Doctor]] as Hyeon.
Watch the first trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACh_pvdSjaM here,]] and the second trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGB8g44kiNU here.]]
The series stars young [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent everyman]] Jacob Miller, who has been yearning to leave the yoke of his commanding [[MyBelovedSmother mother.]] Though he barely understands it, what he knows is that he won't be a complete person until he finds someone else to help him put the pieces together.
Thus, the series starts in a late spring day, near the end of the school year. One day in class, with no warning for anyone, it seems like Jacob's eyes are opened and he finally comes to terms with what he's feeling...or, at least, understands it a little better. This awakening is provided by the young, eager girl who sits across from him named Jenna. Only thing is...
...Jenna is a [[WormThatWalks pile of bugs]].
What ensues is a madcap experience of love and loss, between our hero and the women who surround him. Will Jacob escape his mother's iron grasp, and find true love? Will he find the lucky she ([[HoYay or he]]) who reciprocates? Will Jenna find a way to get past the things that bug her unrequited crush? Only time will tell.
The series is known for its surprisingly [[SuperlativeDubbing high-quality dubbing]]; unlike most series which receive little attention or no dub at all, Dawn of a New Age is praised for its superstar cast of voice actors. Jacob is given life by [[Creator/DonCheadle Don Cheadle]], Jenna is played by [[TheDanza Jennifer]] [[Creator/JenniferLawrence Lawrence]], and others include [[Creator/AoiYuuki Aoi Yuuki]] as Ivy and [[Creator/ChristopherEccleston The Ninth Doctor]] as Hyeon.
Watch the first trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACh_pvdSjaM here,]] and the second trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGB8g44kiNU here.]]
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The series stars young [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent everyman]] Jacob Miller, who has been yearning to leave the yoke of his commanding [[MyBelovedSmother mother.]] Though he barely understands it, what he knows is
Thus, the series starts in a late spring day, near the end of the school year. One day in class, with no warning for anyone, it seems like Jacob's eyes are opened and he finally comes to terms with what he's feeling...or, at least, understands it a little better. This awakening is provided by the young, eager girl who sits across from him named Jenna. Only thing is...
...Jenna is a [[WormThatWalks pile of bugs]].
What ensues is a madcap experience of love and loss, between our hero and the women who surround him. Will Jacob escape his mother's iron grasp, and find true love? Will he find the lucky she ([[HoYay or he]]) who reciprocates? Will Jenna find a way to get past the things that bug her unrequited crush? Only time will tell.
The series is known
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The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up. Yet we can see that life goes on, and for most of the teens, while life is difficult, they've found a way forward.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14965006070A50966600&page=1 The RP itself.]]
Tropes found in Dawn of a New Age;
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The series stars young [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent everyman]] Jacob Miller, who has been yearning to leave the yoke of his commanding [[BelovedSmother mother.]] Though he barely understands it, what he knows is that he won't be a complete person until he finds someone else to help him put the pieces together.
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The series stars young [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent everyman]] Jacob Miller, who has been yearning to leave the yoke of his commanding [[BelovedSmother [[MyBelovedSmother mother.]] Though he barely understands it, what he knows is that he won't be a complete person until he finds someone else to help him put the pieces together.
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Two years ago, there was a quite unique RP that sadly died out far too soon for its unique concept. However, in 2017 Stratovarius decided to bring the RP back under a new name - now, we have Dawn of a New Age Oldport Blues. Set in Oldport Rhode Island, the story unfolds much like the first RP - a number of kids present after school acquire powers from a bizarre supernatural incident, and have to sort out their lives and the complications resulting from their acquisition of superpowers.
The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up. Yet we can see that life goes on, and for most of the teens, while life is difficult, they've found a way forward.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14965006070A50966600&page=1 The RP itself.]]
Tropes found in Dawn of a New Age;
The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up. Yet we can see that life goes on, and for most of the teens, while life is difficult, they've found a way forward.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14965006070A50966600&page=1 The RP itself.]]
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The series stars young [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent everyman]] Jacob Miller, who has been yearning to leave the yoke of his commanding [[BelovedSmother mother.]] Though he barely understands it, what he knows is that
Thus, the series starts in a late spring day, near the end of the school year. One day in class, with no warning for anyone, it seems like Jacob's eyes are opened and he finally comes to terms with what he's feeling...or, at least, understands it a little better. This awakening is provided by the young, eager girl who sits across from him named Jenna. Only thing is...
...Jenna is a [[WormThatWalks pile of bugs]].
What ensues is a madcap experience of love and loss, between our hero and the women who surround him. Will Jacob escape his mother's iron grasp, and find true love? Will he find the lucky she ([[HoYay or he]]) who reciprocates? Will Jenna find a way to get past the things that bug her unrequited crush? Only time will tell.
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The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up. Yet we can see that life goes on, and for most of the teens, while life is difficult, they've found a way forward.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14965006070A50966600&page=1 The RP itself.]]
Tropes found in Dawn of a New Age;
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The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up.
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The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up.
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Two years ago, there was a quite unique RP that sadly died out far too soon for its unique concept. However, in 2017 Stratovarius decided to bring the RP back under a new name - now, we have Dawn of a New Age Oldport Blues. Set in Oldport Rhode Island, the story unfolds much like the first RP - a number of kids present after school acquire powers from a bizarre supernatural incident, and have to sort out their lives and the complications resulting from their acquisition of superpowers.
The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14965006070A50966600&page=1 The RP itself.]]
Tropes found in Dawn of a New Age;
The RP handles a number of mature subjects related to issues young people are dealing with right now, and what kind of realistic effect superpowers might have on these issues.
The RP goes back and forth from the modern day most of the time to flashforwards set four years in the future, where we see a more despotic government presence and both repression pushed on empowered people, and a number of villainous organizations set up.
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14959717890A49365600&page=1 The sign ups page.]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14965006070A50966600&page=1 The RP itself.]]
Tropes found in Dawn of a New Age;
