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* KickTheSonOfABitch: #Ammit's modus operanti consists in savagely attacking and ruining the life of servants of the Darkness.
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* TotallyNotAWerewolf: Predictably, many Hunters cannot tell the differences between Princesses and TabletopGame/{{MageTheAwakening}}s, with several groups in fact seeing the former as a subtype of the latter.

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* TotallyNotAWerewolf: Predictably, many Hunters cannot tell the differences between Princesses and TabletopGame/{{MageTheAwakening}}s, TabletopGame/{{Mage|TheAwakening}}s, with several groups in fact seeing the former as a subtype of the latter.
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* TotallyNotAWerewolf: Predictably, many Hunters cannot tell the differences between Princesses and [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Witches]], with several groups in fact seeing the former as a subtype of the latter.
* TheTrickster: #Ammit, of course tends to this.

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* TotallyNotAWerewolf: Predictably, many Hunters cannot tell the differences between Princesses and [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Witches]], TabletopGame/{{MageTheAwakening}}s, with several groups in fact seeing the former as a subtype of the latter.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: A frequent theme in the book; it's mentioned many Hunters initially fail to take Princesses seriously, seeing them as silly superhero wannabes whose bright flashy costumes make them feel out of place- only to be brutally reminded that, as silly as they look, Nobles ''are'' supernatural powerhouses.
** One story has a veteran Task Force: VALKYRIE Hunter chewing out a newbie for assuming a magical girl was harmless because of her cute outfit.
-->“What? You think this assignment is going to be easy, greenhorn? I've fought these witches before, and let me tell you who else wore a stupid outfit. Superman with his underwear outside his tights. This is not a cakewalk, and if you don't shape up you won’t be coming home."

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: A frequent theme in the book; it's mentioned many Hunters initially fail to take Princesses seriously, seeing them as silly superhero wannabes whose bright flashy costumes make them feel out of place- only to be brutally reminded that, as silly as they look, Nobles ''are'' supernatural powerhouses.
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powerhouses. One story has a veteran Task Force: VALKYRIE Hunter chewing out a newbie for assuming a magical girl was harmless because of her cute outfit.
-->“What? -->"What? You think this assignment is going to be easy, greenhorn? I've fought these witches before, and let me tell you who else wore a stupid outfit. Superman with his underwear outside his tights. This is not a cakewalk, and if you don't shape up you won’t be coming home."

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The basic belief of The Star of Bethlehem in regards to Nobles.

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* BurnTheWitch: A belief that more religious Hunters may have towards Nobles, most especially the more radical sections of [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic The Long Night]] and [[ChurchMilitant Malleus Maleficarum]] (with a fiction in the Malleus Maleficarum's section of the book having one of their leaders literally burn a Noble at the stake - [[OffingTheOffspring his own daughter, no less]]). Zigzagged in that The Long Night and Malleus Maleficarum don't have ''all'' their members subscribe to this belief, with some in The Long Night believing that [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Nobles are Angels sent by God]] to help humanity fight the forces of darkness, and [[OnlySaneMan The Order Of St. Ambrose]] also believing that the Nobles have their magic derived from more holy than unholy sources. The book even provides a fanmade chapter of the Malleus Maleficarum, the Order of Phargos, who believe Nobles are reincarnations of [[TheChosenOne "Chosen Ones"]] meant to fight The Darkness (and, in the aforementioned fiction, take in another member of the Maleficarum under their wing, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone after he was utterly horrified with what they had just done to the Noble his leader burned alive]].).
* CapeBusters: Any Hunter organization who hunts Princesses will be this, given the Hopeful are the closest thing this setting has from superheroes.

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* BurnTheWitch: A belief that more religious Hunters may have towards Nobles, most especially the more radical sections of [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic The the Long Night]] and [[ChurchMilitant Malleus Maleficarum]] (with a fiction in the Malleus Maleficarum's section of the book having one of their leaders literally burn a Noble at the stake - -- [[OffingTheOffspring his own daughter, no less]]). Zigzagged in that The the Long Night and Malleus Maleficarum don't have ''all'' their members subscribe to this belief, with some in The the Long Night believing that [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Nobles are Angels sent by God]] to help humanity fight the forces of darkness, and [[OnlySaneMan The the Order Of St. Ambrose]] also believing that the Nobles have their magic derived from more holy than unholy sources. The book even provides a fanmade chapter of the Malleus Maleficarum, the Order of Phargos, who believe Nobles are reincarnations of [[TheChosenOne "Chosen Ones"]] meant to fight The the Darkness (and, in the aforementioned fiction, take in another member of the Maleficarum under their wing, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone after he was utterly horrified with what they had just done to the Noble his leader burned alive]].).
* CapeBusters: Any Hunter organization who hunts Princesses will be this, given that the Hopeful are the closest thing this setting has from superheroes.



* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Magisters of Economie; Character Risk Analysis aren't ones themselves, but make a business out of helping them against monsters.

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* DeadlyEuphemism: Sending a princess's soul back to the Dreamlands is referred to by the Magisters are 'retiring.' The result is a soulless husk that acts like it's been lobotomized or a comatose vegetable.

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* DeadlyEuphemism: Sending a princess's soul back to the Dreamlands is referred to by the Magisters are 'retiring.' "retiring". The result is a soulless husk that acts like it's been lobotomized or a comatose vegetable.



** The Cheiron Group has an "Alhambran Agreement", though its exact terms are unknown aside from the fact it forbids them to directly engage Princesses on the field.

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** The Cheiron Group has an "Alhambran Agreement", though although its exact terms are unknown aside from the fact it forbids them to directly engage Princesses on the field.



* EthnicMenialLabor: Several of the sample members of the Sanitation Workers Committee qualify.
* EmergencyImpersonation: One of the services The Light Company provide to the Nobility.

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EmergencyImpersonation: One of the services The that the Light Company provide to the Nobility.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even morally dubious Compacts and Conspiracies like [[MadScientist the Cheiron Group]] and [[AristocratsAreEvil the Ashwood Abbey]] find how the Magisters deal with the Princesses distasteful.
-->'''Ashwood Abbey''' (''to the Magisters''): There are a million soul-sucking jobs out there. Who the Hell do you think you are, trying to make the Hunt one of them?

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
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Even morally dubious Compacts and Conspiracies like [[MadScientist the Cheiron Group]] and [[AristocratsAreEvil the Ashwood Abbey]] find how the Magisters deal with the Princesses distasteful.
-->'''Ashwood --->'''Ashwood Abbey''' (''to the Magisters''): There are a million soul-sucking jobs out there. Who the Hell do you think you are, trying to make the Hunt one of them?



* EvilHero: The Magisters ''are'' technically protecting mortals from the supernatural and fighting monsters, but their methods include brainwashing innocents and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild using Princesses as power sources.]]

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* EvilHero: The Magisters ''are'' technically protecting mortals from the supernatural and fighting monsters, but their methods include brainwashing innocents and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild using Princesses as power sources.]]sources]].



** Network Zero, despite being overall one of the most supportive Compacts toward Princesses, have an infamous habit of divulging infos about their identities, thus exposing them to the Darkness.

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** Network Zero, despite being overall one of the most supportive Compacts toward Princesses, have an infamous habit of divulging infos info about their identities, thus exposing them to the Darkness.



* NotUsingTheZWord: Defied in the opening fiction for Character Risk Analysis, where a new member is reluctant to use the term "Magical Girl" due to how silly it sounds. His superior promptly urges him to not bother and just use it, arguing they shouldn't let them use the silliness of the term to their advantage.

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* NotUsingTheZWord: Defied in the opening fiction for Character Risk Analysis, where a new member is reluctant to use the term "Magical Girl" due to how silly it sounds. His superior promptly urges him to not bother and just use it, arguing that they shouldn't let them use the silliness of the term to their advantage.



* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Sanitation Workers Collective was formed when members of the People's Guard fled north to England instead of east to Germany and Russia. They tempered the revolutionary rhetoric (considering England was wary after the chaos of [[RevolvingDoorRevolution Olvier Cromwell and the English Civil War]], and would end up allying with UsefulNotes/{{Shinto}} ''burakumin'' (who, in traditional Shinto, [[DudeWheresMyRespect were considered tainted, and cast down the social hierarchy, despite them cleaning everything to maintain its holiness]] - the Western founders of the future Collective would instead find a Shinto cult that inverted this prejudice, and put ''burakumin'' at the highest spiritual rank for maintaining the holy purity that Shinto ran on).

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* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Sanitation Workers Collective was formed when members of the People's Guard fled north to England instead of east to Germany and Russia. They tempered the revolutionary rhetoric (considering England was wary after the chaos of [[RevolvingDoorRevolution Olvier Cromwell and the English Civil War]], and would end up allying with UsefulNotes/{{Shinto}} ''burakumin'' (who, in traditional Shinto, [[DudeWheresMyRespect were considered tainted, and cast down the social hierarchy, despite them cleaning everything to maintain its holiness]] - -- the Western founders of the future Collective would instead find a Shinto cult that inverted this prejudice, and put ''burakumin'' at the highest spiritual rank for maintaining the holy purity that Shinto ran on).



* StopBeingStereotypical: One of the primary reasons Radiant Princesses have a hard time winning Hunters' trust; until the last decades, they were still trapped inside the Dreamlands, and as a result the Nobles Hunters have been the most in contact with over the centuries were the Twilight Courts, who respectively are [[TheEmpire totalitarians seeing Earth as a rebel province in need of conquest]] and constantly causing the Darkness to spread by draining hope (Tears); insane [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]] who [[DestructiveSavior give zero craps about collateral damage]] (Storms); and [[{{Narcissist}} Narcissistic]] [[ManChild Women Children]] who use magical compulsions to turn mortals into their personal {{Cult}}s (Mirrors). Needless to say, this did ''not'' cast Nobles in a good light, and the Radiant have been working hard to distance themselves from their Twilight counterparts in the eyes of Hunters.
** The Sanitation Workers Collective and The Union both have this view of [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The People's Guard]]; despite all three having various tones of WorkingClassHero, and [[SlobsVsSnobs being opposed to wealthy elites]] (human [[VampiresAreRich or otherwise]]), the former two view the Guard as a bunch of AxCrazy, [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] psychopaths, who've lost all their old ideals out of a kneejerk hatred of Nobles. The Guard, meanwhile, [[NoTrueScotsman view the former two as "soft" for not being as committed to revolutionary ideals as they are]], seeing The Union as [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything ineffectual due to being so obsessed with their own neighborhoods compared to the wider world]], and the Collective as [[TheQuisling "reactionary traitors" working to prop up the corrupt systems the Guard wants to tear down]] (nevermind the fact the Collective is only in the corrupt system [[TheMole in order to learn its weaknesses]], and strike with operations to clean the rich and powerful from the inside-out).

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One of the primary reasons Radiant Princesses have a hard time winning Hunters' trust; until the last decades, they were still trapped inside the Dreamlands, and as a result the Nobles Hunters have been the most in contact with over the centuries were the Twilight Courts, who respectively are [[TheEmpire totalitarians seeing Earth as a rebel province in need of conquest]] and constantly causing the Darkness to spread by draining hope (Tears); insane [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]] who [[DestructiveSavior give zero craps about collateral damage]] (Storms); and [[{{Narcissist}} Narcissistic]] [[ManChild Women Children]] who use magical compulsions to turn mortals into their personal {{Cult}}s (Mirrors). Needless to say, this did ''not'' cast Nobles in a good light, and the Radiant have been working hard to distance themselves from their Twilight counterparts in the eyes of Hunters.
** The Sanitation Workers Collective and The the Union both have this view of [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The the People's Guard]]; despite all three having various tones of WorkingClassHero, and [[SlobsVsSnobs being opposed to wealthy elites]] (human or... [[VampiresAreRich or otherwise]]), the former two view the Guard as a bunch of AxCrazy, [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] psychopaths, who've lost all their old ideals out of a kneejerk hatred of Nobles. The Guard, meanwhile, [[NoTrueScotsman view the former two as "soft" for not being as committed to revolutionary ideals as they are]], seeing The Union as [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything ineffectual due to being so obsessed with their own neighborhoods compared to the wider world]], and the Collective as [[TheQuisling "reactionary traitors" working to prop up the corrupt systems the Guard wants to tear down]] (nevermind the fact the Collective is only in the corrupt system [[TheMole in order to learn its weaknesses]], and strike with operations to clean the rich and powerful from the inside-out).



** The People's Guard sees Nobles as an oppressive aristocracy of wizards due to their first encounter being with a Princess of Tears, and assume Radiant Nobles [[BitchInSheepsClothing merely are the same Nobles showing a kind face]]. While the Court of Tears indeed fits their visions of Nobles, the Radiant actually have no feeling of superiority over humans and are genuinely trying to help against the Darkness.

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** The People's Guard sees Nobles as an oppressive aristocracy of wizards due to their first encounter being with a Princess of Tears, and assume Radiant Nobles [[BitchInSheepsClothing merely are the same Nobles showing a kind face]]. While the Court of Tears indeed fits their visions of Nobles, the Radiant actually have no feeling of superiority over humans and are genuinely trying to help against the Darkness.Darkness.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: The Nobles and Lucifuge of things, with both groups having similar ideologies and methods. Initially the Lucifuge viewed the Nobles with the same envious FantasticRacism they applied to mages, until they saw the BlessedWithSuck aspects of a Noble’s powers. They have since come to view the Nobles as their angelic counterparts and gradually have managed to befriend them, to the point that there are rumors of a Lucifuge and Noble dating.
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** The US government has a very low view of communism, and view the People's Guard as communist. Because of this, Task Force: VALKYRIE has a tendency to kill them and blame their deaths on monsters.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Character Risk Analysis' view of The Union is that it is a good idea to convince their employers to throw them a bone every so often, simply to keep them from causing trouble rather than out of any actual desire to help the workers.
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* DoWrongRight: The main reason the Cheiron Group dislike that Magisters: They tend to dispose of Princesses, which is wasteful and far less profitable than harvesting them.
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* DarkSecret: The higher ranks of Task Force: VALKYRIE know that there are important members of the US government, including high-ranking generals, who have been corrupted by the Darkness, with a number of them actually having authority over the Task Force. While they do their best to deal with the problem, they keep this from the lower ranks to prevent panic and to keep it from undermining the government's authority.


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** The Queens and their Courts are viewed as foreign power from another realm by Task Force: [=VALKYRIE=] and the US government, with Princesses being viewed as dangerous vigilantes and terrorists at best, and agents of a foreign power infiltrating America at worst.
* DirtyCommies: Task Force: [=VALKYRIE's=] view of the People's Guard, with standard procedure being to let members of the People's Guard engage hostiles, wait until the battle is over, then go in and kill whoever is left regardless of which side won, blaming the monsters for any People's Guard casualties.
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Similar to previous fan-made supplement ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigilDreamCatchers'', this one follows the pattern of official supplements describing how Hunters interact with various other gamelines, such as ''Nightstalker'' for [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem vampires]] or ''Spirit-Slayers'' for [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken Werewolves]]. Unlike ''Dream Catchers'', however, this one focuses on Hunters' interactions with a fan-made gameline- namely, ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful''. It is the third supplement of this kind, and the first to address the interactions between Hunters and a fan-made gameline.

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Similar to previous fan-made supplement ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigilDreamCatchers'', this one follows the pattern of official supplements describing how Hunters interact with various other gamelines, such as ''Nightstalker'' for [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem vampires]] or ''Spirit-Slayers'' for [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken Werewolves]]. Unlike ''Dream Catchers'', however, this one focuses on Hunters' interactions with a fan-made gameline- gameline -- namely, ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful''. It is the third supplement of this kind, and the first to address the interactions between Hunters and a fan-made gameline.
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** While Princesses of Mirrors may seem more like hilarious than anything else in their main gameline, this supplement takes time to show us how they appear in the eyes of Hunters and regular mortals; namely, as [[VainSorceress Egomaniac Witches]] and [[HornyDevil Succubi]] who brainwash entire groups into their personal cults.

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** While Princesses of Mirrors may seem more like hilarious than anything else in their main gameline, this supplement takes time to show us how they appear in the eyes of Hunters and regular mortals; namely, as [[VainSorceress Egomaniac Witches]] and [[HornyDevil [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubi]] who brainwash entire groups into their personal cults.
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* BackToBackBadasses: Invoked in one of the supplement's pictures, which has a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotgun-toting]] [[WorkingClassHero Union Hunter]], and a [[HotBlooded Noble of Swords]] with a [[FlamingSword flaming]] [[AnAxeToGrind battleaxe]], standing together while surrounded by a horde of Darkspawn.

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* BackToBackBadasses: Invoked in one of the supplement's pictures, which has a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotgun-toting]] [[WorkingClassHero Union Hunter]], and a [[HotBlooded Noble of Swords]] with a [[FlamingSword flaming]] [[AnAxeToGrind battleaxe]], battleaxe, standing together while surrounded by a horde of Darkspawn.

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