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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Schneider dies in Vertin's arms after Arcana forces Vertin to shoot her.]] [[spoiler:this is actually a fake out, but the trope sticks the next it happens at the end of chapter 2.]]

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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Schneider dies in Vertin's arms after Arcana forces Vertin to shoot her.]] [[spoiler:this [[spoiler:This is actually a fake out, but the trope sticks the next it happens at the end of chapter 2.]]
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* GratuitousItalian: Both Sonetto and Schneider tend to pepper their dialogue with Italian - Schneider in particular also drops Italian swear words like "Vaffanculo" (Go fuck yourself) in some scenes.
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''Reverse: 1999'' ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese, where the Chinese means something like "Back To The Future") is a GaslampFantasy adventure {{Gacha Game|s}} with a turn-based card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. The game released in the mainland China region on May 31st, 2023; and globally on October 26, 2023.

[[TurnOfTheMillennium On the last day of 1999]], "The Storm" ascended from the ground up into the sky, and distorts reality, and wipes the entire era and its people from existence. Vertin, the "Timekeeper" (the final witness of an era) searches for the truth behind "The Storm."

But, the truth she seeks is concealed between an ages long war between the St. Pavlov Foundation (a human-run institution that raises and indoctrinates Arcanists as tools to serve the peace of humanity) and the the Manus Vindictae (a group of Arcanists who are determined to restore Arcanum-users to their former glory, that being as rulers of the world of course).

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''Reverse: 1999'' ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese, where the Chinese means something like "Back To The Future") is a GaslampFantasy adventure {{Gacha Game|s}} with a turn-based card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. The game released in the mainland China region on May 31st, 2023; 2023 and globally on October 26, 2023.

[[TurnOfTheMillennium On the last day of 1999]], "The Storm" ascended from the ground up into the sky, and distorts distorted reality, and wipes wiped the entire era and its people from existence. Vertin, the "Timekeeper" (the final witness of an era) searches for the truth behind "The Storm."

But, But the truth she seeks is concealed between an ages long war between the St. Pavlov Foundation (a human-run institution that raises and indoctrinates Arcanists as tools to serve the peace of humanity) and the the Manus Vindictae (a group of Arcanists who are determined to restore Arcanum-users Arcanists to their former glory, that being as rulers of the world of course).
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* AlternateUniverse: The setting is based on one where magic and magical creatures is set in our world, alongside a MageSpecies called Arcanists - surprisingly, before the "Storm", the world's history was essentially identical to our own, despite magic being common knowledge.
* BagOfHolding: Vertin's suitcase holds at least a whole building and some surrounding environs. It serves as the base of operations for the player.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The official English translation that released on the Global server is...not great: stilted dialogue, missing articles, at times completely incoherent sentences. Which is a bit of a problem, considering how heavily the story and worldbuilding is featured. Though the translation is very recent, so it might improve over time.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What the Foundation see as their role. They take in Arcanist children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, imparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Foundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement...

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* AlternateUniverse: The setting is based on one where magic and magical creatures is set are in our world, alongside a MageSpecies called Arcanists - surprisingly, before the "Storm", the world's history was essentially identical to our own, despite magic being common knowledge.
* BagOfHolding: Vertin's suitcase holds at least a whole building and some surrounding environs.environments. It serves as the base of operations for the player.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The official English translation that released on the Global server is...not great: stilted dialogue, missing articles, at times completely incoherent sentences. Which is a bit of a problem, considering how heavily the story and worldbuilding is featured. Though the The translation is very recent, so it might improve over time.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What the Foundation see sees as their role. They take in Arcanist children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, imparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of cutoff when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Foundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement...
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* DownerEnding: The ending of Chapter 2: [[spoiler: Despite Vertin's best efforts, and despite beating Forget Me Not, they're unable to resolve the fundamental causes of the Storm and it's doomed to arrive and erase the [=1920s=], all that Vertin can do is give the non-Arcanists doomed to be erased a last meal.]]

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* AerithAndBob: Character names are all over the place, from normal in some world culture (Matilda, Leilani, An-an Lee) to what are probably aliases or nicknames (Eternity, Sweetheart, Necrologist, The Fool), to what we call "Word Salad" (Balloon Party, Bunny Bunny, Medicine Pocket, Twins Sleep), to "that's a name?" (X, TTT, Зима). There are also some names with strange capitalization ([=APPLe=], [=aliEn=] T, [=ONiON=]).



* BagOfHolding: Vertin's suitcase holds at least a whole building and some surrounding environs. It serves as the base of operations for the player.



* NonStandardCharacterDesign: While the game has plenty of regular human-like character designs, there are also some very ''weird'' designs: from a floating talking apple, a girl whose body is contained within three different televisions, an invisible knight who takes the form of a pair of gauntlets and a cape, to talking, sentient objects like a rocking horse or a ''piece of glass''.

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* NonStandardCharacterDesign: While the game has plenty of regular human-like character designs, there are also some very ''weird'' designs: from a floating talking apple, a girl whose body is contained within three four different televisions, an invisible knight who takes the form of a pair of gauntlets and a cape, to talking, sentient objects like a rocking horse horse, a radio, the Sputnik satellite, or a ''piece of glass''.
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''Reverse: 1999'' ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese) is a GaslampFantasy adventure [[GachaGames Gacha Game]] with a turn-based card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. The game released in the mainland China region on May 31st, 2023; and globally on October 26, 2023.

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''Reverse: 1999'' ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese) Chinese, where the Chinese means something like "Back To The Future") is a GaslampFantasy adventure [[GachaGames Gacha Game]] {{Gacha Game|s}} with a turn-based card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. The game released in the mainland China region on May 31st, 2023; and globally on October 26, 2023.
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* GratuitousRussian: Enma peppers his quotes in untranslated Russian written in Cyrillic.
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* ButchLesbian: Tennant has this aesthetic - while she has long hair and an obviously feminine face, she wears a CapeCoat that makes her frame look wider and high-waisted trousers, and the English dub gives her a very deep voice. She is also an evident womanizer and her Insight II art depicts her doing a WallPinOfLove to another woman. One of her chats even has her state that she would smoke cigars if it didn't stain her teeth.

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* ButchLesbian: Tennant has this aesthetic - while she has long hair and an obviously feminine face, she wears a CapeCoat {{Coat Cape}} that makes her frame look wider and high-waisted trousers, and the English dub gives her a very deep voice. She is also an evident womanizer and her Insight II art depicts her doing a WallPinOfLove to another woman. One of her chats even has her state that she would smoke cigars if it didn't stain her teeth.
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* ButchLesbian: Tennant has this aesthetic - while she has long hair and an obviously feminine face, she wears a CapeCoat that makes her frame look wider and high-waisted trousers, and the English dub gives her a very deep voice. She is also an evident womanizer and her Insight II art depicts her doing a WallPinOfLove to another woman. One of her chats even has her state that she would smoke cigars if it didn't stain her teeth.
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* NonStandardCharacterDesign: While the game has plenty of regular human-like character designs, there are also some very ''weird'' designs: from a floating talking apple, a girl whose body is contained within three different televisions, an invisible knight who takes the form of a pair of gauntlets and a cape, to talking, sentient objects like a rocking horse or a ''piece of glass''.
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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: In fact, ''primarily'' the girls want her: being the protagonist of a gacha game and a well-groomed {{Bifauxnen}} gives Vertin a lot of attention from the majority-female cast. This is also displayed in the main story, in which [[spoiler:Schneider steals a kiss from Vertin at the end of Chapter 2 - which should be noted, is something that is extremely rare to see in a gacha game.]]


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* HelloInsertNameHere: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed heavily]], in the prologue you'll be asked to sign the Timekeeper's name, and you can put whatever you want - however, she already has a canonical name, and characters will keep referring to her as Vertin regardless. The name is mostly for the account itself.
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* ShoutOut: In certain intermissions, an unknown, deep-voiced narrator will describe various situations that either Vertin sees, or glimpses of other scenes in pure text form - its tone, its way of speaking, and the fact that one of the first events with said narrator encourage you to drink alcohol is a reference to ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', which was a surprise hit in China.

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* JesusTaboo: [[AvertedTrope Completely averted]], the game doesn't shy away from mentioning Jesus or the Virgin Mary in dialogues, and Schneider's Italo-American family is implied to be very Catholic.



* TheRoaringTwenties: The first part of the story is set in the USA in 1929.

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* TheRoaringTwenties: The first part of the story is set in the USA in 1929.1929, right before TheGreatDepression. [[spoiler: This turns out to be very important, as the Manus intentionally make the stock market crash happen earlier than it should and much more violently to accelerate the arrival of the Storm.]]


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* TimeCrash: This is the nature of the Storm: an accumulation of chaotic arcane energy intensified by turbulent historical events that eventually cause reality itself to break down, culminating in the entire world reverting back in time. Most people of that time are [[RetGone 'sifted out']], while a few lucky ones manage to [[TitleDrop 'Reverse']] and survive the crash.

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* JealousRomanticWitness: [[spoiler: Sonetto watches as Schnedier kisses Vertin.]]



* JealousRomanticWitness: [[spoiler: Sonetto watches as Schnedier kisses Vertin.]]
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The official English translation that released on the Global server is...not great: stilted dialogue, missing articles, at times completely incoherent sentences. Which is a bit of a problem, considering how heavily the story and worldbuilding is featured.

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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The official English translation that released on the Global server is...not great: stilted dialogue, missing articles, at times completely incoherent sentences. Which is a bit of a problem, considering how heavily the story and worldbuilding is featured. Though the translation is very recent, so it might improve over time.



* EvilVersusEvil: The Foundation doesn't see Arcanists as real people and while they claim to be dedicated to the protection of Arcanists around the world, this mostly takes the form of putting them into orphanages (with the hint that it's not always voluntary) where they are indoctrinated into becoming tools for their agendas to serve the "Greater Good" (greater good for humanity of course). [[spoiler:Arcana also seems to believe that it was the Foundation.]] ''On the other hand'', Manus aren't really any better, being that they are Arcanist supremacists who always show up to make things worse for everyone, including random civilians and all of them show great pleasure in inducing suffering and pain onto others. In the end, both are incredibly shady groups who snatch up as many Arcanists as they can, and seek to take advantage of the Storm for their own ends.

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* EvilVersusEvil: The Foundation doesn't see Arcanists as real people and while they claim to be dedicated to the protection of Arcanists around the world, this mostly takes the form of putting them into orphanages (with the hint that it's not always voluntary) where they are indoctrinated into becoming tools for their agendas to serve the "Greater Good" (greater good for humanity of course). [[spoiler:Arcana also seems to believe that it was the Foundation.Foundation who created the Storm.]] ''On the other hand'', Manus aren't really any better, being that they are Arcanist supremacists who always show up to make things worse for everyone, including random civilians and all of them show great pleasure in inducing suffering and pain onto others. In the end, both are incredibly shady groups who snatch up as many Arcanists as they can, and seek to take advantage of the Storm for their own ends.
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* JealousRomanticWitness: Sonetto watches as Schnedier kisses Vertin.

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* JealousRomanticWitness: [[spoiler: Sonetto watches as Schnedier kisses Vertin.]]
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* TheRoaringTwenties: The first part of the story is set in the USA in 1926.

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* TheRoaringTwenties: The first part of the story is set in the USA in 1926.1929.
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* AlternateUniverse: The setting is based on one where magic and magical creatures is set in our world, alongside a MageRace called Arcanists - surprisingly, before the "Storm", the world's history was essentially identical to our own, despite magic being common knowledge.

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* AlternateUniverse: The setting is based on one where magic and magical creatures is set in our world, alongside a MageRace MageSpecies called Arcanists - surprisingly, before the "Storm", the world's history was essentially identical to our own, despite magic being common knowledge.

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* AlternateUniverse: The setting is based on one where magic and magical creatures is set in our world, alongside a MageRace called Arcanists - surprisingly, before the "Storm", the world's history was essentially identical to our own, despite magic being common knowledge.



* FantasticRacism: It's stated that Arcanists were heavily discriminated by humans, a discimination that is most evident in the [=1920s=].



* ModernFantasy: The setting is based on an AlternateUniverse where magic and magical creatures is set in our world, alongside a MageRace called Arcanists - surprisingly, before the "Storm", the world's history was essentially identical to our own.


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* ModernFantasy: The setting is based on an AlternateUniverse where magic and magical creatures is set in our world, alongside a MageRace called Arcanists - surprisingly, before the "Storm", the world's history was essentially identical to our own.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The official English translation that released on the Global server is...not great: stilted dialogue, missing articles, at times completely incoherent sentences. Which is a bit of a problem, considering how heavily the story and worldbuilding is featured.

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Re: Global launch date — I was going to update it, but we were close enough to launch that I figured I'd wait so that we wouldn't have to correct from future to past tense. It's still a day early, but the app's up for pre-download so I'm going ahead. Also correcting various spelling and formatting errors.


Reverse: 1999 ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese) is an upcoming GaslampFantasy adventure [[GachaGames Gacha Game]] with a turn-base card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. Pre-registration for the game is open, with a full release in the mainland China region scheduled for May 31st, 2023. The global release date is set to be October 26, 2023. A beta test for the global audience was available recently.

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Reverse: 1999 ''Reverse: 1999'' ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese) is an upcoming a GaslampFantasy adventure [[GachaGames Gacha Game]] with a turn-base turn-based card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. Pre-registration for the The game is open, with a full release released in the mainland China region scheduled for on May 31st, 2023. The global release date is set to be 2023; and globally on October 26, 2023. A beta test for the global audience was available recently.
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But, the truth she seeks is concealed between an ages long war between the St. Pavlov Foundation (a human run institution that raises and indotronates Arcanists as tools to serve the peace of humanity) and the the Manus Vindictae (a group of Arcanists who are determined to restore Arcanum-users to their former glory, that being as rulers of the world of course.)

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But, the truth she seeks is concealed between an ages long war between the St. Pavlov Foundation (a human run human-run institution that raises and indotronates indoctrinates Arcanists as tools to serve the peace of humanity) and the the Manus Vindictae (a group of Arcanists who are determined to restore Arcanum-users to their former glory, that being as rulers of the world of course.)
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What the Foundation see as their role. They take in Arcanists children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, imparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Foundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement. . .

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present in ''Reverse: 1999'':
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What the Foundation see as their role. They take in Arcanists Arcanist children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, imparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Foundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement. . .improvement...



* EvilVersusEvil: The Foundation doesn't see Arcanists as real people and while they claim to be dedicated to the protection of Arcanists around the world, this mostly takes the form of putting them into orphanages (with the hint that it's not always volentary) where they are indoctrinated into becoming tools for their agendas to serve the "Greater Good" (greater good for humanity of course.) [[spoiler:Arcana also seems to believe that it was the Foundation.]] ON THE OTHER HAND, Manus aren't really any better, being that they are Arcanists supremists who always show up to make things worse for everyone, including random civilians and all of them show great pleasure in inducing suffering and pain onto others. In the end, both are increadibly shady groups who snatch up as many Arcanists as they can, and seek to take advantage of the Storm for their own ends.

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* EvilVersusEvil: The Foundation doesn't see Arcanists as real people and while they claim to be dedicated to the protection of Arcanists around the world, this mostly takes the form of putting them into orphanages (with the hint that it's not always volentary) voluntary) where they are indoctrinated into becoming tools for their agendas to serve the "Greater Good" (greater good for humanity of course.) course). [[spoiler:Arcana also seems to believe that it was the Foundation.]] ON THE OTHER HAND, ''On the other hand'', Manus aren't really any better, being that they are Arcanists supremists Arcanist supremacists who always show up to make things worse for everyone, including random civilians and all of them show great pleasure in inducing suffering and pain onto others. In the end, both are increadibly incredibly shady groups who snatch up as many Arcanists as they can, and seek to take advantage of the Storm for their own ends.
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* MonumentalDamage: The background of the official website shows Vertin's group running in the streets of London in the midst of the "Storm" while the Big Ben's Clock Tower is being ripped apart by it.
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I'm surprised no one bothered to update the global release date and it will be out in two days. source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OcQQPhCXk


Reverse: 1999 ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese) is an upcoming GaslampFantasy adventure [[GachaGames Gacha Game]] with a turn-base card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. Pre-registration for the game is open, with a full release in the mainland China region scheduled for May 31st, 2023. There is currently no news on a Global release date yet. A beta test for the global audience was available recently.

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Reverse: 1999 ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese) is an upcoming GaslampFantasy adventure [[GachaGames Gacha Game]] with a turn-base card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. Pre-registration for the game is open, with a full release in the mainland China region scheduled for May 31st, 2023. There is currently no news on a Global The global release date yet.is set to be October 26, 2023. A beta test for the global audience was available recently.

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* SpoiledSweet: Sotheby has cartoonish amounts of wealth and is also one of the sweetest persons you will ever meet.
* JealousRomanticWitness: Sonetto watches as Schnedier kisses Vertin.



* LetsYouAndHimFight: What Arcana does to [[spoiler: Vertin and Schneider]] in Chapter 2. Using slime that causes hallucinations to pull it off.


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* JealousRomanticWitness: Sonetto watches as Schnedier kisses Vertin.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: What Arcana does to [[spoiler: Vertin and Schneider]] in Chapter 2. Using slime that causes hallucinations to pull it off.
* SpoiledSweet: Sotheby has cartoonish amounts of wealth and is also one of the sweetest persons you will ever meet.

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* Tsundere: Matilda towards Sonetto.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Both Schneider and Arcana towards Vertin. With Arcana [[spoiler: having tried to snatch up Vertin from the Foundation as early as when she was 12 years old, if not even earlier.]]

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* Tsundere: {{Tsundere}}: Matilda towards Sonetto.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Both Schneider and Arcana towards Vertin. With Arcana [[spoiler: having tried to snatch up Vertin from the Foundation as early as when she was 12 years old, if not even earlier.]]]]
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But, the truth she seeks is concealed between a ages long war between the St. Pavlov Foundation (a human run institution that raises and indotronates Arcanists as tools to serve the peace of humanity) and the the Manus Vindictae (a group of Arcanists who are determined to restore Arcanum-users to their former glory, that being as rulers of the world of course.)

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But, the truth she seeks is concealed between a an ages long war between the St. Pavlov Foundation (a human run institution that raises and indotronates Arcanists as tools to serve the peace of humanity) and the the Manus Vindictae (a group of Arcanists who are determined to restore Arcanum-users to their former glory, that being as rulers of the world of course.)



* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What the Fundation see as their role. They take in Arcanists children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, inparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Fundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement. . .

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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What the Fundation Foundation see as their role. They take in Arcanists children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, inparting imparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Fundation Foundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement. . .



* EvilVersusEvil: The Fundation doesn't see Arcanists as real people and while they claim to be dedicated to the protection of Arcanists around the world, this mostly takes the form of putting them into orphanages (with the hint that it's not always volentary) where they are indoctrinated into becoming tools for their agendas to serve the "Greater Good" (greater good for humanity of course.) [[spoiler:Arcana also seems to believe that it was the Fundation.]] ON THE OTHER HAND, Manus aren't really any better, being that they are Arcanists supremists who always show up to make things worse for everyone, including random civilians and all of them show great pleasure in inducing suffering and pain onto others. In the end, both are increadibly shady groups who snatch up as many Arcanists as they can, and seek to take advantage of the Storm for their own ends.
* SpoiledSweet: Sotheby has cartoonish ammounts of wealth and is also one of the sweetest persons you will ever meet.

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* EvilVersusEvil: The Fundation Foundation doesn't see Arcanists as real people and while they claim to be dedicated to the protection of Arcanists around the world, this mostly takes the form of putting them into orphanages (with the hint that it's not always volentary) where they are indoctrinated into becoming tools for their agendas to serve the "Greater Good" (greater good for humanity of course.) [[spoiler:Arcana also seems to believe that it was the Fundation.Foundation.]] ON THE OTHER HAND, Manus aren't really any better, being that they are Arcanists supremists who always show up to make things worse for everyone, including random civilians and all of them show great pleasure in inducing suffering and pain onto others. In the end, both are increadibly shady groups who snatch up as many Arcanists as they can, and seek to take advantage of the Storm for their own ends.
* SpoiledSweet: Sotheby has cartoonish ammounts amounts of wealth and is also one of the sweetest persons you will ever meet.



* VillainTakesAnInterest: Both Schneider and Arcana towards Vertin. With Arcana [[spoiler: having tried to snatch up Vertin from the Fundation as early as when she was 12 years old, if not even earlier.]]

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* VillainTakesAnInterest: Both Schneider and Arcana towards Vertin. With Arcana [[spoiler: having tried to snatch up Vertin from the Fundation Foundation as early as when she was 12 years old, if not even earlier.]]
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Reverse: 1999 ("重返未来:1999" in Chinese) is an upcoming GaslampFantasy adventure [[GachaGames Gacha Game]] with a turn-base card-theme battle system by Bluepoch for iOS, Android, and PC. Pre-registration for the game is open, with a full release in the mainland China region scheduled for May 31st, 2023. There is currently no news on a Global release date yet. A beta test for the global audience was available recently.

[[TurnOfTheMillennium On the last day of 1999]], "The Storm" ascended from the ground up into the sky, and distorts reality, and wipes the entire era and its people from existence. Vertin, the "Timekeeper" (the final witness of an era) searches for the truth behind "The Storm."

But, the truth she seeks is concealed between a ages long war between the St. Pavlov Foundation (a human run institution that raises and indotronates Arcanists as tools to serve the peace of humanity) and the the Manus Vindictae (a group of Arcanists who are determined to restore Arcanum-users to their former glory, that being as rulers of the world of course.)

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!!Tropes associated with the time period:

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*BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What the Fundation see as their role. They take in Arcanists children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, inparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Fundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement. . .
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Schneider dies in Vertin's arms after Arcana forces Vertin to shoot her.]] [[spoiler:this is actually a fake out, but the trope sticks the next it happens at the end of chapter 2.]]
*DitzyGenius: Sotheby tends to have her head in the clouds and acts rather childish, but is one of the best alchemists in the world.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Fundation doesn't see Arcanists as real people and while they claim to be dedicated to the protection of Arcanists around the world, this mostly takes the form of putting them into orphanages (with the hint that it's not always volentary) where they are indoctrinated into becoming tools for their agendas to serve the "Greater Good" (greater good for humanity of course.) [[spoiler:Arcana also seems to believe that it was the Fundation.]] ON THE OTHER HAND, Manus aren't really any better, being that they are Arcanists supremists who always show up to make things worse for everyone, including random civilians and all of them show great pleasure in inducing suffering and pain onto others. In the end, both are increadibly shady groups who snatch up as many Arcanists as they can, and seek to take advantage of the Storm for their own ends.
*SpoiledSweet: Sotheby has cartoonish ammounts of wealth and is also one of the sweetest persons you will ever meet.
*JealousRomanticWitness: Sonetto watches as Schnedier kisses Vertin.
*FunctionalMagic: How Arcanum works, this being a GaslampFantasy world, it makes sense.
*LetsYouAndHimFight: What Arcana does to [[spoiler: Vertin and Schneider]] in Chapter 2. Using slime that causes hallucinations to pull it off.
*KissingDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: Schneider kisses Vertin under her umbrella]], as a form of claiming her "reward" after going through the events of Chapter 2.
*Tsundere: Matilda towards Sonetto.
*VillainTakesAnInterest: Both Schneider and Arcana towards Vertin. With Arcana [[spoiler: having tried to snatch up Vertin from the Fundation as early as when she was 12 years old, if not even earlier.]]

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