History VisualNovel / ALittleLilyPrincess

* BrokenAesop: This happens between routes. Lottie's route ends with Sara telling her that if someone keeps hurting her on a regular basis, she should get away from that person even if there are still good moments- specifically Miss Minchin, who had repeatedly abused [[spoiler:Sara after she became a servant]] and had just tried to make an extremely insincere appeal to Sara to get her to stay. Lavinia's route depicts her as a LovingBully, resulting in the relationship flip-flopping between tender moments and Lavinia being a ManipulativeBitch towards Sara. That route still gets a happy ending.

* HatedByAll: None of the characters like Miss Minchin, especially after she [[spoiler:forces Sara to become a servant]]. The contempt is most obvious in the case of Lavinia, who readily badmouths Miss Minchin to Sara; Mariette, who is bitter about Miss Minchin letting her go without a reference; and Becky, whom .

** Slightly earlier in the route, Sara infers that Lavinia tried to get her father to invest in the diamond mind, and that Lavinia is angry with Sara because [[spoiler:of the mine supposedly turning out to be unprofitable, thus leading to Captain Crewe's ruin]]. As Lavinia rants about her father wouldn't listen to the fancies of a little girl, Sara asks her, "My Papa listened to me. Does yours?" Lavinia hits Sara but it's clear that the question struck a sensitive point for her.

* MoustacheDePlume: On Lavinia's rotue, gives Sara a book that was published by a woman using a masculine pen name.

* BerserkButton: Anything related to India is this for Lavinia.

* BreakTheCutie: :Sara is subjected to a long process of this in the second half of the game. [[spoiler:She loses her father, finds out that he died penniless, and ends up being made into a servant and forced to do errands to earn her keep, with Miss Minchin pocketing her wages.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After Lavinia complains about Jessie not thinking for herself, which disqualifies her from being Lavinia's companion, Sara asks, "Then what reward is there for Jessie's loyalty?" Sara is afraid Lavinia will smack her, but Lavinia is at a loss for words for the rest of the scene.

* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Miss Minchin frequently refuses to allow her servants to eat if they displease her. Shortly before the climax, [[spoiler:Sara]] is refused food for ''an entire day'' due to some infraction(regardless of whether she is actually guilty).

* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Miss Minchin frequently refuses to allow her servants to eat if they displease her. Shortly before the climax, Sara is refused food for ''an entire day'' due to some infraction(regardless of whether she is actually guilty).

** Even Jessie isn't spared from Lavinia's dog-kicking. Lavinia casually proposes calling Jessie "Mrs. Watney," [[spoiler:referencing Jessie's marriage to a much older man]] and hitting one of Jessie's sore spots in the process.

* HateSink: Miss Minchin is the closest thing the story has to an antagonist, and is lacking in any redeeming qualities. While she appears strict but fair to her students, she is downright cruel to the servants, beating them and denying them food should they displease her. [[spoiler:After Sara's father dies deep in debt, Miss Minchin sells Sara's belongings and forces her to work as a servant, with her wages going toward paying her debts]]. Most of the cast, including Sara, knows that Miss Minchin is nothing more than a greedy, cruel and two-faced woman and despises her accordingly.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After Lavinia complains about Jessie not thinking for herself, which disqualifies her from being Lavinia's companion, Sara asks, "Then what reward is there for Jessie's loyalty? Sara is afraid Lavinia will smack her, but Lavinia is at a loss for words for the rest of the scene.

** When Sara mentions that her mother was French, Lavinia cuts her off, then points out that she is not her mother. Lavinia adds that "We are in England. Gentlemen wish good English girls. Anything ''other'' is by definition, less," an observation that Sara disagrees with, but thinks Lavinia agrees with, or at least "thinks society believes it." [[spoiler:It turns out that Lavinia's mother was Indian, a sore spot for her]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In one of Sara's father's letters, he complains about a fever but writes it off. [[spoiler:The disease ends up killing him]].

* ForeignCussWord: If her route is played, Mariette responds to discovering that Sara was MadeASlave in all but name with a bunch of French words that Sara is unable to translate, but can easily guess the general meaning of.

* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: In Lavinia's second event with Sara, she notes that they're close enough to use first names.

** Sara is called queer many times. Of course, even if you use the modern significance, they're not quite wrong.

** One of the most obvious ways by which this happens is that Sara remains friends with both Ermengarde and Lottie in the novel, but Sara can maintain her friendship with only one of them in Act 2 of the game.

** This is a recurring cause for the DarkestHour before [[spoiler:Sara wakes up to the "magic"]], as it gives Miss Minchin a reason to punish Sara by telling her she won't be getting any food the following day:

* MeaningfulEcho: Early on in the Act 2 portion of Mariette's route, Mariette tells Sara a saying, "Avec des si et des mais, on mettrait Paris en bouteille" ("With enough ifs, we could put Paris in a bottle"), to express that she'd rather be serving Sara than working where she is at the moment. In the ending, after Mariette apologizes for [[spoiler:not realizing that her new employer Mr. Carrisford was looking for Sara]], Sara says she's not to blame, since there are other ways by which [[spoiler:Mr. Carrisford could have found out sooner]], and repeats the saying.

* MeaningfulEcho: Early on in the Act 2 portion of Mariette's route, Mariette tells Sara a saying, "With enough ifs, we could put Paris in a bottle." In the ending, after Mariette apologizes for [[spoiler:not realizing that her new employer Mr. Carrisford was looking for Sara]], Sara says she's not to blame, since there are other ways by which [[spoiler:Mr. Carrisford could have found out sooner]], and repeats the saying.

* BrokenAesop: This happens between routes. Lottie's route ends with Sara telling her that if someone keeps hurting her on a regular basis, she should get away from that person even if there are still good moments. Lavinia's route depicts her as a LovingBully, resulting in the relationship filp-flopping between tender moments and Lavinia being a ManipulativeBitch towards Sara. That route still gets a happy ending.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Jessie and Lavinia are said to be quite close, but Lavinia looks down on Jessie and, as Sara puts it, treats her like a pet.

* NiceToTheWaiter: One of the indications of Ermengarde's niceness is the fact that a book in French that she could have easily given to Sara was instead gifted directly to Mariette, her French maid. Mariette points out that very few of the students would have thought of giving the book to her rather than a fellow student.

-> ''"A princess is a princess, even if she is in rags. She must be kind and noble, and polite, generous to those around her, brave in the face of adversity."''

** Played straight if the player decides, for whatever reason, to skip every single weekend and refuse to do any events. A particular scene needed to trigger the story is locked until one completes a character's route events, so if the player refuses to do any of the events, the story eventually runs out of events. After Week 100, any uncompleted routes become locked and the player has no option but to continue skipping weekends, ''forever''.