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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Leon in the main story. Placed on trial by the other gods for loving the protagonist above other humans, he's given a choice: to kill her or be killed himself. Faced with an outcome of not being with the woman he loves, Leon embraces his full power and decides to remake the universe itself, declaring that any universe that would allow him to be separated from the protagonist is 'without meaning'. It takes the intervention of the King of Gods and a CooldownHug from the protagonist to stop him.]]
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* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:Shadow Dui]] is violently protective of [[spoiler:Dui]], and resents that his efforts go unappreciated [[spoiler:and causes Dui to go great lengths to keep him locked away in the back of their mind]]. Even his attempts to kill the protagonist come from a desire to protect [[spoiler:Dui]].

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* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:Shadow Dui]] is violently protective of [[spoiler:Dui]], and takes it upon himself to do the things the other is to "weak" to do. He greatly resents that his efforts go unappreciated [[spoiler:and causes Dui to go great lengths to keep him locked away in the back of their mind]]. Even his attempts to kill the protagonist come from a desire to protect [[spoiler:Dui]].
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Shadow Dui's]] philosophy when going about his work, collateral damage be damned. This in sharp contrast to [[spoiler:Dui's]] preferred method of punishments tailored to make his targets see the error of their ways and hopefully seek to make amends.
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* [[RedEyesTakeWarning Blue Eyes Take Warning]]: [[spoiler: Leon's eyes turn blue when he starts to lose control of his powers. When they do, ''watch out.'']]
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* [[RedEyesTakeWarning Blue Eyes Take Warning]]: [[spoiler: Leon's eyes turn blue when he starts to lose control of his powers. When they do, ''watch out.'']]


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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Leon in the main story. Placed on trial by the other gods for loving the protagonist above other humans, he's given a choice: to kill her or be killed himself. Faced with an outcome of not being with the woman he loves, Leon embraces his full power and decides to remake the universe itself, declaring that any universe that would allow him to be separated from the protagonist is 'without meaning'. It takes the intervention of the King of Gods and a CooldownHug from the protagonist to stop him.]]
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** Dui loves cherries, and can tie the stems into knots with his tongue.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: When a group of fabulously handsome, strangely-dressed men appear at the planetarium's Star Festival event and one of them makes it rain stardust, onlookers take it as a performance being staged for the event - even the protagonist's coworker Hiyori, who as an employee of the planetarium should know that no such thing was planned.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:Dui and his alternate personality]] are unaware of anything that happens when the other is in control.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: When a group of fabulously handsome, strangely-dressed men appear at the planetarium's Star Festival event and one of them makes it rain stardust, onlookers take it as a performance being staged for the event - even the protagonist's coworker Hiyori, who as an employee of the planetarium should know that no such thing was planned.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:Dui and his alternate personality]] are unaware of anything that happens when the other is in control.
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* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Dui and Shadow Dui]]. The irony of it happening to [[spoiler:the ruler of Gemini]] is not lost on the protagonist.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Averted. [[spoiler:Dui and Shadow Dui]] eventually reconcile their differences and learn to coexist peacefully - whereupon they immediately gang up on the protagonist.

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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:Dui and his alternate personality]] are unaware of anything that happens when the other is in control.



* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:Shadow Dui]] is violently protective of [[spoiler:Dui]], and resents that his efforts go unappreciated [[spoiler:and causes Dui to go great lengths to keep him locked away in the back of their mind]]. Even his attempts to kill the protagonist come from a desire to protect [[spoiler:Dui]].



* SequelHook: Leon's sequel ends with one big question left unresolved: [[spoiler:Who granted the now human Eris divine powers so she could take her vengeance on Leon?]]

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Leon's sequel ends with one big question left unresolved: [[spoiler:Who granted the now human Eris divine powers so she could take her vengeance on Leon?]]Leon?]]
** Who corrupted [[spoiler:Dui's]] friend? The main route leaves the question unanswered, with several hints that it was part of a larger plan.
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Dui and Shadow Dui]]. The irony of it happening to [[spoiler:the ruler of Gemini]] is not lost on the protagonist.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Averted. [[spoiler:Dui and Shadow Dui]] eventually reconcile their differences and learn to coexist peacefully - whereupon they immediately gang up on the protagonist.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Due to the isolation that comes with being vastly more powerful than his fellow gods, Leon has difficulty with concepts like empathy and love. [[spoiler:The CharacterDevelopment necessary to end his exile involves learning the value of both, along with aquiring the capacity for compassion.]]

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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Due to the isolation that comes with being vastly more powerful than his fellow gods, Leon has difficulty with concepts like empathy and love. [[spoiler:The CharacterDevelopment necessary to end his exile involves learning the value of both, along with aquiring the capacity for compassion.]]]]
* WindowLove: In [[spoiler:Scorpio's]] sequel, this is the only way for him and the protagonist to share a kiss after [[ItMakesSenseInContext circumstances leave them unable to touch each other]]. Complete with illustration.
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* LethalChef: Gods don't normally have to eat unless they feel like it, and even then they just create their food with magic. Thus, [[spoiler:Teorus]] tackles cooking with vigor, enthusiasm... and absolutely no clue. His attempts at making a tasty treat for the protagonist leave the other gods traumatised after being used as taste testers.

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* LethalChef: Gods don't normally have to eat unless they feel like it, and even then they just create their food with magic. Thus, [[spoiler:Teorus]] tackles cooking with vigor, enthusiasm... and absolutely no clue.clue with what he's doing. His attempts at making a tasty treat for the protagonist leave the other gods traumatised after being used as taste testers.
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** Teorus loves anything with milk in it. At one point he nearly walks out of a grocery store with most of the contents of the dairy isle.

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* LethalChef: Gods don't normally have to eat unless they feel like it, and even then they just create their food with magic. Thus, [[spoiler:Teorus]] tackles cooking with vigor, enthusiasm... and absolutely no clue. His attempts at making a tasty treat for the protagonist leaves the other gods traumatised after being used as taste testers.

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* LethalChef: Gods don't normally have to eat unless they feel like it, and even then they just create their food with magic. Thus, [[spoiler:Teorus]] tackles cooking with vigor, enthusiasm... and absolutely no clue. His attempts at making a tasty treat for the protagonist leaves leave the other gods traumatised after being used as taste testers.testers.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: [[spoiler:Teorus]] has abandonment issues courtesy of his neglectful father. His flirtatiousness is a direct result: if he offers affection and attention to many people, they adore him in return and no one ever gets close enough to hurt him when they leave.
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* MakeAWish: The protagonist makes possibly the vaguest wish imaginable for the Star Festival: "I wish that something wonderful would happen."

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* MakeAWish: The wishes of humans are received and evaluated for granting by the gods in the Department of Wishes. The protagonist makes possibly the vaguest wish imaginable gets much more than expected when she wishes on a star for the Star Festival: "I wish that something wonderful would happen." "something wonderful" to happen and ends up with six exiled gods on her hands.
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No, really, I can spell.


* NoSenseOfDirection: Teorus gets lost inside his own house. Granted, it's a mantion, but that's still an impressive lack of spatial awareness.

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* NoSenseOfDirection: Teorus gets lost inside his own house. Granted, it's a mantion, mansion, but that's still an impressive lack of spatial awareness.
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* LethalChef: Gods don't normally have to eat unless they feel like it, and even then they just create their food with magic. Thus, [[spoiler:Teorus]] tackles cooking with vigor, enthusiasm... and absolutely no clue. His attempts at making a tasty treat for the protagonist leaves the other gods traumatised after being used as taste testers.


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* NoSenseOfDirection: Teorus gets lost inside his own house. Granted, it's a mantion, but that's still an impressive lack of spatial awareness.
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* EyeColorChange: Demonstrated thus far by Leon (brown to blue) and Scorpio (black to red) when they begin tapping into their true powers.

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* EyeColorChange: Demonstrated thus far by Leon and Teorus (brown to blue) blue), and Scorpio (black to red) when they begin tapping into their true powers.

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* CelestialBureaucracy: How the heavens function. Leon, Huedhaut, and Teorus are from the Department of Wishes, while Scorpio, Ichthys, and Dui are with the Department of Punishments.

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* CelestialBureaucracy: How the heavens function. Leon, Huedhaut, and Teorus are from the Department of Wishes, responsible for answering the wishes of humans, while Scorpio, Ichthys, and Dui are with the Department of Punishments.Punishments, which punishes humans for their sins.


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* {{Karma}}: Although the term itself isn't used, dispensing karmic punishments to sinners is the purpose of the Department of Punishments. Occasionally the punishments thus dispensed cross over into LaserGuidedKarma, such as in Scorpio's route when he strikes a corrupt businessman with a heart attack that causes the man's briefcase to open and scatter his ill-gotten money all over the street.
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* RapunzelHair: Leon's true form.

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* RapunzelHair: Leon's [[spoiler:Leon's true form.]]
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* Rapunzel Hair: Leon's true form.

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* Rapunzel Hair: RapunzelHair: Leon's true form.
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* Rapunzel Hair: Leon's true form.
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* ForgotAboutTheMindReader: Scorpio is a touch telepath, which causes the protagonist some consternation in his sequel. Admiring the many charms of your boyfriend becomes a minefield of potential embarrassment when he knows ''exactly'' what you're thinking.

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Expanding a little to illustrate why this trope and not Broken Pedestal. Also, alphabetising. Alphabetising is good. Whoops.


* WartsAndAll: The protagonist has spent her life believing in higher powers, and offering up prayers and wishes to the stars. She's disappointed to learn that far from being benevolent, omniscient guardians of mankind, gods are just as selfish and petty as humans and most of them seem to hold her kind in contempt. That said, the Departments of Wishes and Punishments do take an active interest in human affairs, although because it is their job, not out of selfless love for mortals.



* WartsAndAll: The protagonist has spent her life believing in higher powers, and offering up prayers and wishes to the stars. She's disappointed to learn that far from being benevolent, omniscient guardians of mankind, gods are just as selfish and petty as humans and most of them seem to hold her kind in contempt.
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* WartsAndAll: The protagonist has spent her life believing in higher powers, and offering up prayers and wishes to the stars. She's disappointed to learn that far from being benevolent, omniscient guardians of mankind, gods are just as selfish and petty as humans.

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* WartsAndAll: The protagonist has spent her life believing in higher powers, and offering up prayers and wishes to the stars. She's disappointed to learn that far from being benevolent, omniscient guardians of mankind, gods are just as selfish and petty as humans. humans and most of them seem to hold her kind in contempt.
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* WartsAndAll: The protagonist has spent her life believing in higher powers, and offering up prayers and wishes to the stars. She's disappointed to learn that far from being benevolent, omniscient guardians of mankind, gods are just as selfish and petty as humans.
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* TallDarkAndSnarky: Scorpio.
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* BullyingADragon: The antagonist of Scorpio's main route really should have known better. [[spoiler:He believes Scorpio to be a telekinetic human, and ''still'' decides to attempt a forced recruitment into his organization.]]
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* ChildSoldiers: The antagonist of Scorpio's route has trained a group of them to serve as his loyal henchmen. [[spoiler:Scorpio was also a child assassin when he was human, so the encounter hits very close to home.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In Leon's sequel, the protagonist begins experiencing progressively worse lapses of memory. [[spoiler:It turns out she's been cursed by Eris to forget her relationship with Leon, with the cruel twist that the memory loss progresses faster the more Leon loves her.]]
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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: The protagonist really does have stars in her eyes, though only the gods can see them. [[spoiler:It's how they recognize her as a reincarnated goddess.]]

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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: The protagonist really does have stars in her eyes, though only the gods can see them. [[spoiler:It's how they recognize her as a reincarnated goddess.goddess, as each god has a unique pattern of stars in their eyes.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Leon and Scorpio. Leon has an alpha-male personality and Scorpio is snapish and frequently calls the protagonist a filthy human. But both are well liked by their subordinates and their better qualities start to show up more and more as the storylines go on.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Leon and Scorpio. Leon has an alpha-male personality and difficulty empathizing with others, and Scorpio is snapish snappish, unfriendly, and frequently calls thinks very little of humanity, often calling the protagonist a filthy human. "filthy human" or "stupid woman." But both are well liked by their subordinates and their better qualities start to show up more and more as the storylines go on.

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