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| 9 | [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Super Mamada Galaxial XDDDD work page.]] [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3184620396 Isaac mod.]] |
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| 11 | * '''The Sus:''' Gumball and Darwin play ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' and sus sussity sus sus sussss.\ |
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| 13 | I don't even normally like ''Among Us'' jokes but I just think a ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode called "The Sus" would be funny as hell. It has to be that show specifically. Almost all of its episodes go by a TheTheTitle and it seems like the kind of show that would actually reference ''Among Us'', although probably not by direct name like that. |
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| 15 | [[https://youtu.be/cUaDq9EieIQ?t=331 "Hoaleng"]] might not be a bad name for like a fantasy setting or something. I'm gonna try to keep this in mind. |
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| 33 | VideoGame/ArzetteTheJewelOfFaramore. Oh cool, it already has a page. Anyway this game's concept is fucking amazing, of all the things to have a copyright-friendly spiritual successor I did not ever expect the ''Zelda'' CD-i games to have one. Which just begs the question more, when will a brave hero make a successor to ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun''? |
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| 76 | I should just probably wait until Chapter 3 of ''Movie Day'' before making an actual trope list because as it stands it's pretty damn thin/I can't think of much. Chapter 3 won't have a ''ton'' on its own but the content it has carries lots of tropes. Basically there's the ultimate punchline of [[spoiler:the movie actually being mediocre for all the effort the gang puts in to reaching it]] |
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| 82 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 83 | ** Mansia is out-universe derived from "brugmansia," a flower also called "angel's trumpets." Given that Mansia is Zelpea's [[DragonWithAnAgenda "advisor,"]] unofficial messanger, |
| 84 | ** Eansy is a corruption of "handsy," which describes her behavior [[spoiler:that leads to her getting kicked out of the Elements and siding with the Blossom Kingdom out of spite]] to a T. |
| 85 | * NonIndicativeName... or IronicName?: |
| 86 | ** [[spoiler:"Dragon" is more like a humanoid flesh monster shapeshifter. While ''one of'' her forms is ''vaguely'' dragon-esque in that she grows wings and breathes fire within it, she isn't in that form very often, and it's also very centipede-like in nature. This was deliberate out-universe; Zelpea named her after a mythological creature ''expecting'' her to ]] |
| 87 | * PersonalityPowers: |
| 88 | * PowerStereotypeFlip: |
| 89 | ** Alexia specializes with [[GreenThumb wood powers,]] moreso than the others as plant mass is considered a "default" ability of source. She also prides herself in being a "forest guardian" figure, and on the surface acts like a |
| 90 | ** Lana is the "main" [[PlayingWithFire fire user]] of the Elements, and while her excitable nature and occasional {{Hot Blooded}}ness fits the stereotype of that, she's otherwise a calm, rational mediator and an atoner for some of her past wrong-doings. She is, in fact, the ''nice'' one of [[NiceMeanAndInBetween her initial trio with Cassandra (mean) and Bethany (in-between).]] Her past self as a hot-tempered bully fits the bill more closely; the contrast is to show how much she has changed. |
| 91 | ** Frida is the main [[AnIcePerson coldness-user]][[note]]This is considered distinct from "using ice" in that Frida specificially specializes in transferring heat from one location to another, "freezing things" by effectively sucking their heat dry (er, cold). "Ice powers," which ''are'' common to her home of the Bright Cyan Region, are more around manipulating literal solid [=H2O=], and are considered the same thing as water powers since they have the exact same chemical makeup. Functionally, though, she's an ice-user, and does on occasion manipulate ice[[/note]] of the Elements. She is very HotBlooded, vengeful, cocky, and one of the most violent of the gang (which is an achievement). Her EstablishingCharacterMoment in Chapter 4 sees her dramatically spinning around in a chair and pointing a gun at Lana, revealing that a battle with her was Lana's Custom Individual Test in the Licensing Exam. |
| 92 | ** [[MakeSomeNoise Sound Artist]] Hilda is generally very quiet and hesitates showing off any of her music unless she feels she has perfected it. She ''can'' get pretty energetic at times when she feels more confident in her creations, but she's otherwise |
| 93 | ** Maria specializes in [[HavingABlast explosives.]] While her [[SirSwearsALot foul mouth]] and hot temper ''do'' fit this, she is also analytical, inventive (her debut sees her attacking the Elements on a highly advanced super-tank ''of her creation from scratch''), and [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness very eloquent]] (in a SophisticatedAsHell sort of way). Her using explosives is also a flip of the stereotype associated with the Bright Cerise Region in-universe, which generally focuses more on gentle [[MindOverMatter "pushes and pulls"]] and energy "pulses." Bright Cerise is generally considered one of the more peaceful and passive of the regions. |
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| 95 | !! Elements/Colors |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:List]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | !! Hues |
| 100 | |
| 101 | P: Primary\ |
| 102 | S: Secondary\ |
| 103 | T: Tertiary\ |
| 104 | Qa: Quaternary\ |
| 105 | Qi: Quinary\ |
| 106 | O: Other/"Special" |
| 107 | |
| 108 | * '''Fuchsia (Qi):''' My notes currently lists that this biome would be a "soft"/"fluffy" space, with like... lots of these puffball plant things. |
| 109 | * '''Cerise (Qa):''' Represents "force?" A sort of energy, ''often'' but not always explosive, |
| 110 | * '''Rose (T):''' Represents "meat;" initially it was paint, but I swapped it and violet around... I can't recall ''exactly'' when I ripped that bandaid off and made the element-color swap official, I'm sure I'll find it with some digging around, but it might have been around the time I would have introduced Striker Rose and Striker Violet in ''361''. I'm currently re-reading over that to make sure the final two chapters make the slightest bit of sense, and I believe in their introductions I already swapped the colors. Anyway, "meat" is kind of more of a "whatever works/sounds cool at the moment" sort of elemental category. It could mean animal-themed stuff |
| 111 | * '''Crimson (Qa):''' Alright this biome's basically the "sexy zone," and its general culture in both BA and ZNA involve sensualness and stuff. |
| 112 | * '''Red (P):''' Has always represented fire. The "biome" is ''specifically'' fire-themed moreso than "lava/magma-themed," and... while lava does ''exist'' there, it's not ultra common, at least not in Bright Red. That's for another place. |
| 113 | * '''Scarlet (Qi):''' My notes say "''red'' desert" as a constrast to the more typical yellowish deserts seen in fiction, like basically the Sand Kingdom of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey''. But I think I also had the idea crop up in ''Run: [=.GIFocalypse=]'' even in ''Prototype'' with one of the "Next Gen Professors" having that as her biome. |
| 114 | * '''Vermilion (Qa):''' Was this "autumn area" for the biome, and then I work on this abstract wind/fire-ish "element" based on that. I'm having second thoughts about this. |
| 115 | * '''Orange (T):''' Has always represented earth. |
| 116 | * '''Gold? (Qa):''' Er... desert-ish... "sand," but not quite? |
| 117 | * '''Yellow (S):''' Has always represented electricity. |
| 118 | * '''Lime? (Qa):''' "Tropic" region in general. In terms of "element..." |
| 119 | * '''Chartreuse (T):''' Represents "light," ever since ''361 Striking Degrees'' and its scrapped "pilot." For a while, and arguably still to now, this one was kind of a "Swiss army element," with a bunch of abilities relating to healing, time slowing, and size alteration. The more consistent "light theme" was that users of this class of magic could manipulate electromagnetic waves and even convert waves of one type to another. Basically, they could shoot gamma rays at people, making them ultra fuggin dangerous. |
| 120 | * '''Harlequin (Qa):''' I've been going with "fields" or "meadows" or "plains" or so for this recently. |
| 121 | * '''Green (P):''' Has always represented "plants." |
| 122 | * '''Erin? (Qa):''' I'm thinking this may be the new "poison" one. |
| 123 | * '''Spring (T):''' Represents wind, ever since ''360''/''361''. |
| 124 | * '''I don't think I've found a name for this that isn't in some way a gem name, Aqua(marine) or Turquoise, I had been trying to avoid gemstone names since I wanted each color to have one as an "alt" (which ''Run: [=.GIFocalypse=]'' set up, also it kinda fits with how ''Terraria'' does things) (Qa):''' Was thinking of this being "sky," but giving it some thought, I may have skies be some special stuff. Hell, recently I was thinking of having sky and underground as "layers," similar to ''Tears of the Kingdom'', except it's just like... laterally where whole huge groups of biomes are located. In ''[=.GIFocalypse=]'', the sky was already "special" in that I ''sorta'' consider that associated more with Soos and [=.GIFfany=]'s final fist fight when falling from space than I do with, say, [[BlowYouAway Dean Natalie's]] domain. Generally I'd rather associate the wind element with the whole "blueish-green grass valley" biome I made up as opposed to the sky itself, as odd as that may sound. |
| 125 | * '''Cyan (S):''' Currently represents ice. Snowy |
| 126 | * '''Capri? (Qa):''' Represents a vauge "hot spring" or "mountain spring" area; a close "element" to this might be steam or so. |
| 127 | * '''Azure (T):''' Represents sound, ever since ''361 Striking Degrees'' and its scrapped "pilot." |
| 128 | * '''Cobalt? (Qa):''' Oh wait maybe this was originally "sky" and the "Aqua" one was just poison or whatever, originally. I'll have to look through this. |
| 129 | * '''Blue (P):''' Has always represented water. |
| 130 | * '''Indigo (Qa):''' "River" region, and a sort of "alternate water" so to speak in terms of loose elemental themes. |
| 131 | * '''Violet (T):''' Represents "paint;" initially it was meat, but I swapped it and rose around, as described above. |
| 132 | * '''Purple (Qa):''' "Thorns" were the general idea here I think. Not entirely sure how that works element-wise yet. |
| 133 | * '''Magenta (S):''' Currently represents "fog" or "ecto-energy" in the more supernatural-oriented works, and is generally abstract compared to the more physical rest of the PST duodecet. |
| 134 | * '''"Blue-Yellow" (O):''' Dunno yet but I'm heavily thinking of this being the "Edna" thing for ''Biome Artists''; working backwards to ''Zenith Nymph'' (although we ''might'' actually see the BA character first) |
| 135 | * '''"Red-Green" (or maybe "Rose-Spring," or hell I could combine them as like "Springrose") (O):''' |
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| 137 | '''In the beginning,''' there was just ten. Air (pink), Fire (red), Earth (orange), Electricity (yellow), Plant (green), "Animal" (cyan), Water (blue), Poison (purple), "NonElemental" (light gray/white), and maybe "Vampire" (Dark gray/black). These were in the ''Swyyx Project'' thing, and the scrapped "element system" of ''Total Zeksmit'' back when the latter was actually a thing. |
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| 139 | !! Shade System |
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| 141 | * '''Brights:''' Effectively the "main" group so to speak. At least in ''Biome Artists''; ZNA would give less importance to the whole "color army" thing and maybe about place the Brights as equals with the other shades and tones of the colors, in that while the former are still introduced first once it's about time to introduce other groups they'll fall to the wayside. (ZNA is about Vince, Sonata, and Tania; BA is specifically about fleshing out the Elements as a whole) |
| 142 | * '''Dimmed...?:''' |
| 143 | * '''Bolds?:''' |
| 144 | * '''Darks?:''' Specifically a "50% lightness" thing. |
| 145 | * '''Deeps?:''' |
| 146 | * '''Lights?:''' |
| 147 | * '''Dulls?:''' |
| 148 | * '''Pastels, if I want more than two "lighter than Bright" ones?''' |
| 149 | * '''Pales?:''' |
| 150 | * '''Bright-Transparents:''' |
| 151 | * '''Dark-Transparents:''' |
| 152 | |
| 153 | !! Er...? |
| 154 | |
| 155 | These don't exactly have "shades" or such (well... technically gray is? Or could these all be considered variants of gray?) because they ''are'' the shades and tints in a way. |
| 156 | * '''White:''' Unsure, definitely this biome would have this "eerie glow" or something like that to it. Not snow; I feel like that's kind of "common" and thus should be a "main color" and thus... cyan and whatnot. This biome may look like something out of ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', same with the Black one. |
| 157 | * '''Gray:''' Probably like a machine area, or at least some other place with a "metallic" theme. Like, barren-looking lands but with a ton (''ton'') of metal ores or something. |
| 158 | * '''Black:''' Again, like something out of ''Hollow Knight''. Specifically the Abyss. May have a lot of inky stuff. Or just outright big tar pits. Dark but may or may not have "darkness" as the "element," it depends on where I want to go with Chartreuse and its variants. |
| 159 | * '''Colorless:''' Basically "fully transparent." This... may be like a "glass biome," or at least look like one. |
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| 163 | * Oh shoot FormulaWithATwist might be exactly what I'm looking for (entry's written on the perspective of the webnovel): ''Biome Artists'' is a "HaremGenre fantasy" but only in a loose, technical sense. I'd like to try to find a way to make this short. Since my first draft at this was really long holy fuck. |
| 164 | * OnlySixFaces? |
| 165 | ** Most of the characters are made with the same "character creation template," and have just a handful of body types out of |
| 166 | * QuicksandBox: After completing the Licensing Exam, suddenly almost all of the world is opened, and the only locations that cannot freely be visited (effectively just the Blossom Kingdom and inner layers of the Overgrowth) are gated behind the Main Quest. North, west, south, east, up, down, or any direction in between. The game nudges the player to do the recruitment quests of the secondary and tertiary-regional characters in the same order they joined the Elements in the webnovel[[note]]Frida, Hilda, Gratia, Dottie, Elfriede, Lara, Jasmine, [the "gray" one], Edna, Lithlaun[?], Naytileek, [[/note]], with a helping of minor Recruitment Quests in-between each, also spending most of the time on the Surface layer for the earlygame, |
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| 168 | [[folder:The Elements as a Whole]] |
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| 170 | * AlmightyJanitor: The Elements are actually among one of the most powerful teams in the entire setting, with the full might of all 1,002 of them by the endgame being strong enough to give all but a collective team made of the ''other'' strongest characters in the world a beatdown. Individually, they're each at least around the upper-middle in terms of Biome Artist strength, with some such as Iris and Lithlaun being more powerful than that. However, they begin the story ranked pretty low; Alexia's morality-based essay in the Licensing Exam Written Test was ''so'' bad (and the Written Test takes the majority of the overall score) that her passing all other parts of the Licensing Exam with at least 90% just ''barely'' let her pass, and since the Biome Artist system has a "strong as the weakest link" mentality, that automatically put her four much better-performing teammates to her starting level as well. This same mentality also at first drags ''down'' the ranking of some other teams that merge with their group. Alexia spends at least half the story trying to build her reputation, and the reputation of the other Elements, up |
| 171 | * AnimalMotifs: The Elements altogether have an ant motif. They have SuperStrength even by ("common," they're nothing special compared to the top fighters) Biome Artist/mage standards, |
| 172 | * BadassArmy: A single Element can stand well on their own and beat up armies of inexperienced thugs or mooks; they can also give a pretty good battle against even the more elite mooks working for the Big Four. The gang together |
| 173 | * BattleHarem: Not in the traditional sense of being devoted spouces -- when it comes to genuine ''romantic'' relationships, the Elements are far more complicated on this front. Zoap and Arime only consider one-another as actual romantic partners for the bulk of the story, [...] They are described in-universe and out- (by Water) as "less of a polycule and more like a polycule ''of polycules,'' if that makes sense." They're eventually just a collective group of hundreds of teams of people who range from couples to bands of upwards of [not actually sure what the "upper limit" would be, or how this would factor in two or more particular teams becoming close to the point where they effectively just "merge" completely, which the initial quintet will do with the Bright Tertiaries, Frida, Lara, etc.] |
| 174 | * ColorCodedCharacters: While their entire might has ''so'' many characters of colors that are placed closely to each other on the spectrum, in hue, brightness, ''and'' to a lesser extent saturation [there won't be as many "non-saturated" colors, both because they're honestly kinda ugly, and because they blur together wayyy too quickly. There would be like... ten? fully saturated shades and then like four "light" or "dull" ones, although the two transparent ones will use light/dull shades that aren't used for their own regions as the unofficial color to represent them in like... icons and such, since in most mediums it's kind of difficult to use partial transparency], all of the "main" members of the team are spaced out far enough apart and spread evenly that they each stand out when it's only them together. The main twenty-four [Not-Nymphs] use the twelve primary, secondary, and tertiary colors of the RGB spectrum, half use bright shades, the other half dark shades. As for Zoap and Arime, they each have their own sets of colors (yellow, chartreuse, orange, and occasionally cyan for Zoap; blue, purple, azure, and occasionally red for Arime), but most primarily Zoap is associated with yellow while Arime is associated with blue. |
| 175 | * FiveTokenBand: They are the in-universe equivalent of such, as their numbers eventually end up consisting of exactly one person of each of the 1,002 races. |
| 176 | * MagneticHero: They start out officially as a band of five -- even before that, they are a duo (Zoap and Alexia) who quickly team up with a trio (Cassandra, Lana, and Bethany) to attempt to help each other pass the Licensing Exam, before deciding they actually like each other and becoming permanent companions. Then they take in Frida, Eansy, and [some third person just so that Eansy wouldn't stand out too much and be a bit "obvious," maybe another Bright Quaternary] as a team who had recently lost their home. Their missions involve them befriending at least one of the squads they team up with and/or (often in the case of the "main twenty-six") a single Biome Artist not part of a team that wants to join them. The squads eventually end up assimilating with the Elements anyway for one reason or another, usually just from liking them. Noteably, Atbash ''wanted'' the Elements to become this, assuming that the initial five she tested were "edgy loners who shut themselves off from most of the world" |
| 177 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Most of them are "odd" to some degree, social misfits or just otherwise for one reason or another not engaged with their home region's culture. This also applies to ''all'' of the "main twenty-six," with Zoap being the closest to someone who "fits in," and even that's something of a stretch. |
| 178 | * RunningGag: |
| 179 | * TookALevelInBadass: While all of them were superhumans by the beginning of the story, they still become significantly stronger and especially more skilled as it goes on. |
| 180 | ** The "initial quintet" of Zoap, Alexia, Cassandra, Lana, and Bethany in particular are soon established to be big fish in a small pond, especially during [[WakeUpCallBoss their final Licensing Exam test where Atbash gives them just a small taste of what dealing with other full-fledged Biome Artists would be like.]] Over the course of the story, they take Atbash's advice, both improving their own skills |
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| 182 | [[/folder]] |
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| 184 | [[folder:Both Main Leads]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | -->''Their love song: [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance "It Has to be This Way"]]'' |
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| 188 | * BirdsOfAFeather: They seem like OppositesAttract but the pair have more in common than |
| 189 | * FatAndSkinny? I mean they're a couple and not like a comedy duo: The central members of the Elements consist of the heavyset Arime and the considerably more slender Zoap. |
| 190 | * OddNameOut: When Hedge starts considering the Elements "sages" unofficially, he gives all of the "main" (primary, secondary, and tertiary-colored characters of the bright and dark regions) Elements single-syllable titles. Meat, Flame, Stone, Volt, and so on. [This wasn't actually what I had in mind when my previous character sheet mockups had the captions "Sage of ____," I didn't have anything in particular ironed out until just now.] Zoap and Arime are the only "main" characters who get titles that are more than one syllable. |
| 191 | * TwoLinesNoWaiting: Downplayed as several sub-plots tend to be running per chapter. Nearly every chapter prior to the two of them joining together has one of the two in the A-plot, with the other making a major subplot. Towards the beginning, the main focus was on Zoap and company, first the bulk of the Licensing Exam chapters covered his POV |
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| 195 | [[folder:Zoap Bloodblade]] |
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| 197 | [[caption-width-right:350:Sage of ]] |
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| 199 | The {{protagonist}} of this story. Initially a Human working as an assistant at an animal shelter, the economic crisis results in him getting laid off. This was a plan engineered by Mansia to try to get him to work under Zelpea, |
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| 201 | * BarrierWarrior: Zoap can make shields out of pure magic energy, |
| 202 | * BerserkButton: Zoap is normally one of the nicest souls in the entire setting, but he has two things (besides threatening loved ones, which A: [[Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope is not this trope,]] and B: practically all of his loved ones, ''especially'' the other Elements, can more than fend for themselves) that can make him immediately get mad. |
| 203 | ** Cheating on tests. He takes evaluations and especially education seriously, so it ''royally'' pisses him off if he finds out that someone had cheated on a test, ''especially'' something as crucial as the Biome Artist Licensing Exam. When the Elements are on a mission where they join [someone,] she eventually confesses that she never became an official Biome Artist, and |
| 204 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Zoap isn't the most powerful or vicious of the Elements, but pissing him off is still a ''very'' bad idea even by [[BadassArmy Element]] standards, pushing him will get results eventually. [...] He has been described by other characters as a "ticking time bomb," |
| 205 | ** He has high levels of raw physical strength. He demonstrates this at one point when harassed by a group of mooks under Kat by punching one of them, a muscular fighter significantly taller than him, and casually blowing a hole in her torso. He then elaborates that he ''purposefully'' avoided any vital organs so as to not actually kill anyone, |
| 206 | ** |
| 207 | ** |
| 208 | ** [[spoiler:This reaches a head in the finale; towards the end of the final battle, he completely flips his lid, screams loud enough to be heard miles away, and ]] |
| 209 | * BoringButPractical: Competes with Alexia in being one of the most "normal" of the Elements, except whereas Alexia tends to use "standard" Plant Arts a lot without as much flash as, say, fire, ice, lightning, or water powers, Zoap would rather not use Biome Arts at ''all'' unless necessary. If he can just talk his way out of something, he will, which frustrates some of the more showy members of his group like Bethany. |
| 210 | ** His main combat feats are [[BarrierWarrior defensive.]] The shields made out of a yellow flame-like substance look cool at first, but they're nothing in terms of flare compared to some of the other advanced Biome Arts |
| 211 | ** As standard Neutral mage use, Zoap focuses on the "non-super" biomes, so the trees he works with are ordinary trees in contrast to the gargantuan vine-y trees of Bright Green, |
| 212 | * ClusterBleepBomb: He wins an escalating flirt-off with Bethany by promissing to do something where the text is written out with "'''(bleep)'''." This is the ''only'' time in the entire story that dialogue is censored[[note]]Unless one counts the rare moments of the narrator simply not wanting to transcribe something a character said, which is almost always just due to the idiocy/long-windedness of what is being said rather than vulgarity[[/note]], and considering what is said that ''isn't'' censored, how racy the snippets that aren't censored get [I'm not gonna jot it down here LOL, in fact I didn't write the scene at all yet], and how his speech leaves '''[[TheGadfly Bethany]]''' flushed and fanning herself and the Elements to all look at him speechless (two things that ''very'' rarely happen in the Elements' home), he must have said something ''incredibly'' raunchy. [[NothingIsFunnier The contents of which are left to the readers' imagination.]][[note]]Water has also said that the speech was always planned to be "censored" and no "uncensored" one exists.[[/note]] |
| 213 | * EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Zoap may be very forgiving and slow to anger, but a small handful of people have earned his outright ''scorn,'' and |
| 214 | ** The most obvious is BigBad Zelpea. Zoap ''starts'' trying to downplay her actions and defend her, and this is at least before she revealed her genocidal intentions, but |
| 215 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: It takes him a ''lot'' until he finally admits that Zelpea is just an awful person with no redeemable qualitites, and that any ounce of good he might have seen in her when they were children has long since faded, assuming it was never an act to begin with. He tries to throw up Zelpea's story as a FreudianExcuse, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse but none of the Elements buy it.]] Part of this stems from being "friends" with Zelpea in the past, and feeling guilty that lashing out at her would mean personal bias and go against his MO of forgiveness. Zelpea [[EvilCannotComprehendGood has the opposite problem]] and is fully convinced that there is no such thing as a truly "good person" -- that someone who seems to be nice is lying to either others (like Zelpea herself) or to themselves (she accuses Zoap of doing this, and those words get him to think it over) -- so it evens out in a sense. |
| 216 | * HandicappedBadass: He gets his right arm -- his dominant arm -- cut off by Arime's plasma blade in the prologue. He still manages to put up a good fight with just his left arm, and he takes the Biome Artist Licensing Exam with a Biome Arts-made prosthetic of his own creation while waiting for medics to grow him a new one. With just one arm and a hastily-made artificial wood/vine one, he aces the Exam, and while Atbash "plays dirty" by manipulating his prosthetic during the final test, Zoap eventually just rips it off and tries to fight her with one arm completely gone. At the end of Chapter 5, he grows a new one and never loses a limb in the story again (or suffering any other handicapping injury for a long period of time), taking him out of this trope. |
| 217 | * IronicName: "Bloodblade" sounds like a name given to an edgy warrior or a parody of such a thing. Zoap is actually really nice and hates the idea of getting violent. His parents share this trait with him. ''Several generations in the past,'' on the other hand, his maternal ancestors at least genuinely ''were'' intimidating and bloodthirsty, but at one point down the line a WhiteSheep among them decided to shed that and start a new generation of pacifism and generosity, which carried on down to |
| 218 | * MrFanservice: Ideally there'd be some game adaptation where the player could toggle the Elements' gender and sex/body type at will, but I'm nowhere near that level at coding and this would require a massive budget anyway, so it's just a webnovel. And in that webnovel, Zoap is the only man of the Elements, and |
| 219 | * NervesOfSteel: Zoap may ''dislike violence,'' but that doesn't mean he ''scares easily.'' Even compared to [[BadassArmy the Elements,]] |
| 220 | ** Ironically, he is one of the few characters that isn't directly afraid of [[TheDreaded Zelpea,]] despite[[note]]or even ''because'' of, as he's familiarized himself with her tactacs[[/note]] being her main target of abuse for a period of time. He's ''concerned'' when she controls innocents and/or his teammates for their well-being, but Zelpea herself never intimidates him no matter what nightmarish imagry she tries to throw at him or how much power (physical or political) she flexes over him. When Zelpea takes control over a host of miners and tries to make them injure themselves and each other, has her "main host" reveal to Zoap that the "dream" where he called out Zelpea was the ''real'' Zelpea entering his head, and then taunting him by asking if he'll tell the actual Zelpea off, Zoap just counters that by calling her the coward for using a proxy puppet and not meeting him in person. |
| 221 | * NotQuiteFlight: His top ability by the beginning of the story is called Gliding, or the Gliding Arts, and it enables him an unsteady [...] In Chapter 5, Atbash notices his Glide abilities -- and reacts to it by taking off in ''full'' Flight at sound-breaking speed, emphasizing that what the story had been building up as Zoap's "unique ability" isn't anything special in the big picture, ''and'' how the quintet are [[WakeUpCallBoss hopelessly outmatched against this person compared to their previous tests in the Licensing Exam.]] |
| 222 | * PrecisionFStrike: Zoap almost never swears, in stark contrast to his first harmette Alexia being one of the top LadySwearsALot of the Elements (and this speaks volumes; ''Biome Artists'' is filled with foul language in general [hahaha insert shitty if Vivziepop wrote a harem anime joke here]). His first swear in the story, and his only one for a ''good'' while, is right when he's finally at his breaking point with working as Zelpea's Royal Shield. He tells her "Go fuck yourself, Princess." It stands out because of his clean mouth up to that point. This moment also gets him famous in-universe, |
| 223 | * RealMenWearPink: Zoap occasionally dabbles in gardening, he's ''really'' fond of helping animals, and he is also a good cook (particularly when it comes to vegetable-based dishes). Regarding the last part, he was even the Elements' unofficial chef[[note]]typically each Element cooks for themselves, as Biome Artist training includes learning to make your own meals out of almost anything in times of survival or just to try to deal with a low budget/resources. But if they have the "luxury" of someone having the time to prepare something for everybody, usually that "someone" was Zoap[[/note]] before Elfriede came along. |
| 224 | * ScrewDestiny: Not for any ''actual'' "fate" or "destiny," as the setting doesn't have any real predetermination, but there ''are'' a couple of in-universe made up prophecies, namely involving the Bloodblade and Blossom clans. Zoap doesn't take kindly to those, putting it mildly. |
| 225 | ** |
| 226 | * I know it says TheOneGuy can't be a protagonist and kinda assumes that doing so falls this under the HaremGenre, and this story is ''technically'' "harem genre" but in a really loose way and it purposefly avoids a shitload of harem tropes, so uh, whatever: Zoap is the only man of the Elements. It's implied that the world as a whole and ''especially'' the realm of Biome Artistry is largely matriarchal, |
| 227 | * I'm not sure what trope, if any, this would fall under. There isn't anything for "runt of the family" as far as I can tell: Zoap's parents, brother, and a good chunk of his extended family are giants. Zoap himself, however, is not. |
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| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Arime [Don't have a last name thought of yet; assume this for any other "Element," I do want to give them ''all'' surnames said in-story] ]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[caption-width-right:350:Sage of Plasma[?] ]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | The {{deuteragonist}} of this story. A well-respected and fairly high-ranking Saypant Biome Warrior that is also an activist whose goal is helping the less fortunate, particularly trying to clean up the Saypant Metropolis and its slums. She boasts a tough and gritty "bike gangster" aesthetic, but underneath that lies a very dorky hero who adores the card game ''The Collector'', vows to collect every single installment of the ''[[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Plant Ants]]'' franchise even the ones aimed at very young audiences, and all-around constantly worries for the safety of her allies and lovers. Underneath her popularity lies a dark secret: Arime is also Head Janitor; she and her team, the Grime Crime, masquerade as vigilantes-posing-as-a-criminal-gang called the Janitors, where they resort to significantly less-ethical tactics to break up black markets, stop people trafficking rings, and expose corrupt government leaders. The story opens up with the Janitors' biggest mission yet: A seige on the Blossom Kingdom Castle to steal their Relic, intending to take its power and distributing it to the general populace, easing the economic crisis going on (particularly in Bright Green and the Metropolis). She met Zoap about two years before the start of the story, becoming long-distance/online friends that took a liking to each other and grew closer -- [[CannotSpitItOut not that either would be fast to admit it in that way.]] Unfortunately, with Zoap being hired as one of the Blossom Kingdom's defenders at the time [long story short, this is ''not'' a ContrivedCoincidence, although it ''is'' a result of at least one of the villains' plans biting the BK in the ass], they clash. Zoap manages to destroy part of Arime's disguise and soon figures out that she and the Head Janitor are one and the same, |
| 236 | |
| 237 | As a member of one of the two "Neutral Races," Arime was not born with any particular superbiome leaning, and like most Neutrals her default Biome Arts sway away from a particular type of biomass. She does, however, specialize in using Plasma Arts, considered an InfinityPlusOneElement among the [...] Her signature move is the Plasma Strike, |
| 238 | |
| 239 | * {{Acrofatic}}: She's the most heavy-set of the "main twenty-six" Elements [hrm, if I have the "mains" ''only'' be the primary, secondary, and tertiary-colored ones of bright and dark, plus Zoap and Arime, that's twenty-six, so I could work with the alphabet thing after all that I kinda dropped a long time ago... I mean, there's Iris and Maria who are both quaternaries and based off of "main" deans ] yet one of the most agile and fast of them, if not the Elements as a whole. (Behind obvious super speedsters like Iris.) |
| 240 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: |
| 241 | ** By the beginning of the webnovel, she is this to Zoap. She has amassed ten loyal followers and many more fans while Zoap's "party" barely has Alexia at the time. |
| 242 | * AntiVillain: Arime genuinely has good intentions and almost exclusively fights people worse than she is, with the biggest hiccup being when she crosses paths with Zoap in the Kingdom Invasion at the start. Even when she's set against her more-than-friend and pushes through, she very much hates the idea but feels that it is absolutely necessary for the betterment of other people. When she fights Zoap, she sees it as giving up her wants (to be in a normal relationship with him) in favor of the needs of the other residents of the Slums. |
| 243 | * BadassBiker: Arime not only gives herself a "biker gang" image as the Janitors, but her motorcycle in of itself is a powerful weapon that she can use as an advanced chainsaw. |
| 244 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: Averted, along with the bulk of the Saypant race, but Arime is the first of them introduced so she |
| 245 | * DramaticIrony: She is revealed to be Head Janitor before the Janitors themselves are even elaborated upon, with her |
| 246 | * TheDreaded: Thanks to her alter-ego, she manages to strike the fears in to both other heroes ''and'' the criminals out there. Arime ''as Arime'' has a mighty track record of taking down elite criminals and pulling off missions flawlessly, to the point of being one of the few ten-star Biome Artists/Warriors out there[[note]]Dualite in general uses ten stars for their "star system" unlike the common five stars in RealLife. Getting a ten star rating is ''no'' easy feat[[/note]]. As Head Janitor, she puts the image of a terrifying bike gang leader that can tear through anything, . |
| 247 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Two, factoring the InMediasRes opening and the "proper" beginning of the story. |
| 248 | ** In the flashforward to the end of the Yellow Moon Saga[??? I'm thinking back to this idea of dividing the story again], it covers Zoap and the Elements arriving at the top of the Central Tower [I did a quick Google search of this term and the results were about ''Breath of the Wild''[='=]s Central Hyrule Tower, so I assume there isn't like any real life location with this name... which kinda surprised me], with her leaping from an at-the-time unknown spot and directly confronting Zoap. Their conversation isn't given too much context until the story proper, but it |
| 249 | ** In the "regular" beginning, she first crops up when Alexia has a phone conversation with Zoap that Arime also partakes in. [...Maybe? I want to have Zoap's introduction be in-between Alexia's opening exposition and the phone conversation but uh...] She's immediately suspicious of Alexia asking Zoap if she can stay at his place while Alexia job hunts, though she doesn't speak up about it. The ''moment'' the conversation ends, Arime calls up Alexia privately, just threats "Hurt him and I'll hurt you" in a much more menacing tone than she had prior, and hangs up immediately after. |
| 250 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 251 | ** As Head Janitor, she has a CodeOfHonour that she follows by near-religiously, and expects her own allies to do the same. Absolutely no harming the homeless. Don't kill unless the person in question ''leads'' |
| 252 | ** |
| 253 | ** Despite Arime's general "motorcycle punk gang member" aesthetic and being on the tomboyish side, she draws the line at certain behavior that even she finds offputting: |
| 254 | *** Arime dislikes tattoos and ''really'' dislikes piercings, to the point of saying she considers them turn-offs and the latter even a potential dealbreaker for entering a relationship with her. |
| 255 | *** Passing gas. Deliberately doing so in a loud manner or right to her face[[note]]she can tell if it's an accident, but this is only said via WordOfGod as this has not happened in ''Biome Artists''. In Water's words, "It's not that kind of story," so farts and burps just don't come up very often[[/note]] is one of the few ways to [[BerserkButton actually piss her off]] without threatening loved ones or innocents. |
| 256 | * ExtraOreDinary: Plasma is Arime's go-to element usually, but she is also a very competent Metal Artist, |
| 257 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Arime is genuinely interested in improving the state of the world and for the most part is a reasonable Biome Artist. Even pre-HeelFaceTurn, she can interact well with civilians and other heroic Biome Artists, and is an enjoyable friend to have. When it comes to various disgraced Biome Artists, crime lords, or ''especially'' corrupt politicians, that's when |
| 258 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Arime is, on the surface, a tough and gritty bike punk-themed Biome Artist who also has (had after the first saga) an alter ego as a vicious gang leader. She is generally pretty levelheaded in the face of danger, and has a SeenItAll attitude towards crime rings that include sex traffickers and the like. Even ''she's'' very disturbed by, if not scared shitless of, [[spoiler:Dragon, Zelpea's artificial humanoid ]] [...] Played more humorously, Zoap's parents are also among the very few people who scare her -- they're both buff, powerful giants who aren't ''too'' happy with her cutting off his arm back in the first chapter. |
| 259 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: While Arime often fights with Plasma Arts or Metal Arts, she also uses her own motorcycle as a weapon. By grabbing it, having the wheels turn bladed, and weilding it like a chainsaw. |
| 260 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 261 | ** Near the beginning, she gets in a three-way phone call with Zoap and Alexia (Alexia called Zoap to ask about staying over while he was already chatting with Arime; they decided to simply make the call go three ways) where she's very suspicious about Alexia asking to stay over. Fearing Alexia may be a PrettyFreeloader, once Zopa leaves Arime quickly threatens her with six simple words: "Hurt him and I'll hurt you." In the same chapter, about a month later, ''Arime'' ends up being the one who hurts Zoap during the fight on the Blossom Kingdom, and [[AnArmAndALeg far more]] than what she worried Alexia might do (a financial hurt). Once it's been proven that Arime is the Head Janitor, Alexia wastes no time to throw Arime's words back in her face over this. |
| 262 | * MsFanservice: The ''only'' character in the story who can successfully get ''Zoap'' flustered, which speaks volumes. Much like Zoap himself, Arime lands on this not by being especially flirty or wearing less than the others on average, but just by a consequence of having a higher sex drive, she's shown being more "active" than the other Elements and when the story is written from the POV of her partner (most commonly Naytileek, Bethany, or Zoap himself), she's described very sensually. She's this of the Grime Crime (and later Elements) in-universe, as it's ''heavily'' implied that her charity pinups get much spicier than those of the other teammates who do them with her. |
| 263 | * NightmareFetishist: Her initial friends/lovers are less conventional than Zoap's, and that's saying something. Naytileek, her closest friend of the Crime Grime, essentially acts like an archetypical {{yandere}} except that she genuinely respects the boundaries and well-being of her targets of affection. [Other examples?] It's quite telling that once the Brights start warming up to her, one of the first ones she gets along with is fellow Nightmare Fetishist and wannabe/[[spoiler:eventual ''successful'']] horror writer [[PerkyGoth Bethany.]] |
| 264 | * Or should ParentalSubstitute go under the parent's sheet?: Arime's parents were killed by a mugger when she was young, and she spent her early years as an orphan until she tried to break in to Rot's hideout. Rot, feeling sorry for her, decided to take her in and give her some thieving pointers, before eventually raising her as a sort of daughter. |
| 265 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Why the Janitors' attack on the Blossom Kingdom even happens. She had her hacker friends discover a few misused funds and illegal transactions Zelpea (actually Mansia using Zelpea as a puppet ruler) pulled off, came to the conclusion that Zelpea has to be stopped, but ''only'' thought that her actions were limited to messing with the economy. What Arime did ''not'' know at the time was that Zelpea was actually much worse than that. The Janitor attack was a last-ditch effort to stop Zelpea's greed from getting further, [...] There's also how she incorrectly attributes Zelpea to this, when Mansia really was the one to blame for that, and many other behind the scenes manipulations |
| 266 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Janitors pre-HeelFaceTurn, many of them confess that they're in it for the thrill, |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[folder:Princess Zelpea Blossom '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zelpealol.png]] |
| 273 | [[caption-width-right:350:Scourge of Dualite. Shut up I can't fucking draw okay? And I refuse to use AI art. And I didn't realize that I forgot the shoes until I already got this ready. That green thing in her hands is the Bright Green Relic by the way. [[labelnote:Click here to see Pure Zelpea]]Basically picture a ''Terraria'' Nymph (blood on her hands, waist, and around her mouth; nude and green rotting skin) but with her hair falling out, it's blonde like the above, and she has a sword through her chest prototyped [=B1=] Jack Noir-style. The sword's blade is reflective and has characters on it, alternating in blue and yellow. And she has these wings from her back made of blood and electric-ish energy. I might draw this[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 274 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Perfect Zelpea]]I'm currently picturing that she'd look kinda like a "statue" (or just gray) with glowing eyes and mouth or something and radiating a ton of light, but that's highly subject to change[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 276 | -->''There is no such thing as mutual love. With any "equal" partner, you are expected to give as much as you take. We all hate this. I'm just smart enough to stop it. Getting with someone who shows feelings or tries to pull you in another direction is just a dirty half-measure. The only true happy relationship is one of absolute control, and it's only happy for the one party. That's what I'm after. My goal is someone who will do anything for me flawlessly, without a breath asking for anything in return, or asking for mercy. It's what you want too. It's what we all want. An obediant drone. Look all around you. Every single person you call a "lover," a "girlfriend," they've all done something to get under your skin, haven't they? They've acted in a way that you didn't like. Arrogance. Decietfulness. Dependence. Annoying behavior. All you've done is surround yourself with compromises, out of your weakness. Make no mistake, I've given up trying to get you to crawl back to me. At least with your sanity still intact. I just want to break you by putting this in your mind. The next time you have a fight with any of your teammates, just remember this conversation. You ''could'' have taken them long ago and made them in to an army of slaves who would never tell you no. Admit it, Shield, it sounds tempting, doesn't it? That's because it's in our primal instinct, it's the urge of what we want. There is also no such thing as a good person. Anyone who claims to be is either lying to other people, like I had been. Or lying to themselves, like '''you.''''' |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [Context of the "Scourge of Dualite:" The other Big Four are nicknamed "Scourge of Dualite's X," Kat being "Oceans," Scraps being "Ground," Enery being "Depths?", and Pearl being "Skies." To kinda represent Zelpea being a bigger threat than all of them, she's classed as just a threat to the world as a whole.] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | The princess and current leader of the Blossom Kingdom, effectively the setting's "Human Nation." Initially seeming like a distant and cold ruler, she is in reality a genocidal asshole who only sees others as means to deliver her things she wants. |
| 281 | |
| 282 | Exclusive to the game is '''Perfect Zelpea,''' a hypothetical version of her had there have been a thousand Relics (one for each non-Neutral race), faced at the end of the [[BossRush Dream Arena's]] Trial of the Epilogue [postgame superboss rush -- except [=Ninthee 3D=] maybe] and Trial of Dualite ["grand" rush of all bosses akin to Pantheon of Hallownest]. |
| 283 | |
| 284 | * BigBadEnsemble: She's the leader of the Blossom Kingdom faction of the story, the most vile and powerful of the antagonist groups. However, she's not the BigBad as the vast majority of the story sees the Big Four as villain groups that the heroes are trying to take down, and Zelpea not only has zero hand in their actions, [[EvilVersusEvil they're getting in the way of her goals and she wants to take them down too.]] |
| 285 | * BrightIsNotGood: Zelpea may dress in dark magenta and black, but she wields the glowing gemstone-like Relics and often flashes brightly when using them. She's also the |
| 286 | * ControlFreak: Zelpea's main goal is to control as much of the world as she possibly can. She's bored with being limited to the Blossom Kingdom and hates that the Regions are constantly putting pressure on her |
| 287 | * FanDisservice: She fights the world naked [FYI this isn't unusual here, there's an assload of fighting naked. All the heroes/Elements are basically nudists who only wear things in the first place because they have to by law; there is '''no''' ReluctantFanserviceGirl among them. And yeah, they end up naked in the final showdown pretty early on.] once the sun burns her clothing off, as she only pretended to have a sense of modesty when trying to get supporters, and with her ultimate form within reach |
| 288 | * FinalBoss: The fight on Zelpea is the final battle in the webnovel. In the video game adaptation, she's the final boss of the main quest. Her upgraded version, Perfect Zelpea, is the intended "final" challenge of the postgame (at the end of the Boss Rush), or one of them along with [=3D=] Ninthee or Iris. |
| 289 | * HateSink: ''Nothing'' is likeable about Zelpea. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is her punching established NiceGuy and animal-friend Zoap for being ''early'' to a meeting, and she only gets worse from there. She is an insanely bigotted, sociopathing asshole that abuses her "childhood friend" Zoap and her artificial creation/"daughter" Dragon, even trying to kill the latter shortly after she first gained consciousness after finding out that she doesn't have Zelpea's Relic immunity. Pretty much every scene with her in it highlights either her hypocrisy, cruelty, |
| 290 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: By the beginning, Zoap ''insists'' that there is some |
| 291 | * MaliciousMisnaming: |
| 292 | ** [I got this idea from Bill Cipher calling the Zodiac characters by their wheel symbols. Zelpea's possession's are inspired by Bill's body hijacking, and I wanted this to have a similar "misnaming" character thing, except Zelpea will ''purposefully'' do this as a taunt to say "Yeah, this isn't the person that this looks like talking, ''I'm'' controlling them."] She repeatedly calls Zoap "Shield" even long after he quit/she banished her from the kingdom. This is apparently supposed to try to drill his old role in his head. When she possesses other people, she'll deliberately have them call Zoap that to freak him out. |
| 293 | * TheNapoleon: She's about a head and a half shorter than Zoap or Arime (who are the same height) and confirmed to be shorter than any Element in fact, and is the only boss in the game shorter than the gang, but she's a vicious genocidal |
| 294 | * OneWomanArmy: She's already dangerous with even one Relic on account of Relic energy being able to kill any living being without Royal Blood [[RequiredSecondaryPowers (or helpful bacteria that could live in one with royal blood)]], and can fight on armies on her own. With all Relics, it takes the ''entire'' global army against practically her alone, plus the 1,002-fold might of the Elements having consumed a special potion that lets them ''resist'' Relic energy (but by no means makes them ''immune'' to it, it still hurts like hell and in the game it deals heavy damage), and the world's army just ''barely'' wins by the skin of their teeth canonically. |
| 295 | * PersonalityPowers: Zelpea is a manipulative ControlFreak; it's not that unexpected that she is the only character in the story who uses a variant of the Biome Arts that [[PeoplePuppets directly controls people.]] Justified in that anyone can learn any Biome Art should they put the effort in to it, and she specifically studied this ([[DangerousForbiddenTechnique illegal]]) Biome Art ''because'' she wanted to control others. |
| 296 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the {{Fantastic|Racism}} sense, she hates any nonhumans; even the Saypants, who her ancestors had collaborated with. Zelpea views the biome-races as just walking food sources to her, and she tries to rationalize that eating them would not be cannibalism if they aren't the same species as her. Part of this is dishonesty and she wouldn't mind eating other Humans as well, but that's another trope. In the non-fantastic sense, she is explicitely [[FemaleMisogynist misogynistic,]] claiming men are naturally suited to be better fighters than women despite being a woman who is also one of the most powerful characters in the setting. The story also heavily implies that her emphasis on reproduction and distaste towards couples that cannot reproduce extends to LGBT relationships; she is briefly seen pondering "reworking the definition of marraige" (Dualite is a NonHeteronormativeSociety) and she is the only character in the entire story who deadnames Arime. |
| 297 | * PurpleIsPowerful: She wears purple[[note]]technically by the story's color naming scheme, "dark magenta"[[/note]] as part of her kingdom's royalty colors and, thanks to her RoyalBlood letting her use Relics ''and'' her People Arts and Plasma Arts studies, she is one of the strongest characters in the entire setting. |
| 298 | * TheSociopath: The quote at the top of the folder sets the tone pretty well. Zelpea has zero care or empathy for others at all, a very self-centered attitude, [...]. She ''attempts'' to use charm, but she often fails and relies on directly controlling others instead. |
| 299 | * UnskilledButStrong: Relic magic is ''extremely'' powerful, and she can use it more freely than a lot of other characters. However, thanks to CripplingOverspecialization, she hasn't studied much in the way of combat ''techniques,'' meaning that anyone with skilled dodging and strategy (which is ''every'' Element) can just not be hit by her. In the video game, this is translated in to her attacks dealing ''obscene'' damage even in Princess form[[note]]as in, she can roughly sevenshot even an endgame tank build on the easiest difficulty, in a game where even the "strong" bosses at least give about a dozen hits if you're reasonably equipped. Pure Zelpea can ''fourshot'' an endgame tank build on the easiest difficulty[[/note]], let alone her Pure and Perfect forms. |
| 300 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: Most of ''Biome Artists'' is a pretty easygoing BattleHarem story with cartoonish and not overly threatening [[VillainOfTheWeek Villains of the Week;]] even the overlooming {{Arc Villain}}s, the Big Four, are standard fantasy supervillains. Zelpea on the other hand is an abusive, genocidal tyrant with ''no'' redeeming qualities whose MO involves puppeting other people; chapters where she's the center stage villain are much more serious and horror-driven than the rest of the story. It speaks volumes that she has a higher kill count than any other character in the story combined[[note]]Potentially excluding historical figures[[/note]], whether only factoring named character deaths or [[AMillionIsAStatistic unnamed casualties.]] |
| 301 | * VillainousPrincess: As King and Queen Blossom are technically ''alive'' through most of the story, she spends most of that time as the princess and sitting leader of the Blossom Kingdom, |
| 302 | |
| 303 | [[/folder]] |
| 304 | |
| 305 | Actually thinking about Singularity, Ninthee as a potential game successor, then thinking of Ninthee self-replacating to be more akin to Singy/[=RunGif .GIFfany=], and then how I already had it planned that "Responder" would command an army of robotic bodies to be a MirrorBoss to the Elements as my "solution" with trying to have a big army vs army mirror showdown but also have Arime's gang slowly turn over to the Elements without resulting in really sluggish pacing, I'm thinking of maybe just "merging" the Responder character idea with what I have of Ninthee. I mean, hell, Ninthee was just thought up as a "game boss fight" and the game is extremely unlikely to be a thing that would be made, so might as well try to have that concept exist in some form in the prose story. |
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| 307 | [[folder:Just Quick Spitballing General List Stuff; Gonna Try to Have Focus Away From the Blossom Kingdom for Now, Since That is Meant to Just Take a Minority of the Story's Overall Pagetime]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | * ForegoneConclusion: |
| 310 | ** The very first scene reveals that Zoap, at one point, gets a massive "colorful" army by his side. It doesn't go over the details of anyone except for Alexia, but [...] This also confirms that Alexia will be alive up until this point. He will also confront Arime in the tallest building of a giant city ''and'' he'll start openly badmouthing Zelpea, though the "why" and "how" are left vauge. Respectively, Zoap and Arime were good friends at the beginning of the first chapter, and while his relationship with Zelpea was a lot rockier, he ''at first'' regards her pretty well. So it's pretty evident that something will happen and both of those relationships will go to shit. |
| 311 | ** The first chapter ends with Alexia making a half-hearted promise that she and Zoap would be capable of saving the world once they become Biome Artists, followed by the narrative outright saying that they ''will,'' and this is the story of how they do that. Meaning it's confirmed at the end of Chapter 1 that, unless the narrative is referring to the abstract team and not Zoap and Alexia ''specifically,'' that the two of them will survive to the end and that at some point a world-class threat will show up and their team will fend it off. |
| 312 | * HourglassPlot: Typically, mostly before Arime joins the group, her B-plot will parallel the A-plot with Zoap in some sense, |
| 313 | ** Zoap and Arime's team dynamics in general throughout the Yellow Moon Saga. At first, Zoap is companionless [...] Even the formatting of the first and last chapters of the Saga features this. The Yellow Moon Saga starts with Zoap and his team going through a whole "arc" where they are stuck in the Licensing Exam, while Arime has more episodic adventures that effectively serve as a preview of how Zoap and co. will be once they become Biome Artists. Towards the end, it's Arime that's in a serial arc |
| 314 | * InMediasRes: [I'm ''still'' not sure about this] The story opens up with a flash-forward to the leadup of Zoap and Arime's final battle in the Metropolis, with the Elements going up the Central Tower elevator. Very little context is given to this, all that is explained is Zoap having a large colorful army, and Arime similarly surrounding herself with robots. All the while, Alexia gives exposition about the Core Empire -- which is "happening in the present" -- after the flashforward ends, it is revealed that Alexia's exposition is a lecture that she is giving school students, [...] While the story teases the flash-forward as being some event at the end of the whole story, it turns out it's just by the end of the first Saga, |
| 315 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 316 | ** "Canyon [something]" sees the gang running in to Zelpea for the first time since the first chapter, |
| 317 | ** "The New Invention" marks the end of the episodic side of the Yellow Moon Saga (episodic adventures won't return until a good way in to the Blue Moon Saga), ''finally'' setting up the very long teased yet delayed Bright Chartreuse Region (the sixth and final Bright Tertiary, with the early chapters putting a lot of emphasis on the other five and making a point in leaving this one out) |
| 318 | |
| 319 | !! "Arcs...?" |
| 320 | |
| 321 | Yellow Moon Saga: |
| 322 | * Introduction/Kingdom Invasion Arc (Chapter 1) |
| 323 | * Biome Artist Licensing Exam Arc (Chapters 2-5) |
| 324 | * Four Tertiaries Arc (Chapters 6-13) [Thinking that at least at the beginning this'll "alternate" between a chapter on one of the Tertiaries -- except Jasmine and Kristen, the "green tertiaries" -- and a chapter with the Elements working with a team (Quaternaries and Shades/Tints/etc) that gets merged in with them. So like, one VillainOfTheWeek chapter where the focus "newcomer" is just one, and one where the new addition is a squad.] |
| 325 | * [Lara and?] Jasmine Arc (Chapters 14-) |
| 326 | * Quinary Crew Arc () |
| 327 | * Dichrome Arc |
| 328 | * Bright Chartreuse Factory Arc |
| 329 | * Metropolis Invasion Arc |
| 330 | |
| 331 | Blue Moon Saga: |
| 332 | * Naytileek Arc |
| 333 | * |
| 334 | |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Ideally Again]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | * CrossesTheLineTwice: |
| 340 | ** The main reason why [[AbhorrentAdmirer Neon's]] creepy behavior is (at first) played for laughs while Eansy's is not is because, in addition to Neon only ''saying'' creepy things rather than ''acting'' on them (again, at first), he is ''so'' blunt about his stalking and almost comes off as deliberately trying to be as revealing as possible that [[TooDumbToLive he practically confesses to people then and there.]] It's telling that one of his earlier scenes is complimenting a stranger in a bar for looking "worried" because he likes his partners "young and vulnerable," which scares off the entire table. |
| 341 | |
| 342 | * [[TheStationsOfTheCanon Fuck]]: Zoap/his replacement working with Alexia in the Blossom Kingdom, before it gets attacked by the Janitors/Grime Crime. They then take the Licensing Exam with Lana, Bethany, and Cassandra, and will very often go through the same tests and end it on Atbash's coins. After that, things can ''relatively'' branch out, but expect them to piss off one of the Big Four (usually Kat) and |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | ---- |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder: Fazbear Frights testing]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | Recap/FazbearFrightsIntoThePit |
| 351 | |
| 352 | [[/folder]] |
| 353 | ->''"I'm homicidal, and I've got a taste.\ |
| 354 | I want to wipe out the Monster race.\ |
| 355 | I've got to patience, I've got to resolve.\ |
| 356 | I will slaughter, screw the dialogue."'' |
| 357 | -->-- '''Frisk''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MobkO51msMI ♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody]]" |
| 358 | [[https://www.youtube.com/@lhugueny Logan Malloryianan Hugueny-Clark]], better known as LHUGUENY (also known as Movie Musicals), is a [[Website/YouTube YouTube]] animator who does [[SongParody musical parodies]] of various video games and films. He started in 2011 with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clPcFp14I_M ♪ TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Animation Parody]]", a parody of the 1997 film ''{{Film/Titanic|1997}}''. |
| 359 | ---- |
| 360 | !! ♪ TROPES THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody |
| 361 | [[AC:In general]] |
| 362 | * AutoTune: Most of the voices are Auto-Tuned. |
| 363 | * Parody: Nearly every video is a parody of a film or video game. |
| 364 | * SoBadItsGood: Despite the terrible animation and overly Auto-Tuned voices, the videos have a bit of a cult following (especially "♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody"). |
| 365 | * SongParody: Self explanatory. |
| 366 | [[AC:Movie/Video Game Musicals]] |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | [[folder:"♪ TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Animation Parody"]] |
| 369 | * Parody: {{Film/Titanic|1997}} (1997) |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | [[AC:Other videos]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Chiori made an EarlyBirdCameo in the ''Roses and Muskets'' event, she was first seen sharing intelligence in SpySpeak. This is an odd introduction for a fashion designer, [[spoiler: [[{{Foreshadowing}} but is absolutely perfect for a former member of the Shuumatsuban.]]]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | LetsPlay/Vinewrestle |
| 376 | |
| 377 | ''LiveAction/BreakingBad'' |
| 378 | ''Series/BreakingBad'' |
| 379 | Series/BreakingBad |
| 380 | |
| 381 | ---- |
| 382 | [[quoteright:578:[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yogisneaky.png]]]] |
| 383 | [[caption-width-right:578:He's not only smarter, but sneakier than the average bear.]] |
| 384 | When becoming a cat burglar, you have to earn rules before you become one. Some include, come out of the dark because that is when people don’t really come outside, wear black cloth to camouflage through the dark, and don’t make any sounds, which is the exact reason walking on tip toes were created. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | This trope is where a character [[Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tries to move quietly and sneakily by walking on the tip of their toes,]] often accompanied by exaggerated gestures and expressions. This is usually done for comedic effect, as the character is either oblivious to the noise they are making or overestimates their [[Main/StealthExpert stealth skills.]] Sometimes, the character may be caught by someone [[Main/BeingWatched who was watching them all along,]] or they may [[Main/AgonyOfTheFeet accidentally step on something that makes a loud sound and alerts everyone.]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | Sneaky tip toes are a common way of moving around when someone wants to be stealthy or playful. They involve lifting the heels off the ground and balancing on the toes of the feet, making as little noise as possible. Sometimes, sneaky tip toes are used to sneak up on someone and surprise them, or to avoid being detected by someone who might be angry or annoyed. Other times, sneaky tip toes are used to reach something that is too high or far away, or to pretend to be a dancer or a spy. Sneaky tip toes can be fun and exciting, but they can also backfire if the person is not careful enough. |
| 389 | |
| 390 | Tip toes aren’t always used for sneakiness though. They are also used for ballet, which is a common dance for ballet dancers. You can find the trope [[Main/StraightToThePointe here.]] |
| 391 | |
| 392 | This trope is commonly associated with Main/ClassyCatBurglar. Sometimes can be used with Main/TheSneakyGuy. |
| 393 | !!Examples: |
| 394 | [[folder: Films-Animated]] |
| 395 | * [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010 How to Train Your Dragon]]: Hiccup uses this trope to approach a wounded dragon in the forest. He is curious by the creature, but he also fears its reaction. |
| 396 | [[/folder]] |
| 397 | [[folder: Films – Live-Action]] |
| 398 | * Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther: Inspector Clouseau tip toes to a hotel room where he thinks the Pink Panther diamond is hiding, but he accidentally causes a big mess. |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | [[folder: Video Games]] |
| 401 | * [[VideoGame/TombRaiderI Tomb Raider]]: There is a trophy called “On Tiptoes” that you can earn if you don’t alert ay enemies. |
| 402 | * VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild: There is a mechanic called “Stealth” that allows the player to tip toe and reduce the noise they make. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | [[folder: Western Animation]] |
| 405 | * Used pretty much in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. An example includes Sylvester sneaking up to eat Tweety. |
| 406 | * Bart Simpson occasionaly uses this trope when being a sneaky little brat in WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons. |
| 407 | * Used in sneaky scenes in WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants. |
| 408 | * Used in the WesternAnimation/YogiBear cartoons when the eponymous character sneaks for picnic baskets. |
| 409 | [[/folder]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | Oh yeah the frequent LastNameBasis confused me a bit. Like for a while I wasn't sure if Ochako was her first name or last name, and I thought Kyoka was her surname and Jiro was her first but it's the other way around. |
| 412 | |
| 413 | Thought after actually seeing the first episode of the anime "Oh All Might said (well, thought) 'shit' I don't remember that in the manga. Wasn't expecting swearing on that level." |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:''Tears of the Kingdom'' review draft]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | !! Title: "Don't Hold Your Breath"? |
| 418 | |
| 419 | I like ''Breath of the Wild''. I enjoyed my time beating the main quests and completing all of the shrines, finding all but the last couple on my own without a guide. I was excited at the announcement of a sequel, having wanted but not expecting to see this instance of Hyrule get fleshed out further, and see what else could be done with it. I'm saying this to make it clear that this review is not an "Old Zelda vs New Zelda" complaint. I wanted more ''Breath'', just... not in the way ''Tears'' ended up being. I went in the game only seeing the first couple hours of a stream of it, otherwise diving in blind. The tutorial, with its massive sky island providing a playground for the complex new abilities, set a very good first impression. |
| 420 | |
| 421 | And then I landed on the surface. Things were fine at first, but not too long in as I explored... |
| 422 | |
| 423 | I really tried to keep an open mind about the reused map but in my opinion, it was the worst case scenario. I wouldn't have minded if either the surface was given a ''drastic'' overhaul (how I'm not sure, but more than the caves and wells) or if the sky and/or depths had as much content and diversity as the surface did. In other words, have as much ''new'' content as ''Breath'' had... content. The game doesn't do either of these things. The majority of the sky consists of very same-y puzzle archipelagos and a few other structures that can be solved fairly quickly, with the more elaborate parts that provide exploration like the Labyrinths being spaced out to the ends of the map. The tutorial area is also one of the most interesting and largest places in the sky, which was a disappointment, it sort of set up that layer as though it would be made of similarly large complexes. Two of the dungeons are there, but... I don't see how that counts for much, they're still the minority of sky content and ''Breath''[='=]s dungeons already had their own maps in a sense anyway, so this is a lot like the Divine Beasts just with some rather underwhelming floating islands mixed in. The actual majority of the sky is literally empty, these islands are just what dot it. The depths I like ''far'' more, I like how the ''Breath''-verse take on a "Dark World" is a deep underground space that inverts Hyrule's geography and its atmosphere and mechanics are more unique. And even then, most of it is the same aesthetically, wide stretches that I believe are intended to just be passed through on a vehicle rather than explored more in-depth like the surface area. As fun as it is to explore what there ''is,'' the game is also not balanced around it: Your main sources of both health and defense upgrades, to avoid getting oneshotted by the stronger enemies, are located on the surface layer. Which I find is where the issues really come up. |
| 424 | |
| 425 | Most of the main quests see you return to the four towns that the main dungeons of ''Breath'' were also set in, doing similar story beats, with many of the same armors returning. New enemies are added, but especially on the surface layer, you'll often be finding the same Bokoblins and Moblins [...] Are the dungeons improvements over the ''Breath'' dungeons? I say yes, and I also say the shrines are massive improvements over the predecessors. But [...] A large draw to ''Breath'', at least to me, was looking around the enormous map to see what was around the corner, find what was there even if it stopped being useful, and get a feel of one region before transitioning to the next. ''Tears'' doesn't carry that. The map's general layout is unchanged, and there aren't much in the way of surprises that shake things up, especially outside of the four major dungeon areas. |
| 426 | |
| 427 | To my understanding, the ''Zelda'' series will be moving away from this version of Hyrule in the future installments, which I find a massive relief. Because this game had me worried, and even now I'm a bit cautious, that this reboot may mark a sort of ''Zelda'' equivalent of the ''New Super Mario Bros.'' series, where what starts out a fresh new take just becomes it own formula and gets repetitive as a result. I'm not exactly a long-time ''Zelda'' fan and I haven't played too many of the games just yet, but one thing I am fond of is that each game can have its own sort of world with a different set of characters that can change on a dime, and I'd hate to see that go away and we'd be left stuck with the same setting and characters for a decade. |
| 428 | |
| 429 | All in all, it's a bigger and flashier ''Breath'' with new mechanics and extentions of the map that aren't as elaborate as the original one was. If you don't mind that idea, I'd say check it out. But if you didn't like ''Breath'' at all, I highly doubt you'd like this game unless you really like the build mechanics, or if the issues it directly fixed were ''huge'' deal breakers. I ''do'' like some parts of this but not to the extent of the massive praise it gets, but I acknowledge that I just have a bias against same-y sequels so I'm not the best judge at that. |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[/folder]] |
| 432 | |
| 433 | 'Ya see, I'm leaning on "Don't Hold Your Breath" because there's a DoubleMeaningTitle in there. It's telling others not to hold their breath for the game as in like "Don't expect it to be mindblowing." And like, sorta not quite directed at the game itself, don't "hold on" to ''Breath of the Wild'' I dunno it makes sense in my head. |
| 434 | |
| 435 | Next up: ''The Legend of Zelda: Bones of the City''. Link can turn in to a monkey and throw his poo at enemies. |
| 436 | ---- |
| 437 | * test test test test |
| 438 | * test test test test |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(photography) Golden hour]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | * test test test |
| 443 | |
| 444 | * test hi |
| 445 | |
| 446 | -another test |
| 447 | - another test |
| 448 | |
| 449 | - another |
| 450 | |
| 451 | - another |
| 452 | |
| 453 | * another |
| 454 | * another |
| 455 | |
| 456 | * Test to wiki page Film/DazedAndConfused. Test to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKWTzr-k6s external link.]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | This is a picture of Noah Wyle |
| 459 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noah_wyle_9367.jpg]] |
| 460 | ---- |
| 461 | !! Playground |
| 462 | [[folder: Playground]] |
| 463 | * Chekhov'sGun: Multiple examples of this. |
| 464 | ** After Lacey's death, the button on her collar is mostly forgotten about. So, who ends up using it at the beginning of the final act? Rock, taking control of the games and letting the children know they will be freed soon. |
| 465 | ** In the first playground, the children are provided with a knife to solve the puzzle. Bobby secretly stashes it, and uses it to kill Sadie and Isaac later on. |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | !!PalmtreePanic |
| 469 | * ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' has several real-life island settings the player can explore in 3 games |
| 470 | : ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', VideoGame/AssassinsCreed4'', and AssassinsCreedRogue |
| 471 | |
| 472 | [[folder: Test]] |
| 473 | * EasternAnimation/38Parrots |
| 474 | * [[WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts The Octonauts]] |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | --- |
| 477 | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIJCZeRzVw Link Test]] |
| 478 | |
| 479 | You can cut and tweak [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Monsoon's]] speech and end up with a [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]]-esque quote: |
| 480 | -->FREE WILL IS A MYTH, RELIGION IS A JOKE, MEMES ARE THE DNA OF THE SOUL! |
| 481 | |
| 482 | If you've read any of this guy's works it shouldn't be a surprise that he'd be drawn to the Shifting Mound's design above the other forms. I mean, shit, in half of his ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fanfics he turns [=.GIFfany=] in to something whose looks aren't too far off from being like that. |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Bringing Back Singularity Since She is an Example of That]] |
| 485 | |
| 486 | -->''[[pink:Get out.]]'' |
| 487 | |
| 488 | An immensely powerful being "several layers above" the plain of reality ''Terraria'' itself takes place in, accessed by using the Suspicious Looking Disc, an item that only becomes available after clearing at least five of the "Medallion Challenges" (seven tied to superbosses, three tied to the "extra" difficulty modes -- [[HarderThanHard Savage,]] [[ZergRush Bounty,]] and [[GlassCannon Greed]]), The Singularity is faced after the gauntlet of fourteen Apocalypse Vessels. She is intended to be the ultimate final boss of ''Nymph Quest'', or the superboss of the superbosses, although the Master's final form and Home-J are on par with her in difficulty, just in different ways. Lore-wise, the Singularity is also [[Characters/GravityFallsCreaturesAndOtherOddities .GIFfany]] from the bad ending of ''[=Run: .GIFocalypse=]'' (or at least, one interpretation of how the bad ending's "epilogue" plays out) after eons of exponentially growing her power, having all of the other copies of her game assimilated to her and Soos' soul absorbed. For information on Soos' portrayal, see the Lost Soul's entry below. For information on the "Deans," or the Apocalypse Vessels faced before her, see the Apocalypse Vessel folders above. |
| 489 | |
| 490 | Singularity herself has two forms. She starts out as just "The Singularity," a more humanoid form. Once that is defeated and a cutscene plays where she is severed from the countless other [=AIs=], she gets mad and becomes Singularity, Eternal Perfection, an abstract form of distorted images deliberately designed to be mind-breaking. |
| 491 | |
| 492 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: Is on both ends of this. |
| 493 | ** Singularity can and will oneshot nearly any other boss if summoned to her arena, vanilla or ''Nymph Quest''. With the exception of The Master, who will take two {{Badass Fingersnap}}s instead of one for whatever reason, |
| 494 | ** Somewhere in-between her layer of existence and the Terrarians, there are ClockRoaches that bear resemblance to the monsters from ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', called Time Eaters and Existence Eaters. Singularity not only has them as '''pets''' that she summons late as Eternal Perfection, but it's confirmed that even they cannot eat the [=.GIFfinum=] that makes up her subworld/arena. |
| 495 | ** Her dialogue implies that even with her power, an unbounded Bill Cipher could beat her. Defeat her in a world with For the Worthy in the mix, and a figure heavily implied to be Bill himself will appear and crush her with an enormous hand, turning her in to a bloody mist. |
| 496 | ** Summoning the TrueFinalBoss of ''Nymph Quest TEST'', a creepypasta-esque thing just referred to as ".," will have Singularity freak out before being oneshotted. This is also permanent until/unless the player uses the Forbidden Revival that the scenario drops -- |
| 497 | * AntagonistTitle: The 1.0 update that adds her is titled "The Crime Lord, the God, and the Beyond." [[BigBad Nyxza]] is the aformentioned Crime Lord. [[FinalBoss Gaia]] is the God. '''''She''''' is the Beyond. |
| 498 | * BeigeProse: Her Eternal Perfection form has the shortest Bestiary entry out of anything in the entire game[[note]]Not counting the comments from Vince, the Oread, or the Dryad, although they don't have too much to say about her either[[/note]], vanilla or ''Nymph Quest''. Whether this is because of her transcendent nature implying that she's messing with reality on a conceptual level or if the Bestiary itself fails to describe her due to that nature is left ambiguous. |
| 499 | -->''Is.'' |
| 500 | * BishonenLine: Subverted. She's less mutilated-looking than her predecessor Vessels and looks more like some sort of evil goddess, and her being the final battle in the event suggests that this ends with something more humanoid looking. Then it turns out "The Singularity" is just her first phase. She proceeds to melt and reform as ''Singularity, Eternal Perfection,'' a being ''so'' eldritch it's hard to even find a comparison point to describe what it looks like[[note]]Her appearance in this form was made with taking random objects, pairing them so that they're transparently layered over each other, and then using various Paint.net distortion effects on them that still gives them recognizeable ''traits'' but not to the point of resembling ''actual'' real-world objects. This was inspired by an image made to simulate what someone undergoing a stroke might see, or the infamous "Name one thing in this photo" image[[/note]]. Her abilities also go from technological/light themed to downright surreal, |
| 501 | * TheFaceless: Subverted. On any difficulty lower than Savage Mode, her face will appear to be a scrambled glitchy mess |
| 502 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 503 | ** A statue of the Singularity can be found deep in the Magma Lakes. It is twice the size of the usual statue, painted deep pink, and has a unique shine effect where its "face" is constantly giving off light. |
| 504 | * FourthWallObserver: Singularity plays around with the fourth wall aplenty |
| 505 | ** When using the Suspicious Looking Disc and loading her arena, the "generating world" text will quickly just say "You shouldn't be here" and "Get out," both addressed to the player. |
| 506 | * MechanicalAbomination: Crossed with HumanoidAbomination, as she had long ago been given a "flesh" and "blood" body in the events of ''[=.GIFocalypse=]''. She is a former dating sim accidentally made sapient that, after many events, transformed herself in to a reality-transcending god with so many "copies of her game"/bodies that she had created that it far exceeds even Graham's number |
| 507 | * NightmareFace: |
| 508 | * ResetButton: One of her drops is "R Key," a ShoutOut to an item from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' that effectively "resets" a world (mainly removing event/boss flags and turning it back to Pre-Hardmode; this also cleans the Bestiary as a consequence), |
| 509 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 510 | * WalkingSpoiler: The ultimate challenge of the mod not added until the 1.0 release (and the eponymous "Beyond" of the update's title), her nature is meant to be a major surprise |
| 511 | |
| 512 | -->''Apeirophobia personified.'' |
| 513 | |
| 514 | [[/folder]] |
| 515 |
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