All Lone Ones is a Webseries by Skylacine on YouTube. It follows an older wolf named One-eye in his struggles to take care of a younger wolf while being pursued by a group of animals, semi-led by his arch-enemy, Silkey. Later spawned a spinoff sequel named Renegades.
’’All Lone Ones’’ contains the following tropes:
- Abusive Parents: Before he let go of his past and cared for her, One-eye used to neglect or scream Lynn a lot. Even after coming around, he still is manipulative towards her and never tells her about his true past with the Clan and how he killed Norder..
- Also, One-eye's father, Blaze, who has been revealed to neglect his son because of his deformities.
- Action Girl: Pretty much all female characters at least try to fight.
- A Day in the Limelight: Some characters that used to have a small role, got a bigger role in the series.
- There are a few short stories, one of which focuses on One-eye's mother.
- Aerith and Bob: Names like One-eye alongside Selang, Lynn and Silkey.
- All of the Other Reindeer: One-eye being left out by everyone due to his hump.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Shiba, Tora, quite a few background characters.
- Almost Dead Guy: Norder staying alive just long enough to tell One-eye that he has a daughter, which is crucial to the plot.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: One-eye has only one eye.
- Furries Are Easier to Draw: They're anthropomorphic animals after all.
- Angry Guard Dog: Dexter.
- Ritter in the first short story.
- All There in the Manual: A lot of background information as to the world of ALO, the characters or trivia has been revealed on Skylacine's Wattpad and the All Lone Ones Wikia.
- Animals Lack Attributes: In the early episodes
- Subverted in the later episodes and the spinoff, where the females have teats and the males have sheaths.
- Animal Talk: All animals seem to be capable of speech. (except Tora, who is mute).
- Animesque: Some over-exaggerated emotions and fur tufts, sometimes even hair, on the animal's heads.
- Anti-Hero: One-eye
- Anyone Can Die: From young pups to old wolves.
- Thought it didn't end up happening, one of the main characters was originally going to die.
- Abbie.
- Art Evolution: Episode one had a very wonky and inconsistent style, while it slowly got better in later episodes.
- Episode three was re-animated partially later on in the series because of some continuity issues. The style changes really show here.
- Art Shift: Happened a lot in episode 1, where it shifted from a very cartoonish style to a style with a bit more realism, only to return back to the cartoonish style a minute later.
- Artistic License – Biology:
- The animals are a bit anatomically incorrect. The most significant detail is their legs being pretty broad and the claws being huge. This, however, is an artistic choice.
- The animals use their paws as hands on multiple occasions.
- Norder had slit, cat-like pupils at one point.
- They are also seen being able to do stuff that wouldn't be possible for an animal, such as standing on their hind legs for a long time or doing parkour.
- Ascended Extra: Kwebso and the Cattledogs, Rou and Starlight in the sequel series.
- Asexuality: Lynn and Silkey are asexual.
- Author Avatar: Lynn used to be the "fursona" of Skylacine.
- Backstory: One-eye
- Battle in the Rain: When the dogs attack One-eye, Lynn and Abbie.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: One-eye became an insensitive villain after being neglected and bullied for his deformities in his childhood.
- Berserk Button:
- One-eye when someone mentions his deformities.
- Shiba when her deceased parents are brought up.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Silkey and One-eye both have laughable appearances at times, but can be very dangerous.
- Big Bad: Saedin. One-eye, to an extent. Arrow.
- Subverted with Rufus. He built up to be the legendary Clan leader, son of Saedin, and even has the standard black-and-red "wolf villain" appearance, however he's actually a very chill and pacifistic guy who abolished the "steal puppies to train to kill Lone Ones"-trend to begin with.
- Big Eater: Onyx
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: One-eye has fluffy eyebrows, while Lynn of all characters has the biggest and thickest, despite being a young she-wolf.
- Blank White Eyes: Occurs multiple times
- Blood from the Mouth: Marie and Dexter before they die.
- Bears Are Bad News: Bears are mentioned to be feared by many, though none have shown up in either series.
- Break the Cutie: One-eye as a pup and Lynn.
- Cameo: Many minor or background characters are characters of other people.
- Cartoony Tail: Most animals have one that ends in a sharp tip.
- Cat Stereotype: Abbie is a torti.
- Character Development: Applies to multiple characters.
- Cheerful Child: Lynn
- Comically Cross-Eyed: Silkey, though it isn't played for laughs at most points.
- Conflicting Loyalty: One-eye doesn't always know where his lie.
- Cool Old Guy: One-eye.
- Cub Cues Protective Parent: More or less
- One-eye towards Lynn
- Indirectly, Norder, who died attacking One-eye to protect Lynn
- Creation Myth: Most wolves believe in Shinwa, who is said to be the one to create all life.
- David Versus Goliath: In the final episode, One-eye, who is notably more disfigured and overall older and weaker, takes on Silkey, who also happens to have allies, as well as wearing armor and having claws to use in combat.
- Dark Is Not Evil: One-eye, Rufus and Silkey
- Dark and Troubled Past: One-eye, Lynn, Shiba, Silkey.
- Deadpan Snarker: Abbie seems to be rather sarcastic.
- Dress-Coded for Your Convenience: Silkey's breastplate and later armor.
- Electronic Eyes: One-eye and Lynn have those.
- Fantastic Racism: One-eye seems to look down on dog and cats a lot.
- Fish Eyes: Silkey.
- Furry Reminder: While the animals do talk and other things real animals don't do, they still have instincts and eating manners of real ones.
- Glowing Eyes: Several occasions.
- Silkey when she's angry
- One-eye's real eye when he's mad. His cyborgeye can glow at any moment.
- Even though not shown, Lynn's eye can glow as well.
- Gorn: Various scenes.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: One-eye is a character that would usually be seen as the villain, but does have some minor redeeming qualities. The Clan that's pursuing him is holding on to their moral that their way of life is the key to peace, which is their ultimate goal.
- Groin Attack: One-eye got castrated by Arrow when he wouldn't stop being Silkey's friend.
- Grumpy Old Man: One-eye.
- Handicapped Badass: One-eye, who seems to be able to kick some major tail, despite having a hump, only one eye, and a deformed paw.
- Heroic Sacrifice:
- Norder for saving Lynn
- Dexter giving his life to protect the farm
- Hollywood Genetics: The creator prefers to let each pup inherit a bit of each parent (such as One-eye being gray like his father but having some of his markings from his mother), instead of letting each youngling be an exact copy of one of the parent. At some parts this is genetically correct, on others not.
- Humans Are Cthulhu: Though not actually shown, the wolves do seem to have a hate (and/or fear) for them.
- Inner Monologue: Multiple occasions with multiple characters.
- Instant Soprano: One-eye's voice never deepened in because he was castrated before puberty hit.
- Intellectual Animal: Entire cast seems to be this.
- Interspecies Friendship: Abbie and Lynn, Abbie and the dogs.
- It's All My Fault: Lynn at the end of episode 1.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: One-eye, to an extent.
- Lean and Mean: One-eye has always been very thin, both when he was an innocent pup and during his assassin days.
- Le Parkour: One-eye still has some tree-dashing skills from his training with Silkey as a pup.
- Manly Tears: Male characters have just a big a chance at crying as female ones, it seems.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Occurs multiple times.
- Missing Mom: Sheba, Lynn's mom, who has been revealed to have run away from Lynn and Norder to take care of the healthiest pups in a safer environment.
- Reika who later abandoned Laika and Blaze after One-eye was presumed dead.
- Mood Whiplash: Some episodes have very deep moments, followed by rather ridiculous ones.
- Morality Pet: Lynn teaches One-eye indirectly how to be nicer.
- One-eye in the midst of a fight starts to insult Shiba's deceased parents.
- Nearly Normal Animal: Even though the animals can talk and do stuff normal animals wouldn't do, they still do have the basic characteristics, especially the more minor animals.
- Never Say "Die": Lynn says "Running with the stars" twice in episode 1
- Noble Wolf: Some of the wolves, but by far not all.
- Papa Wolf: A few.
- Norder
- One-eye after he finally lets his past go and learns to love Lynn to an extent
- Parental Abandonment
- It's been revealed that Sheba, Lynn's mother abandoned Lynn, the at that time weakest pup, to take the stronger ones to a safe nurturing spot. She abandoned Lynn as she was afraid the pup wouldn't make the journey alive.
- Plot Hole: Not really explaining what the Dark Guardians are or why Shiba can spawn wings.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Rufus, whose first design was black with a few red markings. The creator later didn't like the design because it stood out too much, so changed it to dark reddish brown with paler reddish markings. Ironically, though both designs are pretty evil-looking, Rufus is a very nice guy and, while he could be seen as a villain to some, he just really wants luck for all.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Situations or people Skylacine has encountered have influenced the series mildly.
- Retcon: Character designs have a tendency to change, mostly due to the character's owners changing up their design. For example, Abbie's ear markings changed. So did Onyx's eyecolor.
- Roar Before Beating:
- One-eye before he attacks a foe.
- Arrow before taking out One-eye's eye
- Rugged Scar: One-eye's scars.
- Savage Wolves
- Scars Are Forever: Occurs a lot.
- One-eye is named after his.
- Lynn gets her ears cut in the first episode. By the time she's a teenager, she's also lost her eye. She also loses her left ear in episode 11.
- Abbie's ear gets thorn in episode 6.
- Strike in episode 5 gets a big cut on the left side of her neck. It's revealed that it won't heal.
- She Is All Grown Up: Lynn in the epilogue.
- Shrinking Violet: One-eye before he turned into a ruthless monster.
- Shout-Out: Majority of the side characters were friends of the creator, and put in the series as shoutout.
- There are also references (some subtle, others not so much) to other inspirational sources.
- Sliding Scaleof Anthropomorphism: Some animals are portrayed more realistically, such as cows, while most main characters seem to be more anthropomorphized, possibly to communicate more with the viewer.
- Sliding Scale of Animal Cast: Type 2.
- Tagalong Kid: Abbie.
- The Big Bad Wolf: Most wolves are shown to be pretty fierce. One-eye is a prime example.
- The Bully: Maud and Diggs.
- The Dragon: Silkey.
- The Quiet One: Richard and Tora.
- The Smurfette Principle: Subverted, and more or less reversed. Of all major characters (One-eye, Silkey, Lynn, Abbie, Onyx, Shiba and Strike), One-eye is the only male.
- The Speechless: Tora.
- The Stinger: At times after the credits
- Transformation Sequence: One-eye going from an innocent pup to a bloodthirsty murderer during the flashback in the third episode.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback:
- One-eye in episode 3 and in Forgotten Friendship, who gets taken away from his family, tormented for his deformities and then is forced to work as an assassin
- end of episode 4 for Shiba, whose parents got killed by One-eye.
- The entirety of episode 1 is a flashback to Lynn's
- Two Girls and a Guy: The series protagonists are One-eye, Silkey and Lynn.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Norder dies before we get to know him, having only a few lines of dialogue and no real personality shown.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Happens quite a lot, since our main character has been an assassin all his life and was raised pretty much without morals. Even after he became a "good" guy, he's still shown to often have anger attacks, be very violent and a racist towards dogs and cats..
- What Have I Become?: One-eye who sees in how stupid he has been all his life after he takes Norder's life and realized he orphaned a child.
- Whole Episode Flashback: Episode 3, sans the beginning and end.
- Technically, episode 1 is also one, as it acts as a prelude to the series.
- You Monster!: One of the main insults One-eye got in his childhood for being deformed. In an earlier draft of the series, where Lynn was going to find out that he was the one who killed her father, she would run off calling him this.
