Webcomic / Eureka Seven: Paradox Makers

Crime fighters and monster hunters.

Never forsake the ones that you love.

— Barbara Hannah

Set in the year 12020, Eureka Seven: Paradox Makers delves into the affairs of the Earth after the Second Summer of Love. Continuing from Eureka Seven AO along with the original Eureka Seven, it flips the script and introduces a female lead protagonist, Claire Hannah, who meets a male deuteragonist, Robin. From there, we are introduced to an entourage of characters who each contribute their unique skills and charm to the story.

Paradox Makers showcases the impact of what happened to the world and is surprisingly dark at times, but maintains a sense of adventure.

29-year-old Claire has the urge to flee Bellforest now that the military have vacated, leaving it a near-ghost town. The public disdain against the United Federation because of Dewey Novak's actions has caused it to dissolve, and it has reformed into the Rising Star League. Unfortunately, smaller communities have imploded from the schism.

Determinined to leave her stale life behind, Claire hightails it for adventure, but she makes a series of mistakes that result in her death- and rebirth into a "Soulkeeper" with superpowers borne from the Scub. A superbeing named Primrose gives Claire a wonderful gift, allowing her to evolve into Angelfire, the hero of light.

Meanwhile, the menace of Secrets are back, this time in the original universe, and they've become far more hostile. Enter the Abnormal Incidents Global Investigation Service, or AIGIS, an organization dedicated to studying and eradicating these monsters. Young Robin, a genetically modified human, pilots the Godspeed, a Police Grade LFO built for melee combat.

But where are all the threats coming from, if not the military? That is what AIGIS seeks to find out. However, what seems like a small issue at first erupts into a conspiracy to twist space and time, and the search for its origin will reveal a wretched evil bent on achieving a terrifying prophecy...

The comic is in a rare traditional art style, and is made by Dasmertal, pen name Ajax House. The story debuted in late 2019 on Smackjeeves and relocated during the downfall of that host. It is available primarily on ComicFury here. Alternatively, you can view it here on DeviantArt.

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Eureka Seven: Paradox Makers provides examples of:

• Alien Blood: When parts of a Secret fuse with a human, if they are cut open deep enough or severed, they ooze with a fizzy, bubbly, and sinister purple liquid.
• The Alleged Car: Despite being a weather girl, Jenna owns a crummy car.
• Alliterative Name: Tonya Torcher. Which sounds like "Tonya Torture".
• Ambiguously Bi: Rita has a boyish haircut and buff physique like a Butch Lesbian, but she flirts with men and women. She hasn't shown clear romantic attraction toward anyone, though.
• Ancient Artifact: Claire's heirloom circular brooch helps her tap into interdimensional energy and channel trapar.
• Animesque: Drawn and read right to left like a colored manga, with a gradual refinement of the art.
• Anti-Hero: Jackson has no bones about ripping off a casino for a cool 5 grand, but if you harass a woman, you get the bludgeoning of a lifetime.
• Anti-Magic:
  • Trapar has a polar opposite, mupar. The former is fueled by thought, the latter by dreams. Dreams cannot exist while concious, and thoughts cannot form while dreaming, thus they cancel each other out, and it can be very explosive when that much latent energy from either force reacts. It seems possible to combine the two, but the combination can become highly unstable without an influence or an emulsifier to focus and refine the mixture.
  • The reverse of a Compac Drive is an Antipac Drive, designed to generate dark particles of energy to power weapons and give shape to objects made of mupar.
• Arc Welding: One of the biggest tenets propelling the comic is the idea that all the official Eureka Seven installments are not divergent, but connect back to the original source anime and its sequel. Mekala debuts as a major antagonist who frequently has her servants contorting the realms of space and time and is the person who once gave mankind the Silver Box from sharing her knowledge with humanity. However, she reverted time when Eureka gained the ability to mess with reality by touching the device, so Mekala forced an artifical timeline to become the definitive one where Renton and Eureka stayed together. Unfortunately, Dewey went mad with power when he felt like the plaything of a godlike alien force and lashed out at the Vodarac, tried to set up a war against the Coralians, and ultimately chose to instigate the Limit of Questions to get his revenge, even if he had to die and become one with the Earth and kill it, somehow knowing it would let him meet his adversary. Eureka, Renton, and the Nirvash took action to save the world, and Mekala began to secluding herself to operate quietly until enough time had passed that another generation would arise in innocence and the previous one would move on from the conflict at play so she could once again return to her plans without intervention.
• Arc Words: "Restore" appearing on Compac Drives as an indicator to elevate the world to an idyllic place and end conflict, and rebuild post-Federation led by Dewey.
• Art Evolution: The webcomic becomes more crisp and refined when Ajax switches to card stock as his drawing surface.
• Artifact of Power: Claire's brooch, which once belonged to her late grandmother, releases a javelin from its inner confines after it reacts to Claire's thoughts and telepathic conversation with Primrose.
• Ascended Extra: The trio of girls from the original Eureka Seven become main characters and are given names and background information.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: AIGIS South is not just a police force- they all deliver justice by kicking ass when a situation calls for it, and a lot of times, the bad guys are so destructive that it's the only appropriate response.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Rita's battle style is to hit the target until something gives. If all else fails, she pelts it with lots of gunfire.
• Badass Biker: Claire rides a baby blue motorcycle named Blue Shortcake and dresses up in stylish and retro clothes to compliment the vehicle. She's also skilled enough to drive off-road and leap across cliffsides. Cheyenne Allsort counts as well, as she is a Reverse Mole who rides with a ragtag biker gang and has her own road hog.
• Badass in a Nice Suit:
  • Jackson is a rogue punk, and yet a reasonably nice guy who wears a blue suit jacket and red tie with mahogany pants and suspenders.
  • Robin sports a crushed velvet pinstripe suit on the cover page of Chapter 24.
• Badass Longcoat:
  • Robin has a two-tone combat suit with the long tail of a coat featuring the seam where the colors split.
  • Jackson has a feathered midnight blue coat he wears over his suit. It conceals a multitude of inventions.
• Batter Up!: Jackson uses a collapsible bat with spikes to clobber whatever gets in his way. So does his PG-LFO.
• Beam-O-War: In Chapter 8, a Secret fires a laser attack, but Claire blocks it with her own energy blast and strains to hold it back. When she winds her energy around the Secret's laser beam, it reaches the Secret's mouth and combusts its head.
• Beneath the Mask: Sandra reveals that her entire identity as "Gidget" is just a fake personality she used to fit in on the Gekko, avoid the wrath of Holland, and get closer to Moondoggie. As a result of keeping it up for 15 years, she's understandably burnt out. For quick referral, she reveals her true personality here.
• Best Friend: Jenna is Claire's best friend, but the two are like polar opposites, and it isn't long before they have a fight that splinters their relationship. It gets better, though.
• Beware the Nice Ones: After Claire is harassed by Tonya by having her Chain Stabber shot inches from her face twice and her shoes destroyed by Tonya's Phoenix Gun, Claire kicks Tonya in the jaw hard enough to make her spit up blood and right after that, smashes Tonya's face in by slamming the broad side of her Spirit Javelin into her, both instantly knocking her out, but breaking her nose, too, which Claire considers payback for the ruined pair of designer shoes (though she has a spare pair) because fixing that nose will be costly.
• Be Yourself: Claire tells Sandra to act like her normal self to win over her man.
• Big Bad: Mekala is the first major enemy revealed in the series. She is an alien who has crossed several alternate realities hoping to find one where her world can be restored, and is now residing in the prime (original) universe to enact a plan to conquer Earth and make it her new home.
• Bigger Is Better: Raoul grows to giant-size to battle Godspeed. He doesn't need a Humongous Mecha to fight- he is enough!
• Black Comedy: Rita seeing Claire in the backseat of Godspeed asleep without knowing that she came back to life leads Rita to claim Robin is a necrophile.
• Bling of War: Michael has a very ornate buccaner/punk look with gems and Spikes of Villainy.
• Blow You Away: Jenna receives the power to manipulate trapar into wind after drinking Mekala's mupar serum.
• Blush Sticker: Claire sports rosy cheeks.
• Body Horror:
  • Rebecca has four monster-like limbs made of muscle and sharp talons. She acts it's no big deal, because she deliberately wished for them as they are.
  • Raoul has two large and jagged antipac crystals lodged in his shoulders, with veins growing from them. These implants generate eight arms that are stretchable.
• Boom, Headshot!: Chapter 8: After Claire blocks a Secret's laser with an energy beam, she makes the energy snake around the opposing beam and runs it right into the Secret's mouth, causing its head to explode.
• Boyish Short Hair: Rita has a swoop of hair on the right side of her head and the left side shaved. She has muscles and a masculine figure with touches of femininity.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Jenna loses her mind after drinking Mekala's sobering serum. She conveniently left out the part that it makes the drinker violent. It poisons her ego, tainting all her thoughts with arrogance and disregard for human safety, and makes her obsessed with her newly bestowed powers and crave destruction.
• Broad Strokes: The story of Paradox Makers incorporates elements of every official Eureka Seven title across all mediums into one super-canon revolving around the original story as the foundation and introducing new elements that explain some major questions and bobs and weaves through the less-liked features in an attempt to redeem them.
• Broken Pedestal: The entire military became hated and reviled when a certain high-ranking officer exposed all their crimes and bullcrap under Dewey. It was so bad, the United Federation crumbled and had to reconvene as the Rising Star League, led by a kind person. In return, people learned that the Vodarac were innocent sheep used as scapegoats for why the planet had begun going haywire and turned into a beloved indigenous culture, supported and apologetically treated, in part thanks to the teachings dictated in Ray=out.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Robin is a pensive loner next to Claire, who is highly upbeat.
• Call-Back:
  • Claire is introduced on a bike and ready to leave Bellforest. Her father later locks it up the bike. Renton once mentioned in the first episode of Eureka Seven that he was too young to know how to leave Bellforest and rode a bike that he later crashed down a ravine.
  • Mupar is revealed to appear when someone is in a crazed or evil state of mind, and to those that see it, it appears as a hallucination. In the original series, Episode 20, "Substance Abuse", Renton saw a monstrous creature with his face giggling at him evily while he was having a mental breakdown, and this was what made him snap and gruesomely pulverize a KLF pilot.
  • From Episode 26, Jackson Point returns, and it happens to be named after Jackson McCann, who actually made its signature rainbow clouds.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Gidget is frustrated that Moondoggie hasn't said "I love you" no matter how hard she's tried to get him to confess. She begins to believe that she is the reason and that it's time to reveal the full depth of her character beneath the unassuming "Gidget" and confront him as Sandra, her real self.
• Car Fu: At the end of Chapter 6, Godspeed finally arrives in vehicle mode and slams into the Secret about to mulch Claire and Robin.
• Casanova Wannabe: A Mexican biker tries to put the moves on Claire in Chapter 13, but he gets too handsy with her and pisses off everyone in the room.
• Character Development: PM focuses much deeper on fleshing out characters, even ones who didn't get much spotlight in their native series. Everyone has a role to play, and backstory waiting to be chiseled.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Played straight, then averted. A past flashback shows Talho, who was unquestionably joined at the hip to Holland, had a wary attitude toward the arrival of Gidget because she was younger and attractive and the second female to sign on to the Gekko when it was just 3 guys and her. However, when Gidget first sees Talho, she immediately gives her honest compliments and praise, as well as encouragement to grow close to Holland, Talho's opinion instantly changes and she likes Gidget a lot.
• Colorful Contrails: Godspeed gains a rainbow trail of trapar when powered up to Bassline Force mode, like Spec 3 Nirvash.
• Combining Mecha: Gaolhound is a large vehicle all by itself, but when Fast Master (Jackson's car) links up to it, the fusion allows the vehicles to become a mecha.
• Confusion Fu: Raoul's eight arms can elongate or shorten and move in absurd ways. One of these ways is wrapping up his body to spin around and deflect attacks.
• Contemplate Our Navels: Robin is introduced mulling over life and finding meaning in big and little things.
• Cool Bike: Claire's motorcycle, the Blue Shortcake. Its gas tank can last up to eight hours.
• The Corruption: Pure Mupar is normally latent energy of one's dreams and a comforting force. In the hands of someone with evil desires, it becomes a dark and malignant power that preys on the light of trapar.
• Cosmic Retcon: At the end of Chapter 21, Mekala's hired mercenary Raoul provides a large explanation that he's recreated the timeline that comprises the original Eureka Seven, making it the prime timeline (which will carry over to AO) and bumping Hi-Evolution aside as an alternate timeline alongside Pocketful of Rainbows and the manga. Eureka is the only one who remembers the events of them all, because she dreamt through multiple-choice futures to get to one where Renton stays unharmed. Eureka's attempts to divert reality caused a disturbance in spacetime, and Mekala tasked Raoul with resolving it before it made the basic structure of existence crumble.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
  • Bailey Hannah begins his estrangement from his family after blaming them for Barbara landing in the hospital and leading to her eventual death. Axel points out that Bailey could have treated her better.
  • Mekala has screwed up the course of time by meddling with it several instances, and was the brainchild of the Silver Box, an anti-Coralian weapon that used the best of humanity's knowledge to make but created a worldwide disaster and caused Eureka to suffer. She subsequently had to abort the creation of the Silver Box, which, unfortunately, traded one bad future for another. It lead to Dewey creating a similar doomsday device, the Oratorio Number 8, forming the Ageha Squad from Adroc's plans and the Orange missiles used to provoke and coordinate Antibody Coralian attacks just so he could destroy the Command Cluster, at the expense of countless minds and bystanders.
• Crash-Into Hello: Claire meets Gidget when they collide on their refboards.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When Godspeed first appears in humanoid form, it easily demolishes a Secret.
• Cute Little Fangs: Played with concerning Rebecca. She wears fake vampire teeth to look more intimidating.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Axel implies that the death of his wife, Rose, was from being overworked and neglect on his part, and hardened his heart, due to the regret he still carries as an old man.
• Da Chief: Shotoko Hokan, the head of AIGIS South, is the hardboiled detective and oldest person among the members. He is stern, but not unreasonable, so long as you don't cross him.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Jenna's father is the son of General Crighton, who got assassinated. As Crighton Jr., he departed from his wife and daughter and had used an alias to further conceal who he was, then succeeded Crighton Sr. as a general in the Rising Star League.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Robin can overclock his LFO to harness and control nearby trapar energy. However, activating this technique saps his stamina and drains his LFO's battery.
• Dark Secret: The reason Robin can manipulate trapar is because he has a Compac Drive installed in his body, fused into his back.
• Darker and Edgier: The comic is less idealistic and more gritty. It even bears "PM" in its abbreviated form, subliminally indicating a more serious adult tone, but not to a vulgar degree. Also, the Secrets are now not just seeking Scub Coral but attacking humans directly. It's not from a kid's point of view, either. No naivete anymore. The story has an unfiltered and distressed tone. People are watching their lives fall apart because the military collapsed and had to be rebuilt from the ground up, renegades are causing all sorts of trouble, and an evil seductress from another world is dipping her hands into the cesspool of darkness by creating abominations and plotting The End of the World as We Know It.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Claire regrets an event that left her without her grandma. It was her decision to put her own wants ahead of family that accelerated Barbara's demise.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Claire has her moments, like mocking Tonya's laugh.◊
  • Jackson exudes sarcasm and impudence in most situations where he has to take orders.
• Defacement Insult: Jackson accidentally created a region of rainbow clouds with an invention meant to destroy Kute-class Coralian storms, which misfired and had the effects of a "bath bomb". The military took this as an insulting prank and a waste of millions of dollars. Jackson was fired afterward and hit the casinos.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: The Secrets still do this when beaten. In particular, Robin causes a scout to explode by punching it brutally and then shooting out its core.
• Defrosting Ice King: Robin starts out as snarky and obsessed with not one bootlace being out of place. When he meets Claire and her carefree and chipper ways, Robin eases up and begins to act less stiff.
• Determinator: Barbara doesn't let anything stop her from attending graduation, neither sneaking out of a hospital while dying, nor actually dying, as she arrives at the ceremony in spirit form.
• Die or Fly: Chapter 7 already sees a tussle with one Secret. After it is destroyed, its twin makes a surprise attack and grabs Robin and begins to crush him. Enraged, Claire becomes so determined to save him that she unlocks her powers bestowed by Primrose and releases a Seven Swell eruption.
• Disappeared Dad: Jenna's dad walked off and left his family 15 years ago. It was because his own dad got assassinated and he wanted to hide his lineage from being traced back to his wife and daughter.
• Disney Death: Claire is shot in the heart and dies moments later in Chapter 4. She is revived very swiftly and all better in Chapter 5.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Gidget doesn't want anyone to know or use her real name, Sandra Annette O'Connell, because she is a former child celebrity hiding from the public eye.
• Dodge by Braking: Robin executes this maneuver on a drill ship Secret and shoots it down, flying at max speed and suddenly stopping. It unfortunately burns up the Godspeed's batteries.
• Double Agent: Cheyyene Allsort of the Skull Rattlers is actually working for Aigis West, attempting to bring down the gang while their guard is down, which successfully happens.
• The Dragon: Raoul Spadafore is a deadly mercenary under the direct order of Mekala. He also hunts his enemies by tempting them into showdowns.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Jenna gets plastered in Chapter 9, trying to forget the fracture in her friendship with Claire.
• Dramatic Unmask: Two in Chapter 18. The first is when Robin finally removes his mask at the request of Claire, and he turns out to be very handsome. The second is when Claire removes Jordan's helmet, and the bird is revealed to possess only one, pinkish eye, exposing that it's an Antibody Coralian.
• The Dreaded: Raoul is aptly named "The Ruiner", for mass murder and calamitous bloodshed.
• Drunk with Power: Jenna runs wild with her ability to manipulate wind when she first discovers it, and carries an entire news station building away.
• Dumbass No More: In Chapter 22, Gidget chucks her entire persona to reveal she's actually Sandra, a very intelligent and kind person who was intimidated into hiding it because she was shy and didn't want to be mocked.
• [[Endearingly Dorky]]:
  • Claire fangirls over the littlest things and behaves with a pep in her step, but she also has a very deep and vulnerable human side.
  • Jenna is Brutally Honest and a perfectionist; these traits make it appear that she comes off as a snarky busybody, plus the difficulty of keeping up appearances at work, all hint Jenna's a little socially awkward and uses snark to avoid scrutiny by keeping most people at arms' length, but genuinely loves her closest friends.
• Energy Being: Primrose is an ethereal entity and guardian spirit who resides in the Afterverse, the realm of lost souls.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Rebecca may be beastly, but she will not harm animals and insects, even the dangerous ones. This is because she loves them and used to work as a zookeeper.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: Claire is able to create rainbows in her hands when her Seven Swell mode is active. She likes using them to declare victory.
  • The Rainbow Melon gets its name from the fact that the fruit has seven heliotropic layers full of various nutrients.
  • Gidget now wears a blouse that has alternating black and rainbow stripes.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Antipathetic Drive versus Compassion Drive. One runs on positive thoughts, the other runs on negative thoughts.
  • Mupar is very powerful dream energy that becomes highly unstable as it builds, and extremely reactive to trapar. However, if it comes into contact with a human Coralian, it creates a humanoid Secret.
• Eye Color Change: In Chapter 7, Claire reveals her original iris color was light blue, but then it changed to aquamarine when she got sprayed in the eyes by a Sky Flower she was planting when she was thirteen. Claire can freely switch between the colors. It turns out to be a flower irradiated with Mupar, and another one is still out there. The whites of her eyes glow yellow and her irises turn orange when her trapar channeling abilities activate.
• Fangirl: Claire is a total geek on the inside who gets excited and starstruck when she has her first ride in an LFO. She also has a Squee upon discovery that she's met Gidget, her favorite Gekkostate member.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Robin's field suit is red on one side and blue on the other. This is not true for his nighttime camo, which melds the colors into a deep indigo. The ambivalent nature of Robin is expressed through either color scheme. He also has a long-sleeved uniform with two-tone red and blue sides.
• Fix Fic: Downplayed. It's a story that creatively develops workarounds for poorly-received canon installments and reconfigures them into one flowing narrative. Simply put, it's all linked to a master plan being carried out by ancient forces.
• Flaming Hair:
  • Claire's Seven Swell Mode turns her hair into purplish orange wavy flames.
  • Bassline Force creates a plume of flames like hair spouting from Godspeed's head, since Claire's Angelfire power gives her fiery hair.
  • Jenna's hair turns into wild red flames in her base form and when she uses the power of solar fire.
• Foot-Dragging Divorcee: From his distant and almost nonexistent relationship with his wife Barbara, Bailey seems like he's on the road to divorce, but never follows through before she dies.
• Forgot I Could Fly: Claire almost rolls a bicycle off a cliff before Primrose speaks to her mind to use her powers, and Claire immediately creates a bridge out of trapar energy to cross a gulf.
• Former Child Star: Gidget is actually a former preteen actress who bailed out of the role she had for personal reasons.
• Four Is Death: Claire is brutally murdered in Chapter 4.
• From Bad to Worse: Robin, Jackson, and an exhausted Claire try to escape the Dusk Melody Pirates, but Mekala's servant Rebecca swoops down on Gertrude (a Secret in the form of a bat) and declares her intent to kill them.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • "Robin" is Rule-Oriented Bipolar INterface.
  • "Secret" is actually short for Scub Extermination & Containment Evolving Technoorganism.
  • AIGIS is Abnormal Incidents Global Investigative Service.
  • "Scub" is short for Sentient Collective Ultra Biomass. "Scab" is an alternate universe designation calling the alien "Aggregate" rather than "Ultra".
  • "Amita" stands for "Amplification Module: Integrated Trinity Actualizer", the trinity in question being a triple interaction of body, mind, and, soul.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Jackson McCann's forte is a series of inventions and gear that he builds using his earnings at the chips table.
• Game Face: With Claire's power stacked on top of Robin's, Godspeed can access the Seven Swell phenomenon, and its eyes turn vivid and gain irises and pupils.
• Genius Ditz: Sandra played dumb as Gidget, but even as her intelligent true self, she bumbles from time to time, like crashing into Claire on their refboards (a case where both women were at fault).
• Giver of Lame Names: Jackson often calls people by dumb or rude nicknames (like "Ribbonette" for Claire or "Faucetface" for Robin) just to Poke the Poodle. He once had a biker gang, so it's a bad habit. It's also implied that Jackson does this on purpose to keep people from getting too close because he trusts nothing.
• Go Out with a Smile: Barbara Hannah dies propped against a tree after escaping the hospital when she knew the end was near. She has a smile on her face, indicating that she was at peace.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Jackson's shades can remotely monitor the stats and functions of his LFO and be used to issue forth actions and commands to take. They also track trapper density and mupar readings.
• Good Parents: Claire has both a loving mom and dad who want her to succeed and don't want her to rebel and get hurt.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Raoul Spadafore is a mercenary who enjoys cigars, and he's one of Big Bad Mekala's top henchmen.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Mekala approaches this level, highly implied to be the inventor or brainchild of all Secrets, and her goal of conquering the Earth has come close to happening several times, be it Dewey, the Secrets, or even Eureka and Renton. Meanwhile, she has stayed out of view. When her plans fail across several timelines, she is finally forced to step up her game and directly sow conflict and disaster, and she is very skilled at it.
• Grief Song: In Chapter 1, Claire sings a sad melody to her late grandma from atop the highest peak she can find so her grandma will hear it in Heaven.
• Guile Heroine: Some of Claire's encounters with danger have been mitigated by quick thinking. When she is confronted by Armando, she decides the conflict should be settled by a game of chicken, even though she nearly takes a plunge if Primrose hadn't chimed in.
• Hands in Pockets: Ajax House admitted to using big speech bubbles to avoid drawing three characters in detail when Jordan the trap toucan was unmasked.
• Handsome Lech: Jackson is clearly a fan of hitting on women and brainy enough to be valued for his engineering and inventive skills, but his delinquent tendencies and shameless ribald wisecracks skeeve off his targets of affection.
• Harmless Enemy: Jordan is an Antibody Coralian, but lost the ability to rend people apart by punching holes in reality in exchange for acquiring the Methuselah Gene. Now, Jordan's a simple but slightly more intelligent than usual bird.
• Healing Factor:
  • Raoul can regenerate any damage inflicted to his Secret arms.
  • In Seven Swell Mode, Claire can command trapar waves to do what she thinks, and she can use them to regenerate broken pieces on LFO archetypes (because the robot parts are wired into the archetypes and linked to trapar energy).
• Heroic RRoD: Claire can rapidly exhaust herself while in Seven Swell mode, causing her to faint.
• History Repeats: A meteor once fell to Earth and created the Great Wall, a zone where physics are nothing. In 12020, an alien force crashes to Earth and releases a large electromagnetic wave on impact, which spreads from the impact zone, causing nearby locations to lose power and nearly all electronic devices to fry. Those closest to the blast radius even receive alien abilities, including plants, animals, and even people.
• How We Got Here: The first chapter opens on an innocuous scene, with young Claire livestreaming anime, but then she loses the feed and tries to get it back. At that moment, the Second Summer of Love takes place, and she and her parents, as well as her best friends, all see the moon engraved with Renton and Eureka's emotive heart of togetherness. Then, the story jumps ahead 15 years to the world afterward that is still adjusting to the Earth becoming more unbound and free.
• Humongous Mecha: The PG-LFO series of mecha (Police Grade Light Finding Operation) is a force of justice and peacekeeping bots defending the world. AIGIS South owns three: the hacker and bruiser Type 03, the close combat Type 04, and the multiform speedster Type 07.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Tom yearns for vintage wine after enduring his mother's funeral.
• Idiot Ball: Jenna takes the ball when she accepts a dubious drink that apparently makes you sober from a total stranger, who happens to be evil and hides the fact that the drink has more destructive side effects. Justified because she is VERY drunk and has only 20 minutes to report to a weather station and is desperate enough to accept the offer, without catching the warning flags.
• Important Hair Accessory: Claire always wears a ribbon in her hair for good luck. She will remove it when bathing and in pajamas.
• Impossibly Graceful Giant: Godspeed is the first LFO shown with the ability to physically backflip, with no need for a refboard.
• Incoming Ham: Jackson's first appearance◊ in the AIGIS South base is ripe with frothing obnoxiousness.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Claire's powers stem from positive and heroic thoughts, which trapar energy responds to and gives her the ability to repel mupar, the energy of dream thoughts that is born from nothingness (AKA darkness).
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Played with. Claire shows boss Shotoko her belly and midsection when he asks if her gunshot wound is still there. He thinks she's stripping and yells at her to stop, but Claire reminds him that he asked for proof.
• Ironic Echo:
  • Claire's botched attempt as an adult to flee Bellforest reflects how Renton didn't know how to leave, being a kid.
  • In the first episode of Eureka Seven, Mattheiu warns Holland to avoid pushing his LFO too hard or his batteries will cut out. In the first chapter of Paradox Makers, Robin does just that and struggles to make a wet landing in the sea below.
  • Claire has had both parents in her whole life, but Renton had neither. Similarly, Jenna has an absentee father, but he left to protect his family from becoming attack targets.
• It Can Think: Jackson realizes from Jordan's intelligent and self-preserving behavior that it has a will of its own and is a sentient Antibody Coralian and perhaps what would become of the others had they not such a limited lifespan.
• Jumped at the Call: Gidget got recruited for the Gekkostate by Ken-Goh. Although she has an apartment, she is in between jobs and likes the idea of traveling, so she accepts his offer.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Jackson is an ill-tempered yet (mostly) benevolent man and possesses a thick jawline.
• Large and in Charge: At the Giant Brothers Casino, both of its founders are really freaking tall.
• Little Bit Beastly: Rebecca Bloodtooth has limbs sheathed in extra muscle with talons on the hands and feet. She has gone from a zookeeper to resembling an animal.
• Locked into Strangeness: Jackson used to have ordinary black hair, but when Mekala touched down on Earth in a fierce explosion, it released an electromagnetic pulse that struck him and his car, messing up the vehicle's electronic systems and turning Jackson's hair dark blue with a skunk stripe. Jackson adjusted to the change by changing his ensemble from black to blue.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Tonya uses her Phoenix Gun to riddle Claire's boots full of holes and sets them on fire. Claire kicks off the scorched shoes and then retaliated by showing Tonya that her mere bare feet can kick the crap out of someone.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Rita has an overly amorous approach, to say the least.
• Low Culture, High Tech: Thirty years and a changed Earth have caused a technology boom, but it is convenient and conventionally used. The most dangerous technologies have designated rules and restrictions to prevent global war.
• Macguffin: Whoever wields the Sword of Draven has the power to shape life into different forms based on what that person imagines, as long as it has an empty vessel to fill, like a lifeless Archetype. This is how Secrets are born.
• Make an Example of Them: Shortly before the RSL formed, several high-level members of the United Federation were executed for siding with Dewey when the truth broke that he was engineering a fake and deliberate agenda to wipe out the Scub Coral and purposefully instigated a huge amount of civilian casualties that did not need to die. Others suffered punishment for participating in secret experiments on war orphans and refugees, Desperation Disease sufferers, and use of mind-corrupting addictive drugs.
• Maniac Monkeys: Bobo Loco is a psychotic chimp who beats the hell out of people just because all it knows is RAGE.
• Martial Artists Are Always Barefoot:Robin is trained in martial arts and kendo, and grew used to remaining in bare feet, so he pops his shoes off when he wants to unwind or instinctively joins Claire if she's taken hers off, too, following her lead and making her feel sympathized with.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": Claire, Robin, and Jackson all freak out and back away the moment that they realize that Jordan the bird is really an Antibody Coralian that never died.
• Magnetism Manipulation: Robin has a magnetic armor/force field he can activate with his Remote Compac Module to defy the laws of gravity. If pushed to overclock mode, he can summon and weaponize trapar, which is reactive to electromagnetism and amplified by it.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Godspeed is an exceptionally fast LFO, and it is Type 07, and starts with a "G", the seventh letter of the alphabet.
  • Mupar has "Mu", as in "nothingness", which can mean "nothingness particles", which create something from nothing, shaping thoughts into reality. If you think of it, dream it, or believe it, it becomes real- you just need enough Mupar to manifest the result.
  • Chapter 19 is titled "Grandma's Garden" after the song by Zac Brown. It mentions that the grandma in question did what she could to raise a good family along with her garden, and is with the Father in His Garden. Claire's grandma is no longer alive, and grew a garden for her to inherit.
  • "Claire Hannah" can translate as "pure grace."
  • The Ziko sisters surname can mean "unique", and the two have vastly opposite personalities.
  • Antipac Drive is short for "Antipathetic Drive", and it is a device through which darkness and negativity flow. This implies Compac Drive is short for "Compassion Drive", meant to channel light and positivity.
• Mind Rape: Played with. The mind-altering drug used on Anemone Sorell and Steven Bisson for brainwashing was discovered and investigated by the RSL. They were so disgusted with it that it's now banned.
• Mistaken for Gay: Surprisingly, Rita likes boys. Her masculine traits like her edgy haircut and boyish clothes are just part of being a musclebound workout lover.
• Modesty Towel: After being revived, Claire wakes up in the autopsy room of AIGIS South naked under a sheet. She wraps herself in the sheet before finding a highly convenient emergency clothes kit nearby.
• The Mole: Cheyyene Allsort, the only girl on the Skull Rattlers, is working for AIGIS West to capture the whole gang.
• Mood Whiplash: Chapter 20 starts out as a mellow, casual outing between mutual friends. Halfway through the chapter, though, Barbara's illness strikes and the chapter swings 180 degrees into heavy drama.
• Multiarmed And Dangerous: Raoul has eight stretchable arms that can bind his enemies or surround them with guns. They are invisible to the naked eye, so it looks like he can move objects with telekinesis, but when viewed under ultraviolet light, they are clearly extensions of his Antipac Drive shoulder implants.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The enemy Secret in Chapter 21 is a pair of glasses. They're equipped to fire giant laser blasts from the lenses.
• Names To Run Away From Very Fast:
  • Mekala, the Shadow Cat Witch of the Cosmos.
  • Rebecca Bloodtooth, Mekala's minion.
  • Crimson Demon Monkey, the species of monkey Bobo Loco belongs to, a red-furred menace that is insanely violent. They're mad by default, and even worse, they live in groups that form angry mobs.
• Nature Lover: Claire is a botanist, and developed her love for plants by gardening with her grandma, Barbara.
• Nebulous Evil Organization: The Myzterium, a collective of evildoers who each owe Mekala their loyalty, powers, lives, or even resurrections. Each member operates for their own purposes, with their actions benefiting Mekala.
• Next Tier Power-Up: Soulcry, the event where a trapar-sensitive individual gains the ability to not only influence trapar power, but manifests battle armor based on their inner dreams and how they view themselves. It's named after the "hidden power that answers a soul's cry for strength".
  • First achieved by Jenna, then Claire. Jenna unknowingly drinks a formula designed to quickly unlock her Soulcry form at the cost of temporary mental instability. Claire finds herself in a no-win situation and begs for help, and a mysterious young woman releases the hidden potential inside her to undergo the phenomenon.
  • Godspeed starts out in base form, then Robin awakens Bipolar Linkup, and Claire heightens its power by triggering Bassline Force.
• Nightmare Face: Mekala cracks a huge and scary evil grin◊ as she leaves a bar after secretly giving Jenna a spiked drink of liquid Mupar.
• No Last Name Given: Robin's name is actually a pneumonic, suggesting he may be an artifical human, so he uses AIGIS as his placeholder for a last name.
• No One Sees the Boss: Mekala has been shrouding herself from detection by operating through use of the Secrets and erasing herself from memory if she personally carries out an evil plan.
• No-Sell: Baseline Force Godspeed outright crushes Raoul's strongest attack in its hands after blocking and neutralizing it with a similar attack.
• Not What It Looks Like: When Robin returns to headquarters, a rather ticked off Rita asks him where he's been and spots Claire asleep in the backseat. However, Rita still believes she's dead and jumps to the conclusion that Robin stole Claire, thinks her clothes were changed by Robin, and accuses Robin of being a necrophile, and Robin briskly denies it.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Gidget had been faking a ditzy teenage girl identity until she became a mature woman and had endured enough of it.
• Ocular Gushers: Rika can't contain herself after listening to Claire's tragic tale.
• One-Way Visor: Robin wears a visor over his eyes at all times. It aids him when he pilots the Godspeed, too, acting as a target sensor.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: Two statuesque brothers run the aptly-named Giant Brothers Casino and dwarf normal people and cars.
• Painful Transformation: Mekala grafting an archetype's limbs onto what remains of Rebecca's limbs with the Sword of Draven as the sculpting tool causes her to endure an intense burning sensation as her nerve endings and synapes merge with the new limbs and the limbs transform into musclebound and bestial arms and legs.
• Parental Neglect: Jenna has a dad who doesn't want to interact with his family. She is very ashamed of this. Then she discovers his real intentions are a display of tough love in order to keep her and her mother safe from harm.
• Patchwork Fic: PM encompasses all the alternate timelines of Eureka Seven, but follows the path of the original series as the master timeline, with a group of villains whose actions have splintered reality into multiple destinations and created time paradoxes by trying to rewrite existence and then reverting the changes.
• Perpetual Frowner: Bailey Hannah generally has a scowl across his face, because he's continually miserable.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Claire, Robin, Jenna, and Mekala all have the potential to obliterate tons of things on mass scale. However, they usually reign in their powers. Just don't make them angry.
• Phone Call from the Dead: Having perished before reaching Claire's graduation, Barbara reaches out in spirit form to tell Claire that she loves her via sign language, and then passes on to the afterlife.
• Pink Is for Sissies: Robin has a very adverse reaction when a lone cherry blossom petal lands on his back and his camouflage unit malfunctions, turning his suit pink. Claire immediately bursts into laughter and Robin hastily seeks Rika while his face goes red.
• Posthumous Character: Barbara, Claire's nana, has been gone for ten years at the start of the story.
• Power Copying: Rita can hack into other machines to build an arsenal of weaponry.
• Power Levels: Godspeed is already mighty, but Robin can spike Godspeed's potential much higher than its ordinary specs with his Bipolar Linkup. Layer on Claire's Seven Swell energy and it becomes stupendous powerful.
• The Power of Hate: Chapter 23 reveals that negative energy creates mupar. If someone's thoughts are very black and destructive, you can bet they will spawn Mupar.
• Power Palms: Raoul can fire the Rosary Palm Execution beam with four palms held together.
• Prefers Going Barefoot:
  • Claire mentions a habit of walking nearly everywhere barefoot. She indulges in it when she is alone, and speaking to her grandma from atop a peak. Played for Drama, because her aversion to shoes has its roots from an event that caused her to lose her grandma that she blames herself for. She also tells Linck about her distaste for shoes, and he is reminded of his childhood days where he didn't wear any shoes. Claire doesn't indulge in the habit on duty, but it's explicitly stated and shown in a character study page.
  • Robin is used to not wearing shoes habitually during his time learning martial arts and kendo. After he sees Claire likes to relax barefoot, he starts doing the same as a sign of acceptance and affection.
• Pseudo-Canonical Fic: This series largely exists as a counterpoint to everything in Eureka Seven canon written after the original series, only it strips back these works and uses components from them plugged into one flowing story. Then, the writing adds new content to compliment the old. If any existing plot thread isn't explained sufficiently, then this story jumps through hoops to give it attention. Also, it basically retracts the Hi-Evolution alterations to what is the prime canon and slides it backward as the events of an alternate universe, while the progenitor anime returns to the forefront.
• Psychoactive Powers: After having her Soulcry awakened, Jenna has to watch it with strong emotions, or she'll inadvertently create weather chaos in her surroundings, inside or outside.
• Purple Is Powerful: Bassline Force, the fully awakened power of Godspeed, bathes the LFO and the surrounding area in purple light.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: A few characters are inspired by people the author knows personally and exhibit their habits and quirks.
• Racing the Train: In Chapter 11, this is forcefully averted. Robin tries to race past an incoming freight train, and Claire leaps out of her seat and squirms up to the brake pedal, slamming her foot down on it. What she doesn't know is that the Godspeed has a jet mode to fly over the trains.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Used by Robin while synced up to Godspeed, the Magnum Knuckles, to pummel an unrelenting Secret, and later, Raoul.
• Ramp Jump: In Chapter 14, Claire challenges Armando Lovelace to a game of Chicken at the very jagged and danger-filled Breakneck Pass. She overshoots it and nearly falls off the cliff, but Primrose helps her focus to create a bridge to the other side out of trapper and it rescues her and makes Claire the winner.
• Really 700 Years Old: Jordan, the Antibody Coralian who looks like a tropical bird, has exceeded the 1246 seconds of life these creatures have. Rika later examines his cells and finds they carry the mythical Methuselah Gene, allowing him to live for a very long time, possibly up to 100 years- maybe even more. It's unclear how long Jordan has been alive in the first place!
• Reconstruction: After Astral Ocean and Hi-Evolution heavily dismantled virtually everything in their parent work, this story drops a huge cinderblock on a large number of the unwanted changes to canon and reaffirms that the original Eureka Seven is the true "gospel". The alternate universes receive a demotion to sub-canon, and the events of Paradox Makers are the result of the Shadow Cat Legion reversing what went awry with the Silver Box by just removing it from creation, which was one of a barrage of edits to time and space to tailor history to flow a very a precise way, including the removal of failed changes.
• Retcon:
  • Raoul steals the plans for Nirvash's Originate Zero configuration and turns them into the plans for theEND. He also undoes a retcon that went horribly wrong, created by Mekala in an attempt to force the future to go her way: taking away the plans for Silver Box, stopping the Sage Council from deciding to attack the Command Cluster because Antibody Coralians were not discovered yet and waging battle against the unwitting humans. Instead, Adroc, not being the correct partner for Eureka causes the First Summer of Love by accidentally overloading Nirvash and causing a Seven Swell that makes the Scub Coral across the world to fissure and trapar waves to overflow and lead to global chaos. Adroc detaches the Compac and Amita Drives and is absorbed into the dimension of the Coralians. The Ageha Project also becomes conceived.
• The Reveal:
  • G-Monsters stands for Geo Monsters. Also, Secret is really S.E.C.R.E.T., Scub Extermination & Containment Evolving Technoorganism.
  • The Secrets are only gone from one universe, and 12020 universe Earth has come under attack by them.
  • Renton's late mother, Blau, sang at the Starlight Express cafe. Her death stole a lot of business and happiness from the place, and Blau died from a heart condition exascerbated while pregnant and giving birth to Renton.
  • The Sword of Draven is an Ancient Artifact used to create Secrets from lifeless Archetypes.
  • Gidget is actually using a psuedonym. Her real name is Sandra Annette O'Connell, and she was once a famous child actress who never revealed her face and she's hiding her true identity. Ironic, given that her boyfriend, Moondoggie, is also using a psuedonym and is really James Darren Emerson.
  • The Silver Box was an idea given to humanity by Mekala to wipe out Scub Coral, but she didn't expect it to fail and cause Eureka to suffer. She also mothered the blueprints for Originate Zero, Nirvash's pre-Type Zero form, but repurposed and updated them into the design for TheEND and let Nirvash assume its Type Zero body first.
  • The many different iterations of the franchise have been turned into one interconnected heap, and the original anime is the prime reality. All the branches splitting away from it are due to Mekala's constant interference with reality. However, AO is actually part of the original course of reality with Mekala trying to wedge her way in to take over, which failed when Truth was accidentally born.
• Rescue Romance: Robin unintentionally caused Rebecca to develop a crush on him by guarding her from Michael's laser cannons.
• Reset Button: Used with immense prejudice as a framing device for the series' premise. The whole existence of PM unfolds because the Myzterium toyed with history, screwed up, and had to arrange a cosmic do-over.
• Rule #1: The Rising Star League passed twenty bylaws to efficiently govern the world and curtail military operations, as well as keep it safe:
  • Bylaw 13: Trial by Combat is allowed when someone is facing very serious charges, or to settle disputes quickly and quietly. It's a very controversial law, but accepted because it's fast and effective at keeping the peace. The law specifies no killing- you fight until someone can no longer battle, but some nasty groups try to bend the rule in the underground circles.
  • Bylaw 20: All LFOs must remain in vehicle mode unless they are at least 20 miles away from civilization. This is obviously done to avoid involving civilian casualties and collateral damage, and is a direct response to the Ciudades del Cielo (Cities of the Sky) bloodbath.
• Rummage Sale Reject:
  • Peter wears an odd mixture of robes, a scarf, plaid pants, three-ringed shoes, and a hat with a feather and gemstone. He is The Hermit of AIGIS South, though, and is wearing ancestral shrouds in mourning his missing sister.
  • Raoul's clothes are very ragged, worn out, and militaristic, but they feature a bulletproof cape to protect him from being shot in the back, eight guns, a holster buttoned to his raggedy black shirt that has been altered to fit his Antipac drives and multiple limbs, a grenade, a dagger, old pants and combat boots, and a beret turned sideways (possibly to signify a defection).
• Sad Clown: Claire's bumptious and geeky qualities conceal her pain from losing her grandma. She tries to act overly proud and cheerful, but the real Claire is a lonely girl with the weight of a cruel world on her shoulders.
• Scenery Porn: There are a few breathtaking sights, like AIGIS South's Zen garden.◊
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Dudley Chow abandons the Dusk Melody Pirates once he senses things are going pear-shaped. He becomes the only one to evade capture and arrest, and Tonya considers him a Dirty Coward. Then he runs afoul of the Crimson Demon Monkey stomping grounds and runs for his life.
• Seen It All: Claire's parents have observed the events caused by Dewey Novak and their resolution, so they don't get fazed by much, unless it involves terrible danger.
• Sequel Series: To all of the Eureka Seven media. It occurs starting in April 12020, and provides an explanation that space and time have been bent out of shape by Eureka and Mekala is tailoring history to serve a greater cause. This is a massive Hand Wave to all the confusing differences in the franchise's many incarnations, and the overall objective is to forge towards a happy future while confronting the darkness that lies ahead.
• Sequential Boss: Defied. Rita destroys the lens portion of an eyeglasses Secret, but the stems detach and reveal hidden switchblades. Rita instantly recognizes the tactic and uses the hacking beams on Digimatrix to reprogram and reformat the blades into her weapons, and attaches them to her LFO (which already is stocked with battle accoutrements) to make it more primed for battle.
• Serial Escalation: The more primal and whimsical designs of the Secrets in AO are still prevalent, but they are followed by more advanced variants that have some degree of sharper intelligence, and then elevated to a whole new level of danger with the debut of Recondite, a top-class Secret that has a mind of its own with the power to harvest and contain Scub Bursts.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: A rare villainous example. Mekala wants to create a tailor-made history that will trigger instability in space and time and hearken the emergence of the Paradox King.
• She Is All Grown Up: Gidget is now 31 and no longer a soft-spoken 16-year-old teenage girl. She dresses even more stylishly, and acts much more maturely (with a touch of sass and some touches of her old self), and physically, she has become a well-endowed woman.
• Shmuck Bait: Jackson obviously doesn't understand why◊ there's a cage labeled "Crimson Demon Monkey" with warnings posted around it all by itself.
• Shout-Out: The chapter titles carry on the tradition of musical tributes.
• Show Within a Show: Homage Squad, a Sentai tribute, is mentioned a lot. Sometimes, it's even the source of clues to characters unlocking new powers or solving problems. The "homage" refers to a favorite interest each member of the squad has, and it determines what form their suit will take and the abilities they receive.
• Signature Headgear:
  • Claire is constantly wearing colorful ribbons in bows. Jackson even nicknamed her "Ribbonette".
  • Robin has a combat visor that acts like a mask that he only takes off when he feels comfortable sharing his full identity. Jackson nicknamed Robin "Faucet Face" because the visor has two faucet-shaped dials that tune in to frequency and wavelength of trap ar energy and capitalize on it.
  • Jackson wears jade shades that dim eye contact because his eyes let him perform lie detector tests by staring directly at someone else's eyes.
• Sinister Scythe: Rebecca carries a scythe with a jointed staff, called the Limber Reaper, because it can curve and bend while its wielded.
• Sizeshifter: Raoul can grow to the size of an LFO and even rival its battle prowess.
• Slipping a Mickey: Mekala, loosely disguised as an ordinary human, convinces a very drunk Jenna to drink a strange neon purple liquid to immediately sober up. It works, but Jenna loses the ability to remember Mekala, and Mekala's sinister grin as she walks away and out of sight implies the drink has yet to take full effect and really mess with Jenna. Later, Jenna develops superpowers and succumbs to unresolved hatred, causing chaos.
• Smoking Is Not Cool: Axel has quit smoking after being goaded into stopping because it isn't healthy around his adoptive grandchildren. Unfortunately, Axel's constant smoking over the years has led to lung disease, and Claire discovers it when she sees his horribly putrescent lungs with her aquamarine x-ray eyes.
• Smarter Than They Look: Gidget was hiding her Teen Genius side long after becoming a mature adult, who desperately wants to shed the airhead persona.
• Snot Bubble: Jackson, who gambled all night, falls asleep during Rebecca's backstory explanation and develops a snot bubble. Rebecca, infuriated, lashes him with her whip to wake him up.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Raoul is an ex-soldier from a time of civil war who has become a monster and now kills because for him, it feels good.
• Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: A real life example. While the comic was hastily pushed out, creator of the webcomic was viciously harrassed by an Internet Troll and it led to them increasing the restrictions on comment posts (all messages must be approved to appear on the web pages) after two bouts of offensive remarks and one very angry retort to eff off. The creator now grooms their art to look more well-defined.
• Spectacular Spinning: Raoul can spin his body defensively and stonewall attacks with his Cobra Twister technique.
• Spell My Name With An S:
  • Jenna's hero name is Weathervayne, a twist on "weather vane".
  • Jackson's mech is called "Gaolhound", the European way of saying "Jailhound".
• Starter Villain: Raoul Spadafore is the first intensely dangerous person that Robin and Claire encounter. He is a deadly gun for hire who has a steep body count and is so dangerous that Robin squares off with him while inside Godspeed and not man-to-man. Armando and Sharleen were not so evil than they are rebellious in exploiting the lawlessness with a fractured military to make out like bandits. Raoul? He's using the lack of the law to butcher people. Additionally, it requires tons of effort for Robin and Claire to so much as scratch him, and dismembering him has little effect because he can regrow his arms. Even powering up through Bipolar Linkup puts them at a tiny advantage. Raoul is also the first enemy to severely damage Godspeed.
• Super Mode:
  • Using his Compac Drive in his back, Robin can directly interface with Godspeed if he performs Bipolar Linkup, combining his combat suit's neural network with Godspeed to become one with the brains and movement of the mech. He can also summon trapar energy with his mental willpower and ability to communicate vastly expanded.
  • Claire's Soulkeeper form turns her into a walking Seven Swell phenomenon. She can use the power safely, like a controlled eruption.
  • Jenna has her Weathervayne persona, an armored weather warrior.
• Super-Reflexes: Robin can use this ability by sensing an opponent's moves by reading trapar waves or anticipating attacks with pure skill if Mupar is involved. When Robin taps deep into his connection with Godspeed, it becomes agile like him.
• Superpower Lottery: Raoul can generate eight arms, turn the arms intangible, stretch them like elastic, grow to the size of an LFO, and punch at super speed. He can also wrap himself in his arms to defend himself and spin like a top, form his hands into drills, and release mighty particle cannon energy blasts.
• Superpower Meltdown: If Robin isn't careful in Bipolar Linkup mode, he can overload Godspeed.
• Super-Speed: Godspeed is the fast LFO since the Nirvash's creation. All three modes of transformation give it ultra-high-speed reactivity. If Robin performs Bipolar Linkup, Godspeed can reach its maximum velocity.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Claire is chased by one police car and assumes she can lose it on her motorbike. Cut to a fleet of police joining the chase... And Claire running out of gas because she ran away for eight hours straight.
  • Moondoggie gets involved with showbiz and hosts game shows to turn a profit and gain fame... leaving little to no time for Gidget. However, their bond and being business partners keeps them from splitting up.
  • Gidget was downplaying her intelligence for 15 years, and no one expected much out of her. Now a full adult, she wants to break out of that mold. She finally becomes sick of being viewed as dim and her ineffectual role and gets serious by reverting back to her true and secret identity, the smart and outspoken Sandra.
  • Robin tries to use his close combat and rapid-fire techniques on Raoul, who has eight very long arms. They fail, because Raoul immediately binds Godspeed up with all his arms and begins to squeeze the mecha, forcing Robin to use Bipolar Linkup mode.
• Tears from a Stone: After being ravaged by an attack to the right side of its head and accompanying shoulder from Raoul, mech fluid leaks out from exposed cables and it looks like Godspeed is crying out it's right eye.
• Tears of Fear: At the end of Chapter 18, Dudley Chow cries in a panicked sprint away from a mob of angry simians.
• The Teetotaler: Claire does not drink alcohol, seen when Mr. Horutz gives her a milk.
• This Is a Drill: Both trapar and mupar can be shaped into the form of a drill and result in a heated clash of power.
• Time Skip: The story starts off from where it all began with the Second Summer of Love, then 15 years pass in the original universe.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: Some events in the continuity are ironclad, while others are uncertain, open to modification, or totally rewritten. It's strongly implied that Mekala wants to encourage tampering with time to create paradoxical fallout that will ultimately feed and revive the Paradox King.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Rita and Rika: Rita is a buff and tough sexpot, while Rita is a bubbly and curious lady.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • 3-year-old Linck? Crybaby prankster. 19-year old Linck? Trusty mechanic and deliveryman.
  • Moondoggie, AKA James Darren Emerson, has a job as a game show host, but his past reveals a darker side of him. When going to confront it, he is shown as a mature adult with a gun in hand and taking a Slow Walk while holding a red bandana in the other hand. He exhibits the demeanor of a wolf on the prowl, symbolically drawn to show he graduated from dopey, clownish behavior, weird slang, and seems to have all but chucked his status as a Butt-Monkey. This is shown in a promo cover for a future event in the series, where the "dog" grows up to be a "wolf" hunting in the light of the moon, exemplifying his nickname.
  • The Secrets used to be drone-like sentries that appeared in response to Scub Bursts shortly after one or more happened, and would kill anything within the area of detection and try to kamikaze the Scub Coral out of existence if they found it. Here, it's revealed that the Secrets are actively evolving with each permutation, and at least one, Recondite, is self-aware, has the ability to harvest Scub Burst energy for Mekala, and could be likened to an intelligent war machine.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Rika has a Sweet Tooth for cookies.
• Traintop Battle: Attempted by Robin in Chapter 6 against a pursuing Secret. It only manages to anger the Secret into blowing up the back of the rail car.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Inverted in Chapter 11. A superpowered Claire reassures a janitor that she's going to save him from harm, but pays no mind that she appeared with flaming hair and trapar energy jets shooting from her feet.
• Walking Spoiler: Mekala is a whirlwind of spoilers, especially indicating that she was the true Big Bad in AO, having created the Secrets, and has littered multiple timelines with debauchery and caused great misery for Renton and Eureka by proxy.
• War for Fun and Profit: Raoul goes around bringing war to innocent people because it's in his twisted nature to kill and take. He gets his jollies challenging strong opponents to deathmatches and destroying civilization.
• Waterfall Meditation: Played with in the case of Peter, who sits on a rock in front of a waterfall, but not under the waterfall itself. After all, if he gets called upon, he can't do his job sopping wet.
• Weather Manipulation: Jenna gains these powers in stages. First, she gets the power to control wind and whip up trapar storms. When Jenna's body finishes absorbing the Mupar cocktail given to her, she gains the full repetoire of weather control.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: Jenna seeks approval from her uninvolved dad by trying to raise her status.
• Wham Episode: The alleyway confrontation in Chapter 4 is a shocker.
• Wham Shot:
  • In Chapter 18, Robin takes his shirt off and reveals not only a muscular physique, but a Compac drive fused into his back, enabling him control over trapar and communication with the Scub-filled land itself. Then Claire unmasked Jordan, who seemed like a rare bird but is really an Antibody Coralian. As in the monsters that make you go splat.
• Chapter 24 has one after Godspeed suffers intensive damage and its Compac Drive goes alight with one new word: "CLAIRE".
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Jenna's father has not come home in a long time, and she wants to have him come back.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Barbara panics like so when she sees she is coughing up blood.
• X-Ray Vision: In Chapter 15, Claire discovers that her aquamarine eyesight can peer through solid objects.
• Yin-Yang Clash: Claire and Robin have light and dark attributes, respectively, that are the source of their powers. In talking about personalities, Claire is the jovial and spirited as well as energetic woman, and Robin is the witty and sly man that has a secretive and complicated side. The clash element is when they are not supporting each other or one takes the lead. If they can't coordinate their emotions and feelings, their battle moves and friendship falter.