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  • Angst? What Angst?: Unlike the video game, Corrin's memories of her time at Hoshido prior to Sumeragi's death and her kidnapping are restored early on. Yet, she is ironically less distressed over her mother's death and siding against her Hoshidan family than her video game counterpart was. You would expect this to give her more conflict. The fic attempts to justify it by having Corrin explain these memories feel to her like they are memories of another person's life instead of her own, but still.
  • Crack Pairing: Hans and Sakura. After you've gotten over the idea of Hans being shipped with anyone, then you can start wondering who in the right mind decided to ship him with her!
  • Designated Hero:
    • Corrin starts the fic by murdering three unarmed prisoners for “training”, only one of whom is shown to have actually committed a crime, and gets worse from there. Throughout the fic she does terrible things all while the narrative gives her relentless Character Shilling, something DasSporking takes her to task for in their sporking of the fic, going as far to call her “Corringula”.
    • Garon is supposed to come off as a loving adoptive father who does what he has to do in order to achieve a better future for Nohr... when in actuality he’s a terrible father, a kidnapper who brainwashed a child into being his Tyke Bomb as part of a ludicrously complex scheme that shouldn’t have worked and only did so due to author intervention.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: We never even learn his real name, but 'Bob' captured the hearts of many fans seemingly just by existing. He only appeared for two chapters and was never heard from again, but in that time he managed to stand out as a smart guy, reliable, and very willing to help a stranger in need.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In the April Fool's Day chapter, Iago claims that Camilla, Leo, and Elise all have flimsy claims to the Nohrian throne because they are Heroic Bastards. Even disregarding the fact that canon Birthright ends with Leo becoming king of Nohr, his support with Lianna in Warriors explicitly states that the children of Garon's mistresses do have a claim to the throne.
  • Iron Woobie: Due to Adaptational Angst Upgrade, Silas has potentially one of the most depressing backstories in the entire story. Not that you'd ever know by how he acts.
    Charlotte: How are you so okay with all the horseshit in your life?!
    Silas: My...personality?
  • Squick:
    • Hans and his bandit group casually discuss pedophilia with intent to rape Sakura. Hans actually recounts how he tried it out himself once.
    • Soleil, who is implied to still be Laslow's daughter in this universe, flirts with and kisses him.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • Mikoto finally gets her daughter Corrin back, only to discover that her child has become a lecherous, foul-mouthed, hard drinking, Blood Knight who rejects not only her, but the idea of anyone but her captors being her real family. As if that wasn't bad enough, Corrin isn't fazed or the least bit guilty after her death, and even continues using the sword that killed her.
    • Flora's death, and the events of the Ice Tribe arc in general. It's not only the fact that Flora dies right after having gone through the destruction of her entire tribe, but she also dies cursing Corrin's entire existence with her last breath, makes the scene a bit hard to read.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: As DasSporking points out, Kaze is unceremoniously killed off, even though he canonically defects to Nohr in Conquest and could have provided a unique perspective in the story.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The story attempts to give a redemption arc to Hans, which falls flat when one considers the fact that he casually admits to raping children for no other reason than morbid curiosity.
  • Wangst: Corrin's depression after the events of the Ice Tribe arc seemed to drag on for a bit. For fans who preferred her strong and defiant personality, this felt a bit out of character and more reminiscent of her original personality.

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