Amoridere

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Amoridere is a rather shy but otherwise candid writer and artist who had her start on deviantArt (where she is otherwise known as "AkaiChounokoe"). She mostly does fanfiction, which can be found on Fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Own. She also does original stories and poems.

There isn't too much more known about her besides that she lives in Ohio[context?] and calls herself "death obsessed".

Works by Amoridere:

Fan Works

Literature

Web Original

Amoridere provides examples of the following tropes:


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  • Abusive Parents: She writes a lot of these. There is some Reality Subtext to this.
  • Adult Fear:
    • The poem Broken Leg has this in subtle form where an intrusive thought (or a vision) has her breaking a leg and being alone with no one to help.
    • In Feel, Satsuki is mentioned to have lost her sight as baby to an accident.
    • Come find me, Again, Ryuuko disappears while playing outside and they don't find out what happened to her until years later. Also, Satsuki's Sanity Slippage.
      • From Secret Sunshine:
        • This happens briefly, when Ryuuko is struck by a car and, if she didn't toss her out of the way, Kiko would have been hit, too.
        • A lesser form of this trope is (one of the reasons) why Ryuuko is hostile towards Satsuki, as, if what the question Sukuyo asks Mako is an indication, she's afraid Kiko'll be taken away.
      • I Never Really Knew has this for Satsuki and Ryuuko:
        • For Satsuki, it's finding out that your sister has gone practically blind and that she's been like that for some time. Later, she watches Ryuuko have a seizure and has to be hospitalized, where she has to watch as Ryuuko goes downhill, getting tremors and paralysis, along with vertigo (from what's implied), while she's powerless to help and as doctors desperately searching for answers. Adding insult to injury, we find out that Ryuuko's symptoms came from an uncommon brain tumor and, if it wasn't removed, it would have killed her.
        • For Ryuuko, having to face the loss of her sight is one thing but facing the idea that she might not get better is another thing entirely, especially when she gets new symptoms as time goes on. By the end of the fic, she's terrified that the tumor'll come back and she won't make it the second time.
  • Aerith and Bob:
    • Some of the names Amo uses are typically fictional, uncommon, and or actual names with alternate spellings (i.e Brownie being named after a dessert and Britanni being an actual name but the alternate spelling of "Britney").
    • Of her pikachu group, Jinx and Spinner being names that wouldn't pass for normal, while Jackie and Jaynine (spelling aside) can. Sunflower's is an unclear case (people do name their kids after plants).
  • An Aesop: A few of her poems, has these:
    • "So we meet again" has the one of, "Spend time with your loved ones while you still have the time."
    • Beishang and What He Couldn't Save have "Nothing is worse than too late."
  • After the End:
    • A couple of poems, Home After A Catastrophe. and The Beyond, feature the subjects looking for a new place to call home or answers after some sort of disaster wrecked everything.
    • Morbid Pretending has the subject pretending this trope happened as a coping mechanism.
  • Age Is Relative: The poem Wrinkles implies a metaphorical use of this trope, as the subject, while young and youthful, feels old and so she sees herself as old, while others see her as young.
  • All Abusers Are Male: Averted, as Toki is a female character who likes to dole out hits for whatever reason (mostly because she can) and doesn't tend to discriminate.
  • The Alcoholic: According to a few stories, Spinner is this and its such a problem that he had got into a fight with Toki (the which left the latter injured and upset).
  • The All-Concealing "I":
    • Through Thick and Thin is narrated from the first-person perspective, but we have some cues revealing who is narrating by what the other characters are saying (i.e, Uzu called Ryuuko by her last name of "Matoi" when he asks about her). However, in Asuka, this serves as The Un-Reveal, because we get no such cues, as, while we do know they're sisters, we don't know exactly who the titular "Asuka" is and who is narrating.
    • This is played with in her poems, as, instead of "I", she uses a pronoun when referring to the subject.
  • All Men Are Perverts: Well, not all of them but Jinx is, considering he does like to peek on women (Neither Toki nor Doki are exceptions) and look at porn, along with one story having him (with Spin) go on a panty raid . This was lessened after he got a girlfriend.
  • Alternate Universe Fic: When Amoridere writes fanfictions, she usually writes these, along with Death Fics and Dark Fics.
  • All There in the Manual: Whatever she doesn't state in her works she does state on her Tumblr or deviantArt.
  • All Women Are Prudes: Downplayed. Toki's had a boyfriend but, for some reason or another, hasn't gone "beyond a kiss", keeping the relationship mainly platonic (in the sense of, "not having sex"). According to one story, she wasn't sure if she wanted lose her virginity or not and that, besides dates, she's never been in a relationship.
  • Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: As Amo noted a couple of times with pic descriptions, Holly and Beryl are oddly colored foxes. Subverted with others, as they are naturally colored (i.e, Crocosmia is colored more so like fox would be)
  • Ambiguous Disorder:
    • Toki has had a few conditions diagnosed and they are known, however, she has the symptoms of several others undiagnosed, the symptoms being some obsessive-compulsive tendencies (as implied in the poem Lipstick), mood swings, fears of being abandoned, impulse control problems, and fits of rage and violence.
    • According to her description (from 2012), Madgie has issues but it's not said what they so happen to be, besides her being "psychologically backwards", leaning toward destructive impulses, and having alternate personalities. Bunny thinks she should be institutionalized.
    • Satsuki in The Mysterious Lady Kiryuuin is implied to have some kind of a disorder, likely one relating to social anxiety, considering that she is so painfully shy and seems to have some agoraphobic traits, considering that going outside scares or, to a lesser degree, upset her. She's been like that since she was a kid. However, it doesn't keep her from being a caregiver to her younger sister, Ryuuko, and a child she adopted, Nui.
    • In Second Story Window, we know Ragyo has a kind of psychosis but we don't know what it is and neither does Satsuki who is narrating. The end note did state that whatever is wrong with Ragyo or Satsuki when the POVs are flipped, is anyone's guess.
  • Ambiguous Situation: In the poem, They Wondered Why, is the mother abusive or case of Cruel to Be Kind?
  • An Arm and a Leg:
    • Toki, Jinx, and Spin had lost limbs in a landmine accident during the events of Landmines are Not Toys.
    • In A Cut for You, severing a limb occurs as part of Serial Escalation
    • Someone severing a limb occurs in a trio of pictures titled Mutilation.
    • In the artworks "Security Blanket", "Best Friend", and "Garden", severed limbs are present but they don't belong to the little girls who have them.
    • The pic "Replacement" has a girl holding a severed arm, along with having one arm severed.
  • Animal Motifs: In most of her works, she usually uses birds (i.e Rei in Kiryuuin Chronicles).
    • In "Hyena", she compares someone she knows (but clearly isn't fond of) to the titular animal.
    • In A Good Day, this is used to show how different Ryuuko thinks she and her sister, Satsuki, are. The latter, appearance wise, as she put it, can be a compared to be crane, an animal that is associated with beauty and grace, while the former compares herself to a bulldog, which, apparently, corresponds with her appearance of being "short, stumpy, frumpy, fat, and rolly".
    • It's subtle but several of her poems alludes to rats (and, by extension, mice), which, besides being an allusion to the Eastern Zodiac, are known to survive hard times, however, they are small, weak, looked down, hated, and easily preyed upon. This is more apparent with the poem The Rodent Becomes Feline.
    • The poem "Bitten by the Snake", uses the metaphors of a mouse (the poetess) and a snake (a former friend of hers), respectively.
    • From what's implied in the poem Single, abusers are symbolized as shrikes (a bird that impales its prey).
    • Housecat with Wings has the subject thinking of a friend of hers to be like the titular. The poem notes that idea is odd but, to the subject, it makes sense
    • A couple of her poems used porcupines. Besides the overall rodent theme, porcupines aren't cuddly by most means, as they have quills, implying the subject of those poems Hates Being Touched.
    • From what can be guessed, Housecats associates cats with promiscuity, the poem describing them as "loose and reckless".
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: Appears in a picture titled "Holding Death's Hand", where Death is personified as a female figure. This carries to over to a few poems, where Death is called "she".
  • And I Must Scream: Ryuuko in Stasis, where she's asleep for three weeks. One of the captions mentions that she's aware during her sleeping spells and she knows she's asleep until her stasis ends, unable to do anything or wake up. The only thing she could do was shed a single tear.
  • And There Was Much Rejoicing: Implied with the subject of Sardonic Dance, as red is a color than means one is happy that the deceased is dead in some funeral etiquette and that she only dances on the graves of people she isn't fond of.
  • Art Evolution: Her art style changes from time to time.
  • Artifact of Death: The titular red pearls in the poem Red Pearls, as they are cursed and the subject doesn't sell or give them away despite this. Apparently, she intends on taking the curse with her to the grave.
  • Artificial Limbs: As shown in a few pics, Toki, Jinx, and Spin have these, due to the landmine incident, although later pics made Toki's right leg less obvious, as she's since got a robotic one.
  • Artistic License Animal Care: Played with, as she has stuffed animals that look real and so can show them in situations(like photographing them in snow, putting them in clothes, taking them to public places, etc) that could otherwise be dangerous if they were real pets but, in case anyone were to get confused, she's put Don't Try This at Home disclaimers on her (Reddit) posts with them, discouraging this trope.
  • Artistic License Biology: Toki should have died shortly after being borderline submersed in that "vat of radioactive crap" (as Amo put it) due to the radiation destroying her insides, along with chemotherapy being used to treat her leukemia (when it was terminal). Likewise, she should also be be infertile due to the aforementioned. However, Toki is neither, 1), dead and, 2),infertile.
  • Asleep for Days: This (and Deep Sleep) is explored in a picture arc with nendoroids titled Sleep, where Ryuuko falls asleep and stays that way for about two weeks. One of the captions for the pics speculates that her sleeping that long might be because of her (half) nonhuman-nature. In a more recent arc (where she slept for three weeks), it's mentioned that she can't control nor is she unaware during that either.
  • Author Appeal: To list her interests would take up a page but she does incorporate whatever she likes in her writing.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: A downplayed version. Toki is, in all senses of the word, the dominant female of her house and will not hesitate to deliver beatings when she sees fit.
  • Awful Wedded Life: One of the things that surprises Iona about her titular aunt Lobelia is that the latter was married. From what the latter says, she and ex didn't do anything but argue and fight (literally). They also didn't marry for love if that says anything.
  • Back-Alley Doctor: In the poem Mutilation, we have a variant in that, while there isn't a "doctor", we do get the patient performing a back-alley procedure on herself. No, the poem doesn't shy away from any details as to what she used. As you might be thinking, this turned into a D.I.Y. Disaster, as she goes to the hospital, where the doctors wonder if they should refer her to the psych-ward after patching her up.
  • Barrier Maiden: Toki considers herself to be the guardian of the "border between this world and the next".
  • Bait and Switch:
    • The poem Choices initially has it where the subject may have been contemplating on whether or not to have a baby. Nope, she was actually contemplating on whether or not to get a pet.
    • "Hooker" has this with a Double Meaning. The subject crochets, not someone who works in The Oldest Profession.
  • Berserk Button:
    • According to a few stories, don't interrupt Doki's naps, play pranks on her, or peek on her. In short, don't do anything she might think to be "nonsense".
    • Toki has far too many to actually list, along with them changing so often.
    • For Bunny, it's anything Madgie related.
    • In the poem, Patterns, the subject has a hatred of crochet patterns
  • Bedlam House: Her poem Cure is implied to take place in an asylum befitting this trope.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Doki is one of the nicest people one could meet, until someone gets her angry.
  • Beehive Hairdo: Some of the Toki pics presents a rather large beehive hairdo.
  • Beige Prose
    • Her first Touhou Project fic, Goodbye Chen, is written like this
    • The same thing happens with the story Painting Red, where the narrator talks rather plainly.
  • Big Beautiful Woman: Bunny seems to have put on some weight, however, it works in her favor as said weight gain has rounded her out rather nicely.
  • Big Brother Instinct
    • In A Good Day, Satsuki finds out her sister was being bullied for her appearance, she makes note to take a list of said bullies and sets out to deliver punishment.
    • Toki, in several stories, can be quite protective of her sister, Doki (Toki's the older twin).
    • Subverted in Bunny and Madgie's case, as they hate each other and the former doesn't really care as to what happens to her. The story where they meet Toki has the former saying, "Shoot her first"
  • Big Screwed-Up Family: Born Sick implies this with the "cycle" the subject decides to break (by not having any children). Apparently, her family has a history of abusing their children.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology
    • The biology of erins (Toki's species) is weird. From what is shown about them, they are mammals, females can reproduce asexually (something that doesn't happen with mammals), the babies are born with teeth, in-utero development for said babies seems to pretty quick, has something of a healing factor and, apparently, they tend to age rather slowly, along with living for a long time. Apparently, Toki's blood (rather what it does) isn't a unique thing, as that also can occur with other members of the species.
    • This combined with Bizarre Human Biology happens with Ryuuko during the events of "Sleep". Apparently, due to being a Half-Human Hybrid, she can and does go into hibernation (or something like it). One of the captions lampshades this that one half could take sleeping for two weeks, her other half not so much.
  • Blind Mistake:
    • Atropa Belladonna has it where people are wondering if the subject put a jar of the titular plant in her cabinet because, with her poor vision, she thought it was something else.
    • In I Never Really Knew, this is one of the things that confirmed to Satsuki that there was something wrong with Ryuuko's eyes, as she mistook a wall for a doorway. In one of the sequels, Orange Juice, this is directly invoked when the store clerk, owner, or both of them uses Ryuuko's visual impairment to trick her into buying orange juice, instead of milk.
  • Blind Without'Em: Without her glasses, Doki's eyesight can measure at legally blind, so she, when she's without her glasses, she carries around a white cane.
  • Blood From the Mouth
    • Played for silliness in the poem Blood Running from the Mouth, where said character is angry and not injured.
    • Used as a metaphor in Visceral Needs, as the rat most likely feels like she's bleeding.
    • In Beishang, bleeding from the mouth means whatever illness she had has gotten worse, leading to titular's Death by Despair.
    • Her angry (or upset) art usually has blood dripping from the character's mouths.
    • Sneezing Blood has an interesting case, where the subject, instead of coughing, she sneezes blood because of whatever she's sick with.
  • Bloody Murder: Toki's blood is apparently toxic, because when it enters the bloodstream of anyone other than her sister (or baby), it will turn you into crystal. (Link) Oddly, it also affects flowers, as demonstrated in one Madgie story.
  • Blue and Orange Morality: Toki does what she wants to, when she feels like doing it, consequences be damned.
  • Body to Jewel: Toki's blood can transform what it touches (or gets) into to crystal, which can be read in Shattered Glass or Madgie, what did you do? X: Bloody Snow Angel. Bunny theorized this is probably because Toki's blood has extreme amounts of cysteine.
  • Both Sides Have a Point:
    • Played with in Just Doki, as pregnancy hormones have made the titular a little irritable, however, Jinx, Sunflower, and Spinner see her as being bitchy and thinks that she is acting out of proportion. However, it is pointed out that Doki does have reasons to complain, as Jinx peeks on her, Spin is a drunk who does whatever the former tells him to, Sunflower is a brat, and Beryl has played pranks, the which could get her hurt (a passage mentions her napping with a football helmet on).
  • Bowdlerise: She changed up some of her stories in this series when she posted them on Archive of Our Own and she intends to post said bolderdised versions FF.net when she got the chance.
  • Breakout Character: Sunnie the pikachu, The Baby of the Bunch of her pikachu group, has her own blog
  • Break the Cutie: Amo seems to favor this trope, as this trope is typically present.
  • Broken Bird:
    • Toki is a more clearer example of this, as she's become bitter and cruel in response to her trauma. As put, she wanted to be "the one to hurt, abuse, and betray".
  • Burlesque: Bunny in a couple of pics is dressed in much the way a burlesque performer might be.
  • Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: In several stories and poems.

C-D

  • The Caregiver: Doki is something of a variant in the sense that she's the conservator for her mentally ill twin sister, Toki.
  • Children Are Innocent:
    • In the story, Landmines are Not Toys!, as Toki didn't know landmines could be dangerous, in which case, her innocence may border on Too Dumb to Live.
    • Vielle in the story Little Vielle and Her Lead Pipe. However, this is alluded to and justified as the aforementioned was a year old and doesn't know she can hurt someone with a lead pipe.
  • Child-Hater: Aunt implies that Lobelia doesn't like children, however, she does take in her niece, Iona, if only because of obligation than anything else. She does seem to be fond of her nephew Eugene, however.
  • A Date with Rosie Palms: Implied with two poems:
    • Bored Courtesan mentions the titular courtesan is thinking of "blooming flowers and bees" and that her boredom would be temporarily relieved.
    • The poem "Boyfriend": The subject, with her "needs", takes to online shopping to "search for love".
  • Dark Fic: When she writes fanfictions.
    • Death Fic: This also occurs. In the Gensokyo 20XX series, even immortals like Eirin are no exception.
  • Dead All Along:
    • In Paper Cranes, Ryuuko was writing to a passed on Satsuki.
    • It's implied that the subjects of Watching and The Corridor are dead. However, the former is a bit more obvious, as she isn't dressed for mourning, she's not getting wet from the rain, and no one notices her standing there.
    • Considering the titular lycoris flowers, we can guess that the subject's, in Lycoris Trail, loved one might have died, supposing she didn't leave.
  • Death by Childbirth: Bunny's cousin Soreen (mentioned in Baby Sorrel) died from pregnancy and childbirth complications.
  • Death by Despair:
    • Satsuki's death in Sunshine. Said story is tagged as such on AO3.
    • Beishang in the titular poem was already sick (or starting to become sick) but her health takes left turn for the worse when her heart breaks.
  • Death's Hourglass: Mortality and the representations thereof are common motifs in Amoridere's work.
  • Deliberately Monochrome: Some of Amoridere's artwork is either a limited pallet or a Splash of Color.
  • Department of Child Disservices:
    • While social services may as well had been nonexistent for Toki, they were not for Jaynine and Sunflower, as they let her become their foster guardian, nevermind the fact that she has mental illness, a criminal record, and a long history of violence (said things would normally keep one from being a guardian).
    • One story plays with this, as Nine had been though so many foster homes that placing her with Toki came as something of a last resort.
    • In a story that came before the aforementioned, they play this trope straight as Beryl's prior foster family ran a methlab.
    • Averted for the most part with Doki, as we learn in Doki's Chronicles, where social services did work with Cornelius and Euphemia to let them have custody of her, said arrangement going well (besides the 6 mean foster sisters).
    • According to several stories with Toki in them, there tends to be orphaned children roaming the streets and Toki does take them in (and has, on a few occasions, enrolled them into school), social services not intervening then, in which case, this might be a case of Social Services Does Not Exist.
  • Determinator: The subject in "You can have me later." is presented as this, as, despite what life had thrown at her, the abuse she's suffered, her mental illness, her Break the Cutie moments, the things she's lost, anything that would make her "existence" chaotic, she decides to keep going even, if she feels the urge to give into Death's call.
  • Disabled Means Helpless:
    • People generally have this opinion about a blind Satsuki in Feel, however, she is anything but (aside from needing some help crossing the streets at times), as she's demonstrated. Along that line, like the Marlee Matlin on the trope page, people also assumed she was deaf because she doesn't speak (except internally). As to be expected, she has expressed annoyance at this concept.
      • A particular case in point about this occurs in chapter four, as Ragyou notes that Satsuki is prone to wandering off, leaving her to be criticized and being called irresponsible by other parents when the latter does, as they believe she is helpless and shouldn't be left without supervision. Like her daughter, Ragyou has expressed annoyance particularly at this trope and, not just this trope, the hypocrisy of the other parents related to this.
    • In her original works with Doki (and, a lesser extent, Toki) this is averted as, while she has cerebral palsy, she's not wheelchair-bound and neither is she helpless, considering that she works as a nurse and did beat up Bunny, who, initially, assumed she couldn't fight. This is made more obvious by the fact that Doki has stable employment, while, the more able of the two, Toki doesn't (from what's implied).
    • Seeing the World with Cloudy Eyes and Orange Juice plays with this on the end of a visually impaired Ryuuko. As it's noted, she's capable of being independent and does do things independently, however, she's a little easier to trick because, with her visual impairments, she can't tell the difference between the a carton of milk and the titular orange juice. Satsuki, to be expected, is not amused.
  • The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Amo generally averts this, as said conditions in the trope tend to be talked about.
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • Toki had abused Frailine, but the latter's response was to raise an army of the dead to kill her. However, this might be played with, as according to one story, the former had sent Frailine to Alaska, attached to a bus by magnet (without a way to get back), in response for her getting hit with a rock
    • According to one story, Bunny had bitten a then two-year-old Madgie in response to be being punched between the eyes, said bite being bad enough as to where Madgie needed stitches to close it, along with that it destroyed hair follicles in that spot.
    • As discussed and noted in "Batteries", Ryuuko ran away from home and didn't contact Satsuki for about two and a half years since then over an incident with Satsuki hiding the batteries.
  • The Dog Bites Back: As seen in Kiryuuin Chronicles and a few of her poems.
  • A Dog Named "Dog":
    • Bunny's actual name is "Ethelinda Berniece", leaving "Bunny" a nickname.
    • Being a scylla, "Cephie" refers her to cephalopod traits.
    • Being a zodiac Beanie Baby, the rat is called "Shǔ", the Chinese word for "rat".
    • Concerning "Violetta" is about an African violet, the name being a variant of the name "Violet".
  • Does Not Like Men:
    • Played with in the poem Androphobia. The poem makes it clear that the subject doesn't hate or dislike men, but is instead mildly afraid of them, due to some of her experiences.
    • Housecats and Sonogram implies the mother outright resents men and that resentment extends to her sons, who, as the former says, "only exist on a whim".
  • Door Step Baby: In Toki's Baby, we're introduced to Rose this way when her aunt, Doki, finds her on Toki's porch. Likewise, we're also introduced to Bunny's younger cousins this way (the first one being Eglantine, who was dropped on Bunny's porch).
  • Downer Ending:
    • The poem $900 ends on a rather depressing note, as, from what's implied, the subject slips away en-route to the hospital, as she couldn't afford to call for an ambulance.
    • The poems Beishang and What He Couldn't Save end on very depressing notes with the fathers never getting the chance to make amends with their dying daughters.
    • The same would also go for the poem "Fat Girl", as the subject, in effort to lose weight to be something other than "Fat Girl", develops an eating disorder and dies
  • The Dragon: Brownie does almost whatever Toki tells her without question, while the latter often fills an antagonist role. One could basically define the two as master and dog, as Brownie is an anthropomorphic dog and acts as dogs do.
  • Dream Weaver: Her poem series Lucid Dreams is a bit of a darker take on this and a Your Mind Makes It Real, as the titular lucid dreamer kills anyone she brings into her dreams (its not mentioned why she does, however) and is also capable of reincarnating.
  • Dressed to Heal: Doki's uniform, in a series of pics, was a traditional nurses outfit, up until the most recent one, in which case, her uniform are scrubs and scrub cap. Apparently, she traded in her original uniform for those because its "more practical".
  • Drives Like Crazy:
    • According to Brownie's Profile, she is known for driving while under the influence of caffeine, which is the equivalent of either driving drunk and/or under the influence of PCP, thus, she usually gets her license taken away. Apparently, she also has a habit of running her friend Toki over and tends to drive on the curb, as well as crash into buildings. Amoridere states that, somehow, she drives on top of buildings and was once observed driving on electrical and telephone wires.
    • In that vein, according to Amoridere and, at least, one story, Toki is just as bad, doing U-turns, doughnuts, and driving in reverse, all mostly occurring on a freeway and/or in heavy traffic, along with driving on top of other cars, doubly so when she wants to go somewhere fast. She also drives while doing something else, like changing diapers, for example. Unlike the aforementioned Brownie, she doesn't seem to get any sort of punishment for that.
  • Driven to Suicide:
    • A mentally ill Toki (outside of the Madgie series), Rei in Frozen, and many others.
    • Alluded to in Content to Wait and "lucky ones" where it's implied that the subject thought about killing herself but decided to live, though, from what can be read, she's probably not too happy with her choice to live. This comes back again in The Will to Keep Breathing, where the subject (wanting release) can't bring herself to do it.
    • #suicideprevention mentions this with an implied Take That towards suicide prevention campaigns.
    • Rodenticide references this with the subject having bouts where she thinks about killing herself with rat poison.
    • The Birds On Her Birdfeeder implied Satsuki attempted at least twice.
  • Dying Alone: This trope is the reason, in the poem, "All my friends are dead.", as to why the elderly subject attends a family gathering, as with all her friends dead and being at or near the end of her life, she wants to avoid this trope by going to said gathering.
  • Dying as Yourself: An elderly Shiro, in As the Wind Blows, dying shortly after he starts to remember.
  • Dysfunction Junction: Her casts of characters always include a few psychological issues.
  • Dying Town: One poem, Dying City, has the subject living in the titular city (presumably in Ohio, as the poem mentions "Rust Belt") and opts to continue living there, as she loves the place Warts and All and wants to make it better.

E-H

  • Eastern Zodiac: Her poem Visceral Needs and Beishang alluded to this, particularly the former with the zodiac standing in for her and her relatives (it seems).
  • Ecchi: Amoridere defines some of her artwork to be NSFW (however mildly).
  • Elective Mute: Also The Quiet One, a blind Satsuki in Feel doesn't talk throughout much of the fic (we do hear her thoughts). Because of this, some briefly thought she was also deaf. She surprises everyone when she does finally talk, as she's actually had a lot to say.
  • Elsewhere Fic: Because of Creator Provincialism and the fact that she doesn't know too much about a country, Amoridere tends to write her fanfictions (more specifically her Kill la Kill fics) where they take place in America, however, she does reuse the characters from the source material. However, her Wolf's Rain fic is more of the case, as the main cast, save Cheza, are original characters and the fic takes place in an entirely different universe.
  • Emotionless Girl:
    • Being emotionless is also the subject of at least one poem, titled, I Can't Feel Anymore. This trope comes up again in the poem, Severance, the subject suppressed her emotions so much that she can't identify, let alone tell what she's feeling anymore, wondering if she's even feeling them at all.
  • Emotions vs. Stoicism: In Weakness alludes to this, as the subject is stoic because, when she was a kid, expressing her emotions didn't go well on her end. Unfortunately, due to that and suppressing her emotions, she can't sort out how to express them, so she's stoic to remained composed.
  • Empathy Doll Shot: One untitled pic, which has a bloodied rabbit doll in an apparent rainy setting. Amoridere states that she hasn't a clue as to what prompted her draw that, however.
  • Empty Shell: What happens to the subject in Compliance after she's "fixed". Can't really be "defiant" if you're a "catatonic and unaware" shell of what you used to be.
  • Enfant Terrible: As Amo put it, "Kids can be monsters, really destructive little monsters."
    • Rose. What'd she do back in Tokyo that would've landed her imprisonment had her mother not have left within 24-hours of them finding out? Well, she piloted a mecha-bot, destroyed half of Tokyo, and injured 200 people, making her far worse than her mother before her, something that got her compared to Stewie Griffin. Also, like Stewie, she is completely aware of what she is doing and she is about one. In fact, a vignette involving her secret is named "Infant Terrible".
    • Madgie, to a lesser extent or heavier one, in light of recent stories. She's more so a jerkass than anything else, much of the time.
  • Environmental Symbolism: The titular rain and the weather in general seem to reflect Satsuki's overall mood and depression in the aftermath of her sister's death in the fanfic Raindrops. Naturally, the raindrops are also compared to falling tears at the end, at the same time, she notes how it never seems to be sunny. In the sequel, Sunshine, the sunny weather serves a juxtaposition between weather that seems cheerful and somber days, as Satsuki announces she is terminally ill and later on dies both on sunny days.
  • Epic Fail: Let this be known, Madgie cannot make Kool-Aid. To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week. The kicker? Madgie made said Kool-Aid as a way of being nice.
  • Epistolary Novel: Some parts of As the Wind Blows are from Shiro's end, as he's writing letters to a passed-on Satsuki.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While she's not exactly evil, nevertheless playing antagonistic roles in a few of her appearances, Amo states Toki, despite running the Yakuza, The Mafia, The Mafiya, and numerous other organizations, being mentally ill, running on Blue-and-Orange Morality, along with being a Troubled Abuser, and Manipulative Bitch has some standards, as she seems to prefer intimidation over killing, doesn't allow the Yakuza to recruit prostitutes (breaking that rule is a colossal no-no apparently), and, despite being a Rich Bitch, she really cannot stand Giselle (then again no one can).
  • Explosive Breeder: Erins (pronounced EE-rihns), Toki's species can be this, as females can reproduce at will and the species has two ways of reproduction (for females anyway).
  • Extra Eyes: Ori and Yon, with one having six and the other four. This is justified as the former is a spider, which do have more than two eyes (usually they have eight), while the latter is a youkai, said extra pair cluing one in to her inhuman nature.
  • Family Theme Naming: With her real name "Ethelinda", Bunny's parents are named Errikson and Esmeynelda.
  • Fat and Skinny:
    • A Good Day downplays this, as Ryuuko is chubby but, in by no means, fat, while Satsuki is slimmer.
    • Downplayed somewhat with Brittani and Brownie, as, if recent illustrations show, the former is chubbier than the latter, becoming this if they were paired together.
  • The Fatalist: Several of her characters, along with fatalism being a present theme.
  • Feathered Fiend: Shrikes are used as an Animal Motif in Single and Untested Backlogs for abusers and rapists respectively.
  • Flower Motifs:
    • Toki is generally associated with roses, referencing a tragic rose, said flowers being typically associated with beauty and the aforementioned or, otherwise, it alludes to her being beautiful, yet harmful (most species of rose have thorns).
    • The poem Garden of Sorrow is rife with these.
    • Lycoris Trail has the titular flowers, which means "no return". The subject returns to the place of a loved one and, fittingly, finds her gone
    • Exceptionally Cruel mentions lycoris flowers (no return/never seeing someone again), white lilies (death/transience), dead leaves (sadness), anemone (misfortune/loved one lost), marigolds (despair/grief), and cyclamen (goodbye/resignation).
  • Floral Theme Naming:
    • Brownie and Brittani's triplet younger sisters being named after perennial flowers (Patrinia, Delphinium, and Meadow Rue).
    • Sunflower, obviously, equally fitting is that her blog is mostly cheerful.
    • Lobelia Asphodel's name being a reference to a couple of flowers with rather negative meanings, malevolence (Lobelia) and regret/hopelessness (Asphodel). Her niece, Iona Pauline Saint, is a reference to the African violet (saintpaulia ionantha) and her two other nieces are named "Hesperis" (a flower that's, supposedly, more noticeable at night) and Gera, whose name is "Geranium" just minus the "-nium" part.
    • Rose and, her sister, Orchid. The same would also apply to Glorie, as she was named after morning glories, and Violetta (adopted) being a variant. Their mother has a thing for flowers.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling:
    • In much of the stories, when dealing with Toki, Doki plays this responsible role to Toki's foolish, as she's more mentally well than the former is. Weirdly enough, Toki is the responsible to Jinx and Spin's foolish, as she's smarter than the latter two.
    • Secret Sunshine plays with this. Ryuuko is the responsible sibling to Satsuki's foolish, as the latter left her child to be raised by Ryuuko, forcing her to be more responsible to care for her niece, while Satsuki, for some reason, didn't want to deal with the responsibilities. To really emphasize this, Satsuki was mentioned to be living her life "like normal" (going out with friends, for example), while Ryuuko was mostly left to stay at home with Kiko. Not surprisingly, Ryuuko is pretty resentful towards Satsuki for that.
  • Good Girls Avoid Abortion: She plays with this
    • In a couple of earlier works, Options and Considering and Toki's Baby , it's discussed and one of the characters talks about it negatively, whereas the others did bring up that, with principles against the procedure, one doesn't have too many options, the overall opinion being neutral.
    • In .flow poem fic "Lucky", where Sabitsuki (a prostitute in this fic) has had abortions in the past, however, it's not that she has them or whether she's a "good girl", it's that procedures are back-alley ones and, in one such occasion, the procedure (like at least one other before)is botched, which almost kills her and leads to a severe infection, ending her time as a prostitute.
    • In Secret Sunshine, this is more played with. Satsuki did elect to keep (and hide) her pregnancy with Kiko but gave her to Ryuuko and didn't help in that department, except for sending checks (something of a deconstruction). Later, after sending the latter a letter, Ryuuko finds out that Satsuki was pregnant before but she didn't carry it to term (implied aversion), while Mako figures out that the "crossroads" line means that Satsuki is too far along to "do anything", so she doesn't have any other options (justified).
    • Housecats and Sonogram plays with this in the mother's case. The mother otherwise averts this, as the poems imply that, using an herbal tea, she's given herself sex-selective abortions, however, the trope is also deconstructed as she's not good mother to the kids she did have.
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language: Sometimes in her writing, particularly with her fanfics. This was more the case with her earlier works.

I-K

  • Ill Girl : Most of her works involve this, either literally or metaphorically.
    • Toki's a more clearer case, due to having, what Amoridere describes as a "wiped immune system" so she gets sick a lot.
    • Beishang dies from some terminal illness, though her case is more Death by Despair.
    • The subject in Dialysis is really extreme case. Whatever she has means that, without the machines she's attached to, she'd die otherwise.
    • The girl in the poem What He Couldn't Save and, shortly after she falls comatose, she dies, while her father searched for a cure.
  • An Ice Person: Amoridere's "Ice Queen" in the poems A momentary thaw, Antifreeze, Burned, and Dying Flames is a different example than most. From what's implied, she can generate fire (or warmth), like she does with ice, however, she seems to have some Power Incontinence, as she can't control how often she freezes, nor can she keep herself from being burned by her own flames.

L-P

  • The Last Dance:
    • As we find out at the end of Paper Cranes, this trope is Satsuki's reason for doing everything in the fic but it's obvious more obvious in chapter 9, where she gets Ryuuko to take her outside to look at cherry blossoms and, because of a weakened heart, she winds up in the hospital because of the excitement but doesn't mind because she's dying anyway.
    • A more subtle version happens in "So we meet again.", with the elderly subject having fun with a friend (also elderly) for the first in years and the last time in their lives, as they (her friend especially) don't have much time left.
  • Last of His Kind: In As the Wind Blows, an elderly Mako becomes the "Last of Honnouji" (and the original cast) after Shiro dies of illness and old age. When she passes away after writing her diary entry, there's no one left.
  • Long Lived: Toki's species, erins, can live for a really long time, between 300 years at the minimum or 2-3,000 years at the maximum
  • Mad Oracle: Downplayed with Toki: She does have clairvoyant abilities but she's on medicine to keep her coherent.
  • Marshmallow Hell: There's a poem, titled Marshmallow Hell, where Doki does this to Jinx and Spinner as a punishment. As the poem mentions, the latter two would have just taken the beating because, when Doki hugs, she hugs tightly.
  • Meaningful Name
    • Beishang is a Chinese word, according to some translations, that means "sorrow"
    • Doki, in some translations, can mean "ire" or, alternatively, can mean "earthenware". Other than being a case of Beware the Nice Ones, she mentioned, as a child, she used to eat clay.
    • As a princess, Kamiliah is meant to be perfect, as per her royal expectations. After she runs away, she rechristens herself "Barabel" , a name meaning "stranger".
    • Glorie, tying into Floral Theme Naming, was born early in the morning, like how morning glories bloom in the morning.
  • Mermaid Problem: Amoridere addressed this by having said mermaid and naga lay eggs (like fish and snakes would).
  • Poetry: In general, she writes more poems than stories, though, Amoridere takes it a step further in that she tells stories with her poems.
  • Poem Fic: Some of her fanfics are written as poems, an example of which would be She Still Cried, which is a poem about then infants Satsuki and Ryuuko.
  • Polar Opposite Twins:
    • Doki is much different than her twin sister Toki. Both dress somewhat alike but wear different colors: black or purple for Toki, reflecting her enigmatic, yet domineering but secretly kindhearted personality, and pink and white for Doki, reflecting her kind, gentle, and angelic personality. It isn't just that, according to Amoridere, Doki is more morally grounded than Toki is (as in, she wouldn't stoop to schemes or anything illegal to meet her demands, whereas the latter probably and more often than not would), along with being more levelheaded, and, Toki, well, she is described as being one who does what she wants, whenever she so wants to do it, consequences be damned. It was also noted that, when the two were children, Doki was always the shy one, while Toki was more assertive.
    • Brownie is very much different than her sister, Brittani, in that Brittani is described as being prim and proper, while Brownie is described as tomboyish. Apparently, them looking different than one another is supposed to reflect that (to go further, Brownie is a blonde with blue eyes, while Brittani is brunette with magenta/pink eyes).
  • Post-Stress Overeating: This is subject in Food Becomes A Friend, in which the subject opts to eat to deal with her upset.
  • Precision F-Strike: Doki saying the C-word (which is emphasized) in Esther, while in labor.
  • Promotion to Parent:
    • Bunny has been a parent to her siblings and cousins Sweetheart, Speckles, Eglantine, and, of course, Madgie. She was initially unwilling to take on these responsibilities but, with her younger cousins, she seems not to mind as much.
    • According to Doki's Chronicles, Toki, the older twin, took something of a caregiving role to Doki when their parents died.
    • According to a description of a photograph with Sunflower and Mako (the latter is a rowlet) and several photos prior, Jackie seems to have promoted to parent (weirdly, she's one of the younger of the pikachu, Jinx is the oldest).
    • Satsuki in "Batteries" was this to Ryuuko up until she ran away and, later on, Ryuuko's baby, Hoshi, becoming a case of Nephewism.
  • Purple Prose: While Amoridere doesn't often use flowery language (or much of it), she is descriptive, especially when said story is told through a 1st-person narration (usually with how someone looks).

Q-S

  • The Quiet One: Satsuki in the fic titled Feel and she's only spoken once, when she was a toddler, generally being described a someone who "speaks when she wants to", thus communicating nonverbally, however, we hear her thoughts and ruminations on some matters. Naturally, coupled with the fact that she is blind, people tend to assume she's deaf. When she does finally speak in chapter nine, she really does have a lot to say.
  • Rage Against the Reflection:
    • Toki smashes the mirror in the poem Fragmented Rose, out of self-hate.
    • Shattered Mirror has this for much the same reason as to why Toki in the abovementioned does, as the subject despises the resemblance she has to her abusive parents.
  • Rashomon Style: Her Based on a Dream fic Second Story Window with Satsuki and Ragyo's perspective as how the two girls exited second story window and the events leading up to it. Satsuki's point of view claimed Ragyo was psychotic and would be prone to lashing out violently and the fact that her little sister jumped, whereas Ragyo's POV states that Satsuki was psychotic, although not violent and, actually, dropped her little sister out of the window before jumping herself. The traits that remains true to both point of views is that secretary committed suicide, the house they moved in, a missing little sister, the children being left in the care of a new family, and someone being mentally ill. Whether or not one of the point of views is correct is left up in the air for the reader to decide.
  • Reality Ensues: How she'd write some of her stories, especially her fanfics.
  • Rebellious Princess: Kamilah in The Story of a Disfigured Princess as something a downplayed version of this, as, initially, she was obedient to her loving but very overprotective and, subtly, overbearing family, regardless of their restrictions. However, because of her family's wants and expectations and the fact their relationship with her seemed to be one-sided, she decides, after an argument, to mutilate her face, grab as much of stuff and wealth as she can, change her name to "Barabel", and flee to another village. Her mourning family sends people to look for her but, because of her scars, they don't recognize her, leaving her to live quietly but happy with the villagers, said villagers loving her as much she does they.
  • Red Light District: "Batteries" mentions prostitution (and stripping), as Ryuuko did strip and sleep around for money and, later, Satsuki was mentioned as to have worked in a red light district, however, we don't know specifically what she did (we do know she didn't sleep around or strip). From what's implied, Ryuuko is living in or near a red light district, as she's mentioned to be staying in the "shitass part of Tokyo", which, from what we can read, is probably closer to a Type 2 and a little bit of Type 3
  • Repressed Memories:
    • The poem, Repression, features something like this, as the subject wants to forget what some of her loved ones did and the events surrounding them but she can't, so she resorts to scribbling out their faces and acting like they don't exist and nothing happened.
    • Also serving as some form of Trauma-Induced Amnesia, this happens in the poem What Became Unearthed, where the subject recollects something traumatic from her childhood and said event being mentioned to have haunted her subconscious until it was dealt with, implying this.
  • Rich Bitch: Toki can be bitchy, wealthiness aside, however, Giselle is apparently this trope far worse, considering everyone couldn't stand her and being a Rich Bitch is a reason why Giselle was evicted.
  • Right Behind Me: In Just Doki, Doki had actually stood behind him, while Jinx ranted about her to Bunny, to which the latter of the three, said, “You know, I wouldn’t be saying that with her standing right behind you.”
  • Ripped from the Headlines: "The news can be interesting source of inspiration." Interestingly, she also hates watching the news.
  • Rouge Angles of Satin: Amoridere is prone to misspelling things when she writes, however, this mostly comes from the fact her word program doesn't have a spellcheck, regardless, she is quick to correct whatever errors she made once she notices or if pointed out.
  • Seashell Bra: Clamshelle is the only one so far wearing a seashell bra, the other ones usually wear flowers or something akin to a bathing suit top, like Sing or Oyster.
  • Secretly Dying:
    • The subject of Raindrops and Sunshine, however, in the case of the former, we can't really tell if Ryuuko knew she was dying or, rather, if she was in denial, regardless living out the remainder of her life with Satsuki, while, in the latter, Satsuki only brings up that she's sick when the disease has hit terminal.
    • Also the same with the fic Paper Cranes but played with, Satsuki is sick but Ryuuko is quite aware that she's hiding something and doesn't know what, regardless, knows that Satsuki seemed to be in denial about dying. In the end, we (and Ryuuko) find out why Satsuki kept the extent and diagnosis of her illness a secret, the reason being because she was dying of heart failure and the doctors offered to place her on a list to receive a heart transplant, even if there were no donors available, to which she declined, knowing she'd die before a donor is found and not wanting Ryuuko to kill herself, so the latter's heart could be used in a transplant.
  • Security Blanket: A concept darkly (but humorously) explored with a pic titled "Security Blanket", where a little girl is holding a severed leg.
  • Self-Harm:
    • A subject of at least a few poems (namely, Hair Pulling, The Cuts, and Smiles Can Hide Secrets to name a few) and and stories (The Last Pain and the later parts of the Gensokyo 20XX series).
    • As noted in a few stories and poems, Toki is prone to doing this, given that she's mentally ill. The first instance with her doing this is in Resentment and Insanity, where she hurls herself down a flight of stairs to make the hallucinations stop, pulls hairs out of her head, and, later, she cuts herself when Jinx and Spin are forced to leave. A later story, Paintbrush, has her on the verge of doing this (in one of her "episodes") and Doki offering her the titular item.
  • Self-Made Orphan: The poem Her Parents implies this, considering the little girl has a reason to be taking the loss of her parents so well.
  • Sense Loss Sadness:
    • Happens to Ryuuko in I Never Really Knew, after she (and Satsuki) finds out that her eyesight had been failing for some time, in which case she cries, even more at the idea her vision may be gone permanently. After she gets her tumor gets removed and adjusts, she overcome this.
    • Averted in Feel, where Satsuki tells Mataro, that, because she lost her sight as baby, she didn't feel any or know any different, as she had time to get used to it.
  • Serial Escalation: The poem A Cut for You has a rather gory case of this as its about two friends (presumably female, according to one of the lines and the description) playing a game where the goal seems to be who can cause themselves the most injury. The game ends when one of them hacks off a limb and they declare it a tie.
  • Rule of Symbolism: Usually in her poems and artwork.
  • Social Services Does Not Exist: While they did exist, social services didn't do anything for Toki throughout the time she was abused in Flashbacks I, until she was taken to the hospital for leukemia and even then Kaeda got off free for her crimes, as she was only charged in neglect. To make it worse, shortly after, she was sent back to live with her, despite almost dying of her illness or injuries prior.
  • Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: She writes on the more cynical end.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Shown Their Work: She does like to research and would like to portray things as accurately as she can.
  • Silk Hiding Steel: Toki and Doki but the trope is more apparent with the latter, as Doki is does tend to behave "ladylike" and tends to be willing to handle things with fairness and by being nice, however, she will fight if need be (while the former tends to fight whenever).
  • Skewed Priorities: Amoridere wrote a poem specifically titled this after this trope (Skewed Priorities), where the subject reflects on the habits of her relatives, taking note of one instance where said relatives needed a car but brought a game console. Naturally, the subject thought of them as stupid for that.
  • Slice of Life: Some of her poems and stories but this trope tends to be more obvious with the former.
  • Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Amoridere's anthros are between Little Bit Beastly and Funny Animal. However, non-anthro animals do exist in the same universe as anthros do.
  • Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: Her stories tend to have mostly females in them, the reason being, according to her, "It's easier to write from." At times, she does have males but females tend to outnumber them. Regardless, she tends to portray them as being rather equal.
  • Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: She writes more on the cynical end.
  • Snow Means Death:
    • A good chunk of her stories take place in the winter and are usually bleak. This would be slightly more obvious in the poem The Last Snow.
    • In the aptly titled Frozen, we have Rei's suicide taking place as snow is falling on the ground, the snow symbolizing purity and her blood being what stains it.
    • As we find out in the last entry of Paper Cranes, Satsuki had passed away of heart failure in the tenth of the winter month January.
  • Song Fic : Asuka and Frozen, however, the former is different than most in the sense that the lyrics come after the story, while in the former (said fic also being a poem fic) has the lyrics interlinking as the song plays in the background.
  • Son of a Whore: In "Batteries", with Ryuuko having worked as a prostitute (and stripper), the babies she has, Hoshi and, twins, Hotaru and Nikko, are these. Her being pregnant with the latter two causes her to leave the profession.
  • Spell My Name with an "S":
    • Sunflower's nickname is either spelled "Sunnie" or "Sunni".
    • Is Brittani's name spelled "Brittanie", "Brittani", "Britni", or "Britani"? So far the most constant spelling seems to be "Brittani".
  • Species Surname: Bunny's last name is "Rabbitwright", referring to being a rabbit.
  • The Speechless:
    • Cyanne and, according to one story, something is wrong with her vocal cords. She does, somehow or another, forces herself to speak, however, she can't talk past a certain volume.
    • Because she's supposed to be baby, Sunflower's blog implied that she couldn't speak yet, considering that the photo captions are italicized and minus quotation marks (implying that those are thoughts).
  • Stepford Smiler: The depressed and unstable types were referenced in the poem Smiles Can Hide Secrets.
  • Streetwalker: While "Batteries" makes it clear that Ryuuko was a prostitute (and a stripper), it's unclear if she was this type, though, it's implied that likely she was (or close to being this), given her living in a Red Light District ("shitass parts of Tokyo"), financial situation, and it's not said how/where she meets her "dates". When she becomes pregnant (again) and is further along, she has to quit and takes up "honest" work at a laundromat (which doesn't pay well).
  • The Stoic: Weakness deconstructs this, as the subject became a stoic because of childhood abuse and stays that way because she didn't learn how to manage them otherwise.
  • Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Apparently, her pikachu Sunflower has this disposition, if her blog entries are a clue, as alluded to in her name.
  • Surprise Pregnancy:
    • Ryuuko's first pregnancy in "Batteries" with Hoshi (or, as she intended to name her, "Esther"), as she didn't know until she had given birth to her.
    • This seems to be inverted in Secret Sunshine, where Satsuki knew she was pregnant and hid it, making it a surprise to everyone else, with Ryuuko noticing something off (nausea, mood swings, eating more than usual, and "being bigger in the middle") but not putting the pieces together, until she's handed a baby.
    • Toki and Doki's pregnancies were these. However, Toki didn't know she was pregnant and she wasn't conscious when she gave birth, while Doki found out while she was in labor. This is justified, as neither of the two had babies prior and there's the fact that erin pregnancies aren't too overt (along with that they reproduced through parthenogenesis). This is especially the case with the former, as, despite having given birth twice, she delivers Glorie in her bed, unaware that she was pregnant, however, Glorie justifies this, as Toki isn't always aware of things and the other characters didn't notice anything off, either.
  • Survivor Guilt: Rule of Three implies the subject is dealing with this or something like this with the poem mentioning how the subject, remembering an agreement with Death, wonders if three of her loved ones dying is making her time longer.

T-V

  • Take a Third Option: This is best seen in the poem Chaotic Indifference, which has the subject coming to the conclusion that, while she can't love the ones who've wronged her, she also can't bring herself to hate them, so she concludes it best to be indifferent towards them.
  • Tangled Family Tree: It's hard to explain Bunny and Madgie's family tree but it is clear it is this trope, seeing that the two have so many relatives, it is hard to tell who is related to which, as well as the fact that they are so numerous they are scattered throughout the world, coupled with the fact that some of them are all younger than Madgie. The fact that they are anthro rabbits also has something to do with it.
  • Terse Talker:
    • Vielle in the story titled, "No!", justified as she's about two.
    • Ryuuko in the story Through Thick and Thin during one conversation, however, she's mentioned to be tired.
  • Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The titular "Computer Rat", as we know the rat is a girl because of her eyelashes and a flower behind an ear.
  • Theme Twin Naming:
    • Toki and Doki are named as a play on Japanese word for "sometimes" (tokidoki) as well as rhyming.
    • Brownie and Brittani are alliterative twin names.
    • While they are not twins and are instead triplets, Patrinia, Delphinia, and Meadow Rue follow a theme of being named after flowers.
  • Time-Delayed Death:
    • Rodenticide alludes to this with the subject having considered suicide by rat poison, this trope being a reason why she hasn't done it, as she'd die of internal bleeding, which'll take long enough for her to "comtemplate what led up to those moments".
    • Satsuki's death of heart failure in Paper Cranes.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Brownie and Brittani, as the former is tomboyish and prefers more "masculine" hobbies, while the latter is more prim and proper and prefers the opposite.
  • Too Dumb to Live:
    • As we learn in one story, antagonizing Toki or failing to pay rent (when you live in her house, no less) will not end well for you, as Giselle didn't pay mind to consideration. To elaborate, she was cursed for not heeding the advice.
    • Despite warnings not to, Toki buys a possessed doll and it's quite obvious as to what happens next. To her credit, however, her sense of danger was suppressed by the medication she was on (Toki, sans medication, would probably be paranoid).
  • The Topic of Cancer: In three ways
    • Toki's a case that borders on Littlest Cancer Patient and wanted to enjoy what barrowed time she had left.
    • Ryuuko having Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Through Thick and Thin and, its prequel, Odds and Probabilities. Her case is a little downplayed, as she takes the news rather well and has a rather realistic outlook on the subject, all while, looking to spend time with her sister.
    • Sick with leukemia, Satsuki, in Sunshine, is matter-of-fact towards the diagnosis (and prognosis), along with already feeling like she has little to lose (with her sister dying some time before in Raindrops).
  • Toplessness From the Back:
    • Brownie in the picture titled "Tramp Stamp" and Bunny in "Big Beautiful Bunny Dance VII". Also, Toki in "Bathing", then again, she is fully nude (her buttocks hidden from view).
    • A more recent[when?] pic has this with Doki, who is looking over her shoulder.
  • Toxic Friend Influence:
    • In Toki, Jinx, and Spin in the Bronx, a lesson Toki had taken from her new friends, Barcelona (known as "Pup") and Holly is that bad behavior and criminal acts are tolerated and okay, considering that she somehow destroyed the front of a store with a brick and the latter two encouraging it.
    • Toki's effect on her friends would be similar, as Brownie will do almost anything the former tells her to, often going along with whatever the former's schemes are.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: A few with her portrayals of the Kill la Kill cast in Particular
    • In her portrayals of Ryuuko (particularly in photos), Ryuuko's shown to be going after anything with chicken or lemons. The former is, apparently, because, according to Nakashima, Ryuuko's favorite food is game-ni, a dish that has chicken in it.
    • For Satsuki, it's tea and things that pair with tea.
    • Mako's an Extreme Omnivore
  • Tragic Dream:
    • It's mentioned that, in Broken Gate, Nezumi wanted to live quiet and contently. Unfortunately, as we can see, her life wasn't anything like she wanted.
    • Asuka (implied to be either Ryuuko or Satsuki) wanted to fly like the birds she's enjoyed watching from her hospital room. However, true to some examples of this trope, this dream is impossible, especially while she is alive, as she succumbs to her illness in the end. However, her sister, who muses on her death, believes she's reincarnated as a songbird.
  • Troubled Abuser: Toki starts out troubled by her past and abuses her friends and then Frailine (real name: Jaynine). Her reasons for any of this: She's mentally ill and cannot always discern right from wrong, and another is that she was abused and almost died of leukemia as a result of her caregiver's neglect (something she can't let go and that drove her insane, thus making her ticking time bomb all through high school, in which she was borderline insane) and now wanted to be the one in control and the one to hurt. Her reasons for abusing Frailine is because its more like revenge and a slap to the face to her deceased adopted (technically foster) mother for abusing her after Frailine was born. Sad thing about that, she wasn't always like this and was once very sweet, making her sort of a Jerkass Woobie and her past a Break the Cutie.
  • Truth in Television: As the poem Bras would cite, a large bust can make shopping for the underwear in question difficult.
  • Typhoid Mary: The subject in Sneezing Blood and it's sequels is a weird case, as she's been symptomatic but, with medications, she's not contagious. However, by the time the poem rolls around, her meds stopped working...
  • Uncatty Resemblance: In Aunt, Iona described said Lobelia looked like one of her pets, a Dumbo rat.
  • Unfinished Business: From The Girl in the Pink Dress, we have Nui and the reason she haunts the Kiryuuins is because she just simply wants to go outside, something that, due to illness which caused her death eighty-years prior (assuming the story takes place in 2015), she couldn't do, leaving her ghost trapped in the house long after her death. When she is freed, she thanks the Kiryuuins before leaving and, later on, reincarnating.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Toki, when we were introduced to her backstory, however, the effects of abuse, enablement (i.e bad behavior was encouraged), and, later on, mental illness turned her into what she is now.
  • Vague Age:
    • Toki and her twin sister Doki are older than they appear but how old they are is never stated, though, going by Doki's Chronicles, they should be about either in their 80s or 90s (probably nearing their hundreds, if the stories go by real time), as the setting of one of the stories was in the 1920s-1930s and their clothing from that point in time seems to suggest about that. To add to this, their profiles list their birth-year as "???" and Amoridere herself doesn't know, which further delays calculation.
    • Brownie's profile says she and her sister are in their 20s, though she was about twelve or thirteen when she met Toki, making that a tad more logical.
    • There is also Eglantine and presumably she is a toddler, as she is still in diapers and young enough to attend nursery school, though, if the passage of time is to go by, she should be four if not five and what is known is that she still a young child. Justified, in this case as no one has no clue as to how old Eglantine is because they don't know her birthday, thus they wouldn't know the year in which she was born in. The same thing would also apply to the rest of the kids that haven't had their ages said.
    • According to the her blog, Sunnie is three (as of 2018), however, it's not clear if that's her actual age or if that's the age of her blog (the oldest post is from 2015). In another vein, we have her siblings' age, as, apparently, Jinx is the oldest and she's the youngest, which would place the other siblings' ages somewhere in the middle.
    • This occurs Train Tracks, with Rei, Satsuki, Ryuuko, and Nui's ages, although, Rei's implied to be a teenager, at least to Satsuki's understanding. Semi justified as Satsuki doesn't quite remember how old they were at the time she narrated.
    • In Aunt, Iona alludes to this when it comes to her aunt. She could probably guess Lobelia's height and weight but not so much her age, as her looks could point her being younger than she looks.
  • Virtual Soundtrack: This is more present in her recent works, though she does this in-universe and out, as to pick a song she listens to it.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Amoridere seems to have a fondness of these.
    • A notable example would be Toki and Doki, her twin sister, however, downplayed. They have their moments of feuding but, regardless, they will come through for each other.
    • Toki and her friends. She cares for them but doesn't hesitate to brawl with them or beat them up, either.

W-Z

  • We All Die Someday: Subtle, but a lot of her poems seems to have this a theme, being based around death, mortality, and the related.
  • Weight Woe:
    • Subtly implied in the pic "Round Observation"
    • Deconstructed in the poem Fat Girl, where the titular "Fat Girl" develops an eating disorder trying to make the bullies leave her alone and dies as a result.
    • Downplayed in A Good Day, where Ryuuko (who is chubby) is upset with her weight and considers herself to be not as pretty as Satsuki (who is slimmer) because she gets bullied for it. Satsuki helps breaks her out of this.
    • Her Body implies this to be one of the issues the subject has with her appearance
    • Feeding Tube has the subject doing risky fad diet to lose weight.
    • Corset implies this, as the subject wears a corset to, quote, "fit better in her clothes"
    • As we do know, referencing Ryuuko's weight in Secret Sunshine is a sore spot. In one chapter, she tells Satsuki that she was "pretty once".
  • What If...?: How she came up with the fics Kill la Kill AU and Kiryuuin Chronicles
  • What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Played with:
    • The poem Maggots plays with this, as the titular maggots aren't really described as adorable in any sense of the word but, somehow, the subject manages to consider them endearing and dubs them a "pet".
    • Oddly, in the poems, Spider-web and The Sentence, the subject doesn't view spiders as endearing and, in the latter, she actually kills one (presumably because she's arachnophobic).
    • We have this in Caterpillar, where the subject welcomes a caterpillar, which would be considered a pest, otherwise.
  • Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Generally, the locations of her stories are rather vague but, most of the time, she does portray them in an American setting (her home country), unless stated otherwise (i.e her fanfic Concerning a Drifter takes place in Japan). Likewise, while they take place in America, we don't know exactly where, unless also stated (i.e Jinx, Spin, and Toki, according to a few stories, stayed in the Bronx, New York).
  • Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?:
    • In Glorie, this is downplayed, as Doki wondered if Toki is coherent when she said she wanted to call her baby "Glorie". She admits that the name is odd but not outlandish, like most other examples.
    • This trope is played oddly, as it's a middle name, in the poem "Anette", where the name itself is normal but the question asked is "Who names Their Kid After a Stillborn?" because the subject doesn't much care for the middle name on these grounds, thinking of it as cursed and emphasizing that she's not a Replacement Goldfish.
  • Will Not Tell a Lie: Apparently, according to one story, Doki will not lie, even if she was "staring into the face of death". However, in parenthesis, this would depend on the circumstance in which she would have to. Narration: Everyone knew Doki would never tell a lie, even if she was staring into the face of death (though, it would depend on the circumstances in which she would have to lie), and surely no one, not even, she herself, can convince her to lie.
  • Would Hurt a Child:
    • Toki plays with this, as she seems inclined to harm Jaynine, but she is very caring to other children that depend on her.
    • Child abuse seems to be a very common theme in her works.
  • Wrench Wench: Brownie, mostly, and usually being mentioned to be tinkering with something mechanical. Her profile to mentions her having a fondness for making guns
  • Writers Cannot Do Math: As Amoridere's stated, she's not very good at math and calculations in regards to someone's age or the passages of time in story, at times, are incorrect.
  • Your Days Are Numbered:
    • A then Secretly Dying Satsuki in Paper Cranes had heart failure and was actually supposed to die some time in May (presumably before, if not after, her birthday) but instead lived to January 10th, the day she died, opting to spend her final months with Ryuuko.
    • Toki, a heart-breaking example, was the victim of this while she was ill leukemia in this Flashbacks I and Toki's Firefly. Both instances are the same but, the latter story omitted one thing and that was that she was being severely abused and was neglected, leading to her days being formally numbered and the amount of time she was given was only a few weeks, proving the extent of her illness.
  • Your Days Are Numbered:
    • A then Secretly Dying Satsuki in Paper Cranes had heart failure and was actually supposed to die some time in May (presumably before, if not after, her birthday) but instead lived to January 10th, the day she died, opting to spend her final months with Ryuuko.
    • Toki, a heart-breaking example, was the victim of this while she was ill leukemia in this Flashbacks I and Toki's Firefly. Both instances are the same but, the latter story omitted one thing and that was that she was being severely abused and was neglected, leading to her days being formally numbered and the amount of time she was given was only a few weeks, proving the extent of her illness.
  • Younger Than They Look: According the description for Lobelia, she looks older than what she actually is, as she's always frowning and always squinting.
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