Ar tonelico: Difference between revisions

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* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: Grathnode crystals.

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Not that this is a bad thing for going through Cosmospheres.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Ar Tonelico just loves these.

** The first age ends with a class 5, with everything retreating to artificial [[Floating Continent|Floating Continents]].

** The second age ends with a class 1, that would have been a class 3 had Mir succeeded

** {{spoiler|And the third age is about to end with a class X unless you do something about it}}

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* [[Fantastic Racism]]: In ''Elemia'', Reyvateils are often treated as second class citizens, to the extent that Lyner is depicted as standing out for treating them like he would any normal human.

** Arguably justified in the first game, since aside from the portion of Tenba that Bourd is running, most of the racism is aimed at Reyvateils without a partner, such as Claire. This makes sense, seeing as {{spoiler|Reyvateils on the Wings of Horus had destroyed a good half of a continent when Mir rebelled.}}

** Inverted in the third game, where Reyvateils hold dominance over humans.

** Subverted in the city of Platina. When {{spoiler|The Church Attacks}} you can see how the knights fight without backup to give their Reyvateil partners time to rest and recover. Hilariously, the {{spoiler|Church Knights}} that they were fighting act more like Tenba grunts than anything else.

** Subverted again by Lyner in regards to {{spoiler|viruses, like Ayatane.}}

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* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Subverted with Krusche. The only time she EVER gets fired up at all is when she's talking about or involved with high-tech airships and getting to the top of the Tower. 99% of the rest of the time she's the incredibly laid-back, droll, [[Deadpan Snarker]] type.

* [[Fix Fic]]: Done in-game {{spoiler|in Shurelia}}'s Cosmosphere story at the request of Lyner, who Justifies it by ([[Lampshade Hanging|what else]]) "the original sucks!" {{spoiler|Mir takes this [[This Is Unforgivable!|very personally]], which could be seen as a [[Take That]] to [[Fix Fic]] in general. Or she just takes her works [[Serious Business|way too seriously]]}}

** [[Fridge Logic|The completion of all cosmosphere levels could be referred to as this.]] Cosmosphere levels, especially the lower ones, represent a reyvateil's issues, where they act out inner conflicts and have not been able to resolve them. The job of a cosmosphere diver is essentially to act as a [[Self-Insert Fic]] [[Marty Stu]] character, breaking the reyvateil out of a hopeless cycle and encouraging them to reach a good ending. What Lyner did {{spoiler|when Shurelia died on her fifth cosmosphere level}} was exactly what a cosmosphere diver was supposed to do, since leaving something like that unresolved would have left {{spoiler|Shurelia}} scarred for life. Of course, Lyner was [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] {{spoiler|since Shurelia doesn't have a real cosmosphere, and this was just a visual novel she was using to replicate the experience.}} This becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] {{spoiler|when Lyner really does treat it just like a real cosmosphere, and Shurelia like a real reyvateil.}}

* [[Flanderization]]: Any part of a Reyvateil's problems/desires gets blown up to ''spectacular'' proportions in their Cosmosphere. Later levels don't even ''try'' to hide it via metaphor.

* [[Floating Continent]]: The Wings of Horus, and Firefly Alley as a smaller example.

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* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: The first game had a glitch in which an item necessary to advance the plot could be acquired before activating a particular event that allows the player to progress.

** Though not necessarily game-breaking since it pertains to an end-game, extra-content boss, Ar Tonelico 2 had a boss that was virtually unbeatable because one of her moves would freeze the game and force a reset. The only way to prevent this was to beat her in one turn, preventing her from using it.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Lyner is very definitely [[Book Dumb]], something he is repeatedly harassed about throughout the game. He also mastered the basics of [[Item Crafting|Grathmelding]] in less than a day and by doing nothing else than following instructions, became the main source of everything the party uses throughout the game. By the third phase, the stuff he cooks up rivals or surpasses [[Lost Technology|First Era technology]], he is teaching Grathmelding to the one who created its basic principles centuries ago and his magnum opus ends up being a pocket-sized version of the gigantic building-sized power reactor that powers their entire civilization, which by the way doubles as a

* [[Genre Shift]]: Cosmosphere's take a shift towards more [[Visual Novel]]-type stories. And, usually, each level is an [[Out-of-Genre Experience]].

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Oh dear Lord, does it ever.

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* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Human/Reyvateil romance is nothing anyone bats an eye at (they're fully capable of interbreeding), but there's also {{spoiler|the human Krusche and the Teru Jack/Harmonica, at the end of ''Elemia''.}}

* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: Shurelia says something similar to this during the second level of her "Cosmosphere".

* [[Invisible Backup Band]]: Whenever one of the Reyvateils sings.

* [[Item Crafting]]: Grathmelding

* [[Joshikousei]]: All the heroine Reyvateils (so far) have a school uniform costume.

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** Until you try them in real life. BBQ soda actually tastes as bad as one would imagine ([[Suspiciously Specific Denial|…not that this troper tested this in real life]]).

* [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]]: Diving into a Reyvateil's Cosmosphere (which involves playing through scenarios that are a cross between dating and psychotherapy) will result in the Reyvateil crafting powerful new songs which she can use in battle. In addition, to unlock new Cosmosphere levels, you must first invite them into your room at night and... have an intimate chat with them, with topics ranging from scenic observations to expressing jealousy.

* [[Like a Son to Me]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|Shurelia}} repeatedly tells Lyner that he reminds her of her father, probably due to Lyner's grathmelding genius & the fact that he's one of the few people to ever see {{spoiler|the goddess}} as a person who needs help sometimes, just like anyone else.

* [[Limit Break]]: In the first game, these can be activated after guarding a Reyvateil.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Reyvateils get costume changes, but, except for Croix out of ''Metafalica'', who has a civilian set of clothes (with glasses), none of the other front-liners ever change clothes. While characters like Krusche or Amarie might get away with it, due to their "[[Stripperific|armor]]" essentially being bulletproof clothes, Leglius in particular is never seen outside of his full plate armor, which practically looks like its breastplate was made by welding the bow of a battleship to his chest.

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* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Bishop Falss and Ayatane.}}

* [[Momma's Boy]]: {{spoiler|Ayatane. Literally everything he does is for his mother's sake (i.e Mir's), for [[Love Redeems|better]] or [[Love Makes You Evil|worse]]}}

* [[More Friends More Benefits]]: Encouraged in the original - you could wind up being sexually abused in the Cosmosphere more often than you might like if you're assiduous about keeping the Cosmosphere up to date (What are you doing with that electricity, {{spoiler|Aurica}}?).

* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: Encouraged in the original - you could wind up being sexually abused in the Cosmosphere more often than you might like if you're assiduous about keeping the Cosmosphere up to date (What are you doing with that electricity, {{spoiler|Aurica}}?).

* [[Multiple Endings]]: The games allow you to choose which Reyvateil you'd like to spend the rest of your life with, as well as having a few more endings on top of that.

* [[Mundane Utility]]: In one of the radio dramas, the costume change is used as a quick way to change out of clothes.

* [[Musical Theme Naming]]: Harmonica and Flute.

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** {{spoiler|She's noted that she could definitely beat Shurelia in a fight simply because she knows all the latter's weaknesses. It helps that the former has a stronger up-front personality so she could simply bully the latter regardless.}}

* [[Powers as Programs]]: The various Hymn Crystals found in the two games are pretty much this. The Hymns (the song sung) vary depending on the singer, but the effects do not.

* [[Power of Love]]: The power of a Reyvateil's song is proportional to her [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"intensity of emotion"]]. Blue Magic, for instance, is more powerful if the Reyvateil is in love with the person she's making it for.

* [[Power of Rock]]: In addition to powering [[Magic Music|spells]], songs are used at several points in the games to inspire the world's population.

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Misha's "ability" to go from a pre- and post-prepubescent ages {{spoiler|by adding/removing the Chronicle Key}}.

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* [[Random Encounters]]

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: {{spoiler|Mir. Justified since it hasn't been cut for a few centuries.}}

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Shurelia {{spoiler|[[Word of God|(Eoria)]]}}, Frelia, and Tyria, as these three are the Origin Reyvateils, and thus, are as old as the towers they administrate. Shun's getting on in age too. {{spoiler|Mir is also coming up on her four hundredth birthday - her life presumably extended by being locked in the Binary Field for a few of those centuries.}}

* [[Rebel Prince]]: Lyner is the future ruler of Platina, although [[Rebel Prince|not if he has anything to say about it.]] {{spoiler|And he succeeds in every route except possibly Shurelia's.}}

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Mir

* [[Red String of Fate]]: As an equipable accessory that raises DP gains after battle (the String of Binding, although supposedly raises the trust between a vanguard and the Reyvateil he's protecting at the moment). However, its effects still kick in, no matter who in the active party has it equipped.

** Lyner's ignorance to its meaning embarrassed Shurelia. His suggestion to use it to enhance Radolf and his "unity" '''''freaked her out.'''''

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The sheer amount of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|crap that gets past the radar]] is astounding, in the US release. (some other countries are more relaxed about things like sexuality, which explains it being 7+ in Europe and 12+ in Japan)

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Shurelia}} in the backstory, which is why she has that name instead of her original name.

* [[Robot Girl]]: Mei Mei, Kanade.

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** Tilia as The Seductress

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: A [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] version. The language of Hymmnos places heavy emphasis on emotional state (and in fact has a whole grammar rule for them). This is pretty much needed for the Reyvateils to properly communicate their emotions to the tower to cast magic.

* [[Their First Time]]: Misha and Lyner react to their first dive with shyness, awkwardness, and Misha even saying its her first time. Diving is not sex but the level of intimacy is the same.

* [[Title Drop]]: Many of the hymns sung in the games say their title near the beginning or the end. Example, Chronicle Key and Implanta say their names within the first line of singing, and Sublimation says it's own in the chorus.

* [[Token Mini-Moe]]: Misha in ''Elemia'' {{spoiler|until she gets her adult form back}}.

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* [[Visible Silence]]: Almost every scene in the game has at least one character doing this.

* [[Warrior Prince]]: Lyner.

* [[Warrior Therapist]]: Lyner. It's not just the Cosmospheres. {{spoiler|As of the second game, Mir still doesn't know what hit her.}}

* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]]: Welcome back {{spoiler|Ayatane, the guy who technically was the reason why everything turns crazy in Phase 2.}}

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Subverted by Lyner. It's not that he can't win Leard's favor, it's that he's actively refusing to do it, and doing something that makes Leard happy with him is one of the few things that actively annoys Lyner. This makes sense, given that most of the things that make Leard praise Lyner in the early game aren't very nice {{spoiler|and Lyner may resent him for what happened to Misha.}} In the scene where Leard finally says he's [[So Proud of You]], it's noteworthy that the other characters are far more excited about it than Lyner is. Apparently, the extent of Lyner's [[Character Development]] is not rejecting Leard's feelings: even when Lyner asks Leard to {{spoiler|help craft the hymn at the end of the game,}} it still feels as though Lyner is making the effort because Leard is his father, after all: their relationship is still rocky.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Ayatane.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: {{spoiler|Shurelia,}} Ayano, Spica. Some official art reveals that Tastiella counted when she was younger, too.

* [[White Prince]] [[Wise Prince]]: Lyner has traits of both. On the Wings of Horus, he's considered an example of the [[White Prince]], but most of that is because he's a [[Fish Out of Water]] and at home he acts more like the [[Wise Prince]]. Despite being the heir of Platina, he rejects that power and prefers to be a common soldier. This may be because {{spoiler|if he becomes Leard's heir, it will be his job to train Misha's daughter and continue the cycle of useless sacrifice}}, as well as tensions with Leard.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Misha and heights.

** Comes off as a Wallbanger if you notice that (When you meet her) she lives in a man-made flying island just below a flying ''continent'', all of which are one Creative Virus away from crashing down.

* [[Widget Series]]: A textbook example of the trope, as quite a few of the things it parodies are already a bit weird in Japan. In Americans this means the reactions tend to range from bemusement to astonishment to abhorrence.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Mir's first song, Harmonius, was meant to express her hope for the human race. However, since she was created with the hope of making an emotionless Reyvateil, it led to her being tortured and locked up. Nevermind that to be told "Your song's no good" would be an incredible insult all on its own, considering Reyvateils' songs are born out of their deep, heartfelt feelings. It's no wonder she started hating humans.}}

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* [[The World Tree]]: The towers seem to be an analogue. There's also the fact that ''tonelico'' is ''toneriko'', the Japanese word for ash tree, which Yggdrasil was in Norse mythology.

* [[Wrench Wench]]: Krusche.

* [[Yandere]]: Most of Mir's songs are like this - you could make a bit of a leap to say her entire role as the [[Big Bad]] of ''Elemia'' was a Yandere reaction to humanity.

* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: Most of Mir's songs are like this - you could make a bit of a leap to say her entire role as the [[Big Bad]] of ''Elemia'' was a Yandere reaction to humanity.

** {{spoiler|Though actually only Despedia qualifies for that role. Harmonious Fusion doesn't contain any kind of Yandere-ness in its feelings (and arguably, in the lyrics neither), and Colors is no more than an image song for her, illustrating the development of her feelings.}}

** Almost every Reyvateil attempts to kill their partner at some point in their Cosmosphere. {{spoiler|Aurica tries to kill Lyner and herself because of her self-loathing, jealousy, and fear of him abandoning her. Misha believes that Lyner's presence is complicating the struggle between her desire for freedom and her fate of becoming the [[Barrier Maiden|seal for Mir]]}}.