Bliss Stage: Love Is Your Weapon: Difference between revisions

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* [[Discretion Shot]]: This game is probably going to be [[Rated M for Money|the equivalent of an ESRB M rating]]. Including [[Hentai|explicit]] [[Optional Sexual Encounter|Optional Sexual Encounters]] is probably, [[Only Fatal to Adults|given the age of the survivors of the Bliss,]] a very good way to wind up in a hostile court.

* [[Dating Sim]]: The [[Breather Level|Interludes.]]

* [[Infinity ~~Plus One~~ Sword]]: [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|Hitting Intimacy 5]] with a character gives you an upgraded weapon with special powers.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|Hitting Intimacy 5]] with a character gives you an upgraded weapon with special powers.

** Anna Lin demonstrates this with the [[Sniper Duel|Sunshooter]] and the [[Power of the Void|Singular Void]] in a cutscene before the first mission. And yes, the [[Broken Bird|Void]] is from a relationship manifesting as a [[Black Hole]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|where her ANIMa's heart should be.]]

* [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]]: Based as it is on the [[Trope Namer]].

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* [[Expy]]: Sort of; it depends on the path. He's based on [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Shinji]] on Sensitive paths, [[Gurren Lagann|Simon]] on Idealist paths, and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Setsuna]] on Practical paths.

* [[Hot Blooded]]: On Idealistic paths.

* [[~~Mommas~~ Boy]]: which helps to explain his [[Uke|submissive tendencies.]]

* [[Momma's Boy]]: which helps to explain his [[Uke|submissive tendencies.]]

* [[Military Brat]]: Considering that the Colonel is [[A Father to His Men]] - literally in his case...

* [[Race Lift]]: Joshua Preston from the Bliss Stage Canon main rules was of unspecified race. Josh Castellano Preston specifies it as Irish and Colombian.

* [[Translation Convention]]: Everything Joshua understands is 'printed' in English, but the voice actors will actually speak it in the language it's intended to be. Joshua knows Spanish at the start of the game and picks up some other languages.

* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: Averted on the paths where he actually talks with Colonel James Paul Preston, but on the others, his [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji]] [[Expy|is showing.]]

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Averted on the paths where he actually talks with Colonel James Paul Preston, but on the others, his [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji]] [[Expy|is showing.]]

* [[Uke]]: For all his bluster, he's pretty goddamn submissive in relationships to begin with. And then you just had to go on the [[Seme|Derek]] [[Mr. Fixit|Smith]] path...

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* Metagaming: See [[Shut Up Kiss]]. Somewhat subverted if you've had a so-far perfect Meredith run...

* [[Mission Control]]: She's Joshua's Anchor for most of the game.

* [[Precision F Strike]]: Only kind of swearing she does, to the point that Anna comments on it.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Only kind of swearing she does, to the point that Anna comments on it.

* [[Shout Out]]: "Why do I wear this scarf? ...It reminds me that [[Harry Potter (Literature)|wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure]]."

** And her Halloween costume, which consists of a wand and [[My Little Pony|a pink and blue streak of hair dye.]]

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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Played with. She is genuinely kind and cheerful, but there are times when she's faking it.

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Kissing Josh purely for the [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]] is only the first and most obvious one of these she pulls.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Sure, the tea is Southern Sweet Tea. Sure, her long flowing dress is patched and her hair is kinkier than [[Image Boards|The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named]]. She's freaking [[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Belldandy]] to Josh... [[You Lose At Zero Trust|if you don't have high Stress]].

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Sure, the tea is Southern Sweet Tea. Sure, her long flowing dress is patched and her hair is kinkier than [[Image Boards|The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named]]. She's freaking [[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Belldandy]] to Josh... [[You Lose At Zero Trust|if you don't have high Stress]].

== Keenan Caine ==

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* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: She's a LITTLE better about this in front of her neighbors in the mission, but her natural tendency is towards wearing skintight clothes and very little of it.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: She's very affectionate and [[Obfuscating Stupidity|affects being ditzy]], and plays with her foes - until they threaten bystanders. Then you run.

* [[One Man Army|One Pilot Resistance]]: Literally as well as figuratively, at the beginning of the game; she's the protector of a community built on the ruins of the Mission District of San Francisco.

* [[One-Man Army|One Pilot Resistance]]: Literally as well as figuratively, at the beginning of the game; she's the protector of a community built on the ruins of the Mission District of San Francisco.

* [[Spicy Latina]]: Gabby is [[The Glomp|rather affectionate]]. The [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this are lampshaded by Joshua's father, [[Jerkass|but then again he's Joshua's father.]]

* [[Raised By Wolves]]: She didn't know her parents since even before [[Teenage Wasteland|the Bliss hit.]] Lampshaded:

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* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't call her Laura.

* [[Broken Bird]]

* [[N Word Privileges]]: She mentions having them with Keenan, and grants them to Joshua in return for being able to call 'him' by a slur.

* [[N-Word Privileges]]: She mentions having them with Keenan, and grants them to Joshua in return for being able to call 'him' by a slur.

* [[Polyamory]]: She, Keenan and Yukiko [[Tenchi Solution|have an understanding.]]

* [[Pretty Fly for A White Guy|Pretty Fly For An Asian Chick]]: The inevitable result of her time in a gang.