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''Broken Gate'' is a novelette by [[Amoridere]].

 

 

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* [[Barrier Maiden]]: Nezumi is the guardian of the titular gate and, towards the end, she is sacrificing her strength to delay it reopening.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Played for some tragedy. From what we can see, Tora and Nezumi were pretty close but what makes this worse is that, in Chapter 11, {{spoiler| he can ''feel'' her dying and there isn't anything he can do.}}

* [[Broken Bird]]: Nezumi in, as due to her situations and the events that came before, one could say she's become emotionless (right down to ''feeling'') would be because her situation removed her ability to cope with them otherwise. However, chapter 17 implies that she was this long before.

* [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience|Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: When the story was on taskey.me (when the website used to exist) has the dialogue of the characters highlighted in different colors.

** We have the following Japanese names for characters; Nezumi (rat or mouse) a rat youkai, Ryuuji (dragon) a dragon youkai, and Tora (tiger) being a tiger. Miyako is the [[Odd Name Out]], as her name isn't necessarily an animal one.

** Kagami is really that, a mirror-opposite reflection

** To some extent, six chapters afterwards, this becomes a bit more extreme, as when she starts to feel the aforementioned again, she decides to, as the story put it, "destroy" that feeling and doesn't feel it again for the remainder of the chapter (a move called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaffectation disaffectation]). The reason as to why she does this was because she couldn't cry, thus, she refuses to allow herself to feel them once they come, as, if she cannot express them well, then there isn't a purpose in feeling them, almost invoking this trope more directly. In short, she would much rather be emotionless and not to feel emotions vs not being able to express them. When she finally does feel her emotions, {{spoiler|it's when she's shedding tears as she dies.}}

* [[Emotions vs. Stoicism]]: Nezumi suppressed her emotions to the point she couldn't feel them anymore, as, whatever wasn't related to guarding the gate got ignored, however, if she could feel them, it would probably make her situation worse.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: We have Miyako's "''GO!'' Go and never return but, remember, if you seek her out, then you will have {{spoiler|killed her}}." and the fact that Nezumi's living arrangements are dismal and her Floral Motifs being lycoris flowers.

* [[Forgiveness]]: Somewhat a theme, considering that Nezumi did offer it to her brother Ryuuji despite having been abused.

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