Ethereum Gladiator: Difference between revisions

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* [[Calling Your Orgasms]]: Averted completely. However, during gladiator matches orgasms are measured on a giant real-time holographic scoreboard.

* [[Coitus Uninterruptus]]: Subverted. In the Nethercity, this is normal, appropriate behavior.

* [[Cuffs Off Rub Wrists]]: Kyla does this a few times, though only once do the cuffs actually come off. Justified in that the restraints the Ethereals use are designed to be comfortable.

* [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]]: Kyla does this a few times, though only once do the cuffs actually come off. Justified in that the restraints the Ethereals use are designed to be comfortable.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Kyla's first female vs. female match. May also count as a [[Noodle Incident]].

* [[Dance Battler]]: Cedric Ravenreed may be a type 2.

* [[Decontamination Chamber]]: New gladiators are put through a ''Cleansing'' that removes all of their hair from head to toe and also sterilizes the skin, removing things like rashes and pimples.

* [[Do You Want to Copulate]]: Enforced. Sexual inhibition is regarded as mental illness.

* [[Do You Want to Copulate?]]: Enforced. Sexual inhibition is regarded as mental illness.

* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: How Kyla gets blasted into the Nether in the first place. Only a minor example, since only the entire battlefield is blown up, not a whole planet.

* [[Energy Beings]]: The Ethereals, obviously.

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* [[First Kiss]]: In an odd twist, the one thing characters in this story don't do is kiss. According to [[Word of God]], the ethereals messed up a little when they formed the fleshbound society, overlooking kissing because they hadn't bothered to put mouths on their artificial bodies. As a result, kissing is actually considered far more intimate than any other physical act, and is only done by couples and very close friends.

** Which is why it's significant that {{spoiler|Kyla and Cedric kiss}} at the end of Ch 4.

* [[Free Love Future]]: Enforced.

* [[Free-Love Future]]: Enforced.

* [[Gender Bender]]: Ethereals, as energy beings, don't have natural genders, and get to choose which sex they want their body to be when they commission it.

* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]]: While male-on-male events take place in the story, they're not actually described, whereas girl-on-girl events are. Somewhat excusable since the protagonist is female.

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: While male-on-male events take place in the story, they're not actually described, whereas girl-on-girl events are. Somewhat excusable since the protagonist is female.

* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Deconstructed. Some of the gladiators actually are happy, but the majority are merely complacent, and there are a small few who would leave if they could.

** Technically this gladiator situation is indentured servitude, not outright slavery.

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* [[Le Parkour]]: To a small extent all the gladiators learn a bit of this. Kyla was already good at it before she got there.

* [[Making Love in All The Wrong Places]]: Subverted. In the Nethercity, there's no such thing as an inappropriate place to have sex.

* [[Male to Female Universal Adaptor]]: Justified. The Ethereals' bodies are artificial.

* [[Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor]]: Justified. The Ethereals' bodies are artificial.

* [[Mangst]]: Shandel.

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Reconstructed. Gladiators don't have beds in their dorms. Instead, they sleep in the embrace of a nest of artificial tentacles that are controlled through voice-recognition and can be ordered to pleasure their occupant in a myriad of ways. Needless to say its usually enough to keep gladiators from ever getting bored.

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* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: The character Zylesen Starslip is sort of this.

* [[Unwilling Suspension]]: This happens fairly often to gladiators-in-training.

* [[Zero G Spot]]: There's no gravity outside the Nethercity's ecodomes.

* [[Zero-G Spot]]: There's no gravity outside the Nethercity's ecodomes.