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'''''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3555992/1/Flesh_and_Blood Flesh and Blood]''''' is a [[Tekkaman Blade|Teknoman]] AU written by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/173299/ Cyblade Silver] that involves both Slade ''and'' Saber being rescued from becoming servants of Darkon. With 21 chapters so far, each chapter corresponding to slightly more than a full episode of the series, it's a fairly long read, so consider setting aside a weekend if you want to read the whole thing.

Not to be confused with the 1985 film ''[[Flesh+Blood]]''.

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* [[Alone in a Crowd]]: The twins, before they became a true part of the [[The Squad|Space Knights]].
* [[A Shared Suffering]]: Slade and Saber at the beginning of the story.
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Spear, to both Slade and Saber during their first and second meetings.
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: When they need to deal with a particularly large group of [[Giant Enemy Crab|Spider-crabs]], Slade and Saber often use this method.
* [[Bash Brothers]]: The twins themselves.
* [[Beneath the Mask]]: [[Deadpan Snarker|Saber]], when things are [[Let's Get Dangerous|particularly serious]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: For both twins: the other being attacked, captured, or hurt.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Saber; whenever he smiles after something bad happens to either him or Slade, watch out.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Slade and Saber both have this towards ''each other''. To say nothing of Spear, of course.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Saber's eyes have been described as sky-blue.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser|Boisterous Bruisers]]
* [[Cain and Abel]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]; Saber's birth name remains Cain, but he and Ness have a closer relationship than in [[Tekkaman Blade|canon]].
* [[Chef of Iron]]: Spear is implied to be this.
*  {{spoiler|[[Children Forced to Kill]]: Teknoman Rapier, aka Sam Carter, is only 14 years old.}}
* [[Classical Anti-Hero|Classical Antiheroes]]
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Most of the Teknomen, with the exception of [[Knight Templar|Spear]].
* [[Converse with the Unconscious]]: Slade does this with Saber in chapter 4.
* [[Cover-Blowing Superpower|Cover Blowing Super Powers]]:
** [[Healing Factor]]
** [[Super Reflexes]]
** [[Telepathy]]
* [[The Cynic]]: Saber, Slade, and Ringo all qualify, to almost the same degree.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Saber.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Both twins have elements of this, but for Saber it's a way of life.
* [[Determinator|Determinators]]
* [[Deuteragonist]]: Saber becomes this.
* [[Disappointed in You]]: Spear often says this; he's ignored just as often.
* [[Don't Look Back]]: Slade and Saber both try not to think about their [[Dark and Troubled Past]].
* [[Dramatic Shattering]]: Happens to Slade's [[Transformation Trinket|teknocrystal]] in chapter 6.
* [[Dying as Yourself]]: Fritz / [[Starter Villain|Gunnar]].
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Earn Your]] [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Eating Lunch Alone]]: When  {{spoiler|Saber is injured}}, Slade does this; he isn't particularly happy about it.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Evil Teknomen Love Their Younger Brothers]]
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]
* [[Family Values Villain]]: Spear.
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: They [[Played for Laughs|do this for fun]].
* [[For Want of a Nail|Divergence Fic]]: Saber was freed from the [[People Jars|teknopod]], the Carter family has a fifth child, and Conrad becomes [[The Dragon]] instead of the [[Big Bad]].
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]:
** Sanguine (Saber)
** Choleric (Ringo)
** Melancholic (Slade)
** Phlegmatic (Star)
* [[Friendly Rivalry]]: The twins, again.
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: The Space Knights in general, with Ringo, Saber, and Slade all demonstrating that [[Good Is Not Nice]] at various times.
* [[Human Pack Mule]]: Saber, during his [[Breather Episode|trip to the mall with Tina and Star]].
* [[Hurting Hero|Hurting Heroes]]
* [[I Am What I Am]]: Slade declares this at the end of chapter 19, almost verbatim.
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: ''Spear'' of all people tries this with Slade and Saber when he first meets up with them. It... doesn't work out.
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Part of Slade's [[Guilt Complex]].
* [[Kill the Ones You Love]]
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Both twins to some degree, though Saber more than Slade.
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Spear, in spades.
* [[Lap Pillow]]: Slade uses Saber as this whenever he has a bad day.
* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Saber, to Slade.
* [[Living Ship]]: [[Big Bad|Darkon's]] ship; implied to be true about all of the Radam's ships.
* [[Lonely Together]]: The twins at the beginning of the story.
* [[Love Is a Weakness]]: Slade and Saber both believe this at the beginning of the story. [[Character Development|They get better]].
* [[Massive-Numbered Siblings]]: The Carter family
** [[Supreme Chef|Conrad]] / [[The Dragon|Spear]]
** [[Green Eyes|Ness]] / [[The Hero|Slade]]
** [[Deadpan Snarker|Cain]] / [[The Lancer|Saber]]
** [[Ill Girl|Shara]]
**  {{spoiler|[[The Quiet One|Sam]] / [[Cute Bruiser|Rapier]] }}
* [[Meat Puppet]]: Spear,  {{spoiler|and by extension all of the evil Teknomen, thanks to the [[Puppeteer Parasite|Radam mind parasite]].}}
* [[Menacing Stroll]]: As in [[Tekkaman Blade|canon]], a staple of Radam Teknomen.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Slade, after he nearly strangles Saber to death.
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Spear all over, for [[Puppeteer Parasite|obvious reasons]].
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Saber goes to the mall with Tina and Star, and ends up in an outfit almost completely identical to the one he wore in the anime.
* [[Necessarily Evil]]: How [[The Dragon|Spear]] [[Brainwashed and Crazy|sees himself]].
* [[No Badass to His Valet]]: Ringo, though he is [[True Companions|very much a friend to the twins]], doesn't think of either of them remotely the way that the [[Person of Mass Destruction|AEM]] [[Living Weapon|does]].
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: [[Jerkass|Balzac]] gives Saber one of these after  {{spoiler|Marlowe dies.}}
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Saber accuses Balzac of this, while [[Hypocritical Humor|standing right behind Slade]].
* [[Now or Never Kiss]]: Maggie, with Saber, at the end of chapter 16. Doubles as [[The Big Damn Kiss]].
* [[Only Friend]]: Saber to Slade, at the beginning of the story.
* [[Patchwork Fic]]: uses the US dub's names for the characters, but refers to the invaders as the "Radam" instead of the "Venomoids".
* [[Phlebotinum Rebel|Phlebotinum Rebels]]
* [[Pop-Cultured Badass]]: Saber makes references to old movies and TV shows; Slade does as well, but not nearly as much.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they ''aren't'' out to get you."
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Slade and Saber, respectively.
* [[Repeat What You Just Said]]: Saber asks Balzac to do this,  {{spoiler|then punches him in the face}}.
* [[Running Gag]]:
** Slade: "Slacker" Saber: "Spaz"
** ''Saber says something sarcastic, or acts overly literal'', Slade: "Wiseass."
* [[Sad Clown]]: Saber comes off as this, sometimes.
* [[Sarcasm Failure]]: When this happens to [[Deadpan Snarker|Saber]], it generally means that something has [[Gone Horribly Wrong]].
* [[Security Cling]]: Slade, to Saber in chapter 18, coupled with [[Cry Into Chest]].
* [[Sleep Cute]]: The twins after a particularly bad day; Ringo even compares them to kittens.
* [[Sibling Seniority Squabble]]: Slade is thirty minutes older than Saber, though this doesn't often come up in conversation, Slade is still clearly aware of it.
* [[Sibling Team]]: Arguably the point of the 'fic.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]
* [[Soft-Spoken Sadist]]: Spear, though not so much the "sadist" part.
* [[Someday This Will Come in Handy]]: Saber's learning to break out of handcuffs before the Carters and the rest of the Argos crew met up with the Radam  {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|subverted]], as they don't escape from the Military even in spite of that.}}
* [[Team Dad]] / [[A Father to His Men]]: [[Da Chief|Commander]] [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Jamison]], though he's more [[Aloof Big Brother|reserved]] [[The Stoic|than]] most.
* [[Relative Button]]
* [[They Call Him "Sword"|They Call Him Spear]]
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Spear thinks of himself this way. Really, he's more of a [[Tragic Villain]].
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: What Spear wants; he's... not likely to get it.
* [[The Fettered]]: On the good side: Slade and Saber's loyalty to each other, as well an Ringo and Star's; as well as that of the Space Knights in general to Earth. On the Radam side: Spear's loyalty to Darkon and his worry for the rest of his family.
* [[The Matchmaker]]: Ringo and Saber [[Shipper on Deck|for Slade and Star]].
* [[The Only One I Trust]]: Saber and Slade were this to each other, before they warmed up to the Space Knights.
* [[The Stations of the Canon]]: Even with Saber alongside him, Slade's life [[In Spite of a Nail|isn't that much easier.]]
* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]: The evil Teknomen; all except for their [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|eyes]].
* [[The Promise]]: Slade and Saber's is [[Heroic Vow|to protect each other]]. Though originally, Ness had promised their father that he would protect Cain.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Spear's usual style of fighting. Also applies to Saber, when he gets particularly angry.
* [[Trickster Twins]]: A bit more tame than most, considering [[Alien Invasion|the circumstances]].
* [[Title Drop]]: By Spear, in chapter 12: "Do you think I ''enjoy'' having to hunt down my own family? My flesh and blood?"; and again by Star in chapter 19.
* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: Slade, after he pushes Saber away so that Saber can fight the Radam [[Giant Enemy Crab|Spider]]-[[Mooks|crabs]] without him.
* [[Twin Banter]]
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Used frequently, both in and out of battle.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Slade and Saber to each other, and Spear to Darkon.
* [[We Used to Be Friends|We Used To Be Family]]: Spear's constant refrain, and the reason he doesn't fight the twins as hard as he could.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Saber says this to Slade  {{spoiler|when his brother is [[Made of Iron|strangling]] [[The Determinator|him]] after he goes over his [[Hour of Power|thirty minute time limit]] and succumbs to the Radam influence}}.
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Even if they win, neither Slade nor Saber are the people they used to be.

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