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* You can have one of various [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]] join your party, each of which have different synchronization effects. You can swap NPCs whenever you like, provided you know where they are.

 

 

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* [[But Thou Must!]]: Averted most of the time, as you could refuse any NPC if you didn't want to play their subquest, but in the Dragon Lord Arc you're not even given the option to refuse Vadise once said Dragon Lord {{spoiler|takes over hell}}. (But then, you're the one that helped the Dragon Lord to power in the first place...)

** {{spoiler|1=In fact, you can kill (directly or indirectly) a handful of the major NPCs with a little willful mischief.}}

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Gilbert.

* [[Changeling Fantasy]]: Rachel hates her life and wants something more exciting; she eventually gets her wish when she {{spoiler|switches bodies with a student at the Geo academy}}.

** Additionally, Florina's current guardian ( {{spoiler|Alexandra}}) believes that her previous one ( {{spoiler|Blackpearl}}) was willing to consign Florina to sacrificing her life force to produce healing tears, and carries a huge grudge because of that.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Niccolo towards the Sproutlings.

* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Bud's weapon.

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Larc, Alex (which is plot-relevant), and Elazul [[Dub Name Change|in Japanese]] (his original name was Ruri).

** Alexandrite (the stone) changes color depending on the kind of light it's in.

* [[Hive Mind]]: The Sproutlings and Flowerlings.

* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: Normal, Nightmare, and No Future.

* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Worn by the female protagonist, called "hair pipes" in game.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Or Spear, bow, etc... Unique in that these weapons have to be crafted using not crafting recipes, but honest to god techniques and patterns. Getting a weapon to 200 with a basic understanding of the rules isn't too hard. Getting a 999 power weapon is a flat out [[Guide Dang It]].

** Any weapons created this way can then be crafted into an [[Robot Buddy|infinity plus one Golem.]]

* [[Item Crafting]]: You can create your own weapons (and via lots of farming and tempering, make [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Swords]], Spears, Bows, or whatever your [[Weapon of Choice]] is) and build your own robot golem to aid you in battle (and using those [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Swords]] as ingredients, turn it into an unstoppable death machine).

* [[Item Farming]]: All of your crafting ingredients, save for the scant few you find in treasure chests during each game cycle.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Elazul emerges as a far more likable character than his earliest appearances might lead one to believe.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Lady Blackpearl.

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: The player character every time they visit the Underworld (might as well install revolving doors); you also ''prevent'' the Dragon Lord successfully doing this once he takes it over.

* [[Lost Forever]]: In one of your sidequests, your Cactus (who is responsible for Cactus Diary entries) runs off and you have to find him. If you finish any of your other sidequests in the meantime, they will not be recorded as complete in said Diary and you'll have to wait for a [[New Game+]] to try again.

** Hell, any of the Cactus Diary entries are [[Lost Forever]] if you fail to talk to Lil' Cactus before finishing another event. This can be [[Guide Dang It|very irritating]] for first-time players due to abruptly-ending events ("Mana Orchards" springs to mind) causing the previous event's entry to be lost, or even worse, the event "Lil' Cactus". Whatever you do, NEVER talk to Bud if you have a Diary entry waiting to be recorded. (Luckily, "Daddy's Broom" does not cause this same thing: while the cactus leaves, he also comes back before the event ends. Once again, however, failing to talk to Bud LAST will screw you over: if you don't, you'll lose Bud when you go back into the house to talk to Lil' Cactus, and he won't come back until after the event.)

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Irwin and Escad both have a thing for Matilda; Daena seems to have some form of feelings for both Matilda and Escad. It doesn't end prettily.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Larc (sold his soul to be as strong as his sister), Alexandra (pushing the Jumi into extinction to save Florina from dying), Irwin (plotting world destruction to free Matilda from her duties), and Escad (''says'' he wants to kill Irwin because the latter is a demon, but comes off as wanting to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]) all do what they do because of love.

* [[Magic Music]]: Enchanted instruments conjure elemental spells when played; additionally, harpies can cause nautical disasters whenever they sing.

* [[Man Behind the Man]]: The Lord of Jewels behind Sandra. Probably. The Lord of Jewels was conspicuously absent from the character profiles, and no one knows exactly what he wanted out of the whole deal.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: After the end of the Jumi story arc, {{spoiler|Alexandra throws a note to the player just like the ones she'd been leaving during her cat and mouse jewel stealing, Jumi killing game. The note reads "Please take care of Florina for me."}}

* [[The Power of Love]]: Subverted, as [[Love Makes You Evil]], and it's Matilda's love for Irwin that makes her reluctant to act (but she's similarly bound by her duties, so she refuses to leave them, either); by the end of her arc, Irwin has decided to reincarnate himself without any of his memories so that he doesn't have to deal with the tremendous mess that their relationship became.

*** Unless you screw up the cure so terribly that he blows up. Yeah.

* [[The Power of Rock]]: The right tune will charm the mana elementals into approaching you and drop a silver or gold elemental coin.

* [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]]: All that differs whether you play a male or female character is whether your male character's [[Nice Hat]] or female character's [[Improbable Hairstyle]] is mentioned in dialogue.

* [[Random Effect Spell]]

 

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