Pokémon Sepia

• Main
• Quotes
• Wikipedia
• All Subpages
• Create New

"A war means money. Money in science, because if you use Pokemon they'll just beat each other to death until you catch some more." —De-Facto President Weiss to Indigo Sepia

Imagine you took the world of Pokémon -- and put it into a very Studio Gainax style direction and narrative. With bits that seem to be a mixture of Chuck Palahniuk 's writing mixed with Cory Doctorow 's own style. The result might be close enough to the Fan Fiction Pokémon Sepia, but only if you also added Doctor Who into the mix.

The pitch line is that there is a meteor headed on a path to destroy all of Earth. In fact, it has done so, a few times already. With the recent death of George Grau, president of Cyren (the Capital region in the nation of Spectrum), Vice-President Jon Weiss steps into his shoes as de-facto President, nominating Stephen Schwarz, CEO of a supposed Freight Company, Rocket Logistics. In order to bring about the kind of funding to stop the Meteor headed straight to Earth, he starts a war, to justify more militant expenses.

Though, what nobody expects is for Team Temporal to appear. Driving the timeline, from The Loop, into one referred to as The Failure, Team Temporal is mostly just a confused group of teens that just happened to be near by when a city wide genocide occured, an enraged Moltres turned on its trainer and several buildings exploding. Which only a minority of them were actually their own fault. Things get even weirder when Daebi/Celetwo shows up. A clone of Celebi, with an insatiable capacity and desire to learn. Add a few Mad Gods, genetic engineering, Time Travel, computer hacking, corporate espionage, Send in the Clones and you are about halfway through. Somewhat Planet Eris mostly because Word of God says Daebi is modelled after the Discordian view of Eris.

You can still see the story at its Protagonize location: https://web.archive.org/web/20100826090141/http://www.protagonize.com/story/pokemon-sepia-team-temporal-war-of-origins (provided the originally posting author hasn't gotten banned again)

Tropes used in Pokémon Sepia include:

• Action Girl: Krystal Spectrum
• Aerith and Bob: A mental glitch people suffer after reading Daemon's Notebook too often. With Samual referring reservation in referring to people of importants by their Daemon's Notebook handle next to other people's normal names.
• Affably Evil: Everywhere.
• A God Am I: Krystal Spectrum (due to being a little too close to a mass psionic incident caused by herself, Lady Kiss Void and Schwartz), Lady Kiss Void, Pearl and Schwatz.
• Alternate Universe Fic: Considering that they Destroy The Universe to save the universe from being destroyed this is typically a good assumption.
• Exclusively Evil: Sealed Evil in a Can turns out to be very much this... mostly due to being Sealed Evil in a Can.
• And I Must Scream: Usually the result of ticking off Daebi/Celetwo.
  • A result of not wanting to tick off Daebi/Celetwo, as she did invite you to tea. Screaming would be very impolite.
• Apocalypse How: Starting with Class 3.
  • the Stable Time Loop is caused by a Class Z, which resulted from the Class 6.
• Apocalypse Wow: Meteor appears to have caused Class 6.
  • They end up breaking the Stable Time Loop with a Class Z Logic Bomb.
• Assimilation Plot: What causes the end of all things in the Rubber Band History.
• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Celetwo/Daebi, Fujitsu, several of the writers at times.
• Ax Crazy
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Inverted. By the time the final big bad is running around, The Starscream is already near his equal, as are several members of Team Temporal.
• Back from the Dead: Arguably Daebi/Celetwo's puppeteering of Perfection. Though Daebi/Celetwo does have access to a Time Abyss so it is hard to say, really.
  • In Miasma Forest The President of Attara Television Station finds he is alive again. Taking the Psuedo Nym Wehc Notselrahc.
• Badass: By the bucketload.
  • Badass Bookworm / Badass Labcoat: Krystal.
  • Badass Longcoat: Max, a required part of his gangster attire.
  • Badass Normal: Roy, Wehc, Fuschia, Lavender, and pretty much any other average Joe who finds their way into Team Temporal.
  • Little Miss Badass: Celadon. In a fit of rage, Celadon nearly slaughters a Charizard.
  • Lady of War: Lavender.
  • Cool Shades: Everybody in Team Network
• The Baroness: Lady Kiss Void fills this. Right up to the more Lesbian type traits.
• Bastard Girlfriend
  • Celetwo/Daebi fits the Abusively Sexy Lady subtrope.
  • Lady Kiss Void fits the Abusively Sexy Girl subtrope.
• Beat the Curse Out of Him: Present in Krystal Spectrum going Shadow
• Benevolent Boss: Stoenn Spectrum, Leader, Samuel Oak
• Berserk Button:
  • Sepia gets slavery / pretty much anything which can be seen as a violation of human rights.
  • Celadon gets her sister.
  • Lady Kiss Void gets anyone she risk becoming close to.
  • Roy's Ego has improper handling of Pokemon as one... and cruel behaviour to Krystal Spectrum
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Arguably Lady Kiss Void (alternatively, she can be argued as a Yandere due to her main motives)
• Black Magician Girl: Celadon, the dark-haired Psychic.
• Big Bad: Shifts per chapter.
  • Birds: Samuel Oak.
  • Hounds: Weiss.
  • Dragons: Lady Kiss Void.
  • Titans: Schwarz.
  • Gods: The Elite Four.
  • Self: Deoxys et al.
• Bi the Way: Any dissection of Krystal Spectrum after her clone Lady Kiss Void appears tends to just going with this.
• Break the Cutie: Krystal Spectrum going Shadow.
• Brian Blessed: Captain Hyperion was described by Word of God as having been made for this actor.
• Bride and Switch: Roy and Krystal MacKealan... er... Roy and Constance MacKealan. At least a legal name change is not needed here.
• Broken Bird: Lady Kiss Void due to attempted controls on her person Perfection attempted to put into place on her creation. Lady Kiss Void becomes The Starscream because of these controls.
• Brother-Sister Incest : Inverted. Used to torment Roy after a case of Bride and Switch with Krystal Spectrum and Roy's Sister.
• Captured Super Entity: While the exact nature of how it was done is not entirely known. Rocket Logistics somehow captures Daebi/Celetwo and uses her to bring Deoxys to the world all while causing the Kanto Incident one year prior.
• Casual Time Travel: Something that Daebi/Celetwo does.
• Cerebus Syndrome: Starts off fairly light... then by the end of Hounds it just is frighteningly depressing, scary and dark.
• Chandler's Law: Usually punctuated with Lady Kiss Void
• Chekhov's Gun: The Kanto Incident
• The Chessmaster: Schwartz, Lady Kiss Void, Perfection, Origin, Mewtwo and arguably, Daebi/Celetwo (until she gets checkmated fatally).
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Lady Kiss Void, Deoxys, Daebi/Celetwo
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Daebi/Celetwo opts for this, after she is killed.
• Combat Commentator: Ego tends to start narrating out loud, and very abrasively every now and then. With the others near by (who are aware of him) telling him to shut up.
• Combat Referee: Mr. Stringy Shirt... shows up exactly once. During the Awesome Land Gym Battle.
• Combat Stilettos: Justified by the fact Krystal Spectrum levitates. Otherwise she'd never do it.
• Combat Tentacles: During Roy and Constance MacKealan's Honeymoon
• Complete Monster: Schwartz and Perfection do qualify here.
• Cool Airship: The Vermillion
• Convicted by Public Opinion: How Rocket Logistics worked to deal with Team Temporal.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Weiss, Schwartz and perhaps Cinnabar
• Creepy Cleanliness: Perfection and Daebi/Celetwo
• Curb Stomp Battle: Krystal and Roy against Daebi/Celetwo thanks to The Power of Love
• The Cutie: Krystal Spectrum towards the beginning
• Cutting the Knot: A common solution of Team Temporal at times.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Fujitsu, Darkrai and Darktsu.
• Dark Magical Girl: Lady Kiss Void... which leads to Yandere which leads to Ax Crazy which leads to being The Starscream.
  • Also this is why Lady Kiss Void seems to never enter into play with Krystal Spectrum
• Dark Messiah: Lady Kiss Void
• The Dead Have Names: Mixed with Bury Your Gays every now and then.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Part of why Lady Kiss Void appears.
• Death by Origin Story : Zigzagged... Lady Kiss Void only Let's Get Dangerous after Morality Chain is killed
• Den of Iniquity: Subverted... unless you call Foozball particularly evil
  • Zigzaged with Lady Kiss Void having a Safe, Sane, and Consensual set up. For her and her pet human.
• Diabolus Ex Nihilo: Daegre during the last battle.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Pretty much anytime Daebi/Celetwo shows up.
  • Often very literally.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Maximillion wins a fight with a God of Spacial Dimensions... in the God's own pocket dimension.
  • The appearance of any legendary Pokemon also fits the trope, given that the Great Chain of Being that gets established puts Legendaries above anything not available en masse, including humans.
• Different As Night and Day: Krystal Spectrum and Lady Kiss Void. Lady Kiss Void quickly and early solved the Cloning Blues issues.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Punctuated by Lady Kiss Void
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: The cause of Perfection's inevitable fate
• Doomed New Clothes: Krystal Spectrum grabs a new outfit in every town she is in, because of this.
• Doppelganger: Lady Kiss Void to Krystal Spectrum.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Perfection.
• Dr. Feelgood: Krystal Spectrum is on the run from the authorities, and gets shot by Perfection. This was who they got to patch her up. She chose extreme pain instead of addiction.
• Dude, She's Like, in a Coma: Krystal Spectrum's reaction to Daebi/Celetwo's Cold-Blooded Torture of Perfection
• The Eighties: Inverted, story takes place in the 1980s, and part of Krystal Spectrum's personal hell, was an overdose of this trope played straight in a fiction in the fiction.
• Eldritch Abomination: Daebi/Celetwo : A Genetially engineered monstrocity that decided the time line is her own personal play ground
  • Roy's Slowking "Waffles" (AKA "Mr. Popo") fits into this nicely
• Eldritch Location: The Orchards where Daebi/Celetwo hosts her tea parties with Pachirisu.
• Elite Mooks: The Kult of Kiss and The Daemon Army both under Lady Kiss Void
• Empty Shell: Perfection after his Villainous Breakdown (don't worry about him though, he ticked off Daebi/Celetwo so he still is up and walking. He also has killer scone recipe you just have to try.)
• Enemy Civil War: The Starscream vs. The Elite Four vs. Rocket Logistics vs. Team Temporal vs. Team Temporal vs. Daebi/Celetwo it kind of is the whole of the story at times.
• Epiphanic Prison: What Krystal is stuck in, while going Shadow
  • Again, Pokémon Sepia's explaination for Pokemon Trozei!
• ET Gave Us Wi-Fi: The Daemon's Notebook was handed to Krystal at the age of five by Daebi/Celetwo with technologies not invented yet, to try to boost the situation.
• Evilly Affable: Perfection, Lady Kiss Void, Daebi/Celetwo.
• Evil Only Has to Win Once: See Enemy Civil War above.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: Rocket Logistics Headquarters.
  • Started popping up, when Lady Kiss Void did not want her picture taken, but was running a Propraganda Machine.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: When Daebi/Celetwo takes Team Temporal After the End.
• Everything's Better with Bob: A Darkrai is fused with a guy named Bob, who apparently hangs out with Captain Insanity, Fujitsu, Brian Blessed clone Captain Hyperion, and knows Daebi/Celetwo.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: A normal result for having a Genki Girl who is The Cutie present in the plot. It eventually ends later on.
• Evil Knockoff: Zigzagged with Lady Kiss Void for Krystal Spectrum. Mostly via application of Cloning Blues early on, and Lady Kiss Void deciding she does not WANT to be Krystal Spectrum.
• Evolving Weapon: The Pokemon to a certain extent. Krystal was using her Starmie, Espeon and Roselia as ways to augment her personal self... when she was coating herself in stopal to deal with Perfection's gun shot wound.
• Fantastic Aesop: Inverted. Time Travel Lemon Twist II to be specific.
  • Also Zigzagged on Time Travel I a fair amount.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Part of the big change made to Lady Kiss Void to have her sacrifice herself.
• A Fete Worse Than Death: Being fed to Moltres.
• Five-Bad Band:
  • Big Bad: Schwartz
  • The Dragon: Perfection
  • Evil Genius: Shared by Perfection, Lady Kiss Void and Leader
  • The Brute: Polaris
  • Dark Chick: Selina Ivy and later Lady Kiss Void
• Five-Man Band: (although there are more than five Team Temporal members, the core ones fit this trope)
  • Reasonable Authority Figure : CEO Stoenn Spectrum of Titan Co.
  • The Hero: Sepia
  • The Lancer: Hari
  • The Smart Guy: Krystal
  • The Big Guy: Max
  • The Chick: Vermil, the heart of the group. Also an audience surrogate until a point, where he is arguably replaced by Fuschia, who shares this role for a while anyway.
  • Sixth Ranger: Fujitsu, who fits many of these roles but never really finds a set place, which arguably leads to his mental issues, the result of which turns his Sixth Ranger-ness up to 11.
  • Team Pet: Necessary with the Pokemon universe, although less in later chapters.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Kystal Spectrum.
• Gainax Ending: What the end may be considered, if you have not been paying attention.
• Gainaxing: The literal equivalent of it, anyways. With all the Sex Tropes that are salted around this story.
• Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Explanation for the Aspects.
• Genius Loci: The Miasma Forest
• Genki Girl: Krystal Spectrum until about of a third way through. The events kind of took the Genki Girl's energy out of her. You can even watch for the signs.
  • Saffron (who is dead by the end of the first chapter).
• God Is Evil: Played straight AND inverted, when it turns out that the six Pokemon described as 'Gods' are pretty evenly split into good and bad.
• Go Mad from the Revelation How Daebi/Celetwo ended up becoming an Eldritch Abomination.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Krystal Spectrum has some from her Psionic Armour. She just rarely uses them after the outfit was destroyed.
  • Stat-O-Vision: Battery Power, messages, health levels, shadow states.
  • Night Vision
  • X-Ray Vision
  • Biological Information
  • Krystal goes around with all the information in the glasses. but blocking out actual visible light for bit.
• The Good Captain: "The Captain" who later became Captain Hyperion
• Gossip Evolution: How the name "Team Temporal" came to be.
• The Government: Rocket Logistics.
• Hacker Cave: The Daemon Army's home
  • The Engine Room of the Jirachi-7
  • Probably Krystal Spectrum's lab north of Cerulean City in Kanto (which is why people thought the Jirachi-7 parts were natural after the Kanto Incident.)
• Half-Human Hybrid: The Aspects.
• Hallucinations: They happen.
  • Constant makes a reference to being a Mankey then Primeape the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. Blaming it on lack of oxygen to her brain.
• The Hedonist: Lady Kiss Void.
• Heroic BSOD: When Krystal Goes Shadow.
• Heroic Safe Mode: At least once per chapter.
• High Altitude Battle: Part of the Final Battle.
• Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: What Lady Kiss Void is running around for most of the series wearing.
• Hive Queen: Lady Kiss Void for The Kult of Kiss.
• Hobbes Was Right: Mixed in with Humans Are Morons.
• Hollywood Hacking: Zigzagged. Krystal worked on most of the technology--and it was not up to 100% at the start.
  • Lady Kiss Void and the Daemon Army screwed this up... a glitch involving "removing use of a program from the log file" which had certain programs deleted after they appeared in the log file. resulting in a lot of people stuck in The Pokemon Box at the end of Dragons Arc
• Identical Grandparent: Hinted with Kochanski Spectrum. Who is listed as the Ouroboros in Daemon's Notebook
• I Control My Minions Through...:
  • Fear Lady Kiss Void
  • Godhood Deoxys, Lady Kiss Void.
  • Kindness Schwartz, Weiss, Samuel
  • Love Lady Kiss Void
  • Mind Control Deoxys, Lady Kiss Void
  • Money Schwartz, Weiss
• I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Quite a few names of the locations they visit
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Krystal Spectrum going shadow
  • Which adds for odd implications for Roy's Ego.
• Ill Girl: Lady Kiss Void's pet human
  • Admin Mercury Word of God had a writer commenting about how she felt irritated she was beating the audience over the head with the fact Admin Fredrick Mercury, A JAG officer from the Galactic USoG Philedelphia (I see what you did there) had HIV... as she felt it was only missing a group of Drag Queens singing songs from Rent, and the person from Degrassi High with HIV/AIDS doing an Afterschool Special type deal.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: A fair amount of Krystal Spectrum's Doomed New Clothes.
  • Commented on when in The Box.
• Indy Ploy
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Krystal Spectrum... but she got better.
• Insane Equals Violent: Subverted/Adverted. Usually the really insane people are the least violent. The sane ones usually go violent when hit with too much stress, a Berserk Button or what not.
  • Daebi/Celetwo never attacks anything directly.
  • Lady Kiss Void again, never actually gets physical in her Yandere tendancies
  • Perfection shoots Krystal Spectrum to try to stall the madness. After his madness hits, he merely starts shouting about Trozie!, the Phoebos Battlion while waving the gun around. Followed by Empty Shell status.
• In Spite of a Nail how the universe fixes itself
• It Amused Me Ego and Daebi/Celetwo
• Kick the Dog Deoxys and Lady Kiss Void have a few of these moments.
  • Lady Kiss Void does literally push the Ill Girl out of her bed, when waking up next to her.
• Kill All Humans
• Law Enforcement, Inc. : Zigzagged.
  • Most of the Police appears owned by Rocket Logistics... or competely controlled.
    • Until investigators started noticing that Team Temporal's profiles did not match their acts. Making them suspicious of Rocket Logistics.
• Lawful Evil
  • Type 1: Deoxys
  • Type 2: Lady Kiss Void, Perfection, Samuel Oak, Giovanni, Admin Mercury
  • Type 3: Weiss, Polaris, Leader
• Law of Conservation of Normality: This story takes place on Planet Eris during The Eighties.
• Lensman Arms Race: Part of how Serial Escalation occurs
• Lesbian Vampire: These are implicit on Lady Kiss Void's early actions around her pet human, Jezibelle
• Let's Get Dangerous: Krystal when transitioning from The Cutie to Action Girl
• Living Bodysuit: How Daebi/Celetwo started moving around in places she probably should not. Her name? Dr. Debbie P.. He makes the most lovely scones too!
• The Lost Woods: Miasma Forest.
• Lotus Eater Machine: Krystal Spectrum during the time she goes shadow.
  • Also Pokemon Sepia's explaination for Pokemon Trozei! (Which Perfection gets trapped in--albeit with Daebi puppeting his comatose body around. When the Reset occurs, the puppeteering from a temporal being is arguably one of the few things to not be erased).
• Machiavelli Was Wrong : Shwartz ends up with his The Dragon nearly going The Starscream, The Baroness actually going The Starscream and posing a good threat. The Eldritch Abomination that The Dragon and The Baroness worked on as the last resort attack not wanting to follow him (The Eldritch Abomination not wanting to bother with The Baroness or The Dragon), and his own admins not want to follow him any more. His solution was to try to remove free will to question his orders.
• Made of Explodium : Stoenn Spectrum says this, when describing Krystal's Daemon Balls--which were presented as a fix to the Pokeball malfunctions. These balls do nothing to catch monsters they merely explode upon use. Which may lead to Wild Mass Guessing as to the REAL origins of Voltorb.
• Mad God:
  • Daebi/Celetwo
  • Arceus
  • Origin
  • Deoxys
  • Lady Kiss Void
• Malicious Slander: How the HeroesWithBadPublicity goes into effect.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Krystal Spectrum to both Roy MacKaelan and Fujitsu.
  • Krystal's daughter from the future to Fujitsu
• Master of Illusion: Lady Kiss Void, Leader, Team Network, Daebi/Celetwo, Krystal Spectrum, Private Dwayne Spectrum and many others.
  • The ending of Pokemon Sepia, and various events in the adventures continuing to follow Sepia put a bit of a Schrödinger's Butterfly onto Lady Kiss Void as far as Master of Illusion
• Memetic Molester: Waffles The Slowking to a certain extent. Seems to target Constance MacKealan for the most part.
• Merged Reality: Two. One being the driving purpose of story, and the other in the form of Pewter's construction of the Pokemon Box as a fully functioning world inside a computer.
• Me's a Crowd: The Daemon Army for Lady Kiss void.
  • Then the Screaming Dead in Gods and Self
• The Men in Black: Team Network, and played straight. While not an enemy, they are allied more to information dispersal, than anything else.
• A Million Is a Statistic: Zigzagged... but quite present.
• Mind Probe: Lady Kiss Void does this compulsively
  • Hari did this to watch Krystal Spectrum's and Royal MacKealan's Mental Health.
• Mind Rape: Mostly as Black Comedy Rape to achieve a Dude, Not Funny.
• Mole in Charge: Lady Kiss Void does this to take over Titan Co.
• Morality Chain: Zigzagged with Lady Kiss Void and her pet human. The girl dies, Lady Kiss Void becomes The Starscream
• Moral Event Horizon: Calar Town Gym Leader Pearl sells the townspeople into slavery when she accidentally acquires psychic powers. Sepia arguably one-ups her, taking the eight year old gym leader, dropping her into a river and then burning her house down.
• Neat Freak: Leader and Perfection
• Nerd Glasses: Fuschia
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: Ends up nearly killing Krystal Spectrum in the end of the Titans Arc.
  • In the same Arc it is how Schwartz hijacks Deoxys' body
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Often times Daebi/Celetwo. Othertimes, Waffles and Roy.
• No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel: Daebi/Celetwo sends Team Temporal to a past where humans are not welcome in amongst the Pokemon
• Non-Linear Character: Mewvander/Mewtwo.
• No Periods, Period: Krystal Spectrum... who is pregnant one and a half times over the plot. Palkia creates a pocket dimension two years in the future for Roy. So Roy could view his Wedding... and bait Roy into giving the lifeless doll to be Krystal in the Pocket Dimension the soul of his sister, to Squink Roy big time. That technically counts as half a pregnancy for Krystal.
  • Though the pregnancy during the final battle arc, it is revealed she just doesn't talk about it with others (and may possibly be on birth control that limits how this time affects her over all).
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Ego, Conscious/Constant (lil' c), Id and Logic.
• Not What I Signed on For: Samuel Oak's reason for resignation.
• Of Corsets Sexy
• Omnicidal Maniac: There are a few.
• One Nation Under Copyright: Zigzagged.
• Ontological Inertia
• Panty Shot: Krystal Spectrum gives more than her fair share of these
• Pen Name: Wehc Notselrahc.
• People Puppets: Krystal Spectrum did this on herself to deal with her legs having gotten a lack of exercise and needed to be used again.
• Person of Mass Destruction: A side effect of the Lensman Arms Race.
• Petal Power: Daebi/Celetwo's time travel method.
• The Plan: Roughtly The end of the Titans chapter was the result of an elaborate one
• Plant Person: Daebi/Celetwo is this.
• Playtrainer Lopunny: Krystal Spectrum runs around in an outfit like this as her third set of Doomed New Clothes.
• Playing with Puppets: Celetwo/Daebi's revenge on Perfection
• Please Put Some Clothes On: Often the result of Clothing Damage and Wardrobe Malfunction ... all too often targetting Krystal Spectrum
• The Plot Reaper: Sows his seeds early on, and often.
  • Lady Kiss Void Is moved to The Starscream after The Renfield / Ill Girl / Morality Chain dies.
  • Gym Leader Nick ends up dying. Which explains in a Fridge Brilliance sense how Krystal Spectrum was wondering around his gym so easily.
  • Daebi/Celetwo dies to help break Sealed Evil in a Can out of its home... and causes the Kanto Incident a year prior. She got better, Back from the Dead
  • Wehc is the dead president of Attara Television Station.
• Pocket Dimension: Each member of Team Temporal gets put into one of these as their private hell.
  • Krystal Spectrum mentions this as part of why her Daemon Ball Exploded
• Pokémon-Speak: The Pokemon, they do it. Except a few notable few
• Psychic Powers: A fair amount of the stories characters have these.
• Psychic Static: Hari comments this is actually part of Krystal Spectrum's Psychic Signature that is trackable.
• Psycho Lesbian: Lady Kiss Void becomes this
• Propaganda Machine: Rocket Logistics had one for them
• Punny Name the entire Spectrum Family is named after solid rock like substances. Krystal Spectrum, Stoenn Spectrum, Minerval Spectrum, Private Dwayne Spectrum, etc.
• Rare Candy Fujitsu uses one on his Pokemon
  • Krystal Spectrum, at one point has a cloud of them swarming around her. Rather than using them to power up, she just pelted enemies with the cloud of them, for a Death of a Thousand Cuts type win.
• Reality Warper: The local Eldritch Abomination Daebi/Celetwo does this every now and again.
• Red Shirt: Parodied in the Dragons: Universe section. With Krystal being the only Genre Savvy one to be concerned. With Sepia being Dangerously Genre Savvy to suggest they come along.
• Reference Overdosed: Roy's Ego kind of gets sick of it, part of the way through the second chapter.
• The Renfield: Jezibelle to Lady Kiss Void
• Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman: "When you could make it so that Ronald Reagan ruled Soviet Russia, as the greatest communist leader of all time, as easily as I could... well, you really cannot. So that is why I don't take orders from you." "Who is Ronald Reagan?"
• Room Full of Crazy: The Boss Fight room for Lady Kiss Void which is a mausoleum to her Pet.
• Rousseau Was Right: Pretty much everybody in the story applies to this. It is what allows Lady Kiss Void to go Yandere then The Starscream.
• Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Any of the more kinking acts between Lady Kiss Void and her pet human tended to demonstrate elements of this.
  • Working as rather zig-zagged usage of Bondage Is Bad since the characters doing this stuff for events glimpsed "on camera" were villains.
• Sanity Slippage: We call that character development
• Sailor Fuku: Lady Kiss Void's Pet wears one. Likely because Lady Kiss Void has a fetish for it.
• Save This Person Save the World: Played nearly straight on Vermillion
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Inverted as Lady Kiss Void usually is dressed fairly sensible. Where as Krystal Spectrum has gotten other comments on her out fits.
• Sexy Jester: Celetwo/Daebi.
• Schoolgirl Lesbians: Lady Kiss Void and her pet human.
• School Uniforms Are the New Black: Mocked in one of the end chapter Omakes.
  • Lady Kiss Void's pet human seems to run round in hers a lot however.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers: Lady Kiss Void, Schwartz, Krystal Spectrum, Roy MacKealan (lesser amount)
  • Daebi/Celetwo does this on a more grand scale in the over all time. She operates under the rules of Dialga (whom she refers to not wanting to tick off a few times) and still will do what she can to not only create Temporal Paradoxes--but even wander around Timelines she is not even suppose to exist in.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them: Stoenn Spectrum, Schwartz, Weiss, Origin, the Conduit, Arcesu, Deoxys amongst others.
• Seen It All
  • Type 1: Mewvander/Mewtwo
  • Type 2: Indigo Sepia
  • Type 3: Daebi/Celetwo
• Send in the Clones: The Daemon Army
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Mixed into a Rubber Band History Stable Time Loop.
• Sex Dressed: Zigzagged.
• Sharing a Body: Fujitsu and Darktsu.
• Shipper on Deck: Roy's Ego... but only to irritate and annoy Roy for the most part.
• Shrinking Violet: Fuschia and Vermillion
• Slave Collar: Lady Kiss Void on her pet human. It is merely symbolic. Jezibelle would likely grab it back on, if it were removed from her.
• Someone Has to Die: Vermil, when Lady Kiss Void is attempting to Mind Control the entire universe itself
• Spell My Name with an "S": Royal MacKealan / MacKealan / MacKealen / MacKaelen
  • Daebi/Celetwo but that is due to different time lines she is created in
  • Mr. Popo and Waffles
• Spin-Off: Sepai and Team Temporal both spin off from this.
• Spot the Imposter: Lady Kiss Void does this fo Krystal Spectrum a few times
• Stripperiffic: comments about Krystal Spectrum's various outfits.
• Sue Donym: Unwillingly put upon anyone who is color traced. Taken to the extreme in that the pseudonym becomes the person's actual name.
• Super OCD: Perfection.
• There Are No Girls on the Internet: Subverted... the Internet seems to have been invented and solely consist of female members at times.
• There Are No Good Executives: Subverted. They can be just as bad as anybody else. The Board of Directors of Rocket Logistics even called Schwartz insane
• The Starscream: Lady Kiss Void. However, Perfection was heading this way, as well (Yes, this is in the right spot in the list for TheStarscream).
• This Is Madness: It gets said.
• Timeline-Altering MacGuffin: Daebi/Celetwo hands this to a young Krystal Spectrum to try to Temporal Paradox history enough.
• Time Master: Dialga (Celetwo notes following his rules for the best of things).
• Time Stands Still: Celetwo/Daebi does this every now and then.
• Time Travel: One of the groups gets referred to as "Team Temporal"... for a well supported set of reasons.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: The crux of the climactic events of Sepia relies on the fact that time has been Timey-Wimey Ball'd beyond belief.
• Token Lesbian: In amongst Gym Leader Nick, Stoenn Spectrum, Admin Mercury, Max and Polaris , Lady Kiss Void could be considered this.
• Too Funny to Be Evil: Daebi/Celetwo attempts this... but it just never seems right.
• Trickster Archetype: Daebi/Celetwo.
• Troubled Fetal Position: This has came up.
• Twinmaker: What Lady Kiss Void's purpose originally was.
• Tyke Bomb: The Daemon Army.
• Uncle Pennybags: Stoenn Spectrum falls under this.
• Unstoppable Rage: Lady Kiss Void, Celadon, Sepia, and anyone else whose berserk button gets pushed.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Krystal Spectrum's usual response to Legendaries.
• Utopia Justifies the Means
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Indigo/Irving Sepia ends up having to deal with this quite a bit too often.
• The Vamp: Lady Kiss Void.
• Vampire Vannabe: Subverted with Lady Kiss Void and Jezibelle.
• Villainous Breakdown: This ends up happening to Perfection, after Team Temporal keeps surviving his Impossible Task.
• Villainous BSOD: Lady Kiss Void Yandere when her pet human dies.
• Villainous Harlequin: Roy's Ego.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Rocket Logistics.
• Virgin Sacrifice: Krystal Spectrum and Roy's Ego tease Roy about this.
• Visionary Villain: Deoxys, Schwartz, Weiss.
• Voice of the Resistance: Arguably Team Network. Though, they are more allied to just getting information than really any resistance.
• "Wake-Up Call" Boss: The fight with the Rocket Admin, Selina could count as this.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: Krystal Spectrum, in every town see visits, if she does grab a new Doomed New Clothes.
• We Do the Impossible:
• Weirdness Censor: The point of Team Network's outfit.
• White Mask of Doom: Perfection wore one.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Krystal Spectrum after going shadow.
  • Technically this coupled with Go Mad from the Revelation for Daebi/Celetwo
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Zigzaged when Leader comments on how poor Lady Kiss Void's chosen name is. Leader also being another example
• Why Won't You Die?: The source of Perfections' Villainous Breakdown
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Lady Kiss Void pretended to be Stoenn Spectrum after Rocket Logistics took over. Citing grave errors in Rocket Logistics take over--that Titan Co. must return to "his" control. She pulled this while in her Highly-Conspicuous Uniform without anybody noticing too Flat What.
• The Woobie: Constant MacKealan. She is put into a Brother-Sister Incest Bride and Switch situation and is often on the receiving end of the Memetic Molesters' Black Comedy Rape.
• Word of Gay: Because the authors seem to detest Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?
• Yandere: Somewhat applicable to Lady Kiss Void, particularly with how her motive was about her pet human (and her pet human dying)
• You Watch Too Much X : it happens
• Zombie Advocate: Team Network and a few Media groups kind of do this for Team Temporal and Rocket Logistics.