Bliss Stage: Love Is Your Weapon: Difference between revisions

* [[Discretion Shot]]: This game is probably going to be [[Rated M for Money|the equivalent of an ESRB M rating]]. Including [[Hentai|explicit]] [[Optional Sexual Encounter|Optional Sexual Encounters]] is probably, [[Only Fatal to Adults|given the age of the survivors of the Bliss,]] a very good way to wind up in a hostile court.

* [[Dating Sim]]: The [[Breather Level|Interludes.]]

** Anna Lin demonstrates this with the [[Sniper Duel|Sunshooter]] and the [[Power of the Void|Singular Void]] in a cutscene before the first mission. And yes, the [[Broken Bird|Void]] is from a relationship manifesting as a [[Black Hole]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|where her ANIMa's heart should be.]]

* [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]]: Based as it is on the [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Expy]]: Sort of; it depends on the path. He's based on [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Shinji]] on Sensitive paths, [[Gurren Lagann|Simon]] on Idealist paths, and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Setsuna]] on Practical paths.

* [[Hot Blooded]]: On Idealistic paths.

* [[Military Brat]]: Considering that the Colonel is [[A Father to His Men]] - literally in his case...

* [[Race Lift]]: Joshua Preston from the Bliss Stage Canon main rules was of unspecified race. Josh Castellano Preston specifies it as Irish and Colombian.

* [[Translation Convention]]: Everything Joshua understands is 'printed' in English, but the voice actors will actually speak it in the language it's intended to be. Joshua knows Spanish at the start of the game and picks up some other languages.

* [[Uke]]: For all his bluster, he's pretty goddamn submissive in relationships to begin with. And then you just had to go on the [[Seme|Derek]] [[Mr. Fixit|Smith]] path...

 

* Metagaming: See [[Shut Up Kiss]]. Somewhat subverted if you've had a so-far perfect Meredith run...

* [[Mission Control]]: She's Joshua's Anchor for most of the game.

* [[Shout Out]]: "Why do I wear this scarf? ...It reminds me that [[Harry Potter (Literature)|wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure]]."

** And her Halloween costume, which consists of a wand and [[My Little Pony|a pink and blue streak of hair dye.]]

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Played with. She is genuinely kind and cheerful, but there are times when she's faking it.

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Kissing Josh purely for the [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]] is only the first and most obvious one of these she pulls.

 

== Keenan Caine ==

* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: She's a LITTLE better about this in front of her neighbors in the mission, but her natural tendency is towards wearing skintight clothes and very little of it.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: She's very affectionate and [[Obfuscating Stupidity|affects being ditzy]], and plays with her foes - until they threaten bystanders. Then you run.

* [[Spicy Latina]]: Gabby is [[The Glomp|rather affectionate]]. The [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this are lampshaded by Joshua's father, [[Jerkass|but then again he's Joshua's father.]]

* [[Raised By Wolves]]: She didn't know her parents since even before [[Teenage Wasteland|the Bliss hit.]] Lampshaded:

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't call her Laura.

* [[Broken Bird]]

* [[Polyamory]]: She, Keenan and Yukiko [[Tenchi Solution|have an understanding.]]

* [[Pretty Fly for A White Guy|Pretty Fly For An Asian Chick]]: The inevitable result of her time in a gang.