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An original work by [[Tropers/Eilios|Eilios]] on the Heuxe site, Unregistered is an [[Evo RP]](numerous characters are controlled via a text environment, wherein visitors can directly contribute to the actions of the characters but have no control over the characters themselves) starring three main characters, who are all superpowered people known as "Carriers" in a very video-game inspired world. Carriers must choose whether they want to take the workload and be registered, or [[Title Drop|succumb to fear and remain Unregistered.]]

The series is regarded among it's fandom for having an engaging storyline, comedic elements to it as well, exciting action scenes, and just being generally [[Beyond the Impossible|ludicrous in everything it does]]. Despite being rather short into its [[Myth Arc]], it already has a great deal of [[Character Development]] and engaging relationships. The game features a very original battle system for a forum-based text adventure, allowing people to choose their method of attack, and having the characters act in a manner that would be considered applicable to that way. You are also allowed to specify additional things to do in the fight, like "throw rock at head".

** {{spoiler|This rule is only broken in ''The Nether'', but that's because it doesn't seem to follow any rules.}}

*** {{spoiler|And Intermissions.}}

* [[Amplifier Artifact]] - The {{spoiler|Pages of Aqadi}} act as a huge power booster, which is absolutely wonderful, except that having one will make you want to collect ''more'', until your entire life becomes a quest for power.

* {{spoiler|[[A Protagonist Shall Lead Them]] - the [[Badass Crew|Unreg Alliance.]]}}

* [[Art Major Physics]] - The game is run based off [[Rule of Cool]]. It's bound to happen - jumping abnormally high is fully possible, to say the least. Portals especially break the laws of physics, especially when you try shenanigans with them to do ridiculous amounts of damage, causing them to glitch the laws of physics themselves.

* [[Author Avatar]] - The narrator, obviously.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]] - Lance Lenin. Leviathan Alexander. The series, though new, is ripe with them.

* [[Badass Adorable]] - Leviathan is described by Lance as his goofy best friend.

* [[Badass Boast]] - Lance engages in this behaviour quite a bit.

{{quote| "Oh, [[You and What Army]]?" the [[Too Dumb to Live|one with]] the shoemarked face replied.<br />

* [[Badass Bookworm]] - [[Drop the Hammer|Hammer nut]] Lance Lenin takes all sorts of extra classes, some related to hammers.

* [[Badass Cape]] - In [[C 1 A 4]], Leviathan gets a cape that he puts on. When it was time to take control of {{spoiler|his army}}, he mentions that he's "dressed for the motherfuckin' occasion."

* {{spoiler|[[Chosen One]] - Implied with Leviathan. Whether it's a miracle or just a rare ability has yet to been revealed.}}

* [[Class and Level System]] - The basic, core underlying mechanic to the game. Every person has a class and a level - but Carriers are far more powerful, and have access to '''far''' more classes.

** [[Averted]] with Ashley, who is such a [[Nice Girl]] that, aside from [[Actual Pacifist|not attempting to fight people]], she almost never cusses, and when she does, it's in moments of legitimately high stress. Or [[Deadpan Snarker|snarking]].

* [[Cliff Hanger]] - The end of [[C 1 A 4]] is a particularly notable one.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] - People of importance have different text colours for their speech, and their own personal narration. {{color|orange|Lance's is orange.}} {{color|royalblue|Leviathan's is blue.}} {{color|darkorchid|Ashley's is purple.}}

* [[Continuity Drift]] - Unregistered continually gets more complicated as new features and characters are added. Originally, it started off as a very pointless comedy series about teenagers with mild video game references. [[Growing the Beard|It doesn't stay that way.]]

** Later on, {{spoiler|Sophia Alexandria was not allowed to use her power, or even ''speak'' in fear of having her plot figured out.}}

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - [[Badass|Lance Lenin]] was trained for years to take on Carriers using entry-level Civilian gear. When he was made to fight an Auditor catered towards newbies to using Carrier powers with all of his abilities AND the awesome gear he had...

* [[Drop the Hammer]] - Lance is all about hammers. His online pseudonym is "[[Hamma Time]]".

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]] - Early on, there is a lot less user interactivity. As the series progresses, new features are added constantly. This makes the series [[Growing the Beard|naturally evolve into a more complicated game]], but makes re-reading it seem odd as all of the fights are automated and there's little control over what characters do.

* [[Education Mama]] - [[Gender Flipped]] with Ashley's dad - he wants Ashley to become as smart as she can, forcing her through college at an incredibly young age, making her a college graduate at the age of 13.

* [[The Empire]] - The Empire of {{spoiler|Usenterr was this. Former home of The Sentinels}}, the Empire spanned an entire galaxy, and was a very advanced civilisation, as it ended up teaching humanity several things, including how to make Battledexes. {{spoiler|Then it was nearly destroyed by the Culling, leaving one planet, and they went berserk in an attempt to gain back what they used to have.}} Recently, though, they have became far more benevolent, as the {{spoiler|Hafos}} who came to power were far more peaceful.

* {{spoiler|[[Endofthe World As We Know It]] - Implied with ''The Culling''.}}

** Her name was chosen to be Ashley Totora, which she doesn't like because [[I Just Want to Be Special|it's boring]].

* [[Faceless Goons]] - [[Played With]]. Any character with coloured text is actually important. [[Lampshade Hanging|This is commented on.]] Likewise, characters written in the current POV text colour are minor characters.

* [[Good Bad Bugs]] - Literally a mechanic of the series with "Shenanigans", which are when you take a standard power(such as the ability to make a miniature whirlwind with magic) and abuse it's effects on physics to do ridiculously high amounts of damage.

* [[Heel Realization]] - In the Intermission, {{spoiler|Napoleon realises he's been taking Butch's service for granted, as well as realising how much Butch has done compared to him}}.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] - Lance and Leviathan.

** Also, Butch and Napoleon.

* [[Limited Social Circle]] - Lance is not good with people, and Ashley was [[Kids Are Mean|very un-popular]]. The trio, however, were very close. Leviathan is depicted as the most social person in the trio, but for the most part, they mainly stick together.

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]] - Ashley's first year of regular schooling was like this, until she met Leviathan and Lance.

* [[Magic Knight]] - Lance. He doesn't use wind magic much, preferring to use it as a last resort. It's proven to be a very powerful ability when used, though.

* [[Magikarp Power]] - The Summoner class only creates stupid kittens, which are not much help at all. However, it was said that knowing the names of powerful demons would make the class more powerful. How powerful is yet to be seen, as Ashley does not go out to fight much.

* [[Mythology Gag]] - Many characters in-series are fans of other works that [[Tropers/Eilios|the author has written]]. At one point, a viewer asked to check for updates on a completely dead webcomic he worked on temporarily.

* [[Nakama]] - The trio.

** Ashley, in a [[Despair Event Horizon|fit of rage]] after seeing {{spoiler|Leviathan beaten down, decides to summon a demon to fight the Giant Spider that took them down. The Giant Spider was relatively harmless, as it was restrained and kept under watch by Sophia, the person who put it there. The Demon then proceeded to torture the spider to death, and almost killed the entire cast and took over the world.}}

* [[Nominal Importance]] - See "Faceless Goons". Characters with colours are likely to be Carriers.

** Said straight out when {{spoiler|Baristasis killed the spider}}. It was alive, just beaten, and then it was attacked once the Battledex stopped protecting him.

* [[Non Player Character]] - {{spoiler|Your ASSOCIATES cannot directly be controlled by you, but issuing commands is essential to the game.}} It is worth noting that these characters can occasionally get the POV, but you will be unable to control them with it.

* [[No Sneak Attacks]] - [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in the final battle in [[C 1 A 2]]. A mook tripped Leviathan and attacked him while he was trying to pass by. [[Badass|Not that it did much good to stop him.]]

* [[No Social Skills]] - Lance is not very good with people, at all. Especially apparent in the beginning of [[C 1 A 5]].

* [[Phantom Zone]] - {{spoiler|The Nether. What happens when a player tries to get a command done without actually being in any character's viewpoint? They end up ''there''. Not much is known about what it is, but the narration in some way is connected to it, and there are references to ''it'' being omniscient.}}

* [[Physical God]] - The God-Tiers. {{spoiler|Leviathan is the only human that can reach them, though.}}

* [[Second Hour Superpower]] - Carrier powers! There's also Third Hour Superpowers with Trueself abilities, which act as an ultimate extension of your Chosentag, and are stable throughout.

* [[Second Person Narration]] - Everywhere. Despite having multiple viewpoints, this is handled by every character [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|having their own text colour]].

* [[Shonen Upgrade]] - [[Justified]] with {{spoiler|The Seer}} who deliberately abuses his high level and the rules of XP gaining to force the trio into getting level 17. {{spoiler|He also forces the trio's enemies to that level, too.}}

* [[Showy Invincible Hero]] - Played straight with Lance and Leviathan from the beginning to most of [[C 1 A 5]]. {{spoiler|Then they get completely curbstomped and nearly killed by a giant spider.}}

* [[Troll]] - Leviathan messed with Napoleon for giggles.

* [[Turn Based Strategy]] - Elements of this begin popping up near the end of Chapter 1.

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] - While the series has been constantly evolving into more complex forms as users adapt to the unusual circumstances of the [[Evo RP]], a major game changer in [[S 1 A 4]] adds a new mechanic to the series which completely throws off how people play the game. {{spoiler|This change means that in each act there's a possibility of [[Heel Face Turn|converting characters to your side]], but if you mess it up, they're [[Lost Forever|gone forever.]]}} This update takes over all "free time" at the mall, giving you total freedom over which of the characters to use when the plot isn't taking over, and how to use them. You can still mess around in the mall, but you have to make sure you don't screw too much up.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]] - {{spoiler|Butch fell for Sophia's schemes, thinking that she would help him win. It was just a huge test of people's ability.}}

* [[Weapon of Choice]] - A core mechanic to the game. All characters have various stats in various things, like Leviathan's high Martial Prowess (making him highly manoeuvrable) and mid level sword stat. Characters generally don't use other types of weapons, because they'd suck with them.

* [[Weirdness Censor]] - Roving gangs of demons and monsters from realms nobody has heard of lead by powerful sorcerers attack pizza vans. People are more distraught over the lack of pizza than the whole "army of otherworldly monsters".

* [[Wham Line]] - {{spoiler|"Don't be silly, the prestige classes are on the second page."}}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]] - {{spoiler|Sophia}} has yet to use her Trueself Power, but there doesn't really seem to be a use for something, considering her Chosentag is {{spoiler|the Displacer of Logic}}.

* [[Wisdom From the Gutter]] - [[Subverted]], see "What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?"

* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]] - Lance to Butch after he laments that he keeps training but never seems to get to Lance's level.

{{quote| {{color|orange|"Maybe you should stop trying to be me and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|start trying to be you]]."}}}}

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