Seeing as how Blessed has 15 endings based on it's concepts alone, I decided the closet thing I can give a full story to you people is a TVtropes page! This...is more or less going to be a gigantic WIP. So for those who enjoyed this, here you go o/
Two gods, numerous pieces blessed by those gods. They remain trapped in time to fight. One for the sake of stability, the other for the sake of chaos.The Ace: All the "pieces" qualify for this in someway. However see Broken Ace to see why this is a BAD thing.
Absurdly Sharp Sword: Yoite is the
king of this trope. His Tsubame Gaeshi is an ability that makes him be able to cut three times with one slice. When he learns to wield the Masamune he increases it to nine slices at once!
All there in the Manual: Another Dimension: The source of magic is a dimension known as the Library.
Anyone Can Die: And...with the exception of Dorothea and Essiah...THEY DO.
Attack!Attack!Attack!: In one time line where it is just the Ringo and the Masked One left alive in the battle, this is what their tactics degrade to since they know that no matter who survives neither has any chance of victory against the Gods.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Many characters fall into this category for a variety of reasons. Here are the notable high lights.
*Shinkuto fits into this because he was able to analyze Dasoku Ren's Gram spell about as fast as Ringo can analyze it...with the help of the Shiro's eyes.
*Yoite, provided he knows at least the basics of the technique, can deconstruct spells.
*Ringo was already this...the eyes more or less doubled his capabilities and possibilities.
*Ren is also capable of this and like Ringo, his eye only makes this more dangerous.
*Going by a story example, one battle is two awesomeness analyzers trying to outdo each other.
Badass: Nearly everyoneBadass Normal: Anyone who can't use magic, mainly Eli. The Tsukami family that doesn't use magic could fall into this category but they were taught techniques that ether defy logical expectation (one swing = three cuts) or taught anti-magic measures.
Bazooka-fu: The Obliterator is disturbingly
good at this.
Beam-o-war: The result of most of Dorothea and Essiah's battles.
Berserk Button: Too long to list at the moment.
The Berserker: The Obliterator is
really good at doing what her title implies. Not entirely a Berserker in the fact that she does have some semblance of strategy with her attacks. Setsuna is a semi-straight example in the fact that she combines her monstrous (magic powered) strength in sneak attacks to make sure the opponent is dead or they suffer at her choice.
Beyond the Impossible: A lot
*Miyuki, in order to protect Yoite and Ai, uses her bow as a close range staff against The Masked One and was doing a decent job of holding him off for about a minute or so. She wasn't joking when she said she can take care of herself.
*Ringo, in his bad ending, not only cancels out Ren and Rin's spells, but intercept them and use them as his own. Do note that they were consequences to this power but none the less what Ringo did was considered nearly impossible.
*Yoite, on numerous occasion, managed to get himself up even though in one instance his muscles were crushed.
*Shinkuto manages to tap into the power of the Library directly every now and then in the same way Essiah and Dorothea does.
Blade Spammer: It doesn't matter how hard you try or how hard you swing your blade. The Tsukamis/Shiros/or Tatsuyas will
always have more cuts.
Blue and Orange Morality: Essiah is disgusted by Ren and Rei, yet the way he treats people is much much
worse. In fact, this is Essiah in a nutshell. He himself admits on numerous occasions that his motivations can't be discerned by decent human standards.
Born Lucky: Ren and Rei has the highest luck out considering the writer's love for karma...
Boss Subtitles: Every character has one. Though for the "pieces"
*The Ambiguous Snake: Shinkuto
*The Blade of Strength: Yoite
*The Hero of No Reward: Ringo
*The Deceitful Eye: Ren
*The Blank: The Masked One
*The Anguished: The Obliterator
Brains and Brawn: Pretty much a requirement to be able to create spells during battle, however Yoite fits into this despite not being much of a magic user.
Broken Ace: The story breaks them
hardCalling Your Attacks: Everyone is a victim of this. Some is justified as the calling is simply a focus method for crafting the spell.
City of Adventure:Cool and Unusual Punishment: Happens
alot.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Essiah does this
alot.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Our heroes is a victim of this for the beginning of most timelines before they finally learn to fight their adversaries.
Dark and Troubled Past: Applies to some of the characters. IF it justifies their actions is up to interpretation.
Dark fic: Not even going to sugar coat this. It's essentially FYE in a fantasy setting...and the entire cast of characters being cosmic playthings.
Death is Cheap: Thanks to the insane time loop
Despair Event Horizon: Happens just about every single loop.
Destructive Romance: Rin's desire to stay with Dasoku Ren. It's sadly one of the many reasons why in one time line Ringo had to resort to giving Rin trauma induced amnesia.
Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulu?: Anytime Essiah doesn't kill the protagonists.
The Dreaded: While they are characters more powerful than the Obliterator...for a small moment, the Obliterator was able to get
Yoite to think that he is going to die going up against her.
Dysfunction Junction: This kind of goes without saying.
Fantastic Nuke: Essiah and Dorothea are capable of this.
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: No seriously, almost every possible type of magic is usable.
From Bad to Worse: Almost every story's timelines up-til the final timeline.
Functional Magic: Magic is a complex subject and involves drawing energy from a theoretical plane and then mentally carve a spell out of said energy. Really the only clear rule that is placed is that one needs a bit of will power to keep drawing energy from said plane.
Green Eyed Monster: Let's be fair to Ringo...when
Yoite and Shinkuto seem to be doing better at something you spent your entire life training for and the very thing you define your entire existence around (Protecting, saving, and helping people), you'd be a little jealous too.
*Another case is Ringo mastering all of Katsuo's skills. Having a kid you really hate mastering your father's greatest skills can't be good for the mind for Yoite.
Hour of Power: More ten minutes of absolute power, but in Ringo's bad route, he unleashes all of his magical power at once in order to fight Ren and Rin. The result was Ren being unable to use magic and Ringo burning out all of his magical power...letting Rin to shoot him in the arm and almost shot him in the head if not for timely intervention.
Heroic Willpower: Everyone displays at some point as they're getting the snot beaten out of them by the villains.
Honorifics: Important for Ringo since the more formal Ringo is
the more pissed off he is.I Did What I Had To Do: How the Masked One once justifies his actions. When he sees Ringo using similar words, it is little wonder why the Masked One tried to shoot an explosive arrow through Ringo's chest.
Implausible Fencing Powers: Yoite is also the king of this trope despite other characters also displaying implausible fencing powers. Yoite kind of takes this cake for having the ability to cut multiple times with one swing!
Irony: Tons of it. To the point where one wonders if it is some sort of strange addiction to the author.
*At the beginning of the story the strongest fighter out of the three pieces on Dorothea's side is Ringo, someone who Essiah considers to be the heart of the body that is "Shinkuto, Yoite, and Ringo."
*Dasoku Ren thought he could get away with his crimes. Take two guesses what happens in every time line and the first one doesn't count.
*Dasoku Ren and Rei both have the highest luck out of all the characters. Guess who suffers the most gruesome fates?
*Ringo wanted to dedicate his existence to helping people yet his talents lie in hunting down and killing people.
*Yoite wants to be strong but he is out classed by Shinkuto (in terms of magic power and knowledge) and Ringo (Who has an absurd number of skills to use at his disposal and combat experience)
It Sucks To Be A Piece: Being one of Dorothea's or Essiah's chosen warriors never
ever ends wellJust Playing With Them: Essiah does this
to everyoneKung-fu Wizard: All the magic users of Blessed have some degree of physical skill.
Love Makes You Crazy: an accurate description of Setsuna and Rin's actions...however in Essiah's point of view...
Love Makes You Dumb: Essiah firmly believes this especially in regards to Rin and Setsuna. It's why he refuses to make them his 'pieces'. That doesn't stop him from being a jackass and manipulating them to his favor though. '
Luckily My Shield Will Protect Me!: Except against Dasoku Ren's Gram spell which is designed to deconstruct shields. Ringo's Defense Shrine and Miyuki's Avalon being the exception to what Gram can pierce.
Magic Enhancement: What the characters use to increase their durability when they're about to get hit by something and the basis of the Sanada family's magic. Battle honed characters can do this instinctively.
Magic Missile: Abused like hell in this story.
Magical Incantation: Some of the more powerful attacks usually require incantations, some don't. However expect those with incantations to have a hefty cost. Granted the most serious example shown is losing usage of a body part. (For example when Ringo used the Nine Cuts Memory Sword to destroy the Obliterator at the cost of his right arm.)
Martyr without a Cause: Ringo, He risks his life for people who wouldn't do the same for him and still believes in human goodness even at his bleakest. Funny enough, the Masked One calls him out on this.
Moral Mypoia: TOO MANY EXAMPLES TO COUNTMouthy Kid: Chronos pays for this
big timeMultiple Endings: Fifteen endings yes the person who wrote this is nuts
*Yoite's Bad Ending: "Fall of the Foolish Prince": Ringo and Shinkuto are dead, and the Tsukamis evidently fall apart under Yoite's leadership.
*Yoite's Good Ending: "Salvation of the Prince": Ringo and Shinkuto are both alive, but Yoite finally defeats the Shiros and the Kazehaya with his own power and establishes for the most apart a stable rule with the Nakamuras.
*Yoite's Truth Ending: "Humility of the Prince": Ringo is dead and Shinkuto is alive and Yoite finally learns that it doesn't make weak to regret and the Tsukamis rule with great stability.
*Shinkuto's Bad Ending: "Destruction of the Facade": Both Ringo and Yoite are dead and to make matters better so is everyone Shinkuto ever cared about. Shinkuto is more or less a sobbing wreck as he stands alone in a mostly destroyed land.
*Shinkuto's Good Ending: "Face of Salvation": Yoite is alive and Ringo is dead, Shinkuto manages to open up a little and maybe find some peace and quiet in his life.
*Shinkuto's Truth Ending: "Discarding the Facade": Ringo and Yoite are alive and Shinkuto managed to get over his issues with his family and moved on his own.
*Ringo's Bad Ending: "Unrewarded Heroism": Yoite and Shinkuto are dead...and so is nearly everyone in the damn city. Ringo could only collapse and stare blankly at the sky.
*Ringo's Good Ending: "It was Worth It": Yoite and Shinkuto are alive and for once, positive changes are happening by Ringo's actions.
*Ringo's Truth Ending: "Long Way to go Before Rest":Yoite and Shinkuto are alive and the Shiros continue their work, Ringo have a revived sense of optimism.
*Normal Ending: "Closed": Essiah is locked in the library but Dorothea worries that the events might repeat themselves in the future but for now it is a time of rest and peace.
*True Ending: "Open": Essiah is killed off for real and those who are left continue on to a bright new future.
Mundane Utility: Ringo teaches Reiko rather plan spells such as creating a small harmless sphere of light and rather simple magics.
My Greatest Failure: Every character has this. Ringo and Dorothea gets this
bad. On the villain side the Masked One.
No Good Deed goes Unpunished: Or if we wanna go a huge stretch,
no deed goes unpunished in this story.
Odd Friendship: Before he died, Katsuo and Ringo had this. They were not entirely alike but they do have similarities. Katsuo leading the Tsukamis because he felt he had to and Ringo taking up his path as a hero and a Shiro because he felt he had to. Both are absurdly powerful in comparison to the people around them and did a lot for those they cared about...and they both have a bad habit of
dying.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: This series will never get finished so this is essentially most of the story.
Pet the Dog: Many despite how bleak the story usually is.
*While the Masked One holds the Pieces with nothing but contempt and wishes nothing more for them to die, he treats everyone else with decency and has a policy of not killing anyone aside from the main three even if they present a great obstacle to him. It shows that they're still some tiny shreds of who he once was in there...too bad he is an abnormal existence that needs to be put down.
Power Copying: The power of the Shiro family and the Tatsuya family though the mechanics of which they work are slightly different and the Shiro family get the slight edge (pun intended) in the fact that they have the sword Hidden Kenjutsu, a mystical weapon that uses the user's memories as the power source. The Shiro family's copying magic works like an HD camera, being able to survey the magical energy, methods, and movements one has to do with the technique, printing the picture in their minds to call upon a gain. Since this is drawn from their own memory they can improve upon what they copy. The Tatsuya's family copying power is more or less save stating what they see. Say they copied someone who is a 1-dan in kendo. They will not surpass that 1-dan until they overwrite that "save state" with a higher-dan in kendo.
RPG Mechanics Verse: Status sheets for some characters were made for shits and giggles of the writer. While respected in the story, the status sheets don't take into account of long time battle experiences and the skills on there need to be updated.
Super Strength: How else does one explain how Setsuna is not phased by Ai trying to drive a truck into her.
Shout-out: Many
>Fate Stay Night: Numerous, even attack names and weapons! Even story elements as the Masked One and the Obliterator both have elements of Archer's and Saber Alter's characters and stories.
>Final Fantasy, Class of Heroes, 4 Heroes of Light, and Bravely Default given how their classes/abilities are designed and worked.
>The time loop thing is very reminiscent of Blazblue Calamity Trigger for a reason.
>The names of the Shiro's original attack names are all Katanagatari references.
>A group of ninjas/intelligence officiers who have eyes that can copy the powers...now where has that been done before? Unlike that series about a certain orange suited ninja, the Shiro's abilities have solely been the abilities they've copied or abilities they mix mashed together from things they've copied in the past.
Spell Construction: Most magic works in this manner. It is stated that only a circle of magics can be used instantaneously and those that could be used is usually passed through imprints in the blood line of families...a majority of the time.
Stable Time Loop: The entire plot is one! If Dorothea and Essiah's narration is any indication, they've been repeating this twenty year time line
millions of years. It's stated that if the two weren't on the level of a God, they'd go insane.
Take That!: At many things
*Essiah doesn't skirt on the squickish nature of Miyuki x Ren when discussing the idea of Miyuki letting Ren go because she is in love with him...thankfully Miyuki punches him in the face.
*"You can not escape the wheel of karma Dasoku Ren, you are not protected by plot armor this time around. Just as drinking hot tea burns your tongue, you should've seen this coming~" Essiah crushing Dasoku Ren with his magic when Ringo didn't finish the job.
*"Ouch, what a fair way to treat those who bowed their heads endlessly to you." Essiah's sarcastic remark in regards to how Yoite treats the Shiros
*"Jeez this guy must have a irony and karma fetish." Essiah in regards to a book written by someone who is named Favonius.
*On that note, Essiah does this to everyone. Lest not forget he is human depravity.
Taking the Bullet: A specific example would be Ringo pushing Hinata out of the range of the Obliterator's last resort attack and taking the full brunt of the attack. He DOESN'T survive. This should already be a sign that one is on Yoite's bad ending at this point.
The Many Deaths of Everyone: No seriously, everyone suffers and dies in this story. The timeline being the only thing that brings them back.
Theme Tune: "A Story To Tell" by Woe is Me. Tranquil Fury: Increase in formality is Ringo's only sign of anger.
Troubled Backstory Flashback: Essiah laughs at those who buys this.
Unskilled, but Strong: Eli is this to a T. While everyone else has to rely on magic and techniques, Eli can more or less plow his way to victory by sheer will power and physical force alone. If it weren't for out of control and unpredictable he can be he would've been considered a piece on both sides.
Was It Really Worth It?: Ringo's character development in a nutshell. Some answers are typical. Some answers are interesting. And the conclusion Ringo reaches in his bad end is down right horrific.
Weak but Skilled: What Ringo boils down to in comparison to Yoite and Shinkuto. He doesn't have as much physical power as Yoite and not as much natural magical power as Shinkuto. However, Ringo does have an
absurd amount of skills collected from years of combat experience and the knowledge to use them with deadly effectiveness.
Where It All Began: Essiah and Dorothea were normal humans once upon a time. Living in a different dimension yes but they weren't always as powerful as they were now.
Woobie: Pretty much almost
everyone. Doe is it justify all their actions?
Your mileage may vary.