History Fanfic / DungeonKeeperAmi

** As summarized in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355849 "Informal Debriefing"]]: The champions of two armies fighting: Cathy versus the WorldsBestWarrior, where magic is used to unbalance the sides, resulting in [[spoiler:a surprising victory, due to throwing the fight]]:

* DealWithTheDevil: The title of the third chapter is ''A Deal with the Devil'', which refers to Ami's deal with the demonic Horned Reaper, which Ami mentally notes:
--> sure did look like a Western illustration of the devil

--> '''Mukrezar''': [[spoiler:Servants of Crowned Death! You may be wondering why I asked for you specifically. That's simple: you are his best and his brightest! Not only are you vastly more powerful individually than the shambling hordes; more importantly, you are also smarter. Much smarter. You can follow complex instructions without supervision. You have the ability to effectively use magic. Surprises? They won't leave you stumped. Where other undead blindly follow orders, you can think on your feet, evaluate the situation, take the initiative and make decisions! Strategy and tactics are not beyond you. All of you are, dare I say it, qualified to lead. And that, that is why I wanted, no, needed you all here! That is why I need you all- ''[crash]'' -need you all to disappear. Yes, exactly like that. Thank you very much for your cooperation. By the way, I quit.]]

** Dungeon Keepers with more than one Dungeon Heart. If one of their Dungeon Hearts is destroyed, they will respawn at another one after a while.
* ResurrectionGambit: As a Dungeon Keeper, Ami can revive so long as one of her Dungeon Hearts dies, which kills her, but revives as long as another is still alive. She uses a spell to sacrifice one to kill [[spoiler:all her enemies]], but reviving at another one.

* RapidHairGrowth: A Torian-altered 'Beastly Beard Booster' spell, intended for use on hair, and given too much energy, causes this, to floor-reaching RapunzelHair lengths.
* RapunzelHair: Due to a RapidHairGrowth spell, Ami has hair that touches the floor until she gets it cut. She remarks that it makes her look less plain.

* AdultFear: Monteraine, a female Magician working for Morrigan. Lives in perpetual fear of [[YouHaveFailedMe failing]] and being turned into one of his [[MindRape 'compliant]] [[GoGoEnslavement little]] [[SexSlave dolls']].

* BoatsIntoBuildings: ZigZags the trope. Ami's [[CityOnTheWater Iceburg Dungeon Ship]] was originally [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355701 constructed in an underwater cavern]] before being floated to the surface to expand the structure and move about the sea. When the dungeon reaches its destination in the Avatar Islands, it is solidly affixed to the coastline with even more ice, like a glacier calving in reverse. Later chapters mention [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-5 that there's an underground tunnel]] connecting the iceberg to the mainland.

** The warlock who turned his own head {{invisibl|ity}}e. The spell derived from that is used to [[spoiler:rescue Jadeite]].

* ComicalOverreacting: Cathy rushes to Ami's side upon hearing her scream of agony. Turns out that Ami has scryed on her home world and discovered that she has ''fallen behind in school''.

* DeathMarch: Soon-to-be {{human sacrifice}}s for a ritual in the name of a GodOfEvil, Crowned Death, are mind-controlled and marched to the sacrificial site, with survival only relevant if they can't last until the ritual in a few days.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The chapter, ''Staff Difficulties'', about problems regarding a magical staff, and the problems that Ami has, controlling her warlocks, which are her staff, as in workers.

* DungeonBypass: Ami’s tactic against [[spoiler:Zarekos]]. She attacks him from [[spoiler:The underworld]], where he hasn't set up any defenses, and is a location where no one other than Ami has attacked from before.

* EntertaininglyWrong: The forces of Good manage to keep reasonably well-informed on Mercury's actions, but they tend to misinterpret things, because EvilCannotComprehendGood.

** [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6962742 "Making an Entrance"]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: And vice versa. The Light Gods literally can't comprehend the motives of the Dark Gods, and the minions Ami has gathered (with the exception of the Cathy-Jered-Synder trio and ''possibly'' Jadeite) seem to regard any benevolent action on her part as simply something to try and lull the forces of Good into complacency.

* ExhaustedEyeBags: After the SleepDeprivation, to be awake for over 24 hours, to prepare for a difficult battle in a week, Ami's companions are described thus: "dark circles under her companions' eyes".

* GiantFootprintReveal: In "Back to the Iceberg", after a giant dragon has attacked the dungeon:

* GenderScoff: Twice, once for each gender:
** From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355752 "A Meddler Appears"]]:
---> [[spoiler:Jadeite was]] sitting on the highest outcropping of the spire, pouting. Ami worried that she had offended his pride when she offered to carry him for a change, allowing him to relax some more after straining himself so. Her [[spoiler:youma body]] was certainly large and muscular enough for such an undertaking. She shook her head at his reaction. Men.
** From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355800 "In Transit"]], after shooting down one girl's idea, and being given a different girl and ''her'' idea:
---> [[spoiler:Jadeite]] stared at the fairy and remained silent, his expression unreadable. Finally, he shook his head and spoke "Girls and their silly ideas.
* GeniusLoci: The way dungeons, dungeon hearts, and the corruption interact with the rest of the world (especially the surface) has shades of this.
* GhostlyChill: Ghosts with enough ghost energy, that are durable enough not to be popped like a bubble, produce such a chill in their wake.
* GhostPirate: [[spoiler:Empress Mercury]] faces off against an Undead Navy and [[RaisingTheSteaks Zombie Octopus]] in her war against Crowned Death.
* GiantFootprintReveal: : In "Back to the Iceberg", After a giant dragon has attacked the dungeon:
-->Her armoured boots slipped on wet ice and almost sent her stumbling into an oddly-shaped pool of ice water.\\
...\\
"That's one strange puddle," Jered commented as he peered into depression. "It almost looks like a four-fingered hand."\\
"Not a hand." Cathy said, paling as she stepped over one of the cracks extending outward from the hole. "That's a ''footprint''."\\
"What? That would mean that the owner's toes are longer than you are!"
* GirlsWithMoustaches: After being shaved courtesy of [[spoiler:the [[GodOfEvil Unraveler of Mysteries]] preparing to vivisect her]], [[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper Keeper]] [[Anime/SailorMoon Mercury]] looks for a quick and dirty way to get her hair back. So she has one of her warlocks modify the "Beastly Beard Booster" spell. The results can be accurately summed by her reaction to the modified spell.
--> '''Mercury''': "Torian. Did you, by any chance, only [[GagHaircut expand the target region]]?"
* GivingThemTheStrip: Camilla strips off her shoes after they get glued to the floor, as said in the StickySituation entry.
* GlobalCurrency: Gold, since Dungeon Hearts seem to make relatively standard gold coins:
** From "Out-of-Dungeon Experiences":
---> The entrance fee is ten gold per person.
** From "Getting More Nurses", some bounties are measured in gold:
---> As the Silver Hawks informed me, the current total price on [[spoiler:Mukrezar's]] head is over two million gold pieces."
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Keeper Eyes glow {{red|EyesTakeWarning}} when angry.
* GodhoodSeeker: Zarekos, an already quite powerful vampire, is attempting to ascend to godhood when Ami encounters him. Later, when Ami asks one of her own minions whether Zarekos thought he ''was'' a god, she's answered that he wasn't ''that'' delusional -- he was planning to become one, yes, but he was fully aware of his current limitations.
* GodOfEvil: [[GodOfEvil The Dark Gods]] whom the [[EvilOverlord Dungeon Keepers]] serve. [[GodOfEvil The Dark Gods]] counterparts, [[LightIsGood The Light]], have been doing their best to try and prevent the [[{{Mordor}} taint]] of [[GodOfEvil The Dark Gods]] from spreading any further. The Dark God of Strength and Martial Skill, Azzathra, has wished to see Mercury dead for some time for Mercury's perceived insults of all he stands for, and Mercury has [[spoiler:declared war against the Dark God of Death and all of his [[{{Mook}} followers for their actions]]]].
* GodzillaThreshold: Several times but the most prominent is stopping Crowned Death's High Temple. The followers of the Light were willing to work with the Dark Empress, one of the most notorious Keepers [[spoiler: AKA Sailor Mercury]], to stop it.
* GoldSilverCopperStandard: In ''Ambush'', there's mention of "coppers" as a kind of currency, and Keepers' money is represented in gold coins, but a gold coin isn't a sign of being connected to Keepers, so some surface nations use gold coins as well.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Ami's idea of using a Dominate Undead spell to take over an undead dungeon heart worked beautifully. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:since the heart was undead, doing so connected her mind to Crowned Death, [[{{Understatement}} who really doesn't like her.]]]]
** Similarly, modifying the Dominate Undead spell to affect thousands of undead at once was also perfectly effective. But doing so wound up partially reconstituting the spirit powering them, and having it possess the caster. Poor Torian...
* TheGoodChancellor: Ami's advisers all fall under this to some extent. Lampshaded by Jered after Mercury becomes Empress- he thinks some [[StandardRoyalCourt royal titles are in order]].
** Cathy fills the role of Captain of the Guard.
** Jered fills the role of Treasurer and occasionally spy.
** Jadeite is primarily Mercury's military adviser alongside Cathy. Also something of a bodyguard.
** Tiger is a (self titled) princess...
** Snyder is something of an adviser on various deities, and so fills the role of court priest.
** Erasmus used to be the Court Wizard before his death; Torian fills that role now.
* GoodHurtsEvil: Holy wards, holy spells, and temples of the Light Gods all cause instinctive fear and disgust in creatures of evil...and those tainted by dark forces, such as Ami. Powerful enough holy magic can burn or kill them.
* GoodIsDumb: All over the place. The tendency in the story is for all good characters to assume the worst about any and all acts by team evil at the drop of a hat, followed shortly by being a jerkass towards those perceived as evil. And Keepers are at the top of this list. Even those ''directly ordered by and given hints by'' the [[GodOfGood Light Gods]] themselves still treat Ami with all the same distrust they throw at other keepers, twisting those (very real) God's words if necessary to justify their viewpoint.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Perhaps Ami used to be, and she still goes out of her way to avoid killing when she can, but in a world containing horrors that the Sailor Senshi never dreamed of, she's had to harden up a lot. She has a lot of experience in choosing the LesserOfTwoEvils, and she can hurt or even kill when the situation demands it.
* GoodPrincessEvilQueen: The Sailor Senshi are looking for the Moon Princess, which they think is the only way to defeat the evil Dark God, Queen Metallia. They are opposed by Queen Beryl, who is basically Metallia's HighPriestess.
* GoodRunningEvil: In a fairly short period of time, Ami ends up boss of a veritable swarm of evil minions, each convinced they are serving a powerful conqueror who has barely known defeat. To be fair, they ''are'', it's just she's subtly trying to do good rather than destroy things. By attacking other Keepers and evil warlords, Ami manages to still be heroic while also remaining in-character as a Dungeon Keeper.
* GoodVersusGood: Whenever Ami goes up against the Light Gods or their servants. They genuinely mean well, and so does she, but the conflict remains.
* GossipEvolution: The tales of Mercury's deviance, the tales of Mercury beating up the various {{Big Bad}}s and [[MiniBoss powerful monsters]] of the Underworld (usually while naked), and the growing tales of her power and cunning. She later invokes this to solve the [[spoiler:insubordination]] problem.
* GreatEscape: Breaking Dwarf Master Smiths so Ami can learn how to forge Adamantine is discussed, but tabled as a possible, but unlikely plan.
* GreatOffscreenWar: Used often throughout the fic as both {{backstory}} and {{foreshadowing}}:
** The conquering of the Avatar Islands.
** The Dwarfs' Civil War
* GreenEyedMonster: After losing her most important memories, grasping at straws trying to keep anything of her former sense of self and identity, gaining knowledge of what it's like to have friends, and then having essentially all her dreams come true, [[spoiler:Tiger]] then comes to the realization that no, these aren't her memories, she has no friends, she's powerless, and the thought that all her dreams had come true is all lies. In short, [[spoiler:Tiger]] is jealous of [[spoiler:Ami]], and is acting out because of that.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Tiger gleefully watches one of the reaperbots seize a skeleton and use it as a flail until it breaks apart, then wield the individual leg bones.
* GroinAttack: A few times:
** A subverted one, in ''Ambush'', when Jered is using Ami as a HumanShield:
---> “EVERYONE STOP!” Jered shouted, causing an interruption in the melee as the combatants turned to look at him. Incidentally, this also postponed the meeting between the blue-haired girl’s heel and his crotch.
** On a skeleton, from Cerasse, in ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-6#post-6355795 Bombardment]]'':
---> Before Dandel could take another shot at the creature, she saw Cerasse put her weight on the contested staff and use it like a lever, ramming it between the death priest's legs in a move that obviously caught the undead mage by surprise.
* GrossUpCloseUp: After zooming in on a wounded eye, Usagi has to throw up:
--> Ami saw her friend jump up from her chair and sprint toward the kitchen sink with a hand in front of her mouth before the crystal ball went black. About half a minute later, the image returned.
* GroupIdentifyingFeature: Dungeon Keepers and the ones that are [[DemonicPossession possessed by them]], are marked by red glowing eyes.

* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Traditionally, Keepers go for fear, money, sadism, and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil corruption]]. Naturally, this is one of the problems Ami faces.
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: Sufficiently magically powerful beings can detect scrying, and the specific direction it's coming from, as to be able to look at the viewer.

* LoadBearingBoss: Invoked, Ami rigged the ceilings above her Dungeon Hearts to collapse if she dies to prevent anybody else from taking and using them.

** Eline the dark elf is a prisoner of war, worried about what Keeper Mercury will do to her (especially with Ami's AnythingThatMoves reputation), but is briefly distracted and entertained by a girl teleporting into the prison right in the path of some cleaning goblins, getting covered in soap and falling over onto Tserk the slime monster. Eline can't help but burst out laughing.
---> '''Eline''': Hey troll, who's that clumsy sorceress? She should try for a career as a comedian!\\
'''Marda''': Oh. Her. That's just Keeper Mercury.

* ReversePsychology: In [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-6#post-6355808 A Promotion]], a character, [[spoiler:(it's Mukrezar)]] gets a warning to avoid Mercury, and his companion ([[spoiler:(it's his butler)]]) wonders if it's reverse psychology or not:

* RightOutOfMyClothes: One of Ami's early accidents when learning to teleport is to leave her clothing behind. It's better than the previous attempt, where the body that she was inhabiting exploded!

** A Dark Elf is mentioned once to be wearing 'a red-feathered cloak and a silly hat', this might be a reference to Franchise/FinalFantasy'''s Red Mage.

* ShrinkingViolet: Lishika. By youma standards. [[spoiler:Although that may be because she seems to be Beryl's [[TheMole beacon]] to the ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' realm.]]

* StealingFromThieves: Stealing for their CastFromMoney magic from each other happens between Dungeon Keepers, who are basically all criminals:

** Tiger is a (self-titled) princess...
** Snyder is something of an adviser on various deities, and so fills the role of court priest.
** Erasmus used to be the Court Wizard before his death; Torian fills that role now.

* TimeAbyss: The Light Gods, and Dark Gods as categories have existed since "a time so long ago that even the continents of this planet did not yet have their present shape".

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Ordinarily, winning a duel sponsored by Azzathra results in [[VictorGainsLosersPowers receiving a portion of the loser's strength]]. But since Azzathra is displeased by the cunning trickery employed, he instead gives Ami a portion of the Reaper's ''knowledge'', about summoning and using his scythe. Ami and her inner circle assume that it's intended as an insult: it's mostly useless (as she's completely the wrong build to wield a scythe) and a bit dangerous (since the Reaper's equipment includes very little armour). However, Ami takes the knowledge and teaches the Reaper's equipment summoning spell to her goblins, allowing them all to train with the scythe, then makes them the pilots of her magical remote-controlled reaperbot army.

--> Maka look like a girl in that dress!" one of the goblins taunted, pointing a crooked finger at another, who promptly picked up a wooden stool and swung it by one of its three legs, clobbering the mocker into the ground.\\
\\

---> "Begone, brainless buffoon,"

--> To get around her diplomatic obstacles, she needed someone who didn’t work for her and wasn’t her subject, but who could still negotiate in her name…\\
Cheeks burning, she jumped to her feet. “I- I’m not marrying anyone!”

* BaldOfAwesome: Cathy jokes that Ami should keep the bald look that she got from her trip into the Dark Gods' realm, becoming the "envy of Keepers and cultists everywhere", because nobody else had their hair done by a dark god!

''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/ Dungeon Keeper Ami]]'' is an ongoing CrossOver fanfiction written by Pusakuronu. It begins with [[Characters/SailorMoonAmiMizuno Ami Mizuno]] being transported to the world of ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' and forced to [[ADungeonIsYou become a Keeper]] herself. Armed with nothing but her smarts, a couple of imps, and a [[BloodKnight Horned Reaper]] who [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou hates her guts]], the now Keeper Mercury will have to face both the forces of evil Keepers who want to stop her, as well as the heroes who refuse to believe her good intentions, all while trying to find a way to get back home.

* AnswerCut: From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-5#post-6355777 Underworld Army Attack]]:
--> "Oh. OH." Cathy sounded chagrined as she looked at Mercury with pleading eyes. "Please tell me we are ''not'' going to charge the enemy army head-on!"\\
[Cut to the Underworld Army facing [[spoiler:The Avatar]], Mercury, [[spoiler:Jadeite, Rabixtrel]] some automatons, and some golems.]

* AnnoyingArrows: While inhabiting a golem body, Ami can't be seriously hurt by mundane weapons, but can still be inconvenienced.

* AnnoyingArrows:

''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/ Dungeon Keeper Ami]]'' is an ongoing fanfiction written by Pusakuronu. It begins with [[Anime/SailorMoon Ami Mizuno]] being transported to the world of ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' and forced to [[ADungeonIsYou become a Keeper]] herself. Armed with nothing but her smarts, a couple of imps, and a [[BloodKnight Horned Reaper]] who [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou hates her guts]], the now Keeper Mercury will have to face both the forces of evil Keepers who want to stop her, as well as the heroes who refuse to believe her good intentions, all while trying to find a way to get back home.

--> The smaller gap in the front, strategically positioned to reveal a good amount of cleavage, had to be for vanity purposes