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** [[spoiler:Predictably, the protagonist also loses the powers granted by the Seed of Envy once she lets her friendship with Inessa back into her heart.]]

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** [[spoiler:Predictably, the protagonist also [[spoiler:Downplayed when Chiro loses the powers granted by the Seed of Envy once she lets her friendship with Inessa back into her heart.heart. She doesn't keep her powers, but she does keep some of the pseudo-HRT effects the seed changed her body with. The epilogue reveals that she still has her seed's sin sense.]]



** And again, when [[spoiler: Chiro announces herself as Angelic Saint Humanitas]]
---> [[spoiler:"Gentle as a spring breeze," I plucked at the strings of my lyre, "Angelic Saint Humanitas takes the stage!"]]



* SevenDeadlySins: The Beasts each have the Latin name for the sin they represent in their name.

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* SevenDeadlySins: The SevenDeadlySins[=/=]SevenHeavenlyVirtues: Both the Beasts and the Saints are represented by these, respectively, and the relationship between vice and virtue is a theme of the story. The Beasts/Saints each have the Latin name for the sin sin/virtue they represent in their name.name. Interestingly, most of the characters show a duality between their sin and their corresponding virtue (or vice versa).



** Avaritia Wolf represents Greed.
** Gula Shark represented Gluttony.
** [[spoiler:Invidia Bat]] represented Envy.
** [[WordOfGod Shadell]] mentioned [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/a-little-vice-trans-magical-girl-fic.115005/page-53?post=29064971#post-29064971 Luxuria Fox]] (Lust) and [[Acedia Bear]] (Sloth) as alternate-universe Abyssal Beast versions of Inessa and Ida.
* SevenHeavenlyVirtues: The Angelic Saints each represent one, like Saint Temperantia representing Temperance.

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** Avaritia Wolf represents Greed.
Greed, though ey are often quite charitable.
** Gula Shark represented Gluttony.
Gluttony. Temperance/Temperantia represents Temperance, [[spoiler:though she still keeps a big appetite from her days as Gula Shark]].
** [[spoiler:Invidia Bat]] represented Envy.
Inessa/Castitas represents Chastity (or at least Purity of self), though she still falls head over heels for cute girls and genderfluid goths.
** Ida/Diligentia represents Diligence.
** C's character juxtaposes Envy and Kindness. [[spoiler:Her combination of kindness and envy is true both as Invidia Bat and Angelic Saint Humanitas both]].
** [[WordOfGod Shadell]] mentioned [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/a-little-vice-trans-magical-girl-fic.115005/page-53?post=29064971#post-29064971 Luxuria Fox]] (Lust) and [[Acedia Bear]] Acedia Bear (Sloth) as alternate-universe Abyssal Beast versions of Inessa and Ida.
* SevenHeavenlyVirtues: The Angelic Saints each represent one, like Saint Temperantia representing Temperance.
Ida.



* TransparentCloset: Literally everybody (except Superbia, C's dad, and maybe Ida) figures out [[spoiler:C is transgender without C so much as acknowledging the possibility. Gets egregious to the point of breaking Avaritia's brain a little when the Seed of Envy physically transforms her into a woman and she insists it's still an envy thing and she can't "really" be trans.]]

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* TransparentCloset: Literally everybody (except Superbia, C's dad, and maybe Ida) figures out [[spoiler:C is transgender without C so much as acknowledging the possibility. Gets egregious to the point of breaking Avaritia's brain a little when the Seed of Envy physically transforms her into a woman and she insists it's still an envy thing and she can't "really" be trans. Gets even more so in the denouement when Chiro admits she doesn't really like being a boy and is happy with presenting as a girl but still doesn't think she's trans. The epilogue hints she's finally starting to at least see transness as a closer mask to her true self than any of her others.]]

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