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* TriangRelations: Type 4 for Aura (a), Canale (b) and Ayace (c). Another triangle early in the manga had Ayace (a), Canale (b), and Sesaam (c). By the second volume Sesaam and Ayace have shifted roles.
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->''"I want to see more...his rage, his sadness, and every other emotion. What is this feeling?"''
-->-- '''Ayace'''

''Corsair'' started as a light novel series, which expanded into several audio dramas and a three volume manga, written by Minami Fuuko and illustrated by Misono Erii. The story follows two members of the {{pirate}} clan, Preveza, at a time when its former allies have severed all ties. Ayace "[[RedBaron The Devil Killer]]" Malik, is the commander of the armada, and one of the main reasons Preveza continues to control the Morea Sea after the loss of their former leader. Canale, the blind chief strategist, was taken in by the former leader like Ayace, but conceals a much more sinister past.

After an unusual encounter during a hostage exchange with the governor-general of Korladan, Ayace follows Canale out of suspicion. Canale, who is trying to run away, is attacked, [[LovePotion drugged]] and [[RapeAsDrama sexually assaulted]] by a Sharq Amuji assassin until Ayace finds them and kills the other man. After refusing Canale's pleas to kill him too, Ayace decides to take advantage of him in his drugged state.

Afterwards Canale reveals that he is a former Sharq assassin and escaped to Preveza after having [[KillTheOnesYouLove killed the man he loved]], Sesaam Zaiyaun, the attorney-general of Pisare. Fearing his past has finally caught up to him, he requests that Ayace either let him leave or kill him before he brings danger to Preveza. Ayace refuses and [[TakeAThirdOption knocks him out and brings him back to the ship]].

Their (dubiously consensual) relationship continues and is finally made public when the princess of the Preveza clan, Aura, states her [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend intention to marry Canale]], and Ayace decides to bluntly announce why she can't. This inadvertently leads to Aura going off in a tiff and getting kidnapped by the governor of Korladan in revenge. It turns out he is actually Canale's brother, whose attempts to kill him as a child led to both Canale's blindness and being picked up by the Sharq. The general plot for the rest of the story revolves around [[SaveThePrincess rescuing Aura]], but the focus is mainly on Canale confronting his past once more, now both helped and hindered by Ayace.
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!!''Corsair'' provides examples of:

* TheAce: Despite his status as a [[TraumaCongaLine woobie]], Canale has the arguably best skill set in the cast as he well-rounded in combat, strategy and diplomacy. Scratch his reputedly cursed birth, he ''is'' dangerous and surviving everything he has been through just makes him even more so. See also SelfFulfillingProphecy.
* AChildShallLeadThem: Although he is only 15, Leti Farless was chosen as the new chief of Preveza upon his father's death. However, his immaturity and naivete are kept in check with people like Ayace, Canale, and Barbossa advising him and he's at the very least a charismatic leader.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted. Aura and Leti are clearly related, but Leti takes more after their father whereas Aura takes more after their mother's side (judging by their uncle Boris).
* TheAtoner: Canale, for his years as a Sharq assassin and particularly for the murder of Sesaam Zaiyaun, whom he was in love with. His request that Ayace kill him if he brings anymore danger to the people he loves eventually becomes something that seals their relationship.
* BoysLove
* CainAndAbel: Jean-Hughes and Canale D'Aubigne play this completely straight, with the elder brother making several attempts at the younger's life when the latter was eight. The first attempt resulted in Canale going blind, and a later one, during which his kidnapper decided to abandon him rather than kill him, led to him being picked up by the [[ProfessionalKiller Sharq Amuji]].
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: They are all ''very'' pretty. Except [[CoolOldGuy Barbossa]].
* CastOfSnowflakes: Nationality (and class) can be distinguished by clothing, architecture, or even just the furniture in this manga, and relatives actually look like they're related without being carbon copies of the other.
* CockFight: Aura and Ayace start fighting about Canale after Ayace announces their relationship in the middle of a very awkward dinner conversation. Canale leaves before his dignity is ground into the dust any further.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Canale does to a degree when Ayace saves him from his former master [[spoiler:but the best example is when Aura complains to Ayace about taking too long to rescue her. To be fair, rather than genuine ungratefulness it's simply because they're in the habit of ribbing each other.]]
* CoolBoat: The Belle Ayme (and the rest of the Prevezan armada, really).
* CrazyJealousGuy: Once it's revealed [[DisneyDeath Sesaam is alive]] and still wants Canale Ayace becomes this and promptly proceeds to [[KickTheDog take it out]] on Canale.
* DeathSeeker: After being saved from his Sharq master by Ayace, Canale begs him to kill him and Ayace refuses. Later he promises he will and it helps cement their relationship. [[spoiler:By the end, Ayace asks him to stop being a DeathSeeker, reassuring Canale that if he brings destruction on the people he loves Ayace ''will'' kill him as he promised, so until then he should try living.]]
* DistressedDamsel: Aura's kidnapping is the drive behind most of volume 2 and 3, however, being a PluckyGirl she doesn't act too distressed about it or her impending execution, [[spoiler:and when Ayace finally shows up to rescue her, her reaction is pretty much: "You're late!"]]
* DuelToTheDeath: Shirokko hates Canale and keeps trying to challenge him to one for any reason, thinking because Canale's blind he'd definitely lose. When Canale finally is forced to and beats him (but refuses to kill him), he's a little stunned.
* FlatWhat: Aura uses this following Ayace's answer as to why she cannot marry Canale.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Korladan is vaguely French (and the ruling family is named d'Aubigne). Preveza also looks European and Pisare has Arabic flavour.
* FlungClothing: [[spoiler: Aura does this with her dress when the rescue party comes.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Canale, being a blind professionally trained assassin. He is incredibly skilled, but every time he loses it's because there was something he couldn't see coming. He is also a brilliant strategist capable of controlling the flow of battle through what his assistant tells him and his diplomacy skill is not lacking either, which is the main reason why Preveza cannot afford to lose him.
* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Ayace gives Canale one instead of killing him, leaving the severed hair at the burning mansion as symbol of his old life and encouraging him to move on and live.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Canale. Sesaam is the biggest instance, but Canale also feels responsible for his mother's suicide and the general death and destruction that follow him wherever he goes. His determination to either leave Preveza or die results from his fear that this will happen to the people he loves there.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: And a bit more, when Canale has an aphrodisiac forced on him. Neither he nor Ayace had expressed interest in each other before the opportunity arose.
* LimitedWardrobe: Lampshaded by the author in the {{omake}} concerning the pirate characters, particularly Canale and Ayace. Aura and Katarina are the [[UnlimitedWardrobe reverse trope]].
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: While some of other characters might have long enough hair to qualify, Canale and Jean-Hughes are posterboys for this trope.
* MuggingTheMonster: As [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Ayace, Shirokko should know who he is up against when he challenges [[HandicappedBadass Canale]]
* NakedFirstImpression: [[spoiler: When Mansour sees Aura for the first time during the rescue mission, she immediately throws off her cumbersome dress and starts running around in what is basically underwear. He is rather shocked.]]
* {{Ojou}}: Aura, who is boisterous, opinionated, and quick-tempered, and the princess of the Preveza clan.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: The first meeting between Jean-Hughes and Aura after she is kidnapped consists of them speaking in polite monotone while exchanging sentiments such as "It's hard to believe a beauty like you is also a dirty sea pirate."
* PimpedOutDress: Jean-Hughes gives Aura several to wear while she's being held hostage. She thinks they're ugly. Overlapping with GoGoEnslavement.
* PluckyGirl: Aura.
* RebelliousPrincess: Aura is one at times, to the point where [[spoiler: Canale knocks her out during a major attempt to ''rescue'' her because she refuses to leave without him and place her safety above his]]. In a twist on the usual pattern, she thinks she is TheHero's love interest, until Ayace callously tells her she can't marry Canale because "Canale belongs to me."
* RedBaron: Ayace is called "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Devil Killer]]".
* RelationshipReveal: In-universe example, where Ayace announcing to Aura that he is sleeping with Canale is met with a FlatWhat and later: "This is the first time I've heard that you even like Canale!" [[BoysLove The audience already has a pretty good idea of the relationship at this point]].
* RightThroughHisPants: Ayace doesn't even take his bandana off during sex, let alone his pants.
* RightThroughTheWall: Invoked and PlayedForDrama. After bluntly announcing his relationship with Canale in attempt to crush Aura's hope of marrying Canale, Ayace goes to Canale's room and makes sure to have lots of loud sex because he knows Aura is going to come by later to talk to Canale and will hear them. Aura is appropriately crushed, but the spat between her and Ayace later when she confronts him about it does move it back towards humour.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Aura, who is ''much'' nicer than Ayace. Though Canale really respects and cares for her he does not want to pursue a relationship for reasons even other than the [[{{uke}} obvious]]. In comparison, Sesaam doesn't fit this trope because despite being less rough-around-the-edges than Ayace, he's rather insidious at times and not necessarily a "nice guy".
* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Canale had the option of either killing Sesaam or revealing that he is an assassin, knowing the Sharq would just come after Sesaam again anways and succeed sooner or later. He decides to kill Sesaam and die with him (though this doesn't work out as planned).
* SealedWithAKiss: The ending, [[BoysLove naturally]].
* SecretUndergroundPassage: There's one beneath Sesaam's bed that allows Canale to escape after murdering him and another [[spoiler:in one of the rooms of the D'Aubigne mansion, which Canale discovered when he still had his eyesight and uses to rescue Aura.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: Canale delivers an angry speech over how the prophecy about him being the "devil's child" who will wreak "destruction on towns and cities" was rubbish and how his family's reaction to it led to him becoming such a destructive force in the first place.]]
* SheathStrike: Because he is afraid of killing more than he already has, when Canale is challenged to a duel by Shirokko he fights mostly with his sword sheathed.
* SiblingIncest: When Jean-Hughes saves Canale from being raped, he can't stop imagining himself doing the exact same thing, but pins the blame on Canale and loathes him even more.
* SiblingRivalry: [[CainAndAbel Canale and Jean-Hughes]], to say the least. Leti and Aura demonstrate a healthier version, and to some extent Aura and Ayace, despite not being blood related.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Canale's strange beauty is one of the causes for [[EvenTheGuysWantHim his]] [[BoomerangBigot troubles]].
* {{Swashbuckler}}: Corsair is essentially a BoysLove {{swashbuckler}}, heavier on the [[GreyAndGreyMorality grey morality]].
* SplitScreenReaction: When Ayace suddenly announces his relationship with Canale during the middle of a dinner there is a splitscreen panel for everyone at the table, ranging from awkward to surprised to confused.
* TheStrategist: Canale is the chief strategist for Preveza. It's probably the only thing that offers him any protection, as his refusal to actually fight (despite the fact that he's blind) is highly contentious for the other pirates.
* SwordOverHead: [[spoiler:As Canale finally kills Jean-Hughes.]]
* SwordPlant: Canale finishes his battle with Shirokko by stabbing his blade into one of the masts just shy of Shirokko's ear.
* TriangRelations: Type 4 for Aura (a), Canale (b) and Ayace (c). Another triangle early in the manga had Ayace (a), Canale (b), and Sesaam (c). By the second volume Sesaam and Ayace have shifted roles.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Aura to Canale. From [[spoiler: Jean-Hughes point of view he is this to Katarina, who liked Canale too. And more [[SiblingIncest creepily himself to Canale]].]]
* TheVamp: Several people treat Canale as one, mostly to [[BoomerangBigot defer]] their guilty feelings of desire for him. [[TheWoobie Poor guy]]. Surprisingly, ''Ayace'' is the one who has the grace to point out that if he is seduced then he is a fool who cannot control himself.
* WrongNameOutburst: Canale does this twice with the people in question in reverse. Amusingly he's more upset about it than either Ayace (in chapter 4) or Sesaam (in chapter 11) are.
* YankTheDogsChain: Canale finally feels like he has a place in Preveza and thinks that Ayace might actually love him and that they can be happy together. As soon as Ayace suspects he is going back to Sesaam, he becomes [[CrazyJealousGuy enraged]] and rapes Canale, making him feel utterly betrayed.
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