History Literature / RoxyWasHere

* AmbiguousDisorder: Thoroughly {{Averted}}, as Roxy explicitly spells out her various neuro-nontypicalities in chapter 3: ADHD, depression, and Asperger's. Her power mostly suppresses them nowadays, but they reappear when she gets sufficiently drunk.

* AnythingThatMoves: Roxy notes that she's going to ''try'' not to sleep with the first person who asks, and anybody who asks after that.

* TheRez: Roxy and Dave grew up on their father's tribal land, a small reservation at the south end of Danesville, where the school and abandoned shopping mall are. It's mentioned that the high school on the reservation was built by a [[NativeAmericanCasino casino owner]] who had been born there, and the tree the mall was built around had been sacred to their tribe.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: After the TimeSkip, Roxy has stopped wearing shoes, because they tended to not last very long under the use of her powers.

* AscendedFanfic: Roxy's story was originally going to be a Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} superhero AU fic, before NH started developing the characters in much different directions from their original counterparts and the cast started being more original characters than not. She grew too fond of Roxanne and David's {{meaningful name}}s to change them when that split occurred, however, opting to keep them the same as homage to their roots.

** Roxy's supervisor at Yggdrasil is Micheal [[Wiki.SCPFoundation Bright]].

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Aila

* BalefulPolymorph: For being bold enough to tell him "I'm not afraid of you", instead of killing Princess Ferris the Lich turns her into a cat. That cat is then one of 9 living beings who survive the siege.

* AChildShallLeadThem: Roshanak is appointed queen by Griffa, after she points out that everybody else with claim to the throne is either dead or [[BalefulPolymorph a cat]].

** The name of the book itself comes from the [[RefrainFromAssuming refrain]] of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero"

** Saren is a fusion of [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] and [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Master Chief]].

** The FutureSpandex spacesuits are referred to as [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Zero-(G) Suits]], and Saren's is even in similar colors to Samus's famous suit.

* SharpenedToASingleAtom: Dawnherald is sharpened to a molecular edge, and then reinforced by magic to be ''[[UpToEleven even sharper]]'', to the point it can cut open subatomic wormholes.

* MixedAncestry: Roxy, Dave, and Karen are all Native American on their fathers' side and Jewish on their mothers' side.

* StockSuperpowers:
** BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Roxy, Astra and the Phoenix all have no need for air.
** ExtraOreDinary: Aradia is able to easily manipulate the unbreakable Celestial Adamantium.
** FlyingBrick: Roxy, Astra, Phoenix, and others.
** GreenThumb: Babalon
** ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Robert Ford
** ImprobableAimingSkills: Karen
** LightEmUp: Astra and Neon
** MindOverMatter: Scratch
** PhotographicMemory: Xena is mentioned to have an eidetic memory.
** PlayingWithFire: Xena and her [[JackTheRipoff copycats]] are all pyrokinetic.
** SelfDuplication: Roadie, with the HiveMind subtype.
** ShockAndAwe: Elle Ectric
** SuperStrength: Roxy, Astra and the Harlequin, at the least.
** SuperIntelligence: Roxy is smart enough to simulate a model of the galaxy in her mind to figure out when she arrived on another Earth.
** TeleportSpam: Karen's most used superpower.
** ThinkingUpPortals: One of Aradia's most used magic abilities.
** UnbreakableBones: Roxy's bones are made of the unbreakable metal Celestial Adamantium, and is the only place in the multiverse it naturally occurs.
** VoluntaryShapeshifting: Xena and her copycats.
** WreathedInFlames: Xena's first instinct upon sensing danger is to light her whole body on fire.

* {{Transgender}}: Corda is mid-transition at the start of the story.

** Roxy's mother's [[FamousLastWords last words]] are "[[Anime.NeonGenesisEvangelion Komm, süßer Tod]]".

** {{Teleportation}}: Karen's most used superpower.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Kartney Device is an ancient (6000 years old by the time the story starts) teleporter technology that simply takes 2 different locations in space and swaps them. In theory, at least, in practice it sends one location to the destination whole, and then takes what used to be at the destination and converts it to pure energy and drops it at the origin, causing an enormous explosion. It's inventors have refined it to get rid of the annoying explosion, but the CSF have instead decided to weaponize it.