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* ShaggyDogStory: Twilight lost his father and best friends during the opening stage of the war when Lewen was razed to the ground by an artillery barrage, and after his mother was killed in air raid he became a homeless orphan. When he was old enough to pass for eighteen, he enlisted in the Westalis army under the name Rowland Spoofy. After Rowland gets injured by an Ostanian army patrol, after the latter stumbled on him and Frankie, who was being hunted down for deserting from the Ostanian army, Rowland gets relegated to kitchen patrol, where he finds out that his friends from childhood survived the initial attack on Lewen, and after a brief reintroduction, they agree to catch up over some drinks as soon as the latter get back from a mission, uplifting Rowland, as he did not lose everything, or everyone from his hometown/childhood. However, Rowland is later informed that the unit his friends were a part of was wiped out as a result of their leader bungling the mission, and Rowland's handed his friends' battered and bloody dog-tags.
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-->''Page 2 and 3: (Nothing but flying debris.)''
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-->''Page 2 and 3: (Nothing (A two-page spread with nothing but flying debris.)''
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Twilight might be the first-hand witness of WarComesHome, but he's too young to know what it ''actually'' means. As a result, when his mother finds him alive (and only slightly injured) after Luwen's initial shelling, he complains his mother planning to [[WarRefugees move to Kielberg]] because...
-->'''Twilight:''' Wait a minute! Um... We can't! What about school? And the town fair is tomorrow. ''(Panel shows a destroyed town)''
-->'''Twilight's mother:''' ''(Drags Twilight) '''What are you talking about?! There's not going to be any town fair! Don't you get that?!''''' %%Bold and italics in the original (Viz translation).
* NothingIsScarier: Twilight's mother's death is expressed in 3 pages of manga. There's nothing but sound effects, Twilight's voice, and flying debris on the first page and only the debris on the latter two.
-->''Page 1, Frame 1:''
--->'''SFX: KABOOM BOOM BOOM'''
--->'''Twilight:''' Mom! Mom! '''Mom!'''
-->''Page 1, Frame 2:''
--->'''SFX: Boom'''
--->'''Twilight:''' The house... no way... No! Mom...? Is that... ...y--
-->''Page 1, Frame 3:''
--->'''SFX: Boom... Boom'''
--->'''Twilight: AAAHHH! AHH! AAAH!'''
-->''Page 2 and 3: (Nothing but flying debris.)''
-->'''Twilight:''' Wait a minute! Um... We can't! What about school? And the town fair is tomorrow. ''(Panel shows a destroyed town)''
-->'''Twilight's mother:''' ''(Drags Twilight) '''What are you talking about?! There's not going to be any town fair! Don't you get that?!''''' %%Bold and italics in the original (Viz translation).
* NothingIsScarier: Twilight's mother's death is expressed in 3 pages of manga. There's nothing but sound effects, Twilight's voice, and flying debris on the first page and only the debris on the latter two.
-->''Page 1, Frame 1:''
--->'''SFX: KABOOM BOOM BOOM'''
--->'''Twilight:''' Mom! Mom! '''Mom!'''
-->''Page 1, Frame 2:''
--->'''SFX: Boom'''
--->'''Twilight:''' The house... no way... No! Mom...? Is that... ...y--
-->''Page 1, Frame 3:''
--->'''SFX: Boom... Boom'''
--->'''Twilight: AAAHHH! AHH! AAAH!'''
-->''Page 2 and 3: (Nothing but flying debris.)''
* TroubledFetalPosition: While initially [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint too naive to understand what the bombing of Luwen means]], a few days later he enters this state when the situation sinks in.
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* WarRefugees: Twilight and his mother abandon Lewen, their hometown after it was destroyed by an artillery barrage.
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* WarRefugees: Twilight and his mother abandon Lewen, their hometown hometown, after it was destroyed by an artillery barrage.
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* DramaticIrony: After Twilight says he wants to join the army, his father tells him he's too much of a coward to fight in a war, and when Twilight says he wants to join up to kill Ostanians, Twilight's father hits him, saying he should strive for peace instead of wanting to fight. Years later, after Twilight enlists under the name of Rowland Spoofy, he fearlessly throws himself into combat during the Westalis-Ostania War.
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* DramaticIrony: After Twilight says he wants to join the army, his father tells him he's too much of a coward to fight in a war, and when Twilight says he wants to join up to kill Ostanians, Twilight's father hits him, saying he should strive for peace instead of wanting to fight. Years later, after Twilight enlists under the name of Rowland Spoofy, he fearlessly throws himself into combat during the Westalis-Ostania War. Of course, [[ForegoneConclusion as everyone knows]], Twilight ended up working for exactly what his father hoped from him: long-term peace between Westalis and Ostania, having a deep hatred towards people wishing to instigate war.
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* DisapearedDad: A day after Twilight lied about wanting to buy and instead buying a toy gun and helmet with the money his father gave him, Twilight's father goes on a business trip to a town on the Westalis/Ostania border. After Lewen is leveled in the artillery strike, Twiight's father's whereabouts become unknown, and he grows up as an orphan after his mother is killed in an air-raid.
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* DisapearedDad: DisappearedDad: A day after Twilight lied about wanting to buy and instead buying a toy gun and helmet with the money his father gave him, Twilight's father goes on a business trip to a town on the Westalis/Ostania border. After Lewen is leveled in the artillery strike, Twiight's father's whereabouts become unknown, and he grows up as an orphan after his mother is killed in an air-raid.
* DramaticIrony: After Twilight says he wants to join the army, his father tells him he's too much of a coward to fight in a war, and when Twilight says he wants to join up to kill Ostanians, Twilight's father hits him, saying he should strive for peace instead of wanting to fight. Years later, after Twilight enlists under the name of Rowland Spoofy, he fearlessly throws himself into combat during the Westalis-Ostania War.
* UncertainDoom: Twilight's father leaves for a business trip on the day the war started, but although it's heavily implied, it's never clearly stated if he died or not.
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* WellIntentionExtremist: After getting home from playing war with his friends, a young Twilight gets into an argument with his father, as the boy wants to join the army when he grows, while his father yells at him saying he's too much of coward to be sent into battle. When Twilight yells that he wants to kill Ostanians, his father slaps him for parroting Westalis propaganda and tells him to work for peace instead wanting to fight a war.
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* WellIntentionExtremist: WeHaveReserves: After Rowland Spoofy spares Frankie's life, they have a discussion about the war, where Frankie makes the claim that the leaders of both nations started the war for personal glory, while people of their social status are brainwashed with propaganda and marched to their deaths.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: After getting home from playing war with his friends, a young Twilight gets into an argument with his father, as the boy wants to join the army when hegrows, grows up, while his father yells at him scolds him, saying he's too much of a coward to be sent into battle. When Twilight yells back that he wants to kill Ostanians, his father slaps him for parroting Westalis propaganda and tells him to work for peace instead wanting to fight a war.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: After getting home from playing war with his friends, a young Twilight gets into an argument with his father, as the boy wants to join the army when he
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* DisapearedDad: A day after Twilight lied about wanting to buy and instead buying a toy gun and helmet with the money his father gave him, Twilight's father goes on a business trip to a town on the Westalis/Ostania border. After Lewen is leveled in the artillery strike, Twiight's father's whereabouts become unknown, and he grows up as an orphan after his mother is killed in an air-raid.
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* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] with a briefcase full of personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and asks him to choose a code name, choosing Twilight.
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* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] [=WISE=], who offered [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse to make him a spy or turn him in for joining the army with a fake identity]], with a briefcase full of personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and operating in the shadows away from the public. The operative asks him what he wants to choose a be called, and he chooses the code name, choosing name Twilight.
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* WellIntentionExtremist: After getting home from playing war with his friends, a young Twilight gets into an argument with his father, as the boy wants to join the army when he grows, while his father yells at him saying he's too much of coward to be sent into battle. When Twilight yells that he wants to kill Ostanians, his father slaps him for parroting Westalis propaganda and tells him to work for peace instead wanting to fight a war.
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* AngstComa: Basically, Twilight recollecting his past is caused by he losing consciousness over Anya's trouble at school.
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After Loid loses consciousness over Anyas low tests scores, he has a flashback to his childhood in Westalis, his time in the army during the war, and when he was recruited as a spy for [=WISE=].
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After Loid loses consciousness over Anyas Anya's low tests scores, test scores as well as having a second Tontritus Bolt, he has a flashback to his childhood in Westalis, his time in the army during the war, and when he was recruited as a spy for [=WISE=].
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: A [=WISE=] operative tells Rowland Spoofy that he's impressed with the latter's ability to go about the world without being discovered, and offers him the chance to either use his talents in impersonation and infiltration to become a spy, or the operative will turn him in for joining the army under a fake name.
* DoomedHometown: Twilight's was born and raised in the town of Lowen a short distance from the Border with Ostania. In the opening stages if the war, it was leveled by an artillery bombardment, and he and his mother become displaced.
* SociopathicSoldier: Twilight assumed the name Rowalnd Spoofy to join the Westalis army at the height of the war when he was old enough to pass for eighteen, and made it a point to kill as many Ostanians as possible as payback for the the deaths of his parents and closest friends. If his interaction with Frankie, had recently deserted from the Ostanian army and was unarmed and unequipped, is anything to go by, Twilight has murdered surrendered Ostanian soldiers, instead of taking them prisoners.
* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] with a briefcase full personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and asks him to choose a code name, choosing Twilight.
* WarRefugees: Twilight and his mother abandon Lewen, their hometown, after it was destroyed by an artillery barrage.
* DoomedHometown: Twilight's was born and raised in the town of Lowen a short distance from the Border with Ostania. In the opening stages if the war, it was leveled by an artillery bombardment, and he and his mother become displaced.
* SociopathicSoldier: Twilight assumed the name Rowalnd Spoofy to join the Westalis army at the height of the war when he was old enough to pass for eighteen, and made it a point to kill as many Ostanians as possible as payback for the the deaths of his parents and closest friends. If his interaction with Frankie, had recently deserted from the Ostanian army and was unarmed and unequipped, is anything to go by, Twilight has murdered surrendered Ostanian soldiers, instead of taking them prisoners.
* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] with a briefcase full personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and asks him to choose a code name, choosing Twilight.
* WarRefugees: Twilight and his mother abandon Lewen, their hometown, after it was destroyed by an artillery barrage.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: DoomedHometown: Twilight's was born and raised in the town of Lowen, which is close to Westalis' border with Ostania. In the opening stages of the war, it was leveled by an artillery bombardment, and he and his mother become displaced.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: A [=WISE=] operative tells Rowland Spoofy that he's impressed with the latter's ability to go about the world without being discovered, and offers him the chance to either use his talents in impersonation and infiltration to become a spy, or the operative will turn him in for joining the army under a fake name.
*DoomedHometown: Twilight's was born and raised in the town of Lowen a short distance from the Border with Ostania. In the opening stages if the war, it was leveled by an artillery bombardment, and he and his mother become displaced.
*SociopathicSoldier: Twilight assumed the name Rowalnd Roland Spoofy to join the Westalis army at the height of the war when he was old enough to pass for eighteen, and made it a point to kill as many Ostanians as possible as payback for the the deaths of his parents and closest friends. If his interaction with Frankie, who had recently deserted from the Ostanian army and was unarmed and unequipped, is anything to go by, Twilight has murdered surrendered Ostanian soldiers, [=POWs=], instead of taking them prisoners.
* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] with a briefcase full of personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and asks him to choose a code name, choosing Twilight.
* WarRefugees: Twilight and his mother abandon Lewen, theirhometown, hometown after it was destroyed by an artillery barrage.barrage.
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* RecruitingTheCriminal: A [=WISE=] operative tells Rowland Spoofy that he's impressed with the latter's ability to go about the world without being discovered, and offers him the chance to either use his talents in impersonation and infiltration to become a spy, or the operative will turn him in for joining the army under a fake name.
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* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] with a briefcase full of personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and asks him to choose a code name, choosing Twilight.
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After Loid loses consciousness over Anyas low tests scores, he has a flashback to his childhood in Westalis, his time in the army during the war, and when he was recruited as a spy for [=WISE=].
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: A [=WISE=] operative tells Rowland Spoofy that he's impressed with the latter's ability to go about the world without being discovered, and offers him the chance to either use his talents in impersonation and infiltration to become a spy, or the operative will turn him in for joining the army under a fake name.
* DoomedHometown: Twilight's was born and raised in the town of Lowen a short distance from the Border with Ostania. In the opening stages if the war, it was leveled by an artillery bombardment, and he and his mother become displaced.
* SociopathicSoldier: Twilight assumed the name Rowalnd Spoofy to join the Westalis army at the height of the war when he was old enough to pass for eighteen, and made it a point to kill as many Ostanians as possible as payback for the the deaths of his parents and closest friends. If his interaction with Frankie, had recently deserted from the Ostanian army and was unarmed and unequipped, is anything to go by, Twilight has murdered surrendered Ostanian soldiers, instead of taking them prisoners.
* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] with a briefcase full personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and asks him to choose a code name, choosing Twilight.
* WarRefugees: Twilight and his mother abandon Lewen, their hometown, after it was destroyed by an artillery barrage.
!!Tropes associated with the WISE Arc:
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: A [=WISE=] operative tells Rowland Spoofy that he's impressed with the latter's ability to go about the world without being discovered, and offers him the chance to either use his talents in impersonation and infiltration to become a spy, or the operative will turn him in for joining the army under a fake name.
* DoomedHometown: Twilight's was born and raised in the town of Lowen a short distance from the Border with Ostania. In the opening stages if the war, it was leveled by an artillery bombardment, and he and his mother become displaced.
* SociopathicSoldier: Twilight assumed the name Rowalnd Spoofy to join the Westalis army at the height of the war when he was old enough to pass for eighteen, and made it a point to kill as many Ostanians as possible as payback for the the deaths of his parents and closest friends. If his interaction with Frankie, had recently deserted from the Ostanian army and was unarmed and unequipped, is anything to go by, Twilight has murdered surrendered Ostanian soldiers, instead of taking them prisoners.
* UnPerson: When Rowland Spoofy reconvenes with the operative from [=WISE=] with a briefcase full personal documents and mementos, the operative tosses it into a fire, and tells him that as a spy he will have no identity or name, and asks him to choose a code name, choosing Twilight.
* WarRefugees: Twilight and his mother abandon Lewen, their hometown, after it was destroyed by an artillery barrage.
