History VideoGame / BlazeUnion

%%* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Emilia, in the route B bad end.]]

%%* {{Bokukko}}: Eimi.

* BreakTheCutie: Siskier in route C. This is also [[spoiler:Nessiah]]'s backstory.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Almost every playable character, but special mention goes to the magicians, who are all supposedly very exceptional in magic.
** It starts getting lampshaded around the end of chapter 3, and from there on develops into a RunningGag when Nessiah and Eater join the party, with asides and the occasional detailed discussion about how weird they are.

* CallForward: ''Everywhere,'' and the writers are not subtle about it in the least.

* CheerfulChild: Eimi again.

* ContinuityNod: Juvelon and Bly both get referenced, though they don't actually appear.

* AbusiveParents: Garlot, whose father was an ass [[spoiler:and whose mother is not much better]].

* ActionGirl: Pretty much every girl in the party, but special mention goes to Siskier.
* ActionMom: [[spoiler:Baretreenu]].

* {{Ahoge}}: Siskier.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Poor Eudy.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Ambidextrous portraits as well, but you have to give the artist credit for drawing all of the expressions.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Lapis and Medoute.
* AnimeHair: Holy ''crap,'' Leon.

* BetaCouple: Jenon and Medoute in route A.

* BlackKnight: Leon.

* {{Bokukko}}: Eimi.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Emilia, in the route B bad end.]]

* ButtMonkey: Poor Cerica.
** Inzaghi but not as much as before.

* ChivalrousPervert: Jenon.
* ChurchMilitant: Zilva.
* CloudCuckoolander: [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion Pamela]], [[VideoGame/YggdraUnison as]] [[VideoGame/KnightsInTheNightmare ever]].
* ComingOfAgeStory: Either Garlot's or Aegina's, depending on the route.

* ControllableHelplessness: To table-flipping degrees in certain climactic battles.
* TheCorruption: Brongaa.
* CreditsMedley
* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Possessed!Emilia in the B route bad ending]].

* DefeatMeansFriendship
* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:Route B bad ending]].

* TheDragon: Lapis.
* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:Alanjame. He can also be considered a DragonWithAnAgenda.]]
* DrunkenMaster: Sleip. Lampshaded by the title of her {{Leitmotif}}.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Arguably Garlot; [[spoiler:he's more masculine as Gulcasa.]]
* DualWielding: Soltier and Byff.

* EleventhHourRanger: One per route.
* EmotionlessGirl: Lapis and Zilva.
* TheEmperor: Soltier. From [[AllThereInTheManual what we already know about him]], he's one of the nastier varieties.
* EnfanteTerrible: [[spoiler:Possessed!Emilia in route B]].

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Garlot]] in some routes.
* ExpressiveHair: Eimi.
* FailureKnight: Poor [[spoiler:Gulcasa]].
* FallenAngel: [[spoiler:Nessiah and Eater]].

* FieryRedhead: Eudy and Garlot

* FriendlyEnemy: Mizer.
* FromBadToWorse: Nessiah's route.
* GirlishPigtails: Eudy and Eimi.

* GogglesDoNothing: Inzaghi.

* HappilyAdopted: Luciana and Aegina.

* HeroesPreferSwords: Averted, Garlot uses a spear and [[spoiler: only near A Route's finale, a SinisterScythe]]
* HeroicBSOD

* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler:Nessiah]].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Jenon]] in the C route.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: '''''COME NEAR ME, AND I'LL KILL YOU!'''''
** Also being bad at handling sugar, apparently.

* InTheHood: Nessiah.

* LovableRogue: Mizer.

* MagicMusic: Eater attacks using music during the day.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: All of the required playable characters.

* MoralityChain: Elena, to Leon.
* MultipleEndings

* ObviouslyEvil: Norn.
* TheOjou: Yggdra.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: [[spoiler:Baretreenu]].
* OnlySaneMan: Aegina during the bath scenes.

* ParentalAbandonment: Garlot.

* TheRival: Leon.
* RoadCone
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Siskier]] in route A and [[spoiler:Luciana]] in route B.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Eudy gets them when {{squee}}ing about her cannons.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Garlot]] in one route; [[spoiler:Aegina]] in another.
* SerialRomeo: Jenon, going by Garlot's reaction when he gets starry-eyed over Medoute.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: All but buried in metaphor, but still present in the A route.
* SiblingYinYang: Luciana and Aegina, Leon and Elena, [[AllThereInTheManual Soltier and Ike]]. [[spoiler:Garlot and Eimi]] avert this, though.

* SneezeCut: Used in the mission Salt Road.

* StartOfDarkness: Um, duh?

* SummonMagic: Of the Western variety.

* TacticalRockPaperScissors

* ThatManIsDead
* ThemeMusicPowerUp

* TokenEvilTeammate: Leon.
* TooManyBelts: Jenon and David.

* TragicDream

* UnholyHolySword: ''[[TropeNamer GUESS]],'' GUYS.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal:
** Oh, Eater. Rarely is there a character who can do this in quite so many ways...
** Siskier is also quite shocked to find out that, yes, Zilva is female.

* VerbalTic: Byff's "Nantsutte".

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:Garlot and Medoute]] in the route B bad ending.
* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: Mostly for Garlot.

* WorthyOpponent: Baldus.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Both Siskier and Nessiah express this to Garlot.

* {{Keigo}}: Luciana and Aegina, whenever Garlot's around. Also Nessiah and female!Eater.

* HeroesPreferSwords: Averted, Garlot uses a BladeOnAStick and [[spoiler: only near A Route's finale, a SinisterScythe]]

* GoodIsNotDumb: Garlot may not be very smart to begin with, but he has a very sensitive nature that allows him to accurately read and understand his rivals and enemies' motivations. As his adventures start to gain him more and more street cred, it's his overwhelmingly gentle and compassionate heart that manages to win the hearts of his entire country--including those very rivals and enemies, more often than not. We get to see in [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion the future]] just how much Bronquia [[HundredPercentAdorationRating really appreciates]] having a leader who's kind, just, and ''competent.''

* {{Retcon}}: Aside from Nessiah getting {{nerf}}ed and the circumstances of Leon and Elena's parents' execution [[NoodleIncident becoming fuzzier]], characters' likes and dislikes have been altered from those displayed in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison''. Mostly, these are things that can be explained by their tastes changing as they age--Emilia likes milk and dislikes cheese in ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'', and refuses to eat cheese at all in ''Unison''; Gulcasa is no longer an ExtremeOmnivore who can [[BigEater put away an entire banquet table and still be hungry]], which makes sense as he's not fueling a growth spurt ''and'' compensating for overuse of Genocide at the same time anymore. (Interestingly enough, he stops [[CarnivoreConfusion eating dragon meat]] in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'' too.) In other cases, this is HilariousInHindsight--Nessiah gets ''[[UpToEleven even pickier]]'' after the timeskip. [[PetTheDog Refusal to eat anything lower-quality than Bronquian cuisine, perhaps?]]

* UnwantedHarem: ''Poor'' Garlot. The kid's surrounded by interested females, HoYay, and FoeYay.

* BadassBeard: King Ordene

* NotSoDifferent: Soltier points this out in the A path. [[spoiler:Gulcasa]] is [[ShutUpHannibal not amused]].

''Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future'' is a TurnBasedStrategy game for the PSP produced by Creator/StingEntertainment and published by Creator/{{Atlus}}. While not a VideoGame/DeptHeaven episode, it is the {{prequel}} to ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', Episode II in the series. The game is currently out in Japan, and as of yet there's still NoExportForYou.

That young man, the HotBlooded seventeen-year-old idealist [[BrokenHero Garlot]], and his childhood friends [[TheHeart Siskier]] and [[TheSmartGuy Jenon]] formed a vigilante band in an attempt to protect the poor of Tiera. The turbulent events of their first major battle with the rich attracts the attention of the vagabond [[CoolBigSis Medoute]] and liberal nobleman [[TheStoic Velleman]], the latter of whom offers them the chance to become his army and gain strength and influence enough to destroy the banditry and corruption killing Bronquia from the inside. Joined by the mysterious fugitive [[TagTeamTwins twins]] [[DemotedToExtra Luciana]] and [[LadyOfWar Aegina]], itinerant [[BlindSeer prophet]] and [[TheStrategist tactician]] [[ZenSurvivor Nessiah]], cute orphan girl [[BadassAdorable Eimi]], and a [[CastHerd whole mess of]] [[OptionalPartyMember other people]] described [[Characters/BlazeUnion here]], they will delve into the true nature of justice and power while fighting to reach a brighter future for their tormented country.

* BittersweetEnding: The True Ending. [[spoiler:Bronquia is saved and the people are overjoyed, but Siskier is dead, Gulcasa is deep in a HeroicBSOD and already showing strain from using Brongaa's power, a number of your allies have left the continent, and everything will come crashing down in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' three years later. Conversely, this means your exiled allies will be spared, and there's always ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'' for a look at what the Imperial Army's more positive fate would be like in this scenario.]]
** Also Aegina's ending. [[spoiler:She's able to get her revenge on Fantasinia and reconcile with Ordene, but Luciana is dead, and depending on whether the player hits the wrong loserflags, Emilia and Yggdra may be killed, too. It's better than the True Ending by a bit, but still extremely sad.]]
** And to round it out, the C end as well. [[spoiler:You're able to avoid a major war and even befriend Soltier and Lapis, and Bronquia is in good hands. But the victory cost you Jenon and Nessiah, and Medoute still goes off on her own; you don't even know why Nessiah acted the way that he did.]]
*** Unless you know his backsotry explained in [[spoiler:Yggra Union]] in which case [[spoiler: Nesiah acts the way he does in this ending because the heroes are basically ruining centuries of his work by sealing the Gran Centurio]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Eudy introduces herself to the heroes by rescuing them from Zilva.

* ChickMagnet: Garlot's harem-to-cast ratio rivals that of [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Negi Springfield]], and not only do his attractive powers work on both sexes, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou they also extend to the fanbase]]. ''This is almost entirely on the merit of his personality,'' though it certainly helps that he's just as generically attractive as the game's other young men.

** [[spoiler:SexAsRiteOfPassage / ComingOutStory]]: All but buried in metaphor, but still present in the A route.

* CorruptChurch

* DarkerAndEdgier: Probably not ''really'' darker than ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', considering, but nothing quite sets the tone like kicking off a game with the attempted kidnapping of an eleven-year-old girl by a creepy and morbidly obese nobleman who clearly has anything but good intentions.
** It's not so much that ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'' is the darker game--it just makes no attempt to hide the real tone.

* FanNickname: "So'''baka'''su" for Cerica, and "Kaa-san's kaa-san" for Baretreenu (an extended pun on [[spoiler:Gulcasa]]'s FanNickname, for obvious reasons). Also Tsundereon.

* '''GrowingUpSucks'''

* NoExportForYou: Between the fact that Atlus dug themselves into a hole that's hard to climb out of as far as mistranslated elements of ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' go, the fact that this game's plot is most accessible to people who've played ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', and the fit that the MoralGuardians would throw over all the AttemptedRape incidents, it's not surprising that they've shown no interest in bringing the game over. Probably doesn't make it any less frustrating for people who aren't literate in Japanese, though.

* TheOtherDarrin: The twins are played by Creator/MaiNakahara in this game, not their usual voice actress. This is probably due to the TimeSkip between the games; significantly younger girls would have less harsh voices.
** Most of the characters, sadly, have had their voice actors changed just like the twins--with much less logical reason as to why.

* TalkingToHimself: As in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', most of the side characters' voice actors have two or three different roles. There are a few party members (Eimi and Pamela, Nessiah and Mizer) who share voice actors, too...

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to the interviews in the artbook, the original script for the game was much darker and more serious, styled like a historical drama; Baretreenu also died right at the beginning. This concept was canned for being too depressing. In addition, the scenario writer from R-Force Entertainment pitches a series of post-B-route's-good-ending [[AudioAdaptation drama CDs]] featuring the repercussions of [[spoiler:Ordene dying and Gram Blaze moving to Fantasinia]] on the rest of the world, involving the cast of ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion''. Sadly, these dramas don't seem to be happening.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Eimi (a bit weird, as she's only eleven), Siskier, and Nessiah.

* ChickMagnet: Garlot's harem-to-cast ratio rivals that of [[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Negi Springfield]], and not only do his attractive powers work on both sexes, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou they also extend to the fanbase]]. ''This is almost entirely on the merit of his personality,'' though it certainly helps that he's just as generically attractive as the game's other young men.

* {{Adorkable}}: Garlot.

* BiTheWay: Heavily implied with Garlot, though never stated outright.

* PurpleEyes: Eudy, Leon, Elena, and Jenon.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * CaptainObvious: Siskier.

''Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future'' is a TurnBasedStrategy game for the PSP produced by StingEntertainment and published by Creator/{{Atlus}}. While not a VideoGame/DeptHeaven episode, it is the {{prequel}} to ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', Episode II in the series. The game is currently out in Japan, and as of yet there's still NoExportForYou.

See also ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', the main title; its GaidenGame spinoff, ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'' (in which the Imperial Army's story continues towards a more positive conclusion); and ''GloriaUnion'', in which one of this game's characters has a guest appearance.

''Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future'' is a TurnBasedStrategy game for the PSP produced by StingEntertainment and published by {{Atlus}}. While not a VideoGame/DeptHeaven episode, it is the {{prequel}} to ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', Episode II in the series. The game is currently out in Japan, and as of yet there's still NoExportForYou.