History VideoGame / StrayGods

** [[spoiler:Freddie draws the Furies to herself and lets them kill her to save Grace's life]].

* DivineDate: Three of Grace's four romance options are the divine Pan, Persephone, and Apollo. (The fourth is her mortal friend Freddie.)

* HellHasNewManagement: [[spoiler:With Hades dead and Persephone deposed, Orpheus took the throne of the Underworld. Grace can let him keep it or give it back to Persephone]].

* SnakesAreSexy: Medusa is introduced wearing a sari that bares her midriff and about to give a “kiss” to a human victim.

* ActorAllusion: While they're standing in the mists discussing Reliquary, Freddie likens it to a TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons campaign, with Grace affectionately calling Freddie "such a nerd" for it. Laura Bailey, voice actor for Grace, is also known as a member of the [=D&D=] webseries WebVideo/CriticalRole.

* BrickJoke: When Asterion laments his inability to confess his feelings to Hecate, he adds offhandedly that he accidentally killed Hecate's cat. In the epilogue of the game, [[spoiler:if you chose either the green or red paths for her, Medusa is mentioned to have had an "accident" with Hecate's new cat.]]

* AboveTheGods: As was the case in Myth/ClassicalMythology, [[spoiler: the Fates surpass the Icons in power, and the dreaded Furies only answer to the current ruler, Athena]].

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Athena is the one who released the Furies on Calliope, in accordance with Apollo's prophecy that the Idols would die out as long as the Last Muse still lived.]]

** [[spoiler: Freddie draws the Furies to herself and lets them kill her to save Grace's life]].
** [[spoiler: Grace can do the same for Freddie, giving up her eidolon to restore Freddie's life and grant her the powers of the Last Muse.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Apollo blames himself and his powers of prophecy for the War happening. He had foretold its coming and went to Ares, begging him to help stop it. Ares instead chose to eacalate because Apollo told him the Idols were a lost cause. Ares revealed the existence of the Idols to the "jackbooted guys", leading to Aphrodite's capture, Hephaestus' sacrifice, and the Idols' exodus to the New World.]]

* TakeUpMySword: Calliope passes her gift for music onto Grace before she dies. [[spoiler: Grace can do the same to Freddie in order to restore her from the Underworld.]]

* SpontaneousChoreography: Mentioned in the epilogue if you [[spoiler:rescued Freddie from the Underworld. She's been using this particular power as a muse a ''lot'' in the two months since getting it, including once at a ''funeral''. Apollo notes that they've had complaints.]]

* DarkReprise: Naturally, in a musical. [[spoiler:The song Grace sings at the very beginning of the musical returns twice: once in a TriumphantReprise in the midway point of Act 3, and at the end of it as this, sung by Athena realizing that she almost directly caused the death of the Idols, which she tried to prevent, specifically by listening to a prophecy.]]

* In Act 2, Medusa notes that she expected Calliope to either flee home or to "sharp and prickly Persephone". While Calliope and Persephone ''were'' friends, so were Calliope and Apollo, and Apollo's house was closer to the entrance to the Reliquary than Persephone's club. Why would she then run all the way to Persephone? [[spoiler:Turns out Calliope and Persephone had dated before, which Medusa likely knew. She would have assumed that Calliope would sooner run to a lover than to just a friend.]]

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Played with. The beginning of Act 3 involves [[spoiler:Grace and Persephone, if she was chosen to guide Grace, descending into the Underworld to wrest its throne from Orpheus and get Freddie back. As the songs in the game are all in-universe because of Grace's powers, Orpheus hears then coming by their song, and they duet before Persephone and Grace burst into the room. Persephone sings a line about how she's here to get the throne back... when she realizes the music actually stopped at that line and she was singing to nothing, which she complains about.]]

* BrickJoke: When Asterion laments his inability to confess his feelings to Hecate, he adds offhandedly that he accidentally killed Hecate's cat. In the epilogue of the game, [[spoiler:Medusa is mentioned to have had an "accident" with Hecate's new cat.]]

** A significant factor in the relationship between [[spoiler:Persephone and Apollo. At one point, Persephone managed to escape the underworld, homesick and done with being mistreated by Hades. When Hades caught up to her and went to take her back to the Underworld, Persephone called out to Apollo to help her, but he did nothing. She is still bitter about it to this day, citing that incident as the one that led to her being distant from the other Idols.]]

* WasItReallyWorthIt: If you [[spoiler:choose to give Persephone the throne to the Underworld]] in Act 3, [[spoiler:Persephone laments that all the reasons she wanted the throne don't even matter to her anymore, so this was effectively pointless.]]

* HypnoticEyes: Medusa appears to have this effect on Idols specifically.

* EverybodyHatesHades: Not only did Hades kidnap Persephone like in the myth, [[spoiler:he mistreated her while they were married, leading her to murder him, and he tricked Orpheus into losing Eurydice during his quest, leaving him with a grudge against Persephone]].

* TomesOfProphecyAndFate: Hecate’s library contains books where everything that will ever happen is written down. Hecate can gain knowledge from them she would otherwise have no way of knowing, such as recognizing Grace from her description after she jogs her memory, but is simultaneously bound by them; if the books say that Hecate only finds out about [[spoiler:Asterion's feelings towards her]] at a specific point, she appears physically or mentally unable to know this before the book ''says'' she is allowed to know it. [[spoiler:The books are not infallible, however; Hecate reveals that Calliope was meant to die eleven months from now in a car crash rather than be murdered.]] This is later exploited when [[spoiler:Freddie and Grace hypothesize that Hecate would definitely notice them breaking into the Reliquary... unless, of course, it was written that she wouldn't.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Athena was doing what she thought was right under pressure of being the most powerful Idol left and a desire to keep the family together and being strong. Depending on how you play Grace, she can either feel sorry for her or tell her that good intentions aren't enough to fix the mess she made]].

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: An option if you choose to romance Freddie. [[spoiler:If Grace chooses to sacrifice her powers as a Muse to save her from the Underworld, Freddie gets very upset because she sacrificed herself for Grace out of romantic love, which she had felt for years, and coupled with that now doesn't know how to act around Grace. A charismatic Grace can admit that she knew, and suspected as much when Freddie called her out of nowhere to start the band as an excuse to hang out more.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Grace jokingly suggests to Persephone that the Idols could have originated as alien lifeforms for all they know, Persephone initially dismisses it offhand. Grace takes it as hypocrisy that she is expected to believe in gods and magic can exist but not aliens. Persephone wryly humors her.

''Stray Gods'' is a roleplaying musical video game developed by Summerfall Studios.

* QuarrelingSong: The Freddie and Pan song revolves around Freddie and Pan both vying for Grace's favor in a duet. Grace can choose one or the other, or reject both.