History VideoGame / StrayGods

* AdaptedOut: Of the twelve Olympians the only ones that are never mentioned are Hera and Hestia.

* SocialCircleFiller: Kaz anad Brain, the other two band members of Grace's and Freddie's only appear briefly in the opening act, before vanishing from the story. Though you can get an update on their situation if you choose certain dialogue options.

* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Grace can potentially break up with Pan, but also has the opportunity to make up with him and continue romancing if certain choices are made.

** The Throne, which follows [[spoiler:[[DarkestHour Freddie's death]]]], and is a desperate moment for Grace, opens with about three minutes of buildup to a confrontation with Orpheus. If Grace asks if he's really as good as he's been hyping up to be, Orpheus and his Chorus suddenly breaks into an upbeat and comical ditty that goes absolutely nowhere. Grace then asks another question to get on with the plot already, and the mood swiftly returns to serious again.

* MultipleEndings: While the outcome of [[spoiler:the trial and what the Idols do afterward]] are fixed, Grace's choice of love interest (or lack thereof) change the ending, and the choices involving other characters often dictate [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue what happens to them in the epilogue]].

* DivineDate: Three of Grace's four romance options are the divine Pan, Persephone, and Apollo. (The fourth is her mortal friend Freddie.) [[spoiler:By the end of the story, this can also become a Divine Date, as the only way for Freddie to survive is to gain godhood and immortality from Grace]].

[[caption-width-right:350:This is my time to shine...]]

* MoodWhiplash: Depending on which part you do first, a comical love song between [[spoiler:Hecate and Asterion]] can be preceded or followed by a tense, sorrowful scene where [[spoiler:Grace helps Aphrodite either continue to live or essentially commit suicide]].

* GuideDangIt: Some songs can only be heard on specific routes and if you make specific choices, such as [[spoiler:the Snake Charmer song only happening if a Clever Grace has allied with Pan]]. Getting the Maestro achievement, which requires you to hear every song, is so tough it [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3019778120 requires a guide]], with special note to The Ritual having ''seven'' variations.

** Apollo is seen mourning Calliope and her death, lamenting how despite her pressing, he refused to change.

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Making different choices and connecting with different gods allows the player to learn their complete stories as well as different endings.

* RomanticSidequest: Grace can court four potential romance options throughout the game; Freddie, Persephone, Apollo and Pan.

* GruesomeGoat: Pan's design invokes this, giving him horns, long floppy ears, and rectangular pupils. He is certainly the more ambiguous option in the initial choice between having his aid and Grace's best friend Freddie's. [[spoiler:While he admits to being distrusted by the other Idols and admits to not telling Grace the entire truth right off the bat, he is not responsible for Calliope's death.]]

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Athena's efforts to defend the Idols were all pointless in the end and she murdered the last muse for nothing, as the [[ProphecyTwist prophecy]] never said anything about the gods dying out, only that they cannot continue, which is fulfilled when they change their ways and join human society in the ending. Her realization of this, even if she is forgiven, causes her to exile herself in some endings.]]
* AllLovingHero: Grace can be played this way, especially if the player consistently picks Green options. She is empathetic toward everyone, including several initially antagonistic characters, such as Persephone, Medusa and even [[spoiler:the main antagonist, Athena]], and goes out of her way to be gentle and understanding toward their pains and wants.

* BestFriend: Freddie to Grace. They are best friends from the very start, though it is later revealed that they were drifting apart prior, and Freddie is always there for Grace, [[spoiler:up to and including giving her own life to save her best friend]].

* 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 the fact that she was briefly ''dead'', Freddie now doesn't know how to act around Grace. A Charming 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.]]

* CommonalityConnection: Hecate is initially hostile to Grace and especially Freddie for intruding upon somewhere mortals are not allowed to be. Freddie's love of knowledge immediately endears her to Hecate, and the three of them discuss their interests over tea. Grace is a bit put out. [[spoiler:In the ending, if she lives, Freddie is even on her way to becoming Hecate's apprentice, possibly making her the first sorcerous muse in history.]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Apollo has the power of prophecy, and can see the future as a result. He had since learned this is not always a good thing. To know a prophecy is to be bounded by it, [[spoiler:and indeed, him catipulating to Athena's demand and telling her the prophecy involving Calliope is the very thing that pointlessly got her killed.]] No wonder he is not keen on using this power for anyone's benefit.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Grace is unsure of herself and her future after college, and Calliope comforts her by saying she feels the same.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Referenced in Freddie's profile, where Grace comments that the only person to call her Farishta is her grandmother.
* DorkKnight: Grace's best friend, Freddie, is loyal, courageous and dependable, always ready to throw herself into danger to come to her friend's aid. She is also geeky, bookish and passionate about nerdy interests like tabletop gaming, mythologies and books, so much that she is fast friends with Hecate. Even Grace calls Freddie a dork.

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

* GentleGiant: Charon is absolutely massive, but appears to be a sweet person who is just keen to be interacting with others again.

* GuileHero: Blue options tend to play out this way, with Grace getting ahead with wits and guile, combined with good deductive reasoning and intuition.
* TheHeart: Green options will push Grace to be more empathetic, understanding and gentle with others.

* HotBlooded: Red options tend to have Grace become open, direct and courageous, if often a little lacking in tact.
* HypnoticEyes: One of Medusa's powers. She explains it as a {{Required Secondary Power|s}} due to being unable to eat stone, so she uses this to hold people still for her to feed on them.

* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:The Furies. Once they are sent, they do not stop until they exact punishment [[LoopholeAbuse (which need not necessarily be the death of their target, small comfort as that may be)]], or until the one who sent them choose to return them, as Athena eventually would in the trial.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:In the Underworld, Grace can accuse Persephone of this, which can eventually even break their romance. Despite being there to allegedly get in contact with the Fates and find Freddie, who recently gave her life for Grace, Persephone's main priority is seemingly to reclaim her own throne, and Grace has to remind Persephone why they are really there in the first place. Indeed, Persephone knows full well she would not be able to contact the Fates and lied to Grace anyway so she can reclaim her throne.]]

* LoveMartyr: Aphrodite never paid her husband Hephaestus any attention when they were together, frequently cheating on him if the myths are accurate. Despite this, he loved her so much that he made a sacrifice to ensure she would escape endless tortures at the hand of mortals. When Aphrodite realizes this, she feels awful about how she had treated him despite his devotion to her.

* SnakesAreSexy: Medusa is introduced wearing a sari that bares her midriff and about to give a “kiss” to a human victim. Grace herself can admit that Medusa's kind of cute for a monster.
* SnakesAreSinister: Medusa is first mentioned as Athena's spymaster, and there is a brief span of time where Grace believes Medusa might have attacked Calliope. When you finally meet her, she was about to sink her teeth into a human and swiftly attempts to take Grace for dinner instead, admitting that hero's blood is a particular weakness of hers in a way that implies an addiction.

* TheTrickster: Pan being god of mischief leads him to tell half-truths and play pranks, such as spreading the rumor about Cupid being a winged baby, to Eros's displeasure.

* TheUnintelligible: [[spoiler:Charon, ferryman of the Underworld]]. Persephone can understand him perfectly and has to translate for Grace and the player, who cannot.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Persephone. She is ruthless, vindictive, bitter and rude to a lot of people, including Grace, and [[spoiler:even if she helps Grace in Act 3, she lies to sweeten the deal in order to achieve her own ends.]] Having said that, she is also capable of remorse and kindness, and will look out to the interest of others when she thinks they deserve it. [[spoiler:She can even take in Medusa and helps her out in the ending.]]

* 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 if you let Freddie go, and at the end of Act 3 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.]]

* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:The furies. Once they are sent, they do not stop until they exact punishment [[LoopholeAbuse (which need not necessarily be the death of their target, small comfort as that may be)]], or until the one who sent them choose to return them, as Athena eventually would in the trial.]]
* IndyEscape: Referenced. If you romance Pan and bring together Hecate and Asterion, Pan spent the time between Act 3 and the epilogue tracking down artefacts for Hecate and jokes about actually enjoying "fleeing from boulder traps".

** [[spoiler:In a more minor way, Pan fears he might have been responsible, as it was him who gave Calliope the mean to enter the place where she would be killed, and gave her location away to other parties. Part of the reason he aids Grace is to give Calliope justice by uncovering the truth and find out just how responsible he is for her death.]]

* SenselessSacrifice: In Act 3, [[spoiler:if Grace sacrifices her godhood to bring Freddie back, some characters question if it might end up being pointless in the end. As the last muse, Freddie will be Athena's target, the Idols are still coming to an end, and in the end, Calliope might well [[MergerOfSouls "take over" anyway.]] Of course, Grace and Freddie can survive the trial, and the Prophecy only said the Idols would not "continue"(as they are), and nothing about them actually dying out.]]

* SenselessSacrifice: In Act 3, [[spoiler:if Grace sacrifices her godhood to bring Freddie back, some characters question if it might end up being pointless in the end. As the last muse, Freddie will be Athena's target, the Idols are still coming to an end, and in the end, Calliope might well [[MergerOfSouls "take over" anyway.]] Of course, Grace and Freddie can survive the trial, and the Prophecy only said the Idols would end, not die.]]

** In Act 2, if called on as backup for Asterion, Freddie praises his courage for being able to give voice to his feelings, and says she wishes she could do the same, as she feels she had let her own chance slipped away. [[spoiler:Sure enough, she had been in love with Grace for years now, and had not acted on his feelings until the tail end of the story.]]

* DivineDate: Three of Grace's four romance options are the divine Pan, Persephone, and Apollo. (The fourth is her mortal friend Freddie[[spoiler:, although by the end of the story, this also becomes a Divine Date, as the only way for Freddie to survive is to gain godhood and immortality from Grace]].)