History VisualNovel / AngelsWithScalyWings

* EarnYourBadEnding: You can get a special ending by going out of your way to be mean to the dragons and horrible at investigations.

* MisfitMobilizationMomment: [[spoiler:The True Ending sees the protagonist regain all his memories of previous timelines and unite all five of his friends. After telling him about what's really happening, they finally come together to get an EverybodyLives ending and SaveBothWorlds.]]

** The nail between Anna's endings is [[spoiler:the protagonist telling her humanity has a cure for cancer and ensuring they'll do whatever they can to help her get it. This, combined with the protagonist doing something so kind for her, results in her choosing to tackle the protagonist out of the way of Reza's bullets rather than sacrificing herself like in the bad ending, as she actually has something to possibly live for.]]

* BreathWeapon: Many dragons can breathe fire. On Anna's route, she explains to the player how they can spit out liquid that bursts into flames.

** [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} "Be the very best, like no one ever was."]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted with [[spoiler:Vara, who is murdered by Reza in Remy's "good" ending]].
** Also averted with dragon eggs which Reza had stolen from the hatchery, and which [[spoiler:get caught in the explosion if Bryce triggers the booby trap at Reza's hideout]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Mystery SliceOfLife RomanceGame meets [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons Dragons]]]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are 4-legged dragons with or without wings, wyverns, and ones that stand upright. Ones with wings are referred to as Fliers, and upright ones as Runners. [[spoiler: Turns out that they are basically genetically-engineered dinosaur-human hybrids, so it's reasonable that they are modeled after what the human scientists imagine dragons would be like.]]

* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Reza delivers it to your hero during the climax in nearly every playthrough]] -- it can get tedious after playing the game multiple times. Actually, if you [[spoiler:unlock enough possible endings]], at some point, the protagonist will just say "screw this, we're not going through that again" and tell [[spoiler:Reza]] to get down to brass tacks already.

** Also, given that [[spoiler:they adopt the guise of The Administrator]] at some point, we can see they're at least of average build.

* InSpiteOfANail: In most endings, the player confronts [[spoiler:Reza, who acknowledges that he killed the dragons]], and then meets [[spoiler:The Administrator, who is unmasked and reveals herself to be Otomo Izumi, the biological engineer who created the dragons and their society]]. In one ending, however, [[spoiler:the person behind the Administrator's mask turns out to be the player in the future, tasked by a dying Izumi to do the same things she did so that the player's experience will be consistent with past playthroughs and the player will be able to reapply what they learned.]] In a different ending, [[spoiler:Reza never killed the dragons and simply went into hiding, so The Administrator took it upon herself to kill all the dragons he did in other timelines for the same reason.]]

** Also averted with dragon eggs which Reza had stolen from hatchery and which [[spoiler:get caught in the explosion if Bryce triggers the booby trap at Reza's hideout]].

** Also averted with dragon eggs which Reza had stolen from hatchery and which [[spoiler:get caught in explosion of booby trap triggered by Bryce at Reza's hideout]].
* InfoDump: The beginning of the game kinda does this to set the stage, but the biggest offenders occur later, when [[spoiler:the protagonist explains what happened to Earth]], and then even later when [[spoiler:The Administrator gives TheReveal about the dragons]].

** There are a few dialogue options where the player can imply some aspects about themselves, although they don't have long-lasting effects. In one of Remy's scenes they can say "Don't call me sir", and in one of Adine's scenes they can say how prone they are to sunburn.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] in Remy's good ending. The key to unlocking this ending is suggesting that if he wanted to start a family so badly (but those plans were ruined by tragic death of his would-be-fiance Amelia), maybe he should consider adopting a child. This ultimately makes him regain the joy of life and reconcile with Adine]]. Then it ends up subverted when it leads to another tragedy when [[spoiler: Vara, an orphaned dragoness whom Remy decided to adopt, is murdered by Reza, and right in front of Remy at that]], but in the end is once more played straight when [[spoiler: Remy gets over his loss and becomes interested in adopting another young dragoness named Amely. Who, ironically, actually is partially his and Amelia's biological daughter]].

* RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:Each time you time travel back again, you remember parts of what happened before. With enough endings/attempts under your belt, you can get the true ending. This starts to happen to the characters as well, After convincing Anna to not work so late, she'll no longer be the late night murder victim in the lab, and if Bryce dies from the planted bomb enough times Sebastian will tell Bryce to stop before he gets to it, having 'a bad feeling' about the current situation.]]
* RunningGag: the Sheridan series.
* SceneryCensor: There is a scene in the player's fourth date with [[spoiler:Bryce]] where they happen to be holding a [[spoiler:wine bottle]] at a convenient location in front of the camera.
* SceneryPorn: Traveling to another world involves some very lovely sky views. (But after [[TheReveal The Reveal]] it turns out that [[spoiler:this "another world" is just our world 65 million years in the past.]])
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: After your first ending, this is what you the player are trying to do, prevent the downfall of both humanity and dragonkind.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The secret ending]]

* SnowyScreenOfDeath: In the game menu, you have access to a screen showing status of all primary dragon characters, along with portraits of them. If one of those portraits gets replaced by static, that means the character in question has died.
* TheSpeechless: Vara. Possibly due to [[spoiler: [[TraumaCongaLine Trauma Conga Line]] (see below)]].

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Izumi, oh gods Izumi, they may not have resources like your normal chess master, but they have lots and lots of time to try to make their goals happen (and in one timeline attempt, ''you'' take their place.) ]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Vara. Life is really hard on her. First, her father is killed by Reza, being his second victim. Then, her mother slowly dies from a disease as Vara is fruitlessly trying to help her, but obviously has no idea what to do. With little help from main protagonist, she is finally found by authorities - while [[PleaseWakeUp trying to tend to]] ''her mother's dead body'' - and sent to the orphanage. And finally, after Remy decides to adopt her in "good" ending of his story arc, Vara is murdered herself by Reza when she gets in his way during final showdown. And all this is happening to a little child]].
** Life was also quite hard on [[spoiler:Remy himself. For starters, his girlfriend dies in tragic circumstances, ruining his plans of starting a family with her. He either quits his job or is fired, and later Emera gets him a new one, for which he is not actually suited for. This causes him to make many clumsy mistakes, effectively turning him into a laughing stock of the town and [[ButtMonkey Butt-Monkey]] of his new boss, who openly ridicules and bullies him. He suffers from depression, is estranged from his friend Adine and apparently has nobody else whom he could turn to. If the protagonist is mean and uncaring towards him as well, that proves to be a final straw for Remy]].
** And there's [[spoiler: Anna]], as well. A few years before the events in the game, [[spoiler: she is diagnosed with cancer. Using her scientific knowledge, she tries to find a cure for her own disease - however, due to controvertial nature of her experiments, she needs an official government permission. She is ultimately denied, making her experiments illegal. She is ultimately sentenced to probation, under condition that she will land in prison if she continues her experiments. Desperate to save her own life, she does that anyway. Her assistant Damion finds out about this and blackmails her, threatening to denunciate her if she doesn't pay him for silence. Eventually, the evidence of her wrongdoings are discovered by the police during investigation of Damion's murder case. By the end of her story arc, she is completely devastated and afraid that she will spend the rest of her days in prison, alone, slowly consumed by terminal disease]].

* QuirkyTown: The setting takes place in a small rural town with governmental areas and shopping districts, and all 4 main dragons know or likely have met each other.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Adine's first character scene, she asked the player what he would do if the world was about to end. [[spoiler: Turns out that this was indeed the case, at least for the Dragon society, as the Chicxulub asteroid was headed their way.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Emera's behaviour and sounds she makes when you agree to give her massage are... ambiguous, to say the least.

* DinosaursAreDragons: [[spoiler:Literally, dragons are just dinosaurs bioengineered to have desirable features in the image of humans' conception of dragons, including breath weapons and sentience.]]

** [[spoiler:Zhong was raised by foster family since his biological parents gave him up for adoption after his birth. When he was adult already, he befriended Bryce - who was just a regular police officer at that time - and with his help, found out where his biological parents live. To put it mildly, his visit was less than encouraging - while his mother tried to be nice, his father was downright hostile towards him the moment he learned who he is and eventually yelled at Zhong to leave his house and never come back. He never did]].

** A few years before the events in the game, [[spoiler:Remy was a member of a commitee evaluating science projects rivalling over government funds. He fell in love with a scientist working on one of such projects, a dragoness named Amelia, but after her project was granted a fund, they decided not to meet each other for a few months in order to keep their relationship secret and avoid being accused of favouritism. In that time, Amelia fell ill, but refused to take a sick leave since her project was already behind schedule. One night, during the winter, she left the lab in order to refill her medicine supply, but - overworked, ill and furtherly exhausted from the effects of the drugs she was taking - collapsed on the street. When she was found the next morning, she had already frozen to death. Unsurprisingly, Remy was left heartbroken and blamed himself for leaving her all alone]].