History YMMV / SeraphicBlue

** When [[spoiler: the Kursks]] show up after the party deduces their involvement, all three of them show up with their wings out and wearing [[EvilCostumeSwitch angelic-looking white bandages]]. <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On one hand, it's appropriately dramatic and makes sense as they have [[spoiler:usurped Ende and become the new Practitioners]]. On the other hand, when you remember that they were once regular civilians, it's funny by contrast how they're suddenly wearing matching evil getups instead of their normal clothes. 

* ThatOneAttack:

** Vene becomes far less pleasant, to the point of snapping at those who question her nihilism, after she regains her memories of both her horrible life at [[MagnificentBastard Siegbert]]'s hands and Syria's suffering at Georg's hands. Despite having the role of saving the world, she was indoctrinated into viewing life as suffering and death as mercy, thanks to Siegbert's cat-killing regimen. The two lives she did value, Lake and Ewan, end up performing {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s to save the party, leading to her feeling very nihilistic all the way up to the FinalBoss. Even after their spirits give her enough motivation to activate Gaia's Rebirth, she still continues to struggle with depression and suicide, though she's at least making slow progress.

** Er is what happens when an evil spirit gets godlike power to act on their nihilism. The result is a NoNonsenseNemesis who is obsessed with ending the world no matter what. There's also the matter of how she can keep surveillance on Lake and Vene and report to her allies about it, resulting in ParanoiaFuel.

* DemonicSpiders: There are quite a few depending on the location you are at but the most notorious ones are the Imprisoners; upon their death they use Command Imprisonment which locks out all other commands except normal attack, have high defense and use powerful earth magic.

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:[[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether The Kursks]], Kane, Joshua, and Leona, are a loving family of Sera-Humans. With their daughter Aisia succumbing to DSHIS and turning into Disastia Devil after being dumped to the Ground, the Kursks grew to despise not only humanity for slaying Aisia, but also the land of Fezzite for separating her from them. Recruited by Ende to assist him in achieving Er's plan to ensure Gaia's destruction, Joshua and Leona fake their deaths and take on different identities to work for the CMGC and ROBIN, respectively, with Kane working for OHG. Getting Ende to manipulate Georg Roseburg and Morgan Douglas into launching the War of Liberation in order to achieve [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Lamentation of Gaia]], while pitting their respective organizations against each other, the Kursks also pose as [[SerialKiller the Six-Year Commemorator]], who kill anybody involved in the DLG laws separating parents from their DSHIS-infected children. Backstabbing Ende after taking his title as Practitioner and becoming Gaia Cancers themselves, the Kursks come close to achieving their dream of destroying Gaia for the sake of unborn children by separating Er from Vene and creating the world-ending dimension Aisia's Heaven.]]

* {{Narm}}: As depressing as this game can be, it does have some rather unintentionally hilarious moments.

-->'''Ende''': "The stomach that is filled with plenty of chyme... The gall bladder that is packed with bitter juices... The liver that's redolent with a bitter taste... The urinary bladder that's filled with pee... And the intestines that are filled with shit... I shall mix them together and stuff them into your mouth. Heh. You'll then puke them all out, won't you? Buueeeeeegh! On the spur of the moment you'll shit and pee yourself... I'll then mix the puke, shit and pee, and smear them all over your pretty face...! I'll thrust my fingers deep into your mouth! I'll force everything down the depths of your throat! And then you'll puke again! I'll make sure you keep puking until you die of madness!"

* NarmCharm: The game's PurpleProse can be amusing at times, but the cutscenes still capture the overall depressive mood of the game. Of note is Er, who's still being a memorable and frightening villain.

-->'''Nixon''': I understand... [[spoiler: The children are beyond salvation. My poor little children... to see you suffering so... [[MercyKill We will quickly put an end to your pain.]]]]
-->'''Ewan''': Are you... sure about this?
-->'''Nixon''': [[spoiler: It is late and the children are awake. [[ShootTheDog It is my responsibility to put them to sleep.]]]]

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The sheer amount of suicide and nihilism in this game is extremely depressing, but some see it as an effective critique of Japan's social issues at the time.

** [[spoiler:[[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Siegbert Ansbach]] is a [[MadScientist researcher]] for the CGMC who's placed in charge of raising Vene as Gaia's savior for the Seraphic Blue project. In truth a PsychopathicManchild who views life as a game, [[AbusiveParents Siegbert]] places Vene in complete isolation, forbidding her from outside contact or showing emotion. To condition her into accepting death and discard her benevolent behavior, Siegbert gave Vene kittens as birthday gifts, allowing her to grow attached to them before forcing her to kill them, a process of which he repeats for decades. With Siegbert's abuse leading to Vene developing a hatred for mankind and the creation of her split personality Er out of a desire to refuse her role as Seraphic Blue, Siegbert keeps the truth about Er a secret for his own personal amusement, fully willing to allow Gaia to be destroyed by her hand just to keep his game interesting. Showing no loyalty or love to anybody while claiming to be on the side of good, Siegbert would go on to shape Vene's life as a [[StrawNihilist suicidal nihilist]].]]

** Vene becomes far less pleasant, to the point of snapping at those who question her nihilism, after she regains her memories of both her horrible life at Siegbert's hands and Syria's suffering at Georg's hands. Despite having the role of saving the world, she was indoctrinated into viewing life as suffering and death as mercy, thanks to Siegbert's cat-killing regimen. The two lives she did value, Lake and Ewan, end up performing {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s to save the party, leading to her feeling very nihilistic all the way up to the FinalBoss. Even after their spirits give her enough motivation to activate Gaia's Rebirth, she still continues to struggle with depression and suicide, though she's at least making slow progress.

** Er is what happens when an evil SplitPersonality gets godlike power to act on their nihilism. The result is a NoNonsenseNemesis who is obsessed with ending the world no matter what. There's also the matter of how she can keep surveillance on Vene and report to her allies about it, resulting in ParanoiaFuel.

** We get a rather graphic CG of what happened to the little girl that Ende threw off a skyscraper.

** The Kursk family members are selfish and vengeful due to their grief over Aisia's transformation and death. Additionally, Kane shows a more sympathetic side when he finds a little girl who reminds him of Aisia, only for her to be killed by Ende.

* MagnificentBastard: [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether The Kursks]], Kane, Joshua, and Leona, are a loving family of Sera-Humans. With their daughter Aisia succumbing to DSHIS and turning into Disastia Devil after being dumped to the Ground, the Kursks grew to despise not only humanity for slaying Aisia, but also the land of Fezzite for separating her from them. Recruited by Ende to assist him in achieving Er's plan to ensure Gaia's destruction, Joshua and Leona fake their deaths and take on different identities to work for the CMGC and ROBIN, respectively, with Kane working for OHG. Getting Ende to manipulate Georg Roseburg and Morgan Douglas into launching the War of Liberation in order to achieve [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Lamentation of Gaia]], while pitting their respective organizations against each other, the Kursks also pose as [[SerialKiller the Six-Year Commemorator]], who kill anybody involved in the DLG laws separating parents from their DSHIS-infected children. Backstabbing Ende after taking his title as Practitioner and becoming Gaia Cancers themselves, the Kursks come close to achieving their dream of destroying Gaia for the sake of unborn children by separating Er from Vene and creating the world-ending dimension Aisia's Heaven.

** Played with when it comes to Ende, who was ''born'' on the far side of the line as a HumanoidAbomination. His worst deed is when he throws a child off of a skyscraper in order to force Benedicta into a HeroicBSOD. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Kane had a breakdown from watching him do it]], despite wanting the war in the first place.

** Despite their tragic backstory, the Kursk family shows little remorse for starting a world war to avenge Aisia, with Kane going as far as to gloat about the carnage. Getting them to pull a HeelFaceTurn is out of the question.

* ThatOneAttack: Void Finality certainly counts, since it plays with the player's expectations that they'll be safe as long as they prevent the enemy from spending field elements to cast their spells. And while the player can learn it too, it's AwesomeButImpractical for them due to the high TP cost and turn delay while enemies can wipe parties with it due to HealthDamageAsymmetry. Fittingly, the FinalBoss is fond of using this spell.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The sheer amount of suicide and nihilism in this game is extremely depressing to the point where it borders on DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, but some see it as an effective critique of Japan's social issues at the time.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: This game is constantly in the player's face with its nihilistic characters, but it's trying to convey that a society that promotes abuse, overly cold pragmatism, and treating people like tools can suck all the joy out of life. This causes some (like Er) to sink into depravity and causes others (like Vene) to live half-heartedly. These two show that a sufficiently bad society and parenting can potentially be worse than {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, but the ending shows that people can overcome this, albeit gradually.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The sheer amount of suicide and nihilism in this game is extremely depressing to the point where it borders on DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, but some see it as an effective critique of Japan's social issues at the time and that SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

** [[spoiler:[[CorruptPolitician Morgan Douglas]] is the Fezzite's Ground Executive who proves himself nothing more than a petty [[DirtyCoward coward]]. Having originally been the CMGC Chairman who allowed Siegbert to carry out his abuse on Vene, Morgan was demoted once Vene was kidnapped by Ewan. Partnering with Ende to launch a coup against the CMGC in order to claim his position as Fezzite's ruler, Morgan launches a [[FinalSolution human genocide campaign]] as he participates in the War of Liberation, with full intent to burn the entire Ground to ash and rule over all of Gaia. Imprisoning Doris and Yangtze under the belief they're spies, Morgan threatens the OHG with slowly torturing the mentally challenged Doris unless Vene, Lake, and Ewan show up. Betrayed by Ende and forced to become a Gaia Cancer, upon his defeat, Morgan tries to detonate his base so that [[TakingYouWithMe he can take everyone with him to the grave]].]]

** According to Siegbert's secret journal, Er caused Vene to resort to self-harm several times.

* ThatOneLevel: Benedicta's Tears and the entire LAJ segment are the biggest offenders.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: This game is constantly in the player's face with its nihilistic characters, but it's trying to convey that a society that promotes abuse, overly cold pragmatism, and treating people like tools can suck all the joy out of life. This causes some (like Er) to sink into depravity and causes others (like Vene) to live half-heartedly. These two show that a sufficiently bad society and parenting can potentially be worse than {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, but the ending shows that people can overcome this, albeit gradually.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: The sheer amount of suicide and nihilism in this game is extremely depressing to the point where it borders on DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, but some see it as an effective critique of Japan's social issues at the time and that SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* NarmCharm: The game's PurpleProse can be amusing at times, but the cutscenes still capture the overall depressive mood of the game. Of note is Er, who sounds edgier than most {{Emo Teen}}s while still being a memorable and frightening villain.

* CompleteMonster: Er is a dark and evil goddess who desires nothing but total destruction over everything. Over the course of the game, she orchestrates gruesome wars between humans and Gaia Cancers, the mutation of Sera-Human children into Devils, and manipulates every nihilists' desires of end of all existence (This includes Kursk Family's wishe to bring their daughter back to life). After becoming Refuse Seraphic Blue, she manages to kill everyone without remorse, and takes the trope UpToEleven.

** Subverted with Er because while she shares Vene's painful memories, she fully [[TheMadHatter embraces her darkness]] and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, disqualifying her as a {{Woobie}}. Like Voldemort and Yami Marik, her past is more of a cautionary tale of loveless parenting than a true FreudianExcuse.

** Subverted with her evil personality Er because while she shares Vene's painful memories, she fully [[TheMadHatter embraces her darkness]] and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, disqualifying her as a {{Woobie}}. Like Voldemort and Yami Marik, her past is more of a cautionary tale of loveless parenting than a true FreudianExcuse.

* NarmCharm: The game's PurpleProse can be amusing at times, but the cutscenes still capture the overall depressive mood of the game.

** Er is what happens when an evil SplitPersonality gets godlike power to act on their nihilism. The result is a NoNonsenseNemesis who is obsessed with ending the world no matter what.