Creator / Amoridere

"Violetta" ^note Amoridere's profile pic

Amoridere is a rather shy but otherwise candid writer and artist who had her start on DeviantArt (where she is otherwise known as AkaiChounokoe). She mostly does fanfictions, the which can be found on Fanfiction.Net and Archive of Our Own. She also does original fictions and poems.

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Works by Amoridere (Alphabetically):

• Cellar Secrets
• Concerning a Drifter
• Gensokyo 20XX
• Killerbunnies
• Kill la Kill AU
• Kiryuuin Chronicles
• Lost, Found
• Madgie, what did you do?
• The Outside
• Simon and Reimu

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Tropes in Amoridere's works:

• Abusive Parents:
  • She writes a lot of these but the most prominent example would be Kaeda, who was like this to Jinx, Spin, and Toki, however, the last of the three got it the worse, as Toki was not only beaten but could have very well died of, not only her injuries, but of the leukemia from the severe neglect.
  • Toki is a played with case, as she was abusive to Jaynine but with other children (adoptive or otherwise), she's the opposite.
  • The unnamed mother in the poem Housecats and The Clinic could be best described as this. The poem doesn't say exactly how she treats her children besides that she's more loving to her pet cats but it says something that her idea of being nice to her sons is getting them sterilized.
• Accomplice by Inaction: The subject in Good Eggs states this trope as why she doesn't trust the police.
• Acting for Two: Any speaking parts in Kill la Kill AU are done by her and only her.
• Adoptive Peer Parent: Played with in that the children she cares for are her cousins and little sister but Bunny is in her early to mid twenties, though, she hasn't given birth to any children to speak of but she is considerably a bit young for motherhood. It is stated here that she didn't even finish college when Madgie came to live with her and is studying online so she can do so as to better provide for her youngest cousins.
• Aerith and Bob:
  • Some of the names Amo uses are typically fictional, uncommon, and or actual names with alternate spellings (i.e Brownie being named after a dessert and Britanni being an actual name but the alternate spelling of "Britney").
  • Of her pikachu group, Jinx and Spinner being names that wouldn't pass for normal, while Jackie and Jaynine (spelling aside) can. Sunflower's is an unclear case (people do name their kids after plants).
• After the End:
  • A couple of poems, Home After A Catastrophe. and The Beyond, feature the subjects looking for a new place to call home or answers after some sort of disaster wrecked everything.
  • Morbid Pretending has the subject pretending this trope happened as a coping mechanism.
• Age Is Relative: The poem Wrinkles implies a metaphorical use of this trope, as the subject, while young and youthful, feels old and so she sees herself as old, while others see her as young.
• The Alcoholic: According to a few stories, Spinner is this and its such a problem that he had got into a fight with Toki (the which left the latter injured and upset).
• All Abusers Are Male: Averted, as Toki is a female character who likes to dole out hits for whatever reason (mostly because she can) and doesn't tend to discriminate.
• The All-Concealing "I": Through Thick and Thin is narrated from the first-person perspective, but we have some cues revealing who is narrating by what the other characters are saying (i.e, Uzu called Ryuuko by her last name of "Matoi" when he asks about her). However, in 'Asuka, this serves as The Unreveal,because we get no such cues, as, while we do know they're sisters, we don't know exactly who the titular "Asuka" is and who is narrating. This is played with in her poems, as, instead of "I", she uses a pronoun when referring to the subject.
• All Men Are Perverts: Well, not all of them, but Jinx is, considering he does like to peek on women (Neither Toki nor Doki are exceptions) and look at porn, along with one story having him (with Spin) go on a panty raid [1]. This was lessened after he got a girlfriend.
• All There in the Manual: Amoridere often adds Word of God comments to her Tumblr or DeviantArt pages, adding information about her stories or characters.
• All Women Are Prudes: Downplayed. Toki's had a boyfriend but, for some reason or another, hasn't gone "beyond a kiss", keeping the relationship mainly platonic (in the sense of, "not having sex"). According to one story, she wasn't sure if she wanted lose her virginity or not and that, besides dates, she's never been in a relationship.
• Alternate Universe Fic: When Amoridere writes fanfictions, she usually writes these, along with Death Fics and Dark Fics.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: As Amo noted a couple of times with pic descriptions, Holly and Beryl are oddly colored foxes. Subverted with others, as they are naturally colored (i.e, Crocosmia is colored more so like fox would be).
• Ambiguous Situation: Is the mother in They Wondered Why a case of Cruel to Be Kind, a cold woman, resentful that she never followed her own dreams, or all three? All we know is that she's never supportive of her kids' dreams.
• And I Must Scream: Ryuuko in Stasis, where she's asleep for three weeks. One of the captions mentions that she's aware during her sleeping spells and she knows she's asleep until her stasis ends, unable to do anything or wake up. The only thing she could do was shed a single tear.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Combined with Last Disrespects, this implied with the subject of Sardonic Dance, as red is a color than means one is happy that the deceased is dead in some funeral etiquette and that she only dances on the graves of people she isn't fond of.
• Animal Motifs:
  • In "Hyena", she compares someone she knows (but clearly isn't fond of) to the titular animal.
  • In A Good Day, this is used to show how different Ryuuko thinks she and her sister, Satsuki, are. The latter, appearance wise, as she put it, can be a compared to be crane, an animal that is associated with beauty and grace, while the former compares herself to a bulldog, which, apparently, corresponds with her appearance of being "short, stumpy, frumpy, fat, and rolly".
  • It's subtle but several of her poems alludes to rats (and, by extension, mice), which, besides being an allusion to the Eastern Zodiac, are known to survive hard times, however, they are small, weak, looked down, hated, and easily preyed upon. This is more apparent with the poem The Rodent Becomes Feline.
  • The poem "Bitten by the Snake", uses the metaphors of a mouse (the poetess) and a snake (a former friend of hers), respectively.
  • From what's implied in the poem Single, abusers are symbolized as shrikes (a bird that impales its prey).
  • Housecat with Wings has the subject thinking of a friend of hers to be like the titular. The poem notes that idea is odd but, to the subject, it makes sense.
  • A couple of her poems used porcupines. Besides the overall rodent theme, porcupines aren't cuddly by most means, as they have quills, implying the subject of those poems Hates Being Touched.
  • From what can be guessed, Housecats associates cats with promiscuity, the poem describing them as "loose and reckless".
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Appears in a picture titled "Holding Death's Hand", where Death is personified as a female figure◊. This carries to over to a few poems, where Death is called "she".
• Appetite Equals Health: Downplayed, though a sign that something isn't right with Ryuuko in Odds and Probabilities is when she eats only her soup but barely touches her croakettes.
• An Arm and a Leg:
  • Toki, Jinx, and Spin had lost limbs in a landmine accident during the events of Landmines are Not Toys.
  • In A Cut for You, severing a limb occurs as part of Serial Escalation
  • Someone severing a limb occurs in a trio of pictures titled Mutilation.
  • In the artworks "Security Blanket", "Best Friend", and "Garden", severed limbs are present but they don't belong to the little girls who have them.
  • The pic "Replacement" has a girl holding a severed arm, along with having one arm severed.
• Artistic License – Animal Care: Played with, as she has stuffed animals that look real and so can show them in situations(like photographing them in snow, putting them in clothes, taking them to public places, etc) that could otherwise be dangerous if they were real pets but, in case anyone were to get confused, she's put Don't Try This at Home disclaimers on her(Reddit) posts with them, discouraging this trope.
• Artistic License – Biology: Toki should have died shortly after being borderline submersed in that "vat of radioactive crap" (as Amo put it) due to the radiation destroying her insides, along with chemotherapy being used to treat her leukemia (when it was terminal). Likewise, she should also be be infertile due to the aforementioned. However, Toki is neither, 1), dead and, 2),infertile.
• Art Evolution: Her art style changes from time to time.
• Artifact of Death: The titular red pearls in the poem Red Pearls, as they are cursed and the subject doesn't sell or give them away despite this. Apparently, she intends on taking the curse with her to the grave.
• Artificial Limbs: As shown in a few pics, Toki, Jinx, and Spin have these, due to the landmine incident, although later pics made Toki's right leg less obvious, as she's since got a robotic one.
• Asleep for Days: This (and Deep Sleep) is explored in a picture arc with nendoroids titled Sleep, where Ryuuko falls asleep and stays that way for about two weeks. One of the captions for the pics speculates that her sleeping that long might be because of her (half) nonhuman-nature. In a more recent arc (where she slept for three weeks), it's mentioned that she can't control nor is she unaware during that either.
• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: She does not work on one project, as we can tell with multiple schedule slips and hiatuses. She is rather distracted.
• Author Appeal:
  • Amoridere likes to incorporate winters and flowers in her stories.
  • She also paints a good amount of pictures of cats.
  • First-Person Perspective seems to be her favorite style of writing.
• Author Phobia:
  • She's afraid of nuclear wars and wars in general, as was shown in the latter bits of the Gensokyo 20XX series and in several stories in the Madgie series.
  • From what we can get from the Spider-web poem, she's arachnophobic much like the subject is.
• Awful Wedded Life: One of the things that surprises Iona about her titular aunt Lobelia is that the latter was married. From what the latter says, she and ex didn't do anything but argue and fight (literally). They also didn't marry for love if that says anything.
• Baby-Doll Baby: The subject in Doll Collection is an odd example, as she doesn't want children (and neither does she have them), yet she has a maternal instinct, so she collects dolls to satisfy her needs
• The Baby of the Bunch: Sunflower, apparently, is the youngest out of all of her pikachu, as Jinx is the oldest, and with her being the youngest means she isn't (or wasn't) old enough to talk, yet. How this works is anyone's guess.
• Back-Alley Doctor: In the poem Mutilation, we have a variant in that, while there isn't a "doctor", we do get the patient performing a back-alley procedure on herself. No, the poem doesn't shy away from any details as to what she used. As you might be thinking, this turned into a D.I.Y. Disaster, as she goes to the hospital, where the doctors wonder if they should refer her to the psych-ward after patching her up.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • The poem Choices initially has it where the subject may have been contemplating on whether or not to have a baby. Nope, she was actually contemplating on whether or not to get a pet.
  • "Hooker" has this with a Double Meaning. The subject crochets, not someone who works in The Oldest Profession.
• Barrier Maiden:
  • Toki considers herself to be the guardian of the "border between this world and the next".
  • Broken Gate's Nezumi is the guardian of the titular gate and, towards the end, she is sacrificing her strength to delay it reopening.
• Based on a Dream: Second Story Window, which was based off of, in her words, a "weird as hell dream", said dream concerning a mentally but abusive mother and her children attempting suicide to get away from her, and Parted Ways, which was based off of a dream about a girl and her cat.
• Bedlam House: Her poem Cure is implied to take place in an asylum befitting this trope.
• Beige Prose:
  • Her first Touhou Project fic, Goodbye Chen, lacked poetic details.
  • The same thing happens with the story Painting Red, where the narrator talks rather plainly.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Bunny seems to have put on some weight, however, it works in her favor as said weight gain has rounded her out rather nicely.
• Beehive Hairdo: Some of the Toki pics presents a rather large beehive hairdo.
• Berserk Button:
  • According to a few stories, don't interrupt Doki's naps, play pranks on her, or peek on her. In short, don't do anything she might think to be "nonsense".
  • Toki has far too many to actually list, along with them changing so often.
  • For Bunny, it's anything Madgie related.
  • In the poem, Patterns, the subject has a hatred of crochet patterns.
• Bespectacled Cutie: Doki, granted on the fact it has been established that she is nearsighted and needs them to see so almost all of her pictures have her wearing them. Also, according to some, it adds to her cuteness. As is her daughter, Vielle, and, Bunny's cousin, Seraphina, both are just as Moe as Doki is.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Doki is one of the nicest people one could meet, until someone gets her angry.
• Big Sister Instinct:
  • In A Good Day, Satsuki finds out her sister was being bullied for her appearance, she makes note to take a list of said bullies and sets out to deliver punishment.
  • Toki, in several stories, can be quite protective of her sister, Doki (Toki's the older twin).
  • Subverted in Bunny and Madgie's case, as they hate each other and the former doesn't really care as to what happens to her. The story where they meet Toki has the former saying, "Shoot her first"
  • Played for some tragedy in Broken Gate. From what we can see, Tora and Nezumi were pretty close but what makes this worse is that, in Chapter 11, he can feel her dying and there isn't anything he can do.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Born Sick implies this with the "cycle" the subject decides to break (by not having any children). Apparently, her family has a history of abusing their children.
• Bizarre Alien Biology:
  • The biology of erins (Toki's species) is weird. From what is shown about them, they are mammals, females can reproduce asexually (something that doesn't happen with mammals), the babies are born with teeth, in-utero development for said babies seems to pretty quick, has something of a healing factor and, apparently, they tend to age rather slowly, along with living for a long time. Apparently, Toki's blood (rather what it does) isn't a unique thing, as that also can occur with other members of the species.
  • This combined with Bizarre Human Biology happens with Ryuuko during the events of "Sleep". Apparently, due to being a Half-Human Hybrid, she can and does go into hibernation (or something like it). One of the captions lampshades this that one half could take sleeping for two weeks, her other half not so much.
• Blind Mistake:
  • Atropa Belladonna has it where people are wondering if the subject put a jar of the titular plant in her cabinet because, with her poor vision, she thought it was something else.
  • In I Never Really Knew, this is one of the things that confirmed to Satsuki that there was something wrong with Ryuuko's eyes, as she mistook a wall for a door way. In one of the sequels, Orange Juice, this is directly invoked when the store clerk, owner, or both of them uses Ryuuko's visual impairment to trick her into buying orange juice, instead of milk.
• Blind Without 'Em: Doki is legally blind and wears high-prescription glasses to compensate. She also carries a white cane, at least according to one story, when she is sans her glasses.
• Blood from the Mouth:
  • Played for silliness in the poem Blood Running from the Mouth, where said character is angry and not injured.
  • Used as a metaphor in Visceral Needs, as the rat most likely feels like she's bleeding.
  • In Beishang, bleeding from the mouth means whatever illness she had has gotten worse, leading to titular's Death by Despair.
  • Her angry (or upset) art usually has blood dripping from the character's mouths.
  • A weakened Nezumi in Chapter 14 of Broken Gate
  • Sneezing Blood has an interesting case, where the subject, instead of coughing, she sneezes blood because of whatever she's sick with.
• Bloody Murder: Toki's blood is apparently toxic, because when it enters the bloodstream of anyone other than her sister (or baby), it will turn you into crystal. (Link) Oddly, it also affects flowers, as demonstrated in one Madgie story.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Toki does what she wants to, when she feels like doing it, consequences be damned.
• Body to Jewel: Toki's blood can transform what it touches (or gets) into to crystal, which can be read in Shattered Glass or Madgie, what did you do? X: Bloody Snow Angel. Bunny theorized this is probably because Toki's blood has extreme amounts of cysteine. ^note Cysteine is an amino acid that the body tends to produce and also looks crystalline under a microscope [2]◊. However, Cystinosis is a genetic autoimmune condition, leads to the buildup of the aforementioned causing the cells to turn hard, figuratively, turning the body crystal, although, while serving as an inspiration for, it is nowhere near the effect of Toki's blood
• Both Sides Have a Point: Played with in Just Doki, as pregnancy hormones have made the titular a little irritable, however, Jinx, Sunflower, and Spinner see her as being bitchy and thinks that she is acting out of proportion. However, it is pointed out that Doki does have reasons to complain, as Jinx peeks on her, Spin is a drunk who does whatever the former tells him to, Sunflower is a brat, and Beryl has played pranks, the which could get her hurt (a passage mentions her napping with a football helmet on).
• Bowdlerise: She changed up some of her stories in the Gensokyo 20XX series when she posted them on Archive of Our Own and posted said bolderdised versions FF.net when she got the chance.
• Breakout Character: Sunnie the pikachu, The Baby of the Bunch of her pikachu group, has her own blog [3].
• Break the Cutie: Amo seems to favor this trope, as this trope is typically present.
• Broken Bird:
  • Toki is a more clearer example of this, as she's become bitter and cruel in response to her trauma. As put, she wanted to be "the one to hurt, abuse, and betray".
  • Nezumi in Broken Gate, as due to her situations and the events that came before, one could say she's become emotionless (right down to feeling) would be because her situation removed her ability to cope with them otherwise. However, chapter 17 implies that she was this long before.
• Burlesque: Bunny in a couple of pics is dressed in much the way a burlesque performer might be.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: In several stories and poems.
• Caged Bird Metaphor: A few of her poems feature this and the Gilded Cage trope.
  • In Birdcage, the subject is made to stay home and, in her mental state, is picturing a caged bird, comparing herself and her situation to the bird's. In Dead Birds, the motif returns, however, the metaphor is used in more bleak fashion, where subject wonders if she envies the titular bird's fate, feeling trapped in her home.
• The Caretaker: Doki is something of a variant in the sense that she's the conservator for her mentally ill twin sister, Toki.
• Childhood Brain Damage:
  • In her fic, Train Tracks, Satsuki "Minjonet" Kiryuuin (generally known as "Min") has epilepsy; her parents had a fight and she took a beer bottle to head.
  • Why Doki has cerebral palsy. At birth, she was deprived of oxygen, leading to said brain damage. The same would apply to Vielle, who also has cerebral palsy (her sisters, Angeline and Esther, from what's implied, don't)
• Children Are Innocent:
  • In the story, Landmines are Not Toys!, as Toki didn't know landmines could be dangerous, in which case, her innocence may border on Too Dumb to Live.
  • Vielle in the story Little Vielle and Her Lead Pipe. However, this is alluded to and justified as the aforementioned was a year old and doesn't know she can hurt someone with a lead pipe.
• Child Hater: Aunt implies that Lobelia doesn't like children, however, she does take in her niece, Iona, if only because of obligation than anything else.
• Clean, Pretty Childbirth: Averted in Glorie, as Doki describes the titular Glorie as being covered in "the usual blood and gore". Likewise, averted in Esther.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: If her main tumblr blog and her deviantArt is a clue
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience:
  • Broken Gate on taskey.me has the dialogue of the characters highlighted in different colors. In other cases, typically to tell them apart, Toki is purple and Doki is in pink (in conjunction with wearing glasses).
  • From what can be gathered from the pics, Rose wears black, Orchid wears purple, Vielle wears pink (or magenta), Angeline wears green, Glorie wears yellow, and Esther wears blue.
• Color Motifs:
  • In the pic titled "Commentary", the lady is wearing a bright red nightgown, the color red drawing attention.
  • Toki is generally seen wearing purple, black, or both. The latter being color representing secrecy and sorrow (alluding to her tragic past and some of her actions) and the former color being associated with materialism (she's wealthy) or, in some scenarios, madness (she's also mentally ill).
  • Besides the Pink Means Feminine trope, Doki is generally seen in pink to probably accentuate her sweetness.
  • Sardonic Dance mentions the subject to be wearing more red than black. Red, in funeral etiquette, means she's happy that the deceased is dead. Adding to this, red is also a color associated with anger and passion. This gets a callback in the poem Red Dress, where the subject describes her dress as a "funeral dress".
• Companion Cube: Though they're different than the usual, the subject's houseplants in Potted Friends act as this, as the subject talks about her "friends" like they're people, complete with their names and personalities.
• Conjoined Twins: Yoki and their bodies are not completely separated but neither are they completely fused. These twins have two arms (one for each), four breasts, four legs, along with two heads. They are treated as though they are one entity (the fact that they share a name), even though, technically, they aren't.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: As noted in Broken Gate, Nezumi would have lifted her curse, had Ryuuji, her older brother, accepted his chance for forgiveness or had not have opted to abuse her in the first place (a reason as to why she put a curse on him).
• Country Matters: In Esther, Doki (in labor) called Jinx a "cunty cosmic dumbass" (said word being emphasized).
• Curtains Match the Window: When they aren't purple, Toki's eyes are usually a shade of red and, a lesser extent, Doki, who's eyes are usually shown to be pink, which is a lesser shade of red. Likewise, the same would go with Bunny
• Cute Little Fangs:
  • Brownie is usually drawn with tiny fangs in her mouth (or peering out of it).
  • In her most recent bit of work, Ori also has rather small fangs.
• Cute Monster Girl:
  • Ori, who Amoridere notes, "came out more cute than creepy".
  • If anyone remembers what scylla are and what they tend to do from Greek Mythology, "Cephie" is rather adorable and tame by comparison.
• Creator Breakdown: She seems to write based on she feels or what may be going at the time, in which case, the more upset she is, the darker her works. This would also apply to whatever she creates from her obsessive intrusive thoughts.
• Creator Provincialism: As said below, usually, when she writes, her works take place in America, unless stated otherwise.
  Amoridere: I've never gone to another country, so, besides research, I know little about another country or their customs, thus its easier to set a story in America, unless, relevant to the story's plot, in which case the story might take place elsewhere."
• Creepy Child: Her artwork and poems tend to have creepy children in them. Apparently, kids can be weird.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • Toki was abused and then neglected causing her to almost die of leukemia, during the events of Flashbacks I. When she returned to that place to get hold of the inheritance money during the events of Insanity and Resentment, she went insane and has had issues ever since.
  • Bunny and Madgie's parents died in an accident when Bunny was twenty and Madgie was nine.
  • Doki was separated from her twin sister Toki when both were almost thirteen (at the time, they were cryogenically frozen).
• Dead All Along:
  • In Paper Cranes, Ryuuko was writing to a passed on Satsuki.
  • It's implied that the subjects of Watching and The Corridor are dead. However, the former is a bit more obvious, as she isn't dressed for mourning, she's not getting wet from the rain, and no one notices her standing there.
  • Considering the titular lycoris flowers, we can guess that the subject's, in Lycoris Trail, loved one might have died, supposing she didn't leave.
• Death by Childbirth: Bunny's cousin Soreen (mentioned in Baby Sorrel) died from pregnancy and childbirth complications.
• Death of a Child: When Amoridere plays with the Improbable Infant Survival trope and writes a story where Anyone Can Die.
• Death by Despair:
  • Satsuki's death in Sunshine. Said story is tagged as such on AO3.
  • Beishang in the titular poem was already sick (or starting to become sick) but her health takes left turn for the worse when her heart breaks.
• Death's Hourglass: Mortality and the representations thereof are common motifs in Amoridere's work.
• D-Cup Distress:
  • Implied but downplayed with the poem Pointed Observation, where the subject doesn't make a big deal about her breasts being a little big (40D is the mentioned size), however, she can't make sense of the fact they are large, leaving her confused.
  • Also implied but downplayed (and Justified) in the poem Bras, where the subject is having a hard time finding a suitable (and comfortable) bra because of how big they are.
• Delayed Diagnosis: Two instances
  • In Flashbacks I, Toki didn't get diagnosed with and treated for leukemia until after she was brought to the hospital and, by then, it was in the terminal stages.
  • A justified case happens with Ryuuko and her meningioma in I Never Really Knew because, it didn't really show up in tests and being uncommon in her age range, the doctors couldn't really sort out what was wrong.
• Deliberately Monochrome: Some of Amoridere's artwork is either a limited pallet or a Splash of Color.
• Delicate and Sickly: The girl in the poem What He Couldn't Save and, shortly after she falls comatose, she dies, while her father searched for a cure. Likewise, the titular Beishang, however, her health was implied to be fragile and her despair is what killed her in the end.
• Department of Child Disservices: While social services may as well had been nonexistent for Toki, they were not for Jaynine and Sunflower, as they let her become their foster guardian, nevermind the fact that she has mental illness, a criminal record, and a long history of violence (said things would normally keep one from being a guardian).
  • One story plays with this, as Nine had been though so many foster homes that placing her with Toki came as something of a last resort.
  • In a story that came before the aforementioned, they play this trope straight as Beryl's prior foster family ran a methlab.
  • Averted for the most part with Doki, as we learn in Doki's Chronicles, where social services did work with Cornelius and Euphemia to let them have custody of her, said arrangement going well (besides the 6 mean foster sisters).
  • According to several stories with Toki in them, there tends to be orphaned children roaming the streets and Toki does take them in (and has, on a few occasions, enrolled them into school), social services not intervening then, in which case, this might be a case of Social Services Does Not Exist.
• Determinator: The subject in "You can have me later." is presented as this, as, despite what life had thrown at her, the abuse she's suffered, her mental illness, her Break the Cutie moments, the things she's lost, anything that would make her "existence" chaotic, she decides to keep going even, if she feels the urge to give into Death's call.
• Disabled in the Adaptation:
  • A blind Satsuki in Feel.
  • Ryuuko becomes this in I Never Really Knew, due to a brain tumor.
  • Not exactly in Nozomi Moritomo's case, where a nendoroid of her is shown in a wheelchair, even though she doesn't use one in the anime. Apparently, according to the photo descriptions, Amoridere found her easier to pose for photos that way.
• Disabled Means Helpless: People generally have this opinion about a blind Satsuki in Feel, however, she is anything but (aside from needing some help crossing the streets at times), as she's demonstrated. Along that line, like the Marlee Matlin on the trope page, people also assumed she was deaf because she doesn't speak (except internally). As to be expected, she has expressed annoyance at this concept.

  • A particular case in point about this occurs in chapter four, as Ragyou notes that Satsuki is prone to wandering off, leaving her to be criticized and being called irresponsible by other parents when the latter does, as they believe she is helpless and shouldn't be left without supervision. Like her daughter, Ragyou has expressed annoyance particularly at this trope and, not just this trope, the hypocrisy of the other parents related to this.

  • In her original works with Doki (and, a lesser extent, Toki) this is averted as, while she has cerebral palsy, she's not wheelchair-bound and neither is she helpless, considering that she works as a nurse and did beat up Bunny, who, initially, assumed she couldn't fight. This is made more obvious by the fact that Doki has stable employment, while, the more able of the two, Toki doesn't (from what's implied).
  • Seeing the World with Cloudy Eyes and Orange Juice plays with this on the end of a visually impaired Ryuuko. As it's noted, she's capable of being independent and does do things independently, however, she's a little easier to trick because, with her visual impairments, she can't tell the difference between the a carton of milk and the titular orange juice. Satsuki, to be expected, is not amused.
• The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Amo generally averts this, as said conditions in the trope tend to be talked about.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Toki had abused Frailine, but the latter's response was to raise an army of the dead to kill her. However, this might be played with, as according to one story, the former had sent Frailine to Alaska, attached to a bus by magnet (without a way to get back), in response for her getting hit with a rock
  • According to one story, Bunny had bitten a then two year old Madgie in response to be being punched between the eyes, said bite being bad enough as to where Madgie needed stitches to close it, along with that it destroyed hair follicles in that spot.
  • As discussed and noted in "Batteries", Ryuuko ran away from home and didn't contact Satsuki for about two and a half years since then over an incident with Satsuki hiding the batteries.
• DIY Dentistry: This is presented in the poem Pulling Teeth. The subject had to pull five of her teeth as a punishment for something at one point, so, this later becomes a case of The Dog Bites Back when she pulls the teeth of the ones who mandated the punishment.
• A Dog Named "Dog":
  • In Broken Gate, we have the following Japanese names for characters; Nezumi (rat or mouse) a rat youkai, Ryuuji (two dragons) a dragon, and Tora (tiger) being a tiger. Miyako is the Odd Name Out, as her name isn't necessarily an animal one.
  • Bunny's actual name is "Ethelinda Berniece", leaving "Bunny" a nickname.
  • Being a scylla, "Cephie" refers her to cephalopod traits.
  • Being a zodiac Beanie Baby, the rat is called "Shǔ", the Chinese word for "rat".
  • Concerning "Violetta" is about an African violet, the name being a variant of the name "Violet".
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child: The Story of a Disfigured Princess. Kamilah-now-Barabel's family can't recognize her with her scarred face, as they don't know her too well as a person (see "Rebellious Princess")
• Does Not Like Men:
  • Played with in the poem Androphobia. The poem makes it clear that the subject doesn't hate or dislike men, but is instead mildly afraid of them, due to some of her experiences.
  • Housecats and Sonogram implies the mother outrights resents men and that resentment extends to her sons, who, as the former says, "only exist on a whim".
• Doing It for the Art: She writes and draws mostly for her own enjoyment.
• Don't Fear the Reaper:
  • During works like Sometimes, I Wait for Someone and "Holding Death's Hand". In the former, Death is talked about as though it was personified and, in the latter, Death (personified as female) interacts with a dying character.
  • According to Death's Promise, Death will uphold any promises she makes with the living, thus, she waits to take the (implied to be) suicidal subject because, despite it all, the subject does have a reason to continue.
• Doorstop Baby: In Toki's Baby, we're introduced to Rose this way when her aunt, Doki, finds her on Toki's porch. Likewise, we're also introduced to Bunny's younger cousins this way (the first one being Eglantine, who was dropped on Bunny's porch).
• Downer Ending: Broken Gate ends shortly after resealing the gate, when Nezumi dies, feeling her emotions again for the first time in over 200-years, and her death is the last time her siblings, Tora and Miyako, see her again.
  • The poem $900 ends on a rather depressing note, as, from what's implied, the subject slips away en-route to the hospital, as she couldn't afford to call for an ambulance.
  • The poems Beishang and What He Couldn't Save end on very depressing notes with the fathers never getting the chance to make amends with their dying daughters.
  • The same would also go for the poem "Fat Girl", as the subject, in effort to lose weight to be something other than "Fat Girl", develops an eating disorder and dies
• The Dragon: Brownie does almost whatever Toki tells her without question, while the latter often fills an antagonist role. One could basically define the two as master and dog, as Brownie is an anthropomorphic dog and acts as dogs do.
• Dream Weaver: Her poem series Lucid Dreams is a bit of a darker take on this and a Your Mind Makes It Real, as the titular lucid dreamer kills anyone she brings into her dreams (its not mentioned why she does, however) and is also capable of reincarnating.
• Dressed to Heal: Doki's uniform, in a series of pics, was a traditional nurses outfit, up until the most recent one, in which case, her uniform are scrubs and scrub cap. Apparently, she traded in her original uniform for those because its "more practical".
• Drives Like Crazy:
  • According to Brownie's Profile, she is known for driving while under the influence of caffeine, which is the equivalent of either driving drunk and/or under the influence of PCP, thus, she usually gets her license taken away. Apparently, she also has a habit of running her friend Toki over and tends to drive on the curb, as well as crash into buildings. Amoridere states that, somehow, she drives on top of buildings and was once observed driving on electrical and telephone wires.
  • In that vein, according to Amoridere and, at least, one story, Toki is just as bad, doing U-turns, doughnuts, and driving in reverse, all mostly occurring on a freeway and/or in heavy traffic, along with driving on top of other cars, doubly so when she wants to go somewhere fast. She also drives while doing something else, like changing diapers, for example. Unlike the aforementioned Brownie, she doesn't seem to get any sort of punishment for that.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • A mentally ill Toki (outside of the Madgie series), Rei in Frozen, and many others.
  • Alluded to in Content to Wait and "lucky ones" where it's implied that the subject thought about killing herself but decided to live, though, from what can be read, she's probably not too happy with her choice to live. This comes back again in The Will to Keep Breathing, where the subject (wanting release) can't bring herself to do it.
  • #suicideprevention mentions this with an implied Take That! towards suicide prevention campaigns.
  • Rodenticide references this with the subject having bouts where she thinks about killing herself with rat poison.
  • The Birds On Her Birdfeeder implied Satsuki attempted at least twice.
• Dying Alone: This trope is the reason, in the poem, "All my friends are dead.", as to why the elderly subject attends a family gathering, as with all her friends dead and being at or near the end of her life, she wants to avoid this trope by going to said gathering.
• Dying as Yourself: An elderly Shiro, in As the Wind Blows, dying shortly after he starts to remember.
• Dysfunction Junction: Her casts of characters always include a few psychological issues.
• Dying Town: One poem, Dying City, has the subject living in the titular city (presumably in Ohio, as the poem mentions "Rust Belt") and opts to continue living there, as she loves the place Warts and All and wants to make it better.
• Eastern Zodiac:
  • Her story Broken Gate has several youkai that reference the Zodiac; the main ones rat, tiger, dragon, and horse.
  • Her poem Visceral Needs and Beishang alluded to this, particularly the former with the zodiac standing in for her and her relatives (it seems).
• Ecchi: Amoridere defines some of her artwork to be NSFW (however mildly).
• Elective Mute: Also The Quiet One, a blind Satsuki in Feel doesn't talk throughout much of the fic (we do hear her thoughts). Because of this, some briefly thought she was also deaf. She surprises everyone when she does finally talk, as she's actually had a lot to say.
• Elsewhere Fic: Because of Creator Provincialism and the fact that she doesn't know too much about a country, Amoridere tends to write her fanfictions (more specifically her Kill la Kill fics) where they take place in America, however, she does reuse the characters from the source material. However, her Wolf's Rain fic is more of the case, as the main cast, save Cheza, are original characters and the fic takes place in an entirely different universe.
• Emotionless Girl:
  • Nezumi really seemed to have mastered suppressing her emotions, and when she does start to feel again (sadness/lament is described to feel "cold"), her reaction is to "destroy" that feeling. Her reasoning is that if she cannot express her emotions, then there isn't a purpose in feeling them. She does finally feel emotions, at the end of Broken Gate. She cries again, just before she dies. Interestingly, if her sister's recollections is to go by, before becoming this, she was The Stoic, as she can't remember her expressing her emotions outwardly.
  • Being emotionless is also the subject of at least one poem, titled, I Can't Feel Anymore. This trope comes up again in the poem, Severance, the subject suppressed her emotions so much that she can't identify, let alone tell what she's feeling anymore, wondering if she's even feeling them at all.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism: In two cases.
  • We get this in Broken Gate where Nezumi suppressed her emotions to the point she couldn't feel them anymore, as, whatever wasn't related to guarding the gate got ignored.
  • Weakness alludes to this, as the subject is stoic because, when she was a kid, expressing her emotions didn't go well on her end. Unfortunately, due to that and suppressing her emotions, she can't sort out how to express them, so she's stoic to remained composed.
• Empathy Doll Shot: One untitled pic, which has a bloodied rabbit doll in an apparent rainy setting. Amoridere states that she hasn't a clue as to what prompted her draw that, however.
• Empty Shell: What happens to the subject in Compliance after she's "fixed". Can't really be "defiant" if you're a "catatonic and unaware" shell of what you used to be.
• Enfant Terrible: As Amo put it, "Kids can be monsters, really destructive little monsters."
  • Rose. What'd she do back in Tokyo that would've landed her imprisonment had her mother not have left within 24-hours of them finding out? Well, she piloted a mecha-bot, destroyed half of Tokyo, and injured 200 people, making her far worse than her mother before her, something that got her compared to Stewie Griffin. Also, like Stewie, she is completely aware of what she is doing and she is about one. In fact, a vignette involving her secret is named "Infant Terrible".
  • Madgie, to a lesser extent or heavier one, in light of recent stories. She's more so a jerkass than anything else, much of the time.
• Environmental Symbolism: The titular rain and the weather in general seem to reflect Satsuki's overall mood and depression in the aftermath of her sister's death in the fanfic Raindrops. Naturally, the raindrops are also compared to falling tears at the end, at the same time, she notes how it never seems to be sunny. In the sequel, Sunshine, the sunny weather serves a juxtaposition between weather that seems cheerful and somber days, as Satsuki announces she is terminally ill and later on dies both on sunny days.
• Epic Fail: Let this be known, Madgie cannot make Kool-Aid [4]. To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week. The kicker? Madgie made said Kool-Aid as a way of being nice.
• Epistolary Novel: Some parts of As the Wind Blows are from Shiro's end, as he's writing letters to a passed-on Satsuki.

• Even Evil Has Standards: While she's not exactly evil, nevertheless playing antagonistic roles in a few of her appearances, Amo states Toki, despite running the Yakuza, The Mafia, The Mafiya, and numerous other organizations, being mentally ill, running on Blue-and-Orange Morality, along with being a Troubled Abuser, and Manipulative Bitch has some standards, as she seems to prefer intimidation over killing, doesn't allow the Yakuza to recruit prostitutes (breaking that rule is a colossal no-no apparently), and, despite being a Rich Bitch, she really cannot stand Giselle (then again no one can).
• Explosive Breeder: Erins(pronounced EE-rihns), Toki's species can be this, as females can reproduce at will and the species has two ways of reproduction (for females anyway).
• Extra Eyes: Ori and Yon, with one having six and the other four. This is justified as the former is a spider, which do have more than two eyes (usually they have eight), while the latter is a youkai, said extra pair cluing one in to her inhuman nature.
• Family of Choice: Apparently, according to a few stories, Toki regards her friends as this.
• Family Theme Naming: With her real name "Ethelinda", Bunny's parents are named Errikson and Esmeynelda.
• Fat and Skinny:
  • A Good Day downplays this, as Ryuuko is chubby but, in by no means, fat, while Satsuki is slimmer.
  • Downplayed somewhat with Brittani and Brownie, as, if recent illustrations show, the former is chubbier than the latter, becoming this if they were paired together.
• The Fatalist: Several of her characters, along with fatalism being a present theme.
• Feathered Fiend: Shrikes are used as an Animal Motif in Single and Untested Backlogs for abusers and rapists respectively.
• Floral Motifs:
  • Toki is generally associated with roses, referencing a tragic rose, said flowers being typically associated with beauty and the aforementioned or, otherwise, it alludes to her being beautiful, yet harmful (most species of rose have thorns).
  • Broken Gate's Nezumi is associated with lycoris flowers, which lends more to her rather bleak situation considering that she dies in the end, the foreshadowing of said situation by the mentions that she had them growing around her home, her minion bringing her siblings a lycoris flower and their resulting grief, and, not too long before her demise, she gathers up a large group of them and replants them around the titular gate.
  • The poem Garden of Sorrow is rife with these.
  • Lycoris Trail has the titular flowers, which means "no return". The subject returns to the place of a loved one and, fittingly, finds her gone
  • Exceptionally Cruel mentions lycoris flowers (no return/never seeing someone again), white lilies (death/transience), dead leaves (sadness), anemone (misfortune/loved one lost), marigolds (despair/grief), and cyclamen (goodbye/resignation).
• Floral Theme Naming:
  • Brownie and Brittani's triplet younger sisters being named after perennial flowers (Patrinia, Delphinium, and Meadow Rue).
  • Sunflower, obviously, equally fitting is that her blog is mostly cheerful.
  • Lobelia Asphodel's name being a reference to a couple of flowers with rather negative meanings, malevolence (Lobelia) and regret/hopelessness (Asphodel). Her niece, Iona Pauline Saint, is a reference to the African violet (saintpaulia ionantha) and her two other nieces are named "Hesperis" (a flower that's, supposedly, more noticeable at night) and Gera, whose name is "Geranium" just minus the "-nium" part.
  • Rose and, her sister, Orchid. The same would also apply to Glorie, as she was named after morning glories, and Violetta (adopted) being a variant. Their mother has a thing for flowers.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling:
  • In much of the stories, when dealing with Toki, Doki plays this responsible role to Toki's foolish, as she's more mentally well than the former is. Weirdly enough, Toki is the responsible to Jinx and Spin's foolish, as she's smarter than the latter two.
  • Secret Sunshine plays with this. Ryuuko is the responsible sibling to Satsuki's foolish, as the latter left her child to be raised by Ryuuko, forcing her to be more responsible to care for her niece, while Satsuki, for some reason, didn't want to deal with the responsibilities. To really emphasize this, Satsuki was mentioned to be living her life "like normal" (going out with friends, for example), while Ryuuko was mostly left to stay at home with Kiko. Not surprisingly, Ryuuko is pretty resentful towards Satsuki for that.
• Foreshadowing: From Broken Gate, we have Miyako's "GO! Go and never return but, remember, if you seek her out, then you will have killed her." and the fact that Nezumi's living arrangements are dismal and her Floral Motifs being lycoris flowers.
• Forgiveness: Somewhat a theme in Broken Gate, considering that Nezumi did offer it to her brother Ryuuji despite having been abused.
• The Four Loves:
  • Agape /Storge: As shown in multiple stories, Doki still loves and cares for her sister, Toki, regardless if mentally ill and or involved in illegal doings.
  • Eros: Toki's romantic but, otherwise, platonic love to her ex-boyfriend.
  • Philia: Toki and her friends.
  • Two of them, Eros and Philia, are brought up in Not in that way. where one of the subjects loves the other romantically, while she loves him platonically.
• Freudian Excuse: We have this with Toki, who, throughout numerous stories in which her backstory was mentioned, was noted to have been abused by her adopted mother, which lead to her seeing the world as she does (Toki was very naive at the time), giving her a fairly warped up sense of right and wrong, and causing her to develop mental illnesses.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Amoridere did note here that Toki's past doesn't justify her actions, rather, it explains them.
  • The poem, That Excuse, mentions the subject calling out her father using his past to justify (or explain, its not clear) as to why he treated her the way he did but it falls on deaf ears.
• Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: Toki and Doki would be something of a downplayed case, considering that they don't mind each other too much, however, there are some things that Doki doesn't like but, nevertheless, she accepts little she can do about it. Likewise, the same would occur for Madgie and Bunny, however, in their case, they can't stand each other.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Jinx in Resentment and Insanity when he contemplates whether or not it would have been better for him to let Toki's suicide attempt succeed, given the circumstances. He saves her, anyway.
• Friend to All Children: Toki is a played with case. Frailine was one she cared not for, while she's shown to be pretty loving and caring to orphans, the which she takes in. Her sister, Doki, is a more straighter example.
• From Bad to Worse: Sneezing Blood starts with the subject sneezing, Spread turns her disease into an epidemic which doesn't end well, and Quarantined has the subject quarantined and her disease being studied. Things don't get better from there either, as in [Contaminated Blood], someone makes mistake, gets cut, and mixes up her blood sample with non-infected blood and then goes on to donate blood and, in "the patient isn't in the building.", someone breaks the subject out of her quarantine but not without catching whatever it is she got and they drop her in a place where no one has been exposed. Oh, and she sneezes again.
  • Later, in Zoonosis—ESREVER, a vole she interacted with spreads the disease to a cat and their owner, starting another cycle. Things don't get better by the time of Antibiotic-Resistant because the only treatment left is hospice; Doctors can't treat the patients without getting infected, antibiotics don't work, and they can't sort out how it works without the subject.
• Furries Are Easier to Draw: Amo mostly does anthro artwork from what could be assumed for this reason.
• Furry Reminder:
  • In a couple of stories, it was mentioned that Madgie was practicing her hopping, something that is apparently expected of rabbits. There is also the fact that Bunny eats carrots (as treat food) ^Note Generally, rabbits aren't supposed to have carrots because the roots have too much sugar in them, however, they would be okay as a treat for pets or about how big a family the Rabbitwrights are.
• Gendercide: In Housecats and Sonogram, the mother selectively induces miscarriage of her male children. Oh, and life isn't great for the sons she did have, as she gets them "fixed".
• Ghostly Goals: In The Girl in the Pink Dress, the titular girl, named Nui Harime. Her goals seem to be more or less type A, as she just simply wants to go outside, which is to say be free from her room, where she had passed away of illness, and neither is she inherently malicious, nor was she trying to be. When her goal is met, she thanks the family she's haunted before reincarnating.
• Gilded Cage:
  • The Story of a Disfigured Princess has Kamilah's life being this. On the outside, things look peachy and luxurious but, as you might think, being a princess comes with restrictions, which made her feel like a prisoner.
  • This appears in a few poems, Birdcage, Curses From Her Cage, "Stuck at home", Dead Birds, and Black Dress where the subject's situation combined with her iffy mental state makes her home feel like a prison, comparing herself to a caged bird, while the other poems liken her home to a prison.
• Girly Bruiser: Played with. While she dresses and acts feminine, one way or another, Toki is more of a tomboyish sort of bruiser. Doki tends to fit this mold better.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Amoridere does and stuffed animals are usually shown as her photo subjects.
• Girlish Pigtails: A good chunk of when she draws girls, they tend to have these.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Played with, Madgie wears her goggles for pretty much cosmetic reasons, however, it's mentioned she performs experiments, so one could say they're useful for protecting her eyes.
  • Helix is an unclear case, as we don't really know if her goggles are really goggles or if they're intended to be her glasses.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Played with for neutrality in the below examples:
  • In a couple of earlier works, Options and Considering and Toki's Baby , it's discussed and one of the characters talks about it negatively, whereas the others did bring up that, with principles against the procedure, one doesn't have too many options, the overall opinion being neutral.
  • In .flow poem fic "Lucky", where Sabitsuki (a prostitute in this fic) has had abortions in the past, however, it's not that she has them or whether she's a "good girl", it's that procedures are back-alley ones and, in one such occasion, the procedure (like at least one other before)is botched, which almost kills her and leads to a severe infection, ending her time as a prostitute.
  • In Secret Sunshine, this is more played with. Satsuki did elect to keep (and hide) her pregnancy with Kiko but gave her to Ryuuko and didn't help in that department, except for sending checks (something of a deconstruction). Later, after sending the latter a letter, Ryuuko finds out that Satsuki was pregnant before but she didn't carry it to term (implied aversion), while Mako figures out that the "crossroads" line means that Satsuki is too far along to "do anything", so she doesn't have any other options (justified).
  • Housecats and Sonogram plays with this in the mother's case. The mother otherwise averts this, as the poems imply that, using an herbal tea, she's given herself sex-selective abortions, however, the trope is also deconstructed as she's not good mother to the kids she did have.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Brownie's red panties with hearts in a pic titled "Tramp Stamp" and Doki's floral panties in the pic "Too hot to wear clothes, today."
• Gray-and-Grey Morality: How she might write her stories, where the characters' actions are not entirely justified but not entirely condemned, sometimes instances of Both Sides Have a Point.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: Sometimes in her writing, particularly with her fanfics.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Implied in the story "No!" with Vielle, who was so quick to pull her cousin Orchid off of her mother (Doki) and deliver a toddler version of a beating the moment said cousin went to hug her.
• The Grim Reaper: So far, Amoridere has only portrayed Death in art once, showing Death as a female figure.
• Growing Up Sucks: Halcyon Days has variant. The subject is already grown up but the poem is about her settling into some parts of adulthood, like maturing and her friend circle drifting apart.
• Happily Adopted: Doki by her foster parents, to which she does recount rather happy memories of them. Likewise, so is her adopted daughter, Opal.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl:
  • Bunny likes her alcohol, however, besides the occasional drinking, she isn't mentioned to have partied.
  • Toki, according to Amo, liked to party, however, the booze consumption is replaced with energy drinks.
• Heavy Sleeper: A lot of her photos of Mako have her sleeping, sometimes in weird places. Sometimes, in her photos, Ryuuko's shown as a frequent napper, too.
• Hikikomori: Satsuki in The Mysterious Lady Kiryuuin is painfully shy. Chapter five indicates she is afraid of going outside and the story implies some kind of disorder. Regardless, if she doesn't leave her house, she seems to be a capable guardian and functional person overall.
• High-Class Call Girl: The titular courtesan in Bored Courtesan is this or, rather, a variant. Also, if the poem is an indication, she seems to enjoy this, as she's clearly not pleased with not having her date.
• Hollywood Genetics: Amoridere tends to avert this, however, there is a case of this is unclear with Brownie and Britani's younger sisters, Patrinia, Delphinia, and Meadow Rue and the twins themselves, as they are mentioned to be twins/triplets, yet, they have differences with eye and hair color, something that generally doesn't occur with multiples unless from different embryos. Then again, if one thinks "multiples" in an anthro world means "litter", this might make more sense (littermates tend to have some differences between them).
• Hospital Hottie: Doki, apparently, according to Amo, some of her patients injure themselves just so they could see her, which is something that she isn't too cognizant of (she's confused as to why).
• Humanoid Female Animal:
  • When she draws her anthros, they tend to look more like humans than Funny Animals.
  • Averted in the pic "Computer Rat", where said rat is drawn as a rat would look like, aside from having glasses, eyelashes, eye circles, and a flower behind an ear.
• Humanoid Abomination: The titular lucid dreamer in the "Lucid Dreams" poem series who entraps people in her dreams.
• An Ice Person: The Ice Queen in the poems A momentary thaw, Antifreeze and Burned is a different example, as, from what's implied, she does have flame abilities (or ability to give warmth), along with generating ice. However, it's mentioned she has some sort of Power Incontinence regarding them, as she can't seem to control how often she freezes, nor can she stop her flames from burning her.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Toki and Doki. The former wears purple or black, while the latter wears pink, along with Toki having two irises in her right eye, longer hair, and a robotic leg, while Doki wears glasses, has leg braces, and has shorter hair.
• Idle Rich: Toki, as would be implied by at least a few stories, considering that we don't have many mentions of her having a job, despite her being so wealthy. Averted in Doki's case, as she's mentioned to be working as a nurse.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Cannibalism was a subject of two poems; I'm Hungry and Sleeping Forever.
• Implausible Hair Color: If not for the fact that they're not human, Toki and Doki's red hair. As noted on the trope page, redheads in (or, in their case, from) Japan do exist, it's just rare to find them. Likewise, when one does find a natural red-head in Japan, it's most likely going be closer to auburn than the shade that Toki and twin sister has.
• Improbable Hairstyle:
  • Toki's is something of an odd case. Her elaborate hairstyles can be rather probable in the sense her extremely long hair can make it so, however, one would have to wonder as to how she can maintain them or, for that matter, take her street-length hair and compress it to a bun or few.
  • Her twin sister, Doki, is an averted case, as she has shorter hair and it wouldn't require much maintenance.
• The Immune: Comes up in the poem Ill and Immune, where the subject (a patient zero) makes a friend with someone who so happenes to be immune to her disease. It's not said how or why he's immune but it's implied that he's going to be just as sought after as she is.
• Improbable Infant Survival: She plays with this.
• Innocent Inaccurate: Played with in that we don't know exactly how innocent she is but, according to the description for "Mascara", Toki thinks a babydoll (a kind of lingerie) is an undergarment and wears it like one might wear a petticoat, as opposed to what people usually wear it for.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Toki and Doki, while they don't look it, are older than their friends.
  • Mayfly–December Friendship: The twins will most certainly outlive any friends or adopted children, as erins can and tend to live for at least two or three millennia, as is pointed out in one Madgie, what did you do? story. However, they will enjoy generations of descendants.
• In the Blood: A poem titled In the Blood discusses a more mundane example of this trope and Nature Versus Nurture, as it's wondered if the subject had learned to be aggressive and cruel or if she would develop those traits because of her genetics.
• Injured Limb Episode: The poem Broken Leg has this in subtle form where an intrusive thought (or a vision) has her breaking a leg and being alone with no one to help.
• Irrational Hatred: Toki's hatred of Frailine (then called "Jaynine"), as, while she was a brat, the latter was only a baby when Toki was suffering abuse and neglect. Similarly, we get Madgie and Bunny's hatred and their feelings towards one another are mutual (in later stories).
• It's All About Me: Toki, however, this is made really clear in Glorie, where Doki notes that for negotiations to work with her, they have to be on the former's terms and the former's terms alone, otherwise, she won't cooperate, even when she really should (she's sick and had just given birth in that instance).
• It's Not Porn, It's Art: Amo did comment somewhat on this in the description of one pic, "Nudity doesn’t have to be sexual."
• I Was Quite a Looker: Ryuuko in Secret Sunshine downplays and invokes this. She's not old and she didn't lose her looks, except that, due to her situation, she gained weight, which makes her self-conscious. In chapter 16, she bitterly remarks to Satsuki, "I was pretty once." and tells her that she hates looking in a mirror.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: Her characters usually see the world like this, though it usually doesn't come without reason.
• Japanese Christian: Doki, as per this image where she can be mistaken as a nun (but isn't, that's just what she's wearing.) and it been noted that she does pray to God there is a crisis as in this story. Likewise, she's heard reciting Bible verses in the 56th and 57th Madgie, what did you do? stories, double the case in the former, as she's performing what she thinks are funeral rites, Psalm 21 being a common verse being said at funerals.
• Jerkass: Her characters can be assholes, suffice enough way of putting it.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Assholish or not, her characters do have nice sides to them or, at least, a conscience.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Nonon in "Batteries". While she is openly hostile towards Ryuuko and slut-shames her, she is right when she brings up how much Ryuuko's running away and subsequent absence hurt Satsuki, along with suggesting that Ryuuko was in no position to care for another baby, as the one she already had wasn't in her care.
• Just Friends: This is best seen in the poem Not in that way, where one of the subjects loves the other romantically but she only reciprocates platonically and isn't interested in romance.
• Karmic Death: Ryuuji's in Broken Gate. With him being something of a Jerkass and being Too Dumb to Live, he had that a long time coming.
• Karma Houdini: Some stories tend to have Toki getting away with a lot of things that would normally put someone in jail or put them in jail for longer than what she gets.
• The Lad-ette: Bunny has some shades of this and is a more downplayed example. It is mentioned on her profile that she enjoys beer and guns and the first story she appears in has her swearing, generally being unladylike, mostly justified in that she is in her twenties. She phases out of it later on, though, but she still likes beer and guns.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Giselle when Toki sues and leaves her homeless. Fitting, considering how unlikable she is.
  • From Two Sisters, a Brick, and a Broken Nose, Madgie hit Bunny in the nose with a brick. At the end of the story, Madgie gets the same thing, except from Eglantine and that was because Madgie was picking on her.
• The Last Dance: A couple of instances:
  • As we find out in Paper Cranes, Satsuki's reasons for doing many of things documented (i.e going on trips, folding the titular paper cranes, taking photos, etc) was because she was dying of heart failure and she wanted to have fun with (and distract) Ryuuko one last time. This is more obvious in chapter 9 when she asks Ryuuko to take her outside to look at the cherry blossoms, which the latter does, and the excitement at seeing then lands her in the hospital, which she didn't mind, as she's dying anyway.
  • A subtle version happens in "So we meet again.", with the elderly subject having fun with a friend (also elderly) for the first in years and the last time in their lives, as they (her friend especially) don't have much time left.
• Last Disrespects: Two:
  • In Resentment and Insanity, we have this Toki, who, earlier in the story, mentions how, when Kaeda dies, she'll dance at her funeral. Later in the story, when at the latter's funeral, Toki dances as the funeral is getting underway and laughs during the proceedings (though, in that instance, it's hard to tell if that's genuine laughter).
  • We get this in Sardonic Dance, where the subject hates funerals, yet attends the funerals of the ones she's not fond of, in which case, she's there specifically to dance on their graves. Adding to this is that she's wearing "more red than black".
• Last of His Kind: An elderly Mako officially becomes "The Last of Honnouji" (and the last of the original cast) during As the Wind Blows, as Shiro had passed away of illness and old age and the others died a long time before he did. When she dies in the final chapter, there's no one else left.
• Lethal Chef: Madgie cannot make Kool-Aid [5]. She included some rather unconventional ingredients, including diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine. As you may expect, Bunny was hospitalized and was paralyzed down her left side for a week.
  Bunny: Accident my ass! When I was her age, at the time, I knew what to put in some damn Kool-Aid and what she used was NOT what you put in Kool-Aid.
• Lie Back and Think of England: The titular courtesan of the poem Bored Courtesan is a subverted version of this, considering that she isn't thinking of anything besides doing the deed (she's interested and is wanting to do it) and neither is she fulfilling her "duties" while she thinks.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Toki and Doki, as the former is bitter, bitchy, quick to anger, disagreeable and wears black, while the latter wears pink and tends to be kinder, gentler, and more reasonable.
• Little Bit Beastly: Aside from her ears, Nezumi could pass for her human.
• Little Black Dress:
  • When we're first introduced to Bunny, she's wearing one.
  • Toki almost exclusively wears black dresses, however, they don't necessarily fit the "little" mold, considering that they're typically floor length.
    • Evil Wears Black: When she plays an antagonistic role, Toki's this trope.
• Living Is More than Surviving: Discussed in the poem, Dialysis, where she subject is mainly kept alive by machines and, while she isn't dead, she's doesn't quite consider herself alive, either, as she's only surviving due the machines in which she's attached to and can't do anything besides lay there and count down how long until the machines stop functioning.
• Lobotomy:
  • This is implied to have happened to the subject in the poem and the picture titled Compliance, though the latter makes it more obvious, as she's shown with a scar and a bald spot.
  • Alluded to again in Catatonic Bliss, where the subject would much rather be lobotomised than to deal with her situation.
• Long-Lived: Toki's species can live for an awfully long time, 300 years at the minimum or 2-3,000 years at the maximum
• Mad Oracle: Toki is something a of a downplayed case, considering that she takes medication to keep her coherent, regardless, she does have clairvoyant abilities.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Played with in that her injuries aren't too severe but Syrup On Pancakes has the subject doing this, though she's already dazed from hitting her head, so who knows what her reaction would be otherwise.
• Mama Bear:
  • According to a few stories, messing with Toki's children is a "no-no" and this made more clear by the fact that Toki would have shot Bunny and Madgie had the situation not have diffused.
  • A tad downplayed in the sense that Bunny's not their mother but she would have gone overboard to protect her younger cousins during the events of Bunny's Maternal Instinct but she would have indeed killed Madgie if she saw the absolute need to. However, she did give Madgie a hard slap in the end and had enough power in her that she not only outran the car that her sister was driving but stopped it without her sister slamming onto the brakes.
• Marriage of Convenience:
  • Marriage of a Misanthrope says that the subject didn't marry for love and married because of practicalities.
  • Aunt's Lobelia's marriage is implied to have been something like this, as it's mentioned she didn't marry him for love. She did think she could learn to like him, though.
• Marshmallow Hell: This happens in a poem where, from what's tagged on Tumblr, Doki opted to punish Jinx and Spin this way. If the latter two had a choice, they'd choose to take a beating, as, when the former hugs, she hugs tightly.
• Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Discussed with two poems:
  • Bored Courtesan mentions the titular courtesan is thinking of "blooming flowers and bees" and that her boredom would be temporarily relieved.
  • The poem "Boyfriend": The subject, with her "needs", takes to online shopping to "search for love".
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Beishang" is a Chinese word, according to some translations, means "sorrow" and she is not a happy person.
  • Doki's name in, in some translations, means "ire", while, in a few others, it means "earthenware" (pottery). Besides being an example of Beware the Nice Ones, as a child, according to one story, she used to eat clay.
  • "Kamilah" is a name meaning "perfect" or "perfection", which is something that, as princess, she's meant to be. Her identity becomes something of a Meaningful Rename, when, after running away, she rechristens herself "Barabel" a name meaning "stranger"
  • Glorie, trying into Floral Theme Naming, is named as such because she was born in the early morning (much like how morning glories generally bloom in the morning).
• Medical Horror: Two of her stories, Shattered Glass and Blood Rabies, both of which is narrated by Doki (who's a nurse).
• The Mermaid Problem: In this pic, she addressed by having the mermaid lay eggs (much like a fish does). Likewise, the same would occur for a naga [6] ^Note Unlike fish, generally, snakes do have private part openings called cloacas (which are further towards the end of their tails) and some species of snakes can have live young, however, a naga (or, a similar creature, lamia) most likely wouldn't reproduce the way a human might.
• Mind Screw: The fanfic Second Story Window.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: In chapter eight of Broken Gate, this is inverted, as the mirror doesn't really show Nezumi's true self, actually, as Nezumi's reflection is the opposite of what she is, right down to being more emotive. The reason for this because said reflection is a manifestation of her madness, the which she talks to.
• Missing Child: Come find me, Again, Ryuuko disappears while playing outside and they don't find out what happened to her until years later. Also, Satsuki's Sanity Slippage.
• Modesty Shorts: According to one picture [7]◊, Doki wears something like these under her clothes (they're pantishorts).
• Morton's Fork: Despite what the title is, the poem A Sadistic Choice alludes to this, as the subject, with low funds, has to choose between getting her illness (of what nature isn't said) treated or eating and there is no in-between, thus, if she chooses food, she delays treatment and, if she chooses medicine, she starves.
  • Another instance is in the poem, Mercy, where the titular "mercy" would be the less painful form of mistreatment the subject could cause to her elderly but then abusive mother.
• Musical Theme Naming: Vielle, being named after an instrument (said instrument being a precursor to the violin). It's not said why, however.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Toki, in thinking of her treatment towards Frailine, especially since the latter is currently staying in a residential facility, leaving the former no room to really atone.
• My Secret Pregnancy: Satsuki's pregnancy in Secret Sunshine is this, as she hid the entire length of her pregnancy until giving birth. Her pregnancy being a secret adds much of the drama to the story, given that she also never told anyone else she gave birth and sent Ryuuko away to raise her daughter.
• Narrative Poem: Sneezing Blood and it's sequels tell a story of a outbreak.
• Nature Versus Nurture:
  • Discussed a tad in the poem In the Blood, where genetics is referenced in behavior, along with said behavior having a chance of being learned.
  • This is subtle in the backstory of Toki and, her twin sister, Doki. Toki teeters more on the nurture end of the debate, as she didn't initially start off cruel and used to be nice but started to become that way later on, due to being abused and having bad behavior encouraged, while the latter, Doki, was raised by loving foster parents and, while she was bullied, she wasn't abused, retaining her kind nature. However, it was mentioned, in Doki's Chronicles, that Toki was the more assertive and aggressive one, while Doki was the shy and passive one.
• Nerd Glasses: Doki is wearing some sort of variant, considering that her rectangular frames looked like reading glasses (if they were half-moon) and, nowadays, she wears rounded frames (which look somewhat like Browline glasses).
  • This is subtle with the "Computer Rat" pic, where the titular rat is wearing a red pair of glasses
  • Lobelia appears to be wearing a variant of round Browline glasses.
• Nice Girl: More often than not, in her stories, we have Doki, who can be the sweetest person one could meet, unless, you get her angry that is. Likewise, she's pretty forgiving towards anyone who does her harm.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Apparently, if some of her artwork, stories, and poems are a clue, Amoridere doesn't mind creepy things.
• Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Some of her artwork teeters on this, particularly if she draws/paints out of upset or is going through a "phase". However, she might call this trope downplayed.
• Nipple and Dimed:
  • Averted in a piece of art she did, titled "Commentary", where the woman pictured has a bare breast lopped out of her dress and said breast has an uncensored nipple. According to the description, the reason as to why this trope is averted is because its her commentary towards the subject of censoring female body parts (more specifically breasts and nipples), regardless, however, because of dA's rules, it has a mature filter on it (it can be seen on her art and photo tumblr, though).
  • Usually, a nude Toki's "naughty parts" are censored with her long hair or something, but one image entitled "Bra" exposed Toki's nipple, because she's missing the bra. Likewise, also averted in the pic titled "A Rose by Any Other Name" where both of her breasts are exposed.
  • Ori is rather ambiguous, her arms are crossed over her breasts, so she'd either be hiding her nipples (if she is topless) or hiding some sort of top (if she isn't).
  • Averted in the pic with the scylla, as one of her breasts are exposed (it's subtle, though).
• No Budget: Unless its art or photo related, she uses whatever is free.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Freeing the subject in "the patient isn't in the building" was well-intentioned but her rescuer caught her disease and helped further spread it by dropping her in a place where no one else was exposed, where she sneezes again.
• No Name Given: Amoridere doesn't seem to name the subjects in her poems, only referring to them with pronouns or with The All-Concealing "I". The only exception to this mostly would be if her poem was about a specific character, in which case, it'd either be in the description or tagged as such but they wouldn't be named in the poem itself. The same might apply to some of the characters in her artwork.
• Noodle Incident:
  • According to Brownie's profile, one of the reasons to why she hates Madgie is surmised as "between her, Madgie, Toki, and the stairs".
  • The pic titled "Told you not to do that" has a rather dark one, the which aftermath isn't pretty to look at. What lead to said aftermath isn't clear, although if you look closely, the girl has stitches in her neck.
  • How Toki let Giselle move into her home. According to a few stories, she cannot remember why she let Giselle live there, just that she wished she didn't let her live there.
  • "Batteries" is odd because the incident referring to the titular batteries isn't referred to in specifics in the story, however, we do know Satsuki and Ryuuko had a fight over them. According to the summary, what led to said fight was Satsuki hiding the batteries.
  • In Feel, the accident that a then baby Satsuki lost her sight to isn't referred to in specifics besides that it was raining and that she and her mother couldn't get out of the way.
• No One Should Survive That!: Toki, for a number of accounts, however, the most noticeable, as mentioned above, has survived being submerged in "radioactive crap" , thus, as a result, she should have died of radiation sickness roughly hours, if not two days later, and, when she recovered from leukemia, the which was at its terminal stages. Likewise, there's also the fact that she lost practically her entire right leg to a landmine.
• No Periods, Period: Played with.
  • Implied to be averted with the Bitchiness Poem, however, she doesn't mention this outright.
  • Also averted in the poem Progesterone, where, due to hormonal problems making them irregular or absent, the subject has to take the titular hormone to jump-start hers. She's not fond of the idea.
  • Cursed Uterus averts this obviously and it mentions that the subject hasn't been fond of hers since she started them.
  • Bleed or Don't averts this, where the subject, cramping, tells her uterus to "Bleed or don't".
  • Ohio Weather averts this where the subject compares her menstrual cycles to Ohio's weather, where they both cause her some frustration over how to deal with them.
• Nothing Is Scarier:
  • Sometimes, when Amoridere writes, she writes by implications and what isn't shown (or mentioned) is left more to the imagination.
  • The disease in Sneezing Blood. We only know four things about it but we don't know where it came from or how the Patient Zero caught it, much less why it kills almost everyone else that isn't her.
• Not What It Looks Like: In chapter 11 of Toki, Jinx, and Spin in the Bronx, in a dispute over payment when it came to buying liquor, Neesha had her husband, Soem, threaten Toki into giving it to them for free, which led to him grabbing her and her pulling away, tearing her dress in the process. Of course, when she calls the police and they come, they seem him standing over her, while her dress is torn, and, well, it doesn't take any guesses as to what happens next.
  Brownie: "Did he try to take advantage of you, Toki?"
  Toki: "No, but the police saw otherwise."
• Of Corset Hurts: Downplayed. The subject's corset in Corset, is mentioned to be "uncomfortable" but not exactly painful, so she puts up with wearing it.
• Odd Name Out:
  • Meadow Rue's name to Delphinia and Patrinia's rhyming names.
  • From Broken Gate, Miyako's name being the only one not necessarily an animal name, in comparison to her siblings Tora, Ryuuji, and Nezumi's names being a reference to what kind of animal youkai they so happen to be.
• Ohio: Where Amoridere lives, according to her photos and what she says. Apparently, she lives somewhere near Cincinnati. Tying into this, her poem Dying City is implied to take place there.
• One-Hour Work Week: The poem, The Peer Girl, verging on What, Exactly, Is His Job?, implies this, as a line says that the titular's job has flexible hours. Naturally, to ones she's explaining her job to wonder if she does nothing, when she actually has an uncommon job.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Many of her characters, here's a few:
  • Bunny's real name, according to a few stories, is "Ethelinda Berniece".
  • Jinx and Spin, Amoridere states their real names are "Jinxers"and "Spinner" .
  • Toki-Doki Rose is mostly called "Rose", even by her mother. However, that could be because the "Toki-Doki" part isn't really part of her name any more than it probably is a title or an "optional extension", which is something that, apparently, doesn't have to be a part of her name.
  • Sunflower is generally called "Sunnie".
  • In the story, Painting Red, the narrator's friend, as we find out, is named "Moonflower" but, generally, is called "Maggie".
  • Jaynine, in later stories, is mostly referred to as "Frailine"
• Only One Name: A lot of Amoridere's characters, so far, only have one name with no surnames, however, Toki did give herself the last name of "Seamstress". A few of the characters that do have last names are Holly, Crocosmia, Giselle, Bunny, Madgie, and Precious
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Generally used to mark a change or a highlight a situation in the story.
  • In Through Thick and Thin, chapter 4, when Ryuuko ties a red a ribbon instead of the usual blue one, Satsuki immediately thinks that the former's illness (subtly implied to be cancer) has begun to hit terminal.
  • In the sequel, Piano Notes, what gets Ryuuko to visit a critically ill Satsuki in the hospital is that she heard the latter's voice call her "Ryuuko", instead of "Imouto", like she normally would. Earlier in the fic, Ryuuko comes home to find her not at the piano for their lessons but, instead, resting in bed, having grown tired and weaker from her illness
  • In Odds and Probabilities (the prequel to Through Thick and Thin), Mako mentions that Ryuuko normally wouldn't admit she was scared and would say "Hell no!" or "No way!" and laugh it off, so when the latter doesn't do that, it tells her how sick Ryuuko is.
  • In non-fanfiction related works, Doki is generally the "nice one", however, when she's irritable and grouchy, odds are, she's either pregnant and or sleep deprived.
  • In a poem, "All my friends are dead.", it's said that the (elderly) subject doesn't care for family gatherings and would avoid them whenever she could, however, to the surprise of her relatives, she attends one. When asked why, she says the titular line and points out that she's at the end of her life.
• Only Sane Man: In many stories, Doki usually plays this role when antics get out of hand.
• Older Than They Look: If Doki's Chronicles is reliable, then Toki and Doki are really somewhere in their eighties or nineties, as back in the time when these two were born cerebral palsy and selective-mutism were not explainable and were beyond their birth-parents comprehension, except for by a horrible disease (Doki's case) and being a "good child", as seen and not heard (Toki's case). To further point this out, they should not be able to have babies but did. However, they were cryogenically frozen when they were 12.5, drastically slowing down their aging process and only recently released.
  • This is deconstructed with subject of White Lie, as she escapes someone making unwanted advances by saying she's underaged, which is convinces him because she looks young enough to pass.
• Overly Long Name: According to Amoridere, she finds names like these fun to write, as could be seen with Holly, Crocosmia, and Giselle.
• Parental Abandonment: Amo's stories usually have dead or otherwise absent parents.
  • Parental Substitute: However, it doesn't mean any orphans don't have alternative caregivers.
• Parents as People: Some of the conflict in Secret Sunshine is implied to be related to this on Satsuki's end. From what can be said, she does care about her daughter, Kiko, but, if her telling her sister, "I know but I'm not ready for any of this." is a clue, she wasn't ready for motherhood and, so, didn't want to deal with the responsibilities, foisting them onto Ryuuko.
  • Ryuuko has some shades of this, too, as, like Satsuki, she wasn't ready to raise a child and, while she loves her niece and can't picture life without her, she still has her own issues (among other things) to contend with and is pretty overwhelmed, especially when it comes to taking care of Kiko and herself.
• Passed in Their Sleep:
  • Happens in Dying, where the ill girl subject sits in her favorite rocking chair, before succumbing in sleep.
  • Also happens in Would you be upset if I couldn't try anymore? where the subject, on life support, goes to sleep as she dies.
• Patient Zero: The subject in Sneezing Blood and its sequels. By a certain point, the doctors wonder as to how she hasn't died.
• Perpetual Frowner:
  • The description of a pic titled, "Mommy", implies Toki to be this and or The Stoic
  • Lobelia is said to be this and that's one of the reasons as to why she looks older (the other one is that she's squinting).
• Photo Comic:A few of her works (like Mistaken Identity) are these, where she takes the photos and adds captions using photo editing software.
• Pink Means Feminine: Doki, generally, is seen in pink. Likewise, her pet cat has a pink bow and Vielle is generally wearing pink.
• The Plague: Happens a few times:
  • In Shattered Glass, we have a interesting case, as it doesn't involve the usual but instead involves Toki's blood getting into someone it shouldn't, in which case, it turns the person crystal, complete with sharp crystals poking out the skin. Getting pricked on said crystals means ending up the same way.
  • In Blood Rabies, Madgie manages to find a cure a rabies-like virus but not without ending up sick herself.
  • The most prominent case of this happens in Sneezing Blood and its sequels. It's not said what the Patient Zero has besides that's bacterial, "festers best in blood", and, weirdly, she shows the symptoms but isn't usually contagious. By Antibiotic-Resistant, the disease is projected to be terminal, as it can't be treated without staff getting sick, the strongest antibiotics cure it, and, with Patient Zero out of her quarantine, doctors can't study it without her biology to refer back to or getting sick themselves.
• Poetry: Some of her fanfics are written as poems, an example of which would be She Still Cried, which is a poem about then infants Satsuki and Ryuuko.
  • In general, Amoridere's poems seem to outnumber the amount of stories she's written.
• Polar Opposite Twins:
  • Doki is much different than her twin sister Toki. Both dress somewhat alike but wear different colors: black or purple for Toki, reflecting her enigmatic, yet domineering but secretly kindhearted personality, and pink and white for Doki, reflecting her kind, gentle, and angelic personality. It isn't just that, according to Amoridere, Doki is more morally grounded than Toki is (as in, she wouldn't stoop to schemes or anything illegal to meet her demands, whereas the latter probably and more often than not would), along with being more levelheaded, and, Toki, well, she is described as being one who does what she wants, whenever she so wants to do it, consequences be damned. It was also noted that, when the two were children, Doki was always the shy one, while Toki was more assertive.
  • Brownie is very much different than her sister, Brittani, in that Brittani is described as being prim and proper, while Brownie is described as tomboyish. Apparently, them looking different than one another is supposed to reflect that (to go further, Brownie is a blonde with blue eyes, while Brittani is brunette with magenta/pink eyes).
• Post-Stress Overeating: This is subject in Food Becomes A Friend, in which the subject opts to eat to deal with her upset.
• Practically Different Generations: Bunny is older than Madgie by eleven years. When she was twenty, Madgie was nine.
• Precision F-Strike: Doki saying the C-word (which is emphasized) in Esther, while in labor.
• Promotion to Parent:
  • Bunny has been a parent to her siblings and cousins Sweetheart, Speckles, Eglantine, and, of course, Madgie. She was initially unwilling to take on these responsibilities but, with her younger cousins, she seems not to mind as much.
  • According to Doki's Chronicles, Toki, the older twin, took something of a caregiving role to Doki when their parents died.
  • According to a description of a photograph with Sunflower and Mako (the latter is a rowlet) and several photos prior, Jackie seems to have promoted to parent (weirdly, she's one of the younger of the pikachu, Jinx is the oldest).
  • Satsuki in "Batteries" was this to Ryuuko up until she ran away and, later on, Ryuuko's baby, Hoshi, becoming a case of Nephewism.
• Purple Prose: While Amoridere doesn't often use flowery language (or much of it), she is descriptive, especially when said story is told through a 1st-person narration (usually with how someone looks).
• The Quiet One: Satsuki in the fic titled Feel and she's only spoken once, when she was a toddler, generally being described a someone who "speaks when she wants to", thus communicating nonverbally, however, we hear her thoughts and ruminations on some matters. Naturally, coupled with the fact that she is blind, people tend to assume she's deaf. When she does finally speak in chapter nine, she really does have a lot to say.
• Rage Against the Reflection:
  • Nezumi, in Broken Gate, doesn't feel emotions as she shatters the mirror, however, as the narration cites, if she had felt any emotions, her actions could be described to be done out of "an annoyed rage".
  • Toki smashes the mirror in the poem Fragmented Rose, out of self-hate.
  • Shattered Mirror has this for much the same reason as to why Toki in the abovementioned does, as the subject despises the resemblance she has to her abusive parents.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: A downplayed version. Toki is, in all senses of the word, the dominant female of her house and will not hesitate to deliver beatings when she sees fit.
• "Rashomon"-Style: Her Based on a Dream fic Second Story Window with Satsuki and Ragyo's perspective as how the two girls exited second story window and the events leading up to it. Satsuki's point of view claimed Ragyo was psychotic and would be prone to lashing out violently and the fact that her little sister jumped, whereas Ragyo's POV states that Satsuki was psychotic, although not violent and, actually, dropped her little sister out of the window before jumping herself. The traits that remains true to both point of views is that secretary committed suicide, the house they moved in, a missing little sister, the children being left in the care of a new family, and someone being mentally ill. Whether or not one of the point of views is correct is left up in the air for the reader to decide.

• Reality Subtext:
  • Broken Gate was written based off a situation she lived in
  • The "rat poison and Reimu" situation in Gensokyo 20XXV was based on an incident where she found her nephew with Windex and the incident "struck her funny" ^Note If you're curious and if asked, she will reassure you that said nephew is fine and that she's taken it from him as soon as she has seen him with it..
    Amoridere: Once, my nephew got a hold of Windex and it struck me funny. Couldn't get the thought out of my head.
  • It would be safe to assume that The Story of a Disfigured Princess was written out of frustration towards a couple of her family members.
  • The poem Bitten by the Snake, mentions this in the description.
  • The poem Maggots, as the description says, is based off of the time where the authoress encountered maggots.
  • Spider-web was based off of the morning she found a (large) spiderweb in her doorway and her reaction.
  • The poem Chaotic Indifference was based off of a conversation with her therapist.
• Rebellious Princess: Kamilah in The Story of a Disfigured Princess as something a downplayed version of this, as, initially, she was obedient to her loving but very overprotective and, subtly, overbearing family, regardless of their restrictions. However, because of her family's wants and expectations and the fact their relationship with her seemed to be one-sided, she decides, after an argument, to mutilate her face, grab as much of stuff and wealth as she can, change her name to "Barabel", and flee to another village. Her mourning family sends people to look for her but, because of her scars, they don't recognize her, leaving her to live quietly but happy with the villagers, said villagers loving her as much she does they.
• Reclusive Artist: Her real name isn't known (other than her first name initial and her last name) and we don't know too much of what she looks like (the photos with herself in them don't show her face), however, we do know she is living (or spent) most of her life as Hikikomori and tends to keep social contact to minimum but is fairly open to answering questions, as well as taking requests, though for the latter, she'd prefer that to be at a minimum as she is often busy. According to her photos and what she says, she also resides in Ohio (specifically, the Southwestern area).
• Red Light District: "Batteries" mentions prostitution (and stripping), as Ryuuko did strip and sleep around for money and, later, Satsuki was mentioned as to have worked in a red light district, however, we don't know specifically what she did (we do know she didn't sleep around or strip). From what's implied, Ryuuko is living in or near a red light district, as she's mentioned to be staying in the "shitass part of Tokyo", which, from what we can read, is probably closer to a Type 2 and a little bit of Type 3
• Repressed Memories:
  • The poem, Repression, features something like this, as the subject wants to forget what some of her loved ones did and the events surrounding them but she can't, so she resorts to scribbling out their faces and acting like they don't exist and nothing happened.
  • Also serving as some form of Trauma-Induced Amnesia, this happens in the poem What Became Unearthed, where the subject recollects something traumatic from her childhood and said event being mentioned to have haunted her subconscious until it was dealt with, implying this.
• Resentful Guardian:
  • Toki was this to Jaynine and Sunflower, which is weird, considering that she volunteered to take them after they managed to track her down (they were in a children's home, prior). Apparently, why she took them in boiled down to, "her conscience wouldn't let hear the end of it".
  • Bunny is this to Madgie, however, there is the fact that the latter is a wanted fugitive and has been so since she was six, so it's a given.
• Rich Bitch: Toki can be bitchy, wealthiness aside, however, Giselle is apparently this trope far worse, considering everyone couldn't stand her and being a Rich Bitch is a reason why Giselle was evicted.
• Right Behind Me: In Just Doki, Doki had actually stood behind him, while Jinx ranted about her to Bunny, to which the latter of the three, said, “You know, I wouldn’t be saying that with her standing right behind you.”
• Ripped from the Headlines: "The news can be interesting source of inspiration."
• Rouge Angles of Satin: Amoridere is prone to misspelling things when she writes, however, this mostly comes from the fact her word program doesn't have a spellcheck, regardless, she is quick to correct whatever errors she made once she notices or if pointed out.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: While her hair is red, instead of the usual pink and nor is she romantic, Doki is noted to be a sweetheart, at least, mostly in comparison to her twin sister, Toki.
• Rule of Symbolism: Usually, in her poems and artwork.
• Sadist: Toki, in the sense, she would find amusement in causing someone else harm because she knows she can.
• Schedule Slip: Her works often have a long time between chapters/installments, usually because she works on many projects, having to come up with ideas, technological issues, life events, chapters taking a long time to write, and, apparently, she doesn't have internet at her home besides a mobile hotspot (according to an author's note and a status update on her deviantArt page).
• Seashell Bra: Clamshelle is the only one so far wearing a seashell bra, the other ones usually wear flowers or something akin to a bathing suit top, like Sing or Oyster.
• Secretly Dying:
  • The subject of Raindrops and Sunshine, however, in the case of the former, we can't really tell if Ryuuko knew she was dying or, rather, if she was in denial, regardless living out the remainder of her life with Satsuki, while, in the latter, Satsuki only brings up that she's sick when the disease has hit terminal.
  • Also the same with the fic Paper Cranes but played with, Satsuki is sick but Ryuuko is quite aware that she's hiding something and doesn't know what, regardless, knows that Satsuki seemed to be in denial about dying. In the end, we (and Ryuuko) find out why Satsuki kept the extent and diagnosis of her illness a secret, the reason being because she was dying of heart failure and the doctors offered to place her on a list to receive a heart transplant, even if there were no donors available, to which she declined, knowing she'd die before a donor is found and not wanting Ryuuko to kill herself, so the latter's heart could be used in a transplant.
• Security Blanket: A concept darkly (but humorously) explored with a pic titled "Security Blanket", where a little girl is holding a severed leg.
• Self-Harm: A subject of at least a few poems (namely, Hair Pulling, The Cuts, and Smiles Can Hide Secrets to name a few) and and stories (The Last Pain and the later parts of the Gensokyo 20XX series).
  • As noted in a few stories and poems, Toki is prone to doing this, given that she's mentally ill. The first instance with her doing this is in Resentment and Insanity, where she hurls herself down a flight of stairs to make the hallucinations stop, pulls hairs out of her head, and, later, she cuts herself when Jinx and Spin are forced to leave. A later story, Paintbrush, has her on the verge of doing this (in one of her "episodes") and Doki offering her the titular item.
• Self-Made Orphan: The poem Her Parents implies this, considering the little girl has a reason to be taking the loss of her parents so well.
• Sense Loss Sadness:
  • Happens to Ryuuko in I Never Really Knew, after she (and Satsuki) finds out that her eyesight had been failing for some time, in which case she cries, even more at the idea her vision may be gone permanently. After she gets her tumor gets removed and adjusts, she overcome this.
  • Averted in Feel, where Satsuki tells Mataro, that, because she lost her sight as baby, she didn't feel any or know any different, as she had time to get used to it.
• Serial Escalation: The poem A Cut for You has a rather gory case of this as its about two friends (presumably female, according to one of the lines and the description) playing a game where the goal seems to be who can cause themselves the most injury. The game ends when one of them hacks off a limb and they declare it a tie.
• Shout-Out:
  • According to the description of "Big Beautiful Bunny Dance", it was inspired by Marilyne's dance
  • Broken Gate character Mirai's line "For once, in centuries, I shall rest." is a subtle shoutout to Sleeping Beauty
  • Some of her artwork (symbolism wise) was influenced by Frida Kahlo.

When she first took pictures of her Ryuuko and Emma nendoroids together, Amo alluded to the fact that they're both voiced by Erica Mendez in their respective English dubs.

• Shown Their Work: She does like to research and would like to portray things as accurately as she can, however, she might "wing it".
• Silk Hiding Steel: Toki and Doki but the trope is more apparent with the latter, as Doki is does tend to behave "ladylike" and tends to be willing to handle things with fairness and by being nice, however, she will fight if need be (while the former tends to fight whenever).
• Skewed Priorities: Amoridere wrote a poem specifically titled this after this trope (Skewed Priorities), where the subject reflects on the habits of her relatives, taking note of one instance where said relatives needed a car but brought a game console. Naturally, the subject thought of them as stupid for that.
• Slice of Life: Some of her poems and stories but this trope tends to be more obvious with the former.
• Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Amoridere's anthros are between Little Bit Beastly and Funny Animal. However, non-anthro animals do exist in the same universe as anthros do.
• Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: Her stories tend to have mostly females in them, the reason being, according to her, "It's easier to write from." At times, she does have males but females tend to outnumber them. Regardless, she tends to portray them as being rather equal.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: She writes more on the cynical end.
• Soap Opera Disease:
  • The illness an implied to be Secretly Dying Ryuuko has in Raindrops is not named, yet the symptoms are vaguely described, although it is severe and does result in her death. Averted in the case of Satsuki in Sunshine, who explains that she has leukemia and was Living on Borrowed Time.
  • Played with. While her sister, Ryuuko's illness was implied here and there in Through Thick and Thin as being cancer (i.e, her being a special diet and being treated with chemotherapy) and, in a prequel, outright stated to be "Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma", Satsuki's illness, in Piano Notes isn't too spelled out, however, she was being treated at home on medication, before being hospitalized for surgeries, making hers vaguer.
  • In Asuka, the sister's condition is described as "chronic sans cure" and she's mentioned to be hospitalized.
  • In As the Wind Blows, we have this with Shiro and his illness. However, since we know he's elderly (Mako thinks he's around 85 or 94), it's likely age-related.
• Snow Means Death: A good chunk of her stories take place in the winter and are usually bleak. This would be slightly more obvious in the poem The Last Snow.
  • In the aptly titled Frozen, we have Rei's suicide taking place as snow is falling on the ground, the snow symbolizing purity and her blood being what stains it.
  • As we find out in the last entry of Paper Cranes, Satsuki had passed away of heart failure in the tenth of the winter month January.
• Social Services Does Not Exist: While they did exist, social services didn't do anything for Toki throughout the time she was abused in Flashbacks I, until she was taken to the hospital for leukemia and even then Kaeda got off free for her crimes, as she was only charged in neglect. To make it worse, shortly after, she was sent back to live with her, despite almost dying of her illness or injuries prior.
• Song Fic: Asuka and Frozen, however, the former is different than most in the sense that the lyrics come after the story, while in the former (said fic also being a poem fic) has the lyrics interlinking as the song plays in the background.
• Son of a Whore: In "Batteries", with Ryuuko having worked as a prostitute (and stripper), the babies she has, Hoshi and, twins, Hotaru and Nikko, are these. Her being pregnant with the latter two causes her to leave the profession.
• Spell My Name With An S:
  • Sunflower's nickname is either spelled "Sunnie" or "Sunni".
  • Is Brittani's name spelled "Brittanie", "Brittani", "Britni", or "Britani"? So far the most constant spelling seems to be "Brittani".
• Species Surname: Bunny's last name is "Rabbitwright", referring to her Leporidae family.
• The Speechless: Cyanne and, according to one story, something is wrong with her vocal cords. She does, somehow or another, forces herself to speak, however, she can't talk past a certain volume.
  • Because she's supposed to be baby, Sunflower's blog implied that she couldn't speak yet, considering that the photo captions are italicized and minus quotation marks (implying that those are thoughts).
• Stepford Smiler: The depressed and unstable types were referenced in the poem Smiles Can Hide Secrets.
• Streetwalker: While "Batteries" makes it clear that Ryuuko was a prostitute (and a stripper), it's unclear if she was this type, though, it's implied that likely she was (or close to being this), given her living in a Red Light District ("shitass parts of Tokyo"), financial situation, and it's not said how/where she meets her "dates". When she becomes pregnant (again) and is further along, she has to quit and takes up "honest" work at a laundromat (which doesn't pay well).
• The Stoic:
  • Broken Gate implies that, before she became full on emotionless, Nezumi used to be this. Miyako doesn't remember the last time she emoted, just that, quote, Nezumi's "tears dried years ago"
  • Weakness deconstructs this, as the subject became a stoic because of childhood abuse and stays that way because she didn't learn how to manage them otherwise.
• Struggling Single Mother: Much of the drama in the fic Secret Sunshine comes from this. Though Kiko is her niece, Ryuuko plays this role, her struggles are balancing having to care for Kiko, herself, finances, and doing her job at a daycare, along with having little help, besides checks sent from Satsuki. This is best noted with her weight, as, due to not having much time for herself (between caring for Kiko and job) and not having anything else to do, she just ate and, when funds got low, she practically starved, spending what little she had on Kiko.
• Suicide Dare: In The Cuts, when the subject does some self-harm, her father asks her "Why didn't you finish the job? Huh, why don't you go and finish the job?"
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Though, she's more Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Toki's become this in later stories.
• Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Apparently, her pikachu Sunflower has this disposition, if her blog entries are a clue, as alluded to in her name.
• Surprise Pregnancy:
  • Ryuuko's first pregnancy in "Batteries" with Hoshi (or, as she intended to name her, "Esther"), as she didn't know until she had given birth to her.
  • This seems to be inverted in Secret Sunshine, where Satsuki knew she was pregnant and hid it, making it a surprise to everyone else, with Ryuuko noticing something off (nausea, mood swings, eating more than usual, and "being bigger in the middle") but not putting the pieces together, until she's handed a baby.
  • Toki and Doki's pregnancies were these. However, Toki didn't know she was pregnant and she wasn't conscious when she gave birth, while Doki found out while she was in labor. This is justified, as neither of the two had babies prior and there's the fact that erin pregnancies aren't too overt (along with that they reproduced through parthenogenesis). This is especially the case with the former, as, despite having given birth twice, she delivers Glorie in her bed, unaware that she was pregnant, however, Glorie justifies this, as Toki isn't always aware of things and the other characters didn't notice anything off, either.
• Survivor Guilt: Rule of Three implies the subject is dealing with this or something like this with the poem mentioning how the subject, remembering an agreement with Death, wonders if three of her loved ones dying is making her time longer.
• Swarm of Rats:In Happens twice in Broken Gate:
  • The first time this happens is in chapter seven when the rats look like they're having a funeral procession and that comes with mowing down everything in their way
  • The second time is chapter thirteen and the rats act like piranhas with the narration and her siblings wondering if Nezumi's minions are expressing the "rage she didn't possess".
• Take a Third Option: This is best seen in the poem Chaotic Indifference, which has the subject coming to the conclusion that, while she can't love the ones who've wronged her, she also can't bring herself to hate them, so she concludes it best to be indifferent towards them.
• Tangled Family Tree: It's hard to explain Bunny and Madgie's family tree but it is clear it is this trope, seeing that the two have so many relatives, it is hard to tell who is related to which, as well as the fact that they are so numerous they are scattered throughout the world, coupled with the fact that some of them are all younger than Madgie. The fact that they are anthro rabbits also has something to do with it.
• Terse Talker: Vielle in the story titled, "No!", justified as she's about two.
  • Ryuuko in the story Through Thick and Thin during one conversation, however, she's mentioned to be tired.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The titular "Computer Rat", as we know the rat is a girl because of her eyelashes and a flower behind an ear.
• Textile Work Is Feminine: Toki and Doki have the hobbies usually involving knitting and sewing.
• Theme Twin Naming:
  • Toki and Doki are named as a play on Japanese word for "sometimes" (tokidoki) as well as rhyming.
  • Brownie and Brittani are alliterative twin names.
  • While they are not twins and are instead triplets, Patrinia, Delphinia, and Meadow Rue follow a theme of being named after flowers.
• Time-Delayed Death:
  • Rodenticide alludes to this with the subject having considered suicide by rat poison, this trope being a reason why she hasn't done it, as she'd die of internal bleeding, which'll take long enough for her to "comtemplate what led up to those moments".
  • Satsuki's death of heart failure in Paper Cranes.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Brownie and Brittani, as the former is tomboyish and prefers more "masculine" hobbies, while the latter is more prim and proper and prefers the opposite.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • As we learn in one story, antagonizing Toki or failing to pay rent (when you live in her house, no less) will not end well for you, as Giselle didn't pay mind to consideration. To elaborate, she was cursed for not heeding the advice.
  • Despite warnings not to, Toki buys a possessed doll and it's quite obvious as to what happens next. To her credit, however, her sense of danger was suppressed by the medication she was on (Toki, sans medication, would probably be paranoid).
  • In the case of Broken Gate, Ryuuji, a total bastard, as per flashback, decided to antagonist his sister, Nezumi further, despite her offering forgiveness, nevermind the fact that she placed a curse on him for treating her so poorly, which wasn't a very good idea to start with, as she is an omnyouji and a powerful one at that, along with the fact that he's the reason that she had opened the gate in a fit of retaliation. Later in the story, he decides to antagonize her again and, unsurprisingly, while she's dying, she breaks the seal, opening the gate, and whatever was sealed behind had swallowed him, ending his life once and for all.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Madgie in later stories. Oddly, her older sister, Bunny Took a Level in Kindness.
• The Topic of Cancer:
  • Toki being ill with leukemia. This is more straighter and somewhat verging on Littlest Cancer Patient, as she, during her time in the hospital, would like to enjoy what little she had left
  • Ryuuko having Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Through Thick and Thin and, its prequel, Odds and Probabilities. Her case is a little downplayed, as Ryuuko takes the news rather well and has a rather realistic outlook on the subject, all while, looking to spend time with her sister.
  • Satsuki in Sunshine has Leukemia and she's rather matter of fact towards the diagnosis (and prognosis), along with already feeling like she has little to lose (with her sister dying some time before).
• Toplessness from the Back: Brownie in the picture titled "Tramp Stamp" and Bunny in "Big Beautiful Bunny Dance VII". Also, Toki in "Bathing", then again, she is fully nude (her buttocks hidden from view).
  • A more recent pic has this with Doki, who is looking over her shoulder.
• Toxic Friend Influence:
  • In Toki, Jinx, and Spin in the Bronx, a lesson Toki had taken from her new friends, Barcelona (known as "Pup") and Holly is that bad behavior and criminal acts are tolerated and okay, considering that she somehow destroyed the front of a store with a brick and the latter two encouraging it.
  • Toki's effect on her friends would be similar, as Brownie will do almost anything the former tells her to, often going along with whatever the former's schemes are.
• Trademark Favorite Food: In Amoridere's portrayals of Ryuuko (particularly in photos), Ryuuko's shown to be going after anything with chicken or lemons. The former is, apparently, because, according to Nakashima, Ryuuko's favorite food is game-ni, a dish that has chicken in it..
• Tragic Dream:
  • It's mentioned that, in Broken Gate, Nezumi wanted to live quiet and contently. Unfortunately, as we can see, her life wasn't anything like she wanted.
  • Asuka (implied to be either Ryuuko or Satsuki) wanted to fly like the birds she's enjoyed watching from her hospital room. However, true to some examples of this trope, this dream is impossible, especially while she is alive, as she succumbs to her illness in the end. However, her sister, who muses on her death, believes she's reincarnated as a songbird.
• Trauma Conga Line:
  • I Never Really Knew has this for Satsuki and Ryuuko:
    • For Satsuki, it's finding out that your sister has gone practically blind and that she's been like that for some time. Later, she watches Ryuuko have a seizure and has to be hospitalized, where she has to watch as Ryuuko goes downhill, getting tremors and paralysis, along with vertigo (from what's implied), while she's powerless to help and as doctors desperately searching for answers. Adding insult to injury, we find out that Ryuuko's symptoms came from an uncommon brain tumor and, if it wasn't removed, it would have killed her.
    • For Ryuuko, having to face the loss of her sight is one thing but facing the idea that she might not get better is another thing entirely, especially when she gets new symptoms as time goes on. By the end of the fic, she's terrified that the tumor'll come back and she won't make it the second time.
• Troubled Abuser: Toki starts out troubled by her past and abuses her friends and then Frailine (real name: Jaynine). Her reasons for any of this: She's mentally ill and cannot always discern right from wrong, and another is that she was abused and almost died of leukemia as a result of her caregiver's neglect (something she can't let go and that drove her insane, thus making her ticking time bomb all through high school, in which she was borderline insane) and now wanted to be the one in control and the one to hurt. Her reasons for abusing Frailine is because its more like revenge and a slap to the face to her deceased adopted (technically foster) mother for abusing her after Frailine was born. Sad thing about that, she wasn't always like this and was once very sweet, making her sort of a Jerkass Woobie and her past a Break the Cutie.
• Truth in Television: As the poem Bras would cite, a large bust can make shopping for the underwear in question difficult.
• Tuckerization:
  • Her character "Brownie" was named after a childhood pet dog and Jinx, Spinner, Jaynine, and Sunflower (otherwise called "Sunnie") were named after her Pikachu toys.
  • From what could be seen, she named some of her characters after flowers she probably saw in a perennial book.
• Two Beings, One Body: The poem Visceral Needs describes the two halves of the subject's personality as being like this.
• Typhoid Mary: The subject in Sneezing Blood and it's sequels is a weird case, as she's been symptomatic but, with medications, she's not contagious. However, by the time the poem rolls around, her meds stopped working...
• Uncatty Resemblance:In Aunt, Iona described said Lobelia looked like one of her pets, a Dumbo rat.
• Unfinished Business: From The Girl in the Pink Dress, we have Nui and the reason she haunts the Kiryuuins is because she just simply wants to go outside, something that, due to illness which caused her death eighty-years prior (assuming the story takes place in 2015), she couldn't do, leaving her ghost trapped in the house long after her death. When she is freed, she thanks the Kiryuuins before leaving and, later on, reincarnating.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Toki, when we were introduced to her backstory, however, the effects of abuse, enablement (i.e bad behavior was encouraged), and, later on, mental illness turned her into what she is now.
• Vague Age:
  • Toki and her twin sister Doki are older than they appear but how old they are is never stated, though, going by Doki's Chronicles, they should be about either in their 80s or 90s (probably nearing their hundreds, if the stories go by real time), as the setting of one of the stories was in the 1920s-1930s and their clothing from that point in time seems to suggest about that. To add to this, their profiles list their birth-year as "???" and Amoridere herself doesn't know, which further delays calculation.
  • Brownie's profile says she and her sister are in their 20s, though she was about twelve or thirteen when she met Toki, making that a tad more logical.
  • There is also Eglantine and presumably she is a toddler, as she is still in diapers and young enough to attend nursery school, though, if the passage of time is to go by, she should be four if not five and what is known is that she still a young child. Justified, in this case as no one has no clue as to how old Eglantine is because they don't know her birthday, thus they wouldn't know the year in which she was born in. The same thing would also apply to the rest of the kids that haven't had their ages said.
  • According to the her blog, Sunnie is three (as of 2018), however, it's not clear if that's her actual age or if that's the age of her blog (the oldest post is from 2015). In another vein, we have her siblings' age, as, apparently, Jinx is the oldest and she's the youngest, which would place the other siblings' ages somewhere in the middle.
  • This occurs Train Tracks, with Rei, Satsuki, Ryuuko, and Nui's ages, although, Rei's implied to be a teenager, at least to Satsuki's understanding. Semi justified as Satsuki doesn't quite remember how old they were at the time she narrated.
  • In Aunt, Iona alludes to this when it comes to her aunt. She could probably guess Lobelia's height and weight but not so much her age, as her looks could point her being Younger than She Looks.
• Virtual Soundtrack: Kind of a recent user to this trope. If read on AO3, there may be a link to the particular song playing in the background, otherwise, on FanFiction.Net, its just mentioned. Apparently, she also does something of a meta-version of this, as, to pick a song for the scene, she listens to it.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Amoridere seems to have a fondness of these and a notable example would be Toki and Doki, her twin sister, however, downplayed. They have their moments of feuding but, regardless, they will come through for each other.
  • Toki and her friends. She cares for them but doesn't hesitate to brawl with them or beat them up, either.
• We All Die Someday: Subtly alluded to, since a lot of her poems have the themes of death, mortality, and the related.
• Weight Woe:
  • Subtly implied in the pic "Round Observation"
  • Deconstructed in the poem "Fat Girl", where the titular "Fat Girl" develops an eating disorder trying to make the bullies leave her alone and dies as a result.
  • Downplayed in A Good Day, where Ryuuko (who is chubby) is upset with her weight and considers herself to be not as pretty as Satsuki (who is slimmer) because she gets bullied for it. Satsuki helps breaks her out of this.
  • Her Body implies this to be one of the issues the subject has with her appearance
  • Feeding Tube has the subject doing risky fad diet to lose weight.
  • Corset implies this, as the subject wears a corset to, quote, "fit better in her clothes"
  • As we do know, referencing Ryuuko's weight in Secret Sunshine is a sore spot. In one chapter, she tells Satsuki that she was "pretty once".
• What If?: How she came up with the ideas for Kiryuuin Chronicles and Kill la Kill AU
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Played with:
  • The poem Maggots plays with this, as the titular maggots aren't really described as adorable in any sense of the word but, somehow, the subject manages to consider them endearing and dubs them a "pet".
  • Oddly, in the poems, Spider-web and The Sentence, the subject doesn't view spiders as endearing and, in the latter, she actually kills one (presumably because she's arachnophobic).
  • We have this in Caterpillar, where the subject welcomes a caterpillar, which would be considered a pest, otherwise.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Generally, the locations of her stories are rather vague but, most of the time, she does portray them in an American setting (her home country), unless stated otherwise (i.e her fanfic Concerning a Drifter takes place in Japan). Likewise, while they take place in America, we don't know exactly where, unless also stated (i.e Jinx, Spin, and Toki, according to a few stories, stayed in the Bronx, New York).
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?:
  • In Glorie, this is downplayed, as Doki wondered if Toki is coherent when she said she wanted to call her baby "Glorie". She admits that the name is odd but not outlandish, like most other examples.
  • This trope is played oddly, as it's a middle name, in the poem "Anette", where the name itself is normal but the question asked is "Who names Their Kid After a Stillborn?" because the subject doesn't much care for the middle name on these grounds, thinking of it as cursed and emphasizing that she's not a Replacement Goldfish.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: Apparently, according to one story, Doki will not lie, even if she was "staring into the face of death". However, in parenthesis, this would depend on the circumstance in which she would have to.
  Narration: Everyone knew Doki would never tell a lie, even if she was staring into the face of death (though, it would depend on the circumstances in which she would have to lie), and surely no one, not even, she herself, can convince her to lie.
• Word of God: She is candid and will confirm anything, if asked.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Toki plays with this, as she seems inclined to harm Jaynine, but she is very caring to other children that depend on her.
• Wrench Wench: Brownie, mostly, and usually being mentioned to be tinkering with something mechanical. Her profile to mentions her having a fondness for making guns
• Writer's Block: Why she tends to take awhile to update any series or stories.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: As Amoridere's stated, she's not very good at math and calculations in regards to someone's age or the passages of time in story, at times, are incorrect.
• Write What You Know: She'll base her writing off of what she already knows or what she's experienced.
• Write Who You Know: She bases characters off of people she knows, especially if said characters are babies. She once did a tumblr entry on this [8].
  Amo: The best thing about writing is that you can vent your anger about a person....
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: "Some ideas show up and I just run with them." as she put it. She also writes along to what she might be saying at the time.
• Your Days Are Numbered: A then Secretly Dying Satsuki in Paper Cranes had heart failure and was actually supposed to die some time in May (presumably before, if not after, her birthday) but instead lived to January 10th, the day she died, opting to spend her final months with Ryuuko.
  • Toki, a heart-breaking example, was the victim of this while she was ill leukemia in this Flashbacks I and Toki's Firefly. Both instances are the same but, the latter story omitted one thing and that was that she was being severely abused and was neglected, leading to her days being formally numbered and the amount of time she was given was only a few weeks, proving the extent of her illness.
• Younger Than They Look: According the description for Lobelia, she looks older than what she actually is, as she's always frowning and always squinting.

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