In a Post-Apocalyptic world, Zwielicht and his True Companions, who are all Gods who defected from the teams of Greader Gods, try to steal back the light that has been taken away from the Greater Gods, and who destroyed the wourld, leaving it in the destroyed state it is now. Zwielicht however hides two dark secret from his friends and the would, his greatest mistake and his real identity as the man who killed every God.
Tropes:
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Once Patrizio is cast out, he gives Marco all of his powers of leader, even though he is bearly 15.
- A God I Am Not: Zwielcht because he's really a human who became a God.
- Amnesiac God: Zwielicht. Not.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Zwielicht.
- A Taste of the Lash: Alessandro is whipped for having tryed to oppose one of th Gods, which results in him obtaining his Distinguishing Mark and increasing his hate for the Gods.
- Badass Longcoat: The symbol of the Dammerung Unit.
- Balcony Speech: Patrizio's way of comunicating to his people.
- Berserk Button: Try touching Alessandro's Firenze. The Gods who decided to destroy Firenze were all killed by him.
- Catchphrase: Zwielicht's Facciamolonote
- Confronting Your Imposter: How Zwielicht reveals his identity.
Seyemour: That man was the devil himself. But you cannot hope do discover his secrets. He is dead. Minerva killed him herself.
Zwielicht: Lies. She is the one who was killed by him, the last one of the corrupt Gods.
Seyemour: How dare you! I saw it with my own eyes. How would you know?
Zwielicht: Because I'm the one who killed her. I am Alessandro Innocenti.
- Deity of Human Origin: Zwielicht.
- Disabled Deity: Pinocchio il Brattinaio, who is blind.
- Distinguishing Mark: Alessandro has an X shaped scar on his back, which is what reveals the Zwielicht is him.
- Doomed Hometown: Firenze, Zwielicht and Alessandro's hometown.
- Fantasy Pantheon: There are the five houses of Gods, each is comanded by a "Comandante":
- The House of Blades (The Comandante was Zwielicht)
- The House of Royalties (The Comandante was previously Patrizio, later Monica)
- The House of Mirrors (The Comandante is Serpe, Notte belongs here)
- The House of Ties (The Comandante is ???, Pino and Gaio belong here)
- The House of Shadows (The Comandante is Corva, Nero and La Torturatrice belong here)
- The House of Pride (The Comandante is Leone, Chiara and Selvaggio belong here)
- The House of Purpose (The Comandante is ???)
- For Doom the Bell Tolls
- Hot God: La Tormentatrice.
- Gold and White Are Divine: Alessandro Inncoenti wears white and gold. His clothes however become red after his blodbath and leater compleatly black once he is a true god.
- Götterdämmerung: How The Old Gods were wiped out, in one day by one man.
- Jerkass Gods: Most of the Old Gods, and most of the New Gods.
- Kill The Gods: What Alessandro Innocenti was set on doing. And he did it.
- King Incognito: Patrizio.
- Kneel Before Frodo: At Patrizio's homecoming, who is bloody, dressed in rags and quite beaten up, everyone kneels to him once the 27th bell sounds, and the first to do so is Marco, closly followed by the Dammerung and all of the citizens.
- Madness Mantra:
- Alessandro repeats tramonto, tramonto, tramonto...once he is dead and going through the proecess of becoming a God which is why he called himself Zwielicht. He aslo, as a child, repeats Luce, Luce, Luce (As Zwielicht does) when he is not in his right mind.
- Zwielicht repeats Luce, Luce, Luce when he has his Heroic BSoD, and when he has nightmares.
- No Name Given: Alessandro's father.
- Oh, Crap!: The reaction of the few remaining Old Gods once they realize Zwielicht's true identity, who then proceeds to killing them all.
- The Old Gods: The First Generation Gods, the very first ones who came and destroyed the wourld for fun. They were mysteriously wiped out in one day, singlehandledly, by a man named Alessandro Innocenti.
- Pals with Jesus: Luce and Rosa are friends with the Dammerung, as well as many other citizens from the Città 27-01.
- Red Is Heroic: First played straight as the heroes wear red, the subverted when we learn that red is the color that Alessandro's white clothes became after the bloodbath where he killed the 27 Old Gods and when Zwielicht killed half of the New Gods.
- Physical God: Everyone Exept Lucia Gherardini, Rosa Signoria e Alessandro Innocenti who became a Physical God later.
- Rightful King Returns: Patrizio in chapter 13 returns to his knigdom, where he abdicates the throne while the people o his knigdom end the reign of the new ruler, Monica
- The Reveal: A few:
- Zwielicht is Alessandro Innocenti and he is the one that helped steal the light.
- Patrizio is the Comandante of Royalty.
- Secret Identity: Zwielicht is really Alessandro Innocenti.
- Secret-Keeper: La Torturatrice knows about Zwielicht's true identity.
- Also Rosa, who is a sort of psychologist for the Dammerung.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Notte who, like La Torturatrice knows Zwielicht's true identity.
- Shirtless Scene: Zwielicht gets a few.
- Alessandro also gets one when he is whipped and gets his famous scar.
- Patrizio also get two, when his throne is being taken away, and when he is cast to the earth.
- Single-Stroke Battle: How to kill Leone's Fiere: One single clean cut that beheds them. Otherwise they become a thousand times stronger.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Zwielicht and his past self are sepecially fond of this.
- Anyone from the House of Pride.
- You and What Army?: Alessandro get asked this by the Old gods, to which he responds, "Indeed, what army? None is needed".
- You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Zwielicht's words to Seyemour, one of the only Gods to survive the bloodbath, who is keen on killing him. He realizez who Zwielicht is, but Zwielicht kills him anyway.
