Non Serviam
sees a post-Golden Morning Taylor Hebert dumped onto an alternate Earth by Contessa, only to be revived by Rias as a Pawn.
Unfortunately for Rias, Taylor isn't exactly happy about being drafted into the Devil girl's Peerage without her consent and seeks to regain her freedom.
Tropes:
- Big Damn Heroes: Rias shows up just in time to save Taylor from Freed and the Fallen.
- Discard and Draw: Taylor loses her parahuman powers upon being revived, gaining the abilities of a Devil instead.
- Hidden Depths: Mittelt turns out to be a baker who creates rather intricately-decorated treats for a bake sale.
- I Just Want to Be Free: Taylor is less than enthused to have been drafted into Rias' Peerage upon her revival without her consent, and her issues with authority don't help. Her current goal is basically to become so much stronger than Rias that she's more or less completely independent of the other girl, Evil Piece or no Evil Piece.
- Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Taylor lampshades how it every Devil she's met so far, including Rias' maids, has been utterly gorgeous, and that if she hadn't seen Gaspar Kiba would have the title of "most beautiful boy" she's ever seen. She feels that the "self-image" idea of how Devils look is bunk after outgrowing two sets of jeans in as many weeks.
- Made a Slave: Taylor views being inducted into Rias' Peerage without her consent as slavery, and she's technically not wrong.
- Mundane Utility: Taylor finds a magical girl Transformation Sequence spell on the devil net, apparently made by Serafall, and uses it to change into exercise wear for sparring with Kiba in a second due to how energy-efficient it is.
- Point of Divergence: Thanks to Taylor being out with Koneko, Rias's Peerage encounters Freed before Issei even joins.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Being from a parallel Earth where the anime and manga industry died due to Leviathan, Taylor doesn't always get the references Rias makes. Case in point, when Rias paraphrases the "I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was" line, Taylor has no idea what she's referencing, only that it is a reference.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Freed runs after Rias shows up and finishes off his Fallen bosses.
- Sleep Cute: In the middle of chapter 4, Taylor falls asleep cuddling Gasper, which Rias finds adorable when she comes across it.
- Transformation Sequence: The actual name of a spell that Taylor found on the devil version of the internet, which she uses to change her clothes from casual wear to exercise clothes due to it's extreme efficiency mana-wise. Kiba's reaction heavily implies that it's a creation of Serafall.
- Unwanted Revival: Taylor wouldn't have minded that much if Rias hadn't revived her. Especially with the whole "becoming her servant" thing.
