Fairy Cube
A Kaori Yuki manga involving the fucked up issues of fairies, humans, and halfs; and their struggles to overcome them.
Tropes used in Fairy Cube include:
- Abusive Parents: Ian's father and Rin's mother.
- Bifauxnen: Shira, not all the time though.
- Big Screwed-Up Family
- Break the Cutie
- Break the Haughty
- Broken Bird: Rin, Shira.
- Cain and Abel
- Childhood Friend Romance: Ian and Rin.
- Creepy Doll: In the first chapter.
- The Dandy: Kaito.
- Double Standard Rape (Female On Male): Subverted when it's revealed that Kaito didn't like having sex with Queen Knockma but was too scared of the consequences of refusing her to denounce her.
- Dysfunction Junction: If a character has any development, they probably get a traumatic backstory.
- The Fair Folk: From fairies who steal human bodies to evil Celtic gods who just want to bring the destruction of the world.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Ian and Ainsel.
- Freudian Excuse
- Grande Dame: Heriat's grandmother.
- Grand Theft Me
- Happily Adopted: Tokage, until the villagers decided to sacrife him and he killed his adoptive mother (and everyone else) after letting a evil god to take temporarily over his body to escape.
- Heel Face Turn
- Hero With Bad Publicity: Liar Ian.
- Heroic Sacrifice
- Ho Yay / Foe Yay: Kaito and Raven, so much.
- Jerkass Woobie: Tokage, Shira, Kaito...
- Living MacGuffin: Ainsel.
- Missing Mom: Turns out to be important to the plot.
- Mommy Issues: Tokage.
- Separated At Birth: Ian and Tokage. Justified, however, as Tokage was stillborn and could live only in the fairies' world.
- Shotacon: Queen Knockma: Kaito was just a kid when she took him as a lover.
- Took a Level In Badass: Ian.
- The Unfavorite: Tokage feels that way: not telling your son that the whole abandoning thing and the "We don't need you" speech were actually a way to protect him from your enemies can backfire that way.