History FanFic / FutariWaPrettyCureBlueMoon

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Yukari when she isn't wearing her contacts; also, Emiru.

* RedOniBlueOni: Asa's Red, Yoko's Blue. Hoshi and Yukari also fit, but at the same time subvert the reader's expectations: while Hoshi's athletic, brash and has WildHair, she's more of a Blue since she worries about people's reaction to the unconventional and non-traditional, whereas [[HiddenDepths prim-looking]] {{meganekko}} Yukari is actually an outgoing, willful Red.

* AdultFear: Invoked when Mia is kidnapped after her parents become major characters.

%%* IAteWhat: Binbeat and the moldy bread in episode 10.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Asa's and [[spoiler:Devance]]''/''[[FanNickname Mr. Dawn's]] blue, Yoko's grey, Mia's and Dawn's red, Emiru's green, and most of the Etherium's colours. They also have a purple-haired minor classmate named Fujisawa Suzu.

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: [[spoiler:Ogata Mia, child of Devance (an off-worlder pushing 200 years old, though he's been aging normally since he came to Earth) and Cure Dawn.]]

* HypotheticalCasting: Done entirely by the readers.

* {{Asexuality}}: Ami.
-->'''Ami:''' Even if I wanted to be a housewife, I'm not naturally attracted to anybody, so one of the main qualities doesn't quite work out.
-->'''Takashi:''' You're not--
-->'''Ami:''' No.
-->'''Takashi:''' You mean, nobody you know?
-->'''Ami:''' Nobody at all.
-->'''Takashi:''' [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Are you sure you just haven't found--]]
-->'''Ami:''' ''[[NeverHeardThatOneBefore No.]]''

* MadeOfIron: As is traditional for ''Franchise/PrettyCure''. Yoko wonders whether that means they can't die or just that they're really hard to kill.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The second bonus episode, for Takashi.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Mireyes may count.]]

* AFriendInNeed: Yukari and Hoshi live on this, really.

* AlternateContinuity
** ElsewhereFic: The fic is Crossover Compilation-compliant, meaning that all canon ''Anime/PrettyCure'' series take place in the same world as it does. Furthermore, the fanseries community has expressed interest in doing their own ''All-Stars'' special, meaning that it's an Elsewhere Fic of many of the other fanseries, too.
** OriginalCharacter
* AmbiguousInnocence: Binbeat.

* AngerBornOfWorry: Hi, Yoko.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove

* AsleepInClass: Asa's bad habit.

* BadassInANiceSuit: Most Etherium uniforms.
* [[spoiler:BadassTeacher]]: Of all people, [[spoiler:Ami. Oh, yeah. She's Cure Dusk.]]

* CainAndAbel: Thera and Kore.
** EvilTwin: It's left up in the air at first, but [[spoiler:Thera turns out to be the evil one]].

* DarkMagicalGirl: Millusion.
* {{Deadly Doctor}}s: One of Tachimany's forms.
* DeathGlare: Yoko gives them a lot, especially in the first few chapters.

* DistressedDamsel: Mia, oh, ''Mia''.

* TheEnd

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: "Second Spin" fits this with the name, at least, although the actual execution doesn't involve much spinning.

* FiveManBand: In everyday life, but not as a super team.
** TheHero: Asa
** TheLancer: Yoko
** TheBigGuy: Hoshi
** TheSmartGuy: Yukari
** TheChick: Mia (Thanks to her love of shopping, Yukari fills this role too before Mia joins.)

* FriendlessBackground: Yoko, Yukari aside.

* FrillsOfJustice: All the Cures' outfits.

* GadgeteerGenius: Ami-sensei.

* {{Gayngst}}: ...poor Yoko.

* HairTropes
** AdaptationDyeJob: Not quite, but around episode ten, the author realized that too many of the [[{{Muggles}} normal characters]] had black or brown hair, and promptly went back to retcon Emiru's brown hair to green. [[spoiler:Still didn't help matters, but at least there's Mia and the purple-haired background girl.]]
** EvilRedhead: Kainatrol.
** ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Yukari switching to a normal braid instead of one wrapped around her head.
** HairContrastDuo: Asa's eye-catching blue versus Yoko's pale grey; Mekuramast's light blue versus Kainatrol's dark red.
** ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Thera might have been about to harm herself with the scissors on her vanity, but when she's interrupted by Tachimany, she begins to cut her hair like she had been planning to do it the whole time. Oh, and she cuts it to an angled, chin-length cut, making it clear that ''this'' twin is the one who would become Kainatrol.]]
** PowerDyesYourHair: While Sunday and Night keep their hair colours, [[spoiler:Kirei goes from red to pink when she becomes Cure Dawn.]]
** WildHair: Hoshi, get a brush.
** YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Asa's and [[spoiler:Devance]]''/''[[FanNickname Mr. Dawn's]] blue, Yoko's grey, Mia's and Dawn's red, Emiru's green, and most of the Etherium's colours. They also have a purple-haired minor classmate named Fujisawa Suzu.

* HerCodenameWasMarySue

* IAmWhatIAm: The major theme of the story.
* IAteWhat: Binbeat and the moldy bread in episode 10.
* IconicItem: Dawn's necklace.

* InstantRunes: Odd for a magical girl series, but there they are.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Binbeat's pipe organ.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon

* Also:
-->'''Dawn:''' Rising with the sun, I am Cure Dawn!
-->'''Dusk:''' Falling with the night, I am Cure Dusk!
-->'''Both:''' We are Pretty Cure!
-->'''Dawn:''' In the past and in the future...
-->'''Dusk:''' ...we guard eternity itself!

* JapaneseSchoolClub: Most of the girls are in them.

* JerkJock: Takashi, Yoko's brother.

* KidsAreCruel: Asa and Binbeat both have this in their backstories.

* LaughablyEvil: Most readers put Binbeat here.

* LonelyRichKid: Played with: Asa is a Lonely Poor Kid.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: No. He's not.

* MagicalLand: The Garden of Days.
* MagiciansAreWizards: Mekuramast.

* MeanwhileScene''/''MeanwhileBackAtThe: Both are used all over the place.
* {{Meganekko}}: Yukari when she isn't wearing her contacts; also, Emiru.
* MelancholyMoon: The ending of episode 18; also shown in the second OP.
* MentorMascot: Starry's mother, Moonla, and father, Sunbi.
* MindControl: Kainatrol's power.
* MindControlEyes: Kainatrol's victims.

* MirrorMatch: Occurs in episode 13.

* MysteriousWatcher: Dawn and a small network of her friends.

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: No, the author had not heard of any other attempts by anyone else to adapt the fake design sheet to a story until after she started it. That goes double for ''Bouken! Precure Days'', the Japanese fanseries that also uses the same fake ImageBoard design used in ''Blue Moon'' to create a fanseries out of it.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Mireyes and the Elder both.

* NoFourthWall: The Comment Corner segments.
* NonHumanSidekick: Starry for Asa and Yoko, Sunbi for Dawn, and Moonla for Dusk.

* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: The Cures ''are'' practically indestructible...
* NoRomanticResolution: Averted by the epilogue.

* [[OddlyNamedSequel Oddly-Named Second Half]]: Episodes fourteen to twenty-four go by the name ''Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon -solar eclipse-''.

** PaintItBlack: Reverse Form plays with this; since the Etherium members wear white, it marks an evil character turning good instead of the other way around.

* PowerGlows

* PowerOfTrust

** ElderlyImmortal: Mireyes.
** ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Mekuramast and Kainatrol fit this, but Binbeat's a kid, Mireyes is old and Tachimany's age is all over the place.
** NeverGrewUp: Binbeat, although he ''could'' if he left the Etherium for a long enough period of time, as proven by [[spoiler:Devance after he joined Dusk and Dawn's side]].

* [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised The Resolution Will Not Be Posted On The Main Community]]: LJ's character limit was too short for the final episode, so it had to be split into two parts, with the second half hosted outside of the Precure fan community due to anti-spam regulations.

* SecondEpisodeMorning

* {{Shoutout}}: Not as prevalent as [[Fanfic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy other]] [[Fanfic/ShiningPrettyCure fanseries]] we could mention, but a lot of the character names are shoutouts, and there are some in the text, too.

* SickEpisode: Episode 14, for Ami.

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Asa.

* StartOfDarkness: Kainatrol's is the subject of a story arc.

* StoryBreakerTeamup: This is one of the more lighthearted fanseries -- well, closest to the canon's level of "lightheartedness", anyway, so while there are still creepy and dark elements, nobody's [[FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy eating people]] or [[FanFic/PrettyCureHeavyMetal shooting them in the head]] or sending off {{Cluster F Bomb}}s. This causes some oddness in crossover fics with the other fanseries. Another example of this is that, since other fanseries only give spotlight to characters with powers, crossover fics remove Hoshi, Yukari, and Mia and shoehorn in Millusion in their place.

* TheTeamNormal: Hoshi, Yukari, and Mia.
* ThemeNaming: The Etherium agents' names are English-Japanese portmanteaus referring to what they do. Also...
** FloralThemeNaming: The girls' class in Asa and Yoko's grade is called the Lily Class and the boys' is the Rose Class.
** MusicalThemeNaming: Everyone from the Land of Tracks: Allegro, Andante, and Coda are named, and even Bin'''beat''' fits the theme.
** NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Many classmates' names come from influential characters, writers, artists or actors in the magical girl genre.
** RockThemeNaming: The bad guys from ''[=DaiFighter=]''.
** StellarName: Starry, of course; the other mascots are also named after categories of celestial objects.
** TemporalThemeNaming: Many locations in the town have names relating to time: Seiki Shopping District, Morning Garden Apartments, etc.

* ToBeContinued: Happens on occasion.

* UnfazedEveryman: Hi, Yukari.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Set three years later.

* WonderTwinPowers: Asa and Yoko, [[spoiler:along with Kirei and Ami]].

* WrenchWench: Yoko, secretly.

Before the character designs for ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' were released, an anonymous ImageBoard patron posted fake designs for two Cures, their civilian forms, and a single mascot. When the design sheet was proven to be a hoax, a few people began creating fanworks featuring the characters, knowing only their appearances and Cure names and inventing the rest. ''Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon'' by Jisu (username friendshipbeam, although it was skittlestemple when she began writing), one of the first of many Website/{{LiveJournal}} OC fics in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' fandom, is the Anglosphere's answer to this phenomenon.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Though the concept sheet shows Asa and Yoko with knee-high socks, and other characters are either described or shown in art posts with grade C as well, thigh-highs appear to be an accepted uniform alternative -- Mia wears them with her uniform in one art post, sporting a grade A Zettai Ryouiki.

** In the first few drafts, "Am I the token girl?" is "[[TooLongDidntDub translated]]" to "Am I the [[PowerRangers Pink Ranger]] or something?"

* ManInWhite''/''WomanInWhite: Etherium uniforms, though all the members have their own secondary colours as part of their outfits, usually the same colour as their hair (though Tachimany's hair is white no matter what form they're in, Binbeat's is blond, and we can't really see Mireyes' hair).

** In the first few drafts, "Am I the token girl?" is "[[TooLongDidntDub trans]][[LiteraryAgentHypothesis lated]]" to "Am I the [[PowerRangers Pink Ranger]] or something?"

** ''Super Ultra Special Team'', one of Asa's favourite shows, gets its name from one of Kazuki's ridiculous rejected weapon names in ''Manga/BusouRenkin''.

* StillbornSerial: Actually subverted! The story stood dead with one chapter for four months, but the author picked it back up again after scheduling constraints and lack of interest compelled her to drop her other ''Pretty Cure'' fandom project, the Weekly Dub Reports.

* EyeTropes
** BlankWhiteEyes: Andante was born with them.
** CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Everyone from the Cures' world and no one from outside it.
** EyeColourChange: Mireyes' eyes glow purple when she uses her powers.
** HiddenEyes: Mireyes wears a head covering that obscures them. Yes, she can still see.
** IcyGrayEyes: Gray eyes fit Yoko's "Ice Queen Nakayama" persona perfectly.
** InnocentBlueEyes: Asa is certainly the innocent, heroic type.
** MindControlEyes: Kainatrol's victims.

** GrayEyes: which fit Yoko's "Ice Queen Nakayama" persona perfectly.

* [[FragileFlower Sad Girl In Snow]]: [[spoiler:Asa gets a snowglobe with a sad girl inside for Yoko during their class trip. She doesn't get the chance to give it to her.]]

* TransformationTrinket: The transformation phones, which, unlike canon, pre-''Fresh'' phone-like devices, aren't the transformed bodies of the mascots; instead, they're separate objects like the later series' Transformation Trinkets.

* ActionMom: [[spoiler:Dawn, AKA Ogata Kirei.]]

* TheAllegedCar: Ogata Kirei's van. Yoko is appalled by the sight of it. [[spoiler:It takes an EleventhHourSuperpower item to transform it into a CoolCar.]]

* BatmanGambit (Dawn/[[spoiler:Kirei]] comes up with a big one in episode 21 to save Mia and buy the Cures time by playing to Kainatrol's revenge complex. [[spoiler:She gives Kainatrol a fake Moon Piece, knowing full well that she could figure it out at any time but trusting that she won't take the time to. By letting Kainatrol use her mind control on her and direct her to attack the Cures, and arranging for Ami to be there, Kirei pings Kainatrol's sadism because she knows she'll be forced to fight Ami instead -- which gives Asa and Yoko more time to escape with Mia and get the Moon Piece hidden inside Clair Academy's bell town.]])

* BloodierAndGorier: Mostly averted, unlike other fanseries. However, Asa does bleed, bruise, and break bones in the confrontation with Tachimany, and that's with her powers giving her near-invulnerability. (She gets healed right away, though.)

* HeelFaceTurn: Throughout the first half of the story, characters aligned with AlphaBitch Emiru begin to break away from their assigned roles and befriend Asa and Yoko. Ogata Mia, the first to do so, becomes part of the main friend group. [[spoiler:Later, Emiru herself pulls a stronger one, being not only a social obstacle by that point but an Etherium member.]]

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: No, the author had not heard of any other attempts by anyone else to adapt the fake design sheet to a story until after she started it. That goes double for ''Bouken! Precure Days'', the Japanese fanseries who uses the same fake ImageBoard design used in ''Blue Moon'' to create a fanseries out of it.

* RedBaron (Each person in the Etherium has a title along with their name. From what we see of two inductions, you get the title when you get the powers and the name. Each title refers to the characters' power and/or their role in the CircusOfFear team theme.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:At episode 14, the readers discovered that Hoshi, Yukari and Mia had managed to discover the girls' secret; in-series, apparently they had discovered it for ''months'', if Yoko's monologue early in episode 16 were to be believed, hence why Hoshi freaked out when she can finally confirm that yes, Asa and Yoko were Cures. The reformed Emiru also counts. Kirei and Ami secretly were this too, before they revealed that they were Dawn and Dusk. Asa's ''mom'', Chikane, would also later learn the Cure's identities in episode 22 after she accidentally overhears the heroes detransforming following the bell tower incident.]]
* SecretLegacy: Twisted. [[spoiler:The kid who finds out her parents were one of the heroes' predecessors and one of their former enemies isn't one of the new heroes; it's a SecretKeeper who herself lives a normal life and actually had no idea about her family's past lives until the school festival incident.]]

** Yoko only ever cooks in Home Ec, except for when she's baking Asa's birthday cake, and (as seen in episode two) her lunch boxes are made up of nothing but egg omelette. ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'', anyone?

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Asa and Yoko trade off being this for each other late in the series, Asa with her hero complex and Yoko with her sense of responsibility for the less grounded-in-reality. From episode 20:

* ComingOutStory: After one too many close calls, Yoko wonders if she should tell Asa how she feels instead of just keeping her mouth shut. Seeking advice, she ends up coming out to [[spoiler:Kirei in episode 23]], nearly or actually freaking out the whole time and definitely ''not'' being "Ice Queen Nakayama". [[spoiler:Kirei is fine with it and offers some advice, on top of promising to do what she can to help should Yoko's parents find out.]] In the epilogue, [[spoiler:Yoko relates that they have found out and weren't happy, and she's now moved in with Ami-sensei, but her parents are getting better about it.]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Asa's mother seems to figure it out and approves, so there's less of a problem there.]]

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:About halfway through the series, Hoshi, Yukari and Mia discover the girls' secret (although in-series, they have discovered their identities and knowing who they were for months). The reformed Emiru also counts. Kirei and Ami secretly were this too, before they revealed that they were Dawn and Dusk. Asa's ''mom'', Chikane, would also later learn the Cure's identities during the school festival after she accidentally overhears the heroes detransforming following the bell tower incident.]]

* AntiVillain: Mekuramast, going more "Anti" and less "Villain" as the series goes on. [[spoiler:Two-thirds of the way in, he attains Reverse Form and leaves the Etherium, but as of this writing he hasn't joined up with the Cures.]]

* BatmanGambit (Dawn/[[spoiler:Kirei]] comes up with a big one to save Mia and buy the Cures time by playing to Kainatrol's revenge complex. [[spoiler:She gives Kainatrol a fake Moon Piece, knowing full well that she could figure it out at any time but trusting that she won't take the time to. By letting Kainatrol use her mind control on her and direct her to attack the Cures, and arranging for Ami to be there, Kirei pings Kainatrol's sadism because she knows she'll be forced to fight Ami instead -- which gives Asa and Yoko more time.]])

* BerserkButton: Yoko does not like destruction of property. Later on, though, there are a few instances where she even ''ignores'' it because Asa's hurt and that's more important.

* BreakoutCharacter: VictimOfTheWeek Ogata Mia was brought back a few episodes after her first appearance and then became a major character.

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Dual Infinite Phase!"

* DenouementEpisode: The epilogue was initially supposed to be posted separately, but episode 24 was too long and some had to go with it. The ff.net release is supposed to have it the right way.

* DitzyGenius: Ami-sensei, who doles out cloud-headed speeches about justice and how her class will be the class that changes the world for the better, but has a house full of complicated mechanical devices she made herself. Even her ridiculous tirades occasionally have deep insight about friendship and trust -- this ''is'' a MagicalGirl series.

* ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: Every episode but the ending and epilogue. Some examples are "The World is Changing! The Vicious Whisper, Millusion!", "Moonlit Confessions! The End of the Vanishing Act!", and "The Enemy is a Panty Thief? Won't This Raise the Rating?".

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Played with with the Boss/Lord Eiender. He gets less and less development or hints of personality as time goes on -- you don't even hear his actual ''name'' until halfway through the story, and later he even stops using personal pronouns for himself except on rare occasions -- and his presence began to fade out at the same rate. [[spoiler:It was all part of his plan to diminish his presence slowly and then finally vanish from reality whatsoever; turns out he wants ''everything'' RetGone, and that includes himself.]]

* HeroicResolve: Sunday gets up again after sustaining [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow garden variety injuries for a Cure]] and lands the first hit on Tachimany after they threaten Night.

* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Tachimany can only be killed if ''all'' their bodies die at once, which is obviously harder in the forms where they have lots of bodies. [[spoiler:However, Mireyes ends up killing thirteen of them in the self-defence attack that kills her too.]]

* MadeOfIron: As is traditional for ''Anime/PrettyCure''. Yoko wonders whether that means they can't die or just that they're really hard to kill.

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: No, the author had not heard of any other attempts by anyone else to adapt the fake design sheet to a story until after she started it. That goes double for ''Bouken! Precure Days''.

* PsychologistTeacher: Ami-sensei gives Hoshi, Yukari, and Mia advice on how to understand their friends [[spoiler:when they find out that Asa and Yoko are Pretty Cure]].
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Played with. While Yukari doesn't have her glasses on all the time, that's because she wears contacts. [[spoiler:Emiru's glasses [[TheGlassesComeOff turn into]] Millusion's eye mask.]]

** NeverGrewUp: Binbeat, although he ''could'' if he left the Etherium for a long enough period of time.)

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:About halfway through the series, Hoshi, Yukari and Mia discover the girls' secret. The reformed(?) Emiru now also counts.]] Oh, and now [[spoiler:Asa's ''mom'', Chikane]].
* SecretLegacy: Twisted. [[spoiler:The kid who finds out her parents were one of the heroes' predecessors and one of their former enemies isn't one of the new heroes; it's a SecretKeeper who herself lives a normal life.]]

* TransformationTrinket: The transformation phones, which, unlike canon phone-like devices, aren't the transformed bodies of the mascots; instead, they're separate objects like the later series' Transformation Trinkets.

* VerbalTic: Starry's "susu", Sunbi's "sasa" and Moonla's "muu", like most ''Precure'' mascots.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Even if they're just being {{Ship Tease}}d right now, Asa and Yoko trade off being this for each other late in the series, Asa with her hero complex and Yoko with her sense of responsibility for the less grounded-in-reality.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Mia is traumatized by Kainatrol in episode 2; in episodes 7 and 20, guess who shows up again and terrifies her out of her mind.

* WonderTwinPowers: Asa and Yoko.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: (Every member of the Etherium. Binbeat's somewhat borderline, as he didn't know what he was getting into at first, [[AmbiguousInnocence he still doesn't completely comprehend the consequences]], and he never actually destroyed his own world because the Etherium was driven back [[spoiler:by Andante]]; however, he, like the others, still felt betrayed by his world and he has at least contributed to the destruction of others.)
* WordSaladTitle: The only mention of a blue moon so far has been in the author's notes when she timed the release of two chapters to the actual phenomenon of two full moons in a month. At least the moon is connected with time, and there's a lot of time symbolism in the story. [[WildMassGuessing One might wonder if the name is actually a Lucky Charms reference]], what with the franchise's existing [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure hearts]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar stars]] and [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure clovers]] in their titles.

* InstantRunes: Odd for a magical girl series, but there they are.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Binbeat's pipe organ.

* ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: Every episode but the ending and epilogue. Some examples are "The World is Changing! The Vicious Whisper, Millusion!", "Moonlit Confessions! The End of the Vanishing Act!", and "The Enemy is a Panty Thief? Won't This Raise the Rating?".

* WordOfGod: Some plot hints have been leaked in discussion, along with the Boss' name (Eiender, if you're wondering), some notes about Kazahana City, all the things that Could Have Been...
** In the comments of the last episode, when a reader comments about [[spoiler:Yoko's parents being upset and Yoko moving out of the house after she comes out to them]], the author responds, "They'll get over it eventually."
** WordOfGay: At first, though it becomes quite clear in-story later.

** MineralThemeNaming: The bad guys from ''[=DaiFighter=]''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The series was originally slated to be split into two twenty-six episode installments entitled ''Blue Moon'' and ''Pink Sun''. Instead, the former became the series title, the second half was called ''Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon -solar eclipse-'', and the story is slated to encompass about twenty-four episodes instead, having experienced a reduction in {{Filler}}. Also, Mia was supposed to be a VictimOfTheWeek, not a major character.