History FanFic / InTheService

* MythologyGag: Vita kills what the author outright admits is a Material-S reference early in the story.
** Isis Eaglet is currently a Combat Cyborg. Could also be considered either a nascent TakeThat or a nascent IKnewIt.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6115250/1/In_The_Service In The Service]], the main story, covers these events while using lesser mages (and original characters), mainly a Navy mage named Samuel al-Faddil, as a means of interacting with and exploring the main characters with a strong emphasis on the Wolkenritter. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6102101/1/A_Numbered_Existence A Numbered Existence]] tells the stories of Jail's Numbers, exploring their characters and their efforts to adapt (or not) to society...[[OutOfGenreExperience except when it starts talking about what it's like to be a Huckebein for a bit]]. Many ''A Numbered Existence'' chapters are standalone, but an equal number related directly or indirectly to ''In The Service''. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5394631/1/Monsters Monsters]], actually written first of them all, is an introduction to why making Wolkenritter ''angry'' is a Very Bad Idea but actually ties in with events partway through ''In The Service''.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* VillainsActHeroesReact: Averted and discussed as to why it's a bad plan. "Wars are won by offensive action."

-->"Dame Signum. A pleasure, as always." - Samuel al-Faddil, ''In The Service''

-->"Even nightmares fear something." - Sette, ''A Numbered Existence''

-->"You are a monster, dear Signum. Far more than I could ever be. You simply must admit that." - Jail Scaligetti, ''Monsters''

A Nanoha story and its spinoffs ''Monsters'' and ''A Numbered Existence'' by @/{{Night}}.

The set of stories is now finished [[WordOfGod and while there is plenty of room for a sequel, none is currently planned.]]

* AncestralWeapon: Samuel’s device, Steelheart, comes down to him from his grandfather and is around 70 years old.

* {{Badass}}: Any canon character will at some point do something badass. So far the all-time champion, however, is Chrono Harlaown, who channeled his first-season skill at smackdowns into taking down a [[PersonOfMassDestruction Reinforce]].

* ElsewhereFic / AlternateUniverseFic: The basic premise to start is very much that of an ElsewhereFic, with the main characters being thin on the ground for the first few chapters. The events of Soundstage X played out offscreen for ''In The Service'' but onscreen (with additions) for ''A Numbered Existence''. However ''Manga/ViVid'' is unlikely to look anything like normal considering Vivio's new sword (though references to Einheart have been made), and Force is totally derailed: Isis Eaglet's a Combat Cyborg, Thoma Avenir's big sister figure is [[EmotionlessGirl Sette]] rather than Subaru. The Huckebein appeared early to try and beat the Bureau before it shifted to a war footing, but lost: most of them were killed by the Numbers, with Arnage and Veyron alive and in hiding.

In the post [[NanohaStrikerS StrikerS]] world, the Bureau has a lot of cleanup to do, and it's left to the little people to do it with help from the series' main characters where possible. At least until someone starts unleashing Wolkenritter clones. From there, things go progressively downhill until the Bureau finds itself at war against a group that identifies itself as the old Belkan Empire, whom the Bureau dubs New Belka.

** Signum’s epithets mentioned by Uno. ''Se Ytruck Gjinchar'' and ''Va Frenchek'' are references to Auroran ship types from [[EscapeVelocity Escape Velocity Nova]].

* NoEnding: [[WordOfGod Samuel's story is essentially over, and with it any way to use him to explore the canon characters that does not feel forced. Who lives and who dies, in the end? I don't know. I don't really feel I should.]]

Please bear with the author while he sorts this page out for further examples and occasionally drops spoilers for future chapters by mistake.

** ''Peace Is Not Tranquility'' is an extended reference to one of the author's favorite scenes from ''Series/{{CSI}}'': the ending scene S1E05 "Friends and Lovers". Wendi and Nove quote the lines of Warrick Brown and Gil Grissom when they converse, and Nove's extended match against Zafira is treated as the same sort of cathartic/cleansing scene as Grissom's ride on the rollercoaster. [[WordOfGod If it had been possible to play the last 1:48 of Grissom's Overture over that chapter to make it more like the scene being referenced, that would have been done too.]]

* NoEnding: [[WordOfGod: Samuel's story is essentially over, and with it any way to use him to explore the canon characters that does not feel forced. Who lives and who dies, in the end? I don't know. I don't really feel I should.]]

* ShoutOut: Signum’s epithets mentioned by Uno. ''Se Ytruck Gjinchar'' and ''Va Frenchek'' are references to Auroran ship types from [[EscapeVelocity Escape Velocity Nova]].