History FanFic / TouhouIbunshu

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted. When Yukari's dealing a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Ran and is poised to deliver the deathblow, Chen stops her. Yukari could have easily swat her away and killed both, and actually was about to do so for one terrible instant, before she desperately slams on the brakes and realizes that no matter the circumstances, hurting Chen in that moment would have been an utterly irredeemable act and that had she gone through, she would have spent the rest of her life hating herself.]]

%%* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:The Scarlet Mist and the Imperishable Night.]]

%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Apparently, Rumia, Wriggle, Mystia, and most shockingly, Mokou.]]

%%* {{Magitek}}: The Lunarians.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Yukari.]]

%%* MotorMouth: Shanghai.

%%* WhamEpisode: Chapters 7 and 15 of ''Remixed Cherry Blossom''.

%%* WoundedGazelleGambit: Rumia uses this against Reimu.

Alas, the website that held Touhou Ibunshu seems to have gone down permanently, and other website that hold Ibunshu can't be found, meaning that the fanfiction may be LostForever.

* AlternateUniverseFic
* AnatomyOfTheSoul: [[spoiler: Of all people, ''Meiling'' is revealed to be splintered in half, the DumbMuscle, BloodKnight half, and her spiritual, disciplined half (who is much more serene).]]

* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya, and Yuyuko. Remilia and Flandre are also killed and come back, but remain undead.]]

* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:The Scarlet Mist and the Imperishable Night.]]

* IntertwinedFingers: [[spoiler: Alice and Marisa.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Apparently, Rumia, Wriggle, Mystia, and most shockingly, Mokou.]]

* {{Magitek}}: The Lunarians.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Yukari.]] Some things never change.

* [[spoiler: MosesInTheBulrushes: Sakuya is a Lunarian.]]
* MotorMouth: Shanghai

* ThePowerOfLove: All jokes about Marisa's [[WaveMotionGun Master Spark]] aside, a lot of the conflicts in the stories are resolved through love, forgiveness, trust, et cetera. The most common guilty party of this is Yuyuko and [[{{Miko}} Reimu]], though Reimu ''does'' have a harder time forgiving certain people.
** [[LoveMakesYouEvil On the flipside]], perhaps half of the conflicts in the stories are started or enabled because some characters made poor decisions in the name of love. This generally goes to show that the perpetrators aren't evil, simply misguided or afraid.

* SmugSnake: Alice Margatroid and Patchoulli Knowledge.

* TemptingFate: In ''Remorse in Secession's Nobility'', after Eirin explains the cornerstone behind Eientei's defenses to Reisen, she just ''has'' to say:
-->'''Eirin''': The ritual can be undone only by technicality. It’s effectively impenetrable.
** Even more amusing is the fact that the reader can easily and immediately identify several ways in which certain characters can tear apart Eirin's ritual.
* TitleDrop: Not the title of the story however, but the title of the game on which the particular story is based.
* {{Tsundere}}: {{Discussed}} by Yukari about Reimu.
--> “Oh my,” she said. ''“It’s not like I want to hold onto you, stupid Boundary youkai. I’m just afraid of heights, is all!”'' She glanced at Ran. “What was the word for that again?”
** And of course, poor Alice, as shown by a nightmare she had after Remixed Cherry Blossom.
--> [[spoiler: "Here lies Marisa Kirisame. Why did it hurt so bad when I thought she was dead? I don't care that much, I swear I don't."]]

* WhamEpisode: Chapters 7 and 15 of ''Remixed Cherry Blossom''.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Rumia uses against Reimu.

''[[http://usuallydead.com/ Touhou Ibunshu]]'' is a completed FanFiction series by Tyler "usuallydead" Lovell. It is, as the name suggests, an adaptation of the ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' series (exclusively the Windows era, likely due to the PC-98 games being [[RetCon retconned]] [[ContinuityReboot out of existence]]), covering ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', and ''Imperishable Night'', with several side-stories covering the intervening periods, as well as two flashbacks. Each of the main stories (except the ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' adaptation, oddly enough) follow the general plot of the respective game, including the main threat, the characters that embark upon a quest to stop it, and the characters they encounter in a certain order, however the resemblance to the original plots mostly ends there.

The series is ''heavily'' [[AlternateUniverseFic Alternate Universe]], with some of the more drastic changes being the removal of universal flight, danmaku reduced to single-use spellcards, Reimu and Marisa having their PowerLevels dropped to bottom tier (Reimu has to ''borrow'' spellcards from Marisa), and the fact that everyone is speaking English InUniverse. Furthermore, many things are [[DarkFic far darker than normal]], with {{youkai}} that don't simply threaten to [[ToServeMan eat people]], what little combat there is being swift and brutal, and characters entirely willing to use any {{Story Breaker Power}}s to their full extent. Regardless, [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning a happy ending]] is never impossible.

The writing is also excellent, and the characters are far from two-dimensional.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Reimu realizes Suika wasn't exiled for stealing a bottle of sake. [[spoiler:''She was exiled for stealing an artifact of war.'']]

* RestrainingBolt: Laevateinn for Flandre. [[spoiler:Yukari had it pretty much handed to Flan to avoid a reprise of ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'']] . And even with it she's still a terror to fight.

* [[spoiler: MosesInTheBullrushes: Sakuya is a Lunarian.]]

* WaterSourceTampering: [[spoiler:Yukari kills Yuyuko's parents by tossing a dead fairy into the waterhole.]]

* WaterSourceTampering: [[spoiler:Yukari, to ensure the death of Yuyuko's parents, tossed a dead fairy into the waterhole.]]

** [[spoiler: Sakuya ''successfully'' murders both Reimu and Marisa... but she's also key to their resurrection and confronted Yukari afterwards. Reimu still doesn't fully trust her until Sakuya shows she's genuinely trying to fight her darker impulses and tremendously ashamed of her past actions.]]

** [[spoiler: Yukari is by far the most malevolent foe to be forgiven, having manipulated Youmu into stealing spring, grievously abusing her friendship with Yuyuko, and, well, trying to kill Gensokyo in a mad stab at freedom=/=suicide. After her breakdown, she starts by confessing her ''many'' misdeeds and repairing the damage wrought by the winter, fully aware that it's step one at best, with no illusions as to how long earning everyone's forgiveness may take. She also picks on Reimu's depression and loneliness and sends Suika in an honest attempt at easing it.]]

** [[spoiler: Yukari is by far the most malevolent foe to be forgiven, having manipulated Youmu into stealing spring, grievously abusing her friendship with Yuyuko, and, well, trying to kill Gensokyo in a mad stab at freedom. After her breakdown, she starts by confessing her ''many'' misdeeds and repairing the damage wrought by the winter, fully aware that it's step one at best, with no illusions as to how long earning everyone's forgiveness may take. She also picks on Reimu's depression and loneliness and sends Suika in an honest attempt at easing it.]]

** [[spoiler:Remilia's scarlet mist in ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'' and Eirin's hiding of the moon in ''Reenactable Night'' were closer to crossings of the GodzillaThreshold than deliberately evil acts - Remi wanted to disperse the explosive energy Flandre was collecting in her dungeon, the latter to deprive Mokou of the catalyst she needed to energize her Kashoyo army. Remilia in particular, being a massive ham and jerk to everyone, realizes how her poor treatment and understanding of her sister nearly ended in catastrophe. While the debacle ends with no deaths, Flandre ends an amnesiac, leaving a contrite Remilia to pick the pieces. Later on, she's likewise forced to acknowledge what a toxic influence she was to Sakuya from moment one and how her unwitting abuse has twisted her. It takes her a lot of effort to actually find how to be forgiven for it.]]

** [[spoiler:Remilia's scarlet mist in ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'' and Eirin's hiding of the moon in ''Reenactable Night'' were closer to crossings of the GodzillaThreshold than deliberately evil acts - Remi wanted to disperse the explosive energy Flandre was collecting in her dungeon, the latter to deprive Mokou of the catalyst she needed to energize her Kashoyo army. Remilia in particular, being a massive ham and jerk to everyone, realizes how her poor treatment and understanding of her sister nearly ended in catastrophe. While the debacle ends with no deaths, Flandre ends an amnesiac, leaving a contrite Remilia to pick the pieces. Later on, she's likewise forced to acknowledge how much she's hurt Sakuya from moment one and how her unwitting abuse has twisted her. It takes her a lot of effort to actually find how to be forgiven for it.]]

** [[spoiler:Remilia's scarlet mist in ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'' and Eirin's hiding of the moon in ''Reenactable Night'' were closer to crossings of the GodzillaThreshold than deliberately evil acts - Remi wanted to disperse the explosive energy Flandre was collecting in her dungeon, the latter to deprive Mokou of the catalyst she needed to energize her Kashoyo army. Remilia in particular, being a massive jerk to everyone, realizes how much she's hurt Sakuya from moment one and how her unwitting abuse has twisted her, and how her poor treatment of her sister nearly ended in catastrophe. While the debacle ends with no deaths, Flandre ends an amnesiac, leaving a contrite Remilia to pick the pieces.]]

** [[spoiler:Remilia's scarlet mist in ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'' and Eirin's hiding of the moon in ''Reenactable Night'' were closer to crossings of the GodzillaThreshold than deliberately evil acts - Remilia wanted to disperse the explosive energy Flandre was collecting in her dungeon, Eirin to deprive Mokou of the catalyst she needed to energize her Kashoyo army. Remilia in particular realizes how much she's hurt Sakuya from moment one and how her unwitting abuse has twisted her.]]

** [[spoiler:Remilia's scarlet mist in ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'' and Eirin's hiding of the moon in ''Reenactable Night'' were closer to crossings of the GodzillaThreshold than deliberately evil acts - Remilia wanted to disperse the explosive energy Flandre was collecting in her dungeon and Eirin wanted to deprive Mokou of the catalyst she needed to energize her Kashoyo army. Remilia in particular realizes how much she's hurt Sakuya from moment one and how her unwitting abuse has twisted her.]]

* EasilyForgiven: Played with. Forgiveness is a key concept of the series, and antagonists are forgiven from murder to attempted destruction of Gensokyo... but at least part of that is willingness to atone for past misdeeds.
** [[spoiler:Remilia's scarlet mist in ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'' and Eirin's hiding of the moon in ''Reenactable Night'' were closer to crossings of the GodzillaThreshold than deliberately evil acts - Remilia wanted to disperse the explosive energy Flandre was collecting in her dungeon and Eirin wanted to deprive Mokou of the catalyst she needed to energize her Kashoyo army. Eirin even admits that eventually she would've dropped the spell and allowed Mokou to invade, had no other solution come to her in time.]]

** [[spoiler: Yukari is by far the most malevolent foe to be forgiven, having manipulated Youmu into stealing spring, grievously abusing her friendship with Yuyuko (especially considering she also killed her parents) and, well, trying to kill Gensokyo in a mad stab at freedom. After her breakdown, she starts by confessing her ''many'' misdeeds and repairing the damage wrought by the winter, fully aware that it's step one at best, with no illusions as to how long earning everyone's forgiveness may take. She also picks on Reimu's depression and loneliness and sends Suika in an honest attempt at easing it.]]

** [[spoiler:Remilia's scarlet mist in ''Reinterpretation of Scarlet Devil'' and Eirin's hiding of the moon in ''Reenactable Night'' were closer to crossings of the GodzillaThreshold than deliberately evil acts - Remilia wanted to disperse the explosive energy Flandre was collecting in her dungeon and Eirin wanted to deprive Mokou of the catalyst she needed to energize her Kashoyo army.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:[[UnwittingPawn Youmu]] and [[HeroicBSOD Reisen]]]]. Fortunatey, they are [[InterruptedSuicide saved]] by [[spoiler:Yuyuko and [[LittleMissConArtist Tewi,]]]] respectively.

* EasilyForgiven: Played with. Forgiveness is a key concept of the series, and some antagonists are forgiven ''successful'' murder [[ItMakesSenseInContext by the victims]]... but at least part of that is willingness to atone for past misdeeds. [[spoiler:Yukari spends enormous amounts of time and effort to make up for the events of ''Remixed Cherry Blossom'', and Reimu is unwilling to forgive or trust either her or Sakuya until she sees first hand that they are both genuinely remorseful, attempting to make up, and suffering.]]

* EasilyForgiven: Played with. Forgiveness is a key concept of the series, and some antagonists are forgiven ''successful'' murder... but at least part of that is willingness to atone for past misdeeds. [[spoiler:Yukari spends enormous amounts of time and effort to make up for the events of ''Remixed Cherry Blossom'', and Reimu is unwilling to forgive or trust either her or Sakuya until she sees first hand that they are both genuinely remorseful, attempting to make up, and suffering.]]