History FanFic / TouhouIbunshu

* BreakTheHaughty: ''Redemption of Precarious Puppeteer'' has Alice introduce herself as "Gensokyo's number one girl"; the "prettiest, smartest, strongest, classiest lady in all the land". When Reimu visits her in a dream sequence in ''Repose and Inclusive Power'', she finds that [[spoiler:her and Marisa's (temporary) deaths]] in ''Remixed Cherry Blossom'' have not only forced her to realize how much she truly cares for them, but left her in an existential crisis, making her deeply afraid of her eventual demise. Worse still, [[CessationOfExistence being a youkai, she would simply dissolve into nothingness, with no afterlife to look forward to and no corpse to leave behind.]][[note]]Canon would later reveal this to be partially true; in ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'', Marisa notes that youkai don't leave corpses when they die, but rather disappear (though this may or may not be true for magicians like Alice, who have human-like bodies). However, Eiki's lectures in ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKaeidzukaPhantasmagoriaOfFlowerView Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' imply that, as well as having ''some'' kind of natural lifespan, youkai will pass into an afterlife just as humans will upon their deaths.[[/note]]

* ImplacableMan: The Kashoyo. [[spoiler:A group attacks Patchouli and Koakuma when they're taking a stroll, only to be literally shredded to pieces when the former uses a spellcard invoking the power of an ''assault rifle''. The remains literally [[PullingThemselvesTogether pull themselves together]] into a coherent mass, this time human-sized. Remilia has to use a specialized card that tears them apart to the point their material capacity's damaged to the point they can no longer reform.]]

* ImplacableMan: The Kashoyo. [[spoiler:A group attacks Patchouli and Koakuma when they're taking a stroll, only to be literally shredded to pieces when the former uses a spellcard invoking the power of an ''assault rifle''. The remains literally [[PullingThemselvesTogether pull themselves together]] into a coherent mass, this time human-sized. Remilia has to use a specialized card that tears them apart from a conceptual level, preventing them from reforming.]]

* LargeHam: Per canon, Remilia. ''Unlike'' canon, though, this comes back to bite her. '''''Hard.'''''

* ZombieApocalypse: The Kashoyo. Mokou's been making them for ages, but she's been learning how to make more and more of them, and it seems the spillover are now appearing more and more often in random parts of Gensokyo instead of attacking Eientei.

* BreakTheHaughty: Alice introduces herself as "Gensokyo's number one girl"; the "prettiest, smartest, strongest, classiest lady in all the land". When Reimu visits her in a dream sequence in ''Repose and Inclusive Power'', she finds that [[spoiler:her and Marisa's (temporary) deaths]] in ''Remixed Cherry Blossom'' have not only forced her to realize how much she truly cares for them, but left her in an existential crisis, making her deeply afraid of her own eventual demise. Worse still, [[CessationOfExistence being a youkai, she would simply dissolve into nothingness, with no afterlife to look forward to and no corpse to leave behind.]]

* DeadlyPrank: Tewi nearly causes the destruction of Eientei and the death of Reisen through a prank she pulls on Reisen.

* BreakTheHaughty: Alice introduces herself as "Gensokyo's number one girl"; the "prettiest, smartest, strongest, classiest lady in all the land". [[spoiler:When Reimu visits her in a dream sequence in ''Repose and Inclusive Power'', she finds that her and Marisa's (temporary) deaths forced her to realize not only how much she truly cares for them, but that her own end would eventually come. Worse still, [[CessationOfExistence being a youkai, she would simply dissolve into nothingness, with no afterlife to look forward to and no corpse to leave behind.]]]]

* ''Erroneous Paradisaical Inception''

%%* AlternateUniverseFic

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

%%* SmugSnake: Alice Margatroid and Patchoulli Knowledge.

* MagicallyBindingContract: The Shikigami Rite is carefully examined. Both Master and Servant have duties and obligations they have to obey, and the contract makes it so it's far harder to violate its spirit rather than the word. [[spoiler: For example, when Ran realizes Yukari is suicidal, the Rite empowers her with Yukari's own power when they begin fighting, because in spite of her spoken orders, she ''[[DeathSeeker really]]'' wants to die.]]

* IntertwinedFingers: [[spoiler: Alice and Marisa in ''Redemption of Precarious Puppeteer.]]

* RealityEnsues: For starters, the Incidents are, literally, doomsday scenarios: the Scarlet Mist [[spoiler:(and worse, Flandre's original plan to ''nuke'' Gensokyo)]], TheNightThatNeverEnds, SpringIsLate - they are all capable of killing everything within the Barrier. Sakuya's time stop abilities make her almost unstoppable, capable of killing the protagonists in an instant [[spoiler:(which she ''does'' in the second arc)]]. Flandre's isolation-driven insanity and Mokou's immortality-driven insanity are not quirky or a chance for quick angst, it's terrifyingly tragic and does irreversible damage to their psyche. Instead of being a Drunken Master Suika is just TheAlcoholic, being just as useless as most people are when they're drunk. Sanae, much like canon, is taken from the mundane into Gensokyo, a wonderful world full of magic and monsters, and she's utterly terrified and nearly dies several times due to inexperience and ignorance.

* MedievalStasis: Technology has hardly gone past the "feudal Japan" stage. Granted, the magic is so great that inventing machines would be uneccessary. (They even have magical lightbulbs!) Additionally, Gensokyo's denizens have adapted to the English language. English is referred to as "the new language", while Japanese is referred to as "the old language".

* HeavySleeper: As per canon, Yukari. Ran shamefully admits the lengths she went to wake her up during the Scarlet Mist Incident, including ''pitching her over a cliff''. It didn't work.
* HiddenDepths: Sakuya hates Reimu and Marisa well into ''Remixed Cherry Blossom'', apparently simply because they beat her. [[spoiler:Actually, when they defeated Remilia and Flandre, they triggered their CharacterDevelopment, indirectly making them better people. Sakuya, who had lived her entire life under Remilia's delusions of grandeur, was devastated to know everything she thought she knew about her mistress and the house she served was a lie.]]

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

* StylisticSuck: ''Requim Biblioliphic'' is written by [[SmugSnake Patchoulli]] and as a result, smothered in PurpleProse. Tyler admitted in one of his blog entries that on of his favorite parts was trying to find how much PurpleProse he could shove into the text.

* BadassAdorable: Chen. [[spoiler:She's willing to go against ''Yukari'' of all people when she's poised to kill Ran.]]

* FieldPowerEffect: During ''Reenactable Night'', Eirin detects Yukari's use of gaps. Not knowing who it is or her intentions, Mokou's warning leaves her with little choice but to follow the battleplan she'd worked out, and she modifies Eientei's barrier to prevent her from using her gaps, though once they manage to sort stuff out, Eirin drops the field to allow Yukari to bring in more allies.

* FieldPowerEffect: During ''Reenactable Night'', Eirin detects Yukari's use of gaps. Not knowing who it is or her intentions, Mokou's warning leaves her with little choice but to follow the battleplan she'd worked out, and she modifies Eientei's barrier to prevent her from using her gaps, though once they manage to sort stuff out, she drops the field to allow her to bring in more allies.

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:When Sakuya meets Reimu in Hakugyokuro, she has crossed the horizon and in the process embraced the worst aspects of her personality. Later on Meiling's splintered half recognizes Reimu was left ''heartbroken'' by the experience, leading to a massive depression she only began to climb out of with the help of everyone she'd met so far.]]

* DeadlyPrank: Tewi nearly causes the destruction of Eintei and the death of Reisen through a prank she pulls on Reisen.

* StealthPun: At one point, Reimu finds Remilia in the mansion's conservatory, where she's playing the organ. While she's actually very good, Remilia comments the song isn't very good since she's missing six instruments. This is a reference to her canon self's {{leitmotif}}, ''Septette for the Dead Princess''.

* StealthPun: At one point, Reimu finds Remilia in the mansion's conservatory, where she's playing the organ. While she's actually very good, Remilia comments the song isn't very good since she's missing six instruments. This is a reference to her canon self's {{letimotif}}, ''Septette for the Dead Princess''.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted in-universe. 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 suffers a brutal VillainousBSOD instead. Yukari later confesses to Ran that the very next moment she realized that no matter the circumstances, hurting Chen then would have been an utterly irredeemable act and that had she gone through, she would have spent the rest of her life hating herself.]]