History Fanfic / ADollsHeart

* DarkFic: For a Project Moon fanwork, it's rather tame and the original anime has shown little hesitance showing war flashbacks, but the very fact that this is set in [[CrapsackWorld the City]] makes it this. A very good example is Binah. [[spoiler: Whereas Retzel comes to terms with her fate in the beginning of episode 6, Binah is almost restricted to the top floor and needs someone's help in order ''not to commit suicide'']]. While, in the original anime, the InsertSong in episode 5 is simply about a lost cat in the rain, the InsertSong in chapter 5 in this story is ''Dareka no Shinzou ni Nareta nara'' which full lyrics detail the struggle with the fragility of life and coping. The specific bit in the story itself is about how the City and its people are Distorted and a CrapSackWorld.

* TheCameo: Neither of them are named by the story itself, but there are several.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Every character has a color associated with them. Malkuth is associated with four of them instead (citrine, russet, olive and black). No one comments on this.

* NominalImportance: The characters in TheCameo entry are all known to anyone who's played ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', and even when the main characters say their names, the story ''flat out refuses to name them''. A notable exception to this are the Head agents and the three from Hana, likely because of their positions of power, thus this trope.

* AdaptationDistillation: There is no pet cat (since the cafe is not named Kuronekotei) and Inaba doesn't appear in the story. Instead, [[spoiler: Malkuth sabotages the light in chapter 8 all by herself]].

-->'''Gekka''': Welcome at Kuronekot-
-->'''[[spoiler: Enoch]]''': Welcome at Inochi n-

* DarkFic: For a Project Moon fanwork, it's rather tame and the original anime has shown little hesitance showing war flashbacks, but the very fact that this is set in [[CrapsackWorld the City]] makes it this. A very good example is Binah. [[spoiler: Whereas Retzel comes to terms with her fate in the beginning of episode 6, Binah is almost restricted to the top floor and needs someone's help in order ''not to commit suicide'']].
** While in the original anime, the InsertSong in episode 5 is simply about a lost cat in the rain, the InsertSong in chapter 5 in this story is ''Dareka no Shinzou ni Nareta nara'' which full lyrics detail the struggle with the fragility of life and coping. The specific bit in the story itself is about how the City and its people are Distorted and a CrapSackWorld.
-->''The City and its people are Distorted''
-->''[It's] full of monsters, I realized''
-->''Their foolishness rooted in desire''
-->''Those eyes see everything''

-->'''Netzach''': You seem kind of down.
-->'''Yesod''': What do you mean, 'down'? I'm up and running right now.
-->'''Netzach''': [[{{Beat}} ...]]I should rephrase that. [...]

* InsistentTerminology: The fact that they are ''automata'' is put in to differentiate from the people that willingly turn their body into a robotic one. Aside from that, they are also consistently described as being dolls and never as robots or androids. This gives them a much more LivingToys air to them than it would otherwise. This is something that matches with the source anime, that also does this.
-->'''Chesed''': You could clearly see that we're essentially human-sized ball-jointed dolls.
-->'''[[spoiler: Enoch]]''': You know I don't need such an abundant meal, right? I'm a doll.

* ShipTease: Yesod really, ''really'' cares about Malkuth. He spends most of the time she's away worrying about her, [[CantSpitItOut but doesn't admit it outright]]. When he [[spoiler: arrives at the Church of Gears base, he shouts how he won't let them hurt Malkuth despite the fact that she was far from the only one present]]. He also clearly displays AngerBornOfWorry to her. In chapter 8, this is turned up to eleven as they set out together on a mission.

* ShownTheirWork: There are a ''lot'' of [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Kabbalistic]] influences, from how Malkuth wears four colors to how the cafe is built up - Malkuth as the protagonist as Asiyah is the material world, the lowest floor being commonly accessible as Yetzirah represents a broader world, the middle floor being only rentable as Briah is less accessible to us, and with the upper floor being off limits for guests as Atziluth is the emanative, divine world.

-->[[spoiler: '''Hod''': Oh, you...not annoying at all. In fact, I...thank you. Now I...not afraid...anything anymore]].

* ArtStyleDissonance: As seen on the character page, the art style used for the characters is very cartoony, with relatively BigAnimeEyes and bright, unshaded colors, which doesn't convey the CrapSackWorld these characters belong in. It does, however, show how odd their dresscode [[note]] The designs are relatively in line with those from the original anime, but the latter had multiple character designers whereas this story is all made by one person [[/note]] is, which is otherwise only shortly touched upon in chapter 8, when [[spoiler: Nemo briefly calls Malkuth 'another weirdly-dressed tourist']]. It also does a good job on [[spoiler: hiding their true, rather gruesome nature of being mechanical prisons made to trap souls of deceased humans]].

A ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'' fanfic that follows an AlternateUniverse, combined with part of the worldbuilding and story of the {{Anime}} ''Prima Doll''. It starts with an unnamed protagonist, waking up in a strange cafe [[OntologicalMystery without any idea as to how she got there]]. Gradually, it is revealed that she is Malkuth, and an [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots automata]] who had her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia episodic memory erased]] for a yet unknown reason. As she and her co-workers maintain the cafe, they try finding their role in the [[CrapSackWorld world]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: For a Project Moon fanwork, it's rather tame and the original anime has shown little hesitance showing war flashbacks, but the very fact that this is set in [[CrapsackWorld the City]] makes it this. A very good example is Binah. [[spoiler: Whereas Retzel comes to terms with her fate in the beginning of episode 6, Binah is almost restricted to the top floor and needs someone's help in order ''not to commit suicide'']].

* ShoutOut: All chapters are named after episodes from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. Because said episodes were named after lines spoken in the episode itself, these lines are also uttered within the episodes (or thought, as is the case in chapter 4). The exact significance of this is unknown.

* ArtStyleDissonance: As seen on the character page, the art style used for the characters is very cartoony, with relatively BigAnimeEyes and bright, unshaded colors, which doesn't convey the CrapSackWorld these characters belong in. It does, however, show how odd their dresscode [[note]] The designs are relarively in line with those from the original anime, but the latter had multiple character designers whereas this story is all made by one person [[/note]] is, which is otherwise only shortly touched upon in chapter 8, when [[spoiler: Nemo briefly calls Malkuth 'another weirdly-dressed tourist']]. It also does a good job on [[spoiler: hiding their true, rather gruesome nature of being mechanical prisons made to trap souls of deceased humans]].

* ArtStyleDissonance: As seen on the character page, the art style used for the characters is very cartoony, with relatively BigAnimeEyes and bright, unshaded colors, which doesn't convey the CrapSackWorld these characters belong in. It does, however, show how odd their dresscode is, which is otherwise only shortly touched upon in chapter 8, when [[spoiler: Nemo briefly calls Malkuth 'another weirdly-dressed tourist']]. It also does a good job on [[spoiler: hiding their true, rather gruesome nature of being mechanical prisons made to trap souls of deceased humans]].