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* TheNineties: CAPS is set in 1998.



* AliensAreBastards: The Furrow Dubs pretty much epitomize this trope.
* AlienInvasion: See above.
* AMinorKidroduction: Opens with Cirno telling a story about how much he hated mowing the lawn as a kid.
* AnachronicOrder: As detailed above.

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* %%* AliensAreBastards: The Furrow Dubs pretty much epitomize this trope.
* %%* AlienInvasion: See above.
* AMinorKidroduction: Opens with Cirno telling a story about how much he hated mowing the lawn as a kid.
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%%* AnachronicOrder: As detailed above.



* CrossingTheDesert: To a minor extent, Cirno does this in search of Demons, though he's more preoccupied with VideoGame/SuperMarioLand.

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* CrossingTheDesert: To a minor extent, Cirno does this in search of Demons, though he's more preoccupied with VideoGame/SuperMarioLand.''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand''.



* HighPressureBlood: During fight scenes.

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* %%* HighPressureBlood: During fight scenes.scenes.
%%* TheInsomniac: Claire.



* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Purple Steve. Also, explanations as to what the Furrow Dubs are and do.
* KubrickStare: Fullmoon Scarlet's permanent expression.

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* %%* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Purple Steve. Also, explanations as to what the Furrow Dubs are and do.
* %%* KubrickStare: Fullmoon Scarlet's permanent expression.



* LikeIsLikeAComma: Blue Bob uses this constantly, others occasionally.

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* %%* LikeIsLikeAComma: Blue Bob uses this constantly, others occasionally.



* MametSpeak: Often close, and definitely in Cirno and Claire's conversation from chapter 7.
* MookFaceTurn: Cirno uses this in chapter 11.

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* %%* MametSpeak: Often close, and definitely in Cirno and Claire's conversation from chapter 7.
* AMinorKidroduction: Opens with Cirno telling a story about how much he hated mowing the lawn as a kid.
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MookFaceTurn: Cirno uses this in chapter 11.



* OneManArmy: Cirno is this in chapter 6.

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* %%* OneManArmy: Cirno is this in chapter 6.



* PopCulturedBadass: When he isn't playing Franchise/{{Pokemon}} and spouting lengthy anecdotes about why he eats {{Cheerios}}, Cirno single-handedly massacres entire armies of demons.
* PosthumousCharacter: Cirno's older brother is quickly becoming one.

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* PopCulturedBadass: When he isn't playing Franchise/{{Pokemon}} ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' and spouting lengthy anecdotes about why he eats {{Cheerios}}, Cheerios, Cirno single-handedly massacres entire armies of demons.
* %%* PosthumousCharacter: Cirno's older brother is quickly becoming one.



* RebelliousSpirit: Cirno is one to a point of [[ChaoticNeutral chaotic neutrality]].
* RousingSpeech: A really strange one at the end of chapter 5.
* SerialKiller: Fullmoon Scarlet.
* ShoutOut: In chapter 1, a shout-out to VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue: "I found a Game Boy in working condition, which posed a dangerous distraction when I’d already kicked Gary Oak’s ass before remembering why I was outside."

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* %%* RebelliousSpirit: Cirno is one to a point of [[ChaoticNeutral chaotic neutrality]].
* %%* RousingSpeech: A really strange one at the end of chapter 5.
* %%* SerialKiller: Fullmoon Scarlet.
* ShoutOut: In chapter 1, a shout-out to VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue: ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': "I found a Game Boy in working condition, which posed a dangerous distraction when I’d already kicked Gary Oak’s ass before remembering why I was outside."



** Also from chapter 3, "It sounded like the usual kind of loony story you might get from people hauling ass down Route 95," is a shout-out to Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from VideoGame/{{Touhou}} and Excalibur from Manga/SoulEater.

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** Also from chapter 3, "It sounded like the usual kind of loony story you might get from people hauling ass down Route 95," is a shout-out to Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas.
''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from VideoGame/{{Touhou}} ''Franchise/TouhouProject and Excalibur from Manga/SoulEater.''Manga/SoulEater''.



* {{Sidekick}}: Purple Steve.

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* %%* {{Sidekick}}: Purple Steve.



* StartsWithASuicide: The Kelvin and Blue Bob side-plot.

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* %%* StartsWithASuicide: The Kelvin and Blue Bob side-plot.



* TakeThat: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} after finding out how much more popular it is than Creator/CartoonNetwork. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.

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* TakeThat: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} after finding out how much more popular it is than Creator/CartoonNetwork. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.



* TheInsomniac: Claire.
* TheNineties: CAPS is set in 1998.



* TheWarSequence: Chapter 6.



* VolleyingInsults: If Claire doesn't like you, a conversation with her will likely end this way.

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* %%* VolleyingInsults: If Claire doesn't like you, a conversation with her will likely end this way.way.
%%* TheWarSequence: Chapter 6.
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* ABoyAndHisX: Cirno and his Lightning Rod Thing.

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* TakeThat: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching {{Nickelodeon}} after finding out how much more popular it is than Creator/CartoonNetwork. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.

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* TakeThat: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching {{Nickelodeon}} {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} after finding out how much more popular it is than Creator/CartoonNetwork. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.
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** In chapter 3: "The “news,” as it has a nerve to call itself, is, in the great words of Perry Farrell, “just another show.”" references the lyrics to Ted, Just Admit It... by JanesAddiction from their Nothing's Shocking album.

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** In chapter 3: "The “news,” as it has a nerve to call itself, is, in the great words of Perry Farrell, “just another show.”" references the lyrics to Ted, Just Admit It... by JanesAddiction Music/JanesAddiction from their Nothing's Shocking album.
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** Also from chapter 3, "It sounded like the usual kind of loony story you might get from people hauling ass down Route 95," is a shout-out to FearAndLoathingInLasVegas.

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** Also from chapter 3, "It sounded like the usual kind of loony story you might get from people hauling ass down Route 95," is a shout-out to FearAndLoathingInLasVegas.Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas.
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* UnspokenPlan: Used in chapter 11. An odd case in that there is no set-up for the plan.
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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Cirno hangs out and plays DungeonsAndDragons with Fullmoon Scarlet shortly after learning that the latter is a horrible murderer.

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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Cirno hangs out and plays DungeonsAndDragons ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' with Fullmoon Scarlet shortly after learning that the latter is a horrible murderer.



* FriendlessBackground: Cirno didn't have any friends until meeting Fullmoon Scarlet and the DungeonsAndDragons group in middle school.

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* FriendlessBackground: Cirno didn't have any friends until meeting Fullmoon Scarlet and the DungeonsAndDragons ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' group in middle school.



* LimitedSocialCircle: Cirno's pool of friends seems to consist solely of people who were in his old DungeonsAndDragons group and former friends of his late brother.

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* LimitedSocialCircle: Cirno's pool of friends seems to consist solely of people who were in his old DungeonsAndDragons ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' group and former friends of his late brother.
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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from {{Touhou}} and Excalibur from Manga/SoulEater.

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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from {{Touhou}} VideoGame/{{Touhou}} and Excalibur from Manga/SoulEater.
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* LikeIsLikeAComma: Blue Bob uses this constantly, others occasionally.

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* LikeIsLikeAComma: Blue Bob uses this constantly, others occasionally.



* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from {{Touhou}} and Excalibur from SoulEater.

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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from {{Touhou}} and Excalibur from SoulEater.Manga/SoulEater.



* TakeThat: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching {{Nickelodeon}} after finding out how much more popular it is than CartoonNetwork. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.

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* TakeThat: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching {{Nickelodeon}} after finding out how much more popular it is than CartoonNetwork.Creator/CartoonNetwork. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.
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Namespacing.


* PopCulturedBadass: When he isn't playing {{Pokemon}} and spouting lengthy anecdotes about why he eats {{Cheerios}}, Cirno single-handedly massacres entire armies of demons.

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* PopCulturedBadass: When he isn't playing {{Pokemon}} Franchise/{{Pokemon}} and spouting lengthy anecdotes about why he eats {{Cheerios}}, Cirno single-handedly massacres entire armies of demons.
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->I rose to my feet with a start, suddenly full of resolve.
->“I guess that pretty much decides it, then.”
->“Erm… decides what?”
->I smiled. “You and I have to go on an adventure.”
-->-'' '''Cirno & Purple Steve''', chapter 3''

[[http://cirnoandpurplesteve.wordpress.com/ Cirno & Purple Steve]] is the story of Cirno Excalibur, who found a pole in his back yard, got struck by weird lightning, and went with his new talking pole to go fight the demons.

CAPS is a WebSerialNovel created by Conrad and Shade Collins, written by the former, and illustrated by Victor Collins. It updates on Mondays, though the schedule has been inconsistent.

The story is told in AnachronicOrder, jumping between the main story of Cirno and Purple Steve's demon-slaying adventure, backstories, and the story of Kelvin and Blue Bob. The main story itself is also rife with erratic {{Time Skip}}s and occasional skipped chapters.

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!!Tropes used in CAPS

* ABoyAndHisX: Cirno and his Lightning Rod Thing.
* AliensAreBastards: The Furrow Dubs pretty much epitomize this trope.
* AlienInvasion: See above.
* AMinorKidroduction: Opens with Cirno telling a story about how much he hated mowing the lawn as a kid.
* AnachronicOrder: As detailed above.
* {{Backstory}}: All "Part Negative" chapters tell pieces of the backstory.
* BlackComedy: There sure are a lot of dead people in this comedy...
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In chapter 2, “It’s a long story, with roots in childhood trauma. I don’t feel like telling it again, so I suggest you refer to Chapter One.”
** Again in chapter 7, also in response to a question about why Cirno was holding a garden hose attachment in a rainstorm. “Long story. I recommend consulting Chapter Two.” The fourth wall is rather flimsy in this series all-around.
** In chapter 1degreeR: "Unexpectedly—unless you’re a Cirno and Purple Steve fan—the staff responded."
* BrilliantButLazy: Cirno explains in chapter 5 that he didn't want to do schoolwork growing up because he preferred to spend his time drawing pictures and didn't care about school. When he was threatened by his father to do better in school or get a job, he went all-out and graduated with an above-4.0 GPA and many scholarships, and was the class valedictorian. During his graduation speech, he said, "can I go back to drawing pictures now?"
* CallBack: The end of chapter 1degreeR calls back to the end of chapter 1.
* CharacterFilibuster: Cirno is known to break into these on a whim, and even starts the story with one.
* CrossingTheDesert: To a minor extent, Cirno does this in search of Demons, though he's more preoccupied with VideoGame/SuperMarioLand.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Combined with HarmfulToMinors with Cirno. Everyone in his family seems to have died in some kind of terrifying way, mostly when he was quite young, and his best friend in middle school was a psycho killer.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Cirno hangs out and plays DungeonsAndDragons with Fullmoon Scarlet shortly after learning that the latter is a horrible murderer.
* DisregardThatStatement: When Cirno admits that the whole beginning of chapter 5 is a [[spoiler: lie]]
* DistractingDisambiguation: Subverted—Cirno interrupts Purple Steve for using the correct term, "Furrow Dubs," asking that he use the term "Demons" because it "sounds better."
* DysfunctionJunction: No one in this story exhibits socially acceptable behavior, usually because their friends are all dead or insane.
* EnergyBeings: Purple Steve is a being made of PureEnergy.
* EnergyWeapon: Purple Steve can be used as one, most often in a way similar to that of a LaserBlade.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Claire Itou is introduced through an enraged internet flame war which basically displays her permanent attitude (pissed).
** Fullmoon Scarlet: "“Say, Fullmoon? Is, uh… is that blood?” I asked, very shaken, but still resolute enough to humor myself. “Yes, Cirno. Yes it is.” And with that, he stepped into the room, took off his shoes and backpack, and plopped himself down on one of the crimson sofas. “Come on in,” he beckoned."
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Cirno most of the time. In response to Fullmoon's EstablishingCharacterMoment, he details: "Upon sights like this, some people are unable to retain their rational mind. They think, “my God, this child is the spawn of hell!” or, “I’m going to be killed!” or simply, “AAAAAAAAH!!!” These, however, were not my reactions."
* FriendlessBackground: Cirno didn't have any friends until meeting Fullmoon Scarlet and the DungeonsAndDragons group in middle school.
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: Justified in chapter 11 because it actually takes place in a featureless plane.
* GrailInTheGarbage: While not special in and of itself, the garden hose attachment that Purple Steve takes over was a random piece of garbage tossed into Cirno's overly long grass. Other good stuff is found there as well, such as a Game Boy and a hollowed-out moose skull that Cirno turns into an instrument.
* HandWave: We know ''what'' Purple Steve is and what he can do. ''Why'' and ''how'' he is and can, we don't need to know.
* HighPressureBlood: During fight scenes.
* InterruptedSuicide: Subverted in that Kelvin does actually die in his introduction, but is immediately resurrected by Blue Bob.
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Purple Steve. Also, explanations as to what the Furrow Dubs are and do.
* KubrickStare: Fullmoon Scarlet's permanent expression.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Cirno uses this in chapter 2 during Purple Steve's chain of {{Infodump}}s.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Purple Steve is primarily a lightning bolt and can do pretty much anything you imagine lightning doing so long as there's a conductive current nearby.
* LikeIsLikeAComma: Blue Bob uses this constantly, others occasionally.
* LimitedSocialCircle: Cirno's pool of friends seems to consist solely of people who were in his old DungeonsAndDragons group and former friends of his late brother.
* MametSpeak: Often close, and definitely in Cirno and Claire's conversation from chapter 7.
* MookFaceTurn: Cirno uses this in chapter 11.
* MrExposition: Purple Steve, being the only one who can explain most of the story's supernatural aspects.
* MysteriousEmployer: Whoever Narita Izaya was talking to at the end of chapter 8.
* OneManArmy: Cirno is this in chapter 6.
* PerpetualExpression: Fullmoon's KubrickStare.
* PhlebotinumBattery: With Blue Bob, Kelvin has superpowers. Without him, his heart will stop.
* PlayingBothSides: Narita Izaya seems to be doing this.
* PlotParallel: Kelvin and Blue Bob run an obvious parallel to Cirno and Purple Steve
* PopCulturedBadass: When he isn't playing {{Pokemon}} and spouting lengthy anecdotes about why he eats {{Cheerios}}, Cirno single-handedly massacres entire armies of demons.
* PosthumousCharacter: Cirno's older brother is quickly becoming one.
* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Subverted. The dialog is fairly heavy with realistic diction.
* RebelliousSpirit: Cirno is one to a point of [[ChaoticNeutral chaotic neutrality]].
* RousingSpeech: A really strange one at the end of chapter 5.
* SerialKiller: Fullmoon Scarlet.
* ShoutOut: In chapter 1, a shout-out to VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue: "I found a Game Boy in working condition, which posed a dangerous distraction when I’d already kicked Gary Oak’s ass before remembering why I was outside."
** In chapter 2, the Tape Man story is based on real events surrounding the series creators, as they'd used a similar tape man in a series of web videos called Project Awesomeness.
** In chapter 3: "The “news,” as it has a nerve to call itself, is, in the great words of Perry Farrell, “just another show.”" references the lyrics to Ted, Just Admit It... by JanesAddiction from their Nothing's Shocking album.
** Also from chapter 3, "It sounded like the usual kind of loony story you might get from people hauling ass down Route 95," is a shout-out to FearAndLoathingInLasVegas.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from {{Touhou}} and Excalibur from SoulEater.
** Each chapter title is named after a song that the author was listening to while writing the chapter.
* {{Sidekick}}: Purple Steve.
* SirSwearsalot: Claire Itou, although everyone in the story swears frequently.
* StartsWithASuicide: The Kelvin and Blue Bob side-plot.
* SuperDetailedFightNarration: Compared to the rest of the story, which has very little in the way of describing anything.
* TakeThat: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching {{Nickelodeon}} after finding out how much more popular it is than CartoonNetwork. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.
* TalkingToTheDead: Cirno ended up doing this when he was locked in a room for a week with Fullmoon's dead parents.
* TheInsomniac: Claire.
* TheNineties: CAPS is set in 1998.
* TheTower: The first demon base that Cirno finds is in Chase Tower, the tallest building in Houston, Texas.
* TheWarSequence: Chapter 6.
* UnreliableNarrator: Cirno, to such an extent that he outright admits to lying about certain things.
* UnspokenPlan: Used in chapter 11. An odd case in that there is no set-up for the plan.
* UnusualChapterNumbers: Chapters in Part Negative use negative numbers relative to how far before the story's beginning they take place. Chapters in Part Temperature end in [=DegreesR=], the measurement for temperature on the Kelvin Scale.
* UnusualDysphemism: Many of them, especially from Claire, whose first line includes the phrase "fuckstick bitchMcNugget."
* VolleyingInsults: If Claire doesn't like you, a conversation with her will likely end this way.
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