History Music / SoundHorizon

* ZettaiRyouiki: Layla is a Grade A after her [[http://sh-whitecrow.com/wiki/images/b/be/Official-layla02.jpg transformation.]]

** "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete" prevents the protagonist of "Stardust" from ''Elysion'' from becoming a murderous madwoman by...[[spoiler:[[SuddenlySexuality having her realize that she is a lesbian.]] After numerous heartbreaks she finally turned her interests somewhere else other than fruitlessly chasing love: taking care of abused children!]] Yay! Best outcome in the entire album...[[spoiler: up until you notice that without her, The Masked Man will never be able to be reunited with his daughter Elys.]]

* SuddenlySexuality: In no instances of [[spoiler: "Stardust"]] does ''anyone'' actually get the indication that Stella [[spoiler: likes women]] until [[spoiler: "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete"]] comes out (no pun intended).

* VoiceTypes: Kathleen, voiced by theatre veteran Hanayo Kimura, is a soprano, befitting her role as the optimistic and determined heroine.

* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:One's been arranged for an older Elisabeth, as indicated by "Within this Small Birdcage".]]

* TheBlackDeath

* CreepyDoll: Elise.
* DarkIsNotEvil

* DyingCurse: [[spoiler: Therese as she is burnt at the stake]]. "But I have been wishing for naught / even my transient moment of light / has been plundered away for laughs. / Just look at this comical play! / In that case, I shall be a real witch to eternally curse this world."
* GratuitousGerman
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Elisabeth stated this clearly in "Kono Semai Torikago no Naka de".
-->"I always wanted to have friends\\
But I don't know what such things were"
* IllGirl: Elisabeth until she was cured.
* TheIngenue: Elisabeth

* MamaBear: Therese. [[spoiler: How could she not be, after engaging at once in a swordfight two men who threw her son down a well?]]

* SeparatedByTheWall: März and Elisabeth

* ThrownDownAWell: [[spoiler:März. Literally.]]

* Creator/TheBrothersGrimm

* ClingyJealousGirl: Elise until she was [[spoiler: spurned]]

* CreepyDoll: Elise

* {{Determinator}}: Elisabeth [[spoiler:chose death over being tied into a loveless marriage]]
* DisappearedDad: The father in "Kakei no Majo".
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Neither the Blue Prince in "Garasu No Hitsugi De Nemuru Himegimi" nor the Red Prince in "Bara No Tou De Nemuru Himegimi" seem to care that their brides to be are comatose, if not outright dead.

* FairyTale: The seven revenge songs are based on one

* FantasyTavern: Kurokitsunetei
* ForeignCussWord: In "Kuroki Okami No Yado", the Landlady shouts "Scheiße!"
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The nun in "Kakei No Majo". [[spoiler:Well, her only friends are animals, though.]]

* GhostAmnesia: Märchen [[spoiler:remembers nothing of his life as März, until Elisabeth causes him to remember.]]

* GratuitousGerman: Oh yes. For starters, the title of the album is German for "fairytale".

* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Humanitarian]]: The landlady in "Kuroki Okami No Yado" serves up human meat at her inn, although it's largely because there's not much else available.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]]

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Märchen

* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:Apparently Elisabeth's love is the one that makes Märchen remembers all of his past.]]

* MeaningfulEcho: "Mother, the light is warm."

* NoNameGiven: All of the seven dead princesses, save for Literature/SnowWhite and [[spoiler:Elizabeth]].

* OffingTheOffspring: The mother in "Kakei no Majo" does this.

* PainfulTransformation: If his screams are any indication, then März turning into Märchen probably isn't a very relaxing procedure. The fact that he's integrating Id into himself at the same time doesn't help in the mental aspect.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Gretel's overactive imagination leads her to believe that the old woman feeding them is actually a witch [[IAmAHumanitarian planning to eat them.]]

* PrinceCharming: The Red and Blue Princes.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]]

* WickedStepmother: Schneewittchen's and the well girl's step mother fell into this category. The Landlady could fall into this category too. [[AmbiguousGender Or maybe not]].

* HairDecorations: Elise, Swing Girl (from "Kuroki Okami No Yado"), Snow White, Well Girl ("Sei To Shi Wo Wakatsu Kyoukai No Furuido"), Sleeping Beauty, and Elisabeth fall into this category.

* UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}}: Tsadi and the Gitana sisters.

* WomanInWhite: Luna (not to be confused with Luna Ballad from track 2), Stella's "rival", with a light blonde hair to match.

* EverythingIsBetterWithPrincesses: About half of the girls have no ties to royalty, but that doesn't stop Märchen from calling them the "seven dead princesses".

* PurpleEyes: Elef has, in Isadora's words, "Amethyst eyes that invite death."

* RockOpera: Many of their story albums, none of which are keen on sticking to the RockOperaPlot.

* HeroicAlbino: März is implied to have albinism (white hair, red eyes, vision problems, etc.).

* MyOwnGrampa: One of the Seven Dead Princesses that Märchen helps to enact her revenge of is a nun, who manipulates Hansel and Gretel into killing her mother. Inspired by their action of killing the 'witch', Hansel and his friend Thomas then becomes witch hunters that will kill Therese and throw März into a well, both things that would give birth to Elise and Märchen respectively.

* BeneathTheMask: Noël states that he used to put up a "tough guy" façade in order to cope with all the persecution surrounding him. His interview session with Yamaguchi revealed that he was actually a very lonely individual who was desperately seeking for someone who truly loved him.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The part where Noël describes his childhood to Yamaguchi in the third track is accompanied by a [[LyricalDissonance dissonantly bubbly children's chorus]] and, yes, [[ShoutOut the Tetris theme, Korobeiniki]]. Noël was apparently drunk with vodka at the time, [[DrowningMySorrows as it's hard for him to tell the whole thing while sober.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. As of this single, there are now officially two characters named Noël [[EpilepticTrees (possibly three)]] in the Sound Horizon universe, the other being Hiver Laurant's sister in Roman and, if the two were indeed a different person, the mysterious author in "Ori no Naka no Hana".

** As if that wasn't bad enough, the letter Noël found in his grandmother's drawers [[spoiler:implied that his mother regretted giving birth to him. [[WildMassGuessing The letter's actual meaning could be interpreted in multiple ways, however.]]]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Noël's hair is silver. Meanwhile, marie*marie has a dark purple one.

** [[spoiler: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by Nöel at the last moment in "Saihate no L". He believes that even though his life sucks ass, he would never give up the countless support he had received throughout the years from his friends and fans, even for a better world.]]
* AnachronicOrder: This is the ''9th'' album, guys, not the ''8th''.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Yep, Elisabeth's [[BigBrotherBully brother]], [[UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire the Prince-Elector of Saxony]], is ''still'' an asshole. [[spoiler:And her husband's very reason for the annulment of their marriage pretty much shows what kind of a person he is without saying.]]

** Though if you want to interpret it in an easy way, he is a representation of [[AudienceSurrogate us, the listeners,]] who sometimes want to seek a way to make our favorite characters or pairings end up happily, [[FanWank consequences and plot holes be damned]]. [[FanFic Hmm...wonder how...]]

* [[BeachEpisode Beach Sequence]]: A brief one involving Elef and Misia near the end of "Ai to Iu Nano Toga".

* BlandNameProduct: In the live for "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete", you can see "Starducks Coffee" in the props.
* CallBack: AND DEAR GOD HOW. This album is positively a Call Back Porn for many fans, especially those who followed the band through from the very first album.
* {{CamelCase}}: The Four Black Cat Sisters' names are actually written like this in the booklet: '''SCH'''äu (the bobbed one in orange), '''RÖ'''hre (the wavy-haired one in yellow), '''DIN'''g (the braided one in green), and '''GER'''ät (the messy-haired one in turquoise). Yeah, it's very significant. [[GeniusBonus The reference is so obvious, it would be a crime for this troper to spell it out for you.]]

* DisneyAcidSequence: The music video for "Ori no Naka no Hakoniwa" is [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs trippy]] and [[MindScrew incomprehensible]], on top of being making absolutely no sense in the plot's context whatsoever. At least, though, in Revo's words, it fits the music's catchy beats.
* TheFaceless: Now averted by [[spoiler: Michéle Malebranche]], who, after having absolutely no "official" pictures whatsoever (excluding the manga) despite having appeared in four albums, finally gets one inside the box of the deluxe edition. This applies to a rather large portion of characters as well, such as Hiver Laurant's mother, Endymion, Luna Ballad, and the protagonists of track 3 and 4.

* FunWithAcronyms: If arranged correctly, the first letter of all the album's titles spell out [[spoiler: "SHIAWASE NI ONARINASAI" (become happy)--this is the secret 11-lettered message from ''Roman'']].

* GeniusDitz: John the doctor. He trips and spaces out a lot but when the time comes to save a life, he's going to make sure you're getting the best result.

* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her gracefulness is questionable, but [[spoiler: Michéle Malebranche]] appears in this album wearing a purple dress.

* GreekChorus: The Four Black Cat Sisters replace the Harmonias as this in Track 8, which is set in the album Moira.

* IncestSubtext: Track 8. A ton of them, but a notable instance is that one where Misia daydreams about what would happen if she and Elef were to inhabit an empty, deserted island, all by themselves...
* IronicEcho: The title of the album itself as a whole signifies R.E.V.O.'s denial against the cruel endings of some stories in the Sound Horizon universe. [[spoiler: Come the last track, "Saihate no L", it signifies Nöel's denial ''against'' R.E.V.O.'s denial ''against'' his miserable childhood.]]

* LighterAndSofter: ...see above and you will know the truth. It's up to you to interpret each stories' implications, though, whether good or bad.
* MayDecemberRomance: The protagonist of "Ienakatta Kotonoha" ends up falling in love with the doctor to whom she becomes an assistant. Thing is, the doctor is depicted in the cover art as a man with completely white hair and thick gray beard, while the protagonist is a ponytailed redhead (or strawberry blonde) with youthful features.

* PunnyTitle: "Nein" is [[GratuitousGerman German for no]], which clearly signifies R.E.V.O.'s denial against the cruel fates of protagonists from past albums. It's read exactly how "Nine" sounds, which is the number Revo gave to this album. And when you reverse the words, it should sound like "Nyan", which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat's voice. And, as is commonly believed, a cat has nine lives.
* RichBitch: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]] unfortunately has to stay in the same roof with a young noblewoman preparing for her marriage. Everybody knows that persuading an entire abbey to skip morning prayers, badmouthing a woman desperately seeking shelter [[spoiler: a.k.a Elisabeth herself]], and verbally and physically [[note]](in the live version, at least)[[/note]] abusing disabled children are not things a normal, likeable person would do.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: When the album first came out, there was a bit of a transliteration conflict among fan translators concerning Gino's full name. There was one who spelled his name "John Jolly Gino", while another one went with "Giorgio Leggiero". Thankfully, whoever edited the live concert DVD seems to be aware of this problem and displayed his official name, "Giorgio del Cielo", during the fashion show sequence of "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete"--with a huge, bright, and highly visible font.
* [[spoiler: SuddenlySexuality: In no instances of "Stardust" do you get the indication that Stella is actually a lesbian up until you listen to "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete".]]

* TakingTheVeil: An alternative outcome given to [[spoiler: Elisabeth. Instead of being crucified, she sought refuge in an abbey after her enraged brother, angry at the annulment of her marriage, exiled her from the castle.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]]'s [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rhein.png husband]]. Still doesn't change the fact that he is a major prick.
* TookALevelInKindness: You might remember [[spoiler: Stella of track 5 as that [[{{Yandere}} love-obsessed murderous maniac]] from Elysion.]] Here she's a free-spirited young lady who devotes herself to preventing child abuse.

* WomanInWhite: Luna (not to be confused with Luna Ballad from track 2), Stella's "rival".

* NoNameGiven: Apart from El, Abyss, Lafrenze, and Orpheus, none of the characters have names; They are instead known by their track titles. The siblings from Ark are referred to as Soror and Frater, but that's just "sister" and "brother" [[AltumVidetur in Latin]].

* [[BeachEpisode Beach Sequence]]: A brief one involving Elef and Misia near the end of "Ai to Iu Nano Toga". [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Yes, it's as adorable as it sounds.]]

They have quite a following in Asia (including SouthKorea and Taiwan), and numerous [[FanVid fan-made music videos]] have been made to their songs.

* SchrodingersCat: The main theme of the album. As if the references scattered throughout its plot aren't enough, the deluxe edition even puts the CD inside a box!

* AkioOhtsuka: As Bluebeard.

--> Noël: Powerful words…are much like a mirror…reflecting…a weak heart…

* StealthPun: The notes Elise hums at the beginning of "Yoiyami No Uta" are from [[LudwigVanBeethoven "Für Elise"]]. It also plays on Elise's connection to Therese, as it's been suggested that the piece's title is actually a mistranscription of "Für Therese".

** "Ienakatta Kotonoha", the alternate continuity to "Yurikago" from ''Lost''. [[spoiler: The protagonist's child is saved from dying by a proficient doctor named John, who gave the child aspirin.]] The protagonist becomes the doctor's assistant afterwards, living in bliss with the man she loves (but could never confess her true feelings to). [[spoiler: She may be saved from the fate of becoming a lunatic who carries her child's bones around in a cradle by this, but not from the looming [[WorldWarI Great War.]]]]

* {{Vocaloid}}: Elise's singing voice is provided by Hatsune Miku.

* {{Supergroup}}: In a fashion. Revo frequently borrows singers, musicians and voice actors for the band. These include everyone from Creator/SakiFujita[=/=][[{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] to Creator/NorioWakamoto to [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Marty Friedman]] to Creator/MotoiSakuraba.

* FrenchRevolution: A plot background for Track 7.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Yep, Elisabeth's [[BigBrotherBully brother]], [[HolyRomanEmpire the Prince-Elector of Saxony]], is ''still'' an asshole. [[spoiler:And her husband's very reason for the annulment of their marriage pretty much shows what kind of a person he is without saying.]]

* IrishPotatoFamine: What kicks off the whole plot. That, and the elder Livermore deciding to move from Britain to Ireland (despite the booming Industrial Revolution) [[WhatAnIdiot because he thought being a potato farmer is easy work.]]

* TheGayNineties: Some of the aesthetics of "Ienakatta Kotonoha", such as the protagonist's attire, brings this era, or perhaps its [[EdwardianEra successor]], into mind.

** We meet the blind poet Luna Ballad from ''Chronicle'' again in "Na mo Naki Onna no Uta", and this time, [[spoiler: her lover Endymion survives the execution by making up an additional verse to his [[StealthInsult ambiguous]] poem for the Queen. Doing so, however, plunged him into obscurity. In the end, [[StarCrossedLovers the couple did not end up meeting each other, either]], as Luna came to be fed up with being alone for the rest of her life chasing shadows, thus ending her journey abruptly. Even if it's implied that she's going to live a happy new life [[HerHeartWillGoOn with the baker]] [[RescueRomance who saved her from exhaustion, thus preventing her blindness]], this blatant surrender makes her fall into obscurity also, since her sheer determination to search for Endymion is what makes the future Queen of Britannia and her people respect and hail her as a hero.]]

** "Ienakatta Kotonoha", the alternate continuity to "Yurikago" from ''Lost'', [[spoiler: saves the protagonist's child from dying with an able, proficient doctor named John, who gave the child aspirin. The protagonist becomes the doctor's assistant afterwards, living in bliss with the man she loves (but could never confess her true feelings to). She may be saved from the fate of becoming a lunatic who carries her child's bones around in a cradle by this, but not from the looming [[WorldWarI Great War.]]]]

** In "Namida de wa Kesenai Honoo", the woman singing "Honoo" from ''Roman'' (who is supposed to be Hiver Laurant's mother) perhaps unknowingly [[spoiler: saved herself from dying in childbirth by choosing not to conceive (she is too old to do so by the time her husband came back from war anyway), becoming a dollmaker instead, inspired by her love for twin dolls Hortense and Violette. Naturally, due to this, Hiver will remain stuck for an indeterminate time in the boundaries of life and death.]]
** "Ai to Iu Nano Toga". It begins by changing Misia's fate in ''Moira'' (becoming a VirginSacrifice for [[JerkassGods Hydra the Water God]]) at the nickest of time by [[spoiler: giving her the incentive to run into the forest, where she stumbles into her twin brother Elef. Phew, good! [[labelnote:But...]] Misia's friend/mentor Phyllis dies in her stead.[[/labelnote]] Thanks to an abrupt change of oracle from the Water God, Misia and Elef are finally free of pursuers, and Elef, reunited with his old friends, becomes a pirate. Yay for Elef not becoming a bitter [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawn]] for the God of Death! [[labelnote:But...]] without any desires for revenge whatsoever, Elef automatically lost any passion he should have had for freedom, too. As a result, the slaves are never freed.[[/labelnote]] Thus, without Misia's death, and thus, Thanatos' intervention, Scorpius, the Big Bad of the original album, [[TheBadGuyWins succeeds in killing both Leontius and Orion]], and takes over the world!]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Thanks, R.E.V.O.!]]
** In "Wasurena Tsukiyo", [[spoiler: turns out that Elisabeth of ''Märchen'' accepted her marriage offer...along with seemingly having forgotten her childhood promise. The marriage is shortly annulled by her husband for her (alleged) infertility, though. Out of shame, her brother kicked her out of the house, and she sought refuge in an abbey, where she later becomes a nun lovingly taking care of disabled children. This may be a good enough outcome for her, but not for Märchen--without Elisabeth to snap him out of his [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], he will remain bound to the Well, never being reminded of who he really is.]]

* [[spoiler: FunWithAcronyms: If arranged correctly, the first letter of all the album's titles spell out "SHIAWASE NI ONARINASAI" (become happy)--the secret 11-lettered message in Roman.]]
* GeniusDitz: John the doctor.
* [[spoiler:GeniusLoci: R.E.V.O. is literally a pair of sentient sunglasses from the distant future.]]

* MayDecemberRomance: The protagonist of "Ienakatta Kotonoha" ends up falling in love with the doctor to whom she becomes an assistant. Thing is, the doctor is depicted in the cover art as a man with completely white hair and thick gray beard, while the protagonist is a ponytailed redhead with youthful features.

* TallDarkAndHandsome: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]]'s husband. Doesn't change the fact that he is a major prick.