Line #29 FanFic/UnprecedentedCatastrophe


1	A ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' Fanfic, written in French by Troper @/{{Wax}}.\
2	The full name is ''Touhou Musouhen ~ Unprecedented Catastrophe''. Or, if you translate the French title, ''Misadventures of a Unique''.\
3	Essentially a DarkerAndEdgier SelfInsertFic that narrates the history of the AuthorAvatar, who ends up lost in Gensokyo after accidentally going through the Hakurei border in July 22nd, 2012. The fiction revolves around the AuthorAvatar's inner conflicts with hate, and two different incidents.\
4	It was started in November 23rd, 2011, the fic is currently at chapter 9. And it's officially [[DeadFic dead]].\
5	It can be read [[http://ladjeto.discutforum.com/t102-fiction-touhou-musohen-les-mesaventures-d-un-unique here]] (Warning: it's written in French). It is also published on one or two other forums, chief among them Touhou-Online.
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7	No English translation is in progress. Every quote is translated from French by WordOfGod.
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9	!This work contains examples of:
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11	* AllYourPowersCombined: How Marisa and Alice react to an exploration ship flying around them. Combine their powers and use a "Malice Spark" that one-shots it.
12	* AntiHero: Musou is [[JadeColoredGlasses a major cynic]] [[CharacterDevelopment at the start]], [[GoodIsNotNice oozes sarcasm and abrasiveness]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold but he's a good guy at heart.]]
13	* AnticlimaxBoss: First bonus only: the team made of Nouwa and "the Traveler". Reimu and Luke, upon seeing that they are more or less cheating and using cards that are completely overpowered compared to the rest of the bonus, decide to cheat right back and win.
14	* AuthorAvatar: Musou.
15	* BigBad: Despite Mima being billed as the BigBad for all intents and purposes, Nouwa has far more plot prominence than her.
16	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Maou Brimstone has a device at the back of his head, which functions as his brainwashing as well as intel feed.
17	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Mid-narration, the Musou Notes speak for either the main character (in case he's not already in the scene) or the author. Or both.
18	** Suika steals that gimmick and puts a Suika Note in her interlude.
19	* CerebusRetcon: Chapter 8 in general. To boot:
20	** Cirno's bragging is more arrogant and grim, going from "Then you have no chance of passing my test! If you resist my Ultimate Spell Card, you can pass!" to "Hahaha, then I bet I kill you in one shot! I'll let your corpse pass!"
21	** The main character [[SirSwearsALot swears a bunch more]], and gets censored in return. Also, his injuries are pointed out instead of being merely brushed off by the narration.
22	** Meiling becomes much more taunting towards the main character and points out that the "trustworthy persons" with whom he could get a free pass don't even exist. Then, when he gets a pass, she mentions that Patchouli may not agree with him going to the Library (Patchouli even muses about Remilia deciding things for her) and gets annoyed with him constantly bumping into her.
23	* CharacterDevelopment: Luke is far more confident in this fic than in his own origin fic.
24	** Nouwa undergoes this rather painfully going from the embodiment of "Musou MUST DIE!" to her own character. Interrupted midway by fiction death, but the first bonus actually shows her first good-hearted laugh.
25	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The fic has a Japanese title (''Touhou Musouhen''), an English title (''Unprecendented Catastrophe'') and a French title (''Mésaventures d'un Unique''). The three translate to something different, even though [[DownplayedTrope still a bit similar]].
26	* DarkFic: [[DownplayedTrope Not that much but some elements are there.]]
27	* DarkerAndEdgier: Zigzagged. The title would make it look like one of the darkest fanfics ever, but the problems happening are not big at all. It now crosses over OldShame and TakeThat.
28	* [[spoiler:DeadToBeginWith: The story doesn't end with the main character's death in Chapter 1, even though it was never hidden.]]
29	* DownerEnding: Chapter 1: [[spoiler:TheHeroDies. Chapter 2's title explains it by ending a sentence started in Chapter 1.]]
30	--> Chapter 1: [[spoiler:"Hello, cruel world..."]]\
31	Chapter 2: [[spoiler:"... and goodbye, just as fast."]]
32	* FaceHeelTurn: Since "one guy has somehow managed to arrive in Gensokyo" is rather mild for an incident, several characters decide to make it worse ForTheLulz, most of them unknowing of what Nouwa has done.
33	** [[spoiler:Musou himself, when you realize that "Maou" Brimstone is him.]]
34	* FailureHero: Musou never actually wins a battle. His first battle with Nouwa (who would go on to get a similar record) ends inconclusively when he paralyzes her and flees.
35	* FlashbackNightmare: Chapter 8 has the main character relive Chapter 1 as this. This brings more precision and {{retcon}}s some aspects.
36	* ForegoneConclusion: Despite the {{Retcon}} status of Chapter 8, the story is still the same, so [[spoiler:the main character dies]].
37	* GoKartingWithBowser: The bonuses (both happen after the plot) were Musou organizing a children's card game and starting the idea of the second sled race.
38	** DeadFic: The second bonus has never been completed.
39	* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: The ending to Chapter 1.]]
40	* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Maou Brimstone has one major difference with Musou: short hair, signaling that Musou cut it after his capture.]]
41	* InstantExpert: A quite short training sequence in the story indicates that Musou trained offscreen, but he still is able to use danmaku in Chapter 6 while being nearly inept at it before (his first success was in a trance, and he actually had the bullet implode on itself while still within his arm). Shooting energy danmaku is still something that even Reimu doesn't do.
42	* KnightOfCerebus: Nouwa appears in Chapter 3, with hostile intent (which is actually the first time aside from Musou's sarcasm) and attacks three times before the chapter's closure. She is also responsible for a good portion of the plot, [[spoiler:with her personal responsibility in Mima's escaping and the hand she had in completing Marisa's FaceHeelTurn]].
43	* KudzuPlot: There are so far [[ThirdLineSomeWaiting three]] [[JigsawPuzzlePlot plotlines]], none concluded: Nouwa, the Dark Tower and the Higher Technology arcs simultaneously. Of course, Nouwa is involved as a main antagonist in the Dark Tower line too, but both lines are put in waiting for the moment.
44	* LeeroyJenkins: The main character (because thinking holds back his powers) and Nouwa (in her hate of him). Both result in easy defeats.
45	* MeaningfulName: The main character is named Musou by the narration, Musou meaning "unique".\
46	It also gives a part of the fic's Japanese title (''Musouhen'' meaning "unique event", or in this case "Musou event"), which makes Musouhen a ProtagonistTitle.
47	* NonIndicativeName: ''Musouhen'' means ''unique event''. Though, the incidents are both {{call back}}s to older Touhou games.
48	* PinballProtagonist: Musou is trying his best to get a hold of himself, but the moment the plot starts, he gets shoved around by heroes and villains alike, seeing as he's much weaker and way less quick-witted than friends and opposition alike.
49	* {{Retcon}}: Chapter 8's dream sequences retcon Chapter 1, and it is outright announced before in a Musou Note.
50	* SelfInsertFic
51	* ShoutOut: The main character being a WrongGenreSavvy outsider is bound to do plenty.
52	** In the prologue, he responds to Ran trying to bring him to Yukari and threatening to take this to a Spell Card battle with Reimu with this:
53	--> "Okay, so I ended up in a land where someone who wants to kidnap people [[Anime/YuGiOh plays card games]]!"
54	** In Chapter 7, changing worlds every other week makes the main character feel like [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 "ending up in world 8-4 and kicking a dragon's butt so this all ends"]].
55	** When faced with the fact that he doesn't have a sword, Musou shapes a lightning bolt into [[CoolSword one]], like [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus]].
56	* TheOneGuy: Averted even though Rinnosuke does not appear. Since the author follows the continuity of one of his friends' FanFic, some self-insert characters appear, notably said friend.
57	* TheUnexpected: According to one Touhou-Online comment, [[spoiler:Shingyoku's return]] was an utter surprise.
58	--> "Wait, that... thing's... still alive? Uhm, that is surprising, didn't expect it to come out of the blue like that..."
59	* TimeSkip: Several. It's known the story happens at least a year after the main character comes through the Hakurei Border. Then, Chapter 6 covers a week or two.
60	* TrainingFromHell: Youmu first tests Musou by having him run a complete lap around Hakugyokurou, which should take him, according to his estimation, 4 hours, at which point he mentions he mentions that he gets tired easily.
61	* TranslatorMicrobes: Though, apparently, they only work if you truly mean what you say. Which means that if you're grumbling something that you think won't get understood, it won't be understood.
62	* [[TwelveEpisodeAnime Twelve Chapter Fiction]]: The intention of the author, by WordOfGod, is to end the story at chapter 12. Though, the existence of chapter 7.5 means there'll possibly be more decimal-numbered chapters, making the trope respected in number only.
63	* VirtualSoundtrack: On occasion. In the first chapter, the soundtracks were solely taken from Touhou games, but later chapters borrow much [[AutobotsRockOut more]] [[ThePowerOfRock rock]] soundtracks from ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' to ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''.
64	* WeirdnessMagnet: Sakuya living in the Human Village attracts visits from Remilia.
65	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A lot, since the fic could have been completed...
66	** Maou Brimstone could have had a grand total of seven fights [[spoiler:before being revealed as Musou]]. The plans switched to him turning crazy on his first battle, and even that didn't go through. [[spoiler:Musou was also supposed to have a heel stint as Musou, even though he was EvilVsEvil going for payback against Chiyuri and Yumemi, and being far more destructive than them.]]
67	** There were supposed to be episodes 9.5, and 12.3 focused on completely different and new [[TheCameo (Genma's brief appearance in Chapter 3 notwithstanding)]] characters.
68	** Reimu [[spoiler:was supposed to have a kid, but the kid was not shown and his absence wasn't even {{Hand Wave}}d as him being taken away for caretaking.]]
69	** Musou was supposed to act on his [[AuthorAvatar (?)]] feelings for [[spoiler:Sanae, confess in a moment of sanity mid-battle, and go on to lose the fight horribly but still end up going with her]].
70	** Musou was supposed to end Chapter 7.5 by singing an altered version of "Ain't No Grave" to himself in his coma, but this was scrapped due to being cliché [[spoiler:and plans changing (also due to him referencing a "pair of angels" as {{Foreshadowing}} Komachi and Youmu coming for him, and the plan was changed to him being stopped by Sanae alone)]].
71	* WhoWritesThisCrap: Suika hijacks a Musou Note where the author explained having skipped a description by telling him to get back to the writing.
72	* TheWorfBarrage: Kind of lampshaded. Nouwa at first impresses Musou and can even mop the floor with him when he tries to run away, but she never ever actually wins a battle.

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