->''"These Kaos Cards bring out the worst in all of us, don't they?"''
-->--'''Tomoyo Daidouji''', ''Chapter 6.0: A Duality of Despair''

[[http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/135038 Chaos Card Captor Sakura]] is a ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'' fanfiction written by Creator/DrakeTheDuelist aka @/KaosDrake.. In Tomoeda, between Seasons 2 and 3, a mysterious set of "Kaos Cards" from Clow Reed's past reappear and begin terrorizing Tomoeda. Leading them are two Guardians: [[EldritchAbomination Lycan]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Damien]], who have differing opinions regarding how best to reach their goals. Sakura and Syaoran both wind up involved in the effort to capture all eight Kaos Cards, but Sakura is aided by a mysterious substance called the [[PsychoSerum Elixir of Fire]], a potion capable of empowering the user with [[MadeOfIndestructium superhuman resilience to everything]], as well as a few... personality quirks. After a few captures, infighting begins to break out between the Guardians of Kaos, as well as between the Card Captors themselves.

As of [[http://draketheduelist.deviantart.com/journal/39916914/ April 17, 2011]], [=DrakeTheDuelist=] declared Chaos Card Captor Sakura to officially be a DeadFic, partially because of RealLife difficulties and partially to avoid controversy from the ending, which he hints at not being a happy one.
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!!General Tropes:
* ApocalypseHow: An implied Class X-4, when [[spoiler:Orchid merges Gin’s kaos, her own natural kaos, and the kaos of the Elixir of Fire together. The result is so catastrophic that [[BreakingTheFourthWall it causes the text of the fanfiction to be unreadable for several lines]]. The universe recovers when the Elixir of Fire finally burns itself out.]]
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: One of the few things that can truly get to somebody filled with the [[PlotArmor Power of Kaos]] is one of these. While often given by Tomoyo, Orchid and Lycan will use them to jab at each other ([[BerserkButton which often proves rather foolish...]]).
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: When Syaoran finally [[spoiler:confronts Gin]], he learns that fate and free will [[spoiler:are actually the same thing]]. How can such a thing be achieved? Because [[spoiler:individuals are destined to be enslaved to their own whims]].
* BerserkButton: Insult Clow Reed with Yue in earshot. Not even [[spoiler:Sakura]] gets away with that!
* BigDamnHeroes: This is usually how the less-involved characters from each chapter get into the main body of the plot.
** Syaoran in Chapter 2, [[AllJustADream even though...]]
** Syaoran in Chapter 3, thereby introducing him for the first (real) time.
** Yue and Damien in Chapter 6.5
** Orchid (yes, by herself) in Chapter 7
** Keroberos, Yue, and Damien in Chapter 8.0
** A BigDamnVillains for Orchid (yes, by herself... again) in 8.5, presaged with SarcasticClapping.
* BolivianArmyEnding: The end of Chapter 6.0. Syaoran is beaten, battered, and practically defeated. Yet he still gets back up. [[RousingSpeech Thank you, Tomoyo.]]
** Had the publication ended just one fragment earlier, the entire fanfiction would've ended with [[spoiler:reality shattering around everyone]], the ultimate DespairEventHorizon.
* BreakTheCutie: Pick a character, any character.
** Or, more subtly, CorruptTheCutie, depending on the cutie in question.
* ChekhovsGun: In Chapter 8.0, you aren’t led to believe that the [[spoiler: pillars in the subway station]] do anything... until [[spoiler: Orchid destroys the last of them and brings the entire station down on Lycan’s head!]]
* CloseToHome: Chapter 4’s title.
* CurbStompBattle: Most fights are very short (if you don’t count all the [[TalkingIsAFreeAction incessant yammering]]) and don’t involve more than just a few swings.
** Probably one of the most egregious of these so-called “battles” is when [[spoiler:the Clow Cards attempt to gang up on Lycan, only to get blown away]].
* CurseCutShort: Once to Damien (by Tomoyo), and once to Touya (by Sakura).
* DarkerAndEdgier: This might as well be the author’s mission statement.
* DealWithTheDevil: To use the Kaos Cards, you need to harness a “key that hides the powers of the Inferno”. (And by the Inferno, you can pretty safely bet that this means Hell.) And the Card Captor in question has to make a “contract” with this key.
** Gin Clow makes a deal with [[spoiler:Dncyltr]] to get his own kaos power. Later on, Orchid [[spoiler:tries to make a similar contract, after ''absorbing Gin’s kaos'', to get ''even more'' power! Fortunately for the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' universe, Dncyltr ignores her pleas.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Was bound to happen with how dark the fic got. Here's how it happens: [[spoiler:Lycan steals the Elixir of Fire, reclaims all seven Kaos Cards, feigns killing Syaoran, kills Damien, steals the Oblivion Card, and when Sakura / Orchid and the gang ''finally'' catch a break, Lycan [[ILetYouWin unveiled his]] GambitRoulette in their faces before ascending to his OneWingedAngel form!]] Orchid thinks of [[spoiler:killing herself]] at the very thought of it all.
** Also see ApocalypseHow.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Did Orchid just [[spoiler:crash [[AuthorAvatar DrakeTheDuelist's]] hard drive? BreakingTheFourthWall, indeed!]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Pleas for Sakura to not use the Elixir of Fire make it sound like [[DrugsAreBad a drug addiction]]. A bit {{Anvilicious}} at first, but goes away later on as the Elixir is [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]]. [[spoiler:And later [[GrandTheftPrototype stolen]].]]
* DramaBombFinale: Chapter 8.0 was about the climactic battle, while Chapter 8.5 and the epilogue mostly deal with the repercussions of everything that happened previously.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The end of Chapter 1, and parts of Chapter 2 [[spoiler:that turned out to be a Nightmare-induced dream]] are the only times Sakura's crush on Yukito are even mentioned. By the time Yukito shows up again for a bit part in Chapter 6, this crush seems to be completely swept under the rug.
* ExpoSpeak: Much of the dialog in Chapter 8.5, particularly [[spoiler:Gin Clow]]’s dialog.
* {{Expy}}: Gin Clow is this for Kurtis, a vindictive, heavily accented character from the far less successful fic that Drake wrote, [[BleachedUnderpants Hive Fleet Akyron]].
** It's also strongly suggested that the old Life Card picture was an {{expy}} of Sakura. [[spoiler:It’s actually supposed to be [[Webcomic/CardcaptorTorika Torika Showron / Li Touyako]].]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Sakura, as she turns into [[TookALevelInBadass Orchid]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: Anybody hit by the Fade magic will progressively lose their five senses, one right after the other, all while you [[DrivenToMadness go insane]]. While non-fatal in and of itself, how horrific would it be to live the rest of your life with no cognitive senses? And what happens to the [[spoiler:Clow Cards]] is more like [[spoiler: asphyxiation, which ''is'' fatal, not to mention disturbing considering how [[KillHimAlready the Clow Cards aren’t just fading away in Season 3, but are painfully suffocating]].]]
* FireIceLightning: Kaos (barring [[spoiler:Orchid’s]], but ‘’particularly’’ Damien’s) is constantly shown with fire and other flaming imagery and colors. Orchid shows an affinity for ice-based kaos power later on. And Syaoran sticks with his canonic affinity for his lightning ofuda.
* FirstNameBasis: In an attempt to fire back at Lycan [[spoiler: (who recently [[NotQuiteDead “killed”]] Syaoran)]], Orchid accidentally calls Syaoran by his first name, albeit as part of a quote. She catches herself afterwards, but the RelationshipUpgrade still stands.
** Lycan has a rather interesting take on this. No character ever refers to Lycan with an honorific (except for Orchid calling him “Lycie-chan”). Similarly, Lycan only once refers to Sakura with a “-san” honorific, but drops this later on, more often referring to her as [[FullNameUltimatum “Kinomoto Sakura”]]. According to WordOfGod, Lycan does this as a derisive reference to the fact that he’s a predator, and pretty much everybody else is his prey, something like a slaughterer calling a cow by its zoologically-correct binomial nomenclature. No one else refers to Lycan with honorifics because they’re just [[MindScrew not quite sure what to make of him / it]].
* FixFic: Kind of. What originally started as an attempt to explain why Sakura could use the Clow Cards with a Star Wand, this fic [[KudzuPlot poked more holes in the plot than it mended]]. Granted, some holes needed poking, while [[KickTheDog others were exercises of unnecessary cruelty]].
* FunWithAcronyms: The author is quite fond of these, having given every one of his previous major fanfictions ([[CreatorBacklash which did not exist]]) a three-character acronym. Didn’t work too well with ‘’Chaos Card Captor Sakura’’, given that getting the acronym to three characters would result in “CCS”, an [[{{Fanon}} acronym most commonly associated with]] [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura the parent series]]. What’s an author to do? Answer: '''C'''haos '''C'''ard '''C'''aptor '''S'''akura -> CCCS. Shortening that down even further, there are three C’s, allowing the acronym to be shortened to [[EEqualsMCHammer “C (x) 3 (+) S”]]. Hence, "[=C3S=]".
* FurAgainstFang: Damien is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent half-human with monstrous fangs and bat wings]]. Lycan is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent hyperspace wolf lizard]]. Much FantasticRacism abounds.
* GambitRoulette: Lycan's, concluding in Chapter 8.0. Yeah, so he’s the supposed head honcho bad guy, and he really means for Sakura, his chosen Card Captor, to wind up with the Kaos Cards in the end. Normally a surprise, but given [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura the source material]], [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready it’s not much of a surprise]]. The roulette comes in when [[spoiler:Lycan deliberately forfeits his own Final Judgment, allowing Sakura to take the Kaos Cards, and for Lycan to scoop up Oblivion, the true eighth Kaos Card.]] But even ''this'' is a ploy, as [[spoiler:Lycan expects Orchid to [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred kill him with the Kaos Cards]] and rip open the dimensional barrier to Gin’s [[SealedEvilInACan ‘holding cell’]], so that she can use her power to turn Gin into the Life Card’s true form!]]
** Lycan’s plan plays GambitRoulette a bit more realistically, considering that [[spoiler:his plan not only ultimately failed in the course of the fanfic, but it failed in every instance he tried it before off screen.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Gin Clow himself. [[spoiler:Though it turns out that Gin wants Kaos destroyed [[VillainProtagonist just as much as any other protagonist]], he’s actually a massive JerkAss when Sakura and Syaoran finally meet him. Considering Gin [[KickTheDog beats up on a chained up Sakura]], he’s possibly even worse off on the karma meter than Lycan was!]]
* GratuitousEnglish: Used as a literary language barrier against the language in which the fanfiction is written. Damien is supposed to speak mostly English and a little Japanese. Everybody else (except maybe Kero and Lycan) is supposed to speak mostly Japanese. The result: when Damien breaks out into GratuitousEnglish ("Little Wolf"), the rest of the cast hears this within their own accent ("Riteru Wurufu").
** Used as a plot device when Damien doesn't realize that "the Cherry Blossom" (heard as "Chari Burosomu") is actually "Sakura", and then freaks out at seeing her in person.
* HeroicBSOD: If you talk to Lycan for long enough, you will get one. Even if you're [[WideEyedIdealist Tomoyo]].
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Of course it's a scary place. Lycan lives there.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The Inferno Crossbow.
* InformedAbility: Apparently, Syaoran is a biology whiz. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], considering he's been studying it.
* InSeriesNickname: A lot of characters have in-universe nicknames, either given by others, or self-assigned:
** Sakura = Orchid
** [[spoiler:Gin Clow]] = Lycan
** Lycan = [[RuleOfFunny Lycie-chan]]
** Reed Clow = [[PaperThinDisguise Clow]] [[CloudCuckooLander Reed]]
** [[spoiler:Dncyltr]] = Kaos Encarnate
* InsultBackfire: Lycan revels in how horrific everybody thinks he is. What's even more disturbing is that he ''enjoys'' it when you tell him how hurt you are.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: One of the reasons why no character in season 3 of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' will refer to events that occurred in ''Chaos Card Captor Sakura''.
* LotusEaterMachine: Chapter 2 starts out with Sakura and Kero being trapped in a reverse LotusEaterMachine in the form of the Nightmare Card, which plays out extreme forms of Sakura's insecurities and feeds off of them.
* MacGuffin: The summer project.
* PsychoSerum : The Elixir of Fire grants power at the cost of granting quirks. It gets [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] later on. Whereas at first it’s an [[ArtifactOfDoom artifact]] so dangerous that one would have to cross the GodzillaThreshold to even ''consider'' using it, the Elixir of Fire is, in more recent chapters, as BottledHeroicResolve which is broken out repeatedly, deliberately, and seemingly without thought. [[spoiler: It’s actually made of ThePowerOfLove. Unfortunately, [[LoveMakesYouEvil love can manifest itself negatively]], as well as positively. Mostly [[BlackAndGreyMorality negatively]], though… [[HumansAreBastards bastards]]…]]
* MeaningfulEcho: “Zettai Daijobu”, which Syaoran stews over throughout the entire fic.
** Lycan: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… you shall not live long enough to do.” Sadly, this echo was rather obvious because this incredibly [[{{Narm}} narmtastic]] line, echoed in Chapter 7, was first written back in Chapter 2, long before Lycan’s character was fully established, or even before [[GrowTheBeard the writing got all that good]].
* MeaningfulName:
** Orchid: If you've ever seen an Orchid before [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jandimin/306936428/]], they're actually quite pale. This contrasts sharply with the Cherry Blossom (i.e. "Sakura") flower. Orchid actually chooses this name.
** Gin: The Japanese word for "silver", which is the only thing that can kill werewolves, according to their most common depictions. (Of course, OurWerewolvesAreDifferent.) Silver is also a very contrasting color to black, which in Japanese is "Kuro", which sounds very similar to the Japanese pronunciation of "Clow".
** Lycan: Keeping in mind that OurWerewolvesAreDifferent, Lycan claims that this was the name people devised to label him. He then took it and ran with it. Sort of the in-series version of a FanNickname. (Not to be confused with ''that'' nickname...)
** Damien: Named after an [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything excommunicated Catholic missionary]].
* MeanwhileBackAtThe: One of the few consistent formatting decisions in the entire fic, a scene change will always be signified with the same pattern: *-*-*. WordOfGod on this is that the keystrokes are (shift) 8 (un-shift) dash (shift) 8 (un-shift) dash (shift) 8 (un-shift). These keystrokes prevent auto-formatting on a line of straight dashes or asterisks that can potentially mess up the format when posting. The stated purpose for these abrupt scene changes are to make the fic read more like an anime and less like a book, harkening to the fic’s anime basis.
* MindRape [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Is A Special Kind Of Evil]]: If CLAMP works have one ubiquitous trait, [[OverusedRunningGag besides]] HoYay [[OverusedRunningGag of course]], it would have to be that the spiritual / emotional consequences always trump the physical consequences. Following that logic, this ought to make a fair amount of sense.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Kaos Cards tend to this for a while. The first four chapters are reminiscent of the majority of the Manga/CardcaptorSakura series in that they involve the basic Find-Identify-Counter-Defeat pattern.
* MostWritersAreMale: Evident in the amount of comparative attention (particularly in the internal thought processes department) that Syaoran gets, compared to Sakura.
* MotiveRant: As a prose fic with AlternativeCharacterInterpretation galore, most character development is done with this. Basically, if a character spends more than three straight sentences talking without interruption, you can bet you’re reading one of these.
** Chapter 8.5, full stop.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Lycan, whose death is the beginning of the events in the ''real'' last chapter.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lycan, Damien, and a number of the Kaos Cards (most blatantly with the [[spoiler:Oblivion]]) all qualify. But by far the name to run away from the fastest is [[spoiler:Dncyltr]], mentioned only once, with the only implication being that [[spoiler:GodIsEvil]]. [[note]]In ''Science and Sorcery'', Dncyltr's name is [[MeaningfulName the Japanese pronunciation for an anagram of]] “[[{{Satan}} Dawn Star]]”. Dncyltr can go [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor back and forth]] between being CrystalDragonJesus, the AntiChrist, the AntiAntiChrist, {{Satan}}, or even [[AuthorAvatar DrakeTheDuelist]] himself.[[/note]]
* NeckLift: Shown by Orchid (''[[RuleOfCool with her foot, no less!]]''), to demonstrate how imposing she actually is.
* OminousLatinChanting: There is a bunch of crazy-speak in Chapter 8.5, especially one line repeated over and over again (right as [[spoiler:the entire universe caves in!]]) that would be otherwise indecipherable to the characters who hear it. Hint: [[spoiler:read it backwards]]. Translated, the repeated message is [[spoiler:“[[ShoutOut All work and no play makes]] [[AuthorAvatar Drake]] [[Film/TheShining a dull boy]].”]]
* [[OrderVersusChaos Order Versus]] [[OrderVersusChaos Kaos]]
* OT3: [[invoked]] Tomoyo apparently [[spoiler: loves both Sakura and Syaoran]].
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Only instead of abusing capitalization, the author abuses italics. ''All! The! TIME!!!!!'' If you’re seeing capital letters, it’s because people are ''SHOUTING! PARTICULARLY! LOUD!!!''
* PurpleProse: Pretty much everything after Chapter 4, which carries onto the [[{{Spinoff}} Shards of Kaos]].
* PutOnABus: Meilin. Justified in the fact that she wasn't physically there at the time, but the author bypassed any opportunity to cameo her in somewhere, [[spoiler:as was originally planned for Chapter 7]].
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Chapter 8.5. [[spoiler:Gin Clow]] does this a lot.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Lycan. Rather than blinking with organic eyeballs, his eyes flicker red to signify blinking. [[spoiler:Or getting beaten up so hard he can barely stay conscious.]]
** The glimmer of kaos energy in the eyes of anyone possessing an unnaturally massive amount of kaos, such as the Elixir of Fire. See Sakura / Orchid and [[spoiler:Gin Clow]].
* RefugeInAudacity: Sakura’s supposed [[spoiler:successful suicide]] in Chapter 6.0.
* SadlyMythtaken: The Li family has a legend that tells an apocryphal story about Clow Reed defeating the forces of Kaos, including Lycan. (This story likely had an UnreliableNarrator, having been presumably [[WrittenByTheWinners written by the Li clan]].) Aside from the basics ([[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory there really are Kaos Cards]]), just about nothing else in this story is accurate. (For instance, the Kaos Cards are not nocturnal. Chimera was only specifically [[HandWave handwaved]] to take on the characteristics of diurnal animals.) Cue Syaoran’s HeroicBSOD when he realizes all too late that Sakura had been fighting forces far beyond her abilities, at least thus far, by herself.
* SaveTheVillain: Pretty much the entire point of Chapter 8.5. But... [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation who is the villain?]]
* SchrodingersButterfly: Chapter 2.
* SequelHook:
** Lycan: “Let’s just say that some things in this world that transcend even Kaos.”
** One of the previous Card Captors of Kaos was mentioned to be [[spoiler:Hui Sang, the BigBad of ''Webcomic/CardcaptorTorika'']].
** Lycan calls Damien [[spoiler:a “zaangr’t”, who, in [[SequelHook Science and Sorcery]], are a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy race of ancient demons]] who serve as the prison guards (and occasionally inmates) in a dimension-wide FireAndBrimstoneHell]].
** Another hint at the sequel crossing into ''Webcomic/CardcaptorTorika'': [[spoiler:Gin Clow privately tells Sakura / Orchid that she ''isn’t'' the one he saw in his vision, and that she would be “laid low by a dear friend”, and that Syaoran will “shun her memory”. Oh look, Deria Avery [[TemptingFate just got her learner’s permit]]...]]
* ShoutOut: Numerous in source and breadth:
** "Broken", the title for Chapter 5, is from the Seether / Amy Lee song of the same name.
*** Ironically, the early scenes of Chapter 5 are indicative of Matchbox 20's "Unwell".
** Lycan: “What did you mortals hope to accomplish by coming here?” A shout-out to [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} The Maledict]] from Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. The Maledict says a very similar line right before you begin the final showdown.
** Keroberos’ comment, [[spoiler: after Lycan surrenders the Kaos Cards and reverts to his ''real'' form, more amphibious than mammalian]], diminutively suggesting that [[spoiler: Lycan resembled a certain car insurance agency’s spokes-gecko.]]
** Of all things, to [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Dawn of War]]. See how many you can find...
*** [[OrderVersusChaos Kaos]]. Though that ought to be a given.
*** When Yue and Damien go at it, expect to hear a lot of “heretic”, “heathen”, and the all-purposed “scum” thrown around. While pretty scathing and out of place in your average Manga/CardcaptorSakura fanfiction, these are all ubiquitous catch-all terms for everything from cartoonish super-villainy to mild misdemeanors in the 40k universe.
** Destruction and Despair, the two alignments of the Kaos Cards, are also two out of the three fires lit by [[spoiler:Twinrova, in order to revive Ganon]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames''. (The third fire, Sorrow, is basically [[LighterAndSofter Despair Lite]] [[FridgeLogic when you think about it.]])
** [[VideoGame/DantesInferno Orchid seems to be rather skilled at twirling around a scythe...]]
** See OminousLatinChanting.
** [[spoiler:Gin Clow]]: “Oh yes, witch. I am Lycan. ''[[Franchise/ResidentEvil And I have seen everything]]''.”
* ShownTheirWork: All the way back in Chapter 1, the numeric combination that held the Kaos Cards in the museum was “520”, referencing May 20th, Nadeshiko’s birthday.
* SpinOff: ''Shards of Kaos''. Depending on the ‘shard’, they can be prequels, sequels, expositional additions, focusing on tertiary characters, or other means of exposition that would otherwise deviate too far from the main plot. WordOfGod describes these as being analogous to ''Stories From the Sakura Book'' for ''Webcomic/CardcaptorTorika''.
* TailorMadePrison: [[spoiler: The world inside the Oblivion Card]] in Chapter 8.5.
* TransformationSequence: The "unfolding" of the Inferno Crossbow is described more briefly each time. [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready You should know how it works by now.]]
** The use of a TransformationSequence is also averted on occasion when a character's MeaningfulName cropping up, signifying a transformation, sometimes because the actual transformation was either extremely subtle or off-screen. For example, suddenly referring to Sakura as "Orchid" signifies her change from one disposition to another, and calling Kero by "Keroberos" refers to him in "Big Kero" form (the latter of which [[{{Fanon}} isn't widely recognized as canon]]).
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: [[invoked]] WordOfGod’s explanation for the aforementioned PurpleProse is that Chaos Card Captor Sakura'' is an intentional and deliberate parody of this trope.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Though the title is ''Chaos Card Captor Sakura'', the titular magic is never stated to be "chaos", but "kaos". This is, in part, to differentiate between the magic (kaos), [[spoiler:the entity (Kaos Encarnate; a.k.a. Dncyltr)]], and the state of disorder (chaos)]], in part to make the obvious reference a little less obvious, and in part as a Japanese FunetikAksent. [[note]]In Japanese, the word "chaos" is pronounced more like "kouse"; like "mouse" but with a K.[[/note]]
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Lycan. You physically cannot shine a light on his body such that you can get a clear look at him. Also, any projectile attacks directed at him merely [[NighInvulnerable sink into his skin]], like [[ImmuneToBullets shooting at a]] [[NegativeSpaceWedgie wormhole]]. In fact, Lycan uses this power as a MindScrew in its own right.
** Mirage. She tends towards looking like Sakura in order to allow people to see her.
** The Life Card, [[spoiler:which ''has'' no true form to grasp.]].
* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: [[ContractualImmortality None of the canon characters die.]] Also, neither Syaoran nor Sakura manage to confess their love without the threat of a ResetButton. [[StatusQuoIsGod There still has to be a Season 3.]]
** "Sakura" means "Cherry Blossom", and "Syaoran" (also "Xiaolang") means "Little Wolf". If you didn't know this before, then the GratuitousEnglish will largely be lost on you.

!!Tropes present in the Shards of Kaos:

* AnachronicOrder: The first shard was entitled ''I am Kinomoto Sakura''. The second posted shard was entitled ''I am Daidouji Tomoyo'' (using a short-lived episodic format of [[IdiosynchraticEpisodeNaming "I am [Name]"]]), and it even dovetails off the previously posted shard, but was released as shard ''three''. (WordOfGod referenced a 'second' shard involving Keroberos and Damien back in the past.) ''Card Captor Nadeshiko'' breaks this mold.
* CanonImmigrant: Tobias Erikson, who is far more [[ShrinkingViolet subdued and mundane]] than he is in ''[[TheAce Science And Sorcery]]''. And if you know anything about ''Science and Sorcery'', Tobias doubles up as a living ChekhovsGun.
* {{Fanon}}: [[invoked]] Galore. Amongst others, the Kinomotos previously lived in Shinjuku, and [[spoiler:Nadeshiko was a former Card Captor, whom Yue basically killed]].
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Poor Chiharu, getting mixed up with the wrong crowd...
* {{Prequel}}: Card Captor Nadeshiko. Though we only see the tail end of the Final Judgment, there is an entire implied series around it. (The author just didn’t want to [[DevelopmentHell press his luck]]...)
** PowerTrio:
*** Nadeshiko: IllGirl, MagicalGirlfriend
*** Sonomi: The UnluckyChildhoodFriend, [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous]] [[SchoolgirlLesbians Schoolgirl Lesbian]], and probably an {{Expy}} for [[GenerationXerox her daughter]].
*** Fujitaka: {{Invoked}} AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, sets him up as more of a [[HotBlooded fiercely passionate]] romantic ([[ClusterFBomb who isn’t above swearing]]) who mellowed out after the “catastrophe” of Nadeshiko losing the Judgment.
*** [[SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer Keroberos is conspicuously absent…]]
* RoseTintedNarrative: The implication behind the inconsistencies between the official ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' canon and the fanon of ''Chaos Card Captor Sakura'' (and beyond) is that the characters only remember a rosy version of the past, rather than the actual gritty truth of what ''really'' happened.