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[[caption-width-right:350:The first and so far only picture relating to the story's primary pairing, courtesy of Mason.]]

''Prince of Darkness No More'' is a ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''/''Franchise/TouhouProject'' crossover by [=SiFi270=].

The story begins with VideoGame/KidDracula betraying his father {{Dracula}} and resolving to kill him [[JokerImmunity again]]. On the way, he meets Remilia and Flandre Scarlet and soon falls in love with the latter. After Dracula is defeated, the three return to Gensokyo, which has become considerably more peaceful, AndTheAdventureContinues.

[[http://web.archive.org/web/20120413054529/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6912644/1/Prince_of_Darkness_No_More Can be read here.]]

At the start of December 2011, a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7602686/1/POD_No_More_Side_Story_Its_a_Wonderful_Undeath Christmas Special]] was added. Due to issues with time, it was done as a separate story.

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!!This story contains examples of:

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Only Cirno could bump into Marisa ''while the latter was a ghost''.
** This is presumably how Demo manages to switch the temporary role or narrator from her to Ivan
* ActorAllusion: Played with. Demo refers to Frankenstein's monster as YahooSerious, presumably because she has Film/YoungFrankenstein and Film/YoungEinstein confused.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Demo lampshades this in chapter 58, [[HandWave handwaving]] it by saying the universe just doesn't make sense.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Yukari]] kills [[spoiler:Rinnosuke]] by having [[spoiler:him]] slowly suffocate to death.
** She also seals [[spoiler:Reimu's]] soul inside her corpse, "trapped and confused forever".
** The Unnamed Child forces her victims to relive a memory of losing a loved one.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Demo narrates chapters 34 and parts of chapter 58. In the latter, she even manages to switch to Ivan's perspective somehow, [[MoodWhiplash which she soon regrets]].
* AndTheAdventureContinues: After Dracula is defeated.
* AndThenWhat: Ivan wonders this just before his HeelFaceTurn.
** He later experiences it ''again'' when he realizes that he has nowhere to go after the castle's destroyed, but Remilia assures him that he can stay with them.
* {{Angrish}}: Rumia, as a result of having to put up with Demo.
* [[spoiler:ArchangelMichael: As well as Gabriel.]]
* ArcNumber: Demo [[DiscussedTrope discusses]] this, and wonders if the number eleven may be one, but it doesn't seem to be just yet.
** It later becomes a BrickJoke when [[spoiler:Yukari's]] OneWingedAngel form has eleven tails.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Flandre is brainwashed by the Unnamed Child, Remilia snaps her out of it by asking her name.
%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Ivan]].
* BadassBoast: Chaos gets one referencing the angels' boasts in ''FanFic/NobodyDies''. Rumia has one a few chapters afterwards.
* BadassCreed: The Belmonts seem to have adopted "[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest The morning sun will vanquish the horrible night!]]"
* BadassFingerSnap: Mima does one to send Shaft back to the afterlife. [[spoiler:It doesn't stick.]]
* BadassNormal: While Ivan is the son of Dracula, and Flandre has the power to destroy anything, Remilia is just a vampire. Despite this, she's able to put up just as much of a fight as the other two, especially when [[BerserkButton she notices the similarities between Kokoro and Sakuya]].
** In the side story, Dorothy proves herself to be quite capable of fighting supernatural creatures. The only problem is that Ivan and company are still out of her league. This is better demonstrated when she appears in the main story.
* BattleCouple: Ivan and Flandre.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In chapter 34, between [[spoiler:Demo's]] two personalities.
* BeardOfEvil: The one visual distinction between Dracula and Soma Cruz.
* BerserkButton: If you compare Ivan to Dracula, he will politely correct you... If you're one of his friends. If you're not, then he'll tear you to billions of unrecognizable pieces. There's also the matter of hurting Flandre, but that goes both ways.
%%* {{BFS}}: Rumia transforms into one, wielded by Demo.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[VideoGame/{{Otomedius}} Kokoro and Gesshi]] in the seventh chapter.
* BigRedDevil: [[spoiler:Satan]] transforms into this. Apparently, [[VideoGame/{{Hexen}} Eidolon]] was the first to look like this, and all demons are designed in his image.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Yukari]] stretches (as in what you do in the morning) in what's described as "a disturbingly literal manner".
* BreatherBoss: You know Dracula's minions don't mess around when the ''Cyberdemon'' is treated like one.
* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 34 and ''How Black Plague Stole Christmas''. Chapter 60 provides a different kind of breather.
* BrickJoke: Demo's FunWithAcronyms nickname for the Touhou series.
* BringMyBrownPants: Remilia manages to avoid this in chapter 60, due to a vampire's digestive system being different to a human's.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu[=/=]HeroicRROD: When Reimu manages to completely devastate [[spoiler:Yukari]] with BeamSpam, she is left weak enough to be [[spoiler:killed]] by something as mundane as a [[spoiler:NeckSnap]].
* TheCameo: [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} The Cyberdemon]] is a boss in Dracula's castle.
* CannotSpitItOut: Remilia and Sakuya, up until the death of the latter. The same happens with [[spoiler:Flandre and Ivan]], although in this case [[spoiler:his death isn't permanent.]]
* CastingAShadow: Rumia's abilities seem more varied than before. This is later revealed to be because she is actually EX-Rumia.
* CelebrityParadox: Kokoro's impression of Dracula is described as "her best Creator/BelaLugosi impression".
* ChekhovsGun: Several are fired during [[spoiler:Satan's]] arc, including: [[spoiler:The Mask of the Seven, a vampire's ability to resurrect when one of its ashes comes into contact with blood, Demo's ability to reverse time, multiple reapers for each cause of death, and Satan's ring.]]
** In ''How Black Plague Stole Christmas'', Demo gives Rumia a gift that we are only told is made from silver. At the climax, it turns out to be a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Silver Switch]].
* ChessWithDeath: Ivan intends to play this, though he quickly finds that it's UnwinnableByDesign.
* ChristmasSpecial: ''[[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Undeath]]'' and ''[[HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas How Black Plague Stole Christmas]]''.
* CliffhangerCopOut: Zig-Zagged in Chapter 29. [[spoiler:Satan decides that the heroes aren't worth his time and leaves for Heaven, but then Rumia realizes how dangerous he could be up there, but ''then'' Demo concludes that he doesn't stand a chance because Heaven is where all the Belmonts are, BUT THEN Reimu arrives and confirms that, yes, Satan is a threat to Heaven and she needs their help to stop him.]]
** At the end of Chapter 47, Marisa seems just about ready to throw everything she's got at [[spoiler:Yukari]]. By the next chapter, she's decided that, since no amount of physical harm can express just how much she hates [[spoiler:Yukari]], she just [[RageQuit gives up]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Demo thinks "going to Dracula's castle" is an UnusualEuphemism for breakfast, amongst other oddities.
* ContinuityPorn: VideoGame/KidDracula is the main character. [[Franchise/TouhouProject Ruukoto]] has taken Reimu's place as the maiden at the Hakurei Shrine. That's all you need to know.
* CreepyMonotone: Anyone under the control of [[Franchise/TheFearMythos the Unnamed Child]] adopts one of these.
* CrossoverCosmology: At the very least, it's implied that there are several afterlives besides Heaven and Hell.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In chapter 30.
* CurbStompBattle: When Ivan and/or Flandre are particularly angry, (Or sometimes just excited in the latter's case) you can expect one of these.
** There's also Kokoro's battle against the Cyberdemon.
** It's later revealed that Reisen defeated [[spoiler:[[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} Rao]]]] in one of these, explaining [[spoiler:his]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Koranot and Frankenstein's Monster, or so Ivan believes at first.
* DeadpanSnarker: Remilia, particularly in the first part. Rumia does most of the snarking afterwards, as a result of spending the most time with [[TalkativeLoon Demo]].
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Cirno [[FanFic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction succeeds at winning]] in Chapter 24.
* DespairEventHorizon: Rumia crosses this when [[spoiler:Satan brings Demo to his side]]. Even after things are back to normal, she hasn't properly recovered.
** Marisa also crosses this when [[spoiler:Reimu dies]], but this seems to be undone when Keine hits the ResetButton.
** [[spoiler:Yukari]] seems to have this effect on quite a few people. She manages to make Cirno cross it just by ''looking at her''.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Flandre doesn't hestitate to explain [[LoonyFan why]] Remilia came to Dracula's castle to Kokoro and Gesshi.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Ivan]].
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: [[spoiler:When Ivan laughs at Satan, it gets him killed.]]
* DoomedByCanon: Before the FlashbackArc begins, Marisa lists the people who die in it. This later becomes a preemptive ShootTheShaggyDog when Flashback!Mima hopes that, through a CosmicRetcon, all the victims will be revived.
* DreamSequence: In the prologue.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: The solution to defeating Koranot and Frankenstein's monster.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: [[spoiler:Yukari]].
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Flandre to Dracula, though at the time there's no reason to think that he can NoSell an ability like hers.
* [[ExpressiveMask Expressive Hat]]: Suwako raises an eyebrow, her hat raises an eyebrow.
* ExtremeDoormat: Ruukoto has considerably less backbone than Reimu.
* FanNickname: Inverted, in a way. "Kid Dracula" obviously isn't his real name, so in this story he's referred to as Ivan Cruz.
* FascinatingEyebrow: Suwako [[ExpressiveMask and her hat]]. 'Raising an eyebrow' is also one of the story's many forms of SaidBookism.
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: Particularly bad towards the end of the first part, where it's lampshaded in the author's notes.
* FirstNameBasis: Ivan refers to Alucard by his real name, Adrian. [[spoiler:Sonia and Lisa]] do the same.
** [[spoiler:The Archangels refer to Satan as "Lucifer".]]
** [[spoiler:Lisa]] is the only one who could ever refer to Dracula as "Vlad".
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Although Ivan has been asleep for ten thousand years, this is averted, mostly due to Gensokyo being even further behind than he is.
* FlashbackArc: During which we see [[spoiler:Yukari's]] time as Dark Lord.
* FlashbackNightmare: Ivan has these in order to foreshadow [[spoiler:Carmilla's]] return.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In chapter 22, Marisa recalls her greatest challenge being her battle against Flandre. 19 chapters later, it turns out that this is because [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Yukari]]]] never existed. Lampshaded in the author's notes.
* FlashFiction: The shortest chapters are around 400 words, and the rest are only a few hundred longer.
* FlippingTheBird: Demo, while she briefly has arms.
* FourthWallObserver: Demo seems to be one of these, but only occaisionally. It seems to mainly occur when she's balancing on the line between sane and insane. The question of how and when she can do this enters MindScrew territory in the author's notes for chapter 58.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: In the side story, vague hints were given towards events that would later be seen during [[spoiler:Satan's]] arc. Towards the end of said arc, the trope is inverted when Flandre foreshadows the side story.
* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Flandre to Ivan in the 26th chapter.
** Remilia to Marisa in the 46th chapter too.
* GetARoom: [[spoiler:Yukari]] to Suwako and Cirno. She then adds, "[[PreMortemOneLiner Preferably somewhere in Hell]]."
* GodIsGood: He even allows Reimu into Heaven when no other afterlife will accept her, despite her not even knowing who He is.
* GodzillaThreshold: When [[spoiler:Yukari]] goes on a rampage, Remilia is forced to release Flandre from the basement, and Eirin has to return to the Moon and beg its inhabitants for help.
* GratuitousFrench: Demo to [[spoiler:non-EX Rumia's corpse]]. It's a lot more [[TearJerker depressing]] than it sounds.
* TheGrimReaper: Apparently, there's one for each cause of death, similar to Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic.
* HannibalLecture: [[spoiler:Evil Demo]] seems to be good at these.
* HarmlessVillain: Black Plague [[HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas doesn't aspire to much]], and [[EpicFail accomplishes even less]].
* HeelFaceTurn: The general premise of the first part of the story.
* HeelRealization: Ivan experiences one when an innocent woman is sacrificed in order to resurrect his father.
* HeroicBSOD: Ivan during his AndThenWhat moments, and Flandre when Dracula pulls a NoSell on her.
** Ivan is something of a BSOD magnet. His biggest so far has to be [[spoiler:when Carmilla comes BackFromTheDead]], but in the side story Dorothy leaves him with a close contender.
** After the third chapter of the side story, the author decided that he wouldn't be adding any more examples.
** It's eventually explicitly stated that Ivan's FatalFlaw is that whenever something greatly upsets him, he has a tendency to just shut down.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Non-EX Rumia]].
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Satan.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Yukari]] just has to [[EvilGloating tell Marisa]] [[FateWorseThanDeath what she did to Reimu]]. Of course, in doing so, Marisa works out how to save her.
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Demo considers her TimeMaster abilities to be cheating, and as such only uses them in emergencies.
** After an attempt to use her power results in a NoSell, Flandre resolves to use it less often.
* [[HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas How Black Plague Stole Christmas]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: [[spoiler:Chaos upon taking control of Yukari]].
* HypocrisyNod: Rumia acknowledges and apologizes for the example below.
** Suwako admits to killing Cirno [[DeathIsCheap at least once]], but she isn't willing to let her die [[DeaderThanDead permanently]].
* HypocriticalHumor: Demo barges into the Scarlet Devil Mansion completely uninvited whilst scolding Carmilla for the same thing.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter is named after a song from ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' or Franchise/TouhouProject, or one of the [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} lesser]] [[VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing crossovers]]. From time to time, a fan remix from one of the aforementioned series will be used as well.
** OddNameOut: ''How Black Plague Stole Christmas''.
* IncomingHam: ''"Who dares to invoke the wrath of the ghost queen?"''. Immediately lampshaded by Remilia.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Ivan realizes his feelings for Flandre when she turns one of their enemies into a RainOfBlood.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Reisen when she reminds Demo why the latter went insane.
* InsultBackfire: [[spoiler:Yukari]] mockingly describes Reimu as "Gensokyo's resident prolem solver". Later on, these words are used to describe her [[spoiler:on her tombstone]].
* InterfaceScrew: When Reisen [[spoiler:drives the main characters insane]].
* IronicEcho: In chapter 11, Ivan makes it clear that nobody is going to die under his watch, and that everyone the party will make it out of Dracula's Castle "alive or undead". In chapter 27, Carmilla claims that nobody will make it out of the Scarlet Devil Mansion "alive or undead".
** When Carmilla goes OneWingedAngel, the narration takes a moment to tell us that Ivan is hardly impressed. When [[spoiler:Flandre]] goes OneWingedAngel, the narration instead tells us that [[spoiler:Satan]] is only slightly impressed.
** During her UnstoppableRage, Flandre threatens to "''quite literally'' destroy everything". When Ivan gets his NextTierPowerUp, he says he feels able to... Well, you get the idea.
** As mentioned before, the Belmonts clan's BadassCreed is "[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest The morning sun will vanquish the horrible night!]]". When Rumia becomes EX-Rumia for the first time in centuries, she declares that "the wonderful night shall vanquish the evening sun!".
* ItAmusedMe: Yukari only agrees to allow [[spoiler:Chaos to take control of her]] because she's just so ''bored''.
* JustToyingWithThem: Part of the reason [[spoiler:Reimu]] is able to temporarily defeat [[spoiler:Yukari]].
* KickTheDog and TheDogBitesBack: Ivan mentions both of these tropes by name in chapter 33.
* KillItWithFire: Most vampires fight with this. In the side story, Ivan even sets the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Crissaegrim]] on fire in order to make it deadlier.
* KillItWithWater: Koranot and Frankenstein's Monster, both for different reasons.
* LateToThePunchline: Ivan in regards to the StealthInsult below.
* LetsGetDangerous: Deconstructed. When [[spoiler:Ivan dies, Flandre is willing to destroy quite literally everything in order to avenge him]].
* TheLoad: Demo and Rumia become this towards the end of the battle against [[spoiler:Satan]].
* LoonyFan: Remilia hasn't come to Castlevania to ''slay'' Dracula. She just wants to ''meet'' him.
* LoopholeAbuse: Apparently for Carmilla, if they don't slam the door in your face, it's pretty much the same as inviting you inside.
* MadnessMantra: "I blew it up! I blew it all up!", courtesy of who else but Demo?
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Mina and Kurumi.]]
* MeaningfulName: Demo: [[spoiler:Short for "demon"?]]
* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:Yukari.]]
* MomentKiller: Just as Ivan's about to reveal that [[spoiler:Shaft]] is responsible for their problems, Remilia flat-out says it herself.
* MoodWhiplash: Very common. The author states that not even ''he'' can keep track of the mood sometimes.
* MoreDakka: Dorothy is a firm believer in this.
-->The best way to kill a monster with a gun like that is to shoot it until it dies. [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 And if that don't work, use more gun.]]
* MyGodYouAreSerious: Demo manages to pull this on ''herself''.
* MyGreatestFailure: In the side story, Ivan's turns out to be neglecting to do anything to save the latest woman to be sacrificed to resurrect Dracula. In the main story, it's implied that Marisa feels this way about Reimu's death.
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Yukari]] kills [[spoiler:Reimu]] this way.
** Dracula does this to Carmilla just by [[SuperStrength slapping her]]. Because she's a vampire, she just snaps it back into place.
* TheNicknamer: Demo, borrowing some from [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} her inspiration]] and some from fellow {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Homsar]].
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Ivan's flashback in chapter 58 feels somewhat like one of these, despite it being text and not images.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Sadly, Marisa no longer holds the title of "ordinary magician", as she is now both a maid and a ghost.
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Internet Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Demo is basically [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} her creator]].
* NoodleIncident: How Cirno came to be under Suwako's protection. The exact circumstances are revealed in a later chapter, but since it technically never happened due to a CosmicRetcon, it's still a noodle incident in-universe.
* NoSell: Dracula manages to do this with Flandre's powers.
** Koranot and Frankenstein's monster pull the same with Marisa's Master Spark.
* NothingCanStopMeNow: Dracula believes this after having been dead for ten thousand years.
* NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:Satan]] to the heroes. Justified as he's obsessed with getting revenge on [[spoiler:God]].
* OffWithHerHead: How Carmilla kills Mina Hakuba.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sakuya was apparently born in the late '70s. Her youthful appearance is later revealed to be a consequence of finding the Luna Dial during the Demon Castle War.
* OneWingedAngel: Dracula starts with a ''halfway'' one-winged angel before going all the way. [[spoiler:Ivan]] later manages one himself.
** Carmilla pulls off the same transformation she did in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Rondo of Blood]]'', but Ivan is hardly impressed by it.
** [[spoiler:Flandre]] later steals Carmilla's AmplifierArtifact and accomplishes the same transformation she did.
** Galamoth does this in the side story, though it's more of a MakeMyMonsterGrow.
** [[spoiler:Satan's]] transformation caused the author to decide that he wouldn't be adding any more examples.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Demo is ''terrifying'' when she starts talking sense.
* OrwellianRetcon: [=SiFi270=] was so unhappy with [[AntiClimax Chapter 56]]'s original ending that he went and changed it, for th first and so far only time in this story.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: It gets very confusing. Although someone resembles their living self whilst in the afterlife, they are really just a soul. The confusing part is when Simon's soul ''bleeds'' and the blood is used to [[spoiler:resurrect Ivan]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: It seems to be a matter of experience in this case.
** According to Chapter 8, vampires have enhanced hearing due to [[AnimalMotifs their relation to bats]].
* PaintingTheMedium: When Demo reverses time, the events she's undoing are repeated, but in reverse.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Soma.]]
* PaedoHunt: Before she turns him into a vampire, Carmilla does some unpleasant things to a nine-year-old Ivan.
* PhraseCatcher: "[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Demo]], it's ''scary'' when [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight you're right]]."
* PowerIncontinence: Maribel is said to be experiencing this, which isn't good news considering who she's the reincarnation of.
* PragmaticVillainy: Dracula allows Shaft to escape the castle unharmed, but only so that he can be easily resurrected the next time around.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext "Oh, I'll send the]] ''[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext hell]]'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext out of that postcard!"]]. Later followed by "Oh, I'll call the ''hell'' out of tech support".
* PrecisionFStrike: Flandre gets one in chapter 32.
** Marisa gets one following her DespairEventHorizon.
** PlayedForLaughs with Demo in ''How Black Plague Stole Christmas''.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Dracula when Carmilla kills Mina Hakuba.
-->Do you have any idea, ''who! that! was!''
** Also, Flandre to the Unnamed Child.
-->Don't give me that! ''What! did! you! do!''
* RageQuit: PlayedForDrama with Marisa in Chapter 48.
* RainOfBlood: Flandre turns [[spoiler:Gaibon]] into this.
* RasputinianDeath: Mima suggests that [[spoiler:Yukari]] will have to be killed this way. In the next chapter, the exact details are revealed. First, they stun her with what's repeatedly referred to as "the greatest [[LimitBreak Master Spark]] in history". Then, Yuyuko wills death upon her, and [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Flandre destroys the body]]. Finally, as established at the beginning of the arc, Keine [[RetGone erases her from history]].
* {{Retcon}}: In the prologue, Ivan's referred to as a {{Dhampir}}, though a later chapter establishes that he was born fully human, and it wasn't until later he became a vampire from being bitten.
* RetGone: [[spoiler:Yukari]].
* RetiredBadass: Reimu during [[spoiler:Yukari's]] arc.
* RuleOfCool: Why Ivan wanted a Cyberdemon in the castle.
* SaidBookism: The author is incredibly frustrated that nobody told him that this was bad writing until he found out for himself after 25 chapters. [[OhCrap As well as everything else he's ever written]].
** And now he's slipping back into it due to force of habit.
* [[spoiler:{{Satan}}]]
* SelfDeprecation: An InUniverse example. When Reimu learns that Ruukoto isn't very good at being a shrine maiden, she says "she already sounds better than me!".
** The author indulges in this at the end of Chapter 48. He starts by giving some "writing advice" that basically amounts to SelfParody, and then states that anyone who takes advice from him is stupid.
* SelfServingMemory: [[spoiler:Literature/TheBible depicts the battle between Lucifer and Micheal as a CurbStompBattle. Thousands of years later, Satan remembers Micheal as a WorthyOpponent.]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: After ten thousand years, the Scarlet sisters now look twenty-ish!
* ShootTheShaggyDog[=/=]SpannerInTheWorks: Despite all the efforts made towards Soma ''not'' becoming Dracula, Carmilla undoes all that effort in roughly an hour.
* ShutUpHannibal: Flandre after Carmilla claims that nobody cares for Ivan except for the fact that he's the son of Dracula.
** [[spoiler:Richter does this to Satan in chapter 30.]]
** Demo says this to [[spoiler:Yukari]] with just [[FlippingTheBird her temporary hand]].
* ShutUpKirk: Dracula has long grown tired of debating with Belmonts, and as such immediately starts by attacking them.
* SilentCredits: When [[spoiler:Non-EX Rumia]] dies, the chapter has no author's notes. It's later lampshaded when [[spoiler:Reimu]] dies.
* SinisterScythe: Besides [[TheGrimReaper the obvious]], Mima has one.
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Flandre]] sports one before going OneWingedAngel.
* SoProudOfYou: Soma to Ivan.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: When Gesshi was introduced, there was some confusion on the ''Castlevania'' wiki about the ordering of her name. So during the first arc, she is known as Hanafuuma Gesshi, or just Hanafuuma.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Demo does this in chapter 58, but because both personalities behave identically at this point, it doesn't make any difference.
* SpoofAesop: Courtesy of, you guessed it, Demo.
-->Let this be a lesson to y'all. Even if your gun is very, very large, it won't do any good unless you have a just cause and a strong will.
* StealthInsult: Flandre doesn't believe her sister is capable of standing up against Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}. Remilia scolds her for [[ComicallyMissingThePoint confusing the monster and the creator]], and Flandre clarifies that she's explicitly referring to the creator.
* StepfordSmiler: Flandre is implied to have been this prior to meeting Ivan.
* TheStoic: There are a few, but Death takes the cake. The author considered giving him a NotSoStoic moment, before realizing that he managed to remain calm in more hectic situations.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: [[RuleOfThree Three times]] in ''How Black Plague Stole Christmas''.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Galamoth in the side story. Ivan seems to exhibit this after [[spoiler:coming BackFromTheDead]], but it's subverted when he lives up to his claims.
* TakeThat: According to Alucard, all [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga human/vampire relationships]] end in disaster.
* TalkativeLoon: Demo.
** [[spoiler:Yukari]] is a much darker example.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Frequently lampshaded.
** Demo invokes this in chapter 41, where she kicks Reisen in the middle of one of her monologues.
* [[TalkToTheFist Talk to the Whip]]: [[spoiler:Richter]] has taken this approach.
* TeamPet: Gergoth.
* TemptingFate: Ivan zig-zags this in chapter 60.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Shaft's death is apparently the final step towards summoning {{Satan}}]].
* TimeMaster: Demo is apparently one, though she never uses it because she considers it to be cheating.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Mina Hakuba after becoming an angel.]]
* TranquilFury: Mentioned by name in the seventh chapter.
* TransformationSequence: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Rumia in chapter 44, and parodied by Demo almost immediately afterwards when she turns into something totally ridiculous.
* {{Tsundere}}: Rumia always seems to be the most annoyed by Demo, but she's also the most distressed when [[spoiler:Demo undergoes a FaceHeelTurn]]. She eventually confesses her true feelings after the battle's over.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Remilia lampshades this in chapter 57.
* UnstoppableRage: Kokoro beats Death while ranting about [[NintendoHard the Castlevania series' difficulty]] from an InUniverse point of view.
** Ivan goes into this after [[spoiler:Flandre is seemingly killed]].
** And in chapter 31, the inverse of the above happens, though [[spoiler:there is no "seemingly" about Ivan's death]]. Later, the Unnamed Child forces her to relive the incident, bringing this trope into effect all over again.
* UnwinnableByDesign: ChessWithDeath.
* VictoryIsBoring: Gensokyo's been very peaceful for the past 10,000 years. Marisa isn't at all happy about this.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: '''CHAOS'''
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Yukari]].
* WaxingLyrical: Demo, at one point, says there needs to be "[[Music/ElvisPresley a little less conversation, a little more action]]". She attributes the quote to "one of the greatest vampire hunters ''ever''", leading Rumia to wonder [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy if there's any truth to that]].
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 30. The next one only takes it further.
* WhamLine: Nearly averted. Marisa brings up how [[spoiler:[[{{Immortality}} Kaguya]] died]] as though it's no big deal, but Patchouli [[FridgeHorror realizes the true implications shortly afterward]].
** Another appears in the very next chapter, where Demo reveals that [[spoiler:Yukari]] has been erased from existence, and only she and other [[TimeMaster Time Masters]] remember her at all.
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: Chapter 57, where we find out that pretty much everyone in the main cast fears losing a loved one.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The author forgets completely about Gergoth from time to time, leading him to remind everyone that he still exists at the beginning of the next chapter. Right now, he seems to be in limbo.
* WhatTheHellHero: While Remilia isn't exactly a hero, Ivan still calls her out on keeping Flandre in the basement for thousands of years.
** Remilia delivers one to ''God'' of all people.
** In the side story, Flandre's treatment of Dorothy gets this (again from Ivan).
* WhoDares: To invoke the wrath of the Ghost Queen?
** Or to punch Carmilla in the face?
** Or, of course, [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} TO TRY TO STOP THE TIME BOMB?]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Not Sakuya.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Before Demo's driven insane by being one of the few people to remember [[spoiler:Yukari's]] atrocities, she's driven insane by a sudden and ridiculous increase in power.
* TheWorfEffect: Invoked by [[spoiler:Satan]].
* WritingAroundTrademarks: Demo has canonically been to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros the Mushroom Kingdom]] before. But since it's been so long, and since she has such a loose grasp on reality in the first place, she fails to properly remember its name, assuming it to be "the Mashed Potato Kingdom".
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Marisa calls Rinnosuke by his real name just before [[spoiler:he dies]].
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: [[spoiler:Ivan's]] OneWingedAngel form is implied to be one of these.

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!!The Side Story contains examples of:

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "Everyone has bad days. It may be when they lose someone or something important to them, or it may be when they suffer a serious injury, or it may even be when they spill coffee all over their computer."
* DiabolusExMachina: Played for laughs in the author's notes for chapter 4.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Alternate Flandre]] certainly did.
* {{Expy}}: Dorothy Hood is loosely based on B.B. Hood from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''.
%%* GunsAkimbo: Dorothy.
* HandCannon: Dorothy wields [[GunsAkimbo two]] in a ShoutOut to ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. The narrator even refers to them as "[[LampshadeHanging so-called 'handguns']]"
%%* HeyYouHaymaker: [[spoiler:Alternate Flandre to Galamoth.]]
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires, apparently]]. Specifically, [[spoiler:alternate Flandre]].
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With a twist. Ivan refuses to leave the alternate timeline until he's fixed all the problems caused by his absence.
* LittleNo: Ivan when he refuses to leave until everything is fixed. He later does this three times in a row when he discovers [[spoiler:alternate Flandre]].
%%* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Except later, when it's Flandre. Dorothy later introduces herself this way when she appears in the main story.
* MythologyGag: The story begins almost identically to last year's Christmas special, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6562725/1/A_Christmas_Carolvania A Christmas Carolvania]]''.
%%* NeckLift: Galamoth does this to both Ivan and Simon.
%%* PyrrhicVictory: Over Dorothy.
%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Dorothy is on one.
* RockBottom: Dorothy reaches this after failing to avenge her mother.
* SayMyName: In a ShoutOut to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' at the end of chapter 3.
%%* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong
* SuicideByCop: What [[spoiler:alternate Flandre]] is hoping for.
* TakeMyHand: Simon brings Ivan to various locations this way.
%%* ThatManIsDead: Una in regards to [[spoiler:alternate Flandre]].
* UnseenEvil: Subverted. Galamoth's identity is made perfectly clear, but TheDragon remains anonymous. [[spoiler:Until she's revealed to be alternate Flandre]].
%%* YouKilledMyFather: Dorothy's motivation.
%%* YouMonster: Dorothy to Ivan.

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