Tropes which appear in Holiday Edition, the third story in the Touhou Doujin: Dawitsu's Folly fanfic series.
Note that YMMV tropes should go on the YMMV page for the series.
- The Alcoholic: Suika comes along for the ride.
- All Work vs. All Play : An expansion on the theme brought up in Grimoire, once gain relating to Ran's hard working nature and Dawitsu trying to get her to chill out.
- Aloof Big Brother: Inverted. Tomasu is certainly aloof, having a great disdain for his older brother for his Otakuism. He almost slips out, "I can't go out with a bunch of geeks..." upon suggesting that he, Yutaka, and Dawitsu go out and take Ran and Chen along with them. He stops himself, though, and actually loves his brother very much, though.
- Always Second Best: Dawitsu does a 'See, this is why Yutaka's an awesome Shikigami' type dialogue to Ran more than once...
- Amicable Exes: Dawitsu's parents.
- Anger Born of Worry: Sakuya slaps Dawitsu in the face for pretending to be hurt by crossing the border, even saying the Trope Page Quote.
- Appeal to Flattery: Dawitsu tries this on Yukari, and succeeds in stalling her for a while by complimenting how good-looking she is.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The gang almost revealed Youkai-kind to the outside world, blew up a restaurant, and took the Eurostar, in Dawitsu's words.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Dawitsu wishes this was the case with Sakuya and his father as he digs himself deeper and deeper into an awkward conversation, the narration saying he wants to jingle some keys at them and keep them distracted.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Reimu becomes concerned about Suika and Aya when Yukari mentions locking the border so the Holiday-goers can never return to Gensokyo, causing her to mentally lampshade it by thinking it's strange that she'd actually show concern for others. Also, later on, in the same instance as But Now I Must Go, Tomasu shows his true colors by wanting to go with Dawitsu to Gensokyo... or so it seems, but he just meant for the journey.
- Badass Boast: Yukari's threats to Dawitsu- 'There are a million ways I can kill you right now, using only this Parasol. I don't have to do this, of course. There are a million more ways that I can kill you with my bare hands, and a number bordering a billion other ways I can kill you. I've been nice to you up until now, so tell me one good reason why I should let you live if you won't give me what's rightfully mine?'.
- Bad Date: Subverted in that the meal at the restaurant in chapter five was never a date from the beginning, Sakuya was only trying to make it that way to call Dawitsu out on calling her his wife to protect her from rabid Otaku. Needless to say the effort fails miserably. A closer to straight example in the last chapter, in which Yutaka tries the moves on Patchouli, and in confessing to her, sets off her asthma. It didn't go quite as planned, but they ultimately hook up anyways.
- Beginner's Luck: Sakuya seems to have this in her gaming ability, but in actual fact, it's because she's a n00b.
- "Be Quiet!" Nudge: Yutaka kicks Dawitsu from under the table at a restaurant for being a Jerkass to the waiter.
- Berserk Button: Subverted. French Bar Staff implying Suika cannot take her drink does have disastrous results, but it's not because she's angry; it's merely to prove she is a real Oni.
- The Big Damn Kiss: Sakuya to Dawitsu, after she finds out that she was saved by his surgery.
- Big Eater: If there's one thing Dawitsu and his brother have in common, it's their appetite, as shown when they get a Subway. Yutaka and Ran Inverts this with their modest appetites (Ran only has salad in her sub), while Sakuya, Aya, Chen, and Patchouli simply Avert with normal appetites. Suika has no appetite for food at all, and prefers to just drink alcohol.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: A notable case in which the narration states that 'even the narration got bored, and moved to a different scene.' Pretty
Anvilicious, obviously. - But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Suika shrugs off the fact Dawitsu's car crash with her in it as merely a "twitch".
- But Now I Must Go: When Dawitsu is saying his final goodbyes to Tomasu, the whole scene has a general air of this, even though it's only to return home.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: Dawitsu and co bluff this is the case to explain why Suika is so drunk in a museum, although they know this is anything but true.
- Casual Kink: Once again, Dawitsu seems to enjoy being slapped... also, Dawitsu's father begins to think his son has joined some kind of fetish club relating to animé girls... however, he is mistaken.
- Chekhov's Gun: The secret entrance used by Yutaka and Chen is only next referenced all the way into Jean's Magical Education, and is used by Medicine Melancholy in a murder attempt.
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Spectacularly Averted. Yutaka even goes out of her way in the museum containing The Bayeux Tapestry to talk of France's war-waging history.
- The Chessmaster: Not as pronounced as her later appearances, but Yutaka certainly thought ahead by bringing a copy of the Grimoire of Dawitsu with her to show Sakuya that Dawitsu really does love Sakuya.
- Christmas Episode: Well, somewhat obvious. The whole story kind of revolves around the main characters going on Holiday to the Outside World to celebrate Christmas.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: While not showing much of the latter, Sakuya certainly is one clingy girlfriend (both physically and figuratively) and almost instantly causes Dawitsu to have doubts upon asking her out.
- Constantly Curious: Pretty much every Gensokyo Dweller to the outside world, especially the stowaway, Aya.
- Converse with the Unconscious: After the car crash, Sakuya is severely injured and the only one seriously affected by the impact. Patchouli runs over to where her unconscious body is and keeps asking her to wake up.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: Dawitsu gets the idea on how to make the Gensokyo Girls' weird outfits seem comparatively inconspicuous in the outside world... by pretending they're cosplayers, of course!
- Covert Pervert: Tomasu is only a tad more covert than Dawitsu is, so once again is a subversion. Also, Yukari off-handedly mentions to Reimu that 'It's not like I haven't seen you half-naked before...' when she warps to her house in the middle of her washing her top.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Really, who expected Dawitsu of all people to be the one protecting his peers whenever they came into trouble due to their ineptitude regarding the outside world.
- Deus ex Machina: Chuck Norris post Heel–Face Turn.
- Diabolus ex Machina: Chuck Norris, before his Heel–Face Turn.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Chen of all people manages to knock Yukari out. With a frying pan. Needless to say everyone's a little surprised Yukari was actually hurt by it.
- Divorce Is Temporary: Averted, thankfully. Dawitsu's parents are implied to be divorced, and he even implies to Tomasu that it could be awkward inviting both parents to the Christmas party. Turns out Dawitsu's father has a new wife, and Dawitsu mother actually gets on well with this new wife, so the situation seems pretty much permanent.
- Dope Slap: Subverted. Dawitsu is tempted to do it to Suika, but in the end doesn't.
- Double Standard: The tone of the book Averts this, but Dawitsu's mother certainly believes in The Unfair Sex, and believes men should give up what they want for their beloved.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: Averted in favor of realism. After Aya randomly pops out of the boot of his Cadillac, Dawitsu loses control and crashes the car on the motorway, causing the car to be damaged beyond repair, but not exploded. The injuries are the greater concern...
- Face Palm: Or Face Sleeve in Yutaka's case...
- Feigning Intelligence: Dawitsu does it quite a bit in Holiday Edition...
- First Gray Hair: Tomasu winds up Dawitsu by pretending he can see one shortly after they reunite.
- French Cuisine Is Haughty: Played With. While the restaurant the main cast go to is certainly intended to be high-class, there doesn't seem to be any more emphasis placed on the Ecargot and Cuisses de Grenouilles ordered by Yutaka and Patchouli than on Dawitsu's steak and Sakuya's Carbonara.
- Fridge Logic: In-universe example. It's only after getting to the outside world Ran considers how on earth she's going to hide her fox tails in order to make herself blend in with humans.
- Friends with Benefits: The name of the final chapter. Referring to Sakuya and Dawitsu's relationship by the end. It doesn't last into the next book.
- Frying Pan of Doom
- Gamer Chick: Sakuya briefly becomes this, getting addicted to Modern Warfare 2. She's also quite good, but only via cheap tactics, so is actually a Subversion.
- Gay Paree: The first location in the Outside World visited by the gang is Paris.
- Genki Girl: Whenever Chen is asking about Father Christmas, she becomes this, and is very enthusiastic about finding out more about the figurehead of Christmas.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Chuck Norris. Just Chuck Norris.
- The Glomp: Once again, Sakuya's all over this trope. Dawitsu even does it to Reimu as he discovers that she really does love Suika and Aya.
- The Heart: Yutaka very briefly is this, helping to stop arguments between Tomasu and Mateyuu Dawitsu.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Tomasu, Mateyuu Dawitsu's brother, has the somewhat lame-sounding power to control fish. How does he use it? Not to save the world, oh no... only to keep an aquarium of all the world's rarest fish and make a killing from marine researchers and fish collectors. Needless to say he's doing pretty well for himself.
- Hidden Depths: Dawitsu may be silly and wacky most of the time, but when life or death is involved, he's focused, serious, and highly efficient.
- Hollywood Healing: Triumphantly Averted in Chapter Three, in which mentions of body parts and surgical procedures are fairly close to the real thing.
- Hypocritical Humor: Dawitsu complains about Tesco establishing a monopoly, and muses 'Damn fat cats' while Yutaka thinks about, but ultimately fails to point out that he owns a mansion.
- I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: One of Dawitsu's many excuses not to get with Sakuya.
- Incompatible Orientation: Dawitsu rants to Sakuya about why it's best they shouldn't be together, one reason being 'I once wanted Yutaka in that exact same way... but in the end the forged relationship I've had with her hasn't been a romantic one. Do you know why that is?' to which Sakuya responds with, 'Because she's a lesbian and you're not a girl?'. Dawitsu tries his best to laugh it off.
- Insecure Love Interest: Dawitsu... and how!
- It's Not You, It's Me: Related to above. Dawitsu attempts to break it off with Sakuya, this being one of the reasons.
- Last-Minute Hookup: Yutaka and Patchouli.
- Large Ham: Dawitsu is still hammy, though not quite as much as in the first book. He's particularly hammy when he's acting as Father Christmas.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Averted. An X-box 360 is mentioned in name.
- Likes Older Women: Inverted. Sakuya like older men. After Tomasu's 'gray hair' remark, Dawitsu whispers to Sakuya, "I don't look old, do I?", and Sakuya replies with, "Not in a bad way...", prompting him to ask, "What the hell does that mean?"
- Little Stowaway: If you count Suika as little...
- Love at First Sight: Discussed between Yutaka and Ran, both of which consider it contrived and not at all realistic.
- Love Triangle: Dawitsu's Mother presumes one is going on between Dawitsu, Yutaka, and Sakuya, as she seems unable to accept Yutaka is The Not-Love Interest. She doesn't approve.
- Mail-Order Bride: Tomasu taunts Dawitsu by joking that the only reason he has all these women surrounding him is because he's ordered them all as Mail-Order Brides...
- Master of the Mixed Message: Somewhat Played With. Dawitsu usually tries not to show his feelings for Sakuya due to the
Unfortunate Implications, but lets slip twice — once by calling her his wife to protect her from perverted Otaku, the other time saying he'll go out with her if she comes off his brother's X-box 360. - The Matchmaker: Initially Yutaka to Sakuya and Dawitsu, and in the final chapter, Dawitsu to Yutaka and Patchouli.
- Mayfly–December Romance: One of the reasons Dawitsu doesn't want to get with Sakuya is the significant age gap (nineteen to three-hundred and eighteen) as well as her comparatively short life span...
- Mistaken for Pedophile: A random man within the Bayeux Tapestry's museum tries to feel both Ran and Chen's tails to see if they're real or cosplay, and Dawitsu notices this and briefly becomes a Papa Wolf to Chen, until the man explains his motivations...
- Moment Killer: Of the Fatal Fumble sort. Sakuya awkwardly tries to start up conversations with Dawitsu but keeps saying dialogue which is somewhat difficult to keep a conversation going from. Fortunately, Dawitsu is prepared to throw in Conversation Fuel to the fire.
- Mood Whiplash: The end of chapter two, and how!
- Most Gamers Are Male: Considering Sakuya's the only female in an eighteen player game of Modern Warfare 2, this is certainly the case here. The author even slips in an obvious Take That! to misogynistic online gamers.
- My Beloved Smother: Dawitsu's Mother is concerned and well-meaning, but also somewhat pushy. Dawitsu's father is the exact opposite, and doesn't seem to treat Dawitsu as anything more than a good friend.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Dawitsu, almost the moment he accepts going out with Sakuya just to get her off his brother's X-box.
- Nice to the Waiter: Yutaka, Ran, and Patchouli play this straight. Dawitsu, however, inverts this and is somewhat a Jerkass, though at times, he doesn't know it. Suika,on the other hand, frackin' destroys the restaurant and thus is not the best of customers.
- Nosebleed: The Otaku mentioned below. One of them gets increasingly violent nosebleeds the more Sakuya reveals about herself. In the end Dawitsu has to pretend to be her husband just to get them to back off.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Yuyuko has a bit of fun doing this to mess with Youmu and Yukari, stealth mocking Yukari for being knocked out by a stage two boss with a frying pan.
- Oblivious to Love: Dawitsu averts this, at least in this book. He actually plays on Sakuya's crush on him to attempt to get her off Tomasu's X-box.
- Occidental Otaku: More noteably than the rest of the series, as there are others to Dawitsu here (as the Holiday is to the outside world). They are far worse than Dawitsu in terms of their perversion and social awkwardness, making Dawitsu look plain downplayed.
- One Thing Led to Another: Out-and-out named by Dawitsu... one moment gaming with Sakuya, next in bed with her... what's the difference?
- One-Steve Limit: Enforced — the narration has been referring to Dawitsu as... just that, Dawitsu. So, upon meeting Dawitsu's brother Tomasu, who in turn, also has the surname Dawitsu, quite often the narration will refer to Dawitsu as "Mateyuu" Dawitsu, or at the very least consistently refer to Tomasu as "Tomasu", not "Dawitsu" also.
- Open Heart Dentistry: Dawitsu, a qualified veterinarian, has to work on Sakuya's head injury.
- Organization with Unlimited Funding: Justified — thanks to Yutaka's matter-altering abilities, all of the holiday-goers are this. Lampshaded by a security guard, who's surprised at the main cast paying for a trip on the Eurostar in cash.
- Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: The story starts off with one in a shout out to the infamous "Chocolate Pudding" scene from Rugrats.
- Pair the Smart Ones: Patchouli and Yutaka. It may seem to come out of nowhere, but a reread actually shows subtext that one will miss first time round...
- Papa Wolf: Surprisingly, Dawitsu has his moment protecting Chen from what he thought was a pervert. Somewhat subverted in the fact that Chen, being a Youkai, was probably more than capable of defending herself. Dawitsu was invoking this trope to stop Chen from nearly giving away the fact that she is, indeed, a nekomata, and not just a cosplayer.
- The Paralyzer: A Call-Back to the first book's paralyzer.
- Plot Armor: Reimu has it and knows it.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Subverted. Tomasu tries to be this, but often his humor slips towards Jerkass territory.
- Pride Before a Fall: Subverted and Parodied. Dawitsu lets his pride get the better of him by trying to prove Patchouli wrong by going through the border of Gensokyo (to show it's safe). He then feigns being hurt, and cries for help, but it turns out he was kidding around, much to Yutaka and Sakuya's chagrin.
- Queer as Tropes: Parodied. Dawitsu gets rather defensive about Yutaka's choice of car upon its formation... it's a Pink Cadillac. Yutaka seems to be Genre Savvy enough to know that people would give Dawitsu weird looks for travelling around with a bunch of young-looking girls unless there's a glaringly obvious hint that Dawitsu is gay (even though he isn't). He also plays thumping techno in said Pink Cadillac to enforce the image.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Yutaka is Blue to Dawitsu's Red, Ran is Blue to Dawitsu's Red, Dawitsu is Blue to Tomasu's Red.
- Santa's Existence Clause: Subverted. Santa really isn't real, but Dawitsu still dresses up as the guy to keep Chen's dreams alive (he is a mimicker, after all, he can do a convincing act.).
- Sarcasm Mode: Once again, Reimu is particularly sarcastic despite her brief role in this story.
- Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Dawitsu is very good at this trope, coming up with at least three spontaneous lies, all of which are believed.
- Shopping Montage: While not a Montage, one of Dawitsu's attempts to get Ran to relax is to go down to the Human Village and do some shopping with Yutaka to get herself a new outfit. She ends up finding it too difficult to choose an outfit, leaving her more tense than before.
- Sibling Rivalry: The reason Dawitsu's reluctant to go to his birth town despite being fine with going to his ex-hometown.
- Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Dawitsu slides all the way from silly to serious when he discovers Sakuya is injured by the car crash, and keeps that way until he succeeds in sealing her hemorrhage. It seems even the Comic Relief has a serious side...
- Smash Cut: Of a sort. Dawitsu ends chapter four by saying they have to find the two British Tourists with Aya's camera or the reality of Gensokyo could be revealed to all. Chapter five begins with the main characters in a restaurant, with Dawitsu still apparently angry about the fact two tourists have Aya's camera, but Yutaka's forcing him to forget about it for now.
- Some Kind Of Forcefield: The Border of Gensokyo is described as being bluish, and like water, to the point that it ripples when touched.
- Spit Take: Parodied. To quote: "Dawitsu spat... a non-existent drink in disbelief."
- Stage Magician: Yutaka pretends to be this as part of Dawitsu's Seamless Spontaneous Lie.
- Straw Feminist: The Narration claims Dawitsu's mother is almost anti-male enough to be one, but just avoids being so.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Suika only goes and blows up an entire restaurant to prove she can handle her drink. Almost blows up a club as well, after buying ecstacy, but fortunately passed out before doing so.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: A sign that's intended to be a triple bluff — a sign saying 'This is not a secret entrance' is meant to seem like such an obvious bluff that it could be a double bluff. Of course, it's only bluffing that it's a double bluff.
- Take That!: To teenage drinking culture. To quote: 'He whispered, "She's a Youkai that really likes to drink alcohol, so don't listen to anything that she says, okay?" "More than a human teenager?" "Surprisingly, yes." he replied.'
- Talking in Your Sleep: Dawitsu at one point.
- Token Romance: Dawitsu discusses this with Sakuya, asking her what they've done as a couple since getting together as a gentle way of dumping her.
- Translation Convention: Thoroughly Averted with the speech of any of the French people in Bayeux and Paris. Some of the French people working in tourism-based places speak Broken English, but most of them prefer to speak their original language.
- The Unfair Sex: See Double Standard above.
- Weirdness Censor: Dawitsu and Yukari have a Danmaku fight above a crowd of outside-worlders. They think it's a magic show. Riiiiiiiight...
- William Telling: Sakuya does this to a British Tourist, impaling a Snickers Bar from on top of his head while leaving the man unharmed, so as to back up Dawitsu's lie that they are a bunch of illusionist film-makers.
- Will They or Won't They?: Sakuya and Dawitsu, not exactly well done. In the end, they... kinda do.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Aya certainly thinks "X" is cool, what with starting her spelling game round with the letter "X".
- Yandere: Sakuya has shades of this, but nothing too extreme. The Narration even lampshades this.
