Webcomic / You Didn't Ask for This

"...but that's never stopped me."

— BlackDragonTribe, first YDAFT comic.

You Didn't Ask for This, or YDAFT (yuh-daft/why-daft/Y-D-A-F-T/ee-daft) for short, is a Touhou Project webcomic made by Reddit user BlackDragonTribe in the Walfas engine, published on r/touhou. The main comic covered the various mishaps and misadventures of the girls of an alternate Gensokyo. As a plot developed, the original comic would eventually come to an end, replaced by a new series called YDAFT [Gensokyo Days] with a greater emphasis on confining itself to silly side happenings and short inconsequential arcs, as well as Gensokyo Late-Night for comics based on requests submitted by fans. [Gensokyo Days] is subsequently replaced by [Gensokyo Life] due to Cerebus Syndrome of the PC98 arc, with the arc itself being on hiatus.

YDAFT also has its own subreddit, which features archives of the original and [GD] as well as several spinoffs, such as the now-concluded [Backstage] where BDT and other users' original characters could come together, the New World to replace it, and other people's fancomics, listed below.

• Outcast's Walfas Weirdness by TheOutcast06
• Fire Emblem x YDAFT by MadMewMew7076
• Dan's Walfas Corner by SheetsInc
• Your Average Incident (Yet Another Incident) by KrisSystemFailure
• KiriComics, formerly The Many Deaths of Kirike Manjo, by Eeeternalpwnage
• Touzhi’s New World Adventures by Buddermario7

BDT's main YDAFT comics contain the following tropes:

• Author Avatar: An entity known simply as "Black" is used to represent the author in-comic.
• Big Damn Heroes: PC-98 Yuuka appears right before 98 can kill Marisa and Alice, even battling against 98 over several episodes.
• Black Comedy Rape: One of the ways Flandre and Koishi try to get Remilia and Satori together is by locking them both in a room and not letting them out until they "get steamy."
• Cerebus Syndrome: YDAFT started out as a series of humorous one-shots with little in the way of an overarching plot. Eventually though, the comic would enter into a serious Story Arc where the PC-98 version of Reimu, depicted as a violent demon, gets reawakened and goes on a rampage.
• Character Filibuster: Yukari insists on dropping an entire flashback of 98's backstory when 98 only gives her 24 hours before going on a rampage and even attacking Marisa for trying to get her to condense the story into its key points. Deconstructed as this leads to Yukari spending so much time talking about the backstory that 98's already rampaging through Gensokyo during the filibustering and she's still not done with the backstory by the time Daiyousei calls for help.
• Costume Evolution: Several in fact:
  • Marisa's appearance has changed over the course of the comic. She started out in her Subterranean Animism design, before getting a new and wholly original look later on.
  • Sanae also gets one later when she “evolves” like a Pokemon and gets an upgraded version of her usual outfit.
  • Sakuya gains a pair of dog ears offscreen when one of Patchouli’s rituals go wrong.
  • Meiling dyed her hair black very early on in the comic since her future self said that Sakuya would compliment her new look.
• Enemy Without: PC-98 (98 for short) Reimu is this to Reimu, as they are said to be the same yet are depicted as separate entities in the main comic, with 98 being locked into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge over the Head Priest killing off Rumia, her parental figure. Also crosses into The Heartless.
• Fan-Created Offspring:
  • The comic features clones of Reimu and Marisa named Reihaku and Marisame. In a recursive instance of this trope, they also had children named Reikiri and Musa.
  • Tewi and Sunny Milk has a trio of rabbit-fairies called Carrot, Lettuce and Mochi.
  • [GL] also features Riku and Maria, far future descendants of Reimu and Marisa.
• No Mouth: Reimu has no mouth, but is still able to speak. Initially this was because having no mouth was used to represent a blank expression, until it evolved into being a part of Reimu's character. This is a trait shared by most of Reimu's variations.
• One-Winged Angel: This is a shared trait between all generations of the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, though only 98 has unsealed this power through sheer hatred of the Head Priest's actions so far.
• Original Character: There are way too many to list, though they don't detract from the Touhou shenanigans.
• Shipper on Deck: Flandre and Koishi both want their older sisters to become a couple.

Tropes for fancomics made by other YDAFT users:

In general

• A Dog Named "Dog": DOG, an incredibly rude and foul-mouthed dog girl who lives in a trash can and hates everyone. The joke is that she's a bitch.
• Alternate Self: Referred to as Variants for most characters, or Echoes for dragon characters.
• Author Avatar: Cap and Lily (OWW); Kris, Smeiden and Cooler Meiling (YAI); Neptune (FEx); Rey (KC); Dan and Cooler Dan (DWC), Blue Touzhi (TNWA)
• Cast Herd: Within an FC, the individual characters are usually grouped up into specific teams.
  • OWW:
    • Legion: Cap, Lily, Monica, Joanne, Carrie, Sylvia, Corey
    • Momentum: Tracy, Melissa, Mason, Yvonne, Leslie, Lloyd, UnDrawn
    • Eientein’t: Tsukihime, Yamako, Rey, Iris, Terese, Venezia
    • Unofficial Science Club and Trick-Stars: May, Jade, Shenton, Honey, “Pyra”, Kass
    • Magus Night: Minoa, Manny, Marisa, Percy, Cara, Rochelle
    • Other OWW: Allegretto, Surname, Inagami, Verity, Rocket, Azuki
    • Treasury: Zafer, Iridium, Tiamat, Jabberwock, Lawrence, Tarrasque, Dragon Turtles, Bahamut, True Dragons
    • Miscellaneous OWW: Starship Chelonian, Skelmet, Helpers, Rokkappa, Mau Tim, Kokuryu
  • YAI:
    • TUF: Kris, Mayris, Hikaru (Leader), Tensai, Golden, Wuis, Osore
    • The Blindfolds: High Boss (“O”), Consciousness, Kindness, Colourless, Darkness, Soundless, Yatty
  • FEx:
    • Neptunia: Neptune, Blanc, Uni, Noire, Vert, Plutia, Rom, Ram, Nepgear, Peashy
    • Chaos Gods: Khorne, Nurgle, Slaneesh, Tzeentch
• Even the Girls Want Her: Expected when Improbably Female Cast is active, but special points goes to Sylvia, who manages to befriend several characters from all across FC just by being her "Mix of Aloof Dark-Haired Girl, Cool Big Sis AND Creepy Loner Girl" self.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Tensai, Carrie, Mason and Rokkappa.
• Improbably Female Cast: As to be expected from a Touhou fan work. There are still more males than Touhou canon, though.
• Knight of Cerebus: Darkness and Consciousness in YAI, and Nidrugg in KC. The comics they appear in tend to be more serious than other comics of their respective FCs.
• No Fourth Wall: Characters tend to have certain levels of meta-awareness. How much varies from between FCs.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Lily and Marisa shares names with existing Touhou characters.
• Original Character: Many of the fancomics tend to put more emphasis on these than on Touhou characters.
• Our Dragons Are Different: We have the Chromatic, Metallic and Gem Dragons, a lobster that climbed up the same waterfall as the carp and got promoted, dragon turtles transformed from dragonflesh abominations that act like the Neutrophils, Composite Character of mythological and D&D Tiamat, Jabberwock (which is actually a title passed on to illusion specialist dragons), and a Tarrasque. They are most often seen in OWW and FEx.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Two wildly different takes. OWW has May, who is only partially zombified but still has cues common in OWW zombies of liking seafood as a replacement for human flesh (May in particular likes grilled squid) and therefore good swimmers and fishers despite low motor control on land. FEx has the Risen, which are highly adaptable as shown in the FEx folder below.
• Pals with Jesus: Many, MANY of the characters in the fancomics are gods or godlike beings, who can hang out with the lesser mortals on a whim.
• Protagonist Title: DOG is the protagonist of the DOG comics.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: According to Kris, Character!BDT is only seen in a school uniform. Multiple OWW characters are also rarely seen in casual clothing.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis:
  • While rarely explored, this is the (intended) dynamic between FEx Grima and KiriComics Grima.
  • Lily and Kris during [Backstage], with Kris's Jerkass tendencies rubbing Lily the wrong way.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The villainous characters are all highly threatening and are all Knight of Cerebus in the otherwise comedy filled FCs.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Within an FC we have Lily/Carrie, Lily/Joanne and Kris/Wuis. Across more than 1 FC Lily/Kris (post-Backstage) is this.

Outcast's Walfas Weirdness (OWW)

An FC that runs on memes, bizarre situations befalling characters from across all of the FCs. Further info of the Legion, "Pyra" (as The Avatar) and Tiamat can be found at the Sandbox of The Troping Alliancer. Most characters from OWW have existed before the FC itself, with pre-OWW versions of the characters described with the prefix “Proto” below.

• Adaptational Nice Guy: The Chromatic Dragons are Always Chaotic Evil back in Dungeons and Dragons from their conception to early 5th Edition. in OWW, most of them have their positive traits and positive spins on their traits put to the forefront.
• Adaptational Wimp: Cooler Dan is a Knight of Cerebus in DWC, but is reduced to an Iron Butt Monkey in OWW.
• Alternate Self: Variants of characters are common within OWW, with Variants of characters from other FCs being created as well. Known Variants with more than 1 major appearance include Rocket (War Is Hell Lily) and Inagami (Asian Fox Spirit Carrie).
  • "Pyra" is an interesting example as their depiction of OWW also involves their characterisation in the Arena.
• Art Shift: The punchline for 598 involves Corey briefly imitating Shion’s Evil Laugh as a stress removal tactic (her regular laugh already sounds like Shion’s infamous Evil Laugh). Sylvia implies it’s due to Strongest Cirno’s usage of Hollow Purple in KC that allows the two of them to briefly break through the limits of Walfas for a visual gag.
• Ax-Crazy: "There are 3 categories of OWW characters: Homicidal, silly little creatures, and homicidal sillies."
• Burn Scars, Burning Powers: “Pyra”. Their burns sometimes burst into Magic Fire. The "burn scars" bit is only implied in Walfas as their scars have moved to their back when in the NW and therefore usually non-visible, while outside of Walfas these burns are highly visible, covering most of their right side.
  • Immune to Fire: As a result "Pyra" cannot be hurt by fire, becoming a Woman on Fire with Elemental Absorption. Visually only her right side is ignited when this happens.
• Canon Immigrant: Several named characters have made appearances in other FCs, with these events considered canon to the FC they cameo in.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: VERY common as a trolling face, especially with pranksters like Honey. (The same mouth part is also used as a Slasher Smile.)
• Creepy Cute: A lot of the characters have at least one unnerving trait surrounding them, yet are still overall pleasant people.
• Creepy Good: A lot of the characters have at least one unnerving trait surrounding them, yet are still overall willing to help others.
• Denser and Wackier: OWW’s orientation compared to other FCs.
• Ensemble Cast: Outside of the very first episodes focusing on Lily, OWW tries to dedicate at least one episode to every named character across all of FC.
• Expy: Eientein't is this to the Eientei Crew: Tsukihime/Kaguya; Yamako/Mokou; Rey/Reisen; Terese/Tei and Iris/Eirin.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Several trios follow this patterns (done in order):
  • Matahari (Momentum): Tracy, Mason, Yvonne
  • Trick-Stars: “Pyra”, Kass, Honey
  • Twins+1: Sylvia, Either Lily or Verity, Corey
  • Minoa’s Workshop: Minoa, Cara, Rochelle, with Rochelle’s Lightning being a reference to Rin’s “Dancing Bolt” epithet.
• The Gadfly: A common trait of OWW characters, ranging from prankster Honey hanging herself to spook people (note: she is immune to asphyxiation so she isn’t affected by this at all), to Shrinking Violet Joanne saying “ara ara ufufu” to unnerve others. (It’s her Battle Cry of sorts, being so unexpected and creepy it intimidates the target)
• Handicapped Badass: Being disabled doesn't prevent OWW characters from being highly threatening combatants. Disability Superpower and Disability Immunity also comes into play, with the DisImmunity Cast Herd (May, Tracy, Yvonne, Honey, "Pyra", Kass) named after and running on the latter.
• The Heartless: Lily's Rage Form is a defence mechanism formed by her repressed negative emotions. She embraced it and the two are under Symbiotic Possession, not unlike a Persona User.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Downplayed. Sylvia in Walfas, and thus most of the comics, has a visible scarred eye, but in external media (and a hand-drawn KiriComics panel), she covers it with her hair. The hair-over-eye design is the official one.
• It Runs on Nonsensoleum: The tagline of OWW.
• Kaiju: The Tarrasque can grow to such sizes. Her stomach acts as a Womb Level in this state, which can be utilised as a form of protection - people can hide inside her stomach.
  • Venezia Dungeon Crawling inside Tarrasque in 600 also points towards Genius Loci.
• Marionette Master: Minoa specialises in dolls and robots.
• Miko: Verity practices a weird mix of Touhou-styled Shinto and Taoism.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Proxy Skills, which are Weaponisations of various aspects of a character or show the characters are making a Shout-Out to.
• Parodies for Dummies: “Pyra” is reading Bass Guitar for Dummies in 583. Bass Guitar is an actual entry in the For Dummies series.
• Playful Cat Smile: Honey's default expression, also common with other OWW characters to express cheekiness.
• Relax-o-Vision: Played for Laughs in 567 where Honey pulls out a screen to block out Wuis and Osore from YAI “getting steamy”, leaving the viewers with before and after the scene.
• Sailor Earth: Rokkappa is this to the Genbu Ravine kappas.
• Shout-Out: Constantly references other works of media, usually works of manga. This list details ones that have recurring appearances.
  • Aikatsu!: Most named characters are given types and Original Generation brands via OWW. A Running Gag is that Nep from FExYDAFT hates the show.
    • Marisa's Affectionate Nickname by Verity is "Risappe".
    • Tsukihime’s light pink Yamaha Vino is called the Daytripper (as in Light Pink Day Tripper).
    • 284 is based on the gameplay of the arcade games.
    • 293 Bonus has Lily try to get Carrie to portray Yurika in a Vitriolic Best Buds moment.
    • 300 is based on Ichigo and Mizuki's performance in episode 16-17.
    • 322 references episodes 59 (panel 2) and 79 (panel 1).
    • 330 has Carrie note similarities between her and Yurika.
    • 333 involves filming episode 122.
    • 335 has Monica used a Weaponised Kitaoji Theatre to stun Wuis.
    • 338 references the Shout-Out in Neptunia Sisters vs Sisters in the form of the Legendary Idol Ribbon.
    • 339 has Tracy and Blanc from FEx fight using Proxy Kits.
    • 340 references the Oozora Weather spiel.
    • 341 has Lily slap the Moon French Coord on Kris.
    • 346 has Tracy and Shenton cosplay as Ichigo in an anime convention.
    • 349 has a horde of Ichigo cosplayers led by Tracy.
    • 351 downright has Soleil appear.
    • Tsukihime's Wave-Motion Gun 353 is based on the Miyabeam.
    • 386 is titled Lucky Train in the archive.
    • 406 has Mason ramble about Angel Arrow to a very unwilling Nep.
    • 415 is based on Amafuwa Nadeshiko.
    • 417 is based on Ichigo scaling Angely Mountain.
    • 428 has Melissa use Weaponised Candy Rainbow.
    • 437 has a Risen wield a lance called "Aikatsu".
    • 453 explores the 4 idol types.
    • 454 involves the Miyabeam again.
    • 455 has Nep end up at Starlight School.
    • 456 has Tracy drag Kris off to Starlight School.
    • 459 has Mason use Cosmo Showtime to distract Nep.
    • 460 has the squad watch Starway to the Future.
    • Melissa in 505 references Otome's debut.
    • 512 references Juri.
    • 513 has Yvonne use Weaponised Butterfly Flip on Botsugo from LDitR.
    • 514 shows that Momentum formed after Mason geeking out on an Aikatsu machine.
    • 528's title references Lucky Train.
    • 531 references the giant fan in the Tristar audition.
    • 562 has Verity adopt Kii's "Ok-ok-okay" to offset the stress of portraying Watamote Kii.
    • 563 has Ran (Yakumo) wear the Rose Bonbon Coord.
  • Azumanga Daioh: Several comics reference specific strips.
    • 007 references Tomo killing Chiyo in a dream.
    • 052 references Osaka trying to turn back the clock to turn back time during a school festival.
    • 178 involves Sabote from LDitR comparing Osore from YAI to Yomi.
    • 388 references the infamous "Oh my gah!" moment.
    • 475 references Sakaki's first meeting with Tadakichi-san.
    • 498 references the giraffe hat from Supplementary Lessons.
  • Bloom Into You: There are copies of Bloom Into You in libraries.
  • Dork Diaries: Proto-Shenton and Proto-Minoa started as “Brandon and Mackenzie with an OWW twist”. Due to Derivative Differentiation Shenton’s a therianthrope from Brandon, Manitoba (therefore subtly keeping the reference) while Minoa develops into a Virtuous Character Copy, a Lovable Alpha Bitch with an emphasis on the “lovable”.
  • Girls' Last Tour: The duo of Rocket and Azuki takes cues from Chito and Yuuri, but are not full Expies of them.
  • Katawa Shoujo: Main motif of an arc-slash-gameplay log starting from 544, surrounding adaptations of certain scenes with OWW’s Denser and Wackier style, DisImmunity essentially taking the opportunity to do a Film Fic.
    • This goes as far back as a Bonus Panel near the very beginning, with Lily commenting on how adding a single L to her name results in someone different.
    • "Pyra"'s burns cover her right side.
    • 546 is titled “Pseudo Tea Cosy” in the archive, after the scene where Hisao first meets Lilly.
    • 547 is based on "Meet Cute", after Emi's Crash-Into Hello, plus roping Mayris from YAI to portray Hisao.
    • Panels 3 and 4 of 548 is based on "A Private Lunch" (meeting Rin).
    • 550 is based on "Exercise", specifically the decisive choice between Emi's route and Rin's route/Act 1 Bad End, plus a demonstration of "Pyra"'s Save Scumming ability.
    • 551 starts off referencing "The Deep End" (the Act 1 Bad End) before "Pyra" save scums Mayris to another route.
    • 554 references "Nc5xb3", with the first half incorporating "Pyra"'s ninja motifs for the Weaponisation aspect of the Film Fic arc.
    • 555 is titled "Short Sharp Shock" in the archive, named after the Shizune and Misha variant of Emi's Crash-Into Hello.
    • 556 is based on the CG during "Earl Grey", with Honey using her Thunderhand to shock whomever she's feeling the face of.
    • Final panel of 559 is based on "Piracy on the High Seas", especially Emi's line about putting "pirate" in her career form.
    • 560 is primarily based on "Underwater and a Maple with a Name", specifically with Yggdrasil acting as the "Worry Tree" here.
    • 583 is a parody of “Shared Library”, with “Pyra” and Dan from DWC reenacting Hanako’s Establishing Character Moment. (Honey’s line indicates that “Pyra”’s trying to reference this scene as their Character Catchphrase.)
  • K-On!: Usually depicting the Benders as pre-Azusa HTT.
    • 441 has a trio of Risen groan Fuwa Fuwa Time.
    • 458 is based on the translation notes in the English translation of chapter 45 (the Romeo and Juliet chapter).
    • Bonus Panel 2 of 566 has Joanne dual wielding guitars and Monica with drumsticks, showing us they portray Mio and Ritsu respectively. (Having two guitars is also a reference to Bocchi the Rock! with Joanne as Bocchi.)
    • 568 partially references the beach episodes, with the archive title referencing HTT.
    • Joanne’s recurring Guaranteed Status Bomb for her Mio themed Weaponisation in 574 is based on the blue-white rice bowl used as a Relax-o-Vision for the infamous Panty Shot. Its associated Status Effect, Charmed, also references Mio’s fanclub after the incident. In the same episode, Monica swaps her usual headband for her Ritsu Weaponisation, already using a headband to hold her bangs in place.
    • 581 focuses on the Weaponisation aspect, with Kirike obtaining a Wave-Motion Gun Weaponising Ritsu’s Forehead of Doom and Kris being able to shoot his eyebrows Weaponising Mugi’s Big Ol' Eyebrows. (These were meant for Monica and Carrie respectively.)
    • 596 continues Carrie Weaponising Mugi's Big Ol' Eyebrows, becoming an Action Bomb when her eyebrows are removed as grenade pins. This is also a direct reference to the Volume 3 skit.
  • Mario & Luigi: The Twins being able to use Bros Attacks goes way back, before their appearance in KC.
    • 158 depicts them using some of their Bros. Attacks. Early-Installment Weirdness applies as some of these are retconned away later on.
    • 222 has them reference the Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition in Superstar Saga, with the Twins even wearing the hat of the Bro corresponding to the element. The title instead references The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
    • 559 references Dream Team, with Dream Walker Joanne joining the fight.
    • 562 has Sylvia complain about the wonkiness of the tilt control based Bros and Luiginary Attacks.
  • One Piece: Mostly Santoryu being surprisingly common in OWW, but there have been comics and discussions about One Piece other than Santoryu.
    • Known Triple Wielders include May, Corey, Joanne and a variant of Sabote from LDitR.
    • A DWC variant of Lily has access to the powers of the Gum-Gum Fruit (no Gear 5, sorry)
  • Rozen Maiden:
    • The Margas are directly inspired by the titular dolls, with FEx Grima taking the role of Jun after befriending all 7 of them.
    • Rochelle has a Suigintou profile picture.
  • Wata Mote: Characters are casted in a Film Fic of the manga, with themed comics serving as commentary of new chapters.
    • There are actually three versions, named after the person portraying Tomoko: Amongus-Mote, silently dropped after Sylvia debuted, Sylvia-Mote, the most common one for commentaries, and Mason-Mote, surrounding Mason.
    • Verity portrays Kii across all versions due to Kii suffering from Americans Hate Tingle by the OWW cast in-universe and therefore no one else wanting the role.
    • 281 references TomoMote using Lily, Nep and Kris instead of any of the standard casting or Lily-Monica-Joanne.
  • The Legion being an Absurdly Powerful Student Council in later comics takes cues from this.
    • This has led to the Twins being a pair of oddly competent Student Council President, often portraying student council characters with Weaponisation. (The current list outside of the main shout-out: Nodoka Manabe (shared), Megumi Imae (shared but mostly Sylvia), and Shizune Hakamichi (Sylvia, but can swap with Corey’s Misha in combat).)
• Slapstick: Anyone regardless of FC can suffer Amusing Injuries.
• Sucky School: Evertree used to be cursed to have an endless cycle of bullying. The school got better after a change of staff.
• Superior Twin Teamwork: The Twins, Sylvia and Corey, can do Bros. Attacks, complete with Advance follow-ups. Clearly they learned from the best.
• Talking with Signs: This is Kass's favoured method of communicating, usually represented as a box speech bubble in lieu of a physical sign due to The Law of Conservation of Detail. She's also fluent in sign language.
• Theme Table: Many a Discussion of the Day includes the OWW cast’s motifs within the discussed Topic.
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: 609 has the War Duo getting onto the Tohoku Expressway instead of the Hokuriku Expressway at Tsuruga Castle, ending up at Higashifukami High (the LDitR take anyways), Kanagawa instead of their intended destination at Gifu.

FExYDAFT (FEx)

A Massive Multiplayer Crossover of Fire Emblem, Neptunia and Warhammer 40,000. Adaptation Personality Change ensues.

• Adaptation Personality Change: Hoo boy.
  • Adaptational Heroism: The FEx version of Grima isn't out to conquer or destroy the world. She's tolerant of Naga, her canonical archenemy, too. Not so much with KiriComics' Grima.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Where canon Grima (and KiriComics Grima) sees humans like ants to squash, FEx Grima sees them like children to raise and train.
  • In the Neptunia games, Uni is a Tsundere. In FEx Uni is unpredictable and runs on Memetic Mutation.
• Amazon Chaser: Uni manages to form a Polyamory with TIAMAT AND TARRASQUE, and is currently trying to make Bahamut and Lawrence, who are also really strong beings, join the polycule.
• Hearing Voices: After going to the Shadowfell to befriend a Shadow Dragon, Nep starts hearing several, at least one for each of the listed archetypes.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Features characters from Fire Emblem, Neptunia and Warhammer 40,000.
• Non-Indicative Name: The comic features characters borrowed from a lot more works than just Fire Emblem.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Features Risen from Fire Emblem: Awakening. In FE x YDAFT they are highly intelligent and adaptable, and have many Variations based on their environment or DNA of another character. Known variants are the flying Fallen, aquatic Sunken, burrowing Buried, Joanne-fused Jorisen, Rabbids-fused Rabbisen, and draconic Dracorisen.
• Shout-Out: Serving as a Brick Joke to OWW’s Running Gag of Nep disliking Aikatsu, FEx048 has a Noodle Incident that leads to Uni making Nep and Sollaug cosplay as Ichigo (using a different design from OWW, due to hair styling issues).
• The Stoner: Neptune, especially during OWW420 where she eats marijuana pudding made by Eientein't.

Dan's Walfas Corner (DWC)

• Alliance of Alternates: The Council of Dans, consisting of Dans from different points in time.
• Butterfly of Doom: An alternate Dan refusing to enter Okina’s Backdoor and Yukari subsequently forcefully gapping him into Gensokyo leads to the creation of Cooler Dan.
• Kill It with Ice: A common Achilles' Heel for all Dans is being frozen. The only justification is a pun on "frozen in time". This has lead to the infamous "Update: still in ice" meme.
• Sky Pirate: Cooler Dan has a pirate aesthetic and travels in a flying ship (robbed from Murasa).

Your Average Incident (YAI) and Mayris's Adventures At Gensokyo (MAAG)

The first full FC, focusing on the adventures of the TUF.

• Body Snatcher: Consciousness hijacks and lives in Mayris’s brain, leading to Mayris becoming The Insomniac after experiencing nightmares involving Consciousness.
• Chick Magnet: Wuis manages to attract Osore and Plutia, and it's implied there's more in store for him.
• Gender Bender: Hikaru aka Leader is originally male, but is currently female in the comics. Justified as she received major injuries to her original male body when she was gapped into Gensokyo and Suwako gave her a female body during her recovery.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: The Blindfolds and the TUF has stopped fighting each other (bar Consciousness still camping inside Mayris and Darkness being Darkness), but whether this is a full Heel–Face Turn or not remains ambiguous.
• Lethal Chef: Mayris's coffee is only edble to herself - caffeine concentrations are so high it poisons everyone else.
• Nightmare Weaver: Consciousness seems to be this, inducing nightmares in Mayris.
• Power Trio: In 050, it is established that characters are grouped into trios when fighting the Blindfolds.
• Sudden Name Change: Due to One-Steve Limit within the FCs, Lily was changed to Lila to prevent confusion with OWW Lily. This leads to in-universe confusion as people recall calling Lila Lily.
• Super Zeroes: Wuis invokes this by trying to name the main Cast Herd of YAI “Team Utter Failures”. Golden then pulls a Fun with Acronyms and interprets the acronym as “Team Ultimate Force.”

KiriComics

Initially focusing on a girl named Kirike dying repeatedly due to Power Incontinence, under the straightforward title of "The Many Deaths of Kirike Manjo", KiriComics undergoes Cerebus Syndrome as the story goes through arcs that results in Character Development of the titular protagonist.

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Both versions of Cirno in the comic are leagues beyond what canon Cirno is capable of, with Strongest Cirno (orange scarf) being able to reduce temperatures so far they reach negative Kelvin and start heating back up, and Ice Queen Cirno (red scarf) being the embodiment of the cold and frost taking a fairy-like form for her own reasons.
  • Remilia's fate manipulation is a canonically dubious power, suggested by Flandre to be made up with no evidence to prove her wrong. In KiriComics, it is 100% legit, and she even had a magic pendant created to ensure she doesn't misuse or abuse it.
• Alternate Self: Kirike has several of these, all taking cues from other works involving Born Unlucky characters and/or characters who die often and/or characters manipulating luck.
  • Scarike: Kirike in a timeline where she learns how to master Calamity before she's made peace with her grievances. Having no qualms about using her power to kill, she rapidly descends into "preemptive self-defense" and starts laying waste to her world, ultimately being annihilated by Angel.
  • Arena!Kirike: An alternate Kirike who most resembles the original, only she appears in the setting of Enter the Arena as Your Avatar, and instead of learning from a variety of friends and teachers, she's been getting lessons from a very evil interpretation of Sariel.
  • Riko: an Adaptational Badass Kirike who honed her skills and is able to control her powers without outside help, even condensing her powers to take the form of Wonder of U.
  • VT Kirike: Partial Expy of Gustavo from Pizza Tower, riding on a Guard Drake called Silverstrand.
  • Kirika: Partial Expy of Rika Furude, her deaths allowing her to pull a "Groundhog Day" Loop to fix the timelines.
  • Kiran Starlight: A clumsy Idol Singer in the Starlight Academy uniform.
  • Ruinous Red: Takes cues from Calamity James. Experiences less lethal calamitous events at a more regular basis, making her incredibly experienced, leading to the formation of the KiriKollective.
  • Murphy: Partial Expy of Milo Murphy, taking up the titular character's positive attitude and preparedness.
• Art Shift: Throughout the "Elite Arc", episodes 031 to 041, a number of episodes feature panels digitally drawn by hand by Eeeternalpwnage to emphasize the intensity of the moment or portray something difficult to show in Walfas.
• Asshole Victim: Grima, who disintegrated Kirike for no reason in his debut, is the only justifiable case among the many characters who get offscreened by Nidrugg at his full power in Episode 025.
• Author Avatar: Technically, Kirike, Stryker, Elite, and Eternal all qualify, being named after the author's various usernames (KiriK, stryker324, Leet 1337, and Eeeternalpwnage), though Stryker is the one who veers closest to actually being one, using his ability of future sight to guide events to a good outcome. The real representation of the author is Rey, a modified version of Stryker.
• Cerebus Syndrome: Lampshaded in the Reddit post for Episode 018, titled, "Man, remember when Kirike dying was supposed to be funny?"
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: In Episode 018, Kirike meets with the divine dragon Naga for a therapy session.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Besides the obvious increase in visual quality as Eeeternalpwnage familiarized himself with Walfas, earlier comics tried to stick to a 4koma-style arrangement, with a title card and four full panels. As more story-focused episodes have appeared, the number of panels per EP now varies, some reaching as high as 20.
• A God Am I:
  • Strongest Cirno declares herself a sun god after going so far below 0 Kelvin that she produces enough heat at once to self-destruct in a World-Wrecking Wave.
  • When Nidrugg spams all of his magic types in a single time-dilated moment in episode 025, the descriptive text ends up just collapsing it all into "[GOD]".
• Intercontinuity Crossover: Has had a few with Enter the Arena as Your Avatar, as Eeeternalpwnage on Reddit is also KiriK on TV Tropes.
  • Many characters, namely Nidrugg, Oca, Okka, Angel, and the two alternate versions of Cirno featured, were taken straight from Arena users' rosters.
  • Episode 028, "The KiriKollective", features Kirike dreaming about scenarios in the lives (and deaths) of various alternate selves, ending with the Kirike from the Arena in a scene where she was accidentally killed by someone trying to save her from Slenderman.
  • Episode 030, fittingly titled "What is This, a Crossover Episode?" features Kirike coming into direct contact with her alternate self from the Arena. The events of the episode simultaneously play out in the Arena RP, featured here.
  • While an original creation to KiriComics, the character Elite was created by Polyphemus, a major antagonist in the Arena belonging to Arachnos who has also appeared in other roleplays.
• Resurrective Immortality: Played with.
  • Kirike respawns after she dies as a consequence of her own Calamity, but she only comes back thanks to Eiki Shiki allowing it, and it's clear that if she ever dies in a way not influenced by her own faulty control over misfortune, it'll stick.
  • The Cirnos play this straighter. As Strongest Cirno is a fairy and Koori is the concept of cold personified, both can have their bodies destroyed to the point of effective death only to dissolve and reform into a fresh body.
• Shout-Out: Episode 039 has three in one Art Shift panel. Strongest Cirno reveals her power over fire and Dragon Ball-style ki by making a fireball with her hand in the Hollow Purple shape, with Stryker even calling it out by name. In Sylvia and Corey's reactions, Sylvia's facial expression is taken from Watamote (fitting of her partial Tomoko inspirations) while Corey's facial expression is Enel's infamous "Damn, Daniel" face. Both Enel and Corey have electric abilities.
• They Killed Kenny Again:
  • Originally the main gimmick of the series, though as time went on and Cerebus Syndrome kicked in, Kirike dying became less frequent and more serious.
  • To a lesser extent, the Cirnos can get messed up badly, like in Strongest Cirno's "Minus K Explosion" and Nidrugg's [GOD] moment, and be just fine soon after, because they have Resurrective Immortality.
• The Worf Barrage: Stryker's first display of combat abilities is a long and powerful combo spell which he outright says he created to kill and survive rather than to compete in duels, used in tandem with Sylvia and Corey's Twin Beam, only for Strongest Cirno to escape at the last second, zip behind Stryker, and nail him in the back with a flying kick. The Twins take it in stride, but that's that for Stryker.
• The Worf Effect: Namedropped in the Reddit title for 040, in which Strongest Cirno fights Stryker, Sylvia and Corey all at the same time.
• Worf Had the Flu: Sylvia and Corey, A-list powerhouses in OWW, fail to stop Elite in a 2-on-1 in KC, but only because they held back at Stryker's advice.

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