History FanFic / BeingMeiling

* ManipulativeBastard: The tengu elders begin trying to take control of Hatate with visits to her family, encouraging her and gently trying to convince her to change her paper to suit their standards. Aya is horrified, especially since that was the exact way her own madness started - allowing her allegiance to Truth to be compromised by politics and pageantry.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: A large chunk of Aya's current issues can be traced to several decades spent alone with no one to talk to. Not only did it leave her a bit [[AttentionWhore desperate for attention]], the story all but states she forgot how to properly socialize. The Tengu elders exacerbated the issue by dangling the promise of interaction to Aya like a lure, which she ultimately refused... but this had the ''other'' negative consequence of turning her in to a CloudCuckoolander pervert. A horrified Momiji realizes she ''did'' go insane after being alone for so long.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: A large chunk of Aya's current issues can be traced to several decades spent alone with no one to talk to. Not only did it leave her a bit [[AttentionWhore desperate for attention]], the story all but states she forgot how to properly socialize. The Tengu elders exacerbated the issue by dangling the promise of interaction to Aya like a lure, which she ultimately refused... but this had the ''other'' negative consequence of turning her in to a CloudCuckoolander pervert.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: A large chunk of Aya's current issues can be traced to several decades spent alone with no one to talk to. Not only did it leave her a bit [[AttentionWhore desperate for attention]], the story all but states she forgot how to properly socialize.

* ManipulativeBastard: The tengu elders begin trying to take control of Hatate with visits to her family, encouraging her and gently trying to convince her to change her paper to suit their standards.

* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Aya has this in regards to Hina and Yamame. On the one hand, Hina is the one Aya has real romantic feelings for due to helping her get her life back together, but Aya can only see Hina as a pure girl and is afraid that trying to get intimate with her would ruin their relationship. On the other hand, Yamame and her flirtatious nature sets Aya's lust on fire, but she doesn't have the emotional connection with her like she has with Hina and giving into the urge to sleep with Yamame would hurt Hina. Both Satori and Big Papa tell her that this categorization is inherently flawed and she should really just talk about her concerns with the both of them to sort things out. When Aya does, she finds out that Hina has no problems with satisfying her urges in private, and that Yamame has genuine feelings for Aya since her first impression of the spider youkai wasn't abject terror.

** Meiling and Sakuya exchanged clothes for when they both SwappedRoles for a day; Meiling in Sakuya's blue and white maid dress, and Sakuya in Meiling's Chinese gate-keeping attire.

After the first story ended, Keymaster wrote two sequels: [[https://www.touhou-project.com/others/res/51333.html Pleasant Meadows]], and [[https://www.touhou-project.com/youkai/res/22769.html#22769 Tengu of (Mis)Fortune]], summarized below under the A Day In The Limelight entry.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Obviously for Meiling, but other minor characters get a chance to shine as well, including Hatate and Mima.
** Heck, Koakuma actually gets a boyfriend!
** Pleasant Meadows, the second story, is basically this: Hina, Shikieki, Suika, Parsee and a few others go to the Outside World for some companionship, and then shit gets nasty as people get kidnapped [[spoiler: in a rather sloppily laid-out brainwashing plot ending with Snark and gap-beasts.]]
** Tengu of (Mis)fortune, the third story, is basically Aya picking up the pieces by helping Hina pick up the pieces, and the Aki sisters play a secondary, although major, role. [[CutenessProximity And Sukuna becomes the new shrine's miko.]]

* BarelyThereSwimwear: Flandre wears this a few times in thread five to troll Remilia. Then she ropes Reimu in...
** Similarly, humiliating the Watatsuki sisters involves them in a pair of these.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: The first guy that Meiling talks to during a girls night out seem to show interest in Meiling, even buttering her up with what he knows about her. But then he had to give Meiling's hopes up by asking her to introduce the Scarlet Devil group to him, as if he only talked to Meiling to date the other girls instead. Meiling naturally closes off the conversation with "You're gonna die cold and alone" after being shafted.

* {{Flanderization}}: The fic averts fanon for the most part, with three exceptions: Aya[[note]]and even this is PlayedForDrama in ''Misfortune'', where she becomes closer to her canon counterpart through CharacterDevelopment[[/note]] and the Watatsuki Sisters. In Pleasant Meadows, it's [[spoiler: [[BigBad Rinnosuke]]]]
** Ironically, it's not Alice who's the {{Yandere}}, it's her Shanghai Doll.

* {{Tsundere}}: {{Conversed|Trope}} by one of the older fairy maids while giving advice to Pameel about Marisa. As for the latter two, this is a fairly accurate assessment of Marisa's attitude towards the fairy by the latter half.

* SuperOCD: When Malla, the marshmallow fairy, is tasked with replanting a chunk of forest she burned down, she plants the trees in neat rows, each with the same tree. All the trees are the same distance apart. Each tree has the same rock patter buried at its base. Her campsite is precise and immaculate. Considering how [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny fairies normally act]], the entire thing is rather disturbing.

* HeroicBSOD: Aya fainted when she met the Oni gentlemen (although that's more of HeroicRROD.) She comes close when she meets a familiar face in Big Papa, but hangs on that time. Sukuna also blacks out at seeing Hina in her new dress.

* HiddenDepths: The reason Aya's been stalking people and taking indecent pictures? [[spoiler:After nearly a century of solitude with both humans ''and'' youkai unwilling to give her the time of day, it's the only way she knows how to socialize with or get close to anyone prior to Tengu of (Mis)Fortune.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: As she vents her frustration about the citywide destruction that disturbed her peace, Satori notes how the Oni's treatment of said destruction is regarded as just another day in their lives. The way she phrases this may be in reference to [[Film/StreetFighter the Trope Namer.]]

* SwappedRoles: For one day, Meiling and Sakuya takes up the job, duties, and even clothes of each-other. Naturally for Meiling, she finds herself struggling with keeping the maid fairies, cooking, and clean-up in check -- daily tasks that Sakuya could take care of no problem with her time-stopping capabilities. Funnily enough, Sakuya has had her own struggles with Meiling's job as a gatekeeper and gardener, particularly the latter [[EpicFail with the use of her time-stopping powers]].

* CanonWelding: The PC-98 era of games, of ambiguous canon to the main games, is more directly linked in the backstory of this portrayal of Gensokyo. In particular, the events ''VideoGame/VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare'' is how the Spell Card system came to be, with Reimu wanting to avoid a repeat of the destruction of Makai in wake of the battle with Shinki.

After the first story ended, Keymaster wrote two sequels: Pleasant Meadows, and [[https://www.touhou-project.com/youkai/res/22769.html#22769 Tengu of (Mis)Fortune]], summarized below under the A Day In The Limelight entry.

--->'''Satori:''' You know what they would call this in any other city in the world? They would call this a calamity. A disaster of unprecedented proportions. Do you know what the Oni call this? Tuesday.

* ThrowTheDogABone: In contrast to her common ButtMonkey portrayal established in the prequel story, Meiling herself gets the opportunity to defy said portrayal by getting back at Marisa by snatching her trinkets to turn the tide.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Everyone in Gensokyo seems to resort to DrowningTheirSorrows away, with some having particular problem keeping themselves in check.
** Flandre can at least stay upright when intoxicated, and her antics in this state consists of philosophical rants, destroying walls, and {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es for particular people. But being a PersonOfMassDestruction with an unstable personality, who's power is plenty dangerous whenever she's in one of her "moods", drunk Flandre is cause for concern all the same.
** The satori don't take being drunk too well, to the point of having accidentally [[spoiler:married Shou in a drunken spree because they suddenly wanted tacos.]]

* SpiderSense: Meiling has the ability to sense whoever is on the premises of the mansion when she's around, allowing her to know when someone (namely Marisa) is intruding.

* ChickMagnet: With his physical attractiveness, bartender-granted ability to listen and dispense sage advice, and proven ability to defend himself, Albrecht would be a prize even without [[ImprobablyFemaleCast Gensokyo's female-skewed gender ratio.]] With it? [[spoiler: Let's just say it's a good thing Yuugi, an extremely strong Oni, is his girlfriend, and can handle the stick-beating.]]

* OfficialCouple: Remilia, after spending much of her life since meeting Reimu holding a strong crush for the shrine maiden, finally closed the gap after a successful date/get together. Unfortunately, they now have to contend with Flandre wanting grand-children.

-->'''Meiling''': Apparently, stopping time lets Sakuya do some very interesting things. As does Yuuka's plant control.