History FanFic / FlickerFromView

* PlayedForDrama: Cross between this and RealityEnsues. Almost everything is treated seriously, incluing the story's very premise (trying to make sure this timeline goes the way Aoshi wants it to causes him massive amounts of mental stress).

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Misao, at least for the Edo Castle cell, since Aoshi and the Aoi-ya cast remember her looking pretty much the way she does.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Played straight with Hyottoko and Beshimi, who are apparently best friends/roommates who yell at each other a lot, make convoluted bets, and possibly share prostitutes. (Aoshi doesn't want to know, but he's glad they're alive.) Also played straight with Sano and Shikjou, who seem to really like and respect each other (but also want to punch each other a lot).

* {{Main/Foreshadowing}}: Plenty. The line that stands out is: [[spoiler:''So who is (Takeda) going to sell (his guns) to? If the answer is Shishio Makoto, Aoshi is just going to have to stab the greedy little coward.'' Turns out Aoshi was right; it remains to be seen if Aoshi is going to stab him.]]

* PeggySue: The premise of the fic is that Aoshi somehow falls asleep right after the Gein fight and wakes up in Takeda's mansion. How this happened hasn't been explained, and Aoshi seems uncertain whether he was Dreaming Of Things To Come or whether he's been reincarnated.

* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. Aoshi re-enters the Takeda arc as strong as he'd been in the Gein fight (because he'd already gone through it), and Misao undergoes Training From Hell from Okon.

* {{Main/Foreshadowing}}: Plenty. The line that stands out is: [[spoiler:''So who is (Takeda) going to sell (his guns) to? If the answer is Shishio Makoto, Aoshi is just going to have to stab the greedy little coward.'' Turns out Aoshi was right; it remains to be seen if Aoshi is going to stab him.]]

* {{Main/Foreshadowing}}: Plenty. The that stands out is: [[spoiler:''So who is (Takeda) going to sell (his guns) to? If the answer is Shishio Makoto, Aoshi is just going to have to stab the greedy little coward.'']]

* ContinuityNod: All over the place. The fic plays around in a timeline populated by minor characters, so knowing Aoshi's and Misao's arcs really, really well can only help the reader. [[Spoiler: The biggest nod is to Shingetsu Village; in canon, Misao and Saitou met here, and Misao helped motivate Eiji to survive. In this timeline, Saitou and Kenshin liberated the village on their own — it's referenced first, obliquely, when Misao mentions that the Kyoto train station is completed, but there's been a delay laying down track near some remote village that isn't even on any maps.]]

* {{Main/Foreshadowing}}: Plenty. The that stands out is: [[Spoiler:''So who is (Takeda) going to sell (his guns) to? If the answer is Shishio Makoto, Aoshi is just going to have to stab the greedy little coward.'']]

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15879246/ Flicker From View]]'' is a novella-length (and still ongoing) ''{{Manga/RurouniKenshin Rurouni Kenshin}} fanfiction written by Nagia. Its basic premise is a PeggySue fic, in which Shinomori Aoshi is transported from the middle of the manga-only Jinchuu Arc to the night Megumi escaped. Aoshi, still convinced it's a dream and all too aware of how the story goes, changes his own history in the very first chapter. The story itself follows the consequences of his decisions, both good and bad.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15879246/ Flicker From View]] is a novella-length (and still ongoing) ''{{Manga/RurouniKenshin}} fanfiction written by Nagia. Its basic premise is a PeggySue fic, in which Shinomori Aoshi is transported from the middle of the manga-only Jinchuu Arc to the night Megumi escaped. Aoshi, still convinced it's a dream and all too aware of how the story goes, changes his own history in the very first chapter. The story itself follows the consequences of his decisions, both good and bad.

* ArcWelding: Nagia welds the Takeda Arc to the Shishio Arc [spoiler: by having Takeda be one of Shishio's weapons' suppliers.]

* Artistic License - History: Nagia's Kyoto fudges dates by a LOT. Everything she writes about, from fashions to the train station to the electric lights, did appear in Kyoto during the early Meiji era, but not all of it was present (or absent) in 1878. The most glaring of this is the train station Misao and Aoshi break into: according to Misao, the station's construction is complete as of 1878, but they're still waiting on track to be laid. In reality, Kyoto Station opened in Februrary of 1877 and had been operational since.

* ContinuityNod: All over the place. The fic plays around in a timeline populated by minor characters, so knowing Aoshi's and Misao's arcs really, really well can only help the reader. [Spoiler: The biggest nod is to Shingetsu Village; in canon, Misao and Saitou met here, and Misao helped motivate Eiji to survive. In this timeline, Saitou and Kenshin liberated the village on their own — it's referenced first, obliquely, when Misao mentions that the Kyoto train station is completed, but there's been a delay laying down track near some remote village that isn't even on any maps.

* Foreshadowing: Plenty. The that stands out is: [Spoiler: So who is (Takeda) going to sell (his guns) to? If the answer is Shishio Makoto, Aoshi is just going to have to stab the greedy little coward.]

* KansaiDialect: It's strongly implied that most of the lifelong Oniwabanshu (the Aoi-ya cell & Hannya, Beshimi, and Hyottoko) natively speak with Kansai accents, and it's a big deal when Misao switches from her Kyoto dialect to Hannya's Kansai dialect.

Kyoto Dialact: Misao and the others at the Aoi-ya speak this (down to using -han instead of -san after certain vowels) and the narration notes if they switch out of it.

* Protectorate: Misao wants Aoshi to view Kyoto this way. Whether she's convinced him is anybody's guess.