History FanFic / ProjectArashi

* EliteArmy: Fireteam Charlie. Despite numbering one-third less than the non-military portion of the Mage Knights and being confined to a single defense point for the majority of the battle to prevent friendly fire, their weaponry and tactics account for up to ''seventy percent'' of the casualties suffered by Chao's droid army.

* XanatosGambit: Chao. Chao Goddamn Lingshen. Win or lose at Mages vs. Mars, she still wins. It's just a question of how directly.

* AsideGlance: A per-chapter tradition, with Seno as the primary source. Motoko, being the viewpoint character of the dream chapter, gets in on it as well.

* JapaneseHonorifics: The inclusion of these was a big chunk of the reason for the remaster, and it shows how close characters are to one another. Seno's long-standing friendship with Keitaro and Haruka is shown by his lack of honorifics to them and using their first names, where everyone else he calls by first name and -san. The only exception is Motoko, who he refers to as Aoyama-san as acknowledgment of her more traditional upbringing. The fact that she tacks a -san onto his last name indicates she respects him more than she does Keitaro, who gets no honorific from her.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: No one questions why [[PersonOfMassDestruction Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=]]] is in command of an entire battalion of the best {{Badass Normal}}s in the entire UNSC, and this is exactly why.

* [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Pre-Drop One-Liner]]: Alysia's "We are dropping into hell, troopers!"

* UnfortunateImplications: Directly invoked by Cheryl in chapter 8. To be fair, the implications were actually rather tame.

The fanfiction.net profile under which all this insanity is stored can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~projectarashi here]], and the new collection on [=AO3=] [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/788751 here]], but not all of the existing works are yet hosted on [=AO3=]. It also has its own Wiki/ThatOtherWiki, which is (now) in mere sincere need of contribution, found [[http://kuroarashi.wikia.com/wiki/Kuro_Arashi_Wiki here]].

* UpToEleven: Here's the differences between the Negima version of Mages vs. Mars, and the Kuro version:
** Negima's defense force = approximately 1500 students armed with antique magic weapons and protective robes. Kuro's defense force = approximately 3000 students armed with antique magic weapons that vaguely resemble Covenant weapons and protective robes, ''plus'' 1500 university student Halo fans armed with almost-functional cosplay armor and ''working firearms'', up to and including four refurbished ''[[TankGoodness British Challenger tanks]]''.
** Negima's opposition force = 2500 droids of mixed types. Kuro's opposition force = ''Fifteen thousand'' droids of mixed types, ''not'' including the walkers which have been reclassified as vehicles. Armaments are the same as depicted in the manga, except the Chachamaru units now have energy shields and active camouflage, and a new type of Tanaka commander unit came in equipped with high-frequency swords, not counting the new ''named'' droid commander that's a cross between Chachamaru, General Grievous, and HK-47. The large walker unit, designated Komodo, was originally designed by Chao as a counter-unit to the Covenant's ''Scarab''.
** Negima's combat tactics = Revolutionary War-style; let's all stand in large formations and shoot at each other. Kuro's combat tactics = modern warfare at its finest. Flanking attacks, close air support (inasmuch as possible with refurbished [=A6M=] Zeroes), deception, area denial (read: blowing up bridges, sewers, and other landmarks), ''artillery strikes'', and gratuitous property damage everywhere.