History Fanfic / Developments

* ShoutOut: With nebulous overlap between both {{Fanon}} and SharedUniverse. There are numerous references to story elements specific to other ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' fanfics, like '' [[http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=6687&hilit=tomorrow%27s+doom Tomorrow's Doom]]'', the ''[[http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=7632 Kagami Pseudo-Route]]'', and ''FanFic/MeanTimeToBreakdown''. (The authors of those stories all share their work on the ''Katawa Shoujo'' [[http://ks.renai.us/viewforum.php?f=52 Fan Fiction Forum]] and have a rapport.)
** Played straighter towards the end of the story, when Hanako makes friends with [[spoiler: Ritsu Tainaka, a student in her class, and she turns out to be... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Ritsu Tainaka]]. As in, ''the exact character from Manga/KOn,'' transferred to Yamaku because she developed carpal tunnel in both hands. Dewelar literally made the entirety of ''Katawa Shoujo'' a ''de facto'' ''Manga/KOn'' AU.]]

* TriangRelations: Type 3. In the wake of his breakup with Lilly, both Emi and Hanako become interested in Hisao, and that forms the foundation for much of the drama in the story. [[spoiler: For a small portion of the story,]] ''Lilly herself'' acts as sort of a ThirdOptionLoveInterest.

** Played straighter towards the end of the story, when Hanako makes friends with [[spoiler: Ritsu Tainaka, a student in her class, and she turns out to be... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Ritsu Tainaka]]. As in, ''the exact character from Manga/KOn,'' transferred to Yamaku because she developed carpal tunnel in both hands. [[CrazyAwesome Dewelar literally made the entirety of]] ''Katawa Shoujo'' a ''de facto'' ''Manga/KOn'' AU.]]

* MissingMom: In one case, averted ''magnificently.'' [[spoiler: Shizune's mother, Mayoi, who is often perceived by the fandom to be deceased, turns out to have [[SheWasRightThereAllAlong Right There All Along]]—she lives near Yamaku Academy, in fact—but Shizune is uncomfortable bringing her up because she's still reeling from Mayoi [[LastHetRomance leaving her father for a woman]].]]

->"One of the things that drew me here was the sense of being away from the pace of the rest of the school, like being in a little pocket of a different place. Today, some of that feeling is missing.

->''But how much of that is the empty school, and how much of it is Lilly's absence?''"

* DoorStopper: The story is over 300,000 words long. That's longer than ''Literature/TheTwoTowers'' and ''Literature/ReturnOfTheKing'' combined, and probably longer than the Lilly route itself.

* SwitchingPOV: Mostly between Hisao, Lilly, Emi and Hanako, with a few one-shot perspectives throughout the story: [[spoiler: Akira, Shizune, Misha, Meiko, Rin, Taka-Taka, and Noriko.]]

* DoorStopper: The story is over 300,000 words long. That's longer than ''TheTwoTowers'' and ''ReturnOfTheKing'' combined, and probably longer than the Lilly route itself.

* RecursiveFanfiction: In the ''slightest'' sense. Miss Yumi, Hanako's [[OriginalCharacter OC]] therapist in Guest Poster's ''{{Sisterhood}},'' is also a character in this story. The stories also have some superficial structural similarity—they're both long [[ContinuationFic Continuation Fics]] with SwitchingPOV—but they go in ''completely'' different directions. See also ShoutOut.

''[[http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=8919&p=172357#p172355 Developments]]'' is an ''[[DoorStopper epic]]'' KatawaShoujo ContinuationFic by Tropers/{{Dewelar}}. Stemming from the Lilly route of the VisualNovel, it distinguishes itself from similar stories in the fandom by kicking off shortly before the end of the ''[[BadEnd Bad]][[BrokenBase /]][[FandomHeresy Neutral]]'' ending, rather than the more popular [[GoldenEnding Good Ending]], and carrying on straight through from there.

'''Tropes associated with Developments'''

* ShoutOut: With nebulous overlap between both {{Fanon}} and SharedUniverse. There are numerous references to story elements specific to other KatawaShoujo fanfics, like '' [[http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=6687&hilit=tomorrow%27s+doom Tomorrow's Doom]]'', the ''[[http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=7632 Kagami Pseudo-Route]]'', and ''FanFic/MeanTimeToBreakdown''. (The authors of those stories all share their work on the KatawaShoujo [[http://ks.renai.us/viewforum.php?f=52 Fan Fiction Forum]] and have a rapport.)
** Played straighter towards the end of the story, when Hanako makes friends with [[spoiler: Ritsu Tainaka, a student in her class, and she turns out to be... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Ritsu Tainaka]]. As in, ''the exact character from Manga/KOn,'' transferred to Yamaku because she developed carpal tunnel in both hands. [[CrazyAwesome Dewelar literally made the entirety of]] KatawaShoujo a ''de facto'' Manga/KOn AU.]]

* ShoutOut: With nebulous overlap between both {{Fanon}} and SharedUniverse. There are numerous references to story elements specific to other KatawaShoujo fanfics, like '' [[http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=6687&hilit=tomorrow%27s+doom Tomorrow's Doom]]'', the ''[[http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=7632 Kagami Pseudo-Route]]'', and ''FanFic/MeanTimeToBreakdown''. (The authors of those stories all share their work on the KatawaShoujo Fanfiction Forum and have a rapport.)
** Played straighter towards the end of the story, when Hanako makes friends with [[spoiler: Ritsu Tainaka, a character in her class, and she turns out to be... Ritsu Tainaka. As in, ''the exact character from Manga/KOn,'' transferred to Yamaku because she developed carpal tunnel in both hands. [[CrazyAwesome Dewelar literally made the entirety of]] KatawaShoujo a ''de facto'' Manga/KOn AU.]]

* GivenNameReveal: Dewelar gives one to Nurse. It's [[spoiler: Goro Kaneshiro]].

"One of the things that drew me here was the sense of being away from the pace of the rest of the school, like being in a little pocket of a different place. Today, some of that feeling is missing.

''But how much of that is the empty school, and how much of it is Lilly's absence?''"

* MissingMom: In one case, averted ''magnificently.'' [[spoiler: Shizune's mother, Mayoi, who is often perceived by the fandom to be deceased, turns out to have [[SheWasRightThereAllAlong RightThereAllAlong]]—she lives near Yamaku Academy, in fact—but Shizune is uncomfortable bringing her up because she's still reeling from Mayoi [[LastHetRomance leaving her father for a woman]].]]