History Fanfic / Memoirs

* InactionSequence: Entire chapters devoted to them at times.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Chapter 79: "I really would like to do something with you. Something that, for once, ''doesn't'' involve us just sitting on our butts having a deep, [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} existential]] discussion on the meaning of life."

** Chapter 27: When Akagane jokingly(?) switches to [[BladeOnAStick Sansazume]] to threaten Inu-papa, Hisui comments "''Yarisugi''". This means "overkill", but "''yari''" also means "spear".

* {{Anvilicious}}: At times. The story tends to pause periodically to examine its own morality.

* AdultFear: Akagane completely freaks out when he believes that Inu-papa, a naiive child in his care, has been [[spoiler: kidnapped and sexually assaulted]].

* NotSoDifferent: In order to defeat a youkai who regularly slaughters random human villages to train his armies, Inu-papa goes out to find random youkai to kill to train himself. He soon realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone how hypocritical this is]].

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Oniuma and Onishika.

* BeeAfraid:
** Queen Amahari's castle.
** Inverted later when [[spoiler:Inu-papa brings the surviving bees back to the Artisan Village to help rebuild, making it better with bees]].

* StealthPun: In Japanese, at least. Oniuma and Onishika are a horse (馬) and deer (鹿), respectively. These characters are the two halves of the word 馬鹿 ("baka"), the Japanese word for "fool".

It also need [[NeedsWikiMagicLove some more Magic Wiki Love]]

* StealthPun: In Japanese, at least. Oniuma and Onishika are a horse (馬) and deer (鹿), respectively. These characters are the two halves of the word 馬鹿 ("baka"), the Japanese word for "fool".

* StealthPun: In Japanese, at least. Oniuma and Onishika are a horse (馬) and deer (鹿), respectively. These characters are the two halves of the word 馬鹿 ("baka"), the Japanese word for "fool".

* StealthPun: In Japanese, at least. Oniuma and Onishika are a horse (馬) and deer (鹿), respectively. These characters are the two halves of the word 馬鹿 ("baka"), the Japanese word for "fool".

It also need some more NeedsWikiMagicLove

It also need some more [NeedsWikiMagicLove]

* GratuitousJapanese: The story is written as though it was [[TranslationConvention translated from Japanese]], and keeps {{Honorifics}}, [[JapaneseSiblingTerminology titles]], attack names, and untranslatable words in the "original" language. Each chapter title also comes in both English and Japanese. The story even has an attached [[http://www.inu-papa.com/memoirs/glossary.html glossary]] of Japanese terms.

* EverythingsWorseWithBees: Queen Amahari's castle.
** Inverted later when [[spoiler:Inu-papa brings the surviving bees back to the Artisan Village to help rebuild, making it better with bees]].

* InterspeciesAdoption: [[spoiler: After repeatedly balking at taking the role, mostly due to the only 9-year age difference, Akagane eventually explicitly adopts Inu-papa]].

* MoralMyopia: Discussed many times as Inu-papa attempts to differentiate himself from Souzou Tennou, often failing.
-->"Really the only striking difference between the two was how much personal investment I had in them. But could I honestly say that Akagane was in the right simply because I cared about his life more than the Meioujuu's, and Souzou Tennou was wrong because I cared more about my mother's life than his?" - ''Chapter 123''

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Deconstructing this trope is one of the central themes of the story.
--> [[spoiler: "Really the only striking difference between the two was how much personal investment I had in them. But could I honestly say that Akagane was in the right simply because I cared about his life more than the Meioujuu's, and Souzou Tennou was wrong because I cared more about my mother's life than his?"]] - ''Chapter 123''

* WackyMarriageProposal: Kogane suggested Akagane give Hisui flowers. Akagane thought flowers were dumb since he likes swords better. So he settled on a flower-shaped sword.