History Fanfic / ToAruverseRewriteProject

* CompositeCharacter: As confirmed [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44810434/ here]] by WordOfGod [[spoiler: the fic's version of the AIM Burst became the fic's version of Kazakiri Hyouka.]]

* NotQuiteDead: In the Epilogue, it's hinted that [[spoiler: the IPD entity somehow became the "daughter" that visits Kiyama]].

* FetusTerrible: As in canon. [[spioiler: Except this time it calls Kiyama mother.]]

** The orphans that drove Kiyama to make Level Upper (Level Plus): [[spoiler:All but one dead from brain hemorrhaging, no coma. (And it's implied the last one isn't alive anymore either.)]]

*** Similarly in the tenth chapter [[spoiler:one of the names is Banri Edasaki.]] In chapter 14 [[spoiler:both Banri and Erii appear in the WholeEpisodeFlashback. Said flashback ends in the reveal that Kiyama's students aren't in comas...instead,[[DeathByAdaptation they're all dead.]] (YWell one survived, but see below.)]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Overlapping with EarlyBirdCameo, Chapter 14 includes references to the Kaza clones as well as a mention of "Project Radio Noise".

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Harumi Kiyama. She's not trying to save her students - [[DeathByAdaptation they're all dead.]] Instead, she's going to try and make Gensei Kihara pay, and she wants to make sure [[HeHadAName everyone remembers her students' names.]]]] [[spoiler: It's implied the IPD entity was literally born from this desire, making it a physical manifestation of this torope.]]

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: While the first chapter hews closely to canon, in later chapters it quickly becomes clear that the trains are coming in from different stations and have new paths [[SimultaneousArcs that intersect with each other]]. There are no outright derailments yet though.

* AdaptedOut: According to WordOfGod, Kakine "Dark Matter" Teitoku [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44565718/ is not the second Level-5 Esper in this fic]], and in fact [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44566447/ there are no plans for him to appear]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Index has been given official permission to remain in Academy City and everyone else who had gone through the Level Plus has recovered, but Kiyama has basically been reduced to near-brain dead, the fallen children remain unavenged for now,and Saten has to start all over again providing she even opts to become an Esper again.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Harumi Kiyama's class...although it's possible one of them survived. It should also be mentioned that Kiyama's class includes Erii Haruue in this fic.]]

*** Similarly in the tenth chapter [[spoiler:one of the names is Banri Edasaki.]] In chapter 14 [[spoiler:both Banri and Erii appear in the WholeEpisodeFlashback. Said flashback ends in the reveal that Kiyama's students aren't in comas...instead,[[DeathByAdaptation they're all dead.]] (Well, one might have survived.)]]
** In the epilogue, [[spoiler:Othinus and Hyouka appear.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Overlapping with EarlyBirdCameo, Chapter 14 includes references to the Misaka clones as well as a mention of "Project Radio Noise".

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The IPD entity is difficult to see; Mikoto narrates that her eyes can't really focus on it, leaving onlyimpressions rather than details.

* YouCantGraspTheTrueForm: The IPD entity is difficult to see; Mikoto narrates that her eyes can't really focus on it, leaving onlyimpressions rather than details.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Touma as in canon. Misaka tries to avoid this but ultimately can't look away when there's a problem. Index is eithier this or InHarmsWay - at one point in ''In Memoriam'' she's teleported out of danger only to sneak away to confront another danger.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Harumi Kiyama. She's not trying to save her students - [[DeathByAdaptation they're all dead.]] Instead, she's going to try and make Gensei Kihara pay, and she wants to make sure [[HeHadAName everyone remembers her students' names.]]]]

* TheWorldIsNotReady: Pax Christiana feels this way about magic. More precisely, they feel the world will ''never'' be ready because magic is a dangerous force that nearly anyone can learn - and many magicians throughout history have used magic to cause death and destruction.

* BargainWithHeaven: In order to stop that IPD monster that Kiyama became, [[spoiler:Index makes a bargain with a Greek god through a spell. She would stop the current act of vengeance (for the deaths of her children) in exchange for seeking justice with the source (Gensei).]]

* InHarmsWay: It's suggested Index might be enjoying jumping off high places.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Touma makes a plan in Chapter 16. We don't see what it is. It remains to be seen if it will be a subversion or not.

The series is written by Shockz. The first story ''In Memoriam'', can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9442823/1/In-Memoriam here]] or [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/49420 here]]. A discussion thread for the story can be found [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/in-memoriam-a-certain-magical-index-scientific-railgun-au.1540/ here]] or [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/in-memoriam-a-certain-magical-index-scientific-railgun-au.262608/ here]].

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Kanzaki [[spoiler:grows stronger with every challenge she faces.]]

** In the fourth chapter, Touma asks Index if she knows the [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow]]. (She does, in fact. And she catches the reference). He also has a copy of the last book of the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' series, which was unreleased when the chapter was written. %%It's still unreleased, I'm just future-proofing this.

The series is written by Shockz. The first story ''In Memoriam'', can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9442823/1/In-Memoriam here]] or [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/49420 here]]. A discussion thread for the story can be found [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/in-memoriam-a-certain-magical-index-scientific-railgun-au.1540/ here]].

* AdaptationNameChange: The author has made a point of replacing any {{Engrish}} terms with better English. For example, "An Involuntary Movement", the full canon name for AIM, has been changed to "Involuntary Physical Distortion", or IPD. Other changes include Level Upper becoming Level Plus, Meltdowner becoming just Meltdown, Big Spider becoming the Tarantulas and Skill Out becoming Zero-Sum.
** In canon, Anti-Skill is the entirety of Academy City's professional police force. Here, Anti-Skill is the Academy City Police Department's SWAT division.
** Combining this trope with a variation of CompositeCharacter, all of the magical Christian groups like Necessarius, the Catholic Church and Annihilatus are now part of an organization named Pax Christiana.
** Imagine Breaker actually doesn't have a name in this fic, but [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/in-memoriam-a-certain-magical-index-scientific-railgun-au.262608/#post-11134897 here's Touma's thoughts on the subject]].
** Stiyl Magnus has been renamed to Stephen Magnus.
* AdaptationalBadass: Part of the point is that many of the characters get a competence boost.

*** Chapter 14 of ''In Memoriam'' has [[spoiler: Mikoto experience Harumi Kiyama's memories in a PensieveFlashback. Kiyama's narration is fairly straightforward while Mikoto makes parenthetical observations.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: According to the Interlude, the year is 2044.

* BadLiar: Index is not a very good liar. To be more precise, she's good at misrepresenting the truth, but she can't make up something completely false to save her life.

* BuffySpeak: Mikoto sometimes slips into this in her narration. [[spoiler: The speaker for the hostage takers also isn't the best at public speaking.]]

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Literally hours after getting powers from Level Plus [[spoiler: Saten and her friends are confronted by Kuroko and Uiharu, who tell them that Level Plus causes progressive brain damage.]]

** In the fifth chapter Mikoto mentions being helped by a redhead in a black coat. [[spoiler: Chapter 7 confirms it's Stiyl...er, [[AdaptationNameChange Stephen]].]] May count as a sort of EarlyBirdCameo.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: The third chapter ends with [[spoiler:a bomb going off.]] Chapters 12 and 13 also end in this.
* CurbStompBattle: Chapter 5. [[spoiler: Kuroko versus one of the bombers. Her opponent didn't stand a chance.]]

** Level Upper (Level Plus): [[spoiler: It causes progressive brain damage.]]
** The orphans that drove Kiyama to make Level Upper (Level Plus):[[spoiler: All but one dead from brain hemorrhaging, no coma. (And it's implied the last one isn't alive anymore either.)]]
* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler: Instead of merely putting people into comas, [[DarkerAndEdgier Level Plus causes progressive brain damage]].]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Harumi Kiyama's class...although it's possible one of them survived. It should also be mentioned that Kiyama's class includes Erii Haruue in this fic.]]

* DiscardAndDraw: A subversion. [[spoiler: In Chapter 7, Index learns that Touma has broken her [[PowerLimiter geis]], allowing her to use magic freely. However, the geis was apparently tied to her "quick-lookup array" which let Index search for spells in her mind quickly. The result is that Index loses this ability, but she quickly finds it's not really a problem thanks to her EideticMemory.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo:

** In the fifth chapter, [[spoiler: one of the hostage takers complains about hearing names, one of which is Erii Haruue.]] In chapter 14 [[spoiler: it's revealed that Erii was in Harumi Kiyama's class...but see below.]]
*** Similarly in the tenth chapter [[spoiler: one of the names is Banri Edasaki.]] In chapter 14 [[spoiler: both Banri and Erii appear in the WholeEpisodeFlashback. Said flashback ends in the reveal that Kiyama's students aren't in comas...instead,[[DeathByAdaptation they're all dead.]] (Well, one might have survived.)]]

* ForScience: [[spoiler: The last words Harumi Kiyama says to any of her students.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Overlapping with EarlyBirdCameo, Chapter 14 includes references to the Misaka clones as well as a mention of "Project Radio Noise".
* FromBadToWorse: Touma's group escapes from Kanzaki [[spoiler: and runs right into Kiyama blowing stuff up.]]

* {{Geis}}: Part of Index's PowerLimiter. There's also a kind of geis that makes the recipient die if they don't complete a specific task. According to WordOfGod, [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/in-memoriam-a-certain-magical-index-scientific-railgun-au.262608/page-30#post-11905170 a geis is unbreakable.]] [[spoiler: Unless Touma touches you with his AntiMagic arm.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: When one of the hostage takers starts to list a series of names, he gets shot by a sniper.]] Touma lampshades how suspicious that is.
* HeHadAName: [[spoiler: The reason Harumi Kiyama is so insistent on remembering her students names. In fact, she wants everyone to know who they were.]]

* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: The Seventh Mist bombings, with Uiharu playing the negotiator.]]

* ItsPersonal: After [[spoiler: Saten ends up in a coma for treatment from Level Plus, Uiharu takes it personally and has to be talked down by both Kuroko and Konori.]]

* MagicalDatabase: Index's mind is almost literally a magical database; she searches for spells by making a mental database query that resembles SQL. [[spoiler: This ability is dispelled by Touma's arm but as Index has EideticMemory this isn't really a problem.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 8. [[spoiler: So Saten and her friends are all thrilled with their new powers. Well here come Kuroko and Uiharu, and Uiharu is crying...]]
* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler: Kiyama originally planned to expose Kiraha and the corruption of Academy City to the world, but now all she wants to do is kill him to avenge the kids. Justified by the fact that Level Plus induced mental degeneration has caused her to forget what the plan was, and she most likely lacks the higher mental capacities necessary to carry it out anyway.]]

* NotADate: It eventually hits Touma that taking Index to a mall to make up for breaking her backpack and then treating her to lunch afterward might have other people drawing the obvious conclusion. And then Mikoto catches sight of them...[[spoiler: Any shenanigans are preemptively cut off by explosions.]]

* PensieveFlashback: Chapter 14. [[spoiler: Mikoto sees Kiyama's memories and makes parenthetical observations.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Not so much useless as outmatched. [[spoiler: Kanzaki took down an entire police station and six Anti-Skills.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: In Chapter 5, Uiharu obliquely warns Saten not to use Level Plus. Uiharu was under a gag order, which is why she couldn't be more explicit, but even then if she had phrased her warning in a better way it might have saved Saten and her friends a lot of trouble.]]

* PowerLimiter: Index's {{geis}} only allows her to use magic when she's in danger. It's sensitive enough to activate just by [[EarlyBirdCameo Accelerator]] looking at her. [[spoiler: Touma inadvertently breaks it.]]
* RealityEnsues: In chapter twelve, Konori reveals that Judgement is mostly a glorified neighborhood watch with esper abilities and that Kouroko and Uiharu are actually the exception in that they take it as seriously as they do.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Harumi Kiyama. She's not trying to save her students - [[DeathByAdaptation they're all dead.]] Instead, she's going to try and make Gensei Kihara pay, and she wants to make sure [[HeHadAName everyone remembers her students' names.]]]]

* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: {{Invoked}} by [[spoiler: Harumi Kiyama, in order to get the attention of her class.]]
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler: In a change from canon, Saten gains this ability when she takes Level Plus.]]
* ShoutOut:

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Kanzaki [[spoiler: grows stronger with every challenge she faces.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Index's attempts to hide the fact that she mentioned magic in front of Touma. Touma sees right through it...but he decides not to call Index out on it, thinking that she's probably both paranoid and delusional.

* TrackingDevice: [[spoiler: How Stephen and Kanzaki tracked Index down in chapter 13, rather than using any spell that she could hide from.]]

** In chapter 13 [[spoiler: Stephen admits that while he was trying to get Index to go with him, what he said still was true.]]

-->''"It’s not Kanzaki," Tessou says. "''[[spoiler:''Kiyama ''god damn'' Harumi is here.'']]''"''

-->''Within six weeks, [[spoiler: one student remained alive, though in critical condition and with major brain damage.]]\\
The rest [[spoiler: were dead]].''

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: This is the first true deviation from the series canon, as well as showing the fic's [[AdaptationalBadass premise]].

Might be a DeadFic going by [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/and-sometimes-you-just-gotta-know-when-to-fold-em.21824/ here]].

* XMeetsY: If the original series was ''ComicBook/XMen'' meets ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'', then this is ''ComicBook/XMen'' meets ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''.

* PostModernMagick: Index uses an {{Invisibility}} spell [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy developed by the]] {{OSS}}, which has the incantation "''Let Liberty be my cloak in the night.''"

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: One of Index's grimoires was written by Archimedes, while another was a training manual for the {{OSS}}. She later claims TheBlackDeath and both World Wars were caused by magicians.
** {{Ghostapo}}: According to Index, the Nazis had magicians. In fact magicians were present on all sides during World War II. [[ChurchMilitant Pax]] [[AncientConspiracy Christiana]] has actually supported the existence of this trope in-universe, hoping to make [[MagicIsEvil magic look bad]] [[HitlerAteSugar by tying it to Nazis.]]

*** EstablishingSeriesMoment: This is the first true deviation from the series canon, as well as showing the fic's [[AdaptationalBadass premise]].

* UsefulNotes/KoreansInJapan: If anything there are ''more'' Koreans in Japan than there are now, enough to merit trilingual streets signs in Academy City. This is legacy of [[GreatOffscreenWar The Second Korean War]] which is hinted at at various points in the story.

* NoKoreansInJapan: Averted, if anything there are ''more'' Koreans in Japan than there are now, enough to merit trilingual streets signs in Academy City. This is legacy of [[GreatOffscreenWar The Second Korean War]] which is hinted at at various points in the story.

** When Uiharu first meets Mikoto she proceeds to unnerve her by using increasingly more respectful JapaneseHonorifics until Kuroko [[DopeSlap whacks Uiharu on the head]]...and then Mikoto sees that Uiharu [[TheGadfly was trying to hold back laughter]].

* TheCameo: Sadao and Emi from ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely do not]] appear in the second chapter while Index is at McDonalds. (After all, Sadao works at ''[[BlandNameProduct MgRonalds]]''.)

* MacGyvering: To protect herself from searching spells, Index jury-rigs a portable church with a crucifix, a broken music box, a can of grape juice, a water bottle, a serving tray from McDonalds, and a piece of a Big Mac's bun. And in the fourth chapter [[spoiler:it gets broken when Touma's arm breaks the backpack Index was carrying it in.]]