History Roleplay / BattleActionHaremHighschoolSideCharacterQuest

''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/battle-action-harem-highschool-side-character-quest-no-sv-you-are-the-waifu.15335/ Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest]]'' (No SV, you are the Waifu) is a quest run on Website/SufficientVelocityDotCom by Avalanche. Set in a fictional anime (named 'Project: Valkyrie Core' by the players) the quest's premise is that rather than control the [[DecoyProtagonist main character]] mentioned above, the players control one of the [[SupportingProtagonist side characters]]. The quest's ultimate goal is to take the side character and make her into a main character, whether through winning the heart of the protagonist, saving the world, or getting a SpinOff.

''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/battle-action-harem-highschool-side-character-quest-no-sv-you-are-the-waifu.15335/ Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest]]'' [[LongTitle (No SV, you are the Waifu)]] is a quest run on Website/SufficientVelocityDotCom by Avalanche. Set in a fictional anime (named ‘Project: Valkyrie Core' by the players) the quest's premise is that rather than control the [[DecoyProtagonist main character]] mentioned above, the players control one of the [[SupportingProtagonist side characters]]. The quest's ultimate goal is to take the side character and make her into a main character, whether through winning the heart of the protagonist, saving the world, or getting a SpinOff.

%% * InstantWebHit: The Bread-chan meme, images of Anna and her reaction to the various breads she ate as she worked her way down ‘The List’.

** For reference, a +5 world would have been a purely comedic show along the lines of [[Nichijou Nichijou]] with the Antagonists not even appearing on-screen, while a -5 world would have been comparable to [[Remina ''Hellstar Remina'']] in how dark it would have been, with [[AnyoneCanDie Anyone Can Die]] in full effect.

** For reference, a +5 world would have been a purely comedic show along the lines of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Nichijou Nichijou]] with the Antagonists not even appearing on-screen, while a -5 world would have been comparable to [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Remina ''Hellstar Remina'']] in how dark it would have been, with [[AnyoneCanDie Anyone Can Die]] in full effect.

%% * ActionGirl: Most Valkyries are female and so fall under this trope.

%% * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale:
%% ** Setsuna's normal reaction to Koujirou being his usual self.
%% ** [[DefiedTrope Defied]] whenever Anna is present.

%% * OneManArmy: When you can solo a Type 0, Anna definitely qualifies.
%%** All Type-Zero is this, sufficiently skilled can also be this.

%% * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Players were able to influence exactly when the setting fell on a scale of -5 to 5. It ended up at a not hopeless -1.
%% * SpaceMaster: Mainly Type 18's, though experienced Valkyries can use this to [[FlashStep teleport]].

%% * SwissArmyWeapon: All Valkyrie frames are this.

* RealityEnsues:
** No matter how skilled Anna is at fighting Antagonist, she can't win a fight against an endless tide of Antagonists all while defending her town. Casualties mounted no matter how hard she tried, and in the end the last surviving member of the town was killed not by Antagonist, but by another inhabitant of the town because they couldn't cope with the situation and started killing each other.
** The Safety limits are called Safety for a reason. Koujirou turning his Valkyrie Frame safety off in his fight against Anna results in injuries due to his body being unable to handle the strain.

%% * HeroOfAnotherStory: The quest itself is this, since the fictional anime stars Koujirou.

** Wave Force Manipulation. Its use completely drains the Impeller Field and Higgs particle, leaving the user defenseless and has a high chance of blowing up the user and anyone near them. Anna is able to use this with [[AnArmAndALeg minimal risk]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Anna's behaviour, due to her lack of social skills, is amusing both in- and out-of-universe.

* TheAce: Anna is literally the number One Rank Valkyrie, the Strongest Valkyrie in the world
* Adorkable: Anna behavior due to her lack of Social Skill is amusing both In and Out-Universe.
* AllForNothing: after everything Anna does, from risking her life fighting the Antagonist, fight Sekhmet, even launching a suicidal attack again's the Saskatoon Breach and again's all odds manage to succeed, she still failed to defend her town.

* BloodKnight: Anna seemed to relished in killing the Antagonist, she almost smiled at the thought of fighting another Sekhmet, and disappointed on how fake the simulated Antagonist feels.

* CurbStompBattle: Anna spar again's the rest of her flight plus Yukari ends with them not even laying a single scratch on her Impeller shielding, this is after they throw ten thousands bullet, missile, mine, at Anna.

* DespairEventHorizon: Anna cross it offscreen after her failure to defend her town, and almost attack the UN force that discover her in blind rage.
TheDreaded: All Type-Zero is this, they are all OneManArmy that can and will destroy armies, apperance of B-Class and above call for a general retreat of the Entire Army in the area.
* ExactWord: Due to lack of social skill, Anna tend to interept things Literally

* HeroicBSOD: Training in Alaska Scenario cause Anna to Flashback to her DarkTroubledPast, she basically need to shut down her emotion to keep functioning.

* MundaneLuxury: Anna consider food, bed, and bath to be a luxury.
MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Anna seem to have suffer brain anersym from overloading her brain when trying to research Wave Force, and only comment that she glad she didn't damage her neurons because she tend to lost memory when she does.

** All Type-Zero is this, sufficiently skilled can also be this.

* RealityEnsues: No matter how skilled Anna is in fighting Antagonist, she can't with a fight again's an endless tide of Antagonist all while defending her town, casualty mounted no matter how hard she tries, and in the end the last surviving member of the town was killed not by Antagonist but by other of inhabitant the town because they couldn't cope with the situation and started killing each other.
** Safety limit are called Safety for a reason, Koujirou turning his Valkyrie Frame safety off in his fight again's Anna result in his injuries due to his body unable to handle the strain.

* Tearjerker: Anna seem to have lost memory of her parent's.
** Despite how calm she looks, Anna seem to suffering from PTSD, and barely manage to cope.
** Kojirou, Setsuna and Yukari seem to once had a Valkyrie pilot named Caitlin as a childhood friend, they even seem to consider her as a sister figure, unfortunately she died agains the Antagonist, it's stated that Caitlin is only a child at the time.

** ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:How Human Army deals with Antagonist Force: Step 1. Identify AG Force.
Step 2. Use Millions of missile, Nuclear weapon, and deploy Valkyrie pilot.
Step 3. Repeat step 2 until AG cease to exist.

* TheAce: Anna is literally the number One Rank Valkyrie, the Strongest Valkyrie in the world
* Adorkable: Anna behavior due to her lack of Social Skill is amusing both In and Out-Universe.
* AllForNothing: after everything Anna does, from risking her life fighting the Antagonist, fight Sekhmet, even launching a suicidal attack again's the Saskatoon Breach and again's all odds manage to succeed, she still failed to defend her town.
* BloodKnight: Anna seemed to relished in killing the Antagonist, she almost smiled at the thought of fighting another Sekhmet, and disappointed on how fake the simulated Antagonist feels.
* DespairEventHorizon: Anna cross it offscreen after her failure to defend her town, and almost attack the UN force that discover her in blind rage.
TheDreaded: All Type-Zero is this, they are all OneManArmy that can and will destroy armies, apperance of C-Class and above call for a general retreat of the Entire Army in the area.
* ExactWord: Due to lack of social skill, Anna tend to interept things Literally
* HeroicBSOD: Training in Alaska Scenario cause Anna to Flashback to her DarkTroubledPast, she basically need to shut down her emotion to keep functioning.
* Tearjerker: Anna seem to have lost memory of her parent's.
** Despite how calm she looks, Anna seem to suffering from PTSD, and barely manage to cope.
** Kojirou, Setsuna and Yukari seem to once had a Valkyrie pilot named Caitlin as a childhood friend, they even seem to consider her as a sister figure, unfortunately she died agains the Antagonist, it's stated that Caitlin is only a child at the time.

* MundaneLuxury: Anna consider food, bed, and bath to be a luxury.
MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Anna seem to have suffer brain anersym from overloading her brain when trying to research Wave Force, and only comment that she glad she didn't damage her neurons because she tend to lost memory when she does.
* OneManArmy: All Type-Zero is this, sufficiently skilled Valkyrie such as Anna can also be this.

** ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
How Human Army deals with Antagonist Force:
Step 1 Identify AG Force
Step 2 Use Millions of missile, Nuclear, and deploy Valkyrie pilot
Step 3 Repeat step 2 until AG cease to exist.

TheAce: Anna is literally the number One Rank Valkyrie, the Strongest Valkyrie in the world
Adorkable: Anna behavior due to her lack of Social Skill is amusing both In and Out-Universe.

[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/battle-action-harem-highschool-side-character-quest-no-sv-you-are-the-waifu.15335/ ''Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest'']] [[LongTitle (No SV, you are the Waifu)]] is a quest run on Sufficient Velocity by Avalanche. Set in a fictional anime (named ‘Project: Valkyrie Core' by the players) the quest's premise is that rather than control the [[DecoyProtagonist main character]] mentioned above, the players control one of the [[SupportingProtagonist side characters]]. The quest's ultimate goal is to take the side character and make her into a main character, whether through winning the heart of the protagonist, saving the world, or getting a SpinOff.

** Anna's dice pool is, at a minimum, +4d6+12 (that's when she's holding back and not warping reality). Shuri's dice pool is about +3d4+7. Yukari's dice pool is, I think +8.
* ActionGirl: Most Valkyries are female and so fall under this trope.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Wave Force Manipulation. Its use completely drains the Impeller Field and Higgs particle, leaving the user defenseless and has a high chance of blowing up the user and anyone near them. Anna is able to use this with [[AnArmAndALeg minimal risk]]

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Setsuna's normal reaction to Koujirou being his usual self.
** [[DefiedTrope Defied]] whenever Anna is present.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Antagonists.

* FunWithAcronyms: The title for the fictional anime the quest takes place in is "Project Valkyrie Core", which is shortened to PVC. As a meta example, the quest's title is shortened to BAHHSCQ, pronounced as Basque.

* FramingDevice[=/=]LiteraryAgentHypothesis: An unusual example. The setting is a fictional anime but this has no bearing to the characters the players interact with. In other words, there is a fictional universe where the quest's events are real, and another fictional universe where the quest's events are an anime. We don't see anything of the second universe, but WordOfGod says the anime is showing the parts with Koujirou. The fictional anime depicts events that are "off-screen" from the players perspective, while the quest depicts events that are off-screen in the fake anime. One reader decided to run with this and made an {{Omake}} where Website/FourChan reacts to the show.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: The quest itself is this, since the fictional anime stars Koujirou.
* ImprobablyFemaleCast: As only 0.05% of all Valkyries are male, male characters other than Koujirou are unlikely.

* InstantWebHit: The Bread-chan meme, images of Anna and her reaction to the various breads she ate as she worked her way down ‘The List’.

* OneManArmy: When you can solo a Type 0, Anna definitely qualifies.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Players were able to influence exactly when the setting fell on a scale of -5 to 5. It ended up at a not hopeless -1.
* SpaceMaster: Mainly Type 18's, though experienced Valkyries can use this to [[FlashStep teleport]].

* SwissArmyWeapon: All Valkyrie frames are this.

[[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong In their infinite wisdom, the playerbase chose]] [[NonIndicativeName the monster]]: [[TheWoobie Anna Sanchez,]] a [[ShellShockedVeteran traumatized]] ChildSoldier attempting to fit in to a ‘normal’ life after [[SoleSurvivor everyone in her]] [[DoomedHometown home village was killed]]. Even though the word "harem" is in the title, the focus on Anna makes the quest more RealRobotGenre than HaremGenre as most of the usual harem hijinks end up offscreen.

* CrapsackWorld: Most of the surface of Earth is under Antagonist control (with large portions underwater), Earth orbit is under relative human control and most of humanity have retreated to underground arcologies. As SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism shows, it could be worse however.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Any of selected unhappy backgrounds imply this. Shuri's involved [[spoiler:being a ChildSoldier for the Pakistani military]] and Anna defended her village for eight years amid growing animosity from the villagers only to return after finally defeating the threat to find everyone dead.