History Roleplay / TheAquilaAndTheRisingSun

** Which is composed of a psychic Inquisitor, his vampiric Living Saint wife, a (different) vampire inquisitor and her NinjaMaid, a stormtrooper, two rabbit girls as DifferentAsNightAndDay, the living embodiment of a tank, a newbie pilot with severe self-confidence issues, a techpriest and a particularly dimwitted Ogryn.

** Though there are plans in the works for some [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel aversions of Moe to come into existence.]]

* {{Expy}}: Trogg is an Expy of an [[TheDitz Intelligence<4]] character from a {{Fallout 2}} LetsPlay, and The Cult of The Striking Cobra is an expy of [[GIJoe Cobra]], complete with Cobra Commander analogy.

* WalkingArmory: Leona, being the personification of a tank with four guns, carries around a missile launcher, an autocannon and a boltgun. In theory, she can carry any combination of up to three [[MoreDakka autocannons/heavy bolters]]/[[FrickinLaserBeams lascannons]] and a [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile launcher]].

* {{Expy}}: Trogg is an Expy of an [[RalphWiggum Intelligence<4]] character from a {{Fallout 2}} LetsPlay, and The Cult of The Striking Cobra is an expy of [[GIJoe Cobra]], complete with Cobra Commander analogy.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Vampires, obviously. But Reisen Udongein Inaba's two children, twins Jisen and Ichisen. Jisen is weakened by moon-light, and Ichisen is weakened by sunlight.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Both main teams, to be honest, although Darius' retinue is marginally more organised. His retinue contains another Inquisitor who is too spineless to get his own retinue, a blank assassin and expert pilot, a space marine, a barely-sentient biologically engineered killing machine, a relic-wielding cultist, an ailing techpriest, and a pair of undercover Gensokyoans. And that's not going into the mess that is Arcturus' team.

* HappilyMarried: Arcturus and Zee have stuck with one another over the last century and a half. I find myself giving thanks to a whole slew of dieties that it isn't [[GeorgeLucasLoveStory George Lucas]] writing this story.

* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: They were first encountered by Darius and his team on the space station of the Janshiin Shipyards.They are humans infected with some for of spore, and either have a ZombieGait or (in one case) move at lightning speed, have flowers where there eyes should be, have long claws, and are constantly moaning that something is eating away at them.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Both main teams, to be honest, although Darius' retinue is marginally more organised. There's a psyker Inquisitor DeadpanSnarker running the whole operation, his wife (a vampiric Living Saint), two more vampires, a knife-throwing maid with TimeStop powers, an old veteran guardsman, a pair of rookie Moon Rabbits who are weakened by sunlight and moonlight respectively, an Ogryn, a new guardsman who is an expert pilot but is emotionally fragile, a depressed Navigator, a medic moon rabbit with self-esteem issues, and an anthropomorphic sentient tank. And that's just Arcturus' team.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Both main teams, to be honest, although Darius' retinue is marginally more organised. There's a psyker Inquisitor DeadpanSnarker running the whole operation, his wife (a vampiric Living Saint), two more vampires, a knife-throwing maid with TimeStop powers, an old veteran guardsman, a pair of rookie Moon Rabbits who are weakened by sunlight and moonlight respectively, an Ogryn, a new guardsman who is an expert pilot but is emotionally fragile, a depressed Navigator, and an anthropomorphic sentient tank. And that's just Arcturus' team.

* JourneyToTheCentreOfTheMind: There was one for the Murder Mystery arc, for [[spoiler: Sakuya. This was performed in order to get rid of a crazed youkai that had nestled in her mind and plagued/controlled her.]]

* {{Expy}}: Trogg is an Expy of a character form a Fallout3 let's play, and The Cult of The Striking Cobra is an expy of [[GIJoe Cobra]], complete with Cobra Commander analogy.

* KnightTemplar: [[MemeticMutation In]] ''[[MemeticMutation my]]'' [[MemeticMutation Imperium?]] It's about as likely as you think. That is, '''very.''' Inquisitor Darius is a particularly stellar example. Kills absolutely everything slightly new and different just to be sure, and is generally an all-around fundamentalist with a highly literal interpretation of the Creed. (Which admittedly can be summed up as "Kill mutants, heretics and aliens", which only has so many ways you can stretch an interpretation.)

LighterAndSofter: Well... As much as one can have in the setting. Things aren't quite as dire as they were in the Imperium, but the time is still a grim one.

Yet this was not the end of the tale; a sequel had long been in the works, one that would rely far more on planning in advance than her impulse-driven predecessor, and after a month-long hiatus to give the plays time to calm down and cool their tempers, ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12940715240A05552900&page=1 The Aquila and the Rising Sun--The Imperium Of Man Comes To Gensokyo]]'' made her debut on the third of January, 2011. [[TimeSkip Set one hundred and fifty years into the future]], the core cast is largely the same but, as a result of Gensokyo's new status as a sacred world in the Imperium of Man, changes have taken place. The plot is primarily divided along two lines; one focuses on the adventures of [[TheHero Inquisitor Arcturus]] and his acolytes, including amongst their numbers Remilia and Flandre Scarlet; and the other follows the trials of Lord Inquisitor [[KnightTemplar Darius Bickerstaff]], a puritanical inquisitor who nearly had all of Gensokyo put to fire and the sword in the first game. Bickerstaff was the father of Isaac Bickerstaff, a former friend of Arcturus' turned depraved servant of Nurgle, and while Bickerstaff junior met his end at Arcturus' hands, Darius remained largely blind to his sons atrocities and has never forgiven Arcturus.

LighterAndSofter: Well... As much as one can have in the setting.

Yet this was not the end of the tale; a sequel had long been in the works, one that would rely far more on planning in advance than her impulse-driven predecessor, and after a month-long hiatus to give the plays time to calm down and cool their tempers, ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12940715240A05552900&page=1 The Aquila and the Rising Sun--The Imperium Of Man Comes To Gensokyo]]'' made her debut on the third of January, 2011. [[TimeSkip Set one hundred and fifty years into the future]], the core cast is largely the same but, as a result of Gensokyo's new status as a sacred world in the Imperium of Man, changes have taken place. The plot is primarily divided along two lines; one focuses on the adventures of [[TheHero Inquisitor Arcturus]] and his acolytes, including amongst their numbers Remilia and Flandre Scarlet; and the other follows the trials of Lord Inquisitor Darius Bickerstaff, a puritanical inquisitor who nearly had all of Gensokyo put to fire and the sword in the first game. Bickerstaff was the father of Isaac Bickerstaff, a former friend of Arcturus' turned depraved servant of Nurgle, and while Bickerstaff junior met his end at Arcturus' hands, Darius remained largely blind to his sons atrocities and has never forgiven Arcturus.

On July 18[[superscript:th]] of 2010, one Troper asked another his opinion on a simple yet unexpected question: "What would happen if the [[WarHammer40000 Imperium]] launched a full-scale invasion of the TouHou world?" After some bafflement at the left-field nature of this querry, the second Troper admitted that, while he would lean in favor of the Imperials, had no idea as to the ultimate outcome. Taking this as encouragement, the first then created a thread in ForumGames to depict this subject, and thus was TheImperiumOfManComesToGensokyo born.

While the game was a chaotic and maddened mess at first, due in no small part to the clashing egos of two wildly-divergent fanbases and their stubborn insistances that one side could beat the other with no difficulty, after a short while the introduction of new factions to the mix straightened things out, and a coherent plot began to form. While there were ocassional hiccups caused by players who simply did not get the shift in tone from the godmodding, almost parodic mess it had started out as and the story-driven, character-focused tale it later became, the game prospered and flourished; battles were fought, lives were lost, redemption was had, tears were shed and hearts were warmed. Yet like all good things, it would not last forever; after six months and more than eleven thousand posts, the ImperiumOfManComesToGensokyo came to an end on December 7[[superscript:th]].

Yet this was not the end of the tale; a sequel had long been in the works, one that would rely far more on planning in advance than her impulse-driven predecessor, and after a month-long hiatus to give the plays time to calm down and cool their tempers, ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12940715240A05552900&page=1 The Aquila and the Rising Sun--The Imperium Of Man Comes To Gensokyo]]'' made her debut on the third of January, 2011. [[TimeSkip Set one hundred and fifty years into the future]], the core cast is largely the same but, as a result of Gensokyo's new status as a sacred world in the Imperium of Man, changes have taken place. The plot is primarily divided along two lines; one focuses on the adventures of [[TheHero Inquisitor Arcturus]] and his acolytes, including amongst their numbers Remilia and Flandre Scarlet; and the other follows the trials of Lord Inquisitor Darius Bickerstaff, a puritanical inquisitor who nearly had all of Gensokyo put to fire and the sword in the first game. Bickerstaff was the father of Isaac Bickerstaff, a former friend of Arcturus' turned depraved servant of Nurgle, and while Bickerstaff junior met his end at Arcturus' hands, Darius remained largely blind to his sons atrocities and has never forgiven Arcturus.