Line #58 FanFic/TwentyYearsLaterBunbunmaruSpiritNewsArchives


1	''Twenty Years Later: Bunbunmaru Spirit News Archives'' is the second story in the sister series to the ''Fanfic/TouhouDoujinDawitsusFolly'' fanfic series.
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3	Still in the process of being written.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* AbuseMistake: Hemi thinks Hatate was ''raping'' Youmu (or at least having rough sex with her) because they were in a room alone together and Youmu repeatedly said the word 'No' in varying levels of volume.
8	* AccidentalMisnaming: Both Aya and Hatate have been guilty of this, with Aya getting Mima's name repeatedly wrong (calling her Mimi) and Hatate getting Jean's name wrong (calling him [[RunningGag Michel]].)
9	* ACupAngst: Youmu seems to suffer a little from it. While Hatate [[BrutalHonesty doesn't deny her flatness]], she still attempts to tell her that being flat-chested isn't a ''bad'' thing.
10	* ADayInTheLimelight: Not that she hadn't had a couple of moments in the limelight, especially earlier on in the series, but as Aya blatantly emphasizes, Aya had disappeared from the fic series ''entirely'' in the previous two books, and here, she gets a book all to herself... and Hatate. Also, the half-ghosts get a chapter to themselves.
11	* AGodAmI: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that Minoriko Aki ''is'' a God, but since [[FromNobodyToNightmare gaining an 'emerald of chaos']], Minoriko Aki has TookALevelInJerkass and has taken to lording over the mountain and demanding sacrifices.
12	* AlchemyIsMagic: The reason Yutaka is disqualified from the ScienceFair is because of this trope.
13	* TheAlcoholic: As well as Suika, [[{{Canon}} naturally]], Reimu appears to be driven to alcoholism by chapter 20, where she's being driven crazy by having to take care of a baby.
14	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: There seems to be a little of this in Youmu and the Half-ghosts. Namely, Hemi seems to have a tsundere thing for Youmu, and Semi seems to have undergone an UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo in regards to Demi, although there are hints he likes her back.
15	* AllPeriodsArePMS: Patchouli is particularly irritable in chapter twelve, which Yutaka attributes to her being on her period, which Patchouli rather understandably gets rather irate about (as they're talking to [[{{Paparazzi}} Aya]].
16	* AmbiguouslyGay: Hatate, to the point where one reviewer [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded it]] by saying 'Hatate gets confused for a (raging) lesbian a lot, doesn't she?' Another reviewer said that they now ship [[CrackPairing Seija and Hatate]] because of Hatate's (unintentional, or so she says) interactions with her. In addition, Hatate at one point indulges in some SuspiciouslySpecificDenial pertaining to her stalking Youmu Konpaku, who she has also taken pictures down the top of.
17	* AnalogyBackfire / {{Metaphorgotten}}: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Hebiko in the poetry competition of Chapter 16. She references [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Sonnet 18]] by opening with the classic 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' before applying various negative aspects of summer to the subject of the poem, before saying that [[DeconstructedTrope summer really isn't all that romantic after all]].
18	* TheAtoner: Medicine Melancholy is this nowadays, due to reforming and regretting her murderous ways.
19	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Chapter eighteen starts off with Hatate mentioning why she avoids the Scarlet Devil Mansion like the plague: 'It's bigger than it is on the outside, its maid can totally stop time and pincushion you with silver knives, and its décor is like, totally ugly!'
20	* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter / ChildrenAreAWaste: Reimu's attitude to her adoptive baby, Patricia, is a [[MoodSwinger zig-zag]] between these two tropes.
21	* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Seiji Kijin has this attitude, and therefore hates being loved.
22	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Aya tells [[TheSpeechless Yukari's Oni Shikigami to stop signing]]. She talks out loud, making her flee in terror.]] Also, Seija Kijin wants to flip the entirety of Gensokyo, and when she does, she hates it, because everyone loves her, something she herself despises.
23	* BeingGoodSucks: As Dawitsu finds out- dressing up as Santa and giving gifts to children only earns you being hassled by Aya.
24	* BigBadWannabe: Kogasa Tatara and Yutaka Hadekawa- the former becoming a BigBad and the latter becoming a KarmaHoudini NonActionBigBad by working together on an incident.
25	* BigStupidDoodooHead: Aya responds to Eirin's massive [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction of her character]] by calling her a 'Big Meanie'. Eirin replies with, '[[DeadpanSnarker Well, that's mature.]]'
26	* BlackComedy: Chapter 15 is full of it, being centered around Hatate missing blatantly obvious hints that Tokage has been severely mentally and physically abused by Yuuka. Also, Reimu getting so frustrated that she threatens to ''throw her baby'' is a touch dark.
27	* BlatantLies: Aya saying that she 'boldly fled in terror'. As well as many other things said by her, a lot pertaining to her method of entering houses. Also, pretty much anything said by Yuuka in chapter 15 involving denial of her abuse of Tokage. In chapter 20, a drunk Reimu calls Marisa a bitch, but when confronted, claims she called her a witch.
28	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Aya's attitude to Dawitsu giving gifts to children, as well as her attitude to observing the world without talking or telling others, a concept Kagerou introduces her to. Also, Seija enjoys being hated and hates being loved, although this may merely qualify as BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad.
29	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Hatate's dating ad starts out innocuously enough before descending into the morbid fairly quickly- to quote: 'Like, lonely? Are you looking for that special someone in your life? Is your cripplingly non-existent love life crushing you with its continued non-existence? Are you, like, suicidal from your inability to keep with a person who can stand to be with you for like, twenty seconds? Well, like, never fear, because, there are, like, so many hot people who are, like, looking for love in your area!'
30	* BreakingTheFourthWall: With absolutely no subtlety, courtesy of Aya in the foreword. She actively calls Duwee Davis II on neglecting her in recent books. Also, Seija Kijin flips Hatate, changing her interviewer name from 'Hatate' to '[[SdrawkcabName etataH]]' on the actual text. In Chapter 21, the events Rumia recalls are from [[http://randomnumbers5902672.deviantart.com/gallery/43203986 this set of comics]], and she can't go any further in her memories because... of spoilers. This is said word for word by Aya, and Rumia concurs before coming up with an in-universe excuse (it's too traumatic).
31	* BreastExpansion: Thanks to alterations made by Yukari, Reimu's breasts are larger and lactate in order to help her feed her adoptive child, Patricia, as she was never pregnant with her. [[AmbiguouslyGay Hat]] atate simply sees this as an opportunity to use this bigger-breasted rendition of Reimu in a swimsuit edition of the paper.
32	* BrutalHonesty: A ''doozy'' from Hatate regarding Youmu's chest size. Youmu calls Hatate's perverted antics by saying 'Well, it's just you ''were'' rhapsodising about my 'cuteness' while taking pictures, some of which were down my top...', to which Hatate replies 'Like, don't flatter yourself, it's not like you have any chest to hide anyways...'. When Youmu asks her to repeat herself in disbelief, she simply says 'You, like, have no breasts.' ''Damn''. Point-five also [[{{Pun}} point-blank]] says that she doesn't want to be interviewed and that Hatate is obnoxious. [[NiceGirl Yutaka]] surprisingly does it too, telling Aya to just get over the fact she has a crush on Dawitsu, ask him out, get rejected, and get on with life.
33	* TheBrute: Werewolves, according to [[UnreliableNarrator Remi]][[FurAgainstFang lia]].
34	* ButHeSoundsHandsome: ''Instantly'' after being asked ''not'' to put words in his mouth, Aya adds some obviously false dialogue to Dawitsu's final line in his interview- 'Oh, by the way, you're looking particularly ravishing and I want you to have my mimicking parrot tengu babies'. This line comes completely out of left field and is seemingly just to satisfy Aya's vanity. Aya also refers to herself in third person as a 'Sexy Reporter'.
35	* ButtMonkey: Dawitsu seems to be this- he does an extremely kind deed, [[BeingGoodSucks but gets hated for it]], is [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten not allowed to forget it]], and gets [[MegatonPunch punched out by Reimu]] upon her discovery of a her SurpriseParty, being unconscious for the majority of the aforementioned party.
36	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Tokage demands that any women who want to date her should have at least size C breasts.
37	* CanonDiscontinuity: It seems that finally, Duwee Davis II has settled on the name of Aya and Hatate's joint paper being called the 'Bunbunmaru Spirit News'.
38	* CaptainObvious: Dawitsu remarks, 'Her precious tone really conflicts with her words.' when Reimu says to her adoptive baby, 'Oh, she's just crapped herself. Guess that's why she smiled. Who's a little sadist? You are! You're a little sadist that's come to ruin my life! Yes you are!'. Marisa wastes no time saying, 'Well done, Captain Obvious.'
39	* CargoShip: Implied in-universe by how Aya's press turned into a beautiful man during her MushroomSamba, and she kisses it under a romantic moonlit view.
40	* CassandraTruth: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Medicine Melancholy regarding whether she's reformed, as she seems to expect that people won't believe her, but only [[UneliableNarrator Aya]] seems to doubt it.
41	* CasualKink: A drunk Reimu admits that she ''gets off'' on her breasts being sucked by her adoptive baby. Marisa says 'Gross', Chen says 'Too much information', and Ran says [[CovertPervert 'I can see where she's coming from']].
42	* CharacterDevelopment: The two Scarlet Sisters and Medicine Melancholy. Remilia has become a bookworm and shut-in due to missing Patchouli, something mentioned by several characters, and Flandre has become a mathematical genius. Medicine has transitioned from AxCrazy to a MessianicArchetype [[TheAtoner Atoner]].
43	* CheatersNeverProsper: [[DoubleSubvertedTrope Double Subverted]]. Seiga is disqualified from the ScienceFair for claiming to reanimate Yoshika with electrodes when in actuality, she was already reanimated, and Seiga thus subverts this trope by stealing the winning price- supposedly a rare talisman that attracts great amounts of faith. Turns out this talisman was a [[PlaceboEffect Placebo]] that only works because it is evidence of the winner of the ScienceFair winning. So in other words, the real winner (Nitori) would be the only one gaining faith from the talisman in the first place.
44	* ClingyJealousGirl: Semi reveals herself to have these feelings with regards to Demi. Also, a little of this behaviour is seen in Hemi for Youmu.
45	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Aya, especially in chapters 14 and 21.
46	* CommanderContrarian: Seija Kijin disagrees with ''everything'' Hatate says, but this makes her easy to manipulate, as Hatate can simply [[ReversePsychology tell her to do the opposite of what she wants her to do]].
47	* ContinuityNod:
48	** Firstly, to a ''deleted fanfiction of the author's'', no less. Koakuma seemingly ''still'' hasn't given up on trying to steal Rinnosuke from Sakuya.
49	** Another one is in the ScienceFair article, referring to Aya's tendency to call her press 'Kenny' and refer to it as a friend, as well as Dawitsu destroying her press for the second time in the series (with Reimu breaking one in between these two times).
50	** The reason Mima's in Former Hell in ''Reimu's Successor'' is revealed in this: [[spoiler:Mima performed [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink a prank involving ectoplasm and Reimu's soup]], and in response, [[DisproportionateRetribution she sent her to Former Hell]].]]
51	** A nod to a Deviant Art one-shot of the author's is brought up in the article interviewing the Youmu and Half-ghosts.
52	** Another nod to his Deviant Art works is in chapters eleven and twelve, referring to an incident Kogasa wanted to set up involving dry ice.
53	** Not to mention Aya is ''still'' addicted to ink snorting and ''still'' breaks through walls to enter buildings, as the openings to several of her interviews imply (the articles themselves tend to have her '[[BlatantLies entering politely]]')
54	** Chapter seventeen has nods to Medicine's story arcs throughout ''Jean's Magical Education'' and ''Yutaka's Big Fat Youkai Wedding'', including getting trapped in a vacuum cleaner and reforming.
55	** Chapter nineteen shows that Minoriko Aki has been using her newfound time-controlling powers to set up a major shrine for herself, all thanks to her 'emerald of chaos', acquired from Dawitsu in ''Jean's Magical Education''.
56	* CovertPervert: Hatate, becoming increasingy less covert over time.
57	* {{Crossover}}: Of a sort, with another piece of touhou fanwork. Chapter 21 is one with [[http://randomnumbers5902672.deviantart.com/gallery/43203986 this]], or at the very least is a reference to this.
58	* CurseCutShort: Reimu declares she's going to tear Marisa a new... [[SelfDemonstratingArticle before Hatate]] interrupts her.
59	* TheCynic: Fujiwara no Mokou somehow manages to be this ''in her own dating ad''. She claims that she'd like to find someone who's cheating on their wife, so as to make them feel incredible guilt, simply to spite anyone who is ungrateful about their mortal lives.
60	* DamnedByFaintPraise: After Aya says to Akyuu, 'Greetings, Miss Hieda! Congratulations on not dying before your eleventh birthday!', Akyuu ''tries'' to see such a remark as a compliment.
61	* DeadpanSnarker: Kagerou and Akyuu are remarkably snarky, especially given the [[WorldOfSnark continuity's track record]]. Reimu also seems to make every other line of hers a snark in her interviews, as well as Patchouli, who responds to Aya breaking into her house through the wall by remarking calmly to Yutaka, 'The next time she breaks one of our walls, we should kill her'. Eirin is also highly snarky, especially in Chapter seventeen. Marisa gets a few good snarks in chapter 20, too.
62	* DeathbringerTheAdorable: Minoriko Aki tries to make her acquisition of power appear more awe-inspiring by claiming she received an 'emerald of chaos' from 'a mysterious youkai, borne of no original form of his own'. The youkai is actually the adorable Dawitsu, who's about as threatening as a fly.
63	* DeathSeeker: Mokou is still this in spades.
64	* DepravedBisexual: Boy, is Hemi ever. Her first sentence upon entering a room to be along with [[AmbiguouslyGay Hatate]] is 'So, when do we start the sex?'
65	* DespairEventHorizon: Aya casually claims to had reached this when 'Kenny the Third' got destroyed by Dawitsu for her slander in the first article, as mentioned the 'Hindsight' section of the ScienceFair Article, and that's why she couldn't be bothered covering the story herself.
66	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Aya does this in her interview with Akyuu, and surprisingly, she comes off as a little sympathetic because it's clear that she genuinely has respect for her.
67	* DisabilitySuperpower: [[UnreliableNarrator Hatate]] thinks Koishi has become the [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]] she has today because she ''injured'' her third eye.
68	* DisproportionateRetribution: Reimu [[spoiler:sent Mima to ''Former Hell'']] for 'sliming ectoplasm into her soup'. Also, her reaction to Marisa holding Jean's hand is to tear her a new... thing. [[CurseCutShort She was interrupted before she could finish the threat]].
69	* TheDitz: Both Hatate and Aya are pretty ditzy, and while Hatate's ValleyGirl typing style makes her appear to be the more ditzy of the two, the evidence suggests that actually, Hatate's smarter than Aya.
70	* DoesNotLikeMen: According to Alice, Yutaka thinks that a man is 'a weak, excuse-making idiot who cheats on people and what have you'. Admittedly, the only man she's got to know properly would appear to be Dawitsu, but this is still an extreme stance.
71	* DontYouDarePityMe: Akyuu has this attitude to Aya with regards to her pity for her short life.
72	* DoWrongRight: Yuuka Kazami seems to see Mima as terrible for not putting the 'Evil' in 'Evil Spirit' enough.
73	* DrugsAreBad: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zigzagged.]] While Aya [[GRatedDrug snorting ink]] leads to a full-on MushroomSamba which ended up causing her to travel Gensokyo [[{{Fanservice}} in her bra]], in chapter seventeen, the reformed (and mostly benign and forgiving to the point of martyrdom) Medicine Melancholy offers opium to Eirin and Aya to defuse their argument, and ''it works''. Also, Suika seems to wholeheartedly believe that alcohol makes everything better.
74	* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Hatate certainly does, and gets bored of Point-five's apparently enthusiastic discussion of fundamental universal constants.
75	* ExperimentedInCollege: Mokou claims to have had many lesbian phases and bi phases throughout her incredibly long life.
76	* ExpospeakGag: Rikako's 'Retroactive Space-time Distortion Device' is basically a {{Retcon}} machine which she implies has been used before. Also, Kogasa's 'adrenaline enhancement device' is simply a Jack in the Box that gives you an electric shock and surprises you.
77	* FacePalm: Used by Yukari's Oni Shikigami to denote exasperation.
78	* FallenAngel: According to [[UnreliableNarrator Aya's poor attempts to decipher Yukari's Oni Shikigami's Sign Language]], the latter was once a God in Former Hell, but was kicked out for an unknown reason. [[spoiler:The implication from this, along with her contractual silence and her name being 'Ten with something above it', being that this Oni is in fact Konngara.]]
79	* FalseFriend: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Hatate claims she and Aya's friendship is perfectly smooth and problem-free, however, it's clear it isn't. Aya certainly doesn't see Hatate as a friend, so at the very least, one has to credit Hatate for at least ''trying'' to view Aya respectfully.
80	* FanGirl: Hatate seems to be one to Youmu, and somewhat creepily takes several photographs of her, some of which, according to Youmu, are down her top...
81	* {{Fanservice}}: Aya walking around in nothing but her bra. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that she's high, and some of the fanservice is negated due to her strange behavior.
82	* FelonyMisdemeanor: When Hatate offers her thoughts on Aya's article [[RonTheDeathEater demonizing]] Dawitsu for apparently attempting to form a religion, she thinks that Aya may have [[UnreliableNarrator slightly exaggerated]] her claims. Not that Dawitsu's forming a ReligionOfEvil, no... the very idea that Dawitsu could find Aya attractive and not also find her attractive is ''inconceivable''. While she's right to assume this as being false, her priorities are a tad skewed...
83	* FlatEarthAtheist: Rikako has shades of this, similarly to canon. Seija outright denies the existence of Gods when Kanako certainly does exist, but only because she has to contradict all that is said to her (Hatate said 'Damn it', forcing her to say 'There is no God to damn people'). She then proceeds to deny Kanako's godhood by saying [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} she's a kidney bean]].
84	* ForgetfulJones: It's unknown whether or not Koishi plays this trope straight, partially due to Hatate being an UnreliableNarrator, and partially because she does seem to remember some people.
85	* FriendToAllChildren: Dawitsu was kind enough to want to give his class gifts for Christmas despite the region not knowing or caring about the holiday. Also, Koishi is apparently kind to any children that she plays with, playing patty-cake with the girls and kissing the boys.
86	* FreudianSlip: Yutaka secretly misses the Dawitsu Mansion and still thinks of it as home, as she refers to the mansion as 'our mansion', before stopping herself and calling it 'his (Dawitsu's) mansion'.
87	* FriendlyEnemy: Reimu and Dawitsu become this, and drink tea together on Seija's OppositeDay.
88	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Ever since Minoriko Aki received an 'emerald of chaos' from a youkai that is most likely Dawitsu, she has been on quite a power trip.
89	* FunWithPalindromes: Seija has a lot of fun with palindromes in her entry to chapter 16's poetry competition, though Alice seems to think its some kind of demonic ritual (most likely due to many of her palindromes involving 'Satan' or 'Devil').
90	* FurAgainstFang: Referenced in Aya's article on werewolves, as she asked Remilia about the species and naturally got a slightly biased account on werewolves from the young vampire.
91	* TheGadfly: Hemi, Point-five, and Yukari's Oni Shikigami all act as this in their own way. Hemi through RefugeInAudacity, Point-five through her regular use of MathematiciansAnswer, and Yukari's Oni through being a SilentSnarker ([[spoiler:Who reveals herself to be totally capable of speech, and is only trolling Aya.]]).
92	* GayMoment: Aya begins to talk of 'the stories Hatate and I have documented during our many years together', before realizing that this could be misconstrued as them being a gay couple together. Hatate also seems to have several, with Youmu, Hemi and Reimu.
93	* GenderBender: Akyuu apparently has occupied both male and female bodies throughout her many incarnations. Dawitsu also expresses a desire to be a woman in Chapter 16, albeit in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
94	* GeniusBonus: A fair few in the ScienceFair chapter. For example, Nitori's way of producing Ammonia is a reference to the Haber Process, and Point-five's 'ramblings' about constants as well as 'planks, avocados, Fridays, [and] riding icebergs' is a reference to Planck's Constant, Avogadro's Constant, the Faraday Constant, and the Rhydberg Constant. Also, Flandre and Point-five's huge mathematical discussion in chapter eighteen would lose a few readers.
95	* GenkiGirl: Hatate seems impossibly excited about everything, and is noticeably positive about Aya's work while Aya berates Hatate's work instead.
96	* GentlemanAndAScholar: Given that Jean is already pretty much the nicest person in the series, and his recently-revealed ability ([[ThinkNothingOfIt that he never realized was particularly special]]) to remember Koishi Komeiji possibly qualifies him as a genius of Buddhism, Jean may well be this.
97	* GetOut: Both Youmu and Semi tell Hatate to do this after her largely inappropriate interviews with them. Patchouli barely acknowledges Aya upon her entry, but when she does, her first line is 'Hello. Get out of our house'.
98	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Dawitsu clearly still thinks this is the case, as he mentions that [[GenderBender if he were a girl]] he'd [[LesYay lez out]] and enjoy girl on girl in Chapter 16.
99	* GossipyHens: Aya, of course.
100	* GracefulLoser: Yutaka is this about being disqualified from the ScienceFair due to performing an act more similar to Alchemy than Magic (transforming Ash into Diamonds). Seiga [[AvertedTrope averts]] this by stealing the winner's prize after being disqualified.
101	* HandSignals: Yukari's Oni Shikigami talks through these, in an odd manner bordering on the [[TheUnintelligible incomprehensible]].
102	* HardWorkHardlyWorks: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Akyuu's treatment of Keine's gift, which required a trip to the ''netherworld'' to make- Akyuu truly appreciates it, and chides Aya for undermining it.
103	* HeadTurningBeauty: Aya appears to think she has this effect on any males that see her. The truth of her claim is dubious, [[UnreliableNarrator to say the least.]]
104	* HeelFaithTurn: Along with becoming a better person, Medicine Melancholy appears to have converted to Buddhism.
105	* HeroicBSOD: Aya encounters Rumia in the middle of one of these in Chapter 21, and it turns out it's due to having a fear of the outside world after a traumatizing set of events for her.
106	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Most of Hebiko's Dating Service Profile consists of this.
107	* HiddenDepths: Point-five, the [[TheQuietOne extremely quiet]] drummer from Youmu and the Half-Ghosts, is fascinated by the fundamental constants of the universe. Also, Jean seems to think Byakuren secretly wants to be like Koishi Komeiji- truly care-free.
108	* HoneyTrap: Hatate pretends to be one as a joke to Jean.
109	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Hatate seems to think that Yuuka is 'spreading joy and happiness', when it is blatantly obvious she is merely torturing Tokage for the sake of it. Aya seems to think [[RepressedMemories Hatate is deliberately seeing the events incorrectly]], however, and if this is the case, this is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]].
110	* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Hemi seems to have this attitude towards Youmu, telling Hatate that only she's allowed to make Youmu feel uncomfortable.
111	* HypocriticalHumor: Aya accuses Dawitsu of lying, [[SarcasmMode something she'd]] ''[[SarcasmMode never]]'' [[SarcasmMode do...]]
112	** In addition, Aya asks Reimu about her attempts to stop a chanting ritual by saying 'How hard is it to stop talking?', with Reimu [[LampshadeHanging lampshading her hypocrisy]].
113	* IAmVeryBritish: Hatate speaks in this manner after being flipped into the not-reporter [[SdrawkcabName etataH.]]
114	* IdenticalStranger: Aya [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] Patricia's similarity in looks to Reimu despite supposedly being an adoptive child, and comes to the conclusion that she's not adopted at all, but, in fact, the love baby of Reimu and a mystery man.
115	* IgnoreTheDisability: Aya seems to take an attitude similar to this with regards to Akyuu's supposedly short lifespan. Not that she does it particularly well, but still...
116	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Reimu says she doesn't like being the center of attention, though Hatate doubts her sincerity.
117	* IJustWantToBeYou: Yutaka apparently wants to be just like Dawitsu, with people coming to her for advice on causing incidents.
118	* ImAHumanitarian: Rumia claims she still eats people, despite now being frightened of outsiders beyond all reason. Aya claims human-eating youkai are savages.
119	* ImplacableMan: Koishi Komeiji.
120	* IncompatibleOrientation: Youmu reminds AmbiguouslyGay Hatate that she doesn't swing that way.
121	* IneffectualLoner: Reimu comes off as this a little.
122	* InsaneTrollLogic: Aya operates by this throughout her interview with Kagerou.
123	* InsufferableGenius: Hatate treats Rikako Asakura like one, and she seems a tad truthful in this opinion.
124	* InsultToRocks: In chapter seventeen, [[UnreliableNarrator Aya]] asks if Eirin thinks she is less reliable than a murderess. Eirin replies that she ''knows'' she is.
125	* IntrepidReporter: Aya claims herself to be one multiple times.
126	* IResembleThatRemark: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Hatate considers Demi's accent to be ''cool'', but doesn't seem to put two and two together that she probably likes it so much because she speaks [[ValleyGirl in the exact same way]].
127	* JackTheRipoff: Kogasa does a non-lethal version of this pertaining to incidents- she quite clearly is ripping off Remilia Scarlet's 'Scarlet Mist' incident with her own incident, something Remilia herself calls '[[LampshadeHanging totally unoriginal]]'.
128	* {{Jerkass}}: Aya.
129	** JerkassHasAPoint: When Aya outright deconstructs Minoriko Aki's power trip ('You know, most people who were once weak and bullied tend to be kind to the weak once they gain power, but clearly you just see this as an opportunity to be a bully yourself.') and torments her by taking away her chaos emerald, you can't help but root for her.
130	** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Her solid respect of Akyuu is rather heartwarming in a way, given her almost piteous attitude to most humans.
131	* JustAKid: Aya admits she has trouble not treating Akyuu like this, and her unintentional patronization of her results in Akyuu [[DontYouDarePityMe not being best pleased with her]].
132	* KarmaHoudini: Yutaka was one of the main contributors to Kogasa's mist incident, but doesn't get confronted by the people who solved it at all.
133	* KillerRabbit: Hatate treats [[PersonOfMassDestruction Flandre]] like one, calling her adorable and [[BlatantLies unable to hurt a fly]].
134	* LastOfHisKind: Nue seems to worry that this is the case for her, and she actually claims that she'd be willing to stop being a ShapeshiftingSeducer to settle down with a member of her own species.
135	* LawOfInverseFertility: In chapter 20, Ran and Dawitsu appear to latch onto baby Patricia, and offer to take her off Reimu's hands every now and then, with Ran even saying 'I've always wanted to hold a baby in my hands...'- yet, as ''the Epilogue'' and ''Reimu's Successor'' show, at least one of them appears to be infertile.
136	* LimitedWardrobe: Referenced by Dawitsu, who says 'What the hell? This was the nicest copy of my suit!' in response to being vomited on by Drunk!Reimu.
137	* LiteralMinded: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Hatate in chapter 20, who assumes that when Reimu mentions that Patricia was 'delivered', assumes she means the figurative sense of a midwife delivery. Similarly, when Reimu says 'she doesn't know who the father is', she assumes this means Reimu's been sleeping around.
138	* LogicBomb: Hatate gives one to CommanderContrarian Seija, who proceeds to ''faint'' because of it (she tells her to not stop contradicting her).
139	* MadScientist: Surprisingly, with exception of Seiga (who fails in the category of 'scientist' anyway), all the members of the ScienceFair that Hatate covers [[AvertedTrope avert]] this trope.
140	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: A non-fatal variant on this trope in Chapter 15, in which Yuuka physically abuses Tokage while either making it seem accidental while she performs some kind of over-the-top mannerism, or blames it on Tokage's own clumsiness.
141	* MagikarpPower: An allusion to the inspiration for the TropeNamer is made in Chapter 19, in which Aya refers to how a carp can become a dragon by jumping over the gates of the Dragon Palace.
142	* TheMatchmaker: Hatate has her fun in her dating ad, acting precisely as this. She even claims to have a 'Love Fairy' in her house.
143	* MathematiciansAnswer: Point-five gives a few in Hatate's interview with her, [[FridgeBrilliance which makes sense]] because a few chapters ago, it was established she's an enthusiastic mathematician.
144	* MegatonPunch: Reimu punches Dawitsu out cold in one hit. This doesn't seem like a big deal, until you remember that Dawitsu is a ''youkai'', and Reimu is a [[BadassNormal human, in this case using non-magical abilities]].
145	* {{Moe}}: It's ''painfully'' obvious that in-universe, Hatate sees Youmu as this, given how often she reiterates how cute she is.
146	* MetaphoricallyTrue: One of the many ways Yuuka somehow convinces Hatate that she isn't being abusive towards Tokage, in which when Tokage answers to Hatate's question of 'So, what other plants are you and your playmate growing?' with 'Despair! Death and despair!', Yuuka saves herself by saying (before hitting Tokage on the head to shut her up), 'In a... figurative sense. I'll be growing plenty of Higanbana, famous for their poison content.'
147	* MoodSwinger: Reimu swings [[SarcasmMode smoothly]] from crying over Jean not being attracted to her to accusing Hatate of hitting on her within seconds, with Hatate [[LampshadeHanging lampshading it]] by saying 'Like, WHAT? How fast does your mood swing?'
148	* MushroomSamba: Aya writes an article on one she has (presumably thanks to [[RunningGag snorting ink]]) and seems to think it was reality, as she simply calls it 'the strangest day ever'.
149	* {{Necromancer}}: While claiming to be a Frankenstein-esque scientific reanimator of the dead, Seiga is this in the ScienceFair.
150	* {{Nephewism}}: Apparently, Tengu society ''revolves'' around this, with most kids not being raised by their parents, but by their aunts and uncles.
151	* NeverMyFault: Aya has this attitude regarding her MushroomSamba, instead blaming Yukari Yakumo, and later, a non-existent incident causer that she assumes altered the entire world to be nonsensical and traumatized 'millions'. Hatate doesn't buy her crap.
152	* NeverSayThatAgain: Reimu says this to [[AmbiguouslyGay Hatate]] after she refers to her as a 'girlfriend'.
153	* NewOldFlame: Semi seems to view Demi this way, but [[BlatantLies persistently denies this]].
154	* NiceGuy: Demi seems to see the best in ''everyone''. He considered Point-five calling Hatate obnoxious as '[[StupidGood her way of telling her she likes her]]'. He even seems to be slow to condemn the [[StrawFan Dragon Prince]] for his perverted antics in his interview.
155	* NobleSavage: Aya treats the perfectly civilized Kagerou like this, seeming to think that werewolves are enlightened in a different way to 'civilised youkai', but have sacrificed politeness to do so.
156	* NonActionBigBad: Yutaka is one to Kogasa's mist incident, being the provider of the huge amounts of dry ice required, and never gets confronted to the solvers of the incident. Overlaps with KarmaHoudini.
157	* NonMammalMammaries: Hatate mentions that in Tengu society, breasts aren't used to breast-feed, but instead, like birds, they pre-chew (pre-digest in birds) food for their [[{{Nephewism}} nephews and nieces]] and spit it back out into their mouths.
158	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Hatate, who mentions that despite humans' relatively short lifespan, it seems that Reimu has been young for ages. The actual story [[AvertedTrope averts]] it, as Reimu becomes twenty years old by chapter eleven.
159	* NoteFromEd: A la ''Grimoire'', ''Forbidden Love'', and ''Misadventures'' of the previous series, each chapter ends with a note from either Aya or Hatate, basically, whoever hasn't written the article itself.
160	* TheNotLoveInterest: Yutaka still appears to feel this way about Dawitsu, something Patchouli is painfully aware of, she herself feeling like a SatelliteLoveInterest.
161	* NotNowKiddo: While not young, Hatate gets disregarded handily when she attempts to butt into Flandre and Point-five's heated mathematical debate.
162	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Kogasa actually manages to surprise Hatate by actually joining the ScienceFair. She also has a device similar to a Jack in the Box which zaps you with electricity. Kogasa has ''another'' shining moment where she surprises everyone by ''faking out'' Aya, not once, but ''twice'', as she first pretends she's causing an incident, but isn't, then later causes the same faked incident for real when everyone thought she'd given up! [[MemeticMutation Positively surprising.]]
163	* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Someone has a presentation on the subconscious mind in the ScienceFair article, however, Hatate can't quite remember who it is, so presumably it is Koishi Komeiji, who behaves in this manner. This is later confirmed in a different article.
164	* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Most likely what happened with regards to the Tengu society not noticing werewolves, however, Aya seems to think that it was instead because werewolves are tribal recluses which in turn have no knowledge of the world, hence the world doesn't know about them.
165	* OlderThanTheyLook: Reimu laments this about herself after Hatate says, at the age of twenty, she still has a girl's face, as [[IJustWantToBeLoved she wants Jean to like her]].
166	* TheOmniscient: Aya seems to think the Tengu as a whole are this, and anything the Tengu are unaware of must be so isolated from society that they themselves know nothing of the world.
167	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Aya makes sure anyone who's ever wronged anyone, at all, never lives their sins down. Most notably, the now-reformed Medicine Melancholy is treated in this manner by Aya.
168	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Implied by both Aya and Hatate in the foreword. Both mention that the selling of the archives as a means to make money either accidentally before attempting to divert attention from that fact, or by claiming the money goes towards 'charity'.
169	* OppositeDay: [[CommanderContrarian Seija Kijin]] induces one with her powers, but switched it back after realising that [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor everyone loved her, which she disliked greatly]].
170	* PaedoHunt: Aya seems to think [[TomTheDarkLord Corey]] from Chapter 21 is one of these, but, as Rumia keeps insisting, he is/was something a lot more sinister.
171	* {{Paparazzi}}: Aya is most certainly one, however, so far there has been no evidence to suggest Hatate has the same attitude.
172	* PastLifeMemories: How Aya at least sees Akyuu's ability to retain the knowledge of the Gensokyo Chronicle. Also, while he doesn't remember what Myouren did in his life, Jean seems to have inherited some of his enlightenment, although he doesn't seem to think so.
173	* PetTheDog: Both reporters' relationships with Reimu are ones of distant, yet concerned and caring friends, even if Reimu, on the surface, rejects them as such. Aya is concerned for Reimu's welfare, and Hatate tries to pick her up when her self-esteem is running low.
174	* PlaceboEffect: The first place prize for Kanako's ScienceFair is a placebo talisman that apparently bestows faith upon the owner.
175	* PowerPerversionPotential: Nue exploits the living hell out of her VoluntaryShapeshifting, if her Dating Profile is anything to go by.
176	* PurpleProse: Tokage writes her descriptions of both herself and her ideal man or woman like this in the 'Dating Service' chapter.
177	* PyroManiac: Mokou, in spades. She writes a poem about how she intends to set ''the moon'' on fire, and in chapter 23, she appears to think that everyone else should be pyromaniacs just like her.
178	* RealityWarper: Rikako Asakura is potentially one, with the help of her 'Retroactive Space-time Distortion Device'.
179	* RedOniBlueOni: Aya is Blue to Hatate's Red, although that's only by virtue of Hatate being a [[GenkiGirl Genki]] ValleyGirl.
180	* ReligionOfEvil: Dawitsu's attempt to give children gifts on Christmas Eve is viewed as this by Aya.
181	* RepressedMemories: If Aya is correct, Hatate could be doing a form of this trope to see Yuuka's abuse of Tokage in an ignorant, positive light.
182	* {{Retcon}}: The Retcon in canon between the PC-98 Touhou Games and the Windows Games is referenced by the potential effects of [[ExpospeakGag Retroactive Space-time Distortion Device]] built by Rikako Asakura.
183	* ReversePsychology: Hatate has to resort to this in her interview with [[CommanderContrarian Seija]].
184	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Hatate treats baby Patricia Hakurei as this, and notably, Reimu herself [[ChildrenAreAWaste doesn't think this is the case at all.]]
185	* RitualMagic: Reimu performed a ritual to [[spoiler:send Mima to Former Hell.]] Even stopping midway through completed the effect.
186	* RobotMaster: Rika builds an 'Evil Eye Omega' battle tank for the ScienceFair covered by Hatate.
187	* RonTheDeathEater: Applied in-universe to Dawitsu and [[OnlySaneMan Kagerou Imaizumi]] by Aya. The former gets treated as a dastardly religious crusader by Aya for ''[[BeingGoodSucks dressing up as Santa and giving gifts to children]]'', and the latter gets treated like a savage moron because she happened to evade the knowledge of Tengu community for so long.
188	* RunningGag: Aya's tendency to smash walls and snort ink, and Hatate coming off as a lesbian accidentally.
189	* SantaClausmas: Dawitsu [[DiscussedTrope discusses this]] in order to show that he's ''not'' trying to introduce Christianity to Gensokyo in order to steal faith, and out and out states that Santa has little to nothing to do with Christianity, and is a commercially fueled character slightly based on the real Saint Nicholas. Aya seems to think that this means Dawitsu wants to invent a ''religion'' of SantaClausmas, but this is [[UnreliableNarrator likely untrue]].
190	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Patchouli begins to feel like one to Yutaka, and is painfully aware of Yutaka's obsession with [[TheNotLoveInterest Not-Love Interest]] Dawitsu.
191	* ScienceFair: Kanako hosts one in the story covering said ScienceFair.
192	* SdrawkcabName: Hatate, when flipped by Seija, becomes 'etataH', and becomes [[IAmVeryBritish a rather posh girl]].
193	* ShapeshiftingSeducer: Nue seems to believe that she is highly attractive due to being able to shapeshift into ''whatever her partner wants''.
194	* ShoutOut: Oddly enough, Nue makes one to [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Tigger's song]] on how the wonderful, wonderful thing about tiggers is he's [[LastOfHisKind the only one]]. Also, Seiga makes a reference to Frankenstein by 'reanimating' Yoshika with electrodes at a ScienceFair. Another subtle one is made to WebAnimation/TomServo3's ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'' [[YouTubePoop Youtube Poops]] in Aya's description of a scene from her MushroomSamba as having crowds of kittens, puppies, cows, and old [[LastSecondWordSwap men]], however, the aforementioned LastSecondWordSwap is averted when [[ItMakesSenseInContext Eirin turns into an Old Sack]]. Another ShoutOut in the MushroomSamba of Chapter 14 is to WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends, as Aya mistakes what is probably Reisen as a blue steam train with a number one on it. In Chapter 15, there's a ShoutOut to ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', in the form of a traumatized Tokage repeating, 'Reek, Reek, it rhymes with [insert word rhyming with Reek here]'. Hebiko references Creator/WilliamShakespeare in Chapter 16,[[SophisticatedAsHell and in the very same chapter]], Dawitsu references Music/{{Beyonce}}'s 'If I were a boy'. Chapter 19 has an allusion to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''[='s=] use of MagikarpPower, as well as involving Minoriko Aki's [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog 'emerald of chaos']].
195	* SilentSnarker: Yukari's Oni Shikigami is both this and TheGadfly to Aya. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted in that she reveals she can speak, but just chooses not to.]]
196	* SmallNameBigEgo: Cirno and Tokage in the 'Dating Service' chapter, and to a lesser extent, Aya overall. As the story goes on, Aya becomes more and more [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] in this regard.
197	* SmallSecludedWorld: Aya seems to think werewolves live in one of these.
198	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: A lot of the interviews have ''some'' form of this.
199	* {{Sonnet}}: Raiko Horikawa submits a sonnet to the poetry competition in Chapter 16, and 'cheats' by dropping the occasional syllable. In fact, due to her rhythm-based powers in {{Canon}}, [[PostModernism the subject of the poem is all about keeping to the beat structure of a sonnet]].
200	* TheSpeechless: Yukari's Oni Shikigami. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Except when she isn't.]]]]
201	* {{Squee}}: Hatate has a tendency to do this, ''especially so'' in Chapter 20, where she founds out Reimu has an (adopted) baby, and does nothing but squee over the baby the entire time despite [[ChildrenAreAWaste Reimu and others pointing out how hard it is to raise a child.]]
202	* StalkerWithACrush / StalkerWithoutACrush: Aya may be one or the other. Dawitsu seems to imply that he thinks she's the former, however, Aya seems to have an attitude that would claim she's the latter. Regardless of what motivates her, she ''has'' stalked Dawitsu to find out what dastardly, horrible antics he was up to...
203	* StealthInsult: Aya ''tries'' this on Kagerou, however, Kagerou easily notices and slips in some genuine instances of this trope to Aya herself.
204	* TheStoic: Point-five.
205	* SurpriseParty: For Reimu's twentieth birthday, Suika, Marisa, Jean, Dawitsu, and eventually Hatate get in on a plot to make Reimu go out to investigate an ([[AllThereInTheManual actually in earnest according to Deviant Art works]]) apparently false incident, while they prepare a surprise party. Reimu's response [[MegatonPunch is to punch Dawitsu unconscious]].
206	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Hatate's denial of stalking Youmu Konpaku, Aya's denial that she has a crush on Dawitsu. Also, Yuuka's denial of he abuse of Tokage, to quote, 'Whatever are you implying? That I kidnapped Tokage, tortured her and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire attempted to force a new identity known as Reek upon her]], and have taken her with me into a half-deadly sunflower patch to let her wounds sting in the pollen-filled air?'
207	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Mima apparently 'slimed ectoplasm into [Reimu's] soup' as a prank.
208	* TakeThat: Chapter 21 has one to modern humanity, with Aya talking about how 'most outsiders taste a little smoky, and some are full of salt and fat'.
209	* TakeThatKiss: Aya delivers one to Minoriko Aki while mocking her relentlessly.
210	* ThatLiarLies: [[HypocriticalHumor Ironically]], ''Aya'' accuses ''Dawitsu'' of this.
211	* TheIlluminati: According to Remilia Scarlet, they're merely an organized group of werewolves that gathered in their struggles against vampires.
212	* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Akyuu references this trope, saying that while she keeps her [[PastLifeMemories previous reincarnations' memories]], her personality changes with each body.
213	* ThinkNothingOfIt: Jean doesn't seem to think there's anything weird about remembering Koishi Komeiji, and doesn't consider himself particularly special because of it, and is rather confused at the idea that others forget her as soon as she leaves their sight.
214	* ThereWasADoor: Reimu [[RunningGag once again]] chastises Aya for breaking her wall instead of entering via door.
215	* TokenEvilTeammate: Hemi is this to the half-ghosts, bordering on {{Flanderization}} compared to her [[FlatCharacter initial characterization]].
216	* TomTheDarkLord: The mentioned 'Corey' in Chapter 21 is clearly someone evil enough to take control of Rumia and force her to ill her own friends, and Aya even bursts into laughter at the idea that someone so evil could be named 'Corey'.
217	* TookALevelInJerkass: Hemi, Aya, and Minoriko.
218	* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Hatate votes for [[FunWithPalindromes Seija's poem]] according to her note on Chapter 16, not because of its palindromic nature, but because '[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Abstract art is like, so intellectual!]]'
219	* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: [[FromNobodyToNightmare Minoriko Aki's]] new title is 'Minoriko Aki, Goddess of the Harvest, Seasons, and the Flow of Time itself.'
220	* {{Tsundere}}: Aya has a moment in her interview with Dawitsu, temporarily softening to him when he asks if they are friends, before instantly switching back to accusing him of being a religious crusader. Also, Reimu is still this in spades, seemingly even having a soft spot for ''Mima'' deep down in her heart. Hemi is also one to Youmu, coupling with HypocriticalHeartwarming.
221	* UnknownCharacter: Werewolves are a whole species of them to the tengu.
222	* UnreliableNarrator: Aya, so, so much. Hatate at times, as well.
223	* UnsexySadist: Yuuka, as of Chapter 15. Despite the general comic feel of the fanfic, either the writer delved too little into BlackComedy, or bypassed comedy altogether for Yuuka, as reviewers noted that Yuuka's actions disturbed them, feeling sorry for her victim, [[AssholeVictim Tokage]].
224	* VagueAge: All of the Canon Characters that take part in the Dating Service give very vague answers with regards to their age.
225	* ValleyGirl: Hatate even ''types'' like a ValleyGirl. Strangely enough, though, she's ''far'' from TheDitz, and is at times far smarter than Aya.
226	* WalkingShirtlessScene: One of Tokage's excessive demands of what is ''required'' in her ideal man.
227	* WeaksauceWeakness: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with werewolves' weakness to Wolfsbane- as the flower ''is'' poisonous to humans in a high enough dosage. Played straight with their weakness to silver.
228	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Various suggested names for Patricia Hakurei included 'Jackie Hakurei' (suggested by [[PungeonMaster Dawitsu]]), 'Marisa Hakurei' (suggested by [[{{Narcissist}} Marisa]]), 'Sake Hakurei, Wine Hakurei, and Vodka Hakurei' (suggested by [[TheAlcoholic Suika]]) and 'Reimu Hakurei' (suggested by Reimu herself).
229	* WhosYourDaddy: Referenced, but [[AvertedTrope averted]] with Patricia- while ''both'' her biological parents are unknown, Reimu, nor anyone else, really care, though Marisa does use it as an opportunity to jokingly claim Jean is the father.
230	* [[ManChild Woman Child]]: Aya is one, as [[ValleyGirl Hatate]] of all people lampshades.
231	* WorthyOpponent: Aya views Akyuu as a worthy competitor with the Tengu in terms of information gathering, and seems desperate to be respected by her.
232	* YesMan: Akyuu accuses Aya of being an ass-kisser to make up for accidentally insulting her.
233	* YouNoTakeCandle: Aya talks to Kagerou like this, assuming she's a tribal moron.

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