Line #9 FanFic/EverythingIntoDarkness


1	-->'''Lady Starwing commenting on how she came up with the idea:''' So I was sitting around one day, browsing through Website/TheOtherWiki on VideoGame/FireEmblem when I noticed something. The world for the Franchise/FireEmblem Elibe games is named "Ereb" in Japan. "Ereb" is a corruption of "Erebus", the Primordial Greek God of Darkness and the guy who punishes the worst sinners. [[spoiler: He is also the final boss in Persona 3: FES.]] My brain got to working on 'Hey what would happen if I kicked the Persona 3 cast onto Elibe for shits and giggles?' And, well ... I wasn't expecting the dark turn it took, but I am '''not''' complaining.
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4	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9997205/1/Everything-Into-Darkness Everything Into Darkness]]'' is a {{Crossover}} between ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' Elibe duology (''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Binding Blade]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Blade]]''), written by Tropers/LadyStarwing. The story kicks off in a timeline that has both of the protagonists of ''Persona 3'' exist as siblings where things go OffTheRails shortly before the infamous October 4th scene of the game's plot via one of the game's major antagonists deciding to crack open a [[SealedEvilInACan gate that unleashes]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons from Elibe]] upon Iwatodai while dragging most of ''Persona 3's'' playable cast into Elibe. Suffice to say [[FromBadToWorse it doesn't have prospects of being a fun experience for SEES.]]
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8	Spoilers for both games will NOT BE MARKED in the tropes below.
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10	!!Tropes for Everything Into Darkness include:
11	* ApocalypseHow: Ikutsuki's had plans for this from the start due to wanting to bring about the Fall. Having SEES slay the twelve arcana shadows was just taking too long, so he brought in dragons. The story [[FromBadToWorse STARTS]] with a Class 0 Apocalypse underway; if things aren't brought under control, it can escalate to a Class 3-Class 5.
12	* BilingualDialogue: Admittedly one rendered with a TranslationConvention, but barring a few of the party members, SEES cannot speak the language of Elibe, which is mentioned in the narration to be a blend of Italian and Latin to their ears. The three party members who can speak it are Mitsuru, Aigis, and Shinjiro; the former two speak Latin, earning comments that they sound several centuries old, and the latter speaking Spanish, and is commented upon having a very strange accent and doesn't understand as much of the language as the other two do.
13	** EloquentInMyNativeTongue: The resulting effect of said language barrier on SEES.
14	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Renault gets a downplayed one when he saves Ken from Morphs.]]
15	** [[spoiler: Theodore]] gets one in the first chapter when [[spoiler: he saves Shinjiro from being eaten by the dragon he's fighting.]]
16	* {{Crossover}}: As if the summary didn't make that part clear.
17	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: As much as he deserved it, getting eaten by a dragon was probably not a nice way for Takaya to go.
18	** Shinjiro runs into a group of slavers in Chapter 3; needless to say, there's been a berserk button hit, and they don't live to regret it
19	*** Selene helped; of the two bandits that didn't die from hitting Shinjiro's BerserkButton, she trampled him and apparently broke his spine.
20	** As of chapter five, [[spoiler: Ikutsuki]] has joined the 'Gets Eaten by a Dragon' club.
21	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: To be fair, he was nearly eaten himself, but [[spoiler: Shinjiro]] stabbing the same dragon from above in the mouth probably counts; the author did put the rating as M for Violence and safety…
22	** Shinjiro seems to have a knack for this; the bandits he slaughtered didn't exactly have a pretty fate, and there ''were'' children watching. At the same time, he wasn't exactly happy about it either.
23	* FireForgedFriends: Yukari and '''''[[spoiler: Jin]]''''' of all people, starting in chapter five. Almost literally too.
24	* FromBadToWorse: The Dark hour wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. The Dragons made things ''worse'', and then most of S.E.E.S gets shoved through a gate to a new world, where they're not only separated from one another, but with a LanguageBarrier in place …
25	** Of particular note is Hamuko, who was found by the [[JustLikeRobinHood Black]] [[AntiVillain Fang]]. While the fact that they took her in without too many questions doesn't seem ominous at first, [[OhCrap for those who know the plot of]] [[DoomedByCanon Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade …]] '''oh dear'''.
26	* [[spoiler: GhostCity: Iwatodai is heading towards this as of the end of chapter five; there's too many dragons to fight back against efficiently, so they're given the city while the survivors escape elsewhere to try and figure out what to do ... with Yukari and Jin going to Inaba.]]
27	* HereThereWereDragons: Of the GiantFlyer[=/=]FierySalamander variation. '''''Goddammit Ikutsuki!'''''
28	* LanguageBarrier: ''BOY HOWDY''. Barring three party members who somewhat understand the language of Elibe, nobody else in S.E.E.S has a clue what the residents of Elibe are saying to them.
29	* LateArrivalSpoiler: ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' came out in 2003 and ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has been out since 2006; both games are going to have various spoilers in the story, because the author assumes that they have been played/a LetsPlay has been viewed. [[SubvertedTrope Save for when she turns the spoilers on their heads.]] [[DefiedTrope Or just outright ignores them.]]
30	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Ermm... Takaya? A dragon just bit off your arm. ''How are you still standing there taunting Shinjiro and Ken without noticing this!?''
31	* MoeCouplet: Fuuka and Florina. Fiora even [[LampshadeHanging comments on it]].
32	--> '''Fiora''': Well, I'll be, Florina. You have a kindred spirit.
33	* NoSell: Apparently "Repel/Absorb Fire" status on a Persona includes ''dragon fire.''
34	** And so does Medea's passive shielding ability.
35	* RunOrDie: A very appropriate reaction to the situation in Iwatodai as of chapter five; not only are there simply ''too many'' dragons for the - now very limited - defensive fighters to handle, but they seem to be coming straight out of Tartarus. The city is being evacuated of civilians to cities with more defensive capabilities, or places too far off for the dragons to reach quite yet.
36	* SealedEvilInACan: What the dragons amount to as far as SEES and Ikutsuki are concerned, not that it stops the latter from unleashing them.

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