Line #170 FanFic/TheAdventuresOfKikoFluffyPants


1	''The Adventures of Kiko Fluffy Pants'' is a [[{{Satire}} satirical]] DarkFic for the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' universe. Not quite AlternateUniverse, but it takes a BroadStrokes stance on the official canon, rewrites over the {{Plot Hole}}s in the game, and otherwise fills out the universe with an "ironic realism". With a heavy emphasis on character development and a defiant attitude towards the fantasy cliches ''Kingdom Hearts'' is built around, it is, if nothing else, a very ''different'' story than one is accustomed to and is better treated as something closer to original fiction.
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3	The story centers around viewpoint character and AudienceSurrogate Emily Tennenbaum, an insecure BrattyTeenageDaughter taking the brunt of puberty and bullying. As a fifteen year old high school student, Emily reacts to her social outcast status by writing [[{{Escapism}} escapist]] {{Self Insert Fic}}s casting herself as Kiko, the [[RelationshipSue all-special girlfriend]] of Riku. After a barrage of mockery that manages to hit that very soft spot, her day doesn't look it could possibly get any worse...
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5	...except it does. Of course. Given that people aren't keen to read a ''Kingdom Hearts'' fanfic where it's just used as a topic of conversation and obsession, she gets unceremoniously tossed into the universe with [[TookALevelInBadass only just enough levels in badass]] not to be completely helpless. From there, through a combination of prophetic dreams and a protective precognitive ability that does just enough to preserve her life, she finds herself unwittingly drafted into Mickey's army via a [[SuperheroSchool military academy specifically seeking out and training new heroes]]. Thus begins an epic... sort of.
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7	The story has 88 chapters totaling over 450,000 words, with the opening 4 rewritten due to quality concerns. Plans [[AllThereInTheManual buried deep on the author's supplemental website]] aim to rewrite earlier chapters up to an unspecified point where "it stops sucking". As such, beginning readers might want to keep in mind that early chapters are a bit rough, but [[SlowPacedBeginning later chapters improve on the story]].
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9	Also, unlike a lot of creators both amateur and professional, the author actively reads and encourages feedback; especially negative feedback. The only real guideline is to note that the story is satirizing the kind of people that might give in to [[FandomHeresy Purist Rage]], so odds are pretty good that yelling at the author exclusively for violating canon or unspoken rules of conduct for FanFic writing will just be [[{{Troll}} given a private laugh at their expense]] and ignored. Otherwise, anything goes, no comments are ever deleted, and changes have been made based on suggestions in the past.
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11	The entire story can be found on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4403156/1/ FanFiction.Net]], [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/163355/chapters/237379 Archive of Our Own]], [[http://kh.never-wake-up.net/viewstory.php?sid=599 Never Wake Up]], and [[http://etherealmutation.webs.com/meta.rtf as a raw RTF from the author's neglected website]], with plans to upload it on Media Miner and other sites given time for proper formatting. Feel free to send suggestions for other hosting options.
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13	'''Note:''' Most of this work page was [[ShamelessSelfPromotion written by the author]] and [[strike:may]] most definitely contains advertising-based weaseling and/or violations of DeathOfTheAuthor. Feel free to remove this tag after the article is given some alternate perspective.
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19	!!This serial provides examples of:
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21	%%As a general guideline: things that are part of the "universe physics" and aren't plot points past chapter 34 or so go here%%
22	* ActionSurvivor: Emily is evokative of this while believing herself to be an ActionGirl.
23	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Invoked multiple times both through Emily's interpretations of various characters and as a basis for the work itself.
24	* AntiHero: Emily is an unmitigated loser with a total lack of social ability and an inability to grasp many major concepts, but otherwise at least tries to act morally.
25	* AscendedFangirl: Although over time, this turns out to not be such a good thing after all.
26	* BeigeProse: Sort of. The intended style is to make the action clear while leaving the themes and subtleties implied.
27	* BlackComedy: Mostly when the topic of [[WorldGoneMad Discord]] comes up.
28	%%* ButtMonkey: Emily.
29	* CasualInterstellarTravel: While it's not as blatant as the game series, two day travel times across the galaxy is still pretty damn casual.
30	* CharacterShield: Emily's precognitive ability basically translates to a DoubleSubversion of this, showing both all the senseless ways she can die while then avoiding them.
31	* TheCorruption: Riku's affinity with the darkness. He can draw great amounts of power from it, but at great risk.
32	%%* CovertPervert: Emily at first.
33	%%* CuteMonsterGirl: Chou.
34	* {{Doorstopper}}: Over 400,000 words and counting[[note]]FanFiction.Net includes HTML formatting in its word count and is not reliable[[/note]].
35	%%* DramaticEllipsis: Admittedly overused recurring element.
36	%%* FanGirl: Emily.
37	%%* {{Filler}}: An author-admitted problem of early chapters.
38	%%* FishOutOfWater
39	* TheFullNameAdventures: Or full pseudonym adventures, anyway.
40	* GenreRoulette
41	* GunsAkimbo: Subverted. Emily is generally equipped with two handguns, but the rare times she has used them simultaneously have had a marked decrease in accuracy.
42	* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Emily's self-indulgent fan-fiction.
43	* HollywoodHealing: It's given a lampshade hanging as part of the "celestial tint" set of action hero "powers".
44	* HowUnscientific: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in chapter 4. Emily believes guns to be completely out of place in the universe just to be proven wrong.
45	* HugeSchoolgirl: Emily sometimes laments over her perceived lack of femininity/attractiveness due to her height of 5'9".
46	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Emily.
47	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Chapter titles are usually obtuse puns or ironic jokes of what happens within. It's near impossible to guess the plot based only on chapter titles. Chapters 13, 42, and 69 are direct references to their numbers.
48	* TheIngenue: Chou.
49	* LesYay: Not quite ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' or Creator/{{CLAMP}} levels, but it's a recurring element. Largely between Emily and Chou, but also with a later character.
50	* MagicVersusScience: A recurring element.
51	* MetaFiction: Emily comes from the "real world" (although it's heavily implied to be an AlternateDimension with a very close approximation) where ''Kingdom Hearts'' is a video game series and bases a lot of her decisions around what she thinks is "right" in that series. This element dissipates over time.
52	* MildlyMilitary: The Radiant Garden Academy for Exceptional People has no official dress code, but some instructors apparently make a point of demonstrating how impractical certain outfits are.
53	* MisaimedFandom: In-universe usage with Emily's misinterpretation of Riku's original canon personality. Debatably also her gravitation towards the group Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge.
54	%%* ModestRoyalty: King Mickey.
55	%%* {{Moe}}: Evoked (and potentially subverted) with Chou.
56	* NarrativeFiligree: TheLawOfConservationOfDetail was thrown out the window right from the start.
57	%%* TheNicknamer: Simon.
58	* NobodyPoops: Averted. There are a few mentions of having to go to the bathroom in order to maintain realism, but it's not too common.
59	* PerverseSexualLust: Emily's feelings for Riku.
60	* PowersAsPrograms: Everyone that gets drawn into the ''Kingdom Hearts'' universe through the "Celestial Transfer" system is given a set of skills and abilities based on their personality and individual negotiation.
61	* PsychicPowers: Emily's preservation precognition, although it is uncontrolled and notoriously unreliable.
62	* ReferenceOverdosed: Lots and lots of songs get referenced both directly and indirectly. Plenty of other pop-culture as well.
63	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: So very, very far on the cynical end.
64	* SuperheroSchool: The Radiant Garden Academy for Exceptional People, although it takes unempowered individuals as well.
65	* ThemeNaming: The most prominent people from Discord are named after failed American presidential candidates (Michael) Dukakis, (Walter) Mondale, and (Barry) Goldwater.
66	* ThisLoserIsYou: "Meet Emily Tennenbaum, a girl just like you."
67	%%* TrappedInAnotherWorld
68	* UncertainAudience: It was always intended as a fringe project [[DoingItForTheArt not really intended to pander to anyone]].
69	* UnreliableNarrator: The third person limited narrator generally agrees with Emily about everything.
70	* WrongGenreSavvy: Emily at first cast herself as one of the heroes and believes the tropes to the games to apply to her just as much as anyone else. She eventually settles in her role as a sidekick (if even that).
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72	%%This section division is for experimental purposes and to combat trope section bloat. Feel free to merge with the above if this is a no-no.%%
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74	* AbusivePrecursors: Turns out they were motivated by racial superiority.
75	* AmbiguousGender: Chou is referred to as a Feylinus "prince". Since Feylinus don't conform to traditional binary gender, it's rather arbitrary what gender pronoun is used. Blue and white uses this as an intimidation tactic and their chapter leaders are all given new female bodies regardless of current gender and discouraged from talking about what they once were.
76	* AntiAntiChrist: The black clad girl.
77	* ApocalypseMaiden: The girl in black was brought into the universe to act as this for the precursors. It... didn't work out quite right, but she's still tied to her role.
78	* UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome: Name-dropped in a few chapters, but it's not made that big a deal.
79	* BadassBystander: Chapter 39 has a clerk that manages to beat her way out of Riku's grasp when he tried to rescue her.
80	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chou... sort of. Despite her sunny exterior, she doesn't flinch at spilling first blood against the Heartless.
81	%%* BioAugmentation: Axel's specialty.
82	* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The Feylinus are very, very far from traditional biology.
83	* BlackAndGreyMorality: While those that use the Heartless are all basically irredeemable assholes, Mickey isn't really much of a dandy on his policies, either (for example, his willingness to employ {{Child Soldier}}s and the criminal underground towards his goals).
84	%%* BreakTheCutie: Chou back at the Feylinus nest.
85	* TheCasanova: Simon, although it turns out to be because of his "[[LovePotion magic beer goggle cologne]]" (as Mint put it) that causes most women to flock to him and is implied to be [[PowerIncontinence impossible to shut off]].
86	* ColdSniper: Due to conditioning and the general hopelessness of the universe, Emily shifts more and more towards this over time.
87	* CosmicPlaything: Made official when the CelestialBureaucracy flat out states that things are so inefficient because they find entertainment value in it.
88	* CrapsackWorld: Turns out the ''Kingdom Hearts'' universe is a rather bleak and depressing place.
89	%%* DarkIsNotEvil: The black clad girl.
90	* DoingInTheWizard: Invoked in-universe by Axel when he quotes a speech Xehanort would give to all prospective employees.
91	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Or, rather, being fed specially designed dreams to make things come true.
92	* ElegantGothicLolita: Half of the black clad girl's design motif (complete with [[PetitePride flat chest]]).
93	* TheEmpire: The Daeh Yeo Mar Empire. Oddly enough, despite their use of a FantasticCasteSystem, they're one of the friendlier groups out there with minor CargoCult tendencies towards the human race.
94	* EnigmaticMinion: The black clad girl.
95	* EvilMatriarch: Invoked with Julia, who is physically described as an idyllic mother figure.
96	* FacelessGoons: Blue and white's standard uniforms all obscure their faces. Not entirely a straight usage since the very first introduced troopers are clearly portrayed as [[PunchClockVillain regular people]] [[PrivateMilitaryContractors just in it for the money]].
97	* FallenAngel: The other half of the black clad girl's design motif.
98	* FantasticRacism: Although what the Daeh Yeo Mar Empire and its species represents is anyone's guess.
99	* FantasticSlurs: "Birds" for Yeo. This would be similar to calling a human an "ape".
100	* FeelNoPain: One of the effects of becoming a Nobody is losing all sensation.
101	* ForTheEvulz: Invoked by the narration in regards to Maleficent. While [[TakeOverTheWorld Universal Domination]] is stated a few times, the narration points out that she doesn't really seem like the type to want it. Her actual motives still remain undetailed.
102	* GasChamber: In the form of an elevator at blue and white's Amaterasu headquarters. Axel finds himself snared in one during the failed overthrow attempt and if he hadn't been saved as an afterthought by the black-clad girl, it probably would have worked, too.
103	* {{Gendercide}}: One of the BlackComedy tales of Discord involves a mad scientist that invents a DepopulationBomb and, needing a place to test it, indiscriminately detonates it on a random planet.
104	%%* GoodCopBadCop: Sora and Riku use this at times.
105	%%* GrayingMorality
106	* HeelFaceTurn: Goldwater... sort of. She was always forced to work with Maleficent and company under duress, so she practically leaped at the chance to be "captured".
107	* HeroicSacrifice: Sora does this when faced with Darkside appears on Zima. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]].
108	* HiveCasteSystem: The Feylinus.
109	* HopeSpot: Axel thought he found a way to destroy blue and white. Turns out it was just bait and their very nature makes them incredibly difficult to overcome.
110	* HopelessWar: If the black-clad girl is to be believed, then the universe is caught in an endless cyclic process of destruction and reconstruction marked by constant power shifts and countless deaths at the hands of the Heartless.
111	* IAmLegion: The phrase is sarcastically dropped by a disgruntled blue and white mercenary.
112	* IKnowYourTrueName: Brought up as a concern for celestial transfers, but nothing really comes of it. Proven meaningless when Julia uses this as little more than a way of intimidating Emily and the black-clad girl.
113	* IgnorantOfTheCall: Possibly Emily.
114	* ImmuneToBullets: Perhaps not literally, but Mint's abilities and conditioning make guns basically worthless against her. Julia has a personal force field that is literally this.
115	* ItGetsEasier: Emily goes from having a minor breakdown from her first hot-blooded, mostly-instinctive kill to not even flinching as she commits a CoupDeGrace on a disarmed mercenary that was talking about his family life and firing at an (apparently) unarmed woman a few times.
116	* KidsAreCruel
117	* KnightTemplar: Blue and white intentionally designed themselves around this idea.
118	* LightIsNotGood: Lightside Heartless are shown to be just as ruthless and destructive as their dark counterparts. The only real consolation is that they aren't violent until provoked (which is apparently quite easy to do).
119	* LoopholeAbuse: The black-clad girl uses this to both fend off the ancient contract and prevent her loyalty from being claimed by Julia.
120	* LossOfIdentity: One of the mentioned side effects of the celestial transfer system, starting with the refusal of most to use their real name.
121	* MadScientist: Discord has a whole slew of the batshit insane type. Organization XIII (Xemnas Corp.), while mostly rational and incredibly successful (although it's bluntly stated they employed extensive corporate espionage), can definitely be considered this as well.
122	* MadeOfIron: The black-clad girl hits the ground at terminal velocity after having a good swathe of her wings torn off. She turns out perfectly okay.
123	* MagicFromTechnology: The keyblades are technology remnants from an ancient civilization.
124	* {{Magitek}}: Uina's machinery, with that exact name. Whether or not it has anything to do with the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' canon is left to the readers to decide.
125	* MineralMacGuffin: The six prismatic cores. Heartless Prime cores can perhaps also be considered this, but
126	* MoralityChain: Sora, Kairi, and Chou to Riku. His outbursts all tie to perceived harm or wrongdoing to them and one phophetic vision showed him willing to give in to the darkness witnessing Chou's death.
127	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Nothing good can ever happen on a planet named "Discord".
128	* NeverFoundTheBody: Last Xion was seen, she was heavily wounded and bleeding to death. Then she vanished while "off-camera" for a few minutes. Her fate is still uncertain, although it's hinted off-hand by the black-clad girl that she really is dead.
129	* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: The black-clad girl.
130	* NoNameGiven: The black-clad girl for most of her tenure. The informally nicknamed "blue and white" is intentionally this as part of their philosophy.
131	* OneGenderRace: While still human, one particular ethnicity is entirely female because of a DepopulationBomb killing all the men.
132	* PlanetOfHats: While each world has a theme, only the MadScientist haven of Discord can really be considered as such.
133	* PowerArmor: Blue and white tech troopers. Axel and company also employed some sets during said group's invasion of Twilight Town, but they don't hold up very well.
134	* PragmaticVillainy: Despite her apparent sadism, Mint scoffs at orders to mutilate Kairi because she'll (supposedly) be dead in a few minutes, anyway. She doesn't put up much of a fight when Maleficent insists, though.
135	* PsychicLink: Emily and the black-clad girl.
136	* PsychoLesbian: Regardless her original gender, Julia is a woman that uses her unwanted sexual advances as a method of mentally tormenting Emily. This was only used as a provocation tactic as proven by her dismissive order to an underling to kill Emily once her real target presents herself.
137	* PunchClockVillain: The first two FacelessGoons introduced are these.
138	* PureIsNotGood: Julia is explained to be "pure of heart" even though she's also "amoral" and "vicious" at the same time. Xehanort is indirectly stated to have been this as well.
139	* SadistTeacher: Michael Selacia could be considered this by people with rather strict behavior standards and a belief that the ends don't justify the means. Along with his introduction where he preys on Emily's insecurity by talking about (but not actually reading aloud) her smutty fanfiction during class, he also intentionally
140	* SealedEvilInACan: Subverted with the unnamed black clad girl. While she's presented as such, she doesn't really aim to destroy anything.
141	* SenselessSacrifice: Possibly Simon. He ends up getting killed off-screen on Mount Olympus in a battle against either Mint (who turns up later without any injury) or a Lightside Prime (it's left unspecified which got him in the end).
142	* TheSpeechless: Mondale.
143	* TakingTheBullet: Xion ends up unintentionally doing this.
144	* TeensAreMonsters
145	* ToThePain: Chapter 61.
146	* UnwantedRescue: Riku tries to rescue a clerk. Unfortunately, she didn't know she was in danger at the time...
147	* UnPerson: While this is the exact term used for Axel, it's closer to DeathFakedForYou and a form of WitnessProtection.
148	* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Blue and white. Not entirely straight in that unlike most cases, they fought ''for'' freedom of speech rather than ''against'' it, but they're still unapologetic about about their mass slaughter and other intimidation tactics.
149	* WholesomeCrossdresser: One chapter has Emily disguise herself as Riku to prevent a possible future. Not only does it not hold up under any sort of scrutiny, but it doesn't even disguise her gender.
150	* WindFromBeneathMyWings: The Wyvern in chapter 28.
151	* WingedHumanoid: Axel's grand plan is to revolutionize the universe by giving everybody functional wings.
152	* WorldGoneMad: Discord.
153	* YouCantFightFate: Discussed. It appears the only way to fight fate is not to know about it in the first place.

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