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4This was originally intended to be a trope page for a single story, but as time passed new stories were written and, completely unexpectedly, tropes were used in them too. So this page now serves as a folder for tropes used in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanfiction written by {{Tropers/Vrock8}}. The page picture is for the “Snack Tour”.
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6[[AuthorCatchphrase Let’s begin.]]
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10[[folder: Yuyuko’s Wonderful Midnight Snack Tour]]
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12''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6930577/1/Yuyukos_Wonderful_Midnight_Snack_Tour Yuyuko’s Wonderful Midnight Snack Tour]]'' is a pretty faithful DarkerAndEdgier adaptation of the ghost team scenario of Imperishable Night.
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14It focuses mostly on misadventures of Youmu and Yuyuko, as they blast through the stages, engage in philosophical conversations with bosses [[BlatantLies and explore the forbidden love that blooms between them.]]
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16!Tropes used in ''Yuyuko’s Wonderful Midnight Snack Tour'':
17* AllThereInTheManual: The nature of Yuyuko’s powers, character backstories, the events of “Perfect Cherry Blossom”…
18* AndIMustScream: {{Homage}}d, referenced and played straight with [[spoiler: Myon and Kaguya.]]
19* ApocalypseHow: Class 4, as part of the ending. [[spoiler: [[ItWasAllJustADream It was all just an elaborate illusion]]]] Or was it?
20%%* BlindedByTheLight
21%%* BloodierAndGorier
22%%* BreakTheCutie: Youmu.
23* BreakTheHaughty: A lot of opponents the ghost team faces consider themselves better than them. Unfortunately for them, the story is a transcript of an [[EasyModeMockery Easy Mode playthrough]].
24%%* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Yuyuko ''will'' play her ultimate prank, oh yes she will]]
25* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The story doesn’t cover the extra stage. [[MemeticMutation Isn’t it sad, Mokou?]]
26%%* CrapsaccharineWorld: Welcome to Gensokyo!
27%%* DiagonalCut
28%%* DissonantSerenity: Yuyuko
29* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Marisa does this to Youmu. [[SubvertedTrope It was a]] [[PlayedForLaughs joke.]]]]
30%%* EasyAmnesia: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded.]]
31* {{Flashback}}: The story is only around sixty pages long, and it still crams plenty of those into the last chapter.
32* FromASingleCell: Implied with Eirin. Played straight with [[spoiler: Wriggle]] in the Omake/True End.
33%%* GainaxEnding: Complete with an obligatory ShoutOut to ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion.]]''
34%%* GoryDiscretionShot: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] with [[spoiler: Keine.]]
35%%* {{Gorn}}: Usually [[OncePerEpisode once per stage.]]
36* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Youmu snaps at the end of Stage 5.]]
37%%* {{Homage}}: Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream
38%%* IAmAHumanitarian: Yuyuko
39* ImagineSpot: Youmu has extremely vivid imagination.
40%%* ItWasAllJustADream: [[spoiler: The beginning of stage 6.]]
41%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Mystia, Keine and Reisen.]]
42%%* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Wriggle]]
43* MadnessMantra: ...''rabbits are making cookies on the moon''...
44* NoodleIncident: The events of “Perfect Cherry Blossom” are referenced as such.
45%%* OhCrap: Multiple times, mostly by Youmu.
46* PleaseWakeUp combined with SwissArmyTears: The heavily shellshocked Youmu does this to [[spoiler: unconscious Yuyuko. PlayedForLaughs]]
47* PrecisionFStrike: By the end of the story, Youmu have had just about enough of Yuyuko’s morbid jokes.
48* PsychoticSmirk: Called by its trope name.
49%%* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The wishbone.]]
50* ResetButton: [[spoiler: Used as a radical method to boot up Youmu after her HeroicBSOD.]]
51* SeenItAll: Yuyuko, to the point of being bored out of her mind during heated danmaku battles. The only thing that genuinely manages to surprise her is Wriggle.
52%%* ShoutOut: A lot, including to [[Website/TVTropes this very wiki.]]
53%%* SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: Semipermeable.
54%%* SongFic: Parodied in the second stage.
55%%* SuperPowerMeltdown: This is how [[spoiler: Eirin]] is defeated.
56%%* TapOnTheHead: Energy version.
57%%* TemptingFate
58%%* TitleDrop
59%%* TheUndead: Played straight with Yuyuko.
60* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Yuyuko during the final battle, a case of AllThereInTheManual]]
61* VillainousBreakdown: Eirin has quite an epic one. Almost quoting the Anti-Spiral from [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann TTGL]] helps.
62%%* VillainProtagonist: Yuyuko
63%%* VomitIndiscretionShot
64%%* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Lampshaded. It doesn’t make it any less sad, though.
65%%* WriterOnBoard: Hell yeah.
66[[/folder]]
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68[[folder: Touhou Death Files: Reimu Hakurei]]
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70[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7022541/1/Touhou_Death_Files_Reimu_Hakurei Touhou Death Files: Reimu Hakurei]] is a story about Reimu coming down with a mysterious disease that causes her to cough up blood. Marisa does her best to save her, contacting Eirin and other powerful beings of Gensokyo.
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72!Tropes used in “Touhou Death Files: Reimu Hakurei”:
73%%* TheBadGuyWins
74* BloodFromTheMouth: Reimu, by a point, when her coughing can't be dismissed a cold. Also, [[spoiler: Marisa]] when Kanako crushes her.
75* TheChessmaster: Kanako, as revealed in "Unsigned Letters". [[spoiler: See, Kanako has this plan to take over Gensokyo and was very aware that Reimu wouldn't just hand over power/control (especially since her life is tied to border) and so arranged things to fall in her favor by feeding Okuu the yatagarasu, which in turn led to the events in ''Subterranean Animism'', thus leading to the confrontation with Reimu, which didn't go as well as Kanako would have thought but, oh well, Reimu got lung cancer. And these plans extended into the afterlife as she has Komachi toss Reimu into the Sanzu.]] As for Satori, well, [[spoiler: Kanako mostly manipulated her feelings, until she became an UnwittingPawn]].
76* ClusterFBomb: Eirin swears often.
77--> "Well, fuck me sideways!"
78* [[GovernmentConspiracy Conspiracy]]: In literal words of one of the reviewers: IT'S ALL A BLOODY MORIYA SHRINE CONSPIRACY!
79* DistantFinale: The last few paragraphs of the story take place nearly one hundred years from the main events.
80* DownerEnding: As revealed more in the "Unsigned Letters" chapter, [[spoiler: Reimu's (and Marisa's) death was orchestrated by Kanako and the Moriya Shrine in a bid take over Gensokyo and, well, with both of those two gone, she succeeds]].
81* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: played straight]].
82* FortuneTeller: Remilia reluctantly performs an EXTREME! FORTUNE! READING! for Reimu.
83%%* GodIsEvil: and also an asshole.
84%%* ILied: Kanako. About mostly everything.
85%%* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Between Reimu and Marisa.
86* IncurableCoughOfDeath: A first sign of somethin' wrong with Reimu is that she starts coughing a lot and it gets to the point where she coughs up blood.
87* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Kanako, as Eirin said in her letter, however, she did warn she'd kill Kanako herself if the latter slips up]].
88--->[[spoiler: Fine. You have won, Kanako, you really did. You killed Reimu, Marisa and you are going to get away with it. [...] But know this. The moment you slip, you are dead.]]
89* MercyKill: At one point, Reimu asks Marisa to end her suffering and [[spoiler: Marisa refuses.]] Also, [[spoiler: Utsuho’s]] death may be viewed as one.
90%%* MindRape: Satori does this to Marisa.
91%%* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes
92%%* RedHerring: CT scan results Marisa gets a hold on.
93%%* ShrinkingViolet: Nitori
94* SoapOperaDisease: Averted, as Reimu's disease isn't vague like the usual, it actually has a name, [[spoiler: lung cancer]]
95%%* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Utsuho]] attempts it with Marisa and succeeds.
96%%* TorchesAndPitchforks
97* TheUnreveal: We will never find out whether [[spoiler: hell ravens]] resurrect or not, or whether Kanako really let Aya go or not.
98* {{Unperson}}: The final fate of [[spoiler: Reimu and Marisa]], however, it's more like a CessationOfExistence, as with neither of them in afterlife, they can't reincarnate or whatever but they don't have anyone around to mourn them in the living realm of Gensokyo, thus they get dropped into the Sanzu.
99* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kanako thinks of herself as such. [[spoiler: She ain't]].,
100[[/folder]]
101
102[[folder: Maintenance Override]]
103
104[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7099724/1/Maintenance_Override Maintenance Override]] is a story about an OriginalCharacter, [[MeaningfulName Luxia Tenebria]], the youkai of light and shadows born in Gensokyo. She is cute, and she is evil, and she hears a mysterious voice in her head telling her to do good deeds. So far, the most hateful story.
105!Tropes used in “Maintenance Override”:
106* AudienceSurrogate: Mokou is used as one, lampshading the WhoWritesThisCrap quality of the story.
107* AuthorAvatar: Both Luxia Tenebria and 4564756361746f72 are author avatars.
108%%* AuthorTract, AuthorFilibuster and WriterOnBoard: yes, ALL of them.
109%%* BornInTheWrongCentury: Luxia Tenebria.
110* BrokenAesop: BeYourself [[spoiler: and you will die.]]
111* CherryTapping: [[spoiler: Luxia]] is killed by using two minor glitches in the spell card system.
112* ADayInTheLife: It’s the first happy day of a newly-born youkai! [[spoiler: And the last one.]]
113* DeathIsDramatic: [[spoiler: Luxia asks for a dramatic death in the end. 4564756361746f72 gloats and kills her with an Icicle Fall.]] Whether it is dramatic or not is for the readers to decide.
114%%* DeathSeeker: Luxia, at first.
115* DefeatMeansFriendship: attempted by Cirno, and a favorite tactic of [[spoiler: Reimu]]. Doesn’t work both times.
116%%* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler: 4564756361746f72]] is literally this.
117%%* DontYouDarePityMe: Luxia, in spades.
118%%* DownerEnding: Although if you hated the protagonist, then [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing there will be much rejoicing.]]
119%%* HopeSpot
120%%* HowDoIShotWeb: Luxia.
121* {{Hypocrite}}: 4564756361746f72 claims to be a pure and forgiving creature, but [[spoiler: kills Luxia]] anyway because she damaged his integrity.
122%%* ItsPersonal: Both for Alice and 4564756361746f72.
123* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: 4564756361746f72
124%%* SadistTeacher
125%%* ShoutOut: to [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Meduka_meguca meduka meguka]] of all things.
126* SchmuckBait: both the story and what Luxia sets out for humans, thinking of them as moths.
127[[/folder]]
128
129[[folder: Shards of Obsession]]
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131'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7381187/1/Shards_of_Obsession Shards of Obsession]]'' is a story that recounts the events of the apocalyptic scenario, the events that were brought in motion by [[InNameOnly Pazuzu]] himself.
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133!!Tropes used in ''Shards of Obsession'':
134* AnAesop: DrugsAreBad
135%%* ApocalypseHow: Pazuzu’s plans, when executed properly, eventually lead to Class 6.
136%%* BeatStillMyHeart: Four times.
137* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Because it will come true. At a horrible, unbalanced price.
138* BigNo: When everyone on Marisa’s party imagine Satori naked, she releases one due to SensoryOverload.
139* BookEnds: The last two chapters replay events of the first one
140%%* BreakTheCutie: Nitori and, to a lesser extent, Satori
141%%* ChekhovsGun: Nitori’s experiment.
142* ClimacticBattleResurrection: [[spoiler:except everyone are [[CameBackWrong not as they used to be]] when they come back]]
143%%* TheComicallySerious: Patchouli.
144%%* TheCorrupter: Pazuzu
145%%* CosmicHorrorStory
146%%* DarkIsNotEvil: As revealed at the very end.
147* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Wriggle dies. Nitori goes insane. Everyone else is in some ways damaged or incomplete. And Pazuzu just goes on corrupting more worlds.]]
148%%* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: Reimu]]
149%%* DyingDeclarationofLove: [[spoiler: Marisa and Alice]]
150* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler:Only Daiyousei survives the cycle.]]
151%%* EyeScream
152%%* {{Flashback}}: To the first meeting of Reimu and Marisa.
153%%* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan
154%%* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: Reimu’s creed.
155%%* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: Rumia’s]] death, but the body is shown later.
156%%* KafkaKomedy
157%%* LemonyNarrator combined with UnreliableNarrator: Chapter 9 has one.
158* MadnessMantra: Will you help me?
159* MoodWhiplash: Horror! Humor! Hurt/Comfort!
160%%* OhCrap
161%%* OminousFloatingCastle
162%%* PeggySue: [[spoiler:Nitori.]]
163%%* PleaseWakeUp: played straight.
164* PlotArmor: The [[spoiler: idol of Pazuzu]] is basically covered in battleship-grade armor plates.
165%%* {{Poetry}}
166%%* PsychoticSmirk
167%%* PuppeteerParasite: [[spoiler: Nitori]]
168%%* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: the residents of SDM and Moriya Shrine]]
169%%* PrecisionFStrike: Pazuzu.
170%%* PortalCut: [[spoiler: Ran]] is killed this way.
171%%* ResetButtonEnding
172%%* RotatingArcs
173%%* ShoutOut: Evangelion, Sublustrum, Independence Day, Doyora’s “Bad End”…
174* SingleTear: Satori sheds one from her third eye.
175%%* SelfFulfillingProphecy: All over the place.
176%%* SelfParody
177%%* StrangerBehindTheMask: [[spoiler: Alice]]
178* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: [[spoiler: Hatate]] says this in an attempt to corrupt Sanae.
179%%* TemptingFate: Patchouli, oh so much.
180%%* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill
181%%* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch
182%%* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: for Youmu, at least.
183%%* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Screeching gaps, a {{Homage}} to Doyora’s “Bad End”
184%%* WaveMotionGun
185%%* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Alice]]
186%%* YouCantFightFate
187%%* YouAlreadyChangedThePast

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