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Lady Starwing commenting on how she came up with the idea: So I was sitting around one day, browsing through The Other Wiki on Fire Emblem when I noticed something. The world for the Fire Emblem 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. 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.

Everything Into Darkness is a Crossover between Persona 3 and the Fire Emblem Elibe duology (Binding Blade and Blazing Blade), written by Lady Starwing. The story kicks off in a timeline that has both of the protagonists of Persona 3 exist as siblings where things go Off the Rails 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 gate that unleashes dragons from Elibe upon Iwatodai while dragging most of Persona 3's playable cast into Elibe. Suffice to say it doesn't have prospects of being a fun experience for SEES.


Spoilers for both games will NOT BE MARKED in the tropes below.

Tropes for Everything Into Darkness include:

  • Apocalypse How: 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 STARTS with a Class 0 Apocalypse underway; if things aren't brought under control, it can escalate to a Class 3-Class 5.
  • Bilingual Dialogue: Admittedly one rendered with a Translation Convention, 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.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Renault gets a downplayed one when he saves Ken from Morphs.
    • Theodore gets one in the first chapter when he saves Shinjiro from being eaten by the dragon he's fighting.
  • Crossover: As if the summary didn't make that part clear.
  • Family-Unfriendly Death: As much as he deserved it, getting eaten by a dragon was probably not a nice way for Takaya to go.
    • 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
      • Selene helped; of the two bandits that didn't die from hitting Shinjiro's Berserk Button, she trampled him and apparently broke his spine.
    • As of chapter five, Ikutsuki has joined the 'Gets Eaten by a Dragon' club.
  • Family-Unfriendly Violence: To be fair, he was nearly eaten himself, but Shinjiro stabbing the same dragon from above in the mouth probably counts; the author did put the rating as M for Violence and safety…
    • 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.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Yukari and Jin of all people, starting in chapter five. Almost literally too.
  • From Bad to Worse: 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 Language Barrier in place …
  • Ghost City: 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.
  • Here There Were Dragons: Of the Giant Flyer/Fiery Salamander variation. Goddammit Ikutsuki!
  • Language Barrier: 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.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade came out in 2003 and Persona 3 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 Let's Play has been viewed. Save for when she turns the spoilers on their heads. Or just outright ignores them.
  • Major Injury Underreaction: Ermm... Takaya? A dragon just bit off your arm. How are you still standing there taunting Shinjiro and Ken without noticing this!?
  • Moe Couplet: Fuuka and Florina. Fiora even comments on it.
    Fiora: Well, I'll be, Florina. You have a kindred spirit.
  • No-Sell: Apparently "Repel/Absorb Fire" status on a Persona includes dragon fire.
    • And so does Medea's passive shielding ability.
  • Run or Die: 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.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: What the dragons amount to as far as SEES and Ikutsuki are concerned, not that it stops the latter from unleashing them.
  • Super-Persistent Predator: The fire dragon mentioned above from eating Takaya. It had no real reason to go after Shinjiro and Ken, who were trying to retreat when it ate the poor bastard, but it chased after them anyway. Through Iwatodai. While a specific starting location isn't fully given, they wind up at NAGANAKI SHRINE.

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