Fanfic / Project Bluefield

This...is more than just our stories.

Project Bluefield is a series of postmodern Massive Multiplayer Crossover fanfiction stories by author Zero Seventeen Bluefield. It follows a group of world-hoppers known as Zeros, as they travel between worlds and record their stories.

Originally started on FanFiction.Net, the series is also being posted on Archive of Our Own here.

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Premise:

Project Bluefield follows the Zeros, a group of mysterious, nonexistent world-hoppers. They have two main goals: record the stories of the various worlds in The Multiverse, and hunt down the Umbral Forms that invade and ravage said worlds.

The first Protagonist's story begins in the year 2010, when another normal human being from Earth is chosen to become a Zero. This "nonexistent individual"—who now goes by 017 "Bluefield"—soon finds himself thrust into an ongoing hunt for monsters that pose a threat to reality.

There are two general arcs of stories: those set between 2010 and 2012, and those set after 2012. Those stories are further split into two parts: Fighting For Nothing, which follows the main story, and Talking About Anything, which are collections of side stories and vignettes. However, the author is currently releasing the stories in Anachronic Order, starting within the more-recent "a.2012" range.

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Stories:

• 2010 through 2012:
  • 2010 > Final Fantasy X
  • 2011 > Magna Carta 2
  • 2012 > Xenoblade Chronicles 1
• a.12 (after 2012):
  • 2014 > Bravely Default
  • 2014 > Fire Emblem: Awakening
    • Fighting For Nothing
    • Talking About Anything
  • 2015 > Xenoblade Chronicles X
  • 2016 > Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation
    • Talking About Anything

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Here's what we know about the tropes that apply to this series so far:

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Tropes A-C

• A Day in the Limelight: The Talking About Anything fics tend to do this.
• A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll": The Ashen Wolves pull this with a concert in Ylisstol, performing songs like "Stardust" by FreQuency (one of the many awesome tracks from the Armored Core series).
• A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Subverted Trope. Neither Bluefield nor Trey take the lead for their fellow Zeros.

• Afraid of Their Own Strength
• After-Action Patch-Up: Kyoku gives one to Maribelle after the latter takes a nasty blow to the head in a skirmish.
• Alien Sky: Discussed. In Ylisse, Trey talks with Frederick about how the night sky of this world differs from the last one.
• All There in the Manual: Well, the Zeros' bios are, at least. Any humans, Shells, and Immortals and so forth don't have that. Yet.
• Almighty Janitor: The Zeros.
• Alone in a Crowd: Dreyza takes a rest in Ylisse, and observing the Ylisseans passing by.
• All There in the Manual: The essential information about the (plot-relevant) Zeros is usually put in footnotes on the first chapter. This wasn't the case, initially.
• The Alliance: In Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, this is "The Coalition", which consists of the royal families of Hoshido and Nohr working alongside the Shell Armed Forces to suppress the Kingdom of Valla.
• Alternate Continuity:
  • Confirmed with Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, which is an alternate version of the Revelation route.

• An Arm and a Leg: The character Skelena loses one of her legs to an Umbral-possessed Risen.
• Anachronic Order: To the n-th degree. The author began publishing stories in the "after 2012" (also known as "a.12") arc, jumping around afterwards. Also, the Talking About Anything fics follow a more disparate "scene"-based storytelling style, a basic idea that the author got from this video by Extra Credits.
• Annual Title: Project Bluefield 2010, etc.

• Author Avatar:
  • Bluefield serves as one for the author. Maybe.
  • During Fire Emblem: Awakening, the character Skelena serves as one to fellow writer smileplease91, the creator of the drabble collection "A Day In The Life (smileplease91)".
• Beneath Notice: The Zeros to normal people.
• Berserk Button:
  • Never be a threat to Bluefield's friends.
  • Kyoku will give you a verbal dressing-down if you nag him like a kid. Poor Nowi found this out the hard way.
• Beware the Quiet Zeros
• Big Brother Mentor: 017 "Bluefield", to the Ashen Wolves.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: The Zeros aren't exactly good people (hell, they aren't even people); but they are the only things that can give humanity a fighting chance against the Umbrals and Lumenals.
• *Bleep*-dammit!: If a swear word isn't replaced, this usually happens instead.
• Body Motifs:
  • Heads, faces, and eyes.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Inigo and Bluefield, sorta. When Inigo tries to flirt with yet another woman, Blu responds by grabbing the Chivalrous Pervert by the ear and dragging him away, saying, "You're not a very bright individual, are you?"
• Bond Creatures: The Immortals grant their bestial powers to Zeros via a contract. This allows the Zero to take on the physical form and abilities of that Immortal. For example: Bluefield's contract with Endragon grants him a dragon body that he can change to, either completely or partially.
• Bonding over Missing Parents: Trey and Sakura share a scene (and some soda) in which they talk about their respective siblings, Natalise and Kamui.
• The Brigadier: Bernadette "Burna" Lamprecht, a staff sergeant in the Shell Armed Forces.
• Brother–Sister Team: Bluefield and Dreyza.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Endra, Endragon's human female form, is a fiery-red-haired lady who wears a black hoodie coat. And usually does menial stuff. Like cooking.
• But I Digress: Predictably, the Zeros tend to go off on tangents before stopping and getting back to the story of whatever they were talking about.
• Call-Back + Call-Forward:
  • In "Disability and Royalty", while talking to Cynthia, Alexis mentions meeting two other princesses in the past, thanks to Bluefield. One was the "leader in a rebellion against a usurper", and the other was a "part of a strike force against hostile invaders". It's possible that he is referring to Zephie of Magna Carta 2 and Melia of Xenoblade Chronicles 1, respectively.
  • In "An Old Friend", Selena notices Trey's new hairclip. In the footnotes, Endra mentions that it came from New Los Angeles.
• CamelCase: A common naming scheme used for weapons and other important objects (e.g. the ZeroSword, the ZeroDrive).
• Celibate Zero: None of the Ashen Wolves seem to be interested in a relationship...that isn't with non-Zeros.
• Child Soldiers: In the introduction to Fighting For Nothing - FEA, Trey reveals that this is what he, Dreyza, Vespyr, and Kyoku were intended to become by an unknown party. Then Bluefield showed up, breaking them out and killing the people running the facility on-site.
• City on the Water: There are two of these in the astral plane of Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation.
  • Fort Devas, Prince Kamui's "My Castle".
  • Deva Station, a Shell Armed Forces offshore platform.
• Claimed by the Supernatural: This is usually how the Zeros are chosen. Bluefield wasn't an exception.
• Clingy MacGuffin: The ZeroDrive, a device that every Zero has clamped onto their wrist. And won't come off. Then again, would you be foolish enough to disconnect yourself from your "life support"?
• Cloudcuckoolander:
  • The Umbral Forms. Here's a few examples…
  "LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING THE STREET!"
  "—FREAKOUTTAHERERIGHTNOW—"
• Code Names: All Zeros possess a code name.
• Color Motifs: Bluefield's is the color #005075. No, seriously.
• Content Warnings: The documents often start off with one.
• Contrived Coincidence: A Discussed Trope, from Saizo's perspective.
  Saizo: "First, strange creatures begin indiscriminately attacking innocent people. Then a strange man appears, offering his expertise on the matter to Lady Mikoto. Finally, after a series of events, her son is finally returned to Hoshido—with another foreigner tagging along. Considering everything that followed, it's strange that a group of outsiders would be interested in our world's affairs."
• Conveniently Interrupted Document: A whole series of 'em!
• Cool Big Bro: Dreyza certainly sees Bluefield as this.
• Cool Boat: Deva Station, an SAF military outpost that doubles as a mobile offshore platform.
• Crazy Cultural Comparison: The Hoshidans and Nohrians are quite taken aback by the Ashen Wolves and the Shell Armed Forces soldiers—not just by their weapons, but everything else.
• Crazy Enough to Work: Bluefield managed to use a cave-in in a way that Prince Kamui hadn't expected. We have yet to see what happened, exactly.
• Creature-Hunter Organization: The Zeros.

• Cynicism Catalyst: The Byakuya and Anya campaigns.
• Cypher Language: Occasionally, hexadecimal code is used for messages inserted between and at the end of drabbles.

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Tropes D-F

• Dark and Troubled Past: The Ashen Wolves seem to have these. Bluefield suffers from some form of PTSD due to a past event, and the other Wolves…well.
• Darker and Edgier: Compared to their time in Ylisse, the Ashen Wolves' time in Hoshido and Nohr is far rougher. They're noticeably yet only somewhat more moodier, foul-mouthed, and violent. Considering the fact that they had previously dealt with the Byakuya and Anya campaigns, this is understandable.
• Dimensional Traveler: The Zeros.
• Disease Bleach: Kamui suffered this after Queen Mikoto's death and his subsequent first transformation into his dragon form.
• Dismissing a Compliment: One of the Zeros' defining behavioral traits.

• Dramatis Personae: Well, kind of. It lists some of the OCs who appear in the story.
• Dub Name Change: Zig-Zagged Trope.
  • For Fire Emblem Fates, the Avatar of the Byakuya and Anya campaigns is named Corrin, while the Avatar of FEF: Devastation is named Kamui.
• During the War: The stories pertaining to the wars of the Ylissean "period" and the Hoshido-Nohrian War. Ostensibly to be covered: the Lanzheim Civil War.

• Eldritch Location: The Astral Plane in Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation.
• Enemy Mine: "Trust Issues, Naturally" shows that Saizo doesn't trust the Zeros or the Shell Armed Forces—less so than Kamui. Justifiably so, as Dreyza points out:
  I mean, you try interfering with a decisive battle, thus becoming a fellow fugitive of Hoshidan and Nohrian royalty.
• Family Eye Resemblance: Bluefield and Dreyza share the same brown eye and blue-turns-red eye. The difference is, Blu's normal eye is his left, whilst Dreyza's is her right eye.
• Fate Worse than Death: Being a Zero is this, thought it's not stated why that is.
  "I wouldn't wish anyOne to be a child soldier. But I absolutely wouldn't wish my worst enemy to be a Zero. I know Bluefield wouldn't."
• Figure It Out Yourself: The author's general attitude towards the audience.

• Footnote Fever: Almost every chapter is suffixed by a series of footnotes pertaining to what was mentioned in the chapter, be it obscure references or just downright inane comments and non-sequiturs.

• Four Lines, All Waiting: Given that only one person is writing something so ridiculously huge, this is inescapable.

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Tropes G-M

• Genre-Busting: A fanfic that features modern-day protagonists in not-so-modern-day settings, Slice of Life-esque vignettes, unsettling original monsters, and Mind Screw in various shades (with Figure It Out Yourself being unhelpfully prevalent).
  • Despite being described as a "Massive Multiplayer Crossover" fan fic, Project Bluefield downplays this to "one main story at a time". Onto the "fan fic" part, the main focus is actually on the author's Original Character cast, rather than the stories of other works.
• Going Native: Averted. 5 years into the "job", Bluefield still tends to listen to his iPod or play on his handheld console.
• Good-Guy Bar:
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation has one in the form of the Mess Hall at Fort Devas.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Played With. The Ashen Wolves do tend to use profanity such as "shit" and "bastard", but they also replace the F-word with "freak".
  • Vespyr and Kyoku tend to use "bollards" instead of "bollocks".
• The Greatest Story Never Told: Due to their fundamental nature, Zeros are forgotten whenever they depart from the worlds they visit. No exceptions. There are implications that this is for the best.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Played Straight with Bluefield, Chisari, Trey, and Vespyr. Inverted with Natalise, Olivier, Kyoku, and Dreyza.
• Happily Adopted: Trey, Dreyza, Vespyr, and Kyoku; all of whom have been adopted by Miriam.
• The Heartless: The Umbral Forms, and their counterparts, the Lumenal Forms.

• Hidden Agenda Hero:
  • In the Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation arc, The Ashen Wolves and Misfit Squad are this to the Hoshidan and Nohrian royalty, especially to Kamui and Azura. They have experience from previously following the Byakuya and Anya campaigns, but they can't reveal anything learned from them until both countries' armies are united and reach Valla before the passageway closes. Further enforced by Azura's warning about speaking the name of Valla outside of that kingdom. The result is that most of the army finds their presence in this war extremely suspicious.

• (non-)Human Weapon: Zeros have a great deal more in "natural weaponary" than the average human being. Abilities include, but are not limited to: storing their weapons inside of their body parts, such as the head or the heart; the ability to shift their perception; the ability to transform into a monster based on a mythical creature.
• Humanoid Abomination: Despite appearing human, Zeros are essentially "freaks of nature" that shouldn't exist, yet do.
• Hunter of Monsters: The Zeros, primarily of the Umbral Forms.
• Hyperlink Story: Has some toned-down shades of this.
• Impartial Purpose-Driven Faction: The Zeros.
• Insistent Terminology: Don't call the Immortals "gods". Like, ever.
  • Project Bluefield also features a variation: in the Zeros' records, they capitalize the "O" in words like "anyone" and "everyone", which results in things like "anyOne" and "everyOne". This seems downright bizarre, at first glance…until the Zero equivalents, such as "anyZero" and "everyZero", turn up. This detail should tip off some of the more perceptive readers that something is off about the Zeros…
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Played With. Bluefield doesn't like being a Zero, but he doesn't want others getting involved in his dangerous business any longer than necessary.
• In Spite of a Nail: The Zeros' presence doesn't seem to be altering events very much. Even a military outpost appearing does little to diverge the events.
• Weredragon: By nature of their existence, Bluefield and Dreyza can transform into dragons.

• It's Personal:
  • The Ashen Wolves are more emotionally invested in seeing Kamui unite his family during the Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, after witnessing the Birthright and Conquest campaigns end with tragedies. Vaire, for their part, has not intervened in the Wolves' meddling, though they are not happy with the Zeros acting like this.
• Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Comes with the anthology-esque nature of the more laid-back Talking About Anything fics.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Bluefield and Kyoku.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: What happens to people's memories of the Zeros—and anything related to them—when they depart.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Happens in the footnotes at times.

• Light Is Not Good: The Lumenal Forms.
• Like a Son to Me:
  • Endra treats Lilith and Camilla almost as if they were her own children.

• Liminal Being: The Zeros, though it is not stated why, exactly. Yet.
• Locked into Strangeness:
  • In Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, Prince Kamui had black hair to match that of his mother, Queen Mikoto. After her death and his subsequent first transformation into his dragon form, Kamui's hair starts growing out as silver-white, likely a result of the trauma.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Much like the Avatar and Azura in the original game's third route, Misfit Squad and the Ashen Wolves are forced to work under the aggravating restrictions of the Vallite speak-not curse. Doubly so for the Zeros: they have no idea how the curse could potentially kill them, or anyOne who hears them say it.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: Storing weapons within their physical forms counts for the Zeros.
• Lucky Charms Title: Yes, a.12 is indeed meant to have an "a." prefixing the year, to represent it as being set after the year 2012.
• Magical Eye: Bluefield and Dreyza both possess one unnaturally blue eye, which can shift to red under certain circumstances.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Albeit one that takes it one world at a time.

• Meaningful Name:
  • The Ashen Wolves. After whatever terrible event leveled the Zeros to one rookie, the name seems to come from the other four Zeros—Trey, Dreyza, Vespyr, and Kyoku—seem to have come from their "elder siblings" in some way.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Averted with Bluefield, who is still active and alive by Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation. However, his mentors—the past Zeros—have not escaped this fate.
• Mildly Military: Kamui's army in Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, especially in the beginning.
• Military Science Fiction: Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, which brings a "modern military" against the Kingdom of Valla.

• Mind Screw: The series shows some shades of this so far.
• Mistaken Nationality:
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Kyoku is sometimes mistaken as a Hoshidan due to him being based on Chisari, who was Japanese.

• Modified Clone: Trey, Dreyza, Kyoku, and Vespyr's real selves were created from the Zeros' genetic information by Vaire, in the event of the Zeros being almost wiped out by an undisclosed event.

• The Multiverse: Project Bluefield revolves around a group of "people" travelling between a bunch of different worlds and dimensions to do their work.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The Ashen Wolves perform a concert in Ylisse. A concert with holographic light shows!
  • When playing Stardust by FreQuency, two giant creatures—a dragon and a humanoid—made of stardust fight, with the dragon throwing the giant into the air and blowing it up with a stardust attack, before roaring and exploding itself.
• Mundane Utility:
  • Trey at one point is asked to demonstrate the Glint Scythe's ability to reap crops. Of course, given Trey's Power Incontinence, it doesn't work out.
• Mysterious Backer: Vaire, an apparition of creepy twin siblings.
  • By Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, the relations between Vaire and the Wolves have become strained. At one point, Blu even tells Vaire to "freak off".

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Tropes N-S

• Narrative Filigree: The Zeros' journal entries tend to include the sort of details that don't necessarily "advance the plot".
• The New '10s: Currently, Project Bluefield's bulk of "known records" is set between 2010 (the year Blu became a Zero) and 2017.
• New Meat:
  • In a.12: Dreyza, Trey, Vespyr, and Kyoku. Trey moreso than the others.
• No Last Name Given: The Zeros (of course, that's a given).
• No Place for Me There: The Zeros don't get to stick around once their job is done. They have to leave.
• Oddball in the Series: Meta-textually, Magna Carta 2. Most of the games currently listed above are critically acclaimed. This one, on the other hand, has only received a middling reception.
• Omniscient Database: Vaire. Maybe.
• Online Alias: How Bluefield and Skelena identify each other when the latter is found in Ylisse.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: None of the Zeros are identified by their real names. Sames goes for many other characters, including Immortals.
• Ontological Mystery: Certainly carries some shades of this, both for the characters and the readers.
• Opening Narration: Clearly intended for the Fighting For Nothing fics.
• Original Character: Many—and not just the Zeros.
  • Original Generation: The Zeros.
• Orphaned Punchline: One of Endra's life experiences involved a horse, apparently. Fortunately, there were apples.
• Outside-Context Problem: The Zeros and their enemies.
• Our Monsters Are Weird: Humanoid monsters with asphalt for heads? Goop that can mimic peoples voices? Yeah, the Umbral Forms are rather...unusual. That says nothing for the Zeros, however.

• Painting the Medium: Project Bluefield's narrative—the Zeros' journal entries—are portrayed in digital text document form, which feature redactions and glitches. Emphasized in the Archive of Our Own versions, which take advantage of Cascading Style Sheets and images.
• Physical God: The Immortals. Just…don't call them gods.
  • Endragon, Immortal of the End.
  • Skulden, Immortal of Death.
• Player Versus Player: In-Universe examples.
  • The Arena of Fort Devas.
• Plot-Based Voice Cancellation
• Pocket Dimension: The Astral Plane of Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation.
• Posthumous Character: 013 "Natalise", 015 "Chisari", and 016 "Olivear", to name none.
• Postmodernism: The Records don't seem to follow the classical narrative structure—certainly not the case in the Talking About Anything fics.
• Prosthetic Limb Reveal: One SAF doctor reveals to Princess Sakura her prosthetic leg, a result of an Umbral attacking from behind.
• Protagonist Title: Project Bluefield, for 017 "Bluefield". However, for Project Bluefield a.12, this becomes an Artifact Title, as 013-R "Trey" takes center stage as the protagonist.
• Proud to Be a Geek: In their bios, the Ashen Wolves are stated to like anime and video games, among other things.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Inigo fires these off when Vespyr moves to pull out her Glint Magnum while having coffee.
• Really 700 Years Old: Endragon is approximately 6.5 billion years old. In a variation, she's not afraid to admit her age—even to the audience.

• Real-World Episode:
  • A variation with "Hot Dogs for Lunch", in which Bluefield buys a hot dog. For Queen Mikoto. At a Costco food court.
  • Another one in "Preparing for the Four of Deaths", which place in a Japanese shopping center, in which Mikoto comes across House of the Dead 4, and Bluefield obliges in letting her play.
  • "That's Not What We're Dealing With, Your Majesty" features Inception—and Mikoto reacting to the ending the same way everyone who watched it did.
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Used in dialogue and narration.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Bluefield and Burna.

• Recurring Dreams:
  • Bluefield has one where he is stuck at the bottom of a massive river, with the weapons of his past friends all piercing his heart and fastening him to the riverbed.
  • Trey has one, too, though the details are currently unknown.
• Recursive Fanfiction: The Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation stories are set in an Alternate Continuity of fellow writer The Apocryphal One's Unexplored Chronicles series—specifically, The Invisible Princess and The Lost King. (Project Bluefield's Word of God says that Fire Emblem Fates: Aftermath may not occur—certainly not in the same way as the original.)
• Rhymes on a Dime: Yeah, it happens. In the narration, at least.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Zeros have more respect for royals who take an active role in battle.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Zig-Zagged Trope. The Zeros' various natural abilities are coupled with their inability to remain in history and peoples' memory. As such, some of their more heinous actions can wind up attributed to a complete innocent, and no amount of evidence (or further actions, for that matter) from the Zeros can save them.

• Scrapbook Story: A collection of journal entries from different characters, as well as transcripts and other elements.
• Secret War: One is going on between the Zeros and the Umbral Forms, as well as against the Lumenal Forms.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: More prominent while Talking About Anything.
• Set Swords to "Stun": In Fort Devas' Arena.

• Shell-Shocked Veteran:
  • 017 "Bluefield".
  • SSgt. Bernadette "Burna" Lamprecht, of the Shell Armed Forces.
• Shout-Out: See here for a working list of them.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Bluefield and Dreyza.

• The Spook: The Zeros.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Defied Trope. The Zeros are not and will never be part of any history, and they have accepted it.
• The Storyteller: The Ashen Wolves often talk about their past adventures to other characters.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: One of the Zeros' behavioral traits.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: The ZeroDrivers.
• Swallowed Whole: Dreyza's dragon, GreyScale, does this to her briefly.
• Switching P.O.V.: Mainly between Bluefield and his teammates. Occasionally, non-Zeros will get their own journal entries—including the Immortals.

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Tropes T-Z

• Take a Third Option: Bluefield—and by extension, his teammates—usually choose this.

• Taught by Experience: The Zeros.

• Theme Naming: Aside of the "-R" suffixed to their numbers, the Ashen Wolves (sans Bluefield) have the letter "Y" in their names.
• Third-Option Adaptation:
  • Fire Emblem Fates arc: Devastation is the Revelation route, with the Ashen Wolves and Misfit Squad's knowledge of the Birthright and Conquest routes (referred to as the Byakuya and Anya campaigns, respectively).

• This Is My Boomstick + Mundane Object Amazement:
  • Played With in Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation.
    • In the drabble "Thou Shalt Not Wield LMGs (right now)", Vespyr shows Takumi how to wield an M249 light machine gun. After having him shoot paper targets and Faceless holograms, Takumi puts the M249 down, just telling Vespyr that he's glad that the Zeros aren't the real enemy.
    • In "Hot Dogs for Lunch", Bluefield buys one for Queen Mikoto, who hesitantly eats it. Mikoto herself is wearing modern-day winter clothing.
    • In "Preparing for the Four of Deaths", Mikoto notices the arcade game House of the Dead 4, which she chooses to play. Blu obliges her, while noting that one of the monsters who appear on-screen (specifically, Justice, the first boss) looks similar to the Faceless.

• Time Master: The Ashen Wolves possess this to varying degrees, with Bluefield possessing the ability to "rush through time".

• Title In: How the Zeros' journal entries usually begin.
• Took a Level in Kindness: For Fire Emblem Fates, the character Selena has her Tsundere nature changed, making her more mature and confident than how she is originally portrayed. Word of God states that Selena (or Severa) is not a good example of a tsundere character, so he aimed to correct that.
• Transformation Trinket: The ZeroDrive.
• Trapped in Another World: The SAF offshore platform Deva Station and its crew count.
• Unexpected Character:
  • In Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation, Queen Mikoto of Hoshido. She and Blu appear together in the drabble "Hot Dogs for Lunch" of TAA - FEF:D.
• Unknown Character:
  • For starters, there's Zeros numbered 1 through 12, and Zero number 14.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee:
  • Played for Laughs in regards to Prince Kamui's surprise birthday party.
• Urban Fantasy
• Virtual Soundtrack: Occasionally, the chapters will call for music to be played in the background, such as works by Yoko Kanno.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting:
  • The Zeros can do this, usually with the Immortal they have a contract with. For example, Bluefield has a contract with Endragon, and thus has the ability to transform into a dragon.
  • The Immortals possess this ability as well. Endragon, for example, can shift between a massive dragon and a 20-something year old female human.
• War Fic: Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation.
• War Is Hell: A theme in Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation.
• Weirdness Censor: Why regular people seem to ignore the Zeros: they are barely aware of their presence.
• Weredragon: Endragon/Endra, Bluefield, and Dreyza all possess dragon forms that they can switch to at will.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: One of the overarching themes of Project Bluefield—specifically, where on the scale the Zeros are.
• What's Up, King Dude?: As demonstrated by "Self-Deprication and A Loaf of Bread", the Zeros appear to have an alarming degree of access to Prince Kamui. Then again, Kamui is in the middle of being a fugitive, so...
• With Us or Against Us: The Zeros don't like this logical fallacy.
• Worldbuilding: Both in the main story and drabbles, and in their footnotes.

• Year X: "a.2012".
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Prince Kamui assures Bluefield of this in the Fire Emblem Fates: Devastation drabble "Self-Deprication and A Loaf of Bread", much to Blu's embarassment.
• You Are Number 6: Zeros have a set of numbers followed by a chosen name. Trey, Dreyza, Vespyr, and Kyoku have this taken one further, with a "-R" appended to the number.
• You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: To varying degrees.
• You Should Have Died Instead: Kyoku had this attitude towards Bluefield, who survived while Chisari did not. This resentment has since subsided.
• "You!" Squared: Dreyza brings this up:
  In retrospect, on that day in Ylisstol, I should have seen it coming again.
  …The event that usually precedes the AHHHH!-You're-THAT-guy! moment, I mean.

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