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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Downplayed. While Nan jumps into villainy pretty early on, he's not quite sure if his actions are justified.[[spoiler: Then he recieves a recorded message from an alternate version of himself that came to Melomarc decades ago. Said alternate self was even more fucked up when he came to Melomarc, but he tried to do some good. Unfortunately, his attempts to do good lead to a chain of events that caused the Melomarc-Siltvelt war and he commited suicide. Upon learning that there were 16 other versions prior to that one who all met similiar fates trying to be a hero, Nan decides that only way to break this cycle violence is to plunge headfirst into villainy.]]
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Downplayed. While Nan jumps into villainy pretty early on, he's not quite sure if his actions are justified.[[spoiler: Then he recieves receives a recorded message from an alternate version of himself that came to Melomarc decades ago. Said alternate self was even more fucked up when he came to Melomarc, but he tried to do some good. Unfortunately, his attempts to do good lead to a chain of events that caused the Melomarc-Siltvelt war and he commited suicide. Upon learning that there were 16 other versions prior to that one who all met similiar fates trying to be a hero, Nan decides that only way to break this cycle violence is to plunge headfirst into villainy.]]
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Nan Hon-Jah is a Korean high-schooler from California with a lot of issues. Being pulled into a CrapsackWorld certainly hasn’t helped any. Now with his new best friend/weapon/flesh-eating book with teeth Grimm, he’s gonna save the world… or burn it down to the bedrock. Probably the latter.
The Chronicle of the Wayward Tome Hero is a self insert for Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero by LoneTaker
It could be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13213859/1/Chronicles-of-the-Wayward-Tome-Hero here]] but was deleted on May 19, 2021
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!!Chronicles of the Wayward Tome Hero contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Several elements and countries that weren’t visited in the original story are brought up and elaborated on here.
* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: Nan's evergrowing group gradually turns into one of these.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Nan has made a frequent habit of losing limbs and body parts]].
* AxCrazy: Nan becomes this whenever he’s been pushed to his breaking point. [[spoiler:Wyndia becomes this after Nan convinces her to take revenge of the villagers who tried to sell her into slavery]].
* AwesomeButImpractical: Genbu's schtick is this. He has seriously overpowered items and abilities, but their power is offset by incredibly long cooldown times.
* BreakTheHaughty: One of Nan’s ongoing goals is to break the Three Cardinal Heroes out of their delusion mindests and to beat (figuratively and literally) it into their heads that this is NotAGame
** He managed to do this to Ren. [[spoiler:He interrupted Ren when he and his party are about to kill Gaelion, and reveals that the villagers were only using him to kill the dragon so they could sell Wyndia into slavery which shatters his black and white world view. Nan then kills his entire party, then [[ForcedToWatch forces him to watch]] Wyndia kill the villagers while he gives him a BreakingSpeech. By the end of it, Ren’s been reduced to an alcoholic loner]].
* ButtMonkey: Malty is the often the subject of Nan's violence.
* {{Crossover}}:
** Its only been brought up once, but [[spoiler: this version of Itsuki is from the world of Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex]].
** [[spoiler: It turns out this version of Ren was the Kirito from WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the source material was by no means kid friendly, this story takes the dark elements that were present or implied in the original and takes them up a notch. What finally cements this is when Nan is on Zeltoble [[spoiler: he discovers the opening act of a gladiatorial games is having multiple child slaves being raped by a tentacle monster (which itself is horrific hybrid of multiple monsters that have been [[TorturedMonster painfully forced together]])]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: One of the reasons Nan is so violent is that he was already fucked up before he ended up in Melomarc. [[spoiler: He nearly got arrested under false charges of bringing a weapon to school and only avoided going to jail due to only being 17 at the time, but was sent to juvie where he almost got shanked by a sharped pencil. He spent 30 days there before his parents managed to get him out, but by then the damage had been done. He was in middle of going through therapy for his issues when he got pulled into [[CrapsackWorld Melomarc]]]].
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Nan fits several of these:
** CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Despite looking and acting like a badass, Nan isn't even close to a role model.
** DarkShepherd: While well intentioned, Nan's influence on others only ends up creating or enabling more psychopaths.
** TheDreaded: Nan's fearsome reputation has alienated him from a large number of potential allies.
** GenreSavvy: The tendency to constantly have a general awareness of whats going only makes Nan seem suspicious to onlookers, which is only worsened by him constantly trying to use this to his advantage even in situations where he shouldn't.
** GoodCounterpart / LesserOfTwoEvils: He is less evil and more well-intentioned than Malty, but that isn't exactly a hard thing to do.
** GuileHero: The tendency to constantly have a general awareness of whats going only make Nan seem suspicious to onlookers, which is only worsened by him constantly trying to use this to his advantage even when he shouldn't.
** IdiotSavant: His tendency to have inconsistent moments of brilliance means he is considered very untrustworthy.
** MechanicallyUnusualClass: The [Tome Hero] is so different from a typical RPG class that its practically from a completely different genre. This makes cooperation with other [Heroes] practically impossible due to having such different combat philosophies.
** NoSocialSkills / ZombieAdvocate: Its almost impossible for Nan to relate to anyone other that the monsters he encounters or summon, making him a monster in the eyes of others.
** TokenEvilTeammate / VillainProtagonist: He's extremely unpleasant to work with unless the person shares similiar ideals with him.
** VisionaryVillain / WellIntentionedExtremist: Nan believes the world needs to change and view himself as the catalyst for that change. To everyone else he's a mass murdering psychopath that needs to be stopped at all costs.
** UnscrupulousHero: His horrible actions have caused him to lose all public support.
* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Nan is a big fan of doing this during RageBreakingPoint moments
* {{Expy}}: Palomar Polnareff is SkyPirate who is apparently an expy of Propeller Knight.
* EvilWeapon: Nan gets a sacrificial dagger that has the power to [[spoiler: turn ordinary people it stabs into monsters and forcefully awaken the cursed series for Heroes.]]
* FightMagnet: A passive ability of Nan’s increases his chances of encountering rare monsters.
* HonorBeforeReason: Nan notes that most of Melomarc refuses to use shields in combat due to their hatred of the Shield Hero.
* LoopholeAbuse: Nan discovers two ways to get around the [Heroes]' "no other weapons" restriction:
** Broken weapons count as items meaning that they can be interacted with and absorbed by the Legendary Weapons.
** [[spoiler: Hybrid weapons are weapons that share have dual class and as long as one of those classes is the same class as the Hero's weapon then they can be used]].
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: The [Tome Hero] is this compared to the other Heroes.
* NoSell: Nan has acquired several abilities that can make him resistance or completely immune to certain kinds of attacks.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Nan starts off the story as a well intentioned AntiVillain. However as the mental and physical scars start piling up he becomes more insane and cynical to the point he rapidly starts becoming a VillainProtagonist. [[spoiler: It eventually leads him to become a HumanoidAbomination who intends to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all life]] .]]
* RageBreakingPoint: Nan has had this happen to him repeatedly throughout the story. Mass slaughter and collateral damage always ensues.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Aultcray is obsessed with bringing down and discrediting Naofumi because the Shield Hero is sacred to the demi-humans, even though Nan is a much bigger threat.
* SanitySlippage: Constantly having to deal with the cruelty of the CrapsackWorld he has found himself in has caused Nan to slowly become more and more insane as the story goes on, to the point that the chapters eventually added a sanity meter to the author’s notes at the beginning of each chapter. [[spoiler: He really loses it after seeing an alternate version of himself commit suicide]].
* SevenDeadlySins: The curse series of weapons as usual. [[spoiler: Nan later unlocks the two removed sins from the original lineup, Despair and Vanity, as well as a mysterious 10th he hasn't unlocked yet]].[[spoiler: He finally unlocks the last sin after sacrifing most of his mind to an EldritchAbomination, Suicide]].
* ShoutOut: This story has enough that they may eventually need their own page:
** When Nan compares his first meeting with Grim to Light meeting Ryuk in the [[Film/DeathNote2017 Netflix Death Note film]].
** At one point Nan refers to Malty as "[[{{Manga/Berserk}} Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea]]".
* SummonMagic: One of Nan’s main abilities is this. It eventually starts to push him into OneManArmy territory.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Downplayed. While Nan jumps into villainy pretty early on, he's not quite sure if his actions are justified.[[spoiler: Then he recieves a recorded message from an alternate version of himself that came to Melomarc decades ago. Said alternate self was even more fucked up when he came to Melomarc, but he tried to do some good. Unfortunately, his attempts to do good lead to a chain of events that caused the Melomarc-Siltvelt war and he commited suicide. Upon learning that there were 16 other versions prior to that one who all met similiar fates trying to be a hero, Nan decides that only way to break this cycle violence is to plunge headfirst into villainy.]]
* TieredByName: This story has the [Affix] system, which adds an adjective to a monsters name that temporarily or permantly gives them special properties.
* UnluckilyLucky: Downplayed on the lucky part. Partly in thanks to one of his passive abilities, Nan has a tendency to acquire or discover new abilities that, while beneficial in the long run, tend to show up at the worst possible time and end up putting him in extraordinary amounts of danger.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Nan rarely plans things out beyond a general goal. He tends to make up his plans along the way and only manages to pull them off thanks to (as the author puts it) [[Manga/OnePiece Marshall D. Teach]] levels of good luck.
* {{Unperson}}: It is revealed that the Tome Hero and several other heroes had been almost completely erased from all history records. A side goal of Nan's is to investigate and gather them up.
The Chronicle of the Wayward Tome Hero is a self insert for Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero by LoneTaker
It could be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13213859/1/Chronicles-of-the-Wayward-Tome-Hero here]] but was deleted on May 19, 2021
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!!Chronicles of the Wayward Tome Hero contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Several elements and countries that weren’t visited in the original story are brought up and elaborated on here.
* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: Nan's evergrowing group gradually turns into one of these.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Nan has made a frequent habit of losing limbs and body parts]].
* AxCrazy: Nan becomes this whenever he’s been pushed to his breaking point. [[spoiler:Wyndia becomes this after Nan convinces her to take revenge of the villagers who tried to sell her into slavery]].
* AwesomeButImpractical: Genbu's schtick is this. He has seriously overpowered items and abilities, but their power is offset by incredibly long cooldown times.
* BreakTheHaughty: One of Nan’s ongoing goals is to break the Three Cardinal Heroes out of their delusion mindests and to beat (figuratively and literally) it into their heads that this is NotAGame
** He managed to do this to Ren. [[spoiler:He interrupted Ren when he and his party are about to kill Gaelion, and reveals that the villagers were only using him to kill the dragon so they could sell Wyndia into slavery which shatters his black and white world view. Nan then kills his entire party, then [[ForcedToWatch forces him to watch]] Wyndia kill the villagers while he gives him a BreakingSpeech. By the end of it, Ren’s been reduced to an alcoholic loner]].
* ButtMonkey: Malty is the often the subject of Nan's violence.
* {{Crossover}}:
** Its only been brought up once, but [[spoiler: this version of Itsuki is from the world of Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex]].
** [[spoiler: It turns out this version of Ren was the Kirito from WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the source material was by no means kid friendly, this story takes the dark elements that were present or implied in the original and takes them up a notch. What finally cements this is when Nan is on Zeltoble [[spoiler: he discovers the opening act of a gladiatorial games is having multiple child slaves being raped by a tentacle monster (which itself is horrific hybrid of multiple monsters that have been [[TorturedMonster painfully forced together]])]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: One of the reasons Nan is so violent is that he was already fucked up before he ended up in Melomarc. [[spoiler: He nearly got arrested under false charges of bringing a weapon to school and only avoided going to jail due to only being 17 at the time, but was sent to juvie where he almost got shanked by a sharped pencil. He spent 30 days there before his parents managed to get him out, but by then the damage had been done. He was in middle of going through therapy for his issues when he got pulled into [[CrapsackWorld Melomarc]]]].
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Nan fits several of these:
** CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Despite looking and acting like a badass, Nan isn't even close to a role model.
** DarkShepherd: While well intentioned, Nan's influence on others only ends up creating or enabling more psychopaths.
** TheDreaded: Nan's fearsome reputation has alienated him from a large number of potential allies.
** GenreSavvy: The tendency to constantly have a general awareness of whats going only makes Nan seem suspicious to onlookers, which is only worsened by him constantly trying to use this to his advantage even in situations where he shouldn't.
** GoodCounterpart / LesserOfTwoEvils: He is less evil and more well-intentioned than Malty, but that isn't exactly a hard thing to do.
** GuileHero: The tendency to constantly have a general awareness of whats going only make Nan seem suspicious to onlookers, which is only worsened by him constantly trying to use this to his advantage even when he shouldn't.
** IdiotSavant: His tendency to have inconsistent moments of brilliance means he is considered very untrustworthy.
** MechanicallyUnusualClass: The [Tome Hero] is so different from a typical RPG class that its practically from a completely different genre. This makes cooperation with other [Heroes] practically impossible due to having such different combat philosophies.
** NoSocialSkills / ZombieAdvocate: Its almost impossible for Nan to relate to anyone other that the monsters he encounters or summon, making him a monster in the eyes of others.
** TokenEvilTeammate / VillainProtagonist: He's extremely unpleasant to work with unless the person shares similiar ideals with him.
** VisionaryVillain / WellIntentionedExtremist: Nan believes the world needs to change and view himself as the catalyst for that change. To everyone else he's a mass murdering psychopath that needs to be stopped at all costs.
** UnscrupulousHero: His horrible actions have caused him to lose all public support.
* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Nan is a big fan of doing this during RageBreakingPoint moments
* {{Expy}}: Palomar Polnareff is SkyPirate who is apparently an expy of Propeller Knight.
* EvilWeapon: Nan gets a sacrificial dagger that has the power to [[spoiler: turn ordinary people it stabs into monsters and forcefully awaken the cursed series for Heroes.]]
* FightMagnet: A passive ability of Nan’s increases his chances of encountering rare monsters.
* HonorBeforeReason: Nan notes that most of Melomarc refuses to use shields in combat due to their hatred of the Shield Hero.
* LoopholeAbuse: Nan discovers two ways to get around the [Heroes]' "no other weapons" restriction:
** Broken weapons count as items meaning that they can be interacted with and absorbed by the Legendary Weapons.
** [[spoiler: Hybrid weapons are weapons that share have dual class and as long as one of those classes is the same class as the Hero's weapon then they can be used]].
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: The [Tome Hero] is this compared to the other Heroes.
* NoSell: Nan has acquired several abilities that can make him resistance or completely immune to certain kinds of attacks.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Nan starts off the story as a well intentioned AntiVillain. However as the mental and physical scars start piling up he becomes more insane and cynical to the point he rapidly starts becoming a VillainProtagonist. [[spoiler: It eventually leads him to become a HumanoidAbomination who intends to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all life]] .]]
* RageBreakingPoint: Nan has had this happen to him repeatedly throughout the story. Mass slaughter and collateral damage always ensues.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Aultcray is obsessed with bringing down and discrediting Naofumi because the Shield Hero is sacred to the demi-humans, even though Nan is a much bigger threat.
* SanitySlippage: Constantly having to deal with the cruelty of the CrapsackWorld he has found himself in has caused Nan to slowly become more and more insane as the story goes on, to the point that the chapters eventually added a sanity meter to the author’s notes at the beginning of each chapter. [[spoiler: He really loses it after seeing an alternate version of himself commit suicide]].
* SevenDeadlySins: The curse series of weapons as usual. [[spoiler: Nan later unlocks the two removed sins from the original lineup, Despair and Vanity, as well as a mysterious 10th he hasn't unlocked yet]].[[spoiler: He finally unlocks the last sin after sacrifing most of his mind to an EldritchAbomination, Suicide]].
* ShoutOut: This story has enough that they may eventually need their own page:
** When Nan compares his first meeting with Grim to Light meeting Ryuk in the [[Film/DeathNote2017 Netflix Death Note film]].
** At one point Nan refers to Malty as "[[{{Manga/Berserk}} Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea]]".
* SummonMagic: One of Nan’s main abilities is this. It eventually starts to push him into OneManArmy territory.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Downplayed. While Nan jumps into villainy pretty early on, he's not quite sure if his actions are justified.[[spoiler: Then he recieves a recorded message from an alternate version of himself that came to Melomarc decades ago. Said alternate self was even more fucked up when he came to Melomarc, but he tried to do some good. Unfortunately, his attempts to do good lead to a chain of events that caused the Melomarc-Siltvelt war and he commited suicide. Upon learning that there were 16 other versions prior to that one who all met similiar fates trying to be a hero, Nan decides that only way to break this cycle violence is to plunge headfirst into villainy.]]
* TieredByName: This story has the [Affix] system, which adds an adjective to a monsters name that temporarily or permantly gives them special properties.
* UnluckilyLucky: Downplayed on the lucky part. Partly in thanks to one of his passive abilities, Nan has a tendency to acquire or discover new abilities that, while beneficial in the long run, tend to show up at the worst possible time and end up putting him in extraordinary amounts of danger.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Nan rarely plans things out beyond a general goal. He tends to make up his plans along the way and only manages to pull them off thanks to (as the author puts it) [[Manga/OnePiece Marshall D. Teach]] levels of good luck.
* {{Unperson}}: It is revealed that the Tome Hero and several other heroes had been almost completely erased from all history records. A side goal of Nan's is to investigate and gather them up.
