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* LastOfItsKind: [[spoiler:After the earth got nuked and most of the humans on earth died, one of the percentage were Maribel's family, meaning that she's (and one cousin that manage to survive) the last of the Hearn's family to still live on.]]
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* LastOfItsKind: [[spoiler:After the earth got Earth gets nuked and most of the humans on earth died, one of Earth die, amongst the percentage were billions of casualties are Maribel's family, meaning that she's (and (save for one cousin that manage who also manages to survive) the last of the Hearn's Hearn family to still live on.living.]]
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* LastOfItsKind: After the earth got nuked and most of the humans on earth died, one of the percentage were Maribel's family, meaning that she's (and one cousin that manage to survive) the last of the Hearn's family to still live on.
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* LastOfItsKind: After LastOfItsKind: [[spoiler:After the earth got nuked and most of the humans on earth died, one of the percentage were Maribel's family, meaning that she's (and one cousin that manage to survive) the last of the Hearn's family to still live on.]]
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* LastOfItsKind: After the earth got nuked and most of the humans on earth died, one of the percentage were Maribel's family, meaning that she's (and one cousin that manage to survive) the last of the Hearn's family to still live on.
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* AlternateContinuity: Because this fanfic was made when Magical Astronomy was the latest CD Drama of the Secret Sealing Club available at the time [[note]] Magical Astronomy was released the 13th of august in 2006, while A New World was released in the 16th of october in 2010 [[/note]], it can be clear that the events of Trojan Green Asteroid hasn't happened yet [[note]] which was released in the 30th of April in 2012 [[/note]].
* AnyoneCanDie: And many do.
* AnyoneCanDie: And many do.
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* AlternateContinuity: Because this fanfic was made when Magical Astronomy ''Magical Astronomy'' was the latest CD Drama of the Secret Sealing Club CD Drama available at the time [[note]] Magical Astronomy was released the 13th of august in on August 13, 2006, while A ''A New World World'' was released in the 16th of october in on October 16, 2010 [[/note]], it can be clear that the events of Trojan ''Trojan Green Asteroid hasn't happened yet [[note]] Asteroid''[[note]] which was released in the 30th of on April in 30, 2012 [[/note]].
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: Maribel versus Yukari. Except not.]]
* BigBad: Lord Tenshou. [[spoiler:Who is effortlessly upstaged by [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind Everything]], Yukari.]]
* BigBad: Lord Tenshou. [[spoiler:Who is effortlessly upstaged by [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind Everything]], Yukari.]]
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* BloodMagic: A variant is used to summon [[spoiler:Mima.]]
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* CardCarryingVillain: Ran says this of Flandre. She herself hates the idea and does not relish the role.
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* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Tenshi gives Heaven's Mercy to the Lunarian warrior who killed Suika, stopping her suicide attempt and instead cursing her never to die until all of the damage the Lunarians inflicted upon Earth is healed, ordering her to aid others even at her own detriment.]]
* DawnOfAnEra: [[spoiler: The end result of Yukari's plans is a merged world where magic and science can peacefully coexist and youkai are no longer slaves to human thought.]]
* DawnOfAnEra: [[spoiler: The end result of Yukari's plans is a merged world where magic and science can peacefully coexist and youkai are no longer slaves to human thought.]]
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* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Tenshi [[spoiler:Tenshi gives Heaven's Mercy to the Lunarian warrior who killed Suika, stopping her suicide attempt and instead cursing her never to die until all of the damage the Lunarians inflicted upon Earth is healed, ordering her to aid others even at her own detriment.]]
* DawnOfAnEra:[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The end result of Yukari's plans is a merged world where magic and science can peacefully coexist and youkai are no longer slaves to human thought.]]
* DawnOfAnEra:
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* DePower: Eirin hoped to keep Lunarian revenge in check by ensuring her weapons would all suffer this when used by an impure wielder or in war against humans. [[spoiler: When Maribel changes the rules, every Lunarian weapon of mass destruction and most of their best technology stops working, heavily hindering Tenshou's plans.]]
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* DePower: Eirin hoped to keep Lunarian revenge in check by ensuring her weapons would all suffer this when used by an impure wielder or in war against humans. [[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When Maribel changes the rules, every Lunarian weapon of mass destruction and most of their best technology stops working, heavily hindering Tenshou's plans.]]
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: Lord Shimeri. [[spoiler: Unlike the other Lunarians, he's interested in ruling Earth, and intends to establish an empire with Eientei as its capital and Kaguya as his wife.]]
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: Lord Shimeri. [[spoiler: Unlike [[spoiler:Unlike the other Lunarians, he's interested in ruling Earth, and intends to establish an empire with Eientei as its capital and Kaguya as his wife.]]
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* ExactWords: Ellen's prophecy states that, out of the main powers, only the Moriya Shrine, the Myouren Temple and Eientei will remain in Gensokyo after the battle. [[spoiler:The Scarlet Devil Mansion is accidentally shunted into Makai; Hitomi Hakurei dies while her daughter Kanon moves to Former Hell with Orin following her transformation into a kassha, leaving the Hakurei Shrine to be occupied by Maribel and Renko; and the Mountain rises as the new ruling house of the entire country.]]
* {{Facepalm}}: Ran when Renko of all people suggests an extremely simple solution to her current dilemma. [[spoiler:Ran wants to keep Maribel in Gensokyo, since if she gets out it's extremely unlikely she will ever be able to return due to the hardened boundary. Renko simply suggests moving to a third location first and from there to Gensokyo. Ran's very frustrated that the idea never occurred to her, in spite of Makai filling the requirements to a T.]]
* FantasticRacism: The Lunarians' obsession with purity leads them to commit unthinkable acts against Earth.
* {{Facepalm}}: Ran when Renko of all people suggests an extremely simple solution to her current dilemma. [[spoiler:Ran wants to keep Maribel in Gensokyo, since if she gets out it's extremely unlikely she will ever be able to return due to the hardened boundary. Renko simply suggests moving to a third location first and from there to Gensokyo. Ran's very frustrated that the idea never occurred to her, in spite of Makai filling the requirements to a T.]]
* FantasticRacism: The Lunarians' obsession with purity leads them to commit unthinkable acts against Earth.
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* ExactWords: Ellen's prophecy states that, out of the main powers, only the Moriya Shrine, the Myouren Temple Temple, and Eientei will remain in Gensokyo after the battle. [[spoiler:The Scarlet Devil Mansion is accidentally shunted into Makai; Hitomi Hakurei dies while her daughter Kanon moves to Former Hell with Orin following her transformation into a kassha, leaving the Hakurei Shrine to be occupied by Maribel and Renko; and the Mountain rises as the new ruling house of the entire country.]]
* {{Facepalm}}: Ran does a facepalm when Renko of all people suggests an extremely simple solution to her current dilemma. [[spoiler:Ran wants to keep Maribel in Gensokyo, since if she gets out it's extremely unlikely she will ever be able to return due to the hardened boundary. Renko simply suggests moving to a third location first and from there to Gensokyo. Ran's very frustrated that the idea never occurred to her, in spite of Makai filling the requirements to a T.]]
* FantasticRacism: The Lunarians' obsession with purity leads them to commit unthinkable acts againstEarth.Earth due to thinking it inferior.
* {{Facepalm}}: Ran does a facepalm when Renko of all people suggests an extremely simple solution to her current dilemma. [[spoiler:Ran wants to keep Maribel in Gensokyo, since if she gets out it's extremely unlikely she will ever be able to return due to the hardened boundary. Renko simply suggests moving to a third location first and from there to Gensokyo. Ran's very frustrated that the idea never occurred to her, in spite of Makai filling the requirements to a T.]]
* FantasticRacism: The Lunarians' obsession with purity leads them to commit unthinkable acts against
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Turns out Renko's abilities, with the proper focus, can become lethal {{Game Breaker}}s. [[spoiler: Inspired by the [[Literature/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]] and Flandre's power, she gives herself the ability to find the "pressure point" of objects.]]
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Turns out Renko's abilities, with the proper focus, can become lethal {{Game Breaker}}s. [[spoiler: Inspired [[spoiler:Inspired by the [[Literature/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]] and Flandre's power, she gives herself the ability to find the "pressure point" of objects.]]
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* ManBitesMan: [[spoiler:Momiji tears out Jiyuwan's throat out like this.]]
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* ManBitesMan: [[spoiler:Momiji tears out Jiyuwan's throat out like this.with her teeth.]]
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* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: [[spoiler: After Acala is attacked by the great dragon, a downpour of dragon blood washes over Gensokyo, granting youkai power to normal people and increasing the power levels of normal youkai. Kanon Hakurei, one of the few remaining direct descendants of Reimu's, is soaked in the blood and is transformed into a kassha.]]
* MassOhCrap: Everyone from Gensokyo, ''even Ran'', gets frightened out of their minds when [[spoiler:Yukari's fully revived, apparently at the expense of Maribel]].
** Mere instants later, [[spoiler: Yukari triggers another one from ''everyone'', from both sides, when she reveals [[DawnOfAnEra the sheer extent of her master plan]].]]
--> [[spoiler: ''"That's right. I started a war with the moon, wiped out half the youkai in existence, assassinated your father, arranged my own death, and set the stage for this bloody, terrible war that's already killed billions. And it was all just a diversion!"'']]
* MassOhCrap: Everyone from Gensokyo, ''even Ran'', gets frightened out of their minds when [[spoiler:Yukari's fully revived, apparently at the expense of Maribel]].
** Mere instants later, [[spoiler: Yukari triggers another one from ''everyone'', from both sides, when she reveals [[DawnOfAnEra the sheer extent of her master plan]].]]
--> [[spoiler: ''"That's right. I started a war with the moon, wiped out half the youkai in existence, assassinated your father, arranged my own death, and set the stage for this bloody, terrible war that's already killed billions. And it was all just a diversion!"'']]
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* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After Acala is attacked by the great dragon, a downpour of dragon blood washes over Gensokyo, granting youkai power to normal people and increasing the power levels of normal youkai. Kanon Hakurei, one of the few remaining direct descendants of Reimu's, is soaked in the blood and is transformed into a kassha.]]
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** Everyone from Gensokyo, ''even Ran'', gets frightened out of their minds when [[spoiler:Yukari's fully revived, apparently at the expense of Maribel]].
** Mere instantslater, [[spoiler: Yukari after [[spoiler:Yukari is revived]], she triggers another one from ''everyone'', from both sides, when she reveals [[DawnOfAnEra the sheer extent of her master plan]].]]
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-->[[spoiler: ''"That's [[spoiler:''"That's right. I started a war with the moon, wiped out half the youkai in existence, assassinated your father, arranged my own death, and set the stage for this bloody, terrible war that's already killed billions. And it was all just a diversion!"'']]
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** Everyone from Gensokyo, ''even Ran'', gets frightened out of their minds when [[spoiler:Yukari's fully revived, apparently at the expense of Maribel]].
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* NextSundayAD: Being a fanfic based on the Secret Sealing Club, it takes place around a future date (which according to Alice, it was 3000 years from her point of view). Despite that, Maribel seems to own a music player.
* NonActionBigBad: Lord Tenshou. Unusually, he's fully aware of his status as such and his glaring deficiencies as a military leader, and would very much prefer to play second banana to a better commander; however, the nature of his power ensures he'll be named primary tactician anyway. [[spoiler:Yukari uses this trait to utterly screw him over.]]
* NotSoHarmless: ''[[TheBarnum Tei]]. [[LittleMissConArtist Inaba]].''
* NonActionBigBad: Lord Tenshou. Unusually, he's fully aware of his status as such and his glaring deficiencies as a military leader, and would very much prefer to play second banana to a better commander; however, the nature of his power ensures he'll be named primary tactician anyway. [[spoiler:Yukari uses this trait to utterly screw him over.]]
* NotSoHarmless: ''[[TheBarnum Tei]]. [[LittleMissConArtist Inaba]].''
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* NextSundayAD: Being a fanfic based on the Secret Sealing Club, it takes place around a sometime in the future date (which according to Alice, it Alice was 3000 years from her point of view). Despite that, Maribel seems to own a music player.
* NonActionBigBad: LordTenshou.Tenshou is the leader of the Lunarians and primary antagonist, but is no good in combat. Unusually, he's fully aware of his status as such and his glaring deficiencies as a military leader, and would very much prefer to play second banana to a better commander; however, the nature of his power ensures he'll be named primary tactician anyway. [[spoiler:Yukari uses this trait to utterly screw him over.]]
*NotSoHarmless: ''[[TheBarnum Tei]]. [[LittleMissConArtist Inaba]].''NotSoHarmless:
** [[spoiler:Tei kills a Lunarian commander by tricking him into a pit trip... lined with bamboo spikes.]]
* NonActionBigBad: Lord
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** [[spoiler:Tei kills a Lunarian commander by tricking him into a pit trip... lined with bamboo spikes.]]
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* NukeEm: [[spoiler:The Lunarians fake enormous amounts of telemetry data in order to trick the world governments into annihilating Earth. And even then the humans refused to launch the missiles, so the Lunarians did it for them, dooming both humanity and themselves.]]
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* NukeEm: [[spoiler:The Lunarians fake enormous amounts of telemetry data in order to trick the world governments into annihilating Earth.Earth in nuclear war. And even then the humans refused to launch the missiles, so the Lunarians did it for them, dooming both humanity and themselves.]]
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* PureIsNotGood: Youkai can never be pure no matter how good they behave. Celestials and most gods can never become impure no matter how vile they behave, while Lunarians have to work to mantain their purity. Killing impure beings such as youkai or humans for the benefit of pure beings is considered a pure act. [[spoiler:For the sake of an utterly hypocritical "purity", the Lunarians almost annihilate humanity and remain pure. Until Maribel changes the rules and kicks them off their high pedestal.]]
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* PureIsNotGood: Youkai can never be pure no matter how good they behave. Celestials and most gods can never become impure no matter how vile they behave, while Lunarians have to work to mantain their purity. Killing impure beings such as youkai or humans for the benefit of pure beings is considered a pure act.act, no matter the reason. [[spoiler:For the sake of an utterly hypocritical "purity", the Lunarians almost annihilate humanity and remain pure. Until Maribel changes the rules and kicks them off their high pedestal.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Watatsukis and Lord Tsukuyomi, the ''de facto'' Lunarian rulers. [[spoiler:Jiyuwan, under Lord Tenshou's orders, assassinates the Watatsukis as they're returning from a visit to Eirin, so the blame will be pinned on Gensokyo, and since Tsukuyomi has no wish to enter a direct war with Earth (and already doubts their place in Luna, given the humans are already beginning to colonize the False Moon), he leaves with the less extremist part of Lunarian society to AnotherDimension, leaving Tenshou and his cronies free to unleash hell upon Humanity.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Maribel is Yukari's. Initially, Patchouli gives her a 55% chance of being Yukari's reincarnation and 30% of being her descendant. Byakuren confirms the former, and she and Maribel chat as to what means to Mary and the afterlife that awaits her. [[spoiler:Yukari is apparently resurrected entirely at the climax through Maribel, but it turns out Mary's just projecting some dim memories and her own vision of Yukari.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Maribel is Yukari's. Initially, Patchouli gives her a 55% chance of being Yukari's reincarnation and 30% of being her descendant. Byakuren confirms the former, and she and Maribel chat as to what means to Mary and the afterlife that awaits her. [[spoiler:Yukari is apparently resurrected entirely at the climax through Maribel, but it turns out Mary's just projecting some dim memories and her own vision of Yukari.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Watatsukis and Lord Tsukuyomi, the ''de facto'' Lunarian rulers.rulers are fairly resonable people. [[spoiler:Jiyuwan, under Lord Tenshou's orders, assassinates the Watatsukis as they're returning from a visit to Eirin, so the blame will be pinned on Gensokyo, and since Tsukuyomi has no wish to enter a direct war with Earth (and already doubts their place in Luna, given the humans are already beginning to colonize the False Moon), he leaves with the less extremist part of Lunarian society to AnotherDimension, leaving Tenshou and his cronies free to unleash hell upon Humanity.]]
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** Maribel is Yukari's. Initially, Patchouli gives her a 55% chance of being Yukari's reincarnation and 30% of being her descendant. Byakuren confirms the former, and she and Maribel chat as to what means to Mary and the afterlife that awaits her. [[spoiler:Yukari is apparently resurrected entirely at the climax through Maribel, but it turns out Mary's just projecting some dim memories and her own vision of Yukari.]]
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** Maribel is Yukari's. Initially, Patchouli gives her a 55% chance of being Yukari's reincarnation and 30% of being her descendant. Byakuren confirms the former, and she and Maribel chat as to what means to Mary and the afterlife that awaits her. [[spoiler:Yukari is apparently resurrected entirely at the climax through Maribel, but it turns out Mary's just projecting some dim memories and her own vision of Yukari.]]
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* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The excuse the Lunarians use. It doesn't do them much good, especially when it's pointed out that the Lunarians should then have no reason to resist if a society superior to them destroyed them for the latter's own sake.
* ScrewYouElves: Even Eientei's resident Lunarians are horrified with Tenshou's actions, which should give you a good idea of how despicable they find his actions.
* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants. [[spoiler: Yukari is able to effortlessly fool him so he will ''always'' ask for her death, when in reality she has been ''long'' dead, and even Maribel can do no more than channel a halfway-realistic Yukari at best.]]
* ScrewYouElves: Even Eientei's resident Lunarians are horrified with Tenshou's actions, which should give you a good idea of how despicable they find his actions.
* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants. [[spoiler: Yukari is able to effortlessly fool him so he will ''always'' ask for her death, when in reality she has been ''long'' dead, and even Maribel can do no more than channel a halfway-realistic Yukari at best.]]
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* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The excuse the Lunarians use.use to justify destroying the Earth is that it's their right as superior beings to humans and youkai. It doesn't do them much good, especially when it's pointed out that the Lunarians should then have no reason to resist if a society superior to them destroyed them for the latter's own sake.
* ScrewYouElves: Even Eientei's resident Lunarians are horrified withTenshou's actions, Tenshou, which should give you a good idea of how despicable they find his actions.
* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants.[[spoiler: Yukari [[spoiler:Yukari is able to effortlessly fool him so he will ''always'' ask for her death, when in reality she has been ''long'' dead, and even Maribel can do no more than channel a halfway-realistic Yukari at best.]]
* ScrewYouElves: Even Eientei's resident Lunarians are horrified with
* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants.
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* SpaceElves: Again, the Lunarians.
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* SuccessionCrisis: The Tengu have a relatively functioning meritocracy as government. This worked pretty well for them [[spoiler:until they realized that the Lunarian attack meant their bureaucracy would have no time to set a legitimate successor in case the Great Tengu was killed. The ancestral option was to invoke MightMakesRight, but the idea of a civil war in the middle of said attack was so unthinkable, the Great Tengu preferred to stay put, let himself die, and declare his assassin's killer his successor. Thankfully, between this and the assassin's OnlyTheWorthyMayPass force field, Momiji's rise becomes indisputable.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: This property of lunar rabbits is shared by Lord Shimeri, one of the Lunarian generals, who uses it to coordinate his attacks. [[spoiler:He tries convincing Reisen to surrender via this method while attempting to infiltrate Eientei himself. Distracted, he gets knocked into a pit trap and killed by Tei, bellowing telepathically, first to be released, and at the end, begging for mercy.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: This property of lunar rabbits is shared by Lord Shimeri, one of the Lunarian generals, who uses it to coordinate his attacks. [[spoiler:He tries convincing Reisen to surrender via this method while attempting to infiltrate Eientei himself. Distracted, he gets knocked into a pit trap and killed by Tei, bellowing telepathically, first to be released, and at the end, begging for mercy.]]
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* SuccessionCrisis: The Tengu have a relatively functioning meritocracy as government. This worked pretty well for them [[spoiler:until they realized realize that the Lunarian attack meant means their bureaucracy would have no time to set a legitimate successor in case the Great Tengu was killed. The ancestral option was is to invoke MightMakesRight, but the idea of a civil war in the middle of said attack was is so unthinkable, the Great Tengu preferred prefers to stay put, let himself die, and declare his assassin's killer his successor. Thankfully, between this and the assassin's OnlyTheWorthyMayPass force field, Momiji's rise becomes indisputable.]]
* {{Telepathy}}:This The property of lunar rabbits to communicate mentally is shared by Lord Shimeri, one of the Lunarian generals, who uses it to coordinate his attacks. [[spoiler:He tries convincing Reisen to surrender via this method while attempting to infiltrate Eientei himself. Distracted, he gets knocked into a pit trap and killed by Tei, bellowing telepathically, first to be released, and at the end, begging for mercy.]]
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Lunarian assassin Jiyuwan struggles with this, and is immensely proud when his son Akiyoshi makes his choice to Good without the same hangups.
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Lunarian assassin Jiyuwan struggles with this, his loyalty to the Lunarians versus his personal morals, and is immensely proud when his son Akiyoshi makes his choice to Good without the same hangups.
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: This is how Renko and Maribel ended up in gensokyo in the first place, being a punishment by the Lunarias because they trepassed their territory in Magical Astronomy.
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: This is how Renko and Maribel ended up are trapped in gensokyo Gensokyo in the first place, being place as a punishment by the Lunarias because they trepassed Lunarians for trespassing on their territory in Magical Astronomy.during ''Magical Astronomy''.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Lord Tenshou gets to enjoy the success of his plan for less than five seconds before Yukari shows him just how thoroughly she's owned him.]]
* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:Tenshi]] asks this of the Lunarian that killed her OnlyFriend. The answer (no) and the response ([[DrivenToSuicide a suicide attempt]]) so enrage her the silly ditz ''[[TheGlovesComeOff decides to get serious]]''.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:Tenshi]] asks this of the Lunarian that killed her OnlyFriend. The answer (no) and the response ([[DrivenToSuicide a suicide attempt]]) so enrage her the silly ditz ''[[TheGlovesComeOff decides to get serious]]''.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Lord Tenshou gets to enjoy the success of his plan for less than five seconds before Yukari shows him just how thoroughly she's owned him.him, which causes him to break down.]]
* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:Tenshi]] asksthis of if the Lunarian that killed her OnlyFriend.OnlyFriend thinks doing so was worth it. The answer (no) and the response ([[DrivenToSuicide a suicide attempt]]) so enrage her the silly ditz ''[[TheGlovesComeOff decides to get serious]]''.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:Tenshi]] asks
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Sareseno Watatsuki moans about the utter disgust he feels towards the unchanging stillness of the True Moon.
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly bloodthirsty Lunarian gets in a brutal fight with Yuuka, [[spoiler: who she barely manages to kill. Moments later, as she's luxuriating in her victory, she starts choking on Medicine's poisons and suffers a NeckSnap for her troubles.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly bloodthirsty Lunarian gets in a brutal fight with Yuuka, [[spoiler: who she barely manages to kill. Moments later, as she's luxuriating in her victory, she starts choking on Medicine's poisons and suffers a NeckSnap for her troubles.]]
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Sareseno Watatsuki moans about the utter disgust he feels towards the unchanging stillness of the True Moon.
Moon and the attempted amortality of its residents.
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly bloodthirsty Lunarian gets in a brutal fight with Yuuka,[[spoiler: who [[spoiler:who she barely manages to kill. Moments later, as she's luxuriating in her victory, she starts choking on Medicine's poisons and suffers a NeckSnap for her troubles.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly bloodthirsty Lunarian gets in a brutal fight with Yuuka,
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* AlternateContinuity: Because this fanfic was made when Magical Astronomy was the latest CD Drama of the Secret Sealing Club available at the time [[note] Magical Astronomy was released the 13th of august in 2006, while A New World was released in the 16th of october in 2010 [[/note]], it can be clear that the events of Trojan Green Asteroid hasn't happened yet [[note]] which was released in the 30th of April in 2012 [[/note]].
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* AlternateContinuity: Because this fanfic was made when Magical Astronomy was the latest CD Drama of the Secret Sealing Club available at the time [[note] [[note]] Magical Astronomy was released the 13th of august in 2006, while A New World was released in the 16th of october in 2010 [[/note]], it can be clear that the events of Trojan Green Asteroid hasn't happened yet [[note]] which was released in the 30th of April in 2012 [[/note]].
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* NextSundayAD: Being a fanfic based on the Secret Sealing Club, it takes place around a future date (which according to Alice, it was 3000 years from her point of view). Despite that, Maribel seems to own a music player.
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: This is how Renko and Maribel ended up in gensokyo in the first place, being a punishment by the Lunarias because they trepassed their territory in Magical Astronomy.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Eiki, while very critical of Maribel's use of Yukari's power, agrees with her, as she has been waiting to judge the Lunarians for a ''very'' long time...
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* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill worthy of a MagnificentBastard, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants. [[spoiler: Yukari is able to effortlessly fool him so he will ''always'' ask for her death, when in reality she has been ''long'' dead, and even Maribel can do no more than channel a halfway-realistic Yukari at best.]]
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* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill worthy of a MagnificentBastard, skill, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants. [[spoiler: Yukari is able to effortlessly fool him so he will ''always'' ask for her death, when in reality she has been ''long'' dead, and even Maribel can do no more than channel a halfway-realistic Yukari at best.]]
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Turns out Renko's abilities, with the proper focus, can become lethal {{Game Breaker}}s. [[spoiler: Inspired by the [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]] and Flandre's power, she gives herself the ability to find the "pressure point" of objects.]]
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* NukeEm: [[spoiler:The Lunarians fake enormous amounts of telemetry data in order to trick the world governments into annihilating Earth. And even then they would have most likely failed had they not chosen to use even worse methods in order to trigger the ensuing holocaust.]]
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* NukeEm: [[spoiler:The Lunarians fake enormous amounts of telemetry data in order to trick the world governments into annihilating Earth. And even then they would have most likely failed had they not chosen to use even worse methods in order to trigger the ensuing holocaust.humans refused to launch the missiles, so the Lunarians did it for them, dooming both humanity and themselves.]]
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6403057/1/A_New_World_Book_1 A]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6564866/1/A_New_World_Book_2 New]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7222819/1/A_New_World_Book_3 World]]'' is a completed ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' FanFiction series written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2028203/Iced-Fairy Iced Fairy]], relating a look at the possible future of Gensokyo in which [[TheChessmaster local chessmistress]] Yukari Yakumo is long dead.
Just as ''Neo-traditionalism of Japan'' ends, inquisitive college student Maribel Hearn opens a portal to the True Moon, followed by her loyal friend Renko Usami. However, mere moments after materializing, the Watatsuki sisters confront them, banishing them to Gensokyo, whose borders have been severely tightened following the death of Yukari three hundred years before. From there, the girls seek their place in the decaying wonderland, as the shadow of Yukari hangs overhead. Death has not stopped the Phantasm of Boundaries' plans, and it all somehow ties with the civil unrest in the True Moon and the expansion of the human world into its surface.
An epic fic in three parts, it uses a cavalcade of ContinuityPorn with some original characters, many of the latter descendants of named characters of the original games. The setting is darker in many places than the original canon, yet it feels like a seamless continuation of Gensokyo's story as it considers the implications of the death of one of its most powerful characters, brilliantly developing one-note characters into fully-developed people, deconstructing Yukari's myth and the consequences it has for Maribel, and an unspeakably ambitious BatmanGambit that closes the trilogy in a dramatic finale.
Iced Fairy also has written [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8701927/1/Stories-in-a-New-World a mini sequel series]] detailing other characters and how they were affected by the events of the main fic, and a number of standalone stories, most of which can be considered as extra worldbuilding for this one.
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!!''A New World'' provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: And many do.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 3A, [[spoiler: with the human genocide at the hands of the Lunarians.]]
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Flandre's power is interpreted along these lines. More specifically, what it does is find a thing's (or a person's) point of maximum stress, then take that point to Flandre's hand, where she can effortlessly overload it, blowing it to kingdom come.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler: Following Momiji's victory against the Lunarian assassin Jiyuwan, not only is she recognized as the new Great Tengu, but Kanako, acknowledging her as the ruler of the greatest nation remaining in the country, officially declares her the new Shogun of Japan.]]
* BatmanGambit: Yukari plays a frightening one. [[spoiler: First, long before [[Manga/TouhouBougetsushou the second Lunar Invasion]], she had the old Tachibana head killed by Suika. This ensured the family would harbor a deadly grudge and seek to kill her at all costs. When they successfully killed her, she made sure her soul would reincarnate with her powers intact, so the grudge would not cool. Her reincarnation Maribel continued the chain of falling dominoes by reaching the Moon, cluing the surviving members of the family as to her identity and whereabouts when the Watatsukis kicked her to Gensokyo. This eventually culminated in the coup d' etat that killed the Watatsukis and resulted in attempted extermination of humanity. This resulted in Gensokyo's boundaries fading and the greatest Lunarian weapons unusable, ensuring war on Earth. And ''that'' was merely a colossal feint to distract Acala, the watcher god of the North Star, to allow the Great Dragon of the Big Dipper to attack him. With Acala dead, the youkai ceased to be subject to mortal thought, completing ''all of Yukari's goals''.]] Yukari herself lampshades how impractically complex the plan would have been had she not had the complete certainty everyone would be dancing to her tune, and how the ''only'' ones who could have stopped it... were the Watatsukis, [[spoiler:by leaving Earth in complete peace]].
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: Maribel versus Yukari. Except not.]]
* BigBad: Lord Tenshou. [[spoiler:Who is effortlessly upstaged by [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind Everything]], Yukari.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Once Momiji gets past her reservations and finds the strength to call for help, [[spoiler:Kanako appears to stall Jiyuwan, allowing Momiji to deal the killing blow.]]
* BloodMagic: A variant is used to summon [[spoiler:Mima.]]
* CallBack: The animosity between the Scarlet Devil Mansion and the Moon is referenced multiple times.
* CardCarryingVillain: Ran says this of Flandre. She herself hates the idea and does not relish the role.
* CombatHandFan: [[spoiler:When helping Momiji against Jiyuwan, Kanako combines a katana with a heavy metal tessen.]]
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: After [[spoiler:changing the rules at Eientei, after suffering radiation exposure]], Maribel suffers a heart attack. Ran punches her in the chest to restart her heart. It's not particularly pretty, but Mary does get off a lot lighter than she should have.
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Tenshi gives Heaven's Mercy to the Lunarian warrior who killed Suika, stopping her suicide attempt and instead cursing her never to die until all of the damage the Lunarians inflicted upon Earth is healed, ordering her to aid others even at her own detriment.]]
* DawnOfAnEra: [[spoiler: The end result of Yukari's plans is a merged world where magic and science can peacefully coexist and youkai are no longer slaves to human thought.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Yukari. Her ThanatosGambit hinges entirely on the Lunarians being moronic enough not to accept it.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: Everyone from Eientei save Tei. Kaguya even lampshades she's come to love Earth's beautiful impurity in contrast to Luna's pretentions.
* DePower: Eirin hoped to keep Lunarian revenge in check by ensuring her weapons would all suffer this when used by an impure wielder or in war against humans. [[spoiler: When Maribel changes the rules, every Lunarian weapon of mass destruction and most of their best technology stops working, heavily hindering Tenshou's plans.]]
* {{Determinator}}: '''Mokou'''. Kept in place by an anti-Hourai immortal poison and paralyzed with a high-voltage taser, she literally explodes in rage when the Lunarian attempting to seal her makes the mistake of saying she won't manage to help Keine.
* DoNotGoGentle: The Lunarians who refused to leave the True Moon are comparable to the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Eldar]] in their ruthlessness and desire to stay alive, killing countless billions of humans to ensure the survival of two hundred and twenty Lunarians.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Lord Shimeri. [[spoiler: Unlike the other Lunarians, he's interested in ruling Earth, and intends to establish an empire with Eientei as its capital and Kaguya as his wife.]]
* EndOfAnAge: Yukari's death locked Gensokyo's boundaries, cutting off the premier source of human meat for the local youkai, slowly dragging human-youkai relations back to the more brutal combat styles before spellcards. For the Scarlet Devil Mansion, following Meiling's death of age, Sakuya challenged Youmu to a DuelToTheDeath out of grief. It ended in a MutualKill. The grief of the death of two of her friends struck Remilia badly, so she entered torpor and put Flandre in charge of the mansion, having added Marisa, Alice, Huian (Meiling and Sakuya's daughter), Dinah (Alice and Koakuma's daughter) and Juri (Marisa and Alice's daughter) to the Mansion's roster.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler:The Lunarians outright commit genocide in an effort to remain "pure".]]
* ExactWords: Ellen's prophecy states that, out of the main powers, only the Moriya Shrine, the Myouren Temple and Eientei will remain in Gensokyo after the battle. [[spoiler:The Scarlet Devil Mansion is accidentally shunted into Makai; Hitomi Hakurei dies while her daughter Kanon moves to Former Hell with Orin following her transformation into a kassha, leaving the Hakurei Shrine to be occupied by Maribel and Renko; and the Mountain rises as the new ruling house of the entire country.]]
* {{Facepalm}}: Ran when Renko of all people suggests an extremely simple solution to her current dilemma. [[spoiler:Ran wants to keep Maribel in Gensokyo, since if she gets out it's extremely unlikely she will ever be able to return due to the hardened boundary. Renko simply suggests moving to a third location first and from there to Gensokyo. Ran's very frustrated that the idea never occurred to her, in spite of Makai filling the requirements to a T.]]
* FantasticRacism: The Lunarians' obsession with purity leads them to commit unthinkable acts against Earth.
* FateWorseThanDeath: A rival of Eirin takes a Hourai Elixir prototype that only blocks violent death, thinking that her natural Lunarian purity will protect her against natural death. [[spoiler: Eirin reveals said prototype, like Hourai itself, is intrinsically flawed and impure, and that it destroyed said purity when taken. Marisa uses the moment to trap the Lunarian within the burning core of her Hakkero, ensuring she'll burn and regenerate continuously for the rest of her natural life.]]
* FeedItWithFire: The Lunarian in charge of cowing the fairies into submission keeps using high-level spellcards against Cirno, not realizing the conceptual energy he's using to power his spells, unlike heat, could be absorbed by the fairy. By the time Aya points it out, Cirno has gorged on enough energy to almost consume the power of a spellcard invoking the spirit of fire itself.
* FingerInTheMail: As a response to the Lunarians' offer of "pardon", Flandre sends back a box containing three scrolls (one involving bestiality, another with a rabbit stew recipe, and another stew recipe [[{{Squick}} with a different main ingredient]]) and the ears of the messenger. [[spoiler:Who actually accepted the offer to join the SDM's staff and later had her ears healed.]]
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: [[spoiler:It takes literally less than a minute after Remilia awakens from centuries of torpor to start an argument with Flandre.]]
* GodsHandsAreTied: A literal case, in that Kanako and Suwako would dearly love [[spoiler:to help against the Lunarians, but they are unable to do so unless someone calls for their help (otherwise they can be banished with zero effort). Both are tremendously frustrated that the main factions in Gensokyo refuse to call them for fear of looking weak when the much more physical threat of the Lunarians is literally knocking down the door.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: Kanako, when she sees the Lunarian invasion is imminent and that nobody is going to fight them head-on, asks Suwako [[spoiler:to release the [[AnimalisticAbomination Mishaguji]].]]
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Turns out Renko's abilities, with the proper focus, can become lethal {{Game Breaker}}s. [[spoiler: Inspired by the [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]] and Flandre's power, she gives herself the ability to find the "pressure point" of objects.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Mystia. Keine tries to save her by transforming her into a protective spirit for the village, but Mystia refuses, on the grounds that she wasn't helping the humans - she just hated the Lunarians, and as a free youkai, she finds the idea of being bound to a single place intolerable. Keine accepts her decision, acknowledging even youkai would need heroes in the new era.]]
* HigherTechSpecies: The Lunarians. [[spoiler:This lasts until Maribel's changes render the vast bulk of Lunarian tech useless, per Eirin's designs. While they remain fearsome enemies to Gensokyo, they can no longer be considered on the same league as they were once, and their tiny numbers and their virulent hatred for humanity and youkai all but doom the species.]]
* AHouseDivided: Gensokyo's denizens, if they were capable of working together, could theoretically launch a ZergRush to curb stomp the Lunarians; Kanako notices their focus in attacking Eientei means a decisive sweep could outright wipe them out. However, of the main ruling houses, the kappa would not fight alone, the oni chose not to enter the fray (except for Suika), and the Tengu have problems with their MightMakesRight leadership (there's no clear successor and there would be likely a SuccessionCrisis). [[spoiler: This works until Tenshou's assassin kills the Great Tengu, allowing Momiji to become the new Great Tengu by right of battle by killing said assassin. This averts the problem entirely, allowing her to order full mobilization of the Tengu and Kappa armies. After that, it becomes a battle of attrition the Lunarians simply can't win.]]
* HumansAreInsects: Lord Tenshou's opinion. Eirin disagrees, if only to grant some minimal value to a mortal's life.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Many Lunarians. Toyohime even ponders tossing a Hourai branch at one to see what would happen.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Ran, after Yukari's death, had to take very difficult decisions that resulted in the end of Gensokyo's golden era, and was partly responsible for Hitomi Hakurei's hate for her job, but she feels the needs necessitate the means. She hates every second of it and is desperate to change things to the good old days, but is largely powerless to change things, leaving Gensokyo in a slow decline, until Maribel arrives and the boundaries start weakening to their "normal" levels. Even then, she's willing to sort of help her... by forcing her to transform into a youkai, so she can have time to fix Gensokyo without worrying about her mortal lifetime. [[spoiler:When confronted with incontrovertible evidence of her manipulations, Ran collapses and begs Maribel to help, forgoing the aloof attitude she'd kept until then.]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: It was this trait that allowed [[spoiler: Momiji]] to kill Jiyuwan, and in succession, become the new Great Tengu.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Mima]] was apparently killed this way.
** [[spoiler: Daiyousei]] shanks the Lunarian sent to keep the fairies down with an icicle before he can unleash his final spellcard.
* IronicEcho: "[[TearJerker Why?]]"
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Eiki, while very critical of Maribel's use of Yukari's power, agrees with her, as she has been waiting to judge the Lunarians for a ''very'' long time...
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Watatsuki sisters, an enormous fraction of all humans worldwide, Suika, Mystia, Hitomi Hakurei, Yuuka, an enormous amount of low-level youkai, most of the remaining Lunarians, and, in a sense, Yukari - she's been DeaderThanDead for ''more than three hundred years before the story even starts'', it takes the Lunarians that long to realize and acknowledge it.]]
* LodgedBladeRecycling: [[spoiler: Kanon Hakurei]] takes the knife lodged in [[spoiler: Mima's]] back and uses it to kill the Lunarian assailant [[spoiler: who just killed her mother.]]
* MagicFeather: Byakuren tricks Maribel into invoking a mantra so she can unlock the vast bulk of her power. Truth be told, all she needed to do was to ''believe''.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The [[spoiler:supposed]] BigBad, and indeed, ''every'' character in Gensokyo, Luna and Earth, is shown to be a puppet to Yukari.
* ManBitesMan: [[spoiler:Momiji tears out Jiyuwan's throat out like this.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: To absolutely no one's surprise, Yukari. Three hundred years after her death and everyone's ''still'' dancing to her tune.
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: [[spoiler: After Acala is attacked by the great dragon, a downpour of dragon blood washes over Gensokyo, granting youkai power to normal people and increasing the power levels of normal youkai. Kanon Hakurei, one of the few remaining direct descendants of Reimu's, is soaked in the blood and is transformed into a kassha.]]
* MassOhCrap: Everyone from Gensokyo, ''even Ran'', gets frightened out of their minds when [[spoiler:Yukari's fully revived, apparently at the expense of Maribel]].
** Mere instants later, [[spoiler: Yukari triggers another one from ''everyone'', from both sides, when she reveals [[DawnOfAnEra the sheer extent of her master plan]].]]
--> [[spoiler: ''"That's right. I started a war with the moon, wiped out half the youkai in existence, assassinated your father, arranged my own death, and set the stage for this bloody, terrible war that's already killed billions. And it was all just a diversion!"'']]
* MergedReality: [[spoiler: Yukari's ultimate triumph - the successful fusion of the worlds of magic and science.]]
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Utsuho's taken out of commission after her divine abilities instead feed her the pain of countless innocents screaming for mercy as they die of the nukes]].
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Yukari tries to warn her executioners. They don't listen.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: None of the Eientei residents finds the Lunarian plan to be anything less than utterly repulsive.
* NonActionBigBad: Lord Tenshou. Unusually, he's fully aware of his status as such and his glaring deficiencies as a military leader, and would very much prefer to play second banana to a better commander; however, the nature of his power ensures he'll be named primary tactician anyway. [[spoiler:Yukari uses this trait to utterly screw him over.]]
* NotSoHarmless: ''[[TheBarnum Tei]]. [[LittleMissConArtist Inaba]].''
** The fairies, but especially Cirno ''[[spoiler:and Daiyousei]]''. The Lunarian warrior sent to keep them down refuses to believe them a credible threat and dies like a chump.
* NukeEm: [[spoiler:The Lunarians fake enormous amounts of telemetry data in order to trick the world governments into annihilating Earth. And even then they would have most likely failed had they not chosen to use even worse methods in order to trigger the ensuing holocaust.]]
* OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: Jiyuwan's personal energy shield only allows pure beings to pass. [[spoiler:Momiji manages to clear her heart in time to kill him.]]
* PortalNetwork: Maribel repeats Yukari's trick of opening a portal through the moon's reflection shining in a pond to reach the True Moon.
* PsychicPowers: Sareseno Watatsuki is a psychometer. He uses his power to record the history of the rise and fall of his race.
* PureIsNotGood: Youkai can never be pure no matter how good they behave. Celestials and most gods can never become impure no matter how vile they behave, while Lunarians have to work to mantain their purity. Killing impure beings such as youkai or humans for the benefit of pure beings is considered a pure act. [[spoiler:For the sake of an utterly hypocritical "purity", the Lunarians almost annihilate humanity and remain pure. Until Maribel changes the rules and kicks them off their high pedestal.]]
* ThePurge: Many moon rabbits refused to execute the order to eradicate humanity. For their moral integrity they were executed as traitors.
* RealityWarper: Maribel changes certain rules of reality to ensure the Lunarians cease to be pure.
* RewritingReality: [[spoiler:After being soaked in dragon blood, Keine starts wielding her hakutaku powers to literally rewrite history, turning the entire battle against the Lunarians with hundreds of little actions that cumulatively ruin their offensive. She also ponders using the power to save Mystia, but ultimately decides against it given she chose death of her own will and that in the new era, even youkai would require heroes.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Watatsukis and Lord Tsukuyomi, the ''de facto'' Lunarian rulers. [[spoiler:Jiyuwan, under Lord Tenshou's orders, assassinates the Watatsukis as they're returning from a visit to Eirin, so the blame will be pinned on Gensokyo, and since Tsukuyomi has no wish to enter a direct war with Earth (and already doubts their place in Luna, given the humans are already beginning to colonize the False Moon), he leaves with the less extremist part of Lunarian society to AnotherDimension, leaving Tenshou and his cronies free to unleash hell upon Humanity.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Maribel is Yukari's. Initially, Patchouli gives her a 55% chance of being Yukari's reincarnation and 30% of being her descendant. Byakuren confirms the former, and she and Maribel chat as to what means to Mary and the afterlife that awaits her. [[spoiler:Yukari is apparently resurrected entirely at the climax through Maribel, but it turns out Mary's just projecting some dim memories and her own vision of Yukari.]]
** Yuyuko implies the Lunarian warrior Akiyoshi is [[spoiler:Youmu]]'s reincarnation.
* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler:Hitomi Hakurei dies a short time before she was due to retire and pass on her duties to her daughter.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:The Lunarians use a centuries-old murder to justify their attempt at extermination. Lunarian warrior Shoutoku gets it particularly bad, so when Tenshi decides to stop fooling and show her what her revenge really means, [[VillainousBreakdown she doesn't take it well.]] ]]
* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The excuse the Lunarians use. It doesn't do them much good, especially when it's pointed out that the Lunarians should then have no reason to resist if a society superior to them destroyed them for the latter's own sake.
* ScrewYouElves: Even Eientei's resident Lunarians are horrified with Tenshou's actions, which should give you a good idea of how despicable they find his actions.
* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill worthy of a MagnificentBastard, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants. [[spoiler: Yukari is able to effortlessly fool him so he will ''always'' ask for her death, when in reality she has been ''long'' dead, and even Maribel can do no more than channel a halfway-realistic Yukari at best.]]
* ShatterpointTap: After some thought, Renko classifies Flandre's power as a variation that has the additional game-breaking benefit of moving an object's point of maximum stress to her hand, where she can easily overload it with her magic, blowing them up. [[spoiler:She later manages to manipulate her own visual powers to give herself a similar ability.]]
* ShoutOut: Yukari uses many of SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS' lines from ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''. Each line fits perfectly in context, and really, only adds to Yukari's status as TheDreaded.
** In Chapter 8, she is also implied to have gone through an ObiWanMoment, quoting Obi-Wan word for word to her murderers' faces.
* SiblingRivalry: Between Remilia and Flandre. After Flan got her turn to lead the Mansion for a couple of centuries and matured a bit, both sisters start butting heads on authority issues.
* SpaceElves: Again, the Lunarians.
* StronglyWordedLetter: The Scarlet Devil Mansion's denizens have a brief discussion on how to best respond to the utterly insulting offer of the Lunarians to "spare" them when they come down to raze Gensokyo. Marisa espouses a ClusterFBomb-laden answer, while Patchouli prefers something more subtly insulting.
* SuccessionCrisis: The Tengu have a relatively functioning meritocracy as government. This worked pretty well for them [[spoiler:until they realized that the Lunarian attack meant their bureaucracy would have no time to set a legitimate successor in case the Great Tengu was killed. The ancestral option was to invoke MightMakesRight, but the idea of a civil war in the middle of said attack was so unthinkable, the Great Tengu preferred to stay put, let himself die, and declare his assassin's killer his successor. Thankfully, between this and the assassin's OnlyTheWorthyMayPass force field, Momiji's rise becomes indisputable.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: This property of lunar rabbits is shared by Lord Shimeri, one of the Lunarian generals, who uses it to coordinate his attacks. [[spoiler:He tries convincing Reisen to surrender via this method while attempting to infiltrate Eientei himself. Distracted, he gets knocked into a pit trap and killed by Tei, bellowing telepathically, first to be released, and at the end, begging for mercy.]]
* TemptingFate: Koakuma mentions at the first dinner she has with Maribel and Renko that they probably will never have to deal with Lunarians again.
* ThanatosGambit: Yukari's plans included her death as a key requirement. Three hundred years later, they were completed without a single hitch.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Lunarian assassin Jiyuwan struggles with this, and is immensely proud when his son Akiyoshi makes his choice to Good without the same hangups.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Cirno]]'s powers are massively boosted when she eats most of the power of an attacking Lunarian's spellcards. [[spoiler:Daiyousei kills the Lunarian before he can complete the final card, as she's terrified of what Cirno could become, fully knowing that fairies aren't meant to hold that kind of power.]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Yukari confided part of her plan to Yuyuko. Keeping perfectly in character for both, Yuyuko spilling the beans might have been part of said plan.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Mima]] unleashes hell on [[spoiler:Hitomi Hakurei]]'s killer for murdering the descendant of one of the two people who believed she had any right to exist.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Lord Tenshou gets played like a cheap kazoo by Yukari.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Lord Tenshou gets to enjoy the success of his plan for less than five seconds before Yukari shows him just how thoroughly she's owned him.]]
* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:Tenshi]] asks this of the Lunarian that killed her OnlyFriend. The answer (no) and the response ([[DrivenToSuicide a suicide attempt]]) so enrage her the silly ditz ''[[TheGlovesComeOff decides to get serious]]''.
* WhoDares: ''"Who are you to judge me?"''. Said by Mary to ''Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu'', '''''[[OhCrap Chief Judge of Hell]]'''''. Kaguya's left paralyzed with laughter.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Sareseno Watatsuki moans about the utter disgust he feels towards the unchanging stillness of the True Moon.
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly bloodthirsty Lunarian gets in a brutal fight with Yuuka, [[spoiler: who she barely manages to kill. Moments later, as she's luxuriating in her victory, she starts choking on Medicine's poisons and suffers a NeckSnap for her troubles.]]
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Just as ''Neo-traditionalism of Japan'' ends, inquisitive college student Maribel Hearn opens a portal to the True Moon, followed by her loyal friend Renko Usami. However, mere moments after materializing, the Watatsuki sisters confront them, banishing them to Gensokyo, whose borders have been severely tightened following the death of Yukari three hundred years before. From there, the girls seek their place in the decaying wonderland, as the shadow of Yukari hangs overhead. Death has not stopped the Phantasm of Boundaries' plans, and it all somehow ties with the civil unrest in the True Moon and the expansion of the human world into its surface.
An epic fic in three parts, it uses a cavalcade of ContinuityPorn with some original characters, many of the latter descendants of named characters of the original games. The setting is darker in many places than the original canon, yet it feels like a seamless continuation of Gensokyo's story as it considers the implications of the death of one of its most powerful characters, brilliantly developing one-note characters into fully-developed people, deconstructing Yukari's myth and the consequences it has for Maribel, and an unspeakably ambitious BatmanGambit that closes the trilogy in a dramatic finale.
Iced Fairy also has written [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8701927/1/Stories-in-a-New-World a mini sequel series]] detailing other characters and how they were affected by the events of the main fic, and a number of standalone stories, most of which can be considered as extra worldbuilding for this one.
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!!''A New World'' provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: And many do.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 3A, [[spoiler: with the human genocide at the hands of the Lunarians.]]
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Flandre's power is interpreted along these lines. More specifically, what it does is find a thing's (or a person's) point of maximum stress, then take that point to Flandre's hand, where she can effortlessly overload it, blowing it to kingdom come.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler: Following Momiji's victory against the Lunarian assassin Jiyuwan, not only is she recognized as the new Great Tengu, but Kanako, acknowledging her as the ruler of the greatest nation remaining in the country, officially declares her the new Shogun of Japan.]]
* BatmanGambit: Yukari plays a frightening one. [[spoiler: First, long before [[Manga/TouhouBougetsushou the second Lunar Invasion]], she had the old Tachibana head killed by Suika. This ensured the family would harbor a deadly grudge and seek to kill her at all costs. When they successfully killed her, she made sure her soul would reincarnate with her powers intact, so the grudge would not cool. Her reincarnation Maribel continued the chain of falling dominoes by reaching the Moon, cluing the surviving members of the family as to her identity and whereabouts when the Watatsukis kicked her to Gensokyo. This eventually culminated in the coup d' etat that killed the Watatsukis and resulted in attempted extermination of humanity. This resulted in Gensokyo's boundaries fading and the greatest Lunarian weapons unusable, ensuring war on Earth. And ''that'' was merely a colossal feint to distract Acala, the watcher god of the North Star, to allow the Great Dragon of the Big Dipper to attack him. With Acala dead, the youkai ceased to be subject to mortal thought, completing ''all of Yukari's goals''.]] Yukari herself lampshades how impractically complex the plan would have been had she not had the complete certainty everyone would be dancing to her tune, and how the ''only'' ones who could have stopped it... were the Watatsukis, [[spoiler:by leaving Earth in complete peace]].
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: Maribel versus Yukari. Except not.]]
* BigBad: Lord Tenshou. [[spoiler:Who is effortlessly upstaged by [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind Everything]], Yukari.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Once Momiji gets past her reservations and finds the strength to call for help, [[spoiler:Kanako appears to stall Jiyuwan, allowing Momiji to deal the killing blow.]]
* BloodMagic: A variant is used to summon [[spoiler:Mima.]]
* CallBack: The animosity between the Scarlet Devil Mansion and the Moon is referenced multiple times.
* CardCarryingVillain: Ran says this of Flandre. She herself hates the idea and does not relish the role.
* CombatHandFan: [[spoiler:When helping Momiji against Jiyuwan, Kanako combines a katana with a heavy metal tessen.]]
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: After [[spoiler:changing the rules at Eientei, after suffering radiation exposure]], Maribel suffers a heart attack. Ran punches her in the chest to restart her heart. It's not particularly pretty, but Mary does get off a lot lighter than she should have.
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Tenshi gives Heaven's Mercy to the Lunarian warrior who killed Suika, stopping her suicide attempt and instead cursing her never to die until all of the damage the Lunarians inflicted upon Earth is healed, ordering her to aid others even at her own detriment.]]
* DawnOfAnEra: [[spoiler: The end result of Yukari's plans is a merged world where magic and science can peacefully coexist and youkai are no longer slaves to human thought.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Yukari. Her ThanatosGambit hinges entirely on the Lunarians being moronic enough not to accept it.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: Everyone from Eientei save Tei. Kaguya even lampshades she's come to love Earth's beautiful impurity in contrast to Luna's pretentions.
* DePower: Eirin hoped to keep Lunarian revenge in check by ensuring her weapons would all suffer this when used by an impure wielder or in war against humans. [[spoiler: When Maribel changes the rules, every Lunarian weapon of mass destruction and most of their best technology stops working, heavily hindering Tenshou's plans.]]
* {{Determinator}}: '''Mokou'''. Kept in place by an anti-Hourai immortal poison and paralyzed with a high-voltage taser, she literally explodes in rage when the Lunarian attempting to seal her makes the mistake of saying she won't manage to help Keine.
* DoNotGoGentle: The Lunarians who refused to leave the True Moon are comparable to the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Eldar]] in their ruthlessness and desire to stay alive, killing countless billions of humans to ensure the survival of two hundred and twenty Lunarians.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Lord Shimeri. [[spoiler: Unlike the other Lunarians, he's interested in ruling Earth, and intends to establish an empire with Eientei as its capital and Kaguya as his wife.]]
* EndOfAnAge: Yukari's death locked Gensokyo's boundaries, cutting off the premier source of human meat for the local youkai, slowly dragging human-youkai relations back to the more brutal combat styles before spellcards. For the Scarlet Devil Mansion, following Meiling's death of age, Sakuya challenged Youmu to a DuelToTheDeath out of grief. It ended in a MutualKill. The grief of the death of two of her friends struck Remilia badly, so she entered torpor and put Flandre in charge of the mansion, having added Marisa, Alice, Huian (Meiling and Sakuya's daughter), Dinah (Alice and Koakuma's daughter) and Juri (Marisa and Alice's daughter) to the Mansion's roster.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler:The Lunarians outright commit genocide in an effort to remain "pure".]]
* ExactWords: Ellen's prophecy states that, out of the main powers, only the Moriya Shrine, the Myouren Temple and Eientei will remain in Gensokyo after the battle. [[spoiler:The Scarlet Devil Mansion is accidentally shunted into Makai; Hitomi Hakurei dies while her daughter Kanon moves to Former Hell with Orin following her transformation into a kassha, leaving the Hakurei Shrine to be occupied by Maribel and Renko; and the Mountain rises as the new ruling house of the entire country.]]
* {{Facepalm}}: Ran when Renko of all people suggests an extremely simple solution to her current dilemma. [[spoiler:Ran wants to keep Maribel in Gensokyo, since if she gets out it's extremely unlikely she will ever be able to return due to the hardened boundary. Renko simply suggests moving to a third location first and from there to Gensokyo. Ran's very frustrated that the idea never occurred to her, in spite of Makai filling the requirements to a T.]]
* FantasticRacism: The Lunarians' obsession with purity leads them to commit unthinkable acts against Earth.
* FateWorseThanDeath: A rival of Eirin takes a Hourai Elixir prototype that only blocks violent death, thinking that her natural Lunarian purity will protect her against natural death. [[spoiler: Eirin reveals said prototype, like Hourai itself, is intrinsically flawed and impure, and that it destroyed said purity when taken. Marisa uses the moment to trap the Lunarian within the burning core of her Hakkero, ensuring she'll burn and regenerate continuously for the rest of her natural life.]]
* FeedItWithFire: The Lunarian in charge of cowing the fairies into submission keeps using high-level spellcards against Cirno, not realizing the conceptual energy he's using to power his spells, unlike heat, could be absorbed by the fairy. By the time Aya points it out, Cirno has gorged on enough energy to almost consume the power of a spellcard invoking the spirit of fire itself.
* FingerInTheMail: As a response to the Lunarians' offer of "pardon", Flandre sends back a box containing three scrolls (one involving bestiality, another with a rabbit stew recipe, and another stew recipe [[{{Squick}} with a different main ingredient]]) and the ears of the messenger. [[spoiler:Who actually accepted the offer to join the SDM's staff and later had her ears healed.]]
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: [[spoiler:It takes literally less than a minute after Remilia awakens from centuries of torpor to start an argument with Flandre.]]
* GodsHandsAreTied: A literal case, in that Kanako and Suwako would dearly love [[spoiler:to help against the Lunarians, but they are unable to do so unless someone calls for their help (otherwise they can be banished with zero effort). Both are tremendously frustrated that the main factions in Gensokyo refuse to call them for fear of looking weak when the much more physical threat of the Lunarians is literally knocking down the door.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: Kanako, when she sees the Lunarian invasion is imminent and that nobody is going to fight them head-on, asks Suwako [[spoiler:to release the [[AnimalisticAbomination Mishaguji]].]]
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Turns out Renko's abilities, with the proper focus, can become lethal {{Game Breaker}}s. [[spoiler: Inspired by the [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]] and Flandre's power, she gives herself the ability to find the "pressure point" of objects.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Mystia. Keine tries to save her by transforming her into a protective spirit for the village, but Mystia refuses, on the grounds that she wasn't helping the humans - she just hated the Lunarians, and as a free youkai, she finds the idea of being bound to a single place intolerable. Keine accepts her decision, acknowledging even youkai would need heroes in the new era.]]
* HigherTechSpecies: The Lunarians. [[spoiler:This lasts until Maribel's changes render the vast bulk of Lunarian tech useless, per Eirin's designs. While they remain fearsome enemies to Gensokyo, they can no longer be considered on the same league as they were once, and their tiny numbers and their virulent hatred for humanity and youkai all but doom the species.]]
* AHouseDivided: Gensokyo's denizens, if they were capable of working together, could theoretically launch a ZergRush to curb stomp the Lunarians; Kanako notices their focus in attacking Eientei means a decisive sweep could outright wipe them out. However, of the main ruling houses, the kappa would not fight alone, the oni chose not to enter the fray (except for Suika), and the Tengu have problems with their MightMakesRight leadership (there's no clear successor and there would be likely a SuccessionCrisis). [[spoiler: This works until Tenshou's assassin kills the Great Tengu, allowing Momiji to become the new Great Tengu by right of battle by killing said assassin. This averts the problem entirely, allowing her to order full mobilization of the Tengu and Kappa armies. After that, it becomes a battle of attrition the Lunarians simply can't win.]]
* HumansAreInsects: Lord Tenshou's opinion. Eirin disagrees, if only to grant some minimal value to a mortal's life.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Many Lunarians. Toyohime even ponders tossing a Hourai branch at one to see what would happen.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Ran, after Yukari's death, had to take very difficult decisions that resulted in the end of Gensokyo's golden era, and was partly responsible for Hitomi Hakurei's hate for her job, but she feels the needs necessitate the means. She hates every second of it and is desperate to change things to the good old days, but is largely powerless to change things, leaving Gensokyo in a slow decline, until Maribel arrives and the boundaries start weakening to their "normal" levels. Even then, she's willing to sort of help her... by forcing her to transform into a youkai, so she can have time to fix Gensokyo without worrying about her mortal lifetime. [[spoiler:When confronted with incontrovertible evidence of her manipulations, Ran collapses and begs Maribel to help, forgoing the aloof attitude she'd kept until then.]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: It was this trait that allowed [[spoiler: Momiji]] to kill Jiyuwan, and in succession, become the new Great Tengu.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Mima]] was apparently killed this way.
** [[spoiler: Daiyousei]] shanks the Lunarian sent to keep the fairies down with an icicle before he can unleash his final spellcard.
* IronicEcho: "[[TearJerker Why?]]"
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Eiki, while very critical of Maribel's use of Yukari's power, agrees with her, as she has been waiting to judge the Lunarians for a ''very'' long time...
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Watatsuki sisters, an enormous fraction of all humans worldwide, Suika, Mystia, Hitomi Hakurei, Yuuka, an enormous amount of low-level youkai, most of the remaining Lunarians, and, in a sense, Yukari - she's been DeaderThanDead for ''more than three hundred years before the story even starts'', it takes the Lunarians that long to realize and acknowledge it.]]
* LodgedBladeRecycling: [[spoiler: Kanon Hakurei]] takes the knife lodged in [[spoiler: Mima's]] back and uses it to kill the Lunarian assailant [[spoiler: who just killed her mother.]]
* MagicFeather: Byakuren tricks Maribel into invoking a mantra so she can unlock the vast bulk of her power. Truth be told, all she needed to do was to ''believe''.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The [[spoiler:supposed]] BigBad, and indeed, ''every'' character in Gensokyo, Luna and Earth, is shown to be a puppet to Yukari.
* ManBitesMan: [[spoiler:Momiji tears out Jiyuwan's throat out like this.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: To absolutely no one's surprise, Yukari. Three hundred years after her death and everyone's ''still'' dancing to her tune.
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: [[spoiler: After Acala is attacked by the great dragon, a downpour of dragon blood washes over Gensokyo, granting youkai power to normal people and increasing the power levels of normal youkai. Kanon Hakurei, one of the few remaining direct descendants of Reimu's, is soaked in the blood and is transformed into a kassha.]]
* MassOhCrap: Everyone from Gensokyo, ''even Ran'', gets frightened out of their minds when [[spoiler:Yukari's fully revived, apparently at the expense of Maribel]].
** Mere instants later, [[spoiler: Yukari triggers another one from ''everyone'', from both sides, when she reveals [[DawnOfAnEra the sheer extent of her master plan]].]]
--> [[spoiler: ''"That's right. I started a war with the moon, wiped out half the youkai in existence, assassinated your father, arranged my own death, and set the stage for this bloody, terrible war that's already killed billions. And it was all just a diversion!"'']]
* MergedReality: [[spoiler: Yukari's ultimate triumph - the successful fusion of the worlds of magic and science.]]
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Utsuho's taken out of commission after her divine abilities instead feed her the pain of countless innocents screaming for mercy as they die of the nukes]].
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Yukari tries to warn her executioners. They don't listen.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: None of the Eientei residents finds the Lunarian plan to be anything less than utterly repulsive.
* NonActionBigBad: Lord Tenshou. Unusually, he's fully aware of his status as such and his glaring deficiencies as a military leader, and would very much prefer to play second banana to a better commander; however, the nature of his power ensures he'll be named primary tactician anyway. [[spoiler:Yukari uses this trait to utterly screw him over.]]
* NotSoHarmless: ''[[TheBarnum Tei]]. [[LittleMissConArtist Inaba]].''
** The fairies, but especially Cirno ''[[spoiler:and Daiyousei]]''. The Lunarian warrior sent to keep them down refuses to believe them a credible threat and dies like a chump.
* NukeEm: [[spoiler:The Lunarians fake enormous amounts of telemetry data in order to trick the world governments into annihilating Earth. And even then they would have most likely failed had they not chosen to use even worse methods in order to trigger the ensuing holocaust.]]
* OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: Jiyuwan's personal energy shield only allows pure beings to pass. [[spoiler:Momiji manages to clear her heart in time to kill him.]]
* PortalNetwork: Maribel repeats Yukari's trick of opening a portal through the moon's reflection shining in a pond to reach the True Moon.
* PsychicPowers: Sareseno Watatsuki is a psychometer. He uses his power to record the history of the rise and fall of his race.
* PureIsNotGood: Youkai can never be pure no matter how good they behave. Celestials and most gods can never become impure no matter how vile they behave, while Lunarians have to work to mantain their purity. Killing impure beings such as youkai or humans for the benefit of pure beings is considered a pure act. [[spoiler:For the sake of an utterly hypocritical "purity", the Lunarians almost annihilate humanity and remain pure. Until Maribel changes the rules and kicks them off their high pedestal.]]
* ThePurge: Many moon rabbits refused to execute the order to eradicate humanity. For their moral integrity they were executed as traitors.
* RealityWarper: Maribel changes certain rules of reality to ensure the Lunarians cease to be pure.
* RewritingReality: [[spoiler:After being soaked in dragon blood, Keine starts wielding her hakutaku powers to literally rewrite history, turning the entire battle against the Lunarians with hundreds of little actions that cumulatively ruin their offensive. She also ponders using the power to save Mystia, but ultimately decides against it given she chose death of her own will and that in the new era, even youkai would require heroes.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Watatsukis and Lord Tsukuyomi, the ''de facto'' Lunarian rulers. [[spoiler:Jiyuwan, under Lord Tenshou's orders, assassinates the Watatsukis as they're returning from a visit to Eirin, so the blame will be pinned on Gensokyo, and since Tsukuyomi has no wish to enter a direct war with Earth (and already doubts their place in Luna, given the humans are already beginning to colonize the False Moon), he leaves with the less extremist part of Lunarian society to AnotherDimension, leaving Tenshou and his cronies free to unleash hell upon Humanity.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Maribel is Yukari's. Initially, Patchouli gives her a 55% chance of being Yukari's reincarnation and 30% of being her descendant. Byakuren confirms the former, and she and Maribel chat as to what means to Mary and the afterlife that awaits her. [[spoiler:Yukari is apparently resurrected entirely at the climax through Maribel, but it turns out Mary's just projecting some dim memories and her own vision of Yukari.]]
** Yuyuko implies the Lunarian warrior Akiyoshi is [[spoiler:Youmu]]'s reincarnation.
* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler:Hitomi Hakurei dies a short time before she was due to retire and pass on her duties to her daughter.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:The Lunarians use a centuries-old murder to justify their attempt at extermination. Lunarian warrior Shoutoku gets it particularly bad, so when Tenshi decides to stop fooling and show her what her revenge really means, [[VillainousBreakdown she doesn't take it well.]] ]]
* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The excuse the Lunarians use. It doesn't do them much good, especially when it's pointed out that the Lunarians should then have no reason to resist if a society superior to them destroyed them for the latter's own sake.
* ScrewYouElves: Even Eientei's resident Lunarians are horrified with Tenshou's actions, which should give you a good idea of how despicable they find his actions.
* {{Seers}}: Lord Tenshou has a variant of this power: he can ask how many people (and who) to assign to a specific task in order to maximize the probability of a particular result. While normally a priceless skill worthy of a MagnificentBastard, Tenshou is not the brightest commander and is dependent on the wording of the results he wants. [[spoiler: Yukari is able to effortlessly fool him so he will ''always'' ask for her death, when in reality she has been ''long'' dead, and even Maribel can do no more than channel a halfway-realistic Yukari at best.]]
* ShatterpointTap: After some thought, Renko classifies Flandre's power as a variation that has the additional game-breaking benefit of moving an object's point of maximum stress to her hand, where she can easily overload it with her magic, blowing them up. [[spoiler:She later manages to manipulate her own visual powers to give herself a similar ability.]]
* ShoutOut: Yukari uses many of SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS' lines from ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''. Each line fits perfectly in context, and really, only adds to Yukari's status as TheDreaded.
** In Chapter 8, she is also implied to have gone through an ObiWanMoment, quoting Obi-Wan word for word to her murderers' faces.
* SiblingRivalry: Between Remilia and Flandre. After Flan got her turn to lead the Mansion for a couple of centuries and matured a bit, both sisters start butting heads on authority issues.
* SpaceElves: Again, the Lunarians.
* StronglyWordedLetter: The Scarlet Devil Mansion's denizens have a brief discussion on how to best respond to the utterly insulting offer of the Lunarians to "spare" them when they come down to raze Gensokyo. Marisa espouses a ClusterFBomb-laden answer, while Patchouli prefers something more subtly insulting.
* SuccessionCrisis: The Tengu have a relatively functioning meritocracy as government. This worked pretty well for them [[spoiler:until they realized that the Lunarian attack meant their bureaucracy would have no time to set a legitimate successor in case the Great Tengu was killed. The ancestral option was to invoke MightMakesRight, but the idea of a civil war in the middle of said attack was so unthinkable, the Great Tengu preferred to stay put, let himself die, and declare his assassin's killer his successor. Thankfully, between this and the assassin's OnlyTheWorthyMayPass force field, Momiji's rise becomes indisputable.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: This property of lunar rabbits is shared by Lord Shimeri, one of the Lunarian generals, who uses it to coordinate his attacks. [[spoiler:He tries convincing Reisen to surrender via this method while attempting to infiltrate Eientei himself. Distracted, he gets knocked into a pit trap and killed by Tei, bellowing telepathically, first to be released, and at the end, begging for mercy.]]
* TemptingFate: Koakuma mentions at the first dinner she has with Maribel and Renko that they probably will never have to deal with Lunarians again.
* ThanatosGambit: Yukari's plans included her death as a key requirement. Three hundred years later, they were completed without a single hitch.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Lunarian assassin Jiyuwan struggles with this, and is immensely proud when his son Akiyoshi makes his choice to Good without the same hangups.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Cirno]]'s powers are massively boosted when she eats most of the power of an attacking Lunarian's spellcards. [[spoiler:Daiyousei kills the Lunarian before he can complete the final card, as she's terrified of what Cirno could become, fully knowing that fairies aren't meant to hold that kind of power.]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Yukari confided part of her plan to Yuyuko. Keeping perfectly in character for both, Yuyuko spilling the beans might have been part of said plan.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Mima]] unleashes hell on [[spoiler:Hitomi Hakurei]]'s killer for murdering the descendant of one of the two people who believed she had any right to exist.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Lord Tenshou gets played like a cheap kazoo by Yukari.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Lord Tenshou gets to enjoy the success of his plan for less than five seconds before Yukari shows him just how thoroughly she's owned him.]]
* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:Tenshi]] asks this of the Lunarian that killed her OnlyFriend. The answer (no) and the response ([[DrivenToSuicide a suicide attempt]]) so enrage her the silly ditz ''[[TheGlovesComeOff decides to get serious]]''.
* WhoDares: ''"Who are you to judge me?"''. Said by Mary to ''Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu'', '''''[[OhCrap Chief Judge of Hell]]'''''. Kaguya's left paralyzed with laughter.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Sareseno Watatsuki moans about the utter disgust he feels towards the unchanging stillness of the True Moon.
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly bloodthirsty Lunarian gets in a brutal fight with Yuuka, [[spoiler: who she barely manages to kill. Moments later, as she's luxuriating in her victory, she starts choking on Medicine's poisons and suffers a NeckSnap for her troubles.]]
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