History Fanfic / CitadelOfTheHeart

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: {{Subverted}} if one had already seen the promotional artwork and cover artwork for ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' featuring Jeri wearing Takato's goggles. [[spoiler:This is a bit of an off-screen plot point that Takato had given Jeri his goggles as a means of reassuring her that YouAreBetterThanYouThink against bullies. The Takato doppelganger still has goggles, whereas the real Takato does not.]]

* InternalReveal: Impmon's entire encounter with Raiga at the beginning of ''Digimon Re: Tamers'', as well as the fact Impmon's already been long fully evolved when back in the Digital World as Beelzemon Blast Mode, is not known by the other human characters in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' until the very end of Chapter 8 and the beginning of Chapter 9, in which Raiga herself appears in the real world before Impmon and the others.

* KillerRabbit: An unusual roadblock appears before the Lyoko Warriors during a BreatherEpisode when they need to get to certain places, and constantly end up having to cross paths with an aggressive male [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polecat-ferret_hybrid polecat-ferret hybrid]]. Unlike a regular polecat, a hybrid of it and its domestic subspecies possesses greater eyesight[[note]](how it keeps noticing them so easily)[[/note]], and greater physical capabilities [[note]](why Kiwi, who is small enough to be around the same size but nowhere near as heavily built, is so afraid of it)[[/note]]. That and combined with the wild subspecies' aggressive nature, combined with a LoopholeAbuse in the generic Naotolis' AI[[note]][[spoiler:(they become suddenly skittish when something goes in to attack them before they themselves get the chance first)]][[/note]], and you've got a BadassNormal that ''even the Naotolis want nothing to do with''.

* CanonWelding: ''Dinotopia: The Miniseries Retold'' attempts to do so by retelling the events of the miniseries to be more TruerToTheText, all the while incorporating aspects from other parts of the franchise, such as audio dramas of certain books, as well as a passing reference to the guardians from the video game made for home consoles [[spoiler:as what ultimately plays a big importance in dealing with the fact their weaponry is a ''huge'' AchillesHeel for an Ultimorian Deity who has a CripplingOverspecialization issue.]]

** Due to the AdaptationalVillainy Omnicron goes through compared to [[Film/WarGames Joshua]], even if Omnicron is based off of it, Diablomon, or Love Machine, because of Omnicron flat out being malevolent, it'll never be classified as being exactly like its three inspirations. [[TropesAreNotBad To be fair]], this was also done to make sure Omnicron didn't end up being a flat out ripoff of Joshua like how some could see Diablomon and Love Machine as being.

* IndecisiveDeconstruction: [[WordOfGod The author admits]] most people will view ''Truth and Ideals'' as it currently is as this; out of all of the fics, it was not intended from the start to be a {{Deconstruction}} in the first place, so whatever elements of such were accidental at most. Not only that, but EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was in full force with this fic, even by the time it had ended despite the improvements made to the author's writing in general later down the road. This plays a huge factor into why the author plans on remastering ''Truth and Ideals'', and currently considers the original version an OldShame.

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** The androids that exist in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code'' are essentially higher grade, mass produced versions of androids such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actroid Actroids]] that already exist in real-life, minus the much more advanced AI and more human-like capabilities.
** Mirror M is described in the backstory as getting hit with Tsar Bomba, which the story notes was a 100 megaton nuclear warhead instead of the 50 megaton nuclear warhead we know it as; the original payload of the bomb in question was indeed 100 megatons, but they halved it out of the possibility the plane would've never escaped the blast radius with such a massive explosion, and even with the nerf the plane ''almost barely'' got dragged into the blast proper before just narrowly avoiding death. Considering Mirror M's situation was the USSR being pushed into the GodzillaThreshold, they likely did take certain things into consideration like in real-life, [[AlternateHistory but ultimately Mirror M forced their hand otherwise.]]
** Most people who are aware of the [[PaletteSwap Palette Swaps]] or UndergroundMonkey Digimon such as Gururumon or Fugamon don't tend to realize they had made their debuts in ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'', rather than being introduced in the anime as rehashes of existing mons for the sake of not using said existing mon. In Fugamon's case, it's an UndergroundMonkey instead of a PaletteSwap because whereas in the anime it's indeed the latter, in the games it lacks Ogremon's horns, making it the former in this case. Also, they're not introduced as obtainable mons; they're {{Mooks}} to fight in the field for bits and to learn new moves for your current Digimon, and only end up being recruits in later installments of the ''Digimon World'' branch of games.
** In the miniseries for ''Dinotopia'', the dinosaurs PlayedStraight the TalkingAnimal trope for the most part... something the books only got away with using certain species of pterosaurs and a fictional species of ''Protoceratops'' called ''Protoceratops multilinguous'', but dialogue implies that Bix's species is one of "few dinosaurs" that can speak human languages, even if she's the only one of such we see of this sort. ''Stenonychosaurus omniloquens''[[note]]"All Speaking Narrow Claw Lizard"[[/note]] is a fictional species as well created by the author to serve more or less the same purpose as ''P. multilinguous'', but the most important detail fans of the books or the miniseries overlook is that despite either or [[ExactWords having the ability to]] ''[[ExactWords speak]]'' [[ExactWords human languages, they most definitely don't]] ''[[ExactWords sound]]'' [[ExactWords human.]]
** ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' has a man named Arthur Lee Samuel as one of the people "helping" the creation of the AIs in the backstory of both this fic and ''Reflection Code''. Naturally, at the year 1954, no such AI like the ones seen in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' would ever exist yet, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Samuel the man named Arthur Lee Samuel himself most certainly did.]]
** Aura's type match-up in ''Truth and Ideals'' is exactly what it is known as to everyone else; [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%3F%3F%3F_(type) a mysterious, little known type that takes and deals neutral damage from or to every other type respectively.]][[note]]Normally this wouldn't seem so obscure, but the knowledge of the type's effectiveness or lack thereof is known ''only'' in ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', and even then you need a Pokémon with Weather Ball under the effects of Shadow Sky to find even that much out as to make sure you don't mistake the typing as the same as the Shadow Moves' effectiveness.[[/note]]
** Etemon's various forms are noted in the Author's Note of Chapter 10 of ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' to be incredibly strong. For those who only know of Etemon from ''Digimon Adventure'', this would seem unusual as Etemon is anything but strong there. However, in ''Digimon World'', Etemon is tied with Monzaemon and Digitamamon for the strongest Ultimate Level Digimon in the game.[[note]]Not counting Phoenixmon and [=HerculesKabuterimon=], because both are actually Mega Level in the later games and media.[[/note]] [=MetalEtemon=] is also noted as a HeroKiller in ''Adventure'', because he's the one who kills [=SaberLeomon=], a fellow Mega Level, and then [[OlympusMons Puppetmon]] also failed to harm [=MetalEtemon=] the previous episode. Also, most notably, Etemon's forms have the title of the "King of Digimon", who possessed "unparalleled strength" as [[https://wikimon.net/Metal_Etemon MetalEtemon's Digimon Reference Book]] biography effectively refers to [=MetalEtemon=] as something akin to an UltimateLifeform.
** The plot point of the [=MaterialEye=] being an InUniverse GameBreaker is effectively the result of the SAO seen in this AU being a GenreThrowback to older [=MMOs=] but as a result of brand new advances in technology and overcoming prior limitations, almost anything new was guaranteed to be a GameBreaker as severe as the [=MaterialEye=]; ''VideoGame/{{Mabinogi}}'' currently experiences the exact same thing, albeit as at a smaller scale, with the biggest example as of writing being the Chain Slash talent tree, which turned the LuckBasedMission to invest in Luck Stat into a massive GameBreaker [[TierInducedScrappy whereas previously it was anything but]].

** While Chapters 19, 20, and 21 of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' are more focused on canon characters, the ending of Chapter 20 and the entirety of Chapter 21 gives us exactly ''why'' the three chapters overall were put on a delay for so long. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Logan Paul controversy not withstanding]], Aokigahara is already prone to ''[[MindScrew weird]]'' activity in the context of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and the ending of Chapter 20 tops off the already weird establishment Grandis has setup in the location by [[spoiler:having [[TheMaker Ultima]] and [[DestroyerDeity Dragora Galaxia]] descend from the heavens to talk with him personally over some serious matters concerning Chronicler which the two Ultimorian Deities only just recently were able to notice.]]

** Heck considering Defcon One is used as the acronym for Numbuh One's introduction in ''Operation R.E.B.O.O.T.'', and it being the only introduction chapters to include [[BigBad Father]] and [[spoiler:the only chapters for a long while to give direct references to [[BiggerBad Grandfather]]]], even when the chapters themselves don't relate to this trope they ''still'' avert this trope.

** Maleviolet's backstory of how only those who lack a true evil in their hearts can truly ride him. [[spoiler:Eidolon, despite being who many think is the {{Bigger Bad}} of the continuity, is able to ride Maleviolet just fine. Who doesn't manage to ride him, though? [[WhamLine Chron]][[BigBadFriend icler]].]]

** [[spoiler:The sheer magnitude of the threat Brondramon poses gets so problematic that Patamon Super Evolves into [=HolyAngemon=] and uses Heaven's Gate to attempt to forcefully suck in the Bronze Dragon Digimon into it in the hopes it would permanently destroy it. Due to how massive [[OurGiantsAreBigger Brond]][[{{Kaiju}} ramon]] is, however, this ends up causing a ''huge'' aversion of the ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding trope, [[WhamEpisode and Takeru]] [[WhatTheHellHero gets called out]] ''[[WhamEpisode big time]]'' [[WhamEpisode for what ensues afterwards.]]]]

* DeconReconSwitch: Despite the overall DeconstructionFic being applied to the fics overall, to the point [[DeconstructionFic/CitadelOfTheHeart it now has a separate page relating to it]], the ''actual'' nature of the continuity overall focuses much more heavily on a consistently inconsistent flip of the DeconReconSwitch. For example, while ''Truth and Ideals'' does have its fair share of {{Deconstruction}} elements, it also has its fair share of {{Reconstruction}} elements, such as the fact while there are sometimes {{Aversions}} of the NonLethalKO, there are many times where it's played straight just like in the games; something one would not expect from a standard, DarkerAndEdgier Deconstruction which had proven to kill characters off when it truly wants to.

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