History Fanfic / CitadelOfTheHeart

** 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. [[Administrivia/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.]]

* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Ultimorians can't put much of a fight up against {{Muggles}} using the specialized Soul Link equipment to take them down; essentially the Soul Link uses the strength of one's own emotions to give them power to achieve being able to defy all odds, which means anybody with a normal mentally equipped with the Soul Link could in practice take down any Ultimorian Deity. Just ask Suguha who had to do just that for Chronicler is ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''[='s=] first arc, or even the Lyoko Warriors who did it three months prior with a garbage version of it against Mirror M.]]

** Asuna is hit with this via RealityEnsues regarding her real life self not being an ActionGirl at all, but in her avatar forms of the same name she's an Aversion of this trope.

* RealityEnsues:
** Everyone either takes their phones out to photograph them, or every single mortal known to exist bows before the presence of a Phase 7 Ultimorian Deity; any Phase form of a Primordial Deity gets the same reaction. Not only that, they're gigantic and prone to massive amounts of collateral damages.
** Ash Ketchum's somewhat overpowered nature in ''Truth and Ideals'' is a parallel to actual players of the ''Pokémon'' games who use competitively built Pokémon teams for the main story of the game, and then [[spoiler:either keep their competence in Battle Facilities such as the Battle Subway, or the whole team suffers TheWorfEffect because of the RNG's ability to create teams in the Battle Subway which can screw you over to no end.]]
** In a horror based story, a large, bipedal humanoid monstrosity begins speaking and one of the many tropes of horror is that if it can speak, it cheapens the horror. What does the creature itself have to say about this?
--->"So a large, bipedal humanoid walks up to you and begins talking, and you suddenly think that's not scary. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Alright, prove it; name one other life-form that exists in the real world aside from a human with the same general body template and size as one that can also speak perfectly such as you and I.]] [[RealityEnsues Can't think of anything? Precisely;]] [[OhCrap I'm the only other example you know of as you see]]."
** One of the horror elements of ''The Beast'' comes from the son's desire to out-compete his father in the game, and during one recording session forgets to take his night, morning, and afternoon medication for the following 24 hours until finally gets some sleep the next day. The son begins to fall under SanitySlippage towards morning, in which he's desperately trying to chase down every animal he has a tag for all the while getting lost due to forgetting the map exists, even when he clearly selects it only to ignore it due to his tiredness. As he continues through the game, he enters Nanuk for the first time in a campaign mode, on Hard Mode, and he has managed to claim bears in the previous regions just fine, but by this point his ability to think is clearly showing more of his SanitySlippage; he is persistent to not fail his secondary goals even if it endangers him, he has extreme difficulty accomplishing his primary goal (polar bear) because of the difficulty settings tagged.
** [[spoiler:Why Chronicler gets off with only minimal scolding at best for his actions in the first arc of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''; he's completely innocent, because it's the ''[[ExactWords other]]'' Chronicler who is the actual guilty one here, in which Takato Ryusei gets struck down by Ultima for his crimes, whereas Damion Eriksen ends up taking counselling from his old man to recover from the MindRape he had to endure from two differing parties, as well as attending school with Suguha to help further his recovery.]]
** [[spoiler:Grandis meanwhile gets scolded big time despite his AuthorAvatar nature because even though he has an excuse for his behavior, it's not a justification for it at the same time.]]
** The reason why ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' opts to use the [=MaterialEye=] instead of the canon VR headsets? VR still requires the person to be awake, meaning the situations as seen in the canon series are flat out impossible in real-life, since in the canon they were basically sleeping. The death game is impossible to pull off, thus that's AdaptedOut. As players are also likewise fully awake, Death Gun [[ExactWords cannot exist in his original context.]]

** Johnny and Milly both end up trying to have Mirror M and Stormcloud do dog tricks. Mirror M simply walks off in annoyance, but Stormcloud seems compliant to perform... until he's asked to roll over, in which he simply raises his wings in an intimidating display and then folds them back to his side. [[RealityEnsues Stormcloud, as a six-limbed dragon with both robust legs and wings, lacks a feasible way to willingly get onto his back in such an otherwise simple gesture]], [[StealthInsult and so he's raising his wings in defiance to show the kids he's unable to perform that stunt.]]

* FamousLastWords:
** "No... NO! This can't be real! How could I lose to such pathetic runts?!" [[spoiler:Ghetsis, death by rampaging Necrozma.]]
** "Oh this had better be important, as in somebody be dying or-" [[spoiler:Kayabe Akihiko, death by [[BoomHeadshot Headshot]] in [[KilledMidSentence mid-sentence]].]]
** [[ThisIsGonnaSuck ".̛.͝.͜ ̶Don'͘t̢ eve̸n̸."́]] [[spoiler:Darigus, "death" by the [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Hat of Discipline]].]]

* AmbiguouslyBrown: ''Starlight Ablaze'' both depicts and has a major plot point with the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto Region]] as having people who have an inherently dark skin be completely exotic when compared to the average, pale skinned Kantonian human. Brock's lineage has his grandfather hailing from Kalos or possibly Alola (Brock never could recall which region exactly, and it's never outright confirmed which region his grandfather comes from), who has significantly dark skin as to make Brock almost appear white by comparison. Sina, who is depicted in ''Starlight Ablaze'' as having been born in Kanto ([[AgeLift and as a 15-16 year old]], just like the PowerTrio of the fic), has a dark enough skin tone to make her completely stick out like a sore thumb compared to anyone else her age who is also native to Kanto. [[spoiler:When she and Blue meet, Blue's completely caught off guard by her dark skin because she basically made Blue mentally compare her to a Shiny because of not just her darker skin coloration than almost 95% of Kanto's natives, but also because of her PurpleHair and crystal blue eyes; [[AmbiguouslyHuman a combination of these three traits is implied to not be completely natural.]]]] It's worth noting that this also coincides with the games themselves; even in the likes of ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', if the player happens to pick the darkest skin coloration at the beginning, they'll never encounter anyone else in the game who has anywhere near the same dark skin as they do.

** Jeri obtains Impmon as her partner Digimon when already by this point, Takato, Henry, and Ruki have [=WarGrowlmon=], Rapidmon, and Taomon respectively. In the canon, this is actually the exact same situation with the latter PowerTrio as to when Jeri obtains Leomon; the PowerTrio, by the time Jeri obtains Leomon as her partner in the original series, are all capable of achieving Ultimate Level by that point.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: [[spoiler:Grandis]] keeps referring to the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come as the Ghost of Christmas Future, and so does the author for that matter. When it comes to the actual adaptation proper, however, the name of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is spoken for correctly as Mr. Boss (Scrooge) refers to [[spoiler:Grandfather]] as the "Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come".

* PredationIsNatural: Creator/MF217's personal stance in regards to carnivorous creatures appearing in his fics and preying on wild game like they would in real life. It's not treated with any sort of taboo, and only tends to cause issue in any of the stories if the prey items are primarily humans or an equivalent of such sapient species. Anthropomorphic animals are not given the same treatment as humans in this regard, however, and the implied humanization of other creatures such as Digimon or Pokémon as both franchises went forward don't make them shunned for acting on their own base instincts when it comes to their diets. In short, predation =/= malevolence in an individual character or creature.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** ''Truth and Ideals'' is somewhat notorious for sneaking in incredibly blatant sexual references at times despite the fic being rated T, even on [=AO3=]. To this day, nobody had ever batted an eye at the content in ''Truth and Ideals'' or the lack of any content warnings despite the aforementioned sexual content, semi-graphic violence later down the road, [[spoiler:flat out murder and later attempted genocide, an abusive father BigBad, and the fact said father, Ghetsis, tries to invoke OffingTheOffspring directly by attempting to flat out kill N when he's in a complete moment of weakness.]]
** {{Subverted}} with ''Digimon Re: Tamers''. The opening prologue has a scene of [[spoiler:a nightmare in which an impostor in the guise of Takato chloroforms Jeri]], but the Author's Note mentions how the fic is supposed to be K+. The scene in question caused the author to, at the last second, change the rating to T because he knew the standards of FF.net's rating guidelines wouldn't remotely let a scene akin to [[spoiler:AttemptedRape]] slide so lightly, especially as something that happens in the prologue as part of an EstablishingCharacterMoment that Jeri is a very troubled and mentally challenged girl. [[spoiler:Then it turns out her father is also a part of TheMafia.]]
** Keeping the fact ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' was originally supposed to be K+ in mind, [[spoiler:Chapter 8 gives us an EldritchAbomination who fits in at home in a horror game than he does ''Digimon'', whose mere presence and shed fragments cause everything to transform into a FireAndBrimstoneHell upon contact. That's not even getting into the fact Impmon's evolution line, rather than using Meramon and [=SkullMeramon=] from the canon, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything uses Devimon and NeoDevimon in their places and in heroic roles]].]]
** ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' as well as ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' on their [=AO3=] releases have ''no'' radar to speak of, meaning all of their DarkerAndEdgier and HotterAndSexier content is ''completely'' uncut.

* [[FiveRaces Eleven Races]]: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' with it's 11 races, 9 of which already present at the beginning of the fic.
** Human[[note]](generic class system but is not restricted to a given class type. While at first rather ordinary in concept, their unique SuperMode allows them to temporarily exceed the stats of any other race for a short duration, but upon the duration ending, either weapon durability degrades rapidly or HP drains at an alarming rate depending on specialization type.)[[/note]]
** Feral[[note]](absurdly high customization features allowing them to possess Werebeast forms of virtually any animal known to exist. Racial trait varies immensely based off of the type of animal mixed in.)[[/note]]
** Orc[[note]](Revisionist type, human characters can gain a permanent transformation dubbed a "Giant" by completing a questline in relation to the NPC Orcs. Cannot use specific ranged weapons.)[[/note]]
** Troll[[note]](Traditional Orc archetype. Passively increases the amount of loot per enemy kill regardless of class.)[[/note]]
** Goblins[[note]](Unique class system that allows it to master every class, but can only be one class at a time. Gains a slightly larger amount of experience than normal compared to other races, but is more vulnerable to damage over time.)[[/note]]
** Elf[[note]](Specializes in ranged and magic weaponry; very weak when it comes to melee skills.)[[/note]]
** Dwarf[[note]](No specialization of any kind and is generally underwhelming, but get a massive 75% off of repair fees regardless of repair NPC or method on equipment.)[[/note]]
** Fiend[[note]](A ghostly entity capable of escaping from battle and player notice quickly with SuperSmoke. Deahtly Ill status upon infliction lasts only half as long as normal.)[[/note]]
** Fay[[note]](Crafting and gathering gains experience significantly faster than combat does, and their crafting and gathering skills are unequaled.)[[/note]]
** Demon[[note]](A High Rank Race only available after certain progression. Any player race prior to its introduction can be converted into one as a one time choice between either it or Angel. Racial skills of the prior race is maintained with only stats majorly buffed in comparison. Treated as a SuperMode for any race who has this form.)[[/note]]
** Angel[[note]](A High Rank Race only available after certain progression. Any player race prior to its introduction can be converted into one as a one time choice between either it or Demon. Racial skills of the prior race is maintained with only stats majorly buffed in comparison. Treated as a SuperMode for any race who has this form.)[[/note]]
** A 12th Race was added in later on, in the wake of Chronicler's existence being better understood; Halfling[[note]](Looting kills in low level zones after exceeding a certain level causes any of the items found that normally bind upon loot to be eligible for trade just once.)[[/note]]

You can read most of the stories [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4019435/ here]] (all SFW) or [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/MightyFan217/works here]] (some NSFW). '''Beware, however, as the tropes below detail spoilers for events that have not actually been posted into the stories proper, but are confirmed to be from finalized [[MemeticMutation (or near final)]] drafts for the stories overall and thus are confirmed to be a part of the story. Some of these spoilers may be unmarked, but some are kept under tags if they end up going more in-depth.'''

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The androids that exist in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', ''Reflection Code'', and ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' 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.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: At least OnceAnEpisode with some type of small animal, the most common being mammals, that are in some way native to the story's native surroundings being present for a quick cameo at most. A major exception, but also the most prominent role, is Ultimorian Deity Rose, who {{Deconstruct}}s this trope.

** The girls in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' by all means have their more feminine qualities present, but as to how much it actually effects their character is up to the individual of the girls. Sora is even ''more'' feminine than her ''02'' self was, Mimi inverts this by being more masculine in some areas and more or less being in charge of her relationship with Koushirou and not the other way around. Miyako takes this even further in comparison in regards to her relationship with Ken if merely because [[{{Adorkable}} Ken is too flustered very easily by romantic advances from Miyako]]. Hikari is a sort of blend of Sora and Mimi's differing amounts of femininity, and the one true aversion to this trope is none other than [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize Rina]]]].

** Ash Ketchum had been sheltered all of his life until he became a Pokémon Trainer, but he still showcases a lot of connections to his anime incarnation as an {{Adorkable}} trainer who has a strong bond with his Pokémon, even if it means having to overcome overwhelming odds to get to where he is by the end.

** Chronicler, while he deconstructs a lot of elements in his characterization and design, does tend to be a cheerful, {{Adorkable}} main lead who at the very least learns to appreciate life for what it is and how he doesn't try and force himself onto Suguha when he knows that would be wrong to do so.