Line #138 Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies


1	A {{Crossover}} between ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' and ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' by Creator/GabrielBlessing, that started out like [[ButForMeItWasTuesday another typical crazy week]] for [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]].
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3	In this case, fighting a [[EldritchAbomination Walker]] on the wrong side of [[EldritchLocation the Outer Gates]] [[HeroicSacrifice after sealing them]]. As a last ditch effort, Harry decided to use [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique the most destructive method he knows to deal with it]]; [[YinYangBomb combining Hellfire with Soulfire]]. It worked... somehow.
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5	However, he finds another problem; a horizon-spanning dragon, that ''even'' the Walker is ''terrified'' of, now approaching both of them. With no other option, Harry turned to [[FallenAngel Lash]] for help and [[BlindJump opens a Way]]....
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7	And ends up in Japan, of all places. [[FountainOfYouth In a teenage body]]. [[NoodleIncident Long story short]], [[Literature/HighSchoolDXD he enrolled in Kuoh Academy]] and hilarity ensues.
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9	So, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10202330/1/Beyond-the-Outer-Gate-Lies read on]] as [[ShellShockedVeteran Harry]] rediscovers [[HormoneAddledTeenager how much he hates hormones]], [[PoorCommunicationKills bullies]] [[SatanIsGood innocent]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent school devils]], and indulges in [[BuddyCopShow Buddy Cop antics with]] [[HearingVoices the voices in his head!]]
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11	The original story is a DeadFic, last updated on July, 2014, consisting in 3 chapters and 140,000 words. The two initial scenes of Chapter 4 were released by the author on a forum -- titled ''The Missing Files'' and including the "GenderBender Gun" episode -- and can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13577106/1/Beyond-the-Outer-Gates-Lies-The-Missing-Files here]] or [[https://www.fanfiction.net/topic/88086/107502467/2/Compilation-Beyond-the-Outer-Gates-Lies-Dragons-by-Gabriel-Blessing#117735341 here]].
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13	The ongoing {{recursive\|Fanfiction}} {{continuation\|Fic}} by Creator/XavonWrentaile titled ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGatesLiesAHighSchoolLibrary'' has its own page.
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15	!!''Beyond the Outer Gate Lies...'' provides examples of:
16	* AchievementsInIgnorance: Harry developed a protective enchantment against the power of Light for his coat, as it is his policy whenever someone tries to kill him with something new, without knowing that non-Holy, Light-resistant items that Devils can use are unheard-of in Bizarro World. It's no wonder he left Rias and Sona's Peerages in StunnedSilence when he mentioned it in passing.
17	* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The Hero Faction appears in this fic much earlier than they do in canon, attracted by the possibility of recruiting Harry. [[spoiler:Then they kidnap him during the Kuoh Conference to [[LockedOutOfTheFight lock him out of the fight]] and officially offer him to join them.]]
18	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In a weird gender inversion [[spoiler: the scars on Harry's female form give him (her?) a rugged appearance that enhances his (her?) attractive to the male gender.]]
19	* AlmostKiss: Harry and Sona have a [[SlapSlapKiss Slap-Slap-Almost Kiss]]; she is pulling his cheeks and he is mussing her hair when they trip and fall into a compromising position. They then almost kiss, but Saji stops them.
20	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents:
21	** Serafall to Sona are the sibling variant. The first time the Sitri sisters were in the same room with Harry, Serafall thoroughly embarrassed her younger sister by revealing that Sona has been asking their mother for love advice and studying books and magazines for dating pointers. This is the one time the usually unflappable StudentCouncilPresident completely loses her calm and runs away with her hands covering her face like the teenager girl that she is.
22	** More like "Amazingly Embarrassing ''Ancestor''", but whatever Sona's did centuries ago to get described as [[Literature/ArsGoetia "[she] enflameth men with Women's love, and Women with Men's love; and causeth them also to show themselves naked if it be desired"]] ''really'' gets the strait-laced StudentCouncilPresident's goat.
23	* AndCallHimGeorge: Mentioned almost verbatim by Dresden, during the fight with Raynare:
24	-->One of these days, I swear: a monster or creature that slithers in the night that is actually physically weaker than a human. I will find it. I will make it my pet. I will name it George.
25	* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: Adds ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''[='=] [[EldritchAbomination Outsiders]] as the Squids to the existing ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' Angel and Devils.
26	* AngerBornOfWorry: Harry's ChronicHeroSyndrome and Sona's TeamMom-ness tend to mix into this. Not a good thing when Harry is coming down from using the Winter Mantle because his SuperpoweredEvilSide tends to register her worry-filled scolding as a challenge to its authority.
27	* AttractiveBentGender: Pretty much everyone. Special mention to [[spoiler:Harry, who remarked how "uncomfortably good looking" his tall and shapely female form was, his numerous scars giving "her" an appealing dangerous sort of air rather than detracting from her beauty at all.]]
28	* AuthorAppeal: Compared with his [[Fanfic/TheHillOfSwords other]] [[Fanfic/InFlight works]], Gabriel Blessing shows certain taste in his stories:
29	** The protagonist entering a scene unfamiliar to him, but still can make connection. Though sometimes, he can be wrong, and it will be PlayedForDrama.
30	** The protagonist [[UnderestimatingBadassery gets underestimated early]], with the [[SmugSnake underestimator]] going through BreakTheHaughty.
31	** The protagonist shows DeadpanSnarker tendencies.
32	** The protagonist [[HaremGenre attracts more than one woman]], either by being badass and/or being a NiceGuy.
33	* BalancedHarem: {{Invoked\|Trope}}. Sona and Tsubasa have some tacit rules about how they go about the romantic pursuit of Harry. The gist of it seems to be that each of them can take things as far as they comfortable with the other girl getting with him. This is why Tsubasa was in fact ''disappointed'' that Harry and Sona's private magic study sessions are actually just that -- otherwise, she'd have considered fair game to be a little more daring in her seduction attempts.
34	* BizarroUniverse: Harry refers to the ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' universe as this, and it fits the profile. In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', devils and angels (both regular and Fallen) are pillars of creation, have nigh-infinite power, can only be created by God, and are almost as hard to kill, [[spoiler:and God is alive]]. Magic functions on willpower and emotion, and causes users to become {{Walking Techbane}}s. And the wizard never gets the girls. In ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'', most devils aren't that much stronger than humans, they can reproduce normally or turn humans into devils, and can be killed almost as easily, [[spoiler:and GodIsDead]]. Magic is performed with complex math, and has no negative effects on technology (what first tips him off to the fact that he's in a new world, is the fact that the hospital machinery he was hooked up too was still functioning, even when his emotions were flaring). He's also getting some female attention...
35	* BlindJump: This is how Dresden wound up in the middle of Japan in a teenaged body.
36	* BreakTheHaughty: Raynare openly mocks Harry even after he practically handed her ass. Then Harry uses [[TrueSight Soulgaze]] on her.
37	-->[[HumanoidAbomination And I wasn't a very nice person these days]].
38	* BullyHunter: Harry, which is why he got (politely) kicked out of the school he attended before Kuoh.
39	* BullyingADragon:
40	** Literally, the Hero Faction wants to kill Great Red, a dragon with [[{{Kaiju}} teeth longer than Dresden is tall]], as said wizard himself puts it, and leaves others alone as long as they don't hang around the Dimensional Void, in order to prove humanity's strength. And this doesn't even take into account his defense of the world against the Outsiders...
41	** For a less serious example, don't try to play TheGadfly at Harry's expense if you don't want him to answer in kind. Tsubaki learned this the hard way when her attempt to put Harry on the spot with his two would-be girlfriends got her stuck alone and [[LostFoodGrievance "udonless"]] with the Student Council's unfinished work for the rest of the day.
42	* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Azazel offered Harry a place with the Fallen in the Grigori, Sona picked up on his hesitation and grabbed the edge of his coat as she realized that he would most likely disappear from her life if he accepted.
43	* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: When Harry denied the misconception that he was into group sex (long story), he said he "prefers genuine emotional closeness in [his] relationships." Tsubasa then remarked that he's got to have some experience in the matter if he can say he "prefers" things that way. Harry immediately diverted the conversation to his magic lessons.
44	* ChasteHero: Being mentally an adult, it never occurred to Harry that all of his friends in Kuoh Academy are inexperienced about sex. He only realized it after telling them how annoying it was for him to sometimes get home and find his brother with a woman or even in the middle of an orgy. He only meant it as an anecdote, but all he got was a roomful-worth of [[LuminescentBlush red faces]].
45	* ChekhovsSkill: Harry used his Soulgaze on Raynare to discern whether D×D supernatural entities like her could have Souls like he understood them. The results were an affirmative answer to that question in the Fallen's case, and the confirmation that seeing his Soul can be a sanity-breaking sight if the other person isn't made of much sterner stuff. Later on, during the Kuoh Conference, [[spoiler:Harry initiated a Soulgaze with Azazel as part of a BatmanGambit to get the Three Great Powers wary of involving innocent humans in their conflicts, counting on the reputation of the Leader of the Fallen and his knee-jerk reaction to the Soulgaze to make everybody present take the words of the seemingly-harmless Magician several PowerLevels below them seriously.]]
46	* {{Chuunibyou}}: Harry tries to continue his OccultDetective work in BizarroWorld, business cards and all, but being reverted back to his adolescence makes most people assume he's this trope instead.
47	* CombatPragmatist:
48	** Harry's entire combat style, as usual. From trying to get guns again, mentioning how he loves that no one ever sees a SquishyWizard throwing a punch coming, and even saying that "if you're not cheating, you're not trying".
49	** This attitude also seems to be rubbing off on Issei.
50	* ComedicSpanking: Issei and Saji get spanked by Rias and Sona, respectively, for being reckless during a mission. What makes it even funnier is that when Issei begs for Harry's help, he can only shrug and point out that there are places where people [[KinkySpanking pay for that sort of thing]] before leaving Issei to his fate.
51	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: During the Kuoh Conference, Harry explained what a Soulgaze is and rhetorically gave everybody present three guesses to figure out who is the only one who initiate one for sure. Being unaware of the incident with Raynare, Serafall thought it was a legitimate question and guessed "Azazel" after him and Harry had their Soulgaze.
52	** In the GenderBender snippet, Xenovia's and Irina's main concern is researching Harry's lifestyle to find out why female Harry is so... stacked. Then Akeno tells them not to bother - [[BaitAndSwitch because it's probably because he's American]].
53	* CommonalityConnection:
54	** Harry and Issei over their [[ChronicHeroSyndrome tendency to help those in need]], especially when TheDulcineaEffect is involved, and protect their friends above all else. The difference is that Harry's a KnightInSourArmor after all he has lived through, whereas Issei remains more of a WideEyedIdealist.
55	** Harry and Sona bond over their magical studies, with him as the geeky researcher and developer, and her as the aspiring educator who wants to devote her professional future to teach magic to others.
56	** Harry and Serafall hit it off pretty well after their initial MySisterIsOffLimits moment, because they're both [[BunnyEarsLawyer eccentric professionals]] trying to do their jobs their way despite traditionalists giving them grief for it.
57	* CosplayOtakuGirl: Lash. Outfits she has appeared in include a BunnyGirl costume, maid outfits, and a gym uniform (complete with bloomers).
58	* CrazyJealousGuy: Sona's interest in Harry makes Saji hate his guts. He even covers Harry's fees in the missing Excaliburs case, just to make sure he will be too busy with work to hang out with the student council. Interestingly, this is also an example of WhyCantIHateYou.
59	* {{Crossover}}: ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' and ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD''.
60	* DarkIsNotEvil: Harry is shocked to discover this applies in this world, since in his own world, devils and monsters are almost invariably evil.
61	* DeadFic: As of 2017, it's been well over two years since the last snippet of the incomplete fourth chapter was posted. The continuation fic picks up where this one left off.
62	* DeadlyDodging: An accidental, [[IndyPloy Indy-worthy]] example. [[spoiler:Harry escapes from Georg's PocketDimension through an Aparturum portal with Heracles' missiles still in hot pursuit after him, only to find Kuoh Academy under attack by the Old Maou faction. Without thinking it twice, Harry runs to the first enemy he sees and dodges, letting the attack meant for himself do the rest.]]
63	* DefconFive: {{Parodied\|Trope}}. Harry measures the likelihood of Sona [[RubberFace pinching his cheeks]] on the "Pinch-Con" scale.
64	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This {{Crossover}} and its ContinuationFic explore the implications of the Devils' cultural acceptance of {{harem\|Genre}}s a bit more seriously than the [[Literature/HighSchoolDXD original material]], as a result of having a protagonist who ''isn't'' a HormoneAddledTeenager LovableSexManiac HaremSeeker. Namely, it takes Harry a while to figure out why it is so -- according to Azazel in the unpublished fourth chapter, it's a combination of the Devils' RankScalesWithAsskicking and TheHedonist mentalities, together with their [[ImmortalProcreationClause centuries-long lifespans and extraordinarily low birth rates]] -- and then some more to accept that Sona and Tsubasa are actually okay with the other pursuing him romantically and not at each other's throats for it, like his common sense tells him they should be.
65	* DirtyOldMan: Despite being physically in his teens and having no means to return to his real age other than the natural way, Harry feels like this about his unexpected love interests, since he's mentally in his 40's. He's torn between both his attraction to them and that he feels a personal connection to Sona and Tsubasa, and the fact that he is technically old enough to be their father.
66	* DramaticDrop: Harry drops a box on his toe when Lash tells him Sona is into him.
67	* FlippingTheBird: Right as he's escaping from [[spoiler:Georg's PocketDimension]], Harry makes sure the last thing [[spoiler:the Hero Faction]] sees of him is his raised middle finger.
68	* FountainOfYouth: Harry is aged down to his teens again when he enters the ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' world.
69	* FreudianSlip: Harry refutes Sona's misconception about him being at slacker by saying that she can "bet [her] sweet ass" that will put in all the effort that his magical studies deserve, only realizing post-rant that he "also brought up Sona's ass with the adjective 'sweet' in front of it." [[spoiler:It becomes a BrickJoke by the end of the scene where she asks him to "please refrain from commenting on [her] bottom", to their mutual awkwardness.]]
70	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Sona had Harry filling envelopes alongside the Student Council in exchange of charging up his laptop at school, he sneakily tried to put some of his unfinished work into Tsubaki's pile while Sona had the room distracted with her conversation with Saji. Without even looking at him, Tsubaki put it all back in Harry's pile.
71	* TheGadfly:
72	** Harry, several times. His most {{troll}}ish moment has to be when he pulled Rias' leg by commenting on the potential cultural consequences of a show like ''[[ShowWithinAShow Oppai Dragon]]'' getting as popular as it did in the Underworld, including the possibility of couples cosplaying as the characters based on Issei and Rias during sex. Azazel immediately sees the potential profit in selling [[SexyWhateverOutfit ero-versions of the outfits]] worn by Oppai Dragon and Switch Princess, before an incredibly embarrassed Rias tries to shut down the idea with her PaperFanOfDoom. Then Harry delivered the coup de grace by wondering aloud what Sirzechs would do if he hears about it. Given how much of a siscon the Maou is, Harry just knew that Rias' brain would picture [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels her brother trying and perhaps managing to convince his wife to roleplay as a fictional character based on his little sister in bed]], which almost gave the poor girl an aneurysm. Harry was quite pleased with his handiwork until Lash congratulated him for it, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame which is when he knew he went too far]].
73	** Once Harry learns about the Devils' [[{{Omniglot}} gift of tongues]], he makes a RunningGag out of having Lash switch languages mid-conversation just to see how long it takes them to notice.
74	** After Issei finds out about Lash, and how she can manifest herself as a pretty woman, Harry pretends that she's taking her clothes off to get Issei to freak out, and Asia to try to prevent him from gropping the non-corporeal entity. Lash notes that normally she'd be mad at him for lying about what she's doing, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny but in this case approves of the results]].
75	** Lash's masterful trolling of Harry deserves a mention, especially considering that she only can speak directly to him and yet she still manages to push him into embarrassing situations. A good example of this is when he tricked Harry into saying something aloud that made Tsubaki think the two of them were engaging in "[[{{Meido}} Maid]] NakedApron [[CasualKink play]]" (Tsubaki's words). The HowMuchDidYouHear moment and having another two {{fetish}}es attached to his name were bad enough on their own, but Lash's real objective was a doozy of a BatmanGambit that ended up with half of the girls on the Student Council (plus Akeno) wearing maid uniforms the next time he opened their office's door. Even Harry was impressed.
76	--->'''Harry:''' [[{{Touche}} Well played, Webweaver. Well played]].
77	* GenderBender: Harry gets caught up in the Occult Research Club's shenanigans with the gender-bending gun.
78	* GossipEvolution: An enemy Harry wasn't prepared to face: gossiping teenagers.
79	-->I wasn't certain which of the members of Sona's peerage had been the one to start the rumors, or if they had done it on purpose, but apparently the day after I had had my pow-wow with them it had been a popular gossip that the three of us were in some kind of love triangle. It had taken a day after for it to be common knowledge that I was leading them on, and the next day it was established fact that I was cruelly taking advantage of two innocent girls while engaging them in depraved sex acts.\
80	Hell's bells, these people needed hobbies.
81	* GotMeDoingIt: Harry calls the swords forged from the broken pieces of the original Excalibur "Excalibits". The term proves to be catchy enough that it even gets the serious Sona to use it.
82	* HaremNanny: [[spoiler:Lash, [[ManipulativeBastard in a twisted way]].]]
83	* HaremSeeker: By proxy. Lash likes to tease him with the idea of Harry having a harem. [[spoiler:She was actually serious about it. The only time he let her talk with Sona, supposedly to give them the chance to have a "woman-to-woman talk" about Lash helping Harry cheat in his tests, Lash told her exactly what Sona and Tsubasa needed to hear to start acting on their feelings for Harry without clueing him in until he asked.]]
84	* HearingVoices: Issei asks Harry for advice about the voice in his head (Ddraig's). Harry gives him the rundown of the do's and don'ts of a hosting a supernatural entity within his own person.
85	* HiddenInPlainSight: Being too young for a driving license means Harry can no longer do his [[TheStakeout stakeouts]] covertly from a car. Short of time for a better alternative, Harry opts for acting as the [[JapaneseDelinquents "yankii" delinquent]] that people already think he is and plays up as many stereotypes as he can, counting on [[BystanderSyndrome people's reluctance to get involved]] to remain for hours standing in a fairly busy intersection without anyone bothering him.
86	-->'''Harry:''' ''[grumbling to himself]'' Embrace the clichè, Dresden. Use the clichè, and make it your power. Who needs a good reputation anyway? Bah. Stupid things, good reputations. Never had any use for them.
87	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A comedic version. When Harry meets Sirzechs, he calls upon his rusty manners, but can't help tossing in a [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand "Sympathy For the Devil"]] reference. A moment later, Sirzechs gets the joke and continues it, causing Harry to briefly concede defeat.
88	-->'''Harry:''' My God, my minister was right all along. Rock and Roll really is the devil's music.
89	* HormoneAddledTeenager: Harry hates the unavoidable fact he's back to being one, especially how [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody his teenaged hormones affect his thought processes]] and make him feel attracted to girls young enough to be his daughters.
90	-->And yes. It really was as bad as the first time. Anyone who says "youth is wasted on the young" is a freaking moron. Only the young don't know enough to know how bad they really got it.
91	* HorrifyingTheHorror:
92	** Even the ''Outsiders'' are scared of Great Red. Harry eventually theorizes that he's what keeps them out of Bizarro World.
93	** A Soulgaze with Raynare sends the Fallen into a VillainousBSOD, ''begging'' Rias's peerage to keep Harry away from her.
94	* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: [[GenderBender fem]]!Harry in the omake has this as an almost literal super power. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Seriously]].
95	-->'''Reya:''' Amazing. Dresden-kun! Apparently, your b-breasts have the power to ensnare those who stare at them for too long\
96	'''Momo:''' Amazing. Is it some form of hypnotism? Or is it perhaps the "breast power" that Azazel-sensei has been experimenting with?"\
97	'''Harry:''' ''[disbelieving]'' Breast power?\
98	'''Ruruko:''' It's something Azazel-sensei has been investigating. It's something he's been researching ever since Hyoudou-kun started showing signs of unusual development as the Sekiryutei. Is it possible that Dresden-kun too has this "breast power" when he is in the form of a maiden?\
99	'''Saji:''' How dangerous! If one looks too long, than you might be ensnared, but it's impossible not to look! W-What a horrifying power!\
100	'''Harry:''' You're all crazy. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm leaving now. My life has too much crazy in it as it is]].
101	* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe:
102	** Harry to Asia. Every time she seems happy or upset, Harry gets the urge to take her some place nice and shower her with ponies and kittens.
103	** He feels similarly about Koneko in her more vulnerable moments.
104	* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: A lot of Harry's initial problems with Sona where from the results of a misunderstanding. A student asks Harry if he's a "yankee". Harry, being from Chicago, says yes. He didn't realize that the student heard of his bad reputation and that "yankii" was Japanese slang for [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]]. Sona got wind of it and has been misguidedly trying to reform him.
105	* InnocentlyInsensitive: One of the first clues of Sona's romantic interest in Harry was how uncomfortable she got when he told her that a female client kissed him on the lips without warning as a final "screw you" to her ex-boyfriend after the private detective brought her evidence of his infidelity. Harry mistook Sona's reaction for sympathetic anger at the cheating guy.
106	* IResembleThatRemark: Lash remarks beyond her hopes, Harry didn't set the building on fire after Sona's failed recruitment. Harry says that he doesn't set every building on fire and he will burn alive the guy who started the rumor. Lash snarks that [[SarcasmMode would definitely prove his point]].
107	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: After finding out that Georg is a fanboy, Harry snarks that if he's got a stalker, why couldn't it be a "hot, overeager, sexually aggressive cheerleader", prompting Siegfried to jokingly suggest Jeanne put on a cheerleader uniform. She refuses, but her specific wording causes Harry to lampshade how she only objected to the cheerleader part.
108	** Becomes a BrickJoke in the ContinuationFic.
109	* LaserBlade: Harry has a {{Nerdgasm}} when he realizes that lightsabers exist as an Exorcist's weapon in Bizarro World. [[KleptomaniacHero He even pockets one]] from a defeated enemy to tinker with it.
110	* LaughThemselvesSick: Lash reaction after Harry gets [[spoiler:turned into a woman, courtesy of Azazel's [[GenderBender gender-bending]] [[AppliedPhlebotinum gun]].]]
111	* LightIsNotGood:
112	** Harry finds out the hard way that not only is DarkIsNotEvil, the side of the angels are just as flawed as everyone else. [[spoiler:Justified since GodIsDead, leaving his imperfect creations to try to carry on as best they can.]]
113	** Same goes for the Hero Faction. Their intentions might be noble, giving normal humans a place in a world of magic and monsters, but unfortunately their plans are [[PoorCommunicationKills missing critical bits of information]] that could make them cause more damage than they would solve. Furthermore, Harry has ideological differences with the Hero Faction because they don't really care about the collateral damage so long as they prove Humans' strength to the supernatural world, whereas Harry's priority concern is protecting as many humans as he can from the supernatural.
114	* LittleGirlsKickShins: Sona still resorts to this when ''really'' annoyed with Harry despite being older than him (legally speaking, that is). The OneHeadTaller and {{Slapstick}} Comedy tropes made this pretty much unavoidable.
115	* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: [[spoiler:Lash outright suggests Harry, in a [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] cosplay no less, to "boldly go where no man has gone before" by "absconding to her quarters to masturbate".]]
116	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Harry mentions facing more than a few of them. It's gotten to the point where he can tell the quality of a villain's outfit by the quality of its ashes -- this ''is'' [[PlayingWithFire Harry]] [[KillItWithFire Dresden]] we're talking about, after all.
117	* MinorLivingAlone: Harry lives and supports himself to get out of the foster care system, due to his bad experiences with it in his original world.
118	* MisplacedRetribution: PlayedForLaughs. Harry blames Issei for putting the idea of harems into Lash's head. He swears his vengeance upon him in proper melodramatic fashion.
119	* MistakenForGay: Having never seen him out of his Scale Mail before, Harry mistook Vali's constant staring at Issei during the Kuoh Conference as the silver-haired guy wanting to jump his bones. Harry even stated to wonder how to break it to him just how badly Issei is strictly into girls.
120	* MotivationalKiss: Tsubasa gives Harry a good luck kiss on the cheek right before he hurries to reinforce Rias' Peerage against Kokabiel. Must be noted that his haste had admittedly less to do with the urgency of the situation and more about [[ClingyJealousGirl Sona's]] [[BattleAura reaction]] at the sight.
121	* MugglePower:
122	** The Hero Faction is a Type 2 to a T, which became the deal-breaker that made Harry reject their offer to join them. Harry only opposes those who would prey on humans, regardless if they belong to supernatural species or [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters are even fellow magic-wielding humans]]. The Hero Faction would attack any sufficiently strong nonhuman if that proves humanity's strength to the supernatural world, regardless if said entity is a danger to people or not, and they don't really care about the collateral damage.
123	** More specifically, both parties disagree on the Kuoh Treaty. Harry wants the peace treaty to go through because it limits the chances of normal people getting caught in the crossfire between the Three Powers, whereas the Hero Faction wants it to fail because "monsters fighting monsters" aligns with their objectives and its failure benefits their sorta-allies in the Chaos Brigade.
124	* MyEyesAreUpHere: fem!Harry uses this when he notices both male!Koneko and fem!Kiba looking at him. He immediately lampshades that he never thought he would say that.
125	* MySisterIsOffLimits: Serafall's initial attitude towards Harry. He wins her approval thanks to several points of CommonalityConnection and his willingness to call her by her preferred nickname, "[[PunnyName Levi-tan]]." [[spoiler:He wins a [[SiblingTriangle lot more than her approval]] in the ContinuationFic.]]
126	* MythologyGag: When Akeno mentions that Harry playing mysterious about his magic is very intriguing, Harry states that [[Literature/SmallFavor it's like a drug]].
127	** Harry shows his scarred hand to the Student Council, and mentions it was [[Literature/BloodRites a vampire with a flamethrower]], then stating it's not even in the top ten weirdest things he has seen, remembering the [[Literature/BloodRites coven of porn star sorceresses]], the [[Literature/SummerKnight pixies with switchblades]], and the [[Literature/FoolMoon stripper werewolf]].
128	* NakedApron: [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Lash]] donned the look once to trick Harry into asking her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn aloud, just in time for Tsubaki to hear him and get the wrong idea.
129	-->'''Harry:''' [[HowMuchDidYouHear How long were you there?]]\
130	'''Tsubaki:''' Er, Whatever it is you and Lash get up to at home, I don't think school is appropriate for Maid Naked Apron play. And should you really be doing such things when Kaichou has already confessed her feelings to you?\
131	'''Harry:''' ''[groans]'' God, kill me now.
132	* NecktieLeash: Sona to Harry when she demanded to know what the Winter Mantle actually does. Poor timing almost made Winter Harry attack her for it before Lash managed to calm him down.
133	* {{Nerdgasm}}: Harry's reaction when he learns the Exorcists wield {{Laser Blade}}s.
134	-->'''Harry:''' He has a lightsaber? I just had a geekgasm.
135	* NoEndorHolocaust: In the fragment of a chapter in the same thread the omake is published in, Harry rubs Ddraig's face in the enormous collateral damage he caused fighting a certain white dragon when he's despairing at the whole "Oppai Dragon" thing.
136	* NoJustNoReaction: [[ObliviousToLove Harry]], when Lash finally tells him that Sona and Tsubasa are into him.
137	* {{Nosebleed}}: [[spoiler:Harry's AttractiveBentGender form gave Tsubasa one.]]
138	* NoSenseOfHumor: {{Discussed\|Trope}}. Harry jokes that Sona is this, but she's actually more of TheComicallySerious. Especially around him.
139	-->'''Harry:''' ''[mock plaintively]'' Why have you declared all fun your enemy, Sona? Did fun do something to you in the past? What is the source of this crusade?\
140	'''Sona:''' ''[frowns a little]'' I have fun. It's just my definition of fun involves far less rampant violation of rules, courtesy, common sense, and decorum.\
141	'''Harry:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' I'm trying to equate the definition you just provided to any objective definition of the word we're talking about. So far, I'm having trouble finding any matches. ''[yelps]'' ''[incredulous]'' Did you just stomp on my foot?\
142	'''Sona:''' ''[takes a sip from her tea with utmost dignity]'' [[BlatantLies No]]. [[NotSoAboveItAll That would]] [[ImplausibleDeniability be ridiculous]].
143	* OccidentalOtaku: Harry gains shades of this as being stuck in Japan makes things like anime easier to get a hold of than his usual fair. The fact that he's no longer WalkingTechbane helps, since he can access the internet now.
144	* OhCrap: Harry and Lash's reaction when they realize just how ''big'' Great Red is.
145	* {{Omniglot}}: Devil have Languages, like in D×D canon. Lash tops this by giving Harry the ability to not only speak any language, but also read and write them.
146	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Harry suspects that Lash won't ever let go that the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Winter Mantle]] made him plan on forcing himself on Sona while roughly grabbing her by the hair.
147	-->'''Lash:''' ''[laughs]'' I didn't think you'd take my comment so seriously. Harry Dresden, have we perhaps found a fetish for you after all?\
148	'''Harry:''' ''[sighs]'' I am never going to live this down, am I?
149	* OneHeadTaller: Harry and Sona. It's one of the reasons why she reminds him of Murphy so much, and why she tends to [[LittleGirlsKickShins aim for the shin]] when angry at him.
150	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: There are massive differences between demons from Dresden verse and [[Literature/HighSchoolDXD D×D]] verse. For one, Dresden's demons only care about mortal business generally because of hunger or need of terrifying them. The [[Literature/HighSchoolDXD D×D]] demons (or rather, devils) though act like your normal, everyday people [[spoiler:(Most of them anyway)]]. This is why [[ShellShockedVeteran Harry]] acts with such hostility to the Student Council when he firsts learns what they are.
151	* OutGambitted: In the unpublished fourth chapter, Tsubaki tries to play TheGadfly at Harry's expense by interrupting Sona and Tsubasa's bickering with the promise of Harry's treating them to [[TrademarkFavoriteFood udon]] at a new place he knows. Harry turns the tables on her by revealing that he actually knew of one -- he'd kept an eye open for those because of the [[FoodAsBribe bribing potential]] -- and manages to get Tsubaki stuck finishing the Student Council's pending chores for the day.
152	-->Oh ho. So that was Tsubaki's plan? To interrupt their argument with promises of Udon, only for the revelation that I was in fact Udonless to unite the warring factions against me, all while she sat back and got to continue enjoying the spectacle, all the while?\
153	Clever, but not clever enough, little baby devil.
154	* PersonAsVerb: Harry once wondered if Issei's life is "starting to take a turn for the Dresden" when he discussed the circumstances of his death with Azazel.
155	* PoorCommunicationKills:
156	** Harry threatens the Kuoh Student Council because he's used to much less friendly supernatural beings and the fact that devils where he comes from are ''very'' different beings. Once the matter is cleared up he formally apologizes and works alongside of them.
157	** The Hero Faction wants to slay Great Red to prove humanity's power to all the supernatural factions, without knowing that he fulfills a VERY important function to reality as a whole.
158	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Harry once refuted Azazel by repeating the same three words at him, which were really all the words needed to be said, given the context.
159	-->'''Azazel:''' Now, now, "Fire and Ice"! No reason to get touchy. I mean, [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder have I ever really done anything bad enough to deserve an attitude like that?]]\
160	'''Harry:''' [[ContinuityNod Three. Hundred. Ises]].\
161	'''Azazel:''' Now, now. It all worked out in the end. Why linger on things which ended up fine anyway?\
162	'''Harry:''' Three. Hundred. Ises. Not just three hundred Ise, but three hundred Ises with ramped up libidos. Think about that. Reflect on your sins.
163	* RecursiveFanfiction: ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10752206/1/Beyond-the-Outer-Gates-Lies-A-high-school-library Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A High School Library?]]'', a spin-off that started when a reader suggested Kusaka Reya join Harry's list of admirers, and Gabriel Blessing challenged him to write it. The ContinuationFic has three times the word count of the original one as of chapter 77.
164	* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Harry is a bit flummoxed by how many Forbidden Valor View has with its time-stopping power.
165	* RubberFace: Sona's go-to admonishment when Harry's smartassery or self-endangerment gets too far. He's completely caught off guard by it the first few times because he didn't know how to respond to roughhousing like that from a girl. He soon settles on messing up with her hairdo as a proportional response. [[spoiler:Their childish antics almost leads to their FirstKiss, but Saji's voice snapped them out of it.]]
166	* RunningGag:
167	** Harry has Lash making him change languages mid-conversation just to see how long it takes for his {{Omniglot}} Devil friends to pick up on it.
168	** Lash teasing Harry that he could have a {{fetish}} for pulling his partners' hair during sex, followed by his denials or by pretending he didn't hear her.
169	* SarcasmBlind: Let's just say that [[AllLovingHero Asia]] and Harry's sense of humor simply don't mix.
170	* ScarsAreForever: Despite Harry [[FountainOfYouth reverting to his adolescence]], [[CoveredWithScars all his scars from a life of battles]] remained the same. His friends only knew about the ones on his face until [[spoiler:Azazel's [[GenderBender gender-bending]] [[AppliedPhlebotinum gun]] temporarily turned him into a very buxom young woman whose shirt suddenly could barely cover "her" front.]]
171	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Harry reaches this point at the end of the fight with Kokabiel, where it just gets ridiculous. Lash has to point out that they're still stuck in Bizarro World, no matter how much Harry wants to leave.
172	* SeenItAll: Harry [[spoiler:and Lash]] certainly think so. [[spoiler:So, [[GodIsDead God being dead]] is certainly a WhamLine for them.]]
173	* ShipperOnDeck:
174	** Lash heartily encourages Harry to pursue a relationship with his female admirers, and, in the continuation, cheers him on whenever he finds himself in an intimate moment with one of them.
175	** Tsubaki supports Harry/Sona because their UptightLovesWild interplay helps her to relax and smile more.
176	* ShipperWithAnAgenda: Momo and Ruruko like the idea of Harry and Sona getting together because they're both interested in Saji, who has an obvious crush on the StudentCouncilPresident.
177	* SitcomArchNemesis: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. Despite becoming a ShipperOnDeck for Sona and Harry, Tsubaki didn't quite let go the times Harry was his typical impudent, snarky self with them and occasionally snipes back at him when she gets the chance. For example, it's her verbal jab at the [[spoiler:recently gender-bent]] wizard what finally gets Harry to seek revenge for the embarrassing incident.
178	* SkewedPriorities: Harry can't wrap his head around the fact Issei's LoveInterests don't even bat an eye when Akeno gives him a MarshmallowHell, yet they got angry when she collected his promise to take her on a date.
179	-->'''Harry:''' ''[narrating]'' And, strangely enough, the way every girl with a claim on the boy suddenly went from relaxed to passively hostile. They could stand physical molestation, but they couldn't handle a date?\
180	Freaking teenagers.\
181	And oh god, I was one of them now.
182	** Similarly, during the GenderBender story, the fact that Xenovia, Irina and Koneko are more interested in why [[spoiler:female!Harry has a bigger bust than Akeno]] than in their current situation leaves Harry baffled.
183	* SmugSnake: Raynare. It is ''very'' [[CatharsisFactor satisfying for the reader]] when Harry kicks her around and talks her down right after she attacks Issei.
184	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Harry and Sirzechs engage in a low key, friendly version. Harry has his title as the "Smartest Ass in the Room" to defend after all.
185	* SpottingTheThread: Sona didn't buy Harry's MetaphoricallyTrue explanation that the Winter Mantle is simply a self-enhancement technique. She reasoned that if that's really the case, then he would have used it when a trio of {{Muggles}} gave him a shinner before.
186	* SquishyWizard: Harry, self-admittedly, though the Mantle circumvents this somewhat.
187	* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d when Harry meets the Hero Faction:
188	-->'''Harry:''' Charmed. I'm…\
189	'''Georg:''' Harry Dresden. ''[smiles slightly]'' I know. I've had my eye one you for a bit. I'm happy to finally have the chance to meet you in person.\
190	'''Harry:''' Great. A stalker. And it didn't even have the good graces of being a hot, overeager, sexually aggressive cheerleader. Why can't I ever get the good kind of stalker?\
191	'''Siegfried:''' Jeanne. What would it take to convince you to put on a cheerleader outfit? I think it might greatly influence the outcome of this meeting.\
192	'''Jeanne:''' Sig-kun! ''[frowns and pouts]'' How could you think something like that! I'm not a cheerleader!\
193	'''Harry:''' And the fact that she didn't deny any of the other qualifiers has perked my interest.\
194	'''Jeanne:''' ''[blushes and pouts]''
195	* StatuesqueStunner: [[spoiler: Harry's [[AttractiveBentGender curvaceous female body]] also retains his height and is no less attractive for it]].
196	* TheTell: Sona adjusts her glasses when she's planning something. Tsubasa twice calls her out on it because she can guess from the context that it's got something to do with her romantic pursuit of their common {{Love Interest\|s}}.
197	* TemptingFate: Harry's [[UnwantedHarem "Wizards never get chicks, after all,"]] and Sona's "Dresden-kun, I am not, nor ever will be, interested in you romantically."
198	* ThoseTwoGuys: Like in D×D canon, there's Matsuda and Motohama, Issei's perverted friends. In the continuation fic, they constantly pester Harry for magical aid in peeping on their female classmates. Harry goes out of his way to sabotage their efforts.
199	* ThroughHisStomach: Tsubasa brought Harry lunch boxes after she found out his electricity had been shut off for several weeks, which got Sona to glare at her Rook for it. This is significant because both of the girls' actions tore apart through Harry's denial that Lash had it wrong about their romantic interest in him.
200	* TokenHuman: Harry is mostly Human (if one looks past Lash and the Winter Mantle), and thinks of himself as one; all of the rest of the main characters are Devils, and most of the secondary characters are non-Human.
201	* TokenWholesome: Amusingly {{Inverted\|Trope}}. Harry realized after telling his friends in Kuoh about how annoying was to get home and catch Thomas in the middle of an orgy, and getting a roomful of red faces for the anecdote, that he was probably the only non-virgin among them.
202	* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The gates back to Harry's Earth are closed, and cannot be opened from this side. [[spoiler:However, the continuation reveals that two entities can contact their counterparts on the other side in limited ways: Uriel and Santa Claus.]]
203	* TrialBalloonQuestion: Harry asks how big would be the fallout if the church where Asia was taken hostage in were to… ''hypothetically''… be burned down to a crisp. Koneko fixes him with narrowed eyes and updates her assessment of him from "suspicious" to "definitely suspicious."
204	* {{Troll}}:
205	** Once Harry learns about the Devils' [[{{Omniglot}} gift of tongues]] he regularly has Lash switch languages mid-conversation just to see how long it takes them to notice.
206	** Later, after Issei finds out about Lash, and how she can manifest herself as a pretty woman, Harry pretends that she's taking her clothes off to get Issei to freak out, and Asia to try to get his attention by stripping. Lash notes that normally she'd be mad at him for lying about what she's doing, but approves of the results.
207	* TrueCompanions: How Harry and Issei see each other. [[spoiler:It's pretty telling that [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Winter Harry]] didn't see Issei as threat, but as a "pack mate, a comrade [he] could rely on in the hunt."]]
208	* UnableToSupportAWife: Referenced by Harry as a reason Sona and Tsubasa shouldn't be interested in him.
209	-->'''Harry:''' I can barely make rent half the time and I'm having trouble making enough money to even pay my bills, so it's not like I would be able to treat either of you to dates or things like that.
210	* UndeadTaxExemption: Thoroughly {{Averted\|Trope}}. Appearing all of a sudden in a new world lacking any evidence he ever existed meant that Harry had to wade through "enough paperwork to deforest a significant portion of the Congo" to get the Japanese government to grant him citizenship. And a similar additional amount to become an EmancipatedChild in order to keep himself out of the foster care system, which was bad enough for him the first time in his original world.
211	* UnequalPairing: {{Defied\|Trope}}. Sona and Tsubasa don't let the latter's subordinate position to the former as a member of her Peerage interfere with their love lives, opting for treating each other as equals when it comes to their romantic pursue of Harry. He learned to pay attention to their shifts to FirstNameBasis and back to tell when they're going to talk about romance or dangerous supernatural business, respectively. Guess which one worries our SociallyAwkwardHero the most.
212	* UnwantedHarem: Though a more fitting term would probably be ''reluctant'' harem. Harry is romantically drawn to all his admirers but feels conflicted about becoming involved with them, due to their age and his difficult relationship history.
213	* UnwittingPawn: Harry considers the possibility that the Outsiders are manipulating the Hero Faction in order to try and gain a foothold in the D×D reality by killing Great Red, the main thing keeping them out.
214	* UptightLovesWild: As it turns out, Sona and Harry. Their interactions begin when the serious and responsible StudentCouncilPresident of Kuoh Academy tries to get the snarky mistaken-for-{{Delinquent\|s}} NewTransferStudent with a problem with authority and no respect for the dress code to behave.
215	* VillainousBSOD: Raynare, after Harry Soulgazes her. She goes from haughty to ''begging'' that Harry stay away from her.
216	* WalkingTechbane: The fact that he's ''not'' this anymore is Harry's first clue that despite appearances he's a long way from home.
217	* WaxingLyrical: Harry tried to be polite to Rias' brother, as it's his policy for his friends' family, but he couldn't help but somehow mouth off to the guy whose job description is "The Devil". He never saw it coming that Sirzechs would be a fellow PopCulturedBadass.
218	-->'''Sirzechs:''' So this is the infamous Dresden Harry. As my father said, it is a pleasure.\
219	'''Harry:''' [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name]].\
220	'''Sirzechs:''' Well, now you've met me. Have some courtesy, have some sympathy, have some taste.\
221	'''Harry:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' My god, my minister was right all along. Rock and Roll really ''is'' the devil's music.
222	* WeakButSkilled: Harry is ''far'' from a powerhouse by ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'''s standards, yet remains a dangerous opponent to have because he's used to hit above his weight class. His varied skill set, his unique-to-Bizarro-World magic style, his CombatPragmatist and MugglesDoItBetter tendencies, his acquired caution to always look at the big picture and outplay his enemies, his ProperlyParanoid mentality that makes him to always look for ways the FinaglesLaw could screw him over yet again, his BS-ing skills and a long etcetera make Harry a much more effective combatant than he has any right to be, {{Power Level\|s}}-wise.
223	* WeirdnessMagnet: Harry lampshades his status as one when expressing his surprise at ''not'' getting involved with the Riser mess at any point, given how he tends to get drawn into every major supernatural mess that happens anywhere near him, and when Sona offers him a contract, reminding her how often he gets into trouble. In the continuation Azazel blatantly refers to both him and Issei as trouble magnets.
224	* WeirdnessCensor: When Harry accidentally reveals that his magic doesn’t conform to Bizarro World’s rules, Sona, Rias, and Issei simply speculate that Harry is just so naturally talented at magic that he doesn’t need to pay attention to traditional rules. Apparently it’s not unheard of, just super rare.
225	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Hero Faction, made up of the descendants and reincarnations of great heroes like Hercules, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, Sigfried and so on. Their goal is to give humanity a position of power in the world, but unfortunately, they also want to kill Great Red, who is basically the BigGood of the setting, and the worlds biggest defender against the Outsiders. They want to kill him mainly because he's a dangerously powerful dragon, despite the fact that he's almost never out of the Dimensional Void. They also dislike supernatural beings overall, regardless of alignment, despite their Chaos Brigade affiliation, and are perfectly willing to put civilian humans in danger if it means achieving their goals. They are even worse in the continuation, where Harry learns they brainwash members so they can't reveal anything about the group, and Cao Cao even considers young Heroes their property, given his words about [[spoiler:Alice White.]]
226	* WhatAreYou: [[AlasPoorVillain Poor, poor Raynare]].
227	* WhyCantIHateYou: Saji dislikes Harry on principle because of Sona's interest in him. However, he can't bring himself to actually hate his romantic rival because he can tell Harry has [[DarkAndTroubledPast one important thing in common]] with most Resurrected Devils like himself.
228	* WrongContextMagic:
229	** Harry's usual magic is derived from his willpower and belief (and makes him WalkingTechbane in his own world, but not in the world he's currently in), while their system of (normal) magic uses what amounts to rituals in his, where he just has to put in the power and not the belief, so it doesn't need him trying to micromanage it, and can do things the Laws of Magic of Dresden's world forbids with no risk of corruption. In addition, Soulfire isn't something native to their world so it's not as easy to deal with.
230	** Things like Rias' Power of Destruction and Sacred Gears are this to Harry and Lash, which excites the latter to discover something new.
231	* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Harry knew he took a joke too far when ''Lash'', ManipulativeBitch extraordinaire, congratulated him for the all potential chaos and mayhem that his carefully worded comments on the ''Oppai Dragon'' ShowWithinAShow were likely to bring.
232	* YouRemindMeOfX: Sona Sitri's by-the-book attitude and [[OneHeadTaller shortness]] reminds Harry a lot of Karin Murphy at the beginning of their friendship. He acts like a total smartass to Sona both out of nostalgia and in an effort "to get her to loosen up a bit as a favor to the Murphy of old."

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