Fanfic / Prince of Darkness No More

The first and so far only picture relating to the story's primary pairing, courtesy of Mason.

Prince of Darkness No More is a Castlevania/Touhou Project crossover by SiFi270.

The story begins with Kid Dracula betraying his father Dracula and resolving to kill him again. On the way, he meets Remilia and Flandre Scarlet and soon falls in love with the latter. After Dracula is defeated, the three return to Gensokyo, which has become considerably more peaceful, And the Adventure Continues.

Can be read here.

At the start of December 2011, a Christmas Special was added. Due to issues with time, it was done as a separate story.

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This story contains examples of:

• Achievements in Ignorance: Only Cirno could bump into Marisa while the latter was a ghost.
  • This is presumably how Demo manages to switch the temporary role or narrator from her to Ivan
• Actor Allusion: Played with. Demo refers to Frankenstein's monster as Yahoo Serious, presumably because she has Young Frankenstein and Young Einstein confused.
• All Myths Are True: Demo lampshades this in chapter 58, handwaving it by saying the universe just doesn't make sense.
• And I Must Scream: Yukari kills Rinnosuke by having him slowly suffocate to death.
  • She also seals Reimu's soul inside her corpse, "trapped and confused forever".
  • The Unnamed Child forces her victims to relive a memory of losing a loved one.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: Demo narrates chapters 34 and parts of chapter 58. In the latter, she even manages to switch to Ivan's perspective somehow, which she soon regrets.
• And the Adventure Continues: After Dracula is defeated.
• And Then What?: Ivan wonders this just before his Heel–Face Turn.
  • He later experiences it again when he realizes that he has nowhere to go after the castle's destroyed, but Remilia assures him that he can stay with them.
• Angrish: Rumia, as a result of having to put up with Demo.
• Archangel Michael: As well as Gabriel.
• Arc Number: Demo discusses this, and wonders if the number eleven may be one, but it doesn't seem to be just yet.
  • It later becomes a Brick Joke when Yukari's One-Winged Angel form has eleven tails.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Flandre is brainwashed by the Unnamed Child, Remilia snaps her out of it by asking her name.
• Badass Boast: Chaos gets one referencing the angels' boasts in Nobody Dies. Rumia has one a few chapters afterwards.
• Badass Creed: The Belmonts seem to have adopted "The morning sun will vanquish the horrible night!"
• Badass Finger Snap: Mima does one to send Shaft back to the afterlife. It doesn't stick.
• Badass Normal: While Ivan is the son of Dracula, and Flandre has the power to destroy anything, Remilia is just a vampire. Despite this, she's able to put up just as much of a fight as the other two, especially when she notices the similarities between Kokoro and Sakuya.
  • In the side story, Dorothy proves herself to be quite capable of fighting supernatural creatures. The only problem is that Ivan and company are still out of her league. This is better demonstrated when she appears in the main story.
• Battle Couple: Ivan and Flandre.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: In chapter 34, between Demo's two personalities.
• Beard of Evil: The one visual distinction between Dracula and Soma Cruz.
• Berserk Button: If you compare Ivan to Dracula, he will politely correct you... If you're one of his friends. If you're not, then he'll tear you to billions of unrecognizable pieces. There's also the matter of hurting Flandre, but that goes both ways.
• Big Damn Heroes: Kokoro and Gesshi in the seventh chapter.
• Big Red Devil: Satan transforms into this. Apparently, Eidolon was the first to look like this, and all demons are designed in his image.
• Body Horror: Yukari stretches (as in what you do in the morning) in what's described as "a disturbingly literal manner".
• Breather Boss: You know Dracula's minions don't mess around when the Cyberdemon is treated like one.
• Breather Episode: Chapter 34 and How Black Plague Stole Christmas. Chapter 60 provides a different kind of breather.
• Brick Joke: Demo's Fun with Acronyms nickname for the Touhou series.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Remilia manages to avoid this in chapter 60, due to a vampire's digestive system being different to a human's.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu/Heroic RRoD: When Reimu manages to completely devastate Yukari with Beam Spam, she is left weak enough to be killed by something as mundane as a Neck Snap.
• The Cameo: The Cyberdemon is a boss in Dracula's castle.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Remilia and Sakuya, up until the death of the latter. The same happens with Flandre and Ivan, although in this case his death isn't permanent.
• Casting a Shadow: Rumia's abilities seem more varied than before. This is later revealed to be because she is actually EX-Rumia.
• Celebrity Paradox: Kokoro's impression of Dracula is described as "her best Bela Lugosi impression".
• Chekhov's Gun: Several are fired during Satan's arc, including: The Mask of the Seven, a vampire's ability to resurrect when one of its ashes comes into contact with blood, Demo's ability to reverse time, multiple reapers for each cause of death, and Satan's ring.
  • In How Black Plague Stole Christmas, Demo gives Rumia a gift that we are only told is made from silver. At the climax, it turns out to be a Silver Switch.
• Chess with Death: Ivan intends to play this, though he quickly finds that it's Unwinnable by Design.
• Christmas Special: It's a Wonderful Undeath and How Black Plague Stole Christmas.
• Cliffhanger Cop Out: Zig-Zagged in Chapter 29. Satan decides that the heroes aren't worth his time and leaves for Heaven, but then Rumia realizes how dangerous he could be up there, but then Demo concludes that he doesn't stand a chance because Heaven is where all the Belmonts are, BUT THEN Reimu arrives and confirms that, yes, Satan is a threat to Heaven and she needs their help to stop him.
  • At the end of Chapter 47, Marisa seems just about ready to throw everything she's got at Yukari. By the next chapter, she's decided that, since no amount of physical harm can express just how much she hates Yukari, she just gives up.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Demo thinks "going to Dracula's castle" is an Unusual Euphemism for breakfast, amongst other oddities.
• Continuity Porn: Kid Dracula is the main character. Ruukoto has taken Reimu's place as the maiden at the Hakurei Shrine. That's all you need to know.
• Creepy Monotone: Anyone under the control of the Unnamed Child adopts one of these.
• Crossover Cosmology: At the very least, it's implied that there are several afterlives besides Heaven and Hell.
• Crucified Hero Shot: In chapter 30.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When Ivan and/or Flandre are particularly angry, (Or sometimes just excited in the latter's case) you can expect one of these.
  • There's also Kokoro's battle against the Cyberdemon.
  • It's later revealed that Reisen defeated Rao in one of these, explaining his Cloudcuckoolander tendencies.
• Damage-Sponge Boss: Koranot and Frankenstein's Monster, or so Ivan believes at first.
• Deadpan Snarker: Remilia, particularly in the first part. Rumia does most of the snarking afterwards, as a result of spending the most time with Demo.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Cirno succeeds at winning in Chapter 24.
• Despair Event Horizon: Rumia crosses this when Satan brings Demo to his side. Even after things are back to normal, she hasn't properly recovered.
  • Marisa also crosses this when Reimu dies, but this seems to be undone when Keine hits the Reset Button.
  • Yukari seems to have this effect on quite a few people. She manages to make Cirno cross it just by looking at her.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Flandre doesn't hestitate to explain why Remilia came to Dracula's castle to Kokoro and Gesshi.
• Disney Death: Ivan.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: When Ivan laughs at Satan, it gets him killed.
• Doomed by Canon: Before the Flashback Arc begins, Marisa lists the people who die in it. This later becomes a preemptive Shoot the Shaggy Dog when Flashback!Mima hopes that, through a Cosmic Retcon, all the victims will be revived.
• Dream Sequence: In the prologue.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: The solution to defeating Koranot and Frankenstein's monster.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Yukari.
• Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Flandre to Dracula, though at the time there's no reason to think that he can No-Sell an ability like hers.
• Expressive Hat: Suwako raises an eyebrow, her hat raises an eyebrow.
• Extreme Doormat: Ruukoto has considerably less backbone than Reimu.
• Fan Nickname: Inverted, in a way. "Kid Dracula" obviously isn't his real name, so in this story he's referred to as Ivan Cruz.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Suwako and her hat. 'Raising an eyebrow' is also one of the story's many forms of Said Bookism.
• Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue: Particularly bad towards the end of the first part, where it's lampshaded in the author's notes.
• First-Name Basis: Ivan refers to Alucard by his real name, Adrian. Sonia and Lisa do the same.
  • The Archangels refer to Satan as "Lucifer".
  • Lisa is the only one who could ever refer to Dracula as "Vlad".
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Although Ivan has been asleep for ten thousand years, this is averted, mostly due to Gensokyo being even further behind than he is.
• Flashback Arc: During which we see Yukari's time as Dark Lord.
• Flashback Nightmare: Ivan has these in order to foreshadow Carmilla's return.
• Foreshadowing: In chapter 22, Marisa recalls her greatest challenge being her battle against Flandre. 19 chapters later, it turns out that this is because Yukari never existed. Lampshaded in the author's notes.
• Flash Fiction: The shortest chapters are around 400 words, and the rest are only a few hundred longer.
• Flipping the Bird: Demo, while she briefly has arms.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: Demo seems to be one of these, but only occaisionally. It seems to mainly occur when she's balancing on the line between sane and insane. The question of how and when she can do this enters Mind Screw territory in the author's notes for chapter 58.
• Futureshadowing: In the side story, vague hints were given towards events that would later be seen during Satan's arc. Towards the end of said arc, the trope is inverted when Flandre foreshadows the side story.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Flandre to Ivan in the 26th chapter.
  • Remilia to Marisa in the 46th chapter too.
• Get a Room!: Yukari to Suwako and Cirno. She then adds, "Preferably somewhere in Hell."
• God Is Good: He even allows Reimu into Heaven when no other afterlife will accept her, despite her not even knowing who He is.
• Godzilla Threshold: When Yukari goes on a rampage, Remilia is forced to release Flandre from the basement, and Eirin has to return to the Moon and beg its inhabitants for help.
• Gratuitous French: Demo to non-EX Rumia's corpse. It's a lot more depressing than it sounds.
• The Grim Reaper: Apparently, there's one for each cause of death, similar to Irregular Webcomic!.
• Hannibal Lecture: Evil Demo seems to be good at these.
• Harmless Villain: Black Plague doesn't aspire to much, and accomplishes even less.
• Heel–Face Turn: The general premise of the first part of the story.
• Heel Realization: Ivan experiences one when an innocent woman is sacrificed in order to resurrect his father.
• Heroic BSoD: Ivan during his And Then What? moments, and Flandre when Dracula pulls a No-Sell on her.
  • Ivan is something of a BSOD magnet. His biggest so far has to be when Carmilla comes Back from the Dead, but in the side story Dorothy leaves him with a close contender.
  • After the third chapter of the side story, the author decided that he wouldn't be adding any more examples.
  • It's eventually explicitly stated that Ivan's Fatal Flaw is that whenever something greatly upsets him, he has a tendency to just shut down.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Non-EX Rumia.
• Hero Killer: Satan.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Yukari just has to tell Marisa what she did to Reimu. Of course, in doing so, Marisa works out how to save her.
• Holding Back the Phlebotinum: Demo considers her Time Master abilities to be cheating, and as such only uses them in emergencies.
  • After an attempt to use her power results in a No-Sell, Flandre resolves to use it less often.
• How Black Plague Stole Christmas
• How Do I Shot Web?: Chaos upon taking control of Yukari.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Rumia acknowledges and apologizes for the example below.
  • Suwako admits to killing Cirno at least once, but she isn't willing to let her die permanently.
• Hypocritical Humor: Demo barges into the Scarlet Devil Mansion completely uninvited whilst scolding Carmilla for the same thing.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each chapter is named after a song from Castlevania or Touhou Project, or one of the lesser crossovers. From time to time, a fan remix from one of the aforementioned series will be used as well.
  • Odd Name Out: How Black Plague Stole Christmas.
• Incoming Ham: "Who dares to invoke the wrath of the ghost queen?". Immediately lampshaded by Remilia.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Ivan realizes his feelings for Flandre when she turns one of their enemies into a Rain of Blood.
• Innocently Insensitive: Reisen when she reminds Demo why the latter went insane.
• Insult Backfire: Yukari mockingly describes Reimu as "Gensokyo's resident prolem solver". Later on, these words are used to describe her on her tombstone.
• Interface Screw: When Reisen drives the main characters insane.
• Ironic Echo: In chapter 11, Ivan makes it clear that nobody is going to die under his watch, and that everyone the party will make it out of Dracula's Castle "alive or undead". In chapter 27, Carmilla claims that nobody will make it out of the Scarlet Devil Mansion "alive or undead".
  • When Carmilla goes One-Winged Angel, the narration takes a moment to tell us that Ivan is hardly impressed. When Flandre goes One-Winged Angel, the narration instead tells us that Satan is only slightly impressed.
  • During her Unstoppable Rage, Flandre threatens to "quite literally destroy everything". When Ivan gets his Next Tier Power-Up, he says he feels able to... Well, you get the idea.
  • As mentioned before, the Belmonts clan's Badass Creed is "The morning sun will vanquish the horrible night!". When Rumia becomes EX-Rumia for the first time in centuries, she declares that "the wonderful night shall vanquish the evening sun!".
• It Amused Me: Yukari only agrees to allow Chaos to take control of her because she's just so bored.
• Just Toying with Them: Part of the reason Reimu is able to temporarily defeat Yukari.
• Kick the Dog and The Dog Bites Back: Ivan mentions both of these tropes by name in chapter 33.
• Kill It with Fire: Most vampires fight with this. In the side story, Ivan even sets the Crissaegrim on fire in order to make it deadlier.
• Kill It with Water: Koranot and Frankenstein's Monster, both for different reasons.
• Late to the Punchline: Ivan in regards to the Stealth Insult below.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Deconstructed. When Ivan dies, Flandre is willing to destroy quite literally everything in order to avenge him.
• The Load: Demo and Rumia become this towards the end of the battle against Satan.
• Loony Fan: Remilia hasn't come to Castlevania to slay Dracula. She just wants to meet him.
• Loophole Abuse: Apparently for Carmilla, if they don't slam the door in your face, it's pretty much the same as inviting you inside.
• Madness Mantra: "I blew it up! I blew it all up!", courtesy of who else but Demo?
• Mama Bear: Mina and Kurumi.
• Meaningful Name: Demo: Short for "demon"?
• Me's a Crowd: Yukari.
• Moment Killer: Just as Ivan's about to reveal that Shaft is responsible for their problems, Remilia flat-out says it herself.
• Mood Whiplash: Very common. The author states that not even he can keep track of the mood sometimes.
• More Dakka: Dorothy is a firm believer in this.
  The best way to kill a monster with a gun like that is to shoot it until it dies. And if that don't work, use more gun.
• My God, You Are Serious!: Demo manages to pull this on herself.
• My Greatest Failure: In the side story, Ivan's turns out to be neglecting to do anything to save the latest woman to be sacrificed to resurrect Dracula. In the main story, it's implied that Marisa feels this way about Reimu's death.
• Neck Snap: Yukari kills Reimu this way.
  • Dracula does this to Carmilla just by slapping her. Because she's a vampire, she just snaps it back into place.
• The Nicknamer: Demo, borrowing some from her inspiration and some from fellow Cloudcuckoolander Homsar.
• Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Ivan's flashback in chapter 58 feels somewhat like one of these, despite it being text and not images.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Sadly, Marisa no longer holds the title of "ordinary magician", as she is now both a maid and a ghost.
• No Internet Celebrities Were Harmed: Demo is basically her creator.
• Noodle Incident: How Cirno came to be under Suwako's protection. The exact circumstances are revealed in a later chapter, but since it technically never happened due to a Cosmic Retcon, it's still a noodle incident in-universe.
• No-Sell: Dracula manages to do this with Flandre's powers.
  • Koranot and Frankenstein's monster pull the same with Marisa's Master Spark.
• Nothing Can Stop Me Now: Dracula believes this after having been dead for ten thousand years.
• Not Worth Killing: Satan to the heroes. Justified as he's obsessed with getting revenge on God.
• Off with Her Head!: How Carmilla kills Mina Hakuba.
• Older Than They Look: Sakuya was apparently born in the late '70s. Her youthful appearance is later revealed to be a consequence of finding the Luna Dial during the Demon Castle War.
• One-Winged Angel: Dracula starts with a halfway one-winged angel before going all the way. Ivan later manages one himself.
  • Carmilla pulls off the same transformation she did in Rondo of Blood, but Ivan is hardly impressed by it.
  • Flandre later steals Carmilla's Amplifier Artifact and accomplishes the same transformation she did.
  • Galamoth does this in the side story, though it's more of a Make My Monster Grow.
  • Satan's transformation caused the author to decide that he wouldn't be adding any more examples.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Demo is terrifying when she starts talking sense.
• Orwellian Retcon: SiFi270 was so unhappy with Chapter 56's original ending that he went and changed it, for th first and so far only time in this story.
• Our Souls Are Different: It gets very confusing. Although someone resembles their living self whilst in the afterlife, they are really just a soul. The confusing part is when Simon's soul bleeds and the blood is used to resurrect Ivan.
• Our Vampires Are Different: It seems to be a matter of experience in this case.
  • According to Chapter 8, vampires have enhanced hearing due to their relation to bats.
• Painting the Medium: When Demo reverses time, the events she's undoing are repeated, but in reverse.
• Papa Wolf: Soma.
• Pædo Hunt: Before she turns him into a vampire, Carmilla does some unpleasant things to a nine-year-old Ivan.
• Phrase Catcher: "Demo, it's scary when you're right."
• Power Incontinence: Maribel is said to be experiencing this, which isn't good news considering who she's the reincarnation of.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Dracula allows Shaft to escape the castle unharmed, but only so that he can be easily resurrected the next time around.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Oh, I'll send the hell out of that postcard!". Later followed by "Oh, I'll call the hell out of tech support".
• Precision F-Strike: Flandre gets one in chapter 32.
  • Marisa gets one following her Despair Event Horizon.
  • Played for Laughs with Demo in How Black Plague Stole Christmas.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Dracula when Carmilla kills Mina Hakuba.
  Do you have any idea, who! that! was!
  • Also, Flandre to the Unnamed Child.
  Don't give me that! What! did! you! do!
• Rage Quit: Played for Drama with Marisa in Chapter 48.
• Rain of Blood: Flandre turns Gaibon into this.
• Rasputinian Death: Mima suggests that Yukari will have to be killed this way. In the next chapter, the exact details are revealed. First, they stun her with what's repeatedly referred to as "the greatest Master Spark in history". Then, Yuyuko wills death upon her, and Flandre destroys the body. Finally, as established at the beginning of the arc, Keine erases her from history.
• Retcon: In the prologue, Ivan's referred to as a Dhampir, though a later chapter establishes that he was born fully human, and it wasn't until later he became a vampire from being bitten.
• Ret-Gone: Yukari.
• Retired Badass: Reimu during Yukari's arc.
• Rule of Cool: Why Ivan wanted a Cyberdemon in the castle.
• Said Bookism: The author is incredibly frustrated that nobody told him that this was bad writing until he found out for himself after 25 chapters. As well as everything else he's ever written.
  • And now he's slipping back into it due to force of habit.
• Satan
• Self-Deprecation: An In-Universe example. When Reimu learns that Ruukoto isn't very good at being a shrine maiden, she says "she already sounds better than me!".
  • The author indulges in this at the end of Chapter 48. He starts by giving some "writing advice" that basically amounts to Self-Parody, and then states that anyone who takes advice from him is stupid.
• Self-Serving Memory: The Bible depicts the battle between Lucifer and Micheal as a Curb-Stomp Battle. Thousands of years later, Satan remembers Micheal as a Worthy Opponent.
• She Is All Grown Up: After ten thousand years, the Scarlet sisters now look twenty-ish!
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog/Spanner in the Works: Despite all the efforts made towards Soma not becoming Dracula, Carmilla undoes all that effort in roughly an hour.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Flandre after Carmilla claims that nobody cares for Ivan except for the fact that he's the son of Dracula.
  • Richter does this to Satan in chapter 30.
  • Demo says this to Yukari with just her temporary hand.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: Dracula has long grown tired of debating with Belmonts, and as such immediately starts by attacking them.
• Silent Credits: When Non-EX Rumia dies, the chapter has no author's notes. It's later lampshaded when Reimu dies.
• Sinister Scythe: Besides the obvious, Mima has one.
• Slasher Smile: Flandre sports one before going One-Winged Angel.
• So Proud of You: Soma to Ivan.
• Spell My Name With An S: When Gesshi was introduced, there was some confusion on the Castlevania wiki about the ordering of her name. So during the first arc, she is known as Hanafuuma Gesshi, or just Hanafuuma.
• Split-Personality Merge: Demo does this in chapter 58, but because both personalities behave identically at this point, it doesn't make any difference.
• Spoof Aesop: Courtesy of, you guessed it, Demo.
  Let this be a lesson to y'all. Even if your gun is very, very large, it won't do any good unless you have a just cause and a strong will.
• Stealth Insult: Flandre doesn't believe her sister is capable of standing up against Frankenstein. Remilia scolds her for confusing the monster and the creator, and Flandre clarifies that she's explicitly referring to the creator.
• Stepford Smiler: Flandre is implied to have been this prior to meeting Ivan.
• The Stoic: There are a few, but Death takes the cake. The author considered giving him a Not So Stoic moment, before realizing that he managed to remain calm in more hectic situations.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Three times in How Black Plague Stole Christmas.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Galamoth in the side story. Ivan seems to exhibit this after coming Back from the Dead, but it's subverted when he lives up to his claims.
• Take That!: According to Alucard, all human/vampire relationships end in disaster.
• Talkative Loon: Demo.
  • Yukari is a much darker example.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Frequently lampshaded.
  • Demo invokes this in chapter 41, where she kicks Reisen in the middle of one of her monologues.
• Talk to the Whip: Richter has taken this approach.
• Team Pet: Gergoth.
• Tempting Fate: Ivan zig-zags this in chapter 60.
• Thanatos Gambit: Shaft's death is apparently the final step towards summoning Satan.
• Time Master: Demo is apparently one, though she never uses it because she considers it to be cheating.
• Took a Level in Badass: Mina Hakuba after becoming an angel.
• Tranquil Fury: Mentioned by name in the seventh chapter.
• Transformation Sequence: Downplayed with Rumia in chapter 44, and parodied by Demo almost immediately afterwards when she turns into something totally ridiculous.
• Tsundere: Rumia always seems to be the most annoyed by Demo, but she's also the most distressed when Demo undergoes a Face–Heel Turn. She eventually confesses her true feelings after the battle's over.
• Underestimating Badassery: Remilia lampshades this in chapter 57.
• Unstoppable Rage: Kokoro beats Death while ranting about the Castlevania series' difficulty from an In-Universe point of view.
  • Ivan goes into this after Flandre is seemingly killed.
  • And in chapter 31, the inverse of the above happens, though there is no "seemingly" about Ivan's death. Later, the Unnamed Child forces her to relive the incident, bringing this trope into effect all over again.
• Unwinnable by Design: Chess with Death.
• Victory Is Boring: Gensokyo's been very peaceful for the past 10,000 years. Marisa isn't at all happy about this.
• Voice of the Legion: CHAOS
• Walking Spoiler: Yukari.
• Waxing Lyrical: Demo, at one point, says there needs to be "a little less conversation, a little more action". She attributes the quote to "one of the greatest vampire hunters ever", leading Rumia to wonder if there's any truth to that.
• Wham Episode: Chapter 30. The next one only takes it further.
• Wham Line: Nearly averted. Marisa brings up how Kaguya died as though it's no big deal, but Patchouli realizes the true implications shortly afterward.
  • Another appears in the very next chapter, where Demo reveals that Yukari has been erased from existence, and only she and other Time Masters remember her at all.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: Chapter 57, where we find out that pretty much everyone in the main cast fears losing a loved one.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The author forgets completely about Gergoth from time to time, leading him to remind everyone that he still exists at the beginning of the next chapter. Right now, he seems to be in limbo.
• What the Hell, Hero?: While Remilia isn't exactly a hero, Ivan still calls her out on keeping Flandre in the basement for thousands of years.
  • Remilia delivers one to God of all people.
  • In the side story, Flandre's treatment of Dorothy gets this (again from Ivan).
• Who Dares?: To invoke the wrath of the Ghost Queen?
  • Or to punch Carmilla in the face?
  • Or, of course, TO TRY TO STOP THE TIME BOMB?
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Not Sakuya.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Before Demo's driven insane by being one of the few people to remember Yukari's atrocities, she's driven insane by a sudden and ridiculous increase in power.
• The Worf Effect: Invoked by Satan.
• Writing Around Trademarks: Demo has canonically been to the Mushroom Kingdom before. But since it's been so long, and since she has such a loose grasp on reality in the first place, she fails to properly remember its name, assuming it to be "the Mashed Potato Kingdom".
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Marisa calls Rinnosuke by his real name just before he dies.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Ivan's One-Winged Angel form is implied to be one of these.

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The Side Story contains examples of:

• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "Everyone has bad days. It may be when they lose someone or something important to them, or it may be when they suffer a serious injury, or it may even be when they spill coffee all over their computer."
• Diabolus ex Machina: Played for laughs in the author's notes for chapter 4.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Alternate Flandre certainly did.
• Expy: Dorothy Hood is loosely based on B.B. Hood from Darkstalkers.
• Hand Cannon: Dorothy wields two in a Shout-Out to Hellsing. The narrator even refers to them as "so-called 'handguns'"
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Vampires, apparently. Specifically, alternate Flandre.
• It's a Wonderful Plot: With a twist. Ivan refuses to leave the alternate timeline until he's fixed all the problems caused by his absence.
• Little "No": Ivan when he refuses to leave until everything is fixed. He later does this three times in a row when he discovers alternate Flandre.
• Mythology Gag: The story begins almost identically to last year's Christmas special, A Christmas Carolvania.
• Rock Bottom: Dorothy reaches this after failing to avenge her mother.
• Say My Name: In a Shout-Out to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at the end of chapter 3.
• Suicide by Cop: What alternate Flandre is hoping for.
• Take My Hand!: Simon brings Ivan to various locations this way.
• Unseen Evil: Subverted. Galamoth's identity is made perfectly clear, but The Dragon remains anonymous. Until she's revealed to be alternate Flandre.

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