Fanfic / Yuyuko’s Wonderful Midnight Snack Tour

Unbelievably horrifying

This was originally intended to be a trope page for a single story, but as time passed new stories were written and, completely unexpectedly, tropes were used in them too. So this page now serves as a folder for tropes used in Touhou Project fanfiction written by Vrock8. The page picture is for the “Snack Tour”.

Let’s begin.

Yuyuko’s Wonderful Midnight Snack Tour

Yuyuko’s Wonderful Midnight Snack Tour is a pretty faithful Darker and Edgier adaptation of the ghost team scenario of Imperishable Night.

It focuses mostly on misadventures of Youmu and Yuyuko, as they blast through the stages, engage in philosophical conversations with bosses and explore the forbidden love that blooms between them.

Tropes used in Yuyuko’s Wonderful Midnight Snack Tour:

• All There in the Manual: The nature of Yuyuko’s powers, character backstories, the events of “Perfect Cherry Blossom”…
• And I Must Scream: Homaged, referenced and played straight with Myon and Kaguya.
• Apocalypse How: Class 4, as part of the ending. It was all just an elaborate illusion Or was it?

• Break the Haughty: A lot of opponents the ghost team faces consider themselves better than them. Unfortunately for them, the story is a transcript of an Easy Mode playthrough.

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The story doesn’t cover the extra stage. Isn’t it sad, Mokou?

• Dying Declaration of Love: Marisa does this to Youmu. It was a joke.

• Flashback: The story is only around sixty pages long, and it still crams plenty of those into the last chapter.
• From a Single Cell: Implied with Eirin. Played straight with Wriggle in the Omake/True End.

• Heroic BSoD: Youmu snaps at the end of Stage 5.

• Imagine Spot: Youmu has extremely vivid imagination.

• Madness Mantra: ...rabbits are making cookies on the moon...
• Noodle Incident: The events of “Perfect Cherry Blossom” are referenced as such.

• Please Wake Up combined with Swiss-Army Tears: The heavily shellshocked Youmu does this to unconscious Yuyuko. Played for Laughs
• Precision F-Strike: By the end of the story, Youmu have had just about enough of Yuyuko’s morbid jokes.
• Psychotic Smirk: Called by its trope name.

• Reset Button: Used as a radical method to boot up Youmu after her Heroic BSoD.
• Seen It All: Yuyuko, to the point of being bored out of her mind during heated danmaku battles. The only thing that genuinely manages to surprise her is Wriggle.

• Unexplained Recovery: Yuyuko during the final battle, a case of All There in the Manual
• Villainous Breakdown: Eirin has quite an epic one. Almost quoting the Anti-Spiral from TTGL helps.

Touhou Death Files: Reimu Hakurei

Touhou Death Files: Reimu Hakurei is a story about Reimu coming down with a mysterious disease that causes her to cough up blood. Marisa does her best to save her, contacting Eirin and other powerful beings of Gensokyo.

Tropes used in “Touhou Death Files: Reimu Hakurei”:

• Blood from the Mouth: Reimu, by a point, when her coughing can't be dismissed a cold. Also, Marisa when Kanako crushes her.
• The Chessmaster: Kanako, as revealed in "Unsigned Letters". See, Kanako has this plan to take over Gensokyo and was very aware that Reimu wouldn't just hand over power/control (especially since her life is tied to border) and so arranged things to fall in her favor by feeding Okuu the yatagarasu, which in turn led to the events in Subterranean Animism, thus leading to the confrontation with Reimu, which didn't go as well as Kanako would have thought but, oh well, Reimu got lung cancer. And these plans extended into the afterlife as she has Komachi toss Reimu into the Sanzu. As for Satori, well, Kanako mostly manipulated her feelings, until she became an Unwitting Pawn.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Eirin swears often.
  "Well, fuck me sideways!"
• Conspiracy: In literal words of one of the reviewers: IT'S ALL A BLOODY MORIYA SHRINE CONSPIRACY!
• Distant Finale: The last few paragraphs of the story take place nearly one hundred years from the main events.
• Downer Ending: As revealed more in the "Unsigned Letters" chapter, Reimu's (and Marisa's) death was orchestrated by Kanako and the Moriya Shrine in a bid take over Gensokyo and, well, with both of those two gone, she succeeds.
• Foregone Conclusion: played straight.
• Fortune Teller: Remilia reluctantly performs an EXTREME! FORTUNE! READING! for Reimu.

• Incurable Cough of Death: A first sign of somethin' wrong with Reimu is that she starts coughing a lot and it gets to the point where she coughs up blood.
• Karma Houdini: Kanako, as Eirin said in her letter, however, she did warn she'd kill Kanako herself if the latter slips up.

  Fine. You have won, Kanako, you really did. You killed Reimu, Marisa and you are going to get away with it. [...] But know this. The moment you slip, you are dead.

• Mercy Kill: At one point, Reimu asks Marisa to end her suffering and Marisa refuses. Also, Utsuho’s death may be viewed as one.

• Soap Opera Disease: Averted, as Reimu's disease isn't vague like the usual, it actually has a name, lung cancer

• The Unreveal: We will never find out whether hell ravens resurrect or not, or whether Kanako really let Aya go or not.
• Unperson: The final fate of Reimu and Marisa, however, it's more like a Cessation of Existence, as with neither of them in afterlife, they can't reincarnate or whatever but they don't have anyone around to mourn them in the living realm of Gensokyo, thus they get dropped into the Sanzu.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kanako thinks of herself as such. She ain't.,

Maintenance Override

Maintenance Override is a story about an Original Character, Luxia Tenebria, the youkai of light and shadows born in Gensokyo. She is cute, and she is evil, and she hears a mysterious voice in her head telling her to do good deeds. So far, the most hateful story.

Tropes used in “Maintenance Override”:

• Audience Surrogate: Mokou is used as one, lampshading the Who Writes This Crap?! quality of the story.
• Author Avatar: Both Luxia Tenebria and 4564756361746f72 are author avatars.

• Broken Aesop: Be Yourself and you will die.
• Cherry Tapping: Luxia is killed by using two minor glitches in the spell card system.
• A Day In The Life: It’s the first happy day of a newly-born youkai! And the last one.
• Death Is Dramatic: Luxia asks for a dramatic death in the end. 4564756361746f72 gloats and kills her with an Icicle Fall. Whether it is dramatic or not is for the readers to decide.

• Defeat Means Friendship: attempted by Cirno, and a favorite tactic of Reimu. Doesn’t work both times.

• Hypocrite: 4564756361746f72 claims to be a pure and forgiving creature, but kills Luxia anyway because she damaged his integrity.

• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: 4564756361746f72

• Schmuck Bait: both the story and what Luxia sets out for humans, thinking of them as moths.

Shards of Obsession

'Shards of Obsession'' is a story that recounts the events of the apocalyptic scenario, the events that were brought in motion by Pazuzu himself.

Tropes used in Shards of Obsession:

• An Aesop: Drugs Are Bad

• Be Careful What You Wish For: Because it will come true. At a horrible, unbalanced price.
• Big "NO!": When everyone on Marisa’s party imagine Satori naked, she releases one due to Sensory Overload.
• Book Ends: The last two chapters replay events of the first one

• Climactic Battle Resurrection: except everyone are not as they used to be when they come back

• Downer Ending: Wriggle dies. Nitori goes insane. Everyone else is in some ways damaged or incomplete. And Pazuzu just goes on corrupting more worlds.

• Everybody's Dead, Dave: Only Daiyousei survives the cycle.

• Madness Mantra: Will you help me?
• Mood Whiplash: Horror! Humor! Hurt/Comfort!

• Plot Armor: The idol of Pazuzu is basically covered in battleship-grade armor plates.

• Single Tear: Satori sheds one from her third eye.

• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Hatate says this in an attempt to corrupt Sanae.