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[[File:throne_in_chaos_by_yuiseppe-d3f6ki8_5326.jpg|frame|Poor Olivie took the title too seriously.]]

Takamachi Nanoha is just your average nine year old girl thrust into an extraordinary situation, or so she thought.

After bringing Yunno home for the first time, the young mage-turned-ferret remarks to her how he felt strong magical power from Nanoha's mother, which would explain the incredible magical potential he felt from Nanoha. [[Cassandra Truth|Nanoha doesn't believe him]].

At the same time, her mother can feel her daughter's magic awakening, and [[Secret Legacy|decides to reveal the truth when the time is right]].

That time ends up being during a confrontation between Nanoha and Fate, where she decides to intervene, becoming Fate's new opponent. Fate is shocked at the strength of Nanoha's mother that she had to ask, "[[Who Are You|Who are you]]?"

{{quote| "Who am I, you ask?" The woman smirked as she looked at Fate with her red and golden eyes. "My name is Lina Takamachi. But I used to be known as Lina Inverse."}}

''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6550856/1/Blood_That_Flows Blood That Flows]'' is a ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic|AU]] [[Crossover]] where Nanoha is the daughter of ''[[Slayers]]'' protagonist Lina Inverse, who was dimensionally and temporally displaced after her possession by the Lord of Nightmares during the battle against Hellmaster. Written by Nanya of the [[Relationships Series (Fanfic)|Relationships Series]] fame, who has described the two as the [[Person of Mass Destruction|queens]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|of]] [[Fantastic Nuke|magical]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|overkill]], the story goes [[The Stations of the Canon|through the first two season of Nanoha]] before going on its own tangent, including incorporating plotlines and other characters from ''Slayers''.

The [[Story Arc|Story Arcs]] of the [[Fanfic]] so far:

* Season One: Based on the [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Anime)|original Lyrical Nanoha season]], this story arc sticks close to canon, with the addition of Lina overseeing Nanoha and Yunno's magic lessons.
* A's: Based on the [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As (Anime)|Lyrical Nanoha A's season]], this is where the divergences from the Nanoha canon begins, with an original [[Big Bad]] added into the mix.
* Jump: The extended epilogue of the A's arc, dealing with the defeat of said [[Big Bad]].
* New: A breather arc that shift the scene into the Slayers-verse, which immediately leads into...
* Try: Based on the [[Slayers|Slayers TRY season]], with added twists and additional Slayers-verse characters drawn from the light novels and the ''Knight of Aqualord'' manga.
* Shine: An original arc that pulls in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers|StrikerS]] era characters, delving into incidents originally mentioned as backstory.
* Dusk: The followup to Shine, continuing some of the same plotlines, while also making use of a plot from a Slayers light novel.
* Red: Yuuno, Nanoha, Fate and Miyuki return to Earth from training on Mid-Childa. {{spoiler|And later, Shabranigdo's return.}}
* Peek: A collection of short character focuses in the aftermath of the Red arc. Intersect with the Airport Fire incident shown in the first episode of [[Striker S (Anime)|Striker S]].
* <nowiki>StrikerS:</nowiki> The latest completed story arc, based on the [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)|Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS season]] but with drastic changes from canon.
* {{spoiler|Numbers: The newest arc, focusing on the Numbers' development after the events of [[Striker S]].}}
* {{spoiler|SSX, which introduces Runessa and covers the events of the Sound Stage, likely with major changes of course.}}

Note: The spoilered content is for material that is on the [http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=3329644#post3329644 Nanoha fanfic thread on Animesuki's forums] or the [http://addventure.bast-enterprises.de/frecent.php?tag=Restart+Deluge%21+Blood+That+Flows+-+StrikerS Anime Addventure thread] and not yet published on Fanfiction.net

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=== Tropes Found In Blood That Flows: ===
* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: Lina was pretty much resigned [[You Can't Go Home Again|to being stuck]] [[Trapped in Another World|on Earth]]. She also ended up falling in love with Shiro who found her unconscious when she first arrived, got married, and had Nanoha. Thus when she learned the TSAB located her home universe, she knew her return was going to be hard for her old friends, especially Gourry, since it was her attempt to save him that started all this. She figured that there was a chance that Gourry and Syphiel got together. However, it gets more awkward when she returns home, as it turns out it's only been a month since that battle with Hellmaster.
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. After Filia hits Chrono with her mace, Lina gives a [[What the Hell Hero]] speech in regards to this.
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Chrono takes Gourry's spot in looking under Filia's skirt after seeing her tail. It turns into a [[Running Gag]] with Chrono being in compromising positions with Filia.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Lina talks how she can [[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Anime)|go fast on her bike, fast enough to get the attention of flying machines.]]
** {{spoiler|Arisa}}'s Holy power manifests in a way that she has [[Shakugan no Shana|flaming wings and a sword of fire]] that's blue instead of red.
** {{spoiler|Hayate}} ends up facing down a Mazoku who goes by the name of "Archer", and {{spoiler|Fate}} ends up facing down a Mazoku named "Mokka" during the Red arc of the story. {{spoiler|Hayate}} [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the situation against her opponent, of course.
** {{spoiler|Lina}}'s cell phone has '''[[Theme Tune Cameo|Get Along]]''' as her ring tone.
* [[A Cup Angst]]: With Nanoha being the biological daughter of Lina Inverse, she got hit with this hard, especially when Vita [[She's All Grown Up|really grew up]].
* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Reinforce}} suffers this at the hands of {{spoiler|Levi}}.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Dolphin, Zelas and Xellos, of course. There are times it's easy to forget that they are, in fact, creatures of pure evil. Then they go and randomly kill or curse people for [[For the Evulz|no real reason.]]
* [[Aliens Made Them Do It]]: Xellos and [[Ms. Fanservice|Rangort]], after being in a [[Intoxication Ensues|haze]] after eating chocolate filled with who knows what... for at least a month.
* [[An Arm and A Leg|An Eye and a Hand]]: The price {{spoiler|Signum}} paid for attempting to knock out {{spoiler|Cinque}} instead of trying something dangerous. Later mentioned that {{spoiler|Cinque}} was barely able to hold her rage in check and was thankful that {{spoiler|Signum}} didn't try to attack her.
** {{spoiler|[[Handicapped Badass]]: Laevatein's original body was retrofitted into a cybernetic hand for Signum. Due to the newness of the hand, she was advised to only use Laevantein's blade form as anything more might have broken the new hand. Her depth perception is also hindered by the lack of an eye.}}
* [[Arc Welding]]: Original villain Death Bringer Garoth didn't just begin to play his hand during the events of A's. He was also responsible for the catastrophic failure of Precia's experiment and the corruption of the Book of Darkness.
* [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me]]: A variant with {{spoiler|Ragnort}}, where she takes a [[Waterfall Shower]] and all {{spoiler|Xellos}} does is be a [[The Peeping Tom|peeping tom]]. This leads to {{spoiler|Ragnort}} [[Slap Slap Kiss|dropping a mountain on]] {{spoiler|[[Slap Slap Kiss|Xellos]]}} [[Slap Slap Kiss|and then later directly insisting he "help her"]].
* [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]]: Mazoku Lord Lucefer commented Lindy he created a plague that wiped out most of Europe a few hundred years ago, convinced Stalin that communism was lame, and [[What Do You Mean Its Not Heinous|convinced Justin Beiber that he could sing]].
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: After losing an eye and a hand to {{spoiler|Cinque's Rumble Detonator}}, {{spoiler|Signum}}'s right hand is replaced with a cybernetic prosthesis created from {{spoiler|the melted down scraps of Laevatein's original framework}}. Her eye is a total loss, though, so she gets an eyepatch for that.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Yunno, of course. This is one of the author's behind the [[Relationships Series (Fanfic)|Relationships Series]] after all.
** So much so that he's an [[Adaptational Badass]] by now.
** Shiro, who manages to hold his own when traveling with his family and friends through Lina's homeworld. It helps he temporally wielded the magic absorbing [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|Blast Blade]] before relinquishing it to Gourry.
** The ''Shine'' arc tosses in Miyuki as the new owner of Gorun Nova and [[Those Two Guys|Suzuka and Arisa]], who finds themselves drawing the attention of Riksfalto.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Plenty of it.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: The TSAB's Ground Forces HQ is taken over by Garoth so he can use it as the site of his master's unsealing. It later ends up [[Collapsing Lair|collapsing]] after [[Load Bearing Boss|Garoth is banished into the Sea of Chaos.]]
** Hayate even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades it.]]
* [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]]: Really... mixing the Dragon Slave with Nanoha-style magic? They were bad enough individually... but now...
{{quote| From his position, Chrono floated up and gaped at the destruction. Where there was hills, flat area and some small bodies of water...<br />
Was nothing but a large sunken hole in the ground that had some rocks that were glowing red. Well, that and the large amounts of glass that people were walking on. Other than that, he was certain that if they had gotten there a moment later, none of those girls would be alive, hell, he was almost certain that the continent would be split in two before the energy dissipated naturally. }}
* [[Babies Ever After]]: Not only does ''Try'' have the original canon ending of Filia receiving the egg of the reborn Val, Lina announces that she's pregnant again.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Gaav, {{spoiler|only for him to [[Back for The Dead|die again finally getting his revenge on Shabranigdo.]]}}
* [[Bad Boss]]: Dynast Grausherra. At least, when he pretty much sees Sherra as worthless after being defeated by Xellos. Of course, he later try to use Sherra as a backup body when Lina vapes him with a Ragna Blade fired through Galveira. Zelas prevents his plan from succeeding though.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Regius}} and {{spoiler|Quint}} pull off a beautiful one near the end of StrikerS: Knowing that {{spoiler|the Brains}} have too many friends in high places, the two instead arrange for {{spoiler|Due}} to "escape" Riot Force custody. When {{spoiler|Vita}} and {{spoiler|Leti}} find her, they also find {{spoiler|the Brains}}, and the latter orders the former to kill them. As it turned out, they're abominations to the natural order, and Bureau law mandates that such creatures are to be exterminated on sight.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: {{spoiler|Arisa}} asks the Fire Dragon King to burn {{spoiler|Yunno}}'s clothes off, since it was his power that melted her pants, revealing her panties. The Shinzoku does so, but instead of a [[Shirtless Scene]], {{spoiler|Arisa}}'s treated to {{spoiler|Yunno}} [[Male Frontal Nudity|in his birthday suit]].
* [[Big Breasts Big Deal]]: Tre is both Type 1 and Type 2. Thanks to suffering years of teasing from Quattro, she's quite embarrassed about people looking at her assets for too long, as she thinks that her breasts and butt are too big for anyone other than {{spoiler|Sein}} to enjoy.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Aside from the canon rescue of Nanoha in A's beginning, we have Precia, the poster woman for abusive mothers, who saves Fate from Alicia's tortures in ''Jump''. Following that is Chrono, Yunno, and Shamal who uses the Jewel Seeds to create a Sea of Chaos rift to keep Death Bringer from killing Lina, and then Unison Reinforce who keeps Death Bringer from pulling a [[Taking You With Me]] with Lina.
** Zelgadis finally gets to show off as he  {{spoiler|saves Erio, Caro and Fried from the Mariages. A moment later, Kuma and the Florian sisters show up to help as well.}}
* [[Big Eater]]: Shockingly, not Lina. Having basically retired and cut back on her magic usage, Lina doesn't need to eat as much as she used to. (Though she still eats a lot.) The kids on the other hand...
** Sette is  {{spoiler|revealed to be this in Numbers by eating Four steaks, eight pancakes, two hamburgers, a whole apple pie, twenty bread sticks, cheese sticks, at least eight refills on your drink, and some crackers. Then she wants ice cream.}}
* [[Birth Death Juxtaposition]]: The final chapters of the ''Shine'' arc has Lina giving birth to her new son Arashi and Precia Testarossa passing away, just as she bequeathed her magical knowledge to Fate.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Riksfalto, oh gods, Riksfalto.
** Nanoha has traces of this as well, mostly in the [[Next Episode Preview|Next Episode Previews]] that she has.
* [[Boxed Crook]]: Precia gets a pardon provided that she helps stop Garoth and Alicia, including giving the knowledge on how to open a rift to the Sea of Chaos...
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Poor Lutecia. She never had a chance.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: Through the natural method of growing up, as Vita is experiencing. Hayate wonders how big they'll get. As of the ''Red'' arc, Vita is a head shorter than Signum with breasts as large as Shamal's. And she's only biologically 13.
** After getting a small power boost of black magic, {{spoiler|Levi}} enlarges {{spoiler|Quattro}}'s chest in order to have the bust size she originally had.]]
* [[Breather Episode]]: After dealing with Valgaav, Riksfalto, Sherra, and the Golden Dragons trying to kill off Nanoha, the group stops and has a [[Fan Service]]-filled rest stop at a local village.
* [[Broken Bird]]: {{spoiler|[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As Portable (Video Game)|Kyrie and Amitie Florian]]}} come from the Death Fog staff world where they were created to serve under a Mazoku. They've been resigned to being under a Mazoku's service, not allowing themselves to dream and hope for anything for themselves. Especially after their father was killed. To emphasize their broken nature, {{spoiler|Kyrie}} explains to {{spoiler|Shamal}} [[Prison Rape|what she expected after being captured and imprisoned.]]
** {{spoiler|Amitie}} fully expected {{spoiler|Kuma}} to use her and throw her away when they entered the Hot Springs. He just calmly talked to her about it and swore not to let {{spoiler|Levi}} use them like she planned... he still got a [[Raging Stiffie]], but didn't act on it.
* [[Busmans Holiday|Busman's Holiday]]: Lina's return home was supposed to be just for reuniting with her old friends and family as well as introducing her new ones. However the Mazoku got wind of her return, and she just couldn't leave that be, knowing [[The Call Knows Where You Live|that trouble could easily follow her back to Earth]].
{{quote| '''Lina Takamachi''': We ended up going on vacation... And had to save every universe.}}
* [[Calling the Old Man Out|Calling The Old Woman Out]]: Alicia to Precia while holding a bloodied, naked Fate between them.
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Alicia is revived as a Mazoku, and becomes one of the most villainous female characters in the story. How villainous? ''Precia has to save Fate from her''.
* [[Canon Welding]]: The Nanoha-verse is one of the four staff worlds in the Slayers multiverse. The Blue World (home to Chaotic Blue and the Blue Dragon God), to be specific, whereas the Slayers-verse is on the Red World.
* [[Cast From Lifespan]]: Lina reveals that while she has unlimited magic and can freely use the power of the Lord of Nightmares, doing so causes her body to start to break down and starts to kill her after awhile. However, her lack of stamina in "Try" was mostly because of her pregnancy, which may have had something to do with it.
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: {{spoiler|Sein}} is a LOT more perverted in this story than in canon. To the point where she's openly groping {{spoiler|Tre}} while others are watching and sneaks into {{spoiler|Tre}}'s room while the latter is naked on her bed.
** Not only {{spoiler|Sein}}, {{spoiler|Fate}} and {{spoiler|Arisa}} got their pervy-ness amped up to the point of willingly going together ''TOPLESS'' to {{spoiler|Yuuno}}'s room in order to play a prank on him by ''squeezing their assets on his face''. Yeah, we're talking about [[Hates Being Touched|that]] {{spoiler|Fate}} and [[Tsundere|that]] {{spoiler|Arisa}}.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: After seeing the Starlight Breaker for the first time, Lina wonders what it would be like to use the Dragon Slave against that spell. Then in the ''Try'' arc, the corrupted golden dragon elder uses the Dragon Slave against Nanoha, who counters with the Starlight Breaker. The resulting collision between these two spells is not something you'd want to stick around for.
** In the first arc, Miyuki mentions wanting a magic sword, and Lina said only if the Sword of Light shows up. In the ''Shine'' arc, Sirius comes visiting, bearing all five Dark Star weapons.
* [[Clothing Damage]]: While it existed in Nanoha canon, here fights have left cast members at least half naked. In one spar the strategy of [[Defeat By Modesty]] even comes up.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Tre to Cinque and Sein. Due has shades of this as well, tempered by a teasing personality.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Reinforce makes good use of these when she went berserk.
* [[Combining Mecha]]: {{spoiler|Quattro}} manages to do this with the [[Mecha Mooks|Gadget Drones]] and the [[Mechanical Monster|Megahs]] to increase the power of the [[Anti Magic|AMF]] by a substantial margin.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: {{spoiler|Uno}} decides to force {{spoiler|Quattro}} to watch three hours worth of [[Barney and Friends (TV)|Barney and Friends]] for over-the-top teasing of {{spoiler|Tre}}'s figure. Due to {{spoiler|Quattro}} sharing a body with {{spoiler|Levi}}, the punishment was horrifying in their opinion. And this is with {{spoiler|Uno not even knowing about the Mazoku in the Numbers' ranks.}}
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Remember how Nanoha chanted the [[G Gundam|Shining Finger]] chant when charging up the Starlight Breaker in Season 1? It came back with a vengeance in the Red arc, this time with {{spoiler|Reinforce Zwei}} doing it.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: {{spoiler|Sein}}'s job was to enter the TSAB and observe their tactics. She does so by enrolling, and somehow by chance becomes {{spoiler|Subaru}} and {{spoiler|Teana}}'s roommate. Then by chance, {{spoiler|Subaru}} and {{spoiler|Teana}} meet {{spoiler|Nove}} and {{spoiler|Wendi}}, both undercover as civilian and familiar, and then later {{spoiler|Quint}} meets all three. {{spoiler|Nove}}'s familiar resemblance causes {{spoiler|Quint}} to confront {{spoiler|Regius}}, leading to the latter to confess to {{spoiler|Quint}} everything about the combat cyborgs, Jail, and his relationship with the TSAB.
* [[Crouching Moron Hidden Badass]]: While {{spoiler|Kuma's super fast and never hid that, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|he keeps getting people's names wrong, acts rather silly, hits on Teana and flirts with Arisa]], but when he [[Let's Get Dangerous|finally stopped holding back]], he beat the living tar out of [[Big Bad|Levi]].}}
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Poor, poor Olivie.
** Same with Fate. Good thing she had back-up.
** Nanoha pulls one of these on the bad guys in Red.
** {{spoiler|Levi}} was expecting this using the Megahs against Riot Force. Needless to say, when {{spoiler|the Cyborgs, the Florians, and Suzuka}} got involved, it quickly went the other way.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Well, comparing this version of StrikerS to the canon version. It's almost like Force in a way.
* [[Deader Than Dead]]: Mentioned in-universe.
{{quote| '''Luna Inverse:'''Just make sure that whatever you fight, you kill deader than dead.}}
** Dynast Grausherra did this to Zelas' human lover, to make sure she couldn't bring him back as a Mazoku.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Uno
* [[Death By Adaptation]]: Dynast Grausherra, who tried to cheat death by taking over his [[The Dragon|general]] Sherra, but Zelas prevents him from overwriting Sherra's mind.
** {{spoiler|Jail}} and {{spoiler|Uno}} were killed by {{spoiler|Levi}} when she decided to to go full throttle on her plans.
* [[Deal With the Devil]]: The Golden Dragon elder under the Fire Dragon Lord, along with his loyal followers, make one with Dynast Grausherra in hopes of gaining the power to kill the last Ancient Dragon. He's a plain [[Hypocrite]], as he accused Lina of doing the same earlier with the Lord of Nightmares.
** {{spoiler|Vita and the other Wolkenritter}} made a similar deal with {{spoiler|the Book of Darkness}}. For extra power, they would {{spoiler|become its Guardian Knights upon their deaths. It didn't work well, as Signum was shown murdering Vita shortly after Vita got her powerup}}.
** {{spoiler|And now that her plans have been derailed and she's been weakened once more, [[Big Bad|Levi]] has struck up a lasting bodyguard deal... with [[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force (Manga)|Curren Huckebein]].}}
* [[Demonic Possession]]: The [[Not Quite Dead]] Alicia, now calling herself Levi, took over [[Four Is Death|Quattro]]'s body.
* [[De Power]]: A minor case, but Reinforce goes from being able to take on both [[Person of Mass Destruction|Lina]] and [[Wave Motion Gun|Nanoha]] at the same time, to having trouble with [[Mechanical Monster|Mechanical Monsters]] later in the story.
** Both commented on in the story between her and Signum, as well as justified as she lost a major amount of power that came with being purified and can only access her strongest powers while combined with Hayate.
** The second point is also justified because her mind was being assaulted and she was having trouble focusing.
*** After being brought back to life, {{spoiler|Luna Inverse}} has found that she no longer {{spoiler|has Holy magic at all}}.
* [[Death World]]: Non-administered World 500, aka the Slayers world, is marked with a SS threat level.
{{quote|  ''{{spoiler|(Zest)}} fought back the urge to get annoyed with them, they were justified in being worried about what he requested, since most everyone in the Bureau was, in fact, restricted to going to this planet. When the ship shook slightly, he closed his eyes and waited for a moment. The planet he was going to was described as the most dangerous of all worlds, and frankly, that was what he needed. Sitting around or trying to go on vacation didn't really suit him, being able to fight and not think about stuff suited him more.''}}
* [[Deus Exit Machina]]: Lina's pregnancy keeps her from being physically active in the events of Shine, and places her in just a advising role, allowing the plot to focus back to most of the Nanoha-verse cast as they deal with the new reality.
** {{spoiler|A more sinister version has Luna killed off-screen and Nanoha nearly killed, requiring Lina to get Nanoha out of the area so she can focus on stopping Nanoha's rampant Chaos magic from doing more harm than good to her body.}}
* [[Distracted By the Sexy]]: Vita caused this to happen the last time she was at the beach, having grown to become quite the looker. [[Even the Girls Want Her|Even some girls crashed into something while looking at her.]]
* [[Double Entendre]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with {{spoiler|Subaru and Ginga}} vs. {{spoiler|their opponents}} in the StrikerS arc.
* [[Double Knockout]]: In what is supposed to be a [[Lighthearted Rematch]] between Nanoha and her friends and the Yagami family, Nanoha and Hayate went all out for their final attack of the battle. Nanoha, channeling her Chaos powers, and Hayate, unisoned with Reinforce. Only then did they KO'ed each other, destroying the entire training grounds in the process.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Jail's goals now involve getting enough power to deal with a Mazoku threat, knowing there are others. He doesn't know that one of his Numbers is being possessed, and then later corrupted by a Mazoku.
** Also Jail's plots involve making the TSAB take the Mazoku threat seriously. He doesn't know that is the reason Riot Force 6 was founded.
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: It seems this is what Gourry was doing for a month since Lina's 'death'. Not even Syphiel could snap him out of it.
* [[Dual Wielding]]: Lina does this with the freaking ''RAGNA BLADE''!!
** After her injury at Cinque's hands, Signum has taken up dual-wielding as well, first with a Shine Sword, and later  {{spoiler|a duplicate of the rebuilt Laevatein.}} 
* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: Quint and Megane appear at the beginning of the ''Jump'' arc with their children (Ginga, Subaru and Lutecia respectively). Zest and Regius are seen helpless against Death Bringer Garoth's takeover of the TSAB's Ground Forces HQ.
** The newest arc ''Shine'' glimpses at the birth of Caro and the creation of Erio. Jail also appears with Uno, Due and Tre seeking information from Precia. Some of the other Numbers soon follow.
*** As of ''Peek'', practically everyone through StrikerS other than Otto, Deed and Vivio.
*** Caro got REALLY lucky when she met what seems to be the Huckebein.
*** Ixpellia shows up in one of Nanoha's dreams while she's in a coma.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Nanoha, Fate, Yuuno, and the Wolkenritter team up during what was the second canon battle when Alicia decides there isn't enough bloodshed and summons a horde of minor demons.
** Huraker's claiming of the Water Dragon Lord's powers from Lyos has her facing Riksfalto, Valgaav, Zelgadis, Yunno, Fate, Chrono, and the Shinzoku Erulogos together.
* [[Eureka Moment]]: Chrono gets the idea to use some [[Chekhov's Gun|Jewel Seeds to open another crack into the Sea of Chaos]] to send Garoth into after hearing Vita wishing for a black hole to toss the Mazoku Lord into.
* [[Expy]]: Death Bringer Garoth is pretty much one of Hellmaster Phibrizo. Lina even [[Lampshade Hanging|calls him a Phibrizo-wannabe]].
** Vita and Reinforce Zwei come across a [[Mechanical Monster]] that strongly resembles [[Transformers Prime|Megatron]].
** Several of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] are expies of others. Notable examples include [[Fate Stay Night|"Saber" and "Archer"]], [[Rosario to Vampire|"Mokka"]], and [[Wild Arms 1 (Video Game)|"Belselk"]]/[[Wild Arms 1 (Video Game)|"Berserk"]]
** {{spoiler|Levi's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] is made up of Expies, including [[Scryed|Straight Kuma, Tetsunami and his big magnum, and Asuka Tackibana and his magic balls.]]}}
* [[Eye Scream]]: One of the numerous injuries that happens to {{spoiler|Signum}} after she's introduced to {{spoiler|Cinque's Rumble Detonator}} the hard way.
** Also happened to Cinque when she lost her eye to Zest and when it grew back.
* [[Failsafe Failure]]: Arisa, Suzuka and Arf are at the mall and meet a malfunctioning Mid-Childa trash compactor that goes berserk and ends up destroying the mall before it's finally stopped.
* [[Fan Service]]: Plenty of it throughout the story. [[Clothing Damage|Clothes tend to go flying off for various reasons]].
* [[Fan Service With a Smile]]: As part of Lina's deal with the inn her group was staying in, Amelia, Syphiel and Filia were made to work as waitresses. The latter three did not appreciate this.
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Even if she was thrown less than 20 years back in time that's how it felt like to Lina when she ended up on Earth, a different planet with technological advances centuries more advanced than the Red World's.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: A rather neat and subtle one happens in chapter 8 where Lina thought that if Yuuno had been on her home world, he would have been called the next great sage. 32 chapters, 3 arcs, and one in-story year later when on Lina's home world, both Shinzoku and Mazoku are calling him the fifth great sage.
** There are hints as to why Lina's fighting ability seems to be weaker than what it should have been on her home world. At the end of the ''Try'' arc, she reveals that she's pregnant.
** The unnoticed glow around Erio and the dragons roaring just as Caro was born seems to hint these two will have something special on top of what they have in canon.
*** The Lord of Nightmares later implies that they might be the current reincarnations of Dugradigdu and Vorfeed.
** {{spoiler|Xellos explains to Ragnort how Mazoku possess human bodies in order to mate with humans and produce half-human, half-Mazoku offspring, and its done rarely. Immediately following that, Zelas appears, and then explains that Xellos was the result of such a pairing between her and a human male.}}.
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: {{spoiler|In the novels, Luke-Shabranigdo knew that Mazoku was responsible for Milina's death, and so gave Lina and Gourry the opportunity to kill him, even granting unlimited magic and stamina. In the fanfic, Luke was only told that bandits killed Milina. Without realizing that it wasn't humans that killed his beloved, his soul was consumed by Shabrangido.}}
**  {{spoiler|On a lighter note, during the airport fire, instead of Subaru being rescued by Nanoha, she was rescued by Yunno.}}
**  {{spoiler|Zest and Quint's survival puts Regius on a more [[The Atoner]] path than in canon. As a result, Riot Force is mostly his creation.}}
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Lina, who brings stuff to an orphanage for abused children every month. Mostly an extension of that side of her that existed in the original canon.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: [[Irony|Ironically]], Mazoku Lord Deep Sea Dolphin gets along well with sea life. It doesn't seem ironic at first, because she claims the sea to be her domain, [[Fridge Logic|until you remember]] that she's a [[Omnicidal Maniac|Ma]][[Always Chaotic Evil|zoku]] and her race wants to destroy the universe, [[Unreliable Narrator|or so they say.]]
* [[Friendly Tickle Torture]]: Due doesn't like it when Cinque and Tre get mopey, so, she tickles them to get them to stop being "frowny faces".
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself Man]]: Yuuno does this to Fate to snap her out of a [[Heroic BSOD]] that she was heading into after finding out about what happened to her sister.
** In ''Dusk'', it's Regius of all people that snaps Zest out of his BSOD.
** {{spoiler|1=In StrikerS, during the Nanoha vs Saint-King!Vivio, Nanoha does this to calm Vivio down when long repressed memories of Olivie's last moments before Garoth killed her threaten to drive her insane.}}
* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]]: Invoked by Fate and Arisa. In order to get back at Yuuno over a joke he played on them. {{spoiler|They walked into his room, topless, dyed his hair a variety of colors, before pressing their breasts together and making out while Thoth recorded the whole thing. This was to keep Thoth from telling Yuuno what was going on. Upon viewing it, it was enough to have [[The Stoic|Chrono]] need some relief from Amy and Filia.}}
** {{spoiler|And speaking of Amy and Filia, they did tease Chrono the same way.}}
* [[Go Go Enslavement]]: The corrupted Golden Dragons do this to Filia, leaving her in lacy corset/thong combo that seems to be irremovable. [[It Got Worse|Then it turns out the undergarments are an illusion, meaning she's really naked]].
* [[Go to Your Room]]: Lina says this to Luna, expressing her displeasure on how Luna failed to protect Arisa and Suzuka.
* [[Good Parents]]: The ones who were adults at the start of the story, Lindy, Genya, Quint, Lina, and Shiro are this to the younger members of the cast.
** Said younger members, Nanoha, Fate, Hayate, Yuuno and Chrono, become this, when they grow up, to the younger children that come into their lives.
*** Jail is this to the Numbers while he's still with them. The Numbers are later split into different families with [[Good Parents]] of their own, except for Tre and Sein, who go to work for the Saint Church.
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: {{spoiler|Cinque reveals that she has gained regenerative powers and uses them to their fullest effect, standing near a nearly lethal explosion without using a barrier, cutting her own throat to escape capture and grabbing Laevantein and using her Rumble Detonator skill on it to blow it up and take her hand out in the process. Signum wasn't quite as lucky.}}
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Fate gets adopted not by Lindy, but by Lina, making her and Nanoha sisters.
* [[Has Two Mommies]]: Reinforce Zwei and Vita. At the moment.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]:  {{spoiler|Quattro, of all people...Nobody saw it coming....}}
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: It turns out Raising Heart's is a holy-elemental artifact, and therefore capable of hurting Mazoku. It gets more interesting when Nanoha can cast boosted [[Black Magic|Dragon Slaves]] through it...
* [[Hot Mom]] / [[Hot Dad]]: Anyone who's a parent in this story.
* [[How Do I Shot Web]]: Seems to be a trend for humans when trying to wield holy magic. It was apparently a tough time for Luna Inverse, who couldn't wear clothes because her power kept burning her clothes off until she got a handle with it, and she had no one to teach her.
* [[Humanity Ensues]]: After drawing from Nanoha's Chaos-infused Linker Core, the Wolkenritter were transformed from being magical constructs into actual living breathing flesh, their ties to the Book of Darkness severed, and now mortal.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Levi, at the climax of the current arc,  {{spoiler|Has been betrayed by her own Priest, blasted by a Divine Buster, had Reinforce, Lutecia, and Vivio taken away, had her evil ass kicked by Kuma, whose armor form is actually able to harm Astral bodies, and currently been outmaneuvered and on the path of a [[Villainous Breakdown]]...and Lina Inverse is there too.}}
* [[I'm a Man I Can't Help It]]:  {{spoiler|Kuma gives this as an excuse for his [[Raging Stiffie]] during a somewhat dark [[Hot Springs Episode]]...although he didn't do anything perverted, despite the fact that Amitie was straddling him naked in the water...}}
{{quote|  ''' {{spoiler|Kuma}}''':{{spoiler|"I am a guy, and you are a very lovely young lady."}}}}
* [[Irony]]: Remember how Precia used to [[Whip It Good|whip]] Fate for not being similar enough to her "perfect" Alicia? Well, here she ''saves'' Fate from being whipped ''to death'' by [[Always Chaotic Evil|Mazoku]]-[[The Corruption|corrupted]] [[From Nobody to Nightmare|Alicia]].
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: After Luna [[De Power|loses her status as the Knight of Cephied]], she decides to go Mid-Childa and work with the Saint Church.
**  {{spoiler|Teana feels this way considering she's pretty much partnered with the strongest people in their world.}}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: This line from SSX
{{quote| Ix just watched, curious about the girl who killed her Mariage.}}
* [[Internal Reveal]]: To wit-
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Jail:''' I just wish I knew why you were trying to stop us from perfecting our ability to fight against Mazoku.}}<br />
{{spoiler|'''Subaru:'''...What are you talking about? The Riot Force that I work for was designed to train mages to be able to fight against Mazoku.}} }}
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Chrono and Amy with Filia.
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]:  {{spoiler|Someone spiked the punch at a party and it led to Fate having a [[Heroic BSOD]] about her feelings when it comes to other girls and Yunno, and Vita losing her virginity.}}
* [[Intrigued By Humanity]]: Mazoku Lord Lucefer. This is what gets him marked as a traitor by his fellow Mazoku, especially after he gave away knowledge on how humans can fight Mazoku. Despite their efforts, he is still alive... for the present term.
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Well, even though Lina already has a family, Lina's parents are bugging her sister Luna to get married and have kids.
* [[Journey to Find Oneself]]: Zest goes to the Red World in order to recover from his BSOD.
* [[Kill Us Both]]:  {{spoiler|This trope is in effect when Gaav with the Gorun Nova used himself as a conduit for the heroes to use for slaying Shabrangido.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Needless to say, all over the place.
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: Nanoha's magic potential is stated to be because of her mother having a tremendous amount of magic.
** Suzuka is revealed to have powerful anti-Mazoku abilities because it was passed on from her ancestors. Justified in that her ancestors were experimented on and made into weapons to fight against Mazoku and the powerful abilities would be passed on throughout the generations.
** {{spoiler|Xellos, after his month-long tryst with the Earth Dragon Goddess Rangort, has twin girls, both of whom have [[Holy Hand Grenade|Holy]] and [[Black Magic]] radiating from them.}}
* [[Lego Genetics]]: Jail gets his hands on Filia and Val's DNA for implantation into the Numbers, as part of his safeguards against the Mazoku. This obviously results in {{spoiler|Wendi, Sette, Otto, and Deed being}} [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|half-human, half-dragon, cyborg clones.]]
** {{spoiler|It is later revealed that during the Garoth crisis, Jail had Due get the blood of Lina and Nanoha, isolated the DNA that related to their magic, and implanted into Cinque and Dieci. He later realized that [[Evil Is Not a Toy|particular magic is not to be worked with lightly.]]}}
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: {{spoiler|Signum rushed at Cinque despite (or perhaps because) sensing [[Story Breaker Power|Chaos magic]] in the already dangerous cyborg. Needless to say, things didn't end well for the Blazing General}}.
**  {{spoiler|[[Fridge Logic|Though, perhaps the fact that she sensed the Chaos and knew how dangerous it could be was the reason she rushed in.]] After all, the last time she went up against someone with Chaos magic, the person went berserk and she, Vita, Shamal and Zafira were horribly maimed and nearly died.}}
* [[Living Battery]]: The Megahs are powered by Unison Devices. In this story, that is how Agito was discovered. However Unison Devices get turned into [[Empty Shell|Empty Shells]] once they are hooked up. They are only able to regain a form of personality if they Unison with someone for a long time. But there is a limit to how long they can remain hooked up to the Megahs because once removed, they cease to exist.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: So much so that by the time that the ''Try'' arc gets done, most of all the canon Slayers characters were used, on top of the canon Nanoha cast from season 1.
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Thoth Driver.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: The apparent reason for Dark Star and Vorfeed's rampage. They were in love, but stuck in their [[Cycle of Revenge|vicious cycle of wars among their subordinates]]. Incidentally, Lina guessed the basic reason for the rampage without knowing anything at all.
* [[Luke I Am Your Father]]: As far as Xellos knew, he is like all Mazoku, created from their immediate master's severing part of their astral body off and shaping it into a new individual Mazoku. However, Zelas reveals that she is his mother in the traditional sense, and that he had a human father. After he was born, Zelas purged his human side and made him a full Mazoku (for Xellos' safety), only later giving him the power that made him one of the more powerful servants of the five Retainers. As for the father, he was killed by Dynast.
** {{spoiler|Nove learning she's related to the Nakajima family. And on the other side, Subaru learning that Nove's her sister.}}
* [[Luke You Are My Father]]: When Reinforce Zwei introduced herself, she calls Hayate "Daddy", especially since Reinforce was made pregnant with Zwei as part of the creation process, and that both Hayate's and Reinforce's Linker Cores were used. This scene was pulled from another [[Crack Fic|crack short]] Nanya wrote.
{{quote| '''Arisa:''' Hayate's not even 10 years old and has a child of her own, and she's the father? Argh! You magic people throw everything out of whack!}}
** More dramatically, Zest being told that Lutecia is his daughter, after hearing the news of Megane and Lutecia's deaths. [[Heroic BSOD|He doesn't take it well]].
** {{spoiler|And on a sillier note, Ragnort introducing Xellos to his ''daughters''.}}
* [[Mama Bear]]: Lina, it's probably her only [[Berserk Button]] now.
**  {{spoiler|Both Ragnort and Zelas promise to raise hell on anyone who hurts Ragnort's twin daughters.}}
**  {{spoiler|Quattro brags to a recently healed and apparently unconscious Megane about what she did to Lutecia and is about to kill her when Megane wakes up, [[Curb Stomp Battle|overpowers Quattro and snaps her neck]]}}
** {{spoiler|Lina's status as a [[Mama Bear]] was never in question, but if anyone forgot about it, all they have to do is look at Lina's reaction to finding out about her children and grandchild nearly getting hurt.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|"Shiro, get some pants on, someone tried to kill our family."}}}}
* [[Mayfly December Romance]]: Filia is a century-years-old dragon, and the youngest of her race. Chrono and Amy are just approaching adulthood. {{spoiler|Filia has a sobering moment regarding this in the ''Advice'' chapter of ''Peek''.}}
* [[Mind Rape]]: Poor Nanoha, with Death Bringer making her suffer like this. [[Averted Trope|Good thing]] [[There Are No Therapists|she got therapy for this]].
* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: Xellos ''really'' does not understand Earth's socioeconomic or environmental patterns, so he keeps trying to create misery, and ends up a town hero. Like killing a warlord. Or turning a diamond mine into a coal mine. Or blowing up a port that turned out to have been a [[Wretched Hive]]. Or killing all the rabbits in Australia.
* [[Mirror Match]]: The infamous Shadow Reflector, once destroyed by Lina Inverse, is repaired by the Mazoku conspiring in the Kingdom of Dils. This time, it does create an evil twin, and they use it on Zest.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: One of the external signs of Lina being 'marked' by the Lord of Nightmares is her left [[Eyes of Gold|eye being gold]]. She covers both of her eyes with a glamor to hide it, making them both blue like the eyes of Momoko Takamachi.
** Cinque has one normal eye and one literally black eye, formed from Chaotic energy.
* [[Moment Killer]]: Filia comments that she and Chrono were interrupted when Amy asks why Chrono seemed upset.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: How Death Bringer corrupts the soul of Alicia.
* [[The Mutiny]]:  {{spoiler|While they've made it clear that Hayate is [[Still the Leader]], they've had her step down as commander of Riot Force 6 due to her emotions overruling her decisions and placed Chrono in charge.}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Nanoha sticking her head into the kitchen at the Midoriya Cafe causes all fights to stop.
** Mazoku-Alicia's disguise is based on [[Evil Twin|Material-L]] from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As Portable (Video Game)|TheBattleOfAces ]]''. She later adopts Material-L's new name Levi found in the game's sequel ''The Gears of Destiny''.
** Reinforce reverse-unisons with Hayate at the end of the battle with [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Death Bringer]] and gains the look she had during the final fight in the PSP game.
** A confrontation with the corrupted dragon elder get Nanoha's hair partially burned off, leaving her looking like Material-S.
*** Even earlier than that, Nanoha's new spell ''Divine Flame Buster'' can be seen as a Material-S shout-out.
** Lina gets one when she comments on how she's glad that Fate's not being arrested for being herself and wonders if that might have happened if she stayed on her own home world. Guess what happened in the fourth season of Slayers?
** Lina tells Gourry she's selling him the Blast Sword for 550 – the same price that she had originally offered to buy the [[Laser Blade|Sword of Light]] for when she first found out Gourry had it.
** Hayate, thanks to Reinforce being around, has spells and abilities of both her [[Glass Cannon|canon self]] and how she was in the PSP game.
** Luna musing on how the Staff of Bones, a weapon made from Shabranigdo's own body, might be able to withstand the Blast Blade. That's what happens in the final Slayers [[Light Novel]], when Gourry, armed with the Blast Blade, fights Luke-Shabrangido who is wielding the Staff of Bones.
** One of Nanoha's dreams while in a coma involves her mother not being Lina, her father dead, Lindy a fairy, and marrying Chrono. In short, the Lyrical Nanoha [[Pilot Episode]] that came with later versions of ''[[Triangle Heart 3 Sweet Songs Forever]]''.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Just shortly after Lina and her group arrive on her home world, they are beset by a group of bandits who were emboldened due to the news that Lina Inverse is dead.
** While traveling through an African village, Xellos gets harassed by some goons of a local warlord. The leader of the group gets the [[Fate Worse Than Death|Raugnut]] [[And I Must Scream|Rushavna]] curse before [[It Got Worse|it all goes downhill for the warlord himself...]]
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: In the final Nanoha vs. Fate battle, Fate gets her Barrier Jacket burned off from the heat of one of Nanoha's fire spells. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lina admits it's kinda funny.]]
** Arisa's lack of understanding of the holy magic inside her gets her shirt burned off.
* [[Named By Democracy]]: After the Unison Device known in canon to us as Agito finally recovers, she realizes that [[Identity Amnesia|she doesn't know her own name]]. The Numbers try to find a name for her, eventually settling on Agito.
* [[Never Live It Down]]: In-universe application. When Sirius, one of the Shinzoku under Vorfeed, is beamed aboard the Arthra, he asked if the on board chef routinely blows up the kitchen while cooking, remembering Vorfeed's time as a [[Lost Universe|spaceship included such incidents.]]
* [[Nice Job Fixing It Villain]]: {{spoiler|Outside of using the Giga Slave or an Arc En Ciel bombardment, there was no way for the defenders of Seyruun to be able to defeat a fully awake shard of Shabranigdo. Then Shabranigdo decided to send in a resurrected Gaav, with some of Gaav's memories modified of course. By chance the heroes manage to unseal Gaav's memories, causing Gaav to revert to his original goals of rebelling against Shabranigdo. Doubles as a [[Hoist By His Own Petard]].}}
* [[Nocturnal Emission]]: Poor Yuuno. He's incredibly embarrassed about it, but Kyouya tells him that it's perfectly natural and normal for boys his age to suffer through it. He tells Yuuno to pack more underwear when going on trips in the future.
* [[Noble Demon]]: {{spoiler|Jail's goals now involve reminding how bad Mazoku are, even if he's seen as a villain.}}
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Just before Lina is about to reveal her magical talents to Nanoha, Lina assures Shiro it won't be like that incident in China. The trope is then averted in the ''New'' arc, where Lina explains that a bodyguard job ended with a mountain and part of the Great Wall of China vaporized when Lina decided to test her Nemesis Breaker spell on the demon that was after their client. It is also hinted she did something to the Clover group for what they did to Shiro.
** This trope is FURTHER averted in the ''Red'' arc as Lina tells Luna exactly what she did to the Clover group.
** Whatever Dynast did to Zelas in the past is never fully explained.  {{spoiler|At least... until the ''Red'' arc.}}
** Lina mentioned several more incidents involving the Pope, mecha-piloting Leprechauns, and Oompa Loompas during her European honeymoon (the latter two also serving as a [[Shout Out]] to [[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]).
* [[No Periods Period]]: As part of the Wolkenritter becoming mortal, Vita now has to go through puberty and the joys of the monthly. [[Hilarious in Hindsight|This is not the reason the fanfic was entitled ''Blood That Flows''.]]
* [[Not So Different]]: While standing near one of the sites of the Holocaust death camps, Xellos remarks to Sirius that Mazoku and Shinzoku are both reliant on humans for survival.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: A number of characters come across far less dangerous than they really are upon first glance, notable is Lina (who's a lot more mellow than she was in [[Slayers|canon]]), Nanoha (who's seen being mischievous quite often), Reinforce Zwei (who's so incredibly cute, bubbly and energetic that you want to take her home), and Caro (who's so cute that people say is [[Tastes Like Diabetes|too cute sometimes.]])
**  {{spoiler|Vita probably takes the cake by the strikers arc, simply because she'd rather be out partying, going on dates, having fun with said dates, riding her motorcycle and generally relaxing. Despite this, she's arguably the strongest person in the Riot Force physically, is quite willing to provoke her friends into a sparring match where she's at a disadvantage, and has enough raw sexuality to make someone who disliked her suddenly start crushing on her.}}
* [[Older and Wiser]]: Lina, after spending 15 years on Earth. When she reunites with her friends, [[Not As You Know Them|they are surprised at how changed she is]].
** Exemplified in the ''Red'' arc where Luna's inaction could have cost Arf, Arisa and Suzuka their lives. Instead of losing her temper at Luna, Lina dismisses Luna and later takes her to a place where Luna can see the potential results of her actions.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]:  {{spoiler|The Mariage are undead women who look completely identical, can morph their arms into various weapons, move so fast that even augmented humans have a hard time following their movements, cut down barriers with ease and explode when they've had enough}}
* [[Outside Context Villain]]: The TSAB were pretty much blindsided by the appearance of the Mazoku of their universe, mostly because the Mazoku kept their involvement a secret as they brought down the precursor civilizations before them.
** More specifically, Garoth is this in the A's arc for the Nanoha side of the cast. His [[The Dragon|Dragon]] is a bit of a subversion, as the end of the arc reveals she's Alicia Testarossa, who [[Came Back Wrong]].
** {{spoiler|The inverse is expected to hit Levi hard, with increasing involvement of Mazoku and Shinzoku from the Red World as well as Dark Star and Vorfeed reborn on the Blue World.}}
***  {{spoiler|It did. See [[Humiliation Conga]].}}
* [[Overshadowed By Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Nove feels this way when she compares herself to her sisters.}}
**  {{spoiler|Teana feels this way and makes it known after she gets manhandled by Riksfalto, combine with the advice Kuma gave her.}}
{{quote| '''Kuma:'''{{spoiler|"Listen, little missy, at this level, only the freaks of nature can survive, if you're normal, you're likely to get hurt."}}}}
* [[Patchwork Fic]]: The fourth arc ''New'' and then the fifth arc, ''Try'' ([[Word of God|the author wanted to make the arc be named Try but was lazy when posting to the message boards]]), involves blending the plot of the Slayers ''TRY'' season with elements, characters, and plots of the ''Knights of the Aqualord'' manga and the second half of the original Slayers [[Light Novel]] series. The result, a Thirty Xellos... err... [[Gambit Pileup|Xanatos Pileup]]. This was due to the author unable [[Take a Third Option|to decide which storyline to go with.]]
* [[Plot Relevant Age Up]]: Levi artifically ages Lutecia while she's in a [[People Jars|tube]]. By the time she awake, she's a six-year-old with a teenager's body.
* [[Polyamory]]: It was Filia who push for the three-way relationship between her, Chrono, and Amy. The same Filia who first thought of Chrono as an unrepentant pervert.
* [[Premature Eulogy]]: Lina returns to her home world only to here that Seyruun just held a funeral for her, and finds her family holding a wake for her. She does admit, though, given that she had been consumed by the Lord of Nightmares, no one should have expected her to return alive.
* [[Put On a Bus]]: Every main character in the ''Dusk'' arc, allowing the author to explore the minor and secondary characters more.
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: For the defenders of Seyruun against the Mazoku horde led by Luke-Shabranigdo, they have two-and-a-half hours from the beginning of the battle till a TSAB fleet arrives, in which the [[Wave Motion Gun|Arc en Ciel equipped ships]] [[Beam Spam|will begin to purge the area]].
* [[Reality Warper]]: The high-ranking Mazoku in general, but special mention goes to Death Bringer and Huraker.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Hayate in the ''StrikerS'' arc. Surprisingly, Regius as well. 
* [[Red Herring Twist]]: Initially it looks like Lina will be able to revive Alicia, but then a few scenes later we learn she failed. Then subverted when we learn Alicia was already brought back...[[Came Back Wrong|as a Mazoku.]]
* [[Retired Badass]]: Lina was content to just settling down and run a business [[Generation Xerox|like her parents]], especially in a world where few things needed the use of her magic. Then the Jewel Seed incident happened...
* [[Revenge By Proxy]]: Valgaav was convinced to target Nanoha instead of targeting Lina directly. Unfortunately for him, Raising Heart had a [[Super Mode|new upgrade]] that made Nanoha a not-so-easy target.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: It was revealed that after the incident that sent Shiro to the hospital, Lina decided to [[Gotta Kill Them All|kill every known member of the Clover terrorist group]]. Part of this was misplaced guilt that she could have done something about them after the attack on the Fuwa clan reunion. Needless to say, several hundreds died at her hand within a span of a week. This was the last time she lost control of her temper.
* [[Running Gag]]: Lina's now modest breast size being felt up or commented on while back in her world.
**  {{spoiler|Mr. Snuggles, the world's most unlucky cat.}}
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Comparatively speaking, when the author was posting at his peak, he was getting two to three, and sometimes up to five chapters a day done. The posting speed has dropped to maybe two to four times a week at best.
* [[Sealed Good in A Can]] and [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Blue Dragon God and Chaotic Blue sealed each other away. This is the biggest problem with Garoth's plan, as it hinges on that the pillar he found actually contains his master and not his master's enemy. He is killed without succeeding in getting the pillar broken, so [[The Un Reveal|nobody knows for sure.]]
* [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can]]: The Lord of Nightmare's punishment for both Dark Star and Vorfeed.
** Arisa Bannings is revealed to have a fragment of the Blue Dragon God inside her.
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: Fire Dragon Lord Vrabazard gives one to Yunno to see if he's worthy of wielding Vrabazard's holy power.
* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]: Filia was temporary locked in human form by the corrupted Golden Dragons.
* [[Shout Out]]: Lina flat-out states that she's a mecha fan, and at the end of the first season, she adopts a pose that would make [[G Gundam|Master Asia]] proud.
** Nanoha's Nano Fro was all frizzy is a [[Shout Out]] to [[Futurama]].
** Raising Heart [[G Gundam|glows with an awesome power]] [[Hot Blooded|that tells Nanoha to defeat you.]]
** Nanoha saying her Flame Divine Buster has a stun setting is a reference to [[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]. As are [[Noodle Incident|certain events that happened during Lina and Shiro's honeymoon.]] Filia also mentions a Dragon that had fifty wives.
** Vita is apparently a [[Team Four Star]] fan.
** Nanoha gains a mode that looks suspiciously like [[G Gundam|the God Gundam]] with [[Gundam Wing|Tallgeese's]] [[BFG|cannon]] on one side and [[Whip It Good|Epyon's whip]] on the other side.
** Fate and Arf pull off an attack straight out of [[Super Robot Wars]]. 
** Yuuno's attack on Riksfalto is suspiciously similar to what Nanoha did to Vivio in StrikerS.
** Fate's new mode makes her [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Three Times Faster.]]
** In one of her pregnant mood swings, Lina borrows Graf Eisen and wonders [[Gao Gai Gar|why the tree isn't turning into light.]]
*** [[Brick Joke|Comes back]] in the Red arc with Vita [[Drop the Hammer|decides to try it out herself.]] It works better for her than it does for Lina.
** Quint pulls off a [[Yin Yang Bomb|Hell an]][[Gao Gai Gar|d Heaven]] against Nanoha in a training match and later again when she and Megane are under attack from a [[Mechanical Monster]]. Guess now we know who Subaru inherited her title from.
** Miyuki is a [[Kamen Rider]] fan.
** A rather unusual one that doubles as [[Actor Allusion]], but Arisa Bannings, when using her Holy power, has blue wings and a sword made of blue fire, allowing her to fly and fight against Mazoku. If you colored her hair red and turned her flames red, she'd be [[Shakugan no Shana|Shana]].
** In ''Red'', Signum's fight against a rather powerful opponent is a [[Shout Out]] to Mazinkaiser's battle against Baron Ashura from the OVA.
** Yuuno, of all people, pulls out a move that would have [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina and Simon]] smiling proudly.
** Shiro adapts a line from ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]'' when confronting Gaav.
{{quote|  '''Shiro Takamachi''':[[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|My name is Shiro Takamachi.]] [[Papa Wolf|I heard you nearly killed my daughter.]] [[Prepare to Die]].}}
** Shabranigdo gets one to [[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Gilgamesh]] and [[Bob and George|Mynd]] in the same scene.
** Nanoha has a series of weird dreams and thinks that things could be worse, she could be [[White Devil of the Moon (Fanfic)|at her brother's wedding and end up hospitalized because of overusing her magic when she was supposed to be resting.]]
*** Nanoha also has a dream involving a [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|creature that only smiles and promises to grant any wish she wants.]]
** Reinforce wants to see Erio, Caro, and Rein  {{spoiler|do the [[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya|Hare Hare Yukai]]}}
** Suzuka is revealed to have been descended from a race of beings called [[Vampire Princess Miyu|Shinma]]. Something of a [[Stealth Pun]], as her older sister was a vampire in ''[[Triangle Heart 3 Sweet Songs Forever]]''.
** {{spoiler|Chrono ends up quoting [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] mere moments before he is tackled by Lotte Liese.}}
** {{spoiler|Nove does the [[Gun Buster|Super Inazuma Kick]], though she names it Super Nove Kick.}}
* [[Shower of Awkward]]: Due to a lot of steam, Yunno thinks the bath is unoccupied, when in fact Miyuki was in it. Yunno quickly thinks he's going to end up hurt.
* [[Skinship Grope]]: Hayate and Sein who else?
* [[Spank the Cutie]]: Lina does this to the Leize twins for their involvement with the Book of Darkness. She achieves this using a [[Whip It Good|whip]] and [[Noblewomans Laugh|laughing like Naga]].
** Reinforce does this to Vita, seemingly taking the role of [[Team Mom]] literally in the Yagami household (outside of being Zwei's actual mother of course).
*** Then she does it again, due to events of the ''Red'' Arc. Vita really shouldn't have decked Reinforce.
* [[Something Only They Would Say|Something Only They Would Cast]]: Lina proves to her parents that she isn't a Mazoku doppelganger by casting a Dragon Slave. Mazoku can't call on powers higher than themslves as it would be admitting they are weak and therefore end up absorbed by the Mazoku they are trying to call upon.
** Couldn't she have used a Ragna Blade or something, instead? Same principle, only it would have had less collateral damage.
* [[Spared By the Adaptation]]: Precia, who is taken into custody after being introduced to Lina's Nemesis Breaker spell, a Dragon Slave variant that calls upon the Dark Lord Chaotic Blue. She ends up dying at the end of the ''Shine'' arc, and after that given a proper funeral, a funeral that even Jail attends.
** Reinforce, after Lina purges the device of the corrupt defense program. Despite this, Reinforce Zwei [[In Spite of a Nail|is still created]] as the original can only safely Unison with Hayate now.
** Mazoku generals Riksfalto and Sherra, who died in the Aqualord manga and novels, respectively.
** Zest and Quint both survived what killed them in canon, but end up in a state where they can't serve the TSAB as they are, [[The Stations of the Canon|in order to keep some things close to the original canon]].
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: A more literal example: after  {{spoiler|Teana destroys a couple Megahs with Sein's help, she immediately turns on Sein and punches her twice and slaps her once for her betrayals, then kisses her for saving her in the first place from the Megah. And then arrests her.}}
* [[Spot Light Stealing Squad]]: The Nanoha cast compared to the Slayers cast, barring Lina. And among the Slayers-verse characters, the Mazoku compared to everyone else. This is due to the fact the remaining human cast of Slayers only show up in Slayer-centric plotlines so far, and there is not much in terms of Slayers plots to adapt, barring the REVOLUTION and EVOLUTION-R storylines, while most of the post TRY arcs have been focused on the buildup to the fic's version of StrikerS.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: The human form of Earth Lord Rangort is described as a dark skinned, light haired, [[Gag Boobs|top heavy]] female wearing a bikini-like outfit.
* [[Suicide Mission]]: Going up to fight a high ranking Mazoku, or worse, one of the Demon Kings like Ruby Eye, is pretty much suicide.
* [[Super Mode]]: Nanoha's Assault Mode, which can safely channel Nanoha's internal Chaos powers for about five minutes, and Fate's Rubin Blitz form, both designed to aid in combating Mazoku. Quint and Zest's Devices were updated with a new Blast Mode armor form, with the material derived from reverse-engineering the Blast Sword.
* [[Super Powered Evil Side]]: Nanoha when forced into tapping into her innate Chaos magic abilities.
* [[Super Speed]]: {{spoiler|Straight Kuma (Cougar), whose ability is the same from [[Scryed]], running so fast he turns the ground to glass and is faster than Fate. Although if he overuses it, he can't walk right for a while.}}
* [[Surprise Pregnancy]]: {{spoiler|Well, Xellos and Ragnort weren't expecting daughters between them, given how their specices actually ''procreate'', much less procreate with each other.}}
** In a darker moment Garoth reveals that the Saint Kaiser was pregnant with Klaus' child. Emphasis on the 'was' as he terminated said pregnancy before ending the Saint Kaiser's life.
** When Hayate is introduced to Reinforce Zwei (who calls Hayate her father, no less), she promptly faints.
**  {{spoiler|At the end of the Red arc Amy and Filia reveal that they are both pregnant with Chrono's children. Chrono had the same reaction as Hayate.}}
**  {{spoiler|After Quint has the Chaos energy removed from her body, she discovers she's now pregnant. It's implied that her desires for children that she actually conceived directed that energy to repair her reproductive organs.}}
* [[Team Dad]]:  {{spoiler|Kuma, to Amitie and Kyrie}}
* [[Tempting Fate]]: [[I Thought It Meant|No, not Fate T. Inverse.]] {{spoiler|After a meal at an all-you-can-eat buffet, Yunno hoped they can relax for the day and have nothing crazy like an airport fire happen. Hayate bet her current pair of panties against that. [[The Stations of the Canon|Guess what happened.]]}}
* [[The Cameo]]: Naga shows up at the end of the ''Try'' Arc, much to Lina and Amelia's shock.
* [[The Call Put Me On Hold]]: Interestingly, [[The Pope]] was able to tell that Nanoha would be very special in the future.
* [[The End of the World As We Know It]]: In ''Shine'', it seems the world of ''[[Lost Universe]]'' lives up to its name, somewhat, with it going through the Big Crunch and then the Lord of Nightmares hitting the [[Reset Button]] on it, sans Mazoku and Shinzoku.
* [[The Maiden Name Debate]]: Instead of taking the last name Takamachi, Fate decides to take Lina's maiden name when being adopted.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Sein, with Due already exposed back in the ''Shine'' arc, and unable to fulfill her canon role. This time however, Sein is roommates with Subaru and Teana.}}
* [[Theme Music Power Up]]: [[Word of God]] says that the Slayers REVOLUTION opening song ''Plenty of Grit'' would have played during Lina and Nanoha's double team against the Book of Darkness. Lina knows of this trope due to the fact she watches [[Humongous Mecha]] anime. [[Irony|Magical girl anime, not so much. Too cheesy for her.]]
* [[The Reveal]]: Death Bringer Garoth's priestess being Alicia at the end of the ''A's'' arc.
* [[The Slow Path]]: As it turns out, not only Lina was sent to another world, but sent back in time as well. Had she managed to return to home universe on her own, she would have found herself in her own past.
* [[The Starscream]]: Quattro was this to Levi.
* [[The Talk]]: Lindy gives this to Chrono, and later, Hayate. And since this is Lindy, the recipients can only twitch.
{{quote| '''Chrono:'''I... I... [[Noodle Implements|The banana and the bagel...]] And...}}
* [[The Tease]]: Well, Yuuno keeps seeing Miyuki without a shirt for some reason...
* [[The Triads and The Tongs]]: Zelas ends up in control of the majority of Hong Kong's underworld, all because she killed some two-bit thugs for harrasing her and decided to go up the hierarchy.
* [[Think Nothing of It]]: Xellos would rather not accept any gratitude from the slaves he inadvertently saved. Praise makes a Mazoku sick, after all. Turns into a [[Running Gag]] as everything Xellos tries to do to make things worse for people or make them feel bad [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin|ends up helping someone else out in return]].
* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Zelgadis learns how to temporary take on a human form from observing Arf's shape shifting. His chimera body is his true form still, but it's closer to a cure than he's ever had before.
* [[Time Skip]]: The ''Red'' arc has a two year time skip, jumping to when Nanoha is 14.
* [[Time to Unlock More True Potential]]: Zelgadis didn't like the idea that he was [[Not Worth Killing|ignored by the Mazoku assassins]] in favor of the mages Lina brought, so he {{spoiler|decided to head for Mid-Childa as well to learn new magical styles in exchange for his magical knowledge. He becomes a renown instructor.}}
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]:  {{spoiler|Quattro due to Levi's influence. Already couple of the other Numbers feel something's wrong with her, and some are harbouring thoughts of doing something mean to Quattro without feeling guilty about it. She solidified it by helping to kill Jail and Uno.}}
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Yunno having learned Shamanistic magic and Resurrection, as well as nearly killing Riksfalto with a modified Ra Tilt, earning him an audience with Vrabazard. Since then, those in the know are already calling him the next Great Sage.
* [[Too Much Information]]: {{spoiler|Lina is not amused when Xellos talks about his unintended conquest of Rangort with unnecessary details, especially in front of 12-year old Fate.}}
* [[Touched By Vorlons]]: Not only did the aftermath of the Hellmaster incident tossed Lina through time and space, but a fragment of the Lord of Nightmare's being is infused into her soul. Nanoha has her own fragment, having inherited from her mother, and Hayate and Reinforce got theirs when the Book of Darkness drew from Nanoha's linker core. Nanoha's younger brother was also infused with L-Sama's essence as well, with Lina casting the Ragna Blade and attempting a Giga Slave during the first weeks of her pregnancy.
* [[Training From Hell]]: Lina puts Nanoha and Yunno through this.
** Then her sister Luna puts Arisa through one as well.
* [[The Unfettered]]:  {{spoiler|When Chrono is put in charge of Riot Force 6, he orders Nanoha to take down the Combat Cyborgs by ''any means necessary'' despite hating to give the order to her, but they couldn't take any more chances. Levi returning actually helps by forcing and [[Enemy Mine]].}}
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: After the Wolkenritter begins absorbing power from Nanoha's Linker Core, Nanoha becomes consumed by her own fragment of Chaos, and begins to punish the Wolkenritter for hurting her in painful ways. This prompts both Fate and Yunno to try to stop her, only for her to turn on them until her mother canceled her Chaos powers. [[Break the Cutie|Nanoha would have nightmares after this incident, made worse with Death Bringer's involvement.]]
** Cinque goes through this herself when Zest injures Due and Tre.
**  {{spoiler|Events in the story hint that having some of the Lord of Nightmares' Chaos energy enhances a person's rage, causing the person to become a berserker if left unchecked. Nanoha, Cinque and now Dieci all have suffered this.}}
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Suzuka is revealed to have some sort of superhuman strength and magical power and it was recently revealed that {{spoiler|she could beat Vita, however, the exact details of such a victory are unknown as [[Word of God|the author]] has specifically stated that there was no context to the win and they could have easily had been arm wrestling}}.
* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Rein Zwei once rode in Vita's cleavage.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: When the Mazoku discover Earth, they decide to go on vacation there. Evil activities are kept to a minimum.
* [[Was Once a Man]]: Reinforce Eins used to be human, before becoming the corrupted [[Living Weapon]]. {{spoiler|Levi's [[Evil Plan]] involves discovering this process, so she can mass produce Unison Devices for her army of Megahs.}}
* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|1=In StrikerS...}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Jail:'''I remembered... I remembered the location... Of Al Hazard.}}}}
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love]]: [[Blood Knight]] Riksfalto has a case of this in regards to Yuuno, the boy who nearly killed her. [[Defeat Means Friendship|Near-defeat]] [[Love At First Punch|means love?]]
* [[Worf Barrage]]: While present in both series, the fanfic takes it [[Up to Eleven]] when Dark Star survives an Arc-En-Ciel blast.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: In the battle against Garoth, Lina finds herself nearly beaten, when she imagines her old [[True Companions]] telling her to not give up, since that was never her style.
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Filia chooses to leave the Red World, believing there's no place for her there anymore due to her actions and the actions of her clan. Lindy allows her to stay with her on Earth.
* [[You Have No Chance to Survive]]: Death Bringer Garoth [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|gives one to the populous under the TSAB]].
{{quote| '''Death Bringer Garoth:'''You people, who have lived here for years in relative peace, know nothing of the terrors as society falls, crumbling away to dust. You think that your precious Bureau can protect you, and yet, your precious Bureau is completely helpless against me. So, just sit back, relax and enjoy your last few moments before I destroy your entire world. Oh, I know you don't believe me, so, how about a small sample?}}
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]:  {{spoiler|The SSX arc}}

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