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The story is told in [[Anachronic Order]], jumping between the main story of Cirno and Purple Steve's demon-slaying adventure, backstories, and the story of Kelvin and Blue Bob. The main story itself is also rife with erratic [[Time Skip|Time Skips]] and occasional skipped chapters.

 

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* [[A Boy and His X]]: Cirno and his Lightning Rod Thing.

* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: The Furrow Dubs pretty much epitomize this trope.

* [[Call Back]]: The end of chapter 1degreeR calls back to the end of chapter 1.

* [[Character Filibuster]]: Cirno is known to break into these on a whim, and even starts the story with one.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Combined with [[Harmful to Minors]] with Cirno. Everyone in his family seems to have died in some kind of terrifying way, mostly when he was quite young, and his best friend in middle school was a psycho killer.

* [[Disregard That Statement]]: When Cirno admits that the whole beginning of chapter 5 is a {{spoiler|lie}}

* [[Distracting Disambiguation]]: Subverted—Cirno interrupts Purple Steve for using the correct term, "Furrow Dubs," asking that he use the term "Demons" because it "sounds better."

** Fullmoon Scarlet: "“Say, Fullmoon? Is, uh… is that blood?” I asked, very shaken, but still resolute enough to humor myself. “Yes, Cirno. Yes it is.” And with that, he stepped into the room, took off his shoes and backpack, and plopped himself down on one of the crimson sofas. “Come on in,” he beckoned."

* [[Fantastically Indifferent]]: Cirno most of the time. In response to Fullmoon's [[Establishing Character Moment]], he details: "Upon sights like this, some people are unable to retain their rational mind. They think, “my God, this child is the spawn of hell!” or, “I’m going to be killed!” or simply, “AAAAAAAAH!!!” These, however, were not my reactions."

* [[Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue]]: Justified in chapter 11 because it actually takes place in a featureless plane.

* [[Hand Wave]]: We know ''what'' Purple Steve is and what he can do. ''Why'' and ''how'' he is and can, we don't need to know.

* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: During fight scenes.

* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Subverted in that Kelvin does actually die in his introduction, but is immediately resurrected by Blue Bob.

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: Fullmoon Scarlet's permanent expression.

* [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]: Cirno uses this in chapter 2 during Purple Steve's chain of [[Info Dump|Infodumps]].

* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: Purple Steve is primarily a lightning bolt and can do pretty much anything you imagine lightning doing so long as there's a conductive current nearby.

* [[Mamet Speak]]: Often close, and definitely in Cirno and Claire's conversation from chapter 7.

* [[Mook Face Turn]]: Cirno uses this in chapter 11.

* [[Playing Both Sides]]: Narita Izaya seems to be doing this.

* [[Plot Parallel]]: Kelvin and Blue Bob run an obvious parallel to Cirno and Purple Steve

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Cirno's older brother is quickly becoming one.

* [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic]]: Subverted. The dialog is fairly heavy with realistic diction.

* [[Rousing Speech]]: A really strange one at the end of chapter 5.

* [[Serial Killer]]: Fullmoon Scarlet.

** In chapter 2, the Tape Man story is based on real events surrounding the series creators, as they'd used a similar tape man in a series of web videos called Project Awesomeness.

* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: All of the characters are named after combinations of the creators' favorite characters from other stories. For instance, Cirno Excalibur is named after Cirno from [[Touhou]] and Excalibur from [[Soul Eater]].

** Each chapter title is named after a song that the author was listening to while writing the chapter.

* [[Sidekick]]: Purple Steve.

* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: Claire Itou, although everyone in the story swears frequently.

* [[Take That]]: In chapter 2, Cirno describes his experience watching [[Nickelodeon]] after finding out how much more popular it is than [[Cartoon Network]]. To put it lightly, he didn't care for it.

* [[The Insomniac]]: Claire.

* [[The Nineties]]: CAPS is set in 1998.

 

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