39,327
edits
Infinity (fanfic): Difference between revisions
update links
m (update links) |
(update links) |
||
Line 1:
{{work}}
A ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' fanfic-in-progress written by [[Tropers/Moczo|Andy Moczo]] (author of the pure crack that is ''[[Uninvited Guests]]'') taking a shot at writing an action story. Set between the second and third seasons of the ''Nanoha'' anime, ''Infinity'' is a story that, in the author's own words, [[Alternate Universe Fic|'plays fast and loose with canon']] by inserting an entire new major case into a time when canonically nothing happened, yet still makes a fair effort to remain [[Original Flavor]].
Six months after the Book of Darkness incident, Nanoha, Fate, and [[Ascended Extra|of course]] [[Demoted to Extra|Arf]] are sent to stop some pirates from stealing from an archeological site. While everything seems immediately to go well and the criminals and stolen artifacts are quickly handed off for transport, it doesn't take too horribly long for the transport ship to be hacked by a new foe who obtains the stolen orbs for their own designs.
One week later during a planned picnic with Nanoha and her friends, even Suzuka and Arisa, Fate meets a... let's call her '''strange''' girl by the name of Tsukuyomi who is looking for her brother. Besides the oddity in her mannerisms she's noticeable for wearing a formal kimono in a park and having [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]] (though Fate admits having a purple-haired friend muddies the waters a bit in what a 'normal' hair colour is). After some awkwardness and more weirdness on Tsukuyomi's part her older, but no less odd, brother, Susanoo, finds her. After asking Nanoha to translate where they're supposed to be going, they take off into the air, flying at high speed for Tokyo. The girls quickly decide that they MIGHT have to reschedule their picnic and take off after the unknowns.
What follows is a story that manages to pull off being both hilarious and yet suitably dramatic, with equal parts action and humor (ocassionaly drawn from [[Character Exaggeration]] born from [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] and [[Mythology Gag|series in-jokes]])) and makes them ''work''. Even better, it features all the main characters from the first two seasons prominently, and gives them all chances to shine quite brilliantly; even a character or two from the third season get a cameo appearance. Can be found [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5144486/1/Infinity here].
Line 10:
Not to be confused with the tabletop wargame ''[[Infinity]]'' or ''[[Infinity the Quest For Earth]]''.
----
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Enlil}} gets a wee bit carried away in Chapter 26:
{{quote|'''I'm not a god. I AM WHAT A GOD PRAYS TO.'''
'''I. Am. I...I...[[Lampshade Hanging|may have let the sensation go to my head for a moment there.]]''' }}
* [[
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: It's become a [[Running Gag]] for Tsukuyomi to 'elegantly and discreetly' injure her brother in order to cut him off when he starts doing something particularly stupid.
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Fate's Bardiche and Susanoo's Raijin
Line 26:
{{quote|'''Amaterasu:''' {{spoiler|"You ask me to do my ''worst''? You delusional pocket calculator, '''''you have never seen my worst'''''."}}}}
* [[Badass Normal]]: {{spoiler|'''Shirou'''. Sure, Amaterasu should have already been dead several times over by the time he got to her, and there is no way he could repeat it in a proper fight, but he still managed [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|to knock her out]]. Which is one up on pretty much everyone else.}}
* [[Bad Liar]]: Tsukuyomi. She's capable of ''[[Combat Pragmatist|fighting]]'' [[Combat Pragmatist|deceptively]], but her [[Cloudcuckoolander]] tendencies mean the more time she has to think, the less likely she is to come up with a convincing lie.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Amaterasu finds [[Nice Hat|Vita's]] by [[Oh Crap|immolation]].
{{quote|''After narrowly avoiding getting Gigant-Hammered...''
Line 36:
** And Lindy. Sweet mother of god, Lindy. {{spoiler|''Especially'' in chapter 25, when her [[Mama Bear]] tendencies hit the stage.}}
** Susanoo seems like a goofball most of the time, but if his family is in danger or unexplainable situation....
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Susanoo's is pronounced, Chrono's is more low-key.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Hayate and the Wolkenritter at the end of Chapter 14.}}
** {{spoiler|Taurus Bentz and his containment/support team in the middle of Chapter 26.}}
* [[Blood Knight]]: Amaterasu. However, she seems to have different ''kinds'' of [[Blood Knight]] personalities, varying between a [[Dissonant Serenity|cold, serious murder machine]] and openly admitting she's finding the battle a [[Depraved Bisexual|turn-on]]. Which she uses seems to depend on some combination of how angry she is... and how ''sexually attracted she is to her opponent''. Yikes.
** As of Chapter 25, it seems her switching her Barrier Jacket into its [[Limit Break|Final Drive Mode]] is an indicator of when she's switched over.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|In a very, very, subtle way; Enlil herself. [[
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: Amy feared this would happen:
{{quote|'''Amy:''' Going to make the food processors shoot bees? Force the engines spin us in circles until we all get so dizzy we throw up? Make the food processors shoot bees that cause nausea?}}
* [[Breather Episode]]: Generally speaking, each major battle that takes place will be followed by a few chapters of exposition, character interaction, and occasional fluff.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, and Amaterasu. It's been implied that 'god' is merely a [[Red Baron|title or nickname]] they were awarded for several ''centuries'' of combat service, during which they were basically undefeated, and they certainly have the skill to back it up, {{spoiler|even without considering the hints that they are currently operating at considerably less than their full power}}. But... to put it bluntly, you wouldn't know it from their personalities.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Tsukuyomi is... kinda weird.
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Signum, [[The Stoic|surprisingly]], is the biggest offender. There are stuff likes "capable of using sword with my left hand, so it's not a problem" when Hayate worries about her confition, and thinking about her sword sheathe when Fate worries (and awed about how non-chalantly she takes her injuries) about her condition.
Line 58:
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: How this page has lasted this long without putting Amaterasu here...
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Admitted by the author, mainly in regards to Chrono's age and the time he assumed command of the Asura.
** In fact, at least one Author's Note has asked readers to point out to him when he makes mistakes like that so he can avoid making the same one twice.
* [[Dissimile]]:
{{quote|From Chapter 32: ''Aggressive computing, for the record, was a bit like normal computing, only it wasn't actually like computing at all and was mostly just setting the computer on fire.''}}
* [[Dramatic Ellipsis]]: A good indicator that Chrono is about to blow a fuse.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Signum, of all people, has been saddled with "Kitten". On the bright side, only one person calls her that; unfortunately, it's the [[Depraved Bisexual|worst]] [[Anything That Moves|possible]] [[Psycho Lesbian|person]].
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Tsukuyomi. Though she's simply too reserved and [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|weird]] than actually emotionless. {{spoiler|At least until her mild freak-outs in Chapter 26 and 27.}}
Line 75:
* [[Guile Hero]] / [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Lindy, much to Chrono's chagrin.
* [[Humongous Mecha]] / [[Wave Motion Gun]]: One designed to provide anti-starship fire, being used as an anti-''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|personnel]]'' weapon.
* [[Innocent Bystander]]: Every combatant involves actively avoid this.
* [[Immortality Bisexuality]]: Ameterasu...though her siblings seem to be immune, so she might have just been that way from the start.
* [[Is This What Anger Feels Like?|Is This What Hatred Feels Like?]]: Yuuno Scrya discovers true hatred for the first time in his young life when confronted with a pirate who broke into an ancient ruin and, upon discovering wondrous artifacts of a culture older than recorded history, attempted to SELL them on the black market. It's only afterwards, with introspection and an amusing bout of ranting, that this feeling fully crystallizes.
Line 119:
* [[Panty Shot]]: In chapter 22 (or 23 by FF.net's numbering), {{spoiler|Vita accidentally provides one for Susanoo. [[Hilarity Ensues]].}}
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: In addition to the usual suspects, {{spoiler|Precia, whom shows that without the illness that plagued her in the series, is strong (and aggressive) enough to defeat ''Hayate''}}. Then {{spoiler|the artificial gods get their long-awaited power up and show us exactly why they were called gods}}.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Signum and Amaterasu.
* {{spoiler|[[Psycho Electro]]: Precia's back}}
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Amaterasu seems to have focused her, ahem, [[Anything That Moves|intentions]] on Signum. During their battle in Chapter 22, she takes the battle seriously, almost decapitating Signum in her first attack; a few moments later, she tells Signum, "I won't rest until you acknowledge my feelings for you and agree to become my personal kitten!" Signum is '''not''' amused.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Amaterasu.
{{quote|"I'm just not a one-woman woman. I've lived for a long time, and I've developed very cavalier attitudes towards romantic encounters. So you need to know right now, there will be other women. And men. And occasionally one of each at the same time, or two of one, or several of each in varying combinations, and of course you can be one of the women involved in any of those situations, and..."}}
Line 136:
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Some of the stuff Enlil does to Precia in Chapter 30 is just silly.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Fate and Susanoo {{spoiler|and Precia}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: One of Tsukuyomi's more powerful and intelligent summons is a serptine humanoid name [[
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: It's ''Asura'', not ''Arthra''. Why? Because [[Word of God|"my anime stories have always included a mish-mash of official and fan-based translations, and I see no reason to change that pattern now."]]
* [[Spirited Competitor]]: Susanoo, who loves to fight, but finds it distasteful to actually ''hurt'' anyone, and is especially apologetic for having done so to {{spoiler|Hayate}}.
** Recent chapters appear to clarify that he doesn't really mind if he puts people in the hospital so long as he does it 'fairly'. His definition of the term, that is. The trope is also deconstructed somewhat in the shame, since while he's not nearly as bad as [[Blood Knight|Ammy]], he's still kind of a nut bar.
* [[Sphere of Destruction]]: Nanoha's cobbled together "Starlight Breaker Explosion"
* [[Summon Magic]]: Tsukuyomi's final drive. Her specific summoned creature seems to be snakes.
Line 167:
{{quote|She just gets less friendly.}}
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Amaterasu, just before Nanoha unleashes a desperate, brand-new attack.
* [[Troperiffic]]: If it's a meme or trope associated with the Nanoha series, you can bet the author will take it an run with it. Considering he has admitted in author's notes that he is aware this page exists ''and'' he occasionally edits it, that's probably to be expected.
* [[Two Scenes, One Dialogue]]: Between Chrono's taskforce, Susa and Tsuku{{spoiler|, and Section Black operatives}}
Line 176:
* [[Villainous Valor]]
* [[Volleying Insults]]: Susanoo and Vita get into a good one in Chapter 24, culminating in the former [[Crowning Moment of Funny|dubbing the latter]] [[Buffy-Speak|'Smally McSmall']].
* [[Warrior Therapist]]: Discussed; see [[Defeat Means Friendship]].
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Chrono.
{{quote|'''Susanoo''': You have the control to set up a bind that can nullify even my strength, and you can do it when you're wounded and taking hits, while casting other combat magic at the same time? I'd say you're one of those 'monsters' yourself.}}
| |||