Prinz von Sommerhoffnung: Difference between revisions

On the way to school on the day before the new school year begins, Sommerhoffnung Crugah finds that someone wants her away from the premises. Once she actually gets there, she finds that she is to be part of a monster-fighting group. However, at least two factions seek to subjugate her powers for their own uses.

 

 

Currently stands at eight chapters, but updates have been... very sporadic.

 

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: The hooks on Ywiu's ring-knuckledusters punch through flesh and bone easily.

* [[Acrophobic Bird]]: When {{spoiler|the library basement floor breaks open, Ywiu doesn't fly her way out. Given narrator's justification immediately afterward.}}

** [[Sanae Kobayashi|Ymia]] talking about "[[Elfen Lied|[beheading] you with invisible psychic arms]]" and Eywon saying that she "is definitely not [[Madlax|insane or relaxed]]".

* [[Aerith and Bob]]: So much.

* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: {{spoiler|Hei-gu-la-shi being made to give up her powers.}} "Negotiating from such a position of weakness... is not."

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Spadotto and Veerasamy, though the latter is technically <s> Indian</s> Curriyan.

* [[Broad Strokes]]: Name changes aside, when the first chapter ends with {{spoiler|Sommerhoffnung NOT waking up in the middle of a school field with Dai-Ming}}, you know this is not going to be a faithful adaptation.

* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Acknowledged in-universe. Ken-ba-ne says "Any similarity to a ''<s>[[GetBackers]]</s> ReTrievers'' character are coincidental", to which Spadotto shoots back "No more than my similarities to a ''<s>[[Bleach]]</s> Whitener'' character?"

* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Averted. "You must remember that, while Catholicism is indeed the denomination of the <s> French</s> Rancaskan Church, the Church of <s> Scotland</s> Thaneland that the campus' chapel is subsumed under belongs to the Presbyterian subset of the Protestant denomination."

* [[Crack Pairing]]: {{spoiler|Ymia and Eywon are [[Captain Ersatz]] of Reinforce Eins and Yuuno from ''Nanoha'', so...}}

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: '"I know you've heard this before, Som, but how do you live with," she pointed at Winterhandlung, "such a du..."' Fill in your own blanks as to whether it's meant to be dummkopf, dumbass/arse or something else!

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ken-ba-ne is clearly trying to be this.

* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: In addition to Ywiu dropping Mandarin and Hokkien all over the place like the ''beng'' she is, we also have:

** [[Gratuitous French]]: Prebr, but not as often as the other two.

** [[Gratuitous Italian]]: From Spadotto.

** [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Ywiu as above, only replace German with Spanish.

* [[Happily Married]]: Ymia and Eywon.

* [[Hatedom]]: If the reviews on FF.Net are any indication, there are those who cannot accept the author's style.

* [[In the Back]]: How {{spoiler|Asuoui kills the gang leader.}}

* [[Inertia Is a Harsh Mistress]]: Mentioned as a problem Ken-ba-ne experiences.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]/[[Moon Logic Puzzle]]: Frequent and the reason why [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] is what it is here. For example, Ywiu's name.<ref>The kanji for Mai's name, if read as if Chinese characters, are pronounced "Wu-yi", with Ywiu being an anagram of that. Mai is... well, Mai, while Tou-qi-ha is a transliteration of "Tokiha" into Chinese.</ref>

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: "[[As You Know]] – and I wasn’t being facetious in emphasising those three words...."

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Sometimes.

* [[Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight]]: Double subverted in Ywiu's fight with the gangsters. First subversion is that she uses her own bladed knuckledusters and some of the knife-using thugs manage to scratch her. Double subversion comes when some other thugs with metal poles tag in and she flies into an [[Unstoppable Rage]], demolishing them and turning their weapons against them. Possibly a response to Singaporean incidents where thugs with metal poles fatally wounded innocents.

* [[No Conservation of Energy]]: Sommerhoffnung points out the sheer impracticality of energy-mass conversion, to which Ywiu mentions that their powers have [[Elemental Baggage]] and that she shouldn't be so concerned.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Invoked/Parodied. "If no one's observing you, you can get to places faster than you should be able to, is it not said…?" Also done when {{spoiler|Spadotto}} shows up near the end of the Childless fight in the sixth chapter.

* [[Oh Crap]]: He-mu-la has one in the seventh chapter. {{spoiler|What exactly he's shitting bricks about is currently unclear.}} He has another in the eighth {{spoiler|when Wedey activates her [[Blade Below the Shoulder]].}}

** [[No More Heroes]] <s> [[No More Heroes|Heroes]]</s> [[Writing Around Trademarks|Villains]]

** [[Epileptic Trees|Seizure-afflicted Shrubberies]]

** ".... [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|wear garish pointy orange shades with no apparent frames]].... Kamina and <s> Simon</s> Peter"

** [[Discworld|Fabricati Diem Pvnc expression]]

** [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|“You want it?”]]

** “Is this some [[Metal Gear|Tactical Espionage Action]] you’re involved in....?”

*** "Only a fool trusts..."

** 'come out of [[Firefly|gorram]] nowhere'

** [[Team Fortress 2|"Let's have a go at it!"]]

*** "Take it easy!"

** [[X Wing Series|"To win, you must fight with heart and brains and your entire being!"]]

** Must finishes off his first Childless with a [[Guilty Gear|Potemkin Buster]].

** [[Imogen Heap|"Ooo what']][[Memetic Mutation|cha say?"]]

** [[Modern Warfare|"Five years ago, Shou-qin Enterprises faced insolvency… and you all just fucking watched. Tomorrow… There will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of loyal shareholders. We know you understand."]]

** The emcee said something about the next performance, something about the band [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Abismal]] [[Abysmal Dawn|Dusk]]?

** [[Leeroy Jenkins|"Alright, chums, let's do this... GOHROY… WESKINS!"]] {{spoiler|For added irony, they're ''running away'' from danger.}}

** "[[Pulp Fiction|I thought 'What?']] when they told me the fate of the world and they were kind enough to not [[Pulp Fiction|ask me if I spoke Kinglish.]]"

** [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like|Having the feeling that something was off, Hei-gu-la-shi looked at her, then at Rondeng, then back at her, before looking back to Rondeng again. She had the feeling that something was off and it was certainly not just the fact that Wedey was not her.]]

** [[Street Fighter/Memes|"Return to your abode and be a family person..."]]

* [[Sincerity Mode]]: When Sommerhoffnung [[spoiler: shoots a District Ten [[The Men in Black|Man In Black]], Ywiu claps and assures her that she was being genuinely appreciative. Also done when {{spoiler|Ywiu agrees with Romea's [[Hannibal Lecture]] against Sommerhoffnung.}}

* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: Ken-ba-ne kills his first Childless this way.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The gang leader in the seventh chapter. Broken English, more broken English, {{spoiler|''[[Order of the Stick]]'' reference}}, [[Poirot Speak]]- ''What?''

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Played with. [[Magic Realism|Something]] plays [[Memetic Mutation|Fitting Music]] in-universe at appropriate times, with characters aware of this.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The usage of Singaporean pidgin English, aka Singlish, by Ywiu is intentional and apparently part of the [[Hatedom]]'s beef.

* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: If Ywiu's really serious about something, she drops into proper Queen's English.

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