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Line 7: * [[Action Mom]]: When Shinki is [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0176 introduced] in ''Shenanigans in a Magical Forest'', the [[Boss Subtitles]] go through several titles relating to maternity and divinity before settling on "Almighty, Like All Mothers". * [[Alliteration]]: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa02cottage0633 Attend askance at addle-brained adversaries, arm anatomy, and alliterate all antagonists!] * [[All There in the Manual]]: The prose fanfiction on the site tends to be part of the comic's canon. Which means if you do an [[Archive Binge]] of just the comics (or just Create.swf Adventures), you'll inevitably find yourself asking questions like "[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=flankoi When did Koishi hook up with Flandre?]", or "[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=diffstory2 Since when is Flandre's power 'Manipulation of Destruction'?]", or even "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140218092854/http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=aliceill When did Marisa move in with Alice?]" * [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Mokou was actually a lesbian who was jealous of Kaguya's suitors, but never realized this until Remilia manipulated their fate so that they'd [[Shipping\|fall in love]]; Kisume is [[The Mad Hatter\|completely freaking nuts]], and reasons that only someone who is insane would want to live in a bucket the way members of her species do, and it is implied that ''all'' tsurube-otoshis are like this. * [[Anachronic Order]]: a side-effect of throwing in "this takes place between ''Subterranean Animism'' and ''Undefined Fantastic Object''" after the fact. In particular, ''Rethinking the Natural Law'' initially cheerfully and strictly followed the reverse order of the available story modes in ''Touhou 12.3''; this was also the optimal order to avoid actually revealing anything, including the identity of the new villain, until the arc was more than halfway over. The [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=timeline timeline] was once the subject of frequent [[retcon]]s. Line 71: ** Subverted relatively quickly, although the subversion in itself is dealt with in a similarly quick fashion. * [[I Always Wanted to Say That]] {{quote\|Boon: [[Metal Gear Solid\|Neither enemy nor friend!]] [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p{{=}}csa01marisa0233 I come from a world where such things are meaningless!] Boon{{spoiler\|/Aya}}: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p{{=}}csa01marisa0234 I have always wanted to say that!] (Warning. Clicking the link is a spoiler.) }} * [[Infinite Canvas]]: The comics are variable-length after the third one or so, ranging between [[Yonkoma]] and the [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic80 35-panel monstrosity] comprising the climax of the Catness arc (which also had a long panel [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic74 at one point]); this has gotten to the point where Muffin has begun breaking the comics into two files by default to keep their hugeness from bogging down peoples' connections. Furthermore, several comics [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic88 randomly] [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic51 change] [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic19 things] every time the page is loaded... Line 84: * [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: Averted; the cast-lists throughout ''Rethinking the Natural Law'' list Meimu's name without linking to her profile on the [[Original Character\|OC]] [[Character Sheet]], and Rin Satsuki's profile has always been "[[Guilty Gear\|UNKNOWN!! UNKNOWN!!]]" repeated over and over again. * [[Leitmotif]]: The are a few for the [[Original Character\|Original Characters]]: "[[Overly Long Title\|Strange Bird of the Moon, Illusion of Mysterious Cat ~ On The Shoulder of Hisou Tensoku]]" for [[Dummied Out\|Rin]] [[OC Stand -In\|Satsuki]]; "Edge of Spacetime ~ Navy-Blue Generation" for Meimu; "Yasora's Awakening" and "Subterranean God ~ Sunfire" for Yasora Kojiwa; "Mushroom Land ~ Little Red Mushroom" for Masha Kinoko. * [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Marisa with Alice ([[Witch Species\|youkai-magician]]), as well as Sakuya with Meiling ([[Running Gag\|totally a dragon]]) and Youmu with Yuyuko ([[Cute Ghost Girl]]); though this has been dealt with by the "Fate of 60 Years" timeframe, with Marisa having also turned into a Youkai Magician, Sakuya becoming a vampire, and Youmu being ''[[Death Is Cheap\|another ghost]].'' * [[Memetic Mutation]]: Sometimes various memes are referenced to some extent or other (such as in the fanfic "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140218092854/http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=aliceill Alice Illness]"); the [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic88 second "epic" comic] contains something of a [[Hurricane of Puns\|Hurricane Of Memes]]. * [[Mundane Utility]]: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic74 Sakuya just needs a few minutes to calm down.] * [[Mushroom Man]]: Masha Kinoko is a [[Moe Anthropomorphism]] version. Line 99: * [[One Steve Limit]]: Touhou itself, with its [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], has been an example of this trope for years ([[Dummied Out\|Rin Satsuki]] and Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou notwithstanding), but Muffin has expressed a desire to maintain the trope within the webcomic: having declared the original Ellen [[Canon Discontinuity\|not part of the Nekokayou canon]], he promptly appropriated the name for the otherwise [[No Name Given\|nameless-in-canon]] Tokiko, since there's no way that he can accidentally duplicate a ZUN-created name that way (apart from Rin Satsuki and Satsuki Hakurei). * [[Original Character]]: Mika and Midori, who form [[Those Two Guys]] for the Eientei crew; Tsumami and Tsukiyo, who more or less serve [[Expy\|the same purpose]] as [[Discworld\|Colon and Nobby]] for Kotohime's police force; Satsuki "Sacchin" Hakurei, Reimu's adopted granddaughter after the [[Time Skip]]; Carroll Kirisame, [[Shipping\|Marisa and Alice's]] [[Homosexual Reproduction\|daughter]]; and Masha Kinoko, a mushroom-youkai who comes into existence during Create.swf Adventures. [[OC Stand -In]]: Marisa's father Daisuke, who doesn't have so much as a name in canon, and Rin Satsuki, who had a [[Dummied Out\|name in canon]] and not much else. Two particularly unusual examples are Meimu (AKA Kon Yakumo), who was ''already'' a sort of public-domain OC, but Muffin created an entirely new backstory for her which was only partially based on the "original" version; and Shanghai Margatroid, who was simply a magically-controlled puppet in canon until Alice and Marisa made her into an Independent Doll {{spoiler\|in the ending to Create.swf Adventures}}. Then there's [[Super-Powered Evil Side\|EX-Rumia]], AKA Rumia Yagami ... The Yatagarasu got introduced as Yasora Kojiwa in Create.swf Adventures ... and was then killed one strip later. (Her ghost remains, however.) Character sheets for all of the above can now be found [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thorichara here]. * [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]:"You are the guiltiest {{color\|#ff0000\|HELL-RAVEN}} with the power of a {{color\|#ff0000\|CROW}} with the power of {{color\|#ff0000\|THE SUN}} in the entire {{color\|#ff0000\|UNDERGROUND}}! * [[Overused Running Gag]]: '''[[~~Just~~All AsAccording ~~Planned~~to Plan\|Keikaku Doori]]''', initially. * [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: In the fan fiction, spoken dialogue in English is given in an italicized serif font (except in cases where it's ''really obviously'' not in Japanese-plus-[[Translation Convention]]), and Sakuya's [[Time Stop]] gets its own coloring as well. In ''Create.swf Adventures'', dialogue and the names of certain items (including most characters) are colored blue when they're supposedly literally in English, green for Romaji, and red for "Japanese-plus-[[Translation Convention]]." * [[Parody Episode]]: Line 113: In the second act, the main character is Masha Kinoko, a youkai "born" from the mushroom that produced the aforementioned spores; the [[Player Characters]] are no longer the result of "[[Problem Sleuth\|WEIRD POSTMODERN SHIT]]." Also, Marisa visits Muffin's site at one point, and finds a Create.swf Adventures page made in 2016 -- which is to say, six years after the comic was created. In the third act, the main character is Utsuho Reiuji, but the players aren't directly controlling her. Rather, the commands are going through the yatagarasu she consumed -- and said yatagarasu is mostly failing fantastically at [[Grand Theft Me]], mostly due to Utsuho's [[Cloudcuckoolander]], [[Too Dumb to Fool]] tendencies. ** "Act ⑥" (the ''fourth'' act): It is revealed that [[Framing Device\|this is all]] an "[[Adventure Game\|ADVENTURE-GAME]]/[[Role -Playing Game\|RPG]]/[[Bullet Hell\|DANMAKU]] hybrid" being played by Muffin, and that KirbyM (who is a different individual from "Walfas") is the creator of it and ''Touhou Nekokayou'' as a series of adventure games, which were made with the aid of Create.swf. On the page in which Muffin becomes the "[[Player Character]]" ("<s>[[Persona\|Thou art I, and I am thou]]</s> You are now [[Author Avatar\|MUFFIN]]."), it alternates between first-person and second-person narration. Soon after, Muffin starts ''cheating'' at the game, giving the characters [[God Mode]], and wrestling with the game's [[No Fair Cheating\|anti-cheat measures]]. * [[Phrase Catcher]]: DAMNIT YUKARI! * [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]: Alice, who became a [[Witch Species\|youkai]] and stopped aging when she was fifteen, is using a spell so that she grows up along with Marisa (who was, of course, [[Mayfly-December Romance\|still aging nine years later]]). Remilia and Flandre have since gotten Patchouli to create a similar spell that works on vampires, though they both usually stay in their younger forms. * [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: {{quote\|'''Sakuya (with [[Slasher Smile]]):''' "Hello. You have committed a fatal exception error." '''Meimu ([[Sweat Drop\|sweatdropping]]):''' "W-what!? Isn't that a computer thing?" '''Sakuya:''' "Well, I meant that my lady and I take exception to trying to kidnap Meiling like that. It was therefore a fatal error." }} * [[Retcon]]: Dissatisfied with how comics 97-100 turned out, Muffin tossed them into a bin and basically started remaking them. To say nothing of the timeline ... Line 141: * [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]: Take a good look at Koishi and Flandre in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic118 #118]. * [[She's All Grown Up]]: ''Fate of 60 Years'' features grown-up Cirno (dubbed "Cirno-nee"). * [[Shipping]]: And [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218073134/http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=swaromance lots of it]! (Muffin has often bemoaned the inability to resist doing them ...) * [[Shout-Out]] In addition to [[Metal Gear Solid]] [[Parody Episode\|parody episodes]], the "Time Paradox" gag from MGS3 is often used, not to mention that Nitori has developed a knockoff CODEC technology which has seen use outside the direct parodies. Line 148: Marisa's "[[This Cannot Be!\|NO WAY! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!]]" line is borrowed from KirbyM's ouvre, as is the punchline for [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic84 #84] ... though the line in KirbyM's flash is said for ''entirely different reasons.'' The entirety of "Create.swf Adventures" is a shout out to [[MS Paint Adventures]], using many of the running jokes established therein (the pumpkin, the retrieval of arms, the [[Alliteration]] of the Strife Modus screen...), with Rumia's "Team ❽" forming a parody of the Midnight Crew. * [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0363 CSA0363] references the "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130925094459/http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/~~Ongoing_Gags~~Ongoing_gags#Homestuck_Gags Huge Bitch]" running joke. [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004824 Not even a week later...] Shikieiki's [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic125 measures peoples' morality] with a ''literal'' [[Karma Meter]], designed to look like one from a [[Knights of the Old Republic]]-era [[BioWare]] RPG. Kisume can apparently travel between buckets by "following the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy\|recipriversexclusions]] of [her] mind and soul." Sakuya then describes the term when asked (though obviously not referring to the book by name.) Line 204: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Touhou Nekokayou~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Fan Web Comics]] [[Category:Troper Works]] [[Category:Interactive Comic]] ▲[[Category:Touhou Nekokayou]] [[Category:Web Comics]] [[Category:Touhou/Fan Works]]