Prinz von Sommerhoffnung

Intelligent, Reference-filled SSStylish Hard Action
—Fanfic tagline

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.

Prinz von Sommerhoffnung by Warp Ligia Obscura (also available at SpaceBattles) is supposed to be an Alternate Universe Novelisation My-HiME fanfic. It's so alternate that the character names are different... It is best described as a Mega Crossover. It follows The Stations of the Canon/Broad Strokes without adhering tightly.

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

Tropes used in Prinz von Sommerhoffnung include:
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: The hooks on Ywiu's ring-knuckledusters punch through flesh and bone easily.
  • Acrophobic Bird: When the library basement floor breaks open, Ywiu doesn't fly her way out. Given narrator's justification immediately afterward.
  • Actor Allusion: At one point, Su-qi-wu-la says Maximum Power, and later her summon uses the Starlight Breaker Moonlight Fixer. Later in that same chapter, she is referred to as having 100 fuck buddies.
  • Alliteration: "little lilac... loli"
  • Aerith and Bob: So much.
  • An Offer You Can't Refuse: 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 Indian Curriyan.
  • Broad Strokes: Name changes aside, when the first chapter ends with 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.
  • But Not Too Foreign: Sommerhoffnung is half- GermanGothofurtoan, quarter-Ch(o)inese and quarter- JapaneseElectopian, and there are others also similarly mixed.
  • Celebrity Paradox: Acknowledged in-universe. Ken-ba-ne says "Any similarity to a GetBackers ReTrievers character are coincidental", to which Spadotto shoots back "No more than my similarities to a Bleach Whitener character?"
  • Christianity Is Catholic: Averted. "You must remember that, while Catholicism is indeed the denomination of the French Rancaskan Church, the Church of Scotland Thaneland that the campus' chapel is subsumed under belongs to the Presbyterian subset of the Protestant denomination."
  • Crack Pairing: Ymia and Eywon are Captain Ersatz of Reinforce Eins and Yuuno from Nanoha, so...
  • Creator Provincialism: Possibly the only reason why the setting was moved to Singapore Merliona.
  • 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.
  • Death Seeker: Sommerhoffnung. Implied in the sixth chapter when she seems disappointed that the Childless missed her, made explicit in the seventh.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Musterteklang is interpreted as being of this sort.
  • Dramatis Personae: There's one in progress at the SpaceBattles thread.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Subverted. Spadotto notes that the Childless, while Starfish Aliens, do not have the Brown Note effects commonly associated with Hateworkian Horrors.
  • Establishing Character Moment: A few thus far -
    • Sommerhoffnung's hair colour comment on the ferry marks her as Genre Savvy.
    • Ywiu proves to be a foul-mouthed Action Girl early enough.
    • Spadotto's self-discussion of the methods he would prefer to destroy the Childless with reveal that he's not Dumb Muscle.
    • Ken-ba-ne's near-nonstop sass as a (attempted?) Deadpan Snarker.
    • Must's refusal of help revealing his Don't You Dare Pity Me! attitude.
  • Fun with Acronyms: "KOUTAISHI", the local replacement term for "HiME", stands for "Knowledgeable Operative Undercover Terminating Application Issue Servitude Hyper materIaliser". Whatever that means.
    • Wedey stands for "Weaponised Enhanced Demolishing Evolutionary prototYpe".
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language: In addition to Ywiu dropping Mandarin and Hokkien all over the place like the beng she is, we also have:
  • Hand Cannon: Sommerhoffnung's revolvers are (modelled after) .44 Colt Anacondas.
  • Hannibal Lecture: When Sommerhoffnung tries to do a What the Hell, Hero? in chapter seven, Ywiu and Romea shoot her down harshly.
  • 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.
  • Impossibly Cool Weapon: Ywiu's wrist-rings can shrink into knuckledusters and the "commas" are Absurdly Sharp Bladed hooks.
  • In the Back: How 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.[1]
  • Istanbul (Not Constantinople): The Mega Man Battle Network influence is largely visible from the altered country names, like Japan being called Electopia. Not all are from MMBN, though.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "As You Know – and I wasn’t being facetious in emphasising those three words...."
  • Lemony Narrator: Sometimes.
  • Mind Screw: A series of seemingly-inexplicable images described in the first chapter. Word of God says he was trying to put the original OP into words.
    • Sommerhoffnung's recalled conversation with Timo at the end of the second chapter. Supposedly a Mondegreen of the lyrics of "Mezame".
  • More Teeth Than the Osmond Family: "a shadow resolved into a horrible monster that exposed more teeth than… than… than some family that cannot quite be recalled at the moment."
  • Mugging the Monster: The gangsters who target Ywiu.
  • Musical Assassin: Mei-ya-nuo-kou-qi's power.
  • Mythology Gag: Sommerhoffnung's default outfit is based on that of Dark HiME Natsuki from the Mai-Otome manga.
    • Ymia makes a joke about feeling "like dusty old tomes". Remember that Ymia is a Captain Ersatz of Reinforce Eins from Nanoha.
    • "Lucky you not some sick bird, else sure big problem one!" In the original, Takumi was pretty much a Gender Flip Ill Girl.
  • 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.
  • Not Using the Z Word/Writing Around Trademarks: The fanfic. The author's efforts to avoid invoking the canonical names can get Narmful.
  • OC Stand-In: This appears to be why everyone is a Captain Ersatz.
  • 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 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. What exactly he's shitting bricks about is currently unclear. He has another in the eighth when Wedey activates her Blade Below the Shoulder.
  • Out of the Inferno: Done by Ywiu in the fifth chapter.
  • Patchwork Kids: Nyarsrof has Ymia and Eywon's cowlicks, as well as Eywon's hair and eye colours. "Sommerhoffnung had the feeling that things did not work that way, but who was she to question it?"
  • Poirot Speak: Pretty much everyone identified as having foreign blood will lapse into their mother tongue during an English sentence at least once, if not outright use full sentences.
  • Quip to Black:

"Sommerhoffnung, we believe we've told you before to call us by our first names," Ymia said. "Calling us Herr und Frau Reyrcs makes us feel like... like..."
"Yes, dear?" Eywon asked.
"Like dusty old tomes."

The couple burst into raucous laughter at this, along with Nyarsrof and the twins.

Sommerhoffnung had the odd feeling that the Reyrcses had forgotten to do something. Something about eyewear that she just could not pin down.

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Why So Serious" in Chinese
  3. ↑ War -> Battle, Hammer -> Nail, 1.6 mil is 40k squared
  4. ↑ not coincidentally also a reference to this video, given that Warp Obscura and MaxAndEmilytate are friends
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