History FanFic / DarkChaoAdventures

''[[http://www.doolinx.com/dca Dark Chao Adventures]]'' was an eight-year-running [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] FanFic series starring a bunch of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dark Chao who go on adventures.]] Created by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=]]] when he was but a wee ten-year old in 2005, DCA consisted of [[ArchivePanic eighty-eight episodes, two or three spin-off series, three Halloween specials, countless radio recordings, a forum RP and a half, at least three different development blogs, a Wiki, a Facebook page, a number of forums, two artists, tons of fan art, four sets of shorts, and a feature-length standalone script.]] Just off the top of my head.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Shade and Dark, to the point of some [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming pretty beautiful]] scenes where Shade is promising to Dark that they won't die, or where Dark is convincing Shade that he rocks, that he can get through the adventure [[spoiler:without getting viciously murdered by Metal Sonic.]]

->'''MP:''' ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Fools, I am fool Mephiles fool so fool you'd fool better fool start running!]] [[OverlyLongGag Fool.]]''

** The 'cast' of "Bound to a Stream of Consciousness," too. "Captain Curator" is a reference to ''Literature/SilenceOfTheLambs'' as well as to the character's insisting on being treated like a leader. [[VideoGame/EarthBound "Ness"]] is your average kid who battles his evil side at one point. [[Creator/StephenKing "Jim Rennie"]] is an overall selfish and passively oblivious character. [[ShoutOut "Logic"]] is the kind, calm, generous female character. And of course, "Ulysses." A protagonist who can't decide upon a name, who is the subject of ''many'' a lengthy story, who used to be "stuck in an endless war" but is now "sailing off on the usually-calm, sometimes-dangerous, always-monotonous seas."

** The 'cast' of "Bound to a Stream of Consciousness," too. "Captain Curator" is a reference to SilenceOfTheLambs as well as to the character's insisting on being treated like a leader. [[VideoGame/EarthBound "Ness"]] is your average kid who battles his evil side at one point. [[Creator/StephenKing "Jim Rennie"]] is an overall selfish and passively oblivious character. [[ShoutOut "Logic"]] is the kind, calm, generous female character. And of course, "Ulysses." A protagonist who can't decide upon a name, who is the subject of ''many'' a lengthy story, who used to be "stuck in an endless war" but is now "sailing off on the usually-calm, sometimes-dangerous, always-monotonous seas."

** Then there's the special scripts. [=DCA09=] returns to the "secretcity" maps. [=DCAHall2=] is GearsOfWar. [=DCAHall3=] Tale Two takes inspiration from VideoGame/{{Metroid}} and Creator/StephenKing while paying a beautiful tribute to ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets''. Tale Three is the original Nightmare House mod for Half-Life 2.

** Episode 39 is VideoGame/{{Portal}}. 42 is VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}. 43 is VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto. 44 is VideoGame/MetalGearSolid. The first half of 49 is [[MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3.]]
** Season Seven has ''entire serials'' dedicated to affectionately parodying things. First, there's ''The Game-Maker Must Be Crazy,'' (54-58), which is of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. Then there's ''Still Waiting for Half-Time'' (59-63), ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}''. Then there's the bookends of ''Quinquenquoi,'' (64 and 73) which are of VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}. Episode 64 is of Nightmare House 2, a Half-Life mod. ''The Epic Quest in A Flat Minor'' is of a hodgepodge of [[ProgressiveRock prog albums.]] ..so ''yeah.''

* CoolCar: In Episode 61, the protagonists get an Aston Martin DB9 to aid them on their quest across VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}. Shadow soon wrecks it, though, and they are given a Fiat Panda as replacement, much to Shade's sulky chagrin.

* AccientalMisnaming: Mephiles is usually called "Mister Phyllis."

* TheBlank: [=DCAHall3=] features not only [[TheSlenderManMythos the slender man,]] but faceless chao!

''[[http://www.doolinx.com/dca Dark Chao Adventures]]'' was an [[LongRunner eight-year-running]] [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] FanFic series starring a bunch of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dark Chao who go on adventures.]] Created by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=]]] when he was but a wee ten-year old in 2005, DCA consisted of [[ArchivePanic eighty-eight episodes, two or three spin-off series, three Halloween specials, countless radio recordings, a forum RP and a half, at least three different development blogs, a Wiki, a Facebook page, a number of forums, two artists, tons of fan art, four sets of shorts, and a feature-length standalone script.]] Just off the top of my head.

* VerbalTic: "I'm Mephiles, ''fool.''" "You know who I am, fool!" Lampshaded in Dark's recollection of events in {{Rashomon}}-inspired Episode 17:

** Season Seven has ''entire serials'' dedicated to affectionately parodying things. First, there's ''The Game-Maker Must Be Crazy,'' (54-58), which is of MetalGearSolid2. Then there's ''Still Waiting for Half-Time'' (59-63), ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}''. Then there's the bookends of ''Quinquenquoi,'' (64 and 73) which are of VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}. Episode 64 is of Nightmare House 2, a Half-Life mod. ''The Epic Quest in A Flat Minor'' is of a hodgepodge of [[ProgressiveRock prog albums.]] ..so ''yeah.''

** Then there's the special scripts. [=DCA09=] returns to the "secretcity" maps. [=DCAHall2=] is GearsOfWar. [=DCAHall3=] Tale Two takes inspiration from VideoGame/{{Metroid}} and Creator/StephenKing while paying a beautiful tribute to MarbleHornets. Tale Three is the original Nightmare House mod for Half-Life 2.

** In [=DCAHall3=], the ''other chao,'' [[MarbleHornets the Operator,]] and ''the Security.'' *shudder*

** For the third, the chao took on theme costumes: MarbleHornets! Shade was Alex Kralie, Red was Brian, Shadow was Jay, and Dark was a toaster. ..that is, Tim, [[WhiteMaskOfDoom mask and all.]]

You can find DCA at [[http://www.doolinx.com/dca the official website,]] [[http://darkchaoadventures.blogspot.com/ the official development blog,]] [[http://darkchaoadventures.wikia.com/ the official (but not up-to-date) Wiki,]] [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Chao-Adventures/176786259587 or the official Book of Faces (Facebook page).]] The eighth and final season can be read in its entirety on [[http://darkchaoadventures.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/season-eight-last-journey.html the DCA blog,]] as it's not on the website yet.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Mephiles is usually called "Mister Phyllis."

* FridgeLogic:
** In-universe! Red seems to be the only one who wonders how chao can pee when they have no 'bits.' Amusingly, artist [[IncrediblyLamePun Logic also had this bout of Fridge Logic.]]
** Why doesn't [=DJay=] just write a really powerful DeusExMachina or two to either end the series or stop the baddies?
* FutureMeScaresMe: Played straight. ''So many times.''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When you think about it, pretty much the entire plot of the show so far relies entirely on the fact that the original Season Two is gone forever, so everything about them is technically a {{Beta}}. From that, we got the Beta Avengers, who've essentially changed the entire plot of the series. So what would have happened if [=DJay=] had saved the episodes of Season Two?

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Sure, it's about cute little 'dorable folk you can raise and breed in a Sonic game. It's still got scares, some ridiculously complicated plots, scripts with more swears in them than ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the occasional sexual reference.]]

** Then there's the special scripts. [=DCA09=] returns to the "secretcity" maps. [=DCAHall2=] is GearsOfWar. [=DCAHall3=] Tale Two takes inspiration from {{Metroid}} and Creator/StephenKing while paying a beautiful tribute to MarbleHornets. Tale Three is the original Nightmare House mod for Half-Life 2.

''[[http://www.atlantaspring.com/dca Dark Chao Adventures]]'' was an [[LongRunner eight-year-running]] [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] FanFic series starring a bunch of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dark Chao who go on adventures.]] Created by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=]]] when he was but a wee ten-year old in 2005, DCA consisted of [[ArchivePanic eighty-eight episodes, two or three spin-off series, three Halloween specials, countless radio recordings, a forum RP and a half, at least three different development blogs, a Wiki, a Facebook page, a number of forums, two artists, tons of fan art, four sets of shorts, and a feature-length standalone script.]] Just off the top of my head.

You can find DCA at [[http://www.atlantaspring.com/dca the official website,]] [[http://darkchaoadventures.blogspot.com/ the official development blog,]] [[http://darkchaoadventures.wikia.com/ the official (but not up-to-date) Wiki,]] [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Chao-Adventures/176786259587 or the official Book of Faces (Facebook page).]] The eighth and final season can be read in its entirety on [[http://darkchaoadventures.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/season-eight-last-journey.html the DCA blog,]] as it's not on the website yet.

** Season Seven has ''entire serials'' dedicated to affectionately parodying things. First, there's ''The Game-Maker Must Be Crazy,'' (54-58), which is of MetalGearSolid2. Then there's ''Still Waiting for Half-Time'' (59-63), ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}''. Then there's the bookends of ''Quinquenquoi,'' (64 and 73) which are of {{Bioshock}}. Episode 64 is of Nightmare House 2, a Half-Life mod. ''The Epic Quest in A Flat Minor'' is of a hodgepodge of [[ProgressiveRock prog albums.]] ..so ''yeah.''

* CerebusSyndrome: DCA started off as a comedy fanscript series about ''chao,'' made when [=DJay=] was ''ten.'' It ''continued'' like that for a while, but then Deej started experimenting with drama in Season Five. Season Six was a little more dramatic but still Narm-y. Season Seven? ''Holy fuck.'' There's still comedy, but the tension, plot, and the occasional horror are definitely more prominent than ever. Season Eight just [[ItGetsWorse goes further downhill]] up until the [[MindScrew multiple canonical endings.]]

* DidNotDoTheResearch:
** Thankfully averted with Episode 11, "Doctor Phyllis' Most Evil of All Evils Revenge." [=DJay=] knew chao enough to deconstruct things.
** In a remarkable aversion, official artist Logic, who specializes in scientific analyses, wrote up two whole theses on the anatomy and sexual reproduction of chao. They were detailed, and they made sense. [[note]]And she made sure chao didn't have external sexual organs.[[/note]] What more, ''[=DJay=] had been thinking on similar theories all this time.''

** For the second, Shade was [[TakeThat a guy who thinks Rock Band sucks]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch because it "copied Guitar Hero,"]] Red was [[TakeThat a Halo fan,]] and Dark was... [[RunningGag a toaster.]]

* AffectionateParody: There are a ''lot'' of "DCA Adaptions" of video games.
** Episode 39 is VideoGame/{{Portal}}. 42 is VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}. 43 is VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto. 44 is MetalGearSolid. The first half of 49 is [[MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3.]]

** Then there's the special scripts. [=DCA09=] returns to the "secretcity" maps. [=DCAHall2=] is GearsOfWar. [=DCAHall3=] Tale Two takes inspiration from {{Metroid}} and StephenKing while paying a beautiful tribute to MarbleHornets. Tale Three is the original Nightmare House mod for Half-Life 2.

* ComicTrio: The Poker Gang. [[hottip:*:Sans fancharacter Dark Tails, who was killed off pretty quickly.]]

** In a remarkable aversion, official artist Logic, who specializes in scientific analyses, wrote up two whole theses on the anatomy and sexual reproduction of chao. They were detailed, and they made sense. [[hottip:*:And she made sure chao didn't have external sexual organs.]] What more, ''[=DJay=] had been thinking on similar theories all this time.''

** Most things in [=DCAHall3=]. "Scruple" and "Tenebrosity," for example, are synonyms of specific words.
** The 'cast' of "Bound to a Stream of Consciousness," too. "Captain Curator" is a reference to SilenceOfTheLambs as well as to the character's insisting on being treated like a leader. [[EarthBound "Ness"]] is your average kid who battles his evil side at one point. [[StephenKing "Jim Rennie"]] is an overall selfish and passively oblivious character. [[ShoutOut "Logic"]] is the kind, calm, generous female character. And of course, "Ulysses." A protagonist who can't decide upon a name, who is the subject of ''many'' a lengthy story, who used to be "stuck in an endless war" but is now "sailing off on the usually-calm, sometimes-dangerous, always-monotonous seas."

** The ultra-MindScrew, super-horrifying, allegorically depressing and all-around disturbing Log Entry #47 of [=DCAHall3=], "Bound to a Stream of Consciousness?" Yeah, no, that was thrown in when [=DJay=] was listening to EarthBound music one night.

* CoolCar: In Episode 61, the protagonists get an Aston Martin DB9 to aid them on their quest across [[HalfLife Half-Life 2.]] Shadow soon wrecks it, though, and they are given a Fiat Panda as replacement, much to Shade's sulky chagrin.

Then in Season Seven, TheScrappy (well, ''one'' Scrappy) gets turned into the new main protagonist, and ''he's'' gotta get seven drives so he can become a Dark/Run chao and beat the ''new'' bad guys. See, the new baddies are the Veteran's Committee, and they want to end the show for various surprisingly logical reasons. They bend the script, itself, and make the Season last three times as long as it should. TheScrappy, a green Dark chao named Shadow, goes through some pretty awesome (and sometimes [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scary]]) stuff in his journey.

** The ultra-MindScrew, super-HighOctaneNightmareFuel, allegorically depressing and all-around disturbing Log Entry #47 of [=DCAHall3=], "Bound to a Stream of Consciousness?" Yeah, no, that was thrown in when [=DJay=] was listening to EarthBound music one night.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Sure, it's about cute little 'dorable folk you can raise and breed in a Sonic game. It's still got HighOctaneNightmareFuel, some ridiculously complicated plots, scripts with more swears in them than ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the occasional sexual reference.]]

** Playing it straight is the extremely vague ending (well, all three/four/five/two/eight endings), which will take a ''lot'' of WordOfGod to explain.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: '''''Poker is serious business.''''' People have lost lives over it.

''[[http://www.atlantaspring.com/dca Dark Chao Adventures]]'' is a [[LongRunner seven-year-running]] [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] FanFic series starring a bunch of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dark Chao who go on adventures.]] Created by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=]]] when he was but a wee ten-year old in 2005, DCA has gone on for [[ArchivePanic seventy-nine episodes, two or three spin-off series, three Halloween specials, countless radio recordings, a forum RP and a half, at least three different development blogs, a Wiki, a Facebook page, a number of forums, two artists, tons of fan art, four sets of shorts, and a feature-length standalone script.]] Just off the top of my head.

Then in Season Seven, TheScrappy (well, ''one'' Scrappy) gets turned into the new main protagonist, and ''he's'' gotta get seven drives so he can become a Dark/Run chao and beat the ''new'' bad guys. See, the new baddies are the Veteran's Committee, and they want to end the show (yes, meta, I know, fanfic suicide) for various surprisingly logical reasons. They bend the script, itself, and make the Season last three times as long as it should. TheScrappy, a green Dark chao named Shadow, goes through some pretty awesome (and sometimes [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scary]]) stuff in his journey. We're currently at Episode Eighty, which is where [[spoiler:...]] wait, no. God, the plot gets ''complicated.'' It gets ''meta,'' to the point of MindScrew. It gets ''allegorical.''

You can find DCA at [[http://www.atlantaspring.com/dca the official website,]] [[http://darkchaoadventures.blogspot.com/ the official development blog,]] [[http://darkchaoadventures.wikia.com/ the official (but not up-to-date) Wiki,]] [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Chao-Adventures/176786259587 or the official Book of Faces (Facebook page).]]

* AffectionateParody: There are a ''lot'' of "DCA Adaptions" of video games. Episode 39 is VideoGame/{{Portal}}. 42 is VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}. 43 is VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto. 44 is MetalGearSolid. The first half of 49 is [[MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3.]]

* AuthorTract: Inverted-- we find out ''all about'' the author, but not his morals or any general message.
* ArcNumber: 32.
* ArcWords: "The Unwritten End," "Ulysses," "Unexpected developments."

* BeingWatched: Seasons Three, Four, Five, and Six show us the Beta Avengers are watching the protagonists at all times.

* BrownNote: In [=DCAHall3=], "Hello?"

* CerebusSyndrome: DCA started off as a comedy fanscript series about ''chao,'' made when [=DJay=] was ''ten.'' It ''continued'' like that for a while, but then Deej started experimenting with drama in Season Five. Season Six was a little more dramatic but still Narm-y. Season Seven? ''Holy fuck.'' There's still comedy, but the tension, plot, and the occasional horror are definitely more prominent than ever.
* ChekhovsGun: Cham. His disappearance in the very first episode, [[spoiler:later retconned as his ''death,'']] comes back ''all the way in the Season Six SeasonFinale.''

** Sorta justified in that [=DJay=] can't remember every single chao he used to have, not after all these years.

* CoolShades: [[IncrediblyLamePun Shade]] ''the Dark.''

* DevelopmentHell: The DCA adaption of Gears 2.

** DCRPG2.
*** I get the feeling that probably doesn't even count as canon anymore.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Thankfully averted with Episode 11, "Doctor Phyllis' Most Evil of All Evils Revenge." [=DJay=] knew chao enough to deconstruct things.

* EldritchLocation: Sancheria and everything around it, particularly [[spoiler:the Subway and the Manor.]]

* FridgeLogic: In-universe! Red seems to be the only one who wonders how chao can pee when they have no 'bits.' Amusingly, artist [[IncrediblyLamePun Logic also had this bout of Fridge Logic.]]

** Then again, they ''are both'' Shade Junior's father...

* JigsawPuzzlePlot: By the end of Season Seven, for sure.

* MeaningfulName: Most things in [=DCAHall3=]. "Scruple" and "Tenebrosity," for example, are synonyms of specific words.

* OhCrap: Happens frequently.
** Hell, it happens ''a lot'' in just [=DCAHall3.=]

* PutOnABus: Dark Tails. Needless to say, he hasn't been a Poker Gang member in a very long time.
** Though he made an appearance in Episode 60, where he probably died. But he died fighting. In a fire. Laughing maniacally. He went out with honor.

* RealityWarper: Red Metal in DCA09.

** The characters often bend the scripts, themselves. That counts.

* RunningGag: Dark's love for toasters.

* TakeThat: If [=DJay=] really doesn't like it, he probably won't ever mention it. If he ''really'' hates it, expect something like Red dressing up as an American Naruto fan, or George Bush getting killed in Chao Talk.

* ThrowItIn: The ultra-MindScrew, super-HighOctaneNightmareFuel, allegorically depressing and all-around disturbing Log Entry #47 of [=DCAHall3=], "Bound to a Stream of Consciousness?" Yeah, no, that was thrown in when [=DJay=] was listening to EarthBound music one night.

* WhamEpisode: Episode 48 gave us MILKMAN's identity.

* WordOfGod: ''In-story.'' This series gets ''really'' meta.

* AlwaysNight: The Dark Garden. Just like in SonicAdventure2.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Sure, it's about cute little 'dorable folk you can raise and breed in a Sonic game. It's still got HighOctaneNightmareFuel, some ridiculously complicated plots, scripts with more swears in them than ''ConkersBadFurDay'', and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the occasional sexual reference.]]

* AffectionateParody: There are a ''lot'' of "DCA Adaptions" of video games. Episode 39 is {{Portal}}. 42 is HalfLife. 43 is GrandTheftAuto. 44 is MetalGearSolid. The first half of 49 is [[MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3.]]

** Season Seven has ''entire serials'' dedicated to affectionately parodying things. First, there's ''The Game-Maker Must Be Crazy,'' (54-58), which is of MetalGearSolid2. Then there's ''Still Waiting for Half-Time'' (59-63), HalfLife2. Then there's the bookends of ''Quinquenquoi,'' (64 and 73) which are of {{Bioshock}}. Episode 64 is of Nightmare House 2, a Half-Life mod. ''The Epic Quest in A Flat Minor'' is of a hodgepodge of [[ProgressiveRock prog albums.]] ..so ''yeah.''