History Fanfic / DarkChaoAdventures

In 2022, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/DJay32/series the bulk of DCA got uploaded to AO3,]] with some clean-up edits and author notes for every episode. This is the Definitive Edition. Starting with Season Seven of the AO3 release, the plot itself has changed.

** Episode 39 is ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. 42 is ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. 43 is ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''. 44 is ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. The first half of 49 is ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3''.

''[[http://www.doolinx.com/dca Dark Chao Adventures]]'' was an eight-year-running ''[[VideoGame/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.]]

%%* DaylightHorror: Tale One of [=DCAHall3=], and the first act of Tale Two.

''[[http://www.doolinx.com/dca Dark Chao Adventures]]'' was an eight-year-running [[VideoGame/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.]]

** Episode 39 is VideoGame/{{Portal}}. 42 is VideoGame/HalfLife. 43 is VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto. 44 is VideoGame/MetalGearSolid. The first half of 49 is [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3.]]

** Episode 8 contains parodies of Sonic 3. 18 contains an expy-of-sorts of popular DOOM mod ''Sonic Robo Blast 2.'' Most of Season Four is a tribute to the "secretcity" maps in Half-Life mod ''Sven Co-op.''
** Then there's the special scripts. [=DCA09=] returns to the "secretcity" maps. [=DCAHall2=] is ''VideoGame/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.

* ArcNumber:
** Thirty-two (32)
** [[spoiler:Eight and five. (8/5)]]

->'''''"[COHEED IS NOT PROG.]"'''''
* BigEater: Dark.

* BreatherEpisode: A lot of episodes, or in the case of Season Seven, Breather ''Serials.'' Even though they're still [[WhamEpisode Wham Episodes]], they're just not.. quite.. as shocking as others.
* BrownNote:
** In [=DCAHall3=], "Hello?"
** From [=DCAHall3=] but still prominent later, [[spoiler:"Ulysses."]]

* CoolCar: In Episode 61, the protagonists get an Aston Martin DB9 to aid them on their quest across VideoGame/HalfLife2. Shadow soon wrecks it, though, and they are given a Fiat Panda as replacement, much to Shade's sulky chagrin.

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

* CuckoosNest: "Captain Curator."

* DarkWorld: The various locales in the Sancheria Forest.
* DaylightHorror: Tale One of [=DCAHall3=], and the first act of Tale Two.
* DevelopmentHell:
** The DCA adaption of Gears 2. ..''both'' of them.
** The second case of "Silver the Hedgehog: Ace Attorney."
** Professor Shade-on and the Diabolical Hotel.
** DCRPG2. It's not even canon anymore.
** DCAWG, the text adventure game.
* DontGoInTheWoods: The ''Sancheria'' woods.
* DumbassDJ: ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Averted!]]''

* EvilLaugh: Used to occur a lot in earlier episodes.
* FakeBand: Rubber Goose, the band held by the main protagonists.

* FutureMeScaresMe

->'''Shade:''' ''Now, I understand you had something with which to inform me?''
->'''Zagu:''' ''Yeah. My mouth.''
->'''Shade:''' ''NICE! *hi-5* I'm glad to see SOMEONE here knows proper grammar.''
->'''Red:''' ''..........oh, I get it! [[CaptainObvious "With which to inform me," instead of "OF which to inform me."]] [[DontExplainTheJoke You were referring to what he's using TO inform you!]]''
->'''Shade:''' ''Heh... yes. That was the point.''

** For the first special, Shade was Evil Kirby from [[KirbyRightBackAtcha the anime,]] Red was [[TakeThat an American Naruto fan,]] and Dark was a toaster.

* HalloweenEpisode: Three of them, each considerably larger and scarier than the last.
* [[AxeCrazy Hammer Crazy:]] Amy Rose's future self, in [=DCA710=], "Part Two of Fear."

* {{Jerkass}}: Metal Sonic can be one, for sure, especially in the earlier episodes.

** The 'cast' of "Bound to a Stream of Consciousness," too. "Captain Curator" is a reference to ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' 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."

* MindScrew: Everything that has anything to do with the name "Ulysses." ...*shudder*

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

* OntologicalMystery: [=DCA09=], on a very large scale.
* OutOfFocus: There are ''third-party chao?''

* {{Prequel}}: [[http://www.atlantaspring.com/dca/missions.html DCRPG.]]

** Red Metal in DCA09.

* RuleOfFunny: Happened a lot in the earlier episodes. Still happens every now and then.
* RuleOfScary: [=DCAHall3=] really wanted us to see how scary it could be.

* SceneryGorn: [[spoiler:Tenebrosity Factory]] in [=DCAHall3=].
* ScheduleSlip: DCA09 was originally DCA08. ..no, it was started in ''January'' '08. ''Yeah.''

* ThrowItIn:
** 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 VideoGame/EarthBound music one night.
** For that matter, just about ''everything'' is thrown into DCA.
* TitleDrop: Well... there's a lot of meta-talk, if that counts.

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

->'''Raid:''' ....th..th....they're gonna [[spoiler:end DCA?]]

->'''Ryder:''' We're not underwater.

->"Hey there. [[spoiler:MILKMAN]] here."
*** Chapter 30, ''"Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats,"'' is a wham ''chapter.''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When you think about it, the plot of the show so far relies 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 plot of the series. So what would have happened if [=DJay=] had saved the episodes of Season Two?
** "I thought we were playing Go Fish."

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

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: To the point that [=DJay=] forgetting protagonists and antagonists makes them mad enough to revolt when he finally ''does'' remember them.

* LivingShadow: There are armies of these in [=DCA09=].
* LostWoods: Sancheria.

* ContinuityLockout: After Season Six, [=DJay=] tried making half an effort to avoid this and stop with the "epic" adventures so he could reestablish a proper solid continuity. Trope came back in greater numbers for the literally epic serial-heavy Season Seven. It's not really possible to just jump into an episode randomly.

** How can we forget the earlier ones? Episode 8 contains parodies of Sonic 3. 18 contains an expy-of-sorts of popular DOOM mod ''Sonic Robo Blast 2.'' Most of Season Four is a tribute to the "secretcity" maps in Half-Life mod ''Sven Co-op.''

''[[http://www.doolinx.com/dca Dark Chao Adventures]]'' was an eight-year-running [[VideoGame/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 [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments 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:''' ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Fools, I am fool Mephiles fool so fool you'd fool better fool start running!]] [[OverlyLongGag Fool.]]''