History Literature / Dream

* {{Lolicon}}: Inverted, subverted, and every type of "-verted" imaginable, as [[spoiler:Tarosu]] is a gentleman [[spoiler:and has the self-control not to act on his forbidden desires]], while [[spoiler:Rrorry is [[LoveableSexManiac crudely lustful]] and has him pretty much whipped.]]

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: [[spoiler:Piru is meant to be a cute {{Mascot}} character, but he kind of subverts it a bit by being all scaly. Think [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Mokona]] with draconic characteristics.]]

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''Series/{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''Series/PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''Manga/InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''Zelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'').

[[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2593194/1/Dream_Book_of_Izumo The Book of Izumo has begun!]] Now updating [[strike:every Tuesday]] [[strike:occasionally]] [[strike:[[ScheduleSlip never]]]] on rare occasions.

Tropes featured in this work (spoiler Tags over those that don't appear until chapters that are still far off, as well as over material that is particularly spoileriffic):

* [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Chaotic Neutral]]: The Spirit of Chaos.

* [[spoiler:BiTheWay: Lexi]]
* [[spoiler:BlackComedyRape: Rrorry's Crowning Moment of Fanservice.]]

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Marishkali arc: Four ''half''-demons is a battle that has to be run away from the first time and then takes over a full chapter once they return stronger. Hundreds and hundreds of full-blooded demons is {{Filler}} that is completed in a mere [[strike:three chapters]] few brief notes from the author explaining that [[TakeThat there would be about three straight episodes of pure action coming up if this were]] [[DragonballZ an anime]], but because it's just written, the next few chapters will not be seen.

* [[spoiler:FilleFatale: Rrorry. Not only has a man nearly twice her age absolutely whipped, but also at one point starts [[LovingForce trying to]] [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "loosen up"]] ''[[LesYay her]] [[ShipTease older]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]]'' [[ForYourOwnGood "for her own good"]].]] This is, of course, ''blatant'' {{Fanservice}}, something that she [[LampshadeHanging points out]] before she does it.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Remember, no matter how seemingly irrelevant a chapter is, it shouldn't be skipped. The best example was in the [[strike:[[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Poorly Disguised]]]] [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Blatantly Admitted Pilot]], when the [[AuthorAvatar DM]] tells Billy that he'll "get his chance". Sure enough, a few chapters later, one of the characters that Billy was playing gets to play LoveMartyr without actually dying.

* [[spoiler:FunWithAcronyms: Also a StevenUlyssesPerhero.]]

* [[spoiler:GratuitousEnglish: Parodied.]]

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The first chapter of the Book of Izumo. What seems to be a throwaway line about searching the castle for treasure ends up getting the party involved in the Seven Immortals arc, which pretty much forms the basis of most of the ensuing book. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that they also acquired Piru while they were there, a very useful creature [[strike:or is he?]].]]

* [[spoiler:ItWasWithYouAllAlong]]
* [[spoiler:KillerRabbit: Piru.]]

* [[spoiler:MayDecemberRomance: More like May-September, although it ''seems'' like a lot because the characters in question are 20 and 12.]]

* [[spoiler:OneeSama: Rin'ku's sister Lexi sees Alania in this light.]]
* [[spoiler:OneHeadTaller: ''Massively'' inverted. Spirit even refers to Rrorry as being the "{{seme}}" in her relationship with Tarosu, leading Collerius to ask if that term was even applicable to a het relationship.]]

* [[spoiler:PokemonSpeak: Piru]]

* [[strike:[[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Poorly Disguised]]]] ''[[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Blatantly]]'' [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Admitted Pilot]]: Chapter 189. Due to delay between writing and posting, plans for this SpinOff had been abandoned (also, the author thought better of the original plan), but now it appears that it may get picked up after the Book of Izumo is finished. Or perhaps after the Book of Kurolanime is cured of its suckiness, if that ends up being the next project.

* [[spoiler:RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Piru is meant to be a cute {{Mascot}} character, but he kind of subverts it a bit by being all scaly. Think [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Mokona]] with draconic characteristics.]]

* ShipTease: See the entry on "LoveTriangle". ''One'' of those two is Arden's {{OTP}}, but trying to figure out which one it is...well, that may or may not have even been decided. [[strike:It has. Kisa ''is'' victorious in the end.]]

* [[spoiler:SiblingTriangle Poor Lexi, didn't get her feelings for Lani-neesan out there until ''after'' Alania hooked up with Lexi's older brother Rin'ku.]]

* [[spoiler:TooFastToStop: Collerius, after he gains flight capabilities. Chisara and Zychra seem to have adapted more quickly and know when to start decelerating.]]

* [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser: Clem]]
* [[spoiler:WifeHusbandry: The ''public'' face of Aurrorra and Tarosu's relationship. Because, you know, what they're ''really'' doing is [[strike:illegal]] of highly dubious legality and socially reprehensible.]]

* [[spoiler:EroticEating: Used for a [[strike:[[DoubleEntendre Double]]]] [[strike:[[DoubleEntendre Triple]]]] [[strike:[[DoubleEntendre Quadruple]]]] [[DoubleEntendre Triple-and-a-Half Entendre]] with--[[EnsembleDarkhorse who else?]]--Rrorry and Tarosu.]]
** [[spoiler:SmokingHotSex: The aforementioned "and-a-Half".]]

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: One of the problems with being a LongRunner.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: A few places in [[spoiler:Kudiai]] the main world in which ''Dream'' takes place have real-life equivalents. The Ankes Mountains are, of course, an extremely thinly veiled fictionalization of South America's Andes Mountains, and the culture seems like it might be Native American (or not.) Not as much so as the ursapis culture, however, which seems to work in animal totems (makes sense, as they ''are'' animals), and just fits in as a generic Arctic Circle location. Western Mashishai, on the other hand, is a pastiche of the western part of the United States ([[VivaLasVegas Kitar]] ''[[{{Anvilicious}} is]]'' [[VivaLasVegas Las Vegas]], while [[HollywoodCalifornia Sanlos is, like its name says, a kind of mash-up of San Francisco and Los Angeles]]). America as a whole, however, is parodied with [[{{Eagleland}} Happisault]], right down to the number of states in the union. The "small independent states" that sit somewhere west of southern Terofan are, in fact, [[{{Qurac}} the Middle East]] (don't worry, aside from a brief mention of the fact that Kabal and Kabar were at war recently, there's really very little said about them). The third continent, Hakachicayokiyoki, is Africa, although all this really amounts to is a lot of desert and whites being a minority there.

** The slurring of S'sessek's name in one of the drunken scenes in the prequel was specifically constructed to evoke a certain FanNickname, although that's not the lone justification for its [[InuYasha presence]] on the above list of inspirations.

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''Series/{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''Series/PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''Zelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'').

* TechnologyLevels: The prequel and the beginning of the main story are set in a typical fantasy setting reminiscent of classic ''DungeonsAndDragons''. However, the other continent in the world [[spoiler:Kudiai]], Hakar, is considerably more technologically advanced. Contact between the two continents is only just beginning when they leave; however, globalization is all but complete when they return a few months later.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Each HPBL team corresponds directly to an MLB team, and the entire Book of Izumo manages to skirt around the fact that the original members of the Crystallius and Phoenicis lines in the Chaos Chronicles were ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Chao]]''. And then there's the Mantle of [[DigimonTamers Calu]]...

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''Series/{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''Zelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'').

* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: As the names get more and more bizarre, dictionary-style pronunciation guides begin to appear where the author deems necessary. One notable enough to be mentioned right here, though, is Tillli. As stated above, the "ll" and "rr" sounds ''do'' appear in this story, and that name was constructed to play with that. The first l is an normal l, the second and third are a "ll". Til-yee. (Yes, that's correct; it uses a Spanish "ll", but the first i is pronounced like an English short i. [[BellisariosMaxim Just go with it.]])

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The NoFourthWall Episode; Game 1 of the CLDS; [[spoiler:the Starship ''Entrancefee'']]...yeah, occasionally, things get a bit different.

* [[spoiler:ChekhovsGun: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; neither Jakov nor anyone else on the ''Entrancefee'' is shown to be carrying a gun.]]

* ClingyJealousGirl:

** Armi, despite the fact that Spirit quite clearly is ''not'' interested.

** Also ''spawned'' what would become a ContinuityNod in the author's later fiction: After Chapter 9, the infamous "pancake chapter", the author made note to try to get a pancake reference into chapter 9 of ''Conn. A&M'', only to discover that one was already present in chapter 8. A later fanfic would [[LampshadeHanging point out the ambiguity of whether the obligatory mention was supposed to be in the eighth or the ninth, seeing as how]] ''Dream'' '''[[RunningGag has no Chapter 2,]]''' [[LampshadeHanging and deciding to go with its own chapter 8 because the fanfic was continuing the events of a one-shot and could conceivably seen as the ninth chapter as well.]][[note]]Except it seems that said fic stalled out at 7...well, hat definitely provides a good in-route for rebooting it...[[/note]] "Pancakes in Chapter 8.5 +/- 0.5" has replaced "Chapter 6 successfully cleared" as the leading Lampshade in the author's fanfiction.

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The first chapter of the Book of Izumo. What seems to be a throwaway line about searching the castle for treasure ends up getting the party involved in the Seven Immortals arc, which pretty much forms the basis of most of the ensuing book. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that they also acquired Piru while they were there, a very useful creature [[strike:who's actually the BigBad]].]]

* MacGuffin: The Regalia of Izumo in the prequel, the Trident of Juri, Mantle of Calu, and Shield of Karashti in the Book of Alania, and, well?not even spoiler tags would get me to reveal the {{Mac Guffin}}s of the Book of Izumo.

* {{Microts}}: An hour in the story is the same length as an hour in the real world, and a month is still more or less the same length as one of our months, but there are 32 hours in a day (and thus, most months have just 23 days with wo of them having only 22), and there is no such thing as a week.

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* ShipTease: See the entry on "LoveTriangle". ''One'' of those two is Arden's {{OTP}}, but trying to figure out which one it is...well, that may or may not have even been decided.

* CostumeInertia: Poor Alania...

** Also ''spawned'' what would become a ContinuityNod in the author's later fiction: After Chapter 9, the infamous "pancake chapter", the author made note to try to get a pancake reference into chapter 9 of ''Conn. A&M'', only to discover that one was already present in chapter 8. A later fanfic would [[LampshadeHanging point out the ambiguity of whether the obligatory mention was supposed to be in the eighth or the ninth, seeing as how]] ''Dream'' '''[[RunningGag has no Chapter 2,]]''' [[LampshadeHanging and deciding to go with its own chapter 8 because the fanfic was continuing the events of a one-shot and could conceivably seen as the ninth chapter as well.]][[hottip:*:Except it seems that said fic stalled out at 7...well, hat definitely provides a good in-route for rebooting it...]] "Pancakes in Chapter 8.5 +/- 0.5" has replaced "Chapter 6 successfully cleared" as the leading Lampshade in the author's fanfiction.

* {{Mondegreen}}: The Bumpalope got its name from one. [[hottip:*:Specifcally, in the chorus of Nelly Furtado's "Maneater".]]

* CanYouHearMeNow: Eventually added in once Hakar introduced more modern technology. Generally played straight, although the fact that they were able to make a call from northeastern Mashishai when that continent hadn't really caught up to Hakar yet was not dealt with ([[HandWave We think it has something to do with the way they can amplify psychic messages to travel long distances]]), and the fact that the characters' cell phones work in Grjher--and that a Chaotican radio station can be heard in said same world--is acknowledged as being extremely weird. [[ShrugOfGod Maybe Grjher is just naturally attuned to electronic signals.]] (The cell phones don't work in Chaotica, although with all of the chaotic energy swirling around there, that was to be expected.)

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: On and off. First occurs when the party splits up to search for the legendary artifacts, then again when [[spoiler:Izumo]] gets sent to Chaotica, and then a third time when [[spoiler:a BPlot occurs back at spring training (later to be at wherever the Red Rockers are playing)]]. Although that last one isn't typical to this trope because it's more like a [[ThreeLinesSomeWaiting C-plot]] in level of importance, except the plot isn't split so it's a B.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Almost always either invoked (Alania falls into the "only child of two only children" sub-category, and Enrique and Lina in the prequel and Julio, Tillli, Misra, Spirit and Collerius in the story proper are also only children) or averted ''hard'' (Sekiya is the eighth of twelve--with her two oldest sisters being major characters in the prequel, around the same age as her traveling companions' ''parents''--and Rin'ku is the oldest of...well, the exact number has never been stated, but it's implied that Lina and S'sessek have been reproducing even more prolifically than Sekiya's parents did, so figure it's at least eight.) Later, some middle ground is reached (three Farestorrs; two Karins.)

* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: Averted when the bears turn out to be sentient. This is because [[AuthorAppeal the author just thinks bears are]] [[RuleOfCool really, really awesome.]]

* DeadLittleSister: Cristal Farestorr. Remember, however, that just about everyone in this story can see spirits.

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''Series/{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''FullMetalAlchemist'', ''InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''Zelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'').

** EyesOfGold: Spirit, though as an avatar of pure chaos, this is somewhat understandable. Remember though, he's [[ChaoticNeutral Chaotic]] ''[[ChaoticNeutral Neutral]]'', not ChaoticEvil.

* [[spoiler:FilleFatale: Rrorry. Not only has a man nearly twice her age absolutely whipped, but also at one point starts [[VictimFallsForRapist trying to]] [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "loosen up"]] ''[[LesYay her]] [[ShipTease older]] [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]]'' [[ForYourOwnGood "for her own good"]].]] This is, of course, ''blatant'' {{Fanservice}}, something that she [[LampshadeHanging points out]] before she does it.

* HurricaneOfPuns: The Kingdom of [[TheBeatles Beatlemania]]. Also, to a lesser extent, Polaria Tower.

* BreakingTheFourthWall:

*** And [[spoiler:Rrorry]]'s status as CreatorsPet has been pretty much confirmed by the fact that [[spoiler:she doesn't even get scolded by the author when she breaks the fourth wall, although the others don't always know what she's talking about.]]

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: A few still latent. Also, if an entire chapter appears to be apparent fluff, something important will probably happen. Examples: the first generation's night in Mettttt; the first baseball game.
* [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; neither Jakov nor anyone else on the ''Entrancefee'' is shown to be carrying a gun.]]

* ClingyJealousGirl:

* ContinuityNod:

* DemotedToExtra: With the CastHerd assembled here, it was bound to happen. The spirits are subject to this most often, but after [[spoiler:Piru]] debuts, there are about ninety pages before any of the dragons have another line other than Balakar translating [[TheUnintelligible the new addition]]'s speech. Some of the more mundane characters also get forgotten, especially in battle scenes.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Another reminder that {{SpiriTsunami}} wrote this page to promote his own work.

* LoveTriangle:

* SelfInsertFic:

* ShoutOut:

** One of the legendary magical weapons is called "[[{{Discworld}} Octaris]]".

* TechnicolorEyes:

* ThemeTwinNaming:

* {{Tsundere}}:

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend:

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* HotAmazon: After Kisalia totally dominates in a battle with some monsters, Arden and Rin'ku have a conversation about what a huge turn-on it is to know your girlfriend could kick your ass.

* [[spoiler:RapeAsComedy: Rrorry's Crowning Moment of Fanservice.]]

Inspirations are wide, ranging from ''FireEmblem'' to ''Series/{{House}}'' (for an arc) to ''PointPleasant'', also ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''FullMetalAlchemist'', ''InuYasha'', ''ShamanKing'' (arguably), and of course, plenty of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics. Oh, yeah, ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has a part, too, as one of the towns in the second game directly inspired the name of the main character. And ''LegendOfZelda'', for the Citadel of Pain (specifically, ''Ocarina of Time'').