History WebComic / YuMeDream

''[[http://yume.rosalarian.com/ YU+ME: dream]]'' is a webcomic by Megan Rose Gedris. It concluded in 2010.

The fact that nobody wants to give away the plot means that you might prefer to start from [[http://yume.rosalarian.com/comic/page-001/ Strip 1]] just to be on the safe side. The normal text/hidden text ratio on this whole article really says everything; it may start slow, but then [[WhamEpisode WHAM!]] Spoilers that nobody dares give away.

Things just aren't going well for Fiona. She has a [[MissingMom dead mom]], a father who is always on business, a WickedStepmother, no friends at the Catholic high school, and none of the nuns believe that she's being picked on by [[AlphaBitch Sarah and Cass]]. So she begins to not pay any attention to anything around her, instead living in her own head in vivid, lucid dreams.

But then Lia moves in next door and real life seems more interesting with her around. Fiona gains another friend in Jake, a green haired boy she saves from a bunch of bullies who attack him for being gay. Fiona is drawn to him, intrigued by this thing known as "gay". She begins to look at Lia in a whole new light. But what will Lia think of it?

A backup of the comic exists [[https://archive.org/details/yu-me-dream here]].

* AbusiveParents: Of the WickedStepmother variety; see that trope for info

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:How Sadako died; A man, possibly Ellie's father, tried to get Sadako away from her, but she was tripped by accident and crashed backwards into a window, embedding glass in her right eye and stomach, killing her.]]
* AgeAppropriateAngst: Young Fiona was traumatized by [[spoiler:her mother's suicide which also aimed to kill her]], and as such grew up isolated from others and didn't befriend people until she met Jake, Dominic, and Lia [[spoiler:in her dreams because once she rediscovered the truth behind her mother, she attempted to commit suicide too, but instead fell into a coma]].
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Mercilessly deconstructed, and then reconstructed. The end of the dream is when the real story begins, and the reader follows Fiona while dealing with the very real psychological effects it had on her. Fiona then decides to try, and succeeds, at getting back to the Dream World to pursue the only happiness she knew, even while being aware that what she will find will be different from the fantasy she lived...]]

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: [[spoiler:Any human that's been separated from their conscience. Which happens automatically the moment you enter the Dream World for the first time, turning the newcomer into a LiteralSplitPersonality. They can retain their original personality by maintaining physical proximity to their conscience, since everyone in Nod has RealityWarper powers, accidents can happen.... Did we mention that almost every person on Earth goes to Nod for in their dreams?]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Fiona's decision to [[spoiler:attempt to go back into the DreamLand to find Lia]]
** Or not. Fiona was completely miserable in her life, anyway - no friends, nobody to talk to, dead mom, awful father and step mom, [[spoiler:very dark family secret... so miserable, in fact, that prior to the start of the story, she'd attempted suicide]]. Lia and her [[spoiler:dream]] friends were all she had. She wasn't really choosing the girl over other important options as much as pursuing the only happiness she knew.
*** Except [[spoiler: her step mom wasn't evil. She may have been frustrated, but deep down, she loved Fiona. WordOfGod says she was the first to run into the room, crying, the first time Fiona regained consciousness. So it's not all crap.]] [[invoked]]
* {{Animesque}}: Used for [[spoiler: the real-world]] portions of Sadako's story, and for the most part of the early chapters. By the end, Megan has all but completely removed any anime[=/=]manga influences.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler:When Fiona states Lia is not worth pursuing anymore... because she is a murderer, 900 years old and *le gasp* had other lovers - ''MEN''!]].
* ArtShift: Constantly. The first part of the comic was generally somewhat {{Animesque}}, but after TheReveal, the art shifts became much more frequent:
** The first true signs of Art Shift were when [[spoiler: Fiona wakes up, changing the style to a PhotoComic for her real-world portions]].
** After [[spoiler:Fiona begins dreaming again]], the art styles constantly change, including a Disney-esque artstyle, an artstyle with a lack of borders, and even claymation.

* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler: Subverted with Lia - at first she gets revealed as one, but later evidence proves otherwise. Don is also one of these, but it seems more like a last-minute shoo-in than anything else.]]
** A more IRL example: Clandy. [[spoiler: Originally, she was just someone that Megan drew in the background and that was it. Clandy was not planned to have a role, much less a role as big as she has had.]]
* AwkwardlyGayDream: Fiona has one in Part 1: Issue 3, causing her to fear that she might be gay, as well as worrying how Lia will feel about the dream. [[spoiler:Ellie not so much has them as she has [[MindRape Sadako inflict them on her]].]]
* {{Baku}}: Bakus are "giant elephant-ram-boar-bear thing with purple hair" that lives in the dream world and attempts to eat the main character's party.
* BearsAreBadNews: [[spoiler: Sadako's castle]] has bear guards, who are in charge of throwing people in jail cells and making them get out for whatever reason.
* TheBeard: Fiona, Lia, Jake and Don. Exactly ''who'' is whose beard, and who is in the closet at all, gets too complicated for Jake to keep track of.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Sadako, who turns out to be the queen of dreams. Originally, it seemed that she was NOT happy at Lia for ruining her endeavor. The end of Part 2: Issue 11 revealed that Sadako was planning on using Lia as a trap to lure Fiona into the DreamLand for quite some time.]]
* BilingualBonus: "yume" is Japanese for "dream", which makes sense since [[spoiler:most of the comic takes place in dreams.]]
** The name young Sadako calls her [[spoiler:her conscience (AKA Clandestine)]],"Himitsu" is Japanese for secret. [[spoiler:Clandestine means "kept secret"]]
* TheBlank: Slighty subverted with [[spoiler:No Face]]. At first, it appears he has no facial features at all, only to reveal that he has [[spoiler:a mouth - with a set of razor sharp teeth in it]].
* BloodyHandprint: Used as a GoryDiscretionShot - we are made to expect that a group are all dead, then someone goes to find out and all we see is the handprint.
* BuryYourGays: Several gay characters are killed or commit suicide, including [[spoiler: the main character. She gets better, though.]]
* CastFullOfGay: A lot of characters in the comic aren't straight, with the main protagonists Fiona and Lia being lesbians. [[spoiler:Sarah]] is implied to be not straight as well, since [[spoiler:she kisses Fiona towards the end of act 1. In act 2, the actor that played Sarah in her dream, Lucy, had an early script even said that "Sarah" harbored a secret crush on Fiona in the script.]] [[spoiler:Cass also appears to be involved or have a crush on Sarah, and have a total [[BerserkButton flip out]] towards Fi after she catches them kissing.]] On top of those spoilers, Jake, Don and [[spoiler:Richard]] are all gay as well. Finally,[[spoiler:Sadako is also gay/bi, since she had crushes on two girls back when she was alive.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[spoiler:Clandestine Jones nearly always has a strange way of acting, such as looking at a dangerous creature in awe or thinking that a journal was [[LiteralMinded literally "planted" from a plant]]. This is later revealed to be because she used to be Sadako's conscience. But Sadako ''banished'' her for, basically, not letting her have her [[RapeAsDrama "fun"]] with Ellie.]]
* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:A theme in Part 1, where Fiona discovers that she is a lesbian when she gains feelings for Lia.]] This is subverted by the end of Part 1, though, since [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream.]]

* DramaBomb: Many of these are in Part 1: Issues 1 - 8, but Part 1: Issue 9 definitely takes the cake on this, including [[spoiler:Fiona's gay godfather Richard arriving and telling her about her upbringing, including her mother's suicide due to her father cheating with her stepmother, Fiona admitting to being a lesbian to her stepmother, which gets her grounded (though Richard takes her to the prom anyway), and James getting together with Sadako]]. The ending of this issue, which reveals that [[spoiler:everything up to this point was AllJustADream]], is a total drama bomb, which was a WhamEpisode to all, but to some it was ridiculous, to some it was FridgeBrilliance after a few months.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=917 here (WARNING: Mega Spoiler!)]] The drama bomb is represented as a ''literal bomb''.
** They continue in part 2 after a while. Lia's history, like [[spoiler: the fact that she's bisexual, as well as the evil deeds when she committed as "Mara" when Sadako locked up her conscience]], being a prime example.
* DreamLand: [[spoiler:where Part 1 takes place. Fiona returns in Part 2 to look for Lia. It's actually an alternate dimension called Nod that used to be tenuously connected to the space of human dreams, until Sadako merged the two together.]]
* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler:Fiona's dreams in Part 1 were this since she was in a dream the whole time. She later has more dreams when dreaming again in Part 2, though this time she's aware that she's in the dream world.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: This story seems to love this trope:
** [[spoiler:Fiona's mom was the first case of this. After her life fell apart, she wrote a suicide note and drove with Fiona into an oncoming car, attempting to take her daughter's life with her own. Fiona survived, but she didn't.]]
** [[spoiler:Fiona attempted suicide herself after finding her mother's suicide note; wanting to finish what her mom started, she drove her car into a tree. Fiona didn't die, but she entered a coma where Part 1 took place.]]
** [[spoiler:After having enough of Sadako raping her in the dream world, Ellie committed suicide to get away from the pain.]]

** [[spoiler:Sadako fell on the same trajectory as the King of Nod; since she's lived in Nod for such a long time, she just wants to die so she can find peace.]]
** [[spoiler:Lia didn't want to live without her love George, who was killed in the war. When she meets him [[ItMakesSenseInContext (actually Sadako in disguise)]] in her dreams, Lia thinks that she's in the afterlife and wants to stay with George, so she bricks up the wall to reality; however, this can also be classified as an indirect somewhat-murder due to Lia being unaware of "George"'s identity in Nod.]]
** [[spoiler:Finally, in the end, Fiona and Lia, hoping to reunite in the real world, jump through a portal which kills their dream versions but allows their souls to be reborn in reality. Unlike the other cases, this one has a [[ReincarnationRomance much happier tone]].]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:No Face. His neck is snapped in the background of a panel by Lia, under her "Mara" persona.]] Even [[WordOfGod the author themself]] comments on [[spoiler:how anticlimactic that death was]]. Done to avoid WhatHappenedToTheMouse.[[invoked]]

* EasyRoadToHell: Sister Mary routinely informs the students of things that will send them to hell. These include jumping on the bed, wearing striped socks to school, and running red lights.
* ExecutiveMeddling: An in-universe example revealed in flashback wherein [[spoiler:conscience management have concluded Fiona will react better to her conscience if she acts like an ethnic stereotype. Cue hilarious scenes where said conscience struggles to understand Ebonics and complains about her outfit]].
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: The story behind Sadako's eye; it was punctured by a shard of glass in the real world, with a spiral taking its place in the dream world.]]
* FantasticRomance: [[spoiler:One of the best kept versions of this trope, what with Lia being long dead in the real world.]]
* FramingDevice: [[spoiler: Part 2 is the story being told by Don after Fiona and Lia left Nod and he became its new king.]]

* GildedCage: The place where [[spoiler:[[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1845 Sadako imprisons Lia]]]]: a luxurious-looking jail cell with a fancy bed, tea, a box TV, and even a pool.

* InnocentInnuendo: When Lia asks [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=308 "Do you want my cherry?"]] in one strip, Fiona does a SpitTake, thinking that she's talking about the ''other'' kind of cherry. However, it turns out she meant an actual cherry.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: It's revealed that Fiona's godfather has been writing to her but her stepmother throws his letters away. At first, it's implied that this is because he's gay, then [[spoiler: it turns out that it's because her father and stepmother have been keeping hidden the fact that her mother committed suicide with young Fiona in the car, which her godfather tells her about]].
* INeverToldYouMyName: [[spoiler: Fake]] George inadvertantly calls Lia by her full name (Celia) [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1776 here]].
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler: Clandestine]] quite literally [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=2221 says this to Fiona]], before [[spoiler:dying along with Sadako]].
* JerkAss: [[spoiler:Sebastian, the guy who played Jake, is nothing like the character he plays, caring more about fame and fortune than anything else..]]
* JiveTurkey: Oddly enough, Fiona's conscience speaks in ebonics in Part 1: Issue 1. By Issue 2, she still does so, but it's noticeably toned down.
** Later explained and subverted [[spoiler:because her conscious was being told to act that way by her boss. As a result, she drops this in Part 2.]]

* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:A new king or queen of Nod must kill the old one. However, Nod seems to have a will of it's own, and if it doesn't want the killer to be the new ruler, then it simply won't let the old ruler die.]]
* LampshadeHanging[=/=]LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=670 Sarah saying "Oh, I thought you were trying to look like some comic book character."]] to Fiona when she finds out the origin of the white part of her bangs. They are quite literally in a comic.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: One of the early top banners (it has since changed). Description: [[spoiler:Not only does it state that Fiona and Lia are in love with each other, it ''also'' implies that they both like girls, sort of ruining the whole ComingOutStory part for new readers.]]

* LoveHurts: While Lia and Fiona don't have any easy time at first, this is nothing compared to when the major DramaBomb hits. This seems to be intentional, as the author/artist explains [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100113203930/http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=941 here]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: It is hinted that [[spoiler:Sadako impersonated Lia's dead lover and tricked her into staying forever in the DreamLand, at least partly because she couldn't stand to see her so upset at his death.]]
** [[spoiler: Sadako could count when she first became Queen of Dreams and started abusing her power to have Ellie "make things up" to her for causing her death. This eventually proves too much for Ellie [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=2145 and she commits suicide.]]]]
* MagneticGirlfriend: Once everyone knows Fiona is a lesbian, they [[spoiler:kiss her or threaten her to stay away from "their girl"]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream, scripted by Sadako and catered to Fiona's perception of the world]].
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: [[spoiler: Sadako. As ruler of Nod, she gets to manipulate her subjects the way she wants to, such as forcing Lucy to spy on the protagonists.]]

* MindScrew: We can see the writing on the wall in the ending of Part 1: Issue 9 ([[spoiler:when reality appears to break apart as a result of it all being a dream]]), but from Part 2: Issue 1 onward, Yu+Me is ''absolutely insane'', including random {{Art Shift}}s, characters with crazy traits, and more, which is justified since [[spoiler:it takes place in the dream world, but in a more fantastical setting compared to the normal settings from Part 1, and Fiona is aware she's dreaming this time]].
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1297 this (somewhat spoilery) intermission]].
* MissingMom: Fiona's mom [[spoiler:committed vehicular suicide]] with [[spoiler:Fiona in the car]].
* TheMole: The first part has [[spoiler:Sadako, who turns out to be the ruler of the Dream World and sends Fiona out of her dream.]] The second part has [[spoiler:Lucy, who was made sympathetic by having been coerced into it and by trying to act as a DoubleAgent in favor of the protagonists]].

* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler: No Face]] has no face. And when he smiles...

** While we knew him as Jake, it is later revealed that his name is a lot longer than we thought in [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1378 this comic (spoiler warning)]]: [[spoiler: Sebstaian Beauregard Constantine II]].
** Briefly parodied [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1208 here]] as well, after [[spoiler:Lucy]]'s name is revealed.
---> '''[[spoiler:Lucy]]''': "What were you expecting? Mariella Xylophone Lucia Sassifrass Van Gogh the Third?"
* OutOfClothesExperience: Fiona is suddenly naked when [[spoiler: she first returns to the dream world]]. Her conscience tells her she doesn't have to be naked, so she [[spoiler:imagines herself]] wearing clothes.
* OutOfFocus: Part 2 sees this happen to Jake. [[spoiler:Unlike the other characters, Jake's actor, Sebastian, was only doing it as a job. Many of the other characters come back in new roles, but Jake/Sebastian only has a cameo in an interview]].
* PhotoComic: The comic uses real life photographs only for a little bit and only to [[spoiler:artistically separate DreamLand and RealLife]].
* ThePowerOfLove: Fiona's decision to [[spoiler:attempt to go back into the DreamLand to find Lia]], especially considering [[spoiler:Sadako had banned Fiona from the DreamLand]].
** Subverted, as [[spoiler:that was part of Sadako's plan all along.]]
* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler:Sadako. However, unlike usual uses of this trope, it's obviously not to make lesbians look bad. Just this one in particular who has... [[YanDere issues]].]]
* PunBasedTitle: Just ''look'' at that title! Painful on ''so'' many levels, especially following the DramaBomb. And then there's one of the old taglines: "[[spoiler:Fiona has found the girl of her dreams...]]"

* ReincarnationRomance [[spoiler:When Fiona and Lia decide to leave Nod, they realize that both of them are dead in the real world, so Don finds a loop hole that technically "kills" them in Nod, but sends their souls back to Earth, where they can reincarnate and find each other. However, they don't meet up in the real world until the last page.]]
* {{Retraux}}: Let's just say that Megan's affinity for the 40s and 50s is not limited to [[Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace their other comic]]. [[spoiler:Lia's past is presented in black & white with a style evocative of those two decades, which makes sense since she lived during World War II.]]

** The massive reveal at the end of Part 1: [[spoiler:Sadako is the BigBad, it's AllJustADream, and Fiona was in a coma induced by a suicide attempt after she learned her mother succeeded at doing the same]].
** There are some more reveals in Part 2, such as [[spoiler:Sadako and Lia being long-dead in the real world and being trapped in Nod, Lucy being forced to spy on Fiona and her group by Sadako, Clandestine being Sadako's former conscience, Himitsu, and much of the plot being a plan for Sadako to commit suicide]].
* SadistTeacher: Nuns, technically. Sister Mary often gives out punishments to Fiona, but most of the time, it was either based on her beliefs or Fiona was framed by Sarah.
* SassyBlackWoman: Fiona's conscience, who is basically a PaletteSwap of her with an afro.
* SecretRelationship: Fiona and Lia, mostly because of Lia [[spoiler:not wanting Sadako to know, for good reason]], but also because they go to a Catholic high school.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: The end of part one arguably turns the comic into this, for some, as it renders much of the actions and events beforehand moot due to it being AllJustADream.]]
* ShoutOut: tons, see the webcomics page of this trope for a list
** In one [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1147 page (spoiler warning!)]], to the Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer character, known as [[spoiler: the Cheese Man]]
* SoftGlass: Completely averted. [[spoiler:Sadako]] died being tossed through a glass window.
* SoHappyTogether: Fiona goes to prom and is very happy because she gets to be with Lia, at least until [[spoiler:it's revealed to be AllJustADream, which separates the two.]] Thankfully, it's subverted when [[spoiler:Fiona and Lia get together again in the dream world, ultimately meeting up with each other as reincarnations in real life and presumably starting another relationship]].
* TeenDrama: Given the sheer number of [[DramaBomb drama bombs]] at the end of Part 1 and that the story's main characters are teens or [[spoiler:at least ''play'' teens in dreams...oh 400 year old Lia]]...it's rather obvious that Part 1 is a total TeenDrama.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Don on page [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=605 283]] when he says that Fiona and Lia have drama-filled lives.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Basically, the entire plot is Sadako trying to commit suicide.]]
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Part One is AllJustADream, and all of the characters except Fiona know it.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Not entirely trauma induced, but Fiona doesn't remember certain things about her past until [[spoiler:Richard]] starts telling her how her mother died.
** Somewhat justified, due to the fact that [[spoiler:She's in a coma during the entirety of Part 1, due to her finding the suicide note left by her mother and deciding to finish the job by ramming herself into a tree.]]

* WasItAllALie: Fiona wonders something along the lines of this after it's revealed that [[spoiler:Lia was just a character in her dream. Thankfully, Lia gets to tell Fiona that while she is not real, her feelings for Fiona are]].
* WhamEpisode: Part 1: Issue 9. ''Everything'' changes when it's revealed that [[spoiler:everything up to this point was in Fiona's dream, and she was in a coma in the real world]]. It also marks the GenreShift for the second part.
** Also, Part 2: Issue 11, with several reveals, such as [[spoiler: Lia was (as most of the fandom had figured out) once a real-world person. In her sleep, she befriended Sadako. In the real world, she fell in love with a man named [[RedShirt George]]. George died, Lia told Sadako, and then basically Sadako impersonated George and lived with Lia like that for decades. Lia found out, shit hit the fan, her conscience got kidnapped, and Lia became a sociopathic monster named Mara the Terrible.]]
* WickedStepmother: Fiona has one, whom we realize is rather wicked once we learn that [[spoiler: her affair with her now-husband is what caused Fiona's real mother to be Driven to Suicide]]. [[spoiler:According to the [[WordOfGod author]], she's [[InvertedTrope actually not that bad; Fiona just perceives her as "wicked"]]]]. [[invoked]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=42 Sarah putting gum in her hair]] and, in a way to get Fiona in trouble, claiming that the latter put it there.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Sadako, to a T. She looks innocent enough, but man that girl has some issues. Even after she gets killed in the real world, she still stalks Ellie in dreams to the point of raping her every night as punishment, causing the latter to be DrivenToSuicide.]]
* YoureJustJealous: How [[spoiler:Sadako [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=2120 responds]] to her conscience objecting to her actions, claiming that she's just jealous that someone loves her.]]
* YuriFan: Mr. Bun saying he wants to watch Fiona and Lia's romance, at least in one of [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=409 Fiona's dreams]].

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Sadako, to a T. She looks innocent enough, but man that girl has some issues. Even after she gets killed in the real world, she still stalks Ellie in dreams to the point of raping her every night as punishment, causing the latter to be DrivenBySuicide.]]

* HomoeroticDream: Fiona has one in Part 1: Issue 3, causing her to fear that she might be gay, as well as worrying how Lia will feel about the dream. [[spoiler:Ellie not so much has them as she has [[MindRape Sadako inflict them on her]].]]

But then Lia moves in next door and real life seems more interesting with her around. Fiona gains another friend in Jake, a green haired boy she saves from a bunch of bullies who attack him for being gay. Fiona is drawn to him, intrigued by this thing known as "gay". She begins to look at Lia in a whole new light. But what will Lia think of it

* BilingualBonus: "yume" is Japanese for "dream"

* CastFullOfGay: similar to MagneticGirlfriend, [[spoiler:Sarah]] is implied to be not straight as well, since [[spoiler:she kisses Fiona towards the end of act 1. In act 2, the actor that played Sarah in her dream, Lucy, had an early script even said that "Sarah" harbored a secret crush on Fiona in the script.]] [[spoiler:Cass also appears to be involved or have a crush on Sarah, and have a total [[BerserkButton flip out]] towards Fi after she catches them kissing.]] On top of those spoilers, Jake, Don and [[spoiler:Richard]] are all gay as well.
** [[spoiler:Sadako is also gay/bi.]]

* DramaBomb: Many of these are in Part 1: Issues 1 - 8, but Part 1: Issue 9 definitely takes the cake on this. The ending of this issue is a total drama bomb, which was a WhamEpisode to all, but to some it was ridiculous, to some it was FridgeBrilliance after a few months.

* PhotoComic: Only for a little bit and only to [[spoiler:artistically separate DreamLand and RealLife]].

** The massive reveal at the end of Part 1 is detailed more in the DramaBomb list, especially the last one. In a nutshell: [[spoiler:Sadako is the BigBad, it's AllJustADream, and Fiona was in a coma induced by a suicide attempt after she learned her mother succeeded at doing the same]].

* TeenDrama: given the list of 10 [[DramaBomb drama bombs]] above and that the story's main characters are teens or [[spoiler:at least ''play'' teens in dreams...oh 400 year old Lia]]...it's rather obvious that Part 1 is a total TeenDrama.

But then Lia moves in next door and real life seems more interesting with her around. Fiona gains another friend in Jake, a green haired boy she saves from a bunch of bullies who attack him for being gay. Fiona is drawn to him, intrigued by this thing known as "gay". She begins to look at Lia in a whole new light. But what will Lia think of it?

Up until the end of issue 9, readers thought this was a case of lesbians living in TeenDrama. Issue 9 dropped a TON of [[DramaBomb drama bombs]].

1. Sarah [[spoiler:kisses Fiona/Cass walks in and gets jealous]]\\
2. Fiona gets grounded for admitting to being a lesbian and can't go to the prom.\\
3. Fiona meets [[spoiler:her gay godfather, Richard]] who her parents have been keeping from her.\\
4. [[spoiler:Richard]] tells Fiona some pretty major things about her family that she didn't know/had amnesia about, such as the fact that [[spoiler: her mother committed suicide by getting into a car accident with little Fiona in the car because her father was cheating, with the WickedStepmother]]\\
5. Fiona decides to go prom and her parental units do not stop her due to #4.\\
6. Fiona faints.\\
7. James has an announcement to make: [[spoiler:Sadako is his new girlfriend]].\\
8. Fiona faints again and wakes to [[spoiler:Sadako and Lia fighting]].\\
9. '''The Big One.''' At Fiona's questioning of what's going on, [[spoiler:Sadako]], Lia, and Don tell her that [[spoiler:everything up until this point was AllJustADream and Lia, Jake, Don, etc have all been actors, though Lia gets in that her feelings for Fiona were real]].\\
10. Fiona [[spoiler:wakes up from a coma, that we find out she caused by trying to commit suicide upon learning that her own mother tried to kill her]].

Part Two begins with more of an explanation and then Fiona [[spoiler:finds a way back to DreamLand to search for Lia]].

* ReincarnationRomance [[spoiler:When Fiona and Lia decide to leave Nod, they realize that both of them are dead in the real world, so Don finds a loop hole that technically "kills" them in Nod, but sends their souls back to Earth, where they can reincarnate and find each other.]]
** [[spoiler:The second to last page shows that though they haven't met up in the real world in their new lives yet, they can still see each in Nod until they do.]]
*** [[spoiler:As of the last page, TheyDo]]

* AbusiveParents: Of the WickedStepmother variety
* AbhorrentAdmirer: James
* AgeAppropriateAngst: Young Fiona

* AlphaBitch: Sarah and Cass

* ArtShift: Constantly. After TheReveal far more so, but even before then there were quite a few different styles on display.

* BearsAreBadNews

* BloodyHandprint

* CastFullOfGay: similar to MagneticGirlfriend, [[spoiler:Sarah]] is implied to be not straight as well, since [[spoiler:they kiss towards the end of act 1. In act 2, the actor that played Sarah in her dream, Lucy, had an early script even said that "Sarah" harbored a secret crush on Fiona in the script.]] [[spoiler:Cass also appears to be involved or have a crush on Sarah, and have a total [[BerserkButton flip out]] towards Fi after she catches them kissing.]] On top of those spoilers, Jake, Don and [[spoiler:Richard]] are all gay as well.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[spoiler:Clandestine Jones. This is later revealed to be because she used to be Sadako's conscience. But Sadako ''banished'' her for, basically, not letting her have her [[RapeAsDrama "fun"]] with Ellie.]]
* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:A theme in Part 1]]
** Subverted by the end of Part 1. See the Drama Bomb.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Sadako. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because Nod won't let her die without a suitable replacement.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:No-Face.]]

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=917 here (WARNING: Mega Spoiler!)]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Fiona's mom]], [[spoiler:Fiona]], [[spoiler:Ellie]], [[spoiler:the King of Nod]], [[spoiler:Sadako]] and [[spoiler:Lia, although she wasn't really so much "driven" as semi-murdered]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext (it's complicated)]]. And then [[spoiler: Fiona and Lia again, but in a [[ReincarnationRomance happier tone]].]] This story seems to love this trope.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Also subverted. [[spoiler:Sadako believes she is justified in what she does to Ellie, but the consequences for both Ellie and Sadako are fairly unforgiving.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:No Face.]] Even [[WordOfGod the author themself]] comments on [[spoiler:how anticlimactic that death was]]. Done to avoid WhatHappenedToTheMouse.[[invoked]]
* DyingDream: [[spoiler:Fiona questions whether everything is a dying dream to her during part 2. Candy asks her if it would make a difference or make it any less real.]]
* EasyRoadToHell: Sister Mary routinely informs the students of things that will send them to hell. These include jumping on the bed, wearing striped socks to school, and running red lights.
* ExecutiveMeddling: an in-universe example revealed in flashback wherein [[spoiler:conscience management have concluded Fiona will react better to her conscience if she acts like an ethnic stereotype. Cue hilarious scenes where said conscience struggles to understand Ebonics and complains about her outfit]].
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: The story behind Sadako's eye.]]

* GenreShift: Between Part 1 and Part 2

* GildedCage: The place where [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1845 Sadako imprisons Lia]] is pretty much one.
* GirlsLove: Fiona and Lia, arguably [[spoiler:Sarah and Cass]] given their behaviors.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Conscience

* InnocentInnuendo --"[[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=308 Do you want my cherry?]]"
* INeverGotAnyLetters

* JerkAss: [[spoiler:Sebastian, the guy who played Jake.]]
* JiveTurkey: Oddly enough, Fiona's conscience, in the Part 1: Issue 1. By Issue 2, she still speaks in ebonics, but noticeably toned down.
** Later explained and subverted [[spoiler:because her conscious was being told to act that way by her boss]].
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Lia when she lost her conscience, especially compared to Sadako's relatively benign reaction to losing her conscience. Granted, [[LoveMakesYouEvil Sadako wasn't exactly a paragon to begin with]], but she never fell near as far as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Terrible Mara]].]]

* LampshadeHanging[=/=]LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=670 "Oh, I thought you were trying to look like some comic book character."]]

* LipstickLesbian: both Fiona and Lia
* LoveHurts: see DramaBomb list above
* LoveMakesYouEvil: it is hinted that [[spoiler:Sadako impersonated Lia's dead lover and tricked her into staying forever in the DreamLand, at least partly because she couldn't stand to see her so upset at his death.]]
** [[spoiler: Sadako could count when she first became Queen of Dreams and started abusing her power to have Ellie "make things up" to her for causing her death.[[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=2145 See what I mean]]?]]

* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: [[spoiler: Sadako]]

* MindScrew: We can see the writing on the wall in the ending of Part 1: Issue 9, but from Part 2: Issue 1 onward, Yu+Me is ''absolutely insane''.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Sadako]] and [[spoiler:Lucy, who was made sympathetic by having been coerced into it and by trying to act as a DoubleAgent in favor of the protagonists]].

* NothingIsScarier: No Face has no face. And when he smiles...
* OverlyLongName: While we knew him as Jake, it is later revealed that his name is a lot longer than we thought [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1378 (spoiler warning)]]. Briefly parodied [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1208 here]] as well.
* OutOfClothesExperience: Fiona naked when [[spoiler: she first returns to the dream world]]. This could be a CMOF since she didn't realize until some guy pointed out much to her embarrassment. And that her conscience told her she didn't have to be naked.
---> '''Fiona''': "Geez! I'm naked?! Stupid symbolic nudity!"

* PungeonMaster: Just ''look'' at that title! Painful on ''so'' many levels, especially following the DramaBomb. And then there's one of the old taglines "[[spoiler:Fiona has found the girl of her dreams...]]"
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Dreamers.]]

* {{Retraux}}: Let's just say that Megan's affinity for the 40s and 50s is not limited to [[Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace their other comic]].
* TheReveal: consider the DramaBomb list, especially the last one.
* SadistTeacher: Nuns, technically.

* ShaggyDogStory: The end of part one arguably turns the comic into this, for some

* SoHappyTogether: Fiona goes to prom and is very happy because she gets to be with Lia when a DramaBomb goes off...
* TeenDrama: given the list of 10 [[DramaBomb drama bombs]] above and that the story's main characters are teens or [[spoiler:at least ''play'' teens in dreams...oh 400 year old Lia]]...it's rather obvious that Part 1 is a total TeenDrama
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Don on page [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=605 283]].

* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Part One is AllJustADream]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: not entirely trauma induced, but Fiona doesn't remember certain things about her past until [[spoiler:Richard]] starts telling her how her mother died.

* WasItAllALie: I hate to keep referring to it, but see #9 of the DramaBomb list.
* WhamEpisode: Part 1: Issue 9.

* WickedStepmother: Fiona has one [[spoiler:According to the [[WordOfGod author]], she's [[InvertedTrope actually not that bad; Fiona just perceives her as "wicked"]]]]. [[invoked]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: "[[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=42 *puts gum in her hair* Sister Mary! Fiona spit gum into my hair! *whine*]]"
* Yandere: [[spoiler:Sadako, to a T. She looks innocent enough, but man that girl has some issues.]]
* YoureJustJealous: [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=2120 literally]].
* YuriFan: Mr. Bun, at least in one of [[http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=409 Fiona's dreams]].

* FreudianExcuse: Subverted. [[spoiler:Sadako]] gets set up for this the second her story/issue starts, since we know that [[spoiler:humans go all ChaoticEvil when separated from their consciences]]. Then it turns out [[spoiler:she ''shunned'' her conscience because the poor girl was trying to keep her from having "fun" (read: random acts of manipulation and [[JerkAss jerkassery]]).]] [[invoked]]

* YanDere: [[spoiler:Sadako, to a T. She looks innocent enough, but man that girl has some issues.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Jake has green hair, Sadako's hair is purple-ish, Fiona's hair is naturally two-toned, Don's hair is just... funky [[spoiler:because he's of a humanoid race who's hair changes every day, Lucy can change heads so it's inevitable for her, Clandestine/Himitsu ''was'' brunette but losing Sadako drove her insane and made it turn blue, and Fiona's disguises consisted of brown-green hair and pink-purple hair. This series likes this trope a lot.]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Hinted at several times in later issues of Part 1 with [[spoiler:Sarah and Cass]].

Up until the end of issue 9, readers thought this was a case of SchoolgirlLesbians living in TeenDrama. Issue 9 dropped a TON of [[DramaBomb drama bombs]].

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Fiona and Lia

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Fiona's decision to [[spoiler:attempt to go back into the DreamWorld to find Lia]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Sadako, who turns out to be the queen of dreams. Originally, it seemed that she was NOT happy at Lia for ruining her endeavor. The end of Part 2: Issue 11 revealed that Sadako was planning on using Lia as a trap to lure Fiona into the DreamWorld for quite some time.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: it is hinted that [[spoiler:Sadako impersonated Lia's dead lover and tricked her into staying forever in the DreamWorld, at least partly because she couldn't stand to see her so upset at his death.]]

* ThePowerOfLove: Fiona's decision to [[spoiler:attempt to go back into the DreamWorld to find Lia]], especially considering [[spoiler:Sadako had banned Fiona from the DreamLand]].