Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles
is a series of The Amazing World of Gumball fanfictions written by NoonboryKedabory. Unlike Strong and Steady, it is not set in an altenate universe.
The stories are ordered on the recap page.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: After they finally remember that Rob was sucked back into the Void after the events of "The Inquisition", all three Watterson kids are still getting his name wrong; Gumball calls him Ron, Anais calls him Rod, and Darwin calls him Roy.
- Adaptational Gender Identity:
- Richard, who is a cisgender male in canon, is presented as a trans woman named Daphne.
- In canon, Mr. Small, while having some feminine traits, was presented as unambiguously male. Here, Mx. Small is presented as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.
- Adaptation Name Change: Both due to Adaptational Gender Identity: Richard Watterson becomes Daphne Watterson and Steve Small becomes Sybil Small.
- And I Must Scream: Not only is Rob still stuck in the void but it's implied that Aguri Madoka is trapped there as well.
- Body Horror: "The Fable" includes a detailed description of the pain Rob goes through as he is forcibly transformed into a cyclops creature.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Early on in "The Voicemails", Boris finds his mother Brenda puffing on a cigarette, anxious that after Steve (Sybil) left home for Elmore, Boris will soon do the same.
- The Comedy Drop: "The Hipster", Darwin gives Gumball a leg up to look into the counselor's office, where new student Sophie (the titular hipster) is meeting with Counselor Small. Gumball insists she's there because she doesn't like the school, to which Darwin drops him back down and denies it, saying that Gumball is overreacting (since Sophie happens to be Mx. Small's niece, so of course she would want to hang out with them). Gumball gets up and asks Darwin not to drop him again, to which Darwin quickly apologizes before Gumball goes right back to his scheme.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: In canon, Mx. Small, while being rather thin and bony, was otherwise presented as perfectly healthy. Here, after "The Disease", they have a chronic cough which requires an inhaler to deal with.
- Disowned Sibling: "The Voicemails" opens with the day that Boris Small cut ties with his younger brother Steven. He has barely spoken to them since, thus he doesn't know that his sibling has since come out as non-binary, and Sybil (Steve's new name) never attended Boris's wedding, nor met his daughter Sophie.
- Family Theme Naming: The "normal" members of the Small family have names beginning with "B"; Bill, Brenda, Boris, and Blossom. The family oddballs instead have Alliterative Names; Sybil and Sophie.
- Embarrassing Hospital Gown: In "The Disease", Mx. Small has a hospital gown while receiving treatment for the titular affliction, but when the universe launches them and the kids back home to Elmore, they magically have their normal clothes back on. Embarrassed, they ask the kids if they saw anything, to which Gumball says they've seen them wear worsenote .
- Fan-Created Offspring: A variant: Mx. Small is given a niece named Sophie.
- Foil:
- Mx. Small's brother Boris. While Mx. Small is a gentle, carefree hippie, Boris is a strict, cold-hearted university professor.
- Across The Kedabory Verse as a whole, Sophie is one to Crestfeather. Both are long-lost nieces of supporting characters, but while Crestfeather is a cynical adult going on a story-wide quest to find her uncle, Sophie is a Cheerful Child who finds her moonparent right away.
- Hipster: Sophie Small, who has little interest in big, popular franchises and whose hobbies are almost comically obscure.
- Hospital Visit Hesitation: In "The Disease", Boris Small refuses to come to the hospital and donate blood to his estranged younger sibling Sybil, citing their lack of contact and Sybil not attending his wedding or meeting his daughter Sophie as reasons why. Gumball and Darwin instead rope Sophie into coming with them, and while it turned out that they didn't actually need a blood donation, Sybil is nevertheless delighted to finally meet their niece.
- Hot Drink Cure: On November 15th in "The Voicemails", a sickly Steve is given chamomile tea as medicine.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: "The Glitch" reveals that after "The Inquisition", the Void seemingly wiped everyone in Elmore's memory of Rob. However, the titular glitches jog Gumball's memory of him, and he believes that they are being caused by Rob, trying to communicate with him through the void.
- Mood Whiplash: "The Fable" ends with Cray Cray criticizing how unrealistic Rob's story is as there's no way an entire town could be flipped on its head and no one would say anything about it. As he hops off to another platform, Rob sinks to his knees, insisting that he saw it and he would never make it up...
- Narrator All Along: "The Fable" ends with a cut into the Void, where the Crazy Frog expy critiques how unrealistic it is, revealing the entire story to have been a fable made up by Rob. Poor Rob insists it's the truth and he would never make it up as Cray Cray hops away...
- Playing Sick: In the November 15th chapter of "The Voicemails", Brent fakes having a flu to get out of class and stay home with Steve (who is actually sick) instead.
- Sick Episode: "The Disease" has Mx. Small contract an unspecified illness, which requires a stay in the hospital to treat.
- Take That!:
- Sophie's idea of the most boring time possible involving watching Full House.
- In "The Glitch", Anais spots the silhouette of Aguri Madoka in the Void.
- Threatening to Cut Ties: "The Voicemails" opens with the Small brothers in a heated argument, and eventually Boris snaps and declares that if Steve leaves for Elmore, he's out of his life for good. Steve leaves anyway, and Boris makes good on his threat; in the years to come, he doesn't even invite Steve (now Sybil) to his wedding, or allow his daughter Sophie to learn about him.
- Truth in Television: In "The Disease", Teri believes based on the symptoms that Mx. Small is having a stroke. While she's incorrect, disoriented behaviour, slurred speech, and inability to move one of your arms are all real symptoms of a stroke.
- Walking Spoiler: "The Fable" ends on the twist that, despite his absence in previous stories, Rob is still alive, and has been trapped in the void after Season 6 ended, with everyone in Elmore forgetting about him. "The Glitch" further thickens his story as Gumball believes that the glitches are Rob's way of communicating with him. As such, the fact that Rob is a part of Elmore Chronicles at all is a spoiler.
