A teenager wakes up at the bottom of a hole with no clue how he got there. He meets a creepy doll, a weird pig man, and a friendly ghost.
It sounds like the start of a fairy tale, but sadly for the main characters, they're not quite so lucky.
Reverietale
is a fandom fusion between Undertale and the Dream SMP where characters from the latter play roles from the former. It features Ranboo as Frisk, Ghostbur as Chara, and "Clementine" (Dream) as Flowey.
It covers the events of a no-mercy run that, through Word of God, will be followed by a true pacifist.
Reverietale contains examples of:
- Apologetic Attacker: Eret repeatedly begs Ranboo to give up and not force them to kill him. When he refuses, they apologize and warn him they are about to attack.
- Broken Pedestal: Ghostbur has several of these, most notably when Techno attacks Ranboo without giving him a chance to explain the circumstances.
- Cycle of Revenge: What the story is built on. Someone attacks Ranboo, so he retaliates, so someone else attacks him, so he retaliates against them... and so on until the original incident stops mattering, long since eclipsed by the escalations.
- Deadpan Snarker: Ranboo. Though he doesn't say much of it out loud, his POV chapters spend almost as much time on mocking the characters, events, and premise of the work as they do on actual plot.Ranboo: [internally] Oh, great. The talking doll is trying to steal my soul. Just what I wanted out of my day.
- Everybody Lives: According to Word of God, no character deaths will be permanent.
- Fight Magnet: Ranboo. Justified, as he's a human in the Underground and the monsters need to take his soul in order to break the barrier.
- Fusion Fic: Reverietale's premise is that it's Dream SMP characters in Undertale's setting.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Though Ranboo's first kill is a genuine accident, his justifications for continuing grow steadily shakier as the story goes on. This is most obvious when he kills Eret.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. Wilbur's death was intended to be this, but given the current circumstances within the story, it's heavily implied that not only was his death for nothing, it made everything worse.
- Inciting Incident: Just about every event in the story could have been avoided if Ranboo didn't accidentally kill Cletus.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Ranboo's response to Eret when they ask about Techno's death.
- Internal Reveal: Due to the work's nature as a fanfiction, the audience already knows quite a few things that the characters don't. What happened surrounding Wilbur's death, for example. Or why everyone is attacking Ranboo. Or that Ranboo can time travel.
- Meta Guy: Ranboo. Though it abates as the story goes on, he spends a fair bit of time mocking every trope he happens to spot. His interactions with Clementine are especially rife with this.Clementine: And when I say monsters, I'm being literal.
Ranboo: [internally] Thanks, exposition doll. - That Was Not a Dream: Ranboo is convinced that all of the events of the story are happening in his imagination. According to Word of God, this is not the case.
- Villainous Rescue: Ranboo is backed against the wall with only one health point remaining, with absolutely no hope of surviving Techno's next attack... when, suddenly, Clementine comes in from behind, giving Ranboo the opportunity to end the fight while his opponent is distracted.
