The Walls Trilogy is a dark fic based upon Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park, written by Tewi Inaba
, and set in an alternate universe based upon Steampunk tropes. The first of the trilogy, Within These Walls, can be found here and is still in progress.
The story focuses on Butters Stotch, Lilac Barbrady, Wallace otherwise known as Wendy Testaburger, and Puck Swanson, otherwise known as Kindergoth, living in a world based upon the concept of delivers,postmortem men, and special deliverers.
The deliverers are children sent to, well, get packages and deliver them to where they need to go — namely, their own households. Butters happens to be a new deliverer, sent to get weapons for Stotch's Weaponry, although he is terrified — and for good reason — doing the activities, he still does them for the benefit of his parents. As he reaches home, enter Iris, a special deliverer, and enter the most trouble Butters has had in his life.
The trilogy is receiving a doujinshi adaptation by MOFOSTAN.
The Walls Trilogy provides examples of:
- Alice Allusion
- Action Girl: Too many to count.
- Bittersweet Ending
- Broken Bird: Once again, a good amount of characters are this.
- Canon Foreigner: Lilac, Skyla, Iris, and many more — considering it was originally submit-your-own-OC, this much is obvious.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Butters
- Coming of Age Story
- Continuity Nod: A few to the source series.
- Crapsack World
- Darker and Edgier: Ooooh yeah.
- Dark Fic
- Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Jimmy Valmer.
- Earn Your Happy Ending
- Genki Girl: Skyla.
- Innocence Lost
- Raised as the Opposite Gender: Wendy.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: The fic was written by the author to let out nightmares she'd been having over her recent diagnosis with depression.
- Slash Fic: Partially, it includes Kyle/Cartman, and Stan/Kenny, but it also includes Wendy/Butters and other hetero pairings, so it's only a partial example.
- Shout-Out: All of the chapters (so far) are named after songs by Foster the People.
- Sweet on Polly Oliver
- True Companions: Butters, Wendy, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, Lilac, Lamia, Puck, and Tybalt
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: The most prominent example is Butters, just like in the canon, but there are others, such as Lilac.
- World of Snark: Mostly.
