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-->'''Princess Christine''': ''[[LockedInTheDungeon What a wonderful place!]] I hope you'll send me here for punishment some time.''
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-->'''Princess Christine''': ''[[LockedInTheDungeon What a wonderful place!]] I hope you'll send me here for punishment some time.sometime.''
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* PlanetOfHats: Various themed realsm within the dream world.
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''City of Dreams'' takes place in two worlds: The waking world and the dream world. The latter is a real place, where real people can live real lives... As gods, since dreams are indeed created by the minds of humans. There are two ways to travel to the dream world: Dreams and portals. Travelling through a dream, you leave a sleeping body behind, and you have limited control except for the ability to flee by waking up. Portals works differently.
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''City of Dreams'' takes place in two worlds: The waking world and the dream world. The latter is a real place, where real people can live real lives... As gods, since dreams are indeed created by the minds of humans. There are two ways to travel to the dream world: Dreams and portals. Travelling through a dream, you leave a sleeping body behind, and you have limited control except for the ability to flee by waking up. Portals works work differently.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Heavily subverted, since the white prince's goodness and righteousness is [[spoiler:his OWN dream, and he fails to drag the princess into his narcissism]].
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Heavily subverted, Subverted, since the white prince's goodness and righteousness is [[spoiler:his OWN dream, and he fails to drag the princess into his narcissism]].
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A GraphicNovel by Brian Tarsis.
The story starts out as the original version of "Literature/SleepingBeauty", but quickly get some strange twists. For starters, the prince is riding on a bat-winged black horse. And he choose to kidnap the princess, instead of allowing her to come with him consensually. Then the princess wakes up again, this time in the real world. It was AllJustADream... OrWasItADream
''City of Dreams'' takes place in two worlds: The waking world and the dream world. The latter is a real place, where real people can live real lives... As gods, since dreams are indeed created by the minds of humans. There are two ways to travel to the dream world: Dreams and portals. Travelling through a dream, you leave a sleeping body behind, and you have limited control except for the ability to flee by waking up. Portals works differently.
The dream world has many realms. This particular story takes place mostly in the city-state of Morrigon, a thriving counter-reaction to the waking worlds [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality sexual repression]] and [[MoralGuardians moralism]]. In this dream world, the princess is pursued by two princes, as the dark prince who kidnapped her is opposed by a gallant prince dressed in white...
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AllJustADream: Subverted.
* AlternateSelf: The protagonist is quite different in her dreams compared to her waking world self.
* BoundAndGagged
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Heavily subverted, since the white prince's goodness and righteousness is [[spoiler:his OWN dream, and he fails to drag the princess into his narcissism]].
* CorruptTheCutie: The whole story is one big deconstruction of this trope, with the "corruption" actually being a good thing and only "corrupt" in the eyes of the local HeteronormativeCrusader.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The prince is a "villain", but only because it's cool.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Some people have power over dreams to the extent that they are virtually omnipotent in the dream world.
* EntitledToHaveYou: The white prince seem to have more then a little bit of this mindset, but this turns out to be caused by the fact that [[spoiler:he actually IS her boyfriend - yep, Christine's sexually repressed HeteronormativeCrusader real life boyfriend is a dreamer too, but as much as he'd like to tell himself he's only there to rescue ''her'', he did in fact end up in Morrigon of his own accord...]]
* FetishFuelFuture: The dreamworld itself has no focus on erotic dreams, but it contain many specialized realms. And much of the story just so happens to take place in a city focused on sadomasochistic dreams.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The white prince, trying a little bit too hard at the KnightInShiningArmor routine and coming up as nothing more than a selfish, conceited, jealous, self-righteous, patriarchal... well, you get the idea.
* KnightInShiningArmor: The white prince is a subversion. See HeteronormativeCrusader above.
* LightIsNotGood: The white prince, the princesses' would-be rescuer turns out to be a [[EntitledToHaveYou conceited]] {{hypocrite}}.
* LivingDream: Not only can humans enter the dreamworld physically as well as in their dreams - but this works both ways. People they created in their sleep have a life of their own and may walk through the portal into the waking world.
* LoveTranscendsSpacetime: The prince and the queens appear to be visitors in the waking world, coming there only for the protagonist.
* MischiefForPunishment:
-->'''Princess Christine''': ''[[LockedInTheDungeon What a wonderful place!]] I hope you'll send me here for punishment some time.''
-->'''Dark Prince Egon''': ''You'll have to be awfully bad...''
-->'''Princess Christine''': ''Oh, I will be!''
* PlanetOfHats: Various themed realsm within the dream world.
* RomanticizedAbuse: Subverted by DoubleThink
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: Indirect: Much is done without formal consent, but dreamers can always wake up. Subverted in two different ways towards the end.
* SafeWord: Indirect, in the form of waking up.
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The story starts out as the original version of "Literature/SleepingBeauty", but quickly get some strange twists. For starters, the prince is riding on a bat-winged black horse. And he choose to kidnap the princess, instead of allowing her to come with him consensually. Then the princess wakes up again, this time in the real world. It was AllJustADream... OrWasItADream
''City of Dreams'' takes place in two worlds: The waking world and the dream world. The latter is a real place, where real people can live real lives... As gods, since dreams are indeed created by the minds of humans. There are two ways to travel to the dream world: Dreams and portals. Travelling through a dream, you leave a sleeping body behind, and you have limited control except for the ability to flee by waking up. Portals works differently.
The dream world has many realms. This particular story takes place mostly in the city-state of Morrigon, a thriving counter-reaction to the waking worlds [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality sexual repression]] and [[MoralGuardians moralism]]. In this dream world, the princess is pursued by two princes, as the dark prince who kidnapped her is opposed by a gallant prince dressed in white...
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AllJustADream: Subverted.
* AlternateSelf: The protagonist is quite different in her dreams compared to her waking world self.
* BoundAndGagged
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Heavily subverted, since the white prince's goodness and righteousness is [[spoiler:his OWN dream, and he fails to drag the princess into his narcissism]].
* CorruptTheCutie: The whole story is one big deconstruction of this trope, with the "corruption" actually being a good thing and only "corrupt" in the eyes of the local HeteronormativeCrusader.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The prince is a "villain", but only because it's cool.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Some people have power over dreams to the extent that they are virtually omnipotent in the dream world.
* EntitledToHaveYou: The white prince seem to have more then a little bit of this mindset, but this turns out to be caused by the fact that [[spoiler:he actually IS her boyfriend - yep, Christine's sexually repressed HeteronormativeCrusader real life boyfriend is a dreamer too, but as much as he'd like to tell himself he's only there to rescue ''her'', he did in fact end up in Morrigon of his own accord...]]
* FetishFuelFuture: The dreamworld itself has no focus on erotic dreams, but it contain many specialized realms. And much of the story just so happens to take place in a city focused on sadomasochistic dreams.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The white prince, trying a little bit too hard at the KnightInShiningArmor routine and coming up as nothing more than a selfish, conceited, jealous, self-righteous, patriarchal... well, you get the idea.
* KnightInShiningArmor: The white prince is a subversion. See HeteronormativeCrusader above.
* LightIsNotGood: The white prince, the princesses' would-be rescuer turns out to be a [[EntitledToHaveYou conceited]] {{hypocrite}}.
* LivingDream: Not only can humans enter the dreamworld physically as well as in their dreams - but this works both ways. People they created in their sleep have a life of their own and may walk through the portal into the waking world.
* LoveTranscendsSpacetime: The prince and the queens appear to be visitors in the waking world, coming there only for the protagonist.
* MischiefForPunishment:
-->'''Princess Christine''': ''[[LockedInTheDungeon What a wonderful place!]] I hope you'll send me here for punishment some time.''
-->'''Dark Prince Egon''': ''You'll have to be awfully bad...''
-->'''Princess Christine''': ''Oh, I will be!''
* PlanetOfHats: Various themed realsm within the dream world.
* RomanticizedAbuse: Subverted by DoubleThink
* SafeSaneAndConsensual: Indirect: Much is done without formal consent, but dreamers can always wake up. Subverted in two different ways towards the end.
* SafeWord: Indirect, in the form of waking up.
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