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** [[spoiler: Sabitsuki]] - [[spoiler: Sabitsuki probably has the worst of it. She was an IllGirl for most of her life (her illness is never specified) and the treatments left her skin pale and her hair white. When she finally entered a normal school, she was constantly made fun of and became a delinquent (earning the nickname "Rust" because she constantly carried around a rusted pipe) until her parents shipped her off to the research program.]]

* IllGirl - [[spoiler: Sabitsuki.]]

* FiveManBand - Sorta
** TheHero - Maribel: she has only the best of intentions, and is the ''only'' one of the protagonists who didn't put up some kind of fight before entering the program. She genuinely thought it would help her.
** TheLancer - [[spoiler: Sabitsuki, of ''VideoGame/DotFlow'': "Rust" trusts nobody, is an enormous DeadpanSnarker, and hates Dr. Greymann even before he shows his true colors. This may have something to do with her past.]]
** TheSmartGuy - [[spoiler: Urotsuki, of VideoGame/{{Yume2kki}}: her status as the most genre savvy of all the VideoGame/YumeNikki protagonists shows itself clearly.]]
** TheBigGuy - [[spoiler: Chie, of {{LCD DEM}}: she's not physically large. But she has that axe, and she knows how to use it. [[TheDitz She's not too bright, either.]] ]]
** TheChick - [[spoiler: Madotsuki, of--of course--VideoGame/YumeNikki: Mad is here depicted as an extremely lonely girl who absolutely relishes her four new friends. God help you if you try to hurt them, though.]]

The second half of the game allows us to follow Maribel outside of her room, and [[spoiler: to meet [[VideoGame/YumeNikki the]] [[VideoGame/{{Yume2kki}} other]] [[{VideoGame/{dotFlow}} troubled]] [[VideoGame/LcdDem teens]] ]]. What follows is [[spoiler: the uncovering of a twisted conspiracy, as the game deviates further and further away from the "Dream Sim" formula. The plot grows more and more bizarre.]] Eventually culminating in Dr. Greymann [[spoiler: who has by now likely reached Complete Monster status in the eyes of most players, revealed to be a corrupt artificial intelligence called [[VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator The Dream Emulator]]. At the climax of the game, he sucks our heroines into another dream world/virtual reality, his own. Our heroines confront him in the closest thing to a battle any VideoGame/YumeNikki spinoff has ever had.]]

** TheLancer - [[spoiler: Sabitsuki, of {{dotFlow}}: "Rust" trusts nobody, is an enormous DeadpanSnarker, and hates Dr. Greymann even before he shows his true colors. This may have something to do with her past.]]

Forever the Strangest Dream is a game that is partly an homage and partly a deconstruction of VideoGame/YumeNikki and its many fangames. It begins as a fairly typical Yume Nikki fan game, albeit with a FramingDevice in that we are told that our protagonist (Maribel), along with four other "troubled teenagers" are to undergo a dream study to help modify their behavior. She will be placed in a virtual reality chamber (her "room") specifically designed by the offscreen character Dr. Greymann (the researcher in charge of the program) to help her sleep (and thus, dream) as often as possible.

The second half of the game allows us to follow Maribel outside of her room, and [[spoiler: to meet [[VideoGame/YumeNikki the]] [[VideoGame/{{Yume2kki}} other]] [[{{dotFlow}} troubled]] [[VideoGame/LcdDem teens]] ]]. What follows is [[spoiler: the uncovering of a twisted conspiracy, as the game deviates further and further away from the "Dream Sim" formula. The plot grows more and more bizarre.]] Eventually culminating in Dr. Greymann [[spoiler: who has by now likely reached Complete Monster status in the eyes of most players, revealed to be a corrupt artificial intelligence called [[VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator The Dream Emulator]]. At the climax of the game, he sucks our heroines into another dream world/virtual reality, his own. Our heroines confront him in the closest thing to a battle any VideoGame/YumeNikki spinoff has ever had.]]

The second half of the game allows us to follow Maribel outside of her room, and [[spoiler: to meet [[VideoGame/YumeNikki the]] [[VideoGame/{{Yume2kki}} other]] [[{{dotFlow}} troubled]] [[VideoGame/LcdDem teens]] ]]. What follows is [[spoiler: the uncovering of a twisted conspiracy, as the game deviates further and further away from the "Dream Sim" formula. The plot grows more and more bizarre.]] Eventually culminating in Dr. Greymann [[spoiler: who has by now likely reached Complete Monster status in the eyes of most players, revealed to be a corrupt artificial intelligence called [[LSDDreamEmulator The Dream Emulator]]. At the climax of the game, he sucks our heroines into another dream world/virtual reality, his own. Our heroines confront him in the closest thing to a battle any VideoGame/YumeNikki spinoff has ever had.]]

* TheCameo - Possibly the darkest version ever. The [[spoiler: sadistic doctor you've spent the entire second half of the game fighting?]] Yeah, he's [[spoiler: an AI, formerly called [[LSDDreamEmulator The Dream Emulator]]. He transports you to The Violence District for the final part of the game. His true form? ''The Goddamn Grey Man'']].

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:If you're familiar with games of this sort, you just might be able to figure out [[LSDDreamEmulator who Dr. Greymann really is.]]]]

* TheWoobie - [[spoiler: Madotsuki]] as depicted here. [[spoiler: When the girls are going around explaining why each was sent to the program, Madotsuki tries to explain her depression and suicide attempts and bursts into tears mid-sentence.]]
** [[spoiler: Chie]] is also an example. [[spoiler: Her parents have called her a failure for so long that she's started to believe it too.]]

Forever the Strangest Dream is a game that is partly an homage and partly a deconstruction of YumeNikki and its many fangames. It begins as a fairly typical Yume Nikki fan game, albeit with a FramingDevice in that we are told that our protagonist (Maribel), along with four other "troubled teenagers" are to undergo a dream study to help modify their behavior. She will be placed in a virtual reality chamber (her "room") specifically designed by the offscreen character Dr. Greymann (the researcher in charge of the program) to help her sleep (and thus, dream) as often as possible.

The first half of the game is the fairly typical dialog-free YumeNikki spinoff. One must collect twenty four effects (twenty five if one counts the instructions) and wander through a vast BeautifulVoid of a dreamscape ([[spoiler: Running into Madotsuki once or twice along the way]]). When all twenty-four are collected, they can be "deposited" in the dream world's nexus. When Maribel wakes up and exits her room for the first time in the game, the second half of the game starts.

The second half of the game allows us to follow Maribel outside of her room, and [[spoiler: to meet [[YumeNikki the]] [[{{Yume2kki}} other]] [[{{dotFlow}} troubled]] [[VideoGame/LcdDem teens]] ]]. What follows is [[spoiler: the uncovering of a twisted conspiracy, as the game deviates further and further away from the "Dream Sim" formula. The plot grows more and more bizarre.]] Eventually culminating in Dr. Greymann [[spoiler: who has by now likely reached Complete Monster status in the eyes of most players, revealed to be a corrupt artificial intelligence called [[LSDDreamEmulator The Dream Emulator]]. At the climax of the game, he sucks our heroines into another dream world/virtual reality, his own. Our heroines confront him in the closest thing to a battle any YumeNikki spinoff has ever had.]]

** TheSmartGuy - [[spoiler: Urotsuki, of {{Yume2kki}}: her status as the most genre savvy of all the YumeNikki protagonists shows itself clearly.]]

** TheChick - [[spoiler: Madotsuki, of--of course--YumeNikki: Mad is here depicted as an extremely lonely girl who absolutely relishes her four new friends. God help you if you try to hurt them, though.]]

The second half of the game allows us to follow Maribel outside of her room, and [[spoiler: to meet [[YumeNikki the]] [[{{Yume2kki}} other]] [[{{dotFlow}} troubled]] [[LcdDem teens]] ]]. What follows is [[spoiler: the uncovering of a twisted conspiracy, as the game deviates further and further away from the "Dream Sim" formula. The plot grows more and more bizarre.]] Eventually culminating in Dr. Greymann [[spoiler: who has by now likely reached Complete Monster status in the eyes of most players, revealed to be a corrupt artificial intelligence called [[LSDDreamEmulator The Dream Emulator]]. At the climax of the game, he sucks our heroines into another dream world/virtual reality, his own. Our heroines confront him in the closest thing to a battle any YumeNikki spinoff has ever had.]]