Line #59 DarthWiki/DaydreamNightmare


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2	Daydream Nightmare is a series of books by Tropers/{{Astriferous}} that started as a song comic for a school project in March 2012, named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlhnKEARmII "Pesadilla"/"Nightmare"]]. At that time, the story itself was called ''The Dream Catchers'', where a group of teenagers who have lucid dreams use that ability to fight nightmares.
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4	Later, in October 2012, while planning Literature/SuperFilete's sequel, ''30 in Tumblr'', the author was listening to Music/MyChemicalRomance's "Teenagers". And so, the concept for ''De Padres, Libertinaje y Sangre'' (also shortened to [[FunWithAcronyms [=DePaLiZa=]]]) was born. This story had a different plot, which at the time was not related to ''The Dream Catchers''. It tells the stories of several youngsters around the world trying to survive in the world since a mass malfunction of an apparatus that all people older than 20 wore happened and provoked their instant deaths. Soleil, which in reality are multiple AI units, will try to adjust the status quo back to normal, with potential disastrous and deadly results. The link between [=DePaLiZa=] and the now-called Dreamcatchers was established through [[CharacterOverlap a character that lives through both of these events and, with them, the timeline for both of them]].
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6	The first draft of the book was done during UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo [[http://nanowrimo.org/participants/amy-serket-kazz/novels/daydream-nightmare 2014]] (this being the author's first [=NaNo=] to ever reach over the goal word count), and an additional part, ''Living (The) Nightmare'', was made as a wrap-up of the aforementioned parts. The book is currently being revised and rewritten.
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8	There are also two new stories (yet to be written) that take place years after the main ''Daydream Nightmare'' saga. After a worldwide electricity shutdown has started, a group of friends called ''The Volt Dimensions'' are willing to get their rights back.
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10	Another TimeSkip, and in ''Sunset Selves'', a man could finally leave a laboratory that has been locked since he volunteered for an experiment, and he finds some friends that tell him what has been going on outside—that is, if he can clear his mind.
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12	''Daydream Nightmare'' is the second series of Era 2 of the DarthWiki/CPCVerse.
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14	!!Tropes in ''Daydream Nightmare'':
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17	[[folder:General]]
18	* AfterTheEnd: ''Living (The) Nightmare'' and ''The Volt Dimensions''. Subverted with ''Sunset Selves'', as most of humanity seems restored after about 10 years since the Worldwide Decay happened.
19	* ComingOfAgeStory: More so in ''[=DePaLiZa=]''.
20	* CharacterOverlap: [[spoiler:Hitomi]] in ''[=DePaLiZa=]''. Also, Nicolás has a small cameo in ''Sunset Selves''.
21	* MultinationalTeam:
22	** The Dreamers,with Mexican Kamikaze and Dennise, Italian Imelda, Argentinian Nicolás, and Japanese Hitomi. Later expanded in ''Living (The) Nightmare'' with [[spoiler:Russian Olinka and German Gherard.]]
23	** The [=YoGen=] sects and other small groups formed online often fall into this.
24	* MythArc: The Worldwide Decay; before (''Dreamcatchers''), during (''[=DePaLiZa=]''), and after it (''Living (The) Nightmare'', ''Volt Dimensions'', and ''Sunset Selves'').
25	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The first story is set in 2032.
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28	[[folder:Dreamcatchers]]
29	* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The SeriesFauxnale.]]
30	* BetaCouple: Imelda and Nicolás, [[BelligerentSexualTension sort of]], [[WillTheyOrWontThey anyway]].
31	* CunningLinguist: Kamikaze, under the influence of his father.
32	* DreamLand: Composed of a long hall with doors leading to other people’s dreams. Only their owners [[spoiler:and Hitomi]] can open them.
33	* DreamWalker: The Dreamers, duh.
34	* HeroesLoveDogs: Dennise has a couple of dogs.
35	* InSeriesNickname: Kamikaze is Cándido’s nickname, initially given by Hitomi.
36	* TheInsomniac: Imelda.
37	* MustBeInvited: A not-so-supernatural variant. The owner of a dream must allow another Dreamer to enter their dream[[spoiler:, unless you're Hitomi and can enter any door without restrictions]].
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40	[[folder:De Padres, Libertinaje y Sangre]]
41	* AIIsACrapshoot: Soleil and Ifrit units.
42	* TheAlternet: The [[https://outernet.is/ Outernet]] is used as a bulletin board of sorts for Sects.
43	* TheBaroness: [[spoiler:Olinka]] as the Sexspot variant.
44	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: After all adults die, [[spoiler:Phillip]] is the first one to go, at least from what we see from Sarah’s perspective.
45	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Subverted with Rakesh[[spoiler:, but played straight with his partner, Quentin Webster]].
46	* TheFashionista: Karin is the daughter of a children's fashion designer and also one of her models.
47	* GenreSavvy: Whoever gave Sarah and Samuel the idea of dividing [=YoGen=] users into Sects must have read a lot of YA books! [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Oh wait...]]
48	* NewMediaAreEvil: Zigzagged. TakeThat, MoralGuardians!
49	* MasterComputer: Ifrit is the mainframe that controls Soleil units all around the world.
50	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler:Ifrit’s physical form, other than being "human-shaped", is barely convincing, hence why he covers his face and body in several layers of cloth. His voice, however, can totally pass by a human’s.]]
51	* SocialMediaBeforeReason: Any youngster that used the [=YoGen=] platform but didn’t make it to the end of the story.
52	* SoundtrackDissonance: The first DeathMontage has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzpWJx3I2DY "Ballroom Blitz"]] playing in the background.
53	* TheSpeechless: Phillip, but he can communicate through [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage ASL]].
54	* TeenageWasteland: Most adults are dead, leaving the youth alone to survive.
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57	[[folder:Living (The) Nightmare]]
58	* DefrostingIceQueen: Downplayed for Olinka. She becomes progressively softer toward her fellow Dreamers, but she's still as merciless at fighting as ever.
59	* DreamWeaver: It’s revealed that [[spoiler:Olinka]] was this. However, she could only do it while asleep herself.
60	* ProfessionalKiller: Olinka.
61	* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: [[spoiler:Most of the Dreamers. More like being put into a coma, really]].
62	* WakingUpElsewhere: [[spoiler:Kamikaze]] realizes something is very wrong when he wakes up in a hospital, somewhere in Europe.
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65	[[folder:The Volt Dimensions]]
66	* RollerbladeGood: [=CeCe=].
67	* ThemeNaming: For The Volts (minus [=CeCe=]), it’s GenderBlenderName+[[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous the surname of a fictional character.]]
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70	[[folder:Sunset Selves]]
71	* BrilliantButLazy: May, all the way.
72	* CoolCar: May owns a classic white Cadillac. [[spoiler:[[FinaglesLaw It pretty much]] [[WatchThePaintJob turned to crap by episode seven]]]].
73	* CrazySurvivalist: Conchorde, who owns an underground shelter and has stayed there since the Worldwide Decay.
74	* DeadpanSnarker: May.
75	* DeathByOriginStory: Remember how [[spoiler:Paige]] from [=DePaLiZa=] blew up? And how her best friend, who played the ukulele, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse was never seen again]]? [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe That little girl was]] [[spoiler:Lily]].
76	* DoNotCallMePaul: Justified for Rhode. Calling him by his name, Alphonse, triggers him.
77	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The (for now) unnamed research facility.
78	* FreudianTrio: This, plus the ''Daydream Nightmare'' title formula, is what composed the title of this series. Likewise, one of the placeholder titles was “Radioactive Superego”, but it was changed since Rhode is the ego and [[ArtifactTitle there is nothing radioactive in the plot at all.]]
79	** TheKirk: Rhode.
80	** TheSpock: May.
81	** TheMcCoy: Lily.
82	* HostageVideo: The SequelHook and trailers for season 2 reveal the existence of a VHS tape showing [[spoiler:a broken Lily in a hospital robe, begging Rhode to rescue her.]]
83	* ModernStasis: Halfway through the 21st century and there are no major changes to architecture,because all buildings were reconstructed after the Worldwide Decay.
84	* PhlebotinumRebel: Rhode, although most prominently starting in the second season.
85	* PowerBornOfMadness: [[spoiler:Rhode]] eventually gains some.
86	* QueerColors: May wears a black ring along with white-grey-black-purple (or green-white-grey-black) outfits, referencing her asexuality.
87	* TheSlacker: May.
88	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: While Rhode is acting as the protagonist, expect strings of words, {{Hallucinations}}, KuleshovEffect shots, or [[HearingVoices voices]] that don’t have an owner. MindScrew and ParanoiaFuel all-around.
89	* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: The Sunset Trio.
90	* UnreliableNarrator: May, and Lily to a lesser degree.

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