Epic Storytime refers to the series of Stories Within a Story from Bronyism.
"Lord Bane" and sidekick Harrison have both turned Storytelling into a regular hobby. These tales can range from general horror stories to "Awkward moments" and from Crack Fics to green-text stories, and everything inbetween. Zane releases his on his tag page while Harrison has his own page titled Epic Storytime when he writes for his own fans.
Regulars on the cast include:
- Zane: A "badass, rugged mofo" who doesn't play by society's (or physics, for that matter) rules. Well, not actually. Zane sub-universe is often a child with unusual or superhuman abilities who is set off by the smallest of thing where he then going out on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Either that, or he just does what he does For the Evulz.
- Harrison:
- Zane's little brother: A perpetual Chew Toy to his older brother.
This series contains examples of:
- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Zane turned his head 90° to face his dad.
- Abusive Parents: Zane's mother beat him when he did not change his baby-sister's diaper.
- Anti-Villain: Harrison.
- The Alcoholic: Harrison and Satan, who became drinking-buddies after college.
- Ax-Crazy: Both of them.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Harrison formed an impenetrable bodysuit out of his.... thing, during his counter-attack on the French.
- Black Comedy/ Surreal Humor: Pretty much runs on this.
- Blood Knight
- Bloody Hilarious: Deconstructed and Inverted, in a way, by using this trope as the intention but being played out in a serious manner.
- Body Horror: Zane made a half-human/horse hybrid out of his little brother.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Harrison picked up and threw a motorcycle as if it was a mere football.
- The Chew Toy: Zane's little brother.
- Combat Pragmatist
- Deconstructive Parody/ Take That!: "Awkward moments".
- Depraved Bisexual: Zane.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Harrison destroyed a kid who farted while he was trying to do his classwork.
- In the same story, he also stapled a Game Boy to the face of a Game Stop employee when he told him they did not have Super Smash Bros. Melee.
- The premise of every "Awkward moment".
- Don't Go in the Woods: The 10/5/12 episode.
- Genuine Human Hide: Zane applied for a job at McDonald's wearing this.
- Groin Attack: How Harrison had fended off a number of France's troops.
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath
- Improbable Age: Harrison graduated college some years before the "French Attacks" story took place and it is revealed that he is only eight years old by the end.
- Karma Houdini
- Life of the Party: Satan.
- Mood Whiplash: At least once every paragraph.
- No Name Given: "Zane's little brother" is all he's ever known by.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Averted when they're actual children in the stories.
- Sanity Slippage: Happens to a man tripped in a deep hole with his beloved wife who then eats her after turning Ax-Crazy.
- Shmuck Bait: Accepting ANY of the offers Zane gives at the end of his "Awkward moments".
- The Stoner: Satan again.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Zane's family usually gets killed off in one installment and come back for the next.
- Zane justifies this, as he claims to have "resurrection powers".
- The Unfettered
- Villain Protagonist
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Harrison used powers like these to morph into a bat and freak out his friend.
