. 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.Later, in October 2012, while planning Super Filete's sequel, 30 in Tumblr, the author was listening to My Chemical Romance's "Teenagers". And so, the concept for De Padres, Libertinaje y Sangre (also shortened to 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 a character that lives through both of these events and, with them, the timeline for both of them.
The first draft of the book was done during NaNoWriMo 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.
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.
Another Time Skip, 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.
Daydream Nightmare is the second series of Era 2 of the CPC Verse.
Tropes in Daydream Nightmare:
- After the End: 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.
- Coming of Age Story: More so in DePaLiZa.
- Character Overlap: Hitomi in DePaLiZa. Also, Nicolás has a small cameo in Sunset Selves.
- Multinational Team:
- The Dreamers,with Mexican Kamikaze and Dennise, Italian Imelda, Argentinian Nicolás, and Japanese Hitomi. Later expanded in Living (The) Nightmare with Russian Olinka and German Gherard.
- The YoGen sects and other small groups formed online often fall into this.
- Myth Arc: The Worldwide Decay; before (Dreamcatchers), during (DePaLiZa), and after it (Living (The) Nightmare, Volt Dimensions, and Sunset Selves).
- 20 Minutes into the Future: The first story is set in 2032.
- All Just a Dream: The Series Fauxnale.
- Beta Couple: Imelda and Nicolás, sort of, anyway.
- Cunning Linguist: Kamikaze, under the influence of his father.
- Dream Land: Composed of a long hall with doors leading to other people’s dreams. Only their owners and Hitomi can open them.
- Dream Walker: The Dreamers, duh.
- Heroes Love Dogs: Dennise has a couple of dogs.
- In-Series Nickname: Kamikaze is Cándido’s nickname, initially given by Hitomi.
- The Insomniac: Imelda.
- Must Be Invited: A not-so-supernatural variant. The owner of a dream must allow another Dreamer to enter their dream, unless you're Hitomi and can enter any door without restrictions.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Soleil and Ifrit units.
- The Alternet: The Outernet is used as a bulletin board of sorts for Sects.
- The Baroness: Olinka as the Sexspot variant.
- Black Dude Dies First: After all adults die, Phillip is the first one to go, at least from what we see from Sarah’s perspective.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Subverted with Rakesh, but played straight with his partner, Quentin Webster.
- The Fashionista: Karin is the daughter of a children's fashion designer and also one of her models.
- Genre Savvy: Whoever gave Sarah and Samuel the idea of dividing YoGen users into Sects must have read a lot of YA books! Oh wait...
- New Media Are Evil: Zigzagged. Take That!, Moral Guardians!
- Master Computer: Ifrit is the mainframe that controls Soleil units all around the world.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: 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.
- Social Media Before Reason: Any youngster that used the YoGen platform but didn’t make it to the end of the story.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: The first Death Montage has "Ballroom Blitz" playing in the background.
- The Speechless: Phillip, but he can communicate through ASL.
- Teenage Wasteland: Most adults are dead, leaving the youth alone to survive.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Downplayed for Olinka. She becomes progressively softer toward her fellow Dreamers, but she's still as merciless at fighting as ever.
- Dream Weaver: It’s revealed that Olinka was this. However, she could only do it while asleep herself.
- Professional Killer: Olinka.
- Slept Through the Apocalypse: Most of the Dreamers. More like being put into a coma, really.
- Waking Up Elsewhere: Kamikaze realizes something is very wrong when he wakes up in a hospital, somewhere in Europe.
- Rollerblade Good: CeCe.
- Theme Naming: For The Volts (minus CeCe), it’s Gender-Blender Name+the surname of a fictional character.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: May, all the way.
- Cool Car: May owns a classic white Cadillac. It pretty much turned to crap by episode seven.
- Crazy Survivalist: Conchorde, who owns an underground shelter and has stayed there since the Worldwide Decay.
- Deadpan Snarker: May.
- Death by Origin Story: Remember how Paige from DePaLiZa blew up? And how her best friend, who played the ukulele, was never seen again? That little girl was Lily.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Justified for Rhode. Calling him by his name, Alphonse, triggers him.
- Elaborate Underground Base: The (for now) unnamed research facility.
- Freudian Trio: 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 there is nothing radioactive in the plot at all.
- Hostage Video: The Sequel Hook and trailers for season 2 reveal the existence of a VHS tape showing a broken Lily in a hospital robe, begging Rhode to rescue her.
- Modern Stasis: Halfway through the 21st century and there are no major changes to architecture,because all buildings were reconstructed after the Worldwide Decay.
- Phlebotinum Rebel: Rhode, although most prominently starting in the second season.
- Power Born of Madness: Rhode eventually gains some.
- Queer Colors: May wears a black ring along with white-grey-black-purple (or green-white-grey-black) outfits, referencing her asexuality.
- The Slacker: May.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: While Rhode is acting as the protagonist, expect strings of words, Hallucinations, Kuleshov Effect shots, or voices that don’t have an owner. Mind Screw and
Paranoia Fuel all-around. - Two Girls and a Guy: The Sunset Trio.
- Unreliable Narrator: May, and Lily to a lesser degree.
