Fanfic / Klonoa: Familiar and New Dreams

WARNING: Since this fan work uses elements from almost all preceding Klonoa games, all spoilers for these games will be unmarked.

"If the Dream Traveler is headed where I think he's headed... something much worse awaits him."

Klonoa: Familiar and New Dreams is a fan-written finale to the Klonoa series (specifically, a Fan Sequel to Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil), detailing a potential way the eponymous dream traveler's adventures can end.

Klonoa returns to Phantomile 7 years after the events of Door to Phantomile, and 3 years after the events of Lunatea's Veil. With the help of a "cabbit" named Kio, he sets out to find out why he's been called back after all this time - eventually working towards defeating the ultimate nightmare and freeing himself of his title as the dream traveler.

The original first chapter was published on February 28, 2018, and the original last chapter was published on February 15, 2019. On July 11, 2021, the author announced they would rewrite this work with more story content, more character interactions, and improved dialogue, with the first batch of rewritten chapters posted on March 5th, 2022.

You can read the story on Fanfiction.net here, or on Archive of Our Own here.

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This fan work contains examples of:

• Amnesiac Hero: Downplayed in Klonoa's case - by the beginning of the fanfic, he only has vague memories of his past adventures, recalling them gradually as he sees and hears certain things that remind him of what he went through.
• ...And That Little Boy Was Me:
  • While raising the newly-reincarnated Prince of Sorrow, the High Priestess would read him stories about the now-abandoned kingdom of Hyuponia, and how its king was vanquished by a dream traveler, a priestess, and her pet, allowing sorrow to return to Lunatea. It's not until he grows into a teenager that she tells him that he was that king - she says she wanted to wait until he became a full priest before telling him, but she couldn't hide it anymore. He doesn't take it well.
    • As a result, when Lunatea's invaded by Tenebrae Hue's forces, he goes off to defend the still-uninhabited Hyuponia^note especially after the battle-worn High Priestess mistakenly showed little regard for it, saying that La-Lakoosha needs to come first, as that's all he has left from his past, and he wanted to die defending his birthplace.
• A Place Holds Memories: Klonoa doesn't remember much about his past adventures upon his return to Breezegale. It's not until he sees the charred remains of his old house, where he had to hold his dying grandfather, that some of his memories start coming back to him
• Bloodier and Gorier: Most of the violence depicted here is more graphic compared to what the games would normally show. Broken bones, stab wounds, gunshots being taken serious, and a lot of blood loss during fights.
• The Cameo: Multiple examples of this.
  • Inbetween the first two arcs, Klonoa manages to end up in an underground cave system where he runs into a frightened Taizo Hori, claiming to also go by the name Dig Dug. The two try to make their way out of the cave.
  • While Klonoa chases down the darkblue Tat on the backstage of a theater, she briefly distracts him by kicking a sentient Taiko Drum towards Klonoa's direction that's nearby... wait, a sentient Taiko Drum?
• Child Soldier: After making a truce with the heroes, Clawford reveals that he was taken away from his mother by Jugpot's army at age 7, unknowingly due to his missing father coming from a long family lineage of soldiers. And since his father was killed by nightmare monsters a day prior to being taken away, he was forced to train in the arts of his father's Water Sword. Since then he's unwillingly been fighting for Jugpot for the next 10 years.
• Comically Missing the Point: While Klonoa is telling about his story to Lolo and Popka since he left Lunatea, all Popka eventually makes a comment about is how his clothes magically changed. ^* Despite this not being the main point at all, Popka is still asking a pretty understandable question as this was never explained in the main games either.
• Crush Blush: Just like Lolo once had it in Lunatea's Veil, it comes swinging back to her as a teenager. She accidentally interprets some of Klonoa's sentences as an accidental hint and gets flustered over it, with even Klonoa himself getting embarrassed over that suggestion and trying to tell her he didn't mean it like that. The two go back and forth over this quite a while.
• Fan Sequel: To Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
• Gaining the Will to Kill: Klonoa isn't too keen on the prospect of killing the Shinigami Gang's members - as they're not nightmare creatures - even when Leorina insists that they're beyond reasoning, and they won't hesitate to kill him first. He only decides to go through with it when he witnesses the extremes each member will go to for his head (such as endangering innocent civilians in Tommey's case)... though it only gets harder on Klonoa's mind with each member he's forced to kill...
• Healing Hands: After Klonoa got shot in both legs by Pistoro, Lolo demonstrates the magic healing work of priestesses by putting her fingertips on Klonoa's legs, causing the bullets to be carefully pulled out and the open wounds to dissolve itself. All without any pain.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: After having a nightmare regarding his separation from Lolo, Klonoa tearfully admits that he tried to convince himself that he lives off better like this, but cannot hold it in anymore. He doesn't want to be a dream traveler, if it means if it always means leaving behind those he cares for, unsure of whether or not they're suffering from his absence.
• Immediate Sequel: Lunatea's Veil ends with a scene where you see the Wind Ring on a wooden table and hearing the sounds of nature coming from outside, with the player being told 'good morning' after the credits are done. This fanfiction quickly picks up on this scene in the first chapter, and reveals that it's Klonoa waking up in Kio's house after he was found unconscious in a lake, and Kio even telling the newly-met Klonoa 'Good morning... Traveler.'

  • Despite the story starting with Klonoa falling through the void three years after Lunatea's Veil, he later on tells what happened from his perspective between those three years. Revealing that shortly after wishing Lolo goodbye during the ending, Lunatea disappeared all around him in a ripple, until nothing but a white void was left. Keeping on walking for what felt like hours and hours, he felt more hurt as time passed, until he dropped to his knees, lost consciousness, and began falling downwards in the void. Years pass as he grows into a teenager and his clothes change. Floating in the void unconsciously until it comes back around to the events of the first chapter, with the voice of Huepow calling out to him and Klonoa regaining consciousness.

• It's Personal with the Dragon: Klonoa's grudge against Joka for killing his grandfather is more pronounced here than it was in Door to Phantomile.
• Loophole Abuse: During the Dream Arena arc, the vampiric Zweegle is well aware he can't kill his opponents during the matches, even though he needs their blood to survive. Though the rules don't say anything about them dying outside the matches, by accident...
• O.C. Stand-in:
  • Kio, a Breezegale "cabbit" who's revealed to be one of the Phantomilian prisoners Klonoa saved in Door to Phantomile. Here, he accompanies Klonoa during his returning journey through Phantomile.
  • Tikosu, revealed to be one of Forlock Forest's unnamed guards from Door to Phantomile.
  • Shun, Glab and Celles are stated by the author to be the faceless bully priestesses from Lunatea's Veil.
  • The Prince of Sorrow is stated by the author to be an older version of the baby King of Sorrow that we see during Lunatea's Veil's credits.
  • Tenebrae Hue, the Generic Doomsday Villain from Dream Traveller of Noctis Sol, is reimagined here as the ultimate nightmare Klonoa must beat to be rid of his title as the dream traveler.
  • Most characters from Dream Champ Tournament are reimagined to be contestants of the Annual Champ Tournament that Klonoa faces.
    • Diglo, who originally didn't have screentime in Dream Champ Tournament and who was a bodyguard for the Moon Ruins in Klonoa Heroes, is now a hotheaded gorilla nicknamed 'The Gorrila Thug', originating from Teswood Jungle, the deeper edge of Forlock. He was paid to try and retrieve the 'rare treasure' handed over to the winner.
    • Anemon, who originally had no screentime or dialogue at all, is now a royal-blooded, snooty and ill-mannered cat nicknamed 'The Princess of Ja'eel' who originates from the Ja'eel desert. She's entered the tournament to try and win the treasure by herself and make her father, King Adivael, proud.
    • Zweegle, who originally was an anaemic and kicked the bucket offscreen, is now a goblin creature who has unknown origins within Phantomile, nicknamed 'The Count'. He's been bitten by a bat hundreds of years ago, and turned into what the people called 'a heretic vampire'. Soon after, he went crazy and burned down his home town, killing everyone in the village and feasting on their blood, including his own childhood friends and family. Since then he's been roaming the world for hundreds of years just searching for more blood to devour. Finally ending up in the tournament, claimed by Zweegle himself 'to have found paradise, full of the strongest fighters with the richest blood there ever could be'
    • Gomeroth, who originally was the second opponent Klonoa faced in Dream Champ Tournament, is now nicknamed 'The Fishing Frog'. Despite not revealing his main motivation on joining the tournament and only claiming to have come all the way from the seas, he seems very dead-set on winning after being looked down upon by Klonoa and Huepow. Which quickly explains how he got so far up to this point.
    • Suiryu, who originally was an undercover cop in Dream Champ Tournament and the third opponent Klonoa faced, is now an ancient dragon who's lived for hundreds of years in Jugpot, having hidden his true powers and living among the kingdom as a respectful and regular-classed Soldier, nicknamed 'The Water Dragon' in the tournament. The reason he's so set on making it to the final match is for the thrill of fighting a very strong opponent, but after being outbeat by Klonoa, he is satisfied. Only he knows something about Clawford's true identity, and reveals it to Klonoa after the battle.
• Only Known by Their Nickname:
  • Prior to the Annual Champ Tournament, Clawford has always been referred to as the Water Warrior. Only Suiryu knew his true name and reveals it to Klonoa prior to the finale.
  • More often than not, the Prince of Sorrow will have people refer to him as Sorrow.
• Original Character:
  • Clawford, a soldier from Jugpot who comes from a long line of fighters.
  • All members of the Shinigami Gang^* Excluding their leader Butz, who are a group of wolven hybrid outcasts who come afar from the mainland of Lunatea.
• Pistol-Whipping: While hijacking the back of a military truck to escape Volk City, Klonoa disarms one of the soldiers and uses their own rifle as a melee weapon to knock them unconscious in the head and off of the truck, as he claimed that these 'shoot-things' really aren't his style. Then soon after, he uses the same rifle to make another soldier miss a direct shot at him, by knocking their rifle off to the side with his own.
• Post-Victory Collapse: Barely able to knock down Zweegle with everything he got, Klonoa stopped Zweegle from progressing further in the tournament and make more victims. Klonoa then victoriously yells up to the sky above, and shortly after, collapses to the ground from blood loss while he musters to himself "At least... I saved the tournament..."
• Punny Name: Most of the Shinigami^* Death God Gang's members are named after their weapon of choice. Particularly Pistoro^* (Dual Pistols), Tommey^* (Thompson Submachine Gun), Tanku^* (Armored Tank), Bakzookat^* (Rocket Launcher) and Sunai^* (Sniper Rifle).
• Rapid Aging: The Prince of Sorrow undergoes through this for the first two years of his new life, growing from a baby to a late-teen between the events of Lunatea's Veil and Familiar and New Dreams. The High Priestess shows a flashback from her own perspective to Klonoa, to have him caught up on the matter. It is assumed by the High Priestess that this happened due to the unique reincarnation process cast by the King of Sorrow.
• Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: During the Dream Arena arc, Clawford believed Klonoa was sent to kill him during their match, even though doing so would get Klonoa disqualified and banned from future tournaments. So, Clawford decided to try and kill him first, not caring if he got banned instead.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: In the first arc, Kio is constantly teasing Klonoa due to him worrying about Lolo a lot. Klonoa tries to deny it every time, claiming she's just a really good friend he cares for. Given it's been years since he last saw her and never knew what happened since, it's a valid point in almost everyone's eyes except for Kio. Eventually Klonoa avoids the discussion with him altogether. But of course, after coming back to Lunatea and reuniting with Lolo, he eventually realises that deep down he DOES have romantic feelings for her.
• Shout-Out: When under fire by Tommey, Popka yells out how their current situation is worse than the shootout scene from a movie called 'Point Blank'. A reference to Namco's video game of the exact same name.
• Slashed Throat: Klonoa swiftly kills Tommey this way to prevent him from shooting up more innocent civilians.
• Tastes Like Feet: A Running Gag regarding Kio's carrot stew. Klonoa notes that he thinks it tastes pretty strange the first time he eats it, to the point it gives him a general distaste for carrots later on. Huepow notes his stew is more like 'raw, dried out carrots with damp water' and calls it a disgrace. Then later, Tikosu comments on how the carrot stew tastes raw, soggy, and not being thick enough.
• Tournament Arc: The Dream Arena chapters, referred to as the Annual Champ Tournament in the story.
• Time Skip: Due to being a follow-up to Door to Phantomile and Lunatea's Veil, everyone has grown noticably older (especially in Phantomile) from the time that has passed since both stories. Klonoa, Huepow, Lolo and Lephise are all teens now. Even Karal is shown to have grown from a tiny fish to a larger one, while Leorina is almost a young adult.
• Younger Than They Look: The Prince of Sorrow is described to be physically and mentally like a timid and sensitive teenager... While he's technically three years old.