WARNING: Since this fan work uses elements from almost all preceding Klonoa games, all spoilers for these games will be unmarked.
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The series consists of the following stories:
Treason
- First chapter published October 14, 2022. Completed October 23, 2022.
- Takes place right before Empire of Dreams. Huepow is warped to the eponymous empire and arrested by Emperor Jillius and Bagoo, who have banned the very concept of dreaming itself.
His Mother's Eyes
- First entry published November 2, 2022. Completed November 22nd, 2022.
- Takes place 8 years before Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. Klonoa’s grandmother, Elise, writes in her diary about how she ended up being the sole carer of Klonoa over the years as we learn more about Klonoa’s family and childhood.
The Feather
- Takes place some time after Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil. Lolo has been working day and night to reach the rank of Priestess. However, she has been starting to doubt herself in recent times, so Popka decides to find a way to lift her spirits.
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This series contains examples of:
Treason
- Adaptational Explanation: The whole point of this story is to provide an explanation for why Huepow is with Klonoa in Empire of Dreams, despite the two of them being separated in Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
- Catapult Nightmare:
- The story kicks off with Huepow having a Guilt-Induced Nightmare about his separation from Klonoa, ending with him being attacked by a giant, winged monster. Also serves as a literal catapult, as it was Bagoo using this nightmare to catapult Huepow into the Empire of Jillius.
- A second one occurs during Huepow's reunion with Klonoa. After the two make peace in the latter's dream, the same winged monster makes to attack them... but before either of them can stop it, Huepow wakes up once again. Unbeknownst to either of them, Bagoo used this dream to drag Klonoa into the Empire as well.
- Dream Walker: While Huepow is under Jillius' imprisonment, Bagoo offers to help him reach out to Klonoa through the latter's dream. Though skeptical, Huepow uses this as a chance to try and make amends with his old friend.
- Guilt-Induced Nightmare: Near the beginning of the first chapter, Huepow has a dream where Klonoa berates him for betraying him in Door to Phantomile, which the former had trouble coming to terms with ever since.
- Not in Kansas Anymore: Upon being dragged out of his bedroom by Jillius' guards, Huepow notices that instead of going through the Cressian palace, his room opened up outside, as though his door was the front door of a house. Upon seeing a palace that made Cress look like a small cottage, he knows he's not in Phantomile anymore.
His Mother's Eyes
- Catapult Nightmare: This is how Elise finds out Klonoa is a Dream Traveller, as one morning, she heard Klonoa crying harder than he ever cried before, having just woken up from the events of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
- Children Do the Housework: Once Klonoa turned 7, Elise started teaching him how to clean, make simple meals, tend to their garden, etc. Though she's worried she's forcing the boy to grow up too fast, she still sees it as a necessity for when Klonoa has to raise himself after her eventual passing.
- Death by Childbirth: Lorna, Elise's daughter, dies moments after giving birth to Klonoa.
- Doorstop Baby: Klonoa's father, Solas, leaves him on Elise's doorstep a few days after his birth, as Solas can't look at his child without thinking about his now-late wife.
- Family Eye Resemblance: Solas notes that Klonoa has his mother Lorna's eyes, citing this as the reason why the former can't look at his child after his wife's death.
- Follow in My Footsteps: During his childhood, Elise taught Klonoa how to earn a living by growing crops and selling them at the market, just as his parents did before him, as well as how his role as a Dream Traveller was passed down from generation to generation.
- Heroic Lineage: According to this fic, Klonoa inherited his dream travelling abilities from his late mother, who originally inherited them from her father, and so on.
- Nested Story Reveal: The last chapter reveals that the now-adult Klonoa was reading these diary entries 14 years after Elise's death.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Elise outlives her daughter, Lorna. The former makes a point that she Never Got to Say Goodbye, and that no parent should ever have to go through this.
- Raised by Grandparents: This entire story focuses on Elise documenting how she raised Klonoa for the first twelve years of his life up until her death.
- Unintentional Final Message: Averted; as Elise felt herself getting weaker with age, she decided to address her last entry specifically to Klonoa, correctly predicting that he would find and read her diaries once he grew up.
The Feather
- Adaptational Explanation: This story is written to provide a reason for why Lolo has her feather back in Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament despite still being a priestess-in-training.
- Curse Cut Short: Popka falls victim to this twice.
- He attempts to curse out Emmi for harassing Lolo, but the latter stops him, saying she can't deal with it tonight.
- While bringing up Lolo's lack of motivation with the High Priestess shortly afterward, he almost notes the priestess trio harassed the hell out of the former, but he stops himself and switches to ''heck'' instead after remembering he's talking to a religious authority figure.
- Girl Posse: Emmi and her companions, who continue to torment Lolo over her struggle to become a priestess again.
- Good Luck Charm: The High Priestess explains to Popka that whenever she struggled in her training, she would look at a family photo in her locket, reminding her of what she hoped to achieve. With her permission, Popka gives Lolo a leaf he bought from a nearby market for her to put on her hat, hoping it gives her the same confidence boost.
- Healing Hands: How Lolo uses her priestess magic to heal people.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: While confronted by Emmi and her lackeys, Lolo has to insist that Klonoa isn't her boyfriend.
- Parental Abandonment: The High Priestess doesn't know who the infant King of Sorrow's parents are; she just found him alone in the Terminus of Tears just after the events of Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil and raised him ever since.
- Parent Never Came Back from the Store: Upon seeing the High Priestess with an infant (though before he knew the infant was actually the King of Sorrow), Popka sarcastically asks if the baby's dad left to get milk. The former is not amused.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Lolo delivers a pretty brutal one to Emmi near the end of the story, about how the latter does what she can to stay on top of everyone else, out of fear for being seen as weak by her peers. She then caps it off by thanking Emmi for inadvertently helping her grow into a better person. Emmi does not take this kindly.
- Time Skip: After Lolo gets her Good Luck Charm from Popka, the story skips ahead a year to show us how much her skills have improved.
