Dreamfall Seven Fairy Tales is a post apocalyptic/fantasy Web Serial Novel written by BRG in 2020. The story deals with a group of teenagers who are changelings and their journey in a world left broken by fairies after leaving their human families behind to protect them from harm by said fairies. It's avaliable in Wattpad
and Inkitt
Dreamfall: Seven Fairy Tales contains examples of:
- After the End: The story takes place two decades after a disaster.
- Apocalyptic Log: The book starts with letters, emails and reports of strange events leading up to the apocalypse.
- Bigger on the Inside: The mall visited in the first chapter is described as so tall, the ceiling can't be seen, and Match speculates it goes equally deep into the ground.
- Cold Iron: The protagonist not only use iron weapons, but actually turn objects into said weapons.
- Disaster Scavengers: We're first shown our protagonists as they walk to a mall in search of food and resources. Things don't turn out as planned.
- Eldritch Location: The Elfhomes. The first one introduced is a mall with neverending stairs, shops that shine and advertisement that force you to look at them.
- The Fair Folk: They are behind the apocalypse that lead to the main setting and now populate the rests of human cities in enchanted places called Elfhomes.
- Fairy Tale Motifs: Every main character is heavily asociated with a fairy tale and refer to each other with the names of said tale's protagonist. They are:
- The Little Match Girl
- Jack
- Hansel
- Rapunzel/Gretel
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Morgiana
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- Just Before the End: The fragments at the start of the first chapter follow the months before the cataclysm up to the last few seconds.
- Kid Hero: The protagonists are teenagers.
- Lost Common Knowledge: Match doesn't know what a mall is, and Red thought lipstick was candy.
- Mayan Doomsday: The apocalypse starts exactly at the beginning of 2012.
- Shrinking Violet: Cry
- Team Mom: Hansel seems perpetually worried for the rest of the team, often asking them if they are fine.
- Urban Ruins: The catastrophe happened in 2012, so this trope is a given. The first ruins to appear are of a modern city.
