Web Video / All For One

All for One and One for All!

"This Is The Worst Day To Ever...Day!"

-Dorothy Castlemore

All For One is a web series adaptation of The Three Musketeers set in the modern day.

The series follows Dorothy Castlemore in her adventures through college romance, rivalry and sorority life. Along the way Dorothy broadcasts her story to her best internet friends—the Inseparables. A freshman at Dumas College, Dorothy is desperately hoping to be chosen for the sorority Mu Sigma Theta and has a tiny little crush on her roommate. That's normal, right?

Tropes

• Abusive Parents: Owen's, whose mother didn't even bother to pretend she liked him most of the time. It's actually kind of a wonder he didn't turn even more screwed up.
  • Dorothy's mother wasn't much better by all accounts. Not much is stated outright about her family, but it's implied they weren't very supportive of her being Bi or dealing with her ADHD.
• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: When Rick ran it, yeah.
• Adaptation Name Change: A necessary result of the Gender Flip of several characters.
• Affectionate Nickname: The Inseparables like giving Dorothy teasing middle names when she's being particularly dramatic.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Dorothy, but she's very rarely serious.
• Arc Words: "Sometimes, good people do bad things and bad people do good things." - Season 2
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  Dorothy: Universe, send me a distraction!
  Monty: Hi Dorothy
  Dorothy: *Horrified Pause* *Looks up at the sky* We're having words later.
• Broken Pedestal: Anne Bonacieux in season 2. She reveals an unwelcome controlling and manipulative streak over the course of the season.
• Cast Full of Gay: Kind of a trademark by this point for series creator KindaTV, the web studio that since its first, most famous hit, rebranded itself "The Home of Carmilla", as most of the main cast is queer (Dorothy and Connie state that they are bisexual and a lesbian respectively, and the creators have confirmed that Portia is pansexual, not to mention Ariana reidentifies as the male Henry halfway through the series).
• Central Theme: "All For One, And One For All" and what that really means.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Connie brought up several times that they could have just asked the authorities for help instead of the various sneaky, underhanded ploys Dorothy and friends come up with. They insist doing things for themselves and Connie, who is only peripherally involved in things until later, doesn't really push the point.
• Depression: Faithfully, and very realistically, portrayed by Alex.
• Deus ex Machina: The Inseparables, who up to this point have been the Audience Surrogate / Commentators, end up directly intervening out of the blue to loan Connie the money to stay in school.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Connie when she's finally ready to admits she's sick of living up to her parents expectations and the life they wanted her to have.
• The Dragon: Rochefort, aka "Douchecanoe" or "Douchefort", to Student Union president Rick Liu.
  • It turns out that Miller appears to be working for Rick too, before he turns into the Big Bad.
• Expy: This is a modern day retelling of The Three Musketeers, so of course our main characters fill their roles.
• Foreshadowing: The inseparables' feed was glitchier than usual all throughout season 2. Turns out, Dorothy was being hacked.
• Gender Flip: Most of the characters, including the main cast: D'Artagnan becomes Dorothy, Athos becomes Alex, Porthos becomes Portia. Aramis becomes Ariana (later Henry).
  • Milady de Winter becomes a guy named Miller.
• The Ghost: Rick Liu.
  • Also Ann Bonacieux and Monty, at least through Season 1. They become main characters in season 2.
• Greek Chorus: The Inseparables, Dorothy's online friends who only make themselves known via live chat. They may or may not also be the characters from Kinda TV's other series.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Dorothy early on. She eventually calms down somewhat after Connie asks her to stop, limiting the response to direct threats against her people.
• I Just Want to Be Free: Underneath her love for them, Connie really does what this from her parents and their oppressive world view. She doesn't want to be a lawyer or take just the right classes or toe their line. She just wants to love her girl in peace and find out what makes her happy.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Can be found in the Inseparables Chat. (While Henry and Portia talk about the drug planting fiasco) Sometimesawesome: What a Meth. sick_inimicis: Don't.
• It Began with a Twist of Fate: If Dorothy and Rochefort hadn't happened to be at the bike rack at the same time he wouldn't have hit on Dorothy and none of the plot would have happened.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Eventually, the decision Monty comes to about Connie and Dorothy. It takes her a while, but she finally learns to let her go.
• Live Episode: Episode 21
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Both Connie and Dorothy are this for each other.
• Mission Control: Portia when the gang go on their heist.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Portia as nice, Henry as mean and Alex acts as the In-Between.
• Noodle Incident: Dorothy asked Monty to get a piñata. She came back with a loaf of bread. How this happened is never explained or understood.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Two words: Drunk!Alex.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Rochefort, as of Episode 25.
• Opposites Attract / Tomboy and Girly Girl: Soft girly girl Portia and hardcore Henry fit this to a tee.
• The Pollyanna: Portia, who also occasionally exhibits traits of The Ditz.
• Race Lift: A given, given the Setting Update:
  • Henry is played by a Latino actor (Xavier Lopez, whom webseries fans may recognise as Suzanna, Mr Rochester's maid, from The Autobiography of Jane Eyre);
  • Treville is played by an Asian actress (but retains the French name);
  • and another example is implied with the Asian-sounding Rick Liu, based on the Historical Domain Character of Cardinal Richelieu from the novel.
  • It's also possible that the creators decided to make use of Colorblind Casting, at least for some characters.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivered by Rochefort of all people. Though pretty much everyone could see this building throughout season 2, pretty much nobody expected it to come from him.
• Setting Update: The Three Musketeers in a modern-day college! (Implied to be in the United States as two characters are mentioned as being from different states.)
• Shipper on Deck: The Inseparables do this.
• Shout-Out: Some of the Inseparables are implied to be characters from other web series. Most notably cookiemonster as Laura Hollis from Carmilla.
  • While unconfirmed the Fan Shared Universe theory typically agrees on who the others are as well.
    • Canonicallyace is Beth March from The March Family Letters.
    • Sica_inimicis is Jacob Santiago from The Soliloquies of Santiago.
    • Allaroundgreatbi is Peter “Pedro” Donaldson from Nothing Much To Do and Lovely Little Losers.
    • Emblue is Emma Woodhouse from Emma Approved.
  • "Mattie Belmonde" (Carmilla's sister, from Season 2) also pops up as the handle of another Inseparable, though that might just be a handle, as the associated image does not appear to resemble her.
• Staging an Intervention: Dorothy, Henry and Owen stage one for Portia in No Portia Is An Island. Many faults were admitted, but she in particular seemed pretty close to a Morale Event Horizon.
• Team Mom: Alex, whom Henry never passes up a chance to call "Mom".
• There Are No Therapists: Not quite that bad, but the latter portion of Season 2 points out that the mental health resources at most universities are understaffed and overextended trying to keep up with what's needed.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Pretty much everyone in season 2 — with the notable exception of Owen, who Took a Level in Kindness. See Arc Words above.
• True Companions:
  • Dorothy, Alex, Henry, and Portia.
  • The Inseparables. They've known Dorothy since way back and helped her through coming out and her unsupportive family.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: As hard as it is to believe, Dorothy and Rochefort come out this way in season 2. When not at each other's throats, they actually play together rather well.
• Vlog Series: Livecast by Dorothy to her Inseparable watchers, who provide real-time commentary in dialog boxes on the side.
• Wham Episode: Season 2 Episode 30 has a mostly heartwarming first half, but in the second half it's revealed that an unknown hacker has broken into Dorothy's livestream and makes vague but threatening allegations about Dorothy's mother and grandmother.

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