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Things just aren't going well for Fiona. She has a [[Missing Mom|dead mom]], a father who is always on business, a [[Wicked Stepmother]], no friends at the Catholic high school, and none of the nuns believe that she's being picked on by [[Alpha Bitch|Sarah and Cass]]. So she begins to not pay any attention to anything around her, instead living in her own head in vivid, lucid dreams.

 

But then Lia moves in next door and real life seems more interesting with her around. Fiona gains another friend in Jake, a green haired boy she saves from a bunch of bullies who attack him for being gay. Fiona is drawn to him, intrigued by this thing known as "gay". She begins to look at Lia in a whole new light. But what will Lia think of it?

 

 

 

Part Two begins with more of an explanation and then Fiona {{spoiler|finds a way back to [[Dream Land]] to search for Lia}}.

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* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]: Mercilessly deconstructed, and then reconstructed. The end of the dream is when the real story begins, and the reader follows Fiona while dealing with the very real psychological effects it had on her. Fiona then decides to try, and succeeds, at getting back to the Dream World to pursue the only happiness she knew, even while being aware that what she will find will be different from the fantasy she lived...}}

* [[Alpha Bitch]] - Sarah and Cass

* [[Always Save the Girl]] - Fiona's decision to {{spoiler|attempt to go back into the [[Dream World]] to find Lia}}

** Or not. Fiona was completely miserable in her life, anyway - no friends, nobody to talk to, dead mom, awful father and step mom, {{spoiler|very dark family secret... so miserable, in fact, that prior to the start of the story, she'd attempted suicide}}. Lia and her {{spoiler|dream}} friends were all she had. She wasn't really choosing the girl over other important options as much as pursuing the only happiness she knew.

*** {{spoiler|Actually, that's both true and false. While they were following a script, Don is bi and [[Word of God]] says that Lucy simply doesn't care. She also states that sexuality in the [[Dream World]] is a lot more fluid, and it can be assumed that LGBT matters are far more accepted. Probably also thanks to Sadako.}}

** {{spoiler|Sadako is also gay/bi.}}

* [[Coming Out Story]] - {{spoiler|A theme in Part 1}}

** Subverted by the end of Part 1. See the Drama Bomb.

* [[Death Seeker]] - {{spoiler|Sadako. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because Nod won't let her die without a suitable replacement.}}

* [[The Dragon]] - {{spoiler|No-Face.}}

** They continue in part 2 after a while. Lia's history, like {{spoiler|the fact that she's bisexual, as well as the evil deeds when she committed as "Mara" when Sadako locked up her conscience}}, being a prime example.

* [[Dream Land]] - {{spoiler|where Part 1 takes place. Fiona returns in Part 2 to look for Lia.}}

** {{spoiler|It's actually an alternate dimension called Nod that used to be tenuously connected to the space of human dreams, until Sadako merged the two together.}}

* [[Driven to Suicide]] - {{spoiler|Fiona's mom}}, {{spoiler|Fiona}}, {{spoiler|Ellie}}, {{spoiler|the King of Nod}}, {{spoiler|Sadako}} and {{spoiler|Lia, although she wasn't really so much "driven" as semi-murdered}} [[It Makes Sense in Context|(it's complicated)]]. And then {{spoiler|Fiona and Lia again, but in a [[Reincarnation Romance|happier tone]].}} This story seems to love this trope.

* [[Dying Dream]]: {{spoiler|Fiona questions whether everything is a dying dream to her during part 2. Candy asks her if it would make a difference or make it any less real.}}

* [[Executive Meddling]] - an in-universe example revealed in flashback wherein {{spoiler|conscience management have concluded Fiona will react better to her conscience if she acts like an ethnic stereotype. Cue hilarious scenes where said conscience struggles to understand Ebonics and complains about her outfit}}.

* [[Eye Scream]] - {{spoiler|The story behind Sadako's eye.}}

* [[Have a Gay Old Time]] - Fiona doesn't understand what Jake means when he says he's "gay" at first.

* [[Homoerotic Dream]] - Fiona has one in Part 1: Issue 3, causing her to fear that she might be gay, as well as worrying how Lia will feel about the dream. {{spoiler|Ellie not so much has them as she has [[Mind Rape|Sadako inflict them on her]].}}

* [[I Never Got Any Letters]]

* [[Jerkass]] - {{spoiler|Sebastian, the guy who played Jake.}}

* [[Jive Turkey]] - Oddly enough, Fiona's conscience, in the Part 1: Issue 1. By Issue 2, she still speaks in ebonics, but noticeably toned down.

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] - {{spoiler|Lia when she lost her conscience, especially compared to Sadako's relatively benign reaction to losing her conscience. Granted, [[Love Makes You Evil|Sadako wasn't exactly a paragon to begin with]], but she never fell near as far as [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Terrible Mara]].}}

* [[Klingon Promotion]] - {{spoiler|A new king or queen of Nod must kill the old one. However, Nod seems to have a will of it's own, and if it doesn't want the killer to be the new ruler, then it simply won't let the old ruler die.}}

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]] - One of the early top banners (it has since changed). Description: {{spoiler|Not only does it state that Fiona and Lia are in love with each other, it ''also'' implies that they both like girls, sort of ruining the whole [[Coming Out Story]] part for new readers.}}

* [[Lipstick Lesbian]] - both Fiona and Lia

* [[Meaningful Name]] - Fiona's mom, who is already dead at the start of the comic, was named Angel.

* [[Mind Screw]] - We can see the writing on the wall in the ending of Part 1: Issue 9, but from Part 2: Issue 1 onward, Yu+Me is ''absolutely insane''.

* [[Missing Mom]] - Fiona's mom {{spoiler|committed vehicular suicide}} with {{spoiler|Fiona in the car}}.

* [[The Mole]] - {{spoiler|Sadako}} and {{spoiler|Lucy, who was made sympathetic by having been coerced into it and by trying to act as a [[Double Agent]] in favor of the protagonists}}.

* [[No Bisexuals]] - Averted. {{spoiler|Don was confirmed as bisexual via a bonus strip in the back of the 2nd book and Lia was confirmed as bisexual in Part 2.}}

* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]] - Fiona naked when {{spoiler|she first returns to the dream world}}. This could be a CMOF since she didn't realize until some guy pointed out much to her embarrassment. And that her conscience told her she didn't have to be naked.

* [[Photo Comic]] - Only for a little bit and only to {{spoiler|artistically separate [[Dream Land]] and [[Real Life]]}}.

* [[The Power of Love]] - Fiona's decision to {{spoiler|attempt to go back into the [[Dream World]] to find Lia}}, especially considering {{spoiler|Sadako had banned Fiona from the [[Dream Land]]}}.

** {{spoiler|The second to last page shows that though they haven't met up in the real world in their new lives yet, they can still see each in Nod until they do.}}

*** {{spoiler|As of the last page, [[They Do]]}}

* [[The Reveal]] - consider the [[Drama Bomb]] list, especially the last one.

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] - Hinted at several times in later issues of Part 1 with {{spoiler|Sarah and Cass}}.

* [[Secret Relationship]] - Fiona and Lia, mostly because of Lia {{spoiler|not wanting Sadako to know, for good reason}}, but also because they go to a Catholic high school.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]] - The end of part one arguably turns the comic into this, [[Your Mileage May Vary|for some]]

* [[Soft Glass]] - Completely averted. {{spoiler|Sadako}} died being tossed through a glass window.

* [[So Happy Together]] - Fiona goes to prom and is very happy because she gets to be with Lia when a [[Drama Bomb]] goes off...

* [[Teen Drama]] - given the list of 10 [[Drama Bomb|drama bombs]] above and that the story's main characters are teens or {{spoiler|at least ''play'' teens in dreams...oh 400 year old Lia}}...it's rather obvious that Part 1 is a total [[Teen Drama]]

* [[Thanatos Gambit]] - {{spoiler|Basically, the entire plot is Sadako trying to commit suicide.}}

* [[Tomato Surprise]] - {{spoiler|Part One is [[All Just a Dream]]}}

** Oh, but {{spoiler|dreams are real and what we think of as a "dream world" is actually another dimension, known as Nod, so it's not ''just'' a dream}}.

** Somewhat justified, due to the fact that {{spoiler|She's in a coma during the entirety of Part 1, due to her finding the suicide note left by her mother and deciding to finish the job by ramming herself into a tree.}}

* [[Unsound Effect]] - "Anger" and "Flee", among others.

* [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] - Subverted. {{spoiler|Sadako}} seems to think this is the case with {{spoiler|Ellie, but being tormented by Sadako in her dreams eventually [[Driven to Suicide|drove Ellie to suicide]].}}

** Also, Part 2: Issue 11, with several reveals, such as {{spoiler|Lia was (as most of the fandom had figured out) once a real-world person. In her sleep, she befriended Sadako. In the real world, she fell in love with [[Bi the Way|a man named]] [[Red Shirt|George]]. George died, Lia told Sadako, and then basically Sadako impersonated George and lived with Lia like that for decades. Lia found out, shit hit the fan, her conscience got kidnapped, and Lia became a sociopathic monster named Mara the Terrible.}}

*** Actually, make that everything from 2-11 onwards. With the ending coming soon, there's bound to be more.

* [[Wicked Stepmother]] - Fiona has one {{spoiler|According to the [[Word of God|author]], she's [[Inverted Trope|actually not that bad; Fiona just perceives her as "wicked"]]}}.

* [[Yandere]] - {{spoiler|Sadako, to a T. She looks innocent enough, but man that girl has some issues.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] - Jake has green hair, Sadako's hair is purple-ish, Fiona's hair is naturally two-toned, Don's hair is just... funky {{spoiler|because he's of a humanoid race who's hair changes every day, Lucy can change heads so it's inevitable for her, Clandestine/Himitsu ''was'' brunette but losing Sadako drove her insane and made it turn blue, and Fiona's disguises consisted of brown-green hair and pink-purple hair. This series likes this trope a lot.}}

 

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