History Fanfic / Intercom

* FanSequel: Unless they create a sequel to InsideOut in the future, this is what Intercom is: a fan continuation of the series.

** The title of Chapter 14, "Pure Imagination", is a reference to the SignatureSong from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory.''

** The title of Chapter 14, "Pure Imagination", is a reference to a well-known song from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory.''
** The section of the Mind Manuals that deals with the Unconscious is [[Creator/{{Pixar}} Appendix 113]].

* MagneticPlotDevice: Literally. Without the titular intercom, the entire plot would be impossible. It inspires everything, allows everything, and generally is the cornerstone of the plot, even if it's not always focused on.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11294533 Intercom]]'' is a ContinuationFic, though not exactly picking up on the same themes as ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' had. Instead, it takes the tagline of the film - “Meet the little voices inside your head” - literally and develops into a budding friendship piece showing Riley’s growing love for her emotions, while also dealing with the dangers of actually hearing and seeing your emotional thought process.

* HopeSpot: After the chaos regarding [[spoiler:five core memories getting lost to Long Term despite Joy's efforts]] in chapter 22, Joy successfully [[spoiler:recovering the core memory for Possibility Island]] in chapter 23 serves to shine some hope on a desperate situation.

--->'''Mind Worker Fritz'': (talking about [[spoiler: The Intercom]]) "Sorry guys, but we can't help with that. It's stuck for good."

* KudzuPlot: It's not intentional, but after Riley starts having multiple problems, multiple plans and multiple things happening in her life, sometimes it's easy to lose track of a thread or two. Or if the resolution we get is going to be enough. There are clear markers for certain plot elements, but with all the foreshadowing, mysteries and other plot threads, it can get a bit overwhelming sometimes.
** On e could argue that this ''was'' intentional, as Riley herself finds all of this chaos overwhelming.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: When you think about, the cast of this fic is pretty sizable. You have the main 6 characters (Riley and emotions, with Joy and Fear being slightly more important), Supporting cast students and paretns plus THEIR emotions, coaches, teachers, mind workers. There's a lot of characters in this story, even if some of them aren't as complex.

* WhamShot: Though it's in writing, we have the moment from Rage and Betrayal where we see the famous [[spoiler: Family Island falling into the memory dump in whole.]]

Riley Andersen was having a great new life in San Francisco. She was doing well in school, had fun with hockey, made new friends, and loved her room now that it was finally decorated. And a happy life for Riley was good for her emotions. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear were given good days for a while now too. But one night, everything changed when Anger accidentally broke the intercom, a device that allows the emotions to speak as Riley's conscience, preventing it from being turned off. Now, instead of a “voice at the back of your head” you sometimes get, Riley gets five of them that she can hear loud and clear! But will this be a bad thing hearing the voices inside her head, or the beginning of something beautiful for Riley and her emotions?

* YourMindMakesItReal: Whenever Riley is inside her MentalWorld, she is technically dreaming about it. Unlike other dreams, however, she actually has full access to her entire mind, rather than just the part where dreams normally take place. As a result, the things that happen in her dream can actually have profound effects on her psyche that continue when she wakes up. After Riley gets dangerously close to [[spoiler:falling into the Memory Dump]] in chapter 13, she becomes scared of what might happen if she actually does. She might simply wake up, but she also realizes there's a very real possibility that [[spoiler:she might fade away (mentally) and die (physically)]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Don't worry. Despite what the Tag might imply, this is NOT a horror story.]]

* YearOutsideHourInside: A minor case. It turns out Riley's mind has a bit of this, so that what seems like only a little time on the fringes of the mind (anywhere except Headquarters) actually has several hours in the Outside world going by.

-->'''Disgust''': "It was like watching a train of fireworks crashing into a train of moldy broccoli: too horrible to watch, but too interesting to look away."

** Chapter 22 was given a rewrite so Joy [[spoiler:leaves on her own to gather the Core Memories instead of getting sucked out accidentally, which was seen by reviewers as a rehash of the movie]]. It was later given an overhaul to expand Joy's motives and reasoning, as well as taking out one darker part [[spoiler: the Puberty alarm going off]], but the chapter's moment of humor relating to that topic managed to be still present]].

---> '''Riley''': ([[spoiler:in response to being asked if she's hearing voices]]) Y-yes.

---> '''Riley''': Is there anything in the manuals that says [[spoiler: Emotions can be seen outside their host?]]

--->'''Anger''': (after Disgust calls him and Fear out when [[spoiler:an argument between them led to Family Island cracking]]) Well don't blame us! ''Blame Riley for this mess!''

--->'''Mind Worker Fritz'': (talking about [[spoiler: The Intercom]]) Sorry guys, but we can't help with that. It's stuck for good.

* DarkIsEvil: Joy has this view regarding [[spoiler: Isolation Island]], regarding its existence as being only bad for Riley and intends to send it away once [[spoiler: the energy of Gloom [[TheCorruption starts draining the color out of the other core memories]]]]. [[spoiler: Unfortunately some of Riley's important cores get knocked away as well, so Joy heads to Long Term through the recall tubes to retrieve the needed memories and get rid of Isolation Island's before it can corrupt any others]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11294533 Intercom]]'' is a ContinuationFic, though not exactly picking up on the same themes as ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Inside Out]]'' had. Instead, it takes the tagline of the film - “Meet the little voices inside your head” - literally and develops into a budding friendship piece showing Riley’s growing love for her emotions, while also dealing with the dangers of actually hearing and seeing your emotional thought process.

* AdultFear: Fear is going through this all the time now that Riley can hear them, wondering if this connection might eventually hurt Riley through amnesia, unconsciousness, or even death! It only gets worse for him when [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Riley is able to visit the Mind World]].

* AscendedExtra: The cool girl who was afraid of being exposed who only had a single line in the credits not only [[NamedByTheAdaptation gets a name]], but also a backstory on how she became friends with Riley, and is seemingly her best friend.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Riley has shades of this in Chapter 8, ''Scatterbrained''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] seeing as it's a side-effect of having Long Term Memory go through a massive overhaul as a result of [[spoiler:Riley creating white memories during her Mind World Visit the night before]], causing her to become incredibly scatterbrained.

* BigNo: Riley's Fear lets this out when Riley accidentally lets loose another slip about how "[[spoiler:Idea Bulbs sure come in handy.]]"

* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 14, ''Pure Imagination''. Right after the craziness of the day and nearly falling into the memory dump, but before the drop on [[spoiler: beginning the story of Canon]], this chapter is mostly just Riley having fun around her imagination. It does have a bit of a sour note near the end, but for the most part, it's just fun, magical times with Riley and her Emotions.

** Once again, someone tells someone "you wouldn't" to an idea that would result in greater harm, followed by the person replying, "I would." Only this time, it's fear saying it to Riley for [[spoiler: lying to her friends to get money for antipsycotic drugs]].

* CurseCutShort: Anger calls Tracy a "Gossiping little--" before Joy cuts him off. Considering Riley now has a curse word library, you have to wonder which one Anger was planning on using.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the story is most certainly not without it's heartwarming scenes and comedy, there is increasingly more focus on the FridgeHorror that Riley might actually be suffering from schizophrenia, will have to be hospitalized by her parents, and the possibility that she could even ''die'' just by being inside her own mind. All of which are slight stirs away from the more lighthearted premise of the original film.

* ForbiddenFruit: Discussed by Fear in why he tried not to get Riley so involved in reading mind manuals. That even saying no would only make her want to look more.
** It's finally explained in chapter 16 what the big deal is: [[spoiler:there's some especially "terrifying" information in there, according to Fear, that he thinks Riley is better off not knowing.]]

* GameChanger: Both with the titular intercom itself when it gets broken in Chapter 1, and the [[spoiler: white core memory]] introduced in Chapter 7, ''Riley: Recognized''.

* TheJoyOfFirstFlight: Riley experiences this in Chapter 14 when she realizes that she can make herself fly in Imagination Land.
** She later realizes she can fly in ''any'' part of her Mind World (or at least Long Term Memory), not just Imagination Land.

* LoopholeAbuse: After struggling with studying for her upcoming test, Riley gets the idea to [[spoiler:have the emotions guide her through the test. Fear expresses concern that is cheating, but Riley claims that since the emotions are inside her head, she wouldn't be getting help from an outside source]].
** She then considers asking the Forgetters to leave her memories from studying alone, though the emotions point out it won't work as they'd already be faded if they were ready to be sent to the Memory Dump.
* LossOfIdentity: This is a bit of a consistent worry for Riley when she finds out that her emotions have minds of their own, as the question of whether she has free will is brought up more than once. In fact, she gets outright upset when Fear and Anger define a test that she is taking as "''them'' taking the test".

*** It's revealed in Chapter 11 that the emotions try to uphold TheMasquerade to prevent their humans from [[GoMadFromTheRevelation potentially losing it]] (such as by committing crimes and claiming [[GollumMadeMeDoIt it's their emotions' fault]].)
* MassOhCrap: When Riley proposes the theory of the Mind World to her psychology class, even on a basic level, ''every'' other set of emotions start freaking out all at once, trying to figure out how to handle her somehow knowing this.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: The names of Riley's parents were never revealed in the movie, but the story shows that their names are Bill and Jill, respectively. However, [[AllThereInTheManual their names are mentioned in the Essential Guide and Disney's website]].

** The emotions have two of these moments in Chapter 1, ''Accident in Headquarters''. The first time is when the intercom gets stuck in the "on" position, and the second occurs when they realize that Riley can hear them through the broken intercom.

* {{Retcon}}: It's nothing too major, but the way the emotions greet each other upstairs during mornings brings to mind the visual of a long hallway with a door for each emotion. However, in the movie, it seems to show that the emotions all share a room given how Fear, Anger and Disgust peak their heads out the same window when Joy woke them. This could've been in order to incorporate Joy having her own room, and so giving each emotion one as well.

* {{Rewrite}}: A small one, but when one reviewer pointed out that Puberty more closely resembled an alarm than a button, the dialog in chapter 7 regarding it was changed to accommodate this.

* SheKnowsTooMuch: The emotions in ''every'' kid's head start hollering this when Riley questions if emotions are "like little people guiding us?" In fact, one set of emotions decide to throw Riley under the bus to preserve TheMasquerade they have going with their kids.

** Riley's attempt at flying outside of Imagination Land has some deja vu towards a scene in Disney/{{Aladdin}} where a seemingly fatal jump has her pop right back up on something flying. (though in this case, it's herself)

** The title of Chapter 14, ''Pure Imagination'' is a reference to a well-known song from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory.''

* TitleDrop: A variant. Joy gives one at the end of ''You Mean I Look Like Broccoli?'', not the story's title, but the title of the universe the story takes place in.
-->'''Joy''': "You just might get to see your mind from the ''inside out''!"
** To be fair, the title of the fanfic ''does'' appear, but it can't really be considered a TitleDrop considering how generic it is.

** ''Riley: Recognized'': Riley arrives at Headquarters, getting a tour of the place and messing around with her emotions, but after she touches the emotion console, [[spoiler:it starts to glow ''white'', illuminating Headquarters and creating not only memories of her stay in her mind world traced with silver light, but a ''white core memory'' showing how she was impersonating her emotions just earlier. Fear is certain this is their first true instance of consciousness tampering, but reluctantly lets Riley place it with the other core memories, where it creates a new island of personality that Riley calls Possibility Island.]] After Riley nods back to regular sleep afterwards, Joy and Sadness converse and agree to each other that they’ll need to talk with Riley about what happened when she ran away last year eventually, setting up an eventual plot point for the fic.
** ''Memory Lanes'': An ordinary visit to Long Term Memory takes a dramatic turn when the Forgetters drop information about a "crisis" in Riley's mind, forcing the emotions to finally start talking about [[WesternAnimation/InsideOut what happened on those 4 miserable days when Riley first moved to San Francisco]].
** ''The Story of a Girl'': The story of the move is told to Riley, and several dramatic moments happen in the process. But, at the end of it, Riley refuses to hate her emotions for doing this, and seems to partially bury the hatchet. However, it's then in this night where Riley begins [[spoiler: plotting "to be free" using information from the mind manuals and finding a way to deal with her "outside" problems]]. Which she doesn't want the emotions to find out about.
** ''A Talk With Mom and Dad'': Riley's parents decide to look in her room for clues as to what's going on at the end of the chapter. [[spoiler:Remember the drawings Riley made in chapter 4?]]
** ''Color Turns to Gray'': Things go FromBadToWorse when Riley fears that she might ''actually'' have schizophrenia after all, and the emotions' attempt to try and make Riley feel something when [[spoiler:her depressed mood started to affect Headquarters leads to the creation of a gray core memory and ([[{{Cliffhanger}} eventually]]) a new island]].
** ''Fragile Mind'' might be the biggest one so far. [[spoiler: Joy is separated from Headquarters, multiple personality island memories are gone (Family, Friendship, Honesty, Isolation and Possibility for those keeping track), and to top it all off, the mind workers inform the emotions that the intercom can't be fixed. Riley will be stuck hearing voices for the rest of her life until further notice. Riley considers even ''taking unprescribed medication'' in an attempt to fix the situation.]]

** From ''Accident In Headquarters'', the line that established the fic’s change.
-->'''Riley''': “...Who said that?"
** From ''You Mean I Look Like Broccoli?''
-->'''Joy''': “Hopes and ''dreams''! That’s ''it''! Sadness, you’re a ''genius''!”
** From ''Riley: Recognized'', regarding Riley touching the console.
-->'''Riley''': "Um, guys? [[spoiler:What does white mean]]?"
** From ''Technicalities''
-->'''Ann''': "[[spoiler:Who's Disgust?]]"
** From ''A Hole in Her Heart''
-->'''Joy''': "''[[spoiler:I wasn't there for her and now she might hate us, Mom!]]''"
** From ''Access Denied'', which is so far the only line that isn't a quote from any of the characters.
--> "The console wasn't turning a bright, comforting yellow as normal. In fact, it wasn't doing a thing. [[spoiler: That is, until it turned white.]]"
** From ''A Talk with Mom and Dad'': the one line you wouldn't expect Riley to say.
--> '''Riley''': ([[spoiler:in response to being asked if she's hearing voices]]) Y-yes.
** From ''Mixed Emotions'': Riley lays down her cards for one of her secret plans.
--> '''Riley''': Is there anything in the manuals that says [[spoiler: Emotions can be seen outside their host?]]
** From ''Color Turns to Grey''
-->'''Anger''': (after Disgust calls him and Fear out when [[spoiler:an argument between them led to Family Island cracking]]) Well don't blame us! ''Blame Riley for this mess!''
** From ''Fragile Mind''
-->'''Mind Worker Fritz'': (talking about [[spoiler: The Intercom]]) Sorry guys, but we can't help with that. It's stuck for good.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since we never see Sadness's core memory of Riley crying in class create an island, it's name and function are a mystery in Inside Out proper. Here though, it turns out that it was named Homesickness Island, and after Riley felt at home in San Francisco, it eventually just became a normal memory.

* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: While taking her 3rd option after her parents probe Riley about possibly hearing voices, Anger prompts her to say this as her way to try and stop her parents from probing her after her hard day.
** She actually says this (with a slightly-different wording) in chapter 19.

* AdaptationExpansion: Whether this fic will turn out to be longer than the original work impossible to determine since print and film are entirely different mediums, but the author has gone on record that she'll be using several of the ''Art of Inside Out'' skipped concepts for the movie in her story to give it more flavor as well as her own interpretations of things. These include Riley's relative size compared with her emotions (see HugeSchoolgirl below), how Riley got a new Hockey Island from a core memory made by Joy and Anger, or all the metaphysics connecting the mind world to the real world and what happens when a host comes in.

** Chapter 22 was given a rewrite so Joy [[spoiler:leaves on her own to gather the Core Memories instead of getting sucked out accidentally, which was seen by reviewers as a rehash of the movie]].
* RunningGag: The [=TripleDent=] Gum RunningGag makes a return in this fic as a “generally happy memory” as a CallBack, but the fic's RunningGag itself at this point is [[YouAreWhatYouHate Disgust's dismay that she looks like broccoli]].

** ''Fragile Mind'' might be the biggest one so far. [[spoiler: Joy is separated from Headquarters, multiple personality island memories are gone (Family, Friendship, Honesty, Isolation and Possibility for those keeping track), the Puberty alarm is triggered, and to top it all off, the mind workers inform the emotions that the intercom can't be fixed. Riley will be stuck hearing voices for the rest of her life until further notice.]]