History Fanfic / Intercom

''Intercom'' has been dormanted since August 19th, 2016, but WordOfGod has stated that the next chapter is currently in progress.

''Intercom'' has been on hiatus since August 19th, 2016, but WordOfGod has stated that the next chapter is currently in progress.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Chapter 21 has Riley fleeing her psychology class in a fit of emotional turmoil triggered by a lecture on schizophrenia, the symptoms of which describe her current situation a little ''too'' well for her liking, and Chapter 25 reveals that Riley's "Plan B" is to pull this on ''REALITY ITSELF'' wanting to cut all ties with the real world and stay in her Mind World forever.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Chapter 21 has Riley fleeing her psychology class in a fit of emotional turmoil triggered by a lecture on schizophrenia, the symptoms of which describe her current situation a little ''too'' well for her liking.

* MoralityChain: Sort of, seeing as Riley doesnt actually run a risk of turning ''evil''. The emotions start to function as something like this for Riley when she [[spoiler: considers taking anti-psychotic drugs to cure her apparent schizophrenia]] in Chapter 22. The emotions try to get her to reconsider, but time will tell.

** It gets worse when [[spoiler:Riley considers taking anti-psychosis medication behind her parents' backs, with no information but what she can find online.]]

''Intercom'' has been on hiatus since August 19th, 2016 but news about the story's future or the status of the author has yet to be revealed[=/=]updated.

* FanSequel: Unless they create a sequel to InsideOut in the future, this is essentially what ''Intercom'' is.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the story is most certainly not without its heartwarming scenes and comedy, there is increasingly more focus on the fears that Riley might actually be suffering from schizophrenia, her problems with the mind world affecting how she feels in the outside world, and the possibility she may be enduring SanitySlippage due to console lockout. All of which are heavy stirs away from the more lighthearted premise of the original film.
** Especially when [[spoiler: Riley's incredibly despondent mood started to affect headquarters, resulting in a new core memory that leads to the creation of "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Isolation Island]]". By that point, the film's story ends up repeating itself to an extent when Joy tries to get rid of the core memory, but chooses to get sucked into the tube that leads to Long Term Memory with the intent to get the other core memories that were accidentally sucked in back (save for Isolation, planning to toss it into the Memory Dump), except this time it's just her that's sucked out, and isn't able to hang on to any of the other core memories.]]

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

* ADayInTheLimelight: Riley's parents (and their emotions) get some focus in chapter 19 and 20, when they attempt to confront Riley about supposedly hearing voices in her head.

** "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.]]

* In chapter 25, [[spoiler:Riley's plan B is to stay in the mind world forever by never being able to wake up. Whether or not the [[DrivenToSuicide implication]] was intentional but it's still pretty dark (especially since this is a ''12-year-old'' girl we're talking about here)]].

** Chapter 25 reveals Riley's Plan B: [[spoiler:to never wake up and stay in the Mind World forever]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the story is most certainly not without its heartwarming scenes and comedy, there is increasingly more focus on the fears that Riley might actually be suffering from schizophrenia, her problems with the mind world affecting how she feels in the outside world, and the possibility she may be enduring SanitySlippage. All of which are heavy stirs away from the more lighthearted premise of the original film.

* CerebusSyndrome: The story started off very heartwarming and comedic, with it being a fairly simple tale of Riley being able to interact with her own emotions. However, the story swayed into a much more dramatic tone once Riley starts getting accused of being schizophrenic (and eventually starts to believe that she may ''actually'' be schizophrenic), develops somewhat of an identity crisis, starts clashing with those in the outside world (though the clashings are more one-sided), and generally tries hard not to reveal the existence of her emotions.
* CelebrityParadox: Given that ToyStory and [[WreckItRalph Fix it Felix Jr.]] exist in universe as video games, you have to wonder if there's any paradoxes with Disgust sounding like Taffyta from Sugar Rush (if that exists) or if the fic's version of Pixar created InsideOut as a movie yet...or if one of Riley's mind workers thinks that he sounds like Hamm at all.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the story is most certainly not without its 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.
** Especially when [[spoiler: Riley's incredibly despondent mood started to affect headquarters, resulting in a new core memory that leads to the creation of "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Isolation Island]]". By that point, the film's story ends up repeating itself to an extent when Joy tries to get rid of the core memory but chooses to get sucked into the tube that leads to Long Term Memory with the intent to get the other core memories that were accidentally sucked in back (save for Isolation, planning to toss it into the Memory Dump), except this time it's just her that's sucked out, and isn't able to hang on to any of the other core memories.]]

* GenreSavvy: Fear is extremely thorough in wanting instructions on what happens when Riley tries going inside her mind, and thus knows to never stop reading on a high note and always, ALWAYS read the fine print.

* TheConscience: Due to the fic interpreting the emotions as largely separate entities from Riley herself, their relationship with her comes off more as this than representing her thought process - up to and including [[spoiler: Riley being able to feel emotions and bring up memories on her own during the time she locked them out, and being completely independent of them when inside her own mind.]] Because of this, Riley [[BerserkButton dislikes them doing things like identifying as her,]] and eventually starts [[spoiler: wanting to act without their influence more often - this partially turns this into MoralityChain when she starts doing more self-destructive things.]]

* TheConscience: Due to the fic interpreting the emotions as largely separate entities from Riley herself, their relationship with her comes off more as this than representing her thought process - up to and including [[spoiler: Riley being able to feel emotions and bring up memories on her own during the time she locked them out, and being completely independent of them when inside her own mind.]] Because of this, Riley [[BerserkButton dislikes them doing things like identifying as her,]] and eventually starts [[spoiler: wanting to act without their influence more often.]]

* TheConscience: Due to the fic interpreting the emotions as largely separate entities from Riley herself, their relationship with her comes off more as this than representing her thought process - up to and including [[spoiler: Riley being able to feel emotions and bring up memories on her own during the time she locked them out, and being completely independent of them when inside her own mind.]] Because of this, Riley [[BerserkButton dislikes them doing things like identifying as her.]]