History Fanfic / ManOfDreams

* TheBeard: [[spoiler: Mito to Hashirama.]]

* AnythingThatMoves: The entire concept of a [[TitleDrop man of dreams]].
-->''a man so desperately obsessed with sex that he would lust after anyone and anything, even a friend’s beloved, even a sibling, even a child, even another man.''

* ExtremeLibido: A man of dreams is this combined with AnythingThatMoves.

* LoveYouAndEverybody: One of the ways Hashirama justifies his attraction to Madara. From Chapter 2:
-->''He just wanted to protect everyone he cared about. (And yes, he would now willingly admit that Madara was on that list; why not? Hashirama just cared about everyone, that’s all.)''

* FoeYay: Hashirama and Madara. Another source of angst throughout the story. And Hashirama uses the fact that he used to fight with Madara as justification for his attraction, which he usually compares to combat.

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: From Chapter 11:

* {{Asexuality}}: Implied but never stated with Madara.
-->'''Sunglasses girl:'''[[note]] an Aburame extra in Chapter 9 [[/note]] Perhaps he’s one of those shinobi that don’t fall in love. Some men are more in love with battle than they are with women.

* DracoInLeatherPants: An InUniverse example with Madara. {{Justified}} because Hashirma’s in love with him. {{Lampshaded}} by the author in her notes on Chapter 11.

* TragicDream: Hashirama wants to get together with Madara. However, Madara’s [[TheStoic stoic]] personality, Hashirama’s {{Gayngst}} and the DeliberateValuesDissonance of the ''{{Main/Naruto}}''-verse prevent that from happening.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Tobirama and Sauske Sarutobi. Also Hashirama and Madara. Lampshaded in Chapter 23:
-->''Tobirama never married. On the other hand, he spent so much time with Sarutobi Sasuke that people started to jokingly wonder how long it would take before Sasuke’s wife realized he was cheating on her. Tobirama responded by putting on an offended expression and saying, “What are you talking about? Sasuke-san would never cheat on me.”''\\
''Hashirama always wondered how Tobirama brushed those jokes off so easily. If anyone had said the same things about himself and Madara … Hashirama supposed such jokes hurt more when you knew there was some truth to them.'' \\
''(Hashirama didn’t know that, for a little bit, when Madara had been the presumed Nidaime, some people had made similar jokes—not because anyone thought there was truth to them, but because that was just what people did. But Madara overheard one, and he’d given the speaker such a revolted, livid glare that the jokes had stopped right then. Such jokes hurt more when you knew there was no truth to them). ''

Year Three: The Year Konoha Gained a Sister\\

* OneOfUs: The author mentions TV Tropes in the opening author’s notes.

* TragicDream: Hashirama wants to get together with Madara. However, Madara’s [[TheStoic stoic]] personality, Hashirama’s {{Gayngst}} and the IntentionalValuesDissonance of the ''{{Main/Naruto}}''-verse prevent that from happening.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6349563/1/Man-of-Dreams Man of Dreams]]'' is a ''{{Main/Naruto}}'' {{fanfic}} by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/256257/ckret2 ckret2]] ([[http://ckret2.tumblr.com/ tumblr]]). It is a SlashFic shipping [[{{Starboarding}} one-sided]] Hashirama/Madara, ([[FoeYayShipping HashiMada]]) which does a good job of [[{{deconstruction}} deconstructing]] many of the tropes of that genre, {{lampshading}} its own tropes and playing with gender and sexuality in general.

Contains some unmarked spoilers for ''{{Main/Naruto}}'' itself. You have been warned.

->''Much to the surprise of Hashirama, Mito did, in fact, know all the appropriate seals to make the technique work. She was actually one of the most talented seal-users in the Uzumaki clan, and had assisted in developing the seal they used on the Yonbi.''

->[[spoiler: ''Mito eventually fell in love with Hashirama …Hashirama would have fallen in love [with her] if he could have. He couldn’t.'']]

->''a man so desperately obsessed with sex that he would lust after anyone and anything, even a friend’s beloved, even a sibling, even a child, even another man.''

->''What was wrong with him?''
->''They knew each inch of each other's bodies. They knew each other's bodies as well as they knew their own.''
->''Each knew the other's skin, his eyes, his hair. Each knew the other's voice, what it sounded like when he murmured, what it sounded like when he screamed himself hoarse.''
->''But anyone who has gotten this far should know damn well how this one ends.''
->''Hashirama liked kids''

* ArsonMurderandJaywalking: The Uchiha’s three family curses: vengeance, fratricide and a rumor that they are attracted to long hair.
Also this description of the rules of the Uchiha clan from Chapter 10:
->''the official mourning period for a loved one was five hundred days; all members of the clan had to have a clan sigil at least the width of their palm displayed on their person above waist height at all times; and it was illegal to be seen outdoors with a folding fan or a pinwheel on Tuesdays, the fourth of the month, or any time in April.''

->'''Sunglasses girl:'''[[note]] an Aburame extra in Chapter 9 [[/note]] Perhaps he’s one of those shinobi that don’t fall in love. Some men are more in love with battle than they are with women.

->''After all, Hashirama liked kids.''

->''Tobirama never married. On the other hand, he spent so much time with Sarutobi Sasuke that people started to jokingly wonder how long it would take before Sasuke’s wife realized he was cheating on her. Tobirama responded by putting on an offended expression and saying, “What are you talking about? Sasuke-san would never cheat on me.”''
->''Hashirama always wondered how Tobirama brushed those jokes off so easily. If anyone had said the same things about himself and Madara … Hashirama supposed such jokes hurt more when you knew there was some truth to them.''
->''(Hashirama didn’t know that, for a little bit, when Madara had been the presumed Nidaime, some people had made similar jokes—not because anyone thought there was truth to them, but because that was just what people did. But Madara overheard one, and he’d given the speaker such a revolted, livid glare that the jokes had stopped right then. Such jokes hurt more when you knew there was no truth to them). ''

* BookEnds. The opening couple paragraphs and the closing couple paragraphs both contain these phrases, in reverse order compared to each other, talking about how Hashirama is love with Madara, [[spoiler: but can never be with him, for different reasons. In the beginning, Hashirama's {{Gayngst}} and the IntentionalValuesDissonance, and, in the end, Madara's death.]]
->''So was it really so strange, really so unusual, really so unnatural?''
->''When they were on the battlefield, only on the battlefield''
->''They had known how to respond to each other, how to move as one, how to complement each other. Perfectly.''
->''Each had known, as no one else in the world could know--how the other one moved. Each had known how the other's muscles pulled, strained, trembled. Each has known the other at his very best, breathing hard, limbs shaking, muscles aching, that unending and exhausting rhythm, the dance of battle that existed for them alone.''
->''Each had known the other's skin, his hair, his eyes. Each had known how to make the other murmur, how to make the other moan, how to make the other scream himself hoarse. Each had known the sound of the other's breathing as well as he knew his own. They had known each other thoroughly, consummately, and intimately.''
->''On the battlefield.''
->''Was it really so strange, if …''

* BreatherEpisode: When Hashirama goes to see Madara’s lineage in Chapter 10. Chapter 17 is a {{subversion}} due to the MoodWhiplash at the end.


* Byronic Hero: Hashirama appears to be this on the outside because he is conflicted about his attraction to Madara, while also driven by his ideals in regards to the war and Konoha. Ultimately, he’s a subversion because he is often driven by what others think of him. From Chapter 16:
->''It [choosing the second Hokage] was the most difficult decision of Hashirama’s life.''
->''But anyone who has gotten this far should know damn well how this one ends.''
->''It ends with Hashirama feeling terrified. Terrified of accusations. Of having the villagers accuse him of favoritism towards Madara, of having them all start to wonder what it meant. Of the possibility that Madara might figure it out. Of being seen as nothing more than a man of dreams.''
->''And so, after all of his concerns about doing the right thing for Konoha—after all of his resolutions to base his decision on the candidates’ capabilities, rather than his own emotions—Hashirama did not base his choice of Nidaime Hokage on merit. He based it on fear of personal scandal.''
->''Nobody said the Shodai was flawless.''
->''Actually, quite a few people did. They were extraordinarily wrong.''

* ContinuityNod: Many. A consistent source of humor throughout the fic.
:: From Chapter 17[=:=]
->''[Hashirama] got into a heated debate with a branch family Hyuuga about whether or not a “bloodline limit” could, in fact, be literally transferred via blood; this debate would have ended with them slitting their palms and drinking each other’s blood in an attempt to turn into the world’s first men to have both Wood Release and an ocular kekkei genkai, but someone from the Shimura family passed by and pointed out that was the dumbest idea ever.'' [[note]] the first person to have Wood Release and an ocular kekkei genkai (the Sharingan) is Danzou Shimura, in the original series.[[/note]]
:: From Chapter 10[=:=]
->'''Hiya Uchiha''': [[note]] an OC [[/note]] Madara-sama's too paranoid anyway. It's like he thinks somebody wants to massacre the clan or something
:: From Chapter 22[=:=]
->''The next time ninja from Konoha made it to that bridge, they reported that the paint had mostly faded. All that was left was the words “TOBI” and “HERE” and a small oval spiral.''
:: From Chapter 23[=:=]
->''[Hashirama] would pass on his bloodline limit to Yamato and Danzou’s arm, and his cells to a masked man calling himself Tobi and one hundred thousand clones named Zetsu, but he never knew about that.''
:: And[=:=]
->''Tobirama would insist that Hashirama be buried in Konoha. (To Orochimaru, Danzou, and Yamato’s good fortune, and fifty-nine dead babies’ misfortune)''

->'''A/N:''' Yes indeed, there's a definite DracoInLeatherPants situation. (Well, albeit from an [[InUniverse in-universe]] perspective rather than an audience perspective.)

* ElsewhereFic: A mild example, but none of the characters in this fic have a significant role in canon. The many {{ContinuityNod}}s downplay this further.

->''(But anyone who has gotten this far should know damn well how this one ends.)''

->''Tobirama never married. On the other hand, he spent so much time with Sarutobi Sasuke that people started to jokingly wonder how long it would take before Sasuke’s wife realized he was cheating on her. Tobirama responded by putting on an offended expression and saying, “What are you talking about? Sasuke-san would never cheat on me.”''
->''Hashirama always wondered how Tobirama brushed those jokes off so easily. If anyone had said the same things about himself and Madara … Hashirama supposed such jokes hurt more when you knew there was some truth to them. ''
->''(Hashirama didn’t know that, for a little bit, when Madara had been the presumed Nidaime, some people had made similar jokes—not because anyone thought there was truth to them, but because that was just what people did. But Madara overheard one, and he’d given the speaker such a revolted, livid glare that the jokes had stopped right then. Such jokes hurt more when you knew there was no truth to them). ''

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Hashirama to Madara, to the extent where this trope is a defining feature of many of Hashirama’s actions. From Chapter 12:
-> ''So they parted on happy terms: Madara, gleeful at the prospect of running Konoha alone for the day (and at the prospect of doing so much more regularly in the near future); and Hashirama, gleeful at Madara's glee.''

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All chapters have three word titles. In addition, the story is divided into parts, each of which are titled the year …
->Year Zero: The Year He Met Madara
->Year One: The Year He Founded Konoha
->Year Three: The Year Konoha Gained a Sister
->etc.

* {{Incompatible Orientation}}s: Mito (straight) with Hashirama (gay). Both of them with Madara (asexual). {{Lampshaded}} at one point:
->''Perhaps it was because on some level Hashirama knew who Mito was really interested in marrying; and on that same level, Hashirama acknowledge it was the same person he was interested in.''

* IntentionalValuesDissonance: Pretty much the point of the fic, especially with regards to LGBTQ+ minorities and women. From Chapter 4:
->''In short, nobody had ever heard of such a concept as “homosexuality.” Nobody had stopped and considered that perhaps there were people who exclusively fell in love with people of the same sex—another phrase that didn’t exist, “same sex.” “Same sex” and opposite sex,” who thought like that? You had men and you had women, and men loved women and women loved men, and the sky was blue and the sun was bright and water was wet. There were no alternatives, the world didn’t work that way.''

* IronicEcho: “Favoritism” in regard to Hashirama choosing the second Hokage. Originally, Hashirama thinks this is what people will think if he chooses Madara. After he chooses Tobirama, Madara accuses him of it in his {{"The Reason You Suck" Speech}}.

* LiteraryFiction: Contains many elements of the genre, despite being a fanfic. For example, it focuses on the characters’ emotions rather than the plot, and the main story is relatively realistic, with the ninja stuff taking a backseat.

->''He just wanted to protect everyone he cared about. (And yes, he would now willingly admit that Madara was on that list; why not? Hashirama just cared about everyone, that’s all.)''

->''Mito … had been trying to create a technique that used both shape transformation—molding the chakra into a funnel—and nature transformation—making use of her personal affinity toward wind-natured chakra. She now used the results of her efforts to dry her clothes via tornado. And kill enemies. ''

->''He spent another fifteen minutes spreading the news to other partygoers and discovering that some of them took issue with the name, and then amended it to Village of Hunks and Babes and Hunks and Dogs and Bugs and Sake and Ino-Shika-Chou and Lots of Trees and Monkeys and People and Madara. Upon further reflection, Hashirama realized that this excluded Madara from being either a hunk or a hunk, at which point he promptly withdrew his support for the name change. Which was fine, because everybody had forgotten what name change he was talking about.''

->''After all, a woman as high-ranked as Mito was always at risk of being seen as weak, as emotional, as feminine. So of course she only wanted to marry for purposes of political alliance, or at least she would pretend that was the case. She couldn't allow herself to be accused of marrying for any other reason.''

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Given to Hashirama by Madara. And later by Mito

* RedOniBlueOni: When it comes to their outlook on life, Madara is red to Hashirama’s blue. Madara is the Red Oni in so far as he continually disobeys Hashirama’s orders and is more focused on his own self and clan. Hashirama is the Blue Oni because he’s focused on the village as a whole, and is a calm and moderating influence. In regards to their own emotions, it’s the other way around, as Madara is TheStoic and doesn’t show emotion towards anything/anyone, while Hashirama is constantly obsessing over his emotions and is stuck in a one-sided LoveHurts relationship with Madara.

->''Hashirama liked his hair.''
->''However, Tobirama was worried enough about somebody using against it against him that Hashirama agreed, just to keep his brother off his back, that he wouldn’t let it grow any longer than it already was. At Tobirama’s insistence, that meant getting about an inch off every other month.''
->''The next month around, he skipped it.''
->''Well, he was just busy. Besides, it was like he’d been in any big battles lately, or anticipated being in one in the near future. And Tobirama didn’t get to decide what Hashirama did with himself, and that included his hair. And, really, why do this every other month? It was just going to grow back, after not getting much longer anyway. He’d cut it in another couple of months.''
->''In another couple of months, he didn’t cut it.''
->''It was just because it took too much effort and really wasn’t worth it.''
->''Really.''
->''There wasn’t any other reason.''
->Really.
->''After all, why did he care about what Madara thought about his hair?''

* TheStoic: Madara. {{Lampshaded}} by trope name in Chapter 9
->''Madara was the most stoic man Hashirama had ever met.''

->'''Byakko Uchiha'''[[note]]an OC[[/note]]: Is it true that you and Tobirama-san aren't related?
->'''Hashirama''': Why do you say that?"
->'''Byakko:''' That's just what it looks like, Hokage-sama. I would never have brought it up except... you don't look much alike. It's grown into something of a debate, in my clan—whether or not the Senju clan is an actual family, or more of a... loose coalition of unrelated ninja, more or less.
->'''Hashirama''': Of course we're a family. [''{{beat}}''] I mean, when we marry, someone will marry in from outside the clan, and the new spouse joins Senju, but... we're still related. [''{{beat}}''] Tobirama and I are fully related, same mother and father. One hundred percent.
->'''Byakko''': I see… [''{{beat}}''] You don't look like you're related. If you'll forgive my saying so.
->'''Hashirama''': Sometimes these things happen.
:: Referenced again in Chapter 12:
->'''Madara''':Somebody forgot to tell somebody they adopted him. [''{{beat}}''] I'll leave their request with you, [''{{beat}}''] and let you get back to your, ah... 'family' reunion.
And Again in Chapter 16:
->'''Madara''': I have a clan to look out for—a clan I'm actually related to, something I'm sure you know nothing about!

* ThereAreNoAdults: despite the fact that the story starts when they are teenagers, no mention of Madara’s or Hashirama’s parents is ever made. Presumably, they died in the ForeverWar, allowing them to take over the Senju and Uchiha.

->''If the issue of homosexuality ever came up in the Senju clan, it had its own beliefs that could be used to address it. Specifically, the clan had a single concept, drawn from old folk tales: the “man of dreams"''
->''Despite the pretty name, “man of dreams” is not something any sane man would like to be called. In fact, a more accurate name might be something like “man with unhealthily elaborate sexual fantasies.” The man of dreams was named for a fictional character of the same title. This character was a lustful man with an insatiable sexual appetite, a man who was so obsessed with sex that he would do anything to get some, a man so thoroughly obsessed that he could not even function as a healthy human being because his life was completely consumed by lust… a man so desperately obsessed with sex that he would lust after anyone and anything, even a friend’s beloved, even a sibling, even a child, even another man.''
->''The man of dreams was a comical and a disgusting character. To be one was to be willing to bang anything on two legs. It was the lowest of the low, the most pitiful, pitiable pervert in the world.''
->''And it was the ONLY concept the Senju clan knew that offered any explanation for one man’s falling in love with another.''
->''Is it any wonder Hashirama believed something was wrong with him?''
: It’s mentioned again in many of the later chapters, most notably during Chapter 17, during Mito’s {{The Reason You Suck Speech}} Directed at Hashirama:
->'''Mito''': And do you know what your problem is?
->'''Hashirama''': Oh, please enlighten me! I’ve been—I’ve been trying to figure that one out for YEARS!
->'''Mito''': What?
->'''Hashirama''': What’s wrong with me! What’s wrong with me! What the [[PrecisionFStrike ''fuck'']] is wrong with me! YOU tell ME, Mito-ch—san! I have been trying to figure it out for, for—whatever I don’t know how long I have been trying to figure it out! I have been trying to figure it out for years and you know what? ''You know what!'' I don’t ''know'' what! You, you, tell ''me'' what’s wrong with me!
->'''Mito''': I—
->'''Hashirama''': You know what? You know what my problem is? I’ll tell you what my problem is, damn it! My problem is, my problem is Madara is too damn Madara for my own good, all right? My problem is I don’t know how to wake up. I’m a ''man of dreams!''
->''Mito''': What the hell does that even mean? So … so what, you think you’re some kind of a visionary, right? Dreaming of some grand new order? Is that it?

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: From Chapter 11:
->'''A/N''': May I again recommend checking out a certain wonderful site called [[ReferencedBy/TVTropes TVTropes]]? It will ruin your life. But in a good way.

* {{Walk on the Wild Side Episode}}: Chapter 17, [[spoiler: wherein Hashirama gets drunk in order to forget how angry Madara is that he appointed Tobirama as his successor. Tobirama (and many of the other characters) treat this as OOCIsSeriousBusiness.]]

->'''A/N''': I've been thinking of this as the "crap hits the fan" chapter for a long time, and then I realized, hey! Fans, Uchiha! That's... that's really the only justification I have.

->''[[spoiler: He couldn't keep doing this. He couldn't keep torturing himself. He couldn't keep deluding himself.]]''
->''[[spoiler: He couldn't keep dreaming about Madara.]]''

->''[[spoiler: Tell my family that I love them]]''
->''[[spoiler: Give all my weapons to my brother and leave all my other property with my wife. Give my necklace to my granddaughter.]]''
->''[[spoiler: Tell the village that I’m still with them in the Will of Fire, and I’ll never leave them. Tell them that they were always a part of me, and I will always be a part of them.]]''
->''[[spoiler:Don’t try to avenge my death, because vengeance will never lead to peace.]]''
->''[[spoiler:Scatter my ashes at the Valley of the End.]]''
:: The trope is {{subverted}} in the sense that Tobirama doesn’t follow the last request.

->'''Hashirama''': Tobirama, he’s acting as Hokage today. Who usually supervises me?
->'''Tobirama''': Madara-san does.
->'''Hashirama''': And Madara-sama is perfectly capable of supervising himself as well.

* {{JustForFun/X Meets Y}}: The DreamIntro to Chapter 4 is described as:
->'''A/N''': Now enjoy something that might be definable as “sex.” If [[Creator/PabloPicasso Picasso]] were a [[RomanceNovel romance novelist]]. Who wrote about [[SlashFic gay ninja]].

->''Everyone was happy forever except Izuna who died before the story started.''
->''The end.''
->''P.S. Okay, so maybe Izuna actually is happy but he’s still dead. He’s chilling with the Sage of the Six Paths. The dude’s legit. No lie.''

->'''Madara''': Dude, so wanna move in together so we can do sexy sexy things like all the time?
->'''Hashirama''': Dude, how ‘bout we do one better and get married?
->'''Madara''': Dude, that’s not even legal.
->'''Hashirama''': Dude, I rule this village, I could totally make it legal.
->'''Madara''': Dude, that’d just be weird. Let’s just live in sin, sin is sexier.

->''So he [Madara] totally fell in love with Hashirama because it was like, hey, he could get fawned on 24/7. And Hashirama was all like super excited because it was like, hey, he could fawn on Madara 24/7.''

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6349563/1/Man-of-Dreams Man of Dreams]]'' is a ''{{Main/Naruto}}'' {{fanfic}} by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/256257/ckret2 ckret2]] ([[http://ckret2.tumblr.com/ tumblr]]). It is a SlashFic shipping([[{{Starboarding}} one-sided]] Hashirama/Madara), which does a good job of [[{{deconstruction}} deconstructing]] many of the tropes of that genre, {{lampshading}} its own tropes and playing with gender and sexuality in general.

->''They knew each inch of each other's bodies. They knew each other's bodies as well as they knew their own.

* GenreShift: Compared to canon, a Fighting Shounen Anime, ''Man of Dreams'' is Angsty LiteraryFiction with a side of RomanticComedy.

DeadFic: The mutual [=HashiMada=] fic ("An Impure World") that the author says she’s working on. ''Man of Dreams'' was finished in 2011. As of 2018, there is no sign of this story, either on the author’s FFN profile or tumblr. Since the first chapter is included in the omake, that also makes this a case of RealTrailerFakeMovie.

DiedHappilyEverAfter: Izuna.

ForWantOfANail: Several of the alternate endings. The one on “Hits the Fan” is about what could have happened if [[spoiler: Hashirama appointed Madara as his successor.]]

LikeIsLikeAComma: the first {{omake}} is written like this to increase humor.

{{Omake}}: It’s this to the main story.

ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem {{Subverted}}.

TotallyRadical: The first {{omake}} is intentionally written like this, which helps contrast with the highbrow prose of the main story.

TyingUpRomanticLooseEnds: Mito marries Tobirama in the first one.

{{Uke}}: More clear and played straighter in the first omake than in the fic itself:

->'''A/N''': Now enjoy something that might be definable as “sex.” If [[Creator/PabloPicasso Picasso]] were a [[RomanceNovel romance novelist]]. Who wrote about [[SlashFic gay ninja]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6349563/1/Man-of-Dreams Man of Dreams]]'' is a ''{{Main/Naruto}}'' {{fanfic}} by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/256257/ckret2 ckret2]] ([[http://ckret2.tumblr.com/ tumblr]]). It is a SlashFic ([[{{Starboarding}} onesided]] Hashirama/Madara), which does a good job of [[{{deconstruction}} deconstructing]] many of the tropes of that genre, {{lampshading}} its own tropes and playing with gender and sexuality in general.

* IncompatibleOrientations: Mito (straight) with Hashirama (gay). Both of them with Madara (asexual). Lampshaded at one point:

* IronicEcho: “Favoritism” in regard to Hashirama choosing the second Hokage. Originally, Hashirama thinks this is what people will think if he chooses Madara. After he chooses Tobirama, Madara accuses him of it in his ReasonYou SuckSpeech.

* MistakenForIncest: Madara and his [[TangledFamilyTree half-niece]] are thought to be in a relationship by Hashirama when one of the guards mentions they are having lunch together. This is debunked a few chapters later when Hashirama discovers the niece is [[MistakenForPedophile only seven years old]].
->''Hashirama’s thoughts, in order of appearance:''
->''Oh hell, Madara thinks I was eyeballing his half-nice?''
->''Wait. Madara was eyeing his'' own ''half-niece?''
->''[[RunningGag … What the hell is a half-niece!]]''

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6349563/1/Man-of-Dreams Man of Dreams]]'' is a ''{{Main/Naruto}}'' {{fanfic}} by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/256257/ckret2 ckret2]] ([[http://ckret2.tumblr.com/ tumblr]]). It is a SlashFic ([[{{Starboarding}} onesided]] Hashirama/Madara), which does a good job of [[{{deconstruction}} deconstructing]] many of the tropes of that genre, as well as playing with gender and sexuality in general.

->''(But anyone who has gotten this far should know damn well how this one ends.)''

Contains some spoilers for ''{{Main/Naruto}}'' itself.

* AllThereInTheGuidebook: Only TheOmake makes it clear that [[spoiler: the snail-masked man is supposed to be Madara.]]

Each knew the other's skin, his eyes, his hair. Each knew the other's voice, what it sounded like when he murmured, what it sounded like when he screamed himself hoarse.''

* ArmoredClosetGay: Hashirama. As the story goes on, more and more of the conflict results from Hashirama trying to deny his attraction to Madara, creating much {{Gaygnst}}

->'''Sunglasses girl:'''[[note:an Aburame extra in Chapter 9]] Perhaps he’s one of those shinobi that don’t fall in love. Some men are more in love with battle than they are with women.

* BigOffScreenBattle: Many, because the fic is mainly focused on emotion. A particularly important example is the capture of the Yonbi in Chapter 11.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Uchiha, as consistent with canon. Chapter 10 is dedicated to this.

ActionGirl: Mito. The fic’s commentary on gender and sexuality interprets this in the context of a sexist society. (see RealWomenDontWearDresses). From Chapter 11:

TheAlcoholic: Hashirama starts heading in this direction but then comes back.