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* ShrinkingViolet: Romy has social anxiety and can be pretty shy and withdrawn as a result.
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* ProneToTears: Romy is pretty sensitive and can be a bit of a crier. She sometimes has trouble holding back tears and often feels embarrassed about crying in front of others.
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* MovingAngst: Romy finds it a bit tough to get adjusted to her new life in Slumber. She gets a little homesick and depressed when her first day on the job doesn't turn out exactly the way she hoped.
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* AnxietyDreams: Characters often have dreams and nightmares about the things they fear.
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* RapidAging: While Romy and Boone are in the Persistence of Memory painting, they age very quickly and suddenly in a nightmare surrounding existential fear.
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* TheConfidant: Because Echo can be a fairly secretive and private character, she often entrusts certain information to specific people. Romy, Boone and Dallas all (sometimes unknowingly) play the role of confidant to Echo as she tends to trust them with different secrets.

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* TheConfidant: Because Echo can be a fairly private, secretive and private character, meticulous, she often entrusts certain information to specific people. Romy, Boone and Dallas all (sometimes unknowingly) play the role of confidant to Echo as she tends to trust them with different secrets.
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* TheConfidant: Because Echo can be a fairly secretive and private character, she often entrusts certain information to specific people. Romy, Boone and Dallas all play the role of confidant to Echo as she tends to trust them with different secrets.

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* TheConfidant: Because Echo can be a fairly secretive and private character, she often entrusts certain information to specific people. Romy, Boone and Dallas all (sometimes unknowingly) play the role of confidant to Echo as she tends to trust them with different secrets.

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* BrainsAndBrawn: Boone and Echo's different strengths often make the duo fit this particular trope.

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* BrainsAndBrawn: Boone Boone's physical prowess and Echo's sneaky intellect can make them a bit of a power duo.
* TheConfidant: Because Echo can be a fairly secretive and private character, she often entrusts certain information to specific people. Romy, Boone and Dallas all play the role of confidant to Echo as she tends to trust them with
different strengths often make the duo fit this particular trope.secrets.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: Boone and Echo's different strengths often make the duo fit this particular trope.
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* SharedDream: Boone and Ken's separate dreams end up merging while they're both dreaming in close proximity to each other.

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* SharedDream: Boone and Ken's separate dreams end up merging while they're both dreaming in close proximity to each other.other.

!!Tropes found in miscellanous SlumberTown content:

* DomesticApplianceDisaster: In the 2020 holiday special, Echo accidentally makes a huge mess in the kitchen while trying to bake Slumbermas desserts because her dyscalculia causes her to follow the recipes incorrectly.
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* ComicalCoffeeCup: On page 164, cho is seen materializing a coffee mug that says "I love Nonedays" - an "I hate Mondays" joke inferring that nobody in Slumber actually knows what day it is.

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* ComicalCoffeeCup: On page 164, cho Echo is seen materializing a coffee mug that says "I love Nonedays" - an "I hate Mondays" joke inferring that nobody in Slumber actually knows what day it is.

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* BreathlessNonSequitur: In page 164, Echo nonchalantly makes the absurd implication that she knows the feeling of "your soul detaching from your body" and how it doesn't match the vibe she gets from Slumber.

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* BreathlessNonSequitur: In On page 164, Echo nonchalantly makes the absurd implication that she knows the feeling of "your soul detaching from your body" and how it doesn't match the vibe she gets from Slumber.


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* ComicalCoffeeCup: On page 164, cho is seen materializing a coffee mug that says "I love Nonedays" - an "I hate Mondays" joke inferring that nobody in Slumber actually knows what day it is.
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* ActingUnnatural: Romy has many instances where she tries to "act natural" but ends up acting much more awkward than she would've if she had ACTUALLY acted naturally. (That was a joke. You're supposed to laugh at jokes, right? HAHAHA!)
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* FurryReminder: The characters in SlumberTown act human... for the most part. Many of them have species and animal-specific quirks and behaviors though, like Romy's barking, Boone's headbutting with his horns, and Echo having abilities such as flying and echolocation. Their food and diets may also be species-specific, like Romy's dog bone cookies, Boone's love for corn and Echo drinking blood-infused beverages.
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* ExpressiveEars: Many of the mammalian characters express emotions with their ears in various ways, like perking, flattening and twiching. Characters may sometimes pull their ears in frustration or distress.

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* ExpressiveEars: Many of the mammalian characters express emotions with their ears in various ways, like perking, flattening and twiching.twitching. Characters may sometimes pull their ears in frustration or distress.
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* ExpressiveEars: Many of the mammalian characters express emotions with their ears in various ways, like perking, flattening and wiggling. Characters may sometimes pull their ears in frustration or distress.

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* ExpressiveEars: Many of the mammalian characters express emotions with their ears in various ways, like perking, flattening and wiggling.twiching. Characters may sometimes pull their ears in frustration or distress.
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* AppearanceAngst: Boone is shown to be insecure about his small horns, as larger horns are usually seen as a symbol of strength and masculinity.
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* SupernaturalPhone: Romy is the only person in Slumber with a cellphone, and her cellphone has the peculiar ability to connect Romy to a mysterious caller via telepathy.
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* SuddenLackOfSignal: When Romy first comes to Slumber, she realizes she's unable to get service on her cellphone.
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* EmbarrassingRingtone: Romy's cellphone has "Here Comes the Sun" as its ringtone. After embarrassing her when it goes off in front of her coworkers, we can probably infer she's made sure to set it to vibrate.

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* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Many of the characters in Slumbertown are barefoot most of the time. Characters can still wear shoes and socks but it's not often part of their regular attire.

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* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Many of the characters in Slumbertown SlumberTown are barefoot most of the time. Characters can still wear shoes and socks but it's not often part of their regular attire.


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* ExpressiveEars: Many of the mammalian characters express emotions with their ears in various ways, like perking, flattening and wiggling. Characters may sometimes pull their ears in frustration or distress.
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* SpookyPainting: Boone is seen staring at the Meowna Lisa whose eyes shift to look at him when he pulls away. There's also a sequence involving Romy and Boone being tossed around in famous paintings with nightmare scenarios, including The Scream, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, and The Persistence of Memory.
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* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: The main trio in Slumber is pretty gender balanced. Romy is non-binary and presents androgynous, Boone is a somewhat effeminate man and Echo is a fairly masculine woman.
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* WingdingEyes: Boone's pupils can sometimes be fairly expressive, changing to horizontal goat pupils, hearts, stars, etc. His pupils form in the shape of clouds whenever he's inattentive or has his "head in the clouds", so to speak.

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* WingdingEyes: Boone's pupils can sometimes be fairly expressive, changing to horizontal goat pupils, hearts, stars, etc. His pupils form in the shape of clouds whenever he's inattentive or has his "head in the clouds", so to speak.
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* WingdingEyes: Boone's pupils can sometimes be fairly expressive, changing to horizontal lines, hearts, stars, etc. His pupils form in the shape of clouds whenever he's inattentive or has his "head in the clouds", so to speak.

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* WingdingEyes: Boone's pupils can sometimes be fairly expressive, changing to horizontal lines, goat pupils, hearts, stars, etc. His pupils form in the shape of clouds whenever he's inattentive or has his "head in the clouds", so to speak.
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* WingdingEyes: Boone's pupils can sometimes be fairly expressive, changing to horizontal lines, hearts, stars, etc. His pupils form in the shape of clouds whenever he's inattentive or has his "head in the clouds", so to speak.
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* StargazingScene: The resolution scene of The Pearl involves the trio gazing down at the stars over Slumber from the surface of the moon.
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* OminousClouds: The cotton candy clouds in Boone's dream become darker and more ominous shortly before a thunderstorm kicks up.
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* HeatWave: Partly Cloudy takes starts off during one of the hotter days in Slumber. It's EXTRA sun!

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* HeatWave: Partly Cloudy takes starts off during one of the hotter days in Slumber. It's EXTRA sun!
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* HeatWave: Partly Cloudy takes place during one of the hotter days in Slumber. It's EXTRA sun!

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* HeatWave: Partly Cloudy takes place starts off during one of the hotter days in Slumber. It's EXTRA sun!

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