History Webcomic / YuMeDream

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler:Fiona states Lia is not worth pursuing anymore because she is a murderer, 900 years old and had other lovers who were ''men''.]].

* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Dreamers, who can manipulate their environments since they're in a dream.]]

* {{Retraux}}: Ro's affinity for the 40s and 50s is not limited to their other comic, ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace''. Lia's past is presented in black and white with a style evocative of those two decades [[spoiler:which makes sense since she lived during World War II.]]

** The massive reveal at the end of Part 1: Sadako is the BigBad and everything so far has been AllJustADream that Fiona created in a coma induced by a suicide attempt after she learned her mother succeeded at doing the same and tried to kill her too.
** There are some more reveals in Part 2, such as [[spoiler:Sadako and Lia being long-dead in the real world and being trapped in Nod; Lucy being forced to spy on Fiona and her group by Sadako; Clandestine being Sadako's former conscience, Himitsu; and much of the plot being a plan for Sadako to commit suicide]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Everyone in the Dream World Liberation Front except Don and Lucy are [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally killed]] by No-Face when Lucy betrays them to Sadako. The commentary in the omnibus explains that this was partially because Salarian didn't want to draw all of them through the story, and they would have likely abandoned Fiona a few weeks in; instead, their deaths motivate Lucy to continue her rebellion and stay on Fiona's journey.]]
* SadistTeacher: Sister Mary, one of Fiona's teachers, often gives out punishments to Fiona. Most of the time, it's either based on her beliefs or Fiona was framed by Sarah.

* SoftGlass: [[spoiler:Completely averted. Sadako died being shoved through a glass window.]]

* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:The entire plot is a plan for Sadako who wants to commit suicide.]]

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Fiona doesn't remember certain things about her past until her godfather Richard starts telling her how her mother died. Somewhat justified, due to the fact that she's actually 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.
* UnsoundEffect: "Anger" and "Flee", among others.
* WasItAllALie: Fiona wonders something along the lines of this after it's revealed that Lia -- and everyone else -- was just a character in her dream. Thankfully, Lia gets to tell Fiona that while she is not real, her feelings for Fiona are.

* WickedStepmother: Fiona has one, whom we realize is rather wicked once we learn that her affair with her now-husband is what caused Fiona's real mother to be DrivenToSuicide. [[spoiler:She's [[InvertedTrope actually not that bad]]; Fiona just ''perceives'' her as "wicked" because she learned of her mother's true reason for dying before she ended up in her coma dream, and the "actor" has to play the role that Fiona has put her stepmother in.]]
* WorldOfChaos: The Dream World, Nod, is this. The residents can change things around as they desire and humans can do anything there they can conceive of. The lack of control with humans [[YourMindMakesItReal doing anything they could think of]], good or bad, is why Sadako sealed people into individual dream rooms and had the residents of Nod enter as actors who scripted the dreams.

* WorldOfChaos: The Dream World, Nod, is this. The residents can change things around as they desire and humans can do anything there they can conceive of. The lack of control with humans [[YourMindMakesItReal doing anything they could think of]] is why Sadako sealed people into individual dream worlds and had the residents of Nod enter as actors who scripted the dreams.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Also subverted. [[spoiler:Sadako believes she is justified in what she does to Ellie, but the consequences for both Ellie and Sadako are fairly unforgiving.]]

* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:Sadako. As ruler of Nod, she gets to manipulate her subjects the way she wants to, such as forcing Lucy to spy on the protagonists. She also made her crush Ellie give in to her abuse by guilting her with her death until Ellie was DrivenToSuicide.]]

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Sadako to a T. She looks innocent enough, but the girl has some issues. Even after she gets killed in the real world, she still stalks Ellie in dreams and guilts her into giving in to her abuses every night as punishment, causing the latter to be DrivenToSuicide.]]
* YearInsideHourOutside: Fiona spent six months in her dream world and only twelve days in her coma. Later details confirm this is true for the entire dream world; she spends three years searching for Lia which is about 50 days in the real world. [[spoiler:Lia spent 900 years terrorizing Nod as the Terrible Mara but was born in 1924 and sealed herself into the dream world in the 1940s. Sadako -- who took over as ruler of Nod in 1870 -- has ruled as queen for thousands of years and is almost 2000 years old when she finally is killed by Fiona.]]

** [[spoiler:Sadako tells Fiona she has an hour to find a hidden sword and bring it back to her before she'll let Lia -- as Mara -- kill her. Fiona fails because she took sixty-four minutes. But it was rigged regardless, as Sadako wanted to infuriate Fiona into killing her.]]

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:The story behind Sadako's eye. It was punctured by a shard of glass in the real world when she was shoved through a window. It's empty when she's in the deam world afterwards, and then replaced with [[MagicalEye the spiral eye]] that came from the previous king and shows the ruler of Nod.]]

* SunglassesAtNight: Don spends a good part of his time wearing sunglasses, including all through Part Two. [[spoiler:This [[nhumanEyeConcealers hides the fact]] he's now got the MagicalEye that marks him as the new King of Nod.]]

''YU+ME: dream'' is a two-part surrealist webcomic by Ro Salarian[[note]]formerly known as Megan Rose Gedris[[/note]] that ran from 2004-2015.

Part One starts [[https://www.rosalarian.com/post/yu-me-dream-part-1 here]] and Part Two [[https://www.rosalarian.com/post/yu-me-dream-part-2 here]] online. The entire webcomic is also available as [[https://www.rosalarian.com/product-page/yu-me-dream-omnibus an omnibus]] in both physical and digital form, containing [[BonusContent several pages not published online]].

* AbusiveParents: Of the WickedStepmother variety -- or so Fiona thinks. Her step mom wasn't evil. She may have been frustrated but deep down, she loved Fiona, and WordOfGod says she was the first to run into the room crying the first time Fiona regained consciousness.

* BearsAreBadNews: [[spoiler: Sadako's castle has bear guards, who are in charge of throwing people in jail cells and making them get out for whatever reason.]]
%% * TheBeard: Fiona, Lia, Jake and Don. Exactly ''who'' is whose beard, and who is in the closet at all, gets too complicated for Jake to keep track of.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Sadako, who turns out to be the queen of dreams. Originally, it seemed that she was ''not'' happy at Lia for ruining her endeavor. The end of Part 2: Issue 11 revealed that Sadako was planning on using Lia as a trap to lure Fiona into the DreamLand for quite some time.]]

** [[spoiler:Sadako is also bi, since she had crushes on two girls back when she was alive.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Clandestine Jones nearly always has a strange way of acting, such as looking at a dangerous creature in awe or thinking that a journal was [[LiteralMinded literally "planted" from a plant]]. This is later revealed to be because [[spoiler:she used to be Sadako's conscience, but Sadako ''banished'' her for basically not letting her have her [[RapeAsDrama "fun"]] with Ellie, and Clandy has gone crazy because of their separation.]]

** These continue in part 2 after a while. Lia's history, including [[spoiler: the fact that she's bisexual, as well as the evil deeds when she committed as "Mara" when Sadako locked up her conscience]] are a prime example.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: The story behind Sadako's eye. It was punctured by a shard of glass in the real world when she was shoved through a window, with a spiral taking its place in the dream world that came from the previous king.]]

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Everyone in the Dream World Liberation Front except Don and Lucy are brutally killed by No-Face when she betrays them to Sadako. The commentary in the omnibus explains that this was partially because Salarian didn't want to draw all of them through the story, and they would have likely abandoned Fiona a few weeks in; instead, their deaths motivate Lucy to continue her rebellion and stay on Fiona's journey.]]