Fanfic / Half Past Adventure

Half Past Adventure, full title Half Past Adventure with Macy and Robin, is a Adventure Time Fanfic by Pablo360 set 30 years after the finale, telling the story of original character Macadamia the Nut and her friend Robin.

The fic currently has two "seasons" which are complete, each consisting of 18 "episodes", the first season, "Princess Pauper", and the second season, "Becoming Heroes". There are also some side stories that can be read here.

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Half Past Adventure contains examples of:

• Acid Attack: The Grass Dragon possesses an acid Breath Weapon capable of making tree stumps looked burned. Eventually, Macy tricks it into KO'ing its own Plant Mook using said attack.
• Animal Eye Spy: Macy learns the mass version of this while training under Huntress Wizard.
  She saw the clearing before her once again, but this time from all perspectives at once. She was the puma, the grass, a starling high in a tree, a crystal golem slumbering deep in the ground. Everything came together in a vast mosaic[…]
• Arrows on Fire: Huntress Wizard uses something between this and Playing with Fire, shooting an evil street sign and making it burst into green flames.
• Ascended Extra:
  • The Duke of Nuts, a character who appeared in all of three episodes of Adventure Time, is Macy's adoptive father.
  • Even more than him is his sons, both of whom appeared only in one episode, but who now have much bigger roles in the story.
  • In the latest arc, Macy acquires a mentor in the form of a minor character from the latter half of Adventure Time, Huntress Wizard.
• Astral Projection: While many characters have dream-based abilities, including the deuteragonist Robin, Charlie is the only one shown to possess this ability, which she uses to communicate with Robin in zhir dreams while she's in a coma.
• Bad Luck Charm: The series contains several examples.
  • Macy believes having three imagine spots in a row to be a sign that she's going to lose something important.
  • Vesper believes the number seven to be unlucky.
• Beat: Invoked frequently with the phrase “A beat.” that appears often in the narration, usually between bits of dialog.
• Breath Weapon: The Grass Dragon has a powerful Acid Attack breath weapon, for some reason.
• Burning with Anger: Flame King Phoebe is prone to this, as in the show; she's able to calm herself down pretty easily though, especially with Cinnamon Bun's help.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Izak in Chapter 2, who first appears as a way to make Penelope Farthington more intimidating, but ends up being the one to take down Bandit Princess.
• Climactic Elevator Ride: Played with in "The Case of the Purloined Pudding" by having an elevator ride midway through the story not to the Big Bad but to Femme Fatale (and Red Herring) Penelope Farthington.
• Combo Platter Powers: Discussed in the case of Robin, who feels bogged down by the sheer number of powers zhe exhibits.
• Convection, Schmonvection: Huntress Wizard's fires rarely seem to let off as much heat as they should, especially since they're hot enough to burn green.
• Cool Sword: Finn Mertens gives Macy one (the Root Sword, to be specific), which is a shortsword from the original series.
• Cue O'Clock: The fic's title treats the word "adventure" as if it were a dial number on a clock, akin to saying "half past ten". It's a pun on its source material being called Adventure Time.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: Pugliacci and Bulcinella, a pair of mobsters from the Crystal Dimension, form one of these, with Bulcinella frequently exhibiting a lackadaisical attitude and attributing things to "the universe", much to Pugliacci's dismay.
• Decoy Protagonist: The first chapter employs a Deuteragonist version of this trope with Masse Yvoire, Macy's partner in Puppy Love, who according to the Lemony Narrator she won't see again for a whole year after the first chapter.
• Delayed Narrator Introduction: Although this hasn't technically happened yet, the Lemony Narrator's voice has slipped through in a couple of obvious ways, in particular going off on a tangent about the musical talents of Flame King Phoebe.
• The Dividual:
  • Pugliacci and Bulcinella, a Cynic–Idealist Duo of dog mobsters who go up against T.V. in the Crystal Dimension.
  • Shortbelle and Jawffee, a collective Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff reference (their names make an anagram) who haunt the staircase of Castle Jugland as part of a romantic prank war.
• Dream Walker: Robin can apparently do this, much like zhir great-grandfather Jake could in the original series; first it is mentioned that she can share dreams with her great-aunt Bronwyn, and then spying on Macy's Imagine Spot.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Thanks to Adventure Time's resident Dream Weaver, the Cosmic Owl, prophetic dreams are a thing in this universe — most notably Huntress Wizard's dream which she had several years before the start of the series, which she believes foretells herself and Macy working together to defeat some threat which may or may not be connected to the Lich and/or The Moon.
• Drunk on Milk: In the context of bars and social drinking (especially Helix's bar), soda seems to be a stand-in for alcohol.
• Due to the Dead: A Lonely Funeral is thrown for Shillelagh by Robin after they're killed by the Grass Dragon after the battle in the ravaged field.
• Elemental Embodiment: To varying degrees.
  • Flame King Phoebe, the fire elemental, one of the four embodiments of the fundamental forces of reality and ruler of the Flame Kingdom (and golfer).
  • Cragg Ambrosia, a Heroic Wannabe like Macy who's a small water elemental. With blue highlights.
• Elsewhere Fic: Despite several characters from the main series making appearances, the fanfic is squarely centered on original characters.
• Escalating War: features a *romantic* version between the characters Robin and Penhaligon, culminating in a haunted stairwell.
• Exactly Exty Years Ago: The series is set exactly thirty years after the finale of Adventure Time. Justified because the first chapter is set during an anniversary celebration of the events of the series finale.
• Femme Fatale: Penelope Farthington, aka Penny from the original show, is one who first appears during the Noir Episode, "The Case of the Purloined Pudding".
• Gene Hunting: When Macy sees the Duke of Nuts, she wants to find out if he's her father. As it turns out, he isn't, until he adopts her at the end of the first chapter.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Just like in Adventure Time, the villainous Bandit Princess has "catlike eyes" — although this is somewhat downplayed because the decidedly non-villainous Huntress Wizard's eyes are described similarly.
• Happily Adopted: Macy is extremely happy to be adopted by The Duke of Nuts, settling into the family rather smoothly.
• Hero of Another Story: Cash Daniels, P.I. is the hero of her own off-screen detective noir parody that occasionally intersects the main plot.
• Heroic Wannabe:
  • Macy's goal is to become a hero like Finn.
  • There's also “Cragg Ambrosia, future Hero of Ooo”, whom she meets in a Life-Sized Miniature Golf tournament.
• Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It: The series finale of Adventure Time is apparently the basis for the new calendar of Ooo.
• Hybrid Power: Rather than a unique “pup power”, Robin appears to have all the powers of a shapeshifter mixed with all the problems of a rainicorn, albeit both to a far more limited degree — zhe can't get larger than zhir normal form and zhe has trouble projecting light out past zhir own body.
• Imagine Spot: Macy is subject to these, both of the nice and not-so-nice varieties.
• Imagine Spotting: Appears to be an extension of Robin's Dream Walker powers, as demonstrated on Macy.
• Inner Thoughts, Outsider Puzzlement: Happens a couple times when Robin gets lost in her imagination.
• It Was a Gift: Macy receives three gifts from Finn before heading out into the Evil Forest: a magical ring of teleportation, a flare gun, and the Root Sword Finn himself received on his birthday.
• The Jeeves:
  • Lisby, the butler for the Duchy of Nuts (a character form the show)
  • Izak, Penelope Farthington's Cyborg valet
• Level Ate: The various food-themed kingdoms are carried over from the source material.
• Lonely Funeral: After the battle of the ravaged field, Robin throws one for the deceased Plant Mook Shillelagh, complete with a short eulogy.
  Robin: I didn’t know them, and the only interaction I had with them was trying to kill me. I don’t know if they had some goodness in their soul, or even if they had one in the first place. But now I never will. Wherever they are, if they’re anywhere, I hope someone treats ‘em with the dignity they never got a chance to earn.
• Lucky Seven: Inverted by Vesper, one of Macy's adoptive cousins, who (based on the tenets of "Breakfastian numerology") believes the number seven to be bad luck.
• Named Weapons: The Root Sword Macy receives as a gift from Finn before heading out into the Evil Forest, named after the rootlike shape of its hilt guard.
• No Antagonist: Any given chapter is as likely to have an antagonist as not.
  • The closest thing to an antagonist in the first chapter is the Candy Corn Colonel, who enforces Princess Bubblegum's grudge against the Duke of Nuts, but that's only framed in opposition to Macy for one scene which he isn't there for.
  • The third chapter doesn't even have that, the main source of tension coming from Macy's insecurity about her place in her adopted family, which she projects onto the new ambassador.
  • The chapters Huntress Spirit and Natural Harmonies together form a sort of training montage for Macy, coming together into a single story about her becoming a huntress. There is no antagonist in either chapter.
• Noir Episode: "The Mystery of the Purloined Pudding", where a bunch of pudding gets stolen and Macy has to recruit Cash Daniels to investigate.
• Noodle Incident: Jake tells a story about saving Raggedy Princess from a tornado "and herself"; other than the fact that Lady Rainicorn was somehow involved, nothing else is known about this event.
• Oh, Crap!: Robin, and later Princess Cookie, has one of these moments when they realize that Macy and Masse had been gone for a while.
• Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!: Discussed in a Leaning on the Fourth Wall conversation near the beginning of the first chapter.
• On the Next: The author's note always contains a paragraph from the next episode.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Half Past Adventure inherits its weird dragons from Adventure Time.
• Phrase Catcher: Bulcinella the mobster gets a lot of "Shut up about the universe"s due to his attribution of just about anything to some sort of universal intention, mostly from his long-suffering partner Pugliacci.
• The Piano Player: Played for Laughs at the end of the West Side Story parody episode, Catbells, when Robin plays the piano dramatically during the final scene.
• Power Crystal: As seen in the original show, there exist crystals from the Crystal Dimension that let rainicorns (and others) send psychic “prismgrams”, essentially telepathic letters.
• Plant Person: Huntress Wizard and Forest Wizard appear to be something this-adjacent (the former is stated to be a goblin, but her hair is made of leaves), but the latter's Plant Mooks definitely qualify.
• Plant Mooks: Forest Wizard's mooks are a sight to behold. Cruel, efficient, and made entirely of holly booshes, they use their prehensile vines and magic-blocking nets to capture Macy and her friends with ease. However, once they lose the element of surprise, they're taken down as easily as, well, plants.
• Private Investigator: Cash Daniels, P.I. is one who helps Macy and Robin solve the mystery of the purloined pudding in the chapter, "The Mystery of the Purloined Pudding".
• Punny Name: Many characters, including Marquess Pen of Nuts and Penelope Farthington.
• Rags to Royalty: Very much invoked by the title of the first chapter, "The Princess Pauper".
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: There is quite a bit of hemming and hawing in the dialog, although perhaps not quite as much as in the real world.
• Rule of Three:
  • If Macy has three image spots, she thinks it's bad luck.
  • Finn gives Macy three gifts (a ring, a flare gun, and a shortsword) before sending her into the Evil Forest.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Finn's mother, Dr. Minerva Campbell, organizes a search party for Jake in the first episode when his Potty Emergency takes long enough that Finn and Lady begin joking about it.
• Significant Anagram: Shortbelle and Jawffee's name is an anagram of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, to which much of their aesthetic is a reference.
• Smart People Speak the Queen's English: Invoked by Macy sometimes when trying to sound smart, because that's what all the sitcoms do.
• Team Killer: A somewhat accidental example (although orchestrated by the other side): In the climax of their fight, the Grass Dragon lets loose a Breath Weapon Acid Attack attack against Macy, who positions herself so that the attack destroys the enemy Plant Mook, thus saving Robin.
• Technicolor Fire: Huntress Wizard's magical flames are consistently green, as are the flames she sees in a prophetic dream which resemble the lich's horns.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: One of the various Combo Platter Powers Robin exhibits, although it's not as strong as zhir great-grandfather's.