Fanfic / Intercom: Proper Communication

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A Fan Sequel to the Inside Out fanfic Intercom. With a slight Time Skip from the Left Hanging end of that fic, we instead jump into Wednesday Night, and a terrible betrayal that causes Riley and her emotions to get separated from each other and Headquarters to collapse. Now, with a little help from the rest of the mind, The Emotions have to rescue Riley and fix her mind before things get too bad. And that's not even the easy part with drama forthcoming both inside and out.

This can be found on both AO3 and FFN''.

This fanfic contains the following tropes:

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
  • Disgust has a lot more self doubt in this story. Talking about her high standards now making her feel like she let Riley down.
  • Riley accidentally breaking her mind sends her mental health off a cliff, so that when she finally gets her memory back, she almost contemplates letting herself die.
• Adaptation Expansion: The Belief System gets expanded as part of the Unconscious, and all the different spaces around it.
• Adaptational Protagonist: Continuing the trend of Intercom all of the emotions have little arcs to face. Riley on the other hand has this inverted, as she isn't a leading protagonist for the first part of the fic.
• Artifact Title: The intercom doesn't even come into play after the first 2 chapters, but it remains a point of conversation in how it impacted their lives.
• Ascended Extra:
  • The cool girl who was afraid of being exposed who only had a single line in the credits not only gets a name, but now becomes a main character on the outside.
  • The girl wearing the skull shirt in Riley's class whose single line is calling Riley out in the "Not Wearing Pants" Dream as well. She's also given a name and begins her own journey of learning her own path to empathy.
  • One could argue that Riley herself qualifies as this. In the original, the emotions (particularly Joy and Sadness) were the main focus of the film while Riley didn't quite exactly have much screentime to herself. Here, the story focuses a little more equally on Riley and her emotions.
• The Atoner: Everyone is thinking about this now. The primary emotions need to redeem themselves for losing Riley. Riley even in her amnesiac state is also thinking about this as she begins to understand she made a mistake somewhere.
• Back from the Dead: Subverted but in a different way than the previous fic. As part of Riley learning about Bing Bong, she ended up not resurrecting him, but creating a new being that knows how he disappeared.
• Big "NO!": Envy screams this when Disgust falls into the memory dump.
• Call-Back: When Ann arrives at the Andersen house, she echoes Jordan's words asking, "Is Riley here?"
• Continuation Fic: Continuing both Inside Out and Fanfic/Intercom.
• Darker and Edgier: Definitely! In the 4th chapter, Joy even uses the word Die. There's some dark tension when in the Unconscious with some genuinely malicious emotions. And there's clear tension in the outside about Riley not surviving her crisis.
• Easy Amnesia: Via hitting her head on a memory orb of all things!
• Ensemble Cast: Disgust, Fear, Joy and Riley all have leading roles in navigating what's going on.
• Fan Sequel: While the original author did give a snippet of what their endgame would be, this story takes that scene they shared, and pushes it farther by creating a story with an ending in mind for the future.
• Great Big Book of Everything: The Mind Manuals are at it again. They even have a special section on what happens if a headquarters collapses because of Consciousness Tampering.
• Group Hug: The first one surprisingly is given to Joy to pick herself back up after HQ collapse.
• Idea Bulb: Ann's Joy comes with the idea this time. With an idea to do practical actions.
• Tragic Dream: Following up from the original fic, Joy is still wrestling with the reality that she can't have a perfect family. Finally leading her to yell at "mom" that she needs real people to be there for her, and she can't pretend anymore.