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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:Ultimately proves to be only one of the two main antagonists of the fic, with the other being Nora McDonald. While Nora is a direct threat to Mary's well-being (especially once her Neo-Nazi and ableist ideology becomes known), Dana is the one who forces Mary to run away and end up on the Train, with the fallout of that putting serious strain on the whole family.]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:Ultimately proves to be only one of the two main antagonists of the fic, with the other being Nora McDonald.[=McDonald=]. While Nora is a direct threat to Mary's well-being (especially once her Neo-Nazi and ableist ideology becomes known), Dana is the one who forces Mary to run away and end up on the Train, with the fallout of that putting serious strain on the whole family.]]
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* MeaningfulName: "Blanca" is a Spanish word for "white", and she is a white marshmellow.
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* SanitySlippage: After kidnapping Blanca and splitting off from Mary, she starts heavily abusing her alcohol and drugs to the point of becoming an AddledAdict. This, combined with learning from the Clairvoyant that her boyfriend Xander had been arrested by the police, caused her sanity to heavily deteriorate. By the time Mary catches up with her, she is so far gone in her psychosis that she is hallucinating Mary as her brother Julius.
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* SanitySlippage: After kidnapping Blanca and splitting off from Mary, she starts heavily abusing her alcohol and drugs to the point of becoming an AddledAdict.AddledAddict. This, combined with learning from the Clairvoyant that her boyfriend Xander had been arrested by the police, caused her sanity to heavily deteriorate. By the time Mary catches up with her, she is so far gone in her psychosis that she is hallucinating Mary as her brother Julius.
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* AddledAddict: She’s clearly unstable and does what is implied (later confirmed in Chapter 19) to be cocaine. [[spoiler:In the end, Nora does a SpitefulSuicide, falling into the Train's wheels, when Mary tries to save her, hallucinating her as Julius]].
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* AddledAddict: She’s clearly unstable and does what is implied (later confirmed in Chapter 19) to be cocaine. [[spoiler:In the end, Nora does a SpitefulSuicide, falling into the Train's wheels, wheels when Mary tries to save her, due to hallucinating her as Julius]].Julius.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Her death is treated as a somber affair, as even though the heroes were nearly killed by her, they had tried to save her life only for her to choose to kill herself out of spite. Mary in particular is broken up about it, as she laments that now Nora will never be able to get the chance to try and reconnect with her family, and her parents and brother having no idea what has happened to her.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Her death is treated as a somber affair, as even though the heroes were nearly killed by her, they had tried to save her life only for her to choose to kill herself out of spite. Mary in particular is broken up about it, as she laments that now Nora will never be able to get the chance to try and reconnect with her family, and her parents and brother having no idea what has happened to her.]]
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* BeyondRedemption: Chapters 18 to 22 ultimately show her to be this, from the reveal of her being corrupted by a Neo-Nazi into becoming a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain that nearly killed her brother twice, [[spoiler:to her shooting Mary and leaving her for dead in the Kaiju car and kidnapping Blanca in the process]], and ultimately tries to kill Mary while in a drug-fueled psychotic rage. And the whole time, she actively fights back against others trying to get her to see what she did wrong and change for the better, with even Mary being forced to admit that there's no way to get her to change her ways.
* BigBadEnsemble: Is one of the two main antagonists of the story, right alongside Mary's mother Dana. While Dana's abuse of Mary is what caused her to end up on the Train to begin with, Nora proves to be a more direct threat to the young girl, especially once her PoliticallyIncorrectVillain status gets revealed and she proves to be willing to attempt to murder Mary.
* BigBadEnsemble: Is one of the two main antagonists of the story, right alongside Mary's mother Dana. While Dana's abuse of Mary is what caused her to end up on the Train to begin with, Nora proves to be a more direct threat to the young girl, especially once her PoliticallyIncorrectVillain status gets revealed and she proves to be willing to attempt to murder Mary.
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* EvilerThanThou: Proves to be this compared to Dana. While both women have a hatred for autistic individuals, Dana proves to have the capacity to realize she was wrong to treat Mary the way she did and undergo a HeelRealization, while Nora proves to be BeyondRedemption with her refusal to change and ultimately tries to kill Mary in Chapter 22.
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* IDieFree: [[spoiler:A very dark example, as she chooses to commit suicide rather than accept Mary's help, falling to her death so she won't be forced to go back to what she perceives as life as a slave to her autistic little brother.]]
* IJustWantToBeFree: A dark take on this; thanks to the toxic influence of Xander's views on autistic people, she came to believe that her parents were trying to force her to be a slave to take care of her autistic brother Julius. This caused her to heavily lash out at her family and eventually run away from home, finding herself on the Train. [[spoiler:She ultimately commits a SpitefulSuicide, her last words were an ecstatic "I'M FREEEEEEEE!" before she's crushed by the Train's wheels, [[IDieFree choosing death over the idea of returning to become a "slave" to her brother]].]]
* IJustWantToBeFree: A dark take on this; thanks to the toxic influence of Xander's views on autistic people, she came to believe that her parents were trying to force her to be a slave to take care of her autistic brother Julius. This caused her to heavily lash out at her family and eventually run away from home, finding herself on the Train. [[spoiler:She ultimately commits a SpitefulSuicide, her last words were an ecstatic "I'M FREEEEEEEE!" before she's crushed by the Train's wheels, [[IDieFree choosing death over the idea of returning to become a "slave" to her brother]].]]
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Once Todd realizes what Dana has been doing and repeatedly confronts her over it, she is ultimately forced to realize that out of her twisted desire to keep her family safe, she had been the one responsible for tearing it apart. In Chapter 22, she believes that she is too far gone to be able to make up for her horrific abuse, so she cuts herself out of her family's life, hoping they can heal without her around to ruin everything.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:She ultimately comes to realize just how horrific of a mother she has been to Mary, and that it was her own actions that have resulted in her family being torn apart.]]
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* NeverMyFault: She always refuses to accept responsibility for her mistakes and blames others for them. For instance, she blames Julius for telling her parents on her for having Xander over when her parents forbid it, conveniently forgetting that he called them because she locked him out of the house in freezing weather with no coat.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Not at first, but later in life, she becomes jealous that her little brother Julius somehow gets to do whatever he wants whereas she's not allowed to go to parties with friends or hang out with Xander, which festers and culminates in her becoming a BigSisterBully towards him to the point of attempting to kill him twice on the same night.
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* StupidEvil: She blindly trusts Xander, believes every word he says, and even joins in on his Neo-Nazi ideology without question, refusing to listen to anyone who tells her that he's bad news, not even her own family.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Initially, Nora doesn't start off that way when she's first introduced, and in flashbacks she was revealed to be a nice kid who loved her family. But after meeting Xander and becoming his girlfriend, Nora became more volatile, rebelling against authority for fun, breaking several laws, doing drugs, drinking underage, physically attacking her parents on several occasions, and attempting to murder her younger brother twice on the same night.
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* SpitefulSuicide: [[spoiler:Hallucinating Mary as Julius, she ultimately willingly lets herself fall and be ground under the Train's wheels, not wanting to go to jail or be Julius's "slave"]].
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** [[InternalizedCategorism Internalized ableism.]] Once again, Dana's desire to cure Mary and hold her responsible for every problem in her life has made Mary develop a habit of harshly judging herself whenever she doesn't "act normal." Having to deal with Nora and the revelations behind why she's on the train did not help matters.
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* FatalFlaw: Two.
** [[HeroicSelfDeprecation Self-loathing.]] Growing up with a mother who has no problem telling her that she's the cause of all the family's problems simply because she's autistic has made Mary believe everything she says, even with evidence proving otherwise. Chapter 21 has her go into a TheReasonISuckSpeech about how she believes everyone would be better off if she never existed, which results in her number shooting up.
** [[HeroicSelfDeprecation Self-loathing.]] Growing up with a mother who has no problem telling her that she's the cause of all the family's problems simply because she's autistic has made Mary believe everything she says, even with evidence proving otherwise. Chapter 21 has her go into a TheReasonISuckSpeech about how she believes everyone would be better off if she never existed, which results in her number shooting up.
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* TheReasonISuckSpeech: After the events of chapter 20, Mary has hit the DespairEventHorizon and she goes into a rant about how she feels Dana and Nora are right about everything they say about her, feeling like everyone would be better off if she either was born normal (i.e. not autistic) or if she just never existed, which causes her number to shoot up.
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* BigSisterBully: After Xander convinces her that her family favors Julius over her, she starts harassing and abusing Julius for whatever slight she can come up with, even resorting to attempted murder when he walks in on her and Xander drinking and doing drugs.
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* SiblingYinYang: When her personality changes under Xander's influence, she becomes more domineering, immature, and volatile in contrast to her sweet, earnest, caring younger brother Julius.
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* AmbiguousSituation: All that's known about her is that she ran away from home a week before Mary got on the train, claims her parents don't love her and force her to babysit her little brother, and owns a gun that her boyfriend supposedly gave her.
* AxeCrazy: By the end of Chapter 20, any shred of reason and rational thought is completely gone.
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* TheAlcoholic: Nora frequently drinks beer even though she's 17, therefore underage, with Xander enabling her.
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her. Her backstory is explored in chapters 18 and 19.
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