History Characters / TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange

* KnightOfCerberus: The story turns far darker after she joins the group, to the point where the author put up a ContentWarning.

* AddledAddict: She’s clearly unstable and does what is implied to be cocaine.

* TroubledTeen: Doesn’t''begin'' to cover it.

A teenage girl who meets and joins the trio in chapter thirteen.

* BullyingTheDisabled: After her boyfriend Xander gets his hooks into her and fills her head with ableist rhetoric, she starts to treat the disabled like garbage. She beat up a wheelchair-bound student for "hogging up the halls", and grew to hate her autistic younger brother (being led by Xander to believe her parents were turning her into her brother's caretaker) to the point of trying to kill him ''twice''. And after finding out Mary is autistic as well, she plans to kill her as well.

* TraumaCongaLine: Mary was forced to attend [=ABA=] therapy for three years straight from ages 2 to 5, and the experiences she had traumatized her, as shown in chapter 12. Chapter 20 is NOT kind to her. [[spoiler:Nora tries to make Mary believe that by leaving Nora behind, she's no different from a murderer, and successfully blackmails her into being her bodyguard by threatening to show Dana's blog to the school. Mary is consistently degraded and bullied afterward, with Nora then attempting to feed her to a kaiju by using her as a HumanShield to ensure her own safety. If that wasn't enough, when Mary tries to save Blanca from being kidnapped, Nora shoots her (though not fatally), steps on the wound, and presses her TraumaButton by telling her she's worthless. This sends Mary to the DespairEventHorizon.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bananas are her favorite fruit (she eats them several times through the series). The story later reveals potato au gratin is her favorite food.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Chapter 17 subtly reveals this to be the reason why Mary is on the train. Due to her mother and the [=ABA=] doctors beating it into her head that she absolutely has to appear normal and stamp out her autistic traits, to the point of yelling at her if she makes any kind of mistakes at all, Mary is quick to blame herself for any problem that happens or hold herself responsible for others' actions towards her, even if it's something out of her control or not even her own fault. Dana destroying any remnant of self-confidence she could have had didn't help matters, causing her to develop an unhealthily self-berating attitude.

* HiddenDepths: She has a lot of knowledge about archery and wants to try it out someday, along with extensive knowledge about flowers for a nine-year-old.

* ADayInTheLimeLight: Chapter 18 explores her backstory.

* FatalFlaw: Her bad temper, inability to let go of ideals even if they’re bad and refusal to talk things through.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Chapter 18 reveals that Nora was once an adorable and friendly little girl and adored her little brother. Up until she met Xander, she was a NiceGirl like Reagan.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Chapter 18 reveals that Nora was once an adorable and friendly little girl and adored her little brother. Up until she met Xavier, she was a NiceGirl like Reagan.

** Her self-pitying nature. Due to believing all the lies Dr. Goldman told her about what raising an autistic child entails without question, on top of being on the receiving end of her mother's scolding yet again after the funeral incident, along with years of trying to unsuccessfully get out from her mother's thumb, she's convinced herself that she has no other options but to put Mary through [=ABA=] and be extremely strict with her over every slight, whether real or imagined. For as much as Todd tries to support her, he also calls her out on this attitude, telling her that she could have easily done things like rely on Todd and her other, nicer family members for help, but pushed them all away in favor of pursuing a non-existent cure.

* FatalFlaw: Dana’s desperation for perfection and her inability to stand up to her mother result in her being manipulated by Dr. Goldman and being resentful of Mary, to the point where she barely sees her daughter as human and Mary is shocked to see her mother love her as a baby in a past memory. By the current events of the fic, a once sweet woman has become a miserable monster.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Dana's mother Irene abused her for ''decades''. This, however, does not excuse Dana's treatment of Mary.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Despite Dana's denial, she's an abusive hypercontrolling figure just like her own mother. But while Irene was fueled by the outdated misogynistic values her parents drilled into her, Dana's form of bigotry is ableism.

* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits. Her father nicknames her 'bunny', she owns a stuffed rabbit plush named 'Mimi', back home she had a lamp with rabbits on it, and rabbits are one of her favorite animals.

* FreudianTrio: She's the Ego (in the middle between Blanca's calm Superego and Vic's blunt Id).

* GirlishPigtails: She wears a pair of braided pigtails and is a cheerful young child when in a supportive environment.

* AnimatedTattoo: Her arc number (on her hand) is '120'. [[spoiler: It zigzags through the story, going from 116 to 124 to 110 to 115, then 92. In chapter 10, it goes down to 70, then 55 in chapter 11. It dropped to 20 at the end of chapter 12, then 4 at the end of chapter 15.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Blanca considers her actions towards her son Shiro and driving him out of the Sweets Car to be her biggest mistake.]]

* EvilCounterpart: To Reagan and Lianna. Reagan and Lianna are both the older sisters in their family and get along with their younger siblings. The latter is a {{Jerkass}} to everyone around her and is implied to have injured her brother.

* EvilCounterpart: To Blanca. While both are mothers who were over-controlling to their children and tried to tie them down, Blanca realized what she did was wrong, while Dana refuses to see the error of her ways.

* GirlishPigtails: Well, a braided variant, but she's very feminine.

* EvilCounterpart: To Regina. The former is a CoolBigSis and adores Mary. The latter is a {{Jerkass}} and may have injured her brother.

!!Dana Summers nee Fitzpatrick

* ParentalFavoritism: This is why Nora ''claims'' to run away: being saddled by her parents to constantly babysit her little brother. In reality, her parents care about her enough to text her when she's missing.

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* ParentalFavoritism: This is why Nora ''claims'' to run away: being saddled by her parents to constantly babysit her little brother.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Dana Summers represents how toxic those Autism Warrior Parents can be. At her best which is not often, Dana treats her youngest daughter Mary Summers, who is autistic, like a baby that can't think for herself. At her worst, she's utterly abusive to her daughter and obsessed with making her normal and curing her daughter's autism. While Dana ultimately thinks she's in the right of her treatment of her daughter, everyone around her, including her husband Todd and eldest daughter Reagan, sees that her behavior is unacceptable, and while Dana may complain about her daughter acting out, she is the one making a scene. Things come to a head when Todd and Reagan read Dana's blog and discover to their horror, how much she hates Mary, that not only does Dana not miss Mary when she ran away and considered [[spoiler: forcibly sterilizing Mary once she turns 18.]] According to the story's author, Dana is based on parents of autistic children who have written memoirs on how much of a burden it was to raise their children and how they don't respect their children.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Her main ability is to shapeshift (while she can't change color, she can change her form and size).

A teenage girl who meets the trio in chapter thirteen.

* AmbiguousSituation: All that's known about her is that she ran away from home a week before Mary got on the train, and she claims her parents don't love her. The symbol on her boots doesn't help either.

* EvilCounterpart: To Bianca. While both are mothers who were over-controlling to their children, Blanca realized what she did was wrong, while Dana refuses to see the error of her ways.

* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Despite Dana's denial, she's an abusive controlling figure just like Irene.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Until both Irene returning to her life and Mary’s autism diagnosis, Dana was a kind and funny woman and cared about her daughters. As the years went on, she became bitter and hateful to the point where she treated Mary like trash for merely existing. It was also driven by Dr. Goldman and Autism Speaks manipulating her.

* AnimatedTattoo: Her arc number (on her hand) is '120'. [[spoiler: It zigzags through the story, going from 116 to 124 to 110 to 115, then 92. In chapter 10, it goes down to 70, then 55 in chapter 11. It dropped to 20 at the end of chapter 12]]

* TokenHuman: Downplayed. Other humans exist in the story (in the half about her disappearance), but she's the only human in her group on the Train.