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* Vicious deconstructs the VillainProtagonist. Vicious is ''not'' a pleasant person. He's [[AloofAlly a complete jerk even to people he's ostensibly helping]], he's known as "[[RedBaron the Great Transgressor]]", and he has a list of sins a mile long. He constantly suggests the most violent options first, and is willing to commit any number of crimes (up to and including murder) if he thinks it will make his life easier. In spite of this, Vicious can be surprisingly insightful when he wants to be, especially about the hypocrisy of the citizens who are so quick to label people as transgressors. [[spoiler:Also, because people have no interest in hearing a transgressor's side of the story, however justified they may be, Vicious has decided that [[ThenLetMeBeEvil he may as well throw any pretense of morality to the winds and just give the people the monster that they want]]. His sin was being born, which just amplifies these feelings. It's only when Kanata keeps trying to help Vicious and be nice to him in spite of all the times that Vicious pushes him away that Vicious warms up to him at all, and even then, Vicious still thinks most people aren't worth his time.]]

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* Vicious deconstructs the VillainProtagonist. Vicious is ''not'' a pleasant person. He's [[AloofAlly a complete jerk even to people he's ostensibly helping]], he's known as "[[RedBaron the Great Transgressor]]", and he has a list of sins a mile long. He constantly suggests the most violent options first, and is willing to commit any number of crimes (up to and including murder) if he thinks it will make his life easier. In spite of this, Vicious can be surprisingly insightful when he wants to be, especially about the hypocrisy of the citizens who are so quick to label people as transgressors. [[spoiler:Also, because people have no interest in hearing a transgressor's side of the story, however justified they may be, Vicious has decided that [[ThenLetMeBeEvil he may as well throw any pretense of morality to the winds and just give the people the monster that they want]]. His sin was being born, which just amplifies these feelings. It's only when Kanata keeps trying to help Vicious and be nice to him in spite of all the times that Vicious pushes him away that Vicious warms up to him at all, and even then, Vicious still thinks most people aren't worth his time.]]]]
* Yuna deconstructs ConsummateLiar by showing how someone who lies and spins the truth would end up running out of luck doing so. As an info broker, she lies and tricks people often, and people tend to fall for her lies. Unfortunately, Yuna's habit of lying and tricking people means people are used to it and can't take her word anymore, leaving people to view her as a bad person when she's mostly harmless. When she tries to raise people's hope of Penelope recovering by claiming Penelope's performance was bad so people would look forward to her next performance, the townsfolk have enough of her lying and manipulative nature and use their Vision Orbs to condemn her as a fake friend who manipulates and takes advantage of Penelope. The result is that she is labeled a Transgressor and condemned by people because she's lied and tricked people too many times for them to see her she was trying to encourage them to hope for her friends recovery. Yuna even darkly comments that she wasn't lying about her hope for Penelope, but it is too late and she is unable to escape being labeled as a transgressor.

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