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* TheMourningAfter: After a ten year timeskip, [[spoiler:Grif]] is still not over [[spoiler:Simmons']] death. This is attributed not to the depth of love, however, but to prison being such an unchanging place that it always feels like the same day.
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* NeckSnap: Off-screen, this is how Locus kills Cunningham.
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** The title of part 153, 'Shout Out To Shadles,' is a ShoutOut to [[AchievementHunter Achievement Hunter's]] 'Trouble in Terrorist Town' LP. In said LP, a random player named 'Shadles' ended up in the AH crew's game and annihilated them, including hanging Ray after murdering him. [[spoiler:This is also what Locus does to Brutus, the sleeveless insurrectionist, in the same chapter.]]
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* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Church's mother died when giving birth to his little brother, Eddie/Epsilon. Because of it, their father was emotionally abusive towards Epsilon.
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* AndCallHimGeorge: Caboose has had this problem with several pigeons he's tried to keep as pets. Outside of prison, this also happened to his pet cat, Apples.
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* TapOnTheHead: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:O'Malley and Locus do this to Wash multiple times during a torture session to mess with his sense of how much time has passed. It may have given him brain damage.]]
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* CarvedMark: O'Malley does this to Doc, carving the Greek letter Omega onto his chest. [[spoiler: He also did this, amongst other Greek letters, to Wash during the three-month torture.]]
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* CarvedMark: O'Malley does this to Doc, carving the Greek letter Omega onto his chest. [[spoiler: He also did this, amongst other Greek letters, to Wash during the three-month torture. During Wash's second torture session, within the prison, he gives Wash a carved mark that matches Doc.]]
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** [[spoiler: O'Malley does it again to Wash later, though inside prison walls and on a much shorter timeframe, for getting too close to Doc. This time, it's a lot more psychological as well as physical.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Wash, once he realises [[spoiler:that not only did he fail to notice and stop O'Malley's abuse of Doc, but that he actively helped it along by dragging Doc back to the prison after Doc's attempt at quitting.]]
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* PostRapeTaunt: [[spoiler:During his second time torturing Wash, O'Malley taunts him about the fifteen years of abuse and rape he put Doc though, claiming that he enjoyed it a lot and that Wash couldn't make him moan like that. A variant, in that Wash and Doc aren't actually a couple. O'Malley only thinks they're too close.]]
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* SerialKiller: O'Malley is of the Hedonistic variety. It's stated that he managed to keep killing for roughly twenty years before being caught.
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* SerialKiller: O'Malley is an odd mixture of the Hedonistic and Power/Control variety. It's stated that he managed to keep killing for roughly twenty years before being caught.
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* LittleMissConArtist: Tucker was the gender-flipped version as a child, tricking both adults and other children.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: A large part of Caboose's mental state in regards to his murders (namely, his belief that he never murdered at all) was caused by Church gaslighting him into believing he never murdered by talking to him over time. Church did it with semi-good intentions, but it really screwed Caboose up down the road.
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* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Locus delivers one to O'Malley after being asked to help with a revenge scheme concerning Doc.
--> '''Locus''': You think you are the hunter, and that Doc is your caged prey. But it is Doc who dictates the terms of this imprisonment. Keeping him requires conforming to his will. If you don't, he leaves.
--> '''O'Malley''': He doesn't leave because he knows what I'll do if he dares to try!
--> '''Locus''': Yes. You threaten others. The act of a small child breaking old toys because his mother wouldn't buy him a new one. ... The child wants ice-cream after dinner. The mother says no. The child breaks something in response during the ensuing tantrum. Next time, the mother gets ice-cream and the child assumes their basic attempt at manipulation succeeded. But then the mother starts using it as bargaining chip. 'If you clean your room, you get ice-cream. If you don't, you get nothing.' The child could trash his room, but he knows that ice-cream is guaranteed if he behaves. So he does as the mother says. And the mother retains the power. What are you, if not a small child throwing a tantrum?
--> '''Locus''': You think you are the hunter, and that Doc is your caged prey. But it is Doc who dictates the terms of this imprisonment. Keeping him requires conforming to his will. If you don't, he leaves.
--> '''O'Malley''': He doesn't leave because he knows what I'll do if he dares to try!
--> '''Locus''': Yes. You threaten others. The act of a small child breaking old toys because his mother wouldn't buy him a new one. ... The child wants ice-cream after dinner. The mother says no. The child breaks something in response during the ensuing tantrum. Next time, the mother gets ice-cream and the child assumes their basic attempt at manipulation succeeded. But then the mother starts using it as bargaining chip. 'If you clean your room, you get ice-cream. If you don't, you get nothing.' The child could trash his room, but he knows that ice-cream is guaranteed if he behaves. So he does as the mother says. And the mother retains the power. What are you, if not a small child throwing a tantrum?
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* PsychopathicManchild: Caboose.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Caboose.Caboose, though lighter on the psychopathic elements than some. He drops the psychopath part after Donut goes through some effort to teach him otherwise.
** O'Malley is compared to a whiny child often, and comes off as very infantile in regards to Doc. Locus tells him to his face.
--> '''Locus:''' What are you, if not a small child throwing a tantrum?
** O'Malley is compared to a whiny child often, and comes off as very infantile in regards to Doc. Locus tells him to his face.
--> '''Locus:''' What are you, if not a small child throwing a tantrum?
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* DisproportionateRetribution: O'Malley is prone to over-the-top revenge for the tiniest of slights. Particularly for reasons relating to Doc, such as Church calling Doc a 'pussyfest' and Donut (with permission) using his mouthwash.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Miller and his gang administer one of these to Tucker, which leaves his ribs and breathing ability permanently damaged. O'Malley hospitalizes Donut through one of these.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: O'Malley delivers one to Donut, hospitalizing him for months... [[DisproportionateRetribution because he was using Doc's mouthwash.]]
** Subverted when Miller and his gang administer one of these to Tucker, which leaves his ribs and breathing ability permanentlydamaged. O'Malley hospitalizes Donut through one of these.damaged... but Miller is explicitly holding a lot back because he doesn't want to kill Tucker yet.
** Subverted when Miller and his gang administer one of these to Tucker, which leaves his ribs and breathing ability permanently
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* MushroomSamba: Grif, after he takes some LSD in an effort to pass the time. Amongst his hallucinations are a suddenly gelatinous floor and [[spoiler:Simmons, who'd died a decade ago.]]
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* FunctionalAddict: Grif is always a heavy drinker, but seems to function quite well despite that. [[spoiler: Until after Simmons' death, at which point his drinking becomes even heavier and eventually his habits start to include drugs due to an inability to get fixes just from alcohol.]]
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* AxCrazy: O'Malley and the Red Zealot. Caboose is also a borderline example, though it recedes after [[HeelRealization Chapter 95]].
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* AxCrazy: O'Malley and the Red Zealot. Caboose is also a borderline example, though it recedes after [[HeelRealization Chapter 95]]. The Insurrectionist Leader is a literal example, as he has attacked people with tomahawks twice.
** [[spoiler: Locus cuts some of the tendons on Delta's hands.]]
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* {{Manchild}}: Theta, who retains his child-like personality even as he ages in the backstory, being between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five during it.
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* {{Manchild}}: Theta, who retains his child-like personality even as he ages in the backstory, being between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five during it. [[spoiler:He also retains his childishness in his appearance in the present, despite being around fifty years old at the time.]]
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* TimeSkip: Two occur within the main fic. One skip at Part 50 moves the story ahead five years and the second at Part 132 skips ahead a full decade.
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* MoodWhiplash: Occurs often. The backstories are notable for this, as they'll start with Church's part, which is often depressing and/or bloody, and end with Donut's, which is usually fluffy and cheerful. Wash lampshades the mood whiplash in a conversation with York, which started off about dancing and ended at the subject of York's dead wife.
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* MoodWhiplash: Occurs often. The backstories are notable for this, as they'll start with Church's part, which is often depressing and/or bloody, and end with Donut's, which is usually fluffy and cheerful. Wash lampshades There's also part 109, where Grif and Simmons are being fairly jokey and there's humorous callbacks to early RvB episodes [[spoiler:seconds before Simmons gets gutted and murdered by the mood whiplash in a conversation with York, which started off about dancing and ended at the subject of York's dead wife.Red Zealot.]]
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** Tex is one, compared to her father and sister. She's a prison guard, [[spoiler: formerly a cop,]] while they're both very big criminals.
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** Tex is one, compared to her father and sister. She's a prison guard, [[spoiler: formerly a cop,]] while they're both very big criminals. Though she was considered the favourite as well, likely due to her resemblance to her mother, while Carolina was heavily implied to be TheUnfavorite.
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* BlackSheep: Simmons is this to his family, being the only one who didn't look like they walked out of a commercial for the perfect family.
** Tex is one, compared to her father and sister. She's a prison guard, [[spoiler: formerly a cop,]] while they're both very big criminals.
** Tex is one, compared to her father and sister. She's a prison guard, [[spoiler: formerly a cop,]] while they're both very big criminals.
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* HopeIsScary: In his flashback chapter, Wash refused to trust York the first time he was offered help, despite the fact that he'd been in such a bad place that he'd [[spoiler:nearly tried walking into traffic]] because he was convinced that York would either call in favors for it later (and that he wouldn't be able to pay it back) or would just betray him. He decides pretty fast that it's worth the risk.
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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Wash hit this in his flashback chapter, following his three-month torture session, eight months in hospitals and mental institutions, followed by over a year of homelessness, becoming sick through hunger and side effects of his medication, and then going off his medication and becoming even sicker from that. He lost hope entirely because he couldn't see a way out. He was seconds away from walking in front of traffic when York found him.]]
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* AxCrazy: O'Malley and the Red Zealot. Caboose is also a borderline example, though it recedes after [[HealRealization Chapter 95]].
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* EvenEvilHasItsStandards: All the main inmates, despite being unrepentant murderers for the most part, do not approve of rape and will also defend those who they consider part of their group. Church also mentions that any criminals who fuck or murder children usually don't last long because the other inmates usually kill them for it. [[spoiler:Something that Church experienced himself, as he's falsely believed to have killed his six-year-old brother.]]
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There are also 'flashback' chapters interspersed with the main fic, detailing how the main six inmates wound up in prison.
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* AmicableExes: Church and Tex, who are stated early on to have dated before Church was thrown in prison. Though slightly complicated due to the fact that [[spoiler:Tex was the one who arrested him]], they seem on very amicable terms despite their usual bickering and insults.
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* AmicableExes: Church and Tex, who are stated early on to have dated before Church was thrown in prison. Though slightly complicated due to the fact that [[spoiler:Tex was the one who arrested him]], him and Church was friends with the man who killed Tex's sister]], they seem on very amicable terms despite their usual bickering and insults.
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* EvenEvilHasItsStandards: All the main inmates, despite being unrepentant murderers for the most part, do not approve of rape and will also defend those who they consider part of their group. Church also mentions that any criminals who fuck or murder children usually don't last long because the other inmates usually kill them for it. [[spoiler:Something that Church experienced himself, as he's falsely believed to have killed his six-year-old brother.]]
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* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Wyoming. Especially to O'Malley.
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* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Wyoming. Especially to O'Malley. [[spoiler:After Wyoming's death, Church starts to set himself up as this.]]
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* HearingVoices: During a drug overdose, O'Malley starts hearing voices. Including that of Gary.
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* HearingVoices: During a drug overdose, O'Malley starts hearing voices. Including that of Gary. Wash is prone to this when he's locked in the dark for too long.
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* MutilationInterrogation: In the backstory, Carolina cuts off a couple of Jimmy's fingers to get him to tell her where Delta was.
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* MutilationInterrogation: In the backstory, Carolina cuts off a couple of Jimmy's fingers to get him to tell her where Delta was. O'Malley and Gamma also did this to [[spoiler:Wash]] in the past, by pulling out some of his teeth and fingernails.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Miller and his gang administer one of these to Tucker, which leaves his ribs and breathing ability permanently damaged. And O'Malley hospitalizes Donut through one of these.
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* ParentalNeglect: Church's father at his most benevolent. And Tucker's mother, although she did love her son. She was just perpetually drunk.
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* ParentalNeglect: Church's father at his most benevolent. And Tucker's mother, although she did love her son. She was just perpetually drunk.
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* SinisterShiv: Many. O'Malley, notably, has a preference for sharpened screwdrivers that he usually gets off Wyoming. It's not specified what other characters make them out of, though the Red Zealot is particularly adept at making them.
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* DarkFic: As well as the change of setting, there's the deaths (which tend to be more brutal than the ones in canon), the torture, the rape, the fact that several characters seem to be mentally ill (Donut and Wash both show symptoms of PTSD, and that's only the top of Wash's issues. That's also not even getting into Caboose...) the regular mentions of suicide attempts and that O'Malley's rather light-hearted possession of Doc in canon has been reverted into something very sinister.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Rumor has it that Tucker talked Jones into suicide. [[spoiler:Tucker really did, but apparently it was an accident.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: Rumor has it that Tucker talked Jones into suicide. [[spoiler:Tucker really did, but apparently it was an accident. He'd just been trying to convince Jones, using the shittier parts of prison as back-up for his argument, why messing with Church was a bad idea.]]
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* FreudianExcuse: Averted. The one-shot 'Reasoning' shows what led O'Malley to start killing things. Turns out he simply wanted to see the insides of animals.
** Parodied when Tucker, during a therapy session, exaggerates and lies about his past to make it seem like he has one.
** Parodied when Tucker, during a therapy session, exaggerates and lies about his past to make it seem like he has one.
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animals. Played straighter with the Reds and Blues, most of which have bad pasts that directly lead to prison.
** Parodied when Tucker, during a therapy session, exaggerates and lies about his past to make it seem like he has one. He also shows contempt for the idea that a bad past justifies someone being a jerk.
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* TheGhost: Sarge's wife is never shown on screen. All we know about her is that she regularly tortures Sarge for his misbehaviour by refusing to do his laundry and putting mayonnaise in his sandwiches. And that she can recognise Flowers' 'secretary voice' on the phone.
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** Caboose mentions having a cousin who 'kept saying his name was not what his name was.' This is a reference to Wade (aka Durnt) from TheStrangerhood, a different RoosterTeeth machinima, who shares a voice actor with Caboose.
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** When he was a kid, O'Malley had a [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory pink teddy who he named 'Dr. Strawberry.']]
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