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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Chapter 8 ends with Monster and [[WebVideo/MadnessCombat Tricky]] visiting a party with a theme of 'monsters', allowing them to casually go among humans without concern.

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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Chapter 8 ends with Monster and [[WebVideo/MadnessCombat [[WebAnimation/MadnessCombat Tricky]] visiting a party with a theme of 'monsters', allowing them to casually go among humans without concern.
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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Chapter 8 ends with Monster and [[WebVideo/MadnessCombat Tricky]] visiting a party with a theme of 'monsters', allowing them to casually go among humans without concern.
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After Monster's ploy to [[ImAHumanitarian eat some humans]] [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], the little children he used as bait won't leave him alone, and with the two apparently having nowhere to go, he finds himself thrust into taking care of them. HilarityEnsues.

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After Monster's ploy to [[ImAHumanitarian eat some humans]] [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], the little children he used as bait won't leave him alone, and with the two apparently having nowhere to go, he finds himself thrust into taking care of them. HilarityEnsues.
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* FrustratedOverheadScribble: While Senpai is going on an angry rant against Monster, there's a scribbly line over his head. As they're all [[TrappedInTVLand currently in a video game]], it's something ''actually'' above his head, rather than just a visual detail.
--> '''Pump:''' He seems angry. There's a little scribbly over his head.\\
'''Senpai:''' AND I HATE THIS ANIMATION!
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Note: spoilers for ''It's Always Spooky Month'' are unmarked in ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'''s trope section, and the same for both previous fics on ''Eternal Spooky Month'''s trope section.

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Note: spoilers for ''It's Always Spooky Month'' are unmarked in ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'''s Month''[='=]s trope section, and the same applies for both previous fics on ''Eternal Spooky Month'''s Month''[='=]s trope section.



** Downplayed: Pump is portrayed close to how he is in the show, but is a bit more shy and timid to better contrast with Skid.

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** Downplayed: Pump is portrayed close to how he is in the show, but is a bit more shy and timid to better contrast with the loud and boisterous Skid.
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* ShipTease: The second and third fics have occasional teasing for multiple pairings, put in for fun for multiple pairings with no real bearing on the overall plot. A prime example of this is in chapter 7, where Spirit insinuating Kevin and Senpai were getting freaky in a closet (Little Man trapped them in there) is immediately followed by Skid assuming Kevin wanted to clean the house to impress Lila (Little Man wrecked the house and Kevin knew Monster would kill them if they didn't fix it).

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* ShipTease: The second and third fics have occasional teasing for multiple pairings, put in for fun for multiple pairings with no real bearing on the overall plot.plot -- "see what you wanna see", in the author's words. A prime example of this is in chapter 7, where Spirit insinuating Kevin and Senpai were getting freaky in a closet (Little Man trapped them in there) is immediately followed by Skid assuming Kevin wanted to clean the house to impress Lila (Little Man wrecked the house and Kevin knew Monster would kill them if they didn't fix it).



* WasOnceAMan: There are multiple allusions to [[spoiler:Monster once being a human first fic, which is explicitly confirmed in "Lemon Sister", but as he's spent far longer as a monster than a human, it doesn't really matter to him]].

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* WasOnceAMan: There are multiple allusions to [[spoiler:Monster once being a human in the first fic, which is explicitly confirmed in "Lemon Sister", but as he's spent far longer as a monster than a human, it doesn't really matter to him]].

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** In the final chapter of ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'', Pump finally tells the rest of the house about his secret spell conjuring, and about his family losing their memories of him.

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** In the final chapter of ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'', Pump finally tells the rest of the house about his secret spell conjuring, and about his [[spoiler:his family losing their memories of him.him]].



* ShipTease: The second and third fics have occasional teasing for multiple pairings, put in for fun for multiple pairings with no real bearing on the overall plot. A prime example of this is in chapter 7, where Spirit insinuating Kevin and Senpai were getting freaky in a closet (Little Man trapped them in there) is immediately followed by Skid assuming Kevin wanted to clean the house to impress Lila (Little Man wrecked the house and Kevin knew Monster would kill them if they didn't fix it).



* WasOnceAMan: At points in both fics, [[spoiler:Monster alludes to him not always being like he is now. This is explicitly confirmed in "Lemon Sister", but as he's spent far longer as a monster than a human, it doesn't really matter to him]].

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* WasOnceAMan: At points in both fics, There are multiple allusions to [[spoiler:Monster alludes to him not always once being like he is now. This a human first fic, which is explicitly confirmed in "Lemon Sister", but as he's spent far longer as a monster than a human, it doesn't really matter to him]].



* SparedByTheAdaptation: In ''Spooky Month'', Skid's missing father is heavily implied to be dead. In the fic, he had instead simply up and left and few years back.

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In ''Spooky Month'', Skid's missing father is heavily implied to be dead. In the fic, he had instead simply up and left and a few years back.



* UnexplainedRecovery: Ron shows up in chapter 13 alive and well again with no explanation, just with a big bandaid over his wound.

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* UnexplainedRecovery: Ron shows up at the Christmas party in chapter 13 alive and well again with no explanation, just with a big bandaid over his wound.wound. In the following fic, Senpai posits that this was seemingly just [[PetTheDog Bob being nice for the holidays]], as Ron goes back to being dead once the party is over.



* AnArmAndALeg: While trying to escape permadeath by spell circle, the Happy Fella's arm catches fire, and he accidentally slices it off with a fire poker while trying to put it out. The severed arm ends up working for the ritual, opening a portal long enough for Selever to escape the dimension he was trapped in.



* DelayedReaction: After Susie comes into the Candy Club looking for Pump, Kevin points her in the direction of Monster's house. It takes until after Susie leaves for him and Senpai to realize that oh yeah, ''Susie remembers Pump now''. Spirit is summarily disappointed in both of them for taking so long to realize it.

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* DeaderThanDead: The ritual to open a portal to Selever and Razasy's dimension requires the use of a soul, which would kill whoever was the unlucky sacrifice. The Happy Fella the group plans to use notes that usually he would just possess another doll when his old one became unusable, but if the ritual works as intended, it'd be lights out for him, forever.
* DelayedReaction: After Susie comes into the Candy Club looking for Pump, Kevin points her in the direction of Monster's house. It takes until after Susie leaves for him and Senpai to realize that oh yeah, wait, ''Susie remembers Pump now''. Spirit is summarily disappointed in both of them for taking so long to realize it.it.
* DrowningMySorrows: After reading Bob's letter reminding him of Ron's death (and promptly shredding it), Little Man raids the fridge and downs three beers in two minutes, to the disappointment of everyone in the house since he was sober up until that point.


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* FamilyOfChoice: The fic has a large emphasis on how close everyone has become over the course of the series, despite their immense differences in personalities, backgrounds, and even species; there might be fights now and then, but push comes to shove they ''will'' be there to support and care for one another, no matter what.
* KickTheDog: Bob sends Little Man a letter "celebrating" the anniversary of Ron's death just to screw with him. Little Man spirals into an alcoholic depression after reading it.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: While the series primarily has no antagonists save for the occasional kidnapper or possessed doll, the Eyes cult is revealed to be responsible for [[spoiler:Lila being sent to another dimension and Pump's family losing their memories of him]], ultimately leading to Skid and Pump living with Monster.



* LaserGuidedAmnesia: It's revealed that [[spoiler:the ritual the cult performed at Lila's house erased Pump]] from the memories of his family, and ''only'' his family were effected. They feel like something is missing, but none of them can tell what.



* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The ritual the cult performed [[spoiler:destroyed Lila's house and sent her into another dimension, and it takes Selever and the pond at Zardy's maze to bring her back]]. The dimension is never described in detail, only that it was very, ''very'' dangerous.



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* ParentalAbandonment: Where Pump's family and Skid's mother Lila are during all this is left unclear, and when Monster outright asks the two where their parents are, Skid simply replies "what parents?". The whereabouts of their families are later revealed - [[spoiler:the Eyes cult broke into Lila's house and performed some sort of ritual, causing the house to explode and sending Lila into a another dimension, while something made Pump's family lose all their memories of him]].

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* ParentalAbandonment: Where Pump's family and Skid's mother Lila are during all this is left unclear, and when Monster outright asks the two where their parents are, Skid simply replies "what parents?". The whereabouts of their families are later revealed - [[spoiler:the Eyes cult broke into Lila's house and performed some sort of ritual, causing the house to explode and explode, sending Lila into a another dimension, while something made dimension and making Pump's family lose all their memories of him]].



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* OneSteveLimit: Averted: Lila's boss is named Hank, and the mere mention of the name sends Tricky flying into a rage. It is only when he is about to kill him does Tricky realize Lila's boss isn't ''his'' Hank, and he goes back to [=DJing=] like nothing happened.



* SparedByTheAdaptation: In ''Spooky Month'', Skid's missing father is heavily implied to be dead. In the fic, he had instead simply up and left and few years back.



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* DelayedReaction: After Susie comes into the Candy Club looking for Pump, Kevin points her in the direction of Monster's house. It takes until after Susie leaves for him and Senpai to realize that oh yeah, ''Susie remembers Pump now''. Spirit is summarily disappointed in both of them for taking so long to realize it.



* SelfDeprecation: After being caught up to speed, Susie compares the events of the previous two fics to a shitty fanfic filled with {{plot holes}}.

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The same day the final chapter was posted, the sequel, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32160724 You Can't Escape Spooky Month]]'', began.

Note: spoilers for ''It's Always Spooky Month'' are unmarked in ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'''s trope section.

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The same day the final chapter was posted, the sequel, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32160724 You Can't Escape Spooky Month]]'', began.

began. Months after the conclusion of that fic, the final fic of the trilogy, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42023607/chapters/105508101 Eternal Spooky Month]]'', began on [[MeaningfulReleaseDate October 1st, 2022]].

Note: spoilers for ''It's Always Spooky Month'' are unmarked in ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'''s trope section, and the same for both previous fics on ''Eternal Spooky Month'''s trope section.



!!Both provide examples of:
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Downplayed: Pump is portrayed close to how he is in the show, but is a bit more shy and timid to better contrast with Skid.

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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: AdaptationalPersonalityChange:
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Downplayed: Pump is portrayed close to how he is in the show, but is a bit more shy and timid to better contrast with Skid.Skid.
** Dexter is portrayed post-death as he is while alive in "Unwanted Guest", being cheerful and eccentric with hints of something darker under the surface, compared to the manic bloodlust-fueled frenzy he's in during "Deadly Smiles". He's also very clingy, staying by Lila's side for the entire day after their reintroduction.



* CallBack: In chapter 5 of ''It's Always Spooky Month'', Pump turns the Candy Club's open sign to closed to convince Kevin to come with him and Skid for a walk. In chapter 1 of ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'', Lila flips the open sign to closed while convincing Kevin to come with her and the boys.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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In chapter 5 of ''It's Always Spooky Month'', Pump turns the Candy Club's open sign to closed to convince Kevin to come with him and Skid for a walk. In chapter 1 of ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'', Lila flips the open sign to closed while convincing Kevin to come with her and the boys.boys.
** In ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'', Lila attacks Monster with a rake upon first meeting him. In ''Eternal Spooky Month'', Susie does the same thing with the same rake.
--->'''Monster:''' [[LampshadeHanging Again?!]]
* InternalReveal:
** Chapter 14 of ''It's Always Spooky Month'' is when Monster finally finds out the two "monster" children he's been taking care of are actually human kids in costumes.
** During the flashback in chapter 2 of ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'', Pump tells Lila what happened to his family.
** In the final chapter of ''You Can't Escape Spooky Month'', Pump finally tells the rest of the house about his secret spell conjuring, and about his family losing their memories of him.



* PerversePuppet: The series contains two possessed Happy Fella dolls, both described as psychotic by Skid:
** The first one, Todd, breaks many things and scares Monster multiple times, all while getting Skid blamed for it. It also moves, usually when nobody is looking at it. According to Pump, it kills people that it doesn't consider its best friend, and attempts to murder all three of them after Monster throws it out.
** The second goes unnamed, but is ''much'' more aggressive, trying to violently murder everyone in the house to satisfy his own bloodlust.




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* CreepyDoll: [[spoiler:The Happy Fella, or Todd, breaks many things and scares Monster multiple times, all while getting Skid blamed for it. It also moves, usually when nobody is looking at it. According to Pump, it kills people that it doesn't consider its best friend.]]




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Can't Escape Spooky Month'' provides examples of:Month'']]
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade:
** Lila has trauma from her time in the alternate dimension, needing to sleep with a nightlight at first and attempting to express her emotions through drawing.
** While Senpai is still his egotistical self, part of his behavior comes from genuinely not knowing how to react while "off-script". He also has a deep fear of ending up in the game again, and in general ''hates'' that he became sentient, feeling things were easier when he was just normal code.



* AssShove: After Senpai gets smart with him one too many times, Kevin points a pack of fudge out to him and threatens to shove it up his ass.
* ChekhovsGag: While trying to convince everyone else to let Little Man stay, Skid and Pump reveal they've taught them to imitate a siren in case someone breaks in, with everyone covering their ears as Little Man demonstrates. Sure enough, when the thieves later break into Monster's house and end up in Little Man's room, they immediately begin blaring like a siren to wake everyone else up.

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* AssShove: After Senpai gets smart with him one too many times, Kevin points out a pack of fudge out to him and threatens to shove it up his ass.
* ChekhovsGag: While trying to convince everyone else to let Little Man stay, Skid and Pump reveal they've taught them to imitate a siren in case someone breaks in, with everyone covering their ears as Little Man demonstrates. Sure enough, when the thieves later break into Monster's house and end up in Little Man's room, they immediately begin blaring like a siren to wake everyone else up.warn everyone.



* DecompositeCharacter: Dexter's cheerful persona from "Unwanted Guest" and his unhinged state while in the Happy Fella during "Deadly Smiles" are split between two characters: Dexter's ghost is still friendly, albeit weird, while the Happy Fella is an unrelated murderous ghost stuck in a doll that belonged to Robert's little sister.



* GroundhogDayLoop: Senpai equates his time in the ''Hating Simulator'' post-gaining sentience to an endless loop, and that no matter what he did, he'd always wake up in bed to do the same things again ad nauseum. He confides in Kevin over a fear of waking up in the game again after experiencing the much more rich and unique real world.

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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Lila asks if Monster actually is part cat, he remarks "They combined so many things I lost count." Right after the audience is introduced to Becky and the reveal [[spoiler:of Monster being a genetic experiment]].
* GroundhogDayLoop: Senpai equates his time in the ''Hating Simulator'' post-gaining sentience to an endless loop, and that no matter what he did, the game would reset and he'd always wake end up in bed back at the start to do the same things again ad nauseum.it all over again. He confides in Kevin over a fear of waking up in the game again after experiencing the much more rich and unique real world.



-->''"I find it ironic that a character from a romance game has an allergy to flowers." Kevin commented.''



* LikesOlderWomen: A running joke with Roy is him trying to find hot single ladies, with his continued use of the term MILF [[InsistentTerminology despite never using it to refer to moms]].



* {{Pyromaniac}}: Little Man creates a homemade flamethrower in chapter 11, and tries to kill Boyfriend with it.

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* {{Pyromaniac}}: {{Pyromaniac}}:
** While looking through the items inside Pump's shoebox collection, Garcello points out a book titled ''The Arsonist's Guide to Mayhem''.
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Little Man creates a homemade flamethrower in chapter 11, and tries to kill Boyfriend with it.it.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Monster's "species" ages tremendously slower than humans: when Skid and Pump ask Becky how old Monster is, she tells them to multiply eight and seven and then times that by one hundred,[[note]]If you're wondering, that would be ''5600'' years[[/note]] and that would ''probably'' be around his age. Later when Lila asks Monster about ''Becky's'' age, Monster says she's young by his standards, [[ProportionalAging comparing himself to an adult and her to a sorority girl]].



->'''Senpai:''' STOP DOING THAT! YOU'RE GIVING ME A HEADACHE!

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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Monster's "species" ages tremendously slower than humans: when Skid and Pump ask Becky how old Monster is, she tells them to multiply eight and seven and then times that by one hundred,[[note]]If you're wondering, that would be ''5600'' years[[/note]] and that would ''probably'' be around his age. Later when Lila asks Monster about ''Becky's'' age, Monster says she's young by his standards, [[ProportionalAging comparing himself to an adult and her to a sorority girl]].

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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Monster's "species" ages tremendously slower than humans: when TeethClenchedTeamwork: Monster and Lila start off barely being able to stand each other, only co-parenting because Skid and Pump ask love them both so much that getting rid of the other is not an option. The two eventually [[CharacterDevelopment grow past it and genuinely bond]].
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: To differentiate her from Monster,
Becky how old Monster is, she tells them to multiply eight is described as having eyelashes, a full head of hair, and seven boobs. Big boobs, if Roy's and then times that by one hundred,[[note]]If you're wondering, that would be ''5600'' years[[/note]] and that would ''probably'' be around his age. Later when Lila asks Monster about ''Becky's'' age, Monster says she's young by his standards, [[ProportionalAging comparing himself to an adult and her to a sorority girl]].Lila's reactions are any indication.



* WhamEpisode: "Lemon Sister" reveals that Monster isn't just some run of the mill creature, but rather [[spoiler:something specifically ''created'' via rampant gene splicing, there are a few others like him, and they have all long outlived their creators]]. All the times Monster has portrayed weird animal behavior are thus put through the lens of [[spoiler:a lab experiment acting on implanted instincts]].

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* UnexplainedRecovery: Ron shows up in chapter 13 alive and well again with no explanation, just with a big bandaid over his wound.
* WhamEpisode: "Lemon Sister" reveals that Monster isn't just some run of the mill creature, but rather [[spoiler:something specifically ''created'' via rampant gene splicing, there are a few others like him, and they have all long outlived their creators]]. All the times Monster has portrayed weird animal behavior are thus put through the lens of [[spoiler:a lab experiment acting on implanted instincts]].instincts]].
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* BigSisterInstinct: The moment Susie regains her memories of Pump, she runs out of class in the middle of a test to go find him.
* DownerBeginning: The first chapter has a much more melancholic tone than the hopeful end of the last fic, with everyone stressed as all of their attempts to either bring Selever and Razasy into their dimension or restore the memories of Pump's family have failed, with each failed attempt bringing the possibility that something ''else'' will go wrong in the process. It's also mentioned that the murderous Happy Fella escaped at some point and is currently who knows where.
* SelfDeprecation: After being caught up to speed, Susie compares the events of the previous two fics to a shitty fanfic filled with {{plot holes}}.
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** After being transported to the ''Hating Simulator'', Pump excitedly asks if they ended up in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''.


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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Candy Club has four different brooms each with a different purpose, denoted by the color of the handle: the red one is for sweeping the bathroom, the blue one for the main room, green for outside, and the purple one is for chasing out the crazy people.

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-->A low, rumbling purr emanated from the Monster and Lila jumped back in surprise. "What the..."\\
The Monster looked equally surprised. "I didn't know I could do that."



-->A low, rumbling purr emanated from the Monster and Lila jumped back in surprise. "What the..."\\
The Monster looked equally surprised. "I didn't know I could do that."



* BringMyBrownPants: Roy happily cheers after one of the girls who made fun of him pees her pants after Zardy terrifies her.

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* BringMyBrownPants: Roy happily cheers after when one of the girls who made fun of him pees her pants after Zardy terrifies her.



** Due to being in just a single song at the time of the fic's release, Spirit didn't have much going for him in the way of powers, only being shown to distort the ''Hating Simulator'' with his presence. The fic gives him strong telekinesis able to move multiple objects and people.

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** Due to being in just a single song at the time of the fic's release, Spirit didn't have much going for him in the way of powers, only being shown to distort the ''Hating Simulator'' with his presence. The fic gives him strong telekinesis able to move capable of moving multiple objects and people.



* AssShove: After Senpai gets smart with him one too many times, Kevin points a pack of fudge out to him and threatens to shove it up his ass.



* {{Irony}}: The heavily associated with roses Senpai is allergic to flowers, which the group finds out when they visit a botanical garden.

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* {{Irony}}: The heavily associated with roses Senpai is allergic to flowers, which the group he finds out when they visit the group visits a botanical garden.

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