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* AbusiveParents: Clem's father is absolutely horrible to him and is ''the'' contributor to Clem's worldview that he can never be good enough and is the reason behind his various suicide attempts. Crystal's (unseen) mother is implied to be not much better, as she is briefly heard calling her daughter stupid when she hands the phone to her.



* AirVentPassageway: Frazie and Lili crawl through one in Maloof's mind to find the Memory Vault he wants to hide away. Lili comments about how vents in the real world aren't big enough for anyone to crawl through, but Frazie counters by saying that they can fit because of their size, and also Maloof has probably watched enough crime films for him to internalize the idea that vents can be crawled through.



* PowerIncontinence: The Memory Vault "Phoebe’s First Recital" shows Phoebe playing her drums so hard that she unknowingly sets the sticks on fire, leading to a chain reaction that accidentally sets her school's music hall on fire. This leads to Phoebe discovering her psychic powers for the first time.



** There are laws that limit certain ways that psychic technology can be used. The Young Minds Protection Act in particular was designed to keep anyone from using Psi Portals on children, current Psi Portals built in with a safeguard so that they can'd be used on anyone under 18. Frazie ends up "borrowing" a modified one to get into the minds of her fellow campers.

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** There are laws that limit certain ways that psychic technology can be used. The Young Minds Protection Act in particular was designed to keep anyone from using Psi Portals on children, current Psi Portals built in with a safeguard so that they can'd can't be used on anyone under 18. Frazie ends up "borrowing" a modified one to get into the minds of her fellow campers.



* WhatIf: What if Frazie went to Whispering Rocks Psychic Summer Camp instead of Raz?

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* WhatIf: What if Frazie went to Whispering Rocks Rock Psychic Summer Camp instead of Raz?Raz?
* WhosOnFirst: When taking directions from Lefty in Maloof's mind, Lili tries to get a refresher on which direction they need to go:
-->''"You said go left, right?"\\
"No, go left, not right," their guide replied.\\
"Right! Left!"\\
"Left, right."''
* WorldOfSymbolism: Just like the games, the minds Frazie enters reflect the personalities and innermost thoughts of the people they belong to.
** Dogen's Saturday Morning Kaboom is a kiddy-like ToonTown filled with talking animals, reflecting Dogen's mentality and his zoolingual abilities. Frazie, Benny and Bobby enter through a fuzzy television that represents Dogen's worldview. Inside the television, various buildings are exploding and in the center of it all, there's a burning building filled with cardboard cutouts of the campers and staff, a representation of the current head-explosion danger in the real world. The "boss" of the area is Bonfear, a living ball of fire. He is a representation of both Dogen's blastokinesis and fear of his blastokinesis instilled in him by Compton and various others. Once that fear is snuffed out by Dogen, the boy is finally in control of his powers and doesn't need to wear his hat anymore.
** Phoebe's Fire Mix Tape is a bouncing music club where Phoebe is the number-one VIP, reflecting her love and talent for music. When Frazie accidentally burns the club down, Phoebe loses her groove and the area turns into Phoebe's Frosty Funk, a desolate landscape consumed by the cold and is filled with various Doubts, reflecting Phoebe's fears that she'll never be able to play again and that she was never good enough to begin with if she was able to lose her skill so easily. To help repair Phoebe's brain, Frazie must grab three [=CDs=] that have three songs on them, which are linked to three important memories of Phoebe's: The first instrument she ever played, her school's musical tryout that led to Phoebe's accidental discovery of her pyrokinesis and the first song she ever made together with Quentin. Along the way, Frazie is stalked by a "yeti" who eventually turns out to be wearing one big hairy disguise. The yeti turns out to be an icy replica of her called Freezie, a representation of Phoebe's negative view of Frazie after she accidentally ruined her musical abilities.
** Clem's Happy Happy Happy Happy Place is anything but. The starting point is a little tropical bubble where Clem is seen relaxing alongside various Censors who don't even ''try'' to stop Frazie and Crystal from running around, a major clue something is off. The bubble is Clem's HappyPlace that gradually shrinks as time goes on, reflecting Clem's StepfordSmiler aspects and the fact that the façade is slowly being chipped away at by his self-hatred. Outside the bubble is a dark twisted jungle filled with hateful and manic Intrusive Thoughts, with his abusive father being the biggest Intrusive Thought around, the biggest contributor to Clem's self-hatred and his desire to kill himself. The jungle itself is a dark and twisted representation of Clem's home and his life there. Finally, the representation of his home is a big menacing cave, an indication Clem does not like his home one bit and regards it poorly.
** Nein and Vodello’s Merged Mentality is a merge of Sasha and Milla's minds, as the name indicates. Because they have a psychic link, they're able to fuse their minds together to act as a Psi-Blast/Levitation training ground for Frazie. While Sasha's side of the mind is neat and organized while Milla's is just as funky and colorful as her, there are some indications that the other has rubbed off on them, with Sasha's side having colorful throw pillows on his couch and Milla's side having been organized by Sasha.
** Maloof's Mafia Metropolis is a [[{{Gangsterland}} big city]] populated by FacelessGoons working for Maloof. In his mind, he's the boss and what he says goes. His goons have names that come from cartoon characters, an indication that Maloof gets some of his mafia knowledge from the shows he watches. Maloof wants his goons to lock away a memory vault so Frazie and Lili can't get to it because in the real world, he is on a power high after Mikhail volunteers to act as his bodyguard.

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* ShoutOut: The mooks in "Maloof's Mafia Metropolis" have names of various fictional mobsters and criminals, including [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Rocky, Mugsy]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Pinhead, Dirty Dan]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Fat Tony]].

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** When participating in the punching minigame during Basic Braining, one of Crystal and Clem's cheers is [[VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper "KICK, PUNCH, IT'S ALL IN THE MIND!"]]
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The mooks in "Maloof's Mafia Metropolis" have names of various fictional mobsters and criminals, including [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Rocky, Mugsy]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Pinhead, Dirty Dan]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Fat Tony]].
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* VisualPun: The residents of Maloof's mind are faceless men wearing suits - literal FacelessGoons.
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* DancingPants: The mental figures in Maloof's Mafia Metropolis are mob goons represented by disembodied suits of clothing.
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* LamePunReaction: In chapter 18, Frazie and Lili are forced to use the sewers to enter a secure area in Maloof's mental world and get one of his memory vaults. Frazie [[LampshadeHanging wonders why Maloof's mind even has a sewer]], and Lili jokes "I guess he's got some dirty thoughts?" Frazie is unamused.
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* {{Gangsterland}}: Maloof's mind -- "Maloof's Mafia Metropolis" -- is a massive, near-empty city ran by [[TheMafia a mafia gang]] made up of sentient pinstripe suits and censors.
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* ShoutOut: The mooks in "Maloof's Mafia Metropolis" have names of various fictional characters, including [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Rocky, Mugsy]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Pinhead, Dirty Dan]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Fat Tony]].

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* ShoutOut: The mooks in "Maloof's Mafia Metropolis" have names of various fictional characters, mobsters and criminals, including [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Rocky, Mugsy]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Pinhead, Dirty Dan]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Fat Tony]].
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* CementShoes: Parodied in chapter 17; the mental version of Maloof has one of his Mafia goons threatened with "cement shoes" for [[BadBoss a minor mistake]], but it turns out they only do they "encasing their feet in cement" part and not the "dropping them in the nearest body of deep water" part, so it's more humiliating and painful than deadly.


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* PatrollingMook: In Chapter 17, Frazie encounters Object Permanences, mental figures [[SurrealSymbolicHeads with flashlights for heads]] who attack anything that steps into the beam of their light.


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* ShoutOut: The mooks in "Maloof's Mafia Metropolis" have names of various fictional characters, including [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Rocky, Mugsy]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Pinhead, Dirty Dan]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Fat Tony]].
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** "Nein and Vodello's Merged Mentality" is a mindscape built from the semi-permanent psychic connection Sasha and Milla built for each other. It's described as a haphazard mix of their canon-counterpart's minds and it's used as an obstacle course used to teach Frazie PsiBlast and [[{{Flight}} Levitation]].

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** "Nein and Vodello's Merged Mentality" is a mindscape built from the semi-permanent psychic connection Sasha and Milla built for each other. It's described as a haphazard mix of their canon-counterpart's minds and it's used as an obstacle course used to teach Frazie PsiBlast and [[{{Flight}} Levitation]].

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* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: When Frazie grills Ford about how he's somehow everywhere at camp, he tells her that he's just looking out for all of the campers safety. Frazie can tell he is leaving out huge chunks of the real answer, but drops it.



* IgnoredEpiphany: Even after his bullying nearly caused Dogen to explode everyone's heads, Bobby goes onto bully someone else later.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While Frazie openly questions Ford's almost-omnipresent nature around camp, everyone else just shrugs and ignores him.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While Frazie openly questions Ford's almost-omnipresent nature omnipresence around camp, everyone else just shrugs and ignores him.
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** "Nein and Vodello's Merged Mentality" is a mind-scape built from the semi-permanent psychic connection Sasha and Milla built for each other. It's described as a haphazard mix of their canon-counterpart's minds and it's used as an obstacle course used to teach Frazie PsiBlast and [[{{Flight}} Levitation]].

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** "Nein and Vodello's Merged Mentality" is a mind-scape mindscape built from the semi-permanent psychic connection Sasha and Milla built for each other. It's described as a haphazard mix of their canon-counterpart's minds and it's used as an obstacle course used to teach Frazie PsiBlast and [[{{Flight}} Levitation]].

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* HailfirePeaks: Phoebe's mind -- "[[LethalLavaLand Phoebe's Fire Mix Tape]]" -- starts out as a volcanic world surrounding a lively dance-club. After Frazie accidentally sets the whole place on fire and gets kicked out, Frazie returns to find everything frozen over, having been turned into a "[[SlippySlideyIceWorld Phoebe's Frosty Funk]]".

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* HailfirePeaks: HailfirePeaks:
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Phoebe's mind -- "[[LethalLavaLand Phoebe's Fire Mix Tape]]" -- starts out as a volcanic world surrounding a lively dance-club. After Frazie accidentally sets the whole place on fire and gets kicked out, Frazie returns to find everything frozen over, having been turned into a "[[SlippySlideyIceWorld Phoebe's Frosty Funk]]".Funk]]".
** "Nein and Vodello's Merged Mentality" is a mind-scape built from the semi-permanent psychic connection Sasha and Milla built for each other. It's described as a haphazard mix of their canon-counterpart's minds and it's used as an obstacle course used to teach Frazie PsiBlast and [[{{Flight}} Levitation]].
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Frazie encounters some mental beings that weren't introduced until ''Psychonauts 2'', such as Doubts.

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Frazie encounters some mental beings that weren't introduced until ''Psychonauts 2'', such as Doubts.Doubts and Regrets.



* GoneHorriblyRight: Phoebe was able to teach Frazie how to properly use pyrokinesis while in her mind. Unfortunately, she ends up setting everything on fire. By the time Frazie manages to reenter her mind, Phoebe's ability to play the drums is all but shot and her mind is rendered a frozen wasteland.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: Phoebe was able to teach Frazie how to properly use pyrokinesis while in her mind. Unfortunately, she gets carried away with her training ad ends up setting everything on starting a huge fire. By the time Frazie manages to reenter her mind, Phoebe's ability to play the drums is all but shot and her mind is rendered a frozen wasteland.
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* ManiacMonkeys: In Clem's mind Frazie encounters Intrusive Thoughts, aggressive monkey-like mental creatures with sharp claws, barbed tails, and Jack-o-lantern-like faces that spew hateful insults. Their leader is a KillerGorilla-like monster representing [[AbusiveParents Clem's abusive dad]].

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* ManiacMonkeys: In Clem's mind Frazie encounters Intrusive Thoughts, aggressive monkey-like mental creatures with sharp claws, barbed tails, and Jack-o-lantern-like jack-o'-lantern-like faces that spew hateful insults. Their leader is a KillerGorilla-like monster representing [[AbusiveParents Clem's abusive dad]].
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Clem tries to convince Frazie to ignore the Intrusive Thoughts trying to break into his HappyPlace, and offers her a juice box in her choice of "cherry, cranberry, and cyanide flavors."
* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Ford Cruller offers Frazie a Dream Fluff to keep her from asking too many questions about how he gets all over the camp. It ends up giving her a HeroicSecondWind against the Intrusive Thoughts in chapter 11.


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* ManiacMonkeys: In Clem's mind Frazie encounters Intrusive Thoughts, aggressive monkey-like mental creatures with sharp claws, barbed tails, and Jack-o-lantern-like faces that spew hateful insults. Their leader is a KillerGorilla-like monster representing [[AbusiveParents Clem's abusive dad]].

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Frazie encounters some mental beings that weren't introduced until Psychonauts 2, such as Doubts.

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Frazie encounters some mental beings that weren't introduced until Psychonauts 2, ''Psychonauts 2'', such as Doubts.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Frazie and Crystal enter Clem's mind, the first massive clue that there is seriously something wrong with Clem is when they encounter censors -- who are normally hostile to psychic foreigners -- that ignore them completely, instead choosing to laze about as though on vacation.

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Frazie encounters some mental beings that weren't introduced until Psychonauts 2, such as Doubts.



* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: While exploring "Phoebe's Frosty Funk", Frazie finds herself stalked by a yeti-like monster. It turns out to be a living ice statue of herself, which she nicknames "Frazice", [[AllegoricalCharacter representing the bad first impression Frazie made and Phoebe's lingering resentment for messing up her mind in the first place]].



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: There are laws that limit certain ways that psychic technology can be used. The Young Minds Protection Act in particular was designed to keep anyone from using Psi Portals on children, current Psi Portals built in with a safeguard so that they can'd be used on anyone under 18.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
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There are laws that limit certain ways that psychic technology can be used. The Young Minds Protection Act in particular was designed to keep anyone from using Psi Portals on children, current Psi Portals built in with a safeguard so that they can'd be used on anyone under 18. Frazie ends up "borrowing" a modified one to get into the minds of her fellow campers.
** While Clem and Crystal's suicide attempts are [[SuicideAsComedy played for dark laughs as usual]], Frazie actually notices what they're up to and [[InterruptedSuicide stages an ad-hoc intervention for them]] (in the form of jumping into Clem's mind and taking Crystal along with her).
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Phoebe was able to teach Frazie how to properly use pyrokinesis while in her mind. Unfortunately, she ends up setting everything on fire. By the time Frazie manages to reenter her mind, Phoebe's ability to play the drums is all but shot and her mind is rendered a frozen wasteland.
* HailfirePeaks: Phoebe's mind -- "[[LethalLavaLand Phoebe's Fire Mix Tape]]" -- starts out as a volcanic world surrounding a lively dance-club. After Frazie accidentally sets the whole place on fire and gets kicked out, Frazie returns to find everything frozen over, having been turned into a "[[SlippySlideyIceWorld Phoebe's Frosty Funk]]".
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* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: Lili acts as Frazie's tutor in learning how to use her psychic powers, this despite the girl being around the same age as her younger brother.

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* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: Frazie ends up getting tutoring from the other kids (like Lili acts as Frazie's tutor and Phoebe) in learning how to use her psychic powers, this despite the girl them being around the same age as her younger brother.
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* BlatantLies: When Frazie tries getting bacon with her breakfast, Chef Ford tells her that they are all out. When she tries pressing the issue (especially since she wreaks of bacon), he tries bribing her with a free Dream Fluff.

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* BlatantLies: When Frazie tries getting bacon with her breakfast, Chef Ford tells her that they are all out. When she tries pressing the issue (especially since she wreaks he reeks of bacon), he tries bribing her with a free Dream Fluff.
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* EvilLivingFlames: Bonfear is a personal demon that embodies Dogen Boole's anxiety and the PowerIncontinence that follows, manifesting as a sentient fire-monster causing all of the fires and explosions happening in Dogen's mind.
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* BackToSchool: It isn't until Frazie convinces the counselors to let her stay does she realize that all of her "fellow campers" are preteens and acknowledges that since she made this bed, she'll have to swallow her pride and lye in it.

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* BackToSchool: It isn't until Frazie convinces the counselors to let her stay does she realize that all of her "fellow campers" are preteens and acknowledges that since she made this bed, she'll have to swallow her pride and lye lie in it.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While Frazie openly questions Ford's almost-omnipresent nature around camp, everyone else just shrugs and ignores him.
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* SpottingTheThread: When Frazie tries to help her fellow campers in Basic Braining, [[TheSocialDarwinist Oleander scolds her for "babying" them and trying help "Slowey Joeys"]]. This leads her to question his history in the military when he is encouraging an "every man for himself" mentality.
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''Later, Traitor'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' fanfic by [=BurningFox6=], and can be read on Website/FanfictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13949243/1/Later-Traitor here]].

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''Later, Traitor'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' fanfic by [=BurningFox6=], and can be read on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33629956/chapters/83570563 here]] and Website/FanfictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13949243/1/Later-Traitor here]].
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* ToonTown: Dogen's mind -- Dogen's Saturday Morning Kaboom -- is a cartoonish world set within a malfunctioning TV.

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--> '''Frazie''': Wait a sec... Why are all the campers, like, ten?!\\
'''Oleander''': Because this is a kid's summer camp, not a teen's summer camp, missy! You're the one who wanted to hop aboard, so you don't get to complain about your fellow cadets.

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--> '''Frazie''': Wait a sec... Why '''Frazie''': I didn't know I was sneaking into elementary school... especially when some of those kids are all the campers, like, ten?!\\
'''Oleander''': Because this is a kid's summer camp, not a teen's summer camp, missy! You're the one who wanted to hop aboard, so you don't get to complain about your fellow cadets.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: There are laws that limit certain ways that psychic technology can be used. The Young Minds Protection Act in particular was designed to keep anyone from using Psi Portals on children, current Psi Portals built in with a safeguard so that they can'd be used on anyone under 18.
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--> '''Frazie''': Wait a sec... Why are all the campers, like, ten?!\\
'''Oleander''': Because this is a kid's summer camp, not a teen's summer camp, missy! You're the one who wanted to hop aboard, so you don't get to complain about your fellow cadets.


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* MistakenForSpies: When first meeting Frazie, Coach Oleander thinks she was a spy who broke in, thinking her actual name is too ridiculous to be anything other than a codename.
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* EpicFail: In her attempt at learning pyrokinesis, Frazie accidentally sets her hair on fire, followed by a near-drowning via the Hand of Galochio when Lili tries putting it out.
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Raz was given a pamphlet for Whispering Rocks Psychic Summer Camp by a mysterious stranger, who was revealed in ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' to be his (sort of) Grandmother Nona. She told him that she briefly considered giving it to his older sister Frazie instead, [[WhatIf but what if she did give it to her instead?]]

''Later, Traitor'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' fanfic by [=BurningFox6=], and can be read on Website/FanfictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13949243/1/Later-Traitor here]].
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!!''Later, Traitor'' provides examples of:
* BackToSchool: It isn't until Frazie convinces the counselors to let her stay does she realize that all of her "fellow campers" are preteens and acknowledges that since she made this bed, she'll have to swallow her pride and lye in it.
* BlatantLies: When Frazie tries getting bacon with her breakfast, Chef Ford tells her that they are all out. When she tries pressing the issue (especially since she wreaks of bacon), he tries bribing her with a free Dream Fluff.
* WhatIf: What if Frazie went to Whispering Rocks Psychic Summer Camp instead of Raz?
* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: Lili acts as Frazie's tutor in learning how to use her psychic powers, this despite the girl being around the same age as her younger brother.
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