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* AmbiguousDisorder: Lee Harper, known as "[[TheHermit Harper the Hermit]]" to his neighbors, is a very reclusive 40-something year old. He's implied to be paranoid, keeps cameras everywhere on his property, and has kept surveillance on all his neighbors for over 10 years. He can remember minuet details about their lives. It's also implied that Harper has abandonment issues over his deadbeat DisappearedDad.



* SirSwearsAlot: Francine mentions that she curses a lot lately. She tries not to, but it just comes out.

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* SirSwearsAlot: Francine mentions that she curses a lot lately. She tries not to, but it just comes out.out.
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* AdultFear: Muffy mentions to Francine that her brother Chip temporarily cut ties with his family in college. This scared them because he always keeps in close contact with them. They worried something had happened to him until he called Muffy a month later.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Harper Lee, known as "[[TheHermit Harper the Hermit]]" to his neighbors, is a very reclusive 40-something year old. He's implied to be paranoid, keeps cameras everywhere on his property, and has kept surveillance on all his neighbors for over 10 years. He can remember minuet details about their lives. It's also implied that Harper has abandonment issues over his deadbeat DisappearedDad.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Harper Lee, Lee Harper, known as "[[TheHermit Harper the Hermit]]" to his neighbors, is a very reclusive 40-something year old. He's implied to be paranoid, keeps cameras everywhere on his property, and has kept surveillance on all his neighbors for over 10 years. He can remember minuet details about their lives. It's also implied that Harper has abandonment issues over his deadbeat DisappearedDad.

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* FullNameUltimatum: Fern's mother calls her "Fern Victoria Walters" when she catches her having broken into an up-for-sale house.

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Fern's mother calls her "Fern Victoria Walters" when she catches her having broken into an up-for-sale house.house.
** Muffy's father calls her by her actual name (sans surname), Mary Alice, when he's called into school because she used her cellphone in class.
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* ShoutOut: Bo calls the hermit Lee Harper "High-Tech Boo Radley", which is a ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' reference.

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* ShoutOut: Bo calls the hermit Lee Harper "High-Tech Boo Radley", which is a ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' reference. Lee Harper's name is a reference to the book's writer, Harper Lee.
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* DarkFic: The trilogy isn't anything too dark but it covers more mature themes than canon, such as going into depth on the divorce of Buster's parents, drug abuse, and [[spoiler:miscarriages/stillbirths]]. It reads like a teenage-aimed version of ''Arthur''.


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* ShoutOut: Bo calls the hermit Lee Harper "High-Tech Boo Radley", which is a ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' reference.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Harper Lee, known as "[[TheHermit Harper the Hermit]]" to his neighbors, is a very reclusive 40-something year old. He's implied to be paranoid, keeps cameras everywhere on his property, and has kept surveillance on all his neighbors for over 10 years. He can remember minuet details about their lives. It's also implied that Harper has abandonment issues over his deadbeat DisappearedDad.


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* FullNameUltimatum: Fern's mother calls her "Fern Victoria Walters" when she catches her having broken into an up-for-sale house.
* InsistentTerminology: Chip is a mixologist, not a bartender.

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* {{Continuation}}: The trilogy begins years after the series. Arthur and his friends are now teenagers in middle school.

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* AdultFear: Muffy mentions to Francine that her brother Chip temporarily cut ties with his family in college. This scared them because he always keeps in close contact with them. They worried something had happened to him until he called Muffy a month later.
* {{Continuation}}: The trilogy begins years after the series. Arthur and his friends are now teenagers in middle school.school.
* CurseCutShort: Francine does a lot of mid-word swaps to avoid cursing.
* ShesNotMyGirlfriend: Arthur and Francine both get mistaken for a couple frequently. They always make sure to clarify that they're not dating.
* SirSwearsAlot: Francine mentions that she curses a lot lately. She tries not to, but it just comes out.
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''On the Long Route'' is the first of three ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' fanfics by Squaresville. The series consists of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3121915/1/On-the-Long-Route On the Long Route]]'', ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12469064/1/Lies-and-the-Lying-Parents-Who-Tell-Them Lies and the Lying Parents Who Tell Them]]'', and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13054567/1/The-Secret-Keeper The Secret Keeper]]''.

''On the Long Route'' begins with a 14-year old Buster questioning his mother on why she divorced his dad ten years ago. ''Lies and the Lying Parents Who Tell Them'' is about Buster not feeling like his mother is telling him the whole truth. He gets Fern to help try and uncover the "real reason" his parents divorced.

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* {{Continuation}}: The trilogy begins years after the series. Arthur and his friends are now teenagers in middle school.

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