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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The story is set in the early 1990's. Open bigotry against LGBTQ people and an attitude toward sexual assault that demonstrates why #metoo had to happen are just the most obvious differences.
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* ChildByRape: Vicki is terrified that she's going to have one of these after being [[DateRape date raped]] by Rodney.
** Angelina's nightmare after being consumed by the Heart Eater is that she's had one of these by Darren.
** Angelina's nightmare after being consumed by the Heart Eater is that she's had one of these by Darren.
* DisappearedDad: Vicki must have a father somewhere, but you'd never know it.
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* HonorRelatedAbuse: Angelina's father threatens
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* AttemptedRape: Darren takes brutal advantage of Angelina's incapacitation and the Heart Eater's assistance while she's in the hospital after a Heart Eater attack. [[spoiler: Only Val's interruption with a timely GroinAttack saves her]].
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* AttemptedRape: Darren takes brutal advantage of Angelina's incapacitation and the Heart Eater's assistance while she's in the hospital after a Heart Eater attack. [[spoiler: Only Val's Vicki's interruption with a timely GroinAttack saves her]].
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* QuestionableConsent: A number of girls are pressured or manipulated into sexual activities (''in addition'' to the outright [[DateRape date rapes]]). The story actually begins with a scene where a couple is having unprotected sex and the boy "forgets" to practice withdrawal as he'd promised.
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* GroinAttack: Darren takes advantage of Angelina's incapacitation after a Heart Eater attack to attempt to rape her. He thinks better of it when Vicki grabs his balls from behind and starts squeezing.
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* UnusualEuphemism: The Chance sisters have developed an entire euphemistic code system about their periods. It's based on pasta sauce.
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** Spook is this to Vicki
** Darren is this to Angelina
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** Spook is this to Vicki
** Darren is this to Angelina
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* AxCrazy: As his nickname implies, "Psycho Mike" is constantly on the edge of going berserk, possibly due to steroid use.
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* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: The goal of all of the protagonists is to be this, though Val doesn't have the self-confidence to believe that she'll succeed, and Vicki's plan is a bit shaky. [[spoiler: The survivors succeed]].
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. While it turns out that Vicki doesn't need an abortion (but rather some help in overcoming her eating disorder), abortion was definitely considered as an option.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. While it turns out that Vicki doesn't need an abortion (but rather some help in overcoming her eating disorder), disorder, which had caused her period to stop coming), abortion was definitely considered as an option.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: The final attack of the Changed Ones against the unChanged population of Belford comes when Natasha is getting ready for bed. One car crash and barefoot run across broken glass later, and her injuries become a serious issue for the heroes to deal with.
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* AlphaBitch: Natasha [=VanDyne=]
* AnAxeToGrind: Luther Harfield's weapon of choice.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Played with. Kara experiments a bit with Jason, but although it goes well, all it does is confirm that she really is gay.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: IfItsYouItsOkay:
** Played with. Kara experiments a bit with Jason, but although it goes well, all it does is confirm that she really is gay.
** Played with. Kara experiments a bit with Jason, but although it goes well, all it does is confirm that she really is gay.
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* SoullessShell: What remains behind after [[YourSoulIsMine the Heart Eater has fed]]. But they don't stay that way for long. See DemonicPossession.
* StalkerWithACrush: Spook is this to Vicki
** [[StalkerWithACrush Stalker With A Dangerous, Possessive, Violent Obsession]]: Darren is this to Angelina
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Oh, so many. With one big one at the core...
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: What [[spoiler: Spook]] does to [[spoiler: Darren]] is horrific. [[PayEvilUntoEvil One could easily argue that it was deserved]], but it isn't done as punishment for [[spoiler Darren's]] many, many crimes. It's done because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he'd become more trouble than he was worth]], and he [[BullyingADragon kept mouthing off anyway]].
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: What [[spoiler: Spook]] does to [[spoiler: Darren]] is horrific. [[PayEvilUntoEvil One could easily argue that it was deserved]], but it isn't done as punishment for [[spoiler [[spoiler: Darren's]] many, many crimes. It's done because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he'd become more trouble than he was worth]], and he [[BullyingADragon kept mouthing off anyway]].
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** Darren's father deliberately raised him to be a viciously misogynistic sociopath.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Darren is handsome and charming, which is his primary bait for his [[DateRape favorite hobby]], and his most effective tool for getting away with it (along with [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney his family's wealth and influence]]). The exact second he doesn't get what he wants, people start getting hurt.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: What [[spoiler: Spook]] does to [[spoiler: Darren]] is horrific. [[PayEvilUntoEvil One could easily argue that it was deserved]], but it isn't done as punishment for [[spoiler Darren's]] many, many crimes. It's done because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he'd become more trouble than he was worth]], and he [[BullyingADragon kept mouthing off anyway]].
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* LovableJock: Angelina and Tiffany Chance are both on the field hockey team. Big Dave is on the football team, and Jason would be as well if he hadn't decided he couldn't stand another season on the same team as Darren and his cronies.
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* BadassGrandpa: Sven Olsen. He knows full well that bad things tend to happen to people who talk too much about Belford's secrets, but he does it anyway so his grandson will have a fighting chance. When the "bad things" come for him, he ''beats them down with the family Bible''. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, they brought back-up in the form of The Reaper...]]
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* PsychicStrangle: As mentioned under KillerRabbit, the coydog pup is no more dangerous than an ordinary puppy physically...but since it can do this, it doesn't need to be.
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* AttemptedRape: Darren takes brutal advantage of Angelina's incapacitation and the Heart Eater's assistance while she's in the hospital after a Heart Eater attack. [[spoiler: Only Val's interruption with a timely GroinAttack saves her]].
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* NearRapeExperience: Darren takes brutal advantage of Angelina's incapacitation and the Heart Eater's assistance while she's in the hospital after a Heart Eater attack. [[spoiler: Only Val's interruption with a timely GroinAttack saves her]].
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* TheBabyTrap: [[spoiler: While inside the Heart Eater, Angelina's nightmare is that she has been caught in this by Darren]].
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* DCupDistress: Val. Sometimes she enjoys the attention (she particularly appreciates a compliment from Kara), but most of the time they're more trouble than they're worth.
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** Val shows no interest in girls other than Kara.
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* LastHetRomance: Not really a "romance" per se, but Kara tries heterosexual sex with Jason to see if she might not be bisexual. She is not.
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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler: Eating Angelina was a big mistake on the Heart Eater's part]].
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* NoPeriodsEver: Averted. When we first meet Val, she's talking to Vicki about how a PregnancyScare has ended because her period finally came. The Chance sisters have a whole euphemistic code worked out.
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** When we first meet Val, she's just gotten over one of these.
** Later, Vicki has one where she's afraid she may be having Rodney's ChildByRape, and just when he's gone DisappearedDad no less.
** When we first meet Val, she's just gotten over one of these.
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*GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: For a certain value of "good". [[TheirFirstTime We are dealing with inexperienced teenagers, after all]]. That said, positive characters are caring and thoughtful lovers, while no less than three human villains are rapists, and two serious jerkass characters are revealed as such by their selfish and callous treatment of their partners.
