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* ''Every'' [[ApocalypseMaiden Child of]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning Ill Omen]] has occasionally shown [[HiddenDepths extremely unstable and perhaps even psychotic behavior]]. However, this is probably due to the fact that they have all been [[spoiler:heavily traumatized by other people and situations, often ''because'' they're Children of Ill Omen]], rather than something genetic.

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* ''Every'' [[ApocalypseMaiden Child of]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning Ill Omen]] has occasionally shown [[HiddenDepths extremely unstable and perhaps even psychotic behavior]]. However, this is probably due to the fact that they have all been [[spoiler:heavily heavily traumatized by other people and situations, often ''because'' they're Children of Ill Omen]], Omen, rather than something genetic.



** Then, there's also the chance that you will end up having a [[ApocalypseMaiden Child of Ill Omen]] for a sibling, whom you will have to [[ShootTheDog send into the Abyss]] to be killed DeaderThanDead. The worst part is that [[spoiler:the entire narrative about their deaths being necessary is a pack of lies created by the Jurors. The Jurors, who try to dictate and control the "story" of the world, consider the Children of Misfortune a threat not because they are inherently dangerous to that world but because they're actually ImmuneToFate and completely unpredictable, and thus tend to ruin the Jurors' plans for the story just by existing. In other words, the Baskervilles have obliterated their own family members solely for the sake of the Jurors' control complex.]]
** Even without that, you will end up distorting reality around you, especially the lives of those around you, and being Glen amplifies this. Just ask [[spoiler:Leo]]. Or, well, any of the Glens, really.
* How about [[spoiler:Oswald's plan? He wants to go back into the past and kill his OWN SISTER, someone he cares about dearly.]]

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** Then, there's also the chance that you will end up having a [[ApocalypseMaiden Child of Ill Omen]] for a sibling, whom you will have to [[ShootTheDog send into the Abyss]] to be killed DeaderThanDead. The worst part is that [[spoiler:the the entire narrative about their deaths being necessary is a pack of lies created by the Jurors. The Jurors, who try to dictate and control the "story" of the world, consider the Children of Misfortune a threat not because they are inherently dangerous to that world but because they're actually ImmuneToFate and completely unpredictable, and thus tend to ruin the Jurors' plans for the story just by existing. In other words, the Baskervilles have obliterated their own family members solely for the sake of the Jurors' control complex.]]
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** Even without that, you will end up distorting reality around you, especially the lives of those around you, and being Glen amplifies this. Just ask [[spoiler:Leo]].Leo. Or, well, any of the Glens, really.
* How about [[spoiler:Oswald's Oswald's plan? He wants to go back into the past and kill his OWN SISTER, someone he cares about dearly.]]



* Oz being [[spoiler:soaked in blood with the revelation of him being B-rabbit. It is ''incredibly'' disturbing.]]
* [[spoiler:Oz was B-rabbit once upon a time, right? He must've been a total psycho who loved killing. Nope. The entire time Jack orders him to kill people, you can hear Oz shouting, "No, I don't want to kill people!" Then, when Jack runs into Alice, she gets completely stiff and asks him what he's done to Oz. She says, "Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?" ]]
** It's visually implied that the form of a chain reflects their mental stability. For example, White Alice takes the form of a demented White Rabbit when tormenting her sister earlier in the manga, complete with psychotic eyes that bleed, and towards the end of the manga her form becomes more and more demented as [[spoiler:the Core throws a temper tantrum over possibly losing Alice.]] Why is this important to mention in regards to Oz? [[spoiler:Because when Oz first takes the form of a true Chain and emerges through the Gate for the first time, B-Rabbit is large, solid, majestic, and honestly kind of posh in his red waistcoat - but over the course of the tragedy his body deforms; his limbs and body parts lose their proportions, his eyes lose their definition, until B-Rabbit is nothing but a vague, horrendously warped shade begging for help, with all of his defining physical features gone except for two protruding shapes that may have once been rabbit ears. This isn't a quirk of the visual style unique to this Oz-perspective flashback, either: when time begins to fall apart towards the end of the series and the cast encounters Past!Jack and Past!Oswald fighting in front of the tower, Past!B-Rabbit is shown being forced to attack and kill Oswald and appearing utterly demented while doing so. The horror is that this visual state ''[[MindRape is a physical manifestation of what Jack's actions are doing to Oz's mind.]]'' At least the reader can take comfort in knowing that once Oz's friends regroup to stop the second tragedy, Oz manifests as B-Rabbit again several times and shows very clearly that B-Rabbit is back to looking posh as hell.]]

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* Oz being [[spoiler:soaked soaked in blood with the revelation of him being B-rabbit. It is ''incredibly'' disturbing.]]
disturbing.
* [[spoiler:Oz Oz was B-rabbit once upon a time, right? He must've been a total psycho who loved killing. Nope. The entire time Jack orders him to kill people, you can hear Oz shouting, "No, I don't want to kill people!" Then, when Jack runs into Alice, she gets completely stiff and asks him what he's done to Oz. She says, "Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?" ]]
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** It's visually implied that the form of a chain reflects their mental stability. For example, White Alice takes the form of a demented White Rabbit when tormenting her sister earlier in the manga, complete with psychotic eyes that bleed, and towards the end of the manga her form becomes more and more demented as [[spoiler:the the Core throws a temper tantrum over possibly losing Alice.]] Alice. Why is this important to mention in regards to Oz? [[spoiler:Because Because when Oz first takes the form of a true Chain and emerges through the Gate for the first time, B-Rabbit is large, solid, majestic, and honestly kind of posh in his red waistcoat - but over the course of the tragedy his body deforms; his limbs and body parts lose their proportions, his eyes lose their definition, until B-Rabbit is nothing but a vague, horrendously warped shade begging for help, with all of his defining physical features gone except for two protruding shapes that may have once been rabbit ears. This isn't a quirk of the visual style unique to this Oz-perspective flashback, either: when time begins to fall apart towards the end of the series and the cast encounters Past!Jack and Past!Oswald fighting in front of the tower, Past!B-Rabbit is shown being forced to attack and kill Oswald and appearing utterly demented while doing so. The horror is that this visual state ''[[MindRape is a physical manifestation of what Jack's actions are doing to Oz's mind.]]'' At least the reader can take comfort in knowing that once Oz's friends regroup to stop the second tragedy, Oz manifests as B-Rabbit again several times and shows very clearly that B-Rabbit is back to looking posh as hell.]]




* Jack's fate after the Tragedy. [[spoiler:Reduced to fragments of his soul desperately holding on to life, de-aging back to a baby and then returning to his former age without really knowing what was happening, ''several times''. All the while never being completely sure that he would still exist after this cycle.]]
* The more obvious it becomes that Jack is not outright evil or yandere-ish but [[spoiler: empty]], the more unnerving his character gets. His confession during the last volume that [[spoiler: he's obsessed with Lacie not because he loves her but because he hates her,]] as well as that [[spoiler: extreme resentment is the only thing that successfully allows him to feel alive,]] is absolutely bone-chilling.
* One of Jack's most disturbing moments isn't even fleshed out. Although we never find out exactly what he told Arthur, the [[spoiler: fairy tale he once heard about an "empty man" that he decides to tell Arthur is quite obviously his own story.]] Arthur, who was [[spoiler: infatuated with Jack, fears him for the first time after realizing the truth about the "fairy tale" Jack told him.]]

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* Jack's fate after the Tragedy. [[spoiler:Reduced Reduced to fragments of his soul desperately holding on to life, de-aging back to a baby and then returning to his former age without really knowing what was happening, ''several times''. All the while never being completely sure that he would still exist after this cycle.]]

* The more obvious it becomes that Jack is not outright evil or yandere-ish but [[spoiler: empty]], empty, the more unnerving his character gets. His confession during the last volume that [[spoiler: he's obsessed with Lacie not because he loves her but because he hates her,]] her, as well as that [[spoiler: extreme resentment is the only thing that successfully allows him to feel alive,]] alive, is absolutely bone-chilling.
* One of Jack's most disturbing moments isn't even fleshed out. Although we never find out exactly what he told Arthur, the [[spoiler: fairy tale he once heard about an "empty man" that he decides to tell Arthur is quite obviously his own story.]] story. Arthur, who was [[spoiler: infatuated with Jack, fears him for the first time after realizing the truth about the "fairy tale" Jack told him.]]



* There's a nightmare-inducing scene in the ''first volume.'' Oz falls into a hole and finds a mysterious grave, and then he starts hearing a strange music-box tune that he recognizes in his heart, even though he swears he's never heard it before. Then he starts to hallucinate [[spoiler:(although this "hallucination" is actually in all likelihood a distorted flashback due to being in Jack's body)]] and ends up in a room full of speaking dolls telling him nonsensical things like "she's going to be so happy" and "she's been waiting for you." After this, a girl with hair over her eyes and a white dress insists she's been waiting for him for many years. Oz, obviously having no idea what's happening, asks what and who she is, and she goes ''berserk.'' Her eyes turn into empty, bloody sockets and she tries to strangle him, telling him that she will never forgive him for forgetting about her and that no matter where he runs, she will always find him.To top it off, Oz says that even after the hallucination ended, ''he could still feel the sensation of being strangled.''

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* There's a nightmare-inducing scene in the ''first volume.'' Oz falls into a hole and finds a mysterious grave, and then he starts hearing a strange music-box tune that he recognizes in his heart, even though he swears he's never heard it before. Then he starts to hallucinate [[spoiler:(although (although this "hallucination" is actually in all likelihood a distorted flashback due to being in Jack's body)]] body) and ends up in a room full of speaking dolls telling him nonsensical things like "she's going to be so happy" and "she's been waiting for you." After this, a girl with hair over her eyes and a white dress insists she's been waiting for him for many years. Oz, obviously having no idea what's happening, asks what and who she is, and she goes ''berserk.'' Her eyes turn into empty, bloody sockets and she tries to strangle him, telling him that she will never forgive him for forgetting about her and that no matter where he runs, she will always find him.To top it off, Oz says that even after the hallucination ended, ''he could still feel the sensation of being strangled.''



* The incident in Sablier that happened shortly after Leo became Elliot's servant. When [[spoiler:your new and OnlyFriend gets [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed]] by an EldritchAbomination right in front of you and ends up being contracted to it to stay alive]], you'd definitely wish it was all a nightmare.
** [[spoiler:Elliot's rather-bloody HeroicSacrifice and Leo's subsequent [[SanitySlippage change]] in [[StoppedCaring characterization]]]] weren't exactly happy either.
* Lily after [[spoiler:being shot in the head and surviving]].
* The Tragedy of Sablier. It's a massacre, after all. [[spoiler:And said massacre happened to double as a MercyKill to save the people within Sablier from a FateWorseThanDeath, as Sablier starts to fall into the Abyss.]] Poor Oz is understandably disturbed, [[spoiler:even when he was still B-Rabbit]].
* The fact that [[spoiler:Jack]] completely stripped [[spoiler:Oz]] of free will and forced him to slaughter an ''entire city.'' [[spoiler:Oz]] [[AndIMustScream couldn't do a thing about it]], as he was completely under [[spoiler:Jack's]] control. Also, [[SarcasmMode it must have been fun]] to watch [[spoiler:Alice]], his most beloved person, [[spoiler: fatally stab [[DrivenToSuicide herself]] with a pair of scissors.]]
** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he was forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder in Retrace 99, and it's the very first thing she questions Jack about when he storms into her tower immediately after her uncle's murder (as seen in Retrace 74). When Alice demands to know how and why Jack's ignoring Oz's screams, tears, and pleas to stop (complete with an absolutely horrifying image of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''absolute agony''), Jack simply replies: [[TheSociopath "Who cares about that?"]]]]
* The part where Alice had a vision of a bunch of hands dragging her down into the Abyss was pretty horrifying in its own right. And why did no one mention poor Cheshire? [[spoiler:Having your eyes cut out by a psycho boy with scissors is [[CruelAndUnusualDeath not a great way to die]].]]

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* The incident in Sablier that happened shortly after Leo became Elliot's servant. When [[spoiler:your your new and OnlyFriend gets [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed]] by an EldritchAbomination right in front of you and ends up being contracted to it to stay alive]], alive, you'd definitely wish it was all a nightmare.
** [[spoiler:Elliot's Elliot's rather-bloody HeroicSacrifice and Leo's subsequent [[SanitySlippage change]] in [[StoppedCaring characterization]]]] characterization]] weren't exactly happy either.
* Lily after [[spoiler:being being shot in the head and surviving]].
* The Tragedy of Sablier. It's a massacre, after all. [[spoiler:And And said massacre happened to double as a MercyKill to save the people within Sablier from a FateWorseThanDeath, as Sablier starts to fall into the Abyss.]] Abyss. Poor Oz is understandably disturbed, [[spoiler:even even when he was still B-Rabbit]].
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* The fact that [[spoiler:Jack]] Jack completely stripped [[spoiler:Oz]] Oz of free will and forced him to slaughter an ''entire city.'' [[spoiler:Oz]] Oz [[AndIMustScream couldn't do a thing about it]], as he was completely under [[spoiler:Jack's]] Jack's control. Also, [[SarcasmMode it must have been fun]] to watch [[spoiler:Alice]], Alice, his most beloved person, [[spoiler: fatally stab [[DrivenToSuicide herself]] with a pair of scissors.]]
scissors.
** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he was forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder in Retrace 99, and it's the very first thing she questions Jack about when he storms into her tower immediately after her uncle's murder (as seen in Retrace 74). When Alice demands to know how and why Jack's ignoring Oz's screams, tears, and pleas to stop (complete with an absolutely horrifying image of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''absolute agony''), Jack simply replies: [[TheSociopath "Who cares about that?"]]]]
* The part where Alice had a vision of a bunch of hands dragging her down into the Abyss was pretty horrifying in its own right. And why did no one mention poor Cheshire? [[spoiler:Having Having your eyes cut out by a psycho boy with scissors is [[CruelAndUnusualDeath not a great way to die]].]]



* What is it that Gil is cradling after he's [[spoiler: regained all his memories? Oswald's head.]]

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* What is it that Gil is cradling after he's [[spoiler: regained all his memories? Oswald's head.]]
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* [[spoiler:Oz was B-rabbit once upon a time, right? He must've been a total psycho who loved killing. Nope. The entire time Jack orders him to kill people, you can hear Oz shouting, "No, I don't want to kill people!" Then, when Jack runs into Alice, she gets completely stiff and asks him what he's done to Oz. She says, "Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?"

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* [[spoiler:Oz was B-rabbit once upon a time, right? He must've been a total psycho who loved killing. Nope. The entire time Jack orders him to kill people, you can hear Oz shouting, "No, I don't want to kill people!" Then, when Jack runs into Alice, she gets completely stiff and asks him what he's done to Oz. She says, "Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?" ]]

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--> '''Oz (thinking):'''[[http://www.mangareader.net/350-34361-9/pandora-hearts/chapter-41.html "No matter how insecure... no matter how terrifying... if it is destroyed... I will... be able to laugh."]]
* This [[http://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/70/42 image]] of Oz being [[spoiler:soaked in blood with the revelation of him being B-rabbit. It is ''incredibly'' disturbing.]]
* [[spoiler:Oz was B-rabbit once upon a time, right? He must've been a total psycho who loved killing. Nope. The entire time Jack orders him to kill people, you can hear Oz shouting, "No, I don't want to kill people!" Then, when Jack runs into Alice, she gets completely stiff and asks him what he's done to Oz. She says, "Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?" Then you get this image: [[http://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/74/44 Sweet dreams.]]]]

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--> '''Oz (thinking):'''[[http://www.mangareader.net/350-34361-9/pandora-hearts/chapter-41.html "No (thinking):'''"No matter how insecure... no matter how terrifying... if it is destroyed... I will... be able to laugh."]]
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* This [[http://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/70/42 image]] of Oz being [[spoiler:soaked in blood with the revelation of him being B-rabbit. It is ''incredibly'' disturbing.]]
* [[spoiler:Oz was B-rabbit once upon a time, right? He must've been a total psycho who loved killing. Nope. The entire time Jack orders him to kill people, you can hear Oz shouting, "No, I don't want to kill people!" Then, when Jack runs into Alice, she gets completely stiff and asks him what he's done to Oz. She says, "Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?" Then you get this image: [[http://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/74/44 Sweet dreams.]]]]



* [[http://www.mangareader.net/350-55575-32/pandora-hearts/chapter-51.html This panel of Lily]] after [[spoiler:being shot in the head and surviving]].
* [[http://www.mangareader.net/350-47596-21/pandora-hearts/chapter-46.html This is the real me...]] ♥
** Also doubles as a twisted SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. Vincent's face is priceless.

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* [[http://www.mangareader.net/350-55575-32/pandora-hearts/chapter-51.html This panel of Lily]] Lily after [[spoiler:being shot in the head and surviving]].
* [[http://www.mangareader.net/350-47596-21/pandora-hearts/chapter-46.html This is the real me...]] ♥
** Also doubles as a twisted SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. Vincent's face is priceless.
surviving]].



** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he was forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder in Retrace 99, and it's the very first thing she questions Jack about when he storms into her tower immediately after her uncle's murder (as seen in Retrace 74). When Alice demands to know how and why Jack's ignoring Oz's screams, tears, and pleas to stop ([[https://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/74/44 complete with an absolutely horrifying image]] of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''absolute agony''), Jack simply replies: [[TheSociopath "Who cares about that?"]]]]

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** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he was forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder in Retrace 99, and it's the very first thing she questions Jack about when he storms into her tower immediately after her uncle's murder (as seen in Retrace 74). When Alice demands to know how and why Jack's ignoring Oz's screams, tears, and pleas to stop ([[https://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/74/44 complete (complete with an absolutely horrifying image]] image of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''absolute agony''), Jack simply replies: [[TheSociopath "Who cares about that?"]]]]



* The Core of the Abyss [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/pandora_hearts/v20/c100/13.html reaching out to Alice]], intending to take the Intention's other half to make her less lonely.
* What is it that [[http://mangasaurus.com/view/50041-01418485 Gil is cradling]] after he's [[spoiler: regained all his memories? Oswald's head.]]

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* The Core of the Abyss [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/pandora_hearts/v20/c100/13.html reaching out to Alice]], Alice, intending to take the Intention's other half to make her less lonely.
* What is it that [[http://mangasaurus.com/view/50041-01418485 Gil is cradling]] cradling after he's [[spoiler: regained all his memories? Oswald's head.]]

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* There's a nightmare-inducing scene in the ''first volume.'' Oz falls into a hole and finds a mysterious grave, and then he starts hearing a strange music-box tune that he recognizes in his heart, even though he swears he's never heard it before. Then he starts to ''hallucinate'' [[spoiler:(although this "hallucination" is actually in all likelihood a distorted flashback due to being in Jack's body)]] and ends up in a room full of extremely unnerving dolls who are ''speaking'' and telling him nonsensical things like "she's going to be so happy" and "she's been waiting for you." Then a disturbing young girl with hair over her eyes and a white dress comes and tells him she's been waiting for him for many years and that's she's so happy to finally see him again. Oz, obviously having no idea what's happening, asks what and who she is, and she goes ''berserk.'' Her eyes turn into empty, bloody sockets and she tries to strangle him, telling him that she will never forgive him for forgetting about her and that no matter where he runs, ''she will always find him.''
** To top it off, Oz says that even after the hallucination ended, ''he could still feel the sensation of being strangled.''
*** There ''is'' an explanation for this scene, but it's only revealed many, many volumes later, [[MindScrew and it's not even revealed directly]]--the readers have to infer by themselves. [[NothingIsScarier The fact that both the readers and Oz are forced to go for an incredibly long time without having any idea what this scene is supposed to represent makes it even more unnerving.]]

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* There's a nightmare-inducing scene in the ''first volume.'' Oz falls into a hole and finds a mysterious grave, and then he starts hearing a strange music-box tune that he recognizes in his heart, even though he swears he's never heard it before. Then he starts to ''hallucinate'' hallucinate [[spoiler:(although this "hallucination" is actually in all likelihood a distorted flashback due to being in Jack's body)]] and ends up in a room full of extremely unnerving speaking dolls who are ''speaking'' and telling him nonsensical things like "she's going to be so happy" and "she's been waiting for you." Then After this, a disturbing young girl with hair over her eyes and a white dress comes and tells him insists she's been waiting for him for many years and that's she's so happy to finally see him again.years. Oz, obviously having no idea what's happening, asks what and who she is, and she goes ''berserk.'' Her eyes turn into empty, bloody sockets and she tries to strangle him, telling him that she will never forgive him for forgetting about her and that no matter where he runs, ''she she will always find him.''
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To top it off, Oz says that even after the hallucination ended, ''he could still feel the sensation of being strangled.''
*** ** There ''is'' an explanation for this scene, but it's only revealed many, many volumes later, [[MindScrew and it's not even revealed directly]]--the readers have to infer by themselves. [[NothingIsScarier The fact that both the readers and Oz are forced to go for an incredibly long time without having any idea what this scene is supposed to represent makes it even more unnerving.]]

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