History Website / GoodbyeStrangers

* AlienGeometries: The zinvinzidrinzi are mostly flat strangers that pop up in walls, but rarely ever crack them when they pop up. And the Alphabetarians and Animalarians are extremely weird. They look like two dimensional beings but they actually are higher dimensional beings we are only seeing a small part of. The Animalarians look like children's drawings of animals that are always facing towards the viewer, but their bodies are described as being like a flipbook whose spite stretches from the dimension of the Alphabetarians. And the Alphabetarians look like living letters, but they are described as being vast dimensional tunnels that absorb any thoughtform that they intersect with. Looking at them is painful.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasn'tMadeOnDrugs: This happens In-Universe with the ''Zeroworld'' game. Default, the main writer of the game, wrote most of the game based on the visions he experienced while under the influence of [[FantasticDrug psycholy]]. The game is surprisingly coherent for something written under the influence of drugs, but paints a dark picture of humanity's future. It also later happens with Bracey. After attempting suicide by taking a massive dose of psycholy, he starts NoticingTheFourthWall and begins working on the ''Hollow Crowns'' module, which is both a bizarre art project reflecting on his relationship with Default, and also an experiment in finding a way to escape from the story's narrative. You may also have a lot of questions about what sort of mental state the author of ''Goodbye Stranger'' was in when he designed the [[OurMonstersAreWeird monsters]] and [[MindScrew concepts]] that it features.

* AsteroidsMonster: The [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/elist/s_recurridaize.html recurridaize]] contains smaller versions of itself with the [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/elist/img/str_in/str_recurridaize_01.png colors flipped]], which also contain smaller version of themselves with the colors flipped [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/elist/img/str_in/str_recurridaize_02.png again]]. While it doesn't go any further than that, it's probably more copies of itself all the way down.

* AsteroidsMonster: The [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/elist/s_recurridaize.html recurridaize]] contains smaller versions of itself with the colors flipped, which also contain smaller version of themselves with the colors flipped again.

* BrownNote: Strangers are full of these; many cause adverse effects to humans just by ''existing'' in their general area. One of the best examples is the Iilidroni. Looking at an illidroni causes permanent eye damage and eventually blindness and it also is hypnotic so viewers are not likely to stop looking at it until it is too late. The Alphabetarians are described as being painful to look at due to their AlienGeometries.

* BrownNote: Strangers are full of these; many cause adverse effects to humans just by ''existing'' in their general area. The Alphabetarians are described as being painful to look at due to their AlienGeometries.

* AndIMustScream: The tindromi is a stranger that is animate but immobile due to its skin being completely ridged with no joints and not possible to remove without fatally injuring it. It is constantly struggling to move but never can. If a sensitive comes close it makes sounds like a person crying out for help but it never calms down unless it is injured. Groups of tindromi will appear to argue with each other and get angrier and angrier until they are all shouting.

* CanonWelding: The Meoms, Alphabetarians, and Probotaxazatonians originally came from a separate section of the Atrocityland website but were later added to the Strangers universe.

* ColorMotif: Each of the main human characters is associated with a color. Default is blue, Bracy is a shade of green, and Fifi Cherish is red. The probotaxazatonians are associated with the color magenta. It is implied at any text written in magenta could be bait set by them to lure victims in.

%%* AndIMustScream: The Tindromi.

* {{Autocanibalism}}: One of the non-canon strangers from the now removed ''Radials'' module causes sensitives that encounter it to suffer a compulsion to eat themselves that doesn't go away until they have consumed between 1-5% of their own body mass.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Just how strangers seem to spontaneously generate from nothing, they also leave little to no traces behind when they die.
* NonMaliciousMonster: While some varieties of stranger, especially those of the choleric temperament, attack and kill humans, many varieties cause harm with only their presence unwillingly or without their awareness. Although since strangers don't have very much of a mind it is a stretch to call even the very aggressive ones malicious.
* OffWithHisHead: One of the modules, ''Hollow Crowns'', is chock full of this. Each pages features a decapitated stranger with a different crown on each one, which was done as an art project by Bracy Wray.

* RecursiveReality: ''Goodbye Strangers'' is a NestedStory with three levels. What should be the top is ''Behind the Curtain'' which a fictionalized version of how ''Goodbye Strangers'' was written. The main setting of the story is called North Mural, which is where ''Space Madness'' takes place. ''Zeroworld'' is a FictionalVideoGame that exists in North Mural and depicts the BadFuture world of VHZ. [[MindScrew But somehow, ''Behind the Curtain'' also exists within VHZ.]] Several pages such as the one for the [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/elist/s_recurridaize.html recurridaize]] also have advertisements for ''Goodbye Strangers''.

* {{Synchronization}}: Tomodaris always manifest in pairs. Any injuries that are inflicted on one affect both of them. Each Tomodari also imitates whatever sounds are heard by their twin.

* FantasticDrug: Psycholy and red milk are two drugs that are extracted from strangers. Unlike other materials extracted from strangers, they don't require a laminate-type sensitive to bring them into the real world. Another drug that plays a role in the story is Material D, which Olivia puts into North Mural's water supply.

*** ''Sonic & Eggman''is something in its own league. Its nature as a Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog fanfiction means that it has a linear narrative, which is almost unheard of within the canon, and doesn't namedrop strangers at all, leaving it ambiguous as to what its relationship to the rest of the website even is. It was also very deliberately linked in the site's home page. It was later revealed in ''Space Madness'' that ''Sonic & Eggman'' is an in-universe video game.

*** ''Sonic & Eggman'' (which may have been removed from the website) is something in its own league. Its nature as a Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog fanfiction means that it has a linear narrative, which is almost unheard of within the canon, and doesn't namedrop strangers at all, leaving it ambiguous as to what its relationship to the rest of the website even is. It was also very deliberately linked in the site's home page.

* AlternateHistory: The Zeroworld module/game is based on Pokémon. Pokémon still exists in this universe, but its popularity never took off. In fact, the series was cancelled after the fifth generation due to what Space Madness describes as 'references to real world acts of barbarity'.

*** ''Sonic & Eggman'' is something in its own league. Its nature as a Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog fanfiction means that it has a linear narrative, which is almost unheard of within the canon, and doesn't namedrop strangers at all, leaving it ambiguous as to what its relationship to the rest of the website even is. It was also very deliberately linked in the site's home page. It was later revealed in ''Space Madness'' that ''Sonic & Eggman'' is an in-universe video game.

*** ''Sonic & Eggman'' (which may have been removed from the website) is something in its own league. Its nature as a Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog fanfiction means that it has a linear narrative, which is almost unheard of within the canon, and doesn't namedrop strangers at all, leaving it ambiguous as to what its relationship to the rest of the website even is. It was also very deliberately linked in the site's home page.

* ApocalypticLog: The Red Module collection is much more weird than the "regular" entries, and it's literally described as "the destruction of meaning."

** The condroni in particular has a body composed of alternating blue and black segments, with eye markings covering the entirety of either the blue segments or the black ones, depending on the individual.