History YMMV / Everworld

* BadassDecay[=/=]{{Flanderization}}: David starts by seeming like a more {{Badass}} [[{{Expy}} Jake]], even with/made more impressive by how he was a loser in the "real world", but his weaknesses eventually overtake him until [[WeakWilled mental weakness]] is more or less his defining feature. Unusual in that it arguably worked out for the better, letting the other three become stronger while he hit bottom. He does start to recover in the last two books, though.
* BaseBreaker: ''Everworld'' is obscure and has a small fanbase, but for what it is, Senna serves this role. She's either hated for being an [[KickTheDog evil]], [[EntitledBastard arrogant]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[SmugSnake bitch]] or loved for being an [[EvilIsCool evil]], [[FauxAffablyEvil arrogant]], [[MagnificentBastard manipulative]] [[JerkassWoobie bitch]]. And a ''third'' slice of the fanbase loves her for being an intelligent, competent {{Badass}} in a series where most mortals are merely the playthings of gods.

** Senna, for some. They tend to ignore her love of MindRape, {{Freak Out}}s, and petty cruelty in favour of her FreudianExcuse, awesome [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative skills]], [[TheChessmaster planning]], and WellIntentionedExtremist motives.

* WordOfDante: Allegedly, the last three books were ghostwritten. Given general fan consensus to their quality, this would not be surprising if it was true. It especially makes sense because those three books overlapped with the beginning of Literature/{{Remnants}}, and according to WordOfGod, it was practically impossible to keep up Everworld and the occasional Animorphs book ''without'' a third series to complicate things.

* CompleteMonster: Ka Anor is the living embodiment of everything bad. Hel is equally twisted, albeit on a more personal level, with even other gods thinking she has issues.

** [[TheSmartGuy Jalil]] [[spoiler:blackmailing an entire religion in ''Brave the Betrayal''. By [[KickTheSonOfABitch knocking Senna out]] and threatening to destroy the African gods' afterlife by making her [[BloodyMurder bleed]] on the tree that holds their Heaven and Earth together? And successfully pulling it off, with help from only two (David and Thorolf) conscious people?]] Jalil is [[CrazyAwesome fun like that.]]

** Heck, the other three too. They're all jerks on multiple occasions, but they're all going through so much that you can't help but sympathise. Jalil's [[{{InsufferableGenius}} arrogant]], Christopher's a [[{{Jerkass}} jackass]], and April's [[{{Soapbox Sadie}} self-righteous]], but in their situations, would ''you'' do any better?

* MoralEventHorizon: Ka Anor was a monster from the start, but his devouring of Ganymede nicely cements this, and establishes him as a CompleteMonster and not a DesignatedVillain. For Senna, there's ''Mystify the Magician'', when she goes totally off the deep end and orchestrates the massacre of hundreds of people to feed her lust for power. As for Hel...pick a moment.

* BaseBreaker: ''Everworld'' is obscure and has a small fanbase, but for what it is, Senna serves this role. She's either hated for being an [[KickTheDog evil]], [[EntitledBastard arrogant]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[SmugSnake bitch]] or loved for being an [[EvilIsCool evil]], [[FauxAffablyEvil arrogant]], [[MagnificentBastard manipulative]] [[JerkassWoobie bitch]].
** April isn't much better, as some fans like and admrie her, while others think she's the CreatorsPet (or more specifically, the second coming of [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Cassie]], whom she's an {{Expy}} of. Yeah, [[NeverLiveItDown still a lot of hang-ups over that character....]])

** Senna for some. They tend to ignore her love of MindRape, {{Freak Out}}s, and petty cruelty in favour of her FreudianExcuse, awesome [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative skills]], [[TheChessmaster planning]], and WellIntentionedExtremist motives.

** [[TheSmartGuy Jalil]] [[spoiler:blackmailing an entire religion in Book 8. By [[KickTheSonOfABitch knocking Senna out]] and threatening to destroy the African gods' afterlife by making her [[BloodyMurder bleed]] on the tree that holds their Heaven and Earth together? And successfully pulling it off, with help from only two (David and Thorolf) conscious people?]] Jalil is [[CrazyAwesome fun like that.]]

** For all her selfishness, malicious tendencies, controlling personality, and generally being a bitch, the ninth book makes it very hard not to sympathize with Senna.

* MoralEventHorizon: Ka Anor was a monster from the start, but his devouring of Ganymede nicely cements this, and establishes him as a CompleteMonster and not a DesignatedVillain. For Senna, there's Book 11, when she goes totally off the deep end and orchestrates the massacre of hundreds of people to feed her lust for power. As for Hel...pick a moment.

** KAA loves this as always. #4, ''Realm of the Reaper'', might be the best example.

* WordOfDante: Allegedly, the last three books were ghostwritten. Given general fan consensus to their quality, this would not be surprising if it was true.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Senna''. Even when she's the POV character for a book, she's so reserved and confusing that she lends herself to this trope. She herself barely seems to know who she is.

* SelfishGoodSelfishEvil: Senna, no matter what she thinks is good for Everworld, is always ready to [[ItsAllAboutMe put the good of herself as her first priority.]]

* BadassDecay / {{Flanderization}}: David starts by seeming like a more {{Badass}} [[{{Expy}} Jake]], even with/made more impressive by how he was a loser in the "real world", but his weaknesses eventually overtake him until [[WeakWilled mental weakness]] is more or less his defining feature. Unusual in that it arguably worked out for the better, letting the other three become stronger while he hit bottom. He does start to recover in the last two books, though.

* BaseBreaker: ''Everworld'' is obscure and has a small fanbase, but for what it is, Senna serves this role. She's either hated for being an [[KickTheDog evil]], [[EntitledBastard arrogant]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[SmugSnake bitch]] or loved for being an [[DracoInLeatherPants evil]], [[FauxAffablyEvil arrogant]], [[MagnificentBastard manipulative]] [[JerkassWoobie bitch]].

** In-story example: The first thing Senna did with her witch powers was to [[MasterOfIllusion disguise herself]] as ''[[TheHobbit Gollum]]'', then sneak into April's bedroom while she was asleep and hiss out, "Wake up, my preciousssss. Is it awake? Gollum . . . Gollum . . . or is it dreaming, precioussss?" Poor April was ''only eight'' at the time, but holy crap did Senna ever get a kick out of that one.

** April isn't much better, as some fans like and admrie her, while others think she's the CreatorsPet (or more specifically, the second coming of [[{{Animorphs}} Cassie]], whom she's an {{Expy}} of. Yeah, [[NeverLiveItDown still alot of hang-ups over that character....]])

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Senna''. Even when she's the POV character for a book, she's so reserved and confusing that she lends herself to this trope.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The climax of ''Inside the Illusion''. It triples as a crowning moment for Senna, Sobek and, suprisingly enough, [[spoiler:Keith]].

* DracoInLeatherPants: Senna for some. They tend to ignore her love of MindRape, {{Freak Out}}s, and petty cruelty in favour of her FreudianExcuse, awesome [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative skills]], [[TheChessmaster planning]], and WellIntentionedExtremist motives.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Powers a lot of the tension in the story. Ka Anor, in particular, is [[strike: an insectophobe's]] anyone's worst nightmare. [[{{Room 101}} Ka Anor is Fear.]]
** In-story example: The first thing Senna did with her witch powers was to [[MasterOfIllusion disguise herself]] as ''[[TheHobbit Gollum]]'', then sneak into April's bedroom while she was asleep and hiss out, "Wake up, my preciousssss. Is it awake? Gollum . . . Gollum . . . or is it dreaming, precioussss?" Poor April was ''only eight'' at the time, but holy crap did Senna ever get a kick out of that one.
** Combined with an in-story example of FanDisservice: Hel, who is deliciously sexy enough "in profile alone" to render the male characters incapable of thought. Until she reveals her other side, rotten, decaying flesh riddled with worms and falling off her bones. The worst part is that the guys are STILL helplessly attracted to her, even while being repulsed to the point of nausea. The detail in which she is described can only be called excruciating.
** KAA loves this as always. #4, ''Realm of the Reaper'', might be the best example.
** The Yeerk pool, Hel's domain, the Bosch painting...I'm sensing a pattern here.
* JerkassWoobie: For all her selfishness, malicious tendencies, controlling personality, and generally being a bitch, the ninth book makes it very hard not to sympathize with Senna.

* SelfishEvil: Senna is the series' reigning queen of MoralMyopia and ItsAllAboutMe. Hel is even worse in this regard.

* MoralEventHorizon: Ka Anor was a monster from the start, but his devouring of Ganymede nicely cements this, and establishes him as a CompleteMonster and not a DesignatedVillain. Senna arguably crossed from her first MindRape of David, but a better example is in Book 11, when she goes totally off the deep end and orchestrates the massacre of hundreds of people to feed her lust for power. As for Hel...pick a moment.

* SelfishEvil: Senna honestly doesn't care about anyone other than herself. She's also the series' reigning queen of MoralMyopia and ItsAllAboutMe. Hel is even worse in this regard.
* TearJerker: For those who sympathize with Senna, ''Inside the Illusion'' will have some moments. For everyone else there's Ganymede's death.

** Heck, pretty much everyone in the core four qualifies for this. They're all jerks on multiple occasions, but they're all going through so much that you can't help but sympathise. Jalil's arrogant, Christopher's a jackass, and April's self-righteous, but in their situations, would ''you'' do any better?

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Senna'', holy crap, ''Senna''.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Senna, in the [[BaseBreaker portion of the fandom]] that love her. They tend to ignore her love of MindRape, {{Freak Out}}s, and petty cruelty in favour of her awesome [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative skills]], [[TheChessmaster planning]], and WellIntentionedExtremist motives.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Senna, in the [[BaseBreaker portion of the fandom]] that love her. They tend to ignore her sadism, love of MindRape, {{Freak Out}}s, and petty cruelty in favour of her awesome [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative skills]], [[TheChessmaster planning]], and WellIntentionedExtremist motives.

* SelfishEvil: Senna honestly doesn't care about anyone other than herself. She tries to come off as SelfishNeutral, but in the end she's still a petty sadist with delusions of grandeur and on her best day, a WellIntentionedExtremist. She's also the series' reigning queen of MoralMyopia and ItsAllAboutMe. Hel is even worse in this regard.

* SelfishEvil: Senna honestly doesn't care about anyone other than herself. She tries to come off as SelfishNeutral, but in the end she's still a petty sadist with delusions of grandeur and on her best day, a WellIntentionedExtremist. She's also the series' reigning queen of MoralMyopia and ItsAllAboutMe.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Senna. Readers tend to [[BrokenBase either despise her or to adore her.]] RootingForTheEmpire applies here too.

* [[SelfishGoodSelfishEvil Selfish Neutral]]: Senna's morality, as explored in the ninth book, seems to lean somewhere between this and NeutralEvil. It may not be neutral, it may not be evil...but you can bet your life that it's selfish.

* CompleteMonster: Ka Anor is the living embodiment of everything bad. Hel is equally twisted, with even other gods thinking she has issues.