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** When [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and has him arrested. Oops.

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** When Arguably, when [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and has allows him to get arrested. Oops.Now, one could claim Brody was triggering Rai's depression by continuing to come back despite Rai clearly telling him no, but Rai certainly wasn't in the right here at all.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story's extremely dark tone and the fact that nearly everyone is a complete {{Jerkass}} often make it really hard to want anyone to succeed.

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story's extremely fairly dark tone and the fact that nearly everyone is can be a complete {{Jerkass}} often make it really hard to want anyone to succeed.



** When [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and has him arrested. Our hero, everyone.

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** When [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and has him arrested. Our hero, everyone.Oops.
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** SARA. Some find her DeadpanSnarker attitude to be funny, especially when it's directed at Chris. Others find her to be annoying, forced comic relief and kind of a {{Jerkass}}.

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** When [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and has him arrested. Our hero, everyone.



* TheScrappy: Patsy, for being an arrogant, whiny {{Jerkass}} that continuously makes dumb decisions despite supposedly being among the smarter characters. Not helped that she eliminated fan-favorite Liv under flimsy circumstances (see WhatAnIdiot below for more details on that).

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** Diearl for the Diamond/Earl [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight ship that passes in the night]].
* TheScrappy: Patsy, for being an arrogant, whiny {{Jerkass}} that continuously makes dumb decisions despite supposedly being among the smarter characters. Not helped that she eliminated fan-favorite Liv under flimsy circumstances (see WhatAnIdiot below for more details on that). Delves into BaseBreaker status once the story stops portraying her in a protagonistic light.

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** Most people had figured out that [[spoiler:Fosley]] was the Cloaked Shadow during the ''premerge''.



* EnsembleDarkHorse: Moe for him being among the very few genuinely nice characters in the story and his occasionally hilarious antics.

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* EnsembleDarkHorse: Moe for him being among the very few genuinely nice characters in the story and his occasionally hilarious antics.


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** Same goes for the Cloaked Shadow plot, the end of which the author actually made terrible ''on purpose'' for the sake of deconstruction.
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** However noble his intentions were, Cy does deserve a spot here when he gave away his immunity idol to Rai so she could eliminate Sarge. Cy himself is accused of being in a showmance with Diamond, and is a known physical and strategic threat while Diamond is TheLoad, so that idol was a bit needed.

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** However noble his intentions were, Cy does deserve a spot here when he gave away his immunity idol to Rai so she could eliminate Sarge. Cy himself is accused of being in a showmance with Diamond, and is a known physical and strategic threat while Diamond is TheLoad, so that idol was a bit needed.needed.
** It's the final eight and Ollie is asked to join an alliance with Bianca, Ruth, Moe and Rai, the latter three of this group having been TrueCompanions for quite some time. Of course once this alliance of five would pick off the minority alliance of three, the three TrueCompanions would then turn on him and Bianca. Naturally, he says yes without hesitation.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story's extremely dark tone and the fact that nearly everyone is a complete {{Jerkass}} often make it really hard to want anyone to succeed.


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* EnsembleDarkHorse: Moe for him being among the very few genuinely nice characters in the story and his occasionally hilarious antics.
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** Rai being a condescending bitch to Brody after he swims to Chris Island to talk to her didn't earn her any fans.

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** Rai. Some find her incredibly sympathetic due to her mental state bringing nothing but negativity into her life, while others find her to be incredibly hypocritical since she and the other characters ostracized Sarge for his mental state yet give Rai tons of sympathy for hers.
* BrokenBase: Ohhhh yes. Most of the characters are either loved or hated, as are many of the plot points, and then there's the issue of whether or not Rai should be held to the same standards as Sarge.



* DesignatedHero: Rai, at least in the merge. She acts like a self-centered jerk to everyone other than Moe, and yet we're still expected to root for her simply because the story says so.



** Rai being a condescending bitch to Brody after he swims to Chris Island to talk to her didn't earn her any fans.



* UnintentionallySympathetic: When you take the time to think about it, Sarge can be quite the tragic villain. He has no idea that he's doing anything wrong, and when he's called out on it, he cannot comprehend why it's wrong. In his point of view, everyone else is ostracizing and bullying him for no legitimate reason. And really, nobody enjoys feeling like that, even people like Sarge.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: When you take the time to think about it, Sarge can be quite the tragic villain. He has no idea that he's doing anything wrong, and when he's called out on it, he cannot comprehend why it's wrong. In his point of view, everyone else is ostracizing and bullying him for no legitimate reason. And really, nobody enjoys feeling like that, even people like Sarge. This is later lampshaded by Moe, with mixed reaction both in-universe and by readers.

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* DesignatedVillain: Tyrian is treated as a bad guy for disliking and wanting to get rid of Bianca and Wittney. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't genuinely as annoying as he claimed they were. Him [[spoiler: feeding Liv, a recovering drug addict a hallucinogenic mushroom]] was a dick move, [[spoiler: but he didn't know about Liv's former addiction and only thought she hated mushrooms for no reason.]]

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* DesignatedVillain: Tyrian is treated as a bad guy for disliking and wanting to get rid of Bianca and Wittney. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't genuinely as annoying as he claimed they were. Him [[spoiler: feeding Liv, a recovering drug addict a hallucinogenic mushroom]] was a dick move, [[spoiler: but he didn't know about Liv's [[spoiler:Liv's former addiction and only thought she hated mushrooms for no reason.]]]]
** Boris is more or less portrayed as the bad guy in Episode 5, likely due to [[spoiler:that being his elimination episode]], even though Wishami was no more in the right than he was regarding their conflict.



** After revealing themself to be the psychopath, [[spoiler: Sarge]] goes from a potentially-threatening villain to a cartoonishly-evil rapist.

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** After revealing themself themselves to be the psychopath, [[spoiler: Sarge]] goes from a potentially-threatening villain to a cartoonishly-evil rapist.



* PortmanteauCoupleName:
** Treyanca for Trey/Bianca
** Cyamond for Cy/Diamond
** Olliv for Ollie/Liv



* StoicWoobie: Ruth, after the psycho reveals themself to her.

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* StoicWoobie: Ruth, after the psycho reveals themself themselves to her.


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* UnintentionallySympathetic: When you take the time to think about it, Sarge can be quite the tragic villain. He has no idea that he's doing anything wrong, and when he's called out on it, he cannot comprehend why it's wrong. In his point of view, everyone else is ostracizing and bullying him for no legitimate reason. And really, nobody enjoys feeling like that, even people like Sarge.

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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Sarge]] being the psychopath wasn't that hard to figure out, considering that there were few suspects to begin with and [[spoiler: his]] increasingly unnerving behavior didn't exactly help.



* MoralEventHorizon: After Sarge reveals himself, any of the scenes with him could be considered this, but... [[spoiler: in his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]

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* MoralEventHorizon: After Sarge [[spoiler: Sarge]] reveals himself, any of the scenes with him could be considered this, but... [[spoiler: in his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]



* ShockingElimination: Who expected [[spoiler: Harmony]] to leave first?

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* ShockingElimination: Who expected [[spoiler: Harmony]] [[spoiler:Liv]] seemed like they'd be around to leave first?at least the merge, but ended up getting cut at the halfway point.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Phoenix Island subplot just seemed to be an excuse to give Harmony, Trey and Bianca even more screentime, at the cost of everyone else involved getting shoved into their plots as sidekicks or minor rivals, if they're not forgotten altogether.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The build-up to the psychopath storyline was well-written, even if it was a bit obvious as to who it was. Unfortunately, once they ([[spoiler: Sarge]]) are found out, they lose everything that made them interesting and become a cartoonishly-evil would-be rapist that wouldn't be out of place from an SVU episode.
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** Take Patsy, keep the smugness and turn it UpToEleven and get rid of 90% of the screentime and you get Fosley.



** Patsy, who often brags about being the smartest contestant in the game, seems to be very easily fooled by everybody in Episode 13, from beliving Cy and Diamond fake-kissing to try and form a shaky alibi as to what they were doing the night before, to accusing Liv of being the Cloaked Shadow due to a Liv dummy she found, after it had been established multiple times that the Cloaked Shadow likes to frame people. Unlike Harmony before her, she gets no consequences for her stupidity.

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** Patsy, who often brags about being the smartest contestant in the game, seems to be very easily fooled by everybody in Episode 13, from beliving Cy and Diamond fake-kissing to try and form a shaky alibi as to what they were doing the night before, to accusing Liv of being the Cloaked Shadow due to a Liv dummy she found, after it had been established multiple times that the Cloaked Shadow likes to frame people. Unlike Harmony before her, she gets no consequences for her stupidity.stupidity.
** However noble his intentions were, Cy does deserve a spot here when he gave away his immunity idol to Rai so she could eliminate Sarge. Cy himself is accused of being in a showmance with Diamond, and is a known physical and strategic threat while Diamond is TheLoad, so that idol was a bit needed.
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** Earl's starting to become this after he became allies with Sarge. Fans either hate him for knowingly keeping a violent sexual predator in the game, or love him for being the only one to have the foresight to keep said psychopath on his good side.

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** Earl's starting to become this after he became allies with Sarge. Fans either hate him for [[spoiler: knowingly keeping a violent sexual predator in the game, game]], or love him for being the only one to have the foresight to keep [[spoiler: said psychopath psychopath]] on his good side.



* {{Narm}}: The saboteur of the Brains not only had the [[SarcasmMode genius idea]] to give themself a name, but that their moniker should be "The Cloaked Shadow". Kinda hard to take the guy seriously after learning that.

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* {{Narm}}: The saboteur of the Brains not only had the [[SarcasmMode genius idea]] to give themself a name, but that their moniker should be "The Cloaked Shadow". Kinda hard to take the guy guy/gal seriously after learning that.
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* {{Narm}}: The saboteur of the Brains not only had the [[SarcasmMode genius idea]] to give themself a name, but that their moniker should be "The Cloaked Shadow". Kinda hard to take the guy seriously after learning that.
** After revealing themself to be the psychopath, [[spoiler: Sarge]] goes from a potentially-threatening villain to a cartoonishly-evil rapist.


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* TheScrappy: Patsy, for being an arrogant, whiny {{Jerkass}} that continuously makes dumb decisions despite supposedly being among the smarter characters. Not helped that she eliminated fan-favorite Liv under flimsy circumstances (see WhatAnIdiot below for more details on that).

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Adding more examples of certain tropes. And for the record, you only use the brackets if a trope has only one word in its name.


* AngstDissonance: After a while, Harmony's situation can get a bit stale.

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* AngstDissonance: After a while, Harmony's "falling into a pit" situation can get a bit stale.



** Earl's starting to become this after he became allies with Sarge. Fans either hate him for knowingly keeping a violent sexual predator in the game, or love him for being the only one to have the foresight to keep said psychopath on his good side.



* {{Moe}}: Bianca, Diamond, and Wishami
* {{Moral Event Horizon}}: After Sarge reveals himself, any of the scenes with him could be considered this, but... [[spoiler: in his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Tyrian once said that mushrooms were plants, and fans and haters of his alike will never pass on a chance to bring it up.

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* {{Moe}}: Bianca, Diamond, Rai, Wishami, and Wishami
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* {{Moral Event Horizon}}: MoralEventHorizon: After Sarge reveals himself, any of the scenes with him could be considered this, but... [[spoiler: in his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Tyrian Tyrian, whose only hobby seems to be studying mushrooms, once said that mushrooms were plants, and fans and haters of his alike will never pass on a chance to bring it up.



* WhatAnIdiot: You'll most likely spend most of Episode 1 facepalming at everything Harmony does.

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** Patsy's main character trait seems to be complaining, be it about not being able to cheat at the game like she wanted, that her allies aren't as smart as she is, or that there's a physical challenge.
* WhatAnIdiot: You'll most likely spend most of Episode 1 facepalming at everything Harmony does.does.
** Patsy, who often brags about being the smartest contestant in the game, seems to be very easily fooled by everybody in Episode 13, from beliving Cy and Diamond fake-kissing to try and form a shaky alibi as to what they were doing the night before, to accusing Liv of being the Cloaked Shadow due to a Liv dummy she found, after it had been established multiple times that the Cloaked Shadow likes to frame people. Unlike Harmony before her, she gets no consequences for her stupidity.
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* {{Moral Event Horizion}}: Sarge. Where do we start? [[spoiler: In his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]

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* {{Moral Event Horizion}}: Sarge. Where do we start? Horizon}}: After Sarge reveals himself, any of the scenes with him could be considered this, but... [[spoiler: In in his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]
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* MoralEventHorizion: Sarge. Where do we start? [[spoiler: In his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]

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* MoralEventHorizion: {{Moral Event Horizion}}: Sarge. Where do we start? [[spoiler: In his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]
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* MoralEventHorizion: Sarge. Where do we start? [[spoiler: In his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]

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* DesignatedVillain: Tyrian is treated as a bad guy for disliking and wanting to get rid of Bianca and Wittney. It wouldn't be so bad of they weren't genuinely as annoying as he claimed they were. Him [[spoiler: feeding Liv, a recovering drug addict a hallucinogenic mushroom]] was a dick move, [[spoiler: but he didn't know about Liv's former addiction and only thought she hated mushrooms for no reason.]]

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* DesignatedVillain: Tyrian is treated as a bad guy for disliking and wanting to get rid of Bianca and Wittney. It wouldn't be so bad of if they weren't genuinely as annoying as he claimed they were. Him [[spoiler: feeding Liv, a recovering drug addict a hallucinogenic mushroom]] was a dick move, [[spoiler: but he didn't know about Liv's former addiction and only thought she hated mushrooms for no reason.]]


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* {{Wangst}}: Wittney's self-esteem issues would be more sad if she didn't get angry over the slightest negative remark.
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* CreatorsPet: Rai is often accused of being one, although most readers are more indifferent to her instead of outright hate.
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* DesignatedVillain: Tyrian is treated as a bad guy for disliking and wanting to get rid of Bianca and Wittney. It wouldn't be so bad of they weren't genuinely as annoying as he claimed they were. Him [[spoiler: feeding Liv, a recovering drug addict a hallucinogenic mushroom]] was a dick move, [[spoiler: but he didn't know about Liv's former addiction and only thought she hated mushrooms for no reason.]]
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* NeverLiveItDown: With the readers at least. He once said that mushrooms were plants, and fans and haters of his alike will never pass on a chance to bring it up.

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* NeverLiveItDown: With the readers at least. He Tyrian once said that mushrooms were plants, and fans and haters of his alike will never pass on a chance to bring it up.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Tyrian and Sarge both tend to do this.


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* NeverLiveItDown: With the readers at least. He once said that mushrooms were plants, and fans and haters of his alike will never pass on a chance to bring it up.


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* StoicWoobie: Ruth, after the psycho reveals themself to her.
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* FanFavorite: Cy. Everyone loves Cy.

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* BaseBreaker: Wishami is a very... divisive character amongst the readers.

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* BaseBreaker: Wishami To most readers, Tyrian is a very... divisive character amongst either one of the readers.best characters for his straight-man [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snark]], or one of the worst for how rude he is to his teammates.



* {{Wangst}}: Yes, everyone, let's feel sorry for poor Diamond and her displeasure at her idiotic strategy.
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* Moe: Bianca, Diamond, and Wishami

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* Moe: {{Moe}}: Bianca, Diamond, and Wishami

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* AngstDissonance: After a while, Harmony's situation can get a bit stale.



* CreepyAwesome: Cy's pretty perverted and has a strange speech pattern, but his strategic game is on point.



* HollywoodPudgy: Wittney. Looking at her official artwork, nobody would think she was any bigger than the other females in the cast.
* Moe: Bianca, Diamond, and Wishami



* UglyCute: Ruth is supposedly unattractive in-universe, but that doesn't stop her {{Adorkable}} moments.



* WhatAnIdiot: You'll most likely spend most of Episode 1 facepalming at everything Harmony does.
** You'd think Diamond would put some effort into her façade instead of making it clear to everyone how transparent she is.

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* WhatAnIdiot: You'll most likely spend most of Episode 1 facepalming at everything Harmony does. \n** You'd think Diamond would put some effort into her façade instead of making it clear to everyone how transparent she is.
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Diamond is not a scrappy. Most readers really like her.


* TheScrappy: Diamond, for her endless {{Wangst}} and her dumb strategy.

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* ShockingElimination: Who expected [[spoiler: Harmony]] to leave first?

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* BaseBreaker: Wishami is a very... divisive character amongst the readers.
* CreatorsPet: Rai is often accused of being one, although most readers are more indifferent to her instead of outright hate.
* FanFavorite: Cy. Everyone loves Cy.
* TheScrappy: Diamond, for her endless {{Wangst}} and her dumb strategy.
* ShockingElimination: Who expected [[spoiler: Harmony]] to leave first?first?
* {{Wangst}}: Yes, everyone, let's feel sorry for poor Diamond and her displeasure at her idiotic strategy.
* WhatAnIdiot: You'll most likely spend most of Episode 1 facepalming at everything Harmony does.
** You'd think Diamond would put some effort into her façade instead of making it clear to everyone how transparent she is.
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