* NarmCharm: The situations can get so absurdly hopeless and the slavers so cartoonishly sadistic it can make a reader roll their eyes. Yet the level of NightmareFuel is such that the tone frequently circles back to horrifying.
* NightmareFuel: Plenty of it, considering that the main setting is Fillydelphia. Among these is the incident in the parasprite pits, where the parasprites (which have been mutated to become carnivorous and even more rapidly reproducing) break loose from one of the hives being burnt and start wreaking havoc. One slave manages to survive a wildly-swinging buzz saw with only a rent in his protective suit, only for a sprite to get in through there. The rapid reproducing eventually causes them to start eating him alive, starting with his ''eye'' before enveloping the rest of him.
* NoYay: More than a little is directed towards Murky by Shackles; the slaver's express intent is to own Murky both in body and mind, he has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and he even drags Murk around with a leash and collar on occasion. The facts that Shackles is [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction much bigger than Murky]] and may or may not be [[ParentalIncest Murky's]] [[ArchnemesisDad father]] only add to the NauseaFuel.
* {{Padding}}: Whereas many Fallout Equestria stories have fight scenes every other page, this one swaps it out for torture and MindRape sequences.
* TheWoobie: Murky is about as much of one as you'll ever read about.
** Born into slavery; so small that there are fillies larger than he is; a high-pitched, squealing voice; and to top it all off, if he doesn't get [=RadAway=] at least once a day, the taint in his lungs will kill him. Yeah, he's pretty much the biggest woobie imaginable.

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