* CrackPairing: Some of the side pairings -- for instance, Nepeta and Sollux as kismeses.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ganmed has gotten quite a bit more attention than the other minor characters through the FourthWallMailSlot.
** Strangely enough, the entirety of the Kin count, with the possible exceptions of Sennir and Laneen, as they only appear in a couple of chapters in-story but they get almost as much, if not just as much attention as the rest of the cast.
* FanCommunityNickname: "Fledlings".
* FridgeHorror: Preosh's lusus is a whale. The first lusus Eridan was seen to kill in canon was a whale with purple blood...
** When Sollux and the Psiioniic talk, the Psiioniic tells him to not get caught, because he 'can't face that again'. He's talking about [[spoiler: Laneen--the Condesce forced Laneen to fuck her and the Psiioniic, and the Psiioniic knows that Sollux is his descendant. Not only has the poor bastard been wired into an engine and raped, but it's entirely possible that he'll end up having to rape and be raped by his child... again.]]
** The cell Gamzee was kept in was covered in black stuff, the identity of which was never made explicit. WordOfGod in a chat with the readers was that said slime was [[spoiler:smoke; the BigBad pair used to like to take trolls in twos, and there is an oven with a vent leading into the cell...]]
** Condesce, going by her behaviour towards Gamzee, likes them young. She's known GH [[http://hivefled.tumblr.com/post/44725068093/your-imperious-condescension-might-this-unworthy-alien almost literally since his birth]]. It's later confirmed their relationship was at least vaguely sexual when they were at the equivalent ages of twelve and twenty. Also, Pyeran is the youngest of the Kin, but Aradia confirms that other victims died too soon to be bound, and GH said in response to a reader question that victims younger than that die too soon; presumably they know first-hand.
** [[http://hivefled.tumblr.com/post/40763141288/gott-weiss-ich-will-kein-engel-sein Look at Sennir's sigil]], then look at [[http://hivefled.tumblr.com/post/46965675617/did-you-catch-any-criticism-for-using-the-handmaid-to the sigil of the blueblood killed by the Handmaid]] (links are [[{{Gorn}} bloody]]).
** [[http://hivefled.tumblr.com/post/65647788890/one-last-dose-of-scariness-for-our-wonderful-flock Halloween art]]. Don't see why Humanstuck is scary? [[spoiler:Humans raise their offspring from birth.]]
** According to Jade's explorations of the troll web, [[spoiler:someone made a video of Eridan during his "anything that moves" phase, probably without his knowledge, and put it on a public porn site]].
** Sollux is most likely [[spoiler: the child of the Psiioniic and the Condesce, but depending on whether she made them fill a pail or not, he could also be the child of the Psiioniic and Laneen.]]
** Look at [[http://hivefled.tumblr.com/post/55527323267/if-you-find-yourself-faithful-and-up-to-the-task this ask.]] [[spoiler: The green blood on the Grand Highblood is most likely Lereal's.]]
** There are over two thousand Kin... and that's just the ones who signed the Sul. Meaning there are most likely hundreds if not thousands of victims who just died.
* JerkassWoobie: Gamzee, especially in earlier chapters. He's pretty AxCrazy and does some truly horrible things to his friends, but considering what he's been through it's hard to blame him.
* {{Moe}}: Ganmed and Tsukey are both pretty damn adorable.
%%* NauseaFuel
* ParanoiaFuel: The buildup in ''Reprise''. Described by one reader: "I was reading it and thinking 'Well, this isn't so bad, a little creepy maybe, but I think even I wouldn't do too badly in an environment like... uh... oh... Oh my god."
* RootingForTheEmpire: [[http://hivefled.tumblr.com/post/88865369451/ow-sweet-turncoats-to-t-eir-race-already-and Yes, it exists]]. You may panic now.
* SlowPacedBeginning: Some readers are put off by the characterization in the earlier chapters, especially if they haven't read "Reprise" and don't know why Gamzee is acting the way he is. This is usually rectified once CharacterDevelopment sets in and things start being a little less grimdark.
* {{Squick}}: Entirely intentional, to the point that it requires a whole extra page just for the trigger warnings.
%%* TheWoobie: Many of the Kin.
%%** Tsukey. Poor, poor Tsukey.
%%** Psiioniic.