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• Central Theme: This collection is friendship-themed.
• Leitmotif / Shout-Out: Theme of the collection.
  • Archer's story has many references to the Rudyard Kipling poem "Danny Deever" and its musical cover by Leslie Fish.
  • Spinel's dialogue includes callbacks to Emilie Autumn's "Liar".
  • Chase and Ivy have "Cops and Robbers" by The Hoosiers.
  • The Elders of the Creek have Emerald Rose's "Never Split the Party", and the situation owes something to Dar Williams' "Flinty Kind of Woman".
  • The Six Senses have Rasputina's "Gingerbread Coffin".
  • The Baker's Dozen have Melanie Martinez's "Strawberry Shortcake".

The Regiment's Disgrace (Archer)

• Friend to All Children: Seems to have a soft spot for kids. He's very kind to the local girls in the village and at the present works in a toystore where he's befriended Alan.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He tried to stop his fellow soldiers' sexual violence against the locals, causing them to turn it onto him.
• Meaningful Name: "The Regiment's Disgrace" was assaulted to punish him for standing up for what was right against more popular men in his squadron and discharged with a false diagnosis, and he mentions that if those kind of people are the pride of the military, he'd rather be the opposite.
• The Man They Couldn't Hang: The Commando Elite, here his squadmates, tried to lynch him and pass it off as a suicide when he tried to turn them in for raping the local girls, but the rope snapped just in time.

The Courtyard Jester (Spinel)

See With Pearl And Ruby Glowing Antagonists.

Carmen Sandiego and Le Canon Lache (Ivy and Chase Devineaux)

• Ambiguously Gay: It's implied Ivy might have a thing for Carmen, but so far nothing's confirmed.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Chase is one the receiving end of this(a Darker and Edgier version of events from "The French Connection Caper").
• Composite Character: Averted. Ivy confirms that Carmen is still a real person and she's just using the name because she looks up to her.
• Enemy Mine: This is essentially the root of their friendship. They were originally at odds due to being on opposite sides of the law, but have since teamed up against the Ark.
• Fire-Forged Friendship: They bond partially due to shared trauma and partially due to allying with each other against the Ark.
• Fish out of Water: Neither are actually from Calisota and don't know much about the city or what to do there since they've been separated from their usual associates.
• Groin Attack: What Ivy did to Moose.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Both of them are this. Chase gets in trouble at his job due to rushing into things without thinking and Ivy breaks out of the place where her captors have been keeping her basically by taking things by storm. They meet when Chase tackles her in the street, mistaking her for the real Carmen whose jacket she's wearing.
• Manchild: Both of them are extremely immature, possibly justified since Ivy is implied to still be pretty young and Chase is high on some kind of painkiller, except they're shown to have acted this way even before.
• Meaningful Name: "Carmen Sandiego" is the name of a real person that the Palace's Carmen looks up to, Le Canon Lache is a rogue interpol agent.
• Related in the Adaptation: Chase is the absent father of the Little Girl from The Little Prince (2015). This is actually why he's in Calisota to begin with.
• What You Are in the Dark: Ivy doesn't have to go back for the codes. She does anyway. She also doesn't have to set out to take down the Ark, keep in mind she's no longer in contact with Carmen, Player or her brother and it'd be a lot easier for her to just sit this one out, but she decides to do what she can because it's the right thing to do.

The Six Loves - the Apostle of Agape (Wilt), the Friend to Philia (Goo), Storge's Sibling (Mac), Eros and Error (Frankie again), the Host of Xenia (World), the Reflection of Philautia (Mr. Herriman)

• Adults Are Useless:
  • Mac's mom is aware of Terrence being a bully, but she can't really put a stop to it because she has to work. Also, when Mac tries to tell her about Terrence's creepy behavior towards him, she thinks that it's one of their usual quarrels and tells him to try and get along with his brother.
  • This is, however, very much averted with Goo's story where she's rescued by a number of her adult friends who recognize her and realize that the GWF member trying to take her can't be her father like he claims.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Goo doesn't really have any friends her age because they think she's weird.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Justified. Wilt is African American, with a form of oculocutaneous albinism, which gives him pale skin and red hair.
• An Arm and a Leg: Larry broke Wilt's arm so badly it had to be amputated.
• Bad Boss: Mr. Herriman always chided Frankie for "being lazy" any time she had a moment to herself and expected her to do all the upkeep at Foster's instead of pitching in or asking the residents to do so (which, given that Foster's is a halfway home here, would have made sense); he ended up on the verge of firing her for "laziness" that was the result of being a traumatized rape victim, until he found out the truth.
• Big Brother Bully: Terrence is a bully to Mac as he was in canon, but it's starting to get into creepier territory.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Fortunately, Goo is friends with several outcast types among the local adults, who are able to intervene when a GWF member tries to kidnap her.
  • Frankie also exhibits this, taking charge of Mac and World. This is a good part of why they both so obviously adore her.
• Cool Big Sis: Frankie goes out of her way to make sure World has a friend and a good role model even before his parents start offering to pay her for it.
• Date Rape: Frankie almost ends up the victim of one; she speculates that the guy saw her scars or trauma side-effects from the first time and thought she was an easy target.
• Eye Scream: Wilt lost his eye after Larry smashed the contact in it which, being one of the older kind made of hard plastic, tore the eye apart.
• Forced from Their Home: Bloo was kicked out of the house for refusing to go to college or get a job, and now lives at the halfway house.
• Harmful to Minors: World's prior babysitters watched porn with him in the room or left sex toys lying around, one actually letting him stay in the room during at least heavy makeouts with her boyfriend.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Frankie claims Mr. Herriman does care about her, but even she admits that the heart of gold part doesn't seem to come out around her, at least until after the incident with World.
• Meaningful Name: "The Six Loves" are a group of people unified by a charity (in this case, a halfway house) and each of their stories pays special attention to the specific kind of love they take their name from.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Mr. Herriman has a big realization after World attacks him and Frankie is prompted to explain her Palace membership. Having spent years browbeating her before the rape and months after, he understandably feels like he can't fix things with her. Frankie, for her part, appears to be forgiving.
• NEET: Bloo was kicked out for being one.
• Not Now, Kiddo: Mac's attempts to complain about Terrence's behaviour are ignored by his mother.
• Parents as People: Mac's mom clearly does care about her sons and doesn't fall for most of Terrence's bullcrap, but she's a single mom who has to work, so she can't stop Terrence from bullying Mac and brushes off the latter's complaints about the former's creepier behavior.
• Related in the Adaptation: Bloo is Mac's brother here.
• Teen Pregnancy: Frankie was the result of a teen pregnancy, and had an accidental pregnancy of her own even younger through careless experimentation with a classmate.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: World has picked up some dubious behaviors from inappropriate TV, and even before that had a dangerous temper.
• Yandere: World reacts rather violently to the prospect of losing Frankie, going so far as to attack Mr. Herriman.

The Elders of the Creek - the Barbarian (David), the Monk (Barry), and the Dungeon Master (Mark)

• Groin Attack: Mark is emasculated by the local moms who blame him for a rash of abductions.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Mark isn't the nicest person in the world but he is right that, in a city as dangerous as Calisota, parents really shouldn't be letting their kids wander off alone. Especially not when there have already been a few disappearances.
• Mama Bear: Not a good thing this time, since their victim was innocent, but Mark was tracked down and mutilated by mothers of the children in the area.
• Meaningful Name: "The Elders of the Creek" are the oldest kids to hang out at the creekside play-town, and individually go by the names of their D&D roles.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: Teenage boys hanging around with a bunch of children are naturally the first ones questioned when those kids go missing.

The Storyteller (Beatrix Potter) and her stories - Peter Rabbit, Flopsy Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Tom Kitten, the Tailor Mouse, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Pigling Bland and Pig-Wig, Johnny Town-Mouse and Timothy William, Benjamin Bunny

• Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Benjamin's father used corporal punishment when he was younger, in order to keep him in line. Played for Drama when he goes to confess his assault for him and his father, horrified, starts to ask if he inflicted the injuries by mistake.
• Incompatible Orientation: Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle had a crush on Jeremy Fisher, who was gay and in a polyamorous relationship with Sir Issac Newton and Ptolemy Tortoise.
• Kissing Cousins: Flopsy and Benjamin are married here as in canon.
• Meaningful Name: "The Storyteller" is an author, hoping to write a book about the Palace members.
• My Beloved Smother: Flopsy is a more sympathetic example than most. Her children have almost died or been hurt several times and she's already lost one of them so even if she has gotten a little overprotective it's hard to blame her.
• Now, Let Me Carry You: Johnny and Timmy are both Ark victims, taken from their respective homes and finding themselves stranded in each other's. First Timmy was taken under Johnny's wing in the city, now he's helping Johnny and putting him up in his own home.
• Sex Slave: Piperson kept Pig-Wig locked in a room and was raping her.
• Sexual Extortion: The Tailor Mouse was forced to submit sexually to his landlady because he couldn't pay his rent.
• Uncertain Doom: It's never made clear just what the fate was of Jemima's children.
• Wacky Marriage Proposal: It's not clear if they really are engaged or not, but Pigling Bland essentially does this with Pigwig, giving her two seed packets instead of flowers thereby inviting her to start a garden with him.

The Pearl Among Rubies (Betty Boop)

• All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Averted; she wears a Star of David and is described in a way which makes it clear she's a light-skinned black woman.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Strongly associated with black pearls specifically, but is one of the more heroic characters.
• Eldritch Location: It's all but stated that in death she's become one, her ghost accounting for at least some of the strangeness of the Palace since, you know, it appears to be alive.
• Friendly Ghost: Implied; she died in the Palace and weird but helpful things happen there.
• Karmic Death: Her friend's rapist pushed her off the stage and killed her when she caught him in the act, then immediately fell off the stage and died of his own injuries, possibly due to Betty's ghost's actions.
• Meaningful Name: "The Pearl Among Rubies" is an obvious reference to the fic's name, fittingly it's used for the actress who died in the Palace and haunts it now as a benevolent figure.
• Posthumous Character: She died years before the fic's main story takes place.
• Vengeful Ghost: It's not clear, but it's possible she caused her attacker's death immediately after her own.

Sherlock Homes (Jaime Reyes)

• Accidental Hero: Reported Maurice for digital piracy in order to spite him. Accidentally uncovered what is heavily implied to be videos of him abusing Tye.
• I Have This Friend: He opens up the chapter with "So, I have this friend," although he immediately clarifies that he really means it.
• Meaningful Name: Sherlock Homes' friend ran away from his abusive stepfather and went missing, he's been looking for him ever since. "Homes" is also something Jaime calls his friends.
• I Will Find You: To Tye after his disappearance.
• Punny Name: He calls people "homes", and he's there because his friend ran away from home.

The Six Senses - Spectro-Sight (Sasha), Evil-Ear (Cloe), Solo-Scent (Meygan), Tinsel-Touch (Yasmin), Terror-Taste (Jade), the Sixth Sense (Ginger)

• Appearance Angst: Sasha conceals it well with outward vanity, but breaks down in the house of mirrors about how "ugly" she really is.
• Bait-and-Switch: All but the last story do this, setting up a situation that looks like the girls are/have been abused in some way and revealing the actual cause. Ginger is the only exception.
• Internalized Categorism: Sasha's breakdown is partially triggered by seeing white girls she feels are prettier than her. Truth in Television; it's pretty common for non-white girls to feel ugly by Western beauty standards.
• Meaningful Name: They use the names of the five standard senses, which are referenced in their stories; for example, Spectro-Sight's is about mirrors. Ginger, The Sixth Ranger, is the Sixth Sense.
• Nightmare Fetishist: A surprisingly kid-friendly variant given the series; the girls are horror story crazy, but their stories aren't actually that horrifying to anyone except Ginger.
• Parental Incest: The girls catch Ginger's parents having sex while playing a hidden camera feed of Ginger's room and find Ginger's bloody clothes on the floor, implying they've been watching the girls change clothes and have previously watched each other abuse Ginger.
• Self-Harm: Sasha hits herself, injures herself hitting mirrors, and squeezes her arms hard enough to bruise.
• Shrinking Violet: Ginger.
• Spy Cam: There's one in Ginger's bedroom.
• The Sixth Ranger: Ginger is this to the other girls, being the new kid.
• Weight Woe: It's implied Sasha may have an eating disorder, as she gags after eating part of a corn dog.

The Voice of Reason (Horton)

• Brutal Honesty: It's downplayed, but he is completely open with all the kids about how evil adults can be and that they should not be afraid to fight back if any of them try to hurt them, even if it's their parents. It's part of the reason Sour Kangaroo dislikes him here.
• Caught on Tape: Jojo hid a camera in Vlad's office and ends up getting footage of the latter abusing Rudy, leading to Vlad's arrest.
• False Rape Accusation: Sour Kangaroo briefly accuses him of having hurt Rudy, until Rudy reveals who it really was.
• Friend to All Children: He opens by owning this and works with kids for a living.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Sour Kangaroo manages to turn a lot of the parents against him, until Vlad is exposed.
• Meaningful Name: Horton is honest with kids about the dangers of sexual abusers and tried to convince parents to do the same.
• Only Sane Man: Downplayed. He's not alone, but he is one of the few people related to the camp he works for that understands that Vlad is a threat to children, and who is willing to do something about it. Many parents listen to the irrational kangaroo.
• That Came Out Wrong: He makes sure to word his love of children in an appropriate way to avoid this, especially because many of the victims at the Palace are kids themselves.

The Four Horsepersons - Pestilence (Max Roberts), War (Philippe Cheynet), Famine (Etienne Cheynet), and Death (Marie Roberts)

• Bad People Abuse Animals: Philippe wounds Etienne's horse to keep him out of a big race, and the Ark, well...
• Bestiality Is Depraved: The speciality of the particular Ark warehouse Etienne and his horse ended up in, unfortunately for both of them. It's very much not played for laughs.
• Cain and Abel: Philippe is decidedly nastier and crueler than Etienne and tried to sabotage him by injuring his horse before a race, though he's far from happy about what ended up happening.
• Lost Pet Grievance: In "Vet Visits", Pussywillow does end up getting put down.
• Meaningful Name: "The Four Horsepersons" are horse riders whose names refer to their stories; "Pestilence" caught an MRSA infection from his horse, "War" was jealous of and sabotaged his brother "Famine", who was nearly starved to death in a warehouse because of it, and "Death" has to deal with her beloved horse getting euthanized because the horse killed one of her assailants.
• Mood Whiplash: Etienne's is possibly the most gruesome story yet, and after that Marie's starts with the introduction of her four plastic horses named Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Really Cool People, and Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping.
• Pun: There are several uses of idioms relating to horses peppered throughout the story.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: After escaping the warehouse, Etienne was forced to eat his horse's droppings because he couldn't eat the vegetation in the woods. According to beginning notes, people can actually survive off of horse manure briefly, but it's not recommended unless you have another option (in Etienne's case, he didn't).

The Baker's Dozen - Strawberry Shortcake, Apple Dumplin', Orange Blossom, Gingersnap, and Huckleberry Pie

• An Arm and a Leg: Gingersnap's leg has been amputated; she did it when the group ran out of food when stranded on the Ark's island.
• Autocannibalism: Not stated outright, but it's most likely that Gingersnap and Almond Tea joined the others in eating Ginger's leg and drinking Almond's blood.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Or not so conveniently. The Dozen are mostly fosters or runaways which is what allows the Ark to pick them up.
• Edible Theme Naming: They're all named after sweets.
• No Party Like a Donner Party: The group had to eat the corpses of the people who died on the island. When that ran out, Gingersnap cut her own leg off and Almond Tea stabbed herself so everyone could drink her blood.
• Heroic Resolve: Strawberry is able to save her friends from starvation by going out once the water around them freezes and walking on the ice, only collapsing once she reaches a town. She's also then able to stave off shock and tell the authorities where to find the others.
• Meaningful Name: The Baker's Dozen started out as a group of twelve kids on an island, one of whom had a little sibling elsewhere, making thirteen. Their individual names are sweet treats, which they imagined and missed while they were actually starving to death and eating each other.
• Non-Indicative Name: A baker's dozen is thirteen; twelve went to the island while Apple Dumplin' stayed safe in Calisota. In the Palace, only five appear on stage and only two others of the group of twelve survived (Almond Tea and Crepes Suzette, who are now back in their home countries).
• Shout-Out: The "Pepto-pink castle" on a Scottish island that Strawberry sees when she reaches land is the castle on Balamory.
• Sole Survivor: Downplayed. Much of the group they were a part of, and by extension the rest of the warehouse they were kept in has died, but there are a few of them left.

The Castle-Builder (Anne Shirley)

• Abusive Parents: Some of the foster homes she was sent to were physically and/or sexually abusive.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Like Buster, she has quite an imagination.
• Imaginary Friend: She has several imaginary friends, but it's a little ambiguous how real they are to her.
• Meaningful Name: She created several imaginary friends to cope with the abuse she suffered.

The Derelict and the (Worst) Mate (Proteus and Sinbad)

• Childhood Friends: They grew up together.
• Meaningful Name: "The Derelict" took the fall for a crime his friend was accused of and was assaulted in prison. "The (Worst) Mate" feels guilty about both this and kissing The Derelict's fiance.
• Taking the Heat: Proteus does this when Sinbad is arrested, reasoning that he'd be in less trouble than someone who already has a record.

Twisted Peppermint (Mr. Mint)

• Bewildering Punishment: Due to his disability, he doesn't see any problem with playing with kids, so when the cops take him away for playing with Jib and Lolly, he freaks out because he doesn't know what he did wrong.
• Friend to All Children: He likes being friends with kids, but this makes him come off as a creep.
• Innocently Insensitive: His disability means that he invades other people's personal space without realizing it. He also doesn't get that an adult hanging out with children would have paedophilic implications.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He appears to be a young adult and befriends Jib and Lolly who are both very young children.
• Meaningful Name: He's a childish man who likes candy and was Mistaken for Pedophile because he hung out with kids.
• Manchild: Due to his disability, he is very childish for his age.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: Hanging out with Jib and Lolly results in Frostine calling the cops on him.
• Punny Name: Probably based on the song "Peppermint Twist."

Sigmund the Sorceror/Kyle_The_Conjuror (Kyle Bloodworth-Thomason)

• All of the Other Reindeer: He was not popular at school and had no friends. After getting expelled and transferring schools, most of his new classmates also ignore him except for Fanboy and Chum Chum, much to Kyle's displeasure.
• Chuunibyou: He wears a cape and pretends to be a wizard.
• Composite Character: Sigmund is Kyle's OC.
• Cope by Creating: His fanfic seems to be a way to cope with his abuse.
• Costume Porn: According to Skipper's comment, his story features at least one two-page-long description of a pair of suspenders.
• Fake Brit: In-universe example. He's an American kid here, putting on an accent.
• Freudian Slip: He exchanges his Gary Stu's name, Sigmund, for his own at one point.
• Instant Web Hit: His fanfiction becomes extremely popular... because it's embarrassingly bad. He ends up taking it down in shame.
• Most Writers Are Writers: Fanfic author in a fanfic chapter.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: "Sadistically" suffers such diverse misspellings as "cladistically" and "superficially", and it takes him till Chapter 66 to spell "Azura" correctly.
• Stylistic Suck: His fanfiction is very clumsily written with tons of spelling errors and bad writing decisions. The authors cite My Immortal as an influence. Justified, since he's just a kid indulging in his own fantasies.

Jezebel Joe (Patterson Penguin)

• Ass Shove: He got a pipe shoved up his ass.
• Body Horror: He was violated with a pipe.
• Dramatic Irony: He's a male sexworker who was raped by someone under the impression he was a john.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: He's a pretty nice guy, in spite of his profession.
• Meaningful Name: Jezebel is a term for a prostitute, fitting his occupation.
• The Oldest Profession: He's a prostitute and admits that there's a lot of things people don't understand about it. It's also what got him raped.
• Platonic Prostitution: Some of his clients don't go all the way with him and just talk or go on dates with him, but he's fine with it as long as he gets paid for it.

The foreigner (Percy Patterson)

• Language Barrier: No one in the bar he's in speaks English.
• Meaningful Name: He was assaulted and tried to get help in a Sherpa village, which was difficult because he doesn't speak Sherpa. Averted in that he's not at the Palace, so the nickname is unofficial and never capitalised.

Strong-Armed Samson (Bea), Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego (Machop, Machoke, and Machamp)

• Adaptational Gender Identity: Bea is nonbinary rather than a girl. In canon, Machop, Machoke, and Machamp are nonhumans with unconfirmed sexes or genders and masculine appearances; here, Machop and Machoke are "he" and Machamp is "she".
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The only reason that Bea is at the Palace was because Machop, Machoke and Machamp all literally got down on their hands and knees and begged.
• It's All My Fault: Bea claims that it's its own fault that its dad kicked it out and that it was raped.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Averted. In a Shout-Out to a translation error on a wiki, Bea's one of the small number of nonbinary people who prefer to use it/its pronouns rather than they/their/them.
• Meaningful Name: The Machop's line names come from Biblical figures that refused to bow to a king's image. Here, they begged Bea to get help for its self-harm
• Self-Harm: Bea cuts to punish itself and relieve stress, which is something that it's not proud of, and over-exercises till it faints.

The Worn-Out Wallaby (Rocko Rama)

• The '90s: His story begins in the 90s.
• Citizenship Marriage: Filbert offered to marry Rocko so the latter could stay in the U.S. (a reference to the canon episode "Kiss Me I'm Foreign" in which this actually does happen), but this idea is quickly shot down as being too risky.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: He mentions that sexual assault was not taken as seriously in the 1990s, especially with female assailants, which is why he tried to repress Bev's assault.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Ed Bighead claims that Rocko is an illegal U.S. resident to get him deported because of his wife Bev coming onto Rocko (Which Ed thinks is the other way around). This only ends up working due to Rocko's dog Spunky eating his citizenship papers.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Bev sexually harasses an unwilling Rocko, but Ed assumes Rocko came onto his wife. Rocko explains that Ed would have never believed that Bev came onto him, especially during The '90s.
• Fish out of Water: As a parallel to Static Cling, due to leaving America in the 90s and spending twenty years in Australia, Rocko finds it hard to adjust to the advancement in technology in the U.S. after he returns.
• I Choose to Stay: After discovering that he really was a legal U.S. citizen, the Department of Homeland Security allows Rocko to reapply for citizenship, but he sees no reason to go back because life screwed him over despite his attempts to be friendly. He spends two decades in Australia and only changes his mind when his parents die from heart disease.
• The Illegal: Played with. Rocko was a legal citizen of the U.S., but Spunky tore up his citizenship papers, so when Ed claims he's an illegal citizen, he has no way to prove it and moves back to Australia for twenty years.
• Meaningful Name: An Australian-born man who was forced to go back to his home country because his neighbor accused him of being The Illegal, due to the neighbor's wife coming onto him, and when he comes back, he has a hard time adjusting to twenty years of technological advancements.
• Slipping a Mickey: Bev slipped Rocko an aphrodisiac.

Abraham's Daughters - Jerusalem, Al-Quds, Zion, Shalem, and Nineveh (Sunny, Izzy, Zipp, Pipp, and Hitch)

• Adaptational Gender Identity: Zipp is a trans girl, both for plot reasons and inspired by her Tomboyish Voice.
• Adaptational Name Change: Argyle and Sunny Starscout are now Carlyle and Sunny Starrett, and Zipp Storm and Pipp Petals are now Zachariah/Zipporah and Philippa Storm, their dad nicknaming Pipp "little petal". Hitch's name is Abram and Sprout's is Jacob.
• Creepy Physical: When Pipp was twelve, her dad sent her to a doctor for a "regular check-up", which seemed normal to her until the doctor told her to lie down so he could give her a virginity check. Pipp isn't even sure if he was an actual doctor since not a lot of doctors do that sort of thing.
• Hiding Your Heritage: As an analogue to hiding their flightlessness in the movie, Zipp, Pipp, Haven, and the Original Character father hide their Judaism from their WASP country club peers.
• Honor Thy Abuser: Pipp still talks to and meets with her dad despite him sending her to a doctor to see if she was a virgin.
• Jewish American Princess: Subverted. Pipp has the Jewish heritage here, and the general aesthetic, but not the trope's typical bitchy nature.
• Long-Distance Relationship: Sunny and Izzy, who live in California and Palestine, respectively, started out as pen-pals and became girlfriends.
• Maligned Mixed Marriage: Not married yet, but in a relationship; Sunny is a white American Christian in a same-sex relationship with Izzy, who is an Arabic Palestinian Muslim, which causes their conflict with Sprout.
• Meaningful Name: The girls all use names referring to the city of Jerusalem. Hitch is Nineveh, the wicked city reformed by Jonah, and the narration calls Sprout and Phyllis Sodom and Gomorrah, after the cities of the plains destroyed for the sin of inhospitality to strangers.
• My Girl Is Not a Slut: Pipp's dad made her go through an invasive hymen check to make sure she was a virgin when she was only twelve.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Hitch is mortified when he realizes just what Sprout tricked him into doing.
• Never Found the Body: Sunny's dad was jumped outside an airport, but the only thing found was a lot of blood.
• Non-Indicative Name: Hitch is the only one in the group who isn't a girl, something the narrative notes.
• Odd Name Out: Apart from being the only male member of the group, Hitch is the only one whose name isn't one of various names for the city of Jerusalem.
• Overreacting Airport Security: Played for laughs with Pipp's multiple shampoo and hairspray bottles in carry-on and drama with what happens to Izzy.
• Pervy Patdown: Sprout tricks Hitch into performing a strip/cavity-search on Izzy.
• Post-Support Regret: Hitch didn't agree with a lot of the stuff Sprout did, but never called him out on it because Sprout and his mom were horrified with GWF and Hitch assumed that they weren't that bad. It took until the incident with Izzy at the airport for him to feel guilty about not telling him off sooner.
• Rape by Proxy: Sprout forces Zipp to pose as a police officer on the phone and talk Hitch, an airport security officer, into stripping and cavity-searching Izzy.
• Self-Defenseless: Averted. Pepper spray puts both Izzy and Sunny down for the count.
• Shameful Strip: Happens to Izzy twice; Sprout rips off her hijab, and later he tricks Hitch into taking her clothes to search for a nonexistent bomb.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Played with. None of the family are upset by Zipp being a trans girl, but Pipp is horrified at the thought of their dad finding out and taking Zipp for a virginity check too, which is how Zipp finds out.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Variation. Hitch is tricked into thinking Izzy's hiding something in her hijab, then, when he finds nothing there, somewhere in the rest of her clothes.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Sunny beats up Sprout for ripping off Izzy's hijab during a pride parade.
• We Used to Be Friends: Hitch and Sprout.

The Horse-Tamer (Megan)

• Dramatic Irony: She doesn't realize that the place she liked to play in was an Ark warehouse and that Tirek is working for the trafficking ring.
• I See Dead People: Her playmates, the ponies, are already dead.
• Innocent Inaccurate: She doesn't understand what's happening in the explicit videos she finds.
• Kill It with Fire: Her favourite play location is the burnt-out remnants of an Ark warehouse, all the victims having died in the destruction.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's unclear if she imagined the ponies after seeing the tablet videos or was seeing their actual ghosts.
• Meaningful Name: The "Horse-Tamer" played with her toy horses and imagined real ones. Averted in that she's not at the Palace; she's telling her story to Tirek.
• Punny Name: Megan mentions that Applejack, Twilight, and Medley were really named Jackie Apple, Twyla Light, and Medine Lee.

The Joseon Swallow (Jebbie), Heungbu (Youngmee) and Pumpkinseed (Blythe)

• Adaptational Name Change: Only a spelling change; here it's spelled "Jebi" rather than "Jebbie", which is how 제비 is usually romanised in real life.
• Adaptational Species Change: Jebbie is a human girl instead of a ferret. The main pets are also human and are Blythe's coworkers at the pet shop.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Youngmee and Blythe discuss how parents paying for young teenagers' plastic surgery is widely accepted in Korea.
• Leit Motif: Kate Bush's "Night of the Swallow".
• Meaningful Name: "Jebi" means "swallow", as in the bird. In the Korean fairy tale "Heungbu and Nolbu", Heungbu saves an injured swallow who brings him a magical pumpkin seed in return.
• Naked on Arrival: The Ark took Jebbie's clothes.
• Satchel Switcheroo: Blythe picks up the suitcase that contains Jebbie because it looked like her bag and doesn't realize the mistake until she opens it back at the pet shop.

Camp Green Lake, Tent D - Caveman (Stanley Yelnats IV), Zero (Hector Zeroni), X-Ray (Rex Washburn), Armpit (Theodore Johnson), Zigzag (Ricky), Squid (Alan), Magnet (Jose), Twitch (Brian)

• Death by Adaptation: According to Zero, Barfbag is probably buried in one of the holes after his rattlesnake bite. In the movie his fate is never confirmed, and in the books it's mentioned he survived the trip to the hospital and ran away.
• Juvenile Hell: The Camp Green Lake here is even worse than the one in movie; Mr. Sir sexually abused the campers and the boys abused each other in turn.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Twice in this chapter. Mr. Sir was the one who kidnapped the Honey Bees and he's finally caught at the end, and Ricky is killed when Butch pushes him into a yellow-spotted lizard nest.
• Honor Thy Abuser: Most of them abused each other, but they can't bring themselves to hate each other because they all had to suffer through what Mr. Sir put them through and it messed them all up enough that they took it out on others.
• Manipulative Bastard: X-Ray talks the others into letting him take advantage of them rather than fighting.
• Mouth To Mouth Force Feeding: In "Many Ways to Say It", Stanley did this for Hector with an onion.
• Shout-Out: To SCP-1247; when Hector is sick he hallucinates all the insects around them as looking like Stanley.
• Troubled Abuser: They abused each other due to Mr. Sir doing the same to them. It's also hinted that Warden Walker was doing something unpleasant to him, even before the rattlesnake venom incident.

Shēng and Kè (Naza and Luo Zhu)

• Abusive Parents: Naza's parents kicked him out when he was twelve for an unspecified reason.
• Big Brother Instinct: Zhu tried to stop his friends from letting their blackmailer rape Hei by offering himself. When they didn't listen and Hei got sick the next day from his injuries, Zhu rushed him to the hospital.
• Broken Pedestal: Naza held a lot of respect for Vachir, but after getting out of the hospital, he went to visit Vachir and was horrified to see him raping Zhu.
• Dramatic Irony: There's a poster on the homeless shelter wall reading "Billy Joe Cobra Says No 2 Drugs", which, as everyone who's read his chapter knows, is not accurate.
• Karmic Rape: Zhu didn't deserve it, but he feels like Hei getting hurt was his fault and sees the abuse he suffered in prison as a suitable punishment. He even goes as far as attacking the guards to stay in prison longer.
• Meaningful Name: When discussing the traditional Chinese five element system, Sheng is the creation cycle and Ke the destruction cycle.
• The Stool Pigeon: Naza snitched on criminals for Vachir. This results in kids who got abused by the cops attacking him later.
• Take Me Instead: Zhu wanted the guy that saw him and his friends bomb the construction site to assault him instead of Hei, but he was ignored.

I Due Triatleti - la Nuotatrice and i Ciclesti (Giulia and Luca)

• Bilingual Bonus: "I Due Trialeti" means "The Two Triathletes" in Italian and their names are "the Swimmer" and "the Cyclist".
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: They admit during their story that had they just told someone about Alberto, they could have gotten him the help he needed while avoiding all the panic.
• Didn't Think This Through: Luca and Giulia lied about a sea monster raping them in Redfish Bay to prevent people from finding Alberto. Not only do their families find out due to Massimo overhearing kids discussing it, but Massimo goes to Redfish Bay to deal with the "monster" himself and ends up freaking out Alberto.
• Meaningful Name: Giulia and Luca were training for the Little Italy Triathlon when Luca found Alberto.
• Shout-Out: To "The Beast of Pirate's Bay".
• Snowball Lie: Luca initially started the lie about the sea monster and got Giulia in on it. When Giulia claimed that the monster did more than eat kids, Luca ends up blurting out that it raped them both.

Teen Girl Squad - What's Her Face, the Ugly One, So and So, and Cheerleader

• A Birthday, Not a Break: Ugly One was nearly gang-raped at her own birthday party.
• Adaptational Name Change: Played with. So and So was actually referred to by Kristen during the first episode. What's Her Face's real name is given as Virginia, Ugly One's is Joy, and Cheerleader's is Jennifer, all names are a nod to the original sbe-mail that inspired the series.
• Deranged Taxi Driver: The taxi driver that drove Cheerleader home from a party made creepy comments, masturbated in front of her, and then groped her when she got out of the cab.
• Frame-Up: The manager of the shirt store So and So worked attempted to frame her for stealing a t-shirt. So and So was only found innocent when the manager was arrested for being one of the teenage GWF members.
• Non-Indicative Name: Ugly One isn't all that ugly and Cheerleader isn't really a cheerleader.
• Papa Wolf: Ugly One's dad is overprotective with her boyfriends and probably killed the guys who assaulted her.

The Mathletes - Arithmetic (Matt), Geometry (Jackie), and Calculus (Inez)

• Ambiguous Situation: Inez admits that she isn't sure if Hacker forcing her to do three strip sessions meant that he was actually attracted to her or if he just got off on the humiliation.
• Because I Said So: The only reason Digit gives Matt, Jackie, and Inez to not talk to Hacker is "I don' like the looks a' him."
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
  • They all admit that had they told each other about their respective tutoring sessions with Hacker, they would have realized what was going on much faster.
  • Inez and Jackie both note that if Digit had given the two of them and Matt a better reason to stay away from Hacker than "Because I Said So" or told them anything about what Hacker had done to him in the past, Hacker might not have had the chance to victimize any of them.
• I'm Not Pretty: One of Jackie's insecurities and what Hacker latches onto in his grooming of her.
• Insistent Terminology: Of a sort. While he doesn't substitute a different term, Matt doesn't like referring to what Hacker did to him and his friends as "grooming" because it feels dehumanizing as "‘Grooming’ is what you do to a dirty animal. We’re not animals."
• It's All My Fault: Inez believes that as The Smart One, she should have seen Hacker's true colors before he could hurt her or her friends.
• Moment of Weakness: How Hacker got them all to trust him-he preyed on their insecurities just enough that they were willing to be more open with him.
• Poor Communication Kills: The fact that none of them mention their respective tutoring sessions with Hacker enhances his ability to isolate them up until he reveals the deepfakes, at which point they realize that they're not the only ones he's hurting. Not to mention all three of them feel hurt by how Digit didn't tell them exactly why he didn't want them around Hacker until after they had all been victimized, even if they understand why he didn't.
• Revenge Porn Blackmail: Hacker created deepfakes of them in inappropriate situations and threatened to send them to people if they didn't get naked for him.
• This Is Reality: In their source media, Matt, Jackie and Inez all are able to easily outwit and out maneuver Hacker, even when on their own and frequently wind up saving Digit from trouble. Here, not only does Hacker completely outclass them but they ultimately have to be rescued by Digit, who, while not an adult, is older than they are.

The Snow Beasts - The Snowman (Migo) The Snow Beast (Percy), the Snowberry Clearwing (Meechee), The Snow Bunting (Gwangi), The Snow Crab (Thorp), the Snow Goose (Kolka), the Snowy Owl (Stonekeeper), the Snowflake Eel (Fleem), the Snow Leopard (Soozie), and the Snowshoe Hare (Dorgle)

• Brutal Honesty: Migo and Meechee don't completely blame Percy for what happened to the village, but still say it's a little bit his fault.
• Ear Ache: Soozie's cochlear implants were ripped out.
• False Confession: After he witnesses the backlash the report of his rape caused against the people of Namche, Percy withdraws his report and "confesses" to making it up. Later on he explains the truth again.
• Misplaced Retribution: Because one person from Namche was a rapist, tourists and foreigners harass all the locals and vandalise their houses, even though they're the ones who helped Percy.
• Non-Indicative Name: Percy's show "Snow Beasts" isn't necessarily about creatures that live in snow - it also includes the snowflake eel, which lives in tropical oceans, because of its common name.

The Parts of the Bus - the Wheel (Arnold), the Light (Keesha), the Wiper (Carlos), the Door (Dorothy Ann), the Key (Tim), the Change (Phoebe), the Horn (Ralphie), the Engine (Wanda), the Driver (Miss Frizzle)

• Connected All Along: Dorothy Ann was one of the students in Mew's study and feels extremely guilty that she didn't realize anything was wrong, especially since she walked in on the aftermath of Ratigan assaulting Dexter, who easily convinced her the boy's crying was due to his non existent cat dying.
• Cool Teacher: Much like canon, Miss Frizzle. The kids adore her and she's trying her damnest to help them deal with the trauma they've all suffered.
• Cope by Creating: Tim starts unconsciously making inappropriate art to cope with getting flashed.
• Evil Teacher: Phoebe's old teacher had pictures of her and was heavily implied to be stalking her.
• False Friend: Keesha thought the older boy she hung out with was her friend until he attempted to assault her.
• Groin Attack: Keesha escaped her attacker with a well placed kick between his groin.
• It's All My Fault: It's clear that everyone, in spite of being told otherwise, is blaming themselves for what happened to them.
• Moral Guardians: Miss Frizzle was planning to cover sex ed in her class, but was stopped as she was told that her students were too young for that sort of thing.
• Parental Substitute: While the kids have active parents, it's clear that they view Miss Frizzle as one as well.
• Stepford Smiler: Miss Frizzle is doing her best to keep up a brave face in front of her students, but it's clear that what's happened to all of them is weighing on her.
• Teens Are Monsters:
  • When Tim was drawing at the park, two teenaged girls came up to him and flashed him.
  • Wanda was almost assaulted by a teenager she ran into in the woods.
• Teeny Weenie: Janet, after making Arnold expose himself to her, comments on how his genitals were smaller than she thought.
• Trauma Button: Ralphie ends up revealing what happened to him to Miss Frizzle when he jumps out of the way of someone trying to take a picture of him, as he was tricked into letting someone take naked photos of him.
• Troubled Abuser: Janet made Arnold expose himself to her, but it's later revealed something happened to her before the event happened that may have caused her to do it.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Carlos dressed up like his father, a drag queen, for "Dress Like Your Parents" day. It becomes much less wholesome, however, when someone decided to stick their hand up the dress he was wearing to see if he actually was a girl.

Ham (Iris), Shem (Auriana), and Japheth (Talia)

• Human Trafficking: Gramorr took Iris' parents, Auriana's family (minus herself, two of her sisters, and her grandma), and Talia's older sister Izira to the Ark.
• Ignoring by Singing: When Izira tried to convince her it was too dangerous to go to the Calusa Day Festival, Talia covered her ears and went "La-la-la-la. Boring talk! Boring talk that’s no fun! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!"
• Unstoppable Rage: Iris enters a fugue state out of anger before shooting, beating up and burning Gramorr.

Context (Miriya)

• Abuse Mistake: The kittens had clearly had something horrible happen to them, so when Thomas showed up and they hide away, she assumed he did it.
• One Side of the Story: She's aware she's only hearing part of the story from Leon, but doesn't like to pry.

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