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Arc Number: Several of the winter holiday specials have a number theme; twelve days of Christmas, eight nights of Hanukkah, twenty-four hours of Dongzhi, seven traditional herbs of Japanese New Year, seven principles of Kwanzaa. Similarly, the chapters for Passover and Eid al-Fitr both revolve around the number seven, and the story for Eid al-Adha has a motif of the number four.
Holiday Episode: These fics in the series center around holidays.

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Twelve Days of Christmas

Flash Forward: This story takes place twelve years in the future after the main story.
Human Trafficking: Arthur, the Grinch and the Conductor spent some time in the Ark, years prior.
Theme Naming: The twelve of them are named by the narration as the First, Second, etc Days of Christmas.

First Day of Christmas (Jesper Johanssen)

Break the Haughty: His story roughly follows the events of the movie... to a point. Instead of making up with Klaus and Alva, he's attacked getting back to them and leaves. Understandably, he appears with a lot of the bluster knocked out of him.

Second Day of Christmas (Prince Eric)

An Arm and a Leg: Averted. While many other characters have lost limbs at some point, here Eric was born without one arm.
Parental Incest: Here the Mouseking is his legal guardian and sexually abusive.

Third Day of Christmas (Arthur Christmas)

Happily Married: Possibly with Eden. She calls him Darling, they have holidays plans together and there's a scene where they have a Meet Cute.

Fourth Day of Christmas (Kris Kringle)

False Rape Accusation: Implied. The Burgermeister may have bribed one of the children he delivered to.
Pædo Hunt: Again implied. He's pretty beat up inside the palace and it's noted that he's not sitting down.

Fifth Day of Christmas (The Conductor)

Schedule Fanatic: Much like canon. It actually worked to his favor when he was escaping the Ark along with the kids, as he knew when the train they were on would be slowing down enough that it would be safe for them to jump from.

Sixth Day of Christmas (The Little Match-Girl)

Abusive Parents: Her father forces her to prostitute herself and beats her when she doesn't bring back enough money.
Self-Made Orphan: On her way to becoming one; it's strongly implied she's planning to burn down the house with her father still in it.

Seventh Day of Christmas (Eden Starling)

Happily Married: Possibly with Arthur. She calls him Darling, they have holidays plans together and there's a scene where they have a Meet Cute.

Eighth Day of Christmas (Kevin McCallister)

"Home Alone" Antics: Deconstructed. Like in the original film, Kevin sets up traps for the Wet Bandits. However, unlike the movie, the burglars just get mad at him and assault him for it.
Nightmare Fetishist: While everyone else is complaining about being stuck at the Palace, he's enjoying it because he thinks being stuck in a haunted theater is cool.
This Is Reality: After Kevin set up the traps in his home, the final fragment of his story says, "It should be enough because it needs to be, but this is the real world and it isn’t."

Ninth Day of Christmas (The Grinch)

Hollywood Heart Attack: Not exactly, there's no yelling or odd noises, but it is dramatic and does involve chest clutching. Rule of Drama is in full effect after all.

Tenth Day of Christmas (Albert)

Kids Are Cruel: Some kids at his school assaulted him when he published a rant in the school newspaper saying that Santa was fake.
Troubled Abuser: It's implied that the kids who assaulted him were getting abused themselves.

Eleventh Day of Christmas (Joe)

Contraception Deception: His parents messed with Jenny's birth control so he would get her pregnant.
I Want Grandkids: He and Jenny don't want kids, much to Joe's parents' displeasure.
Related in the Adaptation: Jenny is one of Casey's daughters, grown up.

Twelfth Day of Christmas (Shock)

My God, What Have I Done?: Is implied to strongly regret hurting Victor.
Sometimes though… that’s not enough to fix everything. Especially not some majorly fucked-up kids. Sometimes your broken pieces nick other people when they try to help.
Plot-Relevant Age-Up: A kid in the main timeline, but all grown up in the Flash Forward of Twelve Days.

Horef Jiàqī no Monogatari

Arc Number: The three stories respectively have the numbers eight, twenty-four, and seven repeated throughout, which connect with the holidays focused on in that chapter.
- Chapter 1 occurs during Hanukkah, which is observed for eight nights/days.
- Chapter 2 follows twenty-four hours of Dongzhi.
- Chapter 3 is about the Japanese New Year; Tuo makes seven herb rice porridge, which is made on the seventh of January.
Bilingual Bonus:
- "Horef" means "Winter" in Hebrew, "Jiàqī" is "Holiday" in Chinese, and "no Monogatari" is "The Story of" in Japanese.
- "Xiao Maccabee" translates to "Little Maccabee".
- "Kaeri no Jīngshén" means "The Returning Spirit".
- "Inu Mer" is "Bitter Dog".
Hanukkah Episode: Obviously.
Retcon: When the story was first posted, Rina actually was assaulted, but the writers aren't Jewish and after some discussion with others thought it would be in bad taste to write about antisemitic violence that was worse than canon, so in 2023 it was changed so that Rina was unharmed.

Xiao Maccabee (Rina)

The Oldest Profession: Subverted; she attempted to prostitute herself to get money for A-Gen's sick mother, but when she told some men her story, they gave her money without anything bad happening to her. However, A-Gen and Tuo thought she was raped.

Kaeri no Jīngshén (A-Gen)

Single Mom Stripper: A-Gen's mother prostituted herself to provide for her and her son.

Inu Mer (Tuo)

It's All My Fault: He knew the men that gave Rina money and thought they raped her, so he felt guilty for it to the point that he asked her father to assault him (which he refused to do since he knew the truth) and cut himself.
Self-Harm: Cuts his hand with a knife because thought Rina was raped and blamed himself for it.

Passover and Eid

Vilon (Pinkie Pie), Raki'a (Rainbow Dash), Shehaqim (Cheerilee), Zebul (Scootaloo), Ma'on (Starsong), Machon (Toola-Roola), Araboth (Sweetie Belle), Olam ha-ba (Whimsey Weatherbee)

All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Averted. Pinkie is Mizrahi, Rainbow is Palestinian, Scootaloo is Sephardic, Starsong is Ethiopian, Toola-Roola is Bukharan, and Sweetie Belle is an Azerbaijani Mountain Jew. Cheerilee is Chinese but practises Ashkenazi traditions, as her grandfather was a Chinese convert who married an Ashkenazi WW2 refugee. Whimsey is an ex-Christian convert of unknown heritage.
Big Sister Bully: Cheerilee constantly put down Scootaloo and compared her to Lily.
Blended Family Drama: Cheerilee preferred her step-sister Lily over her bio-sister Scootaloo.
Implausible Hair Color: Averted; either their mane colours become the colours of their religious headscarves, or their hair is dyed.

Raqi'a (Minty), Araqlun (Skywishes), Qaydum (Rarity), Ma'una (Lily Lightly), Di'a (Starcatcher), Draqua (Kimono), 'Ariba (Wysteria), Akhirah (Spike)

All Muslims Are Arab: Averted. Starcatcher is Ethiopian, Kimono is Japanese, and Spike is a white ex-Christian convert. Rarity's mothers, the two Cheerilees, are both Chinese and one is Jewish while the other is Muslim; it's not clear if Rarity is also Chinese.
Implausible Hair Color: Averted with coloured headscarves, as above.
The Peeping Tom: Averted; some of the women aren't wearing the head coverings they usually wear, so Spike politely keeps his eyes closed around them.
Token Mini-Moe: Rarity is the only child in the group.

Halloween

The Common Gore Curriculum - Homeroom (Max Schneider), Science (Reggie Moonshroud), Math (JP), English (Duzer), History (Frankentyke), Lunch (Cleofatra), Phys-Ed (Gil), Home-Ec (Blanche), Foreign Language (Sid), Study Hall (Vinnie)

Adaptation Name Change: Duzer is renamed Belinda, with Duzer being her surname, most likely due to the fact that not many real parents would want to name their child Medusa. Reggie's surname is Luna instead of Moonshroud, as Chumash people are more likely to have Spanish surnames. Frankentyke is Franklin Van Dyke and Cleofatra is Cleo Fitzpatrick.
Anguished Declaration of Love: As he's giving his statement, Reggie admits to being in love with Vinnie, but is convinced that Vinnie wants nothing to do with him now.
Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: The cops didn't assault Cleo because she was fat, which upset her due to her past with people making fun of her being fat and ugly.
Badass Teacher: Max tried to protect Vinnie from the corrupt cops and ends up pressing charges against them and Miss Fresno for what he and his students went through.
Body Horror: What happens to them in custody is not fun. Blanche's face is mutilated, all of them get infected with scabies and lice, Cleo suffers skin infections, and Vinnie gets his braces ripped off his teeth.
Book Dumb: Vinnie was apparently already failing school when they were arrested and is in danger of dropping out.
Broken Bird: Schneider walks the reader through a day at Gravedale in order to show how much the students have been affected by what happened to them.
Chocolate Baby: Cleo believes that a white man came to Santa Ynez and raped her mom because she has light hair and doesn't look like anyone on her dad's side of the family.
Dramatic Irony: During Reggie's interview, he sobs that Vinnie obviously will never want to see him again, much less return his feelings, due to the whole mess being because of Reggie's driving; however, when Vinnie is being interviewed, the first person he asks after, before even Schneider, is "Reg" and when asked to clarify who he means, refers to Reggie as "my boyfriend" while treating this relationship as blatantly obvious fact, meaning that not only does Vinnie not hate Reggie but is just as in love with him.
Facial Horror: Blanche gets her nose broken and lower lip ripped off, and the injuries get infected.
Formerly Fat: Cleofatra lost a lot of weight while locked up. Unlike usual uses of the trope, this is played for horror as the extra skin remains and becomes heavily infected.
Freudian Slip: Cleo mentions that the last white teacher they had looked at her and called their tribe Salami instead of Samala.
Groin Attack: Vinnie was hurt worse because the cops thought he bit them when they tried to force oral sex - it's implied what actually happened is they got scratched by his braces.
Hellhole Prison: Ten people are locked in a room designed to hold one and left with no food or hygiene supplies in total darkness.
Improvised Bandage: Cleo has to be wrapped up in toilet paper to cover her sores, as they don't have anything else.
It's All My Fault: As in the episode the chapter is based on, Reggie blames himself due to having been the one driving during the incident with Miss Fresno.
Leit Motif: Ministry's "Every Day is Halloween".
Meaningful Name: Their group name is a pun on "common core curriculum" and "gore"; the kids are high school students, Max is their teacher, and everyone's named after classes you would find in a high school. The students all suffered from various injuries, illnesses, and infections while in solitary confinement.
Miscarriage of Justice: Even if Reggie really had been driving dangerously, the legal penalty for same in California is a fine, applicable only to the actual driver of the car, not locking up everyone in the car in a Hellhole Prison for months.
Neck Snap: The cops snapped J.P's neck when he attacked them when they assaulted Blanche. Surprisingly, he can still feel below it.
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: As mentioned in the notes, the intended frightening part of this Halloween special is that this kind of thing regularly happens to non-white detainees in the US in real life.
Official Couple: Blanche and J.P are implied to have been dating.
Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Downplayed; Vinnie has Von Willebrand Syndrome, which causes him to bleed a lot more than most people would from similar injuries.
Papa Wolf: Schneider isn't their father, but he clearly loves the kids and tries to physically fight the guards to protect Vinnie, even offering to be taken in his place.
Parasitic Horror: The kids all get scabies and lice, and Cleo gets yeast infections in her skin.
Parental Substitute: While they do have parents at home, Schneider is the only benevolent authority figure during the class's ordeal, he's very protective over them, and in his victim impact statement he calls them "my kids". When Vinnie's parents fight in his hospital room, he asks for Schneider, making them realise they're upsetting him.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Duzer is dismissive of Blanche, who in turn calls her "Jenny Quantum", referring to blood quantum laws; the implication is Duzer thinks the black Blanche isn't Native American enough to fit in.
Poor Communication Kills: As revealed in "Statements", Reggie never admitted to his parents he liked guys because they said Moe was a bad influence. Reggie thought it was because he had male partners. His mother assures him that it's because he's a bank robber and they have no problems with Reggie being gay.
Race Lift: The kids are all Samala Chumash, with Schneider as the token white teacher instead of a human among monsters.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The non-memory fragment parts of the chapter is Max writing a letter explaining how much the cops fucked over his class.
Self-Harm: Implied. Max mentions Reggie Cut Himself Shaving in the victim impact statement.
Something That Begins with "Boring": In Cat out of the Bag Sid tries to be funny and distract Vinnie by starting a game, in which he's only able to say "something black" since the room is completely dark. No one is amused.
Take Me Instead: Mr Schneider and Reggie both offered to be abused in Vinnie's place.
The Tooth Hurts: The crooked cops ripped Vinnie's braces out, damaging his teeth.
Traumatic Haircut: Duzer's hair had to get shaved due to it being infected with parasites. Worse, this happened when she'd only just grown it back to how she liked it after losing it during melanoma treatment.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Max acknowledges that Miss Fresno didn't intend to get the class actually tortured when she had them arrested. She didn't care either, though, so he's still suing her.
Weight Woe: Cleo was picked on for her weight and it made her feel insecure about her body as a result. The sheriff refused to rape her for the same reason, which made her feel hurt that even rapists don't want her.
You Are Fat: The sheriff tells Cleofatra he doesn't want to rape her because of her weight, even though he's also fat, which makes her body image issues even worse.

Thanksgiving and the Day of Mourning

Winston, the Giver (James), and the Taker (Kirby)

Arc Words: Beans and squash and corn pop up a lot, often together; this is thematically appropriate as they're known as the Three Sisters in Indigenous American agriculture and cooking.
Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: James and Kirby's relationship has a few false starts and obstacles, but they end up Happily Married, as in canon.
Broken Pedestal: Winston used to think of James' dad as his second favorite human until he assaulted Kirby.
Culture Clash: James is white and Kirby is Native American. Kirby dislikes Thanksgiving and attends the Day of Mourning protests instead, and when James persuades her to join his family for Thanksgiving his father disapproves of her and assaults her.
Cradle To Grave Character: The story shows Winston's life from puppyhood to his death from old age.
Dating What Daddy Hates: James' dad assaults Kirby, and it's implied it's because he doesn't want James dating someone who's not white.
Everyone Has Standards: While Winston wasn't fond of Kirby at first, he didn't like seeing her and James argue and he stops considering James' dad as his second favorite human once he catches his assault on her.
Formula-Breaking Episode: There are no memory fragments and it focuses on Winston's POV entirely over the course of his life.
A Good Way to Die: Winston is peacefully and painlessly euthanised when he becomes very sick in his old age, surrounded by his family members who love him.
Lost Pet Grievance: The story ends with Winston's peaceful death of old age.
Meaningful Name: Kirby's surname is given as Campbell, which is both a common name in the Plymouth area where she's from here and the name of a brand of canned foods, which connects to the food theme of canon.
Race Lift: Kirby, who was Ambiguously Brown in the original short, here gets her ethnicity defined as Native American. More specifically, she seems to be Wampanoag, given that she lives in or near Plymouth and participates in the Day of Mourning as typically observed by the Wampanoag people.
Thanksgiving Episode: Played with. Both Thanksgiving and the Native American Day of Mourning and Unthanksgiving are featured.
Took the Wife's Name: James initially kept his last name "Ratcliffe" when he married Kirby, but when he found out his father was involved with GWF, he changed it to Kirby's last name "Campbell".

Matunda ya Kwanzaa

The Seven Principles - Unity and Umoja (Madison and Addison), Self-Determination and Kujichagulia (Tamika and Bambi), Collective-Work-And-Responsibility and Ujima (Kam and Jam), Cooperative Economics and Ujamaa (Eddie and Freddie), Purpose and Nia (Kim and Jim), Creativity and Kuumba (Philly Phil and Brooklyn Bill), Faith and Imani (Li'l D and Li'l G)

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: A truly tragic version of "They Mean It" in Jam's story; he pleads frantically for the magistrate to spare the child he unwillingly fathered on the man's wife...because he knows there's a chance for the baby to be spared, unlike himself.
Angsty Surviving Twin: Li'l D, who deeply regrets resenting his twin and clearly blames himself for Li'l G's murder; considering that it happened because they were twins, it's hard to blame him.
Child by Rape: Jam's child with the magistrate's wife, Freddie and Jim's three pregnancies.
Chocolate Baby: Turns up in both Kam and Eddie's stories; the dark skin on the baby resulting from Jam's forced night with the magistrate's wife betrays the true father and Freddie's dark skin and textured hair reveal him as the result of his father forcing himself on a slave woman.
Culture Clash: The Yoruba and Efik tribes originate from nearby areas but have polar opposite views on whether twins are a good or bad omen, which leads to the murder of Li'l G, a Yoruba kid with a twin, by an Efik person.
Death by Childbirth: Addison died giving birth to her daughter, Madison's grandmother.
Death of a Child: None of the Eastley kids made it past age thirteen.
Dramatic Irony: Brooklyn Bill grew up ignored and belittled for being mixed race so when he and his brother moved to Philadelphia, he decided they should claim they're fully Irish; as Philly Phil notes and the flashback shows, he should have picked Scottish because not long after moving to Philadelphia, Brooklyn Bill was murdered in the Nativist Riots for being Irish, leaving his brother (Philly Phil's great-great-grandfather) the last of their family.
Groin Attack: Li'l G was stabbed in the groin when he was killed.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Bambi's body was found in seven pieces.
Hiding Your Heritage: Brooklyn Bill and his brother covered up the fact that they were biracial after moving to Philadelphia by leaning into the fact that they could pass for Caucasians to people who didn't know their background.
Must Make Amends: Eddie wants to go back to his hometown someday to do what he can for the harm his family caused.
N-Word Privileges: Kim describes her great-grandmother as a "coolie", using the word in historical context to mean an Asian indentured labourer. Eddie mentions telling his father not to call himself an octoroon, an outdated term for someone of one-eighth black heritage, but he calls it "the o-word" instead of saying it. The author's notes warn for the use of slurs, since the authors don't have N Word Privileges of those kinds but needed to mention the terms to make a point.
One Twin Must Die: While the Yoruba culture reveres twins, the nearby Efik culture considers them ill omens and kills them. G is killed by someone Efik for being a twin when they visit family in Nigeria.
Overly Long Name: Kam's Palace name is long enough that he needed two name tags to write it on.
Pass Fail: Lethal example in Eddie's story; when Freddie's skin turns too dark and his hair turns too curly, betraying that he's the result of his father forcing himself on a slave woman, his father drugs his iced tea and sees to it Freddie is never seen again.
Race Lift: Madison is stated to have Colombian ancestry and Kim, Kam, Eddie and Philly Phil all have African heritage here; this is to explain why they're celebrating Kwanzaa.
Related in the Adaptation: The Eastley kids, here, are ancestors or relatives of the Westley kids.
Sins of Our Fathers: Tamika's sister Bambi was raped multiple times, ultimately being murdered as well, for being the grandchild of slaves.
Teen Pregnancy: Addison and Jim both give birth at age thirteen and die as a result. Jam inverts this, being forced to impregnate his master's wife at thirteen too.
Theme Naming: Double example. Not only are all of the Westley students' names the translations of the virtues assigned to the ancestors whose stories they relate but said ancestors (with the exception of Bambi) have names that rhyme with their present-day relations.
Twins Are Special: In Yoruba culture, twins are revered and the oldest twin must take care of the second twin. D resented being put in this position with G and regrets it now.
Written by the Winners: The official story of the mixed African-Chinese child in the Song dynasty that Kim and Kam descend from is that Jam "slept" with the wife of the magistrate he served, meaning the claim is that he either willingly did so or raped her, either way betraying his master; the truth, as the readers know, is that the wife forced herself on him for her own satisfaction.

Easter

The Easter Triduum - Maundy Thursday (William Cinnamon), Good Friday (Stella Chocolate) and Holy Saturday (Sprouts Sunshine)

Blaming the Victim: Stella's old church canceled her and William's wedding because her manager got her pregnant and they refused to believe she was raped.
Crisis of Faith: William and Stella rejected Mormonism after their church refused to let them get married after the latter was raped and they converted to Anglicanism.
Elopement: After William and Stella's church refused to marry them, they ran off to Calisota and got it done there.

Eid al-Adha

Hamalat al-Arsh - Daw' (Amba), Nar (Pranee), Ma' (Jagan), Rahma (Pengu), Ealaa Alma' (Sisu)

All Muslims Are Arab: Averted; they're Malay/Chinese, living in Singapore.
Hiding Your Heritage: Ao Guang made them hide that they were Muslim and made them bleach their dark skin.
Parental Abandonment: Their parents died during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Sadistic Choice: When Ao Guang caught up to their bedar, he made them choose who to leave in the water since there were only four seats in his motorboat. They picked Sisu because they knew she would be able to survive.

Stonewall Anniversary

The Friends of Dorothy (Hunk/Scarecrow, Hickory/Tin Man, and Zeke/Cowardly Lion) and Dorothy

Affectionate Nickname: Dorothy's friends call her "Dotty."
Double Standard: They mention that the Stonewall era anti-drag laws were easier for men to avoid but caught women coming and going. Everyone had to wear at least three pieces of gender-conforming clothing, and if a woman was dressed butch the police would check her underwear, while femme-dressed women had their genitals checked.
Meaningful Name: Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion are gay men (a.k.a "Friends of Dorothy") who are literally friends with Dorothy.
Platonic Life-Partners: Dorothy with her male friends. They're all gay, but have known each other for over a decade and clearly love each other more than anything.
Sexless Marriage: Dorothy and Ozma became too afraid to have sex with each other during the AIDS crisis, since no one knew exactly how it was transmitted.
20 Minutes into the Past: The main narrative is set in 1981, as indicated by Dorothy referring to AIDS as GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency), and the movie fragments are in 1969 during the Stonewall Riots.
Tragic AIDS Story: Glinda is mentioned to have died from AIDS sometime beforehand, and Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion die from it at the end.

Ashura

Al-Jinn and Al-Insaan (Li Yunxiang)

Adaptational Nationality: They're living in Singapore.
An Arm and a Leg: Kasha loses a leg to calcium deposits that block blood flow.
Body Horror: DRUUN causes calcium crystallisation throughout the body, resulting in stones forming inside organs. It's implied to be currently incurable.
Deliberate Injury Gambit: Yunxiang intentionally infects himself with DRUUN to infect Bing in turn.
Fictional Disability: Deposit-Rich Un-Uniform Neomineralization (a.k.a. DRUUN) is a disease that causes an inability to break down calcium properly, leading to crystals, stones, and bezoars forming throughout the body.
Karmic STD: Deconstructed. Yunxiang lets Bing rape him to intentionally infect him with DRUUN and Bing in turn infects Guang, but Guang goes on to infect Sisu's innocent siblings.
Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: Jinzha allows himself to be imprisoned for an overstayed visa, and it's mentioned that if he was younger the penalty would include caning.
Papa Wolf: Jinzha turns himself in for overstaying in order to protect Jinxiang from Prison Rape.
Platonic Life-Partners: Yunxiang and Kasha, though they do have sex once - it's only so Yunxiang can catch DRUUN and intentionally infect Bing with it.

Bonfire Night

The Catholic (Fergus) and the Protestant (Basil Brush)

Adaptational Nationality: In real life, Dave's actor is English and Molly's is Greek, so in the fic, both of them are half English and half Greek, and they practice Greek Orthodox Christianity.
Burn Baby Burn: The church goes up in flames and Basil and Fergus only just escape.
Cruel Mercy: Snape, both because the Death Eaters needed to get moving and because he may have wanted to give the two a chance to escape, convinces his two cohorts to leave Fergus and Basil alive, but only so they can die in the blast from the bomb they planned.
Death Trap: What the Death Eaters leave them in.
Fire-Forged Friends: The two come from two completely different walks of life, yet walk out of their torment as friends.
Flat-Earth Atheist: Downplayed. The Death Eaters, in this 'verse, are an anti-theistic terrorist group, while ghosts and the afterlife have been demonstrated to exist in the fic's world. However, the Death Eaters have no way to actually know that.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Basil, in order to keep Molly safe, offers to return to the church to get her contacts so she's not walking around by herself at night. This gets him tortured by the Death Eaters.
Stealth Pun: "Fox" sounds a little like "Fawkes".
Strapped to a Bomb: They weren't exactly strapped to it, but the Death Eaters tied Fergus and Basil up close to a bomb they had planted in a church in order to kill them.
Take That!: Hogwarts was made a school for trans kids in this universe in order to spite J.K. Rowling for her transphobic views.
Wire Dilemma: Under the assumption that they won't make it out of the church in time before the bomb goes off, Basil and Fergus try to disarm the bomb and run afoul of this. Unable to pick, they ultimately just rip them all out at once, which does seem to work, but makes the bomb dangerous in a different way, causing it to leak gasoline and catch fire.

Diwali

Sugar (Bubbles), Spice (Buttercup), Everything Nice (Blossom), and Chemical X (Bliss)

Adaptational Dye-Job: Blossom has albinism and colours her hair with henna.
Adaptational Gender Identity: Complicated version; Bliss identifies as female as in canon and is able to get pregnant, but is intersex with ovotesticular disorder, was assigned male at birth, and chose to keep her masculine first name, Biswanath. Indian culture classifies her as hijra.
Adaptational Name Change: Professor Utonium is now Professor Unnikrishnan, and Bubbles, Buttercup, Blossom, Bliss, and Bunny are Babli, Bhagavati, Basant, Biswanath, and Buniya. Mojo Jojo is Mohesh Joginder.
Age Lift: Mojo Jojo is a teenager in this.
Absurdly Youthful Mother: Bubbles' mother was implied to not even be a teenager when she had her.
Big Sister Instinct: It's never stated which of them is oldest due to all of them being from different orphanages, but Blossom was willing to stay up at night with a firearm in order to try to protect Bubbles and Buttercup, who were still dealing with the traumas from their respective assaults.
Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Implied. Utonium and Nehru divorce after Bliss disappears, but when they meet up when she returns, Utonium holds Nehru's hand and tells her she's beautiful.
But Not Too Black: Bliss' abuser tells her he's the best she can hope for and the Professor won't want her back because she's dark-skinned, which in Indian culture is deemed ugly. Since the three other girls are light-skinned, she believes Utonium prefers them.
Child by Rape: Bubbles is the biological child of a child bride, Blossom the result of a gang rape, and Bunny was born as a result of Bliss being raped by her captor.
Composite Character: Everyone's conflicts are a mix of both the original show as well as the reboot.
Driven to Suicide: Blossom's birth mother gave Blossom up and drowned herself because Blossom was born from a gang-rape and she couldn't love her properly.
Female Misogynist: Bluebelle has some very restrictive views on appropriate female behaviour.
Forceful Kiss: Princess Bluebelle plants a kiss on a very unwilling Buttercup following a play session.
Good Parents: The Professor makes mistakes sometimes, but he's well-intentioned and generally does a good job, raising the girls to feel empowered about their gender and letting them all practice their own different religions.
Grief-Induced Split: Utonium and Nehru divorce after Bliss disappears. It's not yet made clear if they got back together after she and Bunny have been rescued.
Heir Club for Men: Bubbles's and Buttercup's birth parents dumped them for not being boys. Professor Utonium specifically averts this, adopting them along with Blossom and accepting Bliss for who she is.
Hope Spot: Buttercup seems to finally start getting along with Bluebelle when the latter lets her be the prince during their place session, but when the game ends, Bluebelle plants a Forceful Kiss on her.
Intersex Tribulations: Professor Utonium and Doctor Nehru had Bliss operated on to remove her testicular tissue when she was very young, thinking it was what she wanted and that it would help her, but it traumatised her even though she did want to present as female.
It's All My Fault: Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup blame themselves for what happened to the Gangreen Gang at Camp Green Lake since they were the reason they ended up there.
My God, What Have I Done?:
- Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup were all utterly horrified by what happened to the Gangreen Gang, which came in part due to them handing over a list of their crimes to the police.
- Blossom gets her own moment when she realizes that she shot Mojo Jojo, who was coming to read the girls a bedtime story.
Mythology Gag: At one point, Bluebelle refers to the Professor, here named Unnikrishnan, as Professor Utonium, his name from canon.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Mojo Jojo actually did want to try and be nice to the girls by reading them a bedtime story, but due to his previous animosity towards the girls as well as the trauma Bubbles and Buttercup suffered, Blossom shot him by mistake.
No Woman's Land: The running theme of their stories is misogyny and its negative effects on girls. The professor mentions how Americans think India is horrible to women, but America is often extremely harsh to women too, just less obvious about it.
Properly Paranoid: The Professor puts the girls in self defense classes and encourages them to never be afraid of telling him if something is wrong, which pays off due to two of them getting abused in different ways.
Offing the Offspring: Buttercup's birth parents dumped her on a riverbank and left her to drown or starve because she wasn't a boy like their second child, and Bliss' abuser tries to kill the resulting child, Bunny, when it becomes clear she's disabled.
Race Lift: The girls and Professor Utonium are all Desi, all being Indian specifically except for Bubbles who's Nepali. Bubbles and Blossom have albinism, hence their light colouration, while Buttercup and the professor just happen to be light-skinned.
Related in the Adaptation: Bliss and Mojo Jojo are the human biological children of Professor Utonium and Doctor Nehru, and Bunny is Bliss' daughter.
Teen Pregnancy: Bubbles was stated to be born from a very young bride and Bliss had Bunny while she was a young teen herself.
Troubled Abuser: Bluebelle is mentioned to have had "weird" foster parents who instilled misogynistic beliefs in her and led her to self-harm and abuse Buttercup to take back some power.
Type Caste: It's mentioned in side stories that Nehru is Shudra and Utonium is Kshatriya.
Unrelated in the Adaptation: Downplayed. While they're still sisters here Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup are all adopted from different orphanages.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup gave a list of all of the bad things the Gangreen Gang did to the police, causing them to get put in Camp Green Lake where they were abused.

Soyal

The Scarlet Women - Ruby Red Dress (Red Hot Riding Hood) and Red Right Handprint (Jessica Rabbit)

Asshole Victim: The mine workers were working in an illegal ruby mine where they proceeded to rape and murder local women while the owner did nothing about it. All of the workers were killed in a cave in that it's implied Jessica, Red and Roger paid for and the owner followed them into the grave after committing suicide with an utterly ruined reputation due to the blame for the collapse falling on him.
Ate His Gun: After the mine collapses, the owner pulls this when there's talk about charging him with safety violations, as that investigation would no doubt expose how illegal the mine was.
But Not Too Black: It's possible part of why Jessica and Red are fetishised so much is because they have both "exotic" heritage and Caucasian-like colouration, making them supposedly "prettier".
Casting Couch: Jessica refused to sleep with Pinky Fox to get ahead in showbiz, but came out alright because she married Roger.
Cue Card Pause: Username variation; the character limit isn't long enough for Gaston's bragging username and it ends at "Gas".
Cyberbullying: The BlueTube comments get pretty horrible.
Death of a Child: One of the murder victims was Red's eight-year-old daughter.
Despair Event Horizon: Learning that, even when she offered herself up to stop the rapes and murders, didn't stop the miners from doing it to more people, utterly broke Jesscia.
Dramatic Irony: Both 2D and Kaito comment on the video close together, not knowing about their connection via Yuki/Cyborg in Hana mo Naki.
Dude, Not Funny!: In the comments, John Egbert tells off Vriska Serket for making a joke about Red's dead daughter.
Groin Attack: One victim, Country Red (a Lhamana), had her genitals cut off and stuffed in her mouth.
Harmful to Minors: Bandit Heeler is embarrassed to find Bluey, Bingo, Muffin, and Socks got hold of his phone and saw all the racist and sexist comments on the video, and the kids have started repeating curses they picked up.
Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Played with. There's nothing remotely humiliating about the uploaded video, which depicts a traditional Soyal dance, but the comments are full of cruel rumors and insults because Jessica and Red dared to be women of colour on the internet.
Meaningful Name: "Scarlet woman" is an archaic way of saying a promiscuous woman, and Red and Jessica were hypersexualised and victim-blamed because of their Native heritage and their appearance. The red dress and red handprint are symbols of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and red is traditionally a beacon to spirits.
Never My Fault: The mine owner refused to discipline his men even it was blatantly clear they were raping and murdering local women because said women should have been better about satisfying their "needs".
Outliving One's Offspring: Little Red from the short cartoon was Red's daughter, and was a victim of the multiple murders committed by the invading ruby miners.
Race Lift: Both women were presumably designed to be white, and in the fic are Native Americans with oculocutaneous albinism; albinism of various types is unusually common among the Hopi and Zuni.
Rape and Revenge: Jessica, Red, and Roger are hinted to have paid someone to arrange for the mine collapse after the women were assaulted and several of their friends and Red's daughter were killed.
Redheads Are Ravishing: Several of the miners fetishise Red and Jessica's red hair and take to kidnapping light-haired local girls, dyeing their hair red, raping them, and murdering them, as a not-so-veiled threat. Jessica offers herself up to stop the murders.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The mine owner breaks the law about not mining on reservation land and lets his men abuse the local women. It backfires on him when Roger follows the same principle and pays for the mine to be sabotaged.
Sympathetic Murderer: Roger, Jessica, and Red may be guilty of mass murder, as they paid to have the mine sabotaged and it's not clear how much was mundane and how much was ghostly, but they only did it to prevent the harm the miners were doing. The author's notes suggest it could be counted as an act of war.
Take Me Instead: In hopes of stopping the murders and rapes of local women, Jessica offered herself up to the miners.
Take That!: The mentioned book The Tent Under Azure Lake and the controversy surrounding it are a reference to The House In The Cerulean Sea.

Wheel of the Year

Cyberbullying:
- People online made comments, blog posts, and videos accusing Betsy of being the one to kill Ghost.
- When Alice made a post about her family's experiences in Karlag and how Stalinists, Nazis, and tankies are bad, people harassed and doxxed her.
False Rape Accusation: The focus is on how women are more often falsely accused of crimes and are punished more harshly by both the law and public opinion than men are.
The Lost Lenore:
- Susie's girlfriend Ramona disappeared; her name was seen on Bill's Torture Cellar wall in Water of the Womb, and her ghost haunts Alice.
- Betsy's boyfriend Ghost was violently raped and murdered.
Miscarriage of Justice:
- Susie's convicted and imprisoned for child abuse she never committed and it takes twenty years for her to be exonerated.
- Betsy was wrongly charged with Ghost's rape and murder despite there not being enough evidence that she did it.
Motifs: Each girl is associated with a recurring symbol, corresponding to their amulet in the show.
- Susie had a recurring mention of stars, especially star-stickers.
- Betsy is associated with the crescent moon and wears a crescent moon-shaped locket.
- Alice's story has a heart motif and she wears a heart-shaped locket.
No Woman's Land: The running theme is misogyny and how cruel society is to women.

Yule (Susie McCallister)

All Gays Are Pedophiles: It's implied that her queerness was one of the reasons she was believed to be guilty.
Burn the Witch!: Her Wiccan accoutrements are taken as evidence of her running a Satanic cult.
Cain and Abel: With Mildred. Initially Susie was the Abel to her unstable sister’s Cain. She ends up being seen as the Cain, however, after Mildred accuses her of abuse. And once acquitted reclaims her position as the Abel again. Whether or not Mildred is truly a Cain remains to be seen.
Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: Inverted. It's implied that she had such a hard time because in real life the law punishes women more harshly than men and because of lesbophobia making her supposed abuse of her sister seem worse.
Religion of Evil: Referenced; Wicca very much isn't evil, but the public and law enforcement in the 80s assumed it was.
Satanic Panic: Her story takes place in the 80s, and one of the reasons everyone was quick to believe she hurt her sister was because she's pagan.

Imbolc (Betsy Spellman)

Related in the Adaptation: She's Sabrina's half-sister.

Ostara (Alice Fefferman)

Delicate and Sickly: Alice was born with a heart condition and required a temporary transplant while her original heart built up strength.
From the Mouths of Babes: Buck told her at age five about his time in the Soviet Union, which she shares with her kindergarten class.
Hollywood Heart Attack: Buck collapses suddenly while beating up the boys who attacked Alice.
I See Dead People: Having the transplanted heart of a dead person attached to her own allows Alice to see ghosts, and she loses the ability when she gives the spare heart to Buck.
Innocent Inaccurate: Buck's war stories left her with the impression that a "communist" is a kind of monster, which doesn't go down well with Mirabel.
Literal Change of Heart: Downplayed; her personality doesn't change, but when she receives Ghost's heart in a transplant, Alice gains the ability to see ghosts.
Protectorate: To the whole herd from what we’ve seen, but to Peaches and Buck especially. Alice her parents only child and extremely well loved. Buck is ancient but flies into such a rage at seeing her hurt that he’s able to beat her assailants to a bloody pulp before collapsing.
Related in the Adaptation: She's Peaches' daughter.

Epiphany

Decomposite Character: The 2000 and 2017 characters are separate people.
20 Minutes into the Past: The story of the 2000 characters takes place during the first Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict in the 80s and 90s.

The Three Kings of Orient - Gaspar (2000!Gregory), Melkʿon (2000!Rudolph), and Baġdasar (2000!Anna)

Child Soldier: Referenced; Gregory, at only ten years old, tried to join the first Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but Frederick and Freda locked him in the closet to prevent him from going.

The Stars of Bethlehem - Star-Of-Wonder (2000!Tony) and Star-Of-Night (2017!Tony)

The Gifts of the Magi - Voski (2017!Gregory), Xunk, (2017!Rudolph), and Zmuṙs (2017!Anna)

Lunar New Year

The Wood Dragon (Wheezie), the Fire Dragon (Cassie), the Earth Dragon (Quetzal), the Metal Dragon (Lorca), the Water Dragon (Ord), and the second Wood Dragon (Zak)

Abusive Parents: Cassie's adoptive mother is physically and verbally abusive to her, and forbids her from learning about and partaking in her own culture.
Big Brother Bully: Inverted. Lorca's younger brother is a menace to him, with their parents not really caring.
Bullying the Disabled: Lorca is a wheelchair user, and his brother constantly antagonizes him.
Elder Abuse: Quetzal is abused by nursing home staff.
Groin Attack: Cassie’s adoptive mother kicks her in the genitals after she is caught celebrating Lunar New Year. Quetzal's genitals also get scrubbed with steel wool and bleach after he has an accident in bed.
Kissing Cousins: Zak is raped by his cousins while being forced to share a bed with them.
Parental Incest: Ord is orally raped by his father and doesn’t understand what is going on due to his Down syndrome.
Race Lift: The dragons are all different Asian ethnicities. Wheezie is Tibetan, Cassie is Korean, Quetzal is half-Japanese and half-Mestizo, Lorca is Chinese, Ord is half-Vietnamese and half-European, and Zak is half-Mongolian and half-Tibetan.
Related Differently in the Adaptation: Wheezie is Zak's distant relative instead of his twin here, sticking close by him as a ghost.
Sibling Incest: Lorca's brother molests him in bed.
There Is Only One Bed: Zak is made to share a bed with his cousins while staying in Mongolia.
The Unfavorite: Lorca was ignored by his parents in favor of his younger brother.

Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday

The Holy Trinity - Oignon (Frankie), Céleri (Michelle), Piment Doux (Taylor), Seleri (Ray), Zònyon (Louie), and Klòch Pwav (Miles)

Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The Hathaways' speech is in green, gold, and purple, the colours of Mardi Gras, while the Prestons' is in different shades of purple, the colour of Ash Wednesday.
Crisis of Faith: Frankie doesn't see the point of thanking God for anything since she has no friends, her dad isn't there, and her, Taylor, and Michelle's assault still happened, which Taylor agrees with. Miles, due to a priest at his school abusing him, stares at his plate and cries when his family says grace, which implies he's also questioning his faith.
Death by Childbirth: Ray's first wife died while giving birth to Louie.
Disappeared Dad: The Hathaway girls' father isn't in the picture. Frankie is shown to be rather resentful of him for it.
Dramatic Irony: Ray comments on paddling being allowed in school when he was young, not knowing that Miles is currently being abused by one of the priests.
Dr. Jerk: Ray's wife died due to racism-related medical neglect.
Foreshadowing: It's stated early in the Prestons' half of the story that the priest Miles becomes an altar boy for can never seem to hold altar boys for long, hinting at who the rapist in the story will be.
Meaningful Name: The Holy Trinity, as well as a concept in Christianity, is a term in Cajun and Creole cooking for a mix of onion, celery, and bell pepper; each group is named after those, the Cajun Hathaways in Cajun French and the Creole Prestons in Haitian Creole.
Police Are Useless: The police shrug off the Hathaways' assault by mentioning that it happens every year and there's no point in trying to find who did it.
Punny Name: Michelle's bakery in New Orleans is called "The Rising Bun".
Sinister Minister: Miles was assaulted by the priest he was an altar boy for.
Spared by the Adaptation: The Prestons aren't ghosts in this universe.

Valentine's Day

Cupid's Chocolates - Cherry Cordial (Ling Xiaotu), Salted Caramel (Lin Yuan), Maple Walnut (Hua Yushan), Praline (Xia Zitong), Coconut Creme (Tang Xuan), Pecan Cluster (Jiang Haoyi), and Chocolate Liqueur (Ouyang Xueli)

Blaming the Victim: The police blamed Xuan's assault on her wearing a sexy cosplay maid outfit.
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Played with. The girls assume Haoyi had to have been hurt by a man and think that Xueli is his girlfriend, but the former might have been because of their own traumas. When he finally does open up to them about what’s been going on, they both believe him and take the abuse seriously.
Hollywood Restraining Order: Xueli still comes to the meetings with the group, she just has to stay on the other side of the room from Haoyi.
Shared Mass Hallucination: The girls suffer group psychosis because of the weed cake and each imagine that Haoyi is their partner, because he's the man they trust most.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The girls are implied to have latched onto Haoyi for this reason. They all have bad experiences with men and fall for the only one who has been reliably kind to them.
Stalker with a Crush: Xueli loves Haoyi and stalks him so much she's mistaken for his girlfriend, while he's traumatised by her.
Teen Pregnancy: Even younger than that - Lin Yuan's twins actually exist without magic here, and she gave birth when she was eleven.
Troubled Abuser: Xueli had an abusive boyfriend in high school who pushed her into becoming abusive herself.
Unsuspectingly Soused: Mei Tata left a chocolate cake behind and, despite everyone knowing she's a stoner, the group ate it thinking there probably wasn't any weed in it. There was, and it made the girls hallucinate that Haoyi was their lover.
Wanted a Son Instead: Yuan's grandfather was mad when she was born because he wanted a grandson to carry the family name and business, so he raped her to get her pregnant, hoping for her to have a boy. She mentions being terrified if the baby is a girl.
Yandere: Xueli stalks Haoyi and threatens to harm the other girls if he resists.

Purim

Esther (Poppy), Ahashverosh (Gristle Jr.), Haman (Chef), Mordecai (Peppy)

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the film, Chef is Bridget's abusive boss. Here, it's implied they'd never met before Poppy introduces Bridget to her and Gristle Jr.
Arranged Marriage: Chef tries to marry Gristle off to Poppy because her father is a wealthy landowner, though the two have nothing in common and are uncomfortable being pushed together.
Better as Friends: While Poppy and Gristle Jr are friendly enough with each other, they have no romantic interest in the other, with Poppy even introducing him to Bridget.
Gold Digger: Chef, by proxy. She tries to get Gristle Jr and Poppy into a relationship because the latter's father is a wealthy landowner.
Meaningful Echo: Before their first date, Gristle Jr asks Chef if Poppy will make him happy. After everything is wrapped up, Gristle Jr thanks Poppy for making him happy via introducing him to Bridget.
Opposites Attract: Averted. Although Chef tries to push them together, Gristle Jr struggles to deal with Poppy's limitless energy and Poppy finds Gristle Jr's doom and gloom personality suffocating.
Take a Third Option: Implied to be Poppy's plan in introducing Gristle Jr to Bridget. She and Gristle feel nothing, but if she ends the relationship, Chef is threatening to hurt her and her friends. If Gristle likes Bridget better and ends the relationship, then Poppy can get out of the relationship without ending it herself. The only reason her plan doesn't go off without a hitch is because Chef responds to this by trying to strangle her.
The Can Kicked Him: Chef tries to strangle Poppy in a restaurant bathroom.

Holi

The Brahmin (Ramo), the Kshatriya (Claire), the Vaishya (Lola), the Shudra (Quill), the Dalit (Gum)

Agony of the Feet: The Brahmins that assaulted Gum damaged his legs severely, resulting in him needing leg braces.
Interclass Friendship: Ramo, Claire, Lola, and Quill, who are from different castes, are all friendly with each other and are nice to Gum despite him being Dalit.
Type Caste: Each of them is nicknamed after their varna.

Poisson D’Avril

The Catfish Lures - Doradidae (Vanessa), Siluridae (Norman), Basa (Odile's Odette disguise), Pimelodidae (Crackle Cosette), Ictalurids (Ima Goodlady), Mystus (Cerise Bianca), Ariidae (Lark), and Bagridae (the Queen's little girl disguise)

Adaptational Heroism: Instead of being disguises used by villainous people, they are completely heroic Decomposite Characters.
Ambiguous Situation: Cerise isn't sure that the reason Lila balked at actually reporting Marinette's supposed "assault" on her was because the deception would be revealed in a forensic exam or she had enough standards to not want Marinette to get tangled in the law from her lies.
Cain and Abel: Cerise in this story is Lila's half sister and just as heroic and kind as Lila pretends to be, making her the Abel to Lila's Cain.
Catfishing: All of them, save for Cerise, had their identities stolen for use in catfish gambits.
Cassandra Truth:
- The fake Odette tried to protest that she had no idea what her pictures were being used for, but wasn't believed by her adopted parents.
- Lila is innocent of whatever Felix framed her for, but due to her constant lying, no one believes her.
Decomposite Character: All of them are their own people rather than just disguises used by villains.
Even Evil Has Standards: Cerise reveals that as much of a bully Lila actually was, she actually hated GWF, implying that she had no intentions of Marinette ending up on their hit list.
Everyone Has Standards:
- Vanessa was very jealous of Ariel dating Eric, but when Ursula started using her pictures in a catfishing scheme, she was utterly horrified, promising she had nothing to do with it and wants nothing to do with either.
- Crackle doesn't like Starlight Glimmer, but was horrified when she got doxxed by Chrysalis and got attacked by Neo-Nazis.
Failed a Spot Check: Odile intended to use a photo of the real Odette for her father's scheme, but accidentally used one of the fake Odette and didn't notice the red roots in her hair until it was too late.
Frame-Up: Everyone indirectly, but Cerise reveals that Lila was framed by Felix for something.
I Have No Son!: The fake Odette was thrown out by her adoptive parents under the belief that she was the one responsible for what happened with her pictures, even though she had nothing to do with it.
Interrupted Suicide: After learning about how his photos were used to catfish Mabel, Norman was preparing to hang himself. One of his sisters found him before he could even put the noose on.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Lila's ran out as of this story, which Cerise revealing that she was sent to juvie after she was framed for something by Felix, with no one believing her due to her constant lying.
Spotting the Thread: Vanessa only manages to convince Eric she's innocent by revealing that her number and the number he's been getting her pictures from were different.
What the Hell, Hero?: Cerise, after overhearing Max giving Adrien sympathy while bad mouthing Marinette, ripped him to shreds, calling him a sexist prick among other things.

Trail of Tears and Famine Walk

Our Lady of Sorrows of the Chahta’s Oklahoma (Rachel) and The Cause of Our Joy of Catholic Ulster (Kirsty)

Race Lift: The living girls don't know the identities or heritage of the women in the graves, so Rachel imagines them as Choctaw and Kirsty imagines them as Irish.
Related Differently in the Adaptation: Fern is Amber's daughter instead of her sister.
Unreliable Narrator: Neither of them know what actually happened to the women in the graves or who they were, so they each make up their own stories.
The Unreveal: It's confirmed neither of the girls' imagined stories are accurate, but not who the dead women really were.

The Seven Sorrows - The Prophecy of Simeon (Ruby), The Flight into Egypt (Amber), The Loss of the Child Jesus In the Temple of Jerusalem (Saffron), The Meeting on the Via Dolorosa (Fern), The Crucifixion (Sky), Jesus' Descent from the Cross (Izzy), and The Burial of Jesus by Joseph of Arimathea (Heather)

Bee Afraid: Saffron tries to get some honey from a bee honeycomb and is stung to death.
Childhood Brain Damage: Heather loses her hearing after falling off a horse as a child.

The Seven Joys - the Annunciation (Ruby), the Nativity of Jesus (Amber), the Adoration of the Magi (Saffron), The Resurrection (Fern), the Ascension of Christ to Heaven (Sky), The Pentecost (Izzy), and Coronation of the Virgin to Heaven (Heather)

Child by Rape: Amber was born after Fern's landlord raped her.
Driven to Suicide: Fern eats a handful of almonds, which she's allergic to, after Amber becomes deathly ill and asks her to find her mother.

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