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This story delves into the guts of
a lot of character archetypes.
Boscha Urodela
- Of The Social Darwinist. Boscha's Blue-and-Orange Morality operates on a dog-eats-dog ideology, believing that those who aren't strong enough to survive have no purpose but to feel pain and misery until they get stronger. However, it's made rather clear that this mostly comes from the brutal environment she was born and raised in, the Boiling Underworld, where this ideology is pretty much the norm. And since she's been living in such a hellhole for so long, the ideology has been drilled so hard into her head that she literally cannot fathom a world where this isn't the case.
- Of the Hated by All. Boscha normally acts like an absolute asshole to those she interacts with, and she can still be a bit jerkish to those she likes. It's eventually revealed this is the result of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: nobody liked Boscha when she was younger, and never really gave her a good reason as to why. This, alongside the Cold-Blooded Torture she suffered, eventually lead to her no longer caring about what people thought of her and just going all out in the jerkassery.
- Of the Stealth Mentor. Boscha's mean streak and bullying are her way of motivating people to get better, since she believes that, as an Apex, it's her duty to ensure the Weak become stronger. Unfortunately, the "stealth" part is taken literally, since she's so good at hiding her motivation that most people just see her as a psychopath who's out to hurt everyone physically and mentally.
- Of someone who believes to be Above Good and Evil. Her Blue-and-Orange Morality and Boiling Underworld ideology left her believing that she was above practically everything, including guilt, sadness, and of course, consequences. However, she's the only one who believes this, and everybody else who interacts with her outside of Skara finds her frustrating because she essentially exists on a different wavelength.
- Of Beware the Superman. Boscha's Flying Firepower and sadistic prowess lets her wreck havoc across the Train during her first week there. Naturally, she ends up with nobody by her side once she fights Zenith Fantasy and the Red Lotus Trio, and when she kicks the bucket, the Train, barring a few Denizens, celebrate like there's no tomorrow.
Skara Brae
- Of the Innocent Beta Bitch. Skara acts like Boscha's Beta Bitch after Amity left the posse, which caused people to assume she was just as bad as Boscha because nobody else could stand her. However, Skara is a legitimate Nice Girl, but this ultimately means nothing to most of her classmates because they just assume she's lying, especially because she refuses to cut ties with Boscha.
- Also of the Satellite Character. Skara spent so much time near Boscha that people eventually began to see her as nothing but an extension of her, which was then used as an excuse to bully her as a roundabout way to get back at Boscha.
- And of course, she deconstructs the Neutral Female. Whenever Boscha and Amity had an argument, or just didn't get along, Skara would stand at the sidelines and not get involved. This, naturally, leads to her getting called out by everybody, who declare her an Accomplice by Inaction.
- In-Universe Catharsis is also deconstructed. Everybody who Boscha's ever hurt decides to use Skara as their stress relief. Naturally, having the entire world against her becomes incredibly stressful for Skara, to the point she outright leaves the Isles to get away from it all.
Luz Noceda
- Of the Naïve Newcomer. Luz is fairly new to both romance and the Boscha-Skara-Amity situation, with even Luz herself saying she's a newcomer on the former. Unfortunately, this not only means she's not entirely on the same page as Amity, who Thinks Like a Romance Novel and carries the relationship, but she's also way out of her depth in trying to deal with the Amity-Boscha-Skara problem, with her attempt to try get Amity and Skara to become friends doing more harm than good in the long run.
Hazel
- Of the Oxymoronic Being and Half-Human Hybrid. Hazel's status as a half-human, half-Denizen entity is kept intact from canon, but it's made quite clear this brings her nothing but problems, primarily in the way the Train cannot see her as anything other than a Denizen.
Hazel "Hazy" Hughes
- Of the Identical Stranger. Physically, and bizarrely, she's almost a perfect copy of the canon Hazel. This causes her to end on the top of her hit list, with Hazel being perfectly willing to pull a Kill and Replace by dumping her in boiling stomach acid just to ensure she won't get in the way.
