WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS AHEAD:
- Scarlett originally seemed like a run of a mill bully in the first part, however, she quickly goes off the deep end as time goes on, being completely psychotic and straight up vile. We can see this with her actions such as beating an Inkling into a coma, however the pure nightmare fuel is shown in Scarlett’s Wrath, in which she tortures Natalie by spraying her with water, burning her and cutting her with metal in sadistic glee, with the effects still on Natalie even after Scarlett’s defeat, and it was so bad even the author had to make a trigger warning.
- She doesn’t get better in the last part of the trilogy, where, after being freed by Obsdian, decides to go on a killing spree and slash the throats and decapitated many people she wants, which included a 9 year old girl.
- The Octobusters, including Cyalux himself, while usually hammy and much more comedic, he does have their moments of unnerving. Mostly due to how cheerfully ok he is with Murdering an Octoling.
- The third arc hits it up to 11 with how dark it can get, with the main villain herself, Lieutenant Obsidian, who is shown to be ruthless and genocidal dictator of the Octarians who makes Octavio look like a saint in comparison, and is quick to kill her own kind when it benefits her. Her full goals borders on harbinger of rebirth in trying to destroy the entire surface of any Inkling life.
- Her right hand man Blakeson doesn’t fair much better, as we’ll see down below and the fact he murdered Sylvia’s parents, a fact which he doesn’t remember at all.
- Melody, Sylvia, Katelin and Dylan being sent into the Octarian Camps, in which the prisoners are overworked and abused. And it shown Obsidian will send anyone there for the pettiest of reasons, including being related to deserters, which makes things worst.
- Blakeson torturing Sylvia is something that while is graciously offscreen, it is shown to be quite harrowing even without the details, and in fact, the lack of details make it worst since it’s clear that whatever Blakeson did to the poor girl was not good, and the fact it turned Sylvia into the plucky comic relief into a broken mess for a bit makes it even worst.
- Obsidian decides to scrap concentration camps and decides to just start mass executing people, having them dunked into water until they all are dissolved and was even willing to have them all mass tortured, leading to show just how heartless and evil she can be.
- One of the One shots of the stories revealing Summer’s abusing parents, in which we show a flashback of a disturbing scene of her mother and father beating on her so bad to the point of unconsciousness.
