YMMV / Hunter: The Parenting

• Aluminum Christmas Trees:
  • As pointed out on Patreon, the silly-sounding village names are actually real places in Norfolk. Yes, even Cockthorpe. And yes, Slutshole Lane is real too.
  • The strange costumes made of white cloaks and wooden long-nosed masks that appear several times in the background of episode 4, including a Blacklaw family photo, are from a real-life Belgian festival and are called Blanc-Moussis.
• Complete Monster: Pyotr is the Nosferatu leader of the Licks. Though initially appearing just as comical as his comrades, he reveals a selfish and sadistic streak none of them can match. A proud supporter of the Sabbat (and a collaborator for them even before being turned, unlike his forcibly-embraced comrades), Pyotr views humans as little more than livestock and has no qualms about murdering civilians who stumble onto his lair. Upon being captured by the hunters, Pyotr seizes a chance to devour his allies for power, going out of his way to brutalize them in the process to make clear he doesn't care for them any more than the humans. With his newfound strength, Pyotr breaks out of captivity and begins hunting the family throughout their home. Though now strong enough to overpower them easily, he treats it like a game and drags things out just to hurt and frighten them more. Though his own temper leads to his downfall when he's baited onto a minefield and left to burn in the morning sun, Pyotr sets the stage for just how violent and cruel the Sabbat can be.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The April Fools 2024 video, providing a non-canon answer to what happened at the end of Episode 4: That bloodbath with ripped apart Fatigue and traumatized Spit covered in blood? It was Fatigue's doing, and he made himself explode in front of him for the lulz.
• Evil Is Cool: Pyotr has achieved popularity from his sharp wit, terrifying brutality, and power growth that some fans find to exemplify the feeling of playing a vampire.
• Genius Bonus: Kitten notes that Big D's "omelette" recipe smells even more like eggs than eggs do, because eggs smell the way they do because of hydrogen sulfide, one of the ingredients to sulfuric acid.
• Ho Yay: Shitbeard's reaction to learning that Markus and Kitten (two men) are engaged comes off as jealousy.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • The Great and Mighty Kevin is a dangerous and unhinged vampire... that, as of the second audiolog, is revealed to have gone through a Trauma Conga Line, hates his existence as a vampire, and clings to the few remaining shreds of humanity he has left. By the time he's captured and interrogated, he's past the Despair Event Horizon.
  • His comrade "Shitbeard" isn't much better; a brutish thug who bitterly misses the mundane pleasures of human life, lashing out at anyone who reminds him of what he lost — not helped by being part of Clan Brujah, a sub-breed known for having an inherent Hair-Trigger Temper. He claims to have gone to college (citing Kant's categorical imperative, among other things) which implies that he also suffers severe cognitive dissonance between his college-taught egalitarian beliefs and the cruel, predatory nature of vampire society.
  • Simon "Spit" Spires. On the Jerkass end, he's one of Brokham Blacklaw's cronies, but outside of that he's a nervous wreck seemingly relying on ritalin to make it through the days, being erratically hopeless without it. And even when the resident sweet old man Wernon Fatigue lends him a hand, the Ghoul hiding admist the Arcanum does something that leaves Wernon dead, and Spit curled up next to his remains, completely broken.
• The Woobie: The unnamed old woman from the "A Life Well-Lived" short. She lost her father to war, the love of her life ran to another woman, and she busied herself taking care of her brother, his children, and their children, never taking any time for herself. Her caretaker, perhaps wishing to spare her the misery of dying old, turned her into a vampire, only for the old woman to go into a feral hunger craze and kill her entire family, as well as her sire. Big-D finds her despondent, wishing that she had died the day before and welcoming her death with the morning sun.

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