YMMV / Operation GEAR

• Captain Obvious Reveal: Matt's group immediately figures out that Lyra's the Cafe Diva as soon as they meet, even though she tried to hide this fact from them.
  • In The Gardener of Gratitude, it is very obvious from the beginning that Fernando is the villain of the story and the one who murdered Sutter. In-universe, Matt and the others do not piece this reality together nearly as fast.
• Memetic Mutation: Lyra's depiction is the result of this. Early in the life of 4chan's Pokemon board /vp/ (which was around the time of the release of the Heart Gold and Soul Silver games) a post describing ... interesting things Lyra did with Ethan's Quilava became widespread. This idea of Lyra's psychotic nature also helped give rise to "Yandere Lyra", in which she brutally tortured and killed rivals for Ethan's affection in ways that would make Yuno Gasai blush. Both of these things appeared in her chapters - she has a Typhlosion (Quilava's evolved form) that she feeds hamburgers to similarly to the Quilava post's story, and she was seen drinking a strawberry milkshake in a direct reference to "Milkshakes," one of the most infamous Yandere Lyra stories.