YMMV / Pale

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • After Interlude 2.z came out, the fandom immediately began arguing over whether Nicolette Belanger's shitty family and home life excused some of her actions, or at least made them understandable, or whether she was just a plain bad person regardless. This mostly faded later on after her Heel–Face Turn.
  • After Leaving A Mark 4.6 was posted, the fandom began debating whether Ray Sunshine's actions toward Lucy stemmed from possible autism/lack of social skills, racism, or were a deliberate attack due to her being one of the Kennet trio.
    • Ray rescued himself in 6.4 when Lucy went to him for Implement help, opening the conversation with an apology and a dismissal of the possibility of artificial strife absolving him.
• Broken Base: There has been a lot of discussion about how bad the St. Victor's kids are as people, with some fans taking the stance that they're children who were recruited to be child soldiers by evil forces who are actively encouraging them to do bad things, and thus are making bad decisions for understandable reasons and shouldn't be treated too harshly; other fans are of the opinion that they're old enough to understand what they're doing and how bad it is, and the remaining kids have had multiple opportunities to leave that they didn't take, so they should face the consequences of their actions.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Snowdrop was instantly beloved by the fandom as soon as Stolen Away 2.9 was posted.
  • Tashlit, the Other who looked like a girl made of eyeballs from Back Away 5.3, has become very popular.
  • Ramjam, the music-loving goblin.
  • Ashumare Ashumare, the mysterious rhyming Other in Thunder Bay.
  • Luna Hare's POV chapter after the founding of the third layer of Kennet got her immediately embraced by the fandom for being genuinely cheerful and kind-hearted, as well as for answering questions raised by fans and characters about how some Others get created and how sentient they are.
  • Percival Awarnach, he of the ninety-nine titles.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Pop'n'Drop: for the comedic double-act of Cherrypop (The Runt of the goblin troupe) and Snowdrop (Avery's opossum Boon Companion, and an Ensemble Dark Horse in her own right).
  • VD: Verona's Dad, also can be applied to Mr. Hayward's most thematic feature, the veneral disease he claims to have gotten from Verona's mother after she cheated on him with another man.
• Moral Event Horizon: The fans agreed that Seth crossed it in Let Slip 20.e after he has Helen Kim torture his teenage cousin and turn her into a horror simply to get back at her mother Jen.
• Realism-Induced Horror: Leaving aside the whole Others/magic part, much of the comic is a parent's nightmare: due to work, family and other commitments, Kelsey, Connor and Jasmine manage to miss that their kids and Verona are becoming isolated and are genuinely unhappy with their lives. The trio are targeted by adults (or the equivalent), powerful people who want the trio for a specific purpose and pull them into a strange and dangerous world without their parents' knowledge. The trio go through months of stressful events, up to and including people around them getting killed, and occasionally wind up hurt or traumatised- and their parents don't know about any of it and can't help them. When Jasmine, Kelsey and Connor eventually discover what's going on, they're stunned, horrified and absolutely furious at the danger their children were put in by total strangers. The last part gets ramped up a lot after Avery gets shot and spends several days presumed dead.
• Theiss Titillation Theory: Used by Faerie now and then. The most consistent example is Maricica, who uses her thin, moth-like bat wings to cover herself as she struts about basically naked, which makes poor Avery hot and bothered. Maricica's interlude shows that she learned the possibilities of this trope from the Fae potentate titled 'The Consort'.