History YMMV / StandStillStaySilent

* FanworkOnlyFans: ''City of Hunger'' already has a few fanfics despite being still in production and having had almost nothing of its plot revealed.

--> So judging from the comments yesterday a lot of people were a bit bewildered and/or dismayed by Lalli's reaction last page. An here's the shocking explanation for his behaviour: yes, Lalli is very socially and emotionally maldeveloped, and spending a week with a bunch of strangers [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome really isn't enough to fix whatever an extremely unconventional upbringing]] ([[AmbiguousDisorder and perhaps some underlying neural issues]]) [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome has shaped. In fact it is only going to force those problems to the surface.]] So if you're hoping for Lalli to just "grow up" as soon as possible I'll have to deliver the tragic news that it might be a lengthy journey towards that.

** InUniverse, Omni can seem excessively hostile and paranoid in his behaviour towards the old pastor spirit when they [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=566 meet in the dreamworld]]. Adventure 2, however, shows us [[TheCorruptor exactly what he was scared of]], and as such [[ProperlyParanoid his suspicion was entirely justified]].

* NauseaFuel: The makes writhing maggots spontaneously generate on people's arms to intimidate them. When they are first seen, it's easy to mistake the person for starting to mutate into a troll.

** A lady who asks for help gets punched right in the kisser. It's both tragic and morbidly funny.

** And, with the comic concluding at the end of Adventure II, there's [[LeftHanging more than a few plot hooks]] for potential ContinuationFic writers to work off of.

* CryForTheDevil: It doesn't take long for readers to join the cast in feeling very, very sorry for beasts, trolls, giants and murderghosts, despite their baseline antagonistic behaviour. Even the most enthusiastically murder-minded of them are in various states of horrible pain.

* HarsherInHindsight: The comic was launched in late 2013, a few months before the European Migrant Crisis began in earnest. The general premise of the prologue, a disease carried by refugees entering southern Europe causing the collapse of Western civilization and that the only way European countries could protect themselves was to close their borders and sink refugee boats, eerily mirrors the rhetoric used by far-right parties and politicians that came to power on platforms of xenophobia and cultural nationalism.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Reynir's parents being AbusiveParents. At face value, it's easy to read them as having an extreme but justified case of AngerBornOfWorry. However, some aspects of Reynir's interactions with them can ring alarm bells for people who had emotionally abusive parents:
*** The little characterization they get during Adventure I establishes that they lied to Reynir about the extent to which he was allowed to travel internationally to keep him home, even after he had reached adulthood.
*** The phrasing they use to scold Reynir for running off, such as his mother saying "If you loved me you would never have done this." and his father saying "How could you do this to your mother?" and "...my very unintelligent son.". It can be very easily read as them assuming Reynir specifically ran off to hurt his parents, even though that was the farthest from his mind. When combined with the first point, it makes them come across as controlling, oblivious to their own part in the situation and putting all the blame for it on Reynir alongside some emotional guilt.
*** His mother has shown some definite MyBelovedSmother traits -- for instance, when she assumes he's friends with Emil and Lalli, Reynir's reaction is to go along with the assumption in front of her, then apologize to ''them'' about the assumption once she's out of earshot.

*** His mother has shown some definite MyBelovedSmother traits -- for instance, when his mother assumes he's friends with Emil and Lalli, Reynir's reaction is to go along with the assumption in front of her, then apologize to ''them'' about the assumption once she's out of earshot.

** The little characterization they get during Adventure I establishes that they lied to Reynir about the extent to which he was allowed to travel internationally to keep him home, even after he had reached adulthood.
** The phrasing they use to scold Reynir for running off, such as his mother saying "If you loved me you would never have done this." and his father saying "How could you do this to your mother?" and "...my very unintelligent son.". It can be very easily read as them assuming Reynir specifically ran off to hurt his parents, even though that was the farthest from his mind. When combined with the first point, it makes them come across as controlling, oblivious to their own part in the situation and putting all the blame for it on Reynir alongside some emotional guilt.
** His mother has shown some definite MyBelovedSmother traits.
** When his mother assumes he's friends with Emil and Lalli, Reynir's reaction is to go along with the assumption in front of her, then apologize to ''them'' about the assumption once she's out of earshot.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Reynir's parents being AbusiveParents. At face value, it's easy to read them as having an extreme but justified case of AngerBornOfWorry. However, some aspects of Reynir's interactions with them can ring alarm bells for people who had emotionally abusive parents:

* HarsherInHindsight:
** The comic was launched in late 2013, a few months before the European Migrant Crisis began in earnest. The general premise of the prologue, a disease carried by refugees entering southern Europe causing the collapse of Western civilization and that the only way European countries could protect themselves was to close their borders and sink refugee boats, eerily mirrors the rhetoric used by far-right parties and politicians that came to power on platforms of xenophobia and cultural nationalism.
** Reading about a fictional plague that ravages the world hits harder after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic ravaged the world, even if that particular plague didn't get to SSSS levels.

* RelationshipWritingFumble: According to Minna, all on-panel interactions between the main characters are supposed to be platonic. However, a couple of the pairs of closer friends are gaining LikeAnOldMarriedCouple dynamics and given several scenes in which they are doing stuff alone together. When the story gets close to a point where the main group would have every reason to split up, those pairs plan to stay together either by choice or because someone else wants them to.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story has a character die at the end of Chapter 15, and manages to go downhill from there. It eventually reaches a point where the crew is separated in two groups travelling on foot, both containing someone unfit to travel on their own who could be in mortal danger if they don't get proper help soon. In addition to this, the situation seems to have made most of the characters prone to fixing problems the efficient way over the way that won't risk making their travel companion(s) hate them forever, which causes their less likable sides to become quite conspicuous. One of the storylines containing a few bonding moments was probably meant to keep this trope from happening to an extent. Unfortunately, that very same storyline also contains what is considered the worst case of someone choosing efficency in fixing a problem over someone else's well-being, causing the happier parts that came after it to have mixed results in lightening the mood. Things start getting a little better in Chapter 19, but only after several months of things consistently getting worse from the viewpoint of those following the story as it's published.

* ShipMates: Emil/Lalli shows up quite a lot as a pairing, and without them the generally agreed upon pool of pairable characters consists of five people, two of whom only have one frequently-seen option. Fanfics going the SlashFic route will almost universally have the Sigrun/Tuuri and Onni/Reynir combination. Tuuri/Reynir makes Sigrun/Mikkel the most plausible third pairing, as neither of the two latter have any regular interaction with Onni.

** Chapter 6: Running out of food, and then finding a untrained, vulnerable kid in the next food crate. Double points for getting TheLoad and a side case of AdultFear at the same time.