YMMV / The Land of the Flowers

• Audience-Alienating Premise: A villain origin story featuring tons of graphic depictions of abuse, gorey imagery, a lack of virtually any remotely likable characters for a good chunk of the comic's run, and an overall bleak tone and story which is all but slated to end in misery for all. It hints in the description that Umbris will meet someone who will show him not everyone is evil, but the comic is so dark and bleak that it turns off a ton of readers from wanting to read far enough in.
• Jerkass Woobie: Umbris. The "jerkass" part will come into play ninth future when he becomes an evil tyrant hell-bent on destroying and/ or making the world miserable. However, given the fact he has been shown nothing but cruelty since the moment he was born, it's hard to blame him for becoming the monster he did. he has known nothing other than abuse; nearly every second of his early life involved someone beating him or telling him he was an abomination that they wished was dead, among many other things. The poor kid probably had not even experienced any form of kindness at all.
• Narm: Of course, Umbris' abuse by the cult is shocking, horrific, and effective at showing why Umbris would ever become so evil, to begin with. However, the fact almost everything the cult does onscreen is a form of abuse towards Umbris, combined with how over the top cruel they are, it can make it almost comical, in a Crosses the Line Twice kind of way. From how often pretty much everyone else in the supporting cast abuse or berate Umbris and how cartoonishly horrible the cult is in general, one might almost be inclined to think that this comic is a dark comedy making use of Hilariously Abusive Childhood on Umbris' part. No dragon in the cult ever seems to talk about anything other than their hatred towards Umbris, making it feel like they exist for the sole purpose of making Umbris miserable.
• The Scrappy: Pretty much the entire supporting cast of cult members is this, as they are all one-note Hate Sinks who exists solely to make the protagonist miserable and show no redeeming qualities or likeable character traits whatsoever. Even though they are mean't to be hated, the disdain for them went way beyond that which was even intended for a group of Hate Sinks.
  • Of special note are Umbris' parents, especially Umbris' father, who smacked his newborn son against the wall hard enough to draw blood, simply because of how he was born. He showed zero hesitation or remorse for doing so; he and his wife only cared about their status in the cult. Both predictability become Abusive Parents to their son after being forced to raise him by the elder of the cult, due to the power the elder knows Umbris will process.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The basic premise of the comic incited this in many people, due to the grimdark and bleak nature. It's a comic about a future evil overlord growing up in a cartoonishly abusive cult who berates, insults, beats, and demeans every step of the way and displays. Literally every member of the cult is a depraved asshole or delusion zealot devoid of redeeming qualities who abuses Umbris in everyone way one could possibly imagine. None of the dialogue of the cult members for at least the first thirty pages is anything other than insult or wishing Umbris dead. All this is stated to mold Umbris into becoming a pure evil dark lord who will bring death and destruction perhaps the whole world. This is not helped by the complete lack of any kind of even remotely likable character for much of the first part of the comic, excessive amounts of graphic abuse and imagery, and a relentlessly bleak overall tone with little to no levity. The author even alludes to criticism within some of the page descriptions.

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