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* TheScrappy: Patsy, for being an arrogant, whiny {{Jerkass}} that continuously makes dumb decisions despite supposedly being among the smarter characters. Not helped that she eliminated fan-favorite Liv under flimsy circumstances (see WhatAnIdiot below for more details on that). Delves into BaseBreakingCharacter status once the story stops portraying her in a protagonistic light.

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* TheScrappy: Patsy, for being an arrogant, whiny {{Jerkass}} that continuously makes dumb decisions despite supposedly being among the smarter characters. Not helped that she eliminated fan-favorite Liv under flimsy circumstances (see WhatAnIdiot below for more details on that).circumstances. Delves into BaseBreakingCharacter status once the story stops portraying her in a protagonistic light.



** Patsy's main character trait seems to be complaining, be it about not being able to cheat at the game like she wanted, that her allies aren't as smart as she is, or that there's a physical challenge.
* WhatAnIdiot: You'll most likely spend most of Episode 1 facepalming at everything Harmony does.
** Patsy, who often brags about being the smartest contestant in the game, seems to be very easily fooled by everybody in Episode 13, from beliving Cy and Diamond fake-kissing to try and form a shaky alibi as to what they were doing the night before, to accusing Liv of being the Cloaked Shadow due to a Liv dummy she found, after it had been established multiple times that the Cloaked Shadow likes to frame people. Unlike Harmony before her, she gets no consequences for her stupidity.
** However noble his intentions were, Cy does deserve a spot here when he gave away his immunity idol to Rai so she could eliminate Sarge. Cy himself is accused of being in a showmance with Diamond, and is a known physical and strategic threat while Diamond is TheLoad, so that idol was a bit needed.
** It's the final eight and Ollie is asked to join an alliance with Bianca, Ruth, Moe and Rai, the latter three of this group having been TrueCompanions for quite some time. Of course once this alliance of five would pick off the minority alliance of three, the three TrueCompanions would then turn on him and Bianca. Naturally, he says yes without hesitation.
** As early as Episode 03 of Cliques vs Cliques, we have Arthur. His teammates have been curious about his secret for a while, and, right before the first vote, continue to ask him about it. One would expect the weary-of-being-asked Arthur to maybe tell them about it after the vote so he'd have time to explain himself and not put himself in immediate danger. Instead, Arthur tells everyone that he's a cannibal right before the votes begin, with obvious results.
*** The exact same thing happens to him in Episode 7, with the exact same results.
** Everything Dale does in Episode 7 of Cliques. Just when you think he can't get any dumber, he tops himself in the next scene he appears in.

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** Patsy's main character trait seems to be complaining, be it about not being able to cheat at the game like she wanted, that her allies aren't as smart as she is, or that there's a physical challenge.
* WhatAnIdiot: You'll most likely spend most of Episode 1 facepalming at everything Harmony does.
** Patsy, who often brags about being the smartest contestant in the game, seems to be very easily fooled by everybody in Episode 13, from beliving Cy and Diamond fake-kissing to try and form a shaky alibi as to what they were doing the night before, to accusing Liv of being the Cloaked Shadow due to a Liv dummy she found, after it had been established multiple times that the Cloaked Shadow likes to frame people. Unlike Harmony before her, she gets no consequences for her stupidity.
** However noble his intentions were, Cy does deserve a spot here when he gave away his immunity idol to Rai so she could eliminate Sarge. Cy himself is accused of being in a showmance with Diamond, and is a known physical and strategic threat while Diamond is TheLoad, so that idol was a bit needed.
** It's the final eight and Ollie is asked to join an alliance with Bianca, Ruth, Moe and Rai, the latter three of this group having been TrueCompanions for quite some time. Of course once this alliance of five would pick off the minority alliance of three, the three TrueCompanions would then turn on him and Bianca. Naturally, he says yes without hesitation.
** As early as Episode 03 of Cliques vs Cliques, we have Arthur. His teammates have been curious about his secret for a while, and, right before the first vote, continue to ask him about it. One would expect the weary-of-being-asked Arthur to maybe tell them about it after the vote so he'd have time to explain himself and not put himself in immediate danger. Instead, Arthur tells everyone that he's a cannibal right before the votes begin, with obvious results.
*** The exact same thing happens to him in Episode 7, with the exact same results.
** Everything Dale does in Episode 7 of Cliques. Just when you think he can't get any dumber, he tops himself in the next scene he appears in.
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** Take Patsy, keep the smugness and turn it UpToEleven and get rid of 90% of the screentime and you get Fosley.

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** Take Patsy, keep the smugness and turn it UpToEleven up to eleven and get rid of 90% of the screentime and you get Fosley.

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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Sarge]] being the psychopath wasn't that hard to figure out, considering that there were few suspects, to begin with, and [[spoiler: his]] increasingly unnerving behavior didn't exactly help.

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* DesignatedVillain: Tyrian is treated as a bad guy for disliking and wanting to get rid of Bianca and Wittney. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't genuinely as annoying as he claimed they were. Him [[spoiler: feeding Liv, a recovering drug addict a hallucinogenic mushroom]] was a dick move, but he didn't know about [[spoiler:Liv's former addiction and only thought she hated mushrooms for no reason.]]

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* DesignatedVillain: DesignatedVillain:
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Tyrian is treated as a bad guy for disliking and wanting to get rid of Bianca and Wittney. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't genuinely as annoying as he claimed they were. Him [[spoiler: feeding Liv, a recovering drug addict a hallucinogenic mushroom]] was a dick move, but he didn't know about [[spoiler:Liv's former addiction and only thought she hated mushrooms for no reason.]]



* EnsembleDarkHorse: Moe for being among the very few genuinely nice characters in the story and his occasionally hilarious antics.

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Moe for being among the very few genuinely nice characters in the story and his occasionally hilarious antics.



* MoralEventHorizon: After [[spoiler: Sarge]] reveals himself, any of the scenes with him could be considered this, but... [[spoiler: in his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]

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* MoralEventHorizon: MoralEventHorizon:
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After [[spoiler: Sarge]] reveals himself, any of the scenes with him could be considered this, but... [[spoiler: in his second act of nature after he's exposed as the Psychopath, he coaxes Rai to an open field, and with her thinking he's Moe, he tackles her to the ground, gropes her, grabs her depression meds, and crams them all down her throat. And she isn't found by Wishami and Moe until the next morning...]]



* ShockingElimination: [[spoiler:Liv]] seemed like they'd be around to at least the merge, but ended up getting cut at the halfway point.

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[[spoiler:Liv]] seemed like they'd be around to at least the merge, but ended up getting cut at the halfway point.



* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The build-up to the psychopath storyline was well-written, even if it was a bit obvious as to who it was. Unfortunately, once they ([[spoiler: Sarge]]) are found out, they lose everything that made them interesting and become a cartoonishly-evil would-be rapist that wouldn't be out of place from an SVU episode.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
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The build-up to the psychopath storyline was well-written, even if it was a bit obvious as to who it was. Unfortunately, once they ([[spoiler: Sarge]]) are found out, they lose everything that made them interesting and become a cartoonishly-evil would-be rapist that wouldn't be out of place from an SVU episode.



* {{Wangst}}: Wittney's self-esteem issues would be more sad if she didn't get angry over the slightest negative remark.

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Wittney's self-esteem issues would be more sad if she didn't get angry over the slightest negative remark.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story's fairly dark tone and the fact that nearly everyone can be a complete {{Jerkass}} can make it hard to want anyone to succeed.

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* BaseBreaker: To most readers, Tyrian is either one of the best characters for his straight-man [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snark]], or one of the worst for how rude he is to his teammates.

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To most readers, Tyrian is either one of the best characters for his straight-man [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snark]], or one of the worst for how rude he is to his teammates.



* TheScrappy: Patsy, for being an arrogant, whiny {{Jerkass}} that continuously makes dumb decisions despite supposedly being among the smarter characters. Not helped that she eliminated fan-favorite Liv under flimsy circumstances (see WhatAnIdiot below for more details on that). Delves into BaseBreaker status once the story stops portraying her in a protagonistic light.

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* TheScrappy: Patsy, for being an arrogant, whiny {{Jerkass}} that continuously makes dumb decisions despite supposedly being among the smarter characters. Not helped that she eliminated fan-favorite Liv under flimsy circumstances (see WhatAnIdiot below for more details on that). Delves into BaseBreaker BaseBreakingCharacter status once the story stops portraying her in a protagonistic light.

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** Earl's starting to become this after he became allies with Sarge. Fans either hate him for [[spoiler: knowingly keeping a violent sexual predator in the game]], or love him for being the only one to have the foresight to keep [[spoiler: said psychopath]] on his good side.

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** Earl's starting to become this after he became allies with Sarge. Fans either hate him for [[spoiler: knowingly keeping a violent sexual predator in the game]], game]] or love him for being the only one to have the foresight to keep [[spoiler: said psychopath]] on his good side.



* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Sarge]] being the psychopath wasn't that hard to figure out, considering that there were few suspects to begin with and [[spoiler: his]] increasingly unnerving behavior didn't exactly help.

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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Sarge]] being the psychopath wasn't that hard to figure out, considering that there were few suspects suspects, to begin with with, and [[spoiler: his]] increasingly unnerving behavior didn't exactly help.



* {{Narm}}: The saboteur of the Brains not only had the [[SarcasmMode genius idea]] to give themself a name, but that their moniker should be "The Cloaked Shadow". Kinda hard to take the guy/gal seriously after learning that.

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* {{Narm}}: The saboteur of the Brains not only had the [[SarcasmMode genius idea]] to give themself themselves a name, but that their moniker should be "The Cloaked Shadow". Kinda hard to take the guy/gal seriously after learning that.



** As early as Episode 03 of Cliques vs Cliques, we have Arthur. His teammates have been curious about his secret for a while, and, right before the first vote, continue to ask him about it. One would expect the weary-of-being-asked Arthur to maybe tell them about it after the vote so he'd have time to explain himself and not put himself in immediate danger. Instead, Arthur tells everyone that he's a cannibal right before the votes begin, with obvious results.

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** As early as Episode 03 of Cliques vs Cliques, we have Arthur. His teammates have been curious about his secret for a while, and, right before the first vote, continue to ask him about it. One would expect the weary-of-being-asked Arthur to maybe tell them about it after the vote so he'd have time to explain himself and not put himself in immediate danger. Instead, Arthur tells everyone that he's a cannibal right before the votes begin, with obvious results.results.
*** The exact same thing happens to him in Episode 7, with the exact same results.
** Everything Dale does in Episode 7 of Cliques. Just when you think he can't get any dumber, he tops himself in the next scene he appears in.
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** Nobody expected [[spoiler:Arthur]] to be taken out in the first round of Cliques vs. Cliques.
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** Arthur, who was one of the first boots and meant to be a DecoyProtagonist, garnered quite a fan base during his short run due to his personality, mysterious past, and unfair elimination.
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** It's the final eight and Ollie is asked to join an alliance with Bianca, Ruth, Moe and Rai, the latter three of this group having been TrueCompanions for quite some time. Of course once this alliance of five would pick off the minority alliance of three, the three TrueCompanions would then turn on him and Bianca. Naturally, he says yes without hesitation.

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** It's the final eight and Ollie is asked to join an alliance with Bianca, Ruth, Moe and Rai, the latter three of this group having been TrueCompanions for quite some time. Of course once this alliance of five would pick off the minority alliance of three, the three TrueCompanions would then turn on him and Bianca. Naturally, he says yes without hesitation.hesitation.
** As early as Episode 03 of Cliques vs Cliques, we have Arthur. His teammates have been curious about his secret for a while, and, right before the first vote, continue to ask him about it. One would expect the weary-of-being-asked Arthur to maybe tell them about it after the vote so he'd have time to explain himself and not put himself in immediate danger. Instead, Arthur tells everyone that he's a cannibal right before the votes begin, with obvious results.

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** From the new Cliques VS Cliques cast, there's Peach, whom a lot of readers like for being a cute and fun addition to the cast, or dislike for being annoying and/or ungrateful of her comfy lifestyle.



** From the new Cliques VS Cliques cast, there's Peach, whom a lot of readers dislike for being annoying and/or ungrateful of her comfy lifestyle.

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** From the new Cliques VS Cliques cast, there's Peach, whom a lot of readers dislike Goldie for being annoying and/or ungrateful a FlatCharacter who copies Sanjay's strategy, and for acting like she's superior to all of her comfy lifestyle.teammates despite these things.
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** From the new Cliques VS Cliques cast, there's Peach, whom a lot of readers dislike for being annoying and/or ungrateful of her comfy lifestyle.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand and after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Our hero, everyone.


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* UnintentionallySympathetic: When you take the time to think about it, Sarge can be quite the tragic villain. He has no idea that he's doing anything wrong, and when he's called out on it, he cannot comprehend why it's wrong. In his point of view, everyone else is ostracizing and bullying him for no legitimate reason. And really, nobody enjoys feeling like that, even people like Sarge. This is later lampshaded by Moe, with mixed reaction both in-universe and by readers.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: When you take the time to think about it, Sarge can be quite the tragic villain. He has no idea that he's doing anything wrong, and when he's called out on it, he cannot comprehend why it's wrong. In his point of view, everyone else is ostracizing and bullying him for no legitimate reason. And really, nobody enjoys feeling like that, even people like Sarge. This is later lampshaded by Moe, with mixed reaction both in-universe and by readers.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand and after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Our hero, everyone.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand and after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Our hero, everybody.

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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand and after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Our hero, everybody.everyone.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand and after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested.

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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand and after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Our hero, everybody.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand AND after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested.

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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand AND and after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand AND after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. What makes this so bad is that both Rai and Brody were in the wrong, yet the story only defends Rai. Oops.

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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand AND after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. What makes this so bad is that both Rai and Brody were in the wrong, yet the story only defends Rai. Oops.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested.

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** Arguably, when [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her after being shot down by Rai beforehand]], beforehand AND after he cheated on her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested.arrested. What makes this so bad is that both Rai and Brody were in the wrong, yet the story only defends Rai. Oops.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Now, one could claim Brody was triggering Rai's depression-based anger by continuing to come back despite Rai clearly telling him no beforehand, but Rai certainly wasn't in the right here at all.

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** Arguably, when [[spoiler:Brody, [[spoiler: Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], her after being shot down by Rai beforehand]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, him [[spoiler: again]], proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Now, one could claim Brody was triggering Rai's depression-based anger by continuing to come back despite Rai clearly telling him no beforehand, but Rai certainly wasn't in the right here at all.arrested.
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** Arguably, when [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Now, one could claim Brody was triggering Rai's depression by continuing to come back despite Rai clearly telling him no, but Rai certainly wasn't in the right here at all.

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** Arguably, when [[spoiler:Brody, Rai's ex-boyfriend, wants to get back together with her and swims across the ocean to see her]], Rai, rather than explaining why she broke up with him and why she doesn't want to get back together with him, proceeds to act like a smug, condescending bitch to him and allows him to get arrested. Now, one could claim Brody was triggering Rai's depression depression-based anger by continuing to come back despite Rai clearly telling him no, no beforehand, but Rai certainly wasn't in the right here at all.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story's fairly dark tone and the fact that nearly everyone can be a complete {{Jerkass}} often make it hard to want anyone to succeed.

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story's fairly dark tone and the fact that nearly everyone can be a complete {{Jerkass}} often can make it hard to want anyone to succeed.

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