History NightmareFuel / Unwind

** In ''Undivided,'' Divan shows his guest and Unwind supplier, Nelson, his garden where he has four large porcelain jars, in which are imprisoned four assassins that were sent to kill him. The neck of a jar is narrow enough not to allow any movement save for that of the prisoner's head, which pokes out of the top. In this fashion, they are incapable of moving or doing anything, even speaking, except to open their mouths to eat [[FutureFoodIsArtificial nutritional chews]] fed to them by Divan. Nelson wonders to himself if they had their vocal cords removed, or (paraphrased) "they don't speak because there's not much to talk about when you've been made into a living houseplant."

** Some of the parents' reasons for consigning their kids to be unwound are terrifying, too. Connor's parents did it because he was a troublemaker. Emby's parents died and his aunt had him unwound because if she raised him, she wouldn't have enough money to send her own three children to college. Mai was the youngest of four daughters in her traditional Chinese family, and her parents decided to get rid of her after finally getting the son they wanted. Hayden's parents were going through a bitter divorce and hated each other so much they decided they'd both rather have him unwound than let the other have custody of him. Even kids without parents aren't safe; Risa is an orphan who is chosen to be unwound simply because of budget cuts at the state home where she lives.

** Some of the parents' reasons for consigning their kids to be unwound are terrifying, too. Connor's parents did it because he was a troublemaker. Emby's parents died and his aunt chose sending her own three children to college over raising him. Mai was the youngest of four daughters in her traditional Chinese family, and her parents decided to get rid of her after finally getting the son they wanted. Hayden's parents were going through a bitter divorce and hated each other so much they decided they'd both rather have him unwound than let the other have custody of him. Even kids without parents aren't safe; Risa is an orphan who is chosen to be unwound simply because of budget cuts at the state home where she lives.

** Even kids whose parents who would never sign their kid to be unwound are safe. There are parts pirates hunting kids and they don't care if they're AWOL or not.

** Some of the parents' reasons for consigning their kids to be unwound are terrifying, too. Connor's parents did it because he was a troublemaker. Emby's parents died and his aunt decided to relieve herself of a financial burden by unwinding him so she could send her own three children to college. Mai was the youngest of four daughters, and her parents decided to get rid of her after finally getting the son they wanted. Hayden's parents were going through a bitter divorce and hated each other so much they decided they'd both rather have him unwound than let the other have custody of him. Even kids without parents aren't safe; Risa is an orphan who is chosen to be unwound simply because of budget cuts at the state home where she lives.

* Starkey attempts to rescue/kidnap a storked kid named Jesus marked for unwinding, but when Jesus tries to attack him, one of Starkey's comrades bludgeons him with a football trophy, accidentally killing him. Furious, Starkey decides to blow up the house to show the world what he'll do to parents who unwind their storks.

** The legend of Humphrey Dunfee. He was a teenager who fell in with the wrong group of friends and got in trouble. The first two times, his father got him off, but the third time, he didn't. Since his father was one of the writers of the Unwind Accord, he was expected to set an example, so he and his wife had Humphrey sent to a harvest camp. Then, they changed their minds, but it was too late--Humphrey had already been unwound. According to the stories, his father hacked into the National Unwind Database and got a list of every single person who received a piece of Humphrey, and he and his wife went traveling around the world to track down and kill all those people one by one so they could put their son back together.

** The legend of Humphrey Dunfee. He was a teenager who fell in with the wrong group of friends and got in trouble. The first two times, his father got him off, but the third time, he didn't. Since his father was one of the writers of the Unwind Accord, he was expected to set an example, so he and his wife had Humphrey sent to a harvest camp. Then, they changed their minds, but it was too late--Humphrey had already been unwound. According to the stories, his father hacked into the National Unwind Database and got a list of every single person who received a piece of Humphrey, and he and his wife went traveling around the world, finding and killing all those people so they could put their son back together.

* [=CyFi=] is a boy who received part of a brain from an Unwind named Tyler. He gets random urges to do things that he wouldn't do but Tyler would, such as compulsively steal things or pet a dog across the street. And that part of Tyler's brain, to some extent, still thinks it's Tyler.

--->'''[=CyFi=]''': ''(talking about Tyler, the kid whose brain he has part of)'' And this kid--he doesn't even understand he's a part of me. It's like those ghosts that don't know they're dead. He keeps trying to be him, and can't understand why the rest of him ain't there.

* Tyler (or more accurately the part of Tyler's brain in [=CyFi=]) begging his parents not to unwind him, with no ability to understand that ''it's already happened''.

** The legend of Humphrey Dunfee. He was a teenager who fell in with the wrong group of friends and got in trouble. The first two times, his father got him off, but the third time, he didn't. Since his father was one of the writers of the Unwind Accord, he was expected to set an example, so he and his wife had Humphrey sent to a harvest camp. Then, they changed their minds, but it was too late--Humphrey had already been unwound. According to the stories, his parents are now searching all over the world to track down every single person who received a piece of Humphrey so they can put their son back together.

** The legend of Humphrey Dunfee. He was a teenager who fell in with the wrong group of friends and got in trouble. The first two times, his father got him off, but the third time, he wasn't. Since his father was one of the writers of the Unwind Accord, he was expected to set an example, so he and his wife had Humphrey sent to a harvest camp. Then, they changed their minds, but it was too late--Humphrey had already been unwound. According to the stories, his parents are now searching all over the world to track down every single person who received a piece of Humphrey so they can put their son back together.

** Some of the parents' reasons for consigning their kids to be unwound are terrifying, too. Connor's parents did it because he was a troublemaker. Emby's parents died and his aunt decided to put her three children through college instead of raising him. Mai was the youngest of four daughters, and her parents decided to get rid of her after finally getting the son they wanted. Hayden's parents were going through a bitter divorce and hated each other so much they decided they'd both rather have him unwound than let the other have custody of him. Even kids without parents aren't safe; Risa is an orphan who is chosen to be unwound simply because of budget cuts at the state home where she lives.

-->'''Connor''': That's why people call him Humphrey. 'Cause 'all the king's horses and all the king's men...couldn't put Humphrey together again.

** "Tithes" are children who are unwound by their families as religious contributions, and they're ''excited'' to be unwound.