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* NiceGuy: The unnamed janitor who cleans up Tristan's former sickbed. He takes the time to comfort Natsuki about Tristan's death by giving a monologue about how death is the end of pain, and quoting Jim Morrisey.

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* NiceGuy: The unnamed janitor who cleans up Tristan's former sickbed. He takes the time to comfort Natsuki about Tristan's death by giving a monologue about how death is the end of pain, and quoting Jim Morrisey.Morrison.



** The unnamed janitor quotes Creator/JimMorrisey as a way of offering comforting words to Natsuki when comforting her over Tristan's death.

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** The unnamed janitor quotes Creator/JimMorrisey Creator/JimMorrison as a way of offering comforting words to Natsuki when comforting her over Tristan's death.
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* DropTheHammer: Dusty's preferred murder weapon is a claw hammer.

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* SecretRoom: Ilonka and Kevin discover a secret subbasement beneath the morgue, that can be accessed by the main elevator by pressing the hourglass symbol and the "B" button at the same time. The room also has the hourglass symbol painted on the floor.

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* SecretRoom: Ilonka and Kevin discover a secret subbasement beneath the morgue, that can be accessed by the main elevator by pressing the hourglass symbol and the "B" button at the same time. The room also has the hourglass symbol painted on the floor.



** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWoolf's ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.

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** Dusty also has The unnamed janitor quotes Creator/JimMorrisey as a copy way of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWoolf's ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.offering comforting words to Natsuki when comforting her over Tristan's death.


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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Despite dying in this episode, we learn absolutely nothing about Tristan other than her death leaving a profound effect on Natsuki.


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* ShoutOut: Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWoolf's ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.

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* AdaptationalDeviation: In the book, Dusty's calling card is leaving a literal white card with a swastika on it on the empty pillow of his victims. Here, he leaves a card with an hourglass symbol (which Kevin retcons from a smiley face in real-time) on the nightstand of the victim. In fact, there are [[AdaptedOut no Nazi references at all in part one]]. Dusty also buries Nancy's body in a cave in the desert in the book, while here the story is implied to take place in the Pacific Northwest and the cave is damp and it's clearly raining outside. TV-Dusty's body count is also significantly larger, as there are at least eight ghosts haunting him by the end of part 1, whereas in the book Nancy is only his third murder, and he has become convinced that he will be able to stop at six. He's also physically haunted by the screaming ghosts of his victims, whose screams are temporarily silenced with each murder, whereas in the book he is compelled by a mysterious whisper in his sleep to commit murders to temporarily silence.
* AdaptedOut: Shiela's book-boyfriend Matt is nowhere to be seen here, meaning she is free to pursue a relationship with Dusty.



* SerialKiller: The [[ThemeSerialKiller Themed]] Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of his previous victims. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows. He also leaves behind a subtle calling card.

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* JacobMarleyApparel: The ghosts haunting Dusty all appear wearing their pajamas or sleeping clothes, with gaping wounds in their foreheads, indicating Dusty killed them all in their sleep.
* ParentalAbandonment: Implied. Dusty's father is not mentioned, and he lives with his seemingly catatonic mother, meaning he's the main provider for his household...somehow.
* SerialKiller: The [[ThemeSerialKiller Themed]] Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students teenagers on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of his previous victims. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows. He also leaves behind a subtle calling card.
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->'''Based On:''' ''Literature/TheWickedHeart'' by Creator/ChristopherPike.
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** In Kevin's story, Dusty has a poster in his bedroom for ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. He also has posters for Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BobSeger, and Music/NewYorkDolls. His victim, Nancy, meanwhile has a poster on her door for Music/{{Nervana}}'s album "In Utero", as well as for Music/{{Soundgarden}} and Music/{{REM}}.

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** In Kevin's story, Dusty has a poster in his bedroom for ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. He also has posters for Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BobSeger, and Music/NewYorkDolls. His victim, Nancy, meanwhile has a poster on her door for Music/{{Nervana}}'s Music/{{Nirvana}}'s album "In Utero", as well as for Music/{{Soundgarden}} and Music/{{REM}}.
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** In Kevin's story, Dusty has a poster in his bedroom for ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. He also has posters for Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BobSeger, and Music/NewYorkDolls. His victim, Nancy, meanwhile has a poster on her door for Music/Nervana's album "In Utero", as well as for Music/Soundgarden and Music/REM.

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** In Kevin's story, Dusty has a poster in his bedroom for ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. He also has posters for Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BobSeger, and Music/NewYorkDolls. His victim, Nancy, meanwhile has a poster on her door for Music/Nervana's Music/{{Nervana}}'s album "In Utero", as well as for Music/Soundgarden Music/{{Soundgarden}} and Music/REM.Music/{{REM}}.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Dusty was perfect...]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Dusty was perfect...[[caption-width-right:350:I'm sorry, I can't hear you. No one can.]]
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Cherie's family is completely absent from family day, with no official explanation. She claims that her mother is a successful actress currently filming a movie in France, and does receive multiple expensive gifts from ''someone''. Mark takes her at her word on this, but then is skeptical when she also claims offhandedly that one of her ancestors invented liquid soap and coined the term "Palmolive".

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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Cherie's Cheri's family is completely absent from family day, with no official explanation. She claims that her mother is a successful actress currently filming a movie in France, and does receive multiple expensive gifts from ''someone''. Mark takes her at her word on this, but then is skeptical when she also claims offhandedly that one of her ancestors invented liquid soap and coined the term "Palmolive".



** Natsuki's father is a deceased war veteran, though her mother is still alive and frequently comes to see her.
** Cherie either has wealthy but completely absent parents or just wealthy absent relatives. Mark seems to believe her when she claims the former. Either way, she seems to have been effectively abandoned at Brightcliffe, with expensive gifts coming occasionally instead of visits from loved ones.

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** Natsuki's father is a deceased war veteran, though her veteran. The dog tags she wears are therefore presumably his. Her mother is still alive and frequently comes to see her.
** Cherie Cheri either has wealthy but completely absent parents or just wealthy absent relatives. Mark seems to believe her when she claims the former. Either way, she seems to have been effectively abandoned at Brightcliffe, with expensive gifts coming occasionally instead of visits from loved ones.



* ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Kevin casts himself as Dusty, and his mother as Dusty's own catatonic mother. Kevin's girlfriend Katherine becomes Dusty's first on-screen kill Nancy, Ilonka as her best friend Shiela, and Dr. Stanton is the detective investigating the case. Natsuki can also be seen playing one of Dusty's previous victims.

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* ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Kevin casts himself as Dusty, and his mother as Dusty's own catatonic mother. Kevin's girlfriend Katherine becomes Dusty's first on-screen kill Nancy, Ilonka as her best friend Shiela, and Dr. Stanton is the detective investigating the case. Natsuki Natsuki, Cheri, and Sandra can also be seen playing one the ghosts of Dusty's previous victims.



* DisposingOfABody: Dusty's main M.O. is to break into the victim's house while they sleep, place a handkerchief over their face, and bludgeon them to death with a hammer on top of said handkerchief to stop any blood spatter. He then carefully wraps the body up in garbage bags, drives it to a secluded cave and buries it. We see him do this with Nancy with methodical ease.

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* DisposingOfABody: Dusty's main M.O. is to break into the victim's house while they sleep, place a handkerchief towel over their face, and bludgeon them to death with a hammer on top of said handkerchief towel to stop any blood spatter. He then carefully wraps the body up in garbage bags, drives it to a secluded cave and buries it. We see him do this with Nancy with methodical ease.
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** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWoolf ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.

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** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWoolf Creator/VirginiaWoolf's ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.
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** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWolfe ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.

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** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWolfe Creator/VirginiaWoolf ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.
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** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWolf ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.

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** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWolf Creator/VirginiaWolfe ''"A Room of One’s Own"''.
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** In Kevin's story, Dusty has a poster in his bedroom for ''Film/EvilDead1981''. He also has posters for Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BobSeger, and Music/NewYorkDolls. His victim, Nancy, meanwhile has a poster on her door for Music/Nervana's album "In Utero", as well as for Music/Soundgarden and Music/REM.
** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWolf's "A Room of One’s Own".

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** In Kevin's story, Dusty has a poster in his bedroom for ''Film/EvilDead1981''.''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. He also has posters for Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BobSeger, and Music/NewYorkDolls. His victim, Nancy, meanwhile has a poster on her door for Music/Nervana's album "In Utero", as well as for Music/Soundgarden and Music/REM.
** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWolf's "A Creator/VirginiaWolf ''"A Room of One’s Own".Own"''.

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* NiceGuy: The unnamed janitor who cleans up Tristan's former sickbed. He takes the time to comfort Natsuki about Tristan's death by giving a monologue about how death is the end of pain, and quoting Jim Morrisey.



** Kevin's mother is obsessed with family legacy, and is currently trying to groom his younger brother into becoming an ace student and athlete like Kevin. She also claims that Kevin's father somehow disgraced the family name. Kevin also has a girlfriend named Katherine, which he neglected to mention to Ilonka.



* RelativeError: Inverted. Ilonka verbally mistakes Kevin's girlfriend Katherine for his sister, while lying about how Kevin had told her all about his family. Ilonka is mortified by her mistake and quickly flees the scene.



* ShoutOut: Many:
** In Kevin's story, Dusty has a poster in his bedroom for ''Film/EvilDead1981''. He also has posters for Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BobSeger, and Music/NewYorkDolls. His victim, Nancy, meanwhile has a poster on her door for Music/Nervana's album "In Utero", as well as for Music/Soundgarden and Music/REM.
** Dusty also has a copy of ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' in his locker, and Nancy has a copy of Creator/VirginiaWolf's "A Room of One’s Own".
** Spence and Amesh reference Kevin telling a previous serial killer story, with a smiley face drawn in blood at every murder scene. This is identical to the MO of Red John in ''Series/TheMentalist''.



* ExactEavesdropping: Dusty is nonchalantly going through his locker when he hears Nancy and a friend talking nearby about how Nancy's parent's will be out of town for the weekend, and rather than taking the chance to throw a party she is instead opting to have a quiet weekend. Meaning she will be completely alone in her house at night.

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* ExactEavesdropping: Dusty is nonchalantly going through his locker when he hears Nancy and a friend talking nearby about how Nancy's parent's parents will be out of town for the weekend, and rather than taking the chance to throw a party she is instead opting to have a quiet weekend.weekend by herself. Meaning she will be completely alone in her house at night.

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* DisposingOfABody: Dusty's main M.O. is to break into the victim's house while they sleep, place a handkerchief over their face, and bludgeon them to death with a hammer on top of said handkerchief to stop any blood spatter. He then carefully wraps the body up in garbage bags, drives it to a secluded cave and buries it.
We see him do this with Nancy with methodical ease.

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* DisposingOfABody: Dusty's main M.O. is to break into the victim's house while they sleep, place a handkerchief over their face, and bludgeon them to death with a hammer on top of said handkerchief to stop any blood spatter. He then carefully wraps the body up in garbage bags, drives it to a secluded cave and buries it.
it. We see him do this with Nancy with methodical ease.
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* Retcon: Within-story. Kevin gives his protagonist the calling card of leaving a note with a smiley face at every crime scene. However Spence and Amesh immediately call him out on repeating himself, as he had previously told a story with a serial killer who left a bloody smiley face at the scene. Kevin concedes and changes it to the hourglass symbol that Ilonka discovered.

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* Retcon: RetCon: Within-story. Kevin gives his protagonist the calling card of leaving a note with a smiley face at every crime scene. However Spence and Amesh immediately call him out on repeating himself, as he had previously told a story with a serial killer who left a bloody smiley face at the scene. Kevin concedes and changes it to the hourglass symbol that Ilonka discovered.

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* CharacterDeath: Tristan succumbs to her illness and dies.



* Retcon: Within-story. Kevin gives his protagonist the calling card of leaving a note with a smiley face at every crime scene. However Spence and Amesh immediately call him out on repeating himself, as he had previously told a story with a serial killer who left a bloody smiley face at the scene. Kevin concedes and changes it to the hourglass symbol that Ilonka discovered.
* TheReveal: We get some insight into the backstories of several patients, due to their families visiting for Family Day.
** Anya is an orphan with no family to come and see her.
** Amesh is the child of Indian immigrants who were recently deported. His aunt and uncle are trying desperately to get them asylum so they can see Amesh before he dies.
** Like their daughter, Sandra's parents are devoutly religious.
** Spence's mother is conservatively religious and refuses to see him, either due to his illness, sexuality, or both. His father does visit and tries to make excuses for her, but Spence immediately sees through them.
** Natsuki's father is a deceased war veteran, though her mother is still alive and frequently comes to see her.
** Cherie either has wealthy but completely absent parents or just wealthy absent relatives. Mark seems to believe her when she claims the former. Either way, she seems to have been effectively abandoned at Brightcliffe, with expensive gifts coming occasionally instead of visits from loved ones.
* SecretRoom: Ilonka and Kevin discover a secret subbasement beneath the morgue, that can be accessed by the main elevator by pressing the hourglass symbol and the "B" button at the same time. The room also has the hourglass symbol painted on the floor.



* CallingCard: Dusty leaves behind a card with an hourglass symbol (which Kevin incorporated after seeing the same Paragon symbol in real life) at each of his crime scenes.

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* BeneathNotice: Dusty is described as being perfectly ordinary in every way. Nice but not charismatic, with good grades but not outstanding. Everybody likes Dusty but nobody really knows him. Shiela even realizes with shock that they have been lab partners for months and she barely spoke to him. Despite this he's somewhat charming, enough to get a date with Shiela.
* ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Kevin casts himself as Dusty, and his mother as Dusty's own catatonic mother. Kevin's girlfriend Katherine becomes Dusty's first on-screen kill Nancy, Ilonka as her best friend Shiela, and Dr. Stanton is the detective investigating the case. Natsuki can also be seen playing one of Dusty's previous victims.
* CallingCard: Dusty leaves behind a card with an hourglass symbol (which Kevin incorporated after seeing the same Paragon symbol in real life) at each of his crime scenes. Because he's so thorough in disposing of all other evidence, it's usually the ''only'' evidence that anything had happened at the scene.



* DisposingOfABody: Dusty's main M.O. is to break into the victim's house while they sleep, place a handkerchief over their face, and bludgeon them to death with a hammer on top of said handkerchief to stop any blood spatter. He then wraps the body up in a sheet, drives it to a secluded cave and buries it.

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* DisposingOfABody: Dusty's main M.O. is to break into the victim's house while they sleep, place a handkerchief over their face, and bludgeon them to death with a hammer on top of said handkerchief to stop any blood spatter. He then carefully wraps the body up in a sheet, garbage bags, drives it to a secluded cave and buries it.it.
We see him do this with Nancy with methodical ease.
* DropTheHammer: Dusty's preferred murder weapon is a claw hammer.
* ExactEavesdropping: Dusty is nonchalantly going through his locker when he hears Nancy and a friend talking nearby about how Nancy's parent's will be out of town for the weekend, and rather than taking the chance to throw a party she is instead opting to have a quiet weekend. Meaning she will be completely alone in her house at night.
* HellIsThatNoise: Dusty frequently hears a horrible noise in his head. It's the ghostly screaming of his past victims.
* HauntingTheGuilty: Dusty is constantly haunted by the screaming ghosts of his previous victims. Whenever he kills another person, their numbers grow, but he receives a temporary reprieve and can no longer hear their screams. Emphasis on temporary...
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[[caption-width-right:350:Make the voices stop.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Make the voices stop.[[caption-width-right:350:Dusty was perfect...]]



* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Cherie's family is completely absent from family day, with no official explanation. She does receive multiple expensive gifts from ''someone'', but Mark is skeptical of the story she tells him to explain it.
* CliffHanger: Kevin ends his story with one, telling to club they will all have to stay alive a little bit longer if they want to hear the end.

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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Cherie's family is completely absent from family day, with no official explanation. She claims that her mother is a successful actress currently filming a movie in France, and does receive multiple expensive gifts from ''someone'', but ''someone''. Mark takes her at her word on this, but then is skeptical when she also claims offhandedly that one of her ancestors invented liquid soap and coined the story she tells him to explain it.
term "Palmolive".
* CliffHanger: Ilonka and Kevin ends his story discover a secret subbasement at Brightcliffe with one, telling to club they will all have to stay alive a little bit longer if they want to hear the end. mysterious hourglass symbol etched on the floor. Then the elevator that got them there mysteriously starts going up while Kevin is still on it, leaving Ilonka alone in the dark.



* CliffHanger:

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* CliffHanger:CliffHanger: Kevin ends part one of the story with one, telling to club they will all have to stay alive a little bit longer if they want to hear the end.
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* SerialKiller: The [[Themed ThemeSerialKiller]] Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of his previous victims. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows. He also leaves behind a subtle calling card.

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* SerialKiller: The [[Themed ThemeSerialKiller]] [[ThemeSerialKiller Themed]] Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of his previous victims. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows. He also leaves behind a subtle calling card.
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* SerialKiller: The [[Themed ThemedSerialKiller]] Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of his previous victims. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows. He also leaves behind a subtle calling card.

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* SerialKiller: The [[Themed ThemedSerialKiller]] ThemeSerialKiller]] Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of his previous victims. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows. He also leaves behind a subtle calling card.
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* * CliffHanger: Kevin ends his story with one, telling to club they will all have to stay alive a little bit longer if they want to hear the end.

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* * CliffHanger: Kevin ends his story with one, telling to club they will all have to stay alive a little bit longer if they want to hear the end.

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* * CliffHanger: Kevin ends his story with one, telling to club they will all have to stay alive a little bit longer if they want to hear the end.
* SigilSpam: The hourglass symbol continues to appear, and Kevin even incorporates it into his story, much to Ilonka's annoyance.



!!! The Wicked Heart
* SerialKiller: The Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of ghosts. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows.

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!!! The Wicked Heart
Heart (Part 1)
* CallingCard: Dusty leaves behind a card with an hourglass symbol (which Kevin incorporated after seeing the same Paragon symbol in real life) at each of his crime scenes.
* CliffHanger:
* DisposingOfABody: Dusty's main M.O. is to break into the victim's house while they sleep, place a handkerchief over their face, and bludgeon them to death with a hammer on top of said handkerchief to stop any blood spatter. He then wraps the body up in a sheet, drives it to a secluded cave and buries it.
* SerialKiller: The [[Themed ThemedSerialKiller]] Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of ghosts.his previous victims. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows. He also leaves behind a subtle calling card.
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!!Tropes in Anya's story:

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!!Tropes in Anya's Kevin's story:
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Family Day at Brightcliffe brings news from home - but not all of the patients have a home to hear from. A series of strange clues lead Ilonka to investigate the Paragon, the cult that formerly occupied the hospice's property. Kevin begins telling a dark multi-part story.

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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Cherie's family is completely absent from family day, with no official explanation. She does receive multiple expensive gifts from ''someone'', but Mark is skeptical of the story she tells him to explain it.
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!!! The Wicked Heart
* SerialKiller: The Visionary variety. Dusty murders fellow students on a regular basis, based on the torment he receives from recurring visions of ghosts. Each time he murders someone, the number of ghosts haunting him grows.
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