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* InsidiousRumorMill: [[spoiler:DrivenByEnvy Kyle decides to ruin Sam's relationship with Brian and her reputation in school by spreading rumors (with the help of Stacy) that it is ''she'', not he, that is an obsessive StalkerWithACrush for Brian who just got lucky enough to actually date the object of her affections. He also spread the information that Sam's dad sexually abused teens. The rumors get spread on social media with everyone critical of Sam and Brian turning his back on her completely. This leads to Sam confronting Kyle which ends with [[AccidentalMurder disastrous results for her]].]]
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* InsidiousRumorMill: [[spoiler:DrivenByEnvy Kyle decides to ruin Sam's relationship with Brian and her reputation in school by spreading rumors (with the help of Stacy) that it is ''she'', not he, that is an obsessive StalkerWithACrush for Brian who just got lucky enough to actually date the object of her affections. He also spread the information that Sam's dad sexually abused teens. The rumors get spread on social media with everyone critical of Sam and Brian turning his back on her completely. This leads to Sam confronting Kyle which ends with [[AccidentalMurder disastrous results for her]]. Kyle later gets exposed for orchestrating the rumor mill and everyone, including Stacy and Brian, shun him instead.]]
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* TheBeard: [[spoiler:Stacy is clearly just one of Kyle's many ways of repressing his sexuality.]]
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* TheBeard: [[spoiler:Stacy is clearly just one of ClosetedGay Kyle's many ways of repressing his sexuality.sexuality, as he is obsessed and in love with Brian.]]
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* JerkJock: While Brian is a LovableJock, Kyle is definitely a {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:Especially when it turns out he's a murderous stalker.]]
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler:Kyle ruins Sam's life and kills her for Brian.]]
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* TheAce: Brian is perfect. It seems like everyone has a crush on him. [[spoiler:EvenTheGuysWantHim.]] But...
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Though she's mentioned a lot, Stacy is a minor character. She does, however, have ''one'' moment where she changes everything, by betraying Kyle. If it weren't for that petty little gesture, Kyle wouldn't have been driven to murder-suicide.]]
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** In an early scare, the wardrobe will be filed full of needles instead of clothes. [[spoiler: It's an early sign that Kyle has been injecting himself with drugs, and that the scares are AllOnHisHead]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Kyle ruins Sam's life, Stacy ruins Kyle's life, Kyle accidentally gives Sam a slow and brutal death, Kyle gives up on life. And this is all before the game even starts. So it's basically a DownerBeginning, Downer Middle, and DownerEnding. It's just a tragic fucking game, okay?]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Kyle ruins Sam's life, Stacy ruins Kyle's life, Kyle accidentally gives Sam a slow and brutal death, Kyle gives up on life. And this is all before the game even starts. So it's basically a DownerBeginning, Downer Middle, and DownerEnding. It's just a tragic fucking DownerBeginning]]. From those revelations, any way to end it is not gonna be good.
** If you pick yes on being questioned on if you wanna keep the diary, [[spoiler:the game has you wake up on the [[HereWeGoAgain same bed you've awoken on the beginning of the game,okay?]]making it clear that Sam's ghost will keep haunting Kyle without end and will keep having horrific hallucinations]]]].
** If you pick no instead, [[spoiler:Kyle will wake up in real life, and confess his crimes to the police and will say one final goodbye to B, even if he will never hear it. Justice is served, but it doesn't matter]].
** If you pick yes on being questioned on if you wanna keep the diary, [[spoiler:the game has you wake up on the [[HereWeGoAgain same bed you've awoken on the beginning of the game,
** If you pick no instead, [[spoiler:Kyle will wake up in real life, and confess his crimes to the police and will say one final goodbye to B, even if he will never hear it. Justice is served, but it doesn't matter]].
** In an early scare, the wardrobe will be filed full of needles instead of clothes. [[spoiler: It's an early sign that Kyle has been injecting himself with drugs, and that the scares are AllOnHisHead]].
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* SirSwearsalot: All characters (the main students to be precise) is known for swearing a ''lot'', maybe except for Brian.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler:Kyle seems like a meatheaded stereotypical jock, but he's actually a psychological mess who hates himself for being gay.]]
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* SamusIsAGirl: A villainous inversion [[spoiler: since we're led to believe we're playing as a psychotic female stalker obsessed with a male classmate. However, we learn towards the end that we're actually playing as a psychotic male stalker struggling with his repressed homosexuality and obsession with another boy.]]
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* {{Yandere}}: The journal is written from the perspective of a StalkerWithACrush on Brian. [[spoiler:It's set up to be Sam's, but it's actually Kyle's.]]
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* MultipleEndings: The game's end depends on a choice the player makes when they reach the end of the diary.
** By choosing "Yes". [[spoiler:Kyle decides to keep the diary, and essentially re-starts the cycle of guilt he's stuck in. Sam's Ghost/Kyle's guilt returns in the end, implying that, by keeping the diary, the events of the game will just repeat themselves.]]
** By choosing "No" and then not moving. [[spoiler:Kyle sets his diary on fire, but stays still and lets the flame consume him as well, implying he died from smoke inhalation.]]
** By choosing "No" and then moving towards the door. [[spoiler:Kyle finally gets his head straight. With his diary gone, he decides to finally turn himself into the police, and gets arrested for murder, which he says is some sort of closure for him.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Kyle insists that what happened is Sam's fault for getting in the way, not his. Kyle's final choice is whether or not he wants to maintain this mentality by choosing whether or not he gets to keep the diary in which he ostensibly paints himself as the real victim of the story. The better ending arguably happens by him refusing to do so, burning the diary and finally coming clean to the police.]]
** By choosing "Yes". [[spoiler:Kyle decides to keep the diary, and essentially re-starts the cycle of guilt he's stuck in. Sam's Ghost/Kyle's guilt returns in the end, implying that, by keeping the diary, the events of the game will just repeat themselves.]]
** By choosing "No" and then not moving. [[spoiler:Kyle sets his diary on fire, but stays still and lets the flame consume him as well, implying he died from smoke inhalation.]]
** By choosing "No" and then moving towards the door. [[spoiler:Kyle finally gets his head straight. With his diary gone, he decides to finally turn himself into the police, and gets arrested for murder, which he says is some sort of closure for him.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Kyle insists that what happened is Sam's fault for getting in the way, not his. Kyle's final choice is whether or not he wants to maintain this mentality by choosing whether or not he gets to keep the diary in which he ostensibly paints himself as the real victim of the story. The better ending arguably happens by him refusing to do so, burning the diary and finally coming clean to the police.]]
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* TheAce: Brian is perfect. It seems like everyone has a crush on him. [[spoiler:EvenTheGuysWantHim.]]
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** BrokenAce: Brian is flawless, but only because society pressures him so. He's really torn up over his mom's recent death too.
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* HiddenDepths: Brian is not the JerkJock one would initially think, and actually takes a keen interest in Stephen King's Misery when recommended it by Sam. And while Sam peppering her diary with drawings is probably to be expected from the CuteBookworm [[spoiler:it's much more unexpected form a JerkJock like Kyle, who ACTUALLY owns the Journal. The art is mildly Animesque, to boot.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Stacy eventually gets fed up with Kyle's obsessive hatred of Sam and snitches on him to Brian.]] Not out of sympathy for Sam, but because she mistakingly believes that [[spoiler: Kyle wants to get rid of Brian so ''he'' could have Sam. See WrongGenreSavvy below.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Stacy eventually gets fed up with Kyle's obsessive hatred of Sam and snitches on him to Brian.]] Not out of sympathy for Sam, but because she mistakingly mistakenly believes that [[spoiler: Kyle wants to get rid of Brian so ''he'' could have Sam. See WrongGenreSavvy below.]]
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* RedHerringShirt: [[spoiler: Kyle is this, both in Sam's real diary and his own - he is mentioned a small handful of times by Sam, and not at all in his own diary, fooling the player into believing he is largely unconnected or merely an accomplice to Stacy's antagonism, when in reality, Kyle is both the protagonist and Sam's VillainOfAnotherStory.]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Interestingly to ''VideoGame/DearMariko''.''VideoGame/DearMariko'', [[spoiler: with TheReveal being a IAmNotShazam coming in play]].
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* ChekovsGun: The journal. [[spoiler: There are actually two of them.]]
** Early on in the game, you pick up a tree branch that's just randomly hanging around in your bedroom and use it to reach for a journal page that's under your bed. [[spoiler: This is the same branch that Kyle used to reach for Sam's bag to get rid of it moments after he had pushed her off a cliff.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When first reading through the diary, players believe they're playing as Sam (who's a girl). However, when paying close attention to the bedroom, you'll notice that the clothes lying around are [[spoiler: ''men's'' clothes.]]
** [[spoiler: Early on, Sam's real diary notes that Brian and Kyle are "more than friends." In addition to this, Kyle's diary refers to Brian by his full first name when talking about him generally/in reference to Sam or the others, but when referring to his own relationship with Brian, Kyle uses the more personal nickname "B."]]
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* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Sam is bullied and treated like a freak for having a father who was convicted of molesting a teenager.]]
*SmallRoleBigImpact: From the journals' perspectives, it seems like Kyle is a background character. [[spoiler:That's exactly what he wants you to think.]]
*SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Though she's mentioned a lot, Stacy is a minor character. She does, however, have ''one'' moment where she changes everything, by betraying Kyle. If it weren't for that petty little gesture, Kyle wouldn't have been driven to murder-suicide.]]
*SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Though she's mentioned a lot, Stacy is a minor character. She does, however, have ''one'' moment where she changes everything, by betraying Kyle. If it weren't for that petty little gesture, Kyle wouldn't have been driven to murder-suicide.]]
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* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Sam is bullied and treated like a freak for having a father who was convicted of molesting a teenager.]]
* StalkerWithACrush
* StalkerWithACrush
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''Love, Sam'' is a short 2019 PsychologicalHorror game by independent developer Korean Linguistics Lab.
Gameplay-wise, it's a series of very well-choreographed scares in a tiny piece of a suburban household, like ''VideoGame/SilentHills''. Story-wise, it holds a plot rich with real horror and tragedy, told entirely through journal entries.
It takes place in a single bedroom, with the player character reading the diary of a teenager and their tragic decay into depression and insanity over a boy they have a crush on named Brian, or "B". Meanwhile, there's someone, or some''thing'' stalking them.
The characters include two couples: Sam and Brian (a CuteBookworm and a LovableJock), and Stacy and Kyle (an AlphaBitch and a JerkJock).
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!!The game provides examples of:
*AcademicAthlete: Brian is a superstar athlete and a bookworm.
*AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Kyle's emotional confrontation with Sam ends with him accidentally scaring her off a cliff, which gets her killed.]]
*TheAce: Brian is perfect. It seems like everyone has a crush on him. [[spoiler:EvenTheGuysWantHim.]]
*AlphaBitch: Stacy, a bitchy cheerleader who dates jocks. [[spoiler:She even helps Kyle ruin Sam's life with "pranks".]]
*ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler:Kyle seems like a meatheaded stereotypical jock, but he's actually a psychological mess who hates himself for being gay.]]
*TheBeard: [[spoiler:Stacy is clearly just one of Kyle's many ways of repressing his sexuality.]]
*BigBad: The stalker. [[spoiler:Who isn't Sam, nor Stacy, but Kyle.]]
*BrokenAce: Brian is flawless, but only because society pressures him so. He's really torn up over his mom's recent death too.
*CameraFiend: The stalker keeps talking photographs of the player without their permission. [[spoiler:It's a combination of Kyle stalking Brian, and Sam's ghost stalking Kyle.]]
*TheCheerleader: Stacy. Sam, being a geek, hates her.
*CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Not only did Sam fall off a cliff, but she broke every bone in her body, including her neck, and slowly choked to death on her own blood.]]
*CuteBookworm: Sam seems like this at first. [[spoiler:And it turns out she actually is. Perfectly sane, too.]]
*DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:Kyle is a gay {{Yandere}}.]]
*DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Kyle ruins Sam's life, Stacy ruins Kyle's life, Kyle accidentally gives Sam a slow and brutal death, Kyle gives up on life. And this is all before the game even starts. So it's basically a DownerBeginning, Downer Middle, and DownerEnding. It's just a tragic fucking game, okay?]]
*DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Out of guilt and despair, Kyle tries this. But whether he goes through with it or not is up to the player.]]
*DumbJock: Sam expects Brian to be this, shocked at seeing a jock in a library. But he turns out to be an AcademicAthlete.
*EldritchAbomination: The supernatural entity stalking the player eventually devolves into an abstract mess.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Stacy eventually gets fed up with Kyle's obsessive hatred of Sam and snitches on him to Brian.]]
*{{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:Kyle frames his obsessive stalkings on Sam.]]
*GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Kyle is driven to stalking and murder over the jealousy of Sam and Brian's relationship.]]
*HellIsThatNoise: The ghost makes a creaky croaking noise exactly like Film/TheGrudge. [[spoiler:It's the last noise Sam made as she choked on her own blood.]]
*JerkJock: While Brian is a LovableJock, Kyle is definitely a {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:Especially when it turns out he's a murderous stalker.]]
*JumpScare: The game has a handful of well-timed ones.
*KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Kyle burns all of the evidence (i.e. the notes and journals) and has such little to live for that he doesn't really resist the flames himself.]]
*LovableJock: Sam expects to hate Brian for being a jock, but she eventually warms up to him for being a NiceGuy.
*LoveMakesYouEvil / LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler:Kyle ruins Sam's life and kills her for Brian.]]
*MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At first, it seems like a typical "haunted by a ghost girl" scenario, but it's likely more psychological and metaphorical than that.
*NothingIsScarier: Being a master of PsychologicalHorror, the game is full of this.
*OppositesAttract: Sam theorizes this is the reason a NiceGuy like Brian is best friends with a {{Jerkass}} like Kyle.
*OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:It's doubtful that Sam's ghost is really haunting Kyle. This ghost is just a metaphor for Kyle's insane guilt.]]
*RedHerring: [[spoiler:Sam's diary is a little emotional, but nothing out of the ordinary for a teenage girl. Kyle is the ''real'' psycho.]]
*TheReveal: [[spoiler:It's set up that the stalker's journal is written by Sam, but it's actually Kyle. It's a combination of Kyle framing Sam as a psycho, and his actual true feelings.]]
*RemovingTheRival: [[spoiler:Kyle tries removing Brian's girlfriend, Sam. First, he breaks them up through social manipulations. Then, after Brian finds out and "dumps" him, Kyle snaps and kills her. It's ambiguous whether or not it was on purpose.]]
*RoomFullOfCrazy: The bedroom eventually devolves into this, a visual metaphor of [[spoiler:Kyle's fracturing mind.]]
*SecretDiary: The whole focus. There's actually two, one written by Sam pre-breakup, another written by Sam post-breakup. [[spoiler:The latter is actually Kyle.]]
*SlasherSmile: The game is absolutely riddled with these. [[spoiler:It's because the smiles of the girls on the Greenhart University posters that took Brian away from him drove him insane.]]
*SpookyPhotographs: The game's main motif, because [[spoiler:Kyle took creepy pictures of Brian and used them to frame Sam as a stalker.]]
*SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Sam is bullied and treated like a freak for having a father who was convicted of molesting a teenager.]]
*StalkerWithACrush
*StringyHairedGhostGirl: [[spoiler:Sam.]]
*VengefulGhost: [[spoiler:It seems like Kyle is being haunted by Sam's ghost, for killing her. It's probably just a metaphor for his guilt though.]]
*VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Kyle is such a central character that he's also the BigBad.]]
*WalkingSpoiler: If you haven't noticed, literally the entire article is censored because of [[spoiler:Kyle.]]
*WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The stalker is a monster, but a very sympathetic villain since you get to see their tragic decay of sanity through their journal. [[spoiler:They become even more sympathetic once it turns out they're a self-loathing ArmoredClosetGay]]
*{{Yandere}}: The writer of the journal is clearly a StalkerWithACrush on Brian. [[spoiler:It's set up to be Sam, but it's actually Kyle.]]
''Love, Sam'' is a short 2019 PsychologicalHorror game by independent developer Korean Linguistics Lab.
Gameplay-wise, it's a series of very well-choreographed scares in a tiny piece of a suburban household, like ''VideoGame/SilentHills''. Story-wise, it holds a plot rich with real horror and tragedy, told entirely through journal entries.
It takes place in a single bedroom, with the player character reading the diary of a teenager and their tragic decay into depression and insanity over a boy they have a crush on named Brian, or "B". Meanwhile, there's someone, or some''thing'' stalking them.
The characters include two couples: Sam and Brian (a CuteBookworm and a LovableJock), and Stacy and Kyle (an AlphaBitch and a JerkJock).
----
!!The game provides examples of:
*AcademicAthlete: Brian is a superstar athlete and a bookworm.
*AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Kyle's emotional confrontation with Sam ends with him accidentally scaring her off a cliff, which gets her killed.]]
*TheAce: Brian is perfect. It seems like everyone has a crush on him. [[spoiler:EvenTheGuysWantHim.]]
*AlphaBitch: Stacy, a bitchy cheerleader who dates jocks. [[spoiler:She even helps Kyle ruin Sam's life with "pranks".]]
*ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler:Kyle seems like a meatheaded stereotypical jock, but he's actually a psychological mess who hates himself for being gay.]]
*TheBeard: [[spoiler:Stacy is clearly just one of Kyle's many ways of repressing his sexuality.]]
*BigBad: The stalker. [[spoiler:Who isn't Sam, nor Stacy, but Kyle.]]
*BrokenAce: Brian is flawless, but only because society pressures him so. He's really torn up over his mom's recent death too.
*CameraFiend: The stalker keeps talking photographs of the player without their permission. [[spoiler:It's a combination of Kyle stalking Brian, and Sam's ghost stalking Kyle.]]
*TheCheerleader: Stacy. Sam, being a geek, hates her.
*CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Not only did Sam fall off a cliff, but she broke every bone in her body, including her neck, and slowly choked to death on her own blood.]]
*CuteBookworm: Sam seems like this at first. [[spoiler:And it turns out she actually is. Perfectly sane, too.]]
*DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:Kyle is a gay {{Yandere}}.]]
*DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Kyle ruins Sam's life, Stacy ruins Kyle's life, Kyle accidentally gives Sam a slow and brutal death, Kyle gives up on life. And this is all before the game even starts. So it's basically a DownerBeginning, Downer Middle, and DownerEnding. It's just a tragic fucking game, okay?]]
*DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Out of guilt and despair, Kyle tries this. But whether he goes through with it or not is up to the player.]]
*DumbJock: Sam expects Brian to be this, shocked at seeing a jock in a library. But he turns out to be an AcademicAthlete.
*EldritchAbomination: The supernatural entity stalking the player eventually devolves into an abstract mess.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Stacy eventually gets fed up with Kyle's obsessive hatred of Sam and snitches on him to Brian.]]
*{{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:Kyle frames his obsessive stalkings on Sam.]]
*GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Kyle is driven to stalking and murder over the jealousy of Sam and Brian's relationship.]]
*HellIsThatNoise: The ghost makes a creaky croaking noise exactly like Film/TheGrudge. [[spoiler:It's the last noise Sam made as she choked on her own blood.]]
*JerkJock: While Brian is a LovableJock, Kyle is definitely a {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:Especially when it turns out he's a murderous stalker.]]
*JumpScare: The game has a handful of well-timed ones.
*KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Kyle burns all of the evidence (i.e. the notes and journals) and has such little to live for that he doesn't really resist the flames himself.]]
*LovableJock: Sam expects to hate Brian for being a jock, but she eventually warms up to him for being a NiceGuy.
*LoveMakesYouEvil / LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler:Kyle ruins Sam's life and kills her for Brian.]]
*MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At first, it seems like a typical "haunted by a ghost girl" scenario, but it's likely more psychological and metaphorical than that.
*NothingIsScarier: Being a master of PsychologicalHorror, the game is full of this.
*OppositesAttract: Sam theorizes this is the reason a NiceGuy like Brian is best friends with a {{Jerkass}} like Kyle.
*OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:It's doubtful that Sam's ghost is really haunting Kyle. This ghost is just a metaphor for Kyle's insane guilt.]]
*RedHerring: [[spoiler:Sam's diary is a little emotional, but nothing out of the ordinary for a teenage girl. Kyle is the ''real'' psycho.]]
*TheReveal: [[spoiler:It's set up that the stalker's journal is written by Sam, but it's actually Kyle. It's a combination of Kyle framing Sam as a psycho, and his actual true feelings.]]
*RemovingTheRival: [[spoiler:Kyle tries removing Brian's girlfriend, Sam. First, he breaks them up through social manipulations. Then, after Brian finds out and "dumps" him, Kyle snaps and kills her. It's ambiguous whether or not it was on purpose.]]
*RoomFullOfCrazy: The bedroom eventually devolves into this, a visual metaphor of [[spoiler:Kyle's fracturing mind.]]
*SecretDiary: The whole focus. There's actually two, one written by Sam pre-breakup, another written by Sam post-breakup. [[spoiler:The latter is actually Kyle.]]
*SlasherSmile: The game is absolutely riddled with these. [[spoiler:It's because the smiles of the girls on the Greenhart University posters that took Brian away from him drove him insane.]]
*SpookyPhotographs: The game's main motif, because [[spoiler:Kyle took creepy pictures of Brian and used them to frame Sam as a stalker.]]
*SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Sam is bullied and treated like a freak for having a father who was convicted of molesting a teenager.]]
*StalkerWithACrush
*StringyHairedGhostGirl: [[spoiler:Sam.]]
*VengefulGhost: [[spoiler:It seems like Kyle is being haunted by Sam's ghost, for killing her. It's probably just a metaphor for his guilt though.]]
*VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Kyle is such a central character that he's also the BigBad.]]
*WalkingSpoiler: If you haven't noticed, literally the entire article is censored because of [[spoiler:Kyle.]]
*WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The stalker is a monster, but a very sympathetic villain since you get to see their tragic decay of sanity through their journal. [[spoiler:They become even more sympathetic once it turns out they're a self-loathing ArmoredClosetGay]]
*{{Yandere}}: The writer of the journal is clearly a StalkerWithACrush on Brian. [[spoiler:It's set up to be Sam, but it's actually Kyle.]]
