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* CollateralAngst: Or rather, [[spoiler: stuffed in the green box]]. Throughout the game, [[spoiler: Kathryn]] is a flat character with no dialogue. She only exists so her death can drive Jack's melancholy and lonely outlook on life.

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* CollateralAngst: Or rather, [[spoiler: stuffed in the green box]]. Throughout the game, [[spoiler: Kathryn]] is a flat character with no dialogue. She only exists so her death can drive Jack's melancholy and lonely outlook on life.



%%* LastOfHisKind: The main character believes himself to be the last remaining human. [[spoiler:He isn't.]]

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%%* * LastOfHisKind: The main character believes himself to be the last remaining human. [[spoiler:He isn't.isn't, as shown by the depiction of other people in the psych ward that he is in.]]



%%* RealityWarper: The main character. [[spoiler:At least, he thinks so.]]

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%%* * RealityWarper: The main character. character, who can create copies of himself to repeat his past actions. [[spoiler:At least, he thinks so.so - he's incapable of doing so in reality.]]



* POVSequel: While in the previous game Kathryn was a flat character [[spoiler:whose death drives the narrator's angst]], here she is the protagonist and she has much more depth.



* StuffedInTheFridge: Averted. While in the previous game Kathryn was a flat character [[spoiler: whose death drives the narrator's angst]], here she is the protagonist and she has much more depth.

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* BastardBoyfriend: Thomas. Penelope puts up with it [[spoiler:until Kathryn tricks him into badmouthing Henry as he did before so that Penelope hears it]].


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* DomesticAbuser: Thomas. Penelope puts up with it [[spoiler:until Kathryn tricks him into badmouthing Henry as he did before so that Penelope hears it]].
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* MediumAwareness: (''It bewilders me to think that I would be dictating my life story to a Wiki/TVTropes editor, so that he may create an article for a game which I am in.'')

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* MediumAwareness: (''It bewilders me to think that I would be dictating my life story to a Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes editor, so that he may create an article for a game which I am in.'')
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%%* NiceHat
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* DarkReprise: Jack's theme from The Company of Myself is a bit of a motif in the background music when you meet him and in the very last level, [[spoiler: which may be a DarkReprise itself.]]

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* DarkReprise: Jack's theme from The Company of Myself is a bit of a motif in the background music BackgroundMusic when you meet him and in the very last level, [[spoiler: which may be a DarkReprise itself.]]

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*CollateralAngst: Or rather, [[spoiler: stuffed in the green box]]. Throughout the game, [[spoiler: Kathryn]] is a flat character with no dialogue. She only exists so her death can drive Jack's melancholy and lonely outlook on life.



* StuffedInTheFridge: Or rather, [[spoiler: stuffed in the green box]]. Throughout the game, [[spoiler: Kathryn]] is a flat character with no dialogue. She only exists so her death can drive Jack's melancholy and lonely outlook on life. However, the prequel averts this, see below.

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''If you have a minute, I'd like to tell you a bit about myself....''

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* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits
* LastOfHisKind: The main character believes himself to be the last remaining human. [[spoiler:He isn't.]]

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* %%* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits
* %%* LastOfHisKind: The main character believes himself to be the last remaining human. [[spoiler:He isn't.]]



* [[spoiler:MentalWorld]]
* MindScrew: [[spoiler:The ending.]]
* NiceHat
** FridgeBrilliance: According to Fixation, Jack used to be a magician.
* PurpleProse: More so than in other games, too. Even the ''preloader'' and ''volume control'' are eloquent in their message!
* RealityWarper: The main character. [[spoiler:At least, he thinks so.]]

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* [[spoiler:MentalWorld]]
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MindScrew: [[spoiler:The ending.]]
* %%* NiceHat
** FridgeBrilliance: According to Fixation, Jack used to be a magician.
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%%* PurpleProse: More so than in other games, too. Even the ''preloader'' and ''volume control'' are eloquent in their message!
* %%* RealityWarper: The main character. [[spoiler:At least, he thinks so.]]



* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: The level where Jack loses his lover.
** YMMV, of course. If you didn't see the result of that level coming before [[spoiler:Jack reaches the black switch,]] it can quickly turn into an "[[PlayerPunch Oh,]] ''[[OhCrap shit.]]''" moment.
** Even then, it's foreshadowed. [[spoiler:Kathryn can jump on top of Jack, but Jack can't jump on top of Kathryn. This seeming glitch doesn't make sense until the final flashback level, where Kathryn is the only one who can reach the black switch in the first place. You don't have a choice.]]
*** [[spoiler:Kathryn doesn't have a hat. There's nowhere to stand.]]

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* %%* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: The level where Jack loses his lover.
** YMMV, of course. If you didn't see the result of that level coming before [[spoiler:Jack reaches the black switch,]] it can quickly turn into an "[[PlayerPunch Oh,]] ''[[OhCrap shit.]]''" moment.
** Even then, it's foreshadowed. [[spoiler:Kathryn can jump on top of Jack, but Jack can't jump on top of Kathryn. This seeming glitch doesn't make sense until the final flashback level, where Kathryn is the only one who can reach the black switch in the first place. You don't have a choice.]]
*** [[spoiler:Kathryn doesn't have a hat. There's nowhere to stand.]]
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* [[spoiler:TheLostLenore]]

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* [[spoiler:TheLostLenore]]%%* TheLostLenore



* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Jack isn't an actual hermit. He's in the crazy bin.]]

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* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Jack Jack isn't [[spoiler: an actual hermit. He's in the crazy bin.]]

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''The Company of Myself'' tells the story of a hermit who lives in a green, grass-filled world. He is the only human left for unexplained reasons, but there was once also a woman whom the main character loved. The objective of the game is obviously to reach the goal point, but unlike other platformers, the character achieves this by duplicating his very actions with the simple act of pressing the spacebar. Thus, he can create a doppelganger that will assist him with his adventures. [[NintendoHard He will be needing them later in the game]].

The Website/{{Newgrounds}} version can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518729 here]]. There is also a prequel, called ''[[http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/03/fixation.php Fixation]]'', which focuses on a different character, but the hermit plays a significant role.

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''The Company of Myself'' is a 2009 PuzzlePlatformer made in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, which tells the story of a hermit who lives in a green, grass-filled world. He is the only human left for unexplained reasons, but there was once also a woman whom the main character loved. The objective of the game is obviously to reach the goal point, but unlike other platformers, the character achieves this by duplicating his very actions with the simple act of pressing the spacebar. Thus, he can create a doppelganger that will assist him with his adventures. [[NintendoHard He will be needing them later in the game]].

The Website/{{Newgrounds}} version can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518729 here]]. There is also a 2012 prequel, called ''[[http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/03/fixation.php Fixation]]'', which focuses on a different character, but the hermit plays a significant role.

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* StuffedInTheFridge: Or rather, [[spoiler: stuffed in the green box]]. Throughout the game, [[spoiler: Kathryn]] is a flat character with no dialogue. She only exists so her death can drive Jack's melancholy and lonely outlook on life. However, the prequel averts this, see below.


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* StuffedInTheFridge: Averted. While in the previous game Kathryn was a flat character [[spoiler: whose death drives the narrator's angst]], here she is the protagonist and she has much more depth.
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* SequelEscalation: The story is much more in-depth now.

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* SequelEscalation: The story is much more in-depth now. While The Company of Myself had a very minimalistic narrative that left a lot of things ambiguous [[spoiler: thanks in part to an extreme case of UnreliableNarrator]], Fixation expands massively upon the world and the characters. Kathryn is no longer a flat character and is now a full fledged protagonist with her own conflicts, Jack's life is shown in much more detail (in TCOM he describes himself as an entertainer of some sort. Here, it is confirmed that he was an aspiring stage magician), and there are now more characters, and all of them have names and dialogue.
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* AddictionPowered: Kathryn's smoking habit ties into the gameplay. Several puzzles require you to use your cigarette smoke to solve them. This is highly symbolic of real-life addiction, too: At one point Kathryn laments how other people don't need to burn through several packs to go through life's obstacles like she does.
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A sequel (or [[MindScrew possibly]] prequel, since [[spoiler:Henry dies before the end of the existing prequel]]) is planned. It will be called Grief and [[spoiler:since Jack's story has been already told we move on to his psychologist's story. Henry the arguably incompetent psychologist will learn he is dying. We will be able to play as Henry as he goes through the 5 Stages of [[TitleDrop Grief.]] The game will feature the characters Henry, Henry's doctor, Henry's daughter, and the Grim Reaper.]]
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--> [[spoiler:Jack: I'll take... this left path. The path to the right leads home.]]

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--> [[spoiler:Jack: [[spoiler:'''Jack:''' I'll take... this left path. The path to the right leads home.]]
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* MediumAwareness: (''It bewilders me to think that I would be dictating my life story to a TVTropes editor, so that he may create an article for a game which I am in.'')

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* MediumAwareness: (''It bewilders me to think that I would be dictating my life story to a TVTropes Wiki/TVTropes editor, so that he may create an article for a game which I am in.'')
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'''''The Company of Myself''''' tells the story of a hermit who lives in a green, grass-filled world. He is the only human left for unexplained reasons, but there was once also a woman whom the main character loved. The objective of the game is obviously to reach the goal point, but unlike other platformers, the character achieves this by duplicating his very actions with the simple act of pressing the spacebar. Thus, he can create a doppelganger that will assist him with his adventures. [[NintendoHard He will be needing them later in the game]].

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'''''The ''The Company of Myself''''' Myself'' tells the story of a hermit who lives in a green, grass-filled world. He is the only human left for unexplained reasons, but there was once also a woman whom the main character loved. The objective of the game is obviously to reach the goal point, but unlike other platformers, the character achieves this by duplicating his very actions with the simple act of pressing the spacebar. Thus, he can create a doppelganger that will assist him with his adventures. [[NintendoHard He will be needing them later in the game]].
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The main underlying struggle for Kathryn is trying to kick her smoking habit. See MalevolentArchitecture above.

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''The Company of Myself'' tells the story of a hermit who lives in a green, grass-filled world. He is the only human left for unexplained reasons, but there was once also a woman whom the main character loved. The objective of the game is obviously to reach the goal point, but unlike other platformers, the character achieves this by duplicating his very actions with the simple act of pressing the spacebar. Thus, he can create a doppelganger that will assist him with his adventures. [[NintendoHard He will be needing them later in the game]].

The {{Newgrounds}} version can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518729 here]]. There is also a prequel, called ''[[http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/03/fixation.php Fixation]]'', which focuses on a different character, but the hermit plays a significant role.

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''The '''''The Company of Myself'' Myself''''' tells the story of a hermit who lives in a green, grass-filled world. He is the only human left for unexplained reasons, but there was once also a woman whom the main character loved. The objective of the game is obviously to reach the goal point, but unlike other platformers, the character achieves this by duplicating his very actions with the simple act of pressing the spacebar. Thus, he can create a doppelganger that will assist him with his adventures. [[NintendoHard He will be needing them later in the game]].

The {{Newgrounds}} Website/{{Newgrounds}} version can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518729 here]]. There is also a prequel, called ''[[http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/03/fixation.php Fixation]]'', which focuses on a different character, but the hermit plays a significant role.



--> '''Penelope''': [[spoiler: Henry's dead.]]

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--> '''Penelope''': [[spoiler: Henry's dead.]]]]

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The {{Newgrounds}} version can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518729 here]].

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The {{Newgrounds}} version can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518729 here]].
here]]. There is also a prequel, called ''[[http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/03/fixation.php Fixation]]'', which focuses on a different character, but the hermit plays a significant role.




There is also a prequel, called [[http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/03/fixation.php Fixation]]. It focuses on Kathryn.



!I am aware of the tropes that populate this online game, so I wish to list them below:

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!I !!I am aware of the tropes that populate this online game, so I wish to list them below:



* BastardBoyfriend- Thomas. Penelope puts up with it [[spoiler:until Kathryn tricks him into badmouthing Henry as he did before so that Penelope hears it]].

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* BastardBoyfriend- BastardBoyfriend: Thomas. Penelope puts up with it [[spoiler:until Kathryn tricks him into badmouthing Henry as he did before so that Penelope hears it]].



* EscortMission- In some levels, the main character must get her companion to various levers she cannot pull.

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* EscortMission- EscortMission: In some levels, the main character must get her companion to various levers she cannot pull.



* MalevolentArchitecture- There are no smoking zones in caves and swamps, and deadly lasers in houses. Apparently, they only appear for the main character to represent her struggles.
* NostalgiaLevel: The final level of Fixation is also one of the last levels (but [[{{Prequel}} chronologically]] [[FlashBack the first]]) of The Company of Myself.
* SequelEscalation- The story is much more in-depth now.
* ThereAreNoTherapists- There is, but [[spoiler:when he dies, there is nobody else.]]

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* MalevolentArchitecture- MalevolentArchitecture: There are no smoking zones in caves and swamps, and deadly lasers in houses. Apparently, they only appear for the main character to represent her struggles.
* NostalgiaLevel: The final level of Fixation is also one of the last levels (but [[{{Prequel}} chronologically]] [[FlashBack the first]]) of The ''The Company of Myself.
Myself''.
* SequelEscalation- SequelEscalation: The story is much more in-depth now.
* ThereAreNoTherapists- ThereAreNoTherapists: There is, but [[spoiler:when he dies, there is nobody else.]]
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* Leitmotif:

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* Leitmotif:{{Leitmotif}}:
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jack talks about "jumping around like a crazy person" in one of the early levels, before we learn [[spoiler:he is in a psychiatric ward]].
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* Leitmotif:
** As mentioned above, musical elements of Jack's eponymous theme from the previous game return in the song "To Adumbrate."
** Though much more subtle about it, "Citalopram," the BGM for the Meadow, has traces of Kathryn's eponymous theme from ''The Company of Myself''
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* MediumAwareness (''It bewilders me to think that I would be dictating my life story to a TVTropes editor, so that he may create an article for a game which I am in.'')

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* MediumAwareness MediumAwareness: (''It bewilders me to think that I would be dictating my life story to a TVTropes editor, so that he may create an article for a game which I am in.'')
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* MalevolentArchitecture- There are no smoking zones in caves and swamps, and deadly lasers in houses. Apparantly, they only appear for the main character to represent her struggles.

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* MalevolentArchitecture- There are no smoking zones in caves and swamps, and deadly lasers in houses. Apparantly, Apparently, they only appear for the main character to represent her struggles.
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''If you have a minute, I'd like to tell you a bit about myself....''

''The Company of Myself'' tells the story of a hermit who lives in a green, grass-filled world. He is the only human left for unexplained reasons, but there was once also a woman whom the main character loved. The objective of the game is obviously to reach the goal point, but unlike other platformers, the character achieves this by duplicating his very actions with the simple act of pressing the spacebar. Thus, he can create a doppelganger that will assist him with his adventures. [[NintendoHard He will be needing them later in the game]].

The {{Newgrounds}} version can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518729 here]].

A sequel (or [[MindScrew possibly]] prequel, since [[spoiler:Henry dies before the end of the existing prequel]]) is planned. It will be called Grief and [[spoiler:since Jack's story has been already told we move on to his psychologist's story. Henry the arguably incompetent psychologist will learn he is dying. We will be able to play as Henry as he goes through the 5 Stages of [[TitleDrop Grief.]] The game will feature the characters Henry, Henry's doctor, Henry's daughter, and the Grim Reaper.]]

There is also a prequel, called [[http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/03/fixation.php Fixation]]. It focuses on Kathryn.
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!I am aware of the tropes that populate this online game, so I wish to list them below:
* BottomlessPits: At least you have infinite "lives".
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Turns out, the protagonist, Jack, lost his will to socialize [[strike:with the death of]] after killing his lover Kathryn, and became a ''mental'' hermit. We are encountering the last possible attempt by a professional psychologist to reach out to him, which like always is [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption doomed to failure.]]]]
* FaceOfAThug: The main character of the first game is said to have it by the main character of the second.
* {{Flashback}}: To when the hero and his LoveInterest [[spoiler:in real life]] were once together. Includes intentionally coarse-grained [[FlashbackEffects video effects]].
* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits
* LastOfHisKind: The main character believes himself to be the last remaining human. [[spoiler:He isn't.]]
* LoveHurts: And how.
* MediumAwareness (''It bewilders me to think that I would be dictating my life story to a TVTropes editor, so that he may create an article for a game which I am in.'')
* [[spoiler:MentalWorld]]
* MindScrew: [[spoiler:The ending.]]
* NiceHat
** FridgeBrilliance: According to Fixation, Jack used to be a magician.
* PurpleProse: More so than in other games, too. Even the ''preloader'' and ''volume control'' are eloquent in their message!
* RealityWarper: The main character. [[spoiler:At least, he thinks so.]]
* TheStinger: "[[spoiler:[[TearJerker The shrink leaves, and suddenly I don't even have a person to tell my story to anymore.]]]]"
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: The level where Jack loses his lover.
** YMMV, of course. If you didn't see the result of that level coming before [[spoiler:Jack reaches the black switch,]] it can quickly turn into an "[[PlayerPunch Oh,]] ''[[OhCrap shit.]]''" moment.
** Even then, it's foreshadowed. [[spoiler:Kathryn can jump on top of Jack, but Jack can't jump on top of Kathryn. This seeming glitch doesn't make sense until the final flashback level, where Kathryn is the only one who can reach the black switch in the first place. You don't have a choice.]]
*** [[spoiler:Kathryn doesn't have a hat. There's nowhere to stand.]]
* [[spoiler:TheLostLenore]]
* TitleDrop: "I used to find joy in the company of others. Now, I have only the company of myself."
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Jack isn't an actual hermit. He's in the crazy bin.]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: A mild variation; instead of creating duplicates, you have a partner to help you, who must also come with you for all but one of the flashback levels.
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* ArtEvolution: The characters have their own proportions now.
* BastardBoyfriend- Thomas. Penelope puts up with it [[spoiler:until Kathryn tricks him into badmouthing Henry as he did before so that Penelope hears it]].
* DarkReprise: Jack's theme from The Company of Myself is a bit of a motif in the background music when you meet him and in the very last level, [[spoiler: which may be a DarkReprise itself.]]
* EscortMission- In some levels, the main character must get her companion to various levers she cannot pull.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: Fixation ends with Jack ([[{{MindScrew}} probably]]) killing Kathryn.]]
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: In the last level of Fixation.
--> [[spoiler:Jack: I'll take... this left path. The path to the right leads home.]]
* MalevolentArchitecture- There are no smoking zones in caves and swamps, and deadly lasers in houses. Apparantly, they only appear for the main character to represent her struggles.
* NostalgiaLevel: The final level of Fixation is also one of the last levels (but [[{{Prequel}} chronologically]] [[FlashBack the first]]) of The Company of Myself.
* SequelEscalation- The story is much more in-depth now.
* ThereAreNoTherapists- There is, but [[spoiler:when he dies, there is nobody else.]]
* WhamLine: The music even stops when the line is said:
--> '''Penelope''': [[spoiler: Henry's dead.]]

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