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* CanadaEh: The entire series is almost ''aggressively'' Canadian, due to the creator being sick of people [[spoiler: thinking his series were set in America]].
* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan:
** Hockey jerseys, ice rinks, and All-Star Games in the background of scenes are often little easter eggs that most non-Canadians miss. The creator put this in despite hating hockey himself.
* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan:
** Hockey jerseys, ice rinks, and All-Star Games in the background of scenes are often little easter eggs that most non-Canadians miss. The creator put this in despite hating hockey himself.
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* CanadaEh: The entire series is almost ''aggressively'' Canadian, due to the creator being sick of people [[spoiler: thinking his series were set in America]].
* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan:
**CanadianEqualsHockeyFan: Hockey jerseys, ice rinks, and All-Star Games in the background of scenes are often little easter eggs that most non-Canadians miss. The creator put this in despite hating hockey himself.
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** Jas is nonbinary and uses 'they/them' pronouns.
** Fiona isn't out of the closet as a transguy, but [[OneOfTheBoys is referred to as a guy anyways.]]
** Jas is nonbinary and uses 'they/them' pronouns.
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->'''Zara:''' Are... Are we all...
->'''Scotty:''' Gay as hell?
''Openness'' is a dramedy machinima series created using ''Videogame/{{The Sims 2}}''. First uploaded on October 9th, 2015 by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SnapshotOfASoul/featured SnapshotOfASoul]], the series follows a group of Canadian high school students across the LGBTQ+ spectrum and their surrounding community. Each episode is around 45-60 minutes long, and while there's no set schedule, they're usually released once a month. The first episode can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlU3aCgIEoo here]]. The series has a heavy focus on varying experiences with religion, sexuality, and intercommunity politics.
The series has seen praise within the sims machinima community for its entertaining representation of multiple sexualities and genders. ''Openness'' has characters identifying as the following; straight, gay, pansexual, asexual, aromantic, bisexual, transgender, cis, and non-binary.
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!!''Openness'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: A couple of examples:
** Fiona's father is physically, verbally and emotionally abusive.
** Berrie's mother is verbally abusive.
** Zara's mother is implied to have been abusive, or at least neglectful towards her eldest daughter.
** Though not his direct parent, Joseph can be construed as abusive to Erick.
* AdoptionDiss: Nikki to Emma, and Emma right back at Nikki. They're ''both'' adopted.
* AdultsAreUseless: The school's temporary guidance counsellor tells Jas they should try to act like everyone else and avoid expressing themself to fit in and avoid getting harassed.
%%* AgentPeacock: Virgil.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Jas is this in the group, but seeing as they're aro-ace, they don't mind the role.
%%* AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler: Cal]].
%%* AmbiguousGender: Jas.
%%* ApatheticTeacher:
%%** Ms Westcott.
%%** Principal Daas, on occasion.
* ApologisesALot: Zara often internalises that she's fucked up and has to apologise.
%%** Fiona and her mother Esther.
%%** Cal does this a few times.
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Fiona]]'s family is forcing him to be with [[spoiler: Erick]], and is told the only way he can see his friends is if [[spoiler: he formally accepts Erick's proposal]].
* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: The main religious group is called the Traditionalists, and takes heavily from the director's own upbringing.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Joseph often quotes the Bible to support his own views.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Cal]] sees himself as this, having turned his attitude around after [[spoiler: his parents almost died in a car accident that left his mother disabled physically]].
* BathSuicide: [[spoiler: Fiona]] attempts one of these at the end of episode seven.
%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Cal.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Virgil is a novelist who writes stories about Bigfoot on a [[TheAllegedComputer very old computer]].
* BeYourself:
** This can be construed as the main message of the series.
** Jas tries to embody this message, even when other people tell them to do the exact opposite.
** Virgil towards Zara, because Zara doesn't think she's cool enough for her new-found friends.
* BeneathTheMask:
** Zara. She has depression and anxiety, yet always tries to put on a happy face around her friends out of fear they'll hate her if she doesn't.
** Fiona. Often very quiet about his struggles to the point [[spoiler: nobody knew he was trans except for Jas for ''months'']].
** Berrie often puts up an air of perfection when really she's constantly tired, verbally abused at home, and has her identity denied by her parents.
* BerserkButton:
** Berrie's mother has one of these when Berrie doesn't let her get her way.
** Joseph, when his religious beliefs are challenged in any way, shape, or form.
** Cal whenever Erick is even ''mentioned.''
** Fiona, when being told [[spoiler: that Erick wants her to have his children]].
** Scotty, around Erick.
** Everybody pretty much just hates Erick.
%%* BloodAndNerdy: Berrie.
* BloodIsSquickerInWater: At the end of episode seven, [[spoiler: Fiona]] is shown to be attempting suicide in the bath. The bathwater slowly turns red...
%%* BumblingDad: Virgil.
%%* CampGay:
%%** Jas.
%%** Scotty, on occasion.
%%** Adam's friends.
* CanadaEh: The entire series is almost ''aggressively'' Canadian, due to the creator being sick of people [[spoiler: thinking his series were set in America]].
* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan:
** Hockey jerseys, ice rinks, and All-Star Games in the background of scenes are often little easter eggs that most non-Canadians miss. The creator put this in despite hating hockey himself.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Jas constantly gets in trouble over anything and everything.
%%* CastFullOfGay
%%* ChewToy
%%** Fiona.
%%** Jas.
%%** Scotty.
* ChildHater
** Erick, but only towards his half-sister, because [[spoiler: she's mixed]].
** Fiona isn't too fond of children due to inexperience and fear, but [[WouldntHurtAChild would never harm one]].
* ChocolateBaby
** Scotty looks nothing like his paternal grandmother.
** Adam's younger half-sister is black.
** Emma presumes she was abandoned because of this trope.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The main characters' names are coloured in using the flags of their respective identities in the opening.
** Pansexual flag for Zara and Emma.
** Asexual flag for Jas.
** Straight flag for Cal.
** Gay flag for Berrie.
** Gay ''and'' bisexual flag for Scotty.
** Transgender flag for Fiona.
%%* ComingOfAgeStory
* ComingOutStory: Most of the characters are open about their identities. [[spoiler: Fiona]], however, waits months to tell more than one person about being trans.
%%* CoolOldLady: Nana Hat.
* CrisisOfFaith
** Adam has one of these due to being both Catholic and gay.
** Cal was raised Christian but lost his faith due to [[spoiler: his parents being in a car accident]].
** Emma wonders aloud if the universe is out to get her.
%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Scotty.
* CultureClash
** The Traditionalists lead life to a completely different set of morals and views than the rest of the town.
** Zara grew up on a socially isolated goat farm and is completely baffled by half the things that people do.
** What may be normal to the creator (for example, abortion being considered a valid choice or Jas' character as a whole) may confuse viewers from more conservative countries or areas.
%%* DaddysGirl: Zara.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%** Emma.
%%** Berrie, occasionally.
%%** Ms Westcott.
%%** Jas.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable
** Richie's dog, Danger. In reality he's an elderly 15-year-old pitbull who mostly sleeps and wants to be pet.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Adam about his [[spoiler: father, who committed suicide]].
%%* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife
%%** Emma.
%%** Fiona.
%%** Berrie.
** Erick is implied to have felt this before falling in with Joseph.
%%* DoesNotLikeMen: Berrie.
* DomesticAbuse:
** Joseph towards his wife and daughter.
** Berrie's mother towards her daughters.
** Erick towards Fiona and his brother, Adam.
** Erick often implies he'd neglect his infant half-sister [[spoiler: on the grounds of her being mixed]].
** [[spoiler: It's implied Zara's mother was fairly emotionally and physically abusive at times, as well as icing her ex-husband out.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Esther was implied to have attempted suicide before, at the start of episode seven.
** [[spoiler: Fiona]] tries to kill himself at the end of episode seven.
** Cal almost ended his life before the series started.
** Zara, too.
%%* EatingLunchAlone: Zara.
%%* EntitledBastard: Erick and Joseph.
* EvilFeelsGood: Erick wrestles with this.
%%* EvilMentor: Joseph to Erick.
* FamilyBusiness:
** Nana Hat runs a bakery and wants Scotty to take the helm one day.
** Joseph runs a church and wishes for Erick and Fiona to take it over when he gets older.
%%* FollowInMyFootsteps:
%%** Joseph to Erick.
%%** Nana Hat to Scotty.
%%** Berrie's mother to Berrie.
* ForbiddenFruit: Fiona's friends are this. They represent everything that his father hates and forbids.
* FreeRangeChildren: Because it's a small town, most of the cast is free to roam about without much worry. Lampshaded when Greg spots [[spoiler: Scotty]] getting [[spoiler: beaten up in an alley]].
* FreakyFashionMildMind
** Zara dresses in wild, out-of-date attire but is actually fairly normal and self-aware.
** Emma dresses like it's Halloween every day but is very kindhearted.
** Most of the Traditionalists are the inverse of this. They have extremely conservative, old-fashioned, "family values" clothing, but most of them are pure evil.
* FriendToAllChildren
** Cal, due to having to be the parent to his younger siblings.
** Jas, also due to an overload of younger siblings.
** Adam, who takes care of his sister with a reverence unseen in most teenaged boys.
* FriendToAllLivingThings
** Virgil has seven cats.
** Zara was raised on a goat farm and is implied to be incredibly good with animals.
** Scotty, to the point of wanting to cat-nap one of Virgil's kitties.
%%* FriendlessBackground
%%** Zara.
%%** Cal.
%%** Fiona.
%%* TheFundamentalist: Joseph and Erick.
%%* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Emma and Nikki.
* GenderInvertedTrope
** Scotty and Cal often engage in stereotypically feminine pursuits like painting their nails and having sleepovers.
** Scotty is a baker.
** Nana Hat can't cook.
** Virgil is a single dad, against his will, due to spousal abandonment.
** Cal is dependent on his girlfriend, Emma, instead of the other way around.
** Adam is the caretaker of his younger sister and loves her more than anything, ever.
** Berrie's mother is the overbearing and abusive one, whereas her father just serves as backup to her plans and ambitions.
* GenderNeutralWriting
** Jas is nonbinary and uses 'they/them' pronouns.
** Fiona isn't out of the closet as a transguy, but [[OneOfTheBoys is referred to as a guy anyways.]]
%%* GoodParents
%%** Emma's mothers are this.
%%** Zara's dad, Virgil.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Berrie wears a lot of purple and is also very rich.
%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold:
%%** Zara.
%%** Cal.
* HappilyAdopted:
** Scotty's paternal grandmother adopted him to avoid him [[spoiler: ending up in a Malaysian orphanage.]]
** Emma and Nikki love their mothers and were both adopted as infants.
%%* HappilyMarried:
%%** Cal's parents.
%%** Emma's mothers.
%%** Jas' parents.
* HarmfulToMinors: A few examples:
** Joseph's abusive behaviour around Ezra exposes him to violence he shouldn't have to see.
** Cal's little sister Siobhan is being bullied.
** Cal had to deal with breaking the news to his two sisters [[spoiler: that their parents were nearly killed in a car crash]].
* HasTwoMommies: Emma.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay:
** Berrie, to her parents.
** Emma, reminding people she's ''still'' pansexual, despite dating a guy.
** Jas, reminding everyone they're ace.
* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday:
** Berrie, describing sex with Zara to Jas.
** Scotty is ''constantly'' teased for his flings on Grindr.
%%* HeteronormativeCrusader:
%%** Joseph.
%%** Erick.
%%** Berrie's parents.
%%* HouseHusband
%%** Berrie's dad, apparently.
%%** Virgil.
%%* {{Housewife}}
%%** Fiona's Mother.
%%** Cal's mother.
* IAmWhatIAm:
** Jas and their family accepts their nonbinary identity wholesale.
** Cal somewhat accepts that he has [[{{Polyamory}} more love to give than he can contain with one person.]]
** Berrie seems to accept herself, [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent even if her parents don't.]]
** Weed Guy Greg is pretty lax about the person he's become.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Berrie's mother to Hannah [[spoiler: after she had Thomas as a teenager]].
** Implied to have happened between Zara's mother, towards her daughter and ex-husband.
** Implied this will happen to Fiona if he [[spoiler: comes out as transgender]].
** In an inversion of this trope, Erick's mother, brother, and stepfather [[WhereDidWeGoWrong actually do care about him and refuse to disown him.]]
%%* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Zara.
* InherentlyFunnyWord: Jas towards Broden Lemmings telling them his name.
%%* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide
%%** Scotty and Cal.
%%** Virgil.
%%* IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable: Berrie towards Zara.
* LightIsNotGood: More symbolic than overt. Dark, cluttered, browner places are homey and generally happy to be in, whereas cleaner, lighter places are often toxic environments rife with abuse.
%%* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Emma and Scotty are this to Cal.
* LipstickLesbian: Berrie and Nikki fall into this.
%%* LoserHasYourBack: Scotty.
%%* LoserProtagonist: Zara.
* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Inverted. Nana Hat seems well aware of what Scotty and Cal are up to.
* MandatoryMotherhood
** [[spoiler: Emma]] feels that the universe is forcing her to have her child in exchange for [[spoiler: giving her birth control to Fiona]].
** Esther was implied to have been forced into having Fiona and Ezra.
%%** Erick wants to get Fiona pregnant.
** Most of the Traditionalist women are forced into this by their husbands.
* MissingMom: Zara's mother abandoned them for a new husband and family, suddenly and without warning.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: Joseph.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: It's not entirely clear how many siblings Jas really has. Just that there's a lot of them.
* MayDecemberRomance: Joseph is 18 years older than Esther.
%%* MosesInTheBulrushes: [[spoiler: Emma]] was abandoned as an infant and adopted by her mothers.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong:
** Erick towards Joseph, with an emphasis on "right."
** To some extent, Esther towards Joseph, with an emphasis on "wrong."
%%* NeverMyFault: Erick fully believes he's in the right.
%%* NewTransferStudent: Zara moved to Arbutus Falls from a rural, isolated goat farm.
%%* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Emma. She often tries to do the right thing but ends up failing miserably.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Scotty beats [[spoiler: Erick]] into unconsciousness after he implies [[spoiler: he will be marrying Fiona]].
* NoSocialSkills
** Zara, due to growing up fairly isolated on a goat farm.
** Adam, due to [[spoiler: his ADHD]].
%%* NotGoodWithPeople: Zara.
* NWordPrivileges: The cast can say the word "queer" around each other without it being insulting.
* OnlySaneMan: Jas feels like this on occasion.
* OpenMindedParent: Virgil, Zara's dad, is supportive of his daughter in every single way.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Emma was abandoned at the hospital as an infant just after her birth.
%%** Zara's mother.
* PassFail
** The temporary guidance counsellor tries to give tips on how Jas can pass as 'normal' more.
** Berrie's mother desperately wants people to forget her family is black.
** Fiona is a [[{UsefulNotes/{Transgender}} trans guy]] who is being forced into [[StayInTheKitchen traditional]] [[WomenAreDelicate gender roles.]]
** Scotty is half-Malaysian. His name doesn't give it away at first.
* PersecutionFlip: Scotty seems to think this, referring to cishet people as "breeders". He may have just been teasing, though.
* PetTheDog: Erick used to go fishing with his [[spoiler: black]] stepfather.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Fiona's room was designed with pink as the predominant colour.
* PlayedForLaughs
** Scotty's cake being destroyed by a sudden snow.
** Zara knowing next to nothing about other cultures. Or, you know, her own.
** Adam's crush on Scotty can be seen as this.
** Scotty's phone being stolen and locked out for the weekend.
%%* PluckyComicRelief:
%%** Scotty gets the physical comedy end of things, falling asleep in odd places.
%%** Jas often gets the brunt of the sassy lines.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Joseph and Erick are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and generally just shitty people.
* PreachersKid: Fiona and his younger brother Ezra.
* PromotionToParent: Cal is a surrogate parent to his younger siblings [[spoiler: due to his parents being injured in a car crash]].
* ProperLady: Berrie's mother pressures her daughter into this.
* QuirkyTown: Arbutus Falls is this to some extent, housing everyone from Bigfoot novelists to lesbian police officers.
%%* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Erick rapes Fiona, and Fiona's father, Joseph, rapes her mother, Esther.
%%* RealMenWearPink
%%** Scotty has no problem showing his feminine side.
%%** Adam is shown having no problem wearing pink.
%%** Virgil is just a Mild Child at heart and loves cats, pink, and baking pies.
* RelationshipReveal: Berrie tries to reveal her relationship with Zara. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well.]]
* RunningGag
** Scotty and his Snickers bars. The boy will do anything to get his hands on some chocolate.
** Grindr is consistently the butt of many jokes - in one case, a literal butt is used. The principal himself is implied as having a public Grindr profile for all to see.
** Cal being ''increasingly'' done by Scotty's gay implications.
** Virgil often wears cat-themed attire and adopted seven cats [[spoiler: due to his wife leaving him]].
** Ms Westcott going to "the copy room" [[spoiler: to make out with the principal]].
** Jas eating other people's food without permission.
** Scotty's large stomach is often the butt of pregnancy jokes.
** "The Lesbian Cause" is a common joke and phrase used to jokingly spur other characters into action.
** The fact that they're the most hated group of people in the entire school is a joke in and of itself. Random insults are often flung.
** Most of the group is not very athletic. Except [[LesbianJock for]] [[AcademicAthlete Berrie]].
** Jas is [[PlotAllergy allergic]] to sports, fake jewellery, moss, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the colour taupe.]]
* Main/{{The Reliable One}}:
** Scotty. He never sleeps, so he's always there for his friends.
** Cal tries to be this for his family and loved ones.
* ScrewDestiny:
** [[spoiler: Emma]] absolutely refused to let Fiona get pregnant and [[spoiler: gave Fiona her birth control to prevent this from happening]].
** Zara, to Emma, after Emma [[spoiler: describes how she feels railroaded into having Cal's child by destiny]].
** Berrie is pressured into getting a [[MightyWhitey nice, white]] [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan husband]] and an entry to a [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague prestigious university]] but mostly she just wants to be happy.
%%* SheCleansUpNicely: Zara in Episode Two.
%%* ShowerOfAngst: Scotty, Zara, and Fiona in episode three.
%%* ShrinkingViolet: Fiona.
%%* SinisterMinister: Joseph.
* StayInTheKitchen:
** Joseph towards his wife.
** Cal embodies a lighter, less sexist version of this in his desire of a life with Emma.
* StepfordSmiler:
%%** Esther.
%%** Fiona.
** Berrie's family tries desperately to put up the ruse of being a normal, happy family.
%%* StraightGay:
%%** Cal, who is [[spoiler: ambiguously bi]].
%%** Weed Guy Greg.
* StopBeingStereotypical:
** Broden Lemmings and his friends, to Jas.
** Jas, to Scotty, despite it being affectionate.
** Berrie's mother to her two daughters [[spoiler: because her first daughter was a teenaged mother and her second refuses to relax her hair]].
** Cal's mother, despite being heavily religious, has a strong distaste for [[TheFundamentalist the Traditionalists]].
* TakeCareOfTheKids: Scotty and Cal after [[spoiler: Cal's parents were nearly killed in a car crash]].
* TangledFamilyTree:
** Zara and Cal are cousins through Zara's dad and Cal's mother. This makes [[spoiler: Emma's child]] Zara's relative as well.
** Adam and Erick are siblings, and their half-sister is the product of their mother and their father's best friend getting married.
** Scotty was adopted by his paternal grandmother and has no interest in learning what really happened there.
* TeenPregnancy:
** Scotty, after being criticized for calling straight people "breeders", meaningfully looks down the hallway, where a veritable gaggle of pregnant students are walking by.
** [[spoiler: Emma]] is pregnant with [[spoiler: Cal]]'s baby, [[spoiler: due to her giving Fiona her birth control]].
%%* TheCaretaker
%%** Virgil, to Zara.
%%** Emma, to Cal.
%%** Jas, to Fiona.
%%** Erick feels this way towards Fiona. Fiona does not feel the same way.
%%** Cal, to Fiona.
%%** Emma, to Fiona.
%%** Actually, most of the cast feels this way towards Fiona, with mixed results.
%%** Cal, to Zara, but only after a little... push.
%%* TheDutifulSon: Adam tries his best to care for his baby sister in the wake of his mother's depression.
* TheUnReveal: Jas is given an envelope containing their physical sex. They lose it, and freak out, knowing that the entire school will find out. [[spoiler: It was found in a trash can, and nobody saw it]].
%%* ThePowerOfFriendship
* TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket: Virgil, with most technology.
%%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler: Ezra]] in episode seven.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Scotty and his grandmother, respectively.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Whenever Emma or Scotty aren't there, Cal falls apart.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Joseph believes that anyone who isn't white, straight, male, religious, or cis is likely subhuman.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Joseph towards his church when proclaiming his hardline beliefs.
* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: Joseph and his family.
%%* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou:
%%** Berrie's mother to Berrie in episode six.
%%** Erick to Fiona.
%%** Erick to Adam.
%%** Joseph to Esther and Fiona.
%%* WomenAreDelicate: Erick believes this of Fiona.
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->'''Scotty:''' Gay as hell?
''Openness'' is a dramedy machinima series created using ''Videogame/{{The Sims 2}}''. First uploaded on October 9th, 2015 by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SnapshotOfASoul/featured SnapshotOfASoul]], the series follows a group of Canadian high school students across the LGBTQ+ spectrum and their surrounding community. Each episode is around 45-60 minutes long, and while there's no set schedule, they're usually released once a month. The first episode can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlU3aCgIEoo here]]. The series has a heavy focus on varying experiences with religion, sexuality, and intercommunity politics.
The series has seen praise within the sims machinima community for its entertaining representation of multiple sexualities and genders. ''Openness'' has characters identifying as the following; straight, gay, pansexual, asexual, aromantic, bisexual, transgender, cis, and non-binary.
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!!''Openness'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: A couple of examples:
** Fiona's father is physically, verbally and emotionally abusive.
** Berrie's mother is verbally abusive.
** Zara's mother is implied to have been abusive, or at least neglectful towards her eldest daughter.
** Though not his direct parent, Joseph can be construed as abusive to Erick.
* AdoptionDiss: Nikki to Emma, and Emma right back at Nikki. They're ''both'' adopted.
* AdultsAreUseless: The school's temporary guidance counsellor tells Jas they should try to act like everyone else and avoid expressing themself to fit in and avoid getting harassed.
%%* AgentPeacock: Virgil.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Jas is this in the group, but seeing as they're aro-ace, they don't mind the role.
%%* AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler: Cal]].
%%* AmbiguousGender: Jas.
%%* ApatheticTeacher:
%%** Ms Westcott.
%%** Principal Daas, on occasion.
* ApologisesALot: Zara often internalises that she's fucked up and has to apologise.
%%** Fiona and her mother Esther.
%%** Cal does this a few times.
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Fiona]]'s family is forcing him to be with [[spoiler: Erick]], and is told the only way he can see his friends is if [[spoiler: he formally accepts Erick's proposal]].
* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: The main religious group is called the Traditionalists, and takes heavily from the director's own upbringing.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Joseph often quotes the Bible to support his own views.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Cal]] sees himself as this, having turned his attitude around after [[spoiler: his parents almost died in a car accident that left his mother disabled physically]].
* BathSuicide: [[spoiler: Fiona]] attempts one of these at the end of episode seven.
%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Cal.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Virgil is a novelist who writes stories about Bigfoot on a [[TheAllegedComputer very old computer]].
* BeYourself:
** This can be construed as the main message of the series.
** Jas tries to embody this message, even when other people tell them to do the exact opposite.
** Virgil towards Zara, because Zara doesn't think she's cool enough for her new-found friends.
* BeneathTheMask:
** Zara. She has depression and anxiety, yet always tries to put on a happy face around her friends out of fear they'll hate her if she doesn't.
** Fiona. Often very quiet about his struggles to the point [[spoiler: nobody knew he was trans except for Jas for ''months'']].
** Berrie often puts up an air of perfection when really she's constantly tired, verbally abused at home, and has her identity denied by her parents.
* BerserkButton:
** Berrie's mother has one of these when Berrie doesn't let her get her way.
** Joseph, when his religious beliefs are challenged in any way, shape, or form.
** Cal whenever Erick is even ''mentioned.''
** Fiona, when being told [[spoiler: that Erick wants her to have his children]].
** Scotty, around Erick.
** Everybody pretty much just hates Erick.
%%* BloodAndNerdy: Berrie.
* BloodIsSquickerInWater: At the end of episode seven, [[spoiler: Fiona]] is shown to be attempting suicide in the bath. The bathwater slowly turns red...
%%* BumblingDad: Virgil.
%%* CampGay:
%%** Jas.
%%** Scotty, on occasion.
%%** Adam's friends.
* CanadaEh: The entire series is almost ''aggressively'' Canadian, due to the creator being sick of people [[spoiler: thinking his series were set in America]].
* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan:
** Hockey jerseys, ice rinks, and All-Star Games in the background of scenes are often little easter eggs that most non-Canadians miss. The creator put this in despite hating hockey himself.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Jas constantly gets in trouble over anything and everything.
%%* CastFullOfGay
%%* ChewToy
%%** Fiona.
%%** Jas.
%%** Scotty.
* ChildHater
** Erick, but only towards his half-sister, because [[spoiler: she's mixed]].
** Fiona isn't too fond of children due to inexperience and fear, but [[WouldntHurtAChild would never harm one]].
* ChocolateBaby
** Scotty looks nothing like his paternal grandmother.
** Adam's younger half-sister is black.
** Emma presumes she was abandoned because of this trope.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The main characters' names are coloured in using the flags of their respective identities in the opening.
** Pansexual flag for Zara and Emma.
** Asexual flag for Jas.
** Straight flag for Cal.
** Gay flag for Berrie.
** Gay ''and'' bisexual flag for Scotty.
** Transgender flag for Fiona.
%%* ComingOfAgeStory
* ComingOutStory: Most of the characters are open about their identities. [[spoiler: Fiona]], however, waits months to tell more than one person about being trans.
%%* CoolOldLady: Nana Hat.
* CrisisOfFaith
** Adam has one of these due to being both Catholic and gay.
** Cal was raised Christian but lost his faith due to [[spoiler: his parents being in a car accident]].
** Emma wonders aloud if the universe is out to get her.
%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Scotty.
* CultureClash
** The Traditionalists lead life to a completely different set of morals and views than the rest of the town.
** Zara grew up on a socially isolated goat farm and is completely baffled by half the things that people do.
** What may be normal to the creator (for example, abortion being considered a valid choice or Jas' character as a whole) may confuse viewers from more conservative countries or areas.
%%* DaddysGirl: Zara.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%** Emma.
%%** Berrie, occasionally.
%%** Ms Westcott.
%%** Jas.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable
** Richie's dog, Danger. In reality he's an elderly 15-year-old pitbull who mostly sleeps and wants to be pet.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Adam about his [[spoiler: father, who committed suicide]].
%%* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife
%%** Emma.
%%** Fiona.
%%** Berrie.
** Erick is implied to have felt this before falling in with Joseph.
%%* DoesNotLikeMen: Berrie.
* DomesticAbuse:
** Joseph towards his wife and daughter.
** Berrie's mother towards her daughters.
** Erick towards Fiona and his brother, Adam.
** Erick often implies he'd neglect his infant half-sister [[spoiler: on the grounds of her being mixed]].
** [[spoiler: It's implied Zara's mother was fairly emotionally and physically abusive at times, as well as icing her ex-husband out.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Esther was implied to have attempted suicide before, at the start of episode seven.
** [[spoiler: Fiona]] tries to kill himself at the end of episode seven.
** Cal almost ended his life before the series started.
** Zara, too.
%%* EatingLunchAlone: Zara.
%%* EntitledBastard: Erick and Joseph.
* EvilFeelsGood: Erick wrestles with this.
%%* EvilMentor: Joseph to Erick.
* FamilyBusiness:
** Nana Hat runs a bakery and wants Scotty to take the helm one day.
** Joseph runs a church and wishes for Erick and Fiona to take it over when he gets older.
%%* FollowInMyFootsteps:
%%** Joseph to Erick.
%%** Nana Hat to Scotty.
%%** Berrie's mother to Berrie.
* ForbiddenFruit: Fiona's friends are this. They represent everything that his father hates and forbids.
* FreeRangeChildren: Because it's a small town, most of the cast is free to roam about without much worry. Lampshaded when Greg spots [[spoiler: Scotty]] getting [[spoiler: beaten up in an alley]].
* FreakyFashionMildMind
** Zara dresses in wild, out-of-date attire but is actually fairly normal and self-aware.
** Emma dresses like it's Halloween every day but is very kindhearted.
** Most of the Traditionalists are the inverse of this. They have extremely conservative, old-fashioned, "family values" clothing, but most of them are pure evil.
* FriendToAllChildren
** Cal, due to having to be the parent to his younger siblings.
** Jas, also due to an overload of younger siblings.
** Adam, who takes care of his sister with a reverence unseen in most teenaged boys.
* FriendToAllLivingThings
** Virgil has seven cats.
** Zara was raised on a goat farm and is implied to be incredibly good with animals.
** Scotty, to the point of wanting to cat-nap one of Virgil's kitties.
%%* FriendlessBackground
%%** Zara.
%%** Cal.
%%** Fiona.
%%* TheFundamentalist: Joseph and Erick.
%%* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Emma and Nikki.
* GenderInvertedTrope
** Scotty and Cal often engage in stereotypically feminine pursuits like painting their nails and having sleepovers.
** Scotty is a baker.
** Nana Hat can't cook.
** Virgil is a single dad, against his will, due to spousal abandonment.
** Cal is dependent on his girlfriend, Emma, instead of the other way around.
** Adam is the caretaker of his younger sister and loves her more than anything, ever.
** Berrie's mother is the overbearing and abusive one, whereas her father just serves as backup to her plans and ambitions.
* GenderNeutralWriting
** Jas is nonbinary and uses 'they/them' pronouns.
** Fiona isn't out of the closet as a transguy, but [[OneOfTheBoys is referred to as a guy anyways.]]
%%* GoodParents
%%** Emma's mothers are this.
%%** Zara's dad, Virgil.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Berrie wears a lot of purple and is also very rich.
%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold:
%%** Zara.
%%** Cal.
* HappilyAdopted:
** Scotty's paternal grandmother adopted him to avoid him [[spoiler: ending up in a Malaysian orphanage.]]
** Emma and Nikki love their mothers and were both adopted as infants.
%%* HappilyMarried:
%%** Cal's parents.
%%** Emma's mothers.
%%** Jas' parents.
* HarmfulToMinors: A few examples:
** Joseph's abusive behaviour around Ezra exposes him to violence he shouldn't have to see.
** Cal's little sister Siobhan is being bullied.
** Cal had to deal with breaking the news to his two sisters [[spoiler: that their parents were nearly killed in a car crash]].
* HasTwoMommies: Emma.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay:
** Berrie, to her parents.
** Emma, reminding people she's ''still'' pansexual, despite dating a guy.
** Jas, reminding everyone they're ace.
* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday:
** Berrie, describing sex with Zara to Jas.
** Scotty is ''constantly'' teased for his flings on Grindr.
%%* HeteronormativeCrusader:
%%** Joseph.
%%** Erick.
%%** Berrie's parents.
%%* HouseHusband
%%** Berrie's dad, apparently.
%%** Virgil.
%%* {{Housewife}}
%%** Fiona's Mother.
%%** Cal's mother.
* IAmWhatIAm:
** Jas and their family accepts their nonbinary identity wholesale.
** Cal somewhat accepts that he has [[{{Polyamory}} more love to give than he can contain with one person.]]
** Berrie seems to accept herself, [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent even if her parents don't.]]
** Weed Guy Greg is pretty lax about the person he's become.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Berrie's mother to Hannah [[spoiler: after she had Thomas as a teenager]].
** Implied to have happened between Zara's mother, towards her daughter and ex-husband.
** Implied this will happen to Fiona if he [[spoiler: comes out as transgender]].
** In an inversion of this trope, Erick's mother, brother, and stepfather [[WhereDidWeGoWrong actually do care about him and refuse to disown him.]]
%%* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Zara.
* InherentlyFunnyWord: Jas towards Broden Lemmings telling them his name.
%%* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide
%%** Scotty and Cal.
%%** Virgil.
%%* IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable: Berrie towards Zara.
* LightIsNotGood: More symbolic than overt. Dark, cluttered, browner places are homey and generally happy to be in, whereas cleaner, lighter places are often toxic environments rife with abuse.
%%* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Emma and Scotty are this to Cal.
* LipstickLesbian: Berrie and Nikki fall into this.
%%* LoserHasYourBack: Scotty.
%%* LoserProtagonist: Zara.
* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Inverted. Nana Hat seems well aware of what Scotty and Cal are up to.
* MandatoryMotherhood
** [[spoiler: Emma]] feels that the universe is forcing her to have her child in exchange for [[spoiler: giving her birth control to Fiona]].
** Esther was implied to have been forced into having Fiona and Ezra.
%%** Erick wants to get Fiona pregnant.
** Most of the Traditionalist women are forced into this by their husbands.
* MissingMom: Zara's mother abandoned them for a new husband and family, suddenly and without warning.
%%* ManipulativeBastard: Joseph.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: It's not entirely clear how many siblings Jas really has. Just that there's a lot of them.
* MayDecemberRomance: Joseph is 18 years older than Esther.
%%* MosesInTheBulrushes: [[spoiler: Emma]] was abandoned as an infant and adopted by her mothers.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong:
** Erick towards Joseph, with an emphasis on "right."
** To some extent, Esther towards Joseph, with an emphasis on "wrong."
%%* NeverMyFault: Erick fully believes he's in the right.
%%* NewTransferStudent: Zara moved to Arbutus Falls from a rural, isolated goat farm.
%%* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Emma. She often tries to do the right thing but ends up failing miserably.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Scotty beats [[spoiler: Erick]] into unconsciousness after he implies [[spoiler: he will be marrying Fiona]].
* NoSocialSkills
** Zara, due to growing up fairly isolated on a goat farm.
** Adam, due to [[spoiler: his ADHD]].
%%* NotGoodWithPeople: Zara.
* NWordPrivileges: The cast can say the word "queer" around each other without it being insulting.
* OnlySaneMan: Jas feels like this on occasion.
* OpenMindedParent: Virgil, Zara's dad, is supportive of his daughter in every single way.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Emma was abandoned at the hospital as an infant just after her birth.
%%** Zara's mother.
* PassFail
** The temporary guidance counsellor tries to give tips on how Jas can pass as 'normal' more.
** Berrie's mother desperately wants people to forget her family is black.
** Fiona is a [[{UsefulNotes/{Transgender}} trans guy]] who is being forced into [[StayInTheKitchen traditional]] [[WomenAreDelicate gender roles.]]
** Scotty is half-Malaysian. His name doesn't give it away at first.
* PersecutionFlip: Scotty seems to think this, referring to cishet people as "breeders". He may have just been teasing, though.
* PetTheDog: Erick used to go fishing with his [[spoiler: black]] stepfather.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Fiona's room was designed with pink as the predominant colour.
* PlayedForLaughs
** Scotty's cake being destroyed by a sudden snow.
** Zara knowing next to nothing about other cultures. Or, you know, her own.
** Adam's crush on Scotty can be seen as this.
** Scotty's phone being stolen and locked out for the weekend.
%%* PluckyComicRelief:
%%** Scotty gets the physical comedy end of things, falling asleep in odd places.
%%** Jas often gets the brunt of the sassy lines.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Joseph and Erick are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and generally just shitty people.
* PreachersKid: Fiona and his younger brother Ezra.
* PromotionToParent: Cal is a surrogate parent to his younger siblings [[spoiler: due to his parents being injured in a car crash]].
* ProperLady: Berrie's mother pressures her daughter into this.
* QuirkyTown: Arbutus Falls is this to some extent, housing everyone from Bigfoot novelists to lesbian police officers.
%%* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Erick rapes Fiona, and Fiona's father, Joseph, rapes her mother, Esther.
%%* RealMenWearPink
%%** Scotty has no problem showing his feminine side.
%%** Adam is shown having no problem wearing pink.
%%** Virgil is just a Mild Child at heart and loves cats, pink, and baking pies.
* RelationshipReveal: Berrie tries to reveal her relationship with Zara. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well.]]
* RunningGag
** Scotty and his Snickers bars. The boy will do anything to get his hands on some chocolate.
** Grindr is consistently the butt of many jokes - in one case, a literal butt is used. The principal himself is implied as having a public Grindr profile for all to see.
** Cal being ''increasingly'' done by Scotty's gay implications.
** Virgil often wears cat-themed attire and adopted seven cats [[spoiler: due to his wife leaving him]].
** Ms Westcott going to "the copy room" [[spoiler: to make out with the principal]].
** Jas eating other people's food without permission.
** Scotty's large stomach is often the butt of pregnancy jokes.
** "The Lesbian Cause" is a common joke and phrase used to jokingly spur other characters into action.
** The fact that they're the most hated group of people in the entire school is a joke in and of itself. Random insults are often flung.
** Most of the group is not very athletic. Except [[LesbianJock for]] [[AcademicAthlete Berrie]].
** Jas is [[PlotAllergy allergic]] to sports, fake jewellery, moss, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the colour taupe.]]
* Main/{{The Reliable One}}:
** Scotty. He never sleeps, so he's always there for his friends.
** Cal tries to be this for his family and loved ones.
* ScrewDestiny:
** [[spoiler: Emma]] absolutely refused to let Fiona get pregnant and [[spoiler: gave Fiona her birth control to prevent this from happening]].
** Zara, to Emma, after Emma [[spoiler: describes how she feels railroaded into having Cal's child by destiny]].
** Berrie is pressured into getting a [[MightyWhitey nice, white]] [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan husband]] and an entry to a [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague prestigious university]] but mostly she just wants to be happy.
%%* SheCleansUpNicely: Zara in Episode Two.
%%* ShowerOfAngst: Scotty, Zara, and Fiona in episode three.
%%* ShrinkingViolet: Fiona.
%%* SinisterMinister: Joseph.
* StayInTheKitchen:
** Joseph towards his wife.
** Cal embodies a lighter, less sexist version of this in his desire of a life with Emma.
* StepfordSmiler:
%%** Esther.
%%** Fiona.
** Berrie's family tries desperately to put up the ruse of being a normal, happy family.
%%* StraightGay:
%%** Cal, who is [[spoiler: ambiguously bi]].
%%** Weed Guy Greg.
* StopBeingStereotypical:
** Broden Lemmings and his friends, to Jas.
** Jas, to Scotty, despite it being affectionate.
** Berrie's mother to her two daughters [[spoiler: because her first daughter was a teenaged mother and her second refuses to relax her hair]].
** Cal's mother, despite being heavily religious, has a strong distaste for [[TheFundamentalist the Traditionalists]].
* TakeCareOfTheKids: Scotty and Cal after [[spoiler: Cal's parents were nearly killed in a car crash]].
* TangledFamilyTree:
** Zara and Cal are cousins through Zara's dad and Cal's mother. This makes [[spoiler: Emma's child]] Zara's relative as well.
** Adam and Erick are siblings, and their half-sister is the product of their mother and their father's best friend getting married.
** Scotty was adopted by his paternal grandmother and has no interest in learning what really happened there.
* TeenPregnancy:
** Scotty, after being criticized for calling straight people "breeders", meaningfully looks down the hallway, where a veritable gaggle of pregnant students are walking by.
** [[spoiler: Emma]] is pregnant with [[spoiler: Cal]]'s baby, [[spoiler: due to her giving Fiona her birth control]].
%%* TheCaretaker
%%** Virgil, to Zara.
%%** Emma, to Cal.
%%** Jas, to Fiona.
%%** Erick feels this way towards Fiona. Fiona does not feel the same way.
%%** Cal, to Fiona.
%%** Emma, to Fiona.
%%** Actually, most of the cast feels this way towards Fiona, with mixed results.
%%** Cal, to Zara, but only after a little... push.
%%* TheDutifulSon: Adam tries his best to care for his baby sister in the wake of his mother's depression.
* TheUnReveal: Jas is given an envelope containing their physical sex. They lose it, and freak out, knowing that the entire school will find out. [[spoiler: It was found in a trash can, and nobody saw it]].
%%* ThePowerOfFriendship
* TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket: Virgil, with most technology.
%%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler: Ezra]] in episode seven.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Scotty and his grandmother, respectively.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Whenever Emma or Scotty aren't there, Cal falls apart.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Joseph believes that anyone who isn't white, straight, male, religious, or cis is likely subhuman.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Joseph towards his church when proclaiming his hardline beliefs.
* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: Joseph and his family.
%%* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou:
%%** Berrie's mother to Berrie in episode six.
%%** Erick to Fiona.
%%** Erick to Adam.
%%** Joseph to Esther and Fiona.
%%* WomenAreDelicate: Erick believes this of Fiona.
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