History YMMV / GogglesAndTheTears

* CoolVersusAwesome: Alyx's [=D0G=] fighting SHODAN's androids alongside one of the Vox's Motorized Patriots!
* FanonDiscontinuity: Certain events from the aforementioned games are slightly altered, partly due to [[CreatorBacklash the author's dislike of their original turnout]], most notably being the removal of ''System Shock 2's'' SequelHook. [[spoiler: This is brought back around as a cameo near the end, though, as one of the several dozen alternate versions of SHODAN in the Sea of Doors.]]
* KarmicDeath: During SHODAN's android onslaught of Columbia, two of those robots find Jeremiah Fink [[spoiler: still chained to a chair in the cell where Elizabeth rescued Chen Lin from ]] and coldly [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stab him between the eyes]] with a laser rapier, then turn off the lights and leave without a word.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** At the beginning, Marie Delacroix is found to be critically wounded instead of dead like in the actual ''System Shock 2'', and Goggles manages to heal her with a {{Medkit}}. Notable in that the author only found out said death in the game, after writing this story.
** [[spoiler: Goggles and his teammates save Booker from drowning, as it turned out that SHODAN had been tampering with every version of Elizabeth to kill him.]]

** [[spoiler: Goggles and his teammates save Booker from drowning, as it turned out that SHODAN had been tampering with every version of Elizabeth to kill him.]]
* TakeThatScrappy: During SHODAN's android onslaught of Columbia, two of those robots find Jeremiah Fink [[spoiler: still chained to a chair in the cell where Elizabeth rescued Chen Lin from ]] and coldly [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stab him between the eyes]] with a laser rapier, then turn off the lights and leave without a word. For all the destruction those androids wreak, killing one of the most despicable characters of the game is almost worth it.

** [[spoiler: Booker is prevented from drowning by his teammates, as Goggles notices that SHODAN is tampering with every version of Elizabeth.]]

** At the beginning, Marie Delacroix is found to be critically wounded instead of dead like in the actual ''System Shock 2''. Notable in that the author only found out said death in the game, after writing this story.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Certain events from the aforementioned games are slightly altered, partly due to [[CreatorBacklash the author's dislike of their original turnout]], most notably being the removal of ''System Shock 2's'' SequelHook.

* TakeThatScrappy: During SHODAN's android onslaught of Columbia, two of those robots find Jeremiah Fink [[spoiler: still chained to a chair in the cell where Elizabeth rescued Chen Lin from ]] and coldly [[ImpaledWithExtremePredjudice stab him between the eyes]] with a laser rapier, then turn off the lights and leave without a word. For all the destruction those androids wreak, killing one of the most despicable characters of the game is almost worth it.

** [[spoiler: Booker is prevented from drowning by his teammates, as Goggles notices that SHODAN is tampering with every version of Elizabeth.]]

** At the beginning, Marie Delacroix is found to be critically wounded instead of dead like in the actual ''System Shock 2''. Notable in that the author only found out said death after writing this story.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Certain events from the aforementioned games are slightly altered, partly due to [[CreatorBacklash the author's dislike of their original turnout]], most notably being the removal of ''System Shock 2's'' SequelHook and Marie Delacroix being critically injured, rather than dead. However, later changes are more related to the overarching TimeTravel aspect of the story.