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1	''Dear Children'' is both frightening and funny, but the protagonists really are ''heroes'', and often they display impressive heroic virtues.
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6	!!Moments when characters are badasses include:
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8	* Cailin is TheHeart of the Journalism Club, and sometimes she really shows it in courage, caring and idealism beyond the ordinary.
9	** She never swerves in her resolve to bring supernatural mysteries to light, and to expose the truth in general, even when it leads her into dangerous and difficult places.
10	*** She displays serious physical courage when she shields Chelle from the Wesley-thing [[HumanoidAbomination Shadow Beast]] in the tunnels under the port. She doesn't even think twice about it: she's bigger and stronger, and Chelle is her [[AFriendInNeed friend]]. This action, by itself, leads Chelle to forgive Cailin for her earlier thoughtless comment about her MissingMom.
11	** She demonstrates great charisma when she delivers an impromptu speech about courage, decency and responsibility to ''both'' the Journalism Club and the Drama Club, gaining Whitney's assistance in investigating Wesley's fate. Indeed, she ''so'' impresses Whitney that they become friends.
12	*** She displays admirable moral courage when she insists that Whitney has the right to see Wesley's torture porn. She ''knows'' that Whitney won't like it -- it's disgusting enough for Cailin to view, and Whitney will take it far more personally. Whitney's been bonding with her, and the last thing Cailin wants to do is seriously upset her. Yet she ''never'' doubts that HonestyIsTheBestPolicy, and that it would be morally wrong to shield Whitney from the AwfulTruth. Cailin has ''strong'' moral integrity.
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14	* Chelle is a small but tough BadassBookworm who rarely loses her head even in dangerous situations and does what she has to win through.
15	** She half-carries Cailin to safety after their subterranean encounter with the Wesley-Thing. This means supporting someone larger than herself, with the denser muscular and skeletal anatomy of a ''boy'', through at least a quarter-mile of dark partly-flooded tunnels, while having to worry every step of the way that she might be ambushed by a monster she ''knows'' to be lurking in there.
16	** At the end of the fight between Devin and Aaron, when the two pull knives on each other and things might get ''far'' too lethal for the provocations, Chelle
17	*** (1) spots what's happening, and
18	*** (2) when no one else will help her, leaps forward and
19	*** (3) showily slaps Devin while grabbing his knife, to both end the fight and hide the fact that he had a knife to begin with, in ''full'' awareness that

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