Line #261 Characters/WithPearlAndRubyGlowingPiecesOfThePast


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2	!Multiple stories
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4	* CentralTheme: The theme of this collection is history and culture.
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6	!The Peaches of Immortality - Jiǔqiān (WesternAnimation/MonkieKid), Liùqiān (Mei), and Sānqiān (Red Son)
7	* AlcoholicParent: Dramatic example. Sun Wukong, MK's bio father, was addicted to peach baijiu and drugged baby MK to sleep with it.
8	* AllMuslimsAreArab: Averted. Red Son is now Buddhist, but ta de parents are still Muslim, and the family are Uyghur Chinese.
9	* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Mei was kidnapped to be forcibly married, but managed to escape.
10	* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Apparently this is typical of the products at the Demon Bull family's food truck. It's noted in "Difficult Conversations" that the lowest level on their spice scale is "very hot".
11	* CopHater: Red Son makes it a point not to associate with law enforcement due to ta de father Demon Bull King having been sent to a harsh detention centre in China.
12	* DomesticAbuse: Macaque was violent to Wukong and left all the responsibility for baby MK to him.
13	* HarmfulToMinors: MK was present while Macaque abused Wukong when MK was an infant, then witnessed Ratigan assault Tang when MK was only three years old.
14	* InsistentTerminology: Red Son uses the Mandarin pronouns ta/ta de because "English pronouns are fucking pedestrian!"
15	* NotHyperbole: Red Son was unsure how to tell ta de parents about coming to the Palace, then clarified this is because of there's a LanguageBarrier between them due to ta de parents not speaking Mandarin.
16	* OminousMundanity: A "vocational center" in the context it's used here is not a school; it refers to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps Xinjiang internment camps]], which are set up to brainwash and kill Uyghur people and other Chinese Muslims.
17	* OnOneCondition: Red Son's condition for new hires at the food truck is to eat the hottest item on the menu to prove they can handle being in an enclosed space with strong spices all day.
18	* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Mei says her family is the wealthiest in Qinghai, but since there aren't that many people living there, that doesn't really mean much.
19	* PopulationControl: The One Child Policy in China led to gendercide because of the preference for boys, leading to girls like Mei being kidnapped for men who want wives, since there aren't enough women to go around.
20	* TheRival: The Demon Bull family run a food truck which competes with Oegwipali and Mulmangcho's restaurant, and Red Son suggests ta might hire Jasper just because the competition hate her because Lapis works for them.
21	* SkewedPriorities: Red Son has more issue with Jasper being a cop than a sex offender and still offers her a job because ta wants to make the competition mad. The reason ta doesn't hire her? She can't handle the hottest item on the menu.
22	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Red Son was tricked and forced into eating non-halal food when a government officer tried to convert him and his mother.
23	* WantedASonInstead: Mei's parents didn't care, but it led to her problem; China favours male children so much there's a shortage of marriageable women, so she was kidnapped to be sold as a bride.
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25	!Comrade Permafrost ([[WesternAnimation/IceAge Peaches]])
26	* AdaptationalNameChange: Peaches is just a nickname here, with her real name being Anar, which means "pomegranate".
27	* AngstySurvivingTwin: Very, ''very'' briefly.
28	* BigScrewedUpFamily: The herd all dearly love each other, but they're quite the cultural mishmash and all traumatised to various levels, which left Peaches something of an emotional mess herself.
29	* BlamingTheVictim: Referenced; as a teen, Peaches mentioned that one of her friends' mom blamed a girl's clothing choices for her being assaulted. Manny wasn't happy.
30	* ImAHumanitarian: Fast Tony killed and ate Stu during an escape attempt, Crash and Eddie are implied to have been cut up and sold as food along with the animal carcasses, and Ellie was hungry enough to eat her own miscarried foetus.
31	* InfectiousInsanity: Nothing bad ever happened to Peaches directly, but being raised by an assortment of people who were all horribly traumatised left its marks.
32	* PostHistoricalTrauma: She suffers generational trauma from her extended family having all been tortured in Karlag.
33	* RaceLift: Technically in canon the animals don't have human races, but culturally are similar to contemporary Americans. Here, Manny was a German Jew, his dead first wife was a Volga Tatar and so were Roshan and his family, Crash and Eddie were Kazakh, Ellie was Kalmyk, Shira was a Crimean Mountain Jew, Sid was Soviet Korean, Momma Rex was Manchurian Japanese, and Buck had a Mongolian surname (Bayarsaikhan), while the rest were native Russians.
34	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: She's [[WesternAnimation/SummerCampIsland Alice Fefferman]]'s mother.
35	* TooDesperateToBePicky: Ellie ate her own miscarriage, Tony killed and ate Stu, and Scrat died from eating untreated acorns.
36	* TraumaButton: Once they're safe, none of the herd ever eat meat again, and they became so paranoid about the cold that they kept the heaters blazing constantly and sent Peaches out in several layers even in summer, because those things remind them of Karlag.
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38	!Meimei ([[Animation/StitchAndAi Ai]]) and Jiejie
39	* AdaptationalNameChange: Jiejie's name is Jargalyn here.
40	* AlternativeCalendar: Being from Mongolia, Jiejie measures her age in months rather than years, saying she was one hundred and seventy-seven when she was caught rather than fourteen.
41	* BreedingSlave: Jiejie was captured from Mongolia and brought to China to produce a baby for an infertile couple.
42	* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: The couple that kidnapped Jiejie only allow her to keep in contact with her daughter if she treats her like a sister, allowing the couple to treat Ai like ''their'' daughter.
43	* PopulationControl: Siblings in China are quite rare due to the One Child Policy, so Ai and Jiejie aren't actually sisters here.
44	* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Ai is Jiejie's daughter instead of her sister, but Jiejie calls her a sister in public as a MythologyGag.
45	* WantedASonInstead: Mentioned, but averted. Families in China tend to favour having boys, but the couple who abducted Jiejie just wanted any baby.
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47	!Ikamba ya Rwanda - Umusambi ([[WesternAnimation/TheJungleKing Irwin]]) and Intare (Max)
48	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Max's sections have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Turquoise turquoise]] text.
49	* DeterminedDoctor: Irwin is a medical doctor who works out in the rural areas of Africa in difficult conditions.
50	* HonorThyAbuser: Irwin provided medical treatment to Hutu people who had been involved in the Tutsi genocide which targeted him and killed most of his family.
51	* PitifulWorms: The Interahamwe that captured Max and took him to their camp called him "inyenzi", which means cockroach, while they assaulted him.
52	* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Max's godfather told Irwin that Max was dead, which Irwin believed until they both went back to Nyanza.
53	* SiblingYinYang: Irwin is calm, collected and unfailingly forgiving. Max is a lot more bitter and resentful. Their traumas also parallel each other with Irwin receiving help and protection from various people and Max being routinely let down and victimized.
54	* TurnTheOtherCheek: Irwin is a devout Christian and strongly believes in this principle. Max, who was directly harmed more severely by the Interahamwe, doesn't, and considers Irwin a traitor.
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56	!Estrellas del Dia - Morningstar ([[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots Dulcinea]]) and Eveningstar ([[WesternAnimation/PussInBoots2011 Kitty Softpaws]])
57	* AgeLift: They're in their seventies now, having grown up in Franco's Spain.
58	* BookEnds: Their chapter begins and ends with them mentioning the age of consent in their country currently.
59	* CommonalityConnection: They explicitly became friends because they're the ''only'' people at the Palace who understand what it was like to grow up in Francoist Spain. The fact they both dated Puss in Boots at one point also helped.
60	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Possibly. Kitty and Dulcinea speculate that Puss killed Francisco Franco, but it's not confirmed.
61	* DisproportionateRetribution: Kitty's father broke her hands, disowned her, and sent her to an abusive reform school for masturbating when she was twelve, and Dulcinea's husband sent all of her children away because she didn't have time to have sex with him or keep the house perfect with them around.
62	* {{Fingore}}: Kitty's father broke her hands in what's implied to be a stand in for her getting declawed in canon. They didn't heal properly, as evidenced by her fingers being crooked decades later.
63	* JuvenileHell: This is effectively what the girls' home Kitty ended up in was, with the girls being forced into manual labour and put through humiliating physical examinations.
64	* KarmicJackpot: Dulcinea helps Cleo deliver her baby when the birth begins prematurely. Only a short time later, she's reunited with one of her children, even if it's under poor circumstances (namely, he's Cleo's father).
65	* MadonnaWhoreComplex: The story shows how it's not good to be on either end of the dichotomy. Dulcinea was seen as a pure and perfect girl, which got her forcibly married far too young to a man who sent all six of her children away, and Kitty was disowned, imprisoned, and condemned as a corrupted slut for simply being curious about her own body.
66	* NoWomansLand: Franco's Spain was pretty terrible for women on every level, and Kitty points out that contemporary Western societies are a lot worse for women than people like to think.
67	* SelfAbuse: In-universe. Kitty Softpaws was sent to a reformatory because she was caught masturbating.
68	* SilkHidingSteel: Dulcinea is a feminine, demure lady who conspired with her lover to kill the dictator of Spain and helps deliver Cleo's premature baby in the middle of the palace all while keeping her wits.
69	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dulcinea is a traditionally feminine woman who followed all the rules that Franco's Spain set for her. Kitty is foul-mouthed and somewhat masculine and was imprisoned as a child due to her "improper" behavior. Both of their suffering is treated with equal weight and sympathy by the narrative.
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71	!Sapta Sagara - Lavanoda ([[WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat Wesley]]), Iksurasa (Crispin), Suroda (Cas), Ghrta (Deckard), Ksiroda (Howell), Dadhi (Tim), Jala (Merlin)
72	* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: Averted: WordOfGod is that Howell is transmasc in canon.
73	* AnArmAndALeg: Tim lost an arm during the destruction of the family's house.
74	* BigBrotherInstinct: Merlin, Westley and Howell are shown to be very protective of their younger siblings.
75	* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: After Commander Wolf gets mad at Howell for not offering a veteran's discount at his cat cafe and Cas kicks Wolf out for giving him a panic attack, the restaurant gets a bunch of negative comments and reviews claiming that Howell is "ungrateful" and "disrespectful".
76	* ParentalAbandonment: The family don't have enough food to go around, so Howell abandons his baby on a riverbank.
77	* PromotionToParent: Wesely and Howell were the oldest two siblings left after their parents died and Merlin and Crispin left home. They raised Tim, Cas and Deckard until the war was over and Merlin took over in their stead.
78	* TeenPregnancy: Howell is horrified to find that he's become pregnant as a result of his rape by soldiers. It's too late to do anything about it and he has to go through the birth.
79	* TooDesperateToBePicky: Howell is caught by the soldiers when he tries to kill one of their horses for food, and he comments about how he was hungry enough to be tempted to dig up and eat their parents.
80	* WarIsHell: The family's parents are killed, Tim loses an arm, the kids almost die of illness, and Howell is raped by soldiers, while Merlin and Crispin are out of the country and can't contact or help them.
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82	!The Weaver's Bonny - Ninety-Nine ([[WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm Hansel]]) and Ninety (Gretel)
83	* DysfunctionJunction: Hansel and Gretel were physically abused by their biological father, with him threating Hansel with a knife to his throat, throttling Gretel, tried to kill them via burning and strangulation. Their parents were both orphaned young and put into the care of pedophiliac single fathers as part of the Kentler Experiment. Their mother picked up HIV from the first one and spread it to all her others, and to Hansel in utero. Mrs Baker their first foster mother forced Hansel into the oven after he missed a space when cleaning, with it turning out her foster father had gotten her pregnant and her having to kill her own child. Their second foster family Mr and Mrs Bauer were abused into showing a lack of emotion and always being forced to smile respectively, leading to their abuse on their kids. Their third foster mother the Tree neglects to feed them anything that isn’t vegetables or fruit, and throws away Hansel’s HIV meds and locks him outside when he goes into withdrawl, having been abused by her alcoholic foster father who made her drink too. Hanzel was sent to stay with Lord Meister, who was only taken in by his foster father to have something to control. Gretel goes to stay with Widow Fischer who married her foster father and never learned how to assimilate into normal life even after he dies. Gretel’s taken in by the Handsome Young Man who after his abuse by his foster father was ignored by his mother, he turned to abusing the younger girls in his care. Hansel goes to stay with the Devil who made Hansel sexually and physically abuse him with a riding crop, to take the abuse that happened to him on himself.
84	* HappilyAdopted: Surprisingly often. Most of their foster homes have at least a few good qualities and some of their placements genuinely love them... but they're still abusive or neglectful or unfit in some way.
85	* LeitMotif: The Devil's Nine Questions, eight of the nine riddles pertaining to one of the homes they were sent to.
86	* ParentalFavoritism: The Bauers liked Gretel better than Hansel, presumably because she was a girl like they did in canon.
87	* TraumaCongaLine: The kids go through ''eight'' abusive homes between them, and their mother went through several as well.
88	* TroubledAbuser: The kids are put in a variety of foster homes with parents who are abusive or neglectful. As it turns out, every one of the foster parents suffered through worse foster homes themselves, having been subjects of the infamous Kentler Experiment.
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90	!Lóng Xīnláng and Fènghuáng Xīnniáng[[labelnote:For full list, click here]]Hǔ Jiǎo and Yīngwǔ Zuǐ ([[Manhua/FoxSpiritMatchmaker Hu Weisheng and Yueti Xia]]), Yīng Zhǎo and Hè Tuǐ (Wangquan Baye and Dongfang Huaizhu), Niú Ěrduǒ and Yànzi Chìbǎng (Yang Mie and Cuiyu Minglan), Luòtuó Tóu and Gōngjī Zuǐ (Wang Fugui and Qingtong), Shé Jǐng and É Xiōng Ròu (Shi Kuan and the Yuyao Princess), Èmó Zhī Yǎn and Yànzi Liǎn (Dongfang Yuechu and Tushan Honghong), Xióng Lùjiǎo and Yějī Tóu (Fan Yunfei and Li Xueyang), Gélí Dù and Yā Shēn (Yan Ruyu and Lü Jianwen), Lǐ Yúlín and Kǒngquè Wěibā (Pingqiu Yuechu and Huandu Luolan)[[/labelnote]]
91	* ArcNumber: The number 9 appears repeatedly.
92	* CompositeCharacter / DecompositeCharacter: Most of the reincarnated humans have their incarnations merged into one person (Wang Fugui and Wangquan Fugui being the same person, for example), but Honghong and Susu are mother and daughter instead of powered and de-powered versions of the same person, and the Yuechus are three separate people.
93	* DealWithTheDevil: Honghong is an Ark member here, curiously of the NobleDemon variety. She seeks out inmates likely to get a death sentence and offers to save them if they, or a loved one, give up nine years of their life as a SexSlave.
94	* DeathRow: One member of each couple ended up with a death sentence for one of the nine crimes that later had their death penalties abolished in Amendment 9.
95	** Hu Weisheng smuggled stolen wood which turned out to be radioactive, thus "smuggling nuclear materials".
96	** Wangquan Baye made counterfeit currency.
97	** Yang Mie was accused of spreading rumours during wartime.
98	** Wang Fugui ''smuggled'' counterfeit currency.
99	** The Yuyao Princess obstructed the military.
100	** Tushan Honghong forced people into prostitution.
101	** Lie Xueyang smuggled items contextually implied to be weapons.
102	** Yan Ruyu was a pimp.
103	** Pingqiu Yuechu committed fundraising fraud.
104	* DrivenToSuicide: Dongfang Yuechu kills himself after Honghong is executed.
105	* EmotionalRegression: Both Fugui and Qingtong age-regress due to trauma; she acts like a young child, colouring and playing with dolls, and he acts like an angry teenager, yelling and punching walls.
106	* ExactWords: ''Technically'' Yang Mie isn't rumourmongering...
107	* FalseConfession: Technically it's not a confession; Yang Mie tells the truth, in a manner which leads his interrogator to think he's lying.
108	* FloweryInsults: "YOU SAD SACK OF HOMOSEXUAL COCKROACHES!"
109	* TheKindnessOfStrangers: Gladstone Gander calls for help when he finds the brothel in the backroom of the casino and gets everyone freed.
110	* {{Lobotomy}}: The Baiyu Village Ark location lobotomises victims, both to reduce their distress and make it harder for them to escape or fight back.
111	* MalignedMixedMarriage: Yunfei is Uyghur and his family don't want him to marry Xueyang because she isn't.
112	* MeaningfulName: "Lóng Xīnláng and Fènghuáng Xīnniáng" means "dragon grooms and phoenix brides".
113	* NotHelpingYourCase: Fan Yunfei tries to give gifts to Li Xueyang to help repair their relationship... [[https://www.claverley-court.co.uk/6-gifts-shouldnt-give-chinese-new-year/ which include a knife set, a four piece set of crushed iced diamonds, tins of candy with a Chinese pear as the symbol, shoes, a clock, and a handkerchief]].
114	* PaidForFamily: Fugui isn't talking to his father, so he pays Bai Yuechu, Tushan Susu, and various side characters to play the roles of his and Qingtong's family members and act out a traditional proposal for him. Since Susu, playing the matchmaker, is only nine, Yuechu doesn't like Fugui, and no one likes the script he provides, it's rather a mess.
115	* RaceLift: Cuiyu Minglan is Mosuo, the Yuyao Princess is Hui, Shi Kuan and Fan Yunfei are Uyghur, and the Tushan sisters are part Syrian.
116	* ShoutOut: While being interrogated, Yang Mie "admits" that there are two thousand three hundred and nine officers coming, and it's noted that [[Literature/InterestingTimes he's proud of the "nine".]]
117	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Invoked by Yang Mie; he tells the truth in a suspiciously specific way so it sounds like he's lying.
118	* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: Hu Weisheng unwittingly steals wood from a forest near a nuclear power plant, and is sentenced to death for "smuggling nuclear materials".
119	* WifeHusbandry: Tushan Honghong bought Dongfang Yuechu from the Ark when he was a child, and they have a daughter together. It doesn't turn out healthy at all; Yuechu turns her in for trafficking, then kills himself when she's executed.
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121	!The Powhatan (WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}})
122	* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Defied. She does have long hair and a leather jacket, but fragments depict her in accurate traditional formal wear. And the narration is very specific concerning the Powhatan people and the various sub-tribes.
123	* DecompositeCharacter: It's made clear that the characters aren't the same people as the historical figures.
124	* EvilTeacher: Ratcliffe is their history professor in university, and he grades students less on the content of their papers than on whether they're white or not. Averted with her, as it's implied she's a wonderful teacher.
125	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: She's sitting on the steps of the Palace looking at her class's history reports; we get to see snippets of the kids' papers. Also the chapter isn't named after what the narrative refers to her by, but the subject of the history report in question.
126	* HatesBeingNicknamed: Her given name here is Matty, and she hates it when John calls her "Pocahontas" instead of her real name because it's racist.
127	* SurvivorsGuilt: She's implied to feel extremely guilty over Kocoum (here named Bernard) getting murdered by GWF because he was protecting her.
128	* RageBreakingPoint: She put up with John calling her "Pocahontas" for a while, but when he did it after Kocoum was murdered, she hit her breaking point and told him to stop seeing her.
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130	!The Quantum Chessmen - ♕ ([[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Prince Gumball]]) and ♛ (vampire Marshall Lee); ♜ ([[WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake Ice Marcy]]) and ♖ (Candy Queen); ♝ (Marceline) and ♗ (Princess Bubblegum); ♞ (Star) and ♘ (Bonnie); ♔ (Gary Prince) and ♚ (human Marshall Lee)
131	* AbortionFalloutDrama: Marceline tries to get an abortion and the doctors perform a full sterilisation op on her instead.
132	* BabyFactory: Uncle Gumbald allows Bubblegum to be abused and impregnated and sells her babies to rich white couples who want to adopt.
133	* BoomerangBigot: Starr has been raised from childhood to see herself as inferior because of her race. She’s also pretty bigoted against natives despite being native herself.
134	* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Winter King lets Marcy wear an "Indian princess" costume for Halloween, much to Candy Queen's disgust. Averted when Gumball, Gary, genderbent Neddy, and the Marshalls wear actual traditional regalia - [[https://wanderingbull.com/native-american-ribbon-shirts/ ribbon shirts]] and [[https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/jingle-dress-story-native-american-dance-power-spiritual-81053045 jingle dresses]].
135	* ButNotTooBlack: Winter King tries to replace Marcy's Choctaw and Afro-American cultural connections with his own - notably, he's Nenet (Indigenous Siberian) and not white either. Vampire King is white, and buys Star bleaching cream to make her look whiter.
136	* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Bonnie killed Vampire King via beating him with the chair she was tied to.
137	* ChildOfTwoWorlds: The characters are all separated to some degree from their Native heritage, and several try to reconnect with it.
138	* ContemptCrossfire: Vampire Marshall mentions that he's discriminated against both by larger society because he's not white and by the Chickasaw community because he's not Chickasaw enough to meet blood quantum requirements. He's tried to register as a tribe member and keeps getting rejected.
139	* CripplingCastration: Marceline is sterilised against her will.
140	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Gumball is named "Bubba", a name he liked when he was younger but eventually grew to be embarrassed by.
141	* EyeScream: Vampire King cut out Bonnie's eye with the intention of feeding it to Star.
142	* ForceFeeding: As Star didn't want to eat Bonnie's eye, Vampire King held her nose until she opened her mouth and then forced it down her throat.
143	* GoingColdTurkey: When Marcy flushes Candy Queen's pills, the side effects of sudden withdrawal include irrational and violent behaviour leading her to assault Winter King.
144	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: The running theme of the chapter is blood quantum laws and how they exclude mixed-race Natives from their own heritage, and the different experiences of mixed Natives depending on whether they're part white or part black (the latter having it worse for obvious reasons). Bubblegum and Neddy have a particularly unfortunate case because their mother was fully Native but had heritage from multiple tribes, so she didn't fit the blood quantum percentage of Seminole specifically for Bubblegum to be registered.
145	* HarmfulToMinors: The 7-year-old Marcy witnesses the drug-withdrawn Candy Queen violently assaulting Winter King.
146	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Winter King drugs Candy Queen to keep her compliant, but withdrawal when Marcy flushes her pills makes her behave irrationally and she violently assaults him, [[HarmfulToMinors which Marcy unfortunately bares witness to]].
147	* IAmAHumanitarian: Vampire King force-feeds Star human flesh and blood.
148	* MadeASlave: The five Native tribes represented are the "five civilised tribes", who were called that because they adopted practices from the white settlers, including keeping African slaves. Marshall's mother and Winter King mention that's where Marshall and Marcy's black ancestors came from.
149	* NWordPrivileges: The authors' notes mention that one of the two Native members of the writing group was the one who wrote this chapter, because of a part calling Natives "red", [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Power_movement a term Native people are entitled to reclaim]] but the white writers aren't. The term is only outright used by a character who is explicitly a racist antagonist, though the choice of canonically bright-pink characters implies the mixing of "red" and "white".
150	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Pretty much all of the antagonists in this chapter - Scarab commits a hate crime against Gumball and vampire Marshall and calls Gary's sister a retard, Winter King is dismissive of and tries to overwrite Marcy's heritage, the unnamed doctors sterilise Marceline against her will because she's not white, and Vampire King is a Mormon extremist who believes he can and should magically turn his black/Native daughter white by feeding her human flesh.
151	* TheSavageIndian: Discussed in-universe; right-wing news outlets call Candy's withdrawal-fueled attack on Winter King "savagery".
152	* StopBeingStereotypical: Marcy is too young to realise why an "Indian princess" Halloween costume is inappropriate and annoys Candy Queen.
153	* TeenPregnancy: Gumbald allowed Bubblegum to be impregnated several times when she was a teen, the first time at twelve years old.
154	* TeensAreMonsters:
155	** Bubblegum is first raped by a sixteen-year-old boy when she herself is twelve.
156	** Star's case is made more sympathetic by the abuse Vampire King puts her through, and she seems to change her ways once she’s away from him, but, at least initially, she’s also a horrific bully to Bonnie and a BoomerangBigot.
157	* YouAreWhoYouEat: Obviously, it doesn't actually work, but the Vampire King force-feeds Star the flesh and blood of white and white-passing people in the hopes it will turn her white too.
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159	!The Big Five - The Lioness (adult [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride Vitani]]), the Elephant ([[WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard Imara]]), the Rhinoceros (Shabaha), the Leopard (Tazama), and the African Buffalo (Kasi)
160	See Characters/WithPearlAndRubyGlowingThePalacePartOne for Vitani's appearance at the Palace.
161	* AbortionFalloutDrama: Zira helped give Kasi an abortion with a sharpened branch, and while she was glad it was done due to not wanting kids, she was in pain for a long time afterwards.
162	* AdoptingTheAbused: Timon and Pumbaa took in Vitani and Kovu after Nuka's death.
163	* BittersweetEnding: Vitani is dying in her twenties after a life of trauma, but she's helping other women while she has time, is coming to some level of peace about her mother, and looks forward to seeing her brother again.
164	* DueToTheDead: Vitani scatters Zira's ashes in Kenya where she grew up, as, while she knows Zira wasn't the best mother or person, she still deserved that level of respect.
165	* GroinAttack: Imara and Kasi had been circumcised, as well as Zira.
166	* LadyLand: Zira spent some time in Umoja, the all-female refuge village in Kenya, before her marriage to Scar, and Vitani lives there now, supporting abused women.
167	* TimeSkip: Their chapter takes place twenty years after the main story.
168	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The chapter is set in the mid-[=2030s=].
169	* YourDaysAreNumbered: Vitani has cancer and only has about two years to live.
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171	!The Abducted Persons - Recovery ({{WesternAnimation/Mira\|RoyalDetective}}) and Repatriation (WesternAnimation/SallyBollywood)
172	* AgeLift: Mira and Sally are really old in the present day where most of the fic is set due to their chapter taking place in 1949.
173	* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Mira was forced to marry a Hindu man and Sally a Muslim man.
174	* EvilVegetarian: Mira's Hindu husband doesn't consume animal products or let her do so.
175	* ForeignQueasine: Conversely, Sally is Hindu and distressed by her Muslim husband forcing her to eat meat.
176	* GreyAndGrayMorality: Both sides in the war have both good and horrible people on them - the girls and their families versus the men who forcibly marry them, respectively.
177	* {{Hypocrite}}: Mira's husband is a vegan and makes a speech about nonviolence during their wedding, but has no problem marrying and molesting an eight-year-old kid, or beating her when she couldn't birth him any healthy sons.
178	* OldManMarryingAChild: Well, it's not clear how old their husbands are, but they're adults and the girls are respectively eight and twelve at the time.
179	* PeriodPiece: The chapter is set in 1949, shortly after Pakistan separated from India.
180	* SherlockScan: Both girls are able to do so, as they're able to deduce each others traumas via this method.
181	* TeenPregnancy: Sally was first impregnated at twelve, her first child being born sickly and her second dying just a few hours after being born. Mira was even younger and none of her kids made it at all.
182	* UnwantedAssistance: The girls are eventually rescued, but the authorities' idea of helping them is to send them off to regions they've never been to before, since now Muslims control Pakistan and Hindus control India and they think the girls should be with people of their own faiths, but the girls actually came from the opposite locations.
183
184	!Jeonjaeng ([[Animation/SquirrelAndHedgehog Officer Fox]]) and Peace (Undochi)
185	* ARealManIsAKiller: Wolf strongly discouraged Fox from pursuing a career in fashion and was happy when she joined the military, though the shine wears off when she gets court-martialed for refusing to allow a child to be tortured.
186	* AdaptationalNameChange: Officer Fox is named Kit Wolf, her deadname being Lyall.
187	* AssShove: Undochi was given a nutritional enema when he refused to eat in prison.
188	* ChildSoldier: Undochi was a preteen when he joined the North Korean military.
189	* ColdBloodedTorture: Undochi witnessed Mulmangcho's torture and was tortured himself.
190	* HarmfulToMinors: Being a child soldier is pretty horrifying; Undochi witnessed his brother commit torture and rape, and was tortured himself when he was caught planting bombs.
191	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Officer Fox was court-martialed as official punishment and gang-raped as unofficial punishment for letting Undochi go.
192	* ParentsAsPeople: Officer Fox's dads Wolf and Weasel were decent people but, due to struggling to fit in enough already, did their best to pretend to be straight, which, for a closeted trans woman, didn't help her with her feelings.
193	* RaceLift: Officer Fox is presented as American in canon and has no specific human ethnicity since she's an anthro fox; here, she's American-raised but was adopted from South Korea.
194	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Commander Wolf and Assistant Weasel are Officer Fox's adoptive dads.
195	* SweetPollyOliver: Fox feels like one, having served in the army while still presenting as male, since the army's not great for trans people.
196	* WarIsHell: For both Americans and Koreans, especially for a ten-year-old.
197	* WouldntHurtAChild: Wolf is horrified to find the prisoner Fox released was a kid and forgives her technical treason immediately.
198
199	!The Ghost Dance - Homecomer ([[Toys/MonsterHigh G1 Spectra Vondergeist]]), Hitcher (Kiyomi Haunterly), Phantom Rider (Skyra Bouncegait), White Lady (Scarah Screams), Gather-Grim (Dayna Treasura Jones), Poltergeist (Porter Geiss), Haunt (Ari Hauntington), Routewitch (Sirena Von Boo), Reaper (River Styxx), Seizer (Vandala Doubloons), and the Crossroads Ghost ([[WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh2022 G3 Spectra Vondergeist]])
200	* AdaptationalMundanity: Up to a point. They are all ghosts, but they're the ghosts of humans, not mermaids or centaurs.
201	* AdaptationalNameChange: G1 Spectra Vondergeist is Whispers-Under-Ice, forcibly renamed Vanessa Vandergeest, and her descendant G3 Spectra is Petra. Kiyomi Haunterly, Porter Geiss, and Ari Hauntington keep their first names but Kiyomi's surname is Hattori and Ari's is Huntington, and Porter's Native name is Goosefeather. Skyra Bouncegait is Sky Jumping Horse, Scarah Screams is Sarah [=McCree=], Dayna Treasura Jones is Joanie Day-by-Night, Sirena Von Boo is Serena Blue-Fawn, River Styxx is River Step, and Vandala Doubloons is Angela Two-Moons.
202	* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: G1 Spectra was held prisoner in a residential school where Native kids were severely abused and trained to act white.
203	* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Ari had to dress up in caricatured versions of Native clothes for her vaudeville dancing, and Spectra is annoyed when Operetta wears an "Indian princess" costume for a school contest.
204	* BurnBabyBurn: Porter was hanged for burning down white people's houses.
205	* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Kiyomi was Numa and Japanese, but it wasn't much of an issue for her, whereas Scarah was Ute and Irish, and that was; blood quantum rules meant she couldn't be claimed as part of the tribe and she felt left out.
206	* CouldntFindAPen: Porter drew on the walls of his cell in blood, semen, and faeces.
207	* TheDeadCanDance: They discuss how they danced or wanted to dance in life, and the story ends with Spectra leading them in the [[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-oz-lakota-ghost-dance-massacre-wounded-knee/ Ghost Dance]].
208	* DelicateAndSickly: Instead of a mermaid, Sirena was a wheelchair user with bad asthma.
209	* DueToTheDead: Spectra writes the ghosts' names on ribbons and hangs them up, so they'll be remembered.
210	* EyeScream / FacialHorror: Kiyomi lost her nose and eyes to syphilis and River's face was cut up and her eyes gouged out by the white soldiers who murdered her.
211	* GhostlyAnimals: Instead of being a centaur, Skyra was a paraplegic with a strong bond with her horse Sunka, who was killed shortly after her and now manifests along with her.
212	* GroinAttack: River was killed by a bayonet thrust into her vagina and out through her abdomen.
213	* TheGrotesque: Some of the ghosts look pretty frightening, but they're all friendly.
214	* ISeeDeadPeople: G3 Spectra is alive and can see all the ghosts.
215	* InterruptedSuicide: Porter's ghost stops Spectra from hanging herself, and Dayna helps her recover from anorexia.
216	* OrphansOrdeal: Ari may not have been an actual orphan, as Native kids were often stolen from their families, but either way she was given to white adoptive parents who treated her badly.
217	* PeriodPiece: The ghosts' memory fragments are all their stories from various points in Turtle Island history.
218	* PosthumousCharacter: All of them except G3 Spectra are dead and have been dead for many years.
219	* RealPersonCameo: Several important figures in Turtle Island history appear. Kiyomi danced with Hawthorne Wodziwob, Skyra witnessed the trial of Plenty Horses, Scarah mentions Vine Deloria Jr. during her account of the Alcatraz occupation, Dayna danced with Chief Black Coyote, Ari worked in vaudeville with Zintkala Nuni, and Sirena died of an asthma attack brought on by surprise during Wovoka's solar eclipse ritual.
220	* RoomFullOfCrazy: Porter had a psychotic break and drew all over his cell walls in blood.
221	* TrophyChild: Ari was adopted as one:
222	-->"I was this strange exotic... ''thing'' to them. Not even a doll, I was like a dollhouse. Somewhere to put the daughter they wanted once they cleared out everything inside."
223
224	!Tibbar Tibbar ([[Toys/{{Squishmallows}} Cam]]) and Rabbit Rabbit ([[Toys/PlushieDreadfuls Scruffy Bumps]])
225	* AdaptationalVillainy: The Squishmallows characters are almost all jerks of one type or another, as a TakeThat to the company for supporting the occupation of Palestine. Cam is especially so because one of the authors particularly dislikes Cam's treatment of Fifi in the Squishville cartoons.
226	* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Averted; Cam is, but Scruffy is Afro-Palestinian, and the Year of the Rabbit and Year of the Dragon Plushie Dreadfuls are Sephardic Chinese.
227	* AssholeVictim: Both of them to each other, to some extent, Scruffy being more the victim than Cam. Scruffy Bumps says some thoroughly unpleasant things to Cam, but Cam then smears him, a Jewish man, as an antisemite.
228	* BoomerangBigot: Cam is trans and intersex, but willing to misgender Scruffy Bumps out of malice, though Scruffy is also both those things. He's also Jewish and spreads horrible rumours about Jewish people who support Palestine, including claiming they're antisemitic.
229	* {{Catfishing}}: Cam really is a young Israeli intersex trans man, but he's paid by the government to stir shit on social media in favour of Israel.
230	* DoesNotLikeMen: Regina, Seluna, and Sunny are radical feminists.
231	* {{Eurabia}}: Not actually a thing in-universe or out, but some of the characters seem to think that it would be the result of the world supporting Palestine over Israel.
232	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Cam really did have a horrible thing happen to him, suffering a serious genital mutilation in infancy and being raised as the wrong gender. This isn't used as an excuse for or even ''related'' to his behaviour now, though.
233	* GroinAttack: Cam lost his penis as an infant in a botched circumcision.
234	* ItsAllAboutMe: Cam butts into conversations which had nothing to do with Israel to talk about how horrible anti-Zionists are.
235	* HeelFaceTurn: Plushie Dreadfuls' original autism-representing rabbit, the Hope Bunny, was designed by Autism Speaks, an organisation which does a lot of harm to autistic people. When they received complaints, they discontinued it and designed the Autism 2.0 Bunny with more input from autistic designers. In the fanfic universe, Hope Bunny is Autism 2.0 Bunny's big sister who was used as a poster child for ABA therapy and used to think it worked, but has now realised her therapist was abusing her and promotes less harmful autism acceptance.
236	* JerkassHasAPoint: Scruffy is rude, hostile, ill-wishes Cam, and accuses him of causing "'unclear' sexual situations" with little evidence, which doesn't help him get people on his side when Cam smears his name, but he's right that Cam is both a worse jerk accusing far more people of worse things and a psyop intentionally provoking fights to make anti-Zionists look bad.
237	* MaliciousMisnaming: Scruffy's name here is "Aswad", so Cam derisively refers to him as "Asswad".
238	* ManipulativeEditing: Cam and Lola share things Scruffy said to them with parts removed to make him look worse, such as censoring out the part blaming Cam in "(You’re really just looking for ANY reason to say) the people of turtle island are dumb and uncivilized."
239	* MustHaveCaffeine: Matcha Bunny is very disappointed that Big Coffee supports a cause they find morally repulsive so they can't buy from them anymore; the other characters suggest alternatives.
240	* PunnyName: NPD Bunny goes by "daffodillop" as daffodils are related to the narcissus flower.
241	* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Cam was raised as a girl following a botched circumcision and transitioned back to male as a teen.
242	* SdrawkcabName: "Tibbar Tibbar" is "Rabbit Rabbit" backwards.
243	* ShoutOut: Social Phobia Opossum describes an ink leak staining their plushie as "[[https://notalwaysright.com/de-ting-de-ting/67844/ blue on the Thing]]".
244	* TakeThat: The chapter is a callout of the Squishmallows company for donating to Israel, the authors being careful to note that not supporting Israel's occupation of Palestine is not an excuse for antisemitism and that the Squishmallows characters are only representing internet arguments while characters with a more "dignified" origin represent the people doing the actual fighting and dying in other chapters.
245	* ThatOldTimePrescription: Lilac Mushroom Bunny uses and recommends herbal medicine because she lives on a reservation with no easy access to a doctor, though she does recommend Banana Bunny see a professional doctor if she can.
246
247	!En Feey Ekawkawwawpamiht ([[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Violet Parr]])
248	* CassandraTruth: She genuinely is Metis. However, because she looks white and was raised in mainstream white culture, once Syndrome outs her, everyone assumes she was a faker.
249	* DrivenToSuicide: Everyone assumes she's considering it following her rape, but Violet makes it clear that, while she ''is'' suffering, she's not intending to take her life.
250	* HonoraryUncle: Frozone is considered her uncle, while his wife and Edna Mode are the gender-flipped version.
251	* MeaningfulName: Her name is Michif for "The Invisible Girl", which represents her feelings over being white-coded and her family being forcibly assimilated into white culture.
252	* ShrinkingViolet: She's rather shy and embracing her true heritage is what allows her to come out of her shell. Once Syndrome rapes her and then turns everyone against her, she retreats back to herself.
253
254	!Khorchi the Deathless ([[WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs Buck]])
255	* AmbiguousSituation: The narration admits that Buck was never sure if Bronwyn succumbed to her illness or Rudy's assault was too much for her weakened body to handle.
256	* BigotryException: While he admits to hating Russians, he has a soft spot for Sid.
257	* CloudCuckoolander: All the trauma Buck endured has driven him more than a little insane, with the story revealing that he finally snapped completely after Rudy threw him into an offal pit.
258	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Averted; Rudy tried to give him one by throwing him into an offal pit (the hole where slaughterhouses dump inedible organs and diseased animals). He survived.
259	* CrusadingWidower: Buck tortures Rudy by knocking his teeth out and later beats him to death with assistance from Momma Rex, after Rudy kills Buck's wife and child.
260	* CompanionCube: He has a doll made to look like his daughter and treats it like a real baby.
261	* CoolBigBro: He acted like one to Crash and Eddie, back when they were still alive.
262	* DeathOfAChild: His newborn daughter Bronwyn died, either from her illness or after Rudy raped her.
263	* EyeScream: Rudy ejaculated and urinated into Buck's eye socket.
264	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: After he snapped, no one really wanted to spend time with him.
265	* HollywoodHeartAttack: In Alice's chapter in ''Wheel of the Year'', he clutches his chest and keels over due to a heart attack after beating up Alice's rapists.
266	* HopeSpot: It almost seems like Rudy is going to take pity on him and help Bronwyn, only to rape her as well, possibly killing her.
267	* InterruptedSuicide: After snapping, Buck intended to throw himself into a thresher, only for Rudy to stop him so that he didn't mess up the blades.
268	* TheLostLenore: His pineapple wife and Bronwyn the pumpkin were his actual wife and daughter in this 'verse and their deaths drove Buck closer to madness.

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