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- The general demeanor of the Wastrels in the Garden District. They stroll around listlessly, speak in monotone voices about all of the horrible things they remember, and spontaneously break into hysterical tears.
- Every once in a while, you'll find the corpse of a Wastrel hanging from a noose. With the way they live, it's not hard to imagine how many would be Driven to Suicide.
- One notable line of dialogue is a woman re-enacting someone coming home to their parents, filling both the role of parent and child. Considering what happened to the children of Wellington Wells, it's not hard to imagine that she herself might have been the mother.Mum, dad, I've come 'ome! Well, don't you worry, dearie. Everything will be alright from now on. You sit down and have a cuppa tea, I'll just go and make up your bed.
- Arthur's flashback in the prologue. He starts beating his fists on the censorship machine, yelling Percy's name, and his hands visibly shake when he grabs his Joy. Choose not to take the Joy and he flings the pills across the room in a fit of grief.
- The "Super Meat Boy" sidequest has Arthur chase away a street gang that had been assaulting Ed MacMillan, the butcher's delivery boy and a childhood friend of Percy's. To complete the quest, you have to carry Ed — who had both his legs broken by the street gang — to the pub, so that he could have his wounds treated. During this trip, Ed and Arthur talk about Percy.Ed: Do you remember Percy?
Arthur: 'Course I remember Percy. He's my brother.
Ed: It's just... People forget things.
Arthur: I know.
Ed: Miss Victoria said he was dim. But he wasn't. He was smart. And he never lied! Most people lie all the time. Did you know that?
Arthur: Yes. I'm afraid I'm one of them.
Ed: But you're good, Arthur... Percy said so.
Arthur: I'm gonna find him. I promised I'd take care of him.
Ed: Do you know where he is?
Arthur: Somewhere in Germany? Or Russia?
Ed: ...is that very far away?
Arthur: ...yes.
Ed: Is it very cold there...?
Arthur: Yes... I'm afraid it is. - In the Train Station, we find out how Arthur and Percy got separated. The Germans had ordered every child under the age of twelve to be taken away on the train. Arthur and Percy were both ordered to go as well, but Arthur had used Percy's passport instead of his own. The Bobby in charge wouldn't allow Arthur to board the train after believing out he was too old, leading to a shot of Percy getting dragged on board the train by two adults, kicking and screaming for his brother. It's even worse when it's revealed Arthur tricked the guard into believing that he was too old and that Percy was under the age limit, leaving him to be dragged off onto the train.
- In both of their respective stories, Arthur and Sally ask each other if they want to escape the city together. But Sally wants to leave once she has everything ready, and Arthur is out of patience and wants to leave immediately and parts way with her before she can explain, citing that it's out of self-preservation. In Sally's story, she does tell him she has a baby... but it only causes Arthur to hesitate before leaving anyways.
- In the epilogue, Sally says to Gwen that they'll be the Two Musketeers, the nickname she and Arthur used to have. If Arthur had stayed for them, maybe they would've been the Three Musketeers...
- The Very Bad Thing itself. It wasn't a horrible-but-necessary act against the German threat - that's just a lie to keep up morale. The truth is that Wellington Wells was tricked by the Germans into doing something horrible: deporting all children. What makes it worse is that the German army had presumably exhausted most of its resources, and likely would have been easily defeated if Britain fought back. Instead, the children of Wellington Wells end up being both deported, and likely dying, for no reason.
- The worst part? It's implied through notes that the children didn't even make it to Germany, but the train crashed along the way with no survivors. And to twist the knife just that much further, there's implications Wellington Wells was the only town in Britain to not realize the threats were a sham and fight back against their occupiers.
- When Ollie ties up Victoria and forces her to come down off her Joy, she begs him to let her take her drugs. You see the effects of withdrawal, sobbing, remembering the traumatic effects of her past sins. Specifically, she remembers making the children sing "London Bridge is Falling Down" to calm them, but they still screamed when they were forced onto the train.
- The ending of Ollie's story. Ollie finds Jack Worthing's final tape, where a mention of dolls triggers Jack's memories of his daughter and her death. He started telling the truth in a sobbing panic and was dragged off, presumably being killed. Ollie finally admits to himself that Margaret isn't his daughter, and that what he's been blaming Jack for all this time (reporting Margaret being hidden and getting her killed) is his fault.
- The ending of the We All Fall Down DLC, which serves as the Grand Finale to the whole game. After Victoria blows up Haworth Labs and destroys all the Joy in Wellington Wells, the town collapses almost immediately into anarchy and violence. By the time Victoria regains consciousness, almost everyone in the town has been killed, save for a handful of survivors who resent her for forcing them to regain their buried memories.Male Survivor: You lot told us everything was fine. You told us to pretend it was.
Victoria: We all wanted to pretend! Don't you remember??- The final shot of the DLC - and the game as a whole - is of the ruins of Wellington Wells, buried in rubble and fire and corpses.
