- Accidental Innuendo: Tattletale makes this when talking about the Keyblade as looking at it causes her power to go haywire and make her spout nonsense.
- Base-Breaking Character: Circus drove a huge wedge in the fans on their initial appearance. Some loved them, some really didn't.
- Follow the Leader: A Skittering Heart has inspired two writers to start their own story. A Delayed Heart and A Lingering Heart: Forged through Promise
- The Woobie: Taylor to an extent. So many terrible things happen to her over the course of the story many of the readers want her to have happier experiences or for Sabah to spit it out.
- Also applies to the author, as he has publicly stated that although the beta was a little creepy to the point he had to Back Away Slowly, it was not a Confidence Sabotage. He was inexperienced at the time, and had not mastered how to kill your darlings when it came to writing.
- Romantic Plot Tumor: Stew has publically stated that Sabah and Taylor being together was this and Executive Meddling, as his beta at the time was Backseat Driving— combined with his inexperience at the time A Skittering Heart is an Old Shame that is likely a Dead Fic
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