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  • Adorkable: While the Nightmare appears rather frightening, usually looking like Alice but with black-and-red eyes and fangs, she is just so darn excited to see her twin sister again that it's hard not to find her endearing.
  • Awesome Art: Some pages are just so great.
  • Fridge Horror: Humanity creates some of Wonderland's greatest horrors through manifestation of their subconscious nightmares, and their uncontrolled stress was strong enough to assassinate a goddess without realizing it. That's bad enough, but dreaming humans have the power to increase the overall combat effectiveness of their nightmares, which usually results in party wipes. Now consider the fact that since children's dreams produce the most resource and some are easily frightened by unknown entities, that means that some children in this universe have subconsciously murdered sentient beings by thinking bad thoughts. This Orieonaut business might be responsible for creating serial killers via suppressed memories of brutally murdering someone with your mind.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Yes, even this comic can be scary:
    • Nightmare Alice's Freak Out and Body Horror transformation when Alice acusses her of being a hallucination.
    • Mabel's transformation into a Nightmare. Holy hell, Mabel's transformation! While there was definitely earlier scenes showing people in the middle of a Nightmare transformation, Mabel's was the first time we saw the gruesome and intimate details of the process. First, a Nightmare accidentally sprouts in the Dream Simulation, and Mabel immediately jumps to Alice's defense after it tries to attack Alice and Edith, and then it bites Mabel, at which point we see the Nightmare's infection rip her body apart while she screams in pain. Making matters worse, this page was published in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the author even had to put out a statement saying that this part of the story was planned long before the pandemic hit.
    • Turns out Alice IS responsible for Mabel's transformation, her unchecked turbulent emotions can spawn Jaberwocky. That single Reveal turns her from Ambiguously Human into Apocalypse Maiden.
    • Chapter 10, when Rougina is struck by arrows from Obsidian's side of the mirror, and her infection, already present, gets much worse, as can be seen here
  • Paranoia Fuel:
    • There are people who enter your dreams every night and harvest them. They can see everything going on in there and manipulate them in any way they wish. Not all of them are nice and pleasant.
    • If it helps, it's made very clear in Alice's Oneironaut class that such people would have to be Too Dumb to Live. Want to torment the human you're collecting energy from? Go ahead, and, oh, I hope you're ready for the horde of Jabberwocky that will create. If anything, this is Paranoia Fuel for the suits who stand a lot more to lose from those actions than humans.
  • Portmanteau Couple Name: There was a bit of discussion in the comment section on how to name Alice/Edith ship, with propositions such as Alidith or Elice.
  • Rainbow Lens: The difference between upright and reversed suits seem to exist as a parallel to cishet and queer, with the Alt Text even joking that upright suits are a metaphor for straight people.

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