YMMV / God's Humor

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Why did Rire keep the photo of Val with the last part of the suicide note on the back? Did he want to keep it as a trophy? Did he actually care about her more than he thinks he does? Or did he keep it to use a sympathy points if someone asked about Val’s suicide?
  • Does Monroe really care for his son despite what he says? Or does he only see Blair as his property, which makes his concern for him based on possessiveness and not actual love?
• Growing the Beard: The story starts to really pick up around chapters 6 - 8.
• Iron Woobie: Monroe possibly, if you can look past the awful things that he’s done. It’s implied that his parents were abusive. In high school, after he stopped being a bully he was still ostracized by everyone at school until Rire let him join his group of friends, but the other kids in that group mistrusted him and possibly never grew to like him. After high school he married a woman who treated him like a conversation piece. And his son, despite surviving the Hedone explosion, has Locked In Syndrome and asked Monroe to kill him. Despite all of this, he takes everything in stride more or less.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: It would’ve been interesting if Desmond had a bigger role in the fanfic, considering that he doesn’t get much attention in canon, and due to what happened with Izm and how a relationship with Desmond could’ve affected D throughout the story.
• The Woobie: D and Val are the biggest examples, but they aren’t the only ones.
• Wheelchair Woobie: Desmond can get out of his wheelchair, but he still needs to use one for this rest of his life. And though he has been handling the Hedone explosion rather well, the trauma he’s been through makes him a very tragic figure. At least until his memories of Izm’s death get erased.