YMMV / It's (Not) Your Fault

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Luna jealous of Sam and Lincoln, or is she legitimately concerned about not allowing Sam to hurt her dear brother?
• Awesome Art: Pretty much the only thing people can agree on about the comic is how incredibly exact the artwork is to the source material. One might be able to convince someone else that it is a genuine canon comic, and it is incredibly well done and detailed in general.
• Designated Hero: Sam was meant to be seen as a girl with a bad home life and in a messy relationship with Luna. However, the fact that she lured, kissed, and raped Lincoln when she was drunk shows that she isn't heroine material, but the story still expects us to support her.
• Designated Villain: Luna is supposedly the villain because she incited Sam to rape Lincoln due to her insane jealousy and assaulting them after instantly believing that the two had kissed. However, far from being a jealous girl, it's more plausible that Luna was just wanting to protect Lincoln, afraid that Sam might hurt him. Also, it was Sam who raped Lincoln and really traumatized him, and as a result, the family should throw Sam out and side with Luna, because, as quick as she was to condemn Sam, she did it to defend Lincoln and his family. However, the Loud family apparently kicked Luna out of the house (or she ran away in embarrassment; not sure) and took Sam in, which is like a family of rabbits adding a predatory wolf to their family and kicking out a rabbit that punched the wolf out of sheer survival instinct (and all this after the wolf DEVOURED a family rabbit!).
• Die for Our Ship: In this story, it appears that Stellacoln and Saluna are nuked beyond repair to make sure Samcoln can happen through a series of increasingly over-the-top and contrived drama to force them together.
• Fanfic Fuel: This comic managed to inspire a number of fanfics. These stories either retell the plot up to a point or use the events as a jumping-off point and typically lead to Lincoln being become estranged from his family (Luna especially). There's even a Deconstruction Fic called Really Isn't Your Fault that rewrites the story with the characters approaching things with more common sense and reaching a realistic outcome for all involved.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Whenever the comic is brought up, it is more about the fact that a drunk Sam lured and raped Lincoln, with this being how Lina was conceived. Plus, Javi's other artwork regarding his One True Pairing portraying them as a happy and loving couple in spite of that seems to imply that rape isn't all that harmful.
• Squick: Page 130 reveals that Sam, a teenager, raped Lincoln, a 12-year-old boy, while drunk and that this is how Lina was conceived. "Ew" doesn't even begin to describe it. Thankfully, the act itself happens offscreen.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: One of the biggest issues people have with the comic is how overtly dark and melodramatic the story is. The conflict is kicked off with Rusty sabotaging Stella and Lincoln's relationship out of spite and petty jealousy that results in a messy breakup, which is preceded by Luna and Sam having a spat over a simple music gig that leads to Sam becoming mentally unstable when Luna brings up her missing dad. This eventually accumulates in Sam getting drunk off her butt and forcing herself onto Lincoln. And if that wasn't enough, Sam becomes pregnant with Lincoln's child, so the two secretly decide to raise their kid together and ostracize Luna because of her refusal to accept said child.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: It’s easy to feel worse for Luna in the end, over the fact that her own girlfriend raped her little brother, and pretty much felt ostracized by the family when they chose to protect Sam over her.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Despite however much the author tries to play off Sam's rape of Lincoln as a moment of weakness brought about a bad sequence of events, Sam is still guilty of taking advantage of and forcing herself on a 12-year-old boy against his will, traumatizing him for life. Even worse, instead of his family rightfully getting her arrested and the fetus aborted for forced conception, they apparently decided to raise Lina in secret and shun Luna from the family, practically keeping Lina in the dark that she ever existed. All the while, Lincoln was forced to take care of a child he didn't want. But hey, it's still all right because she felt ''really'' bad about it after the act and did not take any contraceptives.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: The story has some pretty strong anti-abortion overtones, especially near the end where, despite Sam raping Lincoln, the two somehow manage to work it out as they keep the baby (Lina) and raise her before getting married. Whether this was intentional on the author's part has yet to be confirmed.
• The Woobie: Lincoln easily suffers the most amount in this comic by far. Things do go well for him at first, but after the fake photo created by a jealous Rusty of him and Sam kissing, he ends up being ostracized by everyone, with Luna now hating him and unwilling to talk with him and Stella breaking up with him. So yes, Lincoln gets quite miserable as a result. Things get even worse for him when Sam calls him over to the school and, despite Lincoln’s attempts to help her, she is so severely damaged mentally from everything that has happened to her up to this point that she rapes him. His last two shots of Part 1 are of Lincoln miserable in bed crying all the time and unwilling to even talk to his friends and just reliving memories of what Sam did to him.

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