Alseides, post-Time Skip. Will he recover and get the psychological help he needs in order to heal, or is the damage so bad that he'll be an Ax-Crazy / Blood Knight / Jerkass / Broken Bird for the rest of his life?
Vapor. Hateful Jerkass, or broken abuse victim who really needs help but is too beaten-down to ask for it?
Sylvia: innocent ingenue or incredibly snobby, stuck-up, self-absorbed idiot?
Designated Hero: Sylvia leaves one of her brothers to a life of abuse and torture because he was rude to her when they met again, runs out on Alseides while he's struggling for his life, and obsesses over a suicide victim... because of how it makes her feel.
Heartwarming Moments: There are several of these, but Sylvia's reunion with Bolt takes the cake, primarily because of how nice he's become.
In one chapter, Sylvia is severely weakened from getting attacked by a group of Venipede, and in another, she defeats Moondancer in battle. Both of these events were written before it was confirmed that Fairy types are strong against Dark types and weak against Poison types; it is even lampshaded in a later chapter.
Sylvia's first human friend , and her trainer at the end of the story, was named Serena (not the Pokemon X and Y character). Later, in the Pokemon XY anime, Serena catches an Eevee. And now it's a Sylveon.
Moral Event Horizon: Dilandau's crossed it since before he appeared by setting Chargestone Cave on fire, killing many Pokemon.
Narm: When Sylvia witnesses a girl committing suicide, we're shown the contents of her suicide note... which promptly fall on their face with the line "No one gives a Hoothoot about me".
Tear Jerker: Again, several of these, the most notable one being when Sylvia's father dies.
Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: A criticism held about the fic is that each time Sylvia has some happiness or finds herself in a good situation, she inevitably loses it in a horrific or tragic way. She meets a sweet elderly couple who take her in with their other Pokemon... and then the man dies of a sudden stroke and the lady hasn't much longer to live. She meets a kindhearted young girl who takes her on her trainer journey... but then the girl's evil father appears to kidnap her, Sylvia is forcibly released, and the girl's ultimate fate is unknown. Even something as mundane as admiring Skyarrow Bridge leads to tragedy when a girl commits suicide right in front of her on that very bridge. While Sylvia doeseventually get a happy ending, the preceding chapters are so full of tragedy and Yank the Dog's Chain that it's tiring to get through.
Unintentionally Sympathetic: Vapor is captured by an abusive trainer, forced to evolve into a Jolteon against his will, and is implied to be regularly beaten... and we're supposed to see him as the bad guy because he (completely understandably) isn't polite to Sylvia when she finds him.
