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Ambiguous Disorder is now Diagnosed By The Audience, and it's also now a YMMV trope.


* AmbiguousDisorder: Most likely a severe form of PTSD. [[spoiler:A psychiatrist Jeremy visits, named Dr. Orson notes that his behavior is certainly disordered, but is unable to provide meaningful counsel to him before dying]].

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* AbusiveParents: Emotionally abusive to her birth son Jeremy. Soon after her first husband died she insisted Jeremy (her son) call her by her first name and she also had him kiss her on the lips. Worst of all she knows what her second husband did to Jeremy before he died and did nothing to stop it.



* TheUnfavorite: Was this to Greg.

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* TheUnfavorite: Was this to Greg.Greg and possibly Sandra though this likely saved him from potential trauma.

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* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Ian's Veronica as the two compete for Nadia's affection. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as Jeremy and Ian end up getting together instead]].

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* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Ian's Veronica as the two compete for Nadia's affection. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as Jeremy and Ian end up getting together instead]]. Towards the end of the manga, when Nadia returns from Germany after a fight with York, [[spoiler: Jeremy briefly becomes the dark and troubled Veronica to Nadia's less traumatized Betty.]]


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* GenerationXerox: Of his deceased father, who was also named Jeremy.
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* TheUnfavorite: Was this to Greg.

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* TheUnfavorite: Was this to Greg.Greg.
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* TheUnfavorite: Was said to have been this to his own father, just as Matt was to him.



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* TheUnfavorite: Was this to Greg.
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* WickedStepfather

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* WickedStepfatherWickedStepfather: Greg emotionally, physically, and sexually abuses his stepson Jeremy.
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: [[spoiler:Murders his abusive stepfather; his mother's death as collateral devestates him, however, and he quickly returns to his usual terse self, albeit twice as depressed]].

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* BewareTheQuietOnes: [[spoiler:Murders his abusive stepfather; his mother's death as collateral devestates devastates him, however, and he quickly returns to his usual terse self, albeit twice as depressed]].
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* TroubledButCute: Often described as beautiful and handsome, but struggling from a [[RapeAsABackstory dark and]] [[SelfmadeOrphan troubled past.]]

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* TroubledButCute: Often described as beautiful and handsome, but struggling from a [[RapeAsABackstory [[RapeAsBackstory dark and]] [[SelfmadeOrphan troubled past.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: [[spoiler:A psychiatrist Jeremy visits, named Dr. Orson notes that his behavior is certainly disordered, but is unable to provide meaningful counsel to him before dying]].

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Most likely a severe form of PTSD. [[spoiler:A psychiatrist Jeremy visits, named Dr. Orson notes that his behavior is certainly disordered, but is unable to provide meaningful counsel to him before dying]].



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* BrokenBirdBrokenBird: Jeremy was a regular, happy boy once. After his sexual abuse and his [[spoiler:subsequent murder of Greg and Sandra]], he is never the same. The aftermath of his traumas are something he will have to deal with his whole life.



* DarkAndTroubledPast

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* DarkAndTroubledPastDarkAndTroubledPast: Lost his father, [[spoiler:forced to live with a mentally-ill and emotionally-manipulative mother, horrifically sexually abused by his stepfather, had to deal with the guilt of accidentally murdering his mother, and almost raped several times by other men.]]



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDoneMyGodWhatHaveIDone: After he finds out [[spoiler:Sandra is dead.]]



* PromiscuityAfterRape

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* PromiscuityAfterRapePromiscuityAfterRape: Eventually becomes a [[spoiler:prostitute, sleeping with several men a day.]]



* RavenHairIvorySkin

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* RavenHairIvorySkinRavenHairIvorySkin: Jeremy fits the bill.



* TroubledButCute

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* TroubledButCuteTroubledButCute: Often described as beautiful and handsome, but struggling from a [[RapeAsABackstory dark and]] [[SelfmadeOrphan troubled past.]]
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* AbusiveParent

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* AbusiveParentAbusiveParent: To Jeremy, his stepson. And also to his young son Matt, who he emotionally and physically abuses.
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* WickedStepmother[[Wicked Stepfather]]

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* TroubledButCute

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* SexForSolace: With [[spoiler:Ian.]]



* AmbiguouslyBi: Ian has had relationships with multiple women, most notably Nadia, but struggles with his attraction to Jeremy, another man.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: Ian has had relationships with multiple women, most notably Nadia, but struggles with his attraction to Jeremy, [[spoiler:Jeremy]], another man.
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!The Lowland Family


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* AmbiguouslyBi: Ian has had relationships with multiple women, most notably Nadia, but struggles with his attraction to Jeremy, another man.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: He begins the story with a girlfriend named Vivi, though their relationship crumbles once [[spoiler:she doubts his claims of abuse]]. He later shows interest in Nadia

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* AmbiguouslyBi: He begins the story with a girlfriend named Vivi, though their relationship crumbles once [[spoiler:she doubts his claims of abuse]]. He later shows interest in NadiaNadia, [[spoiler:though nothing notable comes of their friendship]].



* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Ian's Veronica as the two compete for Nadia's affection. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as Jeremy and Ian end up getting together instead]].



* BrokenBird
* TheCassandra: When he comes forward to [[spoiler:Ian]] about his abuse he is not believed, and is eventually gaslit.



* RapeAsBackstory

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* RapeAsBackstoryRapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:More rape-as-plot, though he broadly counts on account of the first half of the story being an extended flashback]].



* SelfHarm: Following [[spoiler:Sandra's death]], he takes to slamming his head against walls and doors.



* VillainProtagonist: Jeremy dips into this on occasion, to the point where some of his own behavior might be considered abusive. [[spoiler:Overcoming these parts of himself and growing into a better person is part of his recovery]].

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* VillainProtagonist: Jeremy dips into this on occasion, to the point where some of his own behavior might be considered abusive. [[spoiler:Overcoming these parts of himself and growing into a better person is part of his recovery]].
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jeremy is strange, to put it lightly.


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* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:A victim of it from his stepfather, and his relationship with Sandra has uncomfortable subtext]].


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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Of the three parents he's had, one died of presumably natural causes and the other two by his own devising]].


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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Jeremy, being sheltered and naive for his age, is forced to grow up quickly [[spoiler:in order to cope with his abuse]]. [[spoiler:This backfires horrendously when it leads to him concocting a scheme to kill his abuser that ends up taking his mother with it]].

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* AbusiveParents
* AmbiguouslyBi
* AmbiguousDisorder

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* AbusiveParents
AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Has one in the form of his stepfather, Greg, who sexually victimizes him throughout the first half of the narrative, though less salient is his mother, Sandra, who was neglectful, clingy, emotionally dependent on her son, and did nothing to stop the abuse she knew he was enduring at her husband's hands.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi
AmbiguouslyBi: He begins the story with a girlfriend named Vivi, though their relationship crumbles once [[spoiler:she doubts his claims of abuse]]. He later shows interest in Nadia
* AmbiguousDisorderAmbiguousDisorder: [[spoiler:A psychiatrist Jeremy visits, named Dr. Orson notes that his behavior is certainly disordered, but is unable to provide meaningful counsel to him before dying]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:A good chunk of the story is spent following Jeremy as he attempts to atone for his actions, primarily the murder of his mother.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: [[spoiler:Murders his abusive stepfather; his mother's death as collateral devestates him, however, and he quickly returns to his usual terse self, albeit twice as depressed]].



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* DefiledForeverDefiledForever: [[spoiler:Considers himself such following Greg's first forays into abusing him]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: His mother's, [[spoiler:and vice versa]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone


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* RavenHairIvorySkin
* ShrinkingViolet: Many characters note how reserved he is. [[spoiler:This aspect of his personality becomes exaggerated following his abuse, and opening back up is how he spends most of his recovery]].
* TinMan: To [[spoiler:cope with his abuse]], he begins to consider himself above human emotions.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:His father died when he was around 10, his mother subsequently attempted suicide, later marries a pedophile who routinely abuses Jeremy and threatens to turn the abuse on his mother should he not comply, and is later killed by Jeremy on accident in his attempts to kill his new father in revenge, all in the first half of the story. The second isn't much better.]]
* VillainProtagonist: Jeremy dips into this on occasion, to the point where some of his own behavior might be considered abusive. [[spoiler:Overcoming these parts of himself and growing into a better person is part of his recovery]].
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* AbusiveParents
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