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* TheTroublemaker: Implied. When the Townies get called to the principal's office, Miriam, Priya, and Tyler instantly ask Abby what she did. When she asks [[NotMeThisTime why they're blaming her]], they respond, "It's always you." They backtrack when they learn that they were called there because [[MoodWhiplash Mei's been kidnapped]].
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* VillainousFaceHold: Happens to Mei a few times, especially with the lead doctor.
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* DeadpanSnarker: If there’s one thing about Mei the scientists didn’t affect, it’s her tendency to snark at others.
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* BatmanGrabsAGun: [[spoiler:Even though she was the first woman in her family to break her panda talisman, Ming didn't do so on purpose (the talisman cracked after Meilin shoved her aside). Here, after she finds a dying, branded Mei, she breaks her talisman/tamagochi ''intentionally''.]]
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* BloodSplatteredWarrior: [[spoiler:Ming after her kaiju panda took revenge on the scientists]].
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* YouAreNumberSix: Mei's captors only refer to her as [=RP1=], refusing to call her by her real name. The fact that she's referred to as "1" is later revealed to be because the scientists want to go after the other members of Mei's family who can transform into red pandas.
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* ArcWords: "No red panda left behind."
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* BavarianFireDrill: Tyler and Priya learn about what happened to Mei by going to the smugglers' hideout and pretending to be two rich kids (not much of a stretch for Tyler) shopping for an exotic pet. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The smuggler they talk to completely buys it]].
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Starts for Mei during the auction, with her being repeatedly shocked before being sold like an object and things quickly escalate once the auction is over and she’s turned over to the scientist who bought her, with him not only branding her but doing so while [[AndIMustScream she’s too paralyzed to even scream or whimper but fully conscious and aware of what’s happening]]...and that being just the start of her suffering at his hands…
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Starts for Mei during the auction, with her being repeatedly shocked before being sold like an object and things quickly escalate once the auction is over and she’s turned over to the scientist who bought her, with him not only branding her but doing so while [[AndIMustScream she’s too paralyzed to even scream or whimper but fully conscious and aware of what’s happening]]... and that being just the start of her suffering at his hands…
* MoodWhiplash: The fic starts out with the Townies coming up with their next scheme to get concert tickets. The first chapter ends with Mei being kidnapped... and it only gets darker from there.
* NotMeThisTime: When Miriam, Priya, Tyler, and Abby are called to the principal's office on the last day of school, the other three turn to Abby and ask her what she did. She swears that she's innocent, and it turns out she's right; the kids have been called to the office because Mei is missing.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Basically what the scientists do to Mei. They perform various tests on her, [[OrganTheft steal her appendix]], and [[spoiler:''attempted to dissect her'']] just to figure out [[TheyWouldCutYouUp what makes her tick]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: Meilin is injured several times [[spoiler: and almost ''killed'']] by the scientists.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Meilin Meilin, a 13-year-old girl, is injured several times [[spoiler: and almost ''killed'']] by the scientists.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Mei is rescued, and the scientist are dead, but it's clear Mei has trauma and scars that will never heal. Ming as well, as she had to see her daughter kidnapped and fighting for her life while also coming to terms with ''murdering dozens of people''.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Mei is rescued, and the scientist scientists are dead, but it's clear Mei has trauma and scars that will never heal. Ming as well, as she had to see her daughter kidnapped and fighting for her life while also coming to terms with ''murdering dozens of people''.]]
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* ForScience: According to the scientists, kidnapping a thirteen-year-old girl, isolating her, branding her, torturing her, stealing her appendix, and [[spoiler: ''trying to dissect her'']] is all justifiable if you do it in the name of scientific discovery.
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* ForScience: According to the scientists, [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping a thirteen-year-old girl, girl]], isolating her, branding her, torturing her, stealing her appendix, and [[spoiler: ''trying to dissect her'']] is all justifiable [[BlueAndOrangeMorality justifiable]] if you do it in the name of scientific discovery.
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* VillainousMedicalCare: After an especially abusive guard beats up Mei for biting him [[note]] he deserved it [[/note]], the scientists treat her injuries. This is purely in the name of PragmaticVillainy, as they still [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou need her alive]] to further their experiments. It's also implied that they gave her the bare minimum of medical care, as they don't give her a cast for her broken arm.
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* BigSisterInstinct: One of the reasons for Mei's DefiantCaptive attitude is because she's well-aware that if her captors get what they want out of her, not only will they go after the members of her family who are older enough to have already had their pandas awaken but her much younger cousins.
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* BigSisterInstinct: One of the reasons for Mei's DefiantCaptive attitude is because she's well-aware that if her captors get what they want out of her, not only will they go after the members of her family who are older old enough to have already had their pandas awaken but her much younger cousins.
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* CatapultNightmare: Mei has these for a long time after she escapes her captors.
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* CatapultNightmare: Mei has these for a long time [[spoiler: after she escapes her captors. captors.]]
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* DefiantCaptive: Mei might be kidnapped, tortured, and scared out of her mind, but she's not giving the scientists ''any'' useful information (even resorting to a PrecisionFStrike at one point).
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* ForScience: According to the scientists, kidnapping a thirteen-year-old girl, isolating her, branding her, torturing her, stealing her appendix, and ''trying to dissect her'' is all justifiable if you do it in the name of scientific discovery.
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* DefiantCaptive: Mei might be kidnapped, tortured, and scared out of her mind, but she's not giving the scientists ''any'' useful information (even resorting to a PrecisionFStrike at information. At one point).
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* ForScience: According to the scientists, kidnapping a thirteen-year-old girl, isolating her, branding her, torturing her, stealing her appendix, and [[spoiler: ''trying to dissecther'' her'']] is all justifiable if you do it in the name of scientific discovery.
* ForScience: According to the scientists, kidnapping a thirteen-year-old girl, isolating her, branding her, torturing her, stealing her appendix, and [[spoiler: ''trying to dissect
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* IWantThemAlive: For a while, the scientists want to keep Mei alive, as they believe that she is the ''only'' shapeshifting human in existence. When she's more-or-less tricked into admitting that other members of her family are capable of transformation (although she doesn't tell him that most of them choose [[IJustWantToBeNormal to suppress their pandas in talismans so they can live normal lives]]), they decide that she's more useful to them [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissected]].
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* IWantThemAlive: For a while, the scientists want to keep Mei alive, as they believe that she is the ''only'' shapeshifting human in existence. [[spoiler: When she's more-or-less tricked into admitting that other members of her family are capable of transformation (although she doesn't tell him that most of them choose [[IJustWantToBeNormal to suppress their pandas in talismans so they can live normal lives]]), they decide that she's more useful to them [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissected]].]]
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* ThousandYardStare: Ming when she enters the hospital, covered in blood after her [[KarmicDeath panda killed the scientists.]]
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* ThousandYardStare: Ming when she enters the hospital, [[spoiler: covered in blood after her [[KarmicDeath panda killed the scientists.]]]]]]
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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: At least three times (although the first time it was just a gurney).
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* CreepyStalkerVan: Mei gets followed by (and [[VehicularKidnapping stuffed into]]) one of these. [[{{Understatement}} Her day goes downhill from there...]]
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* TraumaCongaLine: Being kidnapped and sold at an AuctionOfEvil is the ''least'' traumatic thing to happen to Mei in this fic. [[note]] Someone give this poor girl a hug! [[/note]]
