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** Don't succumb to people that abused you in the past. If Dana hadn't caved into Irene's demands and sought approval from her, she could've been a better person and not abused Mary. Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Mary’s CharacterDevelopment involves her learning to stand up to ableist characters in her life and being done with seeking Dana’s nonexistent approval]].
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* AwfulTruth: Chapter 9 reveals that [[spoiler:Dana plans to get Mary sterilized without her consent, which was what was on the blog entry that convinced Mary to run away, even though at the time, Mary thought the word sterilize was another word for murder.]] When Mary learns what it really means in chapter 12, she is understandably horrified that her mother would think of putting her through that.
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** Sharing private information about autistic people to the public and making life-altering decisions for them without the autistic person's consent is not only morally reprehensible, but a violation of their autonomy. Autistic people have just as much a right to privacy and their bodily autonomy as anyone else, and if you share intimate details about them on the internet without their input, you're not only putting their future in jeopardy, you're contributing to the stigmatization of autistic people.
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** Sharing private information about autistic people to the public and making life-altering decisions for them without the autistic person's consent is not only morally reprehensible, but a violation of their autonomy. Autistic people have just as much a right to privacy and their bodily autonomy as anyone else, and if you share intimate details about them on the internet without their input, you're not only putting their future in jeopardy, you're contributing to their stigmatization.
** An individual is only responsible for their own actions, decisions, and their consequences, and should never put thestigmatization of blame on others. Mary comes to realize that her being autistic people.and her general existence didn't ruin Dana's life or make her do all that she did, and Dana realizes that her own crusade to cure Mary damaged her relationships with her family rather than Mary herself. Nora kept trying to blame others for her own destructive actions rather than admit responsibility, and her refusal to take accountability [[spoiler:resulted in her SpitefulSuicide.]]
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** There's nothing inherently wrong with being autistic. Just because you are autistic, doesn't mean you can't have a meaningful life.
** Sharing private information about autistic people to the public and making life-altering decisions for them without the autistic person's consent is not only morally reprehensible, but a violation of their autonomy. Autistic people have just as much a right to privacy and their bodily autonomy as anyone else, and if you share intimate details about them on the internet without their input, you're not only putting their future in jeopardy, you're contributing to the stigmatization of autistic people.
** Sharing private information about autistic people to the public and making life-altering decisions for them without the autistic person's consent is not only morally reprehensible, but a violation of their autonomy. Autistic people have just as much a right to privacy and their bodily autonomy as anyone else, and if you share intimate details about them on the internet without their input, you're not only putting their future in jeopardy, you're contributing to the stigmatization of autistic people.
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** PerfectionIsImpossible, especially from children.
** Your children deserve all of the care and support in the world, especially if they have special needs that need to be reasonably accommodated.
** Don't succumb to people that abused you in the past. If Dana hadn't caved into Irene's demands and sought approval from her, she could've been a better person and not abused Mary. Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Mary’s CharacterDevelopment involves her learning to stand up to ableist characters in her life and being done with seeking Dana’s nonexistent approval]].
** PerfectionIsImpossible, especially from children.
** Your children deserve all of the care and support in the world, especially if they have special needs that need to be reasonably accommodated.
** Don't succumb to people that abused you in the past. If Dana hadn't caved into Irene's demands and sought approval from her, she could've been a better person and not abused Mary. Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Mary’s CharacterDevelopment involves her learning to stand up to ableist characters in her life and being done with seeking Dana’s nonexistent approval]].
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* GreaterNeedThanMine: [[spoiler: After Mary’s exit forms, she gives Mimi to Blanca as a parting gift so the stuffed rabbit can comfort other kid passengers that come through the Sweets car just like how Mimi gave her comfort throughout the years]].
* {{Hallucinations}}: [[spoiler: In Chapter 22 Nora, who had spent a few hours drinking and doing cocaine, hallucinates Mary as her younger brother Julius. Mary plays along with it during their confrontation in the house-sized pumpkin]].
* {{Hallucinations}}: [[spoiler: In Chapter 22 Nora, who had spent a few hours drinking and doing cocaine, hallucinates Mary as her younger brother Julius. Mary plays along with it during their confrontation in the house-sized pumpkin]].
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** Mary cites ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' to be her favorite book, and it comes up several times throughout the fic. [[spoiler: She leaves behind her abridged copy to Vic as her parting gift to him]].
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* CloseCallHaircut: Near the end of the Kaiju car in chapter 20, Nora gets into a huge and violent fight against Mary, Blanca, and Vic. Near the end of it, one of Nora's gunshots causes one of Mary's braids to fall off.
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* CloseCallHaircut: Near the end of the Kaiju car in chapter 20, Nora gets into a huge and violent fight against Mary, Blanca, and Vic. Near the end of it, one of Nora's gunshots causes one of Mary's braids to fall off. [[spoiler: It happens again with Mary’s remaining braid during the climatic confrontation between Nora and the trio]].
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* SpitefulSuicide: [[spoiler: Nora, in a drug-infused haze, chooses to not let Mary (who she’s hallucinating as Julius) and Blanca save her when she falls over the edge of the train, instead pepper-spraying Blanca so she can fall under the train’s wheels and be destroyed]].
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** Chapter 18 begins with the quartet in the Musical Car, the exact same one that was featured in season 3 episode one, including the song "Empathy Goes" that Jesse wrote, only nobody attacks the car this time around.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: In chapter 16, when Todd finally tells Dana that [[spoiler:he wants a divorce]], Dana wastes no time trying to place the blame on Mary, which starts yet another argument. When Dana tries to claim that Mary is destroying their lives, he fires back that Mary isn't the one doing that, Dana is...which stuns her into silence.
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** In Chapter 21 [[spoiler: the Clairvoyance Car shows Mary how her friends and family reacted to her disappearance, showing her just how everybody who truly loves her is missing her. This, combined with Vic’s earlier YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech to her, lowers her number to 4 and strengthens her resolve to save Blanca from Nora and return to the real world]].
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** Reagan blames herself for Mary's disappearance because she feels as if she could have done a lot more to stand up to Dana if Mary decided that running away was the best option.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Greg insists that Mary is given special treatment despite the fact that he gets himself into trouble by acting like a bully. Later, when Mary disappears, he laughs about it and expresses hope that Mary is dead. Subverted in that it's revealed he was trying to emulate a video game character's personality and acted like a {{Jerkass}} because he thought he could impress his friends. But when Mr. Bryant explains that people in real life would find a person like that intolerable, linking it to his treatment of Mary, Greg feels remorseful when he realizes the full gravity of the situation.
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** Nora has absolutely no empathy for what she puts her family through while missing.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Chapter 21 reveals that Xander [[spoiler: got arrested for attempting to buy beer underage and assaulting a security guard.]]
** Greg insists that Mary is given special treatment despite the fact that he gets himself into trouble by acting like a bully. Later, when Mary disappears, he laughs about it and expresses hope that Mary is dead. Subverted in that it's revealed he was trying to emulate a video game character's personality and acted like a {{Jerkass}} because he thought he could impress his friends. But when Mr. Bryant explains that people in real life would find a person like that intolerable, linking it to his treatment of Mary, Greg feels remorseful when he realizes the full gravity of the
** Nora has absolutely no empathy for what she puts her family through while missing.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Chapter 21 reveals that Xander [[spoiler: got arrested for attempting to buy beer underage and assaulting a security guard.]]
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* BreakThemByTalking: In an attempt to both get back at the trio for looking through her memories and blackmail them into becoming their bodyguards, Nora plays into Mary's insecurities by guilt-tripping her into believing that leaving Nora behind in the Haunted House Car out of self-preservation makes her no different from a murderer, along with threatening to show the blog to people at her high school. Sadly, despite Blanca and Vic's attempts to call Nora out, it works.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: Mary assuming the word"[[spoiler: sterilize]]" "[[spoiler:sterilize]]" was one was what prompted her to run away.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Mary assuming the word
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** Chapters 18 and 19 showcase Nora’s backstory and her descent into TheBully.
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** In Chapter 20, Blanca offers to Nora that if she doesn’t want to be with them, she can leave. Nora calms down and starts to accept the offer…only for the car to trap the group inside together. It quickly goes FromBadToWorse.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Nora constantly complains that by having joined Mary, Vic, and Blanca on their travels, that she's stuck babysitting yet another autistic kid because of the train. Never mind that not only do Vic and Blanca repeatedly point out that she was under no obligation to stay with then, that she could have just rejected Blanca's offer to invite her with them without issue, and that if she's unhappy with traveling with them, they have no problem with her leaving, and that she blackmails the trio into being her personal bodyguards in chapter 20 just so she can ensure her own safety while going through the Kaiju Car.
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** Nora constantly complains that by having joined Mary, Vic, and Blanca on their travels, that she's stuck babysitting yet another autistic kid because of the train. Never mind that not only do Vic and Blanca repeatedly point out that she was under no obligation to stay with then, that she could have just rejected Blanca's offer to invite her with them without issue, and that if she's unhappy with traveling with them, they have no problem with her leaving, and that she blackmails the trio into being her personal bodyguards in chapter 20 just so she can ensure her own safety while going through the Kaiju Car. Her backstory shows that by the time she went on the Train, her mindset had become this.
** Dana runs on this, believing the worst of Mary despite the fact that the truth is literally in front of her.
** Nora constantly complains that by having joined Mary, Vic, and Blanca on their travels, that she's stuck babysitting yet another autistic kid because of the train. Never mind that not only do Vic and Blanca repeatedly point out that she was under no obligation to stay with then, that she could have just rejected Blanca's offer to invite her with them without issue, and that if she's unhappy with traveling with them, they have no problem with her leaving, and that she blackmails the trio into being her personal bodyguards in chapter 20 just so she can ensure her own safety while going through the Kaiju Car. Her backstory shows that by the time she went on the Train, her mindset had become this.
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** In Chapter 20, not only does Nora [[spoiler: attempt to use Mary as bait for a Kauji, she '''shoots Mary in the shoulder and leaves her for dead.''']]
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** Mary finding Dana's blog and [[spoiler: discovering that Dana wants to forcibly sterilize her]] prompts her to run away even though she's never even walked to school all by herselfbefore.before.
** In chapter 20, Nora tries to twist Mary's reasons for leaving the teenager in the Haunted House Car in an attempt to guilt-trip her into doing what she says, claiming that Mary is no different from a school shooter, which makes the normally gentle, compassionate Blanca so enraged that she screams at Nora, the first time she was ever shown being openly emotional or angry.
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** In chapter 20, Nora tries to twist Mary's reasons for leaving the teenager in the Haunted House Car in an attempt to guilt-trip her into doing what she says, claiming that Mary is no different from a school shooter, which makes the normally gentle, compassionate Blanca so enraged that she screams at Nora, the first time she was ever shown being openly emotional or angry.
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** Chapter 20 ends with [[spoiler: Nora shooting Mary in the shoulder and then kidnapping Blanca to use as a HumanShield for the next car.]]
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* CloseCallHaircut: Near the end of the Kaiju car in chapter 20, Nora gets into a huge and violent fight against Mary, Blanca, and Vic. Near the end of it, one of Nora's gunshots causes one of Mary's braids to fall off.
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** The ABA doctors trying to "help" Mary do nothing but put her through abuse. The same goes for Dana, who watched them do it.
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** The ABA doctors trying to "help" Mary do nothing but put her through abuse. The same goes for Dana, who watched them do it.
** Nora [[spoiler: threw her brother out of the house in freezing cold weather [[note]] he got out of it okay because he had his phone on him and called his mother, who told him to go stay with a neighbor until his parents got home [[/note]], later managed to crack his head on a table (showing no remorse for it), and (upon learning that Mary is autistic like her brother), threatens to ''kill'' her.]] And we thought Simon was bad...
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** It's clear from the start that Reagan was a better maternal figure for Mary than Dana ever was, as she always looks out for her little sister, stands up for her when Dana harasses her, buys her things she likes (manga, hair ribbons, etc), and encourages her hobbies. One of Mary's earliest memories even show Reagan as a little girl feeding baby Mary.
** Shortly after arriving on the Infinity Train, Mary meets Blanca, who is kind to Mary and becomes a maternal figure for her during her journey on the train. Considering how Blanca admits to being a mother of twenty, it makes sense that she wouldn't want to let a little girl wander the Train all on her own.
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** Shortly after arriving on the Infinity Train, Mary meets Blanca, who is kind to Mary and becomes a maternal figure for her during her journey on the train. Considering how Blanca admits to being a mother of twenty, it makes sense that she wouldn't want to let a little girl wander the Train all on her own.
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