History Literature / LightsAreOffButEveryonesHome

* TheTeetotaler: Both Maria Garcia and Roger don't drink or do drugs. Trent keeps his drinking a secret from Maria, who strongly voices her disapproval and concern over his drinking Rum-In-Coke during School Hours. Roger's not above smoking a cigar with Trent on occasion, however.

* StraightEdge: Both Maria Garcia and Roger don't smoke, drink or do drugs. Trent keeps his drinking a secret from Maria, who strongly voices her disapproval and concern over his drinking Rum-In-Coke during School Hours.

* HypocriticalHumor: The original name for Trent's protagonist in his novel, ''Midnight City,'' was [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt]] [[Music/TheRollingStones Jagger]]. Trent himself is obviously named for Trent Reznor of Music/NineInchNails, and Layne Staley, of Music/AliceInChains.

* DrivenToSuicide: Trent talks casually about ending his own life to ease his post-traumatic stress. [[spoiler: at the end of the book, he tries - unsuccessfully - to go through with it.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: [[spoiler: Trent is drugged and implied to be raped by Diane, but he can't handle the stress and trauma of addressing this and chooses to believe Diane's BlatantLies.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: [[Spoiler: Trent is drugged and implied to be raped by Diane, but he can't handle the stress and trauma of addressing this and chooses to believe Diane's BlatantLies.]]

* [[Spoiler: BastardGirlfriend Diane, slowly but surely, devolves into one as the book progresses.]]

* [[Spoiler: BastardGirlfriend: Diane, slowly but surely, devolves into one as the book progresses.]]

* HypocriticalHumor: The original name for Trent's protagonist in his novel, ''Midnight City,'' was {{Music/Nirvana| Kurt}} [[Music/TheRollingStones Jagger]]. Trent himself is obviously named for Trent Reznor of Music/NineInchNails, and Layne Staley, of Music/AliceInChains.

* HypocriticalHumor: The original name for Trent's protagonist in his novel, ''Midnight City,'' was {{Music/Nirvana Kurt}} [[Music/TheRollingStones Jagger]]. Trent himself is obviously named for Trent Reznor of Music/NineInchNails, and Layne Staley, of Music/AliceInChains.

* HypocriticalHumor: The original name for Trent's protagonist in his novel, ''Midnight City,'' was [[Music/Nirvana Kurt]] [[Music/TheRollingStones Jagger]]. Trent himself is obviously named for Trent Reznor of Music/NineInchNails, and Layne Staley, of Music/AliceInChains.

* HypocriticalHumor: The original name for Trent's protagonist in his novel, ''Midnight City,'' was Kurt Jagger. Trent himself is obviously named for Trent Reznor of Music/NineInchNails, and Layne Staley, of Music/AliceInChains.

* HypocriticalHumor: The original name for Trent's protagonist in his novel, ''Midnight City,'' was Kurt Jagger. Trent himself is obviously named for Creator/TrentReznor and Layne Staley, of Music/AliceInChains.

First published as a WebOriginal called ''Night Life'' in 2016, ''Lights Are Off, but Everyone's Home'' is a graphic, uncompromising PeriodPiece about growing up parentless in the late 2000's.

[[caption-width-right:350:CreatorBreakdown with a side of X-Rated [[TimBurton BurtonEsque]] NightmareFuel!]]

[[caption-width-right:350:CreatorBreakdown with a side of X-Rated BurtonEsque NightmareFuel!]]
''Lights Are Off, But Everyone's Home: Or, All the Things I'm going to Hell for,'' is a 2021 YoungAdult BlackComedy GraphicNovel by Creator/KentJStarrett about a sixteen-year-old boy, [[ShoutOut Trent Staley]] whose parents were killed in a car accident three years before the story begins in 2008. The book follows a year in Trent's life, where he lives with his brain-damaged older brother and expresses all his pain and rage through the book's twenty-nine full-color illustrations and his own novel, ''Midnight City,'' which we see chapters of spread throughout the book.

''Lights Are Off, But Everyone's Home: Or, All the Things I'm going to Hell for,'' is a 2021 YoungAdult BlackComedy GraphicNovel by Creator/KentJStarrett about a sixteen-year-old boy, [[ShoutOut|Trent Staley,]] whose parents were killed in a car accident three years before the story begins in 2008. The book follows a year in Trent's life, where he lives with his brain-damaged older brother and expresses all his pain and rage through the book's twenty-nine full-color illustrations and his own novel, ''Midnight City,'' which we see chapters of spread throughout the book.

Rounding out the cast are Maria, a PerkyGoth who takes an interest in Trent's art and writing, her guitarist boyfriend, a booksmart LovableJock named Connor, a BlackNerd named Roger who relentless pursues Trent for the school newspaper, and the HippieTeacher Miss Yorke who encourages his creative output. As the plot develops, Trent's novel and short stories begin to reflect his tumultuous reality, and we watch his CreatorBreakdown through the lens of his SurrealHorror and Photoshopped Artwork.

The primary story arc concerns Staley's relationship with Diane Bourdon, a twenty-three-year-old [[Goth]] college girl who seems at first to be a ManicPixieDreamGirl, but [[RealityEnsues|soon devolves into an abusive, controlling woman]] whose own psychological dysfunctions threaten to consume the both of them.