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* CowardlySidekick: [[{{Foil}} Unlike Abby,]] Lucas is constantly freaking out over the horrors of the facility, such as when he first encounters the turned subjects. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Lucas's fear is revealed to be panophobia, and Abby is put beside him in order to test if she's fearless.]]

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* IKnowWhatYouFear: Especially demonstrated by [[spoiler:Unelma, whose powers seem to involve manifesting the fears of subjects into shadowy illusions. Befitting for the Head of Testing.]]

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* AmnesiacHero: All of the rebelling subjects, but specifically Abby, who lacks a folder and doesn't remember her own fear [[spoiler:or her real name]].

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* FriendToBugs: Despite Trevor's fear being parasites, he gets along pretty well with the ones inhabiting his body. In fact, some of them voluntarily take the place of his vital organs after eating them, and without them, both the parasites and Trevor would die. Trevor is also shown to be capable of ordering his parasites to do things.

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''Kidutus'' is a [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures MS Paint Fanventure]] WebComic by [=InkedScraps=], created on February 18, 2015. The story follows Abby and Lucas--two ordinary people--[[YouWakeUpInARoom who find themselves]] in a facility known as Kidutus, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia not knowing how or why they're here]], quickly realizing they're not alone. They come face-to-face with the facility's less fortunate test subjects, all of which are now [[TransformationHorror mutated and transformed]] into a grotesque embodiment of their worst fear - all of which are conspiring to rebel, break the others out, and escape. And perhaps the scariest part of the whole facility is not the fear-mutants themselves, but the building's staff that orchestrated their repeated torture, causing them to warp for the benefit of the Fear Factory. Many questions linger in the subjects' minds - Why are they here, what is Kidutus's purpose, and how will they get out of the facility alive?

* The comic's MSPFA host can be found here. [[https://mspfa.com/?s=18418&p=1 here.]]

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''Kidutus'' is a horror [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures MS Paint Fanventure]] WebComic by [=InkedScraps=], created on February 18, 2015. The story follows Abby and Lucas--two ordinary people--[[YouWakeUpInARoom who find themselves]] in a facility known as Kidutus, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia not knowing how or why they're here]], quickly realizing they're not alone. They come face-to-face with the facility's less fortunate test subjects, all of which are now [[TransformationHorror mutated and transformed]] into a grotesque embodiment of their worst fear - all of which are conspiring to rebel, break the others out, and escape. And perhaps the scariest part of the whole facility is not the fear-mutants themselves, but the building's staff that orchestrated their repeated torture, causing them to warp for the benefit of the Fear Factory. Many questions linger in the subjects' minds - Why are they here, what is Kidutus's purpose, and how will they get out of the facility alive?

* The comic's MSPFA host can be found here. [[https://mspfa.~~com/?s=18418&p=1 here.]]~~com/?s=9912&p=1]]

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** Apparently, Abby [[spoiler:is not actually her real name. It was a name ~~that Kidutus gave to~~ Lucas ~~in order to gain her trust, but Lucas himself actually forgot~~ made up after forgetting her real ~~name anyways.~~name, even after Kidutus told him directly.]]

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''Kidutus'' is a WebComic by [=InkedScraps=]. It follows the adventures Abby, a considerate young woman - until she wakes up in the strange place of [[TitleDrop Kidutus]]. [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Every memory is left behind]] as she tries to discover her whereabouts. She realizes that other people are also forced to stay in this place. Who can Abby trust? Iris, who keeps her face anxiously hidden? Or Lucas, the boy she first saw and is still on her side? She grows busy when she agrees to join resistance against the company that is Kidutus, and help freeing and retrieving the memories of the others. Abby hopes this will be the beginning of a better life for everyone. But when they come across a very apparent trauma, it's not only their business anymore...but also that of a shady figure watching them.

The characters first appeared [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=1 in the webcomic here]]. Most of the time they're pitted against the staff of Kidutus, whose intentions are yet unknown, but [[WildMassGuessing guesses are]] they want to make the world safe for something, often by making people ''be'' their worst fear... or to feel emotions at all.
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[[WMG: This webcomic contains the following tropes:]]

* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler: Jace. Not in personality though, he happens to have a connection with ice]].
* ArcSymbol: The K and the reverted K stuck together.
* [[spoiler: BigCreepyCrawlies: Trevor has three living in him. He calls the big one 'Trevor Junior']].
* BodyHorror: The subjects are...quite unsettling the first time, and even after that, they're still a bit freaky to look at.
** [[spoiler: Iris is a primary example of EyesDoNotBelongThere]].
** Fraey's teeth are so deformed, she can't speak.
** [[spoiler: Trevor seems okay initially...but reveals there are actual parasites living in him]].
** [[spoiler: A bit like Trevor, Jace seems to be okay, but, [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=323 then again]]]].
** [[spoiler: 005's body seemed to be covered in patches of ''different'' skin]].
** [[spoiler: Gwen's blanked is ''stitched into her skin'' so she wouldn't have a choice]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most of the characters are implied to be this, especially [[spoiler: [[AbusiveParents 005]]]].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The series is done in a slightly alienating grey style.
* EyeTropes:
** ExoticEyeDesigns: Everyone Kidutus tests, gets black eyes with grey slits.
** EyesDoNotBelongThere: [[spoiler: Iris. She has them pretty much all over her body]].
** RedEyesTakeWarning: All of the staff of Kidutus has red eyes and dark red/brown text. WordOfGod says this is standard. Also, [[spoiler: 000/Jenny]] seems to be able to switch to this.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: It is building up to that. The author uses the OC's that are submitted, and they're made rather easily - one only has to pick [[spoiler: a name, a fear, and a mark place. And the decision if they're a member or a subject]]. Take a look over [[http://kidutuscomic.tumblr.com/post/135688897797/thank-you-so-much-to-everyone-who-submitted-a here]] and [[http://kidutuscomic.tumblr.com/post/148726604672/current-list-of-kidutus-member-submissions-ace here]].
* [[spoiler: MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Fraey]].
* MsFanservice: Fraey and Iris are rather skimpily clothed. Fraey [[BareYourMidriff has her midriff laid bare]], and take a look at [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=140 Iris's clothes]] (panel doubles as an EyeTake). By the looks of it, if it wasn't in NoodlePeople style, it'd bare one of her breasts - but it turns out to be [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=148 as she says it's her shoulder]], and [[https://kidutuscomic.tumblr.com/post/130148382607/so-relaxing-to-draw-my-lovely-suffering-children when her clothing is drawn in the artists real style]]. [[note]] Which explains why Abby and Lucas didn't comment on it.[[/note]]
* PungeonMaster: [[spoiler: Trevor]], WordOfGod.
* StickFigureComic[=/=]NoodlePeople: It's just the style of the comic, though. It's a case of SoBadItsGood [[InvokedTrope invoked by the artist]]. Their ''actual'' style [[https://kidutuscomic.tumblr.com/post/130148382607/so-relaxing-to-draw-my-lovely-suffering-children looks like this]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Seems to be a recurring motif. Everyone in Kidutus have the similarity that they all have an irrational fear of something:
** It is yet unknown which fear Lucas and Abby have, due to their lack of folders.
** [[spoiler: Iris - Scopophobia (fear of being stared at)]]
** [[spoiler: Fraey - Odontophobia (fear of dentistry)]]
** [[spoiler: Trevor is implied to have something around Entomophobia (fear of insects)]]
** [[spoiler: 005 - Electrophobia (fear of all kinds of electricity)]]
** [[spoiler: 000/Jenny - Haemophobia (fear of blood)]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:What are you afraid of?]]
->''"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."''
-->--Hunter S. Thompson, ''Kidutus'''s first page.

''Kidutus'' is a [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures MS Paint Fanventure]] WebComic by ~~[=InkedScraps=]. It~~ [=InkedScraps=], created on February 18, 2015. The story follows ~~the adventures Abby, a considerate young woman - until she wakes up~~ Abby and Lucas--two ordinary people--[[YouWakeUpInARoom who find themselves]] in ~~the strange place of [[TitleDrop Kidutus]].~~ a facility known as Kidutus, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Every memory is left behind]] as she tries to discover her whereabouts. She realizes that other people are also forced to stay in this place. Who can Abby trust? Iris, who keeps her face anxiously hidden? Or Lucas, the boy she first saw and is still on her side? She grows busy when she agrees to join resistance against the company that is Kidutus, and help freeing and retrieving the memories of the others. Abby hopes this will be the beginning of a better life for everyone. But when they come across a very apparent trauma, it's not only their business anymore...but also that of a shady figure watching them.

The characters first appeared [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=1 in the webcomic here]]. Most of the time knowing how or why they're pitted against the staff of Kidutus, whose intentions are yet unknown, but [[WildMassGuessing guesses are]] they want to make the world safe for something, often by making people ''be'' their worst fear... or to feel emotions at all.
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[[WMG: This webcomic contains the following tropes:]]

* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler: Jace. Not in personality though, he happens to have a connection with ice]].
* ArcSymbol: The K and the reverted K stuck together.
* [[spoiler: BigCreepyCrawlies: Trevor has three living in him. He calls the big one 'Trevor Junior']].
* BodyHorror: The subjects are...quite unsettling the first time, and even after that, here]], quickly realizing they're still a bit freaky to look at.
** [[spoiler: Iris is a primary example not alone. They come face-to-face with the facility's less fortunate test subjects, all of EyesDoNotBelongThere]].
** Fraey's teeth which are so deformed, she can't speak.
** [[spoiler: Trevor seems okay initially...but reveals there are actual parasites living in him]].
** [[spoiler: A bit like Trevor, Jace seems to be okay, but, [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=323 then again]]]].
** [[spoiler: 005's body seemed to be covered in patches of ''different'' skin]].
** [[spoiler: Gwen's blanked is ''stitched now [[TransformationHorror mutated and transformed]] into ~~her skin'' so she wouldn't have~~ a choice]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most grotesque embodiment of their worst fear - all of which are conspiring to rebel, break the others out, and escape. And perhaps the scariest part of the characters are implied to be this, especially [[spoiler: [[AbusiveParents 005]]]].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The series whole facility is done in a slightly alienating grey style.
* EyeTropes:
** ExoticEyeDesigns: Everyone Kidutus tests, gets black eyes with grey slits.
** EyesDoNotBelongThere: [[spoiler: Iris. She has not the fear-mutants themselves, but the building's staff that orchestrated their repeated torture, causing them pretty much all over her body]].
** RedEyesTakeWarning: All to warp for the benefit of the ~~staff~~ Fear Factory. Many questions linger in the subjects' minds - Why are they here, what is Kidutus's purpose, and how will they get out of ~~Kidutus~~ the facility alive?

* The comic's MSPFA host can be found here. [[https://mspfa.com/?s=18418&p=1 here.]]
* The webcomic has red eyes and dark red/brown text. WordOfGod says this is standard. Also, [[spoiler: 000/Jenny]] seems to be able to switch to this.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: It is building up to that. The author uses the OC's an official Tumblr that ~~are submitted,~~ accepts commands and ~~they're made rather easily - one only has to pick [[spoiler: a name, a fear, and a mark place. And the decision if they're a member or a subject]]. Take a look over [[http://kidutuscomic.~~character submissions, which can be found [[https://kidutuscomic.tumblr.~~com/post/135688897797/thank-you-so-much-to-everyone-who-submitted-a here]]~~ com/ here.]]
* The author also has a Toyhouse page for most of the characters, which can be found [[http://toyhou.se/inkedscraps here.]] (contains out-of-comic spoilers!)

'''This page contains marked spoilers, including things stated outside of the comic. You have been warned!'''

!! This webcomic contains the following tropes:
* AfraidOfBlood: Jenny's fear is hemophobia - her room and ~~[[http://kidutuscomic.~~folder are covered in the stuff, and Abby is shown a tape of her testing.
* AllThereInTheManual: The Kidutus Tumblr contains a bit of out-of-comic information and discussion with the creator, including a guide to creating characters for Kidutus and an in-character Q&A that elaborates on some parts of the comic's current cast.
* AmbiguousGender: 005 is canonically gender-neutral and described with [[GenderNeutralWriting they/them pronouns]].
* AmnesiacHero: All of the rebelling subjects, but specifically Abby, who lacks a folder and doesn't remember her own fear [[spoiler:or her real name]].
* AnIcePerson: Jace is shown to be cold and hostile towards strangers, the irony of which sinks in with the fact that his worst fear is ''cryophobia'', or extreme cold.
* ArcSymbol: The K and inverted K stuck together, which forms the company logo.
* ArtEvolution: The comic's art has improved greatly over the years - one can clearly tell a difference between pages spaced even a year apart.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Trevor's fear, parasitophobia, manifests worm-like parasites that inhabit his body. He calls the largest one Trevor Jr.
* BodyHorror:
** The subjects are all mutated with the characteristics of their worst fears, meaning that, naturally, some of them are a little unsettling.
** The "basement" of Kidutus is the final home for most of the failed subjects of the facility, having tested "wrong" and ended up useless to Kidutus's research. The only living failed subject shown is even more mutilated and arguably disturbing than the turned ones, and to top it all off it's implied that it eats the other basement inhabitants to survive.
* ColorCodedCharacters: All characters in the comic are assigned a color shown in their dialogue and usually some part of their appearance. In the case of the employees, all of them are associated with a dark red.
* CowardlySidekick: [[{{Foil}} Unlike Abby,]] Lucas is constantly freaking out over the horrors of the facility, such as when he first encounters the turned subjects. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Lucas's fear is revealed to be panophobia, and Abby is put beside him in order to test if she's fearless.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[AbusiveParents 005]]; this is explained to be the cause of their Electrophobia.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The comic is done in this style, the only color shown being the associated colors of the characters, the blood they find in the facility, and certain important small details.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Everyone Kidutus tests gets black eyes with white slits.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Iris has ExtraEyes pretty much all over her body.
* FauxAffablyEvil: When the employees of Kidutus are finally introduced, they're shown to be [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LikableVillain generally incredibly casual and friendly with each other.]] Especially when it comes to Veri, who slacks off to talk to her coworkers and flirts with her boss. Even despite the almost [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes family-like atmosphere]] of the employees' interactions, it all happens while showing how openly remorseless they can be, even laughing over the death of [[WithFriendsLikeThese one of their own coworkers]].
* FlashbackNightmare: Gwen, whose fear is sleeping (somnophobia), constantly has dreams about the past happenings in Kidutus, including [[RecurringDreams her testing and]] [[SlowTransformation transformation]], as well as others' testing and actions.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Liam is the first actual member of Kidutus the reader sees, and the members that follow after his appearance [[spoiler:(and subsequent demise)]] don't think too highly of him. Even the subjects spit on the dude.
--> Disappointing, but not surprising. \\
You never really liked Liam - he was always so hot-headed. \\\
'''IRIS:''' Even his name sucks ass. What kind of name is Liam?
* FriendToBugs: Despite Trevor's fear being parasites, he gets along pretty well with the ones inhabiting his body. In fact, some of them voluntarily take the place of his vital organs after eating them, and without them, both the parasites and Trevor would die. Trevor is also shown to be capable of ordering his parasites to do things.
* IdentityAmnesia: The subjects of Kidutus initially have no memory of their [[NameAmnesia names]] or backstory, and all of the ones that do know found out about their name by looking at their folder, exceptions being [[YouAreNumberSix 005]], Abby, and Lucas.
** Apparently, Abby [[spoiler:is not actually her real name. It was a name that Kidutus gave to Lucas in order to gain her trust, but Lucas himself actually forgot her real name anyways.]]
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Especially demonstrated by [[spoiler:Unelma, whose powers seem to involve manifesting the fears of subjects into shadowy illusions. Befitting for the Head of Testing.]]
* InteractiveComic:
** The comic is ''entirely'' suggestion driven, and the entire plot can change based on the readers' actions.
** A majority of Kidutus's characters are also fan-submitted, and a guide to submitting characters is found on the blog's Tumblr page.
* MoodSwinger: Veri is a big example of this, emphasized by her excitement in contrast to Koska's usual mellow attitude.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Fraey's fear transformation (odontophobia) was pushed forward with surgery, and her entire body (and half of her entire face) is covered in protruding, sharp teeth.
* PungeonMaster: Trevor's sense of humor is fairly punny, and he has interjected before to crack one.
--> '''JACE:''' Say uh, y-you’re… \\
'''JACE:''' …really nice, c-considering all of this. \\
[---'''TREVOR:''' (smooth as ice)---] \\
'''GWEN:''' Oh, haha, thank you.
* RedEyesTakeWarning:
** All of Kidutus's staff have red eyes and text - apparently, this is the sole side effect of the medication that the members receive as opposed to the subjects.
** Jenny's [[spoiler:and Gwen's]] pupils are shown to turn red when provoked.
* StickFigureComic[=/=]NoodlePeople: Part of the comic's style - the art is simplified to make drawing panels easier. Her ''actual'' style [[https://inkedscraps.tumblr.com/post/148726604672/current-list-of-kidutus-member-submissions-ace here]].
* [[spoiler: MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Fraey]].
* MsFanservice: Fraey and Iris are rather skimpily clothed. Fraey [[BareYourMidriff has com/tagged/arls-art/ can be found on her midriff laid bare]], and take a look at [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=140 Iris's clothes]] (panel doubles as an EyeTake). By the looks of it, if it wasn't in NoodlePeople style, it'd bare one of her breasts - but it turns out to be [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], [[http://mspfa.com/?s=9912&p=148 as she says it's her shoulder]], and [[https://kidutuscomic.tumblr.com/post/130148382607/so-relaxing-to-draw-my-lovely-suffering-children main blog]].
* SuperWindowJump: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], when ~~her clothing is drawn in the artists real style]]. [[note]] Which explains why Abby and~~ Lucas didn't comment on it.[[/note]]
* PungeonMaster: [[spoiler: Trevor]], WordOfGod.
* StickFigureComic[=/=]NoodlePeople: It's just panics and jumps through the ~~style~~ window between his and Abby's room to escape the water flooding his own. He ends up getting a nasty cut as a result, though.
* ThemeNaming: The facility's staff, at least the ones created by the author (or her best friend), tend to have Finnish-based names--fitting, because the name of the ~~comic, though. It's a case of SoBadItsGood [[InvokedTrope invoked by~~ facility itself, Kidutus, is the ~~artist]]. Their ''actual'' style [[https://kidutuscomic.tumblr.com/post/130148382607/so-relaxing-to-draw-my-lovely-suffering-children looks like this]].~~
Finnish word for "torture".
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Seems to be a recurring motif. Everyone in Kidutus ~~have the similarity that they all have~~ has an irrational fear of something:
** It something, and [[spoiler:especially in Lucas's case, panophobia,]] the group is ~~yet unknown~~ constantly thrown into situations that test them.
* YouAreNumberSix: All subjects of Kidutus are assigned a three-digit number, with the exception of Abby (subject A) and Lucas (subject B), which ~~fear Lucas and Abby have, due to~~ the members of Kidutus address them by. A notable case is 005, who is named after their lack of folders.
** [[spoiler: Iris - Scopophobia (fear of being stared at)]]
** [[spoiler: Fraey - Odontophobia (fear of dentistry)]]
** [[spoiler: Trevor subject code since their name is implied to have something around Entomophobia (fear of insects)]]
** [[spoiler: 005 - Electrophobia (fear of all kinds of electricity)]]
** [[spoiler: 000/Jenny - Haemophobia (fear of blood)]]unknown.

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