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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lauren lost a close friend during the Phantom Scythe's first attack, and has also been raised by her uncle since her parents died. Kieran is also heavily implied to have one, as is Kym and Will.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lauren lost a close friend during the Phantom Scythe's first attack, and has also been raised by her uncle since her parents died. died.
** Kieranis also heavily implied to have one, as is Kym was abducted during the attack, MadeASlave, and Will.became ruthless enough to survive when most of the other kids died off.
** Kym's sister was killed in action with poison.
** Will's father is an abusive ControlFreak, his brother couldn't take it and ran off to join the Phantom Scythe, and his mother went crazy from losing her son.
** Belladonna was once a Little Match Girl. Then the Seventh Apostle took an interest, convinced her to kill her abusive father, and then trained her to become a ruthless, only to end up about as abusive as her father by breaking up her relationship with her girlfriend.
** Kieran
** Kym's sister was killed in action with poison.
** Will's father is an abusive ControlFreak, his brother couldn't take it and ran off to join the Phantom Scythe, and his mother went crazy from losing her son.
** Belladonna was once a Little Match Girl. Then the Seventh Apostle took an interest, convinced her to kill her abusive father, and then trained her to become a ruthless, only to end up about as abusive as her father by breaking up her relationship with her girlfriend.
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* CrapsackWorld: The world the characters live in is far from kind, with a feared terrorist organization and rumors of revolution daily.
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* CrapsackWorld: The world the characters live in is far from kind, with brutal and violent. Poverty is rampant, and it has fueled a feared terrorist organization and rumors of revolution daily. that has been murdering people daily for ten years straight.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The core of the main story, using EvilRunningGood to turn everyone else into pawns. An apathetic, obsolete royalty that gladly resorts to torture and genocide to maintain control, versus a terrorist organization of {{Not So Well Intentioned Extremist}}s that constantly betray each other. Both sides use those who just want stability or a better life and will gladly murder them the second they stop being useful.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The core of the main story, using EvilRunningGood to turn everyone else into pawns. An apathetic, obsolete royalty that gladly resorts to torture and genocide to maintain control, versus a terrorist organization of {{Not So Well Intentioned Extremist}}s that constantly betray each other. Both sides use employ those who just want stability or and/or a better life life, and will gladly murder them the second they stop being useful.
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* TheSociopath: Deconstructed; in order to turn Kieran into the Purple Hyacinth, the Phantom Scythe put his abducted class through years of TrainingFromHell and murdered the less-competent students, conditioning Kieran to feel nothing when those he has no connection to suffer and die, turning him into a textbook sociopath. But, unlike a textbook psychopath, Kieran does have a general understanding of right and wrong (he just doesn't instinctually feel remorse when he commits wrong), and when the few people he does care about call him a monster, it hits him with the guilt and self-loathing of what a normal person would feel if they had committed murder.
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* TheSociopath: Deconstructed; in order to turn Kieran into the sociopathic Purple Hyacinth, the Phantom Scythe put his abducted class through years of TrainingFromHell MadeASlave, TrainingFromHell, and other brutal life lessons that murdered most of the less-competent students, conditioning Kieran to feel nothing when those he has no connection to suffer and die, turning him into a textbook sociopath. But, unlike a textbook psychopath, Kieran does have a general understanding of right and wrong (he just doesn't instinctually feel remorse when he commits wrong), wrong, and when the few people he does care about call him a monster, it hits him with the guilt and self-loathing of what a normal person would feel if they had committed murder.feel.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Phantom Scythe is ''not'' one big happy family of disenfranchised revolutionaries; there used to be a second revolutionary faction called the Snapdragons, [[WithUsOrAgainstUs but they were wiped out by the Scythes for being too pacifist]], and then there's the conspiracy of The Apostle within the Scythes who don't give a damn about equal rights [[FullCircleRevolution and just want to seize power]].
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Phantom Scythe is ''not'' one big happy family of disenfranchised revolutionaries; there used to be a second revolutionary faction called the Snapdragons, Leader is a paranoid wreck [[WithUsOrAgainstUs but they were wiped out by who will murder anyone that shows the Scythes for being too pacifist]], and then there's slightest hint of disloyalty]], while about half the conspiracy of The Apostle within the Scythes who revolutionaries don't give a damn about equal rights [[FullCircleRevolution and just want to seize power]].
