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The Flightless Snowbird (Skipper)

• Adaptation Name Change: Spencer Snow.
• Big Brother Instinct: He is fiercely protective of Private, who actually is his brother here.
• Meaningful Name: Skipper calls himself "the Flightless Snowbird", which is both a reference to his canon self and to how he was held by human traffickers and later Bigg's men without being able to escape or protect himself.
• Related in the Adaptation: Private is his younger brother instead of just a fellow agent.

The Scapegoat Standing (Doctor Dillamond)

• Angsty Surviving Twin: His brother was murdered in front of him.
• Body Horror: He survives a snapped spine and slit throat.
• Meaningful Name: Dillamond is "The Scapegoat Standing," having both been a goat in his original canon and assaulted by GWF who paralyzed his legs and killed his twin in the attack, leaving him the "last man standing".

Arachne the Actor (Peter Parker/Spiderman I) and the Spider on the Wall (Miles Morales)

• Forced to Watch: Miles hid while Peter was assaulted by Kingpin and Ratigan, but he still saw some of the attack and couldn't get away from it.
• Gender-Blender Name: Arachne was a female mythological figure, here used as a codename by a male character.
• Meaningful Name: "Arachne the Actor" is an actual actor here, who was assaulted both for causing the deaths of Kingpin's family (by Kingpin) and for being famous (by Ratigan), which is a nod to at least one version of the Arachne myth, and "the Spider on the Wall" is a bystander who was Forced to Watch.

The King of Cowboys (Francis "Jack" Kelly)

• Disposable Sex Worker: The police thought of his mother this way; his father did not, and was imprisoned for taking matters into his own hands.
• Meaningful Name: "The King of Cowboys" is a reference to the song "King of New York" and the character himself led a gang of street kids and has a fascination with westerns that he watched and took refuge in while in a sexually abusive reform school.

The Avatar of Urban Legends (Korra)

• Body Horror: Broken spine via beating with a rod.
• Happily Married: To Asami, though their relationship was originally the reason she was assaulted to begin with. They seem to have things worked out now and doing quite well.
• Meaningful Name: Korra is the "The Avatar of Urban Legends", a nod to both her status and the title of her show, but also a reference to her claim of being possessed by what's heavily implied to be the ghost of Aang whose family she was staying with at the time of her assault.

The Replacement (Mercury Black) and the Imposter (Emerald Sustrai)

• An Arm and a Leg: Mercury loses his legs to untreated gangrene.
• Body Horror: There are some lovely descriptions of Mercury's suffering when he's left on the floor with gangrenous legs for months on end.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: After being rendered immobile and helpless, Mercury gets desperate enough to risk burning down the house with himself still in it.
• Meaningful Name: "The Replacement" was indeed used as a replacement for his mother in household chores and sex. "The Impostor" was a thief who sneaked into places she shouldn't have been to steal.
• Self-Made Orphan: Mercury starts the fire which kills his father.
• Those Two Guys: Downplayed. They appear together most often but they do split up.

Panthera Noir (Bagheera)

• False Rape Accusation: By Weiss, who really was assaulted here, but mistook him for her real rapist in the dark and thanks to them being of the same race.
• Meaningful Name: "Panthera Noir" was an actual black panther in his canon, and here it's a callback to the White Knight being the one to get him falsely imprisoned and a reference to his being non-white making things worse.
• Pariah Prisoner: He's a non-white man convicted of assaulting a rich, pretty, white, underage girl. It doesn't go well.
• Prison Rape: Gets raped by both prisoners and the corrupt cops due to being accused of assaulting Weiss.

The Invader (Zim) and the Man in Black (Dib Membrane)

• Adults Are Useless: It takes Zim attempting to stab Dib in the head with a pair of scissors before anyone takes Zim's abuse seriously.
• Age Lift: Here, Zim actually is a twelve-year-old human kid and contemporary of Dib.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Zim suffers from hypochromic anaemia due to chronic malnutrition, which causes pale greenish skin.
• Ambiguously Human: Unlike canon, in which Zim is unambiguously an alien, Zim is written in this story as a human child. However, he still refers to the others as "puny humans" and has alien traits that catch Dib's interest, such as his greenish skin and reddish eyes. This is justified as his story comes out, however — his distinguishment from other humans appears to be some sort of narcissistic coping mechanism, and his strange body condition is the result of years of neglect.
• Everyone Has Standards: In spite of how uncaring he is to everyone, Zim still thought it was wrong that Mr. Ratburn was blamed for what Ricky did.
• Forced to Watch: Sort of; Dib forces himself to watch Zim's uncles abuse Zim, to gather evidence to convict them.
• Height Angst: Like in canon, Zim is very short. In this fic, he's upset about the fact he's not big enough to fight against his abusers, but he keeps insisting he'll get bigger someday.
• Meaningful Name: "The Invader" was an unwanted child in his uncles' home, and "the Man in Black" looked for the truth about the Invader that no one else believed in.
• Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: One of the things which makes Dib suspicious is Zim's habit of drawing extremely violent pictures, including one of his uncles being eaten by a dog.
• No Indoor Voice: Zim often speaks in Caps Lock, a nod to his loud tendencies in canon.
• Not Bad: Zim's attempt to thank Dib comes in the form of telling him he will kill him less painfully, and the greeting card he makes for his foster parents reads "YOU ARE TOLERABLE".
• Pride: Zim has delusions of grandeur, presumably as a coping mechanism due to years of abuse, and often boasts about his superiority over other humans. This becomes troublesome when he's too ashamed to admit to being abused, afraid of being perceived as weak.
• The Tooth Hurts: Zim's teeth are incredibly worn down due to years of neglect. When Dr. Sherman tries to examine them, Zim ends up in terrible pain the second the dentist touches him, resulting in instinctive biting. Embarrassingly, Zim has to get dentures as a result.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Zim is very aggressive and violent as a result of his uncles' abuse.
• Tsundere: It's confirmed in "Coming Out" that Zim has a crush on Dib, which only makes him behave with even more suspicion towards him as his backstory left him unable to trust anyone properly. He's getting better, though.

The Silent Observer (Gromit)

• Beware the Nice Ones: Something he gets from his step-mother. When he realizes that Ratigan was stalking him, his first reaction was to get a gun.
• Meaningful Name: "The Silent Observer" is mute, and was able to notice clues that he was being stalked.
• The Speechless: He's mute and communicates through a text-to-speech app on his phone.
• Teen Genius: He's a teenage prodigy, which is why Ratigan targets him.

Winter's Wraith (Elsa)

• Big Sister Instinct: Keeps quiet to protect Anna's feelings.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Fears becoming one, so she doesn't tell Anna about her assault.
• Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Doesn't let Anna know how bad she's really feeling or what happened.
• Meaningful Name: "Winter's Wraith" almost froze to death when her assailants threw her out in a storm.
• Retcon: Was originally named the Whispering Wendigo; the authors had thought that since it was a nickname in-universe it wouldn't matter, but decided later it was disrespectful to Algonquin cultures anyway and changed it.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Part of the reason she manages to get away from GWF was because her depression kicked in during the assault, which caused her to barely react to the torture the members were inflicting on her, which in turn, caused them to give up and just abandon her in the mountains.

The Little Merman (Mermando)

• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair grew out on Pleasure Island and the men who came to him found it attractive.
• Meaningful Name: "The Little Merman" was captured at sea, and compares himself to a siren, blamed for luring men with the beauty he couldn't help having.
• Younger Than They Look: He has a moustache and broken voice, but he's twelve; long-term abuse can cause early puberty. (In real life, it's only been confirmed in girls, but female cartoon characters hitting early puberty are rare.)

The Blank Wildcard (Daffy Duck)

• Adaptational Name Change: His birth name is Dafydd, which ended up as "Daffy" because no one could pronounce it correctly.
• Adult Adoptee: Foghorn Leghorn offers to make him legally part of the family along with Rocky. Daffy's nearly thirty at the time, but has no objections.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: He generally seems apathetic towards gender. In Chapter 27 of "From the Mouths of Babes," Riley approaches Daffy asking if Daffy is trans, since he always misses out on gender cues. When they suggest testing pronouns, Daffy seems pretty comfortable referring to himself as "she" and "they." However, he's still in the questioning stage, so it's unclear what his exact gender is.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He has a tendency to go off on odd tangents, misunderstand things, and act without thinking things through, probably connected to his autism and ADD.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: When Bugs asks, Daffy declines to press charges because he thinks his parents having to continue living with each other is punishment enough for them.
• Deconstruction: In The Looney Tunes Show, repeated references are made to Daffy having had a Hilariously Abusive Childhood and having suppressed all memories of his childhood and teenage years. Here, that's taken in a contextually logical direction and no longer played for laughs.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: He has autism, ADD, amnesia, and narcissistic tendencies in the clinical sense.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He keeps getting taken to the police station for causing minor disturbances, and repeatedly leaves injured or in shock, but promptly forgets about any trauma.
• Happily Adopted: As an adult. After everything happens with him and Rocky, Foghorn Leghorn names Daffy as his other son.
• I Told You So: After the police discover that, yes, he really did find the believed to be dead Billy Joe Cobra alive, he reacts with this in a rather smug manner.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: The result of his narcissistic mother's "fleas" (negative behavioural traits he picked up from her).
• Meaningful Name: "The Blank Wildcard" suffers from memory loss and terrible luck, being assaulted or abused in several different situations.
• Mistaken for Junkie: He's the one who finds the kidnapped Billy Joe Cobra, but when he tries to report it the cops think he's high, and they only find Billy because they go to investigate where Daffy supposedly bought his drugs from.
• Repressed Memories: He forgets about his multiple traumas until forcibly reminded.
• Trauma Conga Line: Abused by both his parents, and the police, and the psychiatrist who was supposed to be treating him, and stalked by Lola, and he forgot about all of it so nothing could be done about it.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: The worst parts of his memories are blacked out.

Jormenguard (Tulio) and the Fearless Firebird (Ginger)

• Big Brother Instinct: Tulio has this towards both Ginger and Rocky(and towards Miguel when they were children).
• The Determinator: Ginger in spades.
• Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Tulio cites this as the reason he ran away from home - his father blamed him for his mother's death and demanded he "replace" her in both housework and sex.
• Meaningful Name: The Firebird is spunky and gets up every time she's knocked down like a phoenix and Jormenguard is an amalgamation of Midguard and Jormengandr, the world serpent from norse mythology, which has an association with Loki, keeping the world together and water, fitting since he escaped by boat but was unable to keep Ginger from breaking from the group.
• Opposites Attract: Not to each other, but Ginger falls for Stepford Smiler Rocky and Tulio is already dating Broken Bird Chel and Dumb Blonde Miguel.

The Corps de Ballet - Odile (Agnes) and Von Rothbart (Edith) - and Mr. Unicorn (Felonius Gru)

• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Gru bought the girls from a brothel, thinking it was an orphanage and paying to adopt a child was normal. The girls thought he was going to molest them as every other adult they'd known did, and only found out otherwise when he was horrified when Margo kissed him.
• Obviously Not Fine: After being forced to have sex with Vector, Margo insists that she's fine to Agnes and Edith, even though it took her hours to move afterwards.
• Papa Wolf: Gru is fiercely protective towards the girls.
• Shout-Out: Agnes and Edith's Palace names are characters from Swan Lake.
• Uncertain Doom: They still don't know what happened to Margo.

Tall Poppy (Courtney) and Duncan

• Abusive Parents: When Duncan starts focusing more on his schooling as a way of keeping his mind off what his parole officer did to him, all his parents care about is that he's improving and not his sudden change in behavior.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: They bicker throughout much of their time on stage, but are still obviously very much into each other, sometimes going beyond sexual tension as it's very clear that they're devoted to one another however much they fight.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Inverted. Duncan refuses to let anyone call him by any name other than his birth one, because his abuser only called him "delinquent".
• Meaningful Name: "Tall Poppy" is a term for a person whose conspicuous success attracts envy, which Courtney's did. Duncan just goes by his normal name, because he doesn't like nicknames after his abuser gave him one.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Duncan beats up Courtney's rapists for her. His reward? His parole officer blackmails him into having sex.
• Properly Paranoid/Right for the Wrong Reasons: Duncan admits he's never liked or trusted the cops of the city and is proven very right. He acts rather smug about it during the Cell Block Tango chapter.
• Worth It: Even though it led to his own rape, Duncan doesn't regret taking revenge on Courtney's rapists on her behalf.

The Precocious Privateer (Peter Pan)

• Malapropism: In a flashback, he briefly confuses a privateer with a private eye.
• Meaningful Name: The "Precocious Privateer" displays Troubling Unchildlike Behavior and often draws his abusive father as a pirate; a privateer is a person appointed by the government to hunt pirates.

Nurse Emeralds (Elphaba Thropp)

• Chocolate Baby: She's half-black, born to a white woman married to a white man. Oops.
• Honor Thy Abuser: She knows it genuinely wasn't her assailant's fault thanks to his degenerative brain condition, so she says nothing until after he's dead and can't be punished for it.
• Meaningful Name: "Nurse Emeralds" actually is a nurse, and really likes green.

The Pink Pythoness (Sabrina Spellman)

• Hair-Trigger Temper: She's trying to manage it, but she knows it's only getting worse following her rape and that her family and friends are now struggling to her hold her back.
• Rage Breaking Point: For the most part, she can put up with Gem, but after she mocks Sabrina about Salem landing back in prison for violating his house arrest, which he only did to come pick her up after she was raped, she snaps and punches her.
• Related in the Adaptation: Salem is her uncle here.

The Pioneer of Coming Times (Cornelius Robinson)

• Child Prodigy / Teen Genius: Was a preteen at college, which is how he met Ratigan.
• Internal Reveal: His chapter ends with Wilbur walking in on his story.
• Non-Action Guy: Why Ratigan's assault on him went so badly; he's not a skilled fighter and Ratigan is bigger than he is.
• Parents as People: Obviously loves Wilbur, but flashbacks reveal how insecure he's made the kid after years of pressuring him to live up to the family's high standards. Cornelius for his part doesn't seem to realize this. There's also the fact that he didn't notice Wilbur had been attacked.
• Slut-Shaming: Not him, but his birth mother; she was killed by God's Will First when they found her dropping him off at the orphanage with no wedding ring on her hand.
• Wham Line: The chapter ends with a copy of the memory fragment paragraph where Wilbur walked in on Ratigan assaulting Cornelius, and this time Wilbur walks in on him on stage at the Palace and, as he did back then, shouts "DAD?!"

The Author of Archives (Ford Pines)

• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Referenced, though both participants here are male; he had trouble conceiving of what happened the first time as rape because Bill used Ford to penetrate himself, which didn't cause physical damage. Ford says he'd have had an easier time thinking of it as bad if a woman did that, but since Bill could have penetrated him and didn't, he thought Bill wasn't trying to hurt him.
• Gas Lighting: Bill inflicted this on him throughout their relationship, constantly changing expectations and reported facts. Ford eventually had to keep a coded journal of what Bill actually said to keep his memory straight.
• Hot for Teacher: Bill was his professor when they got together.
• The Kindnapper: In "Cat Out of the Bag", he insists on kidnapping Pacifica from the Palace to keep her away from Bill.
• Meaningful Name: "The Author of Archives" was in an emotionally abusive relationship where he was constantly gaslit, so he kept journals of everything his abuser said.

The Honey Bees - the Mighty Bee (Bessie Higgenbottom), the Leafcutter (Penny Lefcowitz), the Wasp (Portia Gibbons), the Hornet (Gwen Wu), the Yellowjacket (Millie Millerson)

• Asian Hooker Stereotype: Invoked horribly. The girls' kidnapper favors Gwen as a sex slave due to an implied Asian race fetish.
• Broken Bird: Every girl that isn't Bessie seems to be some shade of this. Millie and Penny have become Shrinking Violets and Portia and Gwen are more prone to lashing out.
• The Pollyanna: Bessie tries to constantly stay positive despite being horribly abused. Not so much the other girls.

America's Sweetheart (Darla Dimple)

See With Pearl And Ruby Glowing Antagonists.

The Molotov Cocktail (Yang Xiao Long)

• Big Sister Instinct: A big part of her keeping quiet about her assault is not wanting the story to get back to Ruby.
• Implied Love Interest: It's hinted that she and Blake might have a thing for each other.
• Meaningful Name: "The Molotov Cocktail" has a Hair-Trigger Temper that only got worse after her assault, which happened at a bar while she was drunk and was committed by the bartender.
• Promotion to Parent: Sort of. She took care of Ruby after Summer died, but their father is still alive, he just checked out for a while.
• The Unfavorite: A downplayed example as her family obviously loves her, but Qrow and Taiyang both seem to favor Ruby.

The Lion Cub (Kovu)

• Atrocious Alias: Nuka wanted to call him the Termite, which was vetoed by Mary.
• Child by Rape: He was born because of Zira's incestuous and pedophilic relationship with Nuka.
• Meaningful Name: "The Lion Cub" is a baby and is the product of incestuous abuse between "The Sire of Termites" and the Sire's mother.

The Prophet of Psychedelics (Fiddleford McGucket)

• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: All he wanted to do was help Ford. It led to him being raped twice, once by Ratigan and once by Bill.
• Meaningful Name: "The Prophet of Psychedelics" correctly suspected that the relationship between his roommate and his professor was unhealthy and became addicted to drugs after being raped.
• Trauma Conga Line: Lost a friend to that friend's abusive relationship, started taking drugs, could have avoided addiction except then he was raped by a trusted professor, then again minutes afterward by the other professor he asked for help, leading to him dropping out of college and spending over a decade homeless, addicted, and mentally ill.

The Courageous Crybaby (DW Read) and the Girl Next Door (Nadine Flumberghast)

• Mafia Princess: Nadine here is the only granddaughter of Mr Bigg. Predictably things don't end well for the man who killed her.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Nadine briefly appeared as a living child, and may or may not still be hanging around for real.
• Meaningful Name: "The Courageous Crybaby" shouted for help when a man held her hostage alongside "the Girl Next Door," who was killed by their captor.
• Posthumous Character: It's all but stated, and later confirmed, that Nadine was a real child who was murdered by their captor.
• Puppy Love: According to Vitani, DW and Nadine played at getting married on the playground at preschool.
• Shout-Out: To Melanie Martinez songs "Tag, You're It", "Milk and Cookies", and "Dear Porcupines".

The Speed Demon (Lightning McQueen)

• Bungled Suicide: After being arrested post-relapse and spending the night in a holding cell with the Dirty Cops he crosses the Despair Event Horizon and crashes his car which is enough to put him in the hospital but not to kill him outright.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He was Basil's roommate in college, which gets revealed by Basil himself before Lightning has his own chapter.
• Meaningful Name: "The Speed Demon" is a race car driver and did drugs; his first assault occurred after getting drunk at a party.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Was this to Basil, getting him hooked on cocaine when they were both teens.

The Diving Selkie (Misty)

• Empty Shell: Downplayed, but she literally can't feel any emotions towards her mother's death.
• Implausible Hair Color: She's Japanese and a natural redhead, while her sisters bleach and dye their hair. This is part of why her mother, who dyed her own hair red, was so fixated on her.
• Meaningful Name: In mythology, a selkie is a seal that can transform into a beautiful woman by taking her sealskin off, and would be forced to marry any man who stole the sealskin. "The Diving Selkie" is a keen swimmer whose mother constantly invaded her personal space to force her to be pretty, and Misty comments that she was so disgusted by the touching she wanted to rip her skin off.
• Self-Harm: Punches and scratches herself, both to feel something in her trauma-induced numbness and to make herself less pretty so her mother would bother her less.
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Her mother wanted her to be a girly girl because of her unusual looks and would steal Misty's self-chosen tomboyish outfits.

The Tea Rose (Vixey)

• Exact Words: Her mother told her not to let strange men touch her, but ten-year-old Hans pointed out that he's not a man.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She grew up in a rural town with no other children to play with and wanted someone to talk to, which is why she jumped at the chance to be friends with Hans when his family moved in.
• Meaningful Name: Tea roses symbolize remembrance; "The Tea Rose" can't forget being tricked into having sex with an older boy.
• Rescue Romance: After talking Todd out of killing himself, it appears that a romance is brewing between the two of them.
• The Stoner: Does and sells weed.
• Talking Down the Suicidal: Had to talk Todd out of jumping off a bridge.

The Gentle Norseman (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III)

• An Arm and a Leg: His assailants shot him in the foot when he tried to run, and it had to be amputated.
• Commonality Connection: How he bonds with Ruffnut in this universe-both were assaulted by GWF because of a mistake and weren't believed about it.
• Irony: GWF believed he was gay and assaulted him because of it. Their assault ultimately led to Hiccup getting Astrid as a girlfriend due to Ruffnut introducing him to her friend group once she realizes that they share the same trauma.
• Meaningful Name: "The Gentle Norseman" was assaulted by the cult for not acting manly enough.
• Mistaken for Gay: GWF attacked him because he doesn't act like a stereotypical manly man, though he isn't interested in men at all.

The Herald of Honesty (Chicken Little)

• Adults Are Useless: The teachers at his school did nothing about other kids bullying him.
• The Cassandra: No one believes him about anything, including what King Candy did to him.
• The Determinator: Stuck with the baseball team up until his assault because he doesn't quit things.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he hates King Candy for what he did to him, he feels that he didn't deserve to die from the corrupt cops raping him.
• Meaningful Name: "The Herald of Honesty" tried to tell people about being assaulted but was not believed.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Desperately wants his dad to at least notice him.

Gizmodude (Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera)

• Meaningful Name: "Gizmodude" (the human variation of the canon Gizmoduck) is here a self-insert cartoon character Fenton designed, which was what his harasser Mark Beaks originally hired him for.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Mark kept using Spanish when talking to him, so he responded to him in Swahili. Mark seemed to take in stride, but he just kept harassing Fenton even more afterwards.

Bombyx Mori (Noah)

• Meaningful Name: "Bombyx Mori" is the species name of the silkworm, which Noah cites as just sitting around helplessly eating until it can spin a cocoon and turn a profit, which he feels like everyone is waiting for him to do as the only genius in the family.
• Teen Genius: He notes the pressure he faces as the youngest and smartest of his large family, and seeks opportunities to be able to use his intelligence to help his family out of poverty. Unfortunately, Ratigan Has a Type.
• Plot Allergy: The assassination variation; his assailant sneaks red meat into his food, setting off his alpha-gal syndrome and nearly killing him.

The Flying Rooster (Rocky Rhodes) and Dad (Foghorn Leghorn)

• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Rocky spent his formative years as a Sex Slave so he thinks everything his captors did to him was normal and doesn't understand what rape is even after Ginger defined it for him.
• Innocent Inaccurate: Rocky doesn't understand the severity of his situation due to having been taken from his father as a three-year-old and thinks that everything that happened to him was normal.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: He doesn't mean to disturb other people, but his habit of offhandedly mentioning unimaginable horrors and brushing them off is definitely a moodkiller.
• Related in the Adaptation: They're from completely different canons, but here they're father and son.
• Seen It All: His only reaction to two suicides by gun happening right next to him is that, now he's covered in brain matter, he'll be allowed a shower, and to go back to sleep.
• Stepford Smiler: He's been a Sex Slave for most of his life and doesn't fully realize the implications of this. Unlike Penny who's genuinely cheerful this is clearly not normal.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He's seventeen now, but was kidnapped at age three, and it's heavily implied he's been behaving like this for a long time.

The Fairy Godchild (Timmy Turner)

• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: When giving his statement to the police, he admits that he didn't think that girls could force men into sex. Justified by the fact he's a child.
• Meaningful Name: "The Fairy Godchild" was raped and called a "fairy" by his Babysitter from Hell, and his godparents are trying keep him away from her.
• Mistaken for Gay: While it's unclear how serious she was being, Vicky mocks him for not wanting to have sex with her, interpreting it as him preferring guys instead of not wanting to be raped by a Babysitter from Hell.
• Race Lift: In "Day Jobs" Crocker mentions Timmy being part Tibetan, in reference to the episode in which Timmy's grandparents celebrate a yak festival.
• Revenge by Proxy: Timmy notes that the abuse got worse when Ricky got sent away and given that he feels the need to say he doesn't blame Buster for it, it's clear the two things are related, at least in Timmy's mind.
• Stalker with a Crush: Stalks Trixie, though he's more sympathetic than most examples, as he only did it because of his trauma and is trying to stop now that he's realized it's inappropriate.

The Unmade Man (Lenny Lino)

• Caught in the Bad Part of Town: Well, a bad part from the point of view of the son of a rival to the don who controls the area. His story involves being jumped by street thugs.
• The Mafia: Son of a local don.
• Gayngster: Implied. It's mentioned that he has a very high-pitched voice and that other Palace members don't want to assume anything.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: When he tried to let Oscar escape, Frankie tried to grab the gun from him, only for Lenny to accidentally shoot him in the chest during the struggle.
• Mafia Princess: Gender inverted and downplayed. His father wants him to take part in the family business, but he really doesn't want anything to do with it.
• Meaningful Name: "The Unmade Man" is the son of a mafia boss, but he doesn't want to go into the family business.
• Mob War: Hasn't told his father for fear of causing one between the gang that assaulted him and the Lino family.

The Beastmaster of the Dark (Gary Oak)

• Conditioned to Accept Horror: He's very casual about the "monsters" attacking him at night, since he doesn't realize he was actually being abused. He also doesn't understand the inappropriateness of flirting with older women.
• Innocent Inaccurate: Believes that monsters were assaulting him and his sister rather than their parents being responsible.
• Meaningful Name: "The Beastmaster of the Dark" was molested at night and he figured out how to stop the "monsters" from coming to him.
• Selective Obliviousness: He's in extreme denial about who his "monsters" really are.
• Shout-Out: The story is inspired by r/nosleep's "Tips To Help You Sleep".

El Inolvidable Guitarrista (Miguel Rivera)

• Related Differently in the Adaptation: He's still related to all of his canon family members but the exact connections are changed such as Coco and Julio being his aunt and uncle and Imelda and Hector being his grandparents. This is used to make it possible for the events of the story he shares fit into the established timeline of God's Will First's murders as Hector was one of their victims here.
• Meaningful Name: His name translates to "The Unforgettable Guitarist"; his uncle was a musician and was forgotten after he left home to pursue his dreams, but was remembered when it was discovered that he was murdered.

Mew and Mewtwo

Mayu Sugimori

Masaru Sugimori

Image credits for both go to proudfreakmetarusonniku

• Be Careful What You Wish For: On realising Mew saw him commit Matricide, Mewtwo demanded that she say "not a word". Now, she can't say any words.
• Big Little Brother: Mew is older than Mewtwo, but the stress put on by their parents caused stunted growth, making her much shorter than her brother.
• Cute Mute: Mew isn't entirely mute, but can't say anything coherent besides her name. She's also very small and cute.
• Delinquent: Thirteen-year-old Mewtwo was associating with Giovanni and other illicit activities.
• Frame-Up: Mewtwo killed their mother and framed their father.
• Happily Adopted: They were adopted by Jenny and Joy.
• Meaningful Name: Mew's real name in this universe is Mayu, and her trauma-related selective muteness has left her unable to say anything but a slurred version of it, "M'yu". Her brother, the second-born and The Unfavorite, goes by Mewtwo, as he feels like the backup version of her.
• Moral Sociopathy: The "Coming Out" side story mentions Mewtwo might have Antisocial Personality Disorder or Reactive Attachment Disorder, quite understandably, and he has some of the traits. He's not a monster (no pun intended), though; he has no intention of killing anyone else, and committed the one murder he did to protect and avenge Mew, towards whom he does feel familial love despite his anger and envy.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Mew freaks out after learning about what Ratigan is really like because, due to her studies, she brought children into the building with him.
• Mythology Gag: Their surname is one to Ken Sugimori, the artist who designed Mewtwo.
• No Love for the Wicked: In Coming Out, Mewtwo mentions being aro-ace and fears that his mental issues would make him fall under the stereotype of villains being asexual, but Mew reveals that she's a definitely non-villainous aro-ace, which means he can be too.
• Self-Made Orphan: Mewtwo brained his mother with a pipe and set his father up to be killed in prison.
• She's a Man in Japan: Here, Mewtwo is a boy and Mew a girl; in their original canon, they're officially genderless.
• Shout-Out: The situation was taken from a fic on the Homestuck Kink Meme, about a human AU version of Caliborn and Calliope.
• Pokémon Speak: After her trauma, the only thing Mew can say anymore is "M'yu", a slurred attempt to say her name (which here is Mayu).
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: At the age of thirteen, Mewtwo was getting into street fights and committing murder.

Sir Nightingale (Roddy St James)

• Meaningful Name: Roddy uses "Sir Nightingale" because, while you can keep a nightingale as a pet, if it gets out of its cage, you'll never get it back and that's what he hopes for his future to be.
• Properly Paranoid: Since he was kidnapped right out of his bedroom, he's terrified that Toad will be able to find and reclaim him, a feeling he still holds even after the move to America.
• Rescue Romance: While it doesn't have quite the standard opening, as Rita whacked him over the head and interrogated him due to believing him to be one of Toad's guards, she still helped him get home and this kindness swiftly spun into a romance.
• Spoiled Sweet: As the son of an earl, Roddy had the best of everything but his father took great care not to spoil him.

The Automaton with Tiger's Eyes (Penny Polendina)

• An Arm and a Leg: She lost all four limbs in the White Fang bombing.
• Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Her father told her he was paralysed in an accident; it was actually during the extraction of stem cells to save her life.
• Meaningful Name: "The Automaton with Tiger's Eyes" lost all of her limbs, resulting in her wearing prosthetics, and her assailant had tattoos like tiger stripes, which she remembered so she could get him arrested.
• The Pollyanna: She's pretty cheery despite everything she's been through.
• Trauma Conga Line: Born with severe birth defects, bullied and friendless over her odd behaviour and transgender identity, and then being raped and losing all her limbs at once... It's pretty surprising she's still as upbeat as she is.

The Thornapple Dryad (Wendy Corduroy)

• Identical Stranger: While not quite a stranger to Merida as they go to the same school and not quite identical, they look similar enough that God's Will First kidnapped and tortured Wendy for Merida's "crimes".
• Meaningful Name: The meaning behind "Thornapple" in Wendy's Palace name is twofold. Firstly, it's a kind of tree and her father is a logger. And second, that specific type of tree is associated with illusions which, given that Wendy's story involves both her lying to protect others and being mistaken for someone else, is very fitting.
• Mistaken for Gay: Mistaken for ace, anyway; played with in that it's through no action of her own and she was simply confused for someone else who actually is.
• Tomboy: The source of some conflict with members of GWF, but not enough for them to actually hurt her.

The Good Samaritan (Frankie Foster)

• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Not only did her rapist fake being a homeless person to get inside Foster's so he could corner her, but Mr. Harriman is basically punishing her for being understandably traumatized by her assault.
• Meaningful Name: "The Good Samaritan" works at a halfway house and tried to help who she believed to be a homeless man, only for him to rape her.
• Raised by Grandparents: She mentions staying with her grandmother after something happened involving her parents, her exact wording indicating it having been several years ago. It's later revealed in Blood of the Covenant that the incident was her accidental Teen Pregnancy and her father forcing her to give up the baby.

The Wrong Note (Lady)

• Age-Gap Romance: A small but inappropriate one; Tramp is twenty-one, and she's only sixteen, which caused the problem.
• False Rape Accusation: Si and Am claim that Tramp was following Lady around and raped her. Their attempt to accuse Mulan of rape ended up casting doubt on it, but Tramp still had to stay in jail for sleeping with the underaged Lady.
• The Jailbait Wait: Unfortunately averted; Lady, a sixteen-year-old, and Tramp, who is twenty-one, do end up having sex, which results in Tramp getting arrested.
• Meaningful Name: Lady calls herself the "Wrong Note" because her presence is as out of place at the Palace as a sour note would be in a musical composition, since she was actually never raped but her parents don't believe her.
• Uncle Pennybags: Intends to financially support the Palace as she's only coming because her parents are making her and she wants to make the most of her time there.
• Rescue Romance: Her relationship with Tramp started because he intervened when Hans tried to add her to his list of victims.
• Teen Pregnancy: She is sixteen and her sexual encounter with Tramp got her pregnant.

The Great Adventurer (Lionel Frost)

• All of the Other Reindeer: His fellow professors, aside from Milo, are not fond of him due to his belief in mythical creatures.
• Birds of a Feather: With Milo Thatch, who is just as much of a Conspiracy Theorist as he is.
• Body Horror: His genitals were removed.
• A Degree in Useless: Zig-zagged. He's a Cryptozoologist, but actually seems to have a reasonably stable job teaching a class on it at a university. However, his colleagues (sans Milo) clearly view him as having a useless degree, which causes him to be ostracized at work. That being said, his students appear to love his class.
• Groin Attack: A very non-humorous example, as Stenk emasculated him.
• True Companions: Again with Susan and Adelina, the former of whom saves his life post-assault and gets him to a hospital and the latter who crosses the state to come stay with him when he needs support proving that, despite their past breakup, she genuinely still loves him as a friend.

The Ancient Mariner (Milo Thatch)

• Birds of a Feather: With Lionel who also believes in things like Bigfoot, Atlantis and apparently aliens.
• Meaningful Name: "The Ancient Mariner" was lured to sea by Ratigan, who threw him into the ocean after raping him in an attempt to kill him.
• Shout-Out: The name is from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Eris the Troublemaker (Chel)

• Broken Bird: Her life has left her extremely cynical and sardonic.
• Sherlock Scan: Can apparently do this, she learns how to cook drugs by smelling the exact chemicals used on her stepfather's clothes.
• Shout-Out: Sarcastically calls herself an "extremely precocious homewrecker", a term first used on Tumblr by someone arguing against Moral Guardians attacking writers of Dark Fic (like, well, this one).

Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (Kenai and Koda)

• Big Brother Instinct: Kenai tries to protect Koda from the horrors of the Ark. This being the setting that it is doesn't go well.
• Meaningful Name: Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are constellations whose names mean "Greater Bear" and "Little Bear"; Kenai was protective of Koda when they were both in the Ark.
• Protectorate: Koda is this to Kenai, but Kenai is this for Denahi.

Lord Gorgon (Huan Beifong)

• Ass Shove: The cops violated him with a police baton.
• Cain and Abel: A downplayed example with Baatar Jr. Huan is a well-meaning activist whereas Bataar is implied to be very right-leaning and supporting a nationalist in her campaign.
• Mad Artist: Not initially but if "My Garden's Full of Pretty Men" is any indication he's definitely starting to lose it. He breaks all the statues in his studio.
• Messianic Archetype: The biggest example in the series despite almost certainly not christian. He's a young social activist who throws himself into advocating against racism, homophobia and corruption. Eventually he's betrayed by his own brother and borderline tortured by the arresting officers. Him reporting his rape to Lin ends up being the thing that finally puts a stop to the abuse.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: What happened to him when he was arrested. One of his assailants even ripped out his eyebrow piercing. Ow.
• Prison Rape: Raped by the officers that arrested him. It backfires.
• Rage Against the Reflection: At the end of "My Garden's Full of Pretty Men" he shatters the mirror in his studio.