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For a simple Escape The Night Fanfic, it's quite heartwrenching

Original Series (Including spinoff fics):

  • Nikita locking herself in her apartment and going on a self destructive rampage, destroying every room out of an inability to process her trauma properly
  • What Stephanie goes through during the entirety of ‘’keep on keeping on’’, she has to deal with the fact that her husband has an unspoken bond with Nikita that she’ll never understand along with the fact that she is pregnant, she serves as an example of how much the events also affect the survivors loved ones
  • Oli and Eva’s immense guilt over causing Lele’s death
  • The fact that Oli can't even do a task as simple as turing on a light without going into a state of panic and remebering how he almost died
  • Eva struggling severely with her depression
  • The gorup going to the cemetery is always somber
  • Andrea showing up for the first time in a year after completely abandoning Tyler with a flimsy first attempt at an explanation
  • Andrea having her relationship outed and her girlfriend breaking up with her becasue of it
  • Tyler trying his hardest to be The Cutie of the group and keep himself together for them, just for Matthew to notice he's not much better than the rest of them
  • Andrea accidently revealing to the group that Matthew died which leads to Nikita having a mental breakdown
  • Joeys return
  • Nikita saying that it doesn't matter how much Matthew loves her, because he'll always love Stephanie more
  • Issedrias story about losing her husband, though she’s the villain it’s clear that his death has affected her deeply for thousands of years

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