YMMV / Dust City

• Complete Monster:
  • The Nimbus brothers, Karl and Ludwig, are the CEOs of Nimbus Thaumaturgical, a company dedicated to producing fairy dust. In the past, the brothers eradicated the fairy population in order to mine the leftover dust the fairies produced, seeking to be the only purveyors of the magic. When the dust began to run out, the brothers resorted to using the corpses of the fairies to create a new brand of fairy dust, testing it out on various animalia, with the dust either horrifically mutating or devolving them to their primitive forms. To maintain their privileged position, the brothers scheme to infect the entire animalia population in Dust City with the corrupted fairy dust, regressing them to their primitive stage so they can be used as labor and food for the hominid population.
  • Skinner is a crime boss responsible for distributing fairy dust on the black market and running people off of their property through the threat of violence. Years prior, Skinner sent Henry's father, George, to intimidate Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother into giving up her land, but tricked him into taking the corrupted fairy dust, which caused him to revert into his bestial stage and brutally murder the two. In the present, Skinner aids the Nimbus brothers in their plans, abducting animalia for use in their experiments. When Doc begins to uncover their plans, Skinner murders him and frames it as a suicide. When Henry and Matt, one of Skinner's dust runners, enter his house to free Fiona, Skinner turns Matt into a golden statue—a fate he has dealt upon countless other unfortunate people, including Henry's friend Jack.
• Moral Event Horizon: What the Nimbus brothers, Skinner and the nixies did to the fairies, and what they were trying to do to all of the animalia.
• Tear Jerker: After Henry got beat up at the end of part two, he sees sparkly fairy dust on the ground in the pattern of bones and hears Faelynn's voice singing the lullaby she used to sing him to sleep as a cub. Then The Reveal happens.