YMMV / The CATverse

• Archive Binge: There are more than 130 posted stories set in the CATverse so far.
• Archive Panic: Besides the 130 CATverse stories, many of which are multi-chapter, lead into one another, and follow a timeline that isn't necessarily in the order of stories posted, there are stories and character information exclusive to the CATverse's several Character Blogs. This isn't getting into the pop-culture references scattered throughout the series, some of which are relatively obscure.
• Designated Villain: Cadence Armitage in her second appearance. While she did provoke them in "Domesticity", the girls deliberately sabotage her treatment and physically beat her when she's no threat to anyone, explicitly just to mess with her, and their actions at their worst are if anything worse than Cadence's.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Averted for Jonathan Crane. While he has a Freudian Excuse and has sympathetic moments with the girls throughout the series, he is also homicidal, misanthropic, generally unpleasant, prone to viciously Disproportionate Retribution, and capable of extremely evil actions. On the other hand, the series generally brushes over the crimes, often violent and/or disproportionate, committed by Crane and the girls in favor of domestic fluff, and the characters' worst actions have few to no serious and lasting consequences.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • While Crane is definitely a villain, he is that way in large part because he was bullied horribly, ostracized, was abandoned by his parents to an abusive and neglectful caretaker, and had a childhood utterly without love and support from anyone.
  • Cadence Armitage did attack the girls first in Domesticity, but their revenge beating of her in Small World was unprovoked and cruel, especially since she was actively recovering and was no threat to them.
• Moral Event Horizon: Crane has several possible ones throughout the series:
  • While most of Crane's more vicious behavior is either skimmed over or happens off-page, his actions in Small World cement that yes, he is most definitely a villain. He murders his mother and terrorizes his much younger sister Marilyn into insanity, for no reason than because she raised Marilyn instead of him. Even the girls are horrified by his actions.
  • Crane also scares a pregnant woman to death and is utterly nonplussed by it even as the girls are badly shaken, simply remarking that it doesn't matter that they killed a baby.
  • In the first story, he sets a girl's apartment on fire and kills her and her roommate just to take out his anger with Al.
• The Woobie:
  • Marilyn Keeny in Small World. She is attacked, her mother is violently murdered, and she is finally driven helplessly insane by the Scarecrow, her vengeful older brother who she didn't know existed and for reasons she doesn't understand. Marilyn herself is completely innocent of any wrongdoing and bears the brunt of Crane's rage over his Parental Abandonment. The poor girl needs a hug.
  • For all her mistakes, Karen Keeny was ultimately a teenager who had no real choice but to do as her family said, and seeing her struggle and fail to protect her daughter from the Scarecrow is terrifying and deeply sad. When she's ultimately murdered by Crane, it's hard not to feel sorry for her.
  • K. Crow did nothing wrong besides have the bad luck to accidentally let a supervillain into her apartment. She and her roommate are killed for it.
  • The pregnant woman Crane murders in A Better Mousetrap.