YMMV / The Chemical Garden Trilogy

• Designated Hero:
  • Rhine is extremely rude and unsympathetic to Cecily, and generally seems pretty okay with the whole kidnapping and raping thing.
  • Gabriel is just generally bland, but we should not be feeling sympathy for Linden even a little bit. He honestly believed a row of dirty, crying, scared looking girls had chosen to be brides? And what did he think those gun shots were?
• Designated Villain:
  • We're repeatedly told that Housemaster Vaughn is evil because he dissected Rose's body after she was killed by the virus to find a cure, but that's a fairly common medical practice, even today. It's not pleasant, but it's not evil.
  • How dare Cecily:
    • do her best to adapt to a situation that to her doesn't seem at all horrible, considering she was practically raised for it,
    • attempt to make friends with her sister-wives,
    • criticize the staff when she quite reasonably expects them to do their jobs (particularly when she's pregnant and intensely frustrated from being kept in bed all the time),
    • try to monopolize Linden's attention, when he's the only one who takes much notice of her 'anyway, and
    • make an honest mistake when she tries to keep Rhine from getting into trouble?! How dare she?!
    • And later, she also gets yelled at for trying to stop a man from smoking near her while she's pregnant and holding a newborn.