YMMV / Borrasca

• Awesome Moments: Basically the entirety of "V", which ends in Kimber and Sam successfully taking down Borrasca and exposing Drisking for what it really is, and all with one gun, one bullet, and one bulletproof vest.
• Catharsis Factor: Borrasca V, which gives us an actually happy ending for our main characters, plus the fact that Sheriff Walker, Jimmy Prescott and anybody involved in Drisking's dark secret get karmic punishment makes it better.
  • Esoteric Happy Ending: On the other hand... Part V touches upon the fact that Kimber and Kyle are actually related due to the town's baby making machine, and there's a possibility Kimber will tell Kyle when they reunited at the end of V.
• Complete Monster: Sheriff Graham Walker seems like a caring family man and protective town sheriff at first, but later reveals himself to be a twisted and ruthless crime boss who runs a Human Trafficking empire. Walker moves his family to Drisking to escape scrutiny for pimping out teenage girls, and to get involved, and take part in, Drisking's conspiracy of mass murder, abduction, rape and impregnation of numerous women; notably having his own young daughter Whitney kidnapped to be made his Sex Slave, impregnating her dozens of times. When his son Sam learns of the operation, Walker has him framed for the battery of his friend Kyle. When Whitney herself dies, Walker murders his wife to remarry and have a new daughter in hopes of making a replacement sex slave. Walker also usurps the Prescott control of the operation, withholding the town's benefits of the operation for himself. When Sam and his friend Kimber (who Walker also raped) confront Walker, he beats Sam and intends to mould Sam into his heir and make Kimber a new sex slave, before attempting to kill them, telling Sam he could always have another son to replace him.
• Fanon Discontinuity: While as well-received as the first four parts were, some readers ignore Borrasca V as they already found IV the more natural and fitting conclusion to the story. Helped by Word of God herself saying that Borrasca V is for those who wanted a happier ending.
• Heartwarming Moments: Despite it's overall depressing and stomach-churning nature, there are a few sweet moments in both the original and "V":
  • After some girls at their elementary school call Kimber ugly while talking to Sam, he tries to lie and tell her that the girls said that she was too pretty and being by them made them look gross in comparison. Of course, Kimber doesn't buy it, but Sam's attempts to cheer her up do work.
    • On top of that, there's Kyle and Sam yelling at the same girls for pushing Kimber to the ground.
  • As brutal and horrifying as Kyle's beatdown and the moments leading up it are, there's something sweet about how even when beaten to a bloody pulp, Kyle refuses to give away Kimber's location.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: After posting Part IV of Borrasca, a Reddit user asked CK Walker if they would get a happy ending for the characters. Walker responded with "And then I went back to Borrasca with my minigun and mowed everyone down and burn the dorms and the Shiny Gentleman to the ground." The best part? That's exactly what happens in Borrasca V. Almost, anyway.
• Memetic Mutation: Posting reactions to Borrasca on Tumblr were a very reoccurring thing it was amusing.
• Nightmare Fuel: The story is this incarnate. From the unsettling nature of Drisking and the kids living their lives with the sole fact on the back of their minds that nothing is what it seems in the town. When IV reveals the true nature of the town, it's a full-blown Shocking Moment.
  • Has its own page for more in-depth scary moments.
• No Yay: Kyle and Kimber's relationship is pretty cute...until after The Reveal.
• Realism-Induced Horror: Despite having all the makings of a supernatural story, nothing outside the realm of reality occurs. The true horror comes from the idea that an entire town is in on a conspiracy to abduct young women and keep them as breeding slaves for potentially years all to continue having children due to the older generation becoming infertile from copper poisoning. The fact that it continues into the modern day when it likely isn't needed any longer to keep the town populated with a new fertile generation all to keep the local officials with a steady supply of sex slaves and human trafficking victims only adds to the misery.
• Surprisingly Similar Characters: What other work has a red-haired, feisty character named Kyle?
• Squick: The whole fucking story. Who wouldn't be squicked at kidnapping the town females and forcible rape and impregnation in order to sell babies to the desperate town folks?.
  • The fact Sheriff Walker does the same to Whitney. And if Borrasca V gave any indication, he was gonna do the same to his daughter...
• Tear Jerker: When it isn't making you wanna throw up for the reveal, this story is hauntingly depressing...
  • Sam and his mother's pain at the disappearance of Whitney, especially the latter who lives in complete Sanity Slippage that she'll return home.
  • The death of Kimber's mother, along with her suicide letter.
  • Kimber's disappearance and the effect it has on Sam and Kyle.
  • In the podcast adaptation when Sam finds Whitney's old dollhouse their father built for her in the forest when trying to search for Kimber. He completely loses it, realizing that his own father had something to do with his sister's disappearance and was lying to him the entire time.
  • The whole reveal that Kimber, Whitney, and some of the town girls were kidnapped into the town's baby-making machine and the sole fact Kyle and Sam are unable to do anything about it at the hands of Jimmy.
    • The reunion between Sam and Whitney. She can't even stare at him, and he's horrified by how weak and frail she is. He unties her and desperately begs his older sister to come with him as she'll die if she stays, only for the broken young woman to lay back down and say nothing. What makes it worse is that Jimmy Prescott is right there, taunting and explaining what this horrific operation is to Sam, making the boy even more helpless. Gets sadder when in V it's revealed that their father, who Sam has an uncanny resemblance to, was her rapist, explaining why she was so unresponsive.
    • Sam being psychologically damaged by the experience and his father's involvement of it all as he runs out of Drisking.
• The Woobie: All of the kids, especially Sam and Kimber.

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