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* [[Accidental Hero]]: While going through the photos of where Melanie was held captive, a pattern starts to form. Otis and the cult were to sacrifice 7 people with Melanie ''almost becoming the 3rd one'', her escape exposes what was going on, sparing the lives of four other random people.
* [[Adult Fear]]: Granted Melanie is adult, but her parents
* [[Beware
** [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Emma rejects any pity.
* [[Break the Badass]]: Melanie
** [[Break the Cutie]]: Emma has a breakdown of her own.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Melanie is subjected to this.
** [[Complete Monster]]: Otis Darwin
* [[Cute Mute]]: Melanie becomes this after her trauma.▼
** [[Carved Mark]]: Darwin some kind of mark on Melanie.
▲* [[Cute Mute]]: Melanie becomes this after her trauma, but she slowly recovers.
** [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]
** [[Heroic BSOD]]
** [[Despair Event Horizon]]: '''Downplayed''' Melanie almost goes
** [[Hope Is Scary]]
** [[Torture Cellar]]: Melanie is locked in a small closet.
** [[Loss of Identity]]
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: With head trauma, getting lost in the woods, almost being killed by a cultist, suffering post-trauma... ya think.▼
** [[Force Feeding]]: Melanie was forced to drink LSD-Laced [[I Ate What?| Deer Blood.]]
** [[Bruiser with a Soft Center]]
▲* [[Darker and Edgier]]: With head trauma, getting lost in the woods, almost being killed by a cultist, suffering post-trauma... ya think
* [[How Many Fingers?]]: Brian checks on Melanie with this.
** [[Flipping the Bird]]: A.J. does this as a prank. Melanie
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]:
** Geri drops one after hearing Emma's breakdown.
* [[Hurt/Comfort Fic]]
* [[I Should Have Been Better]]: Brian blames himself for not staying with an injured Melanie, despite being told otherwise.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: A minor character, James, meets with Melanie when she's alone. After looking at her injuries, James remembers what he had said and quickly realizes he made a mistake. After Emma was able to calm a terrified Melanie, James looks at his co-workers, admitting his stupidly. ▼
* [[Kick Chick]]: A panicked Melanie kicks Simon in the thigh. Rather than getting upset, Simon admits to deserving it.
* [[No One Should Survive That]]: Melanie suffers a head injury that is normally fatal, add being the victim of cold-blooded torture... sweet lord.▼
* [[Kind Restraints]]: Melanie is given sedatives when out of control, due to the trauma she went though. She almost gets two shots, but is able to settle down without needing them.
▲* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: A minor character, James,
** In Chapter 55, Geri tricks Melanie into hypnosis in order to ensure the men who assaulted the latter are put away for good. During the session, Melanie had to relive the hell she went through. Cue the [[Mass "Oh Crap"]]...
*** [[Gone Horribly Right]]
** [[Manly Tears]]: Both AJ and Brian are seen crying around Chapter 55 after Melanie unknowingly opens up about her experience with the cult. Howie, Nick, and Kevin just stand there [[Stunned Silence| without a word]]
* [[Mama Bear]]/[[Papa Wolf]]: Both Joan and Dennis DO show up to look for Melanie, fearing for her life, especially after learning how close they came to losing her. Alan, Melanie's birth father, also displays this, even breaking down when Melanie mistakes him for being an "abusive cunt" like her captors, despite being the opposite.
▲* [[No One Should Survive That]]: Melanie suffers a head injury that is
** [[Not Quite Dead]]
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Vern wants to beat up Otis Darwin for almost making Melanie the 3rd [[Human Sacrifice]] in a cold-blooded cult ritual.
* [[No Sense of Direction]]: After suffering a head injury, Melanie becomes confused and
* [[Obligatory Swearing]]: There is a lot of swearing, even Emma drops a few.
* [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business]]: Melanie goes from a tough chick to a [[Broken Ace]], while Emma drops her childlike personality. The folks around them know the situation has clearly become serious at that point.
* [[One of the Kids]]: Melanie is
* [[Repressed Memories]]: Melanie refuses to open up about her experience with the cult until Geri tricks her into seeing hypnotist. To Geri's credit, it works [[Shown Their Work|some have some basis]], even the [[MythBusters]] tried it out.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Mel orders Melanie to throw a rock at the cabin that had been the latter's [[Torture Cellar| hellhole]], as her form of [[Percussive Therapy| treatment]]. When Office Shaw learns of this, he simply blames it on random strangers as it appears to help. Shaw hands Melanie his baton to smash the TV set.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Seeing what Melanie is going through, it's hard to hold back.
* [[Time Out]]: Joan and Dennis try this after Melanie runs off.
** [[Crazy Enough to Work]]:
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Emma delivers this one after seeing most of the others rushing Melanie though her recovery, and she includes herself in the process. Many
** [[Stunned Silence]]: Victoria has this one.
** [[Mass "Oh Crap"]]: Victoria, Geri, and even Melanie all had this reaction to Emma's breakdown. Melanie
** [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Many
** [[
* [[Torture Porn]]: Chapter 55 explain what Melanie had to go through, [[Tempting Fate| if you can read it]].
** [[Strapped to An Operating Table| Strapped onto the Altar]]:
** [[Human Sacrifice]]: Melanie almost became ''the 3rd victim'' of this.
*** [[They Would Cut You Up]]: Ya Think!
** [[Waking Up Elsewhere]]
** [[Black Cloak]]: The cult members were wearing these. Geri wearing a robe and James having his hood down reminds Melanie of this.
** [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Otis Darwin crossed this one when he tells Melanie about her fate being sealed. Luckily, Melanie managed to get away.
* [[Stoic Woobie]]: To some degree, Melanie fits this trope.
** [[Not So Stoic]]: After seeing what she might have done to Emma, even Melanie breaks down and asks if she upset Emma.
* [[Man Child|Woman Child]]: Melanie regresses to a child-like state.
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