Kanashii no Imi: Difference between revisions

* [[It Got Worse]]: Jeff starts out as a normal human. Before long, he begins to have horrible thoughts. At the end of the fic, [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|he acts on them.]]

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Jeff.

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Jeff, eventually.

* [[Laughing Mad]]: {{spoiler|Jeff, after leading the gang to Sasami's corpse.}}

* [[Lust Object]]: {{spoiler|Sasami becomes that of Jeff.}}

* [[Making Love in All the Wrong Places]]: Jeff has {{spoiler|Sasami}} in the Masaki backyard.

* [[Medium Awareness]]: Zigzagged earlier on: Jeff is quite aware that he's in a cartoon and attempts to convince the cast such, to no avail.

* [[Murderers Are Rapists]]: {{spoiler|Inverted; Jeff sets out to rape Sasami before deciding, after the act, to kill her.}}

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: When Jeff asks Washu if he can meet the rest of the cast.

{{quote|[C]an I at least get to say hi to the others? You know... Ryoko, Aeka, S-Sasami, and Ryo-ohki...? Oh yeah, and Tenchi too.}}

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Jeff is driven insane at the end by horror at what he's done to Sasami and fear of the others' retribution.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: Jeff, when he's {{spoiler|raped and killed Sasami and realizes the rest of the cast are about to descend on him.}}

* [[The Peeping Tom]]: Jeff gets a moment of this.

* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: Washu, booting up her machine.

* [[Raging Stiffie]]: {{spoiler|Jeff, as he weighs out the pros and cons of child molestation.}}

* [[Rape and Revenge]]: The former unto {{spoiler|Sasami}}, the latter from the rest of the gang.

* [[Rape Is Love]]: Averted:

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Sasami:'''}} "I—hate ...you."}}

* [[Reality Warper]]: Washu's Reality Distortion Transportation Thingamabob.

* [[Sex Changes Everything]]: Played for Drama.

* [[Sex Equals Love]]: Jeff's rational mind is aware that this isn't true.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Multiple, ranging from [[Title Drop]]ping to subtle ones. In particular, a reference is made to a character in Nabokov's ''[[Lolita]]'', and a scene is reminiscent of a similar one in [[Edgar Allan Poe|"The Tell-Tale Heart"]].

* [[The Sociopath]]: By the end, Jeff has become a full-blown instance.

* [[The Stoic]]:

{{quote|{{spoiler|[Jeff] never did have emotions to start with.}}}}

{{quote|He'd crossed the threshold, in more ways than one; beyond a physical concept, it was a blatant metaphor for what he was about to attempt...}}

* [[With Catlike Tread]]: Enforced via creaky floorboard, but it still succeeds.

* [[Word Salad Title]]: Both the actual title (lit. "The Meaning of Sad") and its supposed translation, "The Significance of Grief".

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Jeff is essentially perceiving {{spoiler|Sasami's inherent beauty.}}