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** Jed has had a rather shitty life. His abusive father refused to let him go with his mother and sister when Miranda demanded a divorce, using him as a pawn. When his father died, foster care shunted him to a couple that locks him in the basement as punishment for running away, where rats feast on him at night; it's implied that Barnaby beats him for various mishaps. Despite all this, Jed remains a chipper kid, especially when the Corinthian honors his promise that {{spoiler|he's going to reunite the kid with his big sister Rose while keeping them safe, and Unity pulls strings so that Rose becomes Jed's legal guardian}}.
** Rose also hasn't had a fun life. In the comics, her response to her two-book [[Trauma Conga Line]] was at first to deny that {{spoiler|Gilbert wasn't a creation of Dream because he was her friend, or that Unity Kinkaid died to save Rose despite barely knowing her for a year. She later describes what happens to her as "Weird shit" while emotionless and depressed in ''The Kindly Ones''}}. Her mother dies, leaving most of her money so Rose can have an apartment, and then her friend Judy is killed hours after making a video-call with Rose about a bad breakup. No one knows what happened in the diner except for Dream and John Dee, and neither wants to volunteer the information. Rose bears most of this stoically, focusing her limited resources on locating her brother Jed. She finds out someone murdered his foster parents just as she got a lead on his location, and the police are no help. A man she finds out later is a serial killer calls her to meet him at a convention to reunite with Jed, where one of the attendees nearly kills her and her brother. Oh, and she finds out she's an [[Apocalypse Maiden]] in the Dreaming who endangers all dreamers, a vortex that {{spoiler|Dream will have to kill if she loses control of her powers, as she does in the season one finale. Rose accepts her fate with dignity, telling Dream that she's ready to save her friends; she cries when Unity ends up taking her place, the sole grief she shows about the past few months.}} It's implied that because Rose likes writing, {{spoiler|her book on these happenings helped her cope with that much trauma}} and she remains an optimistic woman who takes comfort that Jed, Lyta, and Lyta's baby are safe.
** Similarly, Calliope in the comic was a [[Broken Bird]] who spent her captivity dealing with two creeps that had their way with her per the old rules; she gets better after Dream secures her freedom but is nowhere near as happy as she was in the flashbacks at Orpheus's wedding, for understandable reasons. When she undergoes the same ordeal in the show, she remains a [{Defiant Captive]], telling Richard Madoc bluntly that he may think he's better than Erasmus but if he truly was then he would free her and worship her, as the muses used to be worshipped, if he needs help for his new book. Despite being anguished that the Fates cannot help her, she plays [[The Long Game]] for four years and sends a distress call to Dream after seeing in the newspaper that the sleeping sickness has ended. She also specifies that she doesn't want Richard hurt; she wants her freedom, while Dream wants revenge on her behalf. What's more, once she is free, she tells Dream she wants to talk about what happened to their son, so they can grieve, but understands that he needs time before they can even clear the air. Calliope returns to the minds of mortals, to inspire them to be kinder than their predecessors. She's tough.
* [[Cry for the Devil]]: John Dee isn't ''as'' much of a monster as he was in the comics, being a Justice League villain, but he still has a body count and compels the innocent diner residents to kill each other when he forces them to be honest with each other. Dream still pities him, genuinely warning John that the Ruby is affecting his senses because humans are not meant to have such power. His mother Ethel also admits that it's her fault John is this way, shortly before she pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to give him her amulet of protection.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:
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