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- The joy and relief shared by Anonymous and Catie when they reunite after the shipwreck. Right off the bat, it’s clear how close these two are and how much they mean to each other, (even if Anon does try his best to backpedal and play it cool).
- When Anon finally makes it back into town, Cornelia doesn’t hesitate to rush up and give him a great big hug. They may not be traveling together this time around, but they’re still True Companions from the first game’s adventure.
- Early in the game, Cornelia gives you a way to receive emails, and promises to keep in touch. True to her word, she sends you several wholesome messages throughout your journey. At certain points, you also get thank-you letters from some of the people you’ve helped.
- One of the Inbox missions involves helping an old man reunite with his estranged daughter, who has become a fighter in the Battle Arena. After finishing the quest, you can go back and find them at the place where it began – a stream in the woods they used to visit when the daughter was a child. They’re both so glad to be bonding again after all the long years they spent apart.
- Another example of Anonymous showing concern for Catie - during the party sidequest, after Catie leaves to invite the neighbors, Anon sends her an email to ask if everything is alright, saying he noticed her slip out without telling anyone, and offering to play a prank on the other party guests if it’ll cheer her back up.
- Deep in the haunted woods, there’s a cabin with a bed and a sign asking visitors to sleep. If you do, then a strange creature will be standing nearby when you wake up. Surely this sounds like nightmare fuel, right? Nope – it turns out the creature is completely harmless, and really does just want to give weary travelers a place to rest.
- The inn in /x/ is inhabited by ghosts, who are trapped there by a wraithlike figure lurking outside. If you fight the wraith when it calls to you during the night, instead of ignoring it as you’re told, then everyone will be gone when you wake up the next morning. You freed their souls, allowing them to finally pass on.
- In one quest, the party must pass a test before entering the 4chan code room. The test in question? Making a Triforce. Everyone can do it effortlessly… except for Til, who never learned the trick. Instead of making fun of her for it, like you’d expect, Anonymous goes back to help her without a hint of judgement. That tiny gesture marks the start of a big shift in their relationship from then on.
- All of the initial support conversations are sweet in some way, but especially Catie’s talk with Eddie about idealism and forgiveness.
- The secret café date with Tyalie, added in the February 7th update. In it, she tells Catie that despite her enthusiasm, it’s hard to trust new people who may not like or accept her; but she’s ready to trust Catie, and can’t wait to keep traveling the world by her side.
- It gets doubly heartwarming when you realize she isn’t talking to Catie at all in that scene – she’s talking to you. The person she was so excited to meet, and whom she’s decided to trust with her life from now on? That’s you, the player of her game.
- Many of the endgame interactions between the party members fall here, showing just how much these misfits have come to value and trust each other during their journey together.
- Til and Tyalie have a discussion about Shipping, in which Tyalie lets slip her crush on Catie. Rather than tease her about it, Til reassures Tyalie that her secret is safe. In the same scene, the two girls make plans to hang out and read fanfics together after their adventure is over.
- Til breaking Anonymous out of his Heroic BSoD with just the right mixture of sympathy and snark.
- Pretty soon after that, a starstruck little girl asks if Anon is really a famous hacker. Anon replies by spawning in a pet bunny for her to play with. When it gets right down to it, the guy’s not so bad.
- Another Anon and Catie moment: when she wakes up from her coma, he’s right there by her side. The two spend a minute consoling each other over the things they learned in the First Internet, each insisting that the other shouldn’t blame themselves for what happened in a previous life.
- As the airship leaves Tumblr, there’s a brief shot of Anon and Til holding hands, comforting each other as they fly into the unknown.
- Walking around town during the normal ending leads to plenty of small, heartwarming moments. Nearly everyone you’ve met throughout the game is there, enjoying the new day you’ve won for them, and they all express thanks in their own ways.
- If you cleared the Deep Web, several of the lost kids will be there too, confirming that you did end up saving them after all. Even Luna survived, and she’s back in human form to boot!
- Signboard, of all possible characters, ends up giving one of the sweetest congratulations of all:Signboard:: You did good, kid. I'm impressed. You've sure come a long way from that seasick girl on the ship, asking me about status effects. I'm sure you'll do great things. It's written on a sign, so it must be true!
- Tyalie’s entire speech about endings dances a line between this and bittersweet, and hits home for anyone who’s ever grown attached to a fictional world.Tyalie: Endings always make me super sad, even if they're supposed to be happy ones. When you meet someone special, you don't want to let them go. You want to keep being a part of their life, even after the story ends. When the credits roll, it hurts; because there's so much more you wanted to say. So much more you wish could've happened... I know this just sounds like my typical silly rambling; but what I'm trying to say is... Well... Thanks for being special to me, Catie.
- Irci thanks you for helping Til find her bravery, and marvels at the change her sister has gone through in such a short time away from home.
- If you found the Wayward Spark, you can trigger a hidden scene by using it on Arianna’s scrap pile. The A.I. wakes up just long enough to witness the sky for the first time, unblocked by the Firewall or STORM’s rainclouds. As she fades away, she thanks you for giving her a chance, however brief, to see the kind of beauty she missed out on in life.
- The Beach Episode in the epilogue is extremely heartwarming. After everything these characters have been through, it’s so nice to see them just relaxing and enjoying a vacation together. Til’s reaction to being outside barefoot for the first time is pretty cute, too, as is Cornelia’s fascination with the little clam-bots living in the sand.
- Remember the girl who wanted to open her own souvenir shop? The one who seemingly got left behind on the Wayback Machine? You can find her in the epilogue, perfectly safe and working as an apprentice at a skybound trading post.
- Amelie’s letter to the player is strangely sweet, in its own way. She’s basically asking you to live your life to the fullest, and not give into despair and loneliness like she did. At the end, she says that no matter what happens, you’ll have someone who loves you waiting for you when it’s over. Aww…?
- The final support scenes are mainly Tearjerker material, but Anonymous’ is surprisingly sweet. He and Catie briefly ponder what their lives would’ve been like if they’d never met… and swiftly decide that it would’ve sucked, and that they wouldn’t trade each other’s friendship for anything. Shift’s scene is also quite adorable, and mainly involves him and Catie reminiscing about Neopets.
- Arianna’s big anti-Breaking Speech just before the true final battle. Even Catie, Ms. “see the good in everyone” herself, is struck dumb by how much the former nihilist has changed.
- The entirety of the best ending’s 'Where Are They Now?' Epilogue. Everyone ends up exactly where they’re meant to be: Anonymous and Til start dating, Eddie and Arianna open their own library, Shift becomes king, Tyalie masters the local arcade (and waves goodbye to the player), Shrimp and Cornelia enjoy the fairgrounds, and Catie is finally able to retire from adventuring. Even Boxxyfan gets to be reunited with his family… in the most humiliating way possible, of course.
- The normal ending takes care of the staff, art, and music credits, so what does that leave for the True Ending? Oh, just the names of every single person who was ever even slightly active in Catie Wayne’s fan community. It’s a very touching gesture, perfectly memorializing ten long years of internet history.
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'What do you fear?'
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This is the stuff so horrifying that it can give people the creeps for years. This scares the pants off of just about anyone to the author/creator's delight. This makes you shrink in the back of your chair (or maybe even hide behind the sofa), look over your shoulder, and remind yourself that what's going on is (usually) only fictional.
For many horror films, achieving this effect is the whole point (and many in-universe examples arise because Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films). For some reason, many of us like to be scared on purpose. There may be a euphoria generated by surviving something that seems scary, or maybe we know that fiction can't hurt us (not physically, anyway) and the idea of choosing to be scared without the danger is fun. Some think it's cathartic or therapeutic in some way to explore our fears from a position of relative safety. In any case, this is normal for the genre. Others are fascinated by the very things that most people avoid. Many a time, it overlaps with Squick.
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Similarly, some Public Service Announcements choose to employ terrifying imagery in order to keep people away from doing dangerous things. These can be sources of Fridge Horror as well, as those from different cultures or eras past can demonstrate some intensely creepy Family Unfriendly Aesops.
On the other hand, Nightmare Fuel doesn't exist just in the horror genre and is not always the main focus of the films and shows in which it is present. In the case of such movies and shows where Nightmare Fuel or anything related to horror is far from the norm, it can be unsettling when it does occur due to the stark contrast, especially if the genre of the film or show is far from horror, such as comedy or animation, or when in a show with a very specific target demographic.
Experiences may vary from person to person. Some people, for example, may find the invasion of monstrosities which are treated as benign to be a far more terrifying prospect than things which we need to explicitly fear. Think the difference between the monster who lives under your bed when you're grown up versus the monster who lives under your bed and fist-bumps your parents when you were a young child.
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This is an Audience Reaction, so leave it on YMMV and Nightmare Fuel tabs and don't get too worked up about what specifically goes into it — what's Nightmare Retardant for one person may well be Nightmare Fuel for another. Focus on what frightens you, not what you think may or may not frighten someone else.
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Tropes used to invoke this feeling are Horror Tropes. Tropes about the emotion of fear itself are Fear Tropes. If it is unintentionally scary, it's Accidental Nightmare Fuel. If it is meant to scare but fails to deliver, and becomes hilarious instead, it devolves into Nightmare Retardant. Characters that are this In-Universe are The Dreaded.
The aftermath of frightening moments, such as death or trauma or violence inflicted upon likable characters, can easily overlap with Tear Jerker. For examples where this trope comes about as the result of Fridge Logic rather than anything occurring onscreen, please see Fridge Horror.
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- This is a page whose name is intended to be taken more literally than most. It's not enough for material to be scary; to truly qualify, it has to be frightening enough to legitimately unnerve/disturb the viewer, with actually being nightmare-inducing as the ultimate endpoint.
- Good signs that something IS Nightmare Fuel include if:
- It left you feeling shaken even after the credits had rolled, you turned the last page, or are otherwise done with the work.
- You have a hard time falling asleep if you think about it at night, or have a literal nightmare about it.
- You dread that episode, scene, level, chapter, or song during re-watches, and consider skipping it.
- With that said, don't add something just because it happens to be your personal phobia. For example, spiders can be scary and many people have arachnophobia, but just because a spider happens to be in the work, it does not make a Nightmare Fuel entry. It needs to reasonably be scary to someone without the phobia.
- Don't confuse tension with fear. If the hero is in trouble, but you know he'll make it out okay at the end, it's probably not Nightmare Fuel unless the threat is especially disturbing.
- Good signs that something IS Nightmare Fuel include if:
- Explain WHY the entry scared you. Try to convey your sense of fear to your readers. Avoid putting up Zero-Context Examples.
- Remember that Weblinks Are Not Examples, and neither are quotes on their own. You should explain the horror in your own words, rather than rely on others to do so.
- Don't add things that might have scared someone. If it didn't scare you, and you don't personally know anyone else who was scared, you shouldn't be adding it to Nightmare Fuel.
- Nightmare Fuel should stick to you even after you're done with the work.
- If something is initially presented as scary but turns out to be harmless, it's most likely not Nightmare Fuel since The Reveal makes the scariness vanish.
- Jump Scares are a good source of Nightmare Fuel, but not all of them automatically qualify: being startled is not the same as being scared.
- Hypotheticals are not Nightmare Fuel:
- Remember that Trailers Always Lie: a scene that is presented as scary in the trailer could very well turn out to be inoffensive in the finished work. Only add examples from unreleased works if they were especially terrifying in the previews.
- Fan theories do not belong on the Nightmare Fuel page under any circumstance. No matter how much evidence they have to support them, don't add them until they've been officially confirmed. In the meanwhile, take them to Wild Mass Guessing.
- Fridge Horror goes on the Fridge page, not Nightmare Fuel. Don't add it unless it's Ascended Fridge Horror.
- Keep in mind the work's intended audience when considering whether or not something is Nightmare Fuel.
- If something is normal or expected in the genre, it does not automatically qualify. Violence in a Fighting Series or gore in a horror movie must be especially disturbing or gruesome by the work's standards to be Nightmare Fuel.
- Remember that Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films. If a work is rated PG-13 or higher but would only be scary to young children, it's not Nightmare Fuel.
- The standards on what qualifies as Nightmare Fuel are especially stringent on works aimed at children and pre-teens: kids have hyperactive imaginations, so even something benign can give them nightmares.
- Spoiler tags do not belong on Nightmare Fuel pages. Much of what scares us comes from inherently spoilery stuff such as death and the unknown, so finding spoilers on these pages should be expected.
- Nightmare Fuel is an Audience Reaction, so it needs to be scary for the audience. Describing how the characters react to something scary isn't needed. Just because something scares them, that doesn't mean it scares us as well.
Some examples of things that are generally Nightmare Fuel include — but are not limited to — the following:
- Surreal sequences, usually animated. Surreal due to the Uncanny Valley.
- Characters so vile and horrific in their actions that it is completely impossible to find any kind of redeeming quality in them.
- Extreme violence and deaths.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Seeing the poor victim get savaged in gory detail can have one cringing in fear.
- The disgustingimages associated with Nausea Fuel.
- Disturbing sexual imagery.
- Unsettling body structures, human or not.
- Nightmare Sequence, disturbing dream sequences and hallucinations straight out of a nightmare.
- Paranoia Fuel — when things that should be harmless, or on your side, turn nasty.
- Primal Fears: possibly the most universally frightening of the mix; stuff that generally everyone gets the creeps from. Includes but is not limited to:
- The unknown.
- Swarms of fear-inducing animals such as rats, snakes, spiders, or insects.
- Being buried alive... or eaten alive.
- Being raped - especially by something that isn't human.
- People being set on fire, or fire endangering the lives of people while they struggle to escape.
- Being drowned, particularly if it's done very slowly...
- Being trapped without escape with a violent and/or unpredictable human/animal/thing that wants to harm you.
- Being erased from existence, whether if there's Nothing After Death or being actively erased by something, or someone.
- Adult Fears. Those things children seldom worry about: economic failure, romantic failure, having your child disappear or, worse, watching helplessly as your children die, or possibly even The End of the World as We Know It. Bonus points if this (or even any of the other) Nightmare Fuel scene(s) was/were what actually happened in history/real life.
- Transformation Sequences with plenty of Body Horror, including Chest Bursters.
- Rotting corpses, possibly reanimated. Especially those that suddenly appear to scare us without warning.
- Diseases. They have no intelligence to bear anyone ill will, but once an infection/outbreak occurs, the attack will never stop until they are completely annihilated... or their victims are.
- Mutilation of specific body parts, such as the eyes, face, fingers, teeth, genitalia, or even worse than those injuries.
- Physically abusing children or women, sometimes sexually.
- Fates so horrific one can only wish for death. Being turned into stone, being trapped in another dimension, being encased in a tomb for eternity, or being forcefully made into a machine without consent.
- A sexualor romantic obsession with someone that goes too far.
- The incredible depravity and monstrosityof human beings at their absolute worst.
- Psychotic behavior presented in a disturbinglychildish, calm, or serene manner, alluding to the potential inhumane nature of the individual.
- Former heroes committing completely reprehensible acts bothwillinglyorworse, unwillingly.
- Surrealmonsters and Eldritch Abominations that have horrific appearances.
- Soundtrack Dissonance, when used correctly, can make a scene scarier.
- Being pregnant with an Eldritch Abomination or other evil entity, or your child becoming one of these things.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul. The psychological impact of being more machine than human.
- Losing all reason orwillpower to continue living.
- A totalitarian authorityof any kind so harsh that one wishes to die or escape from it.
- A Crapsack World so vast and immutable that revolution, change, or even escape is a laughable impossibility.
- Death and destruction.
- Being inside a living creature.
- Consumption of peopleas food. Wanna take that many steps even further?
- Having your mind played with, be it wiping your memory out, mind control, brainwashing, gaslighting, re-enacting past horrific events, invasion of your thoughts, or whatever else comes to mind.
- Being huntedANDchased endlessly.
- Disturbing noises. And by extension, disturbingvoices.
- Creepy children singing, especially in menacingly slow horror scenes, that suggest some sort of supernatural uncontrollable evil entity being around and even worse, taking the form of innocence - a child.
- Having your body controlled by something to do horrible things, yet your mind is unaltered and all you can do is watch helplessly, without being able to do a single thing to stop it.
- When the mouth completely takes up the screen, especially in black. Getting Swallowed Whole in the process.
- Monumental Damage - especially if the viewer lives near and/or has visited said monument.
- Impalement on stalagmites, swords, or anything of the like.
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