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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home

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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home	comment	Lights Are Off, But Everyone's Home: Or, All the Things I'm going to Hell for, is a 2021 Young Adult Black Comedy Graphic Novel by Kent J. Starrett about a sixteen-year-old boy, Trent Staley, whose parents were killed in a car accident three years before the story begins in 2008. The book follows a year in Trent's life, where he lives with his brain-damaged older brother and expresses all his pain and rage through the book's twenty-nine full-color illustrations and his own novel, Midnight City, which we see chapters of spread throughout the book.The primary story arc concerns Staley's relationship with Diane Bourdon, a twenty-three-year-old Goth college girl who seems at first to be a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. This relationship soon devolves into a dysfunctional, codependent nightmare that threatens to consume the both of them.Rounding out the cast are Maria, a Perky Goth who takes an interest in Trent's art and writing, her guitarist boyfriend, a booksmart Lovable Jock named Connor, a Black and Nerdy aspiring journalist named Roger who relentlessly pursues Trent for the school newspaper, and the Hippie Teacher Miss Yorke who encourages his creative output. As the plot develops, Trent's novel and short stories begin to reflect his tumultuous reality, and we watch his Creator Breakdown through the lens of his Surreal Horror and Photoshopped Artwork.First published as a Web Original called Night Life in 2016, Lights Are Off, but Everyone's Home is a graphic, uncompromising Period Piece about abusive relationships (of all kinds) in the late 2000's.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_1029541b	comment	Book Smart: Staley is surprisingly cultured, presumably because his parents were perfectionist WASPs before the accident took their lives.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Connor, Trent's jock friend, has frequent sexcapades which he shares with Trent and Keith in explicit detail. They both expect him to do the same once he starts sleeping with Di, which he does only reluctantly and awkwardly. It backfires horribly when he accidentally reveals this to Diane.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The original 2016 Web Version still exists in some form, and it expands on Staley's novel as well as provides other Aborted Arcs, such as Trent's position on the School Newspaper, the way he influences the people around him, and his autism diagnosis, which is never mentioned but heavily implied in the final 2021 version.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_1b40fc16	comment	Extreme Libido: Keith Dingbar, Trent's short, acne-riddled friend with an excruciating voice, is unhealthily obsessed with sex for an adolescent boy. For an adolescent. Boy.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_1b6f11d2	comment	The Cutie: Maria is exceedingly kind and gentle to everyone and everything around her.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Trent's surreal urban horror story, Midnight City, of which we see four chapters.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: Near the end of the book Trent slits his wrists and mutilates his chest and uses an open notebook to soak up his own blood. We see the results of this, on pages 254-255.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Everywhere, all the time. Staley's a Deadpan Snarker about everything, tragic or comical, that happens over the book's 130,000 words.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2286675a	type	Quest for Sex
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2286675a	comment	Quest for Sex: Subverted. Trent's out to find somebody who understands and appreciates his personality, though all other male characters act as if this is their life's only purpose.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Caitlyn Newell, a girl who terrorizes Trent with bombastic homophobic/transphobic language (Trent is a Cisman, but this was the late 2000's). Later on Leo Anderson sexually assaults her, and she meets Trent in a counselor's office where they commiserate over their mutual abusive pasts and traumatic lives. The Epilogue reveals that they founded an anonymlous help line for troubled teens at their High School.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: Trent notices a boy on Altworks.com (a thinly-veiled fictionalization of Myspace.com and Vampirefreaks.com) who posts pictures of his grotesquely mutilated torso, to the vocal approval of his dozens of female followers. Trent later takes a broken bottle to his torso and wrists, leaving him Covered in Scars for the rest of his life. He uses an open notebook to soak up the blood, referring to the resulting 'paintings' as 'bloodstain abstractions.' According to an interview, Kent Starrett based this on his real behavior in his teens and early twenties.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Trent feels this way, though it's obvious to the audience that he's just as demented as everyone else in his immediate environment. Played Straight with Roger, Trent's straight-edged journalist friend, and Maria Garcia, who tries to keep him grounded in reality and make sure he doesn't completely sink into madness. Everyone else passes the Idiot Ball around enough to make you wonder what's in the water in Rhode Island.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: Trent, like Starrett, is entirely self-taught as both an artist and writer.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Subverted. Connor Pressman has lots of good sex, but he doesn't think of women as anything beyond objects; and when Trent and Diane have sex, it's a smokescreen to ignore their crippling codependency.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Staley carries around everything in a gigantic, seemingly disorganized binder. A Science Teacher embarrasses Trent in front of the entire class by asking for him: "Raise your hand if your name is Trent Staley," and telling him he will take charge of organizing his assignments since he "Obviously isn't competent enough to do it himself." Trent's response? "You know what I got in this binder? Your motherfucking wife, why don't I open it up so you can say hi?"
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Trent has a reputation as a psychotic "future school shooter" because of his dark art and writing, and his eccentric behaviors that result from his post-traumatic stress and untreated mental conditions.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Diane seems like this, at first. Later she unleashes her violence on Trent when she finds out Trent has a female friend, Maria. She plays it off as being afraid of her age being revealed and being sent to prison, but adult readers will catch the obvious abusive nature of her actions.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Trent does this a lot, seeing as one of his few luxuries is an outdoor shower. Most significantly, when he tries to kill himself near the end of the novel, he does so in the shower.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2e8ed504	comment	Beautiful Dreamer: Trent awakes to Diane, watching him sleep. It's later revealed to be a lot more sinister than sweet.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Diane is as tall as Trent, and he knows it.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Trent was encouraged by his parents and brother to pursue his art and was lovingly supported by his family before the car wreck that took his parents and his brother's sanity. Now he just barely passes classes and obsessively seeks gratification through cigars, alcohol and his older girlfriend while only producing art to ease his constant emotional distress.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: It's said close to 600 times in this 130,000-word novel. Interestingly, it's never said by Maria or Roger, and it's almost totally barren from Staley's novel, stories or poems.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Trent carries a huge binder around because every year Caitlyn Newell and her friends find his locker, and write "Virgin 4 Life" in permanent marker on it, so that he can't use it anymore. Literally everyone outside Trent's circle of friends knocks his writing and refer to him as "crazy" or "retarded" for his career choice, and physical fights are a weekly occurrence at Wickwire High.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_39994bd9	comment	Bazaar of the Bizarre: Diane lives with two other college girls, and their apartment looks like this when Trent gets there for the first time.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_39b7a7cd	comment	Amazon Chaser: Trent loves Maria like a sister, but could never date her because she's too sweet and waifish. Diane, a badass Goth Tom Boy in her early twenties who's both stronger than him and littered with tattoos and piercings, has him dumbstruck with love (or hormones). It backfires horribly when she starts abusing him.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: At one point, Trent charges out of Diane's room late in the night, panicking. She tried to do "something" to him, and it apparently damaged him so badly that he wouldn't allow her to touch him again until after she's washed her hands. We never find out what it was, but it's clear that she totally violated Trent's boundaries and did something very disturbingly unconventional to him.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: Trent hallucinates during his suicide and bleeds profusely all the way to his outdoor shower, where his brain leads him through a hyper-vivid recollection of his earlier memories, when his parents were alive and Vance was still himself.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: There is no way a relationship between a sixteen-year-old, parentless boy and a twenty-three-year-old woman still grieving her dead daughter can ever come to anything like a happy ending.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Trent, in multiple footnotes, asks for audience feedback. He assures us that if we feel upset with anything in the book, we can request free pastries at his personal email, Blatant_Lies95@Gag.On.My.Glorious.Oscar.Meyer.org.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Diane nurtures Trent's dependency, and seemingly knows she is the only person who provides him any form of validation or affection, physical or otherwise. It seems sweet and maternal...at first. We later find out that she is grooming him not (just) to meet her sexual needs, whether he's comfortable or not, but as a surrogate child to replace her stillborn daughter.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Wickwire High, where kids openly deal drugs and start fires, bullying is totally unchecked, and rumors spread like an epidemic. Trent mentions in passing that two seniors were caught having sex in the stairwell the year he was a freshmen, a kid was stripped nude and thrown out into the halls, at least one or two suicides occur every year, and most importantly, Staley is able to mix Rum in his Soda Bottles without significant worry as to whether or not he'll get caught.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Trent's adult brother, Vance, was once his favorite person in the world. Scenes of them bonding and having fun before the car accident litter the book in flashbacks. Because of his brain damage, Vance becomes a perpetually enraged Jerkass who essentially forces Trent to live in his garage by antagonizing him every time he comes inside the house.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Caitlyn Newell and Vance Staley both come to empathize with Trent before the book is over.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Kent J. Starrett wrote all of Staley's fiction, and added the illustrations, to boot!
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Diane, in a drunken breakdown, cries "I didn't kill my baby." This reveals she had a miscarriage, and that she was blamed for this by her parents. It also reveals that Diane's controlling, manipulative behavior towards Trent isn't just because she is trying to groom him for sex, but as a surrogate child.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_4f16a464	comment	Artists Are Attractive: The only reason anyone tolerates Trent Staley is because they like his art, though whether he's really as physically unattractive as he and everyone else believes is up for discussion.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Whenever Staley talks with his friends, it might be about Di or what he's going through, but the characters are all still teenagers. Their short attention spans result in a number of random tangents which seem only vaguely related to the topics of conversation at hand.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Both Trent and Diane are enamoured with this trope, and Trent's written work makes extensive use of it, to varying levels of aesthetic success.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_544f446	comment	Loser Protagonist: Trent is universally despised by literally hundreds of people in his school.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Or rather, Maria specifically is wiser than everyone else. She gives Trent the most level-headed advice on sex and dating, even if she still doesn't identify that Diane being seven years older than Staley is a gigantic red flag. Averted with Tabs, who's just as dumb and reckless as any of the male cast, and subverted with Diane, who uses this trope as a smoke screen.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Trent talks casually about ending his own life to ease his post-traumatic stress. Diane uses suicide threats to prevent Trent from telling anyone about their relationship, or resisting her advances. At the end of the book, Staley finally tries - unsuccessfully - to go through with it.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: The Epilogue explains that Keith Dingar, Trent's sex-obsessed friend and Tabs, the Drug Dealer, go on to get married and have a son - Keith Dingbar, Junior. Connor goes on to have three children by two successive wives.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_6dac7d2e	comment	Lust Object: Trent worries about treating Diane like one, all while she obviously - if only to the audience, and not the protagonist - grooms him to be hers.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_6f77ef8e	comment	Anti-Love Song: The poem that closes out the novel, See You At Armageddon.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: All of Staley's stories, poetry and his novel are this, to the most extensive possible degree.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: Not only are Midnight City and Staley's body of poetry real works within this world, but the book itself is presented as Staley's own written account of what happened to him in 2009.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_77a8fd8a	comment	STD Immunity: Lampshaded as Diane has had her tubes tied and Trent is a virgin. Averted with Connor Pressman, who gets some kind of urethral infection and tries to 'cure' it with a cue-tip and hydrogen peroxide. It seems to work, but it's obviously agonizing.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Trent's novel, Midnight City, reflects the events of his day-to-day life. When MC opens, 'Saldar' awakes to an abandoned world full of monsters, wondering what has happened to his parents. Saldar is the same age that Trent was when his parents died - twelve. When Trent meets Diane, an obsessive, morbid grown woman who takes an interest in his work, Saldar meets Trash, a slightly-older teenage girl who hoards garbage and hides in a dumpster from the monsters (Saldar and Trash even have the same age difference - Saldar is twelve, and Trash is nineteen). When Trent and Diane's relationship falls apart, Trash dies; and when Trent fails to kill himself and rediscovers his will to live, Saldar revives Trash through supernatural means and ends the book with the two of them ready to face the oncoming threats of the surreal, incomprehensible Midnight City.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_7b71737e	comment	Closet Gay: Roger.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Everyone is a disturbed, vulgar wreck of a person with exactly two exceptions (four, if you count the two named teachers that appear on the sidelines.)
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_8c8bd091	comment	Fetus Terrible: Trent writes a short story after finding out Diane had a miscarriage two years before she met him in which a man absorbs his sister in the womb. She proceeds to haunt him as a fetal ghost before absorbing his personality, in a twisted metaphor for how Diane has completely sublimated his personality by way of conditioning his absolute dependence on her.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_8ca9bf12	comment	Sex Equals Love: Trent, Connor, and all of the male cast seem to believe this. Trent gets a rude awakening with the book's Surprisingly Realistic Outcome.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_9013aef6	comment	Mask of Sanity: Di is even more severely disturbed than Staley is, but as she's older, she's just better at hiding it. Trent's issues are screamingly obvious to everyone around him, it's just that nobody except Di and his few friends actually care.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Trent is obsessed with surreal imagery, dark horror and science fiction, and sometimes stays awake for days on end until he hallucinates. Diane's fairly strange too, breeding snakes and covered in tattoos. In the late 2000's, these were all very unusual traits. To a lesser degree, Tabs, the drug-dealer and Maria, Trent's friend and coworker, are as well. When Trent asks if Maria can keep his secret about Diane's age, her response is "Los Chupacabras entran, pero no pueden salir!" delivered in a harsh whisper, as if it's deadly serious. When Staley eventually figures out what it means, he does not respond with perplexion, but with "Where the fuck are they going, Ticonderoga?" Tabs wears heavy rings and is so poorly coordinated she accidentally strikes herself head-on with one, giving herself a black eye. Her response is to laugh about it.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_a5c121ef	comment	Cool Loser: Trent works at a bookstore and has written and illustrated poetry and short stories, some of which are published in his school newspaper. He describes himself as grotesque to look at, yet Maria and Tabs are never anything but kind to him and - predatory or otherwise - he still attracts a woman seven years his senior. His psychological problems may not be his fault, but he refuses to make any meaningful attempt to overcome them until the end, when he decides his life belongs to him and he won't be abused anymore.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: The most mature example of an adult in this narrative is Miss Yorke, an English Teacher who encourages Staley to write and illustrate and even publish in the newspaper. Never does she raise an eyebrow about his constant unexplained absences, panic attacks or his thinly-veiled fictional allegories for his traumatic past.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: In-universe, Di sometimes uses outdated slang that gives Trent Mood Whiplash when he realizes just how old she actually is. Out-of-universe, the audience might feel this way by the late 2000's vocabulary of 'mad,' 'shady,' 'sick,' etc.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_aba0cd10	comment	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Maria is this to Trent, constantly trying to reign him in both at their workplace (where he criticizes how poorly hipsters treat the literary classics they leave strewn around and their atrocious taste in coffee) and in school (where he viciously retaliates against both abusive peers and teachers alike). Roger is this to a lesser degree, constantly trying to get Staley to put his creative skills and inclinations towards more constructive, healthy outlets.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Staley's short story, Fetal Attraction, in which the protagonist "Beaumont" chronicles being hunted his whole life by an apparition which turns out to be The Ghost of his Twin Sister who died in the womb with him. It ends with her absorbing him, and him becoming the adult woman she was meant to be. To a lesser degree, the book itself qualifies as one, since it depicts one person's spiral into madness and self-destruction. Luckily Staley survives his Creator Breakdown, and makes a semi-successful Creator Recovery.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_aec6516c	comment	Goth Girls Know Magic: Di's friend, Olive, is "uber-goth" and also a Wiccan. Di reads Tarot Cards and believes in Astrology, which Trent thinks is superstitious nonsense. Of course, he keeps this to himself.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: This is how the Student Body views Trent, because his fiction and art is so downright bizarre.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b03f82e3	type	Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b03f82e3	comment	Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: Maria Garcia, in contrast to Trent Staley, who looks basically normal but is mentally deranged. Maria wears only blacks and stripes, paints her face white and sometimes looks like 'she could win a Siouxsie Sioux lookalike contest,' but she's by far the most psychologically stable and socially well-adjusted character in the entire novel.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Staley's Older brother and Legal Guardian, Vance, not only starves Trent and refuses to buy him food (Trent works at a Borders and pays for his diet of beef jerky, ramen noodles, and loaves of bread that way), but is also delusionally convinced that their parents hated him and favored Trent; of which there is absolutely no evidence and which Trent chalks up to Vance's brain damage.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b489805d	type	Hollywood Autism
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b489805d	comment	Hollywood Autism: Averted. Staley's autism is never even mentioned, although the Web Original version of the novel Night Life actually ended with him getting his diagnosis.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b496fc2c	type	Troubled Teen
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b496fc2c	comment	Troubled Teen: Staley himself. Also Caitlyn Newell, one of his tormentors.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Diane is tall, muscular, tattooed, a hard drinker and a smoker who swears just as much as Trent and keeps both snakes and spiders.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Both Vance, who expects Trent to live with him for the rest of his life out of fear that Trent isn't capable of holding a 'real job' or functioning in society, and Diane, who expects him to stay with her and accept her abusive manipulation until he is of legal age and they can get married.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Connor lost his virginity at thirteen, and has slept with at least a dozen girls, which he makes known to literally everyone he comes across. Trent loses his virginity to Diane and they have sex frequently, but Caitlyn Newell, the School Slut, is actually a virgin, which she reveals to Trent after Leo Anderson assaults her near the end of the novel. It's mentioned in passing that Maria and Nicholas have a decent sex life, although Maria refuses to go into details (and Trent doesn't want that anyway), and Keith is heavily implied to lose his virginity to Tabitha, who he later goes on to marry and have a son with.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The original name for Staley's protagonist in his novel, Midnight City, was Kurt Jagger. He rejects this as being 'too obvious' and 'gimmicky.' Trent himself is obviously named for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and Layne Staley, of Alice in Chains.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: An epilogue explains what happened to the characters, except Staley himself, beyond that he "still lives." Vance commits suicide, Diane commits suicide after being exposed as an Ephebophile, Maria moves to Brooklyn, Connor to Colorado with his second wife and new son, Keith and Tabitha get married and move to Indianapolis, and Nicholas becomes a music teacher whose band, Revisceration, enjoys local popularity.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b7ff3d2f	type	Personal Horror
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b7ff3d2f	comment	Personal Horror: Trent's fiction reflects his deeply held psychic scars and paranoid fears.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b8ccfb2	type	Weakness Turns Her On
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_b8ccfb2	comment	Weakness Turns Her On: It's strongly implied Diane is attracted to Staley's vulnerability.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: Trent's Novel, Midnight City, revolves around children waking up in an abandoned neighborhood. At night they're haunted by surreal monsters, which Trent brings to life through his photoshopped/traditional artwork.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_bdd4c302	type	Perky Goth
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_bdd4c302	comment	Perky Goth: Staley's Friend, Maria Garcia, is a petite gothic girl who loves ponies and kittens as well as skulls and tombstones. She continually tries to be kind to Trent and drag him out of his constant creative misery and is the only one who's fully sympathetic to him when he reveals Diane's abusive behaviors.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Trent is drugged and implied to be raped by Diane, but he can't handle the stress and trauma of addressing this and chooses to believe Diane's Blatant Lies. After he tries to tell his friend, Connor, Connor writes it off as Trent just "being a pussy."
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Rodge is pretty stable and do-good too, even if he's not as thoroughly explored as even Maria.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: From everyone and everything.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Trent names a lot of chapters after either works of art he likes (Venus in Inks and The Menaced Assassin) or songs he likes (Glycerine and Don't Call Me Daughter). One of his short stories is called Fetal Attraction and is about a fetal ghost out to kill her depressive, alcoholic twin brother. Perhaps more relevently, both the 2016 and 2019 web versions reference "The Storms that took out East Kingstown in '99." This was edited out for the 2021 edition. His novel is likely named after a song by M83. He references various horror authors such as Stanley Weinbaum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Bloch, and Charles Beaumont, among others. John Callahan of Pelswick and Mo Willems get shout outs as influences on Staley's art style.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Diane lashes out at Trent for having a female friend or not yielding to her demands and makes threats of self-mutilation to keep him in line. We later find out that this is because her daughter died in a miscarriage, and her parents believed she took some kind of medication to consciously abort the child and kicked her out of the house. Suddenly her maternal, protective behavior is cast in a much more Squick and disturbing light.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Staley has a taste for cigars, inherited from his dead father. Roger likes them too, and Connor and Keith have them when they hang out with Trent outside school. Staley and Rodge even have favorite brands - Camachos and Macanudos, respectively.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Trent does a lot of this, though he realizes the error of his ways when it's revealed Caitlyn Newell, the girl who torments him, is a virgin who just has rumors spread around by guys like Leo Anderson.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Staley could get better advice than what he gets from Connor Pressman, whose attitudes towards women aren't exactly enlightened.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Trent and Diane, who mistakenly believe they can fix each other. Later on, we find out both Tabs and Caitlyn Newell are these, too.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Maria absolutely refuses to swear, making her stand out both as an outwardly gothic and creepy-looking girl but also among the main cast, who all swear wantonly.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_d6b5e3fc	type	Latino Is Brown
Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_d6b5e3fc	comment	Latino Is Brown: Subverted with Maria, who paints her face chalky white to be Gothic. Played Straight with Salvador/Saldar, the protagonist of Midnight City.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Connor and Trent aren't above taking jabs at each other, though at the end, Connor's inability to empathize with Trent's abuse by Diane drives a wedge between them.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_dd5c2ab6	comment	All Abusers Are Male: The reason nobody raises any alarm bells at Staley's relationship with Diane. Though he doesn't tell anyone over eighteen, even Maria, who is mostly a voice of reason for him, doesn't suggest anything beyond 'Be Careful.'
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_df7137e7	comment	Barbaric Bully: Both Vance, Trent's older brother, who starves him and constantly insults him and his artistic bent at every turn, and Leo Anderson, a kid who Trent goes to school with who is later arrested for statutory rape and sentenced to prison.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Diane only ever refers to Trent as 'Stales' when she's happy with him. When she calls him Trent, this is universally a pretense for suicide threats and nervous breakdowns that she uses to abuse and control him. Other characters alternate between 'Staley' and 'Trent' interchangeably.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Maria and Roger are this to Trent. Whenever he comes off as too cynically hateful, they both bring out his better characteristics.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_e54482ee	comment	Keet: Maria leans very far into the 'perky' side of Perky Goth.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_e6f961a1	comment	Garage Band: Maria's Boyfriend, Nicholas, plays guitar and sings in a power trio called 'Revisceration.' Trent describes their music as sounding like "scratchy monotone over three chords, with lyrics like what Korn would write after a lobotomy." Trent does however provide them with an album cover, so it seems like he's a good sport about it.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_e7cd994c	comment	Anti-Role Model: Trent does terribly in school, works a minimum wage job, smokes cigars, drinks hard liquor, self-mutilates to cope with his problems and completely disregards the legal ramifications of dating a woman seven years older than him.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: Of The Aughts, featuring a fictional website that combines MySpace with Vampirefreaks, blatant homophobia and vicious bullying on all sides in Staley's High School. Trent himself uses very dated slurs, though he thankfully doesn't seem to be truly ableist or homophobic; just badly influenced by the toxic environment around him.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Leo Anderson kicks Trent in the balls, in an attempt to impress Caitlyn Newell. Trent recounts an incident when Connor had some kind of an STD, and chose to 'remedy' it by using a cue-tip and peroxide. He did this in Trent's outdoor shower, while Trent and Keith sat back getting drunk and laughing about it.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Diane seems very relaxed at first, until she finds about Maria. Then she proceeds to almost drive her car off the road, 'explaining' why she has 'challenges' trusting either her or her boyfriend.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Leo Anderson, Caitlyn Newell, and Trent's brother Vance are all openly malicious to him without any sign of remorse until the very end, when Trent walks in on Vance crying over a photo album of their dead parents and Caitlyn Reveals that Leo sexually assaulted her.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_f4b744f5	comment	Unkempt Beauty: Trent feels this way of Di whenever she's home with him.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_f9741356	comment	Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Trent feeds the stray cats in his neighborhood, who he names things like Cobain, Tupac, Picasso, Five-Lives, etc. Maria has a tattoo of her first cat on her arm.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Trent gets an anonymous letter in his binder that states he is "A Queer, Homosexual Faggot" with a note on the bottom that states "P.S. Your also gay." He isn't even offended, because the idiocy of that statement amuses him.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: After Trent and Diane spend his holiday break together he writes a Chapter of Midnight City in which Saldar and Trash meet a friendly, boneless monster they nickname 'Floppy.' He's on the cover of the book, in the bottom right corner.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_feac0f90	comment	Ephebophile: Diane Bourdon, full-stop. The Epilogue reveals that after her suicide in 2014, a stash of illicit photographs of both Trent and other boys, some even younger than him, were among her belongings.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Trent, Vance, Diane. It's like a trauma contest.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Trent openly calls things "Retarded" or "Gay" even though he himself is an (undiagnosed) autistic person and his friend, Roger, is a closeted gay teen. Averted with Caitlyn Newell and Leo Anderson, who openly call Trent a "Manlady" and "Tranny" because of his percieved androgyny. Values Dissonance as this was common in the American Northeast in the late 2000's.
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Lights Are Off But Everyone's Home / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Trent gives one of these to Caitlyn Newell near the end, when she reveals she's been assaulted by Leo Anderson. She gives one back in the form of letting him tell her his story, and promising - and keeping - its secrecy. Also literally in that Trent feeds stray cats around his neighborhood and names them all after artists and musicians he likes.
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