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Dear Children (Webcomic)

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Dear Children (Webcomic)	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Dear Children is a drama/mystery/horror/comedy Webcomic created by Mitchell Pepper and Kyle Holcomb.Dear Children takes place in Hearthbrook, Massachusetts, a fictional coastal town, and follows Cailin Carver as a member of her high school's Journalism Club. Hearthbrook was once a tourism hotspot following a series of occult killings in the 50s. While this reputation has since faded over time, Cail and co. have decided to use the town's many urban legends as a way of promoting their club's failing newspaper.However, things take a darker turn after the group investigates the bizarre suicide of a classmate that might ultimately reveal a very old, and very horrific, conspiracy rooted in their small town.The comic updates (almost) every MWF, and is notable for (formerly) featuring music and even some voice acting (among other things) in its occasional flash animation pages.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })An (slightly) alternate version of Dear Children may be found on Webtoons. This lacks the multimedia features, but in compensation has a little more text content. With Flash no longer being supported as of 2021, it is now the only practical way to get a grip on the storyline, as the most important parts of the original were always the interactive Flash segments, which now no longer work. Sadly, this version ends with Chapter 3 out of the 5 ultimately released for the original.As of the year 2020, according to the author's own comments on the series' Facebook page, it's been put on indefinite hiatus due to low readership as the creators moved on to other projects.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_14450636	type	Debut Queue
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_14450636	comment	Debut Queue: The first half of Chapter One introduces all five of the starting members of the Journalism Club (in order, Cailin, Devin, Emma, Chelle and Josh), before they begin the cemetery adventure. Chapter Two then introduces (and is largely from the POV of) Gabe Hernandez.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: In-universe, the adventures of the Journalism Club start to darken as soon as they find the graveyard altar and continue as the apparent deaths and abductions begin. The protagonists very much notice this, and so far this has led to Josh quitting the team.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_15b09af9	comment	Heel–Face Door-Slam: A minor and subtle one, involving Josh's Ambiguously Evil mother. When introduced she kicks her front door open and leaps out, shotgun in hand, to deal with the trespassers on her farm. When she realizes it's just Josh sneaking out at night with the Journalism Club, her expression looks relieved — only for her heart to harden when Devin throws TP and flips her the bird. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: When Josh is scared and shoved down by a masked Aaron, Emma rushes to Josh's side, repeatedly crying his name, and utterly-ignoring the still-extant threat posed by the mysterious masked figure. Because she had no way of knowing that this would happen or planning for it, this very much demonstrates the sincerity of her love.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1b68ff00	type	The Chick
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1b68ff00	comment	The Chick: Emma is the most traditionally-female member of the Journalism Club, and spends a lot of time and energy supporting them in ways both emotional and practical.g dr
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1b6f11d2	type	The Cutie
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1b6f11d2	comment	The Cutie: Something of a tie between Cail and Josh, in that Cailin is rather childlike and innocent for her age; this is emphasized by her obsession with ghosts and her sunny and affectionate expressions and mannerisms. Josh is a sweet farmboy who is naturally-chivalrous toward girls, loves animals and tries to avoid conflict.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1b7a68f1	type	Alt Text
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1b7a68f1	comment	Alt Text: Many pages have them, and are almost always humorous.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: We cut away from Leo and Paige making out in the hot tub to Chelle watching one of her dad's action movies. The sound effect? "BANG!"
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Jealousy frequently motivates characters to greater or lesser degrees — which is quite realistic for teenagers. Aaron trips Gabe, causing Devin to punch him, because Aaron is jealous of Gabe's (merely apparent) romantic success with Chelle and Emma, coming as it does right after Candace has rejected his advances. Devin and Emma both want Josh, and Emma's resentment regarding this leads to her refusal to help Chelle end the fight between Aaron and Devin. Cail is dismayed when Gabe's reaction to learning that Sabrina isn't really attracted to Luke is to comment "Soooooo ... she's single?" Cail's expression makes it obvious that she's jealous about Gabe's apparent attraction to the girl.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Numerous ones, mostly background product names. Here, Devin is eating cereal. The brand name? "Universal Serial Bus." The shape of the bus in the cover art is even a little reminiscent of a USB.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: At least two. Cail thinks she's in a Gothic Horror rather than Cosmic Horror tale. Gabe thinks he's in a school anime world.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_20d6f4ea	type	Photo Montage
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_20d6f4ea	comment	Photo Montage: Frequently used in this comic to show the development of characters during their backstory. In the first chapter we see three photographs illustrating how the Carver family has changed over time. It's not emphasized, but after you get to know Cail better it's obvious that she developed from an unhappy little boy to a much happier teenage girl. You can also clearly see that Cail's natural hair color is brown, like her mother's.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Even though he was there for all the clues that Cailin is a trans girl, the rather naive Gabe seems to have missed their significance — including her hesitant attempt to tell him.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Several examples: Cailin and Chelle's encounter with the Wesley-Thing under Port Langworthy leads to them each helping to save the other from peril, mending their quarrel and becoming even closer friends. Devin fights Aaron when he picks on Gabe; later Gabe returns the favor by picking a fight with Eric Saddler when he insults Devin and the Journalism Club behind their backs. In consequence, Devin and Gabe come to respect and like each other. Seems to be happening between Cailin and Whitney in their shared quest to find out the fate of Whitney's brother Wesley.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Quite frequent, whether it's Devin getting smacked or all the seniors developing devilish grins.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: In some cases there are obvious similarities between characters which make close friendship and even romance plausible. Emma and Josh share a love of puns; Emma is more compulsive about it, but Josh clearly finds her puns funny and sometimes puns right back at her; Josh also gives his animals punny names. Emma and Josh are also both very fond of animals; Emma keeps multiple cats in her house, and other pets in her room; Josh makes pets out of many of his farm's livestock. Chelle, Emma and Josh are highly-intelligent: Chelle excels at verbal/reading/writing skills; Emma at mathematical and probably spatial reasoning; Josh at social skills and animal handling. Devin and Gabe are both natural detectives, possessing significant deductive and research skills. Cailin and Gabe share a love of fantasy, which Cailin expresses as an obsession with ghosts and Gabe of anime/manga (they are both fans of Japanese series about the supernatural).
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_28951c74	type	Top-Heavy Guy
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_28951c74	comment	Top-Heavy Guy: Again, Mr. Gordon.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_28bef8d9	type	Mysterious Watcher
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_28bef8d9	comment	Mysterious Watchers: Several in-story, who may be related: The hat-wearing man (?) who watches the AV van pulling into Chelle's front drive to pick her up. (This might be her father). The person in black with long dark hair who is shown observing the AV Van pulling out of Chelle's neighborhood after picking her up. The redheaded girl who reports on them by cellphone to another person from school. And, of course, the black-robed cultists, seen mostly in dreams.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Emma wouldn't have it any other way.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_2a321a1f	type	A Date with Rosie Palms
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_2a321a1f	comment	A Date with Rosie Palms: Presumably, this is why Devin keeps getting "himself" stuck in inappropriate objects, resulting in his step sister Emma having to help him get loose. If he and Emma are telling the truth about this, that is.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: The flip side of Chelle's loneliness is that she is obnoxious about her superior intellect, and often tends to confuse reading, writing and verbal skills (at which she excels) for general intelligence.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_313e9485	comment	Heroes With Bad Publicity: Most of the other students (and probably some of the teachers) at Hearthbrook High School think that the Journalism Club's nocturnal adventures are a cover for drinking, doing drugs, and maybe even worse activities. In truth, they're pretty good kids. Most of the parents of the Journalism Club are either okay with or not too opposed to their kids' choice of friends. A big exception is Josh's mom, who basically thinks they're a bunch of perverts, corrupting and weakening her son. (She may suspect Devin's attraction to Josh).
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_331e80a0	type	Disapproving Look
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_331e80a0	comment	Disapproving Look: Chelle makes her disappointment in Emma's display of moral cowardice very obvious to Emma in pages 1639-1641, starting here. Here we see Emma's expression of deep shame in response.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: One clue that Wesley is going insane from the stress of his horrifying dreams and incipent Monstrous Transformation is that his Dream Journal starts to disintegrate into a babbling mess of profanity and insults, in stark contrast to his formerly rational writing style.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Leo Fitzgerald and Paige Langworthy are seriously dating, explicitly stated to be lovers, and very much in love with one another. What makes them even more exemplars of this trope is that almost the whole school loves them and want them to get married and have children!
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: Even though the Crooked Saint had been quiet since the last decade, they still feared his return. Peggy McAries remembers being a child and her mother's warnings that if she stayed out too late the Crooked Saint would get her.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3743ef88	type	Feud Episode
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3743ef88	comment	Feud Episode: Happens when Cailin and Chelle quarrel over Cailin's insensitivity to Chelle's feelings over Chelle's Missing Mom. Results in them becoming even stronger Fire-Forged Friends due to tneir encounter with the Wesley-Thing under Port Langworthy.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_37fcf16	comment	Death Is Cheap: What with her brother Wesley (apparently?) dying and then (maybe?) turning out to be Back from the Dead, Whitney's been missing rehearsals and may not be able to appear in The King in Yellow.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_392b0ab5	type	Blood-Stained Letter
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_392b0ab5	comment	Blood-Stained Letter: The last page of Wesley's Dream Journal, presumably from the initial effects of his oncoming Monstrous Transformation.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3b27cf16	comment	On his first day at school, Gabe thinks "There are a lot of cute girls at this school ..." He's looking right at Whitney and Sabrina, both of whom he will soon come to know better (and not through any romantic efforts of his own), when he says this.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: Emma's conversation with Devin about what happened to Devin and Josh at the port, while returning from that adventure. She starts off clearly worried about the fact that Josh got injured, but things she says later make it obvious that she's also thinking about Devin's crush on Josh.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3b724476	type	Family Portrait of Characterization
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3b724476	comment	Family Portrait of Characterization: A technique frequently used by the creators to hint backstory.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The solution of the "The Legend of the Ever-Watching Doll Heads," an adventure told to Whitney by Cail, of which we hear only how someone (probably Josh) escaped at the end from an abandoned toy factory by jumping out of an upper window and landing on some cushioning plants.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3e848d5c	comment	Cast of Snowflakes: All of the main characters have subtle differences in their facial features that set them apart.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3e8a368e	type	Imaginary Love Triangle
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_3e8a368e	comment	Imaginary Love Triangle: Cail regarding herself, Gabe and Sabrina. Gabe probably doesn't like Cail that way, and Sabrina barely knows Gabe exists.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_43dc74d0	type	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_43dc74d0	comment	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Josh and Devin.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Done more than once as PG-level {Fanservice}. Notably: Josh strips to change after feeding the animals in the barn. Josh's naked upper half (and possibly lower half, the scene doesn't make it clear) is drawn lovingly. Also makes obvious that Josh is very muscular. Repeated the next morning when Josh awakens and climbs out of bed. The most openly-erotic scene in the comic so far features Leo and Paige in swimsuits making out in a hot tub. Leo is, of course, shirtless; Paige is wearing both halves of a normal bikini.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_463084f4	type	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_463084f4	comment	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Done specifically as a reference to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4691c64f	type	Mission Briefing
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4691c64f	comment	Mission Briefing: Invoked by Josh in the graveyard, who slept through the one the journalism club had the day before. Naturally, Chelle is not amused.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, when Aaron refers to Devin's "dumbass sister," to Devin's face, one might first imagine that this is just Aaron's general hostility and rudeness toward the Journalism Club. As we later find out, Aaron used to be Devin's best friend, was always hanging around him, and hence probably knew Kaycee quite well.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4e3decd5	type	A Friend in Need
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4e3decd5	comment	A Friend in Need: When Cail protects Chelle against the Wesley-thing, it utterly ends Chelle's resentment against Cail for her earlier faux pas.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Harsher in Hindsight: In-Universe, when Aaron refers to Devin's "dumbass sister," to Devin's face, one might first imagine that this is just Aaron's general hostility and rudeness toward the Journalism Club. As we later find out, Aaron used to be Devin's best friend, was always hanging around him, and hence probably knew Kaycee quite well. Out of universe, the conflict between Cailin's desire to play sports on the girls' teams and the school's to keep her playing on boys' teams or not at all was mentioned in story before this exact issue became a real-life major point of contention between transgender activists and TERF's.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_4f30412f	comment	Electromagnetic Ghosts: Whatever is haunting Hearthbrook seems to interfere with cameras, and possibly other electrical devices. The effect has so far been noticed on cellphone and security cameras.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Girl, to be precise. Cailin is the tallest member of the Journalism club. Runner-up would be Josh, who is almost as tall as Cailin, and — as a farm boy — may be physically stronger. Josh wins: a picture of him wearing something slightly more revealing than usual makes it plain that he is massively muscled, under all those clothes. Guess farm living really is healthy!
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_504a1991	comment	Emma dreams of being trapped in a hospital room by chains leading from her bed and agonizingly embedded in her leg.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_53694d39	type	Bishie Sparkle
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_53694d39	comment	Bishie Sparkle: When Gabe first gets a good close-up look at Chelle, he sees this effect. Justified because Gabe is a big anime fan, who often sees real life as if it were anime or manga.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: How Chelle seems to perceive her social situation. She has her circle of friends, of course — the Journalism Club — but we see in early scenes that she considers herself (with some justification) to be smarter than all of them, and she's outright saddened by the fact that the un-intellectual Cailin doesn't get her high vocabulary level sarcasm.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_570be107	comment	Sleepyhead: Josh often falls asleep at random. This may be a matter of him staying up late with his chores and pets and hobbies, or it may be true narcolepsy. It's predictable enough that Aaron exploits it to harass him by taping obscene messages to his back. On one terrifying occasion, he falls asleep on a mission and through some sort of portal into what may or may not have been a physically-real dreamworld, or the past.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5a7fc31	comment	Faux Death: Appears to be a standard stage of the monstrous transformation which victims of the Hearthbrook Curse undergo. It obviously includes some sort of metabolic suspension, during which further transformation occurs, before the victim rises again as a Humanoid Abomination.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: A technique often used in this comic. Important, or later to be important, characters are often shown in the background of other characters for a while before they are brought on-stage. Wesley, Whitney and others are introduced this way, as are the members of the Journalism Club from Gabe's POV (well after the reader knows them fairly well). Here Chelle is discussing Cailie's sightings of spectral figures on the road and in her dream last night; in the background, Luke and Sabrina (whom we haven't met yet save as background characters) are getting a shocking phone call — presumably from Whitney about Wesley's apparent death. Among other things, Sabrina's expression shows she was more emotionally-affected by it than she claimed later on when Chelle and Josh asked her about Wesley. Emma is sitting in her room; in the background the Wesley-thing crawls up outside her second-story window to peer inside for one panel. She doesn't notice it, and there is no immediate followup. Later, we see terrifying claw-marks on the window-frame.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Gabe and Cail both have sinister dream sequences at the end of chapter 2.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Not only was Leroy Whittaker unable to afford a good defense attorney and assigned an inexperienced public defender, but the townsfolk well might have lynched him if he'd been acquitted or received any sentence other than death, according to Mr. Taylor and Mrs. McAries.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: Wesley's torture porn video files are this to 3 of the 4 teenagers who view them. Gabe looks as if he is close to losing his mind at the sight; Cail (though she insists that the truth must be confronted) is horrified; Whitney seems about to throw up (she's especially hard-hit because these files belonged to her beloved twin brother). Devin is the only one who views them unflinchingly, gaining a look of grim determination. Admittedly, all four of them are around 16-18 and hence a bit naïve (for instance, they don't realize that most videos of this sort are at least partly-faked). But still ...
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Fairly common, and there's probably a reason for them, though that reason has not yet been revealed. Wesley has a series of nightmares, so frequent that he has been keeping a dream journal, before his apparent death and actual transformation into a monster. Gabe dreams of an eerie landscape dominated by a lightning-blasted tower frozen in the moment of its collapse. Cailin dreams of a shadowy cloaked humanoid figure menacing her in her bed. Josh dreams of being chased by a dark Humanoid Abomination in what looks like a 17th-18th century farm; while dreaming he disappears from one location and reappears many yards away. Devin dreams first of an early adventure with the Journalism Club, and then of trying to escape a crashed airplane while being pursued by a watery monster. Emma dreams of being trapped in a hospital room by chains leading from her bed and agonizingly embedded in her leg.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_61f452ca	comment	Sinister Shades: Mr. Gordon.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: As befits a Cosmic Horror webcomic, happens to several characters. To Wesley Perkovitch, as detailed in his Dream Journal. To Cail, Gabe and Whitney, when they view Wesley's snuff porn. (Interestingly, Devin is less horrified by it, though it plainly disturbs him).
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: The only appropriate reaction to Emma's better puns.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Eric, and on occasion Chelle.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Cailin has trouble telling Gabe that she is a trans girl. Justified by her fear of rejection, a quite-likely outcome in that sort of situation. Gabe misses what she's trying to communicate.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Chelle states that her mother was "never in the picture".
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_67711aa	comment	Company Town: The container shipping port is currently the main source of income for Hearthbrook.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_67b9dd47	type	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_67b9dd47	comment	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Done frequently, presumably because of how much information is thrown at the reader in the early chapters.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_698d7dad	comment	Lovecraft Country: Set in coastal Massachusetts, specifically Essex county as well.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: Leo and Paige enjoy this in the Langworthy hot tub. They definitely make out there (and probably more, see Visual Pun below).
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Aaron — mainly to [[Devin, but also to Cailin and Josh.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Based on the graveyard conversation, The Crooked Saint seems to be a locally infamous serial killer. There are few details given about him, but it is implied that the bodies of his victims were heavily mutilated.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Not certain yet, but it seems that Emma has a crush on Josh, who may have a crush on Chelle, Devin MAY have a crush on Josh; Cail may have a crush on Gabe, who definitely has a crush on Chelle. Would be perfectly unrequited, except that Chelle may like Josh back.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Around the end of Chapter 4, Josh's granny is cleaning her shotgun at the dinner table, and the muzzle keeps straying toward Josh — who is visibly (and justifiably) alarmed at her behavior. One should never point a gun at someone one does not actually intend to shoot!
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7eda7f78	type	Transformation Horror
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7eda7f78	comment	Transformation Horror: We clearly see Wesley undergoing the early stages of a monstrous transformation. Made all the worse as he's previously been established as a sympathetic character, beloved by at least one other sympathetic character. Afterward, he is so badly mutated that he is mistaken for dead (though this may also be due to a death-like sleep as part of the transformation. Later, we see the partly transformed Wesley, who is recognizable mostly by his sweater to people already familiar with his human appearance. Still later, his actions demonstrate that he has truly become a monster.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_7ef728b1	comment	He totally misreads Chelle because he imagines her a stereotypical Tsundere.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Mr. Gordon has this in spades. Also Devin to a lesser extent.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Many characters in Dear Children wear glasses, Chelle probably has the most stereotypically nerdy glasses, being perfectly round and very Harry Potter-esque.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Wesley. When Cail and Chelle run into him in the cave underneath the pier, there is clearly something wrong with his face but it's hidden from view. And then he's able to hitch a ride on the bottom of the journalism club's van, and it's clear that there's something like fingers popping out of his cheek.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_856a425a	comment	The '50s: When the Crooked Saint erupted onto the Hearthbrook scene — around 1955 or 1956, almost exactly sixty years before the webcomic's "present-day" of 2015. Hal Armstrong considers the decade nostalgically: he was born around 1967 by his own account, so this nostalgia would be a bit second-hand on his part.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_86b34ecf	type	"Leave Your Quest" Test
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_86b34ecf	comment	"Leave Your Quest" Test: When Josh realizes just how dark things are getting, and compares it to the relatively carefree lives of the people in the other clubs, he quits the JC and joins the football team.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Devin and Cail dispute whether or not they should let Whitney use pink-bordered speech bubbles for their dialogue (Devin finding it too close to Cail's and his own respective colors, and Cail being more accepting). This is done for laughs: the characters can't really see their speech bubbles.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_88a3842	type	Toilet Paper Prank
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_88a3842	comment	Toilet Paper Prank: Devin first appears in Chapter One with a big pack of toilet paper, which he proceeds to use to TP (or threaten to TP) the houses and foliage of all his friends. This spectacularly boomerangs when Josh's mother comes out to confront the Journalism Club with a SHOTGUN!!
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: One reason why the horrifying dreams from which so many inhabitants of Hearthbrook are starting to suffer cause Sanity Slippage is that they slowly communicate some terrible truth to the dreamer, according to one victim's Apocalyptic Log.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Josh tells Chelle that a "wild goose chase" isn't fun. Given his animal handling experience, he's probably had to chase wild geese for real at one time or another.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Between Eric Saddler and Vallory King. He is in it for sex and the opportunity to psychologically abuse her; she is in it for expensive gifts and a boost to her modeling career. They do not love each other; they don't seem to even like each other.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The comic often indicates flashbacks or other data presentations in this manner: Emma explains Hearthbrook High School's club and clique structure to Gabe. She does this by making a rapid pencil-sketch. This is in-Universe, as Gabe compliments her for her art skills, and the =Jo Jo Jo's= comment on the presentation. In Chapter 3, Hal Taylor and Peggy McAries tell Gabe the tale of The Crooked Saint, which mostly took place in the 1950's and 1980's. This is done in a black-and-white Film Noir style, quite distinct from the webcomic's normally colorful style. A little later in Chapter 3, Emma tells Gabe the story of how Devin and Aaron went from being best friends to outright enemies. This is rendered in the same pencil-sketches she used to explain the high school's cliques. In Chapter 4, Taylor Armstrong relates something odd she saw in the night. The flashback looks like high-detail chalk art, compared to the more three-dimensional and full-color style normal to the comic. This is meant to convey Taylor's personality.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_9315c635	type	Lovable Jock
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_9315c635	comment	Lovable Jock: Two examples: Leo is big, strong, ruggedly handsome — and super nice. It's no wonder that Paige is in love with him. Cail herself was an aspiring athlete, limited primarily by her transgender status. She is also one of the nicest characters in the comic.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_95afab6	comment	Black Cloak: The figures in the graveyard and in Cail's dream.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_95db314b	type	Casual Kink
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_95db314b	comment	Casual Kink: It's odd that Devin keeps "accidentally" getting his dick stuck in inanimate objects.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Being a mystery comic, this is bound to happen. One notable example is the name Cromwell, which has been dropped several times, first as being the name of the neighborhood Chelle lives in, second as being the name of Isaac's aunt, and finally as being the name of Hearthbrook's mayor. Numerous secondary characters, some who prove to be of major importance later in the comic, are introduced or shown doing things in the background in earlier scenes.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing On his first day at school, Gabe thinks "There are a lot of cute girls at this school ..." He's looking right at Whitney and Sabrina, both of whom he will soon come to know better (and not through any romantic efforts of his own), when he says this.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: When Josh displays a mixture of polite and sincere interest in the activities of the various school clubs whose members they interview, Chelle assumes that he is merely faking it to trick the interviewees. Josh isn't — he actually finds the other clubs interesting, and by the end of the day he quits the Journalism Club and joins one of them.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_a03a3bd4	comment	Eye Am Watching You: Done by at least two characters in the webcomic: Eric, who has a tendency to make melodramatic threats, and Mr. Gordon, which suggests that Eric copied this behavior from the gym coach.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_a2968da6	comment	If Only You Knew: Josh accidentally hits a major truth when he's hamming it up in front of Devin's camera in among the shipping containers: namely, that important things can be learned by studying the movement of crates. Given that Arthur Langworthy appears to be moving supplies and/or Creatures for the cult in shipping containers, this is quite relevant to the main story, though Josh doesn't know it.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In chapter 1 there is a spooky graveyard scene immediately followed by a somewhat touching romantic moment between Emma and Josh (which then briefly goes back into scary territory). Actually happens quite frequently in the early chapters, going from comedy to drama at the drop of a hat.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_a8b5a55e	comment	Welcome Episode: Chapter 1 to the main cast, and Chapter 2 to the school environment.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: Josh physically disappears from atop a cargo container when he has his nightmare of being attacked by a monster on what looks like an 17th to 18th century woodlands farm; he then reappears in another location, complete with minor injuries. Dream, or did he fall through a Gate into another world?
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_ae33a983	comment	Has Two Thumbs and...: “GUESS WHO HAS TWO THUMBS AND KNOWS WHAT A THUMB LOOKS LIKE. THIS GUY.”
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Devin, Emma, Chelle, even Gabe to some extent... the journalism club is chock full of snark.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: It certainly seems as if there is something strange going on in Hearthbrook.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Gabe's mother tries to constantly monitor what he does and has to be physically-forced out of his room. Gabe's father is quite aware that this is bad, and even opines that this behavior is why Gabe is obsessed with anime girls.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_b5bd58a3	comment	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Eric Saddler is Paige Langworthy's (former) rich suitor; Leo Fitzgerald the (relative to both Eric and Paige) poor one. Sometime before the webcomic actually began, Paige decisively chose the (far nicer) Leo over Eric.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_b6aad019	comment	Snuff Film: Wesley had one or possibly many of them on his secret computer, and may have been somehow involved in their production or distribution. In real life, of course, snuff films are generally fakes (for the obvious reasons), but there are various reasons in this setting why this might be the real thing.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: In Dear Children every main character that has been introduced so far seems to be associated with a color. This color helps indicate who is talking, as background characters tend to speak in a gray text boxes, whereas the main cast has a colored gradient in theirs. Each character's color can also be found somewhere on their wardrobe at all times. Journalism club members: Cail is purple, Michelle is blue, Emma is orange, Devin is pink, Gabe is red, and Josh is green. Other possible main characters: Isaac is lavender blue, Aaron is black, Whitney has been granted a shade of pink (by explicit agreement between Cail, Devin and Whitney).
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Gabe, immediately after a funny moment: “Do you... like anime?”
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c06ec675	comment	Gang of Bullies: The AV club essentially serves this role to the journalism club.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Two in rapid succession in Chapter 2. Whitney Perkovitch cheers her suffering brother Wesley when he's starting to feel the pain of his incipient Monstrous Transformation. It looks like he's gonna be all right. Gabe Hernandez is heartened by the friendliness of Ms. Cunningham and thinks things will be okay from now on at Hearthbrook High School ... just before he bumps into Eric Saddler the second time.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c5249b29	comment	Leo is big, strong, ruggedly handsome — and super nice. It's no wonder that Paige is in love with him.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c5dd0ab1	comment	Stronger Than They Look: It's not surprising that Cail can easily carry short little Chelle in her athletic arms. But when Cail is temporarily incapacitated, we find out that Chelle can not only carry Cail in her arms, but can slog back with her a quarter-mile through ankle-deep water. Part of the way on unplaned rock, too. Chelle looks a bit pudgy, but most of that "pudge" must actually be muscle.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: Most notably when Gabe hits on Chelle in a cellphone conversation. He is so incoherent that at first she has no idea what he's trying to say to her; when he tries to compliment her he winds up emphasizing her appearance rather than intellect (Chelle is actually proud of her intellect) and calling her bossy without even realizing what he's saying. He thinks things have gone well, but he actually annoys and embarrasses her to the point that she excludes him from a conference call.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c70059b4	type	Psychic Dreams for Everyone
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c70059b4	comment	Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Seems to be happening to the Journalism Club. Unless they're all psychic, which is distinctly possible. According to Johannes Kepler, a lot of students want sedatives, because they are having trouble sleeping at night. According to Ms. Cunningham, a lot of students are reporting strange dream to her.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are plenty. Devin's pose in chapter one is a clear reference to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Gabe is decked out in many anime-related articles of clothing. Among them are references to Naruto and Mekakucity Actors. During the AV room scene in chapter 2, Aaron drops a line from Heathers. Interestingly, the science teacher Ms. Grant appears to be a direct copy of a charter with theythe same name in Life is Strange. 'Freeze your brain' slushies seem to be named after a song from Heathers: The Musical.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Eric Saddler essentially accuses his girlfriend Val of being slutty, simply for posting some rather tame cheesecake of herself in mildly-erotic clothing and poses on her website, and then flirting online with her fans.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: It's only natural when being with Emma.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Not much is known about the skull found in the graveyard. There seems to be a disagreement on its legitimacy. Ditto the skull found in the shipping container.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d01b1c12	comment	Opaque Lenses: Gary, making him all the more intimidating.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: In a cast full of potty mouths, Josh is a saint.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d13eb235	comment	Occidental Otaku: Gabe. This affects him in several ways: He gets teased / bullied (both, by different people) about this at school. His parents are worried about his obsession with anime. He totally misreads Chelle because he imagines her a stereotypical Tsundere. He's so busy trying to see everything he's encountering in Hearthbrook as a Shōnen Manga that he's missing the clues that he's drifting into a Cosmic Horror story.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d1fb97a	type	School Club Front
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d1fb97a	comment	School Club Front: The journalism club mainly uses their club status so the teachers don't question them using equipment to investigate paranormal mysteries.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d2bff11f	type	Loads and Loads of Characters
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d2bff11f	comment	Loads and Loads of Characters: By the end of the second chapter nearly 30 major and minor characters have been met.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: At least three of the six main characters are some kind of LGBT. Cailin is trans. Devin is gay. Emma is bisexual. Also, given certain crushes and the fact that the members of the Journalism Club know each other well, with the exception of The New Guy Gabe, it is quite possible that Josh and Chelle are also gay or bi.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d4816fb	type	Villainous Face Hold
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_d4816fb	comment	Villainous Face Hold: Mary DeWitt does this to her son Josh from pages 1384-1390, with cruel emphasis, even though she's at most Ambiguously Evil (it both frightens and hurts Josh, even though he's a big strapping youth). This action is one of the things she implicitly aplogizes for in her later note.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_db88b941	type	Malevolent Masked Men
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: The figures in the graveyard and in Cail's dream.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Emma and Josh. Gabe and Chelle. Among a few others.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_ddb124b3	type	Cast Herd
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_ddb124b3	comment	Cast Herd: Basically every character other than the main characters fall into some kind of clique.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_de0db2aa	type	Crush Blush
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_de0db2aa	comment	Crush Blush: Quite often seen among members of the Journalism Club, which makes sense given that this is a manga-style comic about a bunch of hormone-addled and relatively-innocent teenagers.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e0e3a0ba	type	Salem Is Witch Country
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e0e3a0ba	comment	Salem Is Witch Country: The Journalism Club initially starts out investigating witchcraft rumors, and the tale takes place in coastal Massachusetts. ... and Hearthbrook was settled in 1693, the year after the Salem Witch Trials, and the same year that numerous Cthulhu Mythos cultists fled Salem for other towns, according to H. P. Lovecraft and later writers.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e33e4e8	type	That Was the Last Entry
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e33e4e8	comment	That Was the Last Entry: The last entry of Wesley's Dream Journal is terrifying in its utter serenity, which makes it horribly obvious that he is now under the control of the Shadow Under Hearthbrook. Plus, he apparently Couldn't Find a Pen, and the blood was immune to oxidization.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: It's pretty easy to tell when the artist gets familiar with drawing a particular character.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Devin lustfully eyes a lawn gnome, and Cailin calls him on it, Devin responds with this gem:
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: Devin and Emma, despite being very emotionally-close, are actually step siblings.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_e83f211c	comment	OOC Is Serious Business: Devin's reaction to Aaron is definitely a break from his normal sarcastic self, and it's clear afterward how upset he was. Cailin's angry "Fuck!" is quite unlike her normal cheerful manner. It shows just how badly the loss of her athletic dreams has scarred her.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_eaaf5f	comment	First Day of School Episode: Chapter 2 introduces Gabe Hernandez and follows him through his first day of school, including his induction into the Journalism Club.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Aaron. Immediately after learning that Devin is gay and has feelings for him, he becomes rabidly homophobic, pushes him in the water and walks away when Devin panics after revealing he doesn't know how to swim. Then Aaron outs Devin to the entire school.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: After hearing that Sabrina is domineering, manipulative, and just leading Luke on to take advantage of him:
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: Devin and Chelle fight often, but for the most part seem to still be close friends.
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Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: All of the dark shadowy humanoid creatures seen so far seem to have been. Especially horrible in the case of Wesley, because we get to know him as a character before his transformation.
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Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alt Text / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Art Shift / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Attractive Bent-Gender / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bedsheet Ghost / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Birds of a Feather / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bishie Sparkle / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Black Cloak / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Book Dumb / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Cast Full of Gay / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Cast of Snowflakes / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Color-Coded Characters / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Company Town / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Debut Queue / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Destructive Romance / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Disapproving Look / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	First Day of School Episode / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Friendly Rivalry / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hero with Bad Publicity / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	If Only You Knew / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Imaginary Love Triangle / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lovable Jock / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lovecraft Country / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Malevolent Masked Men / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Nightmare Sequence / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Occidental Otaku / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rewatch Bonus / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	School Club Front / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sinister Shades / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sleepyhead / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The '50s / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_b1a9e868
Dear Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Transformation Horror / int_b1a9e868

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