The Chemical Garden Trilogy/YMMV


 * The Chew Toy: Cecily.
 * Designated Hero: Rhine is extremely rude and unsympathetic to Cecily, and generally seems pretty okay with the whole kidnapping and raping thing.
 * Gabriel is just generally bland, but we should not be feeling sympathy for Linden even a little bit; he honestly believed a row of dirty, crying, scared looking girls had chosen to be brides? And what did he think those gun shots were?
 * Designated Villain: We're repeatedly told that Housemaster Vaughn is evil because he  to find a cure, but that's a fairly common medical practice, even today. It's not pleasant, but it's not evil.
 * Rhine also grossly exaggerates Vaughn's evilness in general, attaching hidden malice and cruelty to even the simplest of his actions for no real reason. Vaughn could pet a kitten, and Rhine would find some way to make it show that it's actually a secret expression of his evilness.
 * How dare Cecily 1) do her best to adapt to a situation that to her doesn't seem at all horrible, considering she was practically raised for it, 2) attempt to make friends with her sister-wives, 3) criticize the staff when she quite reasonably expects them to do their jobs (particularly when she's pregnant and intensely frustrated from being kept in bed all the time), 4) try to monopolize Linden's attention when he's the only one who takes much notice of her anyway, and 5) make an honest mistake when she trys to prevent Rhine from getting into trouble?! How dare she?!
 * Idiot Ball: Despite the looming threat humanity's extinction, Gathers run around killing hundreds of girls for not being pretty enough for marriage or prostitution.