A child who’s implied to have low/no empathy loves his mother despite her physically and verbally abusing him. He believes he and she are smart and the rest of the world is stupid, meaning that the latter’s lives are inferior
A character is dismissive of an unnamed trans woman who never appears in the narrative. She seems to think that this person transitioned to escape some consequence
A peripheral character who's a sibling to one of the main characters is pregnant and later has a miscarriage. Shuya finds out that his mother is pregnant and married.