Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26241695-20150602011240/@comment-26054278-20150602014646

Doctor Quirkenstein wrote: Dismemberment and Mental Illness. Dismemberment because the parents have their heads removed in some fashion, and Mental Illness because the brother has a learning disability, which can technically be counted as a mental illness.

Also, there does not need to be a dash after "to no avail". Learning Disability honestly shouldn't be considered mental illness (as that is kind of insulting to people who have mental illnesses), but if the author was truly going for that, I suppose they can add that.

Reality as well, though.