Disturbing Behavior story
The story follows a group of high school outcasts who are horrified by their "Blue Ribbon" classmates are part of an elaborate mind control experiment.
18 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if people around me started behaving strangely one by one | choice | The high school senior Steve Clark and his close friends watched as the students at their school turned into perfect goody two-shoes students one by one and worried that the same fate awaited them. |
| coping with being an outcast | major | The viewer is shown what high school is like from the point of view of Steve and the trio of outcast stoners that he befriended. |
| friendship | major | Steve befriended the trio of outcasts Gavin, U.V., and Rachel shortly after starting at a new high school. |
| mind control technology | major | The grand revelation of the story is that the high school psychologist Dr. Edgar Caldicott was masterminding a secret program to mind control all the students into being ideal pupils and citizens. |
| what it is like in high school | major | The story follows the high school senior Steve Clark as he get used to life at his new high school in the picturesque island community of Cradle Bay. |
| brother and sister | minor | Steve confronted his younger sister, Lindsay, about her wearing of a bracelet from the "Blue Ribbon" clique of students. |
| coping with suicide | minor | Steve's family had moved to a new town in an effort to start a new chapter in life in the wake of Allen's suicide. |
| coping with the death of a family member | minor | Steve confided in Rachel about how his family had moved to Cradle Bay in the wake of his older brother Allen's suicide. |
| facing a vermin infestation | minor | The school janitor Dorian busied himself with catching rats that were inhabiting the school basement. |
| father and son | minor | Steve's father jokingly asked him if he was going to be nervous on his first day at at his new high school. |