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* DropTheHammer: He favours a gigantic two-handed maul almost as big as he is.
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* TheLeader: Nana Yazziee will protest that she's not Rolling Fuck's leader because Rolling Fuck ''has no'' leaders. But just because there is no formal hierarchy in the City of Wheels doesn't mean she doesn't wield a lot of influence there. When she speaks, others listen.
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* ExoticExtendedMarriage: [[spoiler:Alexander has several wives, his faith apparently allowing for such a thing for Jacobins like him, considering [[BabyFactory their primary duty to bare the Heavenly Kingdom his children]]. The women he entices to come and join the Heavenly Kingdom are generally unaware of this until they arrive, and Sasha was ''not'' thrilled to have been mislead in such a manner.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:He'd built a full suite of battle-armour for Roland years ago in case he managed to coax him back into fighting.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:He'd built a full suite suit of battle-armour for Roland years ago in case he managed to coax him back into fighting.]]
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* WeaponOfChoice: A Dragonov SVD, which Topaz has used since at least the Revolution.
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* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:He tries to push Roland into ever-greater acts of violence in the hopes that Roland will recover his memories. It backfires completely, as Roland recovers enough of his memories to realise his former crimes and violently suppresses them.]]
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* PoisonousFriend: ToxicFriendInfluence: [[spoiler:He tries to push Roland into ever-greater acts of violence in the hopes that Roland will recover his memories. It backfires completely, as Roland recovers enough of his memories to realise his former crimes and violently suppresses them.]]
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* NiceHat: It is often remarked on how one of the few clothing articles he wears is a prominent cowboy hat.
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* DontThinkFeel: A large part of the spiritual philosophy he preaches involve learning not to overthink, that true faith requires being willing to let go of rational thought, to just take righteous action and trust completely in God to see them through. [[StupidEvil This gets reflected in a lot of the way the Heavenly Kingdom does things]].
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* OneSteveLimit: Skullfucker Mike does not want to be confused with Pastor Mike.
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* {{BFG}}: As the squad regularly hunts posthumans, they are all equipped with weapons that are massively overkill (or chambered with ammunition that would be massively overkill) for fighting regular people.
* EliteMooks: Though undoubtedly skilled, Roland's opening chapters quickly show there are things even they aren't equipped to handle -- they are a kill team, not a frontline combat unit, and crumple quickly under an assault of artillery and PoweredArmour infantry.
* PerceptionFilter: Bigsby's implants makes him impossible to see through most standard data suites. Even Roland can only see him as a blank of a certain size and (probable) mass.
* PutOnABus: They exit the story after their initial attempt of getting Roland into Heavenly Kingdom territory, only to show up as Jim's bodyguards shortly before the Battle of Waco.
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder: They try to get Roland behind Kingdom lines for his initial sabotage mission. Though all of them survive the Kingdom assault they run into, they don't do so unharmed.
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* FunctionalAddict: Roland consumes enough drugs to kill a baseline human on a daily basis, and even then it only partially reduces his deadliness -- in fact, he prefers being doped out because it mutes his kill-reward systems.
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* FunctionalAddict: Roland consumes enough drugs to kill a baseline human at least two-three times over on a daily basis, and even then it only partially reduces his deadliness -- in fact, he prefers being doped out because it mutes his kill-reward systems.
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* LastOfHisKind: Roland is frequently described as such. [[spoiler:It is confirmed that all other known Project Orange subjects were killed by some vaguely defined accident in space.]]
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* SuperSoldier: Was part of a pre-Revolution US Army program [[spoiler: called Project Orange, of which he's the only known survivor.]]
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* SuperSoldier: Was part of a pre-Revolution US Army program [[spoiler: called [[spoiler:called Project Orange, of which he's the only known survivor.]]
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* TheQuietOne: Has no lines at all, mainly because he's half-dead from the treatment given to him by the Kingdom.
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* TheQuietOne: Has no lines at all, mainly because he's he spends most of his screen-time being barely conscious and in a half-dead state from the treatment given to him by the Kingdom.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's an open white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America, as well as viewing women as chattel solely good for producing (white, Christian) babies.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's an open a white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America, as well as viewing women as chattel solely good for producing (white, Christian) babies.babies. Not that he's open about that ''at first'', not wanting to scare people away until they're in a position where he ''can be'' open about it and they can't do anything to effectively challenge his bigotry.
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* SinisterMinister: While not encountered in person, he preaches a very fundamentalist gospel with very negative views on all kinds of minorities. Some of those views he keeps quieter than others to not scar off potential converts while he lures them in by appealing to more "acceptable" bigotries.
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* SinisterMinister: While not encountered in person, he preaches a very fundamentalist gospel with very negative views on all kinds of minorities. Some of those views he keeps quieter than others to not scar scare off potential converts while he lures them in by appealing to more "acceptable" bigotries.
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* TheHeavy: Alexander isn't the head of the Heavenly Kingdom, but he is a ranking officer in the forces of it controlling Dallas, and the one that serves as a focal antagonist for the point of view characters more than any other representative of that state.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: His orientation is never clearly identified, but he does seem to enjoy having sex with men. It's not completely clear if he's only exclusively attracted to men though, [[spoiler:since he was in love with Topaz who's introduced as a woman but Topaz is also a literal SexShifter thanks to their augmentations, so some ambiguity remains.]]
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: He's never seen wearing a helmet, preferring an officer's beret instead. Roland notes that he does this even when leading an assault team, so his handsome face [[SmugSnake extruding confidence]] can be clearly seen by those around him. [[spoilers:It becomes a fatal error for him when he's [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge literally beaten to death with a helmet]].]]
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: He's never seen wearing a helmet, preferring an officer's beret instead. Roland notes that he does this even when leading an assault team, so his handsome face [[SmugSnake extruding confidence]] can be clearly seen by those around him. [[spoilers:It [[spoiler:It becomes a fatal error for him when he's [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge literally beaten to death with a helmet]].]]
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* ActionSurvivor: As an eighteen year old pre-med student with no inclination toward or experience with combat, Sasha spends most of the story as very much a non-action character. [[spoiler:By the end of the book she's bashed in a military officer's skull with repeated blows from a helmet held in both her hands and shot a man who was going for a gun while she was hijacking his truck. She ultimately ends up falling in with Jim's [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary company]].]]
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* ActionSurvivor: As an eighteen year old pre-med student with no inclination toward or experience with combat, Sasha spends most of the story as very much a non-action character. [[spoiler:By the end of the book she's [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge bashed in a military officer's skull with repeated blows from a helmet helmet]] held in both her hands and shot a man who was going for a gun while she was hijacking his truck. She ultimately ends up falling in with Jim's [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary company]].]]
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: {{Exploited|Trope}} ''and'' {{averted|trope}}. Both Sasha and Roland note that Alexander is a ''very'' good looking young man, which is why he's made a Jacobian to try and entice women online to come and join the Heavenly Kingdom. He's still a BitchInSheepsClothing, but he doesn't let that mask slip until he meets someone in person.
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: He's never seen wearing a helmet, preferring an officer's beret instead. Roland notes that he does this even when leading an assault team, so his handsome face [[SmugSnake extruding confidence]] can be clearly seen by those around him. [[spoilers:It becomes a fatal error for him when he's [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge literally beaten to death with a helmet]].]]
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* SinisterMinister: While not encountered in person, he preaches a very fundamentalist gospel with very negative views on all kinds of minorities. Some of those views he keeps quieter than others to not scar off potential converts while he lures them in by appealing to more "acceptable" bigoties.
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* SinisterMinister: While not encountered in person, he preaches a very fundamentalist gospel with very negative views on all kinds of minorities. Some of those views he keeps quieter than others to not scar off potential converts while he lures them in by appealing to more "acceptable" bigoties.
bigotries.
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* SinisterMinister: While not encountered in person, he preaches a very fundamentalist gospel with very negative views on all kinds of minorities.
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* SinisterMinister: While not encountered in person, he preaches a very fundamentalist gospel with very negative views on all kinds of minorities.
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* ActionSurvivor: As an eighteen year old pre-med student with no inclination toward or experience with combat, Sasha is very much a non-action character. [[spoiler:By the end of the book she's bashed in a military officer's skull with repeated blows from a helmet held in both her hands and shot a man who was going for a gun while she was hijacking his truck. She ultimately ends up falling in with Jim's [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary company]].]]
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* ActionSurvivor: As an eighteen year old pre-med student with no inclination toward or experience with combat, Sasha is spends most of the story as very much a non-action character. [[spoiler:By the end of the book she's bashed in a military officer's skull with repeated blows from a helmet held in both her hands and shot a man who was going for a gun while she was hijacking his truck. She ultimately ends up falling in with Jim's [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary company]].]]
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* ActionSurvivor: As an eighteen year old pre-med student with no inclination toward or experience with combat, Sasha is very much a non-action character. [[spoiler:By the end of the book she's bashed in a military officer's skull with repeated blows from a helmet held in both her hands and shot a man who was going for a gun while she was hijacking his truck. She ultimately ends up falling in with Jim's [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary company]].]]
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* TheBerserker: Engineered to be one, with his augmentations being designed for "sustained maximum aggression" by pumping him full of combat drugs that focus him on targets and literally get him high on continual killing, to the point that if he's forced to keep fighting for too long he won't want to voluntarily stop. His TechnicalPacifist attitude is essentially him trying to "stay on the wagon", and the vast quantity of recreational drugs he takes help him to control the craving to give into it.
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** Averted with Topaz, who still cares for him but refuses to forgive him [[spoiler: for leaving her when he promised not to]]. She refuses to factor in his memory loss in her judgment, not because she thinks it doesn't matter, but because it doesn't change the effect on ''her'' and she won't set herself up to be hurt again.
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* TheStoner: Cyborgs tend to be found of drugs, but Roland takes it even further, being near constantly high or drunk on anything he get his hands on at any given time. But other than the sheer quantity of drugs he consumes, it is not really played for laughs, as it gradually becomes evident that Roland is using near constantly as a way of numbing himself to his own overwhelming feelings of guilt, self-loathing, and shellshock, and it is portrayed as a sign that he is at least passively self-destructive, even at the best of times.
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* SuperToughness: Roland's augmented body can take ''a lot'' of punishment, shrugging off small firearms with ease, and being able to withstand explosions.
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A seventeen year old native of Virginia in the American Federation, Sasha is a high-schooler living a comfortable life in the better half of the remains of the old US Federal State. Having become a born-again Christian, Sasha has tired of life in the secular Federation. She spends her spare time secretly supporting the fundamentalist rump state of the Heavenly Kingdom, with the goal of eventually emigrating to what she sees as God's chosen state on Earth.
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A seventeen year old native of Virginia in the North American Federation, Sasha is a high-schooler living a comfortable life in the better half of the remains of the old US Federal State. Having become a born-again Christian, Sasha has tired of life in the secular Federation. She spends her spare time secretly supporting the fundamentalist rump state of the Heavenly Kingdom, with the goal of eventually emigrating to what she sees as God's chosen state on Earth.
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* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Downplayed; the amnesiac, in this case, is definitively not 'innocent', but definitively more mellowed out and much less dangerous than whoever he used to be.
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* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Downplayed; the amnesiac, in this case, is definitively not 'innocent', "innocent", but definitively more mellowed out and much less dangerous than whoever he used to be.be.
* AwfulTruth: It is not an exaggeration to say his memories are literally soaked in blood, and it bothers Roland immensely. [[spoiler:But when he recalls his two most awful memories -- namely that he killed his brother and that he was the one who planted the Lakewood nuke -- it finally becomes too much for him to bear, and it sends him into an acute bout of suicidal despair.]]
* AwfulTruth: It is not an exaggeration to say his memories are literally soaked in blood, and it bothers Roland immensely. [[spoiler:But when he recalls his two most awful memories -- namely that he killed his brother and that he was the one who planted the Lakewood nuke -- it finally becomes too much for him to bear, and it sends him into an acute bout of suicidal despair.]]
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