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, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone.
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* CloningBlues: Being a PR or azi could lead to angst sometimes, but in general different characters have different attitudes towards this issue. The social and psychological effect of human cloning is one of the major themes of this story.
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* CloningBlues: CloneAngst:
** Being a PR or azi could lead to angst sometimes, but in general different characters have different attitudes towards this issue. The social and psychological effect of human cloning is one of the major themes of this story.
** Being a PR or azi could lead to angst sometimes, but in general different characters have different attitudes towards this issue. The social and psychological effect of human cloning is one of the major themes of this story.
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* FailedFutureForecast: Ari I mentions an "Eastern Bloc" once in one of her speeches.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Ari I mentions an "Eastern Bloc" once in one of her speeches.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. While it's eventually revealed that Ari I was running an intervention on Justin that ultimately benefited him, the fact she did this while also drugging and sexually assaulting him is never shown as anything less than traumatizing and awful. (The fact Reseune acts to keep it quiet is more an indictment of the current administration than anything else.)
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* AChildShallLeadThem: By the end of ''Regenesis'', Ari II has ended up as Acting Head ofas Reseune Security ''twice'', and [[spoiler: due to Catherine Lao's deathbed designation of her as Proxy, ends the book as Councilor of Information, although she intends appoint a new Proxy to leave the actual governing to as soon as possible.]] And she's only just turned 18. Justin half-sarcastically, half-nervously refers to this situation as "a Children's Crusade".
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* AChildShallLeadThem: By the end of ''Regenesis'', Ari II has ended up as Acting Head ofas of Reseune Security ''twice'', and [[spoiler: due to Catherine Lao's deathbed designation of her as Proxy, ends the book as Councilor of Information, although she intends appoint a new makes Justin ''her'' Proxy to leave the actual governing to as soon as possible.]] And she's only just turned 18. Justin half-sarcastically, half-nervously refers to this situation as "a Children's Crusade".
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* NotBloodSiblings: Justin occasionally refers to Grant as his brother, and they both refer to Jordan as their father, but they're also a couple (as a line from Ari, pondering her crush on Justin, establishes). Yanni points out to Justin that he's got his relationship with Grant all tangled up, but otherwise no one seems to consider this too strange.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: By the end of ''Regenesis'', Ari II has ended up as Acting Head as Reseune Security ''twice'', and [[spoiler: due to Catherine Lao's deathbed designation of her as Proxy, ends the book as Councilor of Information, although she intends appoint a new Proxy to leave the actual governing to as soon as possible.]] And she's only just turned 18. Justin half-sarcastically, half-nervously refers to this situation as "a Children's Crusade".
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* AChildShallLeadThem: By the end of ''Regenesis'', Ari II has ended up as Acting Head as ofas Reseune Security ''twice'', and [[spoiler: due to Catherine Lao's deathbed designation of her as Proxy, ends the book as Councilor of Information, although she intends appoint a new Proxy to leave the actual governing to as soon as possible.]] And she's only just turned 18. Justin half-sarcastically, half-nervously refers to this situation as "a Children's Crusade".
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* AmbiguousSyntax: PlayedForDrama. Catherine Lao's designation of [[spoiler: Ari Emory as her Proxy on her deathbed--she doesn't say ''which'' Ari before she flatlines, so it's unclear whether she really meant the barely-18 living Ari, or lost her sense of time and forgot Ari I is dead. Since they're in the middle of a pending constitutional crisis, Yanni decides to go with the first interpretation.]]
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* MercyKill: The original Catlin and Florian were killed ("terminated", in Reseune-speak) after Ari I's murder, supposedly because Ari I left instructions that upon her death they were to follow her. Given the DeliberateValuesDissonance of Cyteen, everyone sees it at this, since Catlin and Florian were completely emotionally destroyed by the loss in a way only azi can be and it would have been nigh-impossible to reassign them in a way that made them happy. (This is, in fact, Reseune's general policy for azi whose psychsets get too messed up and can't be fixed to Reseune's satisfaction.)
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* AChildShallLeadThem: By the end of ''Regenesis'', Ari II has ended up as Acting Head as Reseune Security ''twice'', and [[spoiler: due to Catherine Lao's deathbed designation of her as Proxy, ends the book as Councilor of Information, although she intends appoint a new Proxy to leave the actual governing to as soon as possible.]] And she's only just turned 18. Justin half-sarcastically, half-nervously refers to this situation as "a Children's Crusade".
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* AmbiguouslyBi: After a youthful fling with the double-timing Stef Dietrich, Maddy Strassen never has a CIT romantic partner again, but she ''does'' have an Alpha azi companion, Samara (with the exception of the Nyes and Director Hicks, every CIT/Alpha pairing is also a sexual and/or romantic relationship)
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* AmbiguouslyBi: After a youthful fling with the double-timing Stef Dietrich, Maddy Strassen never has a CIT romantic partner again, but she ''does'' have an Alpha azi companion, Samara (with the exception of the Nyes and Director Hicks, every CIT/Alpha pairing is also a sexual and/or romantic relationship)relationship).
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* SexualExtortion: The thing Ari I does to 17-year old Justin. Later it is revealed that her main goal probably is freeing Justin from his father's control.
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* SexualExtortion: The thing Ari I does to 17-year old Justin. Later it is revealed that her main goal probably is freeing Justin from his father's control.control, but that it's also tangled up in her maladaptive need to have her partners always be subordinate to her.
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%%* ActionGirl: Catlin.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: After a youthful fling with the double-timing Stef Dietrich, Maddy Strassen never has a CIT romantic partner again, but she ''does'' have an Alpha azi companion, Samara (with the exception of the Nyes and Director Hicks, every CIT/Alpha pairing is also a sexual and/or romantic relationship)
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Although the Union in general is a somewhat liberal society (if you can overlook slavery and several other issues), many seem to think so in Reseune.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Although the Union in general is a somewhat liberal society (if you can overlook slavery and several other issues), many seem to think so in Reseune.
%%*Reseune. Ari II's reassurance to Justin about his new office in ''Regenesis'' isn't that no one will be bugging it, but that ''only she'' will be bugging it.
* BrainyBrunette: Older and youngerAri(ane).Ari are both super-geniuses whose dark hair is often mentioned.
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* BrainyBrunette: Older and younger
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* HappinessInSlavery: Played straight in most azi for they are conditioned from birth and generally treated well on the surface. Inverted by Grant--Alpha azi are so smart that they are constantly changing their own "programming", and so he soon figures out that he's not free and that's ''not'' a good thing.
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* HappinessInSlavery: Played straight in most azi for they are conditioned from birth and generally treated well on the surface. Inverted by Grant--Alpha azi are so smart that they are constantly changing their own "programming", and so he soon figures out that he's not free and that's ''not'' a good thing. Even then, he doesn't mind Justin holding his Contract and doesn't want to be a CIT; what he objects to is Reseune's control.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Jordan Warrick is ''not'' happy when Ari II asks for his help fixing particularly tangled psychset problem in the second book. The fact it's an emergency and that she really does need him, specifically, convinces him to help--but it doesn't convince him to like her.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Jordan Warrick is ''not'' happy when Ari II asks for his help fixing a particularly tangled psychset problem in the second book. The fact it's an emergency and that she really does need him, specifically, convinces him to help--but it doesn't convince him to like her.
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* HeroicBSOD: Early in the first book, Grant is so traumatized by being kidnapped and interrogated and re-kidnapped and then interrogated ''again'', all while being kept away from Justin, that he goes completely null (something which azi are capable of doing safely for short bursts, but is bad in the long term) and stops believing anything is real. He doesn't snap out of it until he gets Justin back.
* IncompatibleOrientation: This was one of the reasons--although certainly the ''least'' of them--that Ari I and Jordan Warrick didn't work out.
* TheMole: Much of ''Regenesis'' hinges on realizing a hostile Defense faction has one inside Reseune and trying to figure out who it is. [[spoiler: It's the Director of Security's companion azi, Kyle AK; while Defense still held his contract, they applied unauthorized tape, which Giraud missed when Reseune reclaimed him. The military's brainwashing has been forcing him to feed them information and work against Reseune for years.]]
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Ari I's mother died when she was seven, meaning that Ari II's mother, for the experiment's integrity, must also be removed from her life at that age. Since actually killing Jane Strassen would be a ''little'' much, they instead promote her to director of the Reseune's Fargone facility (which, as the name implies, is on the ass-end of Union space). Also happens to anyone Ari II gets too friendly with in the beginning, for the same reason.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Ari I's mother died when she was seven, meaning that Ari II's mother, for the experiment's integrity, must also be removed from her life at that age. Since actually killing Jane Strassen would be a ''little'' much, they instead promote her to director of the Reseune's Fargone facility (which, as the name implies, is on the ass-end of Union space). Also happens to anyone Ari II gets too friendly with in the beginning, for the same reason.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Grant has only ever been interested in Justin; this appears to often be the case with companion azi (probably influenced by the fact that you need a special license to get that personal with an Alpha).
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Jordan Warrick is ''not'' happy when Ari II asks for his help fixing particularly tangled psychset problem in the second book. The fact it's an emergency and that she really does need him, specifically, convinces him to help--but it doesn't convince him to like her.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Abolitionist terrorists. In their view, they're just trying to end an abhorrent practice--but the ones we actually see kidnap Grant, and despite promising they're going to help him, they interrogate him under tape, which is just a hair away from torture.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Abolitionist terrorists. In their view, they're just trying to end an abhorrent practice--but the ones we actually see kidnap Grant, and despite promising they're going to help him, they interrogate him under tape, which is just a hair away from torture. (Let's just say there's a really good reason it's illegal to do that to Specials.)
