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* FromRoommatesToRomance: AEGIS and Athan refer to each other as roommates and great friends, but would probably be shacking up if they could find each other. As of the end of the Coalescence Arc, AEGIS definitely became a little less than innocent in her habitation.



* InnocentCohabitation: AEGIS and Athan refer to each other as roommates and great friends, but would probably be shacking up if they could find each other.
** As of the end of the Coalescence Arc, AEGIS definitely became a little less than innocent in her habitation.

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* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader -- Athan, though he's not quite sure why, except that without him everyone else would kill each other.
** TheLancer -- Saga, when she's not busy laughing in the face of Athan's pacifistic tendencies with a heaping of gratuitous murder.
** TheSmartGuy -- AEGIS firmly believes there's no problem you can't plan around if you work at it hard enough.
** TheBigGuy -- Karu might not be much larger than average, but she needs a jetpack to help her carry all those guns and opinions.
** TheHeart -- Lia's a sweet kid, and the only one that seems to believe in live and let live.
* Or, within the P-Force:
** TheLeader -- Still Athan, unsurprisingly.
** TheLancer -- Mage is as unfathomable, dangerous, and inexplicable as they come. And also kind of a bitch, especially for a 13-year-old.
** TheSmartGuy -- Jack likes to wait for orders and launch precision strikes using his powers to get in and out.
** TheBigGuy -- Tem is a frail, anorexic waif, but her powers are arguably the strongest in the whole series.
** TheHeart -- Tower ''is'' a big guy, but he's generally keen to just go with the flow unless he feels like someone's getting trampled on.
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In the author's words, the story explores the terrifying question of "what if, in the future, instead of everything changing, nothing did?" and does so by following the life and struggles of Athan Ashton, who wakes up one day to find himself with the [[{{CursedWithAwesome}}power to control lightning]].

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In the author's words, the story explores the terrifying question of "what if, in the future, instead of everything changing, nothing did?" and does so by following the life and struggles of Athan Ashton, who wakes up one day to find himself with the [[{{CursedWithAwesome}}power [[{{CursedWithAwesome}} power to control lightning]].
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* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader -- Athan, though he's not quite sure why, except that without him everyone else would kill each other.
** TheLancer -- Saga, when she's not busy laughing in the face of Athan's pacifistic tendencies with a heaping of gratuitous murder.
** TheSmartGuy -- AEGIS firmly believes there's no problem you can't plan around if you work at it hard enough.
** TheBigGuy -- Karu might not be much larger than average, but she needs a jetpack to help her carry all those guns and opinions.
** TheHeart -- Lia's a sweet kid, and the only one that seems to believe in live and let live.
* Or, within the P-Force:
** TheLeader -- Still Athan, unsurprisingly.
** TheLancer -- Mage is as unfathomable, dangerous, and inexplicable as they come. And also kind of a bitch, especially for a 13-year-old.
** TheSmartGuy -- Jack likes to wait for orders and launch precision strikes using his powers to get in and out.
** TheBigGuy -- Tem is a frail, anorexic waif, but her powers are arguably the strongest in the whole series.
** TheHeart -- Tower ''is'' a big guy, but he's generally keen to just go with the flow unless he feels like someone's getting trampled on.



** As of the end of the Coalescence Arc, AEGIS definitely became a little less than innocent in her habitation.



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Standard XPCA policy seems to be executing Exhumans just for existing, even the ones who surrender peacefully.

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Standard XPCA policy seems to be executing Exhumans just for existing, even the ones who surrender peacefully.peacefully.
** [[spoiler:With the death of the previous XPCA director]] they seem to be moving in a new direction. New Eden and the P-Force are both options open to Exhumans...though death is still on the table, especially if an Exhuman is a Code-X.
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* RobotGirl: [[spoiler:AEGIS]] is sort of an odd case, being a simulated intelligence which built a body to run inside. She often talks about her body and herself separately, as though she were piloting it instead of it being her.
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* KickChick: [[spoiler:AEGIS, after she escapes her box]] exclusively relies on kicks when she fights, with dropping an axe kick being her favorite.
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Exhuman launched in September of 2017 and updates on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

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Exhuman launched in September of 2017 and updates on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
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* InternalizedCategorism: Athan has a lifetime of social indoctrination telling him Exhumans are evil and then becomes one. No matter how cool or useful his powers, he constantly battles with hating himself for having them.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Saga's opinion on everything, it seems. She has good reason, though: [[spoiler:she's been imprisoned for a hundred years, and, oh, she's immortal and before the facility vanished and the guards all left, they used to find amusement in killing her in new and creative ways. Did I mention she was probably reading their minds and feelings the whole time?]]

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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Saga's opinion on everything, it seems. She has good reason, though: [[spoiler:she's been imprisoned for a hundred years, and, oh, she's immortal and before the facility vanished and the guards all left, they used to find amusement in killing her in new and creative ways. Did I Not to mention she was probably reading their minds and feelings the whole time?]] time.]]
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Thrown out by his own family and [[{{FantasticRacism}} hated by society]], surviving a failed imprisonment, execution, and exile, Athan begins his life over, meeting a fantastic cast of strangers, many of whom are interested in his death, [[{{HaremGenre}}others in his bone]], [[{{InterplayOfSexAndViolence}}and at least one, in both]].

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Thrown out by his own family and [[{{FantasticRacism}} hated by society]], surviving a failed imprisonment, execution, and exile, Athan begins his life over, meeting a fantastic cast of strangers, many of whom are interested in his death, [[{{HaremGenre}}others in his bone]], [[{{InterplayOfSexAndViolence}}and and at least one, [[{{InterplayOfSexAndViolence}} in both]].
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->''A story about terrible superpowers, the terrible people who hold them, and the terrible people who do not.''

''[[https://exhumanstory.wordpress.com Exhuman]]'' by [=ZoeTrope=] is a WebSerialNovel based in the year 2251 in a world which has survived a global nuclear war and the random appearance of superpowered individuals (the titular Exhumans) and yet humanity has managed to remain pretty much the same.

In the author's words, the story explores the terrifying question of "what if, in the future, instead of everything changing, nothing did?" and does so by following the life and struggles of Athan Ashton, who wakes up one day to find himself with the [[{{CursedWithAwesome}}power to control lightning]].

Thrown out by his own family and [[{{FantasticRacism}} hated by society]], surviving a failed imprisonment, execution, and exile, Athan begins his life over, meeting a fantastic cast of strangers, many of whom are interested in his death, [[{{HaremGenre}}others in his bone]], [[{{InterplayOfSexAndViolence}}and at least one, in both]].

Exhuman launched in September of 2017 and updates on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

!! This series provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Athan's father does not take well to the news of his son being an Exhuman. At all.
* ActionGirl: Karu wears armor, flies around on a jetpack, and in AEGIS' words, is "literally 50% weapons".
* AfterTheEnd: Averted, and hinted at being played straight. China and the United States swapped live nuclear weaponry, but the States had an experimental defense system in place which protected most of the country. From what we've seen, cities, suburbs, and natural beauty all continue in America just as we see today. China, on the other hand, is hinted at being a sheet of glass.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Why is it okay for Athan to hate Saga [[spoiler:for being a Sino but he's fine with her being an Exhuman?]]
* BattleHarem: The first three characters Athan meets in exile are a TechnoWizard girl who crushes on him immediately, a BountyHunter girl who wants to crush him immediately, and a girl with {{Telepathy}} who hasn't seen a man in a hundred years.
* DirtyMindReading: With Saga's domain over mind powers and Athan a HormoneAddledTeenager, this was all but inevitable.
* ElementalPowers: Athan, obviously, but it is hinted that this is fairly common among Exhumans, such as in chapter 13, Blackett pulling up a file on a hydrokinetic or Athan mentioning a dynakinetic in chapter 10.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Saga's opinion on everything, it seems. She has good reason, though: [[spoiler:she's been imprisoned for a hundred years, and, oh, she's immortal and before the facility vanished and the guards all left, they used to find amusement in killing her in new and creative ways. Did I mention she was probably reading their minds and feelings the whole time?]]
* InnocentCohabitation: AEGIS and Athan refer to each other as roommates and great friends, but would probably be shacking up if they could find each other.
* IronWoobie: Saga has endured a lot over the last hundred years, and while she doesn't like talking about it, seems to accept it as just a part of being an immortal Exhuman.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: AEGIS suffers from type 3, having no memories of anything before she met Athan.
* MagicalDefibrillator: Already used once so far to revive [[spoiler:Karu, after Athan accidentally kills her while they are fighting]].
* MyEyesAreUpHere: AEGIS' reaction when she installs a new HD holo lens and Athan's MaleGaze wanders.
* ShockAndAwe: Athan's Exhuman power.
* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: Saga was unaware there even was a Sino War, despite living in a prison under a mountain in one of the nuclear exclusion zones.
* ThePaladin: How Karu seems to see herself as she spouts hellfire and shoots off hellfire missiles.
* TheWoobie: AEGIS has spent the last dozen years staring at a camera feed in a dark room alone. When Athan finally finds her, she cries and thanks him with all her heart for saving her from the life in blackness. And then her last camera feed goes out as he accidentally breaks the power supply.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Standard XPCA policy seems to be executing Exhumans just for existing, even the ones who surrender peacefully.

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