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* GoodBadBugs: In-universe example. Hoshi's navis has a bug that sometimes causes it to flood her brain with information from across the city while she's asleep. She's never gotten it fixed because it also lets her spy undetected through the city's censorcams.

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* GoodBadBugs: In-universe example. Hoshi's navis has a bug that sometimes causes it to flood her brain with information from across the city while she's asleep. She's never gotten it fixed because it also lets her spy undetected through the city's censorcams.sensorcams.

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* {{Cyberspace}}: Memspace, a computer-generated environment through which people's minds can retrieve data and interact with each other. People are legally required to have a franca, or avatar, so other people in memspace know who they are. Hoshi's looks exactly like her real self, but some people choose to look completely different.


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* TheMetaverse: Memspace, a computer-generated environment through which people's minds can retrieve data and interact with each other. People are legally required to have a franca, or avatar, so other people in memspace know who they are. Hoshi's looks exactly like her real self, but some people choose to look completely different.
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* AlienSky: Cassiopeia Prime has two moons, Cepheus and Phoenix. In the daytime, the sky is greenish-blue.

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* AlienSky: Cassiopeia Prime has two moons, silver Cepheus and red Phoenix. In the daytime, the sky is greenish-blue.
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* GeniusLoci: Red City has its own élan vital. [[spoiler:Mai wants to summon and imprison it so she can have absolute power over Red City. But Hoshi's love of the city gives her a resonance with the élan vital that Mai doesn't have, so she's able to foil Mai's plan and free the élan vital.]]
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* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Hoshi reluctantly grants Luzzie full access to her perceptual flow so he can guide her through a riled-up crowd that would normally be too overwhelming for her even with the filters. Luzzie creates a program that allows her to process data and focus her attention just like a normal, then seizes control of her attention and leads her where she needs to go.
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* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: [[spoiler:Despite the criminals Hoshi consorted with in the process of saving Red City, and her refusal to name them to law enforcement, City Coordinator Corstenza is so impressed with her service to the city that a new law is passed. Now if a civilian's been of special service to the RCPD, they are granted a one-time pardon on certain kinds of transgressions, as long as those transgressions were necessary to the service and weren't publicized.]]

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* GoodBadBugs: In-universe example. Hoshi's navis has a bug that sometimes causes it to flood her brain with information from across the city while she's asleep. She's never gotten it fixed because it also lets her spy undetected through the city's censorcams.



* PsychicNosebleed: Hoshi's navis has a glitch that sometimes causes it to flood her brain with information from across the city while she's asleep. Whenever this happens, she gets a nosebleed.

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* PsychicNosebleed: When Hoshi's navis has a glitch that sometimes causes it to flood malfunctions at night, her brain with information from across the city while she's asleep. Whenever this happens, she gets a nosebleed.nose bleeds.
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* AdvertOverloadedFuture: Corporate chip readers that float outside shopping towers bombard pedestrians with personalized ads based on their ID chips.


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* CompressedHair: When Hoshi removes the hat she's wearing as part of her fisherman disguise, what feels like a kilometer of hair flies out.
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* InsecurityCamera: A bird bumped into a sensorcam months ago, pointing it at the sky. Maintenance workers never got around to fixing it, meaning Hoshi can snoop underneath it.
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* ChildProdigy: Hoshi memorized the names of Red City's 4000 original settlers when she was two.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: Cassiopeia Prime is almost entirely covered in ocean. Red City is located on its one island.
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* HideYourOtherness: When disguised as a normal, Hoshi wears a hat to hide her navis and sunglasses to hide her avoidance of eye contact.


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* SweetPollyOliver: Late in the book Hoshi is disguised as a man, using {{nanomachines}} to masculinize her face and deepen her voice and bulky clothes to hide her curves.
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* IconicItem: Hoshi wears a bolero jacket and steel-toed boots with almost every outfit.

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* IconicItem: Hoshi wears a bolero jacket and steel-toed boots with almost every outfit. When she has to wear a bulky sweater as a disguise, she wears the bolero under it.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: As an Operator, Hoshi is hated and distrusted by much of the city [[spoiler:even before she's framed]].


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* WantedPoster: [[spoiler:After Hoshi is falsely accused of collaborating with the Roccini Gang, a digipage is made offering 500[[WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture c]]s for her capture alive.]]
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* ReadingLips: When Hoshi was first starting out, she bought an expensive lip-reading program for her navis. It comes in handy when she's spying on people through sensorcams with no sound.
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** Martin Ho rubs his palms over his pant legs when he broods.


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* DoesntLikeGuns: Hoshi hates weapons of all kinds, which doesn't stop Sorreno from forcing her to carry a [[StaticStunGun shocker]] after she's beaten up in a hate crime.


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* PunchAWall: Hoshi punches her window in frustration over being forced to carry a shocker, and over her lack of freedom in general.
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* HappyPlace: Hoshi calms herself by mentally tracing the skyline of Red City as it looks from her window over and over again.

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