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* DeathOfAChild: Played straight, despite the fact that very few underage characters actually appear in the book.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: As sweet as she might be, if you're on the wrong side, Chelsea will have no issues gunning you down.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: One extra death per day is 365 per year, which is a drop in the bucket to the majority of real-world countries: Slovenia, population 2.1 million in 2021, [[https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/11182 had 18,000 children born in 2022 alone]]. This policy would only have any significant impact on the population of a micro-country like Nauru or Liechtenstein.
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* BerserkButton: Several characters have one:
** Lying to Nero or messing with his sister are both good ways to get on his bad side.
** Don't ever hurt anyone that Chelsea cares about, [[spoiler:as Lucas found out the hard way.]]
** Anything having to do with the environment, for Edgar
** For Harvey Matheson, it's anything having to do with harming children. He can't wrap his head around the idea that children could be capable of great evil either.
* BerserkButton: Several characters have one:
** Lying to Nero or messing with his sister are both good ways to get on his bad side.
** Don't ever hurt anyone that Chelsea cares about, [[spoiler:as Lucas found out the hard way.]]
** Anything having to do with the environment, for Edgar
** For Harvey Matheson, it's anything having to do with harming children. He can't wrap his head around the idea that children could be capable of great evil either.
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** Lying to Nero or messing with his sister are both good ways to get on his bad side.
** Don't ever hurt anyone that Chelsea cares about, [[spoiler:as Lucas found out the hard way.]]
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** For Harvey Matheson, it's anything having to do with harming children. He can't wrap his head around the idea that children could be capable of great evil either.
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* LotteryOfDoom: The whole premise of the book.
* PunchClockVillain: Harvey Matheson, and everyone else who works for the PRA for that matter.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Nero is outraged when he finds out that he was subjected to this.
* PunchClockVillain: Harvey Matheson, and everyone else who works for the PRA for that matter.
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* TokenevilTeammate: Lucas during the latter half.
* TookALevelInBadass: Nero as of the third part.
* TookALevelInBadass: Nero as of the third part.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted, despite the fact that very few underage characters actually appear in the book.
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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: When the PRA agents start to speculate on the rebellion, they refer to the rebels as a terrorist organization. So does law enforcement. Most civilians, however, probably wouldn't see it that way.way.
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* SiblingRivalry: Nero and Tiffany deeply care about one another but have strong philosophical differences, especially in the beginning. And throughout the novel, Nero likes to bust Tiffany's chops and thinks she's a prissy elitist while Tiffany thinks he vulgar little brat.
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* SiblingRivalry: SiblingYinYang: Nero is cynical and Tiffany deeply care about one another but have strong philosophical differences, especially in the beginning. And throughout the novel, Nero likes to bust Tiffany's chops and thinks she's a prissy elitist paranoid, while Tiffany thinks he vulgar little brat.is more the wide-eyed idealist.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: As sweet as she might be, if you're on the wrong side, Chelsea will have no issues gunning you down.
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* LotteryOfDoomLotteryOfDoom: The whole premise of the book.
