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* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Jongleur and Paul Jonas share a moment of truth in ''Sea of Silver Light'', after the latter manages to recover his memories. Subverted, however, because Jongleur knows what Jonas, at that point, does not: [[spoiler:he's talking to a [[BrainUploading brain-uploaded]] {{clon|ingBlues}}e, not the real Jonas.]]
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* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Jongleur and Paul Jonas share a moment of truth in ''Sea of Silver Light'', after the latter manages to recover his memories. Subverted, however, because Jongleur knows what Jonas, at that point, does not: [[spoiler:he's talking to a [[BrainUploading brain-uploaded]] {{clon|ingBlues}}e, clones, not the real Jonas.]]
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* AerithAndBob: Renie, Martine, Orlando, Sam, Florimel, Sweet William, !Xabbu, and t4B. Justified because the characters are drawn from across the world (with !Xabbu's name being a traditional South African bushpeople name. In the case of Sweet William and t4B, they're going by their online handles. [[spoiler:t4B's name is Javier.]]
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* AerithAndBob: Renie, Martine, Orlando, Sam, Florimel, Sweet William, !Xabbu, and t4B. Justified because the characters are drawn from across the world (with !Xabbu's name being a traditional South African bushpeople name.name). In the case of Sweet William and t4B, they're going by their online handles. [[spoiler:t4B's name is Javier.]]
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A now-defunct [MMORPG https://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/] based on the world of the novels was released in 2015.
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A now-defunct [MMORPG https://www.[[https://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/] com/otherland/ MMORPG]] based on the world of the novels was released in 2015.
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Cloning Blues renamed to Clone Angst as per TRS
, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Insofar as the series presents any solution to the problem of facing your mortality, it's this trope - the fact that you are leaving children (literal or symbolic ones) behind makes death easier to bear. Olga even paraphrases the trope itself at one point, claiming that "somehow children seem to make sense of things." Also, in the stand-alone short story ''The Happiest Dead Boy in the World'', [[spoiler: Orlando perks up from his bout of the CloningBlues when he finds out that thanks to the peculiarities of post-Other Otherland, he's about to become the father of a great number of simulated children.]]
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Insofar as the series presents any solution to the problem of facing your mortality, it's this trope - the fact that you are leaving children (literal or symbolic ones) behind makes death easier to bear. Olga even paraphrases the trope itself at one point, claiming that "somehow children seem to make sense of things." Also, in the stand-alone short story ''The Happiest Dead Boy in the World'', [[spoiler: Orlando perks up from his bout of the CloningBlues CloneAngst when he finds out that thanks to the peculiarities of post-Other Otherland, he's about to become the father of a great number of simulated children.]]
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* CloningBlues:
** Discussed by the characters, specifically the Grail Brotherhood, since their BrainUploading scheme doesn't actually upload anything. Instead, each member has a virtual clone made, and as they've been using the system, their brainwaves -- thoughts, memories, etc. -- have been duplicated inside of those virtual clones until they're an identical match. This also means that they have to commit suicide in the real world. This becomes a major plot point for [[spoiler:Paul Jonas, who is himself an uploaded copy, but doesn't realize it until the very end when he's called to make a HeroicSacrifice]].
** Ricardo Klement's virtual clone is an oddly incomplete, seemingly brain-damaged copy of him, rather than the perfect clone it was intended to be. It's reminiscent of another failed copy that the protagonists encounter in a simulation of Venice. Jongleur surmises that [[spoiler:Dread's interference sabotaged the transfer]], but it's later revealed that [[spoiler:it's not Klement at all, but instead the Nemesis program operating his virtual body]].
** Jongleur's first immortality plan was to make a female clone of himself, then let her bear a male clone of himself, and let this clone grow up as he himself had to become a "perfect copy" of him. He gave up on it after the Grail project began to bear fruit, but the abandoned remains of the project are a major part of [[spoiler:Paul Jonas' search for his identity]].
** Azador [[spoiler:is an imperfect copy of Jongleur, based on his youthful fantasy of being a gypsy adventurer. Azador doesn't learn the truth.]]
** Discussed by the characters, specifically the Grail Brotherhood, since their BrainUploading scheme doesn't actually upload anything. Instead, each member has a virtual clone made, and as they've been using the system, their brainwaves -- thoughts, memories, etc. -- have been duplicated inside of those virtual clones until they're an identical match. This also means that they have to commit suicide in the real world. This becomes a major plot point for [[spoiler:Paul Jonas, who is himself an uploaded copy, but doesn't realize it until the very end when he's called to make a HeroicSacrifice]].
** Ricardo Klement's virtual clone is an oddly incomplete, seemingly brain-damaged copy of him, rather than the perfect clone it was intended to be. It's reminiscent of another failed copy that the protagonists encounter in a simulation of Venice. Jongleur surmises that [[spoiler:Dread's interference sabotaged the transfer]], but it's later revealed that [[spoiler:it's not Klement at all, but instead the Nemesis program operating his virtual body]].
** Jongleur's first immortality plan was to make a female clone of himself, then let her bear a male clone of himself, and let this clone grow up as he himself had to become a "perfect copy" of him. He gave up on it after the Grail project began to bear fruit, but the abandoned remains of the project are a major part of [[spoiler:Paul Jonas' search for his identity]].
** Azador [[spoiler:is an imperfect copy of Jongleur, based on his youthful fantasy of being a gypsy adventurer. Azador doesn't learn the truth.]]
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* DrivingQuestion: One per plotline in the first book. From the second book on, discovering the true nature of the Other becomes this.
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* DrivingQuestion: One per plotline in the first book. From the second book on, discovering there are many but the primary one is- What is the true nature of the Other becomes this.Other? Secondary ones include Why was Paul trapped in the network? Who is the mysterious woman he keeps seeing? Why was Mr. Sellars imprisoned on the base? What's at the top of Jongleur's tower? What's in the fourth tank?
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* {{Cyborg}}: Mr. Sellars, who is enhanced not for [[HollywoodCyborg speed or strength]] but to be a living computer, able to connect to the 'Net with no external hardware. In a rare realistic treatment, this combined with the physical trauma he suffered earlier in his life leaves him a barely functional cripple.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Mr. Sellars, who is enhanced not for [[HollywoodCyborg speed or strength]] but to be a living computer, able to connect to the 'Net with no external hardware. In a rare realistic treatment, this combined with the physical trauma he suffered earlier in his life leaves him a barely functional cripple.cripple (though his enhancements ''originally'' included the additional durability that would have made him a better fighter pilot and did allow him to survive his injuries).
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Dread honestly thinks that calling himself "More Dread" is a really cool name.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Dread honestly thinks that calling himself "More Dread" is a really cool name. Of course, it's also a pun on the character of Mordred, from the legends of King Arthur, meaning he's also poking fun at his boss and the Grail Project.
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* AvhievementsInIgnorance: This shows up a few times, in ways that seem incidental to the plot only to have huge significance later.
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* AvhievementsInIgnorance: AchievementsInIgnorance: This shows up a few times, in ways that seem incidental to the plot only to have huge significance later.
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* AvhievementsInIgnorance: This shows up a few times, in ways that seem incidental to the plot only to have huge significance later.
** The cops investigating John Wulgaru are astonished that he managed to go far beyond what a normal hacker could do in erasing his computer records while somehow remaining ignorant of basic programs that wipe out everything automatically. [[spoiler:Because little Johnny has a magic power and isn't actually a hacker.]]
** Wells has his team work up an AI to scour Otherland for the missing Jonas, and they provide it with a map of Otherland and its inhabitants to compare people against in this search. However, their map is so different from the AI's perception of the Otherland that it nearly shuts down. Fortunately (for it, anyway), it's sophisticated and flexible enough that it instead throws out the map and starts building its own, and then HumanityEnsues.
** The cops investigating John Wulgaru are astonished that he managed to go far beyond what a normal hacker could do in erasing his computer records while somehow remaining ignorant of basic programs that wipe out everything automatically. [[spoiler:Because little Johnny has a magic power and isn't actually a hacker.]]
** Wells has his team work up an AI to scour Otherland for the missing Jonas, and they provide it with a map of Otherland and its inhabitants to compare people against in this search. However, their map is so different from the AI's perception of the Otherland that it nearly shuts down. Fortunately (for it, anyway), it's sophisticated and flexible enough that it instead throws out the map and starts building its own, and then HumanityEnsues.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Well, it's definitely not KillEmAll, but it's occasionally surprising just who gets killed next.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Well, it's definitely not KillEmAll, but it's It's occasionally surprising just who gets killed next.
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:John Dread]] was raised by his abusive, drug-addicted mother with the intention of making him evil. It worked. Felix Jongleur grew up in a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors and took that experience with him into the business world, becoming the biggest bully in the world.
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* FreudianExcuse: FreudianExcuse:
** [[spoiler:John Dread]] was raised by his abusive, drug-addicted mother with the intention of making him evil. Itworked. worked.
** Felix Jongleur grew up in a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors and took that experience with him into the business world, becoming the biggest bully in the world.
** [[spoiler:John Dread]] was raised by his abusive, drug-addicted mother with the intention of making him evil. It
** Felix Jongleur grew up in a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors and took that experience with him into the business world, becoming the biggest bully in the world.
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* LuckBasedSearchTechnique: Dulcinea does a thorough investigation of John Dread's laptop using very sophisticated hacking software, and discovers that it has a secret trigger that activates when someone types DREAMTIME, a phrase she's not familiar with. She tries it, and her hacking software reports that the only thing that happened was that the laptop's microphone turned on. At that point, she gives up because she realizes that whatever the actual secret is, it's locked behind a voice password that her software can't reveal to her and she has no way of guessing - but she then ends up saying the correct password out loud anyway, completely by accident. ([[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish "The Dreamtime Bitch"]] was what John Dread called his abusive mother.)
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A now-defunct [[MMORPG https://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/]] based on the world of the novels was released in 2015.
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A now-defunct [[MMORPG [MMORPG https://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/]] com/otherland/] based on the world of the novels was released in 2015.
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A now-defunct [[MMORPG https://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/] based on the world of the novels was released in 2015.
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A now-defunct [[MMORPG https://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/] com/otherland/]] based on the world of the novels was released in 2015.
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There is an MMORPG [[https://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/]] based on the world of the novels released in 2015 & avlaiable on steam. As of early 2021, the game was largely abandoned with no active users.
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