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* HowWeGotHere: The book begins with [[spoiler:Tau and Kata's escape]], and the next chapter takes place two years earlier, retelling the events that led up to the prologue.
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* LightningBruiser: Kata becomes one by the end of the book.
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* LightningBruiser: Kata becomes one of these by the end of the book.book, thanks to his training and the fact that he's been modified to have claws and super-speed.
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* OnlyOneName: Tau, and later [[spoiler:Kalin Taylor, when he becomes Kata]].
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* OnlyOneName: Tau, and later [[spoiler:Kalin Taylor, when he becomes Kata]].Kata.
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** Kata, when he [[spoiler:kills Mason]] at the end.
** Averted with Tau, who [[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturing him.]]
** Averted with Tau, who [[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturing him.]]
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** Kata, when he [[spoiler:kills Mason]] at for taking him prisoner and reducing him to the end.
level of an animal.
** Averted with Tau, who[[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturing him.]]does [[spoiler:kill Dennison]] but doesn't take any real pleasure in it.
** Averted with Tau, who
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** Kata delivers quite a few of these, usually to Dennison.
** Renfield gives one himself to both Dennison and Mason.
** Tau also gets one in at Kata towards the end of the book.
--> '''Tau:''' "I'm not your fucking tool, Kata! You can't just ''use'' me!"
** Renfield gives one himself to both Dennison and Mason.
** Tau also gets one in at Kata towards the end of the book.
--> '''Tau:''' "I'm not your fucking tool, Kata! You can't just ''use'' me!"
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** Kata delivers quite a few of these, these about the Projects' treatment and the scientists' hypocrisy, usually to Dennison.
** Renfield gives one himself to both Dennison andMason.
Mason when he finds out [[spoiler:what they did to Kalin.]]
** Taualso gets one in at Kata towards the end of the book.
--> '''Tau:''' "I'm not your fucking tool, Kata! You can't just ''use''me!"me!"
** Renfield gives one himself to both Dennison and
** Tau
--> '''Tau:''' "I'm not your fucking tool, Kata! You can't just ''use''
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* TrainingFromHell: Both Tau and Kata suffer this.
* WhatHaveIDone: Both Renfield and Chatton, although Renfield feels it far more.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The book begins with [[spoiler:the escape]], and the next chapter takes place two years earlier, retelling the events that led up to the opening.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Kalin keeps insisting that he's a [[spoiler:college student and a legal human]] to the scientists, none of whom believe him.
* WhatHaveIDone: Both Renfield and Chatton, although Renfield feels it far more.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The book begins with [[spoiler:the escape]], and the next chapter takes place two years earlier, retelling the events that led up to the opening.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Kalin keeps insisting that he's a [[spoiler:college student and a legal human]] to the scientists, none of whom believe him.
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* TrainingFromHell: Both Tau and Kata suffer this.
undergo a brutal physical training regime, often being worked to the point of collapse.
* WhatHaveIDone:Both Renfield and Chatton, although Renfield feels it far more.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The book begins with [[spoiler:the escape]], and the next chapter takes place two years earlier, retelling the eventsRenfield, when he realizes that led up to Kalin was telling the opening.
truth all along, and that he's been participating in the [[spoiler:illegal imprisonment and torture]] of a fellow human being as opposed to just another Project.
--> '''Renfield:''' "Oh dear sweet Jesus. Mason, what have you done? What have ''I'' done?"
--> '''Mason:''' "Your job, of course."
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Kalin keeps insisting that he's a [[spoiler:college student and a legal human]] to thescientists, none scientists. None of whom them believe him.him until it's almost too late.
* WhatHaveIDone:
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The book begins with [[spoiler:the escape]], and the next chapter takes place two years earlier, retelling the events
--> '''Renfield:''' "Oh dear sweet Jesus. Mason, what have you done? What have ''I'' done?"
--> '''Mason:''' "Your job, of course."
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Kalin keeps insisting that he's a [[spoiler:college student and a legal human]] to the
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* FriendlyEnemy: Kata and Chatton's relationship develops into this as the book progresses.
* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to [[spoiler:try and help Kata escape.]] He's also the only scientist to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning.
* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to [[spoiler:try and help Kata escape.]] He's also the only scientist to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Kata and Chatton's relationship develops into this as the book progresses.
progresses. Chatton makes an effort to get food to Kata when Dennison's trying to starve him into submission, and Chatton ends up being the only scientist that Kata goes out of his way not to upset.
* GoodIsNotNice:Renfield. He's something Renfield, one of the scientists in ''Literature/ProjectTau'' is often a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison Dennison's more sadistic treatment, and he's the only one to [[spoiler:try and help Kata escape.]] He's also the only scientist to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning.
* GoodIsNotNice:
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Chatton. Even after hearing Kata's story, his fury and guilt is centered around the fact that he's been [[spoiler:torturing a legal human, as opposed to just another clone like Tau.]]
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Chatton. Even after hearing Kata's story, his fury and guilt is centered around the fact that he's been [[spoiler:torturing a involved in the torture of [[spoiler:a legal human, as opposed to just another clone like Tau.]]Tau,]] and not the act of torture itself.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Renfield]]. Oh, so very much. Not only that, Chatton also mentions ''predecessors...'' meaning there were other people who were [[spoiler:eaten alive.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Renfield]]. Oh, so very much. Not only that, Chatton also mentions ''predecessors...'' ''predecessors,'' meaning there were other people who were [[spoiler:eaten alive.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Kata, although just about every character gets a snappy one-liner or two in this book.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Kata, although just about every character gets a snappy one-liner or two in this all throughout the book.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Kata. Although just about every character gets a snappy one-liner or two in this book.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Kata. Although Kata, although just about every character gets a snappy one-liner or two in this book.
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* EasilyForgiven: Averted with Renfield. He forcibly mutates Kata, uses the handlers much like Dennison, refuses to listen to Kata's explanations, abandons him to be beaten, starved and overworked and on top of all that, threatens to have Tau tortured if a barely-conscious Kata doesn't do what he says right now. After all this, when he finally tells Kata that he believes him and wants to help, Kata ''doesn't'' take it well.
* ElectricTorture: Standard punishment for Tau and Kata. While it starts off as mildly painful, it escalates through the book to the point where Kata is electrocuted to the point of unconsciousness more than once.
* ElectricTorture: Standard punishment for Tau and Kata. While it starts off as mildly painful, it escalates through the book to the point where Kata is electrocuted to the point of unconsciousness more than once.
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* EasilyForgiven: Averted with Renfield. He forcibly mutates Kata, uses the handlers much like Dennison, refuses to listen to Kata's explanations, abandons him to be beaten, starved and overworked and on top of all that, threatens to have Tau tortured if a barely-conscious Kata doesn't do what he says right now. After all this, when When he finally tells Kata that he believes him and wants to help, Kata ''doesn't'' take it well.
* ElectricTorture: Standard punishment for Tau and Kata.While it It starts off as mildly painful, it then escalates through the book to the point where Kata is electrocuted to the point of unconsciousness more than once.
* ElectricTorture: Standard punishment for Tau and Kata.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to [[spoiler:try and help Kata escape.]] He's also the only scientist who seems to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to [[spoiler:try and help Kata escape.]] He's also the only scientist who seems to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning.
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** The shock and anger displayed by both Chatton and Renfield upon learning of [[spoiler:Kata's real identity]] is solely because they realize [[spoiler:they've been doing what they did to a human, not a clone.]] When Kata says he plans to take Tau with him when he leaves, neither scientist can understand why Kata would risk his life to steal a Project. Justified in that Tau cost a ''lot'' of money to develop and train, and so if [=GenTech=] doesn't deliver him to the people who commissioned him, then that would land them in some very deep legal trouble.
** Kata's [[spoiler:original status as a human]] also leads him to treat Tau with a certain amount of arrogance, particularly in the beginning.
** Kata's [[spoiler:original status as a human]] also leads him to treat Tau with a certain amount of arrogance, particularly in the beginning.
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** The shock and anger displayed by both Chatton and Renfield upon learning of [[spoiler:Kata's real identity]] is solely because they realize [[spoiler:they've been doing what they did to a human, not a clone.]] When Kata says he plans to take Tau with him when he leaves, neither scientist can understand why Kata would risk his life to steal a Project. Justified in that Tau cost a ''lot'' of money to develop and train, and so if [=GenTech=] doesn't deliver him to the people who commissioned him, then that would land them in some very deep legal trouble.\n
** Kata's [[spoiler:original status as a human]]also leads him to treat Tau with a certain amount of arrogance, particularly in arrogance at the beginning.
** Kata's [[spoiler:original status as a human]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Renfield. Also Kata to a lesser extent.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Renfield. Also Kata Renfield doesn't show the Projects any more sympathy or compassion than his colleagues, but he does stop Dennison from going too far, and attempts to a lesser extent.set things right for Kalin.
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* OffscreenVillainy: Despite being an established part of Tau and later Kata's daily routine, the torture sessions are never described in the book.
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* OffscreenVillainy: Despite being The torture sessions are an established part of Tau - and later Kata's - daily routine, the torture sessions but are never described in the book.
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** Kata does this to [[spoiler:Mason]] at the end.
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** Kata does this to [[spoiler:Mason]] Kata, when he [[spoiler:kills Mason]] at the end.
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** Kata delivers quite a few of these, usually to Dennison, but Renfield comes in for his share.
** Tau also gets one in at Kata himself towards the end of the book.
** Tau also gets one in at Kata himself towards the end of the book.
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** Kata delivers quite a few of these, usually to Dennison, but Dennison.
** Renfieldcomes in for his share.
gives one himself to both Dennison and Mason.
** Tau also gets one in at Katahimself towards the end of the book.
** Renfield
** Tau also gets one in at Kata
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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Renfield.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Kata, and Tau to a lesser extent.
* TookALevelInBadass: Kata, and Tau to a lesser extent.
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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Renfield.]]
[[spoiler:Renfield's]] big TheReasonYouSuck speech to Dennison and Mason may have been satisfying, but telling them outright that he's going to [[spoiler:help Kalin escape and screw the consequences]] really ''wasn't'' the smartest move.
* TookALevelInBadass:Kata, and Tau Kalin goes from being a weak, eager-to-please nerdy freshman, to a lesser extent.clawed killing machine.
* TookALevelInBadass:
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Kalin's insistence that he's a [[spoiler:college student and a legal human.]]
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Kalin's insistence Kalin keeps insisting that he's a [[spoiler:college student and a legal human.]]human]] to the scientists, none of whom believe him.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Kalin had some impressive hacking and programming skills. They come in handy when he [[spoiler:hacks into the mainframe and reprograms the lab's automated security system]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: Kalin had has some impressive hacking and programming skills. They come in handy when he [[spoiler:hacks into the mainframe and reprograms the lab's automated security system]].
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* ASimplePlan: Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape.]] Unfortunately, he combines it with a TooDumbToLive moment and so the whole thing ends in his [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
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* ASimplePlan: Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape.]] Unfortunately, he combines it with a TooDumbToLive moment moment, and so the whole thing ends in his [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]].it doesn't work out.
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* BlatantLies: Dennison, when he convinces Kalin/Kata that the latter [[spoiler:really is a Project]].
* BlankSlate: Tau was created with the body of an eighteen year old, but has no memories or life experiences.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dennison to Kalin/Kata when he forces him to concede that he's nothing but a Project.
* BlankSlate: Tau was created with the body of an eighteen year old, but has no memories or life experiences.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dennison to Kalin/Kata when he forces him to concede that he's nothing but a Project.
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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
** Dennison, when he convincesKalin/Kata Kalin that the latter [[spoiler:really is a Project]].
** Mason, when he promises Kalin that he'll be released from the lab after two weeks.
* BlankSlate: Tauwas created with the body of an eighteen year old, but has no memories or life experiences.
experiences outside of the lab. Justified in that he's a Project and has only been alive for about six months at the start of the book.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dennison toKalin/Kata Kalin when he forces him to concede that he's [[spoiler:he's nothing but a Project.]]
** Dennison, when he convinces
** Mason, when he promises Kalin that he'll be released from the lab after two weeks.
* BlankSlate: Tau
* BreakThemByTalking: Dennison to
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Renfield]]. Oh, so very much. Not only that, Chatton also mentions ''predecessors...'' meaning [[spoiler:Renfield]] wasn't the only one to suffer this.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Renfield]]. Oh, so very much. Not only that, Chatton also mentions ''predecessors...'' meaning [[spoiler:Renfield]] wasn't the only one to suffer this.there were other people who were [[spoiler:eaten alive.]]
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* BreakThemByTalking: Dennison to Kalin/Kata.
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* BreakThemByTalking: Dennison to Kalin/Kata.Kalin/Kata when he forces him to concede that he's nothing but a Project.
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* DragonInChief: Dennison. Technically, Mason is the one in charge, but Dennison has no respect for him and is the one really calling the shots.
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* DragonInChief: Dennison. Dennison is this to Mason. Technically, Mason is in charge of the one in charge, labs, but Dennison has he shows no respect for him and is interest in the one really calling day-to-day running of the shots.facility, much less the Projects' training, preferring to leave that all up to Dennison.
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* AmbiguouslyChristian: Chatton is a very devout Christian who can (and does) quote chapter and verse if anyone calls him on his faith, but his exact denomination is never given.
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* ASimplePlan: Several.
** Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape.]] Too bad it combines with a TooDumbToLive moment and ends in his [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
** Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape.]] Too bad it combines with a TooDumbToLive moment and ends in his [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
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* ASimplePlan: Several.
**Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape.]] Too bad it Unfortunately, he combines it with a TooDumbToLive moment and so the whole thing ends in his [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.[[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
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** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
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** Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape. Too bad it combines with a TooDumbToLive moment and ends in his CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
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** Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape. ]] Too bad it combines with a TooDumbToLive moment and ends in his CruelAndUnusualDeath]].[[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: Kalin had some impressive hacking and programming skills. They come in handy when [[spoiler:he hacks into the mainframe and manages to turn the lab's automated security system on everyone except him, Tau, Chatton and Dennison]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: Kalin had some impressive hacking and programming skills. They come in handy when [[spoiler:he hacks he [[spoiler:hacks into the mainframe and manages to turn reprograms the lab's automated security system on everyone except him, Tau, Chatton and Dennison]].system]].
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Renfield]]. Oh, so very much.
** Not only that, Chatton also mentions [[spoiler:''predecessors,'' meaning Renfield wasn't the only one to suffer this…]]
** Not only that, Chatton also mentions [[spoiler:''predecessors,'' meaning Renfield wasn't the only one to suffer this…]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Renfield]]. Oh, so very much. \n** Not only that, Chatton also mentions [[spoiler:''predecessors,'' ''predecessors...'' meaning Renfield [[spoiler:Renfield]] wasn't the only one to suffer this…]]this.
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* HumansAreSpecial: Oh, so very much. The shock and anger displayed by both Chatton and Renfield upon learning of [[spoiler:Kata's real identity]] is solely because they realize [[spoiler:they've been doing what they did to a human, not a clone.]] When Kata says he plans to take Tau with him when he leaves, neither scientist can understand why Kata would risk his life to steal a Project.
** Possibly justified on a practical level in that Tau cost a lot of money to develop and train, and so if [=GenTech=] can't deliver him as promised then that could land them in some very deep legal trouble.
** Possibly justified on a practical level in that Tau cost a lot of money to develop and train, and so if [=GenTech=] can't deliver him as promised then that could land them in some very deep legal trouble.
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* HumansAreSpecial: Oh, so very much.
** The shock and anger displayed by both Chatton and Renfield upon learning of [[spoiler:Kata's real identity]] is solely because they realize [[spoiler:they've been doing what they did to a human, not a clone.]] When Kata says he plans to take Tau with him when he leaves, neither scientist can understand why Kata would risk his life to steal aProject.
** Possibly justified on a practical levelProject. Justified in that Tau cost a lot ''lot'' of money to develop and train, and so if [=GenTech=] can't doesn't deliver him as promised to the people who commissioned him, then that could would land them in some very deep legal trouble.
** The shock and anger displayed by both Chatton and Renfield upon learning of [[spoiler:Kata's real identity]] is solely because they realize [[spoiler:they've been doing what they did to a human, not a clone.]] When Kata says he plans to take Tau with him when he leaves, neither scientist can understand why Kata would risk his life to steal a
** Possibly justified on a practical level
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Renfield. Also Kata to a lesser extent
* OffscreenVillainy: Despite being an established part of Tau and later Kata's daily routine, the torture sessions are never described in the book
* OffscreenVillainy: Despite being an established part of Tau and later Kata's daily routine, the torture sessions are never described in the book
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Renfield. Also Kata to a lesser extent
extent.
* LightningBruiser: Kata becomes one by the end of the book.
* OffscreenVillainy: Despite being an established part of Tau and later Kata's daily routine, the torture sessions are never described in thebookbook.
* LightningBruiser: Kata becomes one by the end of the book.
* OffscreenVillainy: Despite being an established part of Tau and later Kata's daily routine, the torture sessions are never described in the
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Kata at the end.
** Averted with Tau, who [[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturing him, much to Kata's surprise. Tau says that simply killing Dennison was enough for him.]]
* TheReasonYouSuck: Kata delivers quite a few of these.
** Averted with Tau, who [[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturing him, much to Kata's surprise. Tau says that simply killing Dennison was enough for him.]]
* TheReasonYouSuck: Kata delivers quite a few of these.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: PayEvilUntoEvil:
** Kata does this to [[spoiler:Mason]] at the end.
** Averted with Tau, who [[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturinghim, much to Kata's surprise. Tau says that simply killing Dennison was enough for him.]]
*TheReasonYouSuck: TheReasonYouSuck:
** Kata delivers quite a few ofthese.these, usually to Dennison, but Renfield comes in for his share.
** Kata does this to [[spoiler:Mason]] at the end.
** Averted with Tau, who [[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturing
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** Kata delivers quite a few of
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** Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape. Too bad it combines with a TooDumbToLive moment and ends in his CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
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** Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape. Too bad it combines with a TooDumbToLive moment and ends in his CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
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!! This work provides examples of:
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We got a lot to talk about, and all the tropes on the site to do it with...
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Unless, of course, he can somehow manage to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get free...]]
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* ASimplePlan: Several.
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Kalin Taylor is on the path to success. He's just won a scholarship to the prestigious Sanderson College of Arts and Science to study medicine. He's also about to do something very, very stupid in the name of becoming one of the 'in' kids at college.
It sounded simple at the time. Sneak into a branch of the top-secret, interstellar scientific company [=GenTech=], take a photo of the genetically engineered creature Project Tau that's supposedly inside, and sneak back out again. Cue membership of the college frat house, cue popularity and an improved lifestyle, right?
Unfortunately for Kalin, simple doesn't mean easy. Now he's facing a life of slavery, assuming [=GenTech=]'s 'training' doesn't kill him first, and if he doesn't find a way to escape soon, it'll be too late.
It sounded simple at the time. Sneak into a branch of the top-secret, interstellar scientific company [=GenTech=], take a photo of the genetically engineered creature Project Tau that's supposedly inside, and sneak back out again. Cue membership of the college frat house, cue popularity and an improved lifestyle, right?
Unfortunately for Kalin, simple doesn't mean easy. Now he's facing a life of slavery, assuming [=GenTech=]'s 'training' doesn't kill him first, and if he doesn't find a way to escape soon, it'll be too late.
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The main character, college freshman Kalin Taylor is on the path Taylor, accepts a crazy frat-initiation stunt: to success. He's just won a scholarship to the prestigious Sanderson College of Arts and Science to study medicine. He's also about to do something very, very stupid in the name of becoming one of the 'in' kids at college.
It sounded simple at the time. Sneakbreak into a branch of the top-secret, interstellar scientific company [=GenTech=], take a photo of called [=GenTech=]. [[RealityEnsues It goes about as well as you'd expect.]] Imprisoned with the genetically engineered creature Project Tau that's supposedly inside, and sneak back out again. Cue membership of the college frat house, cue popularity and an improved lifestyle, right?
Unfortunately for Kalin, simple doesn't mean easy. Now he's facing a life of slavery, assuming [=GenTech=]'s 'training' doesn't kill him first, and if he doesn't find a wayhuman clone (aka Project) Tau, Kalin's all set to escape soon, it'll be too late.
lose not just his freedom, but his whole identity.
It sounded simple at the time. Sneak
Unfortunately for Kalin, simple doesn't mean easy. Now he's facing a life of slavery, assuming [=GenTech=]'s 'training' doesn't kill him first, and if he doesn't find a way
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* BreakThemByTalking: Dennison to Kalin/Kata.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The book begins with [[spoiler:the escape]], and the next chapter takes place two years earlier, retelling the events that led up to the opening.
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* Offscreen Villainy: Despite being an established part of Tau and later Kata's daily routine, the torture sessions are never described in the book
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* OnlyOneName: Tau, and later [[spoiler:Kalin Taylor, when he becomes Kata]].
* OnlyOneName: Tau, and later [[spoiler:Kalin Taylor, when he becomes Kata]].
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* BlatantLies: Dennison, when he convinces Kalin/Kata that the latter [[spoiler:really is a Project]].
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* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to try and help Kata escape. He's arguably also the only scientist to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Kata does this to Chatton. Even '''Dennison''' is impressed.
--> '''Chatton:''' "'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain'. Exodus, chapter twenty, verse seven."
--> '''Kata:''' (looking pointedly at a badly beaten Tau) "'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. Luke, chapter six, verse thirty one."
* ASimplePlan: Several.
** Renfield, with his plan to [[spoiler:help Kata escape. Too bad it combines with a TooDumbToLive moment and ends in his CruelAndUnusualDeath]].
** Kata's own escape plan.
** Tau's plan to trick the scientists into giving him water to share with Kata, when the other Project is almost dead with dehydration.
* BlatantLies: Dennison, when he convinces Kalin/Kata that the latter [[spoiler:really is a Project]].
* BlankSlate: Tau was created with the body of an eighteen year old, but has no memories or life experiences
* ChekhovsSkill: Kalin had some impressive hacking and programming skills. They come in handy when [[spoiler:he hacks into the mainframe and manages to turn the lab's automated security system on everyone except him, Tau, Chatton and Dennison]].
* ClonesArePeopleToo: The central theme of the book. Humanity in-universe is a legal status not extended to Projects, who are seen as livestock.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Tau. Justified in that he's never known anything else.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Renfield]]. Oh, so very much.
** Not only that, Chatton also mentions [[spoiler:''predecessors,'' meaning Renfield wasn't the only one to suffer this…]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kata. Although just about every character gets a snappy one-liner or two in this book.
* EasilyForgiven: Averted with Renfield. He forcibly mutates Kata, uses the handlers much like Dennison, refuses to listen to Kata's explanations, abandons him to be beaten, starved and overworked and on top of all that, threatens to have Tau tortured if a barely-conscious Kata doesn't do what he says right now. After all this, when he finally tells Kata that he believes him and wants to help, Kata ''doesn't'' take it well.
* ElectricTorture: Standard punishment for Tau and Kata. While it starts off as mildly painful, it escalates through the book to the point where Kata is electrocuted to the point of unconsciousness more than once.
* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to
* HumansAreSpecial: Oh, so very much. The shock and anger displayed by both Chatton and Renfield upon learning of [[spoiler:Kata's real identity]] is solely because they realize [[spoiler:they've been doing what they did to a human, not a clone.]] When Kata says he plans to take Tau with him when he leaves, neither scientist can understand why Kata would risk his life to steal a Project.
** Possibly justified on a practical level in that Tau cost a lot of money to develop and train, and so if [=GenTech=] can't deliver him as promised then that could land them in some very deep legal trouble.
** Kata's [[spoiler:original status as a human]] also leads him to treat Tau with a certain amount of arrogance, particularly in the beginning.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Chatton. Even after hearing Kata's story, his fury and guilt is centered around the fact that he's been [[spoiler:torturing a legal human, as opposed to just another clone like Tau.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Renfield. Also Kata to a lesser extent
* Offscreen Villainy: Despite being an established part of Tau and later Kata's daily routine, the torture sessions are never described in the book
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Kata at the end.
** Averted with Tau, who [[spoiler:kills Dennison without torturing him, much to Kata's surprise. Tau says that simply killing Dennison was enough for him.]]
* TheReasonYouSuck: Kata delivers quite a few of these.
** Tau also gets one in at Kata himself towards the end of the book.
--> '''Tau:''' "I'm not your fucking tool, Kata! You can't just ''use'' me!"
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Renfield.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Kata, and Tau to a lesser extent.
* TrainingFromHell: Both Tau and Kata suffer this
* WhatHaveIDone: Both Renfield and Chatton, although Renfield feels it far more.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Kalin's insistence that he's a [[spoiler:college student and a legal human.]]
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[[caption-width-right:341:Project Tau has escaped...]]
->''"Do you feel pain, Tau?"''
-->-- '''Kalin Taylor/Project Kata'''
The first book in the "Projects" series by Jude [="JudasFm"=] Austin.
Kalin Taylor is on the path to success. He's just won a scholarship to the prestigious Sanderson College of Arts and Science to study medicine. He's also about to do something very, very stupid in the name of becoming one of the 'in' kids at college.
It sounded simple at the time. Sneak into a branch of the top-secret, interstellar scientific company [=GenTech=], take a photo of the genetically engineered creature Project Tau that's supposedly inside, and sneak back out again. Cue membership of the college frat house, cue popularity and an improved lifestyle, right?
Unfortunately for Kalin, simple doesn't mean easy. Now he's facing a life of slavery, assuming [=GenTech=]'s 'training' doesn't kill him first, and if he doesn't find a way to escape soon, it'll be too late.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to try and help Kata escape. He's arguably also the only scientist to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning
[[caption-width-right:341:Project Tau has escaped...]]
->''"Do you feel pain, Tau?"''
-->-- '''Kalin Taylor/Project Kata'''
The first book in the "Projects" series by Jude [="JudasFm"=] Austin.
Kalin Taylor is on the path to success. He's just won a scholarship to the prestigious Sanderson College of Arts and Science to study medicine. He's also about to do something very, very stupid in the name of becoming one of the 'in' kids at college.
It sounded simple at the time. Sneak into a branch of the top-secret, interstellar scientific company [=GenTech=], take a photo of the genetically engineered creature Project Tau that's supposedly inside, and sneak back out again. Cue membership of the college frat house, cue popularity and an improved lifestyle, right?
Unfortunately for Kalin, simple doesn't mean easy. Now he's facing a life of slavery, assuming [=GenTech=]'s 'training' doesn't kill him first, and if he doesn't find a way to escape soon, it'll be too late.
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!! This work provides examples of:
* GoodIsNotNice: Renfield. He's something of a jerk to his colleagues, and he's fine with ordering corporal punishment on the Projects, but he also goes out of his way to try and protect them from Dennison and he's the only one to try and help Kata escape. He's arguably also the only scientist to be troubled by the ethics of human cloning
