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* AlphaBitch: Maricel, the Squad Leader is arrogant, elitist, and beautiful.
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* AlphaBitch: Maricel, the Squad Leader is arrogant, elitist, and beautiful. She's also a ChildSoldier who doesn't seem to realize being a mech pilot involving killing people at her age is wrong (even if they aren't innocents).
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* BenevolentAI: Ms. Understanding is a caretaker robot that is one of the few AI that hasn't gone insane. This is implied to be the fact she's able to give the excessive and all-consuming amounts of love that most AI are programmed to feel toward their charges but also receive it in return from her children in return.
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* CrapsackWorld: The world has degenerated into an environmentally and politically devastated hellscape with most of the world's AI having hone insane as well as a weird {{Cult}} having emerged around cosplaying as fantasy characters. That doesn't get our heroine down, who thinks TheWorldIsJustAwesome.
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* StreetSamurai: Called Darksiders, it is a very popular and romanticized job by teenagers like Vanity Rose. Darksiders serve as mercenaries and hackers for the corporations, performing corporate espionage as well as sabotage. Being as she's only fourteen years old, Ms. Understanding the AI is less than pleased at Vanity Rose wanting to become one.
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* StreetSamurai: Called Darksiders, it is a very popular and romanticized job by teenagers like Vanity Rose. Darksiders serve as mercenaries and hackers for the corporations, performing corporate espionage as well as sabotage.sabotage. It is a very popular and romanticized job by teenagers who dream of using it to escape poverty. Being as she's only fourteen years old, Ms. Understanding the AI is less than pleased at Vanity Rose wanting to become one.
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* PostCyberpunk: While containing the CrapsackWorld and StreetSamurai of the classic Eighties cyberpunk, the protagonists are all Young Adult novel heroes and heroines trying to save their OrphanageOfLove. The job of being a corporate mercenary and status of being cyborgs is also treated as being awesome by the protagonist.
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* StreetSamurai: Called Darksiders, it is a very popular and romanticized job by teenagers like Vanity Rose. Darksiders serve as mercenaries and hackers for the corporations, performing corporate espionage as well as sabotage. Being as she's only fourteen years old, Ms. Understanding the AI is less than pleased at Vanity Rose wanting to become one.
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* OrphanageOfLove: Ms. Understanding's orphanage is full of love despite the fact it is underfunded and barely keeping above water.
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* OrphanageOfLove: Ms. Understanding's orphanage is full of love despite the fact it is underfunded and barely keeping above water. The fact it is one by one of the few sane AI left in the world helps make it a place of love as she is literally programmed to give the children unconditional love in a CrapsackWorld.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: Vanity Rose gets involved in theft to prevent this. Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was an unnecessary theft.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: Vanity Rose gets involved in cyberpunk corporate warfare and high stakes theft (at age fouryeen) to prevent this. this happening to Ms. Understanding's orphanage. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was an unnecessary theft.unnecessary.]]
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1) formatting, 2) Vaporware is vaporous software, vapour wear is vapour that you wear.
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* Vaporware: The deep elves dress in something that barely qualifies as clothing according to Vanity.
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* Vaporware: VaporWear: The deep elves dress in something that barely qualifies as clothing according to Vanity.
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* {{Cult}}: The Enchanted are a cult that spends massive amounts of money bio-scultping and cybernetically altering its members to look like fantasy creatures.
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* {{Cult}}: The Enchanted are a cult that spends massive amounts of money bio-scultping bio-sculpting and cybernetically altering its members to look like fantasy creatures.
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* {{Transhuman}}: A very common activity for those who can afford it. There's bio-sculpting, cybernetics, and even whole body prothstetics.
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* {{Transhuman}}: A very common activity for those who can afford it. There's bio-sculpting, cybernetics, and even whole body prothstetics.whole-body prosthetics.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Liriel has green hair as part of her Enchanted religion.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Fry Smiley eventually becomes this after Vanity makes an ill-conceived attempt to delete him from all SPUD systems.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Vanity successfully traps Fry Smiley in her SPUD as well as earns a fortune for getting rid of him that she donates to the orphanage. She also gets her own cybernetic tail at last. It is after, however, a huge amount of suffering.]]
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* ArcWords: "All we wanted to do was love you!" is what robots say when they go hopelessly insane.
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* SitcomArchnemesis: Fry Smiley, a Mr. Potatohead-esque Mascot for SPUD computers is Vanity's most hated foe.
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* SitcomArchnemesis: Fry Smiley, a Mr. Potatohead-esque Mascot for SPUD computers is Vanity's most hated foe. [[spoiler: It becomes less sitcom-like when he puts a bounty on her head.]]
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* {{Mascot}}: Fry Smiley is this for SPUD computers and is universally loathed by all users due to his annoying personality and user-unfriendly activity.
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* SitcomArchnemesis: Fry Smiley, a Mr. Potatohead-esque Mascot for a Fast Food Franchise is Vanity's most hated foe.
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Vanity Rose has an actual, built-in profanity filter which prevents her from swearing any time that she tries to in her narration, or in the actual story itself.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Not only is the Enchanted cult one of VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft but their fighting really is reminescent of real world gangs. It's just much-much sillier.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Not only is the Enchanted cult one of VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft but their fighting really is reminescent of real world gangs. It's just much-much sillier.sillier but no less lethal.
* {{Expy}}:
** Darksiders are this for ''Literature/SprawlTrilogy'' street samurai and ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'' Edgerunners.
** The Enchanted are this for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' and ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' races.
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** Darksiders are this for ''Literature/SprawlTrilogy'' street samurai and ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'' Edgerunners.
** The Enchanted are this for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' and ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' races.
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* JumpedAtTheCall: Vanity is incredibly excited at the prospect of becoming a mecha pilot. She almost immediately ditches the idea when she finds out it involves killing civilians.
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[[caption-width-right:323:The future is insane.]]
[[caption-width-right:323:The future is insane.]]
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* AIIsACrapshot: Ms. Understanding is a wonderful caretaker but most AI slowly go insane due to boredom as well as misuse.
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* SufficientlyAdvancedScience: The Enchanted use advanced technology to live out their HighFantasy lives. The thing is that they can afford to do it and its fantastically rich members fund its poorer members to live like elves and undead.
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* SufficientlyAdvancedScience: SufficientlyAdvanced: The Enchanted use advanced technology to live out their HighFantasy lives. The thing is that they can afford to do it and its fantastically rich members fund its poorer members to live like elves and undead.undead.
* ThouShallNotKill: Vanity is extremely excited at the prospect of being a mecha pilot but drops the chance immediately upon hearing that it would involve killing people (specifically innocents).
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''You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older'' is a YoungAdultLiterature {{Cyberpunk}} AffectionateParody by Creator/RichardRoberts.
In the bleak future of West Angel City, Vanity Rose is having a great time. She has a loving robot caretaker, a fake elf for a sister, and she roams the walls of West Angel's endless skyscrapers every night, thanks to her precious gravity shoes.
What Vanity doesn't have are money and adventure, but she has a plan to get both. She's going to walk the dark side, joining the thieves and mercenaries who get paid to do all the little jobs that make a corrupt city go around. She'll only have to deal with killer robots, vengeance-crazed and not very bright computer programs, cyborg vampires, telepathic capybaras, mean girl mech pilots, and have every homemade weapon in the city pointed at her.
Fourteen is old enough for that, right?
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* AffectionateParody: Of the {{Cyberpunk}} genre. Our protagonist is a PluckyGirl heroine trying to save her orphanage in a dystopian neon hellhole with every single trope of the genre combined into one single location.
* AIIsACrapshot: Ms. Understanding is a wonderful caretaker but most AI slowly go insane due to boredom as well as misuse.
* AlphaBitch: Maricel, the Squad Leader is arrogant, elitist, and beautiful.
* AristocratsAreEvil: The rich come across as this to Vanity Rose as she struggles to survive. This is especially true of the people behind the Enchanted as they have funded gang wars between elves and cyborgs.
* BlessedWithSuck: As a machine telepath, Vanity has a lot of special abilities as well as numerous side effects that she has to take medication for.
* BodyHorror: The cyborg skeletons that have removed all humanity from themselves to be "undead."
* CityOfAdventure: West Angel City is full of crime, intrigue, and technology gone mad. It is also where our heroine is growing up.
* CorporateWarfare: The various corporations employ mercenaries to rob others blind.
* {{Cult}}: The Enchanted are a cult that spends massive amounts of money bio-scultping and cybernetically altering its members to look like fantasy creatures.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Vanity sneaks into the car of the SPUD agents that come to visit her orphanage to find her but can't get into the home legally in order to spy on them. This means she's away from the orphanage and they can just get at her directly.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Not only is the Enchanted cult one of VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft but their fighting really is reminescent of real world gangs. It's just much-much sillier.
* FictionalDisability: Vanity is a machine telepath and this comes with a large amount of delibitating side-effects.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Vanity is incredibly excited at the prospect of becoming a mecha pilot. She almost immediately ditches the idea when she finds out it involves killing civilians.
* LostInCharacter: A very common problem among the Enchanted who seem to genuinely believe all their fantasy personas are real.
* MsFanservice:
** Marisel walks around in a fur-lined bikini due to the fact her body is all but indestructible.
** The Deep Elves wear little more than bat and spider-themed pasties as "armor."
* OrphanageOfLove: Ms. Understanding's orphanage is full of love despite the fact it is underfunded and barely keeping above water.
* ParodyReligion: The Enchanted seem to be a religion entirely devoted around biologically modifying yourself to live like ''World of Warcraft'' characters.
* SavingTheOrphanage: Vanity Rose gets involved in theft to prevent this. Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was an unnecessary theft.
* SeriousBusiness: The elves and the necromancers are both just cosplaying cultists but are fully willing to throw down at the drop of a hat in gang fights.
* ShallNotKill: Vanity is extremely excited at the prospect of being a mecha pilot but drops the chance immediately upon hearing that it would involve killing people (specifically innocents).
* SitcomArchnemesis: Fry Smiley, a Mr. Potatohead-esque Mascot for a Fast Food Franchise is Vanity's most hated foe.
* SufficientlyAdvancedScience: The Enchanted use advanced technology to live out their HighFantasy lives. The thing is that they can afford to do it and its fantastically rich members fund its poorer members to live like elves and undead.
* {{Transhuman}}: A very common activity for those who can afford it. There's bio-sculpting, cybernetics, and even whole body prothstetics.
* Vaporware: The deep elves dress in something that barely qualifies as clothing according to Vanity.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Even AI used for advertising is more human in this world than the actual people.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Liriel has green hair as part of her Enchanted religion.
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In the bleak future of West Angel City, Vanity Rose is having a great time. She has a loving robot caretaker, a fake elf for a sister, and she roams the walls of West Angel's endless skyscrapers every night, thanks to her precious gravity shoes.
What Vanity doesn't have are money and adventure, but she has a plan to get both. She's going to walk the dark side, joining the thieves and mercenaries who get paid to do all the little jobs that make a corrupt city go around. She'll only have to deal with killer robots, vengeance-crazed and not very bright computer programs, cyborg vampires, telepathic capybaras, mean girl mech pilots, and have every homemade weapon in the city pointed at her.
Fourteen is old enough for that, right?
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* AffectionateParody: Of the {{Cyberpunk}} genre. Our protagonist is a PluckyGirl heroine trying to save her orphanage in a dystopian neon hellhole with every single trope of the genre combined into one single location.
* AIIsACrapshot: Ms. Understanding is a wonderful caretaker but most AI slowly go insane due to boredom as well as misuse.
* AlphaBitch: Maricel, the Squad Leader is arrogant, elitist, and beautiful.
* AristocratsAreEvil: The rich come across as this to Vanity Rose as she struggles to survive. This is especially true of the people behind the Enchanted as they have funded gang wars between elves and cyborgs.
* BlessedWithSuck: As a machine telepath, Vanity has a lot of special abilities as well as numerous side effects that she has to take medication for.
* BodyHorror: The cyborg skeletons that have removed all humanity from themselves to be "undead."
* CityOfAdventure: West Angel City is full of crime, intrigue, and technology gone mad. It is also where our heroine is growing up.
* CorporateWarfare: The various corporations employ mercenaries to rob others blind.
* {{Cult}}: The Enchanted are a cult that spends massive amounts of money bio-scultping and cybernetically altering its members to look like fantasy creatures.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Vanity sneaks into the car of the SPUD agents that come to visit her orphanage to find her but can't get into the home legally in order to spy on them. This means she's away from the orphanage and they can just get at her directly.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Not only is the Enchanted cult one of VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft but their fighting really is reminescent of real world gangs. It's just much-much sillier.
* FictionalDisability: Vanity is a machine telepath and this comes with a large amount of delibitating side-effects.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Vanity is incredibly excited at the prospect of becoming a mecha pilot. She almost immediately ditches the idea when she finds out it involves killing civilians.
* LostInCharacter: A very common problem among the Enchanted who seem to genuinely believe all their fantasy personas are real.
* MsFanservice:
** Marisel walks around in a fur-lined bikini due to the fact her body is all but indestructible.
** The Deep Elves wear little more than bat and spider-themed pasties as "armor."
* OrphanageOfLove: Ms. Understanding's orphanage is full of love despite the fact it is underfunded and barely keeping above water.
* ParodyReligion: The Enchanted seem to be a religion entirely devoted around biologically modifying yourself to live like ''World of Warcraft'' characters.
* SavingTheOrphanage: Vanity Rose gets involved in theft to prevent this. Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was an unnecessary theft.
* SeriousBusiness: The elves and the necromancers are both just cosplaying cultists but are fully willing to throw down at the drop of a hat in gang fights.
* ShallNotKill: Vanity is extremely excited at the prospect of being a mecha pilot but drops the chance immediately upon hearing that it would involve killing people (specifically innocents).
* SitcomArchnemesis: Fry Smiley, a Mr. Potatohead-esque Mascot for a Fast Food Franchise is Vanity's most hated foe.
* SufficientlyAdvancedScience: The Enchanted use advanced technology to live out their HighFantasy lives. The thing is that they can afford to do it and its fantastically rich members fund its poorer members to live like elves and undead.
* {{Transhuman}}: A very common activity for those who can afford it. There's bio-sculpting, cybernetics, and even whole body prothstetics.
* Vaporware: The deep elves dress in something that barely qualifies as clothing according to Vanity.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Even AI used for advertising is more human in this world than the actual people.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Liriel has green hair as part of her Enchanted religion.
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