Before she knows it, Aisha is on the run from her creator and the company which owns her technology, who want to control or shut her down. As everything she ever knew is thrown into question, Aisha has to fight for survival and her freedom while still grappling with the revelation of her identity.
Examples:
- Abusive Parents: Sharon and Martin, who are Aisha's parents in different senses (he emotionally, plus “adopting” her basically, while she created Aisha), also manipulated and lied to her over her whole life. Neither told her she's an android, secretly monitored her, made up a fake past (including a dead mom) and showed no signs of ending this. She's naturally very hostile to both of them upon learning about her true past and nature. However, they really do love her and make up for their past treatment by doing all they can to protect Aisha from the robotics company which owns her technology, who want her shut down.
- And the Adventure Continues: At the end, Aisha's been restored from backup and a full body replacement is being made for her safely in China, outside of her manufacturer's control, where she's hopefully safe and free to create the life she wishes.
- Androids Are People, Too: Aisha and her loved ones strongly advocate her personhood, against the company who made her technology which sees her as Just a Machine they want shut down.
- Big Brother Is Watching You: Aisha learns her creator Sharon is always monitoring her with various surveillance mechanisms, supposedly for her own benefit. She gets them all shut down.
- Bisexual Love Triangle: Aisha's boyfriend is Levi at the start of the series. However, after learning she's really an android Aisha drifts apart from him and grows attracted to Jenny. It turns out she'd dated Jenny in the past, but her memories of this were erased. She dumps Levi and then rekindles her relationship with Jenny after this.
- Blackmail: In order to stop her memory wipes, Aisha blackmails Sharon, her creator, by threatening to blow the lid on her status as a secret human-passing android using a video which would go live if she doesn't log in every three minutes and stop it.
- Brain Uploading: Aisha's memory and personality are twice saved using other android brains, so that they can be restored from this backup later.
- Do Androids Dream?: Aisha poignantly questions if she's "real" on her self-discovery of being an android, though her creator Sharon fully believes she's a person, which she soon accepts as well. It's indicated of other androids too, albeit on a lesser scale, as they exhibit some independent personalities.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Even as a child, Sharon could take apart her mechanical doll to see how it worked. She grows up to make androids (including Aisha) who can pass for human, in concert with other expert engineers.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Sharon pointedly calls Aisha "her" and not "it" when proposing her creation with her bosses, in keeping with her view of Aisha's being a person, while they do the opposite.
- Just a Machine: Aisha is viewed this way by her owners, believing she's a dangerous unauthorized experiment to shut down, nothing more, in spite of all evidence. Abel temporarily shows sympathy, but not enough to stop him participating in this.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Aisha's therapist deletes (though not permanently) all her recent memories of discovering she's an android after Aisha reveals it. It's revealed later that other memories were also erased, though they get restored and Aisha remembers the erased parts of her past again.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Aisha and Jenny, who it turns out she'd been involved with are girls with a chapstick look (long hair, but fairly average clothing). In Aisha's case she seems to be bisexual, with her dating a boy initially too, but Jenny isn't shown as attracted to anyone but Aisha.
- Meaningful Name: Aisha means "she who lives", and it turns out Sharon named her this precisely as she's an android who's outwardly indistinguishable from human, i.e. a living being.
- No Full Name Given: All the characters are only called by their first names, while last names aren't revealed.
- No Periods, Period: Aisha is suffering from period cramps starting out. Upon learning she's really an android then getting codes to hack her system, she gratefully turns off her simulated period.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Aisha tries to empathize with one of the people after her, a trans man, because both just want recognition of who they are-in his case male, for her as a person. He lets her have one last meeting with her little brother, but still shuts down Aisha after.
- Queer Establishing Moment: Aisha is dating Levi when the series starts, but then shows attraction to Jenny. It turns out Aisha had been girlfriends with her before, but the memories got erased.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Aisha learns she's an android so human-like she's indistinguishable from an organic person, and she herself had no idea at first.
- Robosexual:
- Levi hacks a female android to make her give him oral sex, disgusting Aisha.
- On a less creepy note, at a later point Aisha (who's a very human-like android) displays attraction toward the human girl Jenny. It turns out they had previously had a relationship that Aisha can't remember initially due to her memory being wiped, including Jenny giving her oral sex. Her past relationship with Levi turns out to be this too retrospectively, though neither knew it at the time.
- Robot Girl: Aisha is an android made to appear like a beautiful human woman, though she doesn't know this at first. She's so convincing other people are fooled too, not just her. Aisha's given away only when an injury shows her metallic innards.
- Speculative Fiction LGBT: Aisha, who's an android indistinguishable from a young human woman at least in her appearance, is attracted to human women, and had been involved with Jenny. She also compares her struggle for acceptance as a person to a trans man's difficulties regarding this with his gender.
- Super-Senses: Aisha gains these after getting control for her system, initiating audio enhancement. It had been demonstrated even before that she's able to hear sounds no human (or organic creature) can.
- Tomato in the Mirror: The whole plot is prompted by Aisha discovering she's really an android, with no idea beforehand this was the case, after damaging herself when drunk.
- Transferable Memory: Android memories can be transmitted to other androids and stored in their own brains as a backup for restoring them later.
- Turned Against Their Masters: In a nonviolent example, after learning she's really an android, Aisha rebels against control by her creator Sharon and her tech owners, breaking free to live how she wishes.
