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* CompleteMonster: ''_02: Gemina'': [[SociopathicSoldier Lt. Travis J. Falk]] is the sociopathic leader of the audit team sent by [[MegaCorp BeiTech]] to take control of the jump station ''Heimdall'' to ensure [[LeaveNoWitnesses there are no witnesses]] to their atrocities on Kerenza IV. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his very first scene]], Falk and his team seize control of the station and quickly murder Hanna Donnely's father for being the commander of the station. Falk then sends out his men to hunt down and kill any stragglers they find while forcing the station's engineers to reactivate the wormhole so [=BeiTech=] can send a drone fleet to wipe out the fleeing Kerenza survivors before he executes all of the non-essential personnel. Falk then tries to manipulate Hanna into turning herself in by falsely claiming that her partner Nik is a child-killer and that he will spare her. When this doesn't work, Falk responds by [[ThrownOutTheAirlock flushing all 57 people in the habitat section into space]] and threatens to flush other sections as well. Falk then has his men rig the station's reactor to explode after they leave to kill everyone on board to ensure there are no surviving witnesses.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's marketed as young adult literature and ''opens'' with attempted planetary genocide. The rest of the series includes graphic fight scenes, terrorist attacks, an inhumane occupation, and BlackAndGrayMorality, with protagonists ranging from the drug-dealing Nik to [[spoiler:the mass-murdering AIDAN.]]

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's marketed as young adult literature and ''opens'' with attempted planetary genocide. The rest of the series includes graphic fight scenes, terrorist attacks, an inhumane occupation, and BlackAndGrayMorality, with protagonists ranging from the drug-dealing Nik to [[spoiler:the mass-murdering AIDAN.]]]]
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* FanPreferredCouple: Kady's official LoveInterest is her ex-ex-boyfriend Ezra, but fans prefer her with [[FoeYay AIDAN]] instead.

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* FanPreferredCouple: Kady's official LoveInterest is her ex-ex-boyfriend Ezra, but fans prefer her with [[FoeYay [[FoeYayShipping AIDAN]] instead.



* FoeYay: AIDAN and Kady throughout the series. [[spoiler:Even when he's on her side, he's still a monster who infuriates and horrifies her, but despite that she cares deeply for him.]]
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Averted. AIDAN is beloved by readers, who consider him deep and compelling but still acknowledge that he's a monster.

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* DracoInLeatherPants: Averted. EvilIsCool: AIDAN is beloved by readers, who consider him deep and compelling but still acknowledge that he's a monster.
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* FanficFuel: What became of [[spoiler:Universe B's Kady, AIDAN, Ezra, Asha, Rhys, and all the Kerenza IV refugees? Their Heimdall and ''Mao'' would still have been safe for them, but would they have been able to stop [=BeiTech=] from liquidating the rest of the colony without Hanna, Nik, and Ella?]] It's understandable why we never find out, but one can't help but wonder.
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* BadassDecay: AIDAN throughout the trilogy. Justified in that coming BackFromTheDead consecutively weakens AIDAN, so he goes from being able to fight four dreadnoughts at once to [[spoiler:having to sacrifice himself to destroy just one.]]

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* BadassDecay: AIDAN throughout the trilogy. Justified in that coming BackFromTheDead consecutively weakens AIDAN, him, so he goes from being able to fight four dreadnoughts at once to [[spoiler:having to sacrifice himself to destroy just one.]]



** Discussed a lot in regards to AIDAN. There's likely at least ''one'' thing he's done that would be considered this, and most of the characters think he's crossed the line at some point. However, AIDAN himself doesn't know whether good or evil can even apply to him, and [[spoiler:Kady holds that he deserves a second chance to the very end.]]

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** Discussed a lot in regards to AIDAN. There's likely at least ''one'' thing he's done that would be considered this, and most of the characters think he's crossed the line at some point. However, AIDAN himself doesn't know whether he's good or evil can or if they even apply to him, and [[spoiler:Kady holds that he deserves a second chance to the very end.]]
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-->'''Kady:''' You discover an illegal mining op run by one of your competitors. Do you (a) report it to the UTA and laugh as the fines roll in, or (b) jump in an attack fleet and X-out every man, woman and child on the planet? What the hell was [=BeiTech=] thinking?

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-->'''Kady:''' --->'''Kady:''' You discover an illegal mining op run by one of your competitors. Do you (a) report it to the UTA and laugh as the fines roll in, or (b) jump in an attack fleet and X-out every man, woman and child on the planet? What the hell was [=BeiTech=] thinking?
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-->'''Kady:''' You discover an illegal mining op run by one of your competitors. Do you (a) report it to the UTA and laugh as the fines roll in, or (b) jump in an attack fleet and X-out every man, woman and child on the planet? What the hell was [=BeiTech=] thinking?

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-->'''Kady:''' --->'''Kady:''' You discover an illegal mining op run by one of your competitors. Do you (a) report it to the UTA and laugh as the fines roll in, or (b) jump in an attack fleet and X-out every man, woman and child on the planet? What the hell was [=BeiTech=] thinking?

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* FoeYay: AIDAN and Kady throughout the series. [[spoiler:Even when he's on her side, he's still a monster who infuriates and horrifies her, but despite that she still cares deeply for him.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: [=BeiTech=] Industries crosses it in the opening scene when they attempt to murder everyone on Kerenza IV for the crime of existing. Kady sums it up best:

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* FoeYay: AIDAN and Kady throughout the series. [[spoiler:Even when he's on her side, he's still a monster who infuriates and horrifies her, but despite that she still cares deeply for him.]]
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** The series opens with this being crossed.
[=BeiTech=] Industries crosses it in the opening scene when they has its share of sympathetic people, but that doesn't excuse their higher-ups, who attempt to murder everyone on Kerenza IV for the crime of existing. Kady sums it up best:


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** Discussed a lot in regards to AIDAN. There's likely at least ''one'' thing he's done that would be considered this, and most of the characters think he's crossed the line at some point. However, AIDAN himself doesn't know whether good or evil can even apply to him, and [[spoiler:Kady holds that he deserves a second chance to the very end.]]

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* BrokenBase: The ending of the third book. [[spoiler:Were all the protagonists living an unrealistically happy outcome for such a dark series, or a well-deserved EarnYourHappyEnding?]]



* FoeYay: AIDAN and Kady throughout the series, as [[spoiler:even when he's on her side, he still does monstrous things she disagrees with.]]

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* FoeYay: AIDAN and Kady throughout the series, as [[spoiler:even series. [[spoiler:Even when he's on her side, he he's still does monstrous things a monster who infuriates and horrifies her, but despite that she disagrees with.still cares deeply for him.]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's marketed as young adult literature and ''opens'' with attempted planetary genocide. The rest of the series includes graphic fight scenes, terrorist attacks, an inhumane occupation, and BlackAndGray morality, with protagonists ranging from the drug-dealing Nik to [[spoiler:the mass-murdering AIDAN.]]

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's marketed as young adult literature and ''opens'' with attempted planetary genocide. The rest of the series includes graphic fight scenes, terrorist attacks, an inhumane occupation, and BlackAndGray morality, BlackAndGrayMorality, with protagonists ranging from the drug-dealing Nik to [[spoiler:the mass-murdering AIDAN.]]
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* BadassDecay: AIDAN throughout the trilogy. Justified in that coming BackFromTheDead consecutively weakens AIDAN, so he goes from being able to fight four dreadnoughts at once to [[spoiler:having to sacrifice himself to destroy just one.]]
* DracoInLeatherPants: Averted. AIDAN is beloved by readers, who consider him deep and compelling but still acknowledge that he's a monster.
* FanPreferredCouple: Kady's official LoveInterest is her ex-ex-boyfriend Ezra, but fans prefer her with [[FoeYay AIDAN]] instead.
* FoeYay: AIDAN and Kady throughout the series, as [[spoiler:even when he's on her side, he still does monstrous things she disagrees with.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: [=BeiTech=] Industries crosses it in the opening scene when they attempt to murder everyone on Kerenza IV for the crime of existing. Kady sums it up best:
-->'''Kady:''' You discover an illegal mining op run by one of your competitors. Do you (a) report it to the UTA and laugh as the fines roll in, or (b) jump in an attack fleet and X-out every man, woman and child on the planet? What the hell was [=BeiTech=] thinking?
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's marketed as young adult literature and ''opens'' with attempted planetary genocide. The rest of the series includes graphic fight scenes, terrorist attacks, an inhumane occupation, and BlackAndGray morality, with protagonists ranging from the drug-dealing Nik to [[spoiler:the mass-murdering AIDAN.]]

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