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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: PlayedWith. [[InvokedTrope Edison buildt her specifically as a cure for suicidal depression in men,]] and she is - by her own admission - an idealised person who is utterly devoted to Ewald, as she thinks that his love can make her real. She also shows Ewald that magic is real, and even describes herself as a literal LivingDream, a spirit from another world. [[SubvertedTrope However, she is really not that "manic" at all.]] She is a calm, intelligent and somewhat philosophical ProperLady who is perfectly fine with the idea of getting married and settling down. [[HiddenDepths And she ''does'' have a few interests outside of her love for Ewald, such as astronomy.]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: PlayedWith. [[InvokedTrope Edison buildt built her specifically as a cure for suicidal depression in men,]] and she is - by her own admission - an idealised person who is utterly devoted to Ewald, as she thinks that his love can make her real. She also shows Ewald that magic is real, and even describes herself as a literal LivingDream, a spirit from another world. [[SubvertedTrope However, she is really not that "manic" at all.]] She is a calm, intelligent and somewhat philosophical ProperLady who is perfectly fine with the idea of getting married and settling down. [[HiddenDepths And she ''does'' have a few interests outside of her love for Ewald, such as astronomy.]]
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* MistakenForRomance: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] While some of Edison's neighbours wonder if Edison and Alicia are in a relationship, the reporters think that she is completely insignificant.
* NoodleIncident: We never find out what the new "high-life scandal which had begun to agitate the country" was.
* NoodleIncident: We never find out what the new "high-life scandal which had begun to agitate the country" was.
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* AmateurSleuth: While they do ''try'' to be this, they are not very successful, and they never even get close to figuring out what Edison is up to.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: This is basically their goal.
* IntrepidReporter: They want a good story, and have nothing against uncovering one by themselves.
* IntrepidReporter: They want a good story, and have nothing against uncovering one by themselves.
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* TakeThat: Needless to say, they are not the most flattering portrayal of news media in fiction.
* UnreliableExpositor: They are this InUniverse, mostly because they don't know much about the subjects of their writings and make alot of assumptions.
* UnreliableExpositor: They are this InUniverse, mostly because they don't know much about the subjects of their writings and make alot of assumptions.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: They notice that Edison never goes outside anymore and is constantly visited by doctors, so they come to the conclusion that he is terminally ill. Actually, he is perfectly healthy. He is simply really devoted to his work, and has hired the doctors to assist him with it.
* {{Irony}}: The reporters are convinced that Alicia Cleary cant possibly have anything to do with whatever is going on at Menlo Park, and that Thomas Edison has just brought her there as a RedHerring to fool them. In reality, she is quite important, given that Edison is building an andraiad in her likeness.
* {{Irony}}: The reporters are convinced that Alicia Cleary cant possibly have anything to do with whatever is going on at Menlo Park, and that Thomas Edison has just brought her there as a RedHerring to fool them. In reality, she is quite important, given that Edison is building an andraiad in her likeness.
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* MouthOfSauron: He may not be the BigBad, but Edison does tell his daughter to pason some pieces of information to his servants.
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* TheVoice: They never appear in person. Edison only talks to them over the telephone.
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* TheCameo: Their appearences are essentially this.
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* TheDividual: They are not really given much individual characterisation.
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* MouthOfSauron: He may not be the BigBad, but Edison does tell his daughter to pason some pieces of information to his servants.
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* CheerfulChild: Edison's daughter is characterised like this. (Though she was technically a young teenager at the time.)
* FreeRangeChildren: Edison doesn't really seem to care about what they get up to.
* MissingMom: Their mother never appears, and there is no indication of what happened to her. This might be a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Thomas Edison's first wife, Mary Stilwell, had died two yaers earlier in RealLife.
* FreeRangeChildren: Edison doesn't really seem to care about what they get up to.
* MissingMom: Their mother never appears, and there is no indication of what happened to her. This might be a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Thomas Edison's first wife, Mary Stilwell, had died two yaers earlier in RealLife.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The just kind of... leave the story and never come back. You almost start to wonder if the author forgot that they existed.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: They can be interperated as looking at their father this way, given that they spend one of their appearances trying to catch his attention, and he spends nearly all of his page time at work.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: They can be interperated as looking at their father this way, given that they spend one of their appearances trying to catch his attention, and he spends nearly all of his page time at work.
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* BettyAndVeronica: His relationship with Annie (Betty) and Evelyn (Veronica) can basically be summed up like this. It's an unusually dark example of this trope with a real DownerEnding.
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* TheLostLenore: A gender inverted example for Annie, and a platonic one for Edison.
* MyGreatestFailure: Edison seems to consider his death to be this, and has set out to help people in similar situations.
* MyGreatestFailure: Edison seems to consider his death to be this, and has set out to help people in similar situations.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: The story doesn't attempt to justify the affair itself, but Edward is still treated like an innocent victim.
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* HistoryRepeats: His story is very similar to lord Ewald's. [[ThemeNaming Even their first names sounds alike.]]
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* HistoryRepeats: His story is very similar to lord Lord Ewald's. [[ThemeNaming Even their first names sounds alike.]]
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* HappilyMarried: To Annie, though their relationship went sour after he met Evelyn.
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* HappilyMarried: To Annie, though their relationship marriage went sour after he met Evelyn.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Killed himself after his life went down the drain.
* HappilyMarried: To Annie, though their relationship went sour after he met Evelyn.
* HappilyMarried: To Annie, though their relationship went sour after he met Evelyn.
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* ImAManICantHelpIt / NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Might be why Edison only blames Evelyn for thier affair.
* PosthumousCharacter: Obivously.
* YourCheatingHeart: He was in a relationship with Evelyn despite being married to Annie.
* PosthumousCharacter: Obivously.
* YourCheatingHeart: He was in a relationship with Evelyn despite being married to Annie.
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--> '''Ewald:''' "Was I mad? An Andraiad! How could I have dreamed of such a sacrilegea plaything, whose appearance alone would have made me laugh. An absurd, insensible doll. As if any mechanical thing made of hydraulic pressures and cunning cylinders could ever bear the semblance to one so beautiful as you, my Alicia. I will go and thank the professor presently without betraying any inquisitiveness as to his make-believe beauty. Disillusion must, indeed, have cast a shadow over my thoughts for me to have considered such a terrible project."
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--> '''Ewald:''' "Was I mad? An Andraiad! How could I have dreamed of such a sacrilegea sacrilegious plaything, whose appearance alone would have made me laugh. An absurd, insensible doll. As if any mechanical thing made of hydraulic pressures and cunning cylinders could ever bear the semblance to one so beautiful as you, my Alicia. I will go and thank the professor presently without betraying any inquisitiveness as to his make-believe beauty. Disillusion must, indeed, have cast a shadow over my thoughts for me to have considered such a terrible project."
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* BettyAndVeronica: She was the Veronica to Annie's Betty, with Edward as their Archie. It didn't end well for either of them.
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* NoodleIncident: We know that she is dead, but Edison never explains ''how'' it happened, or how he got his hands on her stuff, for that matter.
* TragicKeepsake: Edison is storing a piece of footage of her - as well as her wig and some of her other cosmetics - in his secret underground chamber, to remember the woman who ruined Edward's life.
* TragicKeepsake: Edison is storing a piece of footage of her - as well as her wig and some of her other cosmetics - in his secret underground chamber, to remember the woman who ruined Edward's life.
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* BettyAndVeronica: She was the Veronica to Annie's Betty, with Edward as their Archie. It didn't end well for either of them.
* EvilCounterpart: To Hadaly. They are both trying to become the ideal-woman by making themselves look more beautiful, and both of them have an affair with a man who is already in a relationship with another woman. The difference between them is that while Hadaly was a genuinly NiceGirl who actually cared about her lover, Evelyn... wasn't.
* EvilCounterpart: To Hadaly. They are both trying to become the ideal-woman by making themselves look more beautiful, and both of them have an affair with a man who is already in a relationship with another woman. The difference between them is that while Hadaly was a genuinly NiceGirl who actually cared about her lover, Evelyn... wasn't.
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* MakeUpIsEvil: She relied heavily on make-up and other cosmetics to make herself more attractive, to the point of looking like an entirely different person. Edison considers this to be an evil act, as she was basically hiding her true self from Edward.
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* TheWamp: She saw no problems with the idea of seducing a married man and having an affair with him.
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* TheWamp: TheVamp: She saw no problems with the idea of seducing a married man and having an affair with him.
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* [[ThatManIsDead That Woman Is Dead]]: To an certain extent. While she is in her astral state she puts on a different persona and tells people to only refer to her by her dream name, Sowana.
* EvilRedhead: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Her red hair was just a wig.
* GoldDigger: Possibly, given that she left Edward as soon as she had spent all his money.
* GoldDigger: Possibly, given that she left Edward as soon as she had spent all his money.
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* TheWamp: She saw no problems with the idea of seducing a married man and having an affair with him.
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* ProHumanTranshuman: She may have gotten powers and knowledge most people could - literary - only dream of, but this has just made her more willing to help others and educate them about her new discoveries. [[Her andraiad self also has no problem with the idea of marrying a human.]]
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* ProHumanTranshuman: She may have gotten powers and knowledge most people could - literary - only dream of, but this has just made her more willing to help others and educate them about her new discoveries. [[Her [[spoiler: Her andraiad self also has no problem with the idea of marrying a human.]]
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* SpoilerCharacter: Let's just say that there is a reason why there are so many spoiler tags in this section.
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* WalkingSpoiler: Let's just say that there is a reason why there are so many spoiler tags in this section.
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* HauntedTechnology: A benevolent example. Sowana can communicate with Edison by possesing his telephone. [[spoiler: As it turns out, she has also been possesing Hadaly for much of the story.]]
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* HauntedTechnology: A benevolent example. Sowana can communicate with Edison by possesing his telephone. ChekhovsGunman: She appears and is mentioned several times throught the novel, but it's not made clear why she is so important until the end [[spoiler: As where it turns out, she has also been possesing is revealed that Hadaly for much is her SoulJar.]]
* HappyPlace: She uses her astral state as this, though it's implied that it's only half-successful, as she still seems rather depressed.
* IJustWantToBeYou: Seems to have a bit ofthe story.this towards Alicia [[spoiler: given that she puts her spirit in a robotic body that looks just like her, while also trying to woo her fiancé.]]
* HappyPlace: She uses her astral state as this, though it's implied that it's only half-successful, as she still seems rather depressed.
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* ProHumanTranshuman: She may have gotten powers and knowledge most people could - literary - only dream of, but this has just made her more willing to help others and educate them about her new discoveries. [[Her andraiad self also has no problem with the idea of marrying a human.]]
* SpoilerCharacter: Let's just say that there is a reason why there are so many spoiler tags in this section.
* {{Technopath}}: Sowana can communicate with Edison telepathically by using his telephone. [[spoiler: As it turns out, she has also been possesing Hadaly for much of the story.]]
* SpoilerCharacter: Let's just say that there is a reason why there are so many spoiler tags in this section.
* {{Technopath}}: Sowana can communicate with Edison telepathically by using his telephone. [[spoiler: As it turns out, she has also been possesing Hadaly for much of the story.]]
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* TakeThatCritics: Not a professional critic, but she sure loves complaining. She is treated like a quite unlikable person who is seemingly incapable of finding joy in life and makes other's lives miserable.
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* TakeThatCritics: StrawCritic: Not a professional critic, but she sure loves complaining. She is treated like a quite unlikable person who is seemingly incapable of finding joy in life and makes other's lives miserable.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Gives off this impression. She apparentely has no idea who Thomas Edison is, easily falls for his con, and feels like the lines she had to recite for Hadaly were to hard to remember.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Gives off this impression. She apparentely has no idea who Thomas Edison is, easily falls for his con, and feels like the lines she had to recite for Hadaly were to hard to remember. Though Ewald claims that she isn't really stupid, just a bit [[TheDitz ditzy.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Doesn't understand why people would care more about some stupid statue like Venus de Milo than her. She is much better-looking ''and'' she still has her arms left.
* MoneyDearBoy: No! [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial She is NOT interested in money AT ALL!]] [[LogicalFallacies She just feels that being rich would be a good way of proving to others that must be talanted.]]
* MoneyDearBoy: No! [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial She is NOT interested in money AT ALL!]] [[LogicalFallacies She just feels that being rich would be a good way of proving to others that must be talanted.]]
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* SlaveToPR: She wants everyone to get the right impression of her, and is willing to get a statue made out of her purely because she thinks it's trendy.
* TakeThatCritics: Not a professional critic, but she sure loves complaining. She is treated like a quite unlikable person who is seemingly incapable of finding joy in life and makes other's lives miserable.
* TookALevelInKindness: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Ewald ''thinks'' that this has happened at one point, but he has actually been talking to her robotic doppelgänger.
* TakeThatCritics: Not a professional critic, but she sure loves complaining. She is treated like a quite unlikable person who is seemingly incapable of finding joy in life and makes other's lives miserable.
* TookALevelInKindness: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Ewald ''thinks'' that this has happened at one point, but he has actually been talking to her robotic doppelgänger.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: PlayedWith. [[InvokedTrope Edison buildt her specifically as a cure for suicidal depression in men,]] and she is - by her own admission - an idealised person who is utterly devoted to Ewald, as she thinks that his love can make her real. She also shows Ewald that magic is real, and even describes herself as a literal LivingDream, a spirit from another world. [[SubvertedTrope However, she is really not that "manic" at all.]] She is a calm, intelligent and somewhat philosophical ProperLady who is perfectly fine with the idea of getting married settling down. [[HiddenDepths And she ''does'' have a few interests outside of her love for Ewald, such as astronomy.]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: PlayedWith. [[InvokedTrope Edison buildt her specifically as a cure for suicidal depression in men,]] and she is - by her own admission - an idealised person who is utterly devoted to Ewald, as she thinks that his love can make her real. She also shows Ewald that magic is real, and even describes herself as a literal LivingDream, a spirit from another world. [[SubvertedTrope However, she is really not that "manic" at all.]] She is a calm, intelligent and somewhat philosophical ProperLady who is perfectly fine with the idea of getting married and settling down. [[HiddenDepths And she ''does'' have a few interests outside of her love for Ewald, such as astronomy.]]
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* BecomeARealBoy: Sowana thinks that when Hadaly is completed, she will literary transform into a real woman. Though Edison doubts this, and there is no indication that it actually happens. In the end, Hadaly seems to be fine with being "merely" a RidiculouslyHumanRobot as long as she is ''treated'' like a real person.
* {{Fembot}}: She is said to have a skin made out of small metal plates before she is turned into a RobotGirl. [[UnreliableIllustrator (Though the illustrator seems to have missed this, instead choosing to depict her as human -looking throught the entire novel.)]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: PlayedWith. [[InvokedTrope Edison buildt her specifically as a cure for suicidal depression in men,]] and she is - by her own admission - an idealised person who is utterly devoted to Ewald, as she thinks that his love can make her real. She also shows Ewald that magic is real, and even describes herself as a literal LivingDream, a spirit from another world. [[SubvertedTrope However, she is really not that "manic" at all.]] She is a calm, intelligent and somewhat philosophical ProperLady who is perfectly fine with the idea of getting married settling down. [[HiddenDepths And she ''does'' have a few interests outside of her love for Ewald, such as astronomy.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: PlayedWith. [[InvokedTrope Edison buildt her specifically as a cure for suicidal depression in men,]] and she is - by her own admission - an idealised person who is utterly devoted to Ewald, as she thinks that his love can make her real. She also shows Ewald that magic is real, and even describes herself as a literal LivingDream, a spirit from another world. [[SubvertedTrope However, she is really not that "manic" at all.]] She is a calm, intelligent and somewhat philosophical ProperLady who is perfectly fine with the idea of getting married settling down. [[HiddenDepths And she ''does'' have a few interests outside of her love for Ewald, such as astronomy.]]
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* TuringTest: Edison claims that if she would pass such a test completely if she were to take it. He is proven right when she manages to pass off as Alicia Cleary for several minutes. Ewald only notices that "Alicia" [[OutOfCharacterAlert is not quite acting like herself,]] not that she isn't human. He only manages to expose her true identity because [[RedRightHand he recognises her perfume and her rings,]] [[ActuallyIAmHim and because Hadaly outright tells him who she is,]] apparently not expecting him to actually fall for her act.
** And even when she is a {{Fembot}}, Ewald has a hard time looking at her as anything but a woman in a suit of armour. It's only when Edison opens her up and shows her internal mechanisms that he is completely convinced.
** And even when she is a {{Fembot}}, Ewald has a hard time looking at her as anything but a woman in a suit of armour. It's only when Edison opens her up and shows her internal mechanisms that he is completely convinced.
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* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Ewald asks Edison how she is capable of having a conversation with them if everything she says is a phongraph recording. Edison claims that he has recorded ''sixty hours'' of dialouge which can be used in different contexts, but even ''that'' is stretching Ewald's suspension of disbelief a bit, and it doesn't explain how Hadaly can read his thoughts or why edison is surprised by some of her comments. [[spoiler: It's implied that Sowana is using her powers to speak through Hadaly, just like she did with Edison's telephone.]]
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* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Ewald asks Edison how she is capable of having a conversation with them if everything she says is a phongraph recording. Edison claims that he has recorded ''sixty hours'' of dialouge which can be used in different contexts, but even ''that'' is stretching Ewald's suspension of disbelief a bit, and it doesn't explain how Hadaly can read his thoughts or why edison Edison is surprised by some of her comments. [[spoiler: It's implied that Sowana is using her powers to speak through Hadaly, just like she did with Edison's telephone.]]
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* BenevolentAI: A kind, empathic being who cares alot about the people closest to her.
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* BenevolentAI: A kind, empathic being who cares alot about the people closest to her. [[spoiler: Though she is technically not a true AI, but a literal human soul in a robotic body.]]
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* EvilKnockoff: [[InvertedTrope Inverted,]] she is Alicia's ''good'' knockoff.
** CriminalDoppelganger: Is technically this, but it doesn't have the usual consequences, as her only crime is the idenity theft itself, [[spoiler: and both Alicia and her die in an accident before it can be discovered.]]
** CriminalDoppelganger: Is technically this, but it doesn't have the usual consequences, as her only crime is the idenity theft itself, [[spoiler: and both Alicia and her die in an accident before it can be discovered.]]
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* [[spoiler: FamousLastWords: "My friend, after the crossing, you will awaken me. Until then as of old, we will see each other in the world of dreams." She didn't ''intend'' these to be her last words, as she was just being deactivated. But she was never turned on again, so this ''was'' her last moment of consciousness.]]
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Ewald asks Edison how she is capable of having a conversation with them if everything she says is a phongraph recording. Edison claims that he has recorded ''sixty hours'' of dialouge which can be used in different contexts, but even ''that'' is stretching Ewald's suspension of disbelief a bit, and it doesn't explain how Hadaly can read his thoughts or why edison is surprised by some of her comments. [[spoiler: It's implied that Sowana is using her powers to speak through Hadaly, just like she did with Edison's telephone.]]
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Ewald asks Edison how she is capable of having a conversation with them if everything she says is a phongraph recording. Edison claims that he has recorded ''sixty hours'' of dialouge which can be used in different contexts, but even ''that'' is stretching Ewald's suspension of disbelief a bit, and it doesn't explain how Hadaly can read his thoughts or why edison is surprised by some of her comments. [[spoiler: It's implied that Sowana is using her powers to speak through Hadaly, just like she did with Edison's telephone.]]
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** DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Edison, who turned her into a copy of Alicia specifically to make Ewald attracted to her. Note that Ewald was still technically engaged to Alicia at the time, though it was a very unfulfilling relationship.
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