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* CentipedesDilemma: After Tal gets a new arm, he thinks for a moment about that it's a grafted limb, and immediately it stops working until he thinks about something else.
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** Earlier, this is inverted when Alu is ''unlocked'', and rapidly goes a little bit crazy with the potential. Or a lot crazy. Gilou explains to Tal, once he figures it out, that Aquaans aren't Yogzarthu -- but they sort of ''become'' Yogzarthu once they're unlocked.
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** [[spoiler: Later on (or rather, much earlier), the person who became Mazair escapes from her captivity at the hands of Kema, finds herself on an inhabited planet, and in a panic, sings herself into another form. Except... humans don't have the vocal capacities of the Qohathoth, and so she couldn't sing herself ''back.'' It takes intervention from a now contrite Kema to restore her, and it's going to be a long, hungry, and ''painful'' process in the bargain.]]
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** [[spoiler: Later on (or rather, much earlier), the person who became Mazair escapes from her captivity at the hands of Kema, finds herself on an inhabited planet, and in a panic, sings herself into another form. Except... humans don't have the vocal capacities of the Qohathoth, and so she couldn't can't sing herself ''back.'' It takes intervention from a now contrite Kema to restore her, and it's going to be a long, hungry, and ''painful'' process in the bargain.]]
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** [[spoiler: Later on (or rather, much earlier), the person who became Mazair escapes from her captivity at the hands of Kema, finds herself on an inhabited planet, and in a panic, sings herself into another form. Except... humans don't have the vocal capacities of the Qohathoth, and so she couldn't sing herself ''back.'' It takes intervention from a now contrite Kema to restore her, and it's going to be a long, hungry, and ''painful'' process in the bargain.]]
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** ''Mazair''. [[spoiler: The whole chapter is just one giant spoiler: it turns out that Kema imprisoned one of the Qohathoth stragglers in pursuit of a solution to the Yogzarthu's many, many issues. The eponymous Mazair is cured of her ShapeshifterModeLock by a Kema who still doesn't quite ''get'' the concept of forgiveness, but still tries its best -- and at the end, Mazair reveals her secret to both Tal and the one person on the planet who will be utterly ''tormented'' by the inability to reveal her nature.]]
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** ''Mazair''. [[spoiler: The whole chapter is just one giant spoiler: it spoiler, befitting of the end of a book. [[spoiler: It turns out that Kema imprisoned one of the Qohathoth stragglers in pursuit of a solution to the Yogzarthu's many, many issues. The After Gilou discovers her origin, the eponymous Mazair is cured of her ShapeshifterModeLock by a Kema who still doesn't quite ''get'' the concept of forgiveness, forgiveness or redemption, but still tries its best -- and at the end, Mazair reveals her secret to both Tal and the one person on the planet who will ''most'' be utterly ''tormented'' by the inability not being able to reveal report on her nature.existence.]]
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** ''Mazair''. [[spoiler: The whole chapter is just one giant spoiler: it turns out that Kema imprisoned one of the Qohathoth stragglers in pursuit of a solution to the Yogzarthu's many, many issues. The eponymous Mazair is cured of her ShapeshifterModeLock by a Kema who still doesn't quite ''get'' the concept of forgiveness, but still tries its best -- and at the end, Mazair reveals her secret to both Tal and the one person on the planet who will be utterly ''tormented'' by the inability to reveal her nature.]]
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** After Gilou notices, she sends him some reference material about asexuality and how it's just one more orientation among many, and when Tal ''finally'' goes out on a date with Habynah, he immediately prefaces it by telling her that he's not interested in her ''that'' way. She's more than accepting, especially as it's more of a goodbye sort of date.
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* HappilyMarried: Perhaps Robrecht and Fleurie don't share all of each others' likes and dislikes, but they do care for each other in their own way, something exceedingly rare to see in the Montblanc family. So [[http://www.waywardmartian.com/harbourmaster8/043-137.html he supports her in her spiritualism, and she comes along to clap at his bird shows.]] It might not be ''love'' love, but it's more mutual respect and genuine understanding than we see from pretty much anyone else on Veras.
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* ShapeshifterModeLock: Mormo gets a teensy bit impatient and tries to attack the government -- and winds up biting Seisha, whose HealingFactor precludes a Yogzarthu from shapeshifting into anything else. Gilou says that's more than sufficient punishment for trying to stage a coup, and Seisha agrees.
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** It was only when a few, like Sihuatl, fully realized that they were stumbling headfirst into an evolutionary cul-de-sac that the Yogzarthu started to change their tune, bolstered by the knowledge that they no longer have the tools they need to build the tools they'd need to recognize their past.
