History Characters / TheFutureEve

Edison's female assistant. She is a talented sculptress helping Edison to construct Hadaly, a project she shows a lot of interest in. She also has various nifty PsychicPowers.

* DoingItForTheArt: She ''claims'' that this is how she approaches her job. It is hard to take this at face value, given that she shows very little interest in art [[MoneyDearBoy but quite a bit of interest in money.]]

* 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.

* OnlySaneMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] He is ''trying'' to be this, calling out Edison for some of his actions and ensuring him that his plans will never work. Unfortunately, he is a bit WrongGenreSavvy, believing himself to be in a work of HardScienceFiction while he's actually in a ScienceFantasy story, meaning that he becomes a KnowNothingKnowItAll half the time.

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** On the other hand, Edison seems rather indecisive (and uncertain) on whether she is sentient or not. He argues that, even if Hadaly isn't "real," she still comes of as kind and empathetic, and that's better than being an undoubtedly real jerk like Alicia. He also feels that it is hard to call her "fake" [[NotSoDifferent when many women are just as guilty of hiding their true faces behind cosmetics, putting on false personas, ending up in relationships that are mere charades, and spending their lives just going through the motions.]] He makes a point of always treating her like a real person, giving her an aviary full of talking, mechanical birds so that she doesn't get lonely or bored (which he admits is a bit superstitious of him), and telling her to leave the room if he wants to have a private conversation.

* [[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.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: He was in a relationship with Evelyn despite being married to Annie.

* 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.

[[caption-width-right:250: ''"I should have been bom centuries ago. Alas, I have come into this world very late."'' ]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Apparently, Edison had a secret underground garden where he hid his most secret inventions (A RidiculouslyHumanRobot, mechanichal [[TalkingBird talking birds]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking technicolour sound films.)]] He also dabbled in mysticism and learned the art of hypnosis, though he admits that he isn't nearly as good as Sowana. Notable in that the real UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison was still alive and working when the book was first released.

* TheMatchmaker: He is doing all he can to get Ewald and Hadaly together, despite Ewald's complaints.
* MrExposition: Spends several chapters explaining scientific concepts to Ewald. Most of them relate to how his andraiad works.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Even in the versions where "Professor X's" name isn't mentioned, it is blatantly obvious who he is supposed to be.

** He is the founder and director of a large electric company (actually called ''the Edison Electric Light Company.'')
** He is compared to a wizard and lives in a large house in a park which also functions as a laboratory (Edison was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," Menlo Park being the location of his research lab.)

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He has a borderline misogynic view on women, which Ewald calls him out on.

--> '''Edison''': "Of course, I dont mean that all women are like that, but most of those who bring men to [[DrivenToSuicide a desperate end]] are, more or less."
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Yes, this trope even applies to ''Thomas Edison,'' of all people. Ewald actually accuses him of keeping most of his inventions for himself without releasing them to the public. (Considering that the ''real'' Edison has the world record for "Most patented inventions", he must have been ''way'' more productive than people think.) This is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by him being vary of his inventions ending up in the wrong hands, and he has still managed to get rich off the inventions he ''has'' released (as he did in RealLife.)

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is portrayed as this. He is willing to do some rather amoral things - such as commiting identity theft and recording people without their knowledge or approval - but his goal is to keep people entertained and save thousands from depression and suicide, and he genuinely believes that technology will lead to world peace.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Up until the end, he refuses to believe that Hadaly might be possesed by some supernatural spirit, saying instead that she is just a machine acting out a performance. This is after he has had her read his thoughts, calling up visions of his fiancée, and give an accurate description of a dream he hasn't told her about. Though in fairness, Edison doesn't really give him any good explanation for how she could be self-aware until the end. before that, he keeps flip-flopping on whether she is sentient or not, which doesn't help at all.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Subverted.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: At one point, he tells "Alicia" how she is much better than Edison's stupid android {{Doppelganger}}. Turns out he has been talking to the android the entire time, and she doesn't take it well. Oops.

* MyGodYouAreSerious: There are times where he thinks that Edison is pulling his leg, which usually leads to some [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristic]] [[LaughingMad maniacle laughter]] coming out of his lips, but Edison is always dead serious about his plans.

* 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.]]

** On the other hand, Edison seems rather undecisive (and uncertain) on whether she is sentient or not. He argues that, even if Hadaly isn't "real," she still comes of as kind and empathic, and that's better than being an undoubtedly real jerk like Alicia. He also feels that it is hard to call her "fake" [[NotSoDifferent when many women are just as guilty of hiding their true faces behind cosmetics, putting on false personas, ending up in relationships that are mere charades, and spending their lives just going through the motions.]] He makes a point of always treating her like a real person, giving her an aviary full of talking, mechanical birds so that she doesn't get lonely or bored, (which he admits to be a bit superstitious of him,) and telling her to leave the room if he wants to have a private conversation.

** 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.]]
* {{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 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.]]
* 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.]]

[[caption-width-right:250: ''"It shouldnt be done this way. I don't want the people who live in this house to think that I'm middle class."'' ]]

* 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.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She might have been based on Mina Miller, Edisons second wife who was about the same age as Alicia and married Edison the same year the story was written. There is not actually anything romantic going on between Alicia and Edison, but several of his neighbours believe them to be a couple.
* 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.
* 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.

Edison's female assistant. She is a talented sculptress helping Edison to construct Hadaly, a project she shows alot of interest in. She also has various nifty PsychicPowers.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: While in her astral form, she becomes endowed with various PsychicPowers, as well as more intelligent and knowledgeable about the Universe, but she also becomes a spirit which can barely interact with the psysical world. [[spoiler: She gets around this by possesing Hadaly, giving her a body that lets her use her powers to her full potential.]]
* 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: where it is revealed that Hadaly is her SoulJar.]]

* IJustWantToBeYou: Seems to have a bit of 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.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: She was ''very'' excited to start working on Hadaly, [[spoiler: as she wanted to use the robot as a vessel for her spirit.]]

* 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. [[spoiler: Her andraiad self also has no problem with the idea of marrying a human.]]

A dancer at the Music Hall. She seduced Edward - who was already married - and had an affair with him, only to leave him once his money run out. By the time the story starts she has been dead for several years.

* ImAManICantHelpIt / NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Might be why Edison only blames Evelyn for thier affair.

* PosthumousCharacter: Obivously.

The children of Professor Edison. They play a rather small role in the story, and eventually dissapear from it altogether.

* TheCameo: Their appearences are essentially this.
* CheerfulChild: Edison's daughter is characterised like this. (Though she was technically a young teenager at the time.)
* TheDividual: They are not really given much individual characterisation.

* 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.

* 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.

* {{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.
* 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.

* UnreliableExpositor: They are this InUniverse, mostly because they don't know much about the subjects of their writings and make alot of assumptions.

!!Creator/ThomasEdison / Professor X

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Apparently, Edison had a secret underground garden where he hid his most secret inventions (A RidiculouslyHumanRobot, mechanichal [[TalkingBird talking birds]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking technicolour sound films.)]] He also dabbled in mysticism and learned the art of hypnosis, though he admits that he isn't nearly as good as Sowana. Notable in that the real Creator/ThomasEdison was still alive and working when the book was first released.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Brutally Subverted.]]