Rebellion is a Chobits fanfiction.
What would happen if one regular Persocom gained an ability that basically made them a Chobit? An extraordinarily smart Chobit? Rebellion
is the answer.
Rebellion provides examples of:
- A Lighter Shade of Grey: Some of the stuff that Kotoko says about the world changing could count, right?
- Ambiguously Evil: Jima and Dita
- Androids Are People, Too: Minako's whole argument for her kind. But some just don't listen.
- Anti-Hero: "K-sama"
- Brain Uploading: Harash. Done fantastically at that. Or is it more of a Body Backup Drive?
- Contagious A.I.: The computer program that is sent to all the world's Persocoms by using Chii's ability to * uplink with every single computer in the world.
- Creative Sterility: Everyone claims that all Persocoms have this, thus are not people. Yuzuki is one to break this misconception for Minoru, though.
- Deus est Machina: Again, this is quite obvious. Kotoko...again
- Didn't See That Coming: When The Reveal happens.
- Do Androids Dream?: Overall question that the human leaders call into question.
- Evil Twin: Kojima. But his is an Artificial Human after all, created to be The Mole...sort of. Can also count as Robot Me.
- Evil Plan: Basically it's Kotoko's whole "evil" scheme.
- Everything Is Online: How and why the "special program" was spread to every single Persocom. Oh, and it helps that it spreads to newer computers just by connecting them up.
- The Evils of Free Will: Basic arguement for the humans to stop the movement that they simply cannot stop. But in truth they just don't want it to happen.
- Fantastic Aesop: Turned Against Their Masters.
- Fantastic Racism: Against the Persocoms, of course.
- Flame War: Justified. Especially because it was a hot topic/valid issue that ends up driving the whole fic.
- Good Is Not Soft: Kotoko. Definitely Jima and Dita.
- Heel–Face Turn
- Humans Are Bastards: Definitely invoked by more than a few people.
- Humans Are Flawed: Repeated a few times, but very subtly.
- Humans Kill Wantonly: Just look at the example they showed. A video that was described to them called "Me trashing my old PC". It involves a baseball bat as weapon.
- Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: It isn't exactly explained how "K-sama" became so fantastically self-aware. Although she does try to figure it out herself, and it seems to have come about by a combination of her own antics and chance.
- In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: Hinted at.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: Chi often asks what certain things are. One of the most notable: "What is Ditz?" Which Kotoko calls her in the very first chapter.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kojima, who actually reallly does care for his Persocoms, despite all the snarky, insensitive comments he makes.
- Just a Machine: Invoked by many, but most notably Kojima and the North Koreans, which gets really ludicrous.
- Kidnapped by an Ally: Happens to Chii in the beginning.
- Mechanical Evolution: How "K-sama" came to be so awe-inspireingly intelligent.
- Monster Rights Movement: Started by "K-sama" and spread across the world, and the slave revolt of the Persocoms working in mines and etc.
- The Needs of the Many: Major reason for the whole plot for making the world a better place by equality.
- Not Even Human: Invoked by many humans as an excuse to treat Persocoms any way they want to.
- Progressively Prettier: Discussed between the characters after seeing Kotoko in her new body.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Avoided.
- The Reveal
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Persocoms in general, but especially Chobits like Chii. Also, Minako, Yuzuki could count....ok maybe all of them calssify as that and lets leave it at that. They basically look like humans with weird ears.
- Robot Girl: ALL THE PERSOCOMS!!!! Except for the few guys, of course. Well....uh... well....
- Robotic Spouse: Minako.
- Robot War
- Secret Identity: Kotoko obviously.
- Self-Abuse: Ms. Soon-bok sees Minako as merely an instrument to aid this. It triggers her Berserk Button.
- Slave Liberation: What "K-sama" intends to do for all Persocoms working under humans who don't want to.
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: It is implicity stated that Persocoms have passed The Turing Test and various other intelligence tests years ago, which is exactly why Minoru created a test specifically to see if Yuzuki had become an actual person. Cue the heartwarming "aws"
- Sockpuppet: What Kojima thinks "K" is at first. Somone pretending to be a Persocom promoting persocom rights. So he basicaly flames them.
- Some of My Best Friends Are X: Hideki's feeling towards anyone who says that Persocoms are less than human.
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Eveyone's reaction to Kojima's remarks...well, not everyone. He did help to start a Flame War after all.
- Super-Intelligence: Basically what Kotoko has acquired over a small amount of time.
- Surrounded by Idiots
- Tsundere: Kojima after seeing Kotoko in her new body in chapter 10, Kojima seems to become more and more attracted to her, and in chapter 28 he knows he loves Kotoko, but he denies it over and over again, before eventually going back to his house and tries to make up with Kotoko.
- Turned Against Their Masters: If you didn't get it when you read the title, I cannot help you at all, friend.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: The main reason that Kotoko feels that she should not stop the madness that is happening and that it is necessary to the success of her plans.
- We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: The Persocoms working in the mines. Very dangerous mines, I might add.
- What If?: Basically the whole start of the 'fic.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Looming question that haunts everyone's reasons for supporting either side of the conflict.
