History AudioPlay / TheNewAlbionGuideToAnalogueConsciousness

* AntiLoveSong: "The Deceit" is flirtatious and love-song like, but Adrian and Connor despise each other. Despise.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Mascot 3000 is a tablet, with human consciousness

* DrivenToSuicide: Subverted. After finding out that Lee (the man whose voice she heard proclaiming love for her over the radio broadcast in her head) is [[spoiler:gay and therefore wouldn't be in a relationship with her]], Rachael loses the shred of hope she'd held onto for years and hands herself to the Creatures. They don't kill her, though

* FalseUtopia: New Albion could be viewed as this--fitting as it was a pretty nice QuirkyTown in the first album
and a CityNoir in the second.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Rachael loves Lee. He was in love with a man named Adrian who died. [[spoiler: To add insult to injury, Rachael is believed to be Adrian reincarnate]]

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:In "Rachael Returns", Yasser reveals Rachael to be a reincarnation of Adrian. In "The Creatures Speak", Mascot explains that Rachael is also a reincarnation of Priscilla [=McAlistair=] and Constance O'Brien, from the earlier albums. If you listen to the same piece backwards, it states that Adrian did not actually reincarnate into Rachael, but instead into Connor. WordOfGod says that Lee is a reincarnation of Solider 7285 and of Thomas, who were also from the other albums]]

* SiblingTeam: Sort of. [[spoiler: Subverted, Connor and Amber had Mascot 3000, then Amber had Adrian and Connor had Lee, both with other people. Then Adrian was supposedly reincarnated as Rachael. Therefore, Lee and Rachael, although they have no blood relation, would both be the half-sibling to Mascot, and when the three of them team up they would become this trope, however, Adrian actually reincarnated as Connor, and Rachael has no familial/soul connection to Mascot 3000 or Lee]]

%%* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Lee's last word is 'after']]

%%* AllKnowingSingingNarrator: Mascot 3000

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: "In This Episode" is a condensed version of the first act, but this time from the Mascot 3000's point-of-view instead of Rachael's.

* AtomPunk: It's even in the name of the album.

%%* BadassArmy: The Blood Red Dogs

* BenevolentAI: The Mascot 3000 is a thinking computer that serves as Rachael's mentor

* BrainUploading: Oh, boy. [[spoiler:Mascot 3000, for starters. In the end, thirty survivors in Elysium choose AI conversion over reincarnation.]]
* BreakTheCutie: This happens to both Adrian and Lee [[spoiler: when their dream of Elysium turns out to be living hell and Adrian is killed]]
** This also happens to Rachael, again and again and again. Both before the album takes place and during it.

* TheChewToy: Connor. By the end, you kind of enjoy watching him suffer.
* TheChosenOne: Rachael, to an extent
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: [[TheMentor Mascot 3000]] is this to [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Rachael]] throughout the album. [[KnightInSourArmor Lee]] can also be this to Rachael at times.

%%* {{Cult}}: The voodoopunks
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: All four lead roles
* DeathWorld: [[spoiler:Elysium, at least if you go there while still alive.]]
* DramaticIrony: "Connor (reprise)", enough said

* TheElevenOClockNumber: "The Rescue Plan"
* {{Ephebeophile}}: Rachael was adopted from an orphanage at the age of 15 by a politician who promptly took her as his mistress. Then she got pregnant...
* FalseUtopia: New Albion could be viewed as this--fitting as it was a pretty nice QuirkyTown in the first album and a CityNoir in the second.
* FourManBand:
** The Pervert: Mascot 3000 HeroicComedicSociopath
** ButtMonkey: Connor
** TheSmartGuy: Rachael
** OnlySaneMan: Lee

* GuileHero: Rachael quickly becomes savvy, clever, and StreetSmart after finding and living in the Shopogopolis.
* GriefSong: Connor and Lee each have one. Connor's is simply called "Connor", and Lee's is simply called "Lee"

* HeroicBSOD: "The Show That No One Saw" for Rachael

* IdiotHero: Adrian seems to fit the bill. He rarely thinks anything through and his whole arc revolves him making really dumb mistakes. [[spoiler: Doubles as TooDumbToLive]]

* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Project Elysium, building an amazing city in the world of the afterlife, seemed brilliant.
* IWantSong: Rachael has a song, actually called Rachael, where she expresses her desire to leave the asylum.
** "Kyrie" is another example that Adrian sings about Project Elysium.

%%* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Lee's last word is 'after']]

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Connor spends all his time fighting the voodoopunks, and Lee is a voodoopunk. But Connor doesn't know.

** Lee also takes this role in a FourManBand with Mascot 3000 (Pervert), Connor (ButtMonkey), and Rachael (TheSmartGuy)
* ParentalLoveSong: Many of Connor's songs are about his parental love for his son Lee.

* SetRightWhatOnceWasWrong: [[spoiler: Adrian reincarnated as his lover's father in order to keep Lee from going to Elysium.]]

* SidekickSong: "In This Episode" for the Mascot 3000, who is something of Rachael's sidekick.

%%* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Poor Lee]]
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Lee, in contrast to his extremely feminine lover, Adrian]]
* StreetSmart: Rachael starts out as the opposite due to spending two years in an asylum, but after a little while in the Shopogopolis she becomes this and a GuileHero
* TagalongChronicler: Mascot 3000 doesn't do much other than narrate the story
* TeenGenius: WordOfGod reveals Rachael to be this [[https://steampunkopera.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/character-background-rachael-atompunk-opera/ here]]
* [[spoiler: ThisIsntHeaven: Elysium, as the Voodoopunks discover, is only a paradise for people who are already dead.]]

* TookALevelInCynic: Lee [[spoiler: After he spent twenty years fighting for his life, and loses Adrian after two of those years.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: Mascot 3000, I am your father [[spoiler: says Connor]]

* TheMentor: The Mascot 3000, to Rachael.

* NotGoodWithPeople: WordOfGod reveals [[https://steampunkopera.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/character-background-rachael-atompunk-opera/ here]] that Rachael has a tendency to get stressed and freak out when around people.

* PleaseWakeUp: Rachael begs this of Lee.
* RaygunGothic

* KilledUpForReal: WordOfGod has stated that those who are killed by Elysium's "angels" cease to exist. [[spoiler:Makes Lee's death and Connor's wait more tragic.]]

* SetRightWhatOnceWereWrong: [[spoiler: Adrian reincarnated as his lover's father in order to keep Lee from going to Elysium.]]

* YouAreNumber6: The Mascot 3000's name is, well, the Mascot 3000
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Adrian is male, despite having a female voice actor. WordOfGod confirms this is because Adrian is transgender.

* ParentalLoveSong: Many of Connor's songs are about his parental love for his son Lee

* IncestIsRelative: [[spoiler: Lee and Adrian were lovers and, unknowingly for Lee, his lover's soul was actually reincarnated in his father.]] What.

* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Lee's last word is 'after']]

* AllKnowingSingingNarrator: Mascot 3000

* BadassArmy: The Blood Red Dogs

* {{Cult}}: The voodoopunks
* DarkAndTroubledPast: All four lead roles

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Poor Lee]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Racheal.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Connor, Connor, Connor.

** Lee also takes this role in a FourManBand with Mascot 3000 (Pervert), Connor (ButtMonkey), and Rachael (SmartGuy)

"The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness" is a 4-Act opera composed and written by Music/PaulShapera in 2014. It is the sequel to ''AudioPlay/TheNewAlbionRadioHour'' and ''AudioPlay/TheDollsofNewAlbion''. It is the final part in the New Albion Trilogy, and the audio version of the entire play can be found [[https://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/an-atompunk-opera-the-new-albion-guide-to-analogue-consciousness here]].

** In the second act, we see some songs from the voodoopunks point-of-view and some from Connors'. In the voodoopunks songs, Connor seems to be an evil mastermind attempting to destroy them and everything thing they worked for, in Connor's songs the voodoopunks appears to thrive on tricks and illusions and he's only trying to save the city and his son.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lee dies and Connor is left waiting for him, unknowing of his demise]], but New Albion is saved and Rachael and Mascot 3000 get to stay in Elysium.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lee]] dies because he chose to stay behind with Rachael.

* TheMentor: The Mascot 3000, to Rachael

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lee dies]], but New Albion is saved and Rachael and Mascot 3000 get to stay in Elysium

* LyricalDissonance: Kyrie. It's a happy, upbeat disco song in which a major part of the chorus is Kyrie Elysion, a Greek prayer literally meaning Lord, have mercy. This actually provides a good piece of foreshadowing about [[spoiler: the true nature of Elysium.]]

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:In "Rachael Returns", Yasser reveals Rachael to be a reincarnation of Adrian In "The Creatures Speak", Mascot explains that Rachael is also a reincarnation of Priscilla McAlistair and Constance O'Brien, from the earlier albums. If you listen to the same piece backwards, it states that Adrian did not actually reincarnate into Rachael, but instead into Connor. WordOfGod says that Lee is a reincarnation of Solider 7285 and of Thomas, who were also from the other albums]]

* {{Adorkable}}: In the second act, Adrian and Lee are young, geeky, cheerful teenagers who want nothing other than Elysium and each other.
** Also the Mascot 3000, who has the soul of a young child that loves pulpy sci-fi and wants to go on adventures with their family.

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:In "Rachael Returns", Yasser reveals Rachael to be a reincarnation of Adrian In "The Creatures Speak", Mascot explains that Rachael is also a reincarnation of Priscilla Mcalistair and Constance O'Brien, from the earlier albums. If you listen to the same piece backwards, it states that Adrian did not actually reincarnate into Rachael, but instead into Connor. WordOfGod says that Lee is a reincarnation of Solider 7285 and of Thomas, who were also from the other albums]]

* SdrawkcabSpeech: In "The Creatures Speak", when listened to backwards, you can hear one creature say [[spoiler: That everyone is wrong, and the Adrian never reincarnated as Rachael, but instead as Connor]]

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:In "Rachael Returns", Yasser reveals Rachael to be a reincarnation of Adrain. In "The Creatures Speak", Mascot explains that Rachael is also a reincarnation of Priscilla Mcalistair and Constance O'Brien, from the earlier albums. WordOfGod says that Lee is a reincarnation of Solider 7285 and of Thomas, who were also from the other albums]]

* SiblingTeam: Sort of. [[spoiler: Connor and Amber had Mascot 3000, then Amber had Adrian and Connor had Lee, both with other people. Then Adrian was reincarnated as Rachael. Therefore, Lee and Rachael, although they have no blood relation, are both the half-sibling to Mascot, and when the three of them team up they become this trope]]

* IncompatibleOrientation: Rachael loves Lee. He was in love with a man named Adrian who died. [[spoiler: To add insult to injury, Rachael is Adrian reincarnate]]