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* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted. A big part of the plot is finding out ''why and how'' acts and thinks like he does. Turns out its a WetwareCPU.
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* TakingYouWithMe
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* TakingYouWithMeTakingYouWithMe: Drops the satellite its in on the BigBadDuumvirate.
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* TragicMonster
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* TragicMonsterTragicMonster: Never had a single chance at a normal, or even functional life since the day it was ''born''.
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* WetwareCPUWetwareCPU: Revealed to be the still living brain of Olga's son.
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* MoodSwinger: Extremely so.
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* MoodSwinger: Extremely so.
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* MeaningfulName: "Dread", but it's a double pun. "More Dread" = Mordred, which ties in with Jongleur's "Grail" project via the legend of KingArthur, Myth/KingArthur, and is Dread's way of poking fun at his boss. Further, "Wulgaru" is a shortened name of a monster found in Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths, and was given to him by his mother to reflect her desire to turn him into a monster.
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* PsychoForHire: Working for Jongleur.
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* TortureTechnician
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: They act like this when chasing Paul Jonas.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Considered cloning his mother as part of his plan to replicate his childhood but could not bring himself to desecrate her grave.
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* GenerationXerox: Jongleur's mother was also in love with her tutor.
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* ForeignCultureFetish: Jongleur is obsessed with Ancient Egypt. He spends most of his time in his Egypt simulation and gives Egyptian names to phases in the Grail project.
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* WickedCultured: He based most of his simulations on classic literature and mythology.
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* EvilerThanThou: After Dread takes control of the Other, Jongleur actually says "And you think I'm vicious. You haven't seen anything yet."
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* EvilerThanThou: After Dread takes control of the Other, Jongleur actually says "And you EvilerThanThou:
-->'''Felix Jongleur''': You thinkI'm vicious. ''I'm'' vicious? You haven't seen anything yet."
-->'''Felix Jongleur''': You think
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'''Spoiler alert!''' Major plot points All spoilers ahead are unmarked -- read at your own risk!
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* BigGood: He is the primary opponent of the Brotherhood.
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* LastNameBasis: He always refers to himself as Sellars and his first name is only mentioned once.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares for his daughter/clone Avialle.
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* EvilerThanThouEvilerThanThou: After Dread takes control of the Other, Jongleur actually says "And you think I'm vicious. You haven't seen anything yet."
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* MeaningfulName: "Dread", but it's a double pun. "More Dread" = Mordred, which ties in with Jongleur's "Grail" project via the legend of KingArthur, and is Dread's way of poking fun at his boss. Further, "Wulgaru" is a shortened name of a monster found in Australian aboriginal mythology, and was given to him by his mother to reflect her desire to turn him into a monster.
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* MeaningfulName: "Dread", but it's a double pun. "More Dread" = Mordred, which ties in with Jongleur's "Grail" project via the legend of KingArthur, and is Dread's way of poking fun at his boss. Further, "Wulgaru" is a shortened name of a monster found in Australian aboriginal mythology, Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths, and was given to him by his mother to reflect her desire to turn him into a monster.
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* JerkassFacade: He acts very "macho" and standoffish to disguise that he's really an insecure teenager. The armor he wears becomes symbolic of this facade, as he becomes more personable when he loses it.
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* JerkassFacade: HiddenHeartOfGold: He acts very "macho" and standoffish to disguise that he's really an insecure teenager. The armor he wears becomes symbolic of this facade, as he becomes more personable when he loses it.
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* JerkassFacade: He is almost violently standoffish when asked to share his history with the group; it's later revealed that this is out of shame.
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* JerkassFacade: HiddenHeartOfGold: He is almost violently standoffish when asked to share his history with the group; it's later revealed that this is out of shame.
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Dedoblanco is a ceo, of Krittapong. Wells- name wrong. fixing.
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African dictator. Goes by "Sekhmet" in Otherland.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He keeps recordings of all the women he has killed on his system. In his final moments, just when he needs all his attention to escape the Other, Dulcinea floods him with those images. Dread is put into a cataconic state from sensory overload, and proceeds to dream about those women now hunting him. [[FateWorseThanDeath Forever.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He keeps recordings of all the women he has killed on his system. In his final moments, just when he needs all his attention to escape the Other, Dulcinea floods him with those images. Dread is put into a cataconic catatonic state from sensory overload, and proceeds to dream about those women now hunting him. [[FateWorseThanDeath Forever.]]
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grammar: fraction _makes_ it, not _make_ it.
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* TricksterMentor: A mild example, he tantalizes hundreds, if not thousands, of people with hints and riddles and clues to lead them to the Otherland, and only a small fraction make it, with people dying in the process. This is justified in that he's an imprisoned cripple capable of accessing the outside world only after he turned his body into a living antenna and he's fighting an organization that owns, at a guess, roughly two-thirds of ''everything''. Everyone he tried to talk to legitimately was quietly murdered.
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* TricksterMentor: A mild example, he tantalizes hundreds, if not thousands, of people with hints and riddles and clues to lead them to the Otherland, and only a small fraction make makes it, with people dying in the process. This is justified in that he's an imprisoned cripple capable of accessing the outside world only after he turned his body into a living antenna and he's fighting an organization that owns, at a guess, roughly two-thirds of ''everything''. Everyone he tried to talk to legitimately was quietly murdered.
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Sellars survives —> a copy of him survives. The series makes clear several times (truth in...) that "brain uploading" creates copies. Sellars is himself actually dead.
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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: His real body dies from overstress, but he triggers the BrainUploading program before everything shuts down, so he gets to join Orlando as a digital person and watch the funeral proceedings.
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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: His real body dies from overstress, but he triggers the BrainUploading program before everything shuts down, so he (or rather a copy) gets to join Orlando as a digital person and watch the funeral proceedings.
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* TheMentor: Getting cut off from Sellars' guidance is an important plot point for the Otherland party at the end of the first novel, forcing them to decipher its mysteries on their own. Sellars goes on to subvert part of the trope later, since although his physical body dies, he survives thanks to BrainUploading.
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* TheMentor: Getting cut off from Sellars' guidance is an important plot point for the Otherland party at the end of the first novel, forcing them to decipher its mysteries on their own. Sellars goes on to subvert part of the trope later, since although his physical body dies, he a copy of him survives thanks to BrainUploading.
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* BenevolentAI: Beezle does everything in his power to help Orlando, even grudingly performing some tasks that Ramsey gives him because he knows they'll benefit Orlando.
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* TheUnpronounceable: His name begins with a clicking noise that's unpronounceable to most people. Long Joseph mispronounces it "Kobbu" or "Gobbu".
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* TheUnpronounceable: His name begins with a clicking noise that's unpronounceable to most people. Long Joseph mispronounces it "Kobbu" or "Gobbu". In audiobook form, his name is pronounced "Habbu" with a raspy "H".
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Her point-of-view segments play up her innocence and also the anguish that Sellars suffers by using her. She's utterly shocked when she runs into the far more worldly Cho-Cho.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Her point-of-view segments play up her innocence and also the anguish that Sellars suffers by using her. She's Given her sheltered life in a military base, she's utterly shocked when she runs into the far more worldly Cho-Cho.
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* RedHerringMole: She is one of the group suspected of being Dread in disguise, as she is never given narrative POV.
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POV. To throw the reader off, Martine even senses a duplicity to her before TheReveal of whom Dread was embodying; the duplicity, as mentioned above, is actually Florimel's daughter.
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* DoesNotLikeMen: Implied in her narration at times, especially early on. Spending her time [[PromotionToParent caring for an irresponsible younger brother]] and a drunken ManChild father has given her a cynical suspicion that all men are lazy and useless.
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* DoesNotLikeMen: Implied in her narration at times, especially early on. Spending her time [[PromotionToParent caring for an irresponsible younger brother]] and a drunken ManChild father has given her a cynical suspicion that all men are lazy and useless. When in Otherland, she becomes irritated with all of the misogynist [=NPCs=] coded into the worlds she finds.
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* NotSoDifferent: Kunohara hints at one point that he thinks they and the Grail Brotherhood have more in common than either would care to admit. WordOfGod has further clarified this: the Grail Brotherhood works on the assumption that human life is a coincidence and that therefore it has the right to do anything it needs to sustain itself. The Circle believes that human life was purposefully created and that therefore it has a responsibility to serve that purpose. What those two beliefs have in common is the assumption that humanity has a central importance - the idea that it might need to pass the torch to a new lifeform and resign itself to obscurity would be anathema to both of them.
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* VillainousVirtues: His complete lack of shame and dignity seems to come with a corresponding avoidance of {{Pride}}. While his peers use sims that are often tasteless in how impressive they are, and in one case goes so far as to [[AGodAmI pretending to be a god,]] the sim Klement uses in his home network shows him as exactly what he is - an elderly, dying man hooked up to an extensive life-support system.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Specifically, an African Bushman, or San. His different world perception is a major plot point.
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* ManicPixieDreamGuy: To Renie. While he's not particularly manic, he otherwise fits the trope of bringing some whimsy and wonder into her hyper-rational all-work-and-no-play life and helping her open her mind to new possibilities.
* ManicPixieDreamGuy: To Renie. While he's not particularly manic, he otherwise fits the trope of bringing some whimsy and wonder into her hyper-rational all-work-and-no-play life and helping her open her mind to new possibilities.
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* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: When Yacoubian makes a reference to "the boys" in Wells' tech branch, Wells teasingly berates Yacoubian for being so old-fashioned - quite a few of his techs [[EqualOpportunityEvil are in fact girls.]]
