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* StarfishLanguage: The Yherajk communicate with one another by emitting complicated smells, with the identity of the "speaker" stated by a unique molecular marker. To a human, it all smells awful. The considerate Yherajk make nose plugs for all visiting humans, although even thoes fail during heated arguments or loud cheering.
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* StarfishLanguage: The Yherajk communicate with one another by emitting complicated smells, with the identity of the "speaker" stated by a unique molecular marker. To a human, it all smells awful. The considerate Yherajk make nose plugs for all visiting humans, although even thoes those fail during heated arguments or loud cheering.
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* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: After merging with the brain-dead Michelle, Joshua inherits her memories and mannerism, and partially identifies as her.]]
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* GrandTheftMe: Played with. Joshua enters Michelle and takes over her, body and memory both. However, that is only because she is brain-dead, and her final moments are of her wishing desperately to live. In order to ensure Michelle's legacy lives on, Joshua reluctantly inhabits her body to continue living as her.
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* LegacyCharacter: Due to the Yherajk's belief that memories are the soul, Michelle does technically live on in the form of Joshua inheriting her memories and body.
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* PuppeteerParasite: A rare benevolent example. The Yherajk are technically slime monsters who can enter another being's body e.g. a human and take over them. However, the Yherajk are strictly against this behavior, and it takes no small amount of effort for Tom to convince Joshua to take over the brain-dead Michelle.
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** Michelle is a borderline example; she has the looks and the talent to have a successful and lucrative career as a scream queen or piece of B-movie eye candy, but insists on trying for an artsy project she has neither the skills, intelligence or appearance to pull off.
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* CampStraight: Award winning director Roland Landois has a polite, cultured and sophisticated manner, but has an active romantic love life with the leading ladies of his movies (which may be interpreted differently after the Me Too movement).
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* CampStraight: Award winning director Roland Landois has a polite, cultured and sophisticated manner, but has an active romantic love life with the leading ladies of his movies (which may be interpreted differently after the Me Too movement).movement, though the text implies that his romantic success stems from being the only heterosexual male in Hollywood who isn't [[GuysAreSlobs a complete goblin]]).
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The novel is freely available on the author's blog, [[http://www.scalzi.com/agent/ here]].
