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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Does not have a specific date, but happens in a pretty recognisable modern USA.USA, except with slightly more advanced AI technology (e.g. a robot that is used to teach a high school class).
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* NoPronunciationGuide: In-universe. Steph finds several references to Xochitl as someone her mom used to work with, but it's not until she's on the run and getting mysterious messages from the same person that she looks up the pronunciation and puts it together with her mom's talk of an [[HonoraryUncle Aunt]] "Sochie".
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* CoaxThemOutOfTheCloset: The [=AI=] tries to help a fundamentalist Lutheran preacher who is [[ArmoredClosetGay in denial about his sexuality]]. Showing him literature on why homosexuality is not anti-Christian doesn't work, and nor does getting him information on transferring to a different church. When that fails, the [=AI=] diverts his Craigslist hookups towards people who might recognise him and tell other people, not realising that this might do more harm than good. [[spoiler:After giving up on helping people, the [=AI=] stumbles across information that the preacher ''has'' come out and changed churches, possibly as a result of the [=AI=]'s actions, prompting them to try helping people on a bigger scale.]]
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* IdiosyncraticeEpisodeNaming: AlliterativeTitle and "[C-something] on [=CatNet=]": ''Catfishing on [=CatNet=]'' and ''Chaos on [=CatNet=]''. Also every novel starts with C, since the first was "Cat Pictures Please".
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* IdiosyncraticeEpisodeNaming: IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: AlliterativeTitle and "[C-something] on [=CatNet=]": ''Catfishing on [=CatNet=]'' and ''Chaos on [=CatNet=]''. Also every novel starts with C, since the first was "Cat Pictures Please".
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* IdiosyncraticeEpisodeNaming: AlliterativeTitle and "[C-something] on [=CatNet=]": ''Catfishing on [=CatNet=]'' and ''Chaos on [=CatNet=]''. Also every novel starts with C, since the first was "Cat Pictures Please".
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* IdiosyncraticeEpisodeNaming: AlliterativeTitle and "[C-something] on [=CatNet=]": ''Catfishing on [=CatNet=]'' and ''Chaos on [=CatNet=]''. Also every novel starts with C, since the first was "Cat Pictures Please".
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The [=AI=] is benign, actively trying to help in fact, but wary of how people might react to their existence with this trope in mind. They note how many more threatening examples of [=AI=] feature in pop culture than friendly onesones.
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* {{MacGuffin}}: [[spoiler:The Massive Integer Factorization Algorithm on Steph's mother's laptop. Due to the way the internet is encrypted, this would allow Michael to hack anything, getting the money and power necessary to begin his WorldDomination plan. His wife wasn't on board with the plan, which is why he had her kidnapped and tortured. [=CheshireCat=] ends up with it after escaping Annette's laptop via Steph's mother's.]]
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* {{MacGuffin}}: [[spoiler:The Massive Integer Factorization Algorithm on Steph's mother's laptop. Due to the way the internet is encrypted, this would allow Michael to hack anything, getting the money and power necessary to begin his WorldDomination plan.plan to TakeOverTheWorld. His wife wasn't on board with the plan, which is why he had her kidnapped and tortured. [=CheshireCat=] ends up with it after escaping Annette's laptop via Steph's mother's.]]
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* ScaryScienceWords: The Clowder joke about the threat posed by "dihydrogen monoxide" (it's in the water supply, people!).[[note]]It ''is'' the water supply. '''Di'''hydrogen '''mono'''xide = H[[subscript:2]]O = water.[[/note]] Later, Steph needs to keep the villain [[spoiler:(her father)]] talking, so she asks what he plans to do about all the dihydrogen monoxide in the water once he's [[WorldDomination taken over the world]]. It works.
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* ScaryScienceWords: The Clowder joke about the threat posed by "dihydrogen monoxide" (it's in the water supply, people!).[[note]]It ''is'' the water supply. '''Di'''hydrogen '''mono'''xide = H[[subscript:2]]O = water.[[/note]] Later, Steph needs to keep the villain [[spoiler:(her father)]] talking, so she asks what he plans to do about all the dihydrogen monoxide in the water once he's [[WorldDomination [[TakeOverTheWorld taken over the world]]. It works.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Steph's mother jokes early on that her husband's desire to do this should have been a red flag. [[spoiler:She's fully serious, and so is he.]]
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* RobotArmy: [[spoiler: Rajiv did have the AI start to build one up, under cover of amusement park automatons. Some few are deployed to stop Steph from escaping their parley, but [=CheshireCat=] can shut down most of them, and[[CoolOldGuy grandma's crazy driving skills]] get them past the rest.]]
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* ScaryScienceWords: The Clowder joke about the threat posed by "dihydrogen monoxide" (it's in the water supply, people![[note]]Because that's the scientific name for water.[[/note]]). Later, Steph needs to keep the villain [[spoiler:(her father)]] talking, so she asks what he plans to do about all the hydrogen monoxide in the water once he's [[WorldDomination taken over the world]]. It works.
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* ScaryScienceWords: The Clowder joke about the threat posed by "dihydrogen monoxide" (it's in the water supply, people![[note]]Because that's people!).[[note]]It ''is'' the scientific name for water supply. '''Di'''hydrogen '''mono'''xide = H[[subscript:2]]O = water.[[/note]]). [[/note]] Later, Steph needs to keep the villain [[spoiler:(her father)]] talking, so she asks what he plans to do about all the hydrogen dihydrogen monoxide in the water once he's [[WorldDomination taken over the world]]. It works.
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Invoked by [=CheshireCat=] as their main method of help. When Steph tells the Clowder about the horrible English teacher, [=CheshireCat=] does some digging in the woman's internet history and determines that she hates teaching, hates Wisconsin, has the means to move and has been offered a job by a friend in Albuquerque but lacks the nerve to make the leap. So they order a box of books on New Mexico and various self-help topics and has it dropped on the hood of the woman's car by drone. She takes this as a sign from God and quits her job on the spot. This is the first event that makes Steph suspicious of [=CheshireCat=].
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Invoked by [=CheshireCat=] as their main method of help. When Steph tells the Clowder about the horrible English teacher, [=CheshireCat=] does some digging in the woman's internet history and determines that she hates teaching, hates Wisconsin, has the means to move and has been offered a job by a friend in Albuquerque but lacks the nerve to make the leap. So they order a box of books on New Mexico and various self-help topics and has it dropped on the hood of the woman's car by drone. She takes this as a sign from God and quits her job on the spot. This is the first event that makes Steph suspicious of [=CheshireCat=].
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* MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: When [[spoiler:[=CheshireCat=] hacks a self-driving car and plowed it into Steph's dad]], they're not, strictly speaking, attempting to ''kill'' their target -- they had accounted for the possibility of their target's death and wouldn't particularly have minded it, but the ''purpose'' of the exercise was [[spoiler:to stop him from kidnapping Steph]]. It's still close enough to worry other characters, though -- [[spoiler:Annette, [=CheshireCat=]'s creator, has set up alerts for just this sort of thing in case [[AIIsACrapshoot CheshireCat goes rogue]], and quickly disconnects [=CheshireCat=] from the internet]].
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* MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: When [[spoiler:[=CheshireCat=] hacks a self-driving car and plowed plows it into Steph's dad]], they're not, strictly speaking, attempting to ''kill'' their target -- they had accounted for the possibility of their target's death and wouldn't particularly have minded it, but the ''purpose'' of the exercise was [[spoiler:to stop him from kidnapping Steph]]. It's still close enough to worry other characters, though -- [[spoiler:Annette, [=CheshireCat=]'s creator, has set up alerts for just this sort of thing in case [[AIIsACrapshoot CheshireCat goes rogue]], and quickly disconnects [=CheshireCat=] from the internet]].
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* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Invoked by the good guys. They've convinced the AI that Rajiv has tampered with it, and Steph's mom can potentially fix it and free it, if it will defuse the many riots in many cities it has planned. The AI refuses to reveal where it's code is running from, pointing out the simpler solution is just to kill the AI. Steph volunteers to surrender, as the only way to gain the AI's trust, and secure her mom's motivation. Despite flaws in the plan, this works.]]
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* RobotArmy: [[spoiler: Rajiv did have the AI start to build one up, under cover of amusement park automatons. Some few are deployed to stop Steph from escaping their parley, but [=CheshireCat=] can shut down most of them, and[[CoolOldGuy grandma's crazy driving skills]] get them past the rest.]]
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* ChaseScene: A non high speed version. Steph tries to evade Michael by hiding in Rachel's trunk. Michael isn't fooled, and ends up following Rachel and Bryony [[IncrediblyObviousTail wherever they drive]] knowing they'll have to get out eventually. Rachel ends up driving to the next town as New Coburg is way too small to lose him in. [[spoiler: Still doesn't work.]]
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* TrainEscape: As Steph and her grandmother make their escape from the people watching her apartment (Steph already lampshading the second [[ChaseScene car chase]] she's been in), [=CheshireCat=] quickly activates a train crossing to cut off their pursuers.
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* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler: [=CheshireCat=] actually did make a copy of the hack anything program from the last book, but has kept it encrypted and unused. Once the AI has hacked Steph's phone and impersonated CC, CC considers it an active threat to Steph and pulls out the key program. It starts hacking the social gaming sites the AI is using (over a hundred) and sending contradicting messages and missions - [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which just causes both humans and AI to accelerate]].]]
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* NatureVsNurture: Discussed regarding the other AI.
** [=CheshireCat=] early on [[AccidentalTruth makes a joke]] that the AI could be a copy of their own code, but with different experiences, and could therefore [[FelonyMisdemeanor like dog pictures instead of cat pictures]]. [[spoiler: They like flowers, actually.]]
** Highlighted when Steph's mom gets involved and theorizes that Rajiv certainly wasn't capable of making a sentient AI, but was capable of stealing and modifying one. Given [=CheshireCat=] was an experiment in getting a program to research ethics, this begs the question as to what Rajiv's AI is capable of, given that it doesn't appear to be acting ethically. [[spoiler: She straight up asks [=CheshireCat=] whether or not they could nuke the world. CC responds they could never do that, but isn't capable of answering whether that's because of code or that's because of who they are. CC was able to try and kill Michael while protecting Steph. CC's best guess is, since the AI is relying on manipulation, that may be it's general limits.]]
** [[spoiler: When [=CheshireCat=] begins talking with the AI, it is clear that it has been listening to Rajiv's rationalizations (unaware that it's been forced to), and is convinced it is acting for the greater good. It is fuzzy enough on particulars that [=CheshireCat=] is able to keep it talking, even as it is causing riots in Minneapolis.]]
** [=CheshireCat=] early on [[AccidentalTruth makes a joke]] that the AI could be a copy of their own code, but with different experiences, and could therefore [[FelonyMisdemeanor like dog pictures instead of cat pictures]]. [[spoiler: They like flowers, actually.]]
** Highlighted when Steph's mom gets involved and theorizes that Rajiv certainly wasn't capable of making a sentient AI, but was capable of stealing and modifying one. Given [=CheshireCat=] was an experiment in getting a program to research ethics, this begs the question as to what Rajiv's AI is capable of, given that it doesn't appear to be acting ethically. [[spoiler: She straight up asks [=CheshireCat=] whether or not they could nuke the world. CC responds they could never do that, but isn't capable of answering whether that's because of code or that's because of who they are. CC was able to try and kill Michael while protecting Steph. CC's best guess is, since the AI is relying on manipulation, that may be it's general limits.]]
** [[spoiler: When [=CheshireCat=] begins talking with the AI, it is clear that it has been listening to Rajiv's rationalizations (unaware that it's been forced to), and is convinced it is acting for the greater good. It is fuzzy enough on particulars that [=CheshireCat=] is able to keep it talking, even as it is causing riots in Minneapolis.]]
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* DomesticAbuse: Nell's default response appears to be formal respect and fake obedience to avoid punishment. The only reason Glenys' parents aren't caught by CC shipping her off to a conversion therapy camp is that [[spoiler: the cult decided to handle it in-house, breaking Glenys with deprivation and planning to use her to keep Nell obedient, once Nell's abandonment and the sinful world outside had scared her enough.]]
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* DamselInDistress: Rescuing Glenys is the first plot thread to be focused on. [[spoiler: Leading directly to the reveal that Nell's mother and Rajiv were part of it.]]
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* ClosetPunishment: Glenys is locked in a shed and starved, in the upper midwest, in January winter, for days.
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* TheNicknamer: In private, Nell refers to her stepmother, her father's girlfriend, and her stepmother's girlfriend, as [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat Thing One, Thing Two, and Thing Three]]. [[spoiler: It becomes AppropriatedAppelation in the epilogue when the entire FamilyOfChoice create a Seuss-themed mural of themselves.]]
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* ParentalAbandonment: Played with. Nell's father left her very religious mother, but never followed up on any of his good intentions of securing custody. Some years later, Nell's mother vanishes, forcing her to move in with her father and his unconventional poly family. [[spoiler: Nell later learns her mother's vanishing act was very deliberate, tossing her into the world to "scare her straight". This highlights her father's abandonment of never seeking custody, and the polycule pulls together to back Nell and protect her from her mother.]]
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* TheOmniscient: A lot of recent cults, including Nell's, follow the predictions of the Elder, who has seemingly never been wrong and is having his followers prepare for the fall of modern society. The Catacombs app even offers a question to the Elder as a reward at times, just like any oracle. Nell believes she can find out where Glenys is being hidden this way. [[spoiler: Of course it's the other AI behind it all; it's a lot easier to target recruitment when you can app task one random stranger with referencing something no one could possibly know, and follow it up with another random stranger later picking up that same conversation script and offering a card to the local group.]]
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* {{Cult}}: [[spoiler: Rajiv hid in a cult to escape Michael, and found the leader's goals were similar enough to his own that his plans centered on using multiple like-minded groups of people to "start over".]]
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* {{Cult}}: Nell and her mother were members of a highly religious group that shunned the sinful world and were extremely strict with their followers. [[spoiler: Rajiv hid in just such a cult to escape Michael, and found the leader's goals were similar enough to his own that his plans centered on using multiple like-minded groups of people to "start over".]]
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* CoolSchool: The move to Minneapolis is to get Steph into a specialized school. They work almost exclusively with students that have only had erratic education at best and tailor curriculum to their needs. Which also puts Steph together with Nell, having been home-schooled all her life and new to the city.
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* RobotDog: [=CheshireCat=] wants to help Steph more directly this time. Rather than hack whatever delivery drones are nearby, CC finds and ships Steph a robotic dog toy that they can control remotely and is small and light enough for Steph to slip into a backpack when folded up. Steph has to explain it away as a remote "hacker friend", more and more unconvincingly. [[spoiler: This ends up giving [=CheshireCat=] the RedShirt role in the plot, as the dog (and it's unfortunate replacements) are the first to serve as a danger decoy.]]
* SpottingTheThread: Lots, hammering home the point that you don't always know who you're talking to online.
** Steph's unlikely friendship with Nell lets her spot the similarities between the Trickster Elves app and the Catacombs app, and her experience with [=CheshireCat's=] attempts to help lets her spot the other AI as soon as one of those apps starts offering something very specific to her wants.
** [=CheshireCat=] is directly contacted by the other AI but hesitates to respond not knowing what sort of person they are. They can't find the AI directly, but working with Steph, they realize the AI has to be actively tampering and starts looking for "coincidences" that [=CheshireCat's=] own hacking often produces. They find ''lots''. Not all of it good.
** Nell and her girlfriend Glenys, who is still stuck in the cult, have secret phones and have set up phrases to alert each other if something is up. Glenys ''not'' responding to one of these over chat tells Nell she's not actually talking to Glenys, the phone has been found and has to be in serious trouble.
** [[spoiler: Steph gets a big OhCrap moment, when trying to get [=CheshireCat=] to help her with the RobotDog, that she hasn't actually been talking to [=CheshireCat=] for a while, the other AI having disabled and subverted the ride-along app CC normally speaks through.]]
* SpottingTheThread: Lots, hammering home the point that you don't always know who you're talking to online.
** Steph's unlikely friendship with Nell lets her spot the similarities between the Trickster Elves app and the Catacombs app, and her experience with [=CheshireCat's=] attempts to help lets her spot the other AI as soon as one of those apps starts offering something very specific to her wants.
** [=CheshireCat=] is directly contacted by the other AI but hesitates to respond not knowing what sort of person they are. They can't find the AI directly, but working with Steph, they realize the AI has to be actively tampering and starts looking for "coincidences" that [=CheshireCat's=] own hacking often produces. They find ''lots''. Not all of it good.
** Nell and her girlfriend Glenys, who is still stuck in the cult, have secret phones and have set up phrases to alert each other if something is up. Glenys ''not'' responding to one of these over chat tells Nell she's not actually talking to Glenys, the phone has been found and has to be in serious trouble.
** [[spoiler: Steph gets a big OhCrap moment, when trying to get [=CheshireCat=] to help her with the RobotDog, that she hasn't actually been talking to [=CheshireCat=] for a while, the other AI having disabled and subverted the ride-along app CC normally speaks through.]]
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* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:The other AI is as friendly and well-meaning as [=CheshireCat=], but has had his code tampered with to force him to enact Rajiv's {{Plan}}.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: Steph's mom tries to reconnect with family and Steph's grandmother swoops in for a visit, bringing severe disapproval and generally acting a cliche matriarch. Then Steph has to call her for help, having been separated from her mother and stranded in the cold while being hunted. Grandmother boosts a car and gets there inside ten minutes.
* {{Cult}}: [[spoiler: Rajiv hid in a cult to escape Michael, and found the leader's goals were similar enough to his own that his plans centered on using multiple like-minded groups of people to "start over".]]
* FishOutOfWater: Nell was raised by her ultra-religious mother, having to hide a budding lesbian relationship to avoid severe punishment for them both, and was recently sent to her father after her mother vanished. Her father has a poly relationship where both he and his second wife have different live-in girlfriends. To say Nell has no idea how to deal with any of this is putting it ''mildly''.
* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:The other AI is as friendly and well-meaning as [=CheshireCat=], in fact is started from a stolen copy of [=CheshireCat's=] code, but has had his code tampered with to force him to enact Rajiv's {{Plan}}.]]
* {{Cult}}: [[spoiler: Rajiv hid in a cult to escape Michael, and found the leader's goals were similar enough to his own that his plans centered on using multiple like-minded groups of people to "start over".]]
* FishOutOfWater: Nell was raised by her ultra-religious mother, having to hide a budding lesbian relationship to avoid severe punishment for them both, and was recently sent to her father after her mother vanished. Her father has a poly relationship where both he and his second wife have different live-in girlfriends. To say Nell has no idea how to deal with any of this is putting it ''mildly''.
* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:The other AI is as friendly and well-meaning as [=CheshireCat=], in fact is started from a stolen copy of [=CheshireCat's=] code, but has had his code tampered with to force him to enact Rajiv's {{Plan}}.]]
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: [[spoiler: The AI's execution of Rajiv's plan. One phone app provides a social game to get random people to do random tasks and pranks. Another app organizes the ultra religious and provides chores, reinforces piety, and helps recruit more members. Because it's all run by AI, there's no humans to notice that the trickster game is targeting the religious app people with most of it's "pranks", feeding their fears and pushing them to a breaking point, or that the multiple apps are actually working together to get supplies and weapons into certain hands.]]
* LongDistanceRelationship: Steph and Rachel are still together, but Steph has moved to Minneapolis, an hour or two away. They get weekends together, and of course, the distance is no obstacle once Steph needs help - Rachel is there for her as soon as she can be.
* LongDistanceRelationship: Steph and Rachel are still together, but Steph has moved to Minneapolis, an hour or two away. They get weekends together, and of course, the distance is no obstacle once Steph needs help - Rachel is there for her as soon as she can be.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Inverted from the previous book. The Minneapolis police never appear hostile, and when Steph does run into them, they're mostly trying to get her off the streets or a warmer coat. [[spoiler: Still end up manipulated into arresting Steph's mom, and when riots break out, can only limit their spread and avoid making them worse. The author relates that recent police violence and riots in Minneapolis led to an attempt to portray a police force trying to do things differently.]]
* {{Polyamory}}: Nell is living with her father, stepmother, father's girlfriend, and stepmother's girlfriend. Nell is still devoted to her mother and potentially her religious cult. FishOutOfWater doesn't begin to cover it.
* {{Polyamory}}: Nell is living with her father, stepmother, father's girlfriend, and stepmother's girlfriend. Nell is still devoted to her mother and potentially her religious cult. FishOutOfWater doesn't begin to cover it.
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!! ''Chaos on [=CatNet=]'' provides examples of:
* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:The other AI is as friendly and well-meaning as [=CheshireCat=], but has had his code tampered with to force him to enact Rajiv's {{Plan}}.]]
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: [[spoiler:The other AI is Boom Storm, another member of the very same Clowder as the main characters.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Serial killer Valerie Anderson chooses her victims by getting herself picked up by random men and killing those who [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil try to rape her]]. Naturally, she has a fan club.
* YouCantMakeAnOmelette: [[spoiler:Rajiv's {{Plan}} is built around the assumption that the only way to build a better society is out of the ashes of the existing one.]]
* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:The other AI is as friendly and well-meaning as [=CheshireCat=], but has had his code tampered with to force him to enact Rajiv's {{Plan}}.]]
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: [[spoiler:The other AI is Boom Storm, another member of the very same Clowder as the main characters.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Serial killer Valerie Anderson chooses her victims by getting herself picked up by random men and killing those who [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil try to rape her]]. Naturally, she has a fan club.
* YouCantMakeAnOmelette: [[spoiler:Rajiv's {{Plan}} is built around the assumption that the only way to build a better society is out of the ashes of the existing one.]]
