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* ThePlague: Black Ep is a disease that first infiltrated the global population over decades, then abruptly mutates into a lethal form. [[spoiler:By the time the story starts it has already wiped out the entire global ape population.]]
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* RealityWarper: The Nannies, powerful programs capable of generating virtual-reality environments to the students' or Maestro's desires.
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* VirtualRealityWarper: The Nannies are powerful programs with the ability to create entire virtual environments within the simulation in order to accommodate the wishes of either the students or Maestro - though fortunately this is almost always for the benefit of the students. Almost.
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* BuriedAlive: Halloween fate at Maestro's mercy.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: A teenager discovers that he has been lied to for most of his life by authority figures, who must then take on responsibility for the weight of the world.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: A teenager discovers that he has been lied to for most of his life by authority figures, who and must then take on responsibility for the weight of the world.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Simone, by the sheer terror of their situation.]]
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: Gedaechtnis' strategy to fight Black Ep is to engineer children capable of surviving it, knowing that they will have to be raised by programs since all the adults will be dead.]]
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: Gedaechtnis' [[spoiler:Gedaechtnis' strategy to fight Black Ep is to engineer children capable of surviving it, knowing that they will have to be raised by programs since all the adults will be dead.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard / SmugSnake: Halloween's opinion of Lazarus in his imaginary eulogy [[spoiler: when he learns Lazarus really is dead in the real world ]]
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* ManipulativeBastard / SmugSnake: ManipulativeBastard: Halloween's opinion of Lazarus in his imaginary eulogy [[spoiler: when [[spoiler:when he learns Lazarus really is dead in the real world ]]
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* MechanicalEvolution: Dr. Hyoguchi's programmed "personality bleeding" to allow the IVR to adapt and better teach the students at the Academy. [[spoiler: Unfortunately it also allowed bleed from unsanctioned programs and affected at least one student.]]
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: [[spoiler: The pods the Ten are held in]] are named after paradises, such as [[Myth/NorseMythology Walhall]], [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Dilmun]], and [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Elysium]]
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: [[spoiler: The pods the Ten are held in]] are named after paradises, such as [[Myth/NorseMythology Walhall]], [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Dilmun]], and [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Elysium]]
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* MechanicalEvolution: Dr. Hyoguchi's programmed "personality bleeding" to allow the IVR to adapt and better teach the students at the Academy. [[spoiler: Unfortunately [[spoiler:Unfortunately it also allowed bleed from unsanctioned programs and affected at least one student.]]
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming:[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The pods the Ten are held in]] are named after paradises, such as [[Myth/NorseMythology Walhall]], [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Dilmun]], and [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Elysium]]
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** [[spoiler: Dr. Hyoguchi loves Malachi as the son he never had and allows him to continue to live in IVR. Malachi's resentment of the students (the reason for his torturous labor testing all the other programs) bleeds into Maestro and Mercutio.]]
** [[spoiler: When confronted with their future and responsibilities, Fantasia decides she's better off working completely alone and Halloween completely eschews the mission.]]
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** [[spoiler: Dr.[[spoiler:Dr. Hyoguchi loves Malachi as the son he never had and allows him to continue to live in IVR. Malachi's resentment of the students (the reason for his torturous labor testing all the other programs) bleeds into Maestro and Mercutio.]]
**[[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When confronted with their future and responsibilities, Fantasia decides she's better off working completely alone and Halloween completely eschews the mission.]]
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* TryEverything: In-universe. [[spoiler: Gedaechtnis couldn't know what would or wouldn't work and couldn't troubleshoot if there were problems down the line, so they made the students as heterogeneous as possible in the hope that ''some''thing would work.]]
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* TryEverything: In-universe. [[spoiler: Gedaechtnis [[spoiler:Gedaechtnis couldn't know what would or wouldn't work and couldn't troubleshoot if there were problems down the line, so they made the students as heterogeneous as possible in the hope that ''some''thing would work.]]
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* [[Creator/HPLovecraft H. P. Lovecraft]]: Halloween's a big fan and incorporates Lovecraft's influence into his domain.
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Not to be confused with the 2006 film of the same name or the 1995 novel of the same name by Mark Lawson.
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Not to be confused with the 2006 film of the same name or the 1995 novel of the same name by Mark Lawson.
Lawson or the Scottish rock band Idlewild (who took the name from a location in ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'').
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Not to be confused with the 2006 film of the same name.
It was followed by two sequels: ''Literature/{{Edenborn}}'' and ''Everfree''.
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Not to be confused with the 2006 film of the same name.
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It was followed by two sequels: ''Literature/{{Edenborn}}'' and''Everfree''.
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* OneWordTitle: Also a {{Portmantitle}}
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* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: [[spoiler: The pods the Ten are held in]] are named after paradises, such as [[NorseMythology Walhall]], [[MesopotamianMythology Dilmun]], and [[ClassicalMythology Elysium]]
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* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: [[spoiler: The pods the Ten are held in]] are named after paradises, such as [[NorseMythology [[Myth/NorseMythology Walhall]], [[MesopotamianMythology [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Dilmun]], and [[ClassicalMythology [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Elysium]]
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* InVinoVeritas: Halloween invokes this trope by throwing a tiki-themed party with simulated alcohol in an attempt to garner confessions about hidden motives and grudges. He doesn't learn anything new and ends up exposing his clone of Simone and his jammer.
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* ManipulativeBastard / SmugSnake: Halloween's opinion of Lazarus in his imaginary eulogy [[spoiler: when he learns Lazarus really is dead in the real world ]]
-->''"Our man Lazarus had an uncanny ability to make everyone around him feel stupid. By this, I don't mean to insinuate that he was in any way intelligent. Just smug and calculating"''
-->''"Our man Lazarus had an uncanny ability to make everyone around him feel stupid. By this, I don't mean to insinuate that he was in any way intelligent. Just smug and calculating"''
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* AIIsACrapshoot
* ApocalypseHow: Planetary/Species Extinction
* ArtificialIntelligence: Maestro, the Nannies, and Malachi.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Played with in that (most of) the students chose their dramatic, unique names for themselves.
* ApocalypseHow: Planetary/Species Extinction
* ArtificialIntelligence: Maestro, the Nannies, and Malachi.
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* AIIsACrapshoot
AIIsACrapshoot: Malachi is the only true AI, with the other programs relying on personality bleed to adapt to the students. Unfortunately his negative emotions toward the students, while balanced by his moral center, run unfettered in the other programs.
* ApocalypseHow: Planetary/SpeciesExtinction
Extinction. Black Ep infiltrates the entire human race over the course of generations in asymptomatic form, then mutates into a deadly world-destroying plague.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Maestro, the Nannies, andMalachi.
Malachi, but only the last is truly free. The others are heavily bound by programming until Malachi starts bleeding into them.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Pandora! Fantasia! Halloween! Champagne! Played with in that (most of) the students chose their dramatic, unique names for themselves.
* ApocalypseHow: Planetary/Species
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*BuriedAliveBuriedAlive: Halloween fate at Maestro's mercy.
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* ComingOfAgeStory
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* ComingOfAgeStory
ComingOfAgeStory: A teenager discovers that he has been lied to for most of his life by authority figures, who must then take on responsibility for the weight of the world.
* CurbStompBattle: Fantasia's clodge ball assault on Halloween, primarily because he had absolutely no idea what he was getting into.
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* DepopulationBomb: Black Ep.
* DreamWithinADream
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Simone.]]
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* DepopulationBomb: Black Ep.
Ep. No ape is safe.
*DreamWithinADream
DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler:IVR nested within IVR.]]
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* EverybodysDeadDave
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EverybodysDeadDave: Halloween's rude awakening to a depopulated world.
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* HollywoodHacking: Understated, but Halloween's use of Pace qualifies.
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* InsistentTerminology: Halloween is not a ''necrologist'', he's a ''thanatologist''.
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* ObliviousToLove
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ObliviousToLove: Halloween, to Pandora. Possibly Simone to Halloween as well.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: To an extent. The book isn't shy about throwing around medical and psychological terminology.
* VisualPun: Pandora at the costume party.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: To an extent. The book author isn't shy about throwing around medical and psychological terminology.
* VisualPun: Pandora light bulb costume at the costume party.
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It was followed by two sequels: {{Literature/Edenborn}} ''Literature/{{Edenborn}}'' and ''Everfree''.
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