History Literature / Marzena

MARZENA is a Psycho-Techno novel series by Creator/KTMartel featuring a ring of women spies caught in the middle of Cold War II and set in the 2030s.

* CoolShades: Gorski, he can't take off his shades or [[HideYourHeritage everybody will see that he has mixed ancestry]]. There's also Marian who likes to put on shades when moving between places.

* CoolShades: Gorski, he can't take off his shades or everybody will see that he has MixedAncestry. There's also Marian who likes to put on shades when moving between places.

* AfraidOfNeedles: When in Dr. Yoan's chair, Lauren starts shaking uncontrollably when she sees a needle on a table. This is presumably caused by Chekhov's [[BadDreams Dreams]] from the night before where a blond woman stabbed her with a syringe in the neck.

* BadDreams: Lauren has a few of those before going on her mission to Europe. Dreams include giving a gun to a woman with black hair, some kind of fire, being in bed with another woman, and giant baby-faced cockroaches. It is later revealed that those dreams were [[spoiler: Marian's dream projected into Lauren's subconscious because they have neurochemically similar brains. The cockroaches and the red soldiers supposedly represent Lauren's guilt from killing Zoé]].

* AdultFear: What would be scary enough to put in a horror book? I know let's talk about money! And Jobs! in a world where even robots are out of jobs, and not to mention the incoming Robot Nazi economic apocalypse. Is there anything worst to fear than another global recession? Well, if you're a mind doctor, then what about one of your patients showing up in the news as a mass murderer? "You should at least be feeling something by now." Or maybe you are just yourself Alexithymic and don't know your own feelings?

* CoolShades: Gorski, he can't take off his shades or everybody will see that he has MixedAncestry (Thanks CaptainObvious). There's also Marian who likes to put on shades when moving between places.

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* AGlassOfChianti: Marian likes to drink Petrus and Champaign, along with cheese cubes, otherwise it would be bad for the liver. And no to forget Livia who drinks Grape Juice instead of wine, go figure it out.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Marian and MLK, near the end MLK is [[spoiler: given his chance to run away forever and join the Transhuman Army, but instead go back to Marian to shoot an anti-transhuman propaganda video where he blames the torture inflicted on him by Marian on the TAR.]] "Look! They even numbered my skin grafts with tattoos!"

* FreudianCouch: During her first visit in Livia's office, Lauren notes the presence of a couch under the giant portrait of what is assumed to be a {{Valkyrie}}. She only gets to sit on the chair though.

* SovietSuperscience: According to Marian, the Russian Government of 2033 wants to use Super Psychology and [[ManchurianAgent Anti-Manchurians Agents]] to destroy the cultural independence of the Balkans and create a giant [[TheNewRussia Invincible Super Russian State]].

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Marian, as Director of a Private Intelligence Company you need to see the blow comings. Backup, you always need a backup plan.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Marian uses her [[BedlamHouse bedlam skills]] to pull out MLK's earrings and to skin out his tattoos with a knife, all the while enjoying herself with an overly long HannibalLecture, and while the narrator is busy describing everything that is happening inside MLK's brain thanks to her neuroscience genius. This results in the [[FiveStagesOfGrief Five Stages of Lövheim's Cube]].

* HannibalHasAPoint: Helena when making her [[JustBetweenYouAndMe "Reveal all your plans speech"]]. The Narrator makes a short pause to weight in that despite being crazy she might have a point.

* BlondesAreEvil: Marian, Helena, and Sandra.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Marian uses her [[BedlamHouse bedlam skills]] to pull out MLK's earrings and to skin out his tattoos with a knife, all the while enjoying herself with an overly long HannibalLecture, and while the narrator is busy describing everything that is happening inside MLK's brain thanks to her neuroscience genius. This results in the [[FiveStagesOfGrief Five Stages of Lövheim's Cube]].* CoolShades: Gorski, he can't take off his shades or everybody will see that he has [[MixedAncestry Mixed Ancestry]] (Thanks [[CaptainObvious Captain Obvious]]). There's also Marian who likes to put on shades when moving between places.

* WrittenSoundEffect: There is quite a few of these throughout the book, *Wherz Wherz*, [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw lo and behold my circular saw of terror]].

* FictionalCurrency: The Dollar is long gone by the year 2033. It's all Credits now, same thing except everything is divided by 2 to make people feel richer despite having less money. Some older people seems to have problems dropping the word "dollar" off their vocabulary though.

** Masatrina, the fictitiously famous killer AI from Television, is an anagram for [[PersonOfInterest Samaritan]].

* ShoutOut: So many, so many, [[[[Series/{{BetterCallSaul}} Hey! It's all Good Man]], {{Hannibal}} Bill Grannt]], [[{{Highlander}} Hohlander the Remake]], [[TheMatrix The Tetrix Movies]], [[SilentHill Househead]], [[ResidentEvil4 Zombies]] repeating Shtobo Mola Jit/ Myorvt Shtobo Jit over and over, [[PewDiePie Stegano?! WTF!]], [[Series/{{BreakingBad}} blue meth is so 2013]], how about eating your own pig for diner (Series/{{Hannibal}}), [[TheSimpsons YEAH! HOLO CHRISTMAS!]]

* TheInternetIsForPorn: And so is the Holo Lens and the Bremen Chip, time for virtual mind merging porn.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: And so is the HoloLens and the Bremen Chip, time for virtual mind merging porn.

MARZENA is a Psycho-Techno novel series by KTMartel featuring a ring of women spies caught in the middle of Cold War II and set in the 2030s.

* CanadaEh: Author KTMartel is from Canada. Do you know how long winter is in this country?

* HerrDoktor, Subverted in that Dr. Yoan isn't really from Germany or Austria but from Switzerland, and his accent isn't particularly attrocious either.

* ColdBloodedTorture: MLK gets tied on a chair and Marian uses her [[BedlamHouse bedlam skills]] to pull out his earrings and skin out his tattoos with a knife.
* CoolShades: Gorski, he can't take off his shades or everybody will see that he has [[MixedAncestry Mixed Ancestry]] (Thanks [[CaptainObvious Captain Obvious]]). There's also Marian who likes to put on shades when moving between places.

* ExtremeDoormat: Dr. Lauren will go to any length to preserve the status quo. She will kill if ask to by the proper authority figure and in spite of [[BeingEvilSucks horrible guilt]], and she will take up on her shoulders great and dangerous mission to save the world with little to no argumenting despite definitely not being professionally qualified. This trope goes UpToEleven when [[spoiler: Gorski and the TAR Kernel seize her up to strap on the chair of the MadDoctor where she does not even attempt to fight them off, scream or talk herself out of it]]. Fighting would only make things worse anyways.
* FakeMemories: The Narrator hints several times that Lauren's memories of her past may not be quite all that accurate. We learned later on that [[spoiler: Lauren's memories were actually incepted inside her head via a virtual reality created from the life of the real Lauren. All that done while she was in a drug induced state, ironically the same process she was using on her patients while working for Marian.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: If you die in a dream or a virtual dream, you'll wind back time and be forced to relive the sequence over and over until you manage to resolve it.

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Book 1 gives us the Five Stages of Grieft according to Lövheim's Cube (+1): 1. Fear (Pure Dopamine), 2. Rage (Dopamine + Noradrenaline), 3. Shame (Nothing), 4. Angst (Pure Noradrenaline), 5. Contempt (Pure Serotonin), 6. Secret Bonus Backdoor Joy (Dopamine + Serotonin)

* FreudianCouch: During her first visit in Livia's office, Lauren notes the presence of a couch under the giant portrait of what is assumed to be a {{Valkyrie}}. She only get to sit on the chair though.
* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

** The nickname of Death Dealer Kevin Fordson, MLK (Mass Lobotomized Killer/ Murdering Low-life Knave)
** Marian's psychometric test classing people personalities based on 4 traits, S.N.O.T. (Social, Nutrition, Oral, Traditional)
** European Secret Intelligence Service, I.J.S. (Intelligence, Justice, Something)
** According to the [[http://healthmindandlife.com/about-marzena/ Author's website]], the title MARZENA itself is actually a German acronym for "Mitarbeiter Zellen für die Entwicklung der Neuronen Anwendungen," or in English “Cellular Assistants for the Develoment of Neuro Apps”, or in plain English, Software that makes Software.

* HideYourLesbians: Lauren's dream suggest that Livia and Marian could be this, although it's not clear whether this is the case or not. It could also just be Lauren's own repressed inner feelings as being Alexythemic she's unable to know that she doesn't know what her emotions are. Because of [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narration]], it could also so be that the allusions are really a reflection of the [[AuthorAvatar narrator's]] fantasies rather than the characters.
* HollywoodHacking: Subverted, We got a team of Super Spies holed up in a room with an army of AI worker analysts backing them up, and we're all ready to hack into everybody's computer and... and where are the super computer hackers? The C-Section doesn't do Computerjitsu, you only need to hack the human element. What we need is people who understand human psychology.
* IHaveManyNames: Every character and even organisation of the story seems to have multiple names. Marian/Marzena Hale/Volkolov, Vivianne Lodeveck Zoudenhaden [[spoiler: Livia]], Helena Boudreau/Grüneswald, Lauren Hackenhoek/Renée Fritzhaber, Ju-Hon Gwon-ki/John Gorski, MLK/ Kevin Fordson, The C-Section/the Agency/Coven/Starcloud, IJS has a German and a Russian version,

* NoSocialSkills: Dr. Lauren, [[TechnoBabble unless you want her to explain to you how neuroscience and neurosurgery works]], there's no problem there.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Life as a Glial Robot is described as being like a human plagued with graphically crappy vision and trapped in a neverending lucid dream. Contrast this with Soulless Neuro Robots like Sirana who can only copy behaviors, but can't replicate the human thought process or feel emotions. Neurobots can't coordinate.

* SecretPolice: The IJS, They spy on people, sell their data to Neo-Nazis and use the Transhuman Army to clean up the mess left behind so that [[EvilInc Tresisda]] pass out as heroes. Section-C is a Private Intelligence Company contracted by Homeland Security to take care of dirty business that the American government don't want to get involved in.

* ShoutOut: So many, so many, [[{{Hannibal}} Bill Grannt]], [[{{Highlander}} Hohlander the Remake]], [[TheMatrix The Tetrix Movies]], [[SilentHill Househead]], [[ResidentEvil4 Zombies]] repeating Shtobo Mola Jit/ Myorvt Shtobo Jit over and over, [[PewDiePie Stegano?! WTF!]], eating yourself for diner (Series/{{Hannibal}}), [[TheSimpsons YEAH! HOLO CHRISTMAS!]]

* SpiritWorld: According to Book 1 the surface of the brain, Cortex Land, can be understood as somekind of dreamworld where one can naviguate through either a world of pure context (right hemisphere) or pure content (left hemisphere). Both worlds are inhabited by "biological holograms" the biological equivalent of digital holograms (those pictures of people in your head) which can considered as spirits. Sometimes a spirit goes into the deeper levels of Cortex Land to become a Thalamic Wizard, and then the spirit becomes a self-aware consciousness.

* TheBaroness: Her name is MARZENA, MARZENA VOLKOLOV! She's pure evil and torture people for fun!
* TheEmpath: At some point, Lauren has a [[WritingAroundTrademarks Bill Grannt]] episode where she catches a killer by putting herself in his shoes.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: And so is the HoloLens and the Bremen Chip, time for virtual mind merging porn.
* TheOneGuy: MLK fits this to a T.
* TheSilentBob: Sandra is the female version of this, made more troubling by the Author using French Quotation marks for the few times where she does say anything. MLK when he goes on a trip to Europe with Lauren and Helena.
* TheTrickster: Anika Fun Bremen, obviously. And Marian too, being the head of a Private Intelligence Company is all about psychology and fun mind games, ChronicBackstabbingDisorder ought to ensue.
* TheWalrusWasPaul: During the final dream sequence, Lauren must chase after the shadow of a woman with black hair. The Narrator, who we have never met and who we know almost next to nothing about, admits at the end that [[spoiler: the shadow woman was her and that Marian and her were once like sisters]].

* VigilanteMan: Although not a man, Marian loves to make herself appear as a Vigilante as to justify her saddistic nature and sell herself as the hero.

* WarriorTherapist: Although physically imposing, Marian only needs her mouth to dismantle anybody and make them do or think whatever she wants. Her most notable adversary is Helena, who is completely obvious to her attempts at making her talk. Also Livia, who trains ordinary women into becoming spies and assassins, and emotionally support them throughout their missions. She accurately guesses that Lauren's sister was the one getting more gifts at Christmas.

* AfraidOfNeedles: When in Dr. Yoan's chair, Lauren starts shaking uncontrollably when she sees a needle on a table. This is presumably caused by Chekhov's BadDreams from the night before where a blond woman stabbed her with a syringe in the neck.

* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Livia [[spoiler: is set up to do this to Marian with the help of Helena, although it turns out to be only a clever trick to get her to talk (wasn't it?)]]

* BrainComputerInterface: G-Net AIs are capable of assimiling the computer codes of a single computer into their cortex allowing them to directly use them with their mind the same way that humans do in the real world. The Bremen Chip, a small electronic device containing astroglial brain cells that is inserted in the thalamus and allows an organic brain to connect wirelessly with either another organic brain or an artificial one. Just close your eyes and play with those beautiful pictures in your mind.

* ForeignCussWord: Somebody said Foreign Cusswords? Bllin Märde Yäyfla Hellfeta JÄVLA HORA Gottferdamnten Idioten Schlampa-Bitch-Kunt Ficken Fücken Sodding Sewka You! Sata-nee-fittan Yayzüs Skit, watch your language girl!

* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

* TheTrickster: Anika From Bremen, obviously. And Marian too, being the head of a Private Intelligence Company is all about psychology and fun mind games, ChronicBackstabbingDisorder ought to ensue.

* BookWorm: [[ShrinkingViolet Cute Shy Girl]] Lauren knows everything there is to know about the human brains thanks to spending most of her life downloading textbooks for free hoping to one day become a doctor. She still has yet to read the Transhuman Seeder though.\\
Averted with Marian, she gets all her learning from listening to people and having her digital clones read important things for her. Who has time to read these days?

* BrainComputerInterface: G-Net AIs are capable of assimiling the computer codes of a single computer into their cortex allowing them to directly use them with their mind the same way that humans do in the real world.\\
The Bremen Chip, a small electronic device containing astroglial brain cells that is inserted in the thalamus and allows an organic brain to connect wirelessly with either another organic brain or an artificial one. Just close your eyes and play with those beautiful pictures in your mind.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, you'd think that a super-AI boom would lead to a global dehumanization of the world, but then it just doesn't happen. Glialbots are too humans. Things in the future are still pretty much the same, except for a couple of extra addons and yet smaller computers. The only thing that eats souls are neurobots, but that's just deporsonalization, you don't need computers for that.\\
Subverted when Lauren ends up in Dr. [[spoiler: Yoan's chair where the brain operations will seemingly "delete" her forever, but then it doesn't happen, she just becomes more like herself]]. [[TruthInTelevision In Dissociation Idendity Disorder]], integration of personality can't kill alters, even if sometimes they think it can.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Jewish is either Jedish or Jayish, and Muslims are Mooktoos.\\
And the H-Man is the H-Man, [[SpeakOfTheDevil you cannot write down his name]].

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: Whoever fake-Lauren was before becoming Lauren is this]].\\
Subverted with Helena in that she was just faking it to avoid talking to Marian.
* EvilInc: Germano-Russian and Polish Software Company Tresisda. From secretly helping Neo-Nazi terrorists to financing paramilitary groups performing underground experimentations on live humans, to the average American. Not to mention that they stole Googol from America and destroyed the whole eastern Market for Picosoft and Axar forcing them to merge into Spartan Soft. Also, they like spying on their loyal consummers in the name of the Father and the Mother Land.\\
Star Cloud, Although seemingly just an innocent data storage company on the surface, Star Cloud doubles up as a private intelligence company known as the C-Section, employing a Cabal of women who keep watch over the world economy but not without stealing money by rigging the stock market.

* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

* GermanicEfficiency: The whole world knows that the real brain behind Tresisda are Germans. The Russians are just there for the marketing.\\
Well the whole world knows it except for Americans, they think that the Dragon OS is Chinese.

* HideYourLesbians: Lauren's dream suggest that Livia and Marian could be this, although it's not clear whether this is the case or not. It could also just be Lauren's own repressed inner feelings as being Alexythemic she's unable to know that she doesn't know what her emotions are.\\
Because of [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narration]], it could also so be that the allusions are really a reflection of the [[AuthorAvatar narrator's]] fantasies rather than the characters.

* KickTheDog: Other than aforementioned ColdBloodedTorture, which happens at least 3 times (that we know of), MLK gets poisoned with deadly mushrooms and the only cure is to get a pig liver transplanted by a MadDoctor.\\
Also Helena, who is locked up in a 4X4 sound-isolated padded cell for most of the book and gets [[HerrDoctor brain surgery]] meant to make her talk and emotionally bound with the protagonist.

* MurderInc: According to Helena, there this thing called the Coven which is kind of like a modern day evil league of super womyn. The Coven hide itself behind a number of companies such as Star cloud or the C-Section. They form the Feminist Mafia and controls the stock market by killing people for a profit to buy ruined companies with [[FictionalCurrency decimals on the Credit]].\\
Also the United-Bank of all Nations, the UBN, money is all about profit at any cost.

* NoodleIncident: During their first meeting, Marian talks about Helena's past as if the reader was already familiar with the Section's MO (or existence) and of who Livia is. "You want to know why you're here? ... It's something you said to Livia..." (Head Scracthing Reader: Who's Livia??)\\
We never get to see the first meeting between Livia and Helena and Book 1 makes mention of it in this way.

* PresidentEvil: Russian President, Victor Zolnerovich, is a heavy supporter of Neo-Nazism and is himself a [[spoiler: [[RoboticReveal a clone robot AI]]]]\\
Also possibly Chancellor Norvak, or at least this is what Marian thinks.

* SecretPolice: The IJS, They spy on people, sell their data to Neo-Nazis and use the Transhuman Army to clean up the mess left behind so that [[EvilInc Tresisda]] pass out as heroes.\\
Section-C is a Private Intelligence Company contracted by Homeland Security to take care of dirty business that the American government don't want to get involved in.

* TheSilentBob: Sandra is the female version of this, made more troubling by the Author using French Quotation marks for the few times where she does say anything.\\
MLK when he goes on a trip to Europe with Lauren and Helena.
* TheTrickster: Anika From Bremen, obviously.\\
And Marian too, being the head of a Private Intelligence Company is all about psychology and fun mind games, ChronicBackstabbingDisorder ought to ensue.

* YourMindMakesItReal: Silly movies and video games... [[FateWorseThanDeath You can't die in a dream!]]\\
Also if you die and fall in a comma, the Doctor can bring you back to consciousness by stimulating your thalamus.
* WarriorTherapist: Although physically imposing, Marian only needs her mouth to dismantle anybody and make them do or think whatever she wants. Her most notable adversary is Helena, who is completely obvious to her attempts at making her talk.\\
Also Livia, who trains ordinary women into becoming spies and assassins, and emotionally support them throughout their missions. She accurately guesses that Lauren's sister was the one getting more gifts at Christmas.

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Marian and MLK, near the end MLK is [[spoiler: given his chance to run away forever and join the Transhuman Army, but instead go back to Marian to shoot an anti-transhuman propaganda video where he blames the torture inflicted on him by Marian on the TAR.]] "Look! They even numbered my skin grafts with tatoos!"

* BookWorm: [[ShrinkingViolet Cute Shy Girl]] Lauren knows everything there is to know about the human brains thanks to spending most of her life downloading textbooks for free hoping to one day become a doctor. She still has yet to read the Transhuman Seeder though. \\ Averted with Marian, she gets all her learning from listening to people and having her digital clones read important things for her. Who has time to read these days?

* BrainComputerInterface: G-Net AIs are capable of assimiling the computer codes of a single computer into their cortex allowing them to directly use them with their mind the same way that humans do in the real world. \\ The Bremen Chip, a small electronic device containing astroglial brain cells that is inserted in the thalamus and allows an organic brain to connect wirelessly with either another organic brain or an artificial one. Just close your eyes and play with those beautiful pictures in your mind.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, you'd think that a super-AI boom would lead to a global dehumanization of the world, but then it just doesn't happen. Glialbots are too humans. Things in the future are still pretty much the same, except for a couple of extra addons and yet smaller computers. The only thing that eats souls are neurobots, but that's just deporsonalization, you don't need computers for that. \\ Subverted when Lauren ends up in Dr. [[spoiler: Yoan's chair where the brain operations will seemingly "delete" her forever, but then it doesn't happen, she just becomes more like herself]]. [[TruthInTelevision In Dissociation Idendity Disorder]], integration of personality can't kill alters, even if sometimes they think it can.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Jewish is either Jedish or Jayish, and Muslims are Mooktoos. \\ And the H-Man is the H-Man, [[SpeakOfTheDevil you cannot write down his name]].

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: Whoever fake-Lauren was before becoming Lauren is this]]. \\Subverted with Helena in that she was just faking it to avoid talking to Marian.
* EvilInc: Germano-Russian and Polish Software Company Tresisda. From secretly helping Neo-Nazi terrorists to financing paramilitary groups performing underground experimentations on live humans, to the average American. Not to mention that they stole Googol from America and destroyed the whole eastern Market for Picosoft and Axar forcing them to merge into Spartan Soft. Also, they like spying on their loyal consummers in the name of the Father and the Mother Land. \\ Star Cloud, Although seemingly just an innocent data storage company on the surface, Star Cloud doubles up as a private intelligence company known as the C-Section, employing a Cabal of women who keep watch over the world economy but not without stealing money by rigging the stock market.

* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

* GermanicEfficiency: The whole world knows that the real brain behind Tresisda are Germans. The Russians are just there for the marketing. \\ Well the whole world knows it except for Americans, they think that the Dragon OS is Chinese.

* HideYourLesbians: Lauren's dream suggest that Livia and Marian could be this, although it's not clear whether this is the case or not. It could also just be Lauren's own repressed inner feelings as being Alexythemic she's unable to know that she doesn't know what her emotions are. \\ Because of [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narration]], it could also so be that the allusions are really a reflection of the [[AuthorAvatar narrator's]] fantasies rather than the characters.

* KickTheDog: Other than aforementioned ColdBloodedTorture, which happens at least 3 times (that we know of), MLK gets poisoned with deadly mushrooms and the only cure is to get a pig liver transplanted by a MadDoctor. \\ Also Helena, who is locked up in a 4X4 sound-isolated padded cell for most of the book and gets [[HerrDoctor brain surgery]] meant to make her talk and emotionally bound with the protagonist.

* MurderInc: According to Helena, there this thing called the Coven which is kind of like a modern day evil league of super womyn. The Coven hide itself behind a number of companies such as Star cloud or the C-Section. They form the Feminist Mafia and controls the stock market by killing people for a profit to buy ruined companies with [[FictionalCurrency decimals on the Credit]]. \\ Also the United-Bank of all Nations, the UBN, money is all about profit at any cost.

* NoodleIncident: During their first meeting, Marian talks about Helena's past as if the reader was already familiar with the Section's MO (or existence) and of who Livia is. "You want to know why you're here? ... It's something you said to Livia..." (Head Scracthing Reader: Who's Livia??) \\ We never get to see the first meeting between Livia and Helena and Book 1 makes mention of it in this way.

* PresidentEvil: Russian President, Victor Zolnerovich, is a heavy supporter of Neo-Nazism and is himself a [[spoiler: [[RoboticReveal a clone robot AI]]]] \\ Also possibly Chancellor Norvak, or at least this is what Marian thinks.

* SecretPolice: The IJS, They spy on people, sell their data to Neo-Nazis and use the Transhuman Army to clean up the mess left behind so that [[EvilInc Tresisda]] pass out as heroes. \\ Section-C is a Private Intelligence Company contracted by Homeland Security to take care of dirty business that the American government don't want to get involved in.

* TheSilentBob: Sandra is the female version of this, made more troubling by the Author using French Quotation marks for the few times where she does say anything. \\ MLK when he goes on a trip to Europe with Lauren and Helena.
* TheTrickster: Anika From Bremen, obviously. \\ And Marian too, being the head of a Private Intelligence Company is all about psychology and fun mind games, ChronicBackstabbingDisorder ought to ensue.

* YourMindMakesItReal: Silly movies and video games... [[FateWorseThanDeath You can't die in a dream!]] \\ Also if you die and fall in a comma, the Doctor can bring you back to consciousness by stimulating your thalamus.
* WarriorTherapist: Although physically imposing, Marian only needs her mouth to dismantle anybody and make them do or think whatever she wants. Her most notable adversary is Helena, who is completely obvious to her attempts at making her talk. \\ Also Livia, who trains ordinary women into becoming spies and assassins, and emotionally support them throughout their missions. She accurately guesses that Lauren's sister was the one getting more gifts at Christmas.

* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

* BookWorm: [[ShrinkingViolet Cute Shy Girl]] Lauren knows everything there is to know about the human brains thanks to spending most of her life downloading textbooks for free hoping to one day become a doctor. She still has yet to read the Transhuman Seeder though. \\Averted with Marian, she gets all her learning from listening to people and having her digital clones read important things for her. Who has time to read these days?

* BrainComputerInterface: G-Net AIs are capable of assimiling the computer codes of a single computer into their cortex allowing them to directly use them with their mind the same way that humans do in the real world. \\The Bremen Chip, a small electronic device containing astroglial brain cells that is inserted in the thalamus and allows an organic brain to connect wirelessly with either another organic brain or an artificial one. Just close your eyes and play with those beautiful pictures in your mind.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, you'd think that a super-AI boom would lead to a global dehumanization of the world, but then it just doesn't happen. Glialbots are too humans. Things in the future are still pretty much the same, except for a couple of extra addons and yet smaller computers. The only thing that eats souls are neurobots, but that's just deporsonalization, you don't need computers for that. \\Subverted when Lauren ends up in Dr. [[spoiler: Yoan's chair where the brain operations will seemingly "delete" her forever, but then it doesn't happen, she just becomes more like herself]]. [[TruthInTelevision In Dissociation Idendity Disorder]], integration of personality can't kill alters, even if sometimes they think it can.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Jewish is either Jedish or Jayish, and Muslims are Mooktoos. \\And the H-Man is the H-Man, [[SpeakOfTheDevil you cannot write down his name]].

* EvilInc: Germano-Russian and Polish Software Company Tresisda. From secretly helping Neo-Nazi terrorists to financing paramilitary groups performing underground experimentations on live humans, to the average American. Not to mention that they stole Googol from America and destroyed the whole eastern Market for Picosoft and Axar forcing them to merge into Spartan Soft. Also, they like spying on their loyal consummers in the name of the Father and the Mother Land. \\Star Cloud, Although seemingly just an innocent data storage company on the surface, Star Cloud doubles up as a private intelligence company known as the C-Section, employing a Cabal of women who keep watch over the world economy but not without stealing money by rigging the stock market.

* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

* GermanicEfficiency: The whole world knows that the real brain behind Tresisda are Germans. The Russians are just there for the marketing. \\Well the whole world knows it except for Americans, they think that the Dragon OS is Chinese.

* HideYourLesbians: Lauren's dream suggest that Livia and Marian could be this, although it's not clear whether this is the case or not. It could also just be Lauren's own repressed inner feelings as being Alexythemic she's unable to know that she doesn't know what her emotions are. \\Because of [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narration]], it could also so be that the allusions are really a reflection of the [[AuthorAvatar narrator's]] fantasies rather than the characters.

* KickTheDog: Other than aforementioned ColdBloodedTorture, which happens at least 3 times (that we know of), MLK gets poisoned with deadly mushrooms and the only cure is to get a pig liver transplanted by a MadDoctor. \\Also Helena, who is locked up in a 4X4 sound-isolated padded cell for most of the book and gets [[HerrDoctor brain surgery]] meant to make her talk and emotionally bound with the protagonist.

* MurderInc: According to Helena, there this thing called the Coven which is kind of like a modern day evil league of super womyn. The Coven hide itself behind a number of companies such as Star cloud or the C-Section. They form the Feminist Mafia and controls the stock market by killing people for a profit to buy ruined companies with [[FictionalCurrency decimals on the Credit]]. \\Also the United-Bank of all Nations, the UBN, money is all about profit at any cost.

* NoodleIncident: During their first meeting, Marian talks about Helena's past as if the reader was already familiar with the Section's MO (or existence) and of who Livia is. "You want to know why you're here? ... It's something you said to Livia..." (Head Scracthing Reader: Who's Livia??) \\We never get to see the first meeting between Livia and Helena and Book 1 makes mention of it in this way.

* PresidentEvil: Russian President, Victor Zolnerovich, is a heavy supporter of Neo-Nazism and is himself a [[spoiler: [[RoboticReveal a clone robot AI]]]] \\Also possibly Chancellor Norvak, or at least this is what Marian thinks.

* SecretPolice: The IJS, They spy on people, sell their data to Neo-Nazis and use the Transhuman Army to clean up the mess left behind so that [[EvilInc Tresisda]] pass out as heroes. \\Section-C is a Private Intelligence Company contracted by Homeland Security to take care of dirty business that the American government don't want to get involved in.

* TheSilentBob: Sandra is the female version of this, made more troubling by the Author using French Quotation marks for the few times where she does say anything. \\MLK when he goes on a trip to Europe with Lauren and Helena.
* TheTrickster: Anika From Bremen, obviously. \\And Marian too, being the head of a Private Intelligence Company is all about psychology and fun mind games, ChronicBackstabbingDisorder ought to ensue.

* YourMindMakesItReal: Silly movies and video games... [[FateWorseThanDeath You can't die in a dream!]] \\Also if you die and fall in a comma, the Doctor can bring you back to consciousness by stimulating your thalamus.
* WarriorTherapist: Although physically imposing, Marian only needs her mouth to dismantle anybody and make them do or think whatever she wants. Her most notable adversary is Helena, who is completely obvious to her attempts at making her talk. \\Also Livia, who trains ordinary women into becoming spies and assassins, and emotionally support them throughout their missions. She accurately guesses that Lauren's sister was the one getting more gifts at Christmas.

* AdultFear: What would be scary enough to put in a horror book. I know let's talk about money! And Jobs! in a world where even robots are out of jobs, and not to mention the incoming Robot Nazi economic apocalypse. Is there anything worst to fear than another global recession?

* AGlassOfChianti: Marian likes to drink Petrus and Champaign, along with cheese cubes, otherwise it would be bad for the liver.
** And Livia drinks Grape Juice instead of wine, go figure it out.

* BookWorm: [[ShrinkingViolet Cute Shy Girl]] Lauren knows everything there is to know about the human brains thanks to spending most of her life downloading textbooks for free hoping to one day become a doctor. She still has yet to read the Transhuman Seeder though.
** Averted with Marian, she gets all her learning from listening to people and having her digital clones read important things for her. Who has time to read these days?

* BlondesAreEvil: Marian.
** Helena too.
** And sandra.
* BrainComputerInterface: G-Net AIs are capable of assimiling the computer codes of a single computer into their cortex allowing them to directly use them with their mind the same way that humans do in the real world.
** The Bremen Chip, a small electronic device containing astroglial brain cells that is inserted in the thalamus and allows an organic brain to connect wirelessly with either another organic brain or an artificial one. Just close your eyes and play with those beautiful pictures in your mind.

* CoolShades: Gorski, he can't take off his shades or everybody will see that he has [[MixedAncestry Mixed Ancestry]] (Thanks [[CaptainObvious Captain Obvious]]).
** Also Marian who likes to put on shades when moving between places.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, you'd think that a super-AI boom would lead to a global dehumanization of the world, but then it just doesn't happen. Glialbots are too humans. Things in the future are still pretty much the same, except for a couple of extra addons and yet smaller computers. The only thing that eats souls are neurobots, but that's just deporsonalization, you don't need computers for that.
** Subverted when Lauren ends up in Dr. [[spoiler: Yoan's chair where the brain operations will seemingly "delete" her forever, but then it doesn't happen, she just becomes more like herself]]. [[TruthInTelevision In Dissociation Idendity Disorder]], integration of personality can't kill alters, even if sometimes they think it can.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Jewish is either Jedish or Jayish, and Muslims are Mooktoos.
** And the H-Man is the H-Man, [[SpeakOfTheDevil you cannot write down his name]].
* DeathByOriginStory: It's implied that the [[spoiler: real]] Lauren is this.
** According to Helena, President Victor Zolnerovich [[spoiler: already died a few years prior to the story, and digitally cloned himself but not before replacing his human-self with a body double, because robots can't be president of course]].

** Digital Telepathy sucks with punctuation though.
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: Whoever fake-Lauren was before becoming Lauren is this]].
** Subverted with Helena in that she was just faking it to avoid talking to Marian.
* EvilInc: Germano-Russian and Polish Software Company Tresisda. From secretly helping Neo-Nazi terrorists to financing paramilitary groups performing underground experimentations on live humans, to the average American. Not to mention that they stole Googol from America and destroyed the whole eastern Market for Picosoft and Axar forcing them to merge into Spartan Soft. Also, they like spying on their loyal consummers in the name of the Father and the Mother Land.
** Star Cloud, Although seemingly just an innocent data storage company on the surface, Star Cloud doubles up as a private intelligence company known as the C-Section, employing a Cabal of women who keep watch over the world economy but not without stealing money by rigging the stock market.

* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

* GermanicEfficiency: The whole world knows that the real brain behind Tresisda are Germans. The Russians are just there for the marketing.
** Well the whole world knows it except for Americans, they think that the Dragon OS is Chinese.

* HideYourLesbians: Lauren's dream suggest that Livia and Marian could be this, although it's not clear whether this is the case or not. It could also just be Lauren's own repressed inner feelings as being Alexythemic she's unable to know that she doesn't know what her emotions are.
** Because of [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narration]], it could also so be that the allusions are really a reflection of the [[AuthorAvatar narrator's]] fantasies rather than the characters.

* KickTheDog: Other than aforementioned ColdBloodedTorture, which happens at least 3 times (that we know of), MLK gets poisoned with deadly mushrooms and the only cure is to get a pig liver transplanted by a MadDoctor.
** Also Helena, who is locked up in a 4X4 sound-isolated padded cell for most of the book and gets [[HerrDoctor brain surgery]] meant to make her talk and emotionally bound with the protagonist.

* MurderInc: According to Helena, there this thing called the Coven which is kind of like a modern day evil league of super womyn. The Coven hide itself behind a number of companies such as Star cloud or the C-Section. They form the Feminist Mafia and controls the stock market by killing people for a profit to buy ruined companies with [[FictionalCurrency decimals on the Credit]].
** Also the United-Bank of all Nations, the UBN, money is all about profit at any cost.

* NoodleIncident: During their first meeting, Marian talks about Helena's past as if the reader was already familiar with the Section's MO (or existence) and of who Livia is. "You want to know why you're here? ... It's something you said to Livia..." (Head Scracthing Reader: Who's Livia??)
** We never get to see the first meeting between Livia and Helena and Book 1 makes mention of it in this way.

* PresidentEvil: Russian President, Victor Zolnerovich, is a heavy supporter of Neo-Nazism and is himself a [[spoiler: [[RoboticReveal a clone robot AI]]]]
** Also possibly Chancellor Norvak, or at least this is what Marian thinks.

* SecretPolice: The IJS, They spy on people, sell their data to Neo-Nazis and use the Transhuman Army to clean up the mess left behind so that [[EvilInc Tresisda]] pass out as heroes.
** Section-C is a Private Intelligence Company contracted by Homeland Security to take care of dirty business that the American government don't want to get involved in.

* TheSilentBob: Sandra is the female version of this, made more troubling by the Author using French Quotation marks for the few times where she does say anything.
* TheTrickster: Anika From Bremen, obviously.
** Marian too, being the head of a Private Intelligence Company is all about psychology and fun mind games, ChronicBackstabbingDisorder ought to ensue.

** MLK when he goes on a trip to Europe with Lauren and Helena.

* YourMindMakesItReal: Silly movies and video games... [[FateWorseThanDeath You can't die in a dream!]]
** Also if you die and fall in a comma, the Doctor can bring you back to consciousness by stimulating your thalamus.
* WarriorTherapist: Although physically imposing, Marian only needs her mouth to dismantle anybody and make them do or think whatever she wants. Her most notable adversary is Helena, who is completely obvious to her attempts at making her talk.
** Also Livia, who trains ordinary women into becoming spies and assassins, and emotionally support them throughout their missions. She accurately guesses that Lauren's sister was the one getting more gifts at Christmas.

* FunetikAksent: „Vat bedoolt yay fünetik aksent?! Ik spreak me very hroot Englisch!” A great many characters of the story are not native English speakers, so you get some small misshaps every once in a while. Most prominent examples are Livia and the TAR Kernel. Also note the usage of quotation marks where the author makes use of French, Dutch and German quotation marks to denote accent tags (although French Quotation marks can also deno Russian accent tag).

* ShoutOut: So many, so many, [[{{Hannibal}} Bill Grannt]], [[{{Highlander}} Hohlander the Remake]], [[TheMatrix The Tetrix Movies]], [[SilentHill Househead]], [[ResidentEvil4 Zombies]] repeating Shtobo Mola Jit/ Myorvt Shtobo Jit over and over, [[PewDiePie Stegano?! WTF!]], ''Series/{{Hannibal}} eating yourself for diner'', [[TheSimpsons YEAH! HOLO CHRISTMAS!]]