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6	The ''Parrish Plessis'' series is a {{Cyberpunk}} trilogy by Marianne de Pierres. The series consists of ''Nylon Angel'' (2004), ''Code Noir'' (2004), and ''Crash Deluxe'' (2005).
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8	Parrish Plessis lives in the Tert, a WretchedHive on a poisoned stretch of the coast of Australia. She works, against her will, as a bodyguard for the sadistic gang leader Jamon Mondo. Her one ambition in life is to break free from his control and join the enigmatic [[TheSyndicate Cabal Coomera]]. She thinks she's found her chance when popular newscaster Razz Retribution is murdered and rumor has it the Cabal is responsible. Parrish thinks she can track them down with the help of the two patsies who were set up to take the fall: a naive country boy named Sto and a man with a dangerous passion for racial purity named Loyl-me-Daac. At the same time, the sinister Io Lang comes to her with an offer she can't refuse: do him a little favor, and he'll get Mondo sent to death row. But what looked like her big break goes horribly awry, and Parrish finds herself taking the heat for Razz's murder. What's worse, she ends up infected by a parasite that begins slowly corrupting her body and mind. TheCorruption is spreading, and Parrish has to find a way to stop it from destroying humanity even as the whole world starts hunting for her head.
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11	!!This series provides examples of:
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13	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Parrish's Eskaalim takes the form of an angel
14	%%* ActionGirl: Parrish
15	* ArtificialLimbs: Dark has a prosthetic hand; Bras ends up with two
16	* TheCasanova: Every woman who lays eyes on Loyl-me-Daac instantly falls in love with him. He seems to genuinely care about some of them, such as Anna Schaum, but is also willing to remorselessly manipulate and discard others such as Kiora Bass.
17	* ChemicallyInducedInsanity: In ''Crash Deluxe'', Parrish Plessis is nearly driven insane by [[ToxicFriendInfluence Glorious]] and her powerful pheromone blends.
18	* TheChosenOne: Parrish is hailed by the Muenos as the prophesized savior "Oya". She wants no part of it.
19	%%* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Parrish
20	%%* TheClan: Loyl-me-Daac's ''gens''
21	%%* TheCorruption: The Eskaalim
22	%%* CrapsackWorld
23	%%* {{Cyberpunk}}
24	* DemonicPossession: Mei Sheong and the shamans describe infection by the Eskaalim in these terms
25	* DoomMagnet: Anyone Parrish befriends stands a high chance of ending up dead, or at the very least worse off than they were before
26	%%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Parrish]]
27	* EvilutionaryBiologist: Loyl-me-Daac occasionally skirts this, with his belief in racial superiority and experiments with genetic engineering.
28	* FeelNoPain: In the late stages of TheCorruption
29	* GlamourFailure: Io Lang can disguise himself pretty effectively by shapeshifting, but Parrish is able to identify him by his distinctive caustic smell
30	%%* GymBunny: Pat
31	%%* HealingFactor: Granted by TheCorruption
32	* HeroicWillpower: Allows Parrish to resist the Eskaalim
33	* HorribleHollywood: Taken to extremes -- the Media is quite possibly the most evil force on the planet
34	* HowUnscientific: Anything involving the shamans
35	* IOweYouMyLife: Taken to dark extremes by Cabal Coomera's notion of ''goma''. If the Cabal saves your life, you're in their debt -- forever.
36	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Sex and violence are the two major things that fuel the Eskaalim
37	* JizzedInMyPants: A security guard, when Parrish's ShowSomeLeg works a little ''too'' well.
38	* LukeIAmYourFather: The media Prier that keeps getting in her business? It's pilot is [[spoiler:Parrish's sister]].
39	* MadDoctor: Dr. Del Morte. Dr. Anna Schaum also skirts this trope, being well-intentioned but utterly devoid of ethics.
40	%%* MegaCity: Vivacity
41	* TheMetaverse: Called vreal, presumably a contraction of virtual reality
42	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Loyl-me-Daac's attempts to find a cure for heavy metal poisoning end up releasing the Eskaalim, who had previously been suppressed by the human immune system. Parrish also has the misfortune to combine ChronicHeroSyndrome with DoomMagnet.
43	* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Averted; cyborging and genetic engineering are widespread
44	%%* NoEnding
45	%%* ProjectedMan: Parrish's p-com, Merry 3#
46	* RazorFloss: Parrish's garrote wires
47	* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Canrats, dog-rodent hybrids with moderate intelligence and a taste for human flesh
48	* SealedEvilInACan: The Eskaalim first infected humanity long ago, but were suppressed by the human immune system
49	* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Brilliance, a ''Homo erectus'' who suppressed the Eskaalim within her and used it to become immortal]]
50	* UrbanSegregation: The Tert is an isolated slum of Vivacity. It also contains its own segregated area, which not even the poorest squatters dare enter: the rotten heart of the Tert, the dark city of Dis.
51	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Granted by TheCorruption after it has completely taken hold
52	%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Loyl-me-Daac
53	%%* WretchedHive: The Tert
54	* XtremeKoolLetterz: Frequently used in slang; tech is "tek", girl is "grrl", etc...

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