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  • Alternate Character Interpretation:
    • Arris gets a lot of this, particularly in later episodes and depending on her karma. For example, whether or not many of her actions are an understandable effect of being a constant victim of abuse, or just plain and genuinely twisted and unforgivable, is a subject of debate.
    • Cyree: Are his Kick the Dog moments towards Arris (constantly friendzoning her in favor of America right after a Pet the Dog moment) intentional or not? Was he really manipulating Arris for the sake of finding Emma or is Arris that paranoid and wary of getting too close to others?
    • America: Clingy Jealous Girl with Skewed Priorities or just afraid that she'll lost Cyree to his childhood friend?
    • Gustav: Well-Intentioned Extremist or just doing his job? Is he really a False Friend to Arris?
    • Mourne, after the reveal he was drugged by Amy in order to get rid of Genenieve and have a shot at his fortune. Just how in control he's of his actions? Is his love for Amy real or it's a result of the Tryonate making him dependent on her? Also, he seems dismissive of how he killed Genevieve and abused Arris. Did he never care about them or it's a result of the drugs?
  • Anti-Climax Boss: Mourne is initially a huge threat, however Arris hacks into Biokernel with ease right under his nose, and he dies by Amy backstabbing him after she reveals how she drugged him and was the reason why he suddenly became violent towards his old family (and indirectly responsible for Genevieve's death and the abuse towards Arris)....unless you're aiming for the bad karma ending, where she gets away with everything.
  • Evil Is Cool: Hex. She's a terrorist, she dresses in a gothic-lolita style, she sells information....and cute cyborg girls to boot.
  • The Scrappy:
    • America, for her Clingy Jealous Girl tendencies and for being an absolute jerkass to anyone that isn't Cyree.
    • Cyree for being Wrong Genre Savvy, constantly siding with America even when she's wrong and being the less helpful of Arris's Morality Pets compared to Emma/Liz.
  • Stoic Woobie: Arris. As long as the player won't give her high bad karma, that is.

  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Has been known to happen. If you're aiming for the bad karma route, the story eventually becomes so relentless and depressing that it can turn people off. In particular some people feel that Arris, initially a sympathetic but very flawed Classical Anti-Hero, gradually becomes such a horrendous individual that they find it hard to excuse her behavior or care what becomes of her.
  • The Woobie: Given the nature of the game, there are many characters that you will end up pitying, like Arris (lost her mother, lived in the streets, her only friends abandoned or used her, her father was drugged into becoming abusive towards her), Emma (was separated from Arris and her parents for spilling the beans about Arris's abusive house life and was trained to become Liz Barrett), and Eureka, (was transformed into a cyborg against her will)
    • Even the least sympathetic characters aren't safe from this. America (lost her friends during a failed robbery and her father, due to working on an experimental drug and is constantly insecure that Cyree's female friends will take him away from her), Cyree (was abused by his parents, his friend Emma was kidnapped and he was brought into Arris' revenge plot against his will). And Mourne himself (was drugged by Amy, which transformed him into an abusive monster who killed Genevieve and distanced from Arris).

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