Alien Chronicles: Difference between revisions

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] - When Ampris gets dangerous, watch out.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]] - Elrabin gets several.

* [[Blood Sport]] - Ampris ends up a champion of this.

* [[Break the Cutie]] - This maybe counts for Ampris?

* [[Catgirl]] - Ampris's race is apparently this, though the artwork on the paperbacks makes her look like a cross between a dog and an ape.

* [[Chew Toy]] - Elrabin's life before he meets Ampris.

* [[Fantastic Racism]] - The themes are definitely there.

* [[Forced Prize Fight]] - The arena circuit.

* [[Gilded Cage]] - Ampris grows up in one.

* [[Gladiator Games]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]] - {{spoiler|Brutally subverted when Ampris is experimented upon by a Viis [[Mad Scientist]] who impregnates her with half-breed babies.}} Elrabin and Ampris count more as [[Heterosexual Life Partners]].

* [[Intelligent Gerbil]] - everyone.

* [[Joan of Archetype]] - Complete with mystic overtones, humiliation, {{spoiler|and tragic death}}.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]] - Elrabin

* [[Spy Speak]] - Ampris creates a code from her species' native language.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Really, the way the abiru behave towards concepts like 'cooperate to survive' or 'maybe slavery sucks' is this. This i also sadly reflective of how citizen psychology is twisted in totalitarian governments in the Real World; Stockholm Syndrome abounds, the underground are extremely paranoid and betray each other all the time, etc. Solidarity comes very, very slowly, and when it starts to rear its head it is ruthlessly crushed, often by massacre, by the powers-that-be. {{spoiler|As the Viis do to the Freedom Fighters in Book 3}}.

** The first novel splits its focus between the early lives of Elrabin and Ampris, up until their first meeting.

* [[Typecasting]] - With the different species. Aaroun (catlike, heavy boned and muscled, temperamental), Kelth (foxlike, nervous and sly), Myal (monkeylike, highly intelligent scholar class), Toth (bovine, [[Dumb Muscle]]), etc. Brutally averted on occasion with examples such as the [[Complete Monster]] Barthul the Myal drug lord and Scar, his [[Elite Mook]] Kelth.

** Actually, it's revealed in the third book that the Kaa used so much manual labor to disguise how their technological infrastructure was crumbling.

** Heavily averted with the denizens of the palace itself, however, {{spoiler|especially Bish and the archivists -- though Bish does not live to see Ampris' return to the palace.}}

 

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