Amnesiac Hero: Downplayed with Roland.

(This is strongly implied to be what happened the first time around.)

When he kills enough people that his memory comes back fully, he decides he can't let himself be that person and shoots himself in the head.

Roland then killed far, far more than his kill counter's last mark of twelve thousand, including his own brother and hundreds of protestors, was responsible for the Lakewood nuke, and liked most of it.

Amnesiac Dissonance: Roland now enjoys violence but doesn't want to, and so tries his hardest to avoid situations where it's necessary.

He doesn't say much about why, aside from just that he felt like it (what with there being a battle on, there's not exactly the time for a nuanced discussion of nonbinary identity).

Ambiguous Gender: Topaz thanks to the marvels of modern technology shows up to the final battle as a man after having previously been a woman.

raped) to one of the polygamist soldiers and being denied a last name, being nonwhite and mildly inconveniencing one of those with authority being turned into a Brain in a Jar for suicide missions whether there are other such 'crimes' hasn't been revealed yet. Those include being female Punishment: being forcibly married (i.e. There are also more 'minor' crimes although the Heavenly Kingdom doesn't think of them as 'crime and punishment' and more as 'the way things are'.

All Crimes Are Equal: From what we can glimpse from what passes for 'justice' in the Heavenly Kingdom capital offences include: Stealing some of the food coming in, being captured while fighting against the Heavenly Kingdom, being gay and/or transgender.

He just believes in tearing established, corrupt orders down, however violently and to whatever end-as long the old is destroyed to make way for the new.

Above Good and Evil: Jim says that he no longer believes in morality because he saw too many people with supposed codes of honor end up serving the ends of corrupt states anyway.

20 Minutes into the Future: The book is set in 2070, with the Second American Civil War lasting from 2041 to around 2050.

Evans has revealed that he has a sequel in the works, and is seeking to have it crowdfunded.Ĭompare and contrast with Victoria or Caliphate, similarly set in future dystopias but from a very different perspective.

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