Brainy Brunette: Older and younger Ari are both super-geniuses whose dark hair is often mentioned.

Ari II's reassurance to Justin about his new office in Regenesis isn't that no one will be bugging it, but that only she will be bugging it.

Big Brother Is Watching: Although the Union in general is a somewhat liberal society (if you can overlook slavery and several other issues), many seem to think so in Reseune.

Since they're in the middle of a pending constitutional crisis, Yanni decides to go with the first interpretation. Catherine Lao's designation of Ari Emory as her Proxy on her deathbed-she doesn't say which Ari before she flatlines, so it's unclear whether she really meant the barely-18 living Ari, or lost her sense of time and forgot Ari I is dead.

Ambiguously Bi: After a youthful fling with the double-timing Stef Dietrich, Maddy Strassen never has a CIT romantic partner again, but she does have an Alpha azi companion, Samara (with the exception of the Nyes and Director Hicks, every CIT/Alpha pairing is also a sexual and/or romantic relationship).

In fact, it's Catlin who kills Denys Nye.

Action Girl: Catlin, designed from the ground up to be deadly and trained to be Ari's bodyguard since childhood (Catlin I was also this, but she's not around long enough to demonstrate, the way Catlin II is).

Catlin and Florian, being trained killers, get this the most, like when Catlin casually shows Ari II how to break somebody's neck (with Florian risking his quite literal neck as the assistant) as a cute trick.

Acting Your Intellectual Age: Notably averted, with incredibly gifted children using their gifts like, well, children, often to a truly disturbing degree.

Justin half-sarcastically, half-nervously refers to this situation as 'a Children's Crusade'.

A Child Shall Lead Them: By the end of Regenesis, Ari II has ended up as Acting Head of Reseune Security twice, and due to Catherine Lao's deathbed designation of her as Proxy, ends the book as Councilor of Information, although she makes Justin her Proxy as soon as possible.

The novel chronicles the life of Ariane (Ari) Emory II and Justin Warrick, both clones (PR) of Specials, and Grant, an azi based on the genome of another Special and the companion and later lover of Justin. Engineered humans called 'azi' (an acronym of 'artificial zygote insemination') are enslaved and certain geniuses who are certified as 'Specials' are essentially above law. Cyteen is the capital of Union, a interstellar society based on human cloning, genetic engineering and technologies in psychology that verge onto mind control.

Cherryh set in the Alliance/Union universe. Cyteen is a 1988 science fiction novel by C.

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