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* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: Sex and violence are the two major things that fuel the Eskaalim
* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: Sex and violence are the two major things that fuel the Eskaalim
* [[Jizzed in My Pants]]: A security guard, when Parrish's [[Show Some Leg]] works a little ''too'' well.
* [[Jizzed in My Pants]]: A security guard, when Parrish's [[Show Some Leg]] works a little ''too'' well.
* [[Luke I Am Your Father]]: The media Prier that keeps getting in her business? It's pilot is {{spoiler|Parrish's sister}}.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: The media Prier that keeps getting in her business? It's pilot is {{spoiler|Parrish's sister}}.
* [[Mad Doctor]]: Dr. Del Morte. Dr. Anna Schaum also skirts this trope, being well-intentioned but utterly devoid of ethics.
* [[Mad Doctor]]: Dr. Del Morte. Dr. Anna Schaum also skirts this trope, being well-intentioned but utterly devoid of ethics.
* [[Mega City]]: Vivacity
* [[Mega City]]: Vivacity
* [[The Metaverse]]: Called vreal, presumably a contraction of virtual reality
* [[The Metaverse]]: Called vreal, presumably a contraction of virtual reality
* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: 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 [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] with [[Doom Magnet]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: 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 [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] with [[Doom Magnet]].
* [[No Transhumanism Allowed]]: Heavily averted; cyborging and genetic engineering are widespread
* [[No Transhumanism Allowed]]: Heavily averted; cyborging and genetic engineering are widespread
* {{spoiler|[[No Ending]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[No Ending]]}}
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* [[Razor Floss]]: Parrish's garrote wires
* [[Razor Floss]]: Parrish's garrote wires
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: Canrats, dog-rodent hybrids with moderate intelligence and a taste for human flesh
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: Canrats, dog-rodent hybrids with moderate intelligence and a taste for human flesh
* [[Rose Haired Girl]]: Mei Sheong, who spends a considerable portion of her salary on pink hair dye
* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]: Mei Sheong, who spends a considerable portion of her salary on pink hair dye
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Eskaalim first infected humanity long ago, but were supressed by the human immune system
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Eskaalim first infected humanity long ago, but were supressed by the human immune system
* [[Time Abyss]]: {{spoiler|Brilliance, a ''Homo erectus'' who supressed the Eskaalim within her and used it to become immortal}}
* [[Time Abyss]]: {{spoiler|Brilliance, a ''Homo erectus'' who supressed the Eskaalim within her and used it to become immortal}}
* [[Urban Segregation]]: 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.
* [[Urban Segregation]]: 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.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Granted by [[The Corruption]] after it has completely taken hold
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Granted by [[The Corruption]] after it has completely taken hold
* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: Loyl-me-Daac
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Loyl-me-Daac
* [[Wretched Hive]]: The Tert
* [[Wretched Hive]]: The Tert
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Frequently used in slang; tech is "tek", girl is "grrl", etc...
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Frequently used in slang; tech is "tek", girl is "grrl", etc...

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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).

Parrish Plessis lives in the Tert, a Wretched Hive 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 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. The Corruption 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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