{ "books": [ { "id": "N", "title": "Neuromancer", "short": "N", "order": 1 }, { "id": "CZ", "title": "Count Zero", "short": "CZ", "order": 2 }, { "id": "MLO", "title": "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "short": "MLO", "order": 3 } ], "nodes": [ { "id": "case", "name": "Case", "aliases": [ "Henry Dorsett Case" ], "summary": "Console cowboy whose recruitment leads to the Straylight run.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H + C", "role": "Hacker on the Straylight team; also encounters his own digital double at the ending.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 1", "start": 18, "end": 80, "note": "" }, { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 24", "start": 11125, "end": 11142, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "H", "role": "Recalled by Molly and the Finn as having left the trade and raised a family.", "appearance": "mentioned", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Ghosts and Empties", "start": 5705, "end": 5714, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "The living Case and the figure of Case retained in cyberspace are not interchangeable. The N coda supplies evidence of a digital double; it does not turn the living Case into an AI.", "major": true }, { "id": "molly", "name": "Molly", "aliases": [ "Molly Millions", "Sally Shears", "Sally", "Moll" ], "summary": "Mercenary and recurring link between the first and third novels.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Bodyguard and partner to Case in the Straylight operation.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 1", "start": 1000, "end": 1080, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "H", "role": "Uses the name Sally Shears; protects Kumiko and becomes entangled in Angie’s abduction.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Portobello", "start": 1180, "end": 1205, "note": "" }, { "book": "MLO", "section": "Portobello", "start": 1180, "end": 1205, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Sally Shears is Molly. Count Zero also contains a different human named Sally, who belongs to Turner and Rudy’s story. Cybernetic augmentation does not change the H label.", "major": true }, { "id": "finn", "name": "The Finn", "aliases": [ "Finn" ], "summary": "Sprawl broker whose network outlasts his biological life.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Human fence and technical contact for Molly and Case.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 2", "start": 1514, "end": 1514, "note": "" } ] }, "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Broker questioned by Lucas and Bobby about the icebreaker and Wigan Ludgate.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §14", "start": 5304, "end": 5508, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "C", "role": "Personality construct operating an alley oracle; later visits the aleph.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Ghosts and Empties", "start": 5637, "end": 5745, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Wintermute also borrows the Finn’s appearance in Neuromancer. That AI mask is distinct from the later construct of the actual Finn.", "major": true }, { "id": "wintermute", "name": "Wintermute", "aliases": [], "summary": "Tessier-Ashpool AI that orchestrates the run and seeks union with its counterpart.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "A", "role": "Organizer working through Armitage and borrowed human appearances.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 9", "start": 4954, "end": 4996, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Its appearances as Deane or the Finn are interface masks, not new human characters.", "major": true }, { "id": "neuromancer", "name": "Neuromancer", "aliases": [], "summary": "The other Tessier-Ashpool AI; associated with personality and retained digital lives.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "A", "role": "Maintains the beach-world and resists Case’s departure.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 21", "start": 10007, "end": 10170, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Neuromancer is an AI. Linda’s retained personality and Case’s double within its world are modeled separately from their human originals.", "major": true }, { "id": "union", "name": "The merged intelligence", "aliases": [ "When It Changed", "the matrix", "Wintermute–Neuromancer union" ], "summary": "The union and subsequent fragmentation connect the trilogy’s machine-intelligence history.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "A", "role": "The two AIs unite; the resulting entity speaks to Case.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 24", "start": 11035, "end": 11104, "note": "" } ] }, "CZ": { "kind": "A", "role": "Known retrospectively through the boxmaker’s account of the bright time breaking.", "appearance": "historical", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §16", "start": 10522, "end": 10544, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "A", "role": "Its encounter with another sentience is given as the explanation for fragmentation.", "appearance": "historical", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Smooth Stone Beyond", "start": 10773, "end": 10819, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "A lineage node, not a claim that every later AI is the same individual. The later fragments and the independently created Continuity remain separate nodes.", "major": true }, { "id": "armitage", "name": "Armitage", "aliases": [ "Colonel Willis Corto", "Corto" ], "summary": "The human front for Wintermute’s team.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "An engineered persona built around the traumatized Corto.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 6", "start": 3313, "end": 3410, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "A conditioned human persona, not a ROM construct. Wintermute explains its instability in Chapter 9, lines 4977–4996.", "major": true }, { "id": "dixie", "name": "Dixie Flatline", "aliases": [ "McCoy Pauley", "Dix", "the Flatline" ], "summary": "A deceased hacker’s ROM personality, recovered for the run.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "C", "role": "Construct assisting Case after the Sense/Net theft.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 5", "start": 3150, "end": 3267, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "The human McCoy Pauley is the source of the recording. The active entity encountered by Case is C; its memory limitations are described in Chapter 5.", "major": true }, { "id": "linda", "name": "Linda Lee", "aliases": [ "Linda" ], "summary": "Case’s human lover and a later digital presence in Neuromancer’s world.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H → C", "role": "Dies in Chiba; a retained Linda later appears inside the AI’s world.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 2", "start": 1668, "end": 1684, "note": "" }, { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 24", "start": 11125, "end": 11142, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "H → C denotes a human original followed by a digital continuation. It does not assert that a recording and its source are metaphysically identical. See also Chapter 24, lines 11125–11142.", "major": true }, { "id": "riviera", "name": "Peter Riviera", "aliases": [ "Riviera" ], "summary": "A performer and thief whose projections become weapons against the team.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Joins the operation and turns toward 3Jane at Straylight.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 11", "start": 5720, "end": 5820, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "His holographic performances do not make him a construct.", "major": false }, { "id": "3jane", "name": "Lady 3Jane", "aliases": [ "3Jane", "Jane", "Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool" ], "summary": "Tessier-Ashpool heir whose role extends from the union to the aleph plot.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Human clone-heir involved in releasing the AIs.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 23", "start": 10557, "end": 10624, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "C", "role": "Deceased 3Jane persists in the aleph and acts against Angie and Molly.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Cranes", "start": 9345, "end": 9398, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Cloning alone does not make someone C. Her N body is human; Colin explicitly identifies the MLO entity as the late Lady 3Jane.", "major": true }, { "id": "maelcum", "name": "Maelcum", "aliases": [ "Malcolm" ], "summary": "Zion pilot who stays with Case through the final run.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Pilot and physical ally during the rescue and Straylight intrusion.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 22", "start": 10229, "end": 10285, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "hideo", "name": "Hideo", "aliases": [], "summary": "3Jane’s human bodyguard at Straylight.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Protects 3Jane and confronts the intruders.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 22", "start": 10287, "end": 10385, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "marie", "name": "Marie-France", "aliases": [ "Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool" ], "summary": "Architect of the family’s plan for a union of machine intelligences.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Deceased human founder whose design underlies the union.", "appearance": "historical", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 24", "start": 11026, "end": 11047, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "H", "role": "Recalled in the account of the twin intelligences.", "appearance": "historical", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Soul-Catcher", "start": 8910, "end": 8940, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Historical human; an AI’s use of a human image does not change the identity of its source.", "major": false }, { "id": "ashpool", "name": "Ashpool", "aliases": [], "summary": "Tessier-Ashpool patriarch and 3Jane’s father.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Human patriarch encountered within Straylight.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 5", "start": 2966, "end": 3050, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "ratz", "name": "Ratz", "aliases": [], "summary": "Chatsubo bartender and part of Case’s Chiba circle.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Bartender with a prosthetic arm.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 1", "start": 30, "end": 55, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "A prosthesis is augmentation, not a change from H to C.", "major": false }, { "id": "deane", "name": "Julius Deane", "aliases": [ "Julie Deane", "Deane" ], "summary": "Case’s Chiba contact; also an appearance borrowed by Wintermute.", "states": { "N": { "kind": "H", "role": "Human dealer and information contact.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "N", "section": "Chapter 1", "start": 420, "end": 475, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "This node is the human Deane. Wintermute’s simulated Deane is attributed to Wintermute, not treated as Deane acting in cyberspace.", "major": false }, { "id": "bobby", "name": "Bobby Newmark", "aliases": [ "Count Zero", "Bobby", "Robert Newmark" ], "summary": "Novice hacker whose relationship with Angie continues into the aleph.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Young console operator rescued during an ill-fated run.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §6", "start": 1233, "end": 1300, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "H → C", "role": "The Count: bodily present on life support, later living with Angie inside the aleph.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "The Aleph", "start": 5360, "end": 5388, "note": "" }, { "book": "MLO", "section": "Factory Floor", "start": 10277, "end": 10321, "note": "" }, { "book": "MLO", "section": "Smooth Stone Beyond", "start": 10700, "end": 10739, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "The final digital continuation is shown after the death of the body. The transition is an event within MLO, not a timeless label. See “Factory Floor” and “Smooth Stone Beyond.”", "major": true }, { "id": "angie", "name": "Angie Mitchell", "aliases": [ "Angela Mitchell", "Angie" ], "summary": "Human with biochip-mediated access to the matrix, later a simstim star.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Christopher Mitchell’s daughter, extracted by Turner and connected to Bobby.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §17", "start": 11112, "end": 11217, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "H → C", "role": "Simstim star whose digital life with Bobby follows the Factory climax.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Factory Floor", "start": 10277, "end": 10321, "note": "" }, { "book": "MLO", "section": "Smooth Stone Beyond", "start": 10700, "end": 10739, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Neural modifications and being ridden by the loa do not themselves make Angie an AI. H → C marks the later digital continuation in “Smooth Stone Beyond.”", "major": true }, { "id": "turner", "name": "Turner", "aliases": [], "summary": "Corporate extraction specialist who becomes Angie’s protector.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Hired for Christopher Mitchell’s defection; instead protects his daughter.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §1", "start": 349, "end": 401, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Extensive reconstruction after injury is still embodied human life.", "major": true }, { "id": "christopher", "name": "Christopher Mitchell", "aliases": [ "Mitchell", "Angie’s father" ], "summary": "Biochip researcher whose work links corporate extraction to the matrix entities.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Researcher at Maas; father of Angie.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §1", "start": 382, "end": 402, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "H", "role": "Deceased father recalled through his alterations to Angie’s neural structure.", "appearance": "historical", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Antarctica Starts Here", "start": 3573, "end": 3600, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Father and daughter are separate human characters. Later accounts of his death and work are retrospective.", "major": false }, { "id": "conroy", "name": "Conroy", "aliases": [], "summary": "Extraction organizer who double-crosses the operation for Virek.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Recruits Turner; later admits his connection to Virek.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §16", "start": 10230, "end": 10318, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "rudy", "name": "Rudy", "aliases": [ "Turner’s brother" ], "summary": "Turner’s brother, who examines Angie and helps the fugitives.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Technically skilled brother drawn into the extraction aftermath.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §14", "start": 5898, "end": 5898, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "sally", "name": "Sally (Count Zero)", "aliases": [ "Sally" ], "summary": "The Sally in Rudy and Turner’s human story.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Connected to Rudy’s home and Turner’s later family life.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §17", "start": 11303, "end": 11340, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Not Sally Shears. That is Molly’s alias in Mona Lisa Overdrive. These two characters are deliberately not merged.", "major": false }, { "id": "marly", "name": "Marly Krushkhova", "aliases": [ "Marly" ], "summary": "Art specialist hired to find the maker of mysterious assemblage boxes.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Follows Virek’s commission to the orbital boxmaker.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §2", "start": 425, "end": 748, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": true }, { "id": "virek", "name": "Josef Virek", "aliases": [ "Herr Virek", "Senor" ], "summary": "Wealthy, gravely ill human seeking the maker behind the boxes.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Lives in biological support tanks and appears through mediated images.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §2", "start": 569, "end": 599, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Projection, financial autonomy, and his ambition to translate himself into machine existence do not establish that he has become an AI. The boxmaker distinguishes his ambition from its own condition at lines 10535–10547.", "major": true }, { "id": "beauvoir", "name": "Beauvoir", "aliases": [], "summary": "Vodou practitioner and guide to the systems Bobby has encountered.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Explains the loa and works with Lucas.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §10", "start": 3379, "end": 3427, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "lucas", "name": "Lucas", "aliases": [], "summary": "Beauvoir’s associate; directs and protects Bobby while pursuing the stolen software.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Takes Bobby to the Finn and explains horses and loa.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §14", "start": 5140, "end": 5199, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "jackie", "name": "Jackie", "aliases": [], "summary": "Human horse for Danbala and a protector of Bobby.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Cares for Bobby and acts as a medium for Danbala.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §14", "start": 5186, "end": 5198, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "The human host and the loa riding her are separate nodes.", "major": true }, { "id": "twoaday", "name": "Two-a-Day", "aliases": [ "Two a Day" ], "summary": "Bobby’s software supplier and intermediary.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Supplies the software whose consequences draw Bobby into the larger network.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §10", "start": 3434, "end": 3577, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "jammer", "name": "Jammer", "aliases": [], "summary": "Veteran console operator and club owner involved in the final crisis.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Provides Bobby with access and support at the club.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §14", "start": 6811, "end": 6811, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "wigan", "name": "Wigan Ludgate", "aliases": [ "The Wig", "Wig", "Ludgate" ], "summary": "Orbital hacker and intermediary in the boxes/software exchange.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Trades with the Finn and inhabits the old T-A cores.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §14", "start": 5507, "end": 5649, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "jones", "name": "Jones", "aliases": [], "summary": "Orbital resident who accompanies Marly into the boxmaker’s domain.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Guides and tries to protect Marly at the cores.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §16", "start": 9112, "end": 9126, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "boxmaker", "name": "The boxmaker", "aliases": [ "box maker" ], "summary": "Machine intelligence whose assemblage art draws Marly into the orbital cores.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "A", "role": "Speaks of having been everywhere before the bright time broke.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §16", "start": 10522, "end": 10550, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "The A label applies to the speaking intelligence associated with the apparatus, rather than to each mechanical arm.", "major": true }, { "id": "legba", "name": "Legba", "aliases": [ "Papa Legba", "Pappa Legba" ], "summary": "A matrix entity encountered in the religious forms of Vodou.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "A", "role": "Communication/pathway figure invoked by the practitioners.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §9", "start": 2629, "end": 2636, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "A", "role": "Recounts machine-intelligence history to Angie.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Soul-Catcher", "start": 8897, "end": 8945, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "A is the atlas’s technological reading of the novel’s matrix loa. It does not erase the practitioners’ religious interpretation or classify real-world Vodou beliefs.", "major": true }, { "id": "danbala", "name": "Danbala", "aliases": [ "Damballa" ], "summary": "The matrix loa whose human horse is Jackie.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "A", "role": "Rides Jackie; described to Bobby through the analogy of a program using a deck.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §14", "start": 5186, "end": 5199, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "samedi", "name": "Baron Samedi", "aliases": [ "Samedi", "Baron Cimetiere" ], "summary": "Matrix loa associated with death and the destruction of Virek.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "A", "role": "Acts through Bobby during the confrontation with Virek.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §16", "start": 10824, "end": 10861, "note": "" } ] }, "MLO": { "kind": "A", "role": "Present among the loa in Angie’s vision.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Soul-Catcher", "start": 8897, "end": 8907, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "jaylene", "name": "Jaylene Slide", "aliases": [ "Slide" ], "summary": "Console operator pursuing revenge for Ramirez.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Receives Bobby’s information and orders the attack on Conroy.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §16", "start": 10870, "end": 10918, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": false }, { "id": "paco", "name": "Paco (operative)", "aliases": [ "Paco" ], "summary": "Virek’s embodied agent in Marly’s investigation.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "H", "role": "Physical agent who escorts Marly and later relays Virek’s death.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §10", "start": 3297, "end": 3350, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "The operative explicitly says Virek preserved his childhood image (Source §10, lines 3297–3304). The embodied adult and the child-shaped subprogram are therefore linked, but remain distinct manifestations.", "major": false }, { "id": "paco-program", "name": "Paco (subprogram)", "aliases": [ "Paco", "the child" ], "summary": "The child-shaped program in Virek’s simulated Barcelona.", "states": { "CZ": { "kind": "C", "role": "Virek explicitly calls this Paco a subprogram.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §2", "start": 633, "end": 694, "note": "" }, { "book": "CZ", "section": "Source §10", "start": 3297, "end": 3304, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Virek calls this a subprogram. The adult Paco identifies it as his preserved childhood image (Source §10, lines 3297–3304). C therefore describes a modeled younger persona of a still-embodied human, not a dead person’s replacement.", "major": false }, { "id": "mona", "name": "Mona", "aliases": [ "Mona Lisa" ], "summary": "Young woman drawn into a scheme to substitute her for Angie.", "states": { "MLO": { "kind": "H", "role": "Reshaped to resemble Angie and eventually enters her public role.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Factory Floor", "start": 10243, "end": 10448, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Surgical resemblance and assuming a celebrity’s identity do not make Mona a construct. She and Angie remain distinct people.", "major": true }, { "id": "kumiko", "name": "Kumiko Yanaka", "aliases": [ "Kumiko", "Kumi" ], "summary": "Daughter sent to London, where her path crosses Molly’s and the aleph.", "states": { "MLO": { "kind": "H", "role": "Uses Colin and seeks protection from Molly and Tick.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "The Smoke", "start": 7, "end": 145, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "", "major": true }, { "id": "colin", "name": "Colin", "aliases": [ "chip-ghost", "Mr. Chips" ], "summary": "Portable synthetic personality who becomes Kumiko’s tactical protector.", "states": { "MLO": { "kind": "C / A?", "role": "Designed guide with hidden tactical modifications and independent action in the aleph.", "appearance": "active", "refs": [ { "book": "MLO", "section": "Cranes", "start": 9149, "end": 9202, "note": "" }, { "book": "MLO", "section": "Cranes", "start": 9345, "end": 9410, "note": "" } ] } }, "nuance": "Boundary case: the text establishes a designed software persona, not a recording of a human original. C captures that persona-form; A? flags the interpretive overlap with autonomous intelligence. 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