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**In 8-3N, {{doll name|AUG|AR|5}} and {{doll name|IWS 2000|RF|5}} quote Plutarch on a conversation between Julius Caesar and the seer Spurinna, who had foreseen his assasination that day: “The Ides of March are come, Spurinna,” “Aye, Caesar; but not gone.” AUG uses the quote to invite IWS not to claim victory too soon, and IWS immediately notes that the quote is probably apocryphal anyway.

**[[Singularity]] opens with an extract of John Rawls' ''A Theory of Justice'': “The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. Being first virtues of human activities, truth and justice are uncompromising”. The quote could be a commentary on {{doll name|M4A1|AR|4}}'s increasingly violent actions during this chapter.

**The [[Longitudinal Strain]] chapter “3-α2 Wind, Sand and Stars” is titled after a novel from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is relevant to Longitudinal Strain because it is the novel on which Saint-Exupéry's later book ''Le Petit Prince'' was based, and this novel is tied to [[Minor Characters#Pavel|Pavel]].

**The [[Longitudinal Strain]] chapter “3-α2 Wind, Sand and Stars” is titled after a novel from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is relevant to Longitudinal Strain because it is the novel on which Saint-Exupéry's later book ''Le Petit Prince'' was based, and this novel is tied to [[Minor Characters#Pavel|Pavel]]. Pavel also mentions ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' in the same story.

**The science-fiction novel ''Roadside Picnic'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is featured in part 1 of [[Slow Shock]]. One passage of the book is quoted as the origin of [[Martha Meitner]]'s nicknamed of Laplace: “I am an animal, you see that. I don't have the words, they didn't teach me the words. I don't know how to think, the bastards didn't let me learn to think. But if you really are... all-powerful... all-knowing, like Laplace's Demon, then you figure it out!”

**The title of [[The Summer Garden of Forking Paths]] references the book ''The Garden of Forking Paths'' by Jorge Luis Borges. The “Summer Garden” part is related to the [[Arthur Hume|Hume Dolls]].

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**{{hero name|Banxsy|specialist|3}} is named after real-world street artist Banksy.

**{{hero name|Fern|warrior|3}} and {{hero name|Magnhilda|warrior|3}}'s Projections contain references to ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', ''Jurassic Park'', ''Ghostbusters'', ''The Thing'' and ''Kill Bill''.

**April Fools event Projections are references to ACG or movies, like ''Ashita no Joe'' (Magnhilda), ''Kung-Fu Hustle'' (Daiyan) and ''~~Boccho~~ the Rock'' (Undine).

**April Fools event Projections are references to ACG or movies, like ''Ashita no Joe'' (Magnhilda), ''Kung-Fu Hustle'' (Daiyan) and ''Bocchi the Rock'' (Undine).

**[[Mysterious Warrior Omega]]'s color scheme is inspired by Rider Build - Genius Form from the Heisei-era ''Kamen Rider Build'' tokusatsu series. His pose is also similar to the main promo shot for an action figure of the same character by S.H.Figuarts.

**Bonneville's ultimate animation references the famous "Akira Slide" scene from the movie ''Akira''.

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***Defying the Moerae, Clothos’ Thread, Lachesis’ Measure & Atropos’ Shears: The Moerae (also called Moirai or Fates) are the goddesses of fate. Clothos spins the thread that represents each mortal's life, Lachesis decides how long their thread will be, and Atropos cuts it with her shears, deciding their death.

****{{hero name|Clotho|Guard|3}} in Neural Cloud is themed after the Moerae.

**As noted by the characters in chapter Reversing Entropy IB of [[Poincare Recurrence]], the enemy hacker {{enemy name|Bramedb|boss}} is named after Queen Medb, a legendary Irish queen known for seducing great heroes and causing great wars. An [https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv7627147/ ~~Dual Randomness~~ interview] confirms that {{enemy name|Morridow|boss}}'s name is a mix of Morrigan, an Irish war goddess, and “Shadow”.

**As noted by the characters in chapter Reversing Entropy IB of [[Poincare Recurrence]], the enemy hacker {{enemy name|Bramedb|boss}} is named after Queen Medb, a legendary Irish queen known for seducing great heroes and causing great wars. An [https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv7627147/ interview] confirms that {{enemy name|Morridow|boss}}'s name is a mix of Morrigan, an Irish war goddess, and “Shadow”.

**In {{doll name|PA-15|HG|5}}'s story for [[Notebook/Charming Furniture Expo]], PA-15's idea to attach rockets to a chair to fly resembles the humorous legend of Wan Hu in Ancient China, who purportedly reached the Moon using a similar contraption.

*Project Neural Cloud

**{{hero name|Sol|warrior|2}} is named after the Norse god pulling the sun through the sky on a chariot, as evidenced by the fact that her blades bear the same names as the chariot's horses: Arvakr and Alsvidr. The reference is even more explicit in {{hero name|Inferno Sol|warrior|3}}'s artworks, where she is seen on a chariot drawn by two horses.

**According to his profile, {{hero name|Aki|warrior|3}} wields the tachi called Shuten-kiri (酒吞切), which is a reference to the real-world Douji-kiri (童子切), said to have been used by the legendary Japanese warrior Minamoto-no-Raikou to kill the oni chieftain Shuten-Douji. Aki directly references Shuten-Douji and the Douji-kiri in his Halloween quote.

**The Tartarus Sector in Neural Cloud is named after the underworld of punishment in Ancient Greek mythology. Three enemies are named after regions of Tartarus: {{enemy name|Caina|boss}}, {{enemy name|Ptolemaea|boss}} and {{enemy name|Antenora|boss}}.

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*[[Fixed Point]] and its chapters are titled after concepts in topography: Singularity, Reflective Surface, Riemann Surface and Teichmuller Space.

*[[Eclipses & Saros]] and most of its chapters are titled after astrophysical concepts, several of them specifically applied to the Moon and eclipses: Long- and Short-Period Perturbation, Lunar Orbital Inclination, Ingress, Egress, Homology, Capture, Antumbra, Umbra, Annulus, Planetary Ring, Mare Crisium, Mare Tranquilitatis, Lunar Node, Third Contact, Last Contact and Outer and Inner Lagrange Point.

*The chapters of [[Maze Guess]] are named after (some ~~fictionalzied~~) mathematical concepts of statistics and analysis: Initial Inference, Harmonic Simulation, Interpolation Analysis, Analytic Inference, Real Analysis Simulation, Error Analysis, Transcendental Inference, Complex Manifold Simulation, Asymptotic Analysis and Bayesian Decision Theory.

*The chapters of [[Maze Guess]] are named after (some fictionalized) mathematical concepts of statistics and analysis: Initial Inference, Harmonic Simulation, Interpolation Analysis, Analytic Inference, Real Analysis Simulation, Error Analysis, Transcendental Inference, Complex Manifold Simulation, Asymptotic Analysis and Bayesian Decision Theory.

*The Global trailer for [[Deep Dive]] and [[Project Neural Cloud]]'s marketing used images of Conway's Game of Life.

*The tracks in [[Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery Soundtrack]] are titled after various medical terms.

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*Girls' Frontline

**On {{doll name|M21|RF|3}}'s memento for [[Notebook/Mystery of the Bewitching Figure]], the quote “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one” is from the play ''Der Sohn der Wildnis'' by Friedrich Halm.

**Some basic [[Paradeus]] units are named after historical classes of soldiers from various cultures: Rodelero, Uhlan, Strelet, Doppelsoldner, Maccabee, Gladiator, as well as famous ~~Carthaginian general~~ Hannibal.

**Some basic [[Paradeus]] units are named after historical classes of soldiers from various cultures: Rodelero, Uhlan, Strelet, Doppelsoldner, Maccabee, Gladiator, as well as famous generals Hannibal and Murat.

**Some story parts in [[Mirror Stage]] are named after classical paradoxes and thoughts experiments:

***Heraclitus’ River & Cratylus’ River: From the quote "No man ever steps in the same river twice" attributed to philosopher Heraclitus. Later philosopher Cratylus is known for adding to Heraclitus' river metaphor that if a river is constantly changing, it paradoxically cannot even be stepped in once.

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 **In 8-3N, {{doll name|AUG|AR|5}} and {{doll name|IWS 2000|RF|5}} quote Plutarch on a conversation between Julius Caesar and the seer Spurinna, who had foreseen his assasination that day: “The Ides of March are come, Spurinna,” “Aye, Caesar; but not gone.” AUG uses the quote to invite IWS not to claim victory too soon, and IWS immediately notes that the quote is probably apocryphal anyway.
 **[[Singularity]] opens with an extract of John Rawls' ''A Theory of Justice'': “The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. Being first virtues of human activities, truth and justice are uncompromising”. The quote could be a commentary on {{doll name|M4A1|AR|4}}'s increasingly violent actions during this chapter.
-**The [[Longitudinal Strain]] chapter “3-α2 Wind, Sand and Stars” is titled after a novel from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is relevant to Longitudinal Strain because it is the novel on which Saint-Exupéry's later book ''Le Petit Prince'' was based, and this novel is tied to [[Minor Characters#Pavel|Pavel]].
+**The [[Longitudinal Strain]] chapter “3-α2 Wind, Sand and Stars” is titled after a novel from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is relevant to Longitudinal Strain because it is the novel on which Saint-Exupéry's later book ''Le Petit Prince'' was based, and this novel is tied to [[Minor Characters#Pavel|Pavel]]. Pavel also mentions ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' in the same story.
 **The science-fiction novel ''Roadside Picnic'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is featured in part 1 of [[Slow Shock]]. One passage of the book is quoted as the origin of [[Martha Meitner]]'s nicknamed of Laplace: “I am an animal, you see that. I don't have the words, they didn't teach me the words. I don't know how to think, the bastards didn't let me learn to think. But if you really are... all-powerful... all-knowing, like Laplace's Demon, then you figure it out!”
 **The title of [[The Summer Garden of Forking Paths]] references the book ''The Garden of Forking Paths'' by Jorge Luis Borges. The “Summer Garden” part is related to the [[Arthur Hume|Hume Dolls]].
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 **{{hero name|Banxsy|specialist|3}} is named after real-world street artist Banksy.
 **{{hero name|Fern|warrior|3}} and {{hero name|Magnhilda|warrior|3}}'s Projections contain references to ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', ''Jurassic Park'', ''Ghostbusters'', ''The Thing'' and ''Kill Bill''.
-**April Fools event Projections are references to ACG or movies, like ''Ashita no Joe'' (Magnhilda), ''Kung-Fu Hustle'' (Daiyan) and ''Boccho the Rock'' (Undine).
+**April Fools event Projections are references to ACG or movies, like ''Ashita no Joe'' (Magnhilda), ''Kung-Fu Hustle'' (Daiyan) and ''Bocchi the Rock'' (Undine).
 **[[Mysterious Warrior Omega]]'s color scheme is inspired by Rider Build - Genius Form from the Heisei-era ''Kamen Rider Build'' tokusatsu series. His pose is also similar to the main promo shot for an action figure of the same character by S.H.Figuarts.
 **Bonneville's ultimate animation references the famous "Akira Slide" scene from the movie ''Akira''.
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 ***Defying the Moerae, Clothos’ Thread, Lachesis’ Measure & Atropos’ Shears: The Moerae (also called Moirai or Fates) are the goddesses of fate. Clothos spins the thread that represents each mortal's life, Lachesis decides how long their thread will be, and Atropos cuts it with her shears, deciding their death.
 ****{{hero name|Clotho|Guard|3}} in Neural Cloud is themed after the Moerae.
-**As noted by the characters in chapter Reversing Entropy IB of [[Poincare Recurrence]], the enemy hacker {{enemy name|Bramedb|boss}} is named after Queen Medb, a legendary Irish queen known for seducing great heroes and causing great wars. An [https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv7627147/ Dual Randomness interview] confirms that {{enemy name|Morridow|boss}}'s name is a mix of Morrigan, an Irish war goddess, and “Shadow”.
+**As noted by the characters in chapter Reversing Entropy IB of [[Poincare Recurrence]], the enemy hacker {{enemy name|Bramedb|boss}} is named after Queen Medb, a legendary Irish queen known for seducing great heroes and causing great wars. An [https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv7627147/ interview] confirms that {{enemy name|Morridow|boss}}'s name is a mix of Morrigan, an Irish war goddess, and “Shadow”.
 **In {{doll name|PA-15|HG|5}}'s story for [[Notebook/Charming Furniture Expo]], PA-15's idea to attach rockets to a chair to fly resembles the humorous legend of Wan Hu in Ancient China, who purportedly reached the Moon using a similar contraption.
 *Project Neural Cloud
+**{{hero name|Sol|warrior|2}} is named after the Norse god pulling the sun through the sky on a chariot, as evidenced by the fact that her blades bear the same names as the chariot's horses: Arvakr and Alsvidr. The reference is even more explicit in {{hero name|Inferno Sol|warrior|3}}'s artworks, where she is seen on a chariot drawn by two horses.
 **According to his profile, {{hero name|Aki|warrior|3}} wields the tachi called Shuten-kiri (酒吞切), which is a reference to the real-world Douji-kiri (童子切), said to have been used by the legendary Japanese warrior Minamoto-no-Raikou to kill the oni chieftain Shuten-Douji. Aki directly references Shuten-Douji and the Douji-kiri in his Halloween quote.
 **The Tartarus Sector in Neural Cloud is named after the underworld of punishment in Ancient Greek mythology. Three enemies are named after regions of Tartarus: {{enemy name|Caina|boss}}, {{enemy name|Ptolemaea|boss}} and {{enemy name|Antenora|boss}}.
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 *[[Fixed Point]] and its chapters are titled after concepts in topography: Singularity, Reflective Surface, Riemann Surface and Teichmuller Space.
 *[[Eclipses & Saros]] and most of its chapters are titled after astrophysical concepts, several of them specifically applied to the Moon and eclipses: Long- and Short-Period Perturbation, Lunar Orbital Inclination, Ingress, Egress, Homology, Capture, Antumbra, Umbra, Annulus, Planetary Ring, Mare Crisium, Mare Tranquilitatis, Lunar Node, Third Contact, Last Contact and Outer and Inner Lagrange Point.
-*The chapters of [[Maze Guess]] are named after (some fictionalzied) mathematical concepts of statistics and analysis: Initial Inference, Harmonic Simulation, Interpolation Analysis, Analytic Inference, Real Analysis Simulation, Error Analysis, Transcendental Inference, Complex Manifold Simulation, Asymptotic Analysis and Bayesian Decision Theory.
+*The chapters of [[Maze Guess]] are named after (some fictionalized) mathematical concepts of statistics and analysis: Initial Inference, Harmonic Simulation, Interpolation Analysis, Analytic Inference, Real Analysis Simulation, Error Analysis, Transcendental Inference, Complex Manifold Simulation, Asymptotic Analysis and Bayesian Decision Theory.
 *The Global trailer for [[Deep Dive]] and [[Project Neural Cloud]]'s marketing used images of Conway's Game of Life.
 *The tracks in [[Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery Soundtrack]] are titled after various medical terms.
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 *Girls' Frontline
 **On {{doll name|M21|RF|3}}'s memento for [[Notebook/Mystery of the Bewitching Figure]], the quote “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one” is from the play ''Der Sohn der Wildnis'' by Friedrich Halm.
-**Some basic [[Paradeus]] units are named after historical classes of soldiers from various cultures: Rodelero, Uhlan, Strelet, Doppelsoldner, Maccabee, Gladiator, as well as famous Carthaginian general Hannibal.
+**Some basic [[Paradeus]] units are named after historical classes of soldiers from various cultures: Rodelero, Uhlan, Strelet, Doppelsoldner, Maccabee, Gladiator, as well as famous generals Hannibal and Murat.
 **Some story parts in [[Mirror Stage]] are named after classical paradoxes and thoughts experiments:
 ***Heraclitus’ River & Cratylus’ River: From the quote "No man ever steps in the same river twice" attributed to philosopher Heraclitus. Later philosopher Cratylus is known for adding to Heraclitus' river metaphor that if a river is constantly changing, it paradoxically cannot even be stepped in once.