Patterns
- For much of the series, the anchor persons are telepathically linked with the help of Seqiro. Thoughts are written as italics.
- The Mode series is written in alternating third person limited perspective. Out of all four novels, Seqiro’s perspective is used in only one chapter.
- Seqiro’s voice is usually written as italics. Only in Burgess’ perspective are Seqiro’s thoughts voiced with quotation marks.
- Burgess’ voice is written as narration, or indirect quotes.
- Each of the first three novels ends with a member of the party letting go of their anchor and a new member taking hold.
- Each of the first three novels ends with Colene saying, "Uh-oh," or "Oh, no," as the party meets the new anchor person.
- The titles of the novels generally indicate where the most time is spent in each. In Virtual Mode, much time is spent on the Virtual Mode itself. In Fractal Mode, the primary setting is Julia Mode, a fractal universe. Chaos Mode is fragmented, with several sections set in various anchor modes and a great deal of time spent on the Virtual Mode as well. DoOon is the setting for approximately half of DoOon Mode.
- The Earth Mode is visited at least once in each novel.
- Colene recounts her rape in each novel.
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