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Edge of the World
-Sister Maria [Estrelas' Aunt's cameo] was the only person in the convent that cared for younger Ray in the flashback scenes. She was the one that taught him to cook and bake and remained friendly to him even as he grew older. In one flashback scenes she tells Ray, "You know, I have two nieces, the most adorable little angels you're ever see! Estrelas is the older one; Estica is the younger." She then shows him an old faded photo, showing Estrelas and Estica as children. When Samuel asks him where he learned to cook, Ray tells him a "nice Portuguese lady."

-Images of Estrelas occasionally appear across the story, mostly in old photos or records from "Old Times."

-When Pearl is told to wait for Cheng Yu to arrive, she is taken to Cheng Yu's personal art gallery. She examines the display of the "Remnents of the Venus di Milo" [broken by Angel in 'Estrelas and the Venus di Milo'] and then looks around. She sees a portrait of Estrelas and remarks, "Hmph! Portuguese by the looks of it." Later, Cheng Yu remarks of the painting, "Such a woman, such a woman she was. There's no one like her and no one ever again." Pearl asks if Cheng Yu had known the woman in the portrait, and Cheng Yu responds, "In theory at least."

-A large white rabbit that only listens to commands in French consistently attacks Ray and Samuel every time they walk to town.

-Maiko occasionally quotes lines from "Estrelas" [The winning poem].

-When Samuel Morris gets drunk sometimes he starts doing random Morris folkdances, most notably Portuguese ones where he yells, "Stars, --censored-- Stars!"

-And after those episodes Pearl often yells, "What, are you going to take up sewing and insanity next?" It can be inferred that this is a reference to Estrelas' interesting habits.



Hub, Hub, Hub!
-Sister Maria [Estrelas' aunt] is one of the main characters. Outside the monastary, she seems to have developed her own branch of Catholicism, one that abides by the rules "Be Happy, Do No Harm, Drink A Lot Of Things, and Serve Him by doing the above."

-Estrelas consistantly appears in Maria's photographs of her 'two DAH-LIN' niec-ies.'

-Pasties di Nato play an important role throughout the plot

-When the orchestra is hired for a reindition of Les Miserables, the Eponine has vanished and Choi remarks that it was probably a robot that snapped its wires and ran away to join the mad circus.

-When Erich is forcibly drafted to play the role of Eponine after the stand-in drank Sister Maria's "tonic," the manager [who bears a close resemblence to Eponine's theatre manager] screams that there's not enough sobbing and crying, a reference to Eponine's habit of weeping all day and night.

Old House Speakeasy

-In the beginning, Estreals appears to Charlotte [main character, a flamboyant flapper] and sings, "So that's what you want to do! Really, that's your life cut out for you. Me, I'm looking for something else, where I can all but be myself."

-Estrelas actually appears in the song "Mad, Mad, Women," which is a feminist showtune about women wanting to lead their own life. There is a verse dedicated to her, which I'm currently revising.

-Estrelas is the first to stumble over Charlotte's corpse and alerts the police.