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27th Mar '13 6:25:55 AM CassandraLeo

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3rd May '12 10:05:00 AM dreamshell

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11th Feb '12 11:43:10 AM spaceawesome22

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The only woman manipulated was Bellis.

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* UnfortunateImplications: For "The Scar": [[spoiler: Bellis is an uppity women, who seems to get her comeuppance and becomes humbled by the end. Also, women are really easy to manipulate by men, especially men they are sexually attracted to or have had sex with.]] Your opinion may vary, however.
** Very much YMMV; [[spoiler: Bellis develops from being a complete Tsundere/jerk into a more likable character because she actually starts to aid and care about others; she's very competent and holds her own in most if not all situations. She's not so much humbled as more experienced, and only as traumatized as EVERY. SINGLE. MAIN. CHARACTER. That Mieville writes. Note the kid whose story could be equally argued to be saying that literacy will inadvertently lead to death. The guy manipulating Bellis was a master spy who pretty much managed to singlehandedly infiltrate the entirety of Armada, and only got taken down by Uther Doul and the Brucolac. See above, under 'Badass' for the two of them.]]

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13th Feb '11 3:51:20 PM zerky

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13th Feb '11 3:50:28 PM zerky

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15th Jan '11 5:55:04 PM zerky

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* HoYay: There was a mix of this and FoeYay between Uther Doul and the Brucolac. Mostly from the Brucolac's side. He very explicitly wonders whether Uther is a masochist, and then acts like a scorned lover through most of the novel. There's also the matter of what exactly their history together is. This pairing isn't invalidated by the ending, either.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uther Doul uses a sword with an attached "probability engine," which causes every strike he makes to be every possible strike he ''could'' have made. (Hence "improbable" may not be the word for it, but....)
* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The book's largely about a narrator 'lost at sea' in a city that's often outside the bounds of her knowledge and understanding. The story builds up a rivalry - and an intriguing past acquaintanceship - between two overpowered badasses, and they finally get their showdown a couple of chapters from the end...but then the fight scene gets skipped entirely, and instead we get to see the aftermath at the start of the next chapter.
* UnfortunateImplications: For "The Scar": [[spoiler: Bellis is an uppity women, who seems to get her comeuppance and becomes humbled by the end. Also, women are really easy to manipulate by men, especially men they are sexually attracted to or have had sex with.]] Your opinion may vary, however.
** Very much YMMV; [[spoiler: Bellis develops from being a complete Tsundere/jerk into a more likable character because she actually starts to aid and care about others; she's very competent and holds her own in most if not all situations. She's not so much humbled as more experienced, and only as traumatized as EVERY. SINGLE. MAIN. CHARACTER. That Mieville writes. Note the kid whose story could be equally argued to be saying that literacy will inadvertently lead to death. The guy manipulating Bellis was a master spy who pretty much managed to singlehandedly infiltrate the entirety of Armada, and only got taken down by Uther Doul and the Brucolac. See above, under 'Badass' for the two of them.]]

15th Jan '11 2:06:09 PM zerky

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