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* BearerOfBadNews: He tells Isaac and his friends about the [[spoiler: slake-moths and their abilities]] before telling him that the effects are irreversible.
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MadScientist: He gleefully helps with the cruel Remaking process, and also was [[spoiler: the head of the slake-moth government project.]]
*SmugSnake:
SmugSnake: He is an arrogant, disagreeable man and is a brilliant scientist, yet he didn't anticipate Isaac getting the better of him, which [[spoiler: leads to his eventual demise.]]
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CrazyPrepared: He brings along mercenaries to help them [[spoiler: take out the slake-moths]]. Not that it does much good, but it's the thought that counts.
*CruelAndUnusualDeath:
CruelAndUnusualDeath: He gets shot by the Cactacae with their crossbow in a case of mistaken identity, which leaves him in physical agony before he is brutally hacked to death, much to Isaac's horror.
*FriendInTheBlackMarket:
FriendInTheBlackMarket: Initially downplayed, but ultimately played straight once he is strung along on Isaac's quest to [[spoiler: destroy the slake-moths.]]
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KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: Due to his status in the underworld, he has a lot of contacts within it.
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* BadBoss: Downplayed, but he is shown to not value their lives and he isn't very nice to them.
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AFateWorseThanDeath: The original Montjohn Rescue was [[spoiler: infected with a headlinger after Rudgutter found out he was plotting against him]], leaving him a husk of a man.
*ParasitesAreEvil:ParasitesAreEvil: The [[spoiler: headlingers]] are known associates and operatives of the corrupt Rudgutter government.
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* MadScientist: A rare heroic version. He is called a rogue scientist for his pursuit of Crisis Theory and he has a lot of tension with the scientific elite of New Crobuzon.
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* MadScientist: A rare heroic version. He is called a rogue scientist for his pursuit of Crisis Theory and he has a lot of tension with the scientific elite of New Crobuzon.
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ScaryBlackMan: Played with. Isaac is described as having skin the color of smouldering wood, he's very fat (meaning he possesses StoutStrength, which is described below) and knows how to use his not inconsiderable bulk to intimidate (see an amusing scene where he drives off a [[MachineWorship Godmech Cog]] and uses his bulk for this purpose.) and has [[NightmareFetishist a couple disturbing interests]].
* ScienceHero: He solves most of the issues of the novel with pure guile...and science!!
* StoutStrength: Isaac vomits after [[LeParkour enough rooftop-hopping]] and gets winded after climbing up a flight of stairs, but he is very capable of punching Lucky Gazid across a room.
* ScienceHero: He solves most of the issues of the novel with pure guile...and science!!
* StoutStrength: Isaac vomits after [[LeParkour enough rooftop-hopping]] and gets winded after climbing up a flight of stairs, but he is very capable of punching Lucky Gazid across a room.
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TheAtoner: He grows into this as the novel moves along, becoming more heroic as a way to possibly make up for his crime.
*BrokenAngel:BrokenAngel: Yagharek's quest to fly again kickstarts the main plot. [[spoiler: The ending breaks him even further]].
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ReformedButRejected: He becomes a more heroic character as the novel moves along, and even manages to become one of the most steadfast and loyal friends to Isaac. But then [[spoiler: Isaac and his crew find out what Yagharek did and abandon him.]] He is left to make a new life for himself, alone.
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SheWhoFightsMonsters: Becomes much more jaded and more willing to take life as the story moves along, she even considers this very point when [[spoiler: looking for someone to sacrifice to Isaac's Crisis Engine]].
*StraightGay:
StraightGay: Played with. It's never outright said, although it may be a case of HideYourLesbians. She has a 'good' reason: New Crobuzon is not, to put it mildly, rainbow-friendly.
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* TheStoolPigeon:TheStoolPigeon: He ends up [[spoiler: ratting out Isaac and his friends to the government.]]
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* EvilOldFolks:BreakTheHaughty: Courtesy of Isaac when he [[spoiler: kidnaps, tortures, and interrogates him over his role in the slake-moth crisis.]]
* EvilOldFolks: He's described as an older man, but he's undoubtably a smug, unpleasant JerkAss whose irresponsibility in [[spoiler: selling the slake-moths to Motley]] sets off the second half of the plot.
* EvilOldFolks: He's described as an older man, but he's undoubtably a smug, unpleasant JerkAss whose irresponsibility in [[spoiler: selling the slake-moths to Motley]] sets off the second half of the plot.
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* AGodAmI: His followers certainly think so...
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* Cloudcuckoolander: The Weaver is a...strange and eccentric fellow to say the least.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Weaver is a...strange and eccentric fellow to say the least.
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* DeadpanSnarker: He's a rather sarcastic and playful fellow, all things considered.
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* HumanoidAbomination: He has voluntarily been Remade so many times, that he now looks like a gigantic blob of different species.
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* EyeScream: He has a strange disease where he eyes rot out of their sockets, so he [spoiler: gets new ones by killing his political opponents and taking their eyes for his own.]]
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* EyeScream: He has a strange disease where he eyes rot out of their sockets, so he [spoiler: [[spoiler: gets new ones by killing his political opponents and taking their eyes for his own.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: For his trouble part in [[spoiler: helping to create the slake-moth problem]], he gets kidnapped, tortured, and eventually [[spoiler: shot and killed by David.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He finds a small grub which he takes on for study. Then, whoops: [[spoilers: turns out the grub was of an extremely dangerous AnimalisticAbomination that comes to threaten the whole city.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He finds a small grub which he takes on for study. Then, whoops: [[spoilers: [[spoiler: turns out the grub was of an extremely dangerous AnimalisticAbomination that comes to threaten the whole city.]]
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AddledAddict: He's described as constantly being high or trashed out of his mind off of dreamshit.
* ButtMonkey: He gets the brunt end of the punishment asides from [[TheWoobie Lin]] throughout the novel. He gets beaten, kidnapped, and eventually [[spoiler: killed by Motley]].
* ButtMonkey: He gets the brunt end of the punishment asides from [[TheWoobie Lin]] throughout the novel. He gets beaten, kidnapped, and eventually [[spoiler: killed by Motley]].
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* HateSink:
HateSink: Behind his gentleman facade, he's a vicious monster who delights in hurting others, and making money in the process.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He's self-absorbed enough to want a statue be made by Lin in his image.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He's self-absorbed enough to want a statue be made by Lin in his image.
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BadBoss: He has [[spoiler: his right hand man Montjohn become the puppet of the headlinger because he was going to turn on him.]]
*CorruptPoliticianCorruptPolitician: And boy is he!
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* EyeScream: He has a strange disease where he eyes rot out of their sockets, so he [spoiler: gets new ones by killing his political opponents and taking their eyes for his own.]]
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* MayorPain: He is New Crobuzon's crooked and cruel mayor.
* OhCrap: Basically his reaction throughout the entire second half of the novel once [[spoiler: the slake-moths are released.]]
* OhCrap: Basically his reaction throughout the entire second half of the novel once [[spoiler: the slake-moths are released.]]
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How he ends up going out.]]
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How he ends up going out.out courtesy of David.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: For his trouble in [[spoiler: helping to create
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BadassBookworm: He is a genius scientist, and manages to take on the slake-moths, Mr. Motley, the corrupt government, and The Construct Council all at once.
*CrazyEnoughToWork:CrazyEnoughToWork: The Crisis Theory engine plan that he puts in motion is audacious, and could get him and all of his friends killed if it fails. But, despite all the odds, it works.
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* FreakinessShame: Isaac is totally hot for his girlfriend, who has a scarab for a head. He reflects at length about how his revulsion turns him on.
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MadScientist: A rare heroic version. He is called a rogue scientist for his pursuit of Crisis Theory and he has a lot of tension with the scientific elite of New Crobuzon.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction once he realizes what he's released out into New Crobuzon.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction once he realizes what he's released out into New Crobuzon.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He finds a small grub which he takes on for study. Then, whoops: [[spoilers: turns out the grub was of an extremely dangerous AnimalisticAbomination that comes to threaten the whole city.]]
* KarmicNod: After [[spoiler: Isaac and his friends find out what he did and abandon him]]. A devastated Yagharek accepts his punishment, rips out all of his feathers, and chooses to live the remainder of his life as a man.
* FreakinessShame: He is completely disgusted with himself for his [[spoiler: fetish for the Remade.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He is brutally tortured by the government, then [[spoiler: gets his eyes removed for his hated enemy's use]], and is dumped unceremoniously in a river.
* InspirationalMartyr: He becomes one to rebels across New Crobuzon, who even name a movement after him by the time of Iron Council.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He is brutally tortured by the government, then [[spoiler: gets his eyes removed for his hated enemy's use]], and is dumped unceremoniously in a river.
* InspirationalMartyr: He becomes one to rebels across New Crobuzon, who even name a movement after him by the time of Iron Council.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Downplayed. But [[spoiler: one of the slake-moths he purchased from the government lobotomised Lin and facilitated her escape. Even if he found her again, his statue can never be finished. The epilogue describes him ranting at the incomplete statue]].
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* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: He feels tremendous angst because of his [[spoiler: Remade fetish]].
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* Cloudcuckoolander: The Weaver is a...{{Understatment strange and eccentric fellow}} to say the least.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: The Weaver is a...{{Understatment strange and eccentric fellow}} fellow to say the least.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: The Weaver is a...[[Understatment strange and eccentric fellow]] to say the least.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: The Weaver is a...[[Understatment {{Understatment strange and eccentric fellow]] fellow}} to say the least.
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MadScientist: One of the rogue scientists alongside Isaac, and one of his friends.
* NightmareFetishist: He was [[spoiler: caught in an illegal Remade brothel getting a blowjob from a Remade prostitute.]]
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny:
* NightmareFetishist: He was [[spoiler: caught in an illegal Remade brothel getting a blowjob from a Remade prostitute.]]
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* NiceGuy: A generally amiable giy, and a good friend to Isaac, which makes his ultimate fate all the more tragic.
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* NiceGuy: A generally amiable giy, guy, and a good friend to Isaac, which makes his ultimate fate all the more tragic.
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TheFriendNobodyLikes: Not many of the people who he hangs out with seems to think much of him, Isaac outright detests him because of his flakiness and drug addiction. That doesn't stop him from [[spoiler: being horrified by his death and for his part in causing it.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: He is killed by Motley's goons once they learn from him Isaac was the one who sprung the slake-moths loose.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: He is killed by Motley's goons once they learn from him Isaac was the one who sprung the slake-moths loose.]]
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* TheSpock: Deconstructed. Isaac realizes that he can't fully trust The Construct Council, as it is a machine that operates completely on logic and the objective, as thus it can't feel emotion. Isaac decides to not take the risk of allowing it to betray him if it feels it is necessary for its objective.
* TheSpock: Deconstructed. Isaac realizes that he can't fully trust The Construct Council, as it is a machine that operates completely on logic and the objective, as thus it can't feel emotion. Isaac decides to not take the risk of allowing it to betray him if it feels it is necessary for its objective.
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EldritchAbomination: It takes the form of a gigantic spider, but most people are unable to understand it or fully comprehend what it is or what it wants.
* GiantSpider: It's most common form.
* GiantSpider: It's most common form.
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* RealityWarper:RealityWarper: Implied. We're never told the full extent of its powers, but one person that takes a trip with it finds, on the other side, that his gun has been turned to glass.
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* ArchEnemy: To Rudgutter and the other corrupt New Crobuzon officials. They [[spoiler: eventually have him tortured and killed]] for the trouble he's caused.
* ArchEnemy: To Benjamin Flex, Derkhan Blueday, and the Runagate Rampant newspaper.
* AffablyEvil: Despite being a crony of Rudgutter and [[spoiler: being the puppet of a parasite]], he's a personable fellow.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: For his trouble
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The morality of The Weaver is a strange thing, as it is based on aesthetic taste and what it views as 'beauty.'
* TheBusCameBack: The Weaver (or another weaver) makes a brief appearance in the third Bas-Lag novel Iron Council.
* Cloudcuckoolander: The Weaver is a...[[Understatment strange and eccentric fellow]] to say the least.
* TheBusCameBack: The Weaver (or another weaver) makes a brief appearance in the third Bas-Lag novel Iron Council.
* Cloudcuckoolander: The Weaver is a...[[Understatment strange and eccentric fellow]] to say the least.
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* LightningBruiser: he can literally shift through time and space to deliver crushing attacks. He's more than capable of fighting multiple Slake Moths at once
* LightningBruiser: he can literally shift through time and space to deliver crushing attacks. He's more than capable of fighting multiple Slake Moths at once
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
NiceJobBreakingItHero: Of all the specimens that Isaac releases when declaring his research into flight having dead-ended, the single one that he elected to keep sets the plot in motion.
*NightmareFetishist:
NightmareFetishist: How else to describe Isaac Grimnebulin? He's in love with a woman whose head is a giant beetle, a bird-person turning up on his doorstep asking for a new set of wings all but causes him to squee, and he is cheerfully enchanted with one particularly weird grub netted by his black-market attempts to find flight specimens. [[spoiler: Until that grub grows up]]. You know when Isaac is freaked out, shit got real. [[spoiler: He can hold a conversation, an intelligible and productive conversation, with The Weaver.]]
*PyrrhicVictory:PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Isaac has saved New Crobuzon, defeated the Slake Moths, proved his crisis engine will work (and more importantly, kept it out of the hands of the corrupt government & the Mecha-Mooks), and hardest of all, survived. On the other hand, Lin is lobotomized, Yagharek is revealed as a rapist, Isaac refuses to help Yagharek, and the Constructs are headed for destruction. Not to mention Isaac and Derkhan have to flee New Crobuzon with the lobotomized Lin in tow, as the government is understandably not interested in giving them credit for having saved the city and has left them at the top of the Most Wanted list.]]
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* GeniusBruiser: A genius Isaac, in spite of being a scientist, is a mountain of a man who also proves holds his own against the city's militia with some well-lobbed chemicals, not to be quite handy in a mention taking on monsters that Hell itself was too scared to fight.
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The main protagonist of the novel. He is a well known 'rogue scientist’ who is attempting to create a specializes in Crisis Engine, Theory, his part in the story comes when he [[spoiler: inadvertently releases a horrifying monstrosity on New Crobuzon.]]
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* TheAtoner: Becomes this after he [[spoiler:: accidentally unleashes the slake-moths on New Crobuzon.]]
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* TheAtoner: Becomes this after he [[spoiler:: [[spoiler: accidentally unleashes the slake-moths on New Crobuzon.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite his…[[EldritchAbomination appearance]] and reputation, he seems like a nice enough guy. But it’s an act to hide what he truly is: a vicious, cold blooded monster who would happily risk the city’s safety to make a buck.
* BadBoss: While he acts nice towards Isaac, he’s truly a nasty bastard to his subordinates. Isaac hates his guts.
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* TheHero: Probably the closest thing the novel has to one. Without hesitation, he risks his life and nearly getting his consciousness sucked out so he can stop the slake-moths, and despite succeeding, manages to lose most of the people who he cares about along the way.
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FireForgedFriends: With Yagharek, though tragically subverted when [[spoiler: Isaac eventually discovers Yagharek’s crime.]] Played straight with Derkhan and Lemuel.
* GeniusBruiser: A genius scientist, who also proves to be quite handy in a fight.
* TheHero: Probably the closest thing the novel has to one. Without hesitation, he risks his life and nearly getting his consciousness sucked out so he can stop the slake-moths, anddespite succeeding, manages succeeds [[PyrrhicVictory at great cost to lose most of the people who he cares about along the way. himself]].
* GeniusBruiser: A genius scientist, who also proves to be quite handy in a fight.
* TheHero: Probably the closest thing the novel has to one. Without hesitation, he risks his life and nearly getting his consciousness sucked out so he can stop the slake-moths, and
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* FireFirgedFriends: With Isaac, but ultimately subverted once [[spoiler: Isaac finds out what his crime was.]]
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* FireFirgedFriends: FireForgedFriends: With Isaac, but ultimately subverted once [[spoiler: Isaac finds out what his crime was.]]
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* DirtyCoward: A more sympathetic portrayal of this trope. He considers himself one, though his [spoiler: ratting Isaac out] has more to due with his concern over the [spoiler: slake-moths]
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* DirtyCoward: A more sympathetic portrayal of this trope. He considers himself one, though his [spoiler: [[spoiler: ratting Isaac out] out]] has more to due with his concern over the [spoiler: slake-moths] [[spoiler: slake-moths]]
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* FatalFlaw: Curiosity, which leads her to [[spoiler: look at the slake-moth and cause her to become permanently brain damaged.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartofGold: {Downplayed}}, as Yagharek is generally amiable. But he proves to be a heroic character and a loyal friend to Isaac, until [spoiler: Isaac finds out what he did.]
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* JerkWithAHeartofGold: {Downplayed}}, FireFirgedFriends: With Isaac, but ultimately subverted once [[spoiler: Isaac finds out what his crime was.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: {{Downplayed}}, as Yagharek is generally amiable. But he proves to be a heroic character and a loyal friend to Isaac, until[spoiler: [[spoiler: Isaac finds out what he did.]]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: {{Downplayed}}, as Yagharek is generally amiable. But he proves to be a heroic character and a loyal friend to Isaac, until
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: a more articulate and melancholy version of the trope.
* RapeIsASpecialKindofEvil: Deconstructed, as Yagharek's crime can't be translated between cultures, and ultimately Isaac is unable to pass judgement except through his own lens, which breaks him further.
* NobleSavage: Initially played straight but ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as it's revealed that Yagharek's crime was [[spoiler: rape...or something akin to rape.]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: a more articulate and melancholy version of the trope.
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* PyrrhicVictory:
* RenaissanceMan: Isaac dabbles in virtually every science under the sun, often exploring new, underresearched areas just due to his obsession of the month. (And he manages simultaneously to not be an OmnidisciplinaryScientist; he doesn't know everything, so when someone comes to him with a new problem he has to spend weeks researching it and sometimes consults with experts in the fields he's not so good at.)
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* RenaissanceMan: Isaac dabbles in virtually every science under the sun, often exploring new, underresearched areas just due to his obsession of the month. (And he manages simultaneously to not be an OmnidisciplinaryScientist; he doesn't know everything, so when someone comes to him with a new problem he has to spend weeks researching it and sometimes consults with experts in the fields he's not so good at.)
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* SerialKiller: It's revealed that [[spoiler: he is the Eyespy Killer]]. He has a strange eye condition which causes his eyes to rot and [[BodyHorror fall out of his sockets]]. So he [[spoiler: has political rivals murdered, and takes out their eyes to use, before dumping them.]]
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* InsufferableGenius: He has [[DownplayedTrope shades of this]], as he often likes to go on long diatribes about his scientific theories, much to the chagrin of his friends. But he is a genuinely NiceGuy who proves to be a hero as the novel moves along.
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* TooDumbToLive: Sure, Lin. Why not create a sculpture for the city's most notorious mob boss? That [[SarcasmMode definitely won't bite you in the ass later.]] Also, why not [[spoiler: look at the beast who your boyfriend had '''clearly''' instructed you not to look at]]. Definitely not stupid at all.
* TooDumbToLive: Sure, Lin. Why not create a sculpture for the city's most notorious mob boss? That [[SarcasmMode definitely won't bite you in the ass later.]] Also, why not [[spoiler: look at the beast who your boyfriend had '''clearly''' instructed you not to look at]]. Definitely not stupid at all.
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!!Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin
The main protagonist of the novel.
!!Lin
A major character in the novel, and Isaac's love interest. She is [[spoiler: kidnapped by the ruthless crime boss Mr. Motley and eventually becomes partially lobotomized by the slake moths by the end of the story.]]
!!Yagharek
A major character of the novel, and an exiled member of the garuda people. He has lost his wings after an unspecified crime that he committed before the events of the novel, [[spoiler: it is revealed to be rape, or something akin to rape.]]
!!Derkhan Blueday
!!Lamuel Pigeon
!!David Serachin
!!Lublamai Dadscatt
!!Mr. Motley
!!Mayor Bentham Rudgutter
!!Montjohn Rescue
!!Vermishank
!!The Construct Council
!!The Weaver
The main protagonist of the novel.
!!Lin
A major character in the novel, and Isaac's love interest. She is [[spoiler: kidnapped by the ruthless crime boss Mr. Motley and eventually becomes partially lobotomized by the slake moths by the end of the story.]]
!!Yagharek
A major character of the novel, and an exiled member of the garuda people. He has lost his wings after an unspecified crime that he committed before the events of the novel, [[spoiler: it is revealed to be rape, or something akin to rape.]]
!!Derkhan Blueday
!!Lamuel Pigeon
!!David Serachin
!!Lublamai Dadscatt
!!Mr. Motley
!!Mayor Bentham Rudgutter
!!Montjohn Rescue
!!Vermishank
!!The Construct Council
!!The Weaver
