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The City We Became

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The City We Became	comment	The City We Became is a 2020 novel by N. K. Jemisin. It is the first volume of the Urban Fantasy duology The Great Cities. It takes place in a world where great cities acquire sentience through human avatars. In New York City, a group of avatars of New York, each representing their respective five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island) as well as of the whole city New York City as a whole emerges to face a supernatural threat.
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The City We Became / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
The City We Became / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: New York is too big for one person to handle all of it; the prime avatar is able to briefly channel the entire city to beat back the Woman In White's initial attack, but the effort nearly kills him, and he spends nearly the whole book in a magical coma.
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The City We Became / int_15adb9a8	type	Never Split the Party
The City We Became / int_15adb9a8	comment	Never Split the Party: The main characters are reluctant to split up because that would mean they could get picked off one by one. However by the end they split up, with one half going to find Staten Island and the other finding the Primary.
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The City We Became / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
The City We Became / int_1888979e	comment	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Enemy initially says she wants to stop cities from becoming alive and destroying multiple inhabited universes each time. If she has to exploit human bigotries and cause smaller massacres in the process, and cripple humanity's social development, so be it. By the endgame, she makes it clear that she simply considers humans and their cities to be abominations, and she intends to destroy not just the universe where the story is taking place, but every universe connected to it.
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The City We Became / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
The City We Became / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: People have the power to create new universes with their thoughts, either from cultural constructs or even just one person's imagination being strong enough.
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The City We Became / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The City We Became / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: The Woman In White makes no secret of the fact that she considers humans, and especially cities, to be abominations; that she intends to destroy the city and use it as a stepping stone to destroy the universe; and that the only reward for allying with her is to die last and more peacefully. Staten Island hates the rest of the City too much to care.
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The City We Became / int_24aae752	type	Try and Follow
The City We Became / int_24aae752	comment	Try and Follow: The primary avatar kills the Eldritch Abominations chasing him by making them follow him onto a highway and get run over by cars.
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The City We Became / int_2a35374f	type	Villainous Gentrification
The City We Became / int_2a35374f	comment	Villainous Gentrification: A tool of the Woman in White. By putting up generic chain stores and pricing out the population and their original culture, she saps the "character" from cities and weakens their power. Becomes very literal near the climax when a race to Staten Island must go through a gauntlet of Starbucks franchises-turned-Eldritch Abominations.
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The City We Became / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
The City We Became / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: New York is actually the second city to have multiple avatars—the first was London, and something terrible happened when it incarnated, which has all the other cities on edge about New York. London Prime somehow ate her borough's avatars, and is still incredibly traumatized. Hong Kong believes this is a feature of having multiple avatars, and tells the boroughs with little fanfare that they'll probably get subsumed. They don't, though, and when they meet London herself in the next book London explains that of course she didn't literally eat them; she simply took their avatar-ness into herself. And promptly went mad, because London is much too big to be a single person. There's also how the birth of a city destroys many universes, which Padmini is horrified by.
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The City We Became / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The City We Became / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: To solidify her control over Aislyn, the Woman in White deliberately puts Aislyn in the path of a rapey neo-Nazi when she realizes Paulo is coming to Staten Island, knowing the man will attack. This means Aislyn is terrified and off-balance, allowing the Woman to manipulate her into attacking Paulo with a combination of fear and ingrained racism.
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The City We Became / int_3bd958f2	type	Cast from Money
The City We Became / int_3bd958f2	comment	Cast from Money: Manny throws money to be able to push back tentacles of the Enemy, due to money working as a construct that has power from how important people find it.
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The City We Became / int_3fe6a857	type	Public Domain Character
The City We Became / int_3fe6a857	comment	Public Domain Character: At the climax, Manhattan briefly takes the form of King Kong.
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The City We Became / int_453b3c67	type	Imperfect Ritual
The City We Became / int_453b3c67	comment	Imperfect Ritual: Awakening the primary avatar of New York requires all five of the boroughs, but Staten Island refuses to cooperate and attacks the others. Until they realize political borders don't matter much for this magic, so they can substitute an avatar for Jersey City.
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The City We Became / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The City We Became / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: The Enemy never kept to the rules of engagement it had supposedly agreed to with the cities, and even set up a multinational corporation whose purpose is to destroy cities' individuality so they might never be born, or to weaken and sabotage them if they are. The older cities come to suspect that this is how it arranged the assassination of the avatar of New Orleans.
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The City We Became / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The City We Became / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The last section of any audiobook tends to have the information about the author, the narrator, the production, and copyright, etc., read by the narrator in a more removed tone of voice, different from their 'narration voice' or any of the character voices they take on. In The City We Became that section is read in the Woman In White's voice, dripping with insincere warmth and sarcasm. Then she laughs.
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The City We Became / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
The City We Became / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Aislyn thinks of The Woman in White as a friend. She's even a fan of tea.
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The City We Became / int_4bf3d8d7	type	Personality Powers
The City We Became / int_4bf3d8d7	comment	Personality Powers: The avatars battle using "constructs"—abstract ideas that have real existence in cityspace. Each avatar's preferred constructs influence their fighting style. Brooklyn is a former MC who defeats monsters with literal rap battles. Bronca has fought all her life by running up to bigger, stronger opponents and kicking them before they expect anything. As an avatar, she's always wearing her "boots." Aislyn is so timid that she commands a Perception Filter. Padmini is a graduate student that uses mental mathematical equations to shape reality. Manny is able to hold off the eldritch abominations by literally buying the land they're standing on.
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The City We Became / int_4eb66c8d	type	White Male Lead
The City We Became / int_4eb66c8d	comment	White Male Lead: Averted with the main cast. In fact, being a straight white male is a good sign of being on the side of evil. Lampshaded when Hong addresses Manny upon first meeting the avatars, assuming that the only man among them must be the leader.
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The City We Became / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
The City We Became / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: The birth of a city collapses thousands of realities into non-existence, killing trillions of people or even rendering them Deader than Dead. But there is no way for the avatars of the city to know this until after the city is born.
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The City We Became / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
The City We Became / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: There is a Summit composed of all the cities on Earth that survived their awakenings. Disagreements among their ranks prevented them from mounting an effective resistance to the Enemy's changing tactics.
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The City We Became / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
The City We Became / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: The reason for the plot. The Prime avatar repulsed the Enemy's first attack, but overexerted himself and fell into a coma. New York was forced to awaken five more avatars to help the Prime and weather the next attack.
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The City We Became / int_55d919f7	type	Lovecraft Lite
The City We Became / int_55d919f7	comment	Lovecraft Lite: Yes, it's a story about unknowable invaders from beyond the universe, but a total victory over the Enemy is possible (and has happened several times before, though not without cost).
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The City We Became / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
The City We Became / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The main characters are this to New York and its boroughs. In fact, all the major cities in this world get one or several: Sao Paolo and Hong Kong are secondary characters in the book, and Lagos and Paris are mentioned. The Woman in White is also one - namely, R'lyeh.
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The City We Became / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
The City We Became / int_61459062	comment	Aislyn is so timid that she commands a Perception Filter.
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The City We Became / int_643dbca5	type	Cast of Personifications
The City We Became / int_643dbca5	comment	Cast of Personifications: The main characters embody social and historical aspects of New York and its boroughs: Bronca is an older boisterous Lenape artist, embodying the first inhabitants of New York and the scrappy, artsy side of the Bronx. Brooklyn is a black middle-aged lawyer and city councilwoman who was once a rapper. She embodies both the bohemian past of Brooklyn and its current gentrification. Padmini is a 25-year-old Tamil immigrant graduate student, reflecting the multiculturalism of Queens. She's implied to be Dalit (of the lowest caste), so she also embodies the desires of immigrants to start over in a place with more opportunity. Manny is smartly dressed and ruthless, embodying the business-focused mentality of Manhattan. Much like Manhattan itself, he's just ambiguous enough to reflect whatever the person looking at him expects to see. Aislyn is a timid and mousy white woman afraid of the other, bigger, boroughs, reflecting the whiter and more conservative lean of Staten Island. Veneza hangs around the other avatars for most of the book despite not being one of them. At the climax, she becomes the personification of Jersey City, small and scrappy but daring the rest of New York to say it doesn't belong.
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The City We Became / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The City We Became / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Several of the avatars have names that sound like their borough's name—or, in Brooklyn's case, just have exactly the same name.
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The City We Became / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
The City We Became / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: The boroughs are reluctant to split up but do so near the end of the book, with one half looking for Staten Island and the other half looking for the Primary.
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The City We Became / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The City We Became / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: While the Woman in White is too inhuman to properly feel mortal prejudices (she's good at Fantastic Racism, though), bigots are easier for her to influence than most, so she cheerfully plays to any and all kinds of -isms to get what she wants.
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The City We Became / int_787c6068	type	My Significance Sense Is Tingling
The City We Became / int_787c6068	comment	My Significance Sense Is Tingling: The avatars are able to sense each other's locations. Despite having entire boroughs to search, they find each other pretty quickly.
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The City We Became / int_7b7f0141	type	Tentacled Terror
The City We Became / int_7b7f0141	comment	Tentacled Terror: The soldiers of the Enemy frequently sport the classic writhing tentacles. It's hinted that they intentionally took on the Lovecraft look to distract the Cities from the Enemy's newer, subtler tactics.
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The City We Became / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
The City We Became / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Aislyn finds the Neo-Nazi her father brings home off-putting even before he gets rapey, not because Neo-Nazis are bad, but because he identifies with the Vikings, and her hatred of "invaders" extends to hating the Vikings for invading Ireland centuries ago.
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The City We Became / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The City We Became / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Woman in White appears to be a white (Caucasian) woman with white hair and all-white clothing, but she doesn't even bother hiding that she's something utterly inhuman and alien. Her other features vary considerably between appearances, and is once described as having unnatural and unsettling beauty. She is an avatar of the Enemy, and R'lyeh contains many Women in White.
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The City We Became / int_86ba007a	type	Bad Powers, Good People
The City We Became / int_86ba007a	comment	Bad Powers, Good People: Manny, as the avatar of the borough "where money talks and bullshit walks", has powers that come down to emotional manipulation and magical late capitalism, as well as a nasty set of skills from his former life, but he's firmly one of the good guys.
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The City We Became / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The City We Became / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Enemy is explicitly and repeatedly called one, word for word. It is an immense, ancient horror from an incomprehensible universe, and it has nothing but ill will for cities and humanity in general. It manifests on Earth in a variety of forms, including feathery white tendrils of various sizes, two-dimensional spider monsters, and - most prominently - the Woman in White. Fittingly, the Enemy turns out to be the avatar of the city of R'lyeh.
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The City We Became / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The City We Became / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Bronca and Aislyn are both reluctant to join the rest of the city despite their powers calling to them to do so.
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The City We Became / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
The City We Became / int_8cb844c6	comment	Ms. Exposition: Because Bronca's the oldest, New York decides she's the one who can handle knowing all the background information, so she has to tell the others how stuff works.
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The City We Became / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The City We Became / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The Woman in White intends to create a class X-5 with her city imposing on New York destroying this universe and several others connecting to it. A class X-5 also happens every time a city is born, "tearing through" universes and destroying thousands of them.
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The City We Became / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
The City We Became / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: One of the possible fates for New York if the avatars lose—the Woman in White destroyed Atlantis so completely that it never existed in the first place.
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The City We Became / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
The City We Became / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Hurricane Katrina and the botching of the government response were influenced, if not caused by, the Woman in White, as a way to make it easier to kill New Orleans. The same goes for the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and the birth of Port-au-Prince.
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The City We Became / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
The City We Became / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: When the boroughs learn that they may have to die to awaken New York Prime, they're not happy about it, but they all eventually agree. Five lives against millions isn't a choice at all. Averted when Bronca's power confirms that the birth of a city destroys countless lives in multiple universes; the avatars decide that living cities are worth the loss.
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The City We Became / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The City We Became / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Woman in White has a "board" she must answer to.
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The City We Became / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The City We Became / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Bronca is gay and so was her late husband, but they stayed married because they genuinely liked each other even if they weren't in love. They also wanted to have kids, and knew it was safer to appear straight.
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The City We Became / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The City We Became / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The Enemy has spent millennia pretending to be a rampaging beast so the cities don't recognize its ability to plan ahead and weaken cities before they're born.
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The City We Became / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The City We Became / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: When Manny, Brooklyn, and Padmini coming together triggers a vision of the prime avatar, Manny falls for him hard.
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The City We Became / int_aa0ed8a9	type	Look Both Ways
The City We Became / int_aa0ed8a9	comment	Look Both Ways: The primary avatar runs away from his enemies across the FDR drive, and they get killed by being run over by the cars there.
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The City We Became / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: It's clear Aislyn's prejudices and issues stem from being raised by an emotionally abusive bigot, and the narrative presents her terrible home life sympathetically. But it's equally clear that as a grown woman, she has the chance to become someone better, and it's her fault for not taking it. This also applies to Brooklyn when Bronca calls her out for some violently homophobic lyrics she wrote back during her career as MC Free. Brooklyn acknowledges that the sexism and homophobia she herself was facing from the male MCs on the scene doesn't make it okay.
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The City We Became / int_b0692cd9	comment	Intro-Only Point of View: The primary avatar of New York narrates the first chapter, but he's in a coma for the rest of the book until he gets to narrate the epilogue.
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The City We Became / int_b26ca4f5	type	The Champion
The City We Became / int_b26ca4f5	comment	The Champion: Manny is completely loyal to and in love with the primary avatar and feels his mission is to do anything to protect him.
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The City We Became / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
The City We Became / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: As befitting a story where R'lyeh shows up. A mere glimpse is frightening enough to break down the normally unshakeable Veneza. Discussed on a Tumblr post that Padmini reads, which jokes about how Lovecraft portrayed non-Euclidean geometry as scary when to people familiar with math it's actually completely harmless.
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The City We Became / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The City We Became / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: It's strongly implied that even the NYPD find Aislyn's father's behavior unacceptable, which is why he has no friends at work and hasn't made detective despite thirty years of trying. We also learn that at least a few NYPD officers (notably, the women) are on the side of the City.
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The City We Became / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The City We Became / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: Befitting the ethnic and cultural diversity of New York City. Also played with as the main cast has no White Male Lead like the usual iterations of this trope.
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The City We Became / int_c042eee9	type	Invisible to Normals
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The City We Became / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The City We Became / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Subverted. The heroes beat the abominations with physical violence several times, but being city avatars, they're halfway to being eldritch abominations themselves.
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The City We Became / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
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The City We Became / int_d3f67567	type	Personal Hate Before Common Goals
The City We Became / int_d3f67567	comment	Personal Hate Before Common Goals: The Enemy openly declares that she's there to destroy the universe. Staten Island wants to see the other boroughs go to Hell so badly that she's okay with this.
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The City We Became / int_e5066b68	type	11th-Hour Superpower
The City We Became / int_e5066b68	comment	11th-Hour Superpower: Veneza, Bronca's protege at the art center, shows flashes of magical sensitivity for the whole book. When it becomes clear that Aislyn's betrayed them, she gets an emergency upgrade and becomes the avatar of Jersey City (considered a "sixth borough" of NYC). Her presence allows New York prime to fully power up.
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The City We Became / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The City We Became / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Everything associated with the Enemy is a stark, stale white.
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The City We Became / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
The City We Became / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Manny can remember all the general knowledge he had before awakening, but nothing about the details of his own life. He believes it's because he was not a good person before becoming Manhattan, and the City took away that knowledge so it wouldn't impede his ability to fight.
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The City We Became / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
The City We Became / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: Brooklyn, Bronca and Aislyn all have names that sound like the borough they will later end up represented, although Manny's name is a Line-of-Sight Name he created for himself due to his amnesia and not the name he was born with.
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The City We Became / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
The City We Became / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Both Aislyn and her mother, thanks to Matthew's abuse.
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The City We Became / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Aislyn's father arrests someone and charges them with assault for no other reason than they were the wrong color and in his wrong neighborhood.
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The City We Became / int_f31926c2	comment	Expendable Alternate Universe: Thousands of alternate universes are destroyed when a city is born. While the main characters had no way of preventing this from happening with the birth of New York, they still decide pretty quickly that it's worth it and make no attempt to prevent it from happening again.
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The City We Became / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
The City We Became / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The third act really kicks off after the Woman in White destroys the Bronx Arts Center.
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The City We Became / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
The City We Became / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: The five boroughs of New York and New York city as a whole are incarnated into six avatars that represent their social essence.
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The City We Became / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The City We Became / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: On a large scale. When she freaks out and attacks Paulo, Aislyn strikes the city as well as the incarnation, not realizing that's what she's doing, which causes a horrific earthquake.
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