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The Drowned Cities

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The Drowned Cities	label	The Drowned Cities
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The Drowned Cities	comment	The Drowned Cities is a science-fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi and the companion piece to Ship Breaker. The novel is set in the flooded interior of the United States following the melting of the polar ice caps.There is no law and order in the Drowned Cities. Armies of soldier boys, with titles like the United Patriotic Front (UPF), the Army of God, and Taylor's Wolves war over the wreckage of what was once the world's greatest superpower, bullying and killing anyone they feel like. Teenage Mahlia, left maimed after an encounter with the Army of God, just wants to get on with her life, and eke out a living among her fellow refugees as a doctor's assistant. A chance encounter with a wounded halfman named Tool, and the subsequent press-ganging of her friend Mouse into the UPF, however, upset Mahlia's life and put her on a collision course with the soldier boys and their leader, Colonel Glenn Stern.
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The Drowned Cities / int_117c211a	type	Glorious Leader
The Drowned Cities / int_117c211a	comment	Glorious Leader: Stern to the UPF, Sachs to the Army of God.
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The Drowned Cities / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
The Drowned Cities / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Soa is set on fire and torn apart by coywolves.
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The Drowned Cities / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Drowned Cities / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Lieutenant Sayle evidences strongly psychopathic behaviour. One could make a case for the oh-so Axe-Crazy Soa as well.
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The Drowned Cities / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Drowned Cities / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Ocho tries to be this to his boys, but has trouble with it given how screwed up he is, and the fact that Sayle is always looking over his shoulder.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Drowned Cities / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Most soldier boys, especially Soa and Sayle. They honestly believe that if you can't defend yourself they have a god-given right to victimise you—and that you should be grateful for it as, after all, they're doing it for your sake.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1b70ccc6	type	The Cynic
The Drowned Cities / int_1b70ccc6	comment	The Cynic: Mahlia, Ocho, and Tool
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The Drowned Cities / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
The Drowned Cities / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: Sayle, who gets far more screentime than his boss, and moves the plot until the final chapters.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
The Drowned Cities / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Mahlia and Mahfouz play this role to an entire community. Ocho considers recruiting Mahlia to be his squad medic at one point.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Drowned Cities / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Also sneered at. The warring factions believe that you have the right to do what you want as long as no one can stop you.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Drowned Cities / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Ocho is very jealous of Mahlia and Mouse/Ghost's relationship, not because he's particularly interested in either of them (though see Ship Tease, below) but because the fact that Mahlia came to save Mouse makes him painfully aware of the fact nobody came for him.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
The Drowned Cities / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Mahlia to Mouse, Ocho and Tool to Mahlia.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Drowned Cities / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Soa gets eaten alive by wolves, while burning to death. Mahlia doesn't play nice.
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The Drowned Cities / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Drowned Cities / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Mahlia lost a hand to the Army of God. Sayle later takes the little finger of her working hand, and Glenn Stern has Mouse's hand mutilated.
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The Drowned Cities / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
The Drowned Cities / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: Stern's Eagle Guard. They're little more than Elite Mooks in the end.
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The Drowned Cities / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Drowned Cities / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The Drowned Cities themselves, which are flooded out, decaying, and fought over by local warlords who've long since forgotten the original grievance. World Half Full: The setting as a whole remains this, and while there's no fixing the Drowned Cities, the ending implies that things may get better for Mahlia and her allies. Wretched Hive: The Cities likely qualify, even by the standards of the setting. The phrase "pure Drowned Cities" is used to imply that someone is either a) a survivor or b) a complete barbarian.
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The Drowned Cities / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The Drowned Cities / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: How Stern justifies what he does. Soa uses a similar excuse, though underneath, he's just a sociopath looking for a chance to hurt somebody. He, like most of Stern's soldier boys, talks a good game about reuniting the country, but has no real understanding of what a country even is.
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The Drowned Cities / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Drowned Cities / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Mahlia and Tool. Mahlia and Ocho are at least fire-forged teammates.
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The Drowned Cities / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
The Drowned Cities / int_278a8f2b	comment	Most of the soldier boys talk like Jingos who have been fed slogans from a bygone era without any context, act like Conscripts, and are all afflicted with shell shock in one way or another.
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The Drowned Cities / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Drowned Cities / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: All the soldier boys are without family, as is Mouse. Mahlia's mother was raped and murdered by the soldier boys and her peacekeeper father fled back to China.
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The Drowned Cities / int_30e50131	type	The Golden Rule
The Drowned Cities / int_30e50131	comment	The Golden Rule: Sneered at by the soldier boys. "That's peacekeeper talk." Pay Evil unto Evil: Also sneered at. The warring factions believe that you have the right to do what you want as long as no one can stop you. Might Makes Right: The philosophy that the soldier boys operate by.
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The Drowned Cities / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Drowned Cities / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End
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The Drowned Cities / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
The Drowned Cities / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: The philosophy that the soldier boys operate by.
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The Drowned Cities / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Drowned Cities / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The soldier boys spend most of their time doing this, tormenting civillains who pose no threat to them, simply because they are unarmed. Specific examples include Soa's bullying of Mahlia (which includes wiping his dead comrades' blood on her face and trying to force her to lick his boots), and Sayle's mutilation of anyone who irritates him in the slightest.
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The Drowned Cities / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
The Drowned Cities / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Almost all the soldier boys we meet certainly are.
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The Drowned Cities / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Drowned Cities / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: The revelation that Stern is one is what triggers Ocho's Heel–Face Turn. Sayle is one from the time of his introduction.
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The Drowned Cities / int_3f71c185	type	Teenage Wasteland
The Drowned Cities / int_3f71c185	comment	Teenage Wasteland: Not quite, but getting there. The only adults we meet are Dr. Mahfouz, Colonel Glenn Stern, and Lieutenant Sayle.
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The Drowned Cities / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
The Drowned Cities / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: Mahlia may be down a hand, but she's still one of the smartest people in the novel, bar none.
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The Drowned Cities / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
The Drowned Cities / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: The Cities likely qualify, even by the standards of the setting. The phrase "pure Drowned Cities" is used to imply that someone is either a) a survivor or b) a complete barbarian.
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The Drowned Cities / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Drowned Cities / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Hell yes. Mahlia gets out alive and recruits Ocho and his soldier boys into helping her escape. The situation in The Drowned Cities is as bad as ever though, and Mouse, who she came to save, ends up dead.
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The Drowned Cities / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Drowned Cities / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The only "tactic" displayed by most soldier boys.
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The Drowned Cities / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Drowned Cities / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicted on Mahlia by the Army of God, and Mahlia, Tool, and Mouse by the UPF.
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The Drowned Cities / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
The Drowned Cities / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: The USA has gone to hell. Seascape Boston remains a superpower, but the rest of the country has fallen to pieces, with the interior being abandoned to the warlords.
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The Drowned Cities / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Drowned Cities / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Ocho starts to see Mahlia in this light. Realising that she's coming after them just about gives him a heart attack.
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The Drowned Cities / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Drowned Cities / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Mouse, courtesy of Sayle and his goons.
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The Drowned Cities / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
The Drowned Cities / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: The soldier boys of the UPF brand their faces to mark them as Stern's.
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The Drowned Cities / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Drowned Cities / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Stern.
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The Drowned Cities / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
The Drowned Cities / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: In-universe and played for horror and tragedy alike. The various armies in the Drowned Cities probably had goals once upon a time, but the constant fighting and killing has caused their objectives to degrade to the point where they're more interested in settling scores and warring over city blocks than actually trying to accomplish anything.
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The Drowned Cities / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
The Drowned Cities / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Mahlia and Mouse, who've managed to survive one disaster after another on their wits and ability to run.
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The Drowned Cities / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Drowned Cities / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Lieutenant Sayle to Glenn Stern, and arguably Sergeant Ocho to Sayle.
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The Drowned Cities / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
The Drowned Cities / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: Doctor Mahfouz, who discourages Mahlia from so much as saying bad things about people, let alone resorting to violence.
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The Drowned Cities / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
The Drowned Cities / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: Tool.
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The Drowned Cities / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
The Drowned Cities / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: Sayle's skeletal build is frequently remarked on.
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The Drowned Cities / int_572249f0	type	Straight Edge Evil
The Drowned Cities / int_572249f0	comment	Straight Edge Evil: Sayle doesn't booze, drug, or use prostitutes. This has less to do with morality and more to do with the fact that killing and hurting people is what gets him off.
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The Drowned Cities / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
The Drowned Cities / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: The UPF vs The Army of God vs Taylor's Wolves vs The Freedom Militia vs Tulane Company vs god knows who else.
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The Drowned Cities / int_59a9605d	type	Never Smile at a Crocodile
The Drowned Cities / int_59a9605d	comment	Never Smile at a Crocodile: The king alligator that ambushes Tool near the start of the novel not only comes within millimeters of killing him, but also devours a sizeable number of the soldier boys pursuing him.
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The Drowned Cities / int_603b77ec	type	Savage Wolves
The Drowned Cities / int_603b77ec	comment	Savage Wolves: The coywolv are coyote/wolf hybrids. Mahlia looses a pack of them on Sayle's men, resulting in numerous deaths and even more injuries. The scene where three of them tear a burning Soa to pieces is pretty gruesome.
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The Drowned Cities / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
The Drowned Cities / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: Toyed with in just about every way with Mahlia and Ocho, who meet when Sayle forces her to patch Ocho up at gunpoint. There's an instant connection, and each one develops some respect for the other—respect that manifests as Ocho wanting to burn her into the unit, and Mahlia deciding to save Ocho when she uses coywolv musk to loose an entire pack on his comrades. This later develops into a strange, Worthy Opponent vibe, and they ultimately ally at the end of the book.
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The Drowned Cities / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Drowned Cities / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Stern, Sachs, and all the other warlords are only too willing to say this.
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The Drowned Cities / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
The Drowned Cities / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Courtesy of the kind of war they're in, Ocho (late teens) and Sayle (in his twenties) end up falling into this trope.
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The Drowned Cities / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
The Drowned Cities / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Most soldier boys, who can't empathise with anyone outside of their squads. Soa and Sayle are even worse, failing to empathise with anyone other than themselves.
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The Drowned Cities / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Drowned Cities / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Mahlia and the other castoff children get in a lot of trouble for being half-Chinese/half-American. As much as the locals hated the peacekeepers, they hate the locals who married them, and their mixed blood offspring, even more.
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The Drowned Cities / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
The Drowned Cities / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: Tool was forced to participate in them by Stern in the backstory.
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The Drowned Cities / int_6ac5926f	type	Insane Admiral
The Drowned Cities / int_6ac5926f	comment	Insane Admiral: Colonel Glenn Stern is demonstrably insane, viewing himself as a messianic figure destined to reunite America. General Sachs of the Army of God is implied to be as bad or worse, as is Tool's former commander, General Caroa.
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The Drowned Cities / int_6cc92c4c	type	Anti-Villain
The Drowned Cities / int_6cc92c4c	comment	Antivillain: Ocho, who is as much a victim of the war as Mahlia and Mouse and genuinely cares about the boys under his command.
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The Drowned Cities / int_6fb7cf97	type	Bigger Stick
The Drowned Cities / int_6fb7cf97	comment	Bigger Stick: The Army of God has managed to strike up a contract with some outside weapons dealers and has imported actual artillery. This completely tilts the war in their favour—for the moment, at least.
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The Drowned Cities / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Drowned Cities / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Most of the soldier boys (and more than a few of the local civvies) display extreme xenophobia towards Mahlia and other "castoffs". There's also a degree of casual misogyny, which makes sense given that most of the boys don't see girls outside of the nailsheds. Soa is easily the worst in this regard, having a minor Freak Out whenever his prejudices are questioned.
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The Drowned Cities / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Drowned Cities / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Fight the good fight, soldier boy." Repeated at various points by various characters, it serves as a constant reminder of just how pointless the war in the Drowned Cities has become.
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The Drowned Cities / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
The Drowned Cities / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: Though it's not as central to the plot as it was in Ship Breaker, this is still very much the case. The Drowned Cities themselves are one giant scavenge heap.
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The Drowned Cities / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
The Drowned Cities / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: Mahlia and Mouse, with her as the older, responsible sibling, and him as the young, impulsive one.
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The Drowned Cities / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Drowned Cities / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Mahlia's parents were never married, and her father eventually abandoned both she and her mother when he fled back to China.
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The Drowned Cities / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Drowned Cities / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Almost all the soldier boys, and especially Ocho.
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The Drowned Cities / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
The Drowned Cities / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Ocho snaps and kills both Colonel Stern and Lieutenant Sayle in the climax.
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The Drowned Cities / int_80ed8406	type	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
The Drowned Cities / int_80ed8406	comment	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Inverted. Sergeant Ocho is as reasonable as a soldier boy can be, while Lieutenant Sayle is a psychopathic sadist.
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The Drowned Cities / int_82b1fd4f	type	WorldHalfFull
The Drowned Cities / int_82b1fd4f	comment	World Half Full: The setting as a whole remains this, and while there's no fixing the Drowned Cities, the ending implies that things may get better for Mahlia and her allies.
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The Drowned Cities / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Drowned Cities / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Stern to Ocho
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The Drowned Cities / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
The Drowned Cities / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: Some of Ocho's troops definitely have this problem, leading him to complain about their lack of discipline.
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The Drowned Cities / int_899f4b24	type	HeelRealisation
The Drowned Cities / int_899f4b24	comment	Heel Realisation —> Heel–Face Turn: Ocho, after realising just how demented his boss is. He brings all his surviving boys along for the ride.
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The Drowned Cities / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Drowned Cities / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Mouse continues to stab Stern long after the man is bleeding out. The Eagle Guard treat Mouse the same way, emptying most of their magazines into him.
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The Drowned Cities / int_934c7e38	type	Paper Tiger
The Drowned Cities / int_934c7e38	comment	Paper Tiger: The Chinese peacekeepers accused the warlords of being this, since they fled whenever the peacekeepers showed up. The warlords accused the Chinese of the same thing, especially after they fled back to Beijing.
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The Drowned Cities / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Drowned Cities / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Stern has a pretty ugly one.
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The Drowned Cities / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Drowned Cities / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: There are many warlords contending for the title, but Glenn Stern is the one the reader and Mahlia actually interact with.
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The Drowned Cities / int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
The Drowned Cities / int_9ab3da1a	comment	Evil Mentor: Sayle to Ocho and the rest of his soldier boys. Ocho is fully aware of this, though the rest of the boys idolise the LT.
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The Drowned Cities / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Drowned Cities / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Sayle takes Mahlia's humiliation of him personally.
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The Drowned Cities / int_a3a4a800	type	Too Clever by Half
The Drowned Cities / int_a3a4a800	comment	Too Clever by Half: Mahlia.
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The Drowned Cities / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Drowned Cities / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: While Tool was hardly a minor character in Ship Breaker, his role in the plot is considerably more important in The Drowned Cities.
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The Drowned Cities / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Drowned Cities / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Most of the soldier boys are terrible shots. Justified as they're a bunch of child soldiers with no training. Tool shreds them with ease, and one suspects that most of the villains from Ship Breaker could do the same.
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The Drowned Cities / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Drowned Cities / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Mahlia, who's missing her right hand, pushes into this territory due to her resourcefulness.
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The Drowned Cities / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
The Drowned Cities / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Tool (living warmachine) and Mahlia (crippled victim of warfare). From the looks of the ending, Mahlia and Ocho may be heading the same way.
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The Drowned Cities / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Drowned Cities / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Arguably Stern, who dies begging Ocho to keep taking the fight to the enemy.
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The Drowned Cities / int_af26b36a	type	The One Who Made It Out
The Drowned Cities / int_af26b36a	comment	The One Who Made It Out: Mahlia wants to be this. She's determined to escape the Drowned Cities.
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The Drowned Cities / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
The Drowned Cities / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Lieutenant Sayle, who just enjoys hurting people.
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The Drowned Cities / int_b41acf08	type	AxeCrazy
The Drowned Cities / int_b41acf08	comment	One of Ocho's men, Soa, is also a Psycho, of the Axe-Crazy Mood-Swinger variety. He has pretensions of being a Jingo, but doesn't even really understand what the words mean.
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The Drowned Cities / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Drowned Cities / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The UPF members believe that every faction but their own is evil, even though they all commit the same kind of atrocities. It takes Stern attacking one of their own for Ocho to realise how bad he is.
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The Drowned Cities / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
The Drowned Cities / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Mahlia and the soldier boys are all victims of the war, who view violence as the appropriate response to problems, are out for themselves first, and others later. This is pointed out by Dr. Mahfouz, Ocho, and others, with Ocho viewing Mahlia as "pure Drowned Cities."
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The Drowned Cities / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Drowned Cities / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Standard soldier boy behaviour.
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The Drowned Cities / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Drowned Cities / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Assuming he believes his own BS (and he seems to) Stern.
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The Drowned Cities / int_bec82f41	type	Anti-Hero
The Drowned Cities / int_bec82f41	comment	Antihero: Mahlia's a Type IV, who will do horrible things in furtherance of a good cause. Tool is a Type V, distinguished from the genuine villains only by his honour code.
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The Drowned Cities / int_c18c22e8	type	Colonel Kilgore
The Drowned Cities / int_c18c22e8	comment	His commanding officer, Lieutenant Sayle in particular takes his cruelty to Psycho for Hire levels, being a cold-blooded sadist and icy Psycho who joined the UPF so he could inflict Cold-Blooded Torture on civvies and enemy troopers.
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The Drowned Cities / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
The Drowned Cities / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: Sayle does it to Mahlia during their first meeting.
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The Drowned Cities / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Drowned Cities / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The soldier boys in Ocho's squad. They may not like one another—in fact some of them hate each other—but each is aware that the others are all he has. They even pull a collective Heel–Face Turn.
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The Drowned Cities / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
The Drowned Cities / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: The entire story is built around them. The fighting in The Drowned Cities has been going on so long that there simply aren't any adults left. Ocho is a Sergeant in his late teens, and Lieutenant Sayle, who's in his twenties, is ancient.
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The Drowned Cities / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
The Drowned Cities / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Mahlia tells Ocho that she saved his life because "you act almost human."
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The Drowned Cities / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
The Drowned Cities / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Most of the soldier boys talk like Jingos who have been fed slogans from a bygone era without any context, act like Conscripts, and are all afflicted with shell shock in one way or another. Sergeant Ocho is a deeply screwed up and angry Broken Soldier, hiding his PTSD behind a wall of bitterness. His commanding officer, Lieutenant Sayle in particular takes his cruelty to Psycho for Hire levels, being a cold-blooded sadist and icy Psycho who joined the UPF so he could inflict Cold-Blooded Torture on civvies and enemy troopers. One of Ocho's men, Soa, is also a Psycho, of the Axe-Crazy Mood-Swinger variety. He has pretensions of being a Jingo, but doesn't even really understand what the words mean.
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The Drowned Cities / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Drowned Cities / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Mahlia, who hides her trauma under sarcasm and cynicism.
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The Drowned Cities / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Drowned Cities / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Tool, who appeared in Ship Breaker remains this, displaying loyalty only to himself and his own code of honour.
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The Drowned Cities / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
The Drowned Cities / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: Van, one of Ocho's soldier boys, is missing both of his ears.
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The Drowned Cities / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Drowned Cities / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: There are a few very subtle hints that Ocho may have a thing for Mahlia.
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The Drowned Cities / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Drowned Cities / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Sayle is compared to both a praying mantis and a coywolf.note A coyote-wolf hybrid
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The Drowned Cities / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Drowned Cities / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Mahila is a positive example. The various warring factions are all negative ones as their inability to Know When to Fold 'Em has prolonged what is now a truly pointless war.
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The Drowned Cities / int_e733f177	type	GuileHeroine
The Drowned Cities / int_e733f177	comment	Guile Heroine: Mahlia, who survives on her brains more than anything else.
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The Drowned Cities / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
The Drowned Cities / int_eba911fd	comment	Dark Messiah: Stern, Sachs, and every other warlord who promises salvation to his followers. Stern, for instance, honestly seems to believe he is going to reunite America.
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The Drowned Cities / int_ed07a226	type	No More for Me
The Drowned Cities / int_ed07a226	comment	No More for Me: When Ocho sees Mahlia and Tool entering the city he initially thinks they cannot be here and decides he's having a bad reaction to the drugs he's taking.
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The Drowned Cities / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
The Drowned Cities / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Dr. Mahfouz, who is killed by Ocho's boys while trying to help their victims.
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The Drowned Cities / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Drowned Cities / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell
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The Drowned Cities / int_f638e0eb	type	Evil Is Not Pacifist
The Drowned Cities / int_f638e0eb	comment	Evil Is Not Pacifist: The soldier boys are actively repulsed at the notion of turning in their weapons.
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The Drowned Cities / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
The Drowned Cities / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Mahlia and the soldier boys share this attitude. Doctor Mahfouz actually calls her out on her willingness to kill Amaya when the latter threatens to rat out his and Mahlia's hiding place to Sayle.
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The Drowned Cities / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Drowned Cities / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: General Sachs and his Army of God followers.
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The Drowned Cities / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Drowned Cities / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Mahlia, Mouse, Tool, and Ocho all bite back against Sayle and Stern in the climax.
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The Drowned Cities / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
The Drowned Cities / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: The fighting in the Drowned Cities has been going on for decades at the least. Mahlia was born and grew up during a truce, enforced by Chinese peacekeepers, but the moment the peacekeepers pulled out, the bloodshed started up again.
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The Drowned Cities / int_fd41610f	type	China Takes Over the World
The Drowned Cities / int_fd41610f	comment	China Takes Over the World: China (along with Seascape Boston) is the most powerful and influential nation in the setting.
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The Drowned Cities / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Drowned Cities / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Stern honestly does seem to want to repair the United States, but behaves like a psychopath in order to do it.
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The Drowned Cities / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Drowned Cities / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: The soldier boys are little more than swaggering thugs, lording it over people who are too frightened or too weak to fight back. Soa is the standout, trying to force Mahlia to lick his boots because she presumed to question his prejudices—prejudices that, to put the icing on the cake, Soa doesn't even comprehend in the first place.
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