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The Dubious Book Club Podcast Ep 8 - Nevernight Part 2 (Preview) · Dubious Creatures Presents

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  Yeah, I know. Speaking of the protagonist, we
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  should discuss that. What's there to discuss?
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  It's quite a bit. Yeah, I.
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  Kind of like she she done did trick real dirty and I was like
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  you know what bitch, I don't care what happens to you
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  anymore. I didn't care to begin.
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  With, Well, let me do the actual intro and then we'll get into
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  it. Oh.
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  Shit, sorry. I'm going to.
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  Leave that in. Oh yeah, hot start.
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  Yeah, welcome to the Dubious Book Club podcast.
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  I'm Aubrey. Whatever you dubious creatures,
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  say hi to the dubious creatures. Hi, dubious creatures.
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  So no. Yeah, and we are.
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  We are once again joined by guest Jaden King.
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  Jaden, do you want to tell people where they can find you?
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  Real quick you can find things. On also sweet at it's Jaden King
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  doing all kinds of kingly things, tabletop and otherwise,
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  storytelling and, you know, software.
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  But you know, let's dive into things.
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  Yeah, we are going to be discussing the second-half of
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  Never Night and content warnings.
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  Before we get into things. Constant warnings for Never
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  Night are graphic violence score, death of a parent, death
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  of a child, torture, poisoning, animal death, and mentions of SA
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  and This is the second-half of the book, starting right after
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  the masquerade and. Last time on my assassin dark
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  academia. Thank you, Ilona.
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  Don't out my fucking stolen jokes.
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  Big oof. Seriously.
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  Next thing people are going to think that I don't have an
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  original thought in my head, which is true, but hey.
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  We believe your thoughts are original, just not yours.
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  Thank you person I've met twice. I appreciate it.
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  That's three times more than most people get to say.
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  But yeah, the ignoring the fact that it feels like everything at
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  the Red Church is essentially one large game of truth or dare.
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  Yes, we return from Yeah, and shit is still.
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  Fucked, yeah. I was going to say torturously
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  drawn out because like I am at this point in the book, I am
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  just waiting. I know there's the sinking
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  feeling that I have that most of the book is just going to be
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  this and I am not enjoying. It it got repetitive, the tone
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  was like Are you ready for filler episode after filler
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  episode? Yeah, I could have done
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  definitely with less, less of just stuff of the.
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  We're edgy. Assessment Academy.
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  Yeah, I could definitely have done this with that.
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  Yeah, that may get so fucking meddled over the murder of
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  students at the Assassin Academy.
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  Like well. Like OK, I get it though, I do.
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  I kind of understand that. You're also training these
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  people to assassinate people and that you get real angry when
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  someone goes and assassinate someone like I want.
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  It's like, let's teach you how to properly get away with
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  murder, and then how dare someone commit murder and think
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  they can get away with it. We're better to test your skills
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  and then on your fellow students.
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  In. Their defense?
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  They didn't realize that people die when they are killed,
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  apparently. Like how dare.
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  That is fair. I.
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  Don't know man like. I don't know.
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  That rule all felt like a vaguely like a veil of this
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  still is a learned place and you're still safe.
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  That's the problem. With the dark academia angle,
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  because they really want to be like, no, it's still school.
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  I know you're learning how to murder, but like, no, it's still
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  school. It's still school.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, The thing is, the reason
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  why this rule exists is mainly because the book is trying to
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  set up a whodunnit to spice up these filler chapters.
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  And spoiler warning it it it, it's ash.
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  It's fucking Ash. Yeah.
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  It's Ash and her little shit brother.
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  And it turns out they were. They were here on a long con on
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  behalf of the fantasy Catholics who I I don't.
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  I forgive the readership for not remembering who the fuck these
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  people are after so many episodes of filler because I'm
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  going to be honest when when we finally get to the final bit.
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  Like the final climax and the guy leading the fantasy Catholic
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  Church centurion army is that dude from the flashback all the
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  way in the first part of the book.
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  I legitimately didn't remember who this guy was.
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  I did not either. I It wasn't until they used the
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  nickname that I was like, oh, that guy.
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  Oh right, that guy who's never appeared in a present scene the
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  entire book. Yes.
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  Oh oh girl. Oh, oh, why that dastardly?
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  It was very strong, like the the Wizard of Oz were like the bad
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  guys mentioned in so many ways, but never actually met or
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  referenced in a way that's meaningful.
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  So when it comes up, you're like, oh, that's right, Boo, I
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  guess. Yeah.
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  It's like bad guy jump scare. And then.
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  But that's not the part I hate about the climax.
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  Well, let's discuss everything before the climax before we get
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  to the climax. Got to build it up so we can get
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  back. Yeah, Speaking of you're.
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  Edging me so hard right now. Good, because they did that for
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  did that with us for like half a book.
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  Touché. Like the classes, it's like I
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  firm, I remember we come back in the the masquerade and it's just
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  back to classes and trying to figure out who's sneaking around
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  being evil in a school of murders.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Jessamine continues to be
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  continues to try and Draco Malfoy it up even though.
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  I. I cannot figure out this girl's
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  deal other than the plot desperately needs some kind of
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  high school rivalry. I have a lot to unpack with
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  Jessamine too. Yeah.
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  No, please go on. Like, OK, First off, the reason
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  that there's a this problem is that her dad is dead because of
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  Mia's dad and everything that happened.
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  And so because they were tied to it, Jasmine's dad is murdered
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  too. And Jasmine's like, well, if
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  your dad didn't rebel, my dad wouldn't be dead, so it's your
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  fault. And that is the most arbitrary
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  leap I've ever seen ever. And then she just makes that her
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  entire personality to just be like, I hate you because you
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  made me an orphan because your dad didn't do well and my dad
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  was your was friends with your like I couldn't I couldn't stand
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  her motive the entire time. It's very thin.
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  Like I can understand like how maybe after years of being very
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  angry, somebody else maybe manipulated her into turning her
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  anger on the wrong person. But we don't.
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  We're not told if somebody else did because.
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  Yeah. Or seemed anything.
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  It's just no, she's over there. She's a red herring.
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  She's angry. And you know, she's just kicking
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  Mia's butt every chance she gets.
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  I don't even know why she's. At the school other than she is
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  here. Like I don't even know what her
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  motive is other than being a problem for me.
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  Like her entire personality and identity is built around being a
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  rival to Mia, but she only met Mia here.
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  So why is she, you know, like why is she here?
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  What is she trying to accomplish?
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  Why? Seems like the this this.
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  I feel like her Yes you're correct and her entire
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  personality is boiled down to being a rival but like.
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  She even has she even has a goon.
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  Yeah. I don't fucking remember.
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  No, no, that's Ashlynn Osric. I don't remember who this
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  fucking guy's name is because he's that important.
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  I just know he makes he makes a smug smile and that's his entire
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  personality is whenever Jasmine makes a joke, he makes the the
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  classic Draco mouthful hench men.
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  Yeah, he's he's, he's mildly like, he's mildly smug
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  everywhere he goes. And that's but.
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  Like, have you ever met someone who's just so hell bent on being
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  angry? Diamo.
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  That's his fucking name. Diamo.
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  That name so forgettable. Yeah, and he is also there,
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  which a fun fact like the the chapter after we get back from
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  the masquerade. Well, first of all, apparently
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  true faith is a thing in this universe and just mean.
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  Yeah. And just mean yeah.
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  And then Jasmine, like apparently figured that out.
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  And then first thing she does upon them getting back from
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  Masquerade is holds upon sunshine.
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  Yeah, well, to be fair, she watched.
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  She watched this thief trainer just sort of pulled it out and
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  then watched me Bob it. Oh yeah, the power.
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  Of awe compels you. The power of awe compels you.
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  Exactly fantasy. The power of our non donational
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  denominational Trinity like figure compels you.
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  Yeah, not that we're ever going to get much more on Dark and
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  Beyond that. No, we get nothing.
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  We. Will get nothing and you will
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  like it. Actually, counterpoint, we get
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  less than nothing, we can get kind.
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  Of less than nothing. Extra non information.
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  It's just so like the focus did, did, did.
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  So nobody seriously like you pass over this with like a like
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  a for a second draft and and point out the obvious fact that
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  we have so much information and none of it is actually relevant
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  to the plot. We did get a lot of information
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  about this world. Like.
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  Yes, but none of it's relevance. Barely.
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  And if it is relevant to what happens to me, and that's the
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  that's the sin of too much world building.
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  I want to add that too. Like maybe I didn't catch it.
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  What even is the actual plot? Assassin School.
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  Assassin. School, see, but I mean.
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  That's the setting, but like, what's the plot?
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  You know what I mean? Like.
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  No. So OK, the plot is revenge.
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  And we do have to keep in mind that this is the first book of
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  three. I have never once considered
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  that a viable excuse. If you're going to convince
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  somebody to read a trilogy of books, you better fucking hook
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  them with the first one. Otherwise they're not coming
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  back for the other two. But.
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  But answering your question, or Jaden's question, really the
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  plot is just revenge. It's just, it's just like a 17
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  year old girl who's like angsty as fuck and has her period all
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  the time. Not that that's a little thing.
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  And now it's everyone's problem. It's everybody's problem.
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  It is. Revenge is actually, I think
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  it's a plot for every character. I think there was not a single
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  person who was just like. I feel like that's like a bare
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  minimum to get into assassin school because they all have
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  like. Just are you seeking revenge?
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  Yes. No.
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  Yes. OK.
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  You're an assassin. School.
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  No. Go home.
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  You must be this angsty to ride. You know what But.
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  Yeah, I just look. And then I think after that, I
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  think from the order of operations of everything I just
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  remember is like we're going through finals week that never
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  ends. Yeah, pretty much.
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  Yeah. It's always finals week.
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  Yeah, most of Yeah gods are a college students worst fucking
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  nightmare. Because we have to.
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  We still have to do the secrets. One secret that will help you
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  write. The whole premise at that point
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  is 4 classes. You get the top of that class,
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  you get a chance to become a blade, to actually become an
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  assassin. Otherwise you become a prior.
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  Yeah, a hand. We've got the truth where you
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  got to get or one where you got to give it a secret, one where
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  you have to win the sword competition, one where you have
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  to get enough points through theft, and then one where you
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  have to solve the unsolvable poison.
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  Yeah, yeah, after, after the Trinity.
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  Mia's very scared because Mr. Kindly is gone for the first
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  time ever, because Mr. Kindly saw the fucking Trinity and went
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  Nope, I'm out. He's the most, he's the most
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  entertaining character in this fucking book.
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  When it happened, I was like, damn, we're about to lose a good
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  anchor for a bit, yeah. So yeah, then that Mia trick
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  hook up next morning it's just Lottie's dead.
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  Oh no, this character we've seen like 2 times, the first time
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  we've we've met it, the first time a character has died who we
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  have had gotten their name before their death.
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  Because she. Used to be a in world if I
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  remember, specifically a Level 3 slave because that's how they're
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  world building is that there's tears to being a slave.
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  Yeah, apparently. And the Atrian Republic, slayers
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  of kings, destroyers of monarchist coups, really fucking
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  love slavery. They really do enough of.
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  It. And I can, I sorry, can I just
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  take a break from the from the so much progress me as making an
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  Assassin's school to talk about the Atrian Republic for a
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  second? Because it is the more I think
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  about it is the faction, the worse it becomes.
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  It is such a mess of contradictory details.
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  It's only real job seems to be that it's bad and it sucks and
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  that's why you should feel good about what Mia is doing.
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  Yeah, I actually, I struggled with it a bit because obviously
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  the slavery portion, I get it bad.
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  However, the rest of the Edwardian Republic, we're just
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  told that because there was a coup attempt and failed, we
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  shouldn't like them. Yeah, but.
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  Why? Yeah, we discussed that in the
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  Mia's dad being hung nonwithstanding.
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  We discussed we discussed that in the first part.
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  Like why? Why is not having a monarchy a
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  bad thing in this specific context?
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  Like I get it, me as the Corveris were on the wrong side
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  of history, whatever. But they make it out to seem
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  like some kind of terrible injustice when all of the lore
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  is telling us that no, the Atrians really don't like
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  monarchy. Their Last King was a son of a
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  bitch. Like Part 2 even gives us the
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  fact that the current now Cardinal Pope, however we go
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  about it, gained power by literally creating systems to
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  work with the criminals to give them payments to ensure that
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  they're supported. So that crime rates went all the
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  way down and portrayed went all the way up.
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  So the economy started blossoming and then people
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  started getting better conditions of living.
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  Yes. So just remember, Counselor
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  Scava is the bad guy, just just to be clear.
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  And also is the one that wants to get rid of the red church
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  because they are constantly committing assassinations and
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  they're dealing with the night mother who in society is bad.
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  Don't get me wrong, I don't think that Night Mother is bad,
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  but also the red church is murdering people.
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  Yeah, like it. It wants so badly for you to
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  commiserate with the red Church but gives absolutely no real
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  reason to sympathize. Or because the red church
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  doesn't really seem to have much of an ideology other than we
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  wear black and say fuck a lot. They're assassins, what did you
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  expect? I know it's just rooting for in
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  this mess and why should I care? They even make a note on like
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  how like no one can afford them because they're too expensive
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  anyway. And even the people who are like
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  the teachers, their kill counts are like barely in the like
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  early double digits. Yeah, like one of them was like,
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  I've killed 30 people and I'm like having killed nobody, I
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  feel like that's a lot, but also doesn't feel like that's a lot
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  that. Feels like a lot.
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  I don't know. It's just, it's so it's like.
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  If you look at war records, even, even soldiers like, it's
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  hard to rack up those kind of numbers.
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  It is right because double digits is hard to get to most
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  though they are in service unless they're in really certain
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  situations, or more so if they're like they sit at least
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  personal kill counts if you will, they don't reach all
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  digits. Yeah.
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  So like I understand the metrics on that, but it's like they make
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  a lot of asides in second-half of being like people can't
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  afford the red church for this reason, for this reason, for
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  that reason, for this reason. And so some people even have the
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  red church or retainer so that the red church can't kill anyone
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  who has a red church on retainer.
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  So this feel ineffectively. It just feels bad.
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  Yeah. Like it feels like the
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  distortion of of some ideology from forgotten whenever and now
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  people are just trying to use it to fit whatever game they're
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  trying to play. Because that's like.
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  The go ahead. I feel like that would be
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  interesting if they ever leaned into that, but they don't.
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  They're just take, take it all at face value.
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  We need. And The thing is, the only
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  reason the information about the Red Church being so fucking
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  expensive exists in the plot is because we need to solidify
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  Ashland's fucking curse you sudden but inevitable betrayal
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  in the latter half of the book. That's it, Yeah.
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  Let's OK, because that's that's a lot to unpack there.
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  Like we get through the classes and we we're noting who's going
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  to be able to most likely pass at the top of their classes with
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  the fact that Mia can't do anything except for do poison
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  work. At least that's our
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  understanding. We have no idea who's going to
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  do. She's second in poison work
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  behind Lottie. But yes, behind Lottie and then.
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  Who then dies? That and The Who doesn't a lot.
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  He dies. There's like this.
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  Oh well. Did you do it, Mia?
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  There was a there was one spot of blood on your sheets.
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  Yeah, like what kind of fucking kangaroo court are you doing at
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  this assassin school? Like seriously.
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  I will say that's my favorite part of that was and we noticed
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  that the cut went in the way that only a left-handed person
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  can do to be like, remember when I said that Mia was left-handed?
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  Look, look, I brought it back up.
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  You're right, it was Professor Plumb in the drawing room.
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  But the Candlestick? Like fucking hell.
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  Yeah. Seriously, what kind of Ace
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  Attorney bullshit is this? It, it certainly is.
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  And then it's essentially is like they're like Mia, you've
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  got to tell us where you were, what you were doing.
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  And Mia's like, no, I don't want to tell.
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  There's a guy and he's like, I'll tell and Mia's like no, and
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  this guy, he's like, I was there and he was like, like Mia, did
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  you not? That's.
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  Mia was just being Mia and not paying attention.
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  Fucking shadow cat who's always with you.
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  He's your alibi. Because she didn't want.
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  To admit. That she was hooking up with
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  Tick after a curfew was the whole reason she was like, I
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  can't say no. Yeah, it's yeah.
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  By the way, they, they, they bone just to confirm it to the
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  audience Trick and Mia. They they, they do the
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  horizontal gymnastics after curfew.
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  The scamps. Which?
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  Are you supposed to do it? The punishment for being out
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  after a curfew is being flayed. Specifically, they have the
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  freaky vampires and they keep in the basement tear the blood out
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  of your body. Put it back.
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  And put it back. Yeah.
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  And put it back. And it's like, you know, I'm
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  starting to think that these punishments might just be a
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  little disproportionate. Did you, are you out at 9:05 PM?
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  Yeah, let's RIP all the blood out your body and put it back 50
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  times. Well, that's off to the ex
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  sanguination chamber for you, but.
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  Can we acknowledge the fact that, by the way, you committed
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  murder and we believe you did, We're also going to do that 50
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  times, like breaking a. 100 times. 100 times breaking curfew
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  is half as bad as committing murder, apparently.
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  I'll be absolutely certain somebody's not just playing a
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  elaborate prank on me. And like, Mercurio's just
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  sitting back in God's grave. Like I cannot believe that dumb
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  little bitch fell for it. You know, that makes this more
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  palatable for sure. It does.
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  And this is all really just a long con just to be like.
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  Hey, I got another one. Oh, and then I want to say also,
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  out of everything, I do enjoy learning about Trick's back
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  story. Yes, yes.
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  Yeah, because this poor fuck it kid like.
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  I. Talk about a misplaced
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  protagonist. I feel bad.
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  I don't want Trick to assume the mantle.
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  I need an alternate book from his perspective so I can enjoy
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  the first book again. I don't suppose he could
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  overthrow the protagonist, maybe in some sort of coup?
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  Unfortunately he is hung and therefore it doesn't work.
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  Damn it, right? We if we talked about this, if
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  you're hung, you can't do it. If you're if you're hung,
• 24:26
  unfortunately it's too much of an impediment.
• 24:29
  People get distracted. But the idea of being a a child?
• 24:34
  Born. Out of unfortunate circumstances
• 24:39
  to then try and be hidden to then come back, prove a point
• 24:44
  Allah drags from and every other kind of concept of slay a great
• 24:49
  beast to then be told now we're kidding.
• 24:55
  Yeah, I love, I love that because it's such a fucking
• 24:59
  great example of the hypocrisy that can often come hand in hand
• 25:03
  with these sort of traditions. And it really makes you feel for
• 25:06
  the kid and like why he's got such a hang up about his own
• 25:10
  culture, which has been a very consistent Why is this fucker so
• 25:15
  well written? So well written.
• 25:17
  Like I love the fact I know why he's scared of the dark like
• 25:19
  that that. Was.
• 25:21
  A powerful moment. Where was all this shit for the
• 25:26
  rest of the novel? Like fucking hell.
• 25:29
  There was so much put focus on Drake.
• 25:31
  I think we like, forgot to write me a story in any more depth
• 25:34
  than that, and then everyone else just fell at the wayside.
• 25:39
  Yeah, anyway, anyway, so yeah, they they do the nasty after
• 25:46
  Class T and yeah, and that apparent apparently the sin for
• 25:55
  the sin of going to Bone Town while somebody was getting
• 26:00
  murdered at Assassin's school. They get to hold hands while the
• 26:03
  blood gets ripped out of their body.
• 26:05
  Yep. Do you mind that trick did this
• 26:09
  because they were going to originally punish Mia for
• 26:12
  committing murder the 100 lashes and this was it disqualified
• 26:17
  from passing the poison class the one that she's most likely
• 26:21
  to pass so tricks like no by the way, I went to bone town.
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  It's what we. Did I'm?
• 26:27
  Going to take half of it. That's a good guy.
• 26:32
  God damn. Boy.
• 26:35
  For the sin of going down horrendous.
• 26:41
  This end up being very down bad. Yeah, just trick.
• 26:47
  I'm going to be real with you. I don't think she's worth it.
• 26:51
  Yeah. Nope.
• 26:53
  No. No, especially.
• 26:55
  Later on. Oh boy.
• 26:58
  Right. And then we, Yep.
• 26:59
  So then we keep going and we're getting closer to the actual
• 27:03
  finals because this finals week has been about six months long.
• 27:09
  It feels like chapters. It's like 10 chapters at least
• 27:13
  it. Felt it felt like.
• 27:16
  Yeah, it was at least three books worth of like, finals
• 27:19
  week. Yeah, I'm just, I am so fucking.
• 27:25
  The crowd is so mild at this point.
• 27:27
  Like I don't even know. I was just waiting for it to be
• 27:30
  over. Yeah, it was the first.
• 27:33
  The first one that we actually got was the, I think the swords
• 27:36
  was the first determination of who's going to be the blade.
• 27:41
  Yeah, and we get a bunch of like one-on-one duels, and Jessamine
• 27:45
  is also there. It's, you know, Mia, suddenly,
• 27:51
  just like I have been training in secret and Oh no, your best
• 27:56
  friend is dead now because you stole my unfinished poison
• 28:00
  research. Yeah, that's right, 'cause she
• 28:03
  pretended that she figured out the the answer so that Jessamine
• 28:07
  and Diomo would steal the notes and then try to take his poison
• 28:12
  to her notes. And then he took the antidote,
• 28:15
  which apparently made him. It was an unfinished antidote
• 28:18
  because she had most of the pieces, she just didn't have
• 28:21
  everything. I yeah, I do believe she put an
• 28:24
  intentional piece to like that would make them sick was like
• 28:27
  part of the idea. It's but essentially is stave
• 28:31
  off the symptoms for a certain amount of time.
• 28:35
  I love for the for all the the little characterization we get
• 28:38
  of me as being somebody who has a complicated relationship with
• 28:42
  her own temper. Her go to plan with almost
• 28:45
  everybody in this fucking book is rile them up to the state of
• 28:49
  frothing insanity and then have no backup plan.
• 28:53
  I will say that's my favorite part of Mia is when she gets
• 28:55
  unhinged. Her, her vindictive nature makes
• 28:58
  her enjoyable, and otherwise I'm annoyed by it.
• 29:01
  Like the fact that she was like, yeah, it'll just stave off and
• 29:04
  right about now they'll be foaming and frothing out the
• 29:06
  mouth probably. Good luck.
• 29:08
  Yeah, it's look, if she didn't have as much plot armor as she
• 29:15
  did, this would probably end very poor like and then.
• 29:19
  She so because our secret training gets to this the final
• 29:23
  bout A1 on one with her and trick.
• 29:27
  And Oh my God, just. Just fight.
• 29:32
  Worse, you did not. Girl, we get it, you're screwed
• 29:41
  up. You.
• 29:43
  Don't need to take it out on trick the 1 friend with benefits
• 29:48
  you have in this fucked up little dark brotherhood.
• 29:50
  Knock off the 1:00. Person who's truly on your side.
• 29:56
  Yep, this. Is where I lost all respect.
• 29:59
  It's gone because. She dropped she.
• 30:01
  Dropped the word she. Dropped the word, she did it.
• 30:04
  She with her whole. Chest with her whole chest like
• 30:08
  from my. Perspective.
• 30:09
  I call this is basically saying it with the hard R kind of
• 30:12
  energy. Yeah, like.
• 30:16
  The. Fact.
• 30:17
  That the only plan she could come up with to succeed was to
• 30:23
  essentially not only use tricks, worse baggage against him, but
• 30:27
  fucking call him a racial slur in the midst of well, OK, it's
• 30:32
  not a racial slur. It's more of a it it, it has to
• 30:37
  do with the illegitimate circumstances of his birth.
• 30:39
  But still though, like it is, it's a slur.
• 30:44
  It's a. Slur.
• 30:44
  It's a slur. Calling his mother that.
• 30:47
  Gets insulting him and his mother in the same breath.
• 30:50
  God damn it. It is just.