The Speculation Thread
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queensthiefThe time is drawing nigh. We have one more week to speculate on what's going to happen in Thick As Thieves. No spoilers, please, from anyone who has read an advance copy.
What do you think? What will Kamet be like? What other characters are going to show up? Will there be a pet monkey named Bob? Make a prediction and we'll see who's right, in about a week.
What do you think? What will Kamet be like? What other characters are going to show up? Will there be a pet monkey named Bob? Make a prediction and we'll see who's right, in about a week.
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Date: 5/10/17 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/10/17 09:21 am (UTC)But otherwise, I am so excited for this release. I have already ordered mine online! can't wait!
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Date: 5/10/17 02:29 am (UTC)Touched by the power of friendship displayed by these amazing animals, a pirate fleet adopts Kamet and he becomes a pirate king like in The Princess Bride and teaches a parrot to talk.
Zebby and Ellie get seasick, so they decide to strike out on their own to have wacky adventures in a series of spin off children's books.
Since the Mede Empire was such a drag, Kamet cruises over to Attolia with his fleet to pick up the squad. They're friends now that Nahuseresh has been stepped on by elephants. Together they become the pirates who don't do anything!
Except for Irene who gets bored not doing anything and learns to duel with a penknife! She takes ten men along to the Mede Empire and becomes the pirate queen of the Middle Sea.
Meanwhile, Gen is busy perfecting his pirate talk and teaches the parrot a bunch of bad words he shouldn't know. This annoys Kamet, who orders Gen to be thrown overboard.
Sophos and Helen protest because he can't swim with just one hand, so Kamet reconsiders and takes them all to a resort in the continent but Gen has to stay by himself on the ship with the foul-mouthed parrot. Costis waits with him muttering something about honor in a corner.
What? You didn't ask me for serious theories! XD
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Date: 5/10/17 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/13/17 12:30 am (UTC)OH! What if there is a little Gen or Eugenie and they keep swearing because they heard their daddy say those words? That would be awesome.
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Date: 5/10/17 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 5/13/17 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/10/17 06:53 pm (UTC)You'll love it when you get it. I promise. :)
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Date: 5/10/17 06:54 pm (UTC)~Helen
[oh bother now LJ thinks I'm a robot as well as an idiot...]
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Date: 5/10/17 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/10/17 10:40 pm (UTC)Other than a good term to describe all the lovely authors at YALLWest, of course!
;D
Character Development: The 4 monarchs will on some levels morph into each other
Date: 5/11/17 11:59 am (UTC)The four monarchs are so perfectly in contrast with each other in both appearance, personality, actions... all the while being completely the same and and I foresee the characters becoming... more like their opposite monarch on an additional level while still retaining the outer expression of their personalities that we know them for.
For example... Both Eugenides and Irene "wear masks." Their outward expression is a lie in total contrast to who they are inside. Eugenides in how he can verbally articulate the truth ("I am mortally wounded." he says, without sounding wounded at all. (while he actually WAS mortally wounded)... Irene... well we know Irene's mask that is made of stone thickening and thickening to the point where she almost gave her whole heart away before Eugenides saved her from herself. They both wear masks, and yet the expression of those masks are in total contrast.
Perhaps in the 5th and 6th books Irene will let her guard down so much that she expresses herself more like Eugenides (with the same playfulness) and Eugenides will express himself more regally (and yet Irene's version of playful and Eugenides version of regal will be completely different from that of their spouse)...
And perhaps Irene will earn for herself the very things that she admires in Eddis (and was jealous of Eddis for being able to be)... Wish I had more time to add to this~....
Re: Character Development: The 4 monarchs will on some levels morph into each other
Date: 5/13/17 12:38 am (UTC)I hope that for her, too. I think she will get there, if things go well for her. I worry about what would happen to her if she loses Gen or has more sadness in her life. But I thin Megan likes happy endings and hope these characters we love will get one.
I really hate it when authors decide that *someone* needs to die at the end of a series, just to have a more realistic ending. Sometimes it's so random (yes, J.K. Rowling and Leigh Bardugo, I'm talking about you). Ok, I admit that life is random like that, sometimes, but I still don't have to like it.
Re: Character Development: The 4 monarchs will on some levels morph into each other
Date: 5/29/17 04:15 am (UTC)More than anyone I want Irene to have a everything she needs in the end. I am so addicted to the new heart on her sleeve that she is finding in herself... I am so drawn by the small ways that she is showing that she is healing her brokenness... in how much she shares with Sophos, being a "wellspring of information..." even when Sophos doesn't fully understand just how much she is giving of herself because he is a person who expresses himself by outside demeanor and she is still the very opposite... I love the part where he's looking out into the crowd and wanting some sort of reassurance in the eye contact of his friends and "Attolia just stared back" at him.
And I also want to add here.... It is so BEAUTIFULLY ironic/tables turned in the most .... precious of ways..... in that Helen was the one of the characters who was the most "blessed" from a very young age with everything she needed and yet she is the one who be the one to lose it all in the end, as Eddis disappears beneath the Sacred Mountain's eruption. It's so BEAUTIFUL that the Gods gave her so much strength and blessings and abundance (with supporter all around, freedom of expression, talent for her position in life, etc.) to prepare her for the time where she will fall the furthest... (but really, because the gods have prepared her and given her the means to prepare everyone around her, it will be the biggest chance to fall where she'll fly instead... and one character that seems so perfectly developed and grown... will all of a sudden be at the other side of the revolution.... like everything starts over again, but yet everything will be alright because she was awakened to the prophesy early on..... I'm so in love with this headcanon right now... (I hope I'm using that term correctly)
Re: Character Development: The 4 monarchs will on some levels morph into each other
Date: 5/31/17 01:08 am (UTC)Re: Character Development: The 4 monarchs will on some levels morph into each other
Date: 5/31/17 04:25 am (UTC)