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Jul. 16th, 2013 05:03 amSo there's this one thing I totally don't get about Skulduggery Pleasant, aside from the question of why Billy-Ray doesn't wear a cowboy hat even though he is, like, super-Texan:
All the sorcerers have three names - their given or birth name, their super-secret true name that basically guarantees ridiculous levels of power and accompanying levels of foaming-at-the-mouth crazy, and their 'taken' name, which is basically a magical superhero identity that they make up for themselves.
And the 'taken' name usually says something about who they are as a person - Skulduggery is a stealthy nefarious ninja spy, and also a skeleton. Valkyrie is a warrior. Ghastly Bespoke is a gifted tailor with a fucked-up head. Billy-Ray Sanguine has a sunny disposition and also slits throats for a living. Basically, as soon as some magical dude shows up and introduces themselves by their taken name, you have some idea of the kind of person they are.
So if you were hanging out with your wizard bros one day, all being good and keeping the world undestroyed and shit, and some dudes come up to you and are like, "hey my man, mind if we join your gang of totally peaceful dudes.and find out all your political info and whatnot? My name is motherfucking JARRON GALLOW, and these are my besties, MURDER ROSE and GRUESOME KRAV," would you not just be like, "get the fuck away before I melt your fucking evil faces off, seriously if you're gonna be sneaky about being evil, you might try picking names that don't have the word MURDER in them."
But then again, pretty much everyone in the Irish Sanctuary straight fails at picking up on narrative clues, so I guess if you're a baddie in Ireland, you might as well go around calling yourself Traitory McStabsalot or whatever, because this bunch of professional epic retards aren't going to pick up on it until it's too late anyway.
All the sorcerers have three names - their given or birth name, their super-secret true name that basically guarantees ridiculous levels of power and accompanying levels of foaming-at-the-mouth crazy, and their 'taken' name, which is basically a magical superhero identity that they make up for themselves.
And the 'taken' name usually says something about who they are as a person - Skulduggery is a stealthy nefarious ninja spy, and also a skeleton. Valkyrie is a warrior. Ghastly Bespoke is a gifted tailor with a fucked-up head. Billy-Ray Sanguine has a sunny disposition and also slits throats for a living. Basically, as soon as some magical dude shows up and introduces themselves by their taken name, you have some idea of the kind of person they are.
So if you were hanging out with your wizard bros one day, all being good and keeping the world undestroyed and shit, and some dudes come up to you and are like, "hey my man, mind if we join your gang of totally peaceful dudes.and find out all your political info and whatnot? My name is motherfucking JARRON GALLOW, and these are my besties, MURDER ROSE and GRUESOME KRAV," would you not just be like, "get the fuck away before I melt your fucking evil faces off, seriously if you're gonna be sneaky about being evil, you might try picking names that don't have the word MURDER in them."
But then again, pretty much everyone in the Irish Sanctuary straight fails at picking up on narrative clues, so I guess if you're a baddie in Ireland, you might as well go around calling yourself Traitory McStabsalot or whatever, because this bunch of professional epic retards aren't going to pick up on it until it's too late anyway.
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