How did skulduggery become a side character in his own book series. In book 17, he’s barely in it and we only get crumbs of valduggery. The series has gone downhill very fast and have only 2-3 pages of Skulduggery actually in a 400 book is making it become worse very fast.
"If she was trapped in somewhere like this," Valkyrie said, "that'd be it, though, wouldn't it? There'd be no chance of talking to her, of getting her to control herself or anything like that?"
"That would be impossible. The only reason Argeddion hasn't escaped is because he's been kept in an artificially induced coma. We can't allow him to wake up - ever. With Darquesse, it would be even more important to keep her sedated. If you give someone like that a moment of consciousness, she'd kill you and everyone else."
"Well," Valkyrie said, frowning, "that sucks."
Lament looked surprised. "You'd prefer the alternative?"
"No," she said quickly. "No, I was just thinking, from her perspective that sucks, not from our... Never mind. Could we have a copy of the plans?"
"I don't see why not," said Lament. "But do you have enough people to monitor her? Do you have anyone who'd be willing to give up the rest of their life to spend with her?"
"I would," Skulduggery said.
Imagining an instance where they actually brought this plan to life is so depressing, it does amazing things to my brain chemistry.
something about how skulduggery was driven by vengeance and anger and hatred, and then he was driven by grief and guilt and self-hatred, and now he's just driven by this utter belief in valkyrie, this friendship, this love. he wants to be with her. they want to be together. like yes he wants to keep the world safe but that's just an obligation. it doesn't make him happy. what makes him happy, what makes life really worth living, is her. i feel so fucking sickkkkkkkkkk
as someone who has not had a dad for almost her entire life I am constantly baffled by anyone who’s reads skulduggery as “dadlike”, much less “Val’s father”
like if it was “he’s her teacher and teachers should never date former students” I would be like ok cool chill but
the tattoo goes completely unmentioned despite it being an identifying physical characteristic of valkyrie’s so we’ll just say she used magic concealer.
every day derek landy tries to make me turn away from naturally black-haired *alice and every day he fails. but i totally love the idea of her being blonde in the future, don’t mind that at all
feast your eyes upon my latest project, motivated entirely by spite and caffeine
lassie presents:
THE COMPREHENSIVE SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT TIMELINE
e x c e p t i t m a k e s s e n s e
here is an 80+ page gdoc covering from the unnamed's birth to seasons of war. it doesn't have everything from phase two, because i refuse to put myself through reading the shite dirty laundry is churning out these days, but it does have all the major deaths/plot points. i'm still making some adjustments to the doc, but. it's useable and makes a lot more sense than the impossible nonsense dates laundry has been spewing on twitter.