Something about how Valkyrie is the strong one. The unbreakable one. Skulduggery was sure to make her that way, let her be beaten and broken but never quite killed over and over and over again. How, as an adult, she resents what he did to her, and what he allowed to happen. But she also has to be grateful for it, in some weird way, because all the pain made her unbreakable in the end.
Something about how all the alternative universes where Valkyrie does break are united by this constant feeling of wrongness, like there's something fundamentally off about the story. And of course there is, because Valkyrie doesn't break. Those other worlds aren't quite real, simply because they defeated her in the end.
Something about the way that most of her friends are normal, at least compared to her. Some of them are regular people, some of them are strong, incredibly strong, like iron. But they all break in the end. They go away eventually. The bodies keep piling up and Valkyrie cannot save any of them. She's incredibly, impossibly strong, but it's not enough to save her friends. And eventually, she's doomed to end up alone in the end.
Except for Skulduggery, of course. The same man who made her what she is. More an idol than a person, more a monster than anything else. Everyone keeps going away, but he's always found a way to stay by her side through hell and high water. He'll never leave her. She'll never leave him, even though once upon a time, she wanted to. For all the pain he caused her.
But she doesn't leave, because if she did, then who would be with her when everyone else was dead and buried? How would she find the strength to keep going, knowing that every connection, every bond she formed, would end brutal and tragic? Everyone keeps dying except for Skulduggery, the constant of the universe. And, of course, except for Valkyrie Cain, because she's unbreakable. Because Skulduggery made her that way.
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