#cadaver cain

[kingsdodecahedron]

oh my goddd

[tipplersbanee]

Valkyrie and Cadaver in techwear

Honestly if it wasn't so tedious to draw I'd put Val in that outfit EVERY TIME but alas... Straps

[misswiggles06]

okay listen to this

skulduggery pleasant animated series - animated like arcane.

THAT WOULD BE SOOOO SICK LIKE WHAT

think abt the fight scenes and the music and how DETAILED the magic would look nobody can tell me that wouldn’t be insanely awsome.

[facelessxchurch]

All Matt Taylor Phase 2 & 3 Covers without Text!

Since the last ones of the new covers were revealed on Halloween, Matt Taylor released all the covers without text on Instagram!

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I think I might've said this before but I do wish that Derek Landy would do more in-depth exploration of Valkyrie and Cadaver's dynamic rather than just starting to explore it and then tossing them aside, because their dynamic is really personally interesting in that it doesn't not resemble Valkyrie's relationship with Skulduggery, but it's been so irrevocably tainted by years of them hurting each other that all they can really do is at best treat each other in a deeply professional and impersonal manner.

We see this at the start of ASFOS especially where Cadaver very clearly has been treating Valkyrie favourably, but when he actually walks in to talk to her he seems calm. Almost cold. On the job, definitely not what might be expected for someone apparently being so nice to her. We also see it on Valkyrie's end, where there's a million things she wants to say to him in regards to how her life is going at the moment, but all she ends up doing is just. Thanking him. Again in a pretty polite sort of manner.

And given their deeply involved history with each other, looking at how the trauma they've dealt each other and how it still enmeshes their relationship even now that they're doing all right could be really cool. And I think Landy wanted to explore them somewhat? But failed to follow through on that in any particularly meaningful sort of way. I think it's part of a larger pattern where he's seemed almost scared to write anything problematic? Despite that kind of being what the series is based around? But this is just my own speculation. I just really wish we could have more of Cadaver and Valkyrie.

[felinedetached]

Potentially controversial opinion. Currently 2/3rds of the way through Dead & Alive and I love Cadaver Cain. Like so much. He's so annoying it's incredible

[coreywithnoname]

SP memes :>

[No real spoilers]

[vegaaastarz]

My impending doom that is March 26th

spoilers for probably all main series books up to 17

I am absolutely terrified for the release of a soul full of Shadows im not even kidding.

Like at the same time I cannot wait and im going to the signing but what the flip is derek gonna pull in this book

Valkyrie is in PRISON, winter is probably up to some evil shit Idk (im defending her sorry dont cancel me) , and this is (probably?) The only time we're seeing skulduggery have to go without val (except for the 5 year timeskip, but that wasnt shown) and in book 9 there was Stephanie up until valkyrie came back and derek decided to slime her

Which brings me back to fletchers insane mistreatment 🥳

Youre telling me he was used (the teleporting shii), then cheated on in his first relationship, then his new girlfriend killed 2 people and turned out to be a total bitch, then his other new girlfriend who was basically a completely-different-completely-the-same reflection of his first ex got killed by his first ex's EVIL TRIPLET.(see what i done there, 3 of them. vals steph, darq ;) ) and then he actually gets justice for about 10 or so years and then he gets stabbed with a machete BY HIS EX'S EX WHO WAS THE GUY SHE CHEATED ON WITH HIM WITH

LIKE WHAT THE FUCK

Not to mention skul treated him like shit, aswell as val for a long time

I saw a theory that it was because fletcher reminded him of his dead child which is crazy but im just gonna go with that because I love defending characters

Which now brings me to defending the one and only winter grieving!!

(Not her name though, why did she do that to herself )

Anyway, I can see a lot of the fandoms hatred for her because she is a very-not-nice person on the outside, but let's reallyy consider it from her perspective here

In her perspective, val took everything from her , her being able to malice and probably something else that im forgetting, and let's not forget the insane trauma that she had revealed at the end of book 17, and then her only chance at revenge for THAT was taken too, with her sister killing the man who murdered her parents in another universe

Not to mention if val had just got Geoffrey in book 9 a lot of that wouldnt have happened, and val could've saved herself a trip to coldheart because winter wouldnt have known anything

In my opinion , a lot of winters actions are very justified

(Except her not being nice to her parents that annoyed me, like why are you taking your anger out on them when the whole reason you wanted go kill that guy was to get revenge on him for killing them)

I think shes very misunderstood as a character idk

And then , (because every chance ill get im mentioning her)

Melancholia, the necromancers, and ,,, the title of this book!

Oh boy

Just going off from the title, (someone said this somewhere, credits to them but I dont know who, cuz youre a genius) ghastly might find out that his bestfriend killed his mother and is lord Vile

So thats amazing!

And then Melancholia, who finally got her justice after derek decided he didnt know what to do with her in book 9 and killed her off (he realised her potential , as he should frfr queen)

And then decided to kill her friend immediately after!

(Wtf?)

I am SOSOSOSO happy shes back tho , and confirmed sapphic/(lesbian? Maybe, just sapphic canonically)

I have a chance for realises

In another universe, maybe,, or MAYBE the universe that darquesse made is this one. think smarter not harder. ;)

Sorry this is stupid idk theories confuse me

Which now brings me to,, (I've used this phrase a lot i dont know how to change subjects properly, oops.)

The necromancers and Solomon!!

THE GOAT IS BACK WOw

Im very interested in this tho, its obv connected to cadaver somehow I swear and that church shit

Satanism? Im just thinking while typing it could be a possibility ??

Nope uhh ok next topic

So back to the necromancers, what the flip are they doing? And why has Solomon not showed up? This is obviously gonna be a big thing considering 'A soul full of SHADOWS' and CADAVER, not skulduggery, being the cover

Another thing that isnt related to the necromancers, but relating to what might happen, is primrose everdeen and the blonde sibling theory (I made that up)

So I think winter is either gonna get primrose everdeen'd, or val and skul are being slimed (or val is turning into a skeleton, as someone on discord said lmao )

Also, what the flip is ghastly up to aswell? Like idk he is probably the most non-evil character but these few books have been making me suspicious, especially now that valkyries probably not like being bailed by ghastly (the easons website description says something about her not getting out any time soon, so thats what im asuming)

Also what about militsa? She doesnt even know that fletcher is dead and thats like an insane thing to hear that your coworker got stabbed by your gfs ex, plus, they wouldve been pretty good friends considering that they know the same people and are coworkers

Now moving on to ,, the child of the ancients?

I forgot a lot of it since the recent books are very confusing for me, but who is that? I want to think auger or omen but idk really, im just hoping they come back for the 18th book.

I think thats probably all of my rant soo goodbye :]