one thing that completely shocks me is that no one has ever really talked about how there were signs leading up to the inversion? it wasn’t outright, but once it happened, the clues to it made so much more sense?
sweetheart divulges to milo in their first meeting that there’s a rogue shade in dahlia. a shade that appears at a “sporting event held by the academy” as milo generally describes, one that the shaw pack was working security for. it takes a little from a lot to get stronger, but ultimately the whole situation seems pretty cut and dry
except i don’t think it’s ever explained how said shade appeared in dahlia and why it behaved so differently than what shades normally do. all we really know is that it was supposed to be a ravenous creature that clawed its way out of death to feed on mortal life forces
and you know who else has friends in death? closeknit
blake tells sunshine offhandedly that they are not the only one with contacts to the realm of the dead, implying that closeknit has some card up their sleeve that we never have really gotten another insight to. it’s been pretty heavily theorized that closeknit caused the inversion (hence their ads about the department post-tragedy) but i have not seen any conversation about how that first shade sweetheart and milo hunted was likely a test run for closeknit to see how easily they could get shades into the arena
