The thought of Skulduggery waiting for years for his wife and child to come back like he did after he came from the dead keeps me up at night
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The thought of Skulduggery waiting for years for his wife and child to come back like he did after he came from the dead keeps me up at night
It only occurred to me now that Skulduggery said this because hes hiding his necromancy powers from him siblings.
Very sneaky Skulduggery
The thought that Skulduggery and Valkyrie are destined to stop each other from destroying the world and and choose to save the world from each other every time, but also save each other wrecks me
One of my favorite parts. I can just imagine Skulduggery bent over laughing. The calm before the storm.
“but here, in this bed, by his side, she sank into sleep gratefully, knowing she would surface in the morning, untroubled by half-remembered visions of doom and damnation.
This, she thought, was what happiness was. Love and contentment. At nineteen years old, she had found the love of her life, someone who cared not for her beauty or her status, but who loved her for the jokes she made, and the things she said, and the things she did and wanted to do. He was a kind man, fierce with others but gentle with her. Her parents, were they to learn of this, would do their best to tear them apart, but he offered her something they never did, and so, smiling, with her hand on his back, she fell, once again, asleep.”
Was China talking about Skulduggery here maybe!?!?!!?
What I would do for a prequel skulduggery book focusing on pre war Skulduggery choosing disciplines, meeting ghastly and China for the first time and meeting his wife
Hot take: old skulduggery illustration were top tier. They were as alternative and grunge like the books
The fact that a 400 year old skeleton detective casually took a 12 year old girl under his wing and put her in absolute danger and beyond astounds me. What do you mean China and Tanith saw Valkyrie anything more than a bug-eyed kid when they first met. Now they see a deeply traumatised woman scarred by the things she was put into at such a young age.
When Valkyrie came back after those 5 years it must’ve been unnerving to see the stark difference between her past self who was full of life and charisma to a shell of what she has been through and people still ask her for the old Valkyrie.