#trickster's

[dndtreasury]

Trickster's Coin

[bitter-coffeecup]

So I've decided, America no longer exists, they are all trickster gods goddess, and creatures that just want humans to hate others humans.

In other words, America is a mythology. That is the only answer to all of the insane crap that's been happening in the last 20 years

[devrosesinger]

Inconsistencies in Trickster's and how my brain fixes them

I love the Trickster's series. It's my favorite. I love Aly and Nawat and everyone. It's also the series most riddled with inconsistencies, which I hate. So my brain has to try to fix them. Here are a few:

1. Inconsistency: On the boat to Lombyn, Sarai and Dove hear Aly telling a story to their Elsren and Petranne, and Dove says that Aly's Kyprish is very good. Later, Aly speaks to Winnamine in Kyprish because the younger kids don't speak it very well. Brain solution: Dove heard Aly speaking Kyprish at another time, not when she was telling stories.

2. Inconsistency: Aly is made Dove's maid, when Sarai and Winnamine share a maid. By birth order, Sarai should have had her own maid first, not Dove. Brain solution: Winnamine doesn't like having much looking after, so the shared maid is mostly Sarai's. After Mequen dies Winnamine needs more help, running a household and all, so Boulaj becomes Sarai's maid.

3. Inconsistency: Dove shoots Bronau at the end of Trickster's Choice, but Trickster's Queen states that Sarai gave up sword-craft " after she fought and beheaded her would-be lover, Prince Bronau." Brain solution: Dove shot Bronau. Either he wasn't dead and when he moved Sarai beheaded him, or Sarai beheaded his corpse out of grief after learning her father had died. Either way, Aly didn't see it because she was downstairs.

4: Inconsistency: Nawat comes back to Rajmuat with the Balitangs, though he doesn't make arrows anymore. He later leaves the household entirely to help the rebels. Brain solution: Nawat stays with the Balitangs as a lower servant because the Balitangs need more people in Rajmuat than they did at Tanair. He quits when he decides that he and his crows are of better use in the field. 

5. Inconsistency: Grosbeak's family leaves Rajmuat twice: once when Grosbeak hears all the rumors of unrest between the regents and Topabow (as reported by the darkings), once when Topabow falls (as a neighbor tells Vitorcine). Brain Solution: a) The neighbor heard the commosion of Topabow leaving and assumed the entire family left at that time. Or, b) Topabow's wife refused to leave that first time.

6. Inconsistency: Dove is able to decode and sort Aly's reports while she is in the Divine Realms, despite not having had training as a spy. Brain Solution: I don't have one. Anyone else?

[callmemrsvakarian]

I quite like the idea of Taybur and Dove being lovers in a worst-kept-secret-of-the-court sort of way. I picture it happening ten, maybe fifteen years after Dove takes the throne and when Taybur isn't in command of the Queen's guard. He's serious enough to understand how hard her responsibilities would be, but he's got enough of a sense of humour to keep her cheerful. I can't see them marrying, though. My headcannon Dove is an unwed queen.

[voldemortgavemethetalk]

I just reached the end of one of my favorite Tortall fanfics, but it isn't really the end... because it is woefully incomplete... and hasn't been updated since 2008.

[haptichoax]

30 Days of Tamora Pierce: Day 7

Least favourite series

I think that title belongs to Trickster's. I remember it being my least favourite from when I first read the Tortall books, and when I reread Trickster's Choice I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it. But then I started Trickster's Queen, and I remembered why. I find it very difficult to get into TQ, and I'm not really sure why.

I guess it's probably a whole bunch of aspects of the book that are contributing. I think maybe too much was just skipped over in the gap between the books, and we just get told matter-of-factly about all these things happening. And Aly is somehow less likeable in TQ, I feel. She's become a lot more sure of herself, which is great, but she comes across as almost arrogant.

It's still a good series, but Trickster's Queen - for me - just turns into a bit of a chore to read before too long. :/

[theowlisthelimit]

Could someone please write a fic for what happens when Aly and Alanna see each other for the first time after the Trickster's events? I have some of my own ideas of what happens, but I'm curious to see what other people come up with...

[haptichoax]

I've started reading Trickster's Choice, and I've just had a complete about-face in my opinions of Aly and the book in general. I actually have no idea why I was so hard on her the first time I read it.

It must just be to do with the fact that I'm older now, and can see that her home life was not that great. I'm more sympathetic towards Aly now that I can understand how hard, and at times lonely, it must've been growing up at Pirate's Swoop.

Also, for some reason I had it in my head that Aly ran away to the Copper Isles, instead of her being kidnapped and sold into slavery. I have no idea why I remembered it that way. :S