## [RT] A Practical Guide to Evil: Book 2 Chapter 36 - Madman

* Author: u/over_who  *Aleph you are going to die**
* URL: https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/chapter-36-madman/
* Score: 32

* Created: 2016-08-24T18:02:29

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> **u/over_who** [+7]  *Aleph you are going to die* (2 hours later)
> 
> This chapter finally introduces a nontrivial conflict between the Black Knight and Lady Squire. I can see the end game being him, crazed with trying to *win*, while she is only concerned with establishing a stable future for the empire and thereby Callow.

>> **u/melmonella** [+2]  *Tremble, o ye mighty, for a new age is upon you* (3 days later)
>> 
>> Conflict? To me it seemed like she was completely converted to his point of view. And he didn't even ask her to *do* anything she wouldn't have done anyways, so it is unlikely to arise in the future.
>> 
>> Stable future for Callow *is* the way for Black to win, since it implies that Callow broke it's pattern for being grasped, and empire broke it's pattern for grasping.

>>> **u/over_who** [+1]  *Aleph you are going to die* (3 days later)
>>> 
>>> So that was my initial thought, but there has been a nonzero amount of foreshadowing that the Squire could become the White Knight. If what will save Callow is Lady Squire allying with the heroes, and turning on Black, I could see it happening. I think it may not be conflict as much, but a place for a wedge to be driven.

>>>> **u/melmonella** [+1]  *Tremble, o ye mighty, for a new age is upon you* (6 days later)
>>>> 
>>>> >So that was my initial thought, but there has been a nonzero amount of foreshadowing that the Squire could become the White Knight.
>>>> 
>>>> Squire is *not* a hero. She knows it, Black knows it, everyone knows it. One of her lines is "Justification only matters to the just", which is not heroic.
>>>> 
>>>> I think that if she will become a Knight at all, it will be a Gray or Green(if you follow medieval storytelling conventions) one, and certainly not White. 
>>>> 
>>>> As for this...
>>>> 
>>>> >If what will save Callow is Lady Squire allying with the heroes, and turning on Black, I could see it happening.
>>>> 
>>>> Thing is, it won't save Callow. That would be just continuing the story of Callow and Praes-heroes redeeming a villain, saving the country, yadda yadda. It wouldn't *break* the pattern like what Black intends to do, and our lady Squire knows that. She was selected by him for a reason, that reason being “Because I rarely suffer the company of imbeciles” in his own words, so I think she understood his idea perfectly and is now a devout supporter of it.

> **u/AurelianoTampa** [+4]  (3 hours later)
> 
> Wow. Now THAT was a good chapter! No action, but a major reveal toward where the plot might be going.
> 
> I really need to reread this series again from the beginning!

> **u/hoja_nasredin** [+5]  *Dai-Gurren Brigade* (an hour later)
> 
> Finaly a chapter worth posting here.
> 
> So, in the end game we will have to fight Angels and the Choir.
> 
> Some God will ahev to answer to our Villains.

> **u/Chosen_Pun** [+3]  *The Chosen Ones* (13 hours later)
> 
> That speech was oddly inspiring. I really want to see him do it now, too.
> 
> >Just to prove that it can be done.
> 
> I guess only time will tell if, ultimately, his hubris will be his undoing.

>> **u/VivaLaPandaReddit** [+1]  (20 hours later)
>> 
>> This universe likes to punish hubris in villains, so...

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