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[RT][HF] The Good Student - Chapter Fifty Two
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Author: u/I_am_your_BRAIN *
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URL: http://gravitytales.com/novel/the-good-student/tgs-chapter-52
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Score: 42
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Created: 2018-04-22T21:05:39
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u/xachariah [+23] (a day later)
Is there any chance we could get a 'recap episode' for Volume 2? I think I understand what's going on, but there's so many twists that even if I've understood 90% of what's going on, that means I've still missed or misunderstood at least a dozen plot points.
Winnum Roke
- Winnum Roke was the only one in the far realm, meaning all the demons were already in the real world.
- Winnum Roke and Simole are the only second generation female mages in recent memory
- ^ they are stronger mages and have demons in them that are more changed
- Winnum Roke lied to the All-Mother and the All-Mother lied to her
- ^ The All-Mother lied to trap Winnum.
- ^ Winnum Roke lied to the All-Mother for...?
- She is somehow more powerful than the Archmage, All-Father, Simole, and all the other mages and dragons put together.
- She is crazy and might kill everyone because she can't have children without dying(?)
Crazy Demon
- The crazy demon wanted to free Winnum Roke
- ^ Nobody else (including the other demons) wanted her free because she's crazy
- ^ Except there's the Librarian and at least 4 other mages on her side, including 2 Gwuer mages, so some demons are working with it(?)
- The crazy demon was the 'other half' to Winnum Roke (?)
- The demon planned to use Minister Delacroix to wage a one man war on Ranvar's magic users (dragons and mages), but Nic stopped it.
- The crazy demon thought it had failed to free Winnum Roke
- ^ Nic succeeded in freeing Winnum (accidentally and unexpectedly?)
The other demons
- Made a deal with the mages to give them their power in return for being changed
- Willingly work with the Mages
- Are happy with the status quo, even though they're going slower
- But some of them were working with the crazy demon by making mages in Gwuer(?)
- The Librarian isn't a demon, but is similar.
- The Librarian prepared Nic to be the door for the Far Realm, but she knew that only Winnum Roke was on the other side and didn't want Winnum Roke free.
- ^ ... so why?
Nic
- Nic had been groomed for the other realm his entire life
- ^ ... by the crazy demon and librarian
- Dizzy is not very pretty, but Nic's desire for Dizzy(+) and other girls(-) has been artificially manipulated
The mages
- Thought that there would be an apocalypse.
- The Archmage trained Simole to go to the far realm and fight(?)
- ^ ... but why?
- The Archmage has the All-Mother in him (and has since after Winnum Roke).
- ^ The other mages didn't know about the All-Mother and thought she was in the Far Realm
- The Archmage committed treason, or at least everyone pretended that he committed treason
- ^ ... because why?
Overall, I'm fairly unclear on the motivations and plans of the Archmage (along with the All-Father), the Librarian, and the crazy demon. Everyone else seems to have been working under bad information or manipulated in some way.
But those three seem like they each had all the information and still did weird things that I don't understand. The Archmage prepared his daughter to go fight in the Far Realm when there's nothing to be gained from it; the Librarian groomed Nic while not wanting him to do what he did; the crazy demon has no motivation I can comprehend.
u/RUSSIAN_POTATO [+1] (2 months later)
/u/mooderino just finished and was trying to figure out wtf happened. Is the post above right? Is there another discussion thread for the whole series so far?
u/haiku_fornification [+13] (49 minutes later)
So, Nic has Winnum Roke inside of him. Kinky.
I liked the conclusion though we're still missing key parts of the puzzle. The Dizzy and Simole ending was awesome, I very much enjoyed their interactions. The demons + mages cooperating makes sense. Winnum Roke wanting revenge being the big driver of the story feels... unsatisfying? Incomplete?
I hope something serious and personal happened to her to lead to all this. Maybe she was pregnant, realized she would die and decided to have an abortion, or to kill her unborn child. I could see how that would cause a lot of trauma and take her on a path of revenge.
The All-Mother was sidestepped by the Archmage, which is a pain. I was hoping to find out what actually happened there. On the plus side, the All-Father calls the Librarian "Pilot". Was this sci-fi hiding under fantasy all along? I hope so, there was a ton of other hints in earlier chapters.
u/KilotonDefenestrator [+4] (an hour later)
On the plus side, the All-Father calls the Librarian "Pilot". Was this sci-fi hiding under fantasy all along?
I sincerely hope not, I have had really bad experiences with genre shifts as plot twists.
Both pilot and ship can be used for maritime vessels as well as aircraft or spaceships, so I'm holding my thumbs the story will stay as labelled: fantasy.
u/None [+5] (2 hours later)
I think I remember there being a ship mentioned and other
worlds~ dimensions. And Winnum Roke wanted to travel to the stars.“It isn’t a mountain. It’s a ship.”
It hadn’t looked like any kind of ship Simole had ever seen. “A ship that sails on water?”
“No. It travels between dimensions. That’s why this place is so hard to get to—it’s always moving.”
http://moodylit.com/the-good-student-table-of-contents/chapter-twenty-nine
Mages can travel through space as good as engineers could. They can probably do it even better.
u/notagiantdolphin [+12] (4 hours later)
I know it will never happen, but I can't help but want Nic to respond to Dizzy's (nearly) inevitable "Well, I've got what I needed, I'm done with you" with the complete unconcern and lack of care that would be worse for her than if he actually surpassed her completely. Or, I don't know, start courting Simole, I suppose.
u/xachariah [+11] (6 hours later)
Outside of stories, he'd probably meet some random girl on the steet who's interested in him and then he'd never think about Dizzy again because the new girl has better boobs and lets him touch them. ...or if not a random girl, one that wants to get back at / one up Dizzy.
Nic x Mayanda OTP.
u/notagiantdolphin [+3] (10 hours later)
Someone alert tumblr, there's potential slash fiction here for them.
u/Veedrac [+6] (an hour later)
MoodyLit link: https://moodylit.com/the-good-student-table-of-contents/chapter-fifty-two
u/Veedrac [+3] (an hour later)
Typo:
fdragon food
u/mooderino [+2] The Good Student (2 hours later)
Thanks. Fixed.
u/tokol [+2] The Greater Good (a day later)
He had to convince he hadn’t changed
convince he -> convince her [that] he
“I want you tell you something,” said Dizzy
want you -> want to
Old men have gaps in their knowledge., the behaviour of girls is one of them.
knowledge., the -> knowledge, the
u/mooderino [+2] The Good Student (a day later)
Thank you very much for spotting all of these. Much appreciated. Cheers.
u/Roneitis [+3] (12 hours later)
Volume 1!?
u/WhoaItsAFactorial [+2] (12 hours later)
1!
1! = 1
u/Muilate [+1] (4 days later)
(-2)! ?
u/Dent7777 [+2] House Atreides (a day later)
A couple of months!!!
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