![]() ![]() She’s already written her own Sleeping Beauty spin-off with Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower. The horcruxes in Harry Potter are a version of this trope as well. ![]() It shows up in the Russian fairytale Koschei the Deathless. There’s a common fairytale trope that the villain has hidden his heart in a secret location (sometimes an object inside of an object inside of an object etc.) and is therefore ‘immortal’ unless his hidden heart is destroyed. (And yes, Alecto is often described as dead, but she also wakes up, so she’s either not really dead or not that dead.) I propose that John can only die if Alecto dies. But why is he so afraid of her? Is it because he pissed her off so bad that he’s afraid of her revenge? Or is it because Alecto is his weakness? Otherwise he wouldn’t have entombed her on the Ninth. We know that Alecto is John’s weakness, somehow. In order to have a remotely interesting plot, your main villain must be defeatable. Obviously this can’t be true, simply for plot reasons: if John can never die, then there’s not much point to the third book. He tells Augustine that he can’t be killed, at all, period. And yet he comes back, completely unscathed, after about a minute. There’s been a lot of wild theories about Alecto the Ninth (the book and the character) being thrown around, and I’d like to throw my own theory hat into the ring.Īt the end of HtN, Mercymorn vaporizes John. ![]()
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