𝐻𝐸'𝒮 𝒟𝐸𝒜𝒟. 𝒮𝐻𝐸'𝒮 𝒟𝐸𝒜𝒟𝐿𝒴. 𝒯𝐻𝐸𝒴'𝑅𝐸 𝒮𝒪𝑀𝐸𝒲𝐻𝐸𝑅𝐸 𝐼𝒩 𝐵𝐸𝒯𝒲𝐸𝐸𝒩.
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To die at a masquerade ball is possibly the most tragic and most hilarious thing she had ever experienced. It was a right pity she couldn't remember a...
❝Hung on my wall is a quote attributed to Joan of Arc:
'I am not afraid. I was born to do this.'
However my life unfolds, goes my thinking, is how I am meant to live it;
however my life unspools, I was created to bear it.❞
-Esme Weijun Wang, 'The Collected Schizophrenias'
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Joan was given a slip of paper with a name, a heavy trenchcoat, and a book. Nothing more, nothing less. Joan is pretty sure a revival like theirs is entitled to a little bit of shock and horror, but they haven't seen any zombie movies, so they can't be sure. And besides, their legal guardian is a walking, wise-cracking skeleton with no visible muscle matter, so maybe strange things are more common than originally believed.
Stephanieis boring, average, and twelve. When her uncle dies suddenly, she becomes not just a twelve year old with a dead uncle, she becomes a twelve year old with a dead uncle, a house, and a sudden hunger for the strange. She becomes something so much cooler.
Skulduggery Pleasantdidn't always have such a plainly ridiculous name, in the same way he didn't always have such a clear view of his molars. He's all bone now, no flesh, no muscle, all cracking and clicking and bleaching in the sun. He wasn't always this way. He can't remember ever being anything else.
Tanith Lowdoesn't get paid enough to describe herself.
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Kate Bush as Joan Lecktor
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'Mother Mary, Lady Death... do any of you know what my name actually is?'
Emily Rudd as Stephanie Edgely
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"You put me on a list. With Hitler."
Literally just a skeleton asSkulduggery Pleasant
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"Of course I want to kill you. I want to kill most people."
Diana Silvers as Tanith Low
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"Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough."
