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Skulduggery

 * It's a better reason than a blind Roaring Rampage of Revenge
 * It's entirely possible. It's not like Skulduggery's gonna say that out loud.

Darquesse is actually

 * This Troper calls genius. Bonus Points for you, sir.
 * I was thinking so too, but
 * Alternatively...


 * Almost certain that Darquesse is
 * Another thing that points to this is that in book five, Nye implies that
 * Yeah, and if the reflection is Darquesse it explains why in the visions Darquesse can kill Val's parents without much interruptions. The reflection has easier time reaching the parents downstairs. Still, can a reflection gains magic? Or maybe if one day it finally creates an identity on its own, it will no longer be a reflection and cannot go back into the mirror, thus become mortal?
 * True but
 * Isn´t that whole thing already busted by
 * Isn´t that whole thing already busted by

Darquesse is actually

 * Um,
 * Yeah, I (previous troper) hadn't read that far at the time.

Skulduggery

 * Proven false by
 * Or is it?
 * Oh my god you´re right. Also, Skulduggery was most probably not always named Skulduggery because, well, he wasn´t always a skeleton. If there wasn´t a crazy random circumstance and he just happend to name himself like that, we don´t know his former name. So, does nobody know it or does nobody talk about it? It only comes to mind in hindsight, so this would probably be a really exciting revelation, however it turns out.
 * Actually Skulduggery means deceitful behavior/occurance/ a trick, and isn't actually related to skeletons. It just sounds cool and makes an oxymoron with his surname. So I'm pretty sure that's his taken name. Plus, he was a war hero before, and apparently you have to train to be a Necromancer from a young age-
 * Also a nice theory, and more likely than the first one.
 * Also a nice theory, and more likely than the first one.

At some point of the story, Skulduggery will become Valkyrie´s enemy.
It is strongly implied that  Also   And even before that,   If he does not turn against her, there is certainly some problems drawing near.

Clarabelle

 * Um...Explanation?
 * My logic is that Clarabelle has a really bad memory, and well, most people don't remember . One guy did, and he sort of became a bit crazy. Admittedly not evil-crazy, but then, he sort of wasn't a good guy to start with. I was thinking maybe being

Jaron Gallow will be in the next book, maybe working with

 * He's mentioned in Mortal Coil, and I think
 * Or he may
 * He also seems a tad outclassed at the moment.
 * Actually lots of previously stable characters have gone off in all directions, and they're going to have to turn up at some point, so I'm thinking of all kinds of weird team ups at the moment.
 * According to Skulpedia, Derek Landy said he is going to be in the next book. Who with is anybody's guess, though.
 * Well, he showed up.

The Man with The Golden Eyes

 * The Man who is in charge of the New Order is usually mentioned once per book since Playing With Fire. So is . Coincidence?
 * Yes.

Carol and/or Crystal will Take A Level In Badass before the series ends.

 * After all, they were shown to be at least not all terrible in Mortal Coil...
 * Sounds nice. Also, since they have the same ancestors as Valkyrie, they should have powers too.
 * Not necessarily on the powers thing. Gordon didn't have magic and he came from the same lineage too.

The Unnamed is...

 * Lord Vile
 * An Ancient
 * A Faceless One.
 * An Ancient possessed by a Faceless One.
 * A survivor of the alternate Universe the Faceless Ones broke into, who wants revenge for what the Ancients did.
 * Nonexistent. Nada. Mevolent made him up.
 * A Time Lord.
 * Darquess gone back in time.
 * Darquess as a Time Lord.

Octopus-people DO exist.

 * When Skulduggery was teasing Valkyrie in front of Ghastly's shop back in the first book, he pretended that there were octopus-people, then quickly said there weren't. He was wrong. There ARE a species of octopus-people, and they think that Skulduggery is a horrible, horrible racist. No reason, Rule of Funny.

When Valkyrie is an adult she and Skulduggery will become a couple.
It just seems really freaking obvious.
 * That seems a bit difficult to accomplish, considering he's a skeleton.
 * Not all romantic relationships have to involve sexual relations.
 * Yes they do. That defines the 'romantic' part of the relationship as opposed to the 'platonic.' Besides, Skulduggery seems way too unstable to have any sort of healthy relationship with...anyone, really.
 * No, they really don't. For a start there are plenty of asexuals in romantic relationships.
 * No, they don't. Romance has to do with feelings- physicality is optional, not necessary. And more to the point of the guess, the skeleton thing might be sidestepped by the end.
 * The Valduggery ship always made me feel Squicked, not just because of the skeleton thing, but because they're like father and daughter (well, not father and daughter - more like a niece and her fun-loving uncle. In that way, Skulduggery is like a replacement for Gordon).
 * This Troper agrees. Skulduggery's more like a teacher than anything. It's kinda weird.
 * This troper is pining for it. Derek basically eliminated all other romantic options for her, what with her  Really all that's left is either Skulduggery, a new character, or her becoming a nun. Plus they're just cute together!
 * If by 'cute' you mean 'codependent,' then yes. They are very cute.
 * There was a plethora of young men interested in Valkyrie introduced during the ball in Death Bringer. The most likely candidat of those would be the one with the Faceless Ones worshipping father. she at least seemed rather interested in him.
 * "Becoming a nun"? What's wrong with simply being single? Besides, an ordinary relationship with a non-sorcerer isn't out of the question.
 * Guys... are we seriously going to have a Shipping related argument on the WMG page? Really?

Lord Vile is Skulduggery's brother or father

 * They obviously have known each other for a while, and Skulduggery refuses to fight him. Maybe that's because they're related.
 * Ahhhhh... That seems a lot more likely than my above theory.
 * Skulduggery, I Am Your Father...?

Dr Nye will discover the location of the soul...
Think about it.
 * this sounds really, really plausible. After all, Nye didn't seem like it was gone forever.

Skulduggery and China Sorrows had a romantic relationship in the past and/or will end up together by the end.
It is sort of implied, and they're probably about the same age... This Troper is also a shameless Skul/China shipper. "Skulduggery: I know what I'm doing. Ghastly: When it comes to China Sorrows, you rarely know what you're doing."
 * Seconded. However, this troper guesses that the relationship will end in tragedy with
 * China is a little bit of a Valduggery shipper going from Dark Days but I can see it.



The whole Caelan-Val thing is a HUGE Take That against Twilight.
Okay, definately not a wild guess, but I may as well point it out for those who haven't guessed.
 * When I read that part I was "Derek you too?" But I accept is as a deconstruction reconstruction of vampire relationships.
 * It can be both a Take That and a Deconstruction of vampires in general. I mean, Caelan inhabits a lot of vampire cliches. He's handsome, he confuses the heroine, he's quite creepy and has dangerous...but none of this is played as desirable. We can forgive Valkyrie for being confused and uncertain about who she likes better, Caelan or Fletcher, because this troper kind of doubts that Valkyrie knows much about common sense, what with the job she has and the people she hangs out with. However, Caelan is still played up as horribly creepy and unpleasant (to the reader), so he can be a Deconstruction of the vampire romances in general (what with dangerous=hot in a lot of them).
 * Oh, it was definitely a Take That. Whatever subtlety Mortal Coil had is gone by Death Bringer.

Valkyrie will later run into her half-brother/sister.
In the first book, it mentions in passing a past relationship between Val's mother and her Uncle Gordon. Thanks to The Law of Conservation of Detail, this will prove to be absurdly important later on.
 * YES, and concidering the fortune, might have come to claim it and be an absolute jerk and knows notihng of the magic world.
 * If they're a guy (unless...), Incest Is Relative is optional.
 * Maybe... Fletcher...?

Caelan will murder Fletcher.

 * Brutally deconstructing the entire obsessive vampire romance genre. And if you want to go into the whole Darquesse thing... Because this series occasionally like that...

Kinda in the fridge

 * Skulduggery lost his wife and child. After I found that out, him keeping Valkyrie around was a little cute. She might remind him of his child, and what they might have grown up into. It also explains the giant Papa Wolf tendancies Skulduggary has, and how he's basically become like a second father to her. Now Skulduggery is getting unstable, so a downer ending might come from that.
 * (Afterthought from same poster)...but he did let her almost fall off a building, and put her in constant danger by taking her with him...
 * It's entirely possible that Skulduggery sort of sees Valkyrie as his dead child, but that still doesn't make him a good influence. As for Skulduggery becoming unstable, well, he kind of already was...

was driven insane by Clarabelle in Mortal Coil.
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Desmond has magic.

 * I kindof thought that was inplied by Fergus´ story in The Death Bringer...
 * I kindof thought that was inplied by Fergus´ story in The Death Bringer...

Valkyrie will choose Necromancy.

 * She wears a gauntlet in the Bad Future.

The Man With The Golden Eyes is Skulduggery's Older Brother

 * Or another one of his siblings. It just seems like more focus has been placed on Skulduggery's backstory in the last book, and now we know his brother exists, I'm sort of expecting him to turn up, or be relevant. (Unless Landy just doesn't do anything related to Skul's family now, just to screw us around.)

Skulduggery will die by the end of the series.

 * There's a lot of hints in the series, mainly in two veins. Vein one, Skulduggery seems to match the protagonist profile of Gordon's books -he's presented as 'a good guy', has his morals and character brutally assassinated, finds redemption/is humbled and then is murdered in the least dignified way possible. At the start of the series he is shown to be Valkyrie's dream get-out-Haggard-free meal ticket, and the series hints at his past being darker and darker with small successive reveals slowly blackening his grey morality until the Big Reveal . He's now humbled   and this troper is sensing even more of an atonement arc, and then... Bam. The other vein the hints seem to be taking is of Skulduggery being able to 'Move On' - it's referenced by many of the characters, and since Skulduggery now has his head,   and revenge for his family on Serpine (and possibly  ) all that's left is a) training a protege (Lampshaded by Baron Vengeous, I think) and b) saving the world... Hints from Derek seem to be pointing toward the resolution of both of these. Plus the resolution of their codependent shiptastic (yeah, I said it) /unhealthy closeness/ will have to be resolved, one way or another, and much as I'd like the author of a series with   to have it resolved that way I doubt it's going to end up with the two of them alive and walking off into the sunset together. I mean, it's Derek.
 * Maybe Valkyrie will have something to do with his death... Mercy Kill maybe? Alternatively, considering Landy's Joss Whedon-esque tendency to torture his characters *cough*Tanith*cough*, Valkyrie will die and Skulduggery will be left alive. And if you want to be really depressing, the series will end with Alison noticing a tall, thin man at her sister's funeral...
 * I dunno. I figure Skulduggery is just one of those characters that won't survive the series, but I think Valkyrie will. Unless we get some kind of bait-and-switch and abruptly swap protagonists...

China and Gordon are Valkyrie's real parents

 * They gave her to her current parents to protect her from some kind of harm. When Valkyrie finds out that her parents lied to her, it is this that will drive her over the edge and become Darquesse.

Skulduggery's wife was pregnant when she died

 * Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but we've never heard either the name of Skulduggery's wife nor the gender of his child. The nameless thing is less odd--it's easy to not say the name of someone you never want to talk about. However, the absence of gender in the child is odd. Skulduggery never mentions his son or daughter--just his child. This may imply that he doesn't know the gender of the kid--and the only way that could be is if the kid hadn't been born yet.
 * Nice, but ultimately ruined by the revelation that
 * OP here, when was that said? Darn, now I'm going to have to reread the books...unless it was in a short story? This American troper has limited access.
 * Unsure of exactly where, but I think it was Eliza Scorn who said it, possibly in Death Bringer.

The Reflection will replace Valkyrie at some point

 * Maybe it'll become Stephanie Edgeley and Val will leave her old life forever without the inconveniance of being a missing person- she's practically moved in with Skulduggery, and she might want to stop endagering her family or something. Maybe the reflection will just push Val out, like a body snatcher, but y'know, a life snatcher. Or maybe Valkyrie dies or becomes Darquesse or something, and Skulduggery will use the reflection as a Replacement Goldfish, like in Valkyrie's hallucination in Mortal Coil.