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{{quote|''Assassins have targets. Wetboys have deaders.[...]Once you've accepted the contract, whatever's left of the target's life is just a formality.''|'''Durzo Blint'''}}
''[[The Night Angel Trilogy]]'' is a series of fantasy books by Brent Weeks; who is currently writing [[The Lightbringer Trilogy|the Light Bringer Series]]. It's about a boy (who ends up with the name Kylar, although that's not his only one) from the slums who becomes apprentice to a famed wetboy, and who inherits a magical artifact which gives him all manner of supernatural powers (and makes him effectively immortal). Lots of politics, war, and evil megalomaniacs. Major subjects include Kylar's feelings about his job (is it something that's necessary, or is it an evil that he should walk away from?), his love triangle, and the fact that bad things happen to good people (in these books, quite frequently.)
In many ways the first book reads like "Batman: with fewer scruples and some magic", from there things build to a study of faith, love, the cost of doing the right (and wrong) thing, what to do in an [[Crapsack World|unfair universe]], and a look at what immortality can do to a person. Add in a high amount of action, politics, schemes upon schemes upon schemes upon [[Xanatos Roulette|Xanatos Roulettes]] and [[Gambit Pileup|Pileups]] and you have an idea of what the series is like. And add gore. Gore and rape and prostitution and torture and more gore and rape.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Technically, Hu Gibbet is Vi's master, not her father, but it has the same effect. She was also {{spoiler|raped by at least one of her mother's lovers, and her mother didn't give a shit. Her test to become Hu's apprentice was to kill them.}}
** Also, Godking Garoth sure counts.
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* [[Handicapped Badass]]: [[The Strategist|Brant]] [[Retired Badass|Agon]] has to walk with two canes by the end of the series, which leads well to his [[Badass Boast]]
{{quote|Agon: "You draw that sword and I'm going to feed it to you"
[[Samurai|Inspector]]: "But you're an old cripple!"
Agon: "Which will make it all the more embarrassing when I do" }}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Vi is initially the apprentice of Hu Gibbet, a villain, and does a number of bad things in the first and second books. By the third book, though, she's turned good, although there's still tension for various reasons.
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