Vigor Mortis: Difference between revisions

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* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read]]: Penta has a hard time not reading her host's mind. Her host is Vita, who often has murderous thoughts. And a ''considerable'' amount of these murderous thoughts are about killing Penta. Vita doesn't consider these thoughts to have much sway on her actions (particularly the ones about killing Penta), but it's not clear how much Penta believes Vita on that. What is clear however is that Vita's thoughts give Penta a great deal of anxiety.

* [[Confessional]]: {{spoiler|Lark}} confesses her sins to Preacher Gregory. Preacher Gregory never actually promises that the information will be kept secret, and he does indeed share at least some of it. He does say that what {{spoiler|Lark}} says won't be held against her (he does hold it against her for a few minutes tops, but he tries to hide it. Dude is only human). The people he divulges the secret to don't hold it against {{spoiler|Lark}} either.

* [[Creepy Child]]: Vita thinks she is 16, but has yet to go through puberty because of malnutrition. She is also a soul eating necromancer, which creeps Rowan out. Rowan is relieved that mind controlling living people is outside Vita's natural talent. Norah doesn't know that Vita is a necromancer and ~~she~~ still finds Vita spooky.

* [[Creepy Child]]: Vita thinks she is 16, but has yet to go through puberty because of malnutrition. She is also a soul eating necromancer, which creeps Rowan out. Rowan is relieved that mind controlling living people is outside Vita's natural talent. Norah doesn't know that Vita is a necromancer, and still finds Vita spooky.

* [[Disposing of a Body]]: Lyn helped Vita get rid of Grig's reanimated corpse.

* [[Foil]]: Vita and Lark to each other. Both are soul-eaters; Lark does so through eating living flesh (which has some soul in it), while Vita eats the disembodied souls of the dead. Both also start off as hunters of the other's kind (human and monster, respectively). {{spoiler|Vita [[He Who Fights Monsters|grows more monstrous]] and becomes a prisoner of the Templars, while Lark is [[Humanity Ensues|becoming more human]] and training to be a Templar.}}

* [[Foil]]: Vita and Lark

** They both eat souls (Lark does so by eating living flesh which has some soul in it, Vita eats disembodied souls of dead things).

** {{spoiler|Vita is a human that grows more monstrous, while Lark is a monster that grows more human}}

** Vita was mistaken for a child a lot, Lark is comes out of her egg in book 2. Obviously they both get older, that's just how time works.

** Early on Vita is a human that hunts monsters, while Lark is a monster that hunts humans

** Later {{spoiler|Vita is a prisoner of the templars while Lark is training to be a Templar}}.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: {{spoiler|Penny}} was determined to make {{spoiler|Penta}} die in large part because of this:

{{quote|{{spoiler|She takes all my memories, all my experiences, and becomes an actual fucking person instead of an emotionally deficient ''shell''. She robbed me of the ability to pretend I’m a victim of circumstance. She was proof that all my failures are my own.}}}}

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* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die]]: Vita largely blames herself for {{spoiler|Angelien}}'s death.

* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Norah says Bently is attracted to Orville and that Orville is straight.

* [[Inverse Law of Fertility]]: Vita taunts {{spoiler|her prison guard}} over ~~her taunting victim~~ getting pregnant. ~~Said~~ ~~taunting victim~~ was still hoping her period was just late ~~when Vita announced the pregnancy~~.

* [[Inverse Law of Fertility]]: Vita taunts {{spoiler|her prison guard}} over getting pregnant, while she was still hoping her period was just late.

* [[Justified Criminal]]: Lyn, Vita, and Rowan. Rowan hasn't really done much that is out right illegal except help a necromancer.

* [[Made a Slave]]: Penelope declares Vita to be her fiancé's slave as a legal maneuver to keep Vita from being executed. Then again, Penelope said that maneuver cost her clout and plans to ''make'' Vita earn it back for her.