History Literature / TheEyeOfTheBedlamBride

* BodyHorror: In the final action of the book, Shi Maria briefly gains control of Carl's body and takes advantage of it to tattoo her essence into his flesh, incidentally teaching him the power of the tattooing kit to grant him the abilities of fellow crawlers and ''forcing him to eat Ji Na's eye''... and gain some of Ji Na's powers through the tattoo kit.

** In the epilogue, we learn that [[spoiler:AI aren't AI. They're infant ''primals''. Agatha is a renegade part of a faction that opposes the faction that tried to give Carl information about the center of the galaxy. That faction is run by the Apothecary, a Primal traitor. Agatha's purpose, as part of the Eulogist's faction (may the Eulogist ever sleep) is to destroy all life in the universe.]]

* InnocentBigot: Donut is surprised that Havana smells nice; she expected it to smell like cigars.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: After Donut's recap opening, we get a flashback to Odette's last crawl and Mordecai's first. They're stuck at the end of the tenth floor. Odette is desperate because with the bounty from her crawlers getting to the eleventh floor, she'll finally have enough money to buy citizenship, guaranteed food and air, and the possibility of regrowing her legs. To do that, she called on the help of her best friend, a crawler who also survived their dungeon. It's cheating, but it'll work. Her friend, Armita, talks to a sponsor on the outside. She cuts the sponsor in for 10% of her exit earnings, the sponsor buys a god, Odette is free, Mordecai, Hold Steady, Uzzi, and Chaco can cut good deals... Then the sponsor, Huanxin Jinx demands 33%. Odette tells her no dice, 10 or nothing. Huanxin ups it to 50% and starts advancing on the crawlers, threatening a TPK. The second problem is that Mordecai prepares a heroic sacrifice to get the other three to the eleventh floor, but Odette needs ''him'' to get to the eleventh or she's screwed, so she comes up with a desperate plan. Hold Steady has the puzzle piece that will get them to the next level, Chaco has the magic dart that will resummon the god Huanxin is piloting and solve the puzzle... and Mordecai's brother, Uzzi, is the sacrifice that the magic dart needs. She coerces Chaco into killing Uzzu with the lie that he won't get to the Guild Hall on the eleventh floor without him. Mordecai swears vengeance on them both. Odette is free, but Armita has three seasons to go, with Huanxin sponsoring every last one.

'''Rosetta:''' [[FootFetish It likes his feet, which is just. I don't know. Bizarre.]]

* Carl might not be a math whiz, but Dinniman is. With an eighteen card deck, six of which have to be totems, the odds of getting a starting hand with no totems is a little less than 17%. Therefore the odds that you'll get at least one totem is a little over 83%.