Line #16 YMMV/DoomsdayBook

Context YMMV / DoomsdayBook

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1	* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: As Dunworthy's guilt over sending Kivrin on a botched drop grows, he explicitly compares Kivrin to Christ on the cross.
2	* GeniusBonus: Willis has lots of historical and religious allusion in her story. Just one example: Roche believes Kivrin is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria St. Catherine]], a saint whose symbol is a wheel. When Kivrin arrives in the past, she is sitting against the wheel of a broken cart.
3	* TheWoobie: Holy shit, Kivrin Engle. Let's tally, shall we? She:
4	** Nearly dies from influenza as soon as she makes it to the past.
5	** Is put under intense scrutiny from Lady Imeyne due to her feigned EasyAmnesia.
6	** [[spoiler: Turns out to have been inadvertently transported not to 1320, but to 1348 - the start of the '''Black Death.''']]
7	** [[spoiler: Is forced to watch as an entire village, filled with people she's grown to know, succumbs one-by-one to plague, despite her very best efforts.]]
8	** [[spoiler: Misses the rendezvous amidst all the chaos, leaving her to believe that she'll be stranded in the past.]]
9	** [[spoiler: Resolves to take Rosemund, who has become the SoleSurvivor (along with Father Roche; more on that in a moment), to Scotland so that they might avoid the plague's further spread, only for Rosemund to die ''as Kivrin's speaking with her.'']]
10	** [[spoiler: Discovers that Father Roche is dying of plague just as they prepare to leave, denying Kivrin even one chance to save somebody.]]
11	** [[spoiler: Gets her ribs kicked in by a delirious Father Roche, leaving her in enough agony that she can't ring the bell to announce his passing as a DueToTheDead, let alone walk to the drop.]]

Context YMMV / DoomsdayBook