History Headscratchers / YoungWizards

** Hmm... now that's interesting. Say that you're kind of clingy and would be insulted to hear that your spouse has remarried or taken up a second lover in the living world, even if you had already divorced them or something. Would that mean that being Timeheart changes who you are, or how you think? Kind of like a more benevolent version of GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul? I mean, I guess everyone has to change a little bit to fit in to the perfect world of Timeheart, but still... changing people's personalities without their knowledge to avoid conflicts is usually only something that features in horror stories.
*** Well, it's not actually changing. What Timeheart is the perfect universe. Remember how alternate universes work, where every choice (and actually, every movement of a subatomic particle, but that may or may not be relevant) goes every way at once, with different outcomes going into different universes? Timeheart is the universe where literally ''everything'' went right - up to and including the Lone Power deciding to create death. So the people in Timeheart don't change - they were just always as perfect as a sentient being can be. And apparently the Powers that be also tack in their alternate selves memories or something? Or they could just be being kind/acting.

* The in-universe justification is that even contemplating accepting the Lone Power's [[DealWithTheDevil offer to cure her mom's cancer if she gives up her wizardry]] was a [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin violation of her Oath]], and [[DisproportionateRetribution her wizardry has been draining away as a result]]. Or something. It's been awhile since I've read that particular book. The point is, the change was in her ability to perform wizardry, so she needed [[BigDamnHeroes Kit to show up with that]] [[ChekovsGun old copy of her name]].

* I've been thinking about that too! I mean, when you think about all of the huge wizardries (that just make the Lone Power hate her more and more) that she's done lately, and how so many characters get [[KilledOffForReal Killed Off For Real]] without too much fuss... it kind of makes you wonder if Nita's going to be around much longer. But, barring Dairine of course, Nita draws more parallels to the LP than any other wizard in the series. She doesn't suffer ''too'' much guilt over killing things, as long as she isn't friendly with them, like when she was killing the drows in AWAb. She was the one that was most affected by King Bug, she's the only main character to make a deal with the LP, the thing in AWAl... all kinds of little things like that. Maybe all of this is foreshadowing, and Nita is intended to become another Hesper...? At the end of the series, maybe? After all, it's gonna take something big to pay off all those wizardry bills...

Did anyone else find Nita's delight at seeing the Lone One suffer [[AFateWorseThanDeath A Fate Worse Than Death]] a little disturbing? At the beginning of A Wizard Alone, Nita has a dream about a clown being mocked by an audience, which we later find out is a representation for [[AndIMustScream how trapped Darryl feels]] during his Ordeal. Near the end of the book, we get to see her [[CircusOfFear Circus of Fear]] nightmare again, and it is made clear that the LP is now the sad clown cycling in circles indefinitely, rather than Darryl. She is said to wake up smiling over it. Nita is usually quite compassionate, [[SympathyForTheDevil even towards the Lone One]], which makes the moment seem strangely OOC.

Did anyone else find Nita's delight at seeing the Lone One suffer [[AFateWorseThanDeath A Fate Worse Than Death]] a little disturbing? At the beginning of A Wizard Alone, Nita has a dream about a clown being mocked by an audience, which we later find out is a representation for [[AndIMustScream how trapped Darryl feels]] during his Ordeal. Near the end of the book, we get to see her [[CircusOfFear Circus of Fear]] nightmare again, and it is made clear that the LP is now the sad clown cycling in circles indefinitely, rather than Darryl. She is said to wake up smiling over it. This kind of suffering is something to be mourned, not celebrated, no matter who the clown is currently representing. Nita is usually quite compassionate, [[SympathyForTheDevil even towards the Lone One]], which makes this moment seem strangely OOC.

Did anyone else find Nita's delight at seeing the Lone One suffer [[AFateWorseThanDeath A Fate Worse Than Death]] a little disturbing? At the beginning of A Wizard Alone, Nita has a dream about a clown being mocked by an audience, which we later find out is a representation for how trapped Darrel feels during his Ordeal. Near the end of A Wizard Alone, we get to see her [[CircusOfFear Circus of Fear]] nightmare again, and it is made clear that the LP is now the sad clown cycling in circles indefinitely, rather than Darrel. She is said to wake up smiling over it. This kind of suffering is something to be mourned, not celebrated, no matter who the clown is currently representing. Nita is usually quite compassionate, [[SympathyForTheDevil even towards the Lone One]], which makes this moment seem strangely OOC.

* It's implied that it CAn cause changes, not, I think, that it will.

* In the first book, it's implied that writing your name wrong in a spell changes you. However, in the fifth book, Nita casts a spell using her name that turns out to be wrong because she's changed in the interim. Instead of changing her, it simply doesn't work. Ehwhat?!?