History WMG / SkulduggeryPleasant

* It just seems really freaking obvious.

*[[spoiler: Can reflections use magical objects? The reflection is already starting to show some signs of self-awareness and independent thoughts. How long before these become emotions? Let's imagine the reflection sees what Valkyrie's parents think of her, and becomes jealous. It wants to feel love too, but can tell they don't love it as much as the real Valkyrie. One day, when Valkyrie comes home, the reflection ambushes her, and takes her ring. Leaving her unconscious,it takes the ring and slips downstairs, and waits. When Valkyrie regains consciousness, she calls Skulduggery. When he arrives, they both confront the reflection, and it kills Valkyries parents. That's what I imagine could happen.]]

* When Skulduggery was teasing Valkyrie in front of Ghastly's shop back in the first book, he pretended that there were octopus-people, then quickly said there weren't. He was wrong. There ARE a species of octopus-people, and they think that Skulduggery is a horrible, horrible racist. No reason, Rule of Funny.

* Also [[spoiler: remnants can´t posses reflections. Even though the reflection seems to become more and more abnormal, it´s still not real. ]]

[[WMG: Darquess is [[spoiler: Valkyrie but a Vampire!]]]]

*He's mentioned in Mortal Coil, and I think [[spoiler: he may want another, less mindless god to worship, like Remnant Tanith worships Darquesse. So they'll team up in effort to turn Valkyrie into Darquesse.]]

*Another thing that points to this is that in book five, Rye implies that [[spoiler: a dead thing using death magic is goddamn badass. And, as the reflection was killed...]]

[[WMG: Lord Vile is The Unnamed.]]
* A would-be Deathbringer would certainly be powerful enough Mevolent. Maybe he was merely posing as one of Mevolent's Generals?

* After all, they were shown to be at least not all terrible in Mortal Coil...

* The Man who is in charge of the New Order is usually mentioned once per book since Playing With Fire. So is [[spoiler: Lord Vile]]. Coincidence?

** Actually Skulduggery means deceitful behavior/occurance/ a trick, and isn't actually related to skeletons. It just sounds cool and makes an oxymoron with his surname. So I'm pretty sure that's his taken name. Plus, he was a war hero before Lord Vile, and apparently you have to train to be a Necromancer from a young age- [[spoiler: Valkyrie is an exception, and Skulduggery had a wife and child, so I really doubt he had a Necromamcer upbringing, and even if he did join up afterwards, would any amount of anger make him join the people who killed his family? No, I don't think so. Good theory, though. I think Lord Vile had something to do with resurrecting Skulduggery, and maybe the resurrection has to do with Vile joining Mevolent. Like Skulduggery's rage reached through the veil of death and sort of infected him, drove him mad, or the two have became linked in such a way that as long as Skulduggery exists Lord Vile does too. Actually Ghastly asked Skulduggery about his family crest in Mortal Coil, so I think they may be related (physically related, like maybe Lord Vile is his son. That would line up with his wanting to kill Valkyrie, feeling jealous of that, especially since she has been heralded as Death Bringer, taking his place)]]

It is strongly implied that [[spoiler: Skulduggery has a really really horrid backstory (another one than the one about his family) and he was not necessarily the victim.]] Also [[spoiler: China, Ghastly and Shudder have no doubt he would kill Valkyrie without hesitation, if he had to.]] And even before that, [[spoiler: Valkyrie is obviously getting more and more afraid of him.]] If he does not turn against her, there is certainly some problems drawing near.

Almost certain that Darquesse is [[spoiler: the reflection. Backed up by the Unnamed in Mortal Coil, Mevolents master who has no true name/source of magic (like the reflection) and is portrayed destroying a city with black fire (just like Darquesse).]]

* Oh my god you´re right. Also, Skulduggery was most probably not always named Skulduggery because, well, he wasn´t always a skeleton. If there wasn´t a crazy random circumstance and he just happend to name himself like that, we don´t know his former name. So, does nobody know it or does nobody talk about it. It only comes to mind in hindsight, so this would probably be a really exciting revelation, however it turns out.

[[WMG: Darquess is actually[[spoiler: Valkyrie, and the future!Valkyrie is her reflection.]]]]

[[spoiler: Well, Dusk said if he turned Valkyrie into a vampire, she would kill her parents first. It also explains why Valkyrie and Darquess can be in the same vision.]]

* Proven false by [[spoiler: the apperance of Lord Vile at the end of book five.]]

[[spoiler: It is known that Lord Vile suddenly appeared as one of Mevolant's lieutenants, and then disappeared only a few years later. It is also known that Skulduggery disappeared for five years shortly after he was resurrected. It would also explain Skulduggery's history with the Necromancers.]]