Line #29 Fridge/Pact


1	''Spoilers are unmarked'', since almost all examples here are going to relate to plot major twists. '''You have been warned.'''
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3	[[AC:FridgeBrilliance]]
4	* In Damages 2.4, there's an early hint at Blake's true nature:
5	--> The woman leaned forward. “More to the point, if she had taken the offer, you wouldn’t be here. At least, not in the same capacity.”
6	* Nearly every other line the lawyers say counts as this:
7	--> “The remainder would call us practitioners,” the woman lawyer told me. “Practitioners like you, even.”
8	--> “Well, we’re a fair bit different from him,” the older man said. He arched one thick eyebrow. “Question is, does it matter?”
9	* Also, this. Blake leaps to the assumption that Rose was damaged and the energy was taken from him to repair her; Ms. Lewis doesn't disabuse him of this, but her actual meaning is obvious in retrospect:
10	--> “It matters for you too,” Ms. Lewis said. “For the time being, you are connected to Blake. Tell me, Blake, did you feel weaker? More vulnerable?”
11	--> “I felt tired,” I said. “I wondered for a moment if Rose had done something.”
12	--> “A vestige is fragile. Defy the natural order, and the vestige suffers.”
13	* Shortly afterwards, she smiles when Blake's vague wording lets her answer him without giving anything away:
14	-->“Yeah,” I said. “I feel like I could sleep for hours. This is the vestige thing, right?”
15	-->She smiled, “‘The vestige thing’, yes.”
16	* But when he keeps talking, she has to cut him off because she can't actually discuss ''that'' in detail, for obvious reasons:
17	-->“Okay,” I said. “Cool. Which raises a few questions I’ve been meaning to ask.”
18	-->“Keep in mind I’m here in a teacher capacity, not as your lawyer.”
19	-->“Sure,” I said. “But this vestige thing-“
20	-->“I can’t tell you the particulars of the deal we made with the late Rose Thorburn.”
21	* When Rose asks her a careless question, Ms. Lewis lets the truth slip about her botched awakening ritual:
22	-->“Vestiges can be twisted into something else,” Rose said. “And... I’d have power there?”
23	-->“You have power anywhere,” Ms. Lewis said.
24	-->“I mean I can have magical ability there.”
25	-->“Again, you can have magical ability anywhere, Rose,” Ms. Lewis said. “But that’s not the issue you’re trying to address. Your concern is the here and now. Right now you’re in a world of mirrors, largely powerless. Blake was asking how you could achieve more faculty.”
26	* Blake's role as The Fool is even deeper than it seems at first glance. [[UsefulNotes/TarotCards Our very own wiki]] has this to say:
27	--> Historical sidenote: The Fool's role in the trick taking card games which gave rise to the modern Tarot deck was unique: [[spoiler:The card always lost, but also was always a valid play, thus making the card both worthless at the tactical level and immensely valuable at the strategic level (you could avoid playing a card that could win a later round if you had already lost this round).]]
28	** Blake's not just The Fool because of the various character traits he shares with the card, but also because Grandma Rose [[spoiler:used him as an expendable asset to keep Rose in reserve for as long as possible.]]
29	* The reason why Isadora was so opposed to Dionysus presence in Toronto, which was the reason she tried to stop Jeremy from making a demesne, is because he's a God of Madness and she's an Other of Balance. The two oppose one another and madness is her weakness. His presence weakens her.

Context Fridge / Pact