Twoflower being a Widower.
- If Twoflower was a widower before the events in The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, he and his wife planned on taking the trip to tour Ankh-Morpork together. When she passed way, Twoflower still left to see the world outside the walls of the Agatean Empire because he promised her.
- And as such, his continued optimism around Rincewind is really Twoflower hiding his grief with a big, innocent smile.
- If however, Twoflower is a widower after the events of the first two novels, his wife was killed intentionally by Lord Hong's men, and the battle with Lord Tang was planned. This was a punishment for Twoflower publishing "What I did on my Holidays", along with his imprisonment.
- His optimism can then be seen as him being strong in the face of his loss for his daughters' sake.
Twoflower's wife had a personality like Rincewind's.
- Rincewind pretty much makes this wild guess in-universe. He speculated that "Twoflower's wife must have been a very smart person," and she probably saw the worst in people. She got on well with Twoflower because she couldn't find the worst in him.
Lord Hong didn't die.
- He escaped the Barking Dog shot and made it to Ankh-Morpork . . . where he opened a takeaway fish-and-chip shop on the site of the old fish-god temple in Dagon Street on the full moon.
- When Death picked up Ronald Saveloy, he mentioned that there are a legion of ghosts, the souls of people Hong killed, who are waiting to meet Lord Hong. Death usually picks up important people, but in this case it looks like Hong is going to have a terrible afterlife to face.
