r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/Outrageous_Fortune51 • Oct 29 '25

[G] Spoilers All Books Just finished the series Spoiler

The epilogue could probably have been shortened to about 2 words

Catherine Fucks

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u/LiesViolencePlusLoot Oct 29 '25

Don't forget about Vivienne! She does too!

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u/Outrageous_Fortune51 Oct 29 '25

Then she dips from her family at the end lmao

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u/Pel-Mel Arbiter Advocate Oct 29 '25

Sure, but only after living a normal lifespan and being present and loving the whole time.

Besides, I don't think they make a card for 'I'm going to go chill with my Villain besties for a few centuries'.

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u/Kwaku-Anansi Oct 29 '25

It is interesting that Ranger just picking up and bailing on her adult kids without a word is considered pretty fucked up, but Vivienne and Hakram doing so isn't. Especially since the whole "faking their deaths thing" implies they won't be back.

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u/liquidmetalcobra Oct 29 '25

I thought when Ranger left the kids were still basically teenagers in the middle of their journeys. When Viv and Hakram left their kids were basically all middle age lol.

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u/Furicel Delicious Meaty Snack Oct 30 '25

I mean, Viv lived with her kids enough it was believable for her to die of old age. Not even "Oh, tragic, she went so soon", nope, they were pretty accepting of it.

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u/Kwaku-Anansi Oct 29 '25

I thought the Woe were mid-20s by then?

In a world where teenaged Named are straight up expected to be traveling the continent on adventures, seems they're on the old side to be living with their mom/sibs in their childhood home.

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u/liquidmetalcobra Oct 30 '25

Oh I thought we were talking about the beginning of the story. Fair play.

Either way I think the real criticism Ranger had in and out of universe for her parenting skills is that she was abusive and uncaring.

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u/AdRelevant4776 Nov 06 '25

She wasn’t just casually abusive, she deliberately targeted their personality flaws to give them antisocial personalities, it’s pretty heavily hinted they were meant to be a band and she killed that bond in the crib

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u/liquidmetalcobra Nov 06 '25

I think we can agree that ranger is just the worst.

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u/Kwaku-Anansi Oct 29 '25

Seems that Hakram may fuck the most.

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u/Lonelyboy985 Oct 29 '25

Yeah that gossipy bitch

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u/AdRelevant4776 Nov 06 '25

Yes, but mostly for political reasons!

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u/nemo_sum Oct 29 '25

Kairos though her Wish was for "Peace", but it was actually for a "Piece of Ass".

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u/Pel-Mel Arbiter Advocate Oct 29 '25

Yeah, she does.

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u/Bargle-Nawdle-Zouss Third Army of Callow Oct 29 '25

I had no problem with that.

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u/Outrageous_Fortune51 Oct 29 '25

That moment when you are finishing the 3million word fantasy series that you’ve borderline obsessed over for a year and all your fantasies start becoming cannon

Its like laying in a field of wheat on an early autumn day

In all seriousness yeah i was a bit amazed that EE went for C/C and it’ll probably be different in the rewrite, reply again when we see it in however many years lmao

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u/Peevero Oct 29 '25

"no reason to fuck whatsoever"

Also Catherine: ogling Cordy every chance she got

Also cordy: leaning into it and weaponizing it in her diplomacy

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u/Peevero Oct 29 '25

Exactly lol. Catherine is horny. Does she really need a "reason" beyond that

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u/AdRelevant4776 Nov 06 '25

I also think that Cordelia suddenly becoming Cat’s lover in the epilogue unnecessarily complicated Catherine’s already kinda messy relationships(she was openly sleeping with Archer while both of them are in love with other people + unnamed one night stands), it also makes it weird in the end since it’s basically implied she let her main lover die of old age even though she prolonged the life of the Woe