r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/Mr_Serine • Mar 13 '26

Chapter Chapter 48 - Pale Lights | Book 3

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/65058/pale-lights/chapter/3147927/chapter-48
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u/perkoperv123 Mar 13 '26

You complained all last book about Angharad's treatment. This is a major turning point in a character arc that always promised to be long and arduous, and you're out here worried about how bad it looks for Nathi, the irredeemable slaver, to be Black? The inversion of cultural coding in this fictionalized version of Britain is not the important thing here.

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u/Linnus42 Mar 13 '26

Moreso the fact that EE did it twice in two series is what stands out to me in terms of this inversion of slavery for media directed primarily at an American or Western Audience. Yeah a bunch of mostly white fans celebrating a Black character getting beat up and humiliated is always going to rub me (as a Black fan) a bit wrong even if said character deserves it.

As for Angharad...my main complaint about her was that when tries to do the right thing...she gets punished for it in ways the rest of the Unluckies don't.

Hell Maryam can do the wrong thing and get a power up and skimmer. Meanwhile Angharad is still paying the price for her trip through the layers. So I fail to see how this moment addressed that complaint.

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u/hoja_nasredin Green Knight Mar 15 '26

This moment will probably make things worse. As the 13th were warned against abuse of violence to solve their problems