Ok theories. Thought of these and need opinions.
First of all did anyone notice that the only dead men that people use their last names more often are ravel and shudder. Everyone knows that ravel is a dirty traitor and that shudder has his gist that when it was out would kill anything. Both untrust worthy things and that's why people do call shudder Anton but only a very small amount call ravel erskine (the spellings something like that..).
And theory two is that did you ever notice that all of the TRUE dead men (ravels not a true dead man) have a negative word in their name. Think about it, GHASTLY BESPOKE, ANTON SHUDDER, SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT, DEXTER VEX, SACREN RUE, VALKYRIE CAIN. (And if you want you can add HOPELESS and we don't know Larkin's first/last name but LARKIN means rough, fierce.) But revel's name doesn't have a negative word since Ravel means to untangle of or unravel.
Billy-Ray sanguine says "you women take everything over the years you've took my own soul!" Is that why he has no eyes was that a sneaky way to quote the saying eyes are the doorway to the soul?
Did Derek pick Valkyrie's name because she's a worrier who leads skulduggery back to the light and helps lead him off the battlefield?
Did the faceless ones see her different because it of the way the grotesquely's power flowed into Valkyrie as well as because she was an ancient and is that how darquesse awoke?
As far as we know Valkyrie is the only pre-surge to have found their true name. I believe that if valkyrie had got her surge while darquesse was with her valkyrie would have got access to he power and darquesse would have disappeared.
It is said in the books that Stephanie Edgley is a quiet child. When she's in the magical community she can't be seen as quiet and weak. So she talks. The high priest (Tenbrae or something.) says about how when she's with skulduggery she lets him talk for her and that's why. When she's on her own in the temple she speaks but when she can let someone else speak she does. Skulduggery knows this so he talks for her when he can and speaks just to her so she doesn't feel over whelmed. As she goes on it improves and she comes out.
Did anyone else notice that in the fifth book china openly says she doesn't like tanith? I know the remnant was in her but it had all her memories.
Also, are all these people really gullible or something? Like it says in book 9 they ask the sensitive if they can feel skulduggery and then china asks if they can feel vile and their just 'oh viles here? Ok we'll check, it probably has nothing to do skulduggery.'
More of a question but if the person in the dimension skulduggery was trapped in fought back did that mean they had magic? And if so was it like sorcerers magic or did they have a completely different magic?
If you have any other theories you'd like to share pm/review and I'll write it up and do a shout out! ~ Scarlet