chapter 18? Will the third book be the book with the most chapters so far or I don’t remember the other books having that many chapters?
Here’s a quote from an update she gave about a month ago:
“I’ve broken the plan for the ending chapters into two different versions, which are A and B (so it’s Chapter 17A, Chapter 18A, and Chapter 17B, Chapter 18B, etc, right up until Chapter 19—then Chapter 20 is the ‘aftermath’ chapter, and 21 is the epilogue-type thing!).”
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So im rereading both book one and book two before book three comes out. I’m on my first rerun through book two and Falk made a comment about how the rougues leader has the same eyes as us. I may be looking a bit to much into this but is it possible we are related?
We don’t know anything about the Detective’s family other than they have elderly grandparents far away, their father is dead and Rebecca is a workaholic.
It’s highly likely to be foreshadowing her as a relative (spoiler for who I assume she could be). I imagine her to be Rook’s sister who happened to become a major antagonist after his sacrifice for supernaturals, and she wants them dead as a price for his loss.
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What has me more confused is she knows nothing about us as a person. I would think if rook had a sister than they would somewhat know about us. I also want to point out that they may be our half sister if Rook had another relationship before Rebecca
That’s my guess as well, especially given the comment from Rebecca that the MC has Rook’s eyes. Chances are Rook’s sis has his eyes, too.
Well, Sera said that the MC has no siblings, and I would think that mean’s half siblings as well. Besides, there’s no way Rook wouldn’t have had his other kid as part of his life, which means Rebecca would’ve known about the kid. So I’m thinking no on this.
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Maybe. I like the half-aunt thing.
However, in my version where she is a sister to Rook, the author can easily claim that the detective hasn’t met this character at an age that they can remember her by, and use their meeting as a way to rush memories of the “aunt” when they happen to meet, and could even have a chance to reveal that the aunt (or her people) have popped up in the detectives life unknowingly.
(I have plenty of relatives I don’t know because they’re too shady. Rebecca would do the same for the detective, she’s a distant mum, sure— but she’s protective.)
Remember, this “aunt” is enough of a major antagonist to run a group of Hunters that have apparently never had a leader, so she’s shown capabilities of leading large untrained groups of fighters and being an authority figure enough to keep hold of the leash.
No matter what we assume her role will be, as an author, she has the potential of being written in as an ex-human agent who garnered connections enough to keep being fed information about the detective when she left (the blood results), had the knowledge of how to connect to the leader of a supernatural race, Falk (book 2) and recognises how to lure in Agents (Book 3).
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Also, interestingly, Rook’s sister is “dead.” No info on it.
More info on Rook and his sister as well as other family (I’ll add more links when I have time to… about to be in a stupid meeting…)
Rook’s sister’s death
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Edited to add:
Leader of the Rogues was never part of the Agency and Rebecca doesn’t know her well
Also interesting… from the third link (the second “More…”), Sera says Rebecca knew the sister in a polite way but never got close. Which is another way of saying Rebecca doesn’t know her well… dun dun dun…
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It’s gonna be the paternal great-aunt, isn’t it? Aunt’s dead, so are the paternal grandparents, so we’re running low on blood relations unless somebody is bring the dead back to life, and not in a zombie manner.
Note that Sera says that in the ask about Rook being an orphan (and the grandparents being dead) she had to spend time making sure she was being TECHNICALLY true (which, as we all know, is the best kind of true).
Alternatively, when Falk said the leader has the same eyes as us… he meant IN A JAR! Y’know, like “I got the body of a teenager… in the freezer of my cellar.” 
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Oh man, if it’s the paternal great-aunt, that would be awesome. My action movie mind immediately hops to her being batshit crazy. She killed Rook and Rooksis’s parents. Killed the sister. And will try to kill the MC because she hates her entire freaking family. And, you know, she’s batshit crazy…
Won’t happen but it’d be fun.
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Don’t we have confirmation that Rook was killed by supernaturals, though? On the other hand, there IS that big honking scene of Rebeca going “I don’t know specifics because I didn’t want to know”.
Which, by the way, great going Rebecca, knowing about Supernatural rogues is literally your goddamn job. FUCK, why is everyone at the Agency so incredibly bad at their job (totally-not-Fabio nurse excluded, I think)?
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Yes, Rook was killed protecting humans from supernaturals. But that’s all we know about it. So crazy aunt could be involved in that, too.
Stupid Rebecca with her “I didn’t want to know!”
Dezh: “Well, I do so I can’t hunt down those responsible and chop them to pieces!”
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Is it possible that either Rook and his sister came from the Echo world and were never found, or is it more likely that rook and his sister were birthed from a supernatural and a human? I think Rook might have been some sort of supernatural because of our mutated blood.
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I think it’s safe to say that the detective is full human. We aren’t the only person with the mutation, we’re just the only one who survived being experimented on
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Well we don’t know what the experiment did other than inject vampire blood into us. We have no idea what it did to our anatomy or our abilities and such, so i think its possible we have some sort of after affect.
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That’s definitely possible, but it doesn’t change the fact that we were probably born human
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Thats most likely. But whats interesting is we know basically nothing about Rook. I dont think the agency wants us to really know about Rook either. Which makes me wonder what we don’t know and what the agency does.
So this might be sort of out there, but most of the supernatural’s come from an alternate dimension no? So who’s to say that the rogue leader might not be related that way? Like instead of being directly related to any of the family members that the MC currently has it could be she’s related to an alternate version of the family? Kind of a dumb theory I know, but I thought it might be an interesting line to go down.
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It is not. According to Sera, Rook “stumbled into [the supernatural world] by accident, just as his kid did.”
I don’t think that’s the sort of “alternate” we’re dealing with here. The Echo World appears to be an independent world, just sort of… shunted to the side, dimensionally. There’s no alt-Detective in the Echo World in the same way that there’s no alt-me in the United States.
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Fair enough, I just thought it would be worth pointing out, specifically because one would imagine that to be a Leader of “rogue supernatural’s” one would have to be one themselves and that would make the most sense if the leader crossed over rather than was made one in the regular world.
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