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This is the only part of the news I find to be enticing tbh.

Of course I'm hoping that since the first book is Serpine's book, he will be on the cover, but I'm not holding my breath. As for the 'exclusive bonus content', I'm hoping it will be more excerpts from the first draft because I would honestly kill to read it in full. I'm kind of tempted into wanting to buy it, which is a first since HBL, and we all know what a disappointment that turned out to be. At the same time I really don't want to buy it because I know the 'fixes' he did for the Matt Taylor cover editions made both the books and Serpine as a character worse. Apparently the most egregious thing he did was change the scene where Serpine offered Bliss wine into him offering him elephant-shit coffee along with an autism rant about it. Landy really is giving his best to ruin Nef because he just has to ruin it every time he has a good thing going because we can't have nice things. And I don't want to reward him for his BS by giving him money :/

When I heard 'special edition', my first thought was the battle card edition of the first book I successfully managed to hunt down. If the new special edition includes a special merch item like that again, I might buy it for that alone because we sure as hell are not getting any good merch from the actual merch store 💀

This random dark knight from the music I like to have on in the background is giving me massive Mevolent vibes. Specifically from the Matt Taylor SoW cover.

Source: "Black Flame - Epic Dark Choir Music - Dark Ambient Music"

Do you have any head canons on Skulduggerys wife and what their relationship would've been like?

I have a hot take.

You know how a bunch of people headcanon that Skul took Valkyrie as his partner because she reminded him of his daughter? (The child's gender is also part of their headcanon; it's still unrevealed at the point of writing this.)

And how Landy denies that and says Skul "was just looking for a friend". [Link]

I think Skul's dead wife is a lot like Valkyrie. We know Skul likes women that are badass and kick ass, given his previous canon love interests are China and Abyssinia. What they lack, at least at the time of dating him, is a good heart. Phase 1 Valkyrie was a flawed character, but she was good at heart. She makes him want to be a better person, and I think Skul's late wife shared that quality with Valkyrie.

In book 1 Val is described by Gordon and Skul as "Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly[...]" and that would probably describe Skul's late wife well also.

Is this headcanon very Valduggery coded? Yes. Do I ship it? I see it in the way I see Ganith; it's not a ship I find appealing, but I'm not surprised it's canon/if it turned out to be canon. Because I know Landy ships it, and if you disagree, you are in denial.

Also, friendly reminder that Nef is canonically as tall as Mr Bliss; he's an evil, tall weed man~

Nefarian Serpine: 6.4 ft (195 cm) Mevolent: 8 ft (244 cm)

Mevolent had always been the golden child, chosen to be the Unnamed's student, and then had been credited for his death. The Unnamed had been right to dislike Nefarian, as he had been instrumental in influencing Mevolent and gathering intel on all of the Unnamed's allies and weak points so they couldn't regroup and strike back after the Unnamed's death. Afterwards, when Mevolent had been growing his following, he had always been the shining messiah figure while Nefarian stood in his shadow, regarded as a devil for committing the atrocities Mevolent himself had sanctioned. Nefarian had his own acolytes, but they valued him for his strength and cunning; they didn't worship him as their saviour like Mevolent was worshipped by most of the church.