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Originally named Ada Smith, she would go by the name Bricktop for most of her life. A woman who was the center of the night scene in Paris during the ’20s, Bricktop was a talented woman in her own right and fostered the talent of the people around her. Making connections with some of the most incredible rising stars of her day. Although she was a force of nature who created one of the most well-known meeting places for artists and socialites at the time, she often gets left out of discussions about the lost generation.

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I cannot overstate how much I appreciate that Vera is not okay. Her mother was rotten to her and she still felt so much pain at losing her that it broke her, and everything that happened after drove her deeper and deeper into nihilism. She went through horrific trauma and she's actually traumatised. Our hero is a mess, because deep down she's the kind of person who buys cat food for a stray even when she's determined to collapse into nothingness.

Whereas our villain, Agent Layne, is able to be incredibly positive and bright and cheerful and happy, because he doesn't actually give a shit. He killed people in the Low Probability Event and it doesn't bother him. It got him out of his rut. He's pleased he has no oversight because it means he gets to do whatever the hell he wants to get results. Every kindness he shows to Vera is for the purpose of making her a more useful tool. Because that's ALL people are to him.

And damn if I don't just love that. That the nihilist is actually full of compassion and empathy even when she hates it. That the optimist only cares about himself and his own experiences. Because it resonates. I struggle with depression and anxiety and ASD and ADHD and there are times when the blackness would be so easy to slip into. But it's always little acts of kindness that become the rope I drag myself out by.

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