[ SECRET POST #2458 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2458 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Aneurin Barnard playing Richard III in The White Queen]


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03.
[Leverage]


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04.
[Pokemon]


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05.
[Discworld]


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06.
[legend of korra]


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07.
[The Young Protectors]


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08.
[Animal Crossing]


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09.
[Men in Black]


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10.
[The Rivers of London]


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11.
[Teen Wolf]


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12.
[Welcome to Night Vale]


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

I think he'll die somewhere in the final book of the series. Peter has more than once wondered if London as a whole can have an Anthropomorphic Personification like the various spirits he's encountered and has consistently failed to connect that with Nightingale's age issues. Nightingale was in his prime during the colonial era when London Pride was at its height, then he was broken at the end of WW2 just as London was broken by the Blitz, then Nightingale went downhill as the post war malaise struck Britain and London then sometime at the end of the 60s Nightingale started getting younger again. Just like swinging Britain and the whole new London scene.

Its fairly obvious that London is Nightingale and Nightingale is London. I reckon he'll become fully mortal, retire, or die in the final book handing off the spirit of London to mixed-race Peter who represents the multicultural London of the 21stC.

[dreemyweird]

This theory makes sense, and it sure is interesting, but I doubt that's what Aaronovitch will go for. For one thing, there's Varvara Sidorovna (it would be cool if she'd turn out to be Zelenograd or Moscow or some other Russian city, though); and then Peter has been able to recognize all the genii locorum he's encountered - why would Nightingale be an exception? It is possible - very likely, even - that gods/goddesses are able to hide their true nature, but why would Nightingale do this?
And wouldn't the Covent Garden affair piss the hell out of him, if he's indeed London? Genii locorum have been shown to be very sensitive to what's going on in their locations.
Though of course it might be that all of the above applies to rivers but not to cities.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

I can come up with handwaves! For Varvara, she's Mother Russia! For the Covent Garden riot Nightingale was kinda busy being nearly dead from being shot (and we know from Ash Thames that Anthro...APs, can be hurt and even die which was one of the things Tyburn was kinda pissed about) by the time he was back on his feet it was all over bar the clear up.

Finally, Peter does know there is something odd about Nightingale but is busy marking all Nightingale's weirdness up to him being (a) old, and (b) a master wizard. At times, despite his sterling talents, we've seen that Peter can be a bit slow to put 2+2 together and let the penny drop especially when it is something he has already formed an opinion on. Its probably why he was set for a grade A career as a police filing clerk (one of the things I like about Peter is that he isn't the standard policeman in fiction who always seem to be a mere hair's breadth away from being Sherlock Holmes/Hercule Poirot reincarnated, he can be a bit thick).