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After going through "Last Hope School For Magical Delinquents", I realized just how lost I would be in that particular universe.
Not only I would feel very uncomfortable with the setting right from the start, bit its ever-changing rules (learned about through trial and error) would make adaptation effectively impossible for me.
I mean, the girl standing next to me could do anything from floating harmlessly a few feet above the ground or talking to sprites from casting fucking hell fire my way. Someone else could transfigure the very ground I'm standing on or send rocks flying my way at Mach 2 (all of which actually happens there). It'd turn every encounter into a chess game of sorts.
Hell, some characters openly engage in identity theft as if it was their job and nobody bats an eye at it — seeing someone walking down the hall while carrying exact copies of your papers happens every day. What's the big deal?
But the main character is also the worst offender and the one who would actually turn everything into a nightmare...
Remember how Ron's wand got damaged in one of the Harry Potter books and he became a danger to himself and everyone around him? Imagine if that was the default for her and you just had to... exist around her?
Yes, it would be horrible.
Now, granted, the book takes place in a reformatory school, so it takes full advantage of this setting to set boundaries before anything can get too crazy - much like how Hogwarts was used as its own narrative device to introduce Harry to the world of magic - ... but it doesn't change the fact that being a background character on it would be both sucky and dangerous.
What book or story do you think you wouldn't survive inside of?
Not only I would feel very uncomfortable with the setting right from the start, bit its ever-changing rules (learned about through trial and error) would make adaptation effectively impossible for me.
I mean, the girl standing next to me could do anything from floating harmlessly a few feet above the ground or talking to sprites from casting fucking hell fire my way. Someone else could transfigure the very ground I'm standing on or send rocks flying my way at Mach 2 (all of which actually happens there). It'd turn every encounter into a chess game of sorts.
Hell, some characters openly engage in identity theft as if it was their job and nobody bats an eye at it — seeing someone walking down the hall while carrying exact copies of your papers happens every day. What's the big deal?
But the main character is also the worst offender and the one who would actually turn everything into a nightmare...
Remember how Ron's wand got damaged in one of the Harry Potter books and he became a danger to himself and everyone around him? Imagine if that was the default for her and you just had to... exist around her?
Yes, it would be horrible.
Now, granted, the book takes place in a reformatory school, so it takes full advantage of this setting to set boundaries before anything can get too crazy - much like how Hogwarts was used as its own narrative device to introduce Harry to the world of magic - ... but it doesn't change the fact that being a background character on it would be both sucky and dangerous.
What book or story do you think you wouldn't survive inside of?
