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Fridge Logic for Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic.
Fridge Brilliance
- Giovanni is oddly patient and forgiving of Lorelai despite her throwing several tantrums throughout the story and knowing from Molly that she's constantly a self-centered jerk. However, it's safe to say that Giovanni understands that Lorelai is just as much a victim of her and Molly's broken home as she is a contributing factor — especially after getting to meet with and talk to Martin himself — and given that most of his minions are the result of troubled homes, it's natural that he's more than willing to see what he can do to help her.
- Giovanni's boys coming from broken households also explains why Martin pisses him off so much: not only is Molly a close friend of his by this point, but Gio has seen first-hand how these brands of "parenting" mess people up for life, and he wants to make sure other people don't have to go through what his boys did.
- Trixie also reveals that Giovanni was the one to play with and look after the younger family members during get togethers. So he'd be used to dealing with tantrums or otherwise.
- Giovanni’s mom barely being phased by her son's crimes and stating he would do so makes a lot of sense when it's revealed that she's one of the Roughhouses, a family full of notorious criminals. Her son wanting to be one is no different from a kid wanting to join the family business. Furthermore, his crimes are overall not that bad compared to stuff the Roughhouses have done, such as Dixon being rumored to have blown up the STEM building.
Fridge Horror
- Naven's possible ties to Bliss Ocean give all his heart-to-heart talks with Lorelai a very sinister undertone. He could genuinely be sympathetic to her plight regarding her epithet... or he could be scoping her out and indoctrinating Bliss Ocean's anti-Epithet philosophy into her while she's too emotionally vulnerable to see the red flags until it's too late.
- Or if he believes she is too dangerous to herself and others, he could simply put Lorelai on Zora’s list for recruitment, capture, or termination.
- Conversely, it's possible that seeing Lorelai so regretful and obviously tormented by her own powers could cause Naven to take more drastic action, and go to further extremes than just stealing an amulet.
- Additionally, Lorelai saying she hates her own Epithet and wanting it gone could further bolster Naven into feeling that he's in the right for wanting to get rid of all Epithets.
- Lorelai left as soon as her dream bubble faded, so that means she likely has no idea Molly was taken by Giovanni. She might wake up and think her little sister ran away.
Fridge Logic
- There are several instances where Naven knows things that by all means he should not know.
- Molly never told Naven about what happened in the museum, but when talking to Giovanni, he knows all about what happened, and Giovanni assumes Molly told him.
- Naven scolds Lorelai for making Molly cry, but Molly doesn't even meet Naven between that event and his conversation with Lorelai, and Lorelai simply assumes Molly told him.
- Naven knew Rick's name even though no one ever told it to him.
- Near the end of the book, Naven tells Lorelai to check her pocket, which contained Giovanni's baseball calling card that Giovanni batted at her that she pocketed. Naven was nowhere near that scene, being trapped inside the tower at the time, and yet he somehow knew about it and that there was something important written on it.
- In the scene with the mirror and the bunny hoodie, when Lorelai asks her own reflection if she killed her mom, Naven answers that he doesn't know, despite her never asking it out loud.
- It makes you wonder if he really is a Mundie or if the narration has been lying to us this whole time.
