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1) Who wrongly thinks that they\'ve identified the scam?\\\\
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1) Who wrongly thinks that they\\\'ve identified the scam?\\\\\\\\
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Deleted this ecxample, since as it\'s written right now, there\'s nothing to indicate it\'s a Shuffle, rather than a simple misdirection. The parts of a shuffle that are missing are:\\\\
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Deleted this example, since as it\\\'s written right now, there\\\'s nothing to indicate it\\\'s a Shuffle, rather than a simple misdirection. The parts of a shuffle that are missing are:\\\\\\\\
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Please don\'t restore it without adding that information, and if all three aspects aren\'t present, don\'t readd it at all; it\'s not a KansasCityShuffle.
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Please don\\\'t restore it without adding that information, and if all three aspects aren\\\'t present, don\\\'t re-add it at all; it\\\'s not a KansasCityShuffle.
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No, none of that is the case. He has real flaws that have real consequences. His clever and awesome handling of his first whipping leaves him brain-addled at a critical moment later when the after-effects set in, thus denying him something he\'s dreamed of for ages (access to the Archives) and getting him on the bad side of an otherwise decent (Professor Lorren). His stage upbringing causes a lapse of WrongGenreSavvy with Elodin, and it\'s only by luck that he doesn\'t get killed by that. His background and lack of high-society upbringing as well as his refusal to back down cause him to underestimate the danger Alfonse poses to him and to keep responding to his antagonism, reading to ever escalating, real problems (including him getting expelled from the University in the next book). And all his intelligence and talent do nothing to shield him from the trauma of losing his family - in the aftermath, in Tarbean, he falls into poverty and life on the streets through his own personal bad (albeit understandable) decision to turn down that farmer\'s offer of hospitality.
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No, none of that is the case. He has real flaws that have real consequences. His clever and awesome handling of his first whipping leaves him brain-addled at a critical moment later when the after-effects set in, thus denying him something he\\\'s dreamed of for ages (access to the Archives) and getting him on the bad side of an otherwise decent person (Professor Lorren). His stage upbringing causes a lapse of WrongGenreSavvy with Elodin, and it\\\'s only by luck that he doesn\\\'t get killed by that. His background and lack of high-society upbringing as well as his refusal to back down cause him to underestimate the danger Alfonse poses to him and to keep responding to his antagonism, reading to ever escalating, real problems (including him getting expelled from the University in the next book). And all his intelligence and talent do nothing to shield him from the trauma of losing his family - in the aftermath, in Tarbean, he falls into poverty and life on the streets through his own personal bad (albeit understandable) decision to turn down that farmer\\\'s offer of hospitality.
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Yes, at first glance, he does look a lot like a Mary Sue - uniquely red hair, green green eyes that sort of change colour according to mood, talent and intelligence. And all the girls want him. I\'d say Patrick is keenly aware of this trope and deliberately set out to mock it a bit. (I see a lot of resemblances to Eragon, for one, such as discovering a True Name of something by accident - except that it actually makes sense here, in that it\'s precedented and normal in this universe for students to discover a True Name like that, as opposed to Eragon\'s \
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Yes, at first glance, he does look a lot like a Mary Sue - uniquely red hair, green green eyes that sort of change colour according to mood, talent and intelligence. And all the girls want him. I\\\'d say Patrick is keenly aware of this trope and deliberately set out to mock it a bit. (I see a lot of resemblances to Eragon, for one, such as discovering a True Name of something by accident - except that it actually makes sense here, in that it\\\'s precedented and normal in this universe for students to discover a True Name like that, as opposed to Eragon\\\'s \\\"Brisingr!\\\" coming completely out of the blue because he\\\'s oh so special.)
I applaud him for doing such a fine job of writing an amazing character who is NOT a Mary Sue, and don\\\'t let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise. It takes more than shine and glitter to make a Mary Sue.
I applaud him for doing such a fine job of writing an amazing character who is NOT a Mary Sue, and don\\\'t let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise. It takes more than shine and glitter to make a Mary Sue.
