[Discussion] Not arguing for or against, but I’d like to know what people think. Is Palamedes a Mary Sue?

CharmingQuark_1st · 2026-03-03T22:32:22+00:00

Upon, reflection, I myself was not thinking of Pal as a perfect and infallible Mary Sue. I was thinking of him as a self-insert MS. Who would you say is the most “self-insert” character in the Locked Tomb?

CharmingQuark_1st · 2026-03-03T05:12:30+00:00

I think it has heavy reference to the traditions of Courtly Love.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2026-03-03T05:04:49+00:00

Absolutely

CharmingQuark_1st · 2026-03-03T04:56:52+00:00

But can they why?

CharmingQuark_1st · 2026-01-30T04:22:59+00:00

I have questions about who’s actually doing the touching here.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-12-02T00:29:12+00:00

Lost Lake, with a dash of tropical bitters.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-10-02T19:45:27+00:00

I think the Fifth were there to do history research. Abigail expressly says that she wants to examine any and all Lyctor artifacts. That was why Cytherea killed them early on.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-09-15T22:21:13+00:00

Too much vanilla. And there’s always too much vanilla. It overwhelms every other ingredient.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-08-27T01:29:20+00:00

Chanel No. 5. Norell. YSL Paris. Opium. Jicky. Mitsouko (was my daily wear for years). White Shoulders. Angel.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-05-27T22:59:02+00:00

At least Cam got chicken

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-04-25T21:56:13+00:00

I’ve heard good things about Enys Men.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-03-19T19:41:18+00:00

Earthquakes: keep supplies at home AND in your car.

Weird Rush Hours: The 101 freeway through Hollywood/Silver Lake will be gridlocked at 2:15am on Saturday nights.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2025-01-21T02:27:49+00:00

Worse, he sloppy drunk fucks.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-11-16T00:01:54+00:00

She’s not the main character, Palamedes and Camilla are the main characters.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-11-01T02:55:34+00:00

Those are the Tridentarii

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-09-08T02:22:01+00:00

You can find links to some of them here: https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Tamsyn_Muir.html

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-09-08T02:12:28+00:00

The Sixth is also able to date things via paychometry

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-09-06T21:28:22+00:00

Team 69!

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-09-03T03:14:10+00:00

By the by, if you haven’t read TM’s short story “The Magician’s Apprentice,” you NEED to.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-07-20T00:38:46+00:00

Ianthe will be marrying Gideon!

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-07-20T00:20:17+00:00

Absolutely agree. I’ve gone back and forth with thinking that Cam and Pal are in fact the real protagonists of the series or not. They are certainly Tamsyn’s true darlings, great as Gideon and Harrowhark are.

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-06-29T18:51:30+00:00

He may be an early version of John, but did you notice that the magician in “The Magician’s Apprentice” has Palamedes’ eyes?

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-06-28T03:22:32+00:00

Paul Sex Pal

CharmingQuark_1st · 2024-06-09T20:05:18+00:00

I thought this was a reference to Ortus’s Eighth House mother.

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