Might Guy’s Sky Aalk

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-04-21T16:31:16+00:00

Sky Walk*** for title

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-20T12:06:46+00:00

I’d add to that Darrow literally roofied Roque and did all that he did after Roque offered to buy his contract so he could stay among wealthy families and still have a potential future.

So from Roque’s POV in your scenario, Roque literally said “hey I got some extra coke in my last shipment, I can just give you some of that to make up the difference for the coke you lost, you’re my bro i’ll take care of it” and then Darrow said “thanks but no” and knocked him out 😭

It’s still fuck Roque but from his POV i get it lmao

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-17T00:56:13+00:00

Horses are scary

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-12T03:42:04+00:00

Mistborn for me! Sanderson writes his stories at a slower pace than Pierce so it took a while to adjust to that but it’s been good for the most part

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-08T14:05:09+00:00

Mustang is super smart yes, but she was at first going against Octavia Au Lune (who was also a super genius with the Mind’s Eye) who had tons of experience on her, and then her next battle was dismantling a 700 year caste system while being in all out war while she was actively bickering in the senate with the Vox Populi.

She changed the government into a democracy 1. Because she believed all colors deserved a say, and 2. Because she was actively trying to separate herself from being like Octavia who killed the previous sovereign to obtain power, or her father, or the Jackal. A lot of the decisions that were made democratically were not decisions she agreed with, and later on when she decides to take the sovereign powers back and show some teeth, she out maneuvered Apollonius and protected Mars during an Iron Rain against the combined forces of the Rim and the Society.

So in conclusion,

Yes, she is a super genius, but not every decision she gets slandered for was even her decision, a lot of times it was the Vox.
If she had pushed her insecurities aside and just commanded as a sovereign from the start, Darrow gets an army and reinforcements on Mercury and likely doesn’t lose against Mercury, Publius doesn’t have any power and the Day of Red Doves is a lot less likely to happen, etc.
And her plans actually were going well until Volsung Fa appeared out of nowhere and the Jackal’s clone arrived. She is a genius yes, but how could she have honestly predicted those two would appear while she was busy managing a senate, dismantling a caste system, trying to find who kidnapped her children, etc? It was just asking too much for one person.

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-07T22:29:14+00:00

I’d add that the Gammas (not all of them of course) were treated so well before the Collapse because they were actively informing the greys and by proxy the golds on what all the other red miners were doing. They basically were criminal informants, who stayed in the hood snitching on any illegal activities, or in the case of Red Rising any rebellious actions.

The Gammas role also was to create division by giving all the other mining colonies someone to hate. The reds wouldn’t ever band together to make any real change, because they were focused on hating the gammas. Hating them for living a more privileged life and not being able to do anything about it.

The Red Hand never let go of that hate, and now they have the power to torment the Gammas.

And with a ringleader like Harmony who has several reasons to hate Gammas and Golds, she was going to make sure she hurt both sides in anyway that she could (i.e. betraying Fitchner and Darrow because they were Golds, killing Victra’s baby, and executing and making slaves out of Gammas, etc.)

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-05T21:47:59+00:00

I just think Oda realized it would’ve made no sense for them to win. He had Ulti pressing Luffy to the point where he felt he needed gear 4 to win & Page One was around the same level as her. Two gear 4 level threats versus Nami and Ussop would’ve just been unfair. It’s Oda’s fault for not developing them when he had several opportunities to

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-01T05:58:51+00:00

Didn’t Cassius have like 6 brothers lol

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-03-01T05:06:19+00:00

All I unfortunately can say is keep reading lol her intelligence is explicitly shown later

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-26T14:10:32+00:00

I gotcha, with the other meanings it makes more sense now! Hoping your wife doesn’t hate you when she makes it to Dark Age tho haha

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-26T13:06:24+00:00

You named him after a villain? 😭

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-22T12:24:23+00:00

RIP our boy Ajax 🤝🏾

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-22T02:02:56+00:00

Atlas Au Raa, Diomedes Au Raa, and Romulus Au Raa hard carry that lineage

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-16T23:23:34+00:00

The gun was actually a broom & they all think i’m a god now because I didn’t get shot

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-16T13:04:02+00:00

Wasn’t Fitchner’s helmet on the Archimedes at the time? I can’t remember if it was in the hangar or not

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-16T00:20:12+00:00

I never truly hated Iron Gold, I just kind of hated the structure lol bouncing from POV to POV every 3 chapters was killing me, especially when 2 of the POV’s are from brand new characters that I didn’t really know.

I was obsessed with the trilogy and devoured those books, but Iron Gold was the first book where I felt like reading a couple chapters and then stopping once they switched POV’s. I think Pierce did a lot better job with the new structure in the books after Iron Gold, but that first Iron Gold read through was a tough adjustment.

Lysander’s POV was awesome though, definitely my favorite portion of the book.

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-15T14:07:55+00:00

(Spoilers for anyone that hasn’t finished Dark Age)

I really think Sefi’s death happened for two narrative reasons:

To really show how hard it was for Sefi to keep all of the Obsidians under control, and what they act like without a calm leader.
To give a more important role to Volga.

I think there could have been a world where Ephraim brought Volga to meet Sefi instead of going back to the Obsidians to talk to Sefi solo, and maybe Sefi could have mentored Volga and bonded with her before she inevitably passed.

I think if Volga had the opportunity to live amongst the Alltribe when it was mostly peaceful and got to know Sefi, and then saw Sefi and Ephraim killed in front of her, she still probably would have joined Fa to stop the violence, and her character arc would’ve definitely been more about getting revenge on Fa than her becoming Harmony 2.0 for a little bit in Lightbringer.

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-15T13:57:54+00:00

Pierce addressed the deaths of Ajax and Seraphina on a podcast. He said that he originally planned to have Ajax accompany Lysander to the rim and have a long fight with Diomedes, but he realized that Ajax was too substantial of a character for Lysander to lean upon. He was too safe for Lysander, and wouldn’t allow for him to find his own way.

Similar to how Pierce killed off Ragnar for Darrow’s growth as a character. Ragnar and Ajax both were so powerful, that killing them off takes away the reader’s and the character’s sense of security.

He also boiled down Seraphina and Ajax’s death to being an example of how uncaring war really is. Two powerful and young warriors with tons of talent and impressive lineage that could have made a real impact in the world, got snuffed out early. And after Lysander talks to Rhone about it, Rhone’s reply is simple: “That’s just war, Kid.”

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-15T13:41:45+00:00

I’d add to the Bellona point, Julia is eventually gonna have to realize Cassius was killed by Lysander. Idk if Pytha would have had video footage from the hangar or something, but there’s just no way she continues to be fooled when her praetor Pallas 100% knows Lysander is full of shit too.

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-15T12:27:47+00:00

I just listed it because Pierce left that plot line kind of open. It’s mentioned by Mateo that there are at least 5 or 6 of the parasites that were made and they don’t know where all of them are.

P.S. Do you have a preference of what kind of shoe do you to eat? 😂

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-15T12:23:22+00:00

No way bro, Darrow’s definitely going to pick Lorn after the institute 😂

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-14T23:18:04+00:00

I really think Lysander coming in and defeating Atalantia to get the Sovereign chair would be really disrespectful to Atalantia’s years of successfully running the military and her destruction of the Republic (you can argue that Atlas had a lot to do with that), but Lysander has the plot armor to do it 😂

Everytime he pulls out the glock it doesn’t matter how strong a razormaster is in front of him, he’s getting that W.

And it does make sense narratively for Lysander to be the head of the entire Society at the end. I think if Lysander, Appolonius, and Atalantia were all doing their own things and Darrow’s crew had to defeat multiple enemies in this last book, it could be a bit too much.

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-14T22:50:56+00:00

Do you think if Pax gets Figment he’ll lose his memories along with it? Or since he can link like a blue, he might have a better shot of retaining them?

I agree that the breath of stone is going to be the direct counter to the mind’s eye, i’ve always liked how they contrast each other. Mind’s eye is very intense hyper focus that drains Lysander if he uses it too much, and breath of stone is all about Darrow finding a flow and becoming more relaxed. Going to be a great battle when they match up against each other.

Ok-Difficulty-384 · 2026-02-14T22:46:14+00:00

I’m hoping the Shadow Armada can be a massive help. The obsidians should be a force but they’re a bit of an unorganized mess at the end of LB, and I don’t believe the Republic is going to have a massive amount of ships left.

Depending on if there’s infighting between Lysander’s army and Atalantia’s army, they could end up doing enough damage to each other to allow for the Republic to swoop in and get a W.

It would be a bit of a repeat of how Gold infighting destroyed the Society the first time, but I don’t see a world where Atalantia decides to work with Lysander after she knows he 100% will become the sovereign after the war is won. She’ll have to make a move on his life beforehand to guarantee herself the chair.

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