It took me forever to realize he was still in grad school! I had just assumed based on the disconnection that he was out and, I dunno, delivering pizzas while he looked for a post-doc or something.
I sympathize a lot with his whole, "so that other version of me got the lover and the mentor and the friends, and I got to lurk under a bed... Is there someone you'd like me to assassinate? Come on, give me someone to assassinate!"
Nodnodnod, that makes sense. I liked him way better once he got to be that guy instead of just The Mysterious Roommate Who Was Kind Of Entertaining When He Had That Skeleton Along. I wish the early scenes had reflected a bit more of his actual personality -- I would have liked/been interested in him right off the bat, if so.
The sister was my leading candidate for Ji for most of the book thus far because yeah, we know she goes into the dog and then I don't remember her ever coming back out, and with Khalil stuck in Nayeshi there was no one there to recognize her. But then he came back and didn't twig -- but also didn't seem to think about the possibility at all, which also seems weird. So maybe I just missed where something conclusive happened to the sister or she was replaced in the dog? I did love Ji's explanation of why she likes the dog body; that felt really clever and touching both at once.
My current thought is that Ji is Khalil's mother, based on the bit about, "I took care of you when you were small...but totally just when I stopped by randomly which you don't remember but I am telling you it happened!" and on account of do we know for sure that burning means you can't use the bones? But then we hit the, "You should MAKE him go to BED" eyebrow waggle, and: ick. So maybe she is just Ji, after all.
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Date: 2013-05-17 11:26 pm (UTC)I sympathize a lot with his whole, "so that other version of me got the lover and the mentor and the friends, and I got to lurk under a bed... Is there someone you'd like me to assassinate? Come on, give me someone to assassinate!"
Nodnodnod, that makes sense. I liked him way better once he got to be that guy instead of just The Mysterious Roommate Who Was Kind Of Entertaining When He Had That Skeleton Along. I wish the early scenes had reflected a bit more of his actual personality -- I would have liked/been interested in him right off the bat, if so.
The sister was my leading candidate for Ji for most of the book thus far because yeah, we know she goes into the dog and then I don't remember her ever coming back out, and with Khalil stuck in Nayeshi there was no one there to recognize her. But then he came back and didn't twig -- but also didn't seem to think about the possibility at all, which also seems weird. So maybe I just missed where something conclusive happened to the sister or she was replaced in the dog? I did love Ji's explanation of why she likes the dog body; that felt really clever and touching both at once.
My current thought is that Ji is Khalil's mother, based on the bit about, "I took care of you when you were small...but totally just when I stopped by randomly which you don't remember but I am telling you it happened!" and on account of do we know for sure that burning means you can't use the bones? But then we hit the, "You should MAKE him go to BED" eyebrow waggle, and: ick. So maybe she is just Ji, after all.
I feel bad for Fikiri, I can't lie.