Teres

I honestly can't figure out if Douglass loves her characters or hates them. The way she treats them and the way she clearly wants us to think about them seems to change from one chapter to the next. What's more, what she wants us to think about them is completely at odds with the way they behave! She misses the mark every single time!

SCSF: I think that might be because she wants to go for an effect rather than a cohesive story quite often, which also explains that detours we sometimes get. Sure, she is trying to "hit the mark" (to use the words of another author), but she ends up missing it instead.

Given the villagers' inexplicable hatred of her, they would probably still find a way to blame her for his death, anyway.

Oh, they would. I rather had the Avar in mind, since I know the question of "can we keep Azhure in our midst, despite what she has done" will come up soon.

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them, whether they have a reason to or not. I think they sometimes do it just because they can.

Indeed... they have not been shown to be moral enough not to do so, and I am also quite sure Yr will do so later on.

I don't see why not. The knife didn't completely gut him, so the wound itself is probably only a couple of inches long, with practically no width. Since the stitches aren't being used to hold the wound together so it can heal, they would just need to close the top layer of skin.

That is entirely fair and I will note it next part!

Belial might actually be my favorite character simply because he's one of the only ones I can tolerate, and he seems to have a somewhat pleasing personality. ...now I'm just waiting for Douglass to ruin it.

I have heard that he will be one of the least ruined characters, so that is good news!

There's really no reason for them to keep the same names as the real Brothers, either. And even if their original names somehow give them away as Sentinels, all they need to do is make up new ones! The real Brothers are probably spinning like rotisserie chickens in their graves...assuming they even have graves, and these two didn't...I dunno, dissolve them in acid or something.

Let me see... when the Sentinels revealed themselves to Faraday, we were told they died when they tried to enter the Silent Woman Woods (without any specific manner of death).