Monday, May 15, 2023

The Black Prism ch 1 - 35

 Ch 1 pg 1 kip

Kip is our main character.  He's basically going grave robbing.  It just so happens that this is a HUGE mass grave that was the site of a ginormous battle.  He's worried about wolves, but what he finds is much worse.  At first there's a soldier.  Then that soldier is dead and there's a man with broken green eyes.  Appearantly this is a thing that happens and it is know to Kip that these types have magic powers and they go mad.  This guy promises he's not mad.  He also tells Kip his village is about to be attacked and its basically because Kip is the chosen one.

Ch 2 pg 11 gavin

Loving the chapter length so far.

Gavin is the white prism.  Assuming that means he can do ALL the color magic.  He's apparently Kip's dad, but he doesn't have any children as far as he knows.  Also guessing Kip is the black prism, which make him even more powerful than Gavin.  But that doesn't actually make sense if you know your light combos. 

Gavin seems to be the head of the evil empire that's about to destroy Kip's village. In case the village destroying isn't enough to make you think the evil empire is evil, they make a point to tell you that Gavin's clothes were layed out by a slave.  I think slavery is bad.  In case that needed clarification. 

Ch 3 pg 17 gavin's brother

In case you forgot, Gavin is the head of the evil empire and he's had his brother in a jail cell for 20 years.  What an asshole.  I hope his brother escapes and he and Kip kill Gavin.

Ch 4 pg 19 kip

Kip goes to the town dyer and tells him about the army that's gonna attack the village.  The Dyer tells him that his friends are fishing on the bridge into town.  He's gotta get them and get the he'll out of dodge.

Ch 5 pg 22 Gavin

I guess maybe he's not the worst.  He doesn't seem to be actively evil.  I'm not even sure the governmental body he's part of is evil.  They describe it as preserving balance.  Largely it seems to mostly be focused on stopping people from using red magic as that's the best magic for war and killing so people tend to overuse it.  Also he as an individual appears to have authority over two things, Jack and shit.  He's more of a tool they use for the rebalancing. 

Ch 6 pg 29 kip

Kip gets to the bridge and his "friends" are there.  Ram and the beautiful Isabella and Swanson.  Kip tells them they gotta go, but Ram wants to do sex on Isabella and solders show up and the two of them are spotted and shot to death with arrows.  Kip uses blue magic powers to try to stop some arrows, but it didn't help.  He and Swanson are doing their best to not be seen.  The hbic tells the army men they're here to kill all these people and burn the village to the ground.

Ch 7 pg 35 Gavin 

He's talking to some government chick that read his mail about his son.  Oh yeah, he is a piece of shit cause he's got his own brother imprisoned.  The government chick is an old lady called the white.  I guess she's really the one in charge.  Gavin realizes he had some dalliance in the famed whore houses of Tyrea Sixteen years ago.  That might be where this son of his came into being.  He realizes he was betrothed to a lady named Karris at the time and when she hears of this (Gavin is pretty sure the white is going to tell her) she will be very angry.

Ch 8 pg 38 kip

Kip has green magic powers and he uses them to kill some soldiers and the rest of the soldiers run away cause they don't wanna get killed by a guy with magic powers.  Kip stumbles toward the orange 🍊 Grove hoping to avoid the soldiers.

Ch 9 pg 41 Gavin 

Karris is a member of the black guard that is sworn to obey the white.  She has red and geeen magic powers.  Gavin says they're gonna do a mission in Tyrea and also take care of a blue Wright that's been causing trouble and they're gonna do it fast cause he's gonna use is magical powers to get them there.  Karris is amenable to this because otherwise she gonna have to spend two weeks on a boat getting to Tyrea.

Ch 10 pg 46 kip

Kip wakes up and hears soldiers.  He makes his way across a streM and into a cave to get away from the soldiers and their dogs.

Ch 11 pg 52 kip

Kip gets to a cave where his mom and Sanson.  His mom is dying from a hole in her head.  She makes him promise he'll use his magic to avenge her.  Sanson has an 

Ch 12 pg 57 kip

Kip and sanson keep drifting down the river and they witness a number of horrors but nothing horrible happens to them.

Ch 13 pg  Gavin 

Gavin uses his magic to make a boat fly.  Fun detail in the midst of that is that prisms only get ro live so long.  He mentions that he came up with the idea for the flying boat when he had seven years left.  So he's got less than seven years left.

Ch 14 pg 72 kip

Kip and Swanson are spotted by a bad guy wizard.  When he catches them, he tells them the plan was to take him alive.  But kip killed too many guys for that and now he's gotta die.

Ch 15 pg 79 Gavin 

They fly in their boat and fate takes them ro kip and Sanson.  But it's too late.  They can't save them.

Ch 16 pg 87 kip

Kip tells sanson to run thinking he can save him with magic.  It doesn't work out.  Sanson dies.  But kip causes enough of a distraction that Gavin and Karris kill a ton of bad guys.  Some guy shouts "what's the meaning of this?" All high and mighty and then he recognizes Gavin.  He's gotta be shitting his pants now 

Ch 17 pg 92 gavin

The king is not shitting his pants.  He is very full of himself. He thinks he'll kill Gavin and it'll be all good.  Gavin explains how big of a mistake that would be.  The king is all, ok then, give me the boy and we will go.out separate ways. Gavin tells him the boy is his bastard and will be coming with him.

Ch 18 pg 102

Karris reads the letter from the white and is exactly as angry as expected.  But even that angry, she doesn't murder anyone.  I mean, anyone new beyond the guys she already murdered.

Ch 19 pg 107

Kip comes to and Gavin tells him he's his son and karris is sick of Gavin and leaves.

Ch 20 pg 111

Kip and Gavin are escaping on the boat that they make go fast with their magic.  It goes well for a while, but eventually kip realizes he's super tired and in his exhausted state he flips the boat.  Gavin takes it in stride.


Ch 21 pg 124 Dazen

Who's Dazen you might say.  He's Gavin's brother. You know Gavin,  he's the one that just saved Kip.   So here I am thinking once again maybe Gavin isn't the worst and I'm reminded that he is cause he's got his own brother in a secret prison.


Ch 23 pg 127

Gavin slaps kip around a bit to show him his place.


ch 24 pg 130 Karris

She's walking through the town and seeing the devastation.  She finds she's angry at Gavin, not the king.  Which reminds her of a time she was so angry at Gavin she thought about going over to Dazen's side.  He must have been the fake prism.  So maybe everyone else thinks Dazen is dead and they'd be super pissed if they found out Gavin kept him alive.  She falls through the burnt out floor of a church.

Ch 25 pg 136 gavin/kip

Gavin talks at kip a lot.  But the punchline is that kip can go to magic school 🏫 or he can go with Gavin as he makes war.  Seems like Kip is leaning toward staying with Gavin.

Ch 26 pg 143

Kip and Gavin are on the boat and kip explains a lot of things about color magic.

 CH 27 148

Kip and Gavin make it to the place where all the magic people live. I will be calling this place Hogwarts.  There are magical black men there and kip will be know as gavin's nephew. 

Ch 29 pg 158

Kip and the magical black men do a bit of a play for the other guards and pretend kip floated in on a log and his master drowned.  Th magical black man named irefist broke his best blue specs in the process.

Ch 30 pg 162 liv danavis

Liv is from rekton. I wonder if she knows kip.  Probably not. She was part of the false prisms war and I presume came to hogwarts long before that.  Kip would have been a baby back then I think.

Liv's life sucks cause she and her dad were on the wrong side of the prism war.  She knows Kip's mom.  Oh, she does know kip. Maybe the prism war wasn't that long ago.

Liv serves a lady named Aglaia.  She's part of a group called the Ruskin.  They know about kip and they want Liv to spy on the prism.

Ch 31 pg 173 Gavin 

Gavin kills a blue man.  As part of the killing the blue man calls himself part of the unchained and says the bad king is involved. But then he declares that Gavin's brother is the one truly in charge.  Also there was a thing where they were talking and Gavin was saying there was no God because if there were they wouldn't have allowed there to be two prisms .  People have referred to gavins brother as the false prism cause he was on the losing side.  But it feels like a big reveal here that they were both true prisms. 

Ch 32 pg 181 kip

Kip and iron fist take a boat to the big island.  Kip is all "what now?" And iron fist is all "I'll come get you in the morning " and kip is a little uppity and iron fist is all "trust me, tomorrow you'll be happy you got the rest.

Ch 33 pg 188

Karris is talking to the guy that was gavin's brother General in the prism war.  They talk about her trying to infiltrate the king's army.  He points out that she's super famous.  She's not gonna infiltrate shit.  She comes to the conclusion that the white has betrayed her.

Ch 34 pg 195

Gavin tries to get back into his room at hogwarts in a secret fashion.  This is an exhausting process.  He gets to his room and his slave bathes him.  Her name Is Marissa and she's been his slave for a long time they have a sexual "relationship" and he wants to do her now but he's gotta go see his brother asap.  He goes through tunnels and stuff and the big reveal is that the prison room is constantly moving and he has to wait for it to get to where he is.  Awesome.

Ch 35 pg 204 kip

After spending the night in hogsmead iron fist takes kip to hogwarts.  There are many wonders to behold and kip has a million questions and likes to tell jokes. Iron fist doesn't answer questions and doesnt have a sense of humor. So it's not a very good conversation. 

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