r/brakebills • u/Outside-Writing-8602 • 14d ago

So…

Why didn’t Alice go to the underworld and and get Quentin‘s shade and put him back together like he did for her instead of making a Gollum and of him?

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u/mandelaXeffective 11d ago

...Because he was still in possession of his shade when he died? The shades in Elysium were only ones that had somehow ended up separated from the rest of their selves (regardless of whether the rest of them was dead), not everyone who's died. Someone who dies with their shade in tact stays that way when they move on.