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Bare My Teeth For You | Authors Note: (420 words) I consider this A/N not necessary to add onto the content of the work but rather the context of the series and my understanding of it. If you haven't read either Vicious or Vengeful I would advise you read it. The Villains Trilogy is very near and dear to my heart. Whenever I open my pages, well-loved after just a year, it feels like coming home. The character of Sydney Clarke is one I find incredibly interesting to study her progression over the series. My fanfiction entry last session was also focused on her character (though in essay form) and you can find it attached at the end of this note. Yet when I started to write this entry, I knew I had to focus on her post-Vengeful. In this way, my entry is a love letter to the Trilogy and to V.E Schwab’s skill in crafting characters. There are a lot of decisions in this piece of writing to emphasise the aspects of Sydney's character I feel are important. I'd love to explain these all but I am interested in keeping this note under five hundred words long besides my own personal belief there is no wrong or right way to interpret a piece of writing, including the authors own intentions. I will however say the following: book one: Vicious, is not named after Sydney. It's named after Victor and Eli. Yet it's Sydney I find the title to be most fitting. Sydney is only thirteen in book one, unlike her twenties in Bare My Teeth. The juxtaposition formed by her innocence and the violence that surrounds her helps create the feeling of dread as she embraces this violence, understanding it to be the only way to survive when as a character Sydney is a healer, a child and a victim. In Vengeful, Sydney is an adult and thus this danger begins to lurk around her while that innocence the reader knows her for remains. As I await Victorious' release, I trust that Sydney will continue these paths of the childish hope for normalcy, when at this point normalcy for her is violence and Victor. It's hard to find the words and the narrative to explain a violent two book long character arc that spans over eight years in 2000 words where the source material relies so heavily on fighting and death as unspoken words. I hope I have done it justice and if I have not, the reader finds another aspect of my writing to chew on. Link to my previous entry: Total Words: 1,754
