Talk:Keefe and Sophie/@comment-37719459-20190320134433

I'm bored, so I'm going to do some baseless speculation.

The rejected titles were:

-Inception

-Rematch

-Deadlock

And, of course, the real title--Legacy.

They all play a role in the book but didn't seem appropriate, for various reasons.

First of all:

Inception - Most likely about Sophie's inception, but for it to be a possible title, then it would have to be very important to the plot. Also, this is the second to last book, so SM can't afford to go off on a Reveal-Secret tangent. The only way it would be able to work is if the book revolved around some controversial thing that connected Sophie's role as the Moonlark, Keefe's role, the Black Swan, the Neverseen, the Lodestar Initiative, Fintan's criterion, Nightfall, and/or Vespera. All of these things have been introduced separately, and probably the most blood-chilling moment would be when we realized that all these dark things are connected.

Rematch - If this was a possible title, the series would also need to revolve around the Black Swan trying to figure out how to combat the Neverseen, and getting Tam back.

Deadlock - I feel like that's a concept or thing like Nightfall was. Something that would unlock a secret, since that's what a deadlock is in real life. This title also seems to hint at what Inception does so I think that the connecting-all-the-secrets idea seems to be pretty likely. Personally, I think that the wiped memory from Sophie's head, combined with the Archetype, will be the deadlock. Also, if the series follows the pattern that most series do, the second to last book will be most of the planning, research, and realizations, and then the last book will be the last third of this, as well as the final battle.

Legacy - This seems to focus on, like earlier, Sophie's and Keefe's legacies and opposite destinies.

All in all, the titles combined seem to imply finding out one secret (or maybe two) that connect them all, a rematch with the Neverseen, puzzling out Sophie's and Keefe's legacies, and probably a major death, to jade us for the final battle in book 9, Moonlark (probably).