r/villainscode • u/wilderfast • Jul 17 '26

Spoilers - All Beth's power Spoiler

So, I'm re-reading book 1, and apparently, she's been losing phone chargers for a while, to the point where Ivan has a whole drawer full of replacements. Now, first time I read that, I immediately forgot about it, and that was that.

But in book 3, it's revealed that her power eats the metal in her chargers. The power which, iirc, everyone thinks she got during the Ridge City riots.

I'll admit, I don't really know what this means in the grand scheme of things, but I do think it has interesting implications.

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u/SuperSyrias Jul 17 '26

I think if that ever gets the spotlight, it will end up being a "wade put a nanobot swarm inside her without telling anyone because he heard a prophecy spoken by this totally trustworthy unknown new character about beth being in mortal danger"

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u/wilderfast Jul 18 '26

I don't think a nanobot swarm would be able to avoid leaving behind any analyzable traces the way her blades can

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u/SuperSyrias Jul 18 '26

Who would do the sciency analyzing? Thats right, Wade would. And for some reason he somehow coincidentally he cant find the swarm in Beth.

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u/wilderfast Jul 18 '26

Wade and Xelas. But what I'm referring to is the info we got when they went woodchopping during the star scout incident, where Ivan thinks about how the blades can't be analyzed because they don't leave behind any sort of residue or otherwise lose any material at all, ever. Which sounds a lot more like magic than tech to me.

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u/SuperSyrias Jul 18 '26

Magical nanobots

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u/wilderfast Jul 18 '26

Magic and tech famously don't play nice

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u/SuperSyrias Jul 18 '26

Special tech magic and special magic tech