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Who is Liev? (spoilers)

posted 14 years ago by quantris
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What do people think about her? Near the end she asks Ink why he already knows her name, suggesting that she has some kind of connection to him (his answer frustrates her, so I think he has not realized something).

I thought perhaps that she is Emma from the died-in-a-coma timeline, but there isn't a lot to support that. Another possibility is that she is actually Shelly, but I think that the sequence showing other-side Shelly looking like herself rules that out (if Liev was wearing a mask then this would make more sense).

Or am I just looking for something that's not there, and Liev is just an altruistic entity who sees the relationship between Ink and Emma? For such a major character, that kind of backstory seems like a deus ex machina, but maybe that's the point?

EDIT: I'm ashamed to admit that I only just now realized that her name backwards is "Veil" which is surely not a coincidence.

[–] drmidnite12 9 years ago

No, I think that Liev is, indeed, a future Emma. That was the connection between them that was not made quite clear. Emma (Liev) said time is different there, so she had already been there for a long time. Time enough, in fact, to see her father commit suicide (which she knows when she first encounters Ink) and become the drifter known as Ink.

As Liev said, she was there for HIM, not Emma. She knew that, if successful, she (Liev) would cease to exist, but John's soul would be saved from the suffering it went through. In effect, she was stopping herself from becoming a Storyteller.

[–] zee944 8 years ago

I thought Liev was his wife / Emma's mother. The fact both died underlines this assumption.

I have to add I only started wondering about who Liev is, when they've arrived into that room at the end. Up to that point I didn't think she needed to be someone we already knew.