Characters
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Ness's Inspiration
Throwback: POTC
100

This character has a nightmare they don't want anyone to know about.

Who is Conor?

100

This event happens at the end of the first chapter, and connects to the next chapter being titled "Breakfast."

What is Conor being eaten by the Monster?

100

The fairy tale counterpart to Orientation.

What is Someone?

100

This tree is associated with both death, due to its poison berries, and life, due to being able to live for thousands of years.

What is a yew tree?

100

The man Elizabeth Swann married at the end of the film.

Who is Will Turner?

200

This character is partially represented by the Queen in the First Tale.

Who is Conor's grandmother?

200

This is the character that murdered the farmer's daughter.

Who is the prince?

200

This rises and falls in Freytag's pyramid. 

What is Action?

200

The motif that appears across Europe and the Middle East, depicting a face emerging from leaves.

Who is the Green Man?

200

These are the seven words that PEEEEEL stands for.

What is Point Elaborate Evidence Effect Evidence Effect Link?

300

This character has fortnightly (or so) phone calls with Conor and has yet to appear due to being overseas.

Who is Conor's father?

300

This is what the Monster wants from Conor.

What is the Truth?

300

These four stages follow 'Somone' in the structure of a fairy tale.

What is Wants... But then... So that... In the End...?
300

The first known reference to this figure was in a Shakespeare play.

Who is Herne the Hunter?

300

This is the greatest treasure of all.

What is freedom?

400

This character was compared to a poodle by Conor's bullies.

Who is Lily?

400

This detail of the appearence of Conor's mum both provides us a clue for why she is unwell and becomes a taunt used by Conor's bullies.

What is her baldness?

400

In the hero's journey, this is what the hero crosses when they commit to the journey through the special world.

What is Threshold?

400

This author came up with the initial premise for A Monster Calls and, after dying from cancer, 'passed the baton' to Ness for him to finish the 'race'.

Who is Siobhan Dowd?

400

This is the beverage that Elizabeth uses to escape the island.

Where has the rum gone?

500

This person is Conor's Head of Year, which is basically the same as a Year Advisor. 

Who is Miss Kwan?

500

What is the three things that the Monster leaves on Conor's floor, hinting that they weren't just dreams?

What is Yew leaves, berries and sapling?

500
This is the darkest point of the hero's journey. 

What is The Abyss?

500

The sole written reference to this figure, which is a nature deity, is from the 1st century, but depictions of antlered beings are often attributed to him.

Who is Cernunnos?

500

This is the title, ranked above captain, that Jack uses to appeal to Barbossa's greed, causing him to accept a deal instead of breaking the curse then and there.

What is commodore?

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