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"We'd be sitting around, waiting in a ditch or something for the order to strike, all of us tense and humourless, the enemy a mere stone's throw away... and then Larrikin would whisper something to Shudder."
Dexter Vex, Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer
Larrikin Fetter
Character Information
Taken Name Larrikin Fetter
Species Human
Gender Male
Birth Pre-1700
Age 229+
Death 1928-1929
Magic Unknown
Faction Dead Men
Location Deceased

Larrikin Fetter is a member of the Dead Men who died at the end of the 300 Year War. He is notorious for winding up Anton Shudder.

Biography[]

Larrikin was a substitute Dead Man during the 300 Year War, first replacing Erskine Ravel when he was kidnapped by Mevolent's forces, and later replacing Skulduggery Pleasant from 1730 to 1735 when the latter became Lord Vile. He was present when Vile attacked the group in Denmark, and was badly injured (perhaps because Vile was angered at being 'replaced'), but survived the attack of the corpses of Vile's victims two nights later.

When Ravel went on a "sojourn", Larrikin replaced him for a second time.[1] Towards the end of a mission in France in around 1850, after three days of huddling in a hole, Larrikin decided that it was Shudder's birthday. He insisted on a cake and a "sing-song", to Shudder's bemusement, before squirming up beside the latter and trying to hug him. A furious Shudder silently wrestled Larrikin into a chokehold as the other Dead Men tried not to laugh, until Larrikin took a crushed bun from his pocket and stuck a candle in it. The other Dead Men remembered this as the only time they saw Shudder smile while on a mission.

After the death of Hopeless, Larrikin became a permanent member of the Dead Men. Shudder took the opportunity to invent the tradition of the old members hitting the new member on the jaw as hard as they could.

In late 1928 or early 1929, Larrikin was killed in Wales, shielding Dexter Vex from Nefarian Serpine's red right hand. Vex never forgot Larrikin's dying screams. Because Mevolent died a few months later and the war came to an end, Larrikin remains unreplaced until Valkyrie Cain joins the Dead Men in 2013 at the start of the War of the Sanctuaries.

Trivia[]

  • Larrikin's surname was revealed in the Grimoire.
  • According to the Grimoire, Larrikin substituted for Hopeless in the Dead Men at some point before Hopeless' death, while Hopeless was busy with "other commitments". It is unclear if the Grimoire meant to refer to Skulduggery instead.

Appearances[]

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References[]

  1. In Last Stand of Dead Men, Ravel states that his capture by Mevolent's forces occurred before Skulduggery became Lord Vile. It is made explicitly clear in The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire that Skulduggery was Vile from 1730 to 1735, so when Larrikin was substituting for Ravel around 1850, this could not have been because Ravel was being tortured. In Across A Dark Plain, set in 1861, it is stated that Ravel had recently returned from a "sojourn". Therefore, in the absence of any official confirmation or acknowledgement of a continuity error, this wiki assumes that Larrikin replaced Ravel on at least two separate occasions, one in the eighteenth century when Ravel was being tortured, and one in the 1850s when Ravel was on a "sojourn".
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