Lauren and Nicole (who are not very online) join me to discuss a chief Fantasy Fuckboi: Lord Asriel of HIS DARK MATERIALS. If you've watched episode one of the new HBO series, be aware: this is spoiler heavy!

Summary of HIS DARK MATERIALS

Lyra Belacqua is a child without parents in a parallel version of Oxford, England. In this parallel universe, a human's soul takes animal form outside of their body; and Lyra's is Pantalaimon. As Lyra has not hit puberty yet, Pan has not taken a constant form. Her uncle, Lord Asriel, is a scientist at Oxford who is secretly researching a phenomenon called "Dust," much to the anger of the Roman Catholic Church. Lyra learns of dust at the same time she is given a mysterious Golden Compass that she can read like tarot cards when she asks it a question. She is then kidnapped by an evil woman of the church named Mrs. Coulter, who brings her to the North Pole to separate Lyra's soul from her. Using her Golden Compass and friends she made along the way, Lyra escapes, but not before she finds her uncle (who is actually her parent, along with Mrs. Coulter) performing an experiment with the Northern Lights, during which he sacrifices Lyra and opens a rift to a parallel universe (ours), through which Lyra escapes. In subsequent books, Lyra meets a boy from our universe named Will, and together they become the new Adam and Eve and kill God. It's complicated.