The Magicians (TV Series)

The Side Effect (2019)

Arjun Gupta: William 'Penny' Adiyodi

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• William 'Penny' Adiyodi : You think you've seen stories like this before, so you can guess what's going to happen. Who's important and who isn't, but that's because you're trapped in your POV. You have a classic case of white male protagonism Derek, and a Librarian simply cannot have that.

• William 'Penny' Adiyodi : When you file people away as sidekicks you don't realize their importance to the story, and this story belongs to a lot more people than you think. Where to shelve a book, it's not a little thing. You're telling the world what to value. Who to value.

• Derek : Okay, I think I'm starting to get the point of these stories. All women are just one emotional crisis away from a psychotic break.

  William 'Penny' Adiyodi : Jesus, *no*. Whoa, you can't say stuff like that anymore.

  Derek : What, in the afterlife?

  William 'Penny' Adiyodi : *Anywhere*.

• William 'Penny' Adiyodi : Where would you file them?

  Derek : Quentin and Alice "Star-Crossed Romances", probably, or "Well-Meaning Failures".

  William 'Penny' Adiyodi : What about the others?

  Derek : Oh, "Side Characters in Epic Quests".

  William 'Penny' Adiyodi : [Bemused]  I'm a side character?

  Derek : Look, no offense. It's just Quentin's the center of the whole thing. He's the one that knows everybody. He's the one the little British girl picked to save the world.

  William 'Penny' Adiyodi : Or he's the one that looks like you.

  Derek : Not fair. Todd looks like me. He's not the center of shit.

• William 'Penny' Adiyodi : Those books I lent you, you get a chance to read them?

  Derek : Of course.

  [Beat] 

  Derek : Well, I skimmed.

  William 'Penny' Adiyodi : How far did you get?

  Derek : Alice, uh, opened a pipe, accidentally helped blow up the Modesto branch, and Quentin played Pictionary with a mummy.