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  1. I've cracked this one. Why didn't Joel become a Rhythmatist? Here's my explanation, and I believe I'm the first to connect the following dots to explain that he was supposed to. Read page 321 "Father Stewart stopped talking. Joel blinked, realizing he hadn't been paying attention. He looked up, and Father Stewart nodded, his thin white beard shaking. He gestured toward the chamber of inception behind the alter." Joel wasn't paying attention, and missed some key instruction regarding how to behave once inside the chamber. The author makes this clear. The shadow blaze appeared to him, but Joel interfered, not knowing what it was he was supposed to do (or not do). Joel specifically doesn't talk about what happened with any Rhythmatist, the only ones who would recognize Joel's folly, stating on page 354 "He already knew that the Rhythmatists, Melody included, wouldn't speak of the experience." Surely if he revealed what he saw to any Rhythmatist, they would point out Joel's error. I predict at some point in the sequel, Joel will eventually reveal to a Rhythmatist what happened in the chamber, and it will become obvious he botched his own inception, and he will get yet another chance after receiving proper instruction that he pays attention to, and he will finally become the Rhythmatist he was meant to be. That, and I further predict that the timing of Joel's Father's death interfering with Joel's inception will turn out to not be a coincidence. Page 360 Shadow-Nalizar says "You all look alike. But you... you are special." Someone doesn't want Joel to enable his unique specialness through inception, and killed Joel's father to make him miss his ceremony at the age of 8 on purpose. The clues to this are all laid out there in the text.
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