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Reviving my Major Lash theory post
Powderkegger:
It's an interesting theory. Where do you see it coming up in the story? Lash's "resurrection" as a capital-A Angel to assist Harry in some way? Screams BAT to me. If we could get Lasciel on one of Harry's shoulders and Lash on the other that'd...that'd just be super.
Also, always happy to see how many DF fans are DW fans too!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Serack on July 08, 2011, 02:44:58 AM ---If in order to be an angelic being, said being has to have been around since the dawn of time, then yah she isn't one. However, if you can cleave a small part off a powerful angelic being, and it becomes it's own separate entity, I'm theorizing it is still an angelic being.
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I have a feeling there's something in the Summa Theologica that rules that out, but it's too late for me to eyeball-grep Aquinas.
Zolt:
--- Quote from: Serack on July 08, 2011, 02:44:58 AM ---If in order to be an angelic being, said being has to have been around since the dawn of time, then yah she isn't one. However, if you can cleave a small part off a powerful angelic being, and it becomes it's own separate entity, I'm theorizing it is still an angelic being.
You lost me with the Rashid comment...
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Sorry, I was making a Dr. Who crossover with these last comments, my brain kind of froze after that.
As for Lash's nature, from what we're told she's a kind of photocopy of Lasciel, but the paper she's printed on is Harry's brain. Then again, Jim refers to her as a living, thinking entity that "Harry actually did change".
Serack:
--- Quote from: Powderkegger on July 08, 2011, 02:52:23 AM ---It's an interesting theory. Where do you see it coming up in the story? Lash's "resurrection" as a capital-A Angel to assist Harry in some way? Screams BAT to me. If we could get Lasciel on one of Harry's shoulders and Lash on the other that'd...that'd just be super.
Also, always happy to see how many DF fans are DW fans too!
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I get the idea that at some point Jim's ideas on what to do with Lash were rather broad brush strokes and some details like this were not fleshed out at all. Because of this, before he wrote the Lash story, I am not sure he knew every detail of where it was going. If I were to guess, back when he came up with the main overarching plot, he figured by book X Harry would gain a demonic influence, and by book Y he would overcome this influence. As the actual story fleshed out, and Jim figured out how this would happen, Lash became her own separate being, and now Jim has this extra character that he has now killed off. The following WoJ was made shortly after WK was released, and it shows me that at the point of killing Lash off, he fully intended Lasciel to come back into the picture and be a part of the future story, but didn't really know what he might end up doing about this new fully separate/self identifying being.
--- Quote ---What roll will Lasciel play in future books?
That's going to be another one of those where I go "Hahaha, I know and you don't" because, you know, it's the whole, I want to provide for my family thing. Were're not done with Lasciel. We might not even be totally done with Lash, but we will have to see how that goes.
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In the years since Jim made that comment though, other people have asked about this again and Jim has explicitly said that both Lasciel, and Lash's stories are not done.
One thing is pretty certain though. A 100% cooperative and reliable Lash in Harry's head was too much of an overpowering advantage for Harry to have in the first half of the Series, plus she knew too much about the mysterious back story of his parents, and as such, she had to be offed.
spinningcats:
--- Quote from: Serack on July 08, 2011, 03:12:47 AM ---In the years since Jim made that comment though, other people have asked about this again and Jim has explicitly said that both Lasciel, and Lash's stories are not done.
One thing is pretty certain though. A 100% cooperative and reliable Lash in Harry's head was too much of an overpowering advantage for Harry to have in the first half of the Series, plus she knew too much about the mysterious back story of his parents, and as such, she had to be offed.
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I really hope she doesn't come back. One of the worst parts of the books imo. Besides being overpowered and letting Harry know or do anything when he needed to (speak any language, play the guitar, memorize anything, hellfire) I really, really disliked the interactions with his subconcious inside his head.
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