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Mouse's Origins

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Eleyctra:
I don't think everyone's heard of "The Wizard Of Oz"...or at least watched it. I loved the reference.

Sometimes I have to look up certain pop references when Jim uses them in the books.

robertltux:
as far as Mouses packmates are concerned i would put good odds that somewhere in the BAT during some sort of Chicken Pizza level fight somebody is going to open a WAY and we will see a whole PACK of Temple Dogs come running.

(of course i would also put odds that there is a Mrs Mouse running about somewhere)

Cozarkian:

--- Quote from: Serack on June 15, 2012, 02:13:33 AM ---No guard duty, no power.  And Mouse cheats by guarding something possibly just as metaphysically important...  Harry.  I think their mutual loyalty is heavily tied into this too.
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Makes sense. Just look, everytime Mouse does something powerfu, he's guarding something. Barks to wake up the inhabitants of a burning building, survives getting hit by a car in defense of Harry, expresses his willingness to take on Mab's #2 Faerie to protect Harry and his allies.

Serack:

--- Quote from: Second Aristh on June 15, 2012, 12:58:55 PM ---Now wait a minute.  I thought everybody had heard of these guys  ;D



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Link to "these guys"

I had chalked up the poo throwing flying monkeys as Jim dreaming up a generic throw away adversary cobbled together from the flying monkeys of Oz, some comedy mixed with reality (monkeys flinging poo) and Jim's need to make things difficult for Harry (the incindeary part).

I wasn't supprised when my concept of how Jim came up with that baddie was closely parallel to his description of where he came up with "the Ick"


--- Quote from: WoJ ---Where did the "Ick" come from?
I needed a monster that fit that outline.  And then I looked up enough old Mayan words to find the word for "dark" and the word for "eater," and "Ik'k" was dark and "uox" was eater.  I just put it together from that, "Ik'k'uox."  The heartbeat getting louder thing, I'm sure I read that in a game book somewhere, it mighta been chill had a monster that way.  I really loved it that you could hear its heart beating so loud that you could hear it getting close.  So I kinda put it together on the fly, that one.  Like "I need a monster that does this and is like that, Ok. Alright.  Now quick, go and find a good excuse for what to name it.  And then figure out how to pronounce it.  And then forget how to pronounce it because Dresden's just gonna to call it the Ick.
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*nudges the train*
I think it is interesting how Jim did a good job of merging the Tibetan Mastiff with the "Foo Dogs" which are actually statues of Lions outside Buddhist temples, but since the origional chinese sculpters had never seen a lion they modeled their temple lions after dogs.

WiseMan999:
What confuses me, is why does Uriel call Mouse "Little Brother" when Mouse is from from a Buddhist tradition? What does a Foo Dog have to do with Christianity?

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