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List of Headaches [CD spoilers]
Snaps At Fireflies:
--- Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:25:22 PM ---After reading the list, what does everyone think about the theory that Lash is causing the headaches?
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That's pretty much the most widely accepted theory on this forum. That Lash is still inside his head. I personally don't agree with it since it makes her entire Heroic Sacrifice in White Knight null and void, and I think from a storytelling standpoint that it's more moving to have the shadow of a fallen angel be redeemed through an act of Sacrifice for another. But hey, both theories are theories so we'll see when it gets published.
--- Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:25:22 PM ---It doesnt seem like a pattern of a type of headache actually matches up to when Lash dies/would be regenerating. I am alone in that feeling?? (before this list, I thought the headaches DID match up to Lash)
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Actually to me personally it lines up more with what happened in Small Favor, when Mab stirred up Harry's brain. Because before that book, his comments about headaches were usually very minor mentions, frequently after being hit in the head by a badguy, and were as I like to call them, his Obligatory Head Trauma for the book. It's only in the beginning on Turn Coat that Harry takes the time out to really describe to the reader in intense detail that he is having mind numbing migraines that are causing him really really major problems. And IIRC he mentions that those level of migraines have only been going on for a few months. To me personally, all the mentions of headaches before could easily be attributed to the OHT of the book, or having his mind mucked about with by people like Corpsetaker.
And I seem to recall in one of the most recent Q&A's that Jim flat out says that "The Headaches" start at a very specific timepoint in the series. Which would imply that before that he was having your vanilla mortal headaches from stress, sleep deprivation, trauma, etc.
syntagmaton:
--- Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:25:22 PM ---After reading the list, what does everyone think about the theory that Lash is causing the headaches?
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I don't see why Lash should cause headaches. She sort of likes Harry. She even got sort of killed for him. There is no reason (I can't see any reason) why she would like to make his head explode. And if it would be Lash, Demonreach wouldn't have had real amunition for a deal with her -- Harry knew about Lash, but he doesn't know about the parasite. So it is most likely not Lash. I'm afraid I have to say goodbye to that theory, even if I liked it since the end of GS ...
Vairelome:
--- Quote from: syntagmaton on December 13, 2012, 04:05:34 PM ---I don't see why Lash should cause headaches.
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The headaches could easily be caused by Lash, but unintentional. They could be unsuccessful attempts to communicate. They could be an artifact of the brain-healing process that Lash may be trying to accelerate, with pain as a byproduct. There are any number of non-malicious explanations for the headaches that would be consistent with Lash as the parasite, and Lash having no intention of causing gratuitous harm to Harry.
--- Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:03:18 PM ---@Vairelome-theres a fairly good discussion of some of your points (not answers per se, but discussion) in the 'crazy HWWB theory revisited', but I just wanted to address your part my idea that Lash isnt the parasite necessarily means that im saying the person who talked to Jim is lying. I definitely do not want to be implying that. Im not saying it nor do I beleive it. Here's what I do think--thats an unambiguous statement by Jim. It doesnt fit, for me, with the kinds of ways he usually tells us things, so I wonder if he is being 'tricksy.' the evidence used to support the idea that the parasite is Lash is not as strong as it seems as first blush. The implications for Harry and the DF if the parasite is a walker are really interesting and have the kind of ramifications Jim seems to like in these books. Best of all we should have our answer about the parasite in the next book, so it wont be a unanswered proposition for long. Thats why I am keeping open the idea that the parasite is someone other than Lash while I accept the veracity of the person who talked to Jim.
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I don't understand how JB could be being "tricksy" by saying "Lash is the parasite." That doesn't seem capable of multiple interpretations to me.
The best circumstantial evidence aside from JB's reported statement are the parasite's location, description, and evident motivation, all of which are consistent with Lash = parasite. Beyond that is the verified statement by JB on multiple occasions that Lash appeared in GS, though not under that name. Lash = parasite is consistent with that statement. If Lash is not the parasite, then you need to propose a more plausible theory of where Lash did appear in GS. Without that, I don't really see the point of investigating non-Lash theories.
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:25:22 PM ---After reading the list, what does everyone think about the theory that Lash is causing the headaches? It doesnt seem like a pattern of a type of headache actually matches up to when Lash dies/would be regenerating. I am alone in that feeling?? (before this list, I thought the headaches DID match up to Lash)
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its my belief that many of the SmF on headaches were caused by Mab, and that after she promised not to mess with Harry's head again she made a deal with Lash to mess with it for her. The headaches are just to convenient for Mab for her not to be involved somehow.
syntagmaton:
--- Quote from: Vairelome on December 13, 2012, 04:35:20 PM ---The headaches could easily be caused by Lash, but unintentional. [...] There are any number of non-malicious explanations for the headaches that would be consistent with Lash as the parasite, and Lash having no intention of causing gratuitous harm to Harry.
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Ok, I would like that to be true. So there is still to be seen what exactly she was doing in his head all the time that is causing him headaches. And, more urgently, why she would finally stop doing it (whatever she is doing) and "burst forth" from Harry's skull. Why would she do that? Parasites normally like to stay with/in their hosts?
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