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Watsonian McAnally: the son of the chief physician.
Eldest Gruff:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on July 28, 2015, 01:06:51 AM ---Yeah, but my issue with that is in the M=R theory, Mac is there to specifically watch over DR, seeing as he's invested in it. He's not really there for Harry. His presence probably preceded Harry's arrival in Chicago by millennia. He's been this bald white dude, hanging out with Indian tribes and Cubs fans for 1,500+ years.
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As I see it the two don't necessarily need to be mutually exclusive in this case. We know he opened the bar a few years prior to Harry's arrival...perhaps 'Mac' is simply this version of himself. Like the immortals in Highlander, he leaves for a few decades here and there in order to keep suspicion or unnecessary inquiries from being made and returns after some time. This time however perhaps he is aware in some way that a Starborn has come into play and just so happens to conveniently place himself in the 'right spot' for Harry's arrival.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Eldest Gruff on July 28, 2015, 03:47:14 AM ---Luckily in this instance Harry says it himself in DB as also sourced somewhere up there :P
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The book says Mac opened the pub a few years before Harry arrived in town, not that he arrived a few years before Harry. He might have been in Chicago all along, or might have moved there before Harry got there. Doesn't explain how he'd know Harry would eventually go there, to know that he should set up shop there.
--- Quote from: Eldest Gruff on July 28, 2015, 03:52:37 AM ---As I see it the two don't necessarily need to be mutually exclusive in this case. We know he opened the bar a few years prior to Harry's arrival...perhaps 'Mac' is simply this version of himself. Like the immortals in Highlander, he leaves for a few decades here and there in order to keep suspicion or unnecessary inquiries from being made and returns after some time. This time however perhaps he is aware in some way that a Starborn has come into play and just so happens to conveniently place himself in the 'right spot' for Harry's arrival.
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We still would need to know why Harry went to Chicago to begin with. It's not like he went there because Lea recommended it; he was running from her after he welched on their deal. So there's no reason that others would have known, unless they're mucking about with free will or peaking into the future.
Eldest Gruff:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on July 28, 2015, 04:18:29 AM ---The book says Mac opened the pub a few years before Harry arrived in town, not that he arrived a few years before Harry. He might have been in Chicago all along, or might have moved there before Harry got there. Doesn't explain how he'd know Harry would eventually go there, to know that he should set up shop there.
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True. But it also says no one knows where he was or what he did prior to that. So in all possibility, his opening of the bar was part and parcel with coming to Chicago (or returning as the case may be).
--- Quote ---We still would need to know why Harry went to Chicago to begin with. It's not like he went there because Lea recommended it; he was running from her after he welched on their deal. So there's no reason that others would have known, unless they're mucking about with free will or peaking into the future.
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Idk why it would much require mucking around with free will or even peeking into the future for an angel (or former angel) to have access to or the advantage of the same general 'divine coincidence' that governs or aids the Knights. Whatever drove Harry there is certainly another question but could just as easily be chalked up to 'why not' Chicago?
Argonometra:
--- Quote from: Eldest Gruff on July 28, 2015, 04:25:22 AM ---Whatever drove Harry there is certainly another question but could just as easily be chalked up to 'why not' Chicago?
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It's a nearby city that has coffee and public TVs.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on July 28, 2015, 03:22:56 AM ---I've never bothered with any of the RPG stuff. I don't hold any of it as canon. It's too easy to dismiss as flawed.
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I was too depressed about not being able to find the mentioned RPG quote in the WoJ's or regular canon to read EG's theory earlier, so I still have to go through it...
Edit: I just deleted what I was going to say, because EG found it in Dead Beat as well.
EG, post it in the timeline bro!
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