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Bob's Personality, and Justin
khadgar4606:
bonnie is gonna be quite powerful on multiple sense we got lashciels memories along with harry's so bonnie is gonna be quite rebel and unless we have proper explanation we cant peg her in any power level but she is gonna be major player on team maggie probably as smart girl of the team
Zaphodess:
--- Quote from: jonas on August 14, 2017, 10:30:01 AM ---Harry never originally told bob to block those memories. It's almost implied he did it himself but I doubt his ability to.
*we need to look more far reaching into who and what bob is...
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I think Justin ordered him to suppress that part because evil Bob was dangerous - to its owner too. We saw that in Dead Beat when he tried to kill Harry and in GS, when evil Bob sort of betrayed Corpsetaker's ghost.
Mira:
--- Quote from: jonas on August 14, 2017, 10:30:01 AM ---Harry never originally told bob to block those memories. It's almost implied he did it himself but I doubt his ability to.
*we need to look more far reaching into who and what bob is...
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You're right, I found the passage, Bob chose to forget everything about Kemmler, but then Harry in Dead Beat commanded him to recall those memories.. Then Bob nearly killed him, and then Harry commanded him to block forever those memories. But I think it is told a little different in Ghost Story.
jonas:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 14, 2017, 12:04:40 PM --- You're right, I found the passage, Bob chose to forget everything about Kemmler, but then Harry in Dead Beat commanded him to recall those memories.. Then Bob nearly killed him, and then Harry commanded him to block forever those memories. But I think it is told a little different in Ghost Story.
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OMG OMG OMG! yes, yes.... I think this is reason I simply MUST make a thread about bob, compile everything I can. :) :D that's awesome.
You made me realize something kinda obvious in hindsight if you don't limit yourself to your current perspective(read- be open minded). Bob did something very unique that nearly everything associated with a certain genus can do, but which isn't readily applicable to Bob. Despite Bob being 'non associative' with the faith wave length. He did something angelic, he chose to rise. He flipped the one switch associated to true immortals :0 ? some corollary, working closely with wizards give bob a lot of contact with their aura, Kemmler twisted the very nature of his being causing him to run on Necropower. He had two distinct opposite personalities associated with each version, ect... I think I know what Bob did to E Bob maybe...
Anyway, He actually killed off part of himself and in doing so created the spirit of everything he shed. I think this is what all immortals do when they are downgraded from grace to mantle, break off a piece that makes up an identity and the rest is everything left over, break it down some more and we have a bunch of aspects of the same being spread across reality. Bob just did it on a smaller level with his own identity, Not sure if it actually 'died' then or just became it's own thing..
DonBugen:
--- Quote ---When he had a chance to choose between Cowl and Harry, he chose Harry.
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I’ve been puzzling over this for a little bit, and I don’t think that Bob really chose Harry in DB. He’s a spirit of intellect, without a free will of his own, and I doubt that Bob could assert his own preference to override the hard-coded rules that define his allegiance any more than I can flap my arms and fly. Rather, I suspect that this has something to do with the power of Names, and the fact that Dresden was the one who gave Bob a name. Bob doesn’t react at all until Harry calls him by name and states that he was the one to give him one.
I doubt that much of Bob’s personality is based off of Justin. Harry probably did see the skull at work, though likely never face-to-face; I don’t see Justin being the kind of dad who shares his illegal source of boundless knowledge with his apprentice kids, especially when he plans to make them his enthralled servants later. Harry probably just knew that it had a ton of knowledge and would be hugely valuable to a kid who needed to make it on his own. Butters, on the other hand, got to sit and question Bob at length and worked with him and Thomas for a better portion of a day – a lot of time for his personality to impress upon Butters.
Besides, Jim did say that Bob’s “annoying perv” nature was specifically because Harry picked him up when he was a hormone-charged adolescent. Other than being a know-it-all, those are most of his main personality traits.
The big question is, how much of Bob’s personality when he was with Justin is a result of Justin’s expectations of him as a tool of Kemmler, and did the dark skull have any influence on leading Justin down the left-hand path?
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