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Mab/Murphy Ironies
wardenferry419:
I usually considered the difference between genius and crazy is how much odd behavior other people will tolerate.
raidem:
From Reddit:
--- Quote ---CSMED: About the Mab/Murphy connection, I thought we had multiple quotes from Jim saying Murphy will not receive any kind of supernatural power up - that she stays just badass vanilla mortal. Even if it's nkt a theory I personally believe, I love the theorycraft that goes into it and I'm just curious how that is taken into account.
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--- Quote ---Raedem: Ooh, I'm glad you pointed that out. I had forgotten that WOJ. I think the woj was "Murphy already has a job, and she won't get any more powerups." I deal with that by saying, yes she already has a significant powerup; so Jim is being truthful from a point of view depending on where he stands on a timeline saying it. If Mab=Murphy, then that has already happened so, Murphy has a job and has already got her powerup even though she has yet to travel to her fate into the past. Jim is speaking faerie in the WOJ. I think the rest of your recall regarding Murphy "not receiving any kind of supernatural power up, that she stays vanilla mortal" follows from potential error in translating and perceiving his woj.
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Can someone help me find the WOJ that looks like this...
"Murphy already has a job, and she won't get any more powerups."
This was a prior post I made with reference to the woj
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--- Quote ---I do recall the bit about no more power ups. And that if she needs one, she will get a bigger gun so it sorta contradicts prior statement.
In talking about this woj before, I mentioned that it is possible she already got a PowerUp and won't get any more. I believe we may not be fully aware of all of her powers and Jim in some of his statements may be talking about a Murphy we haven't seen yet, i.e. a future Murphy that from that point doesn't get any more powerups. There is also a woj- about Murphy already having a job, with that job not being clearly defined by Jim. In addition, Jim talks about Harry's crew growing in power along with him so I don't think it is likely that Murphy's advancement dead ends. I think Jim wants to preserve the story about Murphy, or so I hope.
My favorite Murphy advancement lies in obtaining a large mantle, preferably Mab's or something similar in power to it. Again, I like for Murphy to be involved in a TT and/or MM story where Murphy gets lost in past assumes something and comes back to the present via the hardway (normal time) to takes steps on screen as some other character, like Mab, Titania etc.
I use Ms. Duck's theory about TT Molly going into past, participating in rise to power to come back to us as Mab. I just twist the theory and have that focus being on Murphy instead of Molly.
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peregrine:
It's not about her job, it's that if she needs more power, she can always find a way to get a bigger gun.
And no, being Mab is not a gun.
Cozarkian:
--- Quote from: raidem on October 26, 2017, 01:00:44 PM ---From Reddit:
Can someone help me find the WOJ that looks like this...
"Murphy already has a job, and she won't get any more powerups."
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That WOJ was likely after the first time she touched a sword, but it had to be before she lost her job. Since losing her job she has trained with Einherjar, which is a power up. Therefore, either JB lied, changed his mind, briefly forgot his plans for Murphy, or has a very narrow definition of powerup.
If JB's plan was to make Murphy into Man as a big reveal at the end of the series but he wasn't planning on giving her any powerups until that key moment, I can easily envision him giving that answer as truth "from a certain point of view."
Talby16:
--- Quote from: raidem on October 26, 2017, 01:00:44 PM ---From Reddit:
Can someone help me find the WOJ that looks like this...
"Murphy already has a job, and she won't get any more powerups."
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Tried finding that WoJ for you. Failed miserably. I do seem to recall reading it though which means it most likely exists.
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