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Mab/Murphy Ironies
Talby16:
--- Quote from: Cozarkian on October 26, 2017, 03:14:48 PM ---
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."
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I know exactly what you meant to say, but all I could think when reading your post was: Murphy into a Man, thats a huge freaking plot twist.
raidem:
Peregrine, there are multiple woj's or at least multiple parts of the woj.
Mine is true. There is in fact a woj that "Murphy already has a job." and that "she won't get anymore powerups." Yours I recall too is true.
"If she needs more power, then she can always find a bigger gun."
So yes, there are at least two, maybe 3 woj's that comment on Murphy.
This first:
"Murphy already has a job and she won't get any more powerups." [this may be a mash up between two separate woj's but I remember watching this "Murphy already has a job" at least in a video because I recall the audience's 'surprised what' reaction. But I also distinctly remember the second part that "Murphy won't be getting any more powerups."
Then this:
"If she needs more power, then she can always find/get a bigger gun."
And then there were arguments on this forum that there was some slight contradiction between the two as having a bigger gun can indeed be construed as a powerup. Sadly, those arguments most likely were shredded by the yearly delete monster.
raidem:
--- Quote ---Even though you write all these characters, have you ever had one that refused to do what you wanted it to?
No, because those people work for me. There are times when the characters don’t seem to be going as easily in a direction I want them to go. Often I will have to stop and take a look at what I’m doing since maybe the story has squirreled off in the wrong direction. Which is sometimes the case and I’ll have to rewrite. Often what I will do is I’ll go back and I’ll play Time Lord and go back and retool the character’s past to give them a good motivation to do what I want them to do.
Murphy was continually too much in the way in Fool Moon, for example. She kept trying to participate in what was going on and not in the adversarial way I needed her to, because she was essentially a minor villain in Fool Moon. It was not working out at all until I went back and tinkered with her backstory and Murphy has a paralyzing fear of big dogs. That was changing her opinions and put enough brakes on her that I could get her to slow down enough to let other people get killed instead of her.
But it also means that she wasn’t too sure about Mouse the first time she met him. She’s OK with him later on, because he’s a big dog that she doesn’t have to be afraid of, she trusts him despite that fear. But that’s all under-the-table stuff that I can’t write about because Murphy is not going to go up to Dresden and say, “I’m terrified of big dogs.” Because Dresden would make fun of her for being short and it’s not going to happen.
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This is why Lea has so many hounds. The Murphy in Mab/Murphy is scared of big dogs.
raidem:
http://griddaily.com/jim-butcher-qa
--- Quote ---Q: Whenever Harry’s had a relationship it hasn’t worked out. Is there something big coming?
A: When you say ‘something big’, do you mean that in a positive sense, or…? Yeah there’s something big coming….poor Murphy…
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https://twitter.com/longshotauthor/status/621483946556162053?lang=en
I hope something big drags her back in time, or fakes her death and does so. Ooh, that will be great :).
--- Quote ---@longshotauthor what part of peace talks are you writing RIGHT NOW!
@BigBentley15 Murphy's funeral.
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--- Quote ---Will we see Mrs. Murphy again?
Maybe? Maybe. We’ll have to see. That might work out.
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raidem:
An interesting note, not necessarily germane to Murphy but I like it anyway.
--- Quote ---What kind of magic does Chandler specialize in?
Chandler does a lot of Divination, and a lot of stuff that is involved with time. Which puts him in a very finicky spot, a very high profile spot on the council. It's one reason why he's a Warden where they can keep an eye on him. He can actually do things to screw with the flow of time and look back in time and find things out, and occasionally to look forward in time and see things. Although that's very unreliable because of the whole free will nonsense. He's an information gatherer for the most part. He's not as much of a punch you in the face type, but he's really really useful which is why he has got a lot of status among the young wardens. He's got access to what the old wizards think is valuable, which is information.
(Jim also says here that Chandler's hat and bowler look is based off of John Steed of the 1960's British Avengers show)
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This is Second Arsith proposing that Chandler may accompany Harry on time traveling trip, and that Chandler may be the imprisoned British guy in Demonreach. Here is the explanation.
--- Quote ---Quote from: Second Aristh on July 10, 2016, 04:00:36 PM
This is one of the more interesting new WoJ from yesterday. It's only fitting that the most British character in the DV so far is associated with time magic. In hindsight, we could have probably guessed this based off Doctor Who, Big Ben, and Jim's sense of irony.
So, based on this I'm going to make a WAG that Chandler will be Harry's companion/sidekick in the time travel book (crosses fingers in the hopes that it's titled Second Chance). While we're at it, it seems that Chandler as the British prisoner in Demonreach is a valid possibility as well if Chandler needed to wait out some time shenanigans.
Am I the only one that didn't realize that Chandler was part of the young faction of wardens?
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