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Mab/Murphy Ironies
raidem:
Mab's identity hidden behind a mask?
--- Quote ---You’ve introduced a couple characters that wear different faces and show up, and it’s not always easy to tell that they’re the same person such as Odin/Vadderung/Kringle. Are there other characters that you haven’t yet revealed that are wearing multiple faces that we have already seen multiple times?
I’m shocked that you would suspect such a thing of me sir! *I’m not gonna tell you*
Those are pretty much scattered all over the Dresden Files cosmos. You’ll see more as we go. There are a lot of characters that are there right now that aren’t who you think they are. We’ll have to see how it turns out, though.
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raidem:
--- Quote ---In several books he’s been pierced with iron and it seems as if the mantle goes away but doesn’t actually. He’s in incredible pain because he’s been beaten up, but with long term exposure would his back go back to being normal?
Well, somebody asked something similar a couple of nights ago. They pointed out that when Harry crossed Mab and Mab took the mantle away from him when he broke Winter Law that his back collapsed too, but his back didn’t collapse when he got pierced by iron. And I looked at him, and I said, “You’re right. That seems like an inconsistency. Like someone is lying or doesn’t understand the exact situation of things or something like that.” Then I said to him what I said to you, next question.
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This occurred in the presence of Murphy. Mab viewing things through the eyes of Murphy? It should be noticed that as soon as Murphy and friends touched Harry to help him up, the Mab gave him the mantle back.
jonas:
--- Quote from: raidem on October 26, 2017, 03:45:38 PM ---This is why Lea has so many hounds. The Murphy in Mab/Murphy is scared of big dogs.
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Erm? Lol, that's a good point for entirely other reasons.... I think Lea's scared of Murphy's judgement. She already had a tendency of shooting, Damning or otherwise pushing the perspective that rules the day(Butters in SG and Harry in WN to name a couple) even before Mab let Murphy Decide the day vs Maeve. I think people who have done wrong that even they can recognize have more to fear from Murphy than Harry.... and I think Lea, with all her 'be wary even of your protector' may have overstepped her bounds in insuring Harry had a Wintery upbringing, by killing Malcom O.o
raidem:
"Murphy's still undergoing surgeries (plural) and so on to get fixed because when you get hurt like that, it takes a long time to get better. When you're not some kind of superhuman, "I work for Queen Mab" " Peace Talks only occurs a couple months after Skin Game. Murphy and Harry may/may not have had much time to have lots of sex given her condition.
--- Quote ---Q: Cool, I think a lot of us will be excited to read that then. What, if any, tease can you give us for Peace Talks?
A: Peace Talks is all about the various signatories of the Unseelie Accords are having a convocation in Chicago to try and work out a way to settle down all the discord that's been happening due to the Fomor seizing power in the vacuum left behind by the Red Court. So, I believe what's going to happen is they're all going to get together, they'll have a nice dinner, they'll hash things out, and then have a coupla beers and sing some songs, and everything will be FINE. Cause, you know, I want to surprise everybody. Everybody's just looking for it to explode, and so on. This book is only set a couple of months after the end of the previous one [Skin Game], so, you know, Murphy's still undergoing surgeries and so on to get fixed because when you get hurt like that, it takes a long time to get better. When you're not some kind of superhuman, "I work for Queen Mab", living punching bag... Let's see, we'll get to see a lot of, more of Harry and Maggie; Mouse will be in this one, we'll get to see the White Council getting involved with things again, so we'll have them on stage.
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Jim just can't constrain himself from including references to Mab when talking about Murphy. And again that "you know" reference at the end of "I was mortal once, you know" answer Mab tells Harry in response to Harry asking her if it was hard to kill Maeve.
raidem:
--- Quote ---WHERE DID YOU GET THE INSPIRATION FOR BOB ?
The inspiration from Bob mostly came from me wanting to […] my teacher's notes. I told her - after I'd written the first series of the DF - or the first chapter of the first book - she read the chapter and said - Well, I think you've done it! I said "What?!" She said this is sellable. I think this will sell. What are you planning for next? And I'm like uh -uh - he's got to go talk to his - I've got to give him this assistant so that when the cops are around they'll be the dummies that he can explain things to - cause that's one of the principles of writing - it's the joy of idiocy - you always keep one dummy around to ask questions and have things explained to him and that's how you get the information to the reader in a more entertaining fashion.
So sometimes Murphy will be the dummy and then when there's something that Dresden needs to know he can go to this more nerdy assistant and the assistant will be the dummy - errr - and he'll be the dummy and the assistant will be the smart guy. And she's [i e his teacher] like okay - that works. Just dont make him a talking head.
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This is confirmation that Murphy would often lead Harry with questions, Harry answers them. This was how Harry started writing his books. It was one tool he used in his toolbox.
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