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White Court Anit-Love and Blood Rites
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 07, 2018, 07:14:15 PM ---The love between Thomas and Justine is true love, that is why he could not touch her until she had physical sex with someone else.. Remember she invited a gay woman friend at the end of Ghost Story? Since though she might be mildly bi-sexual, she isn't gay, so the gay sex counts to break the true love lock that prevented Thomas from touching her and at the same time in their minds at least since she isn't gay stayed faithful.
Love tokens like a wedding ring or a rose can burn if they were exchanged in true love. It's complicated, the best theory I
can think of is the Hunger Demon feeds on carnal lust and the "hormones/emotions" that calls forth, but true love is on a higher level... Kind of like getting too near the sun, the Hunger Demon feeds on the light and warmth until death of the victim. Think of true love itself as the sun, touch it and you burn up.
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The weird thing is we never seem to hear about any other love than the romantic kind sufficing. Sure, the soul-soul contact is pretty intense during sex, but so presumably is that during breastfeeding, yet there's no general trend of virgins (whose last extremely intimate contact would often be with someone who loved them) being protected. Note trend, not saying it's a total certainty.
So there seems to be something else going on. Something deeper, more specific, than just intimacy backed by love.
I am running on thin ice, obviously, but an attempt: Romantic love is a kind of ongoing sharing of soul between equals. Where a parent's love might seem to be a way to 'feed' the child's soul without quite the same in reverse, a romantic love is a bi-directional feed. And as the hunger demon attempts to feed on the soul, the soul is not really just there, but also elsewhere (namely with the loved one). The demon tries to munch anyway and as a result is halfway ripped from the body of the vampire, even when the other lover is close, because it's a metaphysical rather than physical distance. The demon could eat on, but it would be permanently dislocated and the vampire-body will die, leaving the demon untethered and forced to return to the NN, before it can do permanent damage to the lovers (after all, a WCV can feed quite deeply without killing).
wardenferry419:
Maybe it has to do with the rarity of romantic love.
Ananda:
As someone who believes in neither uppercase Love or souls, it’s difficult to theorise. I’ve never looked too deeply at this stuff because they’re just a bit of fantasy facade. In context of a magic world with all this stuff, logic and rational thought seems like a fruitless venture, like discussing why leprechauns keep their gold in a pot instead of a trunk or a magic sack.
When I read these love passages with the burning and all, I just figure it works as described currently because the story currently requires it to do so. Like the pseudo science in Star Trek.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on January 11, 2018, 10:17:30 PM ---Maybe it has to do with the rarity of romantic love.
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Probably with the myth and stories about romantic love. There is a lot of believe invested here and that is power.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 12, 2018, 06:27:09 AM ---Probably with the myth and stories about romantic love. There is a lot of believe invested here and that is power.
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And not in motherly love?
I suspect if you make a fair summation it's below romantic love in mythical intensity, but we're looking for a difference in not just degree.
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