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Exposure to Magic?
toodeep:
--- Quote from: peregrine on April 03, 2019, 02:21:26 AM ---I don't think it's something we'll see from Maggie though. I have a feeling it applies only to human magic. Living with Michael as Charity did, if, for example, faith magic was relevant, all their kids would have it.
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It may be true that the half vampire nature of the mother may not have a "magical" effect on Maggie because it is nonmortal (more on that later), but don't forget the magical tattoos on Susan. Every time those activated there may have been significant mortal magic active on Susan, plus we don't know what other exposures Susan might have experienced while pregnant - e.g. staying inside warded homes or sanctuaries, etc. that might influence the standing magic level the fetus was exposed to.
As to the nonmortal magic on Susan when Maggie was conceived.... It has always struck me that a red half-vampire is very similar to a white court vampire. Just because the most common way for red court hunger to transfer itself is through a feeding, doesn't mean it is the only way. Imagine the horror Harry will half to deal with if as she goes through puberty Maggie becomes the only red court half vampire in existence? Effectively an innocent with free will, but also an immortal threat to recreate a court her own father destroyed. (That would be awesome, but I suspect it is impossible because the hunger spirit that may have been attached to her should have been destroyed by the blood line curse too)
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---It may be true that the half vampire nature of the mother may not have a "magical" effect on Maggie because it is nonmortal (more on that later), but don't forget the magical tattoos on Susan. Every time those activated there may have been significant mortal magic active on Susan, plus we don't know what other exposures Susan might have experienced while pregnant - e.g. staying inside warded homes or sanctuaries, etc. that might influence the standing magic level the fetus was exposed to.
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True. We know that if Maggie has magic, her mother being half-vampire will influence it because there's a WoJ saying so.
DonBugen:
I think that it's fairly clear that genes + magic exposure =/= magic talent. WOJ is that Molly is the only Carpenter kid with talent. Little Harry Carpenter had the genes and had magic exposure while in the womb.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: DonBugen on April 05, 2019, 09:11:43 PM ---I think that it's fairly clear that genes + magic exposure =/= magic talent. WOJ is that Molly is the only Carpenter kid with talent. Little Harry Carpenter had the genes and had magic exposure while in the womb.
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Their level of exposure is very different. Little Harry being exposed to magic once literally the night he was born -- i.e., when he's more or less fully developed -- is not nearly the same thing as Molly being exposed to it regularly throughout pregnancy from conception through early development.
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---Their level of exposure is very different. Little Harry being exposed to magic once literally the night he was born -- i.e., when he's more or less fully developed -- is not nearly the same thing as Molly being exposed to it regularly throughout pregnancy from conception through early development.
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