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Ramírez & Lara Raith soulgaze

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g33k:

--- Quote from: kbrizzle on June 27, 2019, 08:27:31 PM ---... The part that is interesting about the exchange is the part I have highlighted in the OP. What does Ramírez mean when he tells Lara that “it wasn’t to dissuade you”??
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Ahhhh!  Yes, I see.

I think the understanding comes with particular spoken emphases (or an understanding of that quote being a partial sentence with an implied/unspoken 2nd half):

--- Quote ---It wasn't to dissuade YOU
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=OR=

--- Quote ---It wasn't to dissuade you (it was to dissuade me).
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Lara doubtless understood what it would be like for Carlos to have seen her soul as she saw his, how much a true vision of the demon would "dissuade" him.  Hence, her remarking that he was wise (to have "innoculated" himself).

peregrine:
Bingo.  It was meant to dissuade himself, not Lara.

g33k:

--- Quote from: kbrizzle on June 27, 2019, 08:56:13 PM --- ...

Lara clearly likes Ramírez even more after the soul gaze, but Ramírez doesn’t just consider Lara to be an immoral vampire - he seems to respect her more after the soul gaze & maybe even realizes that she is trying to help him better navigate the Whamp Court by playing the come hither at him instead just being a succubus, perhaps that’s why he wasn’t trying to dissuade her with his knife?
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He WAS trying to disuade her with his knife.  But, whamps being whamps, Carlos was teetering on the edge anyhow.

Carlos initiates the soulgaze to stiffen his own spine.

Lara mistakes it as another attempt to dissuade her (the knife's not working! try magic!), not realizing that Carlos was using it to rebuild his own defenses against whamps, instead of as a weapon/threat against her.

Afterwards, they each come away with the soulgaze-granted understandings of one another, including his, that her word is good.  So yeah, he "respects" her more, even as he understands that she is basically cooperating with the inhuman monster inside of her.

kbrizzle:
@g33k & peregrine
That makes the most sense

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