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Name someone you want to appear in Peace Talks
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Kindler on July 29, 2019, 02:43:12 PM ---[The Merlin]'s a weasel. Just... a weasel with access to orbital nukes and carrying a BFG-9000. Meanwhile, Harry's got the number to Pizza 'Spress.
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Harry's upped his game ever since Turn Coat. He just didn't realize it until Cold Days.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Kindler on July 16, 2019, 04:22:09 PM ---A couple years back I was pushing pretty hard for Tilly's return. I'd still like it if it turned out he's become a kind of FBI equivalent to Murphy after Changes, and showed up at the Peace Talk summit to speak up for vanilla mortals. Double fun points if his attendance was sponsored by Baron Marcone, because it'd be wonderful to see Tilly gritting his teeth to cooperate with "villain, scum" for the greater good.
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+1 for Tilly, for all the reasons you say.
Also: I just like the character, and I want to see more of him!
--- Quote from: Kindler on July 16, 2019, 04:22:09 PM --- I think we're also due for an Elaine visit (overdue? I can't remember anymore. I'm getting old.)
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From her own motivations, I think Elaine wants to stay off the radar, and would avoid a high-powered, high-profile event like this, if at possible!
Of course (as we see from Harry's life!) sometimes a young wizard's "own motivation" to avoid certain situations don't line up with "what's possible!"
--- Quote from: Kindler on July 16, 2019, 04:22:09 PM --- Haven't seen Billy since Ghost Story and Georgia since Turn Coat, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was an Alpha presence. I can picture Harry calling them up to act as a secret backup plan. On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of attention Harry was trying to keep them away from, so... maybe not. Though I think Peace Talks may devolve into an All Hands on Deck situation.
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The Alpha's are "only" a pack of werewolves. They make a decent physical threat, but are too much at risk from other powerful players with mental/magical forces. I expect Harry will want to keep them off-stage, as they're outclassed.
Things WILL go to hell, of course, and an "AHoD situation" (with the Alpha's coming in) is entirely likely.
--- Quote from: Kindler on July 16, 2019, 04:22:09 PM --- As others have pointed out, Mavra is a possibility. Especially since the Black Court is a signatory.
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Hrm... It's not clear to me that "the Black Court" exists any longer as "an entity" to be "signatory" to the Accords. Maybe individual Blampires could sign on? Most of them are pretty powerful -- survivors of the Stoker purge -- other than whatever scourges/lesser vamps they have created since.
Their power -- as a group -- is apparently broken. Mavra (or any other Blampire) couldn't credibly claim to represent the Black Court, or reliably negotiate / make commitments on behalf of the BC.
HOWEVER... At the end of Dead Beat, Harry threatens Mavra, tells her never to try to use his friends against him, because... now he knows how to use Kemmlerian Necromancy against the BCV's. But she's a reasonably powerful sorceress in her own right (tutored Bianca, who was able to survive a full-power strike of Harry's), and now Mavra has the Word. So presumably now, SHE knows how to use Kemmlerian necromancy... which may well have given her the edge she needed to re-unite the Black Court, with herself as Black Queen. I can see her showing up in that capacity!
Bad Alias:
I think I'd like to see Elaine if it was done well. Early on, I "shipped" Harry and Elaine because they made sense together, but the more time passes, the less it seems like something that would work (from a story perspective more than a relationship perspective).
I don't dislike Tilly, but don't really care if I see him ever again. I wouldn't mind him showing up, I just don't care if he does.
Outside of Harry's usual crew, I like, and therefore would like to see them on page more, Mort and Ramirez (and all of the young wardens who have gotten any page time and a name (who aren't dead)).
I'd like to see just about any government official who has given Harry an unreasonably hard time about him being a "phony" have to eat crow, but most of the ones who it would be the most satisfying from have never even shown up on page. It's mostly Murphy's bosses I'd like to see having to beg for help and forgiveness.
On the flip side of seeing characters I like in Peace Talks, a lot of characters who show up in Peace Talks could be on the chopping block.
Kindler:
Well, you're going to get your wish with Carlos, as he's organizing security. Mort... I'm not so sure about. Maybe. I don't know if he'd fit until we learn more about the book.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind an Elaine/Harry pairing, but I just don't see it happening without big narrative changes.
I recall a WoJ that Tilly's going to be back eventually. I don't have it handy, but I remember reading him confirming it, possibly in one of the Reddit AMA threads.
Government official... not sure. But Rudolph? I think it's possible Harry made a vanilla mortal version of Ace during Changes. I can totally see that mealymouthed sh*tweasel losing everything after Changes (Harry infers that Rudy was being paid off by the Reds, cuz his house and car were way above what he should've been able to afford, so that income's lost. I can also see him getting in huge official trouble if Tilly followed up on Harry's hunch about his espionage activity), then doing what he can to destroy Harry, but utterly failing. Publicly, in front of the girl he likes.
Bad Alias:
What makes you say Carlos is organizing the talks? Do we even know who is hosting them?
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