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Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 16, 2020, 03:04:19 PM ---Considering that Malcolm is said to be a vanilla mortal, how would that work in terms of a hookup?
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She might have spent part of the time between getting pregnant and dying in childbirth away from Malcolm. IIRC Malcolm missed Harry's birth and only arrived a few hours after Maggie had died.
She probably would have been been trying to convince her enemies that Malcolm wasn't important so he wouldn't be a target too after she was gone. And if she had to do much fighting while running and hiding, shielding the squishy powerless mortal would have been a potentially fatal distraction.
morriswalters:
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Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 16, 2020, 03:04:19 PM ---What concerns me with her story is why should I care that Maggie died?
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I don't really understand where the question is coming from, but the only reasons I can see are consequential. One is how it informs Harry's character (and maybe Eb's). Another is that the details of her life after disassociating with the bad guys and death are probably pretty informative of what's going on. Now if there is ever a story featuring her, there might be more emotional reasons to care that she dies.
Also, you seem to be assuming that she was a mustache twirling villain. She could have been a slight twist on a tragic hero who, instead of a completely tragic ending, gets a mostly tragic ending.
Sixteen year old Harry wasn't too different than the description of Margaret. Harry violated the 1st Law. He had "unsavory associations with various entities of dubious reputation." He would have been brought before the Council and executed if not for Eb's intervention.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I do not think the mere fact that the romans crucified someone proves that he was a bad man.
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He was a criminal though because the man who defended Jesus say that the two of them deserved to die because they guilty of what they were accused of where as Jesus wasn't.
morriswalters:
@Bad Alias
Nobody is a villain in their own book. And Margaret wasn't sixteen, she was close to two hundred when she got religion so to speak. And Margaret did what she did with the knowledge that it was morally suspect. But that isn't my point. Jim's building to some type of reveal about her. As a reader, for that to have impact I need to be involved emotionally with the character. And I'm not. Right now I'm at the, she bought it and she had to pay for it, and good riddance, stage.
Margaret was a d**k. And that is a charitable look at her. Goodman Grey describes her as a piece of work. She abandoned one child and had another because she was wanting to use him as a weapon. She did mind magic on her fetus and implanted a working which she used to take revenge on Raith, effectively using her sons like batteries. That she did it on Thomas first means that she planned to do it on Harry a year before he was conceived. And Malcolm died because he was associated with Maggie and had her son. So I'm effectively asking Jim, what's the payoff?
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