The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on April 07, 2020, 03:48:24 PM ---If the foetus keeps doing that for nine moths it will add up to something quite big.
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The fetus does feed for nine months, that is why a pregnant mom is told she is eating for two. I guess the embryo Hunger demon has to as well. Different from adult Thomas, once the Hunger demon is reawakened by that first feeding becomes a true symbiotic relationship. If the Hunger demon is starved of the emotion it needs for nourishment, then it's host starves. Until he went into the hair dressing business when he was living with Harry, Thomas was actually starving to death no matter how much food he ate. So the host feeds the Hunger demon with emotions and in turn the host lives a longer life, is stronger, heals at a rapid rate.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on April 07, 2020, 06:00:43 AM ---The whole thing would be much simpler if Jim hadn't broken his own rules and the baby was just a pretty normal baby and fed like a regular baby.
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I agree. The best explanation is probably some sort of dormancy period like a lot of insects. Which is basically what Jim says in the video in didymos's comment: (click to show/hide)
--- Quote from: didymos on April 07, 2020, 06:02:13 AM ---What was the previously established canon? I don't recall anything being said about WCV pregnancies.
BTW, this info about WC pregnancies isn't new. Jim told us about it back in 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gmu76ritoQ&t=3586
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IIRC, they don't feed on emotions, they feed on souls using powerful emotion as a vector. The text probably repeatedly refers to them feeding on emotion, but if we look to what happens to Justine in Blood Rites and what Molly says about it after her SoulGaze in Changes, I think it's pretty clear that they feed on souls. I'll look up quotes if there is general disagreement.
--- Quote from: g33k on April 07, 2020, 11:46:53 AM ---IIRC, (it's at least implied that) Toe-moss could have fed more deeply, even as a hair-dresser.
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It's somewhat implied in the short story Backup, but it could also be read that feeding deeper would be accomplished by another means.
Based on what Jim said, I wonder if a severe childhood injury or illness would cause the dormant Hunger to awaken.
Arjan:
I do not think they feed on souls. They feed on your spiritual power, your life energy.
didymos:
--- Quote from: Arjan on April 07, 2020, 07:04:42 PM ---I do not think they feed on souls. They feed on your spiritual power, your life energy.
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That's what Harry says in Blood Rites:
--- Quote ---Thomas was a vampire of the White Court. They didn’t drink blood. They fed on emotions, on feelings, drawing the life energy from their prey
Butcher, Jim. Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6) (p. 15). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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g33k:
--- Quote from: didymos on April 07, 2020, 07:23:57 PM --- That's what Harry says in Blood Rites:
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Yeah, but Harry's knowledge & expertise in the matter of Souls was, at that point, the famous fraction diddly/squat.
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