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[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
Mira:
--- Quote ---Why can't the baby feed like a regular human baby
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We are talking about the fetus inside the placenta. The fetus will get it's food like any normal fetus, the Hunger demon inside the fetus also has to have something to eat, so it feeds off of mom's emotions while she is carrying the baby.
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“Yes,” Thomas said. “And my kind are all but infertile to boot. Happened anyway.”
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Which means he had very good reason to believe he was sterile... In other words a very low sperm count..
didymos:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 07, 2020, 04:01:16 AM ---Which means he had very good reason to believe he was sterile...
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No, it means he had good reason to believe he was all but infertile. Not the same thing.
--- Quote ---In other words a very low sperm count..
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We don't know that that is how the Hunger affects fertility.
Yuillegan:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on April 07, 2020, 12:43:35 AM ---Because it doesn't?
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--- Quote ---Except that the baby’s Hunger will draw life energy from Justine. She’s going to be fed upon continuously for the next seven and a half months.
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1. Just another example of Jim adding in information when it suits, retconning previously established canon.
2. WCV eat emotion, they choose which one based on the house they are raised in generally. But in Blood Rites it is explained that it is usually during sex (Thomas even says rape is the traditional way to settle differences in the Houses of the White Court). I guess you all will say that it just feeds on the Mother's emotions during it's formation. So what does it feed on once it is born? As established previously, WCV don't actually become their full selves until they feed for the first time. And if you say well that's because they don't need to feed before that transformation, well then why do they feed in the womb? And you can't argue they feed of their own emotions, otherwise the White Court wouldn't need to feed on humans.
3. So back to the argument. The baby, underdeveloped WCV feeds on just ambient emotion from the Mother. It then either A) stops feeding until it's first feeding at 18 or B) it somehow feeds itself one way for 18 years then suddenly changes that entirely and completely changes form into a full blown WCV.
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.
didymos:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on April 07, 2020, 06:00:43 AM ---1. Just another example of Jim adding in information when it suits, retconning previously established canon.
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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
Arjan:
Thomas the hairdresser only needed intimacy.
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