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ClintACK:
Two bits of speculation on why Thomas did what he did.

1) Is it Harry's fault? Harry lays on some serious "new dad" weight-of-the-world in the first chapter. He basically tells Thomas that it's time to get serious and do absolutely anything it takes to get out from under his Hunger, or else he's a bad dad.

Remember who Thomas's father was, and how terrified he must be that he'll be like that with his own kids.

Then Eb -- Thomas's grandfather, though Eb doesn't know it -- lets his violent hatred of the White Court fly before basically chasing Thomas off.

Could that sequence of events have driven Thomas to make a Faustian bargain of some kind? Perhaps one where he wasn't meant to survive, but Justine and the child would be safe? (That sort of suicidal/homicidal protectiveness seems to run in the McCoy side of the family.)

2) Is it Eb's fault? After the fight with Harry, Eb is basically thrown out by Etri and has to be still fuming about the argument and all his familial-protectiveness and I-know-better-than-you arrogance are focused on the need to prove to Harry that (a) White Court Vampires are treacherous and a horrific danger (to Harry and especially to Maggie) and (b) the Svartalves aren't cuddly and nice and should also be kept as far away from Maggie as possible.

Eb is the Blackstaff. He is authorized to break the Laws of Magic. In his mind, Harry is making a horrific mistake and endangering his great-granddaughter by exposing her to evil fairies and the White Court (just like his Maggie!).

Could Eb have mind-whammied Thomas into attacking Etri? (It would even feel a bit like poetic justice, wouldn't it? Mind-whammy my grandson, will you? I'll show you a mind-whammy!)

Niall001:
(click to show/hide)I'm pretty sure Justine made him do it. With the proviso that I'm not certain if what we see is really Justine and that I don't know if was some form of mind control or just blackmail. Thomas keeps saying her name as a warning.

ClintACK:
@Niall (click to show/hide)"Justine made him do it" is definitely high on the list, but it leaves open both how and why. And was it Justine acting for herself, or for some other power? Did Nemesis do it as a distraction before the Last Titan's arrival? Did Lara do it to set up a fight where she could gain something from the svartalves and from using Harry to rescue Thomas? Did Mab arrange it to drive a wedge between Harry and his other support networks?
One more theory -- Thomas came home from the troubling conversation with Harry (and Eb) and started getting emotional about the problems of raising a White Court baby and the risk to Justine of the pregnancy and Justine finally told him the shocking truth: it's not his baby. In Bombshells, while he was servicing the Svartalves, Justine had a quickie of her own with Etri, the baby's actual father.

Mira:

--- Quote from: ClintACK on July 15, 2020, 01:16:49 PM ---@Niall (click to show/hide)"Justine made him do it" is definitely high on the list, but it leaves open both how and why. And was it Justine acting for herself, or for some other power? Did Nemesis do it as a distraction before the Last Titan's arrival? Did Lara do it to set up a fight where she could gain something from the svartalves and from using Harry to rescue Thomas? Did Mab arrange it to drive a wedge between Harry and his other support networks?
One more theory -- Thomas came home from the troubling conversation with Harry (and Eb) and started getting emotional about the problems of raising a White Court baby and the risk to Justine of the pregnancy and Justine finally told him the shocking truth: it's not his baby. In Bombshells, while he was servicing the Svartalves, Justine had a quickie of her own with Etri, the baby's actual father.

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  I think that is pretty far fetched.

Conspiracy Theorist:
I like the Eb theory, he may have also been trying to show Harry he was right as regards Maggie, it means Eb has to take Thomas’s place in Etri’s punishment. Maybe he didn’t realise how close Thomas would get. Eb has come over quite speciest as well towards Etri’s people.

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