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Murphy
forumghost:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 20, 2020, 04:38:23 AM ---We don’t know exactly how crippled she is and the story might be colored by Harry’s concern for her. And Jim obviously likes to keep her around.
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Yes, we really do:
--- Quote ---“Round two can start next week,” she continued, speaking in her professional voice, the detached one that didn’t have any emotion in it, used mostly when something really, really upset her. “Then it’s just three more months of casts and stupid braces and then I can start six months of therapy while they wean me off the painkillers, and after all of that is done, if it goes very, very well, he thinks I might be able to walk without a cane. As long as I don’t have to do it very fast.”
I frowned. “What about your training?”
“There was damage,” she said, her voice becoming not so much quiet as . . . dead. “In the knee, shoulder, elbow. They’re hoping to get me back to fifty percent. Of basic function. Not athletic activity.”
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So yeah, apparently Murphy, with careful physiotherapy, will in 9 months be up to less then half as physically able as she was before. If she's lucky. And yet she's beating down supernatural warriors with decades to centuries of experience on her. Somehow.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: forumghost on July 20, 2020, 04:45:25 AM ---Yes, we really do:
So yeah, apparently Murphy, with careful physiotherapy, will in 9 months be up to less then half as physically able as she was before. If she's lucky. And yet she's beating down supernatural warriors with decades to centuries of experience on her. Somehow.
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So apparently we don't know.
Maybe the docters were too pessimistic, they often are to prevent hopes rising too high and patients forcing themselves too much and too fast. After all when they say everything will be all right and it doesn't they have a far bigger problem than the other way round.
Which might be exactly what she is doing now. We just don't know.
Wolfeyes:
--- Quote from: forumghost on July 20, 2020, 04:45:25 AM ---
So yeah, apparently Murphy, with careful physiotherapy, will in 9 months be up to less then half as physically able as she was before. If she's lucky. And yet she's beating down supernatural warriors with decades to centuries of experience on her. Somehow.
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Tbf, it's not like Murphy is beating down Freydis into a crater. The first time was because she was quick with the gun. The second time she had grenades prepped to deal with the situation and didn't need to move much. That's very different than if she was sparring like she was before her injuries and even after she made Freydis take her seriously, she still needed help holding things and adjusting herself after.
She's not going to be running around with a sword but she can still point a gun and act within limitations if she fights smart. We see that with things like her having gun in position while she was waiting on the boat.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Wolfeyes on July 20, 2020, 05:27:10 AM ---Tbf, it's not like Murphy is beating down Freydis into a crater. The first time was because she was quick with the gun. The second time she had grenades prepped to deal with the situation and didn't need to move much. That's very different than if she was sparring like she was before her injuries and even after she made Freydis take her seriously, she still needed help holding things and adjusting herself after.
She's not going to be running around with a sword but she can still point a gun and act within limitations if she fights smart. We see that with things like her having gun in position while she was waiting on the boat.
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Which is believable, barely... However that isn't how it is going to go down in the next book. Also
she isn't invincible either, the reason she is in the condition she is in is because Nic beat the holy crap out of her. He did that with his fists, skills, and strength, nothing else.. Yeah, he has a coin, but I don't think fighting power is one of Andriel's skills, and he had the noose. So they will be fighting a lot of Nics on steroids, my point still is while I understand where her heart is, her head should rule, she is a liability on the battle field in her current condition. Harry gave her a vital option and she rejected it.
ClintACK:
It's perhaps noteworthy that the one time she does "beat" Freydis, her victory is based on her willingness to die to win.
If she dies in Battleground, it seems likely that she'll go out in suicide-bomber style -- not a good end in Catholicism, but perhaps honored by Valhalla.
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