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What is Lara's problem? [PT Spoilers!]
Grifter:
--- Quote from: vultur on July 23, 2020, 08:01:41 PM ---I am not sure Lara is as personally/magically powerful as her political position suggests. To some extent that's true of the White Court overall, but more so in Lara's case. She hit Lord Raith when he was greatly weakened -- and a few years later, WN wiped out much of the leadership of the other White Court Houses.
I don't think Lara was the strongest WCV supernaturally, at least before WN -- and even now, Thomas (when uninjured and feeding) might be at least as strong.
On the other hand, even the "backwash" of Lara's full-power emotion-blast at the end of BR is pretty overwhelming. But Harry's never been hit by an equivalent blast from Thomas or a top-end Skavis or Malvora (except Vitto -- who was stronger, but Outsider-boosted so not comparable), so we can't compare.
EDIT: forgot about Vitto's attack
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I don't think Lara would gain power through worship or title or other indirect means, but we've heard about how the Wamps have been been expanding their influence ever since she took over. She clearly strategizing for the future, but not increasing her own power level seems like an odd failure on her part while she's doing all this other work.
Maybe she's taking a gentler approach than her father. Maybe she's feeding a little bit from a lot of people rather than dropping dead bodies left and right, and that decreases her intake.
It just seems odd to me for her to be so weak.
--- Quote from: TrueMonk on July 23, 2020, 10:07:31 PM ---Topping Thomas off and taking him to a place where he can be kept alive an not located is a great plan. Then there is an emp and they have to skip the topping off.
It is not out of character for any wizard not to explain how exactly they are going to do the magic stuff and Harry has always been good at keeping that vague.
I think Lara is really really really far from being papa wraith. She can beat him when he has been starved for 30? years. Imagine her or Thomas going without feeding at all for just one year. As I remember Papa wraith was immune to magic and could rip the life from someone with a kiss.
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But I guessi expect her to have felt a need to match her father's power level pre-curse as a prerequisite to the position she holds.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on July 23, 2020, 08:18:05 PM ---I don't know if at that moment the plan was to go to the island.
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At the very least Harry told her he could place Thomas somewhere were he'd be safe and not tracked... And she never asked where or how?
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 22, 2020, 06:13:27 PM ---Last time she was on the island Harry wasn't officially Warden.
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I don't know what that means.
Did Lara know what the island is and how it is supposed to work?
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on July 23, 2020, 07:02:46 AM ---For me; the real question is, Why didn't Lara ask Harry specific questions about his plan to keep Thomas safe and hidden.
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Harry and Lara didn't know Thomas was starving when they planned the rescue. From the way Lara talked, it sounded like she didn't expect Thomas to be able to recover.
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 23, 2020, 02:23:10 PM ---The Skin Walker used this to torture Thomas. The process was to torture Thomas to the point of death and then feed him.
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The situations can be distinguished. The Skin Walker knew what it was doing. It was torturing him to the point he could recover if he fed. It wasn't trying to kill him.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I don't know what that means.
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It means that as of Turn Coat he could feel everything that went on on the island.. However not until Cold Days, did he understand that he could manipulate it and more to the point if he wanted,
ask Alfred to grab Mab and throw her in the slammer, and it was possible.
Since Lara didn't witness any of that in Turn Coat or was there in Cold Days, she wouldn't know any of the above.
forumghost:
Y'know what really confused me about Lara in PT?
The conversation at the end with Harry where she's like "I cannot comprehend your motives here". Bitch, they are literally the same as yours, He wants to save his fucking brother, it's not that goddamn hard.
Like, how does she think he's doing this to hold one over on her? Nobody that knows anything about Harry would buy that bluff. "Yes I, Harry Dresden, will totally hold my only brother's life as a hostage".
How are we supposed to believe there is any confusion here?!?!?
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