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Maeve and Cait Sith- what happened?
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: knightedbishop on August 20, 2020, 05:31:54 PM ---Mab said Maeve got infected via Lea. But Molly said there’s a hundred or so year backlog on the Winter Lady’s duties. Am I missing something? How was Maeve able to deny her purpose and Mab for a hundred plus years if she was only recently infected? If she was only recently infected, what exactly did Maeve and Mab mean on the island when Maeve said she wouldn’t lift a finger in the battle to come and Mab said co-opting the a Winter Lady was one of the adversary’s more effective ploys?
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Maeve was like the coworker who does just enough not to get fired. If you have a work history that will be clear. In terms of Maeve and Mab and why Maeve being out of the game would have made things so much more difficult, you need to understand the underlying story arc that begins in Grave Peril. Mab must protect against Summer and the Outsiders. Jim harps on this constantly. The courts are in perfect balance. Lea is the odd Sidhe out and she stands in for Mab when Mab can't be present. Almost every move Mab makes in the books between Grave Peril and Cold days is about the fear of what will happen if Summer or the outsiders attack at the same time. Starting with Summer Knight she loses her Knight. Then Lea in Dead Beat and finally Maeve in Small Favor. With Maeve's mantle gone, the balance, and Winter's strength, would be destroyed.
The way I read what happened to Cat Sith is that the mind was gone, or erased by Nemesis.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 22, 2020, 02:25:07 AM ---Maeve was like the coworker who does just enough not to get fired. If you have a work history that will be clear. In terms of Maeve and Mab and why Maeve being out of the game would have made things so much more difficult, you need to understand the underlying story arc that begins in Grave Peril. Mab must protect against Summer and the Outsiders. Jim harps on this constantly. The courts are in perfect balance. Lea is the odd Sidhe out and she stands in for Mab when Mab can't be present. Almost every move Mab makes in the books between Grave Peril and Cold days is about the fear of what will happen if Summer or the outsiders attack at the same time. Starting with Summer Knight she loses her Knight. Then Lea in Dead Beat and finally Maeve in Small Favor. With Maeve's mantle gone, the balance, and Winter's strength, would be destroyed.
The way I read what happened to Cat Sith is that the mind was gone, or erased by Nemesis.
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Not erased. First changed enough for the outsiders to make him do what they wanted just like mind magic working on what is already there and when that was not enough, when Cat Sith started to reject that change and tried to reassert his true self he was possessed by Nemesis just like what happened to Lea in proven guilty when Harry saw her complete personality flip. That possession can be fought again with help.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on August 22, 2020, 07:17:50 AM ---Not erased. First changed enough for the outsiders to make him do what they wanted just like mind magic working on what is already there and when that was not enough, when Cat Sith started to reject that change and tried to reassert his true self he was possessed by Nemesis just like what happened to Lea in proven guilty when Harry saw her complete personality flip. That possession can be fought again with help.
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I don't think Harry actually saw it until he saw her in the ice treatment in Proven Guilty, and even then he attempted to free her. In her few lucid moments she told him not to, then Nemesis took over again and Harry realized that she had to remain on ice. I don't think he realized Cat Sith was infected until it was almost too late, didn't he kill him?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 22, 2020, 04:49:15 PM ---I don't think Harry actually saw it until he saw her in the ice treatment in Proven Guilty, and even then he attempted to free her. In her few lucid moments she told him not to, then Nemesis took over again and Harry realized that she had to remain on ice.
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That is what I pointed at. Nemesis took over, it did not erase Lea's mind. So Cat Sith's mind is probably not erased either.
--- Quote ---I don't think he realized Cat Sith was infected until it was almost too late, didn't he kill him?
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It was clear when Cat Sith attacked him. Even more when Cath Sith refused to follow orders.
Mira:
--- Quote ---It was clear when Cat Sith attacked him. Even more when Cath Sith refused to follow orders.
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What I am saying is I don't think Cat Sith fought it, I think like Maeve he managed to hide it until his actions revealed him to Harry. Lea managed to hide it from Harry, though I have thought some of her actions before she got the Knife hinted at infection even then. Mab was able to stop it in time in her case, but why wasn't she able in the case of Cat Sith or Maeve?
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