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Battle Ground spoilers: Harry’s pairing. What do you think?
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on October 01, 2020, 06:34:49 PM ---She needed to feed at the end of PT. Badly.
And if it comes to it, a White Court vamp can probably recklessly pop an ampethamine or thirty and not worry about health risks.
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That's my point. At the end of PT, she was exhausted and needed to eat. She was on the boat with three humans, none of whom she seemed to have fed on by the start of BG, where she's suddenly got enough power to wrestle krakens single-handedly. What the what?
BrainFireBob:
Freydis was little help with the kraken, comparatively. As an immortal, she'd have a lot of juju.
EDIT: Also, she was healing slowly- for her- from the pucker marks. She had time to dress and they were still there. So her tank was still on the low side.
Rigil Kent:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on October 01, 2020, 06:26:44 PM ---One thing I came away from PT thinking was that Butcher had changed his tune on Lara. He seemed to be going out of his way to make her more appealing to Harry, as well as make her his equal in some respects. I was baffled at how weak she was at the end of PT, and now I'm baffled that she was that strong at the start of BG after being that weak at the end of PT. I mean, I think her power levels in BG were appropriate, but still...
Anyway, she seems to be genuinely Interested in Harry. I wouldn't call it True Love or anything like that, but I think she respects him and his power and she likes the way he looks. But I'm not sure Lara even asked Mab to date Harry. She might not have been thinking of Harry at all. Mab said Lara "desired a binding alliance with Winter." Lara is modern-thinking enough to not necessarily think that a marriage is the way to accomplish that. And it wouldn't surprise me if we end up seeing her express that in a later book, where she admits that she's not opposed to the idea out of hand, but that it wasn't her intention. It'd go a long ways to making Harry more accepting of her role in the arrangement.
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I noticed that as well and wondered if he'd changed his mind or if maybe the Mantle was altering Harry's perceptions slightly so she didn't quite come across as big of a monster or if she was actively trying to alter his perceptions (predicated on the latter revelation that she's trying to ally with Winter.)
Hmm. I know Carlos has soul-gazed Lara but I don't think Harry has. I could see him making that a requirement of the marriage so he knows how big of a monster she actually is...
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Rigil Kent on October 01, 2020, 06:49:31 PM ---I noticed that as well and wondered if he'd changed his mind or if maybe the Mantle was altering Harry's perceptions slightly so she didn't quite come across as big of a monster or if she was actively trying to alter his perceptions (predicated on the latter revelation that she's trying to ally with Winter.)
Hmm. I know Carlos has soul-gazed Lara but I don't think Harry has. I could see him making that a requirement of the marriage so he knows how big of a monster she actually is...
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True. I could also see Harry's perception of her changing because she's just flat-out not as scary as she once was. He was a human who was susceptible to her power before. Now, with the mantle and the threat of Mab's offense, Lara just isn't going to risk whammying him, so he's unconsciously letting his guard down around her.
BrainFireBob:
He used to fear and respect her.
Now he just respects her.
I think it's less a matter of him becoming comfortable with her- Eb's fear- and more a matter of compared to monsters like Mab, she's pretty human- and he's becoming a bit monstrous himself.
I also think she's been backing off on the seduction mojo with him because it didn't work and he's gotten dangerous (if the Winter Knight gets too excited, the result might be violence). Which has been letting him see the pretty girl with the bold and clever plans more, which is absolutely one of his turn-ons.
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