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Butters *battle grounds*
Mira:
--- Quote from: StrayDog on October 15, 2020, 04:19:51 PM ---Yes, I too would rather have seen Butters remain the nerd who makes the most of Bob's and his intelligence to fight along with the Alphas. Really don't care if he's in a relationship with one, two, or the whole pack just don't like the lightsaber super Jedi bit. From a different threat: Murph would still be alive, would be a KotC, could be gone plenty on assignments, etc but still brought back into the series whenever JB wants.
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Except being a KotC didn't fit her personality, has nothing to do with whether or not she was a good woman, a good warrior, but her beliefs just didn't fit.. Nor did she enjoy the angel taking over as it did in Changes. Once Jim took her off the police force I think he had a hard time finding the proper fit.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Arjan on October 15, 2020, 03:07:55 PM ---But she is on Harry's side and that counts for something. Her nature might create problems but it also makes her not to lie about that. And finding a way around such problems is what the Sidhe do.
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I agree with that. Also, there is a WoJ about how you are what you eat and how, basically, how fairy food is not food for humans. Priscellie asked him if even about Molly, and what she have been eating and JB told her that Molly is too clever for that (Or something around those lines, I am quoting of memory). I think that is why Molly had not been eating much (in PT she mentions that she had not food in more than a day and Harry speak about how skinny she is, but with faeries that may not meant too much). I think she is trying to eat human food mostly.
About Butters, I think the Sword is precisely "something nerdy". It's a lightsaber, for Luke's sake.
StrayDog:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 15, 2020, 06:06:45 PM ---Except being a KotC didn't fit her personality, has nothing to do with whether or not she was a good woman, a good warrior, but her beliefs just didn't fit.. Nor did she enjoy the angel taking over as it did in Changes. Once Jim took her off the police force I think he had a hard time finding the proper fit.
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Quite frankly, Murphs personality is anything JB wants to write it as. He is far and away talented enough to write that defining moment Murph reconciles with her past. Talented enough to have Murph lunge for the sword too, just be able to knock it closer to Michael's yard where Butters can get it or maybe even JUST far enough to be safe. As a result Nic gets hold of Murph and busts her up. In the next book he could write Murph using rehab exercises, maybe even like Michaels, to recover. Somewhere along the line is the defining moment where she realizes she wants to pick up the sword again. This is all within the author's prevue.
Mira:
--- Quote from: StrayDog on October 16, 2020, 12:37:59 AM ---Quite frankly, Murphs personality is anything JB wants to write it as. He is far and away talented enough to write that defining moment Murph reconciles with her past. Talented enough to have Murph lunge for the sword too, just be able to knock it closer to Michael's yard where Butters can get it or maybe even JUST far enough to be safe. As a result Nic gets hold of Murph and busts her up. In the next book he could write Murph using rehab exercises, maybe even like Michaels, to recover. Somewhere along the line is the defining moment where she realizes she wants to pick up the sword again. This is all within the author's prevue.
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Yes, her personality could be anything that Jim wanted to be. And the one in the books is the personality he wanted for her. And I also think, as much as it hurts to lose her, that as a reader
you wouldn't want it any different either if you think about it. If he had her do as you suggest, the qualities that made her Murphy would change, and you'd still lose her.
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: StrayDog on October 15, 2020, 01:43:52 PM ---There is also the question of just how human she still is. She may already be more like Mab then Molly now and Harry seems to be taking her loyalty for granted, Red Cap's reaction on the rooftop. Could be JB setting the stage for a nasty shock.
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She's changing but I still have faith in that Cold Case description.
--- Quote ---I really enjoyed writing, in the previous tale, from Molly’s viewpoint at one of the lowest points of her life. I wanted to keep following her personal story after the events of Ghost Story, where she faces an uncertain future but is beginning to rebuild who she is and what she wants out of her life. Molly has always had issues with her mother—and now, as the new Winter Lady of the Unseelie Court, she has found herself faced with one of the more terrifying mother figures imaginable in Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. I wanted to get a look at that interplay, but I had to write the story to do it.
I also wanted to get a little bit more into the actual role of the Winter Lady in the circles of power that are the Faerie Courts, and why her role is so important, and why it was so distressing that Maeve had been shirking her duties for such a long time.
And finally, I wanted to show more of Molly, who has been through so much and learned such bitter lessons—and to demonstrate why it might just be possible that Mab may have bitten off more than she could chew in the inestimable Miss Carpenter.
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