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Anyone Else Surprised or Disappointed That Harry
Mira:
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on October 12, 2020, 11:59:13 AM ---that would mean it's decided by who has the final say, Ivy or the archive? If Ivy didn't have some pull, then she wouldn't be mortal still and offering her a coin was a particularly useless plan.
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I think it is a bit more complicated. According to Luccio, it is unusual for the host to inherit the Archive so early in life, poor Ivy it has been a domino effect really. First her grandmother dies in an auto accident, the Archive goes to the seventeen year old daughter, who is pregnant and in love. Because she wanted the freedom to live a "normal life," she hated her mother for dying and putting this on her and hated her unborn daughter for a future of having a "normal life," while she has a lifetime of being the Archive, so she killed herself.
So yes, when the Denarians kidnapped her, Ivy was vulnerable, or seemed that way to accepting a coin in the hopes that it might insure she had a "normal life." However except for some flashes of childlike behavior, the Archive has run the show more than Ivy has. Ivy has no clue of what a normal life is, because she never had one. So yeah, the bottom line, is the Archive was running the show and offering a coin was a pretty useless plan.
The_Sibelis:
I'd rather disagree with most of those statements.
Mira:
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on October 12, 2020, 01:20:24 PM ---I'd rather disagree with most of those statements.
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First of all, Ivy is a mortal, all the Archive hosts are mortal women, they all die eventually. Most live for many years before that happens and their daughters live normal vanilla lives until that day when they inherit the Archive. The hosts become Spocklike for lack of a better term to remain sane, because if they didn't, their emotional selves would be at constant war with their Archive self that deals strictly in the facts, not the emotions. Ivy's mother had a small window to make her emotional decision, suicide rather than submit to an unemotional life as the Archive.
The_Sibelis:
And I still by and large disagree with most of your original statements.
Mira:
--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on October 12, 2020, 01:39:41 PM ---And I still by and large disagree with most of your original statements.
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So what do you disagree with? And what are your ideas.
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