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Who really killed ... BG spoilers!!!!
morriswalters:
It doesn't fit with my understanding of human behavior. YMMV. In Blood Rites when Harry learns that Raith killed his mother, Eb has to hurt his burned hand to stop his blind rage. The rage in BG is almost a note for note recreation of the event in Blood Rites.
--- Quote ---Harry," Ebenezar snapped. "Harry, let go. You can't handle that kind of power. You'll kill yourself if you try."
I didn't care about that, either. The power felt too good—too strong. I wanted it. I wanted Raith to pay. I wanted him to suffer, screaming, and then die for what he had done to me. And I was strong enough to make it happen. I had the power and the resolve to bring such a tide of magic against him that he would be utterly destroyed. I would lay him low and make him howl for mercy before I tore him apart. He deserved nothing less.
And then fire blossomed in my hand again, so sudden and sharp that my back convulsed into an agonized arch, and I fell to the floor. I couldn't scream. The pain washed my fury away like dandelions before a flash flood. I looked around wildly and saw the old man's broad, calloused hand clamped down over my burned, lightly bandaged flesh with bruising strength. When he saw my eyes he released my hand, his expression sickened.
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I assumed on first read that it was the mantle but it doesn't read like the other instances.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on October 14, 2020, 04:31:37 PM ---It doesn't fit with my understanding of human behavior. YMMV. In Blood Rites when Harry learns that Raith killed his mother, Eb has to hurt his burned hand to stop his blind rage. The rage in BG is almost a note for note recreation of the event in Blood Rites.I assumed on first read that it was the mantle but it doesn't read like the other instances.
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It is call a HUMAN REACTION!! Michael, in the Warrior was on tract to beat Father Douglas to death with a baseball bat for kidnapping his daughter. He went berserk, yes, saintly Michael went nuts when he found out and proceeded to do serious harm to the man who did it. Harry stopped him and when he came back to his senses Michael thanked him for stopping him. This is what happened in Battle Ground, Harry just witnessed the woman he loved get blown away, not in an honorable fight with the enemy, but because some crazed idiot with a gun couldn't contain himself. Harry lost it, when wizard lose it,it can be very very bad, it finally took a nice burn from the Sword of Faith to bring him back to his senses, he was deeply ashamed, both Butters and Sanya understood what had happened and forgave him. Heck how would you react if you found out your mother was murdered? And it was someone you actually knew? Don't ya think you might get just a bit emotional about it?
That is what scared Harry so about Eb, when Eb killed his double. As I said, it is very bad for everyone when wizards lose it... The Blackstaff is never supposed to lose it, ever... Eb did.
morriswalters:
You seem to believe that anything Harry does is okay. And I'm okay with it being that way for you. But not so for me.
As a character I understand the rage, but it's the underlying calculation that would scare any reasonable person. I'm trying to understand why Jim wrote it this way, not arguing that Harry should eat electrons on death row.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on October 14, 2020, 08:35:52 PM ---You seem to believe that anything Harry does is okay. And I'm okay with it being that way for you. But not so for me.
As a character I understand the rage, but it's the underlying calculation that would scare any reasonable person. I'm trying to understand why Jim wrote it this way, not arguing that Harry should eat electrons on death row.
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Because he wants Harry to have flaws people can identify with. Of course an emotional person who looses control is terrifying.
BrainFireBob:
Harry is exhausted, in extreme emotional distress, and hurting badly.
His free will is compromised by the Winter Mantle at that point.
His actions and thought processes are the exact "embrace Winter" that Mab discusses.
The angel intervened just the right amount to allow Harry to make a choice about what he did to Rudolph in spite of supernatural pressure to go full-on vengeance mode.
That cold calculation is Winter.
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