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[BG spoilers] A defense and requiem for my favorite character . . .
Wicked Woodpecker of West:
--- Quote ---I really hoped that Murphy would die by a freshly killed Jotun falling on her rather than something like death by Rudy, once it became apparent she had been marked for death.
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I think I remember you making such "prophecies" when youtube trailer appeared.
"Totally worth it" - huh?
Mira:
--- Quote ---I mean there were interesting dark way to explore such characters, but ulimately Jim is well not that dark of a writer. He'll rather kill a character, than push it really into darkness, unless it's straight up villain. I think in a way it's simmilar with Thomas who also was sort of killed in Battle Ground. I mean we get really dark in quite gutwrenching way with him in Turn Coat, but it basically passed in a next book when he was needed for team!Dresden this darkness was basically gone, then we get solving his true love by more powerful force of threesomes, and in book 14 he's ally again. (Sure it ended with Justine's nemfection but that fabular aspect - not character development).
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I totally agree as to the end of Turn Coat, we suddenly have Thomas after the rinse and repeat, torture by the Skinwalker, then feeding and killing of countless young women, now enjoying it. He says that Lara was right, humans are kine, he asks the Harry the very dark question as to what does he see when he sees a person? Paraphrasing most of it, but Harry says a person, Thomas says he sees merely a food source. The next time we see Thomas in Changes I believe, it was like none of that ever happened. It would have been more interesting to see Harry coming to grips with that, which he hadn't as of the end of Turn Coat, verses Thomas back to his old self. Who knows? Maybe a Neminfection had something to do with Thomas's seeming recovery? If Thomas was a total predator, I doubt he could have gotten as far as he did with Evanna without being suspect.
Wicked Woodpecker of West:
If Thomas was Nemfected and did it as part of a plan, but was hurt too much and was not able to use his Awesome Walker Powers before getting stuck in coffin, I'd way way prefer it.
Basically rather than one Justine make it live five people influenced by bilocating Walker - making this Xanatos Gambit more believable.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Wicked Woodpecker of West on November 09, 2020, 07:34:24 PM ---If Thomas was Nemfected and did it as part of a plan, but was hurt too much and was not able to use his Awesome Walker Powers before getting stuck in coffin, I'd way way prefer it.
Basically rather than one Justine make it live five people influenced by bilocating Walker - making this Xanatos Gambit more believable.
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If he is. Harry never caught on,nor apparently Alfred when Harry put Thomas away in a cell. Then again, if this is true,it meshes perfectly with Harry's fears of would have happened if he hadn't caught on to the fact that Justine was infected/possessed by HWWBs. It could have been very bad if infected Justine was inside the defense shield and awakens Thomas also infected. So the idea of an infected Thomas seems far fetched, yet again, at the end of Turn Coat, Thomas says,"I killed them, over and over, and I loved how it felt." He also tells Harry that he isn't going to turn into some rampaging serial killer, because that is stupid, he'd get caught. However that doesn't change how he feels, so what was the miracle cure between Turn Coat and Changes? Just Justine and true love? Or was something else going on?
Wicked Woodpecker of West:
Well in theory change happened between Changes and Cold Days, and what sort of ripped Thomas out of whampire life was Dresden's death.
In "Changes" he is theoretically on bad guy side still, he even is bit selfish and goes full to Dresden help after he realises he is threatened by curse as well.
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