The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
[BG spoilers] A defense and requiem for my favorite character . . .
Wicked Woodpecker of West:
WOJ about soulgazes:
--- Quote ---Ah, but is it a process of pressure and change, or is it a process of polish and refinement? One could argue that the events that “changed” you in actuality only revealed a truer facet of your soul than had previously been perceiveable–that those events only changed you inasmuch as a rough diamond is changed by a master jeweler’s tools. The diamond doesn’t become an emerald–it just becomes a more beautiful and quinessential diamond.
(Just Devil’s Advocating here, for the most part, and throwing that thought out.)
In any case, it may just be possible for a person to change enough for a soulgaze to reveal something else–but it would have to be an utterly incredible kind of change. Something along the lines of the billionaire executive who, after a near-death experience, gives all his worldly goods to charity, leaves home in his pajamas, and takes up a life of underwater basket-weaving and meditation. And even that seems a little mild to me, thinking of it.
Anyway, it’d take a truly epic change of heart and mind–to the point where you would practically *be* a whole different person, and not just a person who happens to be you with a lot more life experience to inform his outlook.
(And, in fact, there’s all sorts of theories about people who this happens to after a near-death experience, regarding “walk-in” souls who come and inhabit a person near death, changing them and becoming a kind of inner Yoda to the “native” soul.)
All of the above, of course, is more or less a discussion of angels dancing on the heads of pins, but it’s fun.
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Dina:
About the fateful moment, a reddit user mentioned this
In Changes, cap 34 there is a whole scene where they spoke about terrorists, as in, "ok, no vampires but terrorists" and all that jazz, but there is also an interesting foreshadowing.
Rudolph says "They aren't paying you any more slack, bitch. You are gone." and then Harry thinks
"Something dark and ugly stirred in my chest, and the sudden image of Rudolph pinned to the wall by a ton of cristalline ice popped into my brain."
Not only foreshadowing but...could it be a wizard premonition?
forumghost:
Nah, I think he was just feeling the begining of the Winter Knight's Mantle affecting his hindbrain and making him fantasize about turning him into Rudolph the brown nosed popsicle for trash talking his lady friend.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on November 20, 2020, 10:38:55 PM ---About the fateful moment, a reddit user mentioned this
In Changes, cap 34 there is a whole scene where they spoke about terrorists, as in, "ok, no vampires but terrorists" and all that jazz, but there is also an interesting foreshadowing.
Rudolph says "They aren't paying you any more slack, bitch. You are gone." and then Harry thinks
"Something dark and ugly stirred in my chest, and the sudden image of Rudolph pinned to the wall by a ton of cristalline ice popped into my brain."
Not only foreshadowing but...could it be a wizard premonition?
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Possible, or just speaks to what a jerk Rudolph is.
kat7:
--- Quote from: Dina on November 16, 2020, 05:19:44 PM ---Seriously, perhaps in MM, Harry can soulgaze Murph?
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I share this wish fervently (in MM or whenever)! I'm not the kind of reader who tends to theorize/look ahead (hence, absentee forum member), but I've definitely imagined the Harry-Murphy soulgaze.
I've always thought it might be more profound/interactive than a "default" soulgaze, since they know each other so well as it is. Actually my pet idea (hidden so it's elective reading) is: (click to show/hide)Murphy sees younger Harry (scared kid having lost his father), who in turn sees younger Murphy (already toughening up after the same trauma). She comforts him, which is profoundly healing, if awkwardly raw for both of them . . . then blinks and observes "hey, I'm taller than you."
Anyway, it's nice to not feel alone in mourning Murphy. :)
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