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Something Occured to Me as to Why the Senior Council is so Afraid of Harry
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on February 01, 2021, 04:44:32 AM ---In the earliest sources berserkers just seem to be the champions and bodyguards of kings, later witters ran away with it to start with early medieval christian writers. Jim has a lot of freedom to interpret what berserkers are in his universe.
From what I have read in Icelandic sagas such behavior would not be just accepted and without consequences and it was never described as ok.
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I wouldn't call what happened with Harry the same as a berserker though. He did go berserk, but there was a reason for it, his grief on top of the extreme stress he had been under. No one is saying hurting his friends who were trying to stop him from killing Rudolph was okay, least of all Harry. Saying it was understandable isn't the same as saying it was okay.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 01, 2021, 02:07:31 AM ---You should link, I get confused by all the Gardens.One of these I think.
“Christmas Eve”
“Mike”
“Journal”
“Goodbye”
“Job Placement”
“Everything the Light Touches”
“The Good People”
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So according to Morgan he wasn't sure if Dresden had been molded into a "creature" of Nemesis... I remember Eb calling Drakul "The Creature"...... Both are Starborns, and apparently this "creature" is a Destroyer..... Interesting... Me wonders if Elaine who may also be a Starborn will turn out to be this Destroyer.
morriswalters:
This is my last post on this topic.
--- Quote ---Where she had lain, there was a symbol scorched into the crates as if by a white-hot stylus. Three triangles, interlocking. The valknut. The knot of the fallen warriors. Symbol of Odin. I stared at the empty crates. Her blood was still on them, drying black. Something dark began to stir, down deep. Something angry.
“Nothing has changed,” said a soft, slightly slurred voice behind me. “She’s gone. She isn’t coming back.” I turned and found Miss Gard sitting on a pile of crates. There was a bottle of whiskey in her hand. There were four empties at her feet. She looked like she’d been through almost as much as I had. I closed my eyes for a second. I was bone tired. I felt the rage down there.
Butcher, Jim. Battle Ground (Dresden Files) (pp. 364-365). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Obviously the anger and rage didn't disappear into the abyss. That's how it works. It's always there waiting for it's time in the sunlight. Anyway.
BrainFireBob:
I disagree, morris, with the blank slate assessment.
It is possible that Harry is a fine thrall laid over a weapon- or that the weapon is a fine thrall slumbering inside of Harry. It would use the Chekov's gun on fine thralls.
But I rather lean towards the whole choice side of the series being that Justin may have intended to forge a weapon, but Harry's nature was resistant- so what resulted is someone with high endurance for slugfests, high pain tolerance, and an absolute knowledge/lack of hesitation to "go for the throat" if needed- but not a berserker.
Harry does have pretty classic PTSD after Susan/what the Red Court did to him.
I think it's either a rhetorical device- see how far he's been pushed!?- for tension, or an excuse for the whole Darth Harry/Mirror Mirror universe. It also maybe will come up as why he has Soulfire/is employed/an agent of an archangel- even if that archangel is the archangel of vengeance. He keeps making the same choice to not become warped.
forumghost:
It's also important to point out that Harry does suffer the side effects of Black Magic abuse from killing Justin, so he has the same problems with trying not to Backslide that Molly does- except instead of "Just a little bit of mind bending couldn't hurt" it's "Kill it with Fire and Righteous Anger".
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