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What does this mean?
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 13, 2021, 04:08:46 PM ---Just for the record Mira, my wife is alive and bearing up well.
The symbology in the story is pretty obvious. Harry said he and his spawn would watch the world burn and roast marshmallows. This is Harry the sociopath, prepared to do anything to preserve his child. Make any bargain, commit any act, break any promise. I was just curious if there were anything else to be taken from this.
@groinkick
I don't remember any special thing about the Reds and children.
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Glad of that Morris, so shocking to see "wife murdered before my eyes," I missed the "if" part.
Harry isn't a sociopath..
The definition of sociopath according to Websters;
--- Quote ---a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.
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Lord knows Harry has lots of problems but lack of a conscience isn't one of them. Willing to do anything to save his child doesn't make him one. I think most parents would answer in much the same way.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 13, 2021, 04:08:46 PM ---Just for the record Mira, my wife is alive and bearing up well.
The symbology in the story is pretty obvious. Harry said he and his spawn would watch the world burn and roast marshmallows. This is Harry the sociopath, prepared to do anything to preserve his child. Make any bargain, commit any act, break any promise. I was just curious if there were anything else to be taken from this.
@groinkick
I don't remember any special thing about the Reds and children.
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A sociopath would not go to such lengths to save his daughter. A sociopath would not break his back to save an old lady either. Harry is just a bag of conflicting emotions like most people.
morriswalters:
I'm pretty comfortable with having used that term. When he's angry he lacks empathy or restraint. Jim hit you over the head with that in Battle Ground in the passage where Harry see's what Rudolph see's.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 13, 2021, 09:57:04 PM ---I'm pretty comfortable with having used that term. When he's angry he lacks empathy or restraint. Jim hit you over the head with that in Battle Ground in the passage where Harry see's what Rudolph see's.
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But his lack of empathy isn't consistent nor is his lack of restraint.. He has a temper, when one is pissed it is hard to feel empathy or be restrained, that doesn't make him a sociopath.. In Battle Ground he also feels immediate regret for going after Rudolph and for hurting Sanya and Butters in the process, a sociopath wouldn't feel regret, nor would he care about the pain the people of Chicago are feeling or try to do something about that. Jim also made that quite clear.
And as Arjan points out...
--- Quote ---A sociopath would not go to such lengths to save his daughter. A sociopath would not break his back to save an old lady either. Harry is just a bag of conflicting emotions like most people.
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Marcone is closer to what a sociopath is, that is what Harry saw back in their soul gaze and it frightened him.
morriswalters:
If not something like this, what is it that you think the destroyer will do? And why are people so afraid of the thing? Why does Jim keep writing these freakouts, where the only way to stop Harry is to hurt him? He did this as early as Grave Peril. Had Lea not been there the three of them would have died.
--- Quote ---The fury in me grew. It swelled and burned and I reached out to the fires again. Flames flew out, caught one of the more cowardly of the vampires, huddled at the back, scrabbling to slip his flesh mask back over his squashed bat face. The fire touched him and then twined about him, searing and blackening his skin, then dragging him back, winding and rolling him toward the blaze.
The magic danced in my eyes, my head, my chest, flying wild and out of control. I couldn’t follow everything that happened. More vampires got too close to the flames, and began screaming. Tendrils of fire rose up from the ground and began to slither over the courtyard like serpents. Everything exploded into motion, shadows flashing through the brightness, seeking escape, screaming.
I felt my heart clench in my chest and stop beating. I swayed on my feet, gasping. Michael got to me, Lydia slung over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry. He’d torn his cloak off, and it lay to one side, burning. He dragged my arm across his shoulder, and half carried me down the stairs.
Smoke gathered on us, thick and choking. I coughed and retched, helpless. The magic coursed through me, slower now, a trickle—not because the floodgates had closed, but because I had nothing left to pour out. I hurt. Fire spread out from my heart, my arms and legs clenching and twitching. I couldn’t get a breath, couldn’t think, and I knew, somewhere amidst all that pain, that I was about to die.
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