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Harry's Soul

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groinkick:
Here is how I could imagine the soul gaze.

You're walking on a road, on one side you see all the people Harry has ever loved.  On the other you see his enemies.  You reach a fork in the road.  At the center of the fork you see Harry Dresden, up to his waste in ice, trying to keep it from going further, struggling as a beautiful seductress, covered in ice is trying to tempt him.  Down one fork in the road you see Harry Dresden fighting to protect people, and down the other you see him destroying the world.

The_Sibelis:
I think.., he's the Boogeyman of Boogeymen. He who casts the shadows between light and darkness. I also think he resembles HWWB alot. When he's going after Rudolph for instance. Think he was only stopped cause he was in the wrong. But hatred has always been his motivation to fight the monsters. From the very first time he's forced into it watching the clerk die, to when he outright says he hates them later when they take Susan.(iirc when that scene is) he has his balances to that, sure. Those things that temper his hatred. But it's his drive. When things are wrong and he had the power to set it right. He does.

Con:
Very vivid details.

One thing to consider is that Harry was walking around in his soul during Ghost Story, I forget what it was but there was one thing signature to his usual outfit that didn't appear with him in the afterlife.

I think it was his mums gem inside the star symbol of magic?

But everything else was with him suggesting they're crucial to at least how he see's himself.

As for the others the most detailed Soul Gazes were:
Molly and the Cathedral Panels I like this artists rendition: https://www.deviantart.com/guad/art/Dresden-Files-Molly-s-Choices-115420007

Marcone the Tigers soul who views killing like a signature.

Thomas and his demon.

Then Michael, Ebenezar and Morgan which are mentioned in passing.

Susan fainted as well but also fell in love with him.

As for Third Sight. There's the Three Eye Junkie and The FBI Werewolf.

BrainFireBob:

--- Quote from: Mira on July 12, 2021, 03:54:01 PM ---I doubt that he is damned, if he were, Uriel along with the Holy Knights wouldn't help him like they do.  No, I think that that is why Margaret selected Malcolm or wouldn't conceive a star born until she met Malcolm.  It is the influence of Malcolm that prevents Harry from being damned.

--- End quote ---

Mira, there's damned in your own eyes and damned objectively. There's something more terrifying in "I'll take you to hell personally, I'm going there anyway- nothing to lose I haven't lost already" than "Prepare to die."

Mira:

--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on July 13, 2021, 03:11:01 PM ---Mira, there's damned in your own eyes and damned objectively. There's something more terrifying in "I'll take you to hell personally, I'm going there anyway- nothing to lose I haven't lost already" than "Prepare to die."

--- End quote ---

Perhaps it is a poor choice of words on your part?  Especially considering many of the characters in the series and lessons from it, "damned" has literal meaning.  Harry may well be "damned" as you put it to walk a lonely difficult path, but that doesn't damn him..  Perhaps destined would be a better word?  Personally I think what people see is Harry as a tool, while the Knights wield Holy Swords, Harry isa Sword..  I think both sides want to wield him to their own advantage. That is where that Harry as destroyer metaphor comes in..

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