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Wedding day ideas
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on September 27, 2021, 01:10:18 AM ---I'm not entirely sure about that.
* The White Council could boycott because Harry is persona-non-grata (and his two closest relationships are seriously pissed about him being friendly with Lara).
* The Svartalves are likely still not pleased about the assassination attempt and subsequent kidnapping of the attacker, by the two people getting married no less.
* The ghouls don't like Harry any more than he likes them.
* The Denarians seem to be out after their SmF betrayal, and they wouldn't show anyway after Harry's involvement with Deirdre's death and Nico's loss of standing.
* I don't see the Erlking caring for such things. I imagine he shows up only for what he has to.
* Same for Ferrovax.
* Marcone will show up even though he wouldn't want to. He can't let an event like that happen in his town without being a part. Especially if he wants to make sure he doesn't start getting cut out now that Mab knows about the coin.
So I think it'll be Winter/White/Summer Courts, plus River and maybe Vadderung if he's got nothing better to do, and Marcone out of necessity.
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As I see it, this wedding; meaning the alliance between between Winter and the White Court, is Mab's idea and therefore it would be her party, even if Molly or Lea handled the planning in conjunction with input from Lara Raith. Therefore, it would be Mab who would decide which major powers would be on the invite list. So, the question to ask is not whether the White Council, Ghouls or Swartalves would want to attend, but whether Mab would invite them to send a representative.
Should Mab decide to make a very public statement by inviting all the major powers in the anti-Fomor alliance to send representatives to the wedding; and I think there is a fair possibility this would occur, would the White Council, Ghouls or Swartalves decide to snub Mab's invitation? I don't think so.
One possible problem I foresee with this hypothetical wedding is this gathering might look a little like a combination of Bianca's Ball, Harry's birthday party in Cold Days and the get together of the major powers near the beginning of Peace Talks. I would expect lots of creepy manipulation and everyone would stare daggers at each other, but haven't we already seen that kind of thing before, and fairly recently? Maybe we could get what I wanted to see happen in Peace Talks. Some major player from one of the supernatural nations is murdered and Harry has to solve the crime to save the alliance and his own skin. It would be nice to see Harry get to be a detective again.
Second Aristh:
Ferro was willing to show up to Bianca's ball. I think Harry's wedding is a bigger deal than that, tbh. It may be an either/or thing between him and Vadderung, though.
As far as people to expect to show up, I'm expecting most supernatural nations to get an invite to send representatives. It is good to shore up Accords relations if nothing else.
Something like the following seems reasonable to me:
* Summer - Sarissa and Fix, possibly Eldest Gruff
* Winter - Mab, Molly, and retainers
* White Court - all the living named characters here except maybe Thomas
* White Council - token pair of senior councilors (say Listens to Wind and Ancient Mai with TC's nameless wardens. Nobody that's gonna be too friendly to Harry)
* Archive
* Marcone/Gard and possibly the new Hendricks (Childs perhaps?)
* Svartalves - Etri and his sister
* Vadderung or Ferro, but probably not bothProbably a good portion of that is wrong, but I could see any of those choices actually showing up.
For Twelve Months, it's going to be a different kind of book. Instead of Harry's worst weekend, it's going to be stretched over the course of an entire year. That means that Harry gets time to rest between episodes of interest. I think that might make it hard to keep up a usual murder mystery plot. The usual time pressure is going to be off, anyway. Stepping back and having a less combat focused book would be good after BG, too.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on September 27, 2021, 03:19:20 AM ---As I see it, this wedding; meaning the alliance between between Winter and the White Court, is Mab's idea and therefore it would be her party, even if Molly or Lea handled the planning in conjunction with input from Lara Raith. Therefore, it would be Mab who would decide which major powers would be on the invite list. So, the question to ask is not whether the White Council, Ghouls or Swartalves would want to attend, but whether Mab would invite them to send a representative.
Should Mab decide to make a very public statement by inviting all the major powers in the anti-Fomor alliance to send representatives to the wedding; and I think there is a fair possibility this would occur, would the White Council, Ghouls or Swartalves decide to snub Mab's invitation? I don't think so.
One possible problem I foresee with this hypothetical wedding is this gathering might look a little like a combination of Bianca's Ball, Harry's birthday party in Cold Days and the get together of the major powers near the beginning of Peace Talks. I would expect lots of creepy manipulation and everyone would stare daggers at each other, but haven't we already seen that kind of thing before, and fairly recently? Maybe we could get what I wanted to see happen in Peace Talks. Some major player from one of the supernatural nations is murdered and Harry has to solve the crime to save the alliance and his own skin. It would be nice to see Harry get to be a detective again.
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Mab is smart enough to know that an alliance between the (now) most powerful vampire court and Winter, starring a wizard that has pissed off the White Council and the Svartalves and the Baron of Chicago, is not going to be popular.
I don't think she's going to go out of her way to antagonize anyone. I think the existence of the alliance will be enough. And honestly, I'm not even sure she'll attend. I could easily see her letting Lea attend her godson's wedding, which would mean she'd be at the Gates.
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 26, 2021, 06:26:09 PM ---Groomsmen would be Thomas Raith, Butters and Sanya (prefiguring Thomas for the Sword). Precisely to make the other guests nervous.
Michael Carpenter organises the Stag Do. Everyone is in bed (the correct bed) by 8:00 pm, and sober with the only tassels they have seen on the cushions in the tea shop Michael hired for the event.
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Yeah, when I put Michael up for best Man I forgot it would be the worst stag party ever.... though I don't see tea shop. Michael would have everyone over to his backyard for a cookout. Burgers and beer. And remind anyone who may think of having too many - there are angels ON THE ROOF watching you....
Ed0517:
Does anyone think Eb doesn't show? He will bitch and moan, and then tell Langtry he's going. Period. Uses the "He lived with me for 2 years" excuse.
You know, i could see Archleone as smug enough to show....
Mac get an invite?
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