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Is Murphy truly dead
Conspiracy Theorist:
Gard acted as if she were bereaved, and she would know. For all we know she might have been contemplating a future, a family with Hendricks, and that is now gone.
TrueMonk:
To be fair we do not know what the contract with Marcone says. It could be anything between they will do whatever you want and monster killing only. I do not think the latter is all that unlikely.
One statement that could be relevant to the discussion is that Gard (or the other Valkyrie?) At one point stated that Einherjaren so not make good lovers. I wonder why that is?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: TrueMonk on November 13, 2021, 06:07:52 PM ---To be fair we do not know what the contract with Marcone says. It could be anything between they will do whatever you want and monster killing only. I do not think the latter is all that unlikely.
One statement that could be relevant to the discussion is that Gard (or the other Valkyrie?) At one point stated that Einherjaren so not make good lovers. I wonder why that is?
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Prejudice :) modern men are so much better.
But apparently everything still functions which tells you Odin did a good job.
Conspiracy Theorist:
And yet Gard was deeply in love with Hendricks who conformed to the physical stereotype of Einenjhar to a tee. He had even grown a beard in PT/BG.
This would suggest it is something about Hendrick’s character which differentiated him from the Einenjhar, in an anti-theistic all manner. It wasn’t his attitude to battle, Hendricks was an enthusiastic and accomplished warrior. This leaves his attitude to the fairer sex as the likely point of divergence, and attraction to Gard. From this I believe we can deduce Nathan Hendricks was a feminist.
He was known to admonish with reproving looks Marcone, and this must have been occasions when Marcone referred or treated women in the outfit in a poor or discriminatory fashion compared to their Male co-workers.
Now we know what his thesis probably was. “Feminism and It’s Role in Organised Criminal Undertakings In the United States Of America in the 21st Century”. Ms Demeter was likely his prime case study. Gard may have been another. Lara would have been a third. You can therefore see the attraction for Hendricks with Gard, a strong, supremely competent woman, his physical and intellectual equal and someone with whom he was not afraid to share his emotional life with. Gard knew Hendricks hated the name Nathan but kept it for his mothers sake.
Valhalla therefore doesn’t have one but two feminists amongst its denizens.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Arjan on November 13, 2021, 04:27:47 PM ---Soul is the essence of who someone is. As long as you have your soul you are yourself. Walhalla is a genuine afterlife so the people in there are the same people. Makes no sense otherwise, it would not be an afterlife.
And souls would have no use.
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You are you only so long as you have the people who are part of you in your life. When you're 100 and everybody you know is dead who are you then? It's a morbid thought but it is what it is. Remember those Ghosts in Ghost Story that couldn't remember who and what they were. They may not have been souls but they are much what I imagine souls could become watching everyone they ever knew die.
In terms of the story it allows Jim to cheat. That's now three people Jim has stashed against some story idea that might need them. So Murphy will remain dead only so long as the story doesn't demand her.
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