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Who is Thomas talking to?
Conspiracy Theorist:
We know Buffy exists in the Dresdenverse, Thomas had a Buffy T-Shirt, Spike as a character exists in the show Buffy in the Dresdenverse, so the actor James Marsters exists in the Dresdenverse. In the Dresdenverse James Marsters fell on hard times after Buffy, with no audio book work to fall back upon (the Dresden Files only exist as Harry’s personal notes in the Dresdenverse) and fell in with a bad crowd such as the Red Court, due to being a bit too method in his approach to William the Bloody, becoming a half vampire leading to his imprisonment in Demonreach, to deal with the thirst. He is unaware the Red Court are all now dead, and he is fully human again.
The British Prisoner is therefore James Marsters doing his Spike accent, and the proof is that in Cold Days, the British Prisoner is voiced by none other than James Marsters. Irrefutable proof!
And not the most absurd theory about the British Prisoner. Perhaps the most fun one though, imagine James Marsters coming across this reveal, it is beautifully meta.
Ed0517:
Oh, if you want to twist it up a little - this is pretzel logic beyond anything Steely Dan came up with....
We know those prisoners can be in for years, centuries... many would die of old age. We don't want that.
But we know time passes at different rates in the NeverNever. Murph got canned for missing work when she came back and found she had missed a day because the nevernever region she was in time ran slower than ours.
So - we want the prisoners to avoid aging. Maybe the cells are really little pocket dimensions, with time disjoint from ours. The crystals are simply the portal windows between the two dimensions. That way the prisoners need not age.
It has been suggested at times the Eebs survived the bloodline curse, as they were being held off-dimension in Faerie by the Erlking. So - maybe being off dimension may let you survive the bloodline curse? Though possibly the Eebs survived the curse to die in the torture chambers of the goblins.
But Marsters, held off dimension, was ALSO isolated in quarantine, safe from the bloodline curse - so if he is freed, he is still a half-vamp - the ONLY one of the Red Court blood - and can become the new Red King....
Conspiracy Theorist:
It’s stasis, there is no physical change such as aging, so Thomas wouldn’t Starve to death. It’s a temporal thing, the body is held in stasis, the mind not. It has been stated parts of an inmate can be released rather than the complete inmate. Most people think Mantle, coin, demon etc, but what if Harry can release the mind or the body separate from each other? We know from Corpsetaker bodyswapping is possible. This may be where Kemmler figures that out.
On that basis Kemmler may have stashed a previous Starborn in the 1800’s whilst he was still working out the Darkhallow. You might just have a wizard Starborn from the previous cycle survive long enough for this to happen, the equivalent of Ancient Mai.
The Never Never is part of the Universe, the curse would have got the EEBs. Red Court Vampires would exist in other Universes so will likely appear in Mirror Mirror together with the Ick, probably harassing Wizards hiding out in Chicago.
Ed0517:
I should think in a true stasis, both mind AND body are frozen - the brain has to work to think - synapses firing, etc.
Now, as for swapping - if I swapped, say, with Paul Mc Cartney, do I get a Liverpool accent when I talk? Is that mental, or muscle memory? Corpsetaker jumped bodies as Luccio was about to kill her ion the duel - could the brit even be Kemmler, swapping in to let the Wardens kill his old body?
Conspiracy Theorist:
One tends to forget Harry possessed Mort temporarily and used Harry’s power set. Corpsetaker retained her powerset from body to body, but Luccio did not. Luccio was forced into the bodyswap, Harry and Corpsetaker were initiators was that the difference?
Harry is a necromancer, it’s part of his power set, he may not like it but he definitely has natural talent in that direction. I doubt Luccio did. Is that the difference? I would suggest it is part of the spirit element of any natural necromancers power set, Harry is not only strong in Fire, but strong in Spirit, that strength allows him to summon the powerful and bind them, and means he can carry over his full power set on a possession/bodyswap. The same parts of his powerset which makes him a necromancer make him a good Warden.
If so, then Kemmler would have been in a similar position, and being an evil genius would know this. He would definitely have experimented with the set up at Demonreach to see what he could acheive seeing what parts of an inmate he can release and retain, leading to what Corpsetaker was able to do.
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