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Lara and Harry
Lord Kinbote:
Do we know whether Lara is able to feed off of Harry? She surely could BEFORE he became the Winter Knight, but can Harry's mantle counter the efforts of Lara's demon? I don't recall in any book or short story any feeding interaction between WK Harry and a White Court vampire.
How fun would the dynamic be if Lara can't feed or otherwise influence Harry due to the WK mantle? Answer: Great fun, more fun than we (and Harry and Jim) should be allowed to have.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Lord Kinbote on February 21, 2024, 06:33:14 PM ---Do we know whether Lara is able to feed off of Harry? She surely could BEFORE he became the Winter Knight, but can Harry's mantle counter the efforts of Lara's demon? I don't recall in any book or short story any feeding interaction between WK Harry and a White Court vampire.
How fun would the dynamic be if Lara can't feed or otherwise influence Harry due to the WK mantle? Answer: Great fun, more fun than we (and Harry and Jim) should be allowed to have.
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Not sure about his Winter Knight status giving her the burn and preventing her feeding on Harry. However Harry might still be protected. Once before in White Night, he blistered her lips because of his true love for Susan even though it had been five years I believe since he had been with Susan or any other woman. I think because of his true love for Murphy, Lara will still not be able to feed on him unless in the mean time he has casual sex with another. His brief affair with Luccio canceled the protection he had had from Susan. Also it was the possible reason behind the scene in Ghost Story when Justine was having a lesbian affair which canceled the true love bond/protection which then allowed her to have sex with Thomas. I pass no judgememt on this arrangement nor am I speculating on why it was chosen over a heterosexual arrangement to make her love making with Thomas possible.. Yes, I understand the touchy topic ice is very thin here, and don't care to venture further.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Lord Kinbote on February 21, 2024, 06:33:14 PM ---Do we know whether Lara is able to feed off of Harry? She surely could BEFORE he became the Winter Knight...
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We don't know if Harry's relationship with Murphy would have protected him, or if it hadn't gotten deep enough / serious enough.
I like to think it would have -- I ship Murphy with Harry, tho I think Molly was a better fit for the long term, just because they both have centuries of lifespan (unlike vanilla-mortal Murphy (but who knows what Einerjar-Murphy (or whatever) will have)).
But I'm very dubious that Harry *ever* got that protection via Murphy... I need to go back to Peace Talks, and re-read the scene where Harry spars with Lara in her home dojo: IIRC, that wound up with some unarmed/grappling, and that would get skin-contact, and I don't recall Lara getting burned?
--- Quote from: Lord Kinbote on February 21, 2024, 06:33:14 PM ---Do we know whether Lara is able to feed off of Harry? ... can Harry's mantle counter the efforts of Lara's demon?
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I am pretty sure there is WoJ specifically saying that the WK mantle's sexual urges & the Whamp-whammy sex thing are additive with each other. No immunity for the WK.
I expect Lara would die (tho it'd be a close thing): she seems a bit smitten with Harry (in her own predatory way) and I don't think she could resist trying the classic whampire "pacify with pleasure" schtick.
In self-defense, Harry would do the WK-Mantle "sex with violence" thing, fueling both his own magic and the WK-mantle with Whampire sex-mojo.
Lara would do well to remember who kept their self control, there in the Raith Deeps and the brief "cannonball run" over the estate. We know Harry can fuel his magic with whampire sex-mojo, and he's only been honing his will colder and harder since then.
LaraBeck:
--- Quote from: g33k on February 21, 2024, 11:47:03 PM ---We don't know if Harry's relationship with Murphy would have protected him, or if it hadn't gotten deep enough / serious enough.
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Actually we do know Harry is protected by the True Love™ that he shared with Murphy.
Lara gets burned by Harry in Peace Talks, not in the scene you mentioned, the one at the dojo, though it should be said that in that scene there's no mention of them making skin to skin contact (so while he already had sexual relationships with Murph at that point, the protection isn't tested yet), but in the scene where Lara and Harry are getting ready to rescue Thomas in the castle, they do touch and she burns. Harry makes explicit mention of it, check out Chapter 25 of Peace Talks.
And at the end of Battle Ground, when Lara and Harry shake hands over their deal, the only reason they can is because Lara is wearing gloves.
g33k:
--- Quote from: LaraBeck on February 22, 2024, 12:46:39 AM --- ... in the scene where Lara and Harry are getting ready to rescue Thomas in the castle, they do touch and she burns. Harry makes explicit mention of it, check out Chapter 25 of Peace Talks.
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Thank you, I'll check that out ...
:o
as soon as I figure out where my walkabout copy of PT has gotten to... >:(
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