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True Love as Defense against White Court Vampires
Mira:
--- Quote from: peterwiggin94 on July 23, 2024, 03:00:22 AM ---There's a slight but important nuance here. I don't think true love hurts Skavis or Malvora but leads to or inspires things that do.
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Yes, but that isn't going to save someone who is in their clutches unless they are feeling those emotions in the moment they are being attacked.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: g33k on July 22, 2024, 06:32:39 AM ---:-)
"Well ack-chew-ly..."-- ( https://wordof.jim-butcher.com/index.php/word-of-jim-woj-compilation/woj-on-vampires/ )
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Yeah, but that doesn't tell us anything about how it works in practice. We know that if two people who genuinely love each other are sexually intimate, they can shield each other from subsequent Raith attacks until there is unloving sex. JB has said there other ways that can work, but we've never seen it or been told about what they are.
But what's the equivalent with courage and/or hope?
--- Quote from: Mira on July 23, 2024, 12:20:36 PM ---Yes, but that isn't going to save someone who is in their clutches unless they are feeling those emotions in the moment they are being attacked.
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That's a thing right there, though. We don't know the 'mechanism' by which courage would mess with Malvora or hope with Skavis. We've seen the protective mechanism at work with love and Raith, but how would it work with the others? We just don't know.
Would you have to be feeling the emotion/state at the time of the attack? If so, then there wouldn't be any lasting protection afterward, unlike the love/sex protection. Does it mean that someone who feels/displays those emotions on a regular basis builds up a protection? We just don't know, and JB hasn't told us enough to do more than make WAGs.
Dina:
I was going to post the WoJ that g33k quoted, so it seems True Love does not protect against all vampires. But there is something about Love. As others said, it seems that Love is above everything else, and someone who feels True Love probably becomes True Brave and True Hopeful and even True Faithful (True Faith is something that works against Rampires). I am probably being a tad cheesy, but I think that is what Thomas had in mind. Thomas is a romantic (literally, since his birth) and he probably is the most in awe of Love that anyone in the DF.
SerScot:
--- Quote from: g33k on July 22, 2024, 06:32:39 AM ---:-)
"Well ack-chew-ly..."-- ( https://wordof.jim-butcher.com/index.php/word-of-jim-woj-compilation/woj-on-vampires/ )
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So… just as I thought.
Dina:
A golden star for you :)
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