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Where do you go out on a date with the Queen of the sex vampires?
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on August 27, 2024, 05:01:24 AM ---I think there is some confusion here between Anna Ashe; who was killed by the Skavis (Pricilla) in White Night, and Hannah Asher who we remember as the super skilled fire wielder and also a Denarian from Skin Game; who we thought died under a couple tons of molten rock, but apparently not.
It was Lara who manipulated the campaign to kill minor magical talents into being; to pit House Skavis and House Malvora against one another, even though it was the head of House Skavis who actually ordered it and sent his heir apparent to carry out. This makes Lara ultimately responsible for the deaths of Anna and the other women killed by Skavis and Malvora.
It is a bit confusing because we don't really know the details, we know that Lara only weakly contested Harry's accusations that she was responsible by pointing out that Lord Skavis had promoted a similar plan a century earlier. She never said, "I didn't do it."
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Exactly. Whenever I catch myself thinking of Lara as a 'good girl', even loosely, I remind myself that we can always ask Anna Ashe for a character reference-wait, no, we actually can't, can we? And there would have been a lot more dead minor practitioners except that Thomas ran interference.
From Lara's POV it was a triple-win: it set Malvora and Skavis against each other, it reinforced her own control over the Court, and it possibly weakened the White Council in the future, at least potentially, by removing the women who might potentially give birth to possible Wizards.
Dina:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on August 27, 2024, 05:01:24 AM ---I think there is some confusion here between Anna Ashe; who was killed by the Skavis (Pricilla) in White Night, and Hannah Asher who we remember as the super skilled fire wielder and also a Denarian from Skin Game; who we thought died under a couple tons of molten rock, but apparently not.
It was Lara who manipulated the campaign to kill minor magical talents into being; to pit House Skavis and House Malvora against one another, even though it was the head of House Skavis who actually ordered it and sent his heir apparent to carry out. This makes Lara ultimately responsible for the deaths of Anna and the other women killed by Skavis and Malvora.
It is a bit confusing because we don't really know the details, we know that Lara only weakly contested Harry's accusations that she was responsible by pointing out that Lord Skavis had promoted a similar plan a century earlier. She never said, "I didn't do it."
I think Harry would be disturbed that he truly enjoyed Lara's company, but not because of any one or several deaths she has caused. Harry knows that Lara must be responsible for hundreds of deaths in her lifetime. Harry has often pretended that the only reason he is attracted to Lara is because of her White Court mojo, but being forced to recognize his attraction is deeper than that; and I'm not talking about true love, the fact that Harry genuinely likes Lara and likes spending time with her would be disturbing to Harry.
Harry has always been hard on himself. Harry would question if enjoying spending time with a monster; a beautiful, intelligent, charming, fun loving and polite monster, but a monster none the less, would mean that he is losing his battle to remain himself and not give in to the pressure of the Winter Knight's mantel or give in to Mab's schemes to mold him. I think Harry would worry that he is taking another step into becoming a monster himself.
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True, I was mistaken. I wish they were not so many similar names. We also have other Anna (Valmont) and Ana (Anastasia) Luccio.
And I agree with the rest of what you said.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Harry has always been hard on himself. Harry would question if enjoying spending time with a monster; a beautiful, intelligent, charming, fun loving and polite monster, but a monster none the less, would mean that he is losing his battle to remain himself and not give in to the pressure of the Winter Knight's mantel or give in to Mab's schemes to mold him. I think Harry would worry that he is taking another step into becoming a monster himself.
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Yes, unless of course he is successful in manipulating that monster, which he has some success at. He did manipulate Laciel's Shadow, renaming her Lash ultimately sacrificing herself for him. Now he did pay a price for that with the original. I think having Lara as a girlfriend eventually a wife is like keeping a domesticated tiger in your house. It might be cuddly, beautiful, even fun, but at the end of the day, it is still a tiger. A fact of life is, tigers can and do eat people if hungry enough and given a chance, it is their nature. Because of her Hunger demon, Lara sees all humanity as kine, the fact that Harry is a wizard, Winter Knight, and her half brother's half-brother, doesn't change that.. Oh creepy thought, though not related by blood, but as half brother to her half brother, is Harry also her brother? ??? :o
Dina:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 27, 2024, 11:41:20 AM ---Yes, unless of course he is successful in manipulating that monster, which he has some success at. He did manipulate Laciel's Shadow, renaming her Lash ultimately sacrificing herself for him. Now he did pay a price for that with the original. I think having Lara as a girlfriend eventually a wife is like keeping a domesticated tiger in your house. It might be cuddly, beautiful, even fun, but at the end of the day, it is still a tiger. A fact of life is, tigers can and do eat people if hungry enough and given a chance, it is their nature. Because of her Hunger demon, Lara sees all humanity as kine, the fact that Harry is a wizard, Winter Knight, and her half brother's brother, doesn't change that.. Oh creepy thought, though not related by blood, but as half brother to her half brother, is Harry also her brother? ??? :o
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No, he is not her brother but I do remember they talking about rescuing "our brother" and then the idea of them together became creepier. Still, there is really no reason. They are not blood related and they did not grow together, so they are not siblings in any way. It is just that the "our brother" sounds bad.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on August 27, 2024, 12:11:24 PM ---No, he is not her brother but I do remember they talking about rescuing "our brother" and then the idea of them together became creepier. Still, there is really no reason. They are not blood related and they did not grow together, so they are not siblings in any way. It is just that the "our brother" sounds bad.
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Yeah, I understand that they aren't related by blood, but it is still a little creepy and feels a wee bit like incest. However that is a digression from my original point, no matter how great they get along, Lara will always see Harry as a food source. Unless Harry found a way to kill her Hunger demon, which I am not sure she'd go along with, there is no getting around that fact. It could be that Mab isn't looking for an alliance with the White Court but rather just another leash to keep her Knight in line.. Harry gets out of line? Mab orders Lara to go a little heavier on her munchies.
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