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Choices
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 28, 2025, 11:40:31 AM --- You are assuming that nothing around Harry changes, that all the people around him remain the same.. That's the mistake I think, because Harry's choice and his change in this other universe doesn't happen in a vacuum.
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No, I agree: things around Harry will begin changing, from the moment of "the Choice." Harry changes, so what Harry does changes -- how he acts, how he reacts -- and everyone in his orbit will in turn be changed.
But Michael's northstar isn't Harry; it never was. He'll be among the less-changed (at least for the first few books); I don't expect any of Harry's changes will affect Michael's faith, or status as a Knight, or his Divine Guidance to help others in need.
And because there is a confluence in Chicago -- all of the same "dark powers" that Harry noted are still coming to bear, there -- I think Michael will more-often be Guided to Murphy's aid, than he originally was in the first few books.
Mira:
--- Quote ---And because there is a confluence in Chicago -- all of the same "dark powers" that Harry noted are still coming to bear, there -- I think Michael will more-often be Guided to Murphy's aid, than he originally was in the first few books.
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Or not, Michael wasn't guided to her aid in the first few books.. I go back to the original assumption that everyone seems to have, and since I don't keep up with them I don't keep up very well with WOJs, is the other Harry is an evil counter point to our Harry.. If nothing if changed because of that, shrug of shoulders, Harry in the other universe is evil.. However I don't think so.. If one goes by "It's a Wonderful Life," all matter of things go wrong because our hero was never born... One prime example is at the age of 10 he saved his brother, who grew up to in the Medal of Honor because he saved hundreds of men on board a ship if I remember correctly... If he hadn't been saved, then not just he would have died, but the hundreds that he saved would have died, and maybe hundreds more children who would have done great things were never born.... It goes on and on like that.. It isn't about the now evil Harry, it's about the wrong choice that was made that really screws things up in both timelines.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 28, 2025, 11:43:08 PM ---Or not, Michael wasn't guided to her aid in the first few books...
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No, of course not! It's the Dresden Files, not the "Carpenter Files;" the Scooby Gang forms around Harry.
But in an Alt!Verse -- where Alt!Harry isn't a suitable nucleus for Scoobies -- Michael looks like he might be a more-active part of the Chicago scene. "God will provide..." and in lieu of Harry, Michael looks like a damned-good candidate!
--- Quote from: Mira on April 28, 2025, 11:43:08 PM --- ... I go back to the original assumption that everyone seems to have, and since I don't keep up with them I don't keep up very well with WOJs, is the other Harry is an evil counter point to our Harry.. If nothing if changed because of that, shrug of shoulders, Harry in the other universe is evil.. However I don't think so ...
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The "evil Harry" idea comes from the older WoJ's; new ones are much less readily available/searchable, in that nobody AFAIK has taken the time to transcribe interview/etc videos... or even collect them.
From 2016:
--- Quote ---When are we going to see Mavra again?
Um… 19? *pondering* Wait, I’m sorry we’ll definitely see her in Mirror Mirror. She’s a fast ally of Dresden’s in Mirror Mirror.
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-- https://wordof.jim-butcher.com/index.php/word-of-jim-woj-compilation/woj-on-vampires/
Mira:
At this point we have put in so many ideas of our own in anticipation that I think there will be a lot of disappointment when it finally comes out.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 04, 2025, 12:18:19 PM --- At this point we have put in so many ideas of our own in anticipation that I think there will be a lot of disappointment when it finally comes out.
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<shrugs> Odd theories & alternatives are fine!
"Why, sometimes I've believed six impossible things before breakfast!" -- the White Queen
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