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Thomas
EBRIEN:
I think it's been awhile, but I vaguely remember a discussion about what happens to Thomas. Can't remember exactly, but there's a moment in Harry's discussing the swords in Changes (again--rereading) and I've concluded that Amoracchius will banish his demon and leave him fully human. And then, he'll take up the sword. Or by taking up the sword of Love, he'll be able to keep his demon at bay.
I don't know---some combo of that. I'll go back and find what triggered it for me, but I'm sure I'm not the only one. Maybe Butters slices away the evil and leaves him fully human...???
I don't know--just something. lol
Brien
Mira:
I think both theories have been posted here over the years.. It will be interesting to see what happens now. Actually Alfred might be able to "jail" the Hunger Demon leaving just Thomas minus the parasite.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 20, 2025, 11:03:46 AM ---I think both theories have been posted here over the years.. It will be interesting to see what happens now. Actually Alfred might be able to "jail" the Hunger Demon leaving just Thomas minus the parasite.
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I would be very surprised if Alfred can do that.
Someone once asked JB if Mab could remove Thomas' demon. IIRC, JB said something like, yes, she could. She could tear it right out of him. The problem would be that there wouldn't be much left of Thomas when she got done.
The problem seems to be that after that first lethal feeding, the hunger demon and the human soul are more or less grafted together, sort of like a tree graft. There's no sharp dividing line where one stops and the other begins, even though they are not the same entity either. (A grafted tree is physically one organism, but genetically two or more, too.)
Harry sort of saw this in his soulgaze with Thomas back in the day, in the Gaze, he saw human Thomas, the person he would have been if the parasite had been destroyed in time: not quite so handsome, apparently a bit nearsighted, and struggling with but locked to the demonic entity.
It's that spiritual 'grafting' that makes separating Thomas and the demon (or Lara, or any of them) so hard. If you tear out the demon, you tear out some of the human with it, too. Such a separation would thus need both immense power, and surgical precision, if it's doable at all.
peterwiggin94:
We do know that there's an angel in each of the blades and we know that Demonreach is willing to work with Mab. There's a chance that the angel in the blade would work with Demonreach to remove Thomas's Hunger Demon with Harry working as liaison. Thomas may not want the Hunger Demon removed though. He's explicitly given a chance to "contemplate" everything he's done including all the hurts he's given. He may come to accept his Hunger Demon or may love the chance to remove it.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Someone once asked JB if Mab could remove Thomas' demon. IIRC, JB said something like, yes, she could. She could tear it right out of him. The problem would be that there wouldn't be much left of Thomas when she got done.
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I just came across that WOJ a couple of days ago when I was trying to find out something else. The question then becomes what did Jim mean by that? Did he mean physically tear it out and Thomas would be ripped to shreds? Or did Jim mean once his Hunger was gone, the vampire aspect and all it's perks would be gone and we'd be left with a vanilla Thomas. Going by his soul gaze with Harry and Harry's vision of Thomas struggling with the Demon, remember what that Thomas looked like? He was this slight weak looking man with glasses, nope not much of Thomas left, at least the Thomas we've always known.
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