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Jim Butcher at Dragon Con 2025
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 11, 2025, 01:21:08 PM ---That's a really good point, maybe Mouse will turn out to be the "Spock" in the story?...
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I note that Mouse came to Harry in book 6, after "the choice" (divergence point) in book 3. There's no guarantee that mirror!Mouse is part of mirror!Harry's life... but no guarantee that he's not, either.
I can envision the mirrorverse where Mouse is despondently masquerading as "just a dog" even from his Harry (who has turned out to be more Sith than Jedi)... then Mouse gets exposed to _our_ Harry...
the Harry who can tap Soulfire...
the Harry who has befriended a bunch of KotC's...
the Harry who has worked directly with Uriel...
And I'm pretty sure Mouse can tell the difference; he's a Foo Dog, a servant of the Holy, a guardian, a detector of evil. Mouse discovers, to his joy, a Harry who is fundamentally one of the good guys.
--- Quote from: Mira on September 11, 2025, 01:21:08 PM ---... I won't be shocked to find at the end of Twelve Months, that both Harry and Lara figure out a way out of getting married.
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I'm expecting exactly the opposite -- that a big part of their "courtship" process will be them twisting in the jaws of Mab's trap, trying to figure out how to get out of the marriage (without giving mortal offense to Mab); but the marriage won't go through because Harry gets ripped to the mirror'verse on the wedding-day.
(with the consequence (when he gets home) of having apparently publicly flouted Mab's orders (which she cannot tolerate in a WK) and having humiliated the White Princess by jilting her at the altar (which will enrage her))
Lord Kinbote:
I fully expect Dresden and Lara to get married and while their union is not their idea and may only be done begrudgingly, it won't be done involuntarily. I expect Butcher to make their acquiescence logical and the 'least bad' alternative for them - and that's without considering Mab's wrath if they don't get married. Butcher is great at maneuvering Dresden into a place where a decision he makes isn't one that he wants to make but feels he must due to necessity from obligation or responsibility. I'd be surprised by romantic love between them, but certainly a high degree of respect (even though Dresden will likely always think of Lara as a monster; to him, 'she's a monster, but I can respect her, trust her word, and work with her').
The bigger question to me is whether there will be consummation. I expect so because Mab will demand it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Lord Kinbote on September 11, 2025, 08:31:43 PM ---I fully expect Dresden and Lara to get married and while their union is not their idea and may only be done begrudgingly, it won't be done involuntarily. I expect Butcher to make their acquiescence logical and the 'least bad' alternative for them - and that's without considering Mab's wrath if they don't get married. Butcher is great at maneuvering Dresden into a place where a decision he makes isn't one that he wants to make but feels he must due to necessity from obligation or responsibility. I'd be surprised by romantic love between them, but certainly a high degree of respect (even though Dresden will likely always think of Lara as a monster; to him, 'she's a monster, but I can respect her, trust her word, and work with her').
The bigger question to me is whether there will be consummation. I expect so because Mab will demand it.
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Or they can't because Lara finds that she truly loves Harry. There was hints that it was possible between them.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Lord Kinbote on September 11, 2025, 08:31:43 PM --- ... The bigger question to me is whether there will be consummation.
I expect so because Mab will demand it.
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Jim has said that the Whampire sex-mojo interfaces badly with the WK-mantle's sex/violence/territoriality thing. Things rapidly spiral out of control; it's more than the two "adding together," it's more like they multiply one another.
I expect only one of them would survive the attempt to consummate the marriage.
One resolution that seems possible: the MirrorMirror story will see the Harrys swap universes, and it'll be MirrorHarry (without a WK Mantle) who marries Lara and consummates the wedding (likely becoming Lara's thrall).
Mira:
--- Quote ---One resolution that seems possible: the MirrorMirror story will see the Harrys swap universes, and it'll be MirrorHarry (without a WK Mantle) who marries Lara and consummates the wedding (likely becoming Lara's thrall).
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That would be very weird, and I think out of character for Harry in either world.
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