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Continuity drift - Lara and soul gazes

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Mira:


  I don't think the multiverse term should be used, because in my opinion it can too easily become a crutch for sloppy writing. Yes, it does have it's place in a story or series, but it can also be a slippery slope in a series.

Dina:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 30, 2026, 01:58:16 PM ---"Parker's face was stunned. ... I recovered from it before he did."

Not much in there about it.

I didn't like the soulgazes in 12 Months. I feel like they are normally more impactful and tell us more about the character. Bear and Lara's soulgazes basically tell us she's a Valkyrie, she's a White Court vampire. Lara's tells us a little more than that, but not much.

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Thank you! Damn, I really wants to see what people sees soulgazing Harry or at least I want someone telling what they saw.
About the soulgazes in TM. I am ok with the Bear one, it is more or less what I would expect and confirm that she is not Murphy and that she is the real deal. But the Lara one was weird, with all the dialogue, I don't know. That dialogue would be in their memories for ever and that could be a lot of time.

Edited: I regret that we did not see any Bear reaction, especially because the soulgaze was done in a terrible moment, when Harry was not only grieving but misfiring and hungover. I wonder if that had any effect on what Bear saw. I wish they had talk about the soulgaze later.

Bad Alias:
Jim had strongly hinted that we would see a soulgaze in Mirror Mirror between Harry and iHarry. You could take what Jim said to also imply it will cause him to talk to other people about what they saw when they gazed him.

prince lotore:
I think you guys are reading too much into the words and not enough into the scene. Laura is used to everyone in the room just flat out staring at her and here she is on an official date that she knows is being watched by multiple people and he won’t even look her in the face. She also knows for her to be respected by the whites she needs to clearly be the “dominant” one in the relationship, but she also knows Harry well enough that if she just flexes her mojo it will not play out well. So, what does she do? She plays the shy but observant girl asking a deeper question than he is used to similar to the way Lash approached him. She does this for a couple of reasons. First, she wants to soul gaze with Harry because she feels that she got more from Carlos than he got from her.  Second, she wants to see if Harry is put together enough to call her out for her bull shit. She sets up a future where the way forward is the gaze but seems like she respects his need for time while getting a temp for how observant he is currently. Regular hot girls can lie and be manipulative and she is the queen of the whites. I assume everything she says true or not is to get something she wants. And Jim can be writing it like that for all those reasons and as a way to explain it to the newbies

Dina:
It is an interesting idea that Lara is testing Harry's mental state. Instead of saying "are you daft? Of course I know what a soulgaze is, you saw me and that warden sharing one", she is playing around.
I don't know, it is a scene that does complicate things, because we readers are not sure if it is an honest mistake that beta readers did not caught, or if it is something that really should happen in universe.


--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 30, 2026, 06:10:06 PM ---Jim had strongly hinted that we would see a soulgaze in Mirror Mirror between Harry and iHarry. You could take what Jim said to also imply it will cause him to talk to other people about what they saw when they gazed him.

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I don't see that implication. We are probably going to see what Harry sees in the other Harry, but that is not what people see in our Harry.

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