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Yeah, I see absolutely no reason why he should deviate from his original plan. It has been working out so far. Only because some fans become impatient is no reason to rush his story, thereby decreasing its quality.
Because he has a plan, and has outlined the story for a certain number of books. The number of books has increased in his outline, not decreased.
Regarding the Archive as a Mantle and it's ability to violate the Free Will of the host: Parents can apparently make Decisions for their children without violating Free Will. It is presumably why the Fae are able to take a Baby as payment, or the old "Deal with the Devil for your First-born" trope.
A little baby had no Choice when the Mantle went to her. Even so whenever duty calls, Murphy answers. Police officer running into battle, KoTC fighting at Chicken Pizza, Harry asking her to take on Nicodemus... My guess is that when being given the Choice to face the Old Gods in a secret war where humanity is in the balance she'd choose to say yes once she was convinced there was a reason the Mantle was seeking her. Or if Ivy knew her death was coming and that Murphy was the one she thought best to replace her.
Likewise, while the Archive Mantle may be able to say "You're my home now" I don't think it'd be able to immediately start dictating her actions. Keep in mind of course that Ivy's mom was able to suicide despite being the Archive.
If he writes them for the next twenty years and never completes them i'll still be happier than if he F@*)s it up by cutting it too short though. I've seen series ruined by trying to crunch a story into the allotted books and failing. *cough*inheritance cycle*cough*
some of the reason I think Murphy could be a good replacement are:
More side stories about the Oblivion war with a well established and familiar character.
Romantic relationship with Kincaid (I personally think the ship has sailed on Harry/Murphy).
She becomes more relevant to the books in general.
If Ivy were to die, who would take up her Mantle do you think? Now it's supposed to go from mother to daughter, but if there is no daughter does it fade away or does it seek out a suitable host much like Molly taking up the Winter Lady Mantle?
If so, who would you see taking it? Reason I ask is she could be murdered in Peace Talks... It would make sense considering the Old Ones would want her gone.
Murphy maybe? It would make her more relevant to the Dresden world.
writing a good book is hard. jim started this series over 18 years ago. I am gusing he has writing fatigue with the character along with other things in his life slowing down his creativity.....jus be patient ….
LOL... Are you sure you want her going out in a blaze of glory? i think you want her to go out in a humiliating fashion.
I guess I can understand why her sudden appearance would be off-putting compared to established characters like Molly. I dont mind it as much because I like when these sorts of stories (especially ones that have gone on as long as Dresden has) remind the audience that there is a lot of other crap happening out there in the story-world, so that Significant things dont always have to happen near the Main Character. Some of my favorite stories made their fantasy world seem so much richer simply by mentioning other events or legend or whatsoever entirely in passing.
I also didnt come down on the anti-Susan side of things, so I actively wanted Susan to come back and be relevant again. She was either actively participating or else was a primary motivation for all the the first five books, then wasnt mentioned again beyond the Other Ex that Ended Badly for another seven. Saying she dropped off his radar on purpose to hide their love-child from his horrifically dangerous lifestyle felt realistic and thematically interesting in the sense of highlighting the difficulty of the morally grey.
Just superglue his Skull to the rest of a skeleton, and BAM! Instant SkeleBob.
He already did Susan the Dinosaur in Dead Beat. Harry commented that he took the T Rex's body when he could have done so with any of the zombies.
