Jim Butcher at Dragon Con 2025

[RobReece]

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).

I remember seeing that sex with the Winter Lady would likely kill one of them, but I don't remember their being a corollary for other beings of power.  But I'm willing to listen.

As for the marriage,  I've theorized all along that Harry and !mirror!Harry swap just prior to the ceremony saving Harry from the marriage, but not from the aftermath of everything !mirror!Harry screws up in our version of reality.

[Mira]

As for the marriage,  I've theorized all along that Harry and !mirror!Harry swap just prior to the ceremony saving Harry from the marriage, but not from the aftermath of everything !mirror!Harry screws up in our version of reality.

Oh I hope not.

[g33k]

I remember seeing that sex with the Winter Lady would likely kill one of them, but I don't remember their being a corollary for other beings of power.  But I'm willing to listen.   

I think the Winter Lady is required by Winter to be a virgin; it's part of the mythic "Maiden/Mother/Crone" archetype she embodies.  She would (even if involuntarily) fight to the death to prevent that changing (we saw it in the Molly novella, where she crippled Carlos).

But WOJ is that the Whampire sex-mojo combines with exponential force, when interacting with the WK sex-and-violence thing.  Neither party is going to be able to control the resulting explosion, and death will be the outcome.

Thus, a non-WK alt!Harry could boink Lara without murderizing her (I suspect, fwiw, that other "creatures who do the succubus schtick" (as Harry & Bob discussed iirc during a prior case-file) would also combine very badly with the WK-mantle).