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Lara in a book or two will be on some kinda sorta ‘what are you doing step bro?’ shenanigans
So how’s everyone doing after finishing Battle Ground?
Who do you think dies in Battle Ground?
Murphy, Ebenezer, Carlos, Lara, Justine are my picks. The first two seem the most likely options with Lara being a strong possibility as well.
Seeing the reaction to Harry/Lara on Tumblr vs Harry/Lara on Reddit is interesting.
Harry and Marcone in Battle Ground
Just two bros archenemies standing alone together on a beach at the crack of dawn because we’re not gay we just sealed a Titan
I usually despise the idea of ‘fixing’ a story. I feel like stories should be left as their authors wrote them even if I don’t agree with what happened. But re reading Peace Talks and Battle Ground really makes me want to write a fanfic that fixes them. It’d bring the two stories together in a manner that doesn’t feel like this Frankensteinesque stitched together *thing*, cut back on some parts of the story and cut others entirely, expand on a few specific plot points and deal with that mid point in a very different way. Hopefully the end result would be something that feels like one smooth story that works well and doesn’t leave me kinda disappointed about the whole thing.
This future Dresden plot
I am dying to know how that Harry/Lara plot will go. I think it’s like 53/47 odds for Harry managing to weasel out of his upcoming wedding vs Harry and Lara having a shenanigan filled shit show of a wedding.
Just saying - Mab’s unicorn may be my new fave. It’s so scary and badass.
Small rant about that Battle Ground moment
What bugs me about Karrin’s death is quite a number of readers are fine with it bc it shows that anyone can die and mortals are deadly or some kinda bullshit.
It’s safe to say the fandom would be pissed if Thomas or Michael or Marcone or even a pre Winter Lady Molly randomly got shot and killed halfway through a book by a stupid cop. No one would be saying that it was a oddly fitting end. But a lot of the Dresden fandom has always had a weird dislike of Murphy.
I wasn’t super attached to the character (blame Joe Abercrombie for my avoiding getting too invested in characters) and I was even fine with the idea of her possibly dying. If it was handled well. It wasn’t. She takes down a damned Jotun despite being in poor shape and barely healed after the beating from Nicodemus. Then Rudolph just offs her because he’s a frightened, stupid and sorry excuse for a human being.
Then there’s Butters attempting to chill Harry out by explaining ‘Rudolph’s’ side of things. I know it’s set in 2014 but with a real world release in 2020 after 4 years of ever increasing police violence, it feels gross. So many murderous cops have used excuses like they felt threatened or afraid and it all gets swept under the rug.
So Murphy gets a shit death that a number of fans are fine with when they’d react with outrage if any other main supporting characters got offed like that AND the story has the supporting characters try to make Harry and the reader empathize with her cop-murderer.
It’s so bad. Jesus Christ. Would it have been so difficult to give her a fitting death scene IF she had to go? Shiro got a fitting death and so did Morgan, even Deirdre’s death felt better handled than Murphy’s. Deirdre. The incestuous, psychotic host of a Fallen who has committed countless horrific acts gets a better death than one of the main characters.
My only comfort is knowing she’ll likely be back for the big apocalyptic trilogy. Ragnarok will be one of the end times scenarios happening there so I feel certain the rule about her being unable to return until she’s forgotten will be thrown out.
We’ll see that character again
Mirror Mirror is traveling to an alternate timeline.
Book 19 (pre PT split) is confirmed to involve time travel. It’s now book 21 most likely unless Butcher mixes the last denarian book with the time book which I do not see happening.
Then there’s the BAT. Certain rules about characters returning have to be followed but the whole purpose of that group is that they’re reserved for Ragnarok.
So never fear because we’ve not seen the last of that character.
