PSA: I haven't read all of Small Favor yet, so please don't spoil any plot points in the comments. I know some of the answers might be found in Small Favor and I just haven't reached them yet, but I'm working at reading it in bursts and I want to make sure I have some idea of the answers in order to have enough time to finishing writing before my ficathon deadline.
1. I know that the White Court vamps feed on lust/fear/pain and sort of charge themselves up on it, then go berserker. Thomas is a Raith, so he feeds on lust/intimacy/etc. I know he generally goes for women, though I'm sure he can get the same result from men. What I'm wondering is, when he reaches that point where he's completely running on empty and needs to charge up on lust, would everyone around him be in danger? Woman and men? I know he nearly killed Justine when he was near death or whatever and in White Night, he separated himself from the coven folks so he wouldn't do something nasty to them. So, if you were Harry and Thomas was in that half-crazed, post berserker state, would you fear for both the men and the women nearby, or just the women?
2. My books are currently out on crusade for the cause, so I don't have them handy. Does anyone know off-hand how many piercings Molly has and where they're located? I know she has that dragon tattoo that goes from her neck down to her hip or so, and I think Harry implies her nipples are pierced, and he mentions her slushing because of a tongue stud, but what sort of piercings does she have on her face?
3. When Harry took on Molly as his apprentice, they both have the Doom of Damocles over them, right? How long does that last on his part? His own Doom was removed after Storm Front, so it's sort of a reissue of it now. Does that only work while Molly is studying under him or does it last for the rest of her life? Like, if, twenty years from now, she breaks the Laws, does that mean Harry gets killed as well? Or, when she and he part ways as mentor/student, does the Doom come off of him?
4. I think in one of the books, Harry calls Ramirez up and reaches some people for whom English sounds like their 'third or forth language' (or something to that effect). Have I invented the idea that he reaches a restaurant in L.A., or is that mentioned? Also, I have it in my head that Ramirez has a bunch of brothers and sisters. Is that also my own invention? One of the problem with writing fanfic is that you tend to invent things in your mind and then don't know if they're canon or not. In fact, I may have invented the phone call altogether or he might have been calling someone else. Who knows?
Thanks for any opinions you can offer. I'm willing to hear any and all. :-)
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1. If I were Harry, I'd probably be 99.99% concerned for the women, because this is Harry we're talking about. :D I imagine men could be in danger as well, but all we've seen of Thomas indicates a definite preference towards womenfolk--probably because Jim is terrified of what will happen if he gives slashers a freaking inch. :D
2. Circa PG:
Circa WN:
At the end of WN:
3. The way I understand it, Molly is under the Doom, and Harry is only under it by proxy. Like, Harry isn't technically under the Doom, but if Molly screws up, Harry dies as well. (I could be completely wrong here, but that made the most sense to me.) I assume this only holds for the duration of her apprenticeship, until she is inducted into the White Council. Harry estimates her apprenticeship will extend another 6 or 7 years after WN.
4. Yup, Ramirez's family owns a restaurant. From WN: "Ramirez's contact number went to a restaurant his family ran in eastern Los Angeles. I left a message with someone whose English sounded like a second or third language. It took Ramirez only about ten minutes to call me back." I have no idea where I got the idea that he has a bunch of siblings--I guess it's something widely considered fanon, but with no actual canonical basis.
1. That makes sense and was pretty much what I was thinking, too. If Harry was really worried, he'd be inclined to get all the women out of there first and leave the men to fend for themselves, anyway. ;-) Or just get Thomas out of there.
2. Great! Quotes are love! I'd forgotten about her de-punkifying herself a bit at the end of WN. That's good to know.
3. That also makes sense. Harry and Molly are a package deal with the Doom. It's over her head and if he's standing next to her, it's likely to hit him too. The thing I was the most curious about was how long it lasted, but her entrance into the White Council makes very good sense.
4. It's always nice to know you aren't crazy. I'm wondering if 'his family ran' makes other people besides me think of many Ramirezes (Ramirezi? beaucoup des Ramirez?) all putting in shifts at the restaurant and that's the reason it's sort of fanon. In any case, at least I can use it without too many people calling my bluff.
Thank you so, so, so much for your efforts on my behalf. I very much appreciate it. You have my love and, hopefully soon, my fanfics too. ;-)
I don't believe it's still over Harry's head once she's no longer her apprentice, but I'm basing that off of my vague recollections of conversations between Harry and Ebenezer, (since Harry was McCoy's apprentice they would have the same relationship/rules and whatnot as Harry and Molly, right?)
AFAIK, regarding the Doom, that only applies if the wizard speaks for the kid. We don't actually know if Eb spoke for Harry or not (given the way he talked about Harry's mother, I'm inclined to say he did). That might make a difference. If he didn't speak for Harry, and just had Harry sort of dumped on him for watching, I don't think he'd be subject to the Doom.