"Once, so long ago that most do not remember, that was what the Council was, Anita. They would come to sit in their great chairs, but the deep dark secret was, once they took their places on the council the Mother possessed them" and that they "only pretended to vote and be fair; in truth they were all her puppets."
Maybe I'm just dumb today, but I don't get this. Who...I mean, is this saying the MOAD was secretly making decisions via the Council who would then present them to other vampires as their own ideas (ie, the Council didn't know they were being possessed?)? Or is it that the Council were like, "hey, let's get together this weekend and be possessed!" and they knew it was the MOAD controlling them and making them make decisions? I mean, this just seems like a waste of her time and energy to me. If she's possessing X number of council members and using them as puppets, she's effectively just playing with dolls and making them talk to each other. And she's making them make decisions that, as the MOTHER OF ALL FUCKING DARKNESS she is surely powerful enough to make and decree herself. Who's going to argue with THE MOTHER OF ALL FUCKING DARKNESS? Before she fell into her deep, dark eternal slumber from which only Anita's awesomeness could awake her, surely she was the ultimate power in the vampire world so why would she need a proxy council to play puppets with and manipulate into making the choices she wanted, as opposed to having the council exist as her spokespeople and just pass on her word?
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Maybe I'm just dumb today, but I don't get this. Who...I mean, is this saying the MOAD was secretly making decisions via the Council who would then present them to other vampires as their own ideas (ie, the Council didn't know they were being possessed?)? Or is it that the Council were like, "hey, let's get together this weekend and be possessed!" and they knew it was the MOAD controlling them and making them make decisions? I mean, this just seems like a waste of her time and energy to me. If she's possessing X number of council members and using them as puppets, she's effectively just playing with dolls and making them talk to each other. And she's making them make decisions that, as the MOTHER OF ALL FUCKING DARKNESS she is surely powerful enough to make and decree herself. Who's going to argue with THE MOTHER OF ALL FUCKING DARKNESS? Before she fell into her deep, dark eternal slumber from which only Anita's awesomeness could awake her, surely she was the ultimate power in the vampire world so why would she need a proxy council to play puppets with and manipulate into making the choices she wanted, as opposed to having the council exist as her spokespeople and just pass on her word?