"absolutely arrogantly handsome"...she knows that 'handsome' isn't something you can emote, right? I don't think that she does. Given the context, I think that she believes it to be a synonym for "confident".
Meph smiles, climbs on the bed, and crawls towards them with "a sinuous roll" that is "graceful and lascivious, and promised sex like the air could promise rain" and Anita knows from this that he'll be really good in bed. These are the descriptions that used to be attached to teenaged!Nathaniel's "flirtations" and movements when he was trying to seduce Anita. Also, that is the exact same train of thought that early Anita used to suppose that Nathaniel was good in bed, even before she started banging him.
Example TWO of Ways In Which Micah Has Altered Meph. (I'm counting your note that Meph is okay with other guys but focused on Anita as Example ONE.)
Since he kneaded her back he can feel there's a scar there and asks to see. Oh no! Not the I'm-more-scarred-than-you dick-wag-gery! It was boring in the early books and it's even more so now. Additionally, I have to think that even when she used to do her job, Anita was abysmally bad at it. Not just because she did stupid, cruel, and senseless things but because she's all scarred up. Edward isn't covered with scars. And even Bernardo, whom Edward originally said was abysmal at things like vampire hunting, doesn't have any scars. Only Anita does. Her scars could be taken as a Sue-thing or even part of her imaginary penis, but it seems more like a female vampire hunter = incompetent thing.
And the scattered remnants of Meph's mind (and LKH's subconscious) are clearly trolling Anita.
Also, Napoleon complexes are apparently highly communicable.
She finishes her show by saying how everyone that hurt her is dead now. That sounds like wish fulfillment.
Meph says the scars "barely cover any of your face, just this little part." Meph finding JC and Asher to be the HAWTEST THINGS EVER = Example Number THREE of Micah's improvements. It seems odd that Meph would echo Anita's thoughts on the subject of JC and Asher to a T.
And I agree with you that, while LKH may see this as a resolution to the stuff at the beginning, it's not. Even if Meph might, under other circumstances, genuinely think that Asher is lovely, he's Anita's toy. Anita is notoriously terrible at acknowledging other people's person-hood and independence and right to make personal decisions for themselves. Her brainwshed toys, I'd imagine, would have even less latitude. And he's now Anita-sexual, which (as you said) means sex-with-Anita's-pleasure-in-mind rather than with the other person. Asher will be terribly disappointed in Meph if he mistakes Meph's current attentions for genuine interest.
Also, those scars have been seriously retconned. When Asher first showed up, the scars covered half of his face. Anita spent a lot of Burnt Offerings discussing how his face, chest, and thigh were a mess of twisted and gross scar tissue with perfectly working muscle tissue underneath. (Which seems unlikely.) Anita considered herself quite brave and tolerant and generous for being capable of staring at him with slack-jawed horror and without blinking or looking away. When Asher called out on her behavior, Anita said that she's a hair and eye person which was a blatant and terrible lie even back then. Also, she continued to stare at Asher despite knowing that it made him incredibly uncomfortable. Given his self-esteem issues, Asher eventually reacted about like you would expect -- he threw a fit, got egged into opening his shirt up for Anita to gap at his other scars, clawed at the scarred side of his face and chest until they were bloody, and fled the car. He flew off so quickly that he forgot his coat. (Which, yeah, is pretty damn sensitive for a vampire. But, on the other hand, Anita behaved really badly.)
Anita mentally shrugs and (after fetishizing her weapons and randomly shooting someone) puts on his ugly duster. She uses it as an excuse to remark at length on Asher's height compared to her teeny, tiny self.
....Yeah, that was a meeting that will clearly end in semi-romance by the end of the book.
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Date: 2013-07-01 11:21 am (UTC)I don't think that she does. Given the context, I think that she believes it to be a synonym for "confident".
Meph smiles, climbs on the bed, and crawls towards them with "a sinuous roll" that is "graceful and lascivious, and promised sex like the air could promise rain" and Anita knows from this that he'll be really good in bed.
These are the descriptions that used to be attached to teenaged!Nathaniel's "flirtations" and movements when he was trying to seduce Anita. Also, that is the exact same train of thought that early Anita used to suppose that Nathaniel was good in bed, even before she started banging him.
Example TWO of Ways In Which Micah Has Altered Meph. (I'm counting your note that Meph is okay with other guys but focused on Anita as Example ONE.)
Since he kneaded her back he can feel there's a scar there and asks to see.
Oh no! Not the I'm-more-scarred-than-you dick-wag-gery! It was boring in the early books and it's even more so now. Additionally, I have to think that even when she used to do her job, Anita was abysmally bad at it. Not just because she did stupid, cruel, and senseless things but because she's all scarred up. Edward isn't covered with scars. And even Bernardo, whom Edward originally said was abysmal at things like vampire hunting, doesn't have any scars. Only Anita does. Her scars could be taken as a Sue-thing or even part of her imaginary penis, but it seems more like a female vampire hunter = incompetent thing.
And the scattered remnants of Meph's mind (and LKH's subconscious) are clearly trolling Anita.
Also, Napoleon complexes are apparently highly communicable.
She finishes her show by saying how everyone that hurt her is dead now.
That sounds like wish fulfillment.
Meph says the scars "barely cover any of your face, just this little part."
Meph finding JC and Asher to be the HAWTEST THINGS EVER = Example Number THREE of Micah's improvements. It seems odd that Meph would echo Anita's thoughts on the subject of JC and Asher to a T.
And I agree with you that, while LKH may see this as a resolution to the stuff at the beginning, it's not. Even if Meph might, under other circumstances, genuinely think that Asher is lovely, he's Anita's toy. Anita is notoriously terrible at acknowledging other people's person-hood and independence and right to make personal decisions for themselves. Her brainwshed toys, I'd imagine, would have even less latitude. And he's now Anita-sexual, which (as you said) means sex-with-Anita's-pleasure-in-mind rather than with the other person. Asher will be terribly disappointed in Meph if he mistakes Meph's current attentions for genuine interest.
Also, those scars have been seriously retconned. When Asher first showed up, the scars covered half of his face. Anita spent a lot of Burnt Offerings discussing how his face, chest, and thigh were a mess of twisted and gross scar tissue with perfectly working muscle tissue underneath. (Which seems unlikely.) Anita considered herself quite brave and tolerant and generous for being capable of staring at him with slack-jawed horror and without blinking or looking away. When Asher called out on her behavior, Anita said that she's a hair and eye person which was a blatant and terrible lie even back then. Also, she continued to stare at Asher despite knowing that it made him incredibly uncomfortable. Given his self-esteem issues, Asher eventually reacted about like you would expect -- he threw a fit, got egged into opening his shirt up for Anita to gap at his other scars, clawed at the scarred side of his face and chest until they were bloody, and fled the car. He flew off so quickly that he forgot his coat. (Which, yeah, is pretty damn sensitive for a vampire. But, on the other hand, Anita behaved really badly.)
Anita mentally shrugs and (after fetishizing her weapons and randomly shooting someone) puts on his ugly duster. She uses it as an excuse to remark at length on Asher's height compared to her teeny, tiny self.
....Yeah, that was a meeting that will clearly end in semi-romance by the end of the book.