I don't have enough power to grow my hair long after death Interesting that that's what he wants the power for and not for, say, flying away or the strength to tear Anita's head off. I'd like to think that he's appealing to Anita's interests here but I'm pretty sure that's just authorial bias shining through.
I hadn't thought how that exchange of power might affect the other side of the equation. Really? Not even after seeing Jc suck the life out of Gretchen, of having him point-blank admit it to you that he took her power to have enough power to feed his baby vamps because Anita'd shut herself off and sent the power triangle of hate wonky. JC (probably) keeps Anita out of a lot of things but he never even tried to hide this, especially since Anita does the same damn thing to Damien and Nathaniel, except he does it intentionally and she does it because she's both abysmally stupid and careless.
Blond Vamp guesses that Anita didn't know, because he is either overly charitable or still trying to talk his way out of trouble. Either way, Granny Vamp is entirely correct: Anita knows, except for when she'd like to pretend that she doesn't.
to show how blind Anita's faith in the very-undeserving Jean-Claude had become Hey! He's totally deserving! He's worked hard to make her totally dependent on him! She's stupid but she's also violent, prejudiced, short-tempered, selfish, and homicidal. Tell me training someone like that wouldn't be hard work!
Blond vamp says that's cuz of the PEA You know, few people know the exact name of various laws, much less the sometimes arbitrary names for them. So this strikes me as actually be dialogue that's worse than usual.
I just think it's sad that he apparently doesn't think of himself and his fellows as people Or maybe he's just accepted that no one else in this world - expect perhaps Detective Perry - does.
Either she sees monsters as people like everyone else, or it's something to feel shame and grossness and angst for. Weirdly, JC calls her out on this when they first started dating, back when he seemed split between being a villainous mustache-twirler and trying to have a real relationship with her. Except, he called her out on it with regards to how she treated him. She said that she saw him as a person like everyone else, but she was ashamed to be seen with him or linked to him, suffered angst at the idea of actually liking him, and was generally grossed out with her and himself because she found him hot. He was her dirty secret and he wasn't pleased about it. (Nor was he willing to take it, much to Anita's fury.)
So, yeah, it's been a thing since near the beginning. But LKH has never bothered to unpack it and consider the ramifications of it. She just borrowed it from Anita's original issues with JC and pasted it onto Anita. I suspect that she thinks no one else remembers the earlier books.
But I disagree with you regarding the use of "monster" in worlds like this one (is supposed to be.) I strongly suspect that it could be used like it is in the books, except that character certainly wouldn't (and shouldn't) be portrayed as a shining beacon of non-prejudiced light. (but no one would call the Fae monsters, for obvious reasons.)
Fear =//= Food Seriously. It's a self-preservation instinct and, considering how far it's gotten our species, she shouldn't knock it.
Zerbrowski grins that "I don't have a problem with you being the better man, Anita; I never have." Hey, it's a zombie servant's duty to fluff his master's ego. Zerbrowski is just doing his undead duties!
He understood that I'd understood that he understood. He's a zombie servant attuned to her thoughts/needs! Of course he knows what's going on (or not going on) up there!
with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Because Anita's thick, not because there's anything wrong with the other woman.
Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy. First off, COMMA! As in, there should be one. Secondly, it's called English. Everyone in this country knows at least a few words of it.
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Date: 2013-12-12 08:06 pm (UTC)Interesting that that's what he wants the power for and not for, say, flying away or the strength to tear Anita's head off. I'd like to think that he's appealing to Anita's interests here but I'm pretty sure that's just authorial bias shining through.
I hadn't thought how that exchange of power might affect the other side of the equation.
Really? Not even after seeing Jc suck the life out of Gretchen, of having him point-blank admit it to you that he took her power to have enough power to feed his baby vamps because Anita'd shut herself off and sent the power triangle of hate wonky. JC (probably) keeps Anita out of a lot of things but he never even tried to hide this, especially since Anita does the same damn thing to Damien and Nathaniel, except he does it intentionally and she does it because she's both abysmally stupid and careless.
Blond Vamp guesses that Anita didn't know,
because he is either overly charitable or still trying to talk his way out of trouble. Either way, Granny Vamp is entirely correct: Anita knows, except for when she'd like to pretend that she doesn't.
to show how blind Anita's faith in the very-undeserving Jean-Claude had become
Hey! He's totally deserving! He's worked hard to make her totally dependent on him! She's stupid but she's also violent, prejudiced, short-tempered, selfish, and homicidal. Tell me training someone like that wouldn't be hard work!
Blond vamp says that's cuz of the PEA
You know, few people know the exact name of various laws, much less the sometimes arbitrary names for them. So this strikes me as actually be dialogue that's worse than usual.
I just think it's sad that he apparently doesn't think of himself and his fellows as people
Or maybe he's just accepted that no one else in this world - expect perhaps Detective Perry - does.
Either she sees monsters as people like everyone else, or it's something to feel shame and grossness and angst for.
Weirdly, JC calls her out on this when they first started dating, back when he seemed split between being a villainous mustache-twirler and trying to have a real relationship with her. Except, he called her out on it with regards to how she treated him. She said that she saw him as a person like everyone else, but she was ashamed to be seen with him or linked to him, suffered angst at the idea of actually liking him, and was generally grossed out with her and himself because she found him hot. He was her dirty secret and he wasn't pleased about it. (Nor was he willing to take it, much to Anita's fury.)
So, yeah, it's been a thing since near the beginning. But LKH has never bothered to unpack it and consider the ramifications of it. She just borrowed it from Anita's original issues with JC and pasted it onto Anita. I suspect that she thinks no one else remembers the earlier books.
But I disagree with you regarding the use of "monster" in worlds like this one (is supposed to be.) I strongly suspect that it could be used like it is in the books, except that character certainly wouldn't (and shouldn't) be portrayed as a shining beacon of non-prejudiced light. (but no one would call the Fae monsters, for obvious reasons.)
Fear =//= Food
Seriously. It's a self-preservation instinct and, considering how far it's gotten our species, she shouldn't knock it.
Zerbrowski grins that "I don't have a problem with you being the better man, Anita; I never have."
Hey, it's a zombie servant's duty to fluff his master's ego. Zerbrowski is just doing his undead duties!
He understood that I'd understood that he understood.
He's a zombie servant attuned to her thoughts/needs! Of course he knows what's going on (or not going on) up there!
with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking.
Because Anita's thick, not because there's anything wrong with the other woman.
Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.
First off, COMMA! As in, there should be one. Secondly, it's called English. Everyone in this country knows at least a few words of it.