IIRC Larry hasn't shown up in the books since he got married. He was mentioned in Micah, where the whole premise was that Tammy went into labour early and thus Larry couldn't go out of town for a case so Anita had to fill in for him instead. But I'm pretty sure that's the last we saw of him and he hasn't been mentioned since. (Keep in mind, I've skipped books from Danse Macabre - Hit List and have been relying on other people's flogs. But I'm pretty sure if he turned up, he'd be mentioned somewhere in there and I guess Anita's too busy hanging with Edward and Olaf and the "cool" executioners to remember Larry. He's only her goddamned protoge.)
But given that it's been half a dozen or so books since he's actually shown up, and two years of in-universe time, that...that doesn't seem like enough time even with their history for him to have worked with Anita to witness all these events as well as for her to have all those zany adventures where he wasn't present. So basic math fail? This probably ranks right up there with Ronnie's claim for her sexual partners to be in the triple digits in the short amount of time between her relationship with Louis falling apart and the epic fight with Anita.
Just...reading over Anita's arguments to justify her actions to Larry looks a lot like tv drama's way of showing dirty cops and lawyers. If we don't do this terrible thing, even worse things will happen. What if it's your family they come after next. We're trying to stop the bad things! It's just this once. It's for the greater good. It's just a favour. But she's still the one with all the power because as she likes to tell us, she's got all this experience and is such a badass that everyone looks to her as a special expert. She's the one that's basically coercing Larry into doing something he clearly has moral and ethical objections toward. And we're supposed to cheer her on because she's doing everything for the "right" reasons and is therefore "good?" IT makes my skin crawl.
(Also, shit, you'd think that in a world where vampires have been known forever that better methods of staking would have been developed -- if the point is to destroy the heart, surely there'd be stakes that would shred a torso when driven into the rib cage. If the heart is supposed to be removed, then you could have thin stakes that essentially skewer the organ and help staple the vampire to the ground so you can break out the bone saw and rib-spreaders. While we're at it, how about better decapitation techniques. Why is this not a first order of action as decapitiation is a pretty good catch-all for stopping things that may want to eat your face. How about specialised Executioner ammunition that's designed to put bigger holes in creatures -- Anita used to use Glazer Safety Rounds for that purpose, but since this is an AU surely some smart cookie would come up with an incendiary round that may use silver or magnesium to burn very hot, very fast and destroy the head/torso. /LOGIC.)
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But given that it's been half a dozen or so books since he's actually shown up, and two years of in-universe time, that...that doesn't seem like enough time even with their history for him to have worked with Anita to witness all these events as well as for her to have all those zany adventures where he wasn't present. So basic math fail? This probably ranks right up there with Ronnie's claim for her sexual partners to be in the triple digits in the short amount of time between her relationship with Louis falling apart and the epic fight with Anita.
Just...reading over Anita's arguments to justify her actions to Larry looks a lot like tv drama's way of showing dirty cops and lawyers. If we don't do this terrible thing, even worse things will happen. What if it's your family they come after next. We're trying to stop the bad things! It's just this once. It's for the greater good. It's just a favour. But she's still the one with all the power because as she likes to tell us, she's got all this experience and is such a badass that everyone looks to her as a special expert. She's the one that's basically coercing Larry into doing something he clearly has moral and ethical objections toward. And we're supposed to cheer her on because she's doing everything for the "right" reasons and is therefore "good?" IT makes my skin crawl.
(Also, shit, you'd think that in a world where vampires have been known forever that better methods of staking would have been developed -- if the point is to destroy the heart, surely there'd be stakes that would shred a torso when driven into the rib cage. If the heart is supposed to be removed, then you could have thin stakes that essentially skewer the organ and help staple the vampire to the ground so you can break out the bone saw and rib-spreaders. While we're at it, how about better decapitation techniques. Why is this not a first order of action as decapitiation is a pretty good catch-all for stopping things that may want to eat your face. How about specialised Executioner ammunition that's designed to put bigger holes in creatures -- Anita used to use Glazer Safety Rounds for that purpose, but since this is an AU surely some smart cookie would come up with an incendiary round that may use silver or magnesium to burn very hot, very fast and destroy the head/torso. /LOGIC.)
HEY HEY IT'S 2014 WHERE I'M AT -- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND ALL THE RATTIES!