>>160559
Jim has never touched grass before writing anything, and his excuse that the stories are supposed to be seen through Harry’s lens of sexual frustration rings a little hollow when he has written from other PoVs and…it’s often still quite horny. Which I mean hey, relatable, I just wonder if the guy worries about how transparent the ruse is.
Sometimes I think he established the Summer/Winter Lady mantle forces you to never have sex, ever, to try to escape the grooming/toxic relationship allegations for Harry re: Molly. Especially after how hardball he played with her like say-with that literal trial by fire in White Night.
Even if it raises…questions…about how exactly Aurora was enabling the transfer of her mantle to Lily to make her the new Summer Knight at the time.
>>160561
With how often Jim likes to make scenes in which Harry stares at Marcone taking care of battered women, donating to charity, rescuing puppies from trees and then thinking something along the lines of “GOD I fucking hate that nasty crimeman but…BUT…I have to respect him as a man” I’m increasingly convinced the final boss of the series is going to be Marcone mainlining the full power of the Outsiders somehow like a more successful version of the Illusive Man in ME3.
He should be dead ten times over from the kind of bullshit he’s gotten into.
>>160562
He does reasonably well in the kiddie pool, but he’s absolutely fucked if he tries his usual audacious shit because the higher powers in oWoD are much, much less willing to humour one man going rogue to do the right thing reliably. And the Messengers viewing you as deserving of Solar-like Hunter powerups is complete RNG. He basically has to limit his shenanigans to Dead Beat levels at most or he’ll end up dogpiled. As the Eebs showed, an entirely valid way to gank Harry is attrition and firebombing him in his own home.
>>160565
Personally I would give him Forces 3, Correspondence 2 and Spirit 4. Yeah, Harry thinks of himself as a fireball merchant but in oWoD terms his ability to mind spirits is actually really fucking impressive. How he handled the Erlking and Demonreach would be much more concerning to an Earthbound than his sub-nuke level spells.
>>160566
Oh, still literally nothing because Olga was never part of Marisbilly’s original plan. She was explicitly chucked into CHALDEAS to delay the Alien Planet’s plan, all but spelt out to be manifesting a proper vessel for the Alien Priestess who is essentially it’s Archetype. Presumably the resources that were supposed to make the Priestess an Arc expy went into making Jobga and her exponents instead.
>>160568
Nah it hit rock bottom with Toph vs Gaara, everything past that has just been people getting back their taste.
Your sins will not fade from memory.