Almost 2 years. T_T
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Two years and a couple of months (27.5.14)
I didn´t know about her name and butters questmarks, but i did know for some time about the YA series with Maggie and Mouse. Maggie relly is in a tough spot, being the weird kid in a school for the kids of the supernatural and weird...
Nah, look at the good side! At least Daddy's rep means that no one will bully her.
...Well, I'd say "nobody is stupid enough", but kids will be kids regardless....
"Father can flip tectonic plates."
"My Dad can set your Dad on fire. Permanently."
Absolutely no relation to NLK
Well, the Bigfoot trilogy set some precedent for dangerous cruel magic kids, but I assume this academy is a bit more regulated.
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World's Cutest Direwolf
Well, the issue with the bigfoot bulliers was that one of the people whose job it was to regulate that shit was actively encouraging and enabling them. Only problem in SMAGT (did we already know that's where Maggie was going, incidentally?) was that a guy was using a kid's life force to power his hair growth. And Harry already had words with him about that, so it shouldn't be a problem again.
I'm curious about what the kid-only monsters are, since nominal adult Harry has already rumbled with Santa Claus and a bogeyman.
Huh… that makes me want to ask… does this mean Dresden-esque behavior is hard wired into soul in place of Red Court tendencies because of what Harry and Susan did?
No, I don't think so. For starters, Red Court didn't exactly... "breed" like mortals do (through good old sexual reproduction), they convert others.
...I think it's just Dresden being Dresden. His reputation alone enough to elevate him to Semi-Divinity, if you ascribe on idea God Needs Prayer Badly. 
I like the name Bonnie. I hope she and Maggie interact at some point. Would be nice.
Come to think of it I vaguely recall SCM writing something like that soon after Skin Game.
"But if that happened, Melia might actually be happy. We can't have that." - Handsome Rob
Jim said he is writing a scene where Harry comes home to find Maggie and Bonnie trying to make pancakes.
Jupiterian Local
How old is Maggie at this point? I'm pretty fuzzy on the timeline of Dresden Files in general, to be honest.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Absolutely no relation to NLK
Conceived in Death Masks, born around Blood Rites. Which would put her around six by Changes, and probably eight or nine by Peace Talks.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
The important word there is "trying", with the daughter of the most powerfull wizard of his generation and an entity full of powerfull knowlege but with no context for it my bets are on terrifying pancake monster that tries to eat everyone (with lots of syrup)
Scion of the Dragon
Fact check: at what age was Harry adopted by Justin Justin Du Morne?
edited 10th Oct '16 5:39:04 PM by LMage
"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"
Absolutely no relation to NLK
Malcom died when Harry was six, as I recall. Harry mentions spending some time in the foster care system before ending up with DuMorne, so maybe a year or two afterwards?
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Have we brought up that Frozen might be Mab's Disneyfied autobiography?
I think the main problem with that is that while Elsa is clearly a Winter changeling, Anna doesn't appear to be a Summer one. I guess Disney could have just screwed up Titania's backstory.
You don't need to be a changeling to get the mantle of a fairy queen. Or else Charity would have some awkward questions to answer.
Also, random thought, what if there's mordite present in outerspace? Mordite coming to earth in the form of meteors could explain the old superstition of falling stars bringing disaster. It also handily explains where Ivy and Hades got so much mordite in the first place, since I find it unlikely that, while someone could conceivably get to the outergates, evade the warriors and Gatekeeper to go out into Outsider-held territory, not be killed by Outsiders, find mordite, and conceive a way to carry it around, I REALLY don't see them making it back over the Wall and Gates. That sucker be dead on sight.
That's a neat idea.
Would also tie in nicely with the idea of magical "sky-iron" swords.
"But if that happened, Melia might actually be happy. We can't have that." - Handsome Rob
Ninety & L Mage:
I seem to recall that DuMorne adopted Harry (and Elaine) when they were adolescents, maybe twelve? Old enough that isn't squicky that they fell in love. So that would mean about six years in the foster system for Harry. Poor guy.
edited 12th Oct '16 6:44:39 AM by scionofgrace
Scion of the Dragon
Uhhh, iirc Elaine wasn't adopted until much later? A year or two before Justin tired to brainwash them?
"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"
I believe it was said that Justin adopted Elaine just a few months after Harry
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
I assume he had his eye on him for a few years, but only came in once Harry started showing magic, because why waste time on a dud/someone who can't yet cast magic.
And Harry did once relate the story where he first accidentally use magic when he was in a school sport event and used it to jump ridiculously far. This was when he was about 12 and he said he was still in the System then.
Edit: I was off by about 2 years. From Proven Guilty Chapter 41
She chewed her lip. She said nothing.
Maybe I had to give a little to get a little. “It’s always like that for people like us. Something happens, almost like it’s all by itself, the first time the magic bubbles over. It’s usually something small and silly. My first time…” I smiled. “Oh, man. I haven’t thought about that in a while.” I mused for a moment, thinking. “It was maybe two weeks before Justin adopted me,” I said. “I was in school, and small. All elbows and ears. Hadn’t hit my growth spurt yet, and it was spring, and we were having this school Olympics. Field day, you know? And I was entered in the running long jump.” I grinned. “Man, I wanted to win it. I’d lost every other event to a couple of guys who liked to give me a hard time. So I ran down the blacktop and jumped as hard as I could, yelling the whole time.” I shook my head. “Must have looked silly. But when I shouted and jumped, some of the power rolled out of„me and threw me about ten feet farther than I should have been able to jump. I landed badly, of course. Sprained my wrist. But I won this little blue ribbon. I still have it back at home.“
edited 12th Oct '16 12:09:02 PM by 3of4
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Random, but except for things like the effects of sunrises, Jim's bit kinda silent on the effects stellar phenomena have on magic. Which is fair, since who wants to do all that in-depth astronomy, but you have to wonder. I mean, things like 'when the stars/planets/moons/comets align' etc type prohecies and rituals are, if not a pervading part of magic, than an acceptably established part of the genre. Do eclipses have/still have a definite effect on magic, or is it, as hinted at in Cold Days, just a strange form of timekeeping for getting to 'places in time'? Does iron from space REALLY have bonafide magical properties, or is it just another kind of ion, magically significant because Fae and their in-laws hate the stuff? Was the Star of Bethlehem magical holy light in the sky, ot did heaven REALLY time their move to coincide with the time the light of a supernova finally got to Earth (given all Uriel's talk of blowing up galaxies, you have to wonder...)?
By the same token, the series is also friendly for crossovers where the meta-origin of the other series originates from space. Though the thought of a Smallville/Dresden Files crossover makes me want to set something on fire...
Jupiterian Local
I still dislike the idea of iron as kryptonite for fae. The original meaning of iron as being useful against The Fair Folk was "they're really good at magic, so don't bother trying any charms or rituals or anything to ward them off. Stabbing them works, though." The modern equivalent would be "don't worry about silver or wooden stakes or holy water or anything, just shoot them" — though Dresden Files does a lot of that anyway.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
We knew that, and Bonea's name, a while ago. Anyway, I'm actually looking forward to the YA series with Maggie and Mouse. Sounds like it could be a pretty interesting perspective. Shame about no release date though. How long ago was Skin Game?
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.