Weak Masquerade

[Tinfoil hat]

Its always bothered me why the Masquerade is so weak in the Dresden files universe.
Harry says that advertising that he is a Wizard is frowned upon but not illegal. No one calls him up on it. Not the Merlin, not Mab , not any one.
We hear talk off of people keeping things quiet but not by much.
The video in fool's moon, Ortega as a vam debunking specialist. Mostly people/things just act like humans will choose to look the other way.
Harry mentions that everyone is always surprised how easy it is to figure about the supernatural. Hell, the WC strategy of dealing with some threats is let everyone know.
Which may explain why the Masquerade is weak.
Its just weak enough to keep the Darwin award winners out. If you make contact with the supernatural and are to stupid to live bye. But if you are useful welcome to the Masquerade.

[g33k]

Its always bothered me why the Masquerade is so weak in the Dresden files universe ...

There is no "Masquerade" (in the V:tM sense) -- no formal "policy," no explicit rules, nobody enforcing it.

There's just a broad concensus that "flying under the mortals' radar" is a good idea:  mortals are freaking dangerous, what with their overwhelming numbers, their ease with using iron (against fae), silver (against were's), full autofire weapons (against Denarians), bazooka's (against Jotuns), nuclear weapons (against Naagloshii), etc etc etc...

Mostly, I think, the spookyside just presumes that anyone not maintaining a masquerade will themselves get relatively-quickly Darwin'ed-out...   

[Ed0517]

Ok, which Old Skool people heard "Masquerade" and went back to Heinlein and Lazarus Long?

[g33k]

Ok, which Old Skool people heard "Masquerade" and went back to Heinlein and Lazarus Long?

I think the V:tM usage has largely supplanted it in pop-culture (although they may well have been inspired by Heinlein's use).

But V:tM is also very-explicitly the exact same context as DF:  supernaturals hiding from mundanes in a "modern urban fantasy" setting.