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DF Spoilers / Re: Mouse Can Talk, Can Harry Hear?
« on: Yesterday at 07:23:28 PM »
How does Mouse talk though?  Telepathically very likely as in the person he is talking to hears his words in their mind and believes they hear him talking.  Dogs cannot talk like humans because their muzzels just are not built for human speech, that includes Mouse. 

I suspect Mouse speaks Doggo; and very eloquently!
It's heavy to body language & facial expressions, with some limited vocalizations.

I expect most dogs understand Mouse almost as well as Harry does, tho likely when Mouse tries to "discuss" more complex issues, the average pupper will get very confused... "Dafuq he sayin' ??!?"
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Monsters
« on: Yesterday at 07:18:03 PM »
IIRC, Jim has mused in AMA events that a GG spinoff might be one option after the DF+BAT wraps up.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: Yesterday at 07:16:38 PM »
They know what materials they should use, but using them depends on the short term.  Short term as in what is the cheapest and the quickest to get.  Usually very little thought is given to the cheapest and quickest now costing more later and taking more time because it will have to be done all over again at a later date.  Sadly politics do enter into it as well, that gets very complicated and ugly. 

There's also the well-intentioned "we'll put up the building NOW, with the materials we can get NOW, because otherwise folks will be unsheltered this winter."

Limited availability of "preferred" materials -- and limited budgets -- are all-too-real things that can force unwelcome choices.


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DF Spoilers / Re: Will he marry her?
« on: January 01, 2026, 08:13:35 PM »
... As to the mirror swapping, Mirror Harry kills the new arrival Harrys to cover his tracks, so it's likely they will both be in the same universe ...
As I understand it -- I may be mistaken -- alt!Harry doesn't (or doesn't often) actually *kill* the other Harry's.  His M.O. is that (when he's utterly cornered and sees no way out) he summons an alt to die in his place, usually at the hands of whoever was going to kill him.

Then the Harry-killer knows for certain they  finally got the bastard!  only for Mirror!Harry to pop back up (a day or two later) and blindside them.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mouse Can Talk, Can Harry Hear?
« on: January 01, 2026, 08:06:34 PM »
... Harry knows and understands what kind of dog Mouse is, they communicate very well, Mouse doesn't have to speak human language to make himself understood. 
Well, Harry knows now.
He surely didn't always know!

Though I think he still has some wistfully envious moments when he notices others who can actually *talk* with Mouse in casual conversation that Harry can't (yet) quite match ...

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mouse Can Talk, Can Harry Hear?
« on: December 30, 2025, 11:34:49 PM »
Dogs comprehend a lot more than you think, or the intelligent ones do. 
As a lifelong dog owner & sometimes trainer & avid reader about dogs, I'm aware they are smarter than most give them credit for.

For those who *don't* know -- the "average" dog seems to have a comprehension vocabulary of just under 100 words.

Working dogs usually top 200 words.

Ultra-intelligent ones have been documented to over 1000 words -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaser_(dog)

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DF Spoilers / Re: Will he marry her?
« on: December 29, 2025, 07:55:50 PM »
... Second Q:  Will they consummate?  I think yes, too.

I don't think they can.
Some time ago, WoJ stated that the WK-Mantle combined with Whamp-Mojo in really bad ways: the only possible outcomes would be a mentally-broken & fully whamp-enslaved WK, or a dead Whampire.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirror Mirror Tracking on Butcher's official site!
« on: December 29, 2025, 07:51:01 PM »
Also, in a recent video, his wife needs him to finish it before the new year I believe,  over a comment or discussion with a redditor? 

Welp, he looks unlikely to hit "by the new year!"   ;)
It has been stuck at 28% complete for over a month.   :o

Maybe we can generously presume the timeframe was "a year" (i.e. from whenever the reddit exchange occurred) rather than a hard-dated "by new years."

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DF Spoilers / Re: Will he marry her?
« on: December 29, 2025, 07:40:23 PM »
Harry will go to the bathroom right before heading to the altar and ... transfer to Mirror Mirror land, leaving Lara at the altar and Mab seething. 
This is my theory, more or less.

Maybe not a bathroom, maybe just the changing-area where Harry takes off his jeans/T/duster uniform & puts on a tux (but it still has the necessary mirror for checking fit&c...)

I don't know, I can see it go either way, the thing is I don't think Lara wants to get married anymore than Harry, between the two of them, they may be able to outsmart Mab.
Agreed:  neither of them really want to marry.  The thing is, I don't think Mab wants that, either!  I think she has a big ol' pile of other agendas based on her telling them to get married... including forcing them to work together to (try to) outsmart her.  Mab being Mab, I'm sure she has contingency plans for if they do get married, but I think her preferred option is for them not to.

The main questions I have are:  is it a full swap, with Mirror!Harry coming to Harry!Prime's world (where he's expected to go through with the marriage to Lara)?  Because that's part of the OG Mirror,Mirror ST:TOS episode, with evil!Kirk&co coming to the Federation, and Jim has been frank that he's stealing shamelessly there.  And then (also based on the ST episode):  is it just the Harrys who swap, or is it Harry plus a big pack of his Scooby Gang (and if so, who?) swapping with Mirror!Harry and his Posse?

I can just imagine the moment when Harry is standing there at the altar -- seeing Mab(??!?) in the front row of the audience -- and waiting to see who his bride is... aaaand it's Lara Raith, making Mirror!Harry go "o shit, I thought I was going to a safer universe!"

Meanwhile, Mab is thinking, "what the fuck have you done, Dresden, where is Winter's Knightmantle??!?"  And when the officiant gets to "Speak now, or forever hold your peace," it's Mab who speaks up.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mouse Can Talk, Can Harry Hear?
« on: December 29, 2025, 07:11:16 PM »
In Changes, and subsequent stories, we learn Mouse is capable of communicating at a human intellect level. In the subsequent stories, we see that some humans can understand Mouse or other human level intellect canines (for example, Molly and the Alphas in Bombshells). When Harry is in dog form in Changes, Harry can understand Mouse:

Also in the first chapter of Changes, Harry seems to understand Mouse at that same intellectual level:

Harry could have been just guessing at what Mouse meant by interpreting his body language and stuff. I personally think Harry was dissociating enough that he was in a state where he could "hear" Mouse like Molly does.

Do you think Harry capable of understanding Mouse? I doubt he will ever understand Mouse in the books because, as Jim said, Mouse knows too much. My question is whether he could if he worked on it.

Harry has always talked aloud, to himself, as one of Jim's exposition techniques.

Dog-owners -- by and large -- talk to their dogs, in ways far beyond what dogs can comprehend; Jim used that as an expansion of Harry's own talk-aloud habit.

But it has been an ongoing theme of the stories that Harry has realized more and more that Mouse is far more intelligent than the average dog.  There's a scene in Turn Coat where Mouse gets shot (bullet didn't penetrate far) protecting Molly, and Harry uses it as a "teaching moment" to get Molly more aware of the potential consequences for her actions... and shortly thereafter, Harry realizes that Mouse was deliberately feigning a worse injury & more pain, playing to Harry's own lessons in perfect comprehension of what Harry was teaching, and how Harry was going about the lesson.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Can we see Rudy take up a sword
« on: December 17, 2025, 06:16:02 PM »
What is scary is a lot of people, won't question it. 
Absolutely.
Doesn't much matter, for stuff like pop fiction.

But RL issues are getting buried under extremely-realistic AI slop, too; and people are giving it credence...

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DF Spoilers / Re: Can we see Rudy take up a sword
« on: December 16, 2025, 06:10:46 PM »
... the A.I. gave me this:
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<SNIP>
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This wasn't in the copy of Battleground that I read ...

Classic AI hallucination:  include a light dusting of genuine references, but placed in incorrect contexts for a surreal result.

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DF Spoilers / Re: List your top 5 Dresden files books
« on: December 14, 2025, 06:48:26 PM »
This list varies depending on my mood sometimes ...

Same.
Except for me, most of the time not just "some."

My top-most favorite book is whichever came out most recently, which lasts for about 6ish months.

Most of the rest of the time, it's whichever I'm currently re-reading (which most-often is whichever my wife is currently listening-to in audiobook format (I often listen with her)).

Occasionally, it's a small&scattered collection of books, when I'm cross-referencing clues to assemble/verify/test a WAG.

 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Can we see Rudy take up a sword
« on: December 14, 2025, 06:31:36 PM »
... It was a warning, Harry took it as a warning, Harry was ashamed and didn't forget.  In other words a strong warning, and then Harry went on to try and redeem himself.  That's the point ...
No; the point is that Angels don't do that.

They do not "step in" that way, not even to "warn:"  not with an unambiguous Angelic-caliber "thou shalt not," not to influence mortals' free will.

That the Sword did burn Harry can only be a "warning" that a Spookyside "bad actor" is acting upon Harry; that his free will isn't entirely his own.  A free-willed mortal choice does not get an Angelic response or intervention.

... Or very realistic, between his adrenalin and the Winter Knight's mantle Harry wasn't going to come to his senses that easily or quickly after seeing his beloved murdered and bleeding out in his arms.

Hypothetically, the WK-mantle influence may indeed be sufficient to get a KotC/Angelic intervention.

...

Maybe...

But ...

1/ But also, nope -- Harry already made that choice, and now has to live with the consequences.  When he chose to take on the WK-mantle, Harry chose chose to eventually become a monster.  The Angels (once again) do not intervene/warn when mortals have made their choice.  You might argue that some mortal may have been "tricked" into taking up a Knight-mantle without understanding how it could mess with their head; but Harry knew it would happen, fully accepted that it would (as it turns out, he has a slim chance not to become a monster!).

2/ But also, why both(all) of the Knights?  We really don't see more than one KotC stepping into a fight for "just any" supernatural threat; and as "threats" go, a faerie Knight isn't exactly top-tier!  The most-obvious answer to "why are all the KotC's in that fight?" is "because they are fighting the KotC-archfoe, the Denarians."

= = =

I want to reiterate, here, that my "Denarian Hypothesis" here is actually my #2 choice, not my #1.

I think "it was just the WK-Mantle (with no Denarians) that triggered/enabled the Sword to act" is a better argument.  .. but also, I think there is a decent argument -- with supporting Dresdenverse lore -- to make a solid case for a Denarian Shadow to be involved.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Can we see Rudy take up a sword
« on: December 13, 2025, 07:12:34 PM »
... It wasn't angels that stopped Harry in that moment, it was his very human friends who stopped him, true they were better equipped, but in the end it was his very human friends risking injury to stop their very upset, but powerful and dangerous friend from doing something he'd regret later, and in the end harm their cause ...

Yes, his friends were there, and worked to stop him... risked themselves to stop him!

But the angelic power of Fidelacchius came to bear against Harry... and that doesn't happen for mortals making purely-mortal choices.  The fact that Fidelacchius' miraculous powers manifested:  this says that the supernatural is misbehaving in that scene; that mortal free-will is compromised (and/or that mortals are facing supernatural might, that mortal flesh and bone alone cannot match)

And the fact that both (aka "all" at this point) the knights took to the field... that's more ambiguous, but a good reason to at least suspect the culprit is Denarians; that I can recall, the only other multi-Knight action we've seen was later against Ethniu herself (who solo'ed against Mab+Odin+WhiteCouncil)... and previously, against Denarians.  I repeat that the WK mantle is "enough" supernatural influence to justify a KotC involvement; I think it more-likely.  We don't have to demand Denarian presence... but.  There is that niggle...

It just gives me pause:  nothing called for Jim to write it that way.  Harry could have looked down at a fallen and bleeding Sanya, and come to his senses... without bringing in Butters, or Fidelacchius.  He could have had Butters show up, and not use Fidelacchius.  It would have been a much more "human" moment; but Jim specifically invoked the Angelic.

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