Aren't they? How so? The protection is created by the emotion> The protection remains as long as the emotion remains..
No. The protection remains as long as nothing wipes it away. Once created, it exists independently. Even if the love dies between the principals, the protection remains until it is undone.
The protection isn't something that exists in a vacuum, it is fed by the emotion of true love.
Yes, in the moment of the sexual act. Then it exists separately.
Oh it does, if it includes rape, which is an act of violence done through sex..
Having been thinking about this since I posted yesterday, I'm not
sure rape would undo it. There are two reasons for that, one theoretical and one practical. The theory reason is that we don't know if that exchange of soul-energy happens in non-consensual sex, AFAIK JB has never said either way. If it didn't, the original protection would probably endure.
The practical reason is that a White Vampire could then overcome the protection either by restraining his/her Hunger longer enough to carry out a rape, or assigning a minion to do it, or hiring it done, and then feed. We've never seen or heard of anybody doing that that I recall, so possibly it wouldn't work.
Protection is caused by love, but not love in of itself? Really? No, something else is going on here, people make love all of the time, for many reasons, but very few of them experience true love. Or the kind of true love that the Hunger Demon is allergic to. Harry never ceased to love Susan even when she was absent all of those years, thus he was protected.
No. Harry's love for Susan cannot protect him, it can only protect Susan. It's Susan's love for Harry that protects him. It's the other-focus of love, the prioritization of the other over oneself, that produces the protection. You can't shield yourself, at least not that way.
When he met Luccio he was ready to move on, he did, he was no longer held back by the emotion he had felt for Susan. Thus he lost his protection.
No, he lost his protection when he had sex with Luccio. With or without his continuing love for Susan, that would undo the protection, because Susan's protective energy would no longer be present in Harry. It would be replaced by Stacy's, and she doesn't love him, so it doesn't make his own energy poisonous to WVs.
It is also possible that his protection continued even if Susan no loved him after she left for South America.
It certainly did. He had it up until Luccio.
There is a problem there though, Harry still loved Susan, but at the time that Lara was burned from contact with him, there was a good chance that Susan had already moved on emotionally from him.. Really? Seems to me as long as the true love exists it's like getting a booster shot.
Not unless they had sex in the meantime. Otherwise there's no way for the 'booster shot' to reach the protectee.
As long as the true love emotion is felt by the would be victim, the Hunger Demon is going to have an allergic reaction and the host vampire is going to feel the burn.
Nope. Not unless he or she hasn't had sex with someone else in the meantime. Otherwise he or she is going to be vampire chow.
Remember, the key to the protection is the soul-energy transferred during sex (and other times in theory according to JB). Normally, it doesn't matter to a WV, but if it's tainted with Love. It makes the food poisonous. That energy has to be present to provide the protection. It has to get from one person to the other, and sex is the only route we've seen.
It's not just the emotion and will by themselves, it's the energy tained by them. That energy remains in place, once transferred, until replaced. But if it gets replaced, it's gone.
The energy transfers with any sex, but it's only a problem for the WVs if its tainted by love at the time of the transfer.
Although, I do recall Lara mentioning that sexual virgins are especially appealing to WVs. That might be related to the absence of any interfering presence on the 'fresh food'.
The protection will last for life, if it's not removed, regardless of the status of the relationship or the emotions after it's created. Likewise, it can be removed regardless of the status of those things afterward.
