[Dragaera] (Dzur SPOILER) Is it odd?

[Jose Marquez]

Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On 8/12/06, Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Should be interesting. Lady Teldra is pretty agreeable, but I can't see
>> her (at least in her previous incarnation) imposing her will on anyone.
>> That just doesn't seem like her.
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> Oh, but she does it all the time! The essence of manners is to impose
> your will on others, where it's practical, without undue violence to
> their psyches.
<snip excellent text-ev>

I wouldn't describe what Teldra does so much as imposing her will or 
even gentle manipulation. I don't know; both imply removing choice. Vlad 
can ignore Teldra's influence if he wants to, but Teldra is stopping him 
from getting himself killed, in some cases. I don't know. I guess I'm 
hung up on semantic differences between imposing your will (where your 
will is done no matter what) and what Teldra does. Vlad allows her to 
influence him. She doesn't impose. That would be rude. *grin*
> A test of wills between Vlad and Teldra would be very interesting...
> IMHO, only someone as stubborn as Vlad would have any chance of coming
> out victorious.
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If it came to that, to a point where Vlad didn't want to do something 
Lady Teldra wants him to do, and she's adamant and so is he, hmm. I want 
to say that she'd back down, but if she's actually adamant, she 
wouldn't, would she? And neither would he; he's stubborn. I don't know 
who'd win. He's pretty stubborn, but he's also pretty sensitive, for an 
assassin.

Jose

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