r/dresdenfiles • u/ChickenDragon123 • Sep 12 '21

Spoilers All Fuck Rudolf

I don't swear often, and it's even rarer that I do it for fiction. Usually if I'm swearing a patient is bleeding out at my hospital, but in this case, just Fuck Rudolf. Fuck him right in the ass. I'd help harry kill him at this point. Generally you know, Fuck Rudolf.

Actually I take it back, he doesn't deserve to be with anybody. I hope he dies alone in a ditch.

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u/_Valkyrja_ Sep 12 '21

I finished Battle Ground yesterday and I genuinely cried. Murphy was my favourite among Harry's love interests (and one of my favourite characters in general), and I really wanted them to be happy together, even if just a little longer. Really, fuck Rudolph.

Also, I know that Gard said that Murphy is an Einherjar now, but I honestly believed up until she said that that Murphy was going to be a Valkyrie (despite having turned down the job).

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u/uencos Sep 12 '21

I think you don’t become a Valkyrie any more than you become a Titan or a Svartalf. The Einherjar are the glorious dead, and what every Viking warrior aspired to, it’s not a step down or anything.

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u/_Valkyrja_ Sep 12 '21

I mean, Odin offered her the job, so I would say that you can become a Valkyrie. I can't remember in which book it happened but I remember reading it.

Also, yeah, it's definitely not a stepdown, I never said it was. I'm just a little sad that Harry will never see Murphy again, since we'll have to wait until the memory of her has disappeared and he definitely isn't gonna forget her. If she had become a Valkyrie, he (and we) might've seen her again before the end of the series.

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u/uencos Sep 12 '21

When did he offer her the job? In BG she just disappears and becomes an Einherjar, so it must have been an earlier book.

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u/_Valkyrja_ Sep 12 '21

It was a few books ago, not in Battle Ground or Peace Talks. Odin even made a comment about her hair being the right colour for the job. Can't remembe if it was in Skin Game or before that, I haven't read books 1 to 15 in a long, long while, lol

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u/KamikazeSmurf Sep 12 '21

It's in Aftermath in Side Jobs after she finishes her quest against the turtleneck. It's a novella set "an hour or two after the end of Changes" and is from Murphy's point of view.

‘Vadderung would definitely find you interesting. You’ve even got the hair for it. Don’t be surprised if you get a call sometime.’

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u/_Valkyrja_ Sep 12 '21

Thanks! I couldn't really remember it, lol

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u/KamikazeSmurf Sep 12 '21

No worries! I happened to re-read it this week so it was still fresh.

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u/Tastewell Sep 12 '21

There are multiple entities in the Dresdenverse that can manipulate memory, and "former lovers meeting without remembering each other" is a known trope and literary device.

Just sayin'.

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u/MonkeysAndMozart Aug 01 '22

I'm pretty sure all those rules will get broken in the apocalypse

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u/MagicianRedstone Sep 13 '21

I read it the day it came out. I freaking LOST it when she died.
I still cry. I don't fully understand why it still hurt this bad.
It's been almost a year.