Spoilers Harlequin: Peter - The Pimp in training

[ravenhaley.livejournal.com]

I took Flo's adivce and decided to make a thread about Peter.

So Peter is suppose to come to St. Louis with Edward and Olaf. 

Here are the Spoilers for the Harlequin:

Peter gets clawed pretty good by a weretiger trying to help Anita.

He needs rough sex because he has issues with women because of his rape by Amanda in OB- and it was too rough for his first two girlfriends.

And, the kicker of it all - but no big surprise- he has a crush on Anita and she's his hero because she saved his family.

This is just gross. Peter having a crush on Anita is just wrong, but of course he has to crush on her ... there is no one else for him to crush on who isn't the "DIETY". 

In the timeline, Peter is suppose to be 14/15 years old. Yet, it would seem LKH will forget about his age because she forgets everything else (i.e. Asher smokes, Damian's age and oh how about a PLOT!)

But this isn't the first time LKH has mention sex and someone under the age of 18. If I remember, DM had the Siren making deals with Anita to sleep with her kids for them to come into their powers. I only thing one of them is over the age limit. So this doesn't surprise me. It is very much the direction of where LKH has gone now. The only thing on her mind is sex, sex, and more sex. For it is the only thing she writes about and there isn't anything to stop her including age limit.

As for Peter, I am not surprise this is where they are taking him. Look at Nate for crying out loud. This was a creature Anita was trying to help since BO and BM. Yet, somewhere from OB and NIC he no longer became this scared helpless barely over the age of 18 who was abused and kicked to the sideline. Oh no, he became a "stud muff"    Which I never got that. Nate is not a strong character. I still see the character as a broken boy who doesn't know how to take care of himself without selling himself one way or another. That alone is a reason I never liked the character.

There is just some things you can cross the line but others you can't. Furry sex and underage sex is just things no one should touch. Someone apparently doesn't know that. We have seen Furry sex  .... it is a matter of time for the other and it looks like it could be this next book. Of course, to justify the means LKH will just forget Peter's real ago and call him 18. I mean his "fake" ID says so. *eyeroll*

I think LKH won't write about therapy maybe because she is afraid she will learn that sex can't and will not solve your problems. Instead of drinking like most "normal" people, LKH has made Anita and the rest of the characters think sex is the answer to the questions. Anita still hasn't gotten over her mother's death or her father re-marrying. How about her ex who left her because she was mixed. She still harbors these issues and is making her life evening more of a mess the more she buries the problems underneath the next person she sleeps with.

Or maybe this is just life imitating art? 

Thoughts?

Comments

Re: This is some fucked up shit

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is entirely possible, but there are things that can help, like therapy and people who care enough about you to help you and see that you help yourself.

Instead LKH advocates more sex to 'cure' (and I use that word lightly) someone of their tragic past. That is beyond WTF, although as you've said it is becoming a theme to the books.

I wonder if we did a count exactly how many characters have been raped/abused and been told/discovered that the Crotch-o-Doom is the best way to heal them. I'd check it out, but I took all my LKH books to the charity shop yesterday.

Re: This is some fucked up shit

[nimnix.livejournal.com]

How healing could it be to look to Anita as your dream woman, your savior, the person who will protect you and love you forever, and then realize that the only time she wants you is when she's forced to have sex, and even then you're not her first choice? That the person who is supposed to lead is being led around by their own sickness?

If Nathanial is healing, he's healing despite Anita. There is no way anything she says or does will heal Pete. He, like Nate, will be forced to heal on his own or become a monster. Her life is a mess, her relationships are generally broken, and she is blind to the most basic of cues that her people use, blind to everything but herself and her own needs.

Even if sex were the cure, Anita-sex ain't. Can you imagine her doing even so much as giving him sex advice?