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[coffeehouse.livejournal.com]

If Anita can call the dead, and heal the dead (remember when she used her own blood and the corpse came out of the ground looking totally alive? And if vampires are dead, and she can call them during the day (like she did with Damien to help her out of a jam) then why doesn't she heal Asher?
I read all the books in a three week span last year and noticed *a whole LOT* of continuity errors that bug me...

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[rantingmule.livejournal.com]

The reason she doesn't heal Asher is because his scars are a perpetual source of WANGST. If Asher was unscarred, he'd be a lot happier, and a lot less of a total twit. He'd also, yanno...be able to snag a sex partner OTHER than Anita the ONE CROTCH, or Narcissus.

In other words, he (Asher) is not allowed to develop and grow because he might no longer DESPERATELY NEED Anita, and because everything must be All About Anita, he is trapped as he is.

It's rather depressing, actually.

[pandorasblog]

Actually, this seems logical enough to me, and consistant with the limitations of the vampire healing process in other series. My guess is that she can't heal Asher because the process of his body being damaged and healing itself is over and done with. He has scars that don't change of his body's own accord.

When she raises a zombie, she's raising a body in the midst of decomposition. It's an active process that her blood can intervene in to mend the corpse's structure and appearance. But Asher's wounds have healed. He doesn't look as he did before he was tortured, but his body has mended itself to the greatest extent possible, so there's no longer an active process for her to get involved with.

[ginavive.livejournal.com]

Giving the benifit of doubt, I'd say that because they were inflicted with Holy water, there is some sort of mystical mumbojumbo that she doesn't have the power to override the power of the holy water's damage.

However, he was also supposed to be seeing a plastic surgeon, so, WTF!

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

YAABI's Yet Another Anita Blake Inconsistency.

You could drive Edward/Ted's Hummer through the plot holes and mistakes.
A vampire would be a prime candidate for plastic surgery because they heal and regenerate....but think of the whining and angst that would disappear and also Anita's chance to 'heal' poor Asher's bruised psyche with her magic, er, you know what.

[d3athw1sh.livejournal.com]

I remember from Cerulean Sins that Asher consulted a surgeon, that is why he can have "teh sex" with Anita now. Because if I remember correctly, Jean-Claude was worried that the holy water had caused so much damage that Asher would no longer be able to "perform" properly but when Anita, Asher, and Jean-Claude were together and Anita undressed him, Jean-Claude made a comment about it and Asher said that the surgeon said it was only the foreskin, or something, and it was easily fixed. Then there were joyous tears (seriously, I think there were).

I have no idea how I remember any of this...

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I thought about that - I thought about why JC doesn't just cut off his cross-shaped burn and grow new skin. Surely the same could work for Asher's scars. Vampire regeneration = teh orsum, after all said and done. It's set up in Guilty Pleasures that a bullet to the head won't kill a regular vampire, so...sooper dooper supermodel sex vampires should be able to re-prettify themselves.

But by the same token, I hope she doesn't heal Asher. I like that he's got scars (I hate his wangst, though) because he's the one guy of the lot that's A) got some individuality and B) is interesting. Sure, he's half an affeminate pretty-boy, but the other half is what makes him interesting.

I will never forgive LKH for prettifying Damian and fixing his broken nose and what-not. I liked that he wasn't perfect. Then again, given how much his characterisation has been so utterly neglected and trampled over, I shouldn't be surprised that potentially one of the more interesting people has been reduced to a cardboard cut-out.

After ID, I am convinced that Damian is not a character at all.

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

the only logic in that part is that Anita was only able to heal fresh wounds with that skill , I mean she only healed a really fresh cut and the also real fresh sword to the heart (and she even used her own blood to accelerate or kick start the vamp healing)
So no way to heal an old and blessed wound I think
but that logic hasn't been destroyed, yet