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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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[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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hallow_/]

But in that same style of thinking, why can't they just surgically remove Ashers scarring and let it heal back to normal?

[pandorasblog]

That's been nagging at me - at the end of a recent book, wasn't there something about how he'd finally agreed to at least see a surgeon? Maybe even something about him having made some improvement? I've only read up to ID, and haven't been able to keep continuity straight in my head since it all blurred into an endless orgy.

Surgery would indeed make sense: if you could cut away the scarring, plus a border of healthy (albeit dead, vampiric) tissue... it really should heal.

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

Yes, in one of the books, (forget which too) Asher was going to or making plans to, see a doctor about fixing the scars.

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

I swear in ID Asher says that only the forskin was damaged and they* cut it off. So since that obviously worked, then to me it makes sense that Asher can get rid of his scars.

*I'm assuming modern doctors since this is after the book where Anita says that Asher is going to be a plastic surgeon after realizing modern medicine might do something that his wonderful body cannot.

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

uhm for that one, they just cut the foreskin off, not healed it,
if they cut the whole side of his body off, even a vamp might not heal it ;-)

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think if they did it in small sections it would be survivable.

[dragonfanguk.livejournal.com]

I think you just put more time and effore into that theory than LKH did with the entire series...

[pandorasblog]

Heh. And when you think that I only put two minutes in... XD

[dragonfanguk.livejournal.com]

My point exactly.