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Date Posted: 15:32:50 09/22/10 Wed
Author: Missa
Subject: I think she's OK. From her description in the books, though, I pictured her hair a much lighter blond, stringier, and she appearing lighter on her feet overall. I remember the passage (can't remember which book) where Claire describes her as seeming to float on air, wondering where her feet were. Much of it is me, though, perceiving through Claire's 20th century isn't-the-18th-century-picturesque eyes. Good point about Laoghaire. I think maybe a bit of a pawn, but maybe not quite so innocent-why would an "innocent" purchase the ill wish in the first place? But if she did know that both "witches" would be burned, that seems ~very~ diabolical to me, even for 16/17 y/o Laoghaire. Seems there might still be a bit of the Cranesmuir backstory missing?
In reply to: Merrymags 's message, "What Did You Think of Geillis Duncan?" on 15:20:50 09/22/10 Wed


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[> I thought it was interesting that in Outlander Laoghaire gave Claire a message to go to Geillie but in Exile she gave ner a note. I went way long >>>> -- jayn, 17:46:18 09/22/10 Wed

Big difference, maybe she truly didn't know what was in it. I am kind of changing my thinking on Laoghaire. I am beginning to think she wasn't all that bad, just a victim of circumstances. I think she never ever grew up, not even after Culloden but especially not in Out/Ex. She was physically a woman but mentally a little girl. In Out/Ex she was a very attractive, romantic and naive 16 year old who, possibly, was taken advantage of the way young girls still are today - that is either by a boy her own age or by an older man. Jamie certainly did not act very well toward her, I have never been happy with that alcove incident, I don't care how badly he was burning, he had no business 'making out' with Laoghaire unless he wanted her, and he clearly didn't. He knew the morals of the day as well as she did, and the beating, following by the alcove, was as good as a formal marriage proposal - it's easy to see how she turned it to that in her mind, thinking that her father's disaproval and Jamie's situation were the only stumbling blocks to their forever happiness - and those could easily be overcome by Jamie swearing to the MacKenzies (I don't think she was astute enough to see any reason for that not to happen). As far as the ill wish, I don't think that was any different than any 16 year-old would do, just maybe carried it a bit far.

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[> [> I will say this: having been a 16 year old girl a few years ago *cough* I know how some of them can act and how twisted their little minds can be. So, I think Leggy was definitely a bitchy 16 year old girl given to boy chasing and flirting. She realized her prettiness and the affects it had on young men. In Exile, she is shown going in for a lip lock with Jamie there after the beating. Tramp! As for Geillie, she was supposed to be light on her feet and her hair was very light blond and wispy. I have to think that her hair color was changed in the same vein that Claire's dress was changed at the time she comes through the Stones..... -- Merrymags, 19:20:19 09/22/10 Wed


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