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Probably because Edward was so far managing to keep Tedd from going forward with his plans, while Pandora was the one actually doing the stuff that caused Magic to threaten a system change. Of course Tedd would still feel like he could have caused a change even if Pandora hadn't created the clog and marked a bunch of people.

Actually, I'm pretty certain that it is canon that Rhoda has already done this, and that was why she blushingly stated to talk about it later.

I guess I should have said "the" story arc instead of "this" story arc, though I try to refer to the main story when I say story, and then NP for the NP arcs.

Sounds more like you created the God-Emporer of Mankind. You didn't consider trying to have him just take full control of the Navy and conquer the universe?

The same can be said about Nanase, she's probably avoided joining any school teams and likely restricted herself in how much she does during gym class to avoid raising suspicion that she was somehow augmenting her strength, even if suspicion of magic wasn't what she was worried about, the constant drug tests probably would be annoying to have to go through, and it is possible that DGB would have something to say about it too. Actually, hmm, Noah is also someone who would be in a similar situation, I imagine Grace by default tries to avoid doing anything to cause suspicion, but Noah did have an incident where he beat up several seniors, maybe Adrian had Noah tone things down after that.

Definitely a must have heat on kind of night tonight. Winter is coming....

True, mainly because Catalina had the advantage of having known of Elliot for a while through Susan, Rhoda had just met Ellen that day, but Rhoda did ask about Ellen at some point and Ellen seems to be pretty clued...huh...I just looked up the page where Ellen and Elliot discuss Rhoda and Catalina, and re-read Dan's commentary: " It really isn't a well kept secret that Catalina is dating Rhoda, is it? Of course, this begs the question of whether Elliot has actually met Rhoda or not. My answer is a defnitive maybe to be potentially clarified in future comics. " So we could be getting some clarification in this story arc. I imagine Rhoda and Grace still chat often even if they don't need to tutor each other anymore, they might just be study buddies now, granted that's probably not much different than tutoring, but it's probably more of a keep the grades up type of thing rather than playing catch-up.

3 minutes? I only usually have the bag in as I pour the water, then squash the bag with the back of the spoon a couple times then take the bag out...hehe, maybe I'll stick with the summer berry tea.

I've have smoked gouda and smoked salami before, good stuff. Smoked tea I haven't had, though I'm not really a tea person, too bitter, and most of the teas I've tried don't taste any better sweetened, except for a summer berry tea in which case the berry flavour works with sugar added. Ice tea as well but that's also sweetened.

Stacks on stacks. Rhoda stacked to get stacked. Stacks for days! ... .... That's all I got...

Why would there be an implication that there's soo many ways to awaken and have awakening without realizing and without Immortal intervention not be one of them? Well, if you really want to be technical 1 of the awakening via Immortal was done with the permission of the one being awakened, and the other was done without permission. In the case of the improper awakening, Ellen and Elliot was originally just Elliot until the diamond split them and caused the awakenings. So it's probably more like 1-1-1-0.5-0.5

I'm saying we can't really compare Rhoda to Nanase as we don't know Rhoda's family history to determine if she's in the same S rank league as Nanase, I said before that Nanase may be higher than S rank if there is something higher according to Pandora (I also mentioned Edward probably uses a different scale complete with charts that would probably differentiate Rhoda's potential and Nanase's potential). We do, however know more about Nanase's family history, I may have run off on a tangent by trying to speculate how Noriko may have awakened, but I think there's enough canon information to suggest that Noriko didn't have anyone hide the fact that there's magic and that she's a potential monster hunter, at least not like what Mama Kitsune's doing to Nanase though I do understand why Mama Kitsune might be reluctant about doing so considering how Noriko turned out. To be honest, I think Mama Kitsune has been in a way guiding Nanase, making sure she studies hard and gets good grades, letting her take martial arts training, letting her go to France, heck her knowing that Nanase has awakened but keeping her distance from that part of Nanase is letting her naturally develop into a powerful magic user who is doing good and still keeping friends and family close, which was something that Noriko failed to do, which Mama Kitsune apparently blames Adrian for letting happen (he's her least favorite teacher after all) It was New Years Eve that Rhoda mentioned it to Diane which is almost 2 weeks ago comic time, it was probably several months earlier when the actual conversation with Grace happened. It might slip her mind in the excitement over Elliot being Cheerleadra, I dunno... Maybe not, this is more of an "if things happened differently" scenario, like if Noriko wanted to carry on the family tradition and Mama Kitsune was content with being a wife and mother, they might have considered letting Nanase be Noriko's apprentice when she came of age or however the family had handled training the next in line. I guess that might be assuming there isn't a strict parent must train own offspring rule they have to follow. That is very possible, I think I did speculate on that earlier as well, but because of what happened with Noriko, Mama Kitsune didn't want that happening to her family, so she formulated her own method of raising Nanase to not be like Noriko.

Just got back from a Remembrance Day dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion hall in town with the family. We had roast beef which was cut in half inch thick slices and was fall apart tender, mashed potatoes and gravy that was actually made from the roast juices, not some powered or canned stuff that they try to pass as gravy, mixed beans and carrots and turnip puff. For desert there was chocolate and vanilla cake that was made to congratulate my Grandfather who had recently received the Ushakov Medal from the Russian Ambassador for his participation in the Arctic Allied Convoys during WW2.

Well, you said that Nanase was only able to be awakened by an Immortal because her ASMA training built up her energy enough to do so. I'm not saying that she still would have awakened if she didn't have the ASMA training, it's quite possible Nanase would have needed to be marked as well to fight the vampire if she couldn't be awakened. Alternatively if Nanase both didn't have ASMA training and didn't go to France, she wouldn't have been marked either and wouldn't have learned about magic for a while. As for Noriko, we don't know enough about her history to determine exactly when she awakened or how it happened, the only information we really have is that Adrian taught her and Edward and Mama Kitsune in highschool, Adrian is known to take special interest in people who show great magic potential, and it's been heavily implied that he trained at least Noriko and Edward in the ways of magic, and was considering doing the same with Noah and Grace. It would make sense that both Edward and Noriko awakened sometime either during highschool or shortly after. Also Noriko's apparent knowledge of both her's and Edward's bloodline, and seemed to have a good grasp of her family history. I think that might have been referring more to not trying to get new spells after being awakened. After the France incident, she would have gone back to the same routine and probably didn't try to do much beyond the usual illusion stuff in ASMA class, then a year or so later she discovered the fairy avatar spell and decided it was time to work on getting more spells. She probably would have had more if she got reading her spellbook when she got back from France focused on casting other spells. Quite possible, even if Tedd couldn't be Noriko's apprentice, Mama Kitsune might have allowed her to teach Nanase.

Pandora awakened Justin so that it would throw off Justin and Luke, since Luke swore that Justin had a mark based on his aura, that also threw off Grace when she believed her dreams told her Justin was marked, if Pandora didn't come back to get Sarah's help, Grace would have continued questioning the validity of her dreams. Could you expand on that? 'Cause I still think an Immortal did it. It's like I said a few posts earlier, if there are soo many ways to awakening, Rhoda could have had a perfectly normal awakening as in she simply reached the energy level needed on her own and one morning noticed her mark was gone, and was able to to something different with her magic, why does it HAVE to be by a strong emotional event or an Immortal that did it? We already have 2 instances of immortals awakening people, 1 instance of an emotional event, and 2 instances of improper awakenings, we were due for a different way to awaken.

Five billion ways also certainly means that the awakening doesn't need an emotional trigger and Rhoda could very well have...awakened in her sleep... if that makes any sense.

Tony was the reason "Ronin" did that whole post in the first place. Of course, "Ronin" should have known by now that whatever Tony says isn't PC so him saying Elliot is gay wouldn't mean he's actually gay.

I dunno, maybe, if Catalina does end up approaching Elliot at school and tells him about her spell, maybe Rhoda goes to Ellen as well cus logically if Elliot has magic that lets him be a superheroine, Ellen likely knows about it, also Rhoda believe that there's more to Ellen now just on the fact she mysteriously showed up in school with Grace and she didn't get any clear answer to why she'd be going to MSHS instead of MNHS with her brother. However it goes down, Rhoda and Catalina meeting with any of the Main Eight over this could give us an explanation if we don't get one in this story.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=532 Pandora is shocked. And Catalina Logic seems stumped.

I don't really know either, maybe misunderstanding his intentions because of the method he's using, knee-jerk reaction by either Elliot, or maybe more likely Ellen after finding out he's the reason she exists, that does seem rather harsh. Another possibility would be if Sirleck does possess Magus after he succeed in getting a new body, they have to kill Magus to kill Sirleck. or maybe Magus sacrifices himself to kill Sirleck.

Something else I just realized, Rhoda knew she could change her own size as well as her clothes simultaneously, but apparently she didn't think she could do that to other people, I'm mainly referring to panel 2 in the link, panel one refers to the cookie incident and might have happened before she found awakened and found out she could change her height with her clothes as well. So when Rhoda went to shrink Catalina, she might have been going on a hunch that since she was finally able to affect her own cloths along with herself, that maybe she'd be able to do others as well. The internal monologue would have still been a great help in focusing though.

There are factors to consider with Nanase though, the fact that her aura invokes royalty, the fact that her family has a long history of magic users, and the fact that her aunt is also an S rank (or higher) talent, while we don't know the circumstances of how Noriko awakened, the fact that Adrian had apparently seen her potential in high school probably meant that she too awakened at a young age. Maybe not as young as Nanase did but not far off.

You could use it as jet fuel too.

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I meant, is the affinity genetic still, or is it purely based on name? As you just said the fact that both her first and last names are cat related strengthened the chance of her getting the affinity, it's completely possible that if she was named Jane, she wouldn't have the affinity, so it can't be an affinity she was born with. As was said, Rhoda and Catalina has never gotten that serious at the current NP time, unless kissing was enough to trigger it and I would hardly call that getting busy. I would think that if it was something dramatic that triggered the awakening, of course we don't know how Rhoda reacted to the realization that she made the boar grow, but that would have been too soon for her to have enough energy to awaken. The alternative would be that Rhoda was born with a fully charged energy pool and Pandora was reeeeeeeally being lazy the day she marked her and Rhoda awakened very shortly after the boar incident.