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Well, Ellen never did go back to the ASMA dojo and we had only seen her at the new dojo with Grace so there's nothing in canon that suggested Ellen and Nanase sparred, but there is much to suggest they went straight to the makeouts.

Maybe Sarah applied an MV5 sunscreen before going to the beach and is now reapplying with the FV5.

I don't see her expression as annoyed, more like "There's absolutely nothing unusual about this, here's my badge." Heck, this could be their third convention, after the second one seemed to be successful, and Susan got more comfortable with the idea of turning heads, they decided to see if they could push even farther.

Yeah, I happened to see the patron comment about Larry after I posted this and yeah I see the hair style resemblance.

Huh, I never noticed that was Diane, the "tattoo" on her arm should have been a give away. It is kinda odd that she'd treat Justin that way, but when the rumours of Elliot being gay were going around, she refused to jump on that bandwagon and even went at trying to derail it. The easiest explanation would be because she was infatuated with Elliot and she saw the rumours as a threat to her chances of getting him, but it's possible that her views on homosexual people changed, maybe after she found out that Nanase was a lesbian, Diane never really showed it in school but I think the moments where Diane stated how cool Nanase is, I think is something she had always felt. Diane's treatment of Justin I don't think is necessarily homophobic but rather going along with it to avoid damaging her image, and she's recently realized that it was wrong. Diane still cares about Rick, so I think they always had a big brother/little sister relationship, but there really isn't a whole lot of background info beyond the fact that Diane and Rhea are adopted. As for what Diane's feeling about Elliot, well it is understandable that she's upset because she believed Ashley beat her to Elliot, but at the same time, she now knows that Elliot is able to transform into girls and it seems that having a superhero form probably would have been cooler to Diane if Elliot stayed male, but she was seriously questioning if it was something she would be in to. It's hard to say if she'll keep trying to win over Elliot or if she'll go the route Larry took.

One would think that a dewitchery diamond duplicate would mean that aside from gender, Elliot and Ellen would be identical, although they do have height difference to be able to claim to be fraternal twins rather than identical twins. The real question is whether the TFG and even transformation magic goes that far when changing a person's physical structure. Elliot's superhero spell might be that thorough, but standard morphs might still run the risk of leaving fingerprints that could be traced back to Elliot or Ellen.

Yeah, pretty much. This story ends with Pandora waking up from one of her week long naps 3 months before her appearance in the forest, and saying "Well, that settles it, I'm resetting."

ROFLMAO doot doooo do do doot...

" In El Goonish Shive, narration tends to end up this way whether it's Dan himself or one of his characters doing the narration. " Well, would you look at that.

My boss took us out to dinner, a tour of a new winery in the area and then to see Mama Mia at the local country theatre, the lead female character Sophia is 20 years old born in 1979, I'm 37 years old born in 1979, I do realize that the play would have been set in 1999-2000 but still I wasn't sure if I should have felt young or old.

Sorry, I overestimated the ages for college. Doesn't help much that I didn't take any college courses until I was 26.

Ellen has a history of teasing Elliot though, she believed she was witholding information from Elliot but then he guessed correctly and ruined her fun.

Ellen knew too because of her reaction when Elliot asked if Catalina's girlfriend was Rhoda, like I said, the secret was being kept from Diane only and even I suspect that Diane knows anyway, she knows Rhoda's made friends with someone named Catalina, she's seen Catalina as part of Rhoda's IM avatar, and Rhoda's been skittish when Diane asked about the possibility of meeting Catalina. Rhoda's worried about what Diane would think if she found out Rhoda was a lesbian but frankly, I think Diane already knows and doesn't have any issue with it, Diane probably just hasn't pushed the subject because she might not know that anyone else knows and doesn't want to out Rhoda.

Yeah, Ms Dunkel was probably a freshman or sophomore in college with Mr Dunkel being a senior, Edward could have been a senior as well but it's hard to say whether Noriko would have been a senior too or younger, hmm I need to correct myself about thinking Mama Kitsune possibly being at the top end of the age group, Sarah's parents could likely be the top end considering Carol is several years older than Sarah, I don't think it changes the age range if Ms Brown was 22-23 when she had Carol.

I was basing it on the fact that I was supposed to be due April 27th, but ended up being born May 18th, mind you, I don't think doctors will allow expecting mothers to go that long past the due date these days, maybe a week tops. I don't believe that neither Mrs Pompoms or Diane's mom were due new years eve/day (I'm giving leeway for the possibility that the mothers might have been in labour for a while, Susan could have been born before Diane if the birth went smoother or if Diane's birth took longer) and the doctors likely wouldn't have scheduled induced labour that late on a holiday, or would they? I'm aware that there are people that intentionally try to have new years babies, but I don't see Mrs Pompoms being one of those, and considering Diane's mom put Diane up for adoption I doubt she was going for it either so I don't see the doctors insisting they induce on a day they'd likely be busy with others, Diane and Susan were then likely in the "ready or not, here I come" category. I can't say you're wrong, but Wolf looks and acts too young for me to find that plausible. Yeah, I would place Mr and Mrs Pompoms to be in the same general age group as the rest of the Main 8's parents, maybe a 10 year group with Ms Dunkel likely being at the low end and Mama Kitsune maybe the top end, I dunno if it's just me but I get an "older sister" vibe from Mama Kitsune. So that's late 30's to late 40's for them. Wolf and Cranium strike me as people in the mid 20's to mid 30's group which would probably also include Carol and Greg. The Main 8, Catalina, Rhoda, Diane, Charlotte, Luke would be in the late teens to mid 20's.

It's the reason Susan refuses to go by Tiffany. Tiffany Pompoms= instant cheerleader assumption, heck just having the last name Pompoms probably got some sort of attention drawn to Susan while growing up.

Yeah, the background checks Edward's done on Tedd's friends were likely easy enough to do, Edward could have sneaked glances at Susan's record while looking for records of someone else that DGB was looking for or something. Or maybe some other excuse to go looking through records at any given time. Adoption records would be treated pretty much like top secret files where only certain people are allowed to retrieve them and you'd need a pretty darned good reason to look at them, like if a person was a possible terrorist or something. "I need to look at them because the person is a friend of my niece" wouldn't cut it. Hmm...so here's a thought, Diane and Susan were born 20 minutes apart, that suggests they were conceived on the same day 9 months earlier, that would kinda be tough for a cheating cheater to accomplish without the women knowing about it, which would be acceptable if we stick with the theory that Diane's biological mom is Mrs Pompom's sister. But if that's not the case, it could be possible that they were conceived several days apart and one of them happened to be born a few days early or a few days late and just happened to be a coincidence that they both were born 20 minutes of each other. Another thing I just realized. Nanase insistance on "nearly identical" seems to suggest that she might not have said anything to Edward about Susan awakening. Or maybe she did and Edward doesn't believe Tedd's theory that awakening can affect a person physically.

If that's the case, Pandora was apparently having one of her week long naps back in June. Also the secret was apparently kept from Diane only (Rhoda's parents knew and were OK with it, being major liberals and all). So referring to Rhoda's orientation doesn't really make sense here. Also something I forgot to mention in my previous post, if Catalina has been keeping Rhoda's spell secret, the fact that she now knows Elliot has magic, she might consider having Rhoda go to him with questions, kinda like a kindred spirit.

Now I see it. Yeah, I thought her name would be too obvious a reason for her to be marked, as odd as this might sound, it might be too cliche even for Pandora. Also apparently Rhoda has noticed her mark, realized she made the boar big, and told Catalina about it. Which means Rhoda has probably used her spell on other occasions since the boar. That dressing room pinup might be canon after all.

He linked the story comic with the mention of the NP not showing up. I didn't see any NP link.

Did you jump the gun again? I haven't seen a tweet from Dan yet and the URL give a "there is no comic with this ID" message.

Well this would confirm that the vampire hunter talents come from the father's side. As I said in the previous thread, the half-sister/cousin thing has been done before, it'd be interesting if Dan went that route with Susan and Diane, but honestly that was just a wild theory of mine and won't hold him to it.

as it's probably only been 12 hours since we last saw Diane, It's possible she's at home. It's currently unknown whether Nanase went to talk to Edward by herself or it Ellen, Elliot or anyone else is there so another possibility is Ellen went to check on Diane maybe with the intention of bringing her to Edward or maybe to see Susan if she gets the go-ahead from Nanase. Given that Sarah didn't get much sleep, she probably got told to get up shortly before 10am by her parents, went to the bathroom, then attempted to go back to bed before Pandora showed up.

Susan's never met Diane, Diane's seen Susan though from watching the videos and she was initially skeptical about looking alike until Nanase brought it up again at New Years. Susan's only interaction with Diane has been through private message on youtube, which made Diane believe she was Susan's sister. Things probably would have been a lot easier, or at least the questions might have been asked a lot sooner if Susan had met Diane already. On another note, I wonder if we should keep track of the time, as it's 10 o'clock (presumably AM) when Nanase asks Edward about Susan and Diane.

The only evidence to support identical the half-sister and/or cousin theory is the fact that Nanase and Tedd have a very strong resemblance to each other. Nanase (short hair) : Tedd (short hair) Nanase (ponytail) : Tedd (female and ponytail) We know Tedd isn't using a clone form for the ponytail example because her hair and eyes are purple where a clone form of Nanase should have red hair and green eyes. So either Susan and Diane are still technically sisters despite not being twins, or we should start speculating possible shenanigans with Tedd and Nanase's relation.