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He said he INTEND four more comics and that was BEFORE the edit about retcon. With correct questions, we can keep this storyline forever My question got answered as well, I mean I also asked about that but I formulated it differently so it probably wasn't the one Dan was answering.

This is what I suspected until Hecka's most recent revelation. Upon the reset of an Immortal, the not-fully immortal children of said immortal would become mortalish. They would have less magic, but the ability to reproduce. Heka revealed the reproduction is not the case, but their lifespan might STILL be limited by their parent resetting. Susan and Diane are not Adrians daughters but at least granddaughters. If you don't count werewolves as people, at least. "Restraining bolt" isn't how I would call it, but yes, he is certainly important ... Pandora clearly said he's Tedds-- ... But was he weirdness magnet from birth or only from becoming friend with Tedd?

She might not actually require any reason to behave inconsistently. The conflicting feelings are very similar, but she has losing sanity on top of it. As others have said, they don't get the continually growing power, sharpening memory, and near-clairvoyance, but I think there's more to it than that. An elf is still living life one day at a time, like anyone else, meeting new friends as they loose touch with old ones, perhaps raising children even if they (think they) can't have them themselves, seeing them grow up and leave to make their own lives. Working and having colleagues and friends. No traveling to the other side of the planet on a whim, no weeks-long naps, no disappearing into other planes of existence. Elves stay grounded, they stay a part of society, they stay close to other people. Technically, we don't know if (young) Jerry can travel to the other side of the planet easily OR if Adrian doesn't have spell allowing him to do that. The other planes of existence would be more important, but even with such abilities one can remain grounded. I think it's actually the restrictions of immortal law which makes so hard for immortals to stay close to other people and become part of society. Still, even with those restrictions, Pandora got pretty close to that when with Blaike. So ... maybe it's more about choice and what you consider normal? I think that even elves who decide to stay out of society won't get insane as fast as full immortals, but on the other hand they likely won't remain stable as long as Adrian Raven. And one additional point: even if elves go insane, their limited power makes them less dangerous. Immortals going insane can ignore immortal law and make lot of damage before they will be forcibly reset. Again, we've only seen one elf, unless there are others who don't know they're elves. I can think of two candidates. We saw at least ten people descendent from fairies, but only one is known to be in first generation and I find very unlikely we have candidates for more. Susan and Diane being possibly related to Adrian specifically instead of some unknown immortal won't make them more elvish.

You don't have any kids, do you? No. I still think her problems with focusing are bigger than mortal parents's.

Actually, she may not realize that normal (mortal) parents don't have that much problem with staying focused ... Pandora has unique strategy for therapy: she's so obviously unstable that the people in need of therapy would feel more stable in comparison. One doesn't negate the other. I'm sure Tedd still needs hugs, but Pandora needs them more. Hmmm ... I think this reason was already mentioned, but not recently ... Well, her profession WOULD draw dangerous attention to Tedd. Actually it already did. Only codswallop bit is the idea that leaving will help with this. Tedd will be target because he's important for her - that will NOT change by her being on different continent. It is also possible that she had this reason, mentioned it to Edward, they started to argue and then it went downhill from that ... Yup, sounds like better strategy if you think about it logically. Of course, logical thinking is scarce when feelings are involved ... I dunno, it might be easier to let go if you could see your descendants spreading out across the world, than it would be to say goodbye to your only child, knowing your love for him would be forgotten....and especially if there were hard feelings and misunderstandings between you! ... again, logical thinking is scarce when feelings are involved. Lying to their future incarnation might SEEM like good idea under the mental and emotional strain ... But, that assumes he knows he's fated to fail no matter what he tries. He reasonably took actions to remove himself from the prophecy. Now, short of suicide, since that seems like the last report, how about taking vows to nevery marry and never kill; chastity and pacifism seem more reasonable than suicide and would have been stronger ways to avoid his fate. Granted, even being a pacifist, it's possible he might have been responsible for killing someone, but accidentally marrying? That would take some serious manipulation on the part of the Fates. The point of the story is that you can't avoid fate. Maybe the harder you are trying the harder fate responds. Being forced to marriage CAN happen ; also, no vow would help you if you lose memory later. Maybe not even suicide would help him. We are used to not being able to change the past, but fated future might be just as hard to change as past. From Jerry, it appears to be that with perfect memories and increasing intelligence, Immortals become almost clairvoyant, able to predict the actions of others, leading to boredom that seems to lead to insanity. Combined with increasing power, that becomes dangerous. I would hazard to guess that elves don't have perfect memories and/or the continually ramping up of intelligence and power. They might get more powerful with age, but not more intelligent and the speed of power increase would be much lower, because it would be just based on experience and training, while for Immortals it seems like their power automatically keeps growing even without them doing anything. ... that might help too.

We have a special exception in law saying that pedestrians on crossing have NOT precedence over streetcars/trams. It's because unlike cars, which can hit the brakes and stop on several meters, streetcars would by able to stop so quickly only by hitting another streetcar positioned perpendicularly. For some reasons, lot of people have problems remembering that part of the law. Although the numbers of such people are declining.

The "Copy" spell ALWAYS targets Ellen - unlike the "Paste" one.

Considering his (lack of) abilities to solve the problem, it might be best reaction.

Actually rethought things, it wouldn't be a trio of Graces, it'd be FV5'd Grace with a pair of FV5'd Gracelyns. Spells don't ALWAYS merge and there was no "Gracelyn" or "Ellen" spell. If the Guardian form is now in Ellen's spellbook, Dan should be covering that before the end of this arc, but I'm not expecting it. Hmmm, he totally should mention it, yes ...

Not even because of school project? Also, they might be living close. (Although I must say that the general idea of not being able to get anywhere without car is hard for me to understand, especially combined with people too young to drive or not having own car.) I repeat: if Sarah's parent knew, it would be SIMPLE and LOGICAL for them to call school and reported her as sick. Only explanation why they didn't is that they didn't know, or at least didn't know soon enough. So, either Sarah and Tedd met on morning, or the sleepover was arranged before the accident.

Unlikely. Hmmmm .... didn't Dan somewhere compared it to Susan's mixing her magic and Nanase's fairy? Or was it just us comparing it? Anyway, "this time" ... it is possible the spell was actually being added in Ellen's spellbook, so she can now cast it even WITHOUT copying Nanase. That she actually obtained the spell similarly as Nanase obtained it in dramatic way. Definitely sounds OP, yes. Or it could be some actual god. Heka, for example. ... ok, Will of Magic sounds more likely, but it is a possibility.

That's a good question, I would think that since the incident obviously took place at Tedd's, it would have to happen after school rather than in the morning. I'm guessing Sarah had to stay overnight and Edward may have had to call her parents with an excuse for Sarah staying overnight... Again, they could excuse her from school then. While normal people go to school immediately after waking up, it's possible Tedd and Sarah were supposed to go to school together with Sarah picking up Tedd (because Tedd lives closer) and they had enough time before school Tedd could transformed her. She technically also got paid by Pandora for being Tedd's friend. Tedd and Sarah certainly became closer after she started helping him with his experiments, and I'm pretty certain Pandora noticed. That's bonus she had no idea of when started working with him ... but yes, it's possible Pandora noticed Sarah more because of the assistant job ...

They insisted on someone who is over 18 ... what that indicates? ... if they noticed, why didn't they excused her from school? We don't know how long the incident took ; maybe they didn't noticed. Nanase's mom both knows much more and hides much more. (Although, she might not lie in this case ; seriously, paranormal diplomacy? That's not easy-to-understand job description ... )

First time meeting an immortal... I think walking through the table wasn't helping. Apart from the "space whale" this is the first supernatural being he has met, and having her walk though the table probably had him thinking about ghosts and spirits, maybe even vampires rather than immortals at first. Tedd likely knows about vampires from Susan's description and walking through stuff was not included. Very good question. She is being paid in unimaginable power. She already got multiple watches from it. Of course, they have limited resell value ... His allowance MIGHT been classified as salary in DGB's records

There won't be any linking of people, but the SPELLS can become linked. Well there's passive stuff like enhanced strength and agility, I don't know if the faster healing would be a constant thing or only be active when injured though, and then what if Elliot merged with his cellphone? I dunno, maybe the passive stuff has Elliot break even with the recovery rate, no gain, no loss, until he starts actively using abilities. Yeah ... there is passive and passive. The enhanced strength might get used every time he moves or just when he actually does something which require higher strength. The cellphone might be spending energy on receiving signal and all the hidden handshakes cellphones does when changing base tower even if Elliot isn't actively using it etc ... But when Ellen copies the form, the abilities are not copied therefore are DEFINITELY not being used. It will be even more apparent with the guardian angel form, which have lot of abilities permanently active. Starting with glowing, then the tails might be actually some energy constructs, combat instincts might include constant awareness and the form likely includes some additional senses ...

I would think that the scan/paste would carry the scanned person's enchantments over to the pasted person so trying to shrink the pasted person would come up as "they're already under this kind of shrink enchantment". Right ... she copied Cheerleadra but without the abilities so she should be able to copy already enchanted person ... but regarding the shrinking experiment, note that her spells have cooldown, it's possible she wouldn't get far even in ideal case. Also, if the shrinking limit is related to original mass, the original mass may be preserved even if other details of spells wouldn't. IF Elliot is using more energy than he recovers when transformed to Cheerleadra, it's because of powering her abilities - like flying, durability and regeneration. Just the form can't require so much energy. Or in some other way ; the "escape from the mall" definitely shows than combining two spells can get results which are not completely intuitive ...

Are we sure Edward never got Grace any damned counseling? Could it have been off-panel, perhaps during a time-skip? Technically, no, but I would consider it noteworthy. Do we know that for certain? Did we ever learn anything about her lepusko parent? Right. We don't know if that one is dead. I think Edward already gave up trying to prevent Grace and Tedd hugging. Meanwhile, we don't know what is Sarah's parents opinion on Tedd. Well, so far she only apologized for not being there for Tedd. It's possible she didn't make the connection yet - she's not good in connecting stuff like this. Much more, I think, given how Tedd reacted to Pandora walking through that table. I think Pandora's best hug-strategy is to take form as a small winged fairy and hug Tedd like Nase hugged Sarah. Not sure if Tedd's reaction was to Pandora walking through that table or to her getting closer in general. But that fairy hug idea is very good.

Tedd's collapsed on the couch. That makes hugging kind of awkward. Pandora can pass through the couch. Will that make it more or less awkward?

Problem is she likely didn't tried half of those spells in canon BECAUSE she's too reasonable to make so wacky hijinks ... Anyway, I'm definitely not tired yet. Probably not literally all of them, there are lot of combinations. Some are just to make harder to guess which WILL be used.

Or there are additional expenses. It costs more if you need to visit without NSA knowledge, for example. Or ... remember how Napoleon wanted to visit Moscow? It cost him 400000 soldiers! Definitively expensive. Unfortunately, I kind of agree. But it's still an awful situation. Tedd without a mother, thinking she left because he wasn't good enough (there is a conversation between he must have overheard as a child that led to him coming to that conclusion, at least I hope it was that and not Noriko saying something to him directly), or Tedd with a mother who either considers him not good enough or perhaps, crippled in some way, too vulnerable to keep in her life. She needed some serious counseling and I do confess to looking forward to seeing her reaction to discovering Tedd is a seer/wandmaker. Apparently, the shortage of counsellors is longterm ; Noriko didn't get any, Tedd didn't get any, Susan didn't get any, Grace didn't get any ... (Note: It seems it didn't take so long for Tedd to develop complex from the scanning. But yes, if she wouldn't be able to raise him it's better if she's not around. Also, I suspect there really are some good reasons why she can't visit even on Christmas ...) I'm not sure why you think Sarah would be better than Grace for helping him. In any case, Grace is MUCH CLOSER and her parents wouldn't object to her going to hug a boy in middle of night (because they are all dead). While the idea that this becomes multigeneration saga, current main characters will be replaced by their children and later their children and we get to the point main characters starts dying of old age is appalling, I think it would take thousands of years to get there. Although you might be used to such waits ...

"Nastiness"? Who will be the judge for this? Or you mean like Ellen matching the transformation to pretend to revert them? I'm not sure if it's good idea, considering the spells will likely end in different time ...

What do you mean - fantasy? (* Turning around from big partially done scheme labeled 'Project "Hug Tedd" - Interdimensional gate' *)

Maybe he got fear-induced awakening from the wand? But, yes: this time Dan managed to totally surprise me. All the speculations about seers being undetectable or whatever and he just resisted the spell. And Adrian apparently didn't tried his own detecting abilities on him ever. Unless he did and him not telling Noriko is why he's blaming himself for the breakup. BTW, I'm not surprised he resisted in later tries. I'm surprised he already resisted first time. Let's stick to hugs for Tedd. As far as I am concerned, the jury is still out on Noriko. But she better hope that the defence has some damned good arguments and that the prosecution takes a nice, deserved and above all long rest. ... while I agree, I don't see why current page would change anything about Noriko. Or he already snapped. This reaction of his doesn't seem natural to me ... still, better than what Edward predicted. Hopefully.

Poe's law more or less says you really can't assume that on the internet. Or more accurately, because there are people that make Poe's Law needed, you can't say that on the Internet. The original Poe's law referred to parody to some extreme view ... but yes, seems it's much more general.

Which miscalculation? If you mean the previous comic, that's not a miscalculation, that's FV5(sort of) at work. I know Dan called it FV4 but I coulda swore the female variants had different design rules compared to the male variants. For those wondering, Susan has grown to 5'8", or some other number if using the metric system. I'm not that great with conversions, but I think this makes her about 22 meters tall.