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I'm pretty sure he doesn't - not on conscious level. He may, however, feel that subconsciously, or reacts based on memory he repressed so he's only aware of it on subconscious level. However, this works nicely - maybe even MORE nicely - even if Tedd doesn't know it consciously - either because of that subconscious level or just because it's what EDWARD thinks is happening. Even if the vampire-slaying AFFINITY come from maternal line doesn't mean Susan's mother was aware of it ; she definitely doesn't seem to be. Unlike Mrs. Kitsune, who definitely WAS part of that group and most likely DOES have magic, as we already got multiple hints about that. She certainly didn't. She's protecting people just fine in France, and in fact might feel she's more needed in France than in Moperville. Remember what Raven said: she's the one who placed greater importance on her career than her family - the career, most likely, being monster slaying. It's possible that she considered DGB too passive and decided to go somewhere where she can better utilize her talents, while Edward entered DGB and changed it from inside (DGB likely WAS more passive under Arthur Arthur before Edward ...) I can totally imagine them starting to argue about DGB then going more personal until Noriko brought Tedd into conversation. I mean by mentioning him and his lack of magic, not actually bringing the child there.

I'm trying.

There might be a magic prism or something that's spun inside and some sort of IR beam passes through it, which enhances the beam to detect stuff like a person's aura (like Luke's sight) as well as stuff like rate of energy recovery and buildup. That's obviously possibility, but it's not clear WHY it would need to be spun. Unless it's something like autofocus ... but autofocus wouldn't be making sound all the time, would it?

I don't think she took THAT long nap - in such case, she would actually have the practice of being human still fresh. IHMO she spent years awake and not practising being human. It IS possible that Magus falling out was her first appearance on physical plane since the time Raven saw her last, 14 years ago. Well I think he is likely to understand the logic of not kicking the bomb, as he himself didn't wanted to think about his mother and even commented it loud few times. She MIGHT put some noise-dampening spell on the basement ... or maybe the basement is just that well isolated. Well, not THAT much insomnia worthy, that's true ... And it seems he was lying in bed unable to sleep for some time before that, possibly hours. I don't think she is afraid of breaking immortal law, as this is CERTAINLY AND CLEARLY guidance. The "not tell you" was related to Edward not telling him. Just because it would make things worse doesn't mean Edward will realize it. It wouldn't be first mistake he made ... Something I never considered, although in slap-myself hindsight, obvious. I think it was already mentioned on forum before ... possibly when commenting this strip. It was also mentioned that Nanase might remind Tedd Noriko ... We didn't and Edward likely has, question is if TEDD saw it. I can see Edward keeping it somewhere hidden. Blaike also run head-first into cave with bear, refusing any information about it That's the one hole in my theory. Has Tedd ever seen pictures of Noriko? We, the bunnies, have only been given one shot at her, and it was a shadowy shot at that (someone please supply link, thank you). We have no way of knowing if Tedd knows what Noriko looks like. If he doesn't, the conjecture stands as probable. We also know that she looks very similar to Nanase.

And I just noticed the "wand" has what looks like a battery compartment cover on its back in that page. LOOKS. Can be something else than battery, although battery is most likely ... and I'm not sure what other replaceable parts might be needed in magic analyzer wand. Yeah, that wand is tech based, but it's mainly a scanner so there might not be any actual magic to it, just components sensitive to magic I imagine there's some actual magic in the wand for the precision of the readings. While the only part of the readout that is legible to us reader is the big "YUP," Edward is able to get enough information to determine how often Elliot and Ellen needed to burn off excess energy to prevent mishaps. Maybe the wand's noise comes from converting magical signals to technological signals in an energy-efficient but data-lossless manner. There seem to be some sort of tiny text under that YUP. It's possible that the wand uses technology to scroll through multiple pages of that text on its small display. ALSO, I suspect that Edward scanned both Ellen and Elliot and then read the text for them ... suggesting some sort of memory storage. But yes I agree that the actual reading of magic needs to be done by magic - or Uryuom-based technically magic technology, but if it would be Uryuom-based, it would recognize Uryuoms. Although based on when the wand makes sound, I would expect it uses small magic part which needs to be rotated by electromotor for some reason

That wouldn't help, because the beam would STILL only adapt clothes to the beam function and not to the paste. Paste (unlike copy) can result in clothes ripping and no other spell Ellen has can "fix" that, unless she deliberately adapt person's size to roughly match target with beam, then apply paste. Note that copy ALSO doesn't adapt clothes - it COPIES clothes. Adapting clothes to copied form is not on list of Ellen's abilities, apparently. Probably because it's too complicated to solve in general case.

His most likely reactions when Pandora appeared there: 1) Damn. She's after me. RUN. 2) Sitting in corner, biting his fingers and mumbling "I'm dead I'm dead I'm dead" ... Pandora is not saying anything new to Voltaire, with the possible exception of "I consider you family". She PROBABLY wouldn't be able to see him, but I don't think Voltaire would be risking that.

Yup, although I suspect it would take him some time to process anyway. (Hour later: "Wait. Did she said parentS? Was Adrian Raven friend of my mom?") ... actually, maybe it was good way how to distract Tedd from mentioning his mother. Hmmm ... Pandora seem to forgot "Chaos". After her scaring Tedd of being evil, I'm not sure if it was wise or unnecessary. If she would be there for Tedd, I think we would see much more exotic and weird TF gun forms. I mean, that's the only POSITIVE thing which could came from that ... And regarding the poll: do those who wanted Tedd to be told though of Tedd's good or just drama? I mean, the labelling is not completely clear ... although I personally agree. I'm not sure he will need to fake it. Also, it's still night, right? Tedd is probably not going to get much sleep now. Both him and Sarah would be sleeping in class. Just like Nanase on the Friday morning before the tournament ...

Heidi was also able to talk about Cheerleadra in third person without single slip thanks to magic enhancing Elliot's normally negative abilities to lie convincingly.

To be fair, I don't really feel that Shakespeare can be blamed for his lack of knowledge about modern media. Not unless he show up on job interview falsely claiming he has that knowledge.

I doubt that. If it failed just at the worst possible time for that horde, it suggests the WoM was waiting for the best time to take the shot. I doubt the horde was behaving unpredictably. Even mere human would be likely to guess correctly when they attack days in front. Also, hitting the best time exactly might just mean the process was possible to pause for few hours despite being already days in progress. Again: remember Disco Wizard and his hald-heartedly fulfilling some ... it may be impossible to activate the reset without fulfilling some "...", which takes some time. What, spin doctors? They had them in the 16th century. One of them went by the name "Shakespeare", maybe you've heard of him. Well, for start, spin doctors which have more knowledge about modern media (especially social ones) than Shakespeare. Also, money ; while they did have that in 16th century as well, I don't think it would be safe to go to politics with campaign financed by unspecified amount of gold coins with unclear origin. On the other hand, they are people who got into politics with money with similarly unclear origin, so maybe ... Also, you need to update your list of poisons.

If it made the same sound for everyone, why didn't someone try to fix that? A digital readout that says "YUP" is pretty sophisticated as wands go, isn't it? And after fixing that, maybe you should fix the jackhammer to be less noisy. Removing the sound may not be so easy. (Also, technically, the detector made the same sound even before being pointed to anyone ... probably has some moving parts inside and the sound is them being moved.) What a wonderfully evil thought! Thought of going into politics? That kind of thinking was sufficient for politics in 16th century. You need more to succeed NOW. The mechanism of magic reset might be impossible to activate quickly. While removing the magic just on start of battle was effective and dramatic, which would both be good enough explanations by itself, I also suspect that it was close to first opportunity when reset might've happened, because magic is NOT thinking in same way as humans. Possibly, there was someone like Grace visited by Dream Wizard who had the last opportunity to stop the reset but failed.

Adrian is totally the kind of person who would blame himself because he tried to taught her two things and she understood one of them better. Although the formulation "why there was no chance of reconciliation" sounds like there is something more to it. Possibly his next attempt to keep the family together backfired horribly.

Pandora might not even really look at Tedd at that time, but yes she only needed to look to recognize there is something unusual about him. So yes, if she would be there BEFORE Noriko left she might actually PREVENT Noriko leaving ... Family is why she stayed around. To always be there for Raven. Now, her family has expanded. She is owning up to having some responsibility for Tedd. And if our speculation is correct, and Raven has fathered children, then her family has really expanded. Is this why Immortals lied to themselves about half-immortals not being able to have children? Too many Immortals sticking about for family and slowly going insane? Or going insane(r) quickly and take their family with them. Right. Pandora with her limited understanding of humans is not the best person to defuse Tedd ... she has the best intentions and I don't think Edward's strategy of not talking about it forever is good, but it needs to be done carefully ...

Maybe the magic detector wand makes that scary sound because magic doesn't want it to be easy to detect seers. 1) The magic detector makes the same sound on EVERYONE. Tedd is just more scared of it because they were using it to him often when he was child. 2) Wouldn't pretending that seers are normal magic users be more useful than pretending they have no magic?

Sooo, Dr. Physics professor will be crying again?

Nickname? Obviously, back then, in Verres home Adrian was referred simply as ADRIAN. It may soon become plot point that Grace might not even know Mr. Raven's first name, and she certainly never used it. It would even make sense if PANDORA now referred to her son as Adrian, effectively telling Tedd who it is without making him connect it immediately. If Pandora just tells him her son is his godfather, he will have the same information as Sarah about him being Raven - namely, "hey isn't it suspicious we already know about one half-immortal around". They don't KNOW anything, they might just suspect and putting their informations together wouldn't confirm anything.

Possibly. Her music career probably wasn't involving any advanced acting. Note that she was obviously playing along in the previous strips as well. Especially here. Note: I would totally say both "scan" and "paste" are beams, but I understand the logic why the hand gestures don't work on them. Although paste without influencing clothes MIGHT work ... wait. Actually, already "copy" does change clothes and "paste" doesn't.

Just because it will be less violent it's not better idea. If you do change like that, it makes you sort of responsible if it turns out badly ... DO Tedd wants this kind of responsibility? Maybe for one other Tedd, just for experimenting, but doing it on mass scale? That would be pretty hard to do, appearing between Edward and trying to explain something like this He would likely be more interested in who you are. I mean who Tedd is. Not without first observing how exactly it happened. Lot of work with lot of potential for emotionally hard scenes ... Hmmm ... messing with the detector might be most compatible with what Tedd actually CAN do and while it doesn't guarantee Noriko will stay it has quite good chance. Presumably, non-seer wand makers are registered by wand ; he should be able to modify the detector to fake-report him being normal wand maker, which might not be exactly what Noriko expected but much easier to accept for her.

Great Godmother? Personally, I find Sisko more sympathetic. But yeah revenge is not exactly good ... it may be justified and sometimes necessary but not good. The justice system is not about being good, it's just necessary. Also note that I personally find less evil turning people into girls than killing them. Considering killing is definitive ... And yes, Tedd is aware that he is good mainly due to Elliot. He was there sooner and after all, Grace might be good but she may not exactly know how it works, her moral compass is basically "don't be like Damien".

Marry - or sue him for sexual harassment and get the money that way. Or, she planed to say she have child with him, no matter if true or not. But in any case, I doubt anyone would be surprised if she got the money, so yes, good host. (I suppose even the marriage is an occupation hazard for woman who try to sue for sexual harassment.) Susan got into the group by dint of being Sarah's best friend, not solely becuase she knows Nanase. True. That's not what he has been told. The power to bend worlds to his will doesn't necessary mean ability to change history (also, specifically said to be impossible in EGS, as Scotty reminded). That said, the speculations are funny so I would comment: Would be funny if Tedd met Elliot in ASMA dojo because Noriko would pressure him to do some martial arts. ESPECIALLY likely if Noriko would realize ASMA dojo works. Tedd would be unlikely to be good in it anyway, but it would be another group activity ... Remember it will be TEDD doing the changes. He would certainly make sure there will be some other reason why he would end up with TF gun - he might overlook some things but he would definitely pay attention to this one. Especially considering TF gun was reason why he started researching magic which lead to him finding out being Seer. Convincing his father would likely be harder, but on the other hand, maybe non-shy Tedd would be better at convincing. He might however be stabler and not experiment on friends so much, or at least test it first. Alternatively, it might be NORIKO who would totally support Tedd getting TF gun as way to give him some way to compensate for his lack of magic abilities. First, why should it happened with different outcome? Second, again, Tedd would pay attention to Grace. Third, Grace might have other reason to end up with Mr. Verres. But it would be truly interesting what would Noriko's opinion on her son practically marrying alien shapeshifter be. Would she welcome shapeshifter in family or would she worry about her grandchildren having harder access to magic? Would it MATTER to her with Tedd not having magic according to tests? ... would Noriko have other child meanwhile? Main reason for Ellen is Magus. I already mentioned that TF gun would likely stay. It would be more work for Magus to convince stabler Tedd, also with Noriko in picture it's less likely Tedd would be alone home to have opportunity to go for DD ... unless, of course, Noriko even when technically home would be out of work even more often than Edward, which is quite likely, so ... I think he WOULD adopt Noah BUT he would make sure Noah and Tedd know each other. In fact, without Noriko leaving, Adrian would take an active role in forming and training main eight equivalent. Wait. Maybe Grace would still arrive at Edward's house but it would be NOAH she would start dating. Or, alternatively, she would find and kill Damien AFTER his attack but long before the story, recovering Grace and her siblings. Which could ALSO end up with Grace being Tedd's adopted sister - especially if Tedd would pay attention to Grace when changing reality but forgot about Westermarck. The probability of Grace dating Noah RISES. Also, better relationship with Sarah and less shy Tedd in general might mean Tedd will be dating SARAH. And you forget that IF Mrs. Kitsune opinion on Noriko was result of her abandoning family, they might be still on speaking terms and Nanase and Tedd would be closer. I think he does have magic ; however, I think he has considerably less magic than Edward, possibly not being wizard, which leaves the factors in behaviour you spoke about. I already said that his reason for not liking Adrian Raven might be that he is jealous he didn't had so good teacher when young ; especially if he blames his teaching and not his lack of talent/affinity for his limited magic.

It doesn't have to fit her affinity, that mainly determines the initial spell a person gets when marked, and I imagine if someone learned magic the old fashioned way (as in trained for it) they might have gained different spells first then somewhere along the lines unlocked a spell based on their affinity. Agree - most likely the first spell you get is related to training, although you probably get something of your affinity quickly unless it's totally unrelated. Rhoda didn't had any training and her mark spell matched her affinity, which makes very likely more spells will also be for affinity but eventually non-affinity spells based on what she needs will appear as well. Rhoda disagrees. It may be moderately effective when you are able to convincingly pretend you are someone else, but it's very ineffective if your strategy is to not attract attention of people knowing you at all.

The same would work for the secretary, wouldn't it? I think it's not about degrading but about the fact it's harder to buy sex for lesbians than for men. Secretary working for rich old man wouldn't be surprised by sexual harassment - and, if the pay is good, many might not even complain (although less than it used to be ; Sirleck certainly miss those "good old times"). But sexual harassment of woman from woman would surprise, even today. (This would be in addition to the "identifies as male" part.)

If he would know he's Pandora's son he would call off the action. What? Eleventh month in calendar? Or the lobster-based dish? He is probably outside Andrea's action radius, so Helena and Demetrius wouldn't be able to turn him into anything even if they knew about him ; although I think they don't. He died properly, therefore he likely retained important knowledge like this. You are consistently missing the last -a of Helena. There is Helen of Troy, but she's named after Helena from Midsummer Night's Dream.

And sex change. (Granted, Ellen can only do it in one direction.) That "certainly" was joke, therefore the "". Of course with how little we know about Rhoda's magic, we can't be certain of anything. It is true that neither sex change nor flashlight would fit her affinity, however I suspect that disguise doesn't exactly fit her affinity either.