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She can still be 19-20 and not look older than the 18 year olds in the cast. Heck there's a girl I work with who's 22 and looks like she could be 15. ... right. And guessing age of drawn people is usually HARDER than in real life. (And I'm not speaking about the Pandora case here.)

Take heart. This will soon become the norm in first world countries, too. As more and more superresistant strains develop while our governments fritter away what antibiotics still do work through such strokes of genius as cutting funding for hospital hygiene, we are a mere decade or two away from living in the happy times of the early twentieth century where the surest way of getting rid of an infection was through amputation. If we manage to not defund research for little longer, we may find some new ones, for example Peruvian pepper. ... because the IV fluids are not contaminated water. Putting contaminated water in through IV will be even worse idea than drinking it. Hey, what if they just describe the antibiotics which most bacteria are already resistant? They can sincerely said that it will work just as good as the new antibiotics on the viral infections and it will be cheaper. (Of course, SUGAR would work just as good as well and will be even cheaper, but people are getting too good discovering placebos.) Yes, and if there is no bacteriophage for that specific infection we just make it - oh wait, some people are against genetic research. Let's hope they get the resistant bacteria first.

Maybe Dan's retconning her as one of the others that Luke used his auravision on to determing a difference between someone marked and someone not marked but with magic. It's only retcon if he didn't originally planned that She doesn't look that old ... on the other hand, she can be friends with Luke even if not similar age.

Actually, the object oriented programming is only not allowed in combination with CMDs and similar devices. Also, no: TF Gun does NOT work by directly manipulating real world objects. It's just that without object oriented programming, making clone forms would be too complicated.

Well, he does have the glove that he uses to empower the watches, Tedd might have been in the process of designing that glove, or maybe the glove was the product of what he learned making the gauntlet? That glove would DEFINITELY be of later date, considering it's device obviously using earth magic and used to make other devices using earth magic.

I think that the belt uses uryuom technically magic. It might even be reason why it's painful. I think that creating watches (which are using Earth magic) is much easier. I would assume it's more like inspiration. It's also possible that he was already building SOME gauntlet but he changed how it worked. What's more important, TEDD sees it first here.

... who could she talk to? Luke's friends? Unlikely. She's probably a terrible liar, like Ashley or Elliot. Maybe WORSE. At least, Ashley and Elliot are aware they are terrible liars and tries to compensate. There's also the fact that Noriko stated her frustration over Tedd having no magic potential despite her's and Edward's bloodline, and then Q&A #7 confirmed that Tedd was expected to be a wizard due to his family history suggests that both Edward and Noriko are wizards. He DID used wand when attacking Abraham, but considering Agent Wolf also have wand there and he is confirmed to be wizard ... (on the other hand, that spell for identifying Elliot might've been his own and there is no reason why all superiors of wizards need to be wizards or even magic users).

I don't know either, but even if this small detail would stop her from transforming boys, she can still transform random girls.

I think this has less to do with them being third world countries and more with "If only source of water you have is the one which caused you diarrhea, you will die".

I do wonder though, even though the energy that the TFG uses is different than Magic, the fact that Tedd still refers to it's effects on humans as enchantments and that the forms can still be resisted, that maybe Tedd's insight works on that and all he'd need to do is fire the TFG at someone to see in what way it's incompatible and tweak the TFG to compensate. He would see that it's incompatible but not necessary how. However, I agree that it shouldn't be that hard for him to find out, considering his previous achievements. (Based on this strip, he used observations of Elliot to find out how to use earth magic instead of uryuom technically magic - he combined what he learn "from" Elliot with what he know about TF Gun)

Not invalidate. It will just make them harder to use. Invalidating would mean that the way humans are constructed would radically change, which I would assume would be outside the options of Will of magic even if it WANTED to do something so complicated. There are lot of ways the TFG effect can be altered which would make sense. For example, the duration can change very easily. It can start to hurt like the transformation belt. And the non-clone forms might have different results than it used to have, like FV5 might have different boob size when applied to woman. I agree that it will be quite improbable (meaning: Tedd would have good reason to suspect Will of Magic did it deliberately) for the TFG to stop working completely.

Well Tedd as she currently is would be FV1 anyway so she's covered already. Her extra girly form from when she first intentionally used the spell would have to be saved. Yeah that's the one I meant.

Were they using the same kind of shields Archimedes used to burn Roman ships? Because I suspect the secret of those highly reflective shields was lost just like Greek fire. It's about trust. Most people don't trust politicians to add anything to water because they have experience with how competent and incorruptible they are(n't). I'm pretty sure the six hour figure only applies near the equator. Of course, the SODIS method is mostly developed FOR the countries around equator, but that doesn't change the fact that it will NOT work elsewhere.

Her goodness certainly wouldn't stop her - I'm sure she wouldn't believe someone wouldn't want to be catgirl, so she's doing it for their own good!

Note: I suspect Tedd switched to male between frames 5 and 6. What makes you think Tedd hasn't already done that? Well not sure about Grace having the clone forms, she probably has a few but maybe not all of them. I would assume Tedd designed the Watch forms on the same computer she designed TFG forms. Most likely, he designed everything on computer, which will NOT be affected by magic reset, and if for some reason will be easier to get forms from Grace than from computer, she can always put the forms on Grace AFTER reset because TF Gun will work on Grace after reset exactly same as before reset. Only thing he needs to scan is her girly form, that's from mark spell and she can lose that. Possibly. But his main reason to stay male seem to be avoid being attracted to Elliot While it seems logical to test it, we already talked about how hard is to make any test which would show useful results. And based on limited amount of data, I think he would be similarly unhappy with either gender if stuck in it, so falling back to pragmatic reasons make sense.

Yeah, she didn't give her the book as reward. Or at least not JUST as reward. All sort of things with Catalina? Ok, Pandora is too old to not say it that way deliberately. Is she shipping them? Kitty might end up casting all around herself DELIBERATELY.

I think only problem with desalinating ocean water is the ENERGY. Meaning, it will get almost free when people stop fearing and build some next-generation nuclear reactors. Preferably cold fusion of course Of course, creating drinking water from bacteria-enriched water will always be easier. You only need to boil it.

It's also possible magical energy recovery is greatest if you are not moving, creating "personal ambient magic field". And sleeping is just the most obvious case of not moving for long time. Most likely, though, both effect contribute.

Just a bit? I though it's textbook example.

That sounded like a political jab. I'm not sure that's appropriate here. Apologies if I have misconstrued you. Not sure what is jab but it was political joke. (And I really hope it will remain just joke.) Apologies if it's not appropriate.

...but I'm a US citizen... Enjoy it while you can. Despotic regimes usually forbid dual citizenship.

Did he told those pretentious religious jackasses they did a mistake? I mean, I would expect they approve the girlfriend even less. I still think Pandora had something else in mind. I don't think he is that stupid. If he wouldn't already have better plan, he wouldn't do the vow in first place. Actually, he DOES have plan - the CM plan. Is already in progress and involves vampires and Adrian Raven. Also, while I think he doesn't like this, I also think he's not surprised. He may do some "I don't understand but I support you anyway". I don't think Ashley would be judgemental. Or jealous.

I bought a title of nobility from Hutt River in the 70s. I'm not sure if I still have the documents... Finally

Are you suggesting a "Wake Up, Little Suzie" scenario? No, I don't think they spent the time by sleeping. Although, Catalina does look little sleepy ...

The fact that Ellen was suggesting to Elliot that leaving town for a few days would help stop the buildups makes me think that it's not so much an out of control generation, but an inability to regulate the absorption of energy from the environment, it's like all ports are* open and he is unable to stop. If he was to have left town and gotten out of the high energy area, it could have allowed his system to adjust to a more manageable rate. We also know from the whale that the ambient magic makes energy buildups harder to deal with. But Edward explained the energy buildups as inability to stop energy regeneration. I don't think he is mistaken ; probably, ambient magic either makes you absorb more or lose less, but the main mechanism is the energy regeneration. Sure it could. Uryouom magic works by one set of rules and can't give a person with solid bones hollow ones. Earth magic works by a different set of rules and has a whole different set of advantages and limits Yes - earth magic works differently so it may make her "true" bird. On the other hand, based on the fact she was still able to speak as cat, I wouldn't rule out magic help with the flight either.