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By some definitions, cows would qualify. Beasts that are used as machines to turn grass and grain into milk and steaks. How is cow vegetation? Would you rather eat servants? Or peers?

My grandfather was born out of wedlock, his mother was so ashamed of it that she had her sister who was married raise him and she acted as his aunt, it wasn't until years after grandpa had married and had children that the truth came out. Within the past 15 years or so grandpa got curious about his family heritage and him and dad have been trying to fill out as much of the family tree as possible, and was able to find out that his biological father had gone on to have a couple more sons, one of which was nearly 20 years younger than grandpa. Earlier this year he got a chance to meet this half brother and despite their age difference you could definitely tell they were related, the half brother had more bulk than grandpa ever did but looking at his face, it was exactly how grandpa looked 20 years ago. Another example is my grandmother, my aunt that's her youngest daughter, and my aunt's daughter, also have very striking similarities that it's almost like going back in time looking at them, I've seen various pictures of grandma at different ages and there were some where I honestly thought it was a picture of my aunt or cousin done up in black&while or sepia to look like an old picture. Sure coincidences like that happens in real life. They are, however, MUCH less likely to happen in fiction, due to Chekhov's gun. I find it unlikely that an immortal is wrong about a statement of fact. As for the rest, that's what I mean by pulling a rabbit from a hat. I really doubt that they are merely half-sisters who look alike. Them being alternate universe counterparts or something seems actually MORE likely than them being just half-sisters, because it will be explanation for all those coincidences. And yes: immortal being wrong about a statement of fact related to a vow? That's sounds DANGEROUSLY close to Voltaire being able to kill Elliot after vowing not to. If the vows are good for something and as big deal as they are presented to be, then Jerry CANT be wrong. Meanwhile, Susan and Edward being wrong? Can totally happen.

Not sure how you considered my idea weird. I don't consider your idea weird. I consider Lucy's choice of words weird in case your idea is true. ... three? And you can play for dark elves in the third? How did I missed that? Did I spend so long on StarCraft? Hmmm ... too late. I don't have time to play "big" games (more than half hour in one go) anymore. Would need to go wait in queue after Portal. And comics. "You want to see this?" or ... but I just don't see her saying "I can't believe we're seeing this." It just doesn't match. ... unless it was so shocking she stopped making sense

Led? No. After all, they are not sure about that being Jerry. But they SHOULD mention it on today's page. Well ... maybe Wednesday. If they forgot about it even on Wednesday THEN it will be annoying (I suspect Dan needs to exchange some informations which will later prove important when it's revealed they ARE twins.)

It's like "We've never done something like this together, yet here we are, and it was your idea." hard to believe Let's see some less weird alternatives for comparison: "I can't believe we're seeing this together." "I can't believe you took us to / chosen this movie." Or maybe even "I can't believe we're seeing this.", with the previous sense implied.

I took that as Lucy not objecting to seeing the movie, just shocked and suspicious that Diane was eager to see the movie. The first panel would be weird phrasing then, IMHO. Like, was there not even the possibility others would go to the movie to support her?

Yeah ... I overdid the speculation a little. Note that it is possible Lucy wasn't there either. She might limit herself to online games to keep non-nerd image for same reasons as Diane, but was still wearing costume-inspired clothing based on the idea that non-nerds wouldn't get the reference. Wait. Did she threatened anyone else? Something like Diane? While I did say that Diane has been trying to maintain the image that she's not a nerd or geek, it's pretty clear that image has been crumbling for a while now and is probably almost gone now. Although if we're to take this as canon, then maybe not quite crumbled yet. She might get closer to admitting it herself and her new friends, but not moving a inch regarding revealing her geek side to her old friends or general public. And yes ... it's weird that it's Lucy in that strip who complains about seeing fantasy movie if she likes fantasy. Unless, as I mentioned, she's trying to hide that side of her from Diane. Not successfully, likely, considering the dragon ...

I have an ancestor who didn't returned from first world war ... which is only thing we know about him. I suppose this might make searching difficult ... (Note: It's not father. I'm not THAT old.) Storming out? She can now use hammers on everyone, right? I already mentioned that while we DO know he cheated multiple times, we DON'T know if he cheated with multiple women. But if he did, I hope someone would protect those other children before they awaken ... or be eaten. Possible ... but more importantly: Something IS going to happen if Diane is not trained. Seriously, Susan is the best person to help Diane deal with the fact she's magnet for aberrations and needs to learn how to fight them. Also, she can train her, probably. Makes me wonder if Voltaire is hoping for this now. Think about it, while we don't know if Tedd's "rarity" has an awakened state, the fact the he's been marked suggests that, if there is an awakened state, Tedd hasn't done so yet. As of Voltaire's most recent appearance in the comic, it is highly probable that Voltaire is attempting to trigger an major angst induced awakening in Tedd. For what reason is still not clear but dropping the bomb about his mother to him would very likely push him over the edge at this point. Hmmmm ... you mean the Complicated Mess plan involved flooding Moperville with vampires, forcing Nanase to tell Susan and Diane about themselves, which ends up well enough to make Nanase think it's safe to tell Tedd about his mother, which will cause his awakening? .... Complicated Mess indeed. Tedd's awakening in this manner may still be used for that, if his awakened powers allows him to hunt down Immortals. On the other hand, even if Tedd's power doesn't have equivalent of awakening, it certainly have angst mode.

Soooo ... keep improving until it breaks? Unless some discounts were just announced. I see problems coming from the fact that regular cast would be wearing different fashion than background characters. Something like Diane? I still think she's playing MMORPG (even if the slain dragon was part of her avatar and not background from her being interrupted inside the MMORPG as I originally though, it could be screenshot from game) and only cosplaying in "reality". Especially considering Xena herself is more fitting for cosplaying than LARP considering her "direct-blade-into-middle-of-chest" armor. Hmmm ... maybe she also plays Xena RPG? Was Diane so close to meeting Susan at that scene? I'm not sure there was no teeth flying from that Diane punch.

(Trying to imagine slave beast vegetation machine. Noticing the "or". Still, I think one of digimons might've qualified ...) Well they have entire team whose whole job is to fill wikis with gibberish. So I'm sure they have someone who is spreading rumors on forums with topics like this as well, and it make sense to also monitor it for something which is NOT rumor, including unknown magic users who were not yet informed that they need to keep magic secret or else. It's true it's unlikely to have person dedicated just to that one forum, on the other hand, they likely considered it more important because it is informing about moperville where weird stuff happens even not counting what known active magic users like Nanase, Ellen and Elliot are doing.

And how well she described it. Yup. The name which is so secret not even Dan knows it Obviously, even that Mwuh-hahaha!!! >:D was within the forum courtesy rules. Weird, but not reason to be banned. If they recognize him as international fugitive, and very dangerous one, they would likely take action. Especially considering it WAS possible to take action which would NOT be public, unlike the dragon case.

Background check on Susan clearly DID involved details of her parents divorce. Edward has also briefly met Diane on New Years, and I think her interaction with Nanase might have given him enough reason to attempt a background check on her, note he was quick to say how difficult it is to find adoption records? Was that just from common knowledge of doing background check with other adopted people, or did he try to look up Diane's history. Not saying he suspected her of being Susan's sister as well, but just for the usual reasons of protecting family and seeing if he can trust their friends. I'm not sure how FAST those background checks are, but yes, it would make sense to start it after New Years. Especially if there was anything off-panel which made him think it's likely Nanase and Ellen will take her on another "date" as well. He would certainly also checked Charlotte, if not for the fact that with her forum, she likely already has file in DGB. ... hey, do you think the person who was tasked with checking Charlotte's forum will get demotion for not noticing not-Tengu? Or would the official stance be that not-Tengu was not giving enough reason for suspicion and they would just make fun from him in office? Why? Personally, I think the time for asking these questions would be when the child starts meeting higher number of other sisters, which can happen as late as in school. Hmmm ... ok, maybe in kindergarden, but not everyone is going to kindergarden. Uh ... yes? I think I already saw something like that in forum. Or was it you? Makes sense. Except I would assume Mrs. Pompoms would go for the version of surrogacy where the child would be genetically hers ... but maybe something went wrong? I mean, this would be getting very complicated, but perhaps Mrs. Pompoms THOUGH it's surrogacy but Mr. Pompoms had another idea? Or, maybe the surrogate mother didn't told them.

Hair color is less reliable than blood type, yes. But it would be interesting twist. Or a sword. That might help. Yes, the hospital records are much less reliable than Mr. Verres ... on the other hand, one would expect DGB background check being really thorough ... so, maybe actual magic was involved? Why do you think she made sure Diane will get on the trip NOW instead of after she will know more french? Without parent like her (or being forced to learn french sooner like Nanase was), Diane would have no chance to get on the trip so soon. Background check on Susan clearly DID involved details of her parents divorce. He would need to have higher clearance than Mr. Verres to keep Diane hidden from him. Actually, Nanase was surprised UNTIL Diane told the age. Wait. It was a big deal ... what if it wasn't Diane finding out herself, but RHEA at that time started asking which lead to Diane finding out as well?

If you mean between panels 8 and 9, she's just bending forward. If you mean between panels 6 and 8, then yes totally. Well, sure, for start everyone should be hiding how easy was for them to get magic. But that shouldn't be necessary to hide from their children. PS: To complete the list, another parent hiding something from her child ... but this time she at least admitted she's hiding something. PS2: It's interesting that Rhoda has two spells for resizing but Dex can summon fairy and taurcanis draco with same spell.

I think upgrade spells may be like "semi-spells". we don't have any real information about what the criteria are for getting new spells, how much effort must be put into learning a spell. Upgrades may take less effort than a full spell and show up like errata to the old spell "this old spell now has this added feature". On the other hand, many of Nanase's fairy upgrade spells seem like totally separate spells that can only be used while inhabiting the fairy doll. The distinction may be semantic. In D&D and other roleplaying games, and even more so in computer games, the distinction must be extremely clear to make it easy to play. In EGS, it's likely there are no hard numbers anywhere. Even Pandora's categories like "D" and "S" are likely just approximates. Apparently, it's true even for number of spells: if the spellbook doesn't have something like separate heading of given size for every spell so you can count the headings, how would you know how many spells you have? With the spellbooks being intentionally confusing, it's possible two people reading the same spellbook will count different number of spell. But, yes, I based the "this is new spell" comment based on how Pandora was so sure what Rhoda was showing were new spells. It's possible this is more like upgrade of existing spell, and I don't mean like Nanase's subspells, but like how can she now create fairies with different outfits. No, it certainly wouldn't be first time.

Also, after mentioning they are born twenty minutes apart, everyone would think about twin first. I suppose they will mention the possibility of half-sister on Monday strip.

I think it used to glow just while summoned, now it glows all the time. Also, new spell! Although we are more interested in the fairy one (meaning she got at least TWO new spells). The description is also funny ... "the aura does ... something" ... That would be in conflict with the theory it's the same woman Susan saw him with, however. I would say that even young immortals are unlikely to be wrong in something so important for them. I suppose even Susan would admit what her said would be related to full sister, not necessary half sister. Technically, he only said hospital records claims there is no twin. People who are never proved wrong are often careful of what they claim. I suppose he will start background check on Diane on Monday, if he didn't already. Would it show something interesting? Also, if Susan's talent is hereditary, he should be able to find which side it's from.

While possible, her just cosplaying is more likely. If it would be just as easy to shed afterwards ...

What ever happened to him? Remember that Dan admitted he started with the Lord Tedd parts too soon. Phill will return for his role in defeating Lord Tedd later.

I don't believe that Lucy has put on any weight, she could still be offended by the comment though. Diane was certainly offended and her comment was basically "you're paying extra for that one" I do. She put on few extra pounds, which is impossible to see except on boobs but she's still sensitive to it. Regarding Diane being skinny, however ... she's shorter than Susan and Susan is not lanky.

It's not that good. Anyone trying to get some informations about me have it easy. (Also, tip: using username people find hard to pronounce helps ) Hmmm ... maybe not playing WoW helps as well

I read lot of comics. Pretty often I see people confirming "yeah, I'm X on that comic (forum/comments) as well". And I didn't met any other HKMaly yet. Your experience with username like Scotty can be different of course. Also, if that video site is something big (like youtube) and not specific to just those video reviews, there was likely plenty of opportunities for Lucy to learn what username Diane is using there. How much does Ellen know about that whole incident? She's going to different school ...

Even if Ellen had mentioned Diane's name before (which seems to not be the case since in the previouse page it seems like the first time they've said her name in front of Susan) Diane was probably under a different username online. (Ups. Just noticed they DID mentioned the name. ) We know she didn't. We read the text messages. And yes, she is unlikely to have username Diane. That one must be already taken. If she DOES have username (as opposed to posting completely anonymously) then Lucy knows it AND she might've looked at that discussion as well if it was that popular (although likely didn't stayed long). But it's likely Ellen and Nanase don't know that, yes.

Especially if they "last saw her" earlier the same day in school. What about having one salted and one unsalted and altering? You'd think that'd help, but unless you can somehow get the salt from one pretzel to stick to the other it's better just to not bother in the first place (or just ask for less salt very, very politely) I still can't agree with "no salt is better than too much". After all, salt is more important than gold. But it's true I don't know how much US pretzel shops are overdoing it. Pompoms could be her maiden name. Susan was upset enough to cut off much of her hair, and then to keep dying it dark blue for over a decade, so it wouldn't surprise me a bit if she insisted on changing her name to match her mother's instead of her father's. Yes, her mother told her she shouldn't hate her daddy, but still. Alternatively, it's possible she forced Mr. Pompoms to change name when they married. But yes, technically we are not sure about their names and calling them Mr and Mrs Pompoms is just for simplicity. I can definitely see a few Roomba scooting around, a central vac, automatic lawn sprnklers, etc. But I don't see Susan's mom scrubbing toilets or dusting the chandeliers. A maid service once a week, or perhaps rotating through the house doing a thorough cleaning of one floor or section at a time on MWF, seems likely. Also, how long could Roombas possibly be around in EGS? And while they have intercom, it's broken. I'm not sure the house is that much high-tech. Maid service once or twice a week seems more likely. While she can't be as bored as Pandora, she can still be bored with life enough to cook just to have something to do, although she would likely not admit it.

Agree, clearly. However, that doesn't mean she can't be sarcastic. Being scared doesn't mean you can't tell jokes. Just that you are in no mood to laugh at them. If she suspect it just little, she may not mention it. It's not important compared to seven vampires OR long lost sister. Not like they can take revenge on them. Susan DID done training. You think juggling three hammers and a lunch trail is easy? It's possible she didn't planed any career in hunting vampires but she clearly was training to be ready to defend if some vampire would attack her. Of course, she was training with swords and hammers and wouldn't consider unarmed martial arts. Not sure if Greg could help her with sword training, in fact ... She moved from the video store (where she understandably didn't have fairy) over public streets (where she understandably didn't have fairy) to Ellen's house and would likely plan to leave the house soon, again over public streets (where she understandably didn't have fairy). She could summon the fairy now, but she might've considered easier to not summon it because it will be problematic to unsummon later. She may change mind if she realizes this will take longer Yes - Ellen didn't mentioned the name then, so Susan is unlikely to connect Diane with that remark about someone looking like her. In fact, they STILL didn't mentioned the name.