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  4. Posted

    11 minutes ago, detrius said:

    My guess they were created as proof-of-concept by the same organisation that created Grace and her siblings.

    Sounds reasonable--except that cats are not that long-lived, and Adrian Raven has the other cat, Max. The rift between Edward and Adrian probably goes back at least to the divorce, and possibly further. But solving this mystery  could eventually lead to an explanation in canon exactly why that split, and the divorce, happened. Probably not at this party, though..

  5. Posted

    Does this mean we finally find out how Jeremy and Max (remember Max? Adrian's cat?) came to be?

    Really, Ashley has already seen three immortals, two griffins, Sirleck, that golem, Dragon Ellen, and five different Elliot transformations--and a funny-looking cat throws her off? (Blond girl at school; Rose Elliot at the mall; Cheerleadra; Uryuom-suit Cheerleadra; not-Cheerleadra to fight Magus-Ellen)

  6. Posted

    Near the end of Fiddler on the Roof, when all the Jews in Anatevka are forced to leave, there's a brief conversation between Tevye and Lazar Wolf (I've forgotten which one is which here, but id doesn't matter) that goes like this:

    First Expelled Jew: Where in America are you going? New York?

    Second Expelled Jew: No, Chicago.

    First Expelled Jew: Oh. The other place.

  7. Posted

    52 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Alternatively, it doesn't have to be Susan's dad that Noriko hooked up with, if Susan had known relatives that lived in the UK, it could have been one of them. It would be interesting if Susan had a relative that was an awakened vampire hunter and they met Noriko while tracking down the same monster.

    Possible and interesting. Susan could have a lot of relatives since she descends from a child born centuries ago.

     

    44 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    I think the countries are actually in reverse order - meaning, Adrian was first in Germany, then France, England and afterwards U.S.

    Germany really wasn't a country until 1871; France and England have been around for more than a thousand years now. Adrian. Thanks to Henry V and Joan of Arc, France and England have patriotically hated each other for about seven centuries by now, but "Germany" was a patchwork of very loosely associated states, and despite Mr. H's doctrine, German-ness is also a vague term. Konrad Adenauer, the man who led West Germany for about the first two decades of its existence, was from the Rhineland, and he said of the Prussians being expelled from Poland when it got moved West by Stalin "A Prussian is a Pole who has forgotten who his grandfather was." 

    Anyway, If Adrian ever identified with Germany, I think it would have been at some time between, say, 1806 and the 1890s. Napoleon gave pretty much all Germans a reason to hate him and the French more than, say, Bavaria hated Prussia. And the antics of Kaiser Wilhelm II after he fired Bismarck would have provided a good reason for Adrian to up sticks besides his periodic need to "die" and be reborn in a new identity, and moving to the United States at this time would mean he would be lost among millions of immigrants, most with little or no records to check.

    Since Dan lives in Chicagoland, I suspect he may know a lot about the history of the large German community there. Who do you think brewed all the beer Al Capone made his money on?

  8. Posted

    9 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    I'm pretty sure that if Susan's father would still be around, it would be mentioned, no matter how many other parents are around and unmentioned.

    I fooled around with a fanfic where Susan's dad hooked up with Tedd's mom and, hence, Van would be a half-sibling to both Susan and Tedd. But Van's been raised as a Brit, so I shelved that idea along with the fic.

    Although... who's to say Susan's dad isn't a Brit? He didn't sound like one in the few words Dan put into his mouth so long ago, but...

    While I'm speculating, one of my favorite amazing crackpot plot theories is that Diane's mom was actually another Immortal, which would mean Diane is actually 3/4 Immortal--more of an elf than her dad! It would explain why Adrian was never able to find her again...

  9. Posted

    This is speculation, but I think it's consistent with Diane's developed character. Diane probably wonders by now just how close Susan is to Elliot, and whether Susan is crushing on Elliot despite not admitting it. Diane has watched every episode of their webcast, possibly more than once, given Diane's Sherlock Holmes-ian focus on investigating mysteries. And Diane certainly knows that Elliot can turn into a girl now. So it's logical that Diane thinks the "girl" Susan admitted to kissing was Elliot.

    BTW, in my headcanon, Diane's last name is "Holmes". I'd love Dan to make that canon.

  10. Posted

    2 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    I think that it is more that someone who at least superficially seems to have so much in common with her is acting like that that is bizarre to her. I mean, she knows impulsive people. Catalina, for example.

    The key to the different behaviors of Susan and Diane is that Diane grew up with parents who stayed together and a sibling, while Susan was blighted by witnessing her dad's betrayal and then his apparent disappearance from her life. I say "apparent" because Dan hasn't invested a lot we can see in developing most of the parents of our teenage heroes.

    Since Dan did put Diane and Susan together at the same time the others are gathering for the party, perhaps one or both of them will show up after all. We can only hope.

  15. Posted

    On 8/7/2019 at 5:53 PM, hkmaly said:

    I was specifically told that there are people selling drugs on streets I'm walking to school through. Never saw any. Granted, they probably only appeared at night, while the school was over day as usual ...

    I had someone try to sell me drugs in front of a middle school in broad daylight while school was in session. California, dude.

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:
    3 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    But teleportation? Why?

    The particular stories played on her "I like to watch" aspect, you could probably guess what that entails.

    I can think of a pretty good why. We've already seen Susan use Little Nase to fetch small items, or do it her own, like that towel. If her fairies can teleport, she could use them to fetch small items at a considerable distance, or in locked rooms. Or she could look inside inaccessible spaces.

    And has been said and repeated, Susan likes to watch.

     

  17. Posted

    1 minute ago, hkmaly said:

    Also, I don't think Susan can summon fairy anywhere else than just next to herself.

    Right, so far, not in canon. But Susan could have all sorts of spells we haven't seen yet. She didn't know she could summon multiple fairies until the very last comic in Playing With Dolls. And like you, the doll doesn't really have a Nanase look.

    8 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Or, perhaps she want's to show the fairy to Ashley and the basement was CLOSEST place she could summon one, as people upstairs with her already had fairy paired. Sure, that would mean Ashley, who presumably don't have fairy yet, isn't there yet and Nanase is just getting ready ... but it still makes more sense than trying to get away and go JUST to basement.

    I actually gave some thought to this. The basement is a very secure area, maybe the most secure in Moperville. And the fairy didn't attempt to speak. Maybe Nanase did have something to say, but hearing the conversation, decided to wait and listen first.

    But then, changes clothes and starts flying around the basement. Going to get something? Or is Nanase just doing fairy tricks because she's bored?

    15 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Waaait ... are you implying Nanase might suddenly stop being lesbian and fall for Elliot?

    I wasn't, but Nanase is acting very much like a jealous ex now, isn't she? Or maybe like a jealous mother. Could Nanase already be turning into her mother? Remember how her mom reacted when she found out Tedd had a girlfriend?

    Another way to look at it is that the whole time Elliot was dating Nanase, and then dating Sarah, he never seemed to take the initiative. Then Elliot meets Ashley and immediately starts dating her. He even organized this party for her. What's this woman got that I haven't?!!!

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  18. Posted

    Until I read Dan's commentary, my first thought was that this was one of Susan's fairies--remember, she has two Nanase  dolls in her special place now.

    At least so far, while Susan's fairies can act autonomously, Nanase's cannot. So why did Nanase summon a fairy to the basement? She could, after all, just walk downstairs. So what is that fairy doing down there?

    Spying, perhaps. Or maybe Ashley has arrived upstairs, and Nanase has used her fairy to send her mind elsewhere, like when she had to get away from Susan's place during Night Out and wound up at Elliot's place. That wouldn't be rational, but Nanase seems to be already irrational about Ashley.

    Nanase was already about to break up with Elliot when she met Sarah. Then within a few days, Nanase hooked up with Ellen--an Elliot with the right gender. And Nanase got off easy for awhile because Sarah was the perfect match for Elliot.

    Until Sarah wasn't.

    But, by then, Nanase had found her One True Love with Ellen, right?

    Only... Ellen supported Ashley from the very beginning, and still does. I think it's quite possible this difference of opinion will turn up at this party later.

    It's my party, and I'll cry if I want too...

  22. Posted

    4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    jacket or a vest. 

    Since you're in Florida, which is technically in the same country as California, we probably think of a vest as a sleeveless outer garment. A Brit would call this a "waistcoat" and pronounce it as "weskit". A "vest" would be underwear, often for a girl.

    We might see Dan work with Britspeak after Van shows up again.

    I cut down trees, I wear high heels
    Suspendies and a bra

    --The Lumberjack Song

    "Suspendies" or "suspenders" are garters in Britain. A gentleman holds up his trousers with braces, thank you very much.


     

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Ooooh, yeah, the party has officially begun ....

    Not until Ashley arrives. At this point, it looks to be a party of seven; no definite sign Susan or Diane are coming. However, I might point out that Elliot and Ellen's car, small as it is, seats four.

  25. Posted

    But still, Ellen sees trouble here, and is there anyone else who really knows Elliot better than Ellen? 

    I can see Ashley getting feelings for Grace, but the real danger is that Tedd will get feelings for Ashley. The only other girl Tedd ever got along with before was Sarah, but they fell out for a long time. And as her tutor, Tedd is going to be spending more time with Ashley than with Elliot. Plenty of opportunities to go pear-shaped here.