Tom Sewell

Once the icecaps melt, that problem will go away.

I think that unlikely. Sirleck used the old man for a long time, and acting like someone who has empathy would be difficult and distasteful to Sirleck. Any man that rich would have lots of important people watching him, and even if none of them figured out what was really going on, he could have lots and lots of trouble with his businesses if his behavior changed radically. Trouble like loans being called in, credit ratings downgraded, stock prices falling, unwelcome investigation from the authorities, hostile takeover atempts, etc. On the other hand, if the old man was already well established as a selfish jerk and still got and stayed rich, the people who worked with him before to some mutual profit would go on holding their noses to make even more money and/or avoid making him angry enough to crush them.

I think pretty much everything in this installment should be canon. The sparseness of their own culture could do a lot to explain why Immortals are so concerned with mortals. Collectively they could wipe us out if they all cared to do it. The sheer variety of human cultures offers interesting variations to discover for these sufferers of chronic boredom.

I think pretty much everything in this installment should be canon. The sparseness of their own culture could do a lot to explain why Immortals are so concerned with mortals. Collectively they could wipe us out if they all cared to do it. The sheer variety of human cultures offers interesting variations to discover for these sufferers of chronic boredom.

I'm really hoping that that one of that guy's feet get's bit off, his molotov cocktail drops and breaks, and when the police finally arrive all they find is a smoking boot.

Yes, I've played Paranoia.

I'm guessing that originally it was personal feelings that were preserved, then someone found a way to instead use that capability to pass on more knowledge and a bigger "starter seed" of power, and the temptation to save more and more power crept up on them untill personal feelings got crowded out.

The simple fact that Immortals can lie to their future incarnations through these memoirs would imply they have some degree of control over what they pass on. If everything was automatically passed on in a proper death, then the lie would have been nigh-impossible to pull off(all it would have taken to break the lie is for an Immortal to check the memories after their elf child had a child)
If an Immortal can choose what to pass on when they die, then they can leave out or generalize the more personal parts of their history if they so wish. Similar to how a human writing their memoirs can omit or alter details to be passed on to future generations. Also, we've seen that an Immortal has to actively reference the memoirs to get the information from them. They don't automatically know the contents. Though likely some information is automatically known after a proper death, otherwise the new Immortal wouldn't know how to reference the memoirs, as we saw when H&D didn't know how to reference their ancestral memories after an improper death.

Pandora's dilemma definitely reminds me of Ashildr, from Doctor Who, a Viking girl who became immortal sort of by accident.  Infinite lifespan, finite memory.  She started keeping a journal with the most important things in her life, to re-read when she had forgotten who she used to be.  It filled a respectably-sized library in her home and spilled out into the halls the second time the Doctor encountered her.  There were places pages were stained with tears, places where pages had been torn out because she wanted to forget what those pages held.  But she only knew what was in the diary as something she had read about.  One wonders whether someone like that could actually learn the important lessons in life, or whether they too would be forgotten along with the details of how they were learned.  Apparently she could, though, because the person who the Doctor met at the end of the universe was very different from the girl he saved from dying.
They did something visually similar with Methos's diary in Highlander, kept since writing was invented, with parts of the diary on papyrus scrolls and cuneiform tablets.  In that series, however, Immortals have excellent memories so I never really got the impression Methos needed the diary.
From what Pandora and the Emissary of Magic said, it sounds like an Immortal only passes along what the most recent incarnation chooses to pass along.  There isn't an ever-growing library of mental tomes.  Or, if there is, the older ones must be much harder to access than the most recent one.  Perhaps they're nested, like a hard drive archive with files for a previous archive that contains a previous archive which contains the recovered files from a crash which contains....  Hmm, wasn't there an xkcd on that?   ....yup, there sure is!

Think of it as Extreme Urban Renewal.

Keep in mind that this is Friday in Moperville, or V-Day, as in Vampires and Voltaire. Pandora or Adrian may not be available on Saturday. I think I may have pointed that out a time or two.

Moperville may not be available on Saturday.

While I would be on board for Edward walking in on them as I don't want Tedd to continue hiding how she feels about Edward's reactions to her genderfluidity. I don't think that would happen after Dan had just gone through the trouble of adding an extra page to show us that Edward and Grace are still sleeping soundly.
Keep in mind that Pandora's going to be talking to Adrian on Saturday, she's got all of Friday to deal with other things, she's got to have planned on chatting with several people throughout the day.
Also, I did some colouring:

That wand made a lot more noise, I wonder if it was enough to carry upstairs?  It still feels like Tedd's dad waking up and coming in should happen at some point.  Maybe not this visit, maybe another night, but before the night of Hell Rains Down seems more appropriate.  Only question is whether he'd come in wand blazing at the very idea of an immortal with his son, or whether he'll pause on the stairs long enough to overhear the conversation, perhaps just as Tedd is explaining that he doesn't want to tell his dad and why.  I can definitely picture Edward hearing that, and quietly backing up the steps again, needing time to digest this new information.  Hopefully not leading up to a tearful deathbed forgiveness for one of them.... :-P

Maplestrip made a comment on discord about this being the first time Tedd's been praised for changing sex and it got me wondering if Pandora's trying to build Tedd's confidence to be able to talk to Edward about being genderfluid?
The way Pandora's going about teaching Tedd about his abilities seems so much different than how she taught Adrian, Panel 2 of the last page of the Legacy chapter shows Pandora looking like she's being very strict, very serious about training Adrian to be able to defend himself and such. My guess is she's realized that how she taught Adrian might have influenced how Adrian taught Edward and Noriko and how they turned out. I can see her wanting to make sure that didn't get perpetuated through Tedd.

There are at least three examples of that in canon: Ellen zapping Vlad into Vladia; Nanase getting her guardian form to save Ellen; Ellen copying Nanase's guardian form and its powers to save Nanase.

I think so for a different reason: If Lord Tedd believes he needs that gauntlet for combat, taking it away from it could make him helpless. If General Shade Tail knows this, he has a way to disarm Lord Tedd. And if the General knows what's going on with our Tedd, it would become very important to keep our Tedd and Lord Tedd from comparing notes.
Something else occurs to me. General Shade Tail may have same morphing abilities comparable to Grace's. If he comes to the Moperverse, he could potentially look like anyone. Maybe the vampire mercenaries won't be the only unwelcome visitors this evening...

As opposed to Emperor Norton I....

Nope. It was Jolt; now I think it's Red Bull.

Perhaps the fight between Noriko and Not-Tengu occured at the Reichenbach Falls?

I dunno, the way Pandora said "memoirs from my...previous self" and Disco Wizard's "Previous self? But magic last changed...." seemed to strongly imply that it was the life just before Pandora's current one. Compare that to when Pandora was talking to Sarah about the lie, Pandora said "Some earlier version of me" which would admittedly be very vague about which past life decided to pass on the lie to the next, could have been her previous life, could have been 5 lives back. Sarah seemed to has assumed previous life as well, but I don't think Pandora would even know what point the lie started to even try to correct Sarah, I doubt Pandora was in the mood to make any expositions about it either.
I feel like saying "my previous self" as opposed to "a previous self" might be a big difference in context.

I'm thinking of another possibly relevant Manga: The Familiar of Zero. Louise the Zero has a reputation as the worst and weakest mage at her academy when the story begins. She turns out to be the most powerful mage on her world. And that just might apply to the Tedds.

I wouldn't be so sure she meant it literally.
Nioi knows him well and thinks this is not the case ... of course, she may be naive.
Prometheus was Titan, not mortal. And Adam ended much better than Lilith, his first wife. But otherwise yes., the concept of gods fearing humans will surpass them is very old.

Pandora just became one of Tedd's favorite people. She's a mother who's stayed by her son for centuries.

Pandora just became one of Tedd's favorite people. She's a mother who's stayed by her son for centuries.

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One pinup.