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CNash
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Literarily allergic to cats. >_>
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Well, I didn't think you were figuratively allergic to cats...
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Honestly, that last panel speaks to me on multiple levels. I think the combination of the human desire for physical contact (hugs), and specifically from someone who is taller or larger than I am, must trigger some kind of latent memory or instinct. Not to get too scientific, but you see it in animals like cats - when you do things like picking them up by their scruff (disclaimer: don't do this to an adult cat) and they go limp, or when littermates who've grown up together wash each other by mimicking the behaviour of their mother.
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The last two panels reminded me of a scene from Moana.... "Are you just trying to get me to talk about myself? Because if you are.... I will gladly do so! In song form!"
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Yeah, I see your point. Unless Sam looks so drastically different when presenting female than when presenting male, and (as you say) is leading a double life with both "personas" named Sam, which does seem unlikely. However, if he is presenting as male, it's at odds with what he told Sarah (where he seemed to imply that he is only able to present as male on Friday nights). And getting to the comic shop in daylight while presenting as male might be something he considers risky - he could be recognised by people he knows, and "Say, I thought I saw your daughter Sam out in the mall the other day, but it looked like she had a goatee or something! Kids these days eh?" could lead to a very awkward conversation at home later.
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I'm laying odds that Sam is presenting as female right now, including voice. Remember what he said to Sarah - "I pretty much play a role every day", "Friday nights are when I'm at my most real" - I took this to mean that he's not "out", i.e. presenting as male, other than on Fridays at the card tournament.
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I'm.... a little confused. Do we know what the spell books said before the change? Otherwise I don't really have any frame of reference as to how much the wording has changed or which version was "better".
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Absolutely! I took one look and thought "Mecha Deadpool?!"
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The key here, I think, is that Tedd, Arthur and Van had no idea that Magic itself was actively working to keep itself secret, or to what lengths it was actually going. They must've just presumed that only humans could influence how widely Magic was used. For that matter, did Pandora know? If so, would her original plan (to mark or awaken as many random people as possible and create a magical "dam" to increase Moperville's ambient magic) have even succeded? We know that it would have eventually caused a "change conversation" with the Seers, of course.
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Haven't we established that magic doesn't have a "flair for the dramatic" but rather a lack of subtlety which appears to casual observers as a fair for the dramatic? I do stand by my notion that its parameters are programmed rather than something it chose itself. How can it judge how much widespread knowledge is too much when it can't directly observe the world and doesn't understand human motivations anyway? And yet it somehow knows that Pandora's final act caused X number of people to "notice" magic, and that this meets the criteria for "too much". It needs seers to advise it on what to do next, but has no problems making the initial decision to invoke them. It does sound like its threshold of "knowing" is forced upon it from somewhere else.
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Oh, undoubtedly. But the "automated flow" comment really pushed it over the edge for me.
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I'm calling it now: Magic is an advanced AI running on a computer system on an upper level of reality. It has a pre-programmed set of parameters for the task it was built to perform: give humans "supernatural" abilities based on their personality and desires, monitor the results, and trigger the "change procedure" when magic reaches a worldwide exposure level above X. It's been programmed to read these qualities from humans, and this is in fact the only way it can perceive the world and how humans (and Immortals, and other magic-users like the Griffins and maybe the Uryuoms) interact with it. Instant percentage-based calculations (seemingly on-demand with zero latency), talk of spells being given to humans as part of an "automated flow".... just little bits and pieces of how Magic has been speaking.
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complicated Story Friday January 26, 2018
CNash replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
Magic might not treat it that way, but we (presumably) are going to see this argument played out between Arthur and Tedd... and if not, maybe my ability to predict EGS's plotlines isn't as good as I think. -
complicated Story Friday January 26, 2018
CNash replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
So, all questions of parentage and relationships aside.... looks like we're heading towards Tedd advocating a reveal, Arthur arguing for a severe change, and Van being the tiebreaker in the middle. I wonder how he feels about magic, and especially about his mother's "line of work". And also whether any of their opinions will change when they learn about Pandora's final act. -
Dan tends to loudly shout about things that are false, while only vaguely hinting about the truth. There's a very good chance that Van and Tedd are at least related, not least because we know nothing about him and the hints that have been dropped are very light - Tengu's pointed reference to Noriko's "first born son" - whereas we were repeatedly hit over the head with half a dozen theories in-universe about how Susan and Diane were related and, although they are related, none of them turned out to be the case! It's the old "plan misdirection" thing again. Explain how you're going to rob the casino vault in great detail, and nothing will go to plan. Show no details of the plan ahead of time, and everything will go off like clockwork.
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Wait, isn't Arthur skirting disqualification from the second rule on a technicality? He's had an interest in magic changing for a long time now, and would use it for his own ends - even if they're benign. I understand that it is technically not "premeditated" - his last scene, where he explicitly rules out "hoodwinking a god" , proves that. But what if it wasn't Arthur, but someone else with less benign goals and who also had no idea that they were a seer, thus rendering them eligible for the second rule by default? They could cause a lot of damage. Are we to accept that magic didn't think of that loophole?
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Forgive me, what is "the connection"?
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I'm not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, this is clearly what everything in this arc has been leading up to. It's been signposted repeatedly. I shouldn't be surprised about this. On the other... I wanted to be surprised. I wanted Dan to defy expectations and not do the thing he'd been so clearly teasing for months. (I also would've liked him to have gotten to this point much earlier, if this was the way it was going to go all along, but I'll avoid this subject.) Is there still room for things to go differently? Oh, most definitely, Pandora isn't going to "just reset" - that's a narrative trope; if a course of action has been verbalised or shown ahead of time (like a heist in a casino), things aren't going to go exactly to plan. If we'd heard nothing about the breaking of Immortal law and forced resets, then it would probably go normally. But this is the culmination of Pandora's - the most compelling character in this entire comic - arc. It's going to be something special...
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I don't have much to say on the comic, but the fact that Dan put so much thought into where Raven was standing in relation to the folding table is just obsessively adorable....
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If my mother suggested that it'd be better for me to transform into a girl if I intended to do things with my date, I'd be a.) weirded out and b.) very embarrassed. Pure "Moooom!" moment.
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I'm not usually one to mention comic timescales but wow it's been three years since Ashley first appeared? It's like that feeling where you look up a movie you remember watching in the cinema back when it was first released, and you look up its information on the EPG and it say "Released in 2010". ....The Avengers is five years old now. I feel old.
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Does Sirleck actually bear the gang any ill will outside of doing favours for people who do? Obviously he's not a fan of Pandora, and he seems like the kind of person to be capriciously cruel to mortals just to piss her off, though.
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(double post oops)
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Sarah is a friend to them both. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Pandora hasn't actually met Grace - interfering with her dreams doesn't really count. We lean on our friends for support.
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I'm very worried about Tedd's reaction in panel seven. Not just because of his potential mental state, but because I don't think Pandora is the right person to help him through it. She knows someone who would be... but she might not think of calling Sarah until it's too late.
