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  2. Posted

    3 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    All this talk about Noriko and her family has stirred up my curiosity about Mr. Kitsune. There's no evidence that he even speaks English. It is extremely rare to find Americans of Japanese descent who can speak Japanese, so Mr. Kitsune would most likely be from Japan if Dan has really thought out his backstory at all. That may imply an arranged marriage, still not uncommon in Japan. Perhaps Noriko deserted Tedd even before her sister finished high school. That seems like a stronger source for the bad press she gave Nanase about him than just being a demanding teacher.

    We've met him; he's white.  My guess would be he took her name, which is not uncommon in Japan when the wife's a blueblood.  Presumably Mamase is firstborn.

    Although... this means Nanase's mother is a wizard... is it possible to be a wizard, be awakened, and still not know the former?

  6. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Like I said, we won't know for sure that Tedd's not immortal until Tedd dies.  Until then, Tedd might be immortal.

    "Immortal" and "an immortal" are two very different things, as Heka will be quick to remind you.

  9. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Horndog or not, Adrian can't be Tedd's father because Noriko told Adrian that Edward was Tedd's father. That doesn't rule out an affair between them that resulted in a sibling or siblings for Tedd, but Tedd is still Edward's son in every sense of the word.

    Again, she, he, and everyone else thought he was sterile.

  10. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    The interaction was relatively civil. And they remained in same city.

    If that were the criterion, there wouldn't be any cities left.

     

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    And Raven ended it with "I'm sorry I wasn't a better teacher". If he would slept with Noriko, THIS wouldn't be what he would say he's sorry for.

    Especially with Mr. Verres's curt response, this sounds quite a lot like one might when talking around the actual issue - especially given the Doylist unlikelihood of directly addressing it.

     

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I meant considering he obviously regret his behaviour and tries to not repeat it. There isn't that big difference between marriage and committed relationship, and he DID assume Grace is in committed relationship (with ELLEN).

    So he'd find the idea of sleeping with her loathsome, as he does, even if he didn't take her comment as a proposition, which he doesn't.  I fail to see how having slept with Noriko would make him react any differently to Grace's comment than he does, girlfriend or no.

     

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Also, from meta perspective, I expect Raven will end up advising main eight. IF he would be sleeping with Noriko while she was still married with Edward, noone would forgive him.

    Really?  Grace was willing to forgive Damien; everyone forgave his minions.  You think they can't forgive a tryst that ran its course in their infancy?

     

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    ... why shouldn't they be blonde?

    Assuming they were half-sisters and that the will of magic were the only reason they look alike (and were born so close together), then you'd think they'd look like Raven's hypothetical daughter, the one whose resemblance to a post-perma-tf Susan inspired this whole notion.  Instead, they were both born platinum blondes, which is why I don't think they're half-sisters.

    (Historically speaking, I expect to hear "they were born without hair" in 3... 2... 1...)

  11. Posted

    32 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Starting with the fact that if Edward found Noriko is cheating with Adrian, their relationship would be WORSE

    ...worse than what?  If you mean Edward and Noriko, they're divorced and on opposite sides of the world; if you mean Edward and Raven, their only interaction was a single, standoffish phone call about a business matter, on which Mr. Verres was surprised to hear from him and Adrian was of two minds about calling.  He outright says their divorce was his fault.  All told, their relationship seems exactly like what I'd expect from that scenario.  Heck, I'd be of half a mind to think he slept with Noriko even if we could be sure he wasn't Tedd's father.  (Not sure why that would exacerbate his hangups about Grace, either, since he doesn't know she knows Tedd at that point; if anything, being willing to sleep with a probably then twenty-something married woman should make him less put off by the idea of sleeping with an eighteen-year-old.)

     

    32 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Also, time of birth depends more on time of ovulation than time of conception, so even mere mortal wouldn't have any problem concepting both.

    Well, sure, as much as any two random people might be born twenty minutes apart, but if two women conceived in the same bed their children probably wouldn't be born on the same day for just that reason (nor would they look all that similar), let alone two children conceived by a bed-hopping father, whoever that father might be.  It could be the hand of magic made manifest, but you'd think in that case they wouldn't be blonde.  It seems more likely that they're either twins or counterparts, and without some explanation why Susan's mother would give up one of two identical twins and then lie about it, counterparts seems more likely.

  12. Posted

    11 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    She's over four hundred years old. Her deduction abilities surpasses Sherlock Holmes. Compare with Jerry: he had NO IDEA about who come to visit him, he didn't even know Grace is dating Tedd. Yet he deduced Sarah has relationship issues by looking at her.

    Old Jerry wouldn't do the same mistake young Jerry did. He would know.

    Pandora's background check might've been extremely throughout and yet only taking few minutes.

    Actually, maybe Pandora just looked at Susan, recognized something and rejected it as impossible ... and her "of course" now refers to that.

    All indications are that having been alive since medieval times hasn't made Pandora some mental superbeing, it's made her senile.  Sure, Jerry's new incarnation might not still be "as insightful as a self-help guru," but there's a huge gap between being able to tell that Sarah and Susan have issues with repression and that Diane and Susan are whatever the heck they are.  (I still think counterparts is most likely, since twins makes no sense at this point and half-sisters wouldn't explain their identical phenotypes or simultaneous births; that would suggest at most one was conceived by this Adrian Raven, and since both Susan and Diane have rigid gender identities...)

     

    11 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    No, nothing we've seen through her eyes lends itself to that "of course" ... no matter who could it refer to.

    Anything Pandora knows that we don't know she knows is incalculably more likely to concern Tedd than Susan.  The only reason to think it might concern Susan is based on evidence we've seen and she hasn't that her conclusions might pertain to Susan.  For that reason appealing to the fact that she probably knows things we don't could only bolster the notion she refers to Tedd, to the extent appealing to knowledge we know nothing of could bolster anything at all.

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  13. Posted

    18 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Because of this very obvious foreshadowing of course. This seem just as random as Susan and Diane looking similar, and we know where THAT ended, right?

    Very obvious foreshadowing Pandora wasn't (obviously) there for.  I don't doubt that that means something, but since there's no reason to think Pandora saw it, there's no reason to think that's what her "of course" meant.

    18 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Also, she's more than four centuries old immortal interested in Tedd's well-being. It makes sense she did "background check" on all his friends. In fact, she might be the one who will just plainly tell what is the relationship between Susan and Diane.

    Even if she's been running a "background check," why would she have gotten as far out as Diane?  Through Susan?  Jerry's faux pas suggests that's not likely.  Hell, how recently would she have gotten as far out as Susan, whom Tedd barely knew existed until Sister?  Again, nothing we've seen through her eyes lends itself to that "of course" referring to Susan.

  14. Posted

    12 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    It would STILL not enter the "of course" category. Only person who could be "of course" based on foreshadowing would be Susan, and even with her I don't think it means she's his child, just descendant.

    Why Susan?  We don't even know that she knows of Susan, whereas we know she knows quite a lot about Tedd, much of which we're probably not privy to.  In either case, there's nothing to give away what beyond her conversation with Heka it is she's basing that "of course" on.

  15. Posted

    Again, though, the woman holding her is white, and wearing different clothes; not that Rhoda couldn't do that, but it seems weird that she'd go right from a full-body shift to the exact same base-with-light-hair form she took in the third panel, with the exact same clothes.

  17. Posted

    "They" is always grammatically plural, even when it's semantically singular; an affair between Raven and Noriko would not be without foreshadowing, and she'd certainly be convinced Tedd were Edward's if she thought (as everyone thought) elves were sterile.

  22. Posted

    13 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Hoisted on the petard of my own laziness once again. However, that is the popular legend about Fermat, appropriate to the trope I'm describing. What this scene could be setting up is Sarah talking to Adrian in the aftermath about his mother talking to her the night before.

    I think you mixed Fermat up with Galois, who wrote a treatise on what would become group theory, then died in a duel before it could be vetted (probably not actually the next day, though that's the legend).

    It was published a decade later; the duel was among the events leading to the riots of 1832, which it is impossible to discuss without singing.

  24. Posted

    Hmm.  His illusory daughter looking like Susan does seem like foreshadowing, doesn't it?  But that leaves unanswered why he would have had sex with Susan's mother, or why Diane would be born at the same moment, or why they'd be identical.  Plus the fact that Susan's not a natural indigo.  Then again, everything about this arc (...by the way, any comment from Dan on how long it's going to be?  We're on part 13, and it feels fairly early still...) makes it seem like it's building to something regarding Diane and Susan...

    Well, heredity can be strange sometimes.  I hear Hamilton's first son looked exactly like a male lover from around the time of his birth...