Don Edwards

I'm going to say that ongoing magical effects persist on their original terms, but magically-induced ongoing abilities in humans do not. Abraham is, at the moment, a statue not a human. So his ability to revert to human when specific circumstances occur would remain. Once those circumstances occur and he's human, though, he may not know how to use magic under the new rules. An alternative, given what we've seen in this comic so far, is that ongoing magical effects fail in dramatic but non-dangerous ways. A magically-powered device keeping a person alive will continue to function as long as it remains in use keeping THAT person alive - moving it to another person is chancy, and if it gets put in storage it's dead. A floating castle will drift down over a town, threatening to crush it, and then land in an empty field just outside of town. That sort of thing.

I have seen cats avoiding blacktop because it's too hot.

Nah, I'm not trying to refer to her in Japanese. "Mamase" is a perfectly good portmanteau word based on "Mama" and "Nanase", and it's clearly understood by most participants in this forum. We wouldn't refer to her as "haha" because we aren't laughing at her.

Assuming you mean the long-ago relationship between Raven and some woman who is Susan's ancestor... given that it was at least... um, someone did the math... a bit over 300 years ago. There would likely be over a thousand living descendants from that one relationship, assuming that quarter-or-less-fairies have ordinary human lifespans, physical robustness, resistance to disease, etc. (It would be mildly ironic and amusing if Susan, with her cleanliness OCD, were to learn that she's pretty much immune to contagious diseases.)

One advantage of RV plumbing. Our toilet plunger is a five-foot pole. Straight. It does the job.

First time I actually saw "buffalo wings" - having been for some years an aficionado of mildly spicy, but not vinegary, chicken wings - I thought they were unusually small. For chicken wings. So I commented that it was no wonder flying buffalo are extinct.

IMHO a change in how magic works for humans wouldn't be a big deal for fairies, and it would be tough for the change to result in something they'd care about enough to gather together for a council. However, what Pandora did to all of them... and the consideration that she was subject to a forced reset for the sin of killing abberations, which the overwhelming majority of fairies hate and want to see destroyed... yeah, those things together might result in such a meeting.

1. New software versions that move things for no good reason. (Specifics: Nook software when I started using it put downloaded books in sdcard/Nook/Content. I developed all my backup and file-syncing procedures accordingly. Current version puts them in sdcard/Android/data/bn.ereader/files/Download.) 2. Overly rigid software. (Specifics: Nook software offers you the choice of putting its downloaded files and other stuff on the internal, emulated sdcard that is now standard in Android devices, or on a real sdcard if one is present. That's the total extent of your control over where they go, though. The rest of the path is completely fixed.) 3. Primitive file systems. (Specifics: Android won't let the sdcard be formatted as anything other than FAT. If it were a standard Linux file system format, like every *other* storage partition on a standard Android device, I could simply make the new location a symlink pointing at the old one, and everything would just work. Same if it were NTFS or whatever Apple's currently using. But not FAT. And there's no workaround unless the device is rooted, with both Google and most manufacturers/distributors doing what they can to make rooting a device difficult or impossible.) 4. Programs that manage files but have no provision for bulk management. (Specifics: Bookari, which is a much better program for reading and managing ebooks than Nook, and not only can be told where books belong but can be given multiple locations - but can't download from Barnes & Noble - notices that files are missing from where they were located when cataloged, and allows you to manually go find them. One book at a time, and it isn't sufficient to point at the new folder you have to go to the specific file.)

Bouncing between hosts in a fight can be dangerous. Over at Gunnerkrigg Court in Britain, a body-snatcher tried that and ended up with no viable alternative but to take a plushie as his new host... and the plushie is someone's property.

I'd have to go with extremely high heels. The best fake-hooves I've ever seen in a cosplay - I'd go so far as to say the only really good fake-hooves I've seen - were based on extremely-high-heel shoes with the undercarriage being large simple wedges of clear plastic. They basically did allow the wearer to walk digitigrade, and the toes of the shoes were wrapped in material to look like hooves.

The problem is that for manipulating objects, ungulates get the short end of the stick - and most odd-toed ungulates (e.g. horses) can't even pick it up. It's much easier if you have two or more digits on each front paw. A handful of odd-toed ungulates have three, but most only have one. Even-toed ungulates have at least two (except for cetaceans) and most non-ungulate mammals have four or five. (Three or more manipulating organs also can work, and that's how a lot of insects and other exoskeletal critters make things happen.)

Ballerinas mostly walk plantigrade - except possibly while dancing. Ballerinas in toe shoes, that's even more true, because they don't - can't - do digitigrade. Instead they do unguligrade, which is even harder on feet not designed for it. (My daughter was in ballet for about 13 years. 15 years after she stopped, she went up on her toes to get a box off a high shelf, then stood there going through the box for several minutes before a coworker said "Um, {name}, you can come back down now.")

Are we now going to see fox-Ashley pounce on mouse-Catalina?

Well, one factor is that the main 8 plus Ashley, Diane, Rhoda, and Catalina potentially could each attend a different college - and transfer to yet another different college every year - without having to ever leave home. And still leave a few that none of them ever attended. Metropolitan Chicago includes that many colleges.

Alternatively, the Eiffel Tower is an example of a wand big enough to hold sufficient energy...

Possibly. But it's rather doubtful that he could make a spell, or wand, that would force all the fairies to enter the physical realm and cast an anti-aberration spell.

Ah, let's make a mess of things. Somehow, for some reason, Elliot/Magus and Ellen/Sirleck touch the DD at the same time. Elliot and Ellen are spun free and clear, and a new body is created that is possessed by both Magus and Sirleck. Magus and Sirleck then get into an argument which turns into a knockdown brawl - all by themself. Elliot and Ellen are, naturally, rather confused (by how they got where they are, as well as by what they are witnessing), but Ashley is able to figure out what happened and explain it to them. Eventually the wizard Magus is able to destroy Sirleck, but then Elliot and Ellen explain to him that by virtue of that damnable diamond he now has the power to spread the curse of being possessed by Sirleck and/or the curse of being possessed by Magus. He doesn't know what to make of that. Also, one must remember that strictly speaking the new body would not be Magus, but Elliot-possessed-by-Magus-plus-Ellen. Whether it would be male or female is indeterminate in advance, and perhaps afterward. </wildspec>

There obviously must be SOME mechanism for attaching a spellbook to a particular person. So it could be a combination thing - proto-spellbooks with a few standard spells cast *on* them (a camoflage "boring book" spell being an obvious one) are produced in quantity somewhere, but then have to be shipped to the wizards who will attach them to the recipients. And a book isn't really a spellbook until the latter happens. So in that case, Mr. V could order them AND make them. Fairies of some (unspecified) age, of course, would be powerful enough to do it all themselves in one shot, including fabricating the book itself out of nothing. Which would be how Nanase and Susan got theirs. (I also kind of like the idea that Mr. V would have to report to DGB just what is in Elliot's and Ellen's spellbooks before he actually hands them over.)

I kind of hope that Pandora isn't unclogging the connection between worlds. It's generally a bad idea to blow up a dam before you drain the lake behind it - bad for anyone swimming in the lake and bad for anyone for some distance downstream. And we haven't seen a report that the lake was sufficiently drained.

For a form with a tail, a bikini bottom has to go below the tail and may or may not also go above it with a fly - probably a button fly. If you're referring to the bikini top, that style is not at all unusual. Although for those ladies who need some actual support... I don't see any.

3. She's referring to the connection between the two sides of the world. 4. She's referring to Tedd's somehow different connection to magic, relating to him being a seer rather than a Wizard or Awakened. 5. She's trying to divert the forced-reset blast from herself to someone else - hopefully Voltaire. 6. Something else that I am not thinking of at the moment, and perhaps has not yet been made apparent in the comic. I am not arguing for or against any of these possibilities.

There isn't a council of immortals in canon to date, but it's understood that immortal law was agreed to by immortals. Presumably with some discussion beforehand. So presumably they could gather together again and discuss changes to it.

An alternate idea regarding Mr. V "ordering" a spellbook: for a human wizard creating one is a process that takes a couple days, and he was just skipping over the details between "I see a need to provide them to you" and "a few days later, here they are".

In European culture until fairly recently, both infidelity and infertility were grounds for a man to divorce his wife (and of course it was always the wife who was infertile and the man who sought divorce, since there were few honorable ways for an unmarried woman to support herself at all - let alone in prosperity). Adrian knew* he was infertile. In that culture I doubt he would have married without telling his wife in advance, and often there would be an explicit agreement that his wife would be very discreetly "unfaithful" and provide an heir. Other than the occasional marriage... he couldn't join any military, so would be hard-pressed to have become a nobleman, but he also doesn't seem the sort to be content as a medieval peasant farm-worker half a step above slavery. So I see him as a wanderer... since he knew there was no risk of him leaving a lady pregnant, there was no need to stay around and see if she was pregnant. * He was misinformed - but his behavior would be affected by what he believed to be true, not by what was true.

My guess: 1) "Make an object" is something that fairies can do pretty freely, and the object is persistent on its own because of how much energy the fairy puts into its making. Awakened humans aren't normally powerful enough to make persistent objects, which is why Andrea was so impressed by Nanase's fairydoll. 2) "Make a magic object" requires an ongoing power source for the magic - the object itself may be persistent, but its magic is dependent on the power source. (Jerry gave Susan the depowered artifact.) 3) When a fairy makes a spellbook for a specific person, the fairy makes the recipient also be the power source - probably the same thing happens, somehow, when a previously-existing but unassigned spellbook is given to a specific person. 3a) Seers can also make spellbooks, and this ability is recognized but DGB may or may not know about their other abilities (I would assume that for a seer to make a spellbook for a specific person they'd have to have some direct contact or observation of that person - but this may not be correct). Some prior seer may or may not have written down the spells so that non-seer wizards can learn to make spellbooks; this is what happened with wands. Tedd hasn't yet watched himself make a wand though, or at least he hasn't on-screen. 4) "Magic" marks aren't actually magic in themselves, but simply an enabling device making it easier for the marked person to use their own magic in a particular way - there has to be some magic energy in the person for the mark to enable anything at all, and of course we know that marks are not strictly necessary (Elliot, Ellen, Nanase, and Greg were never marked; Justin did illusions before being marked). Alternatively, the magic mark is powered by the marked person and creates the ability to cast a certain spell, but then any magic user should benefit from being marked - including a wizard who already has three or four different marks.