SeriousJupiter

Helena and Demetrius might be siblings? I thought they were a couple all this time. How do immortals reproduce, anyway? We know they can do it with humans, but that results in elves. Do immortals have parents or were they all somehow born at the same time a long time ago? Did they possibly evolve from lesser beings over time? Or are they *gasp* aliens?! Whatever the case, they clearly don't like vampires and are willing to do anything to get rid of them. I'm positive that Helena and Demetrius withheld information from Andrea. Yes, they died improperly, but that happened a while ago and they've had time to learn things, even if they still don't remember why they're following Elliot. I'm sure they noticed/sensed Tara at some point and just didn't intend to tell Andrea about her until they had no choice. I absolutely know what you mean, but I just want to point out that perhaps vampires in EGS don't have blood in their bodies like they don't in most fiction. It's possible that after Susan killed the vampire, it simply turned to dust. I know you guys discussed this on the old forums, but I felt like mentioning it again. Gerald. And no, I don't think she was nearly as mad at him as she is now, even though she seems to be trying to control her rage. Maybe not, but at least a fully grown griffin that already has experience with vampires is a better recruit than two kids. I agree. Dan said that immortals are much more willing to act directly when dealing with Aberrations, so I doubt that Helena and Demetrius are the only immortals in history to have recruited humans to kill vampires, but you're still probably right about the other immortals choosing to contact the government instead of recruiting kids or tricking lost griffins. Of course, I'm assuming that there aren't any other immortals hanging around Moperville besides the ones we have seen so far, or Edward would have known about all those vampires by now.

Easter eggs. Nom.

Why would it depend on that? If Raven really wanted to train Grace and/or her friends, he could easily talk to them outside of class. Still, I think it's up to the Main Eight to ask him first if they want his help. I'm sure DGB has some competent magic teachers, but yes, I also think it'd be wiser to train with Greg or Raven. Arthur may not be an antagonist, but he doesn't seem to be very useful as a leader and I doubt he'd want a bunch of kids learning magic under his supervision, especially since he still wants to keep the availability of magic a secret. Of course, I could be wrong and the only way he would want those kids to learn magic would be under his supervision, but that might not end well. I agree with all of this. Like Scotty already said, Raven most likely sensed Justin's power as well. My guess is that he sensed the skills Justin had learned at the ASMA dojo before he got his mark. Anyway, wow, I was way off when I said that Raven doesn't know about most of the Main Eight. I think you're right, Sarah and Susan are probably the only ones he hasn't met or heard of. Noah told him about Elliot, but it's unknown if Noah told him that Elliot is Ellen's brother, though I don't see why he wouldn't have told him that. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, EVERYONE knows Elliot now, so it really doesn't even matter how much Raven knew about him before. This theory has some holes in it. I don't doubt that Pandora was the one who slowed the flow of magic in Moperville years ago, but it can't have happened when Raven first moved there. Remember, Raven taught Tedd's parents and Nanase's mom in high school and the whale said that Moperville had had more magic than usual for "most of Tedd's life" - in other words, long after Raven moved to Moperville and taught Tedd's parents. I believe that Raven had a big fight with his mother fourteen years ago for whatever reason, and that's when she decided to slow the flow of magic in Moperville to either give her son more magic to use as an apology or to see him struggle to figure out just what the hell had happened.

The leftover cookies from yesterday.

Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall.

The Invisible Book of Invisibility.

Delicious, delicious cookies.

Grace is not against battle games with cartoonish violence and we know she has already played some Pokémon. In one sketchbook, she told Sarah that she caught a Furfrou and named it Susan. Granted, that might not have been canon, but it was still funny and I can totally see her doing that.

Oh yeah, I somehow forgot Raven. Still, seeing as he doesn't know about most of the Main Eight and that they all know about him, I don't see him volunteering to train anyone any time soon unless the Main Eight make the first move. Also, yes, I know he seemed to have some plans for Grace, but he hasn't done anything about that in over six months. He's either not in a hurry (possibly waiting for Grace to graduate first) or then he changed his mind and decided to leave Grace out of his life for Tedd's sake.

Susan still needs training first. Greg is my best bet.

It seems I was right when I said there was no way the griffins' world would lose all of its magic because of one clogged drain. Nice. On the other hand, I couldn't have been more wrong about Andrea observing the Vampider for a while and waiting for a right moment to strike. Based on what she said in this comic, whenever she sees a vampire, she kills it first and asks questions later. Not a fighter, my ass. The bombs might have killed the Vampider as well. That would have made it a draw. Others have mentioned Diane and Susan's relationship, Helena and Demetrius, the magic buildup attracting monsters, alternate universes, Lord Tedd, Magus and Sirleck and Tedd investigating the magic buildup. The only other plot thread I can think of is Greg training Grace and Ellen. It's possible that when Ellen finally realizes that Susan needs to be told about Diane, she will ask Greg to train the sisters in combat. I don't think Greg has ever personally fought vampires and I'm not sure how he even teaches people magic in the first place, but he's clearly doing something right and I don't think the DGB would be interested in training two teenagers before they're even out of high school.

I just ate a lollipop.

Squishy the Zygarde Core.

Binge-watching MLP FiM before season six starts next Saturday. I can't believe it, but I seem to like some of the worse episodes of the series more now after not seeing them in months or even years. I think I'll still skip Tanks for the Memories, though.

The Hide-Behind from Gravity Falls.

I get what you're saying, but that analogy doesn't really work in this case, because unlike the water in the fifth sink, the magic in Moperville will eventually find a way back to the other side of the world unless Pandora clogs all the other drains too, like you said yourself.

I hope so. I'd hate to think that magic is only amusing itself by giving teenagers an impossible task. Yes, if she starts haunting Grace's dreams and pretends to be a friend, she will learn things that might make her either reconsider what she's doing or decide that what she's doing is exactly the right thing. It all depends on what her plan is. We may think we know it, but we could be wrong. Even so, not all of Earth's magic goes to Moperville. Magic is all around the planet. There's no way one clog will cause the other side of the world to lose all of its magic.

Not a bad theory. However, does magic really trust eight teenagers to be able to solve the problem or is it secretly recruiting other people for the job as well? If nobody can help and magic can't fix the problem either, maybe a system change would indeed be for the best. I don't know if I would want to read storylines about every magic user pretty much having to start from scratch and learning to use their spells again, but it might be interesting. The question is, does Pandora know that what she's doing might cause a system change, or does she actually want that to happen? Pandora is extremely good at predicting things, but I doubt even she can predict exactly what kind of system change might happen. Magic might become so erratic and difficult to learn that perhaps it will even be easier for DGB to keep the availability of magic a secret (assuming, of course, that it's still a secret by that time). Pandora is doing all of this to help her son act freely and do whatever he wants, but who knows, the system change might make things harder for him too. Of course, Pandora is insane and takes pleasure in not knowing what happens next, so it's likely that she knows all this and just doesn't care. What, she wants to damage the griffins' world? Why would she want that? I don't think that would help Adrian in any way. Once again, Moperville is not the only place where magic flows back to the griffins' world, so no, it's highly unlikely that all the magic would be drained from the griffins' world unless every other place where it flows back would get clogged too.

I agree. Remember, magic has a mind of its own (probably). I'm sure it would figure out how to restore the balance sooner or later.

Okay, maybe there are some problems on their side, but I very much doubt that eventual extinction of magic users is one of them. Did you miss the part where I said that Andrea mentioned that Moperville is not the only place where magic flows back to their side?

Ah, chess. I was once quite fond of it, but then I got tired of losing. I'm not sure I even remember all the rules anymore, but at least I remember how all the pieces move. Anyway, yay, Dan didn't forget his promise and now we know that this storyline takes place after Elliot and Sarah's break-up and before the card games like almost everyone figured out a long time ago!

I just reread Painted Black today so I could answer some of your questions. She was thirteen. The comic where we see the attack says "four and a half years ago". Grace was still seventeen when she was recaptured by Damien. Also, he had promised Dr. Sciuridae to take care of Grace long before that and Sciuridae and Edward had both agreed to let her live with him after Grace first showed up at his house and Sciuridae believed that hadn't changed after Damien's death. Clearly, he was right.

So the energy clog is stopping magic from entering the griffins' world? That doesn't sound good. If I had to guess, I'd say it probably doesn't make the magic users in that world weaker, but it might stop them from learning new magic. Then again, Andrea pretty much said that Moperville is not the only place where magic travels between the two worlds, so maybe the problem is not at the griffins' end at all. They might just be worried that this half of the world can't handle too much ambient magic. Also, haha, Steven Universe. Awesome. I believe all those universes are different coins, but if the dice theory is more correct, then it's entirely possible that all the universes seen in the comic so far are connected to each other. Absolutely. I just wish I had been the first one to say it.

Meatballs.

Uryuoms fishing in space.