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  2. Posted

    What a way to drag out this conversation before giving us a real explanation, Dan. You have my respect. This is hilarious.

    I absolutely love how Tara is the strong one and Andrea is the smart one. It would, of course, be even better if Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie were fighters, but I'll take what I can get.

    22 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    And, I would say that the probability of Andrea staying here because of vampire went even lower. She would likely mention it.

    Agreed. Looks like the vampire was just a plot point after all and doesn't need any more explaining.

    18 hours ago, Wildcat said:

    Two sides of the same coin. One world with two halves. Magic flows between them, the question is how intertwined they are in addition to that.

    It could be that all they share is a pool of magic and a common barrier of sorts, but I doubt that. Magic may be what underlies physics in this world, or it could be just another form of energy (with a mind). Events on one side may affect probabilities on the other, or events more directly...

    This is what I thought of as well. Tara and Andrea are not from a different universe or dimension. It is exactly like they've said, they are from the first half of this world. The halves are connected by magic, but are otherwise very different from each other.

    As for events on one side affecting what happens on the other, the first thing that came to my mind was the Distortion World in the eleventh Pokémon movie. Destroying something in the Distortion World would also destroy something in the Pokémon world and destroying something in the Pokémon world would create poisonous gas bubbles in the Distortion world.

    (I obviously haven't played as many video games or watched as many shows as you guys, so please excuse me constantly bringing up the few I have.)

  4. Posted

    I've completed my 4th, 5th and 6th Gen Pokédexes (not counting every event Pokémon). It took quite a while, but I did it and I'm quite proud. However, I believe I won't buy Sun and Moon. I've played Pokémon for most of my life, ever since the first Gen came out, so perhaps it's time for me to find some other hobby.

  5. Posted

    Just now, Wildcat said:

    Dan promised Tedd would show up?

    Eeyup. In the commentary of the very first page of this storyline.

    2 minutes ago, Wildcat said:

    I was gonna say Tedd was an Alicorn, but Nanase works. Neither Earth Pony (he's too odd) nor Unicorn (magic but not) quite sits right for Tedd with me, so Pegasus? 

    I dunno. Some Earth ponies are very odd (Pinkie Pie) and since they can't use magic, they're good with science (Doctor Hooves).

  6. Posted

    I don't think they're based on any characters from the show, they're simply themselves ponified and that's just fine with me. Also, I'm glad that Dan didn't make them all unicorns even though everyone in the Main Eight can use magic now. So far we know that Grace is a unicorn and Justin, Sarah and Ellen are Earth ponies. I'm pretty sure that makes Elliot an Earth pony too, considering how Ellen was created. That leaves Tedd, Susan and Nanase. Nanase is a powerful magic user, so she should probably be a unicorn, but hey, she can fly, so she could be a pegasus. What do you guys think? As for Tedd and Susan, they are most likely either unicorns or Earth ponies. It's impossible to have an even number of three races when there are eight main characters, so it really doesn't matter if there is only one pegasus in the Mane Eight.

    Oh wait, Nanase has blood of queens inside her. That means she is an Alicorn. :)

    21 minutes ago, Wixelt said:

    The 'Uh, what just happened?' look on Sarah's face in panel 2 begs the question of whether that's a literal transformation or just a metaphor.

    I'm pretty sure it's just a metaphor and Sarah is breaking the fourth wall a little.

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    Yay, ponies! It's been a while since Dan's last MLP reference, so this was a nice surprise. I'm not sure if I agree with Dan's coloring choices, but they do look quite nice anyway. And now we know that Sarah and Ellen are Earth ponies like Justin. Too bad their Cutie Marks aren't visible, though.

    Anyway... Still no Tedd? Did Dan forget his promise? Or will the next page show what Tedd has been doing this whole time? I hope so.

  12. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    I'm thinking spidervamp's been that way for longer than Andrea's been in this half of the world, but yeah the vampire in France was more human looking, I mentioned before that it could be possible that the forms aberrations when they turn are chosen by them, the spidervamp could have been obsessed with arachnids and the France vampire would have taken a traditional vampire stance. Whether they can change into a more normal form to blend in with crowds and such remains to be seen though. But I'm leaning towards no, once they've changed, they need to keep a very low profile out of sight from the regular populace.

    Of course the Vampider had been a vampire long before Andrea arrived in this half of the world. We know she arrived to investigate an "energy clog", not to kill an Aberration. However, perhaps she saw the Vampider during her investigations and decided to keep an eye on him until she got a good chance to kill him.

    Also, the rules for Aberrations include the fact that even though Aberrations look monstrous, at least some of them look like that only when using their powers.

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    And then the spidervamp, who supposedly may have been in the area for a while, didn't know about Andrea being in that area too, she's not supposed to be the stealthy one and yet she was able to blindside him.

    Hmm, yes, that is a good point. Maybe vampires can only sense hunters and not other threats? Tara said that Andrea is not a fighter, after all.

  13. Posted

    2 hours ago, OzLionHeart said:

    I expect they didn't really see her as a person, much less as a "young girl".

    Not all of them. We know there were at least two people who were nice to Grace before Damien came - Dr. Sciuridae and Mr. Guyur. We know that Sciuridae treated Grace well, but it was precisely because of that that the other scientists figured out that he had replaced the original human donor's blood with his daughter's blood and had him transferred. Grace also described Mr. Guyur "nice, in his own way" and we all know what happened to him.

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    11 hours ago, Wildcat said:

    That makes sense. Though, if the spidervamp was a tailor before, he may have a monster and non-monster form, and not need to have disappeared.

    All Aberrations used to be humans before they chose to become vampiric monsters to prolong their lives. It's true that the Vampider might still have had a human form, but for some reason I find it unlikely. I could be wrong, though. Maybe we'll know if it turns out that the Vampider was the reason why Andrea stayed in this half of the world for so long and not her poor sense of direction. She must have observed him and saw him change form (if he could do that) if she knew about his existence before tonight.

  17. Posted

    2 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    I think when she went human she wore clothes simply because they told her to. "Put this on and transform to human." They likely didn't bother explaining why or giving her any choice in anything in general.

    Yeah, that sounds about right for evil scientists. Still, I suppose it's slightly better than letting a young girl be naked all the time, even though they really should have explained it to her.

  18. Posted

    41 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Noriko's exact words were "It doesn't make sense, between my bloodline and Edward's" implying that the Verre's bloodline is strong magically as well. Adrian's comment that "heredity and magic is not always as straightforward as one would hope." could imply that Adrian is aware of magic's "flair for the dramatic" but probably didn't want to use those exact words and upset Noriko further by basically telling her that magic is trolling her.

    Yes, and after Raven said the thing about magic and heredity not always being straightforward, Noriko replied that "it always was for my family".

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    Diane seeking answers about the Spider Vampire questions makes me suspect some options about what Dan has planned to happen by next weekend, Moperville time. Susan and Diane will likely end up meeting. I have a few ideas on who might insist on the meeting narratively speaking but no guess on who actually will.

    I just hope Susan and Diane will meet before Sarah and Sam's date. I know it's unlikely that their date will last as long as this one, but still.

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    I still think the vampire spider guy was tailor himself.

    That might be exactly what Wildcat meant. Or not.

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    It's not about "sooner". It's about how many questions we will get answered on next page.

    Hey, a few panels of redundant information skipped is a good thing. It saves space for answers, even though I know that it will still take many pages before they're out of questions.

  24. Posted

    18 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I was going for "non-hereditary magic users don't count as their number can change very quickly", but I would say "yes". The abominations definitely consider mages with summoning affinity more dangerous than mages who would just yearning for summoning spells ...

    Why do you think griffins need to be taught that? :)

    I realized it was a stupid thing to hope for soon after I posted it. If hereditary magic really makes a mage more powerful and the most powerful mages are royals, then it's obvious that the griffins consider pure-bloods better than other mages.

    I'm not quite sure why you brought up summoning, though. If royal mages are as powerful as the griffins claim, then they most likely know summoning spells or other spells strong enough to kill Aberrations. However, I'm sure that not all mages who can summon are considered royals. Diane seems to have the same affinity as Susan, and she was called a potential "hunter" by both Tara and the Vampider. If I had to guess, I'd say that hunters are elite soldiers and/or bodyguards of royalty in Tara and Andrea's half of the world. Tara is a knight, but she may also be a hunter herself as well.

    18 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Death Eaters bases their belief of pure-blood supremacy on the idea that marrying muggle will lower magic abilities of child. Based on what Noriko said, this doesn't seem to be the case in EGS universe ... of course, we will see more when it will be confirmed that Mr. Kitsune is muggle and Akiko has magic talent.

    Um, didn't Noriko say exactly the opposite? That hereditary magic had always been very straightforward in her family? I understood it meant that her entire family had been mages for generations. Also, Edward is a wizard, or at least a very talented mage. Noriko seemed to take it for granted that Tedd would one day become her apprentice because of his parents' magical abilities. She didn't know what to do when Tedd appeared to be a Squib.

    However, I'm not saying that Noriko is prejudiced against Muggles. We know literally nothing about Nanase's father, but I agree with you, if he is a Muggle, then it certainly didn't prevent his daughter from learning magic. As for Akiko, we'll see.

    15 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    I note that on no occasion has either griffin said anything about their world's human nobility in general, or about magic among humans in general. Just that the royal family is a strongly magical bloodline, and that Nanase's magic is strong enough it's hard to imagine her not being part of that family (which implies that really strongly magical people born outside that family tend to be adopted or married into it).

    The Princess Nanase cometh, behold, behold...

  25. Posted

    Clever squirrel. Even if she doesn't mind Edward seeing her naked, clearly he does mind it and has warned her against it. Edward is overall pretty cool for an MIB, but it's his house and his rules.

    I still wonder why nobody ever told Grace that she shouldn't walk around naked before she met Tedd. Were those shady scientists she grew up with massive creeps or something? :(