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2023-12-06, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
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2023-12-06, 05:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-07, 11:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
I think he just looks like that.
Really curious to see how this arc handles integrating the Parable stuff, because there's so many ways that could go bad.
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2023-12-08, 06:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
Also in a shade that contrasted more with the background, I also missed
theirhis pronouns.
On today's comic, looks like the trio are going to be delayed a while as they keep assuming both sides are the same. I'm also calling it now, someone (I'm betting Tedd or Nanase, but maybe Edward) will willingly sacrifice their 'royal' aura once one of them actually thinks to just ask.
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2023-12-08, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
I really doubt anyone will willingly sacrifice their 'royal' aura. I don't think that's really a thing you can give away without also losing your entire magical aura and, thus, ability to actually do magic. All three of those people depend too much on magic to just give it away.
These characters are villains, even if they have something approaching a good reason. They want to steal something important from an innocent person and they're trying to convince themselves their target isn't innocent.
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2023-12-09, 03:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-09, 08:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-11, 11:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
The thing that I found hilarious ws Arthur's response at the end. Everyone else was variations of "Well, that happened", and he's going over the top because this his job and he's supposed to know what's going on. I mean, he took the meeting with the Wil of Magic with much better grace...
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2023-12-11, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
At risk of autopsy-ing the joke but I'm pretty sure what he's reacting to is being treated as a casual acquaintance by somebody he doesn't actually know. 'Something weird happened and we're not quite sure what yet' is just part of the job. "This random person treated me like they know me" is a high level Problem for a social introvert.
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2023-12-11, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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I am not even sure how logical Sybil's logical explanation is (and I am not just referring the fact that we know it's not the cause) as I would wager Arthur would use an alias when giving random civilians his name (including baristas, favorite coffee shop or not).
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2023-12-12, 06:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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He went on television and used his real name, so I don't think he's that reserved that he'd use a fake name in a public setting.
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2023-12-12, 07:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
So this happened a bit after the Fable parody in NP where we learned that Rhoda is the target of Mist, the Nightstalion. Also he's super creepy judging by his first appearance.
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2023-12-12, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-12, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-13, 05:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-15, 02:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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So the thought occurs to me that if Immortals are no lnonger able to enter the astral realm or whatever it was when they wr intantible that, presumably, they actually need physical places to live.
Presumably, older immortals have such places and most younger ones can probably call it favors but... Hope here is probably homeless.
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2023-12-15, 02:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
Where Hope ends up staying is probably going to depend on who her first point of contact is. I suspect she's going to scamper from Justin in this scene, but who knows.
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2023-12-15, 05:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
Right now she is mostly freaked out by the memories of her older self. I'd predict it's Justin that approaches her to help as she is visibly distressed.
Frankly, what is happening now seems to explain one of the reasons why immortals typically do not try to retain much of their personality through a reset. Granted, not everyone was as messed up before reset as Pandora, but still.In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2023-12-16, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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The core personality seems to be passed on from one incarnation to another (Zeus seems to like partying just as much as Jerry did, for example). What the usual Immortal reset seems to purposefully exclude is the "sense of self" associated with the incarnation that's ending, which results in the new Immortal treating their previous life as something they didn't do. They don't even really have memories of their previous life - it's more like they know those things happened, but in the same way you and I could learn about an historical figure by reading through their personal diaries, rather than feeling those memories to be our own.
Hope, instead, has retained "more" of Pandora, and so she feels as if Pandora's memories are her own... which will likely make her feel guilty for all the **** Pandora did for no other reason than **** 'n giggles, unlike other Immortal who would feel that they aren't accountable for the actions of their previou incarnations.
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2023-12-18, 07:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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I had many suspicions about what Hope's first point of contact with the cast might be, the comic shop card games were not one of them.
But it does make sense, Squirrel Prophet was a pretty important plotline for Pandora and she did take an interest in the games.
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2023-12-18, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-18, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-18, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-18, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Dan calls her Hope in the commentary for this strip.
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2023-12-18, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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I like the progression.
First she was Pandora. Then she was the Box (when befriending Sarah). Now she's the ray of Hope.
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2023-12-18, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-20, 03:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-26, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
Yeah, but it's weird she remembers Pandora marking Justin, guilty or otherwise.
We know immortals have limited ability to pass on information to their successors, and I doubt trying to pass on actual memories rather than dry information allows more total info to be passed on, especially since the Will of Magic said she would have forgotten much. Plus, even in her most lucid ("sane") aspect, Pandora really only cared about her family - apparently including godchildren/etc like Tedd, although she was iffy on Noah until Raven's word punch forced her to think about him properly - and a few others who were nice to her or particularly impressed her (ergo, she pretty much topped out at neutral & went south fast the less lucid she was). So why include marking Justin in the infodump at all?
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2023-12-26, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: El Goonish Shive X: Please Don't Feel Bad
Not true. She got upset that Blaike didn't accept the warning about the magical giant lion bear before she knew him.
When she was sane, she had basic empathy. So she sees one of the random people she screwed over, remembers reflecting casually that it would be good if he accidentally murdered someone, and is shaken by the monster she was for centuries.Orth Plays: Currently Baldur's Gate II
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2023-12-27, 02:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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